Collection Summary
Williamson, C. D. (Carlyle Dougan), 1886-1959.
C. D. Williamson papers
1892-1957
00147
10.2 cubic feet (16 boxes)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
Business records and personal papers of a Wyoming banker and businessman engaged in tie cutting for the Union Pacific Railroad.
Biography of C. D. Williamson
Carlyle Dougan Williamson (1886-1959) was born in Leadville, Colorado, and became a cashier at Carbon State Bank in Hanna, Wyoming, in 1909. The bank was reorganized into the First National Bank of Hanna in 1920 and again in 1927 to the Hanna State & Savings Bank. Williamson became president of the bank in 1930 and served in that capacity until 1955. The bank was liquidated in 1955 following the closure of the Union Pacific Railroad's coal mines in the area. In 1955 Williamson and his family moved to Laramie, Wyoming, and he helped to found the Bank of Laramie. He later served as president of the First National Bank of Laramie following the buy-out of the Bank of Laramie in 1957.
In 1916 Williamson became affiliated with P.J. Quealy, the receiver of the Carbon Timber Company which conducted logging and tie cutting operations in Carbon and Albany Counties, Wyoming, and was often Wyoming's sole producer of ties for the Union Pacific Railroad. Williamson and Quealy reorganized the company into the Wyoming Timber Company, with Williamson serving as president. He was also closely associated with the Quealy Land and Livestock Company, which was also owned by Quealy, and helped to found the Intermountain Telephone Company of Hanna in 1912. The Wyoming Timber Company also held interest in the Wyoming Timber Lands Company and the Megeath Coal Company, both of Hanna, Wyoming.
Williamson served as a state representative for Carbon County as a Republican in 1933 and chaired the Wyoming Commerce and Industry Commission from 1947 to 1951. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Wyoming's governorship in 1950.
Scope and ContentCollection contains the business records of the companies that Williamson worked for, with a small amount of personal material from 1892 to 1957. The collection includes biographical material, newspaper clippings, two pieces of correspondence and photographs. Also included are two manuscripts by Carbon County settler John Milliken. One is autobiographical and the other is a description of the killing of Sheriff Bob Widdowfield and the hanging of "Dutch Charley" Burris and George "Big Nose" Parrott in Rawlins in 1879 and 1881.
The collection also contains the records of the Carbon State Bank, the First National Bank of Hanna, the Hanna State & Savings Bank, the Carbon Timber Company, the Wyoming Timber Company, the Intermountain Telephone Company and a small amount of material relating to the Quealy Land and Livestock Company, the Wyoming Timber Lands Company and the Megeath Coal Company, and includes correspondence, minutes, financial reports, blueprints and maps which document Williamson's involvement in the timber, banking and land development industries of Albany and Carbon County, Wyoming.
There is also a small amount of material relating to the Southeastern Wyoming Clearing House Association, a professional banking association, and to R.R. Crow & Company, another tie cutting business that worked with Wyoming Timber Company.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes,
and the collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright,
property, and libel laws as they apply.
Related Materials
There are no known other archival collections created by C. D. Williamson at the date of processing.
Additional Information
Finding aid available in repository.
Acquisition Information
The material was received from C.D. Williamson, 1951-1957, and from Mrs. Eliot J. White (daughter), in 1974.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Mark. Shelstad in January 1995.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection
Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Burris, Charley.
Parrott, George.
Widdowfield, Robert.
United States. Forest Service.
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
R.R. Crow & Company.
Banks and banking -- Wyoming.
Coal mines and mining -- Wyoming -- Carbon County.
Crime -- Wyoming -- Carbon County.
Forest products industry -- Wyoming.
Albany County (Wyo.)
Carbon County (Wyo.)
Carbon (Wyo.)
Hanna (Wyo.)
Rawlins (Wyo.)
Wyoming -- History -- To 1889.
Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918.
Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945.
Wyoming -- History -- 1946-1999.
Blueprints.
Business records.
Letterpress copybooks.
Maps.
Photographs.
Businessmen.
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Milliken, John.
Megeath Coal Company.
Quealy Land and Livestock Company.
Southeastern Wyoming Clearing House Association.
Carbon State Bank -- Records.
First National Bank of Hanna -- Records.
Carbon Timber Company -- Records.
Hanna State & Savings Bank -- Records.
Intermountain Telephone Company -- Records.
Wyoming Timber Company -- Records.
Wyoming Timber Lands Company -- Records.
Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce
Businesses and Corporations
Economics and Banking
Railroads
Forestry and Forestry Products
Mines and Mineral Resources
Wyoming
Container List
Series I. Personal Papers
1
1
Biographical Material
undated
1
2
Correspondence
1924, 1952
1
3
John Milliken Manuscripts on the Killing of Widdowfield and Vincent and the Lynching of Big Nose George and Dutch Charley
circa 1936
1
4
Newspaper Clippings
1922-1947
16
1
Photographs
1909, 1925, undated
Series II. Business Records
Carbon State Bank:
1
5-10
Correspondence
1893-1920
1
11
Directors Oaths
1914
1
12
Financial Reports
1910
4
1
Letterpress Copy Book for R.D. Meyer
1905-1907
1
13
Minutes of Meetings
1904-1920
1
14
Miscellaneous
1903
1
15
Proxy Voting
1908-1916
4
2
Record of Stockholders
1895-1899
4
3
Signature Book
1892-1905
Carbon Timber Company:
1
16
Agreements
1915-1916
1
17
Deeds of Trust
1907, 1915
16
2
Fort Steele, Wyoming, Loading Plant Blueprints
undated
5
1
General Journal and Scrapbook
1905
1
18
Investments and Operations Report
1914
1
19
Wyoming Trust & Savings Bank Lawsuit
1916
First National Bank of Hanna:
1
20
Minutes of Meetings
1920-1927
1
21
Miscellaneous
1922-1925
1
22
Proxy Voting
1926-1927
5
2
Stock Certificates
1923
Hanna State & Savings Bank:
1
23
Agreements
1934-1940
1
24
Annual Reports
1936-1956
1
25
Articles of Incorporation
1927
1
26
Board of Directors Oaths
1945-1946
1
27
Board of Directors Resolutions
1935-1949
1
28
Correspondence
1937-1956
1
29
Deposits Summary
1955
1
30
Earnings and Dividends Report
1932-1954
6
1
Expense Account
1948-1956
1
31
Federal Reserve Bank Applications
1933-1952
1
32
Financial Statements of Condition
1944-1955
9
2-4
General Journal
1953-1956
10
1
General Journal
1953-1956
1
33
Income and Expenses Statements
1926-1932, 1943, 1952
1
34
Etta Linden Estate Settlement
1939-1940
1
35-39
Minutes
1927-1956
1
40
Miscellaneous
1920, 1934-1942
1
41
Profit and Loss Statements
1939-1946
1
42
Proxy Voting
1939-1955
6
2
Stock Certificates - Capital
1927
6
3
Stock Certificates - Preferred
1934
2
1
Wyoming State Bank Examiner - Financial Statements
1934-1954
2
2
Wyoming State Bank Examiner - Reports
1939-1956
Intermountain Telephone Company:
2
3
Capital Stock Tax Returns
1918-1945
6
4
Corporate Income Tax Returns
1936-1951
7
1-2
General Journal
1919-1954
7
3
Minute Book
1912-1954
7
4
Stock Certificates - Capital
1912-1944
Megeath Coal Company:
16
3
Company Living Quarters Blueprint
undated
Quealy Land & Livestock Company:
16
4
Map of Property Ownership
1916
2
4
Miscellaneous
1925-1928, 1945-1946
Southeastern Wyoming Clearinghouse:
2
5
Association Articles of Incorporation
undated
Wyoming Timber Company:
2
6
Analysis of Gross Profits on Sales
1934-1939, 1945
2
7
Analysis of Gross Receipts
1945
2
8
Analysis of Lumber Sales
1923-1939
2
9
Articles of Incorporation
1916
2
10
Assets and Liabilities Statements
1917-1934
2
11
Audits
1934-1935
2
12
Balance Sheets
1918-1929, 1947-1951
10
2-4
Cash Book
1925-1956
11
1-2
Cash Book
1925-1956
2
13
Cash Book
1950
2
14-16
Contracts
1916-1940
2
17-21
Correspondence
1917-1952
8
1
Deposit Record
1928-1945
2
22
Depreciation Record
1916-1936
2
23
Employees
1936
16
5
Elk Mountain Map
undated
11
3
General Journal
1917-1950
12
1-3
General Journal
1917-1950
13
1-3
General Journal
1917-1950
14
1
General Journal
1917-1950
2
25
General Journal - Balances
1950-1953
16
7
Hayden National Forest Map
1919
14
2
Lumber and Tie Production
1934-1942
16
8
Medicine Bow National Forest Maps
1911-1922, undated
2
26
Minutes
1916-1930
2
27
Miscellaneous
1936, undated
2
28
R.R. Crow & Company Agreement
1935
2
29
Proxy Voting
1918
2
30
Reports
1934-1946
8
2-4
Stock Certificates - Capital
1916, 1926-1951
2
31
Stockholders Materials
1923-1950
2
32
Supply Inventories
1948-1952
2
33
Tax Material - Affiliated Corporations Questionnaire
undated
2
34
Tax Material - Capital Stock Tax Returns
1918-1945
4
3-4
Tax Material - Corporate Tax Returns
1917-1945
2
35
Tax Materials - Correspondence
1917-1941
2
36
Tax Materials - Excise Taxes Annual Return
1936-1938
2
37
Tax Materials - Fiscal Consulting to R.R. Crow & Company
1935, 1947
2
38
Tax Materials - General Forest Industries Questionnaire
1919
2
39
Tax Materials - Invested Capital Dispute with the Internal Revenue Service
1927
2
40
Tax Materials - Miscellaneous
1924-1947
2
41
Tax Materials - Summary of Salaries Report
1919-1950
3
1
Union Pacific Railroad Tie Orders
1930-1945
3
2
U.S. Forest Service - Bonds
1934-1941, 1957
3
3
U.S. Forest Service - Modifications of Agreements
1934-1950
3
4
U.S. Forest Service - Special Use Permits
1936-1939
3
5
Valuation Reports by Timber Sections
1924, 1926
15
1-2
Voucher Records
1945-1957
Wyoming Timber Lands Company:
3
6
Cash Receipts and Disbursements
1937-1939
3
7
Dissolution Materials
1939-1940