Elizabeth Putnam Sohier
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Elizabeth Putnam Sohier
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Elizabeth Putnam Sohier (1847–1926), a member of Boston's wealthy class, persuaded the Massachusetts Legislature to establish the Free Library Commission in 1890—the first of its kind in the United States. She and Anna Eliot Ticknor became the first women appointed to a United States state library agency when they were appointed to that commission in 1890. As a member of the Free Public Library Commission for thirty-six years, she worked tirelessly to ensure that every city and town in Massachus
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