| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME That exposition inspired the song Meet Me In St Louis Louie and was the birthplace of the hot dog weiner on bun Although politicallyprofessed independent Dunn servedtwo year-term as alderman and championed public progress and civic improvement throughout his life While the epitome ofthrifty Scot he never charged widows or missionaries for subscriptions and when he encountered someone who was enduring difficult financial straits made no charge for advertising or commercial printing Dunn published the Transcript from December 1897 until going into semi-retirement in June 1919 Remaining energetic and active until turning over the publisherduties he thereafter lived four years before passing away January 22 1923 word picture of this noted Utahn was provided in1918 PublisherAuxiliary article written by one of his con temporaries in the newspaper profession Eighty-one years young can very well be taken as an expression of the virile strength and energy of James Dunn editor and owner of the Tooele Transcript for he is still the active head oflive weekly paper doinglarge part of the multifarious duties always to be found innewspaper office His only assistant up to this time has been one of his daughters And this is not the only remarkable thing about Mr Dunn for he did not begin his newspaper career until sixty years old time when most men are planning retirement from active business And perhaps there isthird remarkable thing which might be mentioned and that is that the Transcript wasrun-down poorly paying proposition when he was induced to purchase it on time And since 1897 when he took hold of the problem he has labored so faithfully and ably that he has long since brought the paper topaying basis First married to Mary Madden he later wed Jean Frazier and then Jessie Young Dunn was the father of 14 children the youngest Alex who took over the operation of the Transcript in June 1919 third generation is now represent ed by Joel and Loren Dunn who entered the business within the past 12 years 483 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
