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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

FRANK B. FAWCETT.

   Comfortable in worldly possessions after many hardships and much privation,
safely anchored from the storms of life after many struggles with fate and
adverse fortune, ripened by experience in many longitudes and through contests
with civilized and savage men, Frank B. Fawcett, of the renowned Stockade Beaver
Creek region of Wyoming, a prominent ranchman, stockraiser and public official
of Weston county, has risen to his secure place in the confidence and esteem of
his fellow men through efforts and vicissitude, having attained to his present
estate by his own endurance and manly demeanor under all circumstances, being
well entitled to the peaceful haven he has built among this people. He was born
on the fruitful soil of Columbiana county, Ohio, on March 15, 1850, the son of
Samuel and Hannah E. (Harlan) Fawcett, where his father was a leading contractor
and builder at Salem, and passing a busy and useful life, being now more than
ninety years of age. The mother died in 1855, when her son Frank was but five
years old. He remained with his father until he was fifteen years old, attending
school and aiding in the business and at this early age left the paternal
fireside for the far West, going to Michigan and hiring out as a farm hand near
Hillsdale, there working during the summer and attending school for a short time
in the winter. He remained there for two years and in 1866 removed to Kansas and
went to working on a farm near Emporia until October, 1868, when he enlisted in
the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry for service against the Indians. His service took
him through Kansas, the Indian Territory and Texas and with General Custer in
his expedition through the Southwest. His term was for six months and most of
the time he was under the guidance of that gallant commander whose heroic death
is one of the deeply tragical events of our history. At the end of his military
career Mr. Fawcett settled in Wilson county, Kan., and engaged in milling for
two years, then turned again to farming and until 1884 devoted his energies to
that pursuit in Wilson and Allen counties, Kan. In the year last named he sold
out and moved to the Black Hills, remaining there engaged in farming until 1887
when he came to Wyoming, and in July took up the ranch on which he now lives on
Stockade Beaver Creek, sixteen miles northeast of Newcastle. He has found this a
permanent anchorage and has remained here, busy with his farming and stock
industries and contributing his share of inspiration, example and substantial
aid in building up the country and developing its resources, being a citizen of
broad views, progressive ideas and decided public energy and intelligence. He
came into this country with nothing and is now one of its most substantial
citizens, with a well improved and highly cultivated ranch, containing a
commodious and convenient residence, tastefully arranged grounds and every other
evidence of thrift, comfort and enterprise. From a wild and rugged frontier he
has seen the landscape changed into an expanse of peaceful and productive farms,
furnishing happy homes for industrious and peaceful residents and all the bounty
of Mother Earth for their sustenance. In public affairs he has taken a constant
and forceful interest, giving freely his time, energy and influence to the
improvement of the community, both as a private citizen and in official station,
having served as county commissioner from 1894 to 1896 and again from 1898 until
1902, during the last four years being chairman of the board. He is a Republican
in politics, but a patriot rather than a partisan. At Iola, Kan., on July 30,
1871, Mr. Fawcett was united in marriage with Miss Martha C. Armstrong, a native
of Indiana and daughter of John and Julia E. Armstrong, the former born in
Virginia and the latter in Tennessee. They were taken by their parents to
Indiana in early life and there Mr. Armstrong was a prosperous farmer until
1868, then removing to Kansas and locating in Allen county, there pursuing his
chosen occupation of farming on his homestead until a few years ago when he
removed to Morgan in that county, where his wife died on June 15, 1902, and
where he still lives. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett have eight children; Mary, married to
Paul Kipping, who has specific mention on another page in this work; Alice,
married to Mr. Bedell; Julia; Elsie; John; Frank; Frederick; Harrison.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

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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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