Berger, Caroline A.

In 1883 Caroline A. Berger was nominated by both the Democrats and Independents for a School Director on the school Committee of the Twenty-Fourth ward of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Twenty years later she was elected to the School Commi...

Hall, Annie B.

Annie B. Hall was elected to the School Committee of the Twenty-ninth ward in Philadelphia in 1892. She served one term. Hall was a physician practicing in the city and worked within the social settlement movement.

Grice, Mary Van Meter

Mary Van Meter Grice was a candidate for the Twenty-fourth Ward School Committee. She ran a second time for the school committee in 1909 and was not successful. However, Grice was appointed to the school committee to fill a suddenly vaca...

Hallowell, Emily

Emily Hallowell was a candidate for School Committee in Philadelphia in 1909. Hallowell was well known in Philadelphia educational circles. She had served on the Public Educational Commission in the 1890s. Her private school for girls wa...

Bell, Effie L.

Effie L. Bell was elected to the position of School Director for Perry County, Pennsylvania in 1909. Bell had first been appointed to the office to replace her husband when he died in 1907. She was the first woman in Perry County to be e...

Griffith, Phebe

Phebe Griffith was elected a School Director in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1873.

Collins, Mrs. J Cope

Mrs. J. Cope Collins was elected to the School Board of Manoa, Pennsylvania. She served in 1898.

Paist, Harriet W.

In 1874 arriet W. Paist was a Republican nominee School Director of the thirteenth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After some opposition Paist was elected and served on the School Committee. Paist gave at least one p...

Mitchell, Lucretia M.B.

Lucretia M.B. Mitchell, the Republican party candidate, also endorsed by the Democrats and the Tax Payer and Citizens Association, was elected to the School Committee of the Twenty-fourth ward in Philadelphia in 1883. Mitchell was the he...

Allen, Jane

Jane Allen was elected to the Twenty-Sixth Ward School Committee in Philadelphia in 1909. Allen was a teacher at the Girls High School in the city.