COUNTY HISTORY
 
Prospector Harry S. Yount filed on 140 acres ( lying just south of the Marble Quarry site patent him March 1, 1892

. He  apparently staked the territorY. County Official County Officials-from records in the County Clerk's Office and the Wyoming Historical Blue Book.

You will find the office, date name and address

                 Board of County Commissioners:
1913-14: W. H. Ralston, M. F. Coleman, Lee Moore 1915-16: Wm. L. Ayers,

U. S. Jones, M. F. Coleman 1917-18: Geo
. S. Martin, A. E. Hoffman, Wm. L. Ayers 1919-20: Wm. L. Ayers, U. S. Jones, Geo. S. Martin 1921-22: Wm. L Ayers, Wayne
 C. Cave, Irving C. Dumm 1923-24: W. H. Ralston, Wayne C. Cave, Christian Hauf 1925-28: A. L. Hoffman, W. H. Ralston
, C. Hauf 1929-30: M. A. Thrasher, C. Hauf, D. P. Grant 1931-32: D. P. Grant, M. A. Thrasher, Grover Thompson 1933-34
: D. P. Grant, M. A. Thrasher, Claude Adams 1935-36: Claude Adams, W. H. Preuit, Geo. S. Martin 1937-38: Geo. S. Martin, W. H. Preuit
, Ben Cossman 1939-42: A. D. Persson, Ben D. Cossman, G

eo. S. Martin 1943-46: Burton Hinds, Geo. S. Martin, S. R. Mills 1947-49: H.
Chas. Peek, Burton Hinds, Geo. S. Martin 1949-50: Ray Cundall, Burton Hinds, Geo. S. Martin 1950-51: A. E. Hoffman, Geo. S. Martin, Ray
Cundall 1952-53: Ralph Allison, Ray Cundall, A. E. Hoffman 1954-55: Robert S. Trenholm, John Ballard, Ralph Allison 1956-59: C. H. (Charles)

Lamb, Ralph Allison, Robert S. Trenholm 1960-61: S. R. Mills, C. H. Lamb, Robert S. Trenholm 1962-64: C. H. Lamb, Ray Howard, S. R. Mills,
Rob't. S. Trenholm 1965-66: Geo. R. Mitchell, Robert S. Trenholm, Ray Howard, John T. Mylet
1967-70: Geo. R. Mitchell, John T. Mylet, D. W. Hopkins 1971-74: Jim P. Hughes, John T. Mylet, Geo. R. Mitchell 1975-76:
Geo. R. Mitchell, Melvin T. Havely, Jim P. Hughes 1977-78: Don Olson, Melvin T. Havely, Jim P. Hughes 1979 — : Earnest Rhoades, Don Olson, Jim P. Hughes.
 

                                 County Attorney:
1913-14: C. A. Paige 1915-16: C. P. Plummer 1917-18: C. A. Paige 1919-1920: Jesse E. Jacobsen 1921-22: Fred A. Lynch 1923-24: C. A. Paige
1925-32: O. O. Natwick 1933-50: W. B. Jones 1951-58: M. R. Foe 1959-62: Wm R. Jones 1963-66: M. R. Foe 1967-71: D. N. Sherard 1972-74:
 Frank J. Jones 1975-76: Fred W. Phifer 1979 — : Bryan Sharratt.
County Assessor:
1913-14: C. W. Crouter 1915-16: J. A. Streed 1917-18: C. W. Crouter 1919-22: R. F. Paxton 1923-28: J. A. Streed 1929-45: Orvell Bridgmon
1946 — : Doyle Hutchinson.
Clerk of the Court:
1913-14: Geo. D. McDougall (Ex-off) 1915-16: Bessie Fitz (Ex-off) 1917-20: H. C. Corbridge 1921-26: W. B. Jones 1927-30: Electa D. Paige
1931-58: C. E. Artist 1959 — : Laurence Swallow.
County Clerk:
1913-14: Geo. D. McDougall 1915-18: Bessie Fitz 1919-20: Margeret Dillon 1921-22: Paul Shetler 1923-40: N. F. Hester 1941-62: Lyle B.
Clay 1963: Frieda B. Chase 1963 — : D. K. Purcell

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                            County Constable:
 1913-16: Wm. C. Edwards 1917-22: Arthur Rugg
 
                            County Coroner
1913-14: D. B. Rigdon 1915-18: Erie H. Corry 1919-& ft . McCallum  1921-22: Harry H. Pepper  1923-28   N  J   H   U 1929-30:
 H. G. Watson 1931-32: G. B. Richards 1933-3* *m-Payne 1937-42: C. Stewart Dennis 1943-45: Doyle R 1946-76: Ted Schrader 1976 —
 : Harley PreH.
County Sheriff:
1913-14: Owen Carroll 1915-20: A. S. Roach 1921-22 1923-26: Geo. C. Burckhalter 1927-30: George Wam *-*•-;_ White 1933
-38: Joe Wickam 1939-68: W. I. Sutherland 19c» -    . Mickelsen.
County Superintendent of Schools:
1913-16: Mary Maloney 1917-18: Winifred Banner 1919-2* fcw Hawes 1925-34: Corrie A. Douglass 1935-70: Florence £   -1971
 office discontinued by State Statute.
County Surveyor:
1913-14: Joseph Elliott 1915-22: J. A. Cole 1923-26- J C «J 1927-28: J. A. Cole 1929-34: A. B. Bartlett 1935-36:t . 1937-38:
A.  B.  Bartlett 1939-64: J. A. Cole  1965-78   4 Kennedy 1979 J. Kenneth Kennedy, Surveyor and
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                     County Treasurer:
1913-16: Guy Agnew 1917-18: A. G. Schwartz 1919-29- V
 
Moffat 1921-24: Gale Lewis 1925-28: H. B. Bellis
 
 Ralph Lambert Ryff 1951-58: Lowell Oar*  ■* Barbara Wallenburn 1963-66: Delbert D. Wiggam 1967-77 «4 Hopkins 1977 Betty Dunham.
Justice of the Peace:
1913-26: F. E. Scheie 1927-28: O. R. Henke, F. E. Seta* 1 C. E. Artist 1931-32: Chas. Bohnke 1933-34: P. A. Shop* t P. A. Shope,
 
 Ernest Adams, Charles A. DeSchenka. J  E. I 1937-38: P. A. Shope, Zenas W. Kinch, Ernest Adams.
 
 R L 1939-40: P. A. Shope, Zenas W. Kinch, Ernest Adams. R L. George DeTilla 1940: O. J. Leech 1941: J. E. Rebillet *9< A. Shope
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 Lester Robertson, R. L. Staats, Leonard Or- -« R. L. Thomas 1946: A. S. Illig, O. W. Plaga 1947-48   . J. R. Duncan 1950: F. S. Mitchel
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1951: C. M. Morgan, W  . 1952: L. J. Belt, E. E. Ragan 1953-64: L. J. Belt 1965-72 \ Mills 1965—: Fred W. Berry 1971 —
 
 Betty Amick 1972 — Torre



G. H. Hutton, an old timer of Laramie died Saturday aged 62 of paralysis, following a recent attack of pneumonia.  Deceased was a prominent stock and ranch owner and had been in the west for thirty five years, coming in 1863 to help build the telegraph line from the Missouri river .  Wyoming Press November 4, 1899
Marie Miller

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