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Show MARY ANNA CLARA Elected GEl GUS 1903 to COULTER 1905 May C. Coulter was born in Savanna, Illinois on September 7,1859, a daughter of John N. and Caroline C. Wasmund Geigus. A college education for women was almost unheard of in those years, yet Mary Geigus graduated from Northwestern College in 1880 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the University of Michigan she studied international course law given by and Dr. relations, a newly instituted Angell,"whose lifelong services to international James B. education and incidentally to diplomacy in China and Russia are well established." She was the lone woman in that field at Michigan University. In 1885, the year of her graduation from law school, she was admitted to the bar in both Illinois and Michigan. She was founder and first president of the Aglaia Club of Ogden and served as president of the Utah Federated Womens Clubs from 1900 to 1904. She was a member of the National Arts Club of New York City, the European Literati and Booklovers and the Societe Academique d'Histoire International of France. In a letter to Cornelia Lund dated April 4, 1939, she wrote: "Five years an ago exceptional honor was conferred on three Americans by the French Academy, Paris France. The recipients were the Utah ci tizen who is now namely Dr. Henry Field of the Field Museum, Chicago and Cautacuzene whose indefatigable humanitarian work is widely known and highly accredited throughout Europe." No further details were given. Research has revealed that it was a medal, but the reason for its being awarded was not given. addressing the The you, Princess given by her professor created an interest in the Orient she traveled widely there. She was also one of the first Utah women to be included in "Who's Who" in the United States. course and In 1902 she was elected to the Utah House of Representatives where she served on the Judiciary Committee, Education and Art Committee and the Industrial School Committee in the 1903 session. Here she formulated and sponsored legislation bearing on education, child labor and social welfare. She elector for the Progressive Party, a as a presidential organized splinter party formed in protest against the tactics employed to defeat in Theodore Roosevel t for President and was times a delegate to either Republican or three 1912, Progressive state conventions. served hastily Following 25, 1946. a A prolonged illness, she died at the age of 86 Major H.G. Coulter of Ogden survived her. on July son 51 |
