COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Charles Tolson
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 961
Item Description:
Tolson, Charles - Biographical information for Charles H. Tolson; "Charles H. Tolson", interviewed by Mrs. Selma L. Terry
Creator:
Mrs. Selma L. Terry
Location:
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date:
1939 February 25
Notes:
born: 1863 in Missouri - "colored", Negro, Black
Notes:
Tolson, Mrs. Mary (wife, born: in Iowa? - married: 1897 in Cheyenne, Wyo. - died: ? - buried: ?)
Notes:
no children
Notes:
died: Dec. 4, 1903, of pneumonia in St. John's Hospital at Cheyenne (Laramie Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
buried: Lakeview Cemetery () at Cheyenne
Notes:
Cheyenne (Wyo. Terr. - 1879)
Notes:
Laramie Co.
Notes:
Union Depot, waiter
Notes:
Inter-Ocean Hotel, head waiter (Theodore Roosevelt, customer - 1910)
Notes:
janitor
Notes:
F. E. Warren Furniture Store, carpet layer
Notes:
founded ". . . colored Baptist Church (Cheyenne, Wyo. - 1875)
Notes:
juror in the Tom Horn trial of October, 1903 ((Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Notes:
Sidney (Neb.)
Notes:
Ramsey, Sam (employer of waiters - Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Notes:
Golddecker's Barber Shop, porter (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Notes:
Cheyenne Club, head waiter (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Notes:
Tom Horn trial, juror
Notes:
City Park Department, employee (Cheyenne, Wyo. - 4 years)
Type:
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