Name/Title
ManuscriptEntry/Object ID
2019.773.8.12Scope and Content
File 11
Two folders within a folder of notes written by the donor with notations and dates to the left of the data. Each page has different dates by several entries. Source of material is not stated. These may be the notes to donor's books on Carbon and Rawlins. See 2013.217.12.4, Rawlins, WY the Territorial Years and 2015.180.11.27, Carbon, the First Coal Town of Wyoming.
Notes concern individual people and facts about their lives, ie: when they came to area, what they did, information on their families, businesses, births and deaths. See People and Search Terms categories.
The documents are in the order that the donor had them organized:
File 1
Three pages on Medicine Bow people;
Three pages on Rawlins people; two pages on Carbon people; one page on Elk Mountain people; one page on Hanna people; the folder continues with many more pages interspersed of different towns or same towns and different people and dates.
A few notes:
9/1891-Catholic Church was the first building wired for electricity.
1/1908-Skeleton found under house with leg irons attached, rifle, Dave Carter?)
Biography of William Daley, Sr. who came west in 1866.
Biography of Richard J. Daley, brother to William, came in 1871.
Biography of Richard A. Daley, who came to Rawlins in 1881.
File 2
A section of paper with the notation, Platte Valley.
1872 Republican Territorial Convention held at Rawlins
A section of papers labeled 1892 with biographical information listed on people primarily in Rawlins.
People notes for years:
1868-1889
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906-1909
1911-1929
Notes on Agriculture
Notes from "Progressive Men of Wyoming"
Notes on early settlers of Carbon
Note that first four U. S. Marshals, three of them came from Carbon County: Joseph P. Rankin 1890-1894; Frank A. Hadsell 1898-1907; and Louis G. Davis 1907-1912.
Biography with copied photo of Francois Desire Fagnant, born 1862 in Seraing, Liege, Belguim and came to Carbon in 1888. Photo shows his wife and two children with more biographical information.
Clipping on "Old Carbon" and fond memories.
Notes on people of Fort Steele (no dates); Hanna 1900-1959;
Lists Superintendant of Schools 1869-1888 on sheet headlined Heath;
Rawlins Highways and Roads notes on people and construction information
Notes entitled Indians-details anecdotes of people and events
Notes entitled Mines, information on people and mines
Notes listed as Newspapers
Notes listed as North (meaning north of Rawlins)
A note on Parco, brief note on Percy
5 pages of notes on Platte Valley detailing the settling of the valley, people and biographical notes.
Brief notes on two people from Rawlins
Notes on Road, Railroad, and Post Office (Milo)
Notes on Ties, Utilities, Sandstone, West (of Rawlins) (includes Wamsutter)
Notes on Walcott, West (guests at Daley's when Theodore Roosevelt visited. Included U. S. Marshall Frank Hadsell, Sheriff Creed McDaniel, and John C. Davis.
Note on Wildlife-stating that Joel J. Hurt killed 99 antelope and elk during the winter, etc.
Notes entitled Prominent Persons, includes obituary clipping on Captain Howard T. Orville. Note: On the back of this page there is a listing of names of Rawlins people and their addresses of residences. There are several pages of prominent persons. These notes include famous people that got off the train, visited or performed, or people who became prominent when they left, etc.
There are other pages of people and addresses in this group.Collection
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