Title page of The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History

Edited by

Jill Mulvay Derr

Carol Cornwall Madsen

Kate Holbrook

Matthew J. Grow

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Art direction: Richard Erickson.

Cover and jacket design: Riley M. Lorimer and Sheryl Dickert Smith. Interior design: Richard Erickson.

Typography: Riley M. Lorimer.

Jacket image: Provo, Utah, Fourth Ward Relief Society Presidency. Left to right: Mary M. Boyden, Margaret Watson, Delia Booth, Sara Eggertson Cluff. Photograph by Conkling Photography, Provo, Utah, ca. 1892. Church History Library, Salt Lake City.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The first fifty years of Relief Society: key documents in Latter-day Saint women’s history / edited by Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, [and] Matthew J. Grow.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-62972-150-7 (hardbound : alk. paper)

1. Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)—History—19th century. 2. Mormon women—History—19th century. I. Derr, Jill Mulvay, editor. II. Madsen, Carol Cornwall, 1930– editor. III. Holbrook, Kate, editor. IV. Grow, Matthew J., editor.

BX8643.R38F57 2016 267’.449332—dc23 2015032416

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

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Editorial Board

Steven E. Snow

James J. Hamula

Richard E. Turley Jr.

Reid L. Neilson

Matthew J. Grow

Contributors

Chad O. Foulger

Brian D. Reeves

Research Specialists

Patricia Lemmon Spilsbury

W. Randall Dixon

Jennifer Reeder

Editorial Staff

R. Eric Smith, Lead Editor

Janelle M. Higbee

Leslie Sherman

Shannon Kelly

Jay A. Parry