The week’s question was: who was Mary E. Foy? Well Mary E. Foy was the City Librarian of
Los Angeles from 1880 to 1884. To quote
an interesting tale from the book we got this question from:
“Being informed by her mother that the position was open, and that it might be a good idea to try at obtaining it, Miss Foy betook herself to the City Hall. She knew most of the members of the council but she did not make the mistake of asking any of the councilmen, whom she knew to be committed to various other candidates, to change their minds. Instead, she merely asked each of them to support her as his second choice in case of deadlock. This, as she had suspected, is exactly what occurred, and Mary Foy was appointed as the compromise candidate.”
Interestingly enough, she was just 18 years old at the time.
