Albany County WY Archives Biographies.....Hamner, Archie D. 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wy/wyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 21, 2011, 12:35 pm Source: See below Author: A. W. Bowen (Publisher) ARCHIE D. HAMNER. One of the progressive and rising young men of Albany county, Wyoming, is the subject of this brief sketch, Archie D. Hamner, whose address is Spring Hill. A native of the state of New York, he was born in Hamilton county, August 19, 1866, the son of Charles and Hulda (Jordan) Hamner, both also natives of the Empire state. His father was a farmer in his native state until 1883, when he disposed of his property and removed to Iowa, establishing his home in Butler county and there continued life as a farmer until 1880, when he went to the territory of Wyoming, settled in Horseshoe Creek Park, and there engaged in cattleraising. Here he continued up to the year 1894, when he disposed of his property in Wyoming to good advantage, and returned again to his early home at Long Lake, Hamilton county, N. Y., where he has since made his home. The mother passed away in November, 1899, and awaits the resurrection in the burial ground at Long Lake, New York. Archie D. Hamner grew to manhood in his native state and received his early education in the public schools of Long Lake. In 1883 he came to Iowa with his parents and there remained until 1880, assisting his father in the work and management of the farm. In tile latter year he followed his father to Wyoming and took up the home ranch which he occupies on Horseshoe Creek, in Albany county, about twenty-eight miles west of Glendo, engaged in the cattle business and there remained until 1892, when he removed to Deadwood, South Dakota, for about four months, but not meeting with the success there he had anticipated, he returned to his ranch on Horseshoe Creek and continued in his former business of cattleraising until the spring of 1894, when, selling his cattle, he purchased a large band of horses which he drove overland to Iowa and then shipped them to New York. Owing to the low price of horses this business venture did not prove to be successful and he returned to his ranch and again engaged in the cattle business. By hard work, energy and determined perseverance he has retrieved his losses and built himself up, until he is now counted one of the prosperous business men of that section of the county. In the early part of 1900 he purchased one-half interest in a sawmill near his ranch, and was a partner in that business until June, 1902, when he disposed of his interest in the mill to good advantage. Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to the cattle business. In 1899 he visited his parents in New York and was there at the time of his mother's death. Mr. Hamner has a fine home ranch, consisting of 480 acres of land, well fenced and improved, having all the equipments for the successful carrying on of the cattleraising business. Mr. Hamner has recently purchased a claim in the mountains adjacent to the laud there owned by him, which makes him the owner of 640 acres in the hills, where he has a summer range for 1,000 head of stock, but as he could cut but 150 tons of hay. and realizing that he must use much more than that quantity, he bought a ranch of 320 acres at the mouth of Horseshoe Creek, twenty miles below the hills, which can be made to produce 500 tons of alfalfa hay, and with this property he obtained 900 acres of leased land. There is a weed that grows in the hills which is so poisonous that it frequently kills the cattle that eat it during the six weeks of the spring season that it is attractive for food, so Mr. Hamner, by having a ranch in the valley where he can keep his stock during this period, can avoid the loss he has heretofore suffered from this cause. He has just completed a fine modern residence of nine rooms, where he and his attractive wife generously entertain their numerous friends. On April 24, 1889, at Douglas, Wyo., Mr. Hamner was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Newell, a native of Iowa and the daughter of George and Adelia Newell, prominent citizens of Black Hawk county, Iowa, of which state they were pioneers and later, in 1880, they removed their residence from that state to the territory of Wyoming, where they established their home on Horseshoe Creek, where the father was a stockman up to the time of his demise, the mother still residing at the home ranch. Mr. Hamner has made a study of the important subject of irrigation, and is one of the best informed men on that subject, which is of such vast importance to the western country. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the order of Woodmen of the World, as a member of the lodge at Douglas, Wyoming. In politics he is identified with the Republican party, and is taking an active and prominent part in the party in the section where he resides, being held in high esteem by all who know him. 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