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Show LILY CLAYTON WOLSTERHOLME Elected 1915 to 1917 Lily Clayton was born to William and Sarah Walters Clayton in 1847 while the pioneers were going across the plains. Her father was dsturbed about his wi fes pregnancy, and the hardship of the poneers. Brigham Young had asked him to write a song, and he was just too dejected to corne up with the words. Then his friend found him and said, "All is Well, William, your wife and child are fine, All is well." That was the inspiration of the great Mormon song, "Corne, corne ye saints". Lily grew up and attended Morgan College. In 1889 she married W.J. Wolstenholme, who was the manager of Western Fuel Company. They were the parents of two boys and two girls. Lily was Utah was Republican all her life. She voted when she was 21 and still a territory. She was a member of the first Ladies Republican club in 1897. a In 1912 The Republican Convention was split over the woman suffage issue. The Progressive Party declared in favor of woman suffrage by action of the states. Utah had originally granted the vote to women in 1870; then they had been disfranchised by the Edmunds Tucker law. However, statehood and the new constitution restored those rights. In sympathy with the women, Lily remained with the Progressive Party, and in the Progressive ticket. 1914 was elected to the legislature on In 1915, she worked hard for Judge James Wolf's bill for a Domestic Three of her own. Relations Court and five bills introduced passesd the House and Senate and two were signed into law by Governor Spry. one term in the Hbuse, she decided to run for the Senate, but defeated. She remained active in the Republican party however, and even the conventions attending a national attending all convention were Warren G. Harding was nominated for President. She was also appointed to be a delegate to the International Purity Congress, and the last Constitutional Union which met in Washington D.C. This was an organization formed in 1913 to work for Woman's suffrage. It later became the National Woman's Party. She was asked to be a speaker at the conference, and then she went along with a of group of women to meet with President Wilson urging the passage After was the bill for Woman's suffrage. She was very Another of Lily's enthusiasms was the D.U.P. involved with the D.U.P. museum when it was located in the basement of the state capitol. She was instrumental also in setting up on organization to commemorate the Handcart Pioneers. They eventually built the log cabin replica on Temple Square. 59 |
