Mildred Kenney Rost papers 1913-1988

Rost, Mildred Kenney, 1896-1991

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William and Jennie Kenney and their children, including Mildred Kenney Rost, were prominent residents of Wheatland, Wyoming in the early 1900s. They owned a ranch and then moved to town in 1903. They owned a dry goods store and they started Wheatland's first newspaper. The family valued learning and they were civic minded and progressive. Mildred Kenny Rost was like a daughter to the W.B.D. Grays who were Congregational ministers. She graduated from Wheatland High School in 1914 and Oberlin Coll...

Rost, Ernest Christian, 1867-1940

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Ernest Christian Rost, an artist, pioneer photographer, adventurer, and botanist. He was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., son of German parents, Christian Wilhelm, an engraver of renown, and Minna Rost, an embroiderer of military insignia. Rost studied at the National Academy of Design and continued his artistic education Europe. In the late 1890's, he turned to photography, working in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Panama. In 1907, he married Etta N. Newbury. By 1918, he settled in Ca...

Rost, Miles Ernest, 1891-1961

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Jireh College

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The Reverend George Dalzell, a Congregational minister serving in Lusk, Wyoming, founded this Christian college to help settle the surrounding area. Dalzell secured 320 acres of land west of Manville, Wyoming, and the land was organized and settled under the Jireh Land Company starting in 1908. Ground was broken for Jireh College in 1909 and classes began that summer. The Jireh Land Company sponsored the College until 1916, when the College was incorporated and the Land Company was dissolved. A ...

Kenney, Jennie.

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