Greek). 1878 Emma Abbott was the first American woman to form her own opera company. 1880s 1880 Belva Ann Lockwood was the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mary Myers, a balloonist, who was the first woman to fly solo - done 4 July 1880 at Little Falls, New York. 1887 Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas becoming the first woman mayor in the United States. Phoebe Couzins was the first American woman to serve as a United States Marshal. 1890s 1890 Amanda Theodosia Jones established the first all-women's company, called Women's Canning and Preserving Company 1891 Marie Owens, born in Canada, was hired as America's first female police officer, joining the Chicago Police Department. Irene Williams Coit, was the first woman passing the Yale College entrance examination. 1892 Wilhelmina Weber Furlong was the first American woman Modernist studio painter from the early American Modernism scene in Manhattan, New York 1893 Florence Kelley was the first woman to hold statewide office when Governor John Peter Altgeld appointed her Chief Factory Inspector for the state of Illinois. 1896 May Irwin was the first actress in America to kiss on screen, which she did in the film The Kiss. 1899 Eleonora de Cisneros was the first American trained opera singer the Metropolitan Opera company hired. 20th century 1900s 1900 Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). 1905 May Sutton was the first American woman to win Wimbledon. 1907 Dorothy Tyler was the first known American woman jockey. 1908 Lola Baldwin was the first known woman performing duties as police officer in the United States; she worked at Portland Police Bureau until 1922. The first Mother's Day was observed; Anna Jarvis is noted as the driving force for recognition of this holiday. The first U.S. Navy nurses, known as the Sacred Twenty, were appointed; they were all women, and were the first women to formally serve in the U.S. Navy. Poet Julia Ward Howe was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 1909 Carolyn B. Shelton