Person:Cornelia Wheat (1)

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Cornelia Wheat
 
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Name[1] Cornelia Wheat
Married Name _____ Bush
Gender Female
Birth? Kentucky, United States
Occupation[1] 1876 Kentucky, United Stateselected state librarian
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Metzmeier, Kurt X. Writing the Legal Record: Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky, 2016).

    ... Cornelia Bush, "a most intelligent and spirited woman," would become the first woman in Kentucky history to hold state office when she was elected state librarian in 1876. ...