| Named for Byron Sessions, a sturdy pioneer who was one of the leaders of the Mormon colony, that founded the town in 1900. (WPA) "Byron ..., Big Horn Co., Wyo., is a farming district on the Shoshone river, first settled about 1898 and organized as a branch, May 27, 1900, and organized as a ward, Sept. 5, 1907, and named Byron, in honor of Byron Sessions, a counselor in the Big Horn Stake presidency. " (Jenson) |
