Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Photo and bio of Mary Tiera Farrow, or Mary Farrow (1880-1971), "the dean of women lawyers in Kansas City" and author of the book "Lawyer in Petticoats." Description of her life and career as a native of Indiana coming to Kansas City about 1898 as an office worker before becoming a lawyer with offices in the New York Life Building and city treasurer of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1907. First president of the Women's Bar Association of Kansas City in 1917 and co-founder of "a women's school of law in 1925" in Kansas City with Louise Byers.
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Creator: Flynn, Jane F.
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1992
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Note(s)
Page 59: "She [Mary Farrow] was the first woman in Kansas City to open her own law office, the first woman municipal court judge in the city, and the first woman to appear before the Supreme Court of Kansas on an appealed case."
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Shelf Locator
920.72 F64k
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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