Almira Mae Taylor Nystrom (August 11, 1871 - December 8, 1959) was a

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

Young Women organization The Young Women (often referred to as Young Women's or Young Woman's) is a youth organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The purpose of the Young Women organization is to help each young woman "be worthy to ...

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(LDS Church). Mae Taylor was born in

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, to George Hamilton and

Elmina Shepard Taylor Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor (September 12, 1830 – December 6, 1904) was the first general president of what is today the Young Women organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was a founding member of the N ...

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

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for a year, but completed her course of study at LDS College and married Theodore Nystrom on 21 June 1900. They lived in Montpelier,

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, 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. 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 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,

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. She was succeeded in her position by Lucy Grant Cannon. Nystrom returned to live in Salt Lake City in 1929.she died in Salt Lake City Utah in 1959 at 88 Nystrom was a member of Susan B. Anthony's National Council of Women and was a delegate from Utah for to the

organization's conventions in 1908 and 1909.

Publications

*Nystrom, Mae Taylor "The Y.L.M.I.A. under President Elmina S. Taylor," ''

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'' 36 (June 1925): 330.

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References

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'', app. 1, ""Biographical Register of General Church Officers"

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