FIRST WOMAN ATTACHE ASSIGNED TO AN AMERICAN EMBASSY IN THE ORIENT SAILS ABOARD THE PRESIDENT LINCOLN
San Francisco, California (JFK+50) On July 23, 1922, the Evening Star reports that yesterday the first woman attache assigned to an American embassy in the Orient set sail aboard the Pacific mail* liner President Lincoln.
Miss Maud Miles of Erie, Pennsylvania had served as secretary to the advisory committee at the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments.
Also sailing to the Orient aboard the liner were William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.** and C.P. Chan of the Chinese Diplomatic Service.
*Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 to carry U.S. mail on the Pacific leg of a transcontinental route via Panama. The company closed down in 1949.
**William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944) was born in New York City & became a motor racing enthusiast & yachtsman.
SOURCE
"First Woman Attache of American Embassy Sails for Tokio^ Post," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 23, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
^Tokio is the spelling used in several European languages including Dutch, German & Spanish.
