This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and read by Judy A. Carbone, President of AAUW-Garrett County Branch and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.

Catherine Sweet may have remained unknown to history if it were not for a front-page article published in The Sun of Baltimore, Maryland, on May 8, 1896.  The article was about the first municipal election in the town of Loch Lynn Heights in Garrett County, Maryland.  Catherine almost was the first woman to vote in a municipal election in the state, but in the end, that distinction was not to be hers.

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