Ella Boyce Kirk (c.1861 – 1930) was the first woman to becomeSuperintendent of Schools in aPennsylvania city,[1] and possibly the first in the United States.[2]
She was born inBangor, Maine ca. 1861, and taught school inBradford, Pennsylvania before moving to Pittsburgh. In 1890, she married a wealthy oil businessman named David Kirk.[1] She authoredMy Pilgrimage to Coué (1922).
To Mrs. Kirk and MissBeulah Kennard, Pittsburgh owes, to a large extent its