Carrie E. Westlake was born on a Virginia plantation in 1851. That same year, her father, Wellington, was awarded land in Winfield, Iowa, for his services in the U.S. Army. The family made the 600-mile journey west in a canvas-covered wagon Upon arrival, they built a stock farm.
Meet Kansas City’s first librarian, a ground-breaking woman
On March 16, 1881, she was hired at $30 per month with the stipulation that she was to meet the school board’s rigorous demands — the library was to operate as a sphere of “intelligence and information for the entire city,” and it was her duty to instill within the city’s children “a correct taste for reading the best authors.”
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