Collection Number
WPA Bio 18
Item Description
Armstrong, James - Biographical information for James Edwin Armstrong; "J. E. Armstrong, Pioneer", interviewed by Miss Stella G. Scanlon for "Stories of Pioneer Life", no published source, n.d.
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 December 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 18
Item Description
Armstrong, James - Biographical information for James Edwin Armstrong; "J. E. Armstrong, Pioneer", interviewed by Miss Stella G. Scanlon for "Stories of Pioneer Life", no published source, n.d.
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 December 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 59
Item Description
Benson, Mary Ann - Biographical information for Mrs. Mary Ann Hughes "Grandma" Benson; Thomas Humphrey Hughes; "Mary Ann Benson and Her Brother, Thomas Humphrey Hughes" by Alice Mathew Shields for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; "82-Year-Old Local woman Going to School So She Can Become U. S. Citizen", Wyoming Eagle, May 21, 1937; "Thomas Humphrey Hughes", no source, n.d.; "I'm [subject] Proud to Do It," Wyoming Eagle, n.d.; Letters to Mrs. Mary Ann Benson, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sep. 23, 1936, and Thomas Humphrey Hughes, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sep. 23, 1936, from Maude Sholty, dir., Historical Project, State Library, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 January 26
Collection Number
WPA Bio 74
Item Description
Blood, Charles - Biographical information for Charles Ulman Blood, "A Veteran Railroader", photo of "Mountain Engine 1200 used in 1883"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 263
Item Description
Dillmann, Joseph - Biographical information for Dillman, Joseph; Dillmann [sic], Katie Hubbel; "Joseph Dillmann [sic] - Pioneer"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 266
Item Description
Dobbins, Asa - Biographical information for Dobbins, Asa C.; Dobbins, Emma Jane Eames; "Mrs. Emma J. Bobbins, Pioneer" in Wyoming State Tribune-Leader, Mar. o/a 17, 1932
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 267
Item Description
Dolan, William - Biographical information for William "Billy" Dolan; "William Dolan - Wyoming Pioneer"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 269
Item Description
Doubleday, May - Biographical information for Mrs. Mary "May" E. Sturart Doubleday Willard Harrison; "Mrs. Doubleday Tells of Her Experiences as a Sheep Herder Near Lost Cabin, Wyoming"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 January 10
Collection Number
WPA Bio 278
Item Description
Durbin, Thomas - Biographical information for Thomas Franklin Durbin; Harriet Ann Johnson Durbin; "Pioneer Days in Cheyenne"; "Mrs. Thomas F. Durbin - Cheyenne Pioneer"; "Harriet Ann Johnson Durbin"; "Domestic History Outline" re Thomas Franklin Durbin"; "Early Day Reminiscences" by Mrs. Thomas Durbin; "Cheyenne Pioneer Was Printer Back in Civil War Times"; "Mrs. Thomas F. Durbin" from Women of Wyoming by Cora Beach; "Mr. and Mrs. Durbin are Honored on Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary" in the Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne (Wyo.), Nov. 14, 1932; "Early Day Reminiscences" by Mrs. Thomas Durbin as told to T. L. Thompson; "Ms. Harriet Durbin" by Mary Ann Jackson, Oct. 12, 1937
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 289
Item Description
Ekdall, Louise - Biographical information for Mrs. Louise G. Boyce Ekdall (wife); WPA photos & sketch of Dr. Albert B. [or E.] and Mrs. Ekdall, Rev. Frank Moore, the Ekdalls' residence, log cabin; "Early Day Memories" by Louise G. Ekdall, as told to Mrs. Jennings, Sep. 23, 1937
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 January 10
Collection Number
WPA Bio 290
Item Description
Ellis, Henry - Biographical information for Henry H. Ellis (1831-1907); "Cheyenne's First Confectioner" by Mrs. Scanlon & Mrs. Terry in Echo Rounds, Sep. 3, 1936
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 23
Collection Number
WPA Bio 291
Item Description
Ellis, Lemuel - Biographical information for Lemuel Hollister "Lem" Ellis, "Reminiscences of Lemuel Ellis" (1936) with photo of "Bread Donated to Coxey's Army in 1893" published in Echo Rounds, Sep. 3, 1936,
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 23
Collection Number
WPA Bio 303
Item Description
Farrell, Mrs. William - Biographical information for Mrs. Josephine Philomene "Minnie" Lepage Farrell, aka Mrs. William J. Farrell; "Local Woman Retains Vivid Picture of Early Cheyenne, 1864-1930" by Mrs. Selma L.Terry, Feb. 27, 1939; "Touching Tribute is Paid to Mrs. William Farrell" by Mrs. W. H. Lowther; "Pioneer Woman Is Claimed by Death", Nov. 13, 1932
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 310
Item Description
Fenwick, Cyrus - Biographical information for Cyrus Richmond Fenwick; Mrs. Minnie Fenwick (wife); photos of Burns (Wyo.) homestead, plus Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick, "Minnie and Cyrus Fenwick, Pioneer Ministers of Burns" by Ida Elizabeth Hintze for Stories of Pioneer Life in The Wyoming Eagle, Cheyenne, Wyo., Mar. 9,10,12, 1937; "Mrs. Fenwick Ardent Foe of Liquor, Dead", The Wyoming Eagle, Cheyenne, Wyo., Mar. 9, 1937; "Fenwick Rites Will Be Held Here Thursday", The Wyoming Eagle, Cheyenne, Wyo., Mar. 10, 1937; "Services Are Held Here for Mrs. Fenwick"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 1
Collection Number
WPA Bio 328
Item Description
Fox, William -- Biographical information for William Raymond Fox; Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Zane Fox (wife); "William and Elizabeth Fox Early Settlers of the Sundance Country"; "Pioneering in Crook and Campbell Counties" by Mrs. Georia Kelley, Nov. 9, 1938; "[Indian relics] Collection of W. R. Fox"; "Elizabeth Zane Fox, Pioneer Wife"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 360
Item Description
Glafcke, Herman - Biographical information for Hermann Wilhelm Glafcke; Mrs. Victorine S. Glafcke (wife); "Glafcke Family"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 371
Item Description
Grant, LeRoy - Biographical information for LeRoy R. Grant; photos of Mr. & Mrs. Grant. ca. 1879 & 1883; Mrs. LeRoy R. Grant; "Mrs. LeRoy R. Grant, Pioneer Musician" interviewed by Laura Briggs for Stories of Pioneer Life; photos
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 374
Item Description
Grauff, P. Jacob - Biographical information for P. Jacob Gauff
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1937 October 22
Collection Number
WPA Bio 402
Item Description
Hancock, A. J. - Biographical information for A. J. Hancock; "The Experience of A. J. Hancock, Rancher and Railroad Man" interviewed by Ida Elizabeth Hintze for Stories of Pioneer Life
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 7
Collection Number
WPA Bio 406
Item Description
Hanson, George - Biographical information for George N. [or W.] Hanson [or Hansen]; "George W. [sic] Hanson, 1845-1910" interviewed by Mr. M. Roseboom
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 423
Item Description
Hawes, Mrs. Thomas - Biographical information for Mrs. Ida May Brace [Thomas Benton] Hawes; "Mrs. T. B. Hawes" interviewed by Ida Elizabeth Hintze for Stories of Pioneer Life
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 1
Collection Number
WPA Bio 438
Item Description
Henry, Mike - Biographical information for Mike Henry; "Mike Henry Long-Time Resident of Wyoming", interviewed by Beryl M. Thompson and includes list of men and women pioneers, plus the respective years they arrived in Wyoming
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 24
Collection Number
WPA Bio 465
Item Description
Hooker, William - Biographical information for Col. William Francis "Pizen Bill" Hooker; "Old Timer Boasts He Made Wild Bill Hickok 'Crawl' in Pioneer Cheyenne Saloon" by Mrs. Selma L. Terry, Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 27, 1939; "Famous Bullwhacker Passes On", Wyoming Wild Life Magazine, January 1939; "Pioneer Cabin of Bill Hooker" by Charlene Sackett, Casper Daily Tribune, Jul. 4, 1930, p. 3 [also see "Col. W. F. Hooker Dies in Florida", Douglas Budget, Dec. 29, 1938]
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 470
Item Description
Hosford, Jennie - Biographical information for Mrs. Jennie Clay Hosford; "A Pioneer School Teacher"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 499
Item Description
Jackson, William - Biographical information for William Henry Jackson; "William Jackson" by Enid Bennetts, Kemmerer Gazette, Aug. 16k, 1929, pp. 1-5; "A Pioneer Photographer", Wyoming State Tribune, Aug. 27, 1932;
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 24
Collection Number
WPA Bio 504
Item Description
Jensen, Hans - Biographical information for Hans P. Jensen; Mrs. Mary Ellen Peterson Jensen (wife); "Hans Jensen" interviewed by Mrs. Selma L. Terry
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 525
Item Description
Keglar, Carl - Biographical information for F. A. [August] "Carl" Kegler; Mrs. Amelia [or Amalia] W. Koetter Kegler (wife); "Carl A. Keglar [sic], Burns Hotel Owner and Rancher" by Ida Elizabeth Hintze for Stories of Pioneer Life; "Former Burns Man Dies at Denver", Wyoming State Tribune, Jul. 13, 1929; "Services Are Held for C. A. Keglar [sic]", Wyoming State Tribune, Jul. 15, 1929
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 7
Collection Number
WPA Bio 527
Item Description
Keller, Henry - Biographical information for Henry C. [or A.] Keller; [Margaret Mary] Agusta Hense Keller [wife]; "Mrs. Henry Keller, Wife of an Early Pioneer of Burns", interviewed by Ida Elizabeth Hintze for Stories of Pioneer Life
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 1
Collection Number
WPA Bio 542
Item Description
Kilty, James - Biographical information for James Kilty; photo of Mr. Kilty's house, wife and grandson; Mary Agnes Hayes Kilty; "A Pioneer Mother Tells of Early Days", Mrs. Kilty interviewed by Alice Mathews Shields, Jan. 9, 1937, for Stories of Pioneer Life
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 10
Collection Number
WPA Bio 548
Item Description
Kittrell, America - Biographical information for Mrs. America [Mother] Kittrell [aka Kitrell]; her portrait; "Former Missouri Negro Slave Now is Resident of Cheyenne" by Billee Wheelock, Wyoming State Tribune, May 23, 1937; "Life on the Plantations of Missouri. A Story of the Days of Slavery" by Laura Briggs; portrait
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 555
Item Description
Lacey, John - Biographical information for John W. Lacey; "Memorial is Tribue to Late Dean of the Bar of Wyoming" by Beryl M. Thompson, Wyoming State Tribune-Leader, Apr. 27, 1936;
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 559
Item Description
Lane, John - Biographical information for John Lane; Mrs. Elizabeth McDermot Lane (wife); Edward Lane (son); "The John Lane Family" interviewed by Nora Gattis Dunn for Stories of Pioneer Life
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 January 10
Collection Number
WPA Bio 563
Item Description
Lannen, Mary - Biographical information for Mary Lannen; "Mary Lannen and Agnes Tait" by Marjorie Lannen, for Stories of Pioneer Life, 1923; "Winners of Historical Essays", Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 18, 1923
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 564
Item Description
Lannen, William - Biographical information for William Lannen' "William Lannen, Pioneer Rancher", interviewed by Laura Briggs, Cheyenne, Wyo., plus photo of Lannen and cattlemen; David Lannen [father]; Mary Hunt Lannen [mother]
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 568
Item Description
Lawson, Angus - Biographical information for Angus Lawson; Mrs. Sarah Ferguson Lawson (wife); "Angus Lawson, Pioneer Resident of Wyoming" interviewed by Ida Elizabeth Hintze for Stories of Pioneer Life
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 1
Collection Number
WPA Bio 582
Item Description
Libby, James - Biographical information for James Buchanan Libby; Mrs. Hattie Lawrence Libby (wife); photo of James B. Libby; "Recollections of Mr. and Mrs. James Buchanan Libby of Cheyenne, Wyoming", interviewed by Stella Scanlon for Stories of Pioneer Life, article by Alice Shields
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 24
Collection Number
WPA Bio 589
Item Description
Logan, Ernest - Biographical information for Ernest Alfred Logan; portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Logan; "Cheyenne Wyoming" by John C. Thompson, Cheyenne State Leader, Oct. 21, 1937; Hill Logan [father]; Elizabeth Killie Logan [mother]; Elizabeth Walker Logan [wife]; "Ernest A. Logan - The Story of a Pioneer", interviewed by Laura Brigs, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Stories of Pioneer Life; "Logan to Retire After Sale Here", interviewed by Mrs. Selma L. Terry, Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 2, 1939; [untitled re Ernest Logan], Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne, Wyo., Apr. 30, 1937
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 596
Item Description
Love, James - Biographical information for James Montgomery Love; "The Life of Mrs. Faye Love"; Mrs. Minnie Faye Reed Love; "Mrs. Fay Love, Pioneer" by Ida Elizabeth Hintze;
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 1
Collection Number
WPA Bio 604
Item Description
Lynch, John - Biographical information for John J. Lynch; Mrs. Rose Ada Peckham Lynch (wife); "From London to Cheyenne [Mrs. John Lynch]", interviewed by Alice M. Shields
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 24
Collection Number
WPA Bio 621
Item Description
Matthew, Edward - Biographical information for Edward A. "Ed" Matthews; portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Matthews; Rachel Catherine Lobach Brown Matthews; "Army Post Life on Wyoming Frontier" [re Mr. & Mrs. Matthews] by Alice M. Shields for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; portraits of Mr. & Mrs. E. D. Matthew
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 10
Collection Number
WPA Bio 654
Item Description
Meldrum, John - Biographical information for John W. "Jack", "Colonel Jack Meldrum; "John W. Meldrum", Wyoming State Tribune-Leader, Oct. 23, 1931;
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 663
Item Description
Meyers, Mrs. William - Biographical information for Mrs. Bertha? Meyers; "Reminiscences of the Early Days", Mr. and Mrs. Meyers interviewed by T. L. Thompson, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 24
Collection Number
WPA Bio 674
Item Description
Moffatt, Nettie - Biographical information for Capt. Louis McGregor Moffatt; "Louis M. Moffatt" by Nettie I. Moffatt, Feb., 1936, for "Stories of Pioneer Life"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 7
Collection Number
WPA Bio 714
Item Description
Nelson, Mrs. Oscar - Biographical information for Mrs. Ida Gerdel [or Gerbel or Gorbel] Nelson; "Mrs. Nelson, First White Child Born"; "First Baby Born in Sheridan County Now Mrs. Oscar Nelson of This City" by Ida McPherren, Sheridan Post-Enterprise, Jul. 18, 1923
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 721
Item Description
Noyes, John - Biographical information for John M. Noyes; Mrs. Hattie L. Noyes (wife); H. [Henry] L. Noyes [son]; Lorena Green Noyes [daughter-in-law]; "The Noyes Family" interviewed by Ida Elizabeth Hirtze for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; list of Noyes family pictures (by site and date)
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 7
Collection Number
WPA Bio 739
Item Description
Parnell, John - Biographical information for John A. Parnell, Sr.; Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Parnell (wife); "The Parnell Family of Cheyenne" interviewed by Mrs. Selma L. Terry and Mrs. Stella G. [?] Scanlon
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 754
Item Description
Pershing, Frances - Biographical information for Helen Frances "Frankie" Warren Pershing; "Rances Warren Pershing as I Knew Her" by Harriet L. Bond [childhood friend of subject]
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1938 December 13
Collection Number
WPA Bio 810
Item Description
Richardson, Clarence - Biographical information for Clarence B. Richardson; "Pioneering Western Trails" by subject for "Stories of Pioneer Life and published in Wyoming State Tribune-Leader, Dec. 27, 1929; "Clarence B. Richardson" for WPA Biographical Project
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 24
Collection Number
WPA Bio 818
Item Description
Riordan, J.J. - Biographical information for J. J. Riordan; "Pioneer Here Who Visited City in 1868", Wyoming State Tribune, Jul. 1936
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 846
Item Description
DeSmet, Pierre - Biographical information for Father Pierre Desmet; "Will Dedicate [DeSmet] Shaft July 5; Momument at Daniels [Wyo.] to Father Pierre Desmet", no source, n.d.; "Pierre-Jean De Smet Missionary" by Chaarles G. Herbermann, Ph.D., LL.D., The Catholic Encylopedia (New York, N. Y.: Encyclopedia Press, Inc.), Vol. IV, pp. 752-753
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 January 11
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