Mae Taylor Nystrom
Born: 11 August 1871
Called as Second Counselor in the Young Women's General Presidency: April 1905
Released: 1923
Died: 8 December 1959
Called as Second Counselor in the Young Women's General Presidency: April 1905
Released: 1923
Died: 8 December 1959
Biographical Articles
Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 4
Young Woman's Journal, June 1905, Mae Taylor Nystrom
Young Woman's Journal, September 1923, Mae Taylor Nystrom
Young Woman's Journal, June 1905, Mae Taylor Nystrom
Young Woman's Journal, September 1923, Mae Taylor Nystrom
Jenson, Andrew. "Nystrom, Mae Taylor." Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 4. pg. 264.
NYSTROM, Mae Taylor, a member of the General Board of the Y. W. M. I. A., was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of George Hamilton Taylor and Elmina Shepherd. She was educated in the public schools, the L. D. S. College and the University of Utah; was married to Theodore Nystrom in 1900, served as secretary and treasurer and second counselor in the 14th Ward M. I. A., and was called to the General Board of the Y. L. M. I. A., Oct. 9, 1892. In April, 1905, she was chosen as second counselor to Pres. Martha H. Tingey and served in this position for 18 years. After being released in 1923, she moved to Green River, Wyoming, and served as stake president of the Y. L. M. I. A. of the Lyman Stake in 1926-1929; she returned to Salt Lake City in 1929. Sister Nystrom was a delegate to the National Council of Women in 1908 and to the triennial session held in Seattle in 1909.
NYSTROM, Mae Taylor, a member of the General Board of the Y. W. M. I. A., was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of George Hamilton Taylor and Elmina Shepherd. She was educated in the public schools, the L. D. S. College and the University of Utah; was married to Theodore Nystrom in 1900, served as secretary and treasurer and second counselor in the 14th Ward M. I. A., and was called to the General Board of the Y. L. M. I. A., Oct. 9, 1892. In April, 1905, she was chosen as second counselor to Pres. Martha H. Tingey and served in this position for 18 years. After being released in 1923, she moved to Green River, Wyoming, and served as stake president of the Y. L. M. I. A. of the Lyman Stake in 1926-1929; she returned to Salt Lake City in 1929. Sister Nystrom was a delegate to the National Council of Women in 1908 and to the triennial session held in Seattle in 1909.
"Mae Taylor Nystrom." Young Woman's Journal. June 1905. pg. 263-264.
MAE TAYLOR NYSTROM.
How different are the circumstances surrounding the childhood of Sister Fox and Sister Nystrom, yet how perfectly have the ends of God been met in both lives.
Sister Mae was nurtured with tenderest care by a wise and loving mother. She was guarded from the ills of life, and borne, as it were, upon the wings of joy, knowing no great trials or sorrows until her mother was taken from her. That event is forever sanctified to her by a daughter’s duty so beautifully done that her mother will forever call her blessed.
Her maidenhood was spent in the shelter of a family life whose every phase was love and peace and rest. Out of it she has come to us with modest, humble mien, a calm, restful spirit, strong in faith, great in wisdom, exalted in purpose, and with the stamp of her father’s and mother's great souls upon her life, to fill our lives with hope and peace. She is a child of light and the brightness of her spirit radiates sunshine as she goes.
Sister Nystrom is the daughter of Bishop George H. Taylor of the Fourteenth Ward, and of our late beloved President Elmina S. Taylor. She was born in Salt Lake City at the old Taylor homestead, where she still lives.
She attended the public schools, spent one year at the State University, and at the founding of the L. D. S. University in 1888 entered that institution and completed a course of study. The summer of 1893 was spent at Harvard studying physical culture—a phase of education in which she is deeply interested. Upon her return she taught in the Utah School for Physical Culture for two years under the direction of Maud May Babcock and for two years took charge of the school as its director. Many will remember the drills she conducted in our officers’ meetings in the Fourteenth Ward.
Sister Nystrom’s official record in M. I. A. work began at the age of seventeen. She was appointed Assistant Secretary of the local Association. Three years later she was chosen Second Counselor, and four years after that made Treasurer; all of which positions she filled with the zeal and attention to detail that is so characteristic of her. Oct. 9th, 1892, she was elected Corresponding Secretary of the General Board of the Y. L. M .I. A., and so became familiar with the very depths of this work under the direct tuition of her mother.
Sister Nystrom’s great interest in the work is shown in the fact that she was faithful to every call from her local association, while she fulfilled the exacting duties of Corresponding Secretary of the General Board.
With it all she found time for the cultivation of the social graces that made her a leader among her friends. In her home life is seen, however, the greatest beauty of her character. Quiet, reserved, sweet and sunshiny. She felt deeply the obligations of affection due her parents and her devotion has always been beautiful to see.
Having a keen appreciation of the obligations of woman to her home, she quietly set about to prepare herself for the highest fulfillment of those obligations.
She is deeply interested in domestic science, proper preparation of food, sanitation, nursing of the sick, sewing, in fact, she has cultivated every talent that would best prepare her for the care of her family and household. She is a splendid housekeeper. Nowhere does she shine with steadier radiance than in the cheerful atmosphere of her home life.
Sister Mae Taylor was married June 21, 1900, to Theodore Nystrom, and for two years lived at Montpelier, Idaho, where she became an active worker in the Mutual.
After her return, she was chosen Treasurer of the General Board of the Y. L. M. I. A., and became familiar with the financial workings of this great organization.
Sister Nystrom being young keenly appreciates the needs of the daughters of Zion, and we realize her peculiar adaptability for the position because of her close association with our beloved Sister Taylor, and the consequent training she received in all branches of our M. I. A. work. This with her great wisdom, tact, earnestness and devotion to duty augurs well for the future of the M. I. A. cause and we congratulate our girls upon the efficient service that will be rendered in their behalf.
MAE TAYLOR NYSTROM.
How different are the circumstances surrounding the childhood of Sister Fox and Sister Nystrom, yet how perfectly have the ends of God been met in both lives.
Sister Mae was nurtured with tenderest care by a wise and loving mother. She was guarded from the ills of life, and borne, as it were, upon the wings of joy, knowing no great trials or sorrows until her mother was taken from her. That event is forever sanctified to her by a daughter’s duty so beautifully done that her mother will forever call her blessed.
Her maidenhood was spent in the shelter of a family life whose every phase was love and peace and rest. Out of it she has come to us with modest, humble mien, a calm, restful spirit, strong in faith, great in wisdom, exalted in purpose, and with the stamp of her father’s and mother's great souls upon her life, to fill our lives with hope and peace. She is a child of light and the brightness of her spirit radiates sunshine as she goes.
Sister Nystrom is the daughter of Bishop George H. Taylor of the Fourteenth Ward, and of our late beloved President Elmina S. Taylor. She was born in Salt Lake City at the old Taylor homestead, where she still lives.
She attended the public schools, spent one year at the State University, and at the founding of the L. D. S. University in 1888 entered that institution and completed a course of study. The summer of 1893 was spent at Harvard studying physical culture—a phase of education in which she is deeply interested. Upon her return she taught in the Utah School for Physical Culture for two years under the direction of Maud May Babcock and for two years took charge of the school as its director. Many will remember the drills she conducted in our officers’ meetings in the Fourteenth Ward.
Sister Nystrom’s official record in M. I. A. work began at the age of seventeen. She was appointed Assistant Secretary of the local Association. Three years later she was chosen Second Counselor, and four years after that made Treasurer; all of which positions she filled with the zeal and attention to detail that is so characteristic of her. Oct. 9th, 1892, she was elected Corresponding Secretary of the General Board of the Y. L. M .I. A., and so became familiar with the very depths of this work under the direct tuition of her mother.
Sister Nystrom’s great interest in the work is shown in the fact that she was faithful to every call from her local association, while she fulfilled the exacting duties of Corresponding Secretary of the General Board.
With it all she found time for the cultivation of the social graces that made her a leader among her friends. In her home life is seen, however, the greatest beauty of her character. Quiet, reserved, sweet and sunshiny. She felt deeply the obligations of affection due her parents and her devotion has always been beautiful to see.
Having a keen appreciation of the obligations of woman to her home, she quietly set about to prepare herself for the highest fulfillment of those obligations.
She is deeply interested in domestic science, proper preparation of food, sanitation, nursing of the sick, sewing, in fact, she has cultivated every talent that would best prepare her for the care of her family and household. She is a splendid housekeeper. Nowhere does she shine with steadier radiance than in the cheerful atmosphere of her home life.
Sister Mae Taylor was married June 21, 1900, to Theodore Nystrom, and for two years lived at Montpelier, Idaho, where she became an active worker in the Mutual.
After her return, she was chosen Treasurer of the General Board of the Y. L. M. I. A., and became familiar with the financial workings of this great organization.
Sister Nystrom being young keenly appreciates the needs of the daughters of Zion, and we realize her peculiar adaptability for the position because of her close association with our beloved Sister Taylor, and the consequent training she received in all branches of our M. I. A. work. This with her great wisdom, tact, earnestness and devotion to duty augurs well for the future of the M. I. A. cause and we congratulate our girls upon the efficient service that will be rendered in their behalf.
Cannon, Ann M. "Mae Taylor Nystrom." Young Woman's Journal. September 1923. pg. 471-473.
Mae Taylor Nystrom By Ann M. Cannon When only a girl Mae Taylor was appointed Corresponding Secretary of the General Board of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association. She had already served quite an apprenticeship in Mutual Improvement as second counselor to Miss Agnes Campbell of the 14th ward Association in Salt Lake stake, besides which, being the daughter of a bishop, George H. Taylor, the genial father of the 14th ward, she also understood the relationship of the organization to all others. The only daughter and confidant of her mother, Mrs. Elmina S. Taylor, first president of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Associations in all the world, familiarity with all phases of the general work was hers. In those days the General Board had no office. The work was super- vised directly by President Taylor herself, and Mae was the executive, always at hand to carry out the wishes and further the plans evolved by President Taylor and her counselors—Maria Y. Dougall and Martha H. Tingey. Until shortly before Mae’s appointment as corresponding secretary, President Taylor’s Board had consisted of the presidency, four “aids,” as she termed them, and the General Secretary. During a portion of the time that Mae filled this office she was also treasurer and did a great part of the general secretarial work. Having been thus closely connected with the executive work of the General Board, small wonder that Mrs. Martha Horne Tingey, when elevated to the presidency to succeed Sister Taylor, should choose Mae as her counselor. This was done in 1905. The young counselor was at once a connection with all done in the past and an assurance of future progress, as she was in touch with all that was best in the life of the young people of her day, and always alert for growth and development. Her high sense of duty assured always her best efforts, while her modesty led her to hide as far as possible the part she played from the public eye. In her capacity of counselor to President Tingey, she has been of great value because of her interest in young girls and her power to get their view point, as well as through her knowledge of their pursuits and ambitions. In her young womanhood she specialized under Miss Maud May Babcock and at Harvard University as a teacher of Physical Education. This has no doubt had an effect in broadening the courses of study in the Y. L. M. I. A. as Sister Taylor Nystrom has always been an ardent advocate of active work as well as mental. She has served as the representative of the Y. L. M. I. A. on the Board of Control of the Deseret Gymnasium as well as on many and varied committees of the General Board. Perhaps one of her greatest accomplishments has been in helping to unify the work with that of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations and in fact of all the auxiliary associations of the Church. In recent years she has done much to encourage and assist in the building of summer homes for girls. In the new assignment made to the Mutual Improvement Associations, that of Recreation for all the people— Sister Nystrom’s experience and advice have been of untold value. Several times Mrs. Nystrom’s work on the General Board has been interrupted by her removal from Salt Lake City. The first occasion was that of her marriage, when she moved to Montpelier, Idaho, where she lived about three years. At this time she was released from the General Board, but was again reinstated upon her return. During several summers and one winter she has lived on a ranch at Cokeville, Wyoming, but for this time she was given a leave of absence, as the entire General Board valued her services so highly they were loath to part with her. Now, however, that her husband’s business interests call him to Green River, Wyoming, for a term of years, a release has been reluctantly granted. She carries to her new home the loving appreciation and wishes of the General Board as well as all other officers and members who know her, in addition to that of her many other friends. In their attractive home on Fourth Avenue Mr. and Mrs. Nystrom have been always most gracious host and hostess. While too busy for many social activities, both exhibit the quality of hospitality to the greatest degree and their home has always been a place of peace and joy, open especially to the lonely or discouraged. As a girl her home was always a favorite gathering place and it has so continued throughout the years. While an excellent housekeeper, Mrs. Nystrom has never permitted that to interfere with the business of home-making. To little Frederick (aged ten) and Jeanne (aged three) she is a most devoted and companionable mother. To her friends it seems that all her devoted mother’s and father’s ideals have been personified in this rare woman. |
MAE TAYLOR NYSTROM
CHILDREN OF THEODORE AND MAE TAYLOR NYSTORM
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