From collection Candidates
Sarah Burger Stearns was elected in 1881 to the Duluth, Minnesota school board, serving for three years. She worked for woman suffrage her entire life, and was a member of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. In the early 1880s she presided over the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Stearns supported temperance and belonged to a society that provided shelter for women and children, some of whom had been battered. Stearns' husband was a lawyer and judge, who also supported woman suffrage. They had four children.
