author
Augusta Joyce Crocheron
1844–1915
A pioneer-era writer who helped preserve the stories of Latter-day Saint women, she wrote poetry, children's work, and biographical sketches that captured everyday faith and resilience in the American West.
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Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches
by Augusta Joyce Crocheron
About the author
Born in Boston on October 9, 1844, she traveled west with her family as a child and later became part of the early Latter-day Saint community in Utah. Sources consistently describe her as an early Mormon pioneer and writer, and her life bridged the movement from migration-era experience to settled community life.
Her best-known work is Representative Women of Deseret (1884), a collection of biographical sketches that highlighted the lives of Mormon women. She also wrote poetry and other books, including Wild Flowers of Deseret and The Children's Book, showing a range that went from memorializing community history to writing for younger readers.
She died on March 17, 1915. Today, she is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a careful recorder of people and place—someone whose writing helped keep pioneer memory, especially women's history, from being lost.