BYU Studies Quarterly
Article Title
First to Vote
Keywords
BYU Studies, women's suffrage
Abstract
February 14, 1870, was election day in Salt Lake City. Citizens might have gathered with more than the usual excitement that day to cast their ballots because this was the first election in which Utah women citizens could vote. Seraph Young (later Ford), a twenty-three-year-old schoolteacher and grandniece of Brigham Young, was the first to exercise her new right and became the first woman in the United States to cast a ballot under a women’s equal suffrage law.1
Recommended Citation
Kitterman, Katherine
(2020)
"First to Vote,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 59:
Iss.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol59/iss3/6