Mae Taylor Nystrom

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Mae Taylor Nystrom (born 11 August 1881) was a Utah suffragist and a member of the general presidency of what is today the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Mae Taylor was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to George Hamilton Taylor and Elmina Shepard Taylor, the first president of the church's Young Women organization. She was educated at LDS College and the University of Utah and married Theodore Nystrom in 1900.

In 1892, Nystrom had become a member of the general board of what was then called the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. She continued in this position until April 1905, when she was chosen by new president Martha H. Tingey as the second counselor in the organization. Nystrom was a counselor to Tingey until she was released on 15 July 1923 because of her move to Green River, Wyoming. She was succeeded in her position by Lucy Grant Cannon. Nystrom returned to live in Salt Lake City in 1929.

Nystrom was a member of Susan B. Anthony's National Council of Women and was a delegate from Utah for to the suffragist organization's conventions in 1908 and 1909.

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• Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 4, s.v. "General Board of the Young Woman's Mutual Improvement Association"
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism, app. 1, ""Biographical Register of General Church Officers"