HANNAH KAAEPA
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National Votes for Women Trail
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People
- G7R8+VH Lakeside, UT, USA
- 40.542159, -112.733567
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National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
HANNAH KAAEPA
Inscription
HANNAH KAAEPAIN 1899 SPEECH TO NATIONAL
COUNCIL OF WOMEN, IOSEPA
RESIDENT URGED SUPPORT OF
WOMEN'S VOTING RIGHTS EFFORTS
IN THE TERRITORY OF HAWAI'I.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021
Suffragist Hannah Kaaepa (1873-1918) was born in Hawaii and immigrated to Utah, settling with other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Iosepa, Tooele County, Utah, a community of Hawaiian and Polynesian Mormons that was established in 1889. In February 1899, Kaaepa was part of the Utah delegation made up of prominent Utah suffragists that traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in the third Triennial Congress of the National Council of Women. Kaaepa addressed the National Council, urging support of women’s voting rights efforts in the Territory of Hawai‘i.
By 1917, the Iosepa settlement was a ghost town. The Iosepa Historical Society works to preserve the history of those who lived in Iosepa and an annual gathering occurs at the Iosepa cemetery, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
