Laramie County WY Archives Biographies.....Melloy, Albert R. 1860 - 
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ALBERT R. MELLOY.

   Among the enterprising men who have taken up their residence in Laramie
county. Wyoming, and exerted influence on the community, especially in
connection with the livestock industry, is Albert R. Melloy, whose individuality
of character, strong physical and mental powers and progressive ideas have made
his name familiar in his section of the state. Few men have had a more active
career and perhaps no one in this part of the country has traveled more
extensively or profited as much by his observations as did Mr. Melloy before his
settlement on the place he now occupies. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, on
February 29, 1860. His father was Richard Melloy, a native of Ireland who a
number of years ago came to Perry county where he married Martha Dolan, a native
of Ohio. Later he migrated to Illinois where he followed agricultural pursuits
for some years, moving thence to Lincoln, Neb., near which city he also engaged
in farming. His wife died at Kickapoo, Ill., in 1865 and he departed this life
in 1894 at his home in Nebraska. Albert R. Melloy was young when his parents
left Ohio and his early youth was passed in Marshall county, Ill. The public
school contributed to his educational discipline and until twenty years of age
he lived at home as his father's capable and faithful assistant on the farm.
About 1880 he left the parental roof and began working for himself at Lincoln,
Neb., as hod carrier, but did not remain long at that place or this employment,
leaving the city after a few months to take a position on a railroad. After
spending several months in this occupation on a road in eastern Nebraska, he was
in the employ of the Missouri River Railroad for about four months when he
returned to Nebraska and engaged for about two years in farming near the state
capital, thence removing to Grand Island where he spent the following summer
variously employed. During the two ensuing years he farmed in Fillmore county,
Neb., in 1885 returning to Lincoln, where he remained until the spring of 1886
when he went to western Nebraska and entered the employ of a ranchman near the
town of Tabor, where he remained until the spring of 1887, from that place
coming to Wyoming and for some months worked on an irrigating ditch. After this
labor he engaged with the P. F. Cattle Co. to work as a ranch hand on the
Platte, in which capacity he continued until the fall of the above year when he
resigned his position and returned to Nebraska, spending the ensuing winter at
Tabor. The next spring he resumed his relations with the P. F. Co. from which
time until the fall of 1888 he was employed on several ranches and became
thoroughly experienced in the details of the livestock business. The winter of
1888 and 1889 he spent in visiting relatives and friends in Lincoln and Fillmore
counties, Neb., in the spring returning to Wyoming and subsequently changing his
location to Colorado where for two years he was engaged in mining. From Colorado
Mr. Melloy in 1891 went to Big Creek, Idaho, but that place he soon left and
made his way to Butte, Mont., where he followed mining for a limited period,
thence going to Salt Lake City, Utah, and from there, in a very short time,
going to Eureka, Utah, where he followed mining with fair results until the fall
of 1892 when he returned to Wyoming and took up his present ranch on the Platte
River, twelve miles east of Fort Laramie. Mr. Melloy did not at once move to his
place but shortly after locating it again entered the employ of the P. F. Co.
for the greater part of 1893 and 1894, in the meanwhile devoting his leisure to
the improvement of his ranch. In the fall of 1895 he went to Southern Utah and
there resumed mining, but one year later he fully abandoned that business to
devote all of his time and energies exclusively to his ranch. Since then he has
been engaged in agricultural pursuits and cattleraising, giving special
attention to hay, for which his place is peculiarly adapted, but conducting
general farming quite extensively, having 240 acres under successful
cultivation, the returns giving a handsome income. From the sale of hay he also
realizes large returns while his live stock interests have grown in magnitude
until he is now classed with the leading cattle men of his district. Mr. Melloy
is certainly a man of enterprise as the splendid condition of his ranch attests
after the short time he has spent on its improvement. It is one of the most
beautiful, as well as one of the most valuable places of its area in the county
of Laramie, no pains having been spared to make it attractive and profitable.
The life of Mr. Melloy has been full of activity, crowded with interesting
experiences, and he has always borne himself in a manly way, and doing all
within his power to promote his own interests, but never conflicting with those
of others. In his community no man is held in higher personal esteem, and by his
upright and manly course of conduct he has shown himself worthy the respect with
which he is regarded. He is decidedly western in his tastes and inclinations and
a notable example of the intelligent and progressive class to which he belongs.
At Boulder, Colo., on June 21, 1890, Mr. Melloy and Alice, daughter of William
and Mary (Case) Gillispie, were joined in marriage. Mrs. Melloy was born in
Iowa, her father and mother being natives of Virginia and Ohio. She has
presented her husband with two children, Martha and Jessie. Mr. and Mrs. Melloy
subscribe to the Catholic creed and were born and reared in the mother church.


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