COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding William Williams
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 1038
Item Description:
Williams, William - Biographical information for William Richard Williams; subject's portrait [?]; "William Richard Williams, A Story of Freighting and Ranching in the Early Days of Wyoming", interviewed by Laura Briggs for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; Mrs. Margaret Keyes Williams (wife);
Creator:
Mrs. Laura Briggs
Location:
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date:
1939 Mar. 8
Notes:
born: 1840 at Mill Village (near Shubenacadre, Nova Scotia)
Notes:
died: Jun. 30, 1903, in coal mine disaster near Hanna, Wyo.
Notes:
buried: Hanna Cemetery (Memorial ID: 13694735) at Hanna (Carbon Co., Wyo.)
Notes:
Sherman (Wyo. Terr. - 1867)
Notes:
lumberman
Notes:
freighter
Notes:
rancher
Notes:
Presbyterian
Notes:
freighter (St. Joseph, Mo. - early 1866) - en route to Denver (Colo.)
Notes:
ranchhand employee, haying season near Denver (Colo. - mid-1866)
Notes:
employee for W. H. Holliday's sawmill near Sherman (Wyo., 1866-1868)
Notes:
Holliday-Williams partership installed new saw mill at Dale Creek (Wyo. - 1869)
Notes:
Williams, Margaret Keyes (wife, born: Jan. 20, 1855, at Gay's River, Nova Scotia - married: o/a 1872 in Nova Scotia - died: ? - buried: ?)
Notes:
children: Hattie, Chester, Harry, Earl and Mrs. Ralph Gunnison
Type:
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