Born 5 March 1850 in present-day Farmington, Davis County, Utah.[1] Daughter of William Kelsey Rice and Lucy Witter Geer.[2] Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 24 June 1860.[3] Married Timothy Baldwin Clark, 23 November 1867, in Salt Lake City; eleven children.[4] Served as president of the Farmington Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, 1873–1880.[5] Served as counselor to Aurelia Spencer Rogers in the Davis Stake Primary, 1880–circa 1906.[6] President of the Davis County Woman Suffrage Association; vice president of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association.[7] One of three female candidates, with Emmeline B. Wells and Martha Hughes Cannon, for the Utah Senate, 1896.[8] Delegate to the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, DC, February 1900.[9] First woman seated at the Republican National Convention, 1908; first woman to cast a vote.[10] Charter member of the Utah Woman’s Press Club.[11] As a writer wrote the lyrics for several songs; one song was included in the Relief Society Song Book, 1919, and another was the official song of the Fort Douglas training camp.[12] Died 13 November 1928 in Salt Lake City.[13]
[1] Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).
[2] Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FSL.
[3] Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FSL.
[4] Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149515, vol. E, p. 87, 23 Nov. 1867, FSL; “Notable Utah Women,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 15 Sept. 1900, 14.
[5] Farmington Ward, Davis Stake, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1849–1951, “Y. L. M. I. A.,” Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Farmington Ward, Davis Stake, Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 31 Oct. 1873, pp. 13–14; 20 May 1880, pp. 310–311, CHL.
[6] Davis Stake Primary Association Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 16 July 1880, p. 1, CHL; Charles Roscoe Savage, Portrait of Farmington Ward’s First Primary Presidency (1878), circa 1890, photograph, CHL; “Mrs. Lucy Clark Called by Death,” Davis County Clipper (Bountiful, UT), 16 Nov. 1928, [1].
[7] Rachel Foster Avery, ed., Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, Held in Washington, D. C., January 23d to 28th, 1896 (Alfred J. Ferris, [1896]), 160; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[8] Allan Kent Powell, “Elections in the State of Utah,” in Allan Kent Powell, ed., Utah History Encyclopedia (University of Utah Press, 1994), 158.
[9] “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[10] “Woman Delegate Comes from Utah,” Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, 16 June 1908, 1; Frank H. Hitchcock, comp., Delegates and Alternates to the Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 16, 1908 (n.p., 1908), 44.
[11] “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[12] Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society (Deseret Book, 1992), 199; Utah Women’s Press Club Papers, 30 June 1917, CHL; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[13] Utah, Salt Lake County, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139778, Death Records, 1928, no. Y-1764, 13 Nov. 1928, familysearch.org; “Mrs. Lucy Clark Called by Death,” [1].