Laramie’s Living History — People
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
The people who comprise the Albany County community come from several social strata, ethnicities, and races.
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Melville C. Brown - President of Wyoming’s 1889 Constitutional Convention.
M.C. Brown’s legal career spanned 60 years and thousands of cases during the years Wyoming was moving from territory through early statehood. President William McKinley’s appointment of Brown to a federal judgeship in Alaska in 1900 proved disastrous for the attorney, however, who returned to Wyoming where he continued to practice law, but on a much smaller scale.
The Lynching of Joe Martin
August 29, 1904, witnessed an act of racial hatred in Laramie, Wyoming. A crowd of men broke into the county jail, seized and African American man and lynched him from a nearby streetlight pole.