Married 1. 24 Mar 1880, Florence Blanch Rhode Preston Kaufman, divorced
Married 2. 25 Mar 1893, Cora Viola Wynn Preston Wesley Graves, divorced
Married 3. Harriet M. Hewey Preston
Married 4. 16 Oct 1912, Anna Drouillard Clark Preston
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Rock Springs Rocket, 25 Oct 1929
Death Closes Career of Famous Wyoming Lawyer
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former Attorney General of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic Party of this state, succumbed at six A. M. at the Wyoming General Hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
DEATH CLOSES CARRER OF FAMOUS WYOMING LAWYER
Douglas Preston Dies Of Injuries Received In Automobile Mishap
(By MARTHA GOODWIN JENSEN)
Battling heroically before the final tribune of existence in a dual struggle between legal responsibilities and his fast-ebbing life, Wyoming's most eminent criminal attorney passed out last Sunday morning in a final mental review of the cases he planned to defend before the fall tern of the district court—faithful to his many trustful clients even unto death. Thus the great defender died as he lived—throwing every energy into the mighty tasks before him with uncompromising vigor and force which made him the great attorney that he was. He stood high in legal stature and held no brief for any opponent regardless of his reputed ability. He was first captain before the bar and his work was shown with brilliant distinction in many cases where men of less stamina would have yielded the balance to fate. But the indomitable will of Preston never gave up and his formidable forensic thrusts often outwitted the opposition and outflanked them into disordered defeat. Like a great military genius, he could muster invincible strength with a few remnants of thrusts and strategically fool the other side with his array of forceful arguments that routed them completely.
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former attorney general of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic party of this state, succumbed as six a.m. Sunday at the Wyoming General hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
Dr. Edward Lauzer, attending physician and close personal friend of the distinguished attorney, stated that Preston died of his injuries although at the outset they did not appear to be fatal. He rallied quickly and seemed on the road to recovery until his condition took a turn for the worse Saturday noon preceding his death. The venerable attorney gradually sank into a coma from which he never rallied, the direct cause of death being due to the shock of his injuries.
Within a few hours the report of his death had been received in practically every section of the state. He was so well known in every part of Wyoming, however remote, that there was no outlying district which did not in some form feel the sting of his death. Even in distant ranching sections the word that Douglas A. Preston was dead spread with amazing speed and it became evident that his passing was not merely an incident to Rock Springs but to the entire state of Wyoming.
Here Since 1887
Douglas A. Preston had lived in Wyoming since 1887. He had served the state in its very infancy as a member of the constitutional convention of 1889 which convened a year prior to the time when Wyoming attained its statehood in 1890; he was a member of the Wyoming house of representatives from 1903 to 1905.
As a life-long Democrat he devoted himself to the fortunes of his party and was drafted into holding offices by reason of his sheer ability. He was appointed by former Governor Joseph M. Carey as the attorney general of Wyoming in 1911 and four years late was reappointed to the same office by John B. Kendrick, then governor of Wyoming. It is an accepted fact that he filled the office of the attorney generalship with distinction; and public opinion has accorded him front rank among those who have occupied the position.
Renowned Criminal Lawyer
Douglas A. Preston was ranked as the first criminal attorney of Wyoming and there have been few criminal cases in which he did not appear either on the defense or the prosecution. Among his celebrated early cases was the defense of the notorious "Butch" Cassidy and later in 1927, that of Lucretia Harris Shannon, charged with the murder of her husband, James Shannon of Dines, Wyoming in May 1927. After six days' trial a jury freed her in December following.
Members of the bar who have worked with Preston for years, relate many anecdotes of the man who was a keen judge of character which he exercised in the selection of juries for criminal cases. His repartee and masterful wit turned many an imminent defeat into a last minute triumphant victory. To save his client he resorted to every resource known to the legal world. He could skirt the line of contempt to the very fringe to save his slipping case. But he shrewdly went just so far and never over the line.
Accredited With Wisdom
Many of his noted arguments were so soundly based that they were written into decisions of the state's most learned judges. Law annals generally accredited him with conspicuous wisdom in his delineation of specific legal points that in several incidents were regarded as legal precedence.
During his later years the arduous mental strain of a trial would enfeeble him for weeks because he put his whole soul and energy into every case. Often he was so intensely imbued with his responsibilities that he lost complete abandonment of self in his masterful defense which bordered on the heroic wherein his forensic ability and conspicuous skill rose to tragic and impressionable heights.
Frontier Days
Preston's life often was endangered in the early frontier days of the west by threats from criminals whose cases he turned down for lack of merit. One time he risked his life in a lonesome drive to the Boar's Tusk district, called there for consultation with a band of train robbers. Very few attorneys would have had the temerity to risk such a meeting. Prior to that trip he went into the lawless Brown's Park region of northwest Colorado to meet a group of desperadoes who wanted him to defend them. His refusal meant possible assassination. But he bravely declined their entreaties and returned over 75 miles of unprotected and hostile section unmolested.
Knew History of State
No one was more conversant with early history of Wyoming than Preston, who knew its annals in detail. Recently, Judge David G. Thomas and Dr. Lauzer, old friends, importuned him to put his memories of stirring events on paper.
"Oh, I'm a young man yet," he said, brushing the thought aside, "and I have plenty of time to do that in my old age." Thus much of the turgid history of wild cattle days and frontier disorders may be lost to posterity.
Owner of Rocket
Upon the death of Cora B. Wanamaker in 1920, Preston, acting as attorney for the Wanamaker heirs, managed and published the Rock Springs Rocket. A year later he purchased the paper from the heirs and continued to publish The Rocket until December 1922 when he sold the greater part of his interest in the paper to Lester G. Baker of Kemmerer however, continuing as a part owner until the paper was purchased in its entirety 18 months ago by Robert S. Wilson, the present owner.
Elected State Senator
He was elected to the Wyoming State Senate last November from Sweetwater county to fill the unexpired term of the late State Senator Frank Yates. Preston was accorded in that election one of the largest popular votes ever polled by any candidate for any office in Sweetwater county. He served his county in the twentieth Wyoming State Senate with credit.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Accident Which Took Life Can't Be Explained
Douglas A. Preston died as a result of injuries sustained when his automobile in which he was riding with Mrs. Preston overturned on the Lincoln highway, 12 miles west of Granger October 8. Mr. and Mrs. Preston were returning from Evanston where the aged attorney was attending to legal matters.
Mrs. Preston who was driving, states that it is utterly impossible for her to explain the cause of the accident. She is an experienced driver of exceptional ability and the fact that the section of the road on which the accident occurred was straight and smooth makes I the harder to account for the seemingly unexplainable happening.
Dr. Lauzer Advised
Dr. Edward S. Lauzer, intimate friend of the Prestons, was advised of the accident and rushed to the scene. Enroute thru Granger the physician was advised by Union Pacific railroad officials that Union Pacific train No. Six leaving Granger eastbound at 1:13 p.m., would be held indefinitely or until Mr. and Mrs. Preston could be brought to Granger. But Dr. Lauzer succeeded in getting the injured couple, Mrs. Preston suffering from contusions about the head and chest, into Granger shortly before the scheduled departure of No. Six on which they were placed and brought to the Wyoming General hospital in Rock Springs. Because of their arrival in Granger in fair time it was not necessary to avail themselves of the humanitarian offer of the great Union Pacific.
The extent of Mr. Preston's injuries was four ribs broken and an ugly scalp wound, neither of which would have been necessarily fatal had it not been that the shock of the accident gradually wore down his resistance.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Preston Resident Of This City For 36 Years; Of State 42
Douglas A. Preston was born at Olney, Illinois December 19, 1858. He supplemented his early school education with the study of law in his father's law office at Olney. His father was a lawyer of renowned and marked ability and a personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas in the Frontier days of the middle west and rounded out his legal career as a district judge. The younger Preston was admitted to the bar of Illinois and remained in his native state until 1887.
In that year he came to Wyoming, then a territory. He associated himself in the practice of law with John R. Dixon, now of Denver, after spending several months as a clerk in the office of Attorney General Hugo Donzelmann. The following year he moved to Lander, then a frontier inland hamlet 140 miles away from a railway terminal where he held local political offices and handled a number of big criminal cases.
After making Lander his headquarters for five years he came to Rock Spring in 1893 and since that year has maintained his residence here, although for several years he was in Cheyenne as the attorney general of Wyoming.
Mr. Preston was married to Miss Anna Droullard in October 1912 at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, the old home of the Droullard family. They came immediately to Cheyenne and after the completion of Mr. Preston's appointment as attorney general came to Rock Springs. Recently they built one of the most beautiful homes in the city at 120 Cedar street. He is survived by his wife, a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Hugh Cox of Washington, Indiana, and a grandson, Hugh Preston Cox. Mrs. Cox was in New York City at the time of her father's death and was unable to make the trip to Rock Springs for the funeral. A son, also by his former marriage, preceded him in death.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Governor And U.S. Attorney Lead Preston Rites
The funeral of Douglas A. Preston was held yesterday, at two p.m. from the Elks Home. The ritualistic service of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which Mr. Preston was a devoted and faithful member was used with Rev. R. Emmet Abraham, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, assisting.
Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States District Court of Cheyenne, presided as Exalted Ruler, and Governor Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming as Esteemed Leading Knight.
Other chairs were occupied by Attorney Rush L. DeNise, Esteemed Loyal Knight; City Attorney Fred W. Johnson, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; Esquire, Attorney Lewis H. Brown; chaplain, S.J. Sorensen; and secretary, Gus Anderson, Attorney Brown delivered the eulogy.
John J. Burggemann's students' string quartette, comprised of Arvo Maki, Stewart Blunk, Olga Sarcletti and Harold Alenius, with Miss Alice O'Donnell at the piano, rendered "The Rosary" (Nevin), "The Day is Over" and "Sweet and Low". A male quartet, comprised of Leland Draney, Sam Rogers, M.J. Wright and H.W. Bright, sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "The Vacant Chair".
Mrs. A.W. Dickinson, renowned singer of the city, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Morris, sang "Crossing the Bar" and "The Christian's Good Night".
Was Charter Member
Mr. Preston was a charter member of the Rock Springs Chapter, No. 624, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Since the inception of the chapter he had been an active and enthusiastic worker and it was thru his efforts, with others, that the local order secured the building of the beautiful Home from which his funeral was held.
Laid In State
The body, in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral Home, was taken from the home on Cedar street at ten o'clock a.m. yesterday to the Elks Home where it laid in state until the funeral hour. During that time hundreds of persons passed the bier and paused to pay tribute to the memory of a man whom they had known and loved. These persons came from the highest rank in official life of Wyoming to the lowliest of the laity. All, regardless of station in life, came to pay their last respects.
Abundance of Flowers
The entire rostrum in the auditorium was heaped with flowers. These were sent from almost every section of Wyoming and some from beyond its borders. Many of the older families of the state were either represented in person or by flowers and some by both. Special trucks were chartered to take the flowers from the Home to the cemetery.
Among the floral tributes was a large display from the school children of the city, including Junior and Senior high school students. For a number of years it had been the custom of the popular attorney to entertain all children of the district at a show on New Year's day. Because of this act, and many others, he held a place in their hearts.
Honorary And Active Pallbearers
Honorary pallbearers were judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States district court of Cheyenne; Judge V.J. Tidball of the second judicial district of Wyoming; Judge John Arnold of the third judicial district of Wyoming; William Simpson and George Merrill of Thermopolis; Attorney Hugo Donzelmann, Cheyenne; P.W. Spaulding and George Snyder of Evanston; Oscar Beck of Big Piney; Judge David G. Thomas, H.D. Clark, H.J. Boice, G.S. Pitchford, John W. Hay, V.J. Facinelli and W.H. Gottsche of this city, and T.B. Carnahan of Salt Lake City.
Active pallbearers were James R. Dewar, Fred W. Johnson, Rush L. DeNise, Lewis H. Brown, Ernest Hitchcock and James Davis.
Married 2. 25 Mar 1893, Cora Viola Wynn Preston Wesley Graves, divorced
Married 3. Harriet M. Hewey Preston
Married 4. 16 Oct 1912, Anna Drouillard Clark Preston
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Rock Springs Rocket, 25 Oct 1929
Death Closes Career of Famous Wyoming Lawyer
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former Attorney General of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic Party of this state, succumbed at six A. M. at the Wyoming General Hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
DEATH CLOSES CARRER OF FAMOUS WYOMING LAWYER
Douglas Preston Dies Of Injuries Received In Automobile Mishap
(By MARTHA GOODWIN JENSEN)
Battling heroically before the final tribune of existence in a dual struggle between legal responsibilities and his fast-ebbing life, Wyoming's most eminent criminal attorney passed out last Sunday morning in a final mental review of the cases he planned to defend before the fall tern of the district court—faithful to his many trustful clients even unto death. Thus the great defender died as he lived—throwing every energy into the mighty tasks before him with uncompromising vigor and force which made him the great attorney that he was. He stood high in legal stature and held no brief for any opponent regardless of his reputed ability. He was first captain before the bar and his work was shown with brilliant distinction in many cases where men of less stamina would have yielded the balance to fate. But the indomitable will of Preston never gave up and his formidable forensic thrusts often outwitted the opposition and outflanked them into disordered defeat. Like a great military genius, he could muster invincible strength with a few remnants of thrusts and strategically fool the other side with his array of forceful arguments that routed them completely.
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former attorney general of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic party of this state, succumbed as six a.m. Sunday at the Wyoming General hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
Dr. Edward Lauzer, attending physician and close personal friend of the distinguished attorney, stated that Preston died of his injuries although at the outset they did not appear to be fatal. He rallied quickly and seemed on the road to recovery until his condition took a turn for the worse Saturday noon preceding his death. The venerable attorney gradually sank into a coma from which he never rallied, the direct cause of death being due to the shock of his injuries.
Within a few hours the report of his death had been received in practically every section of the state. He was so well known in every part of Wyoming, however remote, that there was no outlying district which did not in some form feel the sting of his death. Even in distant ranching sections the word that Douglas A. Preston was dead spread with amazing speed and it became evident that his passing was not merely an incident to Rock Springs but to the entire state of Wyoming.
Here Since 1887
Douglas A. Preston had lived in Wyoming since 1887. He had served the state in its very infancy as a member of the constitutional convention of 1889 which convened a year prior to the time when Wyoming attained its statehood in 1890; he was a member of the Wyoming house of representatives from 1903 to 1905.
As a life-long Democrat he devoted himself to the fortunes of his party and was drafted into holding offices by reason of his sheer ability. He was appointed by former Governor Joseph M. Carey as the attorney general of Wyoming in 1911 and four years late was reappointed to the same office by John B. Kendrick, then governor of Wyoming. It is an accepted fact that he filled the office of the attorney generalship with distinction; and public opinion has accorded him front rank among those who have occupied the position.
Renowned Criminal Lawyer
Douglas A. Preston was ranked as the first criminal attorney of Wyoming and there have been few criminal cases in which he did not appear either on the defense or the prosecution. Among his celebrated early cases was the defense of the notorious "Butch" Cassidy and later in 1927, that of Lucretia Harris Shannon, charged with the murder of her husband, James Shannon of Dines, Wyoming in May 1927. After six days' trial a jury freed her in December following.
Members of the bar who have worked with Preston for years, relate many anecdotes of the man who was a keen judge of character which he exercised in the selection of juries for criminal cases. His repartee and masterful wit turned many an imminent defeat into a last minute triumphant victory. To save his client he resorted to every resource known to the legal world. He could skirt the line of contempt to the very fringe to save his slipping case. But he shrewdly went just so far and never over the line.
Accredited With Wisdom
Many of his noted arguments were so soundly based that they were written into decisions of the state's most learned judges. Law annals generally accredited him with conspicuous wisdom in his delineation of specific legal points that in several incidents were regarded as legal precedence.
During his later years the arduous mental strain of a trial would enfeeble him for weeks because he put his whole soul and energy into every case. Often he was so intensely imbued with his responsibilities that he lost complete abandonment of self in his masterful defense which bordered on the heroic wherein his forensic ability and conspicuous skill rose to tragic and impressionable heights.
Frontier Days
Preston's life often was endangered in the early frontier days of the west by threats from criminals whose cases he turned down for lack of merit. One time he risked his life in a lonesome drive to the Boar's Tusk district, called there for consultation with a band of train robbers. Very few attorneys would have had the temerity to risk such a meeting. Prior to that trip he went into the lawless Brown's Park region of northwest Colorado to meet a group of desperadoes who wanted him to defend them. His refusal meant possible assassination. But he bravely declined their entreaties and returned over 75 miles of unprotected and hostile section unmolested.
Knew History of State
No one was more conversant with early history of Wyoming than Preston, who knew its annals in detail. Recently, Judge David G. Thomas and Dr. Lauzer, old friends, importuned him to put his memories of stirring events on paper.
"Oh, I'm a young man yet," he said, brushing the thought aside, "and I have plenty of time to do that in my old age." Thus much of the turgid history of wild cattle days and frontier disorders may be lost to posterity.
Owner of Rocket
Upon the death of Cora B. Wanamaker in 1920, Preston, acting as attorney for the Wanamaker heirs, managed and published the Rock Springs Rocket. A year later he purchased the paper from the heirs and continued to publish The Rocket until December 1922 when he sold the greater part of his interest in the paper to Lester G. Baker of Kemmerer however, continuing as a part owner until the paper was purchased in its entirety 18 months ago by Robert S. Wilson, the present owner.
Elected State Senator
He was elected to the Wyoming State Senate last November from Sweetwater county to fill the unexpired term of the late State Senator Frank Yates. Preston was accorded in that election one of the largest popular votes ever polled by any candidate for any office in Sweetwater county. He served his county in the twentieth Wyoming State Senate with credit.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Accident Which Took Life Can't Be Explained
Douglas A. Preston died as a result of injuries sustained when his automobile in which he was riding with Mrs. Preston overturned on the Lincoln highway, 12 miles west of Granger October 8. Mr. and Mrs. Preston were returning from Evanston where the aged attorney was attending to legal matters.
Mrs. Preston who was driving, states that it is utterly impossible for her to explain the cause of the accident. She is an experienced driver of exceptional ability and the fact that the section of the road on which the accident occurred was straight and smooth makes I the harder to account for the seemingly unexplainable happening.
Dr. Lauzer Advised
Dr. Edward S. Lauzer, intimate friend of the Prestons, was advised of the accident and rushed to the scene. Enroute thru Granger the physician was advised by Union Pacific railroad officials that Union Pacific train No. Six leaving Granger eastbound at 1:13 p.m., would be held indefinitely or until Mr. and Mrs. Preston could be brought to Granger. But Dr. Lauzer succeeded in getting the injured couple, Mrs. Preston suffering from contusions about the head and chest, into Granger shortly before the scheduled departure of No. Six on which they were placed and brought to the Wyoming General hospital in Rock Springs. Because of their arrival in Granger in fair time it was not necessary to avail themselves of the humanitarian offer of the great Union Pacific.
The extent of Mr. Preston's injuries was four ribs broken and an ugly scalp wound, neither of which would have been necessarily fatal had it not been that the shock of the accident gradually wore down his resistance.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Preston Resident Of This City For 36 Years; Of State 42
Douglas A. Preston was born at Olney, Illinois December 19, 1858. He supplemented his early school education with the study of law in his father's law office at Olney. His father was a lawyer of renowned and marked ability and a personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas in the Frontier days of the middle west and rounded out his legal career as a district judge. The younger Preston was admitted to the bar of Illinois and remained in his native state until 1887.
In that year he came to Wyoming, then a territory. He associated himself in the practice of law with John R. Dixon, now of Denver, after spending several months as a clerk in the office of Attorney General Hugo Donzelmann. The following year he moved to Lander, then a frontier inland hamlet 140 miles away from a railway terminal where he held local political offices and handled a number of big criminal cases.
After making Lander his headquarters for five years he came to Rock Spring in 1893 and since that year has maintained his residence here, although for several years he was in Cheyenne as the attorney general of Wyoming.
Mr. Preston was married to Miss Anna Droullard in October 1912 at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, the old home of the Droullard family. They came immediately to Cheyenne and after the completion of Mr. Preston's appointment as attorney general came to Rock Springs. Recently they built one of the most beautiful homes in the city at 120 Cedar street. He is survived by his wife, a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Hugh Cox of Washington, Indiana, and a grandson, Hugh Preston Cox. Mrs. Cox was in New York City at the time of her father's death and was unable to make the trip to Rock Springs for the funeral. A son, also by his former marriage, preceded him in death.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Governor And U.S. Attorney Lead Preston Rites
The funeral of Douglas A. Preston was held yesterday, at two p.m. from the Elks Home. The ritualistic service of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which Mr. Preston was a devoted and faithful member was used with Rev. R. Emmet Abraham, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, assisting.
Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States District Court of Cheyenne, presided as Exalted Ruler, and Governor Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming as Esteemed Leading Knight.
Other chairs were occupied by Attorney Rush L. DeNise, Esteemed Loyal Knight; City Attorney Fred W. Johnson, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; Esquire, Attorney Lewis H. Brown; chaplain, S.J. Sorensen; and secretary, Gus Anderson, Attorney Brown delivered the eulogy.
John J. Burggemann's students' string quartette, comprised of Arvo Maki, Stewart Blunk, Olga Sarcletti and Harold Alenius, with Miss Alice O'Donnell at the piano, rendered "The Rosary" (Nevin), "The Day is Over" and "Sweet and Low". A male quartet, comprised of Leland Draney, Sam Rogers, M.J. Wright and H.W. Bright, sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "The Vacant Chair".
Mrs. A.W. Dickinson, renowned singer of the city, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Morris, sang "Crossing the Bar" and "The Christian's Good Night".
Was Charter Member
Mr. Preston was a charter member of the Rock Springs Chapter, No. 624, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Since the inception of the chapter he had been an active and enthusiastic worker and it was thru his efforts, with others, that the local order secured the building of the beautiful Home from which his funeral was held.
Laid In State
The body, in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral Home, was taken from the home on Cedar street at ten o'clock a.m. yesterday to the Elks Home where it laid in state until the funeral hour. During that time hundreds of persons passed the bier and paused to pay tribute to the memory of a man whom they had known and loved. These persons came from the highest rank in official life of Wyoming to the lowliest of the laity. All, regardless of station in life, came to pay their last respects.
Abundance of Flowers
The entire rostrum in the auditorium was heaped with flowers. These were sent from almost every section of Wyoming and some from beyond its borders. Many of the older families of the state were either represented in person or by flowers and some by both. Special trucks were chartered to take the flowers from the Home to the cemetery.
Among the floral tributes was a large display from the school children of the city, including Junior and Senior high school students. For a number of years it had been the custom of the popular attorney to entertain all children of the district at a show on New Year's day. Because of this act, and many others, he held a place in their hearts.
Honorary And Active Pallbearers
Honorary pallbearers were judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States district court of Cheyenne; Judge V.J. Tidball of the second judicial district of Wyoming; Judge John Arnold of the third judicial district of Wyoming; William Simpson and George Merrill of Thermopolis; Attorney Hugo Donzelmann, Cheyenne; P.W. Spaulding and George Snyder of Evanston; Oscar Beck of Big Piney; Judge David G. Thomas, H.D. Clark, H.J. Boice, G.S. Pitchford, John W. Hay, V.J. Facinelli and W.H. Gottsche of this city, and T.B. Carnahan of Salt Lake City.
Active pallbearers were James R. Dewar, Fred W. Johnson, Rush L. DeNise, Lewis H. Brown, Ernest Hitchcock and James Davis.
Married 1. 24 Mar 1880, Florence Blanch Rhode Preston Kaufman, divorced
Married 2. 25 Mar 1893, Cora Viola Wynn Preston Wesley Graves, divorced
Married 3. Harriet M. Hewey Preston
Married 4. 16 Oct 1912, Anna Drouillard Clark Preston
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Rock Springs Rocket, 25 Oct 1929
Death Closes Career of Famous Wyoming Lawyer
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former Attorney General of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic Party of this state, succumbed at six A. M. at the Wyoming General Hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
DEATH CLOSES CARRER OF FAMOUS WYOMING LAWYER
Douglas Preston Dies Of Injuries Received In Automobile Mishap
(By MARTHA GOODWIN JENSEN)
Battling heroically before the final tribune of existence in a dual struggle between legal responsibilities and his fast-ebbing life, Wyoming's most eminent criminal attorney passed out last Sunday morning in a final mental review of the cases he planned to defend before the fall tern of the district court—faithful to his many trustful clients even unto death. Thus the great defender died as he lived—throwing every energy into the mighty tasks before him with uncompromising vigor and force which made him the great attorney that he was. He stood high in legal stature and held no brief for any opponent regardless of his reputed ability. He was first captain before the bar and his work was shown with brilliant distinction in many cases where men of less stamina would have yielded the balance to fate. But the indomitable will of Preston never gave up and his formidable forensic thrusts often outwitted the opposition and outflanked them into disordered defeat. Like a great military genius, he could muster invincible strength with a few remnants of thrusts and strategically fool the other side with his array of forceful arguments that routed them completely.
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former attorney general of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic party of this state, succumbed as six a.m. Sunday at the Wyoming General hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
Dr. Edward Lauzer, attending physician and close personal friend of the distinguished attorney, stated that Preston died of his injuries although at the outset they did not appear to be fatal. He rallied quickly and seemed on the road to recovery until his condition took a turn for the worse Saturday noon preceding his death. The venerable attorney gradually sank into a coma from which he never rallied, the direct cause of death being due to the shock of his injuries.
Within a few hours the report of his death had been received in practically every section of the state. He was so well known in every part of Wyoming, however remote, that there was no outlying district which did not in some form feel the sting of his death. Even in distant ranching sections the word that Douglas A. Preston was dead spread with amazing speed and it became evident that his passing was not merely an incident to Rock Springs but to the entire state of Wyoming.
Here Since 1887
Douglas A. Preston had lived in Wyoming since 1887. He had served the state in its very infancy as a member of the constitutional convention of 1889 which convened a year prior to the time when Wyoming attained its statehood in 1890; he was a member of the Wyoming house of representatives from 1903 to 1905.
As a life-long Democrat he devoted himself to the fortunes of his party and was drafted into holding offices by reason of his sheer ability. He was appointed by former Governor Joseph M. Carey as the attorney general of Wyoming in 1911 and four years late was reappointed to the same office by John B. Kendrick, then governor of Wyoming. It is an accepted fact that he filled the office of the attorney generalship with distinction; and public opinion has accorded him front rank among those who have occupied the position.
Renowned Criminal Lawyer
Douglas A. Preston was ranked as the first criminal attorney of Wyoming and there have been few criminal cases in which he did not appear either on the defense or the prosecution. Among his celebrated early cases was the defense of the notorious "Butch" Cassidy and later in 1927, that of Lucretia Harris Shannon, charged with the murder of her husband, James Shannon of Dines, Wyoming in May 1927. After six days' trial a jury freed her in December following.
Members of the bar who have worked with Preston for years, relate many anecdotes of the man who was a keen judge of character which he exercised in the selection of juries for criminal cases. His repartee and masterful wit turned many an imminent defeat into a last minute triumphant victory. To save his client he resorted to every resource known to the legal world. He could skirt the line of contempt to the very fringe to save his slipping case. But he shrewdly went just so far and never over the line.
Accredited With Wisdom
Many of his noted arguments were so soundly based that they were written into decisions of the state's most learned judges. Law annals generally accredited him with conspicuous wisdom in his delineation of specific legal points that in several incidents were regarded as legal precedence.
During his later years the arduous mental strain of a trial would enfeeble him for weeks because he put his whole soul and energy into every case. Often he was so intensely imbued with his responsibilities that he lost complete abandonment of self in his masterful defense which bordered on the heroic wherein his forensic ability and conspicuous skill rose to tragic and impressionable heights.
Frontier Days
Preston's life often was endangered in the early frontier days of the west by threats from criminals whose cases he turned down for lack of merit. One time he risked his life in a lonesome drive to the Boar's Tusk district, called there for consultation with a band of train robbers. Very few attorneys would have had the temerity to risk such a meeting. Prior to that trip he went into the lawless Brown's Park region of northwest Colorado to meet a group of desperadoes who wanted him to defend them. His refusal meant possible assassination. But he bravely declined their entreaties and returned over 75 miles of unprotected and hostile section unmolested.
Knew History of State
No one was more conversant with early history of Wyoming than Preston, who knew its annals in detail. Recently, Judge David G. Thomas and Dr. Lauzer, old friends, importuned him to put his memories of stirring events on paper.
"Oh, I'm a young man yet," he said, brushing the thought aside, "and I have plenty of time to do that in my old age." Thus much of the turgid history of wild cattle days and frontier disorders may be lost to posterity.
Owner of Rocket
Upon the death of Cora B. Wanamaker in 1920, Preston, acting as attorney for the Wanamaker heirs, managed and published the Rock Springs Rocket. A year later he purchased the paper from the heirs and continued to publish The Rocket until December 1922 when he sold the greater part of his interest in the paper to Lester G. Baker of Kemmerer however, continuing as a part owner until the paper was purchased in its entirety 18 months ago by Robert S. Wilson, the present owner.
Elected State Senator
He was elected to the Wyoming State Senate last November from Sweetwater county to fill the unexpired term of the late State Senator Frank Yates. Preston was accorded in that election one of the largest popular votes ever polled by any candidate for any office in Sweetwater county. He served his county in the twentieth Wyoming State Senate with credit.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Accident Which Took Life Can't Be Explained
Douglas A. Preston died as a result of injuries sustained when his automobile in which he was riding with Mrs. Preston overturned on the Lincoln highway, 12 miles west of Granger October 8. Mr. and Mrs. Preston were returning from Evanston where the aged attorney was attending to legal matters.
Mrs. Preston who was driving, states that it is utterly impossible for her to explain the cause of the accident. She is an experienced driver of exceptional ability and the fact that the section of the road on which the accident occurred was straight and smooth makes I the harder to account for the seemingly unexplainable happening.
Dr. Lauzer Advised
Dr. Edward S. Lauzer, intimate friend of the Prestons, was advised of the accident and rushed to the scene. Enroute thru Granger the physician was advised by Union Pacific railroad officials that Union Pacific train No. Six leaving Granger eastbound at 1:13 p.m., would be held indefinitely or until Mr. and Mrs. Preston could be brought to Granger. But Dr. Lauzer succeeded in getting the injured couple, Mrs. Preston suffering from contusions about the head and chest, into Granger shortly before the scheduled departure of No. Six on which they were placed and brought to the Wyoming General hospital in Rock Springs. Because of their arrival in Granger in fair time it was not necessary to avail themselves of the humanitarian offer of the great Union Pacific.
The extent of Mr. Preston's injuries was four ribs broken and an ugly scalp wound, neither of which would have been necessarily fatal had it not been that the shock of the accident gradually wore down his resistance.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Preston Resident Of This City For 36 Years; Of State 42
Douglas A. Preston was born at Olney, Illinois December 19, 1858. He supplemented his early school education with the study of law in his father's law office at Olney. His father was a lawyer of renowned and marked ability and a personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas in the Frontier days of the middle west and rounded out his legal career as a district judge. The younger Preston was admitted to the bar of Illinois and remained in his native state until 1887.
In that year he came to Wyoming, then a territory. He associated himself in the practice of law with John R. Dixon, now of Denver, after spending several months as a clerk in the office of Attorney General Hugo Donzelmann. The following year he moved to Lander, then a frontier inland hamlet 140 miles away from a railway terminal where he held local political offices and handled a number of big criminal cases.
After making Lander his headquarters for five years he came to Rock Spring in 1893 and since that year has maintained his residence here, although for several years he was in Cheyenne as the attorney general of Wyoming.
Mr. Preston was married to Miss Anna Droullard in October 1912 at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, the old home of the Droullard family. They came immediately to Cheyenne and after the completion of Mr. Preston's appointment as attorney general came to Rock Springs. Recently they built one of the most beautiful homes in the city at 120 Cedar street. He is survived by his wife, a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Hugh Cox of Washington, Indiana, and a grandson, Hugh Preston Cox. Mrs. Cox was in New York City at the time of her father's death and was unable to make the trip to Rock Springs for the funeral. A son, also by his former marriage, preceded him in death.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Governor And U.S. Attorney Lead Preston Rites
The funeral of Douglas A. Preston was held yesterday, at two p.m. from the Elks Home. The ritualistic service of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which Mr. Preston was a devoted and faithful member was used with Rev. R. Emmet Abraham, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, assisting.
Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States District Court of Cheyenne, presided as Exalted Ruler, and Governor Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming as Esteemed Leading Knight.
Other chairs were occupied by Attorney Rush L. DeNise, Esteemed Loyal Knight; City Attorney Fred W. Johnson, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; Esquire, Attorney Lewis H. Brown; chaplain, S.J. Sorensen; and secretary, Gus Anderson, Attorney Brown delivered the eulogy.
John J. Burggemann's students' string quartette, comprised of Arvo Maki, Stewart Blunk, Olga Sarcletti and Harold Alenius, with Miss Alice O'Donnell at the piano, rendered "The Rosary" (Nevin), "The Day is Over" and "Sweet and Low". A male quartet, comprised of Leland Draney, Sam Rogers, M.J. Wright and H.W. Bright, sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "The Vacant Chair".
Mrs. A.W. Dickinson, renowned singer of the city, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Morris, sang "Crossing the Bar" and "The Christian's Good Night".
Was Charter Member
Mr. Preston was a charter member of the Rock Springs Chapter, No. 624, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Since the inception of the chapter he had been an active and enthusiastic worker and it was thru his efforts, with others, that the local order secured the building of the beautiful Home from which his funeral was held.
Laid In State
The body, in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral Home, was taken from the home on Cedar street at ten o'clock a.m. yesterday to the Elks Home where it laid in state until the funeral hour. During that time hundreds of persons passed the bier and paused to pay tribute to the memory of a man whom they had known and loved. These persons came from the highest rank in official life of Wyoming to the lowliest of the laity. All, regardless of station in life, came to pay their last respects.
Abundance of Flowers
The entire rostrum in the auditorium was heaped with flowers. These were sent from almost every section of Wyoming and some from beyond its borders. Many of the older families of the state were either represented in person or by flowers and some by both. Special trucks were chartered to take the flowers from the Home to the cemetery.
Among the floral tributes was a large display from the school children of the city, including Junior and Senior high school students. For a number of years it had been the custom of the popular attorney to entertain all children of the district at a show on New Year's day. Because of this act, and many others, he held a place in their hearts.
Honorary And Active Pallbearers
Honorary pallbearers were judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States district court of Cheyenne; Judge V.J. Tidball of the second judicial district of Wyoming; Judge John Arnold of the third judicial district of Wyoming; William Simpson and George Merrill of Thermopolis; Attorney Hugo Donzelmann, Cheyenne; P.W. Spaulding and George Snyder of Evanston; Oscar Beck of Big Piney; Judge David G. Thomas, H.D. Clark, H.J. Boice, G.S. Pitchford, John W. Hay, V.J. Facinelli and W.H. Gottsche of this city, and T.B. Carnahan of Salt Lake City.
Active pallbearers were James R. Dewar, Fred W. Johnson, Rush L. DeNise, Lewis H. Brown, Ernest Hitchcock and James Davis.
Married 2. 25 Mar 1893, Cora Viola Wynn Preston Wesley Graves, divorced
Married 3. Harriet M. Hewey Preston
Married 4. 16 Oct 1912, Anna Drouillard Clark Preston
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Rock Springs Rocket, 25 Oct 1929
Death Closes Career of Famous Wyoming Lawyer
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former Attorney General of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic Party of this state, succumbed at six A. M. at the Wyoming General Hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
DEATH CLOSES CARRER OF FAMOUS WYOMING LAWYER
Douglas Preston Dies Of Injuries Received In Automobile Mishap
(By MARTHA GOODWIN JENSEN)
Battling heroically before the final tribune of existence in a dual struggle between legal responsibilities and his fast-ebbing life, Wyoming's most eminent criminal attorney passed out last Sunday morning in a final mental review of the cases he planned to defend before the fall tern of the district court—faithful to his many trustful clients even unto death. Thus the great defender died as he lived—throwing every energy into the mighty tasks before him with uncompromising vigor and force which made him the great attorney that he was. He stood high in legal stature and held no brief for any opponent regardless of his reputed ability. He was first captain before the bar and his work was shown with brilliant distinction in many cases where men of less stamina would have yielded the balance to fate. But the indomitable will of Preston never gave up and his formidable forensic thrusts often outwitted the opposition and outflanked them into disordered defeat. Like a great military genius, he could muster invincible strength with a few remnants of thrusts and strategically fool the other side with his array of forceful arguments that routed them completely.
State Senator Douglas A. Preston, former attorney general of Wyoming and dynamic leader of the Democratic party of this state, succumbed as six a.m. Sunday at the Wyoming General hospital here, to injuries sustained when his car overturned at Church Buttes October 8, while en route from Evanston with his wife.
Dr. Edward Lauzer, attending physician and close personal friend of the distinguished attorney, stated that Preston died of his injuries although at the outset they did not appear to be fatal. He rallied quickly and seemed on the road to recovery until his condition took a turn for the worse Saturday noon preceding his death. The venerable attorney gradually sank into a coma from which he never rallied, the direct cause of death being due to the shock of his injuries.
Within a few hours the report of his death had been received in practically every section of the state. He was so well known in every part of Wyoming, however remote, that there was no outlying district which did not in some form feel the sting of his death. Even in distant ranching sections the word that Douglas A. Preston was dead spread with amazing speed and it became evident that his passing was not merely an incident to Rock Springs but to the entire state of Wyoming.
Here Since 1887
Douglas A. Preston had lived in Wyoming since 1887. He had served the state in its very infancy as a member of the constitutional convention of 1889 which convened a year prior to the time when Wyoming attained its statehood in 1890; he was a member of the Wyoming house of representatives from 1903 to 1905.
As a life-long Democrat he devoted himself to the fortunes of his party and was drafted into holding offices by reason of his sheer ability. He was appointed by former Governor Joseph M. Carey as the attorney general of Wyoming in 1911 and four years late was reappointed to the same office by John B. Kendrick, then governor of Wyoming. It is an accepted fact that he filled the office of the attorney generalship with distinction; and public opinion has accorded him front rank among those who have occupied the position.
Renowned Criminal Lawyer
Douglas A. Preston was ranked as the first criminal attorney of Wyoming and there have been few criminal cases in which he did not appear either on the defense or the prosecution. Among his celebrated early cases was the defense of the notorious "Butch" Cassidy and later in 1927, that of Lucretia Harris Shannon, charged with the murder of her husband, James Shannon of Dines, Wyoming in May 1927. After six days' trial a jury freed her in December following.
Members of the bar who have worked with Preston for years, relate many anecdotes of the man who was a keen judge of character which he exercised in the selection of juries for criminal cases. His repartee and masterful wit turned many an imminent defeat into a last minute triumphant victory. To save his client he resorted to every resource known to the legal world. He could skirt the line of contempt to the very fringe to save his slipping case. But he shrewdly went just so far and never over the line.
Accredited With Wisdom
Many of his noted arguments were so soundly based that they were written into decisions of the state's most learned judges. Law annals generally accredited him with conspicuous wisdom in his delineation of specific legal points that in several incidents were regarded as legal precedence.
During his later years the arduous mental strain of a trial would enfeeble him for weeks because he put his whole soul and energy into every case. Often he was so intensely imbued with his responsibilities that he lost complete abandonment of self in his masterful defense which bordered on the heroic wherein his forensic ability and conspicuous skill rose to tragic and impressionable heights.
Frontier Days
Preston's life often was endangered in the early frontier days of the west by threats from criminals whose cases he turned down for lack of merit. One time he risked his life in a lonesome drive to the Boar's Tusk district, called there for consultation with a band of train robbers. Very few attorneys would have had the temerity to risk such a meeting. Prior to that trip he went into the lawless Brown's Park region of northwest Colorado to meet a group of desperadoes who wanted him to defend them. His refusal meant possible assassination. But he bravely declined their entreaties and returned over 75 miles of unprotected and hostile section unmolested.
Knew History of State
No one was more conversant with early history of Wyoming than Preston, who knew its annals in detail. Recently, Judge David G. Thomas and Dr. Lauzer, old friends, importuned him to put his memories of stirring events on paper.
"Oh, I'm a young man yet," he said, brushing the thought aside, "and I have plenty of time to do that in my old age." Thus much of the turgid history of wild cattle days and frontier disorders may be lost to posterity.
Owner of Rocket
Upon the death of Cora B. Wanamaker in 1920, Preston, acting as attorney for the Wanamaker heirs, managed and published the Rock Springs Rocket. A year later he purchased the paper from the heirs and continued to publish The Rocket until December 1922 when he sold the greater part of his interest in the paper to Lester G. Baker of Kemmerer however, continuing as a part owner until the paper was purchased in its entirety 18 months ago by Robert S. Wilson, the present owner.
Elected State Senator
He was elected to the Wyoming State Senate last November from Sweetwater county to fill the unexpired term of the late State Senator Frank Yates. Preston was accorded in that election one of the largest popular votes ever polled by any candidate for any office in Sweetwater county. He served his county in the twentieth Wyoming State Senate with credit.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Accident Which Took Life Can't Be Explained
Douglas A. Preston died as a result of injuries sustained when his automobile in which he was riding with Mrs. Preston overturned on the Lincoln highway, 12 miles west of Granger October 8. Mr. and Mrs. Preston were returning from Evanston where the aged attorney was attending to legal matters.
Mrs. Preston who was driving, states that it is utterly impossible for her to explain the cause of the accident. She is an experienced driver of exceptional ability and the fact that the section of the road on which the accident occurred was straight and smooth makes I the harder to account for the seemingly unexplainable happening.
Dr. Lauzer Advised
Dr. Edward S. Lauzer, intimate friend of the Prestons, was advised of the accident and rushed to the scene. Enroute thru Granger the physician was advised by Union Pacific railroad officials that Union Pacific train No. Six leaving Granger eastbound at 1:13 p.m., would be held indefinitely or until Mr. and Mrs. Preston could be brought to Granger. But Dr. Lauzer succeeded in getting the injured couple, Mrs. Preston suffering from contusions about the head and chest, into Granger shortly before the scheduled departure of No. Six on which they were placed and brought to the Wyoming General hospital in Rock Springs. Because of their arrival in Granger in fair time it was not necessary to avail themselves of the humanitarian offer of the great Union Pacific.
The extent of Mr. Preston's injuries was four ribs broken and an ugly scalp wound, neither of which would have been necessarily fatal had it not been that the shock of the accident gradually wore down his resistance.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Preston Resident Of This City For 36 Years; Of State 42
Douglas A. Preston was born at Olney, Illinois December 19, 1858. He supplemented his early school education with the study of law in his father's law office at Olney. His father was a lawyer of renowned and marked ability and a personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas in the Frontier days of the middle west and rounded out his legal career as a district judge. The younger Preston was admitted to the bar of Illinois and remained in his native state until 1887.
In that year he came to Wyoming, then a territory. He associated himself in the practice of law with John R. Dixon, now of Denver, after spending several months as a clerk in the office of Attorney General Hugo Donzelmann. The following year he moved to Lander, then a frontier inland hamlet 140 miles away from a railway terminal where he held local political offices and handled a number of big criminal cases.
After making Lander his headquarters for five years he came to Rock Spring in 1893 and since that year has maintained his residence here, although for several years he was in Cheyenne as the attorney general of Wyoming.
Mr. Preston was married to Miss Anna Droullard in October 1912 at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, the old home of the Droullard family. They came immediately to Cheyenne and after the completion of Mr. Preston's appointment as attorney general came to Rock Springs. Recently they built one of the most beautiful homes in the city at 120 Cedar street. He is survived by his wife, a daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Hugh Cox of Washington, Indiana, and a grandson, Hugh Preston Cox. Mrs. Cox was in New York City at the time of her father's death and was unable to make the trip to Rock Springs for the funeral. A son, also by his former marriage, preceded him in death.
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Rock Springs Rocket, Oct 25, 1929
Governor And U.S. Attorney Lead Preston Rites
The funeral of Douglas A. Preston was held yesterday, at two p.m. from the Elks Home. The ritualistic service of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which Mr. Preston was a devoted and faithful member was used with Rev. R. Emmet Abraham, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, assisting.
Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States District Court of Cheyenne, presided as Exalted Ruler, and Governor Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming as Esteemed Leading Knight.
Other chairs were occupied by Attorney Rush L. DeNise, Esteemed Loyal Knight; City Attorney Fred W. Johnson, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; Esquire, Attorney Lewis H. Brown; chaplain, S.J. Sorensen; and secretary, Gus Anderson, Attorney Brown delivered the eulogy.
John J. Burggemann's students' string quartette, comprised of Arvo Maki, Stewart Blunk, Olga Sarcletti and Harold Alenius, with Miss Alice O'Donnell at the piano, rendered "The Rosary" (Nevin), "The Day is Over" and "Sweet and Low". A male quartet, comprised of Leland Draney, Sam Rogers, M.J. Wright and H.W. Bright, sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "The Vacant Chair".
Mrs. A.W. Dickinson, renowned singer of the city, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Morris, sang "Crossing the Bar" and "The Christian's Good Night".
Was Charter Member
Mr. Preston was a charter member of the Rock Springs Chapter, No. 624, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Since the inception of the chapter he had been an active and enthusiastic worker and it was thru his efforts, with others, that the local order secured the building of the beautiful Home from which his funeral was held.
Laid In State
The body, in charge of the Wildermuth Funeral Home, was taken from the home on Cedar street at ten o'clock a.m. yesterday to the Elks Home where it laid in state until the funeral hour. During that time hundreds of persons passed the bier and paused to pay tribute to the memory of a man whom they had known and loved. These persons came from the highest rank in official life of Wyoming to the lowliest of the laity. All, regardless of station in life, came to pay their last respects.
Abundance of Flowers
The entire rostrum in the auditorium was heaped with flowers. These were sent from almost every section of Wyoming and some from beyond its borders. Many of the older families of the state were either represented in person or by flowers and some by both. Special trucks were chartered to take the flowers from the Home to the cemetery.
Among the floral tributes was a large display from the school children of the city, including Junior and Senior high school students. For a number of years it had been the custom of the popular attorney to entertain all children of the district at a show on New Year's day. Because of this act, and many others, he held a place in their hearts.
Honorary And Active Pallbearers
Honorary pallbearers were judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States district court of Cheyenne; Judge V.J. Tidball of the second judicial district of Wyoming; Judge John Arnold of the third judicial district of Wyoming; William Simpson and George Merrill of Thermopolis; Attorney Hugo Donzelmann, Cheyenne; P.W. Spaulding and George Snyder of Evanston; Oscar Beck of Big Piney; Judge David G. Thomas, H.D. Clark, H.J. Boice, G.S. Pitchford, John W. Hay, V.J. Facinelli and W.H. Gottsche of this city, and T.B. Carnahan of Salt Lake City.
Active pallbearers were James R. Dewar, Fred W. Johnson, Rush L. DeNise, Lewis H. Brown, Ernest Hitchcock and James Davis.
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