Papers, 1892-1957.

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Papers, 1892-1957.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32234595

Collection contains the business records of the companies that Williamson worked for, with a small amount of personal material from 1892 to 1957. The collection includes biographical material, newspaper clippings, two pieces of correspondence and photographs. Also included are two manuscripts by Carbon County settler John Milliken. One is autobiographical and the other is a description of the killing of Sheriff Bob Widdowfield and the hanging of "Dutch Charley" Burris and George "Big Nose" Parrott in Rawlins in 1879 and 1881. The collection also contains the records of the Carbon State Bank, the First National Bank of Hanna, the Hanna State & Savings Bank, the Carbon Timber Company, the Wyoming Timber Company, the Intermountain Telephone Company and a small amount of material relating to the Quealy Land and Livestock Company, the Wyoming Timber Lands Company and the Megeath Coal Company, and includes correspondence, minutes, financial reports, blueprints and maps which document Williamson's involvement in the timber, banking and land development industries of Albany and Carbon County, Wyoming. There is also a small amount of material relating to the Southeastern Wyoming Clearing House Association, a professional banking association, and to R.R. Crow & Company, another tie cutting business that worked with Wyoming Timber Company.

10.2 cubic ft. (16 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7338972

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Wyoming Timber Company.

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Milliken, John.

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R.R. Crow & Company.

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Union Pacific railroad company

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Served Oklahoma and other Western states. From the description of Union Pacific collection, 1930-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70972329 The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such...

Burris, Charley.

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Widdowfield, Robert.

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First National Bank of Hanna.

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Intermountain Telephone Company.

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Parrott, George L.

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Williamson, C. D. (Carlyle Dougan), 1886-1959.

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Carlyle Dougan Williamson (1886-1959) was born in Leadville, Colorado, and became a cashier at Carbon State Bank in Hanna, Wyoming in 1909 and later was president from 1930 to 1955. The bank was reorganized into the First National Bank of Hanna in 1920 and again in 1927 to the Hanna State & Savings Bank. In 1916 Williamson became affiliated with P.J. Quealy, the receiver of the Carbon Timber Company which conducted logging and tie cutting operations in Carbon and Alb...

Quealy Land and Livestock Company.

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Hanna State & Savings Bank.

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Megeath Coal Company

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United States. Forest Service

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The evolution of the USDA Forest Service is rooted in the General Provision Act of l89l in which Congress authorized the President to designate particular areas of the forested public domain to be set aside as "reserves" for future use. The number and size of these reserves increased notably in l897 when the President was authorized to establish reserves in order to protect watersheds, to preserve timber, and to provide lumber for local use. There was no provision for management or...

Carbon State Bank.

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Wyoming Timber Lands Company.

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Carbon Timber Company.

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Southeastern Wyoming Clearing House Association.

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