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Louisa F. Goodwin, State Librarian 1865-1867

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First Woman State Librarian in the Nation

Executive Documents of the State of Minnesota
Call Number: MN Coll KFM5434.A2 M5
Publication Date: 1865
Annual Report of the State Librarian begins on p.517
Annual report of the State Auditor, to the Legislature
Publication Date: 1865
p.71, 84

Newspaper articles

Two Civil War widows became pioneering librarians, Star Tribune, March 30, 2019
Old Time Directory, Minnesota Gazeteer of 1865 Presents Some Interesting Items of Long Ago, Faribault Journal, Feb. 27, 1907, p.3, column 2
Governor Miller has appointed Mrs. Louisa F. Goodwin... Wabashaw County Herald, March 9, 1865, p.4, column 1
The Fourth Regiment in Action, St. Paul Daily Press, Sept. 24, 1862, p.1, column 1
Lieut. Goodwin severely wounded, thigh broken, the only commissioned officer injured.
Died in Hospital, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, May 1, 1863, p.2, column 6

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