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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J.H. Brazier, superintendent of the “huge monster” Shows how rail is made in Laramie—1875
Laramie offered large tax offsets to bring a large “rollling” mill to town. The UPRR selected experienced rolling mill operator John Henry Brazier (1836-1908) to be the superintendent of the enterprise. Brazier arrived in early 1875 from Ohio and told the newspaper that he was very pleased with the community and the work that had been done to get the factory built.
The wide-ranging Otto Gramm of Laramie He turns up everywhere you look
Otto Gramm (1846-1927) pops up in so many aspects of Laramie’s history, it seems that there must have been ten men by that name. Did one 81-year-old really do all that in a lifetime? But most of what has been written is true—verified by newspapers and other primary sources.