Laramie’s Living History — People
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
The people who comprise the Albany County community come from several social strata, ethnicities, and races.
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Catherine Mary Erhardt; Laramie’s first dairywoman
New towns need milk, and Laramie City in 1868 was no exception. With no established farms in the vicinity, one enterprising individual arrived at the new town site with dairy cows. A newspaper article written by W. E. Chapman claimed that Catherine Mary Erhardt (1827-1921) had a “monopoly in the milk business” in Laramie. He goes on to say that “Indeed, she was about the only person who served milk for the first five or six years of the city’s existence.”