BIOGRAPHY: Explanatory of Picture; state of Utah

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Please note, the picture was missing from the book.

REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF DESERET

A BOOK OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES TO ACCOMPANY THE PICTURE BEARING THE SAME
TITLE.

COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY AUGUSTA JOYCE CROCHERON Explanatory of the Picture
REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN OF DESERET

     The first portrait in the first group of the picture, is that of ELIZA
R. SNOW SMITH, President of the Latter-Day Saints' Women's Organizations. The
second, on the left-hand side of the same group, ZINA P. H. YOUNG, First
Counselor. Third, on the right-hand side, MARY ISABELLA HORNE, Treasurer.
Fourth, SARAH M. KIMBALL, Secretary.

     The above are the Presiding Board over all the Latter-Day Saints Women's
Organizations.

     At the head of the "Association Group" is, first, ELMINA S. TAYLOR,
President of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. Second, MARY
A. FREEZE, President of the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association of the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion. Third, left-hand side, is LOUIE FELT, President of
the Primary Associations. Fourth, ELLEN C. CLAWSON, President of the Primary
Associations of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion.

     At the head of the picture, left-hand corner, PHEBE W. WOODRUFF, wife of
President Wilford Woodruff. At the right-hand corner, BATHSHEBA W. SMITH, wife
of President George A. Smith. At the left-hand corner, PRESCENDIA L. KIMBALL,
a veteran Saint and pioneer. At the right-hand lower corner, ELIZABETH HOWARD,
Secretary of the Relief Society of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion.

     At the head of the fourth group is, EMMELINE B. WELLS, editor of Woman's
Exponent. At the right-hand, same group, is ROMANIA B. PRATT, M. D.

     Turning now to the four ladies on the left-hand side of the picture, the
first is EMILY HILL WOODMANSEE, poet. Second, right-band side, HANNAH T. KING,
poet and prose author. Third, on the left, AUGUSTA JOYCE CROCHERON, author,
and Secretary of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of the Salt
Lake Stake of Zion. Fourth, HELEN MAR WHITNEY, daughter of Heber C. Kimball,
and writer of Church history and biographies; also First Counselor of the
Relief Society of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion.

     Returning to the fourth group: third portrait on the left, ZINA Y.
WILLIAMS, daughter of Brigham Young, and President of the Primary Associations
of the Utah Stake of Zion. Fourth, is LOUIE M. WELLS, daughter of President D.
H. Wells; Secretary of Central Organizations of the Young Ladies' Mutual
Improvement Associations. Vocalist and artist.