Sarah Burger Stearns's Campaign for School Board Member, 1881

Stearns, Sarah Burger

Sarah Burger Stearns was elected in 1881 to the Duluth, Minnesota school board, serving for three years. She worked for woman suffrage her entire life, and was a member of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. In the early 1880s she presided over the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Stearns supported temperance and belonged to a society that provided shelter for women and children,...