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    Mar 24, 2011, 04:58 AM
    First woman to receive drivers license Massachusetts?
    Who was the first woman to receive a driver's license in Massachusetts?
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    Mar 24, 2011, 07:18 AM

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

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

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    Feb 12, 2012, 10:56 PM
    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?
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    Dec 1, 2012, 06:43 AM
    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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    Dec 1, 2012, 06:45 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by BobSnipes View Post
    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.
    Actually, it was Esther, the mother who allegedly was armed!
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