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On the 9th of June, 1911, in Kamen, Germany, Mr. Wienpahl was united in marriage to Miss Constance Mary Develin, who was born in Brighton, England, and they have one child, Paul de Velin, who was born in Rock Springs, March 6, 1916. Mr. Wienpahl has become a naturalized American citizen, but in poli- tics maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and his religious belief is that of the Protestant church. Mr. Wienpahl did not come to the new world with the intention of remaining in spirit a resident of Germany. On the contrary he is a loyal American in every particular and is a well educated, broad-minded man who commands and merits the respect of all with whom he comes in contact. He has made for himself a creditable place in the business circles of his community and is highly esteemed by all who know him.
WILLIAM C. DEMING.
William C. Deming came to Wyoming in March, 1901, from Warren, Ohio, to assume the editorship of the Wyoming Daily Tribune. From the time of his arrival, he took a broad view of state affairs and began to make the Tribune a state paper rather than a local institution.
In November, 1902, the first general election after his arrival in Wyoming, he was elected a member of the seventh legislature and was an active member of that body. He was chairman of the committee on education and did a great deal toward revising and improving laws affecting public schools. His most important bill was that for a state depository law, which although defeated, became an issue in succeeding elections. Mr. Deming carried on an educational campaign and brought about the enactment of the law in 1907. Under the act all state, county and city funds draw interest.
He was appointed by Governor De Forest Richards a member and secretary of the Wyoming commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904. He held the same position by the appointment of Governor B. B. Brooks at the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland in 1905.
In 1906. in addition to his duties as editor of the Tribune, he began a propa- ganda for the settlement of the semi-arid lands in Wyoming by farmers and the cutting up of big ranches into farms. He spoke and wrote about it fre- quently. The movement has succeeded beyond the expectations of the most hope- ful and removed the last lingering doubt of the skeptics. Due to the local committee of which he was chairman, which made experiments on land owned by himself and fellow members near the city, has grown up the department of farming and agriculture in Wyoming. Mr. Deming is regarded as the "father of the dry farming" movement in this state. His faith, persistence and the years of publicity he gave it overcame both doubt and prejudice and made arid farming secure.
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In 1907 he was appointed receiver of public moneys in the United States land office at Cheyenne by President Theodore Roosevelt, was reappointed by President William H. Taft and served three months under President Woodrow Wilson. This brought him in close daily touch with the new farmer.
After retiring from this office, he made an extensive trip abroad, returning to Cheyenne, where he resumed the editorship of the Wyoming Tribune and the Wyoming Stockman-Farmer, the latter a stock and farm paper with a large cir- culation in Wyoming and adjoining states.
W. C. Deming was born at Mount Olivet, Kentucky, on December 6, 1869, his father being Osmer S. Deming, a native of New York and a prominent lawyer. His mother, Leona Rigg Deming, was a native of Kentucky.
Mr. Deming combines in himself many of the characteristics of both sections. He is a descendant of John Deming, the "Settler" who came to Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1635. He is a graduate of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, having received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. He has been admitted to the bar both in the state of Kentucky and Wyo- ming and was editor of the Warren Daily Tribune at Warren, Ohio, several years before coming west. He is still the president of the company which owns and publishes that paper. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Arts Club of New York city.
He organized the Deming Realty Company and the Tribune Building Com- pany, which own and conduct valuable real estate holdings in the city of Cheyenne. He has been identified with every active movement looking toward the growth of Wyoming and its capital city for eighteen years. His greatest achievement, however, is that which resulted in the converting of Laramie county from a grazing, cattle and sheep pasture to the sections of beautiful farms.
Through his personal influence and editorship, Wyoming has adopted much progressive legislation, notably a primary election law, workmen's compensation act, public utilities statute and an independent judiciary.
Mr. Deming is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
At Warren, Ohio, in June, 1907, he was united in marriage with Zell P. Hart.
JOHN RALPH MARQUIS, M. D.
Dr. John Ralph Marquis is engaged in the general practice of medicine at Kemmerer, where he is also conducting a private hospital. He has followed his profession there since 1909, in which year he completed his preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery by graduation from the Nebraska College of Medicine.
He is numbered among the native sons of Nebraska, his birth having occurred in Stromsburg, Polk county, May 1, 1879, his parents being Joseph and Sarah (Timmons) Marquis, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. The father came of Scotch-Irish ancestry but the Marquis family was founded in the Keystone state at an early period in its development. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania and in young manhood removed westward to Iowa, where he was in the railroad service for a time. He afterward took up his abode in Nebraska in the latter '6os and became one of the pioneer settlers of Polk county, where he was engaged in farming and in the live stock business. He followed that pursuit for many years. He was a Civil war veteran, enlisting with an Iowa company at the time of the hostilities between the north and the south, and he participated in Perry's raids in Missouri. He died in Leavenworth, Kansas, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, passing away on the 9th of March, 1916. His wife was also of Scotch-Irish descent. She is still living and now makes her home in Kemmerer at the age of seventy-three years, her birth
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having occurred in April, 1845. By her marriage she became the mother of six children, of whom John Ralph was the second in order of birth.
In the country schools of his native county Dr. Marquis began his education and afterward attended the Fremont Normal School at Fremont, Nebraska, from which he was graduated with the Ph. G. and B. S. degrees in 1905. His early life had been spent upon the home farm and he became familiar with all the duties and labors incident to the development of the fields and the care of the crops, for in his boyhood his time was divided between the duties of the school- room, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. Before he en- tered the normal school he took up the profession of teaching in Boyd county and also continued his work as an educator at several other points in Nebraska. After his graduation from the Fremont Normal School he determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and then entered the Nebraska College of Medicine, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1909. He completed his course there in May and on the 13th of June he arrived in Kem- merer. On the 4th of July he received his state license to practice and has since been engaged in the active work of his profession save during the fall of 19II and the spring of 1912, which periods he spent at Queen's University at Kings- ton, Ontario, doing post graduate work to further advance his efficiency in his profession. He has continued successfully in the general practice of medicine and surgery and he also conducts a private hospital with accommodations for ten patients. He established the hospital on the 9th of September, 1917, and it is known as the Marquis Hospital. It is modern in every detail and its equip- ment is of the most advanced kind, so that patients there receive the utmost care and attention possible, with all facilities to advance speedy recovery and aid na- ture and science in the effort to restore health.
Dr. Marquis is a republican in his political views and in 1915 he served as mayor of Kemmerer, giving to the city a business-like and progressive adminis- tration. He is a young man possessed of those qualities which ensure success and advancement. It was by teaching pharmacy and materia medica that he worked his way through the university, thus displaying the determination that will ever enable him to overcome obstacles and difficulties in his path and carry forward to successful completion what he undertakes. He holds to high profes- sional standards, closely observing the ethics of the medical fraternity and readily adopting the most advanced scientific methods which promise to prove efficient factors in medical and surgical practice.
EVERETT L. WOODFORD.
Business enterprise finds expression in the career of Everett L. Woodford, who is the secretary and treasurer of the Woodford Clothing Company of Lara- mie. He is imbued in all that he undertakes with the spirit of progress and his well defined plans and purposes have carried him steadily forward to success.
He was born in Agency, Iowa, April 2, 1880, and is a son of the late N. A. Woodford, who was a native of that state and belonged to one of the old families of Iowa of English descent. He devoted his life to merchandising and became a pioneer merchant of Wapello county, Iowa, where he resided to the time of his death, which occurred in the spring of 1898, when he was sixty-nine years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Day, was a native of Ohio and represented one of the pioneer families of that state of English and Scotch lineage. Mrs. Woodford is still living, residing upon the old homestead in Iowa. By her marriage she became the mother of five children.
Everett L. Woodford, the youngest of the family, was educated in the public and high schools of Iowa and in the Spaulding Business College of Kansas City, Missouri. At the age of eighteen years he made his initial step in the business world and was first employed in his father's store. After his father's death he
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continued to conduct the business for a time and then closed it out and removed to Kansas City, Missouri. Following his graduation from business college he followed bookkeeping in Kansas City for a year and subsequently returned to Iowa, settling in Ottumwa, where he engaged in clerking in a clothing store for two years, thus gaining initial experience along the line in which he is now en- gaged. He afterward went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was employed by Wyman, Partridge & Company, wholesale dealers in dry goods. He remained with the firm for four years in the house and then went upon the road as a traveling salesman, representing the company in that capacity for six years, dur- ing four years of which time he traveled over Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Colorado. He became impressed with the west and its opportunities and par- ticularly with Laramie and in 1909 he established his present business in Laramie under the firm name of the Drew Clothing Company, H. A. Drew being his part- ner in the undertaking. In 1912 Mr. Woodford took over Mr. Drew's interests, at which time he severed his connection with Wyman, Partridge & Company, for whom he had continued to travel up to that date. He then reorganized his business under the name of the Woodford Clothing Company, of which he is the secretary and treasurer, with Mrs. J. J. Woodford as the president and E. D. Woodford as the vice president. He has since been active in the control and management of the business, the firm carrying a large stock of clothing and haberdashery. In fact this is the leading store of the kind in this section of Wyoming, if not in the entire state. The business has been a pronounced success from the start, due in large measure to the efforts and attention of Everett L. Woodford, who is a representative young merchant, alert, energetic and wide awake to every possibility opened in the natural ramifications of trade.
On the 28th of July, 1908, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Woodford was united in marriage to Miss June Johnson, native of Minnesota, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Johnson, who were of Norwegian birth. Mr. and Mrs. Woodford have become the parents of two sons: Charles Day, who was born in Laramie, May 21, 1910; and John Sheridan, born September 25, 1913.
The parents are members of the First Presbyterian church and they occupy an enviable social position in Laramie. Mr. Woodford is a progressive republican and fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and stands for all those projects put forth by the organization for the benefit and upbuilding of his adopted city. He is a man of keen discrimination and sound judgment, and his executive ability his excellent management and his long experience have brought to the concern with which he is connected a large degree of success. The safe, conservative policy which he inaugurated commends itself to the judgment of all and has se- cured to the company a patronage which makes the volume of trade transacted of great importance and magnitude.
CHARLES C. RATE.
Among the well known and prominent representatives of the sheep industry in Wyoming is Charles C. Rate, living at Shoshoni. He has engaged in this business since attaining his majority and long experience and close study of the question have well qualified him for the successful conduct of his interests.
Iowa claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Cedar county, August 13, 1878, his parents being John and Eliza (Collins) Rate. The father was a native of England, while the mother was born in Ohio, but their marriage was celebrated in Iowa. They removed westward to Wyoming in 1886, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of this state, where they spent their remain- ing days, both having now passed away. In their family were five children, of whom four are yet living.
Charles C. Rate was reared in Wyoming and obtained a common school
Charles to Rats
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education. He was a lad of but eight years at the time the family arrived in the west. After reaching adult age he became connected with the sheep industry, in which he has since engaged. He has found the business both congenial and profitable and he is today the owner of extensive landed holdings, upon which he has large flocks of sheep, near Shoshoni. He is also interested in oil lands in this locality and his business connections are of a character which have contributed to general progress and prosperity as well as to his individual success. Moreover, he is a director of the Shoshoni State Bank. He is a man of keen discernment and sound judgment, possesses honesty of purpose and every- day common sense-a quality which is too often lacking in the conduct of business affairs.
In 1908 Mr. Rate was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Schaefer, a native of Nebraska, and to them has been born a son, Henry Charles.
The parents are loyal members of the Episcopal church, doing all in their power to further its growth and extend its influence. Mr. Rate votes with the republican party and is now serving as a member of the city council, exercising his official prerogatives in support of all progressive plans and measures for the general good. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and is in thorough sympathy with the purposes of the craft. Living in Wyoming for nearly a third of a century, he has witnessed practically the entire growth and development of the section of the state in which he makes his home.
It is a well known fact that it is the enterprise and character of the citizens that enrich and ennoble a commonwealth, and that the progress of a community is not due so much to the machinery of government or the men who occupy the public offices as to the business men who are utilizing the natural resources of a country and are creating beneficial results by opening up possibilities for trade, thereby advancing civilization. In the latter connection Charles C. Rate has become well known and his position among the leading sheep men of Wyoming is an enviable one.
JOHN WILLIAMSON PRICE, M. D.
Dr. John Williamson Price, actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Wyoming, was born in Lake county, Tennessee, December 12, 1878, a son of William T. and Amanda Louise ( Oursler) Price, who were also natives of Tennessee, where lived the grandparents and the great-grandparents of Dr. John Williamson Price.
The father of Dr. Price was a well known cotton planter of Tennessee and also engaged in the real estate business at Collierville, where his death occurred in 1903. His widow survives and yet makes her home in that place. In their fam- ily were six children: J. G., now living in Dyersburg, Tennessee; Mrs. J. W. Lynch, a resident of Collierville, where her husband is cashier in the bank; Frances, Laura and Willie, all of Collierville; and Dr. Price of this review, who is the eldest of the family.
In his boyhood days John Williamson Price was a pupil in the public schools of his native city and also attended the Bellevue high school at Collierville, subse- quent to which time he entered Milligan College and still later supplemented his broad literary learning by professional study. Having determined to make the practice of medicine his life work, he became a student in the Memphis Hospital Medical College from which he was graduated with the class of 1903. He took post graduate work in Chicago in 1915 and again in 1917 and throughout his pro- fessional career he has kept in close touch with the trend of modern scientific thought and investigation. He utilizes the results of the latest research work and discoveries in his practice, readily discriminating between the essential and the nonessential in all that has to do with his professional activity. He entered upon the active practice of medicine in Marvell, Arkansas, in 1903, and there resided
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for a decade, removing to Laramie on the Ist of May, 1912. In the intervening period covering about six years, he has built up an extensive practice. He be- came the associate of Dr. William Harris, with whom he remained until February, 1917, when he became associated with Dr. R. M. Leake, formerly of Collierville, Tennessee. Dr. Price has served as city physician of Laramie and is surgeon for the Colorado, Wyoming & Eastern Railway Company; at the same time he enjoys a large private practice and is widely known in professional connections. He belongs to the Albany County Medical Society and to the Wyoming State Medical Society. Aside from his professional work Dr. Price has other business interests, one of which is the Hutton Lake Oil and Gas Company, of which he is vice president. He served as a member of the Albany county exemption board during the year 1917.
On the 5th of February, 1904, in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Price was united in marriage to Miss Viola V. Sanderlin, of Collierville, Tennessee. Both, Dr. Price's family, and that of his wife are among the old families in that section of Tennessee and date back to the early part of the past century, when they emi- grated there from Virginia. They have one child, Amanda Louise, who was born in Collierville, Tennessee. August 2, 1906, and is now attending the University of Wyoming as a pupil in the training school. Dr. Price is deeply interested in the cause of education and for two years served as a member of the school board of Laramie. He is actuated by a spirit of progress and improvement in all that he does and advances steadily step by step not only in his chosen profession but in public connections as well. He possesses a social nature that makes for personal popularity and he has gained an extensive circle of friends during the period of his residence in Wyoming.
PETER S. COOK.
Peter S. Cook, one of the well known business men of Cheyenne, where he is conducting a plumbing and heating establishment, was born in Aberdeen, Scot- land, March 27, 1859, a son of David and Helen (Smith) Cook. The father was engaged in the insurance business and both he and his wife spent their en- tire lives in Scotland. The father has passed away but the mother is still living.
Reared in the land of hills and heather, Peter S. Cook pursued his education in the grammar schools of Scotland and after his textbooks were put aside began learning the plumber's trade in that country. In order to further advance his education he also attended night school, having come to a recognition of the fact that thorough intellectual training is one of the most vital preparations for life's practical and responsible duties. He left his native country when twenty years of age, crossing the Atlantic to the United States. He landed at Boston, where he remained for three years, and then sought the opportunities of the west, ar- riving in Denver in 1883. He spent six months in that city and on the ist of September of the same year came to Cheyenne, where he was employed for a brief period as a journeyman. In 1884, however, he embarked in business on his own account and today is the oldest representative of the plumbing and heat- ing business not only in the city but in the state of Wyoming. From the beginning he has enjoyed substantial success, his trade steadily growing with the increase in the population of Cheyenne. He has worked in his line on the state capitol, on the First National Bank, the Plains Hotel and most of the important business blocks of the city and has also installed the plumbing and heating systems in many of the best residences of Cheyenne.
In September, 1886, Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Mary Brown and to them have been born five children, Elizabeth, Robert, William, David and Louis, but the last named was killed in a street car accident when twenty-five years of age.
Mr. Cook has been a stalwart champion of the republican party since becom-
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ing a naturalized American citizen and has done effective and active work in its behalf. He has become one of the recognized local leaders in party ranks and for two terms he served as mayor of Cheyenne. It was while Mr. Cook was mayor of Cheyenne that the city water system at a cost of over one million dol- lars was installed. It is considered one of the best water works in the entire country and no small credit is due Mr. Cook for his efficiency and tireless energy in looking after the progress of the work during the construction period, his many years of experience making his efforts particularly valuable to the city. He also represented his district in the state legislature as a member of the house for one term and also as a member of the senate for one term and has thus been connected with much important constructive legislation looking to the develop- ment of the interests of the state and the safeguarding of public affairs. Fra- ternally he is a very prominent Mason, the honorary thirty-third degree having been conferred upon him, and he has also become a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Wood- men of the World and he has membership in the Industrial Club. In a word, he is one of the prominent and influential residents of Cheyenne who for more than a third of a century has been closely identified with the city along the lines of material, political and social progress. All who know him-and he has a wide acquaintance-attest his high personal worth and his progressive citizen- ship.
W. J. MCLAUGHLIN.
W. J. McLaughlin, one of Riverton's most prominent citizens, is vice president and a director of the Wyomont Company, a million dollar corporation, formed for the manufacture of potash and sulphur and for the handling of copper prop- erties. He is also vice president and a director of the Hall Oil Company, vice president and a director of the Wyoming Tie & Timber Company and is occupying the same official positions in four other corporations. The nature and variety of his interests place him in a conspicuous position in business circles, his ability being recognized by his colleagues and contemporaries. Power grows through the exercise of effort and in the conduct of increasingly important interests Mr. McLaughlin has reached a position of leadership, in which his influence is marked, while his efforts are far reaching in results.
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