| Show THE observation UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME his editorials were usually dignified and free from vituperation Appended to the latter statement though was historian Cecil Alterpostscript But if you thought Editor Penrose couldn just note this from the News of April 12 1884 The Butte Intermountain much of whose content is made up from the vicious imagination of one Read formerly of Salt Lake has degenerated into one of the most shameless lying sheets published in the West Penrose was born in London England on February 1832 His people were prominent Cornish families interested in tin mines Charles at four was reading the Bible writes Wendell Ashton whose book Voice in the West focused in part on Penrose At eighteen he becameMormon Ashton continues the only member of his family to do so For ten years he wasmissionary for his church in Britain walking between three and four thousand milesyear during the first seven years It was while he trudged with blistered toes and heels alongdusty road in Essex that he wrote the words to the well-known hymn Ye Mountains High penned before he had ever seen Utahpeaks At age 29 he crossed the ocean by steerage and drove an ox team across the plains to the Salt Lake settlement which had been established only 14 years earlier He toiled as laborer and school teacher in Farmington and in Cache Valley His introduction to journalism came in 1870 when he becamemember of the staff of the infant Ogden Junction Volume Numberof that paper published on January 1870 listed him as associate editor He was an able newspa perman and soon became editor of the Junction which the Salt Lake Herald described as spicy readable well-edited paper By April of the following year he had assumed the additional duties of business manager Ogdenonly newspaper at that time the Junction boastedcirculation of100 an 1872 newspaper directory reveals 593 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
