Phebe Sudlow
Phebe W. Sudlow was a pioneer for women in the education field and was the first female superintendent of a public school in the United States. Sudlow also became the first female professor at the University of Iowa in 1878, despite having no formal college degree.
Phebe W. Sudlow was born on July 11, 1831 in Poughkeepsie, New York. When Sudlow was four, she, her parents Richard and Hannah, and her five siblings moved to Nelsonville, Ohio. Sudlow soon began teaching, at the age of fifteen, at the same school where she was taught. After the death of her father in 1855, Sudlow moved to Rockford, Illinois to live with her brother and a year later moved to rural Scott County, Iowa. Sudlow started teaching at a local school, and soon was moved by Superintendent Abram S. Kissell to Davenport subdistrictas an assistant of the district.
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