CURTIS PARK TEMPLIN.

CURTIS PARK TEMPLIN.
A most prominent and representative business man of Wyoming is Curtis Park Templin, who is manager of the Swan Land & Cattle Company, Limited, in which connection he makes his headquarters at Chugwater. His life history had its beginning at Palmer, Nebraska, on the 11th of February, 1884. His parents were Andrew M. and Elizabeth Linton (Park) Templin. The father, removing to the west, took up the first homestead in the Grand Island district of Nebraska. He had originally lived in Ohio, but became a well known, leading and influential resident of Nebraska, taking active and helpful part in bringing about its present-day progress and improvement. His wife died in the year 1909. In the family were two sons and two daughters. Curtis Park Templin, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the public schools of Palmer, Nebraska, and in the high school of Lincoln, Nebraska, where he also attended the Lincoln Business College, being graduated from the latter institution. He was reared to farm life upon the old family homestead and early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He remained on the home farm until he reached the age of seventeen years, when he went east and for three years was engaged in the shipping and selling of horses and cattle in Ohio, in West Virginia, and in the state of New York. He thus devoted much time to selling horses under his father’s direction, and spent most of his time between Montana, Wyoming and the Empire state, making his headquarters at Syracuse, New York. During the years 1903 and 1904 he spent a year at Cody, Wyoming, as freight and warehouse man for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, at which time Cody, a busy pioneer town, was an important shipping point. During 1904 he engaged in the horse business in connection with James V. Murphy, under the firm style of Murphy & Templin, in Syracuse, New York. In the fall of 1905 he spent a short time at the Palmer State Bank in his home town, Palmer, Nebraska. In this, his first banking experience, he was tutored by Harry J. Templin, the cashier of this bank, which is a part of the organization of banks controlled by Clay, Robinson & Company, livestock commission merchants of Chicago. In the fall of this same year he was sent to the office of John Clay & Company of Chicago as bookkeeper, and there remained until the fall of 1906. He was then transferred to their principal bank, the Stock Growers National Bank of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and there continued as bookkeeper, teller and assistant cashier, finally succeeding W. L. Whipple in the position of cashier in 1913. He continued to act in this capacity until March 1, 1915, when he was transferred to the position of assistant manager of the Swan Land & Cattle Company, Limited, with headquarters at Chugwater, Wyoming. On the 1st of May, 1915, he was advanced to his present position of manager of the company, and in this capacity he also has general charge of the Swan Mercantile Store, and was appointed vice president of the Chugwater Valley Bank, which is also under his supervision. The Swan Land & Cattle Company, Limited, is one of the oldest companies of the kind operating in the state and is perhaps the largest of the ranch outfits. The business was established in Laramie county, now Platte county, in the early ’80s, at which time the company handled only cattle and horses, but of later years they have had a fewer number of cattle upon their ranches and range, while their flocks of sheep have greatly increased, and they are today among the most important of the sheep growers of this section of the country. In fact, they perhaps rank as the largest wool growing company in the state. The company also has very extensive land holdings in Platte, Goshen, Albany and Carbon counties, their total acreage amounting to three hundred and ten thousand acres. As general manager of their business, Mr. Templin thus has very extensive and important interests under his control. He is thoroughly adequate to the demands made upon him, however, for he is a man of resourceful business ability, of marked enterprise, of keen sagacity and sound judgment. On the 1st of September, 1915, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Mr. Templin was united in marriage to Lillian Francis Friebe, of Denver. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the consistory and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Elks lodge at Cheyenne, but all these interests are subservient to his business duties and activities, and it has been by reason of his close application, his persistency of purpose and his unfaltering enterprise that he has advanced step by step from a humble position in the business world to the place which he now occupies as one of the foremost representatives of live stock raising in the state.

A most prominent and representative business man of Wyoming is Curtis Park Templin, who is manager of the Swan Land & Cattle Company, Limited, in which connection he makes his headquarters at Chugwater. His life history had its beginning at Palmer, Nebraska, on the 11th of February, 1884. His parents were Andrew M. and Elizabeth Linton (Park) Templin. The father, removing to the west, took up the first homestead in the Grand Island district of Nebraska. He had originally lived in Ohio, but became a well known, leading and influential resident of Nebraska, taking active and helpful part in bringing about its present-day progress and improvement. His wife died in the year 1909. In the family were two sons and two daughters.
Curtis Park Templin, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the public schools of Palmer, Nebraska, and in the high school of Lincoln, Nebraska, where he also attended the Lincoln Business College, being graduated from the latter institution. He was reared to farm life upon the old family homestead and early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He remained on the home farm until he reached the age of seventeen years, when he went east and for three years was engaged in the shipping and selling of horses and cattle in Ohio, in West Virginia, and in the state of New York. He thus devoted much time to selling horses under his father’s direction, and spent most of his time between Montana, Wyoming and the Empire state, making his headquarters at Syracuse, New York. During the years 1903 and 1904 he spent a year at Cody, Wyoming, as freight and warehouse man for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, at which time Cody, a busy pioneer town, was an important shipping point. During 1904 he engaged in the horse business in connection with James V. Murphy, under the firm style of Murphy & Templin, in Syracuse, New York. In the fall of 1905 he spent a short time at the Palmer State Bank in his home town, Palmer, Nebraska. In this, his first banking experience, he was tutored by Harry J. Templin, the cashier of this bank, which is a part of the organization of banks controlled by Clay, Robinson & Company, livestock commission merchants of Chicago. In the fall of this same year he was sent to the office of John Clay & Company of Chicago as bookkeeper, and there remained until the fall of 1906. He was then transferred to their principal bank, the Stock Growers National Bank of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and there continued as bookkeeper, teller and assistant cashier, finally succeeding W. L. Whipple in the position of cashier in 1913. He continued to act in this capacity until March 1, 1915, when he was transferred to the position of assistant manager of the Swan Land & Cattle Company, Limited, with headquarters at Chugwater, Wyoming. On the 1st of May, 1915, he was advanced to his present position of manager of the company, and in this capacity he also has general charge of the Swan Mercantile Store, and was appointed vice president of the Chugwater Valley Bank, which is also under his supervision.
The Swan Land & Cattle Company, Limited, is one of the oldest companies of the kind operating in the state and is perhaps the largest of the ranch outfits. The business was established in Laramie county, now Platte county, in the early ’80s, at which time the company handled only cattle and horses, but of later years they have had a fewer number of cattle upon their ranches and range, while their flocks of sheep have greatly increased, and they are today among the most important of the sheep growers of this section of the country. In fact, they perhaps rank as the largest wool growing company in the state. The company also has very extensive land holdings in Platte, Goshen, Albany and Carbon counties, their total acreage amounting to three hundred and ten thousand acres. As general manager of their business, Mr. Templin thus has very extensive and important interests under his control. He is thoroughly adequate to the demands made upon him, however, for he is a man of resourceful business ability, of marked enterprise, of keen sagacity and sound judgment.
On the 1st of September, 1915, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Mr. Templin was united in marriage to Lillian Francis Friebe, of Denver. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the consistory and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Elks lodge at Cheyenne, but all these interests are subservient to his business duties and activities, and it has been by reason of his close application, his persistency of purpose and his unfaltering enterprise that he has advanced step by step from a humble position in the business world to the place which he now occupies as one of the foremost representatives of live stock raising in the state.