(Excerpts taken from the Sheridan County Heritage book published 1983, Story by Mrs. L.E. Addleman)
Larry was the youngest son of John and Maggie (Townsend) Addleman and was born at 304 Coffeen Ave. When he was three weeks old, his mother died of pneumonia. He was raided by his father and siblings. He went through the Sheridan schools.
Being adventuresome, at age 16 he took off for Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in an old Model T Ford with a widow and her five children. They swiftly ran out of money and had to work the harvest fields to make enough to go on. Many breakdowns and lots of bailing wire later, they arrived in Beaver Dam about six weeks later.
Larry got a job in a shoe factory and was making good money. He bought his own Model T Ford and was really living it up. Then school started and he had to produce a birth certificate verifying he was 18. Unable to do so, he quit his job, took his Ford and went to Davenport, Iowa, to see his sister Doris and look for work. No work for a 16 year old, he sold his car, wrote home to his Dad for money to return to Sheridan.
Back home, he went to work for Bill Johnson on the Rosebud feeding cattle. He remembered moving cattle in forty below zero weather. Later on, he went to work for Junior Spear and other ranches. He became quite good at breaking horses.
While working for Olin Realing in 1933, he met and married Anna Lee Wile on September 13, 1934.
Spring of 1935, the depression was very bad in Sheridan. He and Anna left for Davenport, Iowa, where he went to work driving a delivery truck. He later worked various jobs in Davenport, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois.
During WW II, he worked at the US government arsenal in Rock Island making ammunition. In 1943, because of his father’s ill health, he went before a review board to be released to return to Sheridan. He went into the garage business with his brother in law and later he bought a trucking business from Bunny Tschirgi.
Big Horn Coal Company opened their first mine in 1946 and he went to work for them for 23 years. Summer when the mine work was slow, he worked in construction as a heavy equipment operator.
Larry leased the old N.U. Bar in Ranchester in 1953 and ran it until 1957. He worked as a heavy equipment operator for the City of Sheridan until poor health forced him to retire in 1974.
Larry and Anna had three children: Barbara born 4-19-1938, Gary born 8-7-1943 and Kenneth born 9-16-1948.
Larry was the youngest son of John and Maggie (Townsend) Addleman and was born at 304 Coffeen Ave. When he was three weeks old, his mother died of pneumonia. He was raided by his father and siblings. He went through the Sheridan schools.
Being adventuresome, at age 16 he took off for Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in an old Model T Ford with a widow and her five children. They swiftly ran out of money and had to work the harvest fields to make enough to go on. Many breakdowns and lots of bailing wire later, they arrived in Beaver Dam about six weeks later.
Larry got a job in a shoe factory and was making good money. He bought his own Model T Ford and was really living it up. Then school started and he had to produce a birth certificate verifying he was 18. Unable to do so, he quit his job, took his Ford and went to Davenport, Iowa, to see his sister Doris and look for work. No work for a 16 year old, he sold his car, wrote home to his Dad for money to return to Sheridan.
Back home, he went to work for Bill Johnson on the Rosebud feeding cattle. He remembered moving cattle in forty below zero weather. Later on, he went to work for Junior Spear and other ranches. He became quite good at breaking horses.
While working for Olin Realing in 1933, he met and married Anna Lee Wile on September 13, 1934.
Spring of 1935, the depression was very bad in Sheridan. He and Anna left for Davenport, Iowa, where he went to work driving a delivery truck. He later worked various jobs in Davenport, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois.
During WW II, he worked at the US government arsenal in Rock Island making ammunition. In 1943, because of his father’s ill health, he went before a review board to be released to return to Sheridan. He went into the garage business with his brother in law and later he bought a trucking business from Bunny Tschirgi.
Big Horn Coal Company opened their first mine in 1946 and he went to work for them for 23 years. Summer when the mine work was slow, he worked in construction as a heavy equipment operator.
Larry leased the old N.U. Bar in Ranchester in 1953 and ran it until 1957. He worked as a heavy equipment operator for the City of Sheridan until poor health forced him to retire in 1974.
Larry and Anna had three children: Barbara born 4-19-1938, Gary born 8-7-1943 and Kenneth born 9-16-1948.
(Excerpts taken from the Sheridan County Heritage book published 1983, Story by Mrs. L.E. Addleman)
Larry was the youngest son of John and Maggie (Townsend) Addleman and was born at 304 Coffeen Ave. When he was three weeks old, his mother died of pneumonia. He was raided by his father and siblings. He went through the Sheridan schools.
Being adventuresome, at age 16 he took off for Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in an old Model T Ford with a widow and her five children. They swiftly ran out of money and had to work the harvest fields to make enough to go on. Many breakdowns and lots of bailing wire later, they arrived in Beaver Dam about six weeks later.
Larry got a job in a shoe factory and was making good money. He bought his own Model T Ford and was really living it up. Then school started and he had to produce a birth certificate verifying he was 18. Unable to do so, he quit his job, took his Ford and went to Davenport, Iowa, to see his sister Doris and look for work. No work for a 16 year old, he sold his car, wrote home to his Dad for money to return to Sheridan.
Back home, he went to work for Bill Johnson on the Rosebud feeding cattle. He remembered moving cattle in forty below zero weather. Later on, he went to work for Junior Spear and other ranches. He became quite good at breaking horses.
While working for Olin Realing in 1933, he met and married Anna Lee Wile on September 13, 1934.
Spring of 1935, the depression was very bad in Sheridan. He and Anna left for Davenport, Iowa, where he went to work driving a delivery truck. He later worked various jobs in Davenport, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois.
During WW II, he worked at the US government arsenal in Rock Island making ammunition. In 1943, because of his father’s ill health, he went before a review board to be released to return to Sheridan. He went into the garage business with his brother in law and later he bought a trucking business from Bunny Tschirgi.
Big Horn Coal Company opened their first mine in 1946 and he went to work for them for 23 years. Summer when the mine work was slow, he worked in construction as a heavy equipment operator.
Larry leased the old N.U. Bar in Ranchester in 1953 and ran it until 1957. He worked as a heavy equipment operator for the City of Sheridan until poor health forced him to retire in 1974.
Larry and Anna had three children: Barbara born 4-19-1938, Gary born 8-7-1943 and Kenneth born 9-16-1948.
Larry was the youngest son of John and Maggie (Townsend) Addleman and was born at 304 Coffeen Ave. When he was three weeks old, his mother died of pneumonia. He was raided by his father and siblings. He went through the Sheridan schools.
Being adventuresome, at age 16 he took off for Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in an old Model T Ford with a widow and her five children. They swiftly ran out of money and had to work the harvest fields to make enough to go on. Many breakdowns and lots of bailing wire later, they arrived in Beaver Dam about six weeks later.
Larry got a job in a shoe factory and was making good money. He bought his own Model T Ford and was really living it up. Then school started and he had to produce a birth certificate verifying he was 18. Unable to do so, he quit his job, took his Ford and went to Davenport, Iowa, to see his sister Doris and look for work. No work for a 16 year old, he sold his car, wrote home to his Dad for money to return to Sheridan.
Back home, he went to work for Bill Johnson on the Rosebud feeding cattle. He remembered moving cattle in forty below zero weather. Later on, he went to work for Junior Spear and other ranches. He became quite good at breaking horses.
While working for Olin Realing in 1933, he met and married Anna Lee Wile on September 13, 1934.
Spring of 1935, the depression was very bad in Sheridan. He and Anna left for Davenport, Iowa, where he went to work driving a delivery truck. He later worked various jobs in Davenport, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois.
During WW II, he worked at the US government arsenal in Rock Island making ammunition. In 1943, because of his father’s ill health, he went before a review board to be released to return to Sheridan. He went into the garage business with his brother in law and later he bought a trucking business from Bunny Tschirgi.
Big Horn Coal Company opened their first mine in 1946 and he went to work for them for 23 years. Summer when the mine work was slow, he worked in construction as a heavy equipment operator.
Larry leased the old N.U. Bar in Ranchester in 1953 and ran it until 1957. He worked as a heavy equipment operator for the City of Sheridan until poor health forced him to retire in 1974.
Larry and Anna had three children: Barbara born 4-19-1938, Gary born 8-7-1943 and Kenneth born 9-16-1948.
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