C. D. Williamson papers,

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C. D. Williamson papers, 1892-1957

Overview of the Collection

Creator Williamson, C. D. (Carlyle Dougan), 1886-1959.

Title C. D. Williamson papers Dates 1892-1957 (inclusive)

1892 1957

Quantity 10.2 cubic feet (16 boxes) Collection Number 00147

Summary Business records and personal papers of a Wyoming banker and businessman engaged in tie cutting for the Union Pacific Railroad.

Repository University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center American Heritage Center

University of Wyoming 1000 E. University Ave.

Dept. 3924 Laramie, WY 82071

Telephone: 307-766-3756 [email protected]

Access Restrictions Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Additional Reference Guides

Additional Information

Finding aid available in repository.

Languages English

Historical Note

Carlyle Dougan Williamson (1886-1959) was born in Leadville, Colorado, and became a cashier at Carbon State Bank in Hanna, Wyoming, in 1909. The bank was reorganized into the First National Bank of Hanna in 1920 and again in 1927 to the Hanna State & Savings Bank. Williamson became president of the bank in 1930 and served in that capacity until 1955. The bank was liquidated in 1955 following the closure of the Union Pacific Railroad's coal mines in the area. In 1955 Williamson and his family moved to Laramie, Wyoming, and he helped to found the Bank of Laramie. He later served as president of the First National Bank of Laramie following the buy-out of the Bank of Laramie in 1957.

In 1916 Williamson became affiliated with P.J. Quealy, the receiver of the Carbon Timber Company which conducted logging and tie cutting operations in Carbon and Albany Counties, Wyoming, and was often Wyoming's sole producer of ties for the Union Pacific Railroad. Williamson and Quealy reorganized the company into the Wyoming Timber Company, with Williamson serving as president. He was also closely associated with the Quealy Land and Livestock Company, which was also owned by Quealy, and helped to found the Intermountain Telephone Company of Hanna in 1912. The Wyoming Timber Company also held interest in the Wyoming Timber Lands Company and the Megeath Coal Company, both of Hanna, Wyoming.

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Williamson served as a state representative for Carbon County as a Republican in 1933 and chaired the Wyoming Commerce and Industry Commission from 1947 to 1951. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Wyoming's governorship in 1950.

Content Description

Collection contains the business records of the companies that Williamson worked for, with a small amount of personal material from 1892 to 1957. The collection includes biographical material, newspaper clippings, two pieces of correspondence and photographs. Also included are two manuscripts by Carbon County settler John Milliken. One is autobiographical and the other is a description of the killing of Sheriff Bob Widdowfield and the hanging of "Dutch Charley" Burris and George "Big Nose" Parrott in Rawlins in 1879 and 1881.

The collection also contains the records of the Carbon State Bank, the First National Bank of Hanna, the Hanna State & Savings Bank, the Carbon Timber Company, the Wyoming Timber Company, the Intermountain Telephone Company and a small amount of material relating to the Quealy Land and Livestock Company, the Wyoming Timber Lands Company and the Megeath Coal Company, and includes correspondence, minutes, financial reports, blueprints and maps which document Williamson's involvement in the timber, banking and land development industries of Albany and Carbon County, Wyoming.

There is also a small amount of material relating to the Southeastern Wyoming Clearing House Association, a professional banking association, and to R.R. Crow & Company, another tie cutting business that worked with Wyoming Timber Company.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative Information

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by C. D. Williamson at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

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The material was received from C.D. Williamson, 1951-1957, and from Mrs. Eliot J. White (daughter), in 1974.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Mark. Shelstad in January 1995.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series I. Personal Papers

Container(s) Description Dates

Box Folder

1 1 Biographical Material undated

1 2 Correspondence 1924, 1952

1 3 John Milliken Manuscripts on the Killing of Widdowfield and Vincent and the Lynching of Big Nose George and Dutch Charley

circa 1936

1 4 Newspaper Clippings 1922-1947

16 1 Photographs 1909, 1925,

undated

Series II. Business Records

Carbon State Bank:

Box Folder

1 5-10 Correspondence 1893-1920

1 11 Directors Oaths 1914

1 12 Financial Reports 1910

4 1 Letterpress Copy Book for R.D. Meyer 1905-1907

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1 13 Minutes of Meetings 1904-1920

1 14 Miscellaneous 1903

1 15 Proxy Voting 1908-1916

4 2 Record of Stockholders 1895-1899

4 3 Signature Book 1892-1905

Carbon Timber Company:

Box Folder

1 16 Agreements 1915-1916

1 17 Deeds of Trust 1907, 1915

16 2 Fort Steele, Wyoming, Loading Plant Blueprints undated

5 1 General Journal and Scrapbook 1905

1 18 Investments and Operations Report 1914

1 19 Wyoming Trust & Savings Bank Lawsuit 1916

First National Bank of Hanna:

Box Folder

1 20 Minutes of Meetings 1920-1927

1 21 Miscellaneous 1922-1925

5 2 Stock Certificates 1923

Hanna State & Savings Bank:

Box Folder

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1 23 Agreements 1934-1940

1 24 Annual Reports 1936-1956

1 25 Articles of Incorporation 1927

1 26 Board of Directors Oaths 1945-1946

1 27 Board of Directors Resolutions 1935-1949

1 28 Correspondence 1937-1956

1 29 Deposits Summary 1955

1 30 Earnings and Dividends Report 1932-1954

6 1 Expense Account 1948-1956

1 31 Federal Reserve Bank Applications 1933-1952

1 32 Financial Statements of Condition 1944-1955

9 2-4 General Journal 1953-1956

10 1 General Journal 1953-1956

1 33 Income and Expenses Statements 1926-1932,

1943, 1952

1 34 Etta Linden Estate Settlement 1939-1940

1 35-39 Minutes 1927-1956

1 40 Miscellaneous 1920, 1934-1942

1 41 Profit and Loss Statements 1939-1946

6 2 Stock Certificates - Capital 1927

6 3 Stock Certificates - Preferred 1934

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2 1 Wyoming State Bank Examiner - Financial Statements 1934-1954

2 2 Wyoming State Bank Examiner - Reports 1939-1956

Intermountain Telephone Company:

Box Folder

2 3 Capital Stock Tax Returns 1918-1945

6 4 Corporate Income Tax Returns 1936-1951

7 3 Minute Book 1912-1954

7 4 Stock Certificates - Capital 1912-1944

Megeath Coal Company:

Box Folder

16 3 Company Living Quarters Blueprint undated

Quealy Land & Livestock Company:

Box Folder

16 4 Map of Property Ownership 1916

2 4 Miscellaneous 1925-1928,

1945-1946

Southeastern Wyoming Clearinghouse:

Box Folder

2 5 Association Articles of Incorporation undated

Wyoming Timber Company:

Box Folder

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2 6 Analysis of Gross Profits on Sales 1934-1939, 1945

2 7 Analysis of Gross Receipts 1945

2 8 Analysis of Lumber Sales 1923-1939

2 9 Articles of Incorporation 1916

2 10 Assets and Liabilities Statements 1917-1934

2 11 Audits 1934-1935

2 12 Balance Sheets 1918-1929,

1947-1951

10 2-4 Cash Book 1925-1956

11 1-2 Cash Book 1925-1956

2 13 Cash Book 1950

2 14-16 Contracts 1916-1940

2 17-21 Correspondence 1917-1952

8 1 Deposit Record 1928-1945

2 22 Depreciation Record 1916-1936

2 23 Employees 1936

16 5 Elk Mountain Map undated

2 25 General Journal - Balances 1950-1953

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16 7 Hayden National Forest Map 1919

14 2 Lumber and Tie Production 1934-1942

16 8 Medicine Bow National Forest Maps 1911-1922,

undated

2 26 Minutes 1916-1930

2 27 Miscellaneous 1936, undated

2 28 R.R. Crow & Company Agreement 1935

2 29 Proxy Voting 1918

2 30 Reports 1934-1946

8 2-4 Stock Certificates - Capital 1916, 1926-1951

2 31 Stockholders Materials 1923-1950

2 32 Supply Inventories 1948-1952

2 33 Tax Material - Affiliated Corporations Questionnaire undated

2 34 Tax Material - Capital Stock Tax Returns 1918-1945

4 3-4 Tax Material - Corporate Tax Returns 1917-1945

2 35 Tax Materials - Correspondence 1917-1941

2 36 Tax Materials - Excise Taxes Annual Return 1936-1938

2 37 Tax Materials - Fiscal Consulting to R.R. Crow & Company 1935, 1947

2 38 Tax Materials - General Forest Industries Questionnaire 1919

2 39 Tax Materials - Invested Capital Dispute with the Internal Revenue Service

1927

2 40 Tax Materials - Miscellaneous 1924-1947

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2 41 Tax Materials - Summary of Salaries Report 1919-1950

3 1 Union Pacific Railroad Tie Orders 1930-1945

3 2 U.S. Forest Service - Bonds 1934-1941, 1957

3 3 U.S. Forest Service - Modifications of Agreements 1934-1950

3 4 U.S. Forest Service - Special Use Permits 1936-1939

3 5 Valuation Reports by Timber Sections 1924, 1926

15 1-2 Voucher Records 1945-1957

Wyoming Timber Lands Company:

Box Folder

3 6 Cash Receipts and Disbursements 1937-1939

3 7 Dissolution Materials 1939-1940

Names and Subjects

Subject Terms :

Banks and banking -- Wyoming.

Coal mines and mining -- Wyoming -- Carbon County.

Crime -- Wyoming -- Carbon County.

Forest products industry -- Wyoming.

Personal Names : Burris, Charley.

Parrott, George.

Widdowfield, Robert.

Corporate Names : R.R. Crow & Company.

Union Pacific Railroad Company.

United States. Forest Service.

Geographical Names : Albany County (Wyo.) Carbon (Wyo.)

Carbon County (Wyo.) Hanna (Wyo.)

Rawlins (Wyo.)

Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918.

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Wyoming -- History -- To 1889.

Form or Genre Terms : Blueprints.

Business records.

Letterpress copybooks.

Maps.

Photographs.

Occupations : Businessmen.

Other Creators : Personal Names : Milliken, John.

Corporate Names :

Carbon State Bank -- Records.

Carbon Timber Company -- Records.

First National Bank of Hanna -- Records.

Hanna State & Savings Bank -- Records.

Intermountain Telephone Company -- Records.

Megeath Coal Company.

Quealy Land and Livestock Company.

Southeastern Wyoming Clearing House Association.

Wyoming Timber Company -- Records.

Wyoming Timber Lands Company -- Records.

Processed by Mark L. Shelstad

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