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Town seeks recognition for America's first woman mayor (AT-RISK) (PHOTO).
Byline: Stan Finger
ARGONIA, Kan. _ Her place in history is etched into the sign welcoming folks to town.
And on the town's tourism brochures.
And in the seven-gabled, nine-room brick house on Garfield Street she once called home, which serves as a museum bearing her name.
But folks young and old around town are convinced Susanna Madora Salter still isn't getting the recognition she deserves for being the first woman in America to be elected mayor back in 1887.
They're trying to change that.
"I've sort of made it a personal mission to get Mrs. Salter the recognition she deserves," said Verna Lee Coleman, a senior citizen who serves as a journalist and historian in this town of 515 people about 45 miles southwest of Wichita. "She opened the door to women's rights."
Coleman's crusade is getting a boost from Lawanna Ford's fifth-grade class at Argonia Elementary School, which has embarked on a mission to have a…
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