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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Following Frank Tweedy's Valuable Plants. How they traveled from the wilds of Wyoming to New York City and back.
Frank Tweedy was born, raised, and educated in New York, graduating from Union College in 1875 with a degree in civil engineering. He began his surveying career the next year in the Adirondacks, followed by a stint as a sanitation engineer in Rhode Island. All the while, he collected plants.
A Professor for All Seasons: Aven Nelson
What would you call someone who taught botany, zoology, physiology, hygiene, geography, and calisthenics at UW in 1887? A jack-of-all-trades? A renaissance man?