Sheridan-Johnson County WY Archives Biographies.....Brittain, Harmon 1839 - 
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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

HARMON BRITTAIN.

   A frontier farmer and stockgrower, a valiant Nimrod in these western wilds
when they were not as yet much broken to civilization and game was plentiful,
with an excellent record to his credit in each capacity, and a secure and
enviable place in the regard of his fellowmen, Harmon Brittain of near Dayton in
Sheridan county, Wyoming, can look upon his life in both prospect and retrospect
with a large measure of satisfaction, having always met its responsibilities
with a manly and courageous spirit and having at hand and before him enough of
worldly wealth and consideration to give safety and sunshine to his declining
years. He was born in Indiana on March 7, 1839. his parents, William and Rachel
(McReynolds) Brittain, natives of Kentucky, having settled in that state in
early times. There when he was six years old his mother died, and ten years
later, in 1849, his father moved to Iowa and in 1855 removed his family to
Grundy county, Mo. After a residence of some years in that county he settled in
Bates county in the same state and there in 1889 in the fulness of years he died
and was laid to rest. Harmon Brittain grew to manhood and was educated in
Missouri, and for more than a quarter of a century was there engaged in farming.
In 1880 he removed to Wyoming and, locating on Pass Creek in Sheridan county,
prosecuted a vigorous and profitable stock industry, handling and raising
horses, until 1895 when he removed his base of operations to Johnson county,
thirty miles south of Buffalo, where he carried on the same enterprise. In June.
1902, he came to Dayton and purchased a ranch adjacent to the town of 160 acres
of superior land, highly improved and in an excellent state of cultivation,
where he has a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle and also nearly 200 horses of good
breeds. A special feature of his ranch and the industries thereon conducted is
an apiary of unusual proportions, value and productiveness, It is one of the
best in this section of the country and has attracted the attention of men
interested in bee culture in many places. On his land he raises large crops of
alfalfa and other farm products, and his beautiful residence is one of the
ornaments of the neighborhood. Mr. Brittain was first married in Grundy county,
Mo., in 1860, with Miss Julia E. Leonard, a Kentuckian, who died on December 27,
1900. leaving two children, William F., the postmaster at Sheridan, and Sarah
C., now wife of Arthur Cossit of Pass Creek. On January 1, 1902, he was again
married, on this occasion to Mrs. Nettie Shadduck. a native of Pennsylvania, the
marriage being solemnized at Buffalo. In his career as a hunter Mr. Brittain has
killed twenty-two bears and 300 deer and elk. He still pursues the sport with
all the ardor if not all the vigor of his early days and brings home many
trophies of his skill and prowess.


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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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