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(Editorial Note: Part 192 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: U. S. Census records, 1900, 1910, 1920; Franklin County Citizen, issues 1912-1920; Obituaries, Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News; Hometown Album, edited and compiled by Newell Hart; Cache Valley Newsletter, compiled by Newell Hart) In the early 1900âs a town that was making every effort to establish itself seemed to attract photographers. Not long after N. M. Degn set up his Photography studio in Preston in 1907, another photographer arrived. He was known professionally as R. A. Jones. Like Degn, he was recently married and Preston looked promising for their future. Robert Alexander Jones, born in 1874 in Salt Lake City, had worked as a farm laborer around the Riverdale area in Weber County, Utah. He served a church mission in New Zealand, then married a young lady from Weber county, Helen Marr Fuller, in 1908. They set up housekeeping in Preston, adver ....
(Editorial Note: Part 191of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Sources: Cache Valley News, 1907; Preston News, 1908-191; Preston Booster 1912;Franklin County Citizen, 1914-1921 ; Hometown Album, compiled and edited by Newell Hart.) The Cache Valley ews of March, 1907, ran an advertisement featuring the business of N. M. Degn. In one corner were the words âArt Workâ done in pretty calligraphy, then followed the confident message from Degn: âDonât let agents have your enlargement work when you can have your pictures and photos enlarged at home. Mr Degn, located in our city, is an expert in photography, having studied in the best cities of Europe. Mr.Degn, the Photographer of Photographers.â ....