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In 1855 Marietta Patrick was elected to the School Board in Ashfield, Massachusetts and served for one year. Patrick and fellow board member Lydia Hall were the first women to serve on the Ashfield School Board. They may have been the first women elected to a public office in the United States. Patrick served on the School Board for only 1 year, and probably left to marry John Harris in 1856 or 1857.
