Jared D. Sheldon

Historical marker location:

Sloughhouse, California

( Marker can be reached from Meiss Road near Jackson Highway (California Highway 16).)

1813 - 1851.

The first female mayor in the U.S. was elected in California in 1887. Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was born in California and later moved to Kansas with her husband.