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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 Owens, born in Canada, was hired as America's first female police officer, joining the Chicago Police Department. [46] Irene Williams Coit, was the first woman passing the Yale College entrance examination. [47] 1892
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.
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]
List of television series appearances by Marie Osmond, showing all relevant details Title Year Role Notes Ref. Donny & Marie: 1976–1979 Herself/television host Variety show [13] Marie: 1979 Marie Owens television pilot only [14] Marie: 1980–1981 Herself/television host Six episodes [14] The Osmond Family Christmas Special: 1980 Herself [15]
English: Florence Owens Thompson and her children in their tent at a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, image in Oakland Museum Collection Photograph by Dorothea Lange, image in Oakland Museum Collection