Ella Clara Sabin's Campaign for County Superintendent of Instruction, 1888

Sabin, Ella Clara

In 1888 Ella Sabin was elected to a three year term as the Portland, Oregon superintendent of city schools. Sabin came to office after serving as principal of Portland's North school, the first woman principal in the Northwest. In her biographical entry in A Woman of the Century, she states "[A]n enlightened board gave her equal pay with men in the same position." In 1891 she was offered the...