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The International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (ISDUP, DUP) is a women's organization dedicated to preserving the history of the original settlers of the geographic area covered by the

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and

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, including

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. The organization is open to any woman who is: (1) A direct-line descendant or legally adopted direct-line descendant with a pioneer ancestor; (2) the pioneer ancestor is a person who traveled to or through the geographic area covered by the

between July 1847 and 10 May 1869 (completion of the railroad, May 10, 1869); (3) over the age of eighteen, and of good character. Travel through the geographic area covered by the

can be either east to west, west to east, north to south, or south to north.

History

The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized 11 April 1901 in Salt Lake City.

Annie Taylor Hyde Anna Maria Ballantyne "Annie" Taylor Hyde (October 21, 1849 – March 12, 1909) was the founder and first president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and was a women's leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Anna M ...

, a daughter of John Taylor, president of

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, invited a group of fifty-four women to her home seeking to ''perpetuate the names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers in founding this commonwealth.'' The DUP (ISDUP) followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the

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, in acting as a nonpolitical and nonsectarian organization. In 1925, the now International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (ISDUP) and its local units were legally incorporated.

Kate B. Carter Kate B. Carter (July 30, 1891 – September 8, 1976) was an editor, historian and long-time president of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Biography Carter was born Catherine Vigdis Bearnson in Spanish Fork, Utah, in 1891. Her father, Finnbogi Bea ...

was President of Daughters of Utah Pioneers from April 1941 until her death in September 1976, serving the longest of any of its presidents. She served as President of the

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from its start in 1947 until her death.

Achievements

In later decades, the ISDUP (DUP) has worked to conserve historical sites and landmarks, to collect artifacts, relics, manuscripts, photographs, and to educate its members and the general public. The society maintains satellite museums in the intermountain west, eighty-six of them in Utah, and manages an extensive collection in its Salt Lake City museum (

Pioneer Memorial Museum The Pioneer Memorial Museum is in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The statue of Eliza R. Snow and '' Lest We Forget'' are installed outside the building. See also * Daughters of Utah Pioneers The International Society Daughters of Utah Pi ...

). Numerous books have been published by the society, including community and family histories, cookbooks, history texts, children's stories, and a four-volume collection of biographical sketches "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" (1998).

Organizational structure

ISDUP headquarters are located in the Pioneer Memorial Museum in

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. The international organization is administered by a board. Membership is organized into "companies," whose presiding officers oversee the activities of "camps" of ten or more members in a geographic area. In 2006, the ISDUP consisted of 185 companies overseeing 1,050 camps in the United States and Canada with a total living membership of 21,451.

References

* Carter, Kate B., editor. "The Daughters of Utah Pioneers", article within the 12 volume series, "Heart Throbs of the West." Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, 1939-51.

External links

Official site

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers biographies, MSS 5888
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University
Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp Biographies
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University of Utah Digital LibraryMarriott Library Special Collections
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