Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1040

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Eugene Willson
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 1040
Item Description: 
Willson, Eugene - Eugene Bigelow Willson; Mrs. Isabel M. Willson (wife); Edmund Brooks Willson (brother); George Luther Willson (brother); "Trail Blazers All - The Willson Brothers", interviewed by Susie Mills Walker, n.d.; Letter from Maude Sholtle, Dir., Statewide Historical Project, State Library, Cheyenne, Wyo., to Mrs. Isabel M. Willons, Lusk, Wyo., Aug. 23, 1937
Date: 
Undated
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
born: Oct. 18, 1852, at Como (Whiteside Co., Ill.)
Notes: 
Willson, Mrs. Isabel Mack (wife, born: ? - married: Jul. 23, 1890 [or 1889] - died: ? - buried: ?)
Notes: 
children: Eugene Parkhurst, Edna Lucille, Kenneth Mack and Frederick Brooks
Notes: 
died: Jan. 28, 1935 (age: 82), in Niobrara Co., Wyo.)
Notes: 
buried: Lusk Cemetery (Memorial ID: 97532509) at Lusk (Niobrara Co., Wyo.)
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Cheyenne (Wyo. Terr. - Sep.,1870)
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stock raiser, sheep, Running Water Ranch (1880)
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Lusk (Wyo.)
Notes: 
Manville (Wyo.)
Notes: 
U. S. Gov't Survey, worker (Wyo. Terr. - spring, 1872)
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squatter's claim, Running Water Creek (Wyo. - fall, 1880)
Notes: 
U. S. Land Marks Commission subcommittee for purchase of Fort Laramie (1930)
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Congretional Church
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grocery store. employee (Chicago, Ill. - 1863)
Notes: 
McCormick Harvester Co., salesman, bill collector, bookkeepeer and office boy (Davenport, Iowa - o/a 1868)
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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