Index to Locations
Laramie Green Hill Cemetery
Sherman Oliver and Oakes Ames
Monument
Green Hill
Cemetery
Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming
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Thurman Wesley Arnold (1891-1969) —
also known as Thurman W. Arnold —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., June 2,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1921; mayor
of Laramie, Wyo., 1923-24; dean,
College of Law, West Virginia University, 1927-30; professor of
law, Yale University, from 1931; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1943-45; resigned
1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Lions.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died two months later, in Alexandria,
Va., November
7, 1969 (age 78 years, 158
days).
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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William H. Holliday (1843-1925) —
of Wyoming.
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 21,
1843.
Democrat. Candidate for Governor of
Wyoming, 1894.
Died in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., February
20, 1925 (age 81 years, 275
days).
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Edward Ivinson —
of Wyoming.
Candidate for Governor of
Wyoming, 1892.
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Stephen Wheeler Downey (1839-1902) —
of Wyoming.
Born in Western Port, Allegany
County, Md., July 25,
1839.
Treasurer
of Wyoming Territory, 1872; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wyoming Territory, 1879; member of Wyoming
territorial House of Representatives, 1887; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1893.
Died in Denver,
Colo., August
3, 1902 (age 63 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Thomas David Craven (1900-1961) —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Chaska, Carver
County, Minn., March
11, 1900.
Merchant;
mayor
of Laramie, Wyo., 1945.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of a pulmonary
embolus, at Kassis Department
Store, Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., August
14, 1961 (age 61 years, 156
days).
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Elmer T. Beltz (1861-1950) —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Bedford
County, Pa., July 19,
1861.
Republican. Merchant;
real
estate and insurance
business; postmaster at Laramie,
Wyo., 1898-1905, 1930-34.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Redmen;
Modern
Woodmen of America.
Died June 12,
1950 (age 88 years, 328
days).
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Taft Alfred Larson (1910-2001) —
also known as T. A. 'Al' Larson —
of Wyoming.
Born near Wakefield, Dixon
County, Neb., January
18, 1910.
University
professor; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1976-84.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Santa Ana, Orange
County, Calif., January
26, 2001 (age 91 years, 8
days).
Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.
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Oliver and Oakes
Ames Monument
Sherman, Albany County, Wyoming
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Oakes Ames (1804-1873) —
of North Easton, Easton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., January
10, 1804.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1863-73.
He and his brother Oliver
Ames, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, prime movers in
construction of the first
transcontinental railroad
line, completed in 1869; he was as censured
by the House of Representatives in 1873 for his role in the Credit
Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., May 8,
1873 (age 69 years, 118
days).
Interment at Village
Cemetery, North Easton, Easton, Mass.; memorial monument at
Oliver and Oakes Ames Monument.
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Oliver Ames Jr. (1807-1877) —
Born in Plymouth, Plymouth
County, Mass., November
5, 1807.
Shovel
manufacturer; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1852, 1857; president, Union Pacific Railroad;
he and his brother Oakes
Ames were prime movers in construction of the first
transcontinental railroad line.
Died March 9,
1877 (age 69 years, 124
days).
Interment at Village
Cemetery, North Easton, Easton, Mass.; memorial monument at
Oliver and Oakes Ames Monument.
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