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Minnie Stella Pegram

Minnie Pegram Fabian

22 August 1857—4 December 1942

Born 22 Aug. 1857 in Cohasset, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts.1 Daughter of Benjamin Rush Pegram and Mercy Adelaide Robbins.2 Married Ferdinand John Fabian, 24 June 1844, in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; two children.3 Moved to Utah Territory, 1884.4 Member and president of the Ladies’ Literary Club, 1894.5 Associated with EBW and served on committees for University Women and the George Washington Memorial Building Committee, 1894–1901.6 Served on the board of the Utah Federation of Women’s Clubs with EBW, 1895.7 Prominent member of Salt Lake society, she helped organize the Salt Lake Country Club and the Town Club.8 Died 4 Dec. 1942 in Salt Lake City.9

Footnotes

  1. 1 Cohasset, MA, Town Clerk, Births, Deaths, Marriages, 1770–1900, Births, p. 12, line 38, Female Pegram, 22 Aug. 1857, Benjamin R. and Mercy Pegram, microfilm 754013, DGS 7009525, image 106/210, FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 15 June 2021), Minnie Stella Pegram (K6H4-HN2).

  2. 2 Cohasset, MA, Town Clerk, Births, Deaths, Marriages, 1770–1900, Births, p. 12, line 38, Female Pegram, 22 Aug. 1857, Benjamin R. and Mercy Pegram, microfilm 754013, DGS 7009525, image 106/210, FHL. Boston, MA, City Registrar, Death Records, 1896–1905, p. 9076, permit 579, Mercy Adelaide Robbins and Benjamin Rush Pegram, microfilm 594509, DGS 4275110, image 87/1054, FHL.

  3. 3 Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Births, Marriages (1841–1915), and Deaths (1841–1899), Marriages, vols. 353–354, 361, 1884–1885, p. 396, Ferdinand John Fabian and Minnie Stella Pegram, microfilm 1432998, DGS 4279775, image 400/1137, FHL. 1900 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, ED 45, p. 8B, Ferdinand G. Fabian, Minnie S. Fabian, Harrold P. Fabian, Stella M. Fabian.

  4. 4 “Death Claims S.L. Matron,” Salt Lake Telegram, 5 Dec. 1942, 3.

  5. 5 EBW, Diary, 26 Jan. 1894. Jill Mulvay Derr, “Scholarship, Service, and Sisterhood: Women’s Clubs and Associations, 1877–1977,” in Women in Utah History: Paradigm or Paradox, edited by Patricia Lyn Scott and Linda Thatcher (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005), 252.

  6. 6 EBW, Diary, 26 Jan. 1894; 27 Nov. 1897; 1 and 8 Mar. 1898; 12 Jan. 1901; 11 Aug. 1904.

  7. 7 “Society Notes,” Salt Lake Herald, 19 May 1895, 6.

  8. 8 “Death Claims S.L. Matron,” Salt Lake Telegram, 5 Dec. 1942, 3.

  9. 9 “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov, accessed 15 June 2021); Utah Department of Health Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, series 81448, file no. 2306 (1942), Minnie Pegram Fabian.