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275: 376:. Taylor was the general president of the organization until her death in 1904. Taylor held the first churchwide conference for young women in 1890. As president, she attended meetings of National Council of Women of the United States and International Council of Women throughout the 1890s. She also attended The World's Congress of Representative Women in 1893. Under her direction, 264: 31: 353:. The couple had seven children, three of which died before reaching adulthood. In 1877, Taylor agreed to her husband marrying Louise (Louie) Foote; later in 1885, George took a third wife, Ella Susannah Colebrook. The following year, George was imprisoned for practicing 321:
to David Spaulding Shepard and Rosella Bailey. She was the oldest of their two daughters. Her parents were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She attended the Harwick Academy, and following her graduation she left home in 1854 to teach school in
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into the church on July 5, 1856. On August 31, 1856, she married George Hamilton Taylor, another convert, in Haverstraw. They left New York for
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on April 15, 1859. She met with the Edward Stevenson Company that left from Quincy, Illinois, in June 1859 and arrived in
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At a meeting of the LDS Church's organization for adolescent girls held June 19, 1880, in the
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In Utah, they started a successful lumber company. They were rebaptized and received their
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American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Turley, Richard E. (2011). "Tis No Easy Thing to Be a Saint".
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History of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association
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