From collection Candidates
Marcia Harbert Daniels was elected to the school board of Danville, Illinois in April 1894. Daniels, according to the suffrage publication the Woman's Column, was the first woman to serve in the position. Daniels was born in Indiana and a distant relative of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Professionally, Daniels was a professor of mathematics. A resident of Danville for about twenty years at the time of her election, Daniels was also a mother of five children.
