Maud Wait finished the NYPL Training Class in 1904 and
received a permanent staff appointment.
She was promoted to First Assistant in 1907 and was appointed to be the Branch
Librarian at the Washington Heights Branch in 1913. Wait transferred to the Tremont Branch in
1917, but resigned in April 1921 to return to Canada and marry William Steele
Louson (1860-1921), a “commercial traveler” or traveling salesman. Within
six months her husband had died, and Maud Louson returned to New York City in
September 1922. She immediately resumed
her career at NYPL, serving as head of the Aguilar Branch from 1922 until 1938,
when she retired.
After her retirement, Maud Wait Louson worked as a part-time
librarian at the National Council of Churches in NYC. There is one indication that Maud Louson
might have returned to Canada to live in the 1940s.
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