From collection Candidates
In 1874 Miss Mary Page Wright was elected Coffey County, Kansas superintendent of schools. Her election as superintendent furnished the Kansas Supreme Court the test case, Wright v. Noell, in the decision that sex is no disqualification for that office. Wright was born to missionary parents. She attended Adrian College in Michigan and Rockford College from which she graduated in 1871. She was a teacher and for several years a missionary to Turkey.
