J. De Forest Richards

J. De Forest Richards was an American football player and banker. He was the son of the fifth Governor of Wyoming and played college football at the University of Michigan from 1894 to 1897. He later had a career as a banker in Douglas, Wyoming, Omaha, Nebraska, and Chicago, Illinois.

Richards was born in 1874 in Camden, Alabama. He was the only son of De Forest Richards. His father was a New Hampshire native who moved to Alabama in the Reconstruction era, serving as the sheriff of Wilcox County, Alabama, and operating a tannery. Branded as a carpetbagger, his father moved to Nebraska when Richards wasyears old. Richards attended public school in Nebraska for two years before being sent to the St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire. After graduating from the St. Pauls School in 1892, Richards moved to Casper, Wyoming, where his father had established a store under the name Richards, Cunningham amp Co.

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