Wallace Stovall

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]

  1. ^ "Stovall Professional Building, Tampa | 271065 | EMPORIS". Emporis. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  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. ^ "Wallace O. STOVALL Jr. - Obituary". Legacy. Retrieved 19 June 2020.