Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a couple months. I have been working on a talk I will give at the Annual Mining History Conference in Telluride in June. Every time I check a date or other detail, I get sucked into more research, so it has been slow. The topic is the mining interests […]
Bowman vs. Patrick
With mining comes lawsuits. That’s just the way it is. Will was a party to several lawsuits in his mining career. Sometimes he brought the suit and sometimes he was the defendant. But the one lawsuit that lasted the longest and had the most effect on his life was Bowman vs. Patrick. The story starts […]
Annie Elopes with a Stonecutter!
Exploring family history can be exciting, tedious, frustrating, and amazing. One thing I have wondered about for years was how did Will and Annie meet? He was in St. Louis and she in Knoxville or Philadelphia. When did they meet? I imagined that they met in Washington DC when Will went to apply for the […]
Who Was Marie Patrick?
Anne Brownlow Patrick died in July 1893 at her mother’s home in Knoxville. A year later, Will married Marie Eubank. I have a copy of their marriage certificate. They were married in Teller County. Marie’s father, William T. Eubank, was an Expressman on a railway. An Expressman was in charge of the mail car and […]
Courtroom Drama
Mining and lawsuits go together like a horse and carriage, you can’t have one without the other. And while lawsuits had a large impact on the lives of Will and Annie, the courtroom adventures of friends and family was also interesting. First up, Myra Clark Gaines. She was married to Annie’s great-grand uncle, Gen. Edmund […]
