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The Box Elder County News was started in April, 1894 by J.R. Hunter, publisher and editor. Edith B. Hunter, J.R.’s, wife became associate editor September 12, 1896. The Hunters sold the paper to Charles Pasco and Hyrum Standing in 1898, at which time “County” was dropped from the name. In 1900, Solomon C. Wixom purchased Pasco’s interest in the paper and later became managing editor in 1922. Wixom was posthumously installed in the Utah Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1968, and was identified then as one of Utah’s most capable journalists.
*Summary from the Digital Archives at the University of Utah.

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NameDate of Obituary

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Ralphs, Eleda
August 30, 1906
Rasmussen, Mrs. Karen Maria
January 11, 1906
Rasmussen, Jennie
January 7, 1909
Rees, Mary Morgan
December 5, 1907
Richards, Hyrum
January 04, 1906
Rogers, Lewis
November 1, 1906
Rohwer, Julius E.C.M.
September 19, 1907
Romer, Karoline Kathrine Jensen
February 27, 1908

S

Simonsen, Elmer Fenily
October 5, 1905
Smith, Lewis
March 12, 1908
Smith, Richard
April 19, 1906
Snow, Minnie Loveland
December 13, 1906
Snow, Minnie Loveland
(Funeral Services)
December 20, 1906
Spierman, Hans P
April 25, 1907

T

Taylor, Samuel
July 19, 1906
Thompsen, Mads
February 1, 1906
Thompson, William
February 15, 1906

V

Valentine, Jesse
January 10, 1907

W

Wade, Joseph David
October 1, 1908
Wade, Joseph David
(Funeral Services)
October 8, 1908
Walker, Mrs. Heber
May 27, 1909
Walters, Mand
August 23, 1906
Watkins, Mrs. Winnifred Harris
January 25, 1906
Webb, Ernest
January 17, 1907
Wells, Lyman B
November 12, 1908
Wheatley, Thomas Sr
December 19, 1907
Wight, Hattie
March 21, 1907
Wight, Steven
January 9, 1904
Wight, Steven
(another obituary)
January 14, 1904
Wilson, P.N.
February 6, 1908
Wilson, Peter N
(Funeral Services)
February 13, 1908
Wixom, Annie J
December 26, 1907
Wixom, Arthur Houston
February 28, 1907
Wood, Amelia
August 9, 1906
Woolley, Mrs. Zina Rees
May 30, 1907
Wright, Mary J
July 22, 1909

 

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