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Author: A. W. Bowen (Publisher)

KENNETH McDONALD.

   How many times the student of Scottish history has read with bated breath of
the gallant and romantic exploits of the McDonalds, as for generation after
generation they have had no small part in forming and deciding great affairs of
state by their valor, their statesmanship, and even by their misfortunes. The
name has ever stood sponsor for the good qualities of Scotch character and its
brilliancy, endurance and law-abiding loyalty, are displayed in the present
century as strongly as in any of the bygone days. One of the leaders in
Wyoming's immense cattle industry, now making the headquarters of his almost
imperial operations on Willow Creek, sixty miles northwest of Casper, where he
owns and controls several thousand acres of land, also owning the water rights
from Willow Creek to and including the "Hole in the Wall" country, a distance of
nine miles, is the well-known Kenneth McDonald. It would be a great omission
indeed in any work purporting to speak of the progressive men of Wyoming, to
leave this man and his works unspoken of. Rosshire, Scotland, has been the home
of his ancestors for many generations, and here the subject of this review was
born on October 9, 1848, the son of Alexander and Mary (Tulloch) McDonald, and
to him was given the name of his paternal grandfather, Kenneth McDonald. In 1852
Alexander McDonald emigrated, taking his family to Australia, where he engaged
in contracting and later in an extensive sheep business for the nineteen years
of his residence in that far southern land, where Kenneth became proficient in
the best methods there employed in the raising and care of sheep. In 1871 the
father returned to Scotland, dying there in 1874, Kenneth being his only son and
his sole surviving child. From Australia Kenneth went to New Zealand and on the
west coast was connected with mining and later with stockraising. continuing
there for four years. California was his next objective point and residence and
from 1875 to 1887 Mr. McDonald was identified with sheepraising, which his
valuable Australian experience enabled him to conduct in a very successful
manner in various western states and territories. In 1887 he went to Scotland,
in 1888 returned to America and at once laid the foundations of his present
enormous operations, making his location on the site of his present home, paying
attention entirely to sheep, of which he now owns thirty thousand. From that
time to the present writing his progress has been steadily onward, his
improvements, his herds and his labors have increased as year after year has
come and gone, prosperity and wealth coming to him in a satisfactory measure,
while he has so comported himself as to be not only a representative sheepman,
but an honored citizen, enjoying the friendship and confidence of the best
people of the section and the esteem of his associates, being a highly popular
member of the stockraising circles of the state, his untiring industry and
shrewd business ability ever indicating his Scotch ancestry. His political
affiliations are strongly with the Republican party, but although laboring
zealously for the success of its principles and candidates, he has absolutely no
desire for political preferment, positively refusing any nomination for public
position. In Freemasonry, Mr. McDonald has attained the Thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite. On July 25, 1893, he was married, the bride being Miss
Lillian Startzwell, a native of Pennsylvania.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
ILLUSTRATED

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


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