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Virginia Carothers was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Perkins County, Nebraska and served from 1896 to 1898. Carothers was the first school teacher in the county. She gave up teaching for missionary work and lived in Oregon, Washington State and Pennsylvania by 1909.
![Report of the Commissioner of Education for the year 1896-1897, Volume 2 [U.S. Bureau of Education]](https://odyssey.historyit.com/img/thumbnail/Shelf.png?no_errors=1)
