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Mary Ida Powelson Papers
Description: Photograph portrait of Mary Ida Powelson, ca. 1900-1910, taken by the Baker Art Gallery of Columbus, Ohio. A native of Coshocton, Powelson worked as a stenographer and typist for Franklin County Courts, for J.E. Sater, attorney for the Citizens Savings Bank of Columbus, and for the Columbus law office of Harrison, Olds, Henderson & Harrison. Circa 1900, she moved to New York. From approximately 1902 to 1911, Powelson was secretary to New York lawyer Henry W. Taft, brother of President William Howard Taft. She continued living and working in New York until the 1960s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06150
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women--Employment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)