Henry G. Balch
Portrait of Henry Gordon Balch, c. 1890, during his tenure as president of the First National Bank of Rock Springs and Laramie National Bank. Balch, while originally a stockman, became active in local and state politics, initially serving in Wyoming’s Territorial Legislature, then as one of Albany County’s Commissioners, with Laramie being Albany County’s largest settlement. Blach later served as a state senator, elected months before his premature death from pneumonia in 1901.
| Source: “Henry G. Balch,” History of Wyoming, Vol. II, 1918. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. Courtesy of Archive.org. https://is.gd/QNExgi.