JAMES GADBY

This well known stockman and farmer, whose ranch is on Hilliard Flat, Uinta county, Wyoming, was born in Derbyshire, England, on May 11, 1843. a son of William and Sarah (Wells) Gadby, the former of whom was also a native of England, but the latter was a native of Wales.  William Gadby, the father of James, was a distinguished engineer in England, and his father, who was also named William, was in his day an astronomer of celebrity. James Gadby is the next to the eldest of eleven children born to his parents, of the other ten, James, the eldest, is deceased and William, who follows James in order of birth, is a resident of Illinois. The parents of this family both died in England. James Gadby, in whose interest this sketch is principally prepared, came to the United States in 1881 where he was employed in coal mining three years, when he returned to England and remained until 1886, then came back to America, located in Colorado and mined for some time, thence coming to Wyoming and for about eighteen months he mined at Rock Springs, Sweetwater county, and he then entered rural life on his present farm of 160 acres on Hilliard Flat, where he has since been engaged in both stock raising and farming. Mr. Gadby has been three times married. .His first venture on the matrimonial sea was made in England in 1868, when he chose for his companion on lifes voyage, Miss Alice Haynes, a daughter of William Haynes, but she was called from life when she was but thirty-nine years old, although she had then borne him eleven children, of whom but one is now living, Alice M., the wife of Herbert Brown of Evanston, Wyo. The second marriage took place in 1883 also in England, when Miss Kate Thomson became his wife. She died in Nottinghamshire, England, leaving no children. His third marriage to Ann Bates, a daughter of William and Sarah Bates, also took place in England. The present Mr. and Mrs. Gadby are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal church, to the support of which they liberally contribute and its pious teachings are daily manifested in their upright walk among their neighbors and their fellow citizens, by whom they are highly respected. Mr. Gadby possesses all the public spirit and independence of principle and sense of justice inherent in his race, and these have never been contaminated nor perverted by the mutations of time nor by the influence of the many classes of people it has been his fortune to have met. His integrity is inflexible and he is a good type of the industrious, sober yeomanry of England, improved and broadened by his wide connection with the affairs of both the old and the New World.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

JOB C. GOODMAN.

A native of Niagara county, N. Y., where he was born in 1852, his young life shadowed by the dark cloud of the Civil War, and removed from the home of his childhood to the wild West in his early youth, Job C. Goodman of Evanston, Wyoming, has seen much of change and adventure, and had opportunity to study mankind and human characteristics in many longitudes. His parents were Elias and Sarah (Cook) Goodman, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of the Mohawk Valley, N. Y. At the beginning of the Civil War the father enlisted in the .Union army as a member of the Seventeenth N. Y. Heavy Artillery in the ranks.  He saw active and arduous service, was a participant in many important engagements, and at the end of the contest was discharged as a sergeant, having been promoted for meritorious conduct.  After the war he engaged in contracting and in the line of this business removed to Hilliard, Wyo.. in 1874. There he found profitable business in building flumes which occupied him for a year. He then removed to Evanston and continued contracting until his death in 1895 at the age of seventy-two, from disabilities incurred in the war. Mr. Goodmans grandfather Goodman emigrated from Holland to Pennsylvania when a young man. and after a residence of some years there removed to Weston, N. Y, among the earliest settlers of that place. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania, but the maternal grandfather. Seely Cook, was born and was reared in New York state.   He attained prominence in politics and filled the office of justice of the peace for a number of terms. Mr. Goodman received his early education in the public schools of his native county, remaining at home until he reached his legal majority, then farming in New York for a year or two, thence he came to Wyoming, locating for a time at Green River and then removing to Evanston, where he engaged in raising cattle and sheep for a number of years, his family meanwhile residing in the town and on his ranch of 3.200 acres lying about twenty miles southeast. He has been intensely active and influential in politics on the Republican side, and has rendered his party excellent service both as a private in the ranks and in the official stations to which he was chosen because of his sterling worth and superior ability. He was county assessor in 1899 and 1900 and in the fall of the latter year was elected county treasurer, assuming the duties of the office on January 1, 1901.  His capability and fitness for the office were so manifest in his administration of the duties connected therewith that he was reelected in the fall of 1962 by an increased majority. He also takes great interest in church matters. He was married in 1871 to Miss Amelia Brewer, a native of New York and daughter of William and Eve (Nerber) Brewer, and they have two children, Arthur D. and Albert.  (Source Progressive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

JOHN S. GOODMAN.

JAMES GRAHAM.

Canny Scotland is very largely represented in the names of the Progressive, industrious and highly successful men who have been interested and by their labors eminently useful in the development of the Wild West into the highly productive and wealthy realm of civilization that, through their efforts, it has become. Among their number there is perhaps none other more worthy of individual mention than the prosperous James Graham, now of Willow Bank ranch, which is situated on Willow Creek, Uinta County. Wyo., one mile and a half east of the prosperous town of Hillard. Mr. Graham was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on February 23, 1849. his parents being Robert and Janet (McLeod) Graham, both of whom were descendants of highly intelligent and respected families, identified for generations with the industrial interests of that country. His father, a carpenter by profession, was extensively known and highly esteemed and died in Scotland in 1876. at the age of seventy six, his wife surviving him only by one year, when she, too, passed from earth at the age of seventy years.  James Graham received a solid education in the Scottish public schools, supplementing this by an attendance at the night schools of Edinburgh, where he took a thorough business course, while in the daytime he was pursuing his tabors in the necessary business connected with his employment in a nursery. At the age of seventeen years he assumed the personal responsibility of life for himself, and, after two years and a half of steady application to various pursuits in Scotland, the attractions of the New World and its possibilities for success to active, energetic young men, induced his emigration to the United States. He crossed the Atlantic in 1870, stopped for a short time in New York State and then he took the long journey across the continent, making his destination Rawlins, Wyoming. Here he became identified with the Union Pacific Railroad by entering its employ in the capacity of yardmaster. His ability, good judgment and steady attention to the interests of the company soon caused his promotion to section foreman, which responsible position he held for eight years.  Always desirous of improving his condition in life, and alert in securing a position of advancement, while performing the duties of his last named position he learned telegraphy, and from foreman on the road became the night operator in the companys station at Carter. Soon becoming conversant with the duties of station agent, after a period of time passed as operator at Carter and Bryan stations, he became station agent at Bridger, where for three years he gave valuable and appreciated services to the company. From Bridger he was sent to Aspen, where he was agent and also had charge of the watering tank until 1901. when his relations with the company were amicably closed. One of the characteristics of a true son of Scotland is the desire to become the owner of a portion of real estate on which to establish a permanent family home. This idea had been carried into practice by Mr. Graham some years before closing his railroad life, and he had acquired the nucleus of his beautiful home, Willow Bank ranch, in 1887, and on this he established himself in the raising of cattle and horses. He has added to his estate by subsequent purchases until he now owns in fee simple nearly 2,600 acres of land and controls an extensive range.  Here his persistent efforts and determined skill have developed a large and profitable business.  In his cattle ranches he makes a specialty of Hereford stock, which he raises in large numbers and of best quality, while some individual specimens of his horses are unexcelled in quality by any stock in this section of the state. Mr.  Graham has made many and valuable improvements on his ranch, bringing it into a high state of cultivation, with care and discrimination improving it with a special view of making it an ideal one in the line of agricultural industry to which he is devoting his attention. He has erected a commodious residence and all the outbuildings necessary to comfortably house and care for such of his stock as he chooses to provide for in this manner. His agricultural and stock raising operations are conducted in such a manner as to bring in a very profitable annual return, and he is considered one of the representative stockmen of Western Wyoming. On May 9, 1877, Mr. Graham was married with Miss Elizabeth Gordon, a daughter of James and Jane (Millroy) Gordon, natives of Scotland. Mrs. Graham was also born in Scotland and came to this country in 1877. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Graham now consists of three children, one having died at the age of nine years. Their names are Jane M., now a successful teacher in the schools of Aspen, Wyo.; Nellie, deceased; Robert G.; James H.  With his usual energy of character Mr. Graham has attached himself to the fortunes of the Republican political party and has done much to aid and further its success in local, state and national affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Graham stand high in the estimation of the people of the community, not only on account of their intelligence, zeal in public affairs and their many admirable social qualities, but also from their great activity, which is manifested in their cooperation with and participation in all matters intended to improve the condition of that portion of the community with which they are connected. They have long been. members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Graham is one of those strong, self reliant men, who, having been dependent upon himself since early youth, has come to regard ordinary obstacles in the way of his progress as mere trifles, which vanish like shadows when attacked with zeal and determination.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

WILLIAM GRAHAM.

The subject of this review is a successful stock raiser of Uinta county, Wyo., and his life affords a commendable example of what may be accomplished by thrift and perseverance when directed and controlled by correct moral principles. His parents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Robinson) Graham, were born in England, and Joseph Graham was a son of Benjamin and Sarah Graham, both of English Scotch extraction. He was a native of County Durham and a tiller of the soil. In 1883 he came to the United States and settled in New Mexico where he engaged in railroading. His life after coming to this country was of short duration as it ended in Silver City, N. M., in the fall of 1886.  Mrs. Graham was to have joined her husband the following spring, but learning of his untimely death she decided not to make the trip, consequently she still lives in the land of her birth, having reached the age of sixty-six years.  Mr. and Mrs. Graham were members of the Church of England and faithfully endeavored to bring up their children in that faith. Of the six who were born to them, three have joined the father in the other world, one of the others is living in the old country and William is the subject of this sketch. He was born on December 5, 1865, in England and enjoyed the advantages of a good practical education in the schools of his native county. He remained with his parents until twenty-one and then became an engineer, a profession to which he had previously devoted several years of very diligent study. After becoming proficient in the use of instruments he found abundant opportunities for the exercise of his professional talents in his native country and continued there in various departments of work.  In 1886, impressed with the idea that America afforded a better field for engineering than England, he came to the United States in company with a sister, and for six months after his arrival, followed railroading and freighting in New Mexico. From that territory Mr. Graham went by San Francisco to Alaska and spent one summer in and around Juneau variously employed, on his return staying one winter near Yakima, Washington Territory, then coming to Wyoming and taking up 160 acres of land about fourteen miles north of Opal on Slate Creek, where he has since resided. Subsequently Mr. Graham added to his original purchase until he now owns real estate to the amount of 420 acres, on which he keeps quite a large herd of sheep, many cattle and a number of fine horses. He began stock raising in a modest way, but has gradually enlarged the business until he is now well situated, with a prospect of continuous prosperity and a much larger growth in his future undertakings. His place is well located for the purposes to which it is devoted, contains quite a number of substantial improvements and is one of the comfortable and attractive homes of the community as well as one of the most valuable. Mr. Graliam was married on November 9, 1892, with Mrs. Katie Pyle, the widow of William Pyle and a daughter of Martin and Christina (Beighey) Hyle, natives of Germany. Mrs. Graham was born in Pennsylvania and married her first husband there; by this marriage she is the mother of two children, Frederick D. and Guy E. both students of Logan College, Utah. Her union with Mr. Graham has been blessed with one child, Myrtle.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

HERBERT J. GREGORY.

Among the younger business men of Uinta county, Wyoming, none stands in better favor with the public than Mr. Gregory, the capable and popular manager of die commercial interests of the Lone Tree Mercantile Co.. whose busy headquarters are located at the thriving village of Lone Tree. His business policy has ever been in accord with the highest ethics, he possesses untiring energy, is keen and quick in his perceptions, forms his plans rapidly and accurately, and success comes to him as the very natural sequence of the operations of these very rare qualities. He is a native of Manchester, England, born there on September 23. 1875, a son of James and Susanna (Jones) Gregory, and his parents are still residing in the land of his birth, his father being a successful commercial traveler. Herbert J. Gregory came to the United States in 1890. Having received an excellent education in the famous public schools of England, and made his first location at Salt Lake City, where he engaged in merchandising. In 1898 he became one of the interested principals in the Lone Tree Mercantile Co., and took up his residence here to attend to the practical details of its management. As has been mentioned before, success has attended his efforts, and he has also won the respect and confidence of the patrons of his store. In their ample store buildings is displayed a full line of dry goods, groceries, hardware, farm implements, everything necessary to satisfy the trade of a well-to-do and yet practical class of patrons. The post office of Lone Tree is located at this store, Mr. Gregory having been commissioned the postmaster in 1898. and his administration of the duties incumbent upon him in that connection meets with popular favor.  He is interested in all things that make for the uplifting and the betterment of the community and is the present clerk of the school board. On July 14, 1890, at Salt Lake City, Utah, Mr.  Gregory formed a matrimonial alliance with Miss Lavina S. Easton, a daughter of George and Susanna (Mclntyre) Easton. natives of Scotland. Her mother passed to the Silent Land in April, 1900, and her father has returned to Scotland. Their children are Herbert and Alma. Mr.  Gregory owns a ranch in the Teton basin of Idaho and also one in Utah, on both of which he conducts stock operations.   Mr. and Mrs. Gregory occupy a high position in society and have many friends and their home is a center of most gracious hospitality.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

MAURICE GROSHON.

It is a pleasure for a historian to turn aside from the narration of events to chronicle the record of a self-made man, an industrious and useful person, who by his own ability and honest dealing has placed himself high upon the list of business men as having achieved a justly merited success. And just such an individual is Maurice Groshon of Fort Bridger, Wyoming.  He is a son of William and Helen F. (Stubbs) Groshon, and was born in the city of St. Louis, Mo., on June 22, 1859. His father was a native of New Jersey and a son of Peter Groshon, who comes of a long line of ancestors tracing back to early Colonial stock and one of whose uncles was a Colonial governor, several members of the family serving with valor, not only in the French and Indian wars, but in the Continental army of the Revolution. His mother was a native of England, where the family has long been resident. William Groshon was an early resident of the city of St. Louis, and, having learned the hatters trade side by side with Mr. Dunlap, the celebrated hat manufacturer, he opened the first store for the manufacture and sale of hats in the city of St. Louis, which he successfully conducted for many years. William Groshon and wife had six children, three boys and three girls, and three of them are now living, namely, Mrs. Marie A. Fowler, of St. Louis, Mo., who is the mother of one child; Cleveland, who is married and has one child and also resides in St. Louis; and Maurice Groshon of Wyoming.  Mr. Groshon received his preliminary education in the city schools of St. Louis and supplemented the valuable instruction there obtained by attendance in the Washington (Mo.) University.  After his educational discipline was thus acquired he was appointee! Manager of the U. S. warehouses under his father, who for some years held an important office in the U. S. customs. After two years passed in the capacity of manager, Mr. Groshon engaged as a clerk on a steamboat running on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers from St. Louis to Pittsburg. He continued this vocation for six months and then became identified with the Simmons Hardware Co. of St. Louis, continuing to be thus occupied for two years until his health began to be impaired, when on this account, he concluded to seek the better climatic conditions of the West and in 1880 came to Wyoming and located seventy-three miles north of Rawlins.   Here his first connection with the industrial enterprises of Wyoming was on a cattle ranch for a short period, being also a bookkeeper in Rawlins during the winter of 1881 and 1882. In the spring of 1882 he came to Fort Bridger and followed his former occupation of cowboy on a ranch for several months, when he was given the position of clerk in the post traders store in the employ of Mrs. W. A. Carter.  By his ability, attention to business and personal qualifications he was soon made manager of the store and held that important position until the post was abandoned in 1889. Since that time he has been independently engaged in ranching and cattle raising. owning 480 acres of highly improved and valuable land beautifully located on Smiths Fork, in Uinta county, opposite Mountain View, and here he has made many improvements on this place, which he has developed in a wise and discriminating manner to correspond with the requirements of the special industry he conducts, and here he runs a band of fully five hundred high bred Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Groshon takes great pains in the purity of the cattle he raises and is considered to possess one of the finest herds in the state and his ranching operations cover the raising of fine crops of grain and hay. lie also owns and operates an exceedingly valuable traction engine and threshing machine.  Mr. Groshon has always taken very active part in political affairs, being pronounced in the support of the Democratic Party, and he has strongly battled for the success of its principles and its policies. That he is considered a wise, discriminating and intelligent man of affairs is shown when we state that he has held with great acceptability the position of U. S. commissioner for Uinta county for the last ten years. His long continuance of office is the strongest evidence possible of his capabilities, his honesty, his devotion to duty, and also of his popularity as a man who is noted for his industry and useful qualities, sound judgment and practical common sense, and he enjoys the esteem of a large acquaintance for his many sterling qualities. On October 30, 1884. Mr. Groshon was joined in matrimony with Miss Lulie L. Carter, a daughter of Judge William A. and Mary E. (Hamilton) Carter, natives of Virginia.. Mr. and Mrs. Groshon have one of the most beautiful and pleasant homes in this section of the state, and here they entertain their large acquaintance and numerous friends with a bountiful hospitality, with generosity also giving to all worthy objects of public interest or sympathy coming to their notice.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

CHARLES J. GRUNDY.

The subject of this sketch, amid the chances and changes of fickle fortune, has carved for himself an honorable place among the manly men and worthy settlers of Wyoming, and can look back with honest pride upon the hard labor, which was transmuted, by his perseverance, into material prosperity, and the esteem of his fellow men.  Born in England on July 8, 1856. to the marriage of Charles and Susana (Gravley), Grundy, natives of that country, he early met the woes of life in the death of his father during his infancy.  His mother married again, while he was yet young, a Mr. Thomas Bretton, and they came to this country in 1865. In 1867 they returned to England, and his mother, marrying the third time, they again emigrated to the United States and settled in Bryan City, Wyoming, near which town he has ever since resided. When school days were over, he worked with the railroad company as a lineman and machinist, but, in 1881, took up a claim of 160 acres in Uinta County, to which he has added, and on which he raises both horses and cattle. His mother is still living in Cheyenne and his sister, Elizabeth, is married to James Clark, and resides in Kemmerer. Politically, he strongly advocates all theories of his party, believing that by so doing he is tending to the support of his state, and, indirectly, to that of the U. S. government, of which he is a loyal naturalized citizen. Honest industry, wherever exercised, brings its due reward, and today Mr.  Grundy ranks with the strong and stable men, who make the rank and file that are forging ahead to place Wyoming among the advanced states of the Union.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

CHARLES GUILD

Wherever one goes in traveling over the broad extent of the American continent, the Scotch element appears prominently connected in its civilization with not only the learned professions, but also as leaders in large and extensive commercial operations and industrial organizations and combinations of high order.  The industry, thrift, sagacity and strong mental powers so characteristic of the Scottish race in its native land, are here developed to an extent that causes it to dominate and take the leadership and to control the affairs that it is connected with and conduct them to gratifying success in every department of commercial activity. We are led to these reflections in contemplating the life of Charles Guild, now a resident of Piedmont, Wyoming, who is not only a man of successful business undertakings, but deeply permeated with a highly religious spirit, is an honored and useful member of his community and his church. He was born in Dundee, Scotland, on April 14, 1826, a son of James and Agnes (Gordon) Guild, representatives of families that for a long series of years have been identified with the old land of the heather and the hill.   His paternal great-grandparents were David and Isabel (Wanlass) Guild. David Guild became a weaver by profession and vocation and, as is customary in the old country, his son Charles (who married Margaret Smith) as well as his grandson James, became weavers, and this honorable vocation has been successfully and diligently followed for many generations. Charles Guild, even when but a child, was employed in some of the departments of the weaving trade, by his industry here adding to the general earnings for the family support.  As he was thus fully occupied he had little opportunity to acquire the needed education of the schools and books. He, however, became thoroughly conversant with all the details of his trade and was occupied in weaving in Scotland until his emigration to the United States in 1854. Immediately upon arriving in the United States he took his course to Utah, where, with the same industry and conscientious fidelity to his work, he was engaged in weaving and farming for fifteen years in Ogden and Lehi. In 1868 the first survey of the Union Pacific Railroad was conducted, and Mr. Guild then came to Wyoming and located his home and family on the stage road, close to the tollgate, four miles below Piedmont, which was their residence for about four years. When the town of Piedmont was located, the family removed thither and Mr. Guild established the first mercantile business of the town, which he successfully conducted until his buildings and stock of goods were destroyed by fire. Not discouraged by this ill fortune, however, he at once turned his attention to ranching, taking up a tract of government land in 1884, a portion of his present home. Since that time he has added to his landed possessions until in this ranch he owns 640 acres of valuable and highly productive land. This property he has largely improved and developed into one of the finest homes in this section of the state, and here he has erected a commodious residence containing twenty-three rooms. The necessities of the public seemed to demand that this residence should also be utilized as a hotel, and as such it has been popularly conducted by Mr. Guild to the satisfaction of his numerous patrons. In many directions the energies and business capacities of Mr. Guild have been demonstrated.  He was one of the founders and corporation members of the Guild Land and Live Stock Co., of which he has held the office of president, and he also established upon a firm foundation and basis the Guild Mercantile Co. He has been a strong supporter of the Republican party and has taken a very active part in the affairs of the county, while he has performed the duties of a justice of the peace with conceded ability. , Mr.  Guild has been for many years a conscientious and valuable member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, active in its services and he is now filling the highly responsible office of elder of the church at Piedmont. At Ogden, Utah, on February 19, 1855, Mr. Guild was united in matrimony with Miss Mary M. Cardon, a daughter of Philip and Martha M. (Turner) Cardon. She was born in Piedmont, Italy. Her father was a native of France and her mother of England. They became residents of Utah  in 1854. and there resided until their respective deaths  which came at  Logan.   To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guild have been born eleven children, eight are now living. They are Mary, wife of John Cross of Piedmont, where he is a merchant and holds the office of postmaster;  Charles A., died in infancy at Slaterville, Utah; Joseph P., James H., engaged in stock raising; George T., John A., married and resides at Lyman, Wyo., where he is the popular postmaster and a merchant ; Lovina A., who died in infancy at Utah; Emma, wife of Daniel Gambell, Union Pacific station agent at Carter, Wyo.: Ida E., wife of D. C. Swartsfager, Union Pacific station agent at Knight. Wyo.; William Q.. connected with merchandising at Lyman; Katie A., a young lady of brilliant promise, who, after graduating at Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah, died at Piedmont, on November 23, 1898, at the age of twenty-two years and nine months, and was buried in the Guild cemetery on the Piedmont ranch.    Favored with sons whose abilities were equal to the successful achievement of the diversified kinds of business in which Mr. Guild is interested, he has practically retired from their operations and is enjoying the society of his numerous friends during these advancing years of his life. He has ever been a man of exemplary habits, kindhearted, hospitable, generous to the needy, sympathetic with the suffering and diligent and faithful to all his trusts. He is gifted with a wonderful intuitive knowledge of mechanics and has invented a number of useful articles, notably a combination door lock which can be changed to 220 different combinations, and he has been successful as a logical sequence of the commonsense. industry and capacity he has manifested during a long series of years. His wife has been truly a loyal helpmeet and they maintain in their pleasant Wyoming home a generous western hospitality.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

A quiet, unassuming man, with methodical business methods and also a sagacious and successful merchant, with original and profitable methods of operation, George T. Guild of Piedmont, Uinta county, Wyoming, who has served as treasurer of both the Guild Land and Live Stock Co. and of the Guild Mercantile Co., especially deserves something more than a passing notice at the hands of the reviewer. He was born in Lehi, Utah, on January 5, 1863, the son of Charles and Mary M. (Cardon) Guild.  George T. Guild received his education in the excellent public schools of Utah, and then engaged in active operations in connection with the industries of the Guild ranch. For the last thirteen years, however, his mercantile tastes and ambitions have led him to become identified with the operations of the Guild Mercantile Co., particularly devoting himself to the affairs of the Piedmont store.   Under his administration the business has been wisely and judiciously conducted and has met with gratifying success, he retaining the confidence of the public and a commensurate share of its business patronage. Mr.  Guild has loyally supported the principles and policies of the Republican Party, with which he has been connected since attaining his majority, but has not cared to leave the legitimate fields of business to seek the uncertain rewards of the struggle for political honors for himself.  On December 28. 1892, Mr. Guild entered into matrimonial relations with Miss Annie Swartfager, who was born in Canada in 1868, a daughter of H. L. Swartfager. her parents being natives of Canada and of German descent, and Mr. Swartfager, surviving his wife, is now living in the province of Ontario, Canada. Two children, George Leonard and Leslie T., constitute the family of Mr. and Mrs. Guild. A keen observer of affairs, an extensive reader.  Mr. Guild keeps himself fully abreast of the times in knowledge, and very intelligently discharges all of his duties as a citizen. An able business man, a warmhearted friend and companion, he has the friendship and esteem of a wide circle of friends.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

JAMES H. GUILD.

One of the forceful and productive factors in the mercantile and industrial world of Wyoming is James H. Guild, of Uinta county, who was bom at Lehi, Utah, on January 19, 1861, the son of Charles and Mary M. (Cardon) Guild, a memoir of whom appears on other pages of this work. When he was seven years old the family moved to Wyoming, and settled at Piedmont, in Uinta county. There he was reared and educated, gathering what he could of the sparkling and invigorating waters of knowledge from an irregular and insufficient attendance at the public schools of the neighborhood, for,, in those days, life was strenuous to everybody in these parts, and its graces and its accomplishments were compelled to wait until its sterner demands were satisfied. After leaving school, he engaged in ranching with his father, and later became a member of the firm of Charles Guild & Sons, formed for the purpose of carrying on an extensive merchandising and livestock enterprise. In 1881 he settled on the ranch he now occupies, which had been previously located by his father, and from that year it has been his home. It lies four miles southwest of Piedmont and contains 4,000 acres of land, much of which is fit for cultivation, and has been brought to a high state of fruitfulness.In 1898 the Guild interests were incorporated in two companies, one known as the Guild Land & Live Stock Co., and the other as the Guild Mercantile Co., and James H. Guild became a stockholder in each and the manager of the former. To this industrial manifestation he has given his undivided attention and has made it one of the most important and successful industries of its kind in this part of the state. In politics he is a Republican, and takes a definite and active interest in the welfare of his party, although not desiring any place of honor or profit in its gift for himself. He is especially interested in the cause of public education, and. in its behalf, has freely given six years of excellent service to the cause as trustee at various times. Of the fraternal societies so numerous among men he has favored only one with his membership, the Knights of the Maccabees. His ranch is furnished with good buildings and is well equipped for the stock industry. In addition to what it contains as deeded land, there is a very extensive acreage under lease.   The entire business in all departmentsis conducted with a vigor and enterprise, and on a scale of magnitude and success only possible to the best business capacity and the most skillful management, qualifications for which Mr. Guild is well known throughout the cattle industry.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

JOHN ALBERT GUILD.

One of the active, Progressive sons of the West, whose enterprising spirit is a decided factor in the business, social and political circles of Uinta county and in its surrounding territory, John A. Guild, of Lyman, Wyoming, can well feel assured that he has a large number of strong and effective friendships among the people of his section, who esteem him not only for his marked business capacity and financial shrewdness, but also on account of his many winning and pleasing qualities of head and heart. His parents are Charles and Mary M. (Cardon) Guild, honored pioneers of Piedmont, and their interesting careers and ancestry arc preserved on other pages of this volume.  Their son. John A. Guild, was born in Lehi.  Utah, on January 4, 1865, and in early life he came with his parents to Wyoming. He has grown with the growth of the state, acquiring his education not only in the public schools, but in the broad and comprehensive school of experience that his diversified business operations have brought him through.   His initial commercial activities were undertaken at Rock Springs, Wyo.. where he conducted a mercantile establishment until 1900: and during the years from 1890 to 1894 he was in a business association in butchering and selling meat with A. Luman. For the first year of his stay at Rock Springs he was also the manager of the meat business of Charles Guild & Sons, at that place.   In 1900 he disposed of his interests there and, then removing to Lyman, became the superintendent and manager of the store of the Guild Mercantile Co., being one of the directors of the corporation and also a director of the Guild Land & Live Stock Co., being also the president of these two companies for the year ending February 1, 1903.   Mr. Guild is a working member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, giving freely of his time, means and energy to advance its cause, and is the present superintendent of the religion classes of Woodruff Stake.   Always interested in public issues and political questions from a Democratic point of view, he has been much in evidence in the local counsels of his party, where his influence has often been a decisive feature.   He was once the Democratic candidate for State Senator, but the large adverse majority in the county was too much for even his popularity to overcome, and he was defeated, but by only 48 votes.   At another time he was his partys nominee for treasurer of Sweetwater county and showed his strength among the people as a minority candidate by the remarkable feat for a Democrat in that county by coming within thirty two votes of an election. He has done good service as a school trustee and, on October II, 1900. he was commissioned by President McKinlev as the postmaster of Bench, and when the name of the office was changed to Lyman, he was recommissioned on December 14. 1901. In Ogden, Utah, on December 18. 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Guild and Miss Mina Anderson, the parents of the bride being Peter and Martha (Hanson1) Anderson, natives of Norway. Three children, Ethel. Veda and Harold Kensel, have come to the family home, where their many friends always receive a cordial reception and a bounteous hospitality.  The Guild Mercantile Co. has recently erected a new and commodious building in which to display the extensive stock they carry, which comprises a large line of dry goods; groceries, furniture, boots and shoes, hardware, agricultural implements, in fact all things their great range of customers desires, and the business is conducted along legitimate and logical lines of procedure and holds a representative patronage, expanding its growth and prosperity, with that of the country.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

JOSEPH P. GUILD

One of the leading business men of his section of Wyoming and prominently connected with one of the largest mercantile houses of the state, is Joseph P. Guild, of Fort Bridger, Uinta county. He was born at Spanish Fork, Utah, on March 7, 1859. a son of Charles and Mary M.  (Cardon) Guild. He received the educational advantages that were afforded by the public schools of Wyoming and was diligent in obtaining the benefits thereof. He was a bright, energetic boy, with confident hopes and firm resolves, and was inspired by an honest and ceaseless ambition. Conscious of the capacity to exert his faculties in useful labor and feeling a loyal responsibility as to the use of time, he seemed to have an intuitive dread of idleness from the moment he was prepared for industry. With such a spirit he early engaged in cattle raising with his father, with whom he is still connected and of whom an individual sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. By his energy and business capacity he was largely instrumental in producing the rapid and almost phenomenal growth of their extensive stock raising and commercial operations. On the formation of the Guild Land and Live Stock Co. he became very active in its operations and, upon the retirement of his father as president of this corporation in 1900, he succeeded him in this office. This company now controls and owns about 6,000 acres of land, on which they raise immense herds of high-grade cattle. The unexceptional habits and tireless application of Joseph Guild to business, his quick perception of what was right and what was wrong, his undeviating integrity, the simplicity of his methods and his unbounded confidence in the results of legitimate industry, gave him an early and valuable reputation for sound judgment and as a successful business man this has been amply demonstrated in the progress and Building up of the Guild Mercantile Co., of which he is the president and also manager of its Fort Bridger store. The Guild Mercantile Co. carries a large stock of general merchandise in amply equipped stores located at Fort Bridger, Piedmont and Lyman. The largest stock is displayed at the Fort Bridger establishment and consists of, not only general merchandise, but agricultural implements, hardware, etc. To obtain control of valuable patrons and bring success in merchandising requires an ample understanding of the fundamental laws of trade and of the legitimate means of success. No young man of the state has more thoroughly mastered these laws and observed them than has the subject of this review.  Mr. Guild has always taken a very active part in public affairs, and as a Republican the political combinations of his county and his state have received the full strength of his vigor. He is prominent in the councils of his party, by the voters of which he has been twice elected county commissioner of Uinta county, the duties of which office have been most faithfully performed under his administration. He has also rendered valuable service in educational matters in his position as one of the school board of Fort Bridger. Mr. Guild was married on Saint Valentines day in 1884, in Piedmont, Wyo., to Miss Lucy B. Eiden, who was born in Loraine county, Ohio, being a daughter of Nicholas and Maggie (Laux) Eiden, natives of Germany, who emigrated to America and settled in Ohio, in which state her widowed mother still resides. Mr. and Mrs. Guild have had three children, Nora, Charles, who died in infancy at Piedmont, and Robert E. The family holds a high position in social circles of Fort Bridger, entertaining gracefully their numerous friends. Mr. Guild has ever manifested a deep interest in public improvements and as a business man he has been and is successful, while as a member of society he is respected and beloved.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

WILLIAM GUILD.

There is perhaps no better representative of the business interests of this section of Wyoming, or one better informed in all matters of civil, religious and literary improvement in the state, than the accomplished gentleman whose name heads this review. His ancestral history is fully delineated in the personal sketch of his honored father, Mr. Charles Guild of Piedmont, Wyo., which appears elsewhere in this volume, and to which the reader is referred. William Guild of Lyman, Wyo., where he owns a comfortable home and eighty acres of fine alfalfa land of marked productiveness, was born on the Guild homestead at Piedmont, Wyo., on May 29, 1873, a son of Charles and Mary M. (Cardon) Guild. He received his preliminary scholastic training in the schools of Uinta county and supplemented this by a three years course at the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah, by his attention and unusual mental endowments making rapid progress and attaining a high proficiency. Being deeply devoted to the doctrines and principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, his manifest qualifications for the position caused his appointment as a missionary of that faith to Germany. There he passed about thirty months in very active but pleasant service which was fraught with marked results, winning many converts to the faith. In 1900 he became associated in business with his father and brothers, and is now the secretary of the Guild Mercantile Co., and also of the Guild Land & Live Stock Co. Mr. Guild still holds active relations with his church, being an honored elder in its communion, also filling the dual office of first assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and superintendent of the religion class of Lyman ward. During his collegiate years he was for one year the professor of art and of elementary mathematics in the institution he was attending. A man of great activity and enterprise, he keeps a vital interest in all that concerns the public weal, and is a strong supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor. On March 6, 1901, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Guild took unto himself a wife in the person of Miss Nettie Heiner, a daughter of George and Mary (Henderson) Heiner, the father of German and the mother of Danish ancestry, and they have one child, Kenneth H. Guild.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

HENRY AND JOHN HADDENHAM.

These enterprising citizens of Uinta County, Wyoming, come of ancient English lineage, their great-grandfather, William Haddenham, being a lifelong resident of Nottinghamshire. England, his son. William, however, emigrating and. locating at Provo. Utah, there still maintains his home at the age of ninety years. His son, William, was the father of Henry and John, and his early life was passed in Nottinghamshire where he was educated and learned the trade of stocking weaving, in which he was employed a number of years, then, pursuing the requisite technical studies, he came to this country in 1878, when for about two years he continued in Almy, Wyo., as a fireman, thence removing to Ogden, Utah, being there connected with various forms of industrial activity and still maintains his home, standing high in the regards of the people. Mrs.  Haddenham was born in England in 1851, being a daughter of Henry and Sarah (Saunderson) Burton, her father being a puddler in large ironworks of England, and eventually emigrating and locating at Almy, Wyo., in 1875, where he identified himself with the coalmining industry for his subsequent life and being there killed by an explosion in the mine on March 25, 1895.  His wife survives him and resides at Diamondville. Henry Haddenham was born in Nottinghamshire, England, on March 13, 1868, the son of William Haddenham, and, in the year of 1881, at the age of thirteen years, he formed a part of the family migration to Almy, and in this vicinity he has since resided and been an energetic member of society, devoting his endeavors to the domains of mining and ranching, performing also public duties to which he has been called with the same industrious intelligence that his discriminating care bestows upon his private operations, being identified with the Democratic party as one of its most consistent supporters, and, while personally a most unostentatious citizen, is well known as a man of clear foresight and tenacious, resolute purpose, possessing sagacity, ingenuity and firmness in overcoming obstacles in the way of his enterprises. In 1895 Mr. Haddenham married with Miss Catherine C.  Simpson, a native of England, and a daughter of George and Frances (Johnson) Simpson.  Three children complete the home circle, William. Margaret and Mabel. John Haddenham.  the brother of Henry, was also born in the old family home in Nottinghamshire, England, and, like Henry, he was a member of the emigrating party which, in November, 1881. dedicated a new home in Almy. Here Mr. Haddenham has grown  from early youth to mature manhood.  engaging for a period of time in mining operations and meeting with a satisfactory success and making many friends. John Haddenham observes political and public matters from a Democratic standpoint, and is always found in active sympathy with all things tending to the welfare and the improvement of the community. In 1888 John Haddenham entered into matrimonial relations with Miss Mary Miller, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Miller. Of their seven children, William died in May, 1891, aged one year and Samuel on June 1, 1895, aged nine months.  The others are Elsie, David, Lillian, Dewey and Florence, now making the home happy.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

ROB R. HAMILTON.

Among the citizens of Uinta county, Wyoming, who occupy a high place in the estimation of its people and who is known as a representative stockman, doing much by his painstaking culture of fine strains to improve the cattle of this section, Rob R. Hamilton, of Smiths Fork, three and one-half miles south of Robertson post office, is a native son of Wyoming, his birth occurring at Smiths Fork, on August 23, 1869, a son of Richard H. Hamilton and his wife, who came to this country in very early days in the same year in which his sister and her husband, Hon. W. A. Carter, made their settlement here, and engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr.  Hamilton is the oldest of the four children of his parents, and after an education at the public schools, he took up the quarter section of government land on which is now his home, and became a raiser of stock, a vocation for which he had been amply tutored under the experienced care of his father. He has added 160 acres to his original acreage and raises a fine quality of graded Hereford cattle, usually running about 125 animals in his herd. Mr. Hamilton married in Evanston, Wyo., on September 17, 1890, with Miss Ethel Hewitt, a daughter of Avery and Agnes (McCulloch) Hewitt, the mother descending from an old, time honored Scotch family. Their children are Harriet E., Ruth Agnes, Clara M., Ethel M. and Helen W. For an extensive record of Mr. Hamiltons ancestry, we refer the reader to the history of Hon. W. A. Carter, on another page of this volume. In the pleasant home of Mr. Hamilton a generous hospitality is dispensed to their appreciative friends.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

FRANK HARRISON, M. D.

The life of a country physician is full of toil and hardship, but it has compensation in the reflection that it is also full of benefaction to the community which he serves and that no effort in behalf of suffering humanity is thrown away. Among the prominent and highly esteemed physicians of Evanston, Wyoming, Dr.  Frank Harrison is in the front rank. He was born in 1842 at Toronto, Canada, the son of William and Mary (OConnor) Harrison, the former a native of England and the latter of Ireland. Both were brought by their parents to the New World in childhood, it being the desire to secure for them better opportunities than were afforded in their native land. The families settled at or near Toronto, where they prospered and reared their offspring. Doctor Harrison received his academic education at the public schools of his native country and began his medical training at the Toronto University. He continued it at St. Michaels Medical College in Toronto, and fully completed it with another two-years course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, and from which he was duly graduated on March 1, 1860. On March 1, 1865, he had been appointed a medical cadet in the service of the U. S. government, a class of officials which the government had created and to which undergraduates were admitted as assistant surgeons.  His first assignment was on board the transport S. R. Spaulding, which conveyed sick and wounded soldiers to New Haven, Conn., where a military hospital was located.   He remained at the hospital until November and the experience he had there has been of invaluable service to him in his subsequent practice. After his graduation from Bellevue College he came to Denver, Colorado, at that time a city of not far from 4,000 inhabitants. He passed his first summer in the West in traveling and then came on to Cheyenne, following the railroad in his professional work as far as Wasatch. He next went to the Sweetwater mines, there passed two years in the practice of his profession and then removed to Evanston, where he has been in an active medical practice for more than thirty years. At the first election held after his arrival the total poll of voters, men and women, numbered only 300.  In politics Doctor Harrison is a Democrat and has been very active in the interest of the party.  He has been honored with several places of responsibility in public life, discharging the duties of all with fidelity, intelligence and zeal. In 1871 and 1872 he   represented   Sweetwater County in the Territorial Legislature, and from 1876 to 1880 was one of its county commissioners. In Uinta county he was probate judge for six years and county treasurer from 1884 to 1890 being also mayor of Evanston for three years.  He is also a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being very much esteemed as a leader in all of its meetings. On January 1, 1875, he was united in holy marriage with Miss Mary A. Creed, a daughter of James Creed, a native of Illinois, and whose father died in 1896 at Clinton, Iowa, and the mother, whose maiden name was Egan, is still living, her residence being at Dixon, Ill.. Doctor and Mrs.  Harrison have four children, James F., Mary, Helen and Fred W.  Doctor Harrison ranks high in his profession as a physician and surgeon, as a close student and as an intelligent practitioner.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

He was born and reared in the healthful and invigorating atmosphere of the farm, gaining from its abundant out-of-door exercise full physical development and strength of muscle and thus being well fitted for active operations in any field that gave him opportunity to engage therein, George P. Harvey brought to Wyoming from his Iowa home when a youth the qualifications for winning success in the industry he has chosen as his life work, and is bringing to bear in his labors a vigor of bodyand a clearness of mind that are certain every where to win success of a high order. While his childhood and youth were passed in Montgomery county, he was born in Muscatine, Iowa, on May 19, 1867, the son of William H. and Agnes (McCulIoch) Harvey. . Receiving a good common school education in the schools of Iowa, at the ageof seventeen years, in 1884. Mr. Harey came to   Wyoming  and  to   Fremont county, where he rode on the range for the Carter Cattle Co. under the competent instruction and direction of his mothers brother, Peter McCulIoch, the capable superintendent of the companys extensive operations. Three years were there passed, Mr. Harvey rapidly assimilating the practical knowledge there afforded, then, coming to Uinta county in 1887, he here continued in the employ of the same firm in the same capacity until the Fort Bridger Indian Reservation was opened for settlement, when he took up a homestead, an integral portion of his present ranch of 240 acres, and here he has conducted stock operations of pronounced importance and developed one of the pleasant and valuable homes of the section, all of his land being under ditch, furnishing an ample supply of water for all his purposes. Two years of his time were given to merchandising at Mountain View and in June, 1902, he opened a store at Carter, where he is now conducting a lucrative business. Mr. Harvey has recently embarked in the culture and breeding of Belgian hares, having quite a stock of registered animals. He is one of the substantial citizens of the county and has manifested in good measure the sterling qualities of head and heart of the intelligent and thrifty Scottish race from which he descends.   Every demand on his time in public matters or private business has been fully met, every emergency has found him ready, every duty of good citizenship has been promptly and fully performed, and he stands well with his fellow men. He married with Miss Hettie Hendrie of Mountain View, on April 30, 1894, She is a daughter of William and Sarah (Oderkirk) Hendrie, the father being a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. Their home circle is brightened by a winsome daughter, Dora H.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

ROBERT B. HARVEY.

On "Caledonia's rugged hills" for generations have lived the ancestors of Robert B. Harvey of Mountain View, Wyoming, his father being the first of the family to leave their native Scotland and cross the Atlantic to secure a home in the United States, eventually locating in the city of Muscatine, Iowa, where, on July 23, 1860, Robert was born. His parents were William H. and Agnes (McCulloch) Harvey, and they gave to their children such educational advantages as were available at the time, Robert attending the public schools until 1877, when he courageously took up the duties of life for himself and coming to Fort Bridger, Wyoming, he engaged to ride the range for Philip Mass, following this strenuous occupation for him for three years, and two thereafter in the Big Horn country. From there Vie returned to his former home in this state and there forming a partnership with his uncle, he took charge of a band of cattle on shares. He prospered in his undertaking and at the end of three years took up a tract of 160 acres of land on Smith's Fork, about one mile from the little village of Mountain View, where he is now located permanently and where he has since individually conducted a cumulative industry in raising cattle and horses, having fine grades of each, and in addition has valuable real-estate interests in the town of Mountain View. By his earnest and forceful energy and integrity Mr. Harvey has risen to importance in local public affairs, having been the capable and efficient road supervisor of the southeast district of Uinta county during the past four years, discharging his duties to the satisfaction of the people and the benefit of the community. In politics he is allied with the Republican party, and fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World through his membership in the local lodge at Fort Bridger. On November 25, 1883, in Sacramento, California, he was united in marriage with Miss Emma Forehand, a daughter of Ammon and Annie (Webster) Forehand, natives of Litchfield. Ill., pioneers of that state. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey are Robert W., George E., William R., Ralph A., and Hazel S., who died at the age of seven years in February, 1902, Edna, who died in infancy in November, 1899, Frederick A. and Edith E.  Biographie Index

WILLIAM H. HARVEY.

Among the men who in industrial activities and commercial operations have attained distinctive success and prestige in Uinta county and are recognized as representative citizens of the state, William H. Harvey, the popular merchant of Mountain View, where he maintains his pleasant home, is entitled to a high regard; and although there may be no thrilling or exciting chapters in his life story, his career has been singularly true to high ethical standards and prolific of individual and objective good.  He was born at Muscatine, Iowa, on March 29, 1863, a son of William and Agnes (McCulloch) Harvey, of whom due mention has been made elsewhere in this volume in connection with the sketch of an older brother, Robert B. Harvey.  William H. Harvey had excellent school advantages in Iowa until he was seventeen years old, thus laying a solid foundation for the broader education that he has acquired in later years by commingling with men of action and affairs.  In 1880 he came direct from Iowa to the Fort Bridger section of Wyoming, where he passed the winter, in the spring going to the Big Horn country with the Carter Cattle Co. outfit, and in the employ of that company was a range rider for two years, and afterwards for a year served it in the same way in Montana, becoming an expert in all branches of the stock business. Returning to Fort Bridger he became a stock raiser and has continued in that business to the present, running both cattle and horses with pronounced success. When the reservation was opened for occupation and settlement Mr. Harvey located acres of land immediately east of Mountain View, making that his home and center of operations, and his real estate now consists of 200 acres of agricultural and ranch land and a number of rapidly appreciating business and residence lots in Mountain View, where he first erected the present hotel as a residence for himself, and where in 1899 he established the first general store of the place. This he is still conducting, with a steadily increasing trade and an expanding stock of goods. Mr. Harvey is well known in the county and throughout a wider area, and such has been his course in life that he has ever enjoyed the esteem of the best elements of the community, both he and his wife, a lady of high cultivation, occupying leading places in the best society circles of the state.  Though never aspiring to the honors or emoluments of public office, he is a strong and valued factor in the counsels of the Republican political party. His interest in the welfare of the community and its progress has, however, induced him to accept a purely nonpartisan office, that of school trustee, which he has capably filled for a number of years. On May 1, 1900, he was married at Villisca, Iowa, with Miss Ida B. Gourley, whose parents were John and Caroline (Baker) Gourley, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Iowa. In the last named state Mrs. Gourleys maternal grandfather was the first judge of Adams county and her family has been important in the history of Iowa from early pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have had four children, three of whom are living.  Rex E., Lisle D. and Zelda. while another daughter, Ethel, died at the age of five months.  The home is the center of a most genial hospitality and the aid of the family is freely given to all good causes.  (Source Progresive Men of Wyoming)  Biographie Index

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