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SUMMARY:Torrey's Rough Riders
DESCRIPTION:\r\nNo, not Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. \r\nThis is a
 bout Those Other Guys . . .\r\n\r\nSo let's go back 120 years ago . . 
 .\r\n\r\nJay Linn Torrey was the Attorney who drafted the Bankruptcy A
 ct.  And when he was 46 years old, he helped initiate the \"Rough R
 ider\" movement in the build up to the Spanish-American War.\r\nHe cr
 eated a group of Pistol-Totin' Rifle-Shootin' Rough Riders to accompan
 y Teddy Roosevelt's motley crew of Ivy Leaguers and Cowboys, but Torre
 y's group came from the REAL West - from Cheyenne, Wyoming.\r\n\r\nLon
 g Story Short, a train accident crippled Torrey and his troops . . .\r
 \n\"On June 26, 1889 while the two trains carrying the troops and thei
 r horses were nearing Tupelo, Mississippi, the first train stopped to 
 take on water. The second train rounded a sharp curve and smashed into
  the rear car of the parked train. Five men were killed and 15 were in
 jured. Col. Torrey injured both feet and had to be on crutches for sev
 eral weeks after the accident.\r\n\"While waiting their discharge, 30 
 soldiers died of typhoid.\r\n\r\nSo why should this be interesting ( o
 ther than it is obscure ) ?\r\nTorrey was a cousin of Helen Nicolay, d
 aughter of Lincoln's Secretary John Nicolay. \r\n\r\nOh, and one tidb
 it about Torrey later in life,\r\n\"In 1900, Torrey was “prominently
  mentioned” by McKinley as a running mate on the Republican ticket, 
 but was passed over when Theodore Roosevelt accepted the nomination.\r
 \nSo had it not been for Roosevelt and a terrible train accident, Torr
 ey could have been the 26th United States President following McKinley
 ’s death from an assassin’s bullet in 1901.\r\n\r\nSo a relation o
 f John Nicolay could have ascended to the Presidency forty years after
  Nicolay served Lincoln. \r\n\r\nNow the other Nicolay connection to 
 the Presidency that most people will cite is John Hay, the other Perso
 nal Secretary to President Lincoln, who became Assistant Secretary of 
 State under Presidents Rutherford Hayes and Garfield, and then Secreta
 ry of State under Presidents McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt.\r\nBut I li
 ke to think that the Nicolay family came closer to achieving the Offic
 e of President than John Hay ever could have.\r\n\r\nhttp://helennicol
 ay.org/index.php/backstory \r\n \r\nhttp://kgab.com/this-day-in-wyom
 ing-history-torreys-rough-riders-leave-cheyenne-for-florida\r\nhttp://
 www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/cheyennecapbldg1.html\r\nhttp://www.uwyo
 .edu/robertshistory/torreys_roughriders.htm\r\n\n\nFor more informatio
 n visit https://agilephilly.ning.com/events/torrey-s-rough-riders
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CATEGORIES:history, wyoming, voris
LOCATION:Wyoming
WEBSITE:http://helennicolay.org/index.php/backstory/
URL:http://helennicolay.org/index.php/backstory/
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ORGANIZER;CN="John Voris, Lead Coordinator":https://agilephilly.ning.c
 om/profile/JohnVoris
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