Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (ISDUP, DUP) is a women's organization dedicated to preserving the history of the original settlers of the geographic area covered by the State of Deseret and Utah Territory, including Mormon pioneers. The organization is open to any woman who is: (1) A direct-line descendant or legally adopted direct-line descendant with a pioneer ancestor; (2) the pioneer ancestor is a person who traveled to or through the geographic area covered by the State of Deseret/Utah Territory between July 1847 and 10 May 1869 (completion of the railroad, May 10, 1869); (3) over the age of eighteen, and of good character. Travel through the geographic area covered by the State of Deseret/Utah Territory can be either east to west, west to east, north to south, or south to north.[1]
History
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized 11 April 1901 in Salt Lake City.
Kate B. Carter was President of Daughters of Utah Pioneers from April 1941 until her death in September 1976, serving the longest of any of its presidents.[3][4] She served as President of the Days of '47 Parade from its start in 1947 until her death.[5]
Achievements
In later decades, the ISDUP (DUP) has worked to conserve historical sites and landmarks, to collect artifacts, relics, manuscripts, photographs, and to educate its members and the general public. The society maintains satellite museums in the intermountain west, eighty-six of them in Utah, and manages an extensive collection in its Salt Lake City museum (Pioneer Memorial Museum). Numerous books have been published by the society, including community and family histories, cookbooks, history texts, children's stories, and a four-volume collection of biographical sketches "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" (1998).
Organizational structure
ISDUP headquarters are located in the Pioneer Memorial Museum in
See also
References
- ^ International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers "Membership in the DUP". Accessed 27 July 2011
- ^ Carter, 11:329-428[full citation needed]
- ^ DUP Presidents Archived 2019-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, dupinternational.org
- OCLC 44026273.
- ^ "Obituaries: Kate B. Carter". Deseret News. September 10, 1976. p. B12.
- Carter, Kate B., editor. "The Daughters of Utah Pioneers", article within the 12 volume series, "Heart Throbs of the West." Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, 1939-51.[full citation needed]
Further reading
- Thatcher, Linda (1994), "Daughters of Utah Pioneers", Utah History Encyclopedia, University of Utah Press, ISBN 9780874804256, archived from the originalon March 21, 2024, retrieved April 13, 2024