| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION JESSE EARL Logan Journal Born October 30 1870 Died May 1936 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City 1969 He began his career as unlikely as it may seem by todaystandards at only eleven years of age When he retired from his beloved Logan Journal he had engaged in newspapering for more thanhalf-century Notrecord perhaps but certainly an enviable achievement Jesse Earl spent his entire life in Cache Valleylargest city and was employed only in the printing profession throughout his working years Despite limited schooling andconsiderably less-thanwealthy background he was the co-publisher of Loganleading newspaper at age 24 Then together with his longtime partner Charles England he developed the Journal into one of Utahoutstanding dailies son of Jacob and Fanny Cummings Earl who were among Loganearliest settlers he was born October 30 1870 The familymeagre fortunes forced him to quit school in 1881 and find employment It was the good fortune of Utah journalism that the work he found was with the Logan Leader an oft-praised weekly destined to be ab sorbed by its competition not long thereafter Praised by the Deseret News as neat and attractive sheet patent outside and well printed it was an ideal training ground foryoung printerdevil The lessons Earl learned would serve him well in years to come The Leader was sold on August 1882 tolocally-controlled commercial printing firm with numerous stockholders and newspaper ambitions Its name was changed to the Utah Journal and Earleducation asprinter continued in its plant He moved however to other Cache Valley printing 484 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
