(Photo illustration by Jeremy Harmon | The Salt Lake Tribune) Seraph Young was the first woman to vote in territorial Utah after women were granted suffrage in February 1870. She is seen here with an article from the New York Times, published on the day she cast the first vote by a woman nationwide under an equal suffrage law. The article predicts what was widely believed at the time – that women in Utah would soon use their votes to oust polygamy.
Becky Jacobs is a Report for America corps member and writes about women’s issues and the status of women in Utah for The Salt Lake Tribune.