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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How a myth is created: the saga of Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris
When Esther McQuigg was born in upstate New York in the early 19th century, there was no indication that it would be her fate to become known in the Equality State as the “Mother of Women’s Suffrage.” One thing is for certain: in 1869 she was the first woman to serve in a government office in Wyoming Territory. She died in 1902 and after that, people began to attribute more to her than she ever claimed when she was living.
Judge Charles Carpenter – Man of Principle
Judge Charles Carpenter, Albany County District Court judge, faced a choice in 1904. He could ignore mob violence or he could take a stand.
Laramie’s Most Cantankerous Civic Booster
In a 1902 eulogy for the 75-year old Hayford, rival newspaper editor, E.A. Slack of the Cheyenne Daily Leader, wrote “We never knew a newspaper man …more a master of ridicule or sarcasm…[but] the longer we knew him the more we appreciated his fearless advocacy of what he believed to be right.”