Public Workers: Joseph Bull

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WORKERS. JOSEPH BULL. Among the public workers of our community during the past half century was the late Elder Joseph Bull, of Salt Lake City, whose death occurred on the 11th of January, 1904. It was in January, 1852, that he began to work for the Church publishing house — the Deseret News — and it was January, 1904, that he per- formed his last day's work for that same institution, and a few days later went to his rest. There were several intervals during this period of fifty-two years in which he was not engaged at the Church publishing establishment, but most of this time was spent in the mission fields abroad, in which service he labored for more than eight years. Practically his whole life, after his first coming to Utah, was given to public service. This long term of activity entitles him to honorable mention among those whose lives are briefly sketched in these papers. Joseph Bull was a native of Leicester, England, where he was born January 25, 1832. His parents were Daniel and Eliza- beth Burdette Bull. After receiving a common school education, he engaged to learn the printing business, at the age of fourteen. The firm to which he was apprenticed failed before his time ex- pired, but the qualifications he had thus far developed helped him to obtain a situation in a leading printing establisment in Birming- ham. He remained at this latter place until the end of the year 1850. In the meantime he had become interested in the teachings of the Latter- day Saints, and in February, 1848, when sixteen years old, united with the Church. His object in leaving his situation in Birmingham was to gather with the Saints in Utah, and on the 6th of January, 1851,