| LC control no. | no2014016160 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | James, Anna Louise, 1886-1977 |
| Variant(s) | James, Louise Clegget, 1886-1977 |
| Located | Old Saybrook (Conn.) |
| Birth date | 18860119 |
| Death date | 19771212 |
| Place of birth | Hartford (Conn.) |
| Place of death | Old Saybrook (Conn.) |
| Affiliation | Brooklyn College of Pharmacy (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) James Pharmacy (Old Saybrook, Conn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Pharmacists |
| Found in | Moore, Whitney McKendree. What did it take?, 2012: title page (Anna Louise James) Anna Louise James Papers, 1874-1991: (Born Hartford, Conn. January 19, 1886, name on birth certificate, Louise Clegget James, first African American woman licensed pharmacist in Connecticut, lived in Old Saybrook, Conn. and died there, December 12, 1977) African American National Biography, accessed February 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (James, Anna Louise; pharmacist / druggist, drugstore owner, pharmaceutical industry leader; born 19 January 1886 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States; graduated from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy in Brooklyn, New York (1908); licensed as a pharmacist (1909); operated her own drugstore in Hartford (until 1911); moved back to Old Saybrook and became the sole owner of a drugstore, naming it the James Pharmacy (1917); became one of the first registered women voters in the state of Connecticut; was active in Republican Party politics; the Old Saybrook Veterans of Foreign Wars honored James as Citizen of the Year (1974); honored a year later by the Republican town committee for her fifty-five years of party membership (1975); James Pharmacy was added to the Register of Historic Places (1994); died 12 December 1977 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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