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    1. [IRL-CARLOW] Mary O' Toole
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    3. Nationalist 1921. Miss Mary O'Toole, has been nominated by President Harding Judge of the Washington Municipal Court, and is the first lady lawyer to receive such a distinction. Miss O'Toole, who is a native of Hacketstown, left for America when she was only sixteen years of age, after receiving an ordinary primary school education. Miss O'Toole is a sister of Nicholas and J.J. O'Toole, N.T. Nicholas is a prominent member of Carlow County Council. About six months ago he was arrested in the round-up by police and military at Hacketstown and conveyed to the Rath Internment Camp at the Curragh. Mary is the first woman judge in the District Municipal Court, and only woman director of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and the first woman director of the Citizens Savings Bank, besides being founder and first President of the Women's City Club in Washington, numbering about 2.000 members.

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