From collection Candidates
Mary L. Trescott was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. She taught school in the 1880s and 1890s, and was admitted to the bar in Luzerne, County in 1895. She married and ran for a judgeship sometime before 1906. In 1911 she was elected president of the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania school board. While on the board she supported raises for teachers, the creation of more kindergarten classes, and the inclusion of manual training and domestic science in the elementary curriculum. Trescott also held notary public license ( Johnson, vol. 2, page 929 shows an entry with her name and notary public title).
