| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME settled in Morgan in 1873 There his father wasflour mill operator His earliest newspaper experience was as an employee of entrepreneurial James Jakeman founder of numerous Utah community papers all of which failed Nevertheless it was an excellent training ground for Rollo on the Nephi Ensign the Manti Messenger and finallythird Jakeman publication the Spanish Fork Index Rollo added daily newspaper experience on the Provo Enquirer and was briefly associated with the Eureka Reporter before at age 21 moving to the Ogden Standard The newly-founded daily was co-published by future United States Senator Frank Cannon in partnership with Edwin Littlefield who later would be the founding president of Utah State Press Association It was at the Standard that Rollo earned journeyman printer status in the Interna tional Typographical Union By 1890 he was employed by the Salt Lake Herald and then the Deseret News When he came to southern Utah with his family it was not to work in newspapering however but to teach school in Enterprise Heapprenticed in the brick-making business had helped make the bricks used in the new Enterprise school and in the first buildings of Branch Agricultural College forerunner of todaySouthern Utah University It somehow seemed appropriate that he became the Enterprise teacher That was butminor detour in his journalistic career though for when Will Higgins launched the Iron County Record at Cedar City on December 1893 Rollo was his typographer Higgins known as Judge had an excellent reputation from his days as editor of the Salt Lake Mining Journal in the capital city and the paper he founded was well 619 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
