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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

MRS. SARAH H. FENNER.

   Although quite a young state there will be found among the inhabitants of
Wyoming some of the brightest people in the Union, whose intellectuality is and
ought to be a matter of congratulation to those whose good fortune has given
them a home in the young commonwealth, and among these intellectual residents of
the state may be mentioned Mrs. Sarah H. Fenner, the amiable postmistress of
Opal, Uinta county. She is the widow of John W. Fenner, who was born in Rhode
Island, a son of John and Lucy Fenner, natives of the same state. He was always
engaged in merchandising and in very numerous travels through the country, dying
in Vermont on July 4, 1886, his remains were interred in North Bennington, Vt.,
where he was married with Sarah H. Wright, the subject proper of this review, on
December 25, 1869. Mrs. Sarah H. (Wright) Fenner is a daughter of William B. and
Sarah A. (Randall) Wright, the former being a native of New York and the latter
of Massachusetts. Her grandfather, Chester Wright, married with ()live Mosier,
both being natives of New York of English descent. Freeman Randall, the maternal
grandfather of Sarah H. Fenner, was a veteran of the Revolution and her father
was always active in the public affairs of his day, both parents being devout
and consistent in embers of the Established Church of England. To John W. and
Sarah H. Fenner were born three children: William, born in North Bennington,
Vt., and dying at the age of six weeks; Alice P., who died and was buried in
Ogden, Utah, on January 23, 1901, when she was twenty-three years, two months
and two days old; Walter E., now living on his ranch seven miles west of
Kemmerer, Wyo., who married Miss Cora M. Wright, a daughter of James M. and Avis
(Robinson) Wright, old settlers in Wyoming. Mrs. Fenner, who was long a teacher
of more than ordinary erudition and experience, came west immediately after the
death of her husband and continued her educational labors in various schools
from 1886 until her abilities attracted the attention of the U. S. postoffice
officials and she was appointed postmistress of Opal on November 7, 1896; a
position she has since filled to the entire satisfaction of the public and the
Postoffice Department. She is the pioneer teacher of Wyoming and her coming was
welcomed as heartily as that of the sturdiest pioneer who ever put foot inside
of the territory. She gave her inestimable services to the charge of the first
school organized on Hanna's Fork, Uinta county, and has taught in Evanston and
various other places beside Opal with invariable success. And she was ably
fitted for her profession by an academic and normal education in Vermont and has
been engaged in teaching since she was seventeen years of age. A woman of great
financial ability and executive power, she erected the first hotel in Opal,
conducted it for three years and then retired from its management.


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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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