Clara Shumway's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1889

Shumway, Clara

Clara Shumway was elected as the County Superintendent of Public Instruction for Banner County, Nebraska, in 1889. That same year she was appointed as the Postmistress of Ashford in the county. Shumway was the first Superintendent after the county was organized in the year of her election. She went on to serve for two terms.