Who was the first woman to receive a driver's license in Massachusetts?

Some might say that the answer is Anne Rainsford French Bush.

... but it may also be urban legend...

FIRST - Woman Licensed to Drive in America - First of its Kind on Waymarking.com

Anne Rainsford French Bush did receive a driver's license in 1900 but was issued in Washington D.C. so I wonder what year Massachusetts first issued a license to a woman and was it to my grandmother Alva M. Chisholm?

I found this website in an effort to confirm what I had heard from my aunt, now deceased: "Her mother was so radical and had the first driver's license from Massachusetts issued to a female." She was referring to my grandmother Alice Carpenter's mother, Esther Cowan Carpenter. I believe I also remember hearing that Alice carried a gun! The two of them live in a boarding house together at the time of the 1900 census, having moved there in 1895. I will continue my attempt to verify this.

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Originally Posted by BobSnipes

I found this website in an effort to confirm what I had heard from my aunt, now deceased: "Her mother was so radical and had the first driver's license from Massachusetts issued to a female." She was referring to my grandmother Alice Carpenter's mother, Esther Cowan Carpenter. I believe I also remember hearing that Alice carried a gun! The two of them live in a boarding house together at the time of the 1900 census, having moved there in 1895. I will continue my attempt to verify this.

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Actually, it was Esther, the mother who allegedly was armed!