History of Englewood, (Bergen County) New Jersey United States of America

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DeForest Richards, governor of Wyoming, was born in Charlestown, N.H., Aug. 6, 1846; son of the Rev. Jonas DeForest Richards and Harriet Bartlett (Jarvis) Richards, and a descendant of the Richards family, who landed at Cape Cod in 1630, and of the Jarvis family, who settled in Massachusetts Bay colony about 1640. He was graduated form Kimball Union academy, Meriden, N.H., 1863 was a student at Phillips Andover academy, 1863?64 and removed to Camden, Wilcox county. Ala., where his father purchased a cotton plantation and with his son engaged in planting and merchandising He was elected a representative in the state legislature under the reconstruction measures, August, 1867; was sheriff of Wilcox county, 1868?71; county treasurer, 1872?76, and engaged in the tanning business and in manufacturing shoes, 1876?78, and in merchandising, 1878?85. He was married at Englewood, N.J., June l, 1871, to Elise J. Ingersoll, a native of Camden, Ala., her father a native of Pittsfield, Mass., and her mother a descendant of an old Carolina family of Huguenot descent. In 1885 he removed to Chadron, Neb., and in 1886 organized and became vice-president of the First National bank at Chadron and treasurer of Dawes county. The same year he organized the First National bank of Douglas, Wyo., of which he was made president. He removed to Douglas, where he engaged in banking, mining and stock-raising. He was a member of the Wyoming constitutional convention of 1890; mayor of Douglas one term; commander of the Wyoming national guard; a state senator, 1892?93; Grand Master of Masons, 1895?96, and governor of Wyoming, 1898?1902. He died in 1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Englewood, (Bergen County) New Jersey

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