William A. Richards family papers, 1870-1965.

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William A. Richards family papers, 1870-1965.

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Collection contains 7 letters to Richard's cousin John T. Richards (1876-1912); 5 letters from Theodore Roosevelt; a journal kept while in California and in Colorado Springs (1879-1881); speeches (1899); maps and certificates; materials relating to the opening of land in Oklahoma for settlement, which Richards oversaw (1901); photographs (1874-1876,1989-1905); a 25 page typescript manuscript on the creation of Wyoming's constitution by W.E. Chaplin, who was a member of the committee which formulated the constitution in 1889; and miscellaneous other materials. The collection also includes genealogical research conducted by Richards' daughter Alice Richards McCreery (1876-1967) on the extended Richards family (1870-1965); Alice's reminiscences and journals (1933-1961); materials relating to her trip to Yellowstone National Park in 1898; and correspondence (1896-1899, 1954-1956) with a Leo F. Nohl, whom she had met at a Young People's Baptist convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1896.

1.57 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7348458

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Richards family.

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Nohl, Leo F.

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Richards, William A. (William Alford), 1849-1912

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Richards (1849-1912) was born in Wisconsin and worked as a surveyor in Nebraska from 1869 to 1873 before surveying the southern and western boundaries of Wyoming territory from 1873 to 1874 with his brother Alonzo. He worked as a surveyor in Santa Clara County, California from 1876 to 1880 before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado to recover from tuberculosis. He homesteaded in Johnson County, Wyoming (now Washakie County)in 1885. From 1889 to 1893 Richards was surveyor general for Wyoming and...

Richards, John T., approximately 1842-

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

McCreery, Alice Richards, 1876-1967.

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Wyoming. Governor (1895-1899 : Richards)

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Chaplin, W. E. (William Edwards), 1860-1948

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Chaplin was born in Nebraska in 1860 and moved with his family to Laramie, Wyoming, in 1873. He soon began working in the newspaper plant of the Laramie "Independent." In 1881 he was one of the original stockholders of the "Boomerang." He retained interest in the "Boomerang" until 1890 and, when it was sold in, he founded the Laramie "Republican," which he edited the until 1920. Chaplin was one of the members of the Wyoming Constitutional Conventionin 1889 and was Secretary of State of Wyoming f...