Mrs. C. Sharon was elected Marion County (Kansas) Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1872. She was re-elected in 1874. The state legislature had voted Kansas women school election suffrage in 1861. Sharon was one of several women wh...
In 1874 Miss Mary Page Wright was elected Coffey County, Kansas superintendent of schools. Her election as superintendent furnished the Kansas Supreme Court the test case, Wright v. Noell, in the decision that sex is no disqualification ...