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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

J. W. DOLAR.

   J. W. Dolar, popularly known as "Buck" Dolar, one of the successful citizens
of Kemmerer, Wyoming, was born in 1862 at Paola, Kas., the son of Andrew and
Caroline (Huges) Dolar. Andrew Dolar was born in Pennsylvania. He was a
shoemaker by trade and long conducted a shoe store at Paola, Kas., and at
another time one in Nashville, Ill., where he died in 1890 at the age of
fifty-seven, being an original Democrat in politics and an old John Brown man.
His chief interest was in his family, and he was married in Pottawatomie, Kas.,
in which place he was a pioneer and built the first house. His wife, who was
born in Virginia, is now living on a ranch about seven miles north of Granger,
Wyo. J. W. Dolar at fifteen years attained his first employment in a livery
stable at Nashville, Ill., where he continued in the livery line for twenty
years, for the last four of them being in business for himself. Selling out at
this place, he went to Trinidad, Colo., where he remained two years, then went
to Granger, Wyo., and engaged in the sheep business, in which he continued for
nine years, when selling his stock he moved to Kemmerer, Wyo., returned to his
first love and has continued in the livery business here ever since. Mr. Dolar
has always been a horsetrader and is fully imbued with the philosophy that
characterizes the successful men of that vocation and it is by his good trading
and successful investments that he has made his money. He is a Democrat in
politics. He was first married in 1877 in Duquoin. Ill, to Mary C. Cowan, a
native of Illinois, and a daughter of Isaac and Sarah Cowan. She died in 1890,
leaving one son, John E. Dolar, and lies buried at Taylorville, Ill. The present
Mrs. Dolar was Martha Davis, also a native of Illinois.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

ILLUSTRATED

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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