CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
MISS FLORA GROAT.
Miss Flora Groat is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Groat, of Irwin. Iowa. Miss Groat was brought up in Shelby county, attended the rural schools here, taught school in the country and in the city schools of Harlan. Subsequently she secured a position in the Seattle schools at the time that A. B. Warner was superintendent at Tacoma, Washington, and through whose efforts, to some extent, she secured her position. Miss Groat was recently re-elected, at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, to a position that is unique, at least so far as Iowa schools are concerned. She deals with delinquent and backward children only, who can not properlv be cared for in the regular departments of the city schools of Seattle. She has taken special work in New York City, and perhaps elsewhere, to fit her particularly for her duties.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 559.
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