Irish Speakers

	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911
Irish only	16,478	11,532	5,571	2,270	65	557
Irish & Eng.	178,979	135,437	156,785	110,246	96,914	76,648
Total Irish	195,457	146,969	162,356	112,516	96,979	77,205
Population	544,818	517,076	495,607	438,432	404,611	392,104
Percent	35.9	28.4	32.8	25.7	24.0	19.7

Population

Year	Population	Change
1821	730,444	======
1831	810,732	+80,288
1841	854,118	+43,386
1851	649,308	-204,810
1861	544,818	-104,490
1871	517,076	-27,742
1881	495,607	-21,469
1891	438,432	-57,175
1901	404,611	-33,821
1911	392,104	-12,507
1926	365,747	-26,357

A Much Improved Mahoney Family Tree May 31, 2005

I am pleased to add a Mahoney family tree provided by Bill Murphy of California. It adds more information on the Mahoney family (in all their spellings) and their cousins, much more than I listed in Issues.
The tree is lengthy, so please see it at Mahoney.

Bill is a great great grandson of Francis O'Mahony through his son Thomas. He believes that Francis had three more sons, among them the fathers of Denver Tim and Rawlins John. Let's follow his reasoning for placing Bartholomew, John, and Francis as brothers of Thomas.

·        There was in Ireland, perhaps still is, a convention that the first born male child be named for his grandfather. The eldest sons of both Thomas and Bartholomew are named Francis. Thus Bartholomew is likely to be Thomas's brother. Also, Bartholomew was godfather of one of Thomas's children.

·        Bill's grandmother was a first cousin of a Wyoming sheep rancher named Mahoney who had a Jesuit son. Denver Tim!

·        Rawlins John and Denver Tim are known to be first cousins. Thus John's father John and Tim's father Francis are probably brothers.

Bill uses the word possible in the title of the tree because of uncertainties in in his very strong case. Bill invites comments on that part of the tree and the tree as a whole. He has another, much longer tree which adds a subsequent generation.
You may address comments directly to Bill at

And while I'm talking of Mahoneys, let me remind you of Senator Joseph O'Mahoney's rhyme that he provided when asked about pronunciation.

Oh, the bleat of the lamb,
And the fruit of the bee
Is the name of the man
Who is talking to thee.

Port of Boston Apr 22, 2005

Margie Ellis found arrivals on Carmania at Port of Boston.

SS Carmania Sailing from Queenstown 15 April 1914
to
Port of Boston 23 April 1914
-
then to
Casper, WY

Name	Age	Birthplace	Nearest Relative	Sponsor
Frank Ellis, 211	20	Durrus	James Ellis, Father, Kilcrohane	Thomas Ellis, Brother
Timothy C. Bohan	21	Kilcrohane	Con Bohan, Father	James Bohan, Brother
Timothy Sullivan, New	20	Kilcrohane	John Sullivan, Father	Mark Sullivan, Brother
Stephen Donovan, 424	19	Kilcrohane	Patrick Donovan, Father	Peter Donovan, Brother
Cornelius Donovan	21	Kilcrohane	Patrick Donovan, Father	Peter Donovan, Brother
Stephen Sullivan, 9	19	Kilcrohane	Cornelius Sullivan, Father	Con Sullivan, Brother
Timothy Collins	22	Kilcrohane	Tim? Collins, Father	J Collins, Brother
Dan Donovan, New	20	Kilcrohane	Tim Donovan, Father	Thomas Donovan (Durcan?), Brother
Thomas Spillane, 470	18	Kilcrohane	Patrick Spillane, Father	Michael Spillane, Brother
Edward Sweeney, New	28	Kilcrohane	Edward Sweeney, Father	Con Mahoney, Cousin
Mary Ellis, 35	17?	Bantry	James Ellis, Father, Raferigeen, Kilcrohane	Julia Mahoney, Aunt

Notes:
*Place of Birth was treated casually. Note Frank Ellis (Durrus) and Mary Ellis (Bantry). Both left father James Ellis (Kilcrohane).
*The most precise information about Place of Birth is surely in the Nearest Relative column. Many entries provide townland or other detail.
Unfortunately I'm unable to read most, though I've looked at some townland references.
*In Register Bohane appears several times. Here the name is clearly Bohan.
*In Register this voyage by Carmania is listed several times with a small variance in dates. This record is definitive.
*And we have yet another spelling for Raferigeen.
*The number following a name is the ID from Register. Some names are marked New with rrespect to Register. (Census data and SSDI data have not been analyzed for this purpose.) No comment is made about some names.
*Edward Sweeney is returning to Casper on this voyage.



Three Censuses Apr 11, 2005

Irish Immigrants in Three Censuses

	Natrona	Wyoming	US
1900	54	1602	25,513
1920	106	647	685,366
1930	162	564	611,521

When I started this task, I imagined that there might be 60 Irish in Casper. By the time of the second edition, I had discovered more than 700 with some duplication. Since that time, I have searched the Social Security Death Index and the 1900, 1920, and 1930 Censuses. Each added more to the original list, though I haven't yet estimated how many there might be in total.

This table does not support my statistics. I can only speculate that many moved on or passed on.

The table shows a steady increase of Irish in Natrona, a steady decrease of Irish in Wyoming - a dramatic one between 1900 and 1920 - and a down tic nationwide between the 1920 and 1930 censuses. I have a layman's feeling that the nationwide figures are drastically low.

As I've said more than once in the text associated with the census data, the indices to the census data are flawed. The enumeration manuscripts must be examined for whatever gold they contain: occupation, arrival in the US, vague neighborhood information. The indices cannot be accepted at face value. The manuscripts are the ultimate source, though they too may have flaws. I suspect the subjects never got a chance to review what the enumerator had said about them. I have examined the sources to some extent, but if you are curious about someone you must look yourself. The data is available on the internet for a fee and without a fee in many libraries.



Annie (Burke) Dean Apr 5, 2005

Frank 'Pinky' Ellis has provided more information about Annie. She was Mickey Burke's sister. She ran a rooming house at 257 N. Beech. Denver Tim's son, Tim Jr., Mike Ellis, and Frank Ellis called it their home in Casper. Denver Tim, himself, maintained a room there for years.
Denver Tim used P.O. Box 444, and his son Tim used it until his own death 1n 1974.




1920 Census Apr 2, 2005

Many immigrants new to Register      1920 Census




Additional Immigrant Mar 18, 2005

William Henry O'Keefe and two younger brothers came to America with their father. The three boys were placed in an orphanage (not Wyoming). The younger boys were adopted, and their names were changed. William married Blanche M. Shikany in Williston, North Dakota. She was the daughter John and Anna (Kassis) Shikany. At the turn of the century the Shikany and Kassis families lived in Williston and then relocated to Casper. Both families were of Lebanese decent.
William, Blanche, and their two sons lived in Casper in the 1920s. They moved to Bayard, NE when their son, William John (born 1925), was young. Years later William John and his parents returned separately to Casper, William John after WWII service and as a dentist.
William Henry served in the army, probably during WWI. Of his many progeny, three grandchildren and one great grandchild live in Casper. Anna F. O'Keefe, his daughter-in-law, also lives in Casper.
This information was supplied by Bill O'Keefe, William Henry's grandson, on St. Patrick's Day 2005. We hope for more details soon.




1930 Census Mar 14, 2005

Margie Ellis has collected immigrants from the 1930 Census. There are many additional immigrants in this list.



Soldier Scrip Mar 9, 2005

The following story is told by Frank 'Pinky' Ellis, one of the subjects of his neice Brigid Ellis's story, End of the Trail.

THE USE OF SOLDIER SCRIP TO OBTAIN PUBLIC LANDS BY "DENVER TIM" MAHONEY

Timothy Mahoney was born in Ireland in 1855. He immigrated to the United States in 1872 to join his first cousin, John Mahoney (John Mahoney of Rawlins or "Rawlins John" Mahoney) who had come a year earlier. These two men had parallel life stories and careers.

The two Mahoney men worked at the Baldwin Locomotive works in Baltimore MD until the Depression of 1873 cost them their jobs. New York City was the next stop because they had been told there were jobs to be had. The job sources were through Tammany Hall, the political connection for any job with New York City, but the "kick back" system angered them and resulted in their transformation into lifelong members of the Republican Party.

They enlisted in the U. S. Army. Tim's first post was Fort Belvoir in Virginia, near Washington DC. Later he was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and then spent arduous years in the Arizona Territory following Apache Indians around the Territory, all of this as a foot soldier. Tim was discharged in 1881, having served 2 "hitches" in the Army.

He moved to Denver CO where he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and became an independent coal supplier for the railroad. He married an Irish girl and they reared their family of six children in Denver.

The Cavalry service of John Mahoney ended in 1879 when he was badly wounded in the follow up to the "Meeker Massacre" and was invalided out of the army at Fort Steele, near Rawlins WY. John refused to have his leg amputated, and it was 1915 before he had the lead balls removed.

John Mahoney entered the sheep business and eventually owned and operated four big ranches in Wyoming. When Tim Mahoney lost his business in the Depression of 1893, John Mahoney urged Tim to become a sheep man in Wyoming. Tim did and became very successful, using Casper as a base of operations.

Because of his bad leg, John Mahoney was not able to ride a horse, so he used light wagons and teams to supervise his far-reaching sheep ranches.

Tim Mahoney never bothered with saddle horses either. My father (Frank Ellis, Sr.) told me that "Denver Tim," at age 60 could out walk a 'jig-trotting" horse. Some of Tim's hikes are legendary. He routinely walked 45 miles from his summer range in the southern Big Horn Mountains to catch the train at Powder River WY to journey to Casper or Denver. On one occasion he was asleep when the train arrived in Casper; the conductor assumed Tim was going to Denver and did not awaken him. Tim woke at Glenrock, got off the train, and walked back to Casper that night -- about 20 miles.

Both "Denver Tim" and "Rawlins John" lived into their late 70's. John died in 1931, Tim in 1933. These two men exemplified a physically tough generation.

The use of "soldier scrip" was one of severaI means of securing title to public lands from the U.S. Government. The Homestead Act of 1862 was the most commonly used system. There were a number of other legal routes to obtain a patent or deed.

Beginning during the Civil War and continuing through the end of the Indian Wars in 1890, Government scrip was issued, in lieu of money, to soldiers retired or released from service. The scrip could be used to purchase public lands. This system, coupled with the Homestead Act of 1862, resulted in private ownership of lands in the Midwest, the Upper Midwest, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Scrip was not widely used in Wyoming. Tim employed a firm which did searches for unredeemed scrip. In 1910 in a Veterans Home in Nebraska, this company found a retired soldier who still had some unused scrip. The documents do not tell how much money was exchanged, but Denver Tim used the acquired scrip to purchase 40 acres of land in Natrona County WY. Because it contained a spring, the 40 was known as the "Tim Mahoney Spring”. Using fresnos, he had a reservoir built for livestock.
[HAW note: A fresno is an earth scraper that is used to sculpt the earth in the building of a dam or a road. It was invented in 1883 in Fresno CA by Scottish immigrant James Porteous. Read about it here.]

In that time, the use of public lands (not owned by anyone except the United States government) for the grazing of livestock was the accepted norm. Grass was free to everyone. The apparent abuses were finally controlled by the passage of the Taylor Act of 1934.

The copy of the document attached (Timothy Mahoney, assignee of Michael Padden) is one of the last examples of the use of soldier scrip to be redeemed to obtain a deed to public lands. This copy was obtained through the National Archives.
(N.B. The attachment is not included here. HAW)

Unanswered question: Did Denver Tim take his pay in scrip? If so, where did he use it?



The Shop Mar 7, 2005

You may now purchase CDs containing computer versions of Register at The Shop
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Error Noted Jan 30, 2005

I just noticed that some of the 'bullets' that appear in the chapter Additions, etc. . . were changed to different symbols in the mechanized transformation of the 'book' file (RTF) into HTM, the language of the web. For now, so be it.



New Information Jan 10, 2005

Pat (Ellis) Severn reports that her father, Mike Ellis, was born Feb 2 1889. Register was uncertain whether the year was 1889 or 1890. She goes on to say, "Dennis Daly (Aunt Jo's husband) and my father did indeed come over on the same ship. They also thought that they were both born on February 2nd and for many years celebrated together. Then Dennis got his birth certificate and discovered that they were born on different days. I have a lovely photograph of the two of them in their youth. They were handsome young men."



Possible Additional Immigrants Nov 29, 2004

Margie Ellis, granddaughter of John Ellis (177) collected names from the Social Security Death Index. She chose Natrona and Wyoming (Last Residence) as filters to eliminate non-relevant records. Her search yielded names of known immigrants, of immigrants not previously listed, and of non-immigrants.        See Them Here



Correction Nov 14, 2004

In Sources, the author of The Story of Kilcrohane is not listed. He is Frank O'Mahony of Bantry.



A New Way of Looking at Register Nov 13, 2004

You are viewing a version of Register written in HTML, the language of the internet. I am publishing Register in this form on a CD. The CD will run on either PC or Mac, either directly or installed on a hard disk. This, the Since 2nd Edition document, is included and can be kept up to date at this web site.



More Resources, Additional Immigrant, and Additional Information Nov 13, 2004

Margie Ellis, a granddaughter of John Ellis, sent me documents on my father's homestead. I will contact the National Archives in Denver for more information (using Form 84). I hope to see the complete file which contains proofs of occupancy and, I suppose, the eventual disposition of the land. I was spurred to visit the National Archives in Chicago to view the 1920 and 1930 censuses. On the 1920 page, I learned that my father, then a bachelor, was living with John and Margaret Hurley. Dad was working as a welder at the Standard refinery. And, of course, rhere was additional information about John and Margaret. They owned their home without a mortgage. John was 38 as of Jan 1, 1920. He immigrated in 1900, and was naturalized in 1905. Margaret was 37 (31?), immigrated in 1906, and was naturalized in 1917. John worked at a wool warehouse.
On the same page was Mary Lloyd, who with her husband John, ran the CY Drugstore (known always in my family as LLoyd's). Mary was 34. I neglected to record any dates. Mary was not previosly included in Register.



Another Source and Another Story Nov. 13, 2004

Register tells of General John O'Neill's strikes at the British through his attacks on Canada. It tells of his wagon trains bringing Irish immigrants to Nebraska's Holt County where lies the town named for him. Before Today: A History of Holt County Nebraska by Nellie Snyder Yost is an excellent reference. Casper College will soon have a copy of this book published by Holt County Historical Society.
There is a passage in Before Today that describes an incident near Castleton, Cork in the starvation years of 1845 to 1850.
. . . when the potato famine was so bad in Ireland and the people were starving, a big whale washed ashore near Castleton [Cork]. The people ground their axes and knives and started cutting the beast into chunks for meat and oil. But an English maritime vessel noted the great gathering of people and came in to drive the Irish away with short arms, after which they hauled the whale out to sea and blew it to bits with the ship's guns.

N.B. I have been advised, and thought myself, that Castleton is probably Castletown. Indeed, a web search found a document that confirms that Castletown was sometimes spelled without the w.



A Poem that was paraphrased in Register

John J. Crowley was orphaned at ten in Ireland. His Register entry is repeated here. He wrote a poem about his years on the range caring for sheep. If I had attempted that poem, it would have been grammatical, punctuated perfectly, and spelled correctly. It would also have been lifeless. John told his story with eloquence and feeling. He tells us what life on the prairie and in the mountains was like for him and for the many Casper sheepmen, be they Irish, Scotch, Basque, or Spanish. The poem is reproduced below as he wrote it, and then as I've corrected spelling and added punctuation.

John J. Crowley

John was the son of Nora Mahoney, sister of Michael Mahoney (21). John's parents died in Ireland when he was 10. He was brought to Casper and was raised by Michael (21) and Mary Mahoney. He worked for the Mahoney Brothers Sheep Co., for John Burke, and for other sheep companies in Casper, Sheridan, Worland, and Thermopolis for over 40 years. Just before he died (about 1986), John worked for Don Swanton.

Don shared a poem by John that speaks of his 54 years as a herder, starting as a young boy. He tells of the cold and of the long hard days and nights, of loneliness, of defending the sheep against the coyotes. He speaks of his desire to leave Wyoming and return to Ireland, but as he comes to the end of his days he tells us that he'll ask God to let him return to the life of a herder in Wyoming.

Left Cobh on President Polk. Arrived Portland, Maine 11-1-1923.
Declaration of Intent 3-6-1934

His poem is published here.

It's been fifty years and four since I left old Erin's shore
To cross the wild Atlantic for this land of liberty.

Wyoming was my destination, a shepherd boy to be.
And that is why I came to Casper Town in the Fall of '23.

Shure it was early in the morning to the hills I had to go,
And live alone, a herding sheep through all the frost and snow.

The winter was fast a coming, the grass a golden brown,
The clouds a rolling by and the snow flakes thrashing down.

There stood old Casper Mountain covered o'er white with snow.
Shure it looked so cold and wintery you'd freeze from head to toe.

Old Ireland Dear if I had wings, it's back to you I'd fly.
For I'd never herd for the Mahoney Brothers or be a shepherd boy.

For it's early in the evening to camp that I must head.
To camp that I must head before the sheep would bed.

For there I got to wash and dry the dishes and also make some bread,
For all the work it's got to be done by night before you go to bed.

Shure it's early then next morning just at the break of day
Them sheep will make a break and run and graze for another day.

Shure herding sheep is a lonely life, as you might understand.
It's hard to get up at midnight with a rifle in your hand.

The coyote he'll be around, a howling for his prey
And with that 30-30 I will try and scare him far away.

O fare thee well, old Casper Town, I am bidding you adieu.
For it's many the windy day I spent between old Salt Creek and You.

And now that I am growing old and gray, and the years have swiftly passed me by,
And now that I am contented and peaceable in mind,

As for the wilds of Casper I will soon be leaving far behind
But on that day of judgment, if I have but a choice,

I will ask my God to send me back on this Old Earth
Just a shepherd boy to be.

Back out on these Old Wyoming plains
A herding sheep for all eternity.


Correction
The following Steve Tobin biography is from Register (page Notes 86). Cevic's arrival date should be October 16, 1895. It has been corrected below.
The sentence, Julia is probably this Julia, is meaningless here, the result of a copy-and-paste gone astray.
Julia is referred to many times in Register as ID #66. Her husband, Jeremiah Mahoney, is #66. She is #69.
The date of John and Hannah's marriage (published in her entry) is at odds with the arrival of the Cevic.
This must be the voyage during which the rams (see Steve's story below) were brought to America.

Cevic was built as a livestock carrier in by Harland & Wolff as a replacement for Naronic. She was 523 ft long, 60 ft in the beam, carried 1000 head, and had a service speed of 13 knots. She made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York City January 12, 1894. On her return to England, she held the largest cargo carried until that time: 14,000 bushels of grain, 9,000 bales of cotton, 3,500 sacks of flour, 400 tons of metal, 300 tons of meat, 8,400 packages of produce, and 896 head of cattle. In 1908 she served the England-Australia route, mainly by way of the Cape of Good Hope; she had difficulty with the Suez Canal route due to her deep draught.
She was converted in 1914 to mimic the battleship HMS Queen Mary. Her mission was successful though she had two funnels to Queen Mary's one. In 1916 in the largest naval battle of WWI, the Battle of Jutland, a flash from one of the Queen Mary's guns ignited a powder magazine, killing over 1600 of her crew. Fourteen commercial ships were converted to masquerade as warships. Only one, HMS Tiger, was lost. She was sunk May 30, 1915 by a submarine in the Dardanelles campaign.
Cevic later served as an oil carrier both commercially and for the British navy. In her later years she was called Bayol, Bayleaf, and Pryula. She was scrapped in 1933.



Steve Tobin

Steve was one of eleven children of Johanna O'Mahony and Peter Tobin, eight of whom came to Wyoming. His sister, Mary Ellen, died in Ireland, and sister, Dora (Tobin) Hurley, remained on the Sheepshead Peninsula, and sister, Bridget (Tobin) Lynch, returned to Sheepshead where she married Henry Lynch. Steve's second wife was Florence Twitchell.
See Nora Swanton (226).

Gouladoo is a townland on the Goat's Path, on the edge of the Bantry Bay side of Sheepshead Peninsula. Those on the other side view Dunmanus Bay.

Cevic arrived at NYC October 16, 1895. On a single manifest page were listed: John Mahoney 41y, Hannah Mahoney 30y, John Francis Mahoney 10m, Julia Mahoney 21y, Stephen Tobin 20y, and 3 stowaways. The first 3 are probably Rawlins John and family returning from a visit. Julia is probably this Julia. Stephen is probably this Stephen.

See Julia Mahoney #66.

Steve and Murdock McPhearson played on a town football team against Douglas. Was it American football or soccer? [Soccer undoubtedly - I have a photo of a soccer team that includes the two Anderson brothers and Scotty Jack.}


Additional Immigrant
Father Thomas Cleary was born in County Wexford. He was educated and ordained (June 9, 1940) at Wexford's seminary, St. Peter's College. WWII prevented him from coming to Wyoming until 1944. He served in Rawlins, Sheridan, and Casper until 1949 when he became pastor in Riverton. He served as pastor in Lander, Green River, and Torrington. In 1973 he became pastor of St Patrick's in Casper. In 1974 he served in Greybull. He retired in 1983, and now lives in Cromoque, County Wexford. The source for this information is The St. Patrick's Story: 1963-1987 by Charlotte M. Babcock.


Additional Immigrant
Monsignor James McBride is a cousin of Father Thomas Sheridan. He is probably from Cavan. He served in Wyoming, but I have no more details. He is mentioned in the main section of Register in association with father Thomas Sheridan. The source for this information is The St. Patrick's Story: 1963-1987 by Charlotte M. Babcock.



Correction Register includes the sentence:
The St. Patrick Story tells us that Father Sheridan was a cousin of two Wyoming priests, Father Comiskey and Father McBride, from Cavan.
The name Father Comiskey is in error. The sentence should be:
The St. Patrick Story tells us that Father Sheridan was a cousin of two Wyoming priests from Cavan, Father Charles Brady and Father McBride.
I do not know if there was a Father Comiskey.

The following article about Steve Tobin is from a manuscript in the Mokler Historical Collection at Casper College Library. It may have been written by Alfred Mokler, but it is not signed. We have some idea of its date since it was written on the back of Wendell Willkie 1940 presidential campaign fliers.
It is published here with the kind permission of Casper College.

Steve Tobin came to Wyoming from Ireland in the fall of 1895 in charge of 120 blooded rams for John Mahoney of Rawlins. Mr. Mahoney had purchased the stock in England, and then while visiting among relatives and friends in Ireland he met young Steve and asked him how he would like to come to America. The young Irish lad was not only willing, but anxious to make the trip, and arrangements were made which predestined the young man's fortune. Shortly after he arrived in Rawlins and delivered the blooded stock to the owner, he decided to come to Casper where there were a number of his friends who had come here from his former home town in Ireland.

Steve left Rawlins on a cold, frosty morning in November. He made the 125 mile trip alone and on foot. The first night out he stopped at Jim Conklin's Sand Creek ranch (now the Buzzard ranch). After walking all the next day, without anything to eat except breakfast with the Conklin family, he reached Independence Rock. It was cold, dark and dismal when he arrived at this outstanding landmark of the old Oregon Trail. He was tired and hungry, but here he decided to rest, even though he could not appease his hunger. He gathered some sage brush and made a fire in a cave of the Rock, where he slept till the break of day. At early dawn, without nourishment of any kind except a drink of water from the Sweetwater river, he proceeded on his way, arriving at the Schroeder ranch on Fish Creek at suppertime. After a light supper, Schroeder put the young man to bed on a feather tick which he had brought from Germany. From the moment the weary-worn lad stretched out in this bed of comfort he slept soundly until Schroeder awakened him in the morning. After a breakfast of hot cakes and coffee, he thanked his benefactor and started on a run for Casper. He was now on his "home stretch", and he ran nearly all the distance – 25 miles – arriving in this frontier "sheep" town at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Casper's population at that time was less than 500. He applied to Pat Sullivan for a job, and got it. He was sent to Fremont, Nebraska, with a train load of sheep. The sheep were unloaded at Freemont, and taken to the feeding pens near Arlington, where Steve attended to them all winter. He was paid $12 per month, with meals and room furnished. When he returned to Casper in the spring of 1896, he had more money than he had ever had before in his lifetime. Then he went out on the range where he herded sheep. In a few years he became a partner in the sheep business with Mr. Sullivan. Then a few years later he owned a small band of sheep in his own name. In 1897 sheepmen of Wyoming commenced to recover from the depression which had prevailed the past four years. Prices for wool and lambs had risen twice as high as they were during the dark, dispirited, melancholy four years of 1892-96, and with economy, industry and zeal in the years that followed, Steve Tobin became one of Natrona County's leading stockmen and prominent citizens, having been honored by representing our county in the State Legislature a number of times, and today he is one of our most prosperous, respected and upright citizens.

When I (HAW) read this article to Joe Burke, he was reminded of another long walk. Denver Tim Mahoney walked from Sullivan Valley in the Big Horns to Armento (perhaps 45 miles), caught a train to Casper, woke in Glenrock, and walked back to Casper (perhaps 25 miles).

Additional Immigrant
Ellen Sullivan was born Nov 6 or 7, 1891 to Dennis Sullivan and Mary Daly at Glown, Kilcrohane, Durrus, Cork. She married William F. Witt in Casper Sep 3, 1912. Their marriage license states that they were both over 21, though her birthdate indicates she was just under 21. The witnesses to the marriage were Dan Burke and Miss Nellie Driscoll. The witnesses to her baptism in Ireland were Mary Tobin and Dan Sullivan. Nellie Driscoll and Pat Sullivan (Ellen's brother) were witnesses to the baptism of Ellen's daughter, the mother of Christine Daly-Sullivan who is the source of this information. Ellen and William left Casper for Texas.


Correction Ellen Sullivan (592) was born at Blair's Cove, not Blaris. She is probably a sister of Dan Sullivan (78).





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