Isabel Barrows, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isabel Barrows

American physician

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1845

Place of Birth: Irasburg, Vermont, United States

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1913

Profession: physician, ophthalmologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

(Katherine) Isabel Hayes Chapin Barrows (April 17, 1845 – October 24, 1913) was the first woman employed by the United States State Department.
She worked as a stenographer for William H.
Seward in 1868 while her husband, Samuel June Barrows, was ill.
She later became the first woman to work for Congress as a stenographer.
Barrows was also one of the first women to attend the University of Vienna to study ophthalmology, the first American female ophthalmologist, and the first woman to have a private practice in medicine in Washington, D.C.