Sheriff's Department - History
1869 Seth M. Preshaw
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On April 4, 1869, Wyoming's first Territorial Governor John
A. Campbell arrived in Cheyenne from Salem, Ohio. Campbell
appointed as
interim sheriff of Laramie County in May 1869. Preshaw served
only five months. He ran for sheriff during the October 1869
election, but lost to Thomas Jefferson Carr.
Preshaw was born in Ohio in 1830 according to the 1870 Wyoming
census. Like so many of his counterparts, his deeds were left
unrecorded in a time when violent death was the story of the
day.
Information obtained from Wyoming
Territorial Sheriff's, by Ann Gorzalka. |
