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FRANK J. TERRY.
Prominent among the energetic, far-sighted and successful business men of Laramie is Frank J. Terry, a clothier and furnisher of men's wearing apparel. Watchful of every opportunity pointing toward success, he has so directed his interests and efforts as to win substantial results, while at the same time his inter- ests have been of a character that has contributed to public prosperity and ad- vancement.
A native of Ohio, Mr. Terry was born in Cardington on the 12th of August. 1871, and is a son of Chauncey E. Terry, who was likewise a native of the Buckeye state. The first American ancestor of the family was one of the May- flower passengers. After residing for some time in New England representatives of the name went to Long Island and George B. Terry, the grandfather of Frank J. Terry, was the first of the family to settle in Ohio. His son, Chauncey E. Terry, as a young man, learned and followed blacksmithing. In later years lie became a successful carriage manufacturer of Van Wert, Ohio, where he con- ducted a profitable business. His political endorsement was given to the repub- lican party, in which he took an active interest, doing everything in his power to promote its growth and ensure its success. He served as sheriff of Morrow county and made an excellent record in office. At the present time he is living retired, residing upon his farm in Morrow county, that state. He married Clara E. Torrey, who was also born in Ohio and was of Scotch descent, her parents having settled in Ohio in pioneer times. She also survives.
Frank J. Terry was the eldest in a family of ten children and at the usual age began his education in the public schools of Cardington, Ohio, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. He started out in the business world when a youth of eighteen years and was first engaged in the conduct of a restaurant in Cardington, which business he carried on successfully for three years. He then sold out and accepted employment in the clothing store of Joseph Kohnheimer at Cardington and in that connection became acquainted with all branches of the clothing trade, acquiring experience that has been of the greatest value to him since his arrival in Laramie. He took up his abode in Laramie on the 30th of June, 1900, and entered the employ of W. H. Frazee, a leading clothier of this city. for whom he became buyer and manager of the clothing de- partment. He continued with Mr. Frazee for eleven months and then entered into business with C. H. Woodruff under the firm style of Woodruff & Terry. The partnership between them continued for some time and the business was after- ward incorporated under the style of the Woodruff & Terry Clothing & Shoe
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Company, Mr. Terry acting as secretary and treasurer, with Mr. Wodruff as president. The business was continued under that style until 1904, when the cor- poration was changed, Mr. Woodruff selling his interest to C. J. Vagner. The firm style of Terry & Vagner was then assumed and the business was so con- tinued until 1911, when Mr. Terry sold his interest to Mr. Vagner and for a year was engaged in no active business. In 1912 he removed to Baker, Oregon, and opened a ladies' ready-to-wear clothing store, continuing the business until Feb- ruary, 1913. He then sold out and returned to Laramie, where he purchased his present store from E. Mosher, of Rawlins, Wyoming. This is by far the finest store of the kind in the state. He carries a very extensive stock of men's clothing and furnishings and the store is most attractive in its arrangement. The business methods of the house commend it to the patronage of the public and he has thus won for himself a most prominent and enviable position as a leading merchant of Laramie.
Mr. Terry was married at Mount Gilead, Ohio, to Miss Isabel Talmage, a native of Ohio and a daughter of F. A. and Margaret ( Knox) Talmage and a relative of the renowned Dr. Talmage, the eminent divine. Mr. and Mrs. Terry have one son, Richard Talmage, who was born in Laramie, May 31, 1908.
In religious faith Mr. and Mrs. Terry are Episcopalians and he is a vestry- man of St. Matthew's cathedral. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also has membership in the Chamber of Commerce. In politics he is an earnest republican but when urged to become a candidate for office has always declined, preferring to concentrate his attention upon his business affairs. which, wisely directed, have brought him to the creditable position which he now occupies. His interests have always been most capably conducted. Tireless energy, keen perception, honesty of purpose, a genius for devising the right thing at the right time, joined to every-day commonsense, are his chief characteris- tics. Justice has ever been maintained in his relations to patrons and employes. He has been watchful of all the details of his business and of all indications pointing toward prosperity, and from the beginning has had an abiding faith in the ultimate success of his enterprise. Moreover, he is a public-spirited citizen. giving his cooperation to every movement which tends to promote the moral, in- tellectual and material welfare of his adopted state.
JESSE L. LAKE.
Evanston, a most enterprising and progressive city, has drawn to it many men who were seeking for favorable opportunities, and here Jesse L. Lake has found the chance to exercise his industry and initiative, which are his dominant qualities. He is today conducting a profitable and growing business as proprie- tor of the Evanston Steam Laundry.
Born in Nappanee, Indiana, on the 12th of June, 1876, he is a son of the late John Lake, who was a native of Ohio and was a descendant of one of the old Virginia families of Scotch lineage that was founded in America about the time of the close of the Revolutionary war. Representatives of the name became early residents of Ohio and later removal was made to Indiana, where John Lake became a successful farmer. He resided in Elkhart county, that state, until his death, which occurred in 1882, when he was forty-five years of age. His wife bore the maiden name of Susan Winders and she, too, was born in Ohio, belonging to one of the old families of that state that came originally from Connecticut and was of English ancestry. Mrs. Lake passed away in 1896, at the age of sixty years. By her marriage she had but two children, Jesse L. and Cora, the latter the wife of O. L. Mast, now living in San Diego, California.
Jesse L. Lake, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, pursued his education in the public schools of Nappanee, Indiana, and started out to
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earn his own livelihood when a young man of twenty years. He was first employed in the Troy Steam Laundry at Elkhart, Indiana, and there learned all branches of the business, continuing with the firm for four years. He next entered business on his own account, in 1901, at Warsaw, Indiana, where he conducted what was known as the Troy Laundry for three years, meeting with substantial success during that period. He then disposed of his interests there and removed to the west, making his way to Helena, Montana, where he conducted the Fort Laundry for five years. During the succeeding three years he was at Randolph, Nebraska, and in November, 1912, he removed to Evanston, Wyoming, where he purchased his present business from Isherwood & Bodine. The establishment was conducted under the name of the Evanston Laundry. It had been incorporated but in volume of business was small compared to the present trade enjoyed by Mr. Lake, who has today one of the leading steam laundries of Wyoming. It is equipped with everything necessary in this line. the machinery is new and modern and the work turned out is of the highest grade. Mr. Lake is employing on an average of eight people and his trade is largely local, for Evanston and the surrounding district accords him a volume of business that taxes the laundry to its full capacity.
In Elkhart, Indiana, on the 30th of May, 1901, Mr. Lake was united in marriage to Miss Maude Kinnaman, a native of Indiana and a daughter of John and Josie Kinnaman, who were representatives of old families of that state. Her father is now deceased but her mother is yet living. Mr. and Mrs. Lake have become the parents of a daughter, Grace, who was born May 30, 1914.
In his political views Mr. Lake is a republican but has never been an office seeker. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is widely and favorably known in Evanston and is fully satisfied with the opportunities which have been accorded him here. Gradually working his way upward, he is now at the head of a profitable business which has resulted from his close application and indefatigable energy, and he believes that with the chances that Wyoming affords any man can win success if he has the determination and perseverance to pursue a course that has been intelligently marked out.
REV. JOHN F. SUGRUE.
Rev. John F. Sugrue, pastor of the Church of the Seven Dolors at Rock Springs, was born February 7, 1884, in County Kerry, Ireland, a son of Michael Sugrue, a native of that country, who is still a resident of County Kerry, where he has been active along scientific lines, especially in connection with observatory work. He married Frances O'Connor, also a native of the Emerald isle, and they became the parents of nine children, of whom Father Sugrue, of this review. is the eldest. All of the others are still living and are yet residents of Ireland.
Rev. John F. Sugrue began his education in the parochial schools of his native country and afterward attended St. Brendan's College, from which he was grad- uated in 1902. That school is located at Killarney, Ireland. He afterward became a student in Maywroth College of Dublin and was there ordained to the priest- hood by the Most Reverend, Archbishop William Walsh, on the 20th of June, 1909.
Following his ordination Father Sugrue came to America, arriving in October of that year. He made his way direct to the west with Denver as his destina- tion and soon afterward was assigned to duty at Glenwood Springs, where he remained for three years as pastor of St. Stephen's Roman Catholic church under Father Joseph Carrigan. He afterward became assistant pastor in St. Patrick's church under Rev. Luther D. T. O'Dwyer, there continuing for a year. He next became pastor of the Church of the Seven Dolors of Rock Springs, where he has remained since February, 1914. The membership at the time he
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took charge was about thirty-five families and today the parish membership has grown to sixty families. The church is in good working order and excellent results are being achieved through the efforts of Father Sugrue. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Columbus and with the Catholic Order of Forest- ers. His political endorsement is given to the republican party. He is a man of liberal education, doing excellent work among his parishioners.
BENJAMIN H. SMALLEY.
A city does not depend so much upon its office holders, or even upon its machinery of government, as upon its business men for its upbuilding and devel- opment. Prominent among the energetic, farsighted and alert merchants of Cokeville is Benjamin H. Smalley, now president of the Reynolds, Smalley & Larson Company, engaged in general merchandising at Cokeville.
He was born in Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, September 17, 1872. His father, the late Imri Smalley, was a native of Vermont and was descended from one of the old families of that state, of English lineage, founded in America prior to the time when the colonies threw off the yoke of British oppression and established the American republic. He was distantly related to General Ethan Allen, whose "Green Mountain Boys," under the direction of their com- mander, won fame at the battle of Ticonderoga in the Revolutionary war. Imri Smalley became a successful merchant of Jefferson, Ohio, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1890, when he had reached the age of fifty- four years. He manifested the same spirit of patriotism and loyalty that char- acterized his ancestors and at the time of the Civil war joined the Union army, serving with the Ninth Ohio Cavalry with the rank of sergeant. Later he was drawn to act as one of the president's bodyguard and served as such through- out the remainder of the war. The family have in their possession several valuable mementoes-articles that previously belonged to President Lincoln. They also have a dagger that was found outside the Ford Theater after President Lincoln was assassinated and which is supposed to have been the weapon carried by Booth when he committed the dastardly deed that cost the life of the chief executive. In politics Mr. Smalley was a stalwart republican, as was his father, Horatio Nelson Smalley. Mr. Smalley was married to Lucy Ann McNutt, who was born and reared in Lennox, Ohio, and who passed away in 1889, at the age of fifty-two years. By her marriage she became the mother of six children, four of whom are living. William Walter, born July 15. 1859, was the eldest of the family. He was educated in the public schools of Jefferson and started out in the business world when a youth of seventeen years. In 1887 he removed to Wyoming, locating in Laramie, where he was engaged in electrical work, learn- ing the business in principle and detail. He then engaged in electrical work in Laramie for fifteen years, and on the expiration of that time removed to Evans- ton, Wyoming, where he took charge of the interests of the Evanston light plant, continuing in that position for four years. He next went to Cumberland, Wyo- ming, where he was employed by the Union Pacific Coal Company for eight years, after which he established his home in Cokeville, where he engaged in electrical work for eight years. He was then appointed to the position of deputy sheriff and is now serving in that capacity. His political support has always been given to the democratic party and he has been a prominent factor in community affairs, both in a business way and as a political leader. The second in the family is Kate Smalley, who became the wife of W. C. Bancroft, of Bayonne, New Jersey. Elizabeth is the deceased wife of C. F. Rosebaugh, who resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Benjamin H. is the next of the family. Glenn Stuart, the youngest of the living children, is a resident of Springfield, Missouri. David Allen, who was the third member of the family, has passed away.
Benjamin H. Smalley was educated in the public schools of Jefferson, Ohio,
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and remained a resident of that state until he reached the age of eighteen years, when he started for the west, taking up his abode in Evanston, Wyoming, in the summer of 1891. There he was employed along electrical lines and served also as assistant postmaster for eighteen months. He remained in Evanston for two years and subsequently rode the range for five years in Cinta and Lincoln counties. He was afterward connected with W. S. Post, of Kemmerer, in mercantile lines, as a clerk, obtaining his first experience in merchandising at that place. He was afterward at Fossil, where he was manager of a branch store for Mr. Post for two years. On the expiration of that period he accepted the management of the Blyth-Fargo-Hoskins store at Granger. He continued there under the firm name of Smalley & Mckay for about six years, when he sold his interest in the business to Cosgriff Brothers and removed to Cokeville to become manager of the Cokeville Mercantile Company. He continued in that connection until the present business was established, at which time he joined Mr. Larson and Mr. Reynolds in organizing the Reynolds, Smalley & Larson Company for the conduct of a general mercantile enterprise. He was chosen president of the company, with Mr. Larson as vice president and Mr. Reynolds as secretary, treasurer and manager. Mr. Smalley is also one of the directors of the Cokeville Light & Power Company, which he organized. He is thus actively identified with the interests of his adopted city and is contributing in substantial measure to its continued growth along mercantile and other business lines.
On the 15th of June, 1901, in Kemmerer. Mr. Smalley was united in mar- riage to Miss Anna Wood, a native of Wyoming, who was born at Twin Creek. Uinta county. Her parents were Harry and Sarah ( Sutton ) Wood, the latter a daughter of William Sutton, one of the pioneer coal miners of Twin Creek. Both of her parents are now deceased.
Mr. Smalley votes with the republican party, which he has supported since' age conferred upon him the right of franchise. At one time he was postmaster of Cokeville, occupying the position for seven years, and for six years he also served as postmaster at Granger. Fraternally he is a well known Mason, having become a member of the lodge at Kemmerer, since which time he has joined the Royal Arch Chapter at Green River. He belongs to the Episcopal church, in which he is serving as trustee, and its teachings guide him in all of the relations of life. He is highly esteemed as a man of genuine personal worth as well as of marked business ability and enterprise, and he has many warm friends through- out Lincoln county, who entertain for him genuine regard.
VICTOR TUCKER JOHNSON.
Victor Tucker Johnson, an able attorney of Thermopolis, who is making a specialty of corporation and oil and mining law, was born March 25, 1881, in Centralia, Boone county, Missouri, a son of John A. and Eliza Mildred Johnson. The father is now deceased but the mother is still living. In their family were four children, all of whom survive.
Victor T. Johnson, after attending the Centralia high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1899, took up the study of electrical engi- neering, to which he devoted two years, from 1900 until 1902, in St. Louis, Missouri. In the latter year he became a student in the University of Missouri and enrolled in the law department, having determined to make the practice of law his life work. He won his LL. B. degree from the University of Mis- souri in 1005. He was admitted to practice by the supreme court of that state and by the United States circuit court of appeals at St. Louis in 1905. The following year he was admitted to practice by the supreme court of Wyoming and located in Thermopolis, where he has engaged in the practice of law to the present day, making a specialty of corporation law and of law relating to oil
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and mining property. His practice has become extensive and of an important character and he is thoroughly versed along those lines on which he is now concentrating his attention. He has also become connected with many oil com- panies as an investor and has been very successful in his oil ventures in the Grass Creek, Elk Basin and Warm Springs oil fields. He was one of the pro- moters of the oil industry in these various sections and has contributed much to the development and progress of the state through his operations along these lines. He is serving as director or in other official connection with various oil corporations.
On the Ist of September, 1917, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Joy Steel, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Steel, of Robinson, Illinois.
His religious faith is that of the Christian church ; his political belief that of the democratic party. He was elected the first county and prosecuting attorney for Hot Springs county, Wyoming, occupying the position from 1912 until 1915. In the following year he was made a delegate to the national democratic conven- tion held in St. Louis and he was chairman of the legal advisory board to the military draft of Hot Springs county in 1917. He stands for progressiveness in all that has to do with the public welfare and gives his active aid and support to many measures for the general good. In a word, his labors can always be counted upon to further the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of his community.
OSCAR NOAH ANDERSON.
With the substantial development and upbuilding of Sheridan, Wyoming. Oscar Noah Anderson has been prominently and actively identified for a nun- ber of years. He is a native of Sheridan, Illinois. His father, Erasmus Ander- son, was born in Stavanger, Norway, and came with his parents to the new world when but two years of age, the family home being established in Leland, Illinois. After attaining man's estate he wedded Ellen Peterson, who was born at Leland, Illinois, and who passed away in Lincoln, Nebraska, in August, 1904. Mr. Anderson survives and now makes his home in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Oscar N. Anderson, accompanying his parents on their removal to Nebraska. was graduated from the high school at Aurora, Nebraska, in 1895 and in the following year he entered the Nebraska State University, where he spent three and a half years as a student. He would have graduated as a member of the class of 1902, but came to Sheridan, Wyoming, for a summer vacation the previous year and never returned to finish the university course. He had become a member of the Kappa Sigma, a Greek letter fraternity, during the period of his student days in the University of Nebraska. While a resident of Sheridan he has been engaged in the real estate, abstract, insurance and loan business and has been one of the directors of the Sheridan Building & Loan Association since its organization six years ago. He is thoroughly conversant with the real estate market, knows the property that is for sale and is correct in placing valuation thereon. He also conducts an abstract business and writes a considerable amount of insurance annually.
On the 16th of May, 1911, Mr. Anderson was married in Billings, Montana, to Miss Julia Belle Boehne, a daughter of Alfred Herman and Elizabeth MI. Boehne, the latter at one time national president of the Woman's Relief Corps. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have been born two children: Philip Craig, a lad of three and a half years : and Ruth Ellen Anderson, about a year and a half old.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson hold membership in the Presbyterian church and fraternally he is connected with the Masonic lodge and chapter and with the Eastern Star. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For the past four years he has been one of the directors of the Sheridan Com- mercial Club. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he Vol. II-19
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was deputy county clerk of Sheridan county, Wyoming, from 1908 until 1909, but retired from that position to enter the real estate business, in which he has since been an active and prominent factor. He stands loyally for all that has to do with the general welfare and upbuilding of his community and is one of the prominent and progressive citizens of Sheridan.
PHILIP MANDEL.
Philip Mandel passed his eighty-third milestone and then "the weary wheels of life at length stood still." As the day with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of activity, its evening of successful and completed effort, ending in the quiet and rest of the night, so was the life of this good man, who was ever honored as the first settler in the Laramie valley and one of the oldest residents of the state.
He was born in Alsace, France, October 2, 1834, and there spent the first fifteen years of his life, after which he severed home ties and came to the new world. He was a youth of but twenty years when he arrived in Wyoming, taking up his abode in the Little Laramie valley, where he lived the life of a frontiers- man "in the simple, peaceful way of men who have wrought long and well." A visitor to the beautiful city of Laramie, with its attractive homes, its substantial business houses, its well kept streets and evidences of a modern, progressive civilization cannot understand the conditions of the country into which Mr. Man- del came. Not a house marked the site of the capital city and the most far- sighter could not have dreamed of the changes which were soon to occur. He bravely faced every condition of pioneer life, met all of its hardships and priva- tions and continued his work of converting a wild and undeveloped region into one of fertility, the abiding place of many happy, contented and prosperous people. After a time he went to the little village of Mandel, where he erected a stage station, and the log cabin that marked the station on the overland trail is still to be seen on the Lawrence ranch. "There he lived and conducted his affairs," writes the Laramie Republican, "meeting the pony express as it hurried across the country, giving a change of horses, the meal wished for and a word of cheer and a fond farewell as the driver of the pony express sped with his packages toward the setting sun. The Mandel stage station was known from ocean to ocean, and Mr. Mandel himself became a fixture in the landscape, always at the front door, always ready to bid the speeder good morning, always ready to lend a hand. In 1859 he was in Utah, fighting the Indians and helping to wrest the glowing west from the hand of the red man. He returned to Mandel, again took his place in the lonely cabin and filled his mission and fulfilled his destiny as it had been pointed out to him."
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