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Susa Gates (née Young, formerly Dunford; March 18, 1856 – May 27, 1933) was an American writer, periodical editor, president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and women's rights advocate. She was a daughter of LDS Church president Brigham Young .
Born Leah Eudora Dunford on Feb 24, 1874 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Leah was the daughter of Susa Young (later Susa Young Gates) and her then husband Alma Dunford, a dentist. Susa was a daughter of Brigham Young. After her parents divorced Leah was raised by her father. When she was in her teens she moved to live with her mother and her ...
Mother of Susa Young Gates, and grandmother of Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, Leah D. Widtsoe, and B. Cecil Gates. 44 March 20, 1847 (aged 45) Mary Jane Bigelow (1827–1868), aged 19 at marriage First marriage (later divorced) Sealed for time and eternity None Sister of Lucy Bigelow (m. 1847).
Widtsoe married Leah Dunford, a daughter of Susa Young Gates, who was a daughter of LDS Church president Brigham Young. Their first child, Ann Gaarden Widtsoe, was born in Germany. The couple had eight children, but only three lived to adulthood. [16] Widtsoe worked closely with his wife and mother-in-law on a biography of Young.
Emma Lucy Gates was born to Jacob Forsberry Gates and Susa Young, in St. George, Utah Territory. She was a granddaughter of Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow Young. [1] Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, in costume. Gates did not began her formal musical studies until the age of 12. At age 14, she won a piano competition at an eisteddfod held in Salt Lake ...
Sally Young Kanosh (originally known as Kahpeputz or Sally Indian) was a Bannock woman who was kidnapped from her home and sold by a slave-trader named Batiste to Charles Decker, Brigham Young's brother-in-law. She converted to Mormonism and worked in Brigham Young's house as either an indentured servant, adoptive daughter or plural wife.
Susa Young Gates, founder and first editor of The Relief Society Magazine. Susa Young Gates (1915–1922) (she was also editor of the Relief Society Bulletin) Clarissa Smith Williams (1923–1928) Alice Louise Reynolds (1928–1930) Mary Connelly Kimball (1930–1937) Belle S. Spafford (1937–1945) Marianne C. Sharp (1945–1970)
Margaret Curtis Shipp Roberts (December 17, 1846 – March 13, 1926) was an American obstetrician and one of the first women from Utah to receive a medical degree. She was urged to study medicine by Brigham Young, the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to address increasing rates of mortality during childbirth.