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Show Z. JEAN ROGERS Elected Murdock Jean was the first Davis County where she throughout the state. She was born at Boone, She received for six at years woman a MURDOCK to 1944 elected prominent to the legislature from cl ubwoman who was known Iowa on December 25, 1882, the daughter of Civil War fame, and Martha SadIe Rogers. her education in Nebraska and at the Minden, Lincoln, Nebraska. Later she was a leading designer for a prominent Omaha, Nebraska firm. Captain Nelson Rogers, University was 1943 of Leaving Nebraska, she went to Oakland, California in 1901 and on February 26, 1906, married J.W. Murdock. Following the great San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906, they moved to Los Angeles. Later they went to Tucson, Arizona and from 1909 to 1914 they lived in Utah. Mr. Murdock worked Pacific for the Southern Ogden, Railroad, as passsenger agent. They made their home in Bountiful, and plunged into civic and club work. She was active in the Federation of Women's Clubs, auditor of She the Salt Lake District and treasurer of the Salt Lake Club. werved two terms as president of the utah Safety Council; was a vice president of the Women's Legislative Council, president of the of the Women's Democratic a member Study Group in Bountiful; Democratic County Committee; chief registrar at Bountiful for all selective service drafts and registration agent for her district for three years. While in the House of Representatives, she was Chair of the Traffic Safety Committee and a member of the Education, Municipal and County Affairs, Public Printing, Public Welfare and the University of Utah and Agricultural College Committees. while she was at the peak of her the the Davis County Chapter of the National Red Cross, the Utah OWLs, corresponding secretary of the Sal t Lake Federation of Women's Clubs; state Safety Chair of the Utah Federation of Women's member of the Service Star Mothers' Club in Bountiful and Clubs Star Mothers' Club in Salt Lake; and a member of the Fine the death on June 12, 1944 came She was secretary of acti vi ty. American Red Cross, a member of Her Gld Arts CI ub in Bounti ful which she had organized several years previously. 109 |
