| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF the business manager James Wallis returned January 1926 the Harrisons moving to Standard Later that year on November 26th Wallis became publisher He retained that retirement when Williamson Jack Wallis moved into the publisherchair fourth gener FAME to the helm on the Roosevelt son William title until his ation awaitsturn in the person of Steve Wallis great-grandson of James His many years in the lead ership of Utah State Press Association enabled Wallis to guide its affairs with considerable skill Contemporaries agree he did much to improve the organizationimage and to knit it back together aftertumultuous disagreement had split its membership during the teen years of the 1900s Having apprenticed to learn the art of printing in the ancient city of Chester England at age 12 James Wallis came to the United States when he was 20 years old Hebecomeconvert to the Latter-day Saints faith at seventeen and was called by Joseph Smith head of the European Mission to go to Liverpool and assist in the mechanical department of the churchprinting facility There in August 1877 he was the pressman on an edi tion of the Millennial Star published by the mission which carried the account of the death and the funeral of President Brigham Young While at the headquarters of the European Mission he met Miss Elizabeth Todd alsoconvert to the Church to whom he was married in Salt Lake City on June 1881 forty days after their arrival from England The couple were the parents of 15 children nine girls and six boys On the birth of the last child President Theodore Roosevelt wrotepersonal 635 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
