by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 2, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Pre-1940s
Steve Weekes, Sr. was born in 1851 in Toronto, Canada. He arrived in the United States with his parents at six months of age. The family initially settled at Waterloo, Iowa. In 1878, he met and married his wife, Margareta Annie Thompson. They had their first child...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Pre-1940s
Andrew Voigt was born February 7, 1867, in Saxony, Germany, a son of Wilhelm and Theresa (Meyer) Voigt. The family immigrated to St. Augusta, Minnesota, in 1879. Andrew married Anna Berger in 1889 and left for North Dakota in 1901 to survey the area. His wife and...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Pre-1940s
Lettie Lee Uhlman Kellogg was born in Roberts, Wisconsin on December 2, 1890. Lettie’s best friend was her father, James M. “Mac” Uhlman. The family headed out west and homesteaded on Timber Creek in the valley of the Missouri River. They called the...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Pre-1940s
William Lemuel ‘Bill’ Taylor was born on January 23, 1874, in Rolla, Missouri, the first son of James and Martha (Hoagland) Taylor. On the family home place in Sumner County, Kansas, Bill played cowboy by riding a corn-stalk horse, roping his mother’s geese and...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Pre-1940s
Donald ‘Don’ Stevenson, one of the state’s best known early ranchers, was born April 12, 1833, in Scotland. He immigrated to Ontario with his parents in 1842 and to Minnesota in 1856. After a year in Texas, Stevenson returned to Minnesota in 1861, purchased a...
