WILFRID O'LEARY.
  
WILFRID O'LEARY.
Wilfrid O'Leary, deputy attorney general of Wyoming and a valued resident of Cheyenne, has advanced through the steps of an orderly progression to his present position, which is indicative of his high standing at the bar. He was born in New York city on the 12th of October, 1874, and is a son of Cornelius M. and Margaret (Corrigan) O'Leary. The father was professor of Latin and Greek in Manhattan College of New York and was a man of scholarly attainments who made valuable contribution to educational work in the east. Both he and his wife have passed away.
Wilfrid O'Leary pursued his education in private schools, attending the Clason Point Military Academy of Westchester, New York, while later he attended Manhattan College. He enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war and was connected with the army for seven and a half months as a member of Company F, Eighth New York Volunteer Infantry. When the country no longer needed his military aid he spent six months in travel as the representative of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank of New York. He then entered upon the study of law and spent three years in the Chattanooga University Law School, pursuing a complete course. He was there graduated with the LL. B. degree in the class of I902 and he first located for practice in Chattanooga, where he remained for one year, and at the same time he was employed as a reporter on the Chattanooga Times. Subsequently he returned to New York, where .he spent his time in a law office until his removal to Wyoming in the early part of 1907. Here he entered upon the private practice of his profession, in which he has since continued, while at the same time he has done considerable important public work in the line of his profession. He served as assistant county attorney in 1910 and 1911 and in 1914 and 1915 was police justice of Cheyenne. In 1916 he was appointed to his present position as deputy attorney general and is now largely concentrating his efforts and attention upon his official duties. He has ever been thorough and painstaking in the preparation of his cases and in presenting a cause he is clear and logical, his deductions being based upon sound reasoning and a thorough understanding of every detail of his cases.
On the 19th of July, 1904, Mr. O'Leary was, married to Miss Louise Schmetzer and they have become parents of two children, Louise M. and Ella Marie.
Mr. O'Leary is a Catholic in religious faith. Politically he is a democrat and has been one of the active workers of the party in Wyoming for a number of years, serving at the present time as secretary of the democratic state central committee. He is also chairman of the city central committee and for one year was chairman of the county central committee. He belongs to the Spanish-American War Veterans and is a member of the American Legion. He has served as major in the National Guard in the department of the judge advocate general and he has been a member of the state military board. He is much interested in military affairs and he stands for thorough organization in that direction.