Author of the Green River Ordinance
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Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 20, 1940
FINAL RITES FOR T.S. TALIAFERRO WILL BE AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON
DEATH CLAIMES PROMINENT LOCAL LAWYER
Final tribute to one of Wyoming's most prominent citizens will be paid at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon when funeral services will be held in the Old Timers' building of the Union Pacific Coal company in Rock Springs for T.S. Taliaferro, Jr.
The prominent Rock Springs attorney, banker, livestockman and life-long Democrat died early Saturday morning at his home, 106 Cedar street, following a sudden heart attack.
The Rev. Alfred Lee Jones of the Episcopal church in Green River is to officiate at services in the Old Timers' building with Mt. Mariah lodge No. 6 A.F. and A.M. at Green River, of which Mr. Taliaferro was a member, in charge of graveside services at Mountain View cemetery. Knights Templar of Green River and Rock Springs will form an escort from the Old Timers' building to the cemetery.
Mr. Taliaferro's body was taken to the family home at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. At 11 o'clock this morning, it will be removed to the Old Timers' building where it will lie in state until time of services.
Four sons of Mr. Taliaferro—A.L. Taliaferro, Edward Taliaferro, T.S. Taliaferro III and Welford Taliaferro—a son-in-law, Victor Englund and John W. Hay Jr., will be active pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers will include: John W. Hay Sr., Eugene McAuliffe, George B. Pryde, I.N. Bayless, Claude Matthai, marshall Reynolds, John U. Loomss, D.D. Spani, Claude Elias, James A. Chrisman, E.A. Gaensslen, Dr. J.H. Gilligan, William Rogers, George Erhard, Thomas E. Rogers, Lewis H. Brown, V.J. Tidball, G.A. Knox, V.J. Facinelli, Robert Murphy, Valentine Anselmi, E.R. Jefferis, Hugh McLeod, Albert E. Nelson, Dr. E.S. Lauzer and Otto Schnauber.
McAuliffe, president of the Union Pacific Coal company; Matthai, of the Union Pacific railroad legal department in Omaha; Loomis, Union Pacific railroad attorney at Cheyenne; and Reynolds, of Cheyenne, representative of the supreme council of 33rd degree Masons in Wyoming, are to arrive in Rock Springs this morning.
Thomas Seddon Taliaferro Jr. was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, July 1, 1865, a son of Major Thomas Seddon and Hariotte (Lee) Taliaferro, the latter a daughter of Cassius F. Lee, a granddaughter of Edmund I. Lee and a great-granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee. The last named was the author of a preliminary declaration of independence that preceded the one penned by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia in 1776. Through the paternal line Mr. Taliaferro was connected with some of the most distinguished Virginia families, including the Taliaferros, Seddons, Washingtons, Paiges and allied families, while in the maternal line he was a descendant of the Virginia Lee, Ludwell and other notable families of the old dominion. His father was a soldier of the Confederate army.
He pursued his education as a pupil in the Episcopal high school of Virginia and in Gloucester Academy. On November 2, 1883, he entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad company in a minor capacity but steadily worked his way upward. From shoveling coal he was made foreman of car repairers at Green River, was advanced to the position of express messenger in 1886, became chief clerk in the superintendent's office at Evanston in 1887, was made agent for the Union Pacific Railroad company at Green River in 1888 and thus step by step advanced, and as each forward step brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities he turned to a professional career and carefully prepared for the bar, after which he entered upon the practice of law at Rock Springs in 1900.
Through the intervening period he practiced principally as a corporation lawyer and won distinction in this field, representing many of the important corporate interests of his section of the state.
Further extending his efforts, he became an active factor in banking, merchandising and stock raising. He was the president of the First National Bank of Green River, president of the Green River Mercantile company, and was also engaged in farming and in the raising of sheep and cattle. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion, using wisely and well the talents with which nature endowed him and thus reaching a conspicuous position in the professional and business circles.
On April 15, 1896, in Christ Church at Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Taliaferro was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ramsay, great-great-granddaughter of William Ramsay, first mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Dennis Ramsay who served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war at battles of Princeton and Yorktown, and was the granddaughter of George Washington Dennis Ramsay, and her father was George Washington Ramsay, all of Alexandria, Virginia. Colonel Dennis Ramsay served as a pallbearer at General Washington's funeral.
To Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro there were born seven children as follows: William Ramsay Taliaferro, resident of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Thomas Seddon Taliaferro III, and Arthur Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs; Beverly Wellford Taliaferro and Edward Ludwell Taliaferro of Green River; and Lucy Ramsay Taliaferro, now Mrs. Victor Englund of Denver, Colo.; and Hariotte Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs.
Mr. Taliaferro was commissioned captain of Company E of the Wyoming National Guard on March 24, 1894, and commanded his company when it stopped and captured a division of Cox's Army, which was afterward turned over to three companies of the United States regular troops and then was returned to Idaho, where the members of the army were tried and sentenced to imprisonment by the federal judge.
Mr. Taliaferro was elected a thirty-third degree Mason in 1899 and received the degree in 1901. He has been grand master of the Masonic lodge of Wyoming and grand commander of the Wyoming Knights Templar. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church, serving for many years as chancellor of the Diocese of Wyoming, occupying this position at the time of his death.
Wildermuth Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
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Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 20, 1940
FINAL RITES FOR T.S. TALIAFERRO WILL BE AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON
DEATH CLAIMES PROMINENT LOCAL LAWYER
Final tribute to one of Wyoming's most prominent citizens will be paid at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon when funeral services will be held in the Old Timers' building of the Union Pacific Coal company in Rock Springs for T.S. Taliaferro, Jr.
The prominent Rock Springs attorney, banker, livestockman and life-long Democrat died early Saturday morning at his home, 106 Cedar street, following a sudden heart attack.
The Rev. Alfred Lee Jones of the Episcopal church in Green River is to officiate at services in the Old Timers' building with Mt. Mariah lodge No. 6 A.F. and A.M. at Green River, of which Mr. Taliaferro was a member, in charge of graveside services at Mountain View cemetery. Knights Templar of Green River and Rock Springs will form an escort from the Old Timers' building to the cemetery.
Mr. Taliaferro's body was taken to the family home at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. At 11 o'clock this morning, it will be removed to the Old Timers' building where it will lie in state until time of services.
Four sons of Mr. Taliaferro—A.L. Taliaferro, Edward Taliaferro, T.S. Taliaferro III and Welford Taliaferro—a son-in-law, Victor Englund and John W. Hay Jr., will be active pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers will include: John W. Hay Sr., Eugene McAuliffe, George B. Pryde, I.N. Bayless, Claude Matthai, marshall Reynolds, John U. Loomss, D.D. Spani, Claude Elias, James A. Chrisman, E.A. Gaensslen, Dr. J.H. Gilligan, William Rogers, George Erhard, Thomas E. Rogers, Lewis H. Brown, V.J. Tidball, G.A. Knox, V.J. Facinelli, Robert Murphy, Valentine Anselmi, E.R. Jefferis, Hugh McLeod, Albert E. Nelson, Dr. E.S. Lauzer and Otto Schnauber.
McAuliffe, president of the Union Pacific Coal company; Matthai, of the Union Pacific railroad legal department in Omaha; Loomis, Union Pacific railroad attorney at Cheyenne; and Reynolds, of Cheyenne, representative of the supreme council of 33rd degree Masons in Wyoming, are to arrive in Rock Springs this morning.
Thomas Seddon Taliaferro Jr. was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, July 1, 1865, a son of Major Thomas Seddon and Hariotte (Lee) Taliaferro, the latter a daughter of Cassius F. Lee, a granddaughter of Edmund I. Lee and a great-granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee. The last named was the author of a preliminary declaration of independence that preceded the one penned by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia in 1776. Through the paternal line Mr. Taliaferro was connected with some of the most distinguished Virginia families, including the Taliaferros, Seddons, Washingtons, Paiges and allied families, while in the maternal line he was a descendant of the Virginia Lee, Ludwell and other notable families of the old dominion. His father was a soldier of the Confederate army.
He pursued his education as a pupil in the Episcopal high school of Virginia and in Gloucester Academy. On November 2, 1883, he entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad company in a minor capacity but steadily worked his way upward. From shoveling coal he was made foreman of car repairers at Green River, was advanced to the position of express messenger in 1886, became chief clerk in the superintendent's office at Evanston in 1887, was made agent for the Union Pacific Railroad company at Green River in 1888 and thus step by step advanced, and as each forward step brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities he turned to a professional career and carefully prepared for the bar, after which he entered upon the practice of law at Rock Springs in 1900.
Through the intervening period he practiced principally as a corporation lawyer and won distinction in this field, representing many of the important corporate interests of his section of the state.
Further extending his efforts, he became an active factor in banking, merchandising and stock raising. He was the president of the First National Bank of Green River, president of the Green River Mercantile company, and was also engaged in farming and in the raising of sheep and cattle. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion, using wisely and well the talents with which nature endowed him and thus reaching a conspicuous position in the professional and business circles.
On April 15, 1896, in Christ Church at Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Taliaferro was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ramsay, great-great-granddaughter of William Ramsay, first mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Dennis Ramsay who served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war at battles of Princeton and Yorktown, and was the granddaughter of George Washington Dennis Ramsay, and her father was George Washington Ramsay, all of Alexandria, Virginia. Colonel Dennis Ramsay served as a pallbearer at General Washington's funeral.
To Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro there were born seven children as follows: William Ramsay Taliaferro, resident of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Thomas Seddon Taliaferro III, and Arthur Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs; Beverly Wellford Taliaferro and Edward Ludwell Taliaferro of Green River; and Lucy Ramsay Taliaferro, now Mrs. Victor Englund of Denver, Colo.; and Hariotte Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs.
Mr. Taliaferro was commissioned captain of Company E of the Wyoming National Guard on March 24, 1894, and commanded his company when it stopped and captured a division of Cox's Army, which was afterward turned over to three companies of the United States regular troops and then was returned to Idaho, where the members of the army were tried and sentenced to imprisonment by the federal judge.
Mr. Taliaferro was elected a thirty-third degree Mason in 1899 and received the degree in 1901. He has been grand master of the Masonic lodge of Wyoming and grand commander of the Wyoming Knights Templar. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church, serving for many years as chancellor of the Diocese of Wyoming, occupying this position at the time of his death.
Wildermuth Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
Author of the Green River Ordinance
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Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 20, 1940
FINAL RITES FOR T.S. TALIAFERRO WILL BE AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON
DEATH CLAIMES PROMINENT LOCAL LAWYER
Final tribute to one of Wyoming's most prominent citizens will be paid at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon when funeral services will be held in the Old Timers' building of the Union Pacific Coal company in Rock Springs for T.S. Taliaferro, Jr.
The prominent Rock Springs attorney, banker, livestockman and life-long Democrat died early Saturday morning at his home, 106 Cedar street, following a sudden heart attack.
The Rev. Alfred Lee Jones of the Episcopal church in Green River is to officiate at services in the Old Timers' building with Mt. Mariah lodge No. 6 A.F. and A.M. at Green River, of which Mr. Taliaferro was a member, in charge of graveside services at Mountain View cemetery. Knights Templar of Green River and Rock Springs will form an escort from the Old Timers' building to the cemetery.
Mr. Taliaferro's body was taken to the family home at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. At 11 o'clock this morning, it will be removed to the Old Timers' building where it will lie in state until time of services.
Four sons of Mr. Taliaferro—A.L. Taliaferro, Edward Taliaferro, T.S. Taliaferro III and Welford Taliaferro—a son-in-law, Victor Englund and John W. Hay Jr., will be active pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers will include: John W. Hay Sr., Eugene McAuliffe, George B. Pryde, I.N. Bayless, Claude Matthai, marshall Reynolds, John U. Loomss, D.D. Spani, Claude Elias, James A. Chrisman, E.A. Gaensslen, Dr. J.H. Gilligan, William Rogers, George Erhard, Thomas E. Rogers, Lewis H. Brown, V.J. Tidball, G.A. Knox, V.J. Facinelli, Robert Murphy, Valentine Anselmi, E.R. Jefferis, Hugh McLeod, Albert E. Nelson, Dr. E.S. Lauzer and Otto Schnauber.
McAuliffe, president of the Union Pacific Coal company; Matthai, of the Union Pacific railroad legal department in Omaha; Loomis, Union Pacific railroad attorney at Cheyenne; and Reynolds, of Cheyenne, representative of the supreme council of 33rd degree Masons in Wyoming, are to arrive in Rock Springs this morning.
Thomas Seddon Taliaferro Jr. was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, July 1, 1865, a son of Major Thomas Seddon and Hariotte (Lee) Taliaferro, the latter a daughter of Cassius F. Lee, a granddaughter of Edmund I. Lee and a great-granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee. The last named was the author of a preliminary declaration of independence that preceded the one penned by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia in 1776. Through the paternal line Mr. Taliaferro was connected with some of the most distinguished Virginia families, including the Taliaferros, Seddons, Washingtons, Paiges and allied families, while in the maternal line he was a descendant of the Virginia Lee, Ludwell and other notable families of the old dominion. His father was a soldier of the Confederate army.
He pursued his education as a pupil in the Episcopal high school of Virginia and in Gloucester Academy. On November 2, 1883, he entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad company in a minor capacity but steadily worked his way upward. From shoveling coal he was made foreman of car repairers at Green River, was advanced to the position of express messenger in 1886, became chief clerk in the superintendent's office at Evanston in 1887, was made agent for the Union Pacific Railroad company at Green River in 1888 and thus step by step advanced, and as each forward step brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities he turned to a professional career and carefully prepared for the bar, after which he entered upon the practice of law at Rock Springs in 1900.
Through the intervening period he practiced principally as a corporation lawyer and won distinction in this field, representing many of the important corporate interests of his section of the state.
Further extending his efforts, he became an active factor in banking, merchandising and stock raising. He was the president of the First National Bank of Green River, president of the Green River Mercantile company, and was also engaged in farming and in the raising of sheep and cattle. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion, using wisely and well the talents with which nature endowed him and thus reaching a conspicuous position in the professional and business circles.
On April 15, 1896, in Christ Church at Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Taliaferro was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ramsay, great-great-granddaughter of William Ramsay, first mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Dennis Ramsay who served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war at battles of Princeton and Yorktown, and was the granddaughter of George Washington Dennis Ramsay, and her father was George Washington Ramsay, all of Alexandria, Virginia. Colonel Dennis Ramsay served as a pallbearer at General Washington's funeral.
To Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro there were born seven children as follows: William Ramsay Taliaferro, resident of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Thomas Seddon Taliaferro III, and Arthur Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs; Beverly Wellford Taliaferro and Edward Ludwell Taliaferro of Green River; and Lucy Ramsay Taliaferro, now Mrs. Victor Englund of Denver, Colo.; and Hariotte Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs.
Mr. Taliaferro was commissioned captain of Company E of the Wyoming National Guard on March 24, 1894, and commanded his company when it stopped and captured a division of Cox's Army, which was afterward turned over to three companies of the United States regular troops and then was returned to Idaho, where the members of the army were tried and sentenced to imprisonment by the federal judge.
Mr. Taliaferro was elected a thirty-third degree Mason in 1899 and received the degree in 1901. He has been grand master of the Masonic lodge of Wyoming and grand commander of the Wyoming Knights Templar. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church, serving for many years as chancellor of the Diocese of Wyoming, occupying this position at the time of his death.
Wildermuth Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
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Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Aug 20, 1940
FINAL RITES FOR T.S. TALIAFERRO WILL BE AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON
DEATH CLAIMES PROMINENT LOCAL LAWYER
Final tribute to one of Wyoming's most prominent citizens will be paid at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon when funeral services will be held in the Old Timers' building of the Union Pacific Coal company in Rock Springs for T.S. Taliaferro, Jr.
The prominent Rock Springs attorney, banker, livestockman and life-long Democrat died early Saturday morning at his home, 106 Cedar street, following a sudden heart attack.
The Rev. Alfred Lee Jones of the Episcopal church in Green River is to officiate at services in the Old Timers' building with Mt. Mariah lodge No. 6 A.F. and A.M. at Green River, of which Mr. Taliaferro was a member, in charge of graveside services at Mountain View cemetery. Knights Templar of Green River and Rock Springs will form an escort from the Old Timers' building to the cemetery.
Mr. Taliaferro's body was taken to the family home at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. At 11 o'clock this morning, it will be removed to the Old Timers' building where it will lie in state until time of services.
Four sons of Mr. Taliaferro—A.L. Taliaferro, Edward Taliaferro, T.S. Taliaferro III and Welford Taliaferro—a son-in-law, Victor Englund and John W. Hay Jr., will be active pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers will include: John W. Hay Sr., Eugene McAuliffe, George B. Pryde, I.N. Bayless, Claude Matthai, marshall Reynolds, John U. Loomss, D.D. Spani, Claude Elias, James A. Chrisman, E.A. Gaensslen, Dr. J.H. Gilligan, William Rogers, George Erhard, Thomas E. Rogers, Lewis H. Brown, V.J. Tidball, G.A. Knox, V.J. Facinelli, Robert Murphy, Valentine Anselmi, E.R. Jefferis, Hugh McLeod, Albert E. Nelson, Dr. E.S. Lauzer and Otto Schnauber.
McAuliffe, president of the Union Pacific Coal company; Matthai, of the Union Pacific railroad legal department in Omaha; Loomis, Union Pacific railroad attorney at Cheyenne; and Reynolds, of Cheyenne, representative of the supreme council of 33rd degree Masons in Wyoming, are to arrive in Rock Springs this morning.
Thomas Seddon Taliaferro Jr. was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, July 1, 1865, a son of Major Thomas Seddon and Hariotte (Lee) Taliaferro, the latter a daughter of Cassius F. Lee, a granddaughter of Edmund I. Lee and a great-granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee. The last named was the author of a preliminary declaration of independence that preceded the one penned by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia in 1776. Through the paternal line Mr. Taliaferro was connected with some of the most distinguished Virginia families, including the Taliaferros, Seddons, Washingtons, Paiges and allied families, while in the maternal line he was a descendant of the Virginia Lee, Ludwell and other notable families of the old dominion. His father was a soldier of the Confederate army.
He pursued his education as a pupil in the Episcopal high school of Virginia and in Gloucester Academy. On November 2, 1883, he entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad company in a minor capacity but steadily worked his way upward. From shoveling coal he was made foreman of car repairers at Green River, was advanced to the position of express messenger in 1886, became chief clerk in the superintendent's office at Evanston in 1887, was made agent for the Union Pacific Railroad company at Green River in 1888 and thus step by step advanced, and as each forward step brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities he turned to a professional career and carefully prepared for the bar, after which he entered upon the practice of law at Rock Springs in 1900.
Through the intervening period he practiced principally as a corporation lawyer and won distinction in this field, representing many of the important corporate interests of his section of the state.
Further extending his efforts, he became an active factor in banking, merchandising and stock raising. He was the president of the First National Bank of Green River, president of the Green River Mercantile company, and was also engaged in farming and in the raising of sheep and cattle. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion, using wisely and well the talents with which nature endowed him and thus reaching a conspicuous position in the professional and business circles.
On April 15, 1896, in Christ Church at Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Taliaferro was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ramsay, great-great-granddaughter of William Ramsay, first mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Dennis Ramsay who served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war at battles of Princeton and Yorktown, and was the granddaughter of George Washington Dennis Ramsay, and her father was George Washington Ramsay, all of Alexandria, Virginia. Colonel Dennis Ramsay served as a pallbearer at General Washington's funeral.
To Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro there were born seven children as follows: William Ramsay Taliaferro, resident of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Thomas Seddon Taliaferro III, and Arthur Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs; Beverly Wellford Taliaferro and Edward Ludwell Taliaferro of Green River; and Lucy Ramsay Taliaferro, now Mrs. Victor Englund of Denver, Colo.; and Hariotte Lee Taliaferro of Rock Springs.
Mr. Taliaferro was commissioned captain of Company E of the Wyoming National Guard on March 24, 1894, and commanded his company when it stopped and captured a division of Cox's Army, which was afterward turned over to three companies of the United States regular troops and then was returned to Idaho, where the members of the army were tried and sentenced to imprisonment by the federal judge.
Mr. Taliaferro was elected a thirty-third degree Mason in 1899 and received the degree in 1901. He has been grand master of the Masonic lodge of Wyoming and grand commander of the Wyoming Knights Templar. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church, serving for many years as chancellor of the Diocese of Wyoming, occupying this position at the time of his death.
Wildermuth Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
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