Ella Boyce Kirk
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Ella Boyce Kirk (c.1861 – 1930) was the first woman to become Superintendent of Schools in a Pennsylvania city,[1] and possibly the first in the United States.[2]
She was born in Bangor, Maine ca. 1861, and taught school in Bradford, Pennsylvania before moving to Pittsburgh. In 1890, she married a wealthy oil businessman named David Kirk.[1] She authored My Pilgrimage to Coué (1922).