Walter Sells was a third-generation member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born 2 April 1882 in Nephi, Utah. At the time of his call to the Leeds Conference of the European Mission he was 26 years old. He served his mission from 1908-1910, during a time when much of the outside world harbored significant negative sentiment towards the Church. Three years after his mission concluded Walter married Mary Nuttall and had five children. He graduated from the University of Utah and worked as a teacher and school principal in Utah and, after the Depression, as a café operator and farmer in Idaho. He died in 1953.
From the description of Walter Alma Sells journals, 1908-1910. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 77554043
