Huerfano-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Thorne, Martha M. 1890 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

MRS. MARTHA M. THORNE.

    Mrs. Martha M. Thorne, filling the position of county superintendent of
schools in Huerfano county, making her home in Walsenburg, was born in Rye,
Colorado, on the 28th of September, 1890, and is a daughter of George and Delia
B. (Vedder) Wright. The family removed to Pueblo during her early girlhood and
she pursued her education in the public schools of that city, passing through
consecutive grades to the Central high school, from which she was graduated with
the class of 1909. She afterward attended the State Teachers' College in Greeley
and took up the profession of teaching, which she has since successfully
followed until elected to her present office. For seven years she engaged in
teaching in Huerfano county, imparting readily and clearly to others the
knowledge that she had acquired, and for part of one year she was a teacher in
Pueblo. In 1916 she was elected county superintendent of schools for a two
years' term and in 1918 was a candidate for reelection. She has put forth most
earnest and effective effort to raise the standard of the schools and improve
the system of instruction and her labors have been greatly resultant.

    Moreover, Mrs. Thorne is very active in war work in Huerfano county and
among the foreign population, and is doing everything in her power to raise the
standard of Americanization. She is actuated in all that she does by a marked
spirit of patriotic devotion to the general good and her life in its
professional activities and otherwise is proving of great benefit to community,
commonwealth and country.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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