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In 1906 Mr. Chatterton removed to Riverton and was instrumental in forcing the Northwestern Railroad to build its branch through to Lander. He had secured the right of way and the concessions for the railroad, and with the water rights in his possession and a contract with the state for the reclamation of three hundred thousand acres of the ceded portion of the Wind River Indian reservation. Mr. Chatterton organized the Wyoming Central Irrigation Com- pany and proceeded to put this land under irrigation, and the Northwestern was pleased to make terms with him and buy his right of way. Since the com- pletion of this contract Mr. Chatterton has been engaged in the practice of law and is also identified with the development of the oil industry and with farm- ing interests, owning an irrigated farm of five hundred acres which has been brought under a high state of cultivation and to which all modern improvements and accessories have been added. He is a man of sound business judgment, readily recognizing opportunities that others pass heedlessly by and utilizing such opportunities not only to the benefit of his own fortunes but to the upbuilding of the general prosperity as well.
In 1900 Mr. Chatterton was united in marriage to Miss Stella Wyland, of Des Moines, Iowa. and to them have been born two daughters, Eleanor and Constance. Mr. Chatterton and his family are communicants of the Episcopal church. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party and in fraternal relations he is widely known. He is the only man in Wyoming who is the past state grand officer in every branch of Masonic work. He belongs to Rawlins Lodge, No. 4. A. F. & A. M .; to Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 3, K. T., of Rawlins : to Wyoming Consistory, No. 1, A. & A. S. R. ; and to Korein Tem- ple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
His interests and activities have indeed been broad and varied. He has had much to do with shaping the history of the state. While undoubtedly he is not without that honorable ambition which is so powerful and useful as an incentive to activity in public affairs, he regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts. His is a noble character-one that subordinates personal ambition to public good and seeks rather the benefit of others than the aggrandizement of self. His is a con- spicuously successful career. Endowed by nature with high intellectual quali- ties, to which are added the discipline and embellishments of culture, his is a
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most attractive personality. Well versed in the learning of his profession and with a deep knowledge of human nature and the springs of human conduct, with great shrewdness and sagacity and extraordinary tact, he is in the courts an advocate of great power and influence. Both judges and juries always hear him with attention and deep interest.
HON. JOHN HAYS.
Hon. John Hays, one of the most prominent cattle men of Fremont county, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on the 3d of July, 1861, a son of Columbus C. and Emaline G. (Fletcher ) Hays, both of whom are natives of Lexington, Missouri, and are still living, the former having reached the age of about eighty- three years, while the mother is now about seventy-five years of age. They make their home in Loveland, Colorado, where they have continued since 1871. The father was a ranchman during the years of his active business life, but for some time has lived retired, enjoying the fruits of his former toil.
John Hays, whose name introduces this review, was reared upon a cattle ranch and as soon as he was old enough to sit astride a horse he began riding the range. As early as his twelfth year he had some calves of his own and his experience as a cattle man was thus begun. When about twenty years of age he took his father's cattle, also a neighbor's cattle and some of his own, and ranged his stock through the mountains for three years. He then engaged in the butchering business in Loveland, Colorado, and was identified with that business until 1891. During that period he also continued to have cattle upon the range. In the year mentioned he removed to Lander and in 1892 he opened a butchering business in the city, continuing active along that line until 1897, when he disposed of his establishment. He then became associated with Lieutenant H. A. Sievert of the United States army in the conduct of extensive cattle interests under the firm style of Sievert & Hays. In 1915 Mr. Hays pur- chased the interest of his partner and has since conducted the business inde- pendently. He is today one of the most prominent cattle men of Fremont county and it is said by those who are authority upon the question that he has some of the finest herds of cattle to be found in the state. He handles high grade Herefords and runs about seven hundred head. He thoroughly understands every phase of the cattle business and his activities are most wisely and care- fully directed. He is also the president of the Dubois State Bank of Dubois, Wyoming.
In November, 1885, Mr. Hays was united in marriage to Miss Ollie E. Gard. of Loveland, Colorado, by whom he has five children, as follows: John C., who is a graduate of the Colorado State Agricultural College and is now county agricultural agent of Natrona county, Wyoming; Mabel, the wife of Richard Hays, who resides on a claim in Fremont county, Wyoming ; and Pauline, Helen and Max, all at home.
Mr. Hays is a demitted member of Loveland Lodge, No. 36, I. O. O. F. In politics he is a stalwart democrat and in November, 1916, was chosen to repre- sent his district in the state legislature, but became ill at the opening of the session and was advised by his physician to return home. As a consequence he could not serve. He had previously refused to accept any political preferment and in fact throughout his entire life he has concentrated his attention and efforts upon his business affairs, which have been attended with gratifying success owing to his close application, his keen sagacity and unfaltering enterprise. He is today the owner of one thousand acres of deeded land and also has twenty-seven thou- sand acres of Indian land under lease. Resourceful and forceful, capable of managing extensive interests, he has so directed his affairs that he has advanced step by step in his business career and is today one of the most prominent cattle
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men of Fremont county, active in the conduct of an industry that has been one of the most important sources of the upbuilding, development and prosperity of the state.
JOHN HENRY YOUNG, M. D.
Dr. John Henry Young has won well merited recognition as an able physician and surgeon of Rock Springs. On the physician are made many demands. If a lawyer is brusque and crabbed, it is accepted as a fact that he is concerned with complex and involved problemis ; if the minister holds himself aloof, it is believed that he is absorbed in questions that are beyond the ken of the ordinary individ- nal; but the physician must always be courteous, sympathetic, interested and at the same time must fail not in the performance of any duty that devolves upon him in his professional capacity. Meeting all of these requirements and basing his success upon a thorough knowledge of the principles of medicine and surgery, Dr. John Henry Young has made for himself a creditable position as one of the practitioners of Rock Springs.
He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, February 1, 1873, and is the fifth in order of birth in a family of seven children, five of whom are yet living. Their parents were John S. and Ara Ann ( Kiger ) Young, both of whom were natives of Ohio. The paternal ancestors came from Pennsylvania and the family is ori- ginally of Scotch and English lineage. The father was born June 15, 1831, and has now reached the age of eighty-six years, making his home in Fairfield county, Ohio. He was a successful farmer during the years of his active business life but is now living retired, enjoying the fruits of a well spent life. During the Civil war he took part in quelling the Morgan raids into Ohio and was a stalwart de- fender of the Union canse. His life has ever been well spent, and although passed on a quiet plane, his worth to his community has been recognized by those with whom he has been associated and he has been accorded the confidence and good- will of all who know him. His wife was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, and her family, of German lineage, was founded in the Buckeye state at an early period in its development. The death of Mrs. Young occurred April 10, 1902, at the old home in Ohio, when she was sixty-five years of age.
Their son, Dr. Young, acquired his early education in the schools of Carroll, Ohio, and afterward matriculated in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. His early life to the age of sixteen years had been spent upon the home farm, where he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. His first professional activity was along the line of teaching and he engaged in educational work in Fairfield county, Ohio, for five and a half years but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor. He became imbued with the desire to become a member of the medical profession and with the attainment of that end in view he entered the medical department of the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1900, the MI. D. degree being at that time conferred upon him. Following his graduation he sought the opportunities of the west and located at Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he be- came associated in practice with Dr. R. Harvey Reed of the Wyoming State Hospital. There he continued for a year, after which he removed to Cumberland, Wyoming, where he acted as company physician and surgeon for the Union Pacific Railway Coal Company's mines. His service there covered a period of five years and on the death of Dr. Reed he became division surgeon for the Union Pacific Railway Company and surgeon for the Union Pacific Coal Com- pany. He is still physician for the latter and is also engaged in private practice in Rock Springs. While he has always continued in the general practice of his profession, he has specialized in surgery and has displayed marked ability in that direction. He is thoroughly conversant with anatomy and the component parts of the human body, is very careful in diagnosis, is calm and resourceful in times
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of excitement, and with a cool head and steady hand he has been enabled to per- form many important surgical operations that have been attended with notable success. In addition to his practice in connection with these corporations and his private practice he is also examiner for a number of old-line insurance companies, including the Union Mutual, the Mutual Life, the Pennsylvania Mutual and others.
On the 19th of November, 1903, in Fairfield county, Ohio, Dr. Young was married to Miss Nancy May Boyer, a native of the Buckeye state, born in Win- chester, and a daughter of Marcus and Sarah ( Dowdel) Boyer, representatives of an old Pennsylvania German family. The father is now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Young have two children : Henry Marcus, born in Cumberland, Wyoming, July 22, 1906; and John Kiger, born in Rock Springs, Wyoming, May 3, 1908. In the maternal line the children are of Revolutionary war descent, for the grand- father, Henry Kiger, was a son of a Revolutionary war soldier.
Dr. Young votes with the republican party, and while not a politician in the usually accepted sense of office seeking, he served as county health officer. Fra- ternally he is a Mason of high rank, having taken all of the degrees of both the York and Scottish rites save the honorary thirty-third degree. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is popular in these different organiza- tions. Trials and obstacles have beset Dr. Young in his career. It was with diffi- culty that he obtained his education, for he had little financial assistance. His record proves that no matter what the advantages that the individual has in the way of acquiring education and making a start in life, he must eventually shape and determine his own character. Never faltering in the pursuit of his purpose. Dr. Young has steadily advanced and following his graduation his progress has been continuous and gratifying. He belongs to the Rock Springs Medical Society, the Wyoming State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and through the meetings of these organizations he is kept informed concerning the most advanced thought and purposes of the profession. In a word he keeps abreast with the latest scientific researches and discoveries, and while he does not hastily discard old and time-tried methods, he is ever ready to take up any new idea which his judgment sanctions as of value in his chosen life work. The re- sponsibilities which devolve upon the physician are heavy but Dr. Young is prov- ing adequate to every demand made upon him and his position as a physician and surgeon is such a one as many an older practitioner might well envy.
DAN SULLIVAN.
Dan Sullivan is well known in business circles at Kemmerer as proprietor of plumbing, heating and sheet metal works. He was born January 18, 1858, in Mc- Gregor, lowa, a son of Daniel and Margaret ( Hines ) Sullivan, who were natives of Ireland and of the state of New York respectively. The father crossed the Atlantic to the new world when a young man of nineteen years, in the latter part of the '40s, and first settled in Ohio. He had followed civil engineering in his native country. After living for some time in Ohio he removed westward to Iowa and later to Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in the lumber business, taking up his abode in that city in 1869. There he resided to the time of his death, which occurred in 1897, when he was seventy years of age. He had been quite successful in business, his lumber trade increasing with the growth of the city. He was actively interested in educational affairs there and served as a member of the school board of Omaha for many years. His political endorsement was given to the democratic party and he cooperated in all well defined plans and measures for the general good, whether accomplished through political or other channels His wife, although born in the state of New York, was reared, educated and mar- ried in Zanesville. Ohio, and was of Irish descent. She departed this life in 1902. at the age of sixty-five years.
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Their son, Dan Sullivan, was the third in order of birth in a family of ten children, of whom but four are now living, and he is the eldest among the sur- vivors. He was educated in the public schools and in Rathburn's Business Col- lege of Omaha, Nebraska, pursuing his studies to the age of eighteen years, when he started out to provide for his own support, entering upon an apprentice- ship to the sheet metal trade under the direction of the firm of Milton Rogers & Son. He continued to follow the trade for twenty years and then also took up the plumbing and heating business. After working for others for a time he embarked in business on his own account, having carefully saved his earnings until his in- dustry and economy had brought him sufficient capital to enable him to take an independent step. He was identified with business on his own account in Omaha, in Deadwood, South Dakota, in Sheridan, Wyoming, and in Rhyolite, Nevada, be- fore removing to Kemmerer. On coming to Wyoming he first settled in Sheri- dan but has been a resident of Kemmerer since 1907 and through the intervening period has been continuously engaged in the plumbinb, heating and sheet metal business, being the oldest in his line in the city where he makes his home. He was also the pioneer in that field in Sheridan. His excellent workmanship, his business enterprise and his careful management have enabled him to build up a trade of large and gratifying proportions and his activities are bringing to him well deserved success. In fact such is his reputation in this field that his business now extends over a territory of seventy-five miles in breadth, covering western Wyo- ming and portions of Idaho. He has been called upon to install plumbing and heating plants and do sheet metal work in connection with the public schools and many other public buildings in this section of the country.
Mr. Sullivan holds to the religious faith of the family and is a communicant of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church of Kemmerer. He maintains an independent course in politics but always stands for progress and improvement in public affairs and is identified with the Chamber of Commerce, which has put forth many effective measures to advance the general good. Those who know him esteem him as a man of personal worth as well as of business ability and he is classed with the representative citizens of Lincoln county.
ELIAS MOSHER.
Elias Mosher, dealer in men's clothing, furnishings, shoes and haberdashery at Rawlins, has a well equipped and well stocked establishment and enjoys a merited reputation for the integrity of his business methods and his fair dealings, his reputation in this direction being known from coast to coast. His high standards have made him popular wherever he is known and he has a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance. Mr. Mosher is of Rus- sian birth, his natal day being December 20, 1869. His father, Meilach Mosher. remained a resident of Russia until 1902, when he crossed the Atlantic and set- tled in New York, where he engaged in the fur business to the time of his death, which occurred in 1916. His wife, Mrs. Slava Mosher, passed away the previous year.
Elias Mosher is the eldest of their three children, all of whom survive. He acquired his early education in the schools of his native country and when twenty- one years of age came to the new world, settling first in Superior. Wisconsin, where he was employed by the Webster Manufacturing Company, a chair man- ufacturing concern. He worked in the factory 'and later became a traveling repre- sentative for the house, with which he continued for about five years. He was then transferred to Kansas City and traveled with that city as his headquarters. representing the Furniture Manufacturing Syndicate. He later removed to Gillett, Colorado, where he entered the men's furnishing goods business, conduct- ing a store until 1901. He then sold his interests in that city and removed to Rawlins, where he established business in a small way. Today he has one of the
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finest stores in the state and enjoys an extensive trade, but more than that, he en- joys a well earned reputation for the thorough reliability of his methods. He has never been known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellowmen in any trade transaction and his reasonable prices and earnest desire to please his patrons have won for him a very gratifying patronage which is growing year by year. The increase in his trade has necessitated the enlargement of his quarters and he has now doubled the space of his original store, making it unquestionably the finest equipped store in the state in this line. He has installed showcases of the latest and most modern style of manufacture and attractive fixtures of all kinds, and the tasteful arrangement of his store is one of the elements in his growing success. As the years have passed and he has prospered in his undertakings he has invested in bank stocks and other projects in the county and state, which add materially to his income and place him as one of the foremost business men of Rawlins.
Mr. Mosher has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Estelle Clendenney and they had a son, Albert, born August 23, 1901, at Gillett, Colorado, and now a student at Culver Military Academy. Mrs. Mosher died November 13, 1903, in Gillett. Colorado. For his second wife Mr. Mosher chose Miss Doris M. Larson, of Rawlins, by whom he has the following children: Helen E., born in Feb- ruary, 1907 ; Sarah D., born in January, 1912; and Frances F., born in September, 191.4,
Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and with the Elks and in the former organization he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and has also become a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he votes with the republican party where national issues are involved but casts an indepen- dent local ballot. Starting out in life a poor boy, aiding in the support of his parents, Mr. Mosher has steadily worked his way upward and step by step has ad- vanced to the goal of prosperity. As the architect of his fortunes he has builded wisely and well and the history of his life should serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others, showing what may be accomplished through indi- vidual effort.
WILLIAM WALLACE GLEASON.
William Wallace Gleason was living retired in Cheyenne at the time of his death, April 16, 1918, when he was seventy-six years of age. It was not until he reached the age of seventy-two that he put aside active business cares. having controlled important interests as secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Warren Live Stock Company.
He was born in Worthington, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, on the 5th of December, 1841, his parents being Darwin and Martha ( Brewster ) Gleason, the latter a descendent of ancestors who came to the new world as passengers on the Mayflower. The father was a farmer by occupation and engaged in the meat business. Both he and his wife have now passed away, the latter having died when her son, William Wallace, was yet a boy. He was the eldest in a family that numbered also seven daughters.
William W. Gleason was educated in the public schools and in an academy in tlie east and later spent but three months during the winter seasons in school, while in the summer he had to work, assisting his father and he continued in that line of work until he reached the age of thirty-five years. He became a member of the firm of D. Gleason & Son and he was on the meat wagon from the age of sixteen. On the Ist of July, 1883, he arrived in Wyoming and entered into partnership with Senator Warren in forming the Warren Live Stock Company, of which he became the secretary, treasurer and general manager. They operated extensively and successfully and Mr. Gleason was thus engaged until he reached the age of seventy-two years, when he retired. Although he was still quite active in his later years he left business cares largely to others.
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On the 14th of December, 1870, Mr. Gleason was united in marriage to Miss Amelia H. Lyman, who died in 1877, leaving two children, Herbert Darwin and Ashley Lyman. On the 13th of October, 1880, Mr. Gleason was again married, his second union being with Julia Gould Severy, and they had one son, Frank Hubbard. The sons were associated with their father in business, acting as fore- men of ranches, but they have now sold all of their interests in the cattle industry.
Mr. Gleason was a Protestant in religious faith. His political support was given to the republican party and he served as a member of the city council. He was ever deeply interested in the public welfare and gave his aid and coopera- tion to many movements looking to the benefit and upbuilding of city and state. He always abstained from the use of liquor and tobacco and was a well preserved man until the end. In his last years he enjoyed a well earned rest, his former activities having supplied him with all of those things which add to the comforts of life. His demise caused not only deep sorrow to the family but also widespread regret among his many friends, who sincerely appreciated his high qualities of character, and in him his community fost a stalwart, public-spirited citizen. His remains were interred at Hinsdale, Massachusetts.
JOHN STANSBURY.
John Stansbury, engaged in the active practice of law in Douglas as senior partner in the firm of Stansbury & Stansbury, was born in Devonshire, Eng- land, on the 14th of April, 1862, a son of John and Susan ( Roberts) Stansbury. The father was a miner and in 1869 came with his family to the United States, settling in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Both he and his wife have passed away.
John Stansbury, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the schools of Pennsylvania, having been a little lad of but seven years at the time of the emigration of the family to the new world. He started to work in the coal mines of the Keystone state when a boy of but eight years and was thus em- ployed from 1870 until May 1, 1891. His educational advantages were therefore necessarily quite limited, but he was ambitious, recognizing the fact that advance- ment and success depend upon the individual and not upon his environment or what is seemingly his opportunity. While working in the mines he took up the study of mining engineering under the direction of the Scranton Correspondence School. He also began the study of law privately at night and eventually com- pleted arrangements whereby he pursued a full course of study in the law depart- ment of the University of Michigan. While a student there he would spend his vacation periods in work in the mines in order to get money with which to pay his tuition and meet the other expenses of his university course. He was grad- uated at Ann Arbor with the class of June, 1891, and began the practice of law in Braidwood, Illinois, where he had previously worked in the coal mines for eleven years. On a visit there during the Easter holidays he had been elected city attorney before his graduation by a large majority over his opponent, and he con- tinued to practice law in Braidwood until 1913, when he removed to Wyoming with Douglas as his destination. His son, William M., had previously graduated from the law department of the University of Illinois and in 1910 had opened an office in Douglas, where in 1913 he was joined by his father and the present firm of Stansbury & Stansbury was organized. Mr. Stansbury of this review was in the employ of the government from March 18, 1897, until April 1, 1913, in a legal capacity with the department of justice, representing the Indians in the Indian depredation claims. He is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the practice of law and such is his careful preparation that he is never sur- prised by some unexpected discovery by an opposing lawyer, for in his mind he weighs every point and fortifies as well for defense as for attack. He has con- ducted important litigation and he has much natural ability but is withal a hard
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