She appears in the 1910 Census for Philadelphia as an unmarried librarian, age 40. The household at that time included her younger sister Annetta, also unmarried and working as a teacher, her widowed aunt Annetta C. McAllister (age 78), her unmarried aunt Emma A. Steinbrenner (age 73) and her mother Mary S. McCall (age 65). Her mother is listed as married for 42 years, but no husband is included in the residence.
She is recorded again in the 1920 census for Philadelphia working as a librarian at the public library. At that time her father Rudolph P. McCall (age 74) was listed as head of household and her mother (age 75) was also in the household.
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