C. H. Parmelee

Carroll H. Parmelee was born May 15, 1861, in Solon, Ohio, and reared in the vicinity of Cleveland, where he graduated from the Austinburg Academy and attended Hiram College. He received his bachelor of Law and Master’s degrees from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Parmelee practiced law in Cleveland for a year or two before coming to Buffalo, Wyoming, in 1886. He was appointed register of the Federal Land Office at Buffalo, in 1892. He was appointed State Superintendent of Public Instruction to fill Estelle Reel's unexpired term, serving from January 27, 1898 until January 2, 1899, but refused the nomination to succeed himself in that position. During his short term, he secured the passage of a law to provide free textbooks in the public schools and cooperated with Johnson County state representatives in securing the passage of a bill authorizing county high schools. Parmelee also assisted in obtaining a Carnegie Library for Johnson County and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming. In 1904, he was elected judge of the Fourth Judicial District.

After his reelection in 1910, he moved to Sheridan with his family, where he lived until shortly before his death there in October 25, 1919.