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Sarah A. Littlefield was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Crocker County, Iowa in 1871. She was one of the first women elected to the position in the country, among the first in Iowa. Crocker County was only established in 1870 and there only five schools in the county at that time. By the middle of the decade the Iowa state supreme court declared the creation of Crocker County to be unconstitutional and its territory reverted back to Kossuth County. In1886 LIttlefield was appointed postmistress of the town of Seneca, Kossuth County, Iowa.
