City: Chattanooga
DUNLAP, Margaret Stewart, librarian (Carnegie); born Ohio; daughter Geo. M. and Frances (Alexander) DUNLAP; Scotch-Irish descent; educated institutions of learning at Springfield, Ohio; graduate of Amherst College Library School 1899; honorary member of Kosmos and Woman’s Club of Chattanooga; completed course at Amherst and Columbus Institute in literary work and returned to Chattanooga 1902; 1904 appointed Librarian of Carnegie Library; under Miss DUNLAP’s librarianship size of library increased from 300 volumes to 20,000 in five years; member Second Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga.
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So inspiring to read of this remarkable woman’s professional accomplishments–a trailblazer!!
Thanks April! Glad you like her biography.