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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

PHILEMON E. DU SAULT.

   Philemon E. Du Sault, county clerk of Sweetwater county, Wyoming, was born in
1866 at Three Rivers in the province of Quebec, Canada, a son of Remi and Anna
(Lottinville) Du Sault. Remi Du Sault, also a native of Three Rivers, was a
farmer until 1867, when he was appointed to a position in the Royal Mail
service, which he still retains at the age of sixty-one, making his residence at
Montreal. His wife was born at Riviere du Loup, now Louiseville, Canada, but
died when her son Philemon was but five years old. Her parents were reared in
the Catholic church, but her father left that communion and followed Rev.
Chiniquy, who emigrated and founded a colony at Bourbonnais, Ill., and removing
his family to that place he there passed the remainder of his life. Philemon Du
Sault received his education in the schools of Quebec, Canada, and when he was
eighteen years of age removed to St. Anne, Ill., but only remained there two or
three months, then went to Chicago for a short time, from there to Aberdeen. S.
D., at which place he "went broke," but nothing daunted he tramped nearly five
hundred miles across the plains to Buffalo, Wyo., and when he reached the town
sat on the steps of the First National Bank of Buffalo, Wyo., to rest. While
sitting there he was approached by L. H. Parker, foreman of a large cattle
ranch, who inquired into his condition, gave him employment and advanced funds
for his immediate necessities. Mr. Du Sault began work for him on July 4, 1886,
and remained in his employ three years. He then removed to Green River and
engaged with the Union Pacific Railroad as a clerk, and continuing in that
service until 1894, when he accepted a place in the clerical department of the
Rock Springs Coal Co. In 1895 this company was absorbed by the Sweetwater Mining
Co., for which Mr. Du Sault acted as traveling salesman for two or three years
and then again went into the employ of the Union Pacific, remaining with that
company until he assumed the duties of county clerk of Sweetwater county in
1899, an office he still holds and in which his services have been of material
advantage to the county and have been highly appreciated. In fraternal relations
Mr. Du Sault is identified with the Masonic order, holding membership in the
lodge at Rock Springs, the chapter and commandery at Green River and the mystic
shrine at Rawlins. On June 20, 1894, he was joined in marriage with Miss Annie
Jones, a native of Franklin, Idaho, and a daughter of Daniel and Minnie
(Clarkson) Jones, natives of Wales. Her father died in 1900, and was buried at
Rock Springs, where his widow still lives and where the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Du Sault was solemnized. They have one child, Donald Dudley Du Sault, whose
presence adds sunshine to their pleasant home.


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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
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generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
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1903


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