Born 7 December 1847 in the Salt Lake Valley.[1] Daughter of John Taylor and Sophia Whitaker.[2] Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1855.[3] Directed and taught in the Salt Lake City Sixteenth Ward school, 1870.[4] Married Rodney Carlos Badger, 7 December 1871, in Salt Lake City; ten children.[5] Participated in the Utah Woman’s Press Club, 1894.[6] Served as a counselor to Sarah M. Kimball in the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward Relief Society, 1894–1899.[7] Signed a memorial to the Utah constitutional convention requesting equal suffrage for women, 18 March 1895.[8] Member and treasurer of the Utah Kindergarten Association, beginning 1895.[9] President of the Fifteenth Ward Relief Society, 1899–1903.[10] Visited with Emmeline B. Wells on several occasions, 1900–1903.[11] Assistant to the Relief Society general board.[12] Died 16 October 1908 in Salt Lake City.[13]
[1] B. H. Roberts, The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (George Q. Cannon and Sons, 1892), 467; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 17 Oct. 1908, 1; 1850 U.S. Census, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 40.
[2] Roberts, Life of John Taylor, 101, 467; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1; “Local and Other Matters,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 13 Dec. 1871, 528.
[3] Endowment House, Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 138, 17 June 1865, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).
[4] “Local and Other Matters,” Deseret News, 6 July 1870, 260; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1.
[5] Endowment House, Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183398, vol. H, p. 63, 7 Dec. 1871, FSL; “Local and Other Matters,” Deseret News, 13 Dec. 1871, 528; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1; 1900 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, enumeration dist. 24, p. 248B.
[6] Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 28 Feb. and 16 Mar. 1894, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.
[7] Wells, Diary, 19 July 1894; Fifteenth Ward, Relief Society Minutes and Records, 1868–1968, vol. 8, 62, 217, 19 July 1894, 7 Mar. 1899, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT.
[8] “Woman Suffragists,” Salt Lake Herald, 19 Mar. 1895, 3.
[9] “Society Notes,” Salt Lake Herald, 5 May 1895, 6; Wells, Diary, 30 Aug. 1904; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1.
[10] Fifteenth Ward, Relief Society Minutes and Records, vol. 8, 217, 7 Mar. 1899; Emma J. Bennett, “Mary R. Gray,” Woman’s Exponent (Salt Lake City), Mar. 1906, 57; Wells, Diary, 17 Feb. 1900 and 29 Dec. 1903; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1.
[11] See, for example, Wells, Diary, 24 Oct. 1900; 13 Jan. 1902; and 25 Feb. 1903.
[12] Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, History of Relief Society, 1842–1966 (General Board of Relief Society, 1966), 58; Wells, Diary, 22 Mar. 1900; 13 Nov. 1901; 18 Feb. 1905; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1.
[13] “Bodger, Harriet A T,” 16 Oct. 1908, file no. 1456, Utah State Archives Name Indexes, Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, 1904–present, series 81448, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service, archives.utah.org; “Death of Mrs. H. A. Badger,” 1.