# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isabel-barrows
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:40:31.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isabel-barrows"
name: "Isabel Barrows"
slug: "isabel-barrows"
description: "(Katherine) Isabel Hayes Chapin Barrows was the first woman employed by the United States State Department. She worked as a stenographer for William H. Seward in 1868 while her husband, Samuel June Barrows, was ill. She later became the first woman to work for Congress as a stenographer. Barrows was also one of the first women to attend the University of Vienna to study ophthalmology, the first American woman in medical practice as an ophthalmologist, and the first woman to have a private practice in medicine in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "American physician (1845-1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isabel_Chapin_Barrows.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1845-04-17"
deathDate: "1913-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.11
  momentum:             20.73770491803279
  historical:           4.403456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إيزابيل باروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايزابيل باروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Barrows"
    title: "Isabel Barrows"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Barooji"
    title: "Isabel Barooji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%87%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "ഇസബെൽ ബാരോസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump