| Statue of Eliza R. Snow | |
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 The statue in 2021 | |
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| Artist | Ortho R. Fairbanks |
| Subject | Eliza R. Snow |
| Location | Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| 40°46′34.8″N111°53′28.1″W / 40.776333°N 111.891139°W Coordinates: 40°46′34.8″N111°53′28.1″W / 40.776333°N 111.891139°W | |
A statue of Eliza R. Snow is installed outside Salt Lake City's Pioneer Memorial Museum, in the U.S. state of Utah. [1] The artwork commemorates pioneer women. [2] The statue was sculpted by Mormon artist Ortho R. Fairbanks. [3]
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin.
Eliza Roxcy Snow was one of the most celebrated Latter Day Saint women of the nineteenth century. A renowned poet, she chronicled history, celebrated nature and relationships, and expounded scripture and doctrine. Snow was married to Joseph Smith as a plural wife and was openly a plural wife of Brigham Young after Smith's death. Snow was the second general president of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which she reestablished in Utah Territory in 1866. She was also the sister of Lorenzo Snow, the church's fifth president.
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