SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For more than 80 years, the grave of the first woman to vote under an equal suffrage law in the United States was marked with a misspelled name. Not anymore. On Tuesday morning, her descendants, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and others gathered at Seraph Young’s […]

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Utah lawmakers on Wednesday recognized the 150th anniversary of Utah granting women the right to vote. A Utah woman, Seraph Young, cast the first ballot under a women’s suffrage law days after the 1870 law was passed. Utah was also the second state to extend the right […]

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