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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION gathering up and washing swimsuits. He had been employed for several years by ZCMI when Heber conceived the idea of buying the Provo newspaper and made a two-decade change in their lives. Nephi and Hannah Dunn were married September 16, 1908 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They were 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, J. Harold Mount-ford, had published the Pay son 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 W. (Frank) Mountford and Mrs. Boyd (Fern) Christiansen. His ability to educate himself to an entirely new field in a relatively short period of time was one of Nephi Hicks' most commendable achievements. He became an able newspaperman and a publisher who fared well in an extremely competitive marketplace while Provo's ongoing journalistic future was evolving. WILLIAM R. 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 became a well-respected newsman. His 32-year career in two adjoining states took him from an extremely small paper to one of Utah's major out-state daily publications. William Riley Holmes was born in Montpelier, Idaho on February 11, 1874, the eleventh and last child of James and Harriet Phelps Holmes. Reared on a farm, he attended the only grade school available at that time, and graduated, he always said with a smile, from "the school of hard knocks." An 552 |
