--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 7 published: 1910-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "John Daniel Thompson McAllister," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 7 (May 1910): 581.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1307unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1307unse start_page: 581 end_page: 581 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1307unse publication_year: 1910 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # John Daniel Thompson McAllister 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.