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Marie Owens (December 21, 1853 – June 1927; born Marie Connolly [1] aka Marie Connolly Owens) is believed to have been the first female police officer in the U.S. and the first female police officer in the Chicago Police Department, in 1891, retiring in 1923. Holding the rank of Sergeant, Owens enforced child labor and welfare laws.
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Marie Bankhead Owen was born one of five children on September 1, 1869, into an influential family on the Bankhead Plantation, Noxubee County, Mississippi. [1] Her father was John Hollis Bankhead and her mother was Tallulah J. Brockman Bankhead.
Marie is a variation of the feminine given name Maria. ... Marie Owens (1853–1927), early American female police officer; Marie Oyon (1898–1969), French politician;
Owen was born in Balwyn, Victoria in 1921 to Tyrrell and Mary Evans (née Withers), granddaughter to Walter Withers, a landscape painter and member of the Heidelberg School. [2]
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Mary Owens is the name of the following women: Mary Owens (Abraham Lincoln fiancée) (1808–1877), engaged to Lincoln in the 1830s Mary Owens (soldier) (c. 1843–1881), a woman who fought in the American Civil War as a Union Army soldier
Anne-Marie Owens (born 1955) is an English mezzo-soprano. Born in South Shields, Owens graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, [1] where she studied with Laura Sarti, and also performed with the National Opera Studio. [2] Her professional debut came as Mistress Quickly with Glyndebourne Touring Opera. [1]