Johnson County WY Archives Biographies.....Hersey, George P. 
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Author: A. W. Bowen (Publisher)

GEORGE P. HERSEY.

   George P. Hersey, a prominent and successful stock-grower of Johnson county,
came to Wyoming in 1881 and has since resided within her borders. He was then
without capital except his determined and resourceful spirit and his excellent
health and experience he has gained in hard knocks in various parts of this
country, but he is now one of the substantial and wealthy men of his county.
Whatever he has now in worldly possessions he has accumulated in Wyoming and he
may therefore be truly called a production of the state as well as a developer
of her industries and natural resources. He was born in far away New Hampshire,
the son of Stephen and Caroline (Thompson) Hersey, natives of Massachusetts. He
grew to manhood and was educated in his native state, living on the old
homestead and assisting in its health-giving but unremunerative toil, until he
was twenty years old. In 1879 he came to Colorado and went to work in a mill and
after two years of this occupation removed to Johnson county, Wyo., settling on
the Brace ranch. He also took up land in company with Fred Hanchett. In 1886 he
sold out to the 4 H Ranch Company and then bought an interest in the enterprise.
He was interested with this outfit ten years when it sold out and in 1887 Mr.
Hersey bought a ranch on Rock Creek which he still owns, in 1887 settling on the
ranch which is now his home, which consists of 2,200 acres of land under deed
and 8,000 acres of leased premises. On this wide expanse of territory he has
large herds of fine cattle, the most of his output being high-grade Herefords.
In all matters of benefit and utility to the section in which he lives Mr.
Hersey takes an earnest interest. He is treasurer and one of the leading
stockholders of the Clouds Peak Reservoir Co., and has given much time and
energy to its development and the proper application of its benefits. In 1891,
at Butler, Mo., he was married with Miss Georgia Basma, a native of Michigan.
They have one child, their daughter Myrtle. Their home is one of the pleasant
resorts of the neighborhood, where their friends always find a hearty welcome
and a generous hospitality and where the stranger can confidently enter an open
door and find pleasant entertainment.


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1903


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