| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION gathering up and washing swimsuits He had been employed for several years Heber conceived the idea of buying the Provo madetwo-decade change in their lives Nephi and Hannah Dunn were married 1908 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple They were by ZCMI when newspaper and September 16 parents of Mrs Maureen Wright Mrs Hazel Ross and Mrs Russell Johnson Hannah passed away on August 28 1932 Nephi married Mary Mountford on February 21 1935 Her father Harold Mount ford had published the Payson Chronicle before his death and her brothers had then operated the paper for eleven years until selling it in 1942 Nephi thus became the stepfather of James Harold and Francis Frank Mountford and Mrs Boyd Fern Christiansen His ability to educate himself to an entirely new field in relatively short period of time was one of Nephi Hicks most commendable achievements He became an able newspaperman andpublisher who fared well in an extremely competitive marketplace while Provoongoing journalistic future was evolving WILLIAM HOLMES Box Elder Journal Born February 11 1874 Died May 18 1949 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City 1965 He entered the newspaper business at age 36 after he had worked for the Oregon Short Line Railroad and held public office in his native Bear Lake County Idaho Although his journalistic experience before he purchased the Paris Post had been entirely from the outside looking in he becamewell-respected newsman His 32-year career in two adjoining states took him from an extremely small paper to one of Utahmajor out-state daily publications William Riley Holmes was born February 11 1874 the eleventh and Harriet Phelps Holmes Reared on only grade school available at that in Montpelier Idaho on last child of James andfarm he attended the time and graduated he always said withsmile from the school of hard knocks An 552 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
