Archives West Finding Aid

Includes obituaries and clippings regarding Emerson’s death and funeral.

Ross was Emerson’s Democratic opponent and the incumbent in the 1926 gubernatorial race.

Includes a letter dated August 28, 1929, from and signed by President Herbert Hoover.

Includes sympathy letters regarding Emerson’s death and copies of responses to some sympathy letters from the acting governor and the secretary to the governor.

Regarding Emerson’s death.

Includes a program from the twenty-second annual session of the Governors’ Conference (Salt Lake City, UT), which lists Emerson as speaking on “The Public Domain”; it also lists FDR, then governor of New York, as speaking on “Unemployment and Old Age Pensions.”

Includes the following: (1) a list of expenses for the Governor’s mansion from 1923 to 1926; (2) the 1928 annual report from the Irrigation Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers; (3) proposed legislation regarding investment of the Permanent Funds of the State; (4) a press release from President Herbert Hoover; (5) documents regarding state budgets and taxes; and (6) documents regarding the 1926 political campaign.

A bulletin from the Wheatland General Hospital and “Venturi Meter – Directions – Type M – Register-Indicator-Recorder – Single Float,” bulletin no. 154B from Builders Iron Foundry.

Documents from two court cases dealing with Wyoming water rights: (1) Ide v. United States, 263 U.S. 497 (1924), a U.S. Supreme Court decision (the opinion was written by Willis Van Devanter); and (2) United States v. Hampleman, a Wyoming federal district court case (William A. Riner was the judge).

Emerson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1904. Includes a clipping announcing Emerson’s death and bookplate stating that the book belonged to Mrs. Kelso A. Morgan, who donated the book to the collection.

Includes the following: (1) “Debt – Expenses Slashed – Taxes Cut,” Republican National Speakers’ Bulletin; (2) “Under a Protective Tariff,” Republican National Speakers’ Bulletin; (3) “From Hard Times to Prosperity,” Republican National Speakers’ Bulletin; (4) “Much More about Old Age Pensions,” Old Age Pension Commission of the Fraternal Order of Eagles; (5) “The Times Demand Old Age Pensions,” Old Age Pension Commission of the Fraternal Order of Eagles; and (6) “Recommendation for an Old Age Pension Bill,” Old Age Pension Commission of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Includes stock certificates, a collateral note, and tax notices.

A black-and-white photo of Emerson and five other men, with handwritten notes by Emerson’s wife, Jean, on a small cardboard sheet. According to the sheet, the men are, from left to right, (1) Charles E. Winter (mislabeled as “Senator”)—he served in the U.S. House for 3 terms (1923-1929) and ran for but lost a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1929; (2) John A. Whiting, the seventh state engineer (1927-1933); (3) “Johnson,” a state engineer—possibly Clarence T. Johnson, the third state engineer (1903-1911); (4) Frank Emerson; (5) Elwood Mead, the first state engineer (1888-1889); and (6) Bryant B. Brooks, governor of Wyoming from 1905 to 1911.

Includes an incomplete biography of Emerson, two resolutions from the 1929 Western States Air Commerce and Airways Conference, and minutes of a meeting of the state Game and Fish Commission.