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The events of one terrible day in a Union Pacific Coal Company camp called Rock Springs continue to fascinate and appall. What came to be known as the Chinese Massacre haunts southwest Wyoming to this day. When threats against unarmed Chinese led to an outbreak of violent lawlessness, the houses of Chinatown were burned to ashes and its residents gunned down or chased at gunpoint into the desert. Following the riot, company officials, the local sheriff, Wyoming’s territorial governor, and President Grover Cleveland along with the United States Army all ultimately proved unable to punish even one person for the murders, thefts, and property destruction of September 2, 1885. What mainly disappeared from the record were the everyday lives of the Chinese miners, mostly single men who hoped to return to China one day while toiling to bring the carbon out of the ground. In this reprint of an 1886 account of the official inquiries, eyewitness statements, and contemporary newspaper accounts of informative or inflammatory nature, the Sweetwater County Historical Museum adds both familiar and never-before-published photos and documents to augment an already riveting historical record.
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Isaac Hill Bromley was born on March 6, 1833 and was one of nine children who crowded the house of their parents--Isaac and Mary (Hill)--at Norwich, Connecticut.
As their names suggest, these parents were God-fearing people who lived ardently in the flaming light of the gospel, in awe and reverence, after the manner and spirit of the times.
Bromley's college course was interrupted in the sophomore year but, in 1868, the degree of B. A. was conferred upon him and he was enrolled with his class. Thereafter he was numbered among its most distinguished members.
He studied law in the office of the Hon. L. F. B. Foster of Norwich, a leader at the bar from whom he imbibed a keen relish for human problems, later to convert it into a newspaper asset.
After studying law in the office of the Hon. L. F. B. Foster of Norwich, Bromley was admitted to the bar in 1854 but study of Blackstone only whetted his appetite for the wider fields of exploration and adventure which newspaper work seemed to promise him.
He sought further preparation for what became his life-work in the post of assistant clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives, to which he was called in 1856.
The year following he became clerk of the House and, in 1858, clerk of the Senate. His first serious newspaper work was undertaken in November 1858 when he began the publication of the Norwich Bulletin, a daily whose columns he enlivened with his wit and satire. In August 1862 he enlisted in the 18th Connecticut Volunteers and was commissioned captain. After a varied and useful, but not spectacular service, he resigned, in 1864.
A year later he resumed the editorship of the Bulletin. In 1866 he served a term in the Connecticut General Assembly and, in 1868, removed to Hartford and became the editor of the Evening Post, with which he remained until 1872.
Other trips, promoted by a restless desire to see the world and "get the hang of it, " preceded his connection with the New York Tribune, which began in 1873 and continued ten years.
In June 1882, he was appointed by President Arthur as a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad. There followed a series of brief editorial engagements with the Commercial Advertiser and the Evening Telegram of New York and the Post-Express of Rochester.
Then, in 1884, he became assistant to the president of the Union Pacific Railroad. He held that office until 1889.
In October 1891 he resumed his editorial connection with the New York Tribune. He remained in its service until a few months before his death, which occurred at Norwich.
In April 1898 after several years of poor health, he became seriously ill, and in June was removed to the Backus Hospital in Norwich, where he died from neuritis on August 11, in his 66th year.
Isaac Bromley's main achievement was in his successful service as a first editor of the newspaper Norwich Bulletin and as a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad appointed by President Arthur. Through the force of his originality and genius for estimating men and events at their true value, he brought to the editorial page of the Tribune a sparkle and thrust which earned him a reputation for influence and power equal to any attributed to the editor-proprietors of his day.
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From both parents Bromley inherited a profound but undemonstrative religious faith.
Bromley was at home with actors and artists; with big and little political chiefs of all tribes; with editors and cub reporters. Bromley was a partisan in his outlook on life but his work was performed during a period in the history of the country when impressions were real and convictions were passions; when partisanship was a masculine virtue.
What might otherwise have imparted to their house an atmosphere of severity in social relations was softened by the innate whimsicality of the mother and the amiability and practical sense of the father.
The literature of the family, though gradually increasing, and more or less reluctantly becoming liberal, assigned the place of honor to the Scriptures and Fox's Book of Martyrs.
It was from his mother that he received the keen sense of humor which made him a writer and lecturer of fascinating quality--a picturesque figure in print, on the platform, at the banquet table, and in social intercourse.
Quotations:
"I like the human family" was a familiar confession of his.
At the time when he visited the Far West and, he expressed it, "subsequently fooled twenty or thirty small Connecticut towns with a lecture on the subject. "
Bromley was a handsome man, with clear-cut features, and black eyes which blazed with fire under provocation and melted in tenderness when the gentler emotions were touched.
He inherited but little of the practical temperament of his father. Life was too joyous for that, the battle too strong an appeal to his sense of humor, the material reward too elusive.
Bromley was at ease with all men, in high or in humble walks of life, for he was essentially a man's man. He drew his friends from whatever environment he found himself in and left them quivering with a sense of warm refreshment.
Quotes from others about the person
His Yale University obituary describes him thus: "A trenchant writer, gifted with a style of unusual brilliancy and unique in its quality of wit, he ranked easily among the leaders of his profession in his generation and was as warmly beloved as he was admired. "
On December 25, 1855, Bromley married Adelaide Emma Roath whose parents were respectively Jabez and Clarissa, names also strongly suggestive of early nineteenth century social and hereditary influences.
Isaac and Adelaide had only one child, another Isaac. Bromley entered Yale College in August 1849, becoming a member of the notable class of 1853.
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