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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

EDWIN S. DRURY.

  The founder, editor and one of the proprietors of the Grand Encampment Herald,
one of the leading newspapers of southern Wyoming, Edwin S. Drury, is a native
of Tabor, Fremont county, Iowa. He was born on February 23, 1872, the son of C.
J. and Mary (Dunham) Drury, both natives of Michigan. His paternal grandfather,
Charles Drury, was a native of the state of Xcw York, removing from that state
many years ago to Michigan, where he was one of the earliest pioneers, and long
engaged in agricultural pursuits. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Drury was also
born in New York and removed from that state to Michigan, where he spent the
latter days of his life, being a prominent minister of the Baptist faith. The
father of our subject in 18G1 answered to the call of President Lincoln for
troops to defend the integrity of the Union, and enlisted as a member of the
Seventeenth Michigan Regiment and was in service for some time, but was
compelled to retire from active service on account of illness for a considerable
time. Upon his recovery he again enlisted and continued in the military service
up to the close of the Civil War. Upon being mustered out of the arms' he
determined to seek his fortune in the far West, and removed his residence to
California, where he remained for about three years, engaged in prosperous
farming, stockraising and mining. He then returned to Michigan and later removed
his home to Iowa. During his residence in Michigan he ably served the people of
his county in the office of sheriff, discharging the responsible duties of that
position with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. lie
was for many years one of the representative men of the section of the state
where he maintained his home. Edwin S. Drury was the first son of a family of
six children, and grew to man's estate in Michigan, receiving his elementary
education in the public schools of Cass county. He early learned the printers'
trade and at the age of eighteen years went into business for himself at Lawton,
Mich., where he began the publication of the newspaper known as The Lawton
Leader. In this enterprise he met with success, due to the energy and industry
with which he conducted the business. Subsequently he successfully passed the
civil service examination for employment in the service of the United States
government and was assigned to the Bureau of Printing at Washington, D. C.,
where he remained but a few months owing to the failure of his health through
malaria, and he resigned his position and removed to Wyoming, where he selected
the new town of Encampment as a desirable location for a newspaper. This was in
the fall of 1S97, when there were but three buildings in the place, but he was
satisfied with its prospects, and returning to Michigan he closed up his
business interests in that state and in the spring of 1898 made his home at
Encampment, where he associated himself in business with his brother, W. C.
Drury, and they began the publication of the Grand Encampment Herald. They have
been very successful, and are now the owners of one of the best equipped
printing plants in Wyoming, and their publication is recognized as the leading
newspaper of that section of the state. On November 29, 1893, Mr. Drury was
united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Root, a native of Michigan, and the
daughter of D. T. Root, a highly respected citizen and horticulturist of that
state. Fraternally Mr. Drury is affiliated with the Freemasons and also with the
Modern Woodmen of America, and takes an active interest in the social and
fraternal life of the community. Politically he is a stanch member of the
Republican party, recognized as one of the trusted local leaders of that
political organization. In 1808 he received the appointment of postmaster of
Encampment, and upon the expiration of his term of office was reappointed for
another term of four years. His administration has given satisfaction to the
business men of the community, as well as to the public generally. Mr. Drury is
largely interested in mining enterprises in and about Encampment, was the
organizer of the Coldwater Copper Mining Co., which is the owner of the six
valuable Wolverine claims located at Pearl, Colo., which promise to develop into
one of the great mines of that state. He is the vice-president and manager of
this company, and has successfully conducted its operations, and he also holds
the same position in the Kalamazoo Mining Co., which owns property adjoining
that of the Coldwater Co. As a newspaper man and editor, Mr. Drury enjoys a
well-merited reputation, and his publishing establishment is supplied with, all
modern improvements and appliances for the publication of a live and up-to-date
newspaper. Progressive, enterprising and ever foremost in the advocacy of all
measures calculated to be of advantage to the general public, he is a powerful
factor in the development of this section of his adopted state. He has done
much, both personally and through the Herald, to attract the atention of outside
capital to the great resources of Carbon county, and to bring about the further
settlement of the country in the vicinity of the city of his residence. He is
one of the rising men of Wyoming, and destined to take a prominent place in its
future history.


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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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