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Transcribed by "Barbara & Bill Ziegenmeyer"
PIONEER DIES
Lander Wyo. Feb 3 1920
James K. Moore Sr. a Fremont County Pioneer who established a trading post of Fort Washakie near here in 1870, died this week in California where he had been living for the last few years.
Paper: Wyoming State Tribune- Cheyenne State Leader
Date: February 14, 1917 Location: WyomingPaper: Wyoming State Tribune- Cheyenne State Leader
EMINENT JURIST WHO OPENED FIRST COURT IN FREMONT COUNTY DEAD AT AGE OF 97
Judge Samuel C. Parks, Friend of Abraham Lincoln, Dies in Kansas City
LANDER, Wyo.. Feb. 14.
Word was received here today of the death of Judge Samuel C. Parks, father of S. C. Parks, Jr.. president of the Shoshone National Bank of Cody, and uncle of S. Conant Parks, president of the First National Bank of this place,
at Kansas City Thursday. Judge Parks was 97 years of age, and at one time was a prominent citizen of Wyoming.As a member of the territorial supreme court of Wyoming and presiding judge in the District court. Judge Parks
held the first courts in Fremont County, at Lander, after the new county was organized, and many of the older residents will remember him in that capacity. Hon. Jesse Knight, afterwards a member of the Wyoming
state supreme court, was at that time clerk.
FRIEND OF LINCOLN
Judge Parks was one of the few remaining personal friends of Abraham Lincoln and knew him well for a period of some twenty-five years until the assassination occurred. They practiced law for years at Springfield. Illinois, at
the same bar, and rode the panic circuits. As a delegate, from Illinois he assisted at the nomination of Mr. Lincoln for president at the national convention at Chicago in 1860.
WENT TO IDAHO
In 1862 he was appointed by Mr. Lincoln a justice of the supreme court of Idaho territory, held the first courts there after the territorial organization, and codified the, laws at the request of the legislature. He afterward
occupied the same position in New Mexico for a number of years before being transferred to Wyoming.
WAS ABLE JURIST
Judge Parks was recognized as a judge of ability and integrity and served long upon the bench, enjoying the good will and respect of al| who knew him. After retiring from active service he passed his declining years with
a daughter in Kansas City, employing his leisure with occasional literary work until old age prevented. He was one of the older generation, fast passing away whose sturdy pioneer work cleared the way for the social and political institutions now enjoyed.
Date: 1918-05-01;
Paper: Wyoming State Tribune- Cheyenne State Leader
DIES WHILE JOKING WITH HIS COMPANIONS
Lander Wyo., May 1, 1918
Laughing with his fellow workers, O. W. Frazier. night chef at the Fremont hotel, gave a gasp of pain and crumpled to the floor. He was dead before his companions reached him. Death was due to heart failure.
At one time he was a wealthy Business man in Dayton, Ohio. He lost his entire possessions in the flood and came west to rebuild his fortunes. He had been, in Lander less than a week, coming from Denver where he had disposed of a sea food restaurant.
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