| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Jacob and Alice North Gibson who then lived in Salt Lake City While he was still quite young the family moved to Eureka then to Mammoth where both Jacob and his eldest son and namesake were employed as miners Young Jacob Gibsons decided to move tofarm near Nephi it was at that communityonly paper the Times that Abe began what would be his lifelong profession Hebeen givenjob by Jacob Coleman the publisher Consequently unfortunately was badly injured inmining accident and the and his employer had also rented him an attic bedroom home in his In point of fact the Times and Abe Gibsoncareer began simultaneously The paper was the sole survivor of no less than seven which had been published intermittently in Nephi beginning in 1887 with the Ensign By 1909 the list had dwindled to just one the Record -which at that time was in its 20th volume It was then that Coleman purchased that paper and literally erased all previous mastheads by creatingnew one the Juab County Times When its first issue appeared on October 15 1909 the staff included the young apprentice printer Like most rural publications of that day its type was hand-set In May 1912 half-interest in the paper was acquired by Christensen year later Colemanremaining portion was purchased by B who by then wasfour-year veteran in the plant though only 19 years old competing paper the Nephi City News was launched on May 1916 with Dennis Wood and Henroid as co-publishers Wood who was inducted into the Utah Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1970 had been for many years NephiPostmaster andmember of the City Council Henroid had long been associated with other Nephi newspapers including the Record and the Times Their collaboration wasstrong one and it soon became apparent the community could not 524 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
