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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
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Marie Owens (1853–1927), first female police officer in the US and in the Chicago Police Department who enforced child labor and welfare laws; Elliot Page (born 1987) actor, film producer; Dustin Penner (born 1982), ice hockey player; Barry Pepper (born 1970), actor; Frank Peppiatt (1927–2012), member of the variety show writing team ...
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
Mother Gertrude Clare Owens, S.P., (March 26, 1887 – November 18, 1963) was the Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, from 1954 to 1960. During her term, she established a sister-formation program to help develop new postulants and novices .