| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Newspapering attracted him again after onlybrief period of time and the Essay Kaigh by-line appeared in the Salt Lake Herald until March 13 1884 when he became partner in The Referee and its editor The publication addressed fun fashion and amusement in Salt Lake City but lasted onlyfew months His writing skills were then employed in the Salt Lake area until March 1891 when he became editor of the Utah Democrat in Ogden It was moreDemocratic party organ thanpublication of general interest but Kenner remained with it until 1895 when he launched an unusual periodical bannered The Great Campaign It was simply devoted to Utah politics from the Democratic viewpoint and predictably was unsuccessful Kenner then joined the staff of the Provo Utonian on May 23 1896 The paper was in fact the Southern Utonian for which hebriefly written in Beaver fourteen years earlier As his newspaper career began to fade he devoted his time to the book Utah As It Is published in 1904 It was his valedictory to the profession in which heengaged without great financial return but surely with notoriety both pro and con While Ada Freeman captured early recognition as capable woman journalist she was not alone One of her bestknown rivals for that honor though her career was brief was Kate Jean Boan who on January 1891 founded the Uintah Papoose in Vernal Orphaned at age three and adopted by an Episcopalian minister she found her way to the Mountain States asyoung woman married Wesley Blake Signal Corps officer based at PikePeak and became one of the first women to graduate from the University of Colorado Her husband died in Salt Lake City and fortime she supported her son and daughter by working for the Salt Lake Tribune Her entree to the Uintah Basin in 1885 was asmatron at the Whiterocks Indian School She then married Amos Boan homesteaded with him onranch near Vernal and another not far from Roosevelt and became the mother of three more children 184 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
