Minnie Stella Pegram
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]
[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] 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] 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] “Death Claims S.L. Matron,” Salt Lake Telegram, 5 Dec. 1942, 3.
[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] EBW, Diary, 26 Jan. 1894; 27 Nov. 1897; 1 and 8 Mar. 1898; 12 Jan. 1901; 11 Aug. 1904.
[7] “Society Notes,” Salt Lake Herald, 19 May 1895, 6.
[8] “Death Claims S.L. Matron,” Salt Lake Telegram, 5 Dec. 1942, 3.
[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.