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Title:
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Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Elias Whitcomb
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Collection Name:
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
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WPA Bio 1017
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Item Description:
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Whitcomb, Elias - Biographical information for Elias W. Whitcomb; "The Late Elias W. Whitcomb Nominated to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame", Cow Country (Vol. 98, No. 11) , May 15, 1971, p. 7; "Reminiscences of a Pioneer, 1857 - 1869", interviewed by Mrs. Edith K. Alger for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; "E. W. Whitcomb", Bartlett's History of Wyoming (Vol. 1), 1918, p. 145; "Elias W. Whitcomb", excerpts from subject's Bible; Katherine Shaw Whitcomb;
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Creator:
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Mrs. Edith K. Alger
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Location:
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Lander (Wyo.)
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Date:
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1939 February 27
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Notes:
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born: Dec. 28, 1832 [or 1833], at Oxford (Worcester Co., Mass.)
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Notes:
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made major sale of cattle assets to Swan Land and Cattle Co.
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Notes:
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Wyoming Stock Growers Assoc., member-Vice President (1896)
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Notes:
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final ranching venture (Devil's Tower country, Wyo.)
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Notes:
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Laramie Co. Commissioner (Cheyenne)
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Notes:
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Kelly, Hi (railroad supply and lumber camp business associate)
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Notes:
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Horse Shoe Creek (Wyo. Terr. - 1857)
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Notes:
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Mason
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Notes:
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Episcopalian
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Notes:
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Whitcomb, Mrs. Katherine "Kate" Shaw (wife, born: 1850 - married: Feb. 15, 1865, at Laramie River, Wyo. - died: Jun. 2 [or 27], 1912, at Cheyenne, Wyo. - buried: Lakeview Cemetery at Cheyenne, Wyo.)
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Notes:
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children: Katya, May, Lizabeth, May, Ida and Harold
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Notes:
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died: Jun. 7 [or 15], 1915 (age: 81) on Ship Wheel Ranch, near Moorcroft (Crook Co., Wyo.)
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Notes:
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buried: Lakeview Cemetery (Plot: Lot 1107, Plot G - Memorial ID: 20778298) at Cheyenne (Laramie Co., Wyo.)
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Notes:
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free-lance trader with Mormans emigrants (o/a 1839
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Notes:
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bull whacker
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Notes:
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hired by Russell, Majors & Waddell to work cattle (Fort Laramie - spring, 1858)
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Notes:
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hauling wood for government (Fort Laramie - 1866)
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Notes:
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homesteaded Crow Creek (near Cheyenne)
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Notes:
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rancher-stockman, entered a range-ranching partnership with Guiterman & Warren (1878)
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Rights:
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Type:
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Text
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