John Daniel Thompson McAllister
Improvement Era, vol. 13, no. 7, May 1910, p. 581
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
JOHN DANIEL THOMPSON MCALLISTER. Born, Lewis, Sussex Co., Delaware, Feb. 19, 1827; died Jan. 21, 1910; joined the Church July 5, 1847. Missionary; carrier of the stone block of Utah to the Washington Monument; holder of many civil offices, including Territorial Marshal, and Chief of the Salt Lake fire department; member of the Deseret Dramatic Association; eleven years president of St. George stak.s; carpenter, mill laborer and business man; a worker in the temples and in affairs religious — in all cheerful, energetic, true and faithful to the end.