COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding John Talbot
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 937
Item Description:
Talbot, John - Biographical information for [Maj.] John Talbot; "The Story of An Active Man--Major John Talbot" [aka "Obituary"], interviewed by Beryl M. Thompson, Wyoming State Tribune, Jul., 1910; "Major John Talbot", no source, n.d.; "My First Recollection of Major Talbot", interviewed by Mrs. Selma L. Terry, n.d.; "Pioneer Park, Talbot's Place, Had an Illustrious, Interesting Past", interviewed by Mrs. Selma L. Terry, n.d.
Creator:
Hilliard Ridgely
Location:
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date:
1939 February 13
Notes:
born: 1832 [or 1833] in County Tipperary [or Queens or Quees Co. (Ireland)
Notes:
died: Jul. 13, 1910 (age: 77-78), at Cheyenne (Laramie Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery (Plot: Block 1, Row 4, Lot 15, Space E - Memorial ID: 40095937) at Cheyenne
Notes:
Cheyenne (Wyo. Terr. - 1860 [or 1862? or 1855?] - o/a 48 years in vicinity)
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plasterer and stone mason
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Second Dragons, soldier (Fort Leavenworth, Kan. - 1855) and U. S. Army, officeer
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beer garden, proprietor (1865 - 1887)
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Supreme Court, baliff
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Catholic
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Fort Laramie (Wyo.)
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Cheyenne Riding and Driving Club, original portion of Talbot's place (mid-1880s)
Notes:
sold Laramie Co. Fair grounds (Frontier Days site - 1910) plot to Wyo. State officials (1887)
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Cody, Wm. F. (close friend)
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Pioneer Park, land parcel ". . . conveyed by [U. S.] patent to land in Wyoming."
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Talbot, Mrs.Mary Anne Josephine Wyse (1st wife, born: Sep. 11, 1833, at Waterford, Ireland - married: Feb. 21, 1854, in Ireland - died: Mar. 6, 1916, at Newark, Neb. - divorced: ? - buried: near daughter Luce Talbot DeLabarre in the Kearney Cemetery at Kearney, Neb.)
Notes:
11 children: only Lucy Pauline Hortense and Mary Ann Josephine survived to adulthood
Notes:
Talbot, Mrs. Elizabeth Knaggs (2nd wife, born: 1852 in England - married: Jul. 21, 1873, at Evans, Colo. - died: Oct. 19, 1940, at Kearney, Neb. - buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery at Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Notes:
children: 4 daughters
Type:
Text