Progressive Men of Wyoming (Joseph Josephson Wall Jr)

Joseph Josephson Wall Jr.

Joseph Wall

The fair land of Sweden has given to the development and settlement of the Great West some of its most valuable citizens, who by their probity, their industry and their intelligence have been a credit and an honor to the land from which they came, and are also among the representative citizens of the land of their adoption. Notably is this the case with Joseph Wall, whose well improved and valuable estate is located two and one-halt miles north of the brisk and prosperous town of Lyman, Wyo., where he is engaged in stockraising on a scale of scope and importance. He was born in Ostertollen, Sweden, on August 15, 1848. His parents, Joseph and Johanna Wall, came to Utah in 1873, as part of a Mormon colony, and there they passed their remaining years, the mother dying in January, 1885, and the father in January, 1899, and both lie buried in Cottonwood ward cemetery. Joseph Wall was the second of their six children. Receiving his education in the excellent Swedish schools, he came to Nebraska in 1871, and lived there until 1882, when he came to Utah and here applied himself to carpenter work until 1892. Then he removed to his present location in Wyoming and homesteaded eighty acres of land, his right to more having been forfeited by his previously taking eighty in Nebraska. In Wyoming he has been prospered in his specialty of stockraising, his operations so expanding that he has been forced to lease large tracts and he now farms about 600 acres of land and is developing a fine estate, on which, at the present writing (1902), he is constructing an elegant residence of twelve rooms, modern in style and architecture, and is also adding other necessary improvements to his property. In Nebraska, on January 14, 1873, occurred the marriage of Mr. Wall and Miss Christina Larson, a daughter of Lars Larson, of Swened, and to them were born four children, Albion, who died in Nebraska in infancy; Joseph; Anna M,. now wife of Henry Voss, residing near Lyman, and Hattie V,. now the wife of Oscar Erickson, of Mountain View. Mrs. Christina Wall died in Utah on April 26, 1881, at the age of thirty-three years and was buried in Big Cottonwood cemetery. On July 21, 1881, at Salt Lake City, Mr. Wall wedded Miss Jensine Hendricksen, a daughter of Henry Peterson and his wife, Anna Jenson, natives of Denmark. Her father departed this life in his native country and in 1871 his widow and family came to Utah There are four children of this marriage, Joseph W., Edwin M., Leonard and Charlotte O. Both parents are faithful and consistent members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Lyman and Mr. Wall has had the distinction of being one of the priests of the Seventy. During the practice of poygamy he had two other wives, by one of whom, Tomina Peterson, he had seven children, Elizabeth M., Lawrence C., Sina M,. Hanna T., Clara A., Henry W., and Francis L., By the other Ellen Anderson, he had six children, Cora S., who died in infancy., Raymond A., Nana V., George A., Marietta N., Eunice M.