School Directors [Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 1898]

Dickey, Dr. Rachel A.

In 1896 Rachel A. Dickey was a Prohibition party candidate for School Director of the eighteenth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While Dickey received more votes than the other Prohibition candidates in the race, she...

Lizzie Decker's Campaign for School Director, 1898

Mary M. Cornog's Campaign for School Director, 1898

Matilda H. Morris' Campaign for School Director, 1898

Morris, Matilda H.

In 1896 Matilda H. Morris was  candidate of the Municipal League for School Director of the tenth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She ran again the following year as an Independent Republican party candidate but...

Decker, Lizzie S.

In 1898 Lizzie S. Decker was a Prohibition party candidate for School Director of the tenth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She did not win. Decker was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Her daughter...

Skidelsky, Dr. Rachel

In 1898 Dr. Rachel Skidelsky was a Prohibition party candidate for School Director of the fifth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Skidelsky, a Jewish Russian immigrant, was a physician who trained at the Women's Medica...

Sawyer, Kate A.

Kate A. Sawyer was elected to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania school board from the Twentieth Ward in 1894. She ran again for the school committee in 1898 as a Prohibition party and Independent candidate, but didn't win.

Mrs. Robert Kelly's Campaign for School Director, 1898

Rachel Skidelsky's Campaign for School Director, 1898