Sharrer Family Collection
Otto G. Sharrer: Union Pacific Coal Company Hanna Mine Superintendent
Page by Liz Sharrer with Contributions from Bob Leathers
Sharrer Life Story at: Remembering Otto Guy and Matilda (Strbner) Sharrer
Otto Guy Sharrer worked for the Union Pacific Coal Company in Rock Springs, Superior and Hanna, Wyoming from approximately 1908 to 1914, and again from 1924 until his death in 1944. During that time he held a number of positions, including Superintendent of the Union Pacific Coal Company mines in Hanna from about 1929 to 1942.
Otto Guy Sharrer, a descendant of Bavarian immigrants who came to America in 1725, was born October 5, 1885, in the original log house formerly used as a combination fort and trading post at Putneyville, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and, like many young men, he took Horace Greeley’s advice and came west. His father was engaged in mining, being General Foreman of a number of small mines in the Pittsburgh district, and Otto received his education in the several small schools in the mining villages in Pennsylvania where his parents resided from time to time. At an early age he entered the mines, and was employed in general mine work, and in summer vacations while attending school he also found employment in the mines. After graduating from high school, he spent some time in the military academy and next attended Ohio Northern University. (History of Union Pacific Coal Mines 1868 - 1940)
February 16, 1930: Superintendent Sharrer of the Union Pacific Coal Company mines in Hanna published an article The History and Development of Mechanization at Hanna Mines in The Mining Congress Journal, Volume 19. (Journal copy provided by Liz Sharrer, Superintendent Sharrer's grandaughter)
1910
1915
1930 - 1940's
1936
The image below is Otto G. Sharrer, mine Superintendent at Hanna. He was enjoying the band concert upon the occasion of the 12th Annual Reunion of The Old Timers’ Association at Rock Springs and was requested to step aside long enough to be “snapped” by the official photographer. (UPCCEM, Oct. 1936)
1890
- More at: 1890 June 19: A fierce fire broke out in Carbon, Wyoming and burned most of the business district to the ground.
1941
Stebner family in front of the remains of the Stebner home in Carbon:
Left to Right: Martha (Stebner) Mann, Matilda "Tillie" (Stebner) Sharrer, O. G. Sharrer, Unknown. Left to right: Sylvia Mann, J.R. Mann, Ancia Trager, Max Stebner, Fritz Stebner, Child Unknown.
Left to Right: Martha (Stebner) Mann, Matilda "Tillie" (Stebner) Sharrer, O. G. Sharrer, Unknown. Left to right: Sylvia Mann, J.R. Mann, Ancia Trager, Max Stebner, Fritz Stebner, Child Unknown.
- More at: 1868: Carbon: Aka: Old Carbon and Carbon City
More at: Remembering: Sharrer, John "Jack" Leroy and Sue Elizabeth (Irwin)
2021
The O. G. Sharrer Family donated Mr. Sharrer's transit and tripod to the Hanna Basin Museum.