Her teaching career began in the primary department of the village school, but her superior ability as a teacher led her swiftly into positions of greater responsibility.

Upon taking a non-resident, post-graduate course, with Syracuse University, she received the degree of Ph.D. for work in history, philosophy, and aesthetics (1881).

[5] There, her first "declaration" for justice and equality for women was when she declined to accept the "big room" of this same school at one-half the salary paid to male incumbents.

Letters of travel, history, biography, and art, written by Fry from Europe, were printed in many papers and magazines.

[2][5] The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893, and Fry was selected to serve as a Judge in the Liberal Arts Department.

[5] At the same time, she was nominated by Lucy Rider Meyer to present a paper on Methodist educational work at the Parliament of the World's Religions, which was the largest of the congresses held in conjunction with the Exposition.

[2] In 1896, when Margaret Ashmore Sudduth, managing editor of The Union Signal, was called away to care for her mother, Fry took over the role on a temporary basis.

Annual Meeting held in St. Louis, Missouri, Fry was elected to take over the position as Sudduth would not be returning.

[11] Unexpectedly, at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Convention of the National W.C.T.U., held in Denver, Colorado, October 1908, Fry resigned from her position as corresponding secretary.