Crook County WY Archives Biographies.....Hemler, Ambrose A. 1852 - 
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AMBROSE A. HEMLER.

    From the hills and valleys of southern Pennsylvania which teem with a
thrifty, self-reliant and resourceful population, to the prairies and ranges of
eastern Wyoming, as yet almost untenanted, which promise bountiful returns for
the zeal of the husbandman and ample opportunity for all, is a long step in
longitude and conditions, but it is one that rewards those who make it. most
repaying them for the loss in volume of associations, number and completeness in
educational and civic agencies, settledness and security in fiscal and
government surroundings, with boundless scope for skill. limitless openings for
enterprise, an uncramped field for personal dominion and unmeasured readiness
and responsiveness of market for every ware they have to offer, whether it be of
labor or its fruits. This step has been taken by Ambrose A. Hemler of Crook
county, to his advantage. He was born in Adams county, Pa., on September 16,
1852. There his parents, George and Catherine (Smith) Hemler lived and
prospered, as their forefathers had done for generations; and there in 1871,
after a useful life which was ended before its energy was spent, the mother was
laid to rest. The father is a plasterer by trade, and although advanced in years
is still pursuing his serviceable craft in the place of his nativity. Their son
Ambrose was educated in the schools of his native county, and two terms in the
Conowago Preparatory School in the same state. He then had to quit his studies
on account of failing eyesight, and began his business career as a clerk and
salesman in a store at Port Carbon in the same state. He followed his service in
this capacity with two years of hard work as a fireman on the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad and in 1879 started for the great West, reaching Kansas in the
fall and halting there for the winter, the next spring going to Missouri where
he worked on a farm for a year. The next year was passed in similar work in
Illinois and the next still in Nebraska. In the spring of 1882 he came to South
Dakota and during the following two years was employed on a farm near Spearfish.
He then passed two more years working in a sawmill in the Black Hills and in
1886 came to Wyoming and to Crook county. His first employment here was for
eighteen months in the service of a large cattle company on Powder River. He
then took up the ranch on which he now lives, ten miles north of Sundance, where
he has remained and built up an expanding industry in ranching and
cattleraising, adding to his land as circumstances permitted or required, now
having a considerable body by deed and and more by lease. He is one of the
commanding and representative stockmen of the section, and has influence of
weight in all the affairs of the county. No enterprise of moment for the
improvement of his portion of the state but feels the impulse of his quickening
hand and has the benefit of his wise and active mind. As an evidence of his
productive and developing tendencies, it should be stated that in 1883 he dared
danger and exposure in helping to build the telephone line from Deadwood to
Custer and Rapid City, S. D. On May 16, 1885, Mr. Hemler married with Miss Laura
E. White of Spearfish, S. D., where the marriage took place. She was a daughter
of Thomas O. and Mary F. (Jack) White, former residents of Missouri where she
was born and where her mother died. Her father then removed to Spearfish and
there passed the rest of his life. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
Wars and a highly esteemed citizen of two states. Mr. and Mrs. Hemler have six
children, Francis, George, Charles, Chester, Bryan and Clara. His father was
also a veteran of the Civil War, seeing active service in that contest as a
member of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Pennsylvania Infantry.


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