Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

EDNA JANE HEWITT

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            As head of the Sutter County Library, in Yuba City, Edna Jane Hewitt 
is directing her efforts along the line of public service; and by training, 
experience and native ability, she is well fitted for the responsibilities which 
devolve upon her.  One of California�s native daughters, she was born in Yuba 
City, her parents being A. H. and Mettie (Metteer) Hewitt.  Here she attended 
grammar school, and afterward she became a pupil in Marysville High School, from 
which she was graduated in 1915.  She then became a student at the State 
Teachers� College at San Jose, and afterward entered the State Library at 
Sacramento, where she received a thorough course of instruction.  In June, 1918, 
she was made assistant at the Sutter County Library; and her excellent work in 
that connection led to her appointment as librarian in September, 1920.  She is 
now filling that important office, and under her administration a definite 
publicity policy has been followed which has resulted in increased usefulness on 
the part of the library and a clearer understanding of its functions on the part 
of the public.
            Miss Hewitt is an adherent of the Republican party, and is 
well-informed on all questions of public moment.  She is a prominent club woman, 
and is chairman of the library and information departments of the Northern 
District of the California Federation of Women�s Clubs and the Bi-County 
Federation, being also a member of the Bogue Wednesday Club.  She possesses 
marked executive ability and superior intellectual powers, and through the 
capable conduct of an indispensable public utility she is making valuable 
contribution to the world�s work.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 992