Martha Hughes Cannon

Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a Welsh-American politician, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, and a polygamous wife. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled West to settle in the Utah Territory with other church members. She started working at the age of fourteen, and at sixteen she enrolled in the University of Deseret, receiving a bachelor's degree in Chemistry. She later attended the University of Michigan and received an M.D.