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| HALE HENRY H b. 1850 d. unknown Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 34N 100W Sections: 25,26 Acres: SCE-170 Map # 13 | Henry Hale was born in New York state in 1850. He had homesteaded 170 acres prior to 1880 on the North Fork of the Popo Agie. He paid cash for the patent in 1890. While working at Fort Washakie, he met Ada F. Fairfield and married her on November 21, 1880. Their daughter, Winnie Grace, was born in 1884 and their son, George Henry, in 1888. The family moved to Embar, Bighorn County, Wyoming, where Henry was appointed postmaster on November 7, 1890. Henry and Ada retired to Washington State and are buried there. | |
| HALL ROBERT H. b. 1851 d. 1941 Year Arrived: 1878 Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 98W Sections: 7 Acres: HE-160 Map # 7 | Robert "Bob" Hall was born in Sacketts Harbor, New York, in 1851. Hall was an adventuresome young man and road the railroad to what is now Wyoming. By 1869 he had his own freighting business. Robert Hall married Sarah Amelia Lyon and she supported him in all his endeavors. Hall spent much of his life in the agriculture industry, first cattle, then horses, and on to farming. He became very involved in the community and was elected to both the Wyoming State Legislature and Senate. Amelia preceded Robert in death in 1936. He died of pneumonia in 1941. Both are buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. |  |
| HALL ROBERT H. Year Arrived: 1878 Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 98 W Sections: 5,6,8 Acres: SCE-200 Map # 7 | See Other Entry | |
| HALLAM JOHN G. b. 1853 d. 1938 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 14,23 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | John Hallam was born on November 15, 1853, in the United Kingdom. He arrived in the United States in 1864 with his parents. They settled at Coalville, Utah. He married Sarah A.. Chandler on November 29, 1876. They moved to the Lander Valley around 1876 and homesteaded 160 acres. According to the 1900 and 1910 censuses, they had three sons and one daughter. Sarah died on June 26, 1926 and John on December 27, 1938. Both died in Lander and are buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery there. |  |
| HALLSTEAD CORNELIUS b. unknown d. 1905 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 32 Acres: HE-160 Map # 11 | In 1885 Cornelius (Hallstead), a quiet, reserved homesteader, located a farm in lower Lyons Valley along the Little Popo Agie River in 1885. He never married and no record of his birth was found. Badly crippled by rheumatism in 1897 he took up residence in Thermopolis following the lead of his neighbor, M. D. Gregg, in seeking the medicinal benefits of Bighorn Hot Springs for his old age ailments. Cornelius died on April 19, 1905, and is buried in Monument Hill Cemetery in Thermopolis, Wyoming. His estate was settled by the courts in 1907. | |
| HARRIS JOHN R b. 1848 d. unknown Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 12 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 9 | John Harris was born in February of 1848 in Dayton, Ohio, to Anthony and Ellen Reese Harris. He married Mrs. Sarah "Sadie" Iliff Strain on June 13, 1891. Three children were born to them on their homestead on the North Fork of the Popo Agie River: George Ross, Myrtle J. and daughter Anna Joy died in infancy, They received their homestead patent for 160 acres in 1890. In 1898 the Harris family moved to California where they remained. | |
| HARRISON CHARLES B. b. 1839 d. 1892 Year Arrived: 1867 Patent Year: 1888 Rng & Twn: 34N 100W Sections: 25 Acres: SCE-73 Map # 13 | Charles Harrison was born in Ohio in 1839 and first arrived in Fremont County in 1867. Charles was a carpenter and stone mason, working on buildings both in Lander and Fort Washakie. He married Hannah Hold in 1869. They lived in South Pass and Atlantic City before moving to Fort Washakie. Harrison homesteaded on the North Fork of the Popo Agie in 1883. In 1888 Charles Harrison dedicated five acres of his land to the Masonic Lodge as a cemetery. He died at the age of 53 and is buried in the Masonic Cemetery near Milford, Wyoming. (see story) |  |
| HARRISON CHARLES B. Year Arrived: 1867 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 34N 100W Sections: 25 Acres: HE-156 Map # 13 | See Other Entry | |
| HARTING HENRY b. 1844 d. 1937 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 12 Acres: HE-120 Map # 9 | Henry Harting was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 18, 1844, to Valentine Frederick Hartung and Mary Elizabeth Hock. At age 25 he was a private in Company A, 13th Regiment of the U.S. Infantry stationed in Wyoming. Henry married Catharina Marie ("Kate") Ruhl in 1875. She was a widow with two young daughters who worked at Fort Washakie where Henry was employed. On March 3, 1874, Henry's son, Harry, was born. Henry homesteaded next to Amos Gustin on Baldwin Creek in 1881 and received the patent in 1890. Noyes Baldwin had built a cabin on the property which Amos Gustin preempted by homestead. Henry, his wife, and family homesteaded on property adjoining that of Edward Gustin and the Baldwin trading post site. No records survive to show how the Harting family came into possession of this property, but a 1941 a court decree issued during Henry's estate settlement showed the disputed ownership of the Gustin property and trading post was settled in favor of the Harting estate. Greg Barrett, grandson of Nellie Downey Barrett, and wife Pam inherited the house and donated property and its historic buildings to the Fremont County Pioneer Museum in 1996. Henry Harting died in Lander on May 25, 1937, and is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery. (see Andrew Downing bio). | |
| HIMMELSBACH JOSEPH P b. ca. 1827 d. 1911 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 32N 100W Sections: 30 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 6 | Joseph Himmelsbach was born in Germany in 1826 and immigrated to the United States in 1849. He came to the South Pass City in 1869 where he had mining interests but soon thereafter homesteaded a ranch on upper Willow Creek in the Lander Valley with his wife Sophia Enders whom he had married in 1873. Joseph served as county commissioner when Fremont County was part of Sweetwater County. Mrs. Himmelsback made the first major deposit in Lander's earliest bank allowing it to prosper and become one of the most successful in the Wyoming Territory. Joseph Himmelsbach died at South Pass on November 4, 1911. He is buried in the Odd Fellows section of Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. His wife survived him by seven years. | |
| HIMMELSBACH JOSEPH P Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 32N 99W Sections: 25 Acres: SCE-258 Map # 5 | See Other Entry | |
| HORNECKER ALBERT b. 1858 d. 1947 Year Arrived: 1877 Patent Year: 1898 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 13 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | Albert Hornecker was born near Oregon, Missouri, on March 29, 1858, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hornecker. Albert Hornecker came to Lander Valley in 1877 as a young man of 19. Most of the next 70 years he spent in the Valley and on the homestead he proved up in 1890, the year Wyoming became a state. All of that time he lived on the same place, except for a few years in Oregon. He married Carrie Louise Crittenden and to this union ten children were born, three of whom died in infancy. Mr. Hornecker made his home with his son, John, for 23 years on his ranch west of Lander. His face was familiar and well known on the streets of Lander and he had an unusually wide circle of friends. Mr. Hornecker was active until a few months before his death at age 89 on October 11, 1947. He is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery at Lander. | |
| GILLIS HORNECKER ERNEST F. b. 1848 d. 1943 Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 35 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | Ernest Hornecker was born in Germany in 1848. The family came to the United States in 1854. They lived in New York for a year before traveling west to Missouri to join relatives. In 1869 Ernest and his brother, John, traveled further west, ending up about nine miles east of Cheyenne. Sometime after the 4th of July in that same year they headed for South Pass. Ernest became restless and when he traveled to the Sinks Canyon area of the Lander Valley, he took up a homesteaded there in 1889. He married Sarah Marie Hinckley and between them they had three children. Ernest died in 1943 and is buried in Lander. (see story) |  |
| HORNECKER JM / JOLIFF J.G. Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 34 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 9 | See Hornecker, John M. |  |
| HORNECKER JOHN MARTIN Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 34, 35 Acres: HE-120 Map # 9 | See Other Entry | |
| HORNECKER JOHN MARTIN b. ca. 1850 d. 1939 Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 32N 100W Sections: 4 Acres: SCE-113 Map # 6 | John "Mart" Hornecker was born in Germany and became a naturalized citizen. He arrived in the United States at the young age of 4. In the 1880 census he was a farmer in the Big Popo Agie Valley and was not married. He married Sarah Mariah Jolliff in 1883. In the 1900 census his residence was listed as Borners Garden. John was active in the development and supervision of the State Agricultural Farm during its early years in Lander Valley. In the 1920 census he lived in Lander with his wife, two boys and two girls. John Martin Hornecker died on July 19, 1939. He is buried in the Borners Garden Cemetery. | |
| HORNECKER SARAH Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 21, 28 Acres: SCE-80 Map # 9 | See Hornecker, Ernest |  |
| HUDDLESTON ABRAHAM M. b. 1826 d. after 1891 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 21, 22 Acres: HE-180 Map # 9 | Abraham Huddleston was born in Thomasville, Oregon County, Missouri, in 1826. His parents were John West and Mary "Polly" Batty Huddleston. He married his first wife, Margaret Maulding, in Missouri in 1845. She bore him 11 children. She died in 1875 and in 1880 he moved to Borners Garden in Fremont County, Wyoming Territory, where he was listed as a teamster in the 1880 census. On December 12, 1885, he married second wife, Sarah C. Marchant. He was 59 and she was 60. He died sometime after 1891. |  |
| HUDSON FRED N b. 1862 d. 1916 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 1 Acres: HE-180 Map # 8 | Frederick Hudson was born October 5, 1862, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up east of Salt Lake City. Fred worked as a butcher in 1880. In 1896, he entered into partnership with his brother Dan F. Hudson and his sister, Emma Hudson Rogers. Upon the death of Emma's husband, he ran her ranch at the present- day location of the town of Hudson, Wyoming. Fred built a house there. He managed the sheep raising aspects of the operation while Dan oversaw the farming. He was apparently in poor health as an adult as it was noted that he suffered from chronic stomach problems. Fred died of heart failure on January 7, 1916, in Lander. |  |
| HUFTILE WILLIAM M b. 1840 d. 1910 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 31N 98W Sections: 19, 20 Acres: HE-160 Map # 3 | William Huftile was born to Joseph and Anne Johnson Huftile on March 25, 1840, at Toledo, Ohio. In 1867, following his marriage to Mary Ann King and the birth of his first son, Martin, he became a quartz miner in the Rocky Mountain gold mines above Boulder, Colorado. Two years after the birth of their fifth son, Joseph H., in 1874, he brought his family to the Lander Valley and homesteaded 160 acres on the Little Popo Agie River. He received the patent on that property in 1892 and his son, Joseph, acquired an additional 40 acres via a cash sale patent in 1906. He and Mary relocated near Bridger, Montana, and Mary died there February 19, 1898. William died in the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Buffalo, Wyoming, on August 17, 1910. | |
| IIAMS SAMUEL b. 1835 d. 1930 Year Arrived: 1876 Patent Year: 1893 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 8 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | Samuel "Sam" Iiams was born in August 1835 at West Point, Ohio. He was a Civil War veteran, serving with distinction, and the last surviving member of the Thomas A. McCoy Post, G. A. R., Lander. He married Elizabeth Alexander of Morrow County, Ohio, in 1858. Five children were born to them. Wilbur, Elmer, and Lloyd became substantial citizens of Lander. Mrs. Iiams died when she gave birth to Lloyd in Hiawatha, Kansas, 1871. Later, in 1876, Sam came to South Pass when it was at the peak of the gold rush excitement. Sam and his son, Wilburt, took up a homestead located at the site of the Wyoming State Training School (presently the Wyoming Resource Center). Before the Iiams sold the land to the State he and his son Wilbert established a cheese factory on property bordering the Big Popo Agie River. Sam died at the home of his son, Lloyd, in Lander on April 2, 1930. He was 96 years of age and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. |  |
| IIAMS WILBERT b. 1859 d. 1917 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 17 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | Wilbert (Wilburn) Iiams, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Alexander Iiams, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, on November 2, 1859. By 1870 the family had moved to Wolf River, Kansas. While living with his family in Kansas Wilburt married Emma Belle Alford in 1883. Following the death of his mother in Kansas, Wilbert and Belle with his father Samuel and his brothers, Lloyd and Elmer emigrated to Fremont County . He and Belle took up a homestead near that of Samuel. To them were born three daughters, Etha, Estella and Velma. Wilbert ran the cheese factory which he and his father built in 1892. Later, he became ill and was committed to the Wyoming State Hospital for the Mentally Insane in Evanston Wyoming. He died there on May 9, 1917, at age 57. | |
| IIAMS/CYPHERS SAMUEL Year Arrived: 1876 Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 27 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 8 | See Iiams, Samuel | |
| IRWIN JAMES b. 1817 d. 1894 Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 12, 13 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | James Irwin was born in Bellefast, Pennsylvania, in 1817. Little is known of his early life. Dr. Irwin graduated from the New York Medical College (Geneva, later University Medical College) in 1844. He served as a surgeon in the Civil War and was a member of the board of examining surgeons in the volunteer service. He was in several heavy engagements and received a letter of thanks and commendation signed by President Abraham Lincoln for meritorious professional service performed on the battlefield of Pittsburg Landing. After the close of the war he had charge of the military hospital at Rock Island. He married Sarah Matilda Trumbull in 1843. When the Union Pacific Railroad reached Cheyenne, Wyoming, he was a passenger on the first train and opened a hospital there. He conducted that hospital until 1868 in which year he settled in Atlantic City, Wyoming. He and Sarah left Cheyenne and joined the gold rush to Atlantic City in 1869. In 1871 he was appointed a United States Indian Agent and was assigned to the Shoshone and Bannock Agency at Camp Brown, now the town of Lander. He was the first civilian agent for what was then known as the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Reservation. In 1877 he was promoted to the Red Cloud Agency in Nebraska and immediately commenced the removal of the hostile tribe to Pine Ridge, in Dakota. After leaving the service he opened a drug store at Fort Collins, Colorado. In 1882 he was reappointed to the agency at Fort Washakie, which position he held for one year. He died January 21, 1894 in Lander and was interred beside his wife who preceded him in the North Fork Masonic Cemetery at Milford, Wyoming. |  |