Samuel H. Hardin Facts
*Originally from Texas
*Came west in 1880 to go into the cattle business
*Was President of the Lincoln Land Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska
*Was a Senator
*In 1902, elected to State Legislature, and served one term for Sheridan County
*Was author of the measure which provided for the erection of the State Hospital in Sheridan in 1904.
*Organized the first livestock association in Wyoming
*Married Mrs. Jessie G. McIlvain in 1895
*Stepfather to John "Jack" G. McIlvain and foster father of sorts to Orville G. Lewis
*Had large grazing lease on the Crow Indian Reservation
*Was co-owner of the 04 Bar Ranch - his partner was Andrew C. Campbell
**Facts gathered from book by Charles Rawlings called In Our Neck O' the Woods: Memoirs of a Pioneer Banker and from an oral history project written out by Babe Butler. **