Wyoming Tribune
9 Apr 1920
page 2
Wyoming has lost one of its foremost pioneers who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Atwell, in Laramie at 7 o'clock last evening. Mr. Bristol was president of the Bristol Company of this city. He had been ill for a long time...paralysis at last claiming him.
The deceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Chatfield of Highland Park MI, and four children, Mrs. Kate Wade of Fairhope, AL, Mrs. Sarah Jensen of Gramm, WY, C. A. Bristol of Cheyenne and Mrs. Ellen Atwell of Laramie.
Samuel Allen Bristol, better known to his friends simply as "S. A.", was born in Guilford, CT, October 7th, 1841. He was educated at the Guildford Institute and had prepared for college when he answered one of Lincoln's calls for volunteers and enlisted in the 37th CT Volunteer Infantry. Serving with his regiment until the battle of Chancellorsville he was taken prisoner and put in several weeks in Liberty Prison. Upon being exchanged his health was so impaired that he was given an honorable discharge and sent home.
In October, 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen Lee, an old schoolmate and following Horace Greeley's advice, went west as far as Kansas. Here he engaged in farming until the grasshoppers came and ate everything but the buildings when he sent his wife home and after teaching school for a while accepted a position as "bullwhacker" and steered an eight-yoke ox team from Leavenworth to Colorado City.
The time he lived in Colorado was mostly spent in mining around Blackhawk and Central City and in 1869 he removed to Cheyenne which has been his home ever since.
Associated with his brother-in-law, General E. M. Lee [Edward M. Lee] who at that time was secretary of Wyoming, he published the Wyoming Tribune, which sheet after various ups and downs, changes of management and politics was the forerunner of the present Cheyenne State Leader.
It is of interest...to note that the first published laws of Wyoming which include the first woman suffrage law ever passed, carries this imprint on the title page:
Cheyenne W. T.
S. Allen Bristol, Public Printer
Tribune Office
1870
Severing his connection with the newspaper in 1881, Mr. Bristol started a small book-bindery, the original plant being accommodated in the dining room of his residence at 208 E. 20th Street. By hard work and fair and honest business methods he built up the business known as the S. A. Bristol Company, of which he was president and which is one of the largest and best equipped printing and bookbinding establishments in the state.
He did not care very much for politics, was a staunch Republican and represented the Second ward n the city council for nine years. When the present water system was being built he was a member of the committee on water and sewers which had charge of the work. He also served two terms in the lower house of the legislature.
Mr. Bristol early became affiliated with the Masonic orders... honored with the highest offices...
In February, 1911, his wife died and in July, 1915, his oldest son, E. L. Bristol was killed by his auto turning turtle.
S. A. was always a loving husband and a kind father and in his passing every one who knew him will feel keenly the loss of a true 100 per cent man.
9 Apr 1920
page 2
Wyoming has lost one of its foremost pioneers who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Atwell, in Laramie at 7 o'clock last evening. Mr. Bristol was president of the Bristol Company of this city. He had been ill for a long time...paralysis at last claiming him.
The deceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Chatfield of Highland Park MI, and four children, Mrs. Kate Wade of Fairhope, AL, Mrs. Sarah Jensen of Gramm, WY, C. A. Bristol of Cheyenne and Mrs. Ellen Atwell of Laramie.
Samuel Allen Bristol, better known to his friends simply as "S. A.", was born in Guilford, CT, October 7th, 1841. He was educated at the Guildford Institute and had prepared for college when he answered one of Lincoln's calls for volunteers and enlisted in the 37th CT Volunteer Infantry. Serving with his regiment until the battle of Chancellorsville he was taken prisoner and put in several weeks in Liberty Prison. Upon being exchanged his health was so impaired that he was given an honorable discharge and sent home.
In October, 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen Lee, an old schoolmate and following Horace Greeley's advice, went west as far as Kansas. Here he engaged in farming until the grasshoppers came and ate everything but the buildings when he sent his wife home and after teaching school for a while accepted a position as "bullwhacker" and steered an eight-yoke ox team from Leavenworth to Colorado City.
The time he lived in Colorado was mostly spent in mining around Blackhawk and Central City and in 1869 he removed to Cheyenne which has been his home ever since.
Associated with his brother-in-law, General E. M. Lee [Edward M. Lee] who at that time was secretary of Wyoming, he published the Wyoming Tribune, which sheet after various ups and downs, changes of management and politics was the forerunner of the present Cheyenne State Leader.
It is of interest...to note that the first published laws of Wyoming which include the first woman suffrage law ever passed, carries this imprint on the title page:
Cheyenne W. T.
S. Allen Bristol, Public Printer
Tribune Office
1870
Severing his connection with the newspaper in 1881, Mr. Bristol started a small book-bindery, the original plant being accommodated in the dining room of his residence at 208 E. 20th Street. By hard work and fair and honest business methods he built up the business known as the S. A. Bristol Company, of which he was president and which is one of the largest and best equipped printing and bookbinding establishments in the state.
He did not care very much for politics, was a staunch Republican and represented the Second ward n the city council for nine years. When the present water system was being built he was a member of the committee on water and sewers which had charge of the work. He also served two terms in the lower house of the legislature.
Mr. Bristol early became affiliated with the Masonic orders... honored with the highest offices...
In February, 1911, his wife died and in July, 1915, his oldest son, E. L. Bristol was killed by his auto turning turtle.
S. A. was always a loving husband and a kind father and in his passing every one who knew him will feel keenly the loss of a true 100 per cent man.
Wyoming Tribune
9 Apr 1920
page 2
Wyoming has lost one of its foremost pioneers who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Atwell, in Laramie at 7 o'clock last evening. Mr. Bristol was president of the Bristol Company of this city. He had been ill for a long time...paralysis at last claiming him.
The deceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Chatfield of Highland Park MI, and four children, Mrs. Kate Wade of Fairhope, AL, Mrs. Sarah Jensen of Gramm, WY, C. A. Bristol of Cheyenne and Mrs. Ellen Atwell of Laramie.
Samuel Allen Bristol, better known to his friends simply as "S. A.", was born in Guilford, CT, October 7th, 1841. He was educated at the Guildford Institute and had prepared for college when he answered one of Lincoln's calls for volunteers and enlisted in the 37th CT Volunteer Infantry. Serving with his regiment until the battle of Chancellorsville he was taken prisoner and put in several weeks in Liberty Prison. Upon being exchanged his health was so impaired that he was given an honorable discharge and sent home.
In October, 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen Lee, an old schoolmate and following Horace Greeley's advice, went west as far as Kansas. Here he engaged in farming until the grasshoppers came and ate everything but the buildings when he sent his wife home and after teaching school for a while accepted a position as "bullwhacker" and steered an eight-yoke ox team from Leavenworth to Colorado City.
The time he lived in Colorado was mostly spent in mining around Blackhawk and Central City and in 1869 he removed to Cheyenne which has been his home ever since.
Associated with his brother-in-law, General E. M. Lee [Edward M. Lee] who at that time was secretary of Wyoming, he published the Wyoming Tribune, which sheet after various ups and downs, changes of management and politics was the forerunner of the present Cheyenne State Leader.
It is of interest...to note that the first published laws of Wyoming which include the first woman suffrage law ever passed, carries this imprint on the title page:
Cheyenne W. T.
S. Allen Bristol, Public Printer
Tribune Office
1870
Severing his connection with the newspaper in 1881, Mr. Bristol started a small book-bindery, the original plant being accommodated in the dining room of his residence at 208 E. 20th Street. By hard work and fair and honest business methods he built up the business known as the S. A. Bristol Company, of which he was president and which is one of the largest and best equipped printing and bookbinding establishments in the state.
He did not care very much for politics, was a staunch Republican and represented the Second ward n the city council for nine years. When the present water system was being built he was a member of the committee on water and sewers which had charge of the work. He also served two terms in the lower house of the legislature.
Mr. Bristol early became affiliated with the Masonic orders... honored with the highest offices...
In February, 1911, his wife died and in July, 1915, his oldest son, E. L. Bristol was killed by his auto turning turtle.
S. A. was always a loving husband and a kind father and in his passing every one who knew him will feel keenly the loss of a true 100 per cent man.
9 Apr 1920
page 2
Wyoming has lost one of its foremost pioneers who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Atwell, in Laramie at 7 o'clock last evening. Mr. Bristol was president of the Bristol Company of this city. He had been ill for a long time...paralysis at last claiming him.
The deceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. Walter Chatfield of Highland Park MI, and four children, Mrs. Kate Wade of Fairhope, AL, Mrs. Sarah Jensen of Gramm, WY, C. A. Bristol of Cheyenne and Mrs. Ellen Atwell of Laramie.
Samuel Allen Bristol, better known to his friends simply as "S. A.", was born in Guilford, CT, October 7th, 1841. He was educated at the Guildford Institute and had prepared for college when he answered one of Lincoln's calls for volunteers and enlisted in the 37th CT Volunteer Infantry. Serving with his regiment until the battle of Chancellorsville he was taken prisoner and put in several weeks in Liberty Prison. Upon being exchanged his health was so impaired that he was given an honorable discharge and sent home.
In October, 1864, he was married to Miss Ellen Lee, an old schoolmate and following Horace Greeley's advice, went west as far as Kansas. Here he engaged in farming until the grasshoppers came and ate everything but the buildings when he sent his wife home and after teaching school for a while accepted a position as "bullwhacker" and steered an eight-yoke ox team from Leavenworth to Colorado City.
The time he lived in Colorado was mostly spent in mining around Blackhawk and Central City and in 1869 he removed to Cheyenne which has been his home ever since.
Associated with his brother-in-law, General E. M. Lee [Edward M. Lee] who at that time was secretary of Wyoming, he published the Wyoming Tribune, which sheet after various ups and downs, changes of management and politics was the forerunner of the present Cheyenne State Leader.
It is of interest...to note that the first published laws of Wyoming which include the first woman suffrage law ever passed, carries this imprint on the title page:
Cheyenne W. T.
S. Allen Bristol, Public Printer
Tribune Office
1870
Severing his connection with the newspaper in 1881, Mr. Bristol started a small book-bindery, the original plant being accommodated in the dining room of his residence at 208 E. 20th Street. By hard work and fair and honest business methods he built up the business known as the S. A. Bristol Company, of which he was president and which is one of the largest and best equipped printing and bookbinding establishments in the state.
He did not care very much for politics, was a staunch Republican and represented the Second ward n the city council for nine years. When the present water system was being built he was a member of the committee on water and sewers which had charge of the work. He also served two terms in the lower house of the legislature.
Mr. Bristol early became affiliated with the Masonic orders... honored with the highest offices...
In February, 1911, his wife died and in July, 1915, his oldest son, E. L. Bristol was killed by his auto turning turtle.
S. A. was always a loving husband and a kind father and in his passing every one who knew him will feel keenly the loss of a true 100 per cent man.
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