By Colleen Whitley
This number of biographies portrays eighteen girls with varied cultural and social backgrounds who've made vital yet occasionally unrecognized contributions to Utah's tale, previous and current. they vary from members in Utah's early heritage akin to Mormon midwife Patty periods and African American pioneer Jane Manning James to fashionable figures resembling neighborhood activist Esther Landa and in demand writer and historian Helen Zeese Papanikolas. the opposite girls portrayed contain actress Maude Adams, institution and health facility founder mom M. Augusta (Anderson), theater and educating pioneer Maud may well Babcock, poet Sarah E. Carmichael, Ute chief Chipeta, silver queen Susanna Bransford Engalitcheff, legislator Alice Merrill Horne, Greek midwife Georgia Lathouris Mageras, socialite and builder of 1 of Salt Lake City's best homes Elizabeth Ann McCune, usa Treasurer Ivy Baker Priest, women Literary membership founder Eliza Kirtley Royle, artist Mary Teasdel, journalist Kuniko Muramatsu Terasawa, and Park urban madam mom city.
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12 Among those making preparations to emigrate to Nauvoo were the Page 17 Mannings. 14 In early October 1843, they left with a company of Saints under Wandell's direction. The company traveled to Buffalo by boat via the Erie Canal. The Manning family expected to travel to Columbus, Ohio, with the company, but payment of the fares for the full trip was demanded in Buffalo. Lacking money for the fare, the Manning family left the company and journeyed the remainder of the way on foot, a distance of about 750 miles.
She later presided over a society established in 1854, especially to help clothe the Indians, an organization that evolved into a formal Relief Society, many meetings of which were held in her home. 15 Her doors were open to a variety of meetings, such as a straw braiding school. Before her pioneering in Utah, Patty Bartlett Sessions had been a partner in forging a successful farm life in the wilds of Maine. She had been the first in her family to accept the demands of the gospel as found in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
That work also contains the full text of several documents referenced in this essay. It is well known that three Black slavesGreen Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosbyaccompanied the Mormon vanguard that reached the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847. Little attention, however, has been devoted to those early-day Black settlers who, despite their limited numbers, laid Page 15 the basis for the development of Utah's Black community. Although the sources for studying the origins of this community are quite limited, sufficient material has appeared to sketch the life and character of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, one of these Black pioneers.