Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 - April 2, 1902) was a leader in the American woman's suffrage movement. She was also the first woman to serve as a justice of the peace in the United States. Esther Hobart Morris was born in Tioga County, New York. Orphaned at age 11, she was apprenticed to a seamstress and became a successful milliner and businesswoman. As a young woman she was active in the anti-slavery movement. Widowed in 1845, she moved to Peru, Illinois, …

Joseph Maull Carey (b. January 19 1845, Milton, Delaware - d. February 5 1924, Cheyenne, Wyoming) was a lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician from Delaware who spent most of his political career in Wyoming before and after it achieved statehood. Joseph M. Carey was educated in Fort Edward Collegiate Institute and Union College before graduating from the law department at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1864. He was admitted to the bar three years later, …

Willis Van Devanter (April 17, 1859 - February 8, 1941) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, January 3, 1911 to June 2, 1937. Born in Marion, Indiana, he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1881. After three years private practice in Marion, he moved to the Wyoming Territory where he served as city attorney of Cheyenne, Wyoming, a member of the territorial legislature, as chief judge of the territorial court.

Fenimore Chatterton (July 21 1860-May 9, 1958) was an American businessman, politician, and lawyer. He was the Acting Governor of Wyoming from April 28, 1903 until January 2, 1905. Chatterton was born in Oswego County, New York, but raised in Washington, D.C.. He attended The Columbian College, then Millersville State Normal School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1878 he moved to Sheridan, in Wyoming Territory, and set up as a businessman.

Thomas Moonlight (November 10, 1833 - February 7, 1899) was a United States politician and general. Moonlight was born in Forfairshire, Scotland. He emigrated to the United States and served for five years as a first sergeant in the 4th U.S. Artillery regiment. During the American Civil War Moonlight raised the 1st Kansas Volunteer Artillery Battery and became its captain. His service during the war was primarily in Kansas against bushwhackers and border guerrillas.

Mitch Bouyer (sometimes spelled 'Bowyer' or 'Buazer'; or, in Creole, 'Boye'- the proper French spelling is "Boyer") (1837-1876) was an interpreter/guide in the Old West following the American Civil War. General John Gibbon called him "next to Jim Bridger, the best guide in the country". He was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. He was born Michel Bouyer in 1837. His father, John Baptiste, was French, and employed with the American Fur Company, …

DeForest Richards (1846-08-06-1903-04-28) was an American banker, farmer, and politician. He was the fifth Governor of the state of Wyoming, and the first to die while still in office. Born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, Richards became involved in the post-Civil War Reconstruction after completing his education, moving to Alabama in the mid-to-late 1860s. He served as sheriff and treasurer of Wilcox County, and ran a tannery.

William Alford Richards (March 9, 1849 - July 25, 1912) was an American surveyor, rancher and politician. He was Governor of Wyoming from 1895-01-07 until 1899-01-01. Richards was born in Hazel Green, in Grant County, Wisconsin, and educated there and in Galena, Illinois. As a young man he worked on surveying missions, …

John Milton Thayer (January 24, 1820 - March 19, 1906) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Nebraska, as well as the governor of both Wyoming Territory and Nebraska.

John Albert McShane (b. 1850- d. 1923) was a Nebraska Democratic politician. He was the first Democrat to be elected to the Nebraska congressional delegation. He was born in New Lexington, Ohio on August 25, 1850. In 1871 he moved to the Wyoming Territory and in 1874 he moved to Omaha, Nebraska. He started out in the livestock business but eventually became the director in the First National Bank of Omaha.

John Eugene Osborne (June 19, 1858 - April 24, 1943) was an American physician, farmer, banker and Democratic politician. He was one of the first Governors of Wyoming after the Wyoming Territory attained statehood in 1890. Osborne was born in Westport, New York, the son of John C. Osborne and Mary E. Rail. He studied medicine at the University of Vermont and graduated in 1880. Soon after graduation he found employment as a surgeon for the Union Pacific Railroad, …

Christian Brevoort Zabriskie (October 16, 1864 - February 8, 1936) was an American businessman and former vice president of Pacific Coast Borax Company. Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park is named after him. He was born at Fort Bridger in Wyoming Territory, where his father, E. B. Zabriskie was stationed. Chris attended various schools while growing up and at a very early age went to work as a telegrapher for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad at Carson City, …

Frederick West Lander (December 17, 1821 - March 2, 1862) was a transcontinental United States explorer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a prolific poet. Lander was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Edward and Eliza West Lander. He was educated at the Norwich Military Academy in Vermont and took up the profession of civil engineering.

Algernon Sidney Paddock (November 9, 1830-October 17, 1897) was an American politician who served as a Republican secretary of Nebraska Territory and U.S. Senator from Nebraska after statehood.

John A. Burbank (1827 - December 19, 1905) was an American businessman and the fourth Governor of Dakota Territory. Burbank was born at Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana. After finishing school, he entered into the merchandising business with his father. In 1853, Burbank laid out the site of Falls City, Nebraska, and became the town's first mayor. He also served as postmaster and was a businessman in the community.

"Big" Steve Long (died October 28, 1868) was a western lawman, outlaw, and one of the earliest examples of an Old West gunman, achieving his fame in the Wyoming Territory during the late 1860s.

John James Jenkins (August 24, 1843-June 8, 1911) was a Republican U.S. Representative from Wisconsin from 1895 to 1909. He had previously served as United States Attorney for Wyoming Territory. He served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 1903 to 1909. Subsequently, President William Howard Taft appointed Jenkins to serve a four-year term as Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.