Katy Bower
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"Katy Bower," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/20.
- Position
- Unclear from Context Unclear from Context
- Years in President's House
- circa 1792 – 1793
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- White
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Katy Bower’s life outside of the President’s House is currently unknown. Katy began working for George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia around June 1792. It is unclear exactly what her role in the household was, but she earned $10.00 per month.1 She left the household in April 1793.2 Several months later, there is a household record for a Katy Maloy: “House expenses pd. Katy Maloy for working 6 days in June last.”3 It is possible that Katy Bower got married after leaving the President’s House and then returned to work for six days as Katy Maloy, though this cannot be verified.
- “References to People from the Presidential Household Account Books,” The President’s House in Philadelphia, accessed September 25, 2025, https://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/history/references.php; “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1905), 393, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20085306.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:91eb922c9fb2e34b038cc6b9a74d2c73&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1.
- “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797 (continued),” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1906, vol. 30, No. 1, 39, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20085321.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:d39c2855a1f340d57d7bc09397c69b81&ab_segments=&initiator=recommender&acceptTC=1.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context
- Related Worker
- Katy Maloycirca 1793