Research Catalog

Title

From these roots / By Mrs. Dan "Peggy" Kirkbride.

Author

Kirkbride, Peggy Harding.

Publication

Cheyenne [Wyo.] : Pioneer Print. and Stationery Co., 1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Current, Abbie Montgomery.
• Long, Barbara, 1921-

Description

viii, 213 p. : ill., maps, photos, ports.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Anderson family
• Brannigan family
• Brown family
• Bruegman family
• Forbears family
• Eklund family
• Hunter family
• Kirkbride family
• Malm family
• Palm family
• Rabou family
• Scoon family
• Brown (Famille)
• Postal service > Wyoming
• Laramie County (Wyo.) > History
• Laramie County (Wyo.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Genealogy.
• History.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Vandi Moore -- The beginnings of Wyoming: The counties of Wyoming ; The western lure ; Travelers enroute ; Settling a new country ; The wheels of transportation ; Traveling progression ; The Wyoming Highway Commission ; Wyoming highways ; School system ; The Laramie County Library ; "Be it ever so humble" -- The distaff side -- The apron, an institution ; Do you remember when? -- The twelve pioneer families and descendants: The Gust Anderson family ; J. Albin Anderson ; The Lars Anderson family ; Gust J. Anderson ; The Maurice Branigan family ; The Thomas Branigan family ; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Branigan ; The John Wilson Brown family ; Mr. and Mrs. George Bruegman ; Gladys Wilkinson Larson ; The Wilkinson family forbears ; The John Franzen Eklund family ; John Leander Eklund ; The Hunter family ; Three Kirkbride brothers in the 1880s ; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. Kirkbride ; James W. Kirkbride and family ; The Andrew Peter Malm family ; The Gust Palm family ; The August Rabou family ; The George W. Rabou family ; The Alfred Frederick Scoon family ; Mr. and Mrs. William A. Scoon -- Women homesteaders: Women homestead the land: Mrs. Jay C. Berry, née Mary Bevan ; Jay C. Berry ; Mrs. Charles Clinton Donahue, née Kate Richardson ; Charles Clinton Donahue ; Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Rutledge and family ; Mrs. W.A. Lerwick, née Hattie A. Olson ; Mrs. Elmer Shake, née Hazle J. Pence -- Latter day stockmen: The Fred B. Petsch family ; The Coad Ranch ; Harding & Kirkbride Livestock Company ; L.G. (Buck) Harding -- Postal service: National record of Meriden Post Offices ; Name and location of the Meriden Post Office in Wyoming ; Meriden postmasters: Dunham and Burdick ; Anna A. Fletcher Bunn, third postmaster ; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sherard ; Alma Runge Johnson, fourth postmaster ; Mrs. Charles B. Kessler, fifth postmaster ; Maude A. Barton, sixth postmaster ; Dan Donahue, seventh postmaster ; Mrs. Dan Donahue, eighth postmaster ; Dorothy McGill, ninth postmaster ; Martha Freudenthal Laycock, tenth postmaster ; Edna Frances Clark, eleventh postmaster and Ralph S. Clark-- mail carrier ; Post offices of the Meriden area: Brookside Post Office; The John J. McIlquham family; Glenys Post Office; Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Hixenbaugh; The Herman Krakow family; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Engleman; Phillips Post Office; Mr. and Mr. James H. Griffin, postmasters ; Nine mail carriers: Clarett Coen; George E. Cone; Abe Hixenbaugh; Lewis P. House; Walter Hunnel; Ehme Janssen; Albert Raymond Kessler; Alvin W. Krakow; Arthur Ziegler ; Post offices of southeastern Wyoming, north of Union Pacific Railroad during territorial days.

OCLC

• 10264389
• SCSB-10787420

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library