Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1028

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding John Wilcox
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 1028
Item Description: 
Wilcox, John - Biographical information for John Franklin "Frank" Wilcox; "John F. Wilcox", Progressive Men of Wyoming, no. page numbers, n.d.
Date: 
Undated
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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born: Jun., 1854, at Council Bluffs (Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa)
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early education (Iowa)
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Missouri (1869)
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cowboy (Fort Collins, Colo.)
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range rider (Wyo. Terr. - 1874)
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stockman, employed by Abner Loomis
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Swan Land and Cattle Co., employee
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rancher and stockman on Cow Creek (Wyo.), ". . . best grades of Shorthorn and Hereford cattle, and throughbred [sic] Norman-Perecheron horses"
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Saratoga (Wyo.)
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Wilcox, Mrs. Emma Baggott [or Baggett] (wife, born: Nov. 16, 1868, in Staffordshire, England - married: Jan., 1883 - died: nOV. 2, 1948 - buried: Belmont Memorial Park at Fresno, Calif.)
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5 children: Belle, Adna [or Edna], Amos, Frank and Mable
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died: 1935 (age: 80-81) in Fresno Co. (Calif.)
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buried: Belmont Memorial Park (Memorial ID 100173579) at Fresno (Fresno Co., Calif.)
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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