ISDUP Presidents
| Name/Membership Number | Years Serving | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| DUP #1. Annie Maria Ballantyne Taylor Hyde | April 11, 1901 - April 22, 1903 | (October 21, 1849 SLC – March 12, 1909 SLC) born to Jane Ballantyne Taylor in her father’s (John Taylor) covered wagon in Salt Lake City, the day after John left for a mission for the Church in the East. Attended the Deseret University 1868-69. 1st counselor in the General Relief Society and on the board in the Salt Lake Stake. She traveled to Mexico, Canada and Europe. She promoted grain storage and silk production. Missionary on Temple Square. On her mother’s birthday, 11 April 1901, she asked a number of the daughters of pioneers to meet with her in her home on 40 West North Temple Street and organize a society that was social and historical. She felt a need to perpetuate the memory of the pioneers and to gather their stories. The Cannon family was not represented as they expected the imminent death of George Q. Cannon. The by-laws of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers organization were accepted 2 May 1901. She was the first president until she died in 1903. Married Alonzo Eugene Hyde, son of Orson Hyde on 15 Dec 1870. Died of stomach cancer at the age of 60. Mother to DUP President #9. 8 children. Buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP #4. Alice Merrill Horne | April 22, 1903 - April 24, 1905 | (2 Jan 1868 Fillmore - 7 Oct 1948 SLC) She was born in a log cabin in Fillmore, Millard County, to Clarence Merrill and Bathsheba Smith Merrill. Her grandfather was George A. Smith. When he died she moved to Salt Lake City to be with her ill grandmother, Bathsheba W. Smith, across the street from the Lion House. She went to school with Brigham Young’s children. Her grandmother recovered and became the fourth president of the Relief Society. Alice attended the University of Deseret in 1887 as valedictorian of her class. She was elected to the Third Utah State Legislature and introduced a bill for annual scholarships. She chaired the committee that obtained the land grant establishing the University of Utah. She was an author, artist, owned and ran an art gallery. She was a teacher at the University of Deseret, created the Utah Art Institute and began the Utah Arts Council. As a politician, she served in the Utah House of Representatives as the 2nd woman in Utah in politics. Served on the General Board of the Relief Society for 14 years and prepared a course of study in art. She was encouraged to gather histories, relics, pictures, heirlooms to form a relic display. Married George Henry Horne in 1890. 6 children. Buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP #2 Clarissa Maria Young Dougall | April 24, 1905 - June 3, 1905 | (10 Dec 1849 SLC - 30 April 1935 SLC) Daughter of Brigham Young and Clarissa Chase Young. Her ancestors on her father’s side were colonizers of Massachusetts in 1720. Her mother died when she was eight. Women’s rights. Vocal soloist. Musical family. Suffragette in Washington, D.C. in 1887. Served in the presidency of the Ladies Retrenchment Assn (YWMIA) and the meetings were held in her home. Temple ordinance worker. She suggested to Annie Taylor Hyde at a Sons of the Pioneers meeting in Provo that the daughters should also have an organization, and three weeks later the Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized. National Council of Women. General President of the Young Women. Charter member DUP. Her son, Hugh Willard Dougall, wrote the hymn “Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and King.” Married William B. Dougall in 1868. 5 children. Buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP # 68. Susa Young Gates | June 3, 1905 - Sept 15, 1908 | (18 March 1856 SLC - 27 May 1933 SLC) Daughter of Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow Young. She was the first child born in the Lion House. She was taught dancing and performed in the Salt Lake Theatre. She studied shorthand and was a Church stenographer recording the temple dedications in St. George, Logan, and Salt Lake Temples. She taught music. She was the first person baptized in the new St. George Temple. She spoke at the International Congress of Women in London in 1899, Copenhagen in 1901, and Rome in 1914. She edited the Relief Society Magazine. Founded the “Young Woman’s Journal” in 1889. She accompanied her husband on a mission to Hawaii; She was the fourth DUP President, following her sister, Clarissa Maria Young Dougall. She was a writer, editor, women’s rights, served a mission to Hawaii with her husband, formed the Brigham Young Academy music department. Taught phonography (shorthand). She established the DUP relic department and exhibited the artifacts gathered by the Daughters in a room at the LDS Church Tithing Office, later moved to the Lion House. She began the custom of wearing pioneer dresses for special occasions in DUP camp and county activities and the entertaining of the pioneers on July 24th. She resigned as President to devote her time to genealogical work. Married Alma B. Dunford, 2 children. Married Jacob F. Gates in 1880, 11 children. Raised 13 children. Buried in the Provo Cemetery. |
| DUP # 87 Lily Clayton Wolstenholme | Sept 15, 1908 - April 12, 1909 | (19 Dec 1863 SLC - 30 June 1944 SLC) Daughter of William Clayton (author of the hymn “Come, Come, Ye Saints”) and Sarah Walters Clayton. Her mother was in the first handcart company. She attended the district schools finishing at Morgan’s Commercial College. Elected to Utah State House of Representatives. President of the Utah State Council of the National Council of Women Voters. Member of Daughters of Handcart Pioneers. She was very patriotic and when she was called as DUP President she introduced the custom of saluting the American flag into the organization. In 1915, with a group of women representing every state, called on President Woodrow Wilson for the franchise for women. Married William Jesse Wolstenholme in 1889. 5 children. Buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP # 120 Isabel “ Bella” Modelena Whitney Sears | April 12, 1909 - Oct 2, 1909 | (2 Nov 1848 SLC - 1 Dec 1941 Kentucky) Daughter of Newell Kimball Whitney and Emmeline B. Whitney Wells. Born in a covered wagon in Salt Lake City near the Hotel Utah (present day Joseph Smith Building). By the age of fifteen she was an accomplished needlewoman and sold her beautiful buckskin gloves to stage drivers and cowboys. She taught school in the Ninth Ward until she married. Married Septimus Wagstaff Sears in 1870. They lived in San Francisco for five years as he supervised shipment of Utah grain to England. She had a short term as DUP President due to her son’s illness. Moved to Kentucky in 1930 to be with her youngest children. 8 children. Buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, Campbell County, Kentucky. |
| DUP # 96 Zina Presendia Young Card | Oct 2, 1909 - April 11, 1911 | (3 April 1850 SLC - 31 Jan 1931 SLC) Daughter of Brigham Young and Zina Huntington Young. She was raised in the Lion House. She was an actress in the Salt Lake Theatre and wanted to be an actress until she met Thomas Williams and married him in 1868. Her father, Brigham Young, selected her and Eliza R. Snow to learn how to raise silk worms and process silk from which she made two dresses. After the death of her husband in 1874, she moved to Provo and attended Brigham Young Academy to become a teacher. She was head of the Domestic Science department for seven years. She taught moral and religious lectures with the teaching of fine embroidery, dress-making, darning and wax flower-making. She was Dean of Women at Brigham Young Academy. She married Charles Ora Card in 1884. Moved to Alberta, Canada. They labored in the Cardston, Canada Mission for 15 years. Attended Women’s Suffrage Congress 1879 and lobbied in Washington, D.C. for women’s rights. Retrenchment Assn. Utah Stake Primary president and Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association. General Board of the Primary. Nursed Spanish flu victims. She moved the relics to the Vermont Building and new cases and relics were acquired. A log cabin was reassembled and furnished. During her presidency the insignia of an ox yoke was accepted for the DUP. Membership had been limited to women whose parents were pioneers of 1847. Then it was extended to include 1850, then to 1853. She wanted to increase membership and eligibility was changed to May 10, 1869, before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Married Thomas Child Williams. 2 children. Married Charles Ora Card in 1884. 3 children. Buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP # 39 Elizabeth Sophia Richards Wright | April 11, 1911 - April 13, 1913 | (4 March 1859 SLC - 17 May 1946 SLC) Father was Samuel W. Richards and her mother was Helena Robinson from the Isle of Man. She attended the Council House School. She traveled to the eastern United States to complete her education. She was an expert milliner and opened a shop in Coalville, Utah. . She married Dr. Elias Smith Wright in 1889. She and her husband were members of the Tabernacle Choir for many years. Charter member of DUP. She was President of the DUP when the first memorial building fund was started in 1911 at a banquet and program honoring two hundred of the original 1847 pioneers. She sponsored a Pioneer Relic Ball where precious relics and artifacts were displayed. She was also a member of the D.A.R. They had 5 children. Buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP # 166. Annie “Laura” Hyde Merrill | April 13, 1913 - April 8, 1915 | (25 Dec 1871 SLC- 26 Feb 1917 SLC) She preferred “Laura.” Granddaughter of John Taylor and Orson Hyde. Her parents were Alonzo Eugene Hyde and Annie Taylor Hyde. Her mother was the first President of the DUP. She was a member of the first graduating class of the Salt Lake Stake Academy and later attended the University of Utah where in 1893 she met her future husband, a teacher, Joseph F. Merrill. Suffragist, active in politics. Letters from Laura to Joseph and his letters to her archived. Married - Joseph Francis Merrill in 1898, apostle, Ph.D. in physics from John Hopkins University. He was Head of School of Mines and Engineering at the U of U and son of apostle Marriner Wood Merrill. He was the superintendent of the Church School System and created the first Church seminary across the street from Granite High School. They lived in Granite Stake. She helped the DUP on a better financial basis and stressed the need for a stronger historical attitude on the part of the members. Her cancer reappeared two weeks after her last child was born. Charter member of DUP. Daughter of DUP President #1, who also died from cancer. 7 children. Buried in the Sale Lake City Cemetery. |
| DUP # 58A. Elizabeth “Annie” Wells Cannon | April 8 1915 - April 11, 1917 | (7 Dec 1859 SLC - 2 Sept 1942 SLC) Father was Daniel Hanmer Wells and her mother was Emmeline B. Woodward Whitney Wells. She watched the wagon trains and handcarts come into the valley. She was taught the appreciation of good books, music, drama and opera and was encouraged to write. She attended Deseret University. Journalist. She married John Quayle Cannon in 1879. In 1881 he was called to fill a mission in the British Isles, then he was transfered to Germany. She went to Germany to do missionary work with her husband. John was active in the National Guard and volunteered in the Spanish American War and became a Lieutenant Colonel. She wrote the History and Objectives of the Relief Society. Wrote poetry. She had been a member of the Relief Society since she was 14. She organized relief for San Francisco earthquake victims in 1906. She helped write a pamphlet about saving wheat, which was distributed by the Relief Society. She served in the Utah House of Representatives. Member or the National American Women’s Association. She was a Charter member of Utah Red Cross organizing chapters in World War I. She was elected to the Utah State Legislature in 1921. She helped establish Memory Grove Memorial (SLC). She met 4 U.S. Presidents. She served on the Relief Society General Board. She was a reporter and editor of the Woman’s Exponent. Author. Charter member of the DUP. When she was DUP President she promoted the saving of relics, restoring landmarks, and writing histories to preserve their heritage. Helped sponsor the 24th of July celebrations and honored past presidents and charter members of DUP. She helped to select a site and raise funds for a permanent building. In her later years she lived in the Belvedere apartments across the street (SE) from the Lion House. Married John Quayle Cannon. 12 children. Died of Hodgekin’s Disease. Buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. |
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