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 Coue (1922).