Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1041

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Helen Willson
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 1041
Item Description: 
Willson, Helen - Biographical information for Mrs. Helen McFarlane Willson; "A Talented Native Daughter, Helen Willson, Pioneer", interviewed by Susie Mills Walker for "Stories of Pioneer Life; "A Letter from One of the First Teachers of the Lusk Schools" by Mary S. Wucher, Berkeley, Calif., Mar. 11, 1929, to the Senior Class of Lusk High School, Lusk, Wyo.
Creator: 
Susie Mills Walker
Location: 
Gillette (Wyo.)
Date: 
1938 December 5
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
born: Jul. 26, 1895, near Lusk (Niobrara Co., Wyo.)
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died: Sep. 24, 1979 (age: 83-84), at Lusk (Niobrara Co., Wyo.)
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buried: Lusk Cemetery (Memorial ID: 97537447) at Lusk
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school teacher
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clerk
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newspaper reporter
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housewife
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Philanthropic Educational Order Sisterhood, member (Lusk)
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residence, Casper (Wyo. - 9 mos.)
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graduate of Lusk High School (Lusk - 1914)
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historian, wrote "Reminiscences of the Founding and Growth of Lusk; "The Spanish Diggings" and "Historical Sites of Wyoming"
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Manning, Joseph C. (1st husband, born: ? - married: Jun. 6, 1917, at Harrison (Neb. - died: ? - buried: ?)
Notes: 
Willson, Glen Iirwin. [or J.] (2nd husband, born: Dec. 14, 1890, at Chicago, Ill. - married: Aug. 16, 1927, at Lusk, Wyo. - died: Feb. 17, 1978, in Wyoming - buried: Lusk Cemetery at Lusk, Wyo.)
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children: Joe Astin and Robert Rae
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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