ADAMS, Stephen - ran the post office and stage station at Dad in 1900.

ADAMS, Wilmer - early 1900s - physician. Source: Susan Day soosoiday@attbi.com

ALLEN, William, engineer - town of Allen named for him.

BAGGITT, Amos - homesteader in 1878, Baggott Rocks named after him.

BAGGS, George and Maggie - large ranchers, Baggs named after them.

BAKER, James - trapper, prospector, had two Indian wives, ten children; died in 1898; Baker Peak named after him. He is buried in Savery, Wyoming.

BATES, Capt. - Bates Hole is named after him.

BELL, Albert Hiram - town of Bell named after him.

BENNETT, Ed - rancher, Bennett Mountains named after him

BENTON, Thomas Hart - founder of the town of Benton.

BLACKHALL, James - Blackhall Mountain named after him. Had been a supervisor of Hayden National Forest.

BOOTH, Elisha M. (Jack), Homer, Lucy, William S., Nellie A. Booth McFarlane.  They all settled there in 1896 or 1897. - Source: Leanne Bowen bowen5ranchhouse@aol.com

BRADLEY, Charles - named Carbon County.

BRECKMIRE, Henry - Brown's Hill named after him as he was known as Bible Brown.

BRIDGER, Jim - explorer, trapper, founder of Ft. Bridger - Bridger Pass and Bridger Peak in Carbon County are named after him in addition to several other Wyoming place names.

BROWNE, Percy T. construction engineer killed by Indians - town of Percy named for him.

BROWNLEE, John, owner of one of the oldest reservoir rights in Wyoming.

BUCKLIN - Bucklin family that Bucklin Reservoir is named after.

CALVIN - station agent at Calvin in 1870, station named after him.

CAMPBELL, Arch and Jack - sheepmen that Campbell Lake is named after.

CARLSON - timber worker that Carlson Creek is named after.

CARR, Robert and Isabella. Buried in Old Carbon Cemetery. Source: John Hardin John.Hardin@ihrco.com

CASEMENT, Gen. Jack - U.S. Army General in charge of grading and track laying of the Union Pacific Railroad.

CASEMENT, Dan - brother of Gen. Casement and also in charge of the grading and track laying of the Union Pacific Railroad.

CHAPMAN - Chapman draw was named after a Mrs. Chapman who died in an 1880's blizzard near Medicine Bow.

CHATTERTON, Fenimore - post trader at Fort Steel, founder of Saratoga.

COAD, John and Mark - timber cutters near Fort Steele. John Coad was voted into the territorial legilsature in 1872.

CORLETT, A. T - rancher.

DALEY, Hon. William W., rancher.

DANA, Col - town of Dana named after him.

DAVIS, Capt. Lou - Davis siding on his ranch.

DAY, Robert - Days Siding on his land.

DEAL, Robert - financier behind Ferris-Haggarty Mine.

DEMING, Roy and Mrs. - 1890 ranchers who named Victoria.

DEXTER, Mr. - rancher below Dexter Peak.

DILLON, Malachi W. - founder of the town of Dillon.

DIXON, Robert (Bob) - trapper, Dixon named after him; also one of the first two cattlement in Carbon County, 1871.

DOANE, George - prospector that Doane Peak is named after.

DODGE, Gen Grenville M. built Brownsville and a bridge on the Platte River.

DOGGETT, ? - owner of a way station and post office at Riverside.

DOTY, A. H. - rancher that Doty Mountain is named after.

DOWNEY, Stephen - owners of one of the first recorded gold mining claims on Brush Creek in 1876.

DURANT, Thomas C. - Vice President of the Union Pacific Railroad.

EDSON, J.A. - train dispatcher that Edwon siding is named after.

ELMO, Mr. - town of Elmo named after him.

EVERSOLE - family in early Baggs and Dixon area

FERRIS, George - co-founder of the Ferris-Haggarty Mine in 1897.

FOOTE, Robert - rancher who furnished hay for Fort Halleck in 1866, Foote Creek named after him.

FRAEB, Henry - trapper for the American Fur Company, killed in 1841 with four other men. Fraeb's Post named after him.

GONZALES, Joe and two brothers - near Dad - homesteaders buried on their land, now called Mexican Flats.

GUFFY, John - rancher that Guffy's Peak is named after.

GUNST, Louis - builder of Bunst Reservoir on Antelope Creek.

HADSELL, Frank A. - rancher on Elk Mountain, Sheriff of Carbon County, Warden of the Wyoming Penitentiary and a U.S. Marshall.

HAGGARTY, Ed - sheepherder, co founder of the Ferris-Haggarty Mine in 1897.

HANNA, Mark - founded town of Hanna in 1886, also on the Board of Directors for the Union Pacific Railroad.

HARRISON, Mr - railroad engineer who made the cut for Harrison's Cut.

HAYDEN, Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer - United States Geological Survey, Hayden National Forest named after him in 1908.

HEATHER, James - lumberman and prospector - Heather Peak named after him.

HUSTON, Al - Huston Park named after him.

JONES, John - buried in Old Carbon Cemetery. Source: Nancy McGaw nkmcgaw@aol.com

KENNADAY, Jack - forest ranger, lookout station named for him on top of Kennaday Peak.

KETCHUM, Jim - homesteader, Ketchum Buttes is named after him.

KORTES - Kortes Ranch - early ranch in Carbon County, presumably after a family.

KYLE, Mr. - oilman that drilled the first oil well well at Kyle and Kyle Oil Camp.

LAJEUNESSE, Basil Cimineau - French trapper and guide for Gen. Fremont in 1842. Seminoe Mountains are named after him. Cimineau is his Indian wife's name that he took as his second name. He ran a trading post near Devil's Gate in the late 1850's.

LAMONT, James - rancher that the town of Lamont is named after. Also brought in the first windmills.

LIND, Matt and Joanna, daughter named Anna who was born 1885 in Carbon County - immigrants from Finland, settled in Carbon County by 1885. Source: James Haapoja  Jvhaapoja.cs.com

MAHONEY, John and Frank - found gas and oil at Mahoney Dome. John Mahoney also served at Fort Fred Steele.

McCARTHY, William - 1870 pioneer.

McLAUGHLIN, Mrs. - postmistress and stage agent at Lorey.

MEAD, Alice L. - postmistress at Mead.

MEADE, Elwood - member of the USGS and Wyoming's first Territorial Engineer - Meade Creek named after him.

MONTGOMERY - family near Brown's Hill.

MURKY, James - pioneer that Murky Lake is named after.

NELLIS, Ed - pioneer that Nellis Creek is named after.

NICHOLS, Guy - first postmaster at Swan.

OBERG, mr. - rancher on Oberg Pass.

OLSON, Mr. - boss of the Carbon Timber Company at Hog Park.

OSCELO - probably a miner that mining claims were named after at the Ferris-Haggarty area.

PARROT, George "Big Nose" - early holdup man hung by vigilantes at Carbon.

PENNOCK, Homer - pioneer and explorer - Pennock Mountain named after him.

PETERSON, Jepp - rancher.

POOR, William "Billie" - pioneer settler.

RANKIN, Joe - Encampment, late 1800s. Son Don Rankin lived in Saratoga. Source: Darrel Johnson Johns9594@aol.com

RAWLINS, Gen. John S. - founder of Rawlins, U.S. Army general.

ROBINSON, Black Bill - mail carrier over the Medicine Bow Mountains in the 1870's - Robinson Creek is named after him.

RUMSEY, James - financier of the Ferris-Haggarty Mine in 1897.

RYAN, Barton Thomas - owner of a sawmill at Ryan Park.

SAVERY, ? - trapper in the early days of Bridger and Baker.

SHIRLEY, John - freighter who hauled supplies to ranchers, Shirley Mountains and Shirley Basin are named after him.

SLATER, William - one of the first two cattlemen in Carbon County - 1871.

STANDING ELK, Chief - Sioux warrior that Elk mountain is possibly named after.

SUBLETTE, Bill - trapper who joined early trappers and Indians at Encampment River.

SWAN, William F. - rancher, owner of the Hat brand. also the town of Swan named after him.

TAGGART, Pete - tender on an early freighting stop called Crooks Creek Station.

TULLIS, ? - postal inspector that the post office and railroad station of Tullis was named.

TURPIN, John - early 1900s - civil engineer for the railroad. Source: Susan Day soosiday@attbi.com

VAGNER, Charles - early logger with the Carbon Timber Company.

WALCOTT, ? - a conductor between Cheyenne and Green River, and Walcott Junction named after him.

WATKINS, Jack - outlaw that Jack Creek was named after.

WIDDOWFIELD, Robert - deputy sheriff in 1878.

WINTER, Judge Charles E. - wrote the poem that eventually became the state song "Wyoming" in 1903.