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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Jeremiah Boies: pioneer jack-of-all-trades and undertaker ”Oldest man in Wyoming” when he died in 1900
Jeremiah Boies (1804-1900) didn’t start out to be an undertaker, but he saw an opportunity and made the most of it. His activities can be traced from newspapers and on the website Ancestry.com, though his name is often spelled “Bois, Boise, or Boys.”
Laramie Mayor, Former Sheriff Both Die With Boots Off Despite Vigilante History
When Nicholas F. Spicer (1836-1907) died while still in office as mayor of Laramie, the obituary writer for the front-page story in the Laramie Boomerang said that he had been a member of a vigilante mob that had hung five men nearly 40 years earlier.