Sallie [Sarah] Hutsell was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Cherokee County, Kansas in 1882, 1884, and again in 1887. Hutsell was the first woman to serve in this office in Cherokee County.
Emily S. Rice was elected Harper County ( Kansas) clerk in 1884 and served until 1888. Although Kansas was often progressive in matters of women's rights, since 1874 dissenters had challenged women's right to hold elective office. The qu...