HENRY NEAL ROACH.

HENRY NEAL ROACH.
Henry Neal Roach, engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Laramie, was born in New York city, October 22, 1876. His father, the late Henry Neal Roach, was a native of Washington, D. C., and a descendant of one of the old families of the national capital, of Irish and English lineage. Henry N. Roach, Sr., during the period of his residence in New York city was the publisher of a financial journal on Wall street. He became a pioneer settler of Wyoming and later returned east and died in New York City. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Etta M. Owen, was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, whose people were pioneers of Utah and Wyoming, traveling overland by wagon prior to the building of railroads through the west. Mrs. Roach is still living and makes her home in Laramie. By her marriage she became the mother of two children: Henry Neal, of this review; and Katie Lee, who is the widow of John T. Peckenpaugh. Henry Neal Roach, whose name introduces this record, was educated in the public and high schools and in the University of Wyoming. In his boyhood he took up the task of providing for his own support after leaving the university and for ten years followed civil engineering in this state. On the expiration of that period he entered the real estate and fire insurance business and has since given his attention to that line of activity and has at the same time engaged in ranching. He has further broadened the scope of his interests by becoming a director of the First State Bank of Laramie. In a word, he is a wideawake and progressive business man, forceful and resourceful, alert and enterprising. He thoroughly masters whatever he undertakes and his close application and persistency of purpose are salient features in his growing success. On the 6th of December, 1905, Mr. Roach was united in marriage to Miss Hilda Helen Durlocker, a native of Laramie and a daughter of Simon and Hannah Durlocker, who were among the first settlers of Laramie. Her father is deceased but her mother still resides in Laramie. In politics Mr. Roach is a republican, giving stalwart support to the party. He served as county surveyor of Albany county in 1902 and after completing his first term was reelected for a second term, so that he continued in the position for four years, making an excellent record by the prompt and capable manner in which he discharged his duties. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His military record covers service under Captain John D. O’Brien in the Spanish-American war and he now has membership with the United Spanish War Veterans. He is widely and favorably known. His entire life has been passed in Wyoming and he has been a witness of its growth and development for forty-one years, rejoicing in what has been accomplished in the way of improvements in the state and cooperating in many plans and movements which have been of value. That his life has been well spent is indicated in the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood to the present time.

Henry Neal Roach, engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Laramie, was born in New York city, October 22, 1876. His father, the late Henry Neal Roach, was a native of Washington, D. C., and a descendant of one of the old families of the national capital, of Irish and English lineage. Henry N. Roach, Sr., during the period of his residence in New York city was the publisher of a financial journal on Wall street. He became a pioneer settler of Wyoming and later returned east and died in New York City. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Etta M. Owen, was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, whose people were pioneers of Utah and Wyoming, traveling overland by wagon prior to the building of railroads through the west. Mrs. Roach is still living and makes her home in Laramie. By her marriage she became the mother of two children: Henry Neal, of this review; and Katie Lee, who is the widow of John T. Peckenpaugh.
Henry Neal Roach, whose name introduces this record, was educated in the public and high schools and in the University of Wyoming. In his boyhood he took up the task of providing for his own support after leaving the university and for ten years followed civil engineering in this state. On the expiration of that period he entered the real estate and fire insurance business and has since given his attention to that line of activity and has at the same time engaged in ranching. He has further broadened the scope of his interests by becoming a director of the First State Bank of Laramie. In a word, he is a wideawake and progressive business man, forceful and resourceful, alert and enterprising. He thoroughly masters whatever he undertakes and his close application and persistency of purpose are salient features in his growing success.
On the 6th of December, 1905, Mr. Roach was united in marriage to Miss Hilda Helen Durlocker, a native of Laramie and a daughter of Simon and Hannah Durlocker, who were among the first settlers of Laramie. Her father is deceased but her mother still resides in Laramie.
In politics Mr. Roach is a republican, giving stalwart support to the party. He served as county surveyor of Albany county in 1902 and after completing his first term was reelected for a second term, so that he continued in the position for four years, making an excellent record by the prompt and capable manner in which he discharged his duties. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His military record covers service under Captain John D. O’Brien in the Spanish-American war and he now has membership with the United Spanish War Veterans. He is widely and favorably known. His entire life has been passed in Wyoming and he has been a witness of its growth and development for forty-one years, rejoicing in what has been accomplished in the way of improvements in the state and cooperating in many plans and movements which have been of value. That his life has been well spent is indicated in the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood to the present time.