Utah is known for its mountains, its Mormons and its salty lake. Not for the television. In fact, few people know that the inventor of the television was a Utahn – Philo T. Farnsworth.
What Utah should be known for is its strong pioneering women, like Reva Beck Bosone, Emmeline B. Wells and Martha Hughes Cannon, to name a few. But most of Utah’s pioneer women are unrecognized caricatures of the classic polygamous housewife.
A Utah representative wants to shed light on the anonymity of one of Utah’s early mothers: Martha Hughes Cannon. Cannon walked across the plains to Salt Lake City as a young girl, attended college at the University of Deseret, known today as the University of Utah, received a medical degree from the University of Michigan, and was a well-known national suffragist.