Called by Elmina Shepard Taylor Successor Susa Y. Gates | Successor Ruth May Fox Name Maria Dougall Predecessor Alice M. Horne | |
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Full Name Clarissa Maria Young Born December 10, 1849
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States ( 1849-12-10 ) Died April 30, 1935, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Parents Clarissa Ross-Chase, Brigham Young Grandparents Abigail Howe Young, John Young Uncles Phineas Young, Joseph Young, John Young Aunts Nancy Young Kent, Susannah Young Little Similar People Brigham Young, Willard Young, John Willard Young, Don Carlos Young, Joseph Angell Young | ||
Predecessor Margaret Young Taylor Cause of death Coronary occlusion | ||
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Clarissa Maria Young Dougall (December 10, 1849 – April 30, 1935) was a Utah suffragist and a member of the general presidency of what is today the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Maria Young was born in Salt Lake City to Brigham Young and his eighth wife, Clarissa Ross. When she was eight years old, her mother Clarissa died, so from that point forward she was raised by Zina D. H. Young, another of Brigham Young's wives.
Maria Young married William B. Dougall on June 1, 1868. She was at the foundational meeting of the LDS Church's Young Ladies' Department of the Cooperative Retrenchment Association in 1869. When Margaret Young Taylor, the first counselor in the Young Women organization, resigned her position in 1887 after the death of her husband, Dougall was selected to succeed Taylor. Dougall was the first counselor to Elmina Shepard Taylor from 1887 until Taylor's death on 6 December 1904. For many years, the meetings of the presidency of the Young Women was held in Dougall's home in Salt Lake City. When the Salt Lake Temple opened in 1893, Dougall became an ordinance worker.
After Utah gained statehood in 1896, Dougall was the chairperson of the Utah chapter of the National Council of Women, a suffrage organization led by Susan B. Anthony; in 1897 Dougall attended the NCW's large suffrage convention in Washington, D.C. Dougall was also a founding member and first counselor to Annie Taylor Hyde of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers organization.
Dougall died in Salt Lake City of a coronary occlusion. She was the mother of three children.