Wallace Stovall

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Wallace Oliver Stovall Sr. (December 14, 1891 – May 19, 1966) was the publisher of the

Tampa Tribune. The Wallace Stovall building, built in 1926[1] according to designs by Tampa architect B. Clayton Bonfoey,[2] was located at 416 Tampa Street and Lafayette Street (309 North Morgan Street). It was used as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Headquarters during the Great Depression of the 1930s[3]
and was eventually demolished.

His father Col. Wallace F. Stovall was an editor at the Tribune in 1910.[4]

Stovall was married to Doris Knight Stovall (1893–1979). He was a FL Y2 USNRF World War I. His children included Wallace Oliver Stovall (1919–2012). He also has a grandson named Wallace O. Stovall III.[5][6]

Stovall is buried in the Myrtle Hill Memorial Park cemetery in Tampa. [5]

Stovall House

Stovall House in Tampa

The

Bayshore Boulevard (Tampa, Florida). On September 4, 1974, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[7] There was also a Wallace Stovall III.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Stovall Professional Building, Tampa | 271065 | EMPORIS". www.emporis.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  2. ^ Men of the South: A Work for the Newspaper Reference Library By Daniel Decatur Moore Southern Biographical Association, 1922 792 pages page 281
  3. ^ Tampa in the 1940s Tampix.com
  4. ^ "Editor Stovall Goes Fishing at the Pass". The Evening Independent. 8 September 1910. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b Wallace O. Stovall Findagrave
  6. ^ a b "Wallace O. STOVALL Jr. - Obituary". Legacy. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Historic Stovall House at 4621 Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida". Florida Memory. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
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