Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American women’s rights activist and temperance advocate
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About Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby
- Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby (August 3, 1836 – January 24, 1908) was an influential and radical women's rights activist and temperance advocate in the state of Utah as well as a figure known nationally.
- Charlotte was born in Massachusetts and later moved to Utah with her mother to practice religious beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
- The step-daughter of Brigham Young, a leader of the LDS Church, Charlotte was brought up in the church and married into polygamy.
- Her first marriage was to William S.
- Godbe, the leader of the Godbeite revolution against the LDS Church.
- Kirby was remarried again to John Kirby, who was not a Mormon, and denounced polygamy.
- Charlotte played an active role in the Utah women's rights movement along with Emmeline B.
- Wells.
- She was a leading figure of the Utah Territory Woman Suffrage Association and served as a correspondent to the government and other suffragist organizations.
- Charlotte traveled to the east coast often to deliver lectures regarding women's rights and temperance.
- Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby died on January 24, 1908 at age 71 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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