Emma J. Harvat [SEP] sex or gender
Emma J. Harvat
Emma J. Harvat (1870–1949) was an American businesswoman and politician, notable as the first female mayor of Iowa City, Iowa, and as the first woman to be elected leader of a United States municipality with a population exceeding 10,000.
Early life.
Emma Harvat was born in 1870, the ninth of ten children of Joseph and Mary Harvat, who had immigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1854. Emma's father operated a meat market in Iowa City during the 1880s. Joseph and
J. Harvat Hall. She was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2007.
External links.
- Emma Harvat biography at the "Press-Citizen"