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| FARIS JOSEPH G Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 32N 99W Sections: 34 Acres: HE-160 Map # 5 | Joseph "Joe" Faris was born in Kentucky in May of 1842. He came to Fort Stambaugh in 1868 as a soldier and became one of the best-known scouts of this region during the trying times of the early days when Indian uprisings menaced the whites. In addition to being a teamster, Mr. Faris had numerous mining interests while living at Atlantic City in 1870. In the fall of 1870, he came to the Lander Valley and became one of the first homesteaders, filing on land in Red Canyon near the homestead of his good friend, Ed Young. Joseph married Arabella Mary Sharp, daughter of one of the first lawyers in Lander. They had four children, Archie, George, Fanny and Laura. By 1900 he and his wife had divorced. His sons, Arch and George, purchased the prosperous Tweed Ranch in Red Canyon and Joseph retired from ranching. Joseph died on June 5, 1929, in Buffalo, Wyoming, and is buried in Hudson, Wyoming. |  |
| FARIS JOSEPH G b. 1842 d. 1929 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 32N 99W Sections: 34 Acres: SCE-40 Map # 5 | See Other Entry | |
| FOGG CHARLES E. b. 1844 d. 1921 Year Arrived: 1867 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 13 Acres: SCE-80 Map # 9 | Charles Fogg was born at Unity, Maine, on February 24, 1844. He served in the Civil War on the side of the Union and was discharged from the Maine Unassigned Infantry in 1865. As one of the earliest residents of Lander Valley in 1869, he took up a 160-acre homestead in 1888 and an adjacent 80-acre cash sale entry. He married Emma Virginia Wood in 1887. He was a charter member of the Fremont County Pioneer Association organized in 1886. He moved to Thermopolis, Wyoming, around 1889. He was listed as divorced and a farmer/stock grower in the 1900 census. Charles married Mathea E. Mickelson in 1904. He died in Thermopolis in 1921 and is buried there. | |
| FOGG CHARLES E. Year Arrived: 1867 Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 13 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | See Other Entry | |
| FORREST JAMES b. 1821 d. unknown Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 8 Acres: HE-120 Map # 8 | James Forrest was born in New York and served in the Mexican War, but never applied for a pension though he was entitled to one for many years. At the close of the war he spent several years in California and other western states before coming to Lander. He took a homestead and accumulated considerable property which he disposed of by a will made a short time before his death. Since the will was not offered for probate, the disposition of the property is unknown. He had no relatives in the area and he had lost all track of his relatives in New York. "Uncle Jimmy," as he was generally called, was a quiet inoffensive man of few words and attended strictly to his own affairs. Date of his death is unknown. | |
| FORREST JAMES Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 5 Acres: SCE-41 Map # 8 | See Other Entry | |
| FOSHER JOHN b. unknown d. 1896 Year Arrived: 1869 Patent Year: 1891 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 17 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | Honorable John Fosher was a member of the first legislature in the Colorado Territory and elected a member of the second legislature of the Wyoming Territory. It was in this session his vote saved the women's suffrage from repeal. He was a pioneer of the Lander Valley. He came to Atlantic City from Indiana in 1860 when he went into business. Later he entered the employ of the federal government during President Harrison's administration, and in 1891 served as an agent of the Shoshone Indian Reservation. He owned a fine farm in the Milford district, was a director of the First National bank, a stockholder and director in the Clipper Publishing Co., and was considered one of the well-to-do citizens of the Lander Valley. He was the organizer of the Odd Fellow Lodge in Wyoming, having brought into being Wyoming Lodge No. 1 at Cheyenne in 1868. He died in Lander in 1896. |  |
| GARRETT RILEY Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 5,6,31 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | See Other Entry | |
| GARRETT RILEY b. 1843 d. 1907 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 34N 99W Sections: 6,31 Acres: SCE-120 Map # 12 | Riley Garrett was born in Ohio in 1843. Riley married Lucia Ann Clark in Michigan in 1867. In the 1880 census, Riley is living on the North Fork of the Popo Agie River and was listed as a farmer. He was also listed as being a widower at that time. In 1882 he married Sarah Jane Coats. He appeared in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in Lander. Riley Garrett was one of the best known and most highly respected men of Central Wyoming. Mr. Garrett died at his home on January 8, 1907. Riley is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. |  |
| GARRETT RILEY Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 34N 99W Sections: 32 Acres: SCE-33 Map # 12 | See Other Entry | |
| GAYLOR ANDREW JACK b. 1846 d.1921 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 32N 100W Sections: 4,9 Acres: HE-160 Map # 6 | Andrew "Jack" Gaylor was born in Tennessee on January 7, 1854, and was the oldest son of John and Martha Simpson Gaylor. It is believed Jack's father died in the early 1850s shortly after their move to Barry County, Missouri. While in Barry County, Martha married widower William Brummett. After Jack's stepfather, William Brummett, died during the Civil War, Jack became the head of the household. He was a freighter by profession and it is quite likely he engaged in this occupation throughout northeast Texas and Indian Territory. This was probably his only source of income which he used to support his mother and siblings. On September 10, 1867, Jack married Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Pendleton in Texas. It was here their first daughter, Lenora, was born. He was a scout/pack master at Fort Washakie from 1880-82 and may have lived in South Pass City during that time. He filed for a homestead in Sinks Canyon in 1882. After Sarah died in 1886, he married Margaret Rutledge in 1890, but they were divorced soon after when she deserted him. In 1898 he placed his children with families in the Lander Valley and joined Colonel Torrey's Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish-American War. In 1901 he went to California where he worked as a Park Ranger in Yosemite. He died on April 22, 1921. |  |
| GILLIS JAMES E b. 1850 d. 1932 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 98W Sections: 18 Acres: SCE-118 Map # 7 | James Gillis was born on March 30, 1850, in New Brunswick, Canada, the second child of Adam and Margaret Gillis. He moved with his parents and three brothers, John, Alex, and Adam, to Ellsworth, Maine, where he grew to manhood. He came to the Lander Valley in 1876 with his brother, John, and they homesteaded on adjacent properties in Lyons Valley. In 1887 he married Claire (Clairia) Hall. James sold his ranch and moved the family to Ogdensburg, New York, where they are found in the 1900 census. He died at Sackets Harbor, New York, in 1832 and is buried there. | |
| GILLIS JAMES E. Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 98W Sections: 13 Acres: HE-160 Map # 7 | See Other Entry | |
| GILLIS JOHN b. 1848 d. 1906 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 98W Sections: 7,18 Acres: SCE-234 Map # 7 | John Gillis was born on October 17, 1848, in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the oldest child of Adam and Margaret Gillis. He married Alice Mary Lyon, sister of Amelia Lyon Hall, of Lander, Wyoming, on December 12, 1879. John homesteaded near his brother on the Little Popo Agie River and received the patent in 1890. Mr. Gillis made many friends while in the Lander area having served two terms as county clerk and one term as a county commissioner. He died at San Diego, California, on May 19, 1906. | |
| GILLIS JOHN Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 98W Sections: 7 Acres: HE-160 Map # 7 | See Other Entry | |
| GOREY JAMES b. 1858 d. 1918 Year Arrived: 1879 Patent Year: 1895 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 28 Acres: HE-160 Map # 8 | James Gorey was born on July 4, 1858, in Wisconsin. He received a patent on his homestead in 1895. On July 22, 1894, he married Mrs. Margaret Sexton who had two children, Annie and Benjamin. James and Margaret had five children together. In the 1910 census his occupation was listed as farmer. James died on April 18, 1918, in Lander. | |
| GRANT ANNA b. ca. 1850 d. unknown Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 5 Acres: SCE-35 Map # 8 | Anna Brady Grant was born in 1850 in Ireland. She married John Grant at South Pass City in 1870. (See Grant, John) | |
| GRANT JOHN b. 1840 d. 1890 Year Arrived: 1879 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 99W Sections: 5,6 Acres: HE-132 Map # 8 | John Grant was born in Ireland in 1840 and married Anna Brady in 1870. In 1871 John Grant bought squatter's rights on a ranch on North Fork from Major Noyes Baldwin. Undoubtedly, he had much work to do to clear the sagebrush and construct ditches before he could get a crop. By August 1872 he had something of an oat crop. The patent for the homestead was issued six months after he died on January 13, 1890. The colorful history of the Grant Ranch can be found in the publication Wind River Mountaineer, Vol. IV, No 2, p. 21. He died without a will, but eventually Anne was able to gain legal title and also patented an additional acreage in 1892. Mrs. Grant owned the ranch until his death in 1890. The ranch was sold by Mrs. Grant in 1890. | |
| GREGG MICAJAH b. 1852 d. unknown Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1887 Rng & Twn: 34N 98W Sections: 32 Acres: HE-160 Map # 11 | Micajah "M.D." Gregg was born to Nancy Agnes Doty and Edward Gregg in West Virginia in January of 1852. He married Sadie Simmons, on March 3, 1886 in Millard, Missouri. He homesteaded on 160 acres on the Little Popo Agie River and received the patent in 1887. He sold his place around 1895 and moved to Big Horn County where he made his home in Anderson. M.D. was the first active promoter of the hot springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming. He had gone to the springs in 1894 and with continuing and persistent bathing in the mineral waters, had cured himself of the paralysis. In 1902, assisted by a partner named Wedells, Gregg built a small sanitarium to care for other sufferers. It was the only facility at the hot springs, but many people came to the waters hoping to be cured of similar ailments. M.D.'s first wife died and he married Massa L., last name unknown. M.D. died a widower sometime after 1920 where he was living with his son, David, in Thermopolis. |  |
| GRIMMETT JOHN b. 1826 d. 1895 Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1887 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 25 Acres: HE-160 Map # 9 | John Grimmett was born in England in 1826. He married Sara Passey in Worcestershire, England, in 1847. In 1850 their son, Orson, was born. They came to America in 1855, when Orson was a child of four years old. The Grimmetts later added two more sons and two daughters to the family. The family resided in the Utah Territory for some time and then Idaho. In September of 1878 they came to the Lander Valley. The 1880 census listed John as a farm laborer. He homesteaded 160 acres, receiving a patent in 1887. Some records say his wife died in October of 1880 in Lander. According to that information, John married Elizabeth "Betsy" Hart in 1894 in Bear Lake, Idaho. She died in 1900. About 1895 John went to Paris, Idaho, where his children were living and died there in 1895. | |
| GRIMMETT ORSON b. 1850 d. 1914 Year Arrived: 1876 Patent Year: 1890 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 17,20,21 Acres: SCE-640 Map # 9 | Orson Grimmett was born in Birmingham, England, on March 5, 1850. He immigrated to America in 1855 and lived in Utah and Idaho for many years. Orson married Ella Jane Barnaby in Paris, Idaho, in 1876. They were in the livestock business until 1878. They then moved to Fremont County and settled on a ranch near Lander. He was elected Sheriff of that county for two years. Orson was a democrat who did everything to advance its interests and promote its success. Orson had substantial investments in copper mines and in gold mines. Orson and Ella Jane had two children, Orson E. who died in infancy and Alva A. Orson died on February 18, 1914, and is buried in the Odd Fellows section of the Mount Hope Cemetery at Lander. |  |
| GUSTIN AMOS b. 1844 d. unknown Year Arrived: Not Available Patent Year: 1885 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 1,12 Acres: SCE-160 Map # 9 | Amos Gustin was born November 5, 1844, at Adams, Ohio, to William J. Gustin and Eliza Jane Opdycke. Amos wed Mary Jane Ambrose of LaSalle, Illinois, on June 21, 1874. To this union were born five girls and two boys while they were living in Ohio and later Illinois. His children's dates of birth are unclear, but it appears that before the birth of his son Columbus in 1881 and that of his daughter, Ethyl May, in 1884, Amos came to the Lander Valley and filed a homestead on Baldwin Creek. Joined by his brother, Edward Ames Gustin, who resided with him on the homestead, Amos sold the property to Angus McDonald and returned to Indiana. Edward was able to retrieve the property for which the patent was received in 1885. Nothing more is recorded for Amos. |  |
| GUSTIN EDWARD A. b 1856 d. 1927 Year Arrived: 1879 Patent Year: 1892 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: Acres: SCE-160 Map # 9 | Edward Gustin was born in Iowa on June 11, 1856, to William J. Gustin and Eliza Jane Cory Opdycke. Following the footsteps of his half-brother, Amos Thomas Gustin, Edward traveled to Wyoming where in 1884 he settled on a homestead on North Fork in the Lander Valley near the one his brother Amos had staked out in 1880. There he married Phoebe Mary Abra in 1893 or 1894. He moved to the Lewiston mining district in 1895 taking his wife, Phoebe, and infant son, William T. where he bought the Lewiston Pioneer Store from a local prospector. The Gustin's seven children that survived their parents went on to marry in the Lander community and contributed substantially to its development and history. Phoebe Gustin died in Lander in 1964 surviving her husband by some 37 years. Both are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander. | |
| GUSTIN EDWARD A. Year Arrived: 1879 Patent Year: 1896 Rng & Twn: 33N 100W Sections: 1 Acres: SCE-40 Map # 9 | See Other Entry |