Stanley K. Hathaway

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming,United States
• Citation: Vol. 28 No. 5 Pg. 4
• Publication year: 2005
• Pages: 4
• Year: 2005
• topic: Business of Law

Wyoming Bar Journal 2005.

Vol. 28, No. 5 #4 (October 2005). Stanley K. Hathaway

WYOMING LAWYER
October 2005/Vol. XXVIII, No. 5

Stanley K. Hathaway

Wyoming's Leader, Lawyer and Friend

Wyoming attorneys lost a colleague, mentor and friend on October 4th when former Governor and Interior Secretary Stanley Knapp Hathaway died in Cheyenne following a lengthy illness. Hathaway was 81 years old

Hathaway was a member of the Wyoming Bar for 55 years, practicing law in Torrington from 1950 until 1966, and in Cheyenne beginning in 1975. He was the founder of Hathaway and Kunz, P.C., and remained of counsel to the firm until his death.

Hathaway was born on July 19, 1924, in Osceola, Nebraska. He was the fifth of six children born to Robert and Lily Knapp. His mother died when he was two years old. He was adopted by his first cousin, Velma Hathaway, and her husband Earl. The Hathaways homesteaded near Huntley, Wyoming. He was raised on the farm near Huntley and received his primary education in the one-room country schools at Table Mountain and New Fairview, Wyoming. He was valedictorian of his graduating class from Huntley High School in 1941.

Hathaway attended the University of Wyoming for a year before enlisting in the Army Air Corps. He trained as a...