University of Wyoming
Clifford Warren Axtell (1881-1957) was a prominent businessman of Thermopolis, Wyoming. He was an attorney and president of the First National Bank of Thermopolis. He was also active in the Republican Party in Wyoming.
The collection includes business correspondence, stock certificates, legal documents such as deeds, leases and mortgages, family photographs, and poetry written by Clifford Warren Axtell.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no known other archival collections created by Clifford Warren Axtell as of the date of processing.
Paul Axtell donated the material in 1977.
Process by Roger Simon, Februuary 2019. Finding aid encoded by Roger Simon, February 2019.
Item Description, Box Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
A membership application for the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and an application for a savings certificate from the Colonial Building & Loan Association (Ogden, Utah).
Includes “The Axtell Genealogy.”
Mostly incoming correspondence to Axtell. Also includes copies of some of Axtell’s outgoing correspondence, including a 1949 letter to Rep. Frank Barrett of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as letters to family members acknowledging Axtell’s death in 1957.
A bill from the Casper, Wyoming, Water Department and typewritten lists of the following: “C.W. Axtell – 64 Acres” and “J.M. Shafer – 163 Acres.”
Stock certificates from the E.T. Williams Oil Company, The Dempsey Canal Company, The Williams-Luman Mining Company, the Montana-Wyoming Copper Company, the Lost Cabin Gold & Copper Company, the Robt. E. Cole Gold Company, the Thermopolis Sanitarium Company, the North Bunker Hill Mining Company, The Kirby Ditch Company, the Greater Wyoming Oil Company, the Wyoming-Yellowstone Oil Company, the Alliance Oil and Refining Company, the Wyoming-Dome Oil Company, the Grass Creek Oil and Gas Syndicate, the Wyoming Premier Oil Company, The Wind River Coal Company, and The Hot Springs Coal Company, as well as a certificate of redemption for property in Natrona County.
Includes receipts, checks, deposit slips, and a royalties list.
For Axtell’s funeral on July 20, 1957.
Includes contracts, mortgage assignments and deeds, leases, a royalty agreement, a power of attorney, quitclaim deeds, warranty deeds, a notice to take depositions, and a list of state an school lands in Hot Springs County.
Includes a speech by Axtell to the Thermopolis Business and Professional Woman’s Club, a copy of the program for Axtell’s funeral, a photograph of a plaque at the First National Bank of Thermopolis in memory of Axtell and two other people, documents related to property in Kirby Ditch owned by Axtell, documents from the First National Bank of Thermopolis, a map of Thermopolis, an issue of “The Confidential Banker,” and an issue of “Human Events.”
An announcement in the
A special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service and a permit to enlarge a ditch.
Originally in a scrapbook.
Two empty “Valuable Papers” bound books and handwritten notes on an empty cover for documents from the Hot Springs County District Court.