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Brock, J. Elmer, 1882-1954. J. Elmer Brock Wyoming history materials, 1892-1951.

Title: J. Elmer Brock Wyoming history materials, 1892-1951.

Collection contains materials collected and written by Brock concerning Wyoming history from 1892 to 1951. The collection includes a 1943 letter from Brock to Russell Thorp, former head of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, regarding the death of George Wellman, who had been murdered in 1892; a 1949 letter by Brock on the background of Frank Grouard, a scout for the U.S. Army during the Indian wars; a 1937 typescript manuscript by Brock entitled "Rangeland Renegades," on the Johnson County War; an undated typescript manuscript by Brock entitled "Who Was the Virginian?" on the identity of the character in Owen Wister's book "The Virginian"; and a photograph of Frank Grouard. The collection also includes a 58 page typescript manuscript written in 1892 by O.H. Flagg entitled "A Review of the Cattle Business in Johnson County, Wyoming Since 1882 and the Causes that Led to the Recent Invasion"; a typewritten manuscript written by W.R. Holt entitled "A Brief History of the Wyoming Land and Cattle Company"; a 1950 letter from Russell Thorp to U.O. Kirtley and a typescript manuscript written by Kirtley regarding the Kirtley post office in Niobrara County, Wyoming. The collection also contains materials relating to St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Buffalo, Wyoming, including a 1949 typescript manuscript written by Lillian Hogerson Baker, "The History of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Buffalo, Wyoming, "; a 1903 letter from St. Luke's priest H.U. Onderdonk, written to his brother Adrian Onderdonk, regarding a murder in Kaycee, Wyoming; a photograph of St. Luke's priest Charles E. Duel, who served during the Johnson County War; and a photograph of the casket of George Wellman during his funeral service, which was held at St. Luke's.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Woodman, Horace. [Receipts].

Title: [Receipts]. 1868.

Contains two receipts for certain sums of money releasing and discharging the persons named from claims on the use of Woodman's patent on an apparatus for stripping the top flats of carding engines. One receipt, April 14, 1868, is to J.C. Whitin, for the Albion Co., Albion, N.J.; the other, April 28, 1868, is to Benedict Lapham, Franklin Foundry, for use at Centervill [sic], R.I. Collection also includes a quarterly return of self-top card strippers, built under the Wellman and Woodman patents, for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1873, by Whitin Machine Co., indicating to whom delivered, the number of cards, where delivered and the amount paid.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50134735 View