<div dir="ltr"><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:31px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;line-height:37px;text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/141546936535/eliza-des-saure-newell" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:31px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;text-transform:uppercase;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">ELIZA DES SAURE NEWELL</a></h2><br clear="all"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Eliza Des Saure Newell, the longest serving Washington Territorial Librarian, was born in 1853 in New Jersey. Her father, the eccentric William Augustus Newell, served as governor of New Jersey from 1857 to 1860; in 1880, he was appointed governor of the Washington Territory.<span class=""> </span><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Governor Newell had appointed his daughter Eleanor as his personal secretary. He then appointed his other daughter, Eliza, to the post of Territorial Librarian. The Governor’s nepotism forced the legislature to change the Territorial laws to permit women in office.<span class="">  (More at <a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/141546936535/eliza-des-saure-newell">http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/141546936535/eliza-des-saure-newell</a>)</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:0px none;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span class="">Submission information:  <a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2016">http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2016</a><br></span></p><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></i><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></i></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></i></a></div>
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