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Show JAN 1 4 198Q Emily S. Tanner Richards was born in 1850 to Nathan and Sophia Tanner. She was involved in all areas of the woman suffrage movement on the state and the national level. She attended the meeting in 1886 to protest the disenfranchisement of the Utah women and served as secretary to the committee that wrote the memorial to the President of the United States. After UT women "lost the vote, she was an official representative of the Church's Womens' Organizations to a national suffrage meeting in Washington B.C. in 1888. She spoke at that meeting. At that meeting Mrs. Richards was elected vice-president of the Utah Women Suffrage Association. When Mrs. Troiseth, the appointed president, refused to serve, Mrs. Richards took charge of the organization. In 1895-1896, she was vice-president of the Utah organization and pres ented a memorial to the constitutional conventionto encourage the delegates to include womens' suffrage in the constitution. After Utah women received the right to vote she continued to work with the national organization to get suffrage for all women. She attended conventions and spoke in favor of the women vote. In 1899 she was appointed president of a Utah Council of Women that was organized by Carrie Chapman Catt. After Utah women received the vote, Mrs. Richards was an active member of the Democratic Party. Mrs. Richards was also a leader in the Mormon Church. She served as a Relief Society worker and was a member of the Relief Society General Board. This house was built in 1889 for the large sum of $20,000. The Richards continued .,to live, in the house until .the.ir .deaths^. The house had been divided into apartments about 1925. (see also 165A) |
