Engraving of a nineteenth-century female schoolteacher

Carrie Gloyd taught school for only a few years while her mother–in–law, Mrs. Gloyd, cared for her daughter, Charlien. Carrie Gloyd supposedly lost her teaching position in Holden unfairly. According to her memoirs, the superintendent of schools dismissed her on a minor issue in order to hire his niece.

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