William David Liptrap (1 Mar 1813-17 Nov 1888) m.18 Feb 1841 in Cabell Co, (W)VA, Sarah Davis (1822-1904) and moved to Illinois by 1845, and to Daviess Co, Missouri, by 1850. William voted in an election 1 Oct 1855 in Leavenworth, Kansas. He lived in Atchison, Kansas, 1857-1860. William moved to California in 1859 and back to Atchison for the Census of June, 1860. William drove the stage between Denver and Cheyenne the winter of 1860-61. He owned a cattle ranch with Judge Potter Wilcox near Franktown in the spring of 1861, right after Colorado became a state, and in the spring of 1867 moved to his ranch in Elbert County, Colorado, (land sold 1922) including the present town of Simla, in which there is a Liptrap Street. William and Sarah are mentioned in 'Ranching Along the Divide' and in Loren Whittemore's 'Ranching in the Pikes Peak Region', which records how the Indians migrating along the Big Sandy River would stop at the ranch to watch William do blacksmith work and to have Sarah cook them food.
William David Liptrap (1 Mar 1813-17 Nov 1888) m.18 Feb 1841 in Cabell Co, (W)VA, Sarah Davis (1822-1904) and moved to Illinois by 1845, and to Daviess Co, Missouri, by 1850. William voted in an election 1 Oct 1855 in Leavenworth, Kansas. He lived in Atchison, Kansas, 1857-1860. William moved to California in 1859 and back to Atchison for the Census of June, 1860. William drove the stage between Denver and Cheyenne the winter of 1860-61. He owned a cattle ranch with Judge Potter Wilcox near Franktown in the spring of 1861, right after Colorado became a state, and in the spring of 1867 moved to his ranch in Elbert County, Colorado, (land sold 1922) including the present town of Simla, in which there is a Liptrap Street. William and Sarah are mentioned in 'Ranching Along the Divide' and in Loren Whittemore's 'Ranching in the Pikes Peak Region', which records how the Indians migrating along the Big Sandy River would stop at the ranch to watch William do blacksmith work and to have Sarah cook them food.
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