Gates, Susa Young, 1856-1933
Dates
- Existence: 1856 - 1933
Biographical History
Susa Young Gates (1856-1933) was a writer and a prominent female public figure in Utah.
Susa Young Gates was a daughter of Brigham Young, the second prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was baptized into the same church and dedicated much of her time and efforts to church service. She married young and was divorced, and then remarried in 1880. She pioneered the Brigham Young Academy music department, founded the "Young Woman's Journal," served on the Brigham Young University Board of Trustees, and was a member of the National Council of Women.
Citation:
John Stevens' courtship: a story of the Echo Canyon War, 1909:t.p. (Susa Young Gates)OCLC, Feb. 6, 2003(hdg.: Gates, Susa Young, 1856-1933; usage: Susa Young Gates)
Wikipedia, website viewed 25 July 2013(Susa Young Gates; born March 18, 1856, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory; died May 27, 1933, Salt Lake City; born Susa Young to Lucy Bigelow and LDS church president Brigham Young; attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah where she founded the music department; 4th president of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers; attended the University of Deseret; 1872 married Alma B. Dunford and had 2 chidren, but divorced in 1877; married Jacob F. Gates in 1880 and had 13 children with him; missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Sandwich Islands; founded the Young Woman's Journal; author; founded the Relief Society Magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; delegate to five congresses of the International Council of Women; delegate and officer of the National Council of Women; member of the Board of Regents of Brigham Young University and Utah State Agricultural College; head of the Research Department and Library of the Genealogical Society of Utah)
Woman's Exponent author list, 2016:(Susa Young Gates, also wrote under the name "Homespun")
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, via WWW, April 5, 2021 (Susa Young Gates - Church History Topics, Restoration and Church History)
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
General programme music department, third term
Oversized chart showing daily and hourly schedule of classes and lessons during the week, including students' names.
Karl G. Maeser religious lecture minutes
Minutes to lectures given by Karl G. Maeser in his Book of Mormon, New Testament, extempore exercises, and grand theology religion classes at the Brigham Young Academy. Minutes recorded by James E. Talmage, Susa Young, Zina Williams, and others. Second folder includes a typed copy of the minutes, prepared by Evelyn C. Fannin in about the late 1990s.
Oral history interview with Elsie Booth Brockbank
Interview by Hollis Scott with Elsie B. Brockbank, daughter of John Edge Booth, regarding her father, his marriages, law career, and family associations with Heber J. Grant and Susa Young Gates. Includes transcript and sound recording.
Reminiscences of Brigham Young Academy
Contains an article on the origin of the Music department by Susa Young Gates; recollections of teaching in the Primary department by Anna Smoot Taylor; a brief overview of the Ladies Work department by Jennie Tanner; and a tribute to A. O. Smoot (authorship unknown).