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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

MRS. EMMA M. DUDLEY.

   The multifarious requirements of American life, especially among the yet
untamed conditions of the great Northwest, afford opportunities to every class
and character of human enterprise and usefulness, and open to women of
progressive and resolute spirit as many doors to profitable activity as to men.
Among the members of the fair sex who are entitled to special mention as
influential and productive elements in the civilization and development of this
section, none has shown greater resourcefulness and self-reliance, or achieved
more substantial and continuous success than Mrs. Emma M. (Armstrong) Dudley,
now of Davis Ranch, Laramie county, Wyo. She was born in Otsego county, N. Y.,
on December 23, 1839, a daughter of William and Eunice (Gibson) Armstrong, also
natives of the Empire state. Her father was a stonemason by trade, a member of
the Masonic fraternity and in 1849 he removed his family to Wakeman, Ohio, and
there followed his craft profitably until his death in June, 1893, at the age of
ninety-nine years. His wife died in 1884, aged eighty-four. Mrs. Dudley was
educated in the schools at Wakeman, Ohio, remaining there until her marriage on
October 3, 1858, to Joseph Dereemer at Norwalk, Ohio, who was a native of the
state and a prosperous farmer. She and her husband removed to California in
1863, where, after three years of mining and other pursuits her husband died,
his widow then returning to her Ohio home, where she remained until 1871, when
she came to Wyoming and took up a ranch on Horse Creek near her present location
and engaged in cattle raising. In 1887 she sold her ranch and passed five years
in Ohio, educating her daughter, Lillie Lathan, the child of a second marriage,
who attended schools at Wakeman and Norwalk. During her stay in Ohio at this
time Mrs. Dudley's father died, and in September, 1893, she returned to Wyoming
and the next year took up her present ranch on Horse Creek, thirty-three miles
north of Cheyenne, on which she has since resided, being busily occupied in her
growing catttle industry, building it up from an unpretentious beginning to very
gratifying proportions. She gives her personal attention to every detail of the
business and with rare capacity and shrewdness pushes it to successful issues in
every way. Her cattle are of high grade and have a rank in the markets second to
none. By her marriage to Mr. Dereemer she had one child, Charles A. Dereemer.
Her union with Daniel S. Lathan occurred at Cheyenne on March 27, 1871. They had
one child, as has been noted, Lillian E. Lathan, now the wife of Charlie Bliss,
of Cheyenne, and the marriage of Mrs. Lathan to William G. Dudley took place at
Cheyenne on January 19, 1888. Mrs. Dudley is a member of the Christian church,
active in the charities and other good works conducted under its inspiration and
supervision. She was one of the early settlers on Horse Creek and braved the
fury of savage men and inhospitable elements, having much trouble and many
exciting experiences with the Indians and seeing weather at times which required
the utmost fortitude and endurance. For a time her nearest neighbors were
twenty-five miles distant and self-reliance was one of the daily and hourly
necessities of the situation.


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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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