PIERCE,+Kate+E

PIERCE, Kate E (Miss) (1873-1966) 1CL Kettering 1896-1939 Originally a teacher, J D Brown quickly trained her for her work at KETTERING where she became one of the most outstandingly successful of women librarians and the first woman member of the LA Council in 1915. She bequeathed the residue of her estate to the LA.

b. 1873 Kettering (YB 1897, 159)