Ella Boyce Kirk

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 man named David Kirk (businessman).

[1] She authored My Pilgrimage to Coué (1922).