Almira Mae Taylor Nystrom (11 August 1871 – 8 December 1959) was a Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 suffragist and a member of the general presidency of what is today the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Mae Taylor was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

Utah Territory

The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah....

, to bishop George Hamilton Taylor and Elmina Shepard Taylor

Elmina Shepard Taylor

Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor was the first general president of what is today the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a founding member of the National Council of Women.-Biography:Elmina Shepard was born in Middlefield, New York to David Spaulding...

, the first president of the church's Young Women organization. She attended the University of Utah

University of Utah

The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

 for a year, but completed her course of study at LDS College

LDS Business College

LDS Business College is a two-year college in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on training students in business and industry. The college is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and operates under the Church Educational System and is associated with the Brigham Young University...

 and married Theodore Nystrom on 21 June 1900. They lived in Montpelier

Montpelier, Idaho

Montpelier is a city in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,785 at the 2000 census. The city is the largest community in the Bear Lake Valley, a farming region north of Bear Lake in southeastern Idaho along the Utah border...

, Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

, for two years.

In 1892, Nystrom had become a member of the general board of what was then called the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association

Young Women (organization)

The Young Women is a youth organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

. She became its corresponding secretary in 1904, and then its treasurer. She continued in this position until 5 April 1905, when she was chosen by new president Martha H. Tingey

Martha H. Tingey

Martha Jane Horne Tingey was the second general president of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1905 to 1929. She spent a total of 49 years as a member of the general presidency.-Biography:Martha Jane Horne was born in Salt...

 as the second counselor in the organization. Nystrom was a counselor to Tingey until she was released on 15 July 1923 because of her move to Green River

Green River, Wyoming

Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 11,808 at the 2000 census....

, Wyoming

Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

. She was succeeded in her position by Lucy Grant Cannon

Lucy Grant Cannon

Lucy Grant Cannon was the fourth general president of the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1937 to 1948...

. Nystrom returned to live in Salt Lake City in 1929.

Nystrom was a member of Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...

's National Council of Women and was a delegate from Utah for to the suffragist organization's conventions in 1908 and 1909.

Publications

Nystrom, Mae Taylor "The Y.L.M.I.A. under President Elmina S. Taylor," Young Woman's Journal

Young Woman's Journal

Young Woman's Journal was an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1929. It was an official periodical of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association, then the LDS Church's organization for adolescent females.Young Woman's Journal was founded...

36 (June 1925): 330.

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