Description

• Zina Baker Huntington
• Zina Huntington Young
• Zina Young Card
• Zina Card Brown

Mother, daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter-an impressive line of prominent women all named Zina. One converted to Mormonism in New York in 1835. The next married Joseph Smith and Brigham Young successively and served as the church's general Relief Society president. The third assisted her husband, Charles Ora Card, in founding Cardston, Alberta. The fourth married future church apostle Hugh B. Brown.

Collectively this extended family had a significant impact on a large region of the American West. Individually each helped shape her particular era. Zina Young and Zina Card worked tirelessly for woman's suffrage, and they encouraged women to study nursing and to become involved in industry. The two promoted drama and literature, and they inspired others through their speeches and expressions of spirituality, including speaking in tongues. They helped Mormon women feel good about themselves, and in the process they made the territory not only habitable but livable. (From back cover.)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter

1. "This Silent Conversation": Zina Baker Huntington's Watertown Letters, 1820-35
2. "Heaven Born and Heaven Bound": The Religious Conversions of Zina Baker Huntington and Zina Diantha Huntington, 1816-33
3. Spiritual Riches:The Huntington Sisters in Kirtland, 1836-38
4. Missouri Crucible, 1836-39
5. An Ordered Life: Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young in Nauvoo, 1839-46
6. Winter Quarters and Westward, 1846-48
7. Zina Diantha: First Years in Utah, 1848-50s
8. Zina Diantha's Transition from Domestic to Public Spheres, 1860-80
9. Zina Presendia: Two Plural Marriages, 1868, 1884
10. Zina Presendia: On the Canadian Frontier, 1887-1903
11. Relief Society, Suffrage, and Polygamy: The Strong Voice of Mother and Daughter in Public Issues, 1880s-1900
12. Woman's Rights, 1879-1900 Chapter
13. Zina Diantha: The Final Years, 1892-1901
14. Zina Presendia Young Williams Card: "A Well Spent Life"
15. Zina Young Card Brown: The Making of a Marriage, 1908-27
16. Zina Young Card Brown: New Horizons for a Supportive Wife, 1927-37
17. The England Years, 1937-46
18. Zina Card Brown: Finale, 1946-74

Epilogue
Index