Combined Kansas Reports for 1874

Hebron, Una

Una Hebron was elected County Superintendent of Instruction for Shawnee County, Kansas in 1874.

Higbey, Mary A.

Mary A. Higbey was elected as County Superintendent of LaBette County, Kansas. She served for six years, from 1873-1879.

Johnson, Emma

Emma Johnson was elected as County Superintendent of Instruction for Pawnee County, Kansas in1874.

Sharon, Mrs. C. J. M.

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 who held this position in the early 1870s, making them among the first female officeholders in the United States.

Wright, Mary Page

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 for that office. Wright was born to missionary parents. She attended Adrian College in Michigan and Rockford College from which she graduated in 1871. She wa...

Ellen Webster's Campaign for County Supintendent of Public Instruction, 1872

Mary Childs's Campaign for County Superintendent of Instruction, 1873

Una Hebron's Campaign for County Superintendent of Instruction, 1873

Abigail Williams May's Campaign for School Committee Member, 1874

C. J.. M. Sharon's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1874