Elmina Shepard Taylor

Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor was the first general president of what is today the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and was a founding member of the National Council of Women.

Anstis E. Shepard was born in Middlefield, New York to David Spaulding Shepard and Rosella Bailey. Following her graduation from public school and Hardwick Academy, she left home in 1854 to teach school in Haverstraw, New York, where she met John Druce, a member of the LDS Church. She was taught by Druce and baptized into the church on July 5, 1856. On August 31, 1856, she married George Hamilton Taylor in Haverstraw. They left New York for Utah on April 15, 1859, and arrived in Salt Lake City on September 16.

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