HORATIO BURNS.

HORATIO BURNS.
Horatio Burns is a leading and influential stock man of western Wyoming, now residing in Sheridan county. He was born in Delaware county, New York, April 8, 1860, so that almost the entire width of the continent separates him from his birthplace. His parents were William Yeoman and Dorothy (McMurray) Burns, who were likewise natives of the Empire state, where they spent their entire lives and reared their family of eleven children, five of whom are yet living. Horatio Burns was reared and educated in New York and in 1881 went to Kansas, where he was located for a brief period. In 1885 he arrived in Sheridan, Wyoming, and the following year purchased a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres. He afterward bought other land here and is now the owner of eighteen thousand acres, all of which is improved, and also four thousand eight hundred acres in Round Up, Montana. He has over three thousand head of cattle and twenty-five hundred head of sheep and is today one of the most prominent ranchmen and stock raisers in the state, his business affairs exceeding in volume and importance those of most of the stock raisers of Wyoming. He is likewise heavily interested in oil, having made extensive and judicious investments in oil lands, and the wisdom of his judgment is found in the success which is attending his efforts in this direction. In 1886 Mr. Burns was united in marriage to Miss Clara Cubbison, a native of Indiana and a daughter of John W. and Nancy (Sanders) Cubbison, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born in Indiana. Her father has now passed away, but the mother is still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Burns were born five children: William John, who died in infancy ; Nancy Pearl, who is a high school graduate and attended college, while later she became a student in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and for two years studied in the Boston School of Fine Arts and for one year in a dramatic school of New York city; Dorothy McMurray, who is a graduate of Rogers Hall and devoted two years to musical study in Boston, being now a well known vocalist ; Ruth Claire, who is a high school pupil; and Robert H. Mrs. Burns and the children are members of the Congregational church, and fraternally Mr. Burns is connected with the Elks. Politically he is a democrat and has served as a member of the city council of Sheridan. A self-made man, he has builded wisely and well, and as the architect of his own fortunes has so developed his interests that he is today one of the most prominent and successful ranchmen and stock raisers of the state. His life record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do. He is a man of marked enterprise, diligent and determined, and will allow no obstacle to bar his path if it can be overcome by persistent and honorable effort.

Horatio Burns is a leading and influential stock man of western Wyoming, now residing in Sheridan county. He was born in Delaware county, New York, April 8, 1860, so that almost the entire width of the continent separates him from his birthplace. His parents were William Yeoman and Dorothy (McMurray) Burns, who were likewise natives of the Empire state, where they spent their entire lives and reared their family of eleven children, five of whom are yet living.
Horatio Burns was reared and educated in New York and in 1881 went to Kansas, where he was located for a brief period. In 1885 he arrived in Sheridan, Wyoming, and the following year purchased a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres. He afterward bought other land here and is now the owner of eighteen thousand acres, all of which is improved, and also four thousand eight hundred acres in Round Up, Montana. He has over three thousand head of cattle and twenty-five hundred head of sheep and is today one of the most prominent ranchmen and stock raisers in the state, his business affairs exceeding in volume and importance those of most of the stock raisers of Wyoming. He is likewise heavily interested in oil, having made extensive and judicious investments in oil lands, and the wisdom of his judgment is found in the success which is attending his efforts in this direction.
In 1886 Mr. Burns was united in marriage to Miss Clara Cubbison, a native of Indiana and a daughter of John W. and Nancy (Sanders) Cubbison, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born in Indiana. Her father has now passed away, but the mother is still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Burns were born five children: William John, who died in infancy ; Nancy Pearl, who is a high school graduate and attended college, while later she became a student in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and for two years studied in the Boston School of Fine Arts and for one year in a dramatic school of New York city; Dorothy McMurray, who is a graduate of Rogers Hall and devoted two years to musical study in Boston, being now a well known vocalist ; Ruth Claire, who is a high school pupil; and Robert H. Mrs. Burns and the children are members of the Congregational church, and fraternally Mr. Burns is connected with the Elks.
Politically he is a democrat and has served as a member of the city council of Sheridan. A self-made man, he has builded wisely and well, and as the architect of his own fortunes has so developed his interests that he is today one of the most prominent and successful ranchmen and stock raisers of the state. His life record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do. He is a man of marked enterprise, diligent and determined, and will allow no obstacle to bar his path if it can be overcome by persistent and honorable effort.