Clarissa Maria Dougall ( Young; December 10, 1849 – April 30, 1935) was a

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and a member of the general presidency of what is today the

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(LDS Church). Maria Young was born in

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and his eighth wife, Clarissa Ross. When she was eight years old, her mother Clarissa died, so from that point forward she was raised by Zina D. H. Young, another of Brigham Young's wives. Maria Young married William B. Dougall on June 1, 1868. She was at the foundational meeting of the LDS Church's Young Ladies' Department of the Cooperative Retrenchment Association in 1869. When Margaret Young Taylor, the first counselor in the Young Women organization, resigned her position in 1887 after the death of her husband, Dougall was selected to succeed Taylor. Dougall was the first counselor to

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from 1887 until Taylor's death on 6 December 1904. For many years, the meetings of the presidency of the Young Women was held in Dougall's home in Salt Lake City. When the

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opened in 1893, Dougall became an

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worker. After Utah gained

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in 1896, Dougall was the chairperson of the Utah chapter of the National Council of Women, a

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organization led by

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; in 1897 Dougall attended the NCW's large suffrage convention in

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Dougall was also a founding member and first counselor to

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 ...

of the

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organization. Dougall died in Salt Lake City of a

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.State of Utah Death Certificate
She was the mother of three children.

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