Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 678

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Thomas Montgomery
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 678
Item Description: 
Montgomery, Thomas - Biographical information for Thomas Leroy [or LeRoy] "Roy" Montgomery; "From Waterboy to Mayor", subject interviewed by Georgia Kelley for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; "Dead Shot Spike Writes" by Walter L. Lavering, Gillette News, Nov. 29, 1912
Creator: 
Mrs. Georgia Kelley
Location: 
Gillette (Wyo.)
Date: 
1938 November 9
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
Sundance (Wyo. - 1894)
Notes: 
Gillette (Wyo.) Hotel owner-proprietor
Notes: 
Montgomery, Anna Warkow (wife - m: 1903)
Notes: 
no children
Notes: 
born: Sep. 14, 1875, at Bushnell (McDonough Co. [or Schuyler Co.] Ill.)
Notes: 
Montgomery, Mrs. Ann Warkow (wife, born: Sep. 15, 1880 - married: 1903 - died: May 27, 1936 - buried: Mount Pisgah Cemetery at Gillette, Wyo.)
Notes: 
Montgomery, Gertrude Christinck (wife, born: Jul. 26, 1888 - married: ? - died: Aug. 17, 1974 - buried: Mount Pisgah Cemetery at Gillette, Wyo.)
Notes: 
Gillette (Wyo.)
Notes: 
died: Feb. 1, 1949 (age:73) at Gillette (Campbell Co., Wyo.)
Notes: 
buried: Mount Pisgah Cemetery (Memorial ID: 325722146) at Gillette
Notes: 
Campbell Co.
Notes: 
Lions Club
Notes: 
cowboy and stockman
Notes: 
Mayor, Gillette (Wyo. - 1814-1816)
Notes: 
Fortification Creek Ranch, cattle and sheep (1898)
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Rock Island Railroad time keeper
Notes: 
Buffalo Hump saloon proprietor (Gillette, Wyo.)
Notes: 
railroad gang water boy (1887)
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baseball player (Trenton, Mo., 2 seasons)
Notes: 
101 Outfit
Notes: 
4 J Ranch, near Gillette (Wyo.)
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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