ADDISON AUGUSTUS SPAUGH.

ADDISON AUGUSTUS SPAUGH.
Addison Augustus Spaugh, of Cheyenne, has for many years been a most prominent and active citizen of Wyoming. He was long identified with the cattle and sheep industries when the stock ranged over the country and he is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the banking business as president of the Citizens' Bank of Cheyenne and of various other banks in this section of the state. He is likewise well known as the state humane officer. A native of Indiana, Mr. Spaugh was born in the town of Hope, April 25, 1857, a son of Edward and Martha (Casteel) Spaugh. His father's ancestors, originally from Germany, were among the earliest settlers in North America, taking up their abode in what has since become the state of South Carolina. In the maternal line A. A. Spaugh comes from Spanish ancestry, the first of the family being an exile from Spain who was driven from that country for preaching the Christian religion and who became one of the earliest colonists of the new world, he, too, settling in what is now South Carolina. Later both families became represented in North Carolina and from that state removed to Indiana. casting in their lot with pioneer settlers of the middle west. In 1867 Edward Spaugh removed with his family to Kansas. Addison A. Spaugh was at that time a little lad of ten years. He acquired his education in the common schools of Kansas, for there were no high schools or colleges in the state at that time. He removed from Kansas to Texas in 1869. when a boy of but twelve years, and in 1874, when a youth of seventeen, came to Wyoming with a herd of cattle from Texas, delivering the cattle to the Red Cloud Agency near Fort Laramie. He remained a cowboy on the trail between Texas and Wyoming, making annual trips between 1874 and 1877, at which time he became employed on the old J H D ranch on Horse creek, thirty-five miles north of Cheyenne. which at that time belonged to John H. and Thomas F. Durbin, brothers, the latter still a resident of Cheyenne. In 1879 he took charge of a cattle ranch for Manville & Peck seven miles west of the old Hat Creek stage station. one hundred and sixty-five miles north of Cheyenne. In 188o the Converse Cattle Company was organized and A. R. Converse, the first president of the First National Bank of Cheyenne, became the president of the cattle company, with H. S. Manville as general manager, James S. Peck. secretary and treasurer and Mr. Spaugh in charge of the outfit. Besides being made foreman and range manager he was sold an interest in the business, which he continued to manage until 1885. He then disposed of his stock in that company in order to engage in the cattle business on his own account. He located on land at the head of Running Water, taking what was then known as a preemption and later a homestead where the town of Manville now stands. The following year the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built its line up Running Water and over to the Platte river. The company established a town, asking Mr. Spaugh to name it, which he did, calling it Manville in honor of H. S. Manville, the much beloved general manager of the Converse Cattle Company. He also had the honor of being instrumental, if not having the privilege entirely, of naming Converse county after the equally beloved president of the Converse Cattle Company. At the time of the organization of the county Mr. Spaugh went to T. B. Hicks, who at that time was president of the First National Bank of Cheyenne, and told him that he would like to have the county named after Mr. Converse. Mr. Hicks took up the matter and Mr. Spaugh's request was complied with. There was big money in the cattle business in those days and Mr. Spaugh's business grew rapidly, but he had the settlement to contend with, the settlement that always follows a new railroad. All of the land around Manville was taken up by the settlers and back from the town the creek land was all soon occupied. The settlers remained until the widespread financial panic of 1893 and most of them had title to their land and were willing to part with it for whatever they could get. Mr. Spaugh paid one hundred dollars for a quarter section of land and bought out the settlers along the streams both north and south of Manville for as much as five miles in a single day. T. B. Hoard was one of his strong competitors for the land, having secured some fine holdings, but about 1898 Mr. Spaugh purchased the famous 77 and Horseshoe ranches on Lance creek, for which he paid sixteen thousand dollars, or what seemed an enormous price at that time, but ten years later he sold the property for ninety-six thousand dollars. The first big cattle deal which he ever put through occurred about a year or two after he purchased the 77 ranch, when he purchased from McPherson & Hyshem twenty-five hundred and twenty cows and calves which they had purchased from the Ogallala Cattle Company. Mr. Spaugh's cattle business grew rapidly and he more and more largely concentrated his attention upon the raising of steers. About 1902 he found himself in possession of over twenty thousand head of cattle, most of which were steers. This was about the time that ranchmen and their bankers, especially the bankers, evolved the idea of keeping their cattle all under fence and Mr. Spaugh had at one time over one million, five hundred thousand acres under fence, but the sheep crowded into his pastures and onto his range and forced him out of the cattle business, so that from 1902 until 1904 he sold his cattle on the lowest market the cattle business ever saw. In 1902 he bought out a large sheep ranch that was causing him much trouble, it being purchased from Blaine Brothers, who were also hard competitors for the lands offered for sale. Mr. Spaugh disliked the idea of the sheep business, as most cattlemen did at that time, but his attorney advised him that it would be cheaper to buy the Blaine Brothers out rather than to undertake to establish business in other ways. The sheep made money and compensated him for his losses in the cattle business. He had as many as thirty thousand head of sheep at one time. He continued in the sheep industry and also handled some cattle until 1916, when he sold out his sheep interests, as the settlers were crowding him off the range and were coming too thick and fast for him to undertake to buy them out. In the year 1917, therefore, he closed out his cattle business and turned his attention to banking. He had already been interested in a small bank at Manville for a decade and in 1917 he became an important factor in banking circles in his section of the state. In March of that year he organized the Bank of Keeline at Keeline, Wyoming, in June organized the Bank of Glenrock at Glenrock, and in August organized the First State Bank of Cheyenne, while in September he purchased the Citizens' National Bank of Cheyenne and in October purchased the Commercial Bank and Company of Douglas. He is president of all of these and owns a majority of the stock in each. On the 5th of January, 1886, in Rochester, New York, Mr. Spaugh was united in marriage to Miss Estella Roseltha Bailey, a daughter of S. L. Bailey, who, in partnership with Robert Seaman, of New York, built the great Wyoming smelter at Silver Cliff near where the town of Lusk now stands, and it was at this mining camp that Mr. Spaugh first met the lady who afterward became his wife. She lived for only two and a half years after their marriage and passed away in Salt Lake City, June 20, 1888, Mr. Spaugh having taken her there for the benefit of her health. On the 10th of February, 1909, he wedded Mary Ella Kern, of Manville, a daughter of the Rev. J. Kern, formerly of the central Illinois conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a sister-in-law of J. A. Manorgan, a prominent merchant and banker of Manville. In politics Mr. Spaugh has always been a republican and he served in 1907 as a member of the state legislature. He was also at one time a candidate for probate judge of Converse county on the republican ticket. Fraternally he is connected with Ashlar Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of Douglas, Wyoming; Wyoming Commandery, No. 1, K. T.; Wyoming Consistory, No. 1, S. P. R. S.; and Korein Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., of Rawlins. He likewise belongs to the Elks lodge at Cheyenne, the Modern Woodmen of America at Manville and the Eastern Star at Lusk. He was for many years a member of the Cheyenne Club and, associated with T. B. Hicks, he kept the club open for many years after the palmy days of the cattle business had ended. 'He was foreman of the famous "round-up of 1884," where there were over four hundred men and four thousand saddle horses. This was held at the old Hat Creek station, in what is now known as Niobrara county, on which occasion W. C. Irvine, John B. Kendrick, J. W. Hammond and Harry Crane were present. For ten years Mr. Spaugh has been a director in the Methodist church of Manville and throughout the greater part of his life he has been a member of the Manville school board and has taken deep pride in the advancement of the schools and the development of the educational interests of the district. He is now state humane officer. There is no phase of the development of this section of Wyoming with which Mr. Spaugh is not thoroughly familiar and he has figured most prominently in connection with its public interests and has left and is leaving the impress of his individuality upon its history in many ways.

Addison Augustus Spaugh, of Cheyenne, has for many years been a most prominent and active citizen of Wyoming. He was long identified with the cattle and sheep industries when the stock ranged over the country and he is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the banking business as president of the Citizens' Bank of Cheyenne and of various other banks in this section of the state. He is likewise well known as the state humane officer.
A native of Indiana, Mr. Spaugh was born in the town of Hope, April 25, 1857, a son of Edward and Martha (Casteel) Spaugh. His father's ancestors, originally from Germany, were among the earliest settlers in North America, taking up their abode in what has since become the state of South Carolina. In the maternal line A. A. Spaugh comes from Spanish ancestry, the first of the family being an exile from Spain who was driven from that country for preaching the Christian religion and who became one of the earliest colonists of the new world, he, too, settling in what is now South Carolina. Later both families became represented in North Carolina and from that state removed to Indiana. casting in their lot with pioneer settlers of the middle west. In 1867 Edward Spaugh removed with his family to Kansas.
Addison A. Spaugh was at that time a little lad of ten years. He acquired his education in the common schools of Kansas, for there were no high schools or colleges in the state at that time. He removed from Kansas to Texas in 1869. when a boy of but twelve years, and in 1874, when a youth of seventeen, came to Wyoming with a herd of cattle from Texas, delivering the cattle to the Red Cloud Agency near Fort Laramie. He remained a cowboy on the trail between Texas and Wyoming, making annual trips between 1874 and 1877, at which time he became employed on the old J H D ranch on Horse creek, thirty-five miles north of Cheyenne. which at that time belonged to John H. and Thomas F. Durbin, brothers, the latter still a resident of Cheyenne. In 1879 he took charge of a cattle ranch for Manville & Peck seven miles west of the old Hat Creek stage station. one hundred and sixty-five miles north of Cheyenne. In 188o the Converse Cattle Company was organized and A. R. Converse, the first president of the First National Bank of Cheyenne, became the president of the cattle company, with H. S. Manville as general manager, James S. Peck. secretary and treasurer and Mr. Spaugh in charge of the outfit. Besides being made foreman and range manager he was sold an interest in the business, which he continued to manage until 1885. He then disposed of his stock in that company in order to engage in the cattle business on his own account. He located on land at the head of Running Water, taking what was then known as a preemption and later a homestead where the town of Manville now stands. The following year the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built its line up Running Water and over to the Platte river. The company established a town, asking Mr. Spaugh to name it, which he did, calling it Manville in honor of H. S. Manville, the much beloved general manager of the Converse Cattle Company. He also had the honor of being instrumental, if not having the privilege entirely, of naming Converse county after the equally beloved president of the Converse Cattle Company. At the time of the organization of the county Mr. Spaugh went to T. B. Hicks, who at that time was president of the First National Bank of Cheyenne, and told him that he would like to have the county named after Mr. Converse. Mr. Hicks took up the matter and Mr. Spaugh's request was complied with.
There was big money in the cattle business in those days and Mr. Spaugh's business grew rapidly, but he had the settlement to contend with, the settlement that always follows a new railroad. All of the land around Manville was taken up by the settlers and back from the town the creek land was all soon occupied. The settlers remained until the widespread financial panic of 1893 and most of them had title to their land and were willing to part with it for whatever they could get. Mr. Spaugh paid one hundred dollars for a quarter section of land and bought out the settlers along the streams both north and south of Manville for as much as five miles in a single day. T. B. Hoard was one of his strong competitors for the land, having secured some fine holdings, but about 1898 Mr. Spaugh purchased the famous 77 and Horseshoe ranches on Lance creek, for which he paid sixteen thousand dollars, or what seemed an enormous price at that time, but ten years later he sold the property for ninety-six thousand dollars. The first big cattle deal which he ever put through occurred about a year or two after he purchased the 77 ranch, when he purchased from McPherson & Hyshem twenty-five hundred and twenty cows and calves which they had purchased from the Ogallala Cattle Company. Mr. Spaugh's cattle business grew rapidly and he more and more largely concentrated his attention upon the raising of steers. About 1902 he found himself in possession of over twenty thousand head of cattle, most of which were steers. This was about the time that ranchmen and their bankers, especially the bankers, evolved the idea of keeping their cattle all under fence and Mr. Spaugh had at one time over one million, five hundred thousand acres under fence, but the sheep crowded into his pastures and onto his range and forced him out of the cattle business, so that from 1902 until 1904 he sold his cattle on the lowest market the cattle business ever saw. In 1902 he bought out a large sheep ranch that was causing him much trouble, it being purchased from Blaine Brothers, who were also hard competitors for the lands offered for sale. Mr. Spaugh disliked the idea of the sheep business, as most cattlemen did at that time, but his attorney advised him that it would be cheaper to buy the Blaine Brothers out rather than to undertake to establish business in other ways. The sheep made money and compensated him for his losses in the cattle business. He had as many as thirty thousand head of sheep at one time. He continued in the sheep industry and also handled some cattle until 1916, when he sold out his sheep interests, as the settlers were crowding him off the range and were coming too thick and fast for him to undertake to buy them out. In the year 1917, therefore, he closed out his cattle business and turned his attention to banking. He had already been interested in a small bank at Manville for a decade and in 1917 he became an important factor in banking circles in his section of the state. In March of that year he organized the Bank of Keeline at Keeline, Wyoming, in June organized the Bank of Glenrock at Glenrock, and in August organized the First State Bank of Cheyenne, while in September he purchased the Citizens' National Bank of Cheyenne and in October purchased the Commercial Bank and Company of Douglas. He is president of all of these and owns a majority of the stock in each.
On the 5th of January, 1886, in Rochester, New York, Mr. Spaugh was united in marriage to Miss Estella Roseltha Bailey, a daughter of S. L. Bailey, who, in partnership with Robert Seaman, of New York, built the great Wyoming smelter at Silver Cliff near where the town of Lusk now stands, and it was at this mining camp that Mr. Spaugh first met the lady who afterward became his wife. She lived for only two and a half years after their marriage and passed away in Salt Lake City, June 20, 1888, Mr. Spaugh having taken her there for the benefit of her health. On the 10th of February, 1909, he wedded Mary Ella Kern, of Manville, a daughter of the Rev. J. Kern, formerly of the central Illinois conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a sister-in-law of J. A. Manorgan, a prominent merchant and banker of Manville.
In politics Mr. Spaugh has always been a republican and he served in 1907 as a member of the state legislature. He was also at one time a candidate for probate judge of Converse county on the republican ticket. Fraternally he is connected with Ashlar Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of Douglas, Wyoming; Wyoming Commandery, No. 1, K. T.; Wyoming Consistory, No. 1, S. P. R. S.; and Korein Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., of Rawlins. He likewise belongs to the Elks lodge at Cheyenne, the Modern Woodmen of America at Manville and the Eastern Star at Lusk. He was for many years a member of the Cheyenne Club and, associated with T. B. Hicks, he kept the club open for many years after the palmy days of the cattle business had ended. 'He was foreman of the famous "round-up of 1884," where there were over four hundred men and four thousand saddle horses. This was held at the old Hat Creek station, in what is now known as Niobrara county, on which occasion W. C. Irvine, John B. Kendrick, J. W. Hammond and Harry Crane were present. For ten years Mr. Spaugh has been a director in the Methodist church of Manville and throughout the greater part of his life he has been a member of the Manville school board and has taken deep pride in the advancement of the schools and the development of the educational interests of the district. He is now state humane officer. There is no phase of the development of this section of Wyoming with which Mr. Spaugh is not thoroughly familiar and he has figured most prominently in connection with its public interests and has left and is leaving the impress of his individuality upon its history in many ways.