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PROGRESSIVE MEN
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THE STATE OF WYOMING
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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote
ancestors, will never achieve anything
worthy to be remembered with pride by remote generations -
MACAULAY
Chicago, Ill.
A. W. Bowen & Co.,
Publishers and Engrave___
1901
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JAMES M. ENOCH.
All climes, all countries, and, especially, all states of our
Union, have furnished men of force and enterprise for the
development of our great Northwest. From the Lone Star
state came to Wyoming James M. Enoch, now a prominent
stockgrower, farmer and citizen, living ten miles north of
Sheridan, a pioneer in Wyoming, of 1880, who, since that early
time has been devoting his energies and influence to the growth
and improvement of the state and to the advancement of the
people and their interests. He was born in Texas on Dec.
10, 1854, the son of Jason and Harriet E. (Wood) Enoch,
the former a native of Texas and teh latter of Alabama. On
a farm and stock ranch in Texas he grew to manhood, being fully
educated in the hard school of experience, which gives good
store of worldly wisdom without much learning from the books.
It is not to be supposed however, that Mr. Enoch was
deprived wholly of this, for he attended the schools of his
neighborhood, but his opportunities for schooling of this sort
were limited, for life had for him stern and exacting duties
from his early youth, and his devotion to and his proper
performance of them now tell in the skill and success with which
he conducts the business he has built up. In 1880 he came
to Wyoming with the Murphy Cattle Co., then located on Piney
Creek, where an extensive cattle business was conducted.
He remained with his company until 1886, then came to Sheridan
County to begin an independent stock industry, and which he
carried on for two years. In 1888 he was elected sheriff
of the county, and, after serving a term of two years, he formed
a partnership association with Capt. E. Cross in the
stock business, which they carried on with profit and success
until 1895. In that year he settled on the beautiful ranch
on the Prairie Dog Creek, which has since been his home, and on
which he has been conducting a prosperous and expanding
industry, in the line he has followed through life, handling
principally cattle, but having some horses and sheep. His
ranch comprises 280 acres of the best land in the neighborhood
and he has in addition a considerable acreage of leased land.
It goes without saying, in connection with a man of his thrift
and enterprise, that he has his place well improved, thoroughly
equipped and tastefully adorned, and that it gives every
evidence of his skill as a farmer, his capacity as a stockman
and of his progressiveness as a citizen. In the
consideration of improvements for the section of country in
which he lives Mr. Enoch is always in the front rank of
the most active and energetic. He is president of the
Prairie Dog Water Supply Co. and a member of the Kearney Lake
Reservoir Co. His knowledge of the stock industry and his
executive ability were recognized by the leading stockmen of the
state in a signal manner when he was sent in 1882 to St. Paul as
the stock inspector for the Wyoming Stock Association, and his
fidelity and great capacity in the discharge of these duties in
this position won him general commendation. In 1889 Mr.
Enoch was married in Sheridan to Miss Laura J. Buckley,
a native of Wisconsin. She died in 1896, leaving three
children, James H., Minnie B. and Laura J. Mr.
Enoch is recognized as one of the leading citizens of the
county, one of its bulwarks against the inroads of improper
enterprise or narrowness of spirit, as well as one of its most
capable and farseeing developers and civic forces.
Source: Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming -
Publ. 1902 - Page 805 |
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JESSE M.
FROST was reared on a farm near Albert Lea, Minnesota,
where he was born on Dec. 20, 1867, and was educated at the
public schools. His father, Mahlon Frost, was a
native of Ohio, and his mother, whose maiden name was Nancy
E. Ward, came from Pennsylvania. They were well-to-do
farmers in Minnesota, and in 1883 they sold their property in
that state and removed to Bismarck, N. D., where they remained
three years. In 1886 they came to Wyoming, locating in
Bighorn county, took up their residence at first on the South
Fork of the Shoshone River, and there father and son engaged in
hunting and in trapping for two years, when, in 1888, they
changed their residence to the place where the son now lives, at
Frost Station, and settled on land which they there took up on
homestead and desert claims, and on which they started the
cattle business that J. M. Frost is still conducting.
Since that time the parents have removed to California where
they are now living. Mr. Frost has 400 acres of
good land and runs about 250 high grade cattle. He has
been thrifty and frugal in his life, as well as industrious and
enterprising in his business, and has accumulated a competency,
owning valuable property in Meeteetse and also in Cody.
His ranch and stock industries, however, form his principal
business, and to them he gives a close and careful attention,
bringing to bear on their operations, with a view to securing
the best results, the intelligence acquired from judicious
reading and discriminating observation, omitting no effort on
his part considered necessary to the full fruition of his hopes
in every respect touching the business in which he is engaged.
The well-improved condition of his ranch proclaims his energy
and skill as a farmer, while the appearance of his cattle showed
the care he bestows upon them. He is well-known as one of
the progressive and wide-awake stockmen of his neighborhood,
whose business capacity and sagacity has impressed itself on
everything of which he has taken hold, and his public spirit and
breadth of view respecting local public affairs, have made him a
factor in all matters tending to the advancement and improvement
of the community. He is a valued member of the lodge of
Modern Woodmen of America at Cody, and gives to its affairs the
same earnest attention and zealous service that he gives to
every interest which he has in charge. On Sept. 27, 1899,
he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Brannon, a
native of Illinois, but, at the time of her marriage, residing
at Cody, where the marriage occurred. They have these
children, Jesse and Lisle and Wilmet.
Source: Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming -
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