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 HE greatest of English historians, Macaulay, and one of the most brilliant writers of the 
 
 present century, has said: "The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its 
 
 people." In conformity with this idea, the Portrait and Biographicai, Record of this 
 
 county has been prepared. Instead of going to musty records, and taking therefrom dry statistical 
 
 matter that can be appreciated by but few, our corps of writers have gone to the people, the men 
 
 and women who have, by their enterprise and industry, brought the county to a rank second to none 
 
 among those comprising this great and noble state, and from their lips have the story of their life 
 
 ^Q struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public. 
 
 01 In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming 
 
 O generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and economy have 
 
 ■< accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have 
 
 become learned men and women, with an influence extending throughout the length and breadth of 
 
 the land. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and 
 
 whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to 
 
 \ succeed, and records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very 
 
 many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their way," 
 
 content to have it said of them, as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy — ' 'They have 
 
 done what they could. ' ' It tells how that many in the pride and strength of young manhood left 
 
 the plow and the anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting-room, left every trade and profession, 
 
 and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the 
 
 Union was restored and peace once more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of every 
 
 woman is a lesson that should not be lost upon those who follow after. 
 
 Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the 
 fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would 
 otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work, and every 
 opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been writteu, and 
 the publishers flatter themselves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consequence. 
 In addition to the biographical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given. 
 
 The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For. this 
 the publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give 
 the information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some 
 member of the family would oppose the enterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of 
 the interested one would be withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, though 
 repeated calls were made at their residences or places of business. 
 
 Chapman Publishing Co. 
 
 December, 1898. 
 
Portraits and Biographies 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PRESIDENTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNITED STATES 
 
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 PRESIDENTS 
 
 
GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
 
GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
 
 HE Father of our Country was bom in West- 
 moreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. 
 His parents were Augustine and Marj' (Ball) 
 Washington. The family to which he belonged 
 has not been satisfactorily traced in England. 
 His great-grandfather, John Washington, emi- 
 grated to Virginia about 1657, ^^"^ became a 
 prosperous planter. He had two sons, Lawrence 
 and John. The former married Mildred Warner, 
 and had three children, John, Augustine and 
 Mildred. Augustine, the father of George, first 
 married Jane Butler, who bore him four children, 
 two of whom, Lawrence and Augustine, reached 
 maturity. Of six children by his second mar- 
 riage, George was the eldest, the others being 
 Betty, Samuel, John Augustine, Charles and 
 Mildred. 
 
 Augustine Washington, the father of George, 
 died in 1743, leaving a large landed property. 
 To his eldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed an 
 estate on the Potomac, afterwards known as Mt. 
 Vernon, and to George he left the parental resi- 
 dence. George received only such education as 
 the neighborhood schools afforded, save for a 
 short time after he left school, when he received 
 private instruction in mathematics. His spelling 
 was rather defective. Remarkable stories are 
 told of his great physical strength and develop- 
 ment at an early age. He was an acknowledged 
 leader among his companions, and was early 
 noted for that nobleness of character, fairness and 
 veracity which characterized his whole life. 
 
 When George was fourteen years old he had a 
 desire to go to sea, and a midshipman's warrant 
 was secured for him, but through the opposition 
 of his mother the idea was abandoned. Two 
 
 years later he was appointed surveyor to the im- 
 mense estate of Lord Fairfax. In this business 
 he spent three years in a rough frontier life, 
 gaining experience which afterwards proved very 
 essential to him. In 1751, though only nineteen 
 years of age, he was appointed Adjutant, with the 
 rank of Major, in the Virginia militia, then being 
 trained for active service against the French and 
 Indians. Soon after this he sailed to the West 
 Indies with his brother Lawrence, who went there 
 to restore his health. They soon returned, and 
 in the summer of 1752 Lawrence died, leaving a 
 large fortune to an infant daughter, who did not 
 long survive him. On her demise the estate of 
 Mt. Vernon was given to George. 
 
 Upon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie as Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor of Virginia, in 1752, the militia 
 was reorganized, and the province divided into 
 four military districts, of which the northern was 
 assigned to Washington as Adjutant-General. 
 Shortly after this a ver>' perilous mission, which 
 others had refused, was assigned him and ac- 
 cepted. This was to proceed tathe French post 
 near Lake Erie, in northwestern Pennsylvania. 
 The distance to be traversed was about six hun- 
 dred miles. Winter was at hand, and the journey 
 was to be made without military escort, through 
 a territory occupied by Indians. The trip was a 
 perilous one, and several times he nearly lost his 
 life, but he returned in safety and furnished a full 
 and useful report of .his expedition. A regiment 
 of three hundred men was raised in Virginia and 
 put in command of Col. Joshua Fry, and Maj. 
 Washington was commissioned Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel. Active war was then begun against the 
 French and Indians, in which Washington took 
 
80 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
 
 a most important part. In the memorable event 
 of July 9, 1755, known as "Braddock's defeat," 
 Washington was almost the only officer of dis- 
 tinction who escaped from the calamities of the 
 day with life and honor. 
 
 Having been for five years in the military serv- 
 ice, and having vainly sought promotion in the 
 royal army, he took advantage of the fall of Ft. Du- 
 quesne and the expulsion of the French from the 
 valley of the Ohio to resign his commission. Soon 
 after he entered the I^egislature, where, although 
 not a leader, he took an active and important 
 part. January 17, 1759, he married Mrs. Martha 
 (Dandridge) Custis, the wealthy widow of John 
 Parke Custis. 
 
 When the British Parliament had closed the 
 port of Boston, the cry went up throughout the 
 provinces, ' ' The cause ot Boston is the cause of 
 us all! " It was then, at the suggestion of Vir- 
 ginia, that a congress of all the colonies was 
 called to meet at Philadelphia September 5, 
 1774, to secure their common liberties, peaceably 
 if possible. To this congress Col. Washington 
 was sent as a delegate. On May 10, 1775, the 
 congress re-assembled, when the hostile inten- 
 tions of England were plainly apparent. The 
 battles of Concord and Lexington had been fought, 
 and among the first acts of this congress was the 
 election of a commander-in-chief of the Colonial 
 forces. This high and responsible office was con- 
 ferred upon Washington, who was still a member 
 of the congress. He accepted it on June 19, but 
 upon the express condition that he receive no sal- 
 ary. He would keep an exact account of ex- 
 penses, and expect congress to pay them and 
 nothing more. It is not the object of this sketch 
 to trace the military acts of Washington, to whom 
 the fortunes and liberties of the people of this 
 country were so long confided. The war was 
 conducted by him under every possible disadvan- 
 tage; and while his forces often met with reverses, 
 yet he overcame every obstacle, and after seven 
 years of heroic devotion and matchless skill he 
 gained liberty for the greatest nation of earth. 
 On December 23, 1783, Washington, in a parting 
 address of surpassing beauty, resigned his com- 
 mission as Commander-in-Chief of the army to the 
 
 Continental Congress sitting at Annapolis. He 
 retired immediately to Mt. Vernon and resumed 
 his occupation as a farmer and planter, shunning 
 all connection with public life. 
 
 In February, 1789, Washington was unani- 
 mously elected President, and at the expiration 
 of his first term he was unanimously re-elected. 
 At the end of this term many were anxious that he 
 be re-elected, but he absolutely refused a third 
 nomination. On March 4, 1797, at the expiration 
 of his second term as President, he returned to his 
 home, hoping to pass there his few remaining 
 years free from the annoyances of public life. 
 Later in the year, however, his repose seemed 
 likely to be interrupted by war with France. At 
 the prospect of such a war he was again urged to 
 take command of the army, but he chose his sub- 
 ordinate officers and left them the charge of mat- 
 ters in the field, which he .superintended from his 
 home. In accepting the command, he made the 
 reservation that he was not to be in the field until 
 it was necessary. In the midst of these prepara- 
 tions his life was suddenly cut off. December 12 
 he took a severe cold from a ride in the rain, 
 which, settling in his throat, produced inflamma- 
 tion, and terminated fatally on the night of the 
 14th. On the 1 8th his body was borne with mili- 
 tary honors to its final resting-place, and interred 
 in the family vault at Mt. Vernon. 
 
 Of the character of Washington it is impossible 
 to speak but in terms of the highest respect and 
 admiration. The more we see of the operations 
 of our government, and the more deeply we feel 
 the difficulty of tmiting all opinions in a common 
 interest, the more highly we must estimate the 
 force of his talent and character, which have been 
 able to challenge the reverence of all parties,- 
 and principles, and nations, and to win a fame as 
 extended as the limits of the globe, and which we 
 cannot but believe will be as lasting as the exist- 
 ence of man. 
 
 In per,son, Washington was unusually tall, erect 
 and well proportioned, and his muscular strength 
 was great. His features were of a beausiful .sym- 
 metry. He commanded respect without any ap- 
 pearance of haughtiness, and was ever serious 
 without being dull. 
 
JOHN ADAMS. 
 
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JOHN ADAMS. 
 
 (John ADAMS, the second President and the 
 I first Vice-President of the United States, was 
 (2/ born in Braintree (now Quincy) Mass., and 
 about ten miles from Boston, October 19, 1735. 
 His great-grandfather, Henry Adams, emigrated 
 from England about 1640, with a family of eight 
 sons, and settled at Braintree. The parents of 
 John were John and Susannah (Boylston) 
 Adams. His father, who was a farmer of limited 
 means, also engaged in the business of shoe- 
 making. He gave his eldest son, John, a classical 
 education at Harvard College. John graduated 
 in 1755, and at once took charge of the school at 
 Worcester, Mass. This he found but a "school 
 of affliction," from which he endeavored to gain 
 relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the 
 study of law. For this purpose he placed himself 
 under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. 
 He had thought seriously of the clerical profes- 
 sion, but seems to have been turned from this by 
 what he termed " the frightful engines of ecclesi- 
 astical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvin- 
 istic good nature, ' ' of the operations of which he 
 had been a witness in his native town. He was 
 well fitted for the legal profession, possessing a 
 clear, sonorous voice, being ready and fluent of 
 speech, and having quick perceptive powers. He 
 gradually gained a practice, and in 1764 married 
 Abigail Smith, a daughter of a minister, and a 
 lady of superior intelligence. Shortly after his 
 marriage, in 1765, the attempt at parliamentar>' 
 taxation turned him from law to politics. He 
 took initial steps toward holding a town meeting, 
 and the resolutions he offered on the subject be- 
 came very popular throughout the province, and 
 were adopted word for word by over forty differ- 
 ent towns. He moved to Boston in 1768, and 
 became one of the most courageous and promi- 
 nent advocates of the popular cau.se, and was 
 chosen a member of the General Court (the lyCg- 
 islature) in 1770. 
 
 Mr. Adams was chosen one of the first dele- 
 
 gates from Massachusetts to the first Continent- 
 al Congress, which met in 1774. Here he dis- 
 tinguished himself by his capacity for business 
 and for debate, and advocated the movement for 
 independence against the majority of the mem- 
 bers. In May, 1776, he moved and carried a res- 
 olution in Congress that the Colonies should 
 assume the duties of self-government. He was a 
 prominent member of the committee of five ap- 
 pointed June 1 1 to prepare a declaration of inde- 
 pendence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, 
 but on Adams devolved the task of battling it 
 through Congress in a three-days debate. 
 
 On the day after the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence was passed, while his soul was yet warm 
 with the glow of excited feeling, he wrote a letter 
 to his wife, which, as we read it now, seems to 
 have been dictated by the spirit of prophecy. 
 "Yesterday," he says, "the greatest question 
 was decided that ever was debated in America; 
 and greater, perhaps, never was or will be de- 
 cided among men. A resolution was passed 
 without one dissenting colony, 'that these United 
 States are, and of right ought to be, freehand in- 
 dependent states.' The day is passed. The 
 Fourth of July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch 
 in the history of America. I am apt to believe it 
 will be celebrated by succeeding generations as 
 the great anniversary festival. It ought to be 
 commemorated as the day of deliverance by 
 solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It 
 ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, 
 sports, guns, bells, bonfires aijd illuminations 
 from one end of the continent to the other, from 
 this time forward forever. You will think me 
 transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I. 
 am well aware of the toil and blood and treas- 
 ure that it will cost to maintain this declaration 
 and support and defend these States; yet, through 
 all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and 
 glory. I can see that the end is worth more than 
 all the means, and that posterity will triumph, 
 
24 
 
 JOHN ADAMS. 
 
 although you and I may rue, which I hope we 
 shall not." 
 
 In November, 1777, Mr. Adams was appointed 
 a delegate to France, and to co-operate with Ben- 
 jamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then 
 in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in 
 arms and money from the French government. 
 This was a severe trial to his patriotism, as it 
 separated him from his home, compelled him to 
 cross the ocean in winter, and exposed him to 
 great peril of capture by the British cruisers, who 
 were seeking him. He left France June 17, 
 1779. In September of the same year he was 
 again chosen to go to Paris, and there hold 1 im- 
 self in readiness to negotiate a treaty of peace and 
 of commerce with Great Britain, as soon as the 
 British cabinet might be found willing to listen 
 to such proposals. He sailed for France in No- 
 vember, and from there he went to Holland, where 
 he negotiated important loans and formed im- 
 portant commercial treaties. 
 
 Finally, a treaty of peace with England was 
 signed, January 21,1 783. The re-action from the 
 excitement, toil and anxiety through which Mr. 
 Adams had passed threw him into a fever. After 
 suffering from a continued fever and becoming 
 feeble and emaciated, he was advised to go to 
 England to drink the waters of Bath. While in 
 England, still drooping and desponding, he re- 
 ceived dispatches from his own government urg- 
 ing the necessity of his going to Amsterdam to 
 negotiate another loan. It was winter, his health 
 was delicate, yet he immediately set out, and 
 through storm, on sea, on horseback and foot, he 
 made the trip. 
 
 February 24, 1785, Congress appointed Mr. 
 Adams envoy to the Court of St. James. Here 
 he met face to face the King of England, who 
 had so long regarded him as a traitor. As Eng- 
 land did not condescend to appoint a minister to 
 the United States, and as Mr. Adams felt that he 
 was accomplishing but little, he sought permis- 
 sion to return to his own country, where he ar- 
 rived in June, 1788. 
 
 When Washington was first chosen President, 
 John Adams, rendered illustrious by his signal 
 services at home and abroad, was chosen Vice- 
 
 President. Again, at the second election of Wash- 
 ington as President, Adams was chosen Vice- 
 President. In 1796, Washington retired from 
 public life, and Mr. Adams was elected President, 
 though not without much opposition. Serving 
 in this office four years, he was succeeded by Mr. 
 Jefferson, his opponent in politics. 
 
 While Mr. Adams was Vice-President the 
 great French Revolution shook the continent of 
 Europe, and it was upon this point that he was 
 at issue with the majority of his countrymen, led 
 by Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Adams felt no sympathy 
 with the French people in their struggle, for he 
 had no confidence in their power of self-govern- 
 ment, and he utterly abhorred the class of atheist 
 philosophers who, he claimed, caused it. On the 
 other hand, Jefferson's sympathies were strongly 
 enlisted in behalf of the French people. Hence 
 originated the alienation between these distin- 
 tinguished men, and the two powerful parties were 
 thus soon organized, with Adams at the head of 
 the one whose sympathies were with England, 
 and Jefferson leading the other in sympathy with 
 France. 
 
 The Fourth of July, 1826, which completed the 
 half-century since the signing of the Declaration 
 of Independence, arrived, and there were but 
 three of the signers of that immortal instrument 
 left upon the earth to hail its morning light. 
 And, as it is well known, on that day two of 
 these finished their earthly pilgrimage, a coinci- 
 dence so remarkable as to seem miraculous. For 
 a few days before Mr. Adams had been rapidly 
 failing, and on the morning of the Fourth he 
 found himself too weak to rise from his bed. On 
 being requested to name a toast for the cus- 
 tomary celebration of the day, he exclaimed 
 "Independence forever!" When the day was 
 ushered in by the ringing of bells and the firing 
 of cannons, he was asked by one of his attend- 
 ants if he knew what day it was ? He replied, 
 ' ' O yes, it is the glorious Fourth of July — God 
 bless it — God bless you all!" In the course of 
 the day he said, "It is a great and glorious 
 day." The last words he uttered were, "Jeffer- 
 son survives." But he had, at one o'clock, 
 resigned his spirit into the hands of his God. 
 
THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
 "HOMAS JEFFERSON was bom April 2, 
 1743, at Shadwell, Albemarle County, Va. 
 His parents were Peter and Jane (Ran- 
 dolph) Jefferson, the former a native of Wales, 
 and the latter born in London. To them were 
 bom six daughters and two sons, of whom Thomas 
 was the elder. When fourteen years of age his 
 father died. He received a most liberal educa- 
 tion, having been kept diligently at school from 
 the time he was five years of age. In 1 760 he 
 entered William and Mary College. Williams- 
 burg was then the seat of the Colonial court, and 
 it was the abode of fashion and splendor. Young 
 Jefferson, who was then seventeen years old, lived 
 somewhat expensively, keeping fine horses, and 
 going much into gay society; yet he was ear- 
 nestly devoted to his studies, and irreproachable in 
 his morals. In the second year of his college 
 course, moved by some unexplained impulse, he 
 discarded his old companions and pursuits, and 
 often devoted fifteen hours a day to hard study. 
 He thus attained very high intellectual culture, 
 and a like excellence in philosophy and the lan- 
 guages. 
 
 Immediately upon leaving college he began the 
 study of law. For the short time he continued 
 in the practice of his profession he rose rapidly, 
 and distinguished himself by his energy and 
 acuteness as a lawyer. But the times called for 
 greater action . The policy of England had awak- 
 ened the spirit of resistance in the American Col- 
 onies, and the enlarged views which Jefferson had 
 ever entertained soon led him into active politi- 
 cal life. In 1 769 he was chosen a member of the 
 Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1772. he mar- 
 
 ried Mrs. Martha Skelton, a very beautiful, 
 wealthy, and highly accomplished young widow. 
 
 In 1775 he was sent to the Colonial Congress, 
 where, though a silent member, his abilities as a 
 writer and a reasoner soon become known, and he 
 was placed upon a number of important com- 
 mittees, and was chairman of the one appointed 
 for the drawing up of a declaration of independ- 
 ence. This committee consisted of Thomas Jef- 
 ferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger 
 Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. Jefferson, 
 as chairman, was appointed to draw up the paper. 
 Franklin and Adams suggested a few verbal 
 changes before it was submitted to Congress. On 
 June 28, a few slight changes were made in it by 
 Congress, and it was passed and signed July 4, 
 1776. 
 
 In 1779 Mr. Jefferson was elected successor to 
 Patrick Henry as Governor of Virginia. At one 
 time the British officer Tarleton sent a secret 
 expedition to Monticello to capture the Governor. 
 Scarcely five minutes elapsed after the hurried 
 escape of Mr. Jefferson and his family ere his 
 mansion was in possession of the British troops. 
 His wife's health, never very good, was much 
 injured by this excitement, and in the summer 
 of 1782 she died. 
 
 Mr. Jefferson was elected to Congress in 1783. 
 Two years later he was appointed Minister Pleni- 
 potentiary to France. Returning to the United 
 States in September, 1 789, he became Secretary 
 of State in Wa.shington's cabinet. This position 
 he resigned January i, 1794. In 1797, he was 
 chosen Vice-President, and four years later was 
 elected President over Mr. Adams, with Aaron 
 
28 
 
 THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
 Burr as Vice-President. In 1804 he was re- 
 elected with wonderful unanimity, George Clin- 
 ton being elected Vice-President. 
 
 The early part of Mr. Jefferson's second ad- 
 ministration was disturbed by an event which 
 threatened the tranquillity and peace of the Union; 
 this was the conspiracy of Aaron Burr. Defeated 
 in the late election to the Vice-Presidency, and 
 led on by an unprincipled ambition, this extraor- 
 dinary man formed the plan of a military ex- 
 pedition into the Spanish territories on our south- 
 western frontier, for the purpose of forming there 
 a new republic. This was generally supposed 
 to have been a mere pretext; and although it has 
 not been generally known what his real plans 
 were, there is no doubt that they were of a far 
 more dangerous character. 
 
 In 1809, at the expiration of the second term 
 for which Mr. Jefferson had been elected, he de- 
 termined to retire from political life. For a period 
 of nearly forty years he had been continually be- 
 fore the public, and all that time had been em- 
 ployed in offices of the greatest trust and respon- 
 sibility. Having thus devoted the best part of 
 his life to the service of his country, he now felt 
 desirous of that rest which his declining years re- 
 quired, and upon the organization of the new ad- 
 ministration, in March, 1809, he bade farewell for- 
 ever to public life and retired to Monticello, his 
 famous country home, which, next to Mt. Vernon, 
 was the most distinguished residence in the land. 
 
 The Fourth of July, 1826, being the fiftieth an- 
 niversary of the Declaration of American Inde- 
 pendence, great preparations were made in every 
 part of the Union for its celebration as the nation's 
 jubilee, and the citizens of Washington, to add to 
 the solemnity of the occasion, invited Mr. Jeffer- 
 son, as the framer and one of the few surviving 
 signers of the Declaration, to participate in their 
 festivities. But an illness, which had been of 
 several weeks' duration and had been continually 
 increasing, compelled him to decline the invita- 
 tion. 
 
 On the 2d of July the disease under which he 
 was laboring left him, but in such a reduced 
 state that his medical attendants entertained no 
 hope of his recovery. From this time he was 
 
 perfectly sensible that his last hour was at hand. 
 On the next day, which was Mondaj% he asked 
 of those around him the day of the month, and 
 on being told it was the 3d of July, he ex- 
 pressed the earnest wish that he might be per- 
 mitted to breathe the air of the fiftieth anniver- 
 sary. His prayer was heard — that day whose 
 dawn was hailed with such rapture through our 
 land burst upon his eyes, and then they were 
 closed forever. And what a noble consummation 
 of a noble life! To die on that day — the birth- 
 day of a nation — the day which his own name 
 and his own act had rendered glorious, to die 
 amidst the rejoicings and festivities of a whole 
 nation, who looked up to him as the author, un- 
 der God, of their greatest blessings, was all that 
 was wanting to fill up the record of his life. 
 
 Almost at the same hour of his death, the kin- 
 dred spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear 
 him company, left the scene of his earthly honors. 
 Hand in hand they had stood forth, the cham- 
 pions of freedom; hand in hand, during the dark 
 and desperate struggle of the Revolution, they 
 had cheered and animated their desponding coun- 
 trymen; for half a century they had labored to- 
 gether for the good of the country, and now hand 
 in hand they departed. In their lives they had 
 been united in the same great cause of hberty, 
 and in their deaths they were not divided. 
 
 In person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin, rather 
 above six feet in height, but well formed; his eyes 
 were light, his hair, originally red, in after life be- 
 came white and silvery, his complexion was fair, 
 his forehead broad, and his whole countenance 
 intelligent and thoughtful. He possessed great 
 fortitude of mind as well as personal courage, and 
 his command of temper was such that his oldest 
 and most intimate friends never recollected to 
 have seen him in a passion. His manners, though 
 dignified, were simple and unaffected, and his 
 hospitality was so unbounded that all found at 
 his house a ready welcome. In conversation he 
 was fluent, eloquent and enthusiastic, and his 
 language was remarkably pure and correct. He 
 was a finished classical scholar, and in his writ- 
 ings is discernible the care with which he formed 
 his style upon the best models of antiquity. 
 
JAMES MADISON. 
 
JAMES MADISON. 
 
 3 AMES MADISON, "Father of the Consti- 
 tution," and fourth Presidentof the United 
 States, was born March i6, 1757, and died 
 at his home in Virginia June 28, 1836. The 
 name of James Madison is inseparably connected 
 with most of the important events in that heroic 
 period of our country during which the founda- 
 tions of this great rep'ibhc were laid. He was 
 the last of the founders of the Constitution of the 
 United States to be called to his eternal reward. 
 
 The Madison family were among the early emi- 
 grants to the New World, landing upon the shores 
 of the Chesapeake but fifteen years after the settle- 
 ment of Jamestown. The father of James Madison 
 was an opulent planter, residing upon a very fine 
 estate called Montpelier, in Orange County, Va. 
 It was but twenty-five miles from the home of Jef- 
 ferson at Monticello, and the closest personal and 
 political attachment existed between these illustri- 
 ous men from their early youth until death. 
 
 The early education of Mr. Madison was con- 
 ducted mostly at home under a private tutor. At 
 the age of eighteen he was sent to Princeton Col- 
 lege, in New Jersej'. Here he applied himself to 
 study with the most imprudent zeal, allowing him- 
 self for months but three hours' sleep out of the 
 twenty-four. His health thus became so seriously 
 impaired that he never recovered any vigor of 
 constitution. He graduated in 1 77 1 , with a feeble 
 body, but with a character of utmost purity, and 
 a mind highly disciplined and richly stored with 
 learning, which embellished and gave efficiency 
 to his subsequent career. 
 
 Returning to Virginia, he commenced the study 
 of law and a course of extensive and systematic 
 reading. This educational course, the spirit of 
 the times in which he lived, and the society with 
 which he associated, all combined to inspire him 
 with a strong love of liberty, and to train him for 
 his life-work as a statesman. 
 
 In the spring of 1776, when twenty-six years of 
 
 age, he was elected a member of the Virginia Con- 
 vention to frame the constitution of the State. The 
 next year (1777), he was a candidate for the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. He refused to treat the whisky-lov- 
 ing voters, and consequently lest his election; but 
 those who had witnessed the talent, energy and 
 pubhc spirit of the modest young man enlisted 
 themselves in his behalf, and he was appointed to 
 the Executive Council. 
 
 Both Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson were 
 Governors of Virginia while Mr. Madison re- 
 mained member of the Council, and their apprecia- 
 tion of his intellectual, social and moral worth 
 contributed not a little to his subsequent eminence. 
 In the year 1780 he was elected a member of the 
 Continental Congress. Here he met the most il- 
 lustrious men in our land, and he was immediately 
 assigned to one ot the most conspicuous positions 
 among them. For three years he continued in Con- 
 gress, one of its most active and influential mem- 
 bers. In 1784, his term having expired, he was 
 elected a member of the Virginia Legislature. 
 
 No man felt more deeply than Mr. Madison the 
 utter inefficiency of the old confederacy, with no 
 national government, and no power to form trea- 
 ties which would be binding, or to enforce law. 
 There was not any State more prominent than 
 Virginia in the declaration that an efficient na- 
 tional government must be formed. In January, 
 1786, Mr. Madison carried a resolution through 
 the General Assembly of Virginia, inviting the 
 other States to appoint commissioners to meet in 
 convention at Annapolis to discuss this subject. 
 Five States only were represented. The conven- 
 tion, however, issued another call, drawn up by 
 Mr. Madison, urging all the States to send their 
 delegates to Philadelphia in May, 1787, to draft 
 a Constitution for the United States, to take the 
 place of the Confederate League. The delegates 
 met at the time appointed. Every State but 
 Rhode Island was represented. George Washing- 
 
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 JAMES MADISON. 
 
 ton was chosen president of the convention, and the 
 present Constitution of the United States was then 
 and there formed. There was, perhaps, no mind 
 and no pen more active in framing this immortal 
 document than the mind and the pen of James 
 Madison. 
 
 The Constitution, adopted by a vote of eighty-one 
 to seventy-nine, was to be presented to the several 
 States for acceptance. But grave solicitude was 
 felt. Should it be rejected, we should be left but a 
 conglomeration of independent States, with but 
 little power at home and little respect abroad. Mr. 
 Madison was elected by the convention to draw up 
 an address to the people of the United States, ex- 
 pounding the principles of the Constitution, and 
 urging its adoption. There was great opposition 
 to it at first, but at length it triumphed over all, 
 and went into efifect in 1789. 
 
 Mr. Madison was elected to the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in the first Congress, and soon became 
 the avowed leader of the Republican party. While 
 in New York attending Congress, he met Mrs. 
 Todd, a young widow of remarkable power of fas- 
 cination, whom he married. She was in person 
 and character queenly, and probaby no lady has 
 thus far occupied so prominent a position in the 
 very peculiar society which has constituted our 
 republican court as did Mrs. Madison. 
 
 Mr. Madison served as Secretary of State under 
 Jefferson, and at the close of his administration 
 was chosen President. At this time the encroach- 
 ments of England had brought us to the verge of 
 war. British orders in council destroyed our com- 
 merce, and our flag was exposed to constant insult. 
 Mr. Madison was a man of peace. Scholarly in 
 his taste, retiring in his disposition, war had no 
 charms for him. But the meekest spirit can be 
 roused. It makes one's blood boil, even now, to 
 think of an American ship brought to upon the 
 ocean by the guns of an English cruiser. A 
 young lieutenant steps on board and orders the 
 crew to be paraded before him. With great non- 
 chalance he selects any number whom he may 
 please to designate as British subjects, orders them 
 down the ship's side into his boat, and places them 
 on the gundeck of his man-of-war, to fight, by 
 compulsion, the battles of England. This right 
 
 of search and impressment no efforts of our Gov- 
 ernment could induce the British cabinet to re- 
 linquish. 
 
 On the i8th of June, 1812, President Madison 
 gave his approval to an act of Congress declaring 
 war against Great Britain. Notwithstanding the 
 bitter hostility of the Federal party to the war, the 
 country in general approved; and Mr. Madison, 
 on the 4th of March, 18 13, was re-elected by a 
 large majorit}', and entered upon his second term 
 of office. This is hot the place to describe the 
 various adventures of this war on the land and on 
 the water. Our infant navy then laid the found- 
 ations of its renown in grappling with the most 
 formidable power which ever swept the seas. The 
 contest commenced in earnest by the appearance 
 of a British fleet, early in February, 18 13, in 
 Chesapeake Bay, declaring nearly the whole coast 
 of the United States under blockade. 
 
 The Emperor of Russia offered his services as 
 mediator. America accepted; England refused. 
 A British force of five thousand men landed on the 
 banks of the Patuxet River, near its entrance into 
 Chesapeake Bay, and marched rapidly, by way of 
 Bladensburg, upon Washington. 
 
 The straggling little city of Washington was 
 thrown into consternation. The cannon of the 
 brief conflict at Bladensburg echoed through the 
 streets of the metropolis. The whole population 
 fled from the city. The President, leaving Mrs. 
 Madison in the White House, with her carriage 
 drawn up at the door to await his speedy return, 
 hurried to meet the ofiicers in a council of war. 
 He met our troops utterly routed, and he could not 
 go back without danger of being captured. But 
 few hours elapsed ere the Presidential Mansion, 
 the Capitol, and all the public buildings in Wash- 
 ington were in flames. 
 
 The war closed after two years of fighting, and 
 on February 13,. 1815, the treaty of peace was 
 signed at Ghent. On the 4th of March, 18 17, his 
 second term of office expired, and he resigned the 
 Presidential chair to his friend, James Monroe. 
 He retired to his beautiful home at Montpelier, and 
 there passed the remainder of his da3'S. On June 
 28, 1836, at the age of eighty-five years, he fell 
 asleep in death. Mrs. Madison died July 12, 1849. 
 
JAMES MONROE. 
 
JAMES MONROE. 
 
 (Tames MONROE, the fifth President of the 
 I United States, was born in Westmoreland 
 G) County, Va., April 28, 1758. His early life 
 was passed at the place of his nativity. His an- 
 cestors had for many years resided in the province 
 in which he was bom. When he was seventeen 
 years old, and in process of completing his educa- 
 tion at William and Mary College, the Colonial 
 Congress, assembled at Philadelphia to deliberate 
 upon the unjust and manifold oppressions of Great 
 Britain, declared the separation of the Colonies, 
 and promulgated the Declaration of Independence. 
 Had he been born ten years before, it is highly 
 probable that he would have been one of the 
 signers of that celebrated instrument. At this 
 time he left school and enlisted among the pa- 
 triots. 
 
 He joined the army when everything looked 
 hopeless and gloomy. The number of deserters 
 increased from day to day. The invading armies 
 came pouring in, and the Tories not only favored 
 the cause of the mother country, but disheartened 
 the new recruits, who were sufficiently terrified 
 at the prospect of contending with an enemy 
 whom they had been taught to deem invincible. 
 To such brave spirits as James Monroe, who went 
 right onward undismayed through difficulty and 
 danger, the United States owe their political 
 emancipation. The young cadet joined the ranks 
 and espoused the cause of his injured country, 
 with a firm determination to live or die in her 
 strife for liberty. Firmly, yet sadly, he shared in 
 the melancholy retreat from Harlem Heights 
 and White Plains, and accompanied the dispirited 
 army as it fled before its foes through New Jersey. 
 In four months after the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, the patriots had been beaten in seven 
 battles. At the battle of Trenton he led the van- 
 guard, and in the act of charging upon the enemy 
 he received a wound in the left shoulder. 
 
 As a reward for his bravery, Mr. Monroe was 
 promoted to be captain of infantry, and, having re- 
 covered from his wounds, he rejoined the army. 
 He, however, receded from the line of promotion 
 by becoming an officer on the staff of Lord Ster- 
 ling. During the campaigns of 1777 and 1778, 
 in the actions of Brandywine, Germantown and 
 Monmouth, he continued aide-de-camp; but be- 
 coming desirous to regain his position in the 
 army, he exerted himself to collect a regiment for 
 the Virginia line. This scheme failed, owing to 
 the exhausted condition of the State. Upon this 
 failure he entered the office of Mr. Jefferson, at 
 that period Governor, and pursued with consid- 
 erable ardor the study of common law. He did 
 not, however, entirely lay aside the knapsack for 
 the green bag, but on the invasion of the enemy 
 served as a volunteer during the two years of his 
 legal pursuits. 
 
 In 1782 he was elected from King George 
 County a member of the Legislature of Virginia, 
 and by that body he was elevated to a seat in the 
 Executive Council. He was thus honored with 
 the confidence of his fellow-citizens at twenty- 
 three years of age, and having at this early period 
 displayed some of that ability and aptitude for 
 legislation which were afterward employed with 
 unremitting energy for the public good, he was 
 in the succeeding year chosen a member of the 
 Congress of the United States. 
 
 Deeply as Mr. Monroe felt the imperfections of 
 the old Confederacy, he was opposed to the new 
 Constitution, thinking, with many others of the 
 Republican party, that it gave too much power to 
 the Central Government, and not enough to the 
 individual States. Still he retained the esteem 
 of his friends who were its warm supporters, and 
 who, notwithstanding his opposition, secured its 
 adoption. In 1789 he became a member of the 
 United States Senate, which office he held for 
 
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 JAMES MONROE. 
 
 four years. Every month the line of distinction 
 between the two great parties which divided the 
 nation, the Federal and the Republican, was 
 growing more distinct. The differences which 
 now separated them lay in the fact that the Repub- 
 lican party was in sympathy with France, and 
 also in favor of such a strict construction of the 
 Constitution as to give the Central Government as 
 little power, and the State Governments as much 
 power, as the Constitution would warrant; while 
 the Federalists sympathized with England, and 
 were in favor of a liberal construction of the Con- 
 stitution, which would give as much power to the 
 Central Government as that document could pos- 
 sibly authorize. 
 
 Washington was then President. England had 
 espoused the cause of the Bourbons against the 
 principles of the French Revolution. All Europe 
 was drawn into the conflict. We were feeble and 
 far away. Washington issued a proclamation of 
 neutrality between these contending powers. 
 France had helped us in the struggles for our 
 liberties. All the despotisms of Europe were now 
 combined to prevent the French from escaping 
 from a tyranny a thousand-fold worse than that 
 which we had endured. Col. Monroe, more mag- 
 nanimous than prudent, was anxious that, at 
 whatever hazard, we should help our old allies in 
 their extremity. It was the impulse of a gener- 
 ous and noble nature, and Washington, who could 
 appreciate such a character, showed his calm, se- 
 rene, almost divine, greatness, by appointing that 
 very James Monroe who was denouncing the pol- 
 icy of the Government, as the minister of that 
 Government to the Republic of France. Mr. 
 Monroe was welcomed by the National Conven- 
 tion in France with the most enthusiastic dem- 
 onstration. 
 
 Shortly after his return to this country, Mr. 
 Monroe was elected Governor ' of Virginia, and 
 held the office for three years. He was again 
 .sent to France to co-operate with Chancellor Liv- 
 ingston in obtaining the vast territory then known 
 as the province of Louisiana, which France had 
 but shortly before obtained from Spain. Their 
 united efforts were successful. For the compara- 
 tively small sum of fifteen millions of dollars, the 
 
 entire territory of Orleans and district of Loui- 
 siana were added to the United States. This was 
 probably the largest transfer of real estate which 
 was ever made in all the history of the world. 
 
 From France Mr. Monroe went to England to 
 obtain from that country some recognition of our 
 rights as neutrals, and to remonstrate against 
 those odious impressments of our seamen. But 
 England was unrelenting. He again returned to 
 England on the same mission, but could receive 
 no redress. He returned to his home and was 
 again chosen Governor of Virginia. This he soon 
 resigned to accept the position of Secretary of 
 State under Madison. While in this office war 
 with England was declared, the Secretary of War 
 resigned, and during these trying times the 
 duties of the War Department were also put upon 
 him. He was truly the armor- bearer of President 
 Madison, and the mo.st efficient business man in 
 his cabinet. Upon the return of peace he re- 
 signed the Department of War, but continued in 
 the office of Secretary of State until the expira- 
 tion of Mr. Madison's administration. At the 
 election held the previous autumn, Mr. Monroe 
 himself had been chosen President with but little 
 opposition, and upon March 4, 18 17, he was in- 
 augurated. Four years later he was elected for 
 a second term. 
 
 Among the important measures of his Presi- 
 dency were the cession of Florida to the United 
 States, the Missouri Compromise, and the famous 
 " Monroe doctrine." This doctrine was enun- 
 ciated by him in 1823, and was as follows: ' ' That 
 we should consider any attempt on the part of 
 European powers to extend their system to any 
 portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our 
 peace and safety," and that " we could not view 
 any interposition for the purpose of oppressing or 
 controlling American governments or provinces 
 in any other light than as a manifestation by 
 European powers of an unfriendly disposition 
 toward the United States. ' ' 
 
 At the end of his second term, Mr. Monroe re- 
 tired to his home in Virginia, where he lived un- 
 til 1830, when he went to New York to live with 
 his son-in-law. In that dty he died, on the 4th 
 of July, 1831. 
 
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 
 
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 
 
 (TOHN QUINCY ADAMS, the sixth President 
 
 I of the United States, was born in the rural 
 C/ home of his honored father, John Adams, in 
 Qiiincy, Mass., on the nth of July, 1767. His 
 mother, a woman of exalted worth, watched over 
 his childhood during the almost constant ab- 
 sence of his father. When but eight years of 
 age, he stood with his mother on an eminence, 
 listening to the booming of the great battle on 
 Bunker's Hill, and gazing out upon the smoke 
 and flames billowing up from the conflagration of 
 Charlestown. 
 
 When but eleven years old he took a tearful 
 adieu of his mother, to sail with his father for Eu- 
 rope, through a fleet of hostile British cruisers. 
 The bright, animated boy spent a year and a-half 
 in Paris, where his father was associated with 
 Franklin and Lee as Minister Plenipotentiary. 
 His intelligence attracted the notice of these dis- 
 tinguished men, and he received from them flat- 
 tering marks of attention. 
 
 John Adams had scarcely returned to this 
 country, in 1779, ere he was again sent abroad. 
 Again John Quincy accompanied his father. At 
 Paris he applied himself to study with great dil- 
 igence for six months, and then accompanied his 
 father to Holland, where he entered first a school 
 in Amsterdam, then the University at Leyden. 
 About a year from this time, in 1781, when the 
 manly boy was but fourteen years of age, he was 
 selected by Mr. Dana, our Minister to the Rus- 
 sian court, as his private secretary. 
 
 In this school of incessant labor and of ennobl- 
 ing culture he spent fourteen months, and then 
 returned to Holland, through Sweden, Denmark, 
 Hamburg and Bremen. This long journey he 
 took alone in the winter, when in his sixteenth 
 year. Again he resumed his studies, under a pri- 
 vate tutor, at The Hague. Then, in the spring of 
 1782, he accompanied his father to Paris, travel- 
 ing leisurely, and forming acquaintances with the 
 most distinguished men on the continent, examin- 
 
 ing architectural remains, galleries of paintings, 
 and all renowned works of art. At Paris he 
 again became associated with the most illustrious 
 men of all lands in the contemplation of the 
 loftiest temporal themes which can engross the 
 human mind. After a short visit to England he 
 returned to Paris, and consecrated all his energies 
 to study until May, 1785, when he returned to 
 America to finish his education. 
 
 Upon leaving Harvard College at the age of 
 twenty, he studied law for three years. In June, 
 1794, being then but twenty-seven years of age, 
 he was appointed by Washington Resident Min- 
 ister at the Netherlands. Sailing from Boston in 
 July, he reached London in October, where he 
 was immediately admitted to the deliberations of 
 Messrs. Jay & Pinckney, assisting them in nego- 
 tiating a commercial treaty with Great Britain. 
 After thus spending a fortnight in London, he 
 proceeded to The Hague. 
 
 In July, 1 797, he left; The Hague to go to Por- 
 tugal as Minister Plenipotentiary. On his way to 
 Portugal, upon arriving in London, he met with 
 despatches directing him to the court of Berlin, but 
 requesting him to remain in London until he 
 should receive his instructions. While waiting 
 he was married to an American lady, to whom he 
 had been previously engaged — Miss Louisa Cath- 
 erine Johnson, a daughter of Joshua Johnson, 
 American Consul in London, and a lady en- 
 dowed with that beauty and those accomplish- 
 ments which eminently fitted her to move in the 
 elevated sphere for which she was destined. He 
 reached Berlin with his wife in November, 1797, 
 where he remained until July, 1799, when, hav- 
 ing fulfilled all the purposes of his mission, he so- 
 licited his recall. 
 
 Soon after his return, in 1802, he was chosen 
 to the Senate of Massachusetts from Boston, and. 
 then was elected Senator of the United States for 
 six years, from the 4th of March, 1804. His rep- 
 utation, his ability and his experience placed 
 
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 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 
 
 him immediately among the most prominent and 
 influential members of that body. 
 
 In 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the 
 Presidential chair, and he immediately nominated 
 John Quincy Adams Minister to St. Petersburgh. 
 Resigning his professorship in Harvard Col- 
 lege, he embarked at Boston in August, 1809. 
 
 While in Russia, Mr. Adams was an intense 
 student. He devoted his attention to the lan- 
 guage and history of Russia; to the Chinese trade; 
 to the European system of weights, measures and 
 coins; to the climate and astronomical observa- 
 tions; while he kept up a familiar acquaintance 
 with the Greek and Latin classics. In all the 
 universities of Europe, a more accomplished 
 scholar could scarcely be found. All through 
 life the Bible constituted an important part of his 
 studies. It was his rule to read five chapters 
 every day. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1817, Mr. Monroe took 
 the Presidential chair, and immediately appointed 
 Mr. Adams Secretary of State. Taking leave of 
 his numerous friends in public and private life in 
 Europe, he sailed in June, 1819, for the United 
 States. On the i8th of August, he again crossed 
 the threshold of his home in Quincy. During the 
 eight years of Mr. Monroe's administration, Mr. 
 Adams continued Secretary of State. 
 
 Some time before the close of Mr. Monroe's 
 second term of office, new candidates began to be 
 presented for the Presidency. The friends of Mr. 
 Adams brought forward his name. It was an 
 exciting campaign, and party spirit was never 
 more bitter. Two hundred and sixty electoral 
 votes were cast. Andrew Jackson received ninety- 
 nine; John Quincy Adams eighty-four; William 
 H. Crawford forty-one; and Henry Clay thirty- 
 seven. As there was no choice by the people, 
 the question went to the House of Representa- 
 tives. Mr. Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to 
 Mr. Adams, and he was elected. 
 
 The friends of all the disappointed candidates 
 now combined in a venomous and persistent as- 
 sault upon Mr. Adams. There is nothing more 
 disgraceful in the past history of our country than 
 the abuse which was poured in one uninterrupted 
 Stream upon this high-minded, upright and pa- 
 
 triotic man. There never was an administration 
 more pure in principles, more conscientiously de- 
 voted to the best interests of the country, than 
 that of John Quincy Adams; and never, perhaps, 
 was there an administration more unscrupulously 
 and outrageously assailed. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1829, Mr. Adams retired 
 from the Presidency, and was succeeded by An- 
 drew Jackson. John C. Calhoun was elected 
 Vice-President. The slavery question now be- 
 gan to assume portentous magnitude. Mr. Adams 
 returned to Quincy and to his studies, which he 
 pursued with unabated zeal. But he was not 
 long permitted to remain in retirement. In No- 
 vember, 1830, he was elected Representative in 
 Congress. For seventeen years, or until his death, 
 he occupied the post as Representative, towering 
 above all his peers, ever ready to do brave battle 
 for freedom, and winning the title of ' 'the Old 
 Man Eloquent." Upon taking his seat in the 
 House, he announced that he should hold him- 
 self bound to no party. Probably there never 
 was a member more devoted to his duties. He 
 was usually the first in his place in the morning, 
 and the last to leave his seat in the evening. 
 Not a measure could be brought forward and es- 
 cape his scrutiny. The battle which Mr. Adams 
 fought, almost singly, against the pro-slavery 
 party in the Government was sublime in its 
 moral daring and heroism. For persisting in 
 presenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, 
 he was threatened with indictment by the grand 
 jury, with expulsion from the House, with assas- 
 sination; but no threats could intimidate him, and 
 his final triumph was complete. 
 
 On the 2ist of February, 1848, he rose on the 
 floor of Congress with a paper in his hand, to 
 address the speaker. Suddenly he fell, again 
 stricken by paralysis, and was caught in the arms 
 of those around him. For a time he was sense- 
 less, as he was conveyed to the sofa in the ro- 
 tunda. With reviving consciousness, he opened 
 his eyes, looked calmly around and said "This 
 is the end of earth;" then after a moment's pause 
 he added, " I am content." These were the last 
 words of the grand ' ' Old Man Eloquent. ' ' 
 
ANDREW JACKSON. 
 
ANDREW JACKSON. 
 
 61 NDREW JACKSON, the seventh President 
 T\ of the United States, was born in Waxhaw 
 II settlement, N. C, March 15, 1767, a few 
 days after his father's death. His parents were 
 poor emigrants from Ireland, and took up their 
 abode in Waxhaw settlement, where they lived 
 in deepest poverty. 
 
 Andrew, or Andy, as he was universally called, 
 grew up a very rough, rude, turbulent boy. His 
 features were coarse, his form ungainly, and there 
 was but very little in his character made visible 
 which was attractive. 
 
 When only thirteen years old he joined the 
 volunteers of Carolina against the British invasion. 
 In 1 78 1, he and his brother Robert were captured 
 and imprisoned for a time at Camden. A British 
 officer ordered him to brush his mud-spattered 
 boots. "lam a prisoner of war, not your serv- 
 ant," was the reply of the dauntless boy. 
 
 Andrew supported himself in various ways, such 
 as working at the saddler's trade, teaching school, 
 and clerking in a general store, until 1784, when 
 he entered a law office at Salisbury, N. C. He, 
 however, gave more attention to the wild amuse- 
 ments of the times than to his studies. In 1788, 
 he was appointed solicitor for the Western District 
 of North Carolina, of which Tennessee was then 
 a part. This involved many long journeys amid 
 dangers of every kind, but Andrew Jackson never 
 knew fear, and the Indians had no desire to re- 
 peat a skirmish with "Sharp Knife." 
 
 In 1 79 1, Mr. Jackson was married to a woman 
 who supposed herself divorced from her former 
 husband. Great was the surprise of both parties, 
 two years later, to find that the conditions of the 
 divorce had just been definitely settled by the 
 first husband. The marriage ceremony was per- 
 formed a second time, but the occurrence was 
 often used by his enemies to bring Mr. Jackson 
 into disfavor. 
 
 In January, 1796, the Territory of Tennessee 
 then containing nearly eighty thousand inhabi- 
 tants, the people met in convention at Knoxville 
 to frame a constitution. Five were sent from 
 each of the eleven counties. Andrew Jackson 
 was one of the delegates. The new State was 
 entitled to but one member in the National House 
 of Representatives. Andrew Jackson was chosen 
 that member. Mounting his horse, he rode to 
 Philadelphia, where Congress then held its ses- 
 sions, a distance of about eight hundred miles. 
 
 Jackson was an earnest advocate of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and Jefferson was his idol. He ad- 
 mired Bonaparte, loved France, and hated Eng- 
 land. As Mr. Jackson took his seat, Gen. Wash- 
 ington, whose second term of office was then 
 expiring, delivered his last speech to Congress. 
 A committee drew up a complimentary address in 
 reply. Andrew Jackson did not approve of the 
 address, and was one of the twelve who voted 
 against it. He was not willing to say that Gen. 
 Washington's administration had been "wise, 
 firm and patriotic. ' ' 
 
 Mr. Jackson was elected to the United States 
 Senate in 1797, but soon resigned and returned 
 home. Soon after he was chosen Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of his State, which position he 
 held for six years. 
 
 When the War of 18 12 with Great Britain com- 
 menced, Madison occupied the Presidential chair. 
 Aaron Burr sent word to the President that there 
 was an unknown man in the West, Andrew Jack- 
 son, who would do credit to a commission if one 
 were conferred upon him. Just at that time Gen. 
 Jackson offered his services and those of twenty- 
 five hundred volunteers. His offer was accepted, 
 and the troops were assembled at Nashville. 
 
 As the British were hourly expected to make 
 an attack upon New Orleans, where Gen. Wil- 
 kinson was in command, he was ordered to de- 
 
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 ANDREW JACKSON. 
 
 scend the river with fifteen hundred troops to aid 
 Wilkinson. The expedition reached Natchez, 
 and after a delay of several weeks there without 
 accomplishing anything, the men were ordered 
 back to their homes. But the energy Gen. Jack- 
 son had displayed, and his entire devotion to the 
 comfort of his soldiers, won for him golden opin- 
 ions, and he became the most popular man in the 
 State. It was in this expedition that his tough- 
 ness gave him the nickname of "Old Hickory." 
 
 Soon after this, while attempting to horsewhip 
 Col. Thomas Benton for a remark that gentleman 
 made about his taking part as second in a duel 
 in which a younger brother of Benton's was en- 
 gaged, he received two severe pistol wounds. 
 While he was lingering upon a bed of suifering, 
 news came that the Indians, who had combined 
 under Tecumseh from Florida to the Lakes to ex- 
 terminate the white settlers, were committing the 
 most awful ravages. Decisive action became nec- 
 essary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone 
 just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and 
 unable to mount his horse without assistance, 
 gave his amazing energies to the raising of an 
 army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Ala. 
 
 The Creek Indians had established a strong 
 fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, 
 near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles be- 
 low Ft. Strother. With an army of two thousand 
 men. Gen. Jackson traversed the pathless wilder- 
 ness in a march of eleven days. He reached their 
 fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 27th 
 of March, 18 14. The bend of the river enclosed 
 nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest and 
 wild ravine. Across the narrow neck the Indians 
 had constructed a formidable breastwork of logs 
 and brush. Here nine hundred warriors, with 
 an ample supply of arms, were assembled. 
 
 The fort was stormed. The fight was utterly 
 desperate. Not an Indian would accept quarter. 
 When bleeding and dying, they would fight those 
 who endeavored to spare their lives. From ten 
 in the morning until dark the battle raged. The 
 carnage was awful and revolting. Some threw 
 themselves into the river; but the unerring bul- 
 lets struck their heads as they swam. Nearly 
 every one of the nine hundred warriors was 
 
 killed. A few, probably, in the night swam 
 the river and escaped. This ended the war. 
 
 This closing of the Creek War enabled us to 
 concentrate all our militia upon the British, who 
 were the allies of the Indians. No man of less 
 resolute will than Gen. Jackson could have con- 
 ducted this Indian campaign to so successful an 
 issue. Immediately he was appointed Major- 
 General. 
 
 Late in August, with an army of two thousand 
 men on a rushing march. Gen. Jackson went to 
 Mobile. A British fleet went from Pensacola, 
 landed a force upon the beach, anchored near the 
 little fort, and from both ship and shore com- 
 menced a furious assault. The battle was long 
 and doubtful. At length one of the ships was 
 blown up and the rest retired. 
 
 Garrisoning Mobile, where he had taken his 
 little army, he moved his troops to New Orleans, 
 and the battle of New Orleans, which soon ensued, 
 was in reality a very arduous campaign. This 
 won for Gen. Jackson an imperishable name. 
 Here his troops, which numbered about four 
 thousand men, won a signal victory over the 
 British army of about nine thousand. His loss 
 was but thirteen, while the loss of the British was 
 twenty-six hundred. 
 
 The name of Gen. Jackson soon began to be 
 mentioned in connection with the Presidencj', 
 but in 1824 he was defeated by Mr. Adams. 
 He was, however, successful in the election of 
 1828, and was re-elected for a second term in 
 1832. In 1829, just before he assumed the reins 
 of government, he met with the most terrible 
 affliction of his life in the death of his wife, whom 
 he had loved with a devotion which has perhaps 
 never been surpassed. From the shock of her 
 death he never recovered. 
 
 His administration was one of the most mem- 
 orable in the annals of our country — applauded 
 by one party, condemned by the other. No man 
 had more bitter enemies or warmer friends. At 
 the expiration of his two terms of office he retired 
 to the Hermitage, where he died June 8, 1845. The 
 last years of Mr. Jackson's life were those of a de- 
 voted Christian man. 
 
MARTIN VAN BUREN. 
 
MARTIN VAN BUREN. 
 
 yyiARTIN VAN BUREN, the eighth Presi- 
 
 y dent of the United States, was born at Kin- 
 (9 derhook, N. Y., December 5, 1782. He 
 died at the same place, July 24, 1862. His body 
 rests in the cenieterj- at Kinderhook. Above it is 
 a plain granite shaft, fifteen feet high, bearing a 
 simple inscription about half-way up on one face. 
 The lot is unfenced, unbordered or unbounded 
 by shrub or flower. 
 
 There is but little in the life of Martin Van 
 Buren of romantic interest. He fought no battles, 
 engaged in no wild adventures. Though his life 
 was stormy in political and intellectual conflicts, 
 and he gained many signal victories, his days 
 passed uneventful in those incidents which give 
 zest to biography. His ancestors, as his name indi- 
 cates, were of Dutch origin, and were among the 
 earliest emigrants from Holland to the banks of 
 the Hudson. His father was a farmer, residing 
 in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother, also 
 of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intel- 
 ligence and exemplary piety. 
 
 He was decidedly a precocious boy, developing 
 unusual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At 
 the age of fourteen, he had finished his academic 
 studies in his native village, and commenced the 
 study of law. As he had not a collegiate educa- 
 tion, seven years of study in a law-office were re- 
 quired of him before he could be admitted to the 
 Bar. Inspired with a loft;y ambition, and con- 
 scious of his powers, he pursued his studies with 
 indefatigable industrj\ After spending six years 
 in an office in his native village, he went to the city 
 of New York, and prosecuted his studies for the 
 seventh year. 
 
 In 1803, Mr. Van Buren, then twenty -one years 
 
 of age, commenced the practice of law in his na- 
 tive village. The great conflict between the Federal 
 and Republican parties was then at its height. 
 Mr. Van Buren was from the beginning a politi- 
 cian. He had, perhaps, imbibed that spirit while 
 listening to the many discussions which had been 
 carried on in his father' s hotel. He was in cordial 
 sympathy with Jefferson, and earnestly and elo- 
 quently espoused the cause of State Rights, though 
 at that time the Federal part}' held the supremacy 
 both in his town and State. 
 
 His success and increasing reputation led him 
 after six years of practice to remove to Hudson, 
 the county seat of his county. Here he spent 
 seven years, constantly gaining strength by con- 
 tending in the courts with some of the ablest men 
 who have adorned the Bar of his State. 
 
 Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, Mr. 
 Van Buren married a lady alike distinguished for 
 beauty and accomplishments. After twelve short 
 years she sank into the grave, a victim of con- 
 sumption, leaving her husband and four sons to 
 weep over her loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. 
 Van Buren was an earnest, successful, assiduous 
 lawyer. The record of those years is barren in 
 items of public interest. In 18 12, when thirty 
 years of age, he was chosen to the State Senate, 
 and gave his strenuous support to Mr. Madison's 
 administration. In 1815, he was appointed At- 
 torney-General, and the next year moved to Al- 
 bany, the capital of the State. 
 
 While he was acknowledged as one of the most 
 prominent leaders of the Democratic party, he had 
 the moral courage to avow that true democracy did 
 not require that ' 'universal suffrage' ' which admits 
 the vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right 
 
48 
 
 MARTIN VAN BUREN. 
 
 of governing the State. In true consistency with 
 his democratic principles, he contended that, while 
 the path leading to the privilege of voting should 
 be open to every man without distinction, no one 
 should be invested with that sacred prerogative 
 unless he were in some degree qualified for it by 
 intelligence, virtue, and some property interests in 
 the welfare of the State. 
 
 In 182 1 he was elected a member of the United 
 States Senate, and in the same year he took a 
 seat in the convention to revise the Constitution of 
 his native State. His course in tills convention 
 secured the approval of men of all parties. No 
 one could doubt the singleness of his endeavors to 
 promote the interests of all classes in the com- 
 munity. In the Senate of the United States, he 
 rose at once to a conspicuous position as an active 
 and useful legislator. 
 
 In 1827, John Quincy Adams being then in the 
 Presidential chair, Mr. Van Buren was re-elected 
 to the Senate. He had been from the beginning 
 a determined opposer of the administration, adopt- 
 ing the "State Rights' ' view in opposition to what 
 was deemed the Federal proclivities of Mr. Adams. 
 
 Soon after this, in 1828, he was chosen Governor 
 of the State of New York, and accordingly resigned 
 his seat in the Senate. Probably no one in the 
 United States contributed so much towards eject- 
 ing John Q. Adams from the Presidential chair, 
 and placing in it Andrew Jackson, as did Martin 
 Van Buren. Whether entitled to the reputation 
 or not, he certainly was regarded throughout the 
 United States as one of the most skillful, sagacious 
 and cunning of politicians. It was supposed that 
 no one knew so well as he how to touch the secret 
 springs of action, how to pull all the wires to 
 put his machinery in motion, and how to organize 
 a political army which would secretly and stealth- 
 ily accomplish the most gigantic results. By these 
 powers it is said that he outwitted Mr. Adams, Mr. 
 Clay, and Mr. Webster, and secured results which 
 few then thought could be accomplished. 
 
 When Andrew Jackson was elected President 
 he appointed Mr. Van Buren Secretary of State. 
 This position he resigned in 1831, and was im- 
 mediately appointed Minister to England, where 
 he went the same autumn. The Senate, however. 
 
 when it met, refused to ratify the nomination, and 
 he returned home, apparently untroubled. Later 
 he was nominated Vice-President in the place of 
 Calhoun, at the re-election of President Jackson, 
 and with smiles for all and frowns for none, he 
 took his place at the head of that Senate which had 
 refused to confirm his nomination as ambassador. 
 
 His rejection by the Senate roused all the zeal 
 of President Jackson in behalf of his repudiated 
 favorite; and this, probably, more than any other 
 cause secured his elevation to the chair of the 
 Chief Executive. On the 20th of May, 1836, Mr. 
 Van Buren received the Democratic nomination 
 to succeed Gen. Jackson as President of the United 
 States. He was elected by a handsome majority, 
 to the delight of the retiring President. ' 'Leaving 
 New York out of the canvass," says Mr. Parton, 
 ' 'the election of Mr. Van Buren to the Presidency 
 was as much the act of Gen. Jackson as though 
 the Constitution had conferred upon him the power 
 to appoint a successor. ' ' 
 
 His administration was filled with exciting 
 events. The insurrection in Canada, which 
 threatened to involve this country in war with 
 England, the agitation of the slavery question, 
 and finally the great commercial panic which 
 spread over the country, all were trials of his wis- 
 dom. The financial distress was attributed to 
 the management of the Democratic party, and 
 brought the President into such disfavor that he 
 failed of re-election, and on the 4th of March, 
 1 84 1, he retired from the presidency. 
 
 With the exception of being nominated for the 
 Presidency by the "Free Soil" Democrats in 1848, 
 Mr. Van Buren lived quietly upon his estate until 
 his death. He had ever been a prudent man, of 
 frugal habits, and, living within his income, had 
 now fortunately a competence for his declining 
 years. From his fine estate at Lindenwald, he 
 still exerted a powerful influence upon the politics 
 of the country. From this time until his death, 
 on the 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty 
 years, he resided at Lindenwald, a gentleman of 
 leisure, of culture and wealth, enjoying in a 
 healthy old age probably far more happiness than 
 he had before experienced amid the stormy scenes 
 of his active life. 
 
WILUAM HENRY HARRISON. 
 
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, the ninth 
 President of the United States, was born 
 at Berkeley, Va., February 9, 1773. His 
 father, Benjamin Harrison, was in comparatively 
 opulent circumstances, and was one of the most 
 distinguished men of his day. He was an inti- 
 mate friend of George Washington, was early 
 elected a member of the Continental Congress, 
 and was con.spiG«ous among the patriots of Vir- 
 ginia in resisting the encroachments of the British 
 crown. In the celebrated Congre.ss of 1775, Ben- 
 jamin Harrison and John Hancock were both 
 candidates for the oiBce of Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Harrison was subsequently chosen Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia, and was twice re-elected. His 
 son William Henrj', of course, enjoyed in child- 
 hood all the advantages which wealth and intel- 
 lectual and cultivated society could give. Hav- 
 ing received a thorough common-school educa- 
 tion, he entered Hampden Sidney College, where 
 he graduated with honor soon after the death of 
 his father. He then repaired to Philadelphia to 
 study medicine under thein.structionsof Dr. Rush 
 and the guardianship of Robert Morris, both of 
 whom were, with his father, signers of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence. 
 
 Upon the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and 
 notwithstanding the remon.strances of his friends, 
 he abandoned his medical studies and entered the 
 army, having obtained a commission as Ensign 
 from President Washington. He was then but 
 nineteen years old. From that time he passed 
 gradually upward in rank until he became aide 
 to Gen. Waj'ne, after whose death he resigned 
 his commission. He was then appointed Secre- 
 tary of the Northwestern Territory. This Terri- 
 tory was then entitled to but one member in Con- 
 
 gress, and Harrison was chosen to fill that position , 
 In the spring of 1800 the Northwestern Terri- 
 tory was divided by Congress into two portions. 
 The eastern portion, comprising the region now 
 embraced in the State of Ohio, was called ' ' The 
 Territory northwest of the Ohio. ' ' The western 
 portion, which included what is now called Indi- 
 ana, Illinois and Wisconsin, was called "the Indi- 
 ana Territory." William Henry Harrison, then 
 twenty -seven years of age, was appointed by John 
 Adams Governor of the Indiana Territory, and 
 immediately after also Governor of Upper Loui- 
 siana. He was thus ruler over almost as exten- 
 sive a realm as any sovereign upon the globe. 
 He was Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and 
 was invested with powers nearly dictatorial over 
 the then rapidly increasing white population. The 
 ability and fidelity with which he discharged 
 these responsible duties may be inferred from the 
 fact that he was four times appointed to this 
 office — first by John Adams, twice by Thomas 
 Jefferson, and afterwards by President Madison. 
 
 When he began his administration there were 
 but three white settlements in that almost bound- 
 less region, now crowded with cities and resound- 
 ing with all the tumult of wealth and trafiic. 
 One of these .settlements was on the Ohio, nearly 
 opposite Louisville; one at Vincennes, on the 
 Wabash; and the third was a French settlement. 
 
 The vast wilderness over which Gov. Harrison 
 reigned was filled with many tribes of Indians. 
 About the year 1806, two extraordinary men, 
 twin brothers of the Shawnee tribe, rose among 
 them. One of these was called Tecumseh, or 
 "the Crouching Pat.ther;" the other OUiwa- 
 checa, or ' ' the Prophet. ' ' Tecumseh was not 
 only an Indian warrior, but a man of great sagac- 
 
52 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 
 
 ity, far-reaching foresight and indomitable perse- 
 verance in any enterprise in which he might en- 
 gage. His brother, the Prophet, was an orator, 
 who could sway the feelings of the untutored In- 
 dians as the gale tossed the tree-tops beneath 
 which they dwelt. With an enthusiasm unsur- 
 passed by Peter the Hermit rousing Europe to the 
 crusades, he went from tribe to tribe, assuming 
 that he was specially sent by the Great Spirit. 
 
 Gov. Harrison made many attempts to con- 
 ciliate the Indians, but at last war came, and at 
 Tippecanoe the Indians were routed with great 
 slaughter. October 28, 1812, his army began its 
 march. When near the Prophet's town, three 
 Indians of rank made their appearance and in- 
 quired why Gov. Harrison was approaching them 
 in so hostile an attitude. After a short confer- 
 ence, arrangements were made for a meeting the 
 next day to agree upon terms of peace. 
 
 But Gov. Harrison was too well acquainted 
 with the Indian character to be deceived by such 
 protestations. Selecting a favorable spot for his 
 night's encampment, he took every precaution 
 against surprise. His troops were posted in a 
 hollow square and slept upon their arms. The 
 wakeful Governor, between three and four o'clock 
 in the morning, had risen, and was sitting 
 in conversation with his aides by the embers 
 of a waning fire. It was a chill, cloudy morning, 
 with a drizzling rain. In the darkness, the In- 
 dians had crept as near as possible, and just then, 
 with a savage yell, rushed, with all the despera- 
 tion which superstition and passion most highly 
 inflamed could give, upon the left flank of the 
 little army. The savages had been amply pro- 
 vided with guns and ammunition by the English, 
 and their war-whoop was accompanied by a 
 shower of bullets. 
 
 The camp-fires were instantly extinguished, as 
 the light aided the Indians in their aim, and 
 Gen. Harrison's troops stood as immovable as 
 the rocks around them until day dawned, when 
 they made a simultaneous charge with the bayo- 
 net and swept everything before them, completely 
 routing the foe. 
 
 Gov. Harrison now had all his energies tasked 
 to the utmost. The British, descending from the 
 
 Canadas, were of themselves a very formidable 
 force, but with their savage allies rushing like 
 wolves from the forest, burning, plundering, scalp- 
 ing, torturing, the wide frontier was plunged into 
 a state of consternation which even the most vivid 
 imagination can but faintly conceive. Gen. Hull 
 had made an ignominious surrender of his forces at 
 Detroit. Under these despairing circumstances, 
 Gov. Harrison was appointed by President Madi- 
 son Commander-in-Chief of the Northwestern 
 Army, with orders to retake Detroit and to protect 
 the frontiers. It would be difficult to place a man 
 in a situation demanding more energy, sagacity 
 and courage, but he was found equal to the 
 position, and nobly and triumphantly did he meet 
 all the responsibilities. 
 
 In 1816, Gen. Harrison was chosen a member 
 of the National House of Representatives, to rep- 
 resent the District of Ohio. In Congress he proved 
 an active member, and whenever he spoke it was 
 with a force of reason and power of eloquence 
 which arrested the attention of all the members. 
 
 In 18 19, Harrison was elected to the Senate of 
 Ohio, and in 1824, as one of the Presidential Elec- 
 tors of that State, he gave his vote for Henry 
 Clay. The same year he was chosen to the Uni- 
 ted States Senate. In 1 836 his friends brought 
 him forward as a candidate for the Presidency 
 against Van Buren, but he was defeated. At the 
 close of Mr. Van Buren's term, he was re-nom- 
 inated by his party, and Mr. Harrison was unani- 
 mously nominated by the Whigs, with John Tyler 
 for the Vice-Presidency. The contest was very 
 animated. Gen. Jackson gave all his influence to 
 prevent Harrison's election, but his triumph was 
 signal. 
 
 The cabinet which he formed, with Daniel Web- 
 ster at its head as Secretary of State, was one of 
 the most brilHant with which any President had 
 ever been surrounded. Never were the prospects 
 of an administration more flattering, or the hopes 
 of the country more sanguine. In the midst of 
 these bright and joyous prospects, Gen. Harrison 
 was seized by a pleurisy-fever, and after a few 
 days of violent sickness died, on the 4th of April, 
 just one month after his inauguration as President 
 of the United States. 
 
JOHN TYLER. 
 
JOHN TYLER. 
 
 (f OHN TYLER, the tenth President of the 
 I United States, and was born in Charles 
 (2/ City County, Va., March 29, 1790. He was 
 the favored child of affluence and high social po- 
 sition. At the early age of twelve, John entered 
 William and Mary College, and graduated with 
 much honor when but seventeen years old. After 
 graduating, he devoted himself with great assi- 
 duity to the study of law, partly with his father 
 and partly with Edmund Randolph, one of the 
 most distinguished lawj'ers of Virginia. 
 
 At nineteen years of age, he commenced the 
 practice of law. His success was rapid and as- 
 tonishing. It is said that three months had not 
 elapsed ere there was scarcely a case on the 
 docket of the court in which he was not retained. 
 When but twenty-one years of age, he was almost 
 unanimously elected to a seat in the State Legis- 
 lature. He connected himself with the Demo- 
 cratic party, and warmly advocated the measures 
 of Jefferson and Madison. For five successive 
 years he was elected to the Legislature, receiving 
 nearly the unanimous vote of his county. 
 
 When but twenty-six years of age, he was 
 elected a Member of Congress. Here he acted ear- 
 nestly and ably with the Democratic party, oppos- 
 ing a national bank, internal improvements by 
 the General Government, and a protective tariff; 
 advocating a strict construction of the Constitu- 
 ■ tion and the most careful vigilance over State 
 rights. His labors in Congress were so arduous 
 that before the close of his second term he found 
 it necessary to resign and retire to his estate in 
 Charles City County to recruit his health. He, 
 however, soon after consented to take his seat in 
 the State Legislature, where his influence was 
 powerful in promoting public works of great 
 utility. With a reputation thus constantly in- 
 creasing, he was chosen by a very large majority 
 of votes Governor of his native State. His ad- 
 ministration was a signally successful one, and his 
 popularitj' secured his re-election. 
 
 John Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-crazed 
 man, then represented Virginia in the Senate of 
 the United States. A portion of the Democratic 
 party was displeased with Mr. Randolph's way- 
 ward course, and brought forward John Tyler as 
 his opponent, considering him the only man in 
 Virginia of sufficient popularity to succeed 
 against the renowned orator of Roanoke. Mr. 
 Tyler was the victor. 
 
 In accordance with his professions, upon tak- 
 ing his seat in the Senate he joined the ranks of 
 the opposition. He opposed the tariff, and spoke 
 against and voted against the bank as unconsti- 
 tutional; he strenuously opposed all restrictions 
 upon slavery, resisting all projects of internal im- 
 provements by the General Government, and 
 avowed his sympathy with Mr. Calhoun's view 
 of nullification; he declared that Gen. Jackson, 
 by his opposition to the nullifiers, had abandoned 
 the principles of the Democratic party. Such 
 was Mr. Tyler's record in Congress — a record in 
 perfect accordance with the principles which he 
 had always avowed. 
 
 Returning to Virginia, he resumed the practice 
 of his profession. There was a split in the Demo- 
 cratic party. His friends still regarded him as a 
 true Jeffersonian, gave him a dinner, and show- 
 ered compliments upon him. He had now at- 
 tained the age of forty-six, and his career had been 
 very brilliant. In consequence of his devotion to 
 public business, his private affairs had fallen into 
 some disorder, and it was not without satisfac- 
 tion that he resumed the practice of law, and de- 
 voted himself to the cultivation of his plantation. 
 Soon after this he removed to Williamsburg, for 
 the better education of his children, and he again 
 took his seat in the Legislature of Virginia. 
 
 By the southern Whigs he was sent to the 
 national convention at Harrisburg in 1839 to nom- 
 inate a President. The majority of votes were 
 given to Gen Harrison, a genuine Whig, much 
 to the disappointment of the South, which wished 
 
56 
 
 JOHN TYLER. 
 
 for Henry Clay. To conciliate the southern 
 Whigs and to secure their vote, the convention 
 then nominated John Tyler for Vice-President. 
 It was well known that he was not in sympathy 
 with the Whig party in the North; but the Vice- 
 President has very little power in the Govern- 
 ment, his main and almost only duty being to 
 preside over the meetings of the Senate. Thus it 
 happened that a Whig President and, in reality, 
 a Democratic Vice-President were chosen. 
 
 in 1 84 1, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice- 
 President of the United States. In one short 
 month from that time. President Harrison died, 
 and Mr. Tyler thus found himself, to his own 
 surprise and that of the whole nation, an occu- 
 pant of the Presidential chair. Hastening from 
 Williamsburg to Washington, on the 6th of 
 April he was inaugurated to the high and re- 
 sponsible office. He was placed in a position of 
 exceeding delicacy and difficulty. All his long 
 life he had been opposed to the main principles of 
 the party which had brought him into power. 
 He had ever been a consistent, honest man, with 
 an unblemished record. Gen. Harrison had se- 
 lected a Whig cabinet. Should he retain them, 
 and thus surround himself with counselors whose 
 views were antagonistic to his own ? or, on the 
 other hand, should he turn against the party 
 which had elected him, and select a cabinet in 
 harmony with himself and which would oppose 
 all those views which the Whigs deemed essen- 
 tial to the public welfare ? This was his fearful 
 dilemma. He invited the cabinet which Presi- 
 dent Harrison had selected to retain their seats, 
 and recommended a day of fasting and prayer, 
 that God would guide and bless us. 
 
 The Whigs carried through Congress a bill for 
 the incorporation of a fiscal bank of the United 
 States. The President, after ten days' delay, re- 
 turned it with his veto. He suggested, however, 
 that he would approve of a bill drawn up upon 
 such a plan as he proposed. Such a bill was ac- 
 cordingly prepared, and privately submitted to 
 him. He gave it his approval. It was passed 
 without alteration, and he sent it back with his 
 veto. Here commenced the open rupture. It is 
 said that Mr. Tyler was provoked' to this meas- 
 
 ure by a published letter from the Hon. John M. 
 Botts, a distinguished Virginia Whig, who se- 
 verely touched the pride of the President. 
 
 The opposition now exultingly received the 
 President into their arms. The party which 
 elected him denounced him bitterly. All the 
 members of his cabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, 
 resigned. The Whigs of Congress, both the 
 Senate and the House, held a meeting and issued 
 an address to the people of the United States, 
 proclaiming that all political alliance between the 
 Whigs and President Tyler was at an end. 
 
 Still the President attempted to conciliate. He 
 appointed a new cabinet of distinguished Whigs 
 and Conservatives, carefully leaving out all strong 
 party men. Mr. Webster soon found it necessary 
 to resign, forced out by the pressure of his Whig 
 friends. Thus the four years of Mr. Tyler's un- 
 fortunate administration passed sadly away. No 
 one was satisfied. The land was filled with mur- 
 murs and vituperation. Whigs and Democrats 
 alike assailed him. More and more, however, he 
 brought himself into sympathy with his old 
 friends, the Democrats, until at the close of his 
 term he gave his whole influence to the support 
 of Mr. Polk, the Democratic candidate for his 
 successor. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1845, President Tyler re- 
 tired from the harassments of office, to the regret 
 of neither party, and probably to his own unspeak- 
 able relief The remainder of his days were 
 passed mainly in the retirement of his beautiful 
 home — Sherwood Forest, Charles City County, 
 Va. His first wife. Miss Letitia Christian, died 
 in Washington in 1842; and in June, 1844, 
 he was again married, at New York, to Miss Julia 
 Gardiner, a young lady of many personal and 
 intellectual accomplishments. 
 
 When the great Rebellion rose, which the 
 State Rights and nullifying doctrines of John C. 
 Calhoun had inaugurated, President Tyler re- 
 nounced his allegiance to the United States, and 
 joined the Confederates. He was chosen a mem- 
 ber of their Congress, and while engaged in 
 active measures to destroy, by force of arms, the 
 Government over which he had once presided, he 
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JAMES K. POLK. 
 
 (Tames K. polk, the eleventh President of 
 I the United States, was born in Mecklenburgh 
 (2/ County, N. C. , November 2, 1795. His 
 parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the 
 former a son of Col. Thomas Polk, who located 
 at the above place, as one of the first pioneers, in 
 1735. In 1806, with his wife and children, and 
 soon after followed by most of the members of the 
 Polk family, Samuel Polk emigrated some two or 
 three hundred miles farther west, to the rich val- 
 ley of the Duck River. Here, in the midst of the 
 wilderness, in a region which was subsequently 
 called MaurA' County, they erected their log huts 
 and established their homes. In the hard toil of 
 a new farm in the wilderness, James K. Polk 
 spent the early years of his childhood and youth. 
 His father, adding the pursuit of a surve3-or to 
 that of a farmer, gradually increased in wealth, 
 until he became one of the leading men of the 
 region. His mother was a superior woman, of 
 strong common sense and earnest piety. 
 
 Very early in life James developed a taste for 
 reading, and expressed the strongest desire to ob- 
 tain a liberal education. His mother's training 
 had made him methodical in his habits, had taught 
 him punctuality and industry, and had inspired 
 him with lofty principles of morality. His health 
 was frail, and his father, fearing that he might not 
 be able to endure a sedentary life, got a situation 
 for him behind the counter, hoping to fit him for 
 commercial pursuits. 
 
 This was to James a bitter disappointment. He 
 had no taste for these duties, and his daily tasks 
 were irksome in the extreme. He remained in this 
 uncongenial occupation but a few weeks, when, 
 at his earnest solicitation, his father removed 
 him and made arrangements for him to pros- 
 ecute his studies. Soon after he sent him to Mur- 
 freesboro Academy. With ardor which could 
 scarcely be surpassed, he pressed forward in his 
 
 studies, and in less than two and a-half years, in 
 the autumn of 18 15, entered the sophomore class 
 in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel 
 Hill. Here he was one of the most exemplary of 
 scholars, punctual in ever>' exercise, never allow- 
 ing himself to be absent from a recitation or a 
 religious sen'ice. 
 
 Mr. Polk graduated in 18 18, with the highest 
 honors, being deemed the best scholar of his class, 
 both in mathematics and the classics. He was 
 then twenty-three years of age. His health was 
 at this time much impaired by the assiduity with 
 which he had prosecuted his studies. After a 
 short season of relaxation, he went to Nashville, 
 and entered the office of Felix Grundy, to study 
 law. Here Mr. Polk renewed his acquaintance 
 with Andrew Jackson, wha resided on his planta- 
 tion, the "Hermitage," but a few miles from 
 Nashville. They had probably been slightly ac- 
 quainted before. 
 
 Mr. Polk's father was a Jeffersonian Republican 
 and James K. adhered to the same political faith. 
 He was a popular public speaker, and was con- 
 stantly called upon to address the meetings of his 
 party friends. His skill as a speaker was such 
 that he was popularly called the Napoleon of the 
 stump. He was a man of unblemished morals, 
 genial and courteous in his bearing, and with that 
 sympathetic nature in the joys and griefs of oth- 
 ers which gave him hosts of friends. In 1823, 
 he was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee, 
 and gave his .strong influence toward the election 
 of his friend, Mr. Jackson, to the Presidency of 
 the United States. 
 
 Injanuar\', 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss Sarah 
 Childress, of Rutherford County, Tenn. His 
 bride was altogether worthy of him — a lady of 
 beauty and culture. In the fall of 1825 Mr. Polk 
 was chosen a member of Congress, and the satis- 
 faction he gave his constituents may be inferred 
 
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 JAMES K. POIvK. 
 
 from the fact, that for fourteen successive years, 
 or until 1839, he was continued in that oifice. He 
 then voluntarily withdrew, only that he might 
 accept the Gubernatorial chair of Tennessee. In 
 Congress he was a laborious member, a frequent 
 and a popular speaker. He was always in his 
 seat, always courteous, and whenever he spoke 
 it was always to the point, without any ambitious 
 rhetorical display. 
 
 During five sessions of Congress Mr. Polk was 
 Speaker of the House. Strong passions were 
 roused and stormy scenes were witnessed, but he 
 performed his arduous duties to a very general 
 satisfaction, and a unanimous vote of thanks to 
 him was passed by the House as he withdrew on 
 the 4th of March, 1839. 
 
 In accordance with Southern usage, Mr. Polk, 
 as a candidate for Governor, canvassed the State. 
 He was elected by a large majority, and on Octo- 
 ber 14, 1839, took the oath of ofifice at Na-shville. 
 In 1 841 his term of office expired, and he was 
 again the candidate of the Democratic party, but 
 was defeated. 
 
 On the 4tli of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was in- 
 augurated President of the United States. The 
 verdict of the country in favor of the annexation 
 of Texas exerted its influence upon Congress, 
 and the last act of the administration of President 
 Tyler was to affix his signature to a joint resolu- 
 tion of Congress, passed on the 3d of March, ap- 
 proving of the annexation of Texas to the Union. 
 As Mexico still claimed Texas as one of her 
 provinces, the Mexican Minister, Almonte, im- 
 mediately demanded his passports and left the 
 country, declaring the act of the annexation to be 
 an act hostile to Mexico. 
 
 In his first message. President Polk urged that 
 Texas should immediately, by act of Congress, be 
 received into the Union on the same footing with 
 the other States. In the mean time. Gen. Taylor 
 was sent with an array into Texas to hold the 
 country. He was first sent to Nueces, which the 
 Mexicans said was the western boundary of Tex- 
 as. Then he was sent nearly two hundred miles 
 further west, to the Rio Grande, where he erected 
 batteries which commanded the Mexican city of 
 Matamoras, which was situated on the western 
 
 banks. The anticipated collision soon took place, 
 and war was declared against Mexico by President 
 Polk. The war was pushed forward by his ad- 
 ministration with great vigor. Gen. Taylor, 
 whose army was first called one of ' ' observation, ' ' 
 then of "occupation," then of "invasion," was 
 sent forward to Monterey. The feeble Mexicans 
 in every encounter were hopeles.sly slaughtered. 
 The day of judgment alone can reveal the misery 
 which this war caused. It was by the ingenuity 
 of Mr. Polk's administration that the war was 
 brought on. 
 
 ' ' To the victors belong the spoils. ' ' Mexico 
 was prostrate before us. Her capital was in our 
 hands. We now consented to peace upon the 
 condition that Mexico should surrender to us, in 
 addition to Texas, all of New Mexico, and all of 
 Upper and Lower California. This new demand 
 embraced, exclusive of Texas, eight hundred 
 thousand square miles. This was an extent of 
 territory equal to nine States of the size of New 
 York. Thus slavery was securing eighteen ma- 
 jestic States to be added to the Union. There 
 were some Americans who thought it all right; 
 there were others who thought it all wrong. In 
 the prosecution of this war we expended twenty 
 thousand lives and more than $100,000,000. Of 
 this money $15,000,000 were paid to Mexico. 
 
 On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired 
 from office, having served one term. The next 
 day was Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was 
 inaugurated as his successor. Mr. Polk rode to 
 the Capitol in the same carriage with Gen. Tay- 
 lor, and the same evening, with Mrs. Polk, he 
 commenced his return to Tennessee. He was 
 then but fifty-four years of age. He had always 
 been strictly temperate in all his habits, and his 
 health was good. With an ample fortune, a 
 choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic 
 ties of the dearest nature, it seemed as though 
 long years of tranquillity and happiness were be- 
 fore him. But the cholera — that fearful scourge 
 — was then sweeping up the Valley of the Missis- 
 sippi, and he contracted the disease, dying on the 
 15th of June, 1849, in the fifty-fourth year of his 
 age, greatly mourned by his countrymen. 
 
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ZACHARY TAYLOR. 
 
ZACHARY TAYLOR. 
 
 G7ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfth President of 
 A the United States, was born on the 24th of 
 /^ November, 1784, in Orange County, Va. 
 His father, Col. Taj'lor, was a Virginian of 
 note, and a distinguished patriot and soldier of 
 the Revolution. When Zachary was an infant, 
 his father, with his wife and two children, emi- 
 grated to Keutuckj', where he settled in the path- 
 less wilderness, a few miles from Louisville. In 
 this frontier home, away from civilization and all 
 its refinements, young Zachary could enjoy but 
 few social and educational advantages. When 
 six years of age he attended a common school, 
 and was then regarded as a bright, active boy, 
 rather remarkable for bluntness and decision of 
 character. He was strong, fearless and self-reli- 
 ant, and manifested a strong desire to enter the 
 army to fight the Indians, who were ravaging the 
 frontiers. There is little to be recorded of the 
 aneventful years of his childhood on his father's 
 large but lonely plantation. 
 
 In 1808, his father succeeded in obtaining for 
 him a commission as Lieutenant in the United 
 States army, and he joined the troops which were 
 stationed at New Orleans under Gen. Wilkinson. 
 Soon after this he married Miss Margaret Smith, 
 a young lady from one of the first families of 
 Maryland. 
 
 Immediately after the declaration of war with 
 England, in 1812, Capt. Taylor (for he had then 
 been promoted to that rank) was put in command 
 of Ft. Harrison, on the Wabash, about fifty miles 
 above Vincennes. This fort had been built in the 
 wilderness by Gen. Harrison, on his march to 
 Tippecanoe. It was one of the first points of at- 
 tack by the Indians, led by Tecumseh. Its garri- 
 son consisted of a broken company of infantry, 
 numbering fifty men, many of whom were sick. 
 
 Early in the autumn .of 181 2, the Indians, 
 stealthily, and in large numbers, moved upon the 
 
 fort. Their approach was first indicated by the 
 murder of two soldiers just outside of the stockade. 
 Capt. Taylor made every possible preparation to 
 meet the anticipated assault. On the 4th of Sep- 
 tember, a band of forty painted and plumed sav- 
 ages came to the fort, waving a white flag, and 
 informed Capt. Taylor that in the morning their 
 chief would come to have a talk with him. It 
 was evident that their object was merely to ascer- 
 tain the state of things at the fort, and Capt. 
 Taylor, well versed in the wiles of the savages, 
 kept them at a distance. 
 
 The sun went down; the savages disappeared; 
 the garrison slept upon their arms. One hour 
 before midnight the war-whoop burst from a 
 thousand lips in the forest around, followed by 
 the discharge of musketry and the rush of the 
 foe. Every man, sick and well, sprang to his 
 post. Every man knew that defeat was not 
 merely death, but, in the case of capture, death by 
 the most agonizing and prolonged torture. No 
 pen can describe, no imagination can conceive, the 
 scenes which ensued. The savages succeeded in 
 setting fire to one of the block-houses. Until six 
 o'clock in the morning this awful conflict con- 
 tinued, when the savages, baffled at every point 
 and gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. 
 Capt. Taylor, for this gallant defense, was pro- 
 moted to the rank of Major by brevet. 
 
 Uijtil the close of the war, Maj. Taylor was 
 placed in such situations that he saw but little 
 more of active service. He was sent far away 
 into the depths of the wilderness to Ft. Craw- 
 ford, on Fox River, which empties into Green 
 Bay. Here there was little to be done but to 
 wear away the tedious hours as one best could. 
 There were no books, no society, no intellectual 
 stimulus. Thus with him the uneventful years 
 rolled on. Gradually he rose to the rank of 
 Colonel. In the Black Hawk War, which re- 
 
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 ZACHARY TAYLOR. 
 
 suited in the capture of that renowned chieftain, 
 Col. Taylor took a subordinate, but a brave and 
 efficient, part. 
 
 For twenty-four years Col. Taylor was engaged 
 in the defense of the frontiers, in scenes so re- 
 mote, and in employments so obscure, that his 
 name was unknown beyond the limits of his own 
 immediate acquaintance. In the year 1836, he 
 was sent to Florida to compel the Seminole Indi- 
 ans to vacate that region, and retire beyond the 
 Mississippi, as their chiefs by treaty had prom- 
 ised they should do. The services rendered here 
 secured for Col. Taylor the high appreciation of 
 the Government, and as a reward he was ele- 
 vated to the high rank of Brigadier- General by 
 brevet, and soon after, in May, 1838, was ap- 
 pointed to the chief command of the United 
 States troops in Florida. 
 
 After two years of wearisome employment 
 amidst the everglades of the Peninsula, Gen. Tay- 
 lor obtained, at his own request, a change of 
 command, and was stationed over the Department 
 of the Southwest. This field embraced L,ouisiana, 
 Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Establishing 
 his headquarters at Ft. Jessup, in Louisiana, he 
 removed his family to a plantation which he pur- 
 chased near Baton Rouge. Here he remained 
 for five years, buried, as it were, from the world, 
 but faithfully discharging every duty imposed 
 upon him. 
 
 In 1846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard the 
 land between the Nueces and Rio Grande, the 
 latter river being the boundary of Texas, which 
 was then claimed by the United States. Soon 
 the war with Mexico was brought on, and at Palo 
 Alto and Resaca de la Palma, Gen. Taylor won 
 brilliant victories over the Mexicans. The rank 
 of Major-General by brevet was then conferred 
 upon Gen. Taylor, and his name was received 
 with enthusiasm almost everywhere in the na- 
 tion. Then came the battles of Monterey and 
 Buena Vista, in which he won signal victories 
 over forces much larger than he commanded. 
 
 The tidings of the brilliant victory of Buena 
 Vista spread the wildest enthu.siasm over the 
 country. The name of Gen. Taylor was on 
 every one's lips. The Whig party decided to 
 
 take advantage of this wonderful popularity in 
 bringing forward the unpolished, unlettered, hon- 
 est soldier as their candidate for the Presidency. 
 Gen. Taylor was astonished at the announce- 
 ment, and for a time would not listen to it, de- 
 claring that he was not at all qualified for such 
 an office. So little interest had he taken in poli- 
 tics, that for forty years he had not cast a vote. 
 It was not without chagrin that several distin- 
 guished statesmen, who had been long years in 
 the public ser\'ice, found their claims set aside in 
 behalf of one whose name had never been heard 
 of, save in connection with Palo Alto, Resaca de 
 la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vi.sta. It is said 
 that Daniel Webster, in his haste, remarked, "It 
 is a nomination not fit to be made. ' ' 
 
 Gen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker nor a 
 fine writer. His friends took possession of him, 
 and prepared such few communications as it was 
 needful should be presented to the public. The 
 popularity of the successful warrior swept the 
 land. He was triumphantly elected over two 
 opposing candidates, — Gen. Cass and Ex-Presi- 
 dent Martin Van Buren. Though he selected an 
 excellent cabinet, the good old man found himself 
 in a very uncongenial position, and was at times 
 sorely perplexed and harassed. His mental suf- 
 ferings were very severe, and probably tended to 
 hasten his death. The pro-slavery party was 
 pushing its claims with tireless energy; expedi- 
 tions were fitting out to capture Cuba; California 
 was pleading for admission to the Union, while 
 slavery .stood at the door to bar her out. Gen. 
 Taylor found the political conflicts in Washington 
 to be far more trying to the nerves than battles 
 with Mexicans or Indians. 
 
 In the midst of all these troubles. Gen. Taylor, 
 after he had occupied the Presidential chair but 
 little over a year, took cold, and after a brief 
 sickness of but little over five days, died, on the 
 9th of July, 1850. His last words were, "I am 
 not afraid to die. I am ready. I have endeav- 
 ored to do my duty." He died universally re- 
 spected and beloved. An honest, unpretending 
 man, he had been steadily growing in the affec- 
 tions of the people, and the Nation bitterly la- 
 mented his death. 
 
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MILLARD FILLMORE. 
 
MILLARD FILLMORE. 
 
 KA ILLARD FILLMORE, thirteenth President 
 y of the United States, was born at Summer 
 GJ Hill, Cayuga County, N. Y., on the 7th of 
 Januar>', 1800. His father was a farmer, and, ownig 
 to misfortune, in humble circumstances. Of his 
 mother, the daughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, of 
 Pittsfield, Mass., it has been said that she pos- 
 sessed an intellect of a high order, united with 
 much personal loveliness, sweetness of disposi- 
 tion, graceful manners and exquisite sensibilities. 
 She died in 183L, having lived to see her son a 
 young man of distinguished promise, though she 
 was not permitted to witness the high dignity 
 which he finally attained. 
 
 In consequence of the secluded home and limited 
 means of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender 
 advantages for education in his early years. The 
 common schools, which he occasionally attended, 
 were very imperfect institutions, and books were 
 scarce and expensive. There was nothing then 
 in his character to indicate the brilliant career 
 upon which he was about to enter. He was a 
 plain farmer's boy — intelligent, good-looking, 
 kind-hearted. The sacred iuiluences of home 
 had taught him to revere the Bible, and had laid 
 the foundations of an upright character. When 
 fourteen years of age, his father sent him some 
 hundred miles from home to the then wilds of 
 Livingston County, to learn the trade of a clothier. 
 Near the mill there was a small village, where 
 some enterprising man had commenced the col- 
 lection of a village library. This proved an in- 
 estimable blessing to young Fillmore. His even- 
 ings were spent in reading. Soon every leisure 
 moment was occupied with books. His thirst for 
 knowledge became insatiate, ' and the selections 
 which he made were continually more elevating 
 and instructive. He read history, biography, 
 oratory, and thus gradually there was enkindled 
 
 in his heart a desire to be something more than a 
 mere worker with his hands. 
 
 The young clothier had now attained the age 
 of nineteen years, and was of fine personal appear- 
 ance and of gentlemanly demeanor. It so hap- 
 pened that there was a gentleman in the neigh- 
 borhood of ample pecuniary means and of benev- 
 olence, — ^Judge Walter Wood, — who was struck 
 with the prepossessing appearance of j-oung Fill- 
 more. He made his acquaintance, and was so 
 much impressed with his ability and attainments 
 that he advised him to abandon his trade and de- 
 vote himself to the study of the law. The young 
 man replied that he had no means of his own, 
 no friends to help him, and that his previous edu- 
 cation had been very imperfect. But Judge Wood 
 had so much confidence in him that he kindly 
 offered to take him into his own ofiice, and to 
 lend him such money as he needed. Most grate- 
 fully the generous offer was accepted. 
 
 There is in many minds a strange delusion 
 about a collegiate education. A young man is 
 supposed to be liberally educated if he has gradu- 
 ated at some college. But many a boy who loi- 
 ters through university halls and then enters a 
 law office is by no means as well prepared to 
 prosecute his legal studies as was Millard Fill- 
 more when he graduated at the clothing-mill at 
 the end of four years of manual labor, during 
 which every leisure moment had been devoted to 
 intense mental culture. 
 
 In 1823, when twent3'-three 3'ears of age, he 
 was admitted to the Court of Common Pleas. 
 He then went to the village of Aurora, and com- 
 menced the practice of law. In this secluded, 
 quiet region, his practice, of course, was limited, 
 and there was no opportunity for a sudden rise in 
 fortune or in fame. Here, in 1826, he married a 
 lady of great moral worth, and one capable of 
 
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 MILLARD FILLMORE. 
 
 adorning any station she might be called to fill, — 
 Miss Abigail Powers. 
 
 His elevation of character, his untiring industry, 
 his legal acquirements, and his skill as an advo- 
 cate, gradually attracted attention, and he was 
 invited to enter into partnership, under highly ad- 
 vantageous circumstances, with an elder member 
 of the Bar in Buffalo. Just before removing to 
 Bu£falo, in 1829, he took his .seat in the House of 
 Assembly of the State of New York, as a Repre- 
 sentative from Erie County. Though he had 
 never taken a very active part in politics, his vote 
 and sympathies were with the Whig party. The 
 State was then Democratic, and he found himself 
 in a helpless minority in the Legiislature; still the 
 testimony comes from all parties that his courtesy, 
 ability and integrity won, to a very unusual de- 
 gree, the respect of his associates. 
 
 In the autumn of 1832, he was elected to a 
 seat in the United States Congress. He entered 
 that troubled arena in the most tumultuous hours 
 of our national history, when the great conflict 
 respecting the national bank and the removal of 
 the deposits was raging. 
 
 His term of two years closed, and he returned 
 to his profession, which he pursued with increas- 
 ing reputation and success. After a lapse of two 
 years he again became a candidate for Congress; 
 was re-elected, and took his seat in 1837. His 
 past experience as a Representative gave him 
 strength and confidence. The first term of service 
 in Congress to any man can be but little more 
 than an introduction. He was now prepared for 
 active duty. All his energies were brought to 
 bear upon the public good. Every measure re- 
 ceived his impress. 
 
 Mr. Fillmore was now a man of wide repute, 
 and his popularity filled the State. In the year 
 1847, when he had attained the age of forty- 
 seven years, he was elected Comptroller of the 
 State. His labors at the Bar, in the Legisla- 
 ture, in Congress and as Comptroller, had given 
 him very considerable fame. The Whigs were 
 casting about to find suitable candidates for Presi- 
 dent and Vice-President at the approaching elec- 
 tion. Far away on the waters of the Rio Grande, 
 there was a rough old soldier, who had fought 
 
 one or two successful battles with the Mexicans, 
 which had caused his name to be proclaimed in 
 trumpet-tones all over the land as a candidate for 
 the presidency. But it was necessary to associate 
 with him on the same ticket some man of repu- 
 tation as a statesman. 
 
 Under the influence of these considerations, the 
 names of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore 
 became the rallying-cry of the Whigs, as their 
 candidates for President and Vice-President. The 
 Whig ticket was signally triumphant. On the 
 4th of March, 1849, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated 
 President, and Millard Fillmore Vice-President, 
 of the United States. 
 
 On the 9th of July, 1850, President Taylor, 
 about one year and four months after his inaugura- 
 tion, was suddenly taken sick and died. By the 
 Constitution, Vice-President Fillmore thus be- 
 came President. He appointed a very able cabi- 
 net, of which the illustrious Daniel Webster was 
 Secretary of State; nevertheless, he had serious 
 difiiculties to contend with, since the opposition 
 had a majority in both Houses. He did all in his 
 power to conciliate the South; but the pro-slavery 
 party in the South felt the inadequacy of all 
 measures of transient conciliation. The popula- 
 tion of the free States was so rapidly increasing 
 over that of the slave States, that it was inevitable 
 that the power of the Government should soon 
 pass into the hands of the free States. The fa- 
 mous compromise measures were adopted under 
 Mr. Fillmore's administration, and the Japan ex- 
 pedition was sent out. On the 4th of March, 
 1853, he, having served one term, retired. 
 
 In 1856, Mr. Fillmore was nominated for the 
 Presidency by the "Know-Nothing" party, but 
 was beaten by Mr. Buchanan. After that Mr. 
 Fillmore lived in retirement. During the terri- 
 ble conflict of civil war, he was mostly .silent. It 
 was generally supposed that his sympathies were 
 rather with those who were endeavoring to over- 
 throw our institutions. President Fillmore kept 
 aloof from the conflict, without any cordial words 
 of cheer to one party or the other. He was thus 
 forgotten by both. He lived to a ripe old age, 
 and died in Buffalo, N. Y., March 8, 1874. 
 
FRANKLIN PIERCE. 
 
FRANKLIN PIERCE. 
 
 r"RANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteenth Presi- 
 rft dent of the United States, was bom in Hills- 
 I ^ borough, N. H., November 23, 1804. His 
 father was a Revolutionary soldier, who with his 
 own strong arm hewed out a home in the wilder- 
 ness. He was a man of inflexible integrity, of 
 strong, though uncultivated, mind, and was an un- 
 compromising Democrat. The mother of Frank- 
 lin Pierce was all that a son could desire — an in- 
 telligent, prudent, affectionate, Chri.stian woman. 
 
 Franklin, who was the sixth of eight children, 
 was a remarkably bright and handsome boy, 
 generous, warm-hearted and brave. He won 
 alike the love of old and young. The boys on 
 the play-ground loved him. His teachers loved 
 him. The neighbors looked upon him with pride 
 and affection. He was by instinct a gentleman, 
 always speaking kind words, and doing kind 
 deeds, with a peculiar, unstudied tact which 
 taught him what was agreeable. Without de- 
 veloping any precocity of genius, or any unnatural 
 devotion to books, he was a good scholar, and in 
 body and mind a finely developed boy. 
 
 When sixteen years of age, in the year 1820, 
 he entered Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me. 
 He was one of the most popular young men in 
 the college. The purity of his moral character, 
 the unvarying courtesy of his demeanor, his rank 
 as a scholar, and genial nature, rendered him a 
 universal favorite. There was something pe- 
 culiarly winning in his address, and it was evi- 
 dently not in the slightest degree studied — it was 
 the simple outgushing of his own magnanimous 
 and loving nature. 
 
 Upon graduating, in the year 1824, Franklin 
 Pierce commenced the study of law in the office 
 of Judge Woodbury, one of the most distinguished 
 
 lawyers of the State, and a man of great private 
 worth. The eminent social qualities of the young 
 lawyer, his father's prominence as a public man, 
 and the brilliant political career into which Judge 
 Woodbury was entering, all tended to entice Mr. 
 Pierce into the fascinating yet perilous path of 
 political life. With all the ardor of his nature he 
 espoused the cause of Gen. Jackson for the Presi- 
 dency. He commenced the practice of law in 
 Hillsborough, and was soon elected to represent 
 the town in the State Legislature. Here he 
 served for four years. The last two years he was 
 chosen Speaker of the House by a very large 
 vote. 
 
 In 1833, at the age of twenty-nine, he was 
 elected a member of Congress. In 1837, being 
 then but thirty-three years old, he was elected to 
 the Senate, taking his seat just as Mr. Van Buren 
 commenced his administration. He was the 
 youngest member in the Senate. In the year 
 1834, he married Miss Jane Means Appleton, a 
 lady of rare beauty and accomplishments, and one 
 admirably fitted to adorn every station with which 
 her husband was honored. Of the three sons who • 
 were born to them, all now sleep with their par- 
 ents in the grave. 
 
 In the year 1838, Mr. Pierce, with growing 
 fame and increasing busine.ss as a lawyer, took up 
 his residence in Concord, the capital of New 
 Hampshire. President Polk, upon his accession 
 to office, appointed Mr. Pierce Attorney-General 
 of the United States; but the offer was declined 
 in consequence of numerous professional engage- 
 ments at home, and the precarious state of Mrs. 
 Pierce's health. He also, about the same time, 
 declined the nomination for Governor by the 
 Democratic party. The war with Mexico called 
 
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 FRANKLIN PIERCE. 
 
 Mr. Pierce into the array. Receiving the appoint- 
 ment of Brigadier- General, he embarked with a 
 portion of his troops at Newport, R I., on the 
 27th of May, 1847. He took an important part 
 in this war, proving himself a brave and true sol- 
 dier. 
 
 When Gen. Pierce reached his home in his na- 
 tive State, he was received enthusiastically by the 
 advocates of the Mexican War, and coldly by his 
 opponents. He resumed the practice of his pro- 
 fession, very frequently taking an active part in 
 political questions, giving his cordial support to 
 the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic party. 
 The compromise measures met cordially with his 
 approval, and he strenuously advocated the en- 
 forcement of the infamous Fugitive Slave lyaw, 
 which so shocked the religious sensibilities of the 
 North. He thus became distinguished as a 
 ' ' Northern man with Southern principles. ' ' The 
 strong partisans of slavery in the South conse- 
 quently regarded him as a man whom they could 
 safely trust in office to carry out their plans. 
 
 On the 12th of June, 1852, the Democratic con- 
 vention met in Baltimore to nominate a candidate 
 for the Presidency. For four days they contin- 
 ued in session, and in thirty -five ballotings no one 
 had obtained a two-thirds vote. Not a vote thus 
 far had been thrown for Gen. Pierce. Then the 
 Virginia delegation brought forward his name. 
 There were fourteen more ballotings, during which 
 Gen. Pierce constantly gained strength, until, at 
 the forty-ninth ballot, he received two hundred 
 and eighty-two votes, and all other candidates 
 ' eleven. Gen. Winfield Scott was the Whig can- 
 didate. Gen. Pierce was chosen with great una- 
 nimity. Only four States — Vermont, Massachu- 
 setts, Kentucky and Tennessee — cast their elec- 
 toral votes against him. Gen. Franklin Pierce 
 was therefore inaugurated President of the United 
 States on the 4th of March, 1853. 
 
 His administration proved one of the most 
 stormy our country had ever experienced. The 
 controversy between slavery and freedom was 
 then approaching its culminating point. It be- 
 came evident that there was to be an irrepressible 
 conflict between them, and that this nation 
 could not long exist " half slave and half free." 
 
 Pre.sident Pierce, during the whole of his admin- 
 istration, did everything he could to conciliate the 
 South; but it was all in vain. The conflict every 
 year grew more violent, and threats of the disso- 
 lution of the Union were borne to the North on 
 every Southern breeze. 
 
 Such was the condition of affairs when Presi- 
 dent Pierce approached the close of his four- 
 years term of office. The North had become 
 thoroughly alienated from him. The anti-slavery 
 sentiment, goaded by great outrages, had been 
 rapidly increasing; all the intellectual ability and 
 social worth of President Pierce were forgotten in 
 deep reprehension of his administrative acts. The 
 slaveholders of the South also, unmindful of the 
 fidelity with which he had advocated those meas- 
 ures of Government which they approved, and 
 perhaps feeling that he had rendered himself 
 so unpopular as no longer to be able to accepta- 
 bly serve them, ungratefully dropped him, and 
 nominated James Buchanan to succeed him. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1857, President Pierce re- 
 turned to his home in Concord. His three chil- 
 dren were all dead, his last surviving child hav- 
 ing been killed before his eyes in a railroad acci- 
 dent; and his wife, one of the most estimable and 
 accomplished of ladies, was rapidly sinking in 
 consumption. The hour of dreadful gloom soon 
 came, and he was left alone in the world without 
 wife or child. 
 
 When the terrible Rebellion burst forth which, 
 divided our country into two parties, and two 
 only, Mr. Pierce remained steadfast in the prin- 
 ciples which he had always cherished, and gave 
 his sympathies to that pro-slaverj- party with 
 which he had ever been allied. He declined to 
 do anything, either by voice or pen, to strengthen 
 the hand of the National Government. He con- 
 tinued to reside in Concord until the time of his 
 death, which occurred in October, 1869. He was 
 one of the most genial and social of men, an hon- 
 ored communicant of the Episcopal Church, and 
 one of the kindest of neighbors. Generous to a 
 fault, he contributed liberally toward the allevia- 
 tion of suffering and want, and many of his 
 towns-people were often gladdened by his material 
 bounty. 
 
JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 
JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 
 (Tames BUCHANAN, the fifteenth President 
 I of the United States, was born in a small 
 (2/ frontier town, at the foot of the eastern ridge 
 of the AUeghanies, in Franklin County, Pa. , on 
 the 23d of April, 1791. The place where the 
 humble cabin home stood was called Stony Bat- 
 ter. His father was a native of the north of Ire- 
 land, who had emigrated in 1783, with little prop- 
 erty save his own strong arms. Five years after- 
 ward he married Elizabeth Spear, the daughter 
 of a respectable farmer, and, with his young bride, 
 plunged into the wilderness, staked his claim, 
 reared his log hut, opened a clearing with his 
 axe, and settled down there to perform his obscure 
 part in the drama of life. When James was eight 
 years of age, his father removed to the village of 
 Mercersburg, where his son was placed at school, 
 and commenced a course of study in English, 
 Latin and Greek. His progress was rapid, and 
 at the age of fourteen he entered Dickinson Col- 
 lege, at Carlisle. Here he developed remarkable 
 talent, and took his stand among the first scholars 
 in the institution. 
 
 In the year 1809, he graduated with the high- 
 est honors of his class. He was then eighteen 
 years of age; tall and graceful, vigorous in health, 
 fond of athletic sports, an unerring shot, and en- 
 livened with an exuberant flow of animal spirits, 
 lie immediately commenced the study of law in 
 the city of I<ancaster, and was admitted to the 
 Bar in 18 12, when he was but twenty-one years 
 of age. 
 
 In 1820, he reluctantly consented to run as a 
 candidate for Congress. He was elected, and for 
 ten years he remained a member of the Lower 
 House. During the vacations of Congress, he 
 
 occasionally tried some important case. In 1831 
 he retired altogether from the toils of his profes- 
 sion, having acquired an ample fortune. 
 
 Gen. Jackson, upon his elevation to the Presi- 
 dency, appointed Mr. Buchanan Minister to Rus- 
 sia. The duties of his mission he performed 
 with ability, and gave satisfaction to all parties. 
 Upon his return, in 1833, he was elected to a seat 
 in the United States Senate. He there met as 
 his associates Webster, Clay, Wright and Cal- 
 houn. He advocated the measures proposed by 
 President Jackson, of making reprisals against 
 France to enforce the payment of our claims 
 against that country, and defended the course of 
 the President in his unprecedented and wholesale 
 removal from ofiice of those who were not the 
 supporters of his administration. Upon this 
 question he was brought into direct collision with 
 Henry Clay. He also, with voice and vote, ad- 
 vocated expunging from the journal of the Senate 
 the vote of censure against Gen. Jackson for re- 
 moving the deposits. Earnestly he opposed the 
 abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, 
 and urged the prohibition of the circulation of 
 anti-slavery documents by the United States 
 mails. As to petitions on the subject of slavery, 
 he advocated that they should be respectfully re- 
 ceived, and that the reply should be returned 
 that Congress had no power to legislate upon the 
 subject. " Congress," said he, "might as well 
 undertake to interfere with slavery under a for- 
 eign government as in any of the States where it 
 now exists. ' ' 
 
 Upon Mr. Polk's accession to the Presidency, 
 Mr. Buchanan became Secretary of State, and as 
 such took his share of the responsibility in the 
 
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 JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 
 conduct of the Mexican War. Mr. Polk assumed 
 that crossing the Nueces by the American 
 troops into the disputed territory was not wrong, 
 but for the Mexicans to cross the Rio Grande 
 into Texas was a declaration of war. No candid 
 man can read -with pleasure the account of the 
 course our Government pursued in that movement. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan identified himself thoroughly 
 with the party devoted to the perpetuation and 
 extension of slavery, and brought all the energies 
 of his mind to bear against the Wilmot Proviso. 
 He gave his cordial approval to the compromise 
 measures of 1850, which included the Fugitive 
 Slave Law. Mr. Pierce, upon his election to the 
 Presidency, honored Mr. Buchanan with the mis- 
 sion to England. 
 
 In the year 1856, a national Democratic Con- 
 vention nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presi- 
 dency. The political conflict was one of the most 
 severe in which our country has ever engaged. 
 All the friends of slavery were on one side; all 
 the advocates of its restriction and final abolition 
 on the other. Mr. Fremont, the candidate of the 
 enemies of slavery, received one hundred and 
 fourteen electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan received 
 one hundred and seventy-four, and was elected. 
 The popular vote stood 1,340,618 for Fremont, 
 1,224,750 for Buchanan. On March 4, 1857, 
 the latter was inaugurated. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only 
 four years were wanting to fill up his three-score 
 years and ten. His own friends, those with 
 whom he had been allied in political principles 
 and action for years, were seeking the destruc- 
 tion of the Government, that they might rear 
 upon the ruins of our free institutions a nation 
 whose corner-stone should be human slavery. In 
 this emergency, Mr. Buchanan was hopelessly 
 bewildered. He could not, with his long-avowed 
 principles, consistently oppose the State Rights 
 party in their assumptions. As President of the 
 United States, bound by his oath faithfully to 
 administer the laws, he could not, without per- 
 jury of the grossest kind, unite with those en- 
 deavoring to overthrow the Republic. He there- 
 fore did nothing. 
 
 The opponents of Mr. Buchanan's administra- 
 
 tion nominated Abraham Lincoln as their stand- 
 ard-bearer in the next Presidential canvass. 
 The pro-slavery party declared that if he were 
 elected and the control of the Government were 
 thus taken from their hands, they would secede 
 from the Union, taking with them as they retired 
 the National Capitol at Washington and the 
 lion's share of the territory of the United States. 
 
 As the storm increased in violence, the slave- 
 holders claiming the right to secede, and Mr. 
 Buchanan avowing that Congress had no power 
 to prevent it, one of the most pitiable exhibitions 
 of governmental imbecility was exhibited that the 
 world has ever seen. He declared that Congress 
 had no power to enforce its laws in any State 
 which had withdrawn, or which was attempting 
 to withdraw, from the Union. This was not the 
 doctrine of Andrew Jackson, wheUj with his hand 
 upon his sword-hilt, he exclaimed: "The Union 
 must and shall be preserved!" 
 
 South Carolina seceded in December, i86o, 
 nearly three months before the inauguration of 
 President Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan looked on in 
 listless despair. The rebel flag was raised in 
 Charleston; Ft. Sumter was besieged; our forts, 
 navy-yards and arsenals were seized; our depots 
 of military stores were plundered, and our cus- 
 tom-houses and post-offices were appropriated by 
 the rebels. 
 
 The energy of the rebels and the imbecility of 
 our Executive were alike marvelous. The na- 
 tion looked on in agony, waiting for the slow 
 weeks to glide away and close the administration, 
 so terrible in its weakness. At length the long- 
 looked-for hour of deliverance came, when Abra- 
 ham Lincoln was to receive the scepter. 
 
 The administration of President Buchanan was 
 certainly the most calamitous our country has ex- 
 perienced. His best friends can not recall it with 
 pleasure. And still more deplorable it is for his 
 fame, that in that dreadful conflict which rolled 
 its billows of flame and blood over our whole 
 land, no word came from his lips to indicate his 
 wish that our country's banner should triumph 
 over the flag of the Rebellion. He died at his 
 Wheatland retreat, June i, 1868. 
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 Gl BRAHAM I^INCOLN, the sixteenth Presi- 
 r I dent of the United States, was born in Hardin 
 /I County, Ky., February 12, 1809. About 
 the year 1 780, a man by the name of Abraham 
 I/incohi left Virginia with his family and moved 
 into the then wilds of Kentucky. Only two years 
 after this emigration, and while still a young man, 
 he was working one day in a field, when an Indian 
 stealthily approached and killed him. His widow 
 was left in extreme poverty with five little chil- 
 dren, three boys and two girls. Thomas, the 
 youngest of the boys, and the father of President 
 Abraham lyincoln, was four years of age at his 
 father's death. 
 
 When twenty -eight years old, Thomas Lincoln 
 built a log cabin, and married Nancy Hanks, the 
 daughter of another family of poor Kentucky 
 emigrants, who had also come from Virginia. 
 Their second child was Abraham Lincoln, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was 
 a noble woman, gentle, loving, pensive, created 
 to adorn a palace, but doomed to toil and pine, and 
 die in a hovel. " All that I am, or hope to be," 
 exclaimed the grateful son, " I owe to my angel- 
 mother." When he was eight years of age, his 
 father sold his cabin and small farm and moved 
 to Indiana, where two years later his mother died. 
 
 As the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly 
 family was the usual lot of humanity. There 
 were joys and griefs, weddings and funerals. 
 Abraham's sister Sarah, to whom he was tenderly 
 attached, was married wheft a child of but four- 
 teen years of age, and soon died. The family 
 was gradually scattered, and Thomas Lincoln 
 6old out his squatter's claim in 1830, and emi- 
 grated to Macon County, 111. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was then twenty-one years 
 of age. With vigorous hands he aided his father 
 in rearing another log cabin, and worked quite 
 diligently at this until he saw the family com- 
 fortably settled, and their small lot of enclosed 
 prairie planted with corn, wheu he announced to 
 
 his father his intention to leave home, and to go 
 out into the world and seek his fortune. Little 
 did he or his friends imagine how brilliant that 
 fortune was to be. He saw the value of educa- 
 tion and was intensely earnest to improve his 
 mind to the utmost of his power. Religion he 
 revered. His morals were pure, and he was un- 
 contaminated by a single vice. 
 
 Young Abraham worked for a time as a hired 
 laborer among the farmers. Then he went to 
 Springfield, where he was employed in building 
 a large flat-boat. In this he took a herd of swine, 
 floated them down the Sanga'mon to Illinois, and 
 thence by the Mississippi to New Orleans. What- 
 ever Abraham Lincoln undertook, he performed 
 so faithfully as to give great satisfaction to his 
 employers. In this adventure the latter were 
 so well pleased, that upon his return they placed 
 a store and mill under his care. 
 
 In 1832, at the outbreak of the Black Hawk 
 War, he enlisted and was chosen Captain of a 
 company. He returned to Sangamon County, 
 and, although only twenty -three years of age, was 
 a candidate for the Legislature, but was defeated. 
 He soon after received from Andrew Jackson the 
 appointment of Postmaster of New Salem. His 
 only post-oflice was his hat. All the letters he 
 received he carried there, ready to deliver to those 
 he chanced to meet. He studied surveying, and 
 soon made this his business. In 1834 he again 
 became a candidate for the Legislature and was 
 elected. Mr. Stuart, of Springfield, advised him 
 to study law. He walked from New Salem to 
 Springfield, borrowed of Mr. Stuart a load of 
 books, carried them back, and began his legal 
 studies. When the Legislature assembled, he 
 trudged on foot with his pack on his back one 
 hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In 
 1836 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here 
 it was he first met Stephen A. Douglas. In 1839 
 he removed to Springfield and began the practice 
 of law. His success with the jury was so great 
 
So 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 that he was soon engaged in almost every noted 
 case in the circuit. 
 
 In 1854 the great discussion began between Mr. 
 Lincohi and Mr. Douglas on the slavery ques- 
 tion. In the organization of the Republican party 
 in Illinois, in 1856, he took an active part, and at 
 once became one of the leaders in that party. 
 Mr. Lincoln's speeches in opposition to Senator 
 Douglas in the contest in 1858 for a seat in the 
 Senate, form a most notable part of his history. 
 The issue was on the slavery question, and he 
 took the broad ground of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence, that all men are created equal. Mr. 
 Lincoln was defeated in this contest, but won a 
 far higher prize. 
 
 The great Republican Convention met at Chi- 
 cago on the 1 6th of June, i860. The delegates 
 and strangers who crowded the city amounted to 
 twenty-five thousand. An immense building 
 called ' ' The Wigwam, ' ' was reared to accommo- 
 date the convention. There were eleven candi- 
 dates for whom votes were thrown. William H. 
 Seward, a man whose fame as a statesman had 
 long filled the land, was the most prominent. It 
 was generally supposed he would be the nomi- 
 nee. Abraham Lincoln, however, received the 
 nomination on the third ballot. 
 
 Election day came, and Mr. Lincoln received 
 one hundred and eighty electoral votes out of two 
 hundred and three cast, and was, therefore, con- 
 stitutionally elected President of the United States. 
 The tirade of abuse that was poured upon this 
 good and merciful man, especially by the slave- 
 holders, was greater than upon any other man 
 ever elected to this high position. In February, 
 1861, Mr. Lincoln started for Washington, stop- 
 ping in all the large cities on his way, making 
 speeches. The whole journey was fraught with 
 much danger. Many of the Southern States had 
 already seceded, and several attempts at assassi- 
 nation were afterward brought to light. A gang 
 in Baltimore had arranged upon his arrival to 
 "get up a row," and in the confusion to make 
 sure of his death with revolvers and hand-gren- 
 ades. A detective unravelled the plot. A secret 
 and special train was provided to take him from 
 Harrisburg, through Baltimore, at an unexpected 
 
 hour of the night. The tram started at half-past 
 ten, and to prevent any possible communication 
 on the part of the Secessionists with their Con- 
 federate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train 
 had .started the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. 
 Lincoln reached Washington in safety and was 
 inaugurated, although great anxiety was felt by 
 all loyal people. 
 
 In the selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln gave 
 to Mr. Seward the Department of State, and to 
 other prominent opponents before the convention 
 he gave important positions; but during no other 
 administration had the duties devolving upon the 
 President been so manifold, and the responsibilities 
 .so great, as those which fell to his lot. Knowing 
 this, and feeling his own weakness and inability 
 to meet, and in his own strength to cope with, 
 the difficulties, he learned early to seek Divine 
 wisdom and guidance in determining his plans, 
 and Divine comfort in all his trials, both personal 
 and national. Contrary to his own estimate of 
 himself, Mr. Lincoln was one of the most cour- 
 ageous of men. He went directly into the rebel 
 capital just as the retreating foe was leaving, with 
 no guard but a few .sailors. From the time he 
 had left Springfield, in 1861, however, plans had 
 been made for his assassination, and he at last 
 fell a victim to one of them. April 14, 1865, he, 
 with Gen. Grant, was urgently invited to attend 
 Ford's Theatre. It was announced that they 
 would be present. Gen. Grant, however, left the 
 city. President Lincoln, feeling, with his char- 
 acteristic kindliness of heart, that it would be a 
 disappointment if he should fail them, very re- 
 luctantly consented to go. While listening to 
 the play, an actor by the name of John Wilkes 
 Booth entered the box where the President and 
 family were seated, and fired a bullet into his 
 brain. He died the next morning at seven 
 o'clock. 
 
 Never before in the history of the world was 
 a nation plunged into such deep grief by the death 
 of its ruler. Strong men met in the streets and 
 wept in speechless anguish. His was a life which 
 will fitly become a model. His name as the 
 Savior of his country will live with that of Wash- 
 ington's, its Father. 
 
ANDREW JOHNSON. 
 
ANDREW JOHNSON. 
 
 Gl NDREW JOHNSON, seventeenth President 
 LI of the United States. The early life of An- 
 / I drew Johnson contains but the record of pov- 
 erty , destitution and friendlessness. He was bom 
 December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, N. C. His par- 
 ents, belonging to the class of "poor whites" 
 of the South, were in such circumstances that they 
 could not confer even the slightest advantages of 
 education upon their child. When Andrew was 
 five years of age, his father accidentally lost his 
 life, while heroically endeavoring to save a friend 
 from drowning. Until ten years of age, Andrew 
 was a ragged boy about the streets, supported by 
 the labor of his mother, who obtained her living 
 with her own hands. 
 
 He then, having never attended a school one 
 day, and being unable either to read or write, was 
 apprenticed to a tailor in his native town. A gen- 
 tleman was in the habit of going to the tailor's 
 shop occasionally, and reading to the boys at 
 work there. He often read from the .speeches of 
 distinguished British statesmen. Andrew, who 
 was endowed with a mind of more than ordinary 
 ability, became much interested in these .speeches; 
 his ambition was roused, and he was iaspired with 
 a strong desire to learn to read. 
 
 He accordingly applied himself to the alphabet, 
 and with the assistance of some of his fellow- 
 workmen learned his letters. He then called upon 
 the gentleman to borrow the book of speeches. 
 The owner, pleased with his zeal, not only gave 
 him the book, but assisted him in learning to com- 
 bine the letters into words. Under such difficul- 
 ties he pressed onward laboriously, spending usu- 
 ally ten or twelve hours at work in the shop, and 
 then robbing himself of rest and recreation to de- 
 vote such time as he could to reading. 
 
 He went to Tennessee in 1826, and located at 
 
 Greenville, where he married a young lady who 
 possessed some education. Under her instructions 
 he learned to write and cipher. He became 
 prominent in the village debating society, and a 
 favorite with the students of Greenville College. 
 In 1828, he organized a working man's party, 
 which elected him Alderman, and in 1830 elected 
 him Mayor, which position he held three years. 
 
 He now began to take a lively interest in 
 political affairs, identifying himself with the work- 
 ing-class, to which he belonged. In 1835, he 
 was elected a member of the House of Represent- 
 atives of Tennessee. He was then just twenty- 
 seven years of age. He became a very active 
 member of the Legislature, gave his support to 
 the Democratic party, and in 1840 "stumped the 
 State," advocating Martin Van Buren's claims to 
 the Presidency, in opposition to those of Gen. 
 Harrison. In this campaign he acquired much 
 readiness as a speaker, and extended and increased 
 his reputation. 
 
 In 1 84 1, he was elected State Senator; in 1843, 
 he was elected a Member of Congress, and by suc- 
 cessive elections held that important post for ten 
 years. In 1 853, he was elected Governor of Tenn- 
 essee, and was re-elected in 1855. In all these 
 responsible positions, he discharged his duties 
 with distinguished ability, and proved himself the 
 warm friend of the working classes. In 1857, Mr. 
 Johnson was elected United States Senator. 
 
 Years before, in 1845, he had warmly advocated 
 the annexation of Texas, stating, however, as his 
 reason, that he thought this annexation would 
 probably prove ' 'to be the gateway out of which 
 the sable sons of Africa are to pass from bondage 
 to freedom, and become merged in a population 
 congenial to themselves." In 1850, he also sup- 
 ported the compromise measures, the two essen- 
 
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 ANDREW JOHNSON. 
 
 tial features of which were, that the white people 
 of the Territories should be permitted to decide 
 for themselves whether they would enslave the 
 colored people or not, and that the free States of 
 the North should return to the South persons who 
 attempted to escape from slavery. 
 
 Mr. Johnson was never ashamed of his lowly 
 origin: on the contrary, he often took pride in 
 avowing that he owed his distinction to his own 
 exertions. ' 'Sir, ' ' said he on the floor of the 
 Senate, "I do not forget that I am a mechanic; 
 neither do I forget that Adam was a tailor and 
 sewed fig-leaves, and that our Savior was the son 
 of a carpenter. ' ' 
 
 In the Charleston-Baltimore convention of i860, 
 he was the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for 
 the Presidency. In 1861, when the purpose of 
 the Southern Democracy became apparent, he took 
 a decided stand in favor of the Union, and held 
 that "slavery must be held .subordinate to the 
 Union at whatever cost. ' ' He returned to Tenn- 
 essee, and repeatedly imperiled his own life to 
 protect the Unionists of that State. Tennessee 
 having seceded from the Union, President Lincoln, 
 on March 4, 1862, appointed him Military Gov- 
 ernor of the State, and he established the most 
 stringent military rule. His numerous proclama- 
 tions attracted wide attention. In 1864, he was 
 elected Vice-President of the United States, and 
 upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April 15, 1865, 
 became President. In a speech two days later he 
 said, "The American people must be taught, if 
 they do not already feel, that treason is a crime 
 and must be punished; that the Government will 
 not always bear with its enemies; that it is strong 
 not only to protect, but to punish. * * The 
 people must understand that it (treason) is the 
 blackest of crimes, and will surely be punished. ' ' 
 Yet his whole administration, the history of which 
 is so well known, was in utter inconsistency with, 
 and in the most violent opposition to, the princi- 
 ples laid down in that speech. 
 
 In his loose policy of reconstruction and general 
 amnesty, he was opposed by Congress, and he 
 characterized Congress as a new rebellion, and 
 lawlessly defied it in everything possible to the ut- 
 most. In the beginning of 1868, on account of 
 
 "High crimes and misdemeanors," the principal 
 of which was the removal of Secretary Stanton in 
 violation of the Tenure of Office Act, articles of 
 impeachment were preferred against him, and the 
 trial began March 23. 
 
 It was very tedious, continuing for nearl}' three 
 months. A test article of the impeachment was 
 at length submitted to the court for its action. It 
 was certain that as the court voted upon that ar- 
 ticle so would it vote upon all . Thirty-four voices 
 pronounced the President guilty. As a two-thirds 
 vote was necessary to his condemnation, he was 
 pronounced acquitted, notwithstanding the great 
 majority against him. The change of one vote 
 from the not guilty side would have sustained the 
 impeachment. 
 
 The President, for the remainder of his term, 
 was but little regarded. He continued, though 
 impotently, his conflict with Congress. His own 
 party did not think it expedient to renominate 
 him for the Presidency. The Nation rallied with 
 enthusiasm, unparalleled since the days of Wash- 
 ington, aroinid the name of Gen. Grant. Andrew 
 Johnson was forgotten. The bullet of the assassin 
 introduced him to the President's chair. Not- 
 withstanding this, never was there presented to a 
 man a better opportunity to immortalize his name, 
 and to win the gratitude of a nation. He failed 
 utterly. He retired to his home in Greenville, 
 Tenn., taking no very active part in politics until 
 1875. On January 26, after an exciting struggle, 
 he was chosen by the Legislature of Tennessee 
 United States Senator in the Forty-fourth Congess, 
 and took his seat in that body, at the special ses- 
 sion convened by President Grant, on the 5th of 
 March. On the 27th of July, 1875, the ex-Presi- 
 dent made a visit to his daughter's home, near 
 Carter Station, Tenn. When he started on his 
 journey, he was apparently in his usual vigorous 
 health, but on reaching the residence of his child 
 the following day, he was stricken with paralysis, 
 which rendered him unconscious. He rallied oc- 
 casionally, but finally passed away at 2 a. m., 
 July 3 1 , aged sixty-seven years. His funeral was 
 held at Greenville, on the 3d of August, with 
 every demonstration of respect. 
 
ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
 
ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
 
 HIvYSSES S. GRANT, the eighteenth Presi- 
 dent of the United States, was born on the 
 29th of April, 1822, of Christian parents, in 
 a humble home at Point Pleasant, on the banks 
 of the Ohio. Shortly after, his father moved to 
 Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio. In this re- 
 mote frontier hamlet, Ulysses received a common- 
 school education. At the age of seventeen, in 
 the year 1839, he entered the Military Academy 
 at West Point. ;Here he was regarded as a solid, 
 sensible young man, of fair ability, and of sturdy, 
 honest character. He took respectable rank as a 
 scholar. In June, 1843, he graduated about the 
 middle in his class, and was sent as Lieutenant of 
 Infantry to one of the distant military posts in the 
 Missouri Territory. Two years he passed in these 
 dreary solitudes, watching the vagabond Indians. 
 
 The war with Mexico came. lyieut. Grant was 
 sent with his regiment to Corpus Christi. His 
 first battle was at Palo Alto. There was no 
 chance here for the exhibition of either skill or 
 heroism, nor at Resaca de la Palma, his second 
 battle. At the battle of Monterey, his third en- 
 gagement, it is said that he performed a signal 
 service of daring and skillful horsemanship. 
 
 At the close of the Mexican War, Capt. Grant 
 returned with his regiment to New York, and 
 was again .sent to one of the military posts on the 
 frontier. The discovery of gold in California 
 causing an immense tide of emigration to flow to 
 the Pacific shores, Capt. Grant was sent with a 
 battalion to Ft. Dallas, in Oregon, for the protec- 
 tion of the interests of the immigrants. But life 
 was wearisome in those wilds, and he resigned 
 his commission and returned to the States. Hav- 
 ing married, he entered upon the cultivation of a 
 small farm near St. Louis, Mo., but having little 
 
 skill as a farmer, and finding his toil not re- 
 munerative, he turned to mercantile life, entering 
 into the leather business, with a younger brother 
 at Galena, 111. This was in the year i860. As 
 the tidings of the rebels firing on Ft. Sumter 
 reached the ears of Capt. Grant in his counting- 
 room, he said: "Uncle Sam has educated me 
 for the army; though I have served him through 
 one war, I do not feel that I have yet repaid the 
 debt. I am still ready to discharge my obliga- 
 tions. I shall therefore buckle on my .sword and 
 see Uncle Sam through this war too. ' ' 
 
 He went into the streets, raised a company of 
 volunteers, and led them as their Captain to 
 Springfield, the capital of the State, where their 
 services were offered to Gov. Yates. The Gov- 
 ernor, impressed by the zeal and straightforward 
 executive ability of Capt. Grant, gave him a desk 
 in his office to assist in the volunteer organiza- 
 tion that was being formed in the State In behalf 
 of the Government. On the 15th of June, 1861, 
 Capt. Grant received a commission as Colonel of 
 the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. 
 His merits as a West Point graduate, who had 
 served for fifteen years in the regular army, were 
 such that he was soon promoted to the rank of 
 Brigadier-General, and was placed in command at 
 Cairo. The rebels raised their banner at Padu- 
 cah, near the mouth of the Tennessee River. 
 Scarcely had its folds appeared in the breeze ere 
 Gen. Grant was there. The rebels fled, their 
 banner fell, and the Stars and Stripes were un- 
 furled in its stead. 
 
 He entered the service with great determina- 
 tion and immediately began active duty. This 
 was the beginning, and until the surrender of 
 Lee at Richmond he was ever pushing the enemy 
 
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 ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
 
 with great vigor and effectiveness. At Belmont, 
 a few days later, he surprised and routed the 
 rebels, then at Ft. Henry won another victory. 
 Then came the brilliant fight at Ft. Donelson. 
 The nation was electrified by the victory, and the 
 brave leader of the boys in blue was immediately 
 made a Major-General, and the military district 
 of Tennessee was assigned to him. 
 
 Like all great captains. Gen. Grant knew well 
 how to secure the results of victory. He imme- 
 diately pushed on to the enemies' lines. Then 
 came the terrible battles of Pittsburg Landing, 
 Corinth, and the siege of Vicksburg, where Gen. 
 Pemberton made an unconditional surrender of 
 the city with over thirty thousand men and one 
 hundred and seventy-two cannon. The fall of 
 Vicksburg was by far the most severe blow which 
 the rebels had thus far encountered, and opened 
 up the Mississippi from Cairo to the Gulf. 
 
 Gen. Grant was next Ordered to co-operate with 
 Gen. Banks in a movement upon Texas, and pro- 
 ceeded to New Orleans, where he was thrown 
 from his horse, and received severe injuries, from 
 which he was laid up for months. He then 
 rushed to the aid of Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas 
 at Chattanooga, and by a wonderful series of 
 strategic and technical measures put the Union 
 army in fighting condition. Then followed the 
 bloody battles at Chattanooga, Lookout Moun- 
 tain and Missionary Ridge, in which the rebels 
 were routed with great loss. This won for him 
 unbounded praise in the North. On the 4th of 
 February, 1864, Congress revived the grade of 
 lieutenant-general, and the rank was conferred 
 on Gen. Grant. He repaired to Washington to 
 receive his credentials and enter upon the duties 
 of his new office. 
 
 Gen. Grant decided as soon as he took charge 
 of the army to concentrate the widely-dispersed 
 National troops for an attack upon Richmond, 
 the nominal capital of the rebellion, and endeavor 
 there to destroy the rebel armies which would be 
 promptly assembled from all quarters for its de- 
 fense. The whole continent seemed to tremble 
 under the tramp of these majestic armies, rushing 
 to the decisive battle-field. Steamers were crowd- 
 ed with troops. Railway trains were burdened 
 
 with closely -packed thousands. His plans were 
 comprehensive, and involved a series of cam- 
 paigns, which "were executed with remarkable 
 energy and ability, and were consummated at the 
 surrender of Lee, April 9, 1865. 
 
 The war was ended. The Union was saved. 
 The almost unanimous voice of the nation de- 
 clared Gen. Grant to be the most prominent in- 
 strument in its salvation. The eminent services 
 he had thus rendered the country brought him 
 conspicuously forward as the Republican candi- 
 date for the Presidential chair. 
 
 At the Republican Convention held at Chicago, 
 May 21, 1868, he was unanimously nominated 
 for the Presidency, and at the autumn election 
 received a majority of the popular vote, and two 
 hundred and fourteen out of two hundred and 
 ninety-four electoral votes. 
 
 The National Convention of the Republican 
 party, which met at Philadelphia on the 5th ot 
 June, 1872, placed Gen. Grant in nomination for 
 a second term by a unanimous vote. The selec- 
 tion was emphatically indorsed by the people five 
 months later, two hundred and ninety-two elect- 
 oral votes being cast for him. 
 
 Soon after the close of his second term. Gen. 
 Grant started upon his famous trip around the 
 world. He visited almost every country of the 
 civilized world, and was everywhere received 
 with such ovations and demonstrations of respect 
 and honor, private as well as public and oflScial, 
 as were never before bestowed upon any citizen 
 of the United States. 
 
 He was the most prominent candidate before 
 the Republican National Convention in 1880 for 
 a renomination for President. He went to New 
 York and embarked in the brokerage business 
 under the firm name of Grant & Ward. The 
 latter proved a villain, wrecked Grant's fortune, 
 and for larceny was sent to the penitentiary. 
 The General was attacked with cancer in the 
 throat, but suffered in his stoic-like manner, never 
 complaining. He was re-instated as General of 
 the Armj', and retired by Congress. The cancer 
 soon finished its deadly work, and July 23, 1885, 
 the nation went in mourning over the death 01 
 the illustrious General. 
 
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 
 
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 
 
 RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, the nineteenth 
 President of the United States, was born in 
 Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822, almost 
 three months after the death of his father, Ruther- 
 ford Hayes. His ancestrj' on both the paternal and 
 maternal sides was of the most honorable char- 
 acter. It can be traced, it is said, as far back as 
 1280, when Hayes and Rutherford were two 
 Scottish chieftains, fighting side by sjde with 
 Baliol, William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Both 
 families belonged to the nobility, owned extensive 
 estates, and had a large following. Misfortune 
 overtaking the family, George Hayes left Scotland 
 in 1680, and settled in Windsor, Conn. His son 
 George was born in Windsor, and remained there 
 during his life. Daniel Hayes, son of the latter, 
 married Sarah lyee, and lived from the time of 
 his marriage until his death in Simsbury, Conn. 
 Ezekiel, son of Daniel, was born in 1724, and was 
 a manufacturer of scythes at Bradford, Conn. 
 Rutherford Hayes, son of Ezekiel and grandfather 
 of President Hayes, was born in New Haven, in 
 August, 1756. He was a farmer, blacksmith and 
 tavern-keeper. He emigrated to Vermont at an 
 unknown date, settling in Brattleboro, where he 
 established a hotel. Here his son, Rutherford 
 Hayes, the father of President Hayes, was born. 
 He was married, in September, 18 13, to Sophia 
 Birchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors 
 emigrated thither from Connecticut, they having 
 been among the wealthiest and best families of 
 Norwich. Her ancestry on the male side is 
 traced back to 1635, to John Birchard, one of the 
 principal founders of Norwich. Both of her grand- 
 fathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. 
 
 The father of President Hayes was an industri- 
 ous, frugal, yet open-hearted man. He was of a 
 
 mechanical turn of mind, and could mend a plow, 
 knit a stocking, or do almost anything else that 
 he chose to undertake. He was a member of the 
 church, active in all the benevolent enterprises 
 of the town, and conducted his business on Chris- 
 tian principles. After the close of the War of 
 i8i2, for reasons inexplicable to his neighbors, he 
 resolved to emigrate to Ohio. 
 
 The journey from Vermont to Ohio in that day, 
 when there were no canals, steamers, or rail- 
 ways, was a very serious affair. A tour of in- 
 spection was first made, occupying four months. 
 Mr. Hayes decided to move to Delaware, where 
 the family arrived in 181 7. He died July 22, 
 1822, a victim of malarial fever, less than three 
 months before the birth of the son of whom we 
 write. Mrs. Hayes, in her sore bereavement, 
 found the support she so much needed in her 
 brother Sardis, who had been a member of the 
 household from the day of its departure from 
 Vermont, and in an orphan girl, whom she had 
 adopted some time before as an act of charity. 
 
 Rutherford was seven years old before he went 
 to school. His education, however, was not neg- 
 lected. He probably learned as much from his 
 mother and sister as he would have done at 
 school. His sports were almost wholly within 
 doors, his playmates being his sister and her asso- 
 ciates. These circumstances tended, no doubt, to 
 foster that gentleness of disposition and that del- 
 icate consideration for the feelings of others which 
 were marked traits of his character. 
 
 His uncle, Sardis Birchard, took the deepest 
 interest in his education; and as the boy's health 
 had improved, and he was making good progress 
 in his studies, he proposed to send him to college. 
 His preparation commenced with a tutor at home; 
 
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 RUTHKRFORD.B. HAYES. 
 
 but he was afterwards sent for one year to a pro- 
 fessor in the Wesleyan University in Middletown, 
 Conn. He entered Kenyon College in 1838, at 
 the age of sixteen, and was graduated at the head 
 of his- class in 1842. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation he began the 
 study of law in the office of Thomas Sparrow, 
 Esq., in Columbus. Finding his opportunities 
 for study in Columbus somewhat limited, he de- 
 termined to enter the Law School at Cambridge, 
 Mass., where he remained two years. « 
 
 In 1845, after graduating at the Law School, he 
 was admitted to the Bar at Marietta, Ohio, and 
 shortly afterward went into practice as an at- 
 torney-at-law with Ralph P. Buckland, of Fre- 
 mont. Here he remained three years, acquiring 
 but a limited practice, and apparently unambitious 
 of distinction in his profession. 
 
 In 1849 he moved to Cincinnati, where his am- 
 bition found a new stimulus. For several years, 
 however, his progress was slow. Two events 
 occurring at this period had a powerful influence 
 upon his subsequent life. One of these was his 
 marriage with Miss Lucy Ware Webb, daughter 
 of Dr. James Webb, of Chillicothe; the other was 
 his introduction to the Cincinnati Literary Club, 
 a body embracing among its members such men 
 as Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Gen. John 
 Pope, Gov. Edward F. Noyes, and many others 
 hardly less distinguished in after life. The mar- 
 riage was a fortunate one in every respect, as 
 everybody knows. Not one of all the wives of 
 our Presidents was more universally admired, 
 reverenced and beloved than was Mrs. Hayes, and 
 no one did more than she to reflect honor upon 
 American womanhood. The LiteraryClub brought 
 Mr. Hayes into constant association with young 
 men of high character and noble aims, and lured 
 him to display the qualities so long hidden by his 
 bashfulness and modesty. 
 
 In 1856 he was nominated to the ofiice of Judge 
 of the Court of Common Pleas, but he declined to 
 accept the nomination. Two years later, the of- 
 fice of City Solicitor becoming vacant, the City 
 Council elected him for the unexpired term. 
 
 In 1861, when the Rebellion broke out, he was 
 at the zenith of his professional life. His rank at 
 
 the Bar was among the first. But the news of 
 the attack on Ft. Sumter found him eager to 
 take up arms for the defense of his country. 
 
 His military record was bright and illustrious. 
 In October, 1861, he was made Lieutenant- Colo- 
 nel, and in August, 1862, promoted Colonel of 
 the Seventy-ninth Ohio Regiment, but he refused 
 to leave his old comrades and go among strangers. 
 Subsequently, however, he was made Colonel of 
 his old regiment. At the battle of South Moun- 
 tain he received a wound, and while faint and 
 bleeding di.splayed courage and fortitude that 
 won admiration from all. 
 
 Col. Hayes was detached from his regiment, 
 after his recovery, to act as Brigadier-General, 
 and placed in command of the celebrated Kanawha 
 division, and for gallant and meritorious services 
 in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and 
 Cedar Creek, he was promoted Brigadier-General. 
 He was also breveted Major-General, "for gallant 
 and distinguished services during the campaigns 
 of 1864, in West Virginia." In the course of his 
 arduous services, four horses were shot from un- 
 der him, and he was wounded four times. 
 
 In 1864, Gen. Hayes was elected to Congress 
 from the Second Ohio District, which had long 
 been Democratic. He was not present during the 
 campaign, and after the election was importuned 
 to resign his commission in the army; but he fi- 
 nally declared, ' ' I shall never come to Washing- 
 ton until I can come by way of Richmond." He 
 was re-elected in 1866. 
 
 In 1867, Gen. Hayes was elected Governor of 
 Ohio, over Hon. Allen G. Thurman, a popular 
 Democrat, and in 1869 was re-elected over George 
 H. Pendleton. He was elected Governor for the 
 third term in 1875. 
 
 In 1876 he was the standard-bearer of the Re- 
 publican party in the Presidential contest, and 
 after a hard, long contest was chosen President, 
 and was inaugurated Monday, March 5, 1877. 
 He served his full term, not, however, with satis- 
 faction to his party, but his administration was an 
 average one. The remaining years of his life 
 were passed quietly in his Ohio home, where he 
 passed away January 17, 1893. 
 
JAMES A. GARFIELD. 
 
JAMES A. GARFIELD. 
 
 (f AMES A. GARFIELD, twentieth President 
 I of the United States, was born November 19, 
 v2/ 1 83 1, ill the woods of Orange, Cuyahoga 
 County, Ohio. His parents were Abram and 
 Eliza (Ballon) Garfield, both of New England 
 ancestry, and from families well known in the 
 early history of that section of our countrj', but 
 who had moved to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, 
 early in its settlement. 
 
 The house in which James A. was born was 
 not unlike the houses of poor Ohio farmers of 
 that day. It was about 20 x 30 feet, built of logs, 
 with the spaces-between the logs filled with clay. 
 His father was a hard-working farmer, and he 
 soon had his fields cleared, an orchard planted, 
 and a log barn built. The household comprised 
 the father and mother and their four children, 
 Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and James. In May, 
 1823, the father died from a cold contracted in 
 helping to put out a forest fire. At this time 
 James was about eighteen months old, and 
 Thomas about ten years old. No one, perhaps, 
 can tell how much James was indebted to his 
 brother's toil and self-sacrifice during the twenty 
 years succeeding his father's death. He now 
 lives in Michigan, and the two sisters live in Solon, 
 Ohio, near their birthplace. 
 
 The early educational advantages young Gar- 
 field enjoyed were very limited, yet he made the 
 most of them. He labored at farm work for 
 others, did carpenter work, chopped wood, or did 
 anything that would bring in a few dollars to aid 
 his widowed mother in her struggles to keep the 
 little family together. Nor was Gen. Garfield 
 ever ashamed of his origin, and he never forgot 
 the friends of his struggling childhood, youth and 
 manhood; neither did they ever forget him. 
 When in the highest seats of honor, the humblest 
 friend of his boyhood was as kindly greeted as 
 ever. The poorest laborer was sure of the sym- 
 pathy of one who had known all the bitterness of 
 
 want and the sweetness of bread earned by the 
 sweat of the brow. He was ever the simple, 
 plain, modest gentleman. 
 
 The highest ambition of young Garfield until 
 he was about sixteen years old was to be cap- 
 tain of a vessel on Lake Erie. He was anxious 
 to go aboard a vessel, but this his mother strongly 
 opposed. She finally consented to his going to 
 Cleveland, with the understanding, however, that 
 he should try to obtain some other kind of em- 
 ployment. He walked all the way to Cleveland. 
 This was his first visit to the city. After making 
 many applications for work, and trying to get 
 aboard a lake vessel and not meeting with suc- 
 cess, he engaged as a driver for his cousin, Amos 
 Letcher, on the Ohio & Pennsylvania Canal. 
 He remained at this work but a short time, when 
 he went home, and attended the seminary at 
 Chester for about three years. He then entered 
 Hiram and the Eclectic Institute, teaching a few 
 terms of school in the mean time, and doing other 
 work. This school was started by the Disciples 
 of Christ in 1850, of which body he was then a 
 member. He became janitor and bell-ringer in 
 order to help pay his way. He then became both 
 teacher and pupil. Soon " exhausting Hiram," 
 and needing a higher education, in the fall of 1854 
 he entered Williams College, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1856, taking one of the highest honors of 
 his class. He afterwards returned to Hiram Col- 
 lege as its President. As above stated, he early 
 united with the Christian, or Disciples, Church at 
 Hiram, and was ever after a devoted, zealous 
 member, often preaching in its pulpit and places 
 where he happened to be. 
 
 Mr. Garfield was united in marriage, Novem- 
 ber II, 1858, with Miss Lucretia Rudolph, who 
 proved herself worthy as the wife of one whom 
 all the world loved. To them were born seven 
 children, five of whom are still living, 4onr boys 
 and one girl. 
 
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 JAMES A. GARFIELD. 
 
 Mr. Garfield made his first political speeches in 
 1856, in Hiram and the neighboring villages, and 
 three years later he began to speak at county 
 mass-meetings, and became the favorite speaker 
 wherever he was. During this year he was 
 elected to the Ohio Senate. He also began to 
 study law at Cleveland, and in 186 1 was admitted 
 to the Bar. The great Rebellion broke out in the 
 early part of this year, and Mr. Garfield at once 
 resolved to fight as he had talked, and enlisted to 
 defend the Old Flag. He received his commission 
 as Lieutenant- Colonel of the Forty-second Regi- 
 ment of Ohio Infantry August 14, 1861. He 
 was immediately put into active service, and be- 
 fore he had ever seen a gun fired in action, was 
 placed in command of four regiments of infantrj' 
 and eight companies of cavalry, charged with the 
 work of driving out of his native State the able 
 rebel officer, Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky. 
 This work was bravely and speedily accomplished, 
 although against great odds, and President Lin- 
 coln commissioned him Brigadier- General, Janu- 
 ary 10, 1862; and "as he had been the youngest 
 man in the Ohio Senate two years before, so now 
 he was the youngest General in the army." He 
 was with Gen. Buell's army at Shiloh, in its 
 operations around Corinth and its march through 
 Alabama. He was then detailed as a member of 
 the general court martial for the trial of Gen. 
 Fitz-John Porter. He was next ordered to re- 
 port to Gen. Rosecrans, and was assigned to the 
 " Chief of Staff'." The military history of Gen. 
 Garfield closed with his brilliant services at Chick- 
 amauga, where he won the rank of Major-General. 
 
 Without an effort on his part, Gen. Garfield 
 was elected to Congress in the fall of 1862, from 
 the Nineteenth District of Ohio. This section of 
 Ohio had been represented in Congress for sixty 
 years mainly by two men — Elisha Whittlesey and 
 Joshua R. Giddings. It was not without a strug- 
 gle that he resigned his place in the army. At 
 the time he entered Congress he was the youngest 
 member in that body. There he remained by 
 successive re-elections until he was elected Presi- 
 dent, in 1880. Of his labors in Congress, Senator 
 Hoar says: "Since the year 1864 you cannot 
 think of a question which has been debated in 
 
 Congress, or discussed before a tribunal of the 
 American people, in regard to which you will not 
 find, if you wish instruction, the argument on 
 one side stated, in almost every instance better 
 than by anybody else, in some speech made in 
 the House of Representatives or on the hustings 
 by Mr. Garfield." 
 
 Upon January 14, 1880, Gen. Garfield was elect- 
 ed to the United States Senate, and on the 8th of 
 June, of the same year, was nominated as the 
 candidate of his party for President at the great 
 Chicago Convention. He was elected in the fol- 
 lowing November, and on March 4, 188 1, was 
 inaugurated. Probably no administration ever 
 opened its existence under brighter auspices than 
 that of President Garfield, and every day it grew 
 in favor with the people. By the ist of July 
 he had completed all the initiatory and prelimi- 
 nary work of his administration, and was prepar- 
 ing to leave the city to meet his friends at Will- 
 iams College. While on his way and at the 
 depot, in company with Secretary Blaine, a man 
 stepped behind him, drew a revolver, and fired 
 directly at his back. The President tottered and 
 fell, and as he did so the assassin fired a second 
 shot, the bullet cutting the left coat sleeve of his 
 victim, but inflicting no further injury. It has 
 been very truthfully said that this was ' ' the shot 
 that was heard around the world. ' ' Never before 
 in the history of the nation had anything occur- 
 red which so nearly froze the blood of the people 
 for the moment as this awful deed. He was 
 smitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his 
 life, at the summit of his power and hope. For 
 eighty days, all during the hot months of July 
 and August, he lingered and suffered. He, how- 
 ever, remained master of himself till the last, and 
 by his magnificent bearing taught the country 
 and the world one of the noblest of human les- 
 sons — how to live grandly in the very clutch of 
 death. Great in life, he was surpassingly great 
 in death. He passed serenelj^ away September 
 19, 1883, at Elberon, N. J., on the very bank of 
 the ocean, where he had been taken shortly be- 
 fore. The world wept at his death, as it rarely 
 ever had done on the death of any other great 
 and noble man. 
 
CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 
 
CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 
 
 E HESTER A. ARTHUR, twenty-first Presi- 
 dent of the United States, was. born in Frank- 
 lin County, Vt., on the 5th day of October, 
 1830, and was the eldest of a family of two sons 
 and five daughters. His father was the Rev. Dr. 
 William Arthur, a Baptist clergyman, who emi- 
 grated to this country from County Antrim, Ire- 
 land, in his eighteenth year, and died in 1875, in 
 Newtonville, near Albany, after a long and suc- 
 cessful ministry.' 
 
 Young Arthur was educated at Union College, 
 Schenectady, where he excelled in all his studies. 
 Alter his graduation he taught school in Ver- 
 mont for two years, and at the expiration of that 
 time came to New York, with $500 in his pocket, 
 and entered the office of ex -Judge E. D. Culver 
 as a student. After being admitted to the Bar, he 
 formed a partnership with his intimate friend and 
 room-mate, Henry D. Gardiner, with the inten- 
 tion of practicing in the West, and for three 
 months they roamed about in the Western States 
 in search of an eligible site, but in the end re- 
 turned to New York, where they hung out their 
 shingle, and entered upon a successful career al- 
 most from the start. Gen. Arthur soon after mar- 
 ried the daughter of L,ieut. Herndon, of the 
 United States Navy, who was lost at sea. Con- 
 gress voted a gold medal to his widow in recog- 
 nition of the bravery he displayed on that occa- 
 sion. Mrs. Arthur died shortly before Mr. 
 Arthur's nomination to the Vice-Presidency, leav- 
 ing two children. 
 
 Gen. Arthur obtained considerable legal celeb- 
 rity in his first great case, the famous Lemmon 
 suit, brought to recover possession of eight slaves 
 who had been declared free by Judge Paine, of 
 the Superior Court of New York City. It was in 
 
 1852 that Jonathan Lemmon, of Virginia, went to 
 New York with his slaves, intending to ship them 
 to Texas, when they were discovered and freed. 
 The Judge decided that they could not be held by 
 the owner under the Fugitive Slave Law. A howl 
 of rage went up from the South, and the Virginia 
 Legislature authorized the Attorney-General of 
 that State to assist in an appeal. William M. 
 Evarts and Chester A. Arthur were employed to 
 represent the people, and they won their case, 
 which then went to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. Charles O' Conor here espoused 
 the cause of the slaveholders, but he, too, was 
 beaten by Messrs. Evarts and Arthur, and a long 
 step was taken toward the emancipation of the 
 black race. 
 
 Another great service was rendered by Gen. 
 Arthur in the same cause in 1856. Lizzie Jen- 
 nings, a respectable colored woman, was put off 
 a Fourth Avenue car with violence after she had 
 paid her fare. Gen. Arthur sued on her behalf, 
 and secured a verdict of $500 damages. The next 
 day the company issued an order to admit colored 
 persons to ride on their cars, and the other car 
 companies quickly followed their example. Be- 
 fore that the Sixth Avenue Company ran a few 
 special cars for colored persons, and the other lines 
 refused to let them ride at all. 
 
 Gen. Arthur was a delegate to the convention 
 at Saratoga that founded the Republican party. 
 Previous to the war he was Judge-Advocate of 
 the Second Brigade of the State of New York, 
 and Gov. Morgan, of that State, appointed him 
 Engineer-in- Chief of his staff. In 1861, he was 
 made Inspector-General, and soon afterward be- 
 came Quartermaster-General. In each of these 
 offices he rendered great service to the Govern- 
 
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 CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 
 
 ment during the war. At the end of Gov. Mor- 
 gan's term he resumed the practice of law, form- 
 ing a partnership with Mr. Ransom, and then 
 Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney of New York, 
 was added to the firm. The legal practice of this 
 well-known firm was very large and lucrative, 
 as each of the gentlemen composing it was an able 
 lawyer, and possessed a splendid local reputa- 
 tion, if not, indeed, one of national extent. 
 
 Mr. Arthur always took a leading part in State 
 and city politics. He was appointed Collector of 
 the Port of New York by President Grant, No- 
 vember 21, 1872, to succeed Thomas Murphy, 
 and he held the ofiice until July 20, 1878, when 
 he was succeeded by Collector Merritt. 
 
 Mr. Arthur was nominated on the Presidential 
 ticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the 
 famous National Republican Convention held at 
 Chicago in June, 1880. This was perhaps the 
 greatest political convention that ever aasenibled 
 on the continent. It was composed of the lead- 
 ing politicians of the Republican party, all able 
 men, and each stood firm and fought vigorously 
 and with signal tenacity for his respective can- 
 didate that was before the convention for the 
 nomination. Finally Gen. Garfield received the 
 nomination for President, and Gen. Arthur for 
 Vice-President. The campaign which followed 
 was one of the most animated known in the his- 
 tory of our country. Gen. Hancock, the stand- 
 ard-bearer of the Democratic party, was a popular 
 man, and his party made a valiant fight for his 
 election. 
 
 Finally the election came, and the countr>''s 
 choice was Garfield and Arthur. They were in- 
 augurated March 4, 188 1, as President and Vice- 
 President. A few months only had passed ere 
 the newly-chosen President was the victim of the 
 a.ssassin's bullet. Then came terrible weeks of 
 suffering — those moments of anxious suspense, 
 when the hearts of all civilized nations were 
 throbbing in unison, longing for the recovery of 
 the noble, the good President. The remarkable 
 patience that he manifested during those hours 
 and weeks, and even months, of the most terrible 
 suffering man has ever been called upon to en- 
 dure, was seemingly more than human. It was 
 
 certainly godlike. During all this period of 
 deepest anxiety Mr. Arthur's every move was 
 watched, and, be it said to his credit, that his every 
 action displayed only an earnest desire that the 
 suffering Garfield might recover to serve the re- 
 mainder of the term he had so auspiciously be- 
 gun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested in 
 deed or look of this man, even though the most 
 honored position in the world was at any moment 
 likely to fall to him. 
 
 At last God in his mercy relieved President 
 Garfield from further suffering, and the world, as 
 never before in its history over the death of any 
 other man, wept at his bier. Then it became the 
 duty of the Vice-President to assume the respon- 
 sibilities of the high office, and he took the oath 
 in New York, September 20, 1881. The position 
 was an embarrassing one to him, made doubly so 
 from the fact that all eyes were on him, anxious 
 to know what he would do, what policy he would 
 pursue, and whom he would select as advisers. 
 The duties of the office had been greatly neglected 
 during the President's long illness, and many im- 
 portant measures were to be immediately decided 
 by him; and to still further embarass him he did 
 not fail to realize under what circumstances he 
 became President, and knew the feelings of many 
 on this point. Under these trying circumstances, 
 President Arthur took the reins of the Govern- 
 ment in his own hands, and, as embarrassing as 
 was the condition of affairs, he happily surprised 
 the nation, acting so wisely that but few criticised 
 his administration. He served the nation well 
 and faithfully until the close of his 'administra- 
 tion, March 4, 1885, and was a popular candidate 
 before his party for a second term. His name 
 was ably presented before the convention at Chi- 
 cago, and was received with great favor, and 
 doubtless but for the personal popularity of one 
 of the opposing candidates, he would have been 
 selected as the standard-bearer of his party for 
 another campaign. He retired to private life, car- 
 rying with him the best wishes of the American 
 people, whom he had served in a manner satisfac- 
 tory to them and with credit to himself. One 
 year later he was called to his final rest. 
 
STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. 
 
STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. 
 
 ITEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND, the 
 twentj'-second President of the United States, 
 was born in 1837, in the obscure town of 
 Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., and in a little 
 two-and-a-lialf-story white house, which is still 
 standing to characteristically mark the humble 
 birthplace of one of America's great men, in 
 striking contrast with the Old World, where all 
 men high in office must be high in origin and 
 bom in the cradle of wealth. When the subject 
 of this sketch was three years of age, his father, 
 who was a Presbyterian minister with a large 
 family and a small salary, moved, by way of the 
 Hudson River and Erie Canal, to Fayetteville, N. 
 Y. , in search of an increased income and a larger 
 field of work. Fayetteville was then the most 
 straggling of country villages, about five miles 
 from Pompey Hill, where Governor Seymour 
 was born. 
 
 At the last-mentioned place young Grover com- 
 menced going to .school in the good, old-fashioned 
 way, and presumably distinguished himself after 
 the manner of all village boys — in doing the 
 things he ought not to do. Such is the dis- 
 tinguishing trait of all geniuses and independent 
 thinkers. When he arrived at the age of four- 
 teen years, he had outgrown the capacity of the 
 village school, and expressed a most emphatic de- 
 sire to be sent to an academy. To this his fa- 
 ther decidedly objected. Academies in those 
 days cost money ; besides, his father wanted him 
 to become self-supporting by the quickest pos- 
 sible means, and this at that time in Fayetteville 
 seemed to be a position in a country store, where 
 his father and the large family on his hands had 
 
 considerable influence. Grover was to be paid 
 $50 for his services the first year, and if he proved 
 trustworthy he was to receive $100 the second 
 year. Here the lad commenced his career as 
 salesman, and in two years he had earned so good 
 a reputation for trustworthiness that his employ- 
 ers desired to retain him for an indefinite length 
 of time. 
 
 But instead of remaining with this firm in 
 Fayetteville, he went with the family in their re- 
 moval to Clinton, where he had an opportunity 
 of attending a High School. Here he industri- 
 ously pursued his studies until the family re- 
 moved with him to a point on Black River known 
 as the "Holland Patent," a village of five or six 
 hundred people, fifteen miles north of Utica, N. Y. 
 At this place his father died, after preaching but 
 three Sundays. This event broke up the family, 
 and Grover set out for New York City to accept, 
 at a small salar}', the position of under-teacher 
 in an asylum for the blind. He taught faithfully 
 for two years, and although he obtained a good 
 reputation in this capacity, he concluded that 
 teaching was not his calling in life, and, revers- 
 ing the traditional order, he left the city to seek 
 his fortune, instead of going to the city. He first 
 thought of Cleveland, Ohio, as there was some 
 charm in that name for him; but before proceed- 
 ing to that place he went to Buffalo to ask advice 
 of his uncle, Lewis F. Allan, a noted stock- 
 breeder of that place. The latter did not speak 
 enthusiastically. "What is it you want to do, 
 my boy?" he asked. "Well, sir, I want to study 
 law," was the reply "Good gracious!" remarked 
 the old gentleman; " do you, indeed? Whatever 
 
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 STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. 
 
 put that into your head ? How much money 
 have you got?" "Well, sir, to tell the truth, I 
 haven't got any." 
 
 After a long consultation, his uncle offered him 
 a place temporarily as assistant herd-keeper, at 
 $50 a year, while he could look around. One 
 day soon afterward he boldly walked into the of- 
 fice of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, of Buffalo, and 
 told them what he wanted. A number of young 
 men were already engaged in the office, but Gro- 
 ver's persistency won, and he was finally per- 
 mitted to come as an office boy and have the use 
 of the law library, receiving as wages the sum of 
 $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he had to pay for his 
 board and washing. The walk to and from his 
 uncle's was a long and rugged one; and although 
 the first winter was a memorably severe one, his 
 shoes were out of repair, and as for his overcoat he 
 had none; yet he was, nevertheless, prompt and 
 regular. On the first day of his service there, his 
 senior employer threw down a copy of Black- 
 stone before him, with a bang that made the dust 
 fly, saying "That's where they all begin." A 
 titter ran around the little circle of clerks and 
 .students, as they thought that was enough to 
 scare young Grover out of his plans; but in due 
 time he mastered that cumbersome volume. 
 Then, as ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleve- 
 land exhibited a talent for executiveness rather 
 than for chasing principles through all their 
 metaphysical possibilities. ' 'Let us quit talking 
 and go and do it, ' ' was practically his motto. 
 
 The first public office to which Mr. Cleveland 
 was elected was that of Sheriff of Erie County, 
 N. Y., in which Buffalo is situated; and in such 
 capacity it fell to his duty to inflict capital punish- 
 ment upon two criminals. In 1881 he was 
 elected Mayor of the City of Buffalo, on the 
 Democratic ticket, with especial reference to bring- 
 ing about certain reforms in the administration 
 of the municipal affairs of that city. In this of- 
 fice, as well as in that of Sheriff, his performance 
 of duty has generally been considered fair, with 
 possibly a few exceptions, which were ferreted 
 out and magnified during his Presidential cam- 
 paign. As a specimen of his plain language in 
 a veto message, we quote from one vetoing an 
 
 iniquitous street-cleaning contract: "This is a 
 time for plain speech, and my objection to your 
 action shall be plainly stated. I regard it as the 
 culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent and 
 shameless scheme to betray the interests of the 
 people and to worse than squander the people's 
 money." The New York Su/t afterward very 
 highly commended Mr. Cleveland's administra- 
 tion as Mayor of Buffalo, and thereupon recom- 
 mended him for Governor of the Empire State. 
 To the latter office he was elected in 1882, and 
 his administration of the affairs of State was 
 generally satisfactory-. The mistakes he made, 
 if any, were made very public throughout the na- 
 tion after he was nominated for President of the 
 United States. For this high office he was 
 nominated July 11, 1884, by the National Demo- 
 cratic Convention at Chicago, when other com- 
 petitors were Thomas F. Bayard, Roswell P. 
 Flower, Thomas A. Hendricks, Benjamin F. 
 Butler, Allen G. Thurman, etc.; and he was 
 elected by the people, by a majority of about a 
 thousand, over the brilliant and long-tried Re- 
 publican statesman, James G. Blaine. President 
 Cleveland resigned his office as Governor of New 
 York in January, 1885, in order to prepare for 
 his duties as the Chief Executive of the United 
 States, in which capacity his term commenced at 
 noon on the 4th of March, 1885. 
 
 The silver question precipitated a controversy 
 between those who were in favor of the continu- 
 ance of silver coinage and those who were op- 
 posed, Mr. Cleveland answering for the latter, 
 even before his inauguration. 
 
 On June 2, 1886, President Cleveland married 
 Frances, daughter of his deceased friend and part- 
 ner, Oscar Folsom, of the Buffalo Bar. In the 
 campaign of 1888, President Cleveland was re- 
 nominated by his party, but the Republican candi- 
 date, Gen. Benjamin Harrison, was victorious. 
 In the nomination of 1892 these two candidates 
 for the highest position in the gift of the people 
 were again pitted against each other, and in the 
 ensuing election President Cleveland was victori- 
 ous by an overwhelming majority. Since the 
 close of his second term, he has resided in Prince- 
 ton, N. J. 
 
BENJAMIN HARRISON. 
 
BENJAMIN HARRISON. 
 
 gENJAMIN HARRISON, the twenty-third 
 President, is the descendant of one of the 
 historical families of this country. The first 
 known head of the family was Maj . -Gen. Harrison, 
 one of Oliver Cromwell's trusted followers and 
 fighters. In the zenith of Cromwell' s power it be- 
 came the duty of this Harrison to participate in 
 the trial of Charles I., and afterward to sign the 
 death warrant of the king. He subsequently 
 paid for this with his life, being hung October 13, 
 1660. His descendants came to America, and 
 the next of the family that appears in history is 
 Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, great-grandfa- 
 ther of the subject of this sketch, and after whom 
 he was named. Benjamin Harrison was a mem- 
 ber of the Continental Congress during the years 
 1774, 1775 and 1776, and was one of the original 
 signers of the Declaration of Independence. He 
 was three times elected Governor of Virginia. 
 
 Gen. William Henry Harrison, the son of the 
 distinguished patriot of the Revolution, after a 
 successful career as a soldier during the War of 
 1 8 12, and with a clean record as Governor of the 
 Northwestern Territory, was elected President of 
 the United States in 1840. His career was cut 
 short by death within one month after his in- 
 auguration. 
 
 President Harrison was bom at North Bend, 
 
 Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833. His 
 life up to the time of his graduation from Miami 
 University, at Oxford, Ohio, was the uneventfiil 
 one of a country lad of a family of small means. 
 His father was able to give him a good education, 
 and nothing more. He became engaged while at 
 college to the daughter of Dr. Scott, Principal of 
 a female school at Oxford. After graduating, he 
 determined to enter upon the study of law. He 
 went to Cincinnati and there read law for two 
 years. At the expiration of that time young Har- 
 rison received the only inheritance of his life — his 
 aunt, dying, left him a lot valued at $800. He 
 regarded this legacy as a fortune, and decided to 
 get married at once, take this money and go to 
 some Eastern town and begin the practice of law. 
 He sold his lot, and, with the money in his pocket, 
 he started out with his young wife to fight for a 
 place in the world. He decided to go to Indian- 
 apolis, which was even at that time a town of 
 promise. He met with slight encouragement at 
 first, making scarcely anything the first year. 
 He worked diHgently, applying himself closely to 
 his calling, built up an extensive practice and 
 took a leading rank in the legal profession. 
 
 In i860, Mr. Harrison was nominated for the 
 position of Supreme Court Reporter, and then be- 
 gan his experience as a stump speaker. He can- 
 
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 BENJAMIN HARRISON. 
 
 vassed the State thoroughly, and was elected by 
 a handsome majority. In 1862 he raised the 
 Seventeenth Indiana Infantry, and was chosen its 
 Colonel. His regiment was composed of the raw- 
 est material, but Col. Harrison employed all his 
 time at first in mastering military tactics and drill- 
 ing his men, and when he came to move toward 
 the East with Sherman, his regiment was one of 
 the best drilled and organized in the army. At 
 Resaca he especially distinguished himself, and 
 for his bravery at Peachtree Creek he was made 
 a Brigadier-General, Gen. Hooker speaking of 
 him in the most complimentarj- terms. 
 
 During the absence of Gen. Harrison in the 
 field, the Supreme Court declared the of&ce of 
 Supreme Court Reporter vacant, and another 
 person was elected to the position. From the 
 time of leaving Indiana with his regiment until 
 the fall of 1864 he had taken no leave of absence, 
 but having been nominated that year for the same 
 office, he got a thirty-day leave of absence, and 
 during that time made a brilliant canvass of the 
 State, and was elected for another term. He then 
 started to rejoin Sherman, but on the way was 
 stricken down with scarlet fever, and after a most 
 trying attack made his way to the front in time to 
 participate in the closing incidents of the war. 
 
 In 1868 Gen. Harrison declined a re-election 
 as Reporter, and resumed the practice of law. In 
 1876 he was a candidate for Governor. Although 
 defeated, the brilliant campaign he made won for 
 him a national reputation, and he was much sought 
 after, especially in the East, to make speeches. 
 In 1880, as usual, he took an active part in the 
 campaign, and was elected to the United States 
 Senate. Here he served for six years, and was 
 known as one of the ablest men, best lawyers and 
 strongest debaters in that bod}'. With the ex- 
 piration of his senatorial term he returned to the 
 practice of his profession, becoming the head of 
 one of the strongest firms in the State. 
 
 The political campaign of 1888 was one of the 
 most memorable in the history of our country. 
 The convention which assembled in Chicago in 
 June and named Mr. Harrison as the chief stand- 
 ard-bearer of the Republican party was great in 
 every particular, and on this account, and the at- 
 
 titude it assumed upon the vital questions of the 
 day, chief among which was the tariff, awoke a 
 deep interest in the campaign throughout the 
 nation. Shortly after the nomination, delegations 
 began to visit Mr. Harrison at Indianapolis, his 
 home. This movement became popular, and from 
 all sections of the country societies, clubs and 
 delegations journeyed thither to pay their re- 
 spects to the distinguished statesman. 
 
 Mr. Harrison .spoke daily all through the sum- 
 mer and autumn to these visiting delegations, 
 and so varied, masterly, and eloquent were his 
 speeches that "they at once placed him in the fore- 
 most rank of American orators and statesmen. 
 Elected by a handsome majority, he served his 
 country faithfully and well, and in 1892 was nom- 
 inated for re-election ; but the people demanded a 
 change and he was defeated by his predecessor 
 in office, Grover Cleveland. 
 
 On account of his eloquence as a speaker and 
 his power as a debater, Gen. Harrison was called 
 upon at an early age to take part in the dis- 
 cussion of the great questions that then began to 
 agitate the country. He was an uncompromising 
 anti-slavery man, and was matched against some 
 of the most eminent Democratic speakers of his 
 State. No man who felt the touch of his blade 
 desired to be pitted with him again. With all 
 his eloquence as an orator he never spoke for ora- 
 torical effect, but his words always went like bul- 
 lets to the mark. He is purely American in his 
 ideas, and is a splendid type of the American 
 statesman. Gifted with quick perception, a logi- 
 cal mind and a ready tongue, he is one of the 
 most distinguished impromptu speakers in the 
 nation. Many of these speeches sparkled with the 
 rarest eloquence and contained arguments of great 
 weight, and many of his terse statements have 
 already become aphorisms. Original in thought, 
 precise in logic, terse in statement, yet withal 
 faultless in eloquence, he is recognized as the 
 sound statesman and brilliant orator of the day. 
 By his first wife, Caroline (Scott) Harrison, he 
 had a son and daughter. In 1896 he married 
 Mrs. Mary (Scott) Dimmick, and they, with their 
 daughter, reside in Indianapolis, Ind., where he 
 has made his home since early manhood. 
 
WILLIAM Mckinley. 
 
WILLIAM McKINLEY. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM McKINLEY, who was inaugu- 
 \ A / rated President of the United States in 1 89 7 , 
 Y Y was born in Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843. 
 The family of which he is a member originated 
 in the west of Scotland, and from there removed 
 to the north of Ireland. According to the fam- 
 ily tradition, James and WilHam McKinley emi- 
 grated to this country from Ireland and founded 
 the two branches of the family in the United 
 States, one settling in the north, the other in the 
 south. At the time of their arrival, James was 
 twelve years of age. He settled in York County, 
 Pa. , where he quarried and spent his remaining 
 years. 
 
 David, son of James, and the great-grandfather 
 of William McKinley, was born May 16, 1755, 
 and three times enlisted in the service of the 
 colonies during the Revolutionary War, serving 
 seven months after his first enlistment in June, 
 1776, spending six months at the front in 1777, 
 and again in the following year serving eight 
 months. December 19, 1780, he married Sarah 
 Gray, who was born May 10, 1760, and died 
 October 6, 18 14. For fifteen years he lived in 
 Westmoreland County, Pa. , and thence removed 
 to Mercer County. One year after the death 
 of his first wife he married Eleanor McLean 
 and about the same time settled in Colum- 
 biana County, Ohio, but afterward made his home 
 in Crawford County, where he died August 8, 
 1840. 
 
 James, grandfather of William McKinley, was 
 born September 19, 1783, married Mary (or 
 "Polly' ' ) Rose, and with his family moved to New 
 Lisbon, Ohio, in 1809. Their eldest son, Will- 
 iam, Sr. , was born in Mercer County, Pa., 
 November 15, 1807, and in 1827 married 
 Nancy Allison, a woman of noble and strong 
 character and consistent Christian life. For some 
 years he was engaged as manager of iron fur- 
 naces at difierent places. From Niles he re- 
 
 moved to Poland, because of the educational ad- 
 vantages ofiered by Poland Academy. In 1869 
 he established his home in Canton, and here he 
 died November 24, 1892. His widow lives at 
 the family residence in Canton, and with her are 
 her daughter, Miss Helen, and two orphan 
 grandchildren. 
 
 Of the family of nine children, William, Jr., who 
 was seventh in order of birth, was born during 
 the residence of his parents at Niles, Ohio, Jan- 
 uary 29, 1843. His boyhood years were spent 
 in that place and Poland, where he studied in the 
 academy. At the age of seventeen he entered 
 Allegheny College, but illness caused his return 
 to Poland, and on his recovery he did not return 
 to college, but taught a country school. At the 
 opening of the Civil War, though only eighteen 
 years of age, he immediately wanted to enlist. 
 As soon as he could overcome the objections of 
 his mother, he enlisted, in May of 1861, as a 
 private in Company E, Twenty-third Ohio In- 
 fantry. The regiment was commanded by Col. 
 W. S. Rosecrans, who afterward, as general, led 
 his forces on many a bloody battle field, and the 
 first major was Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward 
 President of the United States. As a gallant 
 soldier Mr. McKinley soon won promotion, serving 
 for a time as commissary sergeant, later was pro- 
 moted to the rank of second lieutenant for gal- 
 lantry at Antietam, and then won his way up- 
 ward until, at the close of the war, he was pro- 
 moted to major by brevet. July 26, 1865, after 
 more than four years of hard service, he was 
 mustered out with his regiment. 
 
 With Judge Charles E. Glidden, of Mahoning 
 County, Mr. McKinley began the study of law, 
 which he afterward carried on in the Albany 
 (N. Y.) Law School, and in 1867 was admitted 
 to the bar. Beginning the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Canton, he soon became prominently 
 known among the able attorneys of the city. His 
 
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 WILLIAM McKINLEY. 
 
 first connection with political afiairs was in 1869, 
 when he was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark 
 County, and this office he held for two years. 
 In 1876 he was nominated for Congressional 
 honors and was elected to the Forty-fifth Con- 
 gress, afterward by successive re-elections serv- 
 ing for fourteen years. In March of 1890 he in- 
 troduced the celebrated McKinley tariff bill, 
 which was passed and became a law. In the fol- 
 lowing year, 1891, he was elected governor of 
 Ohio, and two years afterward was re-elected to 
 that high office, which he filled in such a manner 
 as to command the respect not only of his own 
 party — the Republican — but his political op- 
 ponents as well. The connection of his name 
 with the tariff bill and his prominence in the Re- 
 publican party, together with his force and elo- 
 quence as a speaker, brought him into national 
 fame. In the campaign of 1892, for a period of 
 more than three months, he traveled over a 
 territory extending from New York to Nebraska, 
 making speeches in the interest of the Republi- 
 can platform. Those who heard him speak, 
 whether friends or opponents of his political 
 opinions, cannot but have admired his logical 
 reasoning, breadth of intellect, eloquence of speech 
 and modesty of demeanor. During the campaign 
 of 1894 lie made three hundred and seventy-one 
 speeches and visited over three hundred towns, 
 within a period of two months, addressing perhaps 
 two million people. 
 
 The tarifif issue and all the intricate questions 
 of public revenue that are interwoven with it, 
 constitute the most complicated problems with 
 which a statesman has to deal. To master them 
 in every detail requires an intellect of the high- 
 est order. That Major McKinley thoroughly un- 
 derstands these questions is admitted by all who 
 have investigated his official utterances on the 
 subject, beginning with the speech on the Wood 
 tarifif bill, delivered in the house of representatives 
 April 15, 1878, and closing with his speech in 
 favor of the tarifif bill of 1 890, which as chairman 
 of the ways and means committee he reported to 
 the house and which was subsequently passed and 
 is known throughout the world as the McKinley 
 tariff bill of 1890. He opposed the Wood bill be- 
 cause of a conviction that the proposed measure 
 
 would, if enacted, prove a public calamity. For 
 the same reason, in 1882, he advocated a friendly 
 revision of the tariff by a tariff commission, to be 
 authorized by congress and appointed by the 
 president. In 1884 he opposed the Morrison 
 horizontal bill, which he denounced as ambiguous 
 for a great public statute, and in 1888 he led the 
 forces in the fight against the Mills tariff bill. 
 
 As governor of Ohio, his policy was conserva- 
 tive. He aimed to give to the public institutions 
 the benefit of the service of the best man of the 
 state, and at all times upheld the legitimate rights 
 of the workingmen. Recognizing the fact that 
 the problem of taxation needed regulation, in 
 his messages of 1892, 1893 and 1894, ^^ urged 
 the legislature that a remedy be applied. In 
 1892 he recommended legislation for the safety 
 and comfort of steam railroad employes, and the 
 following year urged the furnishing of automatic 
 couplers and air-brakes for all railroad cars used 
 in the state. 
 
 When, in 1896, the Republican party, in con- 
 vention assembled at St. Louis, selected a man to 
 represent their principles in the highest office 
 within the gift of the American people, it was not 
 a surprise to the public that the choice fell upon 
 Major McKinley. The campaign that followed 
 was one of the most exciting in the history of 
 the country since the period of reconstruction. 
 Especial interest centered in the fact that the 
 point at issue seemed, not, as in former days, 
 free trade or protection, but whether or not the 
 government should declare for the free coinage of 
 silver. This question divided the voters of the 
 country upon somewhat different lines than theold- 
 time principles of the Republican and Democratic 
 parties and thus made the campaign a memorable 
 one. The supporters of the gold standard main- 
 tained that silver monometallism would precipi- 
 tate a panic and permanently injure the business 
 interests of the country, and the people, by a 
 large majority, supported these principles. 
 
 January 25, 1871, Major McKinley was united 
 in marriage with Miss Ida Saxton, who was born 
 in June, 1847, the daughter of James A. Saxton. 
 Their two children died in 1874, within a short 
 time of each other, one at the age of three years 
 and the other in infancy. 
 
DENVER AND VICINITY 
 
 COLORADO 
 
INTRODUCTORY 
 
 glOGRAPHY alone can justly represent the progress of local history and portray with accuracy 
 the relation of men to events. It is the only means of perpetuating the lives and deeds of 
 those men to whom the advancement of a city or county and the enlightenment of its people 
 are due. The compilers of this work have striven to honor, not only men of present prominence, 
 but also, as far as possible, those who in years gone by labored to promote the welfare of their com- 
 munity. The following sketches have been prepared from the standpoint of no man's prejudice, 
 but with an impartial aim to render justice to progressive and public-spirited citizens and to collect 
 personal records that will be of value to generations yet to come. 
 
 To be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind from remotest ages. All will be forgotten 
 soon enough, in spite of their best works and the most earnest efforts of their friends to preserve the 
 memory of their lives. The means emploj^ed to prevent oblivion and to perpetuate their memory 
 have been in. proportion to the amount of intelligence they possessed. The pyramids of Egypt were 
 built to perpetuate the names and deeds of their great rulers. The exhumations made by the 
 archaeologists of Egypt from buried Memphis indicate a desire of those people to perpetuate the 
 memory of their achievements. The erection of the great obelisks was for the same purpose. 
 Coming down to a later period, we find the Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and 
 monuments, and carving out statues to chronicle their great achievements and carry them down the 
 ages. It is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling up their great mounds of earth, had but 
 this idea — to leave something to show that they had lived. All these works, though many of them 
 costly in the extreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and character of those whose memory they 
 were intended to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of the people that then lived. The 
 great pyramids and some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, 
 monuments and statues are crumbling into dust. 
 
 It was left to modern ages to establish an intelligent, undecaying, immutable method of 
 perpetuating a full history — immutable in that it is almost unlimited in extent and perpetual in its 
 action; and this is through the art of printing. 
 
 To the present generation, however, we are indebted for the introduction of the admirable 
 system of local biography. By this system every man, though he has not achieved what the world 
 calls greatness, has the means to perpetuate his life, his history, through the coming ages. 
 
 The scythe of Time cuts down all; nothing of the physical man is left. The monument which 
 his children or friends may erect to his memory in the cemetery will crumble into dust and pass 
 away; but his life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, which otherwise would be 
 forgotten, is- perpetuated by a record of this kind. 
 
 To preserve the lineaments of our companions we engrave their portraits; for the same reason 
 we collect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we think it necessary, as we speak only 
 truth of them, to wait until they are dead, or until those who know them are gone; to do this we 
 are ashamed only to publish to the world the history of those whose lives are unworthy of public 
 record. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 HON. ALVA ADAMS. The opportunities 
 which Colorado offers to young men of res- 
 olute purpose nowhere find a more illustri- 
 ous exemplification than in the life of the present 
 governor of the state, a man honored alike in the 
 counsels of the commonwealth and in the circle 
 of his personal acquaintances and friends. It was 
 not due to mere luck that, seventeen years from 
 the time when he hauled ties for the railroad, he 
 was the incumbent of the office of chief executive, 
 the highest po.sition within the gift of the state. 
 Not by chance did he rise from poverty to aiflu- 
 ence; it was the direct result of his determination 
 of character, his purpose of will. Determination 
 may be said to be the keynote of his character. 
 What he sets out to do he achieves though innu- 
 merable obstacles must first be surmounted and 
 interposing barriers removed. 
 
 While the most of his life has been spent in 
 Colorado, Governor Adams grew to manhood in 
 Iowa County, Wis., where he was born May 14, 
 1850. His father had come from Kentucky and 
 his mother from New York, the former being a 
 country merchant and farmer. The boy, though 
 never in college, had the opportunity to secure an 
 education usual to country boys in Wisconsin. 
 The illness of a brother caused the family to seek 
 a change of climate, and, hoping his health might 
 be benefited by the dry, pure air of Colorado, they 
 decided to come to this state. Accordingly, in 
 the then well-known "prairie schooner," they 
 made the long trip from Wisconsin westward, 
 landing in Greeley, Colo., where they stopped 
 for a time. At once the son, who was a young 
 man of twenty-one, looked about him for employ- 
 ment. The only work he couid secure was that 
 of hauling ties from the mountains south of Den- 
 ver for the building of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railroad, then in process of construction. He 
 spent a few weeks in that way, after which, in 
 July, 1 87 1, he went to Colorado Springs as an 
 employe of C. W. Sanborn, dealer in lumber and 
 hardware. 
 
 While working for Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Adams 
 set about building a structure that would answer 
 for a lumber office, hardware store and dwelling 
 place. By August he had completed a small 
 building on South Cascade avenue, which was the 
 first building on the present site of Colorado 
 Springs, and there the business was carried on. 
 In October he bought the stock of goods from his 
 employer, paying $4,100 therefor, and, as he did 
 not have the cash in hand, he paid in notes bear- 
 ing two per cent interest a month. Since then 
 he has constantly, and with success, engaged in 
 the hardware business. In 1872 he took J. C. 
 Wilson into partnership, and while the latter re- 
 mained at Colorado Springs, he went to Pueblo, 
 establishing a branch store at that place. Later 
 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Wilson retain- 
 ing the store at Colorado Springs, and Mr. Adams 
 that at Pueblo, to which he afterwards added 
 branch stores in the San Juan district. 
 
 The first position held by Mr. Adams was in 
 1873, when he was chosen a trustee of South Pu- 
 eblo. Three years later he was elected from Rio 
 Grande County to the state legislature, where he 
 became noted for his strict watch of expenses and 
 his opposition to bills requiring special appropria- 
 tions. In 1884 he was nominated for governor, 
 but was defeated. However, in the election two 
 years later he was successful, receiving a major- 
 ity of twenty-four hundred, and entering on the 
 duties of his office in January, 1887. His admin- 
 istration was perhaps as satisfactory as that of 
 any governor the state has ever had. As in the 
 legislature, so in the chief executive's chair, he 
 was distinguished for the economical spirit that 
 governed his administration. Every bill demand- 
 ing an appropriation was scrutinized closely and 
 unless he was thoroughly convinced of its benefits, 
 it was promptly vetoed. 
 
 In August, 1887, occurred an outbreak of the 
 Utes. At that time they had for their chief Col- 
 orow, a stubborn, insolent but cowardly Indian. 
 Some of his tribe were gambling with cowboys at 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Meeker one day, but were unfortunate at the 
 cards, and staked and lost everything they had. 
 Their passion for gambling had been aroused to 
 such an extent that they went out and stole two 
 horses belonging to white men, and these they 
 also staked and lost. Warrants were issued for 
 their arrest for horse-stealing, but they resisted 
 arrest. Shots were exchanged. At once the 
 wildest excitement prevailed. The white set- 
 tlers, remembering the bloody slaughters by the 
 Indians in other days, at once demanded that the 
 governor send the militia, and he in turn request- 
 ed the government at Washington to have the 
 Indians seut to their reservation. But as in so 
 many other cases, the government acted too slow- 
 ly. The governor then ordered the troops to 
 White River, but after a time, no further trouble 
 occurring, he had them withdrawn. 
 
 From the clo.se of his first administration Gov- 
 ernor Adams carried on business in Pueblo until 
 1896, when he was again the successful candi- 
 date for governor, being one of the very few men 
 (in fact, none beside himself and F. W. Pitkin) 
 who have been twice chosen to serve as chief 
 executive. His second term has had no weighty 
 legislation, no hostilities, to make it memorable 
 in history. It is the record of a peaceful admin- 
 istration, which, though it may be unnoticed in 
 history, has nevertheless left its impress in the in- 
 creasing prosperity of the state, the exten.sion of 
 its industries and the advancement of its mining, 
 agricultural and commercial interests. 
 
 It may be said of Governor Adams that he is a 
 safe man. As a leader he has none of that reck- 
 lessness sometimes found in men in public places. 
 He is as careful of the state's finances as he has 
 been of his own. In that respect he resembles 
 Governor Pitkin, who as a financier has never 
 been surpassed by any governor. Perhaps this 
 quality of cautiousness has been objectionable to 
 men who were interested in securing bridges over 
 rivers or other improvements for the benefit of the 
 state; but the man who stands at the head of af- 
 fairs owes a duty to the tax-payers and must con- 
 scientiously guard the finances of the state. 
 
 Himself a wealthy man. Governor Adams has 
 often assisted others who have less fortune in 
 fighting the battle of life than has he. By travel, 
 both on this continent and abroad, he has gained 
 a cosmopolitan knowledge that has atoned largely 
 for his lack of early education. In the school of 
 
 experience and observation he has been an apt 
 pupil, and who shall say that the graduates of 
 this .school have been less successful, as a class, 
 than those who boast of college diplomas? In 
 summing up the character of Governor Adams, 
 Fitz-Mac describes him in these words: "The 
 keynote of Alva Adams' character throughout 
 has been — purpose. He is not a great man, but 
 he is a good man, a clever man, an ambitious and 
 cultivated man. He has made the most of the 
 excellent talents with which nature endowed him 
 and that is why he seems to me the most admira- 
 ble man in the state. What he is he has made 
 himself, and my heart goes out in unreserved 
 sympathy toward the high and honorable and 
 forcible character he has established. ' ' 
 
 HON. SAMUEL H. ELBERT, governor of 
 the territory of Colorado 1873-74, chief jus- 
 tice of the supreme court 1876-82 and 1886- 
 88, is one of the most distinguished citizens our 
 state has ever had. Under appointment by Pres- 
 ident Lincoln as secretary of the territory, he 
 came to Colorado in 1862 and his life since that 
 time has been a part of the history of the state. As 
 the chief executive of the territory , it was his aim to 
 promote the welfare of the people; as chief justice 
 of the supreme court, he was wise, impartial and 
 fearless; as a citizen, he has ever been progressive 
 and public-spirited; and as a friend those who 
 knew him best have found that beneath his dig- 
 nity of manner and apparent reserve beats a kind, 
 generous, warm heart, untainted by a shadow of 
 dishonor or disloyalty. 
 
 The life which this narrative sketches began 
 in Logan County, Ohio, in 1833. The family, 
 while not wealthy, was in comfortable circum- 
 stances and the son was given every educational 
 advantage which the schools of Ohio afforded. 
 Dr. Elbert, the father, was an eminent physician 
 and surgeon, with honorary degrees from Cincin- 
 nati and Philadelphia tuedical colleges. In 1840 the 
 family removed to Iowa, but in 1848 young Elbert 
 returned to Ohio, where he took the regular col- 
 legiate course of Wesley an University, graduating 
 in 1854. During the next two years he studied 
 law in Dayton, Ohio, and was there admitted to 
 the bar. In the spring of 1857 he opened an 
 office at Plattsmouth, Neb. His connection with 
 public and political affairs began in May, i860, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 117 
 
 when he was a delegate from Nebraska to the 
 Republican convention that nominated Abraham 
 Lincoln for President, and in the exciting cam- 
 paign that followed he was an active participant. 
 In i860 he was elected to the state legislature, 
 his first public position. 
 
 When Hon. John Evans was appointed gov- 
 ernor of Colorado to succeed William Gilpin, Mr. 
 Elbert was at the same time appointed territorial 
 secretary, and he came to Denverin May, 1862. 
 The intimate friendship between himself and the 
 chief executive was still further deepened by his 
 marriage to the governor's daughter, Miss Jose- 
 phine Evans, who.se death, with that of their only 
 child, in 1868, was the heaviest bereavement that 
 ever befell Mr. Elbert. 
 
 Upon the expiration of his term as secretary, 
 in 1866 Mr. Elbert began to practice law in Den- 
 ver, in partnership with Hon. J. Q. Charles, and 
 the firm of Charles & Elbert carried on a very 
 large practice. In 1873 he was appointed gov- 
 ernor of the territory by President Grant and at 
 once began the forwarding of plans for the develop- 
 ment of the state, the enlargement of its resources 
 and the prosperity of the people. He was es- 
 pecially interested in the subject of irrigation, for 
 he realized that Colorado could attain no perma- 
 nent prosperity unless this problem was satisfac- 
 torily solved. He secured a meeting of delegates 
 in Denver from the states and territories west of 
 the Missouri River, in the summer of 1873, and 
 delivered an address in this convention upon the 
 necessity of government aid in the irrigating of 
 the vast tracts in the west. 
 
 Bitter political feuds in the .summer of 1874 cul- 
 minated in the removal of Governor Elbert from 
 office. Later President Grant ascertained the 
 real facts of the case and openly acknowledged 
 that he had been misled by unscrupulous persons. 
 With the dignity that always characterized him. 
 Governor Elbert wasted no time in disputes, but 
 withdrew from office, and went abroad, visiting 
 all the prominent cities of Europe and making a 
 careful study of political economy. The people 
 had always been his friends and on his return to 
 Denver they showed their appreciation of his serv- 
 ices and their confidence in his integrity in many 
 ways that won his gratitude. When Colorado 
 was admitted to the Union as the Centennial state, 
 he was called to the recently organized supreme 
 bench, and the confidence of the people that he 
 
 would discharge its duties faithfully was not mis- 
 placed. In drawing for terms, he secured a ten- 
 ure of six years. As chief justice he was noted 
 for impartiality and integrity. The high office he 
 held was never betrayed by him; he was faithful 
 to its smallest duty and to the trust reposed in 
 him. When his term expired in 1882, the people 
 urged him to become a candidate for re-election, 
 but his health had been affected by overwork, and 
 he declined. However, when they again urged 
 him to become a candidate in 1885, he consented 
 to the use of his name and was re-elected, his ju- 
 dicial term beginning in January, 1886. After 
 two years, in the latter part of 1888, he was com- 
 pelled to withdraw from the position, a fact which 
 was deplored, not aloneby thepublic,but especial- 
 ly by the attorneys, who had the warmest admira- 
 tion for his ability and integrity. 
 
 While serving as chief justice his alma mater, 
 which had bestowed upon Judge Elbert the de- 
 grees of Bachelor and Master of Arts in previous 
 years, tendered him the degree of LL.D. Since 
 his retirement from the bench he has devoted his 
 attention to the management of his property and 
 has also traveled considerably. He justly ranks 
 among the most prominent men of the state. His 
 services have not been solely of a gubernatorial 
 and judicial nature, but in many ways, impossi- 
 ble to recount, he has been helpful to the increased 
 prosperity of the state and has labored to pro- 
 mote its highest interests. As president of the 
 State Industrial Association, he was an important 
 factor in the development of Colorado's agricult- 
 ural resources, during the early days of our his- 
 tory. By assisting in the solution of the problems 
 connected with irrigation, he aided every interest, 
 for the advancement of the state has been simul- 
 taneous with the introduction of facilities for irri- 
 gation. In the annals of the state his name will 
 occupy a position of eminence through the gener- 
 ations to come. 
 
 HON. HORACE M. HALE, A. M., LL.D., 
 superintendent of public instruction of 
 Colorado 1873-77, ^^^ president of the Col- 
 orado State University at Boulder 1887-92, is one 
 of the distinguished citizens of Denver and has 
 taken a very active part in the promotion of 
 movements for the advancement of the city and 
 state. A resume of his lineage and life will 
 therefore be of especial interest to the readers of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 this volume. He is a descendant of Thomas 
 Hale, an Englishman, who settled in Newbury, 
 Mass., in 1635, and several succeeding generations 
 of Hales were identified with the history of New 
 England. His great-grandfather. Col. John 
 Hale, M. D., was a surgeon on the stafi" of his 
 brother-in-law, Colonel Prescott, during the 
 Revolution, and he and his son, David, then a 
 lad of sixteen, were both present at the battle of 
 Bunker Hill. 
 
 John Hale, our subject's father, was born at 
 Hollis, N. H., in 1800. He was a mechanic and 
 being a man of great originality and fertile brain, 
 he devoted much time to the invention of useful 
 articles. Among his inventions were the essen- 
 tial features of the present planing machine, one 
 of the earliest power threshing machines, one of 
 the first machines for manufacturing barrels, and 
 an improvement in the tread horse power. In 
 1837 he removed to Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., 
 where he engaged in manufacturing his threshers 
 and horse powers, but after three years he 
 removed his business to North Bloomfield, 
 Ontario County, N. Y. , and added to it the manu- 
 facture of agricultural implements. In 1849 he 
 crossed the plains to California, the trip, which 
 was made with his mule team, taking about six 
 months. Arriving at his destination he engaged 
 in prospecting and mining on Feather River, also 
 manufactured mining rockers and became inter- 
 ested in a scheme for draining Feather River, but 
 this proved a failure. He returned east with 
 health much impaired by the hardships of western 
 life, and died in April, 1852. Politically he was 
 a Whig and in religion a member of the Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
 was Jane Morrison, was born in Peterboro, N. H. , 
 in 1801, and died in Rochester, N. Y., in 1865. 
 The Morrison family came from Scotland to New 
 Hampshire. John, who was born in Aberdeen, 
 probably in 1628, was of Protestant faith and on 
 account of religious persecution went to the 
 north of Ireland, being in the city of Londonderry 
 before and during its siege. About 1720 he 
 joined his sons in New Hampshire, where he died 
 in 1736, aged one hundred and eight years. His 
 son, John, was born in Ireland in 1678, married 
 Margaret Wallace there, settled in Londonderry, 
 N. H., in 1719, being one of the first sixteen 
 settlers there, and in 1750-51 became one of the 
 
 first settlers of Peterboro, where he died June 14, 
 1776. Capt. Thomas, son of John Morrison, was 
 born in Ireland in 17 10, came to America with 
 his parents in childhood, and served as captain of 
 a company during the early Indian wars. By his 
 marriage to Mary Smith he had a son, John, who 
 was born in Londonderry, N. H., but spent his 
 life principally in Peterboro. His daughter Jane 
 (Mrs. John Hale) had six children that attained 
 maturity, one, Mary Jane, having died in infancy. 
 They are: Charles G., who has been master 
 mechanic for forty years with the New York 
 Central road at Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y. 
 John Albert, a mine operator, residing in Denver 
 Benjamin Franklin, a photographer of Rochester 
 Horace Morrison, our subject; Ellen Amelia, 
 Mrs. Rand, of Bellefontaine, Ohio; and Henry 
 William, a miner and mechanic, residing in 
 Denver. The combined ages of the brothers and 
 sister, at this time (1898) is three hundred and 
 ninety-six years. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Hollis, 
 N. H., March 6, 1833, and was in his eighth 
 year when the family removed to Bloomfield. 
 His school advantages were limited to about 
 three months' attendance in a public school dur- 
 ing the winter. He early began to work in his 
 father's foundry, machine and woodwork shops, 
 learning every department. Soon after his 
 father's death the business was discontinued. 
 Meanwhile, having gained a fair common-school 
 education, he began to teach in the winter of 
 1852, having charge of a three months' country 
 school in Mendon, N. Y., where he "boarded 
 round" and was given $14 a month. In the 
 spring of 1853 he entered Genesee Wesleyan 
 Seminary at Lima, N. Y., and in the fall of the 
 same year took a school in Victor, Ontario 
 County, where he boarded among the pupils and 
 was given $18 a month. Returning to Lima in 
 the spring of 1854, he entered the sophomore 
 class in Genesee College, helping to pay his way 
 by working during the summer vacation at 
 carpentry and harvesting. In the winter of 
 1854-55 he taught at Fisher's Station, Ontario 
 County, resuming collegiate work in the spring, 
 and teaching in West Bloomfield union school as 
 principal the following winter. At the close of 
 his junior year he left Genesee to enter Union 
 College at Schenectady, N. Y., from which he 
 graduated in _i856 with the degree of A. B. 
 
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 Later he was again principal at West Bloomfield. 
 When he entered the seminary at Lima he had 
 only $42, the proceeds of his three months' teach- 
 ing. When he graduated from Union he had 
 $230 and owed no debts. 
 
 In the spring of 1858 he went to Nashville, 
 Tenn., where he was principal of the primary 
 department in the public schools that had been 
 established the previous year. After one year he 
 was made principal of a school of four rooms and 
 the next j'ear was given the principalship of the 
 Howard school, one of the largest in the city. 
 When the Civil war broke out, he being a Union 
 man was warned to leave and the house and lot 
 and other real estate he had bought were confis- 
 cated, but he fini.shed the school year, which 
 ended with June, before leaving the city. 
 
 While in Nashville, in 1859, Mr. Hale married 
 Miss Martha Eliza Huntington, a teacher in the 
 schools there, a native of Barry, Vt., and his 
 schoolmateof former years. Her father, Leonard 
 Huntington, was a member of an old family of 
 New England and was a carriage and wagon 
 maker in Bloomfield, N. Y. The morning after 
 the close of his school, in June, 1861, Mr. Hale 
 started north, going first to Bloomfield, and later 
 to Detroit, Mich., where he studied law in C. I. 
 Walker's law ofiice and, at the same time, taught 
 in an evening school and in a German-English 
 school there. Soon after the close of the war he 
 recovered his property in Nashville. In 1862 he 
 was admitted to the bar in Michigan, but his 
 health having become seriously impaired and 
 Suffering greatly with bronchitis, he deemed it 
 imprudent at that time to begin practice. His 
 brother Albert, from Colorado, was just then 
 visiting in the east and on his return Horace 
 accompanied him, driving from Atchison, Kan., 
 to Denver in a buggy, and spending .seven- 
 teen days on the trip. He went from Denver to 
 Central City, where he arrived in October, 1863, 
 and for a short time he was in H. M. Teller's law 
 office, but the confinement being injurious, he 
 turned his attention to outdoor business, such as 
 mining and freighting between Denver and the 
 mountains. 
 
 In 1864 he formed one of a cavalry company 
 of home guards organized under Capt. Sam 
 Browne for the purpose of defense against an 
 anticipated attack by Indians. Each man 
 furnished his own horse and equipments; the 
 
 territory supplied rations. The company served 
 but two weeks. In 1865 he went east for his 
 wife and child, whom he had left in Bloomfield 
 when starting for Colorado. He crcssed the 
 plains on this trip, both ways with a mule team, 
 the westward journey covering forty-two days' 
 time from St. Joseph, Mo., to Central City. This 
 was during Indian troubles, and emigrants had 
 to travel in large companies, hence slowly. 
 
 In 1868 he accepted the principalship of the 
 Central City public schools, where he remained 
 until 1873 and. then resigned to take the office of 
 territorial superintendent of public instruction 
 to which he had been appointed by Governor 
 Elbert to fill a vacancy. In 1874 he was again 
 appointed by Governor Elbert, for a full term (two 
 years), and was reappointed by Governor Routt. 
 When Colorado was admitted to the Union, 
 August I, 1876, he was filling this office, and by 
 provision of the statute he retained it until Janu- 
 ary I, 1877, thus making him the last territorial 
 and the first state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion. Returning to Central City, he resumed his 
 work as principal, and remained in the position 
 for ten years, meanwhile serving as mayor of the 
 city in 1882 and 1883, and also as county superin- 
 tendent of schools for Gilpin County. In 1878 
 he was elected, on the Republican ticket, regent 
 of the State University for a term of six years. 
 He was therefore at one and the same time 
 principal of the schools, county superintendent, 
 mayor of the city and state regent. In 1887 he 
 resigned as principal in Central City to accept 
 the presidency of the Colorado State University 
 at Boulder, which was tendered him, unsolicited, 
 by the board of regents. This position he ably 
 filled for four and one-half years, returning to 
 Denver in January, 1892. While president of 
 the university the honorary degree of LL. D. was 
 conferred upon him by Iowa Wesleyan University. 
 Several buildings were added to the univer- 
 sity during his incumbency, among them the 
 Hale Scientific building, named in his honor 
 after his resignation had been tendered. Thus, 
 after forty years of almost continuous service in 
 educational work, he retired from active duty. 
 
 While superintendent of public instruction, 
 Mr. Hale organized the State Teachers' Associa- 
 tion, of which he was the first president in 1875, 
 and again president in 1883. He is a member ot 
 the National Educational Association and has 
 
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 been a frequent and valued contributor to educa- 
 tional journalsof the country. While in Central 
 City he was president of the Mining Exchange, 
 and in 1894-95 was president of the Charity Or- 
 ganization Society of Denver. In the Knights of 
 Honor he is grand chaplain of the grand lodge. 
 In former years he was a Republican, but since 
 1894 has been independent in his political views. 
 During all the j'ears of his connection with the 
 history of Colorado he has been interested in its 
 growth and active in furthering its development, 
 and he has contributed his quota to the advance- 
 ment of its influence and resources. 
 
 The only son of our subject is Gen. Irving 
 Hale, who was born in North Bloomfield, N. Y., 
 August 28, 1861, came with his parents to Colo- 
 rado in 1865, and lived in Central City until 
 1873, when he came to Denver. He graduated 
 from the East Denver high school in 1877, at the 
 head of its first graduating class, and then went 
 back to Central City, where he remained until 
 1880. The next four years were spent at West 
 Point Military Academy, where he graduated in 
 1884, with the highest honors ever attained there 
 by any graduate. In 1887 he married Miss Mary 
 King, daughter of Col. W. R. King, of the 
 United States engineering corps. They have 
 four children, William King, John Huntington, 
 Dorothy and Marjory. He resigned from the 
 army in 1889. In the war with Spain (1898) he 
 was commissioned colonel of the first regiment of 
 the Colorado National Guard and with his 
 command, volunteered for two years' service in 
 the United States army, and left Denver for the 
 Philippine Islands May 17, 1898. 
 
 HON. JOHN F. SHAFROTH, M. C. The 
 character of a city is the character of its 
 citizens. The character of the city of 
 Denver may be judged in a measure from the 
 names of its leading public men, who have 
 become closely identified with its interests by 
 long residence and have contributed to the ex- 
 tension of its interests. Few of its citizens are 
 better known throughout the entire nation than 
 Mr. Shafroth, and certainly none has a more en- 
 viable reputation for breadth of intellect and up- 
 rightness of life. To write of his career is to 
 write, in part, a history of Colorado during a 
 similar period, for his name has been associated 
 
 with all the leading measures for the benefit of 
 the state and the development of its industries. 
 
 The life of Congressman Shafroth began in 
 Fayette, Howard County, Mo., June 9, 1854. 
 His father, John, who was born in Canton Berne, 
 Switzerland, was the son of a hotelkeeper who 
 took part in the French wars under Napoleon, 
 but died at an early age. Orphaned at twelve 
 years, John Shafroth had few advantages in his 
 youth. When a young man he came to America 
 and in 1839 settled in Booneville, Mo. The 
 following year he married Miss Annis Aule, a 
 native of Frankfort, Germany, and an orphan 
 who came to America with two sisters. After 
 his marriage he engaged in the general mercantile 
 business until his death, in 1866. Thirty years 
 afterward his wife passed away in Fayette, where 
 she had lived for fifty-six years, having come 
 there at the age of twenty. She was the mother 
 of six children, five now living, of whom John F. 
 is the j'oungest. 
 
 The education of our subject was begun in the 
 public schools, continued in Central College and 
 finished in the University of Michigan, where he 
 studied from 1872 to 1875, graduating with the 
 degree of B. S. He then studied law with 
 Samuel C. Major, of Fayette, and was there ad- 
 mitted to the bar in August, 1876, after which he 
 formed a partnership with his former preceptor 
 under the title of Major & Shafroth. Upon the 
 election of Mr. Major to the state senate, the 
 business of the firm fell upon the junior member. 
 In 1879 he came to Colorado, reaching Denver 
 on the ist of October, and soon afterward forming 
 a partnership with Andrew W. Brazee, ex-judge 
 of the supreme court. Two years later this con- 
 nection was dissolved, and the firm of Stallcup, 
 Luthe & Shafroth formed. Soon afterward Mr. 
 lyUthe was elected district attorney and Mr. 
 Shafroth became prosecuting attorney. The 
 latter, in 1887, was elected city attorney of Den- 
 ver upon the Republican ticket, was re-elected 
 two 3'ears later, serving until the spring of 1891. 
 Meantime the senior member of his firm was ap- 
 pointed a judge of the supreme court, and in 
 1888 he formed another partnership, becoming a 
 member of the firm of Rogers & Shafroth. 
 
 In the fall of 1894 Mr. Shafroth was nominated 
 on the Republican ticket as member of congress 
 from the first congressional district of Colorado, 
 and was elected by a majority of thirteen thou- 
 
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 sand and five hundred. At the expiration of his 
 terra, in 1896, he was re-elected on the silver 
 Republican ticket by a majority of fifty-eight 
 thousand. During both terms in congress he has 
 been a member of the committees on public lands 
 and the irrigation of arid lands. The numerous 
 bills introduced by him have been largely in the 
 interests of his constituents, and among those 
 that passed perhaps the most important was that 
 providing for the opening of forestry reserves to 
 mining, exploration and the location of mining 
 claims. He introduced and was largely instru- 
 mental in securing the passage of bills providing 
 for water reservoir sites at Colorado Springs, 
 Leadville and Sugar Loaf; also for the protecting 
 of the forests from fire. 
 
 Always an active Republican, Mr. Shafroth 
 favored the readjustment of the currency of the 
 nation and the placing of silver upon its proper 
 standard. He was one of the party of seven sen- 
 ators and five congressmen who issued a paper 
 calling for the organization of the silver Repub- 
 lican party and a meeting of its supporters in 
 Chicago. He believes prosperity will never 
 come, in fullest measure, to the great west until 
 the present financial policy of the government is 
 altered. That he is sustained in this belief by 
 his constituents is shown by the largely increased 
 majority he received at his last election. 
 
 In matters pertaining to the improvement of 
 Denver Mr. Shafroth has always been interested. 
 While city attorney he succeeded in securing 
 from the supreme court a reversal of the decision 
 rendered by the same court in the past, and under 
 this new decision abutting property can be as- 
 sessed aud taxed for street improvements, a 
 measure that has been most helpful to the city. 
 He also began a case against all the railroads 
 here to compel them to construct a viaduct over 
 Nineteenth street. This was defeated before the 
 district court, but when taken to the supreme 
 court the latter body held that the railroads were 
 compelled to construct, at their own cost, a via- 
 duct over streets rendered useless to the general 
 public by their use for railroad purposes. This 
 decision has not yet been made effective, but will 
 be in time. 
 
 In Fayette, Mo., October 26, 1881, Mr. Shaf- 
 roth married Virginia F. Morrison, who was 
 born there, is a graduate of Howard Female Col- 
 lege and in religious belief is connected with the 
 
 Baptist Church. Her father, John I,. Morrison, 
 a prominent business man of Fayette, at one time 
 was sherifi" of Howard County and later warden 
 of the state penitentiary. Her grandfather, Al- 
 fred Morrison, settled in Fayette about 1S24 and 
 became a man of prominence in public affairs. 
 He was elected state treasurer and filled the posi- 
 tion for four years; also held other ofiices of 
 responsibility. Mr. Shafroth has four sous, 
 John, Jr., Morrison, George and WiUiam. 
 
 RT.-REV. JOHN FRANKLIN SPALDING, 
 D. D. The life of this distinguished bishop 
 began in Belgrade, Kennebec County, Me., 
 August 25, 1828. He is a member of an old and 
 patriotic family that has been identified with the 
 history of America since an early period of its 
 settlement. In 1619 two brothers, Edmond and 
 Edward, came to this country from Lincolnshire, 
 England, the former settling in Maryland and 
 the latter in Virginia. However, in 1627 he 
 went to Massachusetts and settled at Braintree, 
 but later he and his son, Col. John Spalding, 
 with others, incorporated the town of Chelms- 
 ford. Col. John, who gained his title by service 
 in King Philip's war, had a son Joseph, whose 
 son, Lieut. John, was an ofiicer in the Revolu- 
 tion, while a brother of Lieut. John, Hon. 
 Simeon Spalding, was a member of Washington's 
 staff and a prominent statesman of Massachu- 
 setts. Jesse, son of Lieut. John, was born in 
 Chelmsford, where he engaged in farming until 
 his death. He was a young man at the time of 
 the Revolution and enlisted in the American 
 service. 
 
 John, son of Jesse and father of Bishop Spald- 
 ing, was born in Chelmsford, but removed to 
 Maine and improved a tract of land lying on the 
 Kennebec River. He was selectman of Belgrade 
 and a man of prominence in his locality. His 
 death occurred when he was quite advanced in 
 years. His first wife, who died in early woman- 
 hood, bore the maiden name of Lydia Coombs, 
 and was born at Vinalhaven, Me. Her father, 
 Sylvanus, who was a shipbuilder and farmer 
 there, was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, 
 who removed from Massachusetts to Maine and 
 entered land around Coombs Neck. He married 
 a daughter of James Stinson, also a soldier in the 
 Revolution and a member of a Massachusetts 
 
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 family. John Spalding had four children bj- his 
 first marriage, of whom three are living, John 
 Franklin being the eldest. By his second mar- 
 riage he had two children, one now living. 
 
 Having fitted himself for college at Camden, 
 Kent's Hill (Me.) Wesleyan Seminary and 
 North Yarmouth Academy, the subject of this 
 sketch entered Bowdoin College in 1849 and 
 graduated in 1853 with the degree of A. B., 
 later receiving the degrees of A. M. and D. D. 
 from his alma mater. Afterward he taught 
 school, being principal of East Pittston (Me.) 
 Academy for one term, and preceptor of Dennys- 
 ville Academy in the winter and spring terms of 
 1854. In October of that year he entered the 
 General Theological Seminary of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, New York City, from which 
 he graduated June 24, 1857. July 8 he was 
 ordained deacon of St. Stephen's Church, Port- 
 land, Me., and August i was appointed mission- 
 ary to St. James Church, Oldtown, Me.; July 14, 
 1858, ordained priest by Bishop Burgess in 
 Christ Church, Gardiner, Me.; August i, 1859, 
 appointed rector of St. George's Church, Lee, 
 Mass.; November i, i860, became assistant min- 
 ister of Grace Church, Providence, R. I., of 
 which Bishop Clark was the rector; November i , 
 1861, dissolved his connection with that church 
 and April i, 1862, became rector of St. Paul's 
 Church in Erie, Pa., where he remained for 
 twelve years and of which his son, Rev. Frank 
 Spalding, is now the rector. 
 
 In 1865 he commenced the erection of a church 
 edifice of stone, built in the early English style 
 of architecture, and with a seating capacity of 
 eight hundred. This magnificent building cost 
 $65,000. During the same year he was elected 
 a member of the Board of Missions of the Protest- 
 ant Episcopal Church for Western Pennsylvania 
 and was subsequently re-elected every third year 
 for the diocese of Pittsburg. In 1866 he organ- 
 ized St. John's Church of Erie and the following 
 year built a church that cost $5,000. In 1868 he 
 was a member of the general convention of the 
 Episcopal Church, meeting in New York. The 
 next year he organized the Church of the Cross 
 and Crown in Erie, and built a church that 
 seated three hundred. In October, 1871, he was 
 a member of the general convention that met in 
 Baltimore, and the next year he built Trinity 
 Chapel in Erie. 
 
 September 28, 1873, he was unanimously 
 elected and December 3 1 was consecrated bishop 
 of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, as suc- 
 cessor to the late Bishop Randall. He reached 
 Denver February 27, 1874, and at once entered 
 upon the duties of his large diocese. Railroads 
 were few and far apart in those days, and the 
 bishop was obliged to do much of his visiting on 
 horseback or by stage over rough mountain roads. 
 The labor was enormous, but his courage was 
 equal to the responsibility. Soon the number of 
 communicants was greatly increased. New 
 churches and chapels were built, parsonages were 
 erected and parishes were organized. The work 
 grew to such an extent that in 1 88 1 New Mexico 
 was separated, and in 1887 Wyoming was formed 
 into another diocese. He built the Wolfe School 
 for girls and Jarvis Hall, a military academy for 
 boys; also Matthews' Hall Theological School, of 
 all of which he is the president. He also was in- 
 strumental in the erection of St. Luke's Hospital 
 and the Home for Consumptives. 
 
 In Erie Bishop Spalding married Lavinia 
 Spencer, who was born there and received an ex- 
 cellent education. She was a daughter of Judah 
 
 C. Spencer, a native of Connecticut and a de- 
 scendant of Revolutionary ancestors. She is a 
 lady of sweet disposition and noble character, a 
 fitting companion for her husband in all his re- 
 sponsible undertakings. They are the parents of 
 five children, of whom Frank is a graduate of 
 Princeton and rector at Erie, Pa.; William, also a 
 graduate of Princeton, is engaged in business in 
 Denver; Elizabeth and Sarah were given splendid 
 advantages, the latter being a Vassar graduate; 
 and John Edward died in Erie. 
 
 Three times Bishop Spalding has gone to Eu- 
 rope to attend great meetings of bishops in 
 London, and twice, in 1878 and 1888, he also 
 visited the continent, but the last time, in 1897, 
 his visit was limited to England. Fraternally he 
 is a Knight Templar Mason. The degree of 
 
 D. D. was conferred upon him by both Bowdoin 
 and Trinity Colleges, the latter of Hartford, 
 Conn. He is a fluent writer and has published 
 a number of books, among them the ' ' Church 
 and Apostolic Ministry" (1886); "The Best 
 Mode of Working a Parish " (used in the Syra- 
 cuse (N. Y.) Theological Seminary); "Jesus 
 Christ, the Proof of Christianity" (18S9), and 
 many pamphlets and short articles. In length of 
 
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 time of service he is next to the oldest bishop 
 west of the Mississippi. He is a member of the 
 Sons of the Revolution, was its first president, 
 and served for two years; is also identified with 
 the New York Society of Colonial Wars and the 
 Colorado Society, having been a charter member 
 of the latter and its president for two years. 
 
 The life of Bishop Spalding has been a busy 
 and active one. Nor is there any noticeable 
 diminution of liis activity now, although his 
 twenty-five years of service in his present po-sition 
 certainly entitle him to a lightening of labor, 
 should he so desire. By all who know him, 
 whether or not they are identified with his de- 
 nomination, he is recognized as a man of scholarly 
 attainments and great executive ability, and is 
 respected and admired for his kindness to the 
 poor, his great heart that is open to every de- 
 served appeal for assistance, and his noble char- 
 acter that has stood the fiery crucible of hardships 
 and has come unscathed through every trial. 
 
 HON. HENRY MOORE TELLER. In its 
 entire history as a state, it is doubtful if 
 Colorado has given, to assist in framing the 
 laws of the nation, any citizen who has attained 
 a fame equal to that of Senator Teller. His name 
 is indelibly written upon the annals of his state 
 and his country. Through his long and brilliant 
 career as United States senator he has not only 
 retained the friendship of his political supporters, 
 but has won the admiration even of those whose 
 opinions upon political subjects are diametrically 
 opposed to his own. He stands now, near the 
 climax of his career, as he has always stood, for 
 what he believes to be true and right, for what he 
 believes will promote the national welfare. To 
 these principles he would remain stanch and true, 
 though it cost him defeat for the highest position 
 within the gift of the people, for he is a man of 
 fearless courage and values integrity more than 
 position, honor more than ofiBce. 
 
 A publication of the nature of this should 
 justly devote considerable space to the life and 
 works of such a man. In this resume it will be 
 our effort to give an account of his ancestry, in 
 order that the reader may understand the quali- 
 ties that have come by inheritance; also a sketch 
 of the career that has been so remarkable in 
 amount of good accomplished for the people of 
 
 the state and nation. From the presentation of 
 his biography may be gleaned lessons worthy 
 of emulation by all, and especially by the young 
 man, starting out in the world, with every possi- 
 bility before him if he but have the courage to do 
 and dare. 
 
 The founder of the Teller family in America 
 was William, a native of Holland, born in 1620. 
 In 1639 he came to New York and settled at Fort 
 Orange, where the king of Holland had appointed 
 him trustee of a tract of land. In 1664 he moved 
 to New York, where his remaining years were 
 passed. By his marriage to Mary Douchen he 
 had a son, William (2d), whose son, William (3d), 
 was the father of William (4th) , and the latter 
 had a son, Isaac Teller, M. D., a prominent 
 physician of New York, having an office on the 
 corner of Chambers street and Broadway. Dur- 
 ing the Revolution he volunteered as a surgeon 
 in the colonial army and died while in active serv- 
 ice. By his marriage to Rebecca Remsen, who 
 was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of Dutch parent- 
 age, he had a son, Remsen Teller, who was born 
 about 1769 and resided atSchenectady.N.Y. He 
 married Catherine McDonald, of Ballston Spa, 
 N. Y. , daughter of David McDonald and Sarah 
 (DuBois) McDonald, the latter a daughter of 
 Col. Louis DuBois, of Ulster County, N. Y., 
 who was a colonel in the Revolutionary war. 
 Remsen Teller and his wife had a son, John, who 
 was born in Schenectady, N. Y., February 15, 
 1800, and married Charlotte Moore, who was 
 born in Vermont in 1808 and is now living in 
 Illinois. John Teller located on a farm in Alle- 
 gany County, N. Y., but later he removed to 
 Girard, Erie County, Pa., and after ten years 
 there, in 1862 he settled in Morrison, Whiteside 
 County, 111., where he died in 1879. His wife 
 was a daughter of Willard Moore, who was born 
 in Vermont, removed thence to Ballston Spa, 
 N. Y., from there went to Allegany County about 
 182 1, and in 1840 settled in Rochester, the same 
 state. 
 
 Upon his father's farm in Allegany County the 
 subject of this review was born May 23, 1830. 
 The years of his boyhood and youth passed un- 
 eventfully in farm work and study. His indomit- 
 able perseverance was apparent at an early age. 
 Knowing his parents would be unable to give him 
 the advantages he desired he set himself reso- 
 lutely to work to secure them for himself, and by 
 
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 teaching school earned the money necessary for 
 the prosecution of his academic studies. On the 
 completion of the academic course he entered the 
 law office of Judge Martin Grover, under whose 
 preceptorship he acquired an accurate knowledge 
 of the law. He was admitted to the bar January 
 5, 1858, at Binghamton, N. Y. Coming as far 
 west as Morrison, Whiteside County, 111., he 
 engaged in active general practice until his re- 
 moval to Colorado. 
 
 During his residence there gold was discovered 
 in Pike's Peak and thousands of men crossed the 
 plains, joining the army of gold-seekers in the 
 mountains of Colorado. Other lines of activity 
 sprang into existence with the birth and develop- 
 ment of bustling towns from the primitive min- 
 ing camps. He was among those whose attention 
 was called to the opening offered men of energy 
 and determination in this part of the country. 
 He determined to come west, and in April, 1861, 
 made the long and tedious overland trip to the 
 mountains. He opened an office at Central City, 
 then the chief center of population and mining 
 in the territory. Three years later he was joined 
 by his brother, Willard, and the firm of H. M. 
 & W. Teller was established. In 1865 he drew 
 up the charter for the Colorado Central Railroad 
 and presented it to the territorial legislature. As 
 he was the originator of the railroad and its most 
 enthusiastic promoter, he was selected as the 
 president of the company and for five years held 
 that position, his excellent management placing 
 the concern upon a sound financial basis. During 
 the Indian troubles in 1863 he was appointed 
 major-genera! of militia by Governor Evans and 
 held the office for two years, then resigned. 
 
 Senator Teller was reared in the Democratic 
 faith, but when the Republican party was organ- 
 ized he found himself in sympathy with its prin- 
 ciples and therefore joined its ranks. Soon after 
 coming to Colorado he began to participate 
 actively in politics, and in 1876, when Colorado 
 was admitted to the union, he and Mr. Chaffee 
 were elected its first representatives in the United 
 States senate. He drew the term of three months, 
 and on its expiration was elected for a full term 
 of six years, 1877 to 1883. His record in the 
 senate is a part of history, and his acceptable 
 service in behalf of his constituents has led to 
 his re-election at every election since 1876. 
 Shortly after he entered the senate he was made a 
 
 member of the committee on privileges and elec- 
 tions and was sent to Florida to investigate the 
 alleged frauds in the election of 1876. In 1878 
 he was made chairman of a special committee to 
 investigate alleged election frauds in southern 
 states, his report of which was most thorough. 
 As chairman of the committee on civil service 
 and retrenchment he rendered efficient service. 
 
 In 1882 Senator Teller was chosen secretary of 
 the interior in President Arthur'% cabinet and he 
 served in that responsible position until the ex- 
 piration of the presidential term, March 3, 1885. 
 The following da}' he took his seat in the senate, 
 having been elected to succeed Hon. Nathaniel 
 P. Hill. In 1 89 1 he was re-elected for the term 
 ending in March, 1897, and at the latter time was 
 again the people's choice for the position. He 
 has served as chairman of the committees on 
 pensions, patents, mines and mining, and as a 
 member of the committees on claims, railroads, 
 judiciary, appropriations and public lands. On 
 all questions relating to public lands he is con- 
 sidered an authorit}'. 
 
 Perhaps in no way is Senator Teller better 
 known than for his championship of the free 
 coinage of silver. He is a stanch advocate of 
 the restoration of bimetallism, believing that the 
 act of 1873 demonetizing silver has proved prej- 
 udicial to the welfare of the nation, and especi- 
 ally injurious to the interests of Colorado. Be- 
 lieving that the prosperity of the working people 
 can never be subserved until silver is restored to 
 its proper standard and the currency issue is 
 honestly and fairly settled, he has given much of 
 his thought and time in late years to this matter. 
 His labors in the interests of free coinage in the 
 senate of 1893 are too recent to need especial 
 mention. On his return to Colorado at the ex- 
 piration of that session, the people, appreciating 
 what he had done in their behalf, accorded him a 
 most hearty welcome and demonstration. It was 
 said at the time that the reception was the most 
 brilliant ever given anyone in the state. But, 
 grand as it was, the reception given him in 1896, 
 after the famous St. Louis national convention, 
 eclipsed every previous affair of the kind. In 
 the national convention of his party in 1896 he 
 had stood firmly for the free coinage of the white 
 metal, which he desired to be made a plank in the 
 party platform. The majority were against him, 
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 upon principles it should have supported, he and 
 his followers left the convention hall, disappointed 
 and sad at heart. Whatever disappointment he 
 may have experienced, however, was forgotten 
 in the gratitude he felt toward the people whom 
 he represented and who, upon his return home, 
 showered upon him expressions of heartiest 
 appreciation and thanks for his steadfast support 
 of their interests. 
 
 In 1886 Alfred University conferred upon Sena- 
 tor Teller the degree of LL.D. In fraternal rela- 
 tions he is a Mason and has done much for the 
 upbuilding of the order in Colorado. He has 
 attained the thirty-third degree, Scottish Rite, 
 and has been honored by his brethren of the 
 Mystic Tie with many important and honorable 
 offices. For seven years he was grand master of 
 the state and was also the first grand commander 
 of the Knights Templar of Colorado. 
 
 At Cuba, N. Y., June 7, 1862, he married 
 Harriet M., daughter of Packard Bruce, a farmer 
 of Allegany County. They have three children, 
 Emma A., John Harrison and Henry Bruce, all 
 of whom were born in Central City. 
 
 Of the personal characteristics of Senator Tel- 
 ler, one of the most conspicuous is that quality 
 which enables him to look ahead, measuring 
 forces and their effects upon the future. He is 
 peculiarly far-seeing, able to discern influences 
 that will bear upon the prosperity of the people 
 in da}-s yet to come. As a leader he is safe, 
 because he is cool, calm and keen, never allowing 
 himself to become excited and nervous, but main- 
 taining a steady control over his own mind as 
 well as over others. Because of the wonderful 
 control he exercises over himself, he has some- 
 times been called cold; but he may be compared 
 with the ocean beneath which flows the gulf 
 stream, the ocean itself on the surface giving 
 little indication of the warmth of the current 
 below. So it is with him; on the surface he is 
 great, awe inspiring and cold, but below flows 
 the warm and genial current of kindness, sympa- 
 thy and love. 
 
 Perhaps we cannot better conclude this sketch 
 than with a quotation from the pen of that versa- 
 tile and brilliant writer, Fitz-Mac, which appeared 
 in a recent character study of Senator Teller, 
 published in the Denver Evening Post. "He has 
 this mark of genuine greatness above any man 
 whom I know in Colorado, or perhaps any that I 
 
 personally know anywhere in public life, except 
 Tom Reed, speaker of the house of representa- 
 tives. He is simple. He is natural. He is with- 
 out affectations. He is simple because it is natural 
 for him to be simple, and simplicity indicates the 
 calm mind and clear vision as to the relations of 
 things, their real values. 
 
 " It seems to me that the holy spirit of patriot- 
 ism has descended upon Teller and enveloped 
 him and entered into his soul and sanctified his 
 purposes. He stands before the country as the 
 tongue of Colorado, but he speaks not for Colo- 
 rado alone, not alone for the United States, but 
 for the humbler three-fourths of all humanity. 
 Soberly, bravely and ably he is fighting human- 
 ity's holy cause for us and for all, and it behooves 
 us as an intelligent, appreciative and generous 
 people to hold up his honored hands steadfastly 
 and stand by him with a courage as dauntless, as 
 devoted as his own." 
 
 (John W. ILIFF. Among the men who 
 I gained fortune in Colorado was one who was 
 (2/ known all over the country as the "cattle 
 king' ' of this state. When people by thousands 
 were coming west during the Pike's Peak excite- 
 ment, he decided to join the tide of emigration 
 that moved westward. He had the sound com- 
 mon sense to bring with him a wagon train of 
 provisions, and these he sold in Denver at a 
 large profit. With this money he bought a 
 small herd of cattle, the nucleus of the immense 
 cattle business he afterward conducted. Study- 
 ing his chosen occupation with care and giving it 
 his entire time, he was naturally rewarded with 
 success. With the exception of about a year in the 
 banking business with Hon. Amos Steck, in 
 Wyoming, he engaged in no business but the 
 raising and selling of stock, and as his means in- 
 creased he increased his herds. Some cattle- 
 men, attaining a fair degree of success, relaxed 
 efforts and thus reduced their profits, but he 
 seemed to grow more energetic with the passing 
 years. He was the head and mainspring of all 
 the work, accompanied the men on the round- 
 ups and worked side by side with them. His 
 possessions extended over such a large tract of 
 land that it is said he could travel for a week, 
 yet always eat and sleep at one of his own 
 ranches. He had twenty thousand acres of 
 
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 pasturage, watered by springs and creeks. From 
 here he shipped cattle to eastern markets. At 
 one time, during the early days, he supplied 
 dressed beef to all the military posts along the 
 line of the Union Pacific. He also had large 
 government contracts and contracts with whole- 
 sale butchers. Over the plains from Julesburg 
 on the east to Texas on the south ranged his 
 cattle, numbering more than fifty thousand head, 
 of which he marketed perhaps fifteen thousand 
 per annum. He was a man of vast wealth, with 
 a princely income; yet his life was unostentatious 
 and to the last he retained the simplicity of habits 
 that marked his earlier years. 
 
 For the facts given in regard to the origin and 
 early history of the AyloiF, or Iliff, family, we 
 are indebted to Morant's history of Essex, Eng- 
 land. In Austria, where one branch of the fam- 
 ily resides, the name was Ayecliffe. From Eng- 
 land some of the name emigrated to New Eng- 
 gland in a very early day and with the subse- 
 quent history of that part of our country later 
 generations were intimately identified. From 
 there they moved west to Ohio, where our sub- 
 ject's father, Thomas Ilifi", cultivated a farm near 
 Zanesville. Thomas Iliff" was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania April 24, 1803, and died October 10, 1874. 
 By his first wife, who was Salome Reed, he had 
 ten children, of whom four are deceased. His 
 second wife was Harriet Halcomb, who survived 
 hira twenty-four years. He was one of the most 
 successful and intelligent farmers of Ohio and 
 accumulated a fair property. In the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, of which he was a member, 
 he filled offices of trust. Politically he was a 
 Republican and a man of influence in his locality. 
 His name was a synonym for everything that 
 was substantial and trustworthy and his life was 
 worthy of emulation. 
 
 The shrewd judgment of Mr. IliS" is illustrated 
 by an incident that happened in his youth. He 
 was living near Zanesville, Ohio, on the farm 
 where he was born in 1831, and was about to em- 
 bark in the world for himself. His father, wish- . 
 ing him to remain near the old home, offered to 
 invest $7,500 in a farm for him, but he asked him 
 to give him $500 and permit him to go west. 
 With that small capital he went to Kansas, where 
 he remained for three years, until he settled in 
 Colorado. 
 
 In January, 1864, Mr. Ilifl married Miss Sarah 
 
 E. Smith, a lineal descendant of John Smith, of 
 Pocahontas fame, and a native of Delaware, Ohio, 
 but for some years a resident of Kansas, where 
 she was educated. The only son born of this 
 marriage is William S., of Denver. In March, 
 1870, Mr. Iliff" married Miss Elizabeths. Eraser, 
 of whose family mention is made in the sketch of 
 her brother, J. J. Eraser. She was born in 
 Canada, but came to Colorado at an early age 
 and afterward made her home with an aunt near 
 Pueblo. By her marriage to Mr. Iliff three chil- 
 dren were born, one of whom died when young. 
 In spite of the fact that his journeyings around 
 the country brought him into frequent contact 
 with Indians, Mr. Iliff never carried weapons, 
 but he did not molest the savages and they in 
 turn did not molest him. Politically he was a 
 Republican, and in religious belief adhered to 
 the Methodist faith. He died February 9, 1878, 
 and was buried in Riverside cemetery at Denver. 
 Afterward his son erected the Iliff School of 
 Theology at University Park as a memorial to 
 him. His widow is now the wife of Bishop 
 Warren, of University Park. 
 
 Gl B. DANIELS. During the '70s there was 
 LJ no citizen of Denver who was more in- 
 / I timately associated with its business inter- 
 ests or held a position higher in the confidence of 
 the people than did Mr. Daniels, and his death, 
 which occurred April 8, 1881, was mourned as 
 a public loss. His great business ability was 
 recognized by all, and was the chief factor in his 
 financial success; another, and scarcely less vital 
 force in his success, was his boundless energy, 
 the enterprise that no obstacle daunted, the in- 
 dustry that the, hardest labor could not diminish. 
 A member of an old family of New York and 
 himself a native of that state, Mr. Daniels was 
 reared upon a farm there, but early in life went 
 to New York City, where he embarked in busi- 
 ness as a ship chandler. About 1865 he came 
 west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, but after three 
 years settled in Denver, which continued to be 
 his home during his remaining years. For a 
 time he was interested in the wholesale grocerj' 
 business, as a member of the firm of Daniels & 
 Brown. Later he assisted in the organization of 
 the Colorado National Bank, of which he was 
 vice-president until his death. He was inter- 
 
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 ested in the real-estate business, and built a 
 number of business blocks, among them the 
 building occupied by the bank. He was also 
 the head of the banking house of Daniels, Brown 
 & Co., of Del Norte, knowu as the Bank of Sau 
 Juan, which under his management gained a 
 reputation as one of the strongest financial in- 
 stitutions in the west. 
 
 lyike the majority of the early residents of 
 Denver, Mr. Daniels held important interests in 
 the cattle business. He was one of the first to 
 buy and improve a ranch in the San Luis Val- 
 ley and he also owned large tracts in Jefferson 
 County. His business affairs received his entire 
 attention, to the exclusion of public matters, but 
 he did not forget the duty he owed to his coun- 
 try and kept himself posted upon the questions 
 before the people. In politics he was a Demo- 
 crat. His first residence in Denver stood on 
 Curtis and Sixteenth streets, where is now the 
 Tabor opera house, and afterward he moved to 
 Court place and Fourteenth street, where he 
 died. 
 
 In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mr. Daniels married 
 Hattie Ramsen, who was born in St. Catharines, 
 Canada, her father having come there from Scot- 
 land, and her mother from England. She died 
 in 1879, when thirty-five years of age. Two of 
 her children, Olive E. and George Sheedy, died 
 in childhood, and the only survivor is A. B., Jr. 
 
 HON. JEROME B. CHAFFEE. From what- 
 ever point the life and character of Senator 
 Chaffee may be viewed, whether as the 
 head of large and valuable mining interests, the 
 organizer and first president of the First National 
 Bank of Denver, or as a man of public affairs, 
 devoted to the welfare of his state and intensely 
 interested in its progress, it will be readily con- 
 ceded that he was a great man. His representa- 
 tion of Colorado in the United States senate was 
 of such a nature as to reflect credit upon his own 
 high order of talents and se'cure for him the 
 regard of his constituents. 
 
 Born in Niagara County, N. Y. , April 17, 1825, 
 Mr. Chaffee was quite a young man when he came 
 west to Adrian, Mich., where he taught school 
 and afterwards kept a store. Later he removed 
 to St. Joseph, Mo. , where he engaged in bank- 
 ing. In 1857 he organized the Elmwood Towu 
 
 Company in Kansas, of which he became secre- 
 tary and manager. Soon after the discovery of 
 gold in Colorado he decided to come here, and in 
 i860 he crossed the plains to Gilpin County, 
 where he developed some gold lodes, and, with 
 Eben Smith, erected the Smith & Chaffee stamp 
 mill. In 1863 he sold the interest in the lode he 
 was working, but afterward bought it back and 
 consolidated it with other lodes, the whole form- 
 ing the famous "Bob-Tail Lode and Tunnel," 
 the name of which is said to have been derived 
 from the fact that a bob -tailed ox, harnessed to 
 a drag, made by stretching a rawhide across a 
 forked stick, was used for hauling the first pay- 
 dirt to the gulch for sluicing. Mr. Chaffee be- 
 came the largest owner of the Bob-Tail Company, 
 which owned the best paying mine, largest 
 tunnels and one of the most complete mills in the 
 state at that time. He became the owner of one 
 hundred or more gold and silver lodes, among 
 them the Caribou silver mine in Boulder County, 
 and he was one of the organizers and principal 
 stockholders in the Little Pittsburg Consolidated 
 Mining Company. 
 
 The business energies of Mr, Chaffee found a 
 new outlet in 1865, when he bought the banking 
 interests of Clark & Co., and organized the First 
 National Bank of Denver, of which he was presi- 
 dent until January, 1880. Politically he was a 
 Republican from the organization of that party, 
 and he was its leader in Colorado for many years 
 before his death. Though from i860 to 1888 
 extensively interested in mining, yet the larger 
 portion of his time was given to public affairs. 
 In 1 86 1 he was elected to represent Gilpin County 
 in the first territorial legislature, two years later 
 was re-elected and chosen speaker of the house. 
 In 1865 the people organized a state government 
 under the enabling act of congress and he and 
 Hon. John Evans were elected United States 
 senators. A bill to admit the state was intro- 
 duced and passed bj' the congress and senate in 
 1865-66, but President Johnson vetoed it. Again 
 introduced in the session of 1867-68, it was again 
 vetoed by President Johnson. This veto and the 
 subsequent controversy are memorable events in 
 the administration of Johnson, nor was Senator 
 Chaffee's connection with the matter of insig- 
 nificant importance. 
 
 When elected a delegate to congress and be- 
 ginning upon his duties in the spring of 1871, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 Senator Chaffee at once presented a new enabling 
 act. During his four years of service as delegate 
 he labored hard for the passage of the act, but it 
 was not until near the expiration of his term that 
 he was successful. When the news reached 
 Denver there was the wildest enthusiasm, and 
 both parties united in praising Mr. Chaffee, for 
 both Democrats and Republicans wished the 
 territory admitted to the Union, each believing it 
 would have a majority of votes. On the admis- 
 sion of the state into the Union, Mr. Chaffee was 
 unanimously elected to the senate, a well-merited 
 recognition of his efforts in the attainment of the 
 end long desired. Hon. H. M. Teller was elected 
 as junior senator. When they reached Washing- 
 ton, Mr. Chaffee drew by lot the long term ex- 
 piring March 4, 1879. After his election his 
 first effort in behalf of the state was an arrange- 
 ment of facts relative to the question of pro rata 
 between the Kansas Pacific and the Union Pacific 
 roads. These he drew up and presented to the 
 senate in a speech that attracted the attention of 
 the ablest men of the country and proved the be- 
 ginning of the final settlement of the question. 
 He introduced a bill authorizing a treaty with the 
 Ute Indians for the cession of a part of their 
 reservation, thus opening to development the rich 
 mining district of San Juan. He introduced a 
 bill changing the rules of the house so as to give 
 the territories representation in the committee on 
 territories, thus establishing a precedent for per- 
 mitting delegates to participate in the business of 
 other committees. He drafted and secured the 
 passage of a bill for enlarging, confirming and 
 defining the power of territorial legislature. 
 Largely through his labors an excellent mining 
 code was passed by congress. Under the new 
 state organization he was again elected United 
 States senator and drew the short term, expiring 
 March 3, 1879, when he refused further election 
 on account of ill health. His friends were ex- 
 tremely reluctant to accept his refusal of further 
 nomination, but when he urged his physical 
 inability to discharge the duties of the responsible 
 position, Hon. Nathaniel P. Hill was placed in 
 nomination and afterward duly elected to the 
 ofiSce. 
 
 Beginning with the convention in Buffalo in 
 1844, when J. G. Birnej' was nominated by the 
 Liberal party, Senator Chafiee was a delegate to 
 every national convention of his party. During 
 
 many years he represented his state as a member 
 of the Republican national committee. He did 
 much for the advancement of the state, giving 
 liberally of his time to promote progressive proj- 
 ects and also contributing with the greatest 
 generosity to matters for the benefit of the people. 
 His talents were of an unusually high order, and 
 he is remembered as one of the most eminent 
 men that the state has ever had among its citizens. 
 At Adrian, Mich., in 1848, Senator Chaffee 
 married Miriam, daughter of Warner and Mary 
 (Perry) Comstock. Their children were: Horace 
 Jerome, Nellie Virginia, Edward Fenton and 
 Fannie Josephine, wife of U. S. Grant, Jr. In 
 his la.st years Senator Chaffee divided his time 
 between Colorado and the home of his daughter 
 at Murry weather farm, Westchester County, N.Y. 
 He died there March 9, 1886, and lies buried in 
 Adrian, by the side of his wife and three of his 
 children. 
 
 j EWIS E. LEMEN, M. D., president of the 
 It Colorado State Medical Societj^ and surgeon 
 U for the Union Pacific Railroad, was born in 
 Belleville, St. Clair County, 111., April i, 1849. 
 The first of his ancestors who settled in America 
 was his great- grandfather, James Lemen, a native 
 of Scotland, but in early manhood an emigrant to 
 Harper's Ferry, Va., and during the Revolution 
 a brave defender of the colonial honor. After 
 the war closed he was sent west by the govern- 
 ment in order to locate lands for soldiers in the 
 western territory. He settled in St. Clair County, 
 of which he was one of the earliest pioneers. 
 
 Rev. James Lemen, the doctor's grandfather, 
 was the first white child born in Illinois in the 
 old Indian fort at Kaskaskia. Amid the pioneer 
 influences and environments of his day he grew 
 to manhood, and, selecting the ministry for his 
 profession, he was ordained a preacher in the 
 Baptist denomination. For forty-five years he 
 was pastor of Bethel Church in St. Clair County, 
 and in addition to his ministerial duties he also 
 entered and improved land. He passed away 
 when eighty -six years of age. 
 
 Born in St. Clair County, Sylvester Lemen, 
 father of the doctor, was given better educational 
 advantages than had been possible when his 
 father was young. He made agriculture his prin- 
 cipal vocation and became the owner of a valuable 
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 were passed. He was also a licensed preacher in 
 the Baptist Church. In politics he was a Re- 
 publican and strong in his advocacy of the Union 
 during the Civil war. His last days were spent 
 in Belleville, where he died at fifty-six years. 
 His wife, who was born in Illinois and died in 
 Denver at the age of sixty-six, was Susan K., 
 daughter of Aaron Shook, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania and a pioneer farmer of St. Clair County. 
 The family of Sylvester and Susan Lemen con- 
 sisted of nine children, of whom seven attained 
 mature years and six are living now, the four 
 sons all being professional men. H. A., the 
 eldest, is a physician in Denver, and E. C. is a 
 physician at Upper Alton, 111., while the young- 
 est. Rev. T. A., is a minister in the Evangelical 
 Church in Oklahoma. 
 
 The early years of Dr. Icemen's life were un- 
 eventfully passed on his father's farm. At the 
 age of sixteen he entered Shurtleff College in 
 Alton, 111., where he carried on his literary 
 studies. From there he went to the St. Louis 
 Medical College, from which he graduated in 
 1871 with the degree of M. D. In 1876 the 
 degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by his 
 alma mater, Shurtleff College. After graduating 
 in medicine he practiced in St. Louis for a year, 
 but in 1872, owing to impaired health caused by 
 overwork, it became necessary for him to seek a 
 change of climate. He had heard much of the 
 salubrious air and healthful climate of Colorado 
 and accordingly came to this state, where he 
 opened an ofiice in Georgetown, Clear Creek 
 County, and engaged in practice there until his 
 removal to Denver in 1884. Here he was 
 appointed surgeon for the Omaha and Grant 
 Smelting Works, also in 1887 surgeon to the 
 Globe Smelting and Refining Company. During 
 most of the time since 1884 he has been surgeon 
 for the Union Pacific Railroad, and in 1885 he was 
 appointed surgeon with the Denver City Cable 
 Railway Company, filling the position at the 
 present writing. He is also consulting surgeon 
 of the Denver, Texas & Gulf' Railroad; ex-presi- 
 dent of the staff, and surgeon of St. Joseph's 
 hospital, consulting surgeon of St. Luke's hos- 
 pital, and president of the staff of surgeons of the 
 Cottage Home. He is professor of clinical 
 surgery in the medical department of the Univer- 
 sity of Denver, for three years held a similar 
 position in the University of Colorado, and for 
 
 one year held the chair of fractures and disloca- 
 tions in Gross Medical College. He is ex-presi- 
 dent of the American Academy of Railroad 
 Surgeons and is now president of the Colorado 
 Medical Society. 
 
 In April, 1893, Dr. Lemen was appointed 
 health commissioner of Denver by Mayor Van 
 Horn. In 1889 he was appointed a commissioner 
 of the Colorado Insane Asylum, and was presi- 
 dent of the board until 1895. With the various 
 medical associations he holds membership, 
 national, state, and city and county, of which 
 last he was president for some time. His con- 
 tributions to medical journals have made his 
 name a familiar one to the profession throughout 
 the country. He has been especially successful 
 in surgery, in which department his skill is 
 universally recognized, and his articles upon any 
 branch of that subject are always accepted as 
 authority. In fraternal relations he is a Knight 
 Templar and has taken the thirty-second degree 
 in Masonry. In politics he adheres to the prin- 
 ciples of that body known as the silver Republi- 
 cans. The demands of his profession have been 
 such that he has had no time, had he possessed 
 the inclination, to enter the political arena. The 
 positions he has held have been those that were 
 directly connected with his profession or with 
 the educational interests of his community. 
 
 May 5, 1875, Dr. Lemen married Miss Lizzie, 
 daughter of Hon. Henry T. Mudd, of St. Louis, 
 Mo. She died in Georgetown, Colo., in 1876. 
 His second marriage, April 12, 1882, united him 
 with Elsie, daughter of Hon. William H. James, 
 of the Omaha and Grant Smelting Company. 
 Three children have been born of their union, 
 of whom two are living, Margaret Lemen and 
 Lewis James Lemen. 
 
 (T T. ESKRIDGE, M. D., president of the 
 I State Board of Lunacy, ex-president of the 
 (2/ Colorado State Medical Society, is one of 
 Denver's most prominent physicians. In the 
 profession he is regarded as an authority on 
 nervous and mental diseases and he has written one 
 hundred and five articles upon this type of disease 
 for medical journals in this country. A number 
 of his contributions have been translated into 
 other languages and copied in their medical jour- 
 nals. He has written for "Practical Therapeu- 
 
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 tics" by Foster, "American Textbook of Ap- 
 plied Therapeutics" by Wilson, "American Sys- 
 tem of Practical Medicine" by Loomis and 
 Thompson, and "American System of Medical 
 Jurisprudence" by Haynes and Peterson. What- 
 ever subject he treats, within the realm of medi- 
 cal thought, is dealt with in a vigorous manner, 
 so that it is made clear to the mind, and it is 
 doubtless due to this vigor and terseness of style 
 that his contributions to scientific literature are 
 so valuable. 
 
 The Eskridge family was founded in America 
 by Judge George Eskridge, a native of Scotland, 
 who came to America in 1660 as judge of the 
 king's bench in Virginia and continued to preside 
 over the court until his death. Among his de- 
 scendants are numerous planters, physicians and 
 attorneys. His son, who was a planter, par- 
 ticipated in the Revolution. The latter' s son, 
 John, was born in Virginia and took part in 
 the war of 18 12. Removing to Sussex County, 
 Del., he carried on farming extensively there un- 
 til his death. 
 
 Jeremiah, the son of John, and the father of the 
 doctor, was born in Delaware and took part in 
 the Seminole war from 1835 to 1838, and was 
 wounded. By trade a sea-captain, he owned 
 vessels and schooners in Chesapeake bay. Final- 
 ly he retired from the sea and settled on a farm 
 in Sussex County, where he still resides, quite 
 sturdy in spite of Jiis eighty-five years. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 His wife, who died in 1865, was in maidenhood 
 Mary Marvel and was born in Sussex County, 
 member of a prominent family there. Her 
 brother, Josiah Marvel, was recently the gov- 
 ernor of Delaware and died during his term of 
 office. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, the sixth among 
 twelve children, was born in Sussex County, 
 Del. After completing the public school studies 
 he entered the classical institute at Laurel, Del., 
 where he spent three years. The next three 
 were devoted to teaching. He then studied 
 medicine under Dr. Fowler, of Laurel, Del., and 
 in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, 
 from which he graduated in 1875 with the degree 
 of Doctor of Medicine. Afterward he practiced 
 in Philadelphia until 1884. For a time he 
 was assistant- demonstrator of anatomy in Jeffer- 
 son Medical College and physician to the Phila- 
 
 delphia Dispensary. In 1876 he was physician 
 to the eye and ear department of the Philadelphia 
 Dispensary and attending physician to the Cath- 
 erine Street Dispensary. From 1875 to 188 1 he 
 was quiz-master on physiology and during these 
 years gave lectures before the .students of Jeffer- 
 son Medical College. In 1879 he was a lecturer 
 on physical diagnosis at the Philadelphia School 
 of Anatomy and attending physician to St. Mary's 
 Hospital. In 1880 he was elected attending 
 physician to Jefferson College Hospital; in 1882, 
 neurologist of Howard Hospital, and in 1883 post- 
 graduate instructor in mental and nervous dis- 
 eases in Jefferson Medical College. 
 
 The duty of filling so many positions neces- 
 sarily was a great strain upon Dr. Eskridge, 
 and his health broke down in the winter of 1883- 
 84. In August, 1884, he came west on account 
 of tuberculosis of the lungs and located in Colo- 
 rado Springs, where he spent four years in 
 recuperating his health. In 1888 he removed to 
 Denver, where he has his office in the Equitable 
 building. In 1889 he was appointed neurologist 
 and alienist to the Arapahoe County and St. 
 Luke's Hospitals, and the next year began giv- 
 ing a course of lectures on the diseases of the 
 nervous system; in the University of Colorado. 
 In 1892 he was appointed dean of the medical 
 faculty of the same institution and professor of 
 nervous and mental diseases and medical juris- 
 prudence, but in 1859 he' resigned, severing all 
 connection with the college. Each year he has 
 delivered a course of lectures at Colorado Col- 
 lege, in Colorado Springs, on cerebral localiza- 
 tion and physiology of the nervous system. In 
 1894 Governor Mclntire appointed him commis- 
 sioner of the State Insane Asylum, and since 
 that time he has been the president of the board, 
 to which position he was elected shortly after 
 he became a member. 
 
 In Philadelphia, in 1876, Dr. Eskridge mar- 
 ried Miss Jane Gay, who was born in Ireland, 
 but came to this country in childhood, her father, 
 James Gay, becoming a real-estate owner and 
 capitalist of Philadelphia. While a resident of 
 the Quaker City Dr. Eskridge was president of 
 the Philadelphia Northern Medical Society (now 
 the Clinical Society of Philadelphia) ; was a mem- 
 ber of the board of directors of Philadelphia 
 County Medical Society; a member of the Phila- 
 delphia Pathological Society; the Philadelphia 
 
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 135 
 
 Neurological Society and the American Neu- 
 rological Society. Later he was elected a mem- 
 ber of the American Climatological Society and 
 the American Medical Association, with all of 
 which he still retains his connection. He also 
 belongs to the New York Medical-Legal Society, 
 the Denver and Arapahoe County Medical So- 
 ciety and the Colorado State Medical Association 
 (president of the last-mentioned) and also presi- 
 dent of the El Paso County Medical Society. 
 Dr. Eskridge has devoted the best years of his 
 life to the noble work of alleviating the sufferings 
 of his fellow-men and his scholarly research, 
 indefatigable labors and invaluable experience 
 make him an authority on subjects relating to 
 his profession. His fame is far-reaching, and his 
 carefully prepared articles for publication are al- 
 ways eagerly sought for and thenceforth quoted. 
 Toward the young and aspiring physician he has 
 proved a sincere friend and adviser. 
 
 0AVID H. MOFFAT. He who contributes 
 to the commercial prosperity of a place; who, 
 by his judgment and foresight, assists in the 
 development of its resources; in whose hands 
 large financial trusts are placed and safely, faith- 
 fully guarded; such an one may justly be called a 
 public benefactor. To this class belongs Mr. 
 Moffat, president of the First National Bank of 
 Denver, and long one of Denver's most progress- 
 ive and distinguished citizens. It would be im- 
 possible to write an accurate historj' of Denver 
 and omit mention of his connection with the city, 
 which has been his home since i860, and the 
 scene of his financial .successes. The supremacj' 
 acquired by Denver over other towns of the 
 mountain states is due in no small measure to his 
 business acumen and sagacity, for he used his in- 
 fluence to bring railroads to the city and to intro- 
 duce manufacturing enterprises and business proj- 
 ects that would be of permanent value to the 
 place. 
 
 The success attained by Mr. Moffat is especially 
 deserving of mention when the fact is considered 
 that he left home at the age of twelve years, with 
 little money, to begin the battle of life for him- 
 self He went from Orange County, N. Y., 
 where he was born July 22, 1839, to the city of 
 New York, and there, by a strange providence, 
 he found employment in the line of business for 
 
 which he was best fitted by nature. He was given 
 a place in the New York Exchange Bank as mes- 
 senger boy, and this apparent chance determined 
 the occupation of his life. He was quick to 
 learn, and his increasing knowledge of the bank- 
 ing business was recognized by the president, 
 Selah Van Duser, who promoted him to a clerk- 
 ship in the bank. 
 
 In 1855, having received an offer of employ- 
 ment in Des Moines, Iowa, he went to that city and 
 there for a time was teller in the banking house 
 of A. J. Stevens & Co. While connected with 
 that bank he made the acquaintance of B. F. 
 Allen, of Des Moines, who, recognizing his finan- 
 cial talents, offered him a more lucrative position 
 in Omaha. Going to that city, he took charge 
 of the Bank of Nebraska, as cashier. At the end 
 of four years he closed the bank, paid its indebt- 
 edness in full, and divided the surplus among the 
 stockholders. He then left at once for Denver, 
 making the trip in a wagon drawn by mules and 
 loaded with a full supply of provisions. When 
 he reached his destination, he found on the banks 
 of the Platte River a settlement of a few thousand 
 people, the most of whom were prospectors. In 
 partnership with C. C. Woolworth, he opened a 
 book and stationery store, which was carried on 
 for six years. In those days gold dust was the 
 medium of exchange. Interest rates were very 
 high, and there was a profit in the purchase of 
 bullion and its shipment east. 
 
 When Mr. Moffat came to Denver he was 
 a slender youth, weighing only one hundred 
 pounds, and bearing the appearance of one in 
 delicate health. However, he was much stronger 
 than his appearance indicated, and as he became 
 older he increased in weight, being now a man 
 of splendid physique and robust health. Two 
 years after he came to Denver he established a 
 home of his own, being united in marriage with 
 Miss Fannie A. Buckhout, of Saratoga, N. Y., by 
 whom he has a daughter, the wife of J. A. 
 McClurg. 
 
 April 17, 1865, the comptroller of treasury 
 authorized the organization of the First National 
 Bank of Denver, and it was opened for business 
 May 9. The original stockholders and directors 
 were: Austin M, and Milton E. Clark, Bela S. 
 Buell, Jerome B. Chaffee, Henry J. Rogers, 
 George T. Clark, Charles A. Cook and Eben 
 Smith; the officers being: J. B. Chaffee, presi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 dent; H. J. Rogers, vice-president; and George 
 T. Clark, cashier. The private banking busi- 
 ness of Clark & Co. was merged into the new 
 institution, which was located on Blake street, 
 then the business center of the city. No especial 
 success rewarded the investments of the stockhold- 
 ers until 1 867, when Mr. Moffat was elected cashier, 
 but after that there was an immediate improvement 
 and from that year the bank enjoyed a steady and 
 increasing prosperity. It now has a capital of 
 $500,000, with a surplus larger than that, and 
 deposits amounting to $13,000,000. During the 
 panics that engulfed so many banks throughout 
 the country it retained its credit unimpaired, 
 meeting every demand on time. 
 
 Besides being connected with Mr. Chaffee in 
 the bank, Mr. Moffat was, with him, interested 
 in real-estate and mining operations. They owned 
 the Caribou mine, near Boulder, the Breece iron 
 mine, in Leadville, and the Henrietta, also in 
 Leadville. They also purchased Senator Tabor's 
 stock in the Little Pittsburg Consolidated Mining 
 Company, of which Mr. MoflFat became vice-pres- 
 ident and from which he derived a large income. 
 In addition, they together owned nearly a hundred 
 mines in different parts of the state. 
 
 In projects for building railroads Mr. Moffat 
 has always borne an active part. In 1869 he co- 
 operated with Governor Evans in building the 
 Denver Pacific Railroad from Denver to Chey- 
 enne, thus securing a connection with the Union 
 Pacific. After silver was discovered at Leadville 
 he took part in organizing a syndicate that built 
 the Denver & South Park Railroad, one hundred 
 and fifty miles long, and which at one time yielded 
 larger profits then any railroad of its length in 
 world. Upon the construction of the Boulder 
 Valley Railroad he was chosen treasurer of the 
 company and himself built the extension from 
 Boulder to the Marshall coal banks, in Boulder 
 County. For years he held the responsible posi- 
 tion of president of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railroad Company, of whose stock he was a heavy 
 owner, but in 1891 he resigned the position. He 
 was largely interested in the building of the 
 Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad, connecting 
 Cripple Creek with Florence, and one of the most 
 profitable lines in the state. 
 
 During the administration of Governor Evans, 
 Mr. Moffat held the office of adjutant-general. 
 For four years he was territorial treasurer. In 
 
 the organization of the Denver City Water Com- 
 pany he took an active part and was for years its 
 treasurer. Other local enterprises have received 
 his warm support and active assistance. Perhaps 
 no trait of his character is more worthy of admi- 
 ration then his generosity. In great financial 
 crises he has helped many men to brave the storm 
 and retain their financial credit, who, without 
 his aid, would have succumbed to the tempest. 
 The amount of his gifts no one knows, unless it 
 be himself, but they must amount to thousands 
 annually. Fitz-Mac, in an admirable character 
 sketch of Mr. Moffat, says: "His friendship 
 takes not so much the smiling as the helping 
 turn. I speak not of what he gives away in 
 charity, but in a straight business way he has 
 helped more men then any other man in the 
 state. That would be little to say of him now 
 because he is the richest man in the state, but it 
 could have been truly said of him long before he 
 became the richest man; and actually was widely 
 said." Great riches bring great responsibilities, 
 but, did all our men of wealth possess the help- 
 ful, practical sympathy that has made Mr. Moffat 
 a man among men, there would be less of the 
 socialistic spirit prevalent in our country, and 
 anarchism would be relegated to the dark ages, 
 or to unenlightened countries, where it might 
 hope to find followers. 
 
 HON. HORACE A. W. TABOR. The old 
 adage, "Truth is stranger than fiction," 
 finds exemplification in this, the most 
 famous of the men who crossed the plains in 1859 
 and became the pioneers in the development of 
 the mining resources of Colorado. For years 
 newspapers chronicled his successes, reporters 
 wrote glowing descriptions of his triumphs in this 
 modern El Dorado, and people, both in this country 
 and throughout the entire civilized world, were 
 attracted by the spectacle of a man who rose by 
 such rapid bounds to the pinnacle of fortune and 
 under whose leadership, like that of Midas of old, 
 every path became a road to fortune. 
 
 The record of the life of such a man has more 
 than temporary or local interest, and it will there- 
 fore be the biographer' s effort to present it in full, so 
 that the reader may understand the circumstances 
 and characteristics that contributed to his success. 
 Horace A. W. Tabor was born in Orleans County, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 137 
 
 Vt., November 26, 1830, and in early life acquired 
 habits of industry and perseverance. His parents 
 being poor, he had meagre educational advan- 
 tages and was forced to supply by observation and 
 experience the knowledge that most boys gain in 
 school. In youth he learned the trade of a stone- 
 cutter, which he followed in Vermont until 
 twenty-five years of age. In 1855 he came west 
 as far as Kansas, where he settled upon a farm. 
 While he failed to gain financial success there, 
 he gained a position of prominence among the 
 Free Soil party, and when Kansas became a state 
 he was elected a member of the Topeka legisla- 
 ture in 1857, but that body was dispersed by 
 Federal troops, acting on the orders of the war 
 department. 
 
 His experience in Kansas offered little induce- 
 ment to Mr. Tabor to remain there, and when 
 rumors of the discovery of gold in Colorado 
 reached him he resolved to join the Argonauts 
 westward bound. He spent the winter of 1859- 
 60 in Denver, and in the spring started for Cali- 
 fornia Gulch (now Leadville) , he and his wife 
 making the trip in a "prairie schooner" drawn 
 by oxen. After six weeks of travel he reached 
 his destination in April, and at once began pros- 
 pecting and mining. The mining camp was then 
 in the zenith of its prosperity and when the sea- 
 son was over he had $5,000, a fair fortune, as it 
 seemed to him then. When cold weather rendered 
 mining impossible, he opened a grocery store, 
 but in the spring resumed mining, and at the end 
 ofhis second season he had a total sum of $15,000. 
 In 1865 he .sold out his mine and moved to 
 the Buckskin Joe district, in Park County, where 
 was then a booming camp, but is now a wilder- 
 ness. He opened a store there and also served 
 as postmaster. When the Printer Boy mine was 
 discovered in California Gulch, in 1868, he moved 
 back there and opened a .store at Oro City, also 
 officiated as postmaster. For a long time his life 
 was only ordinarily successful, but in the spring 
 of 1879 the tide of fortune changed. 
 
 In Fairplay, Park County, were two shoe- 
 makers, August Rische and George T. Hook, 
 who, being poor, applied to Mr. Tabor for assist- 
 ance in their search for carbonates. Mr. Tabor 
 had always been kind and accommodating, as 
 many a poor miner knew, and he generously aided 
 these two men. They went to the apex of Fryer 
 Hill, and began digging late in April. Many 
 
 laughed at their credulity in imagining any hid- 
 den wealth there, but they worked patiently, 
 undisturbed by ridicule or sneers. Early in May, 
 at a depth of twenty-six feet, they struck a vein 
 and discovered what has since been famous as the 
 Little Pittsburg mine. During the first half of 
 July the yield from the mine was $8,000 a week, 
 and soon the mine was producing seventy-five to 
 one hundred tons of ore daily. The three part- 
 ners purchased neighboring claims. In Septem- 
 ber Mr. Hook, who had gained a fortune from 
 the intermediate sale of ore, sold his interest to 
 his associates for $90,000, and soon Mr. Rische 
 disposed of his interest to J. B. Chaffee and David 
 H. Moffat for $262,500. In November the New 
 Discovery, Little Pittsburg, Dives and Winne- 
 muc properties were merged into the Little Pitts- 
 burg Consolidated Company, with a capital of 
 $20,000,000, and the production of the mines 
 from the spring of 1878 until April i, 1880, was 
 $2,697,534.91 for receipts of ore sold, and $4,246,- 
 239.81, actual yield. Afterward Mr. Tabor sold 
 his interest to his partners for $1,000,000. 
 
 Meantime the other interests owned by Mr. 
 Tabor became important and extensive. He 
 bought about one-half of the stock of the First 
 National Bank of Denver, purchased the Match- 
 less mine at Leadville, and bought a one-fourth 
 interest in the mines of Borden, Tabor & Co., 
 the receipts from which were $roo,ooo a month. 
 In company with Marshall Field, of Chicago, he 
 acquired possessions that yielded millions. The 
 Matchless, which he bought for $1 17,000, yielded 
 him a net income of $2,000 a day, and for a time 
 its returns amounted to $100,000 a month. He 
 owned the Alaska, Adelphi, Acapulco and Vic- 
 tory mines in the San Juan country, and was the 
 sole owner of the Red Rogers and the Saxon. He 
 bought interests in mines in Arizona, New and 
 Old Mexico, and became the wealthiest man in 
 the state. No other man in the state has ever 
 made money so rapidly. It seems almost as if 
 everything he touched turned into gold, and the 
 reports of his phenomenal career spread all over 
 the world. 
 
 It has been said that no man in the state made 
 money so rapidly as Mr. Tabor. With equal 
 truth it may be said that no man did more for the 
 upbuilding of the state. He did not remove to 
 foreign lands, there to dazzle nobles and royalty 
 with his wealth, but devoted it to the advance- 
 
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 nient of his state. He was especially interested 
 in the growth of Denver. February i, 1879, he 
 purchased the Broadwell corner, on Sixteenth and 
 Larimer streets, for $30,000, and at the same 
 time paid $40,000 for a block of ground and a 
 residence on Broadway. In the spring of 1880 
 he built the Tabor block, of sandstone cut at 
 Clough's quarries in Ohio. March 8, 1880, he 
 bought the corner of Sixteenth and Curtis streets, 
 and at once made preparations for the building 
 of an- opera house to equal or surpass the finest 
 in the country. A Chicago firm was employed 
 to draw the plans, with instructions to visit the 
 best theatres in America and Europe and erect a 
 building that would be above criticism in every 
 respect. How well the contractors succeeded 
 all residents of Denver know. September 5, 
 1 88 1, the house was formally opened to the pub- 
 lic by Emma Abbott's opera company. He pur- 
 chased the corner of Arapahoe and Sixteenth 
 streets, and offered it to the government as a site 
 for a postoffice, which was afterwards erected 
 there. Other lots he also bought and improved, 
 thus adding to the prosperity of Denver. He 
 was also interested in Leadville, of which he was 
 the first and second mayor. He built an opera 
 house there, aided in securing the water works 
 and gas works, and was a factor in the securing 
 of the fire department. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Tabor was elected lieutenant-gov- 
 ernor of the state. When Henry M. Teller be- 
 came a member of President Arthur's cabinet, 
 Mr. Tabor was chosen to fill his unexpired term 
 of thirty days as United States senator. He was 
 a candidate for election to the office, but his op- 
 ponent, Judge Bowen, was elected by a majority 
 of one vote. As chairman of the state central 
 committee, he conducted the Republican cam- 
 paign of 1886 with success. In 1891 he was 
 chosen president of the Denver Chamber of Com- 
 merce and Board of Trade. His present position 
 as postmaster of Denver was tendered him in 
 1898. There was a time when his friends hoped 
 to see him elected the chief executive of the state, 
 and had he been chosen for the position undoubt- 
 edly he would have done his utmost to advance 
 the welfare of his adopted state. 
 
 Although unfortunate investments, the most 
 of them in other states, have deprived Mr. Tabor 
 of almost his entire property, it has not robbed 
 him of the esteem of the people among'whom he 
 
 has lived for so many years. When the last rem- 
 nant of his property was gone, he was not deser- 
 ted by his acquaintances. Through the medium 
 of Senator Wolcott, he received the appointment 
 of postmaster; everyone, no matter of what political 
 belief, rejoiced that this honor should be conferred 
 upon one who had done so much for the advance- 
 ment of the state, and who had, through so many 
 years, been an important factor in the develop- 
 ment of its resources. 
 
 g RADFORD H. DUBOIS, president of the 
 State Sanitary Board, has been ver>' success- 
 fully connected with the mining interests of 
 Colorado. Coming to Colorado in 1877, he, 
 with Gen. John A. Logan, Governor Routt and 
 J. V. Holcomb, hired a large carriage for the 
 season and, amply provided with provisions, set 
 out for the mining regions of the state. In July 
 of that year they arrived in Oro. In February 
 of the next year Leadville, three miles below 
 Oro, was located and named. At the suggestion 
 of J. J. DuBois, the only brother of our subject, 
 the original name of Stabtown was changed to 
 the more pleasing and appropriate appellation 
 of Leadville. After some months among the 
 mines, in November, 1877, General Logan and 
 Mr. DuBois returned to Illinois; but in the 
 spring of the next year the latter again went to 
 Leadville, where he engaged in mining. With 
 three others he located the Maid of Erin, which 
 has produced nearly $6,000,000 and paid div- 
 idends to the amount of about $3,000,000. 
 This mine is still being worked and is one of 
 the most famous in the world. After some time, 
 by consolidation, the Henrietta and Maid Con- 
 solidated Mining Company was incorporated in 
 1884. The same gentlemen also discovered and 
 located the best portion of the Crystallite, that 
 has since become famous, but their interest in 
 this they soon sold. In addition to other mining 
 interests Mr. DuBois is vice-president of the 
 Hill Top Mining Company, which is in active 
 operation, and owns the largest lead-producing 
 mine in Colorado. 
 
 Tracing the record of the DuBois family, we 
 find that Louis DuBois was born in France, but 
 on account of religious persecution fled to Hol- 
 land, where he married. In 1624 he came to 
 America and was one of the original twelve 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1-39 
 
 patentees of Ulster County, N. Y., where he 
 bought a large tract of land at New Paltz. His 
 son, Jonathan, had a son, Cornelius, who was a 
 captain in the Revolution. Next in line of de- 
 scent was Mathelsohn, a large land owner. His 
 son, John B. DuBois, our subject's father, was 
 born near Kingston, Ulster County, and engaged 
 in the mercantile business at Libertyville until 
 his retirement, when iifty-two years of age. For 
 years he held the office of supervisor. His wife 
 was Mary Hand, who was born in Libertyville, 
 and died in Denver in 1895. Her father, Abel 
 Hand, was born in Connecticut, removed to New 
 York and carried on a mill at Libertyville, later 
 going to Palatine Bridge, the same state, where 
 he died. He was a soldier in the war of 18 12. 
 He had only two children, sons, and they reside 
 in Colorado, J. J. being proprietor of a ranch six 
 miles east of Denver. 
 
 Born in Ulster County in 1853, our subject 
 attended the Libertyville school and New Paltz 
 Academy, then was a student in the Illinois 
 University at Champaign, remaining there until 
 the close of the junior year. Later he engaged 
 in business in Decatur, 111., where he remained 
 until his removal west. In 1885 he became 
 interested in ranching, purchasing a tract one- 
 half mile from the city limits, and at once pro- 
 ceeded to improve its seven hundred and fifty 
 acres, which he irrigates from the High Line 
 ditch, beside having artesian water in every field. 
 General farm products are raised here, also 
 standard bred horses, several of which have made 
 world's records, and Jersey cattle. 
 
 Politically Mr. DuBois is a Democrat. He 
 made his headquarters in Leadville until 1885, 
 when he removed to Denv-er. Under the adminis- 
 tration of Governor Mclntire he was appointed 
 president of the state sanitary board, and when 
 Governor Adams became chief executive he was 
 again chosen for this responsible position. In 
 Denve^he married Mrs. Eva (Speer) Moore, the 
 first girl born in Lawrence, Kan., of which her 
 father, John Speer, was one of the most promi- 
 nent pioneers, also editor of the abolition paper 
 that excited the wrath of the slavery supporters. 
 In his family there were eight children, the 
 eldest of whom, John, a married man, was mur- 
 dered August 21, 1863, and the second son, 
 Robert, who it is supposed was murdered, was 
 buried on the day his older brother was killed. 
 
 The third son, William, is a railroad man in 
 Wichita, Kan.; Mary, Mrs. Wood Neff, died in 
 Topeka in 1886; Eva was next in order of birth; 
 Rosa died when a young lady; Hardin lives in 
 Denver; and Joseph was accidentally killed by a 
 playmate when seven years of age. Mrs. DuBois 
 was educated in the University of Kansas, at 
 Lawrence, and when a young woman was married 
 to Charles D. Moore, who was born in Bridge- 
 ton, N. J., and grew to manhood in Kansas, 
 but in 1 88 1 removed to Robinson, Colo., where 
 he was manager of the Robinson mine until his 
 death in 1886. He left one daughter, Edna. 
 The year after her husband's death Mrs. Moore 
 came to Denver, where afterward she was married 
 to Mr. DuBois. She is a member of the Trinity 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and a ladj' of fine 
 mental endowments, whose superior attributes of 
 character attract many friends. 
 
 Hon. John Speer, father of Mrs. DuBois, was 
 born in Armstrong County, Pa., December 27, 
 181 7, of Scotch descent on both sides. One of 
 the ancestors, Donald Cargill, was a leader of the 
 last struggle against Charles II . , and was beheaded 
 in 1 66 1. John Speer emigrated from Ireland in 
 1792 and settled in South Carolina, but his anti- 
 slavery opinions made the neighborhood un- 
 pleasant and he removed to Mercer County, Pa., 
 where he purchased a farm now owned by de- 
 scendants. His son, Capt. Robert Speer, learned 
 nail manufacturing in Pittsburg, and followed 
 the trade until steam power took the place of 
 hand work. In 1830 he removed to a farm in 
 Armstrong County, where he died at ninety-five 
 years. His wife, Barbara, was a daughter of 
 Adam and Nancy Lowrey, who were born in 
 Ireland, of Scotch descent. 
 
 When twelve years old John Speer secured 
 a horseback mail route, to help pay for the land 
 his father had bought. The route extended from 
 Kittanning to Carversville, a distance of seventy- 
 five miles through a ragged, rough country, and 
 sixteen miles of which was a most dreary wilder- 
 ness. He gave the name of Rock Springs to one 
 place in the wilderness. After following this 
 work for some years he became a printer's ap- 
 prentice, at which he served for three years in 
 Indiana, Pa., meanwhile continuing his private 
 studies of grammar, mathematics and the sciences. 
 For four months he was employed on the Kit- 
 tanning Gazette. In 1839 he began the publica- 
 
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 tion at New Castle, Pa. , of the Mercer and Beaver 
 Democrat, a Whig paper, which supported General 
 Harrison for president. In 1840 he was employed 
 on the Portsmouth Tribune, and also made a 
 trip through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, later 
 taking a flatboat trip to New Orleans. In 1842 
 he established the Harrison Gazette, a Whig 
 weekly, at Corydon, Ind., but soon returned to 
 Ohio and assisted in the editing of the Mount 
 Vernon Times, after which, in September, 1843, 
 he established the Democrat Whig at Medina, 
 Ohio. The office was destroyed by fire in 1848, 
 but was soon re-established, and he continued to 
 publish the paper until 1853, when he declared 
 that the Whig party had outlived its usefulness. 
 On the passage of the Kansas and Nebraska bill 
 he went to Kansas, locating at Lawrence Sep- 
 tember 27, 1854, and on the 15th of October 
 publishing the first number of the Kansas Pioneer, 
 which in January, 1855, was changed to the 
 Kansas Tribune. In November of that year the 
 paper was moved to Topeka and published there 
 by Speer & Ross until 1854, when it was sold to 
 the j unior partner. Afterward Mr. Speer engaged 
 in dealing in lumber, but in December, 1859, 
 bought the Lawrence Republican, which he con- 
 ducted until September 4, 1862. January i, 1863, 
 he revived the Kansas Tribune at Lawrence, and 
 this he conducted until August 21, 1863. On that 
 day the plant was destroyed by Quantrell's band, 
 who went up to Lawrence intending to kill or cap- 
 ture John Speer, its editor. In November the 
 paper again started and he continued its editor un- 
 til 187 1 , when he retired temporarily. From Octo- 
 ber, 1875, to March, 1877, he was again connected 
 with the paper as its editor. Since his retirement 
 from editorial work he has devoted much of his 
 time to literary work, for which his wide travels, 
 extensive experience and vigorous style of writ- 
 ing admirably qualify him. In 1864 he was a 
 delegate to the convention at Baltimore that 
 nominated Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson 
 for president and vice-president. At one time 
 he was state printer of Kansas. He was a mem- 
 ber of the house of representatives of the first 
 free state legislature, from 1862 to 1866 was 
 United States collector for the state of Kansas, 
 and in 1864 was elected to the state senate. 
 
 In Corydon, Ind., July 14, 1842, Mr. Speer 
 married Elizabeth D., daughter of John and 
 Martha (Withers) McMahan, the latter a descend- 
 
 ant of Governor Dinwiddle, of Virginia, the 
 former a relative of the Hardins of Kentucky. 
 She was educated in a Catholic school near 
 Bardstown, Ky., and was a woman of exemplary 
 character, and in religious belief a Methodist. 
 The night when the Tribune office was set on 
 fire, her son, John M., was shot down in cold 
 blood, and a younger son was either murdered 
 or burned to death in the office; the house, too, 
 was set on fire, but she prevented it from being 
 destroyed. She died April 9, 1876. 
 
 RT.-REV. J. P. MACHEBEUF is remem- 
 bered by all who knew him as a talented 
 bishop, a tireless worker and a genial friend. 
 He was born in Rione, France, August 11, 1812, 
 and was ordained to the priesthood on Christmas 
 of 1836. For three years he was in charge of a 
 parish near Clermont, after which, in 1839, he 
 came to America. He spent a short time in Cin- 
 cinnati, where he made a study of the English 
 language and became familiar with its use. Jan- 
 uary I, 1840, he was ordered to Sandusky, Ohio, 
 wnere he built the first church in the place, it 
 being a fine stone edifice, and he also founded an 
 academy in the same city. In 1844 he visited 
 his old home in France and on his return to the 
 United States brought with him ten sisters of the 
 Ursuline order, introducing into this country one 
 of its finest body of teachers. 
 
 In January, 1 851, Father Machebeuf left San- 
 dusky and joined Bishop Laniy at New Orleans, 
 from which place they went to San Antonio, and 
 thence traversed the entire breadth of the state 
 of Texas, accompanied by a guard of soldiers. 
 On their arrival at their destination, Santa Fe, 
 the people of that place gave them a brilliant 
 reception, showing every courtesy to their new 
 bishop, Lamy and his vicar-general, Machebeuf. 
 The frequent absences of the bishop on mission- 
 ary tours left the charge of the diocese almost 
 wholly upon his vicar-general, who faithfully 
 discharged every duty. Afterward, for six years, 
 he was pastor of the Albuquerque parish, and be- 
 sides his duties there, he visited all the military 
 posts on the frontier of New Mexico. In 1858, 
 when there was a partial organization of Arizona, 
 Bishop Lamy was made ecclesiastical adminis- 
 trator of Arizona, and Father Machebeuf was sent 
 to take possession of the missions established by 
 
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 the former missionaries at different points. These 
 missions had been under the bishop of Sonera, 
 Mexico, whom Father Machebeuf was obliged to 
 interview. After considerable delay he reached 
 the Villa de Alamos, where he met the bishop 
 and conferred with him in regard to the matter. 
 On his return to Santa Fe he was enabled to re- 
 port to Bishop L,amy that his mission had been 
 most successful. In 1859 he was again sent to 
 Arizona, this time to take charge of all its mis- 
 sions. After a short time Bishop Lamy ordered 
 him to return to Santa Fe, and on doing so he 
 learned that the bishop had been granted by the 
 Pope jurisdiction over what is now the state of 
 Colorado. He was asked to come to Colorado, 
 and, in company with Father J. B. Raverdy, in 
 September, i860, left Santa Fe for Denver, where 
 they arrived the last of October. In 1866 he 
 was made vicar-apostolic, and in 1868 he was 
 consecrated a bishop in the Cincinnati Cathedral. 
 He remained a resident of Denver until his death, 
 August 10, 1889. 
 
 Of the results of the bishop's work in Denver, 
 too much cannot be said in praise. Without 
 doubt he was a man, not only of great piety and 
 deep faith in God, but also of unusual executive 
 ability and determination of will. His church, 
 on Stout street, in Denver, was the first brick 
 house of worship built in the state. In his diocese 
 there are eighty or more priests, ninety churches, 
 one hundred and twenty or more stations, a large 
 number of academies and parochial schools, many 
 hospitals, an immense Catholic population; and 
 all this largely due to the pioneer work of the 
 great-hearted Bishop Machebeuf. 
 
 /gEORGE E. ROSS-LEWIN, cashier of the 
 l_ First National Bank of Denver, was born in 
 ^_J the city of Rochester, N. Y., March 28, 1857, 
 and is of Irish parentage, but of Welsh descent. 
 The first of the name in the United States was 
 his grandfather, Francis Burton Ross-Lewin, who 
 settled in Rochester and mad^e that city his home 
 until his death. The father, W. H. Ross-Lewin, 
 was born in the north of Ireland and accompanied 
 his parents to Rochester, where, on attaining 
 manhood, he embarked in the mercantile business 
 and continued a successful and extensive business 
 man until his retirement. In 1889 he removed 
 to Chicago, where he has since made his home. 
 
 From an early age the subject of this sketch 
 displayed an aptitude for commercial affairs. On 
 the completion of the studies of the grammar 
 school, at the age of sixteen he entered upon his 
 active business career. His first situation was 
 that of clerk in a Rochester bank, where he re- 
 mained for a number of years, by his fidelity and 
 ability winning merited promotion to the position 
 of teller. He continued to make his home in 
 Rochester until 1 88 1 , when he came west to Colo- 
 rado, arriving in Denver June 19. His first 
 position here was that of collection clerk in the 
 First National Bank. May i, 1886, he was pro- 
 moted to the position of assistant cashier, and in 
 the discharge of the duties of that oiEce was so 
 conspicuously successful that in 1891 he was 
 made cashier. 
 
 In addition to his connection with the bank, 
 Mr. Ross-Lewin is treasurer of all the companies 
 of which Mr. Moffat is the president, as well as a 
 number of other concerns, among them being the 
 Denver Consolidated Tramway Company, the 
 Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Company, 
 Victor Gold Mining Company, Metallic Extrac- 
 tion Company and the Anaconda Mining Com- 
 pany, the prosperity of all of which he has pro- 
 moted by his .sound judgment and acute intellect- 
 ual powers. He is vice-president and one of the 
 directors of the Bimetallic Bank of Cripple Creek, 
 and is also vice-president of the Bank of Victor. 
 He is a member of the Denver Club, and in polit- 
 ical faith adheres to the policy of the Republican 
 party. In Cincinnati, Ohio, he married Miss 
 Elizabeth Closterman, whose father, Henry Clos- 
 terman, was a manufacturer in that city. They 
 have an only child, Elizabeth. 
 
 The state of Colorado owes much of her pros- 
 perity to a number of wide-awake business men 
 representing various interests, and among these 
 the bankers of Denver have done much to pro- 
 mote enterprise and give security to investors. It 
 requires just the class of men that Mr. Ross-Lewin 
 represents to conduct vast enterprises, which by 
 their phenomenal success made Colorado famous 
 among her sister states and attracted millions of 
 eastern capital. It requires tact as well as busi- 
 ness ability to successfully manage the aflfairs of 
 one concern, and it is rare that one man has been 
 equipped by nature to ably conduct a variety ot 
 enterprises to the satisfaction of all concerned. 
 Mr. Ross-Lewin owes much of his success to 
 
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 his early training and to those precepts given 
 him by his parents, from whom he also inherits 
 the energy of the Celt and the thrift and persever- 
 ance of the old Welsh ancestors, which, properly 
 applied, lead to success. 
 
 |~REDERICK J. BANCROFT, M. D. The 
 ift eminence attained by Dr. Bancroft in his 
 I ^ profession, and his high character as a citi- 
 zen, have won for him a place among the most 
 influential of the physicians and surgeons residing 
 in Denver. The fact that he has been called to 
 many positions of trust, professional, military and 
 educational, testifies to the recognition of his 
 ability by others. During the long period of his 
 residence in Denver he has aided in the carrying 
 out of progressive enterprises for the benefit of the 
 place; his most valuable service probably being 
 his articles relating to the climate of Colorado 
 written in the early days, by which, directly and 
 indirectly, he added more to the permanent pop- 
 ulation of Colorado than any citizen of the state. 
 
 The descendant of early settlers of New England, 
 Dr. Bancroft was born in Enfield, Conn., May 25, 
 1834. His literary education was received in the 
 academy at Westfield, Mass., and the Charlotte- 
 ville (N. Y.) Seminary, and upon leaving school 
 he began the study of medicine. In February, 
 1861, he graduated from the medical department 
 of the University of Buffalo, N. Y., and in April 
 of the same year he opened an office in Blakely, 
 Pa. About that time the war broke out, and after 
 six months of private practice, in November he 
 enlisted as a surgeon in the army, being detailed 
 by the surgeon-general of the state to take charge 
 of the Church hospital in Harrisburg. In the 
 spring of 1862 he was ordered to the Seventy- 
 sixth Pennsylvania Infantry, at Hilton Head, 
 S. C, and in May became medical attendant of the 
 troops on Pinckney Island, Seabrook's and El- 
 liott's plantations, in South Carolina. His next 
 appointment was to take charge of a small portion 
 of the Fourth and Seventh New Hampshire Reg- 
 iments, in transit from Hilton Head, S. C. , to New 
 York quarantine, which troops were infected with 
 yellow fever. Afterward ordered to Philadelphia, 
 and assigned to the Third Pennsylvania Heavy 
 Artillery, he served as examining surgeon of re- 
 cruits until the spring of 1863, when orders came 
 for him to fit up a hospital for Confederate pris- 
 
 oners, at Fort Delaware. He attended to that 
 matter, then rejoined his regiment, the Third 
 Pennsylvania Artillery, at Camp Hamilton, Va., 
 in May, 1863. In June he was appointed post 
 surgeon at Fortress Monroe by General Dix and 
 remained there until the close of the war. While 
 there Jefferson Davis, the vanquished Confederate 
 president, was brought to the fort, but Dr. Ban- 
 croft's nativity as a New England man being ob- 
 jected to, another physician was summoned to at- 
 tend Mr. Davis. With two other officers. Dr. 
 Bancroft was detailed to investigate the past man- 
 agement of military hospitals near Fortress Mon- 
 roe. 
 
 On resigning from the United States military 
 service, at the close of the war, Dr. Bancroft re- 
 turned to Pennsylvania, where he took a course 
 of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania. In 
 April,, 1866, he came to Denver, where he has 
 built up a large practice. For several years he 
 was surgeon for the Wells Fargo stage lines, and 
 later was surgeon for the Denver Pacific, Kansas 
 Pacific and Rio Grande Railroads, being'connec- 
 ted with the last-named company as chief surgeon 
 from 1871 to 1887. He is to-day chief surgeon of 
 the Rio Grande Western, Union Pacific, Denver 
 & Gulf, and the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison 
 Railways. He was elected president of the Den- 
 ver Medical Society in 1876; he became identi- 
 fied with the American Medical Association; was 
 vice-president of the National Association of 
 Railway Surgeons; served as examining surgeon 
 for pensions from 1868 to 1885; held the office 
 of city physician 1872-77, 1878-79; was the first 
 president of the state board of health, holding the 
 office for two years, and later was secretary for a 
 year. He became identified with the medical 
 department of the Denver University, having as- 
 sisted in its organization and has been an active 
 worker ever since. He was elected to the chair of 
 fractures and dislocations and holds that position 
 at the present time. 
 
 In 1875 he was made president of the Agricult- 
 ural Ditch Company, which position he held until 
 1887, and was re-elected in 1897 ^^'^ 1898. Dur- 
 ing his service as president of the board of educa- 
 tion in East Denver, 1872-76, he was instrumen- 
 tal in advancing the interests of the public schools 
 and promoting the standard of scholarship. An 
 Episcopalian in religion, he was a member of the 
 standing committee of that denomination in 1878- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 145 
 
 79, and for years he served on the board of trus- 
 tees for Wolfe Hall, Jarvis Hall and St. Luke's 
 Hospital. When the Colorado State Historical and 
 Natural History Society was organized January 
 10, 1879, he was made its president, an office that 
 he held till 1897, when he resigned. The result 
 of his work, with that of others, in this society is 
 shown in the large collection of pre-historic relics 
 now in the capitol. When the first Grand Army 
 post was established here in 1868, largely through 
 his efforts among the soldiers in enlisting their in- 
 terest in the work, it was felt that he was the 
 one to occupy the highest office in the post; and 
 he was made the commander. Soon afterward 
 Gen. John A. Logan appointed him provisional 
 department commander of Colorado and Wyo- 
 ming, he being the first to occupy that position. 
 From 1866 to 1876 many articles concerning the 
 climate of Colorado, and its effect upon certain 
 types of disease, were written by him. 
 
 June 20, 187 1, Dr. Bancroft married Miss Mary 
 C. Jarvis, daughter of George A. Jarvis, of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., who endowed Jarvis Hall of Denver, 
 Colo. This union was blessed with three chil- 
 dren, viz. : Mary M. , George J. and Frederick W. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM N. BYERS. It would be 
 impossible to write a history of Denver with- 
 out making frequent allusion to the subject 
 of this article, for he has been intimately identi- 
 fied with its most important enterprises since the 
 days of its infancy. To his enterprise the city is 
 indebted to an extent impossible to estimate. His 
 far-seeing sagacity and business acumen have 
 overleaped obstacles that seemed to others insur- 
 mountable. Especially is his name associated 
 with the founding and early history of Denver's 
 oldest paper, the Rocky Mountain News. He 
 arrived in Denver April 17, 1859, bringing with 
 him the first printing press west of Omaha, and 
 at once established a weekly newspaper. Success 
 smiled upon his efforts and rendered possible the 
 establishment of a daily paper, the first issue of 
 which appeared August 18, i860. He continued 
 the manager and editor of the paper until 1878, 
 when he severed his connection with it. In the 
 early days of Colorado he did much to attract 
 settlers by publishing articles pertaining to this 
 state, explaining its resources, the advantages 
 it presented for stock-raising and farming, the 
 
 wealth of its mountains in minerals, and the 
 salubrity of its climate. Through his pen he did 
 probably as much as anyone in Colorado to 
 enhance the interests of the state and render 
 possible its wonderful development of to-day. 
 
 The organization with which the name of Mr. 
 Byers is now most intimately associated is the 
 famous festival of mountain and plain, which has 
 been held annually since 1895. He was a mem- 
 ber of the first board of directors, and since the 
 second year has been the president. Much of his 
 time is given to preparation for this great cele- 
 bration, which attracts thousands to Denver. 
 Many of the most striking features of the festival 
 are original with him, among them the bal 
 champedre (outdoor ball), when five thousand or 
 more persons, in masquerade attire, dance under, 
 a covered canvas on Broadway. There are four 
 grand parades, the one on the first daj' repre- 
 senting a pageant of progress in the history of 
 the state and five miles in length. On the second 
 day occurs the great masked parade, while on the 
 third day is the military and social parade, ending 
 with a sham battle at City Park, and in the even- 
 ing the parade of the slaves of the silver serpent. 
 
 Mr. Byers is descended from a Scotch family 
 that, during the religious persecution of the six- 
 teenth century, was driven into the borders of 
 Ireland, and there took part in the siege of 
 Londonderry. They emigrated to Pennsylvania 
 when that state was still a wilderness, at the 
 beginning of the eighteenth century. The great- 
 grandfather of our subject, and his three sons, 
 took part in the Revolution. The father, Moses 
 Watson Byers, was born in Washington County, 
 Pa., and at the age of four years, in 1808, accom- 
 panied his parents to Ohio. They settled at 
 Circleville, Pickaway County, but later he and a 
 brother removed to Darby Plains, in Madison 
 County, where he improved a place of nearly 
 three hundred acres. In 1850 he sold his prop- 
 erty there and settled near Muscatine, Iowa, 
 where he improved a large tract. His last days 
 were spent in Muscatine, where he died in 1866, 
 at the age of sixty-two years. In religious belief 
 he was a Presbyterian. His wife, Mary A. 
 Brandenburg, was a member of a well-known 
 German family that became early settlers of 
 Montgomery County, in the Miami Valley of 
 Ohio; she died in Iowa in 1884. 
 
 Of the family of six children, five attained 
 
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 maturity and four are living, William N. being 
 the eldest. Mrs. Ann Eliza McDonald resides in 
 Washington, Iowa; Mrs. Olivia M. Kessinger 
 makes her home in Muscatine; Mrs. Rachel Jane 
 Morris resides in Denver. One of the sons, 
 James H., was a member of an Iowa regiment 
 during the Civil war and was killed in 1863, dur- 
 ing the siege of Vicksburg. Our subject was 
 born in Madison County, Ohio, February 22, 
 1831, and spent his early years upon a farm. In 
 1850, with team and wagon, he removed to Iowa, 
 and the following year he engaged in government 
 surveying in western Iowa, soon becoming deputy 
 United States surveyor in Iowa, and later in 
 Oregon and Washington. From there, in the 
 winter of 1853-54, he went to California, return- 
 ing east after a few months. For a short time he 
 engaged in railroad surveying, but when the 
 Kansas and Nebraska bill opened those territories 
 for settlement, he went to Omaha, which then 
 had only one house and that a log cabin. As 
 county surveyor, he laid out a large part of the 
 city. He was the first deputy United States 
 surveyor appointed in Nebraska, in which capa- 
 city he ran the township and section lines in the 
 eastern part of the territory. When the city 
 government of Omaha was established, he was 
 elected an alderman, and in 1854-55 he was a 
 member of the first territorial legislative assembly 
 of Nebraska. From Omaha he came to Denver 
 early in 1859. Here he established the now 
 famous Rocky Moutitain News, which in 1872 
 became an incorporated company, with himself as 
 president. 
 
 The connection of Mr. Byers with Denver's 
 history has by no means been limited to journal- 
 istic work. He has been interested in the develop- 
 ment of mining properties, is now a member of 
 the executive committee of the city library, and 
 a member of the chamber of the commerce, of 
 which he was president in 1893 and 1894. He 
 was interested in the Denver Pacific, Denver & 
 Rio Grande, South Park, and Denver, Utah & 
 Pacific roads, all of which had an important part 
 in the developing of Denver's resources. From 
 the organization of the Denver Tramway Com- 
 pany he has been a director, and since it became 
 the Denver Consolidated Tramway Company he 
 has also been vice-president and acting president 
 of the company, and a member of the executive 
 and auditing committees. In Muscatine, Iowa, 
 
 in 1854, be married Miss Elizabeth Minerva 
 Sumner, granddaughter of Governor Lucas, an 
 early governor of Ohio and afterwards the last 
 territorial and first state governor of Iowa. The 
 Sumners are an old Virginia family and are con- 
 nected with the famous statesman, Charles 
 Sumner, of Massachusetts. Two children were 
 born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Byers. Frank, 
 the son, owns a horse and cattle ranch at Hot 
 Sulphur Springs, Grand County, this state. The 
 daughter, Mary Eva, is the wife of William F. 
 Robinson. 
 
 From the organization of the party Mr. Byers 
 has been a stanch Republican. For years, 
 through his influence with his pen, he was a 
 power in public affairs. For the admission of 
 Colorado into the Union he labored unceasingly. 
 In June, 1859, he was chairman of the first con- 
 vention called to secure a state organization, but 
 this convention adjourned without definite action. 
 In 1864 he was a member of the convention that 
 framed the first state constitution, under which 
 the enabling act was passed by both houses of 
 congress, but vetoed by Andrew Johnson. In 
 1864 President Lincoln appointed him postmaster 
 in Denver, which office he held until 1867, resign- 
 ing then on account of the pressure of business. 
 Again, under the administration of President 
 Hayes, he was appointed postmaster April 14, 
 1879, and served until 1883. 
 
 The rapid growth of the city between his first 
 term as postmaster and his second tenure of the 
 oSice brought many problems before the postal 
 authorities for solution. During the summer 
 months, when the city was crowded with visitors 
 from the east, the throngs around the postoffice 
 were so great that it was almost impossible to 
 gain access to the building. In front of each 
 delivery window would form long lines extending 
 out into the street, and although the delivery 
 clerks worked unceasingly people sometimes were 
 obliged to wait an hour for their mail. Such a 
 condition of things could not be tolerated in a 
 growing and enterprising city. Upon accepting 
 the position the second time, Mr. Byers again set 
 himself to work to secure improvements. It was 
 largely through his influence and untiring efforts 
 that the free delivery system in Denver was 
 organized and he at once began to plan for its 
 establishment. It was the work of many days 
 before the system was put into operation. The 
 
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 force at first consisted of only six letter carriers 
 who were properly equipped and trained. Letter 
 boxes were placed on convenient corners through- 
 out the city, and soon the people began to reap 
 the benefit of the improved system. Before the 
 expiration of his term of office about thirty 
 carriers were employed. The telegraph had been 
 introduced in October, 1863; the street railway 
 system had been inaugurated in January, 1872; 
 the steam cars had brought Denver into touch 
 with other localities June 24, 1870, when the first 
 railroad train reached Denver over the Denver 
 Pacific road; water and gas works had been 
 introduced, fire alarms and telephones, so that 
 the free delivery sy.stem was about the last ' ' link' ' 
 that was necessary to constitute Denver a metro- 
 politan city. It was during Mr. Byers' term of 
 office from 1879 to 1883 that Denver made giant 
 strides toward becoming a metropolis and the 
 queen of all our mountain states and it was dur- 
 ing these busy years so fruitful of future greatness 
 that Mr. Byers worked faithfully and enthusiasti- 
 cally to bring his department to its subsequent 
 excellence, thus adding no small share towards 
 its growth and development. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Byers is past master of Denver 
 Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., past high priest 
 of Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., and for two 
 terms grand high priest of the grand chapter of 
 Colorado. On the organization of the Knights 
 Templar Commandery in Denver, he was elected 
 the first candidate for the orders in Colorado and 
 later was elected eminent commander and served 
 as such several years. In the organization of 
 the Pioneer Society he took an active part, and 
 served as its first secretary, later was president 
 for several years. Some years after the organiza- 
 tion in 1859 the records were lost and in 1866 the 
 society was re-organized. He is president of 
 the Colorado State Historical and Natural History 
 Society which has the best collection of cliff 
 dwellers' relics in the world. 
 
 From this resum6 of the life of Mr. Byers it 
 will be seen that he has borne a very active part 
 in the growth of Denver and indeed of the state 
 itself. His sympathy and support have always 
 been given to measures calculated to promote the 
 welfare of the people. In earlier days the influ- 
 ence of his pen was given toward the advance- 
 ment of the city; later, through other ways, he 
 has been no less potent in securing the promotion 
 
 of public-spirited and progressive projects. It is 
 doubtful if, in a review of the eminent men of the 
 state, there could be found a man who has done 
 more than he in the promotion of the state's 
 welfare from the early settlement of Colorado to 
 the present time. 
 
 HON. FRED DICK, A. M., formerly state 
 superintendent of schools of Colorado, now 
 principal of the Denver Normal and Pre- 
 paratory School, was born in the town of Aurora, 
 Erie County, N. Y., May 17, 1852. He is the 
 descendant of ancestors who came from Holland 
 and settled in Pennsylvania in an early day. His 
 father, J. B., who was a native of New York 
 and a farmer by occupation, was, under Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, appointed assessor of internal reve- 
 nue in western New York, his territory embrac- 
 ing fourteen counties. He held the position until 
 Andrew Johnson became president, when he re- 
 signed. Under the administration of General 
 Grant he was re-appointed to the same position 
 in the internal revenue department, and filled it 
 with credit until his death in 1871. 
 
 The mother of Mr. Dick was Ann Eliza Pratt, 
 daughter of Luke N.Pratt, a native of Connecticut, 
 and member of an old family in that state, her 
 father removing to Erie County, N. Y., and be- 
 coming a pioneer farmer. She died in that 
 county, leaving two sons and two daughters, two 
 of whom, our subject and Mrs. A. M. Hawley, 
 of Canon City, reside in Colorado. The former, 
 who was next to the eldest in the family, was 
 educated in Aurora Academy, and taught for two 
 years in district schools prior to entering Hamil- 
 ton College in 1871. Immediately upon his 
 graduation in 1875, with the degree of A. B., he 
 was appointed principal of Hamburg Academy, 
 and two years later accepted a more favorable 
 position as principal of the Gowanda (N. Y.) 
 schools. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar 
 and for three years practiced law in Buffalo, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Removing to Colorado in the fall of 1883, Mr. 
 Dick accepted the superintendency of the Trini- 
 dad schools, where he remained for five years, 
 and during two years of this time he served both 
 as county and city superintendent. He was the 
 first Republican who was elected county superin- 
 tendent in Las Animas County. At the state 
 election in 1888 he was elected by the Repub- 
 
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 lican party to the office of state superintendent of 
 schools, which position he filled with credit for 
 one term. During his term of office he laid the 
 corner stone of the State Normal School at Gree- 
 ley. 
 
 The Denver Normal and Preparatory School, 
 of which Mr. Dick is principal, was founded by 
 himself, and was the first school of the kind es- 
 tablished in the state. It is a most creditable 
 educational institution, and has received the 
 highest endorsements from educators. Until the 
 ist of May, 1898, the school was located in the 
 Kittredge building, but at that time it was moved 
 to the Normal building, Nos. 1543-45 Glenarm 
 street. It has seven complete departments, viz. : 
 Normal, for the training of public school teachers; 
 Kindergarten, with life diplomas, valid through- 
 out the state of Colorado; College preparatory, 
 fitting pupils for Yale and Harvard, or any other 
 leading educational institution; Grade depart- 
 ment, where instruction is given in any of the 
 eight grades of the grammar schools; Modern 
 language department; Commercial department, 
 and department of oratory, physical culture and 
 dramatic art. The faculty consists of Mr. Dick, 
 R. M. Streeter, Margaret Grabill, Fordyce P. 
 Cleaves, Mrs. R. M. Streeter, Nelson Rhoades, 
 Jr., Henry Reade, W. J. Whiteman, and Mina 
 McCord L,ewis. A special summer term of five 
 weeks is held each year. The Denver Commer- 
 cial Institute has been incorporated with the 
 Normal school, and furnishes instruction in sten- 
 ography, bookkeeping, typewriting, Spanish, 
 commercial law and arithmetic, and general cor- 
 respondence. 
 
 In addition to his work in connection with the 
 school, Mr. Dick is treasurer of the Rocky Moun- 
 tain School Aid & Supply Company. He was 
 the founder of the Rocky Morintain Educator, a 
 monthly journal devoted to the interests of teach- 
 ers, students, school directors and educational 
 institutions of the Rocky Mountain region. Of 
 this he is now the editor and manager. The 
 journal is high in its standard and interesting 
 and comprehensive, and is now nearing its fourth 
 volume as a successful paper for educators. Po- 
 litically Mr. Dick is a Republican, and has at- 
 tended every state convention, with one excep- 
 tion, since his residence in Colorado. He and 
 his wife are members of the Unity Church. At 
 one time he was president of the State Teachers' 
 
 Association of Colorado, and is a member of the 
 Colorado School Masters' Club, the National 
 Educational Association (of which he has been 
 state manager) and the Educational Alliance. 
 Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen 
 of the World and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, being a charter member of the latter 
 lodge in Trinidad. 
 
 In Erie County, N. Y., June 29, 1876, Mr. 
 Dick married Miss Florence E. Sprague, who 
 was born in that county, a daughter of Norman 
 B. Sprague. She is a very intellectual woman, 
 was a charter member of the Woman's Club of 
 Denver, and is now president of the educational 
 department of that organization. Their only 
 child, Florence E., died in Trinidad when nine 
 years of age. 
 
 HON. GEORGE W. BAXTER, one of the 
 most prominent representatives of the cattle 
 industry in the Rocky Mountain region, is 
 the subject of this sketch, who is the owner of 
 the Baxter ranch, six and one-half miles in extent, 
 and situated on Horse Creek on the line of the 
 Union Pacific Railroad, near Cheyenne. Here 
 he is engaged in raising full blooded Hereford 
 cattle, as fine as any to be found in the west. 
 Since 1888 he has been identified with the West- 
 ern Union Beef Company (now the Western Live 
 Stock and I,and Company), of which he is presi- 
 dent and manager, and which is incorporated 
 under the laws of Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Baxter was born in Henderson, N. C, 
 and is a grandson of William Baxter, a native of 
 Ireland,, who came to America and settled in 
 Charleston, S. C, at seventeen years of age, but 
 later removed to Rutherford, N. C, where he 
 became owner of a plantation. He married Miss 
 Katherine Lee. Their son, John Baxter, was 
 born in Rutherford in 18 19 and became an attor- 
 ney. When his son, our subject, was two years 
 of age he removed to Knoxville, Tenu., where 
 he became a prominent lawyer. He was a mem- 
 ber of the constitutional convention of Tennessee 
 in 1870, at which time the present constitution 
 was adopted. In 1877 he was appointed by 
 President Hayes as one of the United States cir- 
 cuit judges, his territory being the sixth circuit, 
 embracing Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and Mich- 
 igan. He was filling that office at the time of 
 his death, in the spring of 1886, when he was 
 
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 sixty-seven years of age. During the war he ad- 
 hered to the Union. His was a turbulent career, 
 for his talents brought him into prominence 
 during the critical period of our nation's history. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Orra Ann Alex- 
 ander, who was born in Asheville, N. C, the 
 daughter of Mitchell Alexander by his marriage 
 to Nancy Foster, both natives of Virginia. Her 
 grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution and 
 lost a limb in one engagement. The family is of 
 Scotch descent. Mrs. Baxter died in 1859. She 
 was the mother of four sons and three daughters, 
 all of whom are living but two daughters. The 
 third of these was George W. , who was born 
 January 7, 1855. He was educated in the Uni- 
 versity of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Uni- 
 versity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. In May, 
 1873, he entered the Military Academy at West 
 Point, from which he graduated in June, 1877, 
 and was then assigned to the Third United States 
 Cavalry as second lieutenant of Company H, with 
 which he served in Wyoming, Dakota and Ne- 
 braska. In July, 1 88 1, immediately after his 
 promotion to first lieutenant, he resigned from 
 the service and turned his attention to ranching. 
 In 1886 President Cleveland appointed him gov- 
 ernor of Wyoming, but becoming involved in a 
 controversy with his immediate superior, the 
 secretary of the interior, he resigned after filling 
 the office three months. In 1889 he was a mem- 
 ber of the constitutional convention that adopted 
 the present constitution of Wyoming, and after 
 the admission of the state, in 1890, he was the 
 Democratic candidate for governor, but the state 
 being Republican by a large majority his candi- 
 dacy was with no expectation of success. He 
 made Cheyenne his home until 1895, when he 
 came to Denver, and has since resided in this 
 city. 
 
 At Knoxville, Tenn., in 1880, Mr. Baxter 
 married Miss Margaret McGhee, who was born 
 there and received her education in Georgetown 
 Academy, Washington, D. C, and in Europe. 
 She was a daughter of Charles M. McGhee, who 
 was closely identified with railroad interests in 
 Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter are the parents 
 of five children, Cornelia, Margaret, Katherine, 
 Charles McGhee and George. The family attend 
 St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Fraternally Mr. 
 Baxter is connected with Cheyenne Lodge No. i, 
 A. F. & A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter and 
 
 Knight Templar Commandery, also El Jebel 
 Temple, N. M. S., of Denver. He is still a 
 member of the Association of Graduates of West 
 Point. 
 
 HON. JOHN W. NESMITH. There is no 
 concern of its kind which has become more 
 prominently known throughout the state 
 than the Colorado Iron Works Company, of Den- 
 ver, which was established in i860, and incor- 
 porated in 1876 and again in 1896. In January, 
 1879, Mr. Nesmith accepted the position of super- 
 intendent and continued in that capacity until 
 1886, when, he and his family having acquired 
 the larger portion of the stock, he was made 
 president and has since been in active manage- 
 ment of the plant. At the time he became con- 
 nected with the works, they were small and un- 
 important, and it is due almost wholly to his en- 
 terprise and judicious management that he has 
 now one of the largest mining machinery factories 
 in the west. The three hundred and fifty men em- 
 ployed at the works assist in the manufacture of 
 copper, silver and lead smelting furnaces. The 
 company has built most of the important smelters 
 from Helena to the City of Mexico; they also build 
 mills and manufacture works for the treatment of 
 ores of precious metals. In 1881 the shops were 
 destroyed by fire, but were rebuilt soon at the same 
 place. Thirty-third and Wynkoop streets. 
 
 The Remolino Coffee and Sugar Company was 
 established in 1893, with Mr. Nesmith as presi- 
 dent, and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and 
 Mrs. F. L. McFarland, as associates in the en- 
 terprise. They own a coffee plantation situated 
 south of the Gulf of Mexico, on the Coatzacoalcos 
 River, on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, state of 
 Vera Cruz, Mexico. In addition to the manage- 
 ment of the plantation, they operate, for general 
 traffic, a steamboat on the river, the vessel being 
 small, but as large as the exigencies of that traffic 
 demand. Not only on account of his business in- 
 terests there, but also because he is fond of travel, 
 Mr. Nesmith has visited almost every point of 
 interest in Mexico. Of late years he has taken 
 up the study of the Spanish language, in which 
 he has gained such proficiency as to construction 
 and grammar that he can read and write the lan- 
 guage correctly and with facility. 
 
 From Parker's history of Londonderry, N. H., 
 
ISO 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 page 290, we quote the following regarding the 
 pedigree of the Naesmyth, Nasmyth or Nesmith 
 family (for in these various ways the name has 
 been spelled): 
 
 i: — "James Nesmith emigrated from River 
 Bann, Londonderry, Ireland, to America, in 
 1718. He was one of the first sixteen settlers of 
 Londonderry, N. H., a highly respectable mem- 
 ber of the colony and an elder in the Presbyterian 
 Church. He married, in Ireland, Elizabeth 
 McKeen, and by her had children: Arthur, James, 
 John, Thomas and Elizabeth. 
 
 "Arthur (i), who was born in Ireland, settled 
 in Maine, and had children: James, John, Benja- 
 min and Mary. This James (son of Arthur i) 
 served in the Revolution in the compan}- com- 
 manded by Capt. George Reid; was at the battle 
 of Bunker Hill; afterwards was promoted to cap- 
 tain and commanded a company in Canada; and 
 also in Rhode Island under General Sullivan. 
 He was frank and generous in disposition, digni- 
 fied, and was distinguished for intrepedity, ac- 
 tivity and muscular strength. 
 
 "James Nesmith (2), son of James (i), was 
 also born in Ireland and was also in Captain 
 Reid's company as a Revolutionary soldier. He 
 lived at Londonderry, and had children: James, 
 who, married Martha McClure, and was an elder 
 in the church; Jonathan, who married Eleanor 
 Dickey and removed to Antrim in 1778 and was 
 au elder in the church; Robert, who married 
 Jane Anderson; and John, who married Eliza- 
 beth, sister of Gen. George Reid, and died at 
 Londonderry in 18 15, aged eighty -seven. John 
 and Elizabeth left the following-named children: 
 James, who married Elizabeth Brewster, of An- 
 trim; Arthur, who married May Duncan and 
 moved to Ohio; John; and Thomas, born 1731, 
 who married Annie Wilson, settled at Windham, 
 near Londonderry, and had children. 
 
 "John Nesmith (3) was born November 26, 
 1766, at Londonderry, N. H. Lived on the 
 homestead. Married February 28, 1797, Susan 
 (Sukey) Hildreth, who was born at London- 
 derry, June 22, 1777; they left children: John 
 Pinkerton, Isabella, Samuel Hildreth, James P., 
 Mary, Thomas and Elizabeth. 
 
 "Samuel Hildreth Nesmith (3), born August 
 21, 1803, at Londonderry, N. H., married April 
 19, 1831, Priscilla Brown at Circleville, Ohio. 
 The father died in August, 1876, and the mother 
 
 July 10, 1 85 1. They had children: John Well- 
 ington; James Browne, born February 5, 1837; 
 and Ellen Mary, born August 20, 1840. 
 
 "John Wellington Nesmith, born January 4, 
 1834, nearChillicothe, Ohio, married October 30, 
 1856, Miss Elizabeth R. Dickson, of Pittsfield, 111. 
 Children: Isabel, born June 13, 1859, at Pitts- 
 field, 111.; Eleanor, born July 13, 1869, at Black- 
 hawk, Colo. Eleanor Nesmith married February 
 26, 1890, Fiulay Le Roy McFarland, of Denver; 
 Isabel Nesmith married October 7, 1 891, James 
 Porter Evans, of Denver." 
 
 Tracing the more remote lineage of the Nesmith 
 family, we find that they were represented 
 among the families going from Scotland to the 
 Valley of the Bann, Ireland, in 1690. There 
 James Nesmith was born in 1 692 and from there 
 he emigrated to America in 17 18. As before 
 stated, he was one of the sixteen original settlers 
 of Londonderry, N. H. He was a signer of the 
 memorial to Governor Shute, and was appointed 
 elder of the West Parish Church on its organiza- 
 tion in 1739. He died in 1767, aged seventy- 
 five. His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of James 
 and Janet (Cochran) McKeen, was born in Ireland 
 and died in New Hampshire in 1763, aged sixty- 
 seven. 
 
 From the autobiography of Sir James Nasmyth 
 we learn the following regarding the history and 
 traditions of the Nasmyth or Nesmith family. 
 He writes: "Sir Bernard Burke, in his 'Peerage 
 and Baronetage,' gives a faithful account of the 
 ancestors from which I am lineally descended. 
 The family of Naesmyth, says Burke, is one of 
 remote antiquity in Tweeddale, and has possessed 
 large lands there since the thirteenth century. 
 They fought in the wars of Bruce and Baliol, 
 which ended in the independence of Scotland. 
 The following is the family legend of the origin of 
 the name of Naesmyth: In the troublous times 
 which prevailed in Scotland before the union of the 
 crowns, the feuds between the king and the 
 barons were almost constant. In the reign of 
 James III. the house of Douglas was the most 
 prominent and ambitious. The earl not only 
 resisted his liege lord, but entered into a combi- 
 nation with the king of England, from whom he 
 received a pension. He was declared a rebel and 
 his estates were confiscated. He determined to 
 resist the royal power, and crossed the border 
 with his followers. He was met by the Earl of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Angus, the Maxwells, the Johnstons and the 
 Scotts. In one of the engagements which en- 
 sued, the Douglas appeared to have gained the 
 day, when an ancestor of the Naesmyths, who 
 fought under the royal standard, took refuge in 
 the smithy of a neighboring village. The smith 
 offered him protection, disguised him as a ham- 
 merman, with a leather apron in front, and asked 
 him to lend a hand at his work. 
 
 "While thus engaged a party of the Douglas 
 partisans entered the smithy. They looked with 
 suspicion on the disguised hammerman, who, in 
 his agitation, struck a false blow with the sledge 
 hammer, which broke the shaft in two. Upon 
 this one of pursuers rushed at him, calling out, 
 'Ye' re nae smyth.' The stalwart hammerman 
 turned upon his assailant, and wrenching a dag- 
 ger from him, speedily overpowered him. The 
 smith himself, armed with the big hammer, ef- 
 fectually aided in overpowering and driving out 
 the Douglas men. A party of the royal forces 
 made their appearance, when Naesmyth rallied 
 them, led them against the rebels, and converted 
 what had been a temporary defeat into a victory. 
 A grant of lands was bestowed upon him for his 
 service. His armorial bearings consisted of a 
 head dexter with a dagger, between two broken 
 hammer shafts, and there they remain to this day. 
 The motto was, Non arte sed marte (Not by art 
 but by war)." 
 
 The father of our subject, who removed from 
 New Hampshire to Ohio about 1830, was a civil 
 engineer on the Ohio canal, and later a con- 
 tractor. In the fall of 1834 he removed to Pike 
 County, 111., settling near Pittsfield, where he 
 was a pioneer farmer. About 1850 he moved to 
 Barry, 111., and engaged in merchandising, but 
 later went to Canton, Mo., where he remained 
 until his death at the age of over seventy. His 
 first wife, Priscilla, who was born near Chilli- 
 cothe, Ohio, was a daughter of White Brown, a 
 native of Delaware, settling in Ohio about 1808 
 and dying upon a farm there. He owned many 
 slaves at one time, but becoining convinced that 
 slavery was wrong, he freed them, thus losing 
 his fortune. Mrs. Nesmith died when our sub- 
 ject was fourteen years of age, leaving besides 
 him a j'ounger brother and sister, James B., later 
 a civil engineer engaged on the Iron Mountain 
 road at Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and Mrs. Ellen 
 Burke, now of Kansas. 
 
 When a boy our subject learned the machinist's 
 trade in Pittsfield and followed it in St. Louis for a 
 time; while there he was asked to come to Colo- 
 rado and erect a mill in what is now Gilpin Coun- 
 ty, which he did, afterward running the mill for a 
 year, but before the year expired the firm failed. 
 It was in June, i860, that he arrived in the moun- 
 tains, after an ox-train journey of forty-two days, 
 from Nebraska City via Fort Kearney to Ne- 
 vada Gulch. In February, 1861, he came to 
 Denver and entered a small machine shop and 
 foundry owned by Langford & Co. In the fall of 
 1862 the shop was moved to Blackhawk, Gilpin 
 County; in 1864 he was made superintendent of 
 the shop and remained with the company until 
 1869, when he resigned to enter the milling busi- 
 ness. Building a mill in Blackhawk, he had 
 charge of it some two years. About 1874 he was 
 locomotive engineer on construction of the Colo- 
 rado Central Railroad, and when the line was 
 completed into Blackhawk he became master 
 mechanic. The next year he was made master 
 of transportation, with headquarters at Golden. 
 About 1876 he was made master mechanic of the 
 ■ Upper Division of the Kansas Pacific (now a part 
 of the Union Pacific), including the lines from 
 Denver to Wallace, Denver to Boulder, Kit Car- 
 son to Los Animas, and Denver to Cheyenne. In 
 1878 he was appointed by Governor Evans super- 
 intendent of the South Park Railroad, and con- 
 tinued in that position until January, 1879, when, 
 the iron works having been moved back to Den- 
 ver, he resigned to become superintendent of the 
 plant. 
 
 In Pittsfield, 111., Mr. Nesmith married Eliza- 
 beth, sister of Judge Dickson, of Leadville. They 
 are the parents of two daughters. The family 
 attend the First Congregational Church and take 
 an interest in its welfare. Mr. Nesmith is a 
 member of the chamber of commerce and board 
 of trade. While in Illinois he was made a Ma- 
 son, and was past master of Blackhawk Lodge 
 No. II, A. F. & A. M., but is now a member of 
 Oriental Lodge No. 87, in Denver, also a member 
 of the Royal Arch Chapter. He represented Gilpin 
 County in the upper house of the territorial legis- 
 lature, sessions of 1868 and 1870, during which 
 time he was a stalwart supporter of the cause of 
 woman's suffrage. 
 
 For many years Mr. Nesmith has been a stu- 
 dent of the physical sciences. He is an expert in 
 
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 the chemistry and metallurgy of the smelting of 
 ores of the precious metals, as gold, silver, cop- 
 per, lead, etc., and is a recognized authority on 
 blast furnace construction and practice as adapted 
 to such minerals. While in Blackhawk and vi- 
 cinitj', from 1868 to 1874, he practiced civil and 
 mining engineering, in which he has few superi- 
 ors to this day. He is a member of the National 
 Association of Mining Engineers, also of the Den- 
 ver Society of Civil Engineers and the Colorado 
 Scientific Society, of Denver. 
 
 Associated with him in the Colorado Iron 
 Works, Mr. Nesmith has a half-brother, S. H. , 
 who was born to the marriage of Samuel H. 
 Nesmith and Caroline Rush, of Barry, 111., and 
 by that union there was a daughter born, Julie, 
 who married William H. Drescher, and resides 
 in Hannibal, Mo. In addition to Mr. Nesmith 
 and his brother, the former's daughter, Mrs. Isa- 
 bel Evans, is connected with the company, being 
 its secretary and treasurer, while John H. Mor- 
 com fills the position of superintendent. 
 
 rDQiLUAM W. GRANT, M. D. During 
 I A/ ^^^ years that have elapsed since he came 
 Y V to Denver, Dr. Grant has built up a large 
 practice in this city and has become known as a 
 skillful surgeon and a successful physician, who 
 is accurate alike in the diagnosis and treatment 
 of disease. While his specialties are surgery and 
 gynecology, yet in every department of the pro- 
 fession his knowledge is exhaustive and his skill 
 recognized. He has had the advantage not only 
 of study in the institutions of our own land, but 
 in those abroad, having spent one year in the 
 study of surgery and gynecology in the hospitals 
 of Berlin, Vienna and London. 
 
 The record of the Grant family appears in the 
 sketch of ex-Governor Grant, the doctor's 
 brother. The family consisted of seven children, 
 of whom William was the third. He was born 
 in Russell County, Ala., near Columbus, Ga. , 
 and in boyhood attended a private school there. 
 His boyhood life was spent on a southern planta- 
 tion, where he was instructed by his father in the 
 making of every kind of farm implement and in 
 their use in the cultivation of corn, cotton and 
 other farm products. He also learned to fell 
 trees, split rails and dig ditches, and, in fact, did 
 every kind of farm work, and did it well. He 
 
 worked side by side with the colored help, and 
 no favors were shown him, although his father 
 was a kind and indulgent man. Thus he learned 
 to appreciate individual effort and its results. 
 School study and farm work were alternated; 
 yet before the age of fifteen he and his brother, 
 the ex-governor, read Virgil and had commenced 
 Sallust. However, they were not "hothouse" 
 products, for neither was familiar with the letters 
 of the alphabet until seven and eight years of age 
 respectively. 
 
 At the age of sixteen our subject entered as a 
 private a company of Alabama artillery known 
 as Clanton's battery in Gen. James H. Clanton's 
 brigade, and served during the last sixteen 
 months of the Civil war, being promoted from 
 the ranks to the position of sergeant of artillery, 
 in charge of the gun. He was present in the en- 
 gagements of Mount Hope Church and Colum- 
 bus, Ga. Returning home at the close of the 
 war he attended school for a year and then began 
 the study of medicine. For a time he read under 
 private tutelage, then spent a year (1867) in 
 Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and 
 the following year entered Bellevue and Long 
 Island Medical College, from which he graduated 
 in 1868 with the degree of M. D. 
 
 Shortly after his graduation Dr. Grant opened 
 an office in Nebraska, near Sioux City, Iowa, 
 but in 1872 rejnoved to Davenport, Iowa, where 
 he continued for a number of years, and while 
 there held the office of president of the Scott 
 County Medical Society. He was also president 
 of the Iowa and Illinois Central District Medical 
 Association. In 1885 the surgeon-general of the 
 United States army appointed him post surgeon 
 at the Rock Island arsenal, and he held the po- 
 sition until 1888, when he resigned on account of 
 going to Europe. On his return from abroad, in 
 December, 1889, he came to Denver, where he 
 has an office in the Mack building. In addition 
 to his general practice he is one of the surgeons to 
 St. Joseph's hospital and president of the staff, 
 and is also surgeon to the Rock Island Railroad 
 here. The various professional organizations — 
 the American Academy of Railway Surgeons, 
 American, State and Denver and Arapahoe 
 County Medical Societies — number him among 
 their members. All discoveries in therapeutics, 
 all improvements in surgery, and, in fact, every 
 development made in the profession, receives his 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 155 
 
 thoughtful attention and study. Himself one of 
 the foremost members of the medical fraternity, 
 his articles concerning professional work and the 
 treatment of disease frequently appear in medical 
 journals and are valuable additions to the profes- 
 sional literature. 
 
 The residence of Dr. Grant is at No. 930 
 Pennsylvania avenue. He was married in 
 Franklin, Tenn., to Miss Mary A. Moseley, who 
 was born in that state and died in Davenport, 
 Iowa, leaving two children, William W. , Jr., 
 and James. In Denver he was a second time 
 married, his wife being Miss Nanny Green, 
 daughter of the late Judge James Green, of Cul- 
 peper C. H., Va. 
 
 HON. JOB ADAMS COOPER, governor of 
 Colorado, 1889-91, was born near Green- 
 ville, Bond County, 111., and is a son of 
 Charles and Maria (Hadley) Cooper, members of 
 old English families. His father, who was born 
 at Maidstone, County Kent, England, forty miles 
 south of I^ondon, was a son of Thomas Cooper, a 
 paper manufacturer of Kent County, who came 
 to the United States late in life and died at Yolo, 
 Cal., when eighty-nine years of age. Charles 
 was one of a large family of children who eventu- 
 ally came to America. He was educated at Maid- 
 stone and at the age of fifteen crossed the ocean 
 on a sailing vessel, settling in Newark, N. J., 
 where he learned the carriage manufacturer's 
 trade. At the age of twenty-two he went to 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the lum- 
 ber business. It was there that he married Miss 
 Hadley. Removing to Illinois in 1840, he be- 
 came a pioneer of Bond County, where he im- 
 proved a valuable farm and continued to reside 
 Utitil his death, in 1865, at the age of fifty-nine 
 years. Fraternally a Mason, he was active in 
 the work of his order. He was a firm supporter 
 of Democratic tenets. During the war he was 
 loyal to the Union and assisted in raising troops 
 for the Federal service. His wife died at fift)'- 
 nine years of age, and of their seven children, 
 five of whom reached maturit}*, only two are 
 living, Thomas Cooper, of Morgan County, Colo., 
 and Job Adams Cooper. 
 
 The last-named was educated at Knox College, 
 
 Galesburg, 111., from which institution he was 
 
 graduated in 1865, with the degree of A. B. 
 
 Three years later the degree of A. M. was con- 
 
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 ferred upon him by his alma mater. While a 
 student in Knox College, in May, 1864, he en- 
 listed, with many other students, in Company C, 
 One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Illinois Infan- 
 try, Capt. B. M. Veatch, and served until mustered 
 out in the latter part of the same year. He was 
 stationed near Memphis when the Confederate 
 general, Forest, made his memorable raid. 
 
 In Galesburg, 111., September 17, 1867, Mr. 
 Cooper married Miss Jane O. Barnes, daughter 
 of Rev. Romulus E. Barnes, one of the early 
 Congregational home missionaries of Illinois. 
 She, too, is identified with that denomination and 
 has done much work of a benevolent nature. She 
 was educated in Rockford Seminary in Illinois, 
 and is a lady whose culture makes her a valuable 
 acquisition in the most select social circles. The 
 four children that comprise the family are named 
 as follows: Olivia D., wife of Edwin S. Kassler; 
 Mary Louise, Mrs. Lucius S. Storrs, of St. Paul, 
 Minn.; Charles J., a graduate of Knox College, 
 class of 1897, and now engaged in the real-estate 
 business in Denver; and Genevieve P., a gradu- 
 ate of Ogontz School, near Philadelphia. 
 
 On completing his literary studies at Galesburg, 
 Mr. Cooper began to read law with Judge S. P. 
 Moore, at Greenville, and in 1867 he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, after which he opened an office 
 for practice in Greenville. In 1868 he was elected 
 circuit clerk and recorder of Bond County, which 
 position he continued to fill until he resigned, on 
 coming to Denver in 1872. He arrived in this 
 city May 14, and was admitted to practice at 
 the bar here September i, 1872. Forming a 
 partnership with A. C. Phelps, as Phelps & 
 Cooper, he gave his attention closely to his law 
 practice. Afterward, for about two years, he was 
 interested in a fire insurance agency, but retired 
 from the insurance business in order to accept a 
 position with the German Bank (later the Ger- 
 man National Bank of Denver). 
 
 During the early years of his residence in the 
 west, he was interested in the stock business, 
 buying cattle in Texas and feeding them on 
 Colorado ranches. Sometimes he shipped as 
 many as two trains full of cattle a day from Brush, 
 on the Burlington Railroad. The advent of set- 
 tlers, however, caused him to retire from the 
 business. 
 
 During the years that followed he became 
 known as a keen, discriminating financier and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 public-spirited man. His circle of acquaintances 
 increased, and his influence waxed constantly 
 greater. The esteem in which he was held and 
 the prominence which he had attained made the 
 choice of his name by the Republicans for the 
 gubernatorial chair a most happy selection. He 
 was elected by a majority of ten thousand 
 (which was considered large at that time) over 
 'his Democratic opponent, Thomas M. Patterson, 
 of the Rocky Mountain News. He took the 
 oath of office January i, 1889, succeeding Gover- 
 nor Adams at the expiration of the latter's first 
 term. He had never been A partisan politician, 
 and, although always a stanch supporter of the 
 Republican party, he had not actively identified 
 himself with party matters; however, he was well 
 known throughout the state as a successful, 
 honest, progressive and efficient business man, 
 and it was the desire of the party to have such a 
 man fill the executive chair. 
 
 On his retirement from the office of governor, 
 he accepted the position of president of the 
 National Bank of Commerce, and this he filled 
 successfully and ably until 1 897 , when he resigned ; 
 since then he has devoted his attention to the 
 management of his large and valuable property 
 interests in this state and to mining at Cripple 
 Creek as a member of the Tornado Gold Mining 
 Company. In 1868 he erected, on the corner of 
 Grant and Colfax, the elegant residence where he 
 has since (and especially during his term as 
 governor) entertained with a lavish and genial 
 hospitality. In 1891 he began the erection ofthe 
 substantial block known as the Cooper building, 
 which is situated on the corner of Seventeenth 
 and Curtis streets, and which, in its interior finish, 
 is surpassed by no block in the state. 
 
 During Governor Cooper's term the superstruct- 
 ure of the magnificent state capitol approached 
 completion. He has been a member of the state 
 board of capitol managers for six years, and 
 yet holds that position. During his term the state 
 also made a notable advance in mining, stock-rais- 
 ing and commerce. The commonwealth reached 
 the climax of its development and attained a pros- 
 perity never before enjoyed, and indeed, dreamed 
 of by few. The World's Fair preparations were 
 being made while he was at the head of the gov- 
 ernment, and he took an active part in arranging 
 for a representation of Colorado at the Fair that 
 would do justice to the industries ofthe state. 
 
 As an executive official he was conservative in 
 judgment, never hasty in his decisions, but firm 
 in carrying out any given course of action when 
 once decided upon. He possessed a sagacity 
 sound, well defined and trustworthy and was a 
 man of profound foresight. Having made a 
 study of constitutional law, he was well versed in 
 the principles of wise statesmanship and public 
 policy, and was admirably fitted to stand at the 
 head of the greatest state in the mountain regions 
 of the west. 
 
 HON. JOHN L. ROUTT. The last territoria 
 and the first state governor of Colorado, also 
 governor in 1891-93, enjoys the distinction 
 of being the only one who has three times filled 
 the gubernatorial chair of the state, and but two 
 other governors have served more than a single 
 term. Coming to Colorado prior to its admission 
 as a state, he has from that time been closely 
 identified with its history and has contributed to 
 its progress. The development of the common- 
 wealth has been ever near to his heart, its mining 
 and stock-raising industries he has promoted in 
 many important ways, while its commercial in- 
 terests have been given an impetus through his 
 executive ability and tireless energy. 
 
 In view of the close connection of Governor 
 Routt with the business and political history of 
 the state, considerable mention should be made 
 of his life and public career. Whatever success 
 he has achieved is the result of his unaided efforts, 
 for he started out in the world with but a limited 
 education, wholly destitute of money and also 
 lacking influential friends. Money, friends and 
 prominence have come to him, as the result of 
 the honorable and efficient manner in which he 
 has conducted business and his genial qualities 
 as a man and friend. 
 
 The Routt family came from Wales to America. 
 Daniel, a son ofthe founder ofthe family in this 
 country, was born in Virginia and became a 
 pioneer of Kentucky, settling in the woods three 
 miles from Booneville, where he died at the age 
 of eighty-five years. John, son of Daniel and 
 father of our subject, was born in Clark County, 
 Ky. , and engaged in farming in Caldwell Countj^ 
 where he died at the age of thirty-four. During 
 the war of 18 12 he was a member of Captain 
 Long's company. 
 
 The marriage of John Routt united him with 
 
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 Martha Haggard, who was born in Clailc County, 
 of Welsh descent. Her father, David Hag- 
 gard, was born in Virginia and at the age of 
 seventeen enlisted in the American army, where 
 he served until the close of the Revolution. 
 Later he removed to Kentucky and became a 
 very early settler of Clark County, where he 
 located very soon after the arrival of Daniel 
 Boone. In after years he cultivated a farm in 
 Trigg County, Ky., from which place he re- 
 moved to Illinois and spent his last days with 
 relatives in Blooraington, dj-ing there at the age 
 of eighty years. About 1835 our subject's mother, 
 who had in the meantime married Henry New- 
 ton of Kentucky, took her family to Illinois and 
 for two years resided in Hancock County, next 
 removed to McDonough County, and later 
 settled in McLean County, where she died at 
 seventy-seven years; Mr. Newton died at the age 
 of eighty-five years. Her family consisted of two 
 sons and two daughters, of whom two survive: 
 John L-, and Mrs. Elizabeth Newton, of McLean 
 County. 
 
 The life which this narrative sketches began 
 in Caldwell County, Ky., April 25, 1826. Early 
 orphaned by his father's death, the boy was 
 taken to Illinois by his mother and attended the 
 public schools there. Although his educational 
 advantages were meagre, he supplemented them 
 by reading night and morning and at all spare 
 moments. At the age of fourteen he began to 
 earn his own livelihood. He learned the trades 
 of machinist, architect and builder in Blooming- 
 ton, where he secured steady employment, and 
 al.so held the position of alderman of Bloomington 
 and sheriff of McLean County. The latter 
 position he resigned in order to enter the army 
 soon after the opening of the war. In 1862 he 
 raised Company E, of the Ninety-fourth Illinois 
 Infantry, which was mustered in at Bloomington 
 with himself as captain. The regiment served 
 in Missouri and Arkansas in 1862-63, under 
 command of General Herron, and took part in 
 several closely contested engagements. In the 
 battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. , he narrowly escaped 
 death, for three times bullets pas.sed through his 
 clothing. In the .spring of 1863 he became 
 quartern] ai5ter of an expedition organized near 
 Rolla, Mo., to march upon Little Rock. Soon 
 afterward the regiment joined General Grant at 
 Vicksburg, where they remained until the fall of 
 
 that city. While at Vicksburg General Grant 
 gave an order to the commanding general to 
 have a large amount of ammunition removed the 
 following day from Chickasaw Bayou, eighteen 
 miles away, by noon. This was con.sidered im- 
 possible, but was accomplished by Quartermaster 
 Routt, which so pleased General Grant that he 
 wrote John L. Routt's name in his note book. 
 Years afterwards General Grant met Mr. Routt 
 in Chicago and, remembering the name, a friend- 
 ship began that lasted through life. In the fall 
 of 1880 General Grant spent four weeks in the 
 company of Governor Routt in the mountains of 
 Colorado, and these are the most memorable four 
 weeks in the governor's recollection. The next 
 movement was to Port Hudson, Miss., thence to 
 Brownsville, Tex., where Captain Routt was ap- 
 pointed to duty as chiefquartermasterofthe army 
 of the frontier on the Rio Grande, with the rank 
 of colonel. He was ordered to New Orleans 
 after the defeat of General Banks in 1864 and 
 was then stationed at Baton Rouge in charge of 
 the outfitting depot until he was mustered out of 
 service September 20, 1865. He was a personal 
 friend of President Lincoln, whom he warmly 
 admired for his depth of character and breadth of 
 mind. 
 
 Returning to Bloomington, Colonel Routt un- 
 expectedly found himself the Republican candi- 
 date for county treasurer. He was elected and 
 served for two terms, but declined further 
 renomination. During his administration an 
 elegant courthouse was built and other improve- 
 ments were made, in all of which his careful 
 handling and wise disbursement of money was 
 apparent. At the close of his second term, in 
 November, 1869, he went to Washington as chief 
 clerk to the second assistant postmaster-general 
 under President Grant. During his services in 
 that capacity a controversy arose in regard to the 
 United States marshal for the southern district 
 of Illinois, and he, without his knowledge, was 
 appointed by President Grant to that position. 
 In 1870 he took the census of his district, com- 
 prising seventy-two counties. 
 
 In the fall of 1871 Colonel Routt received a 
 telegram from President Grant, offering him the 
 appointment of second assistant postmaster-gen- 
 eral. He accepted the position, resigning as 
 marshal, and the following day started for 
 Washington. In this office he had charge of the 
 
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 conveyance of the whole United States mail, 
 making contracts with railway, steamboat and 
 stage lines, to the amount of about $20,000,000 
 per annum. While holding the position, a 
 vacancy occurred in the governor's chair in the 
 territory of Colorado by the resignation of Ed- 
 ward M. McCook, and in February, 1875, 
 General Grant appointed him governor. When 
 he came to Colorado, Denver was a city of less 
 than five thousand inhabitants and the entire 
 territory was thinly populated. Early in March 
 he entered upon his duties, which were of a most 
 responsible nature, owing to the fact that the 
 Republican party was divided by dissension. 
 The constitutional convention framed the con- 
 stitution which was adopted July 4, 1876. The 
 first state election was held in October of the 
 same year. While he was not a candidate, he 
 was unanimously nominated by his party and 
 was elected for a term of two years, the first 
 governor of the new state. 
 
 The inauguration of plans connected with the 
 adoption of a state government necessarily in- 
 volved many difficulties. The national govern- 
 ment withdrew its protection and the state had 
 to adopt plans for meeting its bills and maintain- 
 ing its credit. The state warrants started off at 
 seventy-five per cent and increased'during his term 
 until they commanded a premium of one per cent. 
 As president of the state land board, the governor 
 did much to secure for the state some of the best 
 lands under grant of congress, and also organized 
 the work of the board. 
 
 On his retirement from the position of chief 
 executive. Governor Routt engaged in the cattle 
 business and in mining at L,eadville, meantime 
 making his home in Denver. The succeeding 
 years passed by, unmarked by special events, 
 until his nomination, in 1890, for the office he 
 had so efficiently filled in former years. He took 
 the chair in January, 1891, and served until 1893. 
 At the time of his inauguration the lower house 
 was in a state of confusion, owing to the two 
 speakers being elected by the two factions be- 
 tween whom there seemed little hope of producing 
 amity. About the same time a United States 
 senator was to be elected, a subject that always 
 brought contention. In spite of these adverse 
 circumstances, the governor succeeded in bring- 
 ing order out of chaos and his administration 
 
 proved as successful as those during the early 
 days of Colorado's history. 
 
 When ■ the bill providing for the erection of a 
 new capitol was passed, Governor Routt was 
 made a member of the board of managers and 
 served until the spring of 1897, when he resigned. 
 The building, in the erection of which he was so 
 deeply interested, is an architectural triumph and 
 may well be a source of pride and satisfaction to 
 the five trustees forming the board of managers. 
 It is constructed of granite, quarried in Gunnison 
 County, this state. The framework is of steel, 
 which makes the structure most substantial. 
 The location is also unexceptionable, Capitol 
 Hill commanding a fine view of the surrounding 
 country. 
 
 In 1894 Governor Routt was elected mayor of 
 Denver and served for one term. He was a 
 delegate to the Republican national convention 
 at Cincinnati, when Rutherford B. Hayes was 
 nominated for president; also the convention of 
 1880 in Chicago, when he was one of three 
 hundred and six men comprising the Grant dele- 
 gation; the convention of 1884, when Blaine was 
 nominated; and that of i888, when General Har- 
 rison was made the Republican nominee. In 
 1884 he was chairman of the state central com- 
 mittee and at one time served as a member of the 
 national committee. He came within four votes of 
 being chosen United States senator from Colorado. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Loyal Legion 
 and the Knight Templar Masons, and he is a 
 member of Lincoln Post, G. A. R. He owns a 
 commodious and beautiful home in Denver and 
 a fine ranch of two thousand acres near Fort Col- 
 lins, Colo. 
 
 While in Bloomington Mr. Routt was married 
 to Miss Esther A. Woodson, who was born in 
 Springfield and died in Washington. The chil- 
 dren born of this union are: Minnie, Mrs. Charles 
 Hartzell, who died in Denver; Mrs. Birdie M. 
 Bryan, of Denver; Frank, who is engaged in 
 mining at Cripple Creek; John H., of Denver; 
 and Mrs. Emma Butler, also of this city. The 
 second marriage of Governor Routt united him 
 with Miss EHza Pickrell, of Springfield, 111., and 
 they are the parents of a daughter, Lila Elkin 
 Routt. 
 
 In the public career of Governor Routt, 
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 is his devotion to the interests of the state. Even 
 those who were his political opponents never 
 denied his patriotic interest in the common- 
 wealth. Every trust reposed in him was faith- 
 fully discharged, and it was always his endeavor 
 to conserve the welfare of the state. He has 
 striven to preserve the public lauds transmitted 
 to the state by congress in the enabling act, so 
 that schools and public improvements may be 
 benefited thereby. Himself a miner and stock- 
 raiser, he is in thorough sympathy with the men 
 who follow these occupations. 
 
 Personally he is a man of sound common sense 
 and force of will, in physique strongly built and 
 showing powers of endurance. He is a man of 
 sympathetic heart, benevolent nature, large in- 
 tellect, executive force, and with the tact so 
 essential to the success of a public man. 
 
 HON. JAMES BENTON GRANT. The his- 
 tory of any city or state is best told in the 
 lives of its people. Especially is this the 
 case when its citizens are men of enterprise, 
 breadth of intellect and sagacity of judgment, 
 men whose influence is felt not only by those of 
 the same generation, but reaches into the far dis- 
 tant future, affecting generations yet to come. 
 Some men advance the welfare of their com- 
 munities by their business acumen, some assist in 
 shaping the destiny of the state and nation; and 
 others, in still different lines, promote the high- 
 est prosperity of the people. 
 
 The influence of ex-Governor Grant has been 
 felt both in commerce and in public affairs. As 
 the chief executive of this state, he labored to 
 enhance every interest, to increase the importance 
 of everj' industry. As a business man he has 
 worked not alone to secure personal success, but 
 to aid in public-spirited and progressive enter- 
 prises whereby other business men may also be 
 benefited. Especially in De'nver is his influence 
 felt. In 1882, five years after he came to Colo- 
 rado, he settled in Denver, the company of which 
 he is vice-president, the Omaha and Grant Smelt- 
 ing and Refining Company, having removed its 
 headquarters here. In addition to his connection 
 with this company, he is interested in a number 
 of mining companies and is vice-president of the 
 
 Denver National Bank, in the organization of 
 which he took an active part. 
 
 The Grant family is of Scotch origin. The 
 great-grandfather of Governor Grant, James 
 Grant, emigrated from Scotland to North Caro- 
 lina, where he was a planter. Prior to coming 
 to this' country he and two brothers. Captain 
 Patrick and William Grant, had taken part in 
 the battle of Colodin. Descendants of James and 
 William are in America to-day, so that the family 
 name is being perpetuated here. Hon. James 
 Grant, a son of the original settler, was a planter 
 in North Carolina and one of the most influential 
 public men of that state, at the time of his death 
 holding the office of comptroller of the state. 
 
 Thomas McDonough Grant, M. D., son of 
 Hon. James-Grant, was born in North Carolina, 
 and graduated in medicine from the Jefferson 
 Medical College of Philadelphia and the Medical 
 College of Charleston, S. C, after which he 
 began to practice in Alabama on the Chattahoot- 
 chie River and also operated a plantation there. 
 He died on his homestead at the age of sixty-six 
 years. His wife was Mary Jane Benton, daugh- 
 ter of James Benton, who was a planter in North 
 Carolina and died in early manhood. After her 
 father's death she was taken into the home of 
 an uncle. Col. Jack Crowell, a prominent man 
 and the first member of congress from Alabama, 
 also for a time Indian agent for the Seminbles. 
 The Crowell family removed to Alabama from 
 North Carolina, whither they had come from 
 England. The family name was originally Crom- 
 well, but there was so much prejudice among the 
 people against this name that they dropped the 
 "m" after coming to America and afterward 
 were known by the present name. The Benton 
 family was also of English extraction, closely re- 
 lated to both the Grants and Crowells. Dr. 
 Grant had four sisters and three brothers. One 
 of the brothers is Judge James Grant, of Daven- 
 port, Iowa. Another, William A. , died in Mont- 
 gomery, Ala. ; and the third, Lieut. Gough Grant, 
 was an officer in the United States navy for eight- 
 een years, but is now retired. 
 
 After the death of Dr. Grant his wife removed 
 to Davenport, where she died at the age of sixty- 
 two years. She was the mother of seven chil- 
 dren, of whom six are living, namely: Mrs. Eliz- 
 abeth Ragland, of Denver; Sarah, wife of Charles 
 Whitaker, of Davenport, Iowa; Dr. W. W. ; 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 James Benton; D. C, of Scott County, Iowa; 
 and Whitaker M., an attorney in Oklahoma. 
 James Benton Grant was born on a plantation 
 near Columbus, in Russell County, Ala., Jan- 
 uary 2, 1848. His boyhood was spent on a 
 plantation in that county. His father taught 
 him to make everj' kind of farm implement and 
 its practical use in the cultivation of corn, cotton 
 and farm produce. He also learned woodcraft 
 and the use of the axe in felling trees and splitting 
 rails. Thus he laid the foundation for a strong 
 mental and physical development. Though he 
 alternated .school work with farming, yet before 
 the age of fifteen he had read Virgil and had 
 commenced to read Sallust. As he was growing 
 toward manhood the dark clouds of war fell upon 
 the nation and when he was but seventeen, Jan- 
 uary 2, 1865, he enlisted in the Confederate 
 army as a member of Waddell's battalion, in 
 which he remained until the close of the war 
 brought the di,sbandment of the troops, and he 
 returned home in April, 1865. 
 
 In December, 1870, Mr. Grant went to Iowa, 
 where he had an uncle in Davenport. Soon aft- 
 erward he entered the Iowa Agricultural Col- 
 lege, where he remained for two years. He 
 then spent a year in Cornell, where he took a 
 course in civil engineering. In 1874 he went to 
 Freiburg, Saxony, Germany, where he studied 
 mining and metallurgy for two years, then re- 
 turning to the United States via Australia, New 
 Zealand and the Sandwich Islands. Reaching 
 this country in 1877 he at once located in Colo- 
 rado and engaged in mining and assaying, but 
 soon, in partnership with his uncle, started the 
 Grant smelter atLeadville. In 1882 the concern 
 was removed to Denver, where he has since 
 made his home. 
 
 During 1882 Mr. Grant was nominated for 
 governor on the Democratic ticket and enjoyed the 
 distinction of being the first Democratic governor 
 the state ever had. He entered upon the duties 
 of office in January, 1883, and served until Jan- 
 uary, 1885. Besides holding this important of- 
 fice he has been prominent in his party in other 
 ways. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national 
 convention at Chicago, where Grover Cleveland 
 was first nominated for president, and at that 
 convention was chairman of the Colorado delega- 
 tion and chairman of the committee on permanent 
 
 organization. Another important position he has 
 held is that of chairman of the state board of 
 arbitration. 
 
 No biography of Governor Grant would be 
 complete that failed to mention his interest in 
 educational work. He is a champion of the pub- 
 lic school system and one of its most earnest sup- 
 porters. Of his time and influence he gives 
 freely for the cause of free instruction to the 
 youth of our land. In 1891 he was elected a 
 member of the board of education in Denver, and 
 he has served as its president for six years (since 
 1892), filling that responsible position with the 
 same accuracy and efficiency he has endeavored 
 to fill every position to which he has been called. 
 In the moral training work, too, he is deeply in- 
 terested, giving it the weight of his influence. 
 
 With a just pride in the record of his ancestors, 
 he holds membership in the Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, and was honored by the state association by 
 being elected its president. His marriage oc- 
 curred in Leadville and united him with Miss 
 Mary Matteson Goodell, the granddaughter of 
 Joel A. Matteson, at one time governor of Illi- 
 nois. Two sons, Lester E. and James B. , Jr. , 
 have been born of this union. Mrs. Grant is a 
 daughter of R. E. Goodell, who formerly en- 
 gaged in farming in Illinois, but removed from 
 there to Leadville, and now resides in Denver. 
 
 A public office is a public trust. Realizing 
 this fact. Governor Grant, while occupying the 
 gubernatorial chair, endeavored to discharge his 
 duties honestly, faithfully and efficiently. His- 
 tory attests that during his administration the 
 industries for which the state is famous flourished 
 and prospered. Settlers were attracted to the 
 state in large numbers, new lines of business were 
 opened and new industries inaugurated. Ranches 
 were opened up for stock-raising, towns were 
 founded, while mining continued, as before, to 
 draw thousands of men to the mountains. The 
 whole career of Governor Grant has been one of 
 progress and will furnish numerous lessons to 
 other generations. He rose above and conquered 
 many obstacles in his life and his successes have 
 been more the result of his indomitable will and 
 courage than a chain of lucky circumstances. In 
 his social life he was ably seconded by his wife, 
 who by her rare tact and intelligence made many 
 of the social functions of Denver a success. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 HON. ALBERT W. McINTlRE, governor 
 of Colorado 1895-97, is a member of a family 
 that has borne au active part in American 
 history for many generations. The first of the 
 name in this country was a Jacobite who came 
 from Ayrshire in the Highlands of Scotland and 
 settled in Delaware. He had a son, John, who 
 was born in Delaware and was engaged in the 
 transportation business between Marj'land and 
 Delaware until he was financially ruined by the 
 British during the war of 18 12. 
 
 Next in line of descent was Thomas Mclntire, 
 who was born near Dover, Del. , but in early man- 
 hood removed to Bellefonte, Center County, Pa. , 
 and engaged in farming. Prosperity attended his 
 efforts and through industry and good business 
 judgment he became one of the wealthy men of 
 his locality. Unfortunately, in 1837 he endorsed 
 the bonds of state officers and was obliged to pay 
 the security, which caused his failure. He then 
 removed to Cincinnati, where soon afterward he 
 died of yellow fever. During the war of 1812 he 
 served as a commissioned officer of the American 
 army. He married a Miss Phillips, a native 
 of Connecticut and member of the Society of 
 Friends. 
 
 One of the children of Thomas was J. P. Mc- 
 lntire, who was born in Bellefonte, Center County, 
 Pa. , and accompanied his father to Cincinnati. 
 He was about seventeen when the latter died, and 
 upon him then devolved the responsibility of car- 
 ing for his mother, five sisters and a brother. 
 His first venture was a very successful one. 
 From Pittsburg he went up the Monongahela to 
 secure lumber for the manufacture of barrels. 
 The weather was unpleasant and rains were fre- 
 quent. He was obliged to wade and swim through 
 creeks, carrying his pack on his back. Finally, 
 however, he secured the lumber, cut it out and 
 loaded a couple of boats he had hired for the pur- 
 pose. When he reached the lock the dam was 
 broken, but with the assistance of an Indian he 
 succeeded in shooting the boats through the break, 
 though he was almost drowned in the attempt. 
 When he arrived in Pittsburg he found that the 
 price of staves and hoop-poles had risen enor- 
 mously and he sold off half his cargo for enough 
 to pay for the whole and start him in business. 
 He then engaged in the cooper's trade for a few 
 years in Pittsburg, after which he became inter- 
 ested in the coal mining and shipping business 
 
 near the city. During the war one of his boats 
 was chartered by the government and he ran the 
 rebel works at Vicksburg in order to take coal to 
 the Union fleet below. In 1867 he retired from 
 business, and in 1894 he died in Pittsburg. In 
 religion he was identified with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 Governor Mclntire's mother was Isabella A. 
 Wills, a native of Pittsburg, Pa., and daughter of 
 James and Mary (Thompson) Wills, natives of 
 Belfast, Ireland. Her father, who came to Amer- 
 ica in 1790 and settled in Washington County, 
 Pa. , was a prominent attorney of Pittsburg and 
 about 1820 was elected state's attorney. During 
 his term of office, while on his way home from 
 Harrisburg, he died from the effects of a sun- 
 stroke. In religious belief he was a Presbyterian. 
 His wife was a babe when her- father came to this 
 country in 1 790 and located in Washington Couu' 
 ty. Mrs. Isabella Mclntire is now in her eigh- 
 tieth year and makes her home in St. Louis with 
 a daughter. 
 
 The older of the two children of his father's 
 second marriage, Governor Mclntire was born in 
 Pittsburg, January 15, 1853. He was educated 
 in private schools, the Newall Institute and Yale 
 College, graduating from the latter in 1873, with 
 the degree of A. B. He then entered Yale Law 
 School, from which he graduated in 1875, receiv- 
 ing the degree of LL. B., and admission to the 
 bar of Connecticut. He then returned to Pitts- 
 burg, and passing the examination there was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. In 1876 he went to Colorado, 
 living alternately in Denver and the mountain 
 regions until 1880, then turned his attention to 
 the cattle business, in the San Luis Valley, being 
 the owner of four thousand acres there that he still 
 devotes to stock-raising and farming. In 1883 
 he was nominated for county judge by both the 
 Republicans and Democrats and was of course 
 elected, holding the position for three years, when 
 he refused renoraination. In the fall of 1886 he 
 was candidate for representative from Conejos 
 County, but was defeated by William H. Adams, 
 a brother of Governor Adams. In the year 1889 
 he adjudicated the water rights for the Rio Grande 
 River in Colorado. Two years later he was 
 appointed judge of the twelfth judicial district 
 by Governor Routt. 
 
 Having for years been prominent in the Repub- 
 lican party, in 1894 ^^ was made its candidate for 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 governor, his opponent being his predecessor in 
 office, Hon. David H. Waite. He was elected by 
 nineteen thousand seven hundred and eight ma- 
 jority over the Populist candidate, and began the 
 duties of office January 8, 1895. During his ad- 
 ministration he introduced a modification of the 
 attachment law, providing that attachments could 
 no longer be served upon overdue promissory 
 notes and overdue book accounts, which was of 
 the greatest assistance to debtors. The same 
 thing had been attempted, unsuccessfully, by 
 every legislature since 188 1. He strongly urged 
 upon the legislature the industrial employment of 
 convict labor. During his term occurred the Wal- 
 senburg lynching, which he settled in a manner 
 satisfactory both to the Italian government and 
 the secretary of state of the United States. He 
 also handled the Leadville strike troubles, which 
 occurred during his term. Since his retirement 
 he has given his attention to his mining interests 
 and private business affairs. 
 
 In New Haven, Conn., in 1873, occurred the 
 marriage of Mr. Mclntire to Miss Florence John- 
 son, who was born in New York City, the daugh- 
 ter of William L,. Johnson, a manufacturer there. 
 Three children were born of their marriage: 
 Joseph Phillips, who is manager of the ranch in the 
 San Lruis Valley; Elizabeth Lord, deceased; and 
 Dorothy. Fraternally Governor Mclntire is a 
 Knight Templar and member of the Shrine. He 
 is connected with the Alpha Delta Phi, the Colo- 
 rado Yale Association and the Denver Athletic 
 Club. In politics he is a silver Republican. He 
 is a man of broad information, especially in the 
 direction of scientific subjects. He is also a lin- 
 guist, speaking German, Spanish and French and 
 reading Latin and Greek. His state papers show 
 careful thought and preparation; and his message 
 was declared, even by opposition papers, to be 
 the peer of any of its kind ever issued in the state. 
 
 RALPH TALBOT, senior member of the law 
 firm of Talbot, Denison & Wadley, of 
 Denver, and president of the fire and police 
 board, was born in Fayette, Howard County, 
 Mo., August 17, 1850, and is the son of Dr. 
 John A. and Alice (Daly) Talbot, natives of 
 Maryland and Lexington, Ky., respectively. 
 His paternal grandfather, John Talbot, resided 
 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Talbot 
 
 County, which was named in honor of his an- 
 cestors. The maternal grandfather, Laurence 
 Daly, was born in Ireland and at an early age 
 settled in Kentucky, where he married. Some 
 years later he moved to Missouri and engaged in 
 teaching school, having among his pupils such 
 men as Gen. John B. Clark, Colonel Switzler, 
 and others who became distinguished in national 
 history. Dr. Talbot graduated from the Jeffer- 
 son Medical College of Philadelphia and after- 
 ward practiced his profession in Fayette, Mo., 
 where he died in 1858, at the age of fifty-four. 
 His wife died at the family residence in Missouri 
 in 1 87 1. Of their family of six sons and three 
 daughters, all survive with the exception of one 
 daughter. 
 
 The fourth son in order of birth, the subject of 
 this sketch was prepared for college in Kemper's 
 Institute in Missouri. In 1868 he entered 
 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, from 
 which he graduated in 1872 with the degree of 
 A. B. For two years after completing his ed- 
 ucation he taught Latin and modern history in 
 St. Paul's school at Concord, N. H., which is 
 the largest Episcopal school in America. He 
 resigned to study abroad and went to Germany 
 in 1874, entering Leipsic University, where he 
 spent three years in the study of jurisprudence. 
 He was admitted to the bar of Missouri in 1878 
 and opened an office in St. Louis, where he re- 
 mained two years or more. In 1881 he came to 
 Denver, where he has since engaged in profes- 
 sional practice. Though always a stanch Dem- 
 ocrat, he never sought office, and the first position 
 that he held was in 1897, when the governor 
 appointed him president of the fire and police 
 board of Denver, and as such also became ex- 
 officio fire commissioner. 
 
 In Mexico, Mo., Mr. Talbot married Miss 
 Fannie (Jewell) Hardin, a descendant of the well- 
 known family of Kentucky, who are prominently 
 identified with the history of that state. She was 
 born in Missouri, the daughter of Dr. Thomas J. 
 Hardin, and when she was about seven years of 
 age, on account of her father's death, she was 
 taken into the home of her uncle, ex-Governor 
 Charles H. Hardin, of Missouri. For some 
 years she was a student in the William Jewell 
 Baptist College, Mr. Jewell having been a relative 
 of the Hardin family. The five children of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Talbot are: Alice, Ralph, Jr., Charles 
 
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 Hardin, Robert and Laurence Daly. Fraternally 
 Mr. Talbot is connected with Union Lodge 
 No! 7, A. F. & A. M., of Denver, and in 1894 
 was grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias 
 of the state. While in Dartmouth he was a 
 member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He is 
 connected with the bar associations of Denver 
 and Colorado, and for eight years was one of the 
 board of examiners for admission to the bar in 
 the city of Denver. 
 
 3 SIDNEY BROWN, president of the J. S. 
 Brown & Bro. Mercantile Company, of Den- 
 ver. The family of which this gentleman is 
 a prominent member was founded in America by 
 Henry Brown, who emigrated from England to 
 Salisbury, Mass., about 1639. Representing the 
 fifth generation in descent from him was Mo.ses 
 Brown, born in East Kingston, N. H., in 1750, 
 a soldier in the Revolution. He married Mary 
 Hobbs, of Poplin, N. H., and afterward removed 
 to Strafford, in Orange County, Vt. Their son, 
 Reuben, was born in Strafford in 1797, and when 
 a young man located in Conneaut, Ashtabula 
 County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming. He 
 died in 1863. His wife, who was a daughter of 
 John and Laura (Bushnell) Hill, was born in 
 Starksboro, Vt. , and died in Denver in 1889, 
 aged eighty-seven. She was a sister of Gen. 
 Charles W. Hill, of Ohio, who during Governor 
 Todd's administration was adjutant-general of 
 Ohio, and assisted greatly in putting Ohio's 
 quota of soldiers in the field during the war of the 
 Rebellion, and cousin of Rev. Horace Bushnell, of 
 Hartford, Conn., and Judge James Campbell, 
 judge of the supreme court of Michigan. 
 
 On the mother's .side Mr. Brown is a lineal de- 
 scendant of Gen. Robert Sedgwick, colonist and 
 soldier, who was born in England in 1600. The 
 Sedgwicks came from among the mountains 
 which form the borders of Lancashire, Yorkshire 
 and Westmoreland, England, and suffered in the 
 border wars of York and Lancaster. Gen. Rob- 
 ert Sedgwick, the ancestor of the Sedgwicks of 
 New England, became an inhabitant of Charles- 
 town, Mass., June 3, 1636, and in 1637 a freeman 
 of that town. His residence was in the market 
 place, now the square near the site of the Bunker 
 Hill Bank. He was captain of the first "Trained 
 Band' ' in Charlestown. He was chosen represent- 
 
 ative in 1637 and for several successive years 
 served in that capacity, and as selectman of 
 Charlestown. From 1641 to 1648 he commanded 
 the "Castle." In 1644 he was the first major of 
 the Middlesex regiment. In 1645 he was com- 
 missioned to take care of the fortifications of the 
 town and the harbor. He was elected major- 
 general May 26, 1652. In 1654 he visited Eng- 
 land and engaged in the service of Cromwell as 
 commander of a contemplated expedition against 
 the Dutch of New York, but peace was made 
 with them and he led the expedition against the 
 French forts in Nova Scotia. He captured St. 
 Johns, Port Royal and another fort. This vigor- 
 ous action was so acceptable to Cromwell that the 
 next year he was appointed to service in the 
 West Indies. Jamaica had been captured and 
 General Sedgwick was sent with a fleet to re-in- 
 force General Venable. He arrived at the Bar- 
 badoes August 27, 1655, and learned that Gener- 
 al Venable had been repulsed. A council was 
 formed to govern the island and manage the af- 
 fairs. He was made commissioner for the gov- 
 ernment and afterwards major-general and gov- 
 ernor. Carlyle said he was very brave, zealous 
 and pious. He was one of the most distinguished 
 men of his time. He was an enterprising mer- 
 chant. He built wharves on the shore east of the 
 old ferry-built ways and the old tide walls. In 
 1643 he joined the younger Winthrop in starting 
 the first iron works in America. 
 
 Charlestown has cause to remember the public 
 spirit of General Sedgwick. He took a warm 
 interest in its welfare and was constantly in its 
 service. His regard for education is seen in his 
 gifts to the college. He was a representative of 
 the liberal Puritans of New England; religion 
 was in all his thoughts and yet he openly opposed 
 the prevailing intolerance. "He was nursed in 
 the London Artillery Garden and was stout and 
 active in all feats of war. " While in London he 
 joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
 pany and after coming to America was active in 
 organizing the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
 Company of Boston, Mass., becoming its captain 
 in 1640. He died in Jamaica May 24, 1656. 
 
 John Sidney Brown was next to the youngest 
 of five children, the others being: Junius F. , a 
 member of the J. S. Brown & Bro. Mercantile 
 Company; Mrs. Adelia Dayfoot, who died in 
 Canada; Mrs. Hannah Gillett; and Charles H., 
 
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 who died in Denver. J. Sidney Brown was born 
 in Ashtabula County, Ohio, June lo, 1833, the 
 son of Reuben and Betsey Horton (Hill) Brown. 
 He was educated in public schools. In 1858 he 
 joined his brother in Atchison, Kan., and they 
 engaged in the manufacture of lumber. In 1861 
 he began freighting between Atchison and Den- 
 ver, and made two trips that year with an ox- 
 train, and early in 1862 he came with a mule 
 train and founded the present business. The 
 freighting business he continued until 1870, when 
 it was discontinued. In 1864 one of his mule- 
 train was attacked by Indians and destroyed. 
 
 The first location of the firm in Denver was on 
 Blake street near Fifteenth, where they remained 
 until 1876, and then removed to their present lo- 
 cation on Wazee street. In 1893 the firm was 
 incorporated under the name of the J. S. Brown 
 & Bro. Mercantile Company, of which J. S. 
 Brown is president, J. F. Brown vice-president, 
 H. K. Brown secretary, F. S. Brown treasurer 
 and F. A. Hall general manager. The firm 
 erected the first roller flouring mill and grain ele- 
 vator in Colorado, on the present site of the Cres- 
 cent mill. They were interested in the organiza- 
 tion of the Bank of San Juan, at Del Norte, also 
 in the founding of the banks at Alamosa and Du- 
 rango, and took an active part in the organization 
 of the Denver Tramway Company. In 1882 they 
 embarked in the stock business in the Platte Val- 
 ley, where they are still extensivel}' interested. 
 The Brown-Iliff Cattle Company have a large 
 ranch near Snyder, Colo. , between South Platte 
 River and the Wyoming state line, the range be- 
 ing owned principally by the land company of 
 which J. F. Brown is president. 
 
 In the building of railroads Mr. Brown is in- 
 terested. He was a director in the South Park 
 line, assisted in the building of the Denver Pacific 
 Railroad, between Denver and Cheyenne, was a 
 promoter, director and vice president of the Den- 
 ver & New Orleans Railroad, and assisted in other 
 enterprises of an important nature. Only one 
 man in Denver has been engaged in the same 
 line of business continuously for a longer period 
 than Mr. Brown. 
 
 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Irene Sopris, in 
 Denver, in 1868. She was born in Indiana, a 
 daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Allen) 
 Sopris, and died in January, 1881, leaving five chil- 
 dren, viz.: Frederick S., treasurer of the J. S. 
 
 Brown & Bro. Mercantile Company; Elizabeth, 
 Mrs. A. B. Inglis, of Paterson, N. J.; Edward N., 
 who is with J. S. Brown & Bro. ; Katherine and 
 William K., the latter a member of the class of 
 1900, She£5eld Scientific School, of Yale Univer- 
 sity. 
 
 The present wife of Mr. Brown was Miss Adele 
 Overton, who was born in Wisconsin. She grad- 
 uated from the University of Wisconsin in 187 1, 
 with the degree of B. S., and the .same year came 
 to Colorado, where she was assistant principal in 
 the Denver high school. She is a member of the 
 Daughters of the Revolution and treasurer of the 
 Colorado State Society. She is the mother of 
 five children now living: John Sidney, Jr., Ben 
 Overton, Carroll Teller, Alice and Irene. The 
 father of Mrs. Brown, John Overton, was born 
 near London, England, May 11, 1822, and died 
 at Parker, S. Dak., May 14, 1888. His parents, 
 Robert and Maria (Roy) Overton, came to Amer- 
 ica and died in Wisconsin. He was their young- 
 est child and only son, and was eighteen years 
 old when he came to this country. His wife, 
 Lucina Otto, was born in New York in 1824, and 
 died in Parker, S. Dak., in 1892. She was a 
 daughter of John Otto and Maria (Teller) Otto, 
 the latter a descendant of Dr. Isaac Teller, a 
 Revolutionary soldier. Senator Teller's father, 
 John Teller, late of Morrison, 111. , was a brother of 
 Maria (Teller) Otto; while Senator Jerome B. Chaf- 
 fee was a son of John Otto's sister. The originator 
 of the Teller family in America was William Tel- 
 ler, born in 1620 in Holland, emigrated to Amer- 
 ica in 1639, settled in Fort Orange and appointed 
 by the king of Holland a trustee for a tract of 
 land there, but in 1664 he returned to New York 
 City and married Mary Douchen. From them 
 descended Dr. Isaac Teller, who lived on the cor- 
 ner of Chambers and Broadway, New York, 
 and died while serving as a surgeon in the 
 Revolution. He married Rebecca Remsen, of 
 Brooklyn. Their son, Remsen Teller, who 
 was born about 1769, married Catherine Mac- 
 Donald, ofBallstonSpa, N. Y., daughter of David 
 and Sarah (DuBois) MacDonald, and grand- 
 daughter of Col. Louis DuBois, of Ulster, N. Y., 
 who was a colonel in the Revolution. Remsen 
 and Catherine Teller had a daughter, Maria, 
 who married John Otto, a native of Schoharie 
 County, N. Y., and a son of Franz Otto, who 
 served during the entire period of the Revolution. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 167 
 
 The originator of the Otto family in America 
 was Rudolph Otto, born in Baden-Baden, Ger- 
 many, in 1715, and settled in Schoharie County, 
 N. Y., in 1 74 1. He had two sons, John and Franz, 
 or Francis. The latter, born in 1757 and died at 
 the age of ninety-six, married Barbara Schultz, 
 later moving to Mount Morris, Livingston County, 
 N. Y. Among their nine children was John, 
 born in 1796. He was a brother of Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Chaffee, who was the mother of Jerome B. 
 Chaffee, United States senator and one of the most 
 prominent mining men of the state of Colorado. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Brown is a Knight 
 Templar Mason. He is a member of the Sons of 
 the Revolution. Politically he gives his affilia- 
 tion to the silver branch of the Republican party. 
 As a director he has been actively interested in 
 the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association, and 
 has done all within his power to promote the in- 
 dustry which is so vitally connected with the wel- 
 fare of the state. He attends the First Congre- 
 gational Church and contributes liberally to its 
 support, as, indeed, he does to all enterprises of a 
 religious and philanthropic nature. 
 
 QROF. WARREN EZRA KNAPP, superin- 
 U' tendent of public instruction of Arapahoe 
 J5 County, is a member of a family that traces 
 its lineage back to Saxony and to Scotland. For 
 many generations its representatives have been 
 identified with the history of the United States. 
 From Connecticut Oliver Pickett Knapp removed 
 to Westmoreland, Oneida County, N. Y., where 
 he died at an advanced age. His son, Ezra Ab- 
 bott Knapp, was born near Fairfield, Conn. , and 
 removed to Oneida County, N. Y., where he en- 
 gaged in farming until his death, in December, 
 1841, at the age of forty-three years and eight 
 months. When a mere lad he had taken part in 
 the battle of Sacket Harbor. He married So- 
 phronia Waters, who was born in Connecticut, 
 and accompanied her father, Elijah Waters, to 
 New York state, where he' followed the carpen- 
 ter's trade. 
 
 In the family of Ezra Abbott Knapp there was 
 a son, the oldest of the family, Edwin A. Knapp, 
 M. D. , who served as surgeon of the One Hun- 
 dred and Twenty-second New York Infantry, 
 during the Civil war, and died in Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Another son, Jairus S., who was the third among 
 
 the six children of the family, was born in West- 
 moreland, Oneida County, N. Y., May 8, 1825, 
 and grew to manhood on the home farm. He 
 made farming his life work, and for fifty-four 
 years tilled the soil of the old homestead. Mean- 
 time he held a number of local offices and took 
 part in many enterprises for the benefit of the 
 town and county. In 1 89 1 he retired from farm- 
 ing and has since resided in Denver. 
 
 In 1849 Jairus S. Knapp married Harriet A. 
 Kellogg, who was born in Westmoreland, N. Y., 
 January 31, 1825, being a descendant of one of 
 the passengers of the historic "Mayflower. ' ' She 
 was a daughter of Deacon Warren Kellogg, who 
 was born in Hartford, Conn., and became an 
 earlj' settler of Oneida County, N. Y., where he 
 engaged in farming and carpentering. He died 
 in 1869, at the age of ninety. His father was 
 Abraham Kellogg. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is the oldest child of 
 Jairus S. and Harriet A. Knapp, the other mem- 
 bers of the family being Leonard Kellogg, of 
 Denver; Harriet Antoinette, who is Mrs. Newell 
 DeRoy Lee, of Westmoreland, N. Y. ; Edwin 
 Abbott, who has been in Boulder, Colo., since 
 November, 1877, and is now the city marshal; 
 Helen Maria, of Denver, and Alice Emeline, who 
 has been in Honolulu since August, 1891, and is 
 now principal of the Kamehameha preparatory 
 school for native boys in that city. 
 
 Born in Westmoreland, N. Y. , January 22, 
 1850, Warren Ezra Knapp was a student in the 
 Whitestone (N. Y.) Seminary, where he pre- 
 pared for college. About the same time he began 
 to teach school, teaching in his native town and 
 at Jamesville, N. Y. In September, 1871, he en- 
 tered Cornell University (having won a state 
 scholarship), where he remained for two years, 
 and then spent one year as principal of the Savan- 
 nah Union school in Wayne County, N. Y., after 
 which he applied his earnings as teacher to the 
 completion of his college course. He re-entered 
 Cornell as a member of the class of 1876, having 
 among his classmates Jesse Grant and R. B. 
 Hayes, Jr. After leaving Cornell he held his 
 former position as principal of the Savannah school 
 for one year. 
 
 In August, 1876, at Ithaca, N. Y., Professor 
 Knapp married Miss Sarah E. Cochrane, who 
 was born in Ithaca, the daughter of Robert and 
 Eliza J. Cochrane, whose occupation was farming. 
 
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 After his marriage, for three years Professor 
 Knapp was principal of the Union school at West- 
 moreland, his native place. In the fall of 1880 
 he became principal of the Union graded school 
 and academy at Madison, N. Y., which position 
 he held for two years. He had entered into a 
 contract for a third year, but within a month re- 
 signed, in order to accept the position of cashier 
 of the banking house of A. K. & E. B. Yount, at 
 Fort Collins, Colo. He reached Fort Collins 
 July 22, 1882, and entered upon the duties of his 
 position, remaining there until he came to Denver, 
 in October, 18S3. He was chosen principal of the 
 Franklin school, which was then being erected, 
 and entered upon his work in January of the fol- 
 lowing year. At that time the school was the 
 largest and finest building of its kind west of 
 Omaha and Kansas City. He remained its prin- 
 cipal until January, 1898, when he resigned to 
 enter upon his duties as county superintendent 
 of Arapahoe County. To this position he was 
 nominated on the silver Republican ticket and 
 endorsed by the McKinley Republicans, and was 
 elected by a large plurality at the election in No- 
 vember previous. The county has nearly one 
 hundred school districts, with six hundred and 
 fifty teachers and thirty-five thousand children of 
 school age, being the most populous county in 
 the state. 
 
 In 1884 Professor Knapp became identified with 
 the State Teachers' Association, also the national 
 association, and in 1890 was appointed superin- 
 tendent of the Colorado state educational exhibit 
 made at St. Paul, Minn., in July, at the meeting 
 of the national association. He was present at 
 the national meeting of teachers at Madison, 
 Wis., in 1884; at San Francisco in 1888, when 
 he had charge of the Colorado state headquarters; 
 and at St. Paul in 1890, where was the first ex- 
 tensive educational exhibit ever made by Colorado 
 at a meeting of an educational association. In 
 December, 1890, he was elected president of the 
 State Teachers' Association, and soon afterward 
 was appointed state manager for Colorado for 
 the association meeting in Toronto, in July, 189 1, 
 the duty of manager being to arrange for the state 
 representation and take charge of the delegation. 
 During the Toronto meeting he was elected a 
 member of the board of directors, National Edu- 
 cational Association, to represent Colorado. The 
 following year he was again made manager of 
 
 the state delegation, which he took to the Nation- 
 al Educational Association at Saratoga, N. Y. 
 
 At the expiration of his term as president of 
 the state association, in December, 1891, the for- 
 mer treasurer, Hon. J. C. Shattuck, who had 
 held the office for fourteen years, resigned, and 
 Professor Knapp was elected to the place, which 
 he has since filled. At the meeting of the Na- 
 tional Educational Association in Asbury Park, 
 N. J., in July, 1894, he was again elected to 
 represent Colorado on the board of directors. 
 He, with the influence of other Colorado del- 
 egates, succeeded in securing the convention of 
 1895 for Denver, and he was the state director 
 for the meeting here. In 1896 he again had 
 charge of the Colorado delegation to the National 
 Educational Association at Buffalo, N. Y. With 
 one exception he has attended all the meetings of 
 the National Educational Association since 1888. 
 
 The first connection of Professor Knapp with 
 politics was in the fall of 1892, when he was a 
 candidate for state superintendent of public in- 
 struction before the Republican convention at 
 Pueblo. Before the nomination he withdrew from 
 the race in favor of his only opponent, geograph- 
 ical and political reasons influencing him in this 
 decision. However, the convention by acclama- 
 tion placed him in nomination as a regent of the 
 state university, but, with the whole ticket, was 
 defeated, Governor Waite and the entire Populist 
 ticket being elected. 
 
 In the Republican state convention of 1894, 
 Professor Knapp was again a candidate for state 
 superintendent of public instruction, and until 
 the convention opened it seemed that he was likely 
 to be nominated. However, a new candidate 
 appeared. Universal sufi'rage had come into 
 Colorado, and a lady appeared as a candidate. 
 An exciting condition of aflfairs followed, but, as 
 the ballot was about to be taken, he voluntarily 
 withdrew from the race and moved the nomina- 
 tion of Mrs. Angenette J. Peavy by acclamation, 
 which was done, although hundreds of his friends 
 protested against his withdrawal. 
 
 The legislature in 1891 organized the state into 
 normal institute districts, Arapahoe County being 
 the third district . He was the first regular normal 
 institute conductor for this county and after this 
 organization held the institute in the Franklin 
 school. In 1892 he was again appointed conduc- 
 tor, and held the institute in the East Side high 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 169 
 
 school, being in each case appointed by the Hon. 
 A. D. Shepard, county superintendent of schools. 
 Since then he has engaged in institute work every 
 summer in the various counties of Colorado and 
 in Cheyenne, Wyo. Since 1892 he has been a 
 member of Washington Camp No. 14, P. O. S. 
 of A. , in which he is now president. For sixteen 
 years he has been identified with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. He is a member of 
 the Third Congregational Church of Denver, is 
 its treasurer and for six years was superintendent 
 of the Sunday-school. His daughter, Evelyn, is 
 the only survivor of his five children. 
 
 NENRY C. BROWN. The first member of 
 the Brown family of whom there is any 
 definite knowledge was Samuel, son of 
 Nicholas Brown, and a native of Reading, Mass. 
 He was a man of considerable force of character 
 and, for those early days, was considered wealthy, 
 leaving valuable property at his death. After- 
 ward his widow took charge of the property, 
 which she managed until her death, after a widow- 
 hood of fifty years. Elisha, son of Samuel, was 
 seven years of age at the time of his father's 
 death. In 1744 he moved to Cambridge, and 
 later married Elizabeth Davis, of that city. By 
 inheritance he was a rich man, and through the 
 exercise of good judgment he added to the fort- 
 une left him by his father. He and his wife 
 were the parents of four children, Hannah, Mary, 
 Samuel and Elisha. At different times he 
 resided in several Massachusetts towns, and 
 finally died in Acton, where his mother had left 
 some property. His wife also died there, in 1781. 
 The fate of their children is not definitely known, 
 excepting Samuel, the progenitor of our subject. 
 He was the third child of his parents and was 
 probably born in Cambridge, but spent his youth 
 principally in Acton, from which place he enlisted 
 for service in the Revolution. Among the en- 
 gagements in which he participated were the 
 battle of Concord, siege of Boston, battles of 
 Bunker Hill and Quebec; and at the latter place 
 he was wounded and taken prisoner, but later 
 was sent home on parole. He ranked as a second 
 lieutenant. He was fifty- one years of age when ^ 
 in 1800, he removed to St. Clairsville, Ohio, and 
 there he died in 1828, and was buried with 
 military honors. Twice married, his first wife 
 
 was a daughter of Maj. Daniel Fletcher, of Acton, 
 and his second wife was Polly Newkirk. In his 
 family, by both marriages, there were twenty- 
 one children, but only two of them are living, 
 Elizabeth Fletcher Lennon and Henry Cordis 
 Brown, both of Denver. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, who was the son of 
 Samuel Brown, was born near St. Clairsville, 
 Ohio, November 18, 1820. He was educated at 
 Franklin Brooks Academy, St. Clairsville. At 
 the age of seven years he was orphaned by his 
 father's death and soon afterward he began to 
 earn his own livelihood. He remained on the 
 farm until sixteen years of age and later learned 
 the carpenter's and joiner's trade and the ar- 
 chitect's business in St. Louis, Mo., where he re- 
 mained until the spring of 1852, assisting his 
 brother, Isaac H. Brown, an architect and builder. 
 From St. Louis he crossed the plains to Califor- 
 nia, making the trip with ox-teams, and after a 
 journey of many hardships landed in Placerville 
 (then called Hangtown on account of the historic 
 tree used for hanging) after one hundred and ten 
 days on the way. After one day in that town he 
 went to Sacramento, thence to San Francisco, and 
 from there, a month later, to Portland, Ore., 
 where he spent a month. He then went down 
 the Columbia River and from there crossed by 
 land to the Willamette River, thence to Olympia, 
 Wash., where he spent a month. Forming a 
 partnership with two men, Messrs. Reader and 
 Peabody, he began the construction of a sawmill 
 for sawing lumber, and located a mill at the 
 mouth of the Whatken River, emptying into 
 Bellingham Bay. 
 
 After eight months Mr. Brown sold his interest 
 in the mill and returned to San Francisco, where 
 he followed the occupation of an architect and 
 builder, among the buildings he erected being a 
 bank building, then considered the best building 
 in the city, and still standing. He spent three 
 years in San Francisco, meeting with varying 
 success. F'rom there he went to Oroville, Cal. , 
 where he spent six months, engaged in the build- 
 ing and commission business, and was so success- 
 ful that he accumulated $6,000 in that time. Re- 
 turning to San Francisco, he sailed in a clipper 
 ship, "The Golden Eagle," for Peru, South Am- 
 erica. He spent sixty days touring in Lima and 
 Calleo, then sailed in the "Golden Age," for 
 Hampton Roads, Va. From there he went to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Baltimore, then to Philadelphia and New York, 
 next to Chicago and from there to St. Louis, 
 reaching that city after an absence of five j'ears. 
 After a short visit there, he took passage up the 
 Missouri River to Sioux Citj', Iowa, and from 
 there went to Decatur, Neb., where he remained 
 for two years. Next he spent a year or more in 
 St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 June 9, i860, Mr. Brown arrived in Denver, 
 finding here a frontier town of one thousand 
 inhabitants, and with no substantial buildings ex- 
 cept the Broadwell Hotel, corner of Larimer and 
 Sixteenth streets. The first building he erected 
 was a large .structure on Cherry Creek that was 
 used by the Methodist Episcopal congregation as 
 a church house until the disastrous and memor- 
 able flood of May 4, 1864, washed the building 
 away. Just two weeks before the flood he had 
 moved from the neighborhood of the creek to his 
 pre-emption claim, later known as Brown's addi- 
 tion, on which subsequently the state capitol was 
 built, also many of the most beautiful residences 
 in the city, and the famous Brown Palace Hotel, 
 the most magnificent hotel between Chicago and 
 San Francisco, and erected at a cost of $1 ,600,000. 
 
 HON. HENRY NEIKIRK, a pioneer of Colo- 
 rado, ex-state senator, and a prominent 
 citizen of Boulder, is a representative, in 
 the fourth generation, of a family that was found- 
 ed in Pennsylvania by three brothers from Ger- 
 many. His grandfather, Henry, the son of one of 
 these pioneers, was born in Pennsylvania, but re- 
 moved to Maryland, where he continued to engage 
 in farm pursuits until his death; during the war of 
 1812 he rendered service in the American army. 
 His son, Manassas, was born in Washington 
 County, Md., and after his marriage removed, in 
 1836, to Carroll County, 111., where he improved 
 a large tract of government land that still remains 
 in the possession of the family. He was born in 
 1809 and died in 1 871, at the age of sixty-two 
 years. His wife, Mary, daughter of Josiah Pope, 
 was born in Maryland, of Irish-German descent, 
 and died in Illinois in 1892, when more than 
 eighty years of age. They were the parents of 
 three sous and four daughters who attained mature 
 years, of whom all but one daughter are still liv- 
 ing, Henry being the eldest of the sons. 
 
 At Elkhorn Grove, near MiUedgeville, Carroll 
 
 County, 111., the subject of this sketch was born 
 November 27, 1839. He was educated in the 
 public schools and in Mount Carroll Seminary, 
 where he remained for three years. He studied 
 law in Mount Carroll under William T. Miller, 
 then the most prominent attorney of that section. 
 However, after a year of study, he was seized 
 with the western fever and in 1861 started for the 
 mountain regions, going down the Mississippi to 
 Hannibal, from there to St. Joseph, then horse- 
 back to Nebraska City, where he outfitted with 
 an ox-train. Going up the Platte, he established 
 a trading post at Alkali, on the river, two hun- 
 dred and thirty miles east of Denver, building the 
 first post there. During the summer he carried 
 a load of freight to Denver and returned with a 
 loadof lumber for building on his ranch. Alkali 
 was the greatest place for trading he had ever 
 seen, but he was too j'oung to take advantage of 
 the opportunity. While there he had many in- 
 teresting experiences, such as fall to the lot of a 
 pioneer. On the 25th of December he returned 
 to Nebraska City, and in the spring of 1862 
 again came west, beginning as a prospector 
 and miner in Blackhawk, Gilpin County. He 
 continued in the vicinity of that place during 
 most of the time until 1875. In the meantime, 
 as early as 1867, he began to work the Hoosier 
 mine in Boulder. In 1875 he located the Mel- 
 vina, near Salina, which was one of the finest 
 mines of its kind that had been opened up to that 
 time; after running it for five years he sold the 
 property. In 1886 he with others bought the 
 White Crow at Sunshine, and operated it for five 
 years. He is interested in the Freiburg at Gold 
 Hill, of which he is superintendent; Sunshine and 
 Black Swan at Salina; Black Swan Gold Mining 
 Company, of which he is superintendent and a 
 director; Golden Sheen and Maveric; Colonel 
 Zellar's mine at Sunshine; and Gold Farms, com- 
 prising one hundred and seventy-three acres near 
 Magnolia, the most extensive mining property in 
 Boulder County, and operated by the Gold Farms 
 Mining Company, of which he is superintendent 
 and a director. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Neikirk brought his family to 
 Boulder, where he established his home. In 1881 
 he located at his present place, buying thirty-four 
 acres, of which he has sold sixteen. He has 
 built a substantial brick residence, set out shade 
 and ornamental trees, as well as a number of fruit 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 171 
 
 trees, and iutroduced a sj'stem of irrigation. In 
 the spring of 1898 he platted and placed on the 
 market the Neikirk-Stewart addition to Boulder 
 City, comprising one hundred and sixty-five lots 
 situated to the north and west of the main busi- 
 ness portion of the city. For fourteen years he 
 was a director and the vice-president of the Na- 
 tional State Bank of Boulder, but finally resigned. 
 He has been a large land owner, having real es- 
 tate in Denver, also owned several ranches, com- 
 prising twelve hundred acres in Boulder and 
 Weld Counties, and six hundred and forty acres 
 north of Longmont, where he built a reservoir of 
 one hundred acres, that furnishes excellent irri- 
 gation facilities. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Neikirk took place in 
 Jamestown, Boulder County, and united him with 
 Miss Emily Virden, who was born in Grant 
 County, Wis. Her father, John Virden, was born 
 in Kentucky, and became a pioneer farmer of 
 Wisconsin, but in 1863 brought his family to 
 Colorado, settling in Gilpin County, but later re- 
 moved to Jamestown. Born in 18 16, he is now 
 eighty-two years of age, and can no longer en- 
 gage actively in business pursuits; he is spending 
 his last days in the home of Mr. Neikirk, where 
 four generations of his family are represeuted. 
 His wife was Jane Hunt, born in Kentucky, died 
 in Colorado. 
 
 The six children of Mr. and Mrs. Neikirk are 
 named as follows: Fannie, wife of Fred Angove, 
 of Boulder; Jessie, a graduate of the State Uni- 
 versity, in 1897; Lewis, member of the class of 
 1898, in the university; Thomas, who ajssists his 
 father in mining; Burr, who is a member of the 
 high school class of 1900; and Abigail, who is a 
 student in the high school. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Neikirk was urged to accept the 
 nomination for the state senate and was elected 
 by a majority of four hundred, his opponent be- 
 ing the noted Joe Wolf, who had organized 
 Greenback clubs throughout the county and had 
 worked the district for two years hoping to secure 
 the election. Mr. Neikirk served in the second 
 and third sessions, 1879-81, was chairman of the 
 committees on irrigation and fees and salaries the 
 first session, and chairman of the finance com- 
 mittee the second session. During the first ses- 
 sion he drew the bill that levied the tax of one- 
 half mill, the nucleus of the fund that built the 
 present state capitol building. He secured ap- 
 
 propriation to pay expense of martial law, declared 
 by Governor Pitkin in 1880, during the strike at 
 Leadville. He has frequently served the Republi- 
 can party as delegate to conventions. During the 
 campaign of 1896 he advocated the silver cause, 
 and has since served as chairman of the county 
 convention of that party. 
 
 HON. MOSES HALLETT. While it was 
 the hope of discovering gold in the mines of 
 the mountains that induced Judge Hallett 
 to come to Colorado at the time of the Pike's 
 Peak gold excitement, the competence he has 
 gained here was not unearthed from hidden re- 
 cesses of the mountains, but has come to him in 
 the honorable discharge of his duties as a jurist. 
 When Colorado was admitted as a state, during 
 the Centennial year of our country's history. 
 President Grant appointed him judge of the 
 United States district court of Colorado, and this 
 honorable position he has since most efiiciently 
 filled. He is also dean of the Colorado School 
 of Law, which is the law department of the Colo- 
 rado University, and holds the chair of American 
 constitutional law and federal juri.sprudence. 
 
 Judge Hallett was born in Galena, Jo Daviess 
 County, 111., July 16, 1834. His father, who 
 was a native of Massachusetts, came west in an 
 early day and engaged in pioneer farming in 
 Missouri, and later in Jo Daviess County, 111., 
 and served during the period of the Black Hawk 
 war. When a boy the subject of this sketch at- 
 tended the public schools, then continued his 
 studies in Rock River Seminary, and subse- 
 quently became a student in Beloit (Wis. ) College. 
 At the age of twenty, in the fall of 1855, he be- 
 gan to study law in the office of E. S. Williams, 
 of Chicago, and four years later was admitted to 
 the bar, after which he opened an oSice in 
 Chicago. In the spring of i860 he came to Colo- 
 rado for the purpose of mining, and for a time 
 worked in Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, but 
 the employment was uncongenial and unprofit- 
 able. He was soon brought to realize that he 
 was more fitted for the practice of law than for 
 the discovery of mineral wealth, and he decided 
 to return to practice. Coming to Denver, he 
 formed a law partnership with Hon. Hiram P. 
 Bennett. In April, 1866, he was appointed 
 chief justice of the territorial supreme court, as 
 
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 the result of a joint memorial that was passed by 
 the general assembly of the territory of Colorado 
 in Feburary, 1866, and presented to President 
 Andrew Johnson, asking him to make a citizen 
 of Colorado the appointee and recommending Mr. 
 Hallett for the position. 
 
 The memorial being approved by the governor 
 was forwarded to the president, and the result 
 was that April 10 Mr. Hallett was commis- 
 sioned chief justice. He was very successful in 
 the position, winning recognition for fairness and 
 impartiality. He was re-appointed by General 
 Grant April 6, 1870, and in April, 1874, serving 
 until the territory was made a state. It was not 
 his first experience as an office holder, for he had 
 previously represented the counties of Arapahoe 
 and Douglas in the legislature. In January, 
 1877, he was made judge of the United States 
 district court by President Grant, with whom he 
 was personally acquainted. It has been well said 
 of him, "He has aided very largely, not only in 
 settling many of the disputes that have come up 
 in the territory and state, but he has done a great 
 deal towards establishing justice and dignity in 
 the Colorado courts, without which no community 
 can ever prosper. ' ' 
 
 The memorial alluded to, asking the president 
 of the United States to appoint a citizen of the 
 territory as chief justice and approved February 
 8, 1866, read as follows: 
 
 "To His Excellency, the President of the 
 United States: 
 
 "The people of the territory of Colorado, 
 through their representatives in the legislative 
 assembly, respectfully represent unto the presi- 
 dent that many of the questions growing out of 
 mining operations and concerning mining titles 
 in this territory are novel and peculiar, while 
 other questions, concerning the irrigation of lands, 
 and growing out of the peculiar situation of the 
 people, remote from all other communities, are 
 almost unknown to the laws of the eastern states; 
 and persons residing in the territory have ac- 
 quired a knowledge of these questions, necessary 
 to a correct understanding of them, which is not 
 possessed by residents of eastern states; and for 
 this reason, among others, the people of this 
 territory are exceedingly anxious that citizens of 
 this territory, who are identified with the people 
 and will attend to their public duties, should be 
 appointed judges of the territory; therefore, the 
 
 council and house of representatives of Colorado 
 territory do most earnestly and respectfully pray 
 that your Excellency will appoint Moses Hallett, 
 a citizen of this territory, in whom we have con- 
 fidence, to be chief justice of this territory." 
 
 In his capacity as judge of the district court 
 and in every duty connected with his high 
 position. Judge Hallett has shown himself to be 
 well informed, impartial and of profound sagacity. 
 By the people of Colorado he is held in the high- 
 est esteem. Personally, he is amiable, kind- 
 hearted, genial and companionable, and when 
 relieved from service on the bench the dignity of 
 the judge is lost in the aSability of the man. In 
 addition to his work as judge he is dean of the 
 law school, of which James H. Baker is the 
 president. 
 
 In February, 1882, Judge Hallett married Miss 
 Katharine Felt, daughter of Lucius S. Felt, a 
 merchant of Galena, 111. They have one son now 
 living, Lucius F. Mrs. Hallett was educated in 
 New York City. She is prominently connected 
 with St. Luke's Hospital Society and is also an 
 active member of the Episcopal Church, which 
 the judge attends. He is connected with the 
 Masonic fraternity and the University Club. 
 
 General Hall, who, as a citizen of the state, has 
 been familiar with the judicial record of Judge 
 Hallett, says of him, in his History of Colorado: 
 "He is, and from the first has been, noted as an 
 industrious and intelligent student of the law, 
 penetrating the depths of every proposition sub- 
 mitted to him for determination. He never was 
 a fluent or eloquent advocate, but always a wise 
 and safe counselor, rigidly honest, forceful and 
 frequently profound; had he never been elevated 
 to the bench, he would still have been an eminent 
 lawyer. With a strong judicial mind, he has 
 brought to his office the great advantage of a 
 thorough training in his profession. Long years 
 of experience upon the bench sometimes begets a 
 certain disinclination to re-consider expressed 
 views, but no judicial officer is less governed by 
 pride of opinion than Judge Hallett. He is firm, 
 without question, but the position is taken only 
 after deliberation. The effect of his own training, 
 discipline and kindly disposition is manifest in his 
 court; business is dispatched, but there is no 
 evidence of haste; dignity in its true sense is al- 
 ways apparent, and casts its pleasant influence 
 upon all who enter the temple. The respect of 
 
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 bar and the confidence of the entire mass of the 
 community are his, while his standing in the 
 supreme court of the United States is that of one 
 of the purest and best officers in the service. ' ' 
 
 EOL. HARPER M. ORAHOOD. In the 
 minds of most people, the history of Colorado 
 dates from the year 1859, when the news of 
 the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak spread 
 through the eastern states. Attracted by the re- 
 ports of the immense deposits of gold, thousands 
 of men came from the east, some to mine and 
 some to engage in other industries which the 
 rapidly increasing population rendered necessary. 
 Among those who made the long and tedious 
 journey across the plains was a youth of less than 
 nineteen years, who abandoned the study of 
 medicine to join a train at Rock Island, 111., 
 starting from there March 5, i860, and after 
 walking almost the entire distance, arriving in 
 Blackhawk, Colo., on the istof June. His after- 
 life has been inseparably associated with the 
 history of Colorado, of which state he is a distin- 
 guished citizen. 
 
 The first of the Orahood family in America 
 was Thomas, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and 
 a pioneer of Virginia. His son, Amos, removed 
 from the Old Dominion to Union County, Ohio, 
 settling near the county-seat and engaging in farm- 
 ing. He had a son, William J., who was born 
 in Virginia, and worked as a mechanic near 
 Columbus for a time, later went to Mount Vernon, 
 the same state, thence 'removed to LaSalle County, 
 111., later went to Utah, and attheageof seventj'- 
 eight, in 1894, passed away in L,os Angeles, Cal. 
 His wife, Ann Messenger, was born in Wilming- 
 ton, Del., and died in Denver, leaving three 
 daughters and a son. 
 
 The latter, who was the eldest of the family, 
 forms the subject of this sketch. He was born in 
 Columbus, Ohio, June 3, 1841, and received his 
 education in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and Earlville, 
 111. For two years he clerked in a drug store in 
 Rock Island, 111. On coming to Colorado he 
 settled in Blackhawk, Gilpin County, where, and 
 in Central City, he engaged in the mercantile 
 business for ten years. In the office of Hon. 
 Alvin Marsh he began the study of law, but after 
 one year entered the office of Henry M. & Willard 
 Teller, and was admitted to the bar October i , 
 
 4 
 
 1873. Entering upon active practice he soon 
 acquired a large clientage and became known as 
 a well-informed rising attorney. For some years 
 he was in partnership with Senator Teller and is 
 now associated with the latter's brother in the 
 firm of Teller, Orahood & Morgan, of Denver. 
 'Under E. O. Wolcott he served as deputy district 
 attorney and upon the latter's resignation in 1878, 
 Mr. Orahood succeeded to the position of district 
 attorney for the first judicial district, comprising 
 Clear Creek, Gilpin, Jefferson, Boulder and 
 Grand Counties. On the next election he was 
 chosen for a three years' term in the office, but 
 in 1881, about the middle of the term, he resigned 
 in order to remove to Denver. From 1866 to 
 1868 he was county clerk and recorder of 
 Gilpin County. 
 
 In 1 86 1 Mr. Orahood became connected with 
 the Colorado National Guard, and, in company 
 with Frank Hall, he raised the first company of 
 militia mustered into service in Colorado, it 
 being Company A, known as the Elbert Guard. 
 In that company he was made a lieutenant. In 
 1864 he was made first lieutenant and regi- 
 mental commissary of subsistence of the Third 
 Colorado Cavalry, afterward becoming captain of 
 Company B, of this regiment, and doing duty 
 guarding mails, stages and wagon trains on the 
 plains and in Indian warfare. December 27, 
 1864, the regiment was mustered out at Camp 
 Weld in Denver. His title of colonel was con- 
 ferred upon him by his appointment on Governor 
 Mclntire's staffi 
 
 The marriage of Colonel Orahood was solem- 
 nized in the Presbyterian Church of Blackhawk 
 and united him with Miss Mary Esther Hurlbut, 
 who was born in Linn County, Mo. She is the 
 eldest daughter of Hiram E. Hurlbut, who came 
 to Colorado in i860 and engaged in mining in 
 Gilpin County for years, but is now a resident of 
 Denver. They have five children: William F., 
 a graduate of Peekskill Military Academy and of 
 the Denver Law School, and now an attorney in 
 Central City; Harper, of Denver; George and 
 Albert, who are students in school; and Gertrude, 
 who is attending Emerson College in Boston. 
 
 In 1863 Colonel Orahood was made a Mason in 
 Central City Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. Later 
 he was a charter member of Blackhawk Lodge 
 No. II, of which he was master for several years. 
 In 1876 he was grand master of the grand lodge 
 
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 of Colorado. He is a member of Denver Chapter 
 No. 29, R. A. M. For years he was commander 
 of Central City Commandery No. 2, and is now a 
 member of Denver Commandery No. 25. In 
 1879-80 he was grand commander of the grand 
 commandery of Colorado, and held that position 
 at the time of the triennial conclave in Chicago. 
 He belongs to El Jebel Temple, N. M. S., Denver 
 Consistory, S. R., and is a thirty-third degree 
 Mason. It was in a large measure due to his 
 efforts that the conclave of 1892 was held in 
 Denver; he was the first chairman of the triennial 
 committee and afterward first vice-chairman, and 
 took an active part in the work that made the 
 conclave such a memorable triumph for this city. 
 Since 1880 he has attended all the conclaves of 
 Knights. He is past commander of the Loyal 
 Legion and has been an aide on the department 
 staff of the Grand Army of the Republic. For 
 years he has been vice-president of the Bar 
 Association of Denver, and he is a member of 
 the Gilpin County and State Pioneer Associations. 
 Politically Colonel Orahood is a silver Repub- 
 lican. For eight years he was city treasurer of 
 Blackhawk. With other citizens he succeeded in 
 having the postofRce established there and in 
 1862 was appointed postmaster by President 
 Lincoln, holding the office until 1871. For some 
 years he was city attorney of Central City, re- 
 signing on his removal. The only position he 
 has accepted in Denver was that of director of 
 school district No. i , in which ofiice he did all 
 within his power for the advancement of the 
 schools. He took an active interest in the build- 
 ing of the Colorado Central from Blackhawk to 
 Central City, and later was the attorney for that 
 road, now a part of the Union Pacific. His firm 
 are now the attorneys for the latter railroad. 
 Personally he is a man of many winning traits, 
 liberal, large-hearted, enterprising and approach- 
 able, and he has won a deserved position of prom- 
 inence among the people of the state. 
 
 HON. R. S. LITTLE. In the history of Ara- 
 pahoe County considerable mention deserv- 
 edly belongs to the founder of the beautiful 
 suburban village of Littleton. The Little family 
 was founded in America in 1640 by George Little, 
 who came from Unicorn street, near London 
 bridge, in London, and settled in Newbury, Mass. 
 
 His descendants were among the patriotic men 
 who fought for the liberty of our country. Lieut. 
 Moses Little, of New Hampshire (born 1742, 
 died 1813), served as first lieutenant under Capt. 
 Samuel Richards, in Col. John Stark's regiment, 
 and he and his son, George (our subject's grand- 
 father), took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 He marched from New Hampshire with Col. 
 Jacob Gates' regiment and joined the Continental 
 army in Rhode Island in August, 1778. George 
 Little (born 1762, died 1850) was a private in 
 Capt. John Duncan's company, commanded by 
 Col. Moses Kelly, and with his command started 
 for Ticonderoga on receiving the alarm July i , 
 
 1777, marching as far as Washington and Charles- 
 town, when he was ordered back. As a member 
 of the company of Capt. James Arkens, in a regi- 
 ment commanded by Colonel Kelly, he marched 
 from New Hampshire to Rhode Island in August, 
 
 1778, and joined the Continental army. 
 
 The subject of this review was born in Grafton, 
 N. H., May 12, 1829, a son of John and Betsey 
 (Jackman) Little. He was seven years of age 
 when he accompanied the family to Nashua, near 
 which place his father carried on a hotel until 
 his death in 1854. R. S. Little received his edu- 
 cation in the Norwich University, graduating 
 there in 1850. He was a classmate of Gen. G.M. 
 Dodge, U. S. A.; Rear- Admiral George Dewey 
 was also a graduate of this school. He proved 
 himself especially gifted in mathematics. His 
 expenses in college he partly paid by means of 
 his musical skill, for he was a skilled violinist. 
 He graduated at the age o'f twenty-one. After- 
 ward he assisted in the survey of the first railroad 
 from Danforth Corners to Milford, N. H., under 
 General Stark. In 1851 he started west via 
 Ogdensburg, from which place he traveled by 
 stage to Watertown and then pursued his way to 
 Rome, from there by rail to Buffalo, then took a 
 boat for Detroit, and sailed up the lake until 
 stopped by a blockade of ice. He finally reached 
 Detroit, from which place he traveled by steam- 
 cars to Michigan City, making six or eight miles 
 an hour over the strap rails. From Michigan 
 City he went by boat to Racine, Wis. , thence by 
 stage seventy miles into the interior of the state, 
 stopping for a time in Janesville. From that city 
 to Chicago he ran the levels for the first railroad 
 survey on the line now belonging to the Chicago 
 & North-western Railroad. The company for 
 
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 whom he worked failed, owing him $500. He 
 then shouldered his pack and walked to Eagle, 
 Wis., where he found employment on the Mil- 
 waukee & Mississippi Railroad, making the pre- 
 liminary survey from Madison to the Wisconsin 
 River, and having charge of the construction of 
 the road west of Whitewater. Afterward he sur- 
 veyed a line from Milwaukee to Fond du Lac. 
 
 In 1853 Mr. Little located, constructed and 
 operated a road from Milwaukee to Columbus, 
 Wis., as assistant to E. H. Broadhead. Septem- 
 ber 24, 1854, he married Angeline, a daughter of 
 John Harwood, of Nashua, N. H., and afterward 
 settled in Watertown, where he did much toward 
 the development of the city. In 1858 he laid the 
 track from Fond du Lac to Oshkosh. In i860 
 he came to Colorado, where he engaged in the 
 construction of the capital hydraulic ditch from 
 the present site of Littleton to Denver. Under 
 the claim law he took up one hundred and sixty 
 acres, to which he afterward added a homestead 
 of one hundred and twenty acres. When the 
 railroad lands came into the market he purchased 
 a section and engaged in ranching, gardening and 
 dairying. 
 
 Mrs. Little had been greatly troubled with 
 asthma, and as soon as Mr. Little found this cli- 
 mate beneficial for that disease, he sent for her. 
 He met her in Chicago in 1862 and brought her 
 across the plains with a mule-team, spending 
 two months on the way. The air of these high 
 altitudes at once relieved her, and she has had no 
 recurrence of the trouble, except when visiting 
 the east. She lived six months in Littleton before 
 she saw a white woman. She has been one of 
 the prominent women in all enterprises that would 
 tend to benefit the town and its people. Her 
 charity is proverbial and her love for humanity 
 is beautiful as it is rare. She is the mother of 
 Lucius H, Little. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Little, in company with others, 
 erected the Rough and Ready flour mills in Little- 
 ton, which were destroyed by fire in 1872, with a 
 loss of about $45,000, including the stock on 
 hand. The)' at once erected another mill on the 
 same site. In 1873 he was elected to the terri- 
 torial legislature, receiving three thousand votes 
 out of three thousand and one hundred votes cast 
 in the county. He was the Republican nominee, 
 but was endorsed by the other parties. While a 
 member of the house, he introduced a bill provid- 
 
 ing for a general sy.stem of irrigation for Colorado, 
 making the land owners under it stockholders and 
 assessing the land thus benefited pro rata. How- 
 ever, owing to a variety of causes, the bill failed 
 to pass. In 1874 the mill again burned down 
 with a heavier loss than before; they at once 
 erected the present stone mill, which is fireproof 
 throughout, with five sets of burrs, and a capacity 
 for three hundred sacks per day. The storehouse 
 has a capacity of twenty thousand bushels. PVom 
 the time of the building of the mill the flour 
 steadily grew in reputation, and is now famous 
 throughout the entire country as the best brand 
 in the market. 
 
 A number of people having already settled 
 here, in 1875 Mr. Little platted the village of 
 Littleton, which has since become one of the most 
 attractive towns in the state, its churches, public 
 schools and public improvements of all kinds, 
 making it a desirable home for a family. In 1871 
 Mr. Little donated the ground on which he built 
 St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He has also do- 
 nated the sites of the present Presbyterian Church, 
 the school house, four lots to build the first store, 
 and also lots for other public enterprises. He has 
 been the leading spirit in the village since its in- 
 ception, and with commendable energy has fur- 
 thered every measure for the benefit of the people 
 and the advancement of local interests. 
 
 j UMAN M. GIFFIN, M. D. The medical 
 It department of the University of Colorado, 
 [J2r or, as it is more frequently called, the Colo- 
 rado School of Medicine, of which Dr. Gifiin is 
 dean, was opened in September, 1883. The 
 faculty for 1883-84 consisted of seven members, 
 but was increased from year to year until it num- 
 bered twenty-two professors, besides lecturers 
 and assistants. Soon after the opening of the 
 school a hospital was established on the grounds 
 and a clinic was maintained. The course of 
 study covered three years until 1895, since which 
 time there has been a four-year course only. In 
 September, 1892, arrangements were made to 
 conduct the last two years of the course in Den- 
 ver until such time as sufiicient hospital advan- 
 tages might be secured in Boulder, and since then 
 the plan has been to have the work of the first 
 year in the university, the other part of the 
 course being pursued in Denver. By a recent 
 
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 decision of the supreme court, however, all reg- 
 ular instruction must be retained at the univer- 
 sity until the constitutional right to continue the 
 former arrangement may be obtained. A build- 
 ing has recently been erected to give more room 
 for the medical school, and every modern equip- 
 ment is being furnished that will assist in the 
 work of clinic and laboratories. 
 
 The faculty of the School of Medicine consists 
 of the following: James H. Baker, LI/. D., 
 president; Luman M. GiflBn, M. D., dean and 
 professor of anatomy and physical diagnosis; 
 Charles Skeele Palmer, Ph. D., professor of chem- 
 istry; John Gardiner, B. Sc. , professor of his- 
 tology and bacteriology; A. Stewart Lobinginer, 
 M. D., professor of surgical pathology; Emley B. 
 Queal, M. D., professor of physiology; Horace 
 •O. Dodge, M. D., professor of materia medica 
 and therapeutics; E. H. Robertson, Ph. M., 
 M. D., professor of pathology; John H. Parsons, 
 D. D. S., professor of operative and prosthetic 
 dental technics; Charles Fisher Andrew, M. D., 
 lecturer on hygiene; George O'Brien, M. D., 
 demonstrator of anatomy; and Mary Alice Lake, 
 M. D., demonstrator of anatomy. 
 
 Dr. Giflfin was born in Heuvelton, St. Law- 
 rence County, N. Y., October 30, 1850, the son 
 of Horace and Roxalaua (Wright) Giffin, natives 
 of Vermont. His father, who was of Irish de- 
 scent, was a member of a family that settled on 
 the original site of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and 
 from there removed to northern New York. He 
 came from Vermont to Heuvelton, where he en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business until his death 
 at thirty-seven j'ears. His wife, who was the 
 daughter of a miller, was of English descent, her 
 family name being originally Wreut. She was 
 twice married, by her first union having two 
 sons and a daughter. After her first husband's 
 death she became the wife of Israel Rowland, by 
 whom she had four children. She died in Colo- 
 rado at sixty-five years of age, and all her chil- 
 dren are in the west except a daughter of her 
 first marriage; 
 
 At the age of nine years our subject accom- 
 panied his mother to Morristown, St. Lawrence 
 County, where he attended a district school. 
 Afterward he was a student in Black River 
 Academy at Ludlow, Vt. He took one course 
 of lectures in the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Vermont, after which he took two 
 
 courses in Rush Medical College, Chicago, from 
 which he graduated in February, 1875, with the 
 degree of M. D. He practiced in Rossie, St. 
 Lawrence County, until March, 1881, when he 
 came to Boulder. Soon after the organization of 
 the medical department of the state university he 
 became connected with it as professor of anatomy 
 and physiology, which chair he held until 1897, 
 and was then made professor of anatomy and 
 physical diagnosis and dean of the department. 
 
 At one time Dr. GifiBn was president of the 
 Boulder County Medical Association. He is a 
 member of the State and American Medical As- 
 sociations, is examining physician for different 
 insurance companies, and local surgeon for the 
 Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf and Colorado 
 Northwestern Railroads. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Boulder Lodge No. 45. When the 
 United States Pension Examining Board was or- 
 ganized in 1894 in Boulder County he was chosen 
 secretary of the board and served in that capacity 
 for some time. 
 
 In Rossie, N. Y. , in 1875, Dr. Giffin married 
 Miss Lillie J. Forester, who was born there and 
 died in Colorado in 1887. Two sons were born 
 of the union: Horace, who was educated in the 
 high school of Boulder and is now with a book 
 firm in this city; and Clay, who is a member of 
 the high school class of 1902. Dr. Giffin was 
 married a second time in Denver, his wife being 
 Miss Fannie Lake, who was born in Lake Forest, 
 111. Three children were born of this union: 
 Ruth, Alice, and Louise, who died at three years 
 of age. 
 
 pQlLLIAM P. DANIELS, president and 
 I A/ ™^nager of the Big Five, was the founder 
 Y V of the town of Frances, where he resides. 
 He is of remote Scotch descent, but the first rep- 
 resentatives of the family in America came here 
 from England. His father, William F. Daniels, 
 was born near Hamilton, Canada, and in boyhood 
 accompanied the family to Wayne Junction, 
 Mich. , but a short time afterward he settled near 
 Rockton, Winnebago County, 111., of which, as 
 also of Forreston, Ogle County, he was a pioneer. 
 In 1856 he moved to Iowa, becoming an early 
 settler of Howard, where he followed the mill- 
 wright's trade and the milling business. For 
 some years after 1865 he carried on a mercantile 
 business in Howard County, During the Civil 
 
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 war he volunteered in the Union service, but was 
 rejected, and so was compelled to remain at 
 home, while five of his brothers were accepted for 
 service. In 1884 he removed to Louisiana, 
 where his death occurred in 1893, when he was 
 seventy years of age. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Mary G. Preston, was born in 
 Penn Yan, N. Y., and is now living in Louisiana. 
 Her father, Richard G. Preston, was born in 
 Scotland and accompanied his parents to America, 
 settling in New York. 
 
 Of the family of nine children five attained ma- 
 ture years and four are now living, William P. 
 being the oldest of these. He was born near 
 Rockton, Winnebago County, 111., June 16, 1851, 
 and was a child of five years at the time the 
 family removed to Howard County. At the age 
 of fifteen he left home and began working on 
 what is now the St. Paul (then the McGregor 
 Western) Railroad, the first through line to St. 
 Paul. In 1872 he began as conductor with the 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, with 
 which he remained for two years, and then for 
 twelve years he was with the Burlington, Cedar 
 Rapids & Northern Railroad as conductor. In 
 1873 he became a member of the Order of Rail- 
 way Conductors and five years later was elected 
 its grand secretary and treasurer, with head- 
 quarters at Cedar Rapids. This position he held 
 for seventeen years, having in 1 886 retired from 
 the railroad in order to devote his entire attention 
 to the secretary and treasurer's office. At the 
 time he became secretary there were about six 
 hundred members and when he left the order 
 had twenty-five thousand members in the United 
 States, Canada and Mexico. In 1895 he resigned 
 the position and came to Colorado, accepting the 
 position as president and general manager of the 
 Dew-drop Company, that was organized in 
 1893-94. 
 
 Since becoming president of the Dew-drop 
 Company, Mr. Daniels has been instrumental in 
 the organization of four other companies, viz.: 
 the Dew-drop Mill Company; the Adit Mining 
 Company, the Adit Tunnel Company and the 
 Ni Wot Mining Company. The original name 
 of the company was the Orphan Boy Extension 
 Mining and Milling Company, which in 1896 was 
 changed to the Dew-drop Mining Company. 
 The Ni Wot Mining Company, with the mines, 
 mill and manager's office, is located at Frances, 
 
 a town that he named after his youngest daugh- 
 ter. A tunnel has been excavated which will, 
 when completed, be six thousand feet in length 
 and which extends under Bald Mountain. There 
 is also a branch tunnel of twenty-four hundred 
 feet, to cut the celebrated Ni Wot lode. The 
 company has among its members a large number 
 of railroad men, whose long acquaintance with 
 Mr. Daniels has given them abundant reason to 
 rely in his judgment. 
 
 Politically Mr. Daniels is a Democrat. While 
 in Cedar Rapids he served as mayor of the city 
 for two terras. He was made a Mason in Lime 
 Spring, Iowa, and is now identified with the 
 lodge, chapter, commandery, consistory and 
 temple at Cedar Rapids, having attained the 
 thirty-second degree. In Washburn, Iowa, he 
 married Miss Julia C. Close, who was born in 
 that state, daughter of Cicero Close, a pioneer of 
 Washburn. They have two daughters, Mary C. 
 and Frances W. 
 
 HON. JAMES MOYNAHAN, mayor of 
 Alma, Park County, is the owner of large 
 mining interests, the most of which are in 
 Park County. Among the mines in which he is 
 especially interested may be mentioned the Or- 
 phan Boy, two and a-half miles from Alma, 
 which was discovered in 1861 and has since been 
 successfully operated. By consolidating the 
 entire slope of the hill and running a tunnel four- 
 teen hundred feet into the mountain, he not only 
 proved that such a plan was feasible, but profited 
 by it materially himself He is now the presi- 
 dent and general manager of the company operat- 
 ing the mine. Recently he became connected 
 with the newly organized Gold Drift Mining 
 Company of Park County, operating near Alma, 
 and he is now its president and general manager. 
 Among the other mines in which he has been in- 
 terested is the Falkland. In addition to his 
 mining interests, he is engaged in the ranch busi- 
 ness in South Park, in Park County. 
 
 Of Republican belief, Mr. Moynahan has been 
 prominent in poHtics. From 1870 to 1873 he was 
 commissioner of Park County, being chairman of 
 the board for one year. In 1876 he was elected 
 to represent his district in the state .senate, and 
 the length of his term being detided by lot, he 
 drew the short term, being a member of the first 
 general assembly, which was in session for more 
 
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 than five months. In 1882 he was chosen to rep- 
 resent Park and Fremont Counties in the state 
 senate and served in the fourth and fifth general 
 assemblies, a term of four years. For two years 
 he was president pro tem of the senate and during 
 this time, by virtue of the state law, when both 
 the governor and lieutenant-governor were out of 
 the state, he was acting governor, but there be- 
 ing no special business to be brought up, he was 
 not in active service as the chief executive. 
 Many times he has served as mayor of Alma. 
 He was elected in 1896, re-elected the following 
 year, and in 1898 was nominated and elected 
 without any opposition. He assisted in the incor- 
 poration of Alma, was a member of its first board 
 of trustees, and laid out a part of the town. Since 
 the fall of 1884 his family have resided in Denver, 
 where he owns a residence at No. 6 Broadway. 
 In addition to this, he owns some vacant property 
 in the city. 
 
 In Greenfield, Wayne County, Mich., Mr. 
 Moynahan was born June 7, 1842, the son of 
 James and Catherine (Hart) Moynahan, both 
 natives of Ireland. His grandfather, Matthew 
 Moynahan, settled in Canada at Maidstone Cross, 
 near Windsor, and there engaged in farming 
 until his death. James Moynahan located in 
 Wayne County, Mich., where he carried on a 
 farm and followed the blacksmith's trade. He 
 was with the Michigan men in the Toledo war. 
 He died at the age of forty-eight. His wife also 
 died in Michigan, her age being sixty-two. They 
 had three sons and two daughters who attained 
 maturity, and one son and two daughters are now 
 living, the latter being Mrs. Parks, of I,eadville, 
 and Mrs. Clinton, of Michigan. Two sons are 
 deceased, Matthew having died in Breckenridge 
 and John in Georgetown, Colo. 
 
 After the death of his father, which occurred 
 in December, 1858, our subject went to the upper 
 peninsula of Michigan, where he worked in 
 copper mines. Later he was in the lower pen- 
 insula. At the first call for troops during the 
 Civil war he volunteered in the Fifth Michigan 
 Infantry, but the quota being filled, the regiment 
 was not called into service at that time. In 1862 
 he entered Company C, Twenty-seventh Michi- 
 gan Infantry, and enlisted as a private at Copper 
 Harbor, thence- going to Kentucky and joining 
 the Ninth Corps under General Burnside, in the 
 Department of the Ohio. He took part in the 
 
 siege of Vicksburg and later was at Jackson, go- 
 ing from there back to Kentucky, then to East 
 Tennessee and taking part in the siege of Knox- 
 ville. In the spring of 1864 the corps was re- 
 organized at Annapolis, Md., and was incorpo- 
 rated with the Army of the Potomac, taking part 
 in all the engagements in the Wilderness. At 
 Spottsylvania, while acting as second lieutenant, 
 May 12, 1864, he was wounded by a minie-ball 
 that lodged in the right breast and remained 
 there for eleven months before it was removed. 
 When he was wounded he was taken to Fred- 
 ericksburg and for four days lay on a blanket, 
 without medical attention, during which time 
 the wound became so swollen that the surgeon 
 could not probe for the bullet. He was moved 
 to Washington, sent from there to Philadelphia, 
 and finally, though the bullet was still in his 
 breast and the wound still open, he requested to 
 be returned to his regiment, which was done. 
 He was commissioned first lieutenant in February, 
 1865. While participating in the assault on Fort 
 Mahone at Petersburg April 2, 1865, in com- 
 mand of his company, before daybreak he was 
 shot in the left forearm by a minie-ball, which 
 would have entered the left side had it not been 
 for his silver watch and a memorandum book in 
 his overcoat pocket. Previous to this the fort 
 had been taken and with it three pieces of artil- 
 lery, and his company, which carried the colors, 
 had planted the stars and stripes on the fort, so 
 that he was permitted to participate in the vic- 
 tory before incapacitated for further service. On 
 his way from the field he met General Potter, 
 whom he notified of the victory, news that natu- 
 rally rejoiced the general's heart. He went to the 
 hospital at City Point, where he had his arm 
 dressed; the old bullet in his breast, which was 
 lodged against the shoulder blade, was operated 
 for and removed at that time, April 12, 1865. 
 He participated in the grand review at Washing- 
 ton and was mustered out as captain of Company 
 G, July 26, 1865, at Washington, and a few days 
 later was honorably discharged at Detroit. Dur- 
 ing the period of service his regiment crossed the 
 Rapidan, May 5, 1864, with eleven hundred men 
 and forty-three commissioned ofiicers, and after 
 the blowing up of mine fort at Petersburg in July, 
 three commissioned officers and sixty-three men 
 reported for duty. The regiment stands eleventh 
 in regard to proportionate loss, according to the 
 
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 statistics by Fox, and first in percentage of loss 
 of the regiments that entered the service in 1862. 
 
 After his retirement from the army, Captain 
 Moynahan studied in Bryant & Stratton's Com- 
 mercial College in Detroit. In April, 1866, he 
 graduated from the college and shortly afterward 
 came to Colorado, where for two years he super- 
 intended a mine in Park County, then turned his 
 attention to merchandising. In 1874 he started 
 a store at Alma, of which place he has since been 
 the most prominent business man. His name is 
 so well known throughout the state that both in 
 1884 and 1886 he was prominently mentioned for 
 governor of the state. He is a member of the 
 Abe lyincoln Post, G. A. R. , in Denver, of which 
 he is past commander. In the Colorado Com- 
 mandery of the Loyal Legion he holds member- 
 ship. 
 
 In Greenfield, Mich., our subject married Mary 
 Monaghan, who was born in Ireland, a daughter 
 of Peter Monaghan, who came to America and 
 settled in the upper peninsula of Michigan, there 
 engaged in mining. The four children born of 
 the union are: Alice, Ambrose Edwin, James W. 
 and Clarissa. 
 
 0AVID GRIFFITHS, state inspector of coal 
 mines, was appointed to this position by 
 Governor Mclntire February 18, 1895, for a 
 term of four years. The coal industry in Colo- 
 rado is yet in its infancy and only the croppings 
 have been mined, the vast wealth in coal that lies 
 underneath the surface of the earth having never 
 been touched. This statement will give an idea 
 of the immense veins that wait to be freed from 
 their prison beds within the earth. While the 
 output is so very small in comparison with the 
 actual amount here, yet it is sufficient to provide 
 the entire state with coal for its railroads, manu- 
 facturing industries, public buildings and private 
 residences, and besides this, large shipments of 
 coal and coke are made to other states. The 
 manifold duties connected with the development 
 of the industry require the entire time of the state 
 inspector and an assistant. 
 
 The family of which Mr. Griffiths is a member 
 has long been known in Carmarthaenshire, Wales, 
 His grandfather, John, who was born there, 
 made it his home throughout life, tilling one of 
 its farms. William, father of David, was born in 
 that shire, but after his marriage to Ann Evans 
 
 he removed to Glamorganshire, where he en- 
 gaged in farming until his death, in 1888, at the 
 age of sixty-one. His wife passed away in 1878, 
 at the age of fifty-one years. She was a daughter 
 of Hugh Evans, who was a weaver and manufact- 
 urer of woolen goods. 
 
 Of four children, three being daughters and 
 still in Glamorgan, the subject of this sketch is 
 the eldest. He was born at Glynneath, Vale of 
 Neath, Glamorganshire, February i, 1856, and 
 in early childhood was a pupil in the British 
 schools. Before he was ten years of age he be- 
 came a helper in a coal mine near Resolven, and 
 while there learned to dig coal, in which work he 
 began before he was sixteen, meantime becoming 
 fire boss in a mine in the Neath district. In 1882 
 he took passage at Liverpool for America, and 
 after landing in New York proceeded at once to 
 Colorado, where he arrived in May. He en- 
 gaged in mining in Erie district until February, 
 1883, when he went to Como, Park County, 
 Colo., and continued mining. March, 1884, 
 found him in Crested Butte, where he was fire 
 boss for the Colorado Coal and Iron Company, 
 and this company in 1885 sent him to take the 
 position of fire boss at the Walsenburg mines. 
 In May, 1886, he resigned the position and 
 visited his old home in Wales, spending six 
 months in renewing associations with the com- 
 rades and scenes of his youth. While in Wales 
 he married Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Reese 
 and Elizabeth Howells. 
 
 On his return to America Mr. Griffiths re- 
 sumed his former place as fire boss in the Wal- 
 senburg mines, and was later promoted by the 
 company to be pit boss at the Robinson mines. 
 Resigning in June, 1889, he went to Sopris, Las 
 Animas County, where he took tlie position of 
 fire boss with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- 
 pany, but this he resigned in October, 1890, in 
 order to accept a position as mine foreman with 
 the Trinidad Fuel Company at Chicosa, Colo. 
 During his time with them he had entire charge 
 of the group of mines, with three openings. In 
 1894 he resigned and took full charge of the Oak 
 Creek mines at Williamsburg for the United Coal 
 Company, being superintendent and mine fore- 
 man for the company until he accepted his pres- 
 ent position of state inspector. During the 
 administration of Governor Waite he was one of 
 seven who took the competitive examination for 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 state inspector, and of the seven four passed the 
 minimum, which was sixty per cent; of these he 
 received the highest grade, his being ninety-nine 
 and a fraction per cent, while the others received 
 respectively sixty- six and eight- tenths per cent, 
 sixty-two and sixty-one and a fraction. The ap- 
 pointee was the one who had sixty-two per cent. 
 He was again examined at the regular time in 
 1895, this time receiving ninety-nine and a frac- 
 tion, while not one of the three other competitors 
 received ninety percent, which was the minimum. 
 February 18, 1895, he was appointed state in- 
 spector for a term of four years. For three years 
 he studied in the International Correspondence 
 Schools of Scranton and graduated from that in- 
 stitution in the mining course, receiving his 
 diploma September 11, 1897. In the final ex- 
 amination his standing was ninety- eight and 
 seven-tenths per cent, which was remarkably 
 high. 
 
 Since his appointment as state inspector Mr. 
 Griffiths and his wife have made their home in 
 Denver. They have five children: William, 
 Martha A., Elizabeth, Catherine Jane and Blos- 
 som. In national politics Mr. Griffiths is a silver 
 Republican. He was made a Mason at Crested 
 Butte and is still a member of lyodge No. 38 at 
 that place. He is also a member of Unity Lodge 
 No. 70, I. O. O. F., at Walsenburg. 
 
 I EWIS CHENEY. Few men who have been 
 I C citizens of Boulder at any period of its history 
 IT? became so well known as Mr. Cheney, and 
 still fewer gained a wider personal popularity or 
 warmer friendships. For years before his death 
 he was president of four banking institutions, for 
 which responsible work his superior mental qual- 
 ities abundantly qualified him. He accumulated 
 an ample fortune through the steady prosecution 
 of business enterprises, not by any lucky turn of 
 fortune's wheel, or the fortunate issue of specula- 
 tive schemes. 
 
 Born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., April 4, 
 1830, Mr. Cheney was reared on a farm. When 
 a boy he removed to Stephenson County, 111., 
 settling on a farm near Lena. At the age of twenty 
 he journeyed over the plains with an ox-team to 
 California, where he engaged in mining, freight- 
 ing and stock dealing, which yielded him a hand- 
 some revenue. In 1854 he returned overland to 
 Illinois, and engaged in the mercantile business 
 
 in Lena until 1866, when he sold out and started 
 for Montana. On the 20th of May he met his 
 brother in Nebraska City and together they 
 bought four hundred cattle and freight teams, 
 which they loaded, and started up the Platte. At 
 Fort Larimer they were informed by officers that 
 they would have no trouble in passing over the 
 Bozeman route. After they had traveled some 
 distance they were attacked by Sioux and Chey- 
 ennes at Dry Fork and Wind River. His brother 
 was shot and killed, and he narrowly escaped the 
 same fate. He spent the winter at the head of 
 the Missouri River and sold out in the spring of 
 1867, returning to Illinois in July, accompanied 
 by his brother's family. 
 
 After selling his property in Lena, Mr. Cheney 
 removed to Holden, Mo., and in partnership 
 with I. M. Smith, under the firm name of Smith 
 & Cheney, opened a bank July i, 1868. In 
 187 1 the Bank of Holden was organized, with 
 himself as president. In 1874 he assisted in or- 
 ganizing the Bates County National Bank, in 
 Butler, Mo. , and was made its president. Three 
 years later, in 1877, he organized the First 
 National Bank of Boulder, of which he was presi- 
 dent until his death. He also organized the First 
 National Bank of Gunnison and was its president 
 during the remaining years of his life. Through 
 his business and financial ability and sound judg- 
 ment in investments, he became one of the wealth- 
 iest men in Boulder. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Cheney married Margaret Blair, 
 who died in 1867. His second marriage took 
 place in Holden in 1871, and united him with 
 Sarah A. Milner, who was born near Connors- 
 ville, Fayette County, Ind. One of her earliest 
 recollections is of leading by the hand her great- 
 grandfather, Amos Milner, who was a native of 
 Kentucky, a soldier in the Revolution, and was 
 nearly blind at the time of his death, when little 
 less than one hundred years old. His son John 
 moved from Ohio to Indiana and died there; the 
 latter's son, Amos, was born in Ohio, settled in 
 Fayette County, Ind. , and engaged in farming un- 
 til his death, which occurred when his daughter 
 was ten years of age. His wife, Rosanna, was a 
 daughter of John Boyd, a farmer in Indiana; she 
 died when her daughter, Sarah A., was eight 
 years old. Of her five daughters and three sons 
 one daughter and two sons are living. John, an 
 attorney, died in Indiana; William I. and Amos 
 
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 O. reside in Boulder, the latter being a veteran 
 of the Civil war. Three of the sisters died in 
 Indiana and one in Missouri. When a girl Mrs. 
 Cheney lived with her grandparents, Milner, in 
 Indiana, but she was married in Holden, Mo. 
 Since fifteen years of age she has been a member 
 of the Christian Church. She owns and occupies 
 a beautiful residence at No. 1205 Bluif street, 
 where, surrounded by every comfort which ample 
 means can provide, she may reasonably hope to 
 spend her declining days. She is a lady of gentle 
 character, kind to the deserving poor, as was her 
 husband, and generous to all in need. In her 
 family there are three children: Oliver I., who 
 is engaged in mining at Somerville; Charles H., 
 who is bookkeeper in the First National Bank of 
 Boulder; and Lynette, a graduate of the Christian 
 College at Columbia, Mo. 
 
 The life of Mr. Cheney closed March 31, 1885. 
 He was a member of the Christian Church and 
 an active participant in its enterprises. Frater- 
 nally he was a Knight Templar Mason. He was 
 interested in everything that would promote the 
 well-being of the city, and was ever willing to 
 sacrifice private interests for the public welfare. 
 Although deeply engrossed in his banking enter- 
 prises, yet he was interested in every good work, 
 ever public-spirited and efficient, and believing 
 as he did that there is but one thing that will 
 make a state great, an educated Christian citizen- 
 ship, all along the pathway of his busy life he 
 was the friend of the church, the school and col- 
 legiate education. As a progressive citizen, an 
 able banker, a consistent Christian and a kind 
 friend, he is remembered by all who knew him. 
 
 SEN. BYRON h. CARR. There are among 
 the citizens of Colorado many men of un- 
 usual breadth of mind and brilliancy of intel- 
 lect, men who would be valuable acquisitions to 
 the citizenship of any state, and to whose mental 
 acumen and excellent business judgment much 
 of the progress made by this state during the 
 past two decades may be attributed. Such a man 
 is the subject of this sketch, who has been hon- 
 ored by the people of the state with election to 
 the ofiice of attorney-general. Since coming to 
 Colorado in 1871 he has held many responsible 
 positions, both under the territorial and the state 
 government, and the highest interests of the com- 
 
 monwealth have been visibly enhanced by his 
 sagacity and practical judgment. 
 
 The Carr family has been represented in 
 America since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers. 
 The ship carpenter of the "Mayflower," 1620, 
 was George Carr, who settled at Plymouth, but 
 later removed to Salisbury, Mass., where gen- 
 erations of his descendants lived and died. The 
 town was situated on an island in the Merrimac 
 River, and under the name of Carr's Island, by 
 which it was commonly known, was granted to 
 George Carr in 1625. Some of the family were 
 in the colonial wars, and two, one of whom was 
 named James, took part in the enterprise against 
 Quebec. Capt. Daniel Carr was born in Salis- 
 bury in 1710, and attained the age of one hun- 
 dred years. His son. Deacon John Carr, was 
 born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1774, and when 
 a young man removed to Grafton County, N. H., 
 where he engaged in farming. For a long time 
 he served as deacon in the Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 Next in line of descent was General Carr's 
 father, Capt. John Carr, who was born in Graf- 
 ton County, served as captain of a company of 
 New Hampshire militia, and for years was a con- 
 tractor and builder of bridges and churches. He 
 made his home in Haverhill until his death, 
 which occurred at sixty-four years. His wife 
 was Susan Ryder, a native of New Hampshire, 
 and the daughter of Seth Ryder, who was born 
 in Newburyport, Mass. The latter, who was 
 the son of a sea captain, married Mary Hibbard, 
 whose father, Thomas, was an officer in the 
 Revolution, having served as clerk of a company 
 of militia in 1775-76, sergeant on guard and 
 scout duty in 1777, and captain of a company 
 from May, 1779, to 1781, being continuously in 
 the service from 1775 to 1781. He was of Eng- 
 lish descent. Mrs. Susan Carr died in 1889, at 
 seventy-five years; she was the mother of seven 
 children, four of whom attained maturity, By- 
 ron I/, being the youngest child and the only 
 son now living. 
 
 In his native town of Haverhill, N. H., and 
 in the Newbury (Vt.) Academy General Carr 
 received his education. While a student in the 
 academy, April 19, 1861, he enlisted in the Sec- 
 ond New Hampshire Infantry, serving for three 
 months. In 1862 he enlisted in the First New 
 Hampshire Cavalry, Company M, and re-enlisted 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
 in 1864, serving until June, 1865, when he was 
 discharged as acting sergeant-major of the First 
 Cavalry. With the Army of the Potomac he 
 took part in the battles of Cedar Mountain , sec- 
 ond battle of Bull Run, Chantilly, Fredericks- 
 burg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Shen- 
 andoah campaigns, battles of Antietam and Cold 
 Harbor; the campaign around Richmond and 
 Petersburg, and the battle of Appomattox. At 
 Fisher Hill, in September, 1864, he was four 
 times wounded and lost his left thumb. At Ap- 
 pomattox, the day before Lee surrendered, he 
 was wounded in the right arm, which was so se- 
 riously injured as to make amputation necessary. 
 He remained in the hospital from April 8, 1865, 
 to the following July, when he was able to leave. 
 At Middleburg, Va., June 17, 1863, he was cap- 
 tured by Stuart's cavalry and sent to Libby 
 prison, thence to Belle Island, remaining as pris- 
 oner until October, when he was exchanged. 
 While in prison he suffered all the privations and 
 hardships incident to life as a prisoner of war. 
 
 On his return from the war he completed his 
 academic course in Vermont, and then, in 1867, 
 went to Waukegan, 111., where he was principal 
 of the high school. In 1868, by appointment, 
 he was made county superintendent of schools, 
 to which ofSce he was elected in 1869 for four 
 years. While in that position he studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar. Resigning his of- 
 fice in 187 1 he came to Colorado in April of that 
 year and located at Lougmont, where he taught 
 for a year and also practiced law. In 1873-74 
 he wag attorney of the first judicial district of 
 Colorado, including Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boul- 
 der, Jefferson and Larimer Counties. In 1875 he 
 was chosen a member of the constitutional con- 
 vention of Colorado, and in the convention of 
 1875-76 he was chairman of the committee on 
 military affairs and drew up the military article. 
 He also served as a member of the committees 
 on education, mines and mining, agriculture, and 
 revision and adjustment. The convention was 
 composed of thirty-nine men, who stood among 
 the brainiest and most influential in the state. 
 In the convention March 14, 1876, the constitu- 
 tion was adopted, and President Grant issued his 
 proclamation admitting the state on the ist of 
 August. On the ist of July it was submitted to 
 the people for ratification, and by them was 
 adopted. 
 
 On the Republican ticket, in 1894, Mr. Carr 
 was nominated for the office of attorney-general 
 and was elected, taking his seat in January, 
 1895. I'he following year he was re-elected on 
 a fusion ticket of silver Republicans and Demo- 
 crats. In addition to discharging the duties of 
 his office, he is interested in farm lands in Boul- 
 der County, and in real estate elsewhere. He is 
 a member of the Masonic lodge in Longmont, 
 and has been past grand master of Colorado; 
 Longmont Chapter No. 8, R. A. M., in which he 
 is past high priest; Long's Peak Commandery No. 
 12, K. T. ,in which he is past eminent com- 
 mander and past grand commander of the state, 
 holding the latter position at the time of the con- 
 clave in Denver in 1892, when he gave the ad- 
 dress of welcome; also a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. In the Grand Army 
 he is quite active. He aided in organizing Mc- 
 Pherson Post No. 6 of Longmont, of which he is 
 past commander, and in 1884 was department 
 commander of Colorado. The most of the na- 
 tional conventions of the army he has attended. 
 He is a member of the national executive council 
 of administration in the Grand Army. 
 
 In Chicago General Carr married Miss Mary 
 L. Pease, who was born in Maine, the daughter 
 of Eliphalet Pease, who was a native of Maine 
 and died in Colorado. They have two children, 
 Jerome B., a student in the Denver high school; 
 and Susie, wife of Capt. L. P. McGuire, of Den- 
 ver, who is private secretary to his father-in-law. 
 Mrs. Carr is grand worthy matron of the Order 
 of Eastern Star of Colorado. She is a member of 
 the Woman's Relief Corps No. 32 at Longmont; 
 is past department president of the state corps, 
 and in 1895 held office as national inspector. 
 
 i yi F. LEECH. The record of the life of Mr. 
 Y Leech for some years past has been the his- 
 (3 tory of the Inter Mountain Railway, or, as 
 it is now known under the more recent laws of 
 incorporation, the Colorado Northwestern Rail- 
 way. The road extends from Boulder west and 
 north to Ward, passing through Crissman, Sa- 
 lina, Copper Rock, Sunset, Sunnyside and Dew- 
 drop. The charter, under the laws of Colorado, 
 shows a capital stock of $500,000 and bears date 
 of 1897. The contract was let August i, 1897, 
 and the road was completed to Sunset February 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 187 
 
 28, 1898, the first train running on that day. By 
 the latter part of May, 1898, the line was ex- 
 tended to Ward, twenty-six and one-half miles 
 from Boulder. A branch, running from Gold Hill 
 Junction to Eldora, will be completed in the fall 
 of 1899, and will be eighteen miles in length. 
 The undertaking has been one of great responsi- 
 bility and represents an immense amount of labor, 
 much of which has been accomplished by Mr. 
 Leech, who is a director. The officers are: E. C. 
 Thompson, of Meadville, Pa., president; Col. C. 
 W. Mackey, of Franklin, Pa., vice-president and 
 secretary; Thomas R. Mann, of Lockhaven, Pa., 
 treasurer; J. T. Blair, of Greenville, Pa., general 
 manager; and T. S. Waltemeyer, of Omaha, who 
 is a director. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Tionesta, 
 Forest County, Pa. , November 24, 1850. His fa- 
 ther, D. E., was born in Leechburg, Armstrong 
 County, Pa., his grandfather, John, in Mercer 
 County, and his great-grandfather, John,Sr., in 
 York County. The last-named, who was a far- 
 mer, served as government surveyor and civil en- 
 gineer in Pennsylvania and received in payment a 
 large tract of land in Mercer County, upon which 
 he settled and engaged in farm pursuits; he died 
 on that place at the age of ninety-nine years. 
 His father, who was a lieutenant in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, was a member of a family that be- 
 longed to the Society of Friends and came from 
 England to Philadelphia with William Penn. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, together with 
 his brother David, had the contract to build the 
 western end of the Penn.sylvania Canal, which 
 they completed from the Allegheny River east 
 over the mountains, it being the greatest feat of 
 engineering that had been accomplished up to 
 that time. They founded the town of Leechburg, 
 now on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and with a 
 present population of twenty thousand people. 
 Both were stockholders in the canal until it was 
 sold by the state. The grandfather died when 
 visiting in Tennessee, aged seventy-two. 
 
 Our subject's father, who was a farmer in For- 
 est County, removed from there to Greenville, 
 Mercer County. Prior to that, in 1850, he went 
 via the Panama route to California, where he en- 
 gaged in mining for two years. On his return 
 east he bought a farm in Greenville, where he 
 continued until the war. He then enlisted as a 
 private in Company I, Second Pennsylvania Cav- 
 
 alry, where he served in the Army of the Potomac 
 under General Stoneman until the close of the 
 war, a period of four and one-half years of service. 
 He was slightly wounded in the battle of City 
 Point. For meritorious service he was promoted 
 to be first lieutenant. When the war ended he re- 
 turned to his farm. In 1873 he removed to Ogal- 
 lala, Keith County, Neb., where he remained for 
 six years upon a ranch. The year 1879 found 
 him in Boulder, Colo. , where he continued to re- 
 side until shortly before his death. While on a 
 visit to his ranch in Nebraska, he died, at the 
 age of sixty-four; the remains where brought to 
 Boulder for interment. He was identified with 
 the Grand Army of the Republic and was com- 
 mander of the post at Ogallala. 
 
 Our subject's mother was Elizabeth Hilands, a 
 native of Tionesta, Pa., and now a resident of 
 Los Angeles, Cal. She was a daughter of John 
 Hilands, a civil engineer, who resided in Tiones- 
 ta until his death, when but little less than one 
 hundred years of age. In her family there were 
 four sons and four daughters, namely: M. F. ; 
 Mrs. Charlotte Tanner, of Denver; Mrs. Dora 
 Lonergan, of Manitou; Mrs. Carrie Simms, who 
 died at Fort Collins in December, 1897; Elmer 
 E. , a cattleman at Big Springs, Neb. ; William 
 H., a locomotive engineer running on the Atch- 
 ison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into Los An- 
 geles, Cal. ; Mrs. Ida M. Stansfield, of West 
 Australia; and C. D., of Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 When our subject was a boy his father entered 
 the service of the Union, and he, being the oldest 
 of the children, assisted his mother in the man- 
 agement of the farm. In 1865, when his father 
 returned home, he secured work as a newsboy on 
 the Atlantic & Great Western (now the Erie) 
 Railroad, and soon after was given employment 
 in the McHenry House at Meadville, Pa. Later 
 he was fireman on the Atlantic & Great Western 
 road, between Meadville and Kent, and during 
 his leisure hours he learned telegraphy. This lat- 
 ter occupation he followed to some extent. From 
 Pennsylvania he went to join his father, who had 
 moved to Sparta, White County, Tenn., and he 
 secured work as locomotive engineer in the em- 
 ploy of the Nashville & Lebanon Railroad, where 
 he remained for six months, when he was injured 
 in a wreck. Going to Cincinnati, Ohio, he was 
 for a time employed in the Western Union Tele- 
 graph Company's office. Believing that a change 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ofclimate would benefit his health, in 1871 Mr. 
 Leech came west, making the run along the 
 Union Pacific from North Platte as extra agent 
 and train dispatcher. For a time he engaged in 
 railroading in Wyoming, but he suffered with the 
 ague there, and concluded to "rough it" among 
 the Indians. He went among the Sioux, whose 
 language he learned and among whom he spent 
 the greater part of three years in the western part 
 of Nebraska and Wyoming. When he went to 
 Sherman, Wyo. , in the fall of 1871 he was in such 
 poor health that the inhabitants, believing he 
 would not survive the winter, dug a grave for 
 him at once, as it was their custom to prepare 
 graves in the fall, in order that it would not be 
 necessary to dig in the frozen ground in the win- 
 ter. However, the climate and his outdoor exer- 
 cise benefited him so much that he soon regained 
 his former strength. From the fact that he is a 
 very reserved man, the Indians called him "Wah 
 see chee yoppa chinclullah," meaning "White 
 man talks little," and one might well add, "and 
 that little is to the point." 
 
 In 1875, when the war broke out with the 
 Sioux, Mr. Leech offered his services to the gov- 
 ernment and became a scout with General Crook. 
 On account of his familiarity with the Sioux, 
 their country and their language, he was a very 
 valuable aide, and guided the army in their scouts 
 and rencontres. During one of these expeditions 
 he was captured three times by three different 
 bands of Sioux and each time talked his way to 
 freedom. Knowing their language, character and 
 habits he succeeded in making them think he was 
 the agent of the government, authorized to secure 
 the number of beef cattle that was needed to feed 
 the families of the Indians on the reservations. It 
 was the custom of the government to send a man 
 out every ten days to get from the Indians the 
 number of cattle needed on the reservations, and 
 he succeeded in 'convincing the Indians that he 
 was this agent, showing them his sealed orders, 
 which were large and official-looking, to prove 
 the truth of his assertion; while if they had been 
 able to read, the papers would have been his 
 death warrant. He participated in the battle of 
 Rosebud. 
 
 After the close of the Sioux war, in the fall of 
 1875, Mr. Leech went into the employ of the Uni- 
 ted States government, the Union Pacific Rail- 
 road and the Wyoming Cattle Growers' Associa- 
 
 tion, to hunt down and exterminate the outlaws, 
 train and stage robbers and cattle thieves who 
 had a strong foothold in Wyoming and western 
 Nebraska during the war, as the government 
 could not pay much attention to them during the 
 Indian troubles. He was placed at the head of a 
 band of men and continued in the service for three 
 years, until he had all exterminated. During this 
 time he had sixty-one of the outlaws either hung 
 or sent to the penitentiary, while others were 
 hung by vigilance committees before he got on 
 their track. Sometimes, he rode after them days 
 and nights in succession and had more than one 
 pitched battle. The outlaws were desperate and 
 when they found he was after them they threat- 
 ened his life and several times they attempted to 
 assassinate him at his home in Ogallala, Neb. In 
 1878 he moved his family to Boulder, thinking it 
 would be a safe place for them. Once, in that 
 place, his life was attempted, but he maimed his 
 assailant to prevent further harm. As the out- 
 laws scattered, it took him all over the country 
 and he traveled under assumed names. It was on 
 one of these trips that he met, in Salem, Ind., the 
 lady whom he afterward married. In 1878 he 
 visited Leadville on business, and became inter- 
 ested in mining. He remained with the United 
 States government until July, 1880, when he 
 cleared up the last gang. Dock Middleton's, at 
 Keya Pah Hah. In 1884 he was again called in- 
 to the service of the Pacific Express Company, to 
 hunt the perpetrators of the Minnedoka and Al- 
 bion stage robbery in Idaho. In three weeks he 
 had them arrested, but it took one year to work 
 up the evidence against and convict them. 
 
 From 1878 Mr. Leech engaged in mining oper- 
 ations in Leadville until 1880, when he returned 
 to Boulder County and became manager of the 
 mines and mills at Ward and Gold Hill. Later, 
 going to Idaho, he was manager of the Alturas 
 and Poor Man mines and was also interested in 
 mining. In 1893 he returned to Boulder, for the 
 purpose of working up interest in a railroad from 
 Boulder to Ward and other mining camps. He 
 was familiar with the canons and made the orig- 
 inal survey himself; and it is of interest to note 
 that the road when completed did not vary fifty 
 feet from his survey. After making the prelim- 
 inary survey he went east to secure the capital 
 needed for building the road, having already cor- 
 responded with Mr. Ames, a capitalist of Boston, 
 
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 whom he knew personally. On the way east, 
 when at Chester, within one hundred miles of 
 Boston, the train was wrecked, going through a 
 bridge into the river, and fifteen were killed and 
 forty wounded. In the Pullman sleeper there 
 were eleven passengers and he was the only one 
 of the number who escaped death. When he re- 
 gained consciousness his head was under the wa- 
 ter and his body was caught between a pair of 
 trucks, the flanges of the wheels holding and 
 crushing his left hip. He lifted his head out of 
 the water and was fortunately seen by rescuers, 
 who placed a board under his head, to hold it out 
 of the water. Five hours passed before he was 
 taken out, and it was then found that his left hip 
 was crushed, arm broken and his head injured. 
 He was sent to the hospital in Springfield, Mass., 
 where the physicians held out no hope for his 
 recovery; but he slowly regained his strength, 
 though in. the hospital for more than one year. 
 During his conscious moments he studied the 
 plans for the Inter Mountain Railway (for he 
 had already given a name to his projected road); 
 and doubtless the same thought filled his mind 
 even in moments of unconsciousness. One day 
 he asked, "Why did the Lord spare my life 
 and make me a cjipple," to which his old nurse 
 replied, "God has spared you so that the Inter 
 Mountain Railway can be built and you be the 
 means through the railroad of making thousands 
 of homes prosperous and happy." 
 
 A year after he was injured Mr. Leech was 
 able to leave the hospital, though still using 
 crutches. Meantime Mr. Ames had died, so his 
 original plans were necessarily changed. He went 
 to New York City, but was taken worse and was 
 compelled to remain in a hospital for almost an- 
 other year. In spite of discouragements and long 
 illness, he did not give up his hopes. In 1897 
 he succeeded in interesting a few parties in the 
 road, among them T. S. Waltemeyer, of Omaha. 
 They incorporated the company and started a sur- 
 vey, when E. C. Thompson and other parties 
 from Pennsylvania became interested and sent 
 out J. T. Blair, the manager of the Pittsburg, 
 Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, to examine con- 
 ditions and prospects. After going over the sur- 
 vey, Mr. Blair made a favorable report, and him- 
 self resigned his position and took stock in the 
 new enterprise. 
 
 In addition to his connection with the railroad, 
 
 Mr. Leech is vice-president and general manager 
 of the Midget Mining and Milling Company, 
 which he organized and which is developing the 
 Midget group of mines, containing eight claims. 
 His ofiice is in the Masonic Temple building, on 
 Pearl street, Boulder, and he has a beautiful resi- 
 dence on the corner of Sixth and Arapahoe 
 streets, surrounded by a fine lawn and a fruit 
 orchard. By his marriage to Emma A. Goslen, 
 a native of Indiana, he has six children, namely: 
 Susie, Ralph, Hoyt, Edith, Winniefred and Doro- 
 thy. Mrs. Leech is identified with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, to which he is a liberal contrib- 
 utor. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights 
 of Pythias and in politics is a Republican. 
 
 QrOF. WILLIAM VAN CLEVE CASEY 
 Lr occupies a leading position among the edu- 
 |>2) cators of Colorado, and the town of Boulder 
 considers itself particularly fortunate in haying 
 so scholarly and efficient a gentleman as superin- 
 tendent of its public schools. In the fall of 1888 
 he was honored by being elected county superin- 
 tendent of schools and served with marked ability 
 in that responsible position until January, 1893, 
 having been re-elected in the meantime, in 1890. 
 He is identified with the State Teachers' Associa- 
 tion, the National Educational Association and 
 the Boulder County Teachers' Association. The 
 last-mentioned he was very influential in organiz- 
 ing and has several times been its president. For 
 some time he has delivered lectures on school 
 law before the class in pedagogy in the Uni- 
 versity of Colorado. 
 
 The professor's paternal grandfather, Abraham 
 Casey, was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, riding on the old "circuit" in southern 
 Illinois, preaching "without money and without 
 price" on Sundays, and carrying on his farm 
 during the rest of the week, in order to make a 
 livelihood for himself and family. He was a na- 
 tive of Kentucky, was a descendant of one of the 
 respected old families of Virginia, and was one 
 of the pioneers of Jefferson County, 111., settling 
 there in 1818. His son, Rev. La Fayette Casey, 
 father of the subject of this article, was born in 
 Illinois, and likewise became a Methodist minister. 
 He was a member of the conference of southern 
 Illinois for many years, and during the Civil war 
 was stationed at Alton, 111. He was captain of 
 
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 a company in the Black Hawk war and was one 
 of the founders of Jefferson County. Having at- 
 tained almost the allotted age of man, three-score 
 and ten, he was summoned to his reward, his 
 death occurring at his home in Centralia, 111. 
 His wife, Eleanor (Herrold) Casey, was a native 
 of Missouri, her birth having taken place upon a 
 farm near Cape Girardeau. She departed this 
 life when in her fifty-fourth year. Of her six 
 children all but two survive. One son, Robert, 
 now of Denver, and interested chiefly in mining 
 enterprises, was formerly quite prominent in ed- 
 ucational circles, having been a teacher in Illi- 
 nois, in Greeley, Colo. , and in Boulder. 
 • Prof. W. V. Casey was born in Edwardsville, 
 111., February 23, i860, and after graduating 
 from the Greenville high school in 1877 began 
 his career as a teacher. He taught in southern 
 Illinois until 1883, when he came to Colorado, 
 and became principal in the Louisville school. 
 At the end of two years he succeeded his brother 
 Robert as superintendent of the Boulder school, 
 and later he was placed in charge of the Pine 
 street school. In January, 1893, he finished out 
 the school year (for he had just left the- place of 
 county superintendent of schools) for Professor 
 Harding, principal of the Longmont high school. 
 Since that time he has occupied his present posi- 
 tion, and under his able management the local 
 schools are steadily advancing toward perfection. 
 When he was first connected with the schools 
 here, there were but two .school buildings, the 
 Central and the Pine street, and now, in addi- 
 tion to those there are the fine new Mapleton and 
 Highland, as well as the high school, which has 
 been merged into the preparatory school of the 
 university. In his political views the professor 
 is a Democrat, though he was elected by the Re- 
 publicans to the superintendency of the county 
 schools in 1888. He was a member of the Odd 
 Fellows' society, being past ofiicer of the same; 
 is also a past officer of the encampment; belongs 
 to the Woodmen of the World; the Fraternal 
 Union, being a charter member of the Boulder 
 Lodge; the Imperial Legion; and Boulder Lodge 
 No. 45, A. F. & A. M. Of the la.st-mentioned 
 lodge he has twice been master. 
 
 The marriage of Professor Casey and Miss Ida 
 Row was solemnized in Denver in 1888. Mrs. 
 Casey was born in Centralia, 111., being a daugh- 
 ter of S. and Susan (Brown) Row, natives of 
 
 Westmoreland County, Pa., and Tennessee, re- 
 spectively. Her father, who is of German de- 
 scent, is a veteran of the Civil war and is in the 
 employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. 
 His wife removed to southern Illinois with her 
 parents in her girlhood. Mrs. Casey is one of 
 six children. She was educated in music in the 
 College of Music of the Illinois Female Seminary 
 of Jacksonville and in the Chicago Musical Col- 
 lege. She is gifted as a musician and is a valued 
 member of the Young Ladies' Musical Club of 
 Boulder. Professor Ca.sey and wife have two 
 children, Eleanor and Robert Lafayette. 
 
 I T. DURBIN, M. D., surgeon to the Den- 
 \r\ ^^^ Consolidated Tramway Company and 
 LJ one of the successful physicians of Denver, 
 is a descendant of an English family, whose first 
 representatives in America were two brothers. 
 His father, Jesse, who was born in Maryland, 
 was the son of William Durbin, a jeweler in Bal- 
 timore. He was educated for the Methodist 
 Episcopal ministry and for a time he preached, 
 both in Maryland and Ohio, but his health broke 
 down and he was obliged to seek a change of oc- 
 cupation. For a time he engaged in banking in 
 Woo.ster, Ohio, and later had a drug store in Can- 
 ton. In 187 1, believiiTg tile change would be 
 beneficial to his health, he came to Colorado, and, 
 settling in Denver, purchased W. S. Cheesman's 
 wholesale and retail drug business on Blake 
 street, where he remained for nine years. He 
 embarked in the surgical and dental business in 
 1880 and continued in the same until his death, 
 which occurred in 1884, at the age of fifty-six. 
 Since then the business, which is incorporated, 
 has been carried on by his children, under the 
 name of J. Durbin's Surgical and Dental Instru- 
 ment Company. Until his death he retained his 
 connection with the Northern Ohio Conference. 
 He was instrumental in the founding of the Uni- 
 versity of Denver and was one of its trustees. 
 
 Rev. Jesse Durbin married Lucy Ann Cain, 
 who was born in Winchester, W. Va., a daugh- 
 ter of Levi Cain, of that place. She died in 
 Denver, February 16, 1898. Her five living 
 children reside in Denver. Her oldest son, Will- 
 iam R. , who was his father's bookkeeper, died in 
 Denver at the age of twent3'-five, leaving one 
 son, William R. Durbin, now residing in the state 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of Washington. The others are: Mary E., wife 
 of George S. Van Law, who is a member of the 
 real-estate firm of Van Law & Gallup, in Denver; 
 L'. T., our subject; Jesse B. and Edward A., who 
 are managers of the business left by their father; 
 and Charles K.,who is superintendent of the 
 Denver Consolidated Tramway Company. 
 
 In Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, Dr. Durbin 
 was born May 5, 1858. He was educated in the 
 high school of Canton. In 1873 he entered the 
 drug business there, giving attention to the study 
 of pharmacy, but in 1876 joined his father, with 
 whom he continued in business until 1880, the 
 business being at that time disposed of. Next 
 he engaged in general merchandising as a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Durbin Brothers at Gold Park, 
 but after eighteen months sold out. He then 
 entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Denver, from which he graduated two 
 years later, in 1884, with the degree of M. D. 
 For a few months he was engaged as a physician 
 in the county hospital, but soon began in prac- 
 tice for himself. From 1884 to 1886 he was dem- 
 onstrator of anatomy in the University of Den- 
 ver, but resigned in the latter year owing to his 
 removal to Central City. Two years were spent 
 in that city, during which time he was coroner 
 of Gilpin County. From there he removed to 
 Villagrove, Saguache County, in the San Luis 
 Vallej', where for four years he was a prac- 
 ticing physician, county coroner and local sur- 
 geon for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and 
 the Colorado Coal & Iron Companj^ the latter 
 concern having two or three hundred men em- 
 ployed at Orient, eight miles up the mountain. 
 While in Villagrove he became interested in 
 the San Luis hot springs and assisted in organiz- 
 ing a company under the leadership of Chamber- 
 lin Brothers. The San Luis Hot Springs Com- 
 pany secured the finest hot springs in that locality 
 and bought a section of land, upon which they 
 built hotels and residences. The enterprise is 
 yet in its incipiency, but without doubt the place 
 in time will become a noted health and summer 
 resort, for the water possesses curative properties 
 and the climate is delightful. 
 
 Returning to Denver in November, 1891, Dr. 
 
 Durbin has since engaged in practice, having his 
 
 office on Fifteenth and Arapahoe streets. He is en- 
 
 ■ gaged in general professional practice, and has 
 
 been surgeon to the Denver Tramway (now the 
 
 Denver Consolidated Tramway) Company since 
 his return to the city. He was also appointed on 
 the hospital staff, but pressure of other duties pre- 
 vented his acceptance. He is a member of the 
 Denver and Arapahoe County and the State 
 Medical Societies, and at one time was president 
 of the alumni of the University of Denver. In 
 1897 he took a post-graduate course in general 
 surgery at the New York Polyclinic. Politically 
 he is a Republican, and fraternally belongs to 
 Denver Lodge No. 7, A. F. &A. M., the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of 
 the World. In this city, in November, 1886, he 
 married Miss Ella Avery, who was born in Bara- 
 boo, Wis., and in 1871 came to Denver with her 
 father, James B. Avery, a retired capitalist. 
 They have two children, Jessie A. and Helen A. 
 Durbin. 
 
 HARRY S. BADGER, president and superin- 
 tendent of the Alauka Mining and Milling 
 Company at Salina, Boulder County, was 
 born in Boston, Mass., in 1862, the only child of 
 Charles W. and Mary M. C. (Fowler) Badger, 
 natives -respectively of Montpelier, Vt. , and 
 Portland, Me. His father, who was a son of 
 Charles Badger, a merchant of Montpelier, early 
 gained a thorough knowledge of the mercantile 
 business, in which he engaged for some years in 
 Bo.ston; but in 1870 he removed to California, 
 where for years he operated a mine in Amador 
 County. Returning to Boston in 1894 he died 
 the same j^ear. His wife makes her home with 
 their only child. 
 
 The education of our subject was largely ac- 
 quired in Boston, but was completed in the Uni- 
 versity of California, from which he graduated in 
 1884, with the degree of A. B. Afterward, with 
 his father, he became interested in mining and 
 the stock business, and for nine years engaged 
 in dealing in cattle at San Luis Obispo. In 1897 
 he came to Boulder County, Colo., and was em- 
 ployed as superintendent of the Gold Extracting 
 Mining and Supply Company at Wall street camp. 
 His connection with the Alauka Mining and Mill- 
 ing Company dates from January, 1898, when he 
 organized the company and began remodeling the 
 old Williamson mill. The mill has a capacity of 
 thirty tons, and the removal of the product is fa- 
 cilitated by a siding from the Colorado North- 
 western Railroad. The location could not be 
 
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 surpassed, this district comprising Gold Hill, 
 Sugar Loaf and Sunshine, which are among the 
 best mining districts in the state. A practical 
 mill man of long experience has charge of the 
 mill, and a complete assaying and sampling 
 plant, with every facility for the sampling of 
 ores, is an important adjunct. The ores are 
 purchased on a sliding scale, proportionate to the 
 value of the gold and silver they contain. A 
 specialty is made of handling low-grade ores, 
 averaging from $6 to $20 per ton, thus bringing 
 into the market a product from the mines never 
 before handled commercially. Politically Mr. 
 Badger is a believer in Republican principles, 
 but the demands of his business interests are such 
 as to preclude his active participation in public 
 affairs. However, he is a progressive and pub- 
 lic-spirited citizen, and favors all measures for 
 the benefit of the people and the advancement of 
 the community. 
 
 |5)EIL D. Mckenzie, one of the most prom- 
 yi inent mine operators of Boulder County, is 
 l/j a representative citizen of Boulder and is 
 vice-president and a director of the National 
 State Bank here. He has been extensively in- 
 terested in raining and agricultural affairs since 
 he came to Colorado some thirty-two 3'ears ago, 
 and is a member of the Mining Exchange of 
 Denver. Politically a strong Populist, he was 
 sent as a delegate to the national convention in 
 St. Louis in 1896 which nominated Bryan. 
 
 In a family numbering six sons and three 
 daughters, Neil D. McKenzie is the seventh in 
 order of birth. He has lost one brother and one 
 sister, and two of his brothers, Colin and Daniel, 
 are in Colorado, being engaged in mining in the 
 vicinity of Boulder. The father, Prof. Donald 
 McKenzie, was born in the neighborhood of 
 Loch Elch, Scotland. With his father he came 
 to America when a young man and was reared 
 upon a farm in Nova Scotia, which the senior 
 McKenzie carried on as long as he lived. The 
 younger man received a superior education and 
 was engaged in teaching and kindred work dur- 
 ing his active years. For a long time he taught 
 in the public schools of Cape Breton, in which 
 place he lived up to the day of his death. He 
 was in his sixty-eighth year when he died, and 
 his wife, who survived him many years, reached 
 
 the advanced age of eighty-four. She, too, was 
 a native of Scotland, and bore the maiden name 
 of Catherine McLeod. She accompanied her 
 family to Nova Scotia, and in Cape Breton be- 
 came acquainted with the man she later married. 
 
 N. D. McKenzie was born November 29, 1842, 
 in Cape Breton, and was educated in the public 
 schools of his native island. In 1862 he went to 
 New Brunswick and engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness on the St. John's River. Thence he went 
 to the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, 
 and for about a year subsequent to the close of 
 the Civil war carried on a lumbering trade in 
 that state. In 1866 he came west, and for about 
 two years was interested in mining near Brecken- 
 ridge, in Summit County. He then went to 
 Blackhawk, Gilpin County, and there bought 
 and sold claims and finally invested considerably 
 in mines in Boulder County. He improved and 
 placed in a favorable condition a mine at Cari- 
 bou, known as the Poor Man's Mine, which he 
 operated for twelve or fifteen years alone. • He 
 then sold that mine, in which, however, he re- 
 tained an interest. He was superintendent of 
 the company until 1894, when he withdrew from 
 the concern. Among his possessions is a fine 
 ranch of four hundred and eighty acres. It is 
 situated about two and one-half miles east of 
 Boulder, is improved with fences, good buildings 
 and facilities for irrigation, and is a valuable and 
 model ranch. Since settling permanently in 
 Boulder he has served as a member of the school 
 board here. He belongs to Silver Queen Lodge 
 No. 112, I. O. O. F. A Mason of high stand- 
 ing, [ he was identified with Blackhawk Lodge 
 No. II, A. F. & A. M. , and is now associated 
 with Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; 
 Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; Mount Sinai 
 Commandery No. 7, K. T. , and is a member of 
 the Denver Consistory and El Jebel Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine. 
 
 The pleasant home of Mr. McKenzie is pre- 
 sided over by his estimable wife, formerly Miss 
 Isabelle M. Backus, a native of Milburn, 111. 
 Her parents, Benjamin and Mary (Griswold) 
 Backus, who were natives of New York and Con- 
 necticut respectively, were early settlers in Illi- 
 nois. The eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
 Kenzie, Neil Backus, is a member of the Boulder 
 high school, class of '99. The four daughters are- 
 Maud, Isabelle, Catherine and Pauline. 
 
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 195 
 
 HON. JAMES HENRY BROWN, attorney- 
 at-law, of Denver, was born in St. Joseph, 
 Mo., in September, 1859, the son of Henry 
 Cordis and Jane C. (Thompson) Brown. Among 
 both his paternal and maternal ancestors were 
 some who served in the colonial wars and the 
 Revolution. His grandfather, Samuel Brown, 
 who was born in Cambridge, Mass., October 29, 
 1749, served throughout the entire period of the 
 Revolution, being a lieutenant under Col. William 
 Prescott in the battle of Bunker Hill. He also 
 participated in the engagement at Concord and 
 the siege of Boston and, as a lieutenant under 
 Capt. Joseph Hubbard, he took part in Arnold's 
 expedition to Quebec. Captured by the British 
 near the beginning of the Revolution, he was 
 paroled in September, 1776, and conveyed to 
 Elizabethtown, N. J. Soon after the close of the 
 war he went to Ohio and settled near St. Clairs- 
 ville, Belmont County, where he worked at his 
 trade of cooper and also engaged in clearing and 
 improving a farm. He was a member of a com- 
 pany that, in 1893-94, went out against the In- 
 dians in the northwestern territory. His death 
 occurred in Ohio January 16, 1828, when he was 
 seventy-nine years old. 
 
 The maternal grandparents of Mr. Brown were 
 Joshua Thompson, born in Maine in 1793, and 
 Marcia (Crane) Thompson, born at Guilford, 
 Conn., April 16, 1805. The Cranes were a prom- 
 inent family in the early days of Massachusetts 
 and some of them were soldiers in the colonial 
 wars. James Thompson, father of Joshua, was 
 born in Londonderry, N. H., and enlisted as a 
 private in a New Hampshire regiment under Col. 
 John Stark, April 23, 1777, and in time was made 
 an officer as a reward of meritorious service. 
 After the war he removed to Canandaigua, N. Y., 
 where he remained until death. He was a de- 
 scendant of Sir Hugh Thompson, who emigrated 
 from Dublin to America in 1722, settling in Rhode 
 Island; his son, Hugh, was born in 1722, three 
 daj's before the ship landed upon American shores. 
 
 The eldest of three children, Mr. Brown has a 
 brother, Sherman T. , who graduated from Gross 
 Medical College in 1897; and a sister, Carrie M., 
 who is the wife of Robert T. Cassell, of Denver. 
 James Henry prepared for college in the Denver 
 schools and in 1875 entered the Northwestern 
 University at Evanston, 111., where he took a 
 Latin and scientific course. At the end of the 
 
 sophomore year he left school and began the study 
 of law in the office of Hon. G. G. Symes and 
 Westbrook S. Decker, of Denver, with whom he 
 remained until his admission to the bar in August, 
 1879. In 1 88 1 he was admitted to practice be- 
 fore the supreme court of the United States, be- 
 fore which august tribunal he conducted the suit 
 brought by his father against the state of Colorado, 
 to recover the capitol site. At that time he was 
 only twenty-one years of age. From 1883 to 
 1885 he held the office of city attorne}'. He is 
 well versed in corporation law, a knowledge that 
 has been worth much to him" in his practice. 
 During his service as counsel for the Denver Con- 
 solidated Tramway Company, he managed its im- 
 portant affairs in an admirable manner. 
 
 In the fall of 1890 Mr. Brown was nominated 
 for the legislature on the straight Republican ticket. 
 A split occurred in the party and an opposing 
 candidate was nominated. However, Mr. Brown 
 was elected by a fair majority, and took his seat 
 in January, 1891, as a member of the Eighth 
 General Assembly. He was the leader of the 
 combination of Republicans and Democrats, which 
 secured the enactment of important legislation and 
 removed the speaker, who had been placed in 
 power by the "machine" element. The governor 
 was at first inclined to sympathize with the other 
 side and ordered militia out against the reformers, 
 but consented to drop matters on a threat of im- 
 peachment. The case went to the supreme court 
 at the request of the governor and that body ren- 
 dered a decision sustaining the position of Mr. 
 Brown and his friends, and deciding that a ma- 
 jority of the house could electa new speaker as 
 often as it pleased. This is the only instance in 
 th2 history of the country where a precedent has 
 been established to remove the speaker at will of 
 the house. During the session Mr. Brown was 
 instrumental in the passage of a bill adopting the 
 Australian ballot law, also took an interest in the 
 fee and salary bill, registration law, and a bill 
 requiring the state treasurer to pay interest on 
 'the public funds into the state treasury. He 
 served as a member of the judiciary and other im- 
 portant legislative committees. This session 
 passed a law establishing the court of appeals for 
 Colorado, and one making the taxes payable in 
 two installments annually. He is general counsel 
 for the Barber Asphalt Paving Company for Colo- 
 rado, also for the Colorado Paving Company, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and represents other important legal interests. 
 In 189 1 he was a member of the board of directors 
 of the Denver chamber of commerce and board 
 of trade, and at present is a member of the com- 
 mittee on legal advice, in which capacity he has 
 served for a number of years. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Brown married Mary A. Clark, 
 who was born in Lyons, N. Y. , and graduated 
 from the Denver high school. Her father, Hon. 
 William Clark, was born and reared in New York 
 and served in the senate of that state, coming 
 from there in 1879 to Colorado, where he made 
 his home until he' was killed by accidentally fall- 
 ing from a railroad train in 1884 while returning 
 from the east. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one 
 daughter, Dorothy. 
 
 June 14, 1896, the degree of A. M. was con- 
 ferred upon Mr. Brown by the University of 
 Denver. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Royal Arcanum; also Denver Lodge No. 5, 
 A. F. & A. M., Denver Chapter No. 2,R.A. M., 
 Colorado Commandery No. i, K. T., the Thirty- 
 second Degree Consistory, Scottish Rite, and El 
 Jebel Temple, N. M. S., of which he is poten- 
 tate. He is a member of the Denver Club and 
 of the Denver Athletic Club, upon whose board of 
 directors he has served for a number of years, 
 during which time the club's building has 
 been erected. He was president of the club at 
 one time. He is captain of Troop C, First Squad- 
 ron Cavalry, N. G. C, also belongs to the Sons 
 of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial 
 Wars. In the State Bar Association he is an ac- 
 tive member. A friend of the silver cause, he 
 was a delegate to the national silver conven- 
 tion at St. Louis in July, 1897, and served as 
 chairman of the Colorado delegation. 
 
 n AMES M. IRWIN, real-estate and insurance 
 I agent at Brighton, was born in Pittsburg, 
 O Pa., September 5, 1828, a son of Dr. William 
 B. and Virlinda (McConnell) Irwin. His father, 
 who was a physician, removed from Pittsburg to 
 Washington County, Pa., in 1832 and there re- 
 mained until the son was about eleven years of 
 age, when he settled in New Lisbon, Columbiana 
 County, Ohio. Five years later he went to 
 Steubenville, Ohio, where the son was employed 
 in the finishing department of C. C. Wolcott's 
 woolen factory, having previously worked at all 
 
 branches of the business in New Lisbon from 
 the age of fourteen. At the age of eighteen he 
 began to clerk in a store at Steubenville. The 
 first month his salary was $10, the second $25 
 and the thiid $40. 
 
 Continuing in the store until March, 1849, Mr. 
 Irwin then fell a victim to the gold fever, and with 
 fifty-five others formed a joint stock company, 
 each member putting in $125. They chartered a 
 boat, called the "Germantown," in which they 
 went to St. Louis, and there chartered the "Mary 
 Blaine, ' ' sailing up the Missouri . Their wagons 
 had been made in Steubenville, and in Cincinnati 
 they had contracted for sea biscuit and pork. 
 Upon leaving the ship they bought sixty-five 
 yoke of oxen, which they put, in three or four 
 yokes, to their nineteen wagons. They followed 
 the old Oregon trail through Kansas and Nebras- 
 ka, striking the South Platte twelve miles below 
 Fort Kearney. In Kansas the company divided, 
 as they could not agree, and with four wagons 
 our subject and nine others traveled to Fort 
 Kearney, where they found two little log huts 
 and seven Irish soldiers. From the fort they 
 traveled up the South Platte to the present site 
 of Julesburg. Crossing the river, they drove to 
 the North Platte, which they followed about half 
 way to Fort Laramie. Building a boat of Cot- 
 tonwood trees by hewing out of them four canoes 
 they lashed these together in order to cross the 
 swollen stream. One man attempted to swim a 
 horse across and lost his life. Our subject and 
 two others were tipped out of the boat and had a 
 hard struggle for life. After crossing, they fol- 
 lowed the stream to Fort Laramie, where they 
 found a more extensive fort then at Kearney, al- 
 though there were no soldiers, as the fort belonged 
 to the American Fur Company, who had one 
 white man there to trade with Indians. They 
 traveled across the country to the Sweetwater and 
 followed that up to the base of the mountains. 
 They went through South Pass, about ten miles 
 wide, and a most beautiful place, affording a nat- 
 ural pass through the mountains. Although they 
 crossed near the center of the park it seemed as 
 though the mountains were perpendicular on each 
 side. They knew when they had passed the di- 
 vide by a large spring, which they called Pacific 
 Spring, and the waters of which flowed west. 
 
 Following the slope downward the party crossed 
 Green River, where they found Mormpps build- 
 
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 ing a boat. The Mormons wanted $10 for each 
 wagon they took across the river, but our party, 
 who were old river boys, saw that the Mormons 
 knew nothing about boat-building, so they en- 
 tered into an agreement to assist them with the 
 boat if they in turn would help them across the 
 river. In that way, after several days, they crossed 
 the river without any expense. There, too, they 
 saw the half-breed. Old Truckie, who had been 
 Fremont's guide in 1842, and from him they en- 
 deavored to get information, but all they could 
 
 learn was that they would see "h 1" before 
 
 they got to California. 
 
 The route lay north of Salt Lake City and the 
 Mormons before mentioned had come to the river 
 to establish a ferry for the purpose of making 
 monej- from the emigrants who wanted to cross 
 the river. The company traveled along Bear 
 River, which flows into Salt Lake. They followed 
 the curve of the river on the north side to Bear 
 Lake, and then turned almost due north to Fort 
 Hall, another trading post of the Amerjcan Fur 
 Compan)', where they found a white man and his 
 wife, the only whites they had seen, except one 
 man at Fort Laramie. Fort Hall was on Snake 
 River, which they followed down and then up a 
 creek, named by them Rattlesnake Creek, on ac- 
 count of the large number of rattlesnakes found 
 along its banks. Going south to the Humboldt, 
 they followed down that river to the point where 
 it sinks out of sight. Here a party of one hun- 
 dred tried unsuccessfully to rescue a white woman 
 said to be among the Indians. Then followed a 
 desert of seventy- two miles, where, on account of 
 the lack of water, many of their oxen fell dead in 
 their yokes. When they reached Truckee River, 
 two miles above Pyramid Lake, they found water 
 but no grass, so they drove down to Pyramid 
 Lake, where they found an abundance of grass 
 for the cattle. After a few days spent in recuper- 
 ating they started up the Truckee River. They 
 were forced to keep watch all the;. way along the 
 Humboldt River, as the Indians were numerous 
 and hostile. 
 
 From Pyramid Lake the men went up the 
 Truckee River, the west wall of which is the 
 divide of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They 
 were obliged to cross the canon twenty-eight 
 times before they reached the lake where the 
 Donner party had perished the year before from 
 hunger and cold. This party had come from 
 
 Missouri, under the command of Captain Donner 
 and had undertaken to winter in the canon. A 
 rescuing party from California came in time to 
 rescue a man, whom they found boiling the arm 
 of a woman, who had been the last to perish. 
 The rescued man was taken to California, where 
 he lived for several years. 
 
 By unyoking their cattle and driving them 
 around, our subject and his party reached the top 
 of the divide. There they rigged up a windlass, 
 by means of which they pulled the wagons up 
 the hill, which was too steep for oxen to climb, 
 even without a load. After many experiences 
 down the southern slope they came to Steep Hol- 
 low, at Bear River, where they camped for several 
 days and where they dug some gold, the first 
 they had found. During their stay at Steep Hol- 
 low, another company camping there hung a man 
 for stealing. He was hung in the evening and 
 the body left on the ground, under a blanket, for 
 burial the following morning. To the surprise 
 of the people, in the morning the body was gone. 
 Some months afterward our subject saw a man in 
 California whom he took to be the same man that 
 was hung. He asked him and the man acknowl- 
 edged it was so. On inquiry as to how he escaped 
 he said he had no recollection of his escape, but 
 remembered only that a rope was put around his 
 neck and when he came to himself he was miles 
 away from the place. 
 
 The company to which our subject belonged 
 reached their destination, with the loss of three, 
 one of whom had been drowned, another turned 
 back and the third accidentally shot himself. 
 The smaller company of ten prospected on the 
 way, at Steep Hollow, Grass Valley and on the 
 present site of Nevada Cit}\ They took what 
 gold they had with them to Sacramento, in Octo- 
 ber, 1849, and there twenty-seven of the original 
 fifty-six comprising the party were together for 
 one night. Afterward our subject and another 
 man went fort5'-five miles east of Sacramento to 
 Auburn, where for five months he worked for a 
 gentleman from Cleveland, Ohio, receiving $300 
 a month and board. At the expiration of the 
 five months he had saved $1 ,200. He bought a 
 team and began teaming, which he followed for 
 twenty months, employing a driver to assist him. 
 During a part of the time he worked a claim. It 
 was his custom to buy a load in Sacramento and 
 haul it to a mining camp, where be would sell it, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 taking gold-dust for his pay. He dealt in almost 
 every article of provision except wbiskej', which 
 he always refused to handle. 
 
 In January, 1853, our subject left California 
 and in company with four members of the origi- 
 nal company he journeyed via the Isthmus of 
 Panama, carrying his savings in gold-dust. After 
 crossing the Isthmus he took passage on the 
 steamer, "Ohio," which landed him in New York, 
 after a journey of forty-one days. From there he 
 went to Steubenville, Ohio, and a short time af- 
 terwards embarked in the mercantile business 
 with a brother-in-law, at Salineville, that state, 
 but five years later closed out the business, and 
 our subject bought another store. Selling this 
 out in 1858, he went to Newton, Jasper County, 
 Iowa, and bought a farm of eighty acres. He 
 had never had any experience as a farmer and 
 after a year decided he could do better elsewhere. 
 Renting the place he secured employment as a 
 clerk in Newton, working for one firm there for 
 three and one-half years. In the meantime he 
 learned the business of buying cattle and hogs. 
 After a time he secured employment in the office 
 of the recorder and treasurer, where he remained 
 for two years. Later he began to buy cattle on 
 commission, in which business he was successful, 
 and some of the money he made was invested in 
 an eighty-acre tract. When the war was at its 
 height, in the summer of 1863, he bought cattle 
 in Missouri and drove them to Iowa, selling them 
 there. In the spring of 1865 he had one hundred 
 and twenty -eight head of oxen. He and two 
 others yoked up the cattle and loaded twelve 
 wagons with flour, which they brought to Denver, 
 starting in June. As the season was wet the trip 
 was long and hard, and they were three mouths 
 on the way. They sold out at $18.50 per hun- 
 dred, having paid $3.75. They turned the cattle 
 out to pasture and returned to Jasper County, 
 he and his partner being in the first coach that 
 ever went over the Smoky Hill Route. Indians 
 having destroyed the provisions, they went for 
 seven days without anything to eat except .such 
 game as they killed on the way. At Monument 
 Station, now on the Kansas Pacific road, one of 
 the party was so frightened that he became in- 
 sane, ran away and was never heard of any 
 more. 
 
 Shortly after reaching home our subject heard 
 that the man whom he had put in charge of his 
 
 cattle was not doing right. The temperature was 
 twenty-eight degrees below zero and traveling 
 was anything but desirable. However, he took a 
 coach and started west. For eleven days and 
 nights he had no sleep except such as he could 
 snatch when sitting up in the coach. He found 
 the cattle all right, and, although he had expected 
 to be home in six weeks from the time he started, 
 he decided to remain and look after his interests. 
 In the spring he bought a ranch. Then, with 
 two men, he went to Missouri, bought cattle and 
 drove them to Jasper County, expecting soon to 
 return to Colorado, but the report of Indian 
 troubles caused them to continue in Iowa. In 1886 
 he came to Denver and two years later bought 
 eighty acres near Brighton. The laud was un- 
 improved, but he placed it under cultivation. 
 For five years or more he has engaged in the real- 
 estate business in Brighton. In 1856 he voted 
 for J. C. Fremont and has ever since been a 
 Republican. 
 
 Before our subject went west for the first time 
 he became acquainted with a young lady with 
 whom he corresponded for a time, but the letters 
 afterward miscarried and another Iowa boy re- 
 ceived them. He became familiar with the cir- 
 cumstances while in the west, so, on his return , 
 an explanation was had and an engagement an- 
 nounced. In August, 1854, he married Miss 
 Lucy Hart, of Carroll County, Ohio, daughter of 
 Cyrus W. and Susan (Ewing) Hart. She was 
 born on a farm in that county and received her 
 education in the public schools. One child 
 blesses their union, a son, Chatham, who was 
 born in Salineville, Columbiana County, Ohio, 
 received an excellent commercial education and 
 now follows farm pursuits. February 2, 1898, 
 he married Miss Eliza Dwyer, a teacher in the 
 schools of Denver. 
 
 HON. JOHN G. LILLEY. The farm where 
 Mr. Lilley now resides was purchased by 
 him in February, 1862, and at that time 
 consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, but by 
 subsequent purchase it was increased to three 
 hundred and eighty acres, and now, a portion of 
 the property having been sold, the acreage is 
 one hundred and fifty. The homestead being 
 situated adjacent to Littleton, Mr. Lilley is, 
 therefore, identified with the history of this place. 
 
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 to the development of which he has been a large 
 contributor. In 1868 he was one of the builders 
 of the Rough and Ready grist mill, which soon 
 acquired a reputation for producing the finest 
 flour in the state, and for years the products of 
 the mill were shipped as far east as Boston and 
 commanded a higher price on 'change than al- 
 most any other flour in the country. During the 
 time that he was connected with the mill it was 
 twice burned to the ground. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Lilley were John and Ann 
 (Buck) lyilley, natives of North Gillsboro, Eng- 
 land. About 1847 they removed from their farm 
 at North Gillsboro to Burkinhead, Cheshire, 
 England, where he engaged in the laundry busi- 
 ness until his death in 1886. His wife passed 
 away in 1883. Both were members of the Church 
 of England. Their son, John G.,was bom at 
 Gillsboro June 12, 1833, and after the family re- 
 moved to Cheshire he served for six years in the 
 Burkinhead market. At the age of twenty he 
 came to America, and after stopping for a few 
 days in Portland, Me., he went to New Bruns- 
 wick, where he stopped for ten days, and then 
 shipped for Ireland as steward on a vessel. After 
 a sojourn of six weeks in Ireland, while the ves- 
 sel was anchored in Cork, he returned home, 
 and for a year followed the butcher's trade. He 
 then crossed the ocean to Boston, and from there 
 went to LaCrosse, Wis., and engaged in busi- 
 ness as a butcher. He remained there from 1854 
 to i860 and then came to Colorado, settling in 
 Denver, and for some two years prospecting in 
 the mountains. He then bought the farm where 
 he has since resided. 
 
 While living in LaCrosse, in 1855, our subject 
 returned to England, and on Christmas day of 
 that year was there united in marriage to Miss 
 Louise Ann Hay, whose father was a civil en- 
 gineer. Ten children were born, of their union, 
 namely: William H., commissioner of Park 
 County, married and the father of two children; 
 Anna, deceased; Maggie, wife of Frank Soper, a 
 telegraph operator residing in Littleton; Fred; 
 Lucy, deceased; Harry, who is engaged in the 
 livery business at Littleton, and who married 
 Kate Bergen, by whom he has two children; 
 Marcia L. , wife of Charles Watlington, of Madi- 
 son, Ind. ; Josephine, a graduate of the Universi- 
 ty of Colorado, and now teaching in the public 
 schools of Littleton; Benjamin E., who married 
 
 Maggie Monahan, and assists his father in the 
 management of the home farm; and John G. , 
 who is engaged in the dairy business a Cripple 
 Creek. The wife and mother died May 7, 1895. 
 
 In politics Mr. LiHey is a silver Republican. 
 For some twenty-seven years he has been presi- 
 dent of the school board. In 1872 he was elected 
 to the legislature, in which he served one term, 
 and, being himself actively engaged in the cattle 
 business, he took an active part in all cattle 
 legislation. In 1879 he was elected count}^ com- 
 missioner and served efiiciently for a term of 
 three years. He was made captain of a com- 
 pany organized in 1864 for protection of life and 
 property from the Indians. In 1868 the com- 
 pany was called into active service to suppress 
 the Utes and Cheyennes, whose raids had proved 
 troublesome and disastrous to property, but after 
 a futile chase of a week or more the men were 
 ordered to return home. 
 
 As a member of the firm of Lilley & Coberley, 
 our subject was connected with the building of 
 the Kansas Pacific Railroad, having a contract to 
 deliver ties from the divide to the territory be- 
 tween here and Sheridan, and running forty 
 wagons, with seven yoke of oxen, to the trail. 
 In 1870 the Indians raided a herd of cattle be- 
 longing to them at the bend of the Sandy, for 
 the loss of which a claim of $32,000 is now be- 
 fore the government. 
 
 "DWARD B 01 COURT TROVILLION, 
 >) M. D., a successful physician of Gold Hill, 
 ^ Boulder County, where he has resided since 
 1889, was born in Golconda, Pope County, 111., 
 October 31, 1861, a son of Edward E. and Nancy 
 (Carr) Trovillion, natives respectively of Middle 
 Tennessee and Virginia. He is a descendant, in 
 the fifth generation, of an Englishman who first 
 settled in Massachusetts, but later removed to 
 Virginia. The latter had a sou, Edward, who 
 was born in the Old Dominion and bore a valiant 
 part in the Revolution. A town in Virginia was 
 named in his honor. 
 
 James Y., son of Edward, changed the spelling 
 of the family name from Trevelian to Trovillion. 
 He was born in Virginia and became an early 
 settler in Tennessee, where he was a tobacco 
 planter. During the Seminole and Florida wars, 
 in which he served, he was wounded, and after- 
 
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 ward was again wounded in the Black Hawk war. 
 His death occurred in 1881, when he was about 
 eighty years of age. His son, our subject's father, 
 took part in the Mexican war. After his return 
 from the front he married and removed to Illinois, 
 settling in Pope County, where he bought and 
 cleared one hundred and sixty acres of govern- 
 ment land. The tract is still owned by the 
 family. At the opening of the Civil war he 
 assisted in raising Company G, Sixth Illinois 
 Cavalry, and was made its first lieutenant, but in 
 the fall of 1864 was forced to resign his commis- 
 sion, owing to a serious attack of typhoid fever. 
 He was brought home, where he was confined to 
 his bed from that time until his death, in March, 
 1865, at the age of thirt3'-nine. He organized a 
 Baptist Church in Pope County and officiated as 
 its minister until his death. 
 
 Our subject's mother, who still resides at the 
 old homestead, was a granddaughter of a planter 
 of Virginia, who went there from the mountains 
 of Vermont. His father was one of the Green 
 Mountain boys, who bore so brave a part in the 
 Revolution. Our subject is the youngest of the 
 parental family of five sons and three daughters, 
 of whom three sons and one daughter are living. 
 Of the family he is the pnly one in the west. At 
 the age of seventeen he began to teach school in 
 Pope County, 111. , and continued in that occupa- 
 tion until 1882, when he became deputy county 
 clerk under his brother, Penn V. L,ater he entered 
 a medical college and after taking a three-year 
 regular course he graduated from Rush Medical 
 College in Chicago in 1886 as an M. D. Open- 
 ing an ofiice in Rosebud, 111., he engaged in 
 practice there until 1889, and meantime served 
 as secretary of the United States board of pension 
 examiners. Resigning that position, he came to 
 Colorado in 1889 and succeeded Dr. G. R. Wells, 
 an old college chum in Rush Medical College, as 
 physician at Gold Hill, where he has since re- 
 mained. His practice is not limited to this town, 
 but extends to Salina, Jamestown and in fact 
 throughout the entire county. In addition to his 
 practice, he is interested in mining and operates 
 a number of mines. For a short time he was en- 
 gaged in the drug business, but the pressure of 
 his large practice obliged him to give up the 
 other enterprise. 
 
 In Golcorida, 111., Dr. Trovillion married Miss 
 Carrie M. King, who was born in Rosebud. Her 
 
 father, William King, who is a very extensive 
 merchant and large real-estate owner in Rosebud, 
 was a member of the same company and regiment 
 (Company G, Sixth Illinois Cavalry) as our sub- 
 ject's father. Mrs. Trovillion was educated in 
 the Southern Illinois Normal at Carbondale and 
 is a lady of culture. Her two daughters are 
 Beatrice and Genevieve. 
 
 Politically the doctor is a Republican. In 1890 
 he was elected county coroner, but did not qualify, 
 not desiring the position. In 1894 he was a 
 candidate for representative and 1897 for county 
 clerk, but, belonging to the minority party, was 
 not elected. He was made a Mason in Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., to which he now 
 belongs. He is also identified with Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., Mount Sinai Com- 
 mandery No. 7, K. T.; Home Forum, for which 
 he is examiner; Sons of Veterans, having his 
 membership at Golconda, 111. ; and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen at Gold Hill, for 
 which he is medical examiner. A number of 
 insurance companies have also secured his serv- 
 ices as examiner. In religious belief he is a 
 Baptist. All matters pertaining to his profession 
 receive his thoughtful attention and he keeps 
 abreast with every development made in the 
 science of medicine. He is vice-president of the 
 Boulder County Medical Society and a member 
 of the State and American Medical Associations. 
 
 r"RANK DUUN, M. D., police surgeon for 
 ¥^ Denver and member of the state board of 
 I ^ medical examiners, and member of the 
 United States board of pension examiners, is one 
 of the successful and well-known physicians of 
 Denver, where he has his office at No. 1407 Lar- 
 imer street. In the general practice of medicine 
 he has gained the confidence of his patients and 
 has shown himself to be accurate in diagnosis and 
 skillful in treatment. In addition to his private 
 professional work he fills the office of member of 
 the state board of medical examiners, to which he 
 was appointed by Governor Adams in April, 
 1897; also the office of police surgeon, to which 
 he was appointed May i, 1897, by the fire and 
 police board. Dr. Miller being the other police 
 surgeon for the city. 
 
 In early days the paternal grandfather of our 
 subject removed from Virginia to Kentucky, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 where he spent the remainder of his days in the 
 cultivation of a plantation. Rev. Robert Dulin, 
 the doctor's father, was born in Christian County, 
 Ky., in 1815, and during the earlj' days of the 
 religious movement that called for a return to 
 apostolic methods, he associated himself with 
 Alexander Campbell and other men who gave 
 their lives to that work. For years he preached 
 in the Christian Church, yet for all his self-sacri- 
 ficing labors he refused to accept any salary, feel- 
 ing himself repaid if he led men and women into 
 the light of the Gospel. After selling his farm of 
 five hundred acres in Christian County, he lived 
 somewhat retired, enjoying the comforts his in- 
 dustry had rendered possible. In 1879 he went 
 to Sherman, Tex., and there died in 1895, aged 
 eighty years. 
 
 The mother of the doctor was Lucy P. Coffey, 
 who was born in Cumberland County, Ky., and 
 is now living in Sherman, Tex. Her father, Ben- 
 jamin Coffey, was a member of a Virginian family 
 of planters and a descendant of Revolutionary an- 
 cestry. Our subject was born in Hopkinsville, 
 Ky., and was one of thirteen children, ten of 
 whom attained mature years and eight are now 
 living. William was killed at Fort Donelson 
 when twenty-one years old. Smith was colonel 
 of a Confederate regiment and fell at Jackson, 
 Miss. The father had opposed the sons entering 
 the army, and for that reason Smith went to 
 Texas, where he enlisted as lieutenant and was 
 promoted to colonel on the field at Jackson. 
 There are four daughters and four sons now liv- 
 ing. John L. is a graduate of Jefferson Medical 
 College and a practicing physician; Charles S. is 
 proprietor of a newspaper in Sherman ; and Robert 
 R. has a store in that place. 
 
 After having gained the rudiments of his edu- 
 cation in the private schools of Hopkinsville, our 
 subject entered Princeton College at Princeton, 
 Ky. , where he studied some time. Removing to 
 Sherman, at the age of twenty-one he began to 
 study medicine under Dr. John L. Scott, and in 
 1880 entered the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons in St. Louis, from which he graduated in 
 1882 with the degree of M. D. Afterward he 
 was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in that 
 college and the hospital for a year, and then lo- 
 cated in Ashley, Washington County, 111., where 
 he engaged in practice nearly three years, but in 
 the fall of 1885 he removed to Garden City, Kan., 
 
 and from there in July, 1889, came to Denver. 
 In 1892-93 he was county physician. In the fall 
 of 1893, under the civil service law, he received 
 from President Cleveland the appointment of 
 member of the United States board of pension ex- 
 aminers, of which he is now the treasurer. Active 
 in the Democratic party, he has been a member 
 of the county committee and a delegate to county 
 and state conventions. He is connected with the 
 American Medical Society and the Denver and 
 Arapahoe County Medical Society. In religious 
 belief he is identified with the Central Christian 
 Church, of which Dr. Barton O. Aylesworth is 
 the pastor. He is physician to the Rocky Moun- 
 tain Camp, Woodmen of the World. In the 
 Knights of Pythias he is examining physician 
 and past officer, also three times in succession its 
 representative to the grand lodge and in that body 
 a member of the committee on credentials. In 
 Caledonia, Mo., he married Miss Fannie May 
 Carr, daughter of Dr. Munson Carr, an old set- 
 tler of Caledonia. They have one son, Robert 
 Carr Dulin. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM CLINTON CALHOUN. The 
 lAl b"^"^^ss career of Mr. Calhoun shows 
 Y V what may be accomplished b^' pluck' and 
 perseverance. When he came to Denver he had 
 no friends in the city and his means were limited; 
 but with the determination characteristic of him 
 he again embarked upon the unknown sea of 
 journalism. He established the Rocky Mountain 
 Sentinel, a weekly, which for some time he pub- 
 lished with indifferent success, but from the time, 
 in 1891, when he commenced to advertise in state 
 and eastern papers he was unceasingly prospered. 
 His legal advertisements began to be special 
 features of his paper, and the advertising patron- 
 age increased so rapidly that it absorbed from 
 three to eight pages of each issue. In order to 
 meet this increased patronage and also to make 
 his paper one of general interest to people through- 
 out the United States, he decided to establish an- 
 other publication, and so the Illustrated Weekly 
 was born. Phenomenal success attended the new 
 enterprise, and subscriptions poured in at times 
 at the rate of hundreds daily. Finding that his 
 advertisements were profitable, he continued 
 them in about one thousand newspapers and 
 magazines, and the returns have been such as 
 would convince the most skeptical of the profits 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 derived from the liberal use of printer's ink. The 
 Twin Weeklies of the Rockies, as the papers are 
 called, are national illustrated home and family 
 papers, with views of the finest scenery in Ameri- 
 ca and articles of interest alike to busy mothers, 
 school children, farmers and business men. 
 
 The Calhouns are an old southern family. 
 Garrett Calhoun, our subject's father, was born 
 in South Carolina, and in childhood, accompanied 
 by the other members of the family, he removed 
 to Ohio, where he died in 1864. His wife, Mary 
 E., was born in Middletown Valley, Md., and 
 was a daughter of Samuel Fisher, a native of 
 Hagerstown, that state, a successful farmer, and 
 an own cousin of ex-Governor CuUom, of Illinois. 
 He married Debbie Barnhiser, who is still living, 
 and is now eighty-five years of age. Her father, 
 John Barnhiser, was born in Pennsylvania and 
 served under Washington in the Revolution, of 
 which he was later a pensioner. He died at 
 Quincy, Pa., in June, 1849, aged one hundred 
 and six years. Samuel Fisher moved west to 
 Illinois, settling first in Knox County, but later 
 removing to I,ogan County, and some years later 
 to Kansas, where he died at eighty-five years. 
 His daughter, Mrs. Calhoun, resides in Lincoln 
 and is now sixty-three years of age. She is a 
 lady of noble character and culture, one who is 
 universally esteemed by her acquaintances. She 
 had only two children, and one of these, John F., 
 died at twelve years of age. 
 
 Near Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, the 
 subject of this sketch was born November 11, 
 1863. He was four years of age when the family 
 moved, by wagon, to Illinois, and his childhood 
 years were passed in Lincoln, 111. He can 
 scarcely remember when he first determined to be 
 a printer. He had a great desire to learn the 
 trade and at the age of thirteen he secured em- 
 ployment on a farm, saving his earnings until he 
 had $35, with which he bought a small printing 
 press and a couple of styles of type. He put it 
 up at home and, unaided, gained an understand- 
 ing of its intricacies. Without other aid than his 
 own quick intelligence, he learned to set type and 
 gained a knowledge of leads, slugs, fonts, ems, 
 cases, etc. When he was seventeen he began to 
 print a paper in Lincoln, and later he was em- 
 ployed on some of America's largest dailies, being 
 with the Chicago Thnes in 1883. 
 
 During the boom Mr. Calhoun took up a pre- 
 
 emption claim in Ford County, Kan., his land 
 being so far from the railroad that at first he was 
 obliged to walk thirty-six miles, to Dodge City, 
 for his mail. He proved up the claim, and the 
 next year homesteaded a tract in Grant County, 
 four miles from Zionville, and one mile from his 
 nearest neighbor. He built a sod house, with an 
 ox-team turned the first furrows in the soil, and 
 planted corn and vegetables with a spade. At 
 the same time he started the Zionville Sentinel, 
 walking four miles to town in the morning, and 
 returning in the evening. He also established 
 the Westola Wave in Morton County. When it 
 became known that the rainfall was too irregular 
 and insufficient to insure crops in the western 
 part of the state, the settlers, discouraged and 
 disheartened, turned their faces towards their old 
 homes in the east. Instead of following their ex- 
 ample, he determined to come still further west 
 and establish a paper in Denver. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Calhoun located in Colorado and 
 soon afterward he came to Denver, where he at 
 once embarked in the journalistic field. His 
 present large business has been built up solely 
 through advertising, and the two papers he 
 founded have grown to such proportions that they 
 are the wonder and admiration of all western 
 newspaper men. Their success is all the more 
 remarkable when it is considered that he began 
 with small capital and has had to contend with 
 the long continued period of depression and 
 accompanying hard times. In addition to his 
 newspapers he possesses large real-estate and 
 mining interests in the state. He was among the 
 very first to become interested in the Cripple 
 Creek gold fields in 1891, and still holds valuable 
 interests there. He has a comfortable residence, 
 recently erected, and presided over by his wife, 
 whom he married in Utah, in 1891, and who was 
 Miss Annie Orr, a native of Canada, the eldest 
 daughter of John Orr, all of whose ancestors re- 
 sided in Scotland. 
 
 Mr. Calhoun is a firm believer in the teachings 
 of Odd Fellowship, and belongs to Anchor Lodge 
 No. 66, Wauneta Rebekah Lodge No. 22, and 
 Silver State Encampment No. 34. He is also a 
 member of Kremlin Riga No. 6, Imperial Order 
 of Muscovites, and is also identified with the 
 several branches of the Masonic order, being 
 especially interested in the Knights Templar. 
 He takes great pride in the fact that he is a member 
 
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 of Colorado Commandery No. i, K.T. ; he is also a 
 member of Temple lyodge No. 84, A. F. & A. M. 
 One thing of which he may well be proud is the 
 fact that during his eventful life, no matter what 
 his hardships or temptations might be, he has 
 never drank a glass of any intoxicant, nor has he 
 contracted the use of tobacco in any form. He 
 is a friend of all measures for the benefit of the 
 people, and strives, both through the press and 
 by his personal influence, to promote the cause 
 of truth and justice. In addition to his other 
 connections he is identified with the Printers' 
 Union, the Mining Exchange and the Denver 
 Chamber of Commerce, and is interested in all 
 local associations tending toward the upbuilding 
 of the city and state. 
 
 ^ yiORITZ EARTH, well known as one of the 
 Y old settlers of Colorado and successful busi- 
 er ness men of Denver, was born in Dietz 
 Nassau, Germany, July 24, 1834. Until four- 
 teen years of age he attended the public schools 
 and gymnasium, after which he was employed in 
 the surveyor- general's office, intending to devote 
 himself to mining. However, on changing his 
 future plans by a resolve to locate in America, he 
 learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1852 he left 
 Havre on the sailing vessel "William Nelson," 
 and after a voyage of fifty -four days landed in 
 December in New Orleans, where he worked at 
 his trade for a few months. In May, with the 
 other members of the family, he came up the 
 Mississippi and located at Mascoutah, St. Clair 
 County, 111., but in 1854 removed to Parkville, 
 Platte County, Mo., then a populous and flourish- 
 ing steamboat landing town on the Missouri. 
 There he engaged in business with his brother 
 William, of whom mention is made on another 
 page. 
 
 The tide of emigration was turned toward 
 Colorado on account of the discovery of gold in 
 Pike's Peak. The two brothers in 1861 started 
 westward, with ox-teams, and after a month of 
 travel they reached California Gulch, near the 
 present site of Leadville, where they engaged at 
 their trade. When William returned to St. 
 Louis, Moritz went to Canon City, where he 
 started a general store, but the prospects were 
 poor there at that time, so he sold out and joined 
 his brother in the manufacture of boots and shoes 
 
 in St. Louis. During their sojourn in the mount- 
 ains they learned the requirements for footgear 
 suited to the place, and these they manufactured 
 for the Pike's Peak trade. In 1862 they again 
 made the overland trip to Colorado, this time 
 opening a shoe store in Montgomery. 
 
 In the spring of 1863 Mr. Barth went over the 
 Snowy Range to Gold Run, Colo., where he en- 
 gaged in business, but in the fall, the gold ex- 
 citement in Montana induced him to go to Vir- 
 ginia City, where he started in business, and 
 after three months there he returned to the States, 
 bought a large stock of goods and took them to 
 Montana. Selling out in the fall of 1865, he re- 
 turned to Denver, where he and his brother car- 
 ried on a large shoe business. In 1868 he took 
 charge of the branch houses established by the 
 firm in Salt Lake City and Corinne, Utah, but 
 later returned to Denver. The firm were the 
 first shoe manufacturers and also the pioneers in 
 the wholesale trade in Denver. After his return 
 to Denver in 1870, the two continued together 
 for many years, but finally their other interests 
 grew so large as to require their undivided atten- 
 tion and they sold the shoe business. 
 
 Investing heavily in Denver real estate in early 
 days, the property grew in value and in time 
 brought Mr. Barth a fortune. He built the old 
 Barth block, which was for a time occupied by the 
 City National Bank and is located at the corner of 
 Sixteenth and Lawrence streets. He has built 
 up and improved much of his property in Den- 
 ver and also owns ranches in difierent parts of 
 the state. In mining, too, he has met with suc- 
 cess, being interested in several companies. Up- 
 on the organization of the City National Bank he 
 became a stockholder and director, and remained 
 a director upon the consolidation of the institu- 
 tion with the American National Bank. He was 
 for some time a director in the Denver Tramway, 
 and the Denver Consolidated Tramway Company, 
 but finally sold his intere.st. In other corpora- 
 tions he has been a director. He was interested 
 in the organization of the Bank of San Juan at 
 Del Norte, of which he was a director for years. 
 He has contributed to religious enterprises, street 
 car lines, and other enterprises for the upbuilding 
 of Denver and the welfare of the people. For 
 ten years he served as treasurer of the State 
 School of Mines at Golden, during which time 
 the school added to its collection until it had the 
 
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 finest exhibit of minerals in the United States. 
 He is a member of the chamber of commerce 
 and board of trade and the mining exchange of 
 the chamber of commerce. In religious belief 
 he is a Presbyterian. Politically he is a Repub- 
 lican, but has never desired to hold oflBce, pre- 
 ferring to devote his attention to private afEairs. 
 For some years he was president of the Denver 
 Maennerchor, a musical society of the city. 
 
 GJAMUEL SCALES SMYTHE, M. D., dean 
 ?\ of the Denver Homeopathic Medical College 
 Cy/ and professor of gynecology, was one of the 
 active factors in the organization of this institu- 
 tion and has since been one of its mainsprings. 
 He is to the college in Denver what his old pre- 
 ceptor, Prof. R. Ludlam, is to Hahnemann Medi- 
 cal College of Chicago. Not only is he promi- 
 nent in college work, but he also justly occupies 
 a high place in the ranks of the homeopathic 
 medical fraternity throughout the west. In ad- 
 dition to his work as an instructor, he carries on 
 a private practice, having an office in the Cali- 
 fornia building. In October, 1894, he founded 
 the Critique, a medical journal devoted to the in- 
 terests of homeopathy in the western states, and 
 he has since been its editor, through his personal 
 efforts increasing the number of subscribers to 
 one thousand. Connected with the college there 
 is a homeopathic hospital and a school for nurses, 
 where young women are instructed in the impor- 
 tant duties pertaining to their occupation. 
 
 Dr. Smythe was born in Galena, 111., July 14, 
 1839, and is a son of Hon. Henry and Lucinda 
 (Scales) Smythe. His father, who was born and 
 reared in Great Barrington, Mass., came west in 
 young manhood, making the trip via the great 
 lakes. He located in Jo Daviess County, 111., 
 where he engaged in smelting lead ores. Though 
 he started in business without means, he suc- 
 ceeded in gaining a competency through his in- 
 dustrious efforts. From Jo Daviess he removed 
 to Carroll County, 111., where he engaged in 
 farming upon a large scale. Prominent in public 
 affairs, he was chosen by his .fellow -citizens to 
 represent his district in the state legislature, and 
 he also held a number of local offices. He was a 
 delegate to the state constitutional convention 
 and assisted in framing the constitution. Until 
 the disintegration of the Whig party he affiliated 
 
 with it, and he became a Republican on the or- 
 ganization of that party. He died in Denver, 
 aged eighty-four, while visiting his son in this 
 city. His wife, who was born near Charleston, 
 S. C, died on the old homestead, in Carroll 
 County, 111., in 1894, aged eighty-four. They 
 were the parents of five sons: Samuel S., Gar- 
 land, Franklin D. (a physician), Albert H. and 
 John Quincy. 
 
 Concerning the lineage of the Smythe family 
 it is known that they are of English extraction. 
 From that country they came to Massachusetts 
 and settled in Great Barrington. The doctor's 
 great-grandfather. Garland Smythe, was a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 In the schools of Galena and Chicago the sub- 
 ject of this sketch received his education. In 
 April, 1861, upon the call for seventy-five thou- 
 sand men , he enlisted in a company of dragoons 
 in Chicago and served for four months. Septem- 
 ber 20, 1861, he again enlisted in the service, be- 
 coming a member of Company F, First Illinois 
 Light Artillery. He entered as a private, but at 
 Springfield was made second lieutenant; became 
 first lieutenant September 2, 1862; senior first 
 lieutenant in 1863; and captain of Battery A, 
 First Illinois Light Artillery, July 10, 1864. He 
 participated in the engagements of the Army of 
 the Tennessee and was a brave and efficient offi- 
 cer, esteemed alike by superiors and subordinates. 
 In the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, he was 
 wounded, captured and held as prisoner of war. 
 For eight months he was confined in southern 
 prisons, being in Macon, Ga., Charleston and 
 Columbia, S. C. Twice he attempted to escape 
 and once was out for five days, but when hope of 
 rejoining the Union army seemed brightest, he 
 one night walked into a squad of Confederate 
 soldiers. He was finally paroled at Wilmington, 
 N. C, March i, 1865, and was mustered out on 
 the 2oth of March and honorably discharged from 
 the service. 
 
 The following is an extract from the official re- 
 port of Maj. Thomas D. Maurice of the campaign 
 from May i to September 8, 1864, and forwarded 
 to the father of Dr. Smythe while the latter lan- 
 guished in a southern prison. The surprise and 
 joy of his parents when the final news of his 
 parole reached them can be imagined: 
 
 "Lieutenant Smythe, Battery A, First Illi- 
 nois Artillery, fought until he was overpowered 
 
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 and yielded his four guns only after a sacrifice of 
 Lieutenant Raub and thirty men killed, wounded 
 and missing. He was captured." 
 
 "First Lieutenant Samuel S. Suiythe, Battery 
 F, First Illinois Artillery, commanding Battery 
 A, same regiment, in the battle of July 22 before 
 Atlanta was captured, while gallantly defending 
 his guns in the charge, and killed, while being 
 taken to the rear, by a stray bullet from our own 
 line advancing to re -capture his battery. A bet- 
 ter or braver officer never commanded the Ameri- 
 can soldier." (Signed) T. D. Maurice, major 
 and chief of artillery, Fifteenth Corps. 
 
 While a prisoner Lieutenant Smythe was one 
 of six hundred Union officers who were sent to 
 Charleston to prevent its bombardment by the 
 Federal gunboats, but all escaped injury. 
 
 After the war our subject went to Chicago, 
 where Prof. R. Ludlam became his medical precep- 
 tor in the Hahnemann Medical College, and he re- 
 mained in that institution until his graduation in 
 1868. Afterward he practiced in Chicago for two 
 years and then went to Lawrence, Kan. In 1 880 he 
 came to Denver, where he has since established a 
 large practice. He is a member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute of Homeopathy and the state and 
 city medical associations of homeopath ists. Fra- 
 ternally he is a Mason and belongs to the Dixon 
 commandery. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Smythe took place in 
 1870 and united him with MissLydia K. Ranson, 
 daughter of Thomas Ranson, of Carroll County, 
 111. She died in Denver in 1889, leaving an only 
 daughter, Grace E. 
 
 p QlLLlAM M. DAILEY. Prior to 1859 little 
 
 I A/ ^^^ known concerning Colorado, but the 
 Y Y discovery of gold led thousands of men, 
 during that year, to link their fortunes with this 
 then sparsel}' populated territory. Among a party 
 of young men who started west from Indiana was 
 the subject of this sketch, then twenty-three 
 years of age. The journey was a long and tedi- 
 ous one, but finally the mountains were reached, 
 and he at once began to work a claim in Russell 
 Gulch. In the fall of the same year he located 
 in Denver and followed the carpenter's trade, 
 which he had learned in Ohio. He erected a 
 number of buildings, one of which still stands, 
 near the Market street bridge over Cherry Creek, 
 
 and which was formerly occupied by Byers & 
 Dailey as the office of the Rocky Mountaiii News. 
 
 In the spring of i860 Mr. Dailey took up a 
 ranch claim on the Platte River (a tract now sub- 
 divided as the Lake Archer division) and there 
 engaged in farming until the disastrous flood of 
 1864 ruined his place. During the summer of 
 1864 he enlisted in Company A, Third Colorado 
 Infantry, and took part in the battle of Sand 
 Creek. On being mustered out he embarked in 
 mining and prospecting, but in the spring of 1867 
 began in the live-stock business with ex-Governor 
 John Evans, first locating in Pueblo County, but 
 later moving to Vance's Park on Bear Creek, and 
 from there to the Little Thompson in Larimer 
 County, thence to the Black Hills of Wyoming. 
 When cattle were at a very high price he sold 
 out, thus reaping a large profit. Afterward he 
 superintended the developing of mines on Rock 
 Creek, Gunnison County. During his last years, 
 as a partner of his brother, John L. Dailey, he 
 platted Dailey 's addition to the city and engaged 
 in the transfer and sale of real estate. 
 
 Prior to coming to Colorado Mr. Dailey's life 
 was not an eventful one. He was born near 
 Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, April 22, 1836, and 
 in 1848 accompanied the family to Allen County, 
 Ind., where he and his two brothers assisted in 
 clearing a farm out of the unbroken forest. He 
 received public school and academic advantages, 
 and for a time taught in order to gain funds 
 needed to extend his educational advantages. 
 His youth passed busily, but uneventfully, and 
 the first stirring event was the decision to remove 
 to Colorado and seek his fortune in a country 
 then so little known, but of which so much was 
 said. Nor did he ever have cause to regret his 
 decision. While assisting in the advancement of 
 Denver, at the same time he enhanced his own 
 prosperity, and at the time of his death, March 
 29, 1890, he left his family in comfortable circum- 
 stances. He was a man of genial disposition and 
 stirring energy, one whose industry was untiring 
 and whose determination conquered every ob- 
 stacle. 
 
 In Denver, March 10, 1880, Mr. Dailey mar- 
 ried Miss Nellie M. Tilton, who was born in 
 Hudson, Mich., thedaughter of Albert and Hattie 
 L. (Manley) Tilton, natives respectively of Michi- 
 gan and New York. Her paternal grandfather, 
 William Tilton, was a farmer in Michigan, and 
 
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 her maternal grandfather, Rev. W. E. Manley, a 
 Universalist minister, spent many years in New 
 York, also resided in Michigan a short time, and 
 died in Denver, where his daughter still lives. 
 Albert Tilton was a farmer, at Hudson, Mich. , but 
 removed from there to Lenawee County, where 
 he died in middle life. He left three children, 
 Mrs. Dailey, Mrs. Minnie C. Hartford, of Den- 
 ver, and Charles M. Tilton, of Berthoud, Colo. 
 Mrs. Dailey and her children, William A., Min- 
 nie M. and Walter J., reside at No. 329 Broad- 
 way, where she built a comfortable home some 
 years ago. She is a lady possessing many noble 
 attributes of character that win the warm friend- 
 ship of all with whom she associates in society. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM EARTH.- By far the largest 
 
 \ A / number of those who emigrate to the 
 V V United States land in New York and seek 
 employment in the east, where their lives are 
 drearily passed in the monotonous toil of factory 
 life, uucheered by comforts and unmarked by suc- 
 cess. Doubtless not a little of Mr. Barth's pros- 
 perity is due to the fact that he landed in New 
 Orleans on coming to America and soon found 
 himself on the frontier, where great opportunities 
 were offered to all who were willing to work for 
 them. He was a poor boy, so poor that when he 
 arrived in New Orleans he had only a nickel in 
 his possession and that he used in buying a loaf 
 of bread. Poverty, however, had no terrors for 
 him; he was young, strong, hopeful and indus- 
 trious, and believed money would come to any 
 man who was willing to work. When he settled 
 in Denver, a few days after the fire of May, 1863, 
 he rented a space between two buildings and, 
 roofing it over, began in the shoe business. His 
 quarters were so small that he could reach from 
 wall to wall, but after a few months, his trade 
 warranting a change, he moved to No. 232 
 F street (now Fifteenth street) and there he did 
 a successful business for many years. From the 
 first he had the greatest faith in the future of 
 Denver; he believed in it and his optimistic faith 
 encouraged others to make investments here. 
 When he came to this city there were no trees 
 for many miles, and he planted some of the 
 first ever set out here, by which he was enabled 
 to prove to others that trees could be made to 
 grow in this locality. He has been greatly inter- 
 
 ested in building up residence and business prop- 
 erty in Denver, having built a number of houses 
 and the block that bears his name, and his 
 activity has been instrumental in promoting the 
 growth and enhancing the commercial importance 
 of the place. 
 
 Mr. Barth was born in Dietz Nassau, Ger- 
 many, December 8, 1829, the son of George and 
 Mina (Grass) Barth. His father, who was a 
 shoemaker by trade, served in the Napoleonic 
 wars in Belgium in 1812-15; when he was an old 
 man our subject sent the money for his passage 
 to America and he died in Platte County, Mo. 
 The Grass family were from Oranian, of the Neth- 
 erlands, whence they fled to the Isle of Wight on 
 account of religious persecutions, and from that 
 isle they removed to Germany, where they be- 
 came very prominent. One member of this 
 family was a captain and two were lieutenants in 
 the German army and all three were killed in the 
 battle of Waterloo. Another representative of 
 that name was a general in Napoleon's army. 
 
 When a boy our subject learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade. In 1850 he took passage at 
 Antwerp and after sixty-eight days landed in 
 New Orleans, spending a short time there and 
 then going to Belleville, 111. A year later he 
 went to Glasgow, Mo. , in search of a brother, 
 Charles J., who had come to America two years 
 earlier than himself; on inquiry he learned that 
 the brother had started for California, but 
 perished on the plains. From Glasgow our sub- 
 ject went to Platte County, Mo., where he and 
 his brother Moritz started a boot and shoe busi- 
 ness. The people of this neighborhood were 
 strongly southern in sentiment and, at the break- 
 ing out of the war, he being a stanch Union 
 sympathizer, found residence there was no longer 
 congenial. For this reason he determined to 
 leave. 
 
 June 2, 1861, in company with his brother, 
 Mr. Barth crossed the Missouri River at Kansas 
 City with an ox-team, which was the extent of 
 his worldly possessions. After spending some 
 time in California Gulch (now Leadville) he re- 
 turned to St. Louis, Mo., and engaged in the 
 manufacture of nail boots for the Pike's Peak 
 trade. Returning to Colorado in 1862, he settled 
 in Fairplay and his brother- in Montgomery. 
 Later he spent a short time in Breckenridge and 
 May, 1863, located in Denver, where he engaged 
 
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 in manufacturing miners' footwear. His earnings 
 were invested in citj^ property, which as years 
 advanced increased in value and brought him 
 wealth. He was interested in contributing to 
 the Denver Pacific Railroad, the first railroad in 
 Denver, and later was active in the building of 
 the Denver & South Park Railroad, and the Den- 
 ver, Texas & Gulf Railroad, in each of which he 
 was a stockholder and director. Soon after the 
 organization of the City National Bank he began 
 to purchase stock, in time became one of its con- 
 trolling stockholders, and was made its president, 
 continuing at the head of that institution for ten 
 years. Since his retirement from the presidency 
 he has given his attention to the oversight of his 
 large interests. He is president and was the or- 
 ganizer of the D-T Cattle Company, which has 
 a large ranch on the Platte River in Morgan 
 County; is also interested in the cattle business 
 outside of the company, owns large tracts of lands 
 in different sections, and is interested in mining. 
 With Messrs. Moffat and Hathaway he started 
 the Bimetallic Bank in Cripple Creek, of which 
 he was president until he sold his interest in the 
 concern. He was married in Missouri to Miss 
 Charlotte Kaempfer, of Chicago, and has one son, 
 Charles J., of Denver. Politically he is a strong 
 Republican, served on the board of aldermen in 
 1867-68 and held other local offices in early days. 
 Fraternally he is a Mason. During the Vienna 
 Exposition he went to Europe and spent some 
 time travehng in Austria, Germany and Switzer- 
 land. 
 
 EHARLES BAI^DWIN LYMAN, M. D. 
 A position among the talented young phy- 
 sicians of Denver is held by Dr. Lyman, 
 who is professor in the department of fractures 
 and dislocations in the University of Denver 
 medical school; also visiting surgeon to St. Jo- 
 seph's and Arapahoe County Hospitals, consult- 
 ing surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, surgeon for 
 the Union Pacific Railroad and for the State 
 Home for Dependent Children. He also carries 
 on a private practice, and has an office in the 
 California building. 
 
 Dr. Lyman traces his ancestry back to the days 
 of William the Conqueror, when Sir Radulphus 
 Lambert assisted his famous commander in win- 
 ning the battle of Hastings. Fifteen generations 
 later his descendant, Elizabeth Lambert, became 
 
 the wife of Thomas Lyman during the reign of 
 Henry II. The twenty-sixth generation in line 
 of descent from the soldier at Hastings is repre- 
 sented by Dr. Lyman. The first of the name in 
 America was Richard Lyman, Sr. , who crossed 
 the ocean in 1631 from Bristol, England, taking 
 passage on the ship that bore to this country 
 Martha, wife of Gov. John Winthrop, and 
 Elliott, the celebrated apostle of the Indians of 
 the new world. He landed in Boston Novem- 
 ber 4 and at once made settlement in Charles- 
 ton, a suburban town. A Puritan himself, he 
 was in hearty sympathy with his fellow-pioneers, 
 and, like them, he labored for the development of 
 New England. In 1635 he accompanied a num- 
 ber of Puritans to Connecticut, and the next year 
 he was one of the original proprietors of the 
 Hartford Colony. The fact that he had two 
 servants and large estates indicates that he was a 
 man of means. He had two sons, John and 
 Richard, Jr., the former born in England in 1623. 
 
 In 1654 John Lyman settled at Northampton, 
 Mass., and there he resided until his death in 
 1690. During the famous fight with the Indians 
 at Deerfield he served as lieutenant of a company. 
 By his marriage to Dorcas, daughter of John 
 Plumb, he had a large family, of whom the 
 fourth son, Lieut. Benjamin Lyman, was born in 
 Northampton August 10, 1674, and died in 1723. 
 He was an extensive farmer, and being thrifty 
 and energetic he became well-to-do. Among his 
 ten children was a son, Benjamin, who was born 
 in Northampton in 1703 and moved to East- 
 hampton, the same county, in 1745, dying there 
 in 1762. His son, Lemuel, was born August 17, 
 1735, and in 1755 joined an expedition against 
 Crown Point, being wounded in the battle of 
 Lake George. He was a prominent citizen of 
 his community, and his death, in 1810, was 
 widely mourned. 
 
 Next in line of descent was Ahira Lyman, born 
 in 1770 and died in 1836. During his active life 
 he engaged in the mercantile business in East- 
 hampton. By his first wife, who was Sallie 
 Pomeroy, he had four children : Roland, Lemuel, 
 Ahiva and Quartus. His second wife was Lydia 
 Baldwin, of Westfield, Mass., and they had two 
 children, William and Jabez B. The latter was 
 bom April 18, 1819, was orphaned in infancy, 
 but, though deprived of parental care, was given 
 every advantage for obtaining a splendid educa- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tion. After graduating from Amherst College he 
 'went abroad, where he carried on his studies for 
 a number of years. On his return he became an 
 instructor of modern languages at Amherst. 
 Later he accepted a position as professor of math- 
 ematics in Oglethorpe University in Georgia, 
 where he remained until he went to Europe to 
 study medicine. About 1850 he returned to the 
 United States and opened an office in Chicago, 
 but soon afterward he removed to Rockford, 111., 
 where he engaged in professional practice until 
 1879. During his residence in that city he mar- 
 ried Miss Lucy DePue, an instructor in Rockford 
 Seminary, and the daughter of Ephraim DePue, 
 a pioneer wagon manufacturer of Chicago and 
 later a railroad contractor there. In 1879 Dr. 
 Lyman removed to Salem, Mass. , and there his 
 death occurred in May, 1893. He was a schol- 
 arly man, keen and quick, and with a depth of 
 intelligence that rendered him an authority upon 
 important matters. Naturally talented, his study 
 abroad added to his native gifts, and the two 
 qualities, talent and study, combined to make 
 him one of the most successful physicians of his 
 day and locality. For a time he was president 
 of the Rockford board of education. In his fam- 
 ily there were five children: Charles B., Mary, 
 Maud, George and Edith. 
 
 In Rockford, 111., Charles B. Lyman was born 
 September 20, 1863. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Rockford and Salem, and on the 
 completion of his literary studies turned his at- 
 tention to medicine. In 1882 he matriculated at 
 Harvard Medical College, Boston, from which he 
 graduated four years later. A few months after 
 graduating, in the fall of 1886, he came to Den- 
 ver, the inducement to locate here being the offer 
 of the position of surgeon for the Union Pacific 
 Railroad, which he has since held. He is a 
 member of the Denver and Arapahoe County 
 Medical Society, Denver Clinical and Pathologi- 
 cal Society, State and American Medical Asso- 
 ciations, and the National Academy of Railroad 
 Surgeons. In 1888 he was chosen professor of 
 physiology in the Denver University, medical de- 
 partment, and after two years in that position 
 was appointed assistant professor in the depart- 
 ment of fractures and dislocations, from which 
 he was promoted to the head of the department 
 in 1893. Since 1894 he has been surgeon to St. 
 Joseph's Hospital and Arapahoe County Hos- 
 
 pital. Politically he is a Republican, and fra- 
 ternally belongs to Oriental Lodge No. 87, A. F. 
 & A. M. He was united in marriage in Kansas 
 City with Mrs. Emma Arnold, daughter of 
 Thomas Vick Roy, of Denver. 
 
 HOMAS J. THOMPSON, who was elected 
 to the office of sheriff of Boulder County in 
 the fall of 1897, is a gentleman who enjoys 
 the esteem and hearty respect of all with whom 
 he has been associated, whether in business, po- 
 litical circles or in society. He was nominated 
 by the Populists to his present position; was 
 elected by a majority of six hundred and four- 
 teen votes, and entered upon the duties of his 
 office on New Year's day, 1898, succeeding 
 W. C. Dyer. In 1889 he was elected county 
 commissioner of Boulder County, and served in 
 that capacity for three years, being chairman of 
 the board during the last year of his term. For 
 years he has been verj' active in the interests of 
 the People's party, and has been a delegate to 
 county and state conventions, and a member of 
 the local committee. For about nine years he 
 has been engaged in general merchandising in 
 the town of Ward, in this county, and ser\'ed as 
 an alderman of that place for one term. He has 
 been very successful in his business ventures, 
 and is rated high among those with whom he 
 has commercial dealings. 
 
 The sherifTs father, Henry N. Thompson, is 
 a native of Ohio, but settled in Woodbury, Ind., 
 at an early day, becoming one of the pioneer 
 farmers of Hancock County. He remained in 
 that locality until 1869, when he turned his at- 
 tention to merchandising in McCordsville, Ind. 
 He is still a resident of that place, and is well 
 along in years, being now fourscore and four. 
 At one time he was a county commissioner, and 
 held other local positions of trust and honor. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Mc- 
 Laughlin, and whose birth had occurred in Ohio, 
 died in Indiana many years ago. She was the 
 mother often children, of whom three sons and 
 two daughters survive. A brother of our sub- 
 ject, J. S., is a resident of Alma, Colo. 
 
 T. J. Thompson was born in Woodbury, Han- 
 cock County, Ind., in 1851, being the fifth of his 
 parent's family. His education was obtained in 
 the public schools of Woodbury and McCords- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 211 
 
 ville. When he was about twenty years of age 
 he started out to make his own way in the world, 
 and in 187 1 came to Colorado. Since then he 
 has been more or less actively interested in min- 
 ing, and has been connected with the develop- 
 ment of the L,ittle Alice mine and others of equal 
 value. For two years he carried on a general 
 merchandising business at Gold Hill, and was 
 the first merchant in Ward. In his various un- 
 dertakings he has met with success in almost 
 every instance, and has at all times adhered to 
 strictly upright and praiseworthy methods. In 
 1892 he was initiated into the Masonic order in 
 Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of 
 Boulder. He also belongs to the Fraternal 
 Union at Ward, and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen at Gold Hill. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Thompson and Miss Het- 
 tie Lamson was solemnized in Boulder April 12, 
 1881. She is a daughter of John W. Lamson, 
 who removed from her birthplace in Iowa to this 
 .state in 1870, locating in Boulder County. The 
 two children born to our subject and wife are 
 Zelbert and Carl. 
 
 DWIN L. COATES, a successful business 
 ^ man of Boulder, was appointed postmaster 
 ^ by President Cleveland March 12, 1896, 
 and since then the business of the ofi5ce has in- 
 creased fifty per cent, from $10,000 to $15,000 
 and more. May i, 1898, a free delivery office 
 was established, which greatly facilitates the 
 work and promotes the convenience of the peo- 
 ple. Among the Democrats of the state, Mr. 
 Coates holds a prominent position. He is chair- 
 man of the county committee and a member of 
 the state central committee, also a member of the 
 executive committee of the latter. 
 
 Born in the city of New York, Mr. Coates is 
 a son of James S. and Anna (Watson) Coates, 
 natives respectively of Ireland and Scotland. 
 His father was the oldest son of the family and 
 when a young man crossed the ocean to New 
 York, where he engaged in the wholesale coal 
 business, being for forty years a member of the 
 firm of Jeremiah Skidmore & Sons and their suc- 
 cessors. He continued with that house until his 
 death, which occurred in 1893, at the age of 
 sixty-nine. His wife died in Boulder in 1897. 
 Their four children are named as follows: Foster, 
 at one time editor of the Mail and Express 
 
 of New York City; Arabella, wife of Dr. I. L. 
 Bond, of Boulder; Edwin L- ; and Wellington 
 W. , of Providence, R. I. The father was well 
 versed in veterinary surgery and assisted in the 
 organization of the Columbia Veterinary College 
 in New York, which was the first started in the 
 United States, and in it he served as a director. 
 The education of the subject of this sketch was 
 obtained in excellent schools. He was a student 
 in the grammar schools of New York, the Uni- 
 versity of the City of New York, and a boarding 
 school in New York. From his father he in- 
 herited a love of veterinary surgery, and he took 
 a course in the college, at the same time studying 
 in the College of Pharmacy and Chemistry. After 
 graduating he became a clerk with the United 
 States Mortgage Company and then with the 
 Marine Bank on Wall street. In 1885, when 
 twenty years of age, he came to Boulder, where 
 he was made a clerk for the Boulder National 
 Bank at its organization, but after three months 
 resigned and became deputy county clerk and re- 
 corder. At the close of the term he was ap- 
 pointed city clerk under a Republican administra- 
 tion, and before the expiration of his second 
 term he was appointed under-sheriff, continuing 
 two terms in that position. Meantime, about 
 1887, he started the agricultural implement busi- 
 ness, in which he has since engaged. In addi- 
 tion to this and his position as postmaster he is 
 a notary public and also represents a number of 
 the old companies in fire insuraxice. 
 
 (TOHN S. REID, one of the Colorado pioneers 
 I of i860, and now a resident of Ward, 
 (2/ Boulder County, was born in Ireland No- 
 vember 4, 1830, the son of James and Elizabeth 
 (Kyle) Reid. His father, who brought the 
 family to America, settled in Galena, 111., in 
 1845, Slid engaged in farming there until his 
 death, at seventy-five years. His wife also 
 passed away there. Three of their children are 
 living, but our subject is the only one in Colorado. 
 The family came to America from Derry to 
 Quebec, via the saiHng vessel "Alex Grant" and 
 from Quebec journeyed to Chicago by way of 
 the great lakes, going by wagon from Chicago to 
 Galena. The father bought a farm within one 
 and one-half miles of Galena, which he carried 
 on as long as he lived. Our .subject learned the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 trades of millwright and cabinet-maker. In 1850 
 he went up the Mississippi to St. Paul, which 
 then had less than one thousand people, while its 
 neighboring city, Minneapolis, w^as at that time 
 a part of the Fort Snelling reservation. With 
 J. C. Burbank, S. H. AxtellandS. R. Randolph, 
 he engaged in lumbering on the Platte River, 
 which they named. For some 3'ears he went 
 back and forth between St. Paul and Galena, 
 following the millwright's trade. He assisted in 
 building the Goodfrey mill, the first built on the 
 site of St. Anthony's Falls, and the first, except a 
 government mill, on the Minneapolis side. 
 
 When the excitement arose in regard to the 
 discovery of gold in Pike's Peak, Mr. Reid de- 
 termined to go to the mountains. He outfitted 
 with a mule team and journeyed by way of 
 Omaha and the Platte route. Starting April 16, 
 he reached his destination in the latter part of 
 May, going from Denver to Central City and 
 Blackhawk and after a few weeks proceeding to 
 Grass Valley Bar, or Montgomery Hill, below 
 Idaho Springs, where he began placer mining. 
 In the fall of that year (i860) he went up Fall 
 River and engaged in gold and silver mining. 
 In 1861 he was at Buckskin Joe. For several 
 years he went back and forth between different 
 mining camps. In 1867 he began prospecting, 
 mining and lumbering at Georgetown, where he 
 continued until the spring of 1876 and then came 
 to Boulder County, investing in Magnolia district. 
 Among the mines that he developed were Poor 
 Man's mine, Home Stake, Washington, Caledonia, 
 in all of which, and others, he is still interested. 
 He was one of the first miners at Iveadville in 
 1878 and invested in mines, in which he is still 
 interested. He also incorporated the Blind Tom 
 Company, which owns twenty acres, including 
 within its limits the Blind Tom, Frio and the Poor 
 Old Soldier mines. 
 
 Settling in Ward in June, 1888, Mr. Reid 
 began operating as manager for the Utica Mining 
 Company. He continued in that capacity until 
 he met with an unfortunate accident through 
 "butting the skip" (as miners term it). His 
 scalp and head were horribly wounded, but he 
 retained his hold and a man on the level stopped 
 the skip, into which he managed to crawl and 
 was taken to the top of the shaft. The stunning 
 blow did not cause him to lose consciousness and, 
 such was the vigor of his constitution, he re- 
 
 covered in a short time. To his perseverance is 
 largely due the success of the Utica mine. Dur- 
 ing the eight years he was with the company he 
 operated it judiciously and advantageously. He 
 used his influence in getting the company in- 
 terested in the construction of the flume from the 
 foot of Mount Audibon to Utica, whence it is 
 taken to Camp Talbot; and he superintended 
 the construction of the upper flume. He has 
 spent some time in developing the Humbolt 
 mine, in which he is part owner. 
 
 From the organization of the Republican 
 party Mr. Reid has voted its tickets. In 1856 
 he was a member of the Republican Club in 
 Illinois. He is identified with the Association of 
 Colorado Pioneers and can tell many an interest- 
 ing story of life in the early days in the mountain 
 regions of Colorado. In June, 1862, he married 
 Margaret Temple, their wedding being solemnized 
 on Fall River, Colo., where her family re- 
 sided. She died in April, 1876, at Georgetown, 
 this state. 
 
 REUEL BARTLETT, M. D., who has engaged 
 in the practice of medicine in Boulder since 
 1879, was born in Lamoine, Hancock County, 
 Me., April 6, 1851, a son of Hon. Hiram S. and 
 Phoebe (Whittaker) Bartlett, natives of the same 
 place as himself His paternal grandfather, John 
 Bartlett, was a descendant of English ancestors 
 and by occupation a farmer. The maternal grand- 
 father, Hazen Whittaker, was a native of Maine, 
 where he owned a farm, but he devoted his atten- 
 tion less to agriculture than to his trade of car- 
 pentering. 
 
 Reared upon a farm, Hiram S. Bartlett chose 
 agriculture for his occupation and continued in 
 that vocation until his death. However, he had 
 other important interests, both of a business 
 nature and in connection with political affairs. 
 Politically a Republican, he served as selectman, 
 member of the assembly and state senate, in all 
 of which connections he rendered efficient service 
 in behalf of the people of his district. At the^ 
 time of his death, in 1888, he was seventy-one 
 years of age, and his wife was the same age at 
 the time of her demise. Their five children still 
 survive. One son, David, is an attorney in North 
 Dakota; Henry remains on the old homestead; 
 Hazen is in California; and the daughter, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth (Bartlett) Small, lives in California. 
 
VERY REV. MODEST WIRTNER, O. S. B. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 215 
 
 When nineteen j'ears of age the subject of this 
 sketch secured a position as teacher of a school 
 in Maine. Two years later, in 1873, he removed 
 west to Michigan and taught school in Midland, 
 at the same time carrying on the study of medi- 
 cine. In 1876 he entered the medical department 
 of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 
 from which he graduated in March, 1879, with 
 the degree of M. D. He came to Colorado on the 
 31st day of the same month and settled in 
 Boulder, where he has since engaged in profes- 
 sional practice, his location being No. 1425 Pine 
 street. At one time he was a director in the 
 Boulder Electric Light Company and is still 
 interested in it. 
 
 In this city Dr. Bartlett married Miss Mary 
 Holbrook, who was born in Belleville, 111., a 
 daughter of John Holbrook. She was graduated 
 from the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, and 
 for a time engaged in teaching school. The four 
 children of Dr. and Mrs. Bartlett are: Myrl, 
 Chenery, Mary and Reuella. For years Dr. 
 Bartlett was a member of the school board and 
 during much of the time he served as secretary. 
 When he came here there was but one school- 
 house, and while he was a director the Mapleton, 
 Highland and Pine street schools were erected, 
 and many improvements introduced. For three 
 years he has held the office of county physician 
 and for a similar period served as city treasurer. 
 He was made a Mason in Midland, Mich., and is 
 now connected with Boulder Chapter No. 45, 
 A. F. & A. M., Boulder Chapter No. 7, R.A.M., 
 and Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T. His 
 wife is identified with the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union and the Presbyterian Church, 
 being a leading member of both organizations, 
 with which he is also in hearty sympathy. In 
 politics he is a silver Republican and profession- 
 ally holds membership in the Colorado State 
 Medical Society. 
 
 (3 ACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH, 
 ?\ of Boulder. The history of the Catholic 
 \zJ church in Boulder County dates back to an 
 early period in its history. The first priest to visit 
 the county and hold services was Rev. Joseph P. 
 Machebeuf, V. G. , who passed through here in 
 January, 1861, going north. On the 9th of that 
 month he celebrated mass at the Big Thompson 
 and after services baptized a child. This was the 
 6 
 
 first baptism in the then unorganized western 
 district of the territory of Nebraska. During the 
 first part of March he made another such visit. 
 January 7, 1862, Rev. John B. Raverdy passed 
 through the county going north. He celebrated 
 the sacrifice of mass at the residence of John De- 
 Baker, near the mouth of South Boulder Canon, 
 and after the services were over he baptized two 
 children. September 7, 1866, Rev. Joseph P. 
 Machebeuf, V. G. , held services at Boulder and 
 baptized two. These two priests ministered to 
 the spiritual wants of Catholics in this region, 
 coming here when opportunity offered. In Au- 
 gust, 1867, Father John D. Faure came here, and 
 from October, 1868, to May, 1869, Father John 
 O. Keefe served the people. From February, 
 1870, to September, 1872, Father Thomas Mc- 
 Grath was with the little band of worshipers; in 
 May, 187 1, Father Vincent de Vilas; from Sep- 
 tember, 1872, to November, 1873, Father Henry 
 Robinson was here. During that year a mission 
 was given here by Rev. J. M. Schneider, C. S. S. 
 R. , then followed Father Louis B. Lebouc from 
 March to September of that year, after which, 
 two months or more, Father J. H. Defouri, of 
 Kansas, ministered to the Catholics, and from Oc- 
 tober, 1873, to 1874, followed Father L- Duroc. 
 The two original promoters of the work came fre- 
 quently to preach to the people and perform the 
 ordinance of baptism. Then Father Hugh A. 
 Quigley lived in South Boulder for six months. 
 In the spring of 1868, Rev. J. DeBlieck accompan- 
 ied Father Machebeuf to South Boulder and for 
 several months made regular visits to his fellow 
 Belgian countrymen. 
 
 The first resident priest was Father Vincent 
 Reitmayr, who came here in August, 1875. From 
 here he attended the missions at South Boulder, 
 St. Vrain, Fort Collins, Longmont, Erie, Magno- 
 lia, Gold Hill, Caribou, etc. Like his predeces- 
 sors, he was obliged to hold services in private 
 houses, but later preached in the old city hall and 
 in Allen hall. In September, 1877, Father A. J. 
 Abel took charge of the mission. Through John 
 O'Brien he obtained the present site for a church 
 and at once began to build. On Christmas day 
 of 1877 he celebrated midnight mass at the Sacred 
 Heart of Mary Church, South Boulder, from 
 which point he rode to Erie and celebrated early 
 mass, finally arriving in Boulder, where he cele- 
 brated high mass for the first time in the new 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 Sacred Heart Church. The four walls of the 
 church were completed, a few rough boards laid 
 as a floor, while a few overhead kept out the hot 
 rays of the sun; though on that day the sun did 
 not shine, for the sky was cloudy and the wind 
 sharp and blustering. This building yet stands 
 and is 24x55 feet in dimensions. 
 
 In March, 188 1, Father J. W. Cummings be- 
 came pastor, but in December, 1882, on account 
 of illness. Father G. Raber was made his assistant, 
 and remained to June, 1883. In October, 1882, 
 Father Edmund Ley took charge. Father John 
 I. Riordan assisted him during January and Feb- 
 ruary, 1884. In April Rev. Lawrence M. Halton 
 became pastor, but in July resigned in favor of 
 Father Patrick J. Gleeson. Father G. F. Emblen 
 followed in June, 1885, and remained two months. 
 In August, 1885, Rev. Godfrey Raber took 
 charge, and in December, 1887, Rev. Rhaban 
 Gutraan, O. S. B., follovi'ed, and was assisted by 
 Father M. Wirtner, O. S. B., until February, 
 
 1888. March 23, 1889, Rev. Eusebius Geiger, 
 O. S. B., took charge of the congregation, and in 
 July was succeeded by Father Gutman, who had 
 previously held the pastorate. Very Rev. Placid 
 Pilz, O. S. B., took charge August 19, 1889, and 
 in July, 1890, he removed the partition in the 
 church, enlarging the interior by one-third if its 
 former size. In October, 1894, Father Henry 
 Hohman, O. S. B., became pastor, followed May 
 25, 1896, by Very Rev. Modest Wirtner, O. S. B., 
 the present pastor. The building when erected 
 was too large for the congregation, while now it 
 is not large enough for the large number of 
 Boulder Catholics. 
 
 Church history in Boulder County may be 
 summed up, in brief, as follows; 187 1, Coal Creek 
 visited by Father McGrath; 1875, Canfield visited 
 by Father Vincent; 1878, Caribou visited by 
 Father Abel; 1879, Loui-sburg (now Louisville) 
 visited by Fa^Jier Abel; 1880, Nederland, by 
 Father Abel; 1879, Fossil Creek, near Caribou, 
 and Salina, by Father Abel; 1885, Langford (also 
 called Marshall) by Father Godfrey Raber, also, 
 during the same year, Crisman and Gold Hill; 
 
 1889, Ward, by Rev. I. Geiger (however, there had 
 been a priest at Ward before, who between 1862- 
 66 had built the frame part of the church, but 
 the town went down and records of the time and 
 the priest were lost) ; 1890, Sunset, Father Hoh- 
 man; 1893, Brainerd's (or Talcott) Camp, by 
 
 Father Hohman; 1893, Copper Rock, by Father 
 Hohman; 1897, Springdale, by Very Rev. M. 
 Wirtner; 1897, Magnolia, by Father Cornelius 
 Enders, O. S. B., and 1898, Eldora, by Father 
 Wirtner. 
 
 In 1867 Rev. J. P. Machebeuf, V. G., bought 
 one hundred and sixty acres on South Boulder, 
 six miles south of Boulder and four miles north- 
 west of Louisville. In the fall of 1874 he built a 
 church on the land, the Sacred Heart of Mary, 
 which was 22x45 in dimensions. The cemetery 
 for the Catholics of the county is also at that 
 place. The list of priests in charge is the same as 
 that for Boulder, until 1888, when Father Elses- 
 ser, O. S. B., took charge. In October of that 
 year he was followed by Father Hohman, under 
 whose care it continued until May 25, 1896, when 
 Father Wirtner took this charge, in connection 
 with the one at Boulder, having charge until 
 February, 1898. From that time Rev. Michael 
 Rank, O. S. B., had charge until May 8, when 
 he gave it up, since which time the people at- 
 tend either at Boulder or Louisville. 
 
 The Catholic Church at Louisville was estab- 
 lished by Father Abel, and the church was built by 
 Rev. Godfrey Raber, who continued as priest in 
 charge until November, 1887, after which Father 
 Wirtner had the pastorate until February, 1888, 
 and then Rev. C. Elsesser succeeded to the pas- 
 torate. In October of the same year Father Hoh- 
 man took charge, and in July, 1889, he was fol- 
 lowed by Rev. R. Schrembs, O. S. B. Novem- 
 ber 4, 1892, Father Wirtner took charge, and 
 he was succeeded May 25, 1896, by Father B. 
 Staudigel. September 23, 1896, Rev. Macar 
 Schmidt became pastor. October 22, 1896, Fa- 
 ther Cornelius Enders became pastor and has con- 
 tinued to the present time. The original edifice 
 was enlarged in 1894 by Father Wirtner and was 
 made 24x80, with a sacristy adjoining 24x12. 
 
 St. Benedict's Church at Ward was built in 
 1897 by Father Cornelius Enders, who has been 
 in charge since. The Longmont Church was es- 
 tablished in 1882 and has since been in successful 
 operation. The Catholic Church in Boulder has 
 the various societies usually to be found in large 
 and progressive churches. There is, in con- 
 nection with the church, a school with fifty ad- 
 vanced pupils and fourteen teachers (Sisters of 
 Charity); the school is known as St. Gertrude's 
 Academy. The first superior of the priory of the 
 
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 Sacred Heart was Rev. R. Gutman, who was fol- 
 lowed bj' Rev. P. Pilz, and May 25, 1896, Father 
 Wirtner became prior. 
 
 Very Rev. Modest Wirtner, O. S. B., was born 
 in Carrolltowu, Cambria County, Pa., March 20, 
 1861. His father, John Wirtner, was born in 
 lyoretto, the same county, and was a son of John, 
 Sr. , a native of Germany and proprietor of a tan- 
 nery at Loretto. John, Jr., was a hardware mer- 
 chant in CarroUtown, a place named in honor of 
 Archbishop Carroll. He continued in business 
 there until he retired from active labors. He is now 
 living in St. Augustine, the same county. His 
 wife, Catherine, was born in Loretto, a daughter 
 of Augustine Farenbocher, a farmer who came to 
 this country from Germany. His descendants 
 have changed the spelling of the family name to 
 Farabach. John Wirtner, Jr. , and his wife had 
 eleven children and of these nine are still living. 
 They are all active in the Catholic Church and 
 one daughter is a Sister of Mercy in Pittsburg. 
 Two cousins are priests, O. S. B. 
 
 The education of Father Wirtner was carried 
 on for a time in St. Benedict's parish school. In 
 1873 he entered St. Vincent's College in West- 
 moreland County, Pa., and remained a student 
 there until his graduation, in the classical course, 
 in 1880. At the same time he entered the order 
 to which he now belongs, O. S. B., and July 11, 
 1 88 1, made a profession of his desire to enter the 
 priesthood. He took the degree of philosophy 
 and theology at St. Vincent's Seminary and 
 was ordained July 8, 1886, at St. Vincent's 
 Church by Bishop Phelan of Pittsburg. His 
 first pastorate was St. Mary's Church, Elk 
 Count}', Pa., where he remained as priest 
 until he came to Boulder, assisting here and 
 taking charge of the work in Louisville. De- 
 cember 23, 1887, ^'^s the date of his arrival in 
 Colorado, where he has since make his home. 
 On the 1 7th of February of the following year 
 he was placed in charge of the church at Breck- 
 enridge, Summit County, where he remained un- 
 til March, 1890, and then took a charge in Park 
 County. After Januarj', 1891, he combined the 
 work in Park and Summit Counties and remained 
 at the head of both until June 13, 1892, when he 
 went to Pueblo. Six months later he came to 
 Boulder. In November, 1892, he took charge of 
 the work at Louisville, Erie, Ward and mountain 
 missions. May 25, 1896, he was made pastor and 
 
 prior of Sacred Heart Church, where he has an 
 able assistant in Rev. Cornelius Enders. The 
 latter was born in Bavaria, December 7, 1866. 
 He received his education principally in St. Vin- 
 cent's College, where he took the regular classi- 
 cal course. July II, 1887, he entered the order. 
 He was ordained to the holy priesthood, Septem- 
 ber 23, 1892, in St. Vincent's Church, Bishop 
 Phelan of Pittsburg officiating, and was stationed 
 at Peru, HI., as an instructor in St. Bede Col- 
 lege. His next location was with St. Mary's 
 Church in Allegheny City, Pa. In October, 1896, 
 he came to Colorado, and has since been con- 
 nected with the churches of Boulder County. 
 
 SOL. S. K. HOOPER. The family repre- 
 sented by this leading citizen of Denver has 
 been identified with American history for 
 many generations. The lineage is traced through 
 D. M. Hooper (born in Durham, Me., Novem- 
 ber 3, 1802, died in New Albany, Ind., Sep- 
 tember 23, 1880) and Nehemiah Hooper (born 
 in Manchester Township, Essex County, Mass., 
 September 3, 1773, died in Durham, Me., May 
 10, 1840) to David Hooper (also a native of 
 Manchester Township, born June 9, 1745, died 
 in Freeport, Me., February 19, 1835). The last- 
 named was a descendant of English ancestors who 
 settled at Cape Ann about 1700. In 1763 he 
 married Rachel Story, a relative of the jurist of 
 that name. Some years later, at the opening of 
 the Revolution, he enlisted in the American army 
 and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, as 
 well as in numerous other memorable engage- 
 ments of the war. Upon being honorably dis- 
 charged he removed to Freeport, Me., where he 
 died at the age of eighty-nine years. 
 
 Col. Jonathan Mitchell, of whom our subject 
 is a lineal descendant, was born in Hiiigham, 
 Plymouth County, Mass., in 1723, and died at 
 North Yarmouth in 182 1. During the Revo- 
 lution he was colonel of a regiment in which 
 were his three sons. Some time before the old 
 French war, probably about 1748, he removed 
 from the southern part of Massachusetts to Yar- 
 mouth, Me. , where he and other settlers were so 
 troubled by Indians that they were obliged to 
 take refuge in the blockhouse. The trouble with 
 the savages continued during the French war 
 that closed in 1759. He died about 182 1, at the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 age of ninety-eight. His son, Bela Mitchell, was 
 born at North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, 
 Me., in 1752, and died at Martinique, West 
 Indies, in 1786. He, with other members of his 
 family, served in the Revolution, after which he 
 returned to his occupation as a sailor. While in 
 command of a vessel in the West India trade he 
 fell a victim to yellow fever in 1786. Some 
 years before this he married Susannah Sweat in 
 Newburyport, Mass., and during their residence 
 in Salisbury theii daughter, Susannah, was born, 
 in 1783. This child, after her father's death, 
 was adopted by her grandfather. Col. Jonathan 
 Mitchell, with whom she remained until her 
 marriage to Nehemiah Hooper. She died in 
 Durham, Me., in i860. Their son, Dummer 
 Mitchell Hooper, was born in Durham Novem- 
 ber 3, 1802, and died in New Albany, Ind., Sep- 
 tember 23, 1880. He married Annabella Brown, 
 who was born in Baltimore November 3, 18 13, 
 and became his wife November 3, 1832. She is 
 still living at the old homestead, where she has 
 resided since 1834. 
 
 The father of Mrs. Annabella Hooper was Ed- 
 ward Brown, a descendant of Absalom Barney, 
 brother of Commodore Barney, who removed 
 from Baltimore to Louisville and engaged in 
 freighting between that city and Pittsburg. Fi- 
 nally, in his old age and with ample means, he 
 retired to New Albany, where he died about 
 1857, at the age of eighty-four. He and three 
 brothers, Nicholas, George and a third whose 
 name is not known, took part in the war of 18 12 
 and he was in service for a time before that war. 
 George was a famous preacher and author, and 
 one of the most prominent ministers of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church in Ohio. Edward mar- 
 ried Miss Elizabeth Kemp, and it was her brother, 
 Shadracli Kemp, for whom our subject was named. 
 
 In 1850 D. M. Hooper went to California over- 
 land, with ox-teams outfitted at St. Joe. His 
 wagon box for the trip he built in the form of a 
 flat bottom boat, so that it might be used in cross- 
 ing streams. The idea was an excellent one. It 
 was used as a ferry boat on the Humboldt River 
 and reimbursed its owner for the entire expense 
 of the trip. From March to August he engaged 
 in the steamboat business, building boats for the 
 Sacramento River and being located in San 
 Francisco. In 1852 he returned to Indiana, 
 where he resumed boat building; and during the 
 
 same year he visited Maine for the first time 
 since boyhood. The boats that he built were 
 used for the steamboat trade, but the outbreak of 
 the Civil war rendered the business unprofitable 
 and he retired. He was prominent in local affairs, 
 also served for several terms as a member of the 
 city council and for two terms as mayor of New 
 Albany. While in Evansville, Ind., he was 
 taken sick and at once returned home, where he 
 died soon afterward. He was buried with 
 Masonic honors, having been a thirty-third 
 degree Mason and a member of that order from 
 boyhood. He is said to have been a fluent writer, 
 with an easy and graceful diction that made his 
 articles interesting. During early years he was 
 a Whig, and after the war he became a Repub- 
 lican, being the first member of that party ever 
 elected mayor of New Albany. 
 
 In the family of D. M. Hooper were seven chil- 
 dren. Susan E. resides in New Albany. Rev. 
 William Story Hooper was formerly president of 
 a college, later was pastor in the Methodist Epis- 
 copal denomination, then served as an elder, and 
 is now retired. David Edward Hooper, who 
 was in the United States navy, was engineer on 
 the famous "Queen of the West," that ran down 
 the "Vicksburg." After the ship was wrecked 
 he made his escape on a bale of cotton. On 
 retiring from the navy he became a contractor, 
 and is now superintendent of bridges for the 
 Louisville Southern Railroad, with headquarters 
 at Lawrenceburg, Ky. Shadrach Kemp was 
 next in order of birth; and j'ounger than he were 
 three daughters, Mrs. Frances Taylor, a widow 
 residing in New Albany; Mrs. Maria M. Smith, 
 who died in New Albany in 1875; and Eleanor M., 
 also of New Albany. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in New 
 Albany, Ind., May 30, 1841. In boyhood he 
 learned the steamboat blacksmith's trade, and in 
 the winter seasons, while learning his trade, he 
 ran the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from 1856 to 
 1 86 1, part of the time as cabin boy and later as 
 third engineer. In 1861, after having been for 
 a time on the steamer "John Briggs," he returned 
 home, and enlisted for three months' service in 
 the Twelfth Indiana Infantrj^, but the quota was 
 filled, and the company disbanded. He then en- 
 listed in Company E, Twenty-third Indiana 
 Infantry, June i, i86i, was mustered in as cor- 
 poral of the company July 29, 1861, received 
 
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 promotion to quartermaster-sergeant of the regi- 
 ment March i, 1863, and was commissioned first 
 heutenant and adjutant April 14, 1864. The 
 regiment was organized at New Albany July 
 27-29, i86i, and left for Paducah, Ky., August 
 15; it was attached to the Second Brigade, Third 
 Division, Army of Tennessee, February- March, 
 1862, Third Brigade, Third Division, to Novem- 
 ber, 1862; Third Brigade, Third Division, right 
 wing, Thirteenth Corps, Department of the Ten- 
 nessee, to January, 1863; First Brigade, Third Div- 
 ision, Seventeenth Corps, to September, 1863; 
 Third Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth 
 Corps, to February, 1864; First Brigade, Fourth 
 Division, Seventeenth Corps, to April, 1865. He 
 was on duty at Paducah until February, 1862, 
 meantime marching to the relief of Grant at Bel- 
 mont, Mo., November 2-12, 1861, was at Fort 
 Henry, Tenn., January 2-14, 1862, took part in the 
 operations against Fort Henry February 2-5, and 
 against Fort Donelson February 12-16; accom- 
 panied the expedition to Yellow Creek March 14- 
 17; took part in the battle of Shiloh April 6-7; the 
 advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 17- 
 May 30; was on duty at Purdy and Bolivar until 
 September, taking part in the action at the former 
 place August 30; marched to luka September 1-19; 
 took part in the battle of luka September 19-20; the 
 battle of Metamora, Hatchie's River, October 5; 
 the pursuit to Ripley October 6-12; Grant's Cen- 
 tral Mississippi campaign, operations on the Mis- 
 sissippi Central Railroad to Oxford and Grenada, 
 Miss., November 26, 1862, to January 10, 1863; 
 moved to Colliersville, Tenn. ; thence to Memphis, 
 Tenn., January 20, 1863, and to Lake Providence, 
 La., February 21; moved to Milliken's Bend 
 April 17; thence to Rowensburg and Grand Gulf 
 April 25-30; was at the battle of Port Gibson 
 May i; Bayou Pierrie May 2-3; Bruinsburg May 
 6; battle of Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14; 
 Champion Hills May 16, where his horse was 
 killed under him; Big Black River May 17; siege 
 of Vicksburg May i8-July 4; assault on Vicksburg 
 May 19-22; surrender of Vicksburg July 4 and on 
 duty there until February, 1864, took part in the 
 expedition to Monroe, La., August 28-Septeraber 
 I, 1863; the expedition to Canton October 12-22; 
 the Meridan campaign February 3-March 5, 
 1864; Baker's Creek February 5; Meridan Febru- 
 ary 14-15; Canton February 26; on veteran's fur- 
 lough until April; moved to Bird's Point, Mo., 
 
 thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., from there 
 in a short time marched back to Acworth, Ga. , 
 via Huntsville, Ala., May 5-June 8; operations 
 against Kenesaw Mountain June 9-30; Busby 
 Mountain June 15-17; Big Shanty June 1 7 ; assault 
 on Kenesaw Mountain June 27, where his horse 
 was killed; Nickajack Creek, July 6-8, where 
 another horse was killed; Chattahootchie River 
 July 8-12; Decatur July 19; Leggett's Bald Hill 
 July 20-21; battle of Atlanta July 22; siege of 
 Atlanta July 22-September 2; Ezra Chapel July 
 28; Utoy Creek August 5-7; was acting major of 
 the regiment from August 2, 1864, to April 5, 
 1865; took part in the flank movement on Jones- 
 boro, August 25-30, 1864; the battle of Jonesboro 
 (temporarily in command of regiment) August 
 31-September i; Lovejoy Station September 2-6; 
 pursued Hood into Alabama October 3-26; Snake 
 Creek Gap October 15; marched to the sea Nov- 
 ember 15-December 10; was at Oconee River 
 November 24-25; Ogeechee River December 7-9; 
 siege of Savannah December 10-21; campaign of 
 the Carolinas January- April, 1865; Pocolalego, 
 S. C, January 14-16; Salkeholdue Swamps 
 February 3-5; South Edisto River February 9; 
 North Edisto River February 12-13; Congaree 
 Creek February 15; Columbia February 16-17; 
 Cherow March 2-3; Fayetteville, N. C, March 
 1 1 ; battle of Bentonville March 19-2 1 ; occupation 
 of Goldsboro, March 23; was mustered out 
 April 5, 1865, at Goldsboro, N. C, and honor- 
 ably discharged. 
 
 It will thus be seen that the connection of 
 Colonel Hooper with the army was one reflecting 
 the highest credit upon his valor and patriotism. 
 From first to last he was unswerving in his alle- 
 giance to the Union, and on many a hard-fought 
 battlefield he proved the depth of his devotion to 
 his country. On returning home he resumed the 
 pursuits of civic life. January i, 1866, he began 
 his connection with the railroad, accepting a 
 position as clerk in the general ticket ofiice of 
 the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, 
 which he filled until March, 1867. He then be- 
 came terminal agent for the Union Pacific when 
 the end of its track was at North Platte. During 
 the Indian trouble in October, 1867, he was in 
 the government service, in charge of the Indian 
 supplies, which he distributed. He then returned 
 to New Albany and in November became chief 
 clerk in the general ticket ofiice of the Louis- 
 
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 ville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, but in 
 March of the following year was made general 
 passenger and ticket agent of the same road at 
 New Albany, retaining the position until Febru- 
 ary, 1873. December i, 1873, he was chosen 
 general passenger agent for the Fort Wayne, 
 Jackson & Saginaw (now a part of the Lake 
 Shore) Railroad. 
 
 As general passenger agent for the Hannibal 
 and St. Joe road Colonel Hooper established his 
 headquarters at Hannibal January i , 1880. Later 
 he removed his headquarters to Kansas City, 
 where he continued in the same capacity until 
 May, 1884. On the 15th of that month he ac- 
 cepted the position of general passenger agent 
 for the Central of Iowa, with which he remained 
 until June i, 1884, and then became general pas- 
 senger agent for the Denver & Rio Grande, his 
 present position. While connected with the 
 Hannibal & St. Joe road he was frequently in 
 Colorado and took such a liking to the state that 
 he was glad to accept a position in Denver. In 
 September, 1881, he was at Toltec Gorge, at the 
 time of the funeral of James A. Garfield and it 
 was through his effort that the Garfield monu- 
 ment was erected at this point. 
 
 At New Albany, Ind., May 17, 1865, Colonel 
 Hooper married Miss Nancy Welch, who was 
 born in Harrison County, Ind., a daughter of 
 Morgan Welch, who was a native of Virginia 
 and engaged in steamboat building in connection 
 with our subject's father. He married Lucy Sny- 
 der, of Kentucky; her mother was a Miss Gail, 
 whose father was a member of David Crockett's 
 band of Indian fighters. The father of Morgan 
 Welch was John Welch, who migrated west and 
 engaged in farming in Harrison County, Ind., 
 where he died at the age of about ninety years. 
 Colonel and Mrs. Hooper have a son and daugh- 
 ter: Charles E. , who is now an officer in the 
 regular army, and Jean, Mrs. Page, who is a poet 
 and author. 
 
 Colonel Hooper is a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic and in 1897 was colonel on the 
 staff of General Clarkson. Twice he has repre- 
 sented the Loyal Legion as delegate to national 
 conventions, and at this writing he is vice-com- 
 mander of the order. He has served for a term 
 as vice-president of the Colorado Society, Sons of 
 the Revolution. During the administration of 
 Governor A. W. Mclntire of Colorado, he was a 
 
 colonel on the latter' s staff. For many years he 
 has been identified with the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Colorado 
 board of the Omaha Exposition and was the ori- 
 ginator of the festival of the mountain and plain, 
 which has grown to be one of the most widely 
 known annual celebrations of the west. From 
 its inception he has been a leading director in the 
 festival and chairman of important committees. 
 He has taken an active interest in the work of the 
 National Association of General Ticket Agents 
 and years ago became recognized as one of the 
 foremost workers in advanced lines of passenger 
 and ticket business. 
 
 As an administrative officer in the special field 
 which he has filled for more than a quarter of a 
 century, Colonel Hooper has no superior. He 
 is essentially practical in his business methods 
 and his rare social qualities, keen discrimination 
 and broad acquaintance not only with the passen- 
 ger departments, but with men in general, have 
 peculiarly fitted him for the responsibilities he has 
 so ably filled. His military record, early in life, 
 demonstrated that quality of his character which 
 was destined to achieve for him success in any 
 avenue of life he might have selected. As a rail- 
 way officer he has the happy faculty of inspiring 
 his associates and assistants with his own zeal 
 and it is in a large measure due to this talent that 
 he occupies a place in the front rank of the gen- 
 eral passenger agents of the United States. 
 
 As intimated above, the ability of Colonel 
 Hooper has not been restricted to the railway 
 field. His talents have embraced a wider scope 
 and it is doubtful whether any citizen of Colorado 
 has contributed more, during the past fifteen 
 years, toward the material advancement of the 
 commonwealth than the subject of this sketch. 
 In the broad acceptation of the term, he is a pub- 
 lic-spirited citizen. He has been identified with 
 every large movement originating in Colorado 
 for the growth of the state that has been known 
 since his advent in the mountain region. His 
 work each year upon the board of the festival of 
 the mountain and plain is a monument to his 
 energy and keen business sagacity. No man has 
 done more than he in presenting to the world the 
 advantages of Colorado as a scenic and health- 
 giving resort. Fertile in resourses, never failing 
 in expedients, popular to a degree rarely known 
 by men even in positions of the largest responsi- 
 
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 bilit}^ generous, loyal to friends and patriotic to 
 country, the impression which he has made in 
 Colorado is one which his children can remember 
 with pride, a record which in future years will be 
 pointed out as worthy of honest emulation. In 
 the midst of a busy life, he has been an extensive 
 reader of history and poetry and a close student 
 of the philosophy of man's progress toward a 
 higher ideal in government, religion and all that 
 enhances the value of life. He is a fluent writer 
 and a conversationalist of the highest order. His 
 remarkable memory is stored with numberless 
 thrilling incidents and reminiscences, whose pre- 
 sentation in book form has many times been 
 urged upon him by his friends. It is to men of 
 his character that Colorado and the mountain 
 empire owe their prestige as the most promising 
 field for activity and enterprise on the continent. 
 
 n D. BEST, one of Denver's most extensive 
 I wholesale business men, came to this city in 
 (2/ 1872 and has since been closely identified 
 with the history of the place, having witnessed 
 its location as the capitol of the state and its 
 growth from a town of seven thousand inhabitants 
 to a city which is the metropolis of the central 
 west. With one exception he is, in point of 
 years of business activity, the oldest wholesale 
 grocery and grain dealer in the city. At first, 
 upon settling here, he had many obstacles to over- 
 come, many hardships to encounter. He began 
 in business, on a small scale, on Fifteenth street, 
 but about 1874 moved to Holiday street (now 
 Market j, where he carried on a commission busi- 
 ness for several years. Gradually, however, he 
 merged his business into a wholesale grocery 
 business, and during the '80s he opened a grain, 
 hay, flour and feed store on Nineteenth and Wyn- 
 koop streets, which he has since successfully 
 conducted. 
 
 The early days of our subject's life were spent 
 in Bath, Me., where he was brought into con- 
 tact with sea-faring men. Through the influence 
 of these associations he was led, at the age of 
 fifteen, to ship before the mast, and for many 
 years he followed the sea. After his first voyage 
 he sailed to Charleston, S. C, where the ship was 
 loaded with cotton for Liverpool, and at Liver- 
 pool the cotton was replaced by iron for New 
 Orleans, also carrying many passengers. On the 
 
 return trip, when in Providence channel, off 
 Florida coast, the vessel struck some hidden 
 rocks and went down. Over two hundred 
 passengers and two of the crew were lost. After 
 swimming about one mile, Mr. Best was picked up 
 by a boat and that in turn was picked up by a 
 brig, which took the men to New York. There 
 he shipped on the "John C. Calhoun," which, 
 about five days out from New York, was wrecked 
 in the Bay of Fuudy, but in this instance all 
 hands were saved. They were taken to St. 
 John's, and there he again secured employment 
 as a sailor, but the master of the sunken ship re- 
 fused to permit him to sail, insisting that he 
 return home to see his mother. He did this, re- 
 maining at home until November, when he ship- 
 ped on the ship "Clinton" for Turk's Island, 
 near Cuba. While there, the vessel was anchored 
 ofi" the coral reefs, but a fierce gale came up and 
 parted the chains, driving the ship on the reefs 
 and splitting it in two. All hands were rescued 
 and all went back home except our subject, who 
 was determined to go on to New Orleans. While 
 at Turk's Island his hammock was swung be- 
 tween two trees for a bed and home for three 
 weeks. After a time an English mail steamer 
 anchored oS" Turk's Island and as its quarter- 
 master had been washed overboard they were 
 glad to employ him for the position. He went 
 with the ship to the island of St. Thomas and 
 from there shipped back to the United States, 
 landing in Boston. 
 
 From that city he shipped before the mast on 
 the ship "Franconia" and went to New Orleans, 
 thence returning to Boston as second mate. 
 With the same vessel and in the capacity of mate 
 he again crossed the Gulf of Mexico, but on 
 reaching New Orleans he heard so much said 
 about the great west that he determined to go 
 thither. Accordingly he resigned his position 
 and took passage on a steamer bound up the 
 Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Peoria, thence 
 went by steam cars to Chicago, landing in that 
 city during the cholera epidemic. After paying 
 the hack fare to the hotel he had fifteen cents 
 left. The landlord kindly consented to wait for 
 his money, so he remained in the hotel for three 
 weeks, and then went on the lakes as sailor be- 
 tween Chicago and Buffalo in the grain trade. 
 In the autumn he was made second mate, a few 
 months later was promoted to be mate, and the 
 
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 promotion of his captain in the same summer 
 raised him to the command of the vessel. He 
 remained on the lakes until 1865, being master 
 of the best vessels then used, among them the 
 bark "Chicago Board of Trade." He was also 
 in the iron ore trade on Lake Superior. 
 
 In Buffalo, in i860, Mr. Best married Martha 
 C. Hooper, a former schoolmate of his in Bath, 
 Me. Not wishing to be away from his family 
 so much, in 1865 he decided to quit the lakes. 
 He then entered the ship chandler's business, 
 which he carried on until the great fire of 1871. 
 Being burned out at that time, with insurance 
 only in home companies, he lost everything. He 
 and his partner were chosen by the executive 
 committee of the relief board as distributors of 
 the relief funds, a work which kept him busy 
 until the spring of 1872, and he then resumed 
 his former business. However, his health had 
 been poor for some months and, believing that the 
 mountain region would relieve him of asthma, 
 from which he suffered, he sold out his Chicago 
 business and came to Denver. Here he has since 
 built up a profitable and important business in 
 grain and groceries. He has never sought 
 public office and is inclined to be independent in 
 politics, though leaning toward Republican 
 principles. He has two daughters, Mrs. Frank 
 H. Leonard and Mrs. J. McCuUough Terry, both 
 of whom reside in Denver; also two sons, Charles 
 F. and John W., both of whom are associated 
 with their father in his business. 
 
 •JJEORGEE. BERMONT, senior member of 
 __ the firm of Bermont & Zook, of Lafayette, 
 J Boulder County, is a wide-awake, progress- 
 ive business man, of extended experience and un- 
 doubted abihty. He assisted in establishing the 
 mercantile business of which he has since been 
 the leading spirit, and has succeeded in building 
 up a large and lucrative trade in this locality. 
 
 Mr. Bermont is a native of Chambersburg, Pa., 
 born November 19, 1866. He is one of six chil- 
 dren whose parents are George and Clara (Gil- 
 bert) Bermont. The others are : Harry K., a tan- 
 ner by trade and a resident of Chambersburg, Pa.; 
 John G.. engaged in mining in Creede, Colo.; 
 Alice, wife of William McCune, of Pennsylvania; 
 Lizzie, Mrs. James Leonard, of Jeannette, Pa.; 
 and Maggie, also a resident of Pennsylvania. 
 
 The senior Bermont was a native of Franklin 
 County, Pa., born about 1833. When he was old 
 enough he commenced learning the trade of a 
 brick-mason, and after he had mastered it he con- 
 tinued to follow the calling for many years. 
 After his family were grown and some of them 
 had gone to other homes and states, he settled 
 down upon a farm for a few years. Later he 
 again worked at his trade for a period, and then 
 retired with a comfortable competence. 
 
 The subject of this article received ordinary 
 school advantages and when he was sixteen years 
 of age he began earning his own living. For a 
 year he worked on a Pennsylvania farm, and 
 then, with his savings, paid his passage to north- 
 western Illinois, where he became the manager 
 of a large farm. He kept this position for four 
 years, by the end of which period he had a snug 
 little sum of money to serve him as capital in fu- 
 ture enterprises. Having determined to try his 
 luck in Colorado, he landed in the town of Yuma, 
 March 14, 1888, and soon bought a homestead 
 relinquishment, pre-empted it, and after proving 
 up on the place, went to Denver. There he passed 
 a couple of weeks and then went home on a five 
 weeks' visit to his relatives. 
 
 The attractions and business possibilities of 
 Colorado seemed of much greater weight than 
 those of his native state, and he soon returned to 
 Denver. He obtained a position with the whole- 
 sale lumber firm of Bingham & Tage, in their 
 order department, but in a short time he gave up 
 the place and came to Lafayette, where for a year 
 he operated a machine in one of the local mines. 
 The Ingersoll Rock Drill Company then engaged 
 him to assist in the erection of a plant at Thur- 
 ber, Tex., to which point he went, but the firm 
 soon desired him to go to Carbon Hill, Ala., to 
 work for them there, and he declined, as he did 
 not wish to live in the south. Therefore, resign- 
 ing his position, he returned to Lafayette, and 
 from that time until the spring of 189 1 he was 
 employed by the Hathaway Mercantile Company. 
 
 That house having been bought out by the 
 Lockwood Trading Company, young Bermont 
 was retained by them in his old position until he 
 resigned in May, 1892. When the new firm of 
 Noble & FauU was organized our subject entered 
 their employ and was with them for over a year. 
 In the autumn of 1893 he became an employe of 
 the Citizens' Coal and Coke Company. In the 
 
REV. RICHARD J. VAN VALKENBURG. 
 
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 spring of 1895 ^i^ opened an oflBce of his own, be- 
 coming agent for several reputable fire and life 
 insurance companies, and, at the same time, car- 
 ried on a real-estate business. He prospered in 
 this undertaking and at the end of fifteen months 
 organized the firm of Cannon & Bermont, mer- 
 chants. This partnership being dissolved the 
 following October, by our subject's purchasing 
 the interest of Mr. Cannon, he continued toman- 
 age the business alone until the spring of 1897, 
 when he took the agency for the McCormick ma- 
 chines and extended his territory and trade. It 
 soon became necessary that he should have some 
 one associated with him to look after a portion 
 of the growing business and accordingly the pres- 
 ent firm was formed March 16, 1898. They are 
 doing splendidly and reaching out for still greater 
 things in their various lines. Mr. Bermont votes 
 the Republican ticket, but is nothing of a politi- 
 cian or office-seeker. 
 
 September 28,1892, Mr. Bermont married Miss 
 Catherine Jones, of Youngstown, Ohio. She is 
 a daughter of J. W. and Catharine Jones, and is 
 a native of Ohio. 
 
 REV. RICHARD J. VAN VALKENBURG. 
 This worthy citizen of Erie, Weld County, 
 is known far and wide, and is deservedly 
 esteemed in religious, fraternal and civic circles. 
 In many of these varied fields of activity he has 
 been a pioneer to this region of Colorado, for, 
 among others, he established the first church and 
 Sunday-school in L,ongmont and in Erie, and 
 preached the first sermons delivered in these 
 towns. He is a charter member of Erie Lodge 
 No. 46, I. O. O. F. , and Garfield Lodge No. 50, 
 A. F. & A. M., both of which he assisted in 
 organizing. He also was prominent in the found- 
 ing of the first Good Templars Lodge in Erie and 
 in Longmont. For a quarter of a century he has 
 been the chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows, and for a number of years he served in 
 the same capacity in the Masonic grand lodge. 
 Having passed all the chairs in the subordinate 
 lodge and encampment, he represented this 
 jurisdiction at the sovereign grand lodge in 1874 
 as grand representative, and also served as grand 
 master of the grand lodge of Colorado, 
 I. O. O. F. 
 
 In tracing the history of Rev. R. J. Van Valk- 
 enburg, we find that he is a native of Schoharie 
 
 Countj', N. Y., his birth having occurred in the 
 village of Schoharie August 16, 1823. When he 
 was two years old he removed with his parents to 
 Owego, N. Y., and there grew to manhood. His 
 educational advantages were limited, as he was 
 enabled to attend the district school only in the 
 winter season, but he was of a studious disposi- 
 tion and determined to prepare himself for a wide 
 sphere of action. When he was fourteen he had 
 read the Bible through, and having saved his few 
 coins carefully, had invested in a new.spaper, 
 which he regularly perused. In 1841 he united 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church and was 
 soon thereafter licensed to preach. In 1850 he 
 became a member of the Wyoming conference, 
 and during the following fourteen years he 
 labored assiduously in the Master's vineyard in 
 Pennsylvania and New York. At that time he 
 possessed a fine voice, which talent he likewise 
 devoted to the cause, being often styled the 
 "sweet singer of Wyoming. ' ' 
 
 March i, 1843, Mr. Van Valkenburg married 
 Miss Cordelia Briggs, and now, after fifty-five 
 years of happy life together, they are yet spared 
 to share each other's joys and sorrows. Their 
 golden wedding anniversary celebration was one 
 of the great events of Erie of recent years. 
 Standing so high in the Odd Fellows' society, in 
 particular, the members desired to show their 
 appreciation of their brother and his estimable 
 wife in a manner that would be pleasantly re- 
 membered for years. No one of the six hundred 
 guests on that memorable occasion has often en- 
 joj'ed himself more thoroughly. Guests there 
 were, nor only from Erie and immediate vicinity, 
 but from Boulder, Longmont, Lafayette, Greeley, 
 Denver, and many other towns and cities of the 
 state, all here to do honor to their friend and 
 brother and his charming wife. The spacious 
 halls of the Odd Fellows were thrown open to the 
 public in the afternoon, and soon the rooms were 
 thronged with visitors, about one hundred of 
 whom arrived on a special train from Denver, 
 while many came on other trains and in carriages 
 from their homes in more or less distant places. 
 A banquet was served and a specially prepared 
 program was carried out, to the enjoyment of all. 
 One of the pleasant features of the evening was 
 the presentation of a golden purse with about 
 $200 in gold from the Odd Fellows' lodges of the 
 state, a beautiful silver water pitcher from the 
 
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 Lafayette Odd Fellows and citizens, and numer- 
 ous lovely articles of gold and silver. An unusual 
 and beautiful part of the ceremony was the chris- 
 tening of the fourth great-grandchild of the 
 worthy couple by the honored ancestor, Rev. 
 Van Valkenburg. The marriage of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Van Valkenburg was blessed with four chil- 
 dren, of whom the following survive: Martha J. , 
 wife of Edward C. Hughes, of Blackhawk, Gil- 
 pin County; Alice B., wife of Joseph R. Powell, 
 of Erie; and Mary E., wife of George A. Rice, of 
 Denver. Zalen B., the only son, died November 
 6, 1896, leaving a wife and six children. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Van Valkenburg have living fourteen 
 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 
 
 On a certain Sunday morning in 1862, when Rev. 
 Mr. Van Valkenburg was preaching at Montrose, 
 Pa. , a telegram from the governor, Mr. Curtin, was 
 handed him. It was a summons to arms, as it 
 was believed that the Confederates were about to 
 attack Harrisburg. The minister was not slow 
 to respond to the patriotic impulse, and, descend- 
 ing from the pulpit, he raised a company of one 
 hundred and eight men, who elected him as their 
 captain. They went to the front, but after the 
 battle of Antietam were returned home, being 
 held as a reserve force, however. Later they 
 were again called out, and the night before the 
 battle of Gettysburg were stationed near Carlisle, 
 Pa. Soon afterwards our subject volunteered 
 and went as chaplain of the pioneer corps, accom- 
 panying Sherman on his march through Georgia. 
 For two months he was very ill in the hospital 
 at Atlanta, and in 1865 he received an honorable 
 discharge at Nashville, Tenn. He returned 
 home to Owego, but in the following April, on 
 account of his continued poor health, he came to 
 Colorado. His present house was built by him, 
 and was the first one erected in Erie. Here he 
 held the first Sunday-school in the place, the 
 pupils, to the number of perhaps a dozen, assem- 
 bling in his dining-room to study the lesson. 
 He continued as superintendent of the same up to 
 two years ago. 
 
 Some indication of his general popularity and 
 the confidence which the public reposes in him 
 may be found in the fact of the numerous trust- 
 worthy oflBces which he has been called upon to 
 fill. He is now serving his twenty-fourth year 
 in the two positions of justice of the peace and 
 notary public, and is entering upon his eight- 
 
 eenth year as police magistrate. He has also 
 been postmaster, mayor, president of the school 
 board, and representative to the state legislature 
 from Weld County. He was initiated into Odd 
 Fellowship November 20, 1858, in Laceyville (Pa. ) 
 Lodge No. 2, and ten years later he identified 
 himself with Nevada Lodge No. 6, and still later 
 helped to establish Erie Lodge, to which he has 
 since belonged, and of which he has twice been 
 master. He joined Bald Mountain Encampment 
 No. 3 at its formation, and has been actively 
 interested in its growth. His long life has been 
 filled with kindly deeds toward all with whom 
 he has come into contact, and his earnest and sin- 
 cere friends are legion. 
 
 pQlLLIAM T. CORNWALL, secretary of 
 \ A / the Denver F'ire Clay Company, was born 
 YY in Mansfield, Ohio, October 21, 1842, a 
 son of Francis and Martha (Carr) Cornwall. 
 His father, who was born in Canada, of English 
 descent, settled in Ohio, where he met and mar- 
 ried Miss Carr, a native of New Jersey. They 
 settled in Richland County, and at one time he 
 owned the land on which the town of Crestline 
 now stands, but disposed of the property before it 
 had enhanced in value. 
 
 When our subject was a boy of thirteen his 
 father sold out in Richland County and removed 
 to Iowa, settling in Union County, and driving 
 thither with a team. He became the owner of a 
 large tract, which he cultivated into a valuable 
 farm and upon which he spent his remaining 
 years. He death occurred in 1869. Politically 
 he voted the Democratic ticket, and in religion 
 was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 in which he was an exhorter. Of his ten chil- 
 dren, William T. was next to the youngest. 
 
 Shortly after our subject graduated from high 
 school the Civil war began, and he at once 
 offered his services to the country, responding to 
 the first call for volunteers for three months and 
 enlisting in Colonel Edwards' regiment. After 
 his service of three months he again enlisted, be- 
 coming a member of Company B, Eighteenth 
 Iowa Infantry, in which he served from August, 
 1862, to August, 1865. He entered as a private 
 and was serving as a corporal at the time of his 
 discharge. Among the battles in which he par- 
 ticipated were those at Springfield, Mo., Camden, 
 
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 Ark., and Jenkin's Ferry, Ark. At Springfield 
 his right hand companion was twice shot down, 
 and the same thing happened at Poison Springs, 
 but he himself escaped. He was honorably dis- 
 charged August 5, 1865. 
 
 After having been mustered out of service at 
 Davenport, Iowa, Mr. Cornwall returned to 
 Richland County, Ohio, where he attended school 
 for a short time. Later he was a student in 
 Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Cleve- 
 land, from which he graduated in 1866. Return- 
 ing to Iowa, in 1869 he was elected county treas- 
 urer, on the Republican ticket, and at the expira- 
 tion of the term was again elected to the office. 
 During that time, in Washington County, he 
 married Miss Amy K. Bosworth, of Clay, Wash- 
 ington County, and a native of Keokuk, the 
 same state. On the expiration of his term of 
 office he engaged in raising and dealing in cattle, 
 in which he continued until 1879, and then 
 removed to Butte City, Mont., and with a 
 brother, who was a physician, established a hos- 
 pital, from which they cleared $3,000 each, the 
 first year. He then sold out, came to Denver and 
 in 1880 purchased an interest in his present busi- 
 ness. At first he was clerk, bookkeeper, salesman 
 and a general all-around man, with but one man 
 to assist in packing, but the business has grown 
 to such an extent that now twelve men are em- 
 ployed in the store and sixty in the factory. The 
 office of the company is at Nos. 1742-46 Champa 
 street, and the factory at Thirty-first and Blake 
 streets, the output being principally assayer's 
 materials. In the interests of the firm Mr. Corn- 
 wall has traveled extensively in this country and 
 also in British Columbia and Mexico. 
 
 While the office was on Larimer street, a very 
 serious accident occurred. In the compounding 
 of chemicals an explosion resulted that blew an 
 arm off his brother-in-law, J. O. Bosworth, re- 
 .sulting in his death. At the same time Mr. 
 Cornwall was blown through the plate glass 
 window, receiving severe injuries, but not losing 
 consciousness. In spite of his injuries, he was 
 able to direct the firemen in their work of sub- 
 duing the fire that resulted from the explosion 
 and that entailed a loss of $10,000. 
 
 Two children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cornwall, one of whom died at the age 
 of two. The other, Milo, was born in Afton, 
 Iowa, in Februarj', 1873, and received his educa- 
 
 tion in the State School of Mines, and the Mich- 
 igan State University at Ann Arbor, where he 
 graduated in the chemical department. He spent 
 one year in European travel and was a young 
 man of great promise. He took a delight in all 
 sports, was an enthusiastic wheelman and a good 
 shot. On the 26th of March, 1898, he went to 
 Longmont, to make preparations for the arrival 
 of his father and others who were to spend Sun- 
 day at Calkins Lake leased some two years before 
 by employes of the Denver Fire Clay Company. 
 He and John Peterson, who was employed by the 
 lessees of the lake to look after their property, 
 together rigged up a sailboat and started across 
 the lake, but when about half way over a sudden 
 gust of wind swept over the water, filling the sail 
 and overturning the boat, throwing both men into 
 the water. Peterson could not swim, but Corn- 
 wall was an excellent swimmer, and he helped 
 the other above the water, and lashed him to the 
 boat. His efforts to right the boat, however, 
 were unsuccessful. Meantime the storm steadily 
 increased and the cold became more intense. 
 People from the shore watched the unfortunate 
 men, but were powerless to help them, and finally 
 a gust of wind stronger than the others whirled 
 the boat around broadside against the wind, and 
 the two men slowly sank beneath the water. 
 Two hours after the boat was capsized it struck 
 the shore, and the men were pulled out dead. In 
 the evening of the same day Mr. Cornwall 
 reached the lake, to be met with the terrible news 
 of the accident. The body was brought to Den- 
 ver, then taken to Chicago for cremation. The 
 sympathies of the entire city were with the 
 bereaved father and mother, thus suddenly bereft 
 of their only child, in whose happiness their own 
 lives had been so closely bound. 
 
 61 VERY GALLUP. Of the citizens of Den- 
 U ver who have contributed to its advance- 
 I I ment and have assisted in making it one of 
 the most attractive cities in our country to-day, 
 conspicuous mention belongs to Avery Gallup. 
 A love for the beautiful, both in nature and art, 
 was always one of his prominent characteristics. 
 He selected for his home a block on South Broad- 
 way, where in 1879 he bought twenty acres of 
 land. Two years later he built a residence in 
 the midst of a large lawn adorned with velvety 
 
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 grass, rare shrubs and the choicest shade trees. 
 Nor was his taste for the harmonious and beauti- 
 ful apparent only in his own home, but it was 
 evidenced throughout the city, in the beautiful 
 shade trees in courthouse and school grounds, 
 in the parks of the city and the lawns of private 
 residences. 
 
 Love of travel was another of Mr. Gallup 's 
 prominent characteristics. Three times he made 
 a tour of Europe, and he also traveled extensive- 
 ly through the United States, Mexico and the 
 borders of Alaska. His powers of close obser- 
 vation and graceful narrative made his trips a 
 pleasure to his acquaintances, by reason of the 
 interesting descriptions of peoples and govern- 
 ments that he .sent to friends and the papers. In 
 1869, when twenty-two years of age, he made a 
 tour of the Orient and Palestine, and when re- 
 turning home he stopped in Paris, then the scene 
 of great excitement incident to the Franco-Prus- 
 sian war. While there the German siege began, 
 and he was among the last to leave the capital. 
 
 Mr. Gallup was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to 
 Jabesh and Louisa (Avery) Gallup, native of 
 New London, Conn. His father, who served in 
 the war of 18 12, engaged in the nursery business 
 throughout his active life, and on retiring came 
 to Denver' where he built two business blocks, 
 one of which still bears the family name. He died 
 in this city at the age of eighty-four. In 1871 
 our subject married Miss Charlotte R. Pierce and 
 immediately afterward they came to Denver, 
 where he bought a dollar store on Fifteenth 
 street and embarked in the fancy goods business. 
 On the erection of a block by his father, he re- 
 moved his store to that location. Unfortunately 
 he had bought when prices were high and a sub- 
 sequent decline forced him to make an assign- 
 ment. Prior to this he had started a small 
 greenhouse, and after the failure he turned his 
 attention to the florist's business. Later he 
 bought twenty acres on the south side and laid 
 them out in blocks, which he sold, being the first 
 one to sell lots in this part of the city. For his 
 twenty acres he paid $160 per acre. Two years 
 later he bought an adjoining tract of twenty 
 acres for $400 per acre, all of which he laid out in 
 blocks and lots. He platted four additions to the 
 city, viz.: South Broadway, Broadway High- 
 lands, Bryn Mawr and Lake View. 
 
 About 1887 Mr. Gallup became interested in 
 
 the Orchard Mesa Land Company at Grand 
 Junction, of which he was made president, and 
 which owned eight hundred acres, three hundred 
 planted to fruit trees. After his death the com- 
 pany was dissolved. He bought and platted 
 seven hundred and twenty acres at Littleton, 
 comprising the addition called Windermere, and 
 one-half of this he sold in tracts of five and ten 
 acres, while the remainder he devoted to his own 
 use. The whole tract is under cultivation, and 
 seventy-five acres are in orchards. In 1887 he 
 and his wife started greenhouses at University 
 Park, where they leased fifteen acres. Ten acres 
 are planted to nursery products and there are 
 twelve greenhouses. At Littleton ten acres are 
 planted to a nursery, and irrigation has been 
 provided for this tract, as it has also for the land 
 in University Park. He also owned one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of farm land ten miles north- 
 east of Denver. 
 
 While Mr. Gallup gave his attention largely 
 to real-estate matters, his wife carried on the 
 greenhouses, the harmonious management and 
 excellent business qualifications of both result- 
 ing in financial success. For years he was 
 a trustee of South Denver, which he and three 
 others succeeded in having incorporated, and 
 from which the same citizens cleared out the dis- 
 reputable rum shops. He also assisted in secur- 
 ing water works for the place, having the Holly 
 system at Petersburg. Through his efibrts the 
 cable street railroad was secured, the people fur- 
 nishing $50,000 bonds, and he also put up a 
 bonus to secure the electric road. South Denver 
 was finally incorporated with the city of Denver, 
 in whose municipality its own was merged. In 
 1893 he added to his possessions by the purchase 
 of forty acres near Petersburg. 
 
 Mr. Gallup continued actively engaged in 
 real-estate transactions until his death, January 
 4, 1894. He left two sons. Perry C. and Rock- 
 well L- The elder son graduated from Mohegan 
 Lake Military School, and has since engaged in 
 landscape gardening; he superintended the lay- 
 ing-out of the forty-acre park around Mineral 
 Palace in Pueblo. Politically the family adheres 
 to Republican principles. While taking an in- 
 terest in public affairs, Mr. Gallup's happiest 
 hours were spent in the midst of his family in 
 their comfortable home, where his many friends 
 were always given a hospitable welcome. He 
 
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 was a man of genial manners, with the elegance 
 of ph3-sique and the intellectual appearance that 
 made him a noticeable figure in any gathering. 
 
 yyjRS. C. R. GALLUP. One of the suc- 
 Y cessful business organizations in Denver is 
 (9 the Gallup Floral Company, Incorporated, 
 of which Mrs. C. R. Gallup is president, Perry 
 Gallup secretary, and W. R. Long treasurer. 
 The success of this enterprise is due almost 
 wholly to the indefatigable efforts of the presi- 
 dent, who is a lady of great business capabilities 
 and remarkable quickness of insight, qualities 
 which are essential to the prosperous manage- 
 ment of any project. The original site of the 
 greenhouses was Champa and Twenty - first 
 streets, where she owned nine lots, but in 1880 she 
 began to build greenhouses on South Broadway 
 and Alameda avenue and two years later located 
 on this spot, the present site of the greenhouses, 
 while the uptown office is at Fifteenth and Cleve- 
 land place. In all of this work, which of course 
 required the expenditure of much time and 
 thought, she was ably assisted by her husband, 
 whose devotion to the business and interest in its 
 success were not less than her own. 
 
 Mrs. Gallup is a descendant of an old Con- 
 necticut family that was identified with the early 
 history of that state. Her father. Rev. George 
 E. Pierce, D. D., the son of Capt. Samuel Pierce, 
 was born in Southbury, Conn., graduated from 
 Yale College, and for a time was pastor of a Con- 
 gregational Church in Connecticut, but later 
 went to Ohio, where for twenty years he was 
 president of the Western Reserve College. The 
 last ten years of his life were spent in retirement 
 from active work, and he passed away when 
 seventy-eight years of age. His wife, Susan, was 
 born in Connecticut, being the daughter of Martin 
 Rockwell, who was a large steel manufacturer 
 near Winsted. In the family of Dr. and Mrs. 
 Pierce there were four sons and one daughter, 
 namely: Charles R. Pierce, M. D. , who was a 
 surgeon in the Union army and died during the 
 war; John, who for eight years was surveyor- 
 gei;eral of Colorado and Utah and is still living 
 in Denver; George, a surveyor, who died in Den- 
 ver; Henry, also a surveyor; and Charlotte R., 
 of this sketch. 
 
 In 1866 our subject visited Denver, making 
 
 the trip westward by stage from Atchison. Three 
 years later she again made a visit to Colorado, 
 this time coming to Denver b}' stage from Chey- 
 enne. In 1 87 1 she was married in her native 
 county of Summit, Ohio, to Avery Gallup, and 
 immediately afterward came to Denver, where 
 she has since resided. After engaging in busi- 
 ness for a time, her husband started a greenhouse, 
 and since his death she has ably managed the 
 business. Her attention is given almost wholly 
 to the details of her business affairs, and aside 
 from her identification with the Woman's Club 
 and honorary membership in Clio Club and 
 Round Table she is not connected with any so- 
 cieties or organizations. She makes shipments 
 from her greenhouses through the state and also 
 to Wyoming. She continues to manage the 
 Gallup estate, carrying out the plans adopted by 
 her husband. The connection of herself and hus- 
 band with the real-estate interests of Denver has 
 been fruitful of most excellent results and they 
 may rightly be classed among the pioneers in the 
 development of south side property. 
 
 QORBREY J. HOOVER is one of the honored 
 I C citizens of Denver, where he has made his 
 V^ home for a quarter of a century. He is a 
 Colorado pioneer, and both he and his estimable 
 wife participated in the severe hardships and pri- 
 vations which were the common lot of the settlers 
 of the early '60s. During the dark days of the 
 war he gave his services to his country, while his 
 faithful wife struggled bravelj' to care for the 
 little home and family. They were both made of 
 sterling metal, that which faces every difficulty 
 and overcomes it, and knows no such word as 
 "fail." Their history is well worth perusing, 
 as it contains much that is worthy of highest 
 praise and emulation. 
 
 On the paternal side, Mr. Hoover is of German 
 extraction, as his grandfather, Jacob Hoover, was 
 a native of that country, his birth having oc- 
 curred on the banks of the Rhine. He came to 
 America in colonial days, and one of his fellow- 
 passengers on the ship was the lady whom he 
 afterwards married. They deferred their marriage 
 until the young man had fought a few battles for 
 the land of his adoption, for he at once entered 
 the army, the war of the Revolution being then 
 in progress. He was wounded in the knee and 
 
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 during the rest of his life he suffered with a stiff 
 leg. Settling in Pennsylvania, he engaged in 
 the milling business after the war, and finally 
 sold out, taking in payment continental money 
 and therefore losing a large share of the amount. 
 He settled in Greensbury, Pa. , and there became 
 quite an extensive property owner. He died in 
 1832. 
 
 Our subject's parents were Frederick and Mary 
 A. (Duckett) Hoover. The father, born in 1793, 
 in Pennsylvania, served in the war of 1812 and 
 took part in the Florida campaign. He removed 
 to Ohio, and passed his last years in Butler 
 County. 
 
 Born in Westmoreland County, Pa., November 
 ID, 18 18, C. J. Hoover was a lad of thirteen 
 j'ears when the family located in Butler County, 
 Ohio, and there he grew to manhood. He mar- 
 ried Huldah Rowe, a native of that county, Au- 
 gust 25, 1840. Their happy life together ex- 
 tended over a period of nearly fifty-six years, 
 when the loved wife and mother was summoned 
 to the better land. Her death occurred on Christ- 
 mas day, 1896. One or two instances of her 
 patience, heroism and bravery will be cited in 
 this sketch. The young couple had been mar- 
 ried but a few years when Mr. Hoover concluded 
 that he had better learn a trade, that he might 
 have something to fall back upon. The wife 
 came to the rescue, supporting the little family, 
 which included three children, by raising garden 
 products, weaving, sewing, etc., during the years 
 of his apprenticeship. He had chosen to be a 
 blacksmith, and later found employment as a 
 journeyman for several years. 
 
 The first westward move made by Mr. Hoover 
 was when he went to Cincinnati, in 1846. There 
 he worked in boiler shops some three years, but 
 was obliged to give it up on account of an afiiic- 
 tion which kept him from the free use of his 
 right arm. In 1854 he went to Monroe County, 
 Iowa, where he entered eighty acres from the 
 government. Here the family resided up to 1856, 
 when they removed to Cass County, Neb., to 
 another tract of homesteaded land. In 1858 Mr. 
 Hoover drove through to Colorado with a mule 
 team, accompanying a party of fifteen persons, 
 and making the trip in twenty-seven days. His 
 wife, a true and brave frontierswoman as ever 
 lived, brought the family in the spring of the 
 next year. She drove cows which were harnessed 
 
 to wagons and with her were seven of the chil- 
 dren. There was not a man in the party, as the 
 eldest son, a youth of nineteen, who started with 
 them, was pursuaded to turn back and continue 
 working for his former employer. About a year 
 later, however, he came to Colorado also. 
 
 For several months after he arrived in this 
 state Mr. Hoover was employed by the Arapahoe 
 Indians, to kill game for them. When his family 
 came he was appointed deputy sheriff and located 
 at Central City, where he built the first house. 
 It was at the mouth of Eureka Gulch, and was 
 later occupied by the government authorities for 
 a long time. Then followed the army service of 
 our subject, of which mention will be made fur- 
 ther on. Upon his return he engaged in farming 
 in the vicinity of Longmont, about four miles 
 west of that place, and there he remained until 
 1873, since which year he has lived in Denver. 
 He has made many successful investments here 
 and owns a ranch of eighty acres in El Paso 
 County, also a home at No. 3138 Gallup street. 
 
 In 1846 Mr. Hoover enlisted in Butler County, 
 Ohio, in Company H, Second Ohio Infantry, for 
 service in the war with Mexico. He was stationed 
 with the army at the mouth of the Rio Grande, 
 was in the battles of Brownsville and Brazos and 
 afterward was on detail duty. In the spring of 
 1862 he settled his family in St. Vrain and offered 
 his services to the Union, first going back to 
 Iowa, where he became a member of Company 
 H, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry. He was in the 
 army three years and seventeen days, fighting in 
 the ranks, and taking part in the battles of 
 Helena, Little Rock, Arkadelphia, Spoonville, 
 Camden, Saline River and Mobile. At Fort Span- 
 ish he was struck on the head and was unconscious 
 for a short time. He was within the enemy's 
 lines and had to crawl back very cautiously, hid- 
 ing in a hollow tree and creeping stealthily back 
 to his own command. The next day, however, 
 he was on hand to charge on Fort Blakeley. His 
 son, Frederick M.,had enlisted in the Fourth 
 Iowa Infantry in 1861, and had been honorably 
 discharged after the battle of Pea Ridge, owing 
 to the fact that he had been wounded in the en- 
 gagement, a ball having passed through his bodj', 
 emerging near the spinal column. The plucky 
 soldier made a brave fight for life, and when 
 partly recovered re-enlisted in the Fifth Illinois 
 Cavalry. After a long and gallant service he was 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 killed at Fort Spanish, April 9, 1865. He was 
 buried there, and though our subject fought in 
 the same battle he did not learn of his son's death 
 for nearly two weeks. He then had the grav^e 
 pointed out to him by a Confederate oiEcer, and 
 built a little fence around it. The battle of 
 Whistler, which has been called the last one of 
 the war, was participated in by Mr. Hoover, his 
 colonel at that time being Thomas H. Benton, Jr. 
 He belongs to Crocker Post No. 81, G. A. R. 
 He receives two small pensions from the govern- 
 ment, in view of the fact that he nobly fought for 
 his country's honor and life in two wars and gave 
 one of his sons to die that the Union might be 
 preserved. 
 
 In 1840 Mr. Hoover voted for W. H. Harrison 
 and in 1856 for Fremont. He has always been a 
 loyal Republican. He was justice of the peace 
 for six years and also filled other township offices. 
 Since 1865 he has held membership with the 
 Christian Church. Of his eleven children eight 
 grew to maturity. Margaret Jane married Elisha 
 Perkins, now of Evans, Weld County; Mary A. 
 first married John Harmon and is now Mrs. Van 
 Camp; Harriet I^., of Kansas City, is the wife of 
 Peter D. Anderson; Harriet M. is deceased; Re- 
 becca, Mrs. Calvin Searl, lives in Page County, 
 Iowa; Jacob C. , of El Paso County, married 
 Miss Kate Monahan. 
 
 WALTER J. SWAYZE. In 1890 Mr. Swayze 
 purchased twenty acres in Prospect Valley, 
 six miles from Denver. The land was 
 rough and hilly , and the investment was considered 
 an unprofitable and unwise one by his friends; 
 but time proved the wisdom of his course. He 
 "grubbed" out the .sage brush and cleared a spot 
 on which he built a house. Working with a will, 
 he cleared the land and leveled the hills; and a 
 short time later he sold ten acres for almost as 
 much as he had paid for the entire tract. Since 
 the organization of the Hog Growers and Hog 
 Breeders' Association he has been its treasurer. 
 He has made a specialty of the breeding and fat- 
 tening of hogs for the market, selling from $3,000 
 to $4,000 per annum. 
 
 In Niagara Falls, Canada, Mr. Swayze was 
 born June 14, 1852, the youngest of ten children 
 of Caleb and Lydia (Hopkins) Swayze, and one 
 of the seven survivors of the family. The others 
 
 are as follows: Elizabeth A., wife of John Bouk, 
 a farmer in Canada; Mary, wife of Aughton 
 Holditch, afarmer near Welland, Canada; Lydia, 
 wife of Aaron Higgins; a lock tender near Allen- 
 burg, Canada; Richard, a farmer near Allenburg; 
 and Minerva, who married Frederick Willford, a 
 farmer near Welland. 
 
 The father of this family was born in Canada 
 in 1803. After his marriage he settled on land 
 near Toronto, where he cleared a farm; but after 
 a short time he moved to Monck County, where he 
 spent some years, and from there went to Welland. 
 In that place his death occurred when he was 
 eighty-eight years of age. His father, Richard 
 Swayze, was born in Canada and grew to man- 
 hood on a farm; he made agriculture his life occu- 
 pation and followed it until he died, when eighty- 
 eight. His father, Isaac, was born in New Jersey 
 and when a boy accompanied his parents to Can- 
 ada, where he afterward engaged in farming. 
 The family is descended from one of four brothers 
 who came to America from England in an early 
 day and settled in New Jersey. 
 
 In youth our subject was apprenticed to the 
 brick-layer's trade, which he followed for three 
 years as an apprentice and for one year as a jour- 
 neyman. He arrived in Denver April 7, 1880, 
 and secured employment at his trade, which he 
 followed here for five years. Afterward he en- 
 gaged in gardening on Prospect avenue, and then 
 turned his attention to the breeding of hogs and 
 their fattening for the market. In politics he is 
 a Democrat . He is a friend of the public schools 
 and for the past five years has served as a mem- 
 ber of the school board. 
 
 In Castle Rock, Colo., May 25, 1881, Mr. 
 Swayze married Miss Sarah Day, who was born 
 in Roanoke, Mo., August 22, 1858. She was 
 taken by her parents to Glasgow, Mo., where she 
 was reared and educated, graduating from Pritch- 
 ett School Institute of that place. In 1879 she 
 came to Colorado, where she taught for two years 
 and at the expiration of that time was married to 
 Mr. Swayze. They became the parents of six 
 children, Clarence, Berenice, May, Carrie, Harry 
 and Myrtle, all of whom are at home. The wife 
 and mother passed away August 12, 1897, at the 
 age of thirty-eight years, eleven months and 
 twelve days. She was a woman of noble charac- 
 ter and lovely disposition, whose many kindly 
 deeds and unselfish acts endeared her to her family 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and friends. Mr. Swayze was married a second 
 time, his wife being Laura Calkins, a daughter 
 of Charles and Mary Ann (Houck) Calkins, na- 
 tives of Canada. 
 
 Cjj HARLES M. CAMPBELL, who for a quar- 
 I C ter of a century has made his home in Colo- 
 \J rado, has been an able member of the 
 Boulder County bar for about sixteen years of 
 this period. As a citizen he has been very pro- 
 gressive and in accord with the spirit of the age, 
 ready to do all within his power to further im- 
 provements and develop the resources of this 
 locality. He has been county attorney, deputy 
 district attorney and city attorney, and has been 
 the president of the school board and has held 
 other public positions of trust and honor. His 
 interest in educational matters is unbounded, 
 and in 1865 he was superintendent of schools 
 here for a term. 
 
 As the name implies, the Campbells are of old 
 Scotch stock. The early records of the family 
 relate that four brothers came to the United 
 States during a religious persecution in the 
 North of Ireland and Scotland. One of the 
 number settled in New York state, while the 
 others located on large Virginia plantations. 
 The great-grandfather of our subject, Maj. 
 Arthur Campbell, a native of Virginia, was a 
 hero of the Revolutionary war, and his son, Col. 
 Arthur Lee Campbell (the next in line of descent 
 to our subject), was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 The major was a pioneer in Virginia, as was the 
 colonel, who, however, had been born in Vir- 
 ginia. The latter went from eastern Tennessee 
 to the present site of Louisville, Ky., where he 
 pre-empted a farm. He was related to many of 
 the prominent families of Virginia and Ken- 
 tucky, the Lees, Breckenridges, Hardins, etc. 
 
 The parents of C. M. Campbell were Prof. 
 Matthew Monroe and Martha J. (McPheeters) 
 Campbell, natives of Cumberland Gap, Tenn., 
 and Kentucky, respectively. The mother's peo- 
 ple were originally from Scotland and were slave 
 holders in Kentucky. When Mrs. Campbell 
 succeeded to her inheritance, which included 
 some slaves, she gave them their freedom at 
 once, however, as she did not believe in the 
 principle. She was a lady who was universally 
 loved and admired, and her death, in 1881, was 
 a matter of deep regret to all who knew her. 
 
 Prof. Matthew M. Campbell was a very scholar- 
 ly man and stood in the front ranks of educators 
 of his day. He graduated in early life from the 
 University of Indiana with the degree of Master 
 of Arts, and after he had taught for some time in 
 the south, became a member of the faculty of 
 his alma mater. He was principal of the prepara- 
 tory department and adjunct professor of lan- 
 guages. Probably no one connected with the in- 
 stitution occupied a more important part in its 
 success during its first years. He was a pro- 
 found thinker and was equaled by few as a 
 teacher of classics. Born in 1810, he lived to 
 the ripe age of eighty-seven, his death occurring 
 inTopeka, Kan. Of his family, which comprised 
 five sons and six daughters, six are living. 
 Matthew is an attorney in Topeka, Kan. Louise 
 is the wife of ex-postmaster A. J. Arnold, of 
 Topeka. Jennie is the wife of Prof. Frank P. 
 Leavenworth, of the State University of Minne- 
 sota. John, of Boston, Mass., is a musician and 
 author. James is a druggist in Topeka. 
 
 Charles M. Campbell was born in Blooming- 
 ton, Monroe County, Ind., March 10, 1842. He 
 graduated from the University of Indiana in 
 1859, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, being 
 the salutatorian of his class. Three years later 
 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree 
 of Master of Arts. While he was pursuing his 
 collegiate course he studied law to some extent. 
 In i860 he went to Missouri, and thence to 
 Atchison, Kan., where he taught school. Dur- 
 ing the same year his sister died, and the impres- 
 sion upon his youthful mind led him to become 
 a Christian. The following year he entered the 
 Western Theological Seminary at Pittsburg, Pa., 
 and three years later he was graduated as a 
 Bachelor of Divinity. Ordained to the Presby- 
 terian ministry May 20, 1864, he proceeded to 
 Colorado, and reached Boulder July 20 the same 
 year. He organized a little band of people of 
 his denomination, and at first preached to them 
 in a grove. Under his influence and leadership 
 the first (Presbyterian) church ever erected in 
 this county was built, and the old frame structure 
 is still standing. Ever since that time Mr. 
 Campbell has occasionally occupied the pulpit of 
 the old church. He has the honor of being the 
 oldest member of the Presbyterian .synod of Colo- 
 rado, and has been very active in religious work 
 in many departments. From the days when he 
 
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 235 
 
 received his mail from Denver but once a week 
 to the present time, when Boulder has every 
 facility and advantage of eastern towns and 
 cities, he has been actively identified with her 
 progress. He has always been a straight Repub- 
 lican and is a past officer of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 August 24, 1869, Mr. Campbell married Miss 
 Mary M. A. Chambers, who was born in Iowa, 
 and died in this county August 20, 1873. Of 
 their three children two are living: Mrs. Mary E. 
 Gillard, of this county; and Mrs. Martha J. 
 Giggey, of Boulder. The lady who is now the 
 wife of our .subject was in her girlhood Miss 
 Amanda E. Hall. They were married November 
 8, 1874. She was born and reared in Ohio, and 
 by her marriage with Mr. Campbell is the mother 
 of four children, namely:. Coline M., Charles 
 F. H. , Argyle M. and Amanda R. V. 
 
 3 AMES HARRISON JORDAN. The life 
 which this narrative sketches began in Bon- 
 ham, Tex., November 7, 1847, and closed in 
 Denver, Colo., November i, 1898. The Jordan 
 family is of Virginian lineage and is connected 
 with man}' other prominent families in the United 
 States, among them being the Harrisons, of Vir- 
 ginia. Elisha Harrison Jordan, a native of Win- 
 chester, Va., was a grandson of Col. Elihu 
 Hall, whose wife was Mi.ss Amelia Pinknard 
 Ball, a first cousin of Mary Ball, George Wash- 
 ington's mother, and he himself was a first cousin 
 of Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 Reared in the Old Dominion, from there Elisha 
 H. Jordan removed west to Missouri, and carried 
 on a store in St. Charles, later removing to 
 St. Louis, and from there going to Shreveport, 
 La., where he was proprietor of a mercantile 
 store. He continued in that place until his death, 
 at eighty years of age. He married Jane Morri- 
 .son Boggs, who was born . in Pittsburg, Pa. , 
 being the daughter of Julia Wrenshall, whose 
 husband was an Irish gentleman and a prominent 
 merchant in Pittsburg. Julia Wrenshall was a 
 si.ster of Ellen Wrenshall, who was the mother of 
 Julia Boggs Dent, the wife of Ulysses S. Grant. 
 The father of these sisters was an English clergy- 
 man, who came to America and spent his remain- 
 ing years in this country. By the marriage of 
 
 7 
 
 Elisha H. Jordan and Jane Morrison Boggs two 
 children were born: James Harrison, who was 
 born while his mother was visiting in Bonham, 
 Tex.; and Mrs. Littleton Lyon, who was lost on 
 a steamer that sank in the Mississippi River. 
 
 The boyhood days of the subject of this sketch 
 were passed in Shreveport, La. He was edu- 
 cated in the Louisiana Military Academy at 
 Alexandria, one of the first teachers being Gen. 
 William T. Sherman. In 1861 he leftschool and 
 entered the Confederate army, in which he 
 served from the age of fifteen until nineteen, and 
 although a mere boy he was a gallant and fear- 
 less soldier. On his return home at the close 
 of the war he again entered the military academy, 
 from which he graduated. Afterward he was 
 employed as agent for a line of railroads and 
 steamboats, in which business he continued until 
 he came to Denver in 1881. Here he entered the 
 employ of the Colorado Milling and Elevator 
 Company, with which he remained for four 
 j'ears, and later was with the Title and Guaran- 
 tee Abstract Company for two years, then follow- 
 ing the real-estate business with success. 
 
 Politically a Democrat, Mr. Jordan always 
 took a warm interest in public affairs. In recog- 
 nition of the work he accomplished for his party, 
 he was appointed postmaster of Denver by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland December 19, 1893. This re- 
 sponsible position he filled with efficiency, win- 
 ning the appreciation not only of his own party, 
 but of others as well. While still serving as 
 postmaster, his death occurred, November i, 
 1897, 3'^^ liis wife was then appointed to serve 
 out the unexpired term. To him properly be- 
 longs the credit of establishing the Slaves of the 
 Silver Serpent, which is a society of, though 
 apart from, the festival of the mountain and plain, 
 and his daughter was the first queen of the order. 
 
 In Shreveport, La., in December, 1870, Mr. 
 Jordan married Miss Sallie Menifee Thatcher, 
 who was born in that city and is a lady of estim- 
 able disposition and noble character. Her father, 
 William Thatcher, who was born near Front 
 Royal, Va., moved to Louisiana in 1832 and 
 spent his remaining years in that state. He was 
 a sou of Thomas Thatcher, a planter of Rappa- 
 hannock County, Va., and member of an old family 
 of that locality. Two .sons and one daughter 
 comprise the family of Mrs. Jordan, namely: 
 James Harrison, a graduate of the Denver high 
 
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 school and now a clerk in the First National 
 Bank; Bessie Newman, a graduate of Wolfe Hall 
 in June, 1896; and Anthony Pires Jordan. 
 
 n OHN PUGHE, a respected citizen of Boulder, 
 I has been engaged in mining enterprises in 
 G/ Colorado for nearly thirty years, and is an 
 authority on the subject. For many years he 
 occupied positions as superintendent or foreman 
 for various companies, but for some years has 
 operated upon his own account. He belongs to 
 Boulder Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M.; Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and Mount Sinai Com- 
 mandery No. 7, K.T. He is also a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 The father of our subject, Tudor Pughe, was 
 born in Cardiganshire, Wales, and was engaged 
 in farming and in mining in the lead and copper 
 mines near his home. His father, Griffith Pughe, 
 followed agricultural pursuits, as had several 
 generations of the family before him. The mother 
 of our subject was a Miss Mary Morgan prior to 
 her marriage. She, too, was born and reared in 
 Wales, and was a daughter of a farmer. She 
 was the mother of three children, two of whom 
 are still living. The father was again married, 
 after the death of his first wife, and had two chil- 
 dren by that union. Our subject's brother, 
 Charles E., who is an agriculturist in the neigh- 
 borhood of Longmont, Colo., came to the United 
 States in 1866. 
 
 John Pughe was born in the town of Peny- 
 bout, Wales, Augusts, 1850, and in his boyhood 
 learned the business of mining lead and copper 
 with his father. When in his twentieth year, 
 desiring to try his fortune in America, he went to 
 Liverpool and crossed the Atlantic in the steamer 
 "City of Brussels," landing upon these hospitable 
 shores at the end of a voyage of eleven days. In 
 July, 1869, he arrived in Colorado, and settled in 
 the vicinity of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, where 
 he engaged in mining and prospecting. He 
 operated more or less successfully in Blackhawk 
 and Russell Gulch, then returning to Nevada- 
 ville. In 1872 he came to Boulder and later 
 mined at Gold Hill, Sunshine and Rowena. He 
 was employed as a foreman of the American 
 mine at Sunshine, and at the same time held a 
 similar position in the Slide mine at Gold Hill, 
 for a period of seven years. Then he became 
 
 superintendent of the Mountain Chief mine in the 
 Central Mining district. Since 1882 he has been 
 personally interested in various mining properties 
 in the Mountain Chief group and is now driving 
 a tunnel into the side of the mountain. He has 
 excavated some eight hundred feet, and has but 
 one hundred feet more to go ere he reaches the 
 vein of ore he desires. He is the manager of the 
 J. U. Marlow mine, belonging to the Green Bay 
 Mining Company. Persistent and enterprising, 
 he deserves a rich reward for his unceasing labors, 
 and has already been more fortunate than the 
 average prospector. 
 
 September 8, 1880, Mr. Pughe married Miss 
 Mary Ellen Teal,' a sister of George W. Teal, 
 whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. 
 She is a native of Manchester, England, and 
 came to this country twenty-eight years ago. 
 To our subject and his estimable wife four daugh- 
 ters were born, their names being respectively: 
 Mabel Alice, Mary Ellen, Verona and Charlotte. 
 The family have a pleasant home at No. 1333 
 Pine street, the house having been erected by 
 Mr. Pughe. In his political affiliations he is a 
 stanch Republican. Honorable and strictly con- 
 scientious in all his dealings with his fellow-men, 
 he possesses their confidence and high regard. 
 
 (I AMES H. HOOD, president, superintendent 
 I and manager of the Industrial Mining Com- 
 Qj pany, at Superior, Boulder County, was born 
 near London, Ky., October 14, 1853, a son of 
 Andrew J. and Sallie (Cottgaim) Hood. He 
 was the eldest of four children, of whom the 
 others are: John W.; Elizabeth, wife of William 
 Owens; and Ann E., Mrs. John Brumback. His 
 father, who was born in London, Ky., in 1833, 
 has followed farm pursuits throughout his entire 
 life and is still living in the locality where he was 
 born. The grandfather, John Hood, a native of 
 Virginia, migrated to Kentucky .shortly after his 
 marriage and settled upon a farm, where he 
 afterward resided. 
 
 In the common schools of London, Ky., the 
 subject of this sketch obtained a fair education. 
 At sixteen years of age he began life for himself, 
 securing employment in the coal mines at Pine 
 Hill, Ky., where he remained for twelve years. 
 During the time he worked there he married 
 Miss Sarah Rutledge, but she died ten months 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 237 
 
 after their marriage. Not long after her death Mr. 
 Hood left Pine Hill and went to Mnrphysboro, 
 111., where he worked in the mines eight or nine 
 months. Afterward, until 1886, he worked in 
 numerous mines in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky 
 and Tennessee. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1886, Mr. Hood settled 
 at Marshall and at once began to work in the 
 mines. In 1889, with three others, he opened 
 the Hecla mine at Louisville. For three years 
 he operated the property alone, after which the 
 mine was leased to the Citizens' Coal and Coke 
 Company, he selling his interest in the same. 
 For some time following he was employed as 
 superintendent of the mine for this company. In 
 1894 he took charge of the Northwestern Coal 
 Mining Company's property at Erie, but after 
 eight months with them he became pit boss for 
 the United Coal Company at Lafayette. Later 
 he prospected and mined at Cripple Creek, but 
 being unsuccessful, he returned to Superior and 
 in partnership with others opened the Indus- 
 trial mine, of which he was the first and is still 
 the president and manager. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hood is identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Somerset 
 Lodge No. Ill, A. F. & A. M., of Somerset, 
 Ky. ; Mount Sinai Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and 
 Boulder Commandery No. 7, K. T. He isaman 
 of great enterprise and perseverance. During 
 his life in many mining camps he has met men of 
 every character, and his reputation among them 
 all has been that of a man of upright and honor- 
 able di.sposition and large business ability. 
 
 HON. MASON W. HOWARD. This well- 
 known and highly esteemed citizen of Den- 
 ver is one of her most enterprising and pro- 
 gressive business men, active in everything that 
 tends towards the upbuilding and improvement of 
 the place and one who for over twenty years has 
 been closely associated with her development. 
 Thougli brought up as a Democrat, he is a man 
 who forms his own opinions, carefully weighing 
 evidence and principles, and, after giving the 
 matter his earnest attention, he adopted the Re- 
 publican party platform during the dark days of 
 the Civil war and has ever since been a firm adher- 
 ent of the organization. He was honored by the 
 people in being their choice as state senator in the 
 
 fifth and sixth general assemblies, and did active 
 work on their behalf while a member of that body. 
 He introduced the bill known as the fee bill, reg- 
 ulating the fees of public officials; the bill which 
 provided for the erection of the state capitol 
 building and the one giving to the city of Denver 
 its first charter. There was so much opposition 
 to the last-named bill that it was actually stolen, 
 but the authors of it, having a rough draft of the 
 original bill, submitted this instead, and it was 
 finally passed, to the lasting benefit of this city. 
 
 The birth of Mason W. Howard occurred in 
 Knox County, Ohio, January 8, 1843. He is a son 
 of Joseph and Emeline (Baker) Howard, who were 
 agriculturists, and who removed with their family 
 to the neighborhood of Tipton, Iowa, about 1853. 
 There young Howard grew to manhood, receiv- 
 ing a district school education, which was sup- 
 plemented by a course of practical business train- 
 ing in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College 
 in Chicago. Prior to this, however, he had 
 taught school in the country for several terms, 
 and had industriously kept up his own studies by 
 himself. Having mastered the mysteries of 
 bookkeeping in college, the young man accepted 
 a position as a clerk in the ofiice of the Michigan 
 Central Railroad Company in Chicago. Subse- 
 quently he took a course in telegraphy in Bryant 
 & Stratton's College, and was the first operator of 
 the kind that was graduated from that institution. 
 
 The following thirteen years he was an employe 
 of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 
 the capacity of telegraph operator and station 
 agent. He was located at various points along 
 the road, each change being a promotion and a 
 recognition of his faithful and meritorious work. 
 For this long period of thirteen years he was never 
 absent from his post of duty for one day. His last 
 position with the railroad was at Plattsmouth, 
 Neb. , where he was joint agent for the Chicago, 
 Burlington & Quincy and the Burlington & 
 Missouri. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Howard came to Colorado, and 
 settled in Denver when it was a place of forty thou- 
 sand inhabitants. He began to clerk in the ofiice 
 of Colonel Dodge of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railroad, and was in the same building as the one 
 his business is now located in. No. 1319 Sixteenth 
 street. During six months of his service with this 
 now wealthy railroad the corporation was so poor 
 that it was a question with him whether or not 
 
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 his salary would be paid to him, but one day he 
 received a telegram for Colonel Dodge, from Lon- 
 don, stating that $10,000,000 had been raised 
 for the road, and this sum placed things on a 
 very different basis. Mr. Howard continued in 
 its service about three years, in the meantime 
 being station agent in Canon City, Pueblo and 
 Denver. 
 
 In 1878 the Denver Transit and Warehouse 
 Company was organized and two years afterwards 
 was incorporated under the laws of Colorado. 
 The president is Col. D. C. Dodge, already men- 
 tioned, and well known as the vice-president and 
 general manager of the Rio Grande Western Rail- 
 way, and the secretary, treasurer and general 
 manager is M. W. Howard, of this sketch. Both 
 of these gentlemen have been connected with the 
 company as stockholders from its start and are 
 possessed of great financial ability and genius, as 
 is well known. They deserve great credit for 
 their enterprising methods, for they have invested 
 large amounts of money in concerns that have 
 been of untold benefit to the citizens, at times 
 when no one else would risk their fortunes in a 
 similar maimer. They established general stor- 
 age warehouses as well as United States customs 
 and international revenue general bonded ware- 
 houses, at Nos. 1401-27 Wynkoop street, about a 
 block from the Union depot, and close to the busi- 
 ness center of the city. These bonded warehouses 
 are of the greatest importance to the merchants and 
 shippers of Denver and the surrounding country, 
 as goods are imported direct from foreign lands 
 and can be removed as a whole or in part, by 
 paying the tax here, without the delay of sending 
 the amount east. The warehouses are the best- 
 constructed ones in the city, as is shown by the 
 low rates of insurance. Several hundred dollars 
 were spent by the company in 1895 in getting 
 the bill for the establishment of an internal reve- 
 nue and bonded warehouse in Denver through 
 congress. The company gives special attention 
 to moving heavy machinery, household furniture 
 and goods in car-lots. The business which is 
 tran.sacted by them in the course of a year is 
 something surprising and is steadily increasing in 
 volume. 
 
 About 1886 Mr. Howard and Colonel Dodge 
 purchased a farm for their own u.se, intending to 
 raise horses there and also to have a place for 
 their teams to rest and recruit from time to time. 
 
 Finding that the plan was a good one, they turned 
 the property over to the company, which has 
 since invested in additional land, some adjoining 
 the first farm, which is but eight miles from Den- 
 ver, and still later two thousand acres situated in 
 Elbert County, forty miles from the city. The 
 company now makes a business of raising fine 
 draft horses and cattle, and many of the horses 
 used on their great vans and wagons in Denver, 
 and justly noted for their beauty and strength, 
 have been raised on the farms of the company. 
 During the winter the stock is taken to the Bear 
 Creek farm, where some eight hundred tons of 
 hay for feeding are cut annually. The farm 
 last mentioned comprises four hundred and twenty 
 acres of land, in the garden spot of the state. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Howard took place 
 in Wataga, 111., in 1867, the lady of his choice 
 being Miss Mary Holyoke, who was born in that 
 place. She died in 1879, leaving two sons, 
 Joseph M., who was born in Rushville, 111., and 
 is now in the employ of the company in which his 
 father is an official, and Harry H., who was born 
 in Canon City, Colo., and is also with the firm. 
 In 1880 Mr. Howard married Julia A. Stoddard, 
 of Denver, a native of Joliet, 111., and they have 
 one daughter, Edna. Mr. Howard is identified 
 with the Royal Arcanum and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. 
 
 |~RANK BOYD, postmaster at Gold Hill, 
 r^ Boulder County, was born in Des Moines, 
 I Iowa, in 1863, and is a son of James H. and 
 Frances P. (Griffith) Boyd, natives respectively 
 of Pennsylvania and Columbus, Ohio. His 
 father, who spent some years in Iowa, removed 
 from there in 1869 to Chicago, where he engaged 
 in the manufacture of coffins. In 1875 he came 
 to Colorado and settled in Boulder, where he 
 built the first smelter in the town. He continued 
 to operate this mill until he retired from business, 
 since which time he has resided in Denver. He 
 and his wife are the parents of five children, 
 namely: Ida, Mrs. Headley, of Denver; Lincoln, 
 who is foreman of the Philadelphia smelter in 
 Pueblo; Frank; Mrs. Dessa Newman, of Denver; 
 and Mrs. LiHie Foster, also of Denver. 
 
 In the public schools of Chicago and Boulder 
 the subject of this sketch obtained a fair educa- 
 tion. For a time he was employed in his father's 
 
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CAPT. NELSON C. ROE. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 239 
 
 smelter, after which, in 1880, he went to Lead- 
 ville and secured employment in the smelter 
 there. Afterward he operated the Cash mine in 
 the gold district, continuing to develop it for 
 five j'ears. In 1890 he bought out George Kirk- 
 bride, one of the oldest merchants in the district, 
 and embarked in the general mercantile business, 
 which he has since conducted, having in stock a 
 full line of dry goods, groceries and hardware. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Boyd, in Boulder, united 
 him with Mary P. Kirkbride, who was born in 
 England and came to Boulder in company with 
 her father, George Kirkbride. They are the 
 parents of two children, Bessie and Donovan. 
 Politically a Democrat, Mr. Boyd is active in local 
 affairs. He is chairman of the district Demo- 
 cratic central committee and a member of the 
 county central committee. In 1896 he was ap- 
 pointed postmaster under President Cleveland and 
 still holds the office. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Gold Hill Lodge of Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, and is a charter member of 
 Bimetal Lodge No. 44, I. O. O. F., in which he is 
 a past officer. 
 
 EAPT. NELSON C. ROE, one of the honored 
 veterans of the Civil war, is serving as jus- 
 tice of the peace in Greeley, a position he has 
 filled for four years with credit to himself and 
 satisfaction to the community. He is thoroughly 
 impartial in meting out justice, his opinions being 
 unbiased by either fear or favor, and his fidelity 
 to the trust reposed in him is above ques- 
 tion. He is regarded as one of the leading and 
 most highly respected citizens of Weld County, 
 and it is, therefore, consistent that he be repre- 
 sented in a work whose province is the portrayal 
 of the lives of the prominent men of this section 
 of the state. 
 
 Mr. Roe was born in Cortland County, N. Y. , 
 June 19, 1825, a son of Sylvester M. and Mary 
 (Chattertort) Roe. ' His uncle, William Roe, was 
 the father of E. P. Roe, the well-known novelist. 
 The family have for many generations made their 
 home in Cortland County, our Subject's grand- 
 father, John E. Roe, having settled there when 
 his nearest neighbor was seven miles away, and 
 there he engaged in farming. Of his children 
 Sylvester was the oldest and was educated in the 
 common schools. In early life he engaged in 
 clerking in New York City, later followed mer- 
 
 cantile pursuits in Freetown, Cortland County, 
 and after farming for some time at Virgil, N. Y. , 
 he sold his place and engaged in the fruit com- 
 mission business. He died at the ripe old age of 
 eighty-one years. For many years he was elder 
 in the Presbyterian Church', and was greatly in- 
 terested in all church work. In his family were 
 two sons and four daughters, of whom our subject 
 is the oldest. 
 
 Captain Roe pursued his studies in the schools 
 of his native county until seventeen years of age, 
 when he went to Elmira and engaged in clerkr 
 ing for a time. On his return to Cortland 
 County he embarked in business on his own ac- 
 count, but in 1852 came west, stopping first at 
 Chicago, from which place he shipped produce to 
 New York. Later he went to San Francisco by 
 way of Cape Horn, and in 1855 located in Iowa, 
 where he was first engaged in bujdng grain. 
 For two years he was also captain of a steamboat 
 on the Mississippi River, running from St. Louis 
 to St. Paul, and then settled in Lyons, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in buying and shipping grain 
 until 1862. In i860 he had crossed the plains by 
 wagon to Denver, where he spent the summer, 
 but was not enough impressed by the country to 
 stay. 
 
 By the urgent request of Governor Kirkwood, of 
 Iowa, and his adjutant, General Baker, Captain 
 Roe formed a company during the Civil war, 
 raising eighty-nine men and marching them into 
 camp within two days. Upon his arrival the 
 governor commissioned him captain of Company 
 K, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry. By way of St. 
 I,ouis they joined the Federal troops and were 
 assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Fif- 
 teenth Army Corps, under command of Generals 
 Sherman and Logan. They participated in many 
 important engagements, including the battles of 
 Arkansas Po.st and Chickasaw Bayou, arid the 
 siege of Vicksburg, where Captain Roe was in 
 command of two hundred men standing guard 
 over the man-of-war ' 'Hartford' ' belonging to Ad- 
 miral Farragut's fleet. In the Atlanta campaign 
 our subject participated in sixteen battles, in- 
 cluding those at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, 
 Missionary Ridge, Ringgold and Kenesaw Moun- 
 tain. The lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, 
 while intrusting all important matters to his 
 charge, would never give him an opportunity for 
 advancement, and this so discouraged our subject 
 
240 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 that at Atlanta he resigned August 27, 1864, hav- 
 ing served two years and fourteen days. His 
 colonel would not act on the resignation, and it 
 was only through the personal effort of General 
 Logan that he received his honorable discharge. 
 
 Returning to Lyons, Iowa, the captain pur- 
 chased a hotel, which he conducted under the 
 name of the Randall House for two years. In 
 1867 he came west, following the Union Pacific 
 Railroad until it reached Laramie City, and spent 
 the years 1869, 1870 and 1871 at Sherman en- 
 gaged in dealing in stock and shipping timber. 
 In the spring of 1872 he located at Evans, Colo., 
 which at that time was three times as large as 
 Greeley, and was clerk of the school board when 
 they built the large school house. He was inter- 
 ested in business there until 1879. In 1880 he 
 removed to Greeley and from that time until 1 894 
 engaged in farming, but ill health compelled him 
 to retire from active work in the latter year and 
 he located in the city. In the fall of that year 
 he was elected justice of the peace without a single 
 dissenting vote, and is now most capably dis- 
 charging the duties of that office. As an ardent 
 Republican he has always taken an interest in 
 political affairs, attends all of the county and state 
 conventions of his party and does all in his power 
 to promote its welfare. He is public-spirited and 
 progressive, taking an active interest in all mat- 
 ters for the good of the community, and is one of 
 the leading and influential members of the Pres- 
 byterian Church of Greeley. Fraternally he is 
 an honored member of U. S. Grant Post No. 13, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 On the ist of October, 1846, Captain Roe 
 was united in marriage with Miss Katherine L. 
 Tupper, a step-daughter of the well-known Brick 
 Pomeroy. They have one son, Herbert S., who 
 is engaged in mining near Gunnison, and is the 
 principal owner and manager of the Cortland 
 Gold and Silver Mining Company. 
 
 "■ LISHA MCMILLAN. The life which this 
 ^ narrative sketches began in York County, 
 _ Pa., in 1810, and was brought to a close in 
 Arapahoe County, Colo., August 2, 1882. The 
 McMillan family was represented among the early 
 Quaker settlers of Pennsylvania, where succeed- 
 ing generations resided, adhering to the religious 
 faith of their ancestors. George McMillan, 
 
 father of our subject, was born and reared in 
 Pennsylvania and made farming his life work, 
 following that occupation until his death in 1846. 
 His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca 
 Cutler, died in 1816, when her son, Elisha, was a 
 small boy, and subsequently the father married a 
 second time. 
 
 After attaining manhood the subject of this 
 sketch removed to Ohio, where he began the 
 study of medicine, and upon going to Illinois he 
 continued his professional studies. However, his 
 health was poor and close study soon injured it 
 to such an extent that it became absolutely neces- 
 sary to seek other employment. He then turned 
 his attention to farming, going to Iowa in 1838 
 and cultivating a farm near Primrose for years. 
 From that time until his death he made agricult- 
 ure his life work. He died August 2, 1882, in 
 Pilot Grove, Lee County, Iowa. He was not 
 blessed with robust health, and never had the 
 strength to engage in manual labor, but he super- 
 intended his landed properties and left a compe- 
 tence to his wife. 
 
 On New Year's day of 1862 Mr. McMillan 
 married Caroline P. , daughter of John and Mathil- 
 da (Board) Brown, a sister of ex -Senator Hiram 
 R. Brown. Her grandfather, Dixon Brown, was 
 born in Fauquier County, Va., but prior to the 
 nineteenth century removed to Kentucky and fol- 
 lowed farm pursuits, though giving some atten- 
 tion to the trade of a blacksmith. The maternal 
 grandfather, George Board, was born in Balti- 
 more, Md., and when a young man removed to 
 Kentucky, where he married Sarah Harmon, 
 daughter of a wealthy slaveowner. Through his 
 energetic efforts he became well-to-do, but unfortu- 
 nately went security for some friends and was 
 obliged to pay the entire amount of the notes, 
 thus losing all of his property. His father-in- 
 law offered to start him in business again, but he 
 was of an independent nature and refused the 
 kind offer. He took his family to Indiana and 
 later removed to Illinois, where he entered land 
 and spent the remaining years of his life. 
 
 Mrs. McMillan was a daughter of John Brown, 
 who was born in Virginia, spent his boyhood 
 years in Kentucky and after his marriage to Miss 
 Board removed to Indiana, settling in Bedford, 
 Lawrence County, where he was employed in a 
 bank for twenty-two years. From there he went 
 to Lee County, Iowa, and later settled in Mount 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAIv RECORD. 
 
 24J 
 
 Pleasant, where his death occurred. Further 
 reference to his life will be found in the sketch of 
 his son, Hiram R. , who was formerly senator 
 from Jefferson County. Mrs. McMillan is a most 
 estimable lady and as such is esteemed by all by 
 whom she is known. She conducts the place 
 and attends to the property interests left by her 
 husband, whose sound judgment and business 
 ability enable her to enjoy every comfort that 
 can enhance the pleasure of life. 
 
 EHARLES H. FARNS WORTH, instructor 
 in music in the University of Colorado, has 
 been a resident in this state for the past 
 decade. He comes from an old and honored New 
 England family, his ancestors having settled 
 there upon their arrival from England in 1664. 
 His great-grandfather Farnsworth was a Revolu- 
 tionary hero, and all of his forefathers were noted 
 for patriotism and sterling Puritan integrity. 
 His grandfather, Amos Farnsworth, was a native 
 of Massachusetts, from which state he removed to 
 Vermont. The parents of Mr. Farnsworth are 
 Rev. Wilson and Caroline (Palmer) Farns- 
 worth, natives of Thetford, Vt., and Lyme, 
 N. H., respectively. The Palmers are also an 
 old New England family, tracing their lineage 
 through several generations in that section of 
 this country, and back to England. Rev. Wil- 
 son Farnsworth graduated from Middlebury Col- 
 lege of Middlebury, Vt., and later from Andover 
 Theological Seminary, after which he was or- 
 dained as a minister of the Congregational 
 denomination. Since 1854 he has been actively 
 engaged in preaching the gospel and organizing 
 churches, schools and hospitals in Turkey, Asia 
 Minor, his home being in Cesarea, Cappadocia. 
 The region under his jurisdiction and general su- 
 pervision is about as large as New England, and 
 the importance of the grand work to which he has 
 heroically devoted the better part of his life, for 
 nearly a half-ceptury, cannot be overestimated. He 
 and his several assistants are missionaries of 
 the American Board of Foreign Missions. 
 
 A few years subsequent to his parents' removal 
 to Cesarea, Turkey, the subject of this article was 
 born, the date being November 29, 1859. With 
 his eight brothers and sisters (five of whom are 
 now living) he passed his boyhood days in the 
 land of the "Unspeakable Turk." Until he was 
 
 entering upon his fifteenth year he pursued his 
 studies under the tutorship of his parents. In 
 1873 he entered the preparatory department of 
 Robert College, in Constantinople, and at the 
 close of the year came to America. He con- 
 tinued his education in the high school of New- 
 tonville, Mass. , until his health began to suffer, 
 when he went to Boston, and for a short time 
 engaged in business. Believing that an ocean 
 voyage would be beneficial, he shipped before 
 the mast on the "William Hale," and went 
 around Cape Horn, South America, to Valparaiso, 
 Chili, thence to Iquique, Peru, and to Talchona, 
 Chili, returning to New York with a cargo of 
 saltpetre and wool, and arriving in the metropolis 
 after an ■ absence of over eleven months. He 
 then drifted to Westboro and Worcester, Mass. , 
 and took up the study of music. He suf- 
 fered with a sunstroke about this time, but per- 
 sisted in his musical training, and ultimately be- 
 came a teacher of the piano and organ, and church 
 organist. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Farnsworth came to Colorado, for 
 a change of climate. Settling in Boulder, he 
 started classes in music, sight-singing, etc., in 
 the university, and was later chosen to act as a 
 teacher of music in the public schools. Under the 
 stimulus of his enthusiasm, a department of music 
 was created in the university, with himself as an in- 
 structor. In connection with Professor Baker and 
 others the Colorado School of Music was organ- 
 ized, and he is not only a member of the board of 
 the same but musical director as well. For several 
 years he was organist in the Congregational 
 Church. To his efforts is due the founding of the 
 Boulder Choral Society . This successful organiza- 
 tion, under his leadership, has given the Messiah, 
 Elijah and the Creation, and has won an enviable 
 reputation. He has also had charge of the 
 Glee Club and the Ladies' Musical Club. Be- 
 sides those already mentioned, the Preparatory 
 School Orchestra has given numerous well-re- 
 ceived concerts, with him as their leader, and he 
 is the conductor of the Friday Musical Club, of 
 which his wife is the president. It gives about 
 four concerts a year. 
 
 In Worcester, Mass., Mr. Farnsworth mar- 
 ried Miss Charlotte Joy Allen, in 1890. She was 
 born in that city, and after attending Wellesley 
 College for three years, completed her higher 
 studies in the University of Colorado, receiving 
 
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 therefrom the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Her 
 father, Prof Benjamin D. Allen, has won high 
 standing in the musical profession, and for 
 some time was connected with the faculty of the 
 New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, 
 Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth are members of 
 the Congregational Church, the former being a 
 trustee and superintendent in the Sunday-school. 
 He is a member of the University Scientific Asso- 
 ciation and the National Musical Association. At 
 the meeting in Boulder of the first-named organ- 
 ization, in 1896, he read a paper entitled "In- 
 tellectual Element in Music," and this article was 
 published in full in the Chicago Musical Review. 
 
 HARMON MERCHANT. Years ago, when 
 the west was a vast unsettled territory, and 
 railroads were unknown across the plains, 
 and Indians and wild animals roamed, un- 
 molested, among the mountain fastnesses Mr. 
 Merchant cast in his fortunes with the few 
 settlers west on the Missouri. He planned to 
 start in the fall of 1858, but waited until the 
 spring of the following year in order to make the 
 trip with a company of ten. The hardships of 
 the long journey can be understood only by those 
 who took it. The company rode on the north 
 side of the Platte, where no wagon had ever 
 passed before, and on reaching the head of the 
 emigration at John Richow's bridge, now in 
 Wyoming, they disbanded, each to engage in 
 prospecting for himself. The Frenchman who 
 had charge of the toll bridge offered Mr. Mer- 
 chant $50 to take care of the business, which he 
 did, having charge of the bridge toll, the store 
 and postofSce. While there he had some interest- 
 ing experiences. At one time, by his coolness, 
 he averted bloodshed between his employer and 
 a train of emigrants who had loosened the French- 
 man's boat and were crossing the river. 
 
 Mr. Merchant was born in Cortland County, 
 N. Y., April 30, 1832. His father, Harvey 
 Merchant, was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., 
 removed thence to Cortland County, and about 
 1841 settled in the midst of the beach and maple 
 woods near Albion, Calhoun County, but a few 
 years afterward went to Eaton Township, the 
 same state. Harmon accompanied his father in 
 the various removals and assisted in clearing up 
 the land in Michigan. When a boy he was a 
 
 pupil in pay schools and later studied in Olivet 
 College one winter. In 1855 lie went from Mich- 
 igan to Iowa City, Iowa, then the terminus of 
 the railroad, thence went to Council Bluffs by 
 stage, from there to DeSoto,on the Missouri River. 
 There he pre-empted land and began its improve- 
 ment, but his father was seriously injured about 
 that time, which necessitated his return to Mich- 
 igan, and in that way he lost his pre-emption. 
 In the spring of 1858 he returned to Douglas 
 County, Neb., and remained a year, starting 
 further west in April of 1859. Reaching the 
 Frenchman's ranch, he remained with him until 
 December, when he and J. H. Wheeler bought 
 out the weekly stage that ran from Leavenworth 
 to the Salt Lake district. While engaged in this 
 business, his special work was the care of the 
 horses. During the winter of 1 86 1 -62 the Indians 
 were very troublesome and the presence of gov- 
 ernment troops was necessary much of the time. 
 In the spring of 1862 he and his partner crossed 
 the plains to Grand Round Valley, Ore., driving 
 cattle and horses with them, and on reaching that 
 place he took up a ranch and started dn the dairy 
 business. He was successful, feeding and milk- 
 ing sixty cows, and building up a good business. 
 Selling out in the fall of 1864, he went to 
 Sonoma County, Cal., where he bought a ranch, 
 and engaged in the butter and cheese business 
 and as a dealer in cattle. While there he mar- 
 ried Miss Margaret C. Crisp, who was born in 
 Kentucky and was reared in California. 
 
 In the fall of 1869 Mr. Merchant sold his ranch 
 and returned on a visit to Michigan, Mr. Wheeler, 
 who had joined him in California, accompanying 
 him to the east. The next year they left their 
 families in Cleveland and went to Texas, from 
 which place they drove twenty-six hundred head 
 of cattle to the north, expecting to start a ranch 
 in Nebraska. They wintered the stock in Kansas 
 near Wichita, where many of the cattle died. 
 During the same winter they fed cattle in Law- 
 rence for the market. In the spring of 187 1 they 
 started a ranch thirty miles from Sidney, Neb., 
 where they had a large herd of cattle. They con- 
 tinued the partnership until the fall of 1880, 
 when they sold the ranch and stock. Four years 
 prior to this Mr. Merchant located in Denver for 
 his headquarters, and afterward he became in- 
 terested in the livery business here, also bought 
 property and dealt in real estate. He is now the 
 
OTTO A. ERDMAN. 
 
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 agent for the California and a number of other 
 blocks. The first time he ever saw Denver was in 
 i860, when the now flourishing city was a small 
 and insignificant hamlet. Since coming here he 
 has borne a part in public enterprises and in proj- 
 ects for the benefit of the people. In politics he 
 is a silver Republican. He attends the First Con- 
 gregational Church, of which his wife is a 
 member. He has two children, a son and 
 daughter. Bert H., who was educated in the 
 Denver high school and Cornell University, rose 
 from the ranks in the regular array and is now 
 second lieutenant of the Eighth Regiment of 
 infantry, stationed at Fort Russell. The daugh- 
 ter, Maude M., is a graduate of the Denver high 
 school. 
 
 0TTO A. ERDMAN. It is the aim of the 
 public-spirited citizen to do all within his 
 power to advance the welfare of his city and 
 state. Measures that he deems prejudicial to the 
 prosperity of his fellow-citizens he firmly op- 
 poses, while he is as stanch in his support of 
 plans for the highest good of the people. Mr. 
 Erdman is a patriotic citizen, devoted to the wel- 
 fare of Denver and unswerving in his allegiance 
 to whatever will promote its moral, educational 
 and religious interests. An attorney by profes- 
 sion, he finds time outside of his duties in ofiice 
 and court to take an active part in public affairs; 
 and as chairman of the Christian citizenship de- 
 partment of the Denver Christian Endeavor Union 
 he has not only ably represented the Endeavor- 
 ers, but has also done much, by earnest speeches 
 and personal influence, to create a sentiment 
 against pernicious laws and win friends for the 
 temperance movement. 
 
 Mr. Erdman is of German parentage. His fa- 
 ther, Frederick C. Erdman, came to America at 
 the age of eighteen, and being the son of well-to- 
 do parents, he brought some means to this coun- 
 try with him. In Chicago he met and married 
 Miss Wilhelmine M. Sonneman, who had come 
 with her parents to the United States at the age 
 of fourteen. It is a rather curious fact that his 
 name, in English, means "Earth-man," while 
 hers is "Sun-man," which made their marriage 
 a union of the earth and sun. He invested his 
 money in land in Jackson County, Iowa, where 
 he and his wife settled and where their eldest 
 child, Otto A., was born November 28, 1859. 
 
 From Jackson County he moved to Jones Countj^ 
 where he engaged in the mercantile business and 
 also served as postmaster under President Grant, 
 being the only Democratic postmaster in his part 
 of the state. A little later on he moved back to 
 Jackson County and engaged in the hotel busi- 
 ness in the town of Preston. He is now living 
 on the divide about twenty miles from Denver, 
 where he carries on farm pursuits. In politics 
 he is a Democrat and has always voted the party 
 ticket in national elections except once, when, 
 being a great admirer of James G. Blaine, he 
 cast his ballot for that illustrious statesman for 
 president. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch was about 
 eight years of age the family moved from the 
 farm in Van Buren Township to the village of 
 Sabula, Iowa, where he was a student in a private 
 school about four years. He accompanied his 
 parents to Jones County and assisted his father in 
 the store and postoflSce. In Preston he attended 
 the public school, the principal of which had 
 been his preceptor in the private school at Sabula. 
 In the same school he also took a normal course, 
 completing his studies at seventeen years. He 
 then secured a position as teacher of a country 
 school in Clinton County, Iowa, but after one 
 term there removed with his family to Greene 
 County, where he lived on a farm and engaged 
 in teaching. For three years he taught in 
 Greene and Carroll Counties, meantime devoting 
 his leisure to the study of law. April 18,1879, 
 he was admitted to the bar, and afterward for one 
 year practiced law in Rippey, Greene County, 
 Iowa. His constant application to his studies 
 impaired his health to such an extent that a 
 change of climate and outdoor employment be- 
 came necessary. He left Iowa and came to Colo- 
 rado, where he secured a position with a mer- 
 cantile house in Central City that enabled him to 
 be out of doors most of the time. With the ex- 
 ception of the summer of 1883, when he engaged 
 in prospecting, he remained with the firm five 
 years. While in their employ he went to Kim- 
 ball, S. Dak., and there, May 20, 1885, he mar- 
 ried Miss Clara May Cummings, with whom he 
 became acquainted in Rippey, Iowa. She was 
 born in Whiteside County, 111., the daughter of 
 a Methodist minister who died before her birth. 
 
 September i, 1886, Mr. Erdman came to Den- 
 ver and became collector and city salesman for 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAIv RECORD. 
 
 N. B. McCrary & Co., this position giving him 
 the outdoor exercise so necessary to his health. 
 March i, 1890, he embarked in the real-estate 
 business, buying and selling city property, and 
 would have been very successful in that enter- 
 prise had it not been for the panic. He is now 
 engaged in the practice of law, of which he is 
 very fond and in which he is meeting with suc- 
 cess. He is still interested in silver and gold 
 mining to some extent. He has invariably de- 
 clined to become a candidate for public office, but 
 is deeply interested in the issues of the age. His 
 first presidential vote was cast for James A. Gar- 
 field, and he continued to vote the Republican 
 national ticket until 1896, when he supported 
 the silver cause. He is an elder in the North 
 Presbyterian Church and previous to his connec- 
 tion with this church he served in a similar 
 capacity in another congregation of the same de- 
 nomination. He was made a Mason in i88i,in 
 Jefferson, Greene County, Iowa, and now holds 
 membership with Union l,odge No. 7, A. F. & 
 A. M., in Denver. 
 
 61 NDREW HAGUS is a progressive farmer of 
 f 1 section 24, township i south, range 67 west, 
 I I Arapahoe County, his postoffice address be- 
 ing Brighton. He is one of the pioneers of north- 
 ern Colorado, as he settled here in 1859 and ex- 
 perienced the many hardships which were the 
 common lot of his early associates here. For long 
 years he labored unremittingly until success 
 crowned his efforts, and now, when approaching 
 the decline of life, he is well off in this world's 
 goods and enjoys the feeling that he has faithfully 
 done his duty toward his family and his fellow- 
 men. 
 
 A son of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Leasch) 
 Hagus, our subject was born in Prussia, Ger- 
 many, near the celebrated old city of Cologne, 
 June 27, 1837. He attended the government 
 schools there until 1849, when he came to Amer- 
 ica with his parents. The family settled at Ga- 
 lena, 111., and there the father, who was a tailor 
 by trade, plied his accustomed vocation. Young 
 Hagus acquired a knowledge of English in the 
 Galena public schools, and at the age of fourteen 
 he commenced to earn his own living by working 
 in a nursery. At first he was paid $4 a month, 
 later $6, and finally, for two years he received f 8 
 
 a month. In 1857 he entered the employ of a 
 mercantile firm and continued with them for near- 
 ly two years. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Hagus, a Mr. Hazzard, and two 
 other men, set out for Colorado, driving their 
 own teams all the way. The trip, begun in 
 March, took about two months, as they arrived 
 at the present .site of Denver in May. The little 
 party proceeded to Deadwood and soon were 
 busily occupied in mining. In June they re- 
 moved to the Gregory mines, and after a few 
 months of successful work they sold out and re- 
 turned to Denver, with the intention of passing 
 the winter there. They did not do so, however, 
 but came to Brighton and began raising veg- 
 etables and supplies for the miners. They were 
 the first in this line of business in this region and 
 found ready sale for their products. They 
 brought the first mowing machine, rake, etc., ever 
 seen in this locality. In the fall of i860 Mr. 
 Hagus went to the mines, and, having made the 
 discovery of a good one, sold out and began haul- 
 ing supplies to the miners in different parts of the 
 mountains. In 1863 he pre-empted his present 
 farm under the homestead act. The amount of 
 land granted to him at that time was a quarter- 
 section, but he has since bought additional, and 
 now owns two hundred acres, all under fine cul- 
 tivation. He was one of the prime movers in the 
 building of the Fulton Ditch and is a stockholder 
 and the vice-president of the company. He also 
 owns stock in the Brighton Mills, and has valu- 
 able Denver property in his name. Politicallj' he 
 is a loyal Republican, and voted first for Hayes 
 in 1876. He has not been an ofiice seeker, as he 
 finds his time fully occupied in attending to his 
 own business affairs and to his little family. In 
 religious belief he is a Catholic, as were his an- 
 cestors, and he has been a member of the Brighton 
 parish for years. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Hagus returned to Galena, 111. 
 and there was married June 4 to Miss Katie Zieg- 
 ler, who, like himself, was a native of Germany. 
 They were the parents of five children, namely: 
 Emma, who married Fred Milheim; Henry J., 
 who assists in the management of the home farm; 
 Louise, Mrs. Albert R. Ritter, of Denver; Katie, 
 wife of John Barnard, of Steamboat Springs; and 
 Fred, who is at home with his father. Henry J. 
 is married and has two children, William Louis 
 and Lydia Elizabeth. His wife was formerly 
 
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 247 
 
 Miss Martha Bruhart. Mrs. Katie Z. Hagus died 
 in 1883 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery. 
 The present wife of Mr. Hagus, whom he married 
 in Denver, July 10, 1885, was then Miss Magda- 
 lena Baden, and is a native of Germany. One child 
 blesses this union, Andrew Hagus, Jr., born in 
 August, 1890. 
 
 pCJlLBUR HILL. While still a young man, 
 \A/ in 1872, Mr. Hill came to the then terri- 
 Y Y tory of Colorado, bringing with him saw- 
 mill engines, together with the other equipments 
 and machinery necessary for the manufacture of 
 lumber. From boyhood he was interested in 
 lumbering, and at an age when most boys are in 
 school he was gaining a thorough knowledge of 
 the business in its every detail. The expense 
 incident to the removal of his machinery to Colo- 
 rado was not small, but his faith in the future of 
 this country prevented him from hesitating over 
 incidental matters. Arriving here, he erected a 
 sawmill, with the necessary equipments, at an 
 expense of $30,000, and was the first man in the 
 state who embarked in the manufacture of lumber 
 upon a large scale, his total investment in the 
 business amounting to more than $50,000. The 
 prosperity that rewarded his efforts proved that 
 his judgment had not erred in the selection of his 
 field of operations. At the time of his death he 
 was the possessor of large holdings and valuable 
 property, both here and elsewhere. 
 
 The father of our subject, James Hill, was a 
 pioneer lumber manufacturer in Saginaw, Mich., 
 and afterward became interested in lumber districts 
 in different parts of the United States, including 
 Colorado, amassing a large fortune through 
 energy and judicious management. Being with 
 his father much of the time, our subject in that 
 way early gained a thorough knowledge of the 
 lumber business in all of its branches. He was 
 born and reared in Michigan, and there engaged 
 in the lumber business with his father. Having 
 acquired large lumber interests in Colorado, he 
 came to this state in 1872 and established a lum- 
 ber camp at Fort Collins, subsequently starting 
 two other camps. Meantime he continued his 
 lumber interests in Michigan and other states, 
 traveling back and forth between the two states. 
 In later "years he became the possessor of much 
 valuable property in British Columbia, where he 
 also engaged in lumbering. At the time of his 
 
 death, December 18, 1888, he was wealthy, hav- 
 ing gained a fortune through his lumber interests, 
 principally in Michigan and adjoining states. 
 
 He had rare mental gifts which predominated 
 in the commercial sense. He was never intended 
 for a man of small affairs, but for the manipulat- 
 ing of large interests, as manifested in his whole- 
 sale lumber transactions. His judgment in select- 
 ing Colorado as a lumber state and securing vast 
 pine forests was amply rewarded by the success 
 which crowned his efforts. Politically he was a 
 Republican and supported that party by voice 
 and vote. He was not a member of social clubs 
 and secret societies, preferring the companionship 
 of his wife and a few choice friends, who often 
 accompanied him on excursions to hunt and fish. 
 He was very generous and open-hearted and in 
 every way a true type of sterling American man- 
 hood. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Hill married Miss Laura N. 
 Nichols, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Bid- 
 well) Nichols, natives respectively of Connecticut 
 and New York, and pioneers of the Greeley 
 (Colo.) Colony. On the maternal side Mrs. Hill 
 is a lineal descendant of Capt. Benjamin Bidwell, 
 who enlisted in a Connecticut regiment during 
 the Revolution and served as commander of a 
 company from that state. She erected and occu- 
 pies a residence on Pennsylvania avenue that is 
 one of the most elegant and tasteful in appoint- 
 ments of any home in the city. The walls of the 
 house are adorned with works of art, some of 
 which are the products of her brush and show an 
 artistic skill that merits admiration. A devotee 
 of art, she has studied both in this country and 
 abroad and has had the advantages offered by 
 study with the best artists of the age. 
 
 r'RANK X. AICHER came to Colorado in 
 JM 1872, and has resided in Denver since May, 
 I '^ 1 88 1. His principal occupation has been 
 that of dealer in meats and he is now a member 
 ot The Standard Meat & Live Stock Company, 
 with office at No. 1538 Wazee street. In addi- 
 tion to the management of the wholesale meat 
 market, they are also engaged in the breeding of 
 sheep. 
 
 Mr. Aicher was born at Mahlstetten O. A., 
 Spaichingen, in the province of Wurteniberg, 
 Germany, and received an excellent education in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the public schools there. Crossing the ocean at 
 the age of eighteen, he settled in Iowa City, 
 Iowa, where he followed the butcher's trade until 
 his removal to Colorado in 1872. His first home 
 in this state was at Georgetown, where he opened 
 a meat market and built up a good trade in the 
 butchering business. From Georgetown he came 
 to Denver in 1881 and five years later, in connec- 
 tion with his present partners, formed the com- 
 pany with which he is still identified and which 
 is incorporated under the laws of the state. 
 
 May 17, 1877, Mr. Aicher was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss J. R. A. Kenuecke, at State Cen- 
 ter, Iowa. She was born in Brunswick, Ger- 
 many, but has .spent the principal part of her life 
 in the United States. They are the parents of 
 three children, namely: Frank A., Edna M. and 
 Addie J. During his residence in Georgetown 
 Mr. Aicher was elected an alderman and served 
 in that capacity until his removal from the city, 
 when he resigned. Since coming to Denver he 
 has devoted himself closely to his business duties 
 and has not cared to take a part in public affairs. 
 
 (TAMES W. MCGREGOR, M. D., of Brighton, 
 I proprietor of a drug store and a practicing 
 (2/ physician of this place, was born in Belmont, 
 Ont., June 8, 1861, and is a son of Thomas and 
 Elizabeth (Wismer) McGregor. His father, who 
 was born and reared on a farm near Aberdeen, 
 Scotland, received a good education, studying 
 Eatin as well as the common branches in an acad- 
 emy. When he was about Seventeen his father, 
 Alexander McGregor, brought the family to 
 America and settled among the hills of Canada, 
 near Eondon, selecting a location that reminded 
 him as much as possible of his old Scotch home. 
 Members of the family are still living on that 
 farm. Thomas McGregor died in 1892 and his 
 wife, now sixty-nine years of age, has since his 
 death managed the homestead without the aid of 
 son or daughter. There were six children in the 
 family and four of these are still living. Henry 
 G. is a well-to-do farmer in Canada; Louise C, 
 who married Edward Moore, resides in Aber- 
 deen, S. Dak.; and Violet, who is unmarried, is 
 a successful teacher in Canada. 
 
 After having gained the rudiments of his edu- 
 cation in common schools, our subject entered 
 the high school at St. Thomas, Ont. , at the age of 
 
 fourteen, and two years later began to teach a 
 country school, engaging in that occupation for 
 three years. He then entered the Hamilton Col- 
 legiate Institute, where he did two years' work 
 in one year, but his health was impaired by over- 
 study, and he left Canada, going to Michigan, 
 where he hoped he might gain renewed strength. 
 Soon he entered the medical department of the 
 University of Michigan, from which he graduated 
 in 1884. While he had gained a little in health, 
 his father said he would not live a year. Hoping 
 another change might be of benefit, he went to 
 Hawkeye, Iowa, where he immediately began a 
 country practice. 
 
 Seeking another change for the sake of his 
 health, in 1890 Dr. McGregor came to Brighton, 
 Colo., where he began to practice, and in May of 
 the following year he had the largest month's 
 practice he has ever had. In Hawkeye, Iowa, 
 October 30, 1887, he married Miss Ella B. Ches- 
 ley, of Volga, that state, where she was born and 
 educated. For a time prior to her marriage she 
 engaged in teaching school. Four children 
 blessed their union : Archie N. and T. Vernon, 
 who were born in Hawkeye; and Ella B. and 
 James Duncan, both born in Brighton. 
 
 In May, 1895, Dr. McGregor bought a drug 
 store and has since carried on a drug business in 
 addition to his practice. In 1884, when in Min- 
 neapolis, he took out his naturalization papers 
 about the time of an election. He voted for 
 Cleveland that year and has since continued to 
 support Democratic principles. In 1 897 he served 
 as delegate to the county Democratic convention, 
 and in May, 1898, he was elected an alderman, 
 but resigned the position, not caring to serve. 
 He was elected a member of the school board in 
 1893 and served continuously until May, 1898. 
 Largely through his efforts was due the erection 
 of the substantial new schoolhouse, and he also 
 labored to promote the efiBciency of the teachers 
 and the standard of scholarship. He and his 
 wife are both good singers and members of the 
 choir of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. 
 McGregor is a member. She is also an excellent 
 organist. 
 
 Dr. McGregor is connected with the Masonic 
 fraternity, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the 
 World and Knights of the Maccabees. He was 
 made a Mason in Standard Lodge, at Waucoma, 
 Iowa, and now holds membership in Brighton 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 249 
 
 Lodge No. 78, in which he served as secretary, and 
 by special dispensation was elected W. M. from the 
 floor, without having filled other positions. He 
 served for three years and represented his lodge 
 in the grand lodge. In 1885 he became identified 
 with the Knights of Pythias at Arlington, of 
 which he was a charter member, and after coming 
 to Colorado transferred his membership to the 
 lodge at Brighton. 
 
 3AC0B GREGORY came to Denver in 1865 
 and is therefore one of the early settlers of 
 the cit}'. Three months after locating here 
 he opened the first business house on Lawrence 
 street, it being near Fifteenth, and first in part- 
 nership with another gentleman, but later alone 
 he continued in that place until 1872. Meantime, 
 in 1867, he built a house on Tremont street, the 
 doors, sash and blinds for which he manufactured 
 by hand; with the exception of Henry C. Brown, 
 he was the first to locate on this street. He owns 
 ranches in Jeiferson and Arapahoe Counties, 
 which he rents to tenants. He is interested in 
 mining property in Park County, and managed 
 the building of the Agricultural ditch, the first in 
 this locality and the first large ditch ever con- 
 structed, it being thirty miles in length. 
 
 In Weisbaden, Nassau, Germany, Mr. Greg- 
 ory was born in 1839, the son of Anthony and 
 Elizabeth (Miller) Gregory, also natives of Nas- 
 sau. His father, who was born in 1794, was an 
 attorney and real-estate owner, and when a young 
 man participated in the battle of Waterloo as an 
 officer, receiving a medal for bravery in that en- 
 gagement. In 1853 he brought his family to 
 America and purchased real estate in Chicago, 
 also farming lands near Sycamore, De Kalb 
 County, 111. He died of cholera in Chicago in 
 1854. His wife, who was born in 1797, and died 
 in De Kalb County in 1886, was a daughter of 
 Justius Miller, who was proprietor of a brewery 
 and hotel in Koenigstown,. Germany, where he 
 died. 
 
 Our subject was the youngest of twelve chil- 
 dren. In 1853 the family went from Amsterdam 
 to Liverpool and there took passage on the Amer- 
 ican sailing vessel "Star of the Empire," which 
 landed in Boston after a voyage of eight weeks. 
 He attended the common schools in Chicago, but 
 soon became an apprentice to the painter's trade, 
 
 which he followed there until 1858. Later he 
 worked at his trade in St. Louis, Memphis and 
 New Orleans, then went to Mobile, where he re- 
 mained until 1861. The war coming on he went 
 back to the north and bought a farm in De Kalb 
 County, 111. , where he engaged in farming. Four 
 years later, however, he was obliged to seek a 
 change of climate, as his health was very poor. 
 He sold his place and came to Denver, en 
 route to Old Mexico, but was so pleased with the 
 climate here that he decided to remain, so Den- 
 ver has been his home since June 8, 1865. He 
 worked for others for three months, then with 
 Henry Rietze, started in business on Lawrence 
 street. His subsequent history has been closely 
 identified with that of Denver and Colorado, 
 where he has many and important interests. 
 
 In the establishment of the chamber of com- 
 merce Mr. Gregory was actively interested, as 
 he has also been in the inception of other local 
 enterprises of importance. At one time he was 
 active in the Odd Fellows' lodge, but is now de- 
 mitted. In this city he married Elizabeth Fil- 
 beck, who was born in Buffalo, N. Y., and grew 
 to womanhood in Indianapolis, Ind. She is the 
 daughterof John Filbeck, who was born in Hesse- 
 Darmstadt, and came to America in young man- 
 hood, settling in Buffalo, but afterward removing 
 to Indianapolis, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Gregory have a daughter and son: Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Leighton, of Durango, Colo.; and William, 
 who is attending the mercantile school here. 
 
 r"REDERICK HELD, a retired farmer of 
 r^ Weld County, is one of the hardy pioneers of 
 I ^ California and Colorado, and many were the 
 experiences which he had in those early days of 
 frontier life. He has seen Colorado developed 
 from almost a desert to a paradise under the won- 
 derful ingenuity and work of man, and has as- 
 sisted in the grand result. Formerly he was en- 
 gaged in mining operations to a greater or less 
 extent, then teamed and transported merchandise 
 across the plains, and finally, thirty-five years ago, 
 settled down to a quiet agricultural life. His home- 
 stead during all of these years has been the one he 
 owns and carries on to-day. It is situated on sec- 
 tion 30, township I, range 66, near the line which 
 divides Weld and Arapahoe Counties, his post- 
 office being Brighton, in the last-named county. 
 
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 The parents of our subject were Gottlieb and 
 Christian Held, natives of Saxony, Germany, and 
 farmers by occupation. Frederick Held was born 
 on the old home place in Saxony, February 8, 
 1824. He was reared on the farm until he was 
 fourteen and attended the public schools of the 
 district. When he was fourteen years old he 
 went to the neighboring city of Leipsic to learn 
 the trade of a printer. There he served an ap- 
 prenticeship of four years, in the meantime re- 
 ceiving nothing but his board in payment for his 
 services. As a journeyman he worked in the 
 cities of Leipsic, Dresden and Began up to the 
 year 1850, when he decided to go to America. 
 His father had died when our subject was but 
 five years old, and there being still some money 
 coming to him from the estate, he knew that the 
 amount would serve to give him a start in the 
 new land. 
 
 After a voyage of twelve weeks, during which 
 the good ship on which Mr. Held was a passen- 
 ger battled with terrible storms, he arrived at 
 his destination, New Orleans, from Bremen, in 
 June, 1850. As he knew nothing of Fnglish, 
 the young man's knowledge of printing was 
 of no value to him and he accepted a position 
 in a large sugar house. He remained there 
 for about two years, and diligently strove to 
 master the difficulties of the language. Then, 
 going to Cincinnati, he worked at his trade for 
 three years. In 1855 he went to San Francisco, 
 by waj^ of New York and the Nicaragua route. 
 The trip took twenty-eight days and when it 
 was ended he had but $2 of his little store left. 
 He sorted oranges for a shipping firm for a few 
 days, and next went to the San Joachim mines, 
 where he worked for over a j'ear. His profits in 
 that line being small, he then tried farming, tak- 
 ing up a claim which he afterwards sold. When 
 he had laid aside about $1,500 he returned to 
 New York, going across the Isthmus of Panama. 
 Returning to his old trade in Cincinnati he resid- 
 ed there until i86o, when he, with others, started 
 for Pike's Peak. The trip was made in thirty days, 
 and after spending a couple of months in Denver 
 Mr. Held went to the mines in South Park, and 
 later across the divide to Breckenridge, where 
 some new discoveries of importance had been 
 made. Two years were spent by him in the 
 mines there, after which he made two trips to 
 St. Joseph, bringing back provisions and supplies. 
 
 In 1863 he bought the land where his home is to- 
 day, and on which he has made material improve- 
 ments, including irrigating ditches. In the In- 
 dian troubles of 1864 he enlisted in Company F, 
 Third Colorado Cavalry, and was placed on guard 
 duty near Fort Morgan, serving for one hundred 
 days. Years ago, when living in Denver, he was 
 asisociated with the Odd Fellows' society. Polit- 
 ically he is a Republican. In 1876 he went to 
 Europe to visit the scenes of his childhood, but 
 was glad to return to his Colorado home. 
 
 May 29, 1863, Mr. Held married Mrs. Anna 
 Stoltz, widow of Christian Stoltz, and a daughter 
 of John Munck. By her first marriage Mrs. Held 
 has two children, Christopher, now of Denver, 
 and Lena, who is the wife of Benjamin F. Twom- 
 bly, and lives near Lupton. The two children 
 of our subject and wife are Ennis F. , now mar- 
 ried and a resident of South Dakota, and Francis 
 Julius, who superintends the homestead here. 
 He is married and has two children, Lena and 
 Laura. Mr. Held was reared in the Lutheran 
 faith, while Mrs. Held is a Catholic in religious 
 belief 
 
 EHAUNCEY JEROME BARRETT, who has 
 been a resident of Colorado since 1874, was 
 born in Goshen, Ind., to which place his 
 father, David, had in early manhood removed 
 from his birthplace in Ohio, but afterward went 
 still further west and became one of the earliest 
 settlers of Marshalltown, Iowa, engaging in the 
 mercantile business there until his retirement 
 from active labors. He is now eighty-seven and 
 his wife seventy-two years of age and they still 
 make their home in Marshalltown. Their family 
 consists of five sons and one daughter. Two of 
 the sons, W. B., now on the Pacific coast, and 
 Milton L., a resident of Marshalltown, were 
 soldiers in the Union army, the former enlisting 
 in the Fifth and the latter in the Twenty-third 
 Iowa Infantrj\ The other sons are: Arthur, who 
 is editor of the Iowa Times- Republican; and 
 D. O., who is in Denver. 
 
 In 1865, when a small boy, our subject made 
 two trips from Omaha to Denver, in company 
 with his brother, Milton L- , who was freighting 
 on the plains. In 1871 he went to California 
 and spent a short time near Sacramento, return- 
 ing to Denver eighteen months after his depart- 
 ure for the coast. Locating in Colorado in 1874, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 251 
 
 he embarked in sheep-raising on a ranch near 
 Byers, Arapahoe County, on the Bijou. In 1893 
 he established feed yards in St. Marj^'s, Kan., 
 which he still owns and from which he feeds 
 about fifteen thousand sheep. He owns lands in 
 different parts of Arapahoe County, the most of 
 which is used for the pasturage of sheep. He 
 ships to the eastern markets, and finds his best 
 shipping-point is Deertrail, in this county. In his 
 business enterprises he has been very successful. 
 In addition to property in other places, he is in- 
 terested in city real estate, and owns a half cor- 
 ner on Seventeenth and Glenarm streets and a 
 lot on Welton street, between Sixteenth and 
 Seventeenth streets. For some years he was in- 
 terested in the mercantile business at Byers, in 
 partnership with two other men. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Parrett came to Denver, where he 
 resides on Downing avenue. He has never taken 
 an active part in politics, but is always stanch in 
 his allegiance to the Republican party. He was 
 married in this city to Miss Maud Gildersleeve, 
 who was born in Missouri and accompanied her 
 parents to Denver when this city was in its in- 
 fancy. The three children born of their union 
 are Grace, Blanche and Chauncey. 
 
 yyiAJ. JAMES DUNLAP MOORE, Jr., an 
 y honored veteran of the Civil war, resides 
 is on a finely improved farm about five miles 
 west of Brighton, Arapahoe County. He came 
 to Colorado on account of poor health in August, 
 1879, having been given by his physicians but a 
 short time to live. The higher altitude and out- 
 door life, to which he settled down benefited him 
 from the first. With characteristic energy he 
 began the cultivation of the tract of land now in- 
 cluded in his homestead, and developed a good 
 farm from what was little better than a wilder- 
 ness. 
 
 In many respects the career of the major has 
 been unusual and interesting, and the history of 
 it well repays the student of biography and 
 human nature. His parents, James Dunlap and 
 Sarah Ann (Shipler) Moore, were both natives 
 of Pennsylvania. The Moores, who were of 
 Scotch-Irish descent, settled in western Pennsyl- 
 vania in colonial days. The grandfather of our 
 subject, Samuel Moore, was- born in Pennsylva- 
 nia January II, 1772. His wife, who.se maiden 
 
 name was Agnes Gault, was likewise a Pennsyl- 
 vanian, and a daughter of Adam and Agnes 
 (Dunlap) Gault. Adam Gault was of English 
 extraction, while his wife was a native of Scot- 
 land, and came to this country when a little girl. 
 The couple were married in Pennsylvania. 
 
 The birth of J. D. Moore, Jr., took place in 
 Mercer, Pa., November 22, 1839. As he grew 
 up he mastered his father's trade, that of carpen- 
 tering, and worked for a period in a sash and 
 door factory in Warren, Ohio. Later he clerked 
 in a store at Sandy Lake, receiving about $100 a 
 year in salary. The war coming on, he enlisted 
 as a private October 6, 186 1, in Company I, 
 Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry. That 
 winter he spent in camp near Washington, after 
 which he was sent to the front with the Army of 
 the Potomac. Within a short time he was made 
 .sergeant, then quartermaster's sergeant, and ad- 
 jutant, after the former official had been shot in 
 front of Petersburg in June, 1864. The follow- 
 ing December our subject was made captain of 
 his old company, I, which subsequentlj^ became 
 Company D, and was mustered out as such, at 
 Harrisburg, Pa., June 30, 1865, after having 
 been in service three years and eight months. 
 
 Altogether the major participated in about 
 twenty-seven battles and skirmishes, though he 
 was absent from a few that his regiment took 
 part in while he was serving in the quarter- 
 master's department. April 2, 1865, at the siege 
 of Petersburg, he was in command of the bri- 
 gade picket line, First Brigade, Third Division, 
 Second Corps, and was standing near a pine tree 
 watching his men, when a shell passed close to 
 his head, and, striking the tree, tore it into a 
 thousand fragments. He was stunned and un- 
 conscious for some time, but, upon reviving, led 
 the charge with his command, though the blood 
 kept oozing from the pores of his skin on the left 
 side of his head. Among the important battles 
 in which he was actively engaged were the fol- 
 lowing: Yorktown, April 11, 1862; Fair Oaks, 
 May 31 and June i; attack on Richmond, June 
 25; Glendale, June 30; Malvern Hill, July i; 
 second Bull Run, August 29; Chantilly, Septem- 
 ber i; Antietam, in September; Fredericksburg, 
 December 13; Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; Get- 
 tysburg, July 2; Kelley's Ford, November 3; 
 Orange Grove, November 28; Wilderness (three 
 days' battle), May, 1864; Spottsylvania, May 
 
252 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 12 (in the fiercest of the fight at the spot called 
 the Bloody Angel, where trees of eighteen inches 
 were cut down by musket bullets) ; Cold Harbor, 
 June i; Petersburg, June 16-22; Deep Bottom, 
 July 26-29; Petersburg Mine, July 30; Deep 
 Run, August 16; Poplar Grove, October 2; 
 Boynton Plank road, October 27 (where some of 
 the major's company were captured, but man- 
 aged to make their escape) ; Weldon Railroad 
 attack, December 1-13; Hatchies' Run, Febru- 
 ary 5, 1865; and, finally, he was present at the 
 surrender of Appomattox Courthouse, and at the 
 grand review in Washington. He was mustered 
 out with the rank of captain. In after years he 
 organized Company I, Fifteenth Regiment of 
 Pennsylvania National Guard. He was made 
 its captain, and while in attendance at the Phila- 
 delphia Centennial was promoted to the rank of 
 major. The following year he and his command 
 assisted in quelling the great Pittsburg riots, and 
 went into the anthracite coal region, where they 
 took seventy-two prisoners, and conveyed them 
 to jail in Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
 
 Returning to his old home in Mercer County, 
 Major Moore carried on a store in the town of the 
 same name some ten years. In 1879 he sold out 
 and came to this state. His health being very 
 poor, he thought best to live in the open air as 
 much as possible, and therefore resumed his old 
 employment, carpentering. Even at this line he 
 found himself too weak to do much, but he hero- 
 ically persisted, and in time began to gain in 
 strength. Then he accepted a position as book- 
 keeper in the City National Bank, Denver, his 
 old-time friend, J. R. Hanna, whom he had 
 known in the east, having procured the place for 
 him. He remained in the employ of the bank 
 for five years, and in the meantime had invested 
 in a tract of land in Arapahoe County. This 
 land, three-quarters of a section, lay in one body, 
 and, as it was ten miles distant from water, was 
 considered worthless. Not discouraged, how- 
 ever, the major made a furrow from the old 
 Golden Canal and endeavored to irrigate his 
 farm. For six years he kept hard at work, but 
 was not making very much of a success of his 
 undertaking, until he and Mr. Gallup were ap- 
 pointed to make a survey for a ditch. They 
 advocated the plan of tapping the creek further 
 up, and, a company being organized, with our 
 subject as its secretary, the Golden Canal was 
 
 purchased by them. Enlarged and improved at 
 an expense of $300,000, it is now known as the 
 Farmers' High Line Canal & Reservoir Com- 
 pany. Later another company was formed, 
 which constructed a lateral ditch, carrying water 
 from the first-mentioned canal to the farms of 
 this locality. Thus the problem has been solved, 
 and the major's farm on section 8, township i 
 south, range 67 west, has become one of the most 
 valuable homesteads in the county. 
 
 There was quite a pretty romance in the court- 
 ship of this hero of the Civil war. In November, 
 1864, the regimental headquarters' mess re- 
 ceived a turkey, which had been sent for a 
 Thanksgiving treat to a New York regiment, 
 but as the aforesaid regiment was not accessible, 
 the turkey fell into the hands of young Captain 
 Moore and his friends. Around the neck of the 
 gratefully received bird a strip of paper was 
 securely fastened. It bore a request that the 
 donor might be notified as to the recipients, and 
 how they enjoyed their Thanksgiving dinner. 
 The surgeon complied with the generous giver's 
 wish, and wrote a little note of thanks, this being 
 then signed by the officers. This letter was later 
 read at a gathering of friends in the north, and a 
 Miss Sill was challenged to answer it. Though 
 she at first demurred, she finally selected a name 
 from the list and it happened to be that of the 
 major, then captain. A correspondence naturally 
 followed, and, in time, an exchange of photo- 
 graphs. When the young officer had been mus- 
 tered out he accepted the invitation of the lady's 
 father, Dr. B. S. Sill, and visited the family. 
 The couple were married at Bainbridge, N. Y., 
 October 17, 1866. Their four children were born 
 in Mercer, Pa. Erastus B. married Miss Ermal 
 Demerest, and has one son, Harry Blin. They 
 live on a farm of eighty acres, a part of the ma- 
 jor's original homestead, and presented to the 
 young couple by him. Jeanette Sill is the wife 
 of Fred P. Watts, a teacher and farmer, and has 
 one child, Ruth C. Catherine is the wife of Louis 
 A. Stueland, a teacher, and their only child is 
 named Stella Bertha (the first name in houor of 
 our subject's wife). James D., unmarried, has 
 been engaged in teaching for the past six years. 
 To each of his children Major Moore has given 
 an eighty-acre tract of land. 
 
 Until 1876 the major was a stanch Republican, 
 but that year he supported Peter Cooper, and 
 
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DAVID JOHNSON LYKINS. 
 
MRS. ANN OILMAN LYKINS. 
 
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 255 
 
 since then he has been independent. Though 
 reared a Presbyterian, he has long been identi- 
 fied with Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church of 
 Denver, and has served as senior warden. He 
 is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and of the Loyal Legion. In the 
 Grand Army of the Republic he has served as 
 quartermaster. 
 
 0AVID JOHNSON LYKINS, who died 
 March i, 1898, aged almost seventy years, 
 was one of the typical pioneers of Colorado. 
 Brave and fearless in the days when those qual- 
 ities were of prime moment to the few white 
 settlers of the valleys and mountains of the 
 frontier; ' 'endyring hardness like a good soldier, ' ' 
 kind-hearted and generous to those needing a 
 helping hand, industrious and diligent in business, 
 he is remembered most kindly by his hosts of old 
 associates and acquaintances. From comparative 
 poverty he rose to a position of wealth and in- 
 fluence by the exercise of the rare business talents 
 with which he had been endowed, and by the 
 persistence and determination to succeed in his 
 undertakings which were among his marked 
 characteristics. 
 
 The Lykins family originated in Scotland, but 
 prior to the war of the Revolution three brothers 
 of the name came to the United States, one 
 locating in Philadelphia and the other two in 
 Virginia. The paternal grandfather of our sub- 
 ject was a patriot of the Revolution, enlisting 
 from Virginia. Jonas Lykins, the father, born 
 near Winchester, Va., removed to Indiana in the 
 early days of its history, and became an extensive 
 land owner on the Wabash River. He lived to 
 be eighty-two years old. His wife was Miss Ann 
 Johnson in her girlhood. She was born in 
 Virginia and removed withher parents to Indiana. 
 She died in February, 1892, at the advanced age 
 of ninety years. Her father, David Johnson, was 
 of Virginian birth, and he, too, fought in the 
 colonial army again.st the British, 
 
 David J. Lykins was born near Winchester, 
 Ind., July 2, 1828, and was the only one of five 
 children born to his parents who survived to 
 mature years. He was brought up on the old 
 homestead and when still a mere youth embarked 
 upon his business career. He first went to 
 Illinois, thence drifted to St. Joseph, Mo., then 
 an out-post of civilization, and in 1849 crossed 
 
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 the plains to California. On the long and peril- 
 ous journey he suffered greatly, and once, when 
 the party was nearly out of food supplies, he 
 traded his horse for seven pounds of flour. Arriv- 
 ing at his destination, he engaged in gulch 
 mining, and was very successful. He traded in 
 stock and tried various methods of making money, 
 and, at the end of seven years, had accumulated 
 about $10,000. Then returning home by the 
 Panama route, he soon settled in Missouri, buying 
 a farm of over two hundred acres near St. Joseph. 
 He cultivated the place for about three years and 
 one hundred and seventy-four acres of the original 
 tract is still owned by his widow. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Lykins joined the western tide 
 then making for Pike's Peak, and crossed the 
 plains for a second time. He drove some cattle 
 this time, mostly thoroughbred Shorthorn stock, 
 and at first located on Cherry Creek. A few 
 months later he settled in what is now called 
 Lykins' Canon, between St. Vrain and the Left 
 Hand, in Boulder County. In time the range 
 proved too small and he went into the cattle- 
 raising business on a larger scale on the Little 
 Thompson. He built a home and improved a 
 ranch, adding to his landed estates from time to 
 time, until he owned twenty-five hundred acres, 
 nearly all of which is in one body; in addition to 
 this he leased sixteen hundred acres of school 
 land. His ranch is watered by the Little 
 Thompson and numerous springs. Few, if any, 
 men in this part of the state were more successful 
 in raising cattle and in general farming and 
 kindred enterprises. 
 
 It was against the principles of Mr. Lykins to 
 accept public ofiice, otherwise he might have held 
 manj' positions of honor. For years he was a 
 Democrat, but finally transferred his allegiance to 
 the People's party. He was a charter member 
 of St. Vrain Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M.; be- 
 longed to Longmont Chapter No. 8, R. A. M., 
 and Commandery No. 12, K.T. He was also iden- 
 tified with the Association of Colorado Pioneers. 
 In 1864, when the Indians raided the upper St. 
 Vrain, pillaging and destroying property of the 
 settlers and carrying away all of their cattle and 
 horses, a band of white men was formed, who 
 choose Mr. Lykins as their captain. They 
 followed the Sioux and made it so hot for them 
 that they fled from their camp, leaving their 
 stolen] property. While his comrades were 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 rounding up the stock Captain Lykins and a 
 companion made a detour, intercepting the re- 
 treating Indians in a small canon of Little 
 Thompson Creek. The doughty captain shot 
 one of the braves and wounded another, one of 
 them a chief. He kept souvenirs of this victory, 
 along with many others, in acabinet in hishome. 
 At other times he was called upon to defend his 
 property and that of his fellow-settlers, and was 
 quite noted as an Indian fighter. 
 
 iyiRS. ANN OILMAN LYKINS, who is 
 y well known in Longmont and vicinity, 
 y enjoys the distinction of being the wealth- 
 iest woman in northern Colorado, and is often 
 termed the "land and cattle queen" of Colorado. 
 Since her husband's death, in the spring of 1898, 
 she has had entire charge of his great estates and 
 business investments and has proved herself to be 
 fully equal to the enormous undertaking, which 
 women in other lands would undoubtedly detail 
 to lawyers and agents. She is a true American 
 in spirit and training and feels deeply that she is 
 a steward of the vast riches entrusted to her care, 
 and therefore chooses to keep the power in her 
 own hands, rather than to place it in that of 
 irresponsible persons. 
 
 Mrs. Lykins was the first white girl-baby born 
 in Adair County, Iowa. She comes of good old 
 New England stock, her grandfather, William 
 Oilman, having been bom in Massachusetts, and 
 her father, John A. Oilman, having been born 
 near the town of Lowell, in the same state. The 
 latter settled at Liberty Landing, Mo., at a very 
 early day, and later was numbered among the 
 pioneers of Adair County, Iowa. There he took 
 up a tract of government land, and afterwards, re- 
 moving to Fremont County, Iowa, he improved 
 another farm. Ooing next to Nebraska City, in 
 1856 he was one of the first to locate there and 
 for some time carried on a livery and a meat 
 market in the town. After a time he engaged in 
 farming again, cultivating a homestead about 
 two miles from Nebraska City. Having sold this 
 place, in 1879 he came to Colorado, but, soon 
 going back to the home he had recently left, he 
 passed the remainder of his life there, dying at 
 the age of seventy-four years. He was a man of 
 great information and an entertaining speaker! 
 He had traveled much and was an oflBcer in the 
 
 Mexican war. His wife, Sophia, now a resident 
 of Boise City, Idaho, was born near Toledo, Ohio. 
 Her parents were Frederick and Laura (Brown) 
 Richardson. The former died in Boulder County 
 when about seventy-five years old. 
 
 The fourth in a family of thirteen children, 
 Mrs. Lykins is now one of the six who survive. 
 Mrs. Martin resides in Jamestown, Colo. ; John 
 lives in La Junta, Colo., and two sisters and a 
 brother are in Boise City, Idaho. The early life 
 of Mrs. Lykins was mainly passed in Nebraska 
 City, and in 1869 she came to this state. In 
 October of that year she became the wife of John 
 Keen, who had been living on the St. Vrain for 
 about five years, and had already amassed a com- 
 fortable fortune. He was quite, successful in 
 mining enterprises, and, being a miller by trade, 
 he bought a farm and mill on the St. Vrain and 
 operated them for a year. Selling out, he was 
 on the eve of departing to Montana on business 
 when death claimed him, in January, 1880. He 
 was a native of Germany and came to the United 
 States when a young man. The two children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Keen were Emma J. and 
 Mary. The former graduated with the highest 
 honors (taking off all prizes tendered for special 
 work or merit) from Gross Medical College of 
 Denver in 1897, ^^'^ is now at the head of an ex- 
 cellent practice in Longmont. The other daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Stevens, lives in Rattle Snake Park, 
 Larimer County, Colo. 
 
 The marriage of D. J. Lykins and Mrs. Keen 
 was solemnized December 8, 1880, and one child, 
 Archie, blessed their union. Mrs. Lykins is a 
 member of the Congregational Church and is ex- 
 treasurer of the local Woman's Christian Tem- 
 perance Union. She is also connected with the 
 Order of the Eastern Star and the Hive of the 
 Maccabees. In the distribution of her means 
 she is generous, seeking ever to give assistance 
 to those less fortunately circumstanced than her- 
 self, when she deems them worthy of help. 
 
 ©QlLLlAM E. HODGSON purchased eighty 
 \KI ^^''^s of land in Boulder County in 1883. 
 Y V The place was then unimproved, and with- 
 out even a stick of timber, while there was not a 
 house between it and Louisville. He at once 
 systematically began to improve the land. In 
 1885 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 257 
 
 adjoining, which makes his farm one of two 
 hundred and forty acres. Here, in addition to 
 raising cereals, he has engaged extensively and 
 successfully in raising stock. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Hodgson occurred in Stark 
 County, 111., March 6, 1845, his parents being 
 Jonathan and Anna (Lundy) Hodgson. He was 
 one of fourteen children , namely : Mary E. , James 
 (deceased), Levisa, L,evi, Lydia A., Daniel, Ra- 
 chel, Anna J. (deceased), Amanda, William E. , 
 Martin, Jonathan, Albert and Mary E. (twins). 
 The father was born in Ohio in 1806 and after his 
 marriage removed to Illinois in 1830, settling 
 upon a farm, where he remained until 1858. He 
 then went -still further west and located in 
 Kansas, sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. 
 At that time he had frequent conversations 
 with John Brown, of anti-slavery fame, who 
 lived in the same locality. He was a public- 
 spirited man and a member of the first board of 
 county commissioners of Stark County, 111., in 
 the organization of which he took an active part. 
 For fourteen years he served as a justice of the 
 peace in Stark County and for seven years held 
 the same position in Kansas. In 1868 he was 
 elected to the Kansas legislature on an indepen- 
 dent ticket. During the Civil war he served in 
 the Sixth Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Judson com- 
 manding, and took part in the battles of Perry 
 Grove, Cain Hill, Pea Ridge and other engage- 
 ments. He was received into the Methodist 
 Church by Peter Cartwright and became a local 
 preacher, accomplishing much good through his 
 active and earnest preaching. His death occurred 
 in 1879. He was a son of Daniel Hodgson, a na- 
 tive of North Carolina, who removed to Ohio and 
 later to Illinois, engaging in farm pursuits until 
 his death. 
 
 When the family removed from Illinois to 
 Kansas the subject of this sketch was thirteen 
 years of age. The trip, with its many experiences, 
 is indelibly impressed upon, his memory. With 
 three wagons, some sixty head of cattle and fif- 
 teen head of horses, they joined a train of some 
 ten more wagons, and spent thirty-six days in 
 crossing the country to their destination. From 
 the time they started it rained almost incessantly . 
 He remained on the home farm until he was 
 twenty-four years of age, and then married Miss 
 Christian Payton, by whom he had three children: 
 Marion, a farmer and stock-raiser of Boulder 
 
 County; Anna P., deceased; and one that died 
 unnamed in infancy. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Hodgson entered as a 
 homestead eighty acres of land, which he im- 
 proved and cultivated. While living on that place, 
 his wife died in 1874. He was again married in the 
 spring of 1877, his wife being Mrs. Louisa (Shep- 
 herd) Andre, by whom he has one son, William 
 Forest. By her former marriage Mrs. Hodgson 
 had two children: Mary E., now Mrs. James 
 Nichols, and John O. In the spring of 1880 Mr. 
 Hodgson came to Colorado and during the spring 
 and summer worked on Left Hand Creek. The 
 next year he began farming on rented land. In 
 1883 he purchased the place where he has since 
 made his home. Fraternally he is identified with 
 Boulder Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F., and Louisville 
 Lodge No. 137, Pacific Woodmen of the World. 
 In political views he is in hearty sympathy with 
 the People's party, believing that free silver 
 would advance the financial prosperity of our 
 country, and especially of the great west. 
 
 GlLEXANDER J. GRAHAM. Every visitor 
 LI to Denver hears of the beauties of City Park, 
 I I nor are its beauties overestimated even by 
 the citizens of Denver who have a natural preju- 
 dice in its favor. It comprises three hundred 
 and twenty acres, two-thirds of which has been 
 improved, situated on the east side of the city 
 and commanding a fine view of the surrounding 
 country. E.specially in the summer season are 
 its beauties manifest to even the most unobserv- 
 ant eye. There are long stretches of green- 
 spreading lawn; trees whose dense foliage affords 
 a grateful shade; a pavilion and two lakes that 
 add picturesqueness to the landscape; flower beds 
 with every species of garden plants, and six 
 greenhouses, in which may be found palms and 
 potted plants of every description. On summer 
 afternoons it is one of the most popular places in 
 the city, frequented by pic-nic parties and by 
 families, and as one walks along its winding 
 paths they see gay groups in the enjoyment of a 
 holiday, children sporting under the trees, tired 
 mothers getting a needed rest, and men sitting 
 lazily and comfortably on the rustic benches that 
 line the walks and driveways. 
 
 The transformation effected in City Park dur- 
 ing the'past few years is due almost wholly to the 
 
258 . 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 efforts of the superintendent, Mr. Graham, who 
 was appointed to the position by John 1,. Dailej' 
 and has accomplished wonders in the place. He 
 added the pavilion, built a greenhouse and a mu- 
 seum, also the new lake of twenty-three acres. 
 He is well versed in floriculture and horticulture, 
 and no better man than he could be secured for 
 the superintendency. 
 
 He was born on Lake George, in Warren 
 County, N. Y., and is the sou of William and 
 Agnes (Lauder) Graham, natives of Dumfries- 
 shire, Scotland. His maternal grandfather, John 
 Lauder, came to America and died on a farm in 
 Warren County at ninety-eight years. The pa- 
 ternal grandfather was a farmer in Scotland; his 
 ancestors for generations had been florists and 
 gardeners. On coming to America, William 
 Graham settled in Warren County, but later went 
 to Flushing, L- L, and engaged in market gar- 
 dening. Afterward for eighteen years he was 
 superintendent of Pendleton Rogers estate, in 
 Hyde Park, N. Y. , where he died at eighty-five 
 years. In religion he was a Presbyterian. His 
 wife died in Hyde Park at eighty years. Of their 
 ten children .seven are living, our subject being 
 the youngest. All are in the east except the latter 
 and his brother, David, a veteran of the war and 
 now on a fruit farm in New Mexico. 
 
 At the age of eight our subject accompanied 
 his parents to Flushing, and five years later he 
 began to work in a nursery there, going thence 
 at the age of eighteen to a place on the Hudson 
 that is now owned by Hon. Levi P. Morton. 
 There he was foreman of the plant department. 
 Next he was superintendent of Grand Park, 
 owned by Tammany magnates, at Norwalk, 
 Conn., where was the finest collection of plants 
 and flowers in the world. He remained at that 
 beautiful place for seven j'ears, when the enter- 
 prise collapsed. Going to Cleveland, Ohio, he 
 was foreman of a park for three years, and then 
 started in the nursery business in Elyria, Ohio. 
 In 1890 he came to Denver, where he was fore- 
 man of Riverside Cemetery, until the spring of 
 1893, and then for six months was employed in 
 laying out Dunham Park in Swansea, a suburb. 
 On the completion of the work he was appointed 
 superintendent of City Park. 
 
 In Hyde Park, N. Y., Mr. Graham married 
 Ellen, daughter of James Porter, who had charge 
 of General Jones' estate at Hyde Park. J [Their 
 
 children are Archibald D., who has charge of the 
 animal department in the park; David, who is a 
 blacksmith with the Orrock Carriage Company; 
 and Flora, wife of Col. William R. Grove, who 
 is assistant adjutant- general of the state. Mr. 
 Graham was made a Mason in Denver Lodge No. 
 5, A. F. & A. M., to which he belongs now. He 
 is also a member of the Woodmen of the World, 
 the Foresters and the Caledonian Club, and in 
 religious belief is a Presbyterian. 
 
 Gl LFRED H. GUTHEIL. In the fall of 1896 
 LA the Gutheil Park Investment Company, of 
 I I Denver, was organized with a paid-up 
 capital of $100,000 and A. H. Gutheil as presi- 
 dent and general manager. The company pur- 
 chased six hundred acres at the end of the Aurora 
 car line, on East Colfax avenue. This they 
 platted into tracts of five or ten acres and placed 
 on the market. The title to Gutheil Park is the 
 most perfect to be found, for it was formerly 
 school land and was bought by the company from 
 the state. The statutes provide that no taxes 
 .shall be paid on the land until after 191 3, so that 
 purchasers are exempt from taxation until that 
 time. Repeatedly the assessor of Arapahoe 
 County has attempted to assess the land, but, 
 upon the advice of county attorneys, the board 
 of equalization finally declared that the property 
 was not subject to taxation until the year named. 
 
 Every purchaser of five acres with water in 
 Gutheil Park will, according to contract, have 
 his land plowed up and all ditches made to his 
 tract. He will also receive, free of charge, first- 
 class fruit trees of his own selection, besides shade 
 trees for the avenues. In 1897 about thirteen 
 miles of shade trees (maple and elm) were planted 
 and fifty acres planted to orchards. During the 
 first year the company sold over one hundred 
 acres, and a number of houses have been built 
 there, among these the fine residence occupied 
 by Mr. Gutheil. 
 
 Born near Leipsic, Germany, the subject of 
 this sketch was a student in the university at 
 that place, graduating in 1879. In the spring of 
 1880 he came to America, sojourning for a short 
 time in Maryland, Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, 
 111., Omaha, Neb., and Fort Sidney, also having 
 charge of a stock ranch in Wyoming for a while. 
 His first visit to Denver was made in 1882 and 
 
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 four years later he settled here permanently. He 
 entered the real-estate business in 1888 and two 
 years later started the Denver Match Factory, 
 with himself as vice-president and chief stock- 
 holder; but after one year it was bought up by 
 the syndicate. While it was a worthy industry, 
 yet it was not patronized by the people to the 
 extent it deserved. In 1889 he bought and 
 platted Gutheil Gardens, which he disposed of 
 soon afterward. He was married in Denver to 
 Miss Lilla B. Baker, who was born in Manchester, 
 N. H. 
 
 I UCIUS H. DENISON, general manager of 
 I C the Slide mine at Gold Hill, Boulder County, 
 12 is a member of a New England family 
 that emigrated to this country from England 
 in an early day. His father, Lucius, was born in 
 Caledonia County, Vt., a son of Isaac Denison, 
 who was born in Vermont, engaged in farming 
 there and continued to make the state his home 
 until death. One of his brothers took part in the 
 Revolution. 
 
 From Vermont Lucius Denison went to Boston, 
 where he engaged in business as a commission 
 merchant, meantime residing in the suburban 
 town of Chelsea. In 1861 he removed to Norway, 
 Me. , and for twenty consecutive years carried on 
 a large general mercantile business. Later he 
 turned his attention to the manufacture of wood 
 pulp, in which business he continued until his 
 death, in 1882, at seventy-nine years. Twice 
 married, he had three children by his first mar- 
 riage, all of whom are living; while by his second 
 wife he had nine children, six of whom survive. 
 His second wife, our subject's mother, was 
 Adeline Hobart, a native of New Hampshire and 
 an aunt of the present vice-president of the United 
 States, Garret A. Hobart, her brother being the 
 latter's father. She died in 1891, when sixty-five 
 years of age. 
 
 One of our subject's brothers, Elias B., of 
 Portland, now manager of the Androscoggan Pulp 
 Company, was the first purchaser of a patent 
 for the manufacture of wood pulp and subse- 
 quently patented other improvements in the same 
 line. Our subject attended the public schools of 
 Norway and graduated from the Liberal Institute 
 of that place. In 1876 he entered the Westbrook 
 Seminary at Deering, from which he graduated 
 the following year. Later he spent one year in 
 
 Tuft's College at Meadford, Mass., after which 
 he returned to Norway, Me., and secured work 
 in a shoe factory. His next position was in 
 an insurance office at- Portland, Me. In 1881 
 he settled in Lincoln, Neb., and for fifteen 
 months was connected with a wholesale grocery 
 house. In 1882 he entered the First National 
 Bank of Crete, Neb. , as assistant cashier, and in 
 1888 was promoted to be cashier, which position 
 he held until 1897. Meantime he served for 
 three terms as a member of the council, to which 
 he was elected on the Republican ticket. 
 
 Locating at Gold Hill in 1897, ^^r. Denison 
 leased the Slide mine, which he has developed 
 and operated. At the same time he has al.so 
 operated the Allamakee mine, of which he is in 
 charge, and the Slide mill, a thirty-stamp mill. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the blue lodge 
 of Masonry at Crete, Neb. , the Knights of Pythias 
 at Crete and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, of which he is past master. In religion he 
 is a member of the Congregational Church. 
 
 In Crete, Neb., Mr. Denison married Miss 
 Emma Bader, who was born in Grinnell, Iowa, 
 a daughter of William and Catherine (Heim- 
 burger) Bader, natives of Germany, and early 
 settlers of Grinnell. Her father was engaged as 
 a millwright and miller in Grinnell, from which 
 place he moved to Nebraska City and there 
 resided until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Denison 
 are the parents of four children; Lucius Bader, 
 Philip Hobart, Bertha Helen and Ruth. 
 
 •gUY Le ROY STEVICK. Among the attor- 
 
 aneys of Denver Mr. Stevick occupies a posi- 
 tion of honor and influence, a position that 
 has come to him, not through luck or any acci- 
 dental combination of circumstances, but as the 
 result of constant application and determination 
 of will. Since coming to Denver he has estab- 
 lished a profitable practice, extending into the 
 various courts. He is a clear and logical thinker 
 and a forceful writer, and is the author of a law 
 work entitled "Unincorporated Associations," 
 for which he received a prize in the University of 
 Pennsylvania and which was afterward published 
 by that institution. 
 
 The son of David B. and Mary E. (Black) 
 Stevick, our subject was born in Newburg, 
 Cumberland County, Pa., March 22, 1865. The 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 first eleven years of his life were passed in 
 the town where he was born, but at that time his 
 father removed to Carlisle, Pa., and established a 
 mercantile business there. In the public schools 
 of the latter city he continued his studies. At 
 the age of sixteen he entered Dickinson College 
 at Carlisle, and prosecuted the regular course of 
 study there, graduating in 1885, with the degree 
 of A. B. 
 
 Immediately after completing his classical and 
 literary studies, Mr. Stevick began the study of law 
 in the office of Hon. A. B. Sharpe, of Carlisle, un- 
 der whose preceptorship he gained his first knowl- 
 edge of Blackstone. Well grounded in the Eng- 
 lish law, he entered the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania at Philadelphia, where he completed the 
 regular course of lectures, graduating in 1888, 
 with the degree of LL. B. About the same time 
 his alma mater at Carlisle bestowed upon him the 
 degree of A. M. His literary ability had been 
 cultivated while in college. While a student in 
 Dickinson he was the editor of the Dickinsonian, 
 and after entering the university he became the 
 university reporter and reported the lectures and 
 legal department of that institution. 
 
 Immediately after graduating, Mr. Stevick was 
 admitted to the Philadelphia bar. The months 
 following this, however, were not devoted to 
 practice, but were spent with the Sioux Commis- 
 sion in opening up the Sioux reservation in Da- 
 kota, a work that brought him into personal con- 
 tact with the Indians. He came to Denver in 
 1888, reaching the city on Christmas day, and for 
 a few months afterward was in the office of R. D. 
 Thompson. Soon he formed a law partnership 
 with Robert Collier and the two continued to- 
 gether for a time, but since the connection was 
 dissolved he has been alone. He has the greatest 
 faith in Denver, its wonderful opportunities and 
 the extent of its resources. Through his instru- 
 mentality about twenty-five houses have been 
 erected here, and in other ways he has promoted 
 the growth of the city. 
 
 Reared in the Democratic faith, Mr. Stevick is 
 stanch in his allegiance to its principles and in 
 his support of its candidates. In 1896 he was 
 nominated for the legislature on the fusion ticket, 
 but was defeated. He has served for several 
 years as town attorney for Argo, a corporation 
 within the city of Denver. In his religious views 
 he is independent, but, though not a member of 
 
 any denomination, he gives his support to the 
 Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is a mem- 
 ber. April 16, 1888, in Carlisle, Pa., he married 
 Miss Marion, daughter of Capt. R. H. Pratt, 
 who was the founder and superintendent of the 
 Carlisle Indian Training School. They have five 
 children, Anna Laura, May Ellen, Nana, LeRoy 
 Champney and Theron Pratt. 
 
 ROBERT I. WILLIS, the efficient and courte- 
 ous superintendent of the Boulder County 
 poor farm, has held this responsible position 
 since February i, 1898, and has made a good 
 record, giving general satisfaction. He has been 
 a resident of the Boulder Valley since the Cen- 
 tennial year, in which Colorado became one of 
 the sisterhood of United States, but several years 
 prior to that time he was a property holder here 
 and considered his interests identical with those 
 of this immediate region. As a public official he is 
 the same conscientious, diligent, honorable man 
 that he has always been as a private citizen, and 
 the esteem and respect which are universally ac- 
 corded him are justly his due. 
 
 Mr. Willis comes of a good old Kentucky 
 family, his birth having occurred in Todd County, 
 July 26, 1847. (For history of his parents and 
 family refer to biography of W. A. Willis, 
 elsewhere in this volume.) The boyhood of 
 our subject passed quietly and uneventfully under 
 the roof of his father, O. G. Willis, to whose wise 
 example and guiding influence he owed much of 
 his success in after life. His education, unfortu- 
 nately, was somewhat limited, being simply that 
 of the district schools, whose usefulness, meager 
 at best, was retarded and checked by the break- 
 ing out of the Civil war, and the troublous times 
 afterward. 
 
 Soon after reaching his majority Robert I. 
 Willis embarked upon his independent life, and 
 March 25, 1869, started for the west to carve out 
 his fortune. He was accompanied by his brother, 
 G. S. Willis, and by a friend, D. B. Scott, all 
 ambitious, enterprising young men, eager for a 
 ta.ste of frontier life. They proceeded on the 
 railwaj'S as far west as the town of Phil Sheridan, 
 then the limit of the completed road, and 
 from that point they joined a government train 
 which took them to Kiowa Station. There the 
 young men hired a man to take them to Denver, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 in which now important city they safely arrived 
 April 12. Our subject proceeded to Boulder 
 Valley and spent about three weeks here, looking 
 around with a view to making his permanent 
 home here. However, he went on to George- 
 town, where he found employment in cutting 
 wood. Ere long he began working for the 
 Bakersville Mining Company, with whom he re- 
 mained several years. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Willis returned to Boulder County 
 for a brief period and homesteaded a tract of eighty 
 acres. In 1876 he settled on this ranch, which 
 he improved and cultivated for the following dec- 
 ade. In 1886 he sold his farm, as his mining 
 interests demanded his entire attention. Since 
 that time he has paid little heed to agriculture, 
 but has devoted his energies chiefly to the develop- 
 ment of his mines and to his other business 
 affairs. He is the owner of the Greenfield silver 
 mine at Montezuma, one of the best-paying mines 
 in that section. In his political aflSliations he is 
 a Democrat, being an earnest believer in the prin- 
 ciples advocated by that party. 
 
 Gl SA F. MIDDAUGH. Among the men who 
 LI were attracted to Colorado by the discovery 
 I I of gold in Pike's Peak was a youth of twenty 
 years, who had been born and reared near Erie, 
 Pa., and knew little by actual experience con- 
 cerning the hardships of frontier life. He and a 
 brother started from St. Joe, Mo., with an ox- 
 train, paying $35 each for the privilege of having 
 their supplies hauled while they walked. After 
 a hard trip of thirty-five days they reached 
 Denver. Instead, however, of following the 
 usual custom of the pioneers of those days and 
 staking a claim in the mountains, he sought 
 wealth through other sources. June 13, i860, he 
 arrived in Colorado and the following year he 
 sunk a shaft and struck amine of coal near where 
 the Marshall bank now is. In the winter of 
 1861-62 he hauled coal from his mine to Denver, 
 being the first man to market coal in this city. 
 In August, 1861, he bought a squatter's right to 
 a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, on 
 which he proved up in 1864. On the northeast 
 corner of the land now stands the shops of the 
 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, to 
 whom he donated the ground for a building site. 
 From this place he also sold out for Fletcher's 
 
 addition and platted Middaugh's addition of 
 twenty-seven acres, upon a part of which houses 
 have been built. Here, in 1890, he erected a 
 commodious and comfortable residence for his 
 famil}'. 
 
 The Middaughs are of Holland extraction and 
 the name in Dutch, means midday. The father 
 of our subject, William H., was born near 
 Painted Post, N. Y., and removed to Erie, Pa., 
 where he followed the wagonmaker's trade, going 
 from there in 1853 to New Castle, Lawrence 
 County, the same state. In 1859 he settled in 
 Denver, of which he was a pioneer and a 
 prominent citizen. He was the first sheriff of 
 Arapahoe County and the first deputy United 
 States marshal under the Kansas laws. He died 
 in 1862, at the age of forty-eight. His wife, 
 Mary, was a daughter of Col. John Marvin, who 
 was born in Massachusetts, took part in the 
 famous Boston tea party, was a captain in the 
 Revolution, and at its close removed near Cov- 
 ington, Tioga County, Pa. Mrs. Middaugh was 
 born in Tioga County and died in Denver in 
 1884, at the age of seventy-four. All of her 
 seven children came to Colorado, and two, Mrs. 
 Alfred Sayre and Mrs. Armstrong, died here, 
 while a son, James F., died in Nevada. Four 
 are living. Charles F. is in Rico, Colo. ; William 
 is a hardware merchant in Ouray; Asa F. resides 
 in Denver; and Frances is the wife of James W. 
 Wier, a real-estate dealer in Denver. 
 
 After completing his schooling in Erie and 
 New Castle, in i860 our subject and his brother, 
 James F. , came to Denver, where he embarked 
 in the stock and coal business and in ranching. 
 In 1864-65 he engaged in freighting between 
 Denver and Missouri River points. For eight 
 years, beginning in 1866, he was a merchant in 
 Elizabethtown and Cimarron, N. M., in partner- 
 ship with H. M. Porter, and the two also carried 
 on a banking business in Cimarron. In 1875 he 
 opened a mercantile store at Del Norte, in the 
 San Luis Valley, where, in 1882, he opened the 
 Bank of Del Norte, one of the oldest financial 
 enterprises in that place. He still continues in 
 the banking business there, where he also has a 
 horse ranch and several farms. Among the 
 horses he has raised is Jim Blaine, record 2 :24, 
 and others almost as fine. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Middaugh was made a Mason 
 in Cimarron and is now a member of Denver 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M. He is a member 
 of the Pioneers' Association and politically is a 
 silver Democrat. While in New Mexico he 
 married Miss Amelie Siever, who was born in 
 St. Louis. Five children were bom of their 
 union: Edna, who died in 1895; Nettie, Hallett, 
 Florence and Freeman. 
 
 (eJCHUYLER GRANT HURST, cashier of 
 7\ the Bank of Brighton, came to Colorado in 
 Vyj the early part of 1892, shortly after complet- 
 ing his business education. He was so well 
 pleased with the prospects here that he deter- 
 mined to remain. He bought out W. G. Love- 
 lace, banker of Brighton, and, associated with 
 A. A. Failing, embarked in the banking busi- 
 ness, but soon bought out his partner and has 
 since been alone. The means for establishing 
 himself in business he secured from his mother 
 and grandmother's estate, which enabled him to 
 start for himself, without borrowing money. At 
 the time he began in the banking business he was 
 the youngest banker in Arapahoe County and 
 one of the youngest in the state, but his sound 
 judgment enabled him to establish the bank upon 
 a substantial basis. The bank has weathered the 
 financial depression of the past few years and is 
 now in a more prosperous condition than at any 
 time in its history. A report, given at the close 
 of the year 1897, showed that the bank deposits 
 had increased one hundred per cent during 1897, 
 loans increased eighty per cent and cash resources 
 over one hundred per cent. The business for 
 that year was most satisfactory and far exceeded 
 the most sanguine expectations of the officers of 
 the bank. Such a report shows that the com- 
 munity in which the bank is located and from 
 which it draws its patronage, has resources which 
 enable it to breast the severest industrial storms 
 and still prosper. At the beginning of the panic 
 depositors were frightened and two-thirds of the 
 deposits were withdrawn, but it was soon seen 
 that the bank was upon a sound financial basis, 
 confidence was restored, deposits were returned 
 and new accounts opened. 
 
 The son of Robert and Harriet (McCord) 
 Hurst, the former of whom resides in Fremont 
 County, Iowa, the subject of this sketch was 
 born in Warren County, Ind., March 19, 1871. 
 His father, a native of Virginia, removed to 
 
 Indiana in early manhood and there met and 
 married Miss McCord, who was born in Warren 
 County and died there, leaving an only child, 
 five years of age. The father married again, re- 
 moved to Iowa and is now living there upon a 
 farm; by his second marriage four children were 
 born. Our subject, who was the only child of 
 the first marriage, remained with his father until 
 he was twenty years of age, meantime attending 
 the public and high schools, and spending three 
 years in Tabor College, Fremont County, from 
 which he graduated in the commercial depart- 
 ment in 1 89 1. He came west in the summer of 
 1891, intending to visit for a short time in Colo- 
 rado, but he was so pleased with the state that 
 he returned to Iowa and made arrangements to 
 return here permanently. 
 
 October 28, 1896, Mr. Hurst married Miss 
 Carrie Whitehead, of Evansville, Ind., with 
 whom he became acquainted while she was visit- 
 ing in Brighton. Politically he is a Republican, 
 upon which ticket he was elected an alderman 
 and town treasurer of Brighton. While in Iowa 
 he was elected assessor, but did not qualify for 
 the office. Reared in the Methodist faith, he 
 attended that church for some time, but is now 
 identified with the Presbyterian denomination. 
 
 EYRUS McCONNELL, who is engaged in 
 business as a carriage, sign and ornamental 
 painter, in Denver, was born in Pittsburg, 
 Pa., December 10, 1853, and is the son of James 
 and Rebecca (Stuart) McConnell, natives of 
 Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather, Robert 
 Stuart, was of Scotch descent and engaged in 
 farming near Pittsburg. James McConnell was 
 employed as a blacksmith in Pittsburg for years, 
 but is now living retired. By his marriage to 
 Miss Stuart, now deceased, he had twelve chil- 
 dren, and of these seven are living, our subject 
 being third in order of birth and the only mem- 
 ber of the family in Colorado. He was reared 
 in Pittsburg and at the age of fifteen was appren- 
 ticed to carriage painting, which he learned, as 
 well as sign and ornamental painting. After the 
 expiration of four years of apprenticeship he be- 
 gan to work at his trade in the employ of others, 
 and finally entered the carriage manufacturing 
 business in partnership with Mr. Miller, but sold 
 out on removing to Denver in 1890. 
 
ALEXANDER BARRY. 
 
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 265 
 
 At No. 1441 Wazee street, where he started in 
 business in 189 1, Mr. McConnell has a building 
 25x75 feet in dimensions. He did the painting 
 for the Studebaker Carriage Company, John 
 Deere Plow Company, Pureel Carriage Companj', 
 and others, also does the sign writing for many 
 of the large business houses of the city. Mr. 
 McConnell is one of the most skilled workmen in 
 his line in the state, and his work is as artistic as 
 it is durable. Politically he is a silver Republi- 
 can. He is connected with the Woodmen of the 
 World and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, having been a member of Manchester Lodge 
 No. 109 and the encampment in Pittsburg. Be- 
 fore coming to Colorado he married Miss Minerva 
 Anderson, who was born and reared near Pitts- 
 burg. They have four children, James, Mabel, 
 Luella and Frank. 
 
 (31 LEXANDER BARRY, one of the prosper- 
 LS ous farmers of Larimer County, came to 
 / I Colorado in 1871 and bought from Joe Ma- 
 son one hundred and twenty acres on the Cache 
 la Poudre, adjoining Fort Collins. At that time 
 the land was not much improved. He became 
 interested in the Anderson and Ames ditch and 
 secured adequate irrigation for his land, thus 
 being enabled to raise good crops. After a few 
 years he bought two hundred acres at New Wind- 
 sor, Weld Count3% under Greeley ditch No. 2. 
 On that place he has made a specialty of raising 
 potatoes, and there, as on his home place, he 
 feeds numbers of sheep. He also owns a ranch 
 in Wyoming on the North Platte. On his home 
 place he has good improvements, including a neat 
 brick residence occupying a fine location. 
 
 Though himself of Irish birth (born near Cole- 
 rain, County Londonderry) Mr. Barry is of di- 
 rect Scotch descent both on his father's and moth- 
 ers side. Both his father and grandfather bore 
 the name of Alexander and both were natives of 
 Ireland. The former brought his family to Amer- 
 ica in 1863, but died in Philadelphia the follow- 
 ing year. His wife, Nancy, was the daughter of 
 Niel Blair, a farmer in Ireland; she died in Phila- 
 delphia in 1870. Of their six children Alexander 
 was the eldest; Thomas took part in the Civil war; 
 Margaret died when a girl; Rachel and Robert 
 live in Philadelphia; and James is the Denver 
 manager for the New York Wallpaper Company. 
 
 On the farm, where he was born in 1839, the 
 
 subject of this sketch passed the years of his boy- 
 hood. In 1863 he accompanied his parents to 
 America, via Londonderry to Quebec, thence to 
 New York, and from there to Philadelphia. He 
 was employed for five years in the oil regions, 
 where he engaged in boring wells under contracts, 
 being principally in Venango County. He then 
 spent a yearin Philadelphia, after which, in 1871, 
 he came to Colorado, and bought his present 
 homestead. He is a member of the Larimer Coun- 
 ty Sheep Feeders' Association. In politics he fa- 
 vors the silver cause and in religion is a Presbyte- 
 rian. While still in Ireland, when twenty-two 
 years of age, he was made a Mason, in a lodge 
 near Colerain, and is now a member of Collins 
 Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 At Walnut Bend, near Oil City, Pa., Mr. Bar- 
 ry married Miss Emma Thompson, a native of 
 Pennsylvania. Her father, W. N. Thompson, 
 was born near Jamestown , N. Y. , of an old east- 
 ern family, and for some years was engaged as 
 an oil speculator in Pennsylvania, but is now liv- 
 ing retired in Pittsburg. He married Margaret 
 Walker, a native of Westmoreland County, Pa. 
 Of their six sons and three daughters, all are living 
 but one of the sons. Mr. and Mrs. Barry are the 
 parents of eight children now living, namely: 
 Rachel Ann, wife of Jerome Decker, of North 
 Park; Maggie, wife of John Cahill, of" Fort Col- 
 lins; May, a graduate of Fort Collins high school; 
 Clara, Robert, James, Alice and Ruth, at home. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM A. POWERS. Some years ago 
 
 \ A / Mr. Powers purchased a ranch situated on 
 V Y Broadway, one and one-half miles east of 
 Littleton, and here he has since made his home, 
 devoting his attention to the raising of the various 
 farm products which experience proves are 
 adapted to the soil. He is a native of Vermont, 
 born in Orange County January 15, 1841, he and 
 his twin sister being the youngest of eight children 
 comprising the family of William B. and Matilda 
 (Morse) Powers. Six of the family are now liv- 
 ing, namely: Josiah B., who settled in Oshkosh, 
 Wis., in 1853, was for fourteen years city clerk 
 and is now engaged in the abstract business 
 there; David W., who is engaged in mining in 
 Ouray and resides in Montrose; James Franklin, 
 who for many years has been pastor of the Epis- 
 copal Church of Pottsville, Pa.; Charles E., 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 who is engaged in the milling business in New 
 York state; Julia W. and William A. (twins), the 
 former married to James G. Hill, a prominent 
 architect of Washington, D. C, and at one time 
 United States chief architect. Two daughters 
 are deceased, Sarah M. and Mary E. , the latter 
 having been the wife of John Frazer, who was 
 the first lieutenant of a Federal company during 
 the war. 
 
 The father of this family was born in Spring- 
 field, Vt., and became an extensive raiser of and 
 dealer in beef cattle. Up to fifty-six years his 
 life was passed in Vermont and New York, but 
 at that age he removed to Oshkosh, Wis. , where 
 he devoted his attention to farming until his death, 
 in 1869. His father, Asial Powers, was a soldier 
 in the war of 18 12. 
 
 When six years of age our subject accompanied 
 his parents from Orange to Windsor County, Vt., 
 and at the age of fifteen he went with the family 
 to Oshkosh, Wis., which he considered his home 
 up to his twenty-sixth year. October i, 1864, 
 he enlisted in Company E, Forty-fourth Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, in which he served until the close 
 of hostilities, being mustered out of service March 
 18, 1865. When a boy he worked in the Wis- 
 consin pineries for a lumber firm, but not wishing 
 to make that state his permanent home, shortly 
 after his return from the- war he began to plan to 
 come farther west. In November, 1866, he car- 
 ried out his cherished plan and came to Colorado, 
 settling in Denver; but sickness in the family 
 called him home in August, 1867, and from that 
 time until 1870 he engaged in farming in Wis- 
 consin. In that year he again settled in Colo- 
 rado, this time in L,ittleton, where he engaged in 
 stock-raising and the dairy business. After some 
 three years he became an employe in the Rough 
 and Ready mill of Littleton and continued with 
 the company for nine years, after which, in 1879, 
 he went to Leadville and embarked in the restau- 
 rant business with his brother. A short experi- 
 ence in that business was sufiicient, however, to 
 convince him that he had no fondness for it, and 
 in a short time he returned to Littleton, where, 
 after two years at general work, he purchased his 
 present home. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Powers was elected a member of 
 the school board of Littleton, where he has since 
 faithfully served, his term expiring in May, 1898. 
 Politically he is a Republican and in religious 
 
 behef identified with the Presbyterian Church. 
 Like other veterans of the Civil war he takes an 
 interest in Grand Army matters. November 25, 
 1863, he married Sallie J. Bartow, whose father 
 was a prominent farmer and for some fifteen years 
 held a United States mail contract. They are the 
 parents of four children, all living. Sylvester, 
 who is unmarried, is engaged in mining in Victor, 
 Colo. ; Julia W. married Lou Fauth, who is em- 
 ployed by the Littleton Creamery Company; they 
 have two children, a son and daughter. Inez is 
 married and has one child, a son. Frederick W. 
 is with his parents. 
 
 GjUGUST H. BEUCK. Elbert County is 
 LI divided by the West Bijou Creek into two 
 I 1 sections, the eastern portion being especially 
 adapted for stock-raising, while the western sec- 
 tion is mainly agricultural. Twelve miles from 
 Resolis, on the Rock Island Railroad, and six 
 miles from the station of Agate, is located the 
 ranch owned by Mr. Beuck. In 1876 he bought 
 out a pre-emption and proved up one "hundred 
 and sixty acres on the East Bijou in Elbert 
 County, where he now owns over one thousand 
 acres of fine hay lands. He makes a specialty of 
 raising Shorthorn Durhams, and on his place has 
 shed-room for seven or eight hundred head. He 
 was among the first to dehorn cattle, a plan 
 which he has followed for some years and finds 
 very satisfactory. After serious loss from black 
 leg among his cattle, he decided to experiment 
 with vaccinating and he tried Pasteur's vaccine, 
 which has worked so satisfactorily that all the 
 cattle are now treated with it. 
 
 Our subject was born in Kiel, Holstein, the son 
 of Henry Beuck, a native of the same province, 
 and by occupation a farmer, who came to Amer- * 
 ica in 1876, settling in Pottawattamie County, 
 Iowa,- and buying a farm, where he continued to 
 reside until his death , at sixty-five years. Au- 
 gust came to America in 1868, when fifteen years 
 of age, and settled in Davenport, Iowa, where 
 he learned the butcher's business. In 1870 he 
 came to Colorado, and for a time spent his win- 
 ters in the mountains working at his trade and 
 his summers on the plains. In 1874 he bought 
 a few cattle, thus getting his start in the busi- 
 ness he has since conducted. 
 
 Politically Mr. Beuck is in sympathy with Re- 
 
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 267 
 
 publican tenets. In 1889, upon that ticket, he 
 was elected commissioner of Elbert County, and 
 took his seat on the board of commissioners in 
 January, 1890. He was re-elected two years 
 later, without opposition, and served until Jan- 
 uary, 1896, his duties as commissioner requiring 
 his frequent presence at Kiowa, the county seat. 
 He is a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' 
 Association. In Central City, this state, he 
 married Miss Jennie Miller, a native of Germany. 
 They spend their summers on the ranch, and 
 during the winters reside in Denver, in order that 
 their sons, Frederick and Henry, may have the 
 advantages offered by the excellent schools of 
 this city. 
 
 NENLY W. ALLEN, M. D., of Boulder, is 
 a pioneer physician of Colorado, and has 
 been longer engaged in active practice in 
 Boulder County than any other member of his pro- 
 fession. In the early days of our local history he 
 had many extremely interesting experiences, and 
 was foremost in every endeavor to place the 
 county and state on a safe and sound basis for 
 future prosperity. He brought the first drugs 
 and medicines (of any amount) into Boulder 
 County, in 1865, started a drug store in Valmont, 
 and in 1876 opened a store in Boulder, and thus 
 was the proprietor of such an enterprise for almost 
 thirty years, as he did not sell out until 1893. 
 He also purchased the first printing-press brought 
 into the county, and after publishing the Val- 
 mont Bulletin for a year, disposed of the outfit to 
 parties from Boulder, who began printing the 
 Boulder News, still a flourishing journal. For a 
 period of twelve years he was the efficient county 
 surveyor, and, indeed, was the first to bring sur- 
 veying instruments into this region. For many 
 years he served ably as county physician and 
 for two terms held the office of county coroner. 
 Thus, it is plainly seen, even without more 
 preliminary, that the worthy doctor has been un- 
 usually progressive and w'ide-awake to the de- 
 velopment of local industries and resources, and 
 always ready to do more than his share in the 
 onward march of civilization, which has trans- 
 formed the desert and mountain wildernesses 
 into beautiful and populous districts. 
 
 The father of Dr. Allen was Rev. A. P. Allen, 
 a native of Connecticut. He went to Ohio in 
 early manhood, and about 1835 was admitted to 
 
 the Illinois bar. Later he became a minister in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had pas- 
 torates at Janesville, Milwaukee and Fond du 
 Lac. In i860 he started across the plains with 
 his family (exclusive of the doctor) in covered 
 wagons drawn by numerous yokes of cows. 
 Arriving in Colorado he located in what is now 
 comprised within West Denver, and remained in 
 that section until the disastrous flood, when he 
 removed to Blackhawk, where he resided for 
 two years, thence came to Valmont, Boulder 
 County. Here he served as county commissioner 
 for three terms; was judge of the probate court 
 for two terms and was acting as county commis- 
 sioner at the time of his death in 1880, at the age 
 of sixty-six years. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Cornelia Hayden, was born in Vermont, and 
 died just two weeks prior to the death of her 
 husband. Her father, a merchant tailor, went 
 to the City of Mexico on a trip years ago; he was 
 murdered by a fanatic, in his own shop, during 
 the passing of a Catholic procession. Of the 
 four children of Rev. A. P. Allen and wife the 
 two daughters are: Mrs. Ophelia Eldred, of 
 Boulder, and Mrs. Nellie Andrews, of Cheyenne. 
 G. S. Allen, now of Los Angeles, Cal., came to 
 this state in i860, and by turns was a preacher, a 
 miner and a freighter of goods across the plains 
 and mountains hereabout. 
 
 The birth of Dr. H. W. Allen occurred near 
 Chicago, 111., December 28, 1838. He was a 
 fine student, excelling in all of his classes, and 
 graduated from the University of Appleton, Wis., 
 in i860, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 
 being the valedictorian. Three years later he 
 received the degree of Master of Arts from his 
 alma mater. Subsequent to his graduation the 
 young man went to Valparaiso, Ind., where for 
 two years he taught mathematics and sciences 
 in the Valparaiso Male and Female College, now 
 called the Northern Indiana Normal School. He 
 next entered Rush Medical College, where he 
 took a course of lectures, then beginning the 
 practice of his chosen profession in Royal ton, 
 Wis. In 1864 he came to this state, making a 
 part of the journey to Omaha by horse-team, 
 and thence proceeding in a large company, on 
 account of Indians, from Fort Kearney on, there 
 being over one hundred persons in the caravan. 
 At first the doctor settled in Blackhawk, but in 
 1865 he came to Boulder Valley, and practiced 
 
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 in Valmont until the Centennial year, since 
 which time he has been a resident of Boulder. 
 In 1867 he graduated from the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Iowa, then at Keokuk, 
 Iowa, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 He has had a very successful career as a practi- 
 tioner, and has long ranked second to none in his 
 profession hereabouts. His office is situated at 
 the corner of Pearl and Fourteenth streets. From 
 the time of the war until the silver question came 
 into prominence, he was loyal to the principles 
 of the Republican party, but does not agree with 
 it on this subject. He was initiated into Ma- 
 sonry in 1859 in Wisconsin, and is now affiliated 
 with Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M. 
 In the Ancient Order of United Workmen he is 
 the examining physician. One of the first to 
 organize the Boulder County Medical Society, 
 he occupies an honored place in its ranks and is 
 also connected with the State Medical Society. 
 
 In Fond du Lac, Wis., Dr. Allen married 
 Miss Meldred McNeel, in i860. She was born 
 in Pottsdam, N. Y., and her brother. Dr. Henry 
 McNeel, a state senator in Wisconsin, is one of 
 the leading physicians of Fond du Lac. Of 
 the children born to our subject and wife, Mellie 
 died at six years, Julius at fourteen, and Mason 
 was killed by a horse when in his twenty-fifth 
 year. Meda E., Mrs. Tavenner, is principal of 
 the public school at Walsenburg, Colo. O. J., 
 who graduated from Gross Medical College in 
 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and 
 had the highest average scholarship of any in his 
 class, is now practicing in Boulder. Arthur H. 
 is a member of the drug firm of Richardson & 
 Allen, of Denver. Herbert, also a pharmacist, 
 is now prospecting and mining in Walsenburg. 
 Charles E. is superintendent for the Victor Coal 
 and Coke Company. Daisy, Henly, Fannie and 
 Roy are at home. 
 
 (31 LEXANDER MILHEIM, owner of a pretty 
 r I homestead on .section 18, township i south, 
 I 1 range 66 west, Arapahoe County, is a native 
 of Switzerland. His birth took place near Scher • 
 er, Canton Berne, February 6, 1848. He was 
 left an orphan at an early age as his father died 
 when the lad was five years old and the mother 
 survived but a twelvemonth. By a previous 
 marriage the senior Milheim had two children, 
 Jacob and John, both of whom are living in the 
 
 United States, the former in Allegan County, 
 Mich. , and the latter in Denver. The two own sis- 
 ters of our subject are deceased and his only 
 brother, Frederick, is a resident of this section 
 and is represented elsewhere in this volume. 
 
 John Milheim, Sr. , left sufficient property to 
 rear and educate his little family, and thus Alex- 
 ander Milheim was fortunately not dependent 
 upon relatives or charity in his boyhood days. 
 In 1862 he and his elder brother, Frederick, de- 
 termined to seek their fortunes in the land of 
 promise, America. The long tiresome voyage 
 on the sailing vessel of the period consumed fifty- 
 one days, but was safely ended at last. Their 
 small capital now nearly gone, the two brave lads 
 concluded to begin their real life battle, and going 
 into New Jersey, they worked as gardeners for 
 the thrifty farmers for a few months. They then 
 went to Niagara Falls, where a cousin, John Mil- 
 heim, lived, and from there they went to Allegan 
 County, Mich., where their home continued to 
 be together for several years. They both wished 
 to enter the army during the Civil war, but the 
 health of our subject was such that he was not 
 accepted. He worked in a shingle mill and at 
 other employments in Michigan, and finally 
 drifted to Iowa, where he ferried across the Mis- 
 souri River, and assisted in building the bridge 
 at Omaha. In the meantime he homsteaded a 
 farm in Nebraska, but never improved it, and 
 ultimately sold it. 
 
 Returning on a visit to Michigan, Mr. Milheim 
 was married August 31, 1873, to Miss Wila Traf- 
 ford. Her parents were Thomas and Eliza 
 (Sheldon) Traffbrd, and her birthplace was in 
 Galesburg, Kalamazoo County, Mich. Four 
 children, two sons and two daughters, were born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Milheim. The two elder ones 
 are deceased, Frederick having died when seven 
 years old and little Alma when eighteen months. 
 Bertha, born in Michigan, and James Otto, born 
 on the Colorado homestead of his parents, are 
 with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Milheim are 
 both members of the Presbyterian Church of 
 Brighton, and are respected and loved by all who 
 know them. 
 
 When starting out in their married life, the 
 young couple were obliged to begin housekeeping 
 in a humble way, but they had brave hearts and 
 went forth to meet the future with faith in God and 
 themselves. To such loyal trusting souls, ready 
 
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 to wait and labor in the meantime with all their 
 powers, success usually comes sooner or later. 
 In the year that Colorado became one of the 
 states of the Union, Mr. Milheim came west, but 
 he was not favorably impressed with this countrj', 
 the contrast with his own state being so marked. 
 Therefore he returned to Michigan, where he 
 found that the charms of the mountain and the 
 distinctive beauties and advantages of the Cen- 
 tennial state had a lasting place in his remem- 
 brance. In the autumn of 1877 he again came to 
 Colorado and the following June he sent for his 
 wife and children. For some time he was em- 
 ployed by a Mr. Force of Pittsburg to look after 
 his cattle. Then he built a small house on Third 
 Creek, and in 1879 he became the manager of 
 his brother Frederick's ranch. In 1880 he pur- 
 chased a claim, aud this land, since greatly im- 
 proved by him, is his homestead, as described 
 above. At that time there was but one tree on 
 the farm that is now nicely shaded and pleasant 
 to look upon. The place is provided with ditches 
 for irrigation, aud Mr. Milheim is one of the 
 stockholders in the Fulton ditch, which has been 
 the salvation of this portion of the county, re- 
 claiming it from the desert. Though nothing of 
 a politician he votes the Democratic ticket in 
 national elections. 
 
 HARRY EIvMER CHURCHILL. Colorado 
 is distinguished for the high rank of her 
 bench and bar. Perhaps none of the newer 
 states can justly boast of abler jurists or attor- 
 neys. Many of them have been men of national 
 fame, and among those whose lives have been 
 passed on a quieter plane there is scarcely a town 
 or city in the state but can boast of one or more 
 lawyers capable of crossing swords in forensic 
 combat with any of the distinguished legal lights 
 of the United States. Among these prominent 
 and successful attorneys is Harry E. Churchill, 
 of Greeley, who though young in years has 
 already won an enviable reputation at the Weld 
 County bar. 
 
 He was born in Benton County, Iowa, July 16, 
 1861, and is a son of Almond M. and Anna 
 (Lovejoy) Churchill, both representatives of good 
 old New England families, the Churchills being 
 early settlers of Vermont, while the Lovejoy 
 family was founded in this country by one of the 
 
 brave little band to come over in the "Mayflower. ' ' 
 Almond M. Churchill was born in the Green 
 Mountain state and was one of the "forty-niners" 
 who went round the cape to California during 
 the gold excitement. In 1854 he located near 
 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he engaged in agri- 
 culture and stock-raising, and became one of the 
 largest land owners of that state. He was mar- 
 ried in Vermont to Anna Lovejoy and they 
 became the parents of eight children. Of those 
 living, George R. resides on the old homestead in 
 Iowa; Henry C. is engaged in farming in Neb- 
 raska; Frank M. is a farmer and stock-raiser of 
 Michigan ; and Virginia is the wife of Samuel F. 
 Negley, of Wahoo, Neb. 
 
 With the view to entering the legal profession, 
 Harry E. Churchill was educated at Cole Insti- 
 tute, Cedar Rapids, and Western College, Toledo, 
 Iowa, after which he read law at Toledo and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1885. After two years 
 .spent at Norton, Kau., he came to Greeley, Colo., 
 and opened an office. It was not long before his 
 ability became recognized and he soon succeeded 
 in building up a large and lucrative practice, which 
 he still enjoys, having probably tried more cases 
 before the courts than any other attorney in the 
 city. He has one of the most complete libraries 
 in the county, in fact, in this part of the state, 
 and is a well-posted man. His time is fully occu- 
 pied in practice before the lower courts, United 
 States district court, the United States circuit 
 court and the supreme court of the state of Colo- 
 rado and also of the United States. Although 
 he makes a specialty of real-estate law, he is 
 noted as exceptionally able in criminal defense, 
 having a reputation as a trial lawyer that makes 
 his services in demand all over the state. Spe- 
 cial mention may be made of the Richard Barry 
 and Schneider murder cases, in both of which he 
 was successful, and the famous Cochran cattle 
 stealing case and the Matthews larceny cases. 
 He has met with success financially as well as 
 professionally, and is now the owner of a large 
 amount of real estate, including farm land and 
 his fine residence at the corner of Seventh street 
 and Thirteenth avenue, which is one of the best 
 homes in Greeley, the culture and artistic taste 
 of its occupants being reflected in its appoint- 
 ments, while a gracious hospitality adds a charm 
 to its material comforts. 
 
 On the 6th of June, 1881, was celebrated the 
 
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 marriage of Mr. Churchill and Miss Isabella 
 Van Osdall, a daughter of John Van Osdall, of 
 Geneseo, 111., and to them have been born three 
 children: Flossie Estelle, Harry Van and Isa- 
 bella. Mr. Churchill is a member of the Knights 
 of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. He attends the Congregational Church, to 
 the support of which he contributes. He has 
 always been a pronounced Republican, and since 
 boyhood has taken an active and influential part 
 in political affairs, particularly since coming to 
 Colorado, but has never been an office seeker. 
 He has been a delegate to state and national con- 
 ventions, and for many years has served as chair- 
 man of the Republican central committee. 
 
 nOHN H. LAWRENCE, whose home was in 
 I Brighton, was born in Pennsylvania, but was 
 G/ only four years of age when his parents, John 
 and Sarah E. (Evans) Lawrence, removed to 
 Ohio, settling in Wakeman, Huron County. His 
 father, a native of England, emigrated to America 
 and learned the trade of a shoemaker in Connect- 
 icut, with his future wife's father, who carried 
 on an extensive business. After his marriage he 
 moved to Pennsylvania and later went to Ohio, 
 where his remaining years were spent. 
 
 In the town of Wakeman there lived a little 
 girl, Martha A. Ransom, daughter of Henry G. 
 and Mary (French) Ransom, natives respectively 
 of Connecticut and Huron County, Ohio. Her 
 father was about two years old when his parents, 
 Russell and Lucretia (Gates) Ransom, drove with 
 an ox-team through from Connecticut to Ohio 
 and settled in the woods of Huron County, of 
 which they were pioneers. The maternal grand- 
 parents, Burton and Augusta (Dayton) French, 
 also drove through from Connecticut in an early 
 day. When Henry G. Ransom was still compara- 
 tively a young man he passed away, leaving his 
 widow and three children in comfortable circum- 
 stances. Afterward the widowed mother brought 
 her children into town, leaving the farm where 
 she had previously resided and removing to 
 Wakeman. 
 
 Living near each other, in the same town , John 
 H. Lawrence and Martha A. Ransom were ac- 
 quainted from childhood. He had entered Ober- 
 lin College some months before the Civil war 
 broke out, but at the first call for volunteers for 
 
 three months he left his books and entered the 
 service. At the expiration of his time he again 
 enlisted and served until the close of the war. 
 From the ranks he was promoted to be second, 
 and then first lieutenant. Though taking an 
 active part in many battles, he was never wounded 
 nor taken prisoner, but the exposure injured his 
 health to such an extent that he was confined to 
 his bed for two years after the war and was not 
 expected to live from hour to hour. Just across 
 the road lived Miss Ransom with her mother. It 
 was but natural that she should take a deep in- 
 terest in the welfare of the sick soldier, and the 
 attachment then formed was consummated in 
 their marriage, December 27, 1868. In the mean 
 time the Soldiers' Home had been started at Col- 
 umbus, Ohio, and Mr. Lawrence was appointed 
 to go there and take charge of the farm. After 
 the home was transferred to Dayton, they went 
 there and took charge of the farm. 
 
 In the summer of 1870 Mr. Lawrence and his 
 wife moved to Nebraska and settled on a farm in 
 Platte County, where he pre-empted and also 
 bought land, securing seven hundred and sixty 
 acres in one body. There he raised cattle and 
 hogs. After the grasshoppers had destroyed 
 their crops for three successive years, he rented 
 his farm and went to the Black Hills, his wife 
 going to Fremont, Neb. After two years he sold 
 his farm and with his wife came to Colorado, 
 settling four miles from Denver, but after a year 
 removed near Brighton. A year later he bought 
 one hundred and sixty acres, upon which he 
 made his home for a few years, and then went to 
 Baton Rouge, La. , where he owned a plantation. 
 However, the climate not agreeing with the 
 family, he sold his place and went to Cheyenne, 
 Wyo., and from there returned to Brighton in 
 1892. Here he served one term as mayor. For 
 many years he was a justice of the peace, and in 
 politics voted the Republican ticket. He would 
 have made a fine lawyer had his studies been in 
 that direction. In religion a Presbyterian, he 
 was a prime mover in raising the money for build- 
 ing the church in Brighton. He was also instru- 
 mental in the erection of the first schoolhouse 
 here and served for four years as president of the 
 school board. 
 
 Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lawrence and five of these are now living. 
 Martha B. , who lives in Weld County, married 
 
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 271 
 
 Benjamin Shearston and has two children, Har- 
 vey and Ada. John R. , who attended business 
 college in Denver and Salina, Kan., was engaged 
 in farming until May, 1898, since which time he 
 has been proprietor of a livery stable in Brighton. 
 Agnes married Charles Shearston and resides 
 near Hudson, Weld County. Olive M. began to 
 teach at a very early age and is very successful 
 in the profession. Sara E. was born near Brigh- 
 ton and resides with her mother in this place. 
 
 HENRY L. LOCKE, one of the enterprising 
 young agriculturists of Arapahoe County, 
 has instituted numerous valuable improve- 
 ments upon his homestead within the past few 
 years and is constantly adding to the productive- 
 ness of the place by his judicious care and ex- 
 penditure. Coming here from Massachusetts he 
 necessarily found at once that eastern methods 
 and conditions of farming were totally inadequate 
 for Colorado, and he industriously set to work to 
 cope with the new diflBculties. 
 
 The parents of the above-named young man 
 were Calvin S. and Anne (Lincoln) Locke, na- 
 tives of Massachusetts. The father, a man of 
 good education, has followed the profession of a 
 teacher, and under his painstaking instruction 
 and guidance the son, Henry L-, received unusual 
 advantages. At the age of seventeen years the 
 youth was sufficiently advanced in his studies to 
 be allowed to enter Cornell University, within 
 whose classic halls he passed the following two 
 years. Later he took a course in agriculture, 
 chemistry and assaying iaLehigh University with 
 a view to being better fitted to assume charge of 
 some Colorado property which his father had 
 purchased and desired him to look after. This 
 land was located near Longmont, and was a part 
 of the tract on which the Chicago colony settled. 
 
 It was in July, 1880, that Henry L. Locke 
 reached his future home in Colorado. In the 
 succeeding October he began to improve his farm 
 in earnest, and for ten years his dwelling place 
 was there, in the vicinity of Longmont. In 1890 
 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, located about a mile and a-half from 
 Brighton, on section 4, township i south, range 66 
 west. He commenced the system of irrigating 
 ditches, connecting with Burlington ditch, that 
 has gradually improved the farm. In 1891, wish- 
 
 ing additional land, he rented some unimproved 
 property, and brought this, also, under cultiva- 
 tion. It became his by purchase in 1897, and 
 here he has his present home. He makes a 
 specialty of raising grain for shipment. It is a 
 fixed principle with him to attend strictly to his 
 own affairs and to keep out of public office. Thus 
 he is nothing of a politician, though he never 
 neglects to discharge his full duty as a citizen 
 and voter, his ballot being used in favor of the 
 nominees of the Republican party. He was 
 reared in the faith of the Unitarian Church, but 
 does not hold membership with any denomina- 
 tion. In all his dealings with his fellow-men 
 his course is marked by unquestionable and 
 straightforward honesty and fairness, and the es- 
 teem and respect of all who know him are his in 
 no unstinted measure. 
 
 3AC0B CAMPBELL, M. D., of Ward, Boulder 
 County, was born in the city of St. Louis, 
 January 22, 1863, and is a son of Alexander 
 Campbell. His father, though a native of Wheel- 
 ing, W. Va., was a resident of St. Louis from his 
 youth until 1871, when he moved to Denver; 
 three years later he removed to Boulder. He 
 then retired from business and returned to St. 
 Louis. His wife was Margaret Hayes, who was 
 born in Tipperary, Ireland. Three children were 
 bom to them, of whom Joseph and Jacob survive. 
 One son, John, died in this county at the age of 
 twenty-nine years. 
 
 Dr. Campbell received the rudiments of his 
 education in Boulder, after which he entered the 
 medical department of the University of Colorado, 
 from which he graduated May 31, 1887, with the 
 degree of M. D. On the ist of June, that year, 
 he located in Ward, where he has remained ever 
 since. He was the first physician to locate in 
 the village, and he has built up a lucrative 
 practice, which extends over a radius of some 
 eight miles. For several years he had to carry a 
 line of drugs and dispense medicine himself, as 
 there was no drug store there until within the 
 last four years. 
 
 He was married in Altona, Colo., to Miss 
 Inez B. Clawson, who was born in Minnesota, 
 and is a daughter of Abraham Clawson, now of 
 Denver. They have four children: William 
 Ralph, Jacob Carl, Ethel June and Ernest Glenn. 
 
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 The doctor was interested in the Newmarket 
 mine and helped develop it until it was sold. He 
 has been a member of the school board, serving 
 as secretary and president, and succeeded in 
 getting bonds for the present schoolhouse. He 
 was elected county coroner two terms, resigning 
 the second year of the second term. He is a 
 member of the Boulder County Medical Society, 
 and examiner for the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Knights of Pythias. He is 
 also a member of the order of Rathbone Sisters. 
 He is examiner for a number of leading life insur- 
 ance companies, such as the New York Life, New 
 York Mutual, New York Equitable, United 
 States Life, and others. He is a Democrat, and 
 is chairman of the committee of Ward precinct 
 No. 10, and a member of the county central 
 committee. 
 
 nOHN M. PAULDING is comparatively a 
 I recent comer to Colorado, as his residence 
 (2/ here dates back but twelve years. He owns 
 a good homestead on section 25, township 2 
 south, range 68 west, Arapahoe County. This 
 property has been in his possession less than a 
 decade, but during this period he has placed 
 many material improvements upon it, and now 
 has one of the best farms in the township. He is 
 a successful and progressive farmer, and though 
 he found that Colorado methods of agriculture 
 are vastly different from those in use farther east, 
 he soon adapted himself to the new conditions 
 and is doing well. He is a member of the grange, 
 and takes the best agricultural journals of the 
 day, in order to keep up with modern systems of 
 farming. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of J. M. Paulding 
 was John W. Paulding, whose father, John 
 Paulding, was the soldier who captured Major 
 Andre in the days of the Revolution. Grand- 
 father J. W. Paulding was a hatter by trade, and 
 plied his calling in Pittsburg, Pa., and in St. 
 Louis, whither he removed when our subject's 
 father was about three years old. He also built 
 a sawmill in Shannon County, Mo., and became 
 well off in this world's goods. Judge George 
 Paulding, father of J. M., was born in Pittsburg, 
 Pa., and received a good business education in 
 Belleville, 111., and in St. Louis. When he was 
 about seventeen years old he went to Shannon 
 County to look after his father's mill, and em- 
 
 barked in farming there. Later he moved into 
 Texas County, Mo., where he bought land and 
 passed the rest of his life. He was a prominent 
 man there, holding the offices of justice of the 
 peace, county surveyor, assessor, probate judge 
 and judge of the county court. He served in the 
 Confederate army during the Civil war. His 
 first wife was Julia Turpin, and to them seven 
 children were born. After the death of this wife, 
 the judge remarried and had several children. 
 James F. , of the first family, died a short time 
 after entering the army, of fever contracted in 
 the service. 
 
 The birth of J. M. Paulding occurred in Shan- 
 non County, Mo., March 16, 1845. The schools 
 in that county were very poor at that time, and 
 the lad did not have very good opportunities for 
 gaining an education. He enlisted in the com- 
 pany of which his father was a sergeant (Com- 
 pany B, Fifth Division, Missouri Volunteers), 
 and about six months after was taken sick with 
 the measles. He went home, and while there, 
 he and his father were captured, but were soon 
 released upon parole. After he had returned to 
 the paths of peace he resumed his interrupted 
 studies. He continued to dwell under the 
 parental roof until he was twenty-two years of 
 age, when he homesteaded a tract of one hundred 
 and sixty acres in Texas Countj', Mo., and began 
 its improvement. 
 
 To his new humble home Mr. Paulding 
 brought a bride to share his joys and sorrows. 
 She was formerly Miss Sarah Roberts, of Texas 
 County, Mo., and their marriage was solemnized 
 April 3, 1868. A native of Tennessee, she had 
 removed to Missouri with her parents, James and 
 Elizabeth Roberts, when she was but five years 
 old. Six children were born to the couple in 
 Missouri. William G. is a good business man 
 and prospector; John M. married Maude Bache- 
 lor, and lives in De Lamar, Idaho; James F. 
 married Rose Cline, and is engaged in running a 
 grocery in Denver; Maggie B., a very successful 
 teacher, supplemented her excellent education by 
 attending Professor Dick's normal school, and 
 has taught in her home district for four years, 
 giving satisfaction to all. Mary E. and Ella M. 
 are both at home, the latter attending school. 
 The parents are members of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 Five years after settling on the Mis,souri farm 
 
HON. JAMES B. ARTHUR. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 that he had entered from the government, Mr. 
 Paulding sold it and bought a better piece of 
 eighty acres, and there made his home until 
 1886, when he started for Colorado with his 
 family. They drove all the way, and in their 
 two wagons carried supplies for camping and 
 housekeeping. They had intended to go to 
 Routt County, Colo., but stopped in Denver, and 
 finally did not leave the vicinity. They like the 
 country and are succeeding in all their undertak- 
 ings, being engaged mostly in gardening. 
 
 HON. JAMES B. ARTHUR, a pioneer of 
 '60 in Colorado and now the secretary and 
 treasurer of the Consolidated Plaster Com- 
 pany of Denver, is one of the most prominent 
 and successful citizens of Fort Collins, of which 
 city he has served as mayor and in other public 
 positions of trust. He was born in County 
 Londonderry, Ireland, in March, 1835, of Scotch 
 lineage, his grandfather, Arthur, having been a 
 native of Scotland and an active member of the 
 Presbyterian Church in that country. The 
 father, James Arthur, was born in Ireland, where 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising until 
 his death, when past fifty years of age. He was 
 three times married, and by his union with Mary 
 Booth, a native of County Tyrone, and whose 
 family were, like his own, freeholders, he had 
 five children, three of whom attained years of 
 maturity, namely: James B., of this sketch; John, 
 who joined our subject in Colorado and was 
 accidentally killed on the Cache la Poudre April 
 15, 1878, by a runaway team; and Jane, wife of 
 William Jessup, who died in what is now 
 Hoboken, Pa. There are two daughters living 
 of another marriage, Rozetta, of Allegheny City, 
 Pa., and Grace, who is married and lives in 
 Pittsburg. 
 
 In 1849, when fourteen years of age, Mr. 
 Arthur started for America, and, crossing the 
 ocean, joined his sister in Pennsylvania. His 
 voyage on the sailer "Cathnes-shire," from Bel- 
 fast to New York City, was an eventful one, not 
 only because it was his first glimpse of the world 
 outside of his own parish home, but more 
 especially on account of shipwreck. The vessel 
 was wrecked on Barren Island, thirty miles from 
 New York, and remained stranded on a sand-bar 
 
 until the tide went down. The passengers were 
 rescued by a tugboat from New York. 
 
 In Pittsburg the boy found employment in the 
 grocery of Matthews & Bros. , where he remained 
 for eighteen months. He then secured work as 
 cabin boy on a steamer on the Ohio and Miss- 
 issippi Rivers, and later was promoted to be a 
 clerk. His boat plied the waters of the rivers 
 between Pittsburg and New Orleans in winters, 
 while the summers were spent on the great lakes. 
 He was finally made baggage master and placed 
 in charge also of express packages on the boats 
 that were run in connection with railroads, on 
 the Sandusky, Toledo, Buffalo and Detroit lines. 
 Quitting the lake trade in 1858, he came west as 
 far as Nebraska City, making the journey via the 
 steamer "Morning Star" from St. Louis to St. Joe, 
 Mo., and on the steamer "Florence" from St. Joe 
 to Nebraska City. He joined his brother John 
 in that place and remained there until the Pike's 
 Peak excitement drew so many to the mountains 
 of the west. Determining to seek his fortune in 
 Colorado, in the spring of i860 he came across 
 the plains with two yoke of oxen and a wagon, on 
 the south side of the Platte, to near Fort Kearney, 
 then going on to Denver. He met friends, dis- 
 couraged and returning east, but he refused to 
 act on their advice and turn back. He had an 
 abundance of provisions for a year and was deter- 
 mined to see the country for himself. 
 ■ Landing in Denver June 10, he proceeded 
 from there into the Gilpin and Clear Creek dis- 
 tricts, and from there went via Bear Canon to 
 Boulder. While in the mining region, observa- 
 tion taught him that mining was not always a 
 success. He decided the best thing for him to do 
 would be to cut and make hay and haul to the 
 mountains. This he did, locating his claim on 
 the Cache la Poudre, where the land was well 
 adapted for his purpose. There were then only 
 two tents in the valley and about six houses. 
 The neighboring village of LaPorte was as large 
 as now, but its inhabitants were French and 
 Indians. The valleys of the Cache la Poudre and 
 Big Thompson were ruled by the Claim Club 
 prior to the formation of the regular government. 
 This unique organization had a president, vice- 
 president, secretary and justice of the peace, and 
 all matters of controversy were first submitted to 
 the justice and from him taken to the president, 
 whose decision was final. 
 
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 Below we give a copy of the patent for his land 
 which Mr. Arthur still has in his possession. On 
 the back is the following endorsement: 
 
 Claim 63 
 Book A 
 Page 32 
 Club Record 
 
 J. B. Arthur 
 160 Acres, 
 Colona City, N. T. 
 July 25, i860. 
 
 William G. Goodwin, 
 Fees $1 Recorder. 
 
 The N. T. stands for Nebraska Territory. 
 Within the document is the following: 
 J. B. Arthur claim 160 acres 
 Claim 63 
 Book A 
 Page 32 
 Club Record 
 Commencing at a point or stake marked the 
 N. E. corner of the claim of I. S. Cole, running 
 thence south ^ mile, crossing the Cache la 
 Poudre River to a stake, thence east ^ mile 
 crossing the Cache la Poudre River to a stake 
 marking the southeast corner, thence north Y-z 
 mile to a stake, thence west to the place of 
 beginning. 
 Fees$i. 
 
 Taken July 17, i860, according to regulations. 
 Recorded July 25, i860. 
 
 William G. Goodwin, 
 
 Recorder. 
 The hay that he cut Mr. Arthur hauled to 
 Central City and Blackhawk, ninety miles dis- 
 tant, using at first two yoke of oxen, but later 
 three and four yoke and several wagons. He had 
 none of the. modern improvements to assist in his 
 work, and was forced to cut all of his hay with a 
 hand scythe. Prices were high, and the expense 
 of living was considerable. Bacon was as high as 
 forty-five cents per pound, and other things in 
 proportion. In 1862 and 1863 he made a private 
 ditch from the Cache la Poudre and later enlarged 
 the ditch. He also introduced other improve- 
 ments, thus increasing the value of the farm, 
 which, in 1880 he sold. In 1863 he went to 
 Missouri and bought a bunch of cattle, which he 
 drove across the plains and embarked in the 
 stock business. Later he drove from Oregon and 
 
 Idaho to Wyoming, where the cattle lived on the 
 range. In 1883 he closed out the open range 
 business and settled in Fort Collins, where he had 
 built a residence the previous year and planted 
 trees on the place. He still owns large tracts of 
 land, having one ranch three miles east, and 
 another eight miles southeast of Fort Collins; one 
 at Arthur's Bridge on the Cache la Poudre, 
 twelve miles east of Fort Collins, and a large 
 stock ranch on the Larimer River bottom in 
 Larimer County. 
 
 Aside from his stock and farm interests, Mr. 
 Arthur has been identified with many important 
 business enterprises. He is a director in the 
 Poudre Valley Bank, which was changed from a 
 private to a state bank; also a director in the 
 Empson Packing Company at Longmont. He 
 bought and opened the gypsum quarries and beds 
 at Red Buttes, Wyo. , also the plaster beds in that 
 place. About 1890 the company had mills erected, 
 where they manufactured under the name of 
 the Rocky Mountain Plaster, Stucco and Manu- 
 facturing Company. In 1893, at the World's Fair 
 in Chicago, they had an exhibit of the products of 
 the quarries in the manufacturers' building, 
 Wyoming exhibit, and received the highest 
 award for the same, also a diploma and medal for 
 other exhibits. In 1896 they added machinery, 
 and then began the manufacture of the best grade 
 of cement plaster in the world. The capacity of 
 the mills is eighty thousand pounds a day. 
 
 October 11, 1892, the Buckhorn Plaster Com- 
 pany at Loveland, Denver Gypsum Company 
 and Colorado Springs Plaster and Cement Com- 
 pany were incorporated under the name of the 
 Consolidated Plaster Company, with Mr. Arthur 
 as vice-president. Later the number of mills was 
 reduced by moving the Denver Gypsum Com- 
 pany's mills to the Buckhorn quarries in Larimer 
 County. The Colorado Springs business was 
 destroyed by fire, and its interest was purchased 
 by Mr. Arthur. On the death of the first presi- 
 dent, J. C. Helm succeeded to the ofiice, Mr. 
 Arthur became secretary and treasurer, and 
 A. Wild was made vice-president and manager. 
 The capacity of the two Buckhorn mills is now 
 one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds per 
 day and a fine quality of hard rock cement is the 
 product. Shipments are made to California, 
 Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington. At 
 Red Buttes the company owns two hundred and 
 
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 sixty-six acres on section 2 1 , south of the Union 
 Pacific Railroad, and furnishing an inexhaustible 
 supply of gypsum. 
 
 In Bay City, Mich., Mr. Arthur married Miss 
 Mary Kelley, a native of Ireland, whose parents 
 were settlers in Buffalo, N. Y. , while her brother 
 was captain on the lakes for many years and was 
 a resident of Bay City. For about six years Mr. 
 Arthur resided in Greeley, where his wife had a 
 sister living. There he contracted heavily in 
 stock, at times having as many as four thousand 
 head on hand. He was appointed by Governor 
 Evans a member of the board of commissioners to 
 perfect the organization of Larimer County, 
 establishing voting precincts and serving until 
 after the first election. The county was divided 
 into three commissioners' districts, one of which 
 elected a commissioner for one year, another for 
 two years and the third for three years, .so that 
 an entire change would not be necessary at one 
 time. At that time was established the precedent, 
 which still holds, that the oldest commissioner, 
 in point of service, shall be chairman of the 
 board the last year of his term. After one year 
 he was elected to succeed the one-year man, and 
 three years later was re-elected, being the nom- 
 inee of his party, the Democratic, endorsed by 
 the Republicans, and elected without a dissenting 
 vote. About the time his second term ended, he 
 removed to Weld County. For two terms he 
 was a member of the town council, and from 1893 
 to 1895 served as mayor of Fort Collins. Frater- 
 nally he was made a Mason in Fort Collins and 
 served as pa.st master of Lodge No. 19, A. F. & 
 A. M., is also identified with Cache la Poudre 
 Chapter No. 11, R. A. M. ; DeMolay Command- 
 ery No. 13, K. T., which he joined at Greeley, 
 but is now a member in Fort Collins and past 
 eminent commander of the commandery; and El 
 Jebel Temple, N. M. S. He is identified with 
 the Episcopal Church, in which he holds the 
 office of vestryman. 
 
 p QlLLIAM E. JOHNSON. "There is a tide 
 \ A / in the affairs of men" and of localities as 
 Y V well "that, taken at the flood, leads on to 
 fortune." Such a tide came in the history of the 
 Cripple Creek mining region and in the life of Mr. 
 Johnson, when, in 1892, he conceived the idea of 
 building a railroad there from Florence. The 
 
 idea, once formed, was soon carried out. He in- 
 corporated the Florence and Cripple Creek Rail- 
 road Company, and, with his associates, built the 
 road, running the first train into Cripple Creek 
 July 2, 1894. From that time Cripple Creek 
 prospered and is now the greatest gold camp 
 known, notwithstanding claims to the contrary 
 by others. In 1896 he retired from the active 
 managementof the road, though still remaining 
 a director, and since then he has been interested 
 in the working out of a new line running from 
 Florence south to Custer County. At the time 
 of his location in Florence, in 1889, it was a mere 
 cross-road, and it was due in no small measure 
 to his enterprise that it has grown to a thriving 
 city of four thousand. 
 
 The Johnson family is of English-Scotch de- 
 .scent. The grandfather of our subject was the 
 proprietor of a sawmill in Wentworth, N. H., 
 and engaged in manufacturing lumber there. 
 The father, Proctor E. Johnson, who was born 
 in New Hampshire, followed the millwright's trade 
 in Massachusetts, but in 1857 removed to Iowa 
 and located at Iowa Falls, Hardin County, where 
 he engaged in bridge building on different rail- 
 road lines, finally becoming contractor in the 
 construction of bridges in different states. He 
 died in Iowa in 1879. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Clarinda Ellery, was a descendant of 
 the family to which belonged William Ellery, a 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence. She 
 was a daughter of Abraham Ellery, a farmer of 
 Hopkinton, Mass., where she was born; she died 
 in Colorado in 1897, leaving two sons, Wilbur 
 Kossuth and William Ellery, both of Denver. 
 
 Born in Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Mass., 
 October 26, 1857, the subject of this sketch was 
 only six months of age when his parents removed 
 to Iowa Falls, Iowa, and in 1863 they went from 
 there to Fostoria, Ohio, returning, however, to 
 Iowa Falls in 1866. His education, begun in the 
 public schools, was extended by a course of study 
 in the Iowa State University at Iowa City. May 
 6, 1878, he started from Iowa Falls, in company 
 with three other young men, with teams and 
 supplies, for Colorado, arriving here on the 4th 
 of July. Going direct to Alamosa, he obtained 
 employment in an engineering corps as a surveyor 
 for a projected road to Pagosa Springs. In 
 November he went to Canon City, Fremont 
 County, where he resided the most of the time 
 
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 until 1886. Meantime he incorporated the Canon 
 City Water Company and built the water works. 
 In 1886 he took a position with the Colorado Coal 
 and Iron Company, the then leading company of 
 the state, and had charge of all their business in 
 Pitkin and Garfield Counties, opening coalmines 
 and building the Aspen and Western Railroad, 
 which, though quite difficult of construction, 
 was useful only in forming a short line to the 
 coal mines. 
 
 In 1885, in company with several other gentle- 
 men, Mr. Johnson incorporated and founded the 
 Florence Oil and Refining Company, of Florence, 
 Fremont County, this being one of the first com- 
 panies formed in the state to produce oil on a 
 commercial scale. It still continues in business, 
 and, with one other company, furnishes all the 
 oil used in six states. When Cripple Cteek be- 
 gan to attract attention in 1892, Mr. Johnson, as 
 before stated, turned his attention to the building 
 of a railroad to that point. May 27, 1885, he 
 married Miss Emma Adelaide Mulock, who was 
 born in New York state. A prominent Mason, 
 he is identified with the Knights Templar at 
 Canon City and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S., at 
 Denver. 
 
 Gl EBERT E. PATTISON. Numbered among 
 I 1 the members of the legal fraternity in 
 I I Denver are many who rank as the peers of 
 the best representatives at the bar of any other 
 city, whether it be east or west. In this list of 
 able attorneys mention belongs to Mr. Pattison, 
 who has his office in the Ernest & Cranmer 
 building, and who has for the past fifteen years 
 given especial attention to railroad and corpora- 
 tion law, being a recognized authority in that 
 department of the profession. He possesses a 
 mind of great breadth, with the executive force 
 and ability necessary to the successful consumma- 
 tion of important plans. In addition to his 
 private practice he is dean of the faculty of the 
 University of Denver law department and has 
 been an important factor in enlarging the work 
 accomplished by that school. 
 
 At the time of the religious persecutions in 
 Scotland the Pattison family left that country and 
 settled in Belfast, Ireland. From there, in 1730, 
 Adam Pattison came to America, establishing 
 his home in Colerain, Mass. He had a son, 
 Jonathan Stuart, who was born in Massachusetts 
 
 and in early manhood removed to New York, 
 establishing a permanent settlement in Chautau- 
 qua County in 1809. Next in line of descent 
 was Albert H. Pattison, a native of Chautauqua 
 County and, like his forefathers, a farmer by 
 occupation. By his marriage to Sophia McDon- 
 nell, a son, Albert E., was born in Chautauqua 
 County, February 10, 1846. The latter spent 
 his boyhood days upon the home farm and re- 
 ceived his primary education in the district 
 schools. At the age of thirteen he entered the 
 Fredonia Academy, where he remained a student 
 for three years. Before he was ten years old 
 he decided to be a lawyer, and all of his sub- 
 sequent study was with that object in view. 
 Realizing the need of a broad knowledge, he 
 spent one year in study at St. Lawrence Uni- 
 versity, in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 
 and afterward was for four years a student 
 in Hamilton College at Clinton, Oneida County, 
 N. Y. , from which he graduated in 1868, with 
 the degree of A. B. 
 
 In the office of Sherman & Scott, at Forest- 
 ville, Chautauqua County, N. Y. , Mr. Pattison 
 commenced the study of Blackstone and began to 
 gain an idea of the intricacies of the law. Later 
 he was in the office of Kiron Carroll, at Rome, 
 N. Y. , and was admitted to the bar there in 
 April, 1869. He began professional practice as 
 a member of the firm of Murray & Pattison, at 
 Dunkirk, N. Y., where for five years he con- 
 ducted a profitable practice, meantime gaining a 
 reputation as one of the rising young lawyers of 
 the town. January 25, 1870, at Cleveland, Ohio, 
 he married Miss Emma A. Paddock, of that 
 cit}'. 
 
 Seeking a larger field for professional activity, 
 Mr. Pattison removed to Buffalo in June, 1874, 
 and there he had a large and lucrative practice 
 for eight years, when his wife's ill health led him 
 to seek another location. He came to Denver in 
 June, 1882, and at once opened a law office, since 
 which time he has gained a large clientele and a 
 reputation as one of the best attorneys in the 
 city. Though reared in the Democratic faith he 
 allied himself with the Republican party in 1880 
 and has since voted that ticket. He has never 
 been a politician nor an office seeker, and the 
 only position he ever accepted was that of mem- 
 ber of the supreme court commission in 1888, 
 but this he resigned a year later. He is a mem- 
 
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 ber of St. Mark's Episcopal Church and holds 
 office as a vestryman. He and his wife have two 
 children: Myron Adams and Lucia Ella, the 
 latter a graduate of the University of Denver. 
 
 (lOHN COOKE, who is a well-known con- 
 I tractor and builder, has engaged in business 
 Q) in Denver since 1879. He has had the con- 
 tract for many important public buildings here, 
 including among others the Ernest & Cranmer, 
 Boston, Cooper and Enterprise buildings, Wood- 
 ward block. Hay den, Dickinson & Feldhauser's 
 block, the brickwork on the Union depot after the 
 fire, Pioneer building, McCarthney and McClin- 
 tock blocks, Pettit block, the Hyde Park, Ash- 
 land, and Logan Avenue schoolhouses, also 
 several additions to schoolhouses and other build- 
 ings, the town hall in Elyria, St. Leo's Church, 
 the Highlands Congregational Church, Joseph 
 Schlitz Brewing Company's building on Seven- 
 teenth and Blake streets, the Denver Packing 
 Company's building on Blake street, Barth block, 
 Denver Paper Mill, Griffith Wheel Works, and 
 the majority of the car shops for the city cable 
 company, on both the north and east sides; also 
 the residences of Lewis E. Lemen, M.D., Colonel 
 Dodge and Charles Hallock. For fifteen years 
 he has been engaged in the manufacture of brick, 
 having a brick yard covering two and one-half 
 blocks of McKee's addition to East Denver and 
 another yard, covering one and one-half blocks 
 in Ashley's addition, adjoining City Park. 
 
 The Cooke family originally resided in Eng- 
 land, but removed to Cork, Ireland, where were 
 born our subject, his father, William, and grand- 
 father, Michael. The last named, who was a con- 
 tractor, built lighthouses and barracks for the 
 English government, and William was also ex- 
 tensively engaged in the same line of work for 
 many years. He still resides in Cork and is quite 
 hale, notwithstanding his seventy-seven useful 
 years. His wife, Ellen, was a daughter of John 
 Collins, who was born in Cork, of English and 
 Scotch descent, and engaged in farming there. 
 She died at forty years. Her four sons and two 
 of her four daughters are living, namely: John; 
 Michael and Mrs. Ann Sullivan, both of Denver; 
 William, a contractor for the British government 
 in Cork; Ellen and James, of Denver. 
 
 The model national school in a suburb of Cork, 
 
 which was one of four schools of the kind in Ire- 
 land, was the scene of our subject's boyhood 
 studies. He graduated from it in 1861 and began to 
 learn the stone mason's trade under his father, as- 
 sisting on government works during his appren- 
 ticeship of five years. Then, going to England, he 
 finished his trade on the British government docks 
 atCardufi". In 1869 he came to America and set- 
 tled in Elmira, N. Y., where he built residences, 
 blocks and schoolhouses, some of the finest build- 
 ings in the city. He also built the town hall in 
 Hornellsville, fifteen stores in Mansfield, Tioga 
 County, Pa., and rebuilt the burned district after 
 a fire in Corning, N. Y. From the east he came 
 to Denver, where he has since been busily en- 
 gaged in contracting and building. Among his 
 important contracts here was that for the Grant 
 smelter smoke stack, three hundred and seventy- 
 two feet high, the tallest stack in the United 
 States. For work of that character he had been 
 trained by his father, whom he had often assisted 
 in building lighthouses, and he was therefore pre- 
 pared to fill the contract to the letter and do 
 successful work. 
 
 Mr. Cooke built a residence for his family at 
 No. 2150 Lafayette street. In this city he mar- 
 ried Miss Margaret McCarthy, of Corning, N. Y. 
 They are the parents of five children: William, 
 Mary, John, Jr., Eugene and Ellen. Politically 
 Mr. Cooke is a Democrat. He is a director in 
 the Brick Contractors and Manufacturers' Associ- 
 ation and has held the same position for three 
 terms in the Master Builders' Association. 
 
 . RNEST GUEBELLE, who owns a beauti- 
 'y ful home at Villa Park, a suburb of Denver, 
 ^ is an esteemed citizen. He is an example 
 worthy to be followed by the youth of the rising 
 generation, for few of them, it is to be hoped, 
 have greater obstacles in their pathway to over- 
 come than he did until late years. He was always 
 ambitious, industrious and enterprising, and to 
 such men success is sure to come sooner or later, 
 as they truly deserve. 
 
 Born in Belfort, France, August 2, 1863, the 
 gentleman of whom we write is the second child 
 of Charles F. and Emilie (Tobler) Guebelle. 
 The others are: Mina, wife of Leon Bailley, of 
 New York City; Mathilde, formerly a teacher in 
 the public schools of Rochester, N. Y.; Camille, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 employed as a clerk in the BuflFalo (N. Y.) post- 
 office; and William, principal of a public school 
 in a suburb of New York on the Hudson River. 
 
 The senior Guebelle was born in 1831 in Cer- 
 nay, France, and there received a superior educa- 
 tion. He learned the business of manufacturing 
 ornamental and carved combs (handwork) when 
 he was a boy, and followed the trade independ- 
 ently for a few years. As every able-bodied man 
 in France is required to spend a certain length of 
 time in the army, he servedhis time, and by his 
 ability and efficiency rose from the ranks to be 
 a commissioned officer. During the Crimean war 
 he distinguished himself by his bravery and won 
 the highest praise from his superiors. He died 
 in 1867, while still in the service of his country. 
 He was a Catholic by birth, according to the 
 usage of the communion, but died strong in the 
 Protestant faith. He had acquired considerable 
 property, among which were two vineyards of 
 value. 
 
 Soon after her husband's death Mrs. Emilie 
 Guebelle came to the United States with her two 
 younger children, the other three remaining with 
 relatives in France. Going to Rochester, N. Y., 
 the plucky little woman rented a house, which, 
 it seems, was the first one erected in the city, as 
 the corner-stone bore the date of 1812. A lady 
 of finished education, she had little difficulty in 
 securing pupils in the best families in the place, 
 and soon she was busy from morning until night, 
 giving instruction in German and French. Later 
 she established a school of her own and em- 
 ployed other teachers. Her death occurred in 
 1891. 
 
 When his brave mother sailed from France to 
 the unknown land and life she had planned in the 
 west, Ernest Guebelle was left with his grand- 
 father, Henri Tobler, who for half a century was 
 an employe of a woolen-cloth mills in Cernay, 
 and for years was superintendent of the plant. 
 Four years having rolled away, Mrs. Guebelle 
 sent for her children. Ernest was but nine and 
 his eldest sister only two years his senior, but to- 
 gether they started on the long trip to their loved 
 ones across the ocean. They left Antwerp on the 
 Star line ship "Fatherland" bound for Philadel- 
 phia. On the voyage the ship passed through 
 two storms, one of her boilers becoming disabled, 
 and thus it was seventeen days ere she reached 
 her destination. At Harrisburg, Pa., the chil- 
 
 dren had to change cars, and, as they could not 
 speak English, they waited in the depot for thir- 
 ty-six hours before a German, making himself 
 understood, put them on the right train. On 
 reaching Elmira they were obliged to stay over 
 night, and a kind-hearted German hotel-keeper, 
 seeing the little ones in the depot, took them to 
 his hotel and kept them until they were ready to 
 depart, then refusing any payment. Recently, 
 when on a visit east, Mr. Guebelle endeavored to 
 find the good Samaritan hotel man, but was un- 
 successful in his effijrts. 
 
 In the public schools of Rochester Ernest 
 Guebelle received a good education, completing 
 his studies in Benjamin's high school, a private 
 institution of learning. There the youth paid his 
 way by sweeping and general janitor work. He 
 apprenticed himself to the printer's trade in a 
 German newspaper office, but stayed there but 
 ten or eleven months, then accepting a position 
 with the Judson Steam Governor Works. He 
 was employed on piece work, and was so active 
 and ambitious, that the superintendent once came 
 to him and told him not to run his machine so 
 rapidly, as it shook the whole building. At this 
 time he also had a Sunday newspaper route, and 
 averaged $2 per Sunday in this manner. 
 
 Having heard much about Denver and the 
 west, Mr. Guebelle decided to come here, and 
 arrived in this city July 3, 1879. He went to 
 live with an uncle who kept a saloon at the corner 
 of Nineteenth and Larimer streets. The lad at- 
 tended bar for a month, but the business was not 
 at all to his taste, and he was apprenticed to a 
 blacksmith. As he had to work six months 
 without wages he continued to live at his uncle's, 
 and in return for his food and shelter he cleaned 
 the saloon every morning early, and attended bar 
 at noon. When the six months dragged to an 
 end he was given $4 a week, and he then boarded 
 himself Later he received $6 a week. Toward 
 the close of the second year he secured a place as 
 janitor in a Good Templar lodge (doing this in 
 addition to his regular work), being paid $10 a 
 month for his services. The third year his wages 
 were $8 a week, and the following year he worked 
 up to $3.50 per day. In 1885 he opened up a 
 shop of his own on West Colfax avenue, and 
 here ,he has built up a large and remunerative 
 trade. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Guebelle bought a tract of ten 
 
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 acres six miles west of Denver, on the Denver, 
 Lakewood & Golden Railroad. There he erected 
 a lovely residence, and is making of the place an 
 ideal suburban abode. The lad}^ who charm- 
 ingly presides over this home was formerly Miss 
 Ivilly M. King. She was born in Wisconsin, and 
 became the wife of Mr. Guebelle July 23, 1881. 
 The two children of their union are: Beatrice, 
 now attending the manual training school, and 
 Ernestine, who is still in the public schools. In 
 political matters Mr. Guebelle is not partisan, 
 and in all concerns which bear upon the welfare 
 of the people he strives to be well posted, liberal 
 and unbiased in judgment. 
 
 r~REDERICK MILHEIM, a respected citi- 
 rQ zen of Arapahoe County, is a worthy 
 I ' example of what may be accomplished by 
 an industrious, ambitious young man, in spite of 
 great discouragements and difficulties. The 
 years have swiftly passed since the day when he 
 landed in Colorado with barely $100 and with 
 the great drawback of physical disability, as he 
 had recently lost an arm through an accident, it 
 having been caught in a machinery-belt and torn 
 off. His was not the kind of nature that allows 
 itself to be overpowered by trials, though this 
 was surely sufficiently serious to justify a person 
 in despairing. He bravely nerved himself to 
 face the battles of life and everyone who has 
 ever known him rejoices in the prosperity which 
 he now enjoys as the fruits of his manly struggles 
 for a home and competence. His example may 
 well be an inspiration to those of the on-coming 
 generation. 
 
 The present home of Mr. Milheim is located 
 on section 18, township i south, range 66 west, 
 his postoffice being Brighton. From its original 
 condition of barrenness and desert-likeness he 
 has made the place a garden spot. The land is 
 well watered by a fine system of ditches, and 
 bountiful harvests reward the owner's care each 
 year. From the time the Fulton ditch was 
 started Mr. Milheim was one of the most in- 
 terested advocates of the plan, and has always 
 held stock in the company since. He is a mem- 
 ber of the German society Sons of Herman, and 
 has filled many of the offices in Koerner Lodge 
 No. 4, of Brighton. He also holds membership 
 with the Odd Fellows' society, belonging to 
 
 Fidelity Lodge, of Brighton. Politically he is 
 independent at present, though he formerly was 
 a Democrat and later a Populist. 
 
 The birth of Frederick Milheim occurred near 
 Berne, Switzerland, on her father's farm, No- 
 vember 17, 1846. His parents, John and 
 Mary Milheim, both died when he was quite 
 young. At the age of sixteen our subject and 
 his younger brother, Alexander, came to the 
 United States, and for a few months they found 
 employment on farms in New Jersey. Frederick 
 Milheim thep proceeded to Niagara Falls and 
 thence to Allegan County, Mich., during the 
 Civil war. Soon afterwards he entered the 
 employ of the United States government as a 
 teamster, being regularly enlisted. He served 
 in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and once, 
 when on the Tennessee River, about sixty-five 
 miles above Chattanooga, he and his detach- 
 ment of comrades were captured by the Confed- 
 erates. He was not kept long imprisoned, 
 however, and was finally mustered out of the 
 service February 28, 1865, at Chattanooga. 
 
 Returning to Michigan, he joined a company 
 of men who were preparing to cross the plains to 
 the west. In April they left St. Louis, Mo., 
 and at the close of two weeks traveling reached 
 Omaha. There Mr. Milheim hired out to a 
 party to drive an ox-team across the plains, he 
 to receive $35 a month. The journey was not 
 only long and trying in ordinary ways common 
 to that method of traveling, but was particularly 
 dangerous that year, as the Indians along the 
 way were on the war-path. As he was working 
 at wages, our subject was not spared when there 
 was a specially hard or hazardous undertaking on 
 hand, but at length the wearisome plains were left 
 in the background, and Denver, their goal, came 
 within sight, upon the 6th of August. For a 
 few months Mr. Milheim was employed in a 
 bakery, after which he farmed for a neighboring 
 ranchman. He assisted in the construction of 
 the Union Pacific Railroad, working as a hewer 
 of ties and in tunnels, etc., for a period of two or 
 three years, and was later employed by the Union 
 Pacific Railroad at Omaha. Going back to 
 Allegan County, Mich., he worked in a shingle- 
 mill for a few months, and there it was that the 
 great misfortune of his life came to him, the loss 
 of his arm. Four months he suffered untold 
 agonies, but his splended constitution gradually 
 
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 recovered from the shock. He was given numer- 
 ous opportunities in a business way, but he 
 longed to return to Colorado, the state of promise 
 and assured future, and again, in 1872, he came 
 to its hospitable borders. Emile Riethman em- 
 ployed him for the following four years to herd 
 cows for his dairy. In various occupations, 
 always industrious and making the best use of 
 his earnings, the years passed until, in 1879, he 
 bought eighty acres of wild land, his present 
 homestead. Yet for two or more years he was 
 enabled to make but few improvements upon the 
 place and was absent, engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness in Wyoming, for the most part. After his 
 marriage he settled down here and set about 
 making changes on the farm, which enterprises 
 resulted most favorably within a few years. He 
 has been aided faithfully in all his plans by his 
 loyal wife, and frankly owns that he owes much of 
 his success to her. 
 
 It was upon November 14, 1883, that Miss 
 Emma Hagus, daughter of Andrew Hagus (see 
 his sketch elsewhere in this work) became the 
 bride of Mr. Milheim. Four children grace their 
 union, namely: Fred A., Josephine, Clara and 
 Benita. They have a pleasant home and enjoy 
 the friendship of a large circle of acquaintances. 
 
 0AMUEL DAVID HOPKINS, M. D., of 
 2\ Denver, is a specialist in the treatment of 
 Qy nervous and mental diseases and a contribu- 
 tor, in these departments, to the medical journals 
 both of the east and west. Soon after coming to 
 this city he became assistant to Dr. J. T. Eskridge 
 in the chair of nervous and mental diseases, med- 
 ical department University of Colorado, and in 
 addition held the chair of instructor of medical 
 chemistry and urinary analysis in the university. 
 In 1896 he accepted the position of lecturer of 
 nervous and mental diseases in the University of 
 Denver, and one year later he was made associate 
 professor of this chair, continuing until January, 
 1898, when he resigned. Dr. Hopkins was born 
 in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pa., and is the 
 son of William P. Hopkins, known as the ' 'iron 
 king of the Lehigh Valley. ' ' The latter was born 
 near Neath, Glamorlganshire, Wales, March 24, 
 1832, the son of John and Anna (Powell) Hop- 
 kins, and when quite young was orphaned by his 
 father's death. From eight years of age he had 
 
 been employed in rolling mills. At the age of 
 eighteen he went to Staffordshire, and afterward, 
 in Workington, he made the first sheet of tin ever 
 manufactured out of puddled steel. For this he 
 received a watch from his employer, with this in- 
 scription: "Presented to William Hopkins for 
 meritorious services by James Spence, Working- 
 ton, January i, 1859." In i860 he took passage 
 on the sailing vessel "Middlesex" and after thir- 
 ty-nine days landed in the United States. For 
 four years afterward he worked in the sheet-iron 
 mills of the Allen Wood Company at Consho- 
 hocken, Pa. 
 
 June 29, 1863, Mr. Hopkins enlisted in Com- 
 pany F, Forty-third Pennsylvania Militia, and 
 with his company was sent to join the Army of 
 the Potomac. While away from home two of his 
 children died, and for this reason, through the 
 kindness of Governor Curtin, he was honorably 
 discharged and returned home August 13, 1863. 
 Afterward he resumed work with his former em- 
 ployers, but in April of the next year he removed 
 to Catasauqua, where for twenty-five years he 
 was general superintendent of the rolling-mills, 
 and during that time manufactured the first plate 
 and the first sheet ever rolled in the Lehigh Val- 
 ley. In 1882 he built a large rolling-mill at Ful- 
 lerton and became its superintendent. He was 
 also a large stockholder in the Catasauqua Man- 
 ufacturing Company. In February, 1890, he 
 resigned in order to organize the Slatington Roll- 
 ing Mills, of which he is general manager and the 
 principal stockholder. He superintended the 
 erection of all the machinery in the mill, which 
 has nine furnaces, and furnishes employment for 
 one hundred and thirty men. For twenty-one 
 years he owned part of the stock in the Union 
 Foundry and Machine Company. He invented the 
 water shield for the cooling of the front of furnaces, 
 but never had the invention patented. 
 
 In Wales, in 1855, William Hopkins married 
 Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Thomas Thomas, 
 a tailor in that country. She died in 1888, leav- 
 ing five children: John W. ; Louis P., who is en- 
 gaged in business with his father; Winifred and 
 Elizabeth, at home; and Samuel D., M. D., of 
 Denver. The family are identified with the Pres- 
 byterian Church and are highly respected by the 
 people of Catasauqua. In politics Mr. Hopkins 
 is a Republican. 
 
 Under a private tutor the subject of this sketch 
 
J. B. BARCLAY, M. D. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 285 
 
 acquired the rudiments of his education. In 1888 
 he entered the sophomore class of the University 
 of Pennsylvania, but after a year in the classical 
 course he entered the medical department of the 
 same institution, from which he graduated in 
 1893, with the degree of M. D. He had, however, 
 studiedsotirelessly in the acquirement of profes- 
 sional knowledge, that his health had become se- 
 riously impaired, and in selecting a location he 
 deemed it necessary to seek a salubrious climate, 
 where he might hope to soon regain his former 
 strength. Accordingly he came to Denver, where 
 he has made his home since June of 1893 and 
 where he has become favorably known as a special- 
 ist in the treatment of nervous and mental diseases. 
 He is neurologist to St. Anthony's Hospital and 
 alternate in mental and nervous diseases to the 
 county hospital. His office is in the Jackson 
 building. He is a member of the Alumni Asso- 
 ciation of the University of Pennsylvania, the 
 Clinical and Pathological Society, Denver and 
 Arapahoe County, and State Medical Societies, 
 the Rocky Mountain Inter-State Medical Asso- 
 ciation and the American Medical Association. 
 
 30SEPH B. BARCLAY, M. D., who died at 
 his home near Longmont, Boulder County, 
 September 27, 1896, was one of the honored 
 pioneers of this localitj'. When he settled here 
 it was his intention to retire from his professional 
 life, but his talents were discovered and his serv- 
 ices were always in demand up to the last year 
 of his career. A loyal, faithful citizen, neighbor 
 and friend, he won the deepest regard and ven- 
 eration of all who were privileged to know him, 
 and always sustained the character of a true 
 Christian gentleman. 
 
 The American Barclays are descended from 
 one David Barclay, a native of Kirktonhill, Scot- 
 land. Born in 1610, he traveled in Germany 
 when young, and enlisted in the army of Gus- 
 tavus Adolphus, of Sweden, where, in numerous 
 battles, he won distinction, and was promoted to 
 the rank of major. Upon the breaking out of 
 the civil wars in his home land he returned and 
 bore a conspicuous part in the same, being in- 
 trusted with many important commissions and 
 military commands. By the energy and prudence 
 he displayed he gained a lasting reputation, nor 
 were his talents confined to military affairs, for 
 
 almost equally signal were his civic labors. 
 Twice he was a member of the parliament, but 
 after the Restoration he fell under the displeasure 
 of the government for some unexplained reason, 
 and for a period was kept a close prisoner in 
 Edinburgh Castle. One reason assigned was 
 that he had been a trustee under the usurper, 
 although he had suffered in the cause of Charles 
 I, not only by being thrust from all his posts of 
 office, but also by having his estates confiscated 
 and retained for several years. At last he was 
 liberated without having had any charge laid to 
 his doors or reason given him for his commitment 
 to prison. His son Robert was the author of ' 'Bar- 
 clay's Apology to the Society of Friends," since 
 one of their standard works, and when an exten- 
 sive grant of land was given the Quakers in New 
 Jersey, Mr. Barclay was appointed by Charles I 
 to be the first governor of the province of eastern 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Dr. Joseph B. Barclay was a grandson of Rev. 
 David Barclay, and son of Rev. Charles R. Bar- 
 clay, who founded the town of Punxsutawney, 
 Pa. The doctor was born in Northampton 
 County, Pa., March 19, 1819, and was reared to 
 manhood in that and Jefferson Counties, Pa. 
 When he was nineteen years of age he entered 
 Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and 
 graduated from that institution in 1840. His 
 initial practice was in the town where he had 
 grown up, but in 1843 he removed to Beverly, 
 Ohio, and within a year located in Carmichaels, 
 Greene County, Pa., where he remained six 
 years. Then for a score of years he was num- 
 bered among the leading physicians of Browns- 
 ville, Pa. Notwithstanding the fact that he re- 
 sided in a community where the majority of the 
 inhabitants were not in favor of abolition, he was 
 of such sterling, strong convictions, that he 
 openly advocated the principle of human liberty 
 for the black man as well as for the white man, 
 nor did he lose many friends or patrons in spite 
 of his views. When the war broke out he 
 entered the Union army as first assistant surgeon 
 of the Two Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania 
 Infantry, serving until the close of the war, when 
 he was granted an honorable discharge. 
 
 For a long time Dr. Barclay had thought seri- 
 ously of removing to the great west, and in 1870 
 he joined the Union colony as a charter member 
 and settled in Weld County, Colo. Later he 
 
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 concluded to take up his residence near the 
 mountains, and, therefore, located a soldier's 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres in Boulder 
 County, and identified himself with the Chicago 
 Colony of Longmont. As has been stated, he 
 expected to devote himself to a pastoral life, but 
 his professional ability was not long "hidden 
 under a bushel," and he was busy and useful as 
 long as he lived. 
 
 In 1841 Dr. Barclay married Jane E. Cooper, 
 who was a native of Indiana County, Pa. , born 
 June 5, 1822. With her parents she had removed 
 to Bucks County, and later to Jefferson County, 
 Pa. Her mother was a niece of Capt. Samuel 
 Brady, the noted government scout, and a hero 
 of the battle of Bunker Hill. Another uncle, a 
 veteran of the war of 1812, was Gen. Hugh 
 Brady, of whom General Scott said: "God Al- 
 mighty never made a more honest or braver 
 man." Eight children were born to Dr. Barclay 
 and his most estimable wife, but four are deceased. 
 Mary E. is the wife of Maj. William Norcross, 
 city treasurer of Greeley, Colo.; Charles is an 
 attorney of Philadelphia, Pa.; and James C. is a 
 resident of Longmont, Colo. 
 
 Edgar Barclay, who was born October 2, 1857, 
 in Brownsville, Pa., and is the seventh child of 
 Dr. Barclay, has had charge of his father's busi- 
 ness affairs for several years, and since the death 
 of his father has been the sole manager of the 
 estate. He is a young man of genuine ability 
 and executive talent, these qualities having been 
 fostered in him by his financial experience in the 
 east. He graduated in law in Philadelphia eleven 
 years ago, and returned to Colorado, intending 
 to practice here. However, he was called back 
 to Philadelphia to assist in the organization of a 
 commercial enterprise, which consumed his time 
 up to 1893. He then came to Colorado and 
 relieved his father of the weight of business cares 
 which bore heavily upon him in his declining 
 days. 
 
 UjATHANIEL D. JOHNSON, a successful 
 YJ stock-raiser living one and one-half miles 
 l/j south of Altona, Bouldei" County, was born 
 in Winneshiek County, Iowa, August 7, 1857, 
 and was the younger of two children, having a 
 sister, Mrs. Mary Woodward, who resides in 
 Howard County, Iowa. When he was four weeks 
 old his mother died, and the friend, Mrs. Joshua 
 
 P. Johnson, who had attended her in her last ill- 
 ness, feeling a tender pity in her heart for the 
 orphan boy, took him home with her. There 
 she supplied every comfort that her means permit- 
 ted. When she and her husband decided to move 
 to Colorado they legally adopted the child, then 
 two and one-half years of age, and his father's 
 name of David Easier was changed to his adopted 
 father's name of Johnson. 
 
 In the spring of i860 the family came to Colo- 
 rado, where Mr. Johnson engaged in mining. 
 After some years he came to this valley, where 
 he worked on a farm for some time, and then took 
 up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 situated one mile north of Hay Stack Mountain. 
 On that place he engaged in farming until his 
 death, which occurred in September, 1897. He 
 was a native of Clarke County, Ohio, born in 
 1818, and was seventy- nine years of age at the 
 time of his death. 
 
 In boyhood our subject acquired a common- 
 school education. While he was in school, on 
 the breaking out of small-pox in the neighbor- 
 hood, he was vaccinated, and later, when his arm 
 had healed, he took off the scab and went around 
 the neighborhood vaccinating the boys who had 
 escaped the doctors in their rounds. In that way 
 he was given the name of "Doc," which has 
 clung to him ever since. At the age of sixteen 
 he began at farm work and herding cattle, trading 
 horses, etc. When he was nineteen he went to 
 the northern part of the state, where he worked 
 as a cowboy for two years. Returning to Left 
 Hand, he farmed for one year, then went again 
 to the northern part of the state with a bunch of 
 cattle of his own. There he took care of his cat- 
 tle until the fall of 1880 and at the same time 
 worked for others. On selling his stock, he re- 
 turned to Left Hand. February 14, 1881, he 
 married Mrs. Florilla Dagle, the widow of Joseph 
 Dagle, and daughter of Joseph and Herrilda 
 (Pribble) Hall. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Johnson took up one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land as a homestead 
 and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres, 
 where he now resides. He has since followed 
 stock-raising and has met with remarkable success 
 in his business ventures. He is one of the few 
 men who have made a success of the cattle busi- 
 ness at all stages of the work, and his efficiency 
 in the business has made him prominent among 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 287 
 
 the stock-raisers of his community. In addition 
 to his cattle interests, he takes an active part in 
 public affairs and is particularly interested in 
 educational matters. For several years he served 
 as a member of the school board. 
 
 (Tames E. HUBBARD has been alderman 
 I from the fourth ward of Boulder since 1892, 
 O having been elected on the Republican ticket 
 it the year mentioned and having been three 
 times re-elected. He has done effective service 
 on many important committees, and has acted in 
 the capacity of chairman of the committees on 
 streets and finance, etc. While he has been one 
 of the city fathers great improvements have been 
 made, adding much to the general attractiveness 
 and desirability of Boulder as a place of residence. 
 The water-works have been enlarged and made 
 more efficient; the electric light plant has been 
 built, streets graded and paved, sewers laid, etc. 
 For many years Mr. Hubbard has been an ac- 
 knowledged leader in local politics, and has been 
 an earnest worker for the success of his party. 
 He is and has been for a long period the chair- 
 man of the committee of his precinct and was 
 formerly a member of the state Republican com- 
 mittee. 
 
 The Hubbards were early settlers in Maine, 
 coming to this country from England. The sub- 
 ject of this article has in his possession an old 
 Queen Anne flint musket, which was carried by 
 his great-grandfather Hubbard in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. Grandfather William Hubbard, a 
 native of Maine, was a life-long resident of that 
 state, a farmer by occupation. He died when 
 about fourscore years of age. The parents of 
 our subject, James and Hannah (Adams) Hub- 
 bard, were natives of Maine and Gilmanton, N. H., 
 respectively. The mother was closely related 
 to the two presidents of the United States, 
 John Adams and John Quincy Adams. She is a 
 daughter of Samuel Adanis, who departed this 
 life in New Hampshire. She is now eighty-five 
 years of age, and is making her home with her 
 son, James E. James Hubbard joined the colony 
 which went to Grinnell, Iowa, in 1854, and there 
 established Grinnell College and the Congrega- 
 tional Church. He bought and sold real estate 
 there for a few years and in i860 started for Pike's 
 Peak, with ox-teams. Arriving in Blackhawk, 
 
 Gilpin County, Colo., he engaged in mining and 
 the following year built a log house and made 
 other improvements upon a farm three and a-half 
 miles from Boulder on the South Boulder River. 
 His family joined him August 14, 1862, and he 
 continued to cultivate his homestead until a year 
 or two before his death, which event occurred in 
 1878, when he was in his sixty -sixth year. He 
 was a deacon in the Congregational Church here, 
 and was one of the chief contributors to the build- 
 ing at the time of its erection. Of his five chil- 
 dren one is deceased. Elizabeth is the wife of Eli 
 Dickerson, a Boulder merchant; Martha is Mrs. 
 LeFevre, of Gunnison County; and Sarah is Mrs. 
 Robert Lyman, of this place. 
 
 James E. Hubbard, the youngest of his father's 
 family, was born in Sanford, Me., September 
 22, 1851. With the others he went to Grinnell, 
 and in 1862 came to this state with his mother 
 and sisters. They journeyed overland by ox- 
 teams, via Plattsmouth, Neb., up the South Platte 
 and through Fort lyupton, and altogether spent 
 eleven weeks on the trip. James E. was a student 
 in the first schoolhouse erected in Boulder, 
 and prepared himself for college under private 
 tutors. In 1870 he entered the freshman class of 
 Grinnell College, and when the institution burned 
 down two years later he went to Iowa City and 
 in 1873 was graduated from the law department 
 of the University of Iowa. Returning to this 
 state, he embarked in legal practice in George- 
 town, but two years sufficed to show him that such 
 a confining and taxing calling was seriously ef- 
 fecting his health. For a few years he worked 
 out of doors on his father's farm, and when fully 
 recuperated he came to Boulder. In December, 
 1882, he embarked in an enterprise new to the 
 town and vicinity. He purchased a whole block 
 of land (half of which he has since sold) and 
 built greenhouses. He has handled all kinds of 
 plants and flowers and nursery stock. He has 
 five greenhouses, and over twelve thousand 
 square feet of glass. In 1894 he bought five acres 
 of land lying immediately east of the university 
 grounds, and has here planted strawberries and 
 ornamental shrubbery, etc. He takes orders for 
 decorating, plants and cut flowers, and does by 
 far the largest business in his line in this section. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Hubbard was, before their 
 marriage in 1873, Miss Rhoda Duke. She is a 
 native of Columbus, Ohio, and was educated iu 
 
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 the University of Iowa. Her father, John C. 
 Duke, who, years ago, owned a large factory in 
 Ottumwa, Iowa, and was the patentee and manu- 
 facturer of Duke's Patent Window-screen, is now 
 in charge of Mr. Hubbard's nursery business. 
 The six children of our subject and wife are: 
 James Robert, who graduated from the University 
 of Colorado in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts; Charles, a member of the class of 190 1, in 
 the same institution; Edwin , May, Helen and 
 Estella. 
 
 In the Masonic order Mr. Hubbard stands very 
 high, being past master of Boulder Lodge No. 
 45, A. F. & A. M.; R. A. C. of Boulder Lodge 
 No. 7, R. A. M.; and Generalissimo of Mount 
 Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T. He also belongs 
 to El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Denver, 
 and is connected with the Knights of Pythias, be- 
 ing a member of Boulder Lodge No. 76, of that 
 order. 
 
 REV. R. P. ROBINET, who was pastor of 
 St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Fort Col- 
 lins, St. John's at Longmont and St. Mary's 
 at Greeley, was born in the grand duchy of Lux- 
 emburg, which in 1814 came into the possession 
 of the King of Netherlands, but in 1830 was 
 given, in part, to France, and has since contin- 
 ued under the dominion of these two countries. 
 His father, John, and grandfather, Jerome Robi- 
 net, were natives of France, and the latter, who 
 served under Napoleon, accompanied that general 
 on his march to Moscow, was taken prisoner, 
 confined in the bastile there and finally released 
 by a large equipment of soldiers that came from 
 France to reinforce the army in Russia. The 
 Robinets are an old French family, one of whose 
 members became an illustrious philosopher. 
 
 John Robinet, who was an agriculturist by oc- 
 cupation, owned land lying in France, Belgium 
 and Luxemburg. He was a man of means and 
 influence and held a high place in the esteem of 
 his countrymen. His death occurred on his 
 farm in 1894, when he was seventy-two years of 
 age. He had married Maria Krier, who was 
 born in the village of Eischen, Luxemburg, and 
 died at thirty-four years of age. She was a 
 daughter of Henry Krier, who owned a brewery 
 and an entire side of a street in their village, 
 Eischen. The ownership of the brewery de- 
 scended to Mrs. Robinet, who left a large fortune 
 
 to her children, Catherine, Eliza, Henry and our 
 subject. Of these all remain in Europe except- 
 ing the youngest. The father was a second time 
 married and had three children, all of whom re- 
 side in Eischen. 
 
 In the village where he was born August 19, 
 1857, the subject of this sketch obtained the rudi- 
 ments of his education. He then entered the 
 city schools of Luxemburg, where he studied the 
 classics. Later he was under a private tutor in 
 Grevenmocher, on the Mosella. He was fortunate 
 in being able to secure the services,. as instruct- 
 ors, of some of the most brilliant Prussian priests, 
 who, having been forced to flee from their own 
 country, had sought refuge in Luxemburg. 
 Among his instructors was the former chancellor 
 of the diocese of Trives, with whom he remained 
 for two years. He then went to the city of 
 Charleville, France, and for three years carried 
 on classical studies there. 
 
 In the early part of 1879 he came to America 
 and joined some friends in the Univ-ersity of 
 Notre Dame in Indiana, where he completed his 
 philosophical studies. From there he went to 
 St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, where he car- 
 ried on the study of theology for three years. 
 On the completion of his preparation for the 
 priesthood he was ordained by Archbishop Heiss, 
 of Milwaukee, June 24, 1884, and was assigned 
 to the diocese of Colorado. At the earnest solici- 
 tation of Bishop Machebeuf he came to Denver, 
 though he had much pressure brought to bear 
 upon him to secure his services elsewhere, hav- 
 ing received letters from the Archbishops of Ore- 
 gon, New Mexico, Peoria, Green Bay and Omaha, 
 and being also solicited to remain in Milwaukee. 
 Believing it would be best to come to Colorado, 
 he accepted the invitation from the bishop of 
 Denver, and celebrated the first mass in Colorado 
 at St. Elizabeth's Church in Denver, it being 
 the feast of precious blood. For thirteen months 
 he was occupied as an assistant in Denver, after 
 which he was sent to Fort Collins and reorgan- 
 ized a Catholic congregation, which had been in 
 a chaotic condition. From his private fortune 
 he paid off the church debt and placed affairs up- 
 on a solid basis. 
 
 However, the priest's efforts were not limited 
 to Fort Collins. He organized a church at 
 Platteville, also at Brighton, and was the first to 
 say mass in these places. He also inaugurated 
 
JOSEPH S. SEEIvY. 
 
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 289 
 
 movements looking toward the erection of church 
 buildings, but when Father Hewlett was assigned 
 to the charge he relinquished the work in his 
 favor. He organized the congregation and built 
 the church house at Castle Rock; organized the 
 church in Longmont, built an edifice for which 
 he paid personally, also erected a residence and 
 librarj' there. The congregation in Greeley was 
 brought together through his efiforts. To these 
 several congregations he has ministered. Politi- 
 cally he is a Democrat. He is a man of splendid 
 education and is fluent in the use of the French, 
 Latin, English and German languages, and the 
 Luxemborgian dialect. 
 
 (Josephs. SEELY is the owner of the lake 
 I called by his name and is the proprietor of 
 (2) Lakeside, a charming resort for pleasure- 
 seekers of Weld County. The lake is an artifi- 
 cial one, having been made in 1873, and originally 
 served merely as a waste-reservoir for Ditch No. 
 2, which irrigates this section of farming country. 
 Twenty-four years ago, Mr. Seely wisely look- 
 ing forward to the future possibilities of this little 
 lake, purchased the property, and within the past 
 fifteen years has expended large sums of money 
 in the improvement of the grounds, in stocking 
 the lake with perch and black bass, and in other 
 material ways increasing the beauty and value of 
 the place as a resort. In 1895 he built a pavilion 
 and he keeps over a dozen boats for the use of 
 visitors. The fishing here is very good in sea- 
 son, and large parties frequently come here from 
 Denver and other cities and towns, near and far. 
 Born October 30, 1841, our subject is a son of 
 Joseph and Julia (Jackson) Seely, who were na- 
 tives of Delaware County, N. Y. , anddpent their 
 early married life there. About' two years prior 
 to the birth of Joseph S. they removed to Rome, 
 Bradford County, Pa., and in that locality they 
 spent the rest of their lives upon a farm. Grand- 
 father Seely was a native of Connecticut, and 
 was an early settler of New York. Grandfather 
 Isaac Jackson was a native of England and after 
 coming to this country lived upon a farm on the 
 banks of Trout Creek, in Delaware County, N. Y. 
 The children of Joseph and Julia Seely were eleven 
 in number. George went to California in 1849 
 and was a county surveyor for a while, but has 
 been lost track of in later years. Silas E., now 
 
 of Arkansas, was a wagon manufacturer in Rome, 
 Pa., for many years. Mrs. Ada George Harman 
 lives on a farm in Vermont. Charles E., who 
 was engaged in blacksmithing up to the time of 
 the Civil war, then enlisted in the Union army, 
 and later was a Nebraska farmer; he is now 
 managing a fruit farm near Loveland, Colo. Mary 
 R. is the wife of Charles Brown, of Sheshequin, 
 Pa. William H. is a carpenter and a resident of 
 Oakwood, Mich. Isaac J. remained on the old 
 family homestead until recently, when he removed 
 to Nichols, N. Y. Warren A. died when eight- 
 een years of age, and Julia and Melissa were each 
 about nine years old at the time of death. 
 
 Joseph S. Seely was born and reared on the 
 parental homestead in Pennsylvania, receiving a 
 common-school education. In Januarj^ 1864, he 
 became an employe of the railroad construction 
 department of the army. He worked on roads 
 in Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia for the gov- 
 ernment, and was advanced to be the foreman of 
 his force of men. When the war had been brought 
 to a close he engaged in the milk business in 
 Chattanooga for a couple of years. Returning 
 then to the north he worked with his brother 
 Henry in Michigan as a carpenter for fourteen 
 months, after which he went back to the old farm 
 and assisted in its cultivation for one season. 
 
 When the colony for Greeley, Colo. , was organ- 
 ized he became a member, and was assigned a 
 town lot and an eighty-acre farm on section 26, 
 township 6, range 66 west. He built a house on 
 his farm and continued the improvement of the 
 place. He has made agriculture his chief busi- 
 ness and has prospered, as he deserves to do. 
 By degrees he increased the boundaries of his 
 farm until he owned three hundred and ninetj'- 
 five acres. Afterwards he sold a quarter section, 
 and now retains two hundred and thirty-five 
 acres. He also owns a nice residence property 
 in Greeley. For the past five years he has been 
 engaged in the ice business, putting up his sup- 
 plies when the lake freezes, and running a wagon 
 to Greeley during the season, to meet the de- 
 mands of the trade there. Politically he is a Re- 
 publican. He is a charter member of Occidental 
 Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., of Greeley, and is 
 connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. 
 
 October 30, 1877, Mr. Seely married Esther 
 A. Nettleton, of Greeley. Mrs. Seely died in 
 
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 June, 1879, leaving an onlj' child, May H., who 
 is a graduate of the Greeley high school and a 
 normal student, and now attending the Metro- 
 politan Business College of Chicago. The present 
 wife of Mr. Seely was formerly Mrs. Kate S. 
 Williams. They were married in Greeley, in 
 January, 1881. 
 
 WILLIAM N. BELL, vice-president and 
 factory manager of the Clarkson Cheese 
 Company at Louisville, Boulder County, 
 was born in Lincolnshire, England, August 10, 
 1850, a son of John and Elizabeth (Newton) Bell. 
 He was one of ten children, six of whom survive. 
 His father, who was a native of Lincolnshire, 
 born about 1823, grew to manhood on a farm, 
 and in 1873 emigrated to America, settling in 
 Iowa, where he bought a farm. However, he 
 did not live to cultivate and improve the place, 
 for during the first winter after coming to Amer- 
 ica he contracted pneumonia, which terminated 
 fatally. While in England he filled the office of 
 constable for three terms. His father, William, 
 was for manj' years foreman of the landed estates 
 of an English lord; and his father-in-law, Samuel 
 Newton, was a prominent farmer of Lincoln- 
 shire. 
 
 In the public schools our subject obtained a 
 fair education. At seventeen years he began 
 railroading in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, where he 
 worked for three years,and later was similiarly em- 
 ployed for three years in Skipton , Yorkshire. He 
 joined his parents in their emigration to America 
 and on his arrival in Iowa secured work at the Red 
 Head mine in Des Moines, where he remained as 
 fireman for five years. His next position was 
 with Lumsden & Beck, coal operators, whom he 
 assisted in sinking two shafts, and afterward 
 worked two years in their employ. In 1880 he 
 came to Colorado and secured employment in 
 the coal mines at Louisville. After six years of 
 mining he decided to embark in farm pursuits, 
 and accordingly bought one hundred and sixty 
 acres situated five and one-half miles east of 
 Louisville. During the summer months he 
 cultivated the farm, while in the winter months 
 he worked at mining. 
 
 In April, 1897, the Clarkson Cheese Company 
 was organized with John A. Ross as president, 
 William N. Bell vice-president and manager, and 
 J. G. Eversman secretary and treasurer. After 
 
 the erection of their brick factory operations were 
 begun May 12, 1897, since which time the factory 
 has been in constant operation. The enterprise 
 has proved a successful one, and the company, 
 by the reliability and excellent quality of its 
 products, has gained a wide and enviable rep- 
 utation. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bell took place at Kay 
 Thorp, Lincolnshire, England, in 187 1, his wife 
 being Miss Mary Gibson. They became the 
 parents of eight children, six of whom are living, 
 namely: Fannie, who is the wife of Adam Ginter, 
 a farmer of Arapahoe County; William, Alberta, 
 Lizzie, Newton and Alta, who are with their 
 parents, the sons assisting in the cultivation of 
 the ranch. In political views Mr. Bell is a 
 Populist, and fraternally he is connected with 
 Hiawatha Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, at 
 Louisville. 
 
 P QlLLIAM R. MURPHY, whose home is on 
 \ A / section 7, township 2 south, range 67 west, 
 Y V Arapahoe County, is one of the hardy pio- 
 neers of 1859, who laid the foundations of Colo- 
 rado's greatness and prosperity. Struggling as 
 best he might, with the unforseen trials and dan- 
 gers of life in a new and unknown country, he 
 ultimately gained a victory over circumstances, 
 and long ago became successful and influential 
 in his own community. He built his commodious 
 and comfortable home in 1875, and, surrounded 
 by his little family, has enjoyed life, secure in the 
 esteem and love of friends and neighbors. Under 
 his constant and untiring care and labor, he has 
 made his farm a garden, where it was formerly a 
 desert, and has had the pleasure of reaping fine 
 harvests from land which, when he took posses- 
 sion of it, was a wilderness. 
 
 The parents of the above-named gentleman 
 were David and Sarah (Likens) Murphy, who 
 were married in Kentucky. The father was a 
 native of that state, but the mother was from 
 eastern Tennessee and removed to Kentucky 
 with her family in girlhood. After their mar- 
 riage David Murphy and wife removed to Callo- 
 way County, Mo., and there William R. was 
 born June 4, 1838. The family lived in vari- 
 ous counties in Missouri, Linn, Platte and 
 Leavenworth, but were not well suited with the 
 country. They arrived in the county last- 
 named in 1854, and were thus among the 
 
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 first settlers there. Five j^ears later, the father 
 sold out his property and started for Colorado, 
 in company with his family and a few friends 
 and neighbors. They set out on their long jour- 
 ney May 10, and did not reach Denver until July 
 19, 1859. Proceeding expeditiously as far as the 
 head of Smoky Hill River, on the Smoky Hill 
 trail, they soon found that they were not provided 
 with sufficient water for their cattle in the desert. 
 After anxious deliberation it was decided to turn 
 back, but when the men began looking for the 
 oxen, which had been allowed to wander away in 
 search of pasturage, the animals could not be 
 found. The only resource of the little party 
 was their three horses, which had been picketed. 
 With a few things they started back for water, be- 
 ing obliged to leave their wagons and loads. Re- 
 turning, the father of our subject again went on 
 search for the missing cattle, and while gone, 
 passed another trail, which, if they had taken, 
 would have led them within fifteen miles of water. 
 Being unsuccessful in finding the oxen, Mr. 
 Murphy conveyed his party to a point known as 
 Twenty-second Station, and also took some sup- 
 plies from their wagons, which had to be aban- 
 doned by the way. The very day that they reached 
 the station mentioned, a train passed and Mr. 
 Murphy prevailed upon the head of the company 
 to take his own party through to Denver. As 
 soon as he had arrived in that city he hired a man 
 to take five yoke of oxen and go after the wagon 
 and goods, his payment to be the sum of $80 for 
 the trip. Mr. Murphy accompanied him and the 
 night that they found the wagons they camped 
 there and to their dismay the next morning their 
 oxen had disappeared and were never again re- 
 covered. Their only resort then was to await 
 another company going across the plains, and to 
 get them to trail their wagons after their own. 
 This was finally done, and one of Mr. Murphy's 
 wagons was given in payment for the service. He 
 was thus left in a bad condition, financially, and 
 being an old man, he settled down in Denver. 
 
 William R. Murphy, now a young man, left 
 home and went to the mines, but he did not like 
 the business and soon located on some rented 
 land in the valley. Later he entered a tract, 
 and then sold the property, finally renting it 
 of the owner for five years. When he made a 
 fair start, he bought a quarter-section of his 
 present homested, and began raising live-stock. 
 
 He married and lived for some years in an humble 
 house, which was supplanted by his present 
 home, as soon as he was able to build it. For 
 many years he has been a director and the treas- 
 urer of the Colorado Agricultural Ditch Com- 
 pany, and has placed irrigating ditches on his 
 farm. A few years after making his first pur- 
 chase of land he bought twenty acres more. He 
 favors education and good school privileges for 
 the young. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 December 10, 1863, Mr. Murphy married 
 Sarah E. Smith, a native of Ohio. She moved 
 from the Buckeye state to Missouri and thence to 
 Colorado in 1859, with her father. Shewasonly 
 twelve years of age when she crossed the plains 
 with her father. They were only a small party 
 and in constant danger of the Indians. The five 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy are: William 
 A. , who married Dilla Ciardo, and is a farmer; 
 Alice, wife of Edward Marsh, and living near 
 Denver; May, Mrs. Charles C. Moore, also a resi- 
 dent of the environs of Denver; Katie, Mrs. 
 Eugene O'Connor, of Denver; and Edward R., a 
 youth of thirteen years. 
 
 WILLIAM W. KENNEDY. Among the 
 respected and honored citizens of Weld 
 County this gentleman ranks high, for he 
 is enterprising and systematic in business, ever 
 regardful of the rights of others; is active in the 
 support of worthy public institutions and im- 
 provements, and endeavors to do his full duty 
 toward his family and his fellow-men. His first 
 vote was cast for Lincoln, since which time he 
 has been a zealous Republican. In 1898 he was 
 a nominee for the ofiice of county commissioner 
 on the Republican ticket, but owing to the pecu- 
 liar political situation here at that time was de- 
 feated. In the Civil war he was one of the na- 
 tion's brave defenders, and, having enlisted in 
 Company I, Ninety -seventh Ohio Regiment of 
 Volunteers, he went to the front and served in 
 the Army of the Tennessee under Sherman. 
 With that illustrious commander he started on 
 the famed march to the sea, but was taken ill at 
 Chattanooga and sent to the hospital at Nash- 
 ville. After he had recovered he was transferred 
 to the veteran reserve corps and assigned to guard 
 duty. He] was finally discharged in Chicago 
 
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 August 20, 1864, on account of physical dis- 
 ability , after having been in the service two and 
 a-half years. The boys who wore the blue have 
 a very warm place in his heart, and he has been 
 an active member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public for years. He has been the commander 
 of R. B. Hayes Post No. 90, of New Windsor, 
 and in 1898 was a delegate to the national en- 
 campment in Cincinnati. 
 
 W. W. Kennedy is the third of a family of 
 eight children whose parents were Philip and 
 Susan (Jones) Kennedy. The father was a well- 
 to-do farmer of Coshocton County, Ohio. The 
 eldest of his children is Rachel E., wife of A. S. 
 Eaton, of Greeley. Ann E., deceased, was the 
 wife of William Smith, of Ohio. Thomas F. was 
 engaged in the drug business in Clinton, Mo., for 
 many years and is now deceased. John A., an 
 early settler of Colorado, is now retired. He re- 
 sides in Boulder, and is an extensive land-owner. 
 Harriet B. is the wife of Prof W. C. Thomas, 
 principal of the Longmont public schools. Mary 
 is the wife of T. W. McCurdy, a farmer of Mor- 
 gan County, Colo. He is the county assessor, 
 and at present his family is living near Fort 
 Morgan. Emma J. is the wife of L. M. Hanks, 
 salesman for George Ady, of Denver, Colo. 
 
 The birth of W. W. Kennedy occurred in 
 Coshocton County, Ohio, October 12, 1843. He 
 received thorough training in farm work and re- 
 mained at home until he was eighteen years of 
 age, when his patriotism led to his enlistment in 
 the army. At the close of his service he went to 
 Muscatine County, Iowa, and there taught school 
 and farmed rented land for a number of years. 
 In the spring of 1880 he came to this state and 
 rented the farm which he now owns, as the fol- 
 lowing year he purchased the place. Originally 
 comprising three hundred and twenty acres, he 
 has disposed of forty acres and has made great 
 improvements. There are now one hundred and 
 sixty acres under cultivation, and it is the thrift- 
 iest place in the neighborhood. In 1893 he 
 erected his pretty and comfortable home. He is 
 a stockholder in ditch No. 2, and has been presi- 
 dent of the school board. He has made one of his 
 chief aims the educating of his children, and has 
 fitted them to be good and useful citizens in any 
 community. A member of the Masonic order, 
 he belongs to Windsor I^odge No. 69, A. F. & 
 A. M., and is also an Odd Fellow, being con- 
 
 nected with Poudre Valley Lodge No. 88, of 
 Windsor, and Columbia Lodge No. 16, Eastern 
 Star. 
 
 March 19, 1866, Mr. Kennedy was married in 
 Muscatine, Iowa, to Sarah F. Beard, daughter 
 of John and Rebecca (Fisher) Beard. She was 
 born in Pennsylvania, of which state her parents 
 were also natives, and in early days they settled 
 in Iowa. The five children of our subject and 
 wife are: Alice A., Mrs. Clarence McNeal, of 
 this county; Susie, wife of William Mahood, a 
 farmer and stockman of Weld County; Julia M., 
 Mrs. John Kern, of Milwaukee, Wis.; John H., 
 a graduate of Greeley high school; and Ethel, 
 now a student in the Greeley high school. 
 
 I GUIS L. PRINCE, one of the capable farmers 
 It of Boulder County and the owner of a farm 
 U near Canfield, was born in Cooper County, 
 Mo., October 30, 1862, and is a son of Hiram 
 and Helen M. (Lindsay) Prince. The sketches 
 of his father and two brothers will be found else- 
 where in this volume. He was only three years 
 of age at the time the family removed to Colorado 
 and in this state he passed the days of boyhood 
 and youth, meantime acquiring a fair education 
 in the common schools. To the knowledge gained 
 in schools he has added by self-culture and 
 thoughtful reading, which has made him a man 
 of splendid general information. 
 
 September 25, 1892, occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Prince and Miss Cora Smith, an estimable 
 young lady then living in Ashland, Ore. She 
 was, however, a native of Washington Territory, 
 where her parents, G. W. and Elizabeth (Lind- 
 say) Smith, resided for many years. This union 
 has been blessed by the birth of a daughter, 
 Clara E., who was born July 31, 1893. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Prince began farming a 
 tract of one hundred and sixty acres which had 
 been given him by his father. Here he has since 
 remained, giving his attention to the improve- 
 ment and cultivation of the place. He is fond 
 of travel, and in 1886 made a tour of exploration 
 through California and Utah. He was also on a 
 tour through the west at the time of his marriage, 
 and since then he and his wife, in 1895, returned 
 to Ashland on a visit and also traveled through 
 other parts of the northwest. In politics he is 
 a Republican. 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 295 
 
 gRACE ESPY PATTON COWLES. Per- 
 haps in the entire state of Colorado there is no 
 T lady who has been more prominently before 
 the people than Miss Patton (now Mrs. Cowles), 
 state superintendent of public instruction andex- 
 ofBcio state librarian. To some she is known chief- 
 ly by her contributions to the press, which evince a 
 high order of literary ability; to others she is 
 known chiefly through her prominence in the 
 most select society circles of Denver; but to per- 
 haps the largest class of people she is known 
 through her connection with the educational in- 
 terests of the state. Elected in 1896 to the posi- 
 tion she now so efficiently fills, it has since been 
 her ambition to promote the welfare of the pub- 
 lic schools, and she has been earnest in her efforts 
 to promote four lines of work: libraries, kinder- 
 gartens, manual training in both graded and dis- 
 trict schools, and artistic .schoolroom decorations. 
 The contributions of Mrs. Cowles to the Chicago 
 Tribune SinA other well-known dailies have made 
 her name a familiar one to readers of papers in 
 other states. She is also the author of ' 'The 
 Chalchihuitl" (published in attractive booklet 
 form in Denver in 1895), which tells the story of 
 the beautiful Indian Princess of the tribe of the 
 Yutahenne, the child of Nature, with a heart un- 
 tainted by Realism, but abiding in the Ideal. The 
 search of the Princess for the Chalchihuitl, the 
 magic stone that was to bring her complete hap- 
 piness, is vividly depicted, in the author's usual 
 vigorous and graceful style. 
 
 For some years Mrs. Cowles was president of 
 the alumni association of the State Agricultural 
 College. She is a member of the State Teachers' 
 Association, the State Board of Land Commission- 
 ers, the Board of Trustees of the State Normal 
 School, and the State Board of Education, of 
 which she is now the president. In the National 
 Educational Association and its work she is act- 
 ively interested, and was present at the meeting 
 of the department of superintendents connected 
 with the same, at Chattanooga, Tenn., in Febru- 
 ary, 1898, being president and organizer of the 
 conference of state superintendents at that con- 
 vention. Also active in the work of the State 
 Woman's Suffrage Association, she was its auditor 
 for some years and represented it as delegate to the 
 national convention at Washington, D. C, in 
 1898, when her name was upon the program for 
 all address on the evening of February 15. 
 
 The Patton family was founded in America in 
 1630 by Col. James Patton, who was sent by the 
 British governmeiit to Virginia as an officer and 
 settled upon a plantation there. The grandfather 
 of our subject, Hon. Joseph Patton, was born in 
 Fayette County, Pa., removed thence to Craw- 
 ford County, became the owner of large landed 
 tracts and represented his district in the state legis- 
 lature. He married Miss Phebe Espy, a native 
 of Pennsylvania, to which state her ancestors had 
 come from New Jersey. The Espy family had 
 several representatives in the Revolution and 
 some of its members are now well-known educators 
 in the east. 
 
 Two sons of Joseph Patton, David and Joseph, 
 continued the large lumber business he had es- 
 tablished on the old Erie and Pittsburg canal, 
 but the introduction of the railroad terminated 
 the business, the canal being then drained. 
 Their next location was at Espyville, Pa., where 
 they were manufacturers of and dealers in lum- 
 ber. In 1876 David Patton came to Colorado and 
 embarked in the cattle business at Fort Collins, 
 then a small place, destitute of railroads or im- 
 provements. After a few years he became inter- 
 ested in a feed business. He was mayor of Fort 
 Collins, commissioner of Larimer County and 
 held other offices of trust. Since 1895 his home 
 has been in Denver. 
 
 In Linesville, Crawford County, Pa., occurred 
 the birth of Mary J. Allen, daughter of Moses 
 Allen, who owned the largest flour mill in western - 
 Penns3'lvania. His father, Stephen, who was an 
 officer in the war of 18 12, was a son of Moses 
 Allen, who was born in New Jersey and served 
 with a regiment from that state in the Revolution 
 until he was killed in battle. He was a son of 
 Moses Allen, Sr., also a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion, and a pioneer of Crawford County, Pa., 
 where his descendants were successful flour 
 manufacturers. The Aliens are of English ex- 
 traction. The mother of Mary J. Allen was 
 Polly (Burwell) Allen, who was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, the daughter of Samuel Burwell, who 
 emigrated from England to Virginia and thence 
 removed to Crawford County, Pa. In England 
 they were members of the nobility, but preferred 
 to give up their titles and seek a home in Amer- 
 ica. One of the family, Maj. Lewis Burwell, set- 
 tled in Virginia in 1639. 
 
 The family of David and Mary J. (Allen) Pat- 
 
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 ton consisted of eight children, but only four are 
 living: Knud, who is in New Mexico; Grace 
 Espy; Jessie, a member of the class of '98, 
 Woman's Medical College of the Northwestern 
 University, Evanston, 111.; Webb Allen, clerk 
 in the office of the secretary of state of Colorado; 
 and Polly. The subject of this sketch was born 
 in Hartstown, Pa., and received an excellent ed- 
 ucation in the State Agricultural College at Fort 
 Collins, graduating in 1885 with the degree of 
 B. S. In 1897 the degree of M. S. was conferred 
 upon her by the same institution. In 1885, im- 
 mediately after graduating, she became instruc- 
 tor of English in the college, in 1890 was given 
 the chair of professor of English and sociology 
 on its establishment and remained in that depart- 
 ment as instructor in ethics, psychology, sociol- 
 ogy and civil government, until her election as 
 state superintendent. 
 
 In 1 896 she was nominated for the office at the 
 state Democratic convention in Pueblo and her 
 name was retained on the fusion ticket with the 
 silver Republicans. She received the largest plu- 
 rality of any Democrat on the ticket. January 
 12, 1897, she took the oath of office and has since 
 given her attention to the discharge of its duties, 
 having, in addition to the regular work, issued 
 several pamphlets on subjects pertaining to the 
 schools. She is a member of the State Library 
 Association. Socially she is prominent in the 
 Woman's and Clio Clubs of Denver, and in re- 
 ligious belief is a Presbyterian. She was mar- 
 ried April 9, 1898, to Warren Hayden Cowles, 
 then a lieutenant of the Sixteenth United States 
 Infantry, but now a captain in the Fourth United 
 States Infantry. 
 
 (lOHN L. DAILEY. Among the large num- 
 I ber of business men now in Denver, there 
 Q) are comparatively few who have been iden- 
 tified with the growth of the city from the earliest 
 days of its history, who have witnessed its devel- 
 opment from one decade to another and have 
 themselves been active factors in its progress. 
 Such a citizen is John L- Dailey, a pioneer of '59 
 and still an enterprising, successful business man 
 of this city. In many important ways he has 
 been connected with the welfare of the place and 
 his own history has been intimately associated 
 with that of Denver and Arapahoe County. 
 
 Mr. Dailey was born in Tiffin, Seneca County, 
 
 Ohio, November 9, 1833. His father, William T., 
 was born in Mauchchunk, Pa., and grew to man- 
 hood on a farm there, but later removed to Perry 
 County, Ohio, where he married Sarah McCor- 
 mick, member of a Scotch-Presbyterian family. 
 Immediately after his marriage he went to Seneca 
 County and cleared a farm from the timber, the 
 tract lying in what is now a suburb of Tiffin. In 
 1848 he sold that place, and, removing to Allen 
 County, Ind. , with the aid of his sons cleared and 
 improved a tract of forest land. Late in life he 
 retired to the village of Leo and there he died at 
 the age of seventy-four. He was a Democrat in 
 politics and while in Allen County served as 
 county commissioner. His wife died when sev- 
 enty-four years of age. Of their ten children, 
 four sons and four daughters attained maturity, 
 and two sons and three daughters are living. 
 Edward T., who came to Colorado in 1863, now 
 resides in Larimer County, Colo.; Samuel, who 
 was a farmer, died in 1897; William M., who 
 came to Colorado soon after his brother, John, in 
 1859, engaged in mining and the cattle business, 
 and died in Denver in March, 1889. 
 
 When about fifteen years of age our subject ac- 
 companied his parents from Ohio to Indiana. Two 
 years later he became an apprentice to the print- 
 er's trade in Fort Wayne, where later he was 
 made foreman of the composing room, remaining 
 in the same office until he was twenty-one. In 
 1854 he started west, but spent the winter in Des 
 Moines, then in the spring went on to Omaha, 
 where he worked on Chapman's ChanHcleer. In 
 the spring of 1857 he went to Dakota City, Neb., 
 where he published the Dakota Herald. In the 
 spring of 1858, while in Sioux City, Iowa, at 
 work at his trade, he received a request from 
 William N. Byers to join him at Omaha in order 
 to establish a paper in Denver, which he did as 
 soon as he could arrange his affairs. He was 
 made foreman of the Rocky Mountain News, the 
 first four editions of which he assisted in printing. 
 However, soon concluding that other interests 
 might prove more profitable, he terminated his en- 
 gagement with the paper, and in May, 1859, began 
 prospecting in Gilpin County. He was among 
 the first to arrive at Gregory's Gulch, and helped 
 to cut a road from there to Central City. On the 
 ist of August he returned to Denver, where he 
 became a member of the firm of Byers & Dailey. 
 Later this firm was consolidated with the firm 
 
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 of Rounds & Bliss, under the name of the 
 News Printing Company, which founded the 
 Daily N'ews in July, i860. The firm name 
 was again changed in 1863, Byers & Bailey 
 having purchased the interest of the other gen- 
 tlemen. The great flood of 1864 washed out the 
 press and carried away the entire supply of type 
 and printing material. A few days afterward 
 the firm bought out the opposition paper, known 
 as the Denver Commonwealth, but continued to 
 publish only the Rocky Mountain News, not a sin- 
 gle issue of which was missed on account of the 
 flood. 
 
 Afterward the paper changed from a six- day 
 evening paper to a seven-day morning issue. Mr. 
 Dailey continued as the general manager until 
 November, 1870, when he sold his interest. The 
 next year he engaged in the job printing and 
 bookbinding business under the firm title of 
 Dailey, Baker & Smart, this concern having the 
 first steam printing plant in the city and printing 
 two papers on contract, in addition to their other 
 work . The location of the plant was on Market 
 street, near the United States mint. His interest 
 in this enterprise Mr. Dailey finally sold to F. J. 
 Stanton. He is now engaged in the real-estate 
 business, with ofiice at No. 1725 Arapahoe street. 
 
 At the solicitation of friends, in 1873 Mr. 
 Dailey consented to run for county treasurer, but 
 was defeated by the then incumbent. For a few 
 years afterward he was secretary of the Rocky 
 Mountain Insurance and Savings Institution, but 
 resigned this position in 1877 to take the office of 
 county treasurer, having been elected on the Re- 
 publican ticket in the fall of 1877, after a spirited 
 campaign with his predecessor, James M. Strick- 
 ler, as opponent. He served for two years and 
 was then re-elected, without opposition, being the 
 nominee of both tickets. In 1881 he was again 
 elected, this time with but slight opposition. On 
 the expiration of his term, in January, 1884, he 
 turned his attention to the real-estate business. 
 In 1887 he was chief deputy county clerk, and in 
 1893 was induced to run for county clerk on an 
 independent ticket, but was defeated. Under 
 Mayor Van Horn he was appointed a member of 
 the board of park commissioners, of which he was 
 the first president under the present charter. Dur- 
 ing his term he laid out two small new parks, 
 Chaffee and James H. Piatt parks, and greatly 
 improved City Park. 
 
 In Chicago, in 1866, Mr. Dailey married Miss 
 Melissa B. Rounds, who was born in Wisconsin 
 and died in Denver in November, 1866. In the 
 same city, in 1868, he married Mrs. Helen M. 
 Woodbury, who was born in York state, the 
 daughter of Rev. W. E. Manley, a minister in 
 the Universalist Church, but now deceased. They 
 are the parents of four children: Lissie W., Mrs. 
 W. P. Peabody, a graduate of Wolfe Hall, and a 
 resident of Denver; Annie E., also a graduate of 
 Wolfe Hall, and now a student in the Art Insti- 
 tute in Chicago; Grace, a graduate of the Denver 
 high school and now teaching in Larimer County, 
 Colo., and John L. , Jr.,a student in the high 
 school. The family occupy the beautiful home- 
 stead on Broadway and Fourth avenue, immedi- 
 ately south of Cherry Creek, a place that forms a 
 part of the original large tract purchased by Mr. 
 Dailey, and that has been improved by the pres- 
 ent owner with a substantial brick residence, 
 neatly kept lawns, driveways lined with trees, 
 and a beautiful terrace on the north of the house. 
 
 When the Indians were troublesome during the 
 Civil war, Mr. Dailey enlisted, in July, 1864, in 
 Company A, Third Colorado Cavalry, of which 
 he was first a sergeant and later second lieuten- 
 ant. He took part in the battle of Sand Creek, 
 November 19, and was mustered out with the 
 company in December, 1864. He is a member 
 of Lincoln Post, G. A. R. Since the organiza- 
 tion of Unity Church he has been a member of the 
 board of trustees. Politically he favors protec- 
 tion and is a strong silver supporter. For many 
 years he was treasurer of the Association of Colo- 
 rado Pioneers and a part of the time was direc- 
 tor and secretary; from January, 1897, to January, 
 1898, he served as president of the organization. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Denver Lodge 
 No. 5, A. F. & A. M., Denver Chapter No. 2, 
 R. A. M., and Colorado Commandery No. i,K. T. 
 
 pGjlLLIAM HARMON BUCHTEL, M. D., 
 \ A / LL. D., of Denver, was born in Akron, 
 VV Ohio, August 15, 1845, and is of German 
 descent. His father, Jonathan B. Buchtel, was 
 born in Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, and was one of 
 a family of twelve sons and one daughter, of 
 whom eight sons became Protestant ministers. 
 When about fourteen he came to America, locat- 
 ing in Catawissa, Pa., but five years later re- 
 
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 moving to Akron, Ohio, where he studied medi- 
 cine with Dr. John Weimer. Later he entered 
 Cleveland Medical College, from which he grad- 
 uated with the degree of M. D. After having 
 practiced for a few years in Akron, he removed 
 to Elkhart, Ind., in 1849, and four years later 
 settled in South Bend, the same state, where he 
 practiced until his son returned from the war. 
 His last home was in Des Moines, Iowa, where 
 he died in 1869. 
 
 The opening of the Civil war found our subject 
 young, ardent, enthusiastic, determined to enter 
 the service. Three times he ran away from home 
 to enlist in the army, but every time he was 
 taken out by his father and his patriotic impulses 
 were temporarily checked. In the spring of 
 1861, through the influence of his father, he was 
 persuaded to begin the study of medicine in what 
 is now the Northwestern University Medical 
 School in Chicago. In June of the same year he 
 entered Mercy Hospital as an assistant, and later 
 was made the resident physician, which position 
 he held for over two years, being the senior phy- 
 sician of the three there. By the time he was 
 eighteen and one-half years of age he had at- 
 tended over six hundred women in confinement. 
 He passed his final examination in the spring of 
 1864, and received certificates from the presi- 
 dent, but could not take his degree until he was 
 of age. 
 
 As soon as he completed his course he went to 
 Columbus, Ohio, and was, in April, 1864, exam- 
 ined by the United States examining board, and 
 commissioned acting assistant surgeon of the 
 United States Volunteers, with the rank of sec- 
 ond lieutenant. Ordered to Louisville, he organ- 
 ized the Totten general hospital, and after three 
 months was sent to Chattanooga, where he spent 
 sixteen weeks in the Bragg general hospital. In 
 August, 1864, he was promoted to be surgeon of 
 a division, with the rank of major in the Depart- 
 ment of Military Railroads, and was ordered to 
 join Sherman's array, then at Resaca, near Kene- 
 saw Mountain. He was with General Sherman's 
 army at the taking of Atlanta. On the evacua- 
 tion of the city he left on the last train out and 
 returned to Dalton, thence to Nashville, from 
 there to Baltimore, and to Savannah, Ga. At 
 Newbern, N. C, he was appointed chief surgeon 
 of military railroads of the Department of North 
 Carolina, with the brevet rank of lieutenant- 
 
 colonel. This position he held at the time of his 
 resignation from the army in September, 1865. 
 
 Returning to Chicago he took another course 
 in medicine, and graduated in March, 1866, with 
 the degree of M. D. He then went to South 
 Bend and practiced with his father for a time, re- 
 maining in that place until ill health obliged him 
 to seek a change of climate. Coming west to 
 Denver he engaged in active practice here until 
 the fall of 1875. He found, however, that his 
 health was better in a higher altitude, and he 
 therefore purchased a ranch of twenty-one hun- 
 dred acres on the divide in Douglas County, 
 where he spent his summers, remaining in Den- 
 ver during the winter. In this way he com- 
 pletely regained his health, and was enabled to 
 return permanently to Denver. He made a tour 
 of Europe in 1888, visiting medical schools in all 
 prominent cities, and also journeying to points of 
 historic interest on the British Isles and on the 
 continent. 
 
 Dr. Buchtel is professor of obstetrics in the 
 Gross Medical College, which is the medical de- 
 partment of the Rocky Mountain University, and 
 he is a member of the board of trustees of the uni- 
 versity. Formerly he held the positions of physi- 
 cian to St. Joseph's and St. Luke's hospitals. He 
 is identified with the State Medical, Denver and 
 Arapahoe County and American Medical Asso- 
 ciations, and is a charter member of the Western 
 Association of Obstetrics. He organized the Gross 
 midwifery dispensary, where the senior students 
 are given the practical knowledge that makes their 
 college course a success. Since the organization 
 of the Imperial Legion, a fraternal life insurance 
 company, he has been its supreme medical exam- 
 iner. 
 
 The degree of LL. D. was given Dr. Buchtel 
 by McKenzie University of Tennessee. Like all 
 veterans, he is interested in Grand Army affairs, 
 and he has his membership in Lincoln Post. Po- 
 litically he is a Democrat. March 22, 1871, at 
 South Bend, Ind., he married Miss Helen M. 
 Barnum, who was born in New York City, re- 
 ceived every educational advantage, and is a 
 woman of unusual executive ability and force of 
 character. She has been president of the Charity 
 Association, and has held other positions of re- 
 sponsibility and honor. She has one daughter 
 living, Lelia, who is a graduate of Miss Brown's 
 school on Fifty-fifth street. New York City. Th? 
 
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 other daughter, Pauline, died at the age of two 
 years and seven months. 
 
 In addition to his other interests, Dr. Buchtel 
 is connected with a number of mining corpora- 
 tions. He has also been a factor in the develop- 
 ment of Denver real estate. In 1882 he platted 
 seven hundred and sixty-five acres, upon which 
 he laid out the town of Barnum, named in honor 
 of his father-iu-Iaw, the famous P. T. Barnum, 
 now deceased. He built a residence in this 
 suburb and was made its mayor, holding the 
 office for three years, when he moved back to the 
 city. The place is still being developed, and the 
 street railway has been extended to that point. 
 A few years ago Barnum was made a part of the 
 city, and is now included in the fifteenth ward 
 of Denver. 
 
 (31 LSTON ELUS, A.M., Ph. D., LL.D. Presi- 
 T\ dent of The State Agricultural College of 
 / I Colorado since 1892 and for the same period 
 a resident of Fort Collins, is a member of an old 
 Virginia family, from which state his great-grand- 
 father enlisted in the war of the Revolution and 
 after its close removed with his family to Ken- 
 tucky. His wife was a woman of great worth of 
 character and lived to be ninety-nine years old. 
 Their son. Rev. John G. Ellis, was born in the 
 Old Dominion, but spent his life principally in 
 Kentucky, and was well known, not only in that 
 state, but also in Ohio and Indiana. Though his 
 residence was in a slave state, he strongly op- 
 posed slavery. 
 
 Absalom Ellis, father of the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Kenton County, Ky., a de- 
 scendant, on his mother's side, of Holland-Dutch 
 ancestry, and on his father's side of Scotch pro- 
 genitors. He married an own cousin, Mary 
 Ellis, whose mother was Miss Susan Arnold, of 
 Irish descent; and her father, William G. Ellis, 
 a brother of Rev. John G. Ellis, was one of the 
 largest land owners and wealthiest men in Kenton 
 County. He owned a large number of slaves, 
 but rather inclined toward emancipation on prin- 
 ciple; and when, one night, all his slaves but one 
 superanuated old man took the underground rail- 
 road for Ohio, he made no effort whatever to 
 capture them. 
 
 After spending some years as a farmer in Ken- 
 ton County, Absalom Ellis removed to Coving- 
 ton, Ky., in 1863, where he engaged in the man- 
 
 ufacture of all grades of tobacco. About 1888 he 
 retired to his farm in Kenton County, and there 
 died July 2, 1894, when past seventy years of 
 age. He was an active worker in the Christian 
 Church and served as deacon in his congregation. 
 His widow is living in Covington, Ky., and is 
 now (1898) in her sixty-sixth year. 
 
 The only child of his parents, Alston Ellis was 
 born on a farm in Kenton County January 26, 
 1847. When he was a boy schools were con- 
 ducted on the subscription plan, and were far in- 
 ferior to the free schools of the present day, but 
 he nevertheless secured from them a substantial 
 basis for his present knowledge. When fifteen 
 years of age he accompanied his parents to Cov- 
 ington, where he attended a private school con- 
 ducted by S. Mead, a noted teacher of his daj-. 
 There he prepared for college, but before enter- 
 ing his collegiate course he taught a country 
 school near Carrollton, Ky., for five months, re- 
 ceiving $8 per month of public money and suffi- 
 cient voluntary subscriptions to swell the total to 
 $40 per month. At the expiration of the term 
 he returned home and worked for some months 
 in the factory owned by his father. 
 
 In September, 1864, he entered the sophomore 
 class of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, and 
 three years later graduated with honor. While 
 in college he was known as a splendid Latin and 
 Greek scholar and as a ready debater and an ex- 
 cellent speaker. During his senior year he de- 
 livered four public addresses besides being chosen 
 by the students to deliver the oration on Wash- 
 ington's birthday. Soon after he graduated he 
 was married, July 23, 1867, to Miss Katherine 
 Ann Cox, who was born in Westchester, Butler 
 County, Ohio, a daughter of Capt. Abram P. 
 and Elizabeth (Howery) Cox. Her father, who 
 gained his title through meritorious service in 
 the Union army during the Civil war, studied 
 law in the office of Hon. Lfewis D. Campbell, 
 uncle of the late governor of Ohio, and afterward 
 became associated with Gen. Ferd. Van Derveer 
 in the practice of law at Hamilton. At the time 
 of his death, in 1872, he was one of the most 
 prominent members of the Butler County bar. 
 His widow is now living in Westchester. 
 
 In September, 1867, Mr. Ellis became princi- 
 pal of a ward school in Covington, Ky., at a sal- 
 ary of $900 per year, which was increased to 
 $1,000 before the expiration of the school year. 
 
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 In January, 1869, he was chosen principal of a 
 school in Newport, Ky., at $1,200 per year, and 
 was re-elected at $1,500. In July, 1871, he was 
 made superintendent of the schools of Hamilton, 
 Ohio, which position he filled with the greatest 
 eflSciency for over seven years, resigning in 
 March, 1879, to accept a position with Harper 
 Brothers, with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, 
 at a salary of $3,000 per year. In February, 
 1875, he was appointed a member of the Ohio 
 state board of school examiners and was at once 
 made clerk of that body, continuing until April, 
 1879. In 1887 he was again made a member of 
 the board, and in 1891 re-appointed for a term of 
 five years. While filling this position, in 1876, 
 he wrote a chapter entitled ' ' The Ungraded 
 Schools of Ohio " for the History of Education, 
 issued as a centennial volume and published by 
 authority of the general assembly. In 1872 he 
 was made Master of Arts by his alma mater, and 
 the same year delivered the diplomas to the grad- 
 uates of the Erodelphian and Miami Union liter- 
 ary societies of the university. In 1888 he was 
 chosen by the same societies to deliver the annual 
 address. He received the degree of Doctor of 
 Philosophy from Wooster University in 1879, and 
 the same degree from the Ohio State University 
 in 1888. Two years later the Ohio State Uni- 
 versity conferred upon him the degree of Doctor 
 of Laws, and the same degree was conferred upon 
 him by his alma mater in 1894. In 1880 he was 
 made a member of the Victoria Institute, the 
 philosophical society of Great Britain, and sub- 
 sequently was made a life member of this noted 
 institution, of which Queen Victoria is a noted 
 patron. In the fall of 1880 he delivered the ora- 
 tion at the biennial convention of the Phi Delta 
 Theta fraternity at Indianapolis, he having been 
 an active member of this fraternity during his 
 college course. 
 
 From 1 880 to 1887 Dr. Ellis was superintend- 
 ent of the Sandusky (Ohio) schools, and brought 
 them to a high state of efficiency. Here he man- 
 ifested a warm interest in the work of the teach- 
 ers of Erie County and received recognition there- 
 for in action taken by the Erie County Teachers' 
 Association at Milan, Ohio, October 15, 1887, as 
 follows: 
 
 " In consideration of the valuable services ren- 
 dered the Erie County Teachers' Association by 
 
 Dr. Alston Ellis while he was engaged in super- 
 intending the schools of Sandusky, be it 
 
 ' 'Resolved, That we, the teachers of Erie Coun- 
 ty, in assembly here, do tender him a vote of 
 thanks for the interest which he manifested in 
 behalf of our association. 
 
 "Resolved, That in token of our appreciation 
 of his aid in the upbuilding of this association, 
 we authorize the special committee, appointed 
 this morning, to prepare and forward to him such 
 a badge or pin as can be purchased with the do- 
 nations made to-day by individual members who 
 shall subscribe to the fund for that purpo.se." 
 (Signed) H. A. Myers, ") 
 
 A. A. Bartow, [ Committee. 
 Eliza G. Horton, ) 
 
 This action was taken two months after he had 
 accepted his former position at the head of the 
 Hamilton schools and entered upon the duties of 
 the office. In Hamilton his salary was soon in- 
 creased from $2,700 to $3,000 per annum. Soon 
 after he first went to that city he began to work 
 in teachers' institutes, and his services as normal 
 instructor have been in demand ever since. For 
 some years he devoted the summer months to 
 work in Ohio farmers' institutes, under the au- 
 thority of the Ohio state board of agriculture. 
 When the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical 
 College was made, by legislative act, the Ohio 
 State University, he became a member of the 
 new board of trustees, serving for five years. In 
 all teachers' associations of his state he main- 
 tained a deep interest. He was a member of the 
 State Teachers' Association, also the Central 
 Ohio, Northeastern Ohio, Northwestern Ohio 
 and Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Associations, 
 and was president of the two last named. He 
 was president of the superintendents' section of 
 the Ohio Teachers' Association in 1875, and 
 president of the General Association in 1888. 
 For more than twelve years he was clerk of the 
 Butler County Board of School Examiners. 
 
 On the departure of Dr. Ellis from Ohio the 
 Butler County Teachers' Association passed the 
 following resolutions: 
 
 ' 'Resolved, That we take leave of Dr. Alston 
 Ellis with sincere regret, feeling that his depart- 
 ure is a serious loss to our county and state; but 
 we congratulate the people of Colorado on hav- 
 ing secured the services of so distinguished an 
 educator. 
 
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 "Resolved, That the members of the Butler 
 County Teachers' Association extend to Dr. 
 Ellis their hearty congratulations and their best 
 wishes for his success in his distant field of la- 
 bor. 
 
 "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be 
 presented to Dr. Ellis, and that they be furnished 
 for publication in the county papers and in the 
 Ohio Educational Monthly." 
 
 (Signed) B. B. Harlan, \ 
 
 John Morris, [• Committee. 
 W. P. Cope, ) 
 
 On the afternoon of the day Dr. Ellis left Ham- 
 ilton for the west a number of the prominent citi- 
 zens repaired to his office in the courthouse to 
 give him "hail and farewell." They left with 
 him a beautiful and substantial token of their re- 
 gard for him as a citizen and their appreciation 
 of his servicses as an educator, in the shape of a 
 heavy gold watch of superior workmanship with 
 the following inscription within the case: 
 
 ' ' Presented to Dr. Alston Ellis by the citizens 
 of Hamilton, Ohio, 1892." 
 
 The presentation speech was made by Judge 
 P. G. Berry, since deceased, and was an eloquent 
 and timely tribute to the worth and professional 
 zeal of the man who had given the schools of the 
 city thirteen years of devoted service. Hon. 
 Thomas Millikin, the Nestor of the Butler Coun- 
 ty bar, and others of those present made fitting 
 re.iiarks expressive of regret at the near depart- 
 ure of their friend and best wishes for his future 
 success and happiness. 
 
 In the fall of 1891, when Dr. Ellis was first 
 tendered the presidency of the State Agricultural 
 College of Colorado, he declined it, but on the 
 renewal of negotiations in January, 1892, he ac- 
 cepted it for a term of five years, at an annual 
 salary of $6,000. The college was opened in 
 1879, and at the close of the college" year of 1891 
 it had one hundred and six students. Since he 
 assumed its management it has had its great suc- 
 cess, and at the close of the school year of 1898 
 it had three hundred and forty-seven students. 
 The course of study has been broadened and the 
 standard of attainment materially increased. 
 The grounds and buildings are attractive and 
 well kept, and the annual revenue, amounting to 
 almost $90,000, is received equally from the state 
 and the general government. Most of the build- 
 ings have been erected since 1891, and the other 
 
 buildings have been remodeled and enlarged. A 
 sum not less than $50,000 has been expended 
 for scientific and technical apparatus. The li- 
 brary, which is open for the entire year, contains 
 eleven thousand choice volumes. The total val- 
 uation of college property is $275,000. 
 
 The college is one of the land-grant institutions 
 established by congressional acts, known better 
 as the Morrill Bills of 1862 and 1890, by the pro- 
 visions of which the institution is required to pro- 
 vide for the liberal and practical education of the 
 industrial classes. The courses provided are ag- 
 ricultural, mechanical engineering, civil and irri- 
 gation engineering, ladies', and commercial. 
 The location of the grounds is picturesque. 
 They lie in the valley with the beautiful moun- 
 tains in the rear, and form a picture to delight 
 the eye and satisfy the mind. The grounds have 
 been highly improved since Dr. Ellis became 
 president, and most of the buildings have been 
 erected under his personal supervision. 
 
 At the convention of the Colorado State Teach- 
 ers' Association in Colorado Springs, in Decem- 
 ber, 1893, Dr. Ellis delivered the annual address. 
 In 1895 he was chairman of the college section of 
 the same association. He is even more active in 
 institute work in Colorado than he was in Ohio, 
 giving his services gladly and without remunera- 
 tion. He has lectured before associations of 
 every kind in the state, and in the last six years 
 has probably given more addresses than any 
 other one in the entire state. During vacation 
 months he travels in the interests of the college, 
 lectures in various places and attends to the in- 
 terests of the college at home, so that he is kept 
 constantly busy. His private library is one of 
 the best in the state, and much of his leisure 
 time is given to literary and historical research, 
 for he continues to be a close student. 
 
 While in Sandusky, Ohio, he was raised to the 
 rank of Master Mason in Science I<odge No. 50, 
 A. F. & A. M. Later he became a member of 
 Erie Commandery No. 23, K. T. He is now 
 identified with Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & 
 A. M., Chapter No. 11, R. A. M., and DeMolay 
 Commandery No. 13, K. T. 
 
 June 8, 1893, Dr. Ellis was made a director of 
 the Colorado Experiment Station, which position 
 he has since held. February 18, 1893, he was 
 commissioned colonel and aide-de-camp on the 
 stafi"of Governor Waite, commander-in-chief of 
 
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 the military forces of Colorado. Again, May 28, 
 1895, he was commissioned colonel and aide-de- 
 camp by Gov. Albert W. Mclntire. He is a 
 prominent member of the American Association of 
 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. 
 At the annual meeting of the association held at 
 Minneapolis in July, 1897, he was made chair- 
 man of the college section and vice-president of 
 the general association. 
 
 On the evening of July 3, 1895, at Johnson's 
 Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, President Ellis 
 delivered the annual address before the Ohio 
 Teachers' Association. The subject was " Edu- 
 cation and Citizenship." At the session of the 
 convention held the following morning the chair- 
 man of the executive committee introduced the 
 following resolution, which was unanimously 
 adopted: 
 
 ' 'Resolved, By the teachers of Ohio in State As- 
 sociation assembled, that we most highly appre- 
 ciate the generosity of our former associate and 
 friend. President Alston Ellis, and that as an ex- 
 pression of our thanks, we hereby elect President 
 Ellis a life member of our association." 
 
 At the afternoon session of the association on 
 the same day, the committee on resolutions made 
 report as follows: 
 
 ' 'Resolved, That the thanks of the association 
 are due to the old friend of its members, who 
 came from such a distance to meet again with .us 
 and to stir in us noble sentiments by his eloquent 
 address, patriotic in the highest sense of the 
 word." 
 
 Dr. Ellis has a fine presence and a genial per- 
 sonality, from which an air of dignity and re- 
 serve force is rarely absent. Not only is he a 
 fine scholar and executive officer, but as an in- 
 spiring and thought-provoking teacher he has 
 but few equals. In class-room work in his 
 specialties, logic, economics and civics, he stands 
 almost without a rival. Students under his in- 
 struction have the best that scholarship, enthu- 
 siasm and experience can bring to bear upon the 
 studies they are pursuing. 
 
 President Ellis has added to the material wel- 
 fare of his adopted state not alone through the 
 rapid upbuilding of its great industrial school 
 and the wise direction of the practical workings 
 of the experiment stations; he has invested 
 largely in real estate in Fort Collins and vicinity 
 and is to-day one of the heaviest tax-payers in 
 
 Larimer County, Since assuming the presidency 
 of the college he has used his means in the erec- 
 tion of a number of handsome dwellings, possess- 
 ing architectural merit and having modern con- 
 veniences, which now ornament some of the 
 spacious avenues of Fort Collins and afford eligi- 
 ble homes for a number of families. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Ellis are closely identified with 
 the best social life of Fort Collins and northern 
 Colorado. The doors of their elegant home are 
 frequently thrown open to the members of the 
 social circle to which they belong, on which oc- 
 casion geniality and open-hearted, but not osten- 
 tatious, hospitality characterize the manners of 
 host and hostess. The "President's Reception," 
 given annually in commencement week, is one 
 of the events in college social life. Faculty par- 
 ties, dinners to members of the college governing 
 board, receptions and luncheons for students, and 
 other functions connected with the life of hospit- 
 able entertainers, make the parlors of President 
 Ellis' home almost as well known to those con- 
 nected with or interested in college work as are 
 the interiors of the college buildings themselves. 
 
 President Ellis takes a high moral view of pub- 
 lic education in all its phases. As the head of a 
 great state school, whose financial support comes 
 largely from the pockets of tax-payers represent- 
 ing, as they do, almost every shade of religious 
 belief, he recognizes that religious instruction, as 
 bounded by denominational lines, would be out 
 of place in the daily chapel exercises, attendance 
 upon which is required of all students; yet these 
 exercises, planned as they are by the president 
 and prepared in most cases by him, are not with- 
 out sound moral, and even religious lessons. 
 Private religious belief — even unbelief — of stu- 
 dents is respected in all the work of the college, 
 but wrongdoing is never suffered to pass unre- 
 buked, and the neces.sity of educating the heart 
 and directing the conscience, character building, 
 is never lost sight of. The religious afiiliations 
 of Dr. and Mrs. Ellis are with the Congregational 
 Church, of which organization they became mem- 
 bers in 1881, in the time of their residence in 
 Sandusky, Ohio. 
 
 (lOHN J. ERASER. The Brown-Iliff Cattle 
 
 I Company, of which Mr. Eraser is a member, 
 
 (2/ is among the best-known concerns of the 
 
 kind in Colorado. They own an immense tract 
 
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 305 
 
 of land, lying principally in Weld County, and 
 embracing the territory extending from the South 
 Platte to the Wyoming line. Of the land twenty 
 thousand acres lie along the river, thus furnish- 
 ing an abundant supply of water for the stock. 
 The headquarters of the company are five miles 
 west of Merino, and shipments are made from 
 Snyder, Colo., to various points in the east, but 
 chiefly to Omaha. The entire management of 
 the ranch and range is in charge of Mr. Fraser, 
 who, though making his home in Denver, neces- 
 sarily spends much of his time on the range. 
 
 The father of our subject, Henry Fraser, was 
 born in Scotland, but removed to Ontario, Can- 
 ada, and engaged in farming near Ottawa, where 
 he died when John was five years of age. The wife 
 and mother, who bore the maiden name of Sarah 
 Wright, was born in Canada and died there when 
 John was an infant. They had a large family of 
 children, of whom three are living: Samuel, in 
 Oakland, Cal.; John J., the youngest of the fam- 
 ily; and a sister, who was formerly Mrs. J. W. 
 IlifF, but who is now the wife of Bishop Warren. 
 One brother. Brock, fought all through the con- 
 flict. He enlisted with the Chicago Zouaves and 
 later joined other organizations, serving last in 
 the heavy artillery. He was accidentally killed 
 while engaged in the construction of the Union 
 Pacific Railroad west of Cheyenne. 
 
 When quite young our subject left the farm 
 near Ottawa, where he was born, and went to 
 Henry County, 111., where he grew to manhood 
 on a farm. He attended the Henry County dis- 
 trict schools and Lake Forest Academy. In the 
 spring of 1870 he came to Colorado, where he 
 spent a year near Pueblo, and then entered the 
 employ of his brother-in-law, Mr. IlifF. In time 
 he became financially interested in the business, 
 and after the death of Mr. Ilifi" he became a mem- 
 ber of the Brown-Iliff" Cattle Company. In the 
 winter of 1873-74 a large camp of Indians, prin- 
 cipally Sioux, camped around Mr. Fraser' s ranch, 
 but to their credit be it said they never stole any- 
 thing from the ranch nor made a disturbance of 
 any kind. Since 1878 he has resided in Denver, 
 where he is a member of the Grace Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. In national politics he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Fraser married Miss Lois 
 Morse, who was born in Berea, a suburb of 
 Cleveland, Ohio, and is of English descent, her 
 
 ancestors, eight generations back, having been 
 among the Puritans who settled in Dedham, 
 Mass., in 1635. They were prominent in public 
 aflairs, serving as selectmen and in other ofiices 
 of trust, and later having representatives in the 
 Colonial and Revolutionary wars. Her grandfa- 
 ther, Nathaniel Morse, was born in Massachu- 
 setts and removed to Shelby, N. Y., where he 
 died. Her father, Charles Morse, a native ot 
 Warwick, Mass., was a pioneer of Berea, Ohio, 
 where he engaged in the lumber business until 
 his death at forty-eight years. He married 
 Emma Robards, who was born near Saratoga, 
 N. Y., her parents being natives of England. 
 She is still living and makes her home in Cleve- 
 land. In her family there are three children, 
 namely: Lucius D. Morse, M. D., a retired phy- 
 sician of Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Laura Andrews, of 
 Cleveland, a graduate of Baldwin University in 
 Ohio; and Lois, Mrs. Fraser, also a graduate of 
 Baldwin University, with the degree of B. S. 
 
 EOL. WESLEY BRAINERD, president and 
 manager of the Chicago and Colorado Mining 
 and Milling Company, owners of Camp Tal- 
 cott, at Ward, Boulder County, was born in 
 Rome, Oneida County, N. Y. , September 27, 
 1832, and is the descendant of a family that 
 settled in Haddam, Conn., early in the seven- 
 teenth century. His grandfather, Jeremiah Brain- 
 erd, who was born and reared in that old town, 
 subsequently removed to New York state, be- 
 coming a contractor on the Erie Canal. 
 
 Alexander Hamilton Brainerd, a native of 
 Haddam, Conn., and father of the subject of this 
 article, became a civil engineer and railroad con- 
 tractor, and had the contract for a part of the 
 Hudson River Railroad, also in 1 848-50 built allthe 
 bridges on that road. Among his other contracts 
 some were in Canada. For a time he operated 
 car manufacturing shops in Niagara, Canada, and 
 large iron mills at St. Albans, Vt. After his 
 retirement from active business he made his 
 home in Rome, N. Y. , where he died in 1879, aged 
 seventy-two years. His maternal grandfather. 
 Col. Daniel Greene, was a colonel in the Revolu- 
 tionary war and a Mason of the Royal Arch de- 
 gree; he diedin York state,as did also his daughter, 
 Elizabeth, wife of Jeremiah Brainerd. The mother 
 of our subject was Mary Gouge, a descendant of a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 French- Huguenot family that settled at Trenton 
 Falls, N. Y.; she died in Rome, that state, when 
 thirty-two years of age. 
 
 The only child of Alexander H. and Mary 
 Brainerd that attained years of maturity was 
 Wesley. He was educated principally in Rome 
 Academy. At the age of fifteen he went with his 
 father, as assistant in the construction of the 
 Hudson River Railroad contract. Continuing 
 there until 1850, he then went to Philadelphia, 
 Pa., and became an apprentice in the Norris Lo- 
 comotive Company's works, where he completed 
 the trade of draughtsman and locomotive builder 
 in 1854. For four years afterward he continued 
 with the company as draughtsman and aided in 
 the starting of locomotives in different sections 
 of the United States and Canada. Next going 
 to Georgia, he accepted a position as master 
 mechanic of a railroad, where he remained until, 
 seeing that war was inevitable, he returned north 
 to Rome, N. Y., and engaged in manufacturing 
 and milling. 
 
 At the opening of the war, in 1861, he was the 
 captain of a local company known as the Ganse- 
 vort Light Guards of Rome, which took its name 
 from an old colonel who had been in command of 
 Fort Stanwix. He at once raised a company for 
 the Fiftieth New York Engineers and was com- 
 missioned captain of Company C, which was 
 mustered into service at Elmira, and went to the 
 front in August, 1861. Among the engagements 
 in which he participated were Yorktown, Gaines' 
 Mills, White Oak Swamp, Savage Station, Mal- 
 vern Hill, second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, 
 Harper's Ferry and Fredericksburg. In Decem- 
 ber, 1862, he laid the pontoon bridges at the 
 Lacy House in front of Fredericksburg, and 
 while thus engaged he was wounded in the left 
 arm. For meritorious service he was promoted 
 and commissioned major. After a short time in 
 the hospital he returned to duty and took part, 
 in the following months, in the battles of Chan- 
 cellorsville, Franklin's Crossing and Gettysburg. 
 Receiving a second promotion for bravery, he was 
 brevetted lieutenant-colonel of the same regiment, 
 his commission being signed by President Lincoln. 
 The next engagements in which he participated 
 were the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
 North Anna, Cold Harbor, and the battles before 
 and during the siege of Petersburg in 1864. In 
 November, 1864, he was promoted and commis- 
 
 sioned colonel of the Fifteenth New York En- 
 gineers by Governor Seymour, and continued in 
 active command of his regiment until the close of 
 the war, with the exception of the time (1864-65) 
 when General Grant had his headquarters at City 
 Point and Colonel Brainerd had command of the 
 defenses of that place. He took part in the final 
 assault and fall of Petersburg in April, 1865, and 
 shortly afterward participated in the grand review 
 at Washington, where he led the Fifteenth as 
 their commander. He was mustered out of the 
 service in June, 1865. 
 
 Locating in Chicago, Colonel Brainerd em- 
 barked in the lumber business under the firm title 
 ofSoper, Brainerd & Co., in which enterprise he 
 was interested from 1865 to 1876. The firm en- 
 gaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber and 
 owned a mill, with a capacity of one hundred 
 thousand feet a day, covering, with the adjoining 
 yards, two blocks on Polk and Beach streets. 
 Meantime, in 1873, he also became interested in 
 the Brighton Smelting Works, of which he was 
 manager, and in this way was aroused his first 
 interest in and connection with mining. In 1876 
 he assisted in the organization of the Chicago and 
 Colorado Mining and Milling Company, of which 
 he was made president and manager. During 
 the .same year (which was the year of Colorado's 
 admission as a state) he came west, for the pur- 
 pose of developing the company's mining prop- 
 erty in Ward district, Boulder County. 
 
 Camp Talcott (or, as it is often called, Brain- 
 erd' s Camp) is one of the large as well as one 
 of the most completely developed properties in 
 the state. Tunnels and mines have been opened 
 on different parts of the property of eight hun- 
 dred acres. The entire tract was patented by 
 Colonel Brainerd as a stock ranch and was after- 
 ward patented by discovering and developing 
 mining claims, thus having a double patent on 
 much of the land. The Colorado and Northwest- 
 ern Railroad between Boulder and Ward passes 
 the property, and at a convenient place Brainerd 
 Station is located. The plant is undoubtedly the 
 most modern in the state and is the first mining 
 property to be operated by electricity in this part 
 of Colorado. 
 
 In his travels through the mountains, Colonel 
 Brainerd came across the natural lakes at the 
 foot of Mount Audubon and at once saw the 
 natural advantage for the water power. As early 
 
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 as 1884 he took the necessary steps to secure the 
 water rights of the same, having in mind a way 
 by which it could be utilized, as the path of the 
 flume necessary to convey the water to Camp Tal- 
 cott would come via the Utica mine. He succeed- 
 ed in arousing the interest of the Utica Company 
 by the aid of John S. Reid, then manager of the 
 Utica, who heartily endorsed the project. Fin- 
 ally the flume from the South St. Vrain, from the 
 foot of the Snowy Range, to a point above Ward 
 was constructed, with Mr. Reid as superintend- 
 ent of construction of this upper flume. The 
 flume is 2x2 J^ feet in dimensions, and takes three 
 hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber; from 
 the headwaters to the Pentstock it is taken 
 through Ward in a pipe of seventy-five hundred 
 feet, and here the Utica uses it. Up to this point 
 it was jointly constructed by the Utica Company 
 and the Chicago and Colorado Mining and Mill- 
 ing Company, while the latter company alone 
 constructed it to Camp Talcott from Utica by a 
 flume 2x2 feet, one mile long, taking one hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand feet of lumber. To manu- 
 facture this lumber they put up their own sawmill 
 in the mountains. 
 
 From the Pentstock above Camp Talcott, 
 Colonel Brainerd calculated the dimensions and 
 strength of the pipe necessary to carry it to the 
 power house. It was here that his experience 
 as machinist and locomotive builder proved most 
 helpful, as did also his natural inventive genius, 
 for there was no plant in existence of the type 
 of his, and he was forced to rely upon his 
 own brain and judgment. From the Pentstock 
 it is taken down the hill in steel pipe, a distance 
 of twenty-seven hundred feet, making .seven hun- 
 dred and forty feet perpendicular fall, thus get- 
 ting a pressure of three hundred and twenty 
 pounds to the square inch. Beginning at the 
 top, the first twelve hundred feet is of sixteen 
 inch pipe, No. 10 steel; the next seven hun- 
 dred and fifty feet, fourteen inch pipe. No. 8 
 steel; and the last seven hundred and fifty feet, 
 twelve inch, 3-16 steel; all double riveted flange 
 joints. The pipe is fitted to the irregularities of 
 the hill and anchored in bed rock. It was manu- 
 factured in sheets in the east and brought to 
 Denver, where it was bent and riveted into nine- 
 teen foot lengths, and hauled from Boulder to 
 Camp Talcott. In all there were sixty-five tons 
 of steel pipe. The pipe is connected with the 
 
 four Leifel wheels, thirty-six inches in diameter, 
 developing a maximum of twelve hundred horse 
 power and a minimum of three hundred and fifty. 
 A substantial stone powerhouse, 40x28, has been 
 built and equipped with a one hundred and 
 twenty horse-power dynamo of the three phase 
 system, with four hundred and forty volts capac- 
 ity, with five hundred and forty revolutions a 
 minute and energized by one of the wheels which 
 has a capacity of one hundred and fifty horse- 
 power. There is an air column construction of 
 one hundred and twenty pounds' pressure that 
 acts as an air cushion. 
 
 The construction of the pipe line and the devices 
 for regulating the flow of water are very complete 
 and efiiciently accomplish the purpose for which 
 they are designed. Power is transmitted to the 
 different mines, viz.: three thousand feet to the 
 Polar Star, where is a forty horse motor; forty- 
 four hundred and forty feet to the Coy mine, 
 where are a fifteen horse motor and skips; and to 
 the Left Hand mine, fifteen hundred feet up a side 
 hill. In each a most complete electric hoist has 
 been equipped with the three phase system. An 
 ingenious device for dumping buckets, the inven- 
 tion of the foreman, is a great labor saver. When 
 power is desired, telephone signals are given to 
 the operator in the power house, who connects 
 the circuit and the turning of the switch en- 
 ergizes the motor. 
 
 All of these properties at depths varying from 
 seventy-five to one hundred and thirty feet show 
 very large veins of iron sulphide, running from 
 $10 to $500, with a fair average of about $40 ore. 
 The veins range from five to ten feet in width. 
 About twenty-five other properties are being 
 equipped, having shafts of twenty feet deep. 
 Ultimately many of these properties will be 
 equipped with electric hoists. The plant in the 
 power house was installed by the Mountain Elec- 
 tric Company, and when its full capacity is 
 utilized, the output from Camp Talcott will be no 
 insignificant factor in the traffic offered the rail- 
 road from Boulder to Ward. 
 
 Among the other mines that have been de- 
 veloped is the Moltke, which is in shape for suc- 
 sessful operation at any time. A complete 
 telephone system, centering at the power house, 
 connects all the mines, and also makes connection 
 with the residence of Colonel Brainerd and other 
 buildings on the camp. All of the buildings are 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 modern and complete, and when it is observed 
 that nearly all of the material for construction 
 has been hauled from Boulder at a rate of $6 per 
 ton, one can well imagine the energy and great 
 amount of money it has taken to accomplish this 
 gratifying result. All the plans are now com- 
 pleted for building a switch from the Colorado 
 and Northwestern Railroad to the power house, 
 which will take about ten thousand feet of track, 
 on account of the height of the road above Camp 
 Talcott. 
 
 When Colonel Brainerd first came to Ward, 
 there was considerable prospecting, but later it 
 fell off considerably. He, however, continued 
 his prospecting and found that he secured rich ore, 
 so he continued the development and discoveries, 
 and now has over sixty different claims. He has 
 done more to bring Ward mining and mines to 
 the front than anyone else, by the expenditure of 
 enormous sums in the development of claims. 
 The most of his claims were discovered directly 
 by himself 
 
 In Chicago, November-iy, 1858, Colonel Brain- 
 erd married Miss Amelia M. Gage, who was born 
 in DeRuyter, Madison County, N. Y., a daughter 
 of Eli A. and Mary (Judson) Gage, natives of 
 DeRuyter and New Berlin. Mrs. Brainerd is a 
 sister of Lyman J. Gage, present secretary of the 
 treasury. Her grandfather, Justus Gage, was a 
 pioneer of Madison County ; his father came from 
 England and settled in New England. Eli A. 
 Gage was a merchant and manufacturer in De- 
 Ruyter, subsequently removed to Rome, N. Y., 
 whence in 1855 he removed to Chicago and 
 embarked in the lumber business. He died in 
 Evanston, 111., in 1879. His wife was a daughter 
 of Abel Judson, who was a sea-faring man. 
 Colonel and Mrs. Brainerd have two children: 
 Irving Gage, who is assistant superintendent of 
 the mines; and Belle, who is Mrs. Emil Phillip- 
 son, of New York City. 
 
 Fraternally Colonel Brainerd is a prominent 
 Mason. He is a charter member of the Colorado 
 Commandery of the Loyal Legion, of which he 
 was commander in 1894-95. For years he was 
 active in his support of the Republican party, but 
 he is now independent in politics and votes for 
 the man he deems best qualified to represent the 
 people in office, regardless of political affiliations. 
 Personally he is a man of fine physique, in whose 
 countenance kindness, amiability and benevolence 
 
 glow. To all public enterprises of a helpful 
 nature he is liberal and enterprising. He is 
 exceedingly hospitable, and happy is the guest 
 who comes beneath his roof 
 
 While the colonel has continued in the stock 
 business and raising full-blood cattle on his eight 
 hundred acre ranch and farm in Nebraska, yet 
 mining has been his principal business, and in it 
 he has made his greatest success. Talcott Camp 
 is located conveniently on the Left Hand Creek. 
 The surrounding scenery is beautiful. Upon the 
 side rise the mountains, delighting the eye with 
 long glimpses of forests of spruce and pine, while 
 the air of busy thrift and industry around the 
 camp delight the eye of every practical miner. 
 
 (TOHN T. BOTTOM. Not alone through the 
 I high position which he occupies as an attor- 
 (2/ ney-at-law, but also by reason of his promi- 
 nence in the order of the Knights of Pythias, his 
 attractive style as a writer and his eloquence as a 
 speaker, Mr. Bottom has become well and favor- 
 ably known to the people of Colorado. Upon 
 establishing his home in Denver in 1889 he 
 opened an office for the practice of the legal pro- 
 fession, and in time became the possessor of a 
 clientele that brought influence and financial suc- 
 cess. Reared in the faith of the Democratic 
 party and thoroughly devoted to its principles, 
 here as in his former home he has taken an active 
 part in promoting party success, in winning vic- 
 tory for its men and measures. In 1891 he was 
 made secretary of the Democratic central com- 
 mittee of Denver, and during the presidential 
 campaign of 1892 he was made chairman of the 
 county committee. Chosen by his party to act 
 as their nominee in the congressional campaign 
 of 1894,- he held aloft the party standard in every 
 part of the district, which, however, was too 
 thoroughly Republican to make hope of election 
 possible. When the stirring campaign of 1896 
 began, with its new questions and issues, that 
 broke the ranks of the old parties, he at once 
 took the "stump" in behalf of the silver cause, 
 and his eloquent, earnest addresses deepened the 
 public sentiment in favor of a new standard of 
 money. His opinions on this subject have not 
 been formulated thoughtlessly; they are the re- 
 sult of study and observation. His travels have 
 taken him into sections of the country where once 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 were thriving mining towns, now forlorn and de- 
 serted; towns that once were astir with life and 
 activity, but that were ruined by the act of con- 
 gress in 1873 demonetizing silver, thus forcing 
 the silver mines to shut down and hundreds of 
 miners to be thrown out of employment. Nor is 
 the question one of local interest only, for what 
 affects the silver mines in the first instance will 
 eventually affect the prosperity of the state and 
 the welfare of the nation. 
 
 Mr. Bottom was born in St. Marys, W. Va., 
 January 26, i860, and was an infant when his 
 parents. Dr. Montgomery and Lavinia (Harri- 
 son) Bottom, removed to Breckenridge, Mo., 
 where his father still practices medicine. His 
 primary education was obtained in the public 
 school there, and at the age of sixteen he entered 
 Central College, at Fayette, Mo., continuing 
 there for two years. His education was com- 
 pleted in the University of Missouri at Columbia, 
 where he graduated from the literary department 
 in 1879 and from the law department in 1881. 
 On being admitted to the bar he opened an office 
 in Breckenridge, earning his first fee four days 
 after graduation. The Democrats of Caldwell 
 County nominated him in 1882 to represent the 
 district in the legislature, but he was obliged to 
 decline the nomination, as he was not old enough 
 for constitutional requirements. Though not 
 permitted to be a candidate he took an active 
 part in the campaign, and did all within his 
 power to promote party success. In 1884 he was 
 nominated for prosecuting attorney, but was de- 
 feated by one hundred and thirty-eight votes, the 
 remainder of the ticket losing by seven hundred 
 and fifty-seven votes. At the time of leaving 
 Missouri, in 1889, he was chairman of the county 
 Democratic committee, secretary of the Demo- 
 cratic congressional committee and chairman of 
 the senatorial committee. 
 
 In Quincy, 111., May 15, 1884, Mr. Bottom 
 married Miss Lethe M. Boyer, daughter of Noah 
 and Ellen (McCuUough) Boyer. They have an 
 only child, a daughter, Monta. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bottom is identified with the 
 Masons as a Knight Templar. He is, however, 
 most prominent through his connection with the 
 Knights of Pythias. He was first initiated into 
 the order in Denver Lodge No. 41, in which he 
 filled the offices of vice-chancellor and chancellor- 
 commander. In 1893 he exemplified the new 
 
 ritual that had been adopted before representa- 
 tives of all the lodges of the state. The next 
 year he became a member of the Grand Lodge, 
 and in 1895 ^^s made chief tribune of the Grand 
 Tribunal, in 1896 was honored by election as 
 grand vice-chancellor, and in 1897 received the 
 further honor of election as grand chancellor, his 
 present office. The membership of the order in 
 Colorado is about six thousand, and new mem- 
 bers are constantly being added to the ranks. 
 The lodges in the different parts of the state are 
 frequently visited by the grand chancellor, whose 
 entertaining and eloquent speeches do much for 
 the advancement of the cause. In a recent num- 
 ber of The Pythian appears his address delivered 
 at the eleventh anniversary of Myrtle Lodge 
 No. 34 Colorado Springs, which is considered 
 one of the best ever delivered upon the subject of 
 the order, its principles, foundation and teach- 
 ings. In it he traces the teachings of the order 
 to the commands given to Moses on Mount Sinai. 
 "Its corner stone is the solid granite rock of 
 friendship. The columns on either side the en- 
 trance are charity and benevolence. Our teach- 
 ings embrace loyalty to country, devotion to its 
 flag, observance of its laws, lov-e of home, love 
 of justice, mercy and fidelity one to another." 
 Briefly sketching the immortal friendship of 
 Damon and Pythias, he described how the read- 
 ing of this story inspired Justus H. Rathbone to 
 found the order that marches under the banner 
 of Pythianism. "Thirty-four years ago Rath- 
 bone breathed the breath of life in what is to-day 
 America's greatest civic society. It was born in 
 the city of Washington. The fame of the order 
 was not long in spreading from the capitolon the 
 historic Potomac. Like the tinj' waves caused 
 by throwing a pebble in the placid pool, its influ- 
 ence was felt farther and farther, touching the 
 rock-bound coast of Maine and reaching on the 
 other side to the city by the Golden Gate. And 
 now we have organized a lodge amid the gold- 
 bearing icebergs of far-oif Alaska. In every 
 state and territory that protects and for protection 
 looks to the tri-colored flag of the Union, you 
 will find the blue, yellow and red banner of 
 Pythianism. The banner of the stars and stripes 
 stands for our country. The tri-colored banner 
 of the order of Knights of Pythias stands for hu- 
 manity, it stands for all that is best in manhood 
 and for all that is purest and loveliest in woman- 
 
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 hood. I^ong may it wave. The blue is emblem- 
 atic of truth and expresses heaven itself. The 
 yellow is a symbol of the great orb of day 
 and portrays the faithfulness that should charac- 
 terize our membership. The red symbolizes love 
 and loyalty, and under a banner so expressive of 
 lofty sentiments we should keep ourselves loyal 
 to truth, faithful to our tenets and guide with 
 love our lives to the end." 
 
 0EORGE M. McCLURE, president of the 
 l_l McClure-White Mercantile Company of 
 Vjj Boulder and the Boulder Electric Light 
 Company, is a member of a Vermont family that 
 came originally from Scotland. His grandfather, 
 Samuel McClure, accompanied his parents from 
 Scotland to America, settling in Vermont, where 
 he engaged in farm pursuits through the remain- 
 der of his life. The father, H. B., was born in 
 Middletown Springs, Rutland County, Vt., and 
 became a millwright and wagon-maker, which 
 trades he followed in his native state. Late in 
 life he removed to Spenceport, N. Y. , where he 
 died at sixty-eight years of age. In religion he 
 was a Baptist. His wife, Susan, daughter of 
 Sylvanus Mallory, a soldier in the war of 1812 
 and a farmer of Vermont, was born in Connecti- 
 cut and died in Spenceport, N. Y. She was a 
 descendant of Puritan ancestors, who came to 
 this country from England. 
 
 The family of H. B. and Susan McClure con- 
 sists of six sons, all living, our subject being the 
 only one now in Colorado, the others residing in 
 Vermont. One brother, Charles, took part in the 
 Civil war as a member of the Tenth Vermont 
 Infantry. George M. was educated in the public 
 schools of Middletown Springs, his native village. 
 At the age of eighteen, in 1863, he went to Poult- 
 ney, Rutland County, where he was employed by 
 Jay J. Joslin, now of Denver. In the spring of 
 1873 he came to Colorado to assist in opening 
 Joslin' s dry -goods store, and in the fall of the 
 same year he came to Boulder, opening a store 
 here for Mr. Joslin, in connection with H. N. 
 Bradley, now of Denver. Soon the firm of Brad- 
 ley & McClure was established, and they began 
 in business in March, 1874, at their present lo- 
 cation, though occupying a room much smaller 
 than the one now used. 
 
 Selling his interest in the Boulder store in 1887, 
 
 Mr. McClure became one of the proprietors of a 
 store in Glenwood Springs, and remained there 
 for three years, when he sold to his partner, Mr. 
 Napier, and to Mr. McLean. Returning to Boul- 
 der in 1890, he bought Mr. Bradley's interest in 
 the Bradley-Wise Mercantile Company, and 
 changed the title to the McClure- White Mercan- 
 tile Company, of which he is president and man- 
 ager, Mr. White vice-president, Mr. Davis sec- 
 retary and H. B. McClure treasurer. The firm 
 occupy three rooms, 75x125 feet in dimensions, 
 with basement. 
 
 Mr. McClure is a director in the First National 
 Bank. He was one of the original promoters of 
 the Boulder National Bank about 1884, and was 
 a director from the start until 1887. His estab- 
 lishment is the largest in northern Colorado and 
 contains a full line of goods of highest grade, for 
 the best trade. The success that has come to 
 him is due to his energy and determination. In 
 1894 he and H. N. Bradley opened a dry-goods 
 bu.siness in Denver, on Sixteenth street, continu- 
 ing it together until May, 1897, when he sold his 
 interest to Mr. Bradley, the present proprietor. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. McClure took place in 
 Middletown Springs, Vt., and united him with 
 Edilda M. Burnham, daughter of Albert Burn- 
 ham, a native of Maine and a blacksmith in 
 Middletown Springs, where she was born. Her 
 death occurred at Boulder in January, 1885. 
 Her three children are: Harry B., who was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and Rochester (N. Y.) 
 Commercial College; George A. , who was educated 
 in the State University and is with the company; 
 and Elizabeth M., who is a member of the uni- 
 versity class of 1898. 
 
 Politically Mr. McClure is a Republican. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with Boulder Lodge No. 
 45, A. F. & A. M., Boulder Chapter No. 7, 
 R. A. M., Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, K.T., 
 (of which he is a charter member and the 
 present treasurer) , and El Jebel Temple, N. M.S., 
 of Denver. 
 
 QEV. JOSEPH P. CARRIGAN. St. Patrick's 
 ^\ parish, Denver, was established in 1881 by 
 p\ the venerable Bishop Machebeuf. Rev. M. 
 J. Carmody said the first mass on the north side, 
 and assembled the newly formed congregation 
 for divine service in the old hose house on 
 Fifteenth street. He was taken ill a few weeks 
 
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 afterwards and resigned his charge. Father 
 Carmody was succeeded by Rev. J. C. Ahern, 
 who changed the place of service to Platte street. 
 During his time the present site of St. Patrick's 
 was secured, the venerable old Bishop Machebeuf 
 donating $1,000 towards the purchase of the five 
 lots on which the church and school now stand. 
 Rev. J. C. Ahern was succeeded shortly by Rev. 
 Jeremiah Ahern. 
 
 From its very beginning St. Patrick's parish 
 had a turbulent career. Misunderstandings there 
 had been between pastors and people. Debts had 
 accumulated, and, to add to the distress, the 
 church just nearing completion was blown down 
 by a terrific windstorm. It was a total loss on 
 the congregation. Father John Quinn, of the 
 Cathedral, managed the affairs of the parish for 
 some time, however, residing on the north side. 
 He was succeeded by Father Patrick Sheridan 
 and Father James Conroy, both delicate priests, 
 who came to Colorado in search of health. In 
 the year 1S83 Rev. Stephen Keegan took charge. 
 During his pastorate the church was rebuilt and 
 the school opened under the care of the Sisters of 
 St. Joseph. During the building of the church 
 Father Keegan erected on the site of the present 
 parish dwelling a frame church which he affec- 
 tionately christened the "Shanty." It .served its 
 purpose well until the new church could be re- 
 built. In 1885 Father Keegan left Colorado and 
 took up his home in California, where a few years 
 later he died. 
 
 The successor of Father Keegan was Father 
 Carrigan, who found the new church with an 
 incumbrance that remained from the building of 
 the first church. Directing himself to the raising 
 of the debt, within two years he had freed the 
 congregation from the entire indebtedness. A 
 year before he became pastor a school had been 
 started, which he found feebly struggling for ex- 
 istence. He remodeled the church, making it 
 large enough to accommodate both the congre- 
 gation and the school, and at once the latter took 
 on new life. There are now two hundred and 
 seventy pupils, taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph 
 of Carondelet and who, at graduation, are pre- 
 pared to enter high school. An academic course 
 is being projected and will soon open, in connec- 
 tion with the convent, known as Sisters of St. 
 Joseph Academy. 
 
 The church is situated on Bell avenue between 
 
 Fairview avenue and Wanless, but other property 
 has been bought and in time a church will be 
 erected on the corner of Clear Creek and Thirty- 
 third avenue west. In the parish there are over 
 three hundred and fifty families, to whose 
 spiritual interests Father Carrigan ministers. 
 His pastorate here has extended over a greater 
 number of years than that of any other priest in 
 Denver. In connection with the church, he has 
 the usual societies, including the Sodality, Sacred 
 Heart League, Holy Name and Young Ladies'. 
 
 In 1889 St. Patrick's parish extended over the 
 whole of the north side, including a portion of 
 East Denver, as far as the Union depot. Rev. 
 T. J. Murphy, who was then assistant at St. 
 Patrick's, assumed charge of what was known 
 as the Highlands. Father Carrigan purchased 
 the ground on which the present St. Dominic's 
 Church now stands and formed the first parish 
 out of St. Patrick's. The Dominican fathers 
 now have a flourishing congregation in that 
 beautiful portion of the north side. The next 
 parish to be formed out of St. Patrick's was the 
 Holy Family in the scattered portion of North 
 Denver, surrounding the Jesuit college. The 
 Holy Family have no church as yet, but the 
 congregation hold divine service in the college 
 chapel. 
 
 The Italian people having become very numer- 
 ous in this portion of the city, he deemed it 
 advisable that they should have a church of their 
 own where they could hear the word of God and 
 receive instruction in their native tongue. Ac- 
 cordingly, in 1892, the Italian church was built 
 within the limits of St. Patrick's parish. 
 
 Born and reared in Auburn, N. Y. , Father 
 Carrigan is thesonof Patrick and Anna (Shields) 
 Carrigan, natives of Ireland, who were married 
 in England and came to America in 1848. For 
 many years the former engaged in business in 
 New York. During the war he responded to the 
 draft, but was rejected on account of physical 
 disability. Of their nine children, four are 
 living, Joseph being the sole surviving son. He 
 studied in the parochial and public schools of 
 Auburn, then for two years was under a private 
 tutor, and later took a classical course in St. 
 Hyacinthe College, in Quebec, from which he 
 graduated in 1878. A few months afterward he 
 entered Troy Theological Seminary, where he 
 spent four and one-half years in the study of 
 
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 theology and philosophy. December 23, 1882, 
 he was ordained to the holy prieshood by Bishop 
 McNeirney, of Albany, and was assigned to the 
 Denver diocese. In January, 1883, he came to 
 Colorado and was stationed successively at 
 Breckenridge, Summit Park, Eagle and Garfield 
 as assistant pastor, utilizing houses, depots and 
 other buildings for religious services. In the fall 
 of 1883 he was assigned as assistant to Bishop 
 Machebeuf, at the Cathedral in Denver, and 
 after fifteen months there, was made pastor of St. 
 Ann's, now the Church of the Annunciation, 
 where he remained for three months. From there 
 he came to St. Patrick's parish, which at that 
 time included all of the north side and a portion 
 of the west side. Since coming here he has en- 
 larged the church and school to the present size 
 and has built the parsonage. He has remained 
 here constantly with the church, with the ex- 
 ception of a portion of 1894 and 1895, when 
 another priest was assigned to his parish while 
 he took a post-graduate work in the Catholic 
 University of Washington. Alive to the interests 
 of the church, he devotes himself closely to its 
 welfare and has been efiFectual in increasing its 
 membership and standing among the other 
 churches of the city. 
 
 QROF. GEORGE L. HARDING, superin- 
 L/ tendent of the public schools of Boulder 
 fS County, is an able educator and by years of 
 practical experience in teaching is especially 
 qualified to occupy the responsible position with 
 which the people of his county of Colorado have 
 honored him in three successive elections. The 
 numerous and varied duties which rest upon a 
 man in such an office cannot be laid down by rule 
 and precedent to any great extent, but depend 
 largely upon the character of the person, his en- 
 ergy and interest in the work and his desire to 
 make his country a banner one in the common- 
 wealth to which it belongs. Fortunately for the 
 citizens of Boulder County, Professor Harding is 
 devoted heart and soul to the noble work he has 
 in charge, and under his judicious administration 
 the standard of our local schools has been wonder- 
 fully advanced. 
 
 The gentleman of whom this sketch is written 
 is a native of Cork, Ireland, born July 26, 1847. 
 With his parents, Thomas and Mary (I,ester) 
 
 Harding, of the same isle, he came to the United 
 States in 1861, and in the following year removed 
 from New York, where they had first settled, to 
 Sturgis, Mich. Both parents were of English de- 
 scent, the Hardings having taken up their res- 
 idence in Ireland during the time of Cromwell. 
 Thomas Hardfng was engaged in the manu- 
 facture of pumps and machinery and was interest- 
 ed in the shipping trade while in Ireland. He 
 has been connected with the Studebaker Company 
 as an employe, and has been variously occupied 
 in a business way since coming to the United 
 States. He and his wife are residents of Sturgis, 
 Mich., where they have dwelt for many years 
 and are much respected and loved. His father, 
 William Harding, was engaged in a private bank- 
 ing business in Ireland, and his wife's father, 
 George Lester, was a sea- faring man, interested in 
 trade with the West Indies and trans- Alantic 
 ports. 
 
 Professor Harding is the eldest of the four sur- 
 viving children of his parents. In boyhood he 
 learned the trade of making chairs, and by in- 
 dustry earned sufficient money to enable him to 
 complete his higher education. In 1874 he grad- 
 uated from the University of Michigan, and three 
 years later had the degree of Master of Arts con- 
 ferred upon him by his alma mater. His natural 
 tastes lying in the direction of pedagogic work, 
 he soon embarked upon his career as a teacher 
 and has met with success from the first. For 
 several years he taught in his native state, in 
 Minnesota and in Indiana. In 1890 he resigned 
 the position that for five years he had filled most 
 acceptably in Middlebury, Ind., and coming to 
 Colorado, he took charge of the city schools of 
 Longmont. This position he resigned in 1893, 
 as he had been elected to the superintendency of 
 the county schools. Upon the expiration of his 
 term he was re-elected, and again in 1897. He 
 has inaugurated many valuable reforms and 
 changes in our school system, and his earnest and 
 constant aim is to elevate the standard and en- 
 courage teachers and pupils to greater efforts. 
 He was a member of the committee that succeed- 
 ed in securing the Texas Chautauqua for Boul- 
 der; is a member of the State Teachers' Associa- 
 tion; has been president of the State Association 
 of County Superintendents and of the Boulder 
 County Teachers' Association. In 1892 he took 
 the required state teachers' examination in Colo- 
 
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 rado, and received a diploma. Previously he 
 had been granted a similar certificate in Indiana. 
 
 In 1895 his name was on the Populist ticket 
 and in 1897 he received a plurality of about eight 
 hundred votes. For some time he has been the 
 president of the People's Publishing Company, 
 which carries on a general publishing business 
 and edits the Colorado Representative as well. 
 Fraternally he was made a Mason in 1886 in Mid- 
 dlebury, Ind., and is now identified with Boulder 
 Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs 
 to the Order of the Eastern Star. 
 
 In 1878 Professor Harding married Miss Alice 
 Stansbury, daughter of John Stansbury, of Ligo- 
 nier, Ind. She has been of great assistance to 
 him in his work and is a lady who is beloved by 
 all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance. 
 With their two daughters, Eva and Mildred, she 
 holds membership with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 (Junius F. brown, since 1870 Mr. Brown 
 I has been identified with the business in- 
 C/ terests of Denver, and has contributed to its 
 advancement by his connection with progressive 
 enterprises and public-spirited movements. As 
 the president of the Brown and Uifi" Land Com- 
 pany he is intimately associated with a concern 
 widely and favorably known for reliability and 
 extensive operations. He is also vice-president of 
 The J. S. Brown & Bro. Mercantile Company, an 
 old and well-known wholesale house of Denver. 
 For a number of years he was president of the con- 
 struction company of the Denver & New Orleans 
 Railroad Company (now the Union Pacific, Den- 
 ver & Gulf Railroad), and from the organization 
 of the Denver Tramway Company until 1896 he 
 was one of its directors. He was for many years 
 vice-president of the City National Bank, but 
 withdrew in 1894, before its consolidation. 
 
 The ancestry of the Brown family is given in 
 the sketch of J. Sidney Bro.wn. In Conneaut, 
 Ohio, where he was born September 3, 1827, 
 Junius F. Brown received public-school and 
 academic advantages. In 1850 he began clerk- 
 ing in a mercantile house in his native place, but 
 two years later removed to Toledo, where he 
 clerked in a dry-goods house one year, and then 
 spent a similar period with the Lake Shore & 
 Michigan Southern Railroad. His next position 
 was with Buckingham & Co. In May, 1857, he 
 
 went to Atchison, Kan., and embarked in the 
 manufacture of lumber for the home market. 
 The mills were located on the Missouri side, and 
 when the war broke out his strong northern pro- 
 clivities made it undesirable for him to continue 
 business there, so he abandoned the enterprise. 
 
 Wishing to utilize the large number of teams 
 on hand, he loaded a wagon train with merchan- 
 dise and placed his brother in charge, with in- 
 structions to cross the plains to Denver. While 
 waiting for the latter's return, he continued in 
 charge of affairs at Atchison, but afterwards per- 
 sonally engaged in freighting until 1865, and 
 then became a member of the firm of Drury & 
 Brown, wholesale grocers, in Atchison. Closing 
 out the business in 1870 became to Denver, with 
 the business history of which he has since been 
 intimately connected. 
 
 In Conneaut, Ohio, Mr. Brown married Jane 
 B. Kilborn, who was born in Canada, and accom- 
 panied her father, John H. Kilborn, to Conneaut. 
 She died in 1877, leaving two daughters and a 
 son, namely: Helen, Mrs. S. H. Nesmith, of 
 Denver; Jane M. , Mrs. F. S. Titsworth, of Ana- 
 conda, Mont.; and Harry K., a graduate of Yale 
 College in 1892, and secretary of The J. S. Brown 
 & Bro. Mercantile Company. The second mar- 
 riage of our subject, solemnized in Denver, united 
 him with Miss Mary L. Brundage, by whom he 
 has one child, June Louise. Mrs. Brown is a 
 lady of intellectual attainments, and is a member 
 of the Woman's Club, the Fortnightly Club and 
 the Daughters of the Revolution. Her father, 
 Marcus B. Brundage, was born in Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y., the youngest of twelve children, and was 
 orphaned at fourteen years. After completing 
 his education he went to New Haven, Conn., 
 where he engaged in carriage manufacturing, but 
 removed from there to Tallmadge, Ohio, engag- 
 ing in the same business. Failing health brought 
 him to Colorado, and afterward to California, 
 where he died in 1883. He married Harriet 
 Parmelee, who was born in Ohio, the daughter 
 of Theodore Hudson Parmelee, of Goshen, Conn., 
 and a descendant of a Revolutionary patriot. 
 The family came to this country in 1639 from 
 England, where the name was originally Parmly. 
 Mrs. Brundage died in Ohio, at the age of seven- 
 ty-five years, leaving four children, of whom 
 Mrs. Brown is next to the oldest. 
 
 The business interests of Mr. Brown and his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 brother have been In common for many years, 
 having achieved satisfactorj' results, not only in 
 the mercantile business, but also in real-estate 
 and banking interests. Mr. Brown has always 
 been interested in the election of good men to 
 fill responsible official positions, and has given 
 them every assistance. He has assisted in the 
 development of Denver and in the progress of 
 its material prosperity by the energy he has dis- 
 played in private affairs, and by the executive 
 ability he has shown in the capacity of director 
 in many important organizations. A worthy 
 cause of a philanthropic, religious, social or edu- 
 cational character is sure of his prompt and gen- 
 erous assistance, and in a way that the left hand 
 will not know what the right hand does. 
 
 Mr. Brown is a man of untiring energy in his 
 devotion to every business interest committed to 
 him, the smallest detail receiving the attention 
 it deserves, and this, in a great measure, has led 
 to his success in the financial world. 
 
 The lives of Mr. Brown and his brother Sid- 
 ney have been closely interwoven, both having 
 taken a firm stand as Republicans, although 
 neither has accepted political preferment. They 
 have been devoted to their business, and have 
 demonstrated to the world at large what the con- 
 centration of energy, indomitable will and splen- 
 did courage, even in adversity, can accomplish. 
 
 pCjARREN C. DYER, ex-sheriff of Boulder 
 
 \ A / County, is engaged in the real-estate busi- 
 YV ness. He has his office in the Camera block. 
 Eleventh and Pearl .street, Boulder, and has built 
 up a large business in general real estate, insurance 
 and conveyancing. He platted Dyer's addition 
 to Boulder, consisting of the southeast forty 
 acres of section 26, adjoining Chautauqua 
 and University place; also handles Newland's 
 addition, consisting of one hundred and forty 
 acres, which has been platted in town lots. 
 
 It is supposed that the Dyer family came to 
 America from England. From Cape Cod, Mass., 
 one of the name migrated to Maine, where oc- 
 curred the birth of our subject's grandfather, a 
 farmer, who died aged eighty-seven years. The 
 father of our subject, Hon. Zachariah Dyer, a 
 native of Maine, served as under sheriff of Frank- 
 lin County for six years and as sheriff for a 
 similiar period, also represented his district in 
 
 the state legislature for two terms, being in public 
 service during much of his active life. Meantime 
 he also superintended the management of his 
 farm. He is now living retired, having justly 
 earned the freedom from business cares that he 
 enjoys. His wife, Emily Cram, was born in 
 Maine and died there in 1859. Her father was 
 a member of an old Maine family that came from 
 England; he died at seventy-four years of age. 
 Of the four children of whom our subject was 
 the youngest all but one are still living. The 
 oldest son, Augustus, a veteran of the war, is a 
 merchant in Lewiston, Me.; a younger son, Row- 
 land, resides in North Dakota. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in New 
 Sharon, Me., September 21, 1855, and was reared 
 in his native town. In the spring of 1877 ^^ 
 went to the Black Hills, where he remained for 
 three months, and then moved to Hastings, Neb. 
 Five months after settling in that place, he was 
 appointed under sheriff to Mr. Martin, and con- 
 tinued in the position until he came to Colorado. 
 In June, 1880, he began prospecting and mining 
 at Breckenridge, and later was appointed under 
 sheriff to William Iliff, of Summit County, con- 
 tinuing in the position for two years. He still 
 owns three patent claims in that county. In the 
 spring of 1887 he went to Denver, where he 
 engaged in building, contracting and selling, but 
 in 1890 sold out the business and removed to 
 Lyons, Boulder County. There he engaged in 
 the mercantile business until the fall of 1893, 
 when he was elected sheriff on the People's 
 party ticket. After two years of successful, 
 efficient service, he was re-elected by a large 
 majority. The time of his service extended from 
 January, 1894, to January, 1898. At the close 
 of his second term, the bar of Boulder, though 
 opposed to him politically, showed their apprecia- 
 tion of his valuable services by presenting him 
 with a gold-headed cane and at the same time 
 gave a set of resolutions commending him for his 
 ability in filling the office. During the time he 
 served as sheriff he had forty-eight insane people 
 in his charge and also had five murder cases. 
 The Democratic platform, adopted by the Chicago 
 convention in 1896, is in accord with his opinions, 
 for he favors free silver and free trade. While 
 in Lyons he held the position of alderman and 
 was at one time mayor pro tern, but resigned the 
 position on being elected sheriff. 
 
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 In Summit County, Colo., Mr. Dyer married 
 MoUie T. Churchill, who was born in Florence, 
 Ala., and accompanied by her father, Willard 
 Churchill, to Breckenridge, Colo., in 1880. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Dyer are the parents of two daughters, 
 Laura E. and Elvie C. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Knights of Pythias at Boulder; 
 also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 which he joined in Hastings, Neb., in 1879, but 
 afterward became identified with Breckenridge 
 Lodge No. 49, then was a charter member of 
 Denver Lodge No. 96, later a charter member of 
 Lyons Lodge No. 102, and finally a charter 
 member of Boulder Lodge No. 112, also a mem- 
 ber of Unity Encampment No. 13, in which he is 
 a pa.st oificer, and Boulder Canton No. 5. He is 
 also a member of Columbia Lodge, A. F. & A.M., 
 of Boulder. In the lodges with which he has 
 been identified he has held various oificial posi- 
 tions. 
 
 (fi\ ARON S. BENSON, president of the Bank 
 I 1 of Loveland, president of The Louden Irri- 
 I 1 gating Canal Company, and also connected 
 with several other irrigation and business enter- 
 prises, is a native of the state of New York, 
 the son of Sherman and Jane E. (Shaw) Benson, 
 both of New York state. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject were spent 
 in New York and Iowa. In 1862 he returned to 
 New York for the purpose of settling his grand- 
 father's estate. In 1865 he returned to Louden, 
 Iowa, where he was engaged in the nursery busi- 
 ness for some years. His health failing, he con- 
 cluded to try a change of climate and came to 
 Colorado, settling at Golden, Jefferson County, 
 where he carried on the nursery bu.siness, con- 
 nected with market gardening and fruit growing. 
 In 1878 he came to Larimer County for the pur- 
 pose of constructing the Louden Canal, and has 
 since been an officer of the county. At the same 
 time he purchased and improved farm lands and 
 engaged in stock-raising -and the dairy business, 
 in which he has successfully continued. 
 
 He owns about one thousand acres of cultivated 
 farm lands in Larimer County, which is divided 
 into five farms, and is also the owner of a fine 
 residence and property in Loveland. In 1882 he 
 became interested in the Bank of Loveland, of 
 which he has been president since 1883. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Benson was Eliza Cleg- 
 
 horn, who died in 1862, leaving three children. 
 Perry, Mary (now the wife of J. A. Lewis), and 
 Charles. In 1864 Mr. Benson was united in 
 marriage with Miss Marion Vanderburgh, of 
 New York. Four children blessed their union, 
 Clarence V., who is cashier of the Bank of Love- 
 land; Velma V., wife of Alfred Beebe; Franc V. 
 and Aaron V. The family is identified with the 
 Baptist Church. Fraternally he is a Mason, be- 
 ing a member of Lodge No. 53, A. F. & A. M., of 
 Loveland. In his political belief he is a Repub- 
 lican and as such has been active in local and 
 state affairs. 
 
 While in Jefferson County he was for three 
 years a member of the board of county commis- 
 sioners. Soon after coming to Larimer County 
 he was elected county commissioner and after 
 serving for three years he was elected a member 
 of the state legislature. Having served his time 
 he was again elected a member of the board of 
 county commissioners for three years. He served 
 as school director in Jefferson County for six 
 years, and in Larimer County he has for sixteen 
 years filled a similar position in District No. i. 
 He is a member of the board of trustees of 
 the State Agricultural College. As a friend of 
 education he favors any plan whereby the educa- 
 tional interests of the state may be fostered and 
 promoted. 
 
 (JOSEPH T. ATWOOD is a successful attor- 
 I ney-at-law, and a member of the firm of 
 (2J Minor & Atwood, who have offices in the 
 Masonic Temple building in Longmont. He is 
 the legal adviser of the Farmers' National Bank 
 of Longmont, and has a large practice in Long- 
 mont and vicinity. In the political world he is 
 verj^ prominent and popular, and has frequently 
 been chosen to preside as chairman over conven- 
 tions of the Boulder County Democratic party in 
 late years. Moreover, he has frequently been 
 sent as a delegate to the state conventions of the 
 party, and has been an active and aggressive 
 worker in the cause. For several terms he has 
 served as city attorney, and has made a good 
 record for himself and constituents. 
 
 Marsylus' Atwood, father of the above-named 
 gentleman, was a native of Greene County, Ind., 
 born in 1823. He was a son of George B. 
 Atwood, who was born in Massachusetts, and 
 came from an old and respected New England 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 family. George B. Atwood married a Miss 
 I^awrence, who, though born in Georgia, was of 
 English parentage. The couple moved to Indiana 
 at an early day in the history of that state, and 
 in 1837 went to Texas. Mr. Atwood took up a 
 tract of forty -five hundred acres of land in Hen- 
 derson County, under the peculiar laws then in 
 force in that region, and died just prior to the 
 Mexican war. His wife returned to Indiana at 
 the outbreak of hostilities between the two 
 countries, and thus the property was lost to the 
 family under the statute of limitations. Marsylus 
 Atwood was reared to manhood in Indiana and 
 Texas, and after he returned to his native state 
 he was occupied in farming in Greene County 
 until his death, during the Civil war, in 1863. He 
 married Martha Ann Martindale, likewise a 
 native of Indiana, and five children came to bless 
 their union. Two of the number are deceased. 
 Mrs. lyce resides in Longmont and William is 
 living in Boulder. The Martindales were origin- 
 ally from England, and settled in Virginia at an 
 early period. Mrs. Atwood was the daughter of 
 William Martindale, who was born and brought 
 up in Virginia and went to Indiana on arriving 
 at maturity, there to engage in cultivating a 
 homestead during the rest of his active life. Mrs. 
 Atwood departed this life in Indiana when but 
 forty years of age. 
 
 Joseph T. Atwood was born in Newark, Greene 
 County, Ind., in 1862. His father died when 
 the boy was scarcely a year old, aud the mother 
 died a few years later. Until he was fourteen 
 our subject attended the public schools of 
 Newark, and in the fall of the Centennial year 
 he started for the west. For nearly a year he 
 lived in Taylor County, Iowa, but in 1877 came 
 to Boulder County. Here he spent about ten 
 years in agricultural pursuits, giving as much 
 time as possible to his studies and going to the 
 district schools several terms. In 1887 he en- 
 tered the State Agricultural College, and con- 
 tinued until the cldse of his junior year. In 1890 
 he returned to the east and in the fall matricu- 
 lated in the University of Michigan at Ann 
 Arbor. He was one in a class originally number- 
 ing three hundred and twelve, but twenty-two 
 failed to graduate, a large percentage. It was in 
 the summer of 1892 that he received the honors 
 for which he had been striving, that of Bachelor 
 of L,aws. The same year he opened an ofiSce in 
 
 Longmont and has since been engaged in the 
 practice of general law. The following year he 
 entered into partnership with Mr. Minor and the 
 present firm of Minor & Atwood was formed. 
 Mr. Atwood has rapidly risen in his profession, 
 and his friends predict for him a brilliant future. 
 He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and 
 of the Woodmen of the World, and is a great 
 favorite in social circles. 
 
 HN. BR ADIvEY, who is engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business at No. 720 Sixteenth street, 
 Denver, was born in Sunderland, Vt. , May 
 6, 1846, and is a son of Gilbert and Mary (Lock- 
 wood) Bradley. His father, who was born in 
 the same town in 1800, was a son of Ethan Brad- 
 ley, who removed from Connecticut, his birth- 
 place, and settled in Vermont, engaging in the 
 mercantile businesss there. Gilbert, who was 
 also a merchant, was a man of considerable prom- 
 inence in his locality and in politics was an old- 
 line Democrat. He died at eighty years of age. 
 In his family there were seven children who at- 
 tained mature years, and five of these are still 
 living, namely: Frances, who lives in New York; 
 Jane, Mrs. Isaac G. Johnson, of New York; Gil- 
 bert W. , a manufacturer living in Manchester, 
 Vt.; Herbert N., who was next to the youngest; 
 and John, a manufacturer, living in Buffalo, 
 N. Y. 
 
 In the schools of Sunderland and the academies 
 at Manchester and Bennington, Vt., the subject 
 of this sketch gained his education. At the age 
 of sixteen he left school and began to give his 
 attention exclusively to his father's store, where 
 he continued until 1866. Having meantime saved 
 his wages, he started in business for himself at 
 Rupert, Vt., where he remained for seven years. 
 In 1873 he sold out and came to Colorado, open- 
 ing a store in Boulder in the spring of the follow- 
 ing year and continuing in the same place until 
 1897. At the organization of the bank in Boul- 
 der he was chosen its head and for several years 
 served as president, when he resigned, sold his 
 stock and went east, remaining several years, but 
 not engaging in business. On his return he ac- 
 cepted the position as vice-president of the bank, 
 which he still holds. In June, 1895, he began in 
 the mercantile business in Denver, where he has 
 a large and lucrative business. He has invested 
 
HON. JAMES P. MAXWELL. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 in real estate in various parts of the country from 
 Vermont to Colorado. 
 
 In Orange County, N. Y., in 1884, Mr. Brad- 
 ley married Miss Margaret Brodhead, who was 
 born and reared in that county, a daughter of 
 Capt. Edgar Brodhead, who graduated from An- 
 napolis Naval School, served for many years in 
 the United States Navy and is now living retired 
 in Orange County. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have 
 two children: Mary, who was born in Boulder in 
 June, 1886; and Herbert N., born in Boulder Oc- 
 tober 12, 1888. Though reared a Democrat, Mr. 
 Bradley has always supported Republican prin- 
 ciples, and cast his first vote for Gen. U. S. Grant. 
 While in business at Rupert he became a member 
 of Morning Flower Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,in 
 which he filled all the chairs. After he had been 
 living in Colorado for some time, and during a 
 trip east, he took the chapter degrees at Man- 
 chester, Vt. He became a charter member of 
 the chapter in Boulder and later took the com- 
 mandery degrees there, being the first to do so 
 after its organization. 
 
 HON. JAMES P. MAXWELL. Since the 
 admission of Colorado as one of the states of 
 the Union, the name of Senator Maxwell 
 has been closely identified with its history. 
 Elected to the first session of the state senate in 
 1876, after having ably represented his district in 
 important territorial positions, he drew the long 
 term and served until 1880. In the second ses - 
 sion, in 1879, he served as president pro tem of 
 the senate. He was prominently connected with 
 early legislative acts and took a warm interest in 
 securing the appropriations for the state uni- 
 versity. In 1877 he had the distinction of plac- 
 ing in nomination for the United States senate 
 Hon. H. M. Teller, who then began his long and 
 distinguished connection with public affairs. 
 Elected mayor of Boulder in 1878, he served for 
 one term of two years, resigning in 1880, after 
 which he held the ofiBce of county treasurer 
 for two years. He was again elected to the state 
 senate in 1896, as the candidate of the silver Re- 
 publicans and Democrats, and was the recipient 
 of a large majority in a county that usually gives 
 a majority to the People's party. At the close of 
 the eleventh session he was elected president pro 
 tem of the senate for the next session. 
 
 Three miles from the foot of Geneva Lake, at 
 Bigfoot, Walworth County, W^is., the subject of 
 this sketch was born in June, 1839, a son of 
 James A. and Susan V. (Clark) Maxwell, and a 
 grandson of Col. James Maxwell, who was a pio- 
 neer of Walworth County, a merchant by occu- 
 pation, a member of the territorial legislature and 
 colonel of the Wisconsin state militia, dying in 
 Wisconsin at eighty years of age. His brother, 
 Philip Maxwell, M. D., was one of the prominent 
 physicians in the early days of Chicago. 
 
 For some years James A. Maxwell was a large 
 land holder, a successful merchant and a promi- 
 nent man in the public affairs of Walworth 
 County, but removed from there to Sauk County, 
 and from there came to Colorado in i860. He 
 assisted in the construction of the Boulder and 
 Blackhawk wagon road, which he operated for a 
 time, but sold to the railroad company on the 
 building of the railroad through the canon. In 
 early days he also engaged in the sawmill 
 business in Boulder. He was a consistent and 
 active member of the Methodist Epi.scopal 
 Church. One Thursday evening in 1892 he at- 
 tended the regular weekly prayer-meeting, walk- 
 ing three-quarters of a mile to the church. He 
 seemed in his usual health at the meeting and 
 when it had closed he walked home, where he 
 sat down in a rocking chair, with his feet on the 
 fender, a paper in his hands, and his glasses on. 
 In that position he was found, dead, the follow- 
 ing morning. He had passed peacefully away, 
 at the close of a service in the church he had 
 helped to organize, and in his home, surrounded 
 by every comfort, and apparently without any 
 pain. He was twice married. His first wife, 
 Miss Clark, accompanied her parents from New 
 York to Indiana, thence to Wisconsin, where 
 she remained until her demise. She was the 
 mother of six children, viz. : Emma, Mrs. H. H. 
 Potter, ofBaraboo, Sauk County, Wis. ; James P.; 
 Charles A., of Boulder; Ophelia, Mrs. George H. 
 Rust, who died in Boulder; Ellen, wife of 
 William Hill, of Missouri; and Augusta, wife of 
 J. V. Pierce, of Kansas City. 
 
 In 1854 t'ls subject of this sketch entered the 
 Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis., where 
 he was graduated in 1859 with the degree of A.B. 
 In i860 he joined his father, who had preceded 
 him to Omaha, and together they journeyed 
 with horses over the plains, reaching .Denver 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 June lo, after a journey of six weeks. They 
 went to Central City and Nevadaville, thence to 
 Lump Gulch and engaged in placer mining. In 
 i860 our subject was elected sheriff of Gold Dirt 
 district, serving for one year, and then for a simi- 
 lar period engaged in lode mining at Leaven- 
 worth Gulch. In 1863, with Captain Tyler, his 
 brother-in-law, he embarked in the lumber busi- 
 ness on South Boulder Creek, putting up a mill, 
 and engaging in the manufacture of lumber of 
 all kinds. This lumber he sold in Blackhawk, 
 Central City and Cheyenne. Also, in partnership 
 with his father, he operated, by water power, a 
 mill at the mouth of Four Mile Creek. In 1867 
 he moved from South Boulder to the mouth of 
 Four Mile, three miles from Boulder, and from 
 there in 1870 he came to Boulder. For several 
 years, as deputy United States mineral and land 
 surveyor, he made surveys of the public lands of 
 the state. In 1872 he was elected to the territo- 
 rial legislature from Boulder, two years later was 
 re-elected, and in 1876 was made a member of the 
 first state senate. From 1882 to 1888 he en- 
 gaged in government surveying in western Colo- 
 rado, and from 1888 to 1893 he acted as state en- 
 gineer, under appointment by Governors Cooper 
 and Routt. As state engineer he had charge and 
 control of the irrigation of the state, and the ap- 
 propriations made for public improvements by 
 two legislatures, amounting to about $200,000 
 each term, of which amount, by economical ex- 
 penditures, he returned about f 100,000 each two 
 years. Appropriations for bridge building, road 
 construction and re,servoir building were made at 
 his discretion and under his supervision. He gave 
 personal oversight to every contract and its com- 
 pletion, and such roads and bridges asked for, 
 but not deemed actual necessities by himself, 
 were not built. 
 
 For the past ten years Mr. Maxwell has been 
 engaged in the cattle business, and owns ranches 
 and real estate. He laid out Maxwell's addition 
 of fifteen acres on the mesa, a fine site, and was 
 vice-president of the Mapleton Company that 
 laid out forty acres. With others, in 1888, he be- 
 gan the construction of the Silver Lake ditch, 
 the highest ditch of Boulder canon, covering 
 about two hundred acres of his laud; irrigation 
 has made of this section a valuable fruit tract. 
 He is president of the Silver Lake Ditch Com- 
 pany, and through his efforts an abundance of 
 
 water has been given to this property. He has 
 also stocked Silver Lake with fi.sh and is making 
 of the lake and surrounding country a fine resort. 
 For fifteen years he was president of the Steam- 
 boat Springs Company, that laid out Steamboat 
 Springs in Routt County. He is still interested 
 in mining and prospecting in different parts of the 
 state. Besides his other interests, he is the owner 
 of .Maxwell block, on Pearl near Twelfth street, 
 Boulder. 
 
 In Gilpin County, Colo., Mr. Maxwell married 
 Miss Francelia O. Smith, who was born near 
 Milwaukee, Wis. Her father. Nelson K. Smith, 
 was long a resident of Wisconsin (see sketch 
 elsewhere in this work) and came to Colorado in 
 i860, engaging in the sawmill business, in manu- 
 facturing enterprises and in the construction of a 
 toll road from Golden to Central. He died in 
 Boulder in 1896. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Maxwell are named as follows: Clint J., who is 
 in charge of his father's ranches and also carries 
 on a stock business; Mark N., who is a drug- 
 gist in Boulder; Helen M., who studied German 
 and music under the best instructors in Germany; 
 and Marie O. , wife of Prof. Charles R. Burger, 
 instructor of mathematics in the East Denver 
 high school. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Maxwell is connected with 
 Boulder Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M. , in which he 
 is past master; Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., 
 in which he is past high priest; Mount Sinai 
 Commandery No. 7, K. T. , in which he is past 
 eminent commander, and was grand commander 
 of the grand commandery of Colorado for one 
 year; the consistory in Denver and El Jebel 
 Temple, N. M. S. For some years he acted as 
 president of the state forestry association and is 
 now a member of the State Historical Society. 
 For several terms he has held the office of presi- 
 dent of the Boulder County Pioneer Society and 
 he is also identified with the Society of Colorado 
 Pioneers. 
 
 CySAAC LAMB BOND, M. D., a resident of 
 I Boulder since 187 1, came to Colorado in that 
 X year with the Chicago-Colorado Colony, 
 which located Longmont, but instead of making 
 the new town his permanent location he settled 
 in Boulder and has since made this city his home. 
 He engaged in the practice of his profession for 
 only five years after coming west, and is now re- 
 
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 321 
 
 tired from active participation in professional 
 work or in business. For one term he acted as 
 mayor of Boulder. He took no active part in poli- 
 tics until populism sprang up; he opposes this 
 doctrine with all his intellect and influence, giv- 
 ing his support to kepublican principles and 
 working for their success. 
 
 The Bond family was founded in Massachu- 
 setts about two hundred years ago, coming there 
 from England. The doctor's father, George S., 
 was a son of George Bond, a farmer of Worcester 
 County; he was born in Brimfield, Hampden 
 County, but was reared in Leicester, Worcester 
 County, where he has since resided, being now 
 eighty-three years of age. He married Eliza 
 Lamb, who was born in Worcester County and 
 still lives there, being now eighty years of age. 
 She was a daughter of Isaac and Abigail (White) 
 Lamb, natives of Spencer, Worcester County. 
 Her father, who was born in 3765 and died in 
 1853, took part in the Revolution and later was 
 major of militia. Her grandfather, John Lamb, 
 was born in Massachusetts in 1727 and died in 
 1796; he was a son of Jonathan Lamb, a native 
 of Boston, who settled in Worcester County in 
 1726 and served as a lieutenant in the early colo- 
 nial wars. Jonathan's father, Joshua, came from 
 England to Massachusetts and held the rank of 
 colonel in early wars. 
 
 The family of George S. and EHza Bond con- 
 sisted of two children, the older being Mrs. Maria 
 Kent, of Worcester. The younger, who forms 
 the subject of this sketch, was born in Leicester, 
 Mass., March 31, 1841. He received his educa- 
 tion in the Leicester Academy and the State Nor- 
 mal School, from both of which he graduated. He 
 then taught school at Holyoke, Mass., for three 
 years, after which he took up the study of medi- 
 cine with Dr. Blodgett, of Holyoke, and later 
 studied in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 New York, from which he graduated in 1866, with 
 the degree of M. D. Opening an ofiRce in Wor- 
 cester County he continued in practice there until 
 1871, when he came to Boulder. After five years 
 here he retired from practice on account of poor 
 health and since then he has engaged in mining, 
 farming and banking. 
 
 In 1887 Dr. Bond organized the Boulder Elec- 
 tric Light Company, of which he served as presi- 
 dent for eight years and which has had a very 
 successful history. In 1884 he assisted in the or- 
 
 ganization of the Boulder National Bank and 
 served as its vice-president from that time until 
 1 89 1, after which he acted as cashier for two 
 years. He is still connected with the bank as a 
 stockholder. He has dealt extensively in mining 
 properties and has also engaged in mining. As 
 an irrigation farmer, he was interested in the 
 building of some of the first ditches in the St. 
 Vrain Valley, and was president of a number of 
 the companies. Much of his land lies in Boulder 
 County and consists of improved ranching prop- 
 erty. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Bond, solemnized in New 
 York City, united him with Arabella, daughter 
 of James and Anna (Watson) Coates, and a sis- 
 ter of the present postmaster of Boulder. She 
 possesses many admirable qualities and is a lady 
 of refinement. A stanch Republican, Dr. Bond 
 has been a member of the state central committee, 
 was chairman of the county committee 1894-96, 
 served as mayor of Boulder in 1891-93, and was 
 his party's candidate for state senator in 1892, 
 but was defeated by the Populists. He has done 
 much to advance the welfare of his party, among 
 whose members he is very popular. 
 
 HON. ADAIR WILSON, associate judge of 
 the Colorado State Court of Appeals, was 
 born in 1841 in what is now Cambridge, 
 Saline County, Mo., and is of Scotch-Irish lineage. 
 His paternal great-grandfather emigrated from 
 Ireland to the United States and after a short so- 
 journ in Pennsylvania went to the Shenandoah 
 Valley, of Virginia, where he was engaged as a 
 planter until his death. He had a brother, 
 James, who was a signer of the Declaration of 
 Independence, also of the Constitution, by pro- 
 fession an attorney, and under appointment by 
 President Washington chosen to fill the position 
 of justice of the supreme court of the United 
 States. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, William Wil- 
 son, was born in Virginia, and took part in the 
 Revolution when a young man. Many years 
 later, in 1824, he removed to Missouri and settled 
 upon a farm near Glasgow, Howard County, 
 where he lived retired until his death. The young- 
 est of his large family was William A., a native 
 of Augusta County, Va., and in early life a mer- 
 chant, but later a student of law with his brother, 
 
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 Gen. John Wilson, who had preceded the family 
 to Missouri and had served in the war of 1812. 
 William was admitted to the bar in Saline County 
 and opened an office in Marshall, where he was 
 a pioneer and prominent attorney. For years he 
 was clerk of all the courts there. When the 
 Civil war broke out he was somewhat advanced 
 in years, but enlisted in the state militia and was 
 made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment, serving 
 until the close of the war, but the exposure of 
 camp life caused his death soon afterwards. He 
 was then about fifty-seven years of age. Frater- 
 nally he was a Mason. 
 
 Our subject's mother was Mary E. Reeves, a 
 native of Todd County, Ky., and now living in 
 Marshall, Mo. She is the descendant of English 
 and Scotch-Irish ancestors, who early settled in 
 Virginia. Her father, Col. Benjamin H. Reeves, 
 was born in Augusta County, Va., but about 
 the close of the eighteenth century, when in in- 
 fancy, he removed to Kentucky with his parents. 
 His father had served in the Revolution and he 
 took part, as a captain, in the war of 1812, being 
 of the greatest assistance to the cause in Indiana 
 and Kentucky and relieving Zacliary Taylor 
 when the latter was besieged near Lafayette. 
 During his residence in Kentucky he was for 
 many years a member of the legislature. In 
 1818 he removed to Missouri, where he was a 
 member of the constitutional convention, later 
 state senator from his district, and afterward 
 lieutenant-governor of the state for one term. 
 He was one of the commissioners appointed by 
 the president of the United States to locate the 
 Santa Fe trail. Both while in Kentucky and 
 Missouri he was active in the skirmishes with the 
 Indians, and during the Iowa Indian war he was 
 colonel of a regiment. He died in 1849, at the 
 age of sixty-two years. Politically he had been 
 an ardent supporter of Henry Clay and the Whig 
 party. 
 
 The family of which our subject is a member 
 consisted of seven children, he being third in 
 order of birth. One brother, Benjamin H., was 
 a captain in a Missouri regiment during the 
 Civil war and is now a resident of Denver. Our 
 subject was reared in Marshall and received his 
 education in the Masonic College, from which he 
 graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1858, 
 when less than seventeen years of age, being the 
 youngest member of his class. He studied law 
 
 under an uncle. Judge Abiel Leonard, who was 
 at one time judge of the supreme court of Mis- 
 souri. In i860 he was admitted to the bar at 
 Marshall and in the spring of the following year 
 came to Denver, making the trip overland with 
 teams. After a few weeks he proceeded west- 
 ward to California and located in San Francisco, 
 where his uncle. Gen. John Wilson, was a prom- 
 inent attorney. The uncle and nephew practiced 
 together for two years, then the latter went to 
 Virginia City, Nev., and embarked in the news- 
 paper business as city editor of the Virginia City 
 Union, at the same time that Mark Twain was city 
 editor of the EnterpHse. After one year he went 
 to Austin, Nev., where he was the first editor of 
 the Reese River Reveille, a paper that is still being 
 published. Resigning his position a year later, 
 he went back to San Francisco and resumed the 
 practice of law. His father dying in 1867, he re- 
 turned to Missouri to look after the estate, and 
 opened an office in Marshall, where he practiced 
 until 1872. 
 
 Coming again to Colorado in 1872, our subject 
 located in Pueblo, where he practiced for a year. 
 He was among the earliest settlers in the San Juan 
 mining region and located at Del Norte, which 
 became the county seat. In 1875 he was elected 
 the first member of the territorial council from the 
 San Juan country, comprising five or six counties, 
 and served during the last session of the legis- 
 lature of the territory, being chosen as president 
 of the body. In 1876 he was a delegate to the 
 national Democratic convention at St. Louis that 
 nominated Samuel J. Tilden for president, and 
 during the ensuing election was one of the Demo- 
 cratic candidates for presidential elector voted for 
 by the legislature of Colorado. During the same 
 year he was nominated for judge of the fourth 
 judicial district, but declined the nomination. In 
 1880 he was tendered the Democratic nomination 
 for governor, in the convention held at Leadville, 
 but refused to accept. Six years later he was 
 nominated on the Democratic ticket for state 
 senator from the San Juan district and was the 
 only one on the Democratic ticket elected, the 
 district being Republican. His term of service 
 covered the years 1887-go, during which time he 
 introduced many bills of importance. In 1887 
 he opened an office in Durango, where he has 
 since resided. At the convention in Chicago in 
 1896 he was elected a member of the Democratic 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAIv RECORD. 
 
 325 
 
 national committee. In April, 1897, Governor 
 Adams appointed him to the position he now 
 holds, that of associate judge of the court of 
 appeals. He is a member of the Pioneers' As- 
 sociation of San Juan, and fraternally is connected 
 with the Masonic lodge of Del Norte. In Arrow 
 Rock, Saline County, Mo., he married Miss 
 Margaret E. Edwards, who was born in Pettis 
 County, that state, being the daughter of Philip 
 W. Edwards, who was born in Kentucky in 1800, 
 removed to Missouri in an early day and en- 
 gaged in business there until his death. This 
 union was blessed with the following children: 
 Katharine W., who married Austin H. Brown; 
 Edwards Adair, Alva Adams and Margaretta. 
 
 HON. JAMES W. McCREERY, state sena- 
 tor, and one of the ablest attorneys not only 
 of Greeley, but of the entire state as well, 
 was born in Indiana County, Pa., July 13, 1850, 
 a son of William G. and Mary (Work) McCreery. 
 His paternal grandfather, William McCreery, was 
 born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1772, of 
 Scotch descent, and emigrated to America in 
 1793, settling in Indiana County, Pa., where, in 
 1804, he married Margaret McLain, born in 
 America in 1781. He was a son of Samuel Mc- 
 Creery, who came to America at the same time 
 with a brother and si.ster; their father, Samuel, 
 Sr., was a native of Scotland, who removed 
 thence to Ireland. 
 
 In Pennsylvania, where he was born July 4, 
 182 1, William G. McCreery devoted his active 
 years to farming, and he is still living on the 
 family homestead in Indiana County. He has 
 been a Republican since the organization of the 
 party. The only office he ever accepted was that 
 of school director, in which position he aided the 
 public schools. To the work of the United Pres- 
 byterian Church he has for years given liberally 
 of his time and means, and" been one of its faith- 
 ful members. His first marriage united him with 
 Mary, daughter of James Work. They became 
 the parents of seven children, four of whom are 
 living, viz.: Margaret E., James W.; Samuel 
 Fletcher, who is engaged in the insurance busi- 
 ness in Greeley ; and Robert C. , a farmer resid- 
 ing at Fort Morgan, Colo. Mrs. Mary McCreery 
 died in i860, and afterward Mr. McCreery mar- 
 
 ried Rachel Miller, by whom he had two chil- 
 dren, Silas H. and Alexander H. His second 
 wife is still living. 
 
 In local schools, an academy and the State 
 Normal in Indiana County the subject of this 
 article received his education. While teaching 
 for several years he devoted his leisure hours to 
 the study of law. In December, 1880, he was 
 admitted to the bar, and in the spring of 188 1 
 came west to Greeley, reaching here on the ist of 
 June. He was pleased with the location and de- 
 termined to make the city his permanent home. 
 Confining himself to civil law, he has succeeded 
 in that line of the profession and has built up a 
 remunerative practice. By his energy and native 
 ability he has placed himself in the front rank of 
 the bar of northern Colorado. In all the promi- 
 nent irrigation cases that have come up in the 
 past seventeen years he has been interested, and a 
 fair percentage of these he has won. During the 
 same time he has also been connected with all 
 irrigation legislation. His practice extends 
 throughout the entire state, and in 1897 he was 
 called to Illinois to take charge of an important 
 will case involving $500,000. 
 
 An ardent Republican, Mr. McCreery has been 
 active in almost all of the county and state con- 
 ventions. In 1888 he was elected to the state 
 senate from the district then comprising Weld, 
 lyOgan and Washington Counties. During the 
 f9ur years that followed he made an enviable 
 record as a legislator. One of his most impor- 
 tant works was the introduction and passage of a 
 bill providing for the establishment of the State 
 Normal School at Greeley, a school intended for 
 the preparation of teachers in the common schools 
 of the state. For the past eight years he has 
 been a trustee of the institution, and during part 
 of the time served as president of the board. 
 
 In 1896 he was again nominated for the senate 
 and was elected by a plurality of nearly nine 
 hundred. In the session that followed he was 
 one of the most prominent members, and as a 
 member of the committee on finance took a firm 
 stand for retrenchment in public expenses, and 
 openly advocated reform in such expenditures. 
 Having made the subject of finance a close study, 
 he was well fitted for that kind of work. 
 
 One noticeable trait in Mr. McCreery 's char- 
 acter is his kindness to young men just starting 
 out as attorneys. Many a one owes to his sym- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 pathetic interest the start in the profession to 
 which he owed his later success. In 1897, when 
 the rules relative to admission to the bar were 
 drafted again and a committee appointed to act as 
 a board of law examiners, the supreme court of 
 the state named him as a member. He practices 
 before all the courts, including the supreme court 
 of the United States. In addition to his other 
 practice he is attorney tor the First National 
 Bank of Greeley and for ex-Governor Eaton in 
 the latter' s irrigation matters. 
 
 In religion he is connected with the Presby- 
 terian Church. August 27, 1883, he married 
 Mary M., daughter of Mathew Arbuckle, of 
 Madison, Ind. They are the parents of four 
 children now living: Mary, Donald, Edith and 
 Dorothy. 
 
 P'RANK C. AVERY, president of the First 
 f^ National Bank of Fort Collins and a resident 
 I of Colorado since 1870, was born in Cayuga 
 County, N. Y., at L,edyard, near Cayuga Lake, 
 April 8, 1849, a son of Edgar and Eliza (Worth- 
 ing) Avery. He is a descendant, on the pater- 
 nal side, of a pioneer family of New England. 
 His grandfather, Benjamin Avery, who was born 
 in New London, Conn., went to Cayuga County, 
 N. Y., at the age of eighteen years, and began 
 the improvement of a farm from the wilderness. 
 At the time he settled there Auburn had but two 
 houses, and they were built of logs. He engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising until his death. 
 His son, Edgar, who was born and reared in 
 Cayuga County, removed from there to Colorado 
 and died in Greeley in 1887. His wife died in 
 Fort Collins in 1897. She was a daughter of 
 Rev. Jonathan Worthing, a pioneer minister in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for some 
 time a presiding elder of that denomination. He 
 died in Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was second among 
 five children. His older brother, Edward, is liv- 
 ing in Fort Collins. Louise, the wife of Alex- 
 ander Mead, resides in Greeley; George is a 
 minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, now 
 stationed in Fort Collins; and William, who came 
 to Colorado about 1880, became a land owner in 
 Larimer County and was also connected with the 
 First National Bank until his death, in 1890. 
 Our subject attended Cazenovia Seminary. Upon 
 completing the engineer's course he joined the 
 
 Union colony and came to Greeley, where he ar- 
 rived May 9, 1870. He made the surveys and 
 laid out the town; also surveyed the ditches. 
 After eighteen months in that place, in the fall of 
 187 1, he located near La Porte, Larimer County, 
 where he embarked in the stock business. In 
 1872 he made the original plat and laid out the 
 town of Fort Collins, changing the old town as 
 much as possible in order to make the streets run 
 straight. He became interested in the real-estate 
 business here, and was among the first to im- 
 prove and sell town lots. In the fall of 1872 he 
 was elected county surveyor and in 1874 was re- 
 elected. The first noticeable growth of the city 
 took place in 1873, after which its development 
 was steady. As long as the colony existed he 
 continued its engineer. 
 
 In January, 1880, Mr. Avery organized the 
 Larimer County Bank, a state institution, with a 
 capital stock of $30,000, and himself as presi- 
 dent. After a few months the name was changed 
 to the First National Bank and the capitalization 
 was increa.sed to $50,000. In addition to build- 
 ing the first bank building, he also erected ten 
 stores near the bank, comprising the Avery 
 block, and a commodious and substantial stone 
 residence, set in the midst of large grounds. He 
 had a one- fourth interest in the building of the 
 opera house, and has aided in the improvement 
 of other property. In a number of ditch com- 
 panies he has been largely interested, serving as 
 president of several. Through his efforts was 
 organized the Water Supply and Storage Com- 
 pany of Fort Collins, of which he is still a di- 
 rector. This company built the most expensive 
 ditch for its length in the entire state, having 
 spent $100,000 in blasting through the solid rock 
 in order to bring the ditch over the Snowy range, 
 nine thousand feet elevation, for feeding the 
 Larimer County ditch. The company also built 
 two large reservoirs, which, after two years of 
 work, were completed in 1893. For this work he 
 made the preliminary survey. He is interested 
 in ranches in Larimer and Weld Counties, and 
 owns several sections which he has fenced and 
 improved. In the organization of the Akin Live 
 Stock Company he took an active part. They 
 feed about six thousand sheep and own a number 
 of fine thoroughbred horses. 
 
 Politically Mr. Avery is a Republican. For 
 three terms he served as a member of the city 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 327 
 
 council. In New York state, February 24, 
 1876, he married Miss Sarah Edson, who was 
 born near Auburn. Three children were born of 
 their marriage: Edgar, Ethel and Mettie. The 
 children are being given the benefits of good 
 educations. Mrs. Avery is identified with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, to the maintenance 
 of which Mr. Avery is a regular contributor. 
 
 In reviewing the history of any community 
 there are always a few names that stand out pre- 
 eminent. In the history of Fort Collins the name 
 of Mr. Avery is prominent. Doubtless few have 
 accomplished more than he in behalf of the city's 
 interests, the development of its resources and 
 the enlargement of its commerce. He has aided by 
 his means and influence those projects calculated 
 to promote the welfare of the people and advance 
 their prosperity. Progressive plans have been 
 promoted by his co-operation and local interests 
 have received his fostering aid. Justly, there- 
 fore, he occupies a position among the most influ- 
 ential men of the town and county. 
 
 ~ DWARD C. PARMELEE. The record of 
 ^ the life of Mr. Parmelee since coming to 
 _ Colorado is a record of the growth and prog- 
 ress in Masonry during the same period. No 
 one has been more prominent in the order than 
 he and no one has contributed more to its ad- 
 vancement. Upon the organization of the grand 
 chapter of Colorado he was elected grand secretary, 
 which position he has since held. He has also 
 been grand recorder of the grand commandery of 
 Colorado since its organization in 1876. He is 
 identified with the consistory of Colorado in 
 Denver and for a number of years has been recorder 
 and secretary of the several bodies of the Scottish 
 Rite. 
 
 The connection of Mr. Parmelee with human 
 activities began in Waterbury, Vt. The family 
 of which he is a member came from Wales to 
 America, but originated in. Holland, where the 
 name was Van Parmelee. William Parmelee was 
 born in Londonderry, Conn., in 1775, and re- 
 moved from there to New Hampshire, but later 
 became a pioneer farmer of Summit Count}', Ohio. 
 His son, Lucius, was born in New Hampshire, 
 whence in early manhood he removed to Water- 
 bury, Vt., and embarked in the boot and shoe 
 business, continuing the same until his retire- 
 
 ment. He died at seventy-seven years of age. 
 His wife, who bore the maiden name of Ann 
 Wallace, was born in New Hampshire, the 
 descendant of an old Scotch family, and died in 
 1840, at the age of thirty. Her father, James 
 Wallace, was born in Connecticut, but removed 
 to New Hampshire, where he owned and con- 
 ducted a boot and shoe store. 
 
 The third in order of birth, and the only sur- 
 vivor of six children, the subject of this sketch 
 was orphaned by his mother's death when he was 
 quite small. He attended the public school of 
 Waterbury, where he obtained a fair education. 
 At the age of seventeen he went as far west as 
 Summit County, Ohio, and there became a clerk 
 in a mercantile store. It was not long, however, 
 before the excitement occasioned by the discovery 
 of gold in the mountains of Colorado brought 
 many argonauts from the east. With them came 
 many who have since resided in the state and 
 have been influential factors in the development 
 of its resources. Among them came Mr. Parmelee 
 in i860, making the long journey via ox team 
 from Kansas and finally arriving at what is now 
 Central City, in Gilpin County, where he began 
 prospecting and mining. While still connected 
 with mining interests there he formed a partner- 
 ship with Mr. Sayr and opened the first abstract 
 oSice in Gilpin County, later also starting the 
 first abstract office in Clear Creek County. In 
 1887 he went to Pueblo County, where he also 
 engaged in the abstract title business. In 1891 
 he sold out, and this time settled in Denver, 
 where he has since given his entire attention to 
 the duties of his position as grand secretary. 
 
 In 1857, in Monroe, Iowa, Mr. Parmelee was 
 made a member of Monroe Lodge No. 88, A. F. 
 & A. M. On coming to Colorado he became 
 identified with Central Lodge No. 6, A.F. & A.M., 
 and later was connected with Georgetown Lodge 
 No. 48, A. F. & A. M., of which he is still a 
 member and past master. While in Central City 
 he joined Central City Chapter No. i , R. A. M., 
 and at Georgetown he became a charter member 
 of Georgetown Chapter No. 4, of which he was 
 the first high priest. His membership is now in 
 Colorado Chapter No. 29. In 1866 he was made 
 a Knight Templar, in Cuba, N. Y. , becoming a 
 member of St. John's Commandery No. 24, later 
 of Central City Commandery No. 2 (in which he 
 was an officer) and afterward of Georgetown 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Commandery No. 4, in which he is past com- 
 mander. He is now identified with Denver 
 Commandery No. 25. 
 
 Though without political aspirations, Mr. 
 Parmelee is not without decided opinions upon 
 the issues of the age and has allied himself with 
 the silver Republicans, being a stanch advocate 
 of bimetalism. 
 
 OOI.. J. L. HANDLEY, M. D., supreme 
 I ( secretary and vice-president of the Fraternal 
 \J Union of America, was one of the original 
 promoters of this order, for which he assisted in 
 securing a charter in 1894. With the formation 
 of Union Lodge No. i, of Denver, he was actively 
 connected; a noteworthy fact connected with the 
 history of this lodge is that its first candidate for 
 admission was Mayor Van Horn, and he was also 
 the first of the members to die. From the first 
 Colonel Handley was supreme secretary of the 
 order, and upon the reorganization, in Septem- 
 ber, 1896, he was made supreme vice-president, 
 both of which offices he has since filled, having 
 full charge of the order. The purpose of reor- 
 ganization was to change the modus operandi, 
 profiting by the experiences of the past and 
 making of the order the most modern institution 
 of its kind. Since actively commencing the work 
 of organization in 1896, the Union has gained 
 lodges throughout the country, as far east as 
 Ohio, and west to the Pacific Coast. The entire 
 time of the supreme secretary is given to the 
 work of organization and the supervision of 
 lodges. The supreme president is F. F. Roose, 
 of Omaha, and the supreme treasurer S. S. Baty, 
 of Denver. The Union is a fraternal, social and 
 benefit order, and provides accident, total disabil- 
 ity, old age and death benefits, creating a matu- 
 rity or reserve fund which guarantees its perma- 
 nency. It combines the most equitable features 
 and guarantees cheapness in the future, when 
 most orders will be expensive. The fact that both 
 sexes are admitted on equal terms wins many 
 friends for the fraternity. 
 
 Colonel Handley was born in Sheffield, Eng- 
 land, February 9, 1834, the sou of James and 
 Martha (Ennis) Handley, the former of whom 
 died of paralysis in Sheffield. One grandfather, 
 Lawrence Handley, was a manufacturer in Shef- 
 field, and the other grandfather, John Ennis, was 
 in the English navy during the Napoleonic wars, 
 
 1812-15, and afterward was connected with the 
 shipping interests of Dover, England. Mrs. 
 Handley had three children, but two died in 
 childhood, and she spent her last days in the 
 home of her only surviving child, our subject, in 
 Carmi, 111., where she died at the age of sixty 
 years. 
 
 At the age of fourteen our subject began an 
 apprenticeship to the tanner's and currier's trade, 
 but he did not like the work and decided to come 
 to America. With a cousin, in 1848, he left 
 Liverpool on the sailer "Harriet Augusta," 
 which encountered severe storms and landed in 
 New York after a voyage of six weeks. He se- 
 cured employment as clerk in the store of Priest 
 Brothers, in Albany, and while there, in 1850, 
 sent for his mother to come to this country. In 
 1851, with a corps of engineers, he made surveys 
 for the widening of Erie Canal, and after a year 
 in that work he came as far west as Evansville, 
 Ind. , where he was assistant engineer on the 
 Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad. In 1854 
 he settled in Carmi, White County, 111., where 
 for two years he was bookkeeper for Stewart & 
 Graham, and for a similar period was with Albert 
 Shannon, dry-goods merchant. Meantime he 
 began the study of medicine, under Dr. E. L. 
 Stewart. In the fall of 1857 he entered Jefferson 
 Medical College, from which he graduated in 
 1859, with the degree of M. D., and then engaged 
 in practice at Carmi. 
 
 In 1862 he was commissioned assistant surgeon, 
 with the rank of captain, of the Eighty-seventh 
 Illinois Infantry, the surgeon being his former 
 preceptor. Dr. Stewart, and he served with the 
 regiment during the entire war. After the fall 
 of Vicksburg the regiment was sent to New Or- 
 leans, and from there accompanied Banks' expe- 
 dition up the Red River to Sabine Cross Roads, 
 where his command brought on a fight by at- 
 tacking Dick Taylor's forces. From there they 
 went to Morganzes Bend at the mouth of the 
 White River and later scouted through the 
 country, finally reaching Helena, Ark. He was 
 mustered out at Springfield, 111., July 3, 1865. 
 
 After the war Dr. Handley located in Mount 
 Erie, Wayne County, 111., which was quite close 
 to his former home in Carmi. In 1868 he was 
 nominated, on the Democratic ticket, for the po- 
 sition of clerk of the circuit court and recorder of 
 the countj', and was elected, taking the oath of 
 
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 329 
 
 office immediately after his election . He removed 
 to Fairfield, the county-seat, where he resided 
 for some years. At the expiration of his term, in 
 1872, he was re-elected, this timeby an overwhelm- 
 ing majority, and served until 1876, when he 
 refused further nomination. During that j'ear the 
 circuit judge appointed him master in chancery of 
 Wayne County, and by appointment every two 
 years he served until 1886. In 1885 President 
 Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Fairfield, 
 but the next year he resigned that office, as well 
 as the position of master in chancery. 
 
 In the spring of 1887 he came to Denver, 
 where he became connected with the postoffice 
 department and was appointed the first superin- 
 tendent of carriers. On the appointment of John 
 Cochrane as postmaster he resigned, though soli- 
 cited to remain in his position. During his term 
 as superintendent he organized the carrier system 
 and perfected its management. After sersdng as 
 bookkeeper for A. C. Harris for a j'ear he was 
 appointed a sanitary inspector in the health de- 
 partment of Denver. While Dr. Steele was health 
 commissioner he created the office of lieutenant 
 of sanitary inspectors and organized the corps. 
 On Dr. Lemen becoming health commissioner. 
 Colonel Handley was appointed superintendent 
 of the health department and had full charge of 
 the sanitary affairs of the city. He was retained 
 in the same position by Dr. Munn. In Septem- 
 ber, 1896, he resigned to become supreme sec- 
 retary of the Fraternal Union. 
 
 In Carmi Colonel Handley married Miss Clar- 
 inda Hoffman, who was born in Virginia and died 
 in Fairfield, 111., in March, 1873. She had two 
 children, only one of whom is living, Bessie S., 
 wife of William Nelson, of Portland, Ore. The 
 colonel's second marriage took place in Fairfield, 
 111., April 27, 1874, and united him with Miss 
 Sallie N. McCall, of Kentucky, by whoni he has 
 a son, Lawrence R. 
 
 While in Illinois Colonel Handley was made a 
 Mason, and he still has his membership in the 
 lodge at Carmi, in which he was an officer, and 
 also held official position in the Royal Arch Chap- 
 ter there. In the council at Fairfield he was 
 Thrice Illustrious Master, and he also belonged 
 to Commandery No. 14, K. T., ofOlney, 111. At 
 one time he was connected with the Odd Fellows. 
 He is a member of Reno Post No. 39, G. A. R., 
 of Denver, in which he was commander for two 
 
 terms. He was quartermaster general in the 
 department of Colorado and Wyoming for two 
 terms, with the rank of colonel. He is also con- 
 nected with the Union Veterans' Legion. During 
 his residence in Illinois, he was frequently a del- 
 egate to local and state conventions, and also 
 served as delegate to the national convention at 
 St. Louis, where Samuel Tilden was nominated 
 for president. In Illinois he was a well-known 
 man of affairs and a leading politician of his local- 
 ity. He is a member of Trinity Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. 
 
 GlBNER LOOMIS, president of the Poudre 
 Lj Valley Bank of Fort Collins, is one of the 
 I I pioneers of Colorado who have achieved 
 financial success through attention to business 
 and determination of will. He was born in 
 Chautauqua County, N. Y., December 17, 1829, 
 and was next to the youngest among twelve 
 children, all but one of whom attained maturity 
 and eight are still living. His father, William, 
 a native of York state and a member of an old 
 eastern family, settled in Ohio in 1834 and from 
 there in 1840 went to Iowa, locating near Fair- 
 field, Jefferson County, where he engaged in 
 farming until his death at sixty-six years. His 
 wife, who was Sylvia Morton, was born in New 
 York and died in Birmingham, Iowa. 
 
 In the public schools of Iowa the subject of 
 this article obtained a fair education. He learned 
 gunsmithing in Iowa. In 1850, with a company 
 from the vicinity of Birmingham, Iowa, he went 
 to California, going via the Platte with horse- 
 train, through South Pass, via Fort Hall, down 
 the Humboldt, and arriving in Sacramento after 
 five months of travel. For four years he engaged 
 in mining on the Trinity River, after which he 
 turned his attention to buying and selling cattle, 
 having his ranch on Belle Creek. In 1859 he re- 
 turned to Iowa, via Panama and New York City. 
 It was then the time of the Pike's Peak gold ex- 
 citement, and he fell a victim to the prevailing 
 fever. In April, i860, he again started across 
 the plains, this time going from Kansas City by 
 stage to Denver, where he met Antoine Janise, a 
 Frenchman from Cache la Poudre, who had been 
 here from twelve years of age. He told Mr. 
 Loomis that he had found gold in the sands of 
 the Cache la Poudre and its tributaries, and in- 
 duced him to come^sre. June 27, i860, he 
 
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 arrived at the stream, where he prospected for a 
 month, finding gold in small quantities, but not 
 enough to pay for the expense of mining. How- 
 ever, he decided that money might be made here 
 in other ways than mining, and determined to 
 engage in the stock business. With this object 
 in view, he bought the ranch at Pleasant Valley 
 that is now owned by Captain Post. Returning 
 to Omaha, he bought a supply of provisions, etc., 
 and returned via ox-train. In the spring of 1861 
 he dug the first ditch ever dug on the Cache la 
 Poudre (now known as Pleasant Valley ditch) 
 and by the aid of irrigation raised a small crop. 
 In the fall of 1861 he planted a sack of black wal- 
 nuts, brought from the vicinity of Omaha, and it 
 is probable that this was the introduction of the 
 black walnut into Colorado. The trees are still 
 growing and have been transplanted to different 
 parts of the county. In 1862 he raised some 
 potatoes and a fair crop of wheat. He continued 
 with increasing success until 1867, when he sold 
 the place, and, settling in Spring Canon, estab- 
 lished a cattle ranch, buying Shorthorns which 
 he crossed with Spanish cows. In 187 1 he sold 
 that place and settled in the new town of Fort Col- 
 lins. In the springof 1872 he moved his cattle on 
 Horse Creek, north of Cheyenne, where he had a 
 ranch, and later took them to Sabile, Wyo., then 
 above Fort Casper, on the North Platte, in Wyo- 
 ming, where he kept them several years, finally 
 selling to Swan Brothers. His next venture was 
 to start a ranch further north, not far from Sun- 
 dance, where the Indians were very troublesome. 
 There he put in ten thousand head of cattle, with 
 Charles Andrews as his partner in the business. 
 After some years he sold the ranch to the loi 
 Cattle Company, of which Colonel Babbitt was 
 manager. From that time he continued stock- 
 dealing and feeding in Fort Collins, making a 
 special feature of sheep feeding. He has owned 
 three different farms here, and now has a place 
 adjoining Fort Collins, from which he has plat- 
 ted eighty acres as an addition to the city. His 
 comfortable home stands on Remington street. 
 
 In early days a company was organized for 
 protection from the Indians. He was a member 
 of this organization and was considered one of 
 the best trailers in that entire section, being able 
 to track an Indian as fast as his horse could run. 
 In 1864 he made one trip to Virginia City, Mont., 
 freighting with a bull-team. In 1861 he had 
 
 made a trip with an ox-team to the Missouri River, 
 and in the spring of the next year made his third 
 trip to the Missouri, while in the fall he again 
 crossed the plains, with mule-team and spring 
 wagon. During that trip he was married, in 
 Bethany, Mo., to Jane Isabelle Allen, who was 
 born in Missouri and died at Excelsior Springs, 
 that state, in October, 1893. She left five chil- 
 dren: Leonidas, a graduate of the State Agricult- 
 ural College and now engaged in the stock business 
 near Fort Collins; Lelia, a graduate of the State 
 Agricultural College, and now the wife of T. H. 
 Robinson, of Fort Collins; Guy, a merchant in 
 Fort Collins; Effie, wife of Charles Dwyre, of Fort 
 Collins; and Jasper. All the children have been 
 given excellent educational advantages in the 
 college in this city. The present wife of Mr. 
 I/Oomis was Mrs. Melinda Maxwell, who was born 
 and reared in Independence, Mo. , and came to 
 Colorado in 1873. She is a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church and a lady of estimable character. 
 
 Politically a Democrat, Mr. Loomiswas county 
 commissioner for twelve years and for a number 
 of years served as chairman of the board. His 
 nomination to this office came unsought by him, 
 but though he did not seek the position, he filled 
 it with the greatest efficiency. While in the 
 office he superintended the making of bridges and 
 roads for the county. He has frequently served 
 as a member of the city council, and while in that 
 position assisted in the building of the water 
 works. While ranging in Wyoming he was 
 identified with the Wyoming Cattle Growers' 
 Association. Before leaving Iowa he was made 
 a Mason, and after coming to Fort Collins he be- 
 came a charter member of the blue lodge here. 
 
 The history of the Poudre Valley Bank shows 
 that an institution that has at its head men of 
 business sagacity and judgment will attain suc- 
 cess. This bank is the outgrowth of the private 
 banking house of Stover & Sheldon, that began 
 in business here in November, 1878. In 1882 
 Abner L,oomis and Charles B. Andrews purchased 
 an interest in the concern. In 1877 the bank 
 bought the stock owned by Mr. Andrews. In 
 February, 1893, the bank was incorporated as a 
 state institution, and a capital paid in of $100, 000. 
 The president is Abner Loomis; vice-president, 
 James B. Arthur; cashier, Charles H. Sheldon; 
 assistant cashier, Vernef Wolfe. These men, to- 
 gether with C. B. Andrews, W. C. Stover, N. C. 
 
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 Alford and James Andrews, form the board of 
 directors. The banking rooms are located at the 
 corner of L,inden and Walnut streets, in a large 
 three-story brick building owned by Mr. Loomis. 
 Here they have improved fire proof and burglar 
 proof vaults, so arranged as to afford perfect se- 
 curity to the contents. Under its wise and con- 
 servative managers, the bank is doing a large 
 and safe business, and has attained a place among 
 the solid financial institutions of the county. 
 
 HON. RICHARD H. WHITELEY, Sr., 
 was born in the north of Ireland December 
 22, 1830. In 1836 he was brought to 
 America, first settling in Charleston, S. C, and 
 thence going to Augusta, Ga., where he attended 
 school until 1839. He was then apprenticed to 
 learn the trade of a cotton and woolen manufact- 
 urer at Belleville, near Augusta, where he re- 
 mained until 1848, and from that date until i860 
 was engaged in the same business at other places. 
 His last work in that line was the erection of a 
 cotton and woolen factory at Bainbridge, Ga. 
 
 During his last years in business Mr. Whiteley 
 had been studying law, and in the spring of i860 
 he was admitted to the bar. He continued in 
 active practice until the opening of the Civil war. 
 In 1 86 1 he took an active part in the issue 
 of secession, and both through the press and 
 on the stump opposed secession, both as a 
 right and as a remedy. Entering the Con- 
 federate army when war was declared, he was 
 with the western army and surrendered as major 
 of infantry under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at 
 Durham Station, N. C, in 1865. When the 
 question of reconstruction was brought up he fa- 
 vored the policy of congress and opposed the 
 action of President Johnson, maintaining that the 
 first duty of southerners was to unconditionally 
 accept the results of the war. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Whiteley was elected to the state 
 constitutional convention, and was a member of 
 its judiciary committee. In 1868 he was nomi- 
 nated by the Republicans of the second district 
 of Georgia for the fortieth congress and was 
 elected by a large majority, but was defrauded 
 by a false count. In the fall of 1868 he was ap- 
 pointed solicitor-general of the southwestern cir- 
 cuit, a position resembling that of district attor- 
 ney in the north. He served in that "capacity 
 
 until elected to the forty-first congress. In Feb- 
 ruary, 1870, he was elected United States sena- 
 tor by the general assembly of Georgia, but on a 
 contest before the senate the election was de- 
 clared to be illegal. During the same year he 
 was elected to the forty-first and forty- second 
 congresses by the Republicans of the second dis- 
 trict, and served during both sessions. In 1870 
 he established the Bainbridge Siui, a Republican 
 newspaper, and edited it until it was destroyed 
 by political incendiaries during the congressional 
 canvas of 1872. He was a delegate to the na- 
 tional Republican convention held in Philadel- 
 phia in 1872, and during the same year was again 
 elected to congress, and again succeeded in de- 
 feating an attempt to count him out. In 1874 
 and 1876 Jie was elected to congress by large ma- 
 jorities, but both times was defrauded by false 
 counts. 
 
 In March, 1877, being fully satisfied that there 
 was no hope of a change of policy in the south, 
 he determined to remove to Colorado, for whose 
 admission as a state he had voted in congress. 
 He came to Boulder and engaged in the practice 
 of his profession until his death, in 1886. Frater- 
 nally he was a Knight Templar Mason. His 
 wife was Margaret E. Devine, who was born in 
 Ireland, and now resides in Boulder. She was a 
 daughter of Rev. Archibald Devine, a minister 
 in the Church of England, and for years a resi- 
 dent of Georgia. Of her ten children two sons 
 and two daughters are now living. One son, 
 Montford, is a merchant in Boulder, and another, 
 Richard H., Jr., is a prominent lawyer of this 
 city. Charles, who was employed in the treasury 
 department, died in Washington. 
 
 HON. RICHARD H. WHITELEY, Jr. 
 Both in public affairs and in the profession 
 of the law Mr. Whiteley has become known 
 as one of the most prominent men of Boulder and 
 this portion of the state. After graduating from 
 the law department of Harvard College in 1885 
 with the degree of LL- B., he opened an ofiice in 
 the Holstein building, Boulder, and has since 
 carried on a large general practice. In 1888 he 
 was nominated and elected on the Republican 
 ticket as state senator from Boulder, and served 
 in the seventh and eighth general assemblies, 
 being the youngest member of the senate and at 
 
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 the same time one of the most active. In the 
 seventh assembly he introduced a general rail- 
 road bill to regulate tariff charges, but was in the 
 minority and the bill failed to become a law. He 
 introduced and was instrumental in securing the 
 passage of the Australian ballot law. In the 
 eighth assembly he was chairman of the judi- 
 ciary committee. At the expiration of his term 
 in 1892 he was not a candidate for re-election, 
 but resumed the active practice of his profession. 
 In addition to his private practice he is attorney 
 for the National State and Boulder National 
 Banks and is attorney for numerous other com- 
 panies. 
 
 The youngest son of Maj. Richard Henry and 
 Margaret E. (Devine) Whiteley, the subject of 
 this sketch was born in Bainbridge, Ga. , July 14, 
 1861. He received his education in private 
 schools until coming to Boulder in 1878, when 
 he entered the University of Colorado, graduating 
 with the first class in 1882. The degree of A. B. 
 was conferred upon him at graduation, and four 
 years later he received the degree of A. M. He 
 is a member of the Delta Tan Delta, a Greek 
 letter society. In 1882 he entered the Harvard 
 law department, from which he graduated three 
 years later. He at once began the practice of 
 his profession in Boulder. He is recognized as 
 one of the leading and influential Republicans of 
 the state. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Boulder Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., in which 
 he is a past master; the chapter, commandery 
 and consistory, and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S., 
 of Denver. 
 
 In Boulder occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Whiteley to Miss Ella Tyler, who was born in 
 Gilpin County, Colo., and received her education 
 in the University of Colorado, graduating in 
 1885. One child, Richard Tyler, blesses the 
 union. Mrs. Whiteley is the daughter of Capt. 
 C. M. Tyler, who was a captain of troops during 
 the Indian troubles and was one of the pioneers 
 of Gilpin County, his life being intimately asso- 
 ciated with the early days of that county. 
 
 r^RANK JONES is known far and wide as 
 JM one of the enterprising ranchmen and cattle- 
 I men of Larimer County. He is considered 
 an authority on cattle and in 1897 was appointed 
 by the governor to serve as "round-up" com- 
 
 missioner for northern Colorado. He is a mem- 
 ber of the executive committee of the Colorado 
 Cattle Growers' Association, and in January, 
 1898, was sent as a delegate to the National 
 Stock Growers' Association, to which organiza- 
 tion he belongs. He is also a charter member of 
 the Larimer County Stock Growers' Protective 
 Association. Under C. H. Bond he has acted in 
 the office of deputy sheriff, and on the school 
 board he has been one of the most zealous mem- 
 bers, for years acting in the various capacities of 
 president, secretary and treasurer. 
 
 The parents of our .subject were Johnson and 
 Ellen (Coulter) Jones, natives of Crab Orchard, 
 Ky., and North Carolina, respectively. The fa- 
 ther settled on a farm near Macon City, Mo. , 
 about 1840, and since then the city has grown 
 until it covers a portion of the old homestead. 
 In 1883 he came to Colorado, and was accident- 
 ally killed at Fort Collins. His father, James 
 Jones, was an early settler in Crab Orchard, Ky., 
 to which point he had gone from his native state, 
 Maryland. Grandfather James Coulter was a 
 pioneer farmer of Jacksonville, Mo., whither he 
 went about 1833. He held official positions in 
 both the war of 18 12 and the Mexican war, en- 
 listing in the first-mentioned from North Caro- 
 lina. He died in Missouri at the extreme age of 
 ninety-eight years. Our subject's mother died 
 in Missouri over a score of years ago. Of her 
 four children the eldest, Sarah, Mrs. Pullin, 
 died in Fort Collins, and Bettie died in Miss6uri. 
 Mortimer M. is a farmer near Fort Collins. 
 
 The birth of Frank Jones occurred August 26, 
 1858, in Macon City, Mo. He was reared on the 
 farm and attended the local schools. In 1880 he 
 went to Fort Laramie, Wyo. , and engaged in driv- 
 ing a stage for the Sidney and Deadwood stage 
 line from Cheyenne to Deadwood. In 1882 he 
 embarked in the cattle business at Fort Collins 
 and the following year he drove two herds from 
 Missouri and brought others here from Texas 
 and Arkansas. In 1886 he purchased the prop- 
 erty he now lives upon and manages, in Liver- 
 more Park. It is one of the oldest ranches oil 
 the old overland stage line, and is known as 
 Stonewall Station. In the place there are twelve 
 hundred and eighty acres situated in one body, 
 and the many improvements, such as fences 
 ditches, etc., have all been made by our subject. 
 Springs and ditches provide abundance of water 
 
DAVID CROCKETT WYATT. 
 
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 for the land, and in addition to this property Mr. 
 Jones owns some alfalfa land on Stonewall Creek. 
 He raises Hereford cattle and does an extensive 
 business in alfalfa. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Jones was married in Clifton, 
 Kan., to Miss Emma Powell, a native of Indiana. 
 Her father, John I. Powell, was a Baltimore 
 man, and her grandfather, William B. Powell, 
 was a native of London, England. The latter, 
 who was a captain, engaged in trans-Atlantic 
 trade, was a soldier in the war of 18 12. He took 
 up his residence near Baltimore, later went to 
 Ohio and finally became a pioneer in Indiana, in 
 which state his death occurred. J. I. Powell, 
 the father of Mrs. Jones, was noted for his horse- 
 manship, and for the fine Kentucky horses which 
 he raised. He had lived in Clifton, Kan., but a 
 few years when death put an end to his labors, 
 he being in his sixty-first year. His wife, Louisa, 
 was a daughter of Benjamin N. Denton, both of 
 Lexington, Ky. The Denton family were orig- 
 inally from Virginia. B. N. Denton removed to 
 Indiana at an early day, and was the first asses- 
 sor in his county, besides holding other offices. 
 Mrs. Jones' mother returned to Indiana after 
 her husband's death in 1893 and has since died. 
 Mrs. Jones is well educated, being a graduate of 
 the high school at Clifton, Kan., and at present 
 she is a member of the Livermore Club. She is 
 quite an artist and possesses ardent love for the 
 beautiful. Mr. Jones has been a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the 
 Knights of Pythias for several years. For many 
 years he was a Democrat, but is now a stanch 
 Republican. 
 
 0AVID CROCKETT WYATT, the gentle- 
 man who holds the honored office of presi- 
 dent of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Asso- 
 ciation, is one of the pioneers of the state, having 
 come here May 5, 1859, soon after the rumor of 
 the discovery of gold spread eastward. With the 
 history of the succeeding years he has been inti- 
 mately identified. Especially has he been help- 
 ful in developing the stock industry and the agri- 
 cultural resources of the state, and his efibrts in 
 these lines have been of the greatest benefit to 
 others. Since 1883 he has resided in Denver, 
 where he built a comfortable residence at No. 304 
 Lincoln avenue, but much of his time is spent at 
 his ranch, in the vicinity of Greeley. 
 12 
 
 The Wyatts are of English descent and were 
 represented among the F. F. Vs. The grand- 
 father of our subject, William Wyatt, removed 
 from Virginia to Kentuckj', where he died in 
 February, 1801. His son, John S., was born in 
 Bardstown, Ky., September 30, 1796, in youth 
 learned the blacksmith's trade and soon after his 
 marriage to Margaret Greggsby, also a native of 
 Bardstown, he removed to St. Charles County, 
 Mo., where he and his brother, L. L-, became 
 the pioneer settlers of the county. He improved 
 a farm and engaged in raising stock, also followed 
 his trade of blacksmith. Later, however, he re- 
 moved to Lincoln County, Mo., where he culti- 
 vated a farm until his death, November 10, 1854, 
 at the age of fifty-eight. His first wife, our sub- 
 ject's mother, who was born April 13, 1800, a 
 descendant of Virginian ancestry, died September 
 22, 1839. Of her children we note the following: 
 William S. went to California in 1850 and died 
 there; Mary E., Mrs. Shelton, died in Missouri; 
 Nathaniel G. came to Colorado in 1859, but later 
 went to California, where occurred his death; 
 James R. went to California in 1853 and there 
 died; Henry A. took part in the Civil war as a 
 member of a Confederate regiment from Missouri 
 and afterward went to Kansas, where he died; 
 Rebecca M. , Mrs. Cochrane, died in Missouri; 
 and David C, the youngest of that family, was 
 born in St. Charles County, Mo., in 1837. The 
 second marriage of our subject's father resulted 
 in the birth of four children. John Thomas 
 died in Maryland at ten years of age; Louis 
 L. (the namesake of his uncle, who served under 
 Jackson in the battle of New Orleans) resides in 
 Greeley, Colo. ; Francis Eaton is engaged in 
 ranching in Idaho; and Demosthenes Bland is 
 engaged in the stock business in Greeley, in 
 partnership with his brother, David C. 
 
 In 1852, at the age of fifteen, our subject went 
 to Texas with a mule-team and established his 
 headquarters in Paris, Lamar County, from which 
 place he engaged in trading in cattle and horses. 
 In 1858 he returned to Missouri with a lot of 
 horses bought by himself and his brother, Henry 
 A. , in Old Mexico and these he sold after reach- 
 ing the north. In the spring of 1859 he started 
 west with two pack mules, one of which he rode 
 while the other carried the pack. He went via 
 Independence, Mo., and Lawrence, Kan., up the 
 Arkansas^ River and from Pueblo to Denver, 
 
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 where he spent about twenty days. From this 
 point he proceeded to Blackhawk, Gilpin County, 
 where he assisted in starting the town that after- 
 ward became so prominent during the days of the 
 mining excitement. Hearing of new diggings iu 
 the mountains, he bought some mules and with a 
 pack of goods started for the new mining camp, 
 but at Central City sold his provisions. After- 
 ward he engaged in freighting between Denver 
 and the mountains some twenty miles away, pack- 
 ing goods from Golden up to Blackhawk, using 
 six mules, and for two months charging ten cents 
 per pound freight, but afterward the prices were 
 reduced. A few months after coming to the 
 state he bought some milch cows and established 
 a dairy farm at the head of Russell's Gulch, his 
 being the first enterprise of the kind there. . In 
 the fall he drove his cows to a ranch near Fort 
 Lupton, where he wintered them. At the same 
 time he began making improvements on his place, 
 situated on the Platte River, and he made it his 
 home for two years, but sold out in 1862 and en- 
 gaged in dealing in stock and in the hay busi- 
 ness. Later, with A. G. Reed as a partner, he 
 started a ranch on Plum Creek and engaged in 
 raising and dealing in cattle. After twelve years 
 Mr. Reed returned to Missouri and Mr. Wyatt 
 continued the business alone. For some years 
 he had the government contract to furnish meat 
 and cattle for army troops at some five or six 
 posts, but the enterprise did not prove a financial 
 success. During the early days he was more 
 than once attacked by Indians and several times 
 was in peril of his life, but fortunately always 
 escaped. 
 
 The ranch owned by Mr. Wyatt and his brother 
 is situated northeast of Greeley, and north of 
 the mouth of the Cache la Poudre River, and com- 
 prises three thousand acres of land, stocked with 
 several thousand heads of cattle (brand 33), fur- 
 nished with an abundance of water by the Eaton 
 ditch, and planted to hay, grain and potatoes. 
 Shipments of cattle are made to the east, usually 
 two train loads at one time. In addition to this 
 property, Mr. Wyatt has for years owned a ranch 
 in Wyoming, and he also owns real estate in 
 Denver. 
 
 In Evans, Colo., Mr. Wyatt married Miss Vir- 
 ginia Lucas, who was born in Dekalb County, 
 Mo., the daughter of C. B. and Rebecca (Black) 
 Lucas. Her father, who was a farmer and stock- 
 
 man in Missouri, removed to Colorado in 1872, 
 but now resides in Wyoming; her mother, who 
 was born in Columbia, Mo., died in Denver. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wyatt have four children, Maud R., 
 Kenney D., Moss B. and William J. Formerly 
 Mr. Wyatt was a Democrat, and upon that ticket 
 he was a candidate for the state legislature and 
 senate, and in 1875 was elected sheriff of Weld 
 County for a term of two years. Now, however, 
 he is a champion of the Populist party. He is a 
 member of the Colorado Pioneer Society. In 
 1882 he become identified with the Colorado 
 Cattle Growers' Association, which had been 
 started during the time he was ranching in 
 Wyoming, and on his return to this state he at 
 once united with the society. For a time he was 
 a member of the board of trustees and in 1890 
 was made president of the association, which po- 
 sition he has held ever since by successive re- 
 elections. 
 
 P QlLLIAM A. DRAKE, who came tb Colo- 
 \ A / rado in 1882, is one of the large farmers 
 V V and sheep dealers in the state. His first 
 purchase was an eightj'-acre tract in Larimer 
 County. This land he improved and after four 
 years bought an adjoining eighty-acre tract and 
 in three years purchased another piece of land of 
 the same size, making two hundred and forty 
 acres in one body, all of which he has improved. 
 He has recently completed a substantial barn, 
 44x60 feet in dimensions, with a wing on each 
 side, 24x30, and here he stores grain and fur- 
 nishes a shelter for his stock. In 1891 he began 
 to ship sheep, being among the first to embark in 
 this industry in the state. In his corrals he feeds 
 about four thousand sheep and during a year 
 handles about thirty thousand head, bringing 
 them to his farm from New Mexico, Arizona and 
 the southern part of Colorado. On his place he 
 has two hundred acres seeded to alfalfa and raises 
 nearly eight hundred tons, which he uses for 
 feed. In addition to his sheep and some cattle, 
 he raises Percheron and Clydesdale horses. 
 
 Mr. Drake was born on Cayuga Lake in Cayuga 
 County, N. Y. , March 4, 1853. His father, 
 William A.,Sr., was born in Goshen, Orange 
 County, N. Y., and was a descendant of Sir 
 Francis Drake, the famous voyager. He engaged 
 in farming at Coventry, from which place he re- 
 moved to Des Moiues, Iowa, in 1857, and has 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 since resided near that city, engaged in farming. 
 His wife, who was Roxanna Andrus, was born 
 in Ithaca, N. Y., and died in Iowa at sixty-six 
 years of age. Of their seven children, Charles 
 Oliver died in boyhood, and six are living, 
 namely: William A., Georgia Ann, A. H. , 
 J. H., Edla and Helen, all of whom are in Iowa 
 but the subject of this sketch. 
 
 When our subject was four years of age he 
 was taken by his parents from New York to Polk 
 County, Iowa. He attended the public schools 
 of Des Moines and the Baptist University in the 
 same city, and during this time devoted his va- 
 cations to teaching, in order to defray his ex- 
 penses at the university. The summer of 1876 
 he spent in Oregon, teaching, then returned to 
 Iowa. Since coming to Colorado, in the spring 
 of 1882, he has engaged in farming and the stock 
 business. He is president of the school board of 
 District No. 16, in Larimer County, and largely 
 through his influence was erected the finest 
 country school building in the country, if not the 
 state, the building being of pressed brick, with 
 every modern equipment. He was the first presi- 
 dent of the Larimer County Sheep Feeders' Asso- 
 ciation. Politically he votes the Republican 
 ticket. 
 
 In Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Drake married Miss 
 Emma A. Darnell, who was born in Illinois and 
 accompanied her father, Thomas Darnell, from 
 that state to Iowa, settling upon a farm. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Drake have three children, namel}': 
 Nellie, who is a member of the class of 1900, 
 State Agricultural College; Arthur and Ray. 
 
 E ROM WELL TUCKER, grand master of the 
 grand lodge of Colorado, A. F. & A. M., 
 is one of the most prominent members of the 
 fraternity in this state. He was made a Mason 
 in 1 88 1, becoming identified with Denver Lodge 
 No. 5, in which he held the office of W. M., in 
 1891. In 1882 he became a member of Denver 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., and in 1892 was high 
 priest of the chapter. While holding that office 
 the Grand Conclave of Knights Templar was 
 held in Denver and no chapter did more than his 
 in preparing for the vast crowds and in entertain- 
 ing their guests. In fact, its record for the year 
 was the highest of any chapter in the world. 
 The position of grand lecturer for Colorado was 
 
 given him in 1893 and the following j-ear he was 
 chosen junior grand warden of the grand lodge, 
 from which position in 1895 he was promoted to 
 be senior grand warden, and the next year be- 
 came deputy grand master. His present position, 
 that of grand master of the grand lodge, was 
 conferred upon him in September, 1897, in elec- 
 tion by the grand lodge. 
 
 Denver Chapter No. 2 exalted one hundred 
 and twenty members in one year, and increased its 
 membership to one hundred and thirty-nine, after 
 deducting losses by death, suspension and dimis- 
 sions. They exalted one hundred and two in the 
 first six months of 1892, and claim that they hold 
 the record for the United States, which means the 
 world. 
 
 In addition to his important position in Masonry 
 Mr. Tucker has connection with the railroad in- 
 terests of the state, being freight claim agent for 
 the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He is of 
 English birth, and was born in Camelford, Corn- 
 wall, July 19, 1852, being a member of an old 
 famil)' of that section. His father, William, was 
 the son of Thomas Tucker, and, like him, was an 
 agriculturist by occupation, following it until his 
 death at forty-six years. In religious belief he 
 was a Methodist. His wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Hannah Hicks, was born in Cornwall, 
 her father, Charles, being a farmer there. She 
 died at the age of forty-three. Of their eight 
 children, five are now living, one of whom, Will- 
 iam Charles Hicks, is treasurer of Douglas 
 County, Kan., and resides in Lawrence. 
 
 The oldest of the family and the onlj' one in 
 Colorado is Cromwell Tucker. At the age of 
 nine he was sent to a boarding school at St. 
 Columb, but left at the time of his father's death. 
 Soon afterward he was apprenticed to the grocery 
 business, and later to the dry-goods trade, in 
 Camelford, where he also learned the trade of 
 chemist or pharmacist. Coming to America in 
 1 87 1 he settled in Lawrence, Kan., where he en- 
 gaged in the dry-goods business for four years. 
 He then returned to England and also visited 
 France, remaining abroad for a year. On his re- 
 turn to America in 1876 he located in Kansas 
 City, where he was in the auditor's office of the 
 Kansas Pacific (now the Union Pacific) Railroad. 
 The j-ear 1877 found him in Denver, where he 
 was employed in the auditor's office of the Den- 
 ver (now the Union) Pacific Railroad. His con- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 nection with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 
 began in 1879, when he took a position in their 
 employ. For two years he was claim superin- 
 tendent for the company and is now the freight 
 claim agent of the system. In national politics 
 he adheres to the Republican party, but in local 
 elections votes for the man whom he believes to 
 be best qualified for the po.sition. Fraternally he 
 is connected with the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 In England Mr. Tucker married Miss Jessie 
 Henwood, who was born in Callington, Cornwall, 
 and died in Denver in 1895. She was a daughter 
 of William Henwood, who was engaged in the 
 mercantile business in Cornwall. Mr. Tucker 
 has two daughters and one son, namely: Dora, 
 Mrs. Nicholl, of Denver; John Hicks, a gradu- 
 ate of the Denver high school and now an assist- 
 ant in his father's officer; and Jessie May. 
 
 (TOHN W. BROWNING. The subject of our 
 I sketch was born in the city of New York, 
 Qj June ID, 1842, and was educated in the 
 public schools of that state. Prior to the war he 
 was an indentured apprentice to the brick-laying 
 trade. When President lyincoln called for his first 
 seventy-five thousand volunteers in April, 1861, 
 young Browning enlisted in Company E, Twelfth 
 Regiment, N. Y. S. M., and re-enlisted for three 
 years in the First New York Engineers; was 
 appointed sergeant-major, and on July 4, 1862, 
 for special services while in action, he was made 
 second lieutenant of Company F of the regiment, 
 which position he held until November, 1863. 
 He was then transferred to the war department at 
 Washington, and remained there until November, 
 1867, when he resigned and returned to New 
 York, under appointment of Commissioner Rol- 
 lins, of the internal revenue department, assigned 
 to the duty of looking after all the breweries in 
 New York City; he resigned this position, how- 
 ever, in December, 1868, to accept the position of 
 inspector of the building department of New York 
 City. This position he resigned in May, 1872, 
 to accept the position of Albany correspondent of 
 the New York Sfar and New York Eve7iing Ex- 
 press, which position he retained until January i, 
 1878, having been elected the fall previous to the 
 general assembly. In the fall of 1878 he was re- 
 
 elected. In the fall of 1879 he was elected to 
 the state senate, but was counted out. In 1880 
 he was again returned to the assembly and in 
 1881 was elected to the state senate, serving in 
 that body during the sessions of 1882-83. In 1881 
 he was admitted an attorney and counselor-at-law 
 by the state supreme court and was associated 
 with Hon. Arthur Palmer until he came to Colo- 
 rado in December, 1884. 
 
 Arriving in Denver on Christmas day he at 
 once secured offices in the Symes block and took 
 up his profession. In August, 1885, he was per- 
 suaded by Postmaster Speer to accept the position 
 of assistant postmaster of Denver, which he held 
 until June, 1888, when he was appointed by 
 President Cleveland, melter of the United States 
 mint, but resigned the same in February, 1890, 
 and resumed the practice of law. 
 
 He joined Martin Camp, afterward called Unity 
 Camp, No. 25, in the fall of 1889 and from that 
 day until this has been . an active worker in the 
 field of Woodcraft. When Head Consul Falken- 
 burg went to Colorado to organize the Pacific 
 jurisdiction in the fall of 1890 he found the gen- 
 eral one of his most earnest supporters and ap- 
 pointed him a head manager, which position he 
 continued to hold until the 25th of May following, 
 when he was appointed head clerk. He was 
 elected head clerk at the Pueblo session in 1892, 
 again at Portland in 1894 and again at Helena in 
 1896. There is probably no head camp officer 
 upon whom the head consul has relied and de- 
 pended for active support in all of his efforts to 
 build up our honorable order so much as our 
 esteemed head clerk. He is regarded as a safe 
 counselor and steadfast friend, and is always 
 patient and courteous with all with whom he has 
 official relations. As a public speaker he is very 
 direct, going from premise to conclusion without 
 much regard to the grain. He is always earnest 
 and impresses his hearers that he believes what 
 he says. 
 
 He was elected in March, 1888, at Cheyenne, 
 department commander of the department of 
 Colorado and Wyoming, G. A. R. ; he is also a 
 member of the Loyal Legion, is a Knight Tem- 
 plar, Knight of Pythias and a member of several 
 other orders, and at the present time holds the 
 honorary position of national commander of the 
 Veteran Legion, U. S. A. 
 
J?- 
 
HON. N. C. ALFORD. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 339 
 
 HON. N. C. ALFORD, a pioneer of '59 and 
 a member from Larimer County of the first 
 legislature of Colorado, was born in South 
 Hope, Knox County, Me., November 29, 1834, 
 the son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Cushman) 
 Alford. His mother, who was born in Warren, 
 Me., was a daughter of Nathaniel Cushman, and 
 a descendant of Robert Cushman, one of the pas- 
 sengers on the "Mayflower." She died in South 
 Hope, and of her nine children four are living, 
 our subject being next to the oldest; one of the 
 sons was a lieutenant in the Eighth Maine In- 
 fantry during the Civil war, and now resides in 
 Waterloo, Iowa. .The father of this family was 
 a farmer at South Hope, and a son of a native of 
 Massachusetts, who removed to Maine. After 
 the death of his first wife he married again, and 
 at the time of his death he was eighty years of 
 age. 
 
 At the age of seventeen our subject began an 
 apprenticeship to the carpenter and joiner's trade, 
 which he completed. In 1855 he settled in Rock- 
 ford, 111., where he engaged in contracting for a 
 number of years. In March, 1859, ^^ went to 
 St. Joseph, Mo., where he and four others out- 
 fitted with an ox-train and followed the Platte 
 route to Denver. In the fall he went with a 
 company of sixty on a prospecting tour in Middle 
 Park and the Gunnison country. While there 
 the food gave out and it was impossible to secure 
 anything to eat, except berries. Game was 
 scarce and besides Indians lurked around and 
 rendered hunting a dangerous pastime. For a 
 week he had nothing but berries to eat. Finally, 
 in South Park, they met a freight wagon en route 
 from a mine to Canon City for flour, and there 
 secured enough to satisfy their hunger for a few 
 days. After a hard trip of two months he reached 
 Idaho Springs. The party was successful in find- 
 ing gold at Breckenridge and fifteen miles below 
 Leadville, at Kelly's bar. 
 
 In the fall of 1859 Mr. Alford returned to St. 
 Joe, where he wintered ox-teams and in the spring 
 of i860 he drove them across the plains, via the 
 Platte. For two years he engaged in freighting, 
 making two trips each year. He then went to 
 Oregon and spent the winter of 1862-63 there. 
 In the spring, upon the Boise City gold excite- 
 ment, he went to that place, where he engaged 
 in mining, and also carried on market gardening. 
 Indians were troublesome there, but were eifect- 
 
 ually driven out through the eflforts of the miners 
 and settlers. In 1866 he returned to Maine, but 
 the next year came back to Colorado, overland, 
 and went on to Cheyenne, where he manufact- 
 ured the first brick in Wyoming and sold it to 
 the government, for the erection of Fort Russell. 
 He also built the first brick store in Cheyenne, 
 a building used as a drug store. In the spring 
 of 1868 he went to the Elizabethtown mines in 
 New Mexico, where for three months he engaged 
 in freighting, and bought a drove of cattle (one 
 thousand head) , which he wintered on the Arkan- 
 sas and drove to Nevada and sold in 1869. Go- 
 ing east again he bought a herd of horses in Otta- 
 wa, 111. , and one hundred and fifty head of brood 
 mares, which he shipped to Cheyenne, thence 
 drove to Rock Creek, Boulder County. In 1872 
 he moved into Larimer County and put his cattle 
 on the range in the mountains; also brought his 
 horses up to Rabbit Creek, thirty miles northwest 
 of Fort Collins, where he had his ranch for nine 
 years, meantime building fifteen miles of fencing, 
 and having a range fifteen miles long and three 
 miles wide. He brought the first full-blooded 
 Norman horses ever in Colorado and shipped the 
 first train load of horses into the state, and the 
 first the Union Pacific ever hauled as freight. 
 The company treated him in a princely manner 
 and ran an extra train for him, directly following 
 the regular passenger train. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Alford started a cattle ranch in 
 Wyoming, with Messrs. Emerson, Baker and 
 Kennedy. In 188 1 he sold out his interest in 
 the business and settled in Fort Collins, where 
 he has since engaged in farming, irrigating and 
 the stock business. At the time of the building 
 of the Larimer County ditch he was president of 
 the company, in which he is still interested. He 
 is also interested in the Sky Line ditch. He 
 owns one section of land on Box Elder, an eighty - 
 acre tract, and one of one hundred and sixty acres 
 that are irrigated, and one hundred and sixty 
 acres northeast of LaPorte. He feeds four or five 
 hundred head of cattle and a large number of 
 sheep. On the incorporation of the Poudre Val- 
 ley Bank as a state institution he became a direc- 
 tor, in which capacity he has since served. Since 
 1 88 1 his home has been in Fort Collins. 
 
 In Maine, January 14, 1872, Mr. Alford married 
 Miss Annie E. Hobbs, who was born in Hope, 
 that state. She was a daughter of Josiah and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Sarah (Brown) Hobbs, natives respectively of 
 Hope and Belfast, Me. , the former a farmer, who 
 died at sixty-nine years, and the latter deceased 
 in 1872, at sixty-nine years. Mr. Hobbs served 
 for twenty-five years as justice of the peace and 
 was also town clerk for some time. In religion 
 he was a Universalist. His father, Micah, was 
 born in Massachusetts, but moved to Maine, 
 where he carried on farm pursuits. The father 
 of Mrs. Hobbs was John Brown, of Maine, who 
 died in middle life. Mrs. Alford was next to the 
 youngest of nine children that attained maturity, 
 four of whom are now living. Two of her broth- 
 ers died in California. She is the mother of four 
 children: Fred, a graduate of the Agricultural 
 College in 1896 and now assistant in the chemical 
 laboratory of that institution; Lore, at home; 
 Abbie, who is a student in the Agricultural Col- 
 lege; and Anna, at home. 
 
 Politically a silver Republican, Mr. Alford 
 takes an active interest in public affairs. In 1876 
 he was elected to represent Larimer County in the 
 general assembly, where he served as chairman 
 of the engrossing committee and the committee on 
 appropriations, and as a member of various com- 
 mittees. Through his efforts was passed what 
 was known as "Alford's Pumpkin Bill," provid- 
 ing the first appropriation for the building of the 
 Agricultural College. While he was a member 
 of the legislature he assisted in securing the elec- 
 tion of Senators Chaffee and Teller. In 1878 he 
 was solicited to become a candidate for the state 
 senate, but declined to accept the candidacy. 
 For one term he served as a councilman. He 
 was made a Mason while in Maine, but is now 
 demitted. Like other pioneers, he is actively 
 connected with the Association of Colorado Pio- 
 neers. He is not identified with any denomina- 
 tion, but contributes to the Unity Church, of 
 which his wife is an active member. She is also 
 a silver Republican. 
 
 iA AJ. SCOTT J. ANTHONY-. When rumors 
 y of the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak 
 (g were carried eastward. Major Anthony, 
 then in Leavenworth, determined to come to 
 Colorado! In the spring of 1 860 he outfitted eight 
 wagons with ox-teams and started for California 
 Gulch (now Leadville), arriving in Denver 
 March 8, and, reaching California Gulch the 
 
 following May, he with his partner, Frank 
 Palmer, at once started a general store, and they 
 also engaged in prospecting in the mountains. 
 The firm was known as Anthony & Palmer. In 
 the fall they sold out the goods and returned to 
 Leavenworth, whence, in March, 1861 , our subject 
 again started for the west, with eight wagons 
 drawn by mule-trains, himself journeying, as 
 before, by coach. He resumed business at the 
 old place and also prospected. In August, 1861, 
 while crossing the mountains between Green and 
 Grand Rivers, his pack mule carrying the provis- 
 sions slipped and fell to the bottom, leaving 
 his party of five destitute of provisions. He 
 journeyed back to California Gulch, and on arriv- 
 ing there, for the first time heard of war between 
 the north and south. Awaiting him he found 
 clippings from a Leavenworth newspaper stating 
 that a colonel's commission awaited him, should 
 he wish to return to Kansas. At the same time 
 he found a captain's commission from Governor 
 Gilpin of Colorado. His first impulse was to 
 return to Leavenworth, raise a regiment and 
 march to the seat of war, for he believed the war 
 would not last more than a month. However, 
 several of the men in California Gulch urged 
 him to remain and raise a company, which he 
 agreed to do, providing Lieut. George Buell, 
 who had been in the regular army, would become 
 the first lieutenant of his company, the captain 
 having the power to appoint his under ofiBcers at 
 that time. Mr. Buell consented, so ninety-two 
 men enlisted, forming Company E, First Colo- 
 rado Infantry, which in the autumn of 1862 
 were mounted and called the First Colorado 
 Cavalry, he becoming the major. 
 
 Severe criticisms were made concerning Gov- 
 ernor Gilpin's dilatoriness in sending the regiment 
 to the seat of war, but subsequent developments 
 proved he had reason for his action. Governor 
 Marshall, his predecessor in office, was an ardent 
 southerner, and after he left the office. Governor 
 Gilpin found some letters which revealed a plan 
 of the Confederates to raise a large command, 
 march up the Rio Grande, taking the forts along 
 the way to Fort Union, N. M., and from there to 
 Colorado, which they would cut ofi" from all 
 communication with the east. General Sibley 
 raised a large command of Texas rangers, com- 
 prising about eight regiments, telling them 
 Colorado was settled largely by people from 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 341 
 
 Georgia and the Federals and Confederates were 
 about equally divided; upon cutting oif com- 
 munication, it would be the plan to organize a 
 government out of the area from Texas to British 
 Columbia and ask foreign countries for recogni- 
 tion. General Sibley started north, and pro- 
 ceeded on his march. lyieutenant-Colonel Canby, 
 with a small command, was unable to check his 
 advance until joined by the First Colorado Regi- 
 ment. 
 
 The first Colorado were rugged and strong, 
 men who marched fifty-two miles the last day, in 
 their race for Fort Union, a thing that was never 
 done before and has never been done since. 
 They reached Fort Union before the enemy, and 
 there they were rearmed and equipped. Three 
 days later they marched out and defeated the 
 enemy at La Glorietta, though Sibley had four 
 times as many men as they. Major Anthony 
 captured the mountain rebel Captain West. 
 
 The Union forces pursued the enemy to Albu- 
 querque, where a battle was fought, and there 
 were subsequent skirmishes at Val Verda, Fort 
 Craig and -Socorro, from which place the Con- 
 federates were chased back into Texas, and the 
 troops were ordered to Fort Craig to await 
 orders. 
 
 On the return of the regiment to Fort Lyon, 
 our subject was commissioned major of the Fir.st 
 Colorado Cavalry and was put in command 
 of the district of Arkansas, extending from Bents 
 old fort to Foit Larned for two and one-half 
 years. Indians were exceedingly troublesome 
 and scarcely a week passed without a skirmish 
 with them. He ardently longed to go east and 
 assist in work at the seat of war, but the con- 
 stant outbreaks of the Indians rendered the 
 presence of a cool, clear-headed man absolutely 
 necessary, so he was obliged to remain and guard 
 the country. He was then mustered out January 
 22, 1865, and returned to Denver. The exposure 
 of his army life left him in poor health and he 
 has never fully recovered. In army circles he 
 was recognized as a brave and efficient officer, a 
 good disciplinarian and ever ready for a fight. 
 
 Major Anthony is a New Yorker by birth, and 
 was born in Cayuga County, January 22, 1830. 
 He is a descendant of a Quaker family that 
 settled in Newport, R. I., in early days; later 
 one branch went to North Adams, another to 
 Providence, and a third to Philadelphia. His 
 
 father, Elam, who was born in Newport, engaged 
 in farming and business pursuits, and about 1817 
 moved to Union Springs, N. Y., where he mar- 
 ried. He and his wife had a happy married life 
 of sixty-two and one- half years before death came 
 to part them, she dying at eighty-nine and he at 
 ninety-one. She was Nancy Hunt, a native of 
 Mount Morris, N. Y., and a daughter of Hum- 
 phrey Hunt, who, with two sons, served in the 
 Revolution, and a younger son served in the 
 Mexican war. Humphrey Hunt was a brother- 
 in-law of Colonel Moore, an officer in the Rev- 
 olution. 
 
 The family of which Major Anthony was a 
 member consisted of six sons and six daughters, 
 nine of whom attained maturity: Mrs. Mary Hare, 
 of Hillsboro, Ore. ; Charles, who was in a New 
 York regiment during the war and now resides 
 in San Diego, Cal. ; Mrs. Cynthia Hamilton, of 
 Portland, Ore.; Scott J.; Mrs. Curry, now of 
 Union Springs, N. Y.; Mrs. Margaret Birdsell, 
 who died in Buffalo; Mrs. Howell, who died in 
 Union Springs; Emmett, whose death occurred 
 in San Francisco in 1S92; and Webster, who died 
 in Denver in June, 1896. The last-named was a 
 man of prominence, being a speaker of the lower 
 house of the legislature, a member of the state 
 senate and for some time grand master of the 
 grand lodge of Colorado. 
 
 In 1838 our subject accompanied the family to 
 Ellicottville, N. Y., where he remained until he 
 was twenty-one. In 185 1 he passed through 
 Chicago, then a mudhole on the banks of the 
 lake, and without one single feature to favorably 
 impress a stranger. He went up the lake to 
 Portage, Wis., where he took a flatboat for 
 Prairie du Chien, and from there went on a 
 steamer to St. Paul, remaining there and at St. 
 Anthony just one year and one day. From there 
 he traveled by stage to Galena and Elgin, then 
 back to Chicago, and from there returned to 
 Ellicottville. On the passage of the Kansas- 
 Nebraska bill, in the spring of 1855, he determined 
 to go to Kansas, so again started westward. He 
 traveled up the river from St. Louis to Kansas 
 City, where he caught his first real glimpse of 
 frontier life. Lines of steamers four deep were 
 anchored on the levee, and near by were at -least 
 thirty ox-trains and twelve mule teams, destined 
 to every point in the west. Each ox-train was 
 composed of thirty-one wagons and six yoke of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cattle to each wagon, while a mule train consisted 
 of eight wagons, with four pairs of mules to each 
 wagon. 
 
 The mingled medley caused by the braying of 
 the mules, the lowing of the cattle and the shout- 
 ing of the men was confusing to the ' 'tenderfoot. ' ' 
 He gazed around him in amazement. While he 
 stood watching everything with curiosity, a 
 Mi.ssouri freighter asked him where he came 
 from, and on receiving his reply, said, "Yes, you 
 
 are one of those Abolitionists and the quicker 
 
 you get out of here, the better for you." He 
 settled in Leavenworth and engaged in mer- 
 chandising as a member of the firm of Bailey, 
 Anthony & Co., and a year later was elected 
 county clerk and recorder. He drew the laws 
 prescribing the forms for the recording of deeds, 
 which are still in use in Kansas and Colorado. 
 At the second election in the city he saw the 
 necessity for organization for the enforcement of 
 laws. People coming across the river from Mis- 
 souri harassed the Abolitionists and became very 
 troublesome. He, with twenty-six others, or- 
 ganized the Leavenworth Rangers and equipped 
 themselves with good horses and sharp rifles, the 
 latter of which he soon found to be much feared 
 by the border ruffians across the river. At the 
 next elections held in Kansas a large crowd of 
 Missourians came over early in the morning, in- 
 tending to take charge of the election, but he saw 
 them, then gathered his men on the bottom and 
 came to the esplanade, riding forward in a circuit 
 and shouting to them that an election would be 
 held that day for Kansas people only and anyone 
 not a resident who attempted to vote would be 
 taken in hand. He so frightened the men that 
 they stampeded for home. One of his souvenirs 
 is a photograph album containing pictures of 
 early residents of Kansas, among them an orig- 
 inal photograph of John Brown, given him 
 personally and probably the only one of the kind 
 in existence. 
 
 From Kansas Major Anthony came to Colorado, 
 in time to participate in the stirring events of war 
 times here. On the close of the Rebellion he went 
 to the mountains, but when the survey of the 
 Union Pacific was begun he piloted the surveyors 
 in their expeditions and also piloted the sur- 
 veyors of the Northern Pacific through to 
 Helena, doing the preliminary surveying. He 
 was then a sub-contractor and civil engineer on 
 
 the Union Pacific. When the Deadwood ex- 
 citement broke out, he went there and took up a 
 large claim, but found it was not as reported, 
 and returned to Denver. In 1877 he embarked 
 in the real-estate business upon a large scale and 
 has continued in it ever since. He was so 
 familiar with the city that he knew the location 
 and value of every lot. He laid out additions, 
 only one of which, however, bears his name. 
 With his brother he built blocks on the corner 
 of Curtis and Fifteenth, and Champa and 
 Fifteenth, and he still owns the old Wilcox block 
 at Nos. 1629-35 Curtis. In the organization of the 
 Denver Tramway Company he was actively in- 
 terested and for years was a director. Still in 
 the real-estate business, he is located in room 5, 
 No. 1 63 1 Curtis street. It has been his ex- 
 perience that when he took charge of his business 
 aff"airs they returned profits, but when he en- 
 trusted them to others, he invariably lost money. 
 He is a lover of flowers and for his own pleasure 
 has a moneyed interest in a floral establishment. 
 During the summer months his home at No. 
 1280 Logan street is bright with flowers, in the 
 cultivation of which he passes many pleasant 
 hours. 
 
 At the time that his brother was county clerk, 
 Major Anthony organized Anthony's Abstract 
 Company, the formation of which was not re- 
 vealed for a time. Later it was consolidated 
 with another concern under the title of Anthony, 
 Landon & Curry. Even after the major retired 
 from the company, his name was still continued 
 in the firm. Like all other fifty-niners, he is a 
 member of the Colorado Association of Pioneers; 
 while it is true he did not reach Denver until the 
 spring of i860, yet from the fact that he started 
 on his westward journey in 1859, he is entitled to 
 a place among the men who came to the state in 
 that most eventful year. He is a life member of 
 the Masons, affiliates with the Sons of the Rev- 
 olution and the Loyal Legion, and is connected 
 with Lincoln Post, G. A. R. 
 
 The first marriage of Major Anthony united 
 him with Lucy Stebbins, of Atchison, who died 
 three months after they were married. His 
 second wife was Frances Brown, who was born 
 and educated in Utica, N. Y., but at the time of 
 her marriage was living in Denver. She was a 
 daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Brown, 
 natives of Bath, England, but during most of 
 
JAMES E. GARRIGUES. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 345 
 
 their lives residents of the United States. Her 
 father died in Utica, and her mother in Denver 
 when lacking only one month of uinety-five 
 years. 
 
 As a pioneer of Colorado Major Anthony has 
 always been intensely interested in its progress. 
 He remembers the state when it was thinly 
 populated, with little appearance of its present 
 population and prosperity. The gradual growth 
 of the years he has witnessed, contributing 
 thereto not a little by his energy and abilty. 
 While Denver has been his home for years, yet 
 he has been a traveler and has spent considerable 
 time in visiting other parts of the world, thereby 
 gaining a cosmopolitan knowledge that makes 
 him a delightful companion. He has traveled in 
 every country and visited every city of impor- 
 tance on the globe. He spent two and one-half 
 years in making the tour of the world, during 
 which time he traveled from the northernmost 
 point of Europe to the south of New Zealand. 
 Like all men who have traveled much, he has 
 liberal views and maintains an interest in the 
 progress of the entire world. 
 
 (TAMES E. GARRIGUES, a well-known at- 
 I torney-at-law in Greeley, Weld County, was 
 C) elected in the fall of 1888 to the office of 
 district attorney for the eighth judicial district of 
 Colorado, and at the close of his three years' 
 term was re-elected for a similar period. When 
 his official term had expired for the second time 
 he was put in nomination for the judgeship of this 
 district, his opponent being Jay Boughton of Fort 
 Collins, who headed the Populist ticket. That 
 party, sweeping everything before it, came off 
 victor in the ensuing election, Mr. Garrigues 
 being defeated by a small majority, some sixty- 
 five votes. He carried Weld, Larimer and Mor- 
 gan Counties; but Boulder County, with its large 
 Populist numbers, turned the tide. Mr. Garri- 
 gues practices in all the Ipcal and state courts, 
 and enjoys the esteem and respect of the bench 
 and bar. 
 
 Born October 6, 1852, in Lawrenceburg, Dear- 
 born County, Ind., the subject of this article is a 
 son of James M. and H. (Tuttle) Garrigues, 
 natives of New Jersey and Ohio respectively. 
 The father removed to Indiana in his early man- 
 hood (about 1830) and there engaged in farming 
 
 and teaching up to the time of his death in 
 1894. James E. has in his possession an old certif- 
 icate entitling his father to teach, dated Septem- 
 ber 28, 1840, and signed by Jesse L. Holdman, 
 father of Hon. William Holdman, present con- 
 gressman from Indiana. The great-grandfather 
 of our subject, James Garrigues, and his brother 
 John, were French Huguenots, who came to 
 America, the land of liberty, in colonial days, 
 and both fought in defense of that liberty, when 
 it was endangered in the war with the mother 
 country, at the close of the last century. 
 
 The eldest brother of James E. was Henry 
 Garrigues, who enlisted during the Civil war in 
 the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, and lost his life in 
 battle in Mississippi. Amzi, the next brother, is 
 a farmer of Dearborn County, Ind. Dr. Dayton, 
 is a practitioner of Cedar Grove, Ind. Fannie, 
 the elder sister, is the wife of Charles Carpenter, 
 of Bloomington, Ind.; and Harriet is a teacher of 
 the public schools of Greele}\ 
 
 The boyhood and youth of our subject were 
 passed on his father's farm, his education being 
 acquired in the common schools and Moore's Hill 
 College. When he had finished his studies he 
 began teaching, and was principal of a school in 
 Delaware, Ind. Subsequently he went to Tren- 
 ton, 111. , where he had charge of a school and 
 later read law in the office of J. G. Van Hoore- 
 beck. For one year he held the principalship of 
 a public school in Malvern, Iowa, and in 1887 
 was admitted to the bar at Glenwood, Iowa. He 
 established an office for the practice of his chosen 
 profession in the town of Malvern, remaining there 
 for eight years. 
 
 May 6, 1880, Mr. Garrigues married Clara L. 
 Boehner, daughter of Matthew Boehner, both 
 natives of Maine. In February, 1883, our sub- 
 ject removed to Colorado, owing to the failing 
 health of his wife. For a time she seemed to be 
 benefited, but March 25, 1896, she was summoned 
 to her reward. Helen, the eldest child of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Garrigues, graduated from the Greeley 
 high school and is now a student in the Denver 
 University. Georgia, the next child, died of 
 scarlet fever when eight years old. The others 
 are, Dwight, Edith, Grace and Edna. The last- 
 mentioned, who was an infant at the time of her 
 mother's death, is living with her grandmother 
 Boehner, in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Garrigues is a member of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Occidental I^odge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., and is 
 past master of the same. He is also identified 
 with the Odd Fellows' society, is past chancellor 
 of the Knights of Pythias and is connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 NON. LOUIS H. DICKSON, an early settler 
 of Colorado and for years a resident of 
 Ivongmont and vicinity, is one of the best- 
 known and most highly respected citizens of 
 Boulder County. In the fall of 1880 he was 
 called upon to represent his district in the third 
 general assembly, and was re-elected in 1884, and 
 served in the fifth session, both times being the 
 Republican nominee. He was the first mayor of 
 Longmont, and acted for three successive terms 
 in that responsible position. Moreover, he has 
 frequently ofiiciated in minor places of trust, and 
 has served as justice of the peace for many years. 
 In 1894 he was appointed water commissioner 
 of district No. 5, and upon the expiration of his 
 term was reappointed to the ofiice, which he ad- 
 ministers with ability and zeal in the best inter- 
 ests of the people, whose welfare has always been 
 uppermost in his mind. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject was a 
 native of Pennsylvania, and an energetic, suc- 
 cessful farmer. His son, Hiram, father of Louis 
 H., was likewise born in the Keystone state, and 
 when a young man he settled in Franklin Coun- 
 ty, Ohio. There he married Elizabeth Hay ward, 
 and carried on a farm. In 1846 he removed to 
 Dane County, Wis., and there departed this life 
 in 1856. Of his six children four are now liv- 
 ing, namely: Mrs. Phoebe E. Allen, a widow re- 
 siding inEvanston, 111.; Joel, a well-to-do farmer 
 of the state of Washington; Hannah M., wife of 
 Joseph C. Cannon, a prosperous farmer of Wis- 
 consin; and Louis H. 
 
 Hon. L. H. Dickson was born in Franklin 
 County, Ohio, January 18, 1834. He was reared 
 to mature years upon his father's farm and when 
 he started out to fight the battle of life he chose 
 the vocation of his ancestors. For three years 
 he rented land in Wisconsin, after which he went 
 into' the pineries of that state and engaged in 
 lumbering for a year or more. In 1858, accom- 
 panied by his brother Joel, he went to Kansas. 
 After wintering at Fort Riley they started for 
 
 Colorado, their entire equipment being a wagon, 
 three yoke of oxen and a pony. They proceeded 
 by the Smoky Hill route, and after a forty-four 
 days' journey arrived in Denver. Three days 
 were spent there and then they went on to Boul- 
 der, reaching that point May 27, 1859. From 
 there they went direct to Gold Run, and engaged 
 in placer mining for a month. On July 3, with 
 a company of about a dozen men, they crossed 
 the mountains to Middle Park, where they pros- 
 pected for the precious yellow metal. Then they 
 drifted to Nevada Gulch, and continued to mine 
 in that vicinity until November, when our sub- 
 ject and his brother started for Wisconsin for 
 their families. Saddling two mules, and leading 
 another as a pack or baggage-carrier, they wend- 
 ed their lonely way across the plains. Arriving 
 at Nebraska City they left their animals and 
 walked to St. Joseph, nearly one hundred miles. 
 From that city, then the westernmost railroad 
 station on- the continent, they took the train for 
 home. After passing the winter there they re- 
 turned to Colorado with their families. Arriving 
 in Denver June 12, i860, they went to Nevada 
 Gulch, and, in a short time, to California Gulch. 
 That fall they returned to Boulder, and the fol- 
 lowing spring our subject took up a claim of a 
 quarter-section of land four miles east of Long- 
 mont, on the St. Vrain River, while his brother 
 settled on Left Hand. 
 
 The next few years passed rapidly, as Mr. 
 Dickson toiled to provide well for his little house- 
 hold and to improve his farm. He raised large 
 crops of hay and was successful in his handling 
 of live stock, in addition to which he was occu- 
 pied in general farming. Then came on the In- 
 dian troubles of 1864, and he left his ranch to 
 enlist in Company D, Third Colorado Cavalry, 
 commanded by Capt. D. H. Nichols. Going 
 with them to the seat of warfare, he took part in 
 the celebrated battle of Sand Creek, and when 
 the redskins were quelled he was mustered out 
 of the service. He continued to live on his farm 
 up to 1869, when he decided to go to Oregon. 
 He and his family started with a wagon on the 
 long western journey, and safely arrived at their 
 destination, Oregon City. There Mr. Dickson 
 purchased a farm and settled down to its improve- 
 ment. In 1873 he rented his homestead there 
 and returned to his old Colorado home. Since 
 1880 he has lived in Longmont. Two years be- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 347 
 
 fore he had acquired an extensive interest in 
 what was known as the Grange Mill, two miles 
 east of lyOngmont, and in 1885 became its sole 
 proprietor. This property claimed his attention 
 until 1892, when he sold it. 
 
 November i, 1854, Mr. Dickson married Miss 
 Emily A. Sharp, who was born in Franklin 
 County, Ohio, and was the daughter of Stephen 
 Sharp, a wealthy farmer of that section. For 
 the past three years Mr. Dickson has been adju- 
 tant of McPherson Post No. 6, G. A. R. He 
 also belongs to L,ongmont Lodge No. 29, I. O. 
 O. F. , and is a member of Columbus Encamp- 
 ment No. 18. In the Masonic order he is iden- 
 tified with St. Vrain Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. 
 M.; Longmont Chapter No. 8, R. A. M., and 
 Long's Peak Commandery No. 12, K. T. Col- 
 umbine Chapter No. 32, Order of the Eastern 
 Star, also claims him as one of its members. 
 With the exception of the last named and the 
 encampment, he has held about all the ofiices in 
 the several lodges. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM JOHN ROTHWELL, M. D. 
 \ A/ The principal ambition in the life of Dr. 
 Y V Rothwell has been the acquirement of pro- 
 fessional knowledge and the acquisition of the 
 classical culture that always marks the man of 
 intellect and broad attainments. Fond of the 
 classics, he has devoted many of his leisure 
 hours to the study of Latin, French and Ger- 
 man, and has become so conversant with these 
 languages that he often reads in the orig- 
 inal important medical treatises written by men 
 of these several nationalities. During the long 
 trips he has been obliged occasionally to make 
 into Idaho and other states he has one of the 
 classics as a companion, and by thus utilizing his 
 time he has been enabled to acquire a fund of in- 
 formation that few possess. 
 
 The Rothwell family originated in England, 
 but removed thence to Ireland, where the doctor's 
 grandfather, Benjamin, engaged in farming. He 
 took his family from there to Ottawa, Ontario, 
 Canada, where he engaged in farming. During 
 the Canadian Rebellion of 1837 he, with his son, 
 Thomas, bore a part. Thomas Rothwell was a 
 farmer and died in 1896, at the age of eighty- 
 eight. His wife, Catherine, was born near the 
 Vale of Avoca, Ireland, and now resides in Can- 
 
 ada. She was a daughter of Peter Tompkins, a 
 farmer, who removed to Canada with his family 
 in an early day. 
 
 Six sons and three daughters comprised the 
 family of which Dr. Rothwell was a member, and 
 of these all are living but two of the daughters. 
 One brother, E. J., graduated from the medical 
 department of the Michigan State University at 
 Ann Arbor and is now a practicing physician in 
 Denver. Another brother, P. D. , is also a grad- 
 uate of Ann Arbor and a physician in Denver. 
 Benjamin is an educator in Canada, and Samuel 
 and Thomas are farmers there. The subject of 
 this sketch was born near Ottawa, and at the age 
 of thirteen accompanied the family from there to 
 Listowell, County Perth, Ontario, where he at- 
 tended the public school. He prepared for col- 
 lege at Rockwood, Canada. In 1869 he entered 
 the medical department of the University of 
 Michigan, but after one year, his funds being ex- 
 hau.sted, he was obliged to discontinue his studies 
 until he had reimbursed his bank account. Go- 
 ing to Idaho in 1870, he became principal of the 
 Idaho City school, and continued in that position 
 for two years, meantime studying medicine in his 
 leisure hours. In 1872 he entered Jefferson Med- 
 ical College, Philadelphia, from which he gradu- 
 ated in 1873 with the degree of M. D., and for a 
 few months afterward he did hospital work in 
 Philadelphia, having as his roommate Dr. E. E. 
 Montgomery, since prominent as a gynecologist. 
 
 Returning to Idaho City in the fall of 1873, 
 Dr. Rothwell opened an oflSce and for fourteen 
 years carried on a general practice in medicine 
 and surgery. While there he was elected on the 
 Republican ticket to the ofiice of county .superin- 
 tendent of Boise County, serving for four years. 
 In the fall of 1887 he located in Denver. His 
 office is in the Cooper building. Immediately 
 after coming here he became associated with 
 Gross Medical College, which had recently been 
 opened. For three years he held the chair of 
 therapeutics, after which he was made professor 
 of physical diagnosis and diseases of the chest, 
 holding the same until the establishment of the 
 chair of mental and nervous diseases, in 1895, 
 when he was elected to that chair. In addition 
 to being an instructor, he has been a trustee of 
 the institution since its establishment. He is a 
 member of the Denver and Arapahoe County, the 
 State and American Medical Societies, and in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1884 took a post-graduate course in New York in 
 order to perfect himself in certain branches. Re- 
 ligiously he is an Episcopalian. 
 
 In Idaho City Dr. Rothwell married Miss Clara 
 Galbreaith, who was born in Shasta, Cal., the 
 daughter of Stephen Galbreaith, a native of Ham- 
 ilton, Ontario, and a "forty-niner" in California. 
 Dr. and Mrs. Rothwell have four sons: William 
 Herbert, a graduate of the Denver high school 
 and a member of the class of 1900 Gross Medical 
 College, and now with the hospital corps at 
 Manila, Philippine Islands; Matthew Thomas, a 
 graduate of the Denver high school in 1895; 
 Walter Peter; and Stephen Gainsford. While in 
 Idaho City the doctor was made a Mason, and he 
 is now a member of Denver I^odge No. 7, A. F. 
 & A. M. , and Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M. 
 For some time he was grand representative of 
 the state of Pennsylvania for Idaho. 
 
 V yiYRON H. AKIN, vice-president and man- 
 
 Y ager of the Akin Live Stock Company and 
 (9 one of the influential citizens of Fort Col- 
 lins, was born near Joliet, Will County, 111., No- 
 vember 7, 1857, and is of Scotch lineage. His 
 father, Henry, was born at Johnstown, near Al- 
 bany, N. Y., and was a son of Abraham Akin, a 
 native of York state and one of the discoverers 
 of salt and owner of the original salt works. 
 After a very successful business life he died in 
 Syracuse. 
 
 For some years Henry Akin engaged in farm- 
 ing in Albany County, N. Y., but in 1841 he 
 located in Will County, 111., between Lockport 
 and Joliet, where he improved a fine farm from 
 the prairie of that section. He became well 
 known throughout that region and acquired the 
 ownership to large tracts of land. In 1874 he 
 removed to Vermilion County and bought the 
 town site of East Lynn, which, in connection 
 with George H. White, he platted in lots. To 
 the sale of his real estate and the cultivation of 
 his land he gave his attention until 1879, when, 
 hoping by a change of climate to obtain relief 
 from asthma, he settled in Larimer County, Colo., 
 and embarked in farming upon a four hundred 
 acre tract that he purchased. He is hale and 
 hearty, showing in his appearance and activity 
 little trace of his eighty years of life. 
 
 The wife of Henry Akin bore the maiden name 
 
 of Eunice Harris and was born in Pine Plains, 
 Dutchess County, N. Y. After a married life of 
 fifty-two years, she died in Colorado in 1896, 
 aged seventy-four years. Her father, Israel Har- 
 ris, was born in Dutchess County, which he 
 represented in the legislature of New York. He 
 married a daughter of Colonel Barker, an officer 
 in the Revolution. Late in life he went to Michi- 
 gan, where he died. He had sons who served in 
 the legislatures of New York and Michigan. 
 Ten children were born to the union of Henry 
 and Eunice Akin, of whom seven attained man- 
 hood and womanhood, namely: Plicebe, who died 
 in Dutchess County, N. Y. ; Henry R., a con- 
 ductor on the Houston & Texas Central Railroad 
 in Texas; Myron H.; Harris, Abraham and Will- 
 iam, who are farmers in Larimer County; and 
 John, who is connected with the First National 
 Bank of El Paso, Tex. 
 
 After having for some terms attended the pub- 
 lic and high schools of Lockport, 111., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch began railroading at the age 
 of sixteen. He learned telegraphy at Lockport, 
 in the Chicago & Alton depot, and continued as 
 operator there for a year, after which he was with 
 the Lake Erie & Western Railroad at East Lynn, 
 111., for five years. Resigning in 1881, became 
 to Colorado and became operator at Fort Collins 
 for the Union Pacific (now the Gulf) Railroad. 
 He had purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 three miles southwest of the town while he was 
 still in Illinois and had helped to put a ditch 
 through the land, out of which he evolved a 
 valuable farm. This property he traded for one 
 hundred head of brood mares in 1882, and located 
 at Steamboat Rock, where he took up a ranch 
 and fenced twenty-five hundred acres of fine graz- 
 ing land that he still owns. His next employ- 
 ment was that of foreman for Jesse Harris, the 
 largest importer of horses in the west, and, as 
 foreman for that gentleman for five years, he 
 traveled through the western states and terri- 
 tories. At the same time he raised horses on his 
 ranch, and these he later traded for cattle. For 
 a while he engaged in the real-estate business, 
 dealing in residence property and farms, and also 
 carried on a cattle business. 
 
 Mr. Akin and his brothers were among the 
 first to bring sheep into Larimer County, buying 
 them in New Mexico and feeding them here. 
 November 17, 1895, he formed a partnership with 
 
WILLIAM B. MINER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 349 
 
 Messrs. Avery and Hall, as Hall & Co. This 
 firm was succeeded, September 17, 1897, by the 
 Akin Live Stock Company, of which F. C. Avery 
 is president, Myron H. Akin vice-president and 
 manager; and Edward H. Hall secretary and 
 treasurer, the capital stock being $60,000. The 
 company have a farm of eighteen hundred acres 
 and ranches aggregating three thousand acres in 
 the foot hills, also Steamboat Rock ranch of 
 twenty-five hundred acres, and raise from twenty- 
 five hundred to four thousand tons of alfalfa each 
 year; also handle as many as sixty thousand head 
 of sheep annually, this being one-fourth of the 
 entire number handled here; and feed over four 
 thousand head per annum. They buy Mexican 
 lambs, which are shipped to this point. In his 
 work Mr. Akin has become familiar with the 
 Mexican language, much of his business having 
 been done with the people of Mexico. He is a 
 charter member of the Larimer County Sheep 
 Feeders' Association, of which he was the first, 
 and is still secretary and treasurer. He is also 
 identified with the Colorado Stock Growers' As- 
 sociation and was a delegate to the National 
 Stock Growers' Convention in 1897. Politically 
 he is a silver Republican. In fraternal relations 
 he is connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He is a trustee in the Presbyterian 
 Church, of which denomination he and his wife 
 are both members. 
 
 In Las Animas, Colo., June 5, 1890, Mr. Akin 
 married Miss Elizabeth D. Mellinger, who was 
 borrf in Seven Mile, Butler County, Ohio. Her 
 father, Jacob Mellinger, was born in Lancaster, 
 Pa., a son of Jacob Mellinger, Sr. Removing to 
 Butler County, Ohio, he engaged in the hotel 
 business there. His last days were spent in Fort 
 Wayne, Ind., where he died. He married Julia 
 Hunt, a native of Ohio, and daughter of Henry 
 Hunt, who was born in New Jersey and engaged 
 in farming in Ohio. Mrs. Julia Mellinger is now 
 living in Las Animas. She has four children: 
 Elizabeth; Eleanor, who is married and lives in 
 Las Animas; Wayne H., also a resident of that 
 town; and Mrs. Edith Deweese, of the same place. 
 Mrs. Akin was graduated from the Fort Wayne 
 high school in 1877 and the following year com- 
 pleted the course in the Fort Wayne Normal 
 School, after which she engaged in teaching. In 
 1882 she came to Fort Collins, and here taught 
 in the grammar school for eight years. After 
 
 her marriage she took a course in kindergarten 
 work and became a teacher in that department of 
 school work. She was the first lady in this city 
 to be elected a member of the board of education 
 and was made secretary of the board, serving for 
 five years. She is also actively identified with 
 the Woman's Club of Fort Collins. The two 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Akin are Eunice Eliza- 
 beth and Wayne Mellinger. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM B. MINER, president of the Fort 
 \ A / Collins Electric Light Company and one 
 YV of the most successful stockmen of Lari- 
 mer County, is a descendant of a pioneer New 
 England family. His grandfather, Jesse Miner, 
 a native of New London, Conn., was a govern- 
 ment contractor during the war of 18 12 and 
 afterward engaged in farming at Vernon, Conn. 
 He had a son, Dudley T. , who was born and 
 reared at Vernon, and devoted his entire active 
 life to the management of the old homestead; 
 there he died at eighty-five years. The home 
 farm is now owned by one of his sons, Harry T. 
 Dudley T. Miner was twice married, and by his 
 first wife had a son, John R., who now resides 
 near the old home place. His second wife was 
 Augeline Davis, a native of Springfield, Mass. 
 Two children were born of that union, William B. 
 and Harry T. The latter at one time served in 
 the Connecticut legislature. 
 
 In Vernon, Conn., where he was born June 23, 
 1837, the subject of this sketch spent the first 
 eighteen years of life. In 1855 he came west, 
 joining at St. Joe, Mo., a train bound for Cali- 
 fornia, and journeying with an ox-team and herd 
 of stock across the plains, through South Pass, 
 down the Humboldt and into California. At 
 Thirty-Mile Canon the party was attacked by the 
 Indians and at other places they had consider- 
 able trouble on account of the proximity of the 
 red men. The journey consumed six months. 
 He remained in California for ten years, engag- 
 ing in sheep-raising on the Cosmunes River, 
 twenty-two miles south of Sacramento, whence 
 in 1866 he returned to Connecticut. Settling in 
 Vernon, he built a mill and embarked in the 
 manufacture of paper, which business he had 
 learned in his boyhood. With a partner he 
 owned and conducted the Granite Mills until 
 187 1, when he sold out. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 While in Connecticut, September 13, 1869, Mr. 
 Miner married Miss Mary F. Battey, who was 
 born in that state. Her father, Robert Battey, a 
 farmer by occupation, was a mechanical genius and 
 could contrive useful articles in any lineof work. 
 In 1876 he came to Colorado, where he died in 
 1895, at the age of seventy-two. He had been 
 self-supporting from an early age, as his father, 
 Amasa, a farmer of New England, had died when 
 he was a boy of only six. He married Faith 
 Stiles, who was born in Connecticut, daughter 
 of Samuel Stiles, a farmer. She is now living in 
 Fort Collins. Of her family of nine children all 
 are still living, Mrs. Miner being fourth in order 
 of birth. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Miner removed to Dixon, Lee 
 County, 111., and from there in July, 1873, he 
 came to Colorado, settling on a ranch thirteen 
 miles north of Fort Collins, on Park Station 
 Creek, which was named for a station on the 
 overland stage road. He was one of the first 
 men in Colorado to embark in the sheep busi- 
 ness. He believed sheep could be raised here 
 and bought some Illinois merinos, with which he 
 started his herd. The experiment was costly at 
 first. However, he secured a fine herd, being a 
 cross between Merino-Shropshires and New Mex- 
 ican ewes, thus getting a sheep suited to this 
 country. In his work he was greatly assisted by 
 his experience while in California. In 1890 he 
 sold out the sheep business. He owns in one 
 ranch ten sections of land, all of which is fenced. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Miner formed a partnership with 
 Senator Warren, of Wyoming, in the sheep- 
 raising business, and for five years the firm title 
 was Miner & Warren, after which it was incor- 
 porated as the Warren Live Stock Company. 
 They owned ranches in Wyoming and Colorado, 
 and had forty thousand sheep. When the busi- 
 ness was merged into the incorporated company 
 a capitalization of $560,000 was secured, Mr. 
 Miner, Mr. Warren and Mr. Gleason being the 
 incorporators, Mr. Miner becoming a director. 
 Some time later he sold his interest in the con- 
 cern. About 1883 he started in the cattle busi- 
 ness, and when he had built up a herd he sold 
 out his sheep interests. He has full-blooded and 
 high-grade Herefords, all of which are kept inside 
 the fence during the entire year. The North 
 Fork ditch runs through the land, providing the 
 cattle with water. On the ranch alfalfa and hay 
 
 are raised in large quantities, and the most mod- 
 ern machinery is used in farming. The brand is 
 nine half diamond, or an inverted six. 
 
 In addition to his other property Mr. Miner 
 owns a large ranch in Wyoming, comprising 
 thirty-five hundred acres, under fence, on the 
 headwaters of the Box Elder, near Granite Canon, 
 on the Union Pacific Railroad, where he summers 
 his herd. This place is only eighteen miles from 
 the other ranch. He also leases three and one- 
 fourth sections of land near Park Station ranch, 
 his home farm. In September, 1883, he removed 
 to Fort Collins, and the following year built his 
 present substantial residence. In addition to 
 owning cattle, he has some fine Percheron horses. 
 From the organization of the Fort Collins Elec- 
 tric Company he was its president and manager, 
 and is still the principal stockholder, his son be- 
 ing superintendent. The plant owned by the 
 company furnishes light for the city and college. 
 
 The older son of Mr. Miner is Duane F. , who 
 was educated- in the State Agricultural College 
 and is now superintendent of the electric com- 
 pany; the younger son is Earl D. In politics 
 Mr. Miner was a Democrat prior to 1884, since 
 which he has been a Republican, as is also Mrs. 
 Miner. For two years he was a member of the 
 city council, and for the same period mayor of 
 Fort Collins; also served as county commissioner 
 for three years. When away from the state at 
 one time he was nominated for the state senate, 
 but not desiring the office he did no campaign 
 work and was defeated, but by only two totes. 
 He is a member of Fort Collins Lodge and Chap- 
 ter in Masonry. In 1884 he was a delegate from 
 Colorado to the National Wool Growers' Con- 
 vention in Chicago, of which association he was 
 a member for many years. He was also long 
 identified with the State Wool Growers' Asso- 
 ciation, which he assisted in organizing. Per- 
 sonally he is genial and good-natured, liberal to 
 all enterprises of a public-spirited nature and 
 generoits in his benefactions. For a number of 
 years he was the president of the Larimer County 
 Fair Association, which held at Fort Collins the 
 best exhibitions of the kind ever held in Colorado. 
 
 (TOSEPH R. POWELL, vice-president and 
 
 I secretary of the Long's Peak Coal Company, 
 
 (2/ and a prominent citizen of Erie, Weld 
 
 County, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Decem- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 351 
 
 ber 14, 1845, a son of John J. and Eliza McG. 
 (Risdon) Powell. He was one of six children, 
 of whom, besides himself, two daughters survive, 
 namel}': Caroline, wife of H. I,. Krigbaum, of 
 Scranton, Pa.; and Mary A., Mrs. W. M. Darling, 
 also of Scranton. 
 
 A native of Burlington, N. J., born March 17, 
 1813, John J. Powell served an apprenticeship to 
 the brick-layer's trade in Philadelphia when he 
 was a young man, and after his marriage, which 
 took place in Mount Holly, N. J., he settled with 
 his young wife in Brooklyn, N. Y. While there 
 he erected the first gas works built in the city of 
 New York. Afterward he erected gas works in 
 every seaboard town from Maine to Georgia. At 
 the breaking out of the war he embarked in busi- 
 ness at White Sulphur Springs, Va., where he 
 arched a number of tunnels. On his return to 
 Scranton, Pa., to visit his relatives he was obliged 
 to remain there, not being permitted to go south 
 of the Mason and Dixon line; and his outfit, 
 which he had left in Virginia, was confiscated. 
 It was not long after this that he contracted rheu- 
 matism, which prevented him from re-engaging 
 in active work. He lived retired until his death 
 June 3, 1871. His father was a native of New 
 Jersey and a successful contractor and builder. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch was about 
 fifteen years of age his father lost all he had 
 through confiscation. The son, obliged to begin 
 in the world for himself, secured employment as 
 a fireman on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Wes- 
 tern Railroad. At twenty years of age he was 
 running a passenger engine on the same road, 
 being one of the youngest engineers on the 
 system. February 14, 1866, he was united in 
 marriage with Miss Alice Van Valkenburg, a 
 native of Bradford County, Pa. , and the daughter 
 of Rev. R. J. Van Valkenburg. In 1868, with 
 his wife, he came west, traveling by rail to Chey- 
 enne, and thence going by stage to Blackhawk, 
 where he secured work as an engineer. Previous 
 to coming to this state he had gone to Omaha, 
 where he was promised an engine, but after 
 waiting for two weeks without securing work he 
 returned to New York, and after consulting his 
 wife they decided to come to Colorado. 
 
 For a time Mr. Powell continued engineering 
 and mining on his own responsibility, but when 
 the Colorado Central Railroad was built into 
 Blackhawk in 1872, he made application for and 
 
 was given a freight engine, which he ran for two 
 weeks, and was then given a passenger engine. 
 In 1873 he retired from railroading and began 
 pro.specting, which he continued until 1882. 
 During the latter year he came to Erie and en- 
 tered the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 and during the five years that followed he worked 
 for the company at Erie, Rock Springs, Carbon 
 and Como, where he held the position of chief 
 engineer of the company's mines. At Erie he 
 embarked in the hotel business in 1887, contin- 
 uing in that business until the summer of 1 89 1, 
 when he commenced to prospect for coal. In 
 partnership with William Nicholson, in June, 
 1892, he leased his present property and immedi- 
 ately began to sink the shaft of the Long's Peak 
 Coal Company, which he has since operated with 
 Mr. Nicholson, the latter being president, while 
 he is vice-president and secretary. In December 
 of the same year, when the United Coal Company 
 bought an interest in the company, Edward P. 
 Phelps was made treasurer. The company is 
 now sinking another shaft about one mile south 
 of Erie, which promises to develop some of the 
 best coal in this reigion. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Powell is connected with Gar- 
 field Lodge No. 50, A. F. & A. M., of Erie, of 
 which he is the present master. He is identified 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
 denomination in America his maternal ancestors 
 were among the founders. His mother was a 
 cousin of Dr. Adam Clark, author of Clark's 
 Commentaries. Mr. and Mrs. Powell became the 
 parents of four children, namely: Harry A., de- 
 ceased; Alice M., wife of W. J. Breckel, who is 
 engaged in thejewelery business at Steamboat 
 Springs, Colo.; Emma R., wife of C. M. Morning 
 a railroad man, now holding a position in the 
 office of the superintendent of the Burlington & 
 Missouri Railroad at McCook, Neb; and Richard 
 T., deceased. 
 
 HON. EDWIN J. TEMPLE, secretary of the 
 board of regents of the University of Colo- 
 rado, is one of the wealthiest and most in- 
 fluential citizens of Boulder. No one here has 
 taken a more active or interested part in the pro- 
 motion of local enterprises and institutions, or 
 been swifter to come to the assistance of such with 
 material aid. Education of the young is a sub- 
 ject the importance of which he deeply feels, as 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 has been manifested by him in many substantial 
 ways. For eight years he has served as a mem- 
 ber of the school board and for five years has been 
 the able president of that honorable body. Sub- 
 sequent to the death of Captain Tyler, Governor 
 Eaton appointed Mr. Temple to the vacated place 
 on the regency board of the university. In the 
 following election he was chosen to continue in 
 the office by the Republicans, and as such re- 
 mained for six years; at the time of the election 
 of Governor Waite he was defeated with his whole 
 party by the Populist vote, which carried every- 
 thing before it. Later, however, he was ap- 
 pointed on the board by Governor Mclntire, and is 
 now filling out his tenth year in this responsible 
 position. He is an earnest champion of the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party and has been an 
 alderman here for about twelve years, much of 
 the time being the president pro tem. In this 
 period the new water works have been instituted, 
 the Highland and high schools have been built 
 and many other improvements carried to success- 
 ful completion. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the subject of this 
 biography was born in the northern part of Ire- 
 land, and was of Scotch, English and Irish 
 extraction. He brought his family to the United 
 States at an early day and settled in Ohio, where 
 he passed the remainder of his life. James 
 Temple, father of our subject, was likewise a 
 native of the Emerald Isle, but was reared chiefly 
 in Ohio. He married Rebecca Temple, whose 
 birth had occurred in Scotland, and who is now 
 a resident of Boulder. In 1861 the family started 
 for Colorado, going by way of St. Joseph, up the 
 Platte River, and south to Blackhawk. There 
 the father engaged in milHng and mining opera- 
 tions for a few years, but in 1866 went to New 
 Mexico. There he managed the famous Moreno 
 ranch, near EHzabethtown, for two or three years, 
 and about 1869 started in the cattle business on 
 his own account. His property, known far and 
 near as the Temple ranch, is one of the finest and 
 largest in the territory, and for years prior to his 
 death Mr. Temple was considered to be one of the 
 most extensive cattle raisers of the locality . Death 
 put an end to his career in 1886, when he was 
 but fifty-six years of age. Of his six children 
 E. J. is the eldest. William O. is operating the 
 Temple ranch in New Mexico; Joseph R. is liv- 
 ing at Fort Collins; John Charles is managing a 
 
 ranch in Routt County (near Hayden) ; Harry R. 
 is superintendent of a mill at Ward, for the Utica 
 Mining Company; and Frank L- is on a ranch in 
 Routt County. 
 
 Edwin J. Temple was bom June 22, 1851, in 
 Youngstown, Ohio, and was consequently but 
 ten years of age when he came across the plains 
 to this state. He engaged in the milling busi- 
 ness in Blackhawk when a mere lad and after- 
 ward embarked in merchandising while quite 
 young. He continued as a member of the firm 
 of Smith & Temple in Blackhawk up to 1879, 
 dealing in groceries, grain and hay. The next 
 two years he was occupied in freighting goods in 
 the vicinity of Leadville, and became more or less 
 interested in mines thereabouts. In 1881 he loca- 
 ted in Boulder, having determined to make his 
 permanent home here, however scattered his nu- 
 merous business enterprises might be. He estab- 
 lished an extensive ranch near Haj'den, Routt 
 County, and has always had investments in prop- 
 erty and cattle in New Mexico. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Pawnee Cattle Company, of Colorado, 
 which does a very profitable business in buying 
 and selling cattle. In short, he is undoubtedly 
 one of the most extensive dealers in cattle in Colo- 
 rado and on his ranches forty-five hundred 
 lambs were fed and kept during the winter of 
 1897-98. He still operates with his brother the 
 Temple ranch in New Mexico and owns three 
 ranches, one of six hundred and forty acres, and 
 the other two of a quarter-section each, in Larimer 
 County, not far from the county-seat. Mr. 
 Temple is a member of the executive committee 
 of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association. 
 
 In addition to his large operations in the cattle 
 line, Mr. Temple is interested extensively in 
 mining. He is the sole owner of the group of 
 Emancipation mines near Sunshine (three differ- 
 ent claims) now being worked by a force of twent}'- 
 five men, and considered one of the best-paying 
 mines in the county. Mr. Temple is a director 
 in the National State Bank of Boulder, and is a 
 director in the Boulder Electric Light Companj'. 
 He helped to organize and is now a director in 
 the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company. At 
 present he is serving for a second term as a mem- 
 ber of the Veterinary Sanitary Board of Colorado, 
 and is the president of the same. He was ap- 
 pointed first by Governor Mclntire and later by 
 Governor Adams. Fraternally he belongs to 
 
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 Boulder Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., Mount Sinai Com- 
 mandery No. 7, K. T., and El Jebel Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Temple married Miss Nina M. 
 Smith, of Blackhawk. She is a native of Wis- 
 consin and a daughter of Nelson K. Smith, a pio- 
 neer of this valley. The union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Temple was blessed with two sons, Elmer S. and 
 Paul E. The former received his higher educa- 
 tion in the university here and the younger is now 
 a student in the preparatory department, expect- 
 ing to enter the university later. 
 
 30SEPH W. ANDREW. Three-fourths of a 
 mile north of the city limits of Boulder lies 
 the improved and valuable farm owned by 
 Mr. Andrew. In 1881 he purchased one hundred 
 and twenty acres, but afterward sold fifty acres, 
 leaving his present acreage seventy, upon which 
 he has made improvements that greatly enhance 
 its value. The success that has come to him is 
 especially praiseworthy, when the fact is taken 
 into consideration that he began for himself with- 
 out capital and encountered hardships in attaining 
 a competency. 
 
 A native of Washington County, Pa., born 
 March 9, 1839, our subject was a son of Ira and 
 Chloe (Axtell) Andrew, and was one of five 
 children, of whom, besides himself, a son and 
 daughter survive. The former, Samuel, resides 
 in Kansas, Edgar County, 111. The latter, 
 Lovina, is the widow of John Allender, of Wash- 
 ington, Washington County, Pa. The father, 
 when a youth, learned the trade of a shoemaker, 
 which he followed until 1850. He then pur- 
 chased a tract of one hundred acres in Washing- 
 ton County, which place had been previously 
 owned by his father. From that time until his 
 death he followed general farm pursuits. He was 
 a son-in-law of Luther Axtell, a native of New 
 Jersey, but for many years a .resident of Wash- 
 ington County, Pa., where he carried on a farm 
 until his death. 
 
 The advantages which our subject had in boy- 
 hood were exceedingly limited. At the age of 
 twenty-one, in November, 1861, he enlisted in 
 Company A, Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, 
 Capt. H. J. Vankirk commanding. Among the 
 engagements in which he bore a part were the 
 13 
 
 following: siege ofYorktown; Williamsburg, Va. , 
 May 5, 1862; Savage Station, Va., May 24, 
 1862; Seven Pines, Va., May 31, 1862; Jones 
 Fort, Va., June 28, 1862; Black Water, Va., 
 October 28, 1862; Southwest Creek, N. C, 
 December 13, 1863; Kinston, N. C, December 
 14, 1863; Whitehall, N. C, December 16, 1863; 
 Goldsborough, N. C, December 17, 1863; siege 
 of Morris Island; siege of Forts Wagner and 
 Greeg; and the expedition to White Marsk Island, 
 Ga., February 22, 1864. Following the expedi- 
 tion last-named the regiment came north and 
 joined Butler's division, being with him at the 
 taking of City Point, Va. , and remaining with 
 him until Grant's army swung down there en 
 route to Petersburg. In the battle of Malvern 
 Hill, August 17, 1864, one hundred and four of 
 the members of the regiment were killed or 
 wounded, and all of the'officers were either killed 
 or missing. In this engagement our subject did 
 not participate, as he was ill and in the hospital 
 at the time. He rejoined the regiment Septem- 
 ber 23, 1864, after having been an inmate of the 
 hospital for two months, and was then camped 
 at Fort Morton, in front of Petersburg. October 14, 
 1864, the regiment was sent to the rear on account 
 of the expiration of their service, and went to 
 Portsmouth, Va. , where they were in camp for a 
 few days. October 29 our subject, with a num- 
 ber of others detailed from two companies, went 
 on board the vessel "Northern Light," which 
 proceeded to Point Lookout, Md., and took on 
 board nine hundred rebel prisoners, expecting 
 to make an exchange of prisoners ac Atlanta, 
 Ga., but while there. General Sherman arrived 
 and blocked the exchange of a number of the 
 prisoners. Proceeding to Charleston, S. C, 
 where they arrived December 6, they made the 
 exchange of the balance of the prisoners, and 
 then proceeded to Annapolis, Md. , arriving there 
 December 17. On their journey north sixty of 
 the Union prisoners died. From Annapolis they 
 went to Norfolk, Va., and on the 19th started 
 for Baltimore, arriving there on the 20th. From 
 that city they went by rail to Pittsburg, where 
 they were discharged two days later. Mr. 
 Andrew arrived at his home December 24, 1864. 
 During the two years following he assisted in the 
 cultivation of the home farm. 
 
 February 14, 1867, Mr. Andrew married Sarah 
 Lovina Day, of Washington County, Pa. After- 
 
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 ward he removed to Edgar County, 111., where 
 he rented a farm. In 187 1 he came to Colorado, 
 arriving in Denver with a drove of horses the 
 latter part of February. Coming through to 
 Boulder, he purchased a farm of eighty acres 
 three miles east of this city and here he began 
 as a farmer and stock-raiser. In the spring of 
 1876 he sold his place and for five years fanned 
 as a renter, after which, in 1881, he bought one 
 hundred and twenty acres, seventy acres of which 
 comprises his present farm. Fraternally he is 
 a member of Centennial State Lodge No. 8, 
 A. O. U. W., and Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 
 5, G. A. R. He and his wife became the 
 parents of nine children, but have been bereaved 
 by the loss of six, only three now living. Hilliard 
 S., who was a student in the State University 
 for two years, is engaged in mining in Eldora; 
 Henry C, a graduate of the State University, 
 is now studying law;. and Ida M.is a student in 
 the Boulder high school. The family are active 
 in the work of the Presbyterian Church. In 
 politics he is a member of the People's party. 
 
 HERMAN S. YOUTSEY, county treasurer 
 of Larimer County, was born near Sey- 
 mour, Jackson County, Ind., December 31, 
 1842, a son of Peter and Mary (Hay.s) Youtsey. 
 His father, who was born near Circleville, Ohio, 
 was a son of Peter Youtsey, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania, of German descent, and a pioneer of Ohio, 
 later of Missouri, where he died. Purchasing an 
 unimproved tract of land in Jackson County, Peter 
 Youtsey, Jr. , engaged in its cultivation until 1852, 
 when he removed to Iowa and settled near Chari- 
 ton, Lucas County, where he engaged in farm 
 pursuits until his death. In the latter part of his 
 life he spent some time in Colorado, but had no 
 thought of permanently locating here, as his in- 
 terests were elsewhere. In religion he was a con- 
 sistent member of the Christian Church. His 
 death occurred in 1888, when he was eighty-one 
 years of age. 
 
 The mother of our subject was born near old 
 Fort Bologna, on Driftwood Fork of the White 
 River, in Indiana. Her father, a native of Ken- 
 tucky, served in the war of 18 12 and was killed 
 in an Indian fight that took place near Fort 
 Bologna in 18 13. His father, who probably came 
 from Virginia, was killed by Indiansln Kentucky. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Youtsey was reared on the frontier 
 and had few advantages, but was a well-informed 
 woman nevertheless. She died in Kansas in 
 1886, near Great Bend, when almost eighty years 
 of age. In her family there were eight children, 
 namely: Malinda C, Mrs. Stout, who died in 
 Iowa; Mehssa, Mrs. Scott, of Kansas; Cordelia, 
 Mrs. Goltry, of Russell, Iowa; Columbus, who 
 died in Carthage, Mo., in 1896; Farilla, Mrs. 
 McGill, of Great Bend, Kan.; John J., of Love- 
 land, Colo., a retired physician; Herman S.; and 
 Sarah, who died in Iowa when a young lady. 
 
 When about ten years of age the subject of this 
 sketch was taken by his parents to Iowa, travel- 
 ing through Illinois in a "prairie schooner," and 
 crossing the Illinois River at Peoria and the Mis- 
 sissippi at Burlington. He was reared on a farm 
 at Chariton. His education, primarily acquired 
 in public schools, was supplemented by an attend- 
 ance of almost three years at Oskaloosa College. 
 During the vacation months he engaged in teach- 
 ing. Upon leaving college he embarked in the 
 mercantile business, continuing thus engaged 
 until 1 87 1, when he came to Colorado and 
 secured a position as teacher in the Boulder 
 school. His brother, John J., had come to Colo- 
 rado in 1864, and he was induced to come hither 
 through favorable reports of the country. In 
 1877, after having taught for a time and engaged 
 as deputy assessor of Boulder County for two 
 years, he removed to the Big Thompson Valley, 
 where he proved up a homestead, to which he 
 added until he became the owner of two hundred 
 and forty acres, devoted to general farming. In 
 1895 he sold this place, and has since given his 
 attention entirely to ofiicial duties. 
 
 In 1 88 1, on the Greenback ticket, Mr. Youtsey 
 was elected county assessor and two years later 
 he was re-elected, serving from January, 1882, to 
 January, 1886, two terms, with office in the old 
 courthouse. He was then continued as deputj^ 
 assessor until January, 1892, and meantime, in 
 1888, took possession of the assessor's office in 
 the new courthouse. In 1892 he was appointed 
 deputy county treasurer, which he held under 
 F. P. Stover and J. L. Thomas, two terms. In 
 1897, on the People's party ticket, he was elected 
 by a good majority, being the only successful 
 candidate on that ticket. He took the oath of 
 office January i, 1898, for two years. He has 
 been connected with Larimer County offices for a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 357 
 
 longer period than any other officer. His record 
 is an excellent one, showing that he is faithful to 
 every duty and energetic in his work. He is a 
 firm believer in silver money and thinks that 
 those who champion the cause of silver should 
 unite, sinking other difierences regarding tariff, 
 etc., and making the money question the sole 
 issue. 
 
 In November, 1875, in Boulder, Mr. Youtsey 
 married Miss Alice Stephens, who was born in 
 Ohio, and in 1870 accompanied her father, 
 Robert Stephens, to Colorado, joining the Union 
 colony at Greeley, but removing in 1874 to 
 Boulder County and settling upon a farm near 
 Longmont. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Youtsey are Floyd S. and Otho E., nineteen and 
 ten years of age respectively. The older son was 
 in the draughting department of the Cambria 
 Iron Works for two years, and is now a student 
 in the State Agricultural College. 
 
 gEORGE A. ANDREWS is one of the hon- 
 ored citizens of Boulder, of which place he 
 was one of the pioneers, as he came here 
 during the Civil war. He has been a witness of 
 great changes in the more than thirty-five years 
 that have elapsed since his arrival here, and has 
 done not a little toward the development of this 
 town. He has himself put up buildings here on 
 land where he has seen deer and other wild game 
 roaming, and when it was proposed to locate the 
 state university here, he was one of the most in- 
 fluential in securing the institution, and donated 
 twenty acres of land for the purpose. All public 
 improvements have always been warmly advo- 
 cated by him, and his ballot is sure to be cast-on 
 the side of progress. 
 
 A son of Asa and Ruth (Kendrick) Andrews, 
 our subject was born in Saco, Me., June 6, 1832, 
 being one of their ten children. Albert served 
 during the Civil war in the Union army. John 
 William, another son, served in the United States 
 navy in the conflict between the North and South. 
 The Andrews family is of Scotch-English extrac- 
 tion. Asa Andrews was a native of Maine, and 
 was occupied in conducting a merchant tailoring 
 establishment in the town of Saco up to 1835, 
 when he retired and spent his last years upon his 
 farm in that vicinity. He died in 1843, when but 
 fifty-five years of age.' His wife, likewise a native 
 
 of Maine, lived to be eighty-four years of age, 
 her death occurring in 1878. Her father. Captain 
 Kendrick, was master of his own vessel, which 
 was engaged in the coasting trade in Atlantic 
 waters, and her mother was a Miss Warren, of 
 Massachusetts Quaker stock. She lived to be 
 eighty-seven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews 
 were identified with the Presbyterian Church 
 and were exemplary Christians, beloved by all 
 who knew them. 
 
 George Andrews was reared in his native town, 
 and received his education in the higher branches 
 of learning in the Saco Academy. When in his 
 eighteenth year he went to Lawrence, Mass., 
 where he served a two-years' apprenticeship to 
 the carpenter's trade. Then he worked at his 
 calling in New York City up to 1853, and for the 
 following four years engaged in contracting in 
 Massachusetts. In 1857 he turned his face west- 
 ward, and was a resident of Galva, 111., for the 
 next six years. May i, 1863, he started for 
 Colorado, reaching here after a journey of about 
 two months. Coming across the plains he drove 
 two yoke of oxen and two yoke of cows, and took 
 the route up the Platte River, by way of Platts- 
 mouth. Neb. July 2, 1863, he arrived in Boulder 
 County, having made good time in his long trip. 
 With Charles Hamblin he located on a ranch ad- 
 joining the present town on the southeast, and 
 improved the property. The succeeding year 
 they divided the land, Mr. Andrews becoming 
 the owner of one hundred and twenty acres. He 
 continued to cultivate this place and live thereon 
 until 1869, when he changed his place of residence 
 to the town. He rented his farm up to 1874 and 
 then sold the place. The first flour- mill put up 
 in Boulder was the Sternberg mill, built in 1872 
 on his land. In 1869 he established a general 
 merchandise store here, but sold out two years 
 later. He built and still owns a store at the cor- 
 ner of Pearl and Thirteenth streets, and erected 
 his comfortable house at Walnut and Nineteenth 
 streets. In his numerous business ventures he 
 has been quite successful, as he has exercised 
 good judgment and forethought and has been fair 
 and just in all his dealings. He possesses the 
 respect of a large circle of acquaintances and 
 friends, and justly deserves their esteem. 
 
 April 13, 1857, Mr. Andrews married Miss 
 Mary A. Ellsworth, of Massachusetts. Her 
 father, James Ellsworth, was an officer in the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 United States navy, before and during the Civil 
 war. Of the four children born to our subject 
 and wife two are living, and all were educated in 
 the University of Colorado. Charles died when 
 in his thirty-third year. Mina is Mrs. Maulford 
 Whiteley, of Boulder; Susie May married Victor 
 Gothe, of Denver, and died September 15, 1898; 
 Frances R. is at home with her parents. 
 
 Mr. Andrews was initiated into the Masonic 
 order when he was a resident of Galva, 111., and 
 is now a demitted member. He belonged to the 
 Odd Fellows' society when he was a young man, 
 in Massachusetts. He is connected with the 
 Boulder Building and Loan Association. Since 
 the days of Fremont he has been an ardent Re- 
 publican. 
 
 [5JEORGE F. FONDA, one of the most enter- 
 |_ prising and successful of Boulder's business 
 V_J men, is vice-president of the First National 
 Bank of this place and is financially interested in 
 many local concerns and industries which are of 
 benefit to this community. He has been a res- 
 ident of BQulder for nearly a quarter of a cen- 
 tury, or his entire adult life, and his own career 
 has been closely associated with the upbuilding 
 and development of the town. 
 
 The Fonda family is of Holland-Dutch extrac- 
 tion. The founder of the American branch in 
 this country settled here in 1654, and represent- 
 atives of the family have been prominently 
 connected with every war in which our govern- 
 ment has since figured, except war with Spain. 
 The name is found in the history of the war of 
 the Revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican 
 war and the Civil war. Gen. John G. Fonda, 
 after serving in the war with Mexico, became a 
 general in the war of the Rebellion; he was a 
 civil engineer by occupation. 
 
 The parents of our subject are Henry D. and 
 Catherine (Farrell) Fonda, who were natives of 
 the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., and of Pennsylvania, 
 respectively. The father was a civil engineer, 
 and for years in the early days of the New York 
 Central & Hudson River Railroad he was em- 
 ployed in that capacity by the company. Later 
 he removed to Illinois, and settled on a farm in 
 Hancock County, near the town of Augusta. 
 He was count3' surveyor there for five terms and 
 helped drive the Mormons out of Hancock 
 County when they became obnoxious to the 
 
 citizens. In 1874 Mr. Fonda came to Colorado, 
 and taking up his abode in Boulder, practiced 
 civil engineering and mineral surveying up to the 
 time of his death, at sixty-nine years of age. 
 He was married in Peoria, 111., and his widow is 
 now a resident of Denver. Of their ten children, 
 all but one is living. 
 
 G. F. Fonda was born in Augusta, 111., and 
 passed the first thirteen years of his life in that 
 state. In 1874 he came to Boulder, where his 
 brother, Ghiles H., was in the drug business, his 
 store being situated on the land now owned by 
 our subject, and on which he has since built a 
 substantial two-story and basement building, 
 modern, heated by steam and lighted by elec- 
 tricity. Soon after his arrival here he began to 
 work for his brother in the drug store, with a 
 view to learning the business. He received 
 $10 a month at first and gradually a larger 
 salary. He was ambitious and enterprising, and 
 when his brother determined to remove to Lead- 
 ville in 1878, the youth, then but seventeen years 
 old, bought the business on time. He studied 
 pharmacy and by wisdom and judgment beyond 
 his years gained the respect and confidence of the 
 citizens and built up a lucrative trade. He now 
 deals in wholesale drugs, his patrons being 
 located in small towns of this county and ad- 
 joining territory, and it is safe to say that he 
 controls the largest trade in northern Colorado. 
 He also keeps a fine line of wall-paper, paints, 
 oils, etc. For a time he was interested in the 
 manufacture of soda-water and was a dealer in 
 mineral waters, but his brother is now managing 
 that business. For some years our subject has 
 been vice-president and a director of the Boulder 
 Milling and Elevator Company. 
 
 Politically Mr. Fonda is a Democrat, and was 
 elected alderman from the first ward, but resigned 
 before the completion of his term. He is past 
 master of Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; 
 belongs to Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M. (of 
 which he is past high priest) ; Mount Sinai Com- 
 mandery No. 7, K. T., and El Jebel Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine. He also is a member of the 
 Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In the 
 Colorado Pharmaceutical Association he has been 
 vice-president. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Fonda and Miss Marj' E. 
 Jones was solemnized in Boulder November 26, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 359 
 
 1879. Mrs. Fonda is a native of Michigan, and 
 is a daughter of David Jones, one of the early 
 settlers of Nederland, Boulder County. She re- 
 ceived her higher education in the University of 
 Colorado. To Mr. and Mrs. Fonda two daugh- 
 ters were born, Elizabeth and Catherine. 
 
 EORNELIUS H. BOND, sheriff of Larimer 
 County, was born in Guernsey County, 
 Ohio, across the river from Wheeling, 
 W. Va., October 9, 1855, a son of Joshua H. and 
 Susan (Huffman) Bond. His father, who was 
 born near Baltimore, was a son of Joshua Bond, 
 Sr., also a native of Maryland, and a pioneer 
 farmer of Ohio. Two of his brothers were sol- 
 diers in the war of 1812. The family is of Eng- 
 lish descent, but has been identified with Amer- 
 can history since an early period in the settlement 
 of Maryland. 
 
 From Guernsey County, where he engaged in 
 farming, Joshua H. Bond removed to Harrison 
 County, Ohio, where he still resides, being now 
 seventy-one years of age. His wife, who was 
 born in Virginia, died in Ohio in 1880, when 
 forty-nine years of age. She was a daughter of 
 John Huffman, a circuit rider in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church and a pioneer missionary, who 
 traveled on horseback with saddlebags from town 
 to town and accomplished much good among the 
 frontiersmen. He and his wife died within fif- 
 teen hours of each other and were buried in the 
 same grave. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the oldest of 
 seven children who attained years of maturity. 
 Of these three sons and three daughters are now 
 living. He was educated in public schools and 
 an academy, and at the age of twenty began to 
 teach, in which work he was engaged for four 
 years, being principal of a school for one year. 
 March 7, 1879, he started for Colorado, and on 
 reaching this state located in Loveland, where he 
 secured employment on a ranch. Later he 
 clerked in a store. In 1885, with a partner, he 
 started in the grocery business in Loveland, 
 but after two years closed out the business and 
 resumed work as a clerk. For two 3' ears he was 
 with Mr. Seaman in the general merchandise 
 business as a partner, but then sold his interest 
 and again embarked in the grocery business. On 
 retiring from that business he represented the 
 Deering Harvester Company. 
 
 On the Republican ticket, in 1895, Mr. Bond 
 was elected sheriff of Larimer County. Two 
 years later he was re elected as the nominee of 
 the silver Republicans, endorsed by the Demo- 
 crats. He received a plurality of twelve hun- 
 dred and thirty-four, which was the largest re- 
 ceived by any of the candidates elected at that 
 time. He held the office from January, 1896, to 
 January, 1898, and his present term extends from 
 January, 1898, to January, 1900. Whilein Love- 
 land he was alderman for several terms. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias, U. R., in Fort Collins, the Woodmen of 
 the World in Loveland, the Eastern Star, and was 
 made a Mason in Loveland Lodge No. 53, 
 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 In Loveland, in 1888, Mr. Bond married Miss 
 Frona Sullivan, who was born in Iowa and died 
 February 20, 1895, leaving a daughter, Doris. 
 The second marriage of Mr. Bond united him 
 with Miss Alma Sanborn, who was born in 
 Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of George 
 W. Sanborn, of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Bond 
 are the parents of two children, twins, Frank 
 and Florence. 
 
 fDQALTERA. CHAMBERLAIN is one of the 
 \ A / most popular and enterprising young men 
 Y V of Boulder. He was born near Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa, September 23, 1859, and is the son of 
 William G. and Frances Rogers (Allen) Cham- 
 berlain. His father, whose history is given 
 among the representative citizens of Denver, was 
 for many years a resident of Peru, South America, 
 where he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 silk, and after returning to the states located in 
 Colorado and established a large photograph 
 gallery, and gave to the public the first views of 
 Colorado scenery. He married Frances Rogers 
 Allen, an Eughsh lady, living with her parents 
 in Lima, Peru, and at present both reside in 
 Denver. Six children were born to them, of 
 whom four are living, two sons and two daughters. 
 The youngest of the family, our subject, was 
 reared in Denver, and educated in the public and 
 high schools until he reached his sixteenth year, 
 when he entered his father's store on Larimer 
 and Fifteenth streets and learned the business 
 under him. He afterwards accepted a position 
 with W. H. Jackson, in the same business, and 
 remained with him eleven years. He there 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 finished some of the finest mountain sceneries 
 ever printed. He was the first man in the west 
 to make prints, and is credited with making the 
 first and largest section, or panoramic pictures. 
 In 1892 he resigned this position to take charge 
 of the Chamberlain sampling works in Boulder. 
 W. J. Chamberlain & Co. have branch works 
 in Georgetown, Blackhawk and Denver, be- 
 sides the one in Boulder. This is a steam plant, 
 with a capacity of thirty tons and is the oldest of 
 the kind in Boulder. The company do crush- 
 ing and assaying, and purchase a large quantity 
 of ore outright. 
 
 He was married in Denver to Miss Jennie 
 Herrick, daughter of Samuel E. Herrick, a na- 
 tive of Indiana. Their union has been blessed 
 with three children: Estes H., Hyla K. and 
 Helena F. He is one of the officers of Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M. ; a past officer in 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the 
 Woodmen of the World and the Knights of the 
 Maccabees. He is treasurer in the Fraternal Aid 
 and Woodman Circle, and holds the same office in 
 the Select Knights of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He was a member of the old gov- 
 ernment guards, state milita for three years, and 
 joined the Archer Hose Company of Denver as a 
 torch boy. He is now a member of the Boulder 
 Hose Company and is serving the third term as 
 foreman. He is a Republican, but is not an 
 active politician. 
 
 HNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. Adjoining 
 the city of Boulder and overlooking it from 
 the high ground on the south side of Boulder 
 Creek stand the buildings that comprise the Uni- 
 versity of Colorado. The scenery is incompa- 
 rable. To the west may be seen the highest foot- 
 hills of the Rocky Mountains, and far in the dis- 
 tance gleam the snow-capped heights of Arapahoe 
 Peak. As the eye turns to the south, there may 
 be seen the beautiful mesas; while the entire ex- 
 panse to the north shows fertile plains, where the 
 summer sun falls on green fields and tiny lakes. 
 
 The history of the University of Colorado dates 
 back to 1 86 1, when the legislature enacted its 
 establishment at Boulder. Nothing, however, 
 was done toward opening the institution for some 
 years. In 1871 fifty- two acres of land, valued at 
 f5,ooo, were given for university grounds, and 
 
 three years later the legislature of the then terri- 
 tory appropriated $1 5,000, which sum was doubled 
 by the citizens of Boulder. In 1875 congress set 
 apart seventy-two sections of land for the support 
 of the university. The next year the territory 
 became a state, and the constitution provided that 
 the university should become a state institution, 
 and thus be entitled to the lands appropriated by 
 congress. The first general assembly of the state 
 made provision for its permanent support by levy- 
 ing a tax of one-fifth of a mill upon the property 
 of the state; also, for a fund to be secured by the 
 sale of land granted by the United States. 
 
 In September, 1877, the university opened for 
 the reception of students. There were two in- 
 structors and forty-four pupils. In 1878 the gen- 
 eral assembly appropriated $7,000 for apparatus, 
 furniture, etc. Five years later a special fund 
 was created by a tax of one-fifth of a mill for 1883 
 and 1884, which yielded $40,000, and was expend- 
 ed for apparatus, additional buildings, etc. The 
 university is maintained by a tax levy of one-fifth 
 of a mill on the assessed valuation of the property 
 of the state. In 1891 a special appropriation of 
 $30,000 was made, which was used toward the 
 erection of the Hale Scientific Building, a beauti- 
 ful structure of modern style of architecture. Be- 
 ginning with the general assembly of 1893, a 
 large special appropriation in addition to the one- 
 fifth mill has been made for each biennial period. 
 
 From time to time different departments have 
 been added to the university, until it now com- 
 prises the following: College of Liberal Arts, 
 Graduate Courses, Colorado School of Applied 
 Science, Colorado School of Medicine, Colorado 
 School of Law and Colorado State Preparatory 
 School. In the College of Liberal Arts four 
 bachelor degrees are conferred, A. B., Ph. B., 
 B. L- and B. S. These courses have in common 
 certain basic studies, but are differentiated by 
 characteristic studies for each degree. Group 
 election has recently become an important feature 
 of the curriculum. The graduate degrees are: 
 M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. 
 
 The School of Law was opened in September, 
 1892, and is conducted upon the most advanced 
 methods of legal instruction. Special attention is 
 given to mining and irrigation law, in which a 
 Colorado attorney needs to be well grounded; as 
 well as in the broader realm of national and inter- 
 national law. The student is grounded in the 
 
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 361 
 
 principles of English and American law, while 
 unusual phases of the law are presented in lectures 
 by the most distinguished jurists of the Rocky 
 Mountain region. 
 
 The School of Applied Science was established 
 in 1893. Its advantages are apparent to all who 
 are familiar with the requirements of a high citi- 
 zenship in Colorado. The requirements for ad- 
 mission are the same as in the College of Liberal 
 Arts. The principle is carried into practice here 
 that thorough training on theory, followed by the 
 application of theory to practice, is the only ra- 
 tional preparation for engineering. 
 
 The School of Medicine was the first profes- 
 sional department established in the university. 
 Since the reorganization of the school in 1892, its 
 growth has been rapid. A hospital has been erec- 
 ted near the university grounds. The school has 
 a large corps of professors, lecturers and assist- 
 ants. The medical course extends over four 
 years, of nine months each. A very high stand- 
 ard of training is maintained in the school. 
 
 The State Preparatory School, conducted by 
 the university, has for its object the attainment 
 of a high standard of college preparatory educa- 
 tion. This school occupies a substantial building 
 in the center of Boulder, and is furnished with 
 laboratories, library and other facilities. 
 
 The School of Music, technically, is not a de- 
 partment of the university, but was organized to 
 promote musical culture throughout the state. 
 
 It is the pride of the Colorado people that no- 
 where in the United States can a classical educa- 
 tion be secured at less cost than in the State Uni- 
 versity. The tuition is as free as the Colorado 
 sunshine and pure air. Here the young men and 
 women of the state may obtain an education equal 
 to that to be obtained in the best universities of 
 the land. That the people appreciate the advan- 
 tages offered is shown by the enrollment, includ- 
 ing the Preparatory School, of more than seven 
 hundred students. 
 
 There are now twelve university buildings on 
 the campus. The Medical, Chemical, Engineering 
 buildings and the gymnasium were dedicated in 
 1898, three years after the dedication of the Hale 
 Scientific building. The engineering building, 
 as thus completed, contains twelve rooms, besides 
 well-eqiiipped shops, and is a model of its kind. 
 The gymnasium, which is 80x40, adjoins the ath- 
 letic field, and its entire space is thrown into one 
 
 hall, provided with a platform at one end and a 
 gallery at the other. 
 
 Having existed as a university for twenty- one 
 years, the Colorado State University may now be 
 said to have attained its majority, and what it 
 has already accomplished may be taken as an 
 index of what it will accomplish in the future. 
 Its work has been definite and far reaching. It 
 has awakened in young men and women a desire 
 for knowledge and an ambition to broaden their 
 mental horizons. It has developed their mind, 
 enlarged their aspirations and uplifted their 
 thoughts. What it has done in the past it will 
 do in a larger measure in the future. In the en- 
 lightened citizenship of the state, in the refine- 
 ment of its daughters and the statesmanship of its 
 sons, the good accomplished by the university 
 will live through countless years to come. 
 
 3 AMES H. BAKER, A. M.,LL. D., presi- 
 dent of the University of Colorado, was 
 born in Harmony, Me., October 13, 1848, a 
 son of Wesley and Lucy (Hutchins) Baker, 
 natives of Harmony and New Portland, Me., 
 respectively. His grandfather, Lemuel, was a 
 son of Joseph Baker, a native of Massachusetts. 
 Agriculture has been the principal occupation of 
 the family and longevity noticeable among its 
 members. James Hutchins, the father of Mrs. 
 Lucy Baker, was a member of the Maine legis- 
 lature. Josiah Parker, her grandfather, was a 
 member of General Washington's bodyguard. 
 
 In 1869 the subject of this sketch entered Bates 
 College at Lewiston, Me., from which he gradu- 
 ated in 1873, and afterward he was employed as 
 principal of the Yarmouth (Me.) high school. 
 Resigning that position in 1875, he came west to 
 take charge of the Denver high school. His 
 influence in that city was felt from the first. He 
 kept abreast with the most advanced educational 
 methods of the times and was quick to adopt their 
 most desirable features, applying them, with such 
 modifications as he thought best, in his own field 
 of labor. During the seventeen years of his 
 service in Denver, the attendance increased from 
 fifty pupils to seven hundred and one of the finest 
 high school buildings in the country was erected. 
 
 While at the head of the Denver high school, 
 Mr. Baker took an active part in the educational 
 work of the state. He became active in the work 
 
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 of the State Teachers' Association, and in 1880 
 served as its president, while five years later he 
 was made president of the high school and college 
 section. In 1886 he was elected a member of the 
 National Council of Education, and in 1890 he 
 served as its chairman on the relation of high 
 schools to colleges. In 1891 he was elected as 
 president of the highest educational council in the 
 United States. 
 
 In January, 1892, Mr. Baker accepted the 
 presidency of the State University of Colorado. 
 His influence has been wonderfully apparent in 
 the increased usefulness of the university and its 
 enlarged attendance. Under his leadership, the 
 school has attained an enviable reputation abroad 
 and in every town of the state, and the university 
 has become the pride of every educator in the 
 state as well as of every citizen in Boulder. Al- 
 though the growth in the number of students has 
 been remarkably rapid, the standards and effici- 
 ency of the various departments at the same time 
 have been constantly improved. That the char- 
 acter of the work done in the University of Colo- 
 rado is widely recognized appears in many Vays, 
 but in none more notably than in an editorial 
 recently published in Minerva, the German year- 
 book of the educational world. This ranks the 
 University of Colorado amongst the first eleven 
 American universities and the first five state 
 universities. This estimate is based upon fac- 
 ulties, facilities, standards and character of 
 graduate work. 
 
 In 1883 President Baker was the orator of the 
 day before the Alumni Association of his alma 
 mater, and that institution in 1892 conferred 
 upon him the degree of 1,1,. D. He was a 
 member of the committee of ten that made the 
 famous report on secondary education in the 
 United States and was the one who originated 
 the scheme of such an investigation. His "Ele- 
 mentary Psychology" was published in 1890, 
 besides which he has written many valuable 
 papers and delivered many important addresses. 
 His psychology has been extensively used as a 
 text book, both in high school and academies. 
 Besides his regular work he has been a constant 
 student of psychology and philosophy and has 
 also kept in touch with developments made in 
 other lines of scientific thought. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Baker took place in Den- 
 ver, his wife being Miss Jennie V. Hilton, 
 
 who was born in New York state. She is a 
 daughter of Rev. John V. Hilton, who was a 
 Congregational clergyman in Bo.ston, and later 
 in Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have two chil- 
 dren, Hilton and Helen. 
 
 REVILO LOVELAND, who came to Colo- 
 rado in the government employ in 1857, has 
 made his home in Fort Collins since 1895. 
 He was born in Durham, Middlesex County, 
 Conn., in March, 1838, and was the oldest of 
 three children, his sister being Mrs. Ellen Isbell, 
 of New Haven, Conn., while his brother, El- 
 bridge, was a sailor. His father, Isaac Loveland, 
 was born in Durham, and was a descendant of 
 one of the first settlers at Saybrook, Middlesex 
 County. For years he engaged in farming at 
 Durham, but in 1866 he came to Colorado and 
 settled on the Cache la Poudre River, where he 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, 
 in 1890, at seventy-eight years. His wife, Susan 
 Hall, was born in Killingworth, Middlesex 
 County, member of an old Connecticut family; she 
 died at Durham when her children were young. 
 
 It was in the summer of 1857 that our subject 
 joined a government expedition that started from 
 Fort Leavenworth and afterward divided, part 
 going up the Platte under Colonel Sumner and 
 the remainder going up the Arkansas to a point 
 below the mouth of the Cache la Poudre. The 
 latter expedition our subject accompanied, under 
 Major Sedgwick, traveling with mule- train up the 
 Arkansas and meeting the other expedition at a 
 point previously arranged, after which Colonel 
 Sumner took command of the entire force. They 
 encountered the Indians and had a fight with 
 them on Solomon's Fork. In the fall of the same 
 year the train returned to Leavenworth. From 
 that time until 1861 Mr. Loveland continued in 
 the government service every summer on the 
 plains. In 1858 he went to Utah on a Mormon 
 expedition. The next year he drove the team of 
 the Smoky Hill Express, owned by Jones & Rus- 
 sell, between Leavenworth and Denver, and later 
 he was employed by the same firm in herding 
 mules. In i860 he went to New Mexico for the 
 government. 
 
 During the war Mr. Loveland was wagon 
 master, also inspector and receiver of horses, in 
 the west and southwest. In the siege of Vicks- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 burg he was taken sick and afterward spent a year 
 in RoUa and Springfield, Mo. In the spring of 
 1864 he was discharged at Springfield, Mo., and 
 in the summer of the same year he again came to 
 Colorado. This time he settled in Larimer 
 County, twelve miles southeast of the present 
 site of Fort Collins, on the Cache la Poudre, 
 where he took a homestead of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, and, with two others, made a private 
 ditch. He continued raising stock and farm 
 products on that place until 1895, when he sold 
 out and bought a home in Fort Collins. 
 
 Politically Mr. Loveland is a pronounced Re- 
 publican. He was made a Mason in Collins 
 Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M. In 1876 he was 
 elected county commissioner and served in that 
 capacity for one term of three years. In Greeley 
 he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Car- 
 penter, a native of Ohio, and daughter of Daniel 
 Carpenter, a member of the Union colony, com- 
 ing to Greeley in 1871. 
 
 /JJEORGE K. PEASLEY, deceased, was a 
 l_l leading representative of the business inter- 
 vU ests of Greeley, where he was extensively 
 engaged in buying and shipping stock, and also 
 conducted a hardware business, and was a di- 
 rector in the First National Bank. Of excellent 
 business ability and broad resources, he attained 
 a prominent place among the substantial citizens 
 of Weld County, and was a recognized leader in 
 public affairs. He won success by his well-di- 
 rected, energetic efforts, and the prosperity that 
 came to him was certainly well deserved. 
 
 Mr. Peasley was born in Burlington, Iowa, 
 August 15, 1847, ^iid w^s a .son of John F. and 
 Lucretia Peasley, representative of a well-known 
 and highly respected family of Illinois. Our 
 subject was successfully engaged in farming in 
 Henderson County until 1880, when he came to 
 Colorado and located at Evans, where he was en- 
 gaged in business for about three years with 
 Capt. B. D. Harper, under the firm name of 
 Harper, Peasley & Co. He then came to Gree- 
 ley, where the company was later re-organized 
 under the name of the Illinois Live Stock Com- 
 pany, with Mr. Peasley as general manager. He 
 and his brother-in-law, Nat. Bruen, of Hen- 
 derson County, 111., probably did more to raise 
 the quality and standard of roadsters and track 
 
 horses in that and adjoining counties than any 
 other two individuals. They owned the noted 
 horses Egmont and Fame, brought from Ken- 
 tucky, and many of Egmont's colts have won a 
 world-wide reputation. Mr. Peasley became one 
 of the most energetic and active business men of 
 Greeley ; was a member of the hardware firm of 
 Robie & Peasley; was a director of the First Na- 
 tional Bank; owned an excellent farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres of land under ditch 
 in Weld County, and was also interested in real 
 estate in Salt Lake, Utah. 
 
 On the 7th of January, 1874, Mr. Peasley was 
 united in marriage to Miss Mary E. King, of La 
 Harpe, 111. , a daughter of Calvin and Jane (Aus- 
 tin) King. She grew to womanhood in her na- 
 tive town, living there until her marriage, when 
 she and her husband located on the old Peasley 
 homestead in Henderson County, near the town 
 of Decorra. To them were born four children, 
 namely: George S., who died in infancy; Leroj', 
 Maude and Mabel. Mr. Peasley had one sister, 
 Mrs. Nat. Bruen, of Iowa, and two brothers, 
 Frank and Charles. 
 
 While shipping cattle to Omaha, Mr. Peasley 
 was killed by falling between the cars at Jules- 
 burg September 17, 1895. He was a prominent 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and the Knights of Pythias, and was buried 
 under the auspices of both fraternities, the 
 funeral services being conducted by Rev. O. J. 
 Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His 
 genial, pleasant manner made him popular in 
 social as well as business circles, and he was rec- 
 ognized as one of the foremost citizens in north- 
 ern Colorado, honored and respected by all who 
 knew him. 
 
 EHARLES B. ANDREWS, of Fort Collins, 
 is the owner of large landed tracts in Lari- 
 mer County. His home farm, known as 
 Shadeland, is named from the fact of the fine 
 grove of trees on the place, which comprises one 
 hundred and twenty well-improved acres, within 
 the city limits. His ranch, which is called Shet- 
 land, takes its name from the fact that he long 
 raised Shetland ponies on the place, having 
 brought the first herd ever in the state, and mak- 
 ing from time to time several importations of ponies. 
 Now, however, he gives his attention largely to 
 raising full-blooded registered Herefords,of which 
 
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 he has a large number. Adjoining Fort Collins 
 to the west he has two hundred and forty acres, 
 much of which is laid out in cherry and apple 
 orchards. All of his land is under irrigation, 
 and he is interested in and a director of most of 
 the ditches on the south side of the Cache la 
 Poudre. 
 
 John Andrews, who was an old laird of Scot- 
 land, and owned the town of Ingleston, brought 
 his family to America and settled in Allegheny 
 City, Pa., where he lived retired. I,ike his fore- 
 fathers, he was a strict Presbyterian. His son, 
 Col. James Andrews, was born in Dumfries-shire, 
 Scotland, and engaged in contracting, having con- 
 tracts for bridges at Pittsburg and along the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad at different places. With 
 Captain Eades he became interested in the build- 
 ing of the famous Eades' bridge at St. Louis, and 
 contracted for the tunnel through that city to the 
 Union depot. Next, with Captain Eades, he 
 assisted in building the jetties at the mouth of 
 the Mississippi, doing the most of the work on 
 money advanced by himself, not receiving any 
 money from the government until the completion 
 of the work. He was engaged in building a 
 railroad across the isthmus at Tehauntepec when 
 Captain Eades died and the work was abandoned. 
 The two. Captain Eades and Colonel Andrews, 
 worked together harmoniously and successfully, 
 the former influencing and working with politi- 
 cians, the latter carrying out practical plans. 
 But when Captain Eades died. Colonel Andrews 
 gave up the work, as he had no taste for working 
 with politicians. He embarked in the iron man- 
 ufacturing business at Pittsburg, where he bought 
 the Moorehead and McLean foundries, and op- 
 erated it as long as he lived. In the rolling mills he 
 manufactured a fine grade of steel rails. He was 
 a director in many banks, street railway and 
 bridge companies, and took an active part in 
 many local enterprises. He owned a beautiful 
 home, known as Ingleside, which was situated in 
 Allegheny City on Nunnery Hill. There his 
 death occurred in July, 1897, when he was 
 seventy-two years of age. His wife, who was 
 Maria Carson, a native of the north of Ireland, 
 accompanied her parents to Allegheny, Pa., and 
 is still living at Ingleside. They were the pa- 
 rents of eight children, namely: Mary, wife of 
 Alexander Cochran, of St. Louis, Mo.; Ella, of 
 Allegheny; Charles B. ; Sidney, who is assistant 
 
 solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad and re- 
 sides in Chicago; Rie, of Allegheny; Robert, a 
 stockman owning a large ranch in Larimer 
 County; Walter and Eades, who live in Pittsburg. 
 
 In Allegheny, Pa., where he was born August 
 6, 1854, Mr. Andrews laid the foundation of his 
 education, which was subsequently enlarged by 
 attendance at the Western University of Pitts- 
 burg. On account of ill health he was obliged to 
 leave college prior to the completion of the regu- 
 lar course. Hoping that a change might be ben- 
 eficial, he traveled through Florida and California. 
 In 1 87 1 he passed through Denver, en route to 
 California, and the next year returned, settling in 
 Fort Collins, where he embarked in the stock 
 business, becoming one of the most extensive 
 cattle dealers here. For some time he was inter- 
 ested with Abner Loomis in the purchase and 
 sale of cattle. He had his range first at Fort 
 Casper, Wyo. , later near the Black Hills, and 
 owns several thousand acres of land, all fenced, 
 in Larimer County, at the headwaters of the 
 Cache la Poudre. Besides other interests, he was 
 a charter member of the company that organized 
 the State Bank and is now a director in the Poudre 
 Valley Bank. 
 
 In Fort Collins Mr. Andrews married Miss 
 Julia Henderson, in March, 188 1, who was born 
 in La Grange, Mo., a daughter of John W. Hen- 
 derson, a native of old Virginia. Her paternal 
 grandfather removed with the family to Lewis 
 County, Mo., where he and later his son engaged 
 in farming. In 1880 the latter came to Leadville, 
 but after two years there, settled in Fort Collins, 
 where he is now superintendent of two ditches. 
 He married Henrietta Durkee, a native of Mis- 
 souri, and daughter of Lucien Durkee, whose wife 
 was a Miss Bourne, of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Henderson had three children, but one, a son, 
 Lucien, died in Silverton, where he was mining; 
 the other son, Joseph, is living in Fort Collins. 
 Mrs. Andrews was educated in La Grange Col- 
 lege. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have one son, 
 James Henderson, now a student at the State 
 Agricultural College. 
 
 Politically Mr. Andrews is a Republican. He 
 was made a Mason in Collins Lodge No. 19, 
 A. F. & A. M. , to which he belongs, as he also 
 does to Collins Chapter No. 11, R. A. M., De- 
 Molay Commandery No. 13, K. T., Colorado 
 Consistory of Denver, and El Jebel Temple, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 367 
 
 N. M. S. He and his wife are Presbyterians in 
 religious belief. In 1898 he represented the 
 Wyoming Cattle Growers' Association, of which 
 he is a member, in the National Stock Growers' 
 Convention in Denver. In earlier days, when 
 game was plentiful, he heartily enjoyed a hunt 
 on the plains, where he frequently saw thousands 
 of elks and as many buffaloes in a herd. The ad- 
 vance of civilization, however, has had its effect 
 upon wild animals and there are now few to be 
 found by even the most ardent hunter. 
 
 City, with the spiritual oversight also of Empire, 
 Idaho Springs, Georgetown, Boulder and other 
 small settlements, and continued at the head of 
 this work until 187 1. Three years previous to 
 this his old friend and loved associate appoint- 
 ed him his vicar-general. The tie between these 
 two men was peculiarly strong and affectionate, 
 and continued until death separated them. Father 
 Raverdy returned home from France to learn 
 that Bishop Machebeuf had passed away, and the 
 shock undoubtedly hastened his own death, which 
 occurred in Denver November 18, 1889. 
 
 REV. JOHN BAPTIST RAVERDY was born 
 in Rheims, France, June 24, 1831, and was 
 ordained a sub-deacon in 1850. After nine 
 years, hearing of the thousands who were cross- 
 ing the plains to the mines of the Rocky Mount- 
 ains, he felt there would be need of a spiritual 
 adviser here, and he therefore crossed the ocean. 
 Soon afterward Bishop L,amy ordered him to go 
 to the mountain region with Father Machebeuf. 
 He arrived in Denver October 29, i860, where 
 he found between thirty and forty Catholics. 
 Though the outlook was not encouraging he 
 urged his associate to build a church and this was 
 done. On a foundation so unhopeful was built 
 what is now known as St. Mary's Cathedral, on 
 Stout and Fifteenth streets, then out on the 
 prairie. 
 
 While Bishop Machebeuf was building the 
 church. Father Raverdy made a horseback tour 
 of the southern part of the state. He arrived at 
 Huerfano November 15, i860, and remained 
 there for some days, engaged in the sacred duties 
 of his profession. Hejourneyed toandfro, endur- 
 ing all the hardships of pioneer life, suffering ex- 
 posure, and sometimes almost fainting from weari- 
 ness, but never growing discouraged. Many a 
 time he slept with no canopy save the arched vault 
 of heaven, and his fare was poor and plain, but 
 no one ever heard a word of complaint from his 
 lips. On the other hand, he rejoiced that it was his 
 privilege to engage in the holy calling of a priest. 
 In 1864 he visited Utah and spent some weeks 
 with the Catholics at Salt Lake. He then pushed 
 his way on to Montana, where he found thousands 
 of men engaged in a search for gold, and the 
 month he spent among those ofttimes discouraged 
 miners was fruitful of much good. 
 
 In 1866 he accepted the pastorate at Central 
 
 NON. HENRY P. H. BROMWELL was born 
 in Baltimore, Md., August 26, 1823, the 
 descendant of English ancestors who adhered 
 to the Quaker faith. His grandfather, William, 
 was born in 1751, in Maryland; but the father, 
 Henry, was a native of Richmond, Va. For 
 some years the latter was a lumber merchant of 
 Baltimore, thence went to Cincinnati, and later 
 settled in Clark County, 111., and finally removed 
 to Charleston, Coles County, where he died at 
 seventy-four years. When a boy of seventeen 
 years he took part in the war of 18 12 and was 
 present at the defense of North Point. He mar- 
 ried Henrietta Holmes, daughter of Lemuel and 
 granddaughter of Joseph Holmes, whose ances- 
 tors came to this country in the "Mayflower" 
 and was for years a wealth^' shipping merchant 
 of Boston and New York. Mrs. Bromwell died 
 in Denver, in January, 1882, aged eighty-six' 
 years. Of her six children, only one survives. 
 
 When the family left Cincinnati our subject 
 was five years of age. He was admitted to the 
 bar at Vandalia, 111., in 1853, and while practic- 
 ing law, published a paper called the Age 0/ 
 Steam and Fire. For four years he was county 
 judge, and after removing to Charleston, he was 
 elected, on the Republican ticket, a member of 
 congress from the seventh district and re-elected 
 after two years, serving from 1865 to 1869, and 
 taking an active part in all the stormy legislation 
 that culminated in the attempted impeachment of 
 President Johnson. He was a member of the 
 constitutional convention of Illinois in 1869. In 
 1865-66 he was grand master of the grand lodge 
 of Masons in Illinois. 
 
 Coming to Denver in 1870, Judge Bromwell 
 engaged in the practice of law. He was a mem- 
 
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 ber of the territorial council of 1874, the consti- 
 tutional convention of 1875-76 and the legisla- 
 ture of 1879, and while in the latter position he 
 introduced and secured the passage of the bill to 
 establish the irrigation system of Colorado. In 
 188 1, under appointment by Governor Pitkin, he 
 made the revision of the statutes of the state, 
 which on completion were published in one large 
 volume. Ill health led him to retire from the prac- 
 tice of the law and from public life in 1889; but, 
 though retired, he still takes a warm interest in all 
 matters pertaining to the welfare of the people and 
 the prosperity of the nation. Formerly a Repub- 
 lican, after a careful study of the needs of our 
 country he was led to change his views in 1884 
 and has since been a Democrat. At one time he 
 was connected with the Odd Fellows. He is a 
 member of the lodge, chapter and commandery 
 of Masons, and is past grand master of the grand 
 lodge of Colorado. In Marshall, 111., he mar- 
 ried Emily F. Payne, daughter of John W. 
 Payne, an attorney in Indiana, where she died 
 during a visit to her old home. She was the 
 mother of three children: Henrietta E.; Henry 
 P., who died while a student of law, at nineteen 
 years of age; and Emily, who died in girlhood. 
 
 EHARLES P. MILIvER, M. D., is in point 
 of years of active professional practice the 
 oldest resident physician and surgeon of 
 Fort Collins, where he has resided since Septem- 
 ber of 1878. In 1880 he built the residence he 
 now occupies, a commodious and comfortable 
 home, around which are large grounds with fruit 
 and shade trees. He owns a forty-acre farm near 
 Fort Collins, on which is a cherry orchard with 
 five hundred early Richmond cherry trees. 
 
 The Miller family was identified with the early 
 history of Vermont. From Bridgewater, that 
 state, Lewis Miller came to Akron, Ohio, where he 
 was employed as a contractor. Later he settled 
 at Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, Mich. , where 
 he engaged in farming. When he located there, 
 in 1845, the land was heavily timbered and wholly 
 destitute of improvements, but he succeeded in 
 grubbing and clearing it, and placed it under 
 good cultivdtion. A stanch Republican from the 
 organization of the party, he was also a pro- 
 nounced Abolitionist, and was the only man in 
 the town of Lockport, St. Joseph County, who 
 
 voted for abolition and its supporters. He died 
 in August, 1878, when he was seventy-six years 
 of age. By his first marriage he had six chil- 
 dren, four of whom are living. His second 
 marriage united him with Mary Vincent, by 
 whom he had one son, born at Lockport, Mich., 
 April 26, 1853, and the subject of this sketch. 
 
 From an early age Dr. Miller was self-support- 
 ing. He taught much of the time when a youth, 
 in order to pay his way through college. Hav- 
 ing chosen medicine as his profession, he began 
 to study under Dr. E. B. Graham, of Three 
 Rivers, Mich. In 1874 he entered the homeopa- 
 thic Medical College connected with the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, and graduated in 1877, with 
 the first class of thirteen that completed the course 
 in that institution. ' When he received the degree 
 of M. D., after having supported himself through 
 the entire course and paid all of his expenses, he 
 found himself only $15 in debt. While this 
 showed that he had been persevering and eco- 
 nomical, yet it required some courage for a young 
 practitioner, without experience, to start out for 
 himself, without money or influence. He went 
 to Kent, Portage County, Ohio, where he com- 
 menced to practice. In September, 1878, he 
 came to Fort Collins, where he soon built up an 
 enviable reputation for skill in his profession. 
 
 The first wife of Dr. Miller was Lillian Min- 
 nick, who was born in Ohio, married in Chey- 
 enne, Wyo., and died in Fort Collins. The only 
 child of this union, Eva, died at nine years. 
 The doctor's second wife, whom he married in 
 Fort Collins, was Nora Rice, of Charleston, 111. 
 They have two children, Zareefa and Mary J. 
 
 Dr. Miller was made a Mason in Collins Lodge 
 No. 19, A. F. & A. M. He is connected with 
 it, also with Cache la Poudre Chapter No. 11, 
 R. A. M., DeMolay Commandery No. 13, K. T., 
 Scottish Rite, Colorado Consistory No. i, ElJebel 
 Tempel N. M. S., behaving attained the thirty- 
 second degree in Masonry; also the Odd Fellows' 
 Lodge No. 19, the Knights of Pythias, being a 
 charter member of the Uniform Rank. For some 
 years he advocated Republican principles, but in 
 1896, when that party declared for the gold 
 standard, he came oiit firmly and decidedly for 
 the People's party, believing that the safety of 
 the money problem depends upon raising silver 
 to its original and proper standard. He is a 
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 He is a well-educated man, with a broad knowl- 
 edge of history, mediaeval and modern, and with 
 a desire to aid in the development of his town 
 and county by the support of educational and 
 philanthropic institutions. 
 
 I ^ ARTIN LUTHER LANDES, of LaPorte, 
 y Larimer County, is a man of prominence, 
 (9 and is known throughout the county as a 
 progressive farmer, one who brought skill to the 
 aid of the agricultural art. He was born in Cir- 
 cleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, March 3, 1844. 
 His father, Joseph Laudes, was of German stock 
 and was born in Bucks County, Pa. , but went to 
 Ohio when young; there he married Miss Eve 
 Weaver, also a native of Pennsylvania, but a 
 resident of Circleville, Ohio, from her fourth 
 year, when that city was nothing but a fort. 
 Her father was a farmer. Joseph Landes was a 
 hatter by trade and manufactured hats in Circle- 
 ville for several years, but afterwards started a 
 bakery and in 185 1 located in Lucas County, 
 Iowa, near Chariton, and there engaged in farm- 
 ing. He died in 1864, during the war; his wife 
 reached her seventieth year. Four sons are still 
 living: Henry, a resident of Keokuk, Iowa; John, 
 of Battle Creek, Mich.; Joseph, of Chariton, 
 Iowa; and Martin Luther, of LaPorte, Colo. 
 
 When a child of seven Mr. Landes went with 
 his parents to Iowa, traveling by boat down the 
 Ohio and up the Mississippi to Chariton, where 
 he attended the public schools. In August, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Thirty -sixth 
 Iowa Infantry, and was mustered in at Keokuk. 
 He was in the engagements at Helena, Ark., 
 July 4, 1863, the taking of Little Rock, in 
 October, 1863, and the battle of Little Missouri, 
 in April, 1864. The same month they were sent 
 to re-inforce Banks, and at Marks Mills the en- 
 tire brigade, except six or eight men, were cap- 
 tured, and sent to Tyler, Tex., where they were 
 kept in the stockade ten months and then ex- 
 changed. Mr. Landes, with several others, es- 
 caped capture in the rush through the closing 
 lines. He went to Pine Bluff, Ark., thence to 
 Little Rock, where he remained a year and did 
 city provost duty until the close of the war. 
 After his regiment was exchanged he joined 
 them at Duvall's Bluff and was mustered out in 
 
 October, 1865. He then returned to Iowa and 
 engaged in farming until 1873, when he moved 
 to Colorado and engaged in farming in the 
 vicinity of LaPorte for three years. Going back 
 to Iowa he bought a farm near Red Oak, Mont- 
 gomery County, that state. In 1882 he sold 
 this and bought a ranch of four hundred acres in 
 Livermore, where he raised stock and hay until 
 his wife's failing health necessitated a change, 
 and he moved farther down the valley. In 1893 
 he went to California and spent a year. In the 
 fall of the following year he returned to Colorado 
 and bought his present farm of eighty acres, 
 three and one-half miles from Fort Collins. Here 
 he raises grain and hay and is an extensive cattle 
 feeder. 
 
 Mr. Landes married Miss Frances J. Riddle, a 
 native of Iowa, born in Marion County, that 
 state. She was a daughter of John Riddle, who 
 moved to Colorado in 1870. They have one child 
 living. Pierce J. Landes, aged fourteen, now a 
 student in the LaPorte public school. Their eld- 
 est child, Frances Eve, born in 1870, died at the 
 age of one year. The home farm is a model of 
 comfort. It is irrigated by a private ditch, and 
 ornamented with a grove, while the house and 
 other improvements leave little to wish for. Mrs. 
 Landes is a lady of pleasing manners, and is a 
 power for good in the community. She is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, al- 
 ways ready to reach out a helping hand to a 
 needy brother, and consequently very popular 
 in the community. Mr. Landes was a member 
 of the school board for nine years at Livermore, 
 acting as president and treasurer a part of the 
 time. He is a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and was demitted by the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he stands a 
 stalwart Republican, and in the last election Mrs. 
 Landes voted for William McKinley, although 
 she is somewhat independent in politics. 
 
 . DWARD MONASH. Among the well- 
 ^ known establishments of Denver is The Fair, 
 _ of which Mr. Monash is proprietor, and 
 which has the distinction of being the original 
 department store in the city. Through his 
 energy and excellent judgment a profitable local 
 business has been built up and a mail-order trade 
 that extends throughout the entire state. A 
 
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 visitor to the city finds the store upon one of the 
 best corners in the business center of town; with- 
 in are floor walkers and clerks, who are studious 
 of the customers' desires and attentive to every 
 want. A large trade, both wholesale and retail, 
 is carried on in the articles usually found in a de- 
 partment store, and the business is among the 
 most substantial in the city. 
 
 Mr. Monash is a German by nativity, having 
 been born in the province of Posen, where his 
 ancestors had long resided and where his father, 
 Marcus, was a lithographer. Edward, who was 
 next to the youngest among four children, re- 
 ceived his education and afterward served an 
 apprenticeship in a mercantile establishment in 
 the province of Silesia. When sixteen years of 
 age, in 1865, he came to America and settled in 
 St. Ivouis, where he secured employment as a 
 clerk. In 1868 he moved to I,eota Landing, in 
 Mississippi, and there started in the mercantile 
 business for himself, later also carried on a cotton 
 plantation. Selling out in 1880, he married in 
 Peoria, 111., Miss Jennie Schradzki, whose father, 
 Joseph, was a pioneer merchant of that city. On 
 his bridal tour he visited his old home in Posen, 
 and traveled through England, Ireland, France, 
 Austria and Switzerland. 
 
 Returning to the United States in 1881, Mr. 
 Monash settled in Denver and for one year had a 
 mercantile store on Larimer, between Fourteenth 
 and Fifteenth streets. Afterward for five years 
 he was in the Union building on Sixteenth street, 
 where he inaugurated the department system, 
 starting the first store of that kind in Denver. 
 The name of The Fair was given to the store in 
 1882. Since 1887 he has been located on Six- 
 teenth and Champa streets, where he occupies 
 a large ground space and four floors. For j'ears 
 he has been a member of the chamber of com- 
 merce and board of trade, of which in 1890-92 
 he was a director, then was chosen first vice- 
 president; in 1897 he was again elected a member 
 of the board of directors and the same year be- 
 came president of the board. His service of one 
 year was most satisfactory in every respect, but 
 at the expiration of the term he refused re-election, 
 as the duties of the position took his time too 
 much from business. June i, 1895, under ap- 
 pointment by Governor Mclntire, he became 
 president of the board of public works, and served 
 in that capacity until June i', 1897. He also 
 
 served two years as park commissioner, having 
 been appointed to the position by Mayor Van 
 Horn in 1893. While president of the chamber 
 of commerce, the convention of January, 1898, 
 was originated in that body, who invited the 
 Colorado Cattle Growers' Association to meet in 
 Denver, and out of that convention grew the 
 national association, Mr. Monash appointing the 
 committee that presented it for adoption. He 
 also appointed the committee that went to Phila- 
 delphia and urged, successfully, the American 
 Medical Association to meet in Denver in June, 
 1898. Since the starting of the festival of the 
 mountain and plain, he has been a member of the 
 board of directors and for two years was chair- 
 man of the third day, and is now first vice- 
 president, also chairman of the finance committee 
 of the association and a member of numerous 
 committees. He has never identified himself 
 with politics, his interest in the progress of 
 Denver having been solely that of a public-spirited 
 citizen. However, he is well informed regarding 
 the issues before the people of this age. He 
 favors protection of home industries and the 
 placing of silver upon a proper basis, by which 
 two things he believes the advancement of the 
 city and state and the welfare of the citizens can 
 be most fully conserved. 
 
 (JOSEPH EDWARD PAINTER. Faithful- 
 I ness to duty and strict adherence to a fixed 
 (2/ purpose in life will do more to advance a 
 man's interests than wealth or adventitious cir- 
 cumstances. The successful men of the day are 
 those who have planned their own advancement 
 and have accomplished it in spite of many ob- 
 stacles and with a certainty that could have been 
 attained only through their own efforts. This 
 class of men has a worthy representative in Mr. 
 Painter, the present efiicient chairman of the 
 board of county commissioners of Weld County, 
 who began life amid rather unfavorable circum- 
 stances. Although yet a young man he has left 
 the impress of his individuality on the policy of 
 the county, and is regarded as one of its most 
 prominent and influential citizens. 
 
 Mr. Painter was born in Stafibrd, England, 
 January 6, 1862, and was educated at King Ed- 
 ward VI grammar school of that place. At the 
 age of fifteen he entered the cashier's oflBce of 
 
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 Barbour Brothers' cotton and silk establishment 
 at Manchester, and later was employed in the 
 government postal service, with which he was 
 connected until coming to America at the age of 
 nineteen. He and his brother arrived in New 
 York City October i, 1881, and he came direct 
 to Denver, Colo. , reaching there on the 4th of 
 the same month. He found employment in the 
 large grocery of Briks Cornforth on Fifteenth 
 street, where he remained until the following 
 May. He then went by wagon on a prospecting 
 tour through the southern part of the state. In 
 July he went to the Blue Range to do some work 
 on property for Denver parties, but soon returned 
 to the Atlantic district, where he remained until 
 fall. He looked for a location for a cattle ranch 
 on the Muddy and Troublesome Rivers, but failed 
 to find a suitable one. After spending the win- 
 ter at Rico, he returned to Denver, but almost 
 immediately went to Idaho Springs, where he 
 did some contract work for Brick Pomeroy on the 
 Idalia tunnel, remaining there all winter. He 
 was told that he did more than any one else for 
 the same money. He next went to Middle Park 
 on a gold hunting trip, and then over the range, 
 locating mines in the Atlantic district. He 
 and his brother visited several places and de- 
 cided to embark in the cattle business on what 
 was then known as Blair, now Roggen , Weld 
 County, where they took up government land 
 and also leased some from the state. This they 
 improved, and started in business with two hun- 
 dred head of stock, which they increased to six 
 hundred, and also raised on shares hundreds for 
 other parties. During this time, however, our 
 subject returned to Denver, where he engaged in 
 the wholesale coal, grain and feed business with 
 success, but ill health finally compelled him to 
 abandon that business, and early in the year of 
 1893 he again came to Weld County and em- 
 barked in farming, in which he has also been 
 successful, although the hail in 1898 destroyed 
 his crops and killed some of his hogs and fruit 
 trees. He owns a fine farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres under an excellent state of cultivation, 
 and his cattle graze on six hundred and forty 
 acres adjoining. He expects in the future to 
 give more attention to cattle raising. 
 
 On the 13th of March, 1889, Mr. Painter mar- 
 ried Miss Florence Mary, daughter of Thomas 
 Musgrave, of Pittsburg, Pa., and to them have 
 
 been born two children, Alice Musgrave and 
 Joseph Edward. They attend the Episcopal 
 Church and are widely and favorably known. 
 Taking a deep interest in educational afiairs, 
 Mr. Painter organized School District No. 88, 
 at Roggen and served as trustee there until his 
 removal to Denver, and was also postmaster. In 
 the fall of 1895 he was elected county commis- 
 sioner on the Republican ticket and when the 
 board assembled was chosen chairman. He al- 
 ways attends the state conventions of his party, 
 and takes a prominent part in political affairs. 
 He is a good financier and excellent business 
 man, and is therefore well qualified for his pres- 
 ent responsible positions, the duties of which he 
 is most ably discharging, paying particular at- 
 tention the preservation of county roads. 
 
 HOMAS H. ROBERTSON, of Fort Col- 
 lins, was born in Culpeper County, Va., 
 April 20, 1856. His father, William A., 
 also a native of Culpeper County, born May 28, 
 1820, was a son of William Robertson, a planter, 
 and became the owner of Clairmont, a fine farm, 
 where he has resided for many years. During 
 the late war he was a member of the Virginia 
 cavalry. His wife, Sarah T., was born Septem- 
 ber 14, 1814, in Orange County, Va., where her 
 father, John Parish, was long a resident. She 
 died July 29, 1897. Of her seven children all 
 but one are living. William R. , a farmer, resides 
 in Culpeper, Va.; James F. is a druggist in Char- 
 lotte, N. C. ; Katherine, wife of Edmund P. 
 Nalle, lives in Washington, D. C. ; Alexander F. is 
 an attorney in Staunton, Va. ; and Benjamin T. 
 is a physician at Sulphur Springs, Tex. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 private schools. In 1873 he embarked in the 
 dry-goods business in Culpeper, and continued in 
 that way until 1878, when he became connected 
 with a wholesale dry-goods house in Baltimore, 
 Md. In 1879 he went to Chicago, 111., where he 
 was employed in a wholesale hat and fur house. 
 January, 1882, found him in Colorado, and here 
 he has since resided. He started the firm of 
 T. H. Robertson & Co., on Jefferson street, Fort 
 Collins, where he began with a stock of boots 
 and shoes, and later added a stock of clothing 
 and furnishing goods. In 1885 he sold out and 
 settled on a ranch eight miles northwest of the 
 
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 town, where he pre-empted one hundred and 
 sixty acres and remained for two j'ears. Return- 
 ing to Fort Collins in 1887, he embarked in busi- 
 ness on Linden street, where he carried a full 
 line of shoes, clothing and furnishing goods. 
 July I, 1S96, he sold out his business, since which 
 time he has given his attention principally to 
 feeding and selling cattle. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Robertson took place in 
 Fort Collins June 14, 1888, ^nd united him with 
 Miss Lelia, daughter of Abner Loomis. She 
 was born in Larimer County October 6, 1865, 
 and here her entire life, thus far, has been passed. 
 She is a graduate of the State Agricultural Col- 
 lege. The family home is situated on Mountain 
 avenue and is brightened by two children, Scott 
 Loomis, born August 8, 1891, and Helen Parish, 
 born January 31, 1897. In addition to this prop- 
 erty Mr. Robertson owns other valuable real estate. 
 Politically he is a Democrat, and is chairman of 
 the Democratic county central committee. For 
 a time he served as councilman. He is one of 
 the directors in the Poudre Valley Bank and has 
 other connections with local enterprises. Fra- 
 ternally a Mason, he belongs to Collins Lodge 
 No. 19, A. F. & A. M., Collins Chapter No. 11, 
 R. A. M., and DeMolay Commandery No. 13, 
 K. T., besides which he is identified with the 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 30HN D. JONES, assistant state inspector of 
 coal mines for Colorado and a resident of 
 this state since 1882, was born in Ystrad- 
 gynlais, Breconshire, Wales, the son of David 
 and Margaret Jones. His father, who was born 
 in Carmarthaenshire, removed to Brecon in early 
 manhood and there married and engaged in 
 working for the Yniscedwyn Coal and Iron Com- 
 pany until he was fatally injured by the fall of 
 coal and slate in the mine. After a few months 
 of suffering he passed away, aged forty-six years. 
 His father-in-law, whose name was the same as 
 his own and who came from the same shire, was, 
 however, no relation; he was for years employed 
 as superintendent of the coal department of the 
 Yniscedwyn Coal and Iron Company, but retired 
 in old age and died when past seventy years. 
 Mrs. Margaret Jones, who still lives in Wales, 
 had six children, namely: Mrs. Mary Griffith, of 
 Wales; Mrs. Catherine Hoskins, who died in 
 
 Wales in 1894; David, who is engaged in oper- 
 ating gold mines in Anaconda; John D.; Mrs. 
 Ann Watkins, of Wales; and Mrs. Gwen Thomas, 
 who died in her native land. 
 
 At the age of about ten our subject went into the 
 mines with his father, under whom he learned to 
 mine coal and became familiar with the other de- 
 partments of the work. He was with his father 
 when the latter was fatally injured in the mine. 
 After his father's death he remained a workman 
 in the mine for some time, but believing that 
 America offered better opportunities he resolved 
 to come hither, and in 1882, with his brother, 
 arrived in Colorado, where he secured work at 
 Coal Creek with the Colorado Coal and Iron 
 Company. In 1885 he resigned his position 
 there and went to Leadville, where he engaged 
 in metalliferous mining in Iowa Gulch, but in 
 the fall of the same year went back to Coal Creek. 
 In 1887 he entered the University of Denver, 
 where he studied bookkeeping and other studies 
 connected with the commercial course. After- 
 ward he worked in the Blossburg mines a short 
 time, but in the fall of 1888 took up the study 
 of mathematics in the University of Denver. In 
 the spring of 1889 he went to Idaho Springs, 
 where he worked in the Salisbury mines. 
 
 Taking a vacation from his work, after almost 
 ten years in America, in the fall of 1891 Mr. 
 Jones returned to his native land on a visit, going 
 from New York by steamer to Liverpool and 
 thence to Swansea. He spent three months in 
 the old home shire, and in February, 1892, re- 
 turned to the United States, encountering much 
 unpleasant weather between Liverpool and New 
 York. On going home his brother was with him, 
 but he returned to this countrj^ alone. For some 
 months he was employed in the Maid of Erin 
 mine at Leadville, but an attack of grippe left 
 him in delicate health and he was obliged to seek 
 a lower altitude. He then went to Canon City. 
 In 1893 he engaged with the Santa Fe Company 
 at Rockville, and remained in their employ until 
 February 18, 1895, when he was appointed assist- 
 ant state inspector of coal mines by David Grif- 
 fith. In 1894 he began a course with the Inter- 
 national Correspondence School of Scranton, from 
 which he received a diploma September 8, 1897, 
 having a standing of over ninety-nine per cent. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Odd Fel- 
 lows at Idaho Springs. He is not a member of 
 
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 any denomination, but inclines to the faith of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, to which his par- 
 ents belonged. He has a son, David L., by his 
 marriage to Sarah Rees, who was born in 
 Streator, 111., but spent her girlhood principally 
 in Colorado, where she was married. Her father, 
 Thomas Rees, was born in South Wales, emi- 
 grated to Illinois, thence to Colorado, and en- 
 gaged in mining at Rockville, but died of heart 
 disease while working in the mine. 
 
 61 NDREW J. MACKY, president of the First 
 LI National Bank of Boulder, has been inti- 
 / I mately identified with this institution from 
 its start. He was one of its organizers in 1877 
 and was made a director at that time, but two 
 years later was elected vice-president, and about 
 1885 was chosen president, which position he has 
 filled with efficiency. The other ofiicers are: 
 George F. Fonda, vice-president; W. H. Aller- 
 son, cashier; Charles H. Wise, assistant cashier. 
 The second charter of the bank, secured in 1897, 
 showed an increase of capitalization from 
 $50, 000, to $100, 000, a surplus of $20,000 and paid- 
 in dividends of $260, 000, since its organization. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is a member of an 
 old family of New York. His grandfather, who 
 was a soldier in the war of 1812, engaged in 
 farming and general business pursuits, and died 
 at ninety-five years of age; his wife passed away 
 at the age of ninety-four. The father, Abraham 
 Macky, a native of New York, removed to 
 Wayne County and engaged in farming near 
 Savannah, where he remained until his death. 
 He was accidentally killed in a railroad accident, 
 when forty-five years of age. His wife, Eliza- 
 beth Wormuth, was of Holland-Dutch descent, 
 her ancestors having located in the Mohawk Val- 
 ley at an early day. She died at seventy-seven 
 years. Her father was ninety-five and her 
 mother ninety-four at the time of death. 
 
 The family of which Mr. Macky was the old- 
 est consisted of four sons and three daughters, 
 all of whom, but one daughter, attained mature 
 years and are still living. Two brothers, Jerome 
 and Alonzo, were members of a New York regi- 
 ment during the Civil war, and they, as well as 
 the third brother, Chauncey, reside in Michi- 
 gan. The subject of this sketch was born in 
 Herkimer County, N. Y., November 11, 1834, 
 14 
 
 and was reared in Wayne County, where he at- 
 tended public school. He learned the trade of a 
 carpenter and joiner, which he followed in Wayne 
 County until 1857, and then went to Grant Coun- 
 ty, Wis. , where he was similarly occupied. Dur- 
 ing the Pike's Peak gold excitement of 1859 he 
 started for the mountains, going with team and 
 cows to Omaha, and from there three weeks 
 later he started across the plains with an ox- 
 train. After a journey of six weeks he reached 
 Colorado, in July, and spent the remainder of the 
 summer in Boulder and Gilpin Counties. In i860 
 he went to California Gulch, where he engaged 
 in mining, but in the fall returned to Boulder, 
 where he worked at his trade. On coming to 
 this now beautiful city he found it a town of log 
 huts and tents, and in the fall of 1 860 he built the 
 first frame house here. It then stood on the corner 
 of Pearl and Fourteenth streets, but has since 
 been removed two blocks east. Being a fine 
 building for those days, it was used for special 
 occasions, such as court sessions, public meet- 
 ings and dances. Later he erected the first bpck 
 residence in Boulder, a portion of which is still 
 standing; also the first brick business .house, 
 which still stands; and the first building with 
 plate glass front and iron posts. 
 
 The first public position held by Mr. Macky 
 was that of deputy to Mr. Chambers, the county 
 treasurer. Afterward he was elected to the office 
 and became the second trea.surer of Boulder 
 County, holding the position nine years, a longer 
 period than it has been held by any other in- 
 cumbent. He was postmaster for more than 
 nine years and the postoffice was kept in his 
 building. As deputy internal revenue collector 
 for Boulder, Weld and Larimer Counties, it was 
 his duty to collect income, profession and property 
 tax, placed on account of the Civil war. This 
 position of deputy he held until the oflSce was 
 moved to Denver. For some time he was city 
 clerk, also served as postmaster and city treas- 
 urer over nine 3'ears; and as clerk of the dis- 
 trict court under James A. Belford, and deputy 
 clerk for Boulder County under John A. Cleve- 
 land. As justice of the peace he also rendered 
 efficient service to his community. For many 
 years he served as secretary of the Boulder 
 County Agricultural Society, accepting the posi- 
 tion when the organization had a debt of $4,000 
 and through his personal efibrts reducing the in- 
 
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 debtedness to $75. He had almost the whole 
 burden of the management of the societ}^ and suc- 
 ceeded in increasing its usefulness and popularity, 
 but after his resignation as secretary the society 
 fell to pieces. 
 
 In addition to the presidency of the bank, Mr. 
 Macky has other valuable business interests. He 
 was one of the organizers of the Boulder Mill- 
 ing and Elevator Company, with which he is still 
 connected. During all this time he has been in- 
 terested in mining. Among the tracts of real 
 estate that he owns are the lands included in the 
 Mapleton addition to the city of Boulder, and he 
 is secretary and treasurer of the company that 
 has platted and sold the lots. In the association 
 of Boulder County Pioneers, of which he is an 
 active member, he has for years held the office of 
 secretary and is also a member of the As.sociation 
 of Colorado Pioneers. His marriage, which took 
 place in Boulder March 8, 1870, united him with 
 Adelaide B. Dickerson, who was born in Massa- 
 chusetts and died in Colorado in 1895. Frater- 
 nally he is identified with Columbia Lodge No. 
 14, A. F. & A. M.; Boulder Chapter No. 7, 
 R. A. M.; Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, 
 K. T. ; El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. , and the Eastern 
 Star Lodge. Politically he is a Republican and 
 has been a member of the state central committee 
 of the party. 
 
 (JEROME MATHEWS, who is engaged in 
 I the cattle business in Elbert County, was 
 (2) born in Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio, and 
 is the son of Bernard and Ellen (Clinton) 
 Mathews, both natives of Dublin, Ireland. His 
 mother, who was of English ancestry, was a lineal 
 descendant of Lord Clinton, who was a British 
 general during the Revolutionary war. Bernard 
 Mathews grew to manhood in his native land, 
 where he married and where two of his children 
 were born. On emigrating to America he settled 
 in Ohio and engaged in farming in Hardin 
 County, where he died at ninety-one years of age. 
 His wife was seventy-two at the time of her 
 death. 
 
 The parental family consisted of ten children, 
 of whom we note the following: Mrs. Mary Gar- 
 rity lives in Des Moines, Iowa; John, one of the 
 pioneer cattlemen of Elbert County, owns and 
 carries on a ranch at North Park; James C, also 
 a cattleman, resides in Denver; Matthew R. is in 
 
 North Park; Cornelius M. is ranching in Elbert 
 County; Lucy P., a sister of charity, is con- 
 nected with the Good Samaritan Hospital of Cin- 
 cinnati; Joseph C. resides on the old Ohio 
 homestead; Clotilda was the wife of D. Flanni- 
 gan, of Kenton, Ohio, where she died in 1897; 
 Alfred is the editor of the Kenton Democrat, pub- 
 lished in Kenton, Ohio; and Jerome is the young- 
 est of the family. 
 
 The first members of the family to locate in 
 Colorado were John and Cornelius M., who 
 crossed the plains with freight teams in 1862 and 
 for a period continued in that then very lucrative 
 business. In 1869 they established a ranch upon 
 the present site of Elizabeth, Elbert County, and 
 continued in the cattle business until their cattle 
 were numbered by the thousands. In 1872 they 
 were joined by James C, who had gone from 
 Ohio to Des Moines, Iowa. There, in 1869, he 
 married Teresa Kennedy, a beautiful and accom- 
 plished lady, who comes from a fine family num- 
 bering among their ancestors the eminent scholar. 
 Dr. Cahil, and Bishop Butler, of Limerick. 
 Coming from a family of orators, she inherited a 
 great talent for this art, and in early life became 
 a pupil of the late Walter C. Lyman. On arriv- 
 ing in Colorado she became a pioneer ranch- 
 woman, but later made her home in Denver, 
 where she has devoted her time to her art and 
 established The Kennedy College of Oratory. 
 
 Jerome, of this sketch, was educated in Notre 
 Dame University at South Bend, Ind., from 
 which he received his diploma in 1874. Being 
 the seventh son of the seventh son, it was decided 
 by the family that he should be a physician, but, 
 his health having failed during his studies, he 
 was advised by his doctor to give up school and 
 seek an open air life in Colorado, where he ar- 
 rived in 1877, joining his older brothers in the 
 cattle business. In 1886 he and his brother, 
 James C, established a large hay ranch at Wal- 
 den in North Park. They fenced the entire ranch 
 and carried on cattle-raising extensively, raising 
 a fine grade of cattle and making shipments to 
 the east. The climate of North Park being 
 severe and the locality too far away from their 
 Denver home, they sold their property there and 
 returned to Elbert Count}^ where they now are 
 engaged in cattle-raising. 
 
 Politically Mr. Mathews is in sympathy with 
 the principles of the D^tPQCratic party and he 
 
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 votes that ticket at elections, but the duties of 
 business have engrossed his attention and pre- 
 vented him from identifying himself with public 
 afEairs. He is a member of the Colorado Cattle 
 Growers' Association. In everything pertaining 
 to the cattle business he takes a warm interest. 
 He believes Colorado to be one of the best of our 
 states for stock-raising purposes, the abundance 
 of water, excellence of the pasturage and extent 
 of range making it especially adapted for that de- 
 partment of agriculture. 
 
 pQlLLIAM P. ALLEN, M. D., a practicing 
 \KI pl^J'sicianof Eaton, Weld County, is one 
 Y V of the rising young professional men of his 
 locality. He is a son of Levi E. Allen, president 
 of the Weld County Abstract Company, at 
 Greeley, and a native of New York state, born 
 January 25, 1840, to John and Mary (Butterick) 
 Allen, natives respectively of Hartford, Conn., and 
 Massachusetts. John Allen, who 'was one of 
 eleven children that attained mature years, en- 
 gaged in farm pursuits during his active life. 
 His son, Levi E. , was educated in a log school 
 house in Wisconsin, the family having moved to 
 that state when he was five years of age. When 
 twenty-one he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth 
 Wisconsin Infantry, and later, until May, 1866, 
 served as quartermaster of the Sixty-fifth United 
 States colored troops. On his return to Wiscon- 
 sin he engaged in farming near Sharon, but 
 after some years, in 1872, he opened a hardware 
 store. Five years later he was elected circuit 
 clerk, which office he filled for seven years, then 
 resumed farming. In 1893 he came to Colorado 
 and has since carried on an abstract business. 
 He is a member of U. S. Grant Post No. 13, 
 G. A. R.J and its present commander. In re- 
 ligion he is a Congregationalist. In 1864 he 
 married Carrie, daughter of Joseph R. and 
 Celestial (Johnson) Wilkins, and they are the 
 parents of five children, namely: Pliny W., who 
 is associated with his father in business; William 
 P.; Albert J., a notary public, and also in the 
 abstract business; Mary C, a teacher in the Fort 
 Collins public schools; and Maud Alice. Calver 
 Allen, the doctor's great-grandfather,- was a 
 brigadier-general in the war of 1812, and fought 
 in the battle of Sacket's Harbor. 
 
 In Sharon, Wis., where he was born May 27, 
 
 1870, the subject of this sketch received his edu- 
 cation, first attending public schools and later 
 taking a special course under a professor, after 
 which he matriculated at the Chicago Homeo- 
 pathic College. He continued in that institution 
 until he graduated with the class of 1894, and 
 afterward spent eighteen months in hospital 
 work, in order that he might obtain the practical 
 experience so essential to the highest success. 
 Coming west, he opened an office at Greeley, but 
 a few months later located at Eaton, where he 
 has since built up an excellent practice. At this 
 writing he holds ofiice as health physician of 
 Eaton. His practice takes him on drives through 
 the surrounding country, as well as in the village 
 itself. He is a student of the profession, and 
 keeps in touch with every advance made in the 
 science, thereby heightening his skill as a phy- 
 sician. Fraternally he is connected with Occi- 
 dental Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., of Greeley, 
 Eaton Lodge No. 130, Woodmen of the World, 
 and Elkhorn (Wis.) Lodge No. 89, K. of P. 
 In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 P QlLLIAM NICHOLSON, president of the 
 I A/ Long's Peak Coal Company and mayor of 
 V Y Erie, Weld County, was born in County 
 Durham, England, July 21, 1850, a son of Henry 
 and 'Jane (Atkinson) Nicholson. He was the 
 youngest of thirteen children, five of whom are 
 still living. Those besides himself are sisters: 
 Mrs. Mary Robinson, a widow; Elizabeth, wife 
 of John Warhurst; Esther, wife of John Lawson; 
 and Jane, Mrs. Thomas Johnson, all living in 
 England. The father, who spent his entire life 
 in England, followed coal mining until his death. 
 When a small child our subject was deprived 
 of a mother's care by death. He was thirty 
 when his father died. From the time he was 
 eighteen he was thrown upon his own resources. 
 Going to work in the mines, he devoted himself 
 to coal mining, and at twenty years of age had 
 charge of some ninety men in the Dickinson mine, 
 which important position he held about ten years. 
 In 1 88 1 he determined to come to America and 
 landed in Philadelphia after a thirteen days' 
 voyage on the steamer "British Crown," which 
 anchored in harbor July 28 of that year. From 
 Philadelphia he went direct to Steubenville, Ohio, 
 where be worked in the mines for two years. In 
 
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 1883 he came to Colorado and took charge of the 
 Garfield mine at Erie, which he managed some 
 four years. He was then made manager of the 
 Stewart mine here and for five years continued in 
 this position. 
 
 Resigning that position in 1892, Mr. Nicholson 
 formed a partnership with Joseph R. Powell and 
 leased their present property, and sinking their 
 mine, began business for themselves as the Long's 
 Peak Coal Mining Company, with Mr. Nicholson 
 as president and Mr. Powell as vice-president and 
 secretary. In 1893 they sold a half-interest in 
 the mine to the United Coal Company, when that 
 company was incorporated and Edward P. Phelps, 
 of Denver, became treasurer of the consolidated 
 company. 
 
 In Denver, in 1883, Mr. Nicholson was united 
 in marriage with Miss Alice V. Pallatt, a native 
 of Philadelphia. No children were born to their 
 marriage. 
 
 In April of 1898 Mr. Nicholson was elected 
 mayor of Erie. Four years prior to this he served 
 as a member of the board of aldermen. He is in- 
 terested in all matters pertaining to the welfare 
 of his fellow-citizens and the development of local 
 resources. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Garfield Lodge No. 50, A. F. & A. M., Long's 
 Peak Commandery No. 12, K. T., of Longmont, 
 and Eureka Lodge No. i, A. O. U. W. His 
 residence is one of the most handsome in this 
 section. He is held in high esteem by all with 
 whom he comes in contact. 
 
 HON. HENRY GEBHARD. In the list of 
 industries contributing to the development 
 of Colorado the Colorado Packing and Pro- 
 vision Company should receive prominent men- 
 tion. This company was organized in 1890 by 
 Mr. Gebhard, who the following year built a 
 large packing house, equipped with refrigerator 
 and ice machine and furnished with steam power. 
 From the first he has been the president of the 
 company as well as its manager, and it is largely 
 due to his enterprise and sagacious judgment that 
 the house does the largest business of any of its 
 kind in the state. 
 
 As the name indicates, the Gebhard family is 
 of German origin. The subject of this .sketch 
 was born in Baden February 12, 1846, and that 
 city was also the birthplace of his parents, Adam 
 
 and Susan (Geiger) Gebhard, and of his grand- 
 fathers, Henry Gebhard and Conrad Geiger, both 
 farmers by occupation. Of the family of five 
 children he was next to the eldest; he has with 
 him a younger brother, Paul, who is interested 
 in the packing company. When seventeen years 
 of age Henry began to learn the builder's trade, 
 which he followed for some years in his native 
 land. In 1868 he took passage on a vessel at 
 Hamburg and after landing in New York he pro- 
 ceeded direct to Chicago, from there going to the 
 Lake Superior region and working at his trade 
 in Hancock, Mich. In 1869 he came to Colorado 
 and located in Central City, where he secured 
 employment at his trade. 
 
 In company with another gentleman, in 1872 
 Mr. Gebhard started in business for himself, and 
 the firm of Huber & Gebhard became well known 
 as wholesale and retail dealers in meat. Two 
 years later he started a ranch in Elbert County 
 and embarked in the cattle business, buying and 
 selling, and shipping to Denver and other points. 
 The ranch was sold in 1884 and the partnership 
 dissolved the next year. Coming to make his 
 home in Denver in 1884, Mr. Gebhard has since 
 resided in this city, where, in 1887, he laid the 
 plans for his packing house. He was first a 
 member of the Burkhardt Packing Company, 
 which conducted business in an old packing 
 house built by Mr. Hufifers, but this building 
 soon became too small for the increasing trade. 
 In 1890 he organized the Colorado Packing and 
 Provision Company, the largest packers of pork 
 and beef in the state. The packing house con- 
 tains every modern equipment. The meat is cut 
 up on the second floor and dropped to the cellar, 
 where it is cured and hams are smoked. On the 
 third floor is the cooling or chilling room, and on 
 the fourth floor is the sausage factory. . The meat 
 is distributed in Denver and shipped to the 
 mountain towns of Colorado; also to New Mex- 
 ico, Arizona, Texas, Idaho, California, Nevada, 
 Oregon and Washington. 
 
 Mr. Gebhard is a member of the Colorado 
 Cattle Growers' Association and has served on a 
 number of its committees. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican. For two terms (from 1878 to 1882) he 
 was a member of the state legislature, and served 
 with marked ability and satisfaction to his con- 
 stituents. He also served on the board of county 
 commissioners of Elbert County, and for one 
 
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 term was its chairman. He is a director in the 
 Denver National Bank. He has a comfortable 
 home in Denver, presided over by his wife, who 
 was Miss Emily Ehorst, a native of Hanover. 
 The}' are the parents of six children, namely: 
 Charles, who is foreman of the shipping depart- 
 ment of the packing house; Harry, who is em- 
 ployed on the delivery force; Mina; Paul and 
 Otto, twins; and Margaret. 
 
 The business interests of Colorado are indebted 
 to such men as Mr. Gebhard for developing the 
 resources of the countr)' and giving employment 
 to many hands and thus sending happiness to 
 many homes. He worked his way to success by 
 the use of good business methods, and built up 
 an enviable reputation among the business men 
 of the. state, who prize his friendship and ac- 
 knowledge him as a leader among men. 
 
 gEORGE RICHARD WILLIAMSON is one 
 of the pioneers of Colorado, as he arrived 
 here in December, 1858, and in the follow- 
 ing spring assisted in laying out the town of 
 Boulder, and built one of the first houses in the 
 place, it being made of logs. For the past forty 
 years he has been actively interested in farming 
 and mining operations and has done all within his 
 power to advance the material welfare of this lo- 
 cality. He constructed the wagon road between 
 Boulder and Rawlins, along Bear Canon; was one 
 of the organizers of the Boulder National Bank, 
 and since the expiration of its second year has 
 been the president and chief stockholder. He 
 was one of the early members of the Boulder 
 Electric Light Company, and has been a director 
 and treasurer of the same; and is financially in- 
 terested in the Boulder Elevator and Milling Com- 
 pany. 
 
 The birth of G. R. Williamson occurred near 
 Mercer, Mercer County, Pa., July 14, 1824. His 
 parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (Fruit) William- 
 son, were natives of the same county, Mercer. 
 The father was a soldier of the war of 18 12, enlist- 
 ing when but eighteen years of age, and was in 
 the lake region service. His three brothers were 
 also participants in the war, and one of them, 
 Samuel, rose to the rank of colonel. Thomas 
 Williamson was occupied in farming in his native 
 county until he was well along in years. His 
 death took place when he had reached his seventy- 
 
 first year. His wife, who was a daughter of 
 Richard Fruit, died at the age of fifty years. Her 
 mother was related to Governor Curtiu of Penn- ■ 
 sylvania. The marriage of Thomas and Eliza- 
 beth Williamson was blessed with eight children, 
 four of whom survive. Samuel, a brother of our 
 subject, died in Colorado. 
 
 Anancestor of our subject, Thomas Williamson, 
 was created a baronet June 3, 1642, by Charles I. 
 of England. The family coat-of-arms is a shield 
 or a chevron gules, between three trefoils, slipped 
 sable. The crest: issuing from a mural crown, 
 gules a drui-wyvern, and the motto is "Et patri- 
 bus et posteritate." ("Both for forefathers and 
 for posterity.") The great-grandfather of our 
 subject was a native of Scotland. He married 
 Mollie Cochran, and emigrated to the United 
 States, settling in eastern Pennsylvania. His 
 forefather's history and lineage can be traced back 
 as far as 1381. Grandfather George Williamson 
 was born in Pennsylvania and with his six broth- 
 ers fought in the war of the Revolution. Subse- 
 quently he went to the neighborhood of Lexing- 
 ton, Ky., where he located on a land claim, but 
 the Indians were so troublesome that he returned 
 to his native state, and in 1798 engaged in farm- 
 ing in Mercer County, where he continued to 
 dwell until his death, at the age of fourscore 
 years. 
 
 Reared on a farm and educated in the district 
 schools, such was the history of George R. Wil- 
 liamson prior to his eighteenth year, when he 
 obtained a teacher's certificate and had charge of 
 a school for a term or more. He went to Wiscon- 
 sin and spent the winter of 1852-53, and in the 
 following year crossed the state of Iowa with a 
 team, and settling in Nebraska, engaged in farm- 
 ing in Dakota County. He was the first sheriff 
 of that county, in which region he remained until 
 the Pike's Peak excitement led him to start for 
 Colorado. He joined a wagon train fitted out in 
 Sioux City, and journeyed up the Platte as far as 
 Julesburg, thence to the present site of Cheyenne, 
 and southward to Boulder, the trip taking about 
 two months. Stopping in the hamlet of Big 
 Thompson, they put up some shanties and in the 
 January following went to Boulder. Mr. William- 
 son engaged in gulch-mining at South Boulder, 
 Spring Gulch, California Gulch, etc., for some time, 
 having John Rothrick for his partner. In the fall 
 of i860 our subject returned to this town and has 
 
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 since been interested in several mines which 
 he opened, known as the Yellow Pine Group. 
 He personally superintends the mines, and 
 made the locations under the new law of fif- 
 teen hundred feet to the claim. He also is 
 concerned in the extension of the Utica mine 
 east (the Oklahoma), near Ward, and in other 
 mining property of value. He has made a 
 study of mineralogy and is thoroughly posted 
 upon everything pertaining to ores and mining. 
 His fine farm of three hundred acres is well im- 
 proved, and lies about a mile and a-half east of 
 Boulder. A well-built brick block, called in his 
 honor, was erected by him in this place, as well 
 as other structures. For years he made his home 
 near Sugar lyOaf, in this county, in order to be in 
 the vicinity of his mines, but for about nine years 
 he has been a resident of Boulder. Until recently, 
 and from its organization, he was a member of the 
 Association of Colorado Pioneers, and he still be- 
 longs to the Boulder County Pioneer Society 
 
 May 13, 1875, Mr. Williamson married in Den- 
 ver Mrs. Erie (Kuester) Graves, daughter of 
 James M. Kuester, who was a noted editor and 
 journalist. He was one of the first editors of the 
 Pittsburg Dispatch;\dXtr published the Mercer Dis- 
 patch; the Erie Observer; the Lawrence Journal, 
 ofNewcatle. He came to Denver in 1875, and 
 died at the age of seventy-two years. His father, 
 Mordecai, was a native of Germany, and after his 
 settlement in the Keystone state, married a 
 Quaker maiden, and lived in Philadelphia. The 
 mother of Mrs. Williamson was Catherine, daugh- 
 ter of Daniel Deutler and wife, who was a Miss 
 Gottschalk, a descendant of a Revolutionary war 
 hero. Mrs. Williamson was born near Erie, Pa.; 
 was educated in the high school and seminary of 
 Newcastle, and upon reaching maturity married 
 Daniel Graves, a farmer, who died in 1876, in 
 Pennsylvania. Some time afterward she came 
 west, and lived in Denver until her marriage to 
 Mr. Williamson. Her only sister, Mary E., is 
 Mrs. M. Bliss, of Denver, and her only brother, 
 Gilbert, died in Pittsburg. She is president of 
 the Ladies' Union of the Boulder Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 In early life Mr. Williamson was a Whig in 
 politics, and cast his first vote for Henry Clay. 
 After the dissolution of the Whig party, he be- 
 came somewhat independent in politics, voting 
 for what he considered to be the best interests of 
 
 the people and the country. In 1874 he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Grant one of the county 
 commissioners of Boulder County and served 
 about one year. He was one of the prime factors 
 in the organization of the silver party in the state, 
 and has ever since been a strong advocate of the 
 same, believing that the principles and policy of 
 that party would best insure the development of 
 the state and country. He was one of the men 
 who determined to make the ratio sixteen to one 
 in the platform of the party. 
 
 For many years Mr. Williamson has been rec- 
 ognized as one of the most intelligent and able 
 men of Boulder County and this portion of Colo- 
 rado. He is one of those who, in the pioneer era, 
 laid the foundation, broad and deep, which has 
 enabled the state to move forward in its splendid 
 development. As one of the pioneers and as a 
 citizen possessing sterling qualities of manhood, 
 he will long be remembered. He is now the oldest 
 bank president living in the county. 
 
 rjROF. L. G. CARPENTER, professor of 
 y^ civil and irrigation engineering in the State 
 \!> Agricultural College at Fort Collins, was 
 born near Orion, Oakland County, Mich., and is 
 a descendant of a family that came from England 
 to Massachusetts, thence spreading out, through 
 different branches, into Connecticut, Rhode Is- 
 land and Long Island. The first of the name in 
 this country came in 1636 to Plymouth and one 
 of the family became the wife of Governor Brad- 
 ford. Daniel P. Carpenter, theprofes,sor's grand- 
 father, was born in Queens County, N. Y., and 
 became a pioneer of New York, one of his daugh- 
 ters being the first white child born at Hornells- 
 ville, that state. In 1836 he took his family to 
 Michigan and settled near Orion, where he en- 
 gaged in farming until his death. He was suc- 
 ceeded in the ownership of the homestead by his 
 son, C. K., a native of Steuben County, N. Y., 
 but during most of his life a resident of Michigan, 
 where he was a very prominent man. In many 
 enterprises he took an active part, all of them of 
 a responsible nature. He was instrumental in 
 the organization of the Farmers' (or Monitor) 
 Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he 
 remained president until his death and which be- 
 came remarkably successful. Prior to the Civil 
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 legislature on his party's ticket. During the 
 war he was a stanch Union man, and called the 
 first Union mass meeting in Oakland County, 
 irrespective of party lines. Largely through his 
 efforts was built the Detroit and Bay City Rail- 
 road, the right of way for which he secured, as 
 well as raising a large part of the money required. 
 He was vice-president and a director of the road 
 until his death. In the Grange he served as a 
 state officer. A stanch friend of the Prohibition 
 movement, and by principle a total abstainer, he 
 finally identified himself with the Prohibition 
 party, and upon that ticket was nominated for gov- 
 ernor of Michigan. At one time he was also the 
 Greenback nominee for governor, but refused to 
 accept the nomination, having never acted with 
 that party. He died in 1884, at the age of fifty- 
 eight years. 
 
 The mother of Professor Carpenter was born in 
 Livingston County, N. Y., and was Jennette, 
 daughter of George Coryell, a native of New 
 York, but from 1843 a farmer in Lapeer County, 
 Mich. The Cory ells are of French -Huguenot 
 extraction, and he inherited the courage and 
 determination of character so noticeable in people 
 of that descent. In early days he went to New 
 Orleans on a flatboat and from that city crossed 
 the country into Texas, where a brother-in-law 
 was surveyor-general. He remained for two 
 years and one of the counties of the state was 
 named in his honor. Mrs. Carpenter is still liv- 
 ing in Orion. Of her eight children all but two 
 are living. Prof. R. C, the eldest of the six, is 
 a graduate of the University of Michigan and the 
 Agricultural College, and is now professor of ex- 
 perimental engineering at Cornell. Judge W. L., 
 the second son, is an attorney of Detroit and a 
 jurist of Wayne County, Mich. Blanche is the 
 wife of C. H. Seeley, of Aberdeen, S. Dak.; 
 Mary L. is the wife of N. S. Mayo, a professor in 
 the Agricultural College of Connecticut; and 
 Jennette, a member of the class of '98, Agricult- 
 ural College of Michigan. 
 
 In Orion, where he was born March 28, 1861, 
 the subject of this sketch gained the rudiments of 
 his education. From 1876 to 1879 he attended 
 the Michigan Agricultural College, from which 
 he graduated with the degree of B. S. Afterward 
 he engaged in teaching French in the college. In 
 1 88 1 he was made assistant professor of mathe- 
 matics and engineering, which he held until 
 
 resigning to accept his present position. He 
 was practically the organizer of the department 
 of irrigation engineering in the Agricultural 
 College of Colorado, the former professor having 
 resigned the position six weeks after he opened 
 the department. He spent the winters of 1881-82 
 and 1883-84 in graduate work in the University 
 of Michigan, making a specialty of mathematics 
 and physics. In the winters of 1885-86 and 
 1887-88 he engaged in post-graduate work in 
 Johns Hopkins Univensity at Baltimore, where 
 he had all the privileges of a Fellow and made a 
 specialty of mathematics, physics and astronomy. 
 In June, 1888, he accepted the position with the 
 Colorado State Agricultural College, and in Sep- 
 tember took up the professorship, beginning ex- 
 perimental work in one room, then branching out 
 to the main building. In 1893 he took posses- 
 sion of the engineering building, which had been 
 remodeled for this department, with a main class 
 room upstairs, an office and drafting room on the 
 first floor, and a laboratory in the basement. At 
 first he had but four classes, now he has nearly 
 thirty, some of them in two and three divisions. 
 An engineering course, which is complete, has 
 been introduced. He also has charge of the 
 meteorology and irrigation engineering section of 
 the United States Agricultural Experiment sta- 
 tion, the line of experiments stretching out over 
 a large part of the state. A number of years ago 
 he was appointed an United States artesian well 
 investigator, having charge of Colorado and New 
 Mexico. 
 
 In Jackson, Mich,, Professor Carpenter mar- 
 ried Miss Mary J. Merrill, who was born in 
 Canada and was reared in Michigan, graduating 
 from the Michigan Agricultural College in 188 1 
 with the degree of B. S., and later receiving the 
 degree of M. S. They have two children, Charles 
 Louis and Jennette. 
 
 Some years ago Professor Carpenter was made 
 a Fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, of which he is a 
 member. He is also a member of the British 
 Association for the Advancement of Science and 
 attended the meeting of the society at Montreal 
 in 1884. He was one of the incorporators of the 
 Michigan Engineering Society and is an active 
 member of the Denver Engineering Society, of 
 which he has served as vice-president. In 1891 
 he assisted in the organization, at Salt Lake City, 
 
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 of the American Society of Irrigation Engineers, 
 of which he held the office of president for two 
 years and which has members from many of the 
 countries of the world. He takes an active in- 
 terest in the work of the American Society for 
 the Promotion of Engineering Education, and 
 serves as a member of its board of directors. In 
 1895 the French government conferred on him 
 the order. Chevalier du Merite Agricole, in rec- 
 ognition of important services rendered in the 
 department of agriculture. He is probably the 
 only American on whom this honor has been 
 bestowed. 
 
 In 1892 he visited Europe, and spent some 
 time in investigating the irrigation methods and 
 enterprises of France, Italy and Algeria. The 
 work of this department has been generally recog- 
 nized by the different countries in their leading 
 papers, viz.: Germany, France, Russia, India, 
 Australia and England, also throughout the 
 United States. This recognition of his work is 
 naturally quite gratifying to him. It is solely due 
 to his personal efforts that his department is fore- 
 most among all in the entire country, while he 
 has without doubt the best and most complete 
 library on irrigation in existence. He is fre- 
 quently called upon to deliver lectures along the 
 line of his specialties. In 1898 he gave the state 
 address for the League of American Wheelmen 
 at Rocky Mountain Chautauqua, Glen Park. In 
 1884 he received the degree of M. S. from his 
 alma mater. In religion he is connected with the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 (S\ LFRED A. FALKENBURG, head consul 
 T\ Pacific jurisdiction of Woodmen of the 
 I I World, was born in southern Indiana, Jan- 
 uary 31, 1857, and is a son of Rev. S. B. and A. 
 Jane (Gardiner) Falkenburg, the father a minis- 
 ter in the Methodist Episcopal denomination. 
 Fred A. (he is known by this name) was educa- 
 ted primarily in the public schools of Indiana, and 
 afterward entered the preparatory department of 
 Moore's Hill College, where he remained a stu- 
 dent for six years. At the end of the junior year 
 he entered Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- 
 lege in Indianapolis, where he took a business 
 and law course. He engaged in law practice in 
 Indiana from 1876 to 1881. In the latter year 
 he became auditor for the Toledo, Cincinnati & 
 
 St. Louis Railroad, then in process of construc- 
 tion, also auditor for the construction company in 
 charge of the building of the road. 
 
 The next position secured by Mr. Falkenburg 
 was with the Royal Fire Insurance Company of 
 Chicago, where he had charge of sub-agency ac- 
 counts for thirteen northwestern states. After- 
 ward he became secretary and treasurer of a large 
 publishing firm in Chicago, and later, going to 
 Lincoln, Neb. , he entered the wholesale book and 
 stationery business. It was while in that city he 
 became interested in Woodcraft, and there he 
 held the position of presiding officer of the local 
 camp. Modern Woodmen of America. In May, 
 1889, he moved to Colorado, at which time Will- 
 iam Jennings Bryant succeeded him in the posi- 
 tion of presidingofficer at Lincoln. June 6, 1890, 
 with Joseph Cullen Root, he organized the Wood- 
 men of the World, which had a membership, May 
 I, 1898, of one hundred and twenty-eight thou- 
 sand, and has paid over $3,000,000 in benefits to 
 widows and orphans. At the convention where the 
 Woodmen of the World was organized he served 
 as secretary and now holds benefit certificate No. 
 I , in that order. At this writing he is sovereign 
 adviser of the eastern jurisdiction and head con- 
 sul, or chief executive, of the Pacific jurisdiction, 
 in which are thirty-five thousand members and in 
 which $1,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries. 
 
 Outside of his executive duties and the man- 
 agement of a correspondence that averages three 
 thousand letters per month, Mr. Falkenburg has 
 been engaged considerably in platform work, and 
 during the past year (1897) delivered two hun- 
 dred and forty-seven addresses, traveling over 
 thirty thousand miles. He is serving his fourth 
 biennial term as head consul in the Woodmen of 
 the World. Three times he has been selected as 
 a representative of the order to the National Fra- 
 ternal Congress. On the breaking out of the war 
 with Spain in 1898 he was the first supreme offi- 
 cer of any fraternal order who officially requested 
 all of the local organizations to keep all soldier 
 Woodmen in good standing during their term of 
 service under the stars and stripes; also to provide 
 a large hospital fund for wounded and sick mem- 
 bers of the order. His request was unanimously 
 adopted by the camps of the nine states under his 
 supervision. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Falkenburg took place in 
 Indianapolis in 1879 and united him with Miss 
 
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 Ida May Baty. Three children were born of 
 their union, but only one survives, Jessie May, 
 who was born in Chicago. 
 
 While in Indianapolis, Mr. Falkenburg took 
 an active part in politics, favoring the Republican 
 party. He is not an office-seeker and has de- 
 clined many opportunities to become a candidate 
 for office. His membership is in the Cameron 
 Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, which he 
 serves as a trustee. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Masonic fraternity. Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, besides the Woodmen 
 of the World and Fraternal Union of America, 
 already alluded to. 
 
 HON. HIRAM R. BROWN. In 1874 Mr. 
 Brown settled upon his present farm, two 
 and one quarter miles northeast of Arvada, 
 Jeffisrson County, where he had purchased one 
 hundred and sixty acres of railroad land some 
 two years before. Here he has since resided, 
 having in the meantime added to his landed pos- 
 sessions until his farm now comprises two hun- 
 dred and thirty-five acres. As a Republican he 
 has been closely identified with public affairs of 
 his county. In 1889 he was elected to represent 
 his district in the state legislature; two years later 
 he was elected to the state senate and served in 
 the eighth, ninth and tenth general assemblies. 
 During his term in the senate the Australian bal- 
 lot system was introduced, the police system of 
 Denver was enacted and the woman suffrage was 
 carried. 
 
 In Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind. , the subject 
 of this sketch was born December 13, 1836. He 
 was one of nine children, five of whom are still 
 living: Caroline P., widow of Elisha McMillan, 
 and residing in Berkeley, Arapahoe County; 
 William B. , also of Berkeley; Hiram R. ; Richard 
 T., who lives in Lincoln, Neb.; and Sarah E., 
 wife of T. W. H. Miller, a retired farmer living 
 in Tecumseh, Neb. The father of this family 
 was John Brown, a native of Virginia, but 
 reared in Kentucky, and after his marriage to 
 Mathilda Board he moved to Indiana, settling 
 in Bedford, where he secured employment as 
 clerk in a bank. After filling this position for 
 twenty-two years he removed to Lee County , Iowa, 
 where he purchased an extensive tract of land 
 and laid out the town of Franklin, now a flourish- 
 
 ing village. After a number of years he removed 
 to Mount Pleasant and there died. In political 
 life he was prominent and served for one term as 
 a member of the legislature. He was a member 
 of the committee chosen to locate the state capitol 
 when it was changed from Iowa City to Des 
 Moines. He was a stanch advocate of Republican 
 principles and contributed largely to his party's 
 success in his locality. He was well situated 
 financially, being the owner of large tracts of 
 land. By observation and reading he became the 
 possessor of a broad education that made him an 
 entertaining companion. 
 
 After having completed the studies of the com- 
 mon schools, our subject entered the Iowa Uni- 
 versity at Mount Pleasant, and there completed 
 his education. Afterward he taught one term of 
 school in Pike County, Mo., and two terms in 
 Mount Pleasant, Iowa. In 1862 he came to Colo- 
 rado, making the journey down the river in com- 
 pany with another man, and landing at Louisiana, 
 where he took a steamer up the Missouri to 
 Leavenworth. There he hired out to some parties 
 to drive ox-teams across the plains. On the 4th 
 of July he arrived in Denver, with fifty cents in 
 his pocket. With a desire to mine, he went to 
 Tarryall Gulch, South Park, where he worked in 
 the mines, and from there he went to Mont- 
 gomery and worked in a lead mine. In the fall of 
 the same year he went- to Colorado City, where 
 he was appointed deputy county clerk and deputy 
 ■ postmaster. While there he organized the Colo- 
 rado Town Company and secured from the gov- 
 ernment the title for the town site. During this 
 time the Indian troubles came up and a company 
 was organized for service, but the government 
 refused to permit them to act as an independent 
 regiment, and they were mustered in as United 
 States troops, our subject being quartermaster- 
 sergeant of Company F, Third Colorado Cavalry. 
 When the quartermaster-sergeant of the regiment 
 was taken ill shortly afterward, Mr. Brown was 
 detailed to fill his position, in which he afterward 
 served. He took part in the battle of Sand Creek. 
 
 Shortly after his return from the Indian fights, 
 Mr. Brown was appointed provost-marshal and 
 assigned to Park County, where he served for 
 nine months. In 1866 he came to Denver, where 
 he engaged in the mercantile business with a 
 brother-in-law for two years. When the Union 
 Pacific Railroad was in process of construction to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 Cheyenne, he decided to go to the latter city, and 
 during the building boom there he found employ- 
 ment at large wages. After eighteen months he 
 came back to Denver and with a Mr. McCune 
 engaged in the painting business, having large 
 and important contracts. After four years of suc- 
 cessful business, in 1874 he came to his present 
 farm, where he has since engaged in farming. He 
 is a member of the Clear Creek Valley Grange and 
 the Grand Army of the Republic and is junior vice 
 of the post. In the fall of 1 863 he married Miss 
 Mary A. Boyd, and four children were born to 
 them, viz.: Edgar A., deceased; Maud J., who is 
 a student at Wolfe Hall; Hiram A. , who is attend- 
 ing the Agricultural College at Fort Collins; and 
 Carrie B., who graduated from the East Denver 
 high school in June, 1898. 
 
 HARRY NEIL HAYNES. In the early set- 
 tlement of the New England states the 
 Puritans who lauded on these shores had 
 much to do with giving that section of the coun- 
 try the reputation for sagacity and piety that it 
 has since enjoyed. From such stock the subject 
 of this sketch descends. One of his ancestors 
 came over with Governor Winthrop, and, though 
 he is many generations removed, he inherits 
 many traits of character that were dominant in 
 the lives of those pioneers. However, he is in- 
 debted, not only to his ancestors for his success, 
 but as well to his native ability and the attention 
 given to all cases entrusted to his charge as attor- 
 ney. Among the members of the bar of Weld 
 County he stands high, ranking with the ablest 
 in Greeley. 
 
 The maternal grandfather of Mr. Haynes, Col. 
 E. H. Neil, of Skowhegan, Me., was one of the 
 prominent citizens of that state, and stood high 
 in the respect of all. He was engaged in mercan- 
 tile pursuits, and also held many positions of 
 trust. About 1820 he was colonel of the militia 
 of his locality. By his marriage to Mary Fletcher 
 four children were born, who attained maturity. 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
 Francis F. Haynes, of East Farmington, Me.; 
 one of his daughters married Timothy O. Howe, 
 who was a member of the United States senate 
 for eighteen years, and who died while serving 
 as postmaster-general. 
 Silas B. A. Haynes, the father of our subject, 
 
 was a man of prominence. He was educated in 
 Maine, and read law under one of the most 
 prominent attorneys there, Mr. Abbott, after- 
 ward a leader of the Boston bar. At the out- 
 break of the Civil war, in 1861, he was appointed 
 paymaster with the rank of major, and served 
 until the close of the war, when he was honor- 
 ably discharged with the brevet commission of 
 lieutenant-colonel. For many years afterward he 
 was clerk of the United States senate committee 
 on claims. In 1872 he came to Colorado, where 
 his ability was soon recognized. He served as 
 county judge of Weld County, and was state 
 senator in the first and second general assem- 
 blies. By his marriage to Harriet C. Neil five 
 children were born, of whom the oldest living 
 son is Harry Neil. 
 
 Born at Green Bay, Wis., November 29, 1855, 
 the subject of this sketch, when in his teens, went 
 to Skowhegan, Me., and made his home with his 
 grandfather during his father's sojourn in Wash- 
 ington. In 1872 he graduated from the high 
 school, and the next year entered Colby Uni- 
 versity at Waterville, Me., where, as a junior, 
 he received the first prize for composition and de- 
 livery, and in 1877 graduated as an A. B. with hon- 
 ors. In the catalogue he was given special men- 
 tion for general work outside of the regular 
 course, and received special honors for scholar- 
 ship. His interest in college societies he has 
 maintained, having held the highest office in Chi 
 Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, from which 
 he was a delegate to the Grand Chapter in Phila- 
 delphia in 1876. Since his graduation he has 
 joined the noted alumni society, to which only 
 graduates of high scholarship are admitted, the 
 Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to entering college he 
 had read law with Hon. Stephen Coburn, of 
 Skowhegan, who was a member of congress in 
 1859-60. After graduating he came to Greeley, 
 where he read with Haynes & Dunning, later 
 with Symes & Decker in Denver. 
 
 Immediately after his admission to the bar in 
 May, 1879, Mr. Haynes located at Fort Collins, 
 where he resided for four years. In 1880 he en- 
 tered his father's firm, the name of which was 
 changed to Haynes, Dunning & Haynes, with 
 offices in Fort Collins and Greeley. From Judge 
 Elliott he received appointment as referee for irri- 
 gation district No. 3, the oldest and most thor- 
 ough irrigation district in the state. His atten- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 tion to that trust was generally commended. In 
 1882 he removed to Greelej^ and upon the retire- 
 ment of his father in 1883, the firm took in 
 Frank J. Annis, and was afterward known as 
 Haynes, Dunning & Annis. Since 1887, when 
 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Haynes has 
 practiced alone. The success attendant upon his 
 conduct of many important cases has given him 
 the prestige that assures him of all the business 
 he can attend to. While engaged in general 
 practice he has also given much attention to irri- 
 gation matters, and has the reputation of being 
 one of the foremost attorneys in the state in this 
 important branch of law. He has been connected 
 with the majority of the prominent irrigation 
 cases, and his judgment is much sought in these 
 matters. He has had cases reported in all of the 
 reports from the Fifth Colorado down. One of 
 his most important cases not connected with irri- 
 gation was that of Allen vs. Glenn, in the thir- 
 teenth judicial district, in which he was counsel 
 for Judge Allen in the supreme court. His serv- 
 ices are in demand, not only in Weld County, 
 but also in Arapahoe, I,arimer, Boulder, Logan 
 and Morgan Counties, as well as in the court of 
 appeals and the supreme court. He has served 
 as county attorney of Weld County and attorney 
 for the city of Greeley. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Haynes is connected with the 
 Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows and the 
 Woodmen of the World. At the Pueblo session 
 of the Woodmen in 1892 he was elected one of 
 the head managers of the head camp of the Pa- 
 cific jurisdiction, and has been twice re-elected, 
 at Portland, Ore., in 1894, and at Helena, Mont., 
 in 1896. During this time the order rapidly in- 
 creased from three thousand to thirty-five thou- 
 sand. He was a member of the board having 
 control of the finances, which distributed $35,000 
 per month. He is also legal counsel for the head 
 camp. He declined to be candidate for re-elec- 
 tion as head manager at San Francisco, in 1898. 
 
 A member of the State Bar Association, Mr. 
 Haynes is a member of its committee on legal edu- 
 cation. He is interested in educational matters, and 
 a member of the school board of Greeley. Polit- 
 ically he has always been a Republican, but not 
 a politician in the ordinary usage of that word. 
 His name was prominently mentioned for judge 
 of the court of appeals, and in 1896 he was the 
 nominee of the Republicans for state senator, 
 
 and ran two hundred ahead of his ticket. He is 
 a member of the University Club of Denver, and 
 the Denver Chess, Checker and Whist Club. An 
 admirer of chess, .he is one of the best players of 
 that game in the state. He attends the Congre- 
 gational and Unitarian churches and contributes 
 to both. 
 
 June 3, 1882, he married Anna E., daughter 
 of Ovid and Anna (Miles) Plumb, of Greeley, a 
 niece of ex-Congressman Frederick Miles, of 
 Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes are the 
 parents of two sons and three daughters, namely : 
 Florence I., who is a student in the Greeley 
 high school; Rhoda N. , Rollin Fletcher, Doro- 
 thy Plumb and Harold Douglas. 
 
 (TESSE S. gale, president of the Union 
 I Bank of Greeley, is one of the leading busi- 
 (2/ ness men of northern Colorado, and occupies a 
 foremost position among the prominent financiers 
 of the state. Genuine success is not likely to be 
 the result of mere chance or fortune, but is some- 
 thing to be labored for and sought out with con- 
 secutive effort. Ours is a utilitarian age and the 
 life of every successful man bears its lessons and 
 as told in contemporary narration perhaps is pro- 
 ductive of the greatest good. Mr. Gale has not 
 only made a wide reputation as a most capable fi- 
 nancier, but occupies a position of no little promi- 
 nence in connection with the political affairs of the 
 county, although he has never sought or desired 
 political preferment. His life demon.strates what 
 may be accomplished through energy, careful 
 management, keen foresight and the utilization 
 of the powers with which nature has endowed 
 one, and the opportunities with which the times 
 surround him. 
 
 Mr. Gale was born in Heath, Franklin County, 
 Mass., September 16, 1845, and traces his ances- 
 try back to three brothers who came from Eng- 
 land in the seventeenth century and located in 
 that state. His parents were Otis and Martha 
 (Henry) Gale. The father, who was born in 
 Massachusetts, in 1806, was a drover by occupa- 
 tion, selling his stock principally in Boston and 
 Springfield before railroads had been built, and 
 also owned and operated a farm. In religious 
 faith he was a Unitarian and in political senti- 
 ment a Whig. He died at comparatively an 
 early age, when our subject was ten years old. 
 
388 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 His father, Luther Gale, spent his entire life in 
 Massachusetts, and being one of the most promi- 
 nent and influential agriculturists of his commu- 
 nity, he \^as called upon to represent his district 
 in the state legislature. His death occurred in 
 Heath, Mass. 
 
 Our subject is the ninth in order of birth in a 
 family of ten children, the others being: Edward 
 H. , deceased, who came to Colorado and was ex- 
 tensively engaged in the cattle business with our 
 subject; Catherine, who died at the age of fifteen 
 years; James, who was formerly interested in 
 the cattle business in Colorado, but is now living 
 retired in National City, Cal. ; Martha, wife of 
 Charles Coburn, of Hartford, Conn.; Prudence, 
 who died in early life; Hanson, who died at the 
 age of eleven; David H. , who was formerly presi- 
 dent of the Farm and Investment Company, and 
 Savings Bank of Greeley, and died here Sep- 
 tember 6, 1894; Emma I,., wife of Albert Bow en, 
 proprietor of the Bowen Hotel of Boulder, Colo.; 
 and Mary, who died in early womanhood. 
 
 Jesse S. Gale spent the first eighteen years of 
 his life in his native town, acquiring his educa- 
 tion in the common schools, the East Hampton 
 schools and the Williston Seminary. He com- 
 menced his business career as a butcher, later 
 spent one year as a marble cutter, and then en- 
 gaged in the meat business at Shelburn Falls and 
 East Hampton, Mass., in partnership with his 
 brother,Edward,until coming to Colorado in 188 1. 
 They located in Greeley and under the firm name 
 of E. H. & J. S. Gale extensively engaged in 
 cattle ranging. In 1883 their brother, David, 
 also became interested in the business and the 
 name was changed to Gale Brothers. They be- 
 came the most extensive cattle grazers in the 
 state, having from six to ten thousand head at 
 one time, branded with P.O. Edward died in 
 January, 1890, and David in September, 1894, 
 but our subject continued the business until 1898, 
 when he sold out, carrying on operations in com- 
 pany with Walter J. Farr, under the name of 
 Gale & Farr. In 1897 they had forty thousand 
 head of sheep. In 1886 Mr. Gale became inter- 
 ested in the Union Bank of Greeley as a stock- 
 holder, later was elected vice-president, and has 
 served as president since 1893. 1° ^897 the 
 charter expired, it being one of the oldest banks 
 in the state, but it was renewed under the name 
 of the Union Bank of Greeley. Our subject is 
 
 also a director in the Farm and Investment Com- 
 pany of Greeley, the Savings Bank and the 
 Electric Light Company, and as a promoter of 
 these enterprises has done much to advance the 
 interests of the city. Besides his valuable town 
 property he owns seven hundred acres of land in 
 Weld County, four hundred of which are under 
 cultivation, and he personally superintends its 
 operation. As a business man he has been enter- 
 prising, energetic and always abreast of the times, 
 and the success that has crowned his eiforts is 
 certainly well deserved. 
 
 At Wilmington, Vt., in 1866, Mr. Gale was 
 united in marriage with Miss Jennie V. Morse, 
 daughter of Gideon and Betsy (Mann) Morse, of 
 that state, and they have become the parents of 
 one sou, Edward, the present cashier of the Union 
 Bank. Politically Mr. Gale has always been a 
 stanch supporter of the Republican party, and 
 was president of the National Republican League 
 of Weld County, and served as alderman from the 
 second ward in Greeley in 1893-94. Fraternally 
 he is a Royal Arch Ma.son, holding membership in 
 Occidental Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., and 
 Greeley Chapter No. 13, R. A. M., of which he 
 is past high priest. Formerly he also belonged 
 to the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 30HN H. BEHRENS, who is engaged in the 
 lumber business in Evans, Weld County, was 
 born in Germany in 1839, a son of John H. 
 and Elizabeth (Schwaubeck) Behrens, both na- 
 tives of Germany. Afterthe death of his mother 
 the family came to the United States in 1857, the 
 father settling in Wyoming County, Pa., where 
 he carried on a farm during the remainder of his 
 life. He died at the age of sixty-five years. 
 The only surviving member of the family, our 
 subject was educated in Germany, and on 
 coming to this country spent one year in Pennsyl- 
 vania. At the age of twenty he went to New 
 York City, where be became an employe in a 
 piano manufactory. He was fitted for that kind 
 of work, as from fourteen to seventeen years of 
 age he was an apprentice to a cabinet-maker, and 
 gained a thorough knowledge of the trade. His 
 first work in this country was in the railroad 
 shops at Scranton, but the position he held in 
 New York, with the Steinway and other piano 
 manufactories, was more congenial, and he re- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 389 
 
 mained with them until 1871. April 5 of the 
 latter year he arrived in Evans, Colo., and here 
 he followed the carpenter's trade for a few years, 
 then launched out as a contractor and builder, 
 and finally in 1884 he embarked in lumber con- 
 tracting. He has built a number of the sub- 
 stantial houses in Evans, as well as some public 
 buildings, and is considered a reliable workman. 
 
 In 187 1 Mr. Behrens took up a pre-emption on 
 section 28, township 5, range 65, Weld County, 
 and to the original forty acres he afterward adde4 
 one hundred and sixty acres, making his present 
 place one of two hundred acres. It is con- 
 veniently situated near the village of Evans. 
 An organizer of the Union ditch, he has since 
 served as secretar3^ and treasurer of the company. 
 It is from this ditch that he secures the water 
 supply for his land. In combining farming with 
 stock-raising he finds sufficient to engage his 
 time and thought. 
 
 Politically Mr. Behrens is a Republican. In 
 1892 he was elected mayor of Evans and served 
 for one year. In 1893-94 ^^ served as trustee. 
 At other times he has been chosen to occupy 
 different local offices, including his present office 
 of city treasurer, to which he was elected in the 
 fall of 1897. For six years he was secretary of 
 the school board of district No. 1 1 , and during 
 that time was an active factor in promoting the 
 welfare of the school. Fraternallj' he is connected 
 with Prosperity Lodge No. 109, I. O. G. F. 
 
 In New York City, in 1865, Mr. Behrens mar- 
 ried Miss Caroline Hipsehle, of that place, her 
 father having come to America from Germany 
 and served during the Civil war. They are the 
 parents of six children, namely: Henrj', Edward, 
 John A., Charles O.; Matilda, wife of William 
 G. Smith, of Denver; and Ollie L., wife of Robert 
 B. Wilson, of La Junta, Colo. Mrs. Wilson 
 died April 29, 1898; one child survives, OUena. 
 
 Gl S. ELWOOD, M. D., is among the citizens 
 LI of Golden who served in the late war. 
 / I When the Rebellion began he wished to enter 
 the service and was examined in Keokuk for a 
 position as surgeon, but was prevented from en- 
 listing at that time. However, a year later, when 
 news came of the battle of Shiloh, nothing could 
 prevent him from going to his country's aid and 
 he at once enlisted as a private in Company 
 
 E, Fortieth Iowa Infantry, which was mus- 
 tered into service at Davenport. About one 
 month afterward, he was given by Governor 
 Kirkwood a commission as assistant surgeon of the 
 Fortieth Regiment, assigned to the Sixteenth 
 Army Corps, and participated in the siege of 
 Vicksburg and the opening up of the Mississippi. 
 For a time he was detailed as surgeon of the 
 Tenth Missouri Cavalry, serving in Kentucky. 
 Later he was placed in charge of the camps at 
 Helena and Duvall's Bluffi In the summer of 
 1863 he was acting brigadier-general and ranking 
 surgeon in charge of the division. Overwork 
 and exposure injured his health to such an ex- 
 tent that he was unable to remain in the service, 
 and after the capture of Little Rock, in the fall of 
 1863, he was honorably discharged, on account of 
 physical disability. 
 
 Dr. Elwood is not the first of his family who 
 served faithfully in defense of his country, for his 
 father, Henry, was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 The grandfather, Robert Elwood, was born in Ire- 
 land and came to America in early manhood, set- 
 tling in the east, where Henry was born. The 
 latter settled upon a farm near Hillsboro, High- 
 land County, Ohio, where his son, our subject, 
 was born October 29, 1827; from there he moved 
 to Martinsville, Clinton County, Ohio, and in 
 1849 went to Monroe, Jasper County, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. 
 He died on his farm there when seventy years ot 
 age. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Sarah, daughter 
 of John and Sarah (Mishon) St. Clair, all natives 
 of Kentucky. Her father was the son of a Revo- 
 lutionary soldier and himself took part in the 
 war of 18 1 2. He died in Highland County, 
 Ohio. Henry and Sarah Elwood were the parents 
 of ten children, viz.: Mrs. Mahala Moon, who is 
 now more than eighty years of age; Washington, 
 who died in Iowa; John, a resident of Kingman, 
 Kan. ; Hiram, whose death occurred in Nebraska; 
 A. S.; William, of Lincoln, Neb.; Amos, who 
 lives in Iowa; Henry and Elizabeth, who died in 
 childhood; and Nancy, who was accidentally 
 killed when a girl. 
 
 In the public schools and the Quaker seminary 
 at Martinsville, Dr. Elwood received a fair edu- 
 cation. His first salaried work was as a teacher 
 of a three months' term of school, for which he 
 received $50 and boarded himself. There was so 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 little profit in this that he decided he could earn 
 more money with his axe, and accordingly he 
 began 'shipping rails and 'chopping logs, for 
 which he was given $8 per month and his board. 
 In 1850 he began to study medicine with a cousin, 
 Dr. Elwood, inLeesburg, Highland County. On 
 his removal to Iowa he continued his studies un- 
 der Dr. H. C. Huntsman, of Fella, and in 1854 
 began to practice with his preceptor. Feeling, 
 however, that he needed more professional knowl- 
 edge, in 1856 he entered the Keokuk Medical 
 College, where he took one course of lectures, 
 and then formed a partnership with Dr. Putman, 
 of Monroe, Iowa. In i860 he entered the School 
 of Medicine and Surgery, in Cincinnati, from 
 which he graduated the following year with the 
 degree of M. D. He then resumed practice in 
 Monroe, where he continued, with the exception 
 of the time spent in the army, until 1884. Sev- 
 eral times he was chosen president of the Jasper 
 County Medical Societj' and he is still a member 
 of the Iowa Medical Association. On account of 
 ill health, largely due to the exposure of army 
 life, he decided to seek a change of climate, and 
 in 1884 came to Golden, where he has since en- 
 gaged in practice. 
 
 In Monroe, Iowa, Dr. Elwood married Mary 
 E. Howard, who was born in Utica, N. Y. , the 
 daughter of William and Martha (Brockway) 
 Howard, natives of New York state. Her pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Samuel Howard, who was a 
 farmer, took part in the war of 181 2, and died 
 in Mohawk, N. Y.; his wife, Lucretia, was a 
 daughter of Seth Johnson, a soldier in the Revo- 
 lution. William Howard removed west to Mon- 
 roe, Iowa, where he was an attorney for some 
 years, dying there at the age of forty-eight. His 
 wife, who was orphaned at three years of age, is 
 still living in Iowa, being now seventy-seven 
 years old. They were the parents of four chil- 
 dren: Mrs. Elwood; Willett, formerly a merchant 
 in Monroe and treasurer of Jasper County, now 
 deceased; Chauncey, a miner at Cripple Creek; 
 and Samuel, a merchant- of Greenfield, Iowa. 
 Three children were born to the union of Dr. and 
 Mrs. Elwood, namely: Mattie, who is the wife of 
 Johnly. Silverthorn, of Golden; William, who is 
 operating mines at Idaho Springs; and Charles, 
 who died at the age of thirteen months. The 
 family are Presbyterians in religious belief. 
 
 During his residence in Iowa Dr. Elwood was 
 
 made a Mason and he is now a demitted member 
 of the chapter at Golden. In 1856 he voted for 
 John C. Fremont and he has ever since voted for 
 Republican candidates, always taking an active 
 part in politics. In 1894 he was elected county 
 coroner of Jefferson County by a large majority, 
 but not desiring the office he refused to qualify. 
 
 HON. HERBERT E. TEDMON, county 
 clerk of Larimer County, and member of the 
 fourth and fifth general assemblies of Colo- 
 rado, .sessions of 1883 and 1885 of the state sen- 
 ate, was born in Martinsburg, Lewis County, 
 N. Y., June 12, 1852, being a son of Levi and 
 Rachel L. (Seward) Tedmon, natives respect- 
 ively of Lancsborough, Mass., and Otsego 
 County, N. Y. His maternal grandfather was a 
 soldier in the war of 181 2. His ancestors on the 
 paternal side were pioneers of Massachusetts, 
 having come to this country from Scotland. Levi 
 Tedmon, when a boy of eight years, was taken 
 by his parents to Lewis County, N. Y., where he 
 engaged in farming for .some years. His last 
 years were spent in Martinsburg, where he died 
 at the age of sixty years. For eighteen years he 
 served as overseer of the poor. Twice married, 
 the only child of his first marriage, a daughter, 
 resides in Minnesota. By his second wife, who 
 survives him and resides in Fort Collins, Colo., 
 he had four children. The oldest of these is Fer- 
 dinand L., living in Lewis County, N. Y. The 
 second son, Bolivar S., came to Fort Collins in 
 1878 with his younger brother, H. E., and en- 
 gaged in general mercantile business. He built 
 the Tedmon House, which he carried on one 
 year. He now resides in New York City. For 
 two terms he was deputy state auditor of New 
 York under Auditors Abbott and Spruance. The 
 only daughter, Edith E., is the wife of S. E. 
 Moore, of Fort Collins. 
 
 When a boy the subject of this sketch attended 
 the local public schools and Martin's Institute. 
 In 1872 he went to Lowville, Lewis County, 
 where for three and one-half years he clerked in 
 a hardware store. Returning from there to Mar- 
 tinsburg he and his brother embarked in the 
 grocery and hardware business. After continu- 
 ing in that line until the spring of i&^S, he then 
 disposed of his interest in the business and came 
 west to Colorado, opening a mercantile store in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 391 
 
 Fort Collins. For a year the firm title was Ted- 
 mon Brothers & Arthur, after which it remained 
 Tedmon Brothers until 1883, when our subject 
 purchased his brother's interest and closed out 
 all lines except the hardware business. He 
 bought property and built an addition to the 
 store on Jefferson street. For two years he was 
 in partnership with E. R. Barclay as Tedmon & 
 Barclay, after which he sold out, desiring to de- 
 vote his attention to ranching. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Tedmon began in the stock busi- 
 ness, opening a ranch on the North Fork of the 
 Poudre, forty miles northwest of Fort Collins, in 
 Larimer County. The land he purchased from 
 the railroad company and improved it, irrigating 
 from the Poudre. Here he has four thousand 
 acres, almost all of which is fenced. He raises 
 Herefords of a high grade, also horses. In 1887, 
 with Kilham Johnson as partner, he bought a 
 ranch on the Platte in Logan County, but after 
 two years sold his interest in the place. He is a 
 charter member and president of the Larimer 
 County Protective Stock Growers' Association, 
 and an associate member of the National Stock 
 Growers' Association. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Tedmon has held 
 numerous offices of trust. In 1889 he was ap- 
 pointed clerk of the district court of Logan 
 County, which position he held for three years.' 
 Afterward, for four and one-half years, he was 
 register of the United States land office at Ster- 
 ling, Colo. , to which office he was appointed by 
 President Harrison. During his incumbency of 
 the position he resided at Sterling, but in 1894 
 returned to his ranch, and in January, 1898, 
 upon beginning the duties of county clerk and 
 recorder, he moved to Fort Collins. He was 
 elected to the office on the straight Republican 
 ticket, against the combined forces of Democrats 
 and silver Republicans, and entered upon official 
 duties January i, 1898, for two years, being the 
 only county clerk in Colorado whose views po- 
 litically are the same as those of the national ad- 
 ministration. For one term he was a member 
 of the city council. He served as secretary of 
 the school board of Fort Collins until he resigned 
 to remove to his ranch. While in Sterling he 
 served as mayor for one term and was president 
 of the school board for a term also. 
 
 In Booneville, N. Y., Mr. Tedmon married 
 Miss Jennie L. Smith, who was born on the Hud- 
 
 son. They have an only son, Earl L., who is a 
 student in the Agricultural College. Mr. Tedmon 
 was made a Mason in Collins Lodge No. 19, 
 A. F. & A. M., of which he is still a member. 
 He is also identified with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 The record of Mr. Tedmon as a legislator is one 
 of which he might well be proud. In 1882 he 
 was elected .state senator by a large majority in 
 the district comprising Larimer, Grand and 
 Routt Counties. In the fifth general assembly he 
 served as chairman of the committees on coun- 
 ties and county lines, insurance and engrossment, 
 and as a member of many other committees. In 
 1883 he was successful in his endeavor to secure 
 the perpetual appropriation, one-fourth of a mill 
 tax of all property in the state for the support of 
 the Agricultural College. This appropriation, 
 however, was absorbed in an appropriation of 
 one-sixth of a mill tax for all state institutions. 
 In 1883 he participated in the memorable strug- 
 gle for the United States senatorship, a contest 
 that ended in the election of Thomas Bowen. In 
 1885 he aided in electing Senator Teller, being 
 one of the original supporters of that now famous 
 statesman. Upon the expiration of his term he 
 refused further candidacy and retired from state 
 political affairs. 
 
 /n APT. RICHARD SOPRIS. The history of 
 I C a state is best told in the biographies of its 
 \J citizens. Especially is this the case when 
 the citizens are men of intelligence, ability and 
 prominence, guiding spirits who lead others into 
 the promised land of prosperity. The history of 
 Colorado may properly be said to begin with the 
 discovery of gold in Pike's Peak and the first 
 chapter of the book carries the date 1858. It was 
 during this year that Captain Sopris started west- 
 ward from Indiana, going by stage to Omaha and 
 from there making the trip across the plains, in 
 company with two men, in a cart drawn by one 
 horse. He reached Auraria March 15, 1859, in 
 time to become one of the original shareholders 
 of the town. Hoping to find gold in the mount- 
 ains, he prospected along the Platte River and 
 at Gregory's Diggings (now in Gilpin County), 
 where he engaged in mining. He was elected 
 president of the Miners' Union, an organization 
 formed to maintain law and order, and establish 
 
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 laws relating to mining claims. After the Bates 
 lode was discovered, he located a claim on it, and 
 continued to mine for a time. 
 
 Returning to Denver in the fall of 1859 he was 
 elected to represent Arapahoe County, Kansas 
 Territory, in the Kansas legislature, his district 
 at that time comprising all of the mining region 
 of this part of the Rocky Mountains. He spent 
 the winter in Lawrence and in the spring, when 
 the legislature adjourned, he went back to Indi- 
 ana, returning to Colorado in April, accompanied 
 by his family. He had been so pleased with the 
 prospects in the west that he determined to settle 
 in Colorado permanently, believing that the suc- 
 cess promised in the future would outweigh all 
 the hardships and deprivations of the present. 
 During the year of his return he headed a large 
 company of gold seekers, to explore the then un- 
 known regions west of the Snowy Range; the 
 party left Denver July i, crossed South Park to 
 where Breckenridge now stands, went down Blue 
 River and Eagle River, from there to the Roaring 
 Fork of the Grand, and up Willow Creek to the 
 foot of the mountain they named Sopris Peak, 
 which is a part of the Elk Mountains, near- Glen- 
 wood. They came to the hot springs (now famous 
 as Glenwood Springs) .where they camped and cut 
 pine trees, constructing a boat in which they 
 crossed Grand River. Just below the cave stood 
 a large pine tree, which they blazed and inscribed 
 with these words: "These springs were discov- 
 ered on July 23, i860, by Captain Sopris, and 
 party of prospectors." After a week at the 
 springs they crossed the river and went via 
 Cochetopa Pass into the San Luis Valley, thence 
 to Fort Garland and Denver, reaching this city 
 after an absence of three months. The prime 
 object of their journey had been to prospect for 
 gold, but they failed to find any trace of the precious 
 metal. However, the notes made and measure- 
 ments taken were of great assistance to Governor 
 Gilpin in preparing his first map of Colorado. 
 
 In the spring of i860 Captain Sopris and two 
 other gentlemen framed a constitution and laws 
 for a city government. The same was read at a 
 public meeting and was adopted. It provided for 
 the division of the town into three wards, with 
 two alderman from each ward as members of the 
 council. When the common council was organ- 
 ized. Captain Sopris was chosen president. On 
 the organization of the territory the next year, a 
 
 new charter was framed by the legislature. In 
 August, 1861, he was commissioned captain of 
 Company C, First Colorado Infantry, and served 
 one year. On his return he again became active- 
 ly connected with public affairs. He was ser- 
 geant-at-arms of the house in the second territo- 
 rial legislature; was a delegate to the first constitu- 
 tional convention of Colorado, served as county 
 sheriff 1864-68, deputy sheriff 1873-78, mayor of 
 Denver 1878-81, and in i88i was cho.sen park 
 commi.ssioner, the first to hold the office, and 
 continued in the position until 1890. In every 
 place to which he was called, integrity, energy 
 and intelligence characterized his actions. While 
 serving as park commissioner, though he had but 
 a limited fund at his disposal (usually but $3,000 
 or $4,000 annually), he created the first parks 
 Denver ever had, among them City Park, which 
 he transformed from a sage brush tract of three 
 hundred and twentj' acres, into a beautiful resort, 
 with driveways, lakes, lawns, flower beds and 
 many thousands of trees. In 1863 he was chosen 
 the first president of the Colorado Agricultural 
 Society, holding the office five successive years. 
 In 1866, while acting as sheriff, he erected the 
 buildings of the Colorado Agricultural Society, 
 on their fair grounds, adjoining Ford's Park add- 
 ition to Denver. For six years he was president 
 ■ of the Association of Colorado Pioneers. From 
 1869 to 1872 he was interested in railroad build- 
 ing, assisting in the construction of the Kansas 
 Pacific, Denver Pacific and the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railroads. 
 
 The life of Captain Sopris covered eighty years. 
 It began in Bucks County, Pa., June 26, 1813, 
 and closed in Denver April 7, 1893. It naturally 
 divides itself into three eras: first, that of youth 
 and character forming, when he resided in Penn- 
 sylvania; second, the time spent in Indiana, from 
 1836 to 1858, when he was a contractor on the 
 Whitewater canal, then for five years captain of 
 an Ohio River steamboat, and later, a railroad 
 contractor; and third, what was doubtless the 
 most important and useful part of his life, the 
 years spent in Colorado. 
 
 June 5, 1836, near Philadelphia, Captain Sopris 
 married Miss Elizabeth Allen, a descendant of 
 Ethan Allen. The fiftieth anniversary of their 
 wedding was appropriately observed, and was 
 probably the first golden wedding celebrated in 
 the state. They were the parents of eight chil- 
 
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 dreii: Allen B., who died in May, 1897; Indiana, 
 wife of Samuel Cushman, of Deadwood, S. Dak.; 
 Irene, formerly the wife of J. Sidney Brown, of 
 Denver, now deceased; Elbridge B., of Trinidad; 
 Simpson T. and George 1,., both residents of 
 Denver, the latter a member of the board of 
 county commissioners; Levi S., whose home is in 
 Texas; and Henry C, deceased. 
 
 0ENNIS C. DONOVAN, senior member of 
 the firm of D. C. Donovan & Co., of 
 Longmont, is one of the live business men 
 of this place. Coming here early in his commer- 
 cial career, some sixteen years ago, he soon 
 gained a foothold among our leading, progressive 
 business men and has steadily advanced in the 
 esteem of Longmont' s best citizens. By degrees 
 he built up his trade, which is now second to 
 none in the place, and in all his transactions he is 
 strictly reliable, prompt and painstaking. 
 
 Mr. Donovan is one of the sons of the good old 
 Buckeye state, which has produced so many of 
 the men who stand pre-eminent in the business 
 circles of this land, as well as in the so-called 
 learned professions and in the ranks of statesmen. 
 Born in Cincinnati, he passed the greater part of 
 his boyhood in Hamilton and Butler Counties, 
 Ohio. The parental homestead stood on the line 
 between the two counties, near Crescentville. 
 The parents, Dennis and Mary (Dugan) Dono- 
 van, are still living, though well along in years, 
 their home being in Longmont, where they came 
 to be near their children. The father is over 
 fourscore years and the mother is now in her 
 seventy-third year. They had six children, of 
 whom two died in Ohio and one in this state. 
 Timothy and John are residing in Longmont. 
 
 When he was a lad of about thirteen D. C. 
 Donovan embarked in the world of business in 
 the neighboring town of Crescentville by entering 
 the employ of the Friend & Fox Paper Com- 
 pany. He worked in their mills, where paper 
 was manufactured, and was gradually promoted 
 from one position to another. He learned every 
 detail of the business and laid the foundations of 
 his future success in life by acquiring correct 
 methods and principles of action. He remained 
 in the employ of the one firm until he was 
 twenty-three years of age, when he engaged in 
 business on his own account as a merchant. 
 15 
 
 This pursuit he followed with fair success for 
 three years, but feeling the need of special train- 
 ing in commercial transactions, he entered the 
 Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating 
 from the business course in 1880. 
 
 Having a desire to try his wings in the outside 
 world and to see something of the great west, 
 where he believed larger opportunities awaited 
 him, Mr. Donovan came to Colorado in April, 
 1881. He entered the employ of the E. F. Hal- 
 lock Lumber Company, of Denver, and, having 
 mastered the general run of the trade, came to 
 Longmont the following year and started a lum- 
 ber yard here. His business location has been 
 changed three times, but he has occupied his 
 present site for the past seven years. The yards 
 are about half a block in extent and are situated 
 on Main street, between Second and Third ave- 
 nues. Good sheds, warehouses and offices are on 
 the premises, and a full line of builders' ma- 
 terials are kept in stock. About thirteen years 
 ago Mr. Donovan entered upon the manufacture 
 of brick, and of late years has added a retail coal 
 business to his other enterprises. His brick 
 yards, south of Coffman's addition to the city, 
 cover five acres. The plant has a capacity of one 
 million bricks per annum. In 1887 the present 
 firm, composed of himself and brother, J. A., 
 was formed, under the style of D. C. Donovan 
 &Co. 
 
 Three times Mr. Donovan has served as one of 
 the trustees of Longmont. He is active in the 
 Democratic party, and has frequently attended 
 the state conventions of the same. In 1892 he 
 was honored by being elected as a delegate to the 
 national Democratic convention which assembled 
 in Chicago and nominated Cleveland. He is 
 connected with the Woodmen of the World. His 
 marriage was solemnized in Longmont in 1885, 
 Miss Clara Henrett}', daughter of Peter and Mary 
 (Dillon) Henretty, being the lady of his choice. 
 Mrs. Donovan was likewise born in Ohio, though 
 in Warren County. Five children comprise their 
 family, namely: Irene, Alice, Clara, Herbert and 
 Sheridan. 
 
 "OM BEACH, who has resided in Fort Col- 
 lins since 1881, is of English birth, a native 
 of London and a member of an old familj' of 
 that city. His parents, George and Caroline 
 (Reeder) Beach, were born in London and Dor- 
 
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 setshire respectively, and died at the ages of six- 
 tj'-five and sixty-two. His grandfather, George 
 Beach, was engaged in the whaling business, 
 having vessels made for his use in his long expe- 
 ditions upon the North Sea, and continuing in 
 the same occupation until he died. George, Jr., 
 was a miller by trade, and operated two mills at 
 Croydon; he was also a custom house or excise 
 officer. In his family there were six children, 
 namely: George (3d), who was a wheelwright 
 in London; Alfred, who died in London at twenty 
 years of age; Tom; Arthur, who is engaged in 
 the cattle business in Old Mexico; Caroline, Mrs. 
 Joseph Latham, of London, England; and Alice, 
 who died in London. 
 
 In London, where he was born, October 4, 
 1855, our subject attended the national schools. 
 In 1 87 1, a lad, friendless and alone, he came to 
 Ainerica, landing in New York, and from there 
 journeying to Alton, 111., where he arrived with- 
 out a dollar. Fortunately he at once secured 
 work, being taken into a meat market, where he 
 learned the butcher's business. He remained in 
 Alton for ten years. In 1881 he came to Fort 
 Collins, where he bought an old meat market from 
 James Fletcher and embarked in the meat business 
 on Linden street, then located on College avenue, 
 where he has continued almost ever since. In 
 addition to the sale of meat, he has engaged in 
 raising and feeding stock. He bought a ranch of 
 two hundred and forty acres on the Cache la 
 Poudre, four and one-half miles from Fort Col- 
 lins, where he has two hundred head of cattle and 
 fifteen hundred sheep and lambs. Here, too, he 
 raises alfalfa for feed, averaging eight hundred 
 tons a j'ear. Until a few years ago he owned a 
 cattle ranch in Chalk Bluffs, Weld County. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Beach took a partner into his busi- 
 nesss. Ward Stewart, since which time the firm 
 has been Beach & Stewart. They have two mar- 
 kets in Fort Collins, one on Linden street, the 
 other on College avenue, and carry a full line of 
 fresh meats. Their slaughter house is on a ten- 
 acre tract west of town, with feed yards attached. 
 They cure their own pork, and sell large quanti- 
 ties of bacon and smoked ham; also pack consid- 
 erable pork and manufacture sausageof all kinds, 
 operating their plant with a gasoline engine. 
 The delivery outfits are the finest in the city, the 
 wagons and horses being the best that can be 
 bought. If Mr. Beach has a hobby, it is a desire 
 
 to have everything connected with his business 
 carried on systematically and satisfactorily. Those 
 who are acquainted with the business know that 
 he has succeeded in this desire. In addition to 
 his business property he owns a comfortable 
 home. 
 
 In Alton, 111., Mr. Beach married Miss Lucy 
 Douglas, who was born in that city, daughter of 
 Henry Douglas, a native of Durham, England, 
 and an old settler and farmer near Alton. She is 
 identified with Unity Church and is a lady of cult- 
 ure and refinement. The five children born of 
 their union are: Alice, Annie, Nellie, Tom, Jr. , 
 and George, all at home. Formerly Mr. Beach 
 voted the Republican ticket, but when his party 
 declared for the gold standard, he identified him- 
 self with the People's party, believing that the 
 cause of silver should be supported by all who 
 wish to arrive at a satisfactory settlement of the 
 currency problem. 
 
 PIERY REV. HENRY ROBINSON, V. G. 
 \ / No priest now living in Colorado has been 
 Y identified with the history of the Catholic 
 Church in this state for a longer number of years 
 than has the vicar-general of the Denver diocese. 
 Assigned to work among miners, in the fall of 
 1874 he went to his new field of labor, which 
 comprised Park, Chaffee, Summit and Lake 
 Counties, containing, altogether, not more than 
 one hundred Catholics. Those were days of hard- 
 ships, which tested the power of physical endur- 
 ance. Often, in the discharge of his duties, the 
 young priest crossed the mountains on foot, 
 carrying with him a lunch and blanket, and fre- 
 quently journeying for forty miles without passing 
 a house. Wild game was plentiful and herds of 
 antelopes were sometimes seen, with as many as 
 one thousand head in a herd. The surroundings 
 were those of primeval nature, except where 
 might be seen a mining camp and near by a 
 village with a few rudely constructed houses. 
 
 The years that have since elapsed have wit- 
 nessed many changes, but the growth of the 
 population is not more remarkable than the in- 
 crease in the number of Catholic communicants, 
 a fact that is due to the efforts of Father Robinson 
 in no small degree. When after twenty-five 
 years of tireless labor he celebrated the silver 
 jubilee of his work as priest, the occasion was 
 
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 397 
 
 justly a memorable one. Solemn high mass was 
 held in the Church of the Annunciation, of Den- 
 ver, the pastorate of which he holds, and he 
 officiated as celebrant, while other priests assisted 
 in the ceremonies. The clergy and laity of the 
 city tendered him a banquet at the Brown Palace 
 hotel, at which toasts and responses were given, 
 and two beautiful gifts were presented, represent- 
 ing the clergy and laity respectively. 
 
 The oldest of seven children, three of whom 
 are living. Father Robinson was born in Salem, 
 111., the son of William and Jane (O'Hara) Rob- 
 inson, natives of Ireland. His father removed 
 from Utica, N. Y. , to Illinois, thence to Wiscon- 
 sin, settling on Lake Winnebago, and there en- 
 gaged in farming until his death at an advanced 
 age. His wife, who also died when quite old, 
 was a daughter of James O'Hara, who emigrated 
 to New York from Ireland, later removed to 
 Illinois, and from thereto Appleton, Wis., where 
 he spent his remaining years as a farmer. 
 
 In youth our subject entered St. Francis de 
 Sales Seminary at Milwaukee, and later carried 
 on his studies in St. Vincent's Seminary at Cape 
 Girardeau, Mo. There he was ordained a deacon 
 by Archbishop Kendrick in 1871 and graduated 
 the next year. He then came to Colorado and 
 was ordained to the priesthood January 21 of 
 1872, by Bishop Machebeuf. For two and one- 
 half years he was an assistant in the Cathedral, 
 after which he went to Fairplay and built the 
 Church of the Assumption, later working as a 
 missionary in the mountainous districts. When 
 Leadville was started, in the spring of 1878, he 
 went there and organized the Annunciation con- 
 gregation, afterward building a church and par- 
 sonage. At the same time he attended the Fair- 
 play church until 1880, when another priest was 
 appointed. The congregation at Leadville origi- 
 nally comprised twelve members, but grew con- 
 stantly, and at the time he left it was one of the 
 largest and best congregations in the state. In 
 188 1 the Church of the Annunciation was com- 
 pleted, at the corner of Seventh and Poplar streets, 
 a structure that has the distinction (owing to the 
 altitude) of having the highest spire of any church 
 in the world. A fine hospital was built, in which 
 ihe nurses were Sisters of Charity; a school build- 
 ing with accommodations for six hundred chil- 
 dren was erected, and also a neat parish house. 
 
 While in Leadville Father Robinson often 
 
 mediated between strikers and employers, and 
 during the smallpox plague he visited and minis- 
 tered to the sick, unmindful of the danger of 
 contagion. His heroism was remarkable during 
 all the trying days in the early history of Lead- 
 ville; his courage was unfaltering and won him 
 the admiration even of those who, as a rule, had 
 no respect for ministers of the gospel. In 1889 
 he visited Europe and the Holy Land, devoting 
 considerable time to those places associated with 
 our Savior's life upon earth. In 1889 he was 
 appointed vicar-general of the Denver diocese, to 
 succeed the recently deceased Father Raverdy. 
 In 1890 he was appointed pastor of the Church 
 of the Annunciation, which he organized in 
 1890, building a three-story stone structure, 6ox 
 108, one floor of which is used for the church, 
 and the remainder for the school. In the latter 
 four hundred pupils are taught the public school 
 branches by the Sisters of Charity, and are also 
 given instruction in bookkeeping, drawing and 
 music. The church is located on the corner of 
 Humboldt and Thirty-seventh streets. It has a 
 membership of over two hundred English-speak- 
 ing families, besides one hundred others. The 
 usual sodalities of the Catholic church have been 
 organized and are in active operation. The 
 growth of the congregation is remarkable and is 
 certainly a tribute to the ability and energy of 
 Father Robinson. The growth of the church 
 speaks, far better than mere words could do, of 
 the tact, tireless industry and excellent manage- 
 ment of him who stands at the head of the con- 
 gregation. 
 
 pGjESTBROOK SCHOONMAKER DECKER, 
 \ A / attorney-at-law, of Denver, was born in 
 VY Tyre, Seneca County, N. Y., April 22, 
 1839, the son of Albert and Gertrude (Schoon- 
 maker) Decker, natives respectively of Orange 
 and Ulster Counties, N. Y., and descendants of 
 Holland-Dutch ancestors, who were among the 
 earliest settlers of Manhattan. He was reared 
 on the home farm, for his father, in addition to 
 being proprietor of a mercantile store, also en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits. Primarily edu- 
 cated in public schools, at the age of sixteen he 
 entered Brockport Collegiate Institute, where be 
 was a student for three terms. When eighteen 
 he began to teach, going west to Charleston, 
 Coles County, 111., and engaging in that profes- 
 
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 sion until 1861. lu the summer of i860 he 
 taught at Milton Station, in the same county, but 
 with that exception he was employed continuously 
 at Charleston. 
 
 It had been his intention to apply his earnings 
 to his tuition in a college, where he could take a 
 thorough literary and classical course, but the 
 outbreak of the Civil war changed his plans. He 
 returned to New York and taught near his native 
 place until the summer of 1862, wheti he enlisted 
 as a private in Company I, One Hundred and 
 Twenty-sixth New York Infantry, and was 
 mustered into service on the 22d of August. 
 His first battles were those of Maryland Heights 
 and Harper's Ferry. At the latter place, Sep- 
 tember 13-15, he was taken prisoner, but was 
 soon paroled and sent to Camp Douglas, Chi- 
 cago, being exchanged in December. Sent to 
 the defense of Washington, he did duty at Union 
 Mills and Centerville early in 1863. His regi- 
 ment with others became the Third Division of 
 the Second Army Corps, under General Hancock. 
 At Gettysburg, where he served in the Third 
 Division, Second Corps, under the immediate 
 commaud of Gen. Alexander Hayes, he was 
 wounded, and was removed to the hospital at 
 Newark, N. J., where he was obliged to remain 
 for four months. Next he was commi.ssioned 
 second lieutenant in the Nineteenth United 
 States Colored Troops, and in the winter of 
 1863-64 was on detached service on the eastern 
 shore of Maryland. In the camp at Baltimore he 
 acted as assistant quartermaster. His regiment 
 became a part of the Fourth Division, Ninth 
 Army Corps, commanded by General Burnside, 
 the Ninth Corps forming a part of the Army of 
 the Potomac, under General Meade. With other 
 troops he was on duty in front of Petersburg. 
 
 From June to November he was ordnance ofii- 
 cer of the Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, 
 and was later transferred to the same position in 
 an independent command, occupying the Federal 
 lines between the Appomattox and James Rivers. 
 After the evacuation of Petersburg, the forces 
 entered that city, and he was appointed ordnance 
 officer of the district of Nottoway under Gen. 
 George h- HartsufF, with headquarters at Peters- 
 burg. In June, 1865, he was ordered to Browns- 
 ville, Tex., and was appointed assistant provost 
 marshal, which position he filled until August 18, 
 when he re.signed and returned to New York. 
 
 In the fall of 1865 Mr. Decker entered the law 
 department of the Michigan State University, at 
 Ann Arbor, and remained a student there until 
 his graduation in 1867. He began the practice 
 of law at Kankakee, 111., where he remained un- 
 til January, 1874. Meantime he established a 
 home of his own, having married, August i, 1867, 
 Miss Katherine Worden, who lived near his child- 
 hood's home, and with whom he had been ac- 
 quainted for years. In 1869, without opposition, 
 he was elected county judge of Kankakee County, 
 and held the position for the four ensuing years. 
 Previous to this he had served as city attorney. 
 
 On account of failing health it became ueces- 
 sarj' for Mr. Decker to seek a change of climate. 
 Accordingly, in 1874, with his wife and two chil- 
 dren, he came to Denver, then a city of about 
 twelve thousand inhabitants. As soon as his 
 health had improved sufficiently he opened a law 
 office and began practice. In February, 1877, 
 under the administration of President Grant, he 
 was appointed United States district attorney, 
 being the first to hold this office under the state 
 government of Colorado. 
 
 Public announcement was made April 16, 1880, 
 that Mr. Decker, one of the ablest, most conscien- 
 tious and efficient prosecutors the Federal gov- 
 ernment had selected for the management of its 
 legal cases in Colorado, had resigned his office to 
 resume the regular practice of law. He had filled 
 the position with ability and success. Familiar- 
 ity with the conduct of the office of public prose- 
 cutor in the United States court and in those of 
 the district under the territorial regime, teaches 
 us that for the most part the multiplication of 
 fees was the paramount consideration. Scores of 
 men were brought to these courts upon charges 
 that, when investigated, could not be sustained. 
 The greedy cormorants who had arrested these 
 men were reprimanded from the bench and 
 warned not to repeat the ofience. As the first 
 United States district attorney, Judge Decker 
 established an honorable precedent for the guid- 
 ance of his successors. 
 
 To fill an unexpired term of one year. Judge 
 Decker was elected district judge in the fall of 
 1887, and in 1888 was elected for the full term of 
 six years, but resigned the position January i , 
 1 891. He has a large practice in the state and 
 federal courts, and has the reputation of being 
 one of the ablest attorneys ip the state. Politi- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 399 
 
 cally he has always beeu a stanch Republican. 
 He was reared in the doctrines of the old Dutch 
 Reformed Church, but now attends the First 
 Congregational Church of Denver. During the 
 most of the time since the organization of the 
 chamber of commerce, he has beeu one of its 
 members. He is identified with the Denver and 
 Colorado Bar Associations, in the latter of which 
 he has served as a member of the executive com- 
 mittee and the committee on admissions. Like 
 the majority of Denver business and professional 
 men, he has mining interests in the state. 
 
 Mr. Decker is the father of three children: 
 Cora E., wife of George W. Sargent, of Trini- 
 dad, Colo.; Howard, who died at seven years; 
 and Mason L., who married Jeanne Stewart, of 
 New York City, and is now a member of the law 
 firm of Decker & Mead, of Denver. Mrs. Decker 
 was a daughter of Edmund and Emily (Bailey) 
 Worden, natives of New York. She was born at 
 Seneca Falls, N. Y., April lo, 1844, ^^^ died 
 March 18, 1897. 
 
 (pi UGUST L. ROHLING, the prosperous and 
 LA popular merchant of Fort Collins, is a na- 
 I I tive of Dielingen, Westphalia, Germany, 
 and a sou of Philip and Agnes (Heitplocke) 
 Rohling. He was fifth in order of birth among 
 six children, the others being Mrs. Angeline 
 Wellman, who lives at the old homestead; 
 Henry, a namesake of his grandfather Rohling, 
 and an officer in the war of 1870-71, since which 
 time he has been a shoe merchant; Philip, of 
 Blackhawk, Colo.; William, a merchant of Dan- 
 ville, 111.; and Herman, who was an officer in 
 the German army, and is now a veterinary sur- 
 geon at the old home in Germany. The father, 
 who was fond of military afiairs, served in the 
 German army as an officer. He followed the 
 occupation of a veterinary surgeon until his 
 death, which occurred at the age of seventy-eight 
 years and six months. His wife is still living in 
 Westphalia. 
 
 In Dielingen, where he was born February 28, 
 1858, our subject passed the first fifteen years of 
 his life, meantime attending the gymnasium. 
 In 1873 he accompanied his brother Philip to 
 America and settled in Indianapolis, where he 
 secured employment in the wholesale dry-goods 
 house of Hibbon, Patterson & Co. Remaining 
 there three years, in 1876 he came to Colorado, 
 
 the first member of the family to locate in this 
 state. The name, Blackhawk, being peculiar, 
 attracted his attention and led him to the town, 
 where he secured employment as clerk for Ritt- 
 master & Co. In 1882 he was joined by his 
 brother Philip, and they formed a partnership as 
 Rohling Brothers, starting a store on Gregory 
 street and building up a large trade. In 1892 
 they opened a store at Fort Collins and our sub- 
 ject came here to superintend it, since which 
 time he has acquired a valuable patronage. In 
 1894 he bought the block he now occupies, and 
 which was built in 1892. 
 
 The Rohling Block, asitis known, has a front- 
 age of fifty feet, divided into two store rooms, 
 and is one of the largest blocks in the city. The 
 entire first floor and the basement are occupied 
 by the stock of dry-goods, carpets, clothing, fur- 
 niture, etc. , which is the largest of its kind in 
 the place. February i, 1896, the partnership 
 was dissolved, and our subject retained the Fort 
 Collins interest, his brother taking the Black- 
 hawk store. In addition to the store he is in- 
 terested in mining in the Manhattan district of 
 this county, and is developing the Lynn lode, the 
 extension of the Ida May mine. He is also in- 
 terested in mines in the Tip Top district. With 
 his brother he worked the Belmont mine for many 
 years, but finally sold his interest. He is also 
 interested in the Greeley and Fort Collins Mining 
 Company, of which he has been treasurer, and 
 has invested some in placer mining in North 
 Park at Owl Mountain. 
 
 In Blackhawk Mr. Rohling married Johanna 
 Rudolph, who was born in Newark, N. J., and 
 died in Blackhawk, leaving one child, Elizabeth 
 Augusta. His second wife, whom he married in 
 Longmont, was June Stephenson, who was born 
 in Carthage, Mo., a daughter of W. T. Stephen- 
 son, ofjoplin. Mo. Their union has been blessed 
 with two children, A. Lynn and Lois. 
 
 During the period of his residence in Black- 
 hawk Mr. Rohling was a member of the council 
 for one term and for three years a member of the 
 school board, of which he was president for a 
 year. He was made a Mason in Blackhawk 
 Lodge No. 4, A. F. &. A. M., and now belongs 
 to Fort Collins Lodge No. 19. In the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows he belongs to Fort Col- 
 lins Lodge No. 19, which he has represented in 
 the grand lodge, and is also identified with the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORD. 
 
 encampment and Rebekah Lodge. He is a char- 
 ter member of Larimer Lodge No. loi, K. of P., 
 in which he was the first chancellor commander, 
 and is grand district deputy; also a charter mem- 
 ber of the Uniform Rank, K. of P.; al.so repre- 
 sented the Knights of Pythias in the grand 
 lodge. His wife is connected with the Eastern 
 Star. 
 
 HON. FREDERICK J. EBERT. It would 
 be impossible to write an accurate history of 
 Denver without making mention of the life 
 and works of Mr. Ebert, who was a prominent 
 citizen of this place from 1875 until his death, 
 May 3, 1888. In many different ways that showed 
 the versatility of his talents, he contributed to 
 the development of the city and the advancement 
 of its interests. Especially was his influence 
 given to the public schools, and, recognizing his 
 assistance in the promotion of educational inter- 
 ests, it was deemed a fitting memorial to his 
 labors to name in his honor one of the fine school 
 buildings of Denver. Believing that iron manu- 
 factures could be successfully established in the 
 west, he took an active part in founding the first 
 rolling mill in this city, and at the time of his 
 death he was president of the Colorado Iron 
 Works. In spite of the fact that he was one 
 of the busiest of men, he nevertheless found time 
 for scientific and classical studies, and acquired a 
 conversational knowledge of six languages, be- 
 sides a broad fund of historical information that 
 made him one of the most learned men in his 
 state. 
 
 Reviewing the ancestry of the Ebert family, 
 we find that the name was originally Aberhart 
 and that many years ago it was founded in Ger- 
 many by emigrants from France. Our subject 
 was born in Brunswick, Germany, January 27, 
 1822, and attended the gymnasium for some time, 
 after which he was a student in the Academy 
 Collegium Corolinum, a polytechnic institution 
 of high reputation, from which he graduated 
 with first honors. He selected the science of for- 
 estry for his occupation, and in his twenty-fourth 
 year was given the degree of A by the govern- 
 ment and was duly commissioned as forest en- 
 gineer. He was an officer under the duke of 
 Brunswick in the Revolution of 1848, and during 
 the troubled times that followed he deemed it 
 best to seek a home in another country. After 
 
 starting to America in 1850, a pardon was sent 
 him for his connection with the Revolution, but 
 he preferred to continue his journey to a land of 
 freedom and liberty of thought. Reaching New 
 York in June, he went on to Milwaukee, Wis. , 
 where he remained a year, studying the English 
 language and the customs of the people. He 
 spent two years in St. Louis, where he was em- 
 ployed as a civil engineer in the building of the 
 bridge across the Missouri, and from there went 
 to St. Joseph, Mo., where he engaged in civil 
 engineering for seven years. 
 
 Coming with an engineeringcorps to Denver in 
 i860, Mr. Ebert surveyed what is now the Kansas 
 Pacific Railroad as far as the headwaters of the 
 Republican River, one hundred and twelve miles 
 from Denver, but the Indians under Little Wood 
 and Left Hand attacked them, and while by par- 
 leying they saved their lives, still further advance 
 was considered impracticable. The engineers 
 came via the Platte to Denver, arriving here De- 
 cember 12. Mr. Ebert soon secured work with 
 W. A. H. Loveland in surveying a line for a 
 mountain road from Denver to Central City, which 
 was the first railroad survey in the Rocky Mount- 
 ain district. In 1862 he drafted the first map of 
 the territory and assisted Surveyor- General John 
 Pierce in making its first land survey. In 1863 
 he was chosen city engineer of Denver and 
 served for two terms, his surveys being the only 
 ones that have stood the test of time and the law. 
 In 1865 he embarked in the stock and dairy busi- 
 ness near Denver, but ten years later moved back 
 to the city in order that his children might have 
 educational advantages. 
 
 On the organization of the Exchange Bank, 
 Mr. Ebert was a stockholder and director, con- 
 tinuing in that capacity until his election as pres- 
 ident; the latter office he resigned in 1878, but 
 continued connected with the bank as vice-presi- 
 dent until his death. He was elected a member 
 of the constitutional convention that framed the 
 fundamental law of the .state, and his services in 
 that body were of a distinguished and honorable 
 nature. To him and Mr. Golden, more than to 
 any other men, may be ascribed the establish- 
 ment of the schools of Denver and their subse- 
 quent success. At the time of his death he was 
 president of the board of regents of the State 
 University at Boulder. Politically he was a Re- 
 publican. 
 
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 In St. Joseph, Mo., in December, 1855, Mr. 
 Ebert married Miss Mary Davies, who was born 
 in Shrewsbury, England, a descendant in the 
 third generation of a Frenchman who crossed the 
 channel and settled in Shropshire, England. 
 Her father, Thomas Davies, was born in 1800, 
 and some years after his marriage he came to 
 America, settling in Buchanan County, Mo., in 
 1849, but later removing to Troy, Doniphan 
 County, Kan., where he died in 1892, at the age 
 of ninety-two. Before leaving England he mar- 
 ried Phoebe Nooks, who was born in Mont- 
 gomeryshire and died in St. Louis while en route 
 to the west. Of their five children, two sons 
 took part in the Civil war as soldiers in the Union 
 army; and during his service the younger son 
 took both of his brothers-in-law and a number of 
 friends prisoners-of-war and sent them back to 
 his father in Kansas in order to save their lives. 
 Mrs. Ebert was reared in St. Joseph, Mo. , and re- 
 mained there for a time after her marriage, but 
 in 1862 came to Colorado, reaching Denver after 
 a five weeks' trip, October 22 of that year. She 
 is a woman of superior business ability and since 
 the death of her husband has managed the estate 
 in a most efficient manner. She was left four 
 hundred and eighty acres, a portion of which was 
 in the city, extending from Twenty-fourth street 
 to Downing avenue, between the Platte and Whit- 
 tier school; but after her husband's death .she was 
 compelled to go to law in order to retain the 
 land. For four years the matter was in the 
 courts, but she was finally successful in retaining 
 a large share of the tract. She owns a farm of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, within the 
 present limits of the city, and this by irrigation 
 she keeps in a high state of cultivation, building 
 upon the place, on Hyde Park street, just beyond 
 City Park, a little town known as London farm. 
 She also owns twenty acres on North Capitol 
 hill, and has in addition what is the largest dairy 
 farm for miles around, having the ranch stocked 
 with registered Jerseys, Holsteins and Shorthorn 
 Durhams. One-half block oi land on her farm 
 she donated for school purposes. In the manage- 
 ment of the property she is assisted by her son, 
 Alfred G., who is a graduate of the high school 
 and for two years a student in the University of 
 Denver. Her other children are daughters, 
 namely: Mrs. Leonore M. Hall, who graduated 
 from Wolfe Hall and resides in Denver; Mrs. Ida 
 
 J. O'Brien, whose husband is an attorney in 
 Denver; and Zetella E., who graduated from the 
 Denver high school and from the Emerson School 
 of Oratory in Boston, and is now a prominent 
 member and the auditor of the Woman's Club, 
 of Denver. The family are identified with the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 HORACE O. DODGE, M. D., professor of 
 clinical medicine in the Colorado University 
 and secretary of the board of education of 
 Boulder, is, in point of years of practice, the old- 
 est physician of the city now following the pro- 
 fession. He has been identified with many 
 enterprises for the benefit of the people and the 
 advancement of the state. In the organization 
 of the Colorado School of Music he took a warm 
 interest, was elected the first president of the in- 
 stitution, and has held the position from the time 
 of its organization in 1894, ^'s enterprise and 
 excellent judgment doing much for the growth of 
 the school. 
 
 The Dodge family has been represented in 
 America ever since the "Mayflower" made its 
 first trip across the waters. The doctor's great- 
 grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution. The 
 grandfather, Zebulon, was born in Massachusetts 
 and engaged in farming there until his death. 
 The father, Horace Dodge, was born in Belcher- 
 town, Mass., and removed to the west in 1836, 
 settling as a pioneer in DuPage County, 111., 
 twenty miles from Chicago, where he secured a 
 deed to land from the government and improved 
 a farm. The land is still owned by members of 
 the family. He was eighty-four at the time of 
 his death; his mother was ninety-nine when she 
 died. Longevity is noticed in every generation 
 of the family, many of whom reach ninety years 
 of age. 
 
 The doctor's mother, Lucy A. Hickman, was 
 born in Winchester, Va., in the Shenandoah 
 Valley, and resides in Wheaton, 111., at the age 
 of eighty-three years. She is a member of the 
 Baptist Church. Her father, W. Fielding Hick- 
 man, was born at Natural Bridge, a member of 
 an old Virginia family, and removed to the 
 Shenandoah Valley, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing. He started to remove to Indiana, traveling 
 by team, but died while on his way west. One 
 of his sons was in the navy during the war of 
 
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 i8i2 and also accompanied Commodore Perry on 
 his expedition for the opening of the Japanese 
 ports. The Hickman family are lineal descend- 
 ants of John Knox, the Reformer. 
 
 The family of Horace and Lucy A. Dodge con- 
 sisted of six daughters and one son, all of whom 
 are still living, the youngest sister, the wife of a 
 minister, having for the past seventeen years 
 been a missionary in Africa. The subject of this 
 sketch was the fifth in order of birth. He was 
 born on the home farm in DuPage County, De- 
 cember 13, 1840, and grew to manhood on the 
 homestead where he was born. At the age of 
 eighteen he began to teach school, and with the 
 money thus earned he expected to avail himself 
 of a collegiate education. In 1861 he entered 
 the freshman class of Wheaton College, but four 
 weeks later he volunteered in Company E, 
 Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and was mustered into 
 service at St. Charles, 111., as a private. Ordered 
 to Washington, he remained there until Decem- 
 ber 13, 1861, when he went to.camp in Virginia. 
 In March, 1862, he marched to Centerville and 
 Manassas, where he took part in a battle, then 
 retreated to Alexandria, and went by transport 
 to join in the Peninsular campaign of 1862. He 
 took part in the engagements at Williamsburg 
 and Mechanicsville and the .seven days' battle, 
 then retreated to Harrison's Landing, ordered 
 back to Alexandria, and from there to Bull Run, 
 in time for the second battle there; afterward 
 participated in the battle of Antietam, spent the 
 winter in picket duty and scouting, took part in 
 the battle of Fredericksburg, and in the spring of 
 1863 was present at Chancellorsville, Beverly 
 Ford, Brandy Station, Aldie, Upperville and 
 Gettysburg, where his regiment opened the battle 
 on the first day and continued at the front until 
 the close of the third day. Soon after that battle 
 he was detailed to the division headquarters as a 
 scout, and the winter of 1863-64 was occupied in 
 scouting. In the spring of 1864 he was in the 
 advance in the battles of the Wilderness and 
 Spottsylvania, and after the latter engagement 
 was transferred to Sheridan's headquarters as 
 scout, taking part in Sheridan's raid on Rich- 
 mond and continuing at his headquarters until 
 the fall of 1864. In October he was mustered 
 out and discharged in Chicago. 
 
 Returning to the home farm, our subject spent 
 some time in improving it. In January, 1866, 
 
 he entered the Chicago Medical College, from 
 which he was graduated in 1868. He was in the 
 Hospital for Women and Children in Chicago for 
 a year, also engaged in practice in Riverside for 
 a year, and in January, 1871, settled in Denver, 
 where he engaged in practice for eight months. 
 He then removed to Valmont, at that time the 
 most promising town in Boulder County. Eight- 
 een months later the railroad was completed to 
 Boulder, and he located here, where he has since 
 carried on a general practice. For years he has 
 been president of the board of pension examiners 
 in Boulder, which he assisted in organizing. 
 For four years he was county physician, has 
 served as alderman two terms, as fire chief one 
 term, county coroner two terms and health officer 
 six terms. He has been professor of materia 
 medica and therapeutics in the Colorado Uni- 
 versity, and in the fall of 1898 was given the 
 chair of clinical medicine. In November, 1897, 
 he was appointed chairman of a committee to 
 raise money for the erection of a hospital in con- 
 nection with the medical department of the state 
 university. The committee was successful and a 
 commodious, well-appointed building now fur- 
 nishes refuge for the afflicted, as well as clinical 
 material for the students. 
 
 In Chicago, Dr. Dodge married Miss Laura H. 
 Sturdevant, who was born in that city, daughter 
 of Noah Sturdevant, member of an old York 
 state family and a coal operator and lime manu- 
 facturer in Illinois. Two children of Dr. and 
 Mrs. Dodge are living and two are deceased, 
 namely: Horace C, who graduated from the 
 Boulder high school and is a member of the 
 medical department of the state university, class 
 of 1901; Laura, who was educated in the Rock- 
 ford Female College; LeRoy, who was accident- 
 ally killed at twelve years, being thrown from a 
 horse; and Frederick, who died at four years. 
 
 Fraternally Dr. Dodge is identified with Col- 
 umbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M. , in which he is past 
 high priest; Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, in 
 which he has been eminent commander four terms, 
 and is a permanent member of the grand com- 
 mandery; El Jebel Temple, N. M. S., of Denver; 
 and is grand representative of the Grand Com- 
 mandery of New Jersey. He is a charter member 
 of the Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 5, G. A. R., in 
 which he is past commander, and for one year, 
 
HENRY BEAN NEWLON. 
 
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 405 
 
 1896-97, was commander of the department of 
 Colorado and Wyoming, G. A. R., was also an 
 aide on the staff of the commander of the 
 National Encampment, General Lawler. In 
 religion he is an Episcopalian. Politically he is 
 a Republican. At this writing he is president of 
 the Boulder County Medical Association. He 
 was a charter member of the State Medical 
 Society, and held the position of president of that 
 body in 1876. He is also connected with the 
 American Medical Association, American Clima- 
 tological Association, and a member of the 
 Alumni Association of Chicago Medical College, 
 now the medical department of the Northwestern 
 University. 
 
 HENRY BEAN NEWLON, who came to 
 Colorado in December, 1863, and for some 
 time engaged in mining, but is now pro- 
 prietor of a farm and fruit ranch near LaPorte, 
 Larimer County, was born in Martinsville, Clark 
 County, 111., October 8, 1845, and traces his 
 lineage to one of the F. F. Vs. His father, James 
 Newlon, was born in Culpeper County, Va. , and 
 was an own cousin of President James Madison, 
 their mothers being Misses Bean, sisters. When 
 a young man he came as far west as Illinois, 
 where he embarked in the mercantile business at 
 Tuscola, Douglas County. Later he removed 
 to Texas and died at Gainesville in 1882. His 
 wife, Ruth (Downs) Newlon, was born in Cul- 
 peper County, of an old Virginian family, and 
 died in Clark County, 111. , when her youngest 
 child, our subject, was only two years of age. 
 She left, besides this son, two daughters and a 
 son, namely: Mrs. Cynthia Grant, who died in 
 Illinois; Champion, who was killed in Illinois by 
 being thrown from a horse; and Mattie, of Texas. 
 In the public schools of Clark and Douglas 
 Counties, 111., our subject received his education. 
 In 1862 he went to Cairo and for a year worked 
 on the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1863 he 
 came to Colorado, outfitting at St. Joseph, Mo., 
 and traveling along the Platte, hisjourney lasting 
 from October i to December 18, when he arrived 
 at Denver. He proceeded to Gilpin County and 
 engaged in mining and milling at Nevadaville 
 for a time, after which he prospected and mined 
 under lease. He was there in 187 1, at the time 
 of the striking of the Caribou mine, the extension 
 of which he developed, also operated the None- 
 
 Such mine successfully. At the time he went to 
 that camp, there was but one cabin at the camp, 
 and indications of future prosperity were meagre. 
 In 1 88 1 he came to LaPorte and bought eighty 
 acres of unimproved land. Here he has since 
 planted twelve acres to apples and plums, six 
 acres to cherries, and ten acres to blackberries, 
 raspberries, gooseberries and currants. The 
 place is one of the finest fruit farms in the coun- 
 try, and appropriately bears the name of "None- 
 Such," after the mine Mr. Newlon once operated. 
 
 In Caribou, on New Year's day of 1878, Mr. 
 Newlon married Miss Hilda L. Hoel, who was 
 born in Madison, Wis., a daughter of John 
 and Susan (Nelson) Hoel, natives of Christiana, 
 Norway. Her father, who was a carpenter and 
 architect, settled in Madison, Wis., and while 
 there planned and built the capitol, courthouse, 
 hospital and the university buildings. On ac- 
 count of ill health he removed to Nevada, Iowa, 
 and there he died in 1882. His wife, who is 
 living in Nevada, Iowa, is identified with the 
 Lutheran Church. She is the. mother of three 
 children, namely: Mrs. Inger Wells, who lives 
 in the same town as her mother; Hilda Lillian; 
 and Henry W. , a successful architect and builder, 
 of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Newlon was reared in 
 Madison, Wis., until fifteen years of age, after 
 which she resided in Iowa, and from there in 
 1876 came to Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Newlon 
 have an adopted daughter, Bertha May, who was 
 graduated from the high school of Fort Collins . 
 in 1898, and is now a student at the State Agri- 
 cultural College, at Fort Collins. 
 
 Politically our subject is a Democrat, while Mrs. 
 Newlon is a Republican. While in Blackhawk 
 he was made a Mason, and now belongs to 
 Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M. Both Mr. 
 and Mrs. Newlon are members of the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 "■ ZRA T. CARR is one of the most successful 
 'y fruit-growers of Boulder County and is 
 __ treasurer and manager of the Boulder Fruit 
 Growers' Association, which organization he was 
 very influential in founding. When a resident of 
 Gilpin County he served for six years as county 
 commissioner, and for two years of that period 
 was chairman of the board. He was elected first 
 in 1880, re-elected in 1883 and vacated the office 
 in 1887, with a record of which he has ju.st cause 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to be proud, for it was eminently satisfactory to 
 all concerned. He has always been a thorough- 
 going Republican, and of late years has been ac- 
 tively interested on the side of the silver question. 
 While he was county commissioner the bonded 
 indebtedness of Gilpin County, amounting to 
 about $100,000, was reduced nearly half, and 
 since then has been wholly wiped out, leaving 
 the county free from debt. Mr. Carr possesses 
 excellent business ability and almost invariably 
 makes a success of the enterprises he undertakes. 
 
 The parents of the above-named gentleman were 
 Josiah S. and Lucinda (Tracy) Carr, both na- 
 tives of New York state, where they lived till 
 death closed their labors. The father was a mer- 
 chant at West Dresden for many years, and he 
 lived to the ripe age of eighty-three years. His 
 wife died when in her fifty-third year. Seven of 
 their fourteen children grew to maturity, and of 
 this large family Mr. Carr of this sketch is now 
 the only survivor. 
 
 The birth of our subject took place in the town 
 of West Dresden, N. Y., December23, 1838. He 
 was educated in the public schools of his native 
 place, and learned the mercantile business with 
 his father. In 1856 he went to Minnesota, arriv- 
 ing in Minneapolis when the place comprised but 
 five hundred inhabitants. He taught school the 
 first winter, after which he engaged in farming 
 nine miles from'the city. In August, 1862, he 
 volunteered in Company B, Ninth United States 
 Infantry, for service in the Civil war. Soon af- 
 terward he was sent on the frontier against the 
 Indians, who had taken the occasion to rise in 
 force because the country was already engaged 
 in civil war. Mr. Carr was mustered into the 
 service as first sergeant of Company B, at Fort 
 Snelling, Minn., and was honorably discharged 
 in June, 1863, at St. Peter's. He participated in 
 a fierce fight with the Indians, when he was one 
 of a little band of sixty against three hundred red- 
 skins. Three of his comrades were killed and 
 twenty-one were injured, himself being one of the 
 number. His right arm was badly shattered by 
 a bullet, and he was taken to the hospital for 
 treatment. The young lady who shortly after- 
 ward became his wife was most kind and tender 
 in nursing the injured soldiers and though our 
 hero had escaped being captured by the Indians, 
 he found a more formidable foe within the bare 
 hospital walls, and capitulated at once. 
 
 Up to 1868 Mr. Carr operated a farm situated 
 about two miles from Hutchinson, Minn., but in 
 that year sold out and located in Iowa, near Des 
 Moines. The following year he came to Colo- 
 rado, by way of Cheyenne, making the trip by 
 rail and stage to Central City, and in July com- 
 menced mining in Russell Gulch. Among the 
 mines which he opened during the next few years 
 are the Grizzly and Specie Payment and others, 
 which have produced precious metal in paying 
 quantities. Since 1885 he has lived in Boulder; 
 but built his residence here two years after com- 
 ing here, planted fruit trees and greatly improved 
 his property. He purchased a block of land in 
 Garden City Addition to Boulder. In 1893 the 
 Fruit Growers' Association, for shipping and hand- 
 ling fruit, was organized, and it has proved of 
 material benefit to local producers. In 1897 Mr. 
 Carr was very active in getting started the Boul- 
 der Fruit Juice and Preserving Company, of which 
 he is the president. At one time he was a mem- 
 ber and senior commander of Ellsworth Post No. 
 20, G. A. R., in Central City, and was honorably 
 discharged from the same by request. He was 
 also formerly identified with the Masonic order 
 and is of high standing in the Odd Fellows' so- 
 ciety. He is past grand in the order, was grand 
 marshal of the grand lodge of Colorado, and is a 
 member of the encampment. He was captain of 
 Canton, Boulder No. 16, and major of the fourth 
 battalion. At the request of the Boulder Canton 
 the Decoration of Chivalry was conferred upon 
 Mr. Carr, April 26, 1898. 
 
 As previously mentioned there was a very 
 pretty little romance attending the meeting of Mr. 
 Carr and the lady who has been his faithful help- 
 mate since their marriage, October 7, 1863. She 
 was Miss Ludie Tucker, a native of the vicinity 
 of Fort Smith, Ark. , and daughter of Rev. Eber 
 and Martha (Cox) Tucker, both of New York 
 state. The father, who was a minister of the 
 Baptist Church, went to Fort Smith in early days 
 and was a missionary of his denomination there- 
 abouts for some thirteen years. Thence he re- 
 moved to Knox County, Mo., where- his death 
 occurred when he was in his sixtieth year. In 
 1861 the mother, with her son Hiram and daugh- 
 ter I/Udie, went to Minnesota. Mrs. Tucker de- 
 parted this life in Russell Gulch, at the age of 
 seventy-five years. The paternal grandfather of 
 Mrs. Carr, Eben Tucker, Sr. , was a native of 
 
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 Germany, and was a farmer in New York after 
 his arrival in this country. The seven children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Carrare: Lois G., now Mrs. John 
 L. Hazleton, of Boulder; Lillian M., Mrs. Harry 
 Werry, also of this city; Mary E., wife of 
 Nathaniel Lewis, of Russell Gulch; Edna J., wife 
 of Walter Booth, of Boulder; Olive, wife of C. L. 
 Purmort, of Boulder; Ezra E. and Lucy M. The 
 two eldest daughters are graduates of the schools 
 ofCentral City, and Mary E. graduated from the 
 University of Colorado in the class of '92. 
 
 P 6JILLIAM K. BURCHINELL, president of 
 \ A/ several Colorado mining companies and 
 YV sheriff of Arapahoe County 1892-96, is a 
 representative of one of Maryland's oldest fam- 
 ilies, his ancestors having come to this country 
 with Lord Baltimore. It is said that some of the 
 name are still to be found in Normandy, but the 
 branch to which our subject belongs was estab- 
 lished in England at the time of William the 
 Conqueror and subsequent generations were iden- 
 tified with the history of Great Britain. After 
 coming to America the}' transferred their alle- 
 giance to the colonies and during the Revolution 
 William Burchinell, a planter of Kent County, 
 Md., served valiantly in the cause of independ- 
 ence. 
 
 Thomas, a son of this Revolutionary patriot, 
 was born in Chestertown, Md., and grew to man- 
 hood upon the eastern shore, receiving his educa- 
 tion in William and Mary College, of which he 
 was a graduate. He became an architect and 
 builder in Baltimore, but later removed to Hunt- 
 ingdon and was employed as master builder in 
 the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
 He died in Huntingdon when sixty-six years of 
 age. His wife was Anna M. Wilson, who was 
 born in Huntingdon, Pa., of Scotch descent, and 
 was a daughter of Matthew Wilson, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, but for some years a merchant in 
 Baltimore. There were three sons and three 
 daughters in the family of Thomas Burchinell, 
 and all the sons come to Colorado. Thomas W. 
 died while acting as receiver of the United States 
 land office at Leadville; and John E. resides in 
 Denver. 
 
 The second of the sons, William K., was born 
 in Huntingdon, Pa., October 12, 1846. While a 
 student in the Hollidaysburg Academy, he en- 
 
 listed as a member of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry, in which he served from July, 1862, 
 until the close of the war, being assigned to the 
 Army of the Cumberland under General Rose- 
 crans and General Thomas. Among the impor- 
 tant engagements in which he participated were 
 those of Stone River, Chattanooga, Chicka- 
 mauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, 
 the march to Atlanta and then back to Nashville 
 under General Thomas. On being mustered out 
 in 1865, he returned to Huntingdon and em- 
 barked in the planing mill business. In the fall 
 of 1873 he was elected, on the Republican ticket, 
 to represent the district in the legislature, and 
 while a member of the session of 1874 served on 
 various committees and as chairman of the 
 military and judiciary committees. In 1874 ^^ 
 was appointed by President Grant to the receiver- 
 ship of the United States land office at Fairplay, 
 Colo., and assumed the duties of the position in 
 February, 1875. Four years later President 
 Hayes re-appointed him to the office, which was 
 removed to Leadville, and he served there until 
 1883. Meantime he had become interested in 
 mining in the Leadville district. Though on the 
 expiration of his term of office he removed to 
 Denver, he still continued to operate in the Lead- 
 ville region, and is now interested in the Welton, 
 Nubian and Superior Consolidated mines there, 
 besides being interested in scores of mines else- 
 where. He is president of the Golden Ocean 
 Mining Company, which operates at Victor; presi- 
 dent of LaPlatte Placer Mining Company; presi- 
 dent of the Grouse Mountain Gold Mining and 
 Tunnel Company, operating in the Cripple Creek 
 district; and president of the Mineral Hill Gold 
 Mining Company in Park County. 
 
 In Huntingdon, Pa., Mr. Burchinell married 
 Miss Mant Cunningham, daughter of Josiah 
 Cunningham, who was a merchant and farmer 
 there. They have one child, Annie C. Politi- 
 cally Mr. Burchinell is a silver Republican, and 
 he has been active upon committees, in conven- 
 tions and as a member of the state Republican 
 committee. His party, in 1891, elected him 
 sheriff of Arapahoe County and two years later 
 he was re-elected, holding the office from Janu- 
 ary, 1892, to January, 1896. At the second elec- 
 tion he won by a plurality of eleven hundred and 
 eighty votes, in spite of the fact that he was 
 opposed by the "machine" political element and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 the newspapers, who fought him because he 
 would not be dictated to. During his term of 
 oflSce occurred the celebrated attack on the city, 
 when his coolness and determination saved blood- 
 shed and his promptness in securing the aid of 
 the United States troops and not allowing any 
 demonstration kept both sides down. He is a 
 member of Reno Post No. 39, G. A. R., and the 
 Union Veterans' Legion. While in Huntingdon 
 he was made a Mason and afterward identified 
 himself with the fraternity in Leadville. He be- 
 longs to Temple Lodge No. 84, A. F. & A. M,, 
 Colorado Chapter No. 29, R. A. M., Denver 
 Commandery No. 25, K. T., Denver Consistory 
 and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. 
 
 0R. AYRES STRADLEY has been associated 
 with his brother in Longmont for about two 
 years, both in the practice of medicine and 
 surgery and in mining enterprises. Previously 
 he was located at Platteville, Colo., for thirteen 
 years, gaining an enviable reputation for skill in 
 his profession during that period. He has made 
 a specialty of nervous diseases and is in partner- 
 ship with his brother, D. N., in the management 
 of a sanitarium for the cure of the liquor habit. 
 At present he is the city physician of lyOngmont, 
 and is examiner for numerous leading life insur- 
 ance companies here. 
 
 The parents of the doctor were Dr. D. W. and 
 Elizabeth (Bell) Stradley, natives of Zanesville 
 and Circleville, Ohio, respectively. They became 
 residents of Wabash, Ind., in 1849 and thence- 
 forth made their home in that city, the father 
 dying there in November, 1895, aged fourscore 
 years, and the mother many years before, when 
 fifty-four years of age. Dr. D. W. Stradley was 
 much esteemed by his professional brethren and 
 took a leading part in public enterprises and edu- 
 cational work. He acted as a director and was 
 deeply interested in the development and improve- 
 ment of the system of educating the young. His 
 father, Ayres Stradley, was born in Baltimore, 
 Md., married Rhoda Wilkins, of the same city, 
 and followed farming and building as occupations. 
 He lived in Hancock County, Ohio, for several 
 years and spent his last days in Wabash, Ind., 
 dying in his eighty-third year. His good wife 
 also died in Wabash, in November, 1882, having 
 attained the extreme age of ninety-six years. 
 
 The father of Ayres Stradley was a native ot 
 England, who, upon his arrival in the United 
 States, located permanently in Baltimore. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Bell) Stradley was a daughter 
 of Abner Bell, originally of Pennsylvania, but 
 later of Hancock County, Ohio, and Winterset, 
 Iowa. To the last-named place he removed in 
 1851, and, after living in the town fortwenty-one 
 years, he passed to his reward, in 1872, aged 
 about eighty-six years. He was a hero of the 
 war of 18 12, and his wife was the daughter of 
 Rev. John Smith, a soldier of the Revolution and 
 also of the war of 1812. He was a noble minister 
 of the gospel, for years was connected with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio, and received 
 his summons to the better land while he was 
 occupying his pulpit, then past eighty years of 
 age. His wife died in Winterset, Iowa, in 1881, 
 at the advanced age of ninety-five years. Both 
 Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Stradley were members of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had ten 
 children, four of whom died in childhood. Their 
 four married daughters died in Indiana: Rhoda, 
 Mrs. Baker; Margaret A., Mrs. Litsenberger, and 
 Sarah E-, Mrs. Comstock, all in Wabash; and 
 Charlotte E., Mrs. Steele, in South Bend. Their 
 two surviving sons are Ayres and Daniel N.,who 
 are represented in this volume. (See sketch of 
 Dr. D. N. Stradley.) 
 
 Dr. Ayres Stradley was born in Mount Blanch- 
 ard, Hancock County, Ohio, October 11, 1840, and 
 was nine years old when the family went to 
 Wabash, Ind. He received a good education in 
 the common and high schools and then took up 
 the study of medicine with his father. In April, 
 1861, he was among the first to respond to the 
 president's call for troops but was rejected. In 
 1863 he entered the University of Michigan and 
 took a course of lectures, after which he opened 
 an oflSce in Wabash and commenced practice. 
 In 1866 he went to Bloomingdale, Mich., and 
 remained there for ten years, giving his earnest 
 attention to the duties of his profession. Then 
 returning to Wabash, he continued his practice 
 in that city up to 1883, when he came to Colo- 
 rado, and for over thirteen years practiced in 
 Platteville. His well-established reputation for 
 ability preceded him to this place and in the brief 
 period of his stay here he has won the respect and . 
 best wishes of all who know him, whether in a 
 business or social way. 
 
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 While living in Platteville, Dr. Stradley was a 
 candidate for count}' clerk of Weld County on 
 the Populist's ticket, which was defeated. At 
 the time of the election he was absent in the east, 
 at the bedside of his dying father. He became 
 a member of the Masonic fraternity when he was 
 a young man, in Bloomingdale, Mich. He is a 
 member of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of 
 Pythias and is a Knight of the Maccabees. He 
 was married in Wabash, Ind. , in 1863 to Miss 
 N. M. Baruhart, a native of Virginia and daugh- 
 ter of Joel Barnhart, an early settler of Wabash. 
 Of the four children born to the doctor and wife 
 three are living, namely: Carl, a civil engineer 
 and county surveyor; Maude M., Mrs. Dudley, 
 of IrOngmont; and Edessa E., who is at home. 
 
 0ANIEL N. STRADLEY, M. D., one of the 
 well-known and highly respected physicians 
 of Longmont, has been established in prac- 
 tice here for the past eighteen years and has been 
 a resident of the county for a score of years. That 
 he is considered an authority in his special de- 
 partment, nervous and mental diseases, is evi- 
 denced by the fact that four different judges have 
 appointed him as medical expert in lunacy cases. 
 He has also served to the entire satisfaction of 
 everyone as city physician and is medical exami- 
 ner for several of the old standard life insurance 
 companies. In 1892 he opened a sanitarium here 
 for the treatment of persons afflicted with dipso- 
 mania and nervous diseases, and has successfully 
 attended to some eight or nine hundred patients. 
 He has the highest testimonials from many of 
 these, and numerous outsiders who know of the 
 good work that has been accomplished under his 
 able management in this institution. 
 
 The birth of Dr. D. N. Stradley occurred in 
 Mount Blanchard, Ohio, July 3, 1849. His par- 
 ents were Dr. D. W. and Elizabeth (Bell) Strad- 
 ley, likewise of Ohio, of English descent, but rep- 
 resentatives of patriotic American families who 
 had dwelt in the United States for several gene- 
 rations. Dr. Stradley, Sr., practiced his profes- 
 sion in Ohio and Indiana, and was loved and re- 
 spected by all who knew him. His children were 
 ten in number, but only six lived to maturity. 
 Four daughters married and had homes of their 
 own in Indiana, but one by one they were gath- 
 ered to the silent land, and now, of the entire 
 
 family only two remain, the subject of this article 
 and his brother. Dr. Ayres, who has been in part- 
 nership with him for about two or three years. 
 
 The early years of Dr. Daniel N. Stradley 
 were spent in Wabash, Ind., where he attended 
 the public schools. Having inherited a taste for 
 the medical profession he found an able instructor 
 in his father, and in 1873 took a course of lectures 
 in the Curtis Medical College in Cincinnati, com- 
 pleting his studies in Marion, Ind., where the 
 college had been removed after his first year 
 in the institution. He graduated in 1875, but in 
 the preceding year had begun practice in Marion, 
 with Dr. Snodgrass, the dean of the college. In 
 1878, on account of poor health. Dr. Stradley 
 came to Colorado, and for two years or more 
 lived in Boulder. There he became a member of 
 the Boulder County Medical Association and in 
 partnership with Dr. H. W. Allen was made sur- 
 geon for the South Park & Rio Grande Railroad, 
 and opened a hospital at Buena Vista, Dr. Allen 
 being secretary and himself treasurer. When the 
 railroad was completed the hospital was aban- 
 doned, and Dr. Stradley came to Longmont, where 
 he has since made his home, his ofiSce being on 
 Main Street. Formerly he was a member of the 
 Indiana Medical Society. 
 
 In addition to being thoroughly interested in 
 his professional work. Dr. Stradley and his 
 brother are engaged in mining operations upon 
 quite a large scale. They are working the Vir- 
 ginius mine near Ward, and the Miser group of 
 mines in the vicinity of Rowena, near Left Hand. 
 The subject of this article was one of the incor- 
 porators of the Great Northern Oil, Coal, Mineral 
 Refining and Prospecting Company, which is 
 capitalized at $100,000, and has as its president 
 Dr. W. H. Davis, of Denver, Colo.; treasurer. 
 Dr. Stradley; secretary. Judge H. M. Minor, of 
 Longmont; and manager, S. L. Holaday. Prof. 
 Arthur Lakes, late professor of geology at the 
 State School of Mines and editor of Mines and 
 Minerals in Denver, was employed by the company 
 to make a thorough investigation of the strata 
 and existing conditions of the region which they 
 proposed to search for oil, coal and minerals, and 
 his careful and detailed report was most encour- 
 aging and valuable, pointing out, as it does, the 
 facts and reasons for his belief of the existence of 
 certain mineral and oil deposits within conven- 
 ient distance from Longmont. With redoubled 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 vigor and euterprise the company is now pushing 
 forward the work which is certain, sooner or later, 
 to meet with the most gratifying results. 
 
 Politically the doctor is identified with the 
 People's party. October i, 1898, he received the 
 nomination of his party for representative of the 
 northern district of Colorado. He is a member 
 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 the Knights of the Maccabees. He was married 
 in Xenia, Ohio, in 1873, toMiss Margaret Pence, 
 daughter of Darius Pence. She was born and 
 reared in Xenia and by her marriage with the 
 doctor is the mother of a son, D. Pry, who is 
 a promising young man, and is a member of 
 Gross Medical College, class of '99. 
 
 (John Rowland hanna. coming to 
 
 I Colorado in 1869 and to Denver in 1871, 
 Qj Mr. Hanna has witnessed much of the de- 
 velopment of the state and has been identified 
 with the growth of Denver since it was a place 
 of five thousand inhabitants. Religious, charit- 
 able and educational institutions have alike felt 
 the impetus of his sympathy and support, and in 
 every enterprise calculated to benefit the people 
 he has been deeply interested. After years of 
 active connection with the banking business of 
 this city, he resigned his position and retired to 
 private life. 
 
 The Hanna family is of Scotch-Irish lineage, 
 but has had representatives in America from an 
 early day. In their honor was named Hannas- 
 town, Westmoreland County, Pa., which was so 
 loyal to the cause of freedom that it declared in- 
 dependence from Great Britain in May, 1775, 
 soon after the battle of Lexington. After the 
 Revolution the town was burned by the Indians. 
 Judge John Hanna, grandfather of our subject, 
 was born in Hannastown and removed to Cadiz, 
 Harrison County, Ohio, where he engaged in 
 farming, and also for a time served as county 
 judge. He attained to advanced years. 
 
 Our subject's father, A. F. Hanna, was born 
 in Cadiz, where he first engaged in merchandis- 
 ing, but later was editor of the Liberty Advocate 
 in that city. He died in 1847, when he was 
 thirty-four years of age. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Susanna Craig, was born in 
 Cadiz, the youngest of six children and the only 
 living representative of her family during her 
 
 later years. She died in Colorado in 1892, at the 
 age of seventy-five. Her father, Rowland Craig, 
 was born in Brownsville, Pa., and settled in Ca- 
 diz, where he engaged in the mercantile business 
 until his death. Our subject was one of three 
 children that attained maturity, two of whom are 
 living. His brother, Maj. James W. Hanna, 
 served during the Civil war and at its close or- 
 ganized a company and came to Colorado to fight 
 the Indians, being stationed at Fort Collins until 
 his honorable discharge. He now lives in Denver. 
 
 Born and reared in Cadiz, our subject attended 
 the public schools and Franklin College in Har- 
 rison County. At the age of eighteen he went 
 to Mercer, Pa. , where he secured work as book- 
 keeper, and when twenty-three he started the first 
 bank in the place. After five years he sold it to 
 the Fir.st National Bank, of which he was cashier 
 from 1864 to 1869, resigning in the latter year 
 on account of illness. In the spring of that year 
 he came to Colorado, where the salubrious air 
 and outdoor exerci.se upon a farm enabled him 
 to regain his health. In the spring of 187 1 he 
 came to Denver and at once began to plan the 
 organization of the City National Bank, the char- 
 ter for which he secured in Washington. His 
 bank bought out the private bank of Warren 
 Hussey and continued the business at the corner 
 of Fifteenth and Market streets, but after fifteen 
 years erected a new building and removed to Six- 
 teenth and Lawrence streets. In 1892, after 
 having served as cashier for twenty years, he 
 was made president, and continued in that ca- 
 pacity until the business was sold in 1894. He 
 was then with its successors, the American Na- 
 tional Bank, as vice-president until the suspen- 
 sion of the institution. 
 
 In Penn Yan, N. Y. , Mr. Hanna married Miss 
 lone T. Munger, who was born in New York 
 •state, the daughter of Lyman and Martha S. 
 (Whitney) Munger, natives of Massachusetts and 
 New York respectively. Her father, who was a 
 druggist in Penn Yan, later engaged in the gro- 
 cery and drug business at Galva, 111., and still 
 later engaged in farming. In 1891 Mr. and Mrs. 
 Munger came to Denver, where they have since 
 made their home with their daughter, Mrs. 
 Hanna. The latter is a member of the Daugh- 
 ters of the Revolution. Active in educational 
 work, she has been president of the educational 
 department of the Woman's Club and for one 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 411 
 
 term of three years held the office of school di- 
 rector, but afterward refused reuomination. 
 
 •With others Mr. Hanna organized the Colorado 
 College at Colorado Springs in 1874, and from its 
 inception he has taken an active interest in the 
 progress of the institution. For years he was its 
 treasurer and is now serving as a trustee. The 
 college is now considered one of the leading edu- 
 cational institutions in the west. Politically he 
 is a Republican. In the organization of the 
 Y. M. C, A. he took an active part and for more 
 than twenty years he has been one of its trustees. 
 He assisted in the founding and building of the 
 People's Tabernacle Congregational Church, in 
 which he was long a trustee. With many of the 
 laudable enterprises for the advancement of Den- 
 ver his name has been intimately identified and 
 his influence has been felt in their development. 
 It may be truly said that Denver has no citizen 
 more loyal to its welfare than he, nor are there 
 many who have been more important factors in 
 its progress and advancement. 
 
 ~ DWARD A. THOMPSON. In the last half 
 ^ of the present century the lawyer has been 
 _ a pre-eminent factor in all affairs of private 
 concern and national importance. He has been 
 depended upon to conserve the best and perma- 
 nent interests of the whole people and is a recog- 
 nized power in all the avenues of life. He 
 stands as the protector of the rights and liberties 
 of his fellow-meu and is the representative of a 
 profession whose followers, if they would gain 
 honor, fame and success, must be men of merit 
 and ability. Such a one is Edward A. Thomp- 
 son, who is now serving as county attorney of 
 Weld County. 
 
 He was born in Gravesend, England, May 27, 
 1845, but in November, 1847, was brought to 
 America by his parents. Dr. William and Eliza 
 (Hodson) Thompson, who settled in Bradford 
 County, Pa., first at lycroy and later at Herrick, 
 where he has been engaged in the practice of medi- 
 cine until within the last few years. In 1896 he 
 removed to Towanda, the same county, where he 
 is now enjoying a well-earned rest. Eleven chil- 
 dren constituted his family, namely: William H., 
 who was graduated from Princeton College and 
 is now a leading attorney of Wyalusing, Pa.; 
 
 Alfred, a merchant of Towanda, Pa.; Edward A., 
 of this sketch; Mary, deceased wife of Frederick 
 Leavenworth, of Towanda; Josephine, who died 
 in childhood; Ernest T., who died at Towanda; 
 Ferdinand, a physician practicing at the asylum 
 in ^Bradford County, Pa. ; Edith A. , deceased, 
 who was a teacher in the south; Eugene A., an 
 attorney of Towanda; John G., a carpenter and 
 builder of Scranton, Pa.; and Ethelbert R., a 
 business man of Towanda. 
 
 Edward A. Thompson acquired his literary 
 education in the common schools of Herrick and 
 the Towanda Collegiate Institute. As his father 
 was a country physician in rather limited circum- 
 stances and had a large family depending upon 
 him, our subject began life for himself at the age 
 of thirteen and made his own way through school, 
 paying his expenses at college by teaching. In 
 March, 1865, he enlisted in Company G, Ninety- 
 ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and re- 
 mained in the service until hostilities ceased. 
 For three years thereafter he served as sergeant 
 in Company A, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania 
 National Guard, resigning his office on coming 
 west. While teaching school in Pennsylvania, 
 Mr. Thompson read law and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1870, after which he engaged in practice at 
 Towanda until 1882, the year of his arrival in 
 Weld County, Colo. He was principal of the 
 public schools of Erie for three years, and en- 
 gaged in practice at that place until 1889,' when 
 he was elected county judge for a term of six 
 years. He then removed to Greeley, where he 
 opened an oSice, and has since successfully en- 
 gaged in general practice, retaining a clientele of 
 so representative a character as to alone stand in 
 evidence of his professional ability and personal 
 popularity. In 1898 he was appointed county 
 attorney, and is now discharging the duties of 
 that office to the utmost satisfaction of the court 
 and bar of the county. 
 
 In August, 1870, Mr. Thompson was united in 
 marriage with Miss Nellie M., daughter of Dan- 
 iel C. and Minerva M. Hall, of Bradford County, 
 Pa. They have a son, William Hall, who was 
 admitted to the bar in 1896 and is now associated 
 with his father in practice under the firm name 
 of Thompson & Thompson. The son was married 
 January 19, 1894, to Mi.ss Alice Clark, a daugh- 
 ter of Arthur and Lula (McNutt) Clark, who 
 now reside in Eos Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Nellie M. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Thompson died at Towanda, Pa. , in September, 
 1879. Our subject was again married at that 
 place, November 29, 1880, his second union being 
 with Miss Susan M. Bump, a daughter of Cor- 
 nelius Bump, of Bradford County, Pa. She was 
 a very successful teacher in that state, and while 
 her husband was principal of the schools of Erie, 
 Colo., she taught there. 
 
 Formerly Mr. Thompson was a Republican in 
 politics, but now supports the men and measures 
 of the Democracy. In 1867 he united with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of Herrick, Pa., but 
 since coming to this county has become identified 
 with the Congregational denomination. He has 
 affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows since 1866 and now belongs to Poudre 
 Valley Lodge No. 12. He has also been a 
 Mason since 1867, and is a prominent member of 
 Occidental Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., of 
 Greeley; Greeley Commandery No. 10, K. T.; 
 Greeley Chapter No. 13, R. A. M.; Greeley 
 Lodge No. 31, K. of P., which he joined in 1891; 
 and U. S. Grant Post No. 13, G. A. R. He 
 has filled various offices in each of these orders. 
 
 /Charles w. enos, m. d., who is one of 
 
 j( the prominent homeopathic physicians of 
 \J Denver, is vice-president and a director of the 
 Denver Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- 
 pital Association, in the organization of which he 
 actively assisted. He was also one of the or- 
 ganizers of the Denver Homeopathic Club and 
 belongs to the Colorado State Homeopathic Med- 
 ical Society. In the college he is lecturer on 
 materia medica, also professor of the eye, ear, 
 nose and throat department, and successfully 
 superintends a large clinic at the free dispensary. 
 Since May, 1889, when he came to Denver, he 
 has been closely identified with the homeopathic 
 fraternity of this city. In 1880-81 he took a 
 special course in the New York Ophthalmic Hos- . 
 pital and later he also studied in Dr. Knapp's 
 Ophthalmic and Oral Institute, from which he re- 
 ceived a certificate. In 1883 he took a post- 
 graduate course in the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
 lege of Chicago. He is very systematic in his 
 professional work and, believing such a plan to 
 
 be helpful, he takes a complete record of every case 
 that comes to his notice, also a record of the an- 
 cestry. 
 
 Dr. Enos was born in Marine, Madison County, 
 111., December 13, 1849, and is the son of Charles 
 R. and Eliza Ann (Thorp) Enos. His father was 
 educated in New York state and after his re- 
 moval to Illinois he settled on a farm near Ma- 
 rine, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
 In i873,whenhewasfifty-nineyears of age, he en- 
 tered the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College 
 and took the regular course of lectures, graduating 
 as an M. D. Since then he has been engaged in 
 active practice.and though now eighty-three years 
 of age he still superintends his professional inter- 
 ests successfully. For the last twenty years he 
 has resided in Jersey County, 111. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. C. R. Enos united him with 
 Eliza Ann Thorp, a member of a Puritan family 
 and the descendant of ancestors who emigrated 
 from Holland to England, thence to America. 
 She died in May, 1897, aged seventy-one years. 
 Of her seven sons and three daughters, two sons 
 are deceased, and of the survivors the five sons 
 and one of the daughters are homeopathic physi- 
 cians, while another daughter is a nurse. The 
 children are named as follows: Sarah Cordelia 
 Enos, M.D. , of Jerseyville, 111. ; George, deceased; 
 Charles W., of this .sketch; Ida Viola, wife of 
 Theodores. Ellison, of Emmetsburg, Iowa; Will- 
 iam H., of Alton 111.; Joseph W. , of Jerseyville; 
 Dudley, deceased; Lawrence, of Decatur, 111.; 
 Clinton, of Brighton, Colo.; and Grace, a nurse 
 who lives in Jerseyville. 
 
 The literary studies of our subject were carried 
 on in the Illinois State Normal School at Normal, 
 near Bloomington, 111., and the Illinois Industrial 
 State University at Champaign. He studied 
 Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of 
 Missouri and graduated in 1874, after which he 
 went to Jerseyville, 111. , and engaged in practice 
 for fifteen years, coming from there to Denver in 
 1889. In political belief he has been a Prohibi- 
 tionist since 1881 and in 1884 he was his party's 
 candidate for secretary of state of Illinois. He 
 has always been deeply interested in the temper-' 
 ance movement and gives his influence to the 
 cause. By his marriage to Sarah Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Abner and Margarets. Cory, he has 
 three children, Herbert C, Grace E. and Charles 
 R. Enos. 
 
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 EASPAR S. DESCH is prominent in the 
 business, civic and fraternal circles of Colo- 
 rado. He is the manager of the Corry 
 Mining Company, at Silver Plume, and is a 
 member of the executive committee and manager 
 of the Silver Plume Electric Light plant. In 
 1881 he started the gas works in Georgetown 
 and operated the same until the company was 
 consolidated with the United Light and Power 
 Company. In 1893 he placed in successful run- 
 ning order the Georgetown electric light works 
 and has since been connected with the company 
 as a director. Thirty years ago he joined the 
 Knights of Pythias and in 1889 associated him- 
 self with the Silver Plume Lodge, of which he is 
 past chancellor. He is now grand chancellor 
 of the order of the state. In the Masonic 
 order, with which he became associated in Balti- 
 more, Md., in 1865, he also stands high. He 
 belongs to Warren Lodge No. 51, A. F. &A. M.; 
 Phoenix Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and Baltimore 
 Commandery No. 2, K. T., when a resident of 
 Baltimore, and now is identified with Washing- 
 ton Lodge No. 12, A. F. & A. M.; Georgetown 
 Chapter No. 4, R. A. M., and Georgetown Com- 
 mandery No. 4, K. T., of Georgetown. Politi- 
 cally he has always been a strong Republican, 
 but now is a silver advocate. 
 
 The ancestors of C. S. Desch were participants 
 in the Napoleonic wars. His father, Isaac Desch, 
 was born and died in Hesse-Darmstadt, and his 
 mother, Anna Elizabeth (Schutte) Desch, likewise 
 a native of that German province, subsequently 
 brought her children to the United States, taking 
 up her abode in Albany, N. Y. C. S. Desch, 
 the youngest of six children, was born near 
 Frankfort-on the- Main, Hesse- Darmstadt, Dec- 
 ember 14, 1836. He was a lad of nine years 
 when with the rest of the family he sailed from 
 Cologne and Antwerp on the sailing vessel 
 "Talbott. " The tedious voyage lasted fifty-two 
 days. In the public schools of Albany the 
 education of our subject was completed. He was 
 but fourteen when he began learning the stove- 
 molder's trade, and three years later he went to 
 Dedham, Mass., where he took up the business 
 of cabinet-making. For ten or twelve years he 
 was thus occupied, making furniture for the Cali- 
 fornia trade. He worked by the piece, but gave 
 to his firm several simple devices and inventions 
 for fastenings, etc. 
 16 
 
 In April, 1861, Mr. Desch enlisted on the 
 three months' call in Company G, Fifth Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry, while temporarily at Alexandria, 
 Va. He was not .summoned into the field, but 
 remained at Camp Curtin. His time having ex- 
 pired, he recruited a company, which he turned 
 over to another man, while he proceeded to sell 
 supplies to the army. He became an independ- 
 ent sutler, having a store at Good Hope Hill. 
 His brother John, captain of a companj^ in a New 
 York regiment, was cut in two by a cannon-ball 
 during the Peninsular campaign. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Desch was engaged in the real- 
 estate business in Baltimore, and subsequently 
 engaged in the grain business, his location being 
 on South Charles street near Conway. There 
 he built a large warehouse and from 1864 to 
 1889 was a member of the firm of C. S. Desch 
 & Co. He was interested in grain, dealing quite 
 extensively in the same, and also carried on a 
 large commission business in tobacco and general 
 produce. He was a member of the Baltimore 
 Corn and Flour Exchange and was very active 
 and enterprising in his numerous and varied 
 undertakings while there. 
 
 It was in 1874 that Mr. Desch first came to 
 Colorado, but it was not before twelve years had 
 elapsed that he gave up his eastern interests to 
 locate here permanently. He is now manager for 
 the Corry Mining Companj^ which owns the 
 Diamond Tunnel group of twenty-nine lodes, 
 covered by patents, and having four miles of 
 underground passages. When the conditions 
 become sufficiently favorable they are prepared 
 to employ and keep busy a force of four hundred 
 or more men. To the executive skill and genius 
 of the manager is due the splendid system and 
 progress of the work at these mines. He is a 
 practical genius, and has invented many appli- 
 ances which have been of great use in the develop- 
 ment of the plant. 
 
 In Baltimore, November i, 1864, Mr. Desch 
 married Louisa A. Hagan, a daughter of John H. 
 and Margaret Ann (Dell) Hagan. The great- 
 grandfather of Mrs. Margaret Ann Hagan was 
 George Hay, an officer in. the Revolutionary war. 
 He was of German descent, his ancestors having 
 settled in the province of Maryland in 1700. His 
 wife was an English lady. The maternal grand- 
 father of Mrs. Desch was a member of the home 
 guard in the war of 1812 and was stationed at 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Wilmington, Del. Her ancestors for nearly two 
 hundred years were residents of Baltimore and 
 Wilmington. Her great-grandfather Dell was an 
 English nobleman, who came to America at the 
 time of the Revolution and settled in Wilming- 
 ton. John H. Hagan for years was a prosperous 
 merchant of Baltimore, of which city Mrs. Desch 
 is a native. Will M., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Desch, is bookkeeper and cashier in the office of 
 the Times, in Denver; Caspar S., Jr., is a member 
 of the class of 1901, Mining University of Colo- 
 rado; the only daughter, Emily Addie, is the wife 
 of Harry Morganthau, a dry-goods merchant, 
 residing at Silver Plume, Colo. 
 
 HON. REUBEN CAEVIN WEEES, ex- 
 state senator from the eighth district of 
 Colorado, is one of the pioneers of '59, but 
 he did not make permanent settlement in the 
 west until 1869. He then bought the building 
 and water power owned by the Golden Paper 
 Mills Company and at once began to remodel 
 the plant, introducing new machinery and water 
 wheels, and greatly increasing the capacity of 
 the mill. He was a pioneer in the manufacture 
 of wrapping and newspaper, of which he made a 
 success. For several years he manufactured pa- 
 per used by the Rocky Mountain Nezvs, Tribune 
 and Times, until they began to purchase in the 
 east paper manufactured from wood pulp. After- 
 ward he continued to manufacture wrapping and 
 building paper, his mills having a capacity of 
 five tons per day. All the buildings but one, 
 40x60, were erected by himself, including a two- 
 story mill, 80x140, and a two-story warehouse, 
 50x130, to which a siding runs from the Denver 
 & Gulf Railroad. About 1872 he started the 
 first wholesale and retail paper store ever in Den- 
 ver, his location being Sixteenth, between Mar- 
 ket and Larimer streets. The party to whom he 
 sold the business later disposed of it to C. N. 
 Knowles, the present proprietor. In 1896 he 
 leased the mill and retired from business. 
 
 The Wells family is of English descent. Our 
 subject's grandfather, Joel Wells, was born in 
 Vermont, whence he removed to New York state, 
 then to Ohio, and from there to southern Illinois, 
 finally settling in Rock Island, where he died. 
 His son, Huntington, father of our subject, was 
 
 born in Vermont, and accompanied the family in 
 their various removals. Locating on the present 
 site of Moline, 111., he, with others, laid out 
 the town that has since become famous as a 
 manufacturing city. This was about the j^ear 
 1843. On account of failing health, in 1850 he 
 went to California, where he hoped the delight- 
 ful climate would enable him to regain his 
 strength, but he soon afterward died, aged forty- 
 four years. He and his brothers and several 
 cousins had served in the Blackhawk war. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Letitia Long, 
 was of southern birth and lineage, her father, 
 Reuben Long, coming north and settling in Illi- 
 nois. She died in Moline when forty years of 
 age. Of her seven children only two are now 
 living, Reuben Calvin and Mrs. Sickles, of Den- 
 ver. 
 
 In Moline, 111. , where he was born September 
 26, 1833, the subject of this sketch remained 
 until nearly seventeen years of age. April i, 
 1850, with a horse and mule train, he started for 
 California, traveling through Iowa and crossing 
 the Missouri at the present site of Omaha. At 
 that time a Mormon settlement occupied the 
 present site of Council Bluffs. He journeyed 
 along the north side of the Platte to Fort Lari- 
 mer, then crossed to the south side of the river, 
 but after several hundred miles again crossed 
 and continued to follow the course of the 
 stream. From South Pass he went into the Salt 
 Lake district, where he rested for a short time. 
 Resuming the journey, after a few hundred miles 
 he came to the Humboldt, which he followed to 
 its sink. He traveled fifty miles across the 
 desert, then crossed the Sierra Nevada range, 
 and finally reached Hangtown (now Centerville) , 
 Cal., on the 12th of August. From there he 
 went to Sacramento, and soon began to mine on 
 the Yuba River. His father died in 1851, but he 
 remained in the far west two more years, return- 
 ing to the east in 1853 '^'i^ the Nicaragua route 
 to New York City. On his return to Moline he 
 became bookkeeper in the office of John Deere, 
 the celebrated plow manufacturer, and there he 
 continued for some time. In the spring of 1859 
 he started to Pike's Peak, but on the westward 
 journey constantly met parties of discouraged 
 prospectors returning, and none of them had any 
 good words for the mountain regions. However, 
 he continued his journey and spent the summer 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 417 
 
 prospecting in the mountains, but in the fall went 
 back to Moline, where he was afterward with 
 Deere & Co. and other firms. 
 
 Coming to Colorado a second time in 1869, Mr. 
 Wells settled in Golden, where he has since re- 
 sided. He was here at the organization of the 
 city and, as a member of the last board of town 
 trustees rendered valuable .service in making the 
 change, but afterward he refused to serve as trus- 
 tee longer. In 1888 he was elected to represent 
 the seventh (now the eighth) senatorial district 
 in the senate on the Republican ticket, and took 
 an active part in the sessions of 1889-91, the sev- 
 enth and eighth general assemblies. While in 
 the senate he introduced several bills that became 
 laws, and served as chairman on the committee 
 on education and educational institutions. In 
 1889 he voted for Edward O. Wolcott for United 
 States senator, and two years later assisted in the 
 re-election of Henry M. Teller. For a short time 
 he served as trustee of the State School of Mines, 
 to which he was appointed by Governor Pitkin. 
 He was married in Moline, in 1859, to Miss Hen- 
 rietta Warner, a native of Pennsylvania. They 
 are the parents of one child, Mrs. Ellen Moody, 
 of Golden. 
 
 HON. BENJAMIN H. EATON, ex-governor 
 of Colorado, has for years been one of the 
 most prominent citizens of the state. Com- 
 ing here in 1859, during the first days of the 
 Pike's Peak gold excitement, he has since wit- 
 nessed the remarkable development of this sec- 
 tion of the country and has himself contributed 
 thereto. In the three industries that have ever 
 been foremost in the state — mining, agriculture 
 and irrigation — he has achieved unusual suc- 
 cess; and not in these alone, but in public affairs 
 as well, his name has stood for all that is aggres- 
 sive, keen and enterprising. His election to the 
 highest position within the gift of the common- 
 wealth is sufficient proof of his prominence as a 
 citizen. 
 
 The Eaton family is of English lineage. The 
 first of this branch in America was Benjamin 
 Eaton , who crossed the ocean in early life and 
 .settled in Boston, there marrying a lady of 
 Quaker faith. His son, Benjamin, who was for 
 years a sea captain, removed to Kentucky on re- 
 tiring from ocean life, and thence went to Ohio, 
 where he spent his last years. Next in line ot 
 
 descent was Levi Eaton, who was born in Harri- 
 son County, Ohio, and spent the most of his life 
 as a farmer in Coshocton County, that state. By 
 his marriage to Hannah Smith, a native of Har- 
 rison County, there were born eight children, of 
 whom six attained mature years, namely: Mary 
 J., who is married and resides in Colorado; Benja- 
 min H., of this sketch; Aaron S., a well-known 
 retired farmer of Greeley, Colo.; Rebecca R., 
 who is married and lives in this state; Elizabeth 
 E., wife of Henry Paul, M. D., of Denver; and 
 Albert L. , of Colorado. 
 
 Upon completing his education, the subject of 
 this article taught school for a time in Ohio. In 
 1854 he removed to Iowa, where he taught in 
 Louisa County for two years. Then, returning 
 to Ohio, May i, 1856, he was there united in mar- 
 riage with Delilah, daughter of James Wolf, and 
 afterwards spent two years in that state, princi- 
 pally as a farmer. His wife died May 31, 1857, 
 leaving a son, Aaron J., who is now a prominent 
 agriculturist of Weld County. In the spring of 
 1858 he went, for the second time, to Iowa, but a 
 year later, when the tide of emigration turned 
 westward toward the mines of the mountains, he 
 joined a party and crossed the plains to Colorado. 
 Here, and in New Mexico, he prospected and 
 mined and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 
 1864 he returned to Iowa and in Louisa County 
 married Miss Rebecca J., daughter of Abraham 
 Hill. Crossing the plains with his wife, he 
 settled upon land between Greeley and Fort Col- 
 lins, and embarked in the raising of stock. He 
 soon became one of the most prominent men of 
 his section. Prosperity rewarded his efforts and 
 proved the wisdom of his judgment. In the 
 earlj' days of his residence here he endured all 
 the hardships incident to frontier life and endured 
 them bravely, as one who sees victory and pros- 
 perity ahead. In addition to his ranching pur- 
 suits and mining interests, he early became an 
 extensive contractor and constructor of canals 
 and waterways, through the building of which 
 he greatly advanced the agricultural interests of 
 his county. As the years passed by he en- 
 larged his possessions until he came to be recog- 
 nized as the most extensive farmer in the state, 
 and his activities continued unabated until more 
 recent years, but he still superintends all of his 
 properties and gives personal attention to his 
 large moneyed interests. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The connection of Mr. Eaton with public af- 
 fairs dates from the '60s. In politics he has al- 
 ways been an adherent to Republican principles 
 and stands firm and stanch for the policy and 
 platform of his party . In 1 866 he was elected to 
 the oflSce of justice of the peace, which position 
 he held for nine years. He also held the office of 
 county commissioner for six years, during four of 
 which he officiated as chairman of the board. In 
 1872 he was selected to represent his district in 
 the territorial legislature, in which body his tal- 
 ents commanded attention. In 1875 he was 
 elected to the territorial senate, where he served 
 for one term, meantime doing effective service on 
 various committees. Step by step he had ad- 
 vanced in influence until 1884, when he was 
 nominated, as the one best fitted to make the 
 race of the party for governor. He was elected 
 by a fair majority and filled the executive chair 
 for two years. 
 
 Since his retirement from the governor's office, 
 Mr. Eaton has carried on his ranch, also built one 
 of the largest reservoirs and canals in the state, 
 erected the mill at Eaton, a town that was named 
 in his honor; and until 1890, also gave consider- 
 able time to mining interests, but these he sold 
 in the latter year. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Knight Templar Masons. By his second 
 marriage he has a son and a daughter, namely: 
 Bruce G., who resides in Eaton and assists in 
 the management of his father's extensive inter- 
 ests in this place; and Jennie B., wife of John 
 M. B. Petrikin, the postmaster at Greeley. 
 
 pQlLLIAM S. BAGOT, B. A., M. B., M. D. 
 \KI ^^' ^^^ most thorough preparation in 
 YY Europe and by subsequent supplemental 
 study. Dr. Bagot is entitled to be placed in the 
 front ranks of the medical profession of Colorado. 
 He is now professor of clinical gynecology in the 
 University of Denver, attending gynecologist to 
 St. Joseph's, St. Luke's and Arapahoe County 
 hospitals, consulting surgeon of the Cottage 
 Home hospital, and in his private practice makes 
 a specialty of abdominal surgery and the treat- 
 ment of diseases of women. 
 
 The Bagot family was founded in England at 
 the time William the Conqueror came over from 
 Normandy and they fought in the battle of Hast- 
 ings in 1066. During the reign of Henry II 
 
 (1172), Sir John Bagot of Bagotsbromley, 
 County Stafford, England, went to Ireland, 
 where he became the owner of vast estates. Later 
 his descendants removed to different parts of 
 the Emerald Isle. They were leaders among men 
 and possessors of large landed properties. A 
 number of villages and streets were named in 
 their honor. Among their representatives were 
 many prominent lawyers and physicians. The 
 genealogical record can be traced back, in a di- 
 rect line, to 1171. The doctor's grandfather, 
 Thomas Neville Bagot, owned the Ballymoe es- 
 tates in the west of Ireland, County Galway, and 
 was a typical Irish gentleman, witty, brave, kind, 
 and fond of sports. 
 
 Charles Augustus Bagot, the doctor's father, 
 was the next to the youngest son in the family. 
 He was educated in Trinity College, Dublin, and 
 followed the profession of law in Dublin until his 
 death. His wife, Frances Louisa, was a daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Alexander Kerr, of Dublin, and is now 
 living in County Kilkenny. In her family there 
 are three sons: Bernard William, who resides in 
 Virginia; George Hinds, whose home is in New 
 South Wales, Australia; and William Sidney. 
 The last-named was born in Dublin and wa.s 
 given the best educational advantages that city 
 afforded. In 1885 he graduated from Dublin 
 University with the degree of A. B., and two 
 years later he graduated with the degree of M. B. 
 From 1887 to 1891 he was assistant physician in 
 the Rotunda Hospital, and on retiring from that 
 position he opened an office in Dublin and en- 
 gaged in practice until 1892. Failing health ren- 
 dered a change of climate necessary and he made 
 preparations to go to Australia, via the United 
 States. On his way he stopped in Denver, where 
 Dr. Eskridge and other physicians prevailed 
 upon him to locate permanently. He reached 
 the citj' in May, 1892, and in July opened an of- 
 fice in the California block, but three years later 
 removed to his present quarters in the Stedman 
 block. Shortly after coming here he accepted 
 the position of professor of obstetrics and abdomi- 
 nal surgery in the University of Denver, later 
 took the chair of gynecology and is now professor 
 of clinical gynecology. While in Europe he con- 
 tributed frequently to current medical literature, 
 and since coming to this country he has written 
 articles for professional journals. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Colorado State, and the Denver and 
 
PHILIP MIXSELL. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 419 
 
 Arapahoe County Medical Societies. While in 
 Rotunda Hospital he received a special certificate 
 in gynecology, and he was prizeman in clinical 
 medicine at Meath Hospital and Dublin Infirm- 
 ary. During his residence in his native land he 
 was fellow, member of the council and of the 
 publication committee of the Obstetrical Section, 
 Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland; the ob- 
 stetrical and gynecological member of the com- 
 mittee of reference for the Royal Academy of 
 Medicine in Ireland; fellow of the British Gyne- 
 cological Society and member of the Dublin Bio- 
 logical Club. 
 
 r\HII.IP MIXSELL, a prominent citizen of 
 Ly Idaho Springs, built the first custom stamp 
 1^ mill in this place, and for a decade has ope- 
 rated the same. The mill is kept busy day and 
 night and uses both the amalgamation and concen- 
 tration processes of treatment of ore. When the 
 Mixsell mill was started it was one of ten stamps, 
 but has since been increased to thirty stamps, and 
 runs from eight to ten hundred tons every month. 
 Its success proves the rare good judgment of the 
 owner, who, when he embarked upon the enter- 
 prise, was laughed at for hissanguineness and be- 
 lief in the future of his mill. His success has 
 worked wonders for Idaho Springs and vicinity, 
 and has brought into prominence its ores and 
 resources. Mr. Mixsell is a mining expert and 
 his services and opinions are being constantly de- 
 manded in various portions of this and adjoining 
 states. From these different points considerable 
 ore has been shipped to his mill, and numerous 
 stamp mills have been modeled after his own. 
 
 The parents of the above-named gentleman are 
 Philip and Sarah (Diehl) Mixsell, of Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa. The father was born in Easton, 
 May 12, 1819, while his wife was born November 
 26, 18 18. He received a college education and 
 succeeded to the large lumber business which had 
 been established by his father in Easton. Later 
 he removed to Philadelphia, where he was simi- 
 larly occupied, his sales extending to all parts of 
 Northampton and Lehigh Counties. In time he 
 became one of the wealthy and influential men 
 of his day, and among his intimate friends and 
 business associates were Asa Packer and Mr. 
 Baldwin, of the Baldwin locomotive works. The 
 panic of 1857 was of serious financial damage to 
 his business and he retired from active life. His 
 
 death took place in Philadelphia in 1868. His 
 father, who was of German descent, died in 
 Easton at the age of ninety-eight years. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Mixsell was a daughter of Jacob 
 and Rosina Diehl, the former born October 5, 
 1769, and died September 28, 1851, and the latter 
 born December 26, 1776, and died January 3, 
 1837. The Diehls were of German lineage, and 
 belonged to the rank of the nobility prior to the 
 Reformation, when they espoused the doctrines 
 of Luther and were exiled, about 1600, after one 
 of their number, an aunt of the then Baron Diehl, 
 head of the house, had been beheaded. On being 
 exiled from Germany the family came to America, 
 the land of religious liberty, somewhat prior to 
 William Penn, to whom they were related. 
 Grandfather Diehl, whose home was in Easton, 
 was a hero of the Revolutionary war. Of the six 
 children born .to Philip and Sarah Mixsell, one, 
 Harry, died young. Anna M., deceased, mar- 
 ried Col. Peter Penn Gaskell Hall, who was 
 colonel of a regiment in the Union army during 
 the Civil war. Howard, master-at-arms, and in 
 the United States navy all through the Civil war, 
 died of yellow fever in Panama in 1868. Amelia, 
 Mrs. Penn Gaskell Hall, resides in Philadelphia. 
 Virginia, Mrs. De Lancey H. Louderback lives 
 in Chicago; her husband is the promoter of rapid 
 transit in that city, building the Lake Street El- 
 evated, the Union Loop and a number of other 
 large enterprises. 
 
 Philip Mixsell, of this sketch, was born Nov- 
 ember 8, 1851, in Philadelphia, and was educated 
 there in the public schools. In 1 860 he became a 
 messenger boy in the old United States telegraph 
 office, and within three years had learned the 
 business of an operator, and was given a position, 
 being then the youngest operator in the employ 
 of the company. After the consolidation of two 
 companies under the name of the Western Union, 
 he became one of their employes, and continued 
 to live in Philadelphia for several years. Gradu- 
 ally he worked his way upward from one position 
 to another, until he was in very responsible places. 
 Among them were the train dispatcher's ofiice at 
 Phillipsburg, N. J., and New Hampton Junction, 
 N. J., Col. R. E. Ricker, superintendent and 
 engineer of New Jersey Central office; master 
 mechanic's office, Elizabethport, N. J. ; Pittsburg, 
 Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway oflSce; Crestline, 
 Ohio, dispatcher's and division headquarters; 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD 
 
 Missouri Pacific Railway , Jefferson City, Mo., and 
 dispatcher's office, North Missouri Railway, Mo- 
 berly. Mo. At the time of the great strike among 
 the telegraphers he went to Philadelphia and took 
 a position with the Franklin Telegraph Company 
 in Old Town Building, at the corner of Third 
 and Chestnut streets, where the first Sterns Du- 
 plex instrument was perfected and used. Then, 
 for two years, he was located in the Continental 
 Hotel in Philadelphia. 
 
 In 1868 our subject came to the west and was an 
 operator at various stations along the Union Pa- 
 cific. Soldiers were then guarding the stations 
 from Omaha west, but at Bitter Creek he was 
 simply supplied with ammunition and guns and 
 told to take care of himself. At last his health 
 broke down and he returned to his old home and 
 later went to Chicago and St. Louis. The Asso- 
 ciated Press commanded his services at two ses- 
 sions of the Missouri legislature, he representing 
 a St. Louis paper. He became manager of the 
 telegraph ofiice in Central City for the Western 
 Union. A few months later the Caribou mine 
 was discovered and he conceived the plan of 
 building a telegraph line to Nederland and Cari- 
 bou. Having done so, he organized a larger 
 company, with Senator Teller, Col. W. H. Bush 
 and J. H. Pickle, and constructed the first line 
 to Boulder City, connecting with the Atlantic & 
 Pacific Telegraph Company at Cheyenne, for 
 eastern and western business, and having branch 
 lines to Sunshine, Gold Hill and Salina. Two 
 years afterward these lines were sold to the West- 
 ern Union and Mr. Mixsell turned his attention 
 to mining. His first experience in this direction 
 was with the Hattie mine, above Central City, in 
 Spring Gulch. From that time until 1878 he 
 mined and worked at stamp mills. 
 
 Mr. Mixsell has always been an ardent Repub- 
 lican. When W. A. H. Loveland, president of the 
 Colorado Central Railroad, ran for governor on 
 the Democratic ticket, he took a leading part in 
 the campaign. For three years thereafter he was 
 agent of the Idaho Springs station, and then oc- 
 cupied a similar position at Central City. When 
 he returned to Idaho Springs a few months later, 
 the A'fzc^of that town had just been fairly started 
 by Benedict & HoUis. He purchased the paper, 
 which he managed three years, and then, selling 
 out, he devoted himselfexclusively to mining and 
 milling. He discovered the Clarissa mine in 
 
 1874, in Virginia Canon, and has operated it ever 
 since. He is the proprietor of the Blue Bell 
 group; the United States Tunnel Company, in 
 Hukill Gulch, and the Mixsell tunnel are opera- 
 ted by our subject, who is largely interested in 
 them. Of the United States tunnel it may be 
 said that it is the largest project of the kind in 
 the state, and Mr. Mixsell is its manager and an 
 extensive stockholder. 
 
 In Manitou, Colo., the marriage of Mr. Mixsell 
 and Miss Lizzie MacGee was solemnized in 1891. 
 Mrs. Mixsell was born in Cumberland, Md., and 
 her parents were natives of Scotland. The two 
 children of our subject and his estimable wife are 
 named Philip and DeLancey. 
 
 HON. SAMUEL M. BREATH. Numbered 
 among the most prominent citizens of 
 Boulder is this worthy pioneer of Colorado. 
 He has long been connected with the development 
 and progress of this portion of the state, and has 
 truly done his full share in establishing the 
 county upon a safe and substantial basis. Time 
 and again have his fellow-citizens honored him 
 with high and responsible offices, and never has 
 he in the slightest degree neglected such trusts. 
 Three terms he acted in the capacity of commis- 
 sioner of Boulder County, once while the Civil 
 war was in progress, at which time county bonds 
 were issued for the purpose of raising and 
 equipping a company for the service. In 1865 
 and 1866 he was a member of the territorial 
 legislature of Colorado, and in the sessions of 
 1 88 1 he served for a third term in the legislative 
 body of this commonwealth. In 1872 and 1873 
 he was probate and county judge of this county, 
 acquitting himself with distinction. The welfare 
 of the people has always been dear to his heart, 
 and he has often allowed his personal interests to 
 suffer, while he discharged what he believed to 
 be his duty toward the public. 
 
 Though over fourscore years of age (his birth 
 having occurred October 5, 1817, at No. 50 Lom- 
 bard street. New York), the judge is still active 
 and sound in mind and body. His paternal 
 grandfather, John Breath, was a native of the 
 Highlands of Scotland, while his maternal grand- 
 father, Abraham Leggett, was a native of Eng- 
 land. The former, after his marriage, settled in 
 New York City, where he engaged in merchan- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 421 
 
 dising, and Mr. I^eggett was likewise a merchant 
 of the metropolis for many years. He held the 
 office of major in the Revolutionary war, and had 
 charge of a portion of the United States na\ry in 
 southern waters. The parents of the judge were 
 Capt. James and Elizabeth (IvCggett) Breath. 
 The father was a fine scholar, an expert math- 
 ematician and graduated from a theological 
 seminary, with the intention of entering the 
 ministry of the Presbyterian Church. However, 
 he did not follow out that course, but became in- 
 terested in the merchant marine service. He 
 owned two vessels which were engaged in trading 
 with the East Indies, and one of these ships was 
 lost at sea. When his six sons were growing up 
 around him, he concluded to remove inland, as 
 he preferred that they should not become at- 
 tached to a sea-faring life. Therefore, in 1818, 
 he settled in the then far west, Illinois. He 
 owned a very large tract of land twelve miles east 
 of Edwardsville, and there he died at the ripe 
 age of seventy-three j'ears. His wife, who was 
 born in New York City, departed this life, 
 while on a visit to her daughter at Danville, Ky. 
 Of their nine children, the judge, who was •the 
 youngest, alone survives. One son participated 
 in the Black Hawk war. 
 
 The Breath family settled in Illinois when the 
 judge was an infant, and when he was eight 
 years old he was sent back to the eastern 
 metropolis in order that he might attend school, 
 as the schools in Illinois were very poor at that 
 time. He remained in the city for three years, 
 and then, returning home, he worked on his 
 father's farm near Marine, 111., until he was 
 eighteen years of age. In 1845 he engaged in 
 mining in the Galena, 111., and the Grant County, 
 Wis., lead mines, and was thus employed for 
 about a year. From that time on he resided 
 chiefly in Alton, 111. , first being connected with a 
 lumber company and later with a grocery. 
 
 In 1859 he started for Colorado with a large 
 stock of merchandise of various kinds, tools, 
 machinery, etc. He fitted out five large wagons, 
 with five yoke of oxen to each, and proceeded up 
 the Platte and North Platte Rivers from Omaha, 
 Neb., choosing that route in order that better 
 grazing might be found for his cattle. The trip 
 was made very successfully, and in June the 
 little party reached Boulder. The judge put up 
 a 16x32 tent here for a store, and embarked in 
 
 business, but in the same fall everybody left for 
 other fields and he went to Golden City. There 
 he erected a substantial log store and continued 
 in business until about the time of the Civil war, 
 when the government bought all the supplies he 
 had, for the equipment of soldiers. In 1862 he 
 returned to this vicinity, buying a large ranch on 
 South Boulder River, about ten miles from the 
 county-seat. This place he carried on for several 
 years, also turning his attention somewhat to- 
 wards miniiTg and prospecting, in Ward district. 
 While in Golden he had sold goods to a stamp 
 mill, and was finally obliged to take the same in 
 payment of the debt. He removed it to Ward, 
 where it was the first mill in operation. Later 
 he opened the mine now known as the Ni Wot 
 (an Indian name meaning left hand) and within 
 a few months had taken out $50,000 worth of ore. 
 Then, following the example of many others, he 
 put up a fifty-stamp mill, the finest in the state at 
 that time. It was erected at a cost of $125,000, 
 by the Ni Wot Mining Company of New York, 
 and was burned down in November, 1866. The 
 judge and two friends owned a three-fifths in- 
 terest of the $500,000 stock of the company. 
 When a new mill had been built and everything 
 was again in working order, the judge resigned 
 his position as superintendent of the concern, 
 owing to the fact that they had mined down to 
 the "refractory" ore, for which there was then no 
 efiicieut method of treatment. The next few 
 years he was interested in various enterprises, 
 conducting a mercantile business on Pearl street, 
 Boulder, for two years; prospected and mined 
 for an eastern company in Caribou and other 
 localities and homesteaded in Nederland Park, 
 owning three hundred and twenty acres in that 
 district. He has improved property in Boulder, 
 and was one of the first to build upon the mesa, 
 now the most beautiful residence part of town. 
 Breath's subdivision, a tract of eight acres, was 
 laid out and is now all built up with good homes. 
 October 11, 1864, Judge Breath married Mrs. 
 Amanda Barker, who had come to Boulder 
 County in 1862. She was born in Vermont, be- 
 ing a daughter of Abel and Amanda (Heb- 
 ard) Goss, natives of Lower Waterford, Vt., 
 and Lebanon, N. H., respectively. They 
 were farmers, as were their fathers before 
 them. Grandfather Abel Goss was of the Green 
 Mountain state, and was of English descent. 
 
422 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Aaron Hebard, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. 
 Breath, was a native of New Hampshire. She 
 is one of nine children, five of whom are living. 
 She was first married in 1851 to Jerome Barker, 
 who had come to this county in i860 (and Mrs. 
 Barker came in 1862), making the trip across the 
 plains, and had settled on a farm near the lower 
 Boulder River. For a j'car or two he was en- 
 gaged in mining at Russell Gulch. His death 
 occurred in 1863, and his widow was left to 
 manage the large ranch and other property. The 
 only child of the judge and wife, Edward, a youth 
 of much promise, died when in his seventeenth 
 year, in 188 1. 
 
 In the fraternities Judge Breath is a charter 
 member of Golden City Lodge No. 2, A. F. & 
 A. M., and is now identified with Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of Boulder. He 
 assisted in the organization of the Republican 
 party in Illinois, and has never swerved in his 
 allegiance. He is an honored member of tlie 
 Boulder County Pioneer Association. Both he 
 and his wife are valued members of the Congre- 
 gational Church, he being one of the deacons 
 and Mrs. Breath being connected with the Ladies' 
 Union of the church. 
 
 ROBERT FIELDS LeMOND, oculist and 
 aurist, was born at Springfield, Tex., April 
 9,1852, son of Cyrus M. and Sarah Fields 
 LeMond. His father was a farmer and stock- 
 raiser in comfortable circumstances, who, upon 
 the outbreak of the Civil war, enlisted in the 
 Confederate army, and was elected captain of the 
 second company that was organized in the coun- 
 ty, and served until the close of the war, which, 
 by being away from home and neglecting his 
 private business, reduced him to poverty. He 
 returned to his plantation and stock farm and went 
 to work immediately after the close of the war to 
 recuperate his fortune. Soon after he entered the 
 ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
 and preached for twenty years. His paternal 
 great-grandfather fought as a patriot in the Revo- 
 lutionary war, and was one of the signers of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 Young LeMond worked on his father's farm, 
 where it was quite hard, for a number of years, 
 for the family to make a mere existence. He 
 attended a private school anywhere from two to 
 
 four months a year, until he was able to get a 
 certificate as a teacher, when he began teaching 
 small public country schools. After a year or 
 two he entered an academy, where he paid his 
 tuition and board by assisting the president of 
 the school two hours per day. After one term 
 of this kind of work he taught another school 
 or two and then entered Cedar Grove Acad- 
 emy, which was considered at that time the fin- 
 est school in that part of Texas. There he 
 graduated in 1878 with the highest general av- 
 erage that had been given out from that academy 
 in eleven years, being a general average of 
 ninety-eight and seven-tenths. In the same year 
 there was a proposition from the University of 
 Nashville (Tenn.), offering two scholarships to 
 each congressional district of Texas, to be elected 
 by competitive examination, which was main- 
 tained by the Peabody fund, which also paid $25 
 a month for eight months of each year. Young 
 LeMond was successful in competing for one 
 of these scholarships, and so became a student 
 in the University of Nashville in 1879, where he 
 entered the third year of the university course 
 and graduated in 188 1, A. B. He returned to 
 Texas and resumed teaching and began the study 
 of medicine, which he afterwards practiced, grad- 
 uating from the Hospital College of Medicine 
 at Louisville, Ky., in 1885, and was the fifth in 
 standing in a class of one hundred and forty-six. 
 
 In 1887 he attended the Post-Graduate School 
 at St. Louis, taking a special course on the eye 
 and ear, from which place he went to New York 
 City and attended the Post- Graduate School there 
 in the eye and ear department. At the close of 
 the term he was elected as interne to the Man- 
 hattan Eye and Ear Hospital. In 1889 he re- 
 turned to Texas, where he practiced the spe- 
 cialty of diseases of the eye and ear. In 1891 he 
 took another course in the New York Post-Grad- 
 uate Medical School, and while in New York he 
 was, through the recommendation of the faculty 
 there, elected by the Gross Medical College of 
 Denver as professor of the chair of diseases of the 
 eye and ear, which position he still holds, being 
 also a member of the executive faculty of the 
 Gross Medical College. 
 
 In April, 1892, Dr. LeMond came to Denver, 
 where he is also surgeon to the eye and ear de- 
 partment of the county and city hospitals, chief 
 surgeon of the Herman Straus Free Clinic, a 
 
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 member of the American Medical Association 
 and all of the Colorado regular medical associa- 
 tions, and is ex-president of the Colorado South- 
 ern Society. He is a contributor to numerous 
 medical journals, and through his learned arti- 
 cles has acquired national reputation as an ocu- 
 list and aurist. 
 
 Dr. LeMond is prominently identified with the 
 Masonic fraternity, being Knight Templar, 
 Shriner, and having passed most of the chairs up 
 to past high priest. He is married and has two 
 children, a daughter and son. The doctor has a 
 magnificent business, often having patients 
 seated in his waiting room from three to six dif- 
 ferent states. He has been offered a chair in 
 two different medical colleges in the last several 
 years, but has declined both propositions. In 
 1891 the University at Quanah, Tex., conferred 
 upon him the degree of Master of Arts. 
 
 NGN. EUAS M. AMMONS, ex-speaker of 
 the house of representatives of Colorado and 
 senator from El Paso and Douglas Counties, 
 elected on the silver ticket of 1898, is a prominent 
 stock dealer and farmer of the latter county, his 
 home being five and one-half miles south t)f Little- 
 ton, on Plum Creek. He was born on a farm 
 near Franklin, Macon County, N. C, July 28, 
 i860, and at ten years of age accompanied his 
 parents to Colorado, settling in Denver, where 
 he soon secured employment in a woolen mill. 
 After a few months the family moved to the head 
 of Deer Creek, in Jefferson County, and therefor 
 a year he worked on a ranch. Later he engaged 
 in hauling lumber and railroad ties, and skidded 
 from the woods the first five thousand ties of 
 the South Park Railroad. During the entire 
 winter, even when the weather was intensely 
 cold, he worked constantly out of doors, without 
 gloves or overshoes. In fact, he never had a pair 
 of either until he was about grown. He con- 
 tinued lumbering until 1875. Meantime his edu- 
 cational advantages had been very meagre; in- 
 deed, he may be said to have had none at all. 
 However, he was fortunate in having for a father 
 a man who was well educated, and who had been 
 a school teacher and Baptist minister. At the 
 age of fifteen he went to Denver to attend school. 
 He worked in a laundry, intending to use the 
 money thus earned for the purchase of books, but 
 
 was cheated out of his wages. He then secured 
 employment at sawing wood in the wood yard. 
 Finally he was successful in buying the needed 
 books and at once entered the old Arapahoe 
 school, where he began in the fourth grade. 
 Within two weeks he was promoted to a higher 
 grade, and after eighteen months was promoted 
 to the high-school grade. At the age of nineteen 
 he graduated from the East Denver high school. 
 Meantime he had worked nights and Saturdays 
 in order to earn the money for his education. 
 For four years he worked nights lighting the 
 street lamps, and in addition used to gather up 
 discarded tin cans and melt the solder off, and 
 engaged in a number of other schemes for making 
 money. For a time he was employed on the 
 Times, in the circulation department. After 
 graduating he was sent out by the Denver Tribime 
 to write up the boom at Breckenridge. In the 
 fall of 1880 he was accidentally shot in the head, 
 and for some time was incapacitated for duty. 
 Upon his recovery he reported for the Denver 
 Hotel Reporter. Next he was put on the cir- 
 culation staff of the Times, with which paper he 
 continued for four and one-half years. Mr. 
 Woodbury took him into the business office, and 
 when he sold out the new firm assigned him to 
 reportorial work. Soon he began to edit the 
 telegraph for the Times, read the proofs for the 
 paper and was afterwards made city editor, and 
 at the age of twenty-five was made associate 
 editor. Unfortunately, his eyes, which had been 
 affected by the injury of 1880, troubled him to 
 such an extent that he was obliged to resign his • 
 position. 
 
 Turning his attention to the cattle business, in 
 partnership with Thomas F. Dawson, now private 
 secretary to Senator Teller, our subject began in 
 1885 with eighty acres of land on the western line 
 of Douglas County, thirty-nine miles from Den- 
 ver. At first they had only twenty-five head of 
 cattle. They now have eight hundred and eighty' 
 acres, all in one body, and one hundred and 
 sixty acres on Lost Park Creek, twenty miles 
 from the other tract; also two hundred and sixty- 
 two acres where he now resides, the last purchase 
 of eighty acres costing $4,800. Besides the land 
 owned by them they lease about five thousand 
 acres. In 1898 they sold fourteen hundred head 
 of cattle at $28 per head. Mr. Ammons has al- 
 ways been the active manager of the business. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In Denver, January 28, 1889, Mr. Amnions 
 married Miss Lizzie Fleming, asister of James A. 
 Fleming, who at one time owned practically all 
 of South Denver. 
 
 Though too young to vote, Mr. Amnions took 
 an active part in the campaign of 1880. He 
 frequently represented the Republican party in 
 conventions, but refused to act as a delegate to 
 the national convention in St. Louis in 1896. On 
 a previous occasion, before he was a voter, he 
 had been chosen as a delegate to state conven- 
 tion, but declined on account of age. In 1890 
 he became clerk of the district court, but after 
 three months of service resigned. He was then 
 elected to the state legislature after the most 
 exciting campaign in the history of Douglas 
 County. He had as an opponent William Dillon, 
 brother of the famous Irish agitator. Mr. Dillon 
 challenged him to joint debates. He accepted 
 the challenge and vanquished his opponent in 
 Dillon's precinct, while Dillon secured but five 
 votes in his district. Interest was so great that 
 large crowds went from one precinct to another 
 to listen to the debates. In the legislature he 
 was one of three grangers who decided the 
 speakership in the caucus. Mr. Ammons made 
 a strong fight on parliamentary rulings and in 
 this way the impression was created that he was a 
 lawyer. However, he had never studied law a 
 day in his life, but he had debated in literary 
 societies, where he had gained a thorough knowl- 
 edge of parliamentary tactics. In the legislature 
 he served as a member of the judiciary committee. 
 He was instrumental in the passage of the fee 
 and salary bill, the Australian ballot law, appro- 
 priations for state roads in Douglas County and 
 numerous reform measures passed by this general 
 assembly. There was a strong fight made for 
 representation from different counties, and he 
 succeeded in making such arrangements that 
 Douglas, though having insufficient population, 
 was permitted to retain its representation. He 
 was instrumental in electing Senator Teller, of 
 whom he has always been a warm admirer. 
 Among the other members he was credited with 
 being the hardest worker in the house. 
 
 At a convention held for a nomination, in 1892, 
 Mr. Ammons received every delegate's vote (ex- 
 cept his own) on a secret ballot, and was re- 
 elected by an increased majority. He had proved 
 so popular and able as a legislator that it was de- 
 
 cided he should make the race for speaker. The 
 Republicans had thirtj' -three out of sixty-five 
 votes and he was elected to the highest office in 
 the gift of the a.ssembly, being the youngest man 
 ever elected to that position in this state. In his 
 rulings as speaker no appeal was ever sustained, 
 and at the extra session of fifty-two days no ap- 
 peal from his decisions was ever taken, although 
 the session was an exciting one and many matters 
 of importance were brought to him for settlement. 
 On the conclusion of his second term he declined 
 to be a candidate for re-nomination. In 1896 he 
 refused the chairmanship of the state silver Re- 
 publican committee and later in the same year 
 declined the nomination for representative. 
 
 September 16, 1898, in the silver Republican 
 senatorial convention of El Paso and Douglas 
 Counties, Mr. Ammons was (without his seeking 
 the position) nominated for senator. The nomina- 
 tion was endorsed by Populists and Democrats. 
 He was nominated on a platform that bound him 
 not to support for United States senator any man 
 who is in the slightest degree suspected of leaning 
 toward the policy of the national Republican 
 party in its advocacy of the single gold standard. 
 In the election that followed, a vigorous campaign, 
 he was elected by more than four thousand ma- 
 jority, carrying every precinct in his own county, 
 as well as getting an enormous majority in his 
 opponent's home county. 
 
 Mr. Ammons has several terms been a mem- 
 ber of the state central committee for Douglas 
 County, and twice was chairman of the county 
 central committee. He is now the member of 
 the state central committee from Douglas County 
 and is also chairman of the congressional district 
 committee. 
 
 When the national Republican party became 
 a gold standard party, Mr. Ammons followed 
 Mr. Teller out of that party and helped to or- 
 ganize in Colorado the silver Republican party. 
 Indeed, he led the fight in the second con- 
 gressional district convention in 1896 to instruct 
 a bolt from the national convention under the 
 leadership of Senator Teller, in case the expected 
 announcement of the gold standard policy should 
 be made. He was always a stanch believer in 
 the ability of this country to carry out its own 
 policies and is earnestly opposed to any man or 
 party that proposes to ask the consent of foreign 
 governments to the use of the kind of money we 
 
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 want for ourselves. He is a man of far more than 
 ordinary ability, with a thorough knowledge of 
 parliamentary laws, and a broad information that 
 makes him a conspicuous figure, both in public 
 and private life. 
 
 €]rSAAC NEWTON STEVENS. Of the men 
 I who have been leaders in public affairs, con- 
 X tributing to the advancement of the state and 
 wielding large influence in political circles, among 
 the most distinguished is the subject of this sketch. 
 Mr. Stevens has long been a prominent politician, 
 and, first as a Republican, later as an ally of the 
 silver cause, has been an element in party suc- 
 cess. While, as is the case with every man who 
 has taken a firm stand on public questions, he 
 has his political enemies, yet it has never been 
 denied by anyone that he is a counselor of broad 
 knowledge, a politician of keen discrimination, 
 and a man who possesses rare ability in the or- 
 ganization or conduct of a campaign, local or 
 state. 
 
 Through his mother Mr. Stevens is a relative 
 of Commodore Perry, the illustrious hero of Lake 
 Erie. He was born in Newark, Ohio, November 
 I, 1858, the son of Dr. L. A. and Sarah Stevens. 
 In youth he was given excellent advantages in 
 high school and academy, and, had his father 
 lived, he would undoubtedly have enjoyed uni- 
 versity training. But the death of Dr. Stevens 
 terminated his son's schooling at an early age 
 and forced upon him the necessity of self-support. 
 In the winter of 1876-77 he taught a country 
 school in Henderson County, 111., but in March 
 of 1877 he went to Burlington, Iowa, and entered 
 the office of Hedge & BIythe. He continued to 
 study law until he was twenty-one, when he was 
 admitted to the bar. Coming at once to Colorado, 
 he arrived in Denver June i, 1880. 
 
 Not long after coming here Mr. Stevens began to 
 take an active part in politics as a member of the 
 Republican party. For a time he was president 
 of the Lincoln Club. In 1882-83 he served as a 
 member of the Republican executive committee, 
 in 1884-85 was chairman of the city committee, 
 and in 1886-88 secretary of the state committee. 
 Under President Arthur, in 1884, he was appointed 
 assistant United States attorney for Colorado, be- 
 ing the first to fill that po.sition in the state. In 
 1888 he was chosen district attorney for the sec- 
 ond judicial district, which office he held for three 
 
 years, meantime having in hand many important 
 cases, in the management of which he displayed 
 energy and talent. Two of these cases became 
 especially prominent on account of their connec- 
 tion with state officials, one having to do with 
 frauds upon the state treasury, the other impeach- 
 ing the integrity of certain state officials. The 
 prosecution of Harley McCoy for the murder of 
 Inspector Hawley occurred during his term; also 
 a case that gained national note, the trial of Dr. 
 T. Thatcher Graves for the murder of Mrs. Jose- 
 phine Barnaby, of Providence, R. I. In 1892 he 
 was appointed county attorney, and the next 
 year as chairman of the Republican central com- 
 mittee, had charge of the local campaign. As a 
 politician he is a force everywhere. While he 
 has risen or fallen with the cause he has espoused, 
 yet there has never been a time when he has been 
 without influence in the world of public affairs. 
 In every position, and under every circumstance, 
 his skill in solving intricate problems that affect 
 the political status of affairs has made him con- 
 spicuous among even the most gifted men. 
 
 LIJAH BOSSERMAN, general manager of 
 ^ the Denver Live Stock Commission Com- 
 ^ pany and its organizer in 1886, was born 
 in Clinton, DeWitt County, 111., and is of Ger- 
 man descent. His father, David, was the son of 
 Michael Bosserman, a native of Pennsylvania, 
 and an early settler of Perry County, Ohio, the 
 birthplace of David. About 1859 the latter re- 
 moved to Illinois and engaged in farm pursuits 
 there until 1880, when he went to Superior, Neb. , 
 and started a banking business in that place. He 
 is the president of the First National Bank of Su- 
 perior, and, with his sons, owns thirty-two hun- 
 dred acres of land adjoining the city. His sixty- 
 eight years are carried lightly, and he retains the 
 mental acumen and energy of former days. His 
 wife, Catherine Cowan, was born in Ohio and 
 died in Illinois, leaving three sons and two daugh- 
 ters, the latter living in Nuckolls County, Neb., 
 where two of the brothers, Lincoln and John, are 
 engaged in the cattle business. 
 
 The oldest member of the family is our subject. 
 He was educated in Clinton and at the age of 
 twenty-one began farming and dealing in cattle 
 in DeWitt County. Removing to Superior, Neb. , 
 in 188 1, he entered land in that vicinity and en- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 gaged in the cattle business, buying and selling 
 steers in large numbers, often as many as two to 
 three thousand head per annum. With his 
 father and brothers he organized the Superior 
 Cattle Company of Superior, Neb. , and was its 
 manager until removing to Denver. He still 
 owns large tracts near Superior and is a stock- 
 holder in the First National Bank there. In 
 1886 he conceived the idea of incorporating a 
 stock company and interested C. J. Duff, F. P. 
 Ernst and H. M. Porter in the plan, soon after- 
 ward forming the Denver Live Stock Commission 
 Company, which was the first company to locate 
 at the Union stock yards of Denver. They carry 
 on strictly a commission business, furnishing 
 money to feeders, etc. , and running average sales 
 of from $300,000 to $500,000. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bosserman is connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Knights of Pythias at Superior and the Benevo- 
 lent Protective Order of Elks at Denver. He is an 
 active member of the chamber of commerce and 
 board of trade, and is identified with the Colo- 
 rado Cattle Growers' Association. Politically he 
 upholds Republican principles. In Illinois he 
 married Miss Laura Watt, who died in Denver, 
 leaving five children: Alonzo, Cyril, Barco, 
 Ethel and Gladys. His second marriage took 
 place in Denver and united him with Mrs. Min- 
 nie Youmans, of Kansas City. 
 
 HON. J. W. BARNES, secretary of the state 
 board of arbitration and for nine years judge 
 of Jefferson County, came to Colorado in 
 1874, and for four years ser\-ed as superintendent 
 of the schools of Fort Collins. On coming to 
 Golden in 1879 he accepted a similar position in 
 the schools here, and while discharging his du- 
 ties as superintendent also engaged in reading 
 law, the study of which he had begun some years 
 before. He was admitted to the bar of Colorado 
 in 1882 and the following year resigned his con- 
 nection with the schools in order to engage in 
 practice, which he carried on from June, 1883, to 
 January, 1884. Meantime he had been elected 
 county judge on the Democratic ticket, and the 
 first of 1884 he took the oath of ofiice. He filled 
 the position so ably and satisfactorily that he was 
 twice re-elected, holding the office until January, 
 1893. At once after his retirement from office 
 
 he resumed his law practice and he has since es- 
 tablished an enviable reputation as a lawyer. He 
 is a recognized authority on irrigation law and 
 water rights. 
 
 The Barnes family is of English extraction and 
 its first representatives in this country settled in 
 New England. Thomas Barnes, who lived at 
 Portsmouth, N. H., was a seafaring man, the 
 master of a vessel of his own, and all of his sons 
 but James were sailors and took part in the naval 
 affairs of the war of 18 12. James, who selected 
 agriculture for his life work, was born in Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., and moved with his father to Ox- 
 ford County, Me., where he spent his remaining 
 years upon a farm. His son, Nahum, father of 
 Judge Barnes, was born in Oxford County, and 
 engaged in farming there until his death, which 
 took place at forty-eight years. For some time 
 previous he had been serving as a selectman. 
 His wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of Capt. 
 Thomas Mathews, who was captain of a whaler 
 that sailed from New Bedford; he died at sea. 
 His father was of English birth and founded the 
 family in this country. Mrs. Barnes was born 
 in Oxford County and is still living there, being 
 now eighty years of age. She was the mother of 
 four children, of whom our subject and two 
 daughters in Oxford County are now living. 
 
 In Oxford County, Me., the subject of this 
 sketch was born March 22, 1850. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and private acade- 
 mies of the vicinity. At the age of eighteen, 
 in 1868, he went to Iowa, where he taught at 
 Earlville for one year. He then went to Minne- 
 sota and was superintendent of the schools of 
 Glencoe and Litchfield for five years. In 1874 
 he came to Colorado, where he has since resided. 
 
 On the creation of the board of arbitration by 
 the legislature of 1897 it was stipulated that three 
 men be appointed, one from the ranks of employ- 
 ers of labor, another from the Labor Union and 
 the third impartial. Governor Adams appointed 
 Judge Barnes for the third member and he was 
 made secretary of the board. His services in 
 this capacity have been able and satisfactory. In 
 political belief he has always adhered to the Dem- 
 ocratic doctrines. He is a member and past 
 master of Golden City Lodge No. i, A. F. & 
 A. M., a member and past high priest of Golden 
 Chapter No. 5, R. A. M., also a member and 
 past chancellor commander of Lodge No. 10, 
 
HON. J. C. EVANS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 427 
 
 K. P., of Golden. While living in Fort Collins 
 he married Miss Leonore Lawson, who was born 
 in Indianapolis, received an excellent education 
 in the east, and previous to her marriage was 
 engaged as a teacher in the Fort Collins schools. 
 They have had two children, but one died in 
 infancy, and the other, John I,., when twelve 
 years of age. 
 
 NGN. JAMES C. EVANS, member of the 
 state senate from Larimer County and one 
 of the most influential men of Fort Collins, 
 was born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, 
 August 22, 1845, and is a de.scendant of an 
 old Pennsylvania family. His father, Thomas 
 Evans, a native of Berks County, Pa., removed 
 to Ohio and settled about 1835 in Knox County, 
 where he engaged in farming. He was ninety- 
 two years of age at the time of his death in 1892. 
 His wife, Ann, was born in Knox County, 
 whither her father, Robert Cooper, had removed 
 from Pennsylvania. She was married twice, and 
 had five sons by her first husband, and James C. 
 was the only child born to her union with Mr. 
 Evans. One of her sons by her first marriage, 
 George Rogers, entered the Ohio Infantry as a 
 lieutenant during the Civil war and rose to the 
 rank of brevet brigader- general; he died in Ohio. 
 Two brothers of Mrs. Evans have for years been 
 engaged in the manufacture of machinery at 
 Mount Vernon, Ohio, under the firm title of 
 Cooper Brothers. 
 
 In the grammar and high schools of Mount 
 Vernon the subject of this sketch obtained the 
 rudiments of his education. Afterward he at- 
 tended the OhioWesleyan University at Delaware, 
 Ohio. While carrying on his college studies, in 
 1864 he volunteered in Company E, One Hundred 
 and Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry, of which he served 
 as corporal until the expiration of his period of 
 service. On leaving the army he returned to 
 the university, where he remained until his 
 graduation in 1868, with the degree of A. B. 
 After graduating he entered the mercantile busi- 
 ness, being thus engaged in Delaware, Ohio and 
 Morrow County, that state. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1879, Mr. Evans settled 
 in Fort Collins. From 1880 to 1891 he was in 
 the meat business with Messrs. Thoman and Vol- 
 lintine, and also had charge of the boarding house 
 and stores at the stone quarries in Arkins and 
 
 Stout for a number of years. Since 1891 he has 
 engaged in the grocery business, conducting the 
 well-known College avenue grocery. From the 
 time of his settlement here he has been interested 
 in the sheep business. For two years he engaged 
 in sheep ranching near Bristol, twenty miles north 
 of Fort Collins, and on selling out turned his 
 attention to the grocery and produce business. 
 In 1896-97 he fed five thousand head of lambs, 
 being the heaviest feeder in the country at that 
 time. He owns two hundred and forty acres six 
 miles southeast of Fort Collins, all of which is 
 under irrigation; also owns a ranch of one 
 hundred and sixty acres northwest of the town. 
 Since 1894 ^is grocery store has been carried on 
 under the firm name of J. C. Evans & Son. 
 They set out fifty acres in cherry trees, planting 
 eleven thousand of the English niurella variety, 
 and irrigating the land. On the place they in- 
 tend building a canning factory. Two men have 
 the oversight of the trees, and it is the intention 
 of the firm to set out ten acres additional in trees. 
 It is probable that this is the largest cherry 
 orchard in the United States. 
 
 In Ohio, August 15, 1871, Mr. Evans married 
 Augusta Noe, who was' born in Morrow County, 
 daughter of R. L. Noe, a farmer and business 
 man of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have 
 a son and daughter. The former, Charles R., 
 his father's partner, is a graduate of the state 
 Agricultural College. The daughter, Grace G. , 
 is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan Universitj' 
 and the wife of E. L- Shannon, an attorney of 
 Denver. 
 
 Politically Mr. Evans is a silver Republican. 
 For two years he served as mayor of Fort Collins. 
 In 1894, on the Republican ticket, he was elected 
 state senator by a large majority. He served 
 creditably in the tenth and eleventh general as- 
 semblies, sessions of 1895 ^"d 1897. Through 
 his efforts, in 1895, was .secured the passage of 
 an appropriation bill of $15,000 for the new state 
 road over Medicine Bow Range through Ute Pass 
 to North Park, a road that has since been com- 
 pleted. During the same year he worked for 
 an appropriation of $10,000 for the state Agricult- 
 ural College, which was secured, and appro- 
 priated for the enlargement of Machinery hall, 
 completed in 1897. ^^ ^Iso worked for the 
 appropriation of $5,000 to build the chemical 
 laboratory , which amount was secured and used for 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the purpose intended. He introduced a bill scaling 
 down the salaries of county offices, in order to re- 
 duce them to a level with other labor; this bill 
 passed the senate but was defeated in the house. 
 He was re-elected to the state senate Novem- 
 ber 8, 1898. 
 
 In Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M., Mr. 
 Evans was made a Mason. In 1898 he attended 
 the convention of the national organization of 
 cattlemen, where he read a paper concerning 
 "Lambs on Alfalfa Feed." He is clear in his 
 thoughts and earnest in their expression, and is 
 considered one of the best speakers in his county. 
 
 61 SA STERLING. Of the stockmen residing 
 fj in Greeley few are better known than the 
 / I subject of this article, who has gained note- 
 worthy success through his good management in 
 business affairs. In addition to his large stock 
 interests, he is president of the First National 
 Bank of Greeley, which was established in 1884 
 and is regarded as one of the substantial and safe 
 monetary institutions of northern Colorado. Its 
 officers are: Mr. Sterling, president; William 
 Mayher, vice-president; A. J. Park, cashier; and 
 U. M. Henderson, assistant cashier. The bank 
 has a paid-up capital of $100,000, with a surplus 
 of $15,000, loans to the amount of $250,000, and 
 about an equal amount in deposits. 
 
 On a farm in Livingston County, Mo., Mr. 
 Sterling was born April 20, 1842, being a son of 
 Travis and Chloe Sterling. His father was a 
 native of Maryland, his mother of Kentucky. In 
 1859 he left home and went to St. Joseph, Mo., 
 where he spent the winter with an uncle. In 
 the spring of i860 he came across the plains with 
 a herd of cattle and arrived in Denver during 
 July of that year, when the gold excitement was 
 at its height. For four years he herded cattle on 
 a ranch near Denver. In 1864 he went with a 
 drove of cattle to Montana, where he remained 
 until 1867. In April of that year he went to Salt 
 Lake, Utah, and remained there until the fall of 
 1869, engaged in buying and selling cattle for 
 John W. Kerr & Co. In the fall of 1869 he went 
 to Cheyenne, bought some cattle, drove them 
 to Salt Lake, and sold them to Kerr &Co., thus 
 doubling his capital, and again was employed by 
 Kerr & Co., and remained with them until the 
 spring of 1870. He then purchased cattle near 
 
 old Bent's Fort in Colorado and sold them in 
 Utah. He continued buying and selling cattle 
 and horses and thus laid the foundation of his 
 fortune. His business took him all over the 
 west and into Texas and Mexico, and he spent 
 considerable time in Old Mexico. In 1871 he 
 drove Texas cattle into Weld County, but the 
 winter being unusually severe, half of his herd 
 was lost. 
 
 The range on which Mr. Sterling pastures 
 his cattle extends about twenty miles along the 
 Platte River. He is the owner of several ranches, 
 which are leased to tenants, and also has a hay 
 ranch of four hundred and eighty acres in Tenn- 
 essee Park, near Leadville. He has always been 
 identified with the cattle and horse interests of 
 this western country and is at the present time a 
 large owner of cattle and horses. For about 
 eight months during the year his stock pastures 
 on the range, when the most of them are gathered 
 and feed hay. Mr. Sterling is a Democrat in 
 politics. In 1875 he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Anna Loustelet, of Denver, and they have a 
 comfortable home in Greeley. 
 
 EHARLES E. PENNOCK, president and 
 manager of the Pennock Nursery and Seed 
 Company, of Fort Collins, is a member of a 
 pioneer family of Mas.sachusetts, some of whose 
 representatives drifted to Vermont. His grand- 
 father, who was the son of a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier, himself rendered active service in the 
 second war with England. The father, Oliver 
 P. Pennock, was born in Vermont, whence he 
 removed to Livingston County, N. Y., and en- 
 gaged in farming. In 1861, when fifty years of 
 age, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fourth 
 New York Infantry, in which he remained until 
 his death, two years later. His wife, Caroline, 
 who was born in Haverhill, N. H., died in New 
 York in 1854. She was a daughter of Benjamin 
 Rowell, a farmer and a soldier in the war of 
 18 1 2, who in early days removed from New 
 Hampshire to Livingston County, N. Y. 
 
 Of the nine children of Oliver P. and Caroline 
 Pennock, five are now living. John R. lives in 
 Livingston County, N. Y. ; Mary B., Mrs. Hor- 
 atio M. Foster, came to Colorado in i860 and 
 resides at Parker; Ellen M., Mrs. Edward Q. 
 Peck, lives in Colorado Springs; Elizabeth J., 
 
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 429 
 
 Mrs. J. M. Tallman, lives in Elizabeth, this state. 
 Of those deceased, William M. was a member of 
 the Wadsworth Guard (One Hundred and Fourth 
 New York Infantry ) , and was killed in the battle 
 of Gettysburg; George F. died in Fort Collins in 
 1888; Alice died at seven years; and one died 
 unnamed in infancy. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born on a farm 
 in Livingston County, N. Y., May 5, 1850. 
 When he was a boy his father and brothers (ex- 
 cept John) enlisted in the Federal army, and he 
 followed their example by enlisting in the Four- 
 teenth New York Heavy Artillery as a drummer 
 boy, but he was not accepted. Six months later, 
 at the time of muster, he was rejected as too 
 young. In 1864 he again enlisted, this time in 
 the Fifty-eighth New York National Guard, and 
 was mustered in for one hundred days. He 
 served for four months, guarding rebel prisons, 
 and was mustered out at Elmira, N. Y. Early 
 in 1865 he enli.sted in the Forty-fourth New York 
 Infantry, and was mustered in and stationed in 
 New York on Hart's Island. At the close of the 
 war he was honorably discharged. In April of 
 the next year he came to Colorado, starting from 
 Omaha with a mule team and joining a train on 
 the Platte. The Indians drove the mules ofif, 
 and he then hired to an ox- team train, which 
 reached Denver in June. For ten years he en- 
 gaged in freighting, his route extending west to 
 Salt Lake City and Nevada and north to Chey- 
 enne. His brother, Frank, preceded him two 
 years to Colorado, having come in 1864. He 
 was noted as an Indian fighter, and was a man of 
 great bravery. In 1876 our subject began pros- 
 pecting in the mountains, going into North Park 
 when there was not a person within its bounds. 
 Next he engaged in making ties, which he 
 floated down the Cache la Poudre, at the 
 time the railroad was building from Fort Col- 
 lins to Stout. Later he was superintendent in 
 charge of the building of the High Line ditch 
 around Bingham Hill,- having the oversight of 
 the construction of two tunnels, two hundred feet 
 and one hundred and fifty feet long, respectively. 
 His next work was the building of the railroad 
 for the Union Pacific through the Poudre canon, 
 which work took fourteen months, his special 
 charge being the construction of the Big Narrows 
 road, twenty milea above. 
 
 In 1 88 1 Mr. Pennock retired from railroading 
 
 and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in 
 Pleasant Valley. Nothing was to be seen on the 
 land but prairie dogs. The surroundings were 
 desolate and the prospects unattractive. How- 
 ever, with a firm faith in the future, he began to 
 cultivate the land. He put in lateral ditches, 
 drowned out the' prairie dogs, began planting 
 apple, pear and peach trees, and made a specialty 
 of the nursery business. He now has thirteen 
 acres in orchards of pears, apples, peaches and 
 cherries, and all kinds of small fruits. In 1897 
 he started a nursery at Fort Collins, incorpor- 
 ating the Pennock Nursery and Seed Company, 
 which owns seventeen acres adjoining Fort Col- 
 lins on the west and has leased six acres in the 
 eastern part of the city. Here are propagated 
 thousands of trees of all kinds, which are sold not 
 only in this state and in all the states of the 
 union, but in Germany and England also. A 
 number of new fruits have been originated and 
 propagated, one of which is the Rocky Mountain 
 cherry, now sold all over the country. The 
 office of the company is in Fort Collins, Mr. 
 Pennock's home farm in Pleasant Vallej^ one 
 mile south of Bellvue, being used for an experi- 
 mental station in originating and testing fruits. 
 Not only is his the finest variety of fruits in the 
 state, but it is also probably the largest. The 
 homestead is known as "Apple Grove Fruit 
 Farm." 
 
 In Pleasant Valley Mr. Pennock married Miss 
 Lydia C. Flowers, who was born near Bull Run, 
 Va. Her father, Jacob Flowers, was born in 
 Pennsylvania and was captain on the river in 
 early life. About 1868 he removed to Kansas 
 City, and in the spring of 1873 came from there 
 to Colorado, settling in Pleasant Valley, where he 
 has since resided, engaging in farming and the 
 lumber business. His wife, Elizabeth Meeks, 
 was born in West Virginia and died in Colorado. 
 They had six children, namely: T. Wesley, ot 
 Bellevue, Idaho; S. W. , who is in the stock busi- 
 ness in British Columbia; Lydia C, Mrs. C. E. 
 Pennock; Sarah, Mrs. J. T. Beach, of Fort Col- 
 lins; Benjamin Franklin; and Cora, wife of 
 William Tilton, a merchant of Bellevue. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Pennock have four children living: 
 Arthur, Mary Alice, Charles Eldridge and George 
 Maurice. 
 
 Besides his other property Mr. Pennock owns 
 a ranch in the mountains six miles west of his 
 
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 homestead. This propert}', of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, he has fenced and improved, making 
 of it both a fruit and stock farm. He was one of 
 the founders of the Larimer County Horticultural 
 Society, of which he is president. Frequently 
 he has written articles upon horticultural topics 
 for the Field and Farm, by which others receive 
 the benefit of his successful experience. Politi- 
 cally he votes the Democratic ticket, and in 
 religion he is of the Universalist faith. He is 
 connected with George H. Thomas Post No. 7, 
 G. A. R. Fraternally he holds membership with 
 Larimer County Lodge, K. of P., in Fort Col- 
 lins. On the formation of District No. 50 he 
 became a school director, and for many years was 
 secretary of the board, but resigned some years 
 ago. In many respects his success is remarkable, 
 for he began without capital and under disad- 
 vantageous circumstances; but in spite of hard- 
 ships and obstacles he has won success, and is 
 among the most prominent and influential men 
 of his county in his line of business. 
 
 SlLBERT C. OVIATT, late postmaster of 
 r 1 Longmont, was a man universally respected 
 / 1 and honored by his associates and acquaint- 
 ances. As a business man and public ofiicial he 
 was equally well liked and was entirely deserving 
 of the high praise that was accorded him at all 
 times. Generous to a fault, kindly and genial in 
 disposition, he won warm friends wherever he went 
 and his loss has been deeply felt in many circles 
 here and elsewhere, wherever he was known. No 
 one ever applied to him in vain for help and sym- 
 pathy, for he was always ready to carry out the 
 teachings of the Golden Rule. 
 
 A son of Cyrus and Marian Oviatt, residents 
 of Ohio, Mr. Oviatt was born in Richfield, a 
 thriving village of the Buckeye state in August, 
 1853. He was reared to manhood and acquired 
 his education in Ohio. His health not of the 
 best, he decided to travel in the west to some ex- 
 tent before settling down to business, and about 
 one year was passed by him in California. Re- 
 turning then as far as Colorado he led an out- 
 door life for a few years, carrying on a farm at 
 Highland Lake, Weld County, with success. 
 Soon after Longmont was founded he located here 
 and opened a meat market. In this new line of 
 enterprise he also met with gratifying results, 
 
 financially, at the same time gaining the good 
 will and respect of all our business men and 
 citizens. 
 
 Albert C. Oviatt was active in the ranks of the 
 Democratic party. He served as deputy sheriff 
 under Sheriff Jester, and also as constable. In 
 1 894 he was appointed postmaster of Longmont by 
 President Cleveland. He continued to fill the 
 office to the entire satisfaction of everj'one from 
 that time until his death, which sad event occurred 
 July 9, 1896. He was a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 The first wife of Albert C. Oviatt was Miss 
 AUie Comstock in her girlhood. She departed 
 this life in Colorado, leaving two children, now 
 grown to be young ladies. The elder, Nellie 
 Marian, is a graduate of the Presbyterian College, 
 of Longmont, and is now an assistant in the post- 
 office. Lida Miller, who graduated from the 
 Longmont high school, is a successful teacher, now 
 located in the town of Hygiene, Boulder County. 
 In 1891 Mr. Oviatt married Miss Lillian Terry, 
 daughter of Edwin and Jane (Lewis) Terry. 
 Her father was born in Connecticut and died in 
 Kalamazoo, Mich., where he had been engaged 
 in building and contracting for several years. 
 He was seventy-one years old at the time of his 
 demise. The mother was born in Ireland, but 
 came to the United States in infancy. She lived in 
 New York City and there met and married Mr. 
 Terry. She also died in Kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs. 
 Lillian Oviatt is a native of Kalamazoo, and in 1890 
 came to Colorado. Her marriage with Mr. 
 Oviatt was solemnized in Longmont, and here 
 their happy life together was passed. Three 
 beautiful little daughters came to brighten their 
 home, namely: Helen Marie; Hazel Marguerite 
 and Inez Alberta. 
 
 In the fall of 1896 Mrs. Oviatt was appointed 
 postmistress of Longmont, to succeed her hus- 
 band. So well was she esteemed by our citizens 
 and so strongly recommended for continuance in 
 the office that President McKinley, of the oppo- 
 site party, retained her and gave her a re-appoint- 
 ment. Very few women in Colorado were better 
 fitted for such a responsible position or have 
 given greater satisfaction. She in turn was suc- 
 ceeded by O. W. Richardson. Mrs. Oviatt is a 
 member of the Ladies of the Tent of the Macca- 
 bees, and is a memberof the Presbj'terian Church 
 and of the aid society connected therewith. 
 
HON. HENRY KNEISEL. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 433 
 
 HON. HENRY KNEISEL, the leading gro- 
 cer of Georgetown, Clear Creek County, 
 was born in Breidenbach, Kur-Hessen, 
 June 9, 1852, the son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Schneider) Kneisel, both of whom were natives 
 of the same place. His father was a wagon- 
 maker and brought his family to America, set- 
 tling in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, where 
 he followed his trade until he enlisted in the 
 Civil war. He was a member of Company K, 
 Twenty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and 
 served in the war until his death, which occurred 
 in the south in 1864. Two brothers-in-law and 
 a cousin also went with this company and but 
 one of them returned home. The mother of our 
 subject died soon after reaching Iowa City, leav- 
 ing an only child, Henry. The father was again 
 married and had a family of five children, all of 
 whom are now living. In their religious belief 
 the parents were Lutherans. 
 
 Mr. Kneisel was but an infant when his pa- 
 rents came to America. They landed at New 
 Orleans, and sailed up the Mississippi, stopping 
 in Iowa and making their home in what was 
 then the capital, Iowa City. He attended the 
 public schools of that place until his father's 
 death, when it became necessary for him to se- 
 cure work to provide for the wants of himself 
 and the family. He worked on a farm in that 
 vicinity for four years, the money he received go- 
 ing to the support of the family. About 1867, 
 after having attended school during the winter, 
 he went to Des Moines, where a sister of his 
 mother resided. Here he was apprenticed as a 
 baker to Kurtz & Co., and during that time he 
 attended night school at J. W. Muffley's Business 
 College. He learned the trade and remained 
 with the firm until 1872, when he came to 
 Colorado. 
 
 After being in the employ of Mr. Schneider, a 
 general merchant, about seven months, Mr. 
 Kneisel went to the San Juan country, where there 
 were but three cabins, these being at the mouth 
 of Cunningham Gulch. He remained there until 
 June, 1874, when he returned to this county and 
 settled in Georgetown. Here he was employed for 
 the first seven or eight months in a smelter, and 
 afterward entered the employ of Mr. Guanella, a 
 grocer and baker. He had full charge of the 
 bakery, and remained an employe until 1884, 
 when he bought out his employer, Mr. Guanella, 
 17 
 
 and continued in the same place for himself. 
 At first he conducted the business alone, but in 
 October, 1893, he took a partner, and the fipm is 
 now known as Kneisel & Anderson, grocers. 
 They have one of the finest store buildings in 
 the county, and their assortment of groceries, 
 glassware and queensware is complete and un- 
 equalled. On buying the lot they tore down 
 the old building and erected on the same site 
 their present commodious brick structure, which 
 is 24x45 feet and two stories in height, in addi- 
 tion to which there is also a warehouse. Mr. 
 Kneisel is extensively engaged in mining oper- 
 ations, being the owner of the Alto mine in the 
 Argentine district, the Twin mine in George- 
 town, and owning an interest in the Big Quartz, 
 Big Copper, Missouri Girl, Missouri Boy, and 
 the Martin mill site, all patented, and covering 
 an area of twenty-seven acres. 
 
 After coming to Colorado Mr. Kneisel married 
 Miss Emma Peterson, who was born in Smaalan, 
 Sweden. They have one child living, Cora, and 
 have lost three sons: Otto, who died at the age 
 of seven years; Ernest, at the age of eight; and 
 Louis S. , when nineteen. Louis was a graduate 
 of the Georgetown High school in the class of 
 1897, and delivered the class prophecy. He was 
 a young man who gave promise of a brilliant 
 future, and after graduating from the high 
 .school attended the Central Business College of 
 Denver. While home on a visit he was taken 
 suddenly ill, bursting a blood vessel in the head, 
 and died February 8, 1898. 
 
 For a number of terms, and until April, 1897, 
 Mr. Kneisel was mayor of Georgetown. In 1891 
 he was elected county treasurer, and re-elected in 
 the fall of 1893, serving from January, 1892, 
 until the same month in 1896, through the panic. 
 He is a past officer in the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, was representative in 1888-89, ^Iso 
 served as past officer, and for fourteen years as 
 treasurer of the encampment. Politically he is a 
 strong advocate of bimetalism. 
 
 I EBBEUS E. MARSH, M. D. When after 
 It years of long and earnest labor in some 
 LJ honorable field of business, a man puts aside 
 all cares to spend his remaining years in the en- 
 joyment of the fruits of his former toil, it is 
 certainly a_well- deserved reward for his industry. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 "How blest is he who crowns in shades like these 
 A youth of labor with an age of ease," 
 
 wrote the poet, and the world everywhere recog- 
 nizes the justice of a season of rest following an 
 active period of business life. Dr. Marsh is now 
 living retired at his pleasant home in Greeley, 
 and his history shows the accomplishment of well- 
 directed labor. 
 
 The doctor was born in Belchertown, Mass., 
 April II, 1824, and is a son of John C. and Elci- 
 phae (Marsh) Marsh, both natives of Massachu- 
 setts and of old Puritan stock. The father's 
 ancestors came to this country from England in 
 the seventeenth century and settled first in Con- 
 necticut, and later near Hatfield, Mass. The 
 father was a farmer and blacksmith by occupation 
 and when our subject was two years old estab- 
 lished business in the town of L,everett, where 
 the latter was reared. In the family were five 
 children, but only two now survive. Marah 
 Augusta first married a Mr. Doane, and later 
 George Lawton, and she died in Troy, N. Y. 
 John A. made his home in the town of Bethel, 
 Vt. Julia was the wife of George Sibley, of West- 
 field, Mass. Cyrus A., a hatter by trade, was 
 engaged in business with his brother-in-law, Mr. 
 Lawton, at Providence, R. I., for some time, 
 from there removed to New York City, and later 
 to Texas, where he died very suddenly. 
 
 Dr. Marsh remained under the parental roof 
 during his boyhood and youth , and after attend- 
 ing the common schools for some time he became 
 a student in Amherst Academy. At the age of 
 nineteen his health failed and he was incapaci- 
 tated for manual labor. He then took up the 
 study of medicine in the office of Dr. Rice, the 
 old family physician, and later attended medical 
 lectures at Pittsfield and New Haven, where he 
 was graduated at the head of his class in January, 
 1848. He began the practice of his chosen pro- 
 fession at New Salem, Mass., but after spending 
 a short time at that place he removed to Dana, 
 the same state, where he engaged in practice for 
 ten years. At New Salem he was married, May 
 23, 1848, to Miss Sarah Gibbs, of Massachusetts, 
 who died in June, 1877, leaving two children: 
 viz. : George W. , now a resident of Tower City, 
 N.Dak.; and HattieG.,widow of Frank Johnson, 
 of Greeley, where she was married in March, 1878. 
 
 From Dana, Dr. Marsh removed to Granby, 
 Mass., where he engaged in practice for nine 
 
 years, and later located in Wales, a manufactur- 
 ing town on the border of Connecticut, where he 
 built up a large practice and was very successful 
 in the treatment of that dread disease diphtheria. 
 In 1872 he came to Greeley Colo., which at that 
 time was a mere colony founded two years before, 
 and as the settlements in this state were then few 
 and far between his practice extended over a 
 radius of sixty miles. After the death of his 
 first wife he married Dr. Anna E. Eastman, a 
 physician of Denver, who after her marriage en- 
 gaged in practice in Greeley, until her death, 
 which occurred February 20, 1896. The doctor 
 was again married February 2, 1897, his wife 
 being Mrs. Laura A. (Northrup) Bishop, of 
 Greeley. 
 
 Dr. Marsh made a specialty of lung and bron- 
 chial diseases, and was remarkably successful in 
 the treatment of diphtheria and pneumonia. On 
 beginning his professional career he was a mem- 
 ber of the old school, but after coming to Colorado 
 took up the practice of homeopathy, and made 
 use of the best methods out of both schools. He 
 has been a constant student and always kept 
 abreast of the times in his chosen calling. Owing 
 to failing health he was compelled to give up 
 active practice for a time, but two years ago re- 
 sumed practice. At the age of sixteen he united 
 with the Congregational Church, but now holds 
 membership in the First Baptist Church of Gree- 
 ley, which he joined on coming to this state. 
 During his life in the east he took quite an active 
 part in educational matters and held .several 
 school ofiices, but here he has been compelled to 
 give his entire attention to his extensive practice. 
 He is the oldest physician in the city and is also 
 one of her most' honored and highly esteemed 
 citizens. 
 
 HARRISON TELLER, a resident of the town 
 of New Windsor, Weld County, is one of 
 the representative business men of this sec- 
 tion of Colorado. He owns about one thousand 
 acres of town propertj' and farming land, and has 
 money invested in other enterprises. Coming 
 here some fifteen years ago, he was one of the 
 first settlers of this place, and from that time un- 
 til the present he has been actively connected 
 with the progress and development of local indus- 
 tries and upbuilding. Politically he is a stanch 
 Republican and a worker in the interests of the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 435 
 
 party. Socially lie belongs to Windsor Lodge 
 No. 69, A. F. & A. M., Greeley Chapter No. 13, 
 R. A. M., of Greeley; and El Jebel Temple, Mys- 
 tic Shrine, of Denver. 
 
 The father of our subject, Lewis M. Teller, is 
 now living retired in Greeley. He is a native of 
 New York state and came with the Greeley Col- 
 ony to Colorado in 1870, arriving here on April 
 29. There he was busily employed in contract- 
 ing and building for a number of years, and when 
 New Windsor was founded in 1883 he came here 
 and assisted in placing the infant town on a .sound 
 basis. He kept a general merchandise store here 
 for several years, and at last, upon retiring from 
 active life, returned to New York. A few years 
 later, however, he came back to Colorado, and 
 has since made his home in Greeley, where he is 
 widely known and highly esteemed. His family 
 consists of his wife, formerly Miss Emma Clowes, 
 a native of New York, and three children. Sarah, 
 the only daughter, is the wife of R. L- Hall, a 
 builder and contractor of Greeley; Frederick is 
 the owner of a farm near Greeley. 
 
 Harrison Teller was born August 16, 1859, in 
 Mount Kisco, N. Y. , and was less than twelve 
 years old when he came to Colorado. He attend- 
 ed the public schools of Greeley, and when he 
 had reached his majority he engaged in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. Later he embarked in business 
 with R. L- Hall, as general merchants, and after 
 a period he became associated with Otis Hill. 
 The business was subsequently merged into that 
 of the Windsor Mercantile Company, incorpora- 
 ted at $30,000. The firm now does an extensive 
 business of about $250,000 a year, shipping and 
 dealing in all kinds of produce. In 1897 they 
 handled five hundred car-loads of potatoes and 
 two hundred and fifty carloads of wheat. They 
 erected a substantial warehouse of brick, 25x100 
 feet a few years ago, and in 1898 were obliged to 
 increase their accommodations by building another 
 portion, similar to the first structure. Mr. Teller 
 is the secretary and manager of the corporation 
 and by his aggressive and progressive business 
 methods has done much for the success of the 
 enterprise. 
 
 September 22, 1882, Mr. Teller married Miss 
 Anna Goetchins, a native of Iowa and a daughter 
 of George Goetchins, who was a soldier of the 
 Civil war, serving from the beginning to the close 
 of the conflict. Four sons and a daughter have 
 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Teller, namely: Grif- 
 fith H., Harrison v., George B., John and Emma. 
 The family have a pleasant home, where their 
 many friends delight to congregate. 
 
 HOMAS S. PECK, deceased, a pioneer of 
 '59, was born in Kentucky, October 22, 
 1829, a son of George and Luciuda (Samuels) 
 Peck. While he was an infant his parents re- 
 moved to Indiana and settled in Hendricks Coun- 
 ty, where he grew to manhood and learned the 
 carpenter's trade. September 2, 1850, he was 
 united in marriage with Miss Susan E. Walthall, 
 daughter of Samuel W. and Rebecca A. (Johns) 
 Walthall, natives of Virginia, but from 1850 until 
 death residents of Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa. 
 
 Shortly after his marriage Mr. Peck took his 
 wife to Iowa and settled in Lucas County, where 
 he followed carpentering. In the spring of 1859 
 he started across the plains with an ox-team for 
 Colorado, and after a journey of six weeks he ar- 
 rived in Central City, where he engaged in mining. 
 In the winter he went back to Iowa for his family, 
 whom he had left behind until a suitable location 
 could be found for their future home. April 2, 
 i860, he started with them for the mountains and 
 crossed the plains, arriving in Central City June 
 10. There he again resumed mining. During 
 the four years that followed he was the discoverer 
 of the California mine, which has proved one of 
 the most valuable mining properties in the state. 
 This he sold for $36,000, and shortly afterward 
 embarked in the mercantile business. Like all 
 miners, however, he found it impossible to relin- 
 quish all connection with mining. After four 
 years he sold his mercantile interests and once 
 more turned his entire attention to mining. 
 
 August 16, 1866, Mr. Peck brought his family 
 to Boulder Valley and bought a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, some four miles west of 
 Longmont, and there he settled down to a farm- 
 ers' life, retaining, however, many mining inter- 
 ests. In 1874 he acquired properties in Left Hand 
 Canon, and spent much money in developing 
 them, but failed to realize any returns. His 
 death occurred March 17, 1898. He was a man 
 of great worth of character, and possessing, also, 
 fine business qualifications, and through his ener- 
 gy and sound judgment he accumulated a valuable 
 property, which his family inherited. He was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 mourned in death by those with whom he had 
 social and business relations, and who had come 
 to appreciate his integrity and ability. He had 
 three children, one daughter, Lucinda J., having 
 passed away before his demise. The other 
 daughters are: Clara C.wife of John Butterworth; 
 and Isabelle, who resides with her mother in 
 Longmont. 
 
 •gEORGE W. HARRIMAN. It is difficult 
 i_ to adequately measure the services rendered 
 J by Mr. Harriman in the development of 
 Jefferson County, for he has for years been so in- 
 timately connected with every enterprise of im- 
 portance in this part of the state that his name is 
 indissolubly, though unpretentiously on his part, 
 associated with the history of the county. A 
 native of Argentine, Canada, born September i, 
 1826, he was one of seven children comprising 
 the family of Reuben and Abigail (Davis) Harri- 
 man. Of these seven, three besides himself are 
 now living, namely: Caroline, wife of Alphonso 
 Thurber, of Orleans County, N. Y. ; Frank, now 
 in Dyea, Alaska; and John, of Milwaukee, Wis. 
 The father of our subject was born in Vermont 
 on the first day ofthe year 1799. When a boy he ac- 
 companied his father to Canada, where he learned 
 the trade of a shoemaker, afterward following the 
 occupation during his entire active life. In 1833 
 he removed to Niagara County, N. Y. , where he 
 remained until 1842, and then went to Ohio; 
 from there to Indiana, thence to Michigan, and 
 in 1848 settled in Walworth County, Wis., re- 
 maining there until his death, which occurred 
 April 12, 1863. 
 
 In the various removals made by the family the 
 subject of this sketch accompanied his parents. 
 November 11, 1851, he married Miss Betsy M. 
 Spencer. After some six months in the hotel 
 business he engaged in farming, but in 1858 
 opened a livery stable at Elkhorn, and during the 
 same year became interested in a hotel at that 
 place. In i860 he crossed the plains with a two- 
 horse team, arriving in Boulder June 28. Thence 
 he went to Central City. After engaging in min- 
 ing for one month he opened a boarding house, 
 which he operated one year. In the spring of 
 1 86 1 he went to Kenosha, Park County, and 
 built a hotel, which he conducted for three and 
 one-half years. During that time he participated 
 in the Espanosa and Runnell's raids. The com- 
 
 munity was a lawless one, which fact caused him, 
 in October, 1865, to sell out his interests there. 
 Returning to Wisconsin he spent the winter, and 
 in the spring came back to Colorado, where for a 
 time he ran a stage from Denver to Buckskin 
 Joe. H. A. W. Tabor was then postmaster of 
 the latter place. After one year he went to 
 Turkey Creek, two miles above Morrison, Jeffer- 
 son County, and erected a hotel, which he carried 
 on for three years, and at the same time he en- 
 gaged in raising stock and teaming. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Harriman came to what is now 
 known as the Harriman ranch, on Bear Creek, 
 between Fort Logan and Morrison. Here he 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land 
 and became the originator and principal pro- 
 moter ofthe extensive irrigation system of Bear 
 Creek Valley. Seeing the necessity of such a 
 system in order to make the valley what it is to- 
 day, a beautiful spot of nature, his was the 
 master hand to take hold of the Arnett ditch, 
 which had been commenced two years before; 
 his was the mind that conceived its completion 
 and his the brain that planned its ramifications. 
 With characteristic business energy he pushed 
 forward the extensive undertaking to a rapid 
 completion. When it was finished the Harriman 
 interests absorbed the Arnett interests, and it be- 
 came known as the Harriman ditch. In 1873 he 
 built the Harriman reservoir, the first in Colo- 
 rado, and thus became the father of the great 
 system of storage reservoirs now so much in use 
 throughout the state. He was largely instru- 
 mental in the building of the Bergen reservoirs, 
 and was one of the heaviest stockholders in the 
 Soda Lake reservoirs. 
 
 During the '70s Mr. Harriman was a member 
 of the board of county commissioners that had 
 charge ofthe erection of the courthouse at Golden. 
 Subsequently he was strongly importuned to 
 allow the use of his name as candidate for the 
 legislature, but he has never desired public office, 
 preferring to devote his attention to business pur- 
 suits. During the building of Fort Logan he 
 was'one of the contractors who made brick for the 
 buildings and also did much of the team work in 
 their construction. During his years of pros- 
 perity his ranch increased in size to eight hun- 
 dred and eighty acres. The Harriman ranch was 
 synonymous with hospitality in the minds of the 
 ranchnien who frequented the place, and the ad- 
 
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W. HENRY SMITH. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 437 
 
 vice of the owner was sought, not only in matters 
 relating to the public welfare, but in private mat- 
 ters, by those who placed implicit confidence in 
 his judgment. In 1897 he sold his ranch, since 
 which time he has lived retired in Fort Logan. 
 A man of liberal nature and large heart, he has 
 spent a large amount of money in the develop- 
 ment of Jefferson County, and has been the mov- 
 ing spirit in public enterprises, supporting them 
 with his time, his influence and his money. He 
 and his wife became the parents of four children, 
 but only two are living, namely: Clark S., who 
 resides with his parents; and Hattie M., the 
 widow of W. J. Watson. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, attorney-at- 
 law, of Denver, was born in Wellsboro, 
 Tioga County, Pa. , and was orphaned by 
 his father's death, Lambert Miles Smith, when he 
 was an infant. The groundwork of his educa- 
 tion was laid in the classic academy in Wellsboro, 
 and continued in the State Normal University at 
 Mansfield, Pa. He read law under Hon. Henry 
 Warren Williams, one of the judges of the su- 
 preme court of Pennsylvania. In 1864 he en- 
 tered upon the practice of his profession in his 
 native county, where he remained for six years. 
 
 Removing to Philadelphia in 1870, Mr. vSmith 
 there found a larger field for legal practice, and 
 soon acquired note as a trial and consulting law- 
 yer. The years that passed brought him suc- 
 cess and an enviable reputation, but for some 
 years he suffered greatly from a local facial trouble, 
 to alleviate which he closed his labors in Phila- 
 delphia, in 1888, after which he traveled for a 
 time hoping to find relief from a dryer climate and 
 higher altitude. He first located in Lincoln, 
 Neb., and engaged in general practice, in con- 
 nection with which he delivered two courses of 
 private law lectures for the benefit of the univer- 
 sity students of that city and state. Attracted by 
 the success of these lectures, he was tendered and 
 accepted the position of dean of the College of 
 Law of the University of Nebraska by the Regents. 
 He organized a successful legal department be- 
 sides continuing his private practice. He re- 
 mained at the head of the College of Law for two 
 years, delivering courses of lectures upon con- 
 tracts, commercial law, constitutional law, pri- 
 vate corporations, common law pleading, and 
 
 upon historical legal topics. Among the mem- 
 bers of his law faculty were Chief-Justice Max- 
 well, ex- Chief-Justice Reese, Hon. James M. 
 Woolworth, of Omaha, Hon. W. Munger, United 
 States District Judge for Nebraska, Hon. J. M. 
 Webster, Hon. John C. Watson and Professor 
 Wilson. 
 
 At the close of the university year of 1893 , Mr. 
 Smith again visited Denver. After an experimen- 
 tal sojourn for some months, the beneficial eff'ects 
 of the climate caused him to resign his position 
 as dean of the College of Law in the Nebraska 
 University. Since September i, 1893, he has 
 been steadily engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Denver and has built up a reputation 
 for breadth of legal knowledge and depth of gen- 
 eral information. He was employed as special 
 counsel for the city and has had entire charge of 
 the case of the City of Denver vs. the Denver 
 Union Water Company, which has become so fa- 
 mous, the actual trial of which lasted over one 
 year in the district court. Though never a can- 
 didate for ofiBce, and with no desire for positions 
 of public trust, he is nevertheless very firm in the 
 political beliefs and principles of the Republican 
 party, in the faith of which he was reared. In relig- 
 ious connections he is identified with the Central 
 Presbyterian Church as a member and officer. His 
 experience in the law, covering a wide range of 
 practice, has made him familiar with the doctrines 
 of general jurisprudence. During the first year 
 of his residence in Denver he delivered a course 
 of lectures upon Pleading, comparing the com- 
 mon law and code systems of practice. 
 
 HON. DUNCAN DRUMMOND, ex-senator 
 and at present a member of the board of 
 county commissioners of Clear Creek Coun- 
 ty, is a resident of Dumont. He is an active and 
 influential worker in the People's party, for two 
 years has been a member of the state executive 
 committee of the same and has attended every 
 convention of importance. He has lived within 
 the borders of Colorado since the year which wit- 
 nessed its admission to the sisterhood of states, 
 and from that time until the present he has been 
 interested in its development and progress, and in 
 material ways has aided in the grand result of 
 to-day. 
 
 Though his home is in Dumont, Mr. Drum- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mond is constantly called to different parts of the 
 countj% as his services as a practical machinist 
 and builder of stamp and other mills are in great 
 demand. For two years after he came to this 
 state he was superintendent of machinery in the 
 mill of the Pelican Mining Company of George- 
 town, and since leaving their employ he has 
 built mills and hoisting plants in numerous places. 
 He erected the Drummond mill at Dumont and 
 the Specht mill, which is situated here; of the 
 former he is also manager and part owner. It is 
 a thirty-five-ton mill, with concentrator, modern 
 machinery and equipments, all run by steam- 
 power. Mr. Drummond is interested in the Ohio 
 Gulch Mining Company at Dumont. This con- 
 cern controls about twenty mining claims, all of 
 which were discovered by our subject. He 
 thoroughly understands everything pertaining to 
 mines, mills and machinery, and is considered an 
 authority on the subject. 
 
 The Drummond family, as is well known, is 
 one of the old Scottish families, from which many 
 noted men have sprung. Our subject's father, 
 Robert, and grandfather, John, were both natives 
 of Glasgow, Scotland. The father was a manu- 
 facturer in that city and in 1866 brought his 
 family to the United States, settling in Chicago, 
 111. His wife, whose maiden name was Agnes 
 Fraser, was born at Berwick-on-the-Tweed. Her 
 brother, David R. Fraser, of Chicago, is senior 
 member of the influential and wealthy firm of 
 Fraser & Chalmers, manufacturing machinists. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Drummond both died in Chicago. 
 They were the parents of seven children, six of 
 whom are living. One son, Ralph, was a victim 
 of the frightful ' ' cold-storage ' ' building fire at 
 the Columbian Exposition in 1893. He had been 
 placed in charge of some machinery exhibits there, 
 and was unfortunately in the building at the time 
 of the fire, iu which nineteen men lost their lives. 
 He was last seen in the tower, from which he 
 had started to descend, when the structure col- 
 lapsed, falling into the sea of flames below. 
 
 Duncan Drummond was born May 21, 1854, in 
 Glasgow, and was educated in the public schools 
 . of Chicago. At the age of fifteen 3^ears he com- 
 menced serving an apprenticeship to his uncle, 
 Mr. Fraser, as a machinist. In 1876 he came to 
 Colorado, and, as previously stated, has been act- 
 ively engaged in affairs related directly or in- 
 directly to mining ever since. He was elected 
 
 in 1895 to fill out the unexpired term of Senator 
 Robert Turner, deceased, and in 1896 was elected 
 county commissioner of Clear Creek. He was 
 reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church. 
 Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of 
 Pythias, Woodmen of the World, and Ancient 
 Order United Workmen, the lodges of these three 
 organizations with which he is associated being 
 in Idaho Springs. 
 
 NON. EDWARD OLIVER WOLCOTT, 
 United States senator from Colorado, was 
 born in Longmeadow, Mass., March 26, 
 1848. He is a lineal descendant of, Roger Wol- 
 cott and several succeeding Wolcotts, who were 
 colonial governors of Connecticut. Among his 
 ancestors was Oliver W^olcott, a signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence, and whose son was 
 the second secretary of treasury, succeeding Alex- 
 ander Hamilton in Washington's cabinet. 
 
 Rev. Samuel W. Wolcott, the senator's father, 
 was for some time a missionary in Syria, and for 
 many years officiated as pastor of a Congrega- 
 tional Church in Ohio. He was the author of 
 over three hundred hymns, and was a man of 
 marked ability and rare gifts. His son, our sub- 
 ject, served for a few months in 1864 as a private 
 in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Regi- 
 ment, and in 1866 matriculated at Yale College, 
 but did not complete the course in that institu- 
 tion. In 1 87 1 he graduated from the Harvard 
 Law School, and came to Colorado, settling in 
 Denver, of which city he has since been a promi- 
 nent citizen. He was first elected to the United 
 States senate to succeed Thomas M. Bowen (Re- 
 publican), and took his seat March 4, 1889. In 
 1895 he was re-elected, his term to expire March 
 3, 1 90 1. He is one of the Republican leaders of 
 his state, and has wielded a powerful influence in 
 public affairs. May 14, 1890, in St. Paul's 
 Church, Buffalo, N. Y., he was united in mar- 
 riage with Frances, daughter of the late James 
 H. Metcalfe, of that city. 
 
 Writing of Senator Wolcott, Stanley Wood 
 says that "he is a man of impulse, yet with a 
 keen sagacity that guides and controls his im- 
 pulses in such a manner that, while his actions 
 lose nothing in spontaneity, they are seldom, if 
 ever, mal apropos. He has the courage to ex- 
 press his opinions, the gratitude to reward his 
 friends, the firmness to pursue and punish his 
 
CHRISTIAN MANHART. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 439 
 
 enemies. He possesses the temperament of a 
 leader, the magnetism to attract and hold a fol- 
 lowing, the audacity to lead a forlorn hope if 
 necessary, and the elan to win victory in the face 
 of defeat." 
 
 gHRISTIAN MANHART is the owner of 
 Keystone ranch, comprising eighteen hun- 
 dred acres, located six miles from Sedalia, 
 Douglas County. He was born near Catawissa, 
 Columbia County, Pa., April 30, 1835, a son of 
 Philip and Sarah Manhart, natives of Alsace, 
 Germany. A few years after their marriage his 
 parents emigrated to America and settled in Phila- 
 delphia, where the fathei followed the wheel- 
 wright's trade; later, however, he removed to a 
 farm near Catawissa, in Columbia County, where 
 the remainder of his life was passed in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. He died there in 1861 and his 
 wife passed away seven years later. Of their 
 seven children three were born in Germany, one 
 on the ocean, and three in the United States. 
 Five attained years of maturity and four are still 
 living. Christian being the youngest. Philip, 
 who is the oldest, is still living in Columbia 
 County, Pa. ; Frederick, a retired business man, 
 resides in Knoxville, Iowa; and John Michael 
 makes his home at Roaring Creek, Montour 
 County, Pa. 
 
 In boyhood our subject was given fair school- 
 ing advantages. At the age of sixteen he began 
 to learn the carpenter's trade with his oldest 
 brother at Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa., and 
 at the close of two years of apprenticeship he 
 began to get journeyman's wages. When only 
 nineteen, April 23, 1854, he married Miss Sarah 
 Barney, who was born in Plymouth, Luzerne 
 County Pa., a daughter of Henry and Susan 
 (Keller) Barney. November 6, 1856, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Manhart started for Iowa and arriving in 
 Marion County, settled in Marysville, where he 
 commenced to work at his trade. In the spring 
 of i860 he drove through to Colorado with an 
 ox-team, in company with a party of emigrants, 
 spending forty-five days on the road. In Park 
 County he engaged in various pursuits, mining, 
 prospecting, working at his trade, and during 
 one season carrying mail once a week from Buck- 
 skin to Montgomery, Park County. He came to 
 his present place in 1866 and bought a claim of 
 one hundred and twenty acres, to which he added. 
 
 by pre-emption and homesteading, as well as 
 purchase, until he acquired his present acreage. 
 The log cabin in which he first made his home is 
 still standing. Since 1883 he has made his home 
 in a substantial frame residence. At one time he 
 had two hundred head of cattle, but since the 
 range has become limited, he has reduced the 
 number to one hundred and fifty. 
 
 In the fall of 1868 the neighborhood in which 
 Mr. Manhart lived was disturbed by the Indians. 
 In the afternoon word was received that the 
 Indians were coming. At nightfall Mr. Man- 
 hart loaded his wife and children into a wagon 
 and drove to Denver, where they remained 
 during the winter, Mr. Manhart and his hired 
 help staying on the ranch. They lost consider- 
 able in the line of clothing, provisions and stock, 
 on account of the Indians, and were obliged to 
 guard their possessions and do their work with 
 arms always within reach. 
 
 Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Manhart we 
 note the following: George W., who was born at 
 Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa., is engaged in 
 the mercantile business at Sedalia, his sketch 
 appearing elsewhere; John F., who was born in 
 Marysville, Marion County, Iowa, died in Colo- 
 rado March 6, 1885, his death being the result of 
 having been accidentally thrown from a horse; 
 Alice Susan, who was born in Park County, 
 Colo. , married Arthur H. White, and lives near 
 Sedalia; Clara B. , who was born in Douglas 
 County, is the wife of William O'Brien, living 
 near Williamsburg, El Paso County, Colo. ; they 
 have five children; Henry P. was born on the 
 home farm and still resides here; October 26, 
 1898, he married Mary A. Lowell, of Sedalia, a 
 daughter of Charles and Lydia E. (Bowman) 
 Lowell; Anna C, Mrs. William Burke, lives in 
 El Paso County and has one child; Alphonso is 
 at home; and Frances C. married Matthew 
 Rogers, of Eldora, Colo. 
 
 Although his father was a Democrat, our sub- 
 ject became a Republican. He did not vote at a 
 presidential election until 1876, when he cast his 
 ballot for.R. B. Hayes. He was elected sheriff 
 in 1874, upon the organization of Douglas County, 
 and served until the fall of 1875, being the first 
 elected after the division of the county. In Park 
 County he served as a constable, and also held 
 the ofiice in Douglas County both before and 
 after he served as sheriff. During the administra- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tion of President Hayes Mr. Manhart held the 
 ofiSce of postmaster at Sedalia. For twenty-five 
 years he has served as a school director. Through 
 his assistance the schools of his section have been 
 promoted and the system of teaching advanced. 
 He is a friend of the public school system and 
 gave his children the best advantages possible, 
 not only in local schools, but also in those of 
 Denver. Though reared in the Lutheran Church, 
 he supports the Episcopal Church and assisted in 
 building St. Philip's Church near his home. In 
 1872 he became identified with Weston Lodge 
 No. 22, A. F. & A. M., at Littleton, with which 
 he has since been connected. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Association of Colorado Pioneers and 
 Plum Creek Camp No. 226, Woodmen of the 
 World. As a citizen he is progressive and public- 
 spirited, and justly occupies a position among the 
 most prominent and influential men of his county. 
 
 30HN NICHOLLS, Sr., has held a number 
 of important public positions, among them 
 those of sheriff and commissioner of Jefferson 
 County, chairman of the county central com- 
 mittee, mayor of Golden, and is at present a justice 
 of the peace for Jefferson County and a member 
 of the state silver Republican committee. He re- 
 sides in Golden and has the distinction of occupy- 
 ing the first house built here, a building con- 
 structed of logs, which has been thoroughly 
 remodeled so as to give it a modern appearance. 
 Possessing considerable inventive genius, he has 
 invented, among other things, a number of im- 
 provements for mining carriages, and an incuba- 
 tor, which he has manufactured under the name 
 of the Atlantic incubator, also a spring seat for 
 the use of engineers and firemen on locomotives. 
 Mr. Nicholls was born in Cardiganshire, 
 Wales, July 16,. 1842, the next to the oldest of 
 his father's twenty-eight children. He has a 
 sister, Mrs. Spear, in Blackhawk, Colo.; a 
 brother, William, in Denver, and another sister, 
 Mrs. Emma Triscot, in New Jersey. His father, 
 John, was the son of Samuel Nicholls, who en- 
 gaged in mining in Wales for Taylor & Co. , of 
 London. He was born in Devonshire, England, 
 but during most of his life was superintendent of 
 mines in Wales, from there returning to Devon- 
 shire, then going back to Wales he subsequently 
 died there at the age of fifty-six, in 1876. His 
 
 first wife, our subject's mother, was Mary Ann 
 Colmer, a native of Devonshire and daughter of 
 Thomas Colmer, a raining engineer of England. 
 She died in England at the age of thirtj'-eight. 
 
 When two years of age our subject was taken 
 to England and at the age of eight he began to 
 assist his father in the mines of Devonshire. 
 After some years of experience he became a 
 practical miner in tin, copper and lead mines. 
 In 1859 he went to Carmarthaenshire, Wales, 
 where he worked in the Vale of Towan lead mine. 
 A year later he went to the Cardiganshire lead 
 mines, where he was employed as timberman for 
 some years. In 1865 he took passage on the 
 steamer "Marathon" at Liverpool, and after a 
 voyage of sixteen and one-half days landed in 
 New York City, from .which place he went to 
 Wilkesbarre, Pa. He secured work in the 
 mines of Luzerne County, and for eight years 
 was foreman of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company 
 in the Henry and Prospect mines. This position 
 he resigned in 1873, on coming to Colorado. He 
 arrived in Golden on Sunday morning, April 6, 
 1873, and has since considered this place his 
 home. He leased one mine and opened several 
 others near Golden, and for some years engaged 
 in mining coal, which he shipped to Denver and 
 to Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, also supply- 
 ing railroads on contract. He is the only man 
 who ever worked the coal mines here successfully. 
 In 1885 he sold out to a Philadelphia company, 
 and was superintendent of coal mines at Tindale 
 for years for a London company. In 1880 he 
 started a boot and shoe store, which he has since 
 conducted, in addition to his work in the mines. 
 He is president and a director of the Golden 
 Opera House Company, which conducts the 
 opera house here. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Nicholls united him 
 with Margaret Edwards, who was bcrrn, reared 
 and married in Wales, and died in Golden. Of 
 the children born of this union three are living: 
 Mary A., Mrs. Preston, of Elizabethtown,N. Mex. ; 
 John, Jr., who is in the tobacco and cigars busi- 
 ness at Golden; and Emma, who is in New 
 Mexico. The present wife of Mr. Nicholls was 
 Clara York, a native of Pennsylvania, and three 
 children have been born unto them: Foster 
 George, Clarence Silver and Stella May. 
 
 During- the early days of his residence here, 
 Mr. Nicholls was appointed night marshal and 
 
BENJAMIN QUICK. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 443 
 
 deputy sheriff, and the latter office he held for 
 two terms. In 1880 he was elected county com- 
 missioner, and served from January, 1 88 1, until 
 1884, being chairman of the board the last year 
 of his service. In the fall of 1883 he was elected 
 sheriff on the Republican ticket by a good ma- 
 jority and took the oath of office in January, 1884, 
 for a term of two years. At the expiration of the 
 time he was re-elected, serving until 1888. Since 
 then he has served for two terms as mayor of 
 Golden and has been a member of the board of 
 aldermen for two terms. He is a firm friend of 
 the silver cause and adheres to the silver wing of 
 the Republican party. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Golden Lodge No. 10, A. F. & A. M. , 
 in which he was made a mason; the Knights of 
 Pythias, in which order he is past chancellor; 
 and the Odd Fellows' lodge, in which he is past 
 grand and which he has represented in the grand 
 lodge; he is also a member of the encampment. 
 
 Q ENJAMIN QUICK, of Perry Park, Doug- 
 r?\ las County, is the owner of twenty-four 
 [^ hundred acres of land, nearly all of which 
 lies in one body. He settled here in the spring 
 of 1861 and built a log liouse, which is now used 
 for a barn. In 1867 he built a better house, which 
 is still used for a dwelling, and in 1885, from rock 
 on his farm, he built his present substantial resi- 
 dence. Of the same rock he also built a stone 
 fence around his yard. The land is splendidly 
 irrigated, and is furnished with a large reservoir, 
 built at a cost of $3,000. On the place are about 
 two hundred head of cattle and twenty horses. 
 
 Born in Holmes County, Ohio, in December, 
 1828, our subject is a son of Benjamin and Clar- 
 issa (Priest) Quick. His father, who was both 
 a farmer and wagon-maker, was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, whence in an early day he removed to Ohio 
 and there married. He experienced all the hard- 
 ships incident to frontier life among Indians who 
 were unfriendly. When his son, our subject, 
 was a child, he removed to Richland County, and 
 later settled in Ashland County. His death oc- 
 curred in 1834 and his wife passed away eight 
 years previous to his own demise. 
 
 When only ten our subject, at his father's 
 death, began to make his own way in the world. 
 At sixteen he commenced to learn the carpenter's 
 trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of 
 five years without wages. During that time his 
 
 employer, who had decided to move to Missouri, 
 asked him if he would go also. His reply was 
 characteristic of him. He said he had started 
 out to learn the trade and was determined to do 
 so, and was of course perfectly willing to accom- 
 pany his master on the trip. He finished his 
 trade in Johnson County, Mo., after which he 
 began contracting and was enabled to earn money. 
 He had left his brother, Cornelius, back in Ohio, 
 and in 1849 an arrangement was made that the 
 latter should come to Missouri, bringing with 
 him his part of the estate, $800, as well as his 
 brother's, which amounted to the same. Cornelius 
 started, but while on his way was robbed of all 
 he had and reached Johnson County penniless. 
 However, Benjamin had saved some money, and 
 he at once invested it in the purchase of an outfit 
 for the trip across the mountains to California. 
 With two other men and five yoke of oxen and 
 one wagon, they started. When they reached 
 Steamboat Springs, Colo., the brothers, conclud- 
 ing that their mode of travel was too slow, took 
 their packs on their backs and, leaving the others 
 to follow with the oxen, they started ahead on 
 foot. Their packs were so heavy that they left a 
 part of their contents by the wayside, and this 
 their partners picked up. They carried no bed- 
 ding, but slept on the ground, even when the 
 weather was cold and the earth frozen. During 
 the last week of their journey they walked 
 seventy-five miles a day. They reached their 
 destination, Hangtown, Cal., two months before 
 their partners arrived with the wagon, and mean- 
 time had made enough to pay for the entire out- 
 fit. They were fortunate as gold-diggers, and 
 discovered the Shasta mines. However, provi- 
 sions were exceedingly high. Salt was so scarce 
 that they weighed gold against salt, ounce for 
 ounce. Provisions were $3 per pound. They 
 dug out more gold than they could carry; but ex- 
 penses were so great that there was but very little 
 profit. In 1852 they returned, on mules, to John- 
 son County, Mo., and settled in Missouri, Corne- 
 lius in Henry County and Benjamin in Johnson. 
 The brother spent his remaining years in Henry 
 County, where he has a son, Morris, one of the 
 wealthiest farmers in that section. 
 
 While in Johnson County our subject married 
 Miss Mary E., daughter of Francis R. and Sarah 
 (Wright) Jackson, of Johnson County. She was 
 born in Ray County, Mo., in 1858. Having sold 
 
444 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his farm, Mr. Quick took his family behind a 
 good team, and with provisions suflScient for two 
 years, started for Colorado, bringing with him a 
 drove of fifty cattle. One day, in Kansas, he 
 met sixty wagons returning east, whose drivers 
 gave such discouraging reports of Colorado that 
 he decided it would be best to return to his old 
 home. Accordingly he sold out to his wife's 
 brother, who now lives in Holden City, Mo. He 
 and his wife returned to Missouri and shortly 
 afterward drove through to Texas, where they 
 spent the winter. However, they received such 
 glowing reports of Colorado from Mr. Jackson 
 that, for the second time, they determined to 
 move there. In i860 they drove through with a 
 span of mules and at first they lived in an old 
 cabin, six miles below his present place of resi- 
 dence. In the spring of the next year they set- 
 tled upon their present homestead. Of their chil- 
 dren, we mention the following: Sarah Frances 
 died in Missouri ; Frank died in Colorado when 
 eight years of age; Amelia died in Denver at six 
 years; Susan passed away when two years old. 
 Hattie married James Skelton, of Arapahoe 
 County, by whom she had one child, Benjamin, 
 at present with his grandparents; later she became 
 the wife of William Stumpf, of Pueblo, Colo. ; 
 Clara married John Cantril and died, leaving two 
 children; Mary is the wife of Thomas Evans, of 
 Denver, and has two children; Laura, Mrs. Mil- 
 ton Robinson, has one child. 
 
 Mr. Quick voted the Republican ticket until 
 1896, since which time he has been a silver sup- 
 porter. He voted for John C. Fremont and came 
 nearly being mobbed for so doing. He has never 
 cared for office and has always refused ofiiers of 
 nomination for public positions. 
 
 I EWIS B. FRANCE. This sterling citizen of 
 I C Denver, who has won for himself a high 
 12 place in the legal profession, is no less noted 
 as an author, his most widely known work being 
 the novel "Over the Old Trail," which received 
 deserved honorable mention in a long article or 
 review published in the "Arena" in October, 
 1895. (See quotation at close of this sketch.) 
 Mr. France was the first prosecuting attorney of 
 Arapahoe County, filling the position with ability 
 for a period of four years, and was the reporter of 
 the supreme court of this state from the organ- 
 
 ization of the same until, on account of the pres- 
 sure of a multitude of other duties, he resigned 
 in 1877. He has given his attention to the gen- 
 eral practice of law and has built up a very large 
 and representative patronage. 
 
 The parents of the above-named gentleman 
 were Lewis H. and Mary A. (Talbott) France. 
 The father died when our subject was a lad of about 
 fifteen and he was thenceforth dependent upon 
 his own resources. He was born in Washing- 
 ton, D. C, August 8, 1833. He made rapid 
 progress in his studies, both in private schools 
 and in Georgetown College, in which institution 
 he had spent nearly three years at the time of his 
 father's death. He was then obliged to take up 
 the burdens of life, his initial experience at earn- 
 ing a competence being as a clerk in a mercan- 
 tile establishment. In 1847 he went to Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, and, having a desire to become a 
 journalist, entered a printing-office, where he 
 served a regular apprenticeship as a type-setter 
 for three and a-half years. He was then in 
 the employ of Morgan & Sons, at the munifi- 
 cent salary of $2.50 per week at first and 
 J57 per week toward the close of his apprentice- 
 ship. The wages last mentioned were supposed 
 to compensate him for the work of press fore- 
 man. This task demanded ability, and would 
 certainly command two or three times the 
 remuneration nowadays. The four succeeding 
 years he worked as a journeyman in various of- 
 fices in the same city. Then, going to St. Louis, 
 he was similarly employed, sometimes as a com- 
 positor, sometimes as a foreman, up to June, 
 1856, his wages ranging from $15 to $30 a 
 week. 
 
 In the summer of 1856 Mr. France was offered 
 a position as foreman on the Daily Columbian, 
 of Cincinnati, and, having accepted the place, 
 was promoted at the end of three weeks to the 
 post of city editor, his associates being Albert D. 
 Richardson and Junius Henri Browne. The 
 company owning this journal were forced to sus- 
 pend business within a few months, and thus Mr. 
 France was once more obliged to seek employ- 
 ment as a journeyman. He had, however, some 
 time before taken up the study of law, as the 
 prospects in the field of journalism were so un- 
 promising, and the following spring he went to 
 Chicago and entered the law office of Joseph P. 
 Clarkson and Lambert Tree. He remained with 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 that firm until he was admitted to the bar in 1858, 
 meantime spending a portion of his evenings in 
 setting type in order that he might meet his nec- 
 essary expenses. He opened an office in Chicago, 
 but a few months later removed to Elgin, 111., 
 where he was associated with the Hon. Charles 
 H. Mo"rgan about a year. At length, as he was 
 not entirely satisfied with his future prospects, he 
 concluded to take the advice of Horace Greeley 
 and "Go West." Coming to Denver in 186 1, he 
 found it a town of about twenty -five hundred in- 
 habitants. In the intervening years he has wit- 
 nessed the development of the place into the 
 beautiful, enterprising city that it is to-day. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. France married Miss Rowena 
 Hewitt, who was born in Cayuga County, N. Y. , 
 and with whom he had become acquainted dur- 
 ing his residence in Elgin, 111. She was a lady 
 who was beloved by all who came within the 
 sphere of her influence. Death entered the 
 happy home of the family April 19, 1898, and 
 claimed the beloved wife and mother. She left 
 two children to mourn the irreparable loss of an 
 always kind and tenderly affectionate parent. 
 Talbott H., the son, who is living at home, was 
 educated at the University of Michigan at Ann 
 Arbor, and is now interested in mining invest- 
 ments in this state. Elizabeth, the only daugh- 
 ter, is a talented young lady, her father's con- 
 stant companion, comforter and advisor. 
 
 Though his early training was of a Democratic 
 tendency, and his first vote was cast for Millard 
 Fillmore, Mr. France voted for Lincoln in i860, 
 and has since been loyal to the Republican party. 
 His father was assistant postmaster-general dur- 
 ing Jackson's administration. In Elgin, 111., Mr. 
 France became a member of the Masonic frater- 
 nity, being then identified with Elgin Lodge No. 
 117, A. F. & A. M., and is now affiliated with 
 Union Lodge No. 7, of Denver. He became a 
 Royal Arch Mason in Fox River Chapter of St. 
 Charles, 111., and is now a member of Denver 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M.. Though reared in the 
 faith of the Baptist Church, he is now a member 
 of the Unitarian Church here, which he helped 
 to organize. 
 
 The old journalistic spirit having revived in 
 the breast of Mr. France of late years he has 
 wielded the pen to good purpose. The following 
 are some of his works which have been published 
 in Denver by Chain, Hardy & Co. : "With Rod 
 
 and Line in Colorado Waters"; "Mountain Trails 
 and Parks of Colorado" ; "Mr. Dide; His Vaca- 
 tion in Colorado." The able critic, B. O. 
 Flower, thus speaks of "Over the Old Trail," in 
 the "Arena": 
 
 "The author of 'Over the Old Trail' has en- 
 riched our literature by a graphic picture of old- 
 time mining life in Colorado, written with strik- 
 ing fidelity to the realities of those stirring, 
 rugged and unique times, but exhibiting such 
 fine artistic feeling that the novel is thoroughly 
 clean, charming, inspiring, wholesome and subtly 
 ennobling. The life described by this gifted au- 
 thor, in the hand of a nature less endowed with 
 true artistic impulses and high ideals, without 
 being one whit truer to the realities, would have 
 been at times repulsive, if not revolting, yet from 
 the first to the last, throughout the lights and 
 shadows, the native humor and the deep trag- 
 edies, the genuine pathos and the heart- sickening 
 criminality, which form the web and woof of the 
 story, a fine, pure atmosphere pervades the 
 whole, while the delicate hand of an artist relieves 
 the story, even in its gloomiest pages, from all 
 that could offend any wholesome imagination. 
 The evident purpose of Mr. France has been 
 to write a good story, at once true to life, 
 artistic and so interesting as to hold the attention 
 of all lovers of good literature from cover to 
 cover, and in these respects he has succeeded to 
 an eminent degree. But he has done more than 
 this; without at any time becoming a preacher, 
 or using the framework of fiction to emphasize 
 some great truth, our author has succeeded in 
 imparting a high and ennobling atmosphere to his 
 work, which cannot fail to be helpful to all read, 
 ers and especially valuable to the young, while 
 he has also, in a delightful, artless manner, inter- 
 woven much of the finest new thought of the 
 present day, in a way that must prove suggestive. 
 Thus the story, while at no time rendered tedi- 
 ous by moralizing, contains in bright-spirited 
 conversations, sound observations on the double 
 standard of morals, the rights of women, and 
 many of the great issues now up for adjustment. 
 In the character of Dolly, the heroine, we have a 
 noble pen-picture of the new woman with her 
 fine new ideals and big heart aflame with love, 
 balanced and held in poise by a vigorous brain 
 which does great credit to the discriminating 
 power of the author. The new woman is here 
 
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 presented, not as the vicious sensationalists de- 
 light to caricature her, but as all true men and 
 women of the new time see and know her. Dolly 
 is a noble creation, a fine representative of the 
 type of oncoming womanhood, which is to do so 
 much toward redeeming the world; she is at 
 once pure-minded, brave, strong of mind and 
 warm of heart, impulsive and as free from pru- 
 dery as she is a stranger to low ideals; and though 
 for a time she travels a perilous pathway, to a 
 certain degree under the psychological influence 
 of one of that numerous class who seem framed to 
 win the hearts of the noblest, while their own 
 hearts are sadly wanting in moral rectitude, the 
 danger is averted by an ignoble proposal trom 
 her lover, which opens her eyes and closes her 
 heart to his entreaties. The character of Dolly is 
 especially interesting as being a true characteriza- 
 tion of the new woman whom Tennyson has so 
 aptly described in his prophetic picture of the 
 coming dawn in 'The Princess' : 
 'The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink 
 Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free. 
 Woman is not undeveloped man, but diverse; 
 
 * * * * Like in difference. * * * * 
 Yet in the long years liker must they grow; 
 The man be more of woman, she of man; 
 He gain in sweetness and in moral height. 
 Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; 
 She mental breadth, nor fail in childlike care; 
 More as the double-natured poet each. * * * * 
 Then comes the statelier Eden back to man ; 
 Then comes the world's great bridals, chaste and calm; 
 Then springs the crowning race of humankind.' " 
 
 RICHARD BROAD, Jr., chairman of the 
 board of commissioners of Jefferson County, 
 and chairman of the state silver Republican 
 central committee, is the proprietor of a mer- 
 cantile establishment on Washington avenue. 
 Golden. He first became connected with the 
 business October i, 1887, when the co-partner- 
 ship of Hammond & Broad was formed, but in 
 1893, upon his election as county commissioner, he 
 sold out his interest to Mr. Hammond and turned 
 his attention to the real-estate business. How- 
 ever, two years later he bought out his former 
 partner and has since continued alone, carrying 
 on a large trade among the people of Golden and 
 surrounding country. In the northern peninsula 
 of Michigan, at Superior mine, the subject of this 
 sketch was born November 13, 1 863 . His father, 
 
 Richard Broad, Sr. , a native of England, re- 
 turned to that country with his family in 1866 and 
 remained until 1869, when he again cro-ssed the 
 ocean, settling in Pennsylvania. Soon, however, 
 he brought the family to Colorado, where he en- 
 gaged in mining in the Gilpin district. In 1870 
 he settled upon a farm on Ralston Creek, in 
 Jefierson County, where he remained until he re- 
 tired from active labors. He now lives in Golden 
 and is about sixty-five years of age. His wife, 
 was Mary Bunney, a native of England and the 
 daughter of Robert Bunney, who was a machinist 
 in his native land, but emigrated from there to 
 America and died in Central City, Colo. 
 
 There are five children in the family of Richard 
 and Mary Broad, and of these Richard, Jr., is 
 the oldest. He was quite small when his parents 
 returned to England and has little recollection of 
 the visit there. When he was six the family 
 settled in Colorado, in which state he has since 
 made his home. From 187 1 to 1885 he spent his 
 time principally in assisting in the cultivation of 
 the farm on Ralston Creek, but in the latter year 
 he came to Golden and secured employment in the 
 State Industrial School, where he remained until 
 he embarked in business in 1887, being assistant 
 superintendent of the school in 1886. 
 
 In Arvada, Colo., Mr. Broad married Sarah 
 Churches, who was born in Holton, Mich. 
 They are the parents of three children, George, 
 Grace and Margery. In political faith Mr. Broad 
 is a stanch friend of protection of home industries 
 and equally stanch in his advocacy of the silver 
 cause. He was a member of the board of alder- 
 men of Golden in 1890-91. In the fall of 1892 
 he was elected on the Republican ticket as a 
 county commissioner and took the oath of office 
 in January, 1893. He was re-elected in 1895 to 
 serve until January, 1899. In 1895 and again in 
 1898 he was chosen chairman of the board. On 
 the formation of the state silver Republican cen- 
 tral committee, in 1896, he was chosen its chair- 
 man, which position he has since held, meantime 
 having had charge of two campaigns. He sup- 
 ported Governor Adams and the rest of his ticket 
 in 1896, and the following year the governor ap- 
 pointed him a member of the board of trustees for 
 the State Normal School at Greeley, for a term 
 of six years. At this writing he is also secretary 
 of the school board of Golden. Fraternally he 
 is past chancellor of Golden Eodge No. 10, 
 
HON. C. S. THOMAS. 
 
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 449 
 
 K. of P. He is one of the most enterprising and 
 popular young men of Jefferson County and also 
 has a host of friends in other parts of the state. 
 
 HON. CHARLES SPALDING THOMAS, 
 governor-elect of Colorado, has for years 
 held a position of prominence among the 
 professional and public men of Denver, and, in- 
 deed, of the entire state of Colorado. Since he 
 came west in the fall of 187 1 with limited means 
 and little influence he has gained a place as one 
 of the eminent and successful lawyers of his city, 
 his success being due to his untiring industry, 
 business ability and keen discrimination of men 
 and things. Not alone in his profession, but in 
 politics as well, he has become widely known. 
 He is recognized as one of the leading Democrats 
 of thestate. From 1884 to 1896 he was a mem- 
 ber of the Colorado Democratic national commit- 
 tee; from 1889 until 1890 held the chairmanship 
 of the state central committee; besides which he 
 has in many ways promoted actively the welfare 
 of his party . 
 
 Though of southern birth (born inDarien, Ga., 
 December 6, 1849,) the subject of this review is 
 of northern parentage and descent. His father, 
 William B. Thomas, was born in Connecticut 
 and removed from there to Georgia. His wife 
 was Caroline B. Wheeler, daughter of Amos H. 
 Wheeler, of Bridgeport, Conn. In the village 
 of Macon, where his father had removed, our 
 subject attended school and passed the unevent- 
 ful years of early youth. He can scarcely recall 
 the time when he first formed the plan of study- 
 ing law. All of his studies in youth were di- 
 rected toward that end. His first law readings 
 were in the University of Michigan at Ann 
 Arbor, and there he continued in the law de- 
 partment until his graduation with the class of 
 1871. 
 
 Coming to Denver within a few months after 
 his graduation, Mr. Thomas entered the law 
 office of Sayre & Wright, then the leading law 
 firm in the state. In 1873 he formed a partner- 
 ship with T. M. Patterson, which connection 
 continued for a year at that time. Afterward he 
 continued alone until 1879, when he again en- 
 tered into partnership with Mr. Patterson, with 
 whom he remained until 1890. During some 
 
 years of this time he tnade his home in Leadville, 
 where he conducted the practice of the firm at 
 that point. At this writing he is a member of 
 the firm of Thomas, Bryant & Lee. While he 
 has managed cases of all kinds, his specialty is 
 mining law, and, having made a study of it, he 
 is able to conduct successfully and skillfully all 
 matters coming within this department of juris- 
 prudence. 
 
 Always stanch in his adherence to the Demo- 
 cratic party, Mr. Thomas had not been in Denver 
 long before he began to be actively identified 
 with political afifairs. To the information gained 
 by study and observation he added natural abili- 
 ties of a high order, and his influence was ap- 
 parent in the advanced success of his party. In 
 1875-76 he served as city attorney. In 1884 and 
 1896 he was chosen as a delegate to the Demo- 
 cratic national conventions. In September, 1898, 
 he was chosen the nominee of the Teller silver 
 Republicans, Populists and Democrats, in their 
 respective conventions, for the office of governor, 
 and was elected November 8, 1898. 
 
 In social relations Mr. Thomas is connected 
 with the Athletic Club of Denver, and fraternally 
 is a Knight of Pythias. In Kalamazoo, Mich., 
 December 29, 1873, he married Miss Emma, 
 daughter of Thomas Fletcher, a prominent citizen 
 of that place. Mrs. Thomas was given the best 
 educational advantages when a girl, and is a lady 
 possessing refinement and the highest culture. 
 She is an active member of the Woman's Club 
 of Denver. The five children born of her mar- 
 riage are: Mrs. William P. Malburn, Edith, 
 Charles S., Jr., Hubert F. and George K. 
 
 The professional career of Mr. Thomas proves 
 the individuality of his character and its force. 
 He has pursued his course in life unmoved by 
 those obstacles that often dauut and undismayed 
 by hardships. With a mind capable of grasping 
 great things, he has stored it with information of 
 incalculable value to him in his practice, and 
 this knowledge he uses in the conduct of his cases 
 and the successful evolving of tangled, intricate 
 technicalities. Endowed with mental vigor, he 
 is prompt in forming and resolute in carrying out 
 any putpose or plan of action decided upon. 
 Great emergencies would have developed to their 
 utmost his large abilities, but even in the ordi- 
 nary walks of life, in the management of cases 
 affecting only local interests, he has nevertheless 
 
450 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 labored with such sagacity and skill that he has 
 proved himself to be a man of large mental 
 endowments. 
 
 "Charles S. Thomas has been a public figure 
 of consequence in this community and state for 
 many years. In political campaigns he has been 
 criticised and even denounced, for he is a man of 
 strong, even profound, convictions, who always 
 stands firmly for the principles which he advo- 
 cates. After all that can be said has been said 
 these facts stand forth unchallenged. He is a 
 man of very unusual talents. While on the one 
 hand a man of affairs, practical, level-headed and 
 shrewd, he is, on the other hand, a hard student, 
 a wide reader, with a bent toward governmental 
 science, of which he is a master. L,oyal in his 
 friendships, square in his business dealings, do- 
 mestic in his tastes, there is no man in Colorado 
 who knows the state from top to bottom more 
 thoroughly, who understands more clearly the 
 public questions which afifect it, or who, in our 
 judgment, will labor more earnestl}^ to improve 
 existing conditions. Some good, earnest and 
 able men have occupied the gubernatorial chair 
 of this state, but we risk nothing in saying that 
 Charles S. Thomas is in each and every respect 
 the peer of the best of them. ' ' 
 
 EAPT. GEORGE K. KIMBALL, of Golden, 
 arrived in Denver April 28, i860, and has 
 since made his home in Colorado. He is a 
 member of a family that anciently resided in 
 County Cumberland, England, and took its name 
 from a point on the Scottish borders. The first 
 representative of the family in America was 
 Richard Kemball, who came to this country from 
 Suffolk, England. His son, John, changed the 
 spelling of the name to its present form, and sub- 
 sequent generations adhered to this spelling. 
 Richard, son of John, had a son, Richard, Jr., 
 the father of Aaron, who served in the Revo- 
 lution. From him the line of descent is traced 
 through Leonard to Daniel Kimball, the captain's 
 father. 
 
 It was in 1634 that Richard Kemball, a native 
 of Ipswich, England, took passage on the ship 
 "Elizabeth" and sailed across the ocean to Amer- 
 ica, settling in Watertown, Mass. John Kim- 
 ball, his son, was born in Suffolk County, 
 England,'^ and settled in Ipswich, Mass., where 
 
 he died May 6, 1698. By his union with Mary 
 Bradstreet, whom he married in 1655, he had a 
 son, Richard, born in 1665, September 22, in 
 Ipswich, Mass., and died in 1716, May 26. He 
 was a member of a committee to treat with the 
 Englishmen and Indians concerning the title to 
 their land, including the town of Bradford. By 
 his marriage to Lydia Wells, of Ipswich, he had 
 a son, Richard, born in that place August 17, 
 1 69 1, died in 1760. He was a carpenter, and re- 
 moved from Ipswich to Norwalk, Conn., later 
 settling in Windham, Conn. He married Sarah, 
 daughter of Andrew and Mary (Conant) Burley. 
 
 Next in descent was Aaron, born in Norwich, 
 Conn., February 18, 1729, and died in Grafton, 
 Mass., March 20, 1808. In 1757 he was a mem- 
 ber of the militia at Grafton and was one of the 
 soldiers who marched to the relief of Fort Will- 
 iam Henry August 16, 1757. He was captain of 
 a Grafton company that marched on the Lexing- 
 ton alarm of the approach of the British, April 19, 
 1775, and served until May 15 of the same year. 
 On the 5th of April, 1776, he was made captain 
 of the Sixth Worcester Company, and served in 
 the Revolution. He married Mary Brooks, 
 daughter of Noah and Sarah (Willard) Brooks. 
 
 Their son, Leonard, was born in Grafton, 
 Mass., June 18, 1772, and died at Greenwich, 
 Mass., March 30, 1817. The most of his active 
 life was passed as a farmer at Greenwich. He 
 married Patty Baird, of Worcester, Mass. Of 
 their seven children the oldest was Daniel, born 
 at Sutton, Mass., October 31, 1794, and died at 
 Hingham, the same state, June 21, 1874. Sep- 
 tember 28, 1825, he married Louisa, daughter of 
 Royal and Deborah Keith, of Grafton, the latter 
 a Miss Adams in maidenhood and a member of 
 the same family as the presidents of that name. 
 Royal Keith was the son of Simeon Keith, Jr., 
 a soldier in the Revolution and a descendant of 
 Scotch ancestors. Upon her father's farm at 
 Grafton Louisa Keith was born June 15, 1801; 
 her death occurred in Boston January 20, 1870. 
 
 For thirteen years Daniel Kimball transacted 
 business as a commission merchant in Charles- 
 ton, S. C, and on his return north he settled in 
 Boston, where he engaged in the dry-goods busi- 
 ness for twenty-five years, retiring in 1855. I" 
 1840-41 he was a member of the common council 
 of Bo.ston. For many years he was a director of 
 the North Bank and the National Insurance 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 451 
 
 Company. He was largely interested in the 
 woolen factories at Fitchburg, Mass. In per- 
 sonal character he possessed many admirable 
 traits and was a man of great moral worth. He 
 was the father of eight children, viz.: Daniel, 
 who died in Boston in 1870; Mrs. Louisa Plymp- 
 ton, of Boston; George K. ; Anna, Mrs. Wales, 
 of Boston; Mrs. Lavinia T. Snow, of Boston; 
 Herbert W., of Boston, great registrar of Massa- 
 chusetts for the Sons of the American Revolution; 
 Samuel F. and Mary F. , who died in infancy. 
 
 In Boston, where he was born March 26, 1831, 
 the subject of this sketch received his education 
 in a private school. At the age of seventeen he 
 entered a hardware store as clerk, but resigned 
 the position in 1852 and went to New Orleans, 
 where he remained with an uncle for a year. In 
 1853 he went up the Mississippi, then crossed to 
 Milwaukee, Wis. , where he was employed by a 
 hardware firm until 1855. From that time until 
 the fall of 1859 he engaged in the furniture busi- 
 ness there. The discovery of gold in Colorado 
 caused him to remove to this state. He spent 
 the winter of 1859-60 in Leavenworth, and then, 
 with an ox-train, spent two months in crossing 
 the plains to Denver. He camped on Cherry 
 Creek after his arrival in Denver, but soon wentiu- 
 to the Gilpin district, where he engaged in mining 
 until the fall of 1861. The war breaking out, he 
 started east to enlist in a Wisconsin regiment, 
 but while on a stage en route to Kansas City he 
 met Colonel Leavenworth, who was going to 
 Washington to get a recruiting commission. The 
 colonel offered Mr. Kimball a position as major 
 in his regiment, but afterward politics crept in 
 and the appointment was never given. 
 
 Commissioned first lieutenant, our subject was 
 mustered in February 23, 1862, and soon re- 
 ceived promotion to the command of Company E, 
 Second Colorado Volunteers. Afterward he 
 served as acting assistant adjutant-general of the 
 Santa Fe route. Among the battles in which he 
 took part were those of Honey Springs, Cabin 
 Creek and Elk Creek. Upon the consolidation 
 of the Second and Third Colorado Infantry into 
 the Second Colorado Cavalry, he being super- 
 numerary was mustered out and honorably dis- 
 charged at St. Louis in February, 1864. After 
 his discharge he spent a year in Boston, but in 
 1865 returned to Colorado as superintendent of 
 the Lode Star Mining Company, of Boston, put- 
 
 ting up their mill and operating it until 1867. 
 Afterward for a year he was superintendent of 
 the Glade gold mines at AUatoona, Ga., and 
 then came back to Colorado and engaged in 
 mining at Central City. During 1866 he had be- 
 come interested in a mine in Russell Gulch, and 
 his son later organized a company for working it, 
 the Calumet Gold Mining and Milling Company, 
 of which our subject is treasurer, a stockholder 
 and director, and his son, George K., Jr., gen- 
 eral manager. In 1870 he came to Golden, 
 where he was employed as freight and passenger 
 agent for the Colorado Central road until 1873, 
 and afterward, for eleven years, from 1873 to 
 1884, he was postmaster of Golden under Presi- 
 dents Grant and Hayes. He was then city clerk 
 and superintendent of the city water works for 
 three years and county commissioner for four 
 years, being chairman of the board during two 
 years of this time. For a time he was clerk in 
 the surveyor-general's office, but political changes 
 caused his resignation. He has since given his 
 attention to the oversight of his mining interests. 
 
 July 2, 1856, in Milwaukee, Wis., Captain 
 Kimball married Miss Frances E. Smith, daugh- 
 ter of J. W. and Ruth (Benjamin) Smith, of 
 Chatham, N. Y., where she was born. They are 
 the parents of three children, the eldest of whom, 
 Louise Ruth, married and died in California, 
 leaving six children. The older son, George K., 
 Jr., graduated from the School of Mines in 1892 
 and is now general superintendent of the Calumet 
 Gold Mining and Milling Company. The younger 
 son also graduated from the School of Mines in 
 1892 and is connected with the Calumet Com- 
 pany. Captain and Mrs. Kimball have a com- 
 fortable home on Second street, built by himself 
 in 1877. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Captain Kimball voted 
 for Winfield S. Scott in 1852, for John C. Fre- 
 mont in 1856 and Abraham Lincoln in i860. 
 He has been an elder in the Golden Presbyterian 
 Church since 1873. In the state and county 
 associations of pioneers he holds membership. 
 He is president of the Veteran Association of 
 Colorado Troops, and is a charter member and 
 past commander of T. H. Dodd Post No. 3, 
 G. A. R. He was offered the position of senior 
 vice-commander of Colorado, but declined the 
 honor. In Denver Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., 
 he was made a Mason, and now holds member- 
 
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 ship in Golden lyodge No. i, Golden Chapter 
 No. 5, R. A. M., Colorado Commandery No. i, 
 K. T., of Denver, and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. 
 From September, 1887, to September, 1888, he 
 was grand master of Colorado, and he is now past 
 deputy grand high priest, but declined the offered 
 position of grand high priest. 
 
 EHRISTIAN A. BENNETT. Whatever else 
 may be said of the legal fraternity, it cannot 
 be denied that members of the bar have 
 been more prominent actors in public affairs than 
 any other class of American people. This is but 
 the natural result of causes which are manifest 
 and require no explanation. The ability and 
 training which qualify one to practice law also 
 qualify him in many respects for the duties which 
 lie outside the strict path of his profession and 
 which touch the general interests of society. 
 The subject of this record is a man who has 
 brought his keen discrimination and thorough 
 wisdom to bear not alone in professional paths, 
 but also for the benefit of the city and county 
 where he makes his home and with whose inter- 
 ests he is thoroughly identified. 
 
 Mr. Bennett, who is now serving as county 
 treasurer of Weld County, is a native of Ozaukee 
 County, Wis., born November 7, 1849, and is a 
 son of Daniel John and Iretta (De Couders) Ben- 
 nett, both natives of Cayuga County, N. Y., 
 whence they removed to^ Wisconsin at an early 
 day. In the midst of the wilderness the father 
 developed a good farm which extended down to 
 the lake, and in connection with its operation he 
 also engaged in merchandising for a short time 
 and in contracting for delivering wood to the 
 steamers. In religious belief he was a Meth- 
 odist, and in political sentiment a Republican. 
 
 Reared in his native state. Christian A. Ben- 
 nett obtained his early education in the schools 
 of Port Washington, where his father was en- 
 gaged in mercantile pursuits. With his parents 
 he removed to Maries County, Mo., in May, 
 1865, and soon afterward entered the law oiEce 
 of J. M. Siglin at Vienna, where he remained as 
 a student until admitted to the bar in 1870. He 
 has always been an active and prominent mem- 
 ber of the Democracy and in Maries County 
 served as deputy circuit and county clerk. 
 Afterward he entered upon the active practice of 
 his profession and at the election in November, 
 
 1874, was elected prosecuting attorney to succeed 
 Joseph Mosby, and re-elected in 1876. While his 
 practice has been in both the civil and criminal 
 courts, his preference has been for the latter and 
 in his chosen line he has met with remarkable suc- 
 cess. In November, i879,he was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Thirty-first General Assembly of Mis- 
 souri for a term of two years, and after that 
 session took up the practice of law and in 1880 
 became part owner of the Gazette. As senior 
 editor he conducted the paper in the interests of 
 the Democracy until he sold out in 1883 to John 
 H. Diggs and came to Greeley, Colo. He was a 
 forceful advocate and as a political speaker ranked 
 among the best of his locality. Upon coming to 
 Greeley he opened a law office and engaged in 
 practice until 1888, when, although his party was 
 decidedly in the minority, he was elected to the 
 office of city attorney, which position he held 
 until 189 1, and again from 1892 to 1895. On 
 the 19th of December, 1893, he was appointed 
 referee by Judge Downer to settle the priority of 
 water rights in irrigation district No. i , which 
 required an immense amount of work. At the 
 fall election of 1897 he was elected to the office of 
 county treasurer. 
 
 At Vienna, Mo., Mr. Bennett was married De- 
 cember 3, 1873, to Miss Mary R., daughter of 
 A. K. Burke, of Scotch-Irish descent, and to 
 them have been born five children: John A., 
 quartermaster-sergeant of the First Colorado Light 
 Artillery; Lena; Mabel; Nellie; and one who died 
 in early childhood. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bennett belongs to Poudre 
 Valley Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.; the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen; the Woodmen of the 
 World; and the Imperial Legion, a Colorado 
 organization. He attends the First Presbyterian 
 Church, to which he contributes, and is an up- 
 right and honorable man. An article published 
 at his old home in Missouri after he left there 
 states that his most intimate friends had never 
 heard an oath escape his lips. At home he is a 
 model host and an affectionate and indulgent 
 husband and father, and anger and immorality 
 have never blurred his name. He is a worthy 
 man, a steadfast friend, a safe and cautious ad- 
 visor, and his holding the responsible position he 
 does is the best evidence of the esteem in which 
 he is held, when it is considered that the political 
 party to which he adheres is in the minority. 
 
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ISAAC P. VAN WORMER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 455 
 
 CySAAC P. VAN WORMER. Fourteen miles 
 I south of Denver, on Plum Creek, is a stock 
 1 ranch of thirteen hundred acres, bearing ex- 
 cellent improvements in fencing and buildings, 
 and stocked with cattle and various breeds of 
 horses. This property was purchased by Mr. 
 Van Wormer in 187 1, and with another tract 
 (leased) of equal size has since been used for the 
 pasturage of stock. It is said that Mr. Van 
 Wormer is the oldest man in the cattle business 
 in Colorado, and certainly it may also be said 
 that he is one of the most successful, for his finan- 
 cial standing is the highest and his check is hon- 
 ored for any amount he desires. He resides at 
 No. II South Sherman street, Denver, which 
 property he owns, as well as other real estate. 
 He built and later sold the Van Wormer block, 
 and has erected many houses on the hill and also 
 south of Cherry Creek. 
 
 On the Mohawk River, near Fonda, Montgom- 
 ery County, N. Y. , Mr. Van Wormer was born 
 April 15, 1833. He is of Dutch descent, his 
 great-grandparents having come to this country 
 from Holland. His father, Frederick D., the son 
 of a farmer, was reared in Montgomery County 
 and was educated for an attorney, but never en- 
 tered the profession, working during most of his 
 life as a boatman on the Erie Canal. He died in 
 Montgomery County. His wife, Ann, was a 
 daughter of James Cooley, a soldier in the war of 
 1812. She was born in Montgomery County and 
 died there at eighty-two years of age. Her fam- 
 ily comprised eight children, namely: Henry E., 
 who died in New York City; Thomas R., now in 
 Michigan; Isaac P.; Antoinette, who remains in 
 the vicinity of the old home; James H., who was 
 a soldier in the war and now resides in Bradford, 
 Pa.; Jane A., who lives near Syracuse, N. Y.; 
 Chester, who served in the Civil war and now 
 makes his home in Michigan; and Elizabeth, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 During three months of the year our subject 
 when a boy attended the common schools and the 
 remainder of the time was devoted to farm work, 
 having begun to work out on farms when he was 
 only a child of seven. Later he worked on the 
 canal, thefa on a stage line, and in the spring of 
 1855 went to Michigan, where he drove a stage 
 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo for a time. 
 During the same year he went to LaFayette, 
 Ind., where he worked out by the month. In 
 18 
 
 1857 he located in Leavenworth, Kan., where he 
 worked as a carpenter for a short time, and then 
 entered a pre-emption claim near Carbondale, in 
 southern Kansas, but the attempt to farm the 
 place profitably proved a failure and he came to 
 Colorado, making the trip with ox-teams along 
 the Santa Fe trail. He camped out on Clear 
 Creek and for a month prospected. The country 
 was full of fortune seekers, for it was the summer 
 of 1859 and thousands of men had been attracted 
 to the state by the recent discovery of gold. 
 
 Returning to Kansas in the fall of 1859, Mr. 
 Van Wormer settled up his business affairs there 
 and in i860 came back to Colorado, making the 
 trip with a horse train. He engaged in trading 
 and made his home in Denver, but in 1862 turned 
 his attention to the cattle business, buying cattle 
 from Missouri and Iowa and bringing them to 
 Colorado. At the same time he located a ranch 
 on Running Creek, near the line of Arapahoe and 
 Douglas County. When the Hungate family 
 were murdered by the Arapahoe Indians in 1864, 
 he left that place and afterward carried on the 
 cattle business in different localities, but finally 
 located at Sampson Gulch, in Arapahoe County, 
 and from there in 187 1 removed his cattle to 
 his present ranch. He was among the very first 
 who allowed the cattle to roam over the open 
 prairies and he was also one of the first who 
 branded cattle, his first brand being the letter V, 
 but this was changed to Van when the legislature 
 passed the law requiring all cattle to be branded. 
 During the early days he allowed his cattle to oc- 
 cupy a range on the Republican River, while the 
 home ranch was kept for the pasturage of horses 
 exclusively. 
 
 At Denver, in June, 1867, Mr. Van Wormer 
 married Cora Wright, who was born in Washing- 
 ton County, N. Y., the daughter of Charles S. 
 Wright, a native of Vermont. Her grandfather. 
 Judge Wright, of New York, married a daughter 
 of Capt. Nathaniel Seeley, who served in the 
 Revolution. For some yeafs Charles S. Wright 
 engaged in the manufacture of lime in New York, 
 where he had large kilns. He married Abbie 
 Dickinson, who was born in Washington County, 
 N. Y. , of Scotch descent, and died in Kansas. 
 They were the parents of eleven children, of 
 whom four daughters and two sons are now liv- 
 ing. One of the sons, T. D. Wright, was a sol- 
 dier in a New York regiment during the war, and 
 
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 a nephew, Capt. George Robinson, also bore an 
 honorable part in quelling the Rebellion. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Van Wornier have six children: Mrs. 
 Lillian M. Pierce, of Denver; Mrs. Ruth M. Mil- 
 ler, of Denver; Laura B,; Frank W.; Ethel B. 
 and May C. 
 
 Mr. Van Woimer has been a stockholder in 
 the Denver Consolidated Tramway Company, the 
 Littleton Milling Company and other corpora- 
 tions. For one term he was commissioner of 
 Douglas County, but refused re-election. He is 
 a member of the Association of Colorado Pioneers. 
 In the chamber of commerce and the board of 
 trade he is a charter member. He was one of the 
 first members of the Colorado Cattle Growers' 
 Association, to which he still belongs. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. The transformation 
 wrought in this country since he came here is 
 wonderful and surpassed even the fondest hopes of 
 his pioneer days, but he may justly feel that he 
 has been one of the factors in contributing to the 
 progress of city and state and has contributed his 
 share to the development of the material resources 
 of both. 
 
 iA ARSHALL M. NAY, one of the old and 
 Y respected citizens of Morrison, Jefferson 
 is County, has been engaged in business in 
 this place for the past seventeen years, during 
 which period he has won the good will and high 
 regard of his fellow-citizens by his honesty, 
 square dealing and unfailing courtesy. His mar- 
 ket is one of the best in the county and is always 
 well equipped with a fine variety of meats, fresh 
 and salted. His long experience in the business 
 gives him certain knowledge of the demands of 
 the trade, which he seeks to meet at all times. 
 In all public matters affecting the general welfare 
 he is an actively interested participant and can 
 always be safely counted upon to endorse all pro- 
 gressive movements accruing to the good of the 
 community. The educational cause finds no 
 more devoted friend than he, and for twelve years 
 he was a member of the school board, and for a 
 period was secretary of that honorable body. 
 Fraternally he holds membership with Morrison 
 Lodge No. 82, I. O. O. F. , and politically he 
 sides with the Fusion party. 
 
 Born in Logan County, 111., March 4, 1850, 
 Mr. Nay is in the prime of manhood. He is one 
 
 in a family which originally included eight chil- 
 dren, but whose numbers have diminished to five. 
 He has four brothers living, namely: Lafayette, 
 George, Horace F. and Samuel G. Their parents 
 were: L- H. and Sally D. (Maston) Nay, both of 
 whom were long since summoned to their reward. 
 The father, a native of Rochester, N. Y., born in 
 1812, moved to Ohio in his early manhood and 
 spent several years in Loraine and Medina Coun- 
 ties, his time being devoted to farming. Later 
 he settled in Illinois and carried on a farm in 
 Logan County for a few years. Thence he went 
 to Iowa and to Missouri, but after some years of 
 experience in agricultural pursuits in Henry and 
 Lafayette Counties he concluded to return to 
 Illinois. Three years elapsed and he went back 
 to Missouri, this time taking up his residence in 
 Holt County, where his death occurred in 1865. 
 During the Civil war he was a strong Union man, 
 which fact made it a little unpleasant for him at 
 times among some of his Missouri neighbors. 
 For many years he was engaged, more or less, in 
 the real-estate business, and on some of his farms 
 he was extensively occupied in raising fine live- 
 stock. A man of broad education and intellect, 
 he was greatly interested in the cause of educa- 
 tion, and for two or three terms he taught school 
 successfully. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was but half way through his teens, and the 
 property, which would otherwise have been then 
 divided among the children, had to remain intact 
 until he had arrived at his majority. His mother 
 had died when the lad was but five or six years 
 old. The brothers continued to live on the old 
 homestead, which comprised some five hundred 
 acres, up to 1871. M. M. Nay, by that time a 
 practical farmer, carried on his share of the prop- 
 erty for five years longer and then removed to 
 Kansas, where he took up a homestead of one 
 hundred and sixty acres. This land he tilled 
 and improved for about a year, after which he 
 embarked in the lumber business, also dealing in 
 farming implements and stock. In September, 
 1 88 1, he disposed of all his business interests 
 and came to Colorado, reserving his farm, how- 
 ever, which he sold about a year later at advan- 
 tageous terms. Two weeks or so spent in Den- 
 ver and then Mr. Nay came direct to Morrison, 
 of which he had heard that it was a live and 
 growing town. He soon after established a meat 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 457 
 
 market and began dealing in stock, which enter- 
 prises he follows up to the present time. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Nay and Miss Emma J. 
 Warner, of Holt County, Mo., occurred March 
 17, 1872. Four children came to bless their 
 hearthstone, but one is deceased. Ida V. is the 
 wife of Earl D. McGill, a successful medical 
 practitioner of Yuma, Colo. George W. is in 
 partnership with his father in the meat and stock 
 business. His wife, formerly Miss Anna I. Strick- 
 land, was a successful teacher in the schools of 
 this county for six years. Samuel W., a gradu- 
 ate of the Colorado State University at Boulder, 
 is now engaged in teaching in this county. 
 
 (TOEL B. KING. The press, which forms a 
 I potential and indispensable factor in advanced 
 C2/ civilization, is but the mouthpiece of men of 
 education, men who possess broad and progress- 
 ive minds and devote their whole energy and in- 
 fluence toward promoting the interests of their 
 country and the locality in which they reside. 
 Men who do not possess these essential qualifica- 
 tions are but short-lived in the journalistic realms, 
 as the number of newspaper failures throughout 
 the country will testify. The press of Elbert 
 County is ably represented by the gentleman 
 named above, who through the medium of the 
 Elbert County Tribime and the Eastonville World 
 has labored zealously to elevate the moral and in- 
 tellectual standard of the people and to enlighten 
 the community upon events transpiring on every 
 section of the globe. His editorials are always 
 substantial and well written, while the local col- 
 umns of his publications are filled with fresh and 
 crisp items of interest. However, the field of 
 journalism has not claimed his entire attention, 
 for he is the proprietor of a large general mer- 
 chandise store in Elbert, the town of his resi- 
 dence. 
 
 Mr. King is a son of Dr. J. E. and Emaline 
 (Barnes) King, and was born in DeWitt County, 
 111., July 22, 1849. He was partially reared upon 
 a farm and attended the public schools of Clinton, 
 111. ; this training was supplemented by a course 
 in the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, 111., 
 which he entered at the age of fifteen years. One 
 year later he moved with his father to Fairfield, 
 Iowa, where he became apprenticed to the print- 
 ers' trade, receiving the paltry sum of $50 per 
 
 annum for his services. He made rapid strides 
 in his profession and worked as a journeyman 
 but a few months, when, at the age of nineteen 
 years, he established the Moulton Independent, 
 at Moulton, Iowa, and although it was his first 
 attempt in his own behalf he displayed unusual 
 judgment and ability. Five years later he moved 
 to Bloomfield, Iowa, where he founded the Odd 
 Fellows'' Banner, a weekly paper devoted to the 
 interest of Odd Fellowship. He worked up a 
 circulation of eight thousand copies, at that time 
 the largest weekly circulation in the state, and 
 continued successfully for a period of four years, 
 when he met with financial reverses and remove"d 
 to Pratt County, Kan., where for two years he 
 conducted the Pratt County Press. He then con- 
 tinued west to Colorado and established the Huer- 
 fano Herald at La Veta, Huerfano County, his 
 removal to that section being mainly because of 
 poor health. His enterprises prospered and he 
 remained there until 1S84, when he realized the 
 excellent opportunities offered for a publication 
 in Elbert County, and immediately thereafter 
 located at Elbert, and established the Elbert 
 Cojinty Tribune, which was successful from the 
 start and is now a paper of influence in that com- 
 munity. In 1888 he started the Eastonville World, 
 which has also had a prosperous career and is 
 one of the thriving weeklies of the county. In 
 1885 he also embarked in the general merchan- 
 dise business in Elbert; beginning in a small way 
 he gradually increased his stock as his business 
 justified, and at the present time he has a large, 
 well-stocked store, which is patronized by the 
 leading citizens. He owns considerable real es- 
 tate, including Scott's addition to Elbert. He is 
 a man of good character, a pleasant and genial 
 companion, and occupies a high position in the 
 estimation of his fellow-citizens. 
 
 August 29, 1871, at Ellsworth, Kan., Mr. 
 King married Miss Eva Davis, a native of Illi- 
 nois, and their happy union resulted in the fol- 
 lowing issue: Edward M. , who died in Elbert at 
 the age of twenty-one years; Frank M., whose 
 death occurred in childhood; Happy, who died 
 in childhood; Wei by, who died at Elbert, aged 
 two years; Keo, the wife of F. N. La Veil; Emma, 
 who is at home with her parents; Eva and lo, 
 daughters, aged respectively twelve and ten 
 years. Our subject has always voted the Repub- 
 lican ticket, casting bis first vote for General 
 
458 
 
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 Grant in 1872. Although not an aspirant for 
 office, he accepted the appointment as postmaster 
 of Elbert under the Harrison administration, and 
 served for three years, when he handed in his 
 resignation. He is equally as prominent in fra- 
 ternal as in business circles, being an active mem- 
 ber of Union Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., of 
 Denver; Knights of Pythias, of Eastonville; and 
 of the Elbert Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of which he has 
 filled all of the chairs and taken the grand lodge 
 degree. He became a member of the latter 
 order at Bloomfield, Iowa, in 187 1, and has been 
 active in the work of that body since. 
 
 (lAMES A. MAULDIN. As a representative 
 I of the agricultural class, and one who has 
 (2/ met with more than ordinary success in the 
 prosecution of his independent calling, we take 
 pleasure in mentioning the name of the gentleman 
 whose biography we write. He is pleasantly 
 located on his fine farm on section 17, township 
 8, range 64, which consists of eight hundred 
 acres and also owns three hundred and seventy 
 acres one mile east of the town of Elizabeth, and 
 he may be found almost any day engaged in the 
 general routine of a farmer's life. He is a native 
 of Hall County, Ga., the date of his birth being 
 September 16, 1846, and is a son of Terrill W. 
 and Sarah (Jackson) Mauldin. 
 
 James A. Mauldin received a common-school 
 education and was reared to agricultural pursuits, 
 which he made his life's vocation. His father 
 was in a helpless condition, and as his two older 
 brothers were away, one being in the west and 
 the other in the Civil war, our subject being the 
 eldest son at home, the support of the family fell 
 upon his shoulders; in 1862 his father died, and 
 our subject migrated west. With his mule 
 team he drove to Nashville, Tenn., from which 
 place he took the boat for St. Louis, Mo. , where 
 he stopped off with his elder brother for a short 
 time. In company with his mother and three 
 younger sisters he again started on his journey 
 west, and in the year 1867 he settled on his 
 present property. He had but one mule when he 
 started in farming, and that one was unbroken. 
 The land which he had taken up was rich and 
 fertile, and by his perseverance and untiring 
 energy, coupled with the practice of economy, 
 he succeeded in saving enough money, with 
 
 which to purchase more land, and is now one of 
 the largest land owners in that vicinity. In 
 addition to farming, he is also engaged in stock- 
 raising, in which he is remarkably successful. 
 He is well known throughout his community, 
 and enjoys the respect and good will of a large 
 circle of acquaintances. 
 
 Mr. Mauldin has twice been united in marriage. 
 In 1877 he married Caroline McCurry, a native 
 of Missouri, whose acquaintance he made in 
 Colorado; she died in December, 1890. February 
 25, 1892, he married Frances E. Tee, a native 
 of Cambridge, 111., at Geneseo, 111. Three chil- 
 dren have blessed this union, asfoUows: James F., 
 William B. and Charles W. Politically our 
 subject has always been an ardent supporter of 
 the Democratic party, and cast his first vote for 
 Tilden in 1876. He has been a candidate for 
 county commissioner five times, and has been 
 elected thrice. He has also been delegated to 
 various conventions. 
 
 LIVER EVANS came to Colorado on a tour 
 of inspection in i860. In the spring of 
 1 87 1 he brought his family to the state and 
 purchased his present place from a brother who 
 had taken it up as a claim. The property then 
 consisted of one hundred and sixty acres and has 
 been increased by the purchase of an eighty-acre 
 tract, making the present size two hundred and 
 forty acres. The place is situated two miles west 
 of Arvada, in Jefferson County, where the fertile 
 soil affords the farmer an opportunity to engage 
 in farming successfully. 
 
 In Beaver County, Pa., Mr. Evans was born 
 September 17, 1827, being a son of Noah and 
 Mary Ann (Black) Evans. He was one of eleven 
 children, seven of whom are still living, namely: 
 Oliver, Hiram, North, Ephraim C, Eli L.; Mar- 
 garet, wife of Walter Fen ton; and Elmira, who 
 married George Thornsburg. His grandparents, 
 Eli and Elizabeth (Davis) Evans, removed to 
 Beaver Falls, Beaver County, from Chester 
 County, Pa., in 1806, and there the grandfather 
 built a mill and did a large milling business. In 
 the early days he bought a settlers' right from a 
 man who had taken up a claim of some three hun- 
 dred acres, but after thirty years of litigation, he 
 lost the property, which is now worth $1,000 an 
 acre. Noah Evans was born in Chester Count}', 
 
H. J. HAWLEY. 
 
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 459 
 
 in 1798, and was a boy of eight years when the 
 family removed to Beaver County. There he 
 grew to manhood and engaged in farming. For 
 some time he and his brothers engaged in build- 
 ing keel boats, which they would sail down the 
 river to Cincinnati or Louisville and there sell 
 them, walking the entire distance back to their 
 home. He died in 1870. 
 
 Reared in his native county, our subject en- 
 gaged in farming and teaming, also spent some 
 time in railroading and boating. Since 1871 he 
 has engaged in ranching in Colorado. In politics 
 he votes the Republican ticket. He is interested 
 in educational matters and has served as a mem- 
 ber of the school board. 
 
 In 1865 occurred the marriage of Mr. Evans 
 to Miss Mary Dougherty . They became the par- 
 ents of nine children, now living, namely: Robert, 
 who is interested in farming in Jefferson County; 
 North, also a farmer in this county; Lawrence 
 Colorado, Homer Denver, Elmus Smith, William, 
 Anna, Elmira Jane and Mary Agnes. Two 
 children, Bessie J. and John, are deceased. 
 
 NJ. HAWLEY, of Central City, owns the 
 finest business block in this place and is in- 
 fluential in the public affairs of Gilpin 
 County. His road to success lay through ob- 
 stacles that would have discouraged a less stout- 
 hearted man, but he has proved himself superior 
 to circumstances. He was born near Freeport, 
 111., May 13, 1839. His father, Daniel S. Haw- 
 ley, was a native of Brattleboro, Vt., while his 
 grandfather, Aaron Hawley, was from Connecti- 
 cut. The family were from England, but came 
 to Connecticut, whence Aaron moved to Vermont, 
 and later to Sangamon County, 111., where he 
 took part in the Black Hawk war in 1832, and was 
 killed in a battle near Warren, 111. The father 
 also fought in this war, although but a lad of 
 twelve years when he shouldered his gun. In 
 1828 he went to Wisconsin, where he followed 
 farming. Later he moved to Oneca, Stephenson 
 County, 111., then returned to Wisconsin, settling 
 in La Fayette County, where he was employed in 
 farming near Wiota. In 1851 he moved to Ar- 
 gyle, the same county, where he was occupied in 
 the hotel business, milling and farming. In 1873 
 he went to Evansville, Rock County, where he 
 lived in retirement until his death, in 1893, at the 
 
 age of seventy-six years. While in Argyle he 
 was recruiting officer. He married Helen Reed, 
 of Brattleboro, Vt. , who died in Argyle at the 
 age of fifty-four years. Of the eight children, 
 five grew to adult years. These were as follows: 
 Charles A. , a resident of Chicago, who served 
 through the late war in a Wisconsin cavalry; 
 H. J., of this sketch; Louisa, Mrs. Campbell, 
 who died in Argyle; Albert, a stockman of that 
 place and who also served in the army during the 
 Civil war; and Theodore. The last-named enlisted 
 when fifteen in a Wisconsin regiment, and was 
 with Sherman through the war, in his march 
 through Georgia and to the sea; he was accident- 
 ally drowned ia Eagle River, near Redcliff, Eagle 
 County, Colo., where he was engaged in ranch- 
 ing. 
 
 H. J. Hawley was reared in LaFayette County, 
 Wis. , and attended the public school at Argyle, 
 and later the Platteville Normal, under Professor 
 Pritchard. When fourteen he obtained a clerk- 
 ship in Wiota. After the Pike's Pieak excitement 
 started he came west in i860, with an uncle, 
 Louis Seargent, who had crossed the plains in 
 1849. This trip was made by team all the way. 
 They crossed the Mississippi at Dubuque, the 
 Missouri at Omaha, and traveled up the Platte 
 to Fort Kearney. On the 13th of May they 
 reached Denver and came on to Central Citj% 
 where they engaged in gulch mining. At the 
 end of the summer the uncle returned home and 
 Mr. Hawley continued his mining operations for 
 eight years. He gave to it his entire time, and 
 like many others he failed. In 1868 he went in 
 debt $800 for a half-interest in a grocery store, 
 his partner being Benjamin Lake. The firm of 
 Lake & Hawley flourished for three years, when 
 it was changed to Hawley & Manville, the latter 
 gentleman having acquired Mr. Lake's interest 
 in the business. This firm continued until 1878. 
 They enlarged their store, added to their stock 
 and were doing a good business when the fire of 
 1 874 swept from them their entire stock and left 
 them in debt to the extent of $10,000. 
 
 This would have crushed an ordinary man, but 
 Mr. Hawley possessed an undaunted spirit and a 
 determination to succeed, and the very next 
 morning after the fire he bought the stock of 
 groceries of Roworth & Co. for $20,000, making 
 their total indebtedness $30,000. Business men 
 in Denver tried to discourage him, telling him he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD 
 
 never would succeed in his undertaking, but he 
 was determined to pay every dollar that he owed, 
 and to that end increased his debt. They re- 
 ceived $3,000, which was paid on the trade 
 leaving $17,000, for which they gave thirty- four 
 notes for $500 each, drawing interest at one per 
 cent, a month. One note was to be paid each 
 month, and they were happily able to meet each 
 as it became due, besides paying their other in- 
 debtedness with ten per cent, interest added. In 
 1878 he bought out his partner and continued 
 alone until two years later, when he incorporated 
 the Hawley Merchandise Company, of which he 
 has since been president and is the principal 
 stockholder. He erected the .Hawley block, 
 the largest and best in the city, having three 
 store room fronts. His is one of the oldest in- 
 corporated companies in the state, and he was 
 the iirst to send out to take orders and give free 
 delivery. He is interested in twenty patented 
 claims and many inines. 
 
 In Central City Mr. Hawley married Miss An- 
 netta Miller, of Ohio, and in 1890 established his 
 family in Denver, on Pearl street, Capitol Hill. 
 He has four children, viz. : Medora (Mrs. Perry), 
 and Mabel (Mrs. Wiley) , both of whom reside in 
 Central City; Frank, who is one of the head men 
 with the Morey Mercantile Company of Denver; 
 and Martha, at home. Mr. Hawley was an al- 
 derman in Central City for one term during the 
 iire, when the streets were changed and the town 
 laid out anew. He was county commissioner for 
 one term, from 1878 to 1881. From 1882 until 
 1886 he was a member of the school board. He 
 has been a stockholder of the Gilpin County Min- 
 ing Association since its organization. Frater- 
 nally he belongs to Central City L,odge No. 6, 
 A. F. & A. M., the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and the Gilpin County Pioneer So- 
 ciety. In politics he is a Republican. At this 
 writing he is candidate on the Republican ticket 
 for state senator from Gilpin County. 
 
 n AMES GRANT MILNE, a farmer and stock- 
 I raiser, residing on section 18, township 6, 
 O range 65, has one of the best places in Weld 
 County. In 1893 he erected a fine two-story 
 brick residence, also put up a substantial barn, 
 and in 1898 built a brick structure providing 
 sleeping accommodations for the men in his em- 
 ploy. 
 
 The water supply for his house and stock is 
 provided by a large windmill. A corral furnishes 
 quarters for feeding his stock and fencing them 
 in when they are not on the range. The yard is 
 neatly laid out with shade trees, giving to the 
 place a homelike and attractive appearance. 
 
 Born in Forfarshire, Scotland, April 30, 1857, 
 the subject of this sketch is a son of William 
 Milne, who was a farmer and stock-raiser. He 
 was especially interested in the sheep business, 
 and was one of the best-known sheep-raisers in 
 Scotland, being considered an authority in the 
 business. In political matters he was a strong 
 Liberal. For some years he served as a member 
 of the local school board. He was a member of 
 the Established Church, which he served as an 
 elder. 
 
 By the marriage of William Milne to Betsy 
 Grant nine sons were born, one of whom died 
 young. The others are: George, who holds the 
 position of clerk on the Grand Trunk Railroad at 
 Toronto, Canada; William, who was foreman of 
 construction on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, 
 and is now located at Que Apple, in the North- 
 west Territory; James Grant; David, manager of 
 the old homestead in Scotland; Robert, who is 
 engaged in the stock business in Montana; John, 
 at home; Francis, who is in the Indian civil 
 service of Great Britain; and Charles, a stockman 
 in Montana. 
 
 In Scottish parochial schools the subject of this 
 sketch was a student until eighteen years of age. 
 Afterward he acted as manager of the cattle and 
 sheep owned by his father and an uncle. In 
 1 88 1 he came to America, arriving in Greeley on 
 the 14th of April. He entered the employ of 
 ex-Senator Boyd, who was the superintendent of 
 schools. One year later he began for himself, 
 but was prostrated by a severe illness and for 
 some time lay in a hospital. After his recovery 
 he worked for different persons until the fall of 
 1888, when he came to his present place, one-half 
 mile west of Lucerne, buying here a tract of one 
 hundred and sixty acres that is conveniently lo- 
 cated for irrigating. On the entire place there is 
 not a foot of waste land. The soil is fertile, and 
 large_ crops of grain, potatoes and alfalfa are 
 raised. His knowledge of the sheep business, 
 gained in Scotland, eminently qualifies him for 
 the handling of sheep, and during the winter 
 months he feeds large numbers of them, besides 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
 461 
 
 buying many for others. The lightest lambs he 
 ever put in the Chicago market weighed an aver- 
 age of eighty-eight pounds, and those shipped in 
 the spring of 1898 averaged ninety-seven pounds, 
 which was the heaviest lot of Mexican lambs ever 
 sold in that market. Being a man of good judg- 
 ment, he has applied himself closely to whatever 
 work he considered would be profitable, and in 
 that way he has achieved commendable success. 
 Besides his other interests, Mr. Milne holds 
 stock in the I^arimer and Weld Reservoir Com- 
 pany and the Larimer and Weld Ditch Company, 
 and for two years acted as vice-president of the 
 former. He is also interested in the Farmers' 
 Mercantile Company of Greeley. He has also 
 held the position of president of the North Gree- 
 ley Produce and Storage Company. It was due 
 very largely to his influence and work that the 
 organization of the Boyd Lateral Company was 
 consummated, an enterprise that has been of 
 great benefit to the people, as it provides the 
 proper amount of water for those who deserve it. 
 Another of his public-spirited efibrts was in favor 
 of the building of the switch to Lucerne, thus 
 saving the long haul to Greeley. Politically he 
 is a Republican. January 14, 1896, he was 
 united in marriage with Julia M., daughter of 
 John Montgomery, and they have a comfortable 
 home in their new and tastily furnished residence. 
 
 (TOHN R. MINER, a farmer of Weld County, 
 I owns a ranch situated on township 4 south, 
 QD range 67 west, near the village of Berthoud. 
 He is a native of Indiana, born in Louisville in 
 1850, to Simeon B. and Elizabeth (Connard) 
 Miner. About 1856 his father removed to 
 Champaign, 111., where he engaged in farming 
 near Urbana, but after four years in the country 
 he located in the city of Urbana, where he follow- 
 ed the wagon-maker's trade during the remain- 
 der of his active life. His death occurred Janu- 
 ary 5, 1869, and his wife passed away November 
 I, 1885. 
 
 The early years of our subject's life were 
 passed on a farm. At the age of seventeen years 
 he secured employment with a street-car com- 
 pany, with whom he remained for seven years. 
 However, his health failed and he was obliged to 
 resign his position and seek a change of climate. 
 
 Accordingly, in the spring of 1873, he came west 
 to the mountain regions. After some time spent 
 in Greeley, his health was entirely restored. In 
 1875 he went to Erie, where he was employed as 
 engineer for a company in coal mines, remaining 
 in their employ until his marriage in 1881. He 
 then settled on his present farm, which he had 
 taken up some time previous. Here he has 
 since engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
 owning two hundred and forty acres of valuable 
 land, under cultivation. 
 
 Besides his other interests Mr. Miner is a 
 stockholder in and president of the Hillsborough 
 Ditch Company, in the construction of which he 
 was a leading promoter. He is also a stock- 
 holder in the Consolidated Home Supply Ditch 
 and Reservoir Company. In 1893 he constructed 
 a private ditch for his own use, the water being 
 taken from the Little Thompson. At this writing 
 he is president of the board of directors of school 
 district No. 50. Politically he is now independ- 
 ent, but was formerly active in the People's 
 party. Fraternally he is a member of Berthoud 
 Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M., in which he has 
 passed all the chairs and is past master. For three 
 years he represented the lodge in the grand lodge. 
 In 1 88 1 he was united in marriage with Miss 
 Nellie Harmon, the daughter of Manning and 
 Julia A. (Rexroad) Harmon, of Boulder County. 
 They are the parents of two children, Nettie and 
 Ray. 
 
 IT LISHA DUNCAN, deceased, one of the rep- 
 1^ resentative pioneers of Colorado, was very 
 I closely identified with the founding of Weld 
 and Boulder Counties, and helped materially in 
 placing them on the sound basis upon which 
 they now rest secure. He aided in the estab- 
 lishment of schools and churches, the construc- 
 tion of roads, the instituting of local law and 
 order, of protection against the Indians, and 
 was one of the earliest mining operators and 
 ranchmen in Boulder and St. Vrain valleys. At 
 a period when little but the mineral wealth of 
 this country was thought of, he foresaw the great 
 possibilities that were in store for it, by proper 
 irrigation and cultivation of the fertile alluvial 
 valleys and plateaus and very successfully carried 
 on the raising of cattle and horses. 
 
 The founder of this branch of the Duncan 
 
462 
 
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 family in America was Col. James Duncan, who 
 was a native of Scotland. Early in the seven- 
 teenth century he resigned his commission in the 
 army and settled in Virginia. His son, John 
 Duncan, was born in Scotland and with his par- 
 ents took up his permanent residence in the Old 
 Dominion. John married Miss Sarah Anderson, 
 and their son Robert, born in 1795, was the 
 father of the subject of this article. He became 
 one of the first settlers in Illinois, his home being 
 in Shelby County. Besides cultivating a farm he 
 was interested in the Galena lead mines, in the 
 northern part of the state and in Wisconsin. 
 During the Black Hawk war he was one of the 
 settlers who fought against the Indians, finally 
 subduing them. He died October 19, 1868, 
 near Greenville, Bond County, 111. His wife, 
 Nancy, born in Virginia January 26, 1805, was 
 a daughter of Abraham and Mary (Whitley) 
 Bateman and granddaughter of Col. William 
 Whitley, a native of England. Mrs. Nancy 
 Duncan died October i, 1851, in Illinois. One 
 of her sons, John, now of California, came to 
 Colorado in i860. Another son, James, fought 
 in the Mexican war. 
 
 Elisha Duncan, the eldest of his father's family, 
 was born near Greenville, Bond County, 111., Sep- 
 tember 13, 1822. When he reached a suitable 
 age he commenced farming, at first in his home 
 county, and later went into Clinton County, 111. 
 In 1850 he started for California across the 
 plains, by ox teams, and was nearly six months 
 on the journey. For nearly two years he was oc- 
 cupied in mining and prospecting at Mud Springs, 
 and at the expiration of that period he re- 
 turned home, by way of the Isthmus of Panama 
 and New York City. Then he resumed agricult- 
 ural pursuits in the Prairie state, and was 
 quite successful in stock-raising. In i860, hav- 
 ing heard glowing accounts of the newly discov- 
 ered wealth of Colorado, he determined to see 
 for himself, with a view to removing his family to 
 the west. After sending ahead teams and stock, 
 he resorted to a method of crossing the plains 
 which was a very venturesome and hazardous 
 way in those days, but happened to turn out all 
 right for him. Mounting a trusty horse, he pro- 
 ceeded alone, and at a point on the I^ittle Blue 
 River, in Kansas, he camped where, exactly ten 
 years before, when on his way to California, two 
 of his companions had been buried. Arriving 
 
 safely in Colorado, he and Alfred Tucker, an old 
 schoolmate, engaged in constructing the Golden 
 Gate toll-road in Jefferson and Gilpin Counties. 
 His cabin was at Golden Gate, a mile and a-half 
 above Golden. For part of the time he was also 
 interested in mining in Boulder County, at Gold 
 Hill. In the winter following Mr. Duncan re- 
 turned home by mule team, and the next spring 
 his family accompanied him to their new western 
 home. From St. Louis to Atchison, Kan., they 
 went by steamer "War Eagle" and, as war had 
 been declared, expected they would be captured 
 and at least detained by the troops of the contend- 
 ing armies, but were not. The Blue River was so 
 high that it reached the wagon-beds when they 
 attempted to ford it, and further on in their jour- 
 ney they found that the Indians were on the war- 
 path, taking advantage of the unsettled state of 
 the country and the removal of western troops to 
 the east, by the government. June 9, 1861, he 
 arrived in Golden Gate with his family. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Duncan sold his interest in the 
 road which he had helped to build, and bought a 
 ranch seven miles east of the present town of 
 Longmont. He became extensively occupied in 
 raising stock and the celebrated Gold Dust horses. 
 At first he had only a quaijter-section of land,- 
 but to this he added from time to time, until he 
 had a very large ranch of several thousand acres. 
 The depreciation in the price of honses and cat- 
 tle affected him seriously during the '80s but, 
 nevertheless, he was a rich man at the time of his 
 death, July 3, 1893. I" the first few years of 
 his career in this state he was in business part- 
 nership with Mr. Tucker; owned a ranch on the 
 Ralston, and raised cattle. In all his dealings 
 with his fellows he was upright and just, and 
 thus commanded their respect. In Illinois he 
 was connected with the Odd Fellows' society. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Duncan, widow of our subject, be- 
 came his wife August 9, 1849, in Bond County, 
 111. She bore the girlhood name of Mary W. 
 Myatt, and was born in Pocohontas, Bond 
 County, 111., March 27, 1832. Herfather, Judge 
 Alexander Myatt, was born in Tennessee, Feb- 
 ruary 9, 1802, and was of Welsh extraction. 
 At an early date he settled in Illinois, and for 
 years was county judge of Bond County. His 
 death occurred September 4, 1 861, at his home 
 in the Prairie state. His wife, who was Miss 
 Mary W. Chisenhall, died March 27, 1832. 
 
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 Two of their sons, Edward Wesley and Wiley, 
 fought in the Mexican war, and of their entire 
 family of four girls and two boys, only three 
 survive. 
 
 Since the death of her husband Mrs. Duncan 
 has lived in Boulder, at No. 735 Pine street, 
 though she still owns the old homestead and 
 other property. Of the seven children born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Duncan, Margaret J. and Robert 
 A. reside in Boulder; John T. is superin- 
 tendent of the Dewdrop Mining Company, at 
 Ward; Mary W. is engaged in mercantile busi- 
 ness at Camp Francis, Boulder County, Colo.; 
 Edward E., after an active life as a farmer, stock 
 grower and miner, died in Denver in 1896, at the 
 age of thirty-three years, leaving one son, Claude 
 Irving, and his wife, Elcena Duncan, daughter 
 of Turner Wright; Guy D. lives in Boulder; and 
 James Dell died June 9, 1893, but four days after 
 reaching his majority. At the time of this death 
 a peculiar coincidence was noted by the father. 
 The first corpse Which he could recall was that of 
 his uncle James, while his oldest daughter, Mar- 
 garet, remembered that the first corpse she ever 
 saw was that of her uncle James, and his three 
 grandchildren then beheld their uncle of the same 
 name as the first corpse they had ever seen. 
 Mrs. Duncan recalls her early experiences in 
 this state with a feeling of relief that such times 
 do not now exist. Many a night she has lain 
 awake, dreading lest the hostile Indians should 
 surround the lonely cabin. In 1864 Mr. Duncan 
 and other pioneers built a sod fort, near his farm 
 in Weld County, into which his family were to 
 take refuge should they at any time have warning 
 of an attack of the Redskins. She and her 
 husband were proud that several of their chil- 
 dren were among the first to enter the State 
 University and that all of them have received the 
 best education which their economy and energy 
 rendered possible. 
 
 gUY D. DUNCAN, one of the prominent 
 young members of the legal profession in 
 Boulder, is very popular with the citizens of 
 this place and has a brilliant future in store. He 
 ably and efficiently served as deputy district at- 
 torney for three years and has been the secretary 
 of the Boulder County Bar Association. He 
 takes great interest in all of the occupations and 
 
 industries which absorb the attention of the peo- 
 ple of this region, and is foremost in advocating 
 all improvements and enterprises calculated to 
 upbuild and develop the resources of the com- 
 munity in which he dwells. 
 
 Our subject is a son of Elisha and Mary W. 
 (Myatt) Duncan, whose biography appears else- 
 where in this volume. Guy D. is a native of 
 Colorado, his birth having occurred a few years 
 subsequent to the arrival of the family in this 
 state. The date of this event in his history 
 is July 5, 1866, and his birthplace was his 
 father' s fine homestead on the St. Vrain River, 
 east of Liongmont, Weld County. In his boy- 
 hood he attended the district schools and later, 
 coming to Boulder, was a student here. He 
 graduated from the preparatory department of 
 the University of Colorado in 1885, and then 
 matriculated in the university, continuing there 
 until the close of his junior year. In 1888 he 
 enrolled in the University of Michigan, and in 
 the summer of 1890 graduated with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Philosophy. Prior thereto, and 
 from that time forward, he devoted himself as- 
 siduously to the study of law, and was duly grad- 
 uated from the University of Michigan with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Laws, in June, 1891. 
 
 Returning home he at once embarked in 
 his chosen life-work and soon established an 
 office in Boulder, and has since been industri- 
 ously and busily occupied in attending to the 
 needs of his clients. At present his office is cen- 
 trally situated, being in the Masonic Temple. 
 His practice is general, and he is authorized to 
 appear before all the state and federal courts. 
 From 1895 to 1898 he was deputy district attor- 
 ney, serving under A. C. Patton. Since attain- 
 ing his right of franchise he has used the same in 
 favor of the People's party, and has been their 
 candidate at different times, for the positions of 
 county judge and city attorney; he is at this 
 writing a candidate for county judge. He is 
 financially interested in the Boulder County De- 
 velopment Company, which has mines in this 
 locality and he is also individually connected 
 with several mining and farming enterprises. 
 He is now interested in the establishment of an 
 electric railway in Boulder and vicinity. Person- 
 ally, he is well liked and a general favorite in soci- 
 ety, as well as in business circles. His superior 
 education and general knowledge of men and 
 
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 afifairs, the culture tie has acquired in travel and 
 in college life, make him an entertaining conver- 
 sationalist. 
 
 ROBERT A. DUNCAN, a well-known citizen 
 of Boulder, has literally grown up among 
 mines, and cannot recall a time when he was 
 not deeply interested in the subject. He was but 
 five years of age when, in i860, he crossed the 
 plains with his parents in a mule train, and 
 landed in Colorado, and from that time to the 
 present he has been more or less intimately asso- 
 ciated with mining operations. Though now 
 but in the prime of manhood, he is entitled 
 to be called a pioneer of this region, and few of 
 the residents of the state have had the privilege 
 of watching its marvelous development for a 
 longer period. Years ago, when the Democratic 
 party was in a minority in Boulder County, he 
 was a candidate on that ticket for the office of 
 county commissioner and also for the legislature, 
 and since the monetary system has been the most 
 prominent feature of politics he has advocated 
 silver. 
 
 The birth of our subject took place in Carlyle, 
 Clinton County, 111., August 14, 1855. He is 
 next to the oldest in a family of seven children. 
 (See sketch of his father, Elisha Duncan, for 
 family history.) The journey across the plains 
 in wagons drawn by mules and oxen was a won- 
 derful event to the boy, and after the party reached 
 Colorado his father decided to locate at Golden 
 Gate, above Golden City. There the lad went to 
 school for a short time and also was a pupil in 
 the school at Golden, but his educational advant- 
 ages were quite limited, owing to the few facilities 
 within his reach in the sparsely settled districts 
 in which he resided. When he was a mere child 
 he accompanied his father in his prospecting ex- 
 peditions and frequently carried provisions and 
 supplies to the mining camp. In 1865 he located 
 in lyongmont, and in 1877 he went to Leadville. 
 
 It would be difiicult to tell exactly when Rob- 
 ert A. Duncan first actively engaged in mining 
 operations on his own account, but certain it is 
 that he was very young. In the vicinity of 
 Leadville he was concerned in numerous enter- 
 prises of the kind for two or more years, but in 
 the spring of 1879 went into Gunnison County, 
 and prospected and mined near Gothic and Ruby. 
 There he discovered several good gold and silver 
 
 mines, most of which are still being worked with 
 profit. The chief producers. Little Chief, Lead 
 Chief, Oakes and Independence, were very suc- 
 cessfully run by Mr. Duncan up to 1885, when he 
 commenced his labors in Ward and vicinity. 
 There he opened the Puzzler, the Dewdrop, the 
 Protection and the Red Lion group of mines. 
 The Puzzler was for years one of the best paying 
 mines of its class. The Dewdrop was operated 
 by our subject and his brother, JohnT., for some 
 time, as was the Protection, which he discov- 
 ered, put into fine condition and later sold. At 
 present among his property is Chief Big-Finger 
 mine, and the east extension of the B. and M. mine. 
 The outlook for this mine is most promising, and 
 the Lois and the Lucky Star, in Sugar Loaf district, 
 are also doing well. In addition to the others 
 named Mr. Duncan owns six claims in Gilpin 
 County, the Orear group, situated in Travis 
 Gulch. He is a practical miner, understanding 
 thoroughly the best methods for this peculiar 
 region, and has made the subject a serious 
 study. 
 
 Several years ago Mr. Duncan erected his com- 
 fortable house at No. 430 Mapleton avenue, the 
 first residence put up on this street. His marriage 
 to Miss Myrtle Wright took place in Longmont 
 in 1890. She was born in Weld County, Colo., 
 and is a daughter of Turner Wright, who was 
 one of the pioneers of this state, and is now a res- 
 ident of Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have 
 three children, Ralph, Ella and Lawrence. 
 
 HM. JORALMON. The causes which led 
 to the rapid development of Colorado were 
 principally her enormous resources and the 
 able business men who helped to develop them. 
 Among the active, wide-awake business men of 
 Denver, who by their tireless energy and thor- 
 ough business methods have made Colorado 
 famous as one of the great banking and business 
 centers of America, we confidently mention the 
 subject of this sketch. In a remarkably short 
 time, Mr. Joralmon has gained the. good will and 
 confidence of our older financiers and by his hon- 
 orable dealings and courteous bearing secured 
 the confidence of the people, who are the best 
 judges of a man's worth and ability. 
 
 Mr. Joralmon descends from the best of old 
 Huguenot stock, who for the sake of honest con- 
 
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 467 
 
 victious and religious principles left home and 
 lifelong friends, to live in a far-away land, the 
 faith they held being dearer than life itself. We 
 hear much of the Pilgrim Fathers, but little is 
 said in history of the intelligent and liberal- 
 minded Huguenot who brought his knowledge 
 "and art into a new country, ill-fitted to receive 
 them, and yet who left upon our western civiliza- 
 tion the indelible impress of his sterling char- 
 acter, which has descended through many gen- 
 erations. 
 
 The old French ancestors found a refuge in 
 America about 1620 and eventually settled in 
 Westchester County, N. Y., where they became 
 prominent. One of them, Capt. Henry Jorale- 
 mon (as the name was then spelled) was a Revo- 
 lutionary soldier, of whom mention is made in 
 Barker's History of New Jersey. Through the 
 Kierstead family they are related to the Bogardus 
 and Anneke Jans families. Members of the fam- 
 ily were among the founders of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 and one of the principal streets in the business 
 center of that city bears the family name to this 
 day. 
 
 Rev. John Sansom Joralmon, the father of our 
 subject, was born in New York City. He re- 
 ceived excellent educational advantages, gradu- 
 ating from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, 
 N. Y., in classics and theology, and receiving 
 the degree of A. M. Shortly afterward he was 
 ordained to the ministry of the Dutch Reformed 
 Church and at once offered himself to the Amer- 
 ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- 
 sions. He was assigned to Amoy, China, where ^ 
 he remained for three years. On his return to 
 America he became pastor of the Dutch Re- 
 formed Church at Belleville, N. J. Later, for 
 twenty-five years he resided at Fairview, Fulton 
 County, 111., after which he accepted the pastor- 
 ate of the Dutch Reformed Church at Norwood 
 Park, Chicago. Since his retirement from an 
 active ministerial service, he has resided in Den- 
 ver. His wife, Martha. Bogart Condit, was a 
 daughter of Peter Condit and was born, of Eng- 
 lish descent, in Newark, N.J. She is the mother 
 of two children, Harry McDonald and Louis 
 Bogart Joralmon, who are associated together in 
 business. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born near Chi- 
 cago, 111. He was educated at Knox College, 
 Galesburg, from which he later received the de- 
 
 gree of A. M. He has decided literary tastes, 
 which he cultivated while associate editor of the 
 American Field for a period of six years. To his 
 friends it is a surprise that he chose a business 
 life, when nature had endowed him with rare 
 mental gifts that would have brought him honor, 
 if not wealth, in the world of letters. His ener- 
 getic spirit, clear perceptions and a good knowl- 
 edge of business methods, however, led him to 
 engage in the investment and private banking 
 business in Chicago. He came to Denver in 
 1889 and here, principally by his own energy and 
 ability, he rose in a remarkably short time to 
 the enviable position he now occupies. He is a 
 director of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of 
 Trade and has other important business connec- 
 tions. He is the senior member of the firm of Joral- 
 mon & Co., investment bankers, financial agents 
 and attorneys, with elegant ofiices in the Equitable 
 building. The business was first established in 
 1873 in Colorado Springs, but removed to Den- 
 ver in 1883. Mr. Joralmon is a man of business 
 ability and sound judgment, and his advice is 
 often sought by experienced business men, who 
 look upon him as a man destined to take an im- 
 portant part in the management of finances in 
 Colorado and the great west. 
 
 Politically Mr. Joralmon is a gold Democrat. 
 Socially he is a member of the Denver Club and 
 the Overland Park Club. His wife, Katherine 
 (Gaddis) Joralmon, is a graduate of the well- 
 known Illinois Female Seminary and a lady of 
 culture and refinement. Their home is brightened 
 by two daughters, Berenice and Catherine. Mrs. 
 Joralmon is a daughter of Dr. John Van Dyke 
 Gaddis, a well-known physician of Illinois, and 
 is a descendant of Sarah Rappelje, the first white 
 child born in Long Island. 
 
 gHARLES TURNER NEWMARCH, a re- 
 tired dairyman and stock-raiser, whose home 
 is three miles northwest of Sedalia, Douglas 
 County, and who is the owner of a ranch com- 
 prising five hundred and thirty acres, was born 
 in Lincolnshire, England, September 15, 1825, 
 being a son of Thomas and Mary (Turner) 
 Newmarch. He was reared on a farm in Eng- 
 land and began to be self-supporting when a mere 
 lad. In 1853 he came to America, landing in 
 Montreal after a voyage of nine weeks and three 
 
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 days on a sailing vessel, during which time they 
 encountered a severe storm and gave themselves 
 up for lost. After a few days in Montreal he 
 came to the United States, joining a cousin in 
 Washington County, Ohio. For a year he 
 worked on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad in 
 that locality. 
 
 Starting down the Ohio River in a skiff, Mr. 
 Newmarch deserted the skiff for a steamer, and 
 continued on the latter until he reached Point 
 Pleasant, where he disembarked and took a stage 
 to Charleston, W. Va. He went to a place where 
 a tunnel was being cut through the Allegheny 
 Mountains, and there for several years he had 
 charge of the laborers. July 7, 1858, he left that 
 place and went by stage to Charleston, where he 
 took a boat for Cincinnati, and thence journeyed 
 by steamer to St. Louis. From there, via an- 
 other steamer, he traveled to Comanche, Clin- 
 ton County, Iowa, to which place his cousin had 
 removed from Ohio. He remained in that county 
 until May 12, 1859, when he started for Pike's 
 Peak, accompanying E. H. Frank and G. E. 
 Lowell, and making the trip with a wagon and 
 an ox team. They reached Boulder just as the 
 raspberries were ripening, and as there was an 
 abundance of the fruit, they subsisted largely 
 upon it. They made a general survey of the 
 mines. Their camp was on Clear Creek, a few 
 miles below Golden. Some of the party went to 
 Georgia Gulch, but returned, reporting no gold. 
 They then went to Blackhawk and mined in 
 Gregory Gulch until autumn, but were not very 
 fortunate, barely making their expenses. Re- 
 turning to Denver they camped in a tent near 
 the present site of the Union depot, which prop- 
 erty they could have secured for almost nothing. 
 Mr. Newmarch took a claim near where Rufus 
 Clark had settled. In the spring of the following 
 year he left Denver on the day of the famous 
 duel fought between Bliss and Stone. Going to 
 Russell Gulch he worked there, also at Idaho 
 Springs and Spanish Bar. Finally he and his 
 companions reached a lake where they found 
 some gold, but soon afterward one of the men 
 fell a victim to the mountain fever, and the 
 others traded their claim for a team. They went 
 to Jefferson County and gave the name of Deer 
 Creek to a small stream, naming it this on ac- 
 count of the large number of deer and other 
 game found there. Settling there the men turned 
 
 their attention to farming, and were quite suc- 
 cessful, selling one hundred tons of hay for $25 
 a ton, and receiving cash in payment. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Newmarch sold out and moved to 
 Platte Canon, in Douglas County, where he traded 
 for a squatter's claim. In 1866 he sold out and 
 moved to Indian Creek, squatting on a claim 
 where W. T. Lambert now lives. He had a 
 cabin on Wild Creek, and there lived for some 
 time, but finally moved to the land now owned by 
 W. T. Lambert. Soon after his marriage, which 
 occurred November 15, 1868, he moved to his- 
 present property, building a neat residence there 
 in 1873. His wife, Elizabeth M. Perry, was 
 born in Somersetshire, England, a daughter of 
 James and Elizabeth Ann (Dowden) Perry. She 
 was about nine years of age when she came to 
 America with her parents and settled in Pennsyl- 
 vania, but after a few months removed to Dela- 
 ware, and one year later went to New Jersey, 
 thence after a year settled in Cuyahoga County, 
 Ohio, and in 1857 went further west to Daven- 
 port, Iowa, and from there in i860 removed to 
 St. Joseph, Mo. In July, 1861, they came to 
 Colorado, and have since lived in Douglas Coun- 
 ty. Mr. and Mrs. Newmarch are the parents of 
 three children now living: Charles James, who 
 is a farmer; George Thomas, who married Susan 
 B. Harlin, and has one child; and Ida M. A., 
 who resides at home. 
 
 Politically a Democrat, Mr. Newmarch has 
 never actively identified himself with politics, and 
 has always refused to become a candidate for of- 
 fice. He was reared in the Methodist faith, but 
 became an Episcopalian, and all of his family are 
 also connected with that denomination. 
 
 In 1867 the Indians became troublesome and 
 attacked settlers in this part of the state. One 
 day, while Mr. Newmarch was looking after his 
 cattle, a man hurried along and gave warning 
 that the Indians were approaching and had 
 already driven some of the cattle away. The 
 savages had encamped and fortified themselves 
 near where Benjamin Quick now lives. Our sub- 
 ject and others went to the place, but found the 
 Indians had gone down to Platte Canon. The 
 white men followed. Meantime the red men were 
 stealing horses and cattle, and killed a man near 
 where Mr. Perry now lives, hurrying away after 
 the awful deed, and leaving the man's scalp in 
 the bushes. While the settlers were riding along. 
 
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 he has also been prominent in temperance work. 
 Rev. Alva D. Hammitt, his eldest son, is zealous 
 in the work of the Congregational Church, and 
 is a minister at present located in Pacific Grove, 
 Cal. Nellie, the eldest daughter, is the wife of 
 Arthur R. Ross, of Platteville. George Warren 
 and Carleton W. are operating the homestead. 
 Frank N. is associated with the Cody Land Com- 
 pany of Cody, Wyo. Elma is the wife of Clarence 
 Armstrong, a farmer near Platteville. Pearl is 
 Mrs. Fred Brisco, of La Belle, Idaho. The 
 mother of these children died September 29, 1878. 
 June 15, 1881, Mr. Hammitt married Mrs. Louie 
 Shea, widow of Henry Shea, and daughter of 
 Jeremiah and Emeline (Lowrey) Lycam. She is 
 a native of Wisconsin. The two children of our 
 subject and wife are: Grace A. and Guy L. 
 
 «ySAAC WILLIS BENNETT, who came to 
 I Colorado in 1872, has the distinction of being 
 X the originator of the sheep feeding industry 
 in Larimer County, an industry that has assumed 
 large proportions and has become one of the most 
 important in the county. He and his brother, 
 Egbert Jay, had engaged in the sheep-feeding 
 business in Nebraska, subsequently purchasing 
 twenty-four hundred lambs, which they intended 
 to ship to Nebraska, but they were caught at 
 Walsenburg in a severe blizzard, and of necessity 
 remained in this state. They shipped the sheep 
 to Fort Collins, hoping to save them by feeding 
 them on alfalfa, and the results were far superior 
 to what they were realizing in Nebraska. They 
 were so pleased that they decided to continue the 
 business here. Thus, by accident, was discovered 
 an industry that has grown to such proportions 
 that in 1897-98 there were over three hundred 
 thousand sheep fed in this locality. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Oregon, 
 Wis., November 14, 1855. His father is of Eng- 
 lish descent, a member on the maternal side of 
 the Mygatt family, who settled at Coxsackie on 
 the Hudson, while his mother was of Holland- 
 Dutch and French descent, being a member of 
 the Keistead family, of central New York. His 
 father, Hon. Isaac Bennett, was born in Dutchess 
 County, N. Y., and grew to manhood in Schoharie 
 County, whence he removed to Wisconsin, be- 
 coming one of the earliest settlers in the village 
 of Oregon, Later he was a merchant and banker 
 
 at Evansville. About 1869 he served as a mem- 
 ber of the Wisconsin legislature. Since retiring 
 from business he has made his home in Chicago. 
 His wife, Elizabeth, who was born in New York 
 .state, was a daughter of Abraham Kei.stead, an 
 early settler of Oregon, Wis. She died in Wis- 
 consin. Of her five children all but one attained 
 maturity and two are now living. Duane, who 
 was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic 
 Medical College, settled in Colorado in 187 1 and 
 died at Fort Collins in the fall of 1878, when 
 thirty years of age. Edwin died in Wisconsin. 
 The surviving sons are E. J. and our subject. 
 
 When a boy, I. W. Bennett attended the public 
 schools of Evansville, Wis. At the age of six- 
 teen he came to Colorado with his brother E. J. 
 and joined their brother Dr. Duane Bennett, and 
 embarked in raising horses and sheep near Liver- 
 more. In 1879, when the severe and protracted 
 drought forced him to remove his stock, he drove 
 them to North Park, where he had a ranch on the 
 North Fork of the Platte. In the fall of 1881 he 
 sold out. He has since made a specialty of the 
 sheep industry. He and his brother, who are 
 partners, own Bonner Spring ranch, Steve George 
 ranch, at Livermore, and several other places, 
 which are improved. They have a section of land 
 ten miles east of Fort Collins known as Black Hol- 
 low ranth, nearly all of which is seeded to alfal- 
 fa, where lambs are fed for the Chicago market. 
 
 At Fort Collins, October 14, 1885, Mr. Bennett 
 married Miss Laura Budrow, who was born in 
 Moscow, Livingston County, N. Y., a daughter 
 of James and Jane (Thompson) Budrow, natives 
 of Livingston County. Her grandfather, James, 
 a native of Geneva, N. Y. , was a farmer in Liv- 
 ingston County. He was a son of James de 
 Budreaux (here we preserve the French spell- 
 ing), who came to this country from France, 
 shortly after the close of the French and Indian 
 war, and bought at Geneva, on Seneca Lake, a 
 tract twenty-seven miles long and a league wide, 
 where he afterward resided. While crossing the 
 ocean on a visit back to his native land he was 
 ship- wrecked and lost. James Budrow engaged in 
 the manufacture of fanning mills in western New 
 York, where he died in 1879, at the age of fifty- 
 three years. His wife, who has resided in Fort 
 Collins since 1880, was a daughter of Theodore 
 Thompson, who was born at Beekman-on-Hud- 
 gon in 1800 and engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ness at Moscow, N. Y., where he died. For 
 twenty years he served as sheriff of Livingston 
 County. His father, Theodore Thompson, St., 
 was pressed by the English into service upon a 
 British warship and nothing further was ever 
 heard of him. Mrs. Bennett was the fourth 
 among six children, the others of whom are: 
 Jennie, who married J. Monroe Whiteman, and 
 died in Fort Collins; Theodore, who is engaged 
 in the abstract business in Fort Collins; Gideon, 
 a merchant in Cheyenne, Wyo.; Frank, who is 
 in Denver; and James, superintendent of a ditch 
 at Fort Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have 
 three children now living, Anna L-, Charles 
 Edwin and Ruth B.; Arthur Thompson being 
 deceased. 
 
 Aside from his other interests, Mr. Bennett 
 owns stock in the First National Bank of Fort 
 Collins, in which he is a director. He is identi- 
 fied with the Larimer County Sheep Feeders' 
 Association. Politically he and his family are 
 Republicans. He is a member of the vestry of 
 the Episcopal Church, to which denomination 
 his family also belong. Fraternally he was made 
 a Mason in Evansville, and is now connected with 
 Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M., and Cache 
 la Poudre Chapter No. 11, R. A. M. He was 
 one of the promoters and the president of the 
 Larimer County Ditch Company, later a promo- 
 ter of the Sky Line ditch, and member of the 
 Water Supply and Storage Company. The Sky 
 Line ditch, which is five and one- quarter miles 
 in length, cost about |ioo,ooo and taps the head- 
 waters of Larimer River. For many years he 
 was president of the company, and is still a 
 director. 
 
 (Tames D. perry owns Mount Hope farm, 
 I one and one-half miles north of Sedalia, on 
 Q) the east bank of Plum Creek, Douglas 
 County, and here he has two hundred and thirty 
 acres, devoted to gardening, dairying and general 
 farm pursuits. He was born near Taunton, 
 Somersetshire, England, November 27, 1S31, a 
 son of James and Ann (Dowden) Perry. His 
 father, who was a nurseryman by occupation, 
 brought his family (consisting of three children, 
 of whom James, about seventeen, was the oldest) 
 to the United States, crossing the ocean in a 
 -sailing vessel that encountered severe storms and 
 came nearly being wrecked. The mate, who had 
 
 followed the sea for thirty years, said it was the 
 worst storm he had ever seen, and our subject 
 distinctly remembers the earnest prayers of the 
 hitherto rough. Godless seaman. After eleven 
 weeks the ship came to anchor in New York. 
 
 For two years the family lived upon a rented 
 farm in Delaware, after which they spent one year 
 in New Jersey, and in 1851 removed to Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, where they engaged in gardening. 
 Six years later they went to Davenport, Iowa, 
 where they had a large garden, eight acres being 
 planted to onions, which they shipped to St. Louis. 
 In i860 our subject crossed the plains, leaving 
 home in April, and arriving in Denver May 26. 
 The journey was made by means of an ox-team, 
 the usual mode of travel in those days. He went ' 
 to Tarry all, where he bought his brother's interest 
 in a mine. Selling it soon, he went to California 
 Gulch (now Leadville), where he prospected and 
 mined. After a year he located near the present 
 site of Sedalia, where he began gardening, and 
 this occupation he has followed during most of 
 the time since. He entered land, which in 1867 he 
 sold to its present owner, Mr. Bryant, and then 
 homesteaded eighty acres five and one-half miles 
 south of Denver. Two years later he secured 
 a deed to the property, which he then sold. Previ- 
 ous to this, in 1864, he drove through to Montana 
 with five yoke of oxen and was snowed in for 
 some time on Snake River. He sold his outfit 
 and returned to Colorado. 
 
 From 1 869 to 187 1 Mr. Perry lived near Denver, 
 and in the latter year he bought where he now 
 resides. April 23, 1871, he married Mi.ss Sarah 
 M. Jerome, whose home was in Kansas and with 
 whom he had become acquainted in Colorado. 
 She was born near Girard, Pa., a daughter of 
 Homer and Cordelia (Russell) Jerome. They 
 are the parents of eight children, viz.: William, 
 who married Veronicia C. Brown, and lives in 
 Douglas County; Homer Bert, who assists his 
 father on the home farm; Daisy Cordelia, Mrs. 
 Louis Overstreet, of Douglas County; Clara, 
 Ella E. , Dora Isabelle, Sarah Grace and Albert 
 Jerome. 
 
 In religion Mr. Perry inclines toward the Epis- 
 copal faith, in which belief he was reared. He 
 was a contributor to the building of St. Philip's 
 Church in Bear Canon and has since aided in 
 its maintenance. Politically he usually votes the 
 Republican ticket, but he is not a partisan in his 
 
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 opinions. He has been identified with the history 
 of Colorado since pioneer days, has endured all 
 the hardships of frontier life and experienced the 
 hardships incident to the settling of a new coun- 
 try. His trip across the plains, with all its 
 hardships, was but the forerunner of trials that 
 were to follow. His father, who started across 
 the country to Colorado in 1861, died on the 
 Little Blue River in Nebraska, and was buried 
 there, the family continuing their way alone. 
 But, while Mr. Perry has experienced the hard- 
 ships of pioneer life, he has lived to enjoy its re- 
 sults, and now has a fine home and every com- 
 fort, all the result of the sacrifices he made in 
 former years; and certainly no one is more de- 
 serving of success and prosperity than he. 
 
 [""RANK H. KIRK, superintendent of the 
 ly Greenland farm at Greenland, Douglas 
 I ^ County, was born in Atchison, Kan. , Novem- 
 ber 23, 1865, and is a son of James E. and 
 Mary E. (Hull) Kirk. His father was born on 
 a farm near Springfield, Va., and at twelve years 
 of age was apprenticed to learn the machinist's 
 trade, which he followed for years. While en- 
 gaged at his trade in Berrien County, Mich., he 
 made the first model for the Gage roller drill, 
 which was extensively manufactured in Michigan. 
 Later he drifted into the manufacture and sale of 
 lumber, on the Missouri River, near Atchison, 
 Kan. During his residence in Michigan he had 
 married, and shortly afterward brought his wife 
 to Atchison. Early in the war he enlisted in 
 Company H, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, in 
 which he served for three years, participating in 
 the battles of Perry Grove and Pea Ridge, Ark., 
 and a number of other engagements. For some 
 time he was confined in the hospital at Fort 
 Leavenworth, and on recovering sufficiently he 
 was discharged and sent home. After he was 
 taken ill and sent to the hospital his family left 
 Atchison and joined him in Leavenworth, in order 
 to be near him. 
 
 After the war Mr. Kirk made considerable 
 money in the lumber business, but he loaned it 
 to a man who bankrupted, and thus the entire 
 amount was lost, and on his removal to Colorado 
 in 1872, he was a poor man. Here he took charge 
 of the cutting and sale of timber on the divide, on 
 what is now known as the K. K. ranch. At this 
 
 writing he is in the employ of Charles B. Kountze, 
 as land agent for the Colorado National Bank. 
 Of his children all (seven) are living, our sub- 
 ject's twin brother, Charles M., being superin- 
 tendent of the K. K. ranch at Eastonville. 
 
 When our subject was seven years of age he 
 was brought to Colorado. In the schools of El 
 Paso County he obtained a fair education. At 
 seventeen years of age he took charge of the farm 
 owned by W. E. Meek, in El Paso County, and 
 for two years he had charge of the place, Mr. 
 Meek being absent the greater part of the time. 
 At nineteen he and his twin brother were given 
 their time, and they rented from their father a 
 ranch in El Paso County, where they remained for 
 a year. Afterward, in partnership with Kountze 
 Brothers, he embarked in the cattle business, and 
 during the seven years in which he was so en- 
 gaged he prospered. April 29, 1892, he married 
 Miss Nellie M. Toelle, of El Paso County, Colo., 
 who was born in Wyandotte, Kan., and came to 
 Colorado with her mother in 1872. 
 
 Shortly after his marriage Mr. Kirk took charge 
 of the farm where he now resides. Some knowl- 
 edge of the extent of the business may be gath- 
 ered from the fact that there are twenty thousand 
 acres of land in one body, of which one thousand 
 are under cultivation. On the place there are 
 twenty-five hundred head of live stock, the build- 
 ings have been enlarged and doubled in number, 
 and the monthly pay roll aggregates from $600 
 to $1,200, between ten and forty-five men being 
 employed. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Kirk is connected with Castle 
 Rock Lodge of Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. He was reared a Republican, but in 1896, 
 favoring silver, he voted for Bryan. He has 
 served his party as delegate to conventions. He 
 and his wife are the parents of two children. 
 Hazel Charles, a daughter, and Wallace B. , a son, 
 both of whom were born on the Greenland farm. 
 
 I LEWELLYN P. DAVIES, of Central City, 
 IC was born in North Wales in 1851, a son of 
 Ii2f O. L- Davies, a merchant of Anglesea, and a 
 grandson of David Lewis Davies, a boat builder of 
 the same place. The marriage of O. L. Davies to 
 Ann Hughes resulted in the birth of ten children, 
 three ofwhomarein Colorado, namely: O. L-,who 
 lives in Denver; L- P., who was next to the 
 
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 475 
 
 youngest of the family; and Ann, also a resident 
 of Denver. At the age of fourteen our subject 
 left school and became an apprentice to a phar- 
 macist, with whom he remained for four years. 
 He then went to Liverpool, where he was man- 
 ager of a pharmacy and assistant to a physician 
 for eight years. After spending fifteen years in 
 Liverpool, he crossed the ocean in 1885 and set- 
 tled in Central . City, where he has made his 
 home since November of that year. For eighteen 
 months he was an employe of John Best, whom 
 he bought out and has since engaged in the drug 
 business. 
 
 KOBERT O. OLD, of Georgetown, Clear 
 Creek County, is one of the wealthiest mine 
 owners of the state, and has probably done 
 more in the way of developing the mines in this 
 county than any other person or corporation. 
 He has been a resident of the state for almost 
 forty years, and has been closely identified with 
 its upbuilding. His ancestors were pure Saxons 
 and were in England before the time of the Nor- 
 man Conquerors. His grandfather, Robert Old, 
 was born in Dorsetshire, England, and was a miller 
 of that place until he entered the British army 
 under Wellington, serving as his aide-de-camp in 
 the battle of Waterloo. He died in England in 
 the ripeness of age. His son, the father of our 
 subject, Thomas C. Old, was also born in Dorset- 
 shire, and was a glove manufacturer there. He 
 later moved to America, and died at the age of 
 eighty-four years, in Vineland, N. J., where he 
 had been living in retirement. 
 
 His wife, Ann Orchard, the mother of our sub- 
 ject, was a native of Wiltshire, England, and 
 a daughter of Joseph Orchard, who was super- 
 visor of internal revenue for the English govern- 
 ment. He died in Bath, England, as did also 
 Mrs. Old,. in her seventy-eighth year. 
 
 Robert O. Old is the eldest of thirteen children 
 and was born in Yeovil, Somerset County, Eng- 
 land, October 28, 1829. One brother, Thomas S., 
 lives in Georgetown, and a sister lives in Eng- 
 land. The remainder of the family are dead. 
 One brother, John William, served through the 
 latter part of the Civil war in the Third Colo- 
 rado Cavalry, and died in that state in 1865. 
 Mr. Old first lived at Buckland, St. Mary, Somer- 
 set, and later at Broadway Hill and Bath. He 
 received the greater part of his education at 
 19 
 
 Broadway Hill and this was supplemented by a 
 course at the grammar school at Ilminster. In 
 1847, when but little past seventeen, he came to 
 America by waj' of Bristol and Liverpool, landing 
 in New York City after a voyage of four weeks. 
 He at once obtained employment as clerk in a 
 drug store and learned the business of an 
 apothecary. He also began the study of medi- 
 cine, but after a short trial found it was a pro- 
 fession he did not care for and abandoned it. 
 
 After a two years' stay in New York Mr. Old 
 went west on a prospecting tour, with a view to 
 buying land. He spent the winter in Michigan, but 
 went from there to the Green Bay district in Wis- 
 consin, where the country was so bleak and bare 
 that he was discouraged from his purpose. Lo- 
 cating in Chicago, he opened a book store on 
 Clark street and conducted it for two years. He 
 then opened a similar store in Elgin, running 
 both stores for a year, when he closed out his busi- 
 ness in Chicago and gave his entire attention to 
 the store in Elgin, which he continued for another 
 three years. In 1857 he took a trip through 
 Nebraska, and was so well pleased with the coun- 
 try that he returned to Elgin, disposed of his 
 business there, and moved to Nebraska, locating 
 in Cass County, on the Weeping Water, near 
 Avoca. He purchased one hundred and sixty 
 acres of government land, which he improved 
 and cultivated for two years, but was burned 
 out — house, fences and all — by prairie fire. In 
 the spring of i860 he crossed the plains, arriving 
 in Denver July 9 of that year. He bought land 
 at Canon City, and became one of the company 
 that laid out that town. He opened a general 
 merchandise store, which he conducted until the 
 guerrillas captured the Southern, or Arkansas, 
 route, and so cut off immigration, resulting in 
 general ruin. He then went one hundred miles 
 into the mountains to the mining camp of Mont- 
 gomery, which he helped to open, and with a 
 partner built and carried on a store of the same 
 class, the firm being known as Old & Fowler. He 
 also engaged in mining there, but not to any ex- 
 tent. Later he moved to Summit County , where he 
 mined on Gold Run and Stilson Patch one season, 
 but as this was not satisfactory he returned to 
 Denver in the fall of 1864, engaging in wholesale 
 and retail merchandising. He was located on 
 Fifteenth and Wazee streets, where he continued 
 nearly two years. At the expiration of that time 
 
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 he went to London and organized the British and 
 Colorado Mining Bureau. Their headquarters 
 were in the Bartholomew House, opposite the 
 Bank of England, London, and the bureau was 
 in operation until 1872, when he closed it. In 
 1868 he located in Georgetown, and shipped ores 
 from that place and Central City to the Johnsons 
 in London, Lewis Brothers in Liverpool, Bath & 
 Son in Swansea, Wales, and to the English 
 bureau, from the Terrible, the Briggs and the 
 Gregory mines. He then organized the British 
 and Colorado Mining Bureau, he being the resi- 
 dent director in Georgetown. 
 
 In March, 1870, Mr. Old, in connection with 
 the bureau, sold the Terrible mine, situated at 
 Silverplume, in Griffith district, of which he 
 assumed the management for two years. In 1872 
 he published the Colorado, U. S. /i., devoted to the 
 mineral and other resources of the state, putting 
 out thirty thousand copies. Four years previously 
 he had published a similar work of twenty thou- 
 sand copies. He now began discovering and 
 developing mines for himself, and bought the 
 Dunderberg and other mines, operating them for 
 a time and then selling them to a New York 
 company, in 1879. He next turned his attention 
 to the development of the Mendota group of 
 mines, and has operated them ever since. In 
 1868 he began the Victoria tunnel, which is now 
 eighteen hundred feet in length, and through it 
 he does the greater part of his mining for the 
 Mendota, East Mendota, Fulton, Frostburg and 
 Norman mines. These are known as the Mendota 
 group. He is also interested in" many other mines, 
 principally in this county, and is the owner of 
 the Vulcan mine in Central City, which is now 
 operated by parties who have leased it from him. 
 
 He is now running a tunnel eight by eight feet 
 and two hundred feet in length to strike a group 
 of half a dozen lodes, known as the Great West- 
 ern group, on Democrat Mountain. He has ac- 
 quired considerable property and made some 
 money in his mining operations, a large per cent 
 of which he has used in developing his numerous 
 interests, furnishing employment to a large num- 
 ber of men continually. 
 
 Mr. Old married Miss Ellen Harvey, a native 
 of Bath, Somerset, England, and they have three 
 children, viz.: Carrie L-, a graduate of a ladies' 
 seminary in Bath, England, and now the wife of 
 E. H. Park, an attorney of Denver; John Will- 
 
 iam, a graduate of the Georgetown high school, 
 and the School of Mines at Golden, and now his 
 father's assistant; and George Harvey, also with 
 his father in the mines. The family have a 
 beautiful home at the foot of Republican Moun- 
 tain and Silver Gulch, which Mr. Old has im- 
 proved. It is an ideal situation with a lovely 
 grove. Some small fruit is raised on the place. 
 Mr. Old is president of the Light and Power 
 Company of Georgetown, and is largely inter- 
 ested in real estate in Denver. He is a member 
 of the People's party and has attended a large 
 number of silver and mining conventions. He 
 was made a Mason in Elgin in April, 1855, and 
 after was a member of Denver Lodge No. 5, until 
 he was demitted. For three years he was presi- 
 dent of the board of education of the George- 
 town public schools. He has been a member of 
 the Association of Colorado Pioneers since the 
 first year of its organization, and is a charter 
 member and now the president of the Clear Creek 
 Pioneer Association. 
 
 HON. JOSEPH MANN. The life of Judge 
 Mann has been one of active identification 
 with public affairs. Since coming to Golden 
 in 1868 he has engaged in the practice of his 
 profession, the law, and has also filled various 
 ofiices of trust and responsibility to which he has 
 been called. In 1869 he was elected probate 
 judge, which position he filled for four years, and 
 afterward he served as a justice of the peace. In 
 the fall of 1879 he was elected to the state legis- 
 lature and for two years was a member of the 
 lower house. For nine years, during the '80s, 
 he filled the ofiice of county attorney. He has 
 been a member of the city council of Golden and 
 has filled other local ofiices, always discharging 
 their duties with fidelity. 
 
 A native of Maryland, Judge Mann was born 
 in Hancock, Washington County, February 7, 
 1824, a son of John H. and Elizabeth (Warford) 
 Mann. He was one of seven children, five of 
 whom are living, namely: James, a prominent 
 farmer of Hancock, Md.; Rebecca, widow of 
 Denton Oliver, also of Hancock; Joseph; Abigail, 
 widow of William Reamer, of Baltimore; and 
 Rachel, widow of Rev. Mr. Thrush, of Lewis- 
 town, Pa. The father was born in Pennsylvania 
 about 1790 and after attaining manhood he re- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 477 
 
 moved to Maryland, where he opened a hotel and 
 also engaged in the mercantile business. He ac- 
 quired large landed interests and became a man of 
 much influence in his community. He filled the 
 office of county commissioner and was a stanch 
 Democrat in politics. His death occurred in 1841 . 
 
 When a boy our subject attended the Hancock 
 schools. I^ater he was a student in Marshall Col- 
 lege at Mercersburg, Pa., where he graduated in 
 1844. He then went to Bedford, Pa., and took 
 up the study of law under Job Mann, an uncle, 
 who represented his district in congress for a 
 number of terms. In the spring of 1847 he was 
 admitted to the bar under Jerry Black, then dis- 
 trict judge and later attorney-general. Afterward 
 he practiced law in Bedford for two years. In 
 the spring of 1849 he removed to Iowa and 
 settled at Anamosa, where for sixteen years he 
 was one of the most influential attorneys of the 
 town. In 1850 he was elected school fund com- 
 missioner and the next year was chosen district 
 attorney; in 1852 was elected county judge and 
 continued in that position until 1857, when he 
 was elected to the state senate on the Democratic 
 ticket. He retired from office in 1861 and re- 
 sumed the practice of law. During the last year 
 of his service he was a member of the special 
 session called after the firing on Fort Sumter. 
 
 In 1865 Judge Mann crossed the plains with an 
 ox-team and arrived in Denver in July, after 
 three months of travel. He camped in Denver 
 for three weeks, and then came to Golden. Leav- 
 ing his team with a friend some five miles south 
 of the town, he went on to the mountains, where 
 he spent three years in mining and prospecting 
 in the Argentine mining district, discovering five 
 lodes in 1865. In the fall of 1866 he returned to 
 Iowa to dispose of his property and from there 
 went on to Boston, where he had an assay made 
 from the five lodes, the result showing that they 
 ran from forty to two hundred ounces in silver. 
 He spent the winter in the east and returned to 
 his mine in the spring. . In 1868 he came to 
 Golden and began the practice of law here. 
 
 May 3, 1 85 1, Judge Mann married Miss Cali- 
 phurnia O. Peet, who died on Christmas day of 
 1867, leaving an only son, Warford J., now a 
 stock-raiser in Eagle County. November 6, 
 1872, Judge Mann married Miss Mary E. Young, 
 of Golden. He became a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows in Bedford, Pa., 
 
 October 15, 1846, and, in point of years of con- 
 nection with the order, he- is the oldest Odd 
 Fellow in the state. He has filled all the offices 
 in the grand lodge, and for twenty years has been 
 treasurer of Golden Lodge No. 13, and is treas- 
 urer of Jefierson Encampment, also a member of 
 Canton JeSerson, Patriarchs' Militant. In 1854 
 he was made a Mason and is now identified with 
 Golden Lodge No. i , A. F. & A. M. 
 
 As a citizen Judge Mann has favored measures 
 for the benefit of the people and the advancement 
 of his town and county, giving his influence to all 
 projects of a public-spirited nature, and favoring 
 plans that promote, directly or indirectly, the 
 progress of his city and the welfare of the people. 
 
 rTRED S. ROCKWELL, live-stock agent for 
 Y^ the Burlington Railroad, is also engaged 
 I ^ in the cattle business as a member of the 
 firm of Ballantine & Rockwell, his partner being 
 the general manager of the Union stockyards of 
 Denver. A resident of Colorado since 1877, ^^ 
 has had varied interests in this state, having been 
 proprietor of a freighting outfit, contractor of a 
 mail route, a pioneer ranchman and a successful 
 cattle dealer. In 'company with W. C. Needles, 
 F. Walworth Smith and Judge Ballou of Lead- 
 ville, in 1881 he spent three months in looking up 
 a suitable location for a ranch, and finally found 
 an ideal spot in Plateau Valley, Mesa County, 
 flanked by the Grand Mesa and Battlement Mesa, 
 and lying in the Ute reservation. On the re- 
 moval of the Utes, in the fall of 1881, he stocked 
 the place he had previously selected, and as other 
 .settlers came in they were of mutual assistance 
 in the building of corrals. After six years there 
 he sold the cattle and removed to Denver, his 
 present place of residence. 
 
 The Rockwells are an old family of New York. 
 Our subject's father, Silas, was bom on a farm 
 owned by his father, Chester, in St. Lawrence 
 County, N. Y. , and was reared to agricultural 
 pursuits. His principal occupation was the rais- 
 ing of Blackhawk and Morgan horses, of which 
 breeds he was the pioneer in the state. He was 
 a strong Abolitionist and during the campaign of 
 i860 spoke in the interests of Lincoln and anti- 
 slavery in many towns of the state. The excite- 
 ment of the campaign exhausted his nervous 
 system and brought on a fatal illness, which 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 terminated his career before the triumph of the 
 principles he espoused. He was then forty-four 
 years of age. In religious belief he was a Pres- 
 byterian. His wife, Cornelia (Booth) Rockwell, 
 was born in Rutland County, Vt., and resides 
 with her only son, in Denver, enjoying excellent 
 health for one of her years. Her only daughter 
 is the wife of John D. Sibley, of San Francisco. 
 
 Born near Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, 
 N. Y., in 1852, the subject of this sketch was 
 eight years old at the time of his father's death. 
 The family soon removed to Lake Geneva, Wal- 
 worth County, Wis., where he attended school 
 for three years. Later they went to Milan, Rock 
 Island County, 111., and he went to school there 
 and for a time worked in a wholesale book and 
 stationery store at Davenport, Iowa, also was with 
 the Davenport Democrat for a year. His health 
 became so poor that a change of occupation and 
 climate was rendered necessary. In 1869, with 
 two other boys, he started overland to Nebraska, 
 being so weak at the time that he was seldom 
 able to sit up. When he reached Thayer, he 
 already felt benefited by the pure air and delight- 
 ful climate. His friends returned, but he re- 
 mained and build a sod house one hundred miles 
 from Beatrice, the nearest town. Though too 
 young to homestead the place, he improved it 
 and afterward sold the claim. For six months 
 he worked on the Burlington & Missouri River 
 Railroad engineering corps, of the first railroad 
 west from Beatrice to Orleans, Neb. 
 
 With health regained, he returned to Iowa and 
 entered the employ of the Rock Island Railroad 
 Company at Council Bluffs, his mother and sister 
 joining him there. He was check clerk at the 
 freight depot under S. S. Stevens, general agent, 
 for whom he later became western live-stock 
 agent. A business trip for the railroad company 
 brought him to Colorado in the fall of 1877, and 
 he was so pleased with the outlook here that he 
 secured a leave of absence in the winter and came 
 to Denver. He started a freight outfit between 
 Denver and Leadville, running eight mule teams 
 on the road at the same time, but discontinued 
 the work when the Denver & Rio Grande road 
 built to Malta in 1880. Later he started to Lead- 
 ville transfer, handling the merchandise between 
 Leadville and Malta. During 1880 he hauled 
 the plant of the Fairwell Mining Company, two 
 hundred and fifty thousand pounds in weight, 
 
 over the Continental divide to Independence, do- 
 ing the most of the hauling at night when the 
 roads were frozen and driving the mules tandem 
 a part of the way. At the suggestion of the 
 citizens of Independence and Aspen, he was sent 
 to Washington, D. C, to secure the establish- 
 ment of a mail route, and he was successful in 
 the undertaking, putting on the first stage line 
 and having the first contract for the mail route 
 between Leadville, Aspen and Ashcroft, via In- 
 dependence. The winter of 1880-81, when he 
 had the contract, was one of the most severe ever 
 known in the mountains. Frequently he and his 
 partner, George H. Bicknell, carried the mail on 
 horseback, and sometimes, when the roads were 
 impassable, they were obliged to walk. In 1881 
 he sold the stage line and went into the Ute 
 reservation, where he located a ranch on the re- 
 moval of the Indians. In the spring of 1882, 
 having organized the Grove Creek Ranch Asso- 
 ciation, he went to Utah to buy cattle, and put 
 in four thousand head the first year, besides 
 bringing some fine bulls from the east. The 
 family lived there for six years, the ranch being 
 meantime improved with buildings. Through 
 his instrumentality the postoffice of Plateau was 
 established and he was appointed the postmaster. 
 In 1887 he sold the cattle and moved to Denver, 
 in order to educate his son. He still owns the 
 ranch there. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Rockwell was made live-stock 
 agent for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. 
 When the building of the Rio Grande Southern was 
 started, he and Messrs. Rouse and Black formed 
 a construction company and took the contract for 
 seventeen miles of the heaviest work, extending 
 the line from Durango westward. The contract 
 was filled in six months and the company then 
 dissolved. During the building of the Denver, 
 Lakewood & Golden Railroad, Mr. Rockwell 
 was superintendent of construction between Den- 
 ver and Golden. In September, 1893, he ac- 
 cepted a position as live-stock agent for the Bur- 
 lington road. He has the reputation of having 
 marketed the best bunch of yearlings ever sold 
 in Denver. His judgment in respect to cattle 
 and horses is unsurpassed, his long experience 
 and keen judgment having greatly aided him in 
 this line. He is a member of the National Stock 
 Growers' Association, and politically he is a 
 Republican. In Galesburg, 111., he married 
 
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 479 
 
 Miss Nellie A. Roberts, daughter of Rev. H. P. 
 Roberts, a Congregational minister and for j'ears 
 professor of theology in Knox College. She was 
 educated in Galesburg, Chicago and Boston, and 
 is one of the most intellectual women and finest 
 pianists in Denver. She is a member of the 
 musical society here, also of the Woman's Club. 
 They have an only son, Robert Blanchard, now 
 a student in the Denver high school. 
 
 EHARIvES A. MARTINE. In the fall of 
 1895 this worthy citizen of Georgetown was 
 nominated and elected by the Republicans 
 of Clear Creek County to serve as one of its com- 
 missioners. He had the honor of being the only 
 man on the ticket who was elected, and is now 
 the efficient chairman of the board. Mr. Martine 
 is a man of superior education and practical 
 attainments and is a valued member of the Colo- 
 rado Scientific Society and the American Institute 
 of Mining Engineers. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the Colorado Commandery of the I,oyal 
 Legion. 
 
 Many generations ago the Martine family resid- 
 ed in France, but they were Huguenots and dur- 
 ing the dreadful persecutions of that fated and 
 devoted band of believers, they fled for protection 
 to the neighboring province of Bavaria, Germany. 
 There they prospered, gained a foothold and from 
 their ranks many a noble man has sprung, giving 
 added lustre to the name by his achievements 
 among the world's great minds. The father of 
 our subject, John George Martine, was born in 
 Bavaria and always dwelt in that section of the 
 German empire. He was a successful manufact- 
 urer of china, owning extensive works, and turn- 
 ing out exquisite specimens of ware. He married 
 a Miss Schwartz, who came from one of the old 
 German families of Bavaria. 
 
 C. A. Martine was born in Germany October 
 14, 1839, attended the government schools, and 
 after completing the ordinary curriculum of stud- 
 ies entered the University of Munich. Graduat- 
 ing from that renowned institution of learning in 
 1857 Mr. Martine decided to seek his fortune in 
 Mexico, but changed his plans, on account of the 
 revolution then in progress in that land. Instead, 
 he came to the United States, arriving in New 
 York City in August, 1857. For ^ few years he 
 was a member of the faculty of Columbia College, 
 
 as an instuctor in chemistry. In 1861 he entered 
 the engineer corps of the United States navy and 
 continued therein until the close of the war, being 
 mustered out in the autumn of 1865. He was 
 senior engineer, with the rank of master, on a 
 vessel in the North Squadron. He twice took 
 part in the bombardment of Fort Fisher. His 
 services on behalf of his adopted country were 
 gallant and worthy of commendation, and justly 
 found honorable mention in the annals of the 
 navy. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Martine came to Colorado, attract- 
 ed hither by mines and mining operations which 
 have since made it world famous. In Maj' of 
 that year he located- in Central City and at the 
 end of a twelvemonth he removed to Georgetown, 
 where he has since made his home. To him is 
 due the honor of having been the first to put in- 
 to use a practical system of ore sampling and 
 stamping in Colorado. He built a mill, or rather 
 remodeled the Pelican from a gold to a silver mill, 
 and turned out the first silver bars ever made in 
 this state. This was efiected by the amalgama- 
 tion process, but in course of time, the ores being 
 less suitable for this method of treatment, he gave 
 it up and shipped large quantities of ore to the 
 markets of England and Germany, until about 
 1877. The next three years he shipped the ore 
 to St. Louis, Chicago and Pueblo. For the past 
 eighteen years he has devoted himself exclusively 
 to mining. During a period of nearly thirty years 
 he operated the McClellan mine in this district at 
 intervals, and since 1880 has worked it .contin- 
 uously. The McClellan group of mines is situa- 
 ted in a seventy-acre tract. A tunnel strikes the 
 lode at a depth of about one thousand feet. The 
 ore, both of silver and lead, is very rich, high- 
 grade ore, in large- and paying quantities. Mr. 
 Martine is one of the owners of the Kirtley mine, 
 a good producer of high-grade ore. 
 
 3AMES-G. MAXWELL, M. D., a man of 
 intellectual attainments and one who has a 
 thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the 
 medical profession, has acquired a goodly practice 
 in Elizabeth, Elbert County, where he has been 
 located since May i, 1898. His early success re- 
 flects great credit upon his energy and general 
 ability as a physican and surgeon, also his ability 
 to win the confidence of his fellow-citizens. He 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 is a son of James and Margaret (Paul) Maxwell, 
 and was born near Toledo, Ontario, Canada, on 
 a farm, August i6, 1868. The Maxwell family 
 is of Scotch ancestry, and as far back as there is 
 any authentic record lived in Scotland. Our sub- 
 ject was reared on a farm and obtained a prelimi- 
 nary education in the district schools. At the age 
 of sixteen years he moved to a farm near Brock- 
 ville, Canada, where he entered the Brockville 
 Collegiate Institute. Soon after his graduation 
 from the latter institution, with the class of 1892, 
 he moved to Colorado, where he taught in the pub- 
 lic schools of Douglas County for one year, show- 
 ing much ability as an instructor. His leisure 
 moments were spent in diligent study of medicine 
 with his brother, W. J. Maxwell, M. D., now 
 deceased. In 1894 he was matriculated at the 
 State University at Boulder, where he took a 
 medical course and was graduated in 1897. He 
 then obtained a position as house surgeon in St. 
 Luke's Hospital, in Denver, which he held for 
 one year, beginning May i, 1897. He then lo- 
 cated at Elizabeth, where he now has a large and 
 remunerative practice. He has a thorough and 
 profound knowledge of his profession as a result 
 of years of assiduous study, which, combined 
 with the practical experience gained in the hos- 
 pital at Denver, well qualify him to treat the 
 most complicated of cases with a high degree of 
 success. He is kind and gentle in spirit, cheerful 
 in the companionship of his patients, and strives 
 to make them his friends as well as patients. 
 Religiously he is and always has been a faithful 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. He is a 
 member of Elizabeth Camp No. 304, W. W., of 
 which he is medical examiner. 
 
 Dr. William J. Maxwell, a brother of James 
 G. Maxwell, and a successful physician and sur- 
 geon of Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colo., 
 was called to his eternal reward at Tucson, Ariz. ; 
 October 11, 1897. He was a man of excellent 
 qualities and was held in the highest esteem by a 
 large circle of acquaintances. Dr. Maxwell was 
 born in the township of Kittley, Ontario, and 
 was reared upon the farm, obtaining his early 
 training in the common schools. At the age 
 of sixteen years he attended the Athens high 
 school, Ontario, after which he was engaged in 
 teaching for three years. In the year of 1875 he 
 became a student of medicine at Queen's Col- 
 lege, Kingston, from which he was graduated four 
 
 years later with honors. Immediately thereafter 
 he began practice at Bishop's Mills, and subse- 
 quently moved to Toronto, where he had charge 
 of a good patronage for one year, when, in 1890, 
 he went to Colorado, thence to New Mexico and 
 Mexico, where he sought to locate. As the cli- 
 mate in the latter states did not agree with him, 
 he returned to Colorado and located at Castle 
 Rock, Douglas County, where he was successfully 
 engaged in practice until his demise. He was a 
 conscientious Christian and a faithful member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, which passed 
 suitable resolutions at the time of his death and 
 caused them to be recorded in the records of the 
 church. The Castlewood Camp, W. W. , of 
 which he was also a member, adopted resolutions 
 as a token of the esteem in which he was held by 
 that body. 
 
 . IvLIS F. OlyDEN, an honored veteran of the 
 'y Civil war, is a well-known citizen of Black- 
 __ hawk, Gilpin County. He is the president 
 and one-third owner of the fifty-stamp mill here, 
 and with the company is also concerned in gen- 
 eral mining operations. He is an expert mill- 
 wright and is considered an authority on ma- 
 chinery and everything relating to the construc- 
 tion of stamp mills, etc. From the first he has 
 been one of the prime movers in the establish- 
 ment, building and operation of the Gilpin stamp 
 mill, and to his ability and executive talent its 
 success must be attributed. . 
 
 The history of the Olden family to which the 
 subject of this narrative belongs can be traced 
 back to the early colonial days of the United 
 States. With William Penn, who was of the 
 same faith, they came to these shores from Eng- 
 land, and made homes in Pennsylvania. An old 
 mansion near Bound Brook was built by the 
 Oldens and called the Olden Manor-house. The 
 great-grandfather of our subject was a partici- 
 pant in the Revolutionary war. Grandfather 
 Thomas Olden was a commissioned officer in the 
 war of 18 1 2, and subsequently was a revenue col- 
 lector for the state of New Jersey. He was born 
 in Princeton, N. J., and was a farmer and tanner 
 by occupation. He took his family to Fayette 
 County, Pa., and there spent the rest of his life. 
 
 The parents of Ellis F. Olden are Robert Law- 
 rence and Mary A. (Crain) Olden, natives of 
 Princeton, and Morristowa, N. J., respectively. 
 
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 481 
 
 The latter was a child of Matthias Grain, whose 
 ancestors came to this country from the northern 
 part of Ireland. He was keeper of the New York 
 city prison during the war of 18 12, and afterward 
 lived in Fayette County, Pa. Robert L. Olden 
 moved to Illinois in 1839, and up to 1848 lived in 
 Union, Madison and Macoupin Counties. Subse- 
 quently he owned and carried on a homestead in 
 Madison County, near Alton. Both parents died in 
 Illinois, the father when in his seventieth year. 
 Eight of their nine children grew to maturity, but 
 one by one they have each been summoned to the 
 silent land, until the sole survivor of the family 
 is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 E. F. Olden was born near Uniontown, Pa., 
 March 9, 1838, and received a common-school ed- 
 ucation. From his boyhood he had access to all 
 kinds of tools and as it came natural to him to 
 use them he was apprenticed to the carpenter's 
 trade in Alton, when he arrived at a suitable age. 
 Having mastered the business, he became a con- 
 tractor, and was thus employed when the war 
 broke out. One of the first to volunteer in the 
 Union cause, he offered his services April 11, 
 1861 , and was mustered into Company B, Twenty- 
 second Illinois Infantry, for three years, at Belle- 
 ville, St. Clair County, by General Grant. Sent 
 to Missouri, he took part in the battle of Belle- 
 mont and several lesser engagements, and at the 
 battle of Stone River, December 31, 1862, was 
 captured with a part of his regiment. They were 
 taken almost to Mobile, Ala., and were then sent 
 on to Libby Prison, Richmond, and confined there 
 until March, 1863. At last freed on parole and 
 sent to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, he was ex- 
 changed and rejoined his regiment at Salem Pike, 
 near Murfreesboro, June 10, 1863. He was mus- 
 tered out and honorably discharged soon after- 
 wards by special order of the secretary of war. 
 Returning to Alton, he resumed his former work 
 of contracting and building. From 1864 to 1873 
 he engaged in stair building in St. Louis. In 
 the last-named year he came to Colorado and for 
 some years vibrated between Central City and 
 Blackhawk, while he erected mills and prospected 
 and mined. The year 1887 he spent in Mexico, 
 where, as usual, his services were in demand as 
 a millwright. 
 
 Ill St. Louis, Mo., in 1873, Mr. Olden married 
 Miss Minnie E. Ferguson. She is a native of 
 Ireland but has lived in the United States for 
 
 years. Four children bless the marriage of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Olden, namely: Jessie, Ethel, Ruth and 
 Robert. The family reside in a pleasant home 
 on Tremont street, Denver, and the children are 
 receiving their educations in that city. Mr. Olden 
 is a stanch Republican and is a member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic. He is an Odd 
 Fellow and belongs to the encampment. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM O. JENKINS, paying 
 teller and bookkeeper of the First National 
 Bank of Central City, and the present repre- 
 sentative of Gilpin County in the state legislature, 
 was born in this city October 11, 1868. He is 
 the youngest son of David Jenkins, of whom 
 mention is made in the sketch of John C. Jenkins, 
 elsewhere presented. In 1882 he graduated from 
 the high school, and afterward entered the First 
 National Bank, where he has since, through 
 successive promotions, been made teller and 
 bookkeeper. 
 
 In addition to his connection with the bank, 
 Mr. Jenkins is secretary and general manager of 
 the Gilpin Mill Company, whose mill, completed 
 in 1894, has a capacity of fifty tons a day and is 
 the most modern stamp-mill pattern, with con- 
 centrating machines against the battery. Since 
 this was introduced it has saved millions for the 
 county. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Jenkins, in Central City, 
 united him with Miss Elizabeth Davies, who was 
 born in Liverpool, England, and came to Central 
 City with her father, L. P. Davies, a druggist of 
 this place. They and their son, Walter W., re- 
 side in the old home which Mr. Jenkins' father 
 built on Third and High streets. Mrs. Jenkins 
 is a member of the First Baptist Church in 
 Denver. 
 
 The principles of the Democratic party receive 
 the support of Mr. Jenkins and he has been 
 very prominent in party councils. For one 
 term he represented the first ward in the council 
 of Central City, where he served as chairman of 
 the finance committee. In the fall of 1896 he was 
 elected to represent Gilpin County in the state 
 legislature, being the Democratic nominee, in- 
 dorsed by the silver Republicans. He received 
 four hundred and sixty-eight majority, which was 
 large for this county. In the eleventh general 
 assembly he worked on the bank and insurance, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 fish, forestry aud game committees, and had the 
 honor of placing in nomination for the United 
 States senate Hon. Henry M. Teller, who re- 
 ceived ninety-four out of ninety-eight votes in the 
 joint a.ssembly. The bill for building and loan 
 associations he was active in having passed. He 
 favored the Crowder bill, pertaining to fish, 
 forestry and game. At present he is a member 
 of the county central committee and a member of 
 the school board. Fraternally he is past master 
 of Central Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and a 
 member of Central Chapter No. i, R. A. M. 
 
 NENRY BOYER, the pioneer furniture dealer 
 and undertaker of Georgetown, Clear Creek 
 County, came to the state during the early 
 '60s and has traveled over a great part of its 
 territory, which he has seen transformed from a 
 wild, unbroken tract, to its present cultivated 
 condition. He was born in Frederick County, 
 Md., in January, 1837, and is a son of Peter and 
 Mary Catherine (Hersperger) Boyer. The Boyers 
 were an old Maryland family and several genera- 
 tions of the name were bom there. The grand- 
 father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; 
 Peter Boyer, a farmer in Maryland, married 
 Mary C. Hersperger, who died in early life. He 
 died in the fall of 1861, at the age of sixty-five 
 years. Of their teu children, eight grew to 
 mature years and two daughters and three sons 
 are still living. 
 
 Henry Boyer was the youngest of the family 
 and the only one who makes his home in 
 Colorado. His early years were spent on the 
 farm and his education was received in the public 
 schools until he was eighteen. In the spring of 
 that year, in 1855, he went to Dover, LaFayette 
 County, Mo., where he learned the carpenter's 
 trade and this occupation he followed until the 
 war broke out. In the spring of 186 1 he entered 
 Waltraan's brigade and later was in Shelby's, 
 taking part in the battles of Carthage, Spring- 
 field, or Wilson's Creek, and Lexington. The 
 brigade was camped at Osage and was ordered 
 back to the river. Here he was taken sick and was 
 confined to his bed, being unable to go south 
 with his company; the Federals took possession 
 of the place. He made arrangements to come 
 to Colorado in the spring of 1862, as soon as he 
 
 was able to travel. He crossed the plains with 
 oxen, driving over the Platte route, and reaching 
 Denver in August. He came on to the mountains 
 as far as Gilpin, where he rested a day or two 
 and then pushed on to Idaho Springs, reaching 
 there in the fall. He began work for an old 
 gentleman called Bill Russell, with whom he 
 stayed for three months, and then went down the 
 creek to Floyd Hill and worked there until the 
 creek froze up. From there he went to Black- 
 hawk and spent the remainder of the winter of 
 1862-63, then to Empire, where he stayed until 
 the next fall. Going to Denver Mr. Boyer was 
 employed in the Rice sash factory, but soon gave 
 up the work to drive a team through to Salt Lake 
 City. Owing to the severe storms that overtook 
 them, they were unable to reach their destination 
 until the following spring. That summer was 
 spent in Highland Gulch and in the fall of 1864 
 he returned to this state, stopping in Empire and 
 soon after coming to Georgetown, where he as- 
 sisted in building the water wheel in the mill at the 
 head of Sixth street. He also helped build the 
 mill at Empire, and iu 1865 engaged in prospect- 
 ing and mining near this city. He discovered 
 one of the first silver mines at East Argentine, 
 and was very successful in his mining venture 
 but soon sold out and for two or three years 
 worked at his trade in Georgetown. He .then 
 started a sash and door factory and made all of 
 that class of goods that was used here. In 1870 
 he started in the furniture business and soon after 
 added undertaking. His is the oldest house of 
 that kind in the county and has been most success- 
 ful. He has a good building, 3 1x140 feet, where 
 he carries on his business, the first floor devoted 
 to furniture and the second to undertaking. 
 
 In this city Mr. Boyer married Miss Anna 
 Landsdowne, a native of Philadelphia. They 
 have buried three children: Frank L. died at the 
 age of three years; and in 1888, Etta, aged eleven, 
 and Lulu, aged two, were called home. The 
 five remaining children, Ernest, Bertie L., 
 Charles, Edith and Ella, reside in Georgetown. 
 Mr. Boyer is a Democrat and served the city as 
 alderman for three terms until April, 1898, and 
 is filling his third term as coroner of Clear Creek 
 County. He is a member of Lodge No. 12, 
 A. F. & A. M., Royal Arch Chapter No. 4, 
 Commandery No. 4, and the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. 
 
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 485 
 
 nAMES M. SIMMS, postmaster at Fort Col- 
 I lins, was born near Huntsville, Logan County, 
 (2) Ohio, April 2, 1845, a son of James S. and 
 Jane(Sides) Simms, natives respectively of Clarke 
 County, Ohio, and Maryland. His paternal 
 grandfather, Jeremiah Simms, migrated from 
 Virginia to Ohio, and was a pioneer farmer of 
 Clarke County and a local preacher in the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church. From there, in early man- 
 hood, James S. Simms removed to Logan County, 
 engaging in farming at Huntsville, where he re- 
 mained until his death, at seventy-six years. 
 For many years he served as justice of the peace. 
 He was a stanch Abolitionist and denounced, in 
 no uncertain tones, the fugitive slave law and 
 kindred measures for the oppression of slaves. 
 In religion he was identified with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. His wife, who resided in 
 Clarke County from childhood until her mar- 
 riage, died on the homestead in Logan County 
 when forty-five years of age. 
 
 The eldest son of James S. Simms was Will- 
 iam R., who served as captain of a company 
 during the Civil war. On his return he was 
 elected sheriff of Harrison County, Mo., and 
 served for two terms, four years altogether. He 
 was also ex-officio collector of the county during 
 the same period. Afterward he became United 
 States mail clerk on the Rock Island Railroad 
 and met a terrible death in the wrecking of his 
 train and the burning of the car, December 6, 
 1880, between Cameron, Mo., and Atchison, Kan. 
 The second son, Jeremiah T., died in Logan 
 County, Ohio, during the progress of the Civil 
 war. Peyton S. , the third son, is a resident of 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. He has served as sergeant-at 
 arms of the Ohio senate and is now a commercial 
 traveler. Sarah F. , the wife of George McElree, 
 lives in Logan County, near the old homestead. 
 Mary A., who married Isaac N. Boggs, died in 
 Logan CountjMu 1868. James M. was next in 
 order of birth. Rev. Joseph D. Simms, the 
 youngest of the family, a. graduate of the Ohio 
 Wesleyan University, is a member of the Ohio 
 Methodist Episcopal conference, and is now 
 stationed at Rockford, Ohio. 
 
 Until eighteen years of age the subject of this 
 sketch remained at home, assisting on the farm 
 in the summer and attending the district school 
 in the winter. In June, 1863, when the Union 
 cause was trembling in the balance, he enlisted in 
 
 Company L, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, and 
 was mustered into service at Covington, Ky. 
 He served in Kentucky and Tennessee until 
 August of 1865, when he was mustered out and 
 honorably discharged at Nashville, Tenn. A 
 few weeks after his discharge from the army, he 
 started west, and spent one year on his brother's 
 farm near Bethany, Harrison County, Mo., after 
 which, on the election of his brother as sheriff 
 and collector for Harrison County, he became 
 deputy sheriff, and served for four years. He 
 then embarked in the mercantile business and also 
 served as deputy county clerk until March, 1877, 
 when President Hayes tendered him the appoint- 
 ment as postmaster of Bethany. By reappoint- 
 ment under President Arthur, he held the posi- 
 tion for nine years, until 1886, when the Demo- 
 crats gained the administration of the countr}' 
 and he resigned. While in Bethany he served 
 on the school board and the town council. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1888, Mr. Simms spent 
 one year in Denver, where he engaged in the 
 real-estate business. In May, 1889, he moved to 
 Fort Collins, and from that year until 1894 served 
 as assistant postmaster, being four years under 
 the Harrison administration and one year under 
 President Cleveland. In 1895 he engaged in the 
 building of several cottages. In 1896 he was 
 engaged in politics, espousing the cause of the 
 Republican party, and assisted in editing the only 
 Republican organ in northern Colorado, said pa- 
 per being the Register, published at Loveland. In 
 September, 1897, President McKinley appointed 
 him postmaster of Fort Collins. His first step in 
 the position was to secure the present fine loca- 
 tion, corner of College and Mountain avenues. 
 Into the new building he put new fixtures and 
 modern improvements. He also advanced the 
 standard of the office to such an extent that 
 in June, 1898, it was changed from third to sec- 
 ond class, taking effect July i, 1898. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Simms was Clara J. Ford, 
 daughterofDr. J. J. Ford, of Bethany, Mo., whom 
 he married November 1 1 , 1869. They became the 
 parents of two children : Blanche, wife of A. J. Star- 
 lin, of Fort Collins; and CharlesS., a commercial 
 traveler. Mrs. Clara J. Simms died February i, 
 1877. Miss Ida E. Nordyke, of Bartlett, Iowa, 
 became the wife of Mr. Simms February 17, 1878, 
 and died March 23, 1887, leaving one daughter, 
 Amy Ida, who is with her father. The other 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 child born of this union was Don E., born June 
 22, 1879, and died March 23, 1882. In June, 
 1893, Mr. Simms was united in marriage with 
 Caroline E. Leech, sister of M. F. Leech, of 
 Boulder, and daughter of a lieutenant in a Penn- 
 sylvania regiment during the Civil war. She 
 died December 27, 1897. She was a finely edu- 
 cated woman, and for several years was a teacher 
 in the public schools. Possessing considerable 
 literary ability, she was a frequent contributor to 
 magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. 
 She was a stanch worker in the temperance cause 
 and her efforts were always given to the uplifting 
 of humanity. 
 
 In the spring of 1896 Mr. Simms was elected 
 alderman of Fort Collins, but resigned on being 
 appointed postmaster, after eighteen months of 
 service. He was made a Mason in Bethany in 
 1885 and is now connected with Collins Lodge No. 
 19, A. F. & A. M. In the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church he is a member of the oiEcial board. He 
 is a member of George H. Thomas Post No. 7, 
 G. A. R., and in 1898 served on the staff of 
 General May as inspector general of the depart- 
 ment of Colorado and Wyoming. In 1897 he 
 was elected a delegate to the national encamp- 
 ment of the Grand Army at Buffalo and in 1898 
 served as delegate to the state encampment at 
 Cripple Creek. Politically he has never swerved in 
 his allegiance to Republican principles. By 
 birth, training and inclination he is a Republi- 
 can, and he has never been known to vote for 
 men or measures antagonistic to party principles. 
 
 Q HARLES F. HERTEL, the well-known pro- 
 I r prietor of the Kiowa Hotel and livery barn 
 \J at Kiowa, Elbert County, is a man of energy 
 and enterprise and conducts one of the leading 
 hotels in the county. He is a son of George W. 
 and Artemisia E. (Rinehart) Hertel, and was 
 born in Andrew County, Mo., December 9, 1856. 
 He is of German descent, his father having been 
 born in Hanover, where he resided until he 
 was nine years of age. He was then brought to 
 this country by his parents, who settled in Mis- 
 souri, where he lived until i860. After his mar- 
 riage he crossed the plains with his family by 
 means of an ox-team and located on a farm four 
 miles south of Elizabeth, Elbert County, Colo., 
 where he resided for some years. He finally dis- 
 
 posed of his property and purchased a sawmill at 
 Middle Park, the first steam sawmill in that sec- 
 tion. This he has since operated with much suc- 
 cess and has become one of the leading citizens 
 of that community. He was married to Artemi- 
 sia E. Rinehart, a native of Missouri, in that 
 state, before going we.st. 
 
 Charles F. Hertel was four years of age when 
 he moved to Colorado with his parents, and after 
 becoming old enough he assisted his father in 
 operating the sawmill. He subsequently took up 
 a tract of land at Middle Park, upon which he 
 resided for six years, after which he engaged in 
 freighting. He continued in that business for a 
 time and then bought and sold cattle until he 
 returned to his farm at Middle Park, where he 
 carried on general farming with much success, 
 but was finally obliged to move owing to his wife's 
 inability to stand the high altitude. They then 
 moved to Kiowa, where he became proprietor of 
 the Kiowa Hotel, which he has greatly improved 
 and since conducted. It is a very popular house 
 and is well patronized by both local and transient 
 trade. The culinary department is under the su- 
 pervision of Mrs. Hertel, and the excellent table set 
 is all that could be desired to satisfy the wants of 
 the inner man. The house is fitted out with many 
 modern conveniences and everything possible is 
 done by the genial landlord to add to the comfort 
 of his guests, and that his efforts are appreciated 
 is shown by the liberal patronage which he en- 
 joys. Another good feature is the excellent livery 
 barn, conducted in connection with the hotel, 
 which is supplied with good horses and vehicles 
 of every description. 
 
 While still a resident of Middle Park, August 
 15, 1886, Mr. Hertel was united in marriage with 
 Miss Minnie Brockmann, who was born in Daven- 
 port, Iowa, and is a daughter of John Brockmann, 
 who moved to Colorado in i860, locating at 
 Kiowa. Our subject has met with many thrilling 
 adventures in his life on the frontier, and in 
 his younger days had frequent altercations with 
 troublesome Indians. When a lad of twelve years 
 working on his father's farm, the neighbors as- 
 sisted each other in harvesting, and for fear of an 
 attack by Indians each man had a horse saddled 
 and stationed near him. Upon one occasion he 
 was driving a reaper and because of the noise of 
 the machine he did not hear the shots fired by 
 the Indians in their charge; his fellow-workmen 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 487 
 
 took to their horses and soon he would have been 
 at the mercy of the enemy, but with rare presence 
 of mind he cut the horses from the reaper and 
 effected his escape, being the last to leave the 
 field. 
 
 gORNELIUS CLARK is one of the most en- 
 terprising and successful farmers of Weld 
 County. His finely improved ranch is situ- 
 ated on sections 11 and 12, township 4, range 68, 
 and is considered one of the best places in the 
 county. Mr. Clark is a stockholder in the Ber- 
 thoud Farmers' Mill and Elevator Company, and 
 has served as one of the board of directors of the 
 concern . He also owns stock in the Home Supply 
 Ditch Company, from which source his farm se- 
 cures its water supply. He is a member of the 
 Masonic order, being associated with Berthoud 
 Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M. ; Longmont Chap- 
 ter, R. A. M., and Long's Peak Commandery 
 No. 12, K. T. 
 
 The father of the above-named gentleman was 
 John Clark, a native of County Galway, Ireland. 
 The mother, whose maiden name was Nellie Mc- 
 Donald, was born in Ireland. The parents re- 
 sided in Whitehall, N. Y. , for a few years after 
 their marriage, and then removed to Beloit, Wis. 
 Cornelius Clark was bom November 9, 1855, prior 
 to the removal of the family to the west, White- 
 hall being his birthplace. He was educated in 
 the common schools of Beloit and when he was 
 about seventeen years of age he went to Howard 
 County, Iowa. There he engaged in farming, his 
 whole experience up to this time being in the line 
 of agriculture. The year that saw Colorado ad- 
 mitted to the Union was the year that he attained 
 his majority, and he decided to cast in his fortunes 
 with those of the infant state. Coming to this 
 county he took a position with a farmer in the vi- 
 cinity of Erie and worked at a stated salary until 
 the mining excitement of 1879-80, in Leadville. 
 At that time he followed the hosts of prospectors 
 and mined for a year or so, with indifferent suc- 
 cess. He then took up a tract of land in Thomp- 
 son Valley, it being situated on section 8, town- 
 ship 4, range 67. This property came into his 
 possession in November, 1880, and after cultivat- 
 ing it for a few years he sold it and removed to 
 the place he now occupies. This land he had 
 purchased in 1889, and here he has dwelt ever 
 since. The ranch comprises two hundred and 
 
 forty acres, eighty acres of this having been a gov- 
 ernment claim, which he bought of another party, 
 and eighty acres railroad land. Abundantly wa- 
 tered by the fine system of irrigating ditches 
 which he has made, the place is exceptionally fer- 
 tile and productive, large crops being harvested 
 every year. In 1891 the proprietor erected a sub- 
 stantial barn, one of the best and most commo- 
 dious in the county. Everything about the place 
 shows the constant care and watchful super- 
 vision of the thrifty owner, who, within a few 
 years, has transformed almost wild prairie land 
 into a model farm. He has met with special suc- 
 cess in the raising of cattle and horses, and has 
 done much to elevate the standard of live stock 
 in this community. He bought and owned the 
 first thoroughbred Percheron stallion in this sec- 
 tion of the county. At present he has a herd of 
 about two hundred head of cattle and keeps some 
 forty head of horses. His stock always com- 
 mands the highest price on the markets, and jus- 
 tifies the extra care he takes of his animals. 
 
 July 7, 1892, Mr. Clark married Miss Nannie 
 Graham, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gra- 
 ham, of this county. Mrs. Clark is a native of Mis- 
 souri, but has been a citizen of Colorado for many 
 years. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Clark 
 two children have been born, a son and daughter, 
 named respectively, John Thomas and Cornelia E. 
 
 yyi S. CHENOWETH, M. D., a represent- 
 y ative of the medical profession of Elbert 
 (9 County, has attained prominence as a 
 practitioner by carefully diagnosing his cases, 
 bringing that skill to bear in their treatment 
 which he is enabled to do by years of careful 
 study and constant practice. His undisputed and 
 profound knowledge of his profession, and the 
 large success which he has won by his perse- 
 vering industry and attention to business have 
 given to him the standing and prestige he so 
 richly merits. He is a son of Isaac and May J. 
 (Goben) Chenoweth, and was born in Grundy 
 County, Mo., November 30, 1861. 
 
 Isaac Chenoweth, the father of our subject, 
 was a native of Ohio, and at an early day accom- 
 panied his father to Missouri, locating in Liv- 
 ingston County, where he followed his trade, that 
 of a cabinet-maker, architect and builder. Upon 
 the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in the 
 
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 cause of the Union and fought valiantly until the 
 close, receiving a number of serious wounds, one 
 of which, a bullet in his right hand, developed 
 a cancerous growth, which necessitated the am- 
 putation of that member. He also received a bad 
 bullet wound in the hip, from which he has suf- 
 fered at times. The war left him in financial 
 straits, and only by dint of untiring energy 
 and unceasing toil did he regain his former stand- 
 ing. In 1886 he moved to Denver, Colo., where 
 he invested heavily in real estate and built two 
 residences. At the present time he lives at 
 Chenoweth, Elbert County, where he owns a 
 ranch of about four hundred and forty acres. 
 Politically he has always been a Republican, 
 while in religious fellowship he was formerly a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 While in Missouri he was a member of the Ma- 
 sonic order. He married May J. Goben, a native 
 of lyivingston County, Mo., when a resident of 
 Spring Hill, that county. 
 
 Dr. Chenoweth spent his boyhood days upon a 
 farm and obtained a good intellectual training in 
 the public schools. At the age of twelve years, 
 when not in attendance at school, he worked in a 
 drug store, continuing in that manner until he 
 was fifteen years old. He then learned teleg- 
 raphy in the freight office at Jameson, Mo., and 
 he advanced with such rapidity that he was pro- 
 moted to the position of assistant agent. Becom- 
 ing an expert telegrapher, his services were ever 
 in demand, and he served in that capacity at 
 various points in the west until 1885, when he 
 became superintendent's clerk on the Union Pa- 
 cific system at Denver, having charge of the train 
 department, and still later became train dis- 
 patcher, retaining that office until the spring of 
 1887. During these years he had been saving in 
 his habits and accumulated some wealth, and 
 having always evinced a fondness for the medical 
 profession he decided to make it his vocation. As 
 a means to that end he entered the Missouri Med- 
 ical College, of St. I/Ouis, and by close applica- 
 tion to study took a complete course and was 
 graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. D. He 
 then formed a partnership with his uncle, Dr. 
 G. A. Goben, with whom he practiced a few 
 months at Kirksville, Mo., and then went to 
 Sublett, Mo., where he not only practiced medi- 
 cine, but also successfully conducted a drug store 
 for one year. Upon moving to Browning, Mo., 
 
 he became a member of the firm of Smith & Co. , 
 in the drug business, and also acquired an exten- 
 sive patronage in the practice of medicine. He 
 was especially successful in surgical practice, 
 performing a number of capital operations with- 
 out losing a case. Being favorably impressed 
 with the state of Colorado upon his first visit, he 
 and his wife took a pleasure trip to the state in 
 1892 and decided to make their home there, lo- 
 cating in Denver during the same year. He re- 
 turned, however, in a few months, as Mrs. 
 Chenoweth preferred to live in Missouri. He 
 again entered upon a practice and became promi- 
 nently identified with the famous Meeks murder 
 case, which attracted attention throughout the 
 United States as one of the most horrible crimes 
 ever perpetrated. He sewed up the gash on the 
 head of the little girl, who was found out in a 
 haystack, and she was placed in his charge by the 
 sheriflf. Being convinced of the guilt of the Tay- 
 lors, he aided in bringing them to justice for the 
 good of the community. Factions sprang up in 
 the community, and, as his life was in great 
 danger, he removed to Colorado in 1895, locating 
 at Elbert, where he has since had charge of a 
 large and lucrative practice. His wide experi- 
 ence has made him cool and practical in critical 
 and important cases, and caused his skill as a 
 physician to be thoroughly relied upon. 
 
 December 25, 1888, Dr. Chenoweth married 
 Miss Minnie B. Fowler, a native of Kirksville, 
 Mo., who graduated from the normal school of 
 that town and later engaged as a teacher in the 
 public schools. Their home is brightened by 
 three children, namely: Montford I., who was 
 born at Sublett, Mo., February i, 1891; May 
 Edith, born at Browning, Mo., July 30, 1893; 
 and Lola B. Fowler, a niece, whom they have 
 taken to rear. In political afiiliations Dr. Chen- 
 oweth is a firm Republican, and cast his first vote 
 for James G. Blaine in 1884; he has been active 
 in the workings of the party, and has frequently 
 been a delegate to the different conventions. At 
 one time he received the nomination for coroner 
 of Sullivan County, Mo., but withdrew from the 
 race. In 1897 he was the popular candidate for 
 county clerk in Elbert County, and was loyally 
 supported by his party and many Democrats, re- 
 ceiving a majority in ever>- precinct but two, but 
 he was defeated by fifty-four votes. Fraternally 
 he became a member of Buruham Lodge No. 59, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAl, RECORD. 
 
 489 
 
 I. O. O. F., of Denver, in 1886, but now has a 
 membership in the Elbert Lodge of that order and 
 is passing through the chairs; he was a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias, of Browning, Mo., 
 which lodge surrendered its charter; is a member 
 of Elbert Camp No. 152, W. of W., of which he 
 is clerk; the Home FoAim, of Elbert, of which 
 he is secretary and examining physician; the Pa- 
 cific Circle, of which he is examining physician; 
 the Colorado State Medical Society, and the 
 American Medical Society. He is also local sur- 
 geon for the Union Pacific & Gulf Railway. In 
 religious attachment he was formerly an active 
 worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
 Browning, Mo. , and contributed liberally toward 
 the erection of the church there. 
 
 Since this sketch was written the doctor's 
 father died, November 19, 1898, and the doctor, 
 having no further interests in Elbert County, has 
 since returned to No. 329 Santa Fe avenue, Den- 
 ver, where he expects to practice medicine and 
 spend the balance of his life. 
 
 fDQlLWAM H. DICKENS, of Longmont, is 
 \A/ o'ls of the wealthiest and most influential 
 YV men of Boulder County. While thousands 
 were investing almost fabulous sums in more or 
 less doubtful mining ventures, in enterprises 
 where great fortunes have been repeatedly sunk, 
 he steadily pursued old and reliable methods of 
 gaining riches, was conservative and wise in all 
 his investments, and prosperity long ago came to 
 him as his just reward. He is now the largest 
 payer of taxes, individually, in the county, it is 
 asserted, and no one has been more deeply in- 
 terested in the advancing civilization and prog- 
 ress of this immediate region than he. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the above, Charles 
 Dickens, was a near relative of the celebrated 
 author of the same name. He was born in 
 Leicestershire, England, and was a maltster, as 
 was also his son, William Henry, father of our 
 subject. William Henry Dickens married Miss 
 Mary Ann Harris, a native of the same shire and 
 daughter of John Harris, a hotel-keeper and 
 farmer. He was a member of a company of 
 British cavalry at one time. His wife, Mary 
 Jerome, died in England and he accompanied the 
 family of his son when they came to this country 
 in 1843. He was over seventy years old at the 
 
 time of his death, which took place in Wisconsin. 
 His father, John Harris, Sr., was a man of 
 wealth and his fortune is still in chancery in 
 England. Fifty-five years ago, William Henry 
 Dickens, Sr., then a young man, sailed for 
 Quebec in the ship ' 'John Walker. ' ' His wife 
 and little daughter Eliza were with him, and 
 during the voyage a son, the subject of this 
 sketch, was born, May 26, 1843. The little 
 party traveled up the Welland Canal and the 
 great lakes to Columbus, Wis., where they set- 
 tled on a pre-emption claim. The father did not 
 long survive the rigors of climate and hard work, 
 but died in 1847, when but twenty-seven. His 
 eldest child, Eliza, married a Mr. Franklin, and 
 died in Colorado. John, the younger son, died 
 when three years old, and the j-oungest of the 
 family is Mrs. Maria Quist, of Ellis, Kan. The 
 mother became the wife of Alonzo Nelson Allen, 
 who had settled in Wisconsin on a farm, and 
 whose birthplace was Oberlin, Ohio. Five chil- 
 dren were born of this marriage and three sons 
 and a daughter are living. 
 
 In 1859 W. H. Dickens started with a train 
 across the plains to Colorado, and arrived here 
 May I . He had followed the Platte River from 
 Omaha and had an uneventful journey. He had 
 accompanied a party of over a score of men, each 
 of whom rode a horse and led three others. Mr. 
 Allen located on the homestead now owned by 
 our subject and built a log cabin near the St. 
 Vrain River. Young Dickens assisted his step- 
 father to get settled and worked with him for 
 several years very diligently. When the stage 
 line began running by way of Denver, instead of 
 over the Black Hills, there was a great and 
 steady demand for hay in this locality, as the 
 route (the Salt Lake division) traversed it. The 
 value of farm land rose accordingly and a good 
 market was afforded the pioneers for all their 
 products. 
 
 In 1864 the troubles with the Indians proving 
 of no slight consequence to the settlers, many of 
 them took up arms against the red men, and in 
 July of that year Mr. Dickens was mustered in as 
 a private of Company D, Third Colorado Cavalry. 
 He served about six months on the frontier and 
 participated in the engagement of Big Sandy. In 
 1863 he homesteaded a quarter-section of land 
 adjoining his stepfather's property; later bought 
 the other land and added to it from time to time. 
 
488 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cause of the Union and fought valiantly until the 
 close, receiving a number of serious wounds, one 
 of which, a bullet in his right hand, developed 
 a cancerous growth, which necessitated the am- 
 putation of that member. He also received a bad 
 bullet wound in the hip, from which he has suf- 
 fered at times. The war left him in financial 
 straits, and only by dint of untiring energy 
 and unceasing toil did he regain his former stand- 
 ing. In 1886 he moved to Denver, Colo., where 
 he invested heavily in real estate and built two 
 residences. At the present time he lives at 
 Chenoweth, Elbert County, where he owns a 
 ranch of about four hundred and forty acres. 
 Politically he has always been a Republican, 
 while in religious fellowship he was formerly a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 While in Missouri he was a member of the Ma- 
 .sonic order. He married May J. Goben, a native 
 of Livingston County, Mo., when a resident of 
 Spring Hill, that county. 
 
 Dr. Chenoweth spent his boyhood days upon a 
 farm and obtained a good intellectual training in 
 the public schools. At the age of twelve years, 
 when not in attendance at school, he worked in a 
 drug store, continuing in that manner until he 
 was fifteen years old. He then learned teleg- 
 raphy in the freight office at Jameson, Mo., and 
 he advanced with such rapidity that he was pro- 
 moted to the position of assistant agent. Becom- 
 ing an expert telegrapher, his services were ever 
 in demand, and he served in that capacity at 
 various points in the west until 1885, when he 
 became superintendent's clerk on the Union Pa- 
 cific system at Denver, having charge of the train 
 department, and still later became train dis- 
 patcher, retaining that office until the spring of 
 1887. During these years he had been saving in 
 his habits and accumulated some wealth, and 
 having always evinced a fondness for the medical 
 profession he decided to make it his vocation. As 
 a means to that end he entered the Missouri Med- 
 ical College, of St. Louis, and by close applica- 
 tion to study took a complete course and was 
 graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. D. He 
 then formed a partnership with his uncle, Dr. 
 G. A. Goben, with whom he practiced a few 
 mouths at Kirksville, Mo., and then went to 
 Sublett, Mo., where he not only practiced medi- 
 cine, but also successfully conducted a drugstore 
 for one year. Upon moving to Browning, Mo., 
 
 he became a member of the firm of Smith & Co. , 
 in the drug business, and also acquired an exten- 
 sive patronage in the practice of medicine. He 
 was especially successful in surgical practice, 
 performing a number of capital operations with- 
 out losing a case. Being favorably impressed 
 with the state of Colorado upon his first visit, he 
 and his wife took a pleasure trip to the state in 
 1892 and decided to make their home there, lo- 
 cating in Denver during the same year. He re- 
 turned, however, in a few months, as Mrs. 
 Chenoweth preferred to live in Missouri. He 
 again entered upon a practice and became promi- 
 nently identified with the famous Meeks murder 
 case, which attracted attention throughout the 
 United States as one of the most horrible crimes 
 ever perpetrated. He sewed up the gash on the 
 head of the little girl, who was found out in a 
 haystack, and she was placed in his charge by the 
 sheriff. Being convinced of the guilt of the Tay- 
 lors, he aided in bringing them to justice for the 
 good of the community. Factions sprang up in 
 the community, and, as his life was in great 
 danger, he removed to Colorado in 1895, locating 
 at Elbert, where he has since had charge of a 
 large and lucrative practice. His wide experi- 
 ence has made him cool and practical in critical 
 and important cases, and caused his skill as a 
 physician to be thoroughly relied upon. 
 
 December 25, 1888, Dr. Chenoweth married 
 Miss Minnie B. Fowler, a native of Kirksville, 
 Mo. , who graduated from the normal school of 
 that town and later engaged as a teacher in the 
 public schools. Their home is brightened by 
 three children, namely: Montford I., who was 
 born at Sublett, Mo., February i, 1891; May 
 Edith, born at Browning, Mo., July 30, 1893; 
 and Lola B. Fowler, a niece, whom they have 
 taken to rear. In political affiliations Dr. Chen- 
 oweth is a firm Republican, and cast his first vote 
 for James G. Blaine in 1884; he has been active 
 in the workings of the party, and has frequently 
 been a delegate to the different conventions. At 
 one time he received the nomination for coroner 
 of Sullivan County, Mo., but withdrew from the 
 race. In 1897 he was the popular candidate for 
 county clerk in Elbert County, and was loyally 
 supported by his party and many Democrats, re- 
 ceiving a majority in every precinct but two, but 
 he was defeated by fifty-four votes. Fraternally 
 he became a member of Burnham Lodge No. 59, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 489 
 
 I. O. O. F., of Denver, in 1886, but now has a 
 membership in the Elbert Lodge of that order and 
 is passing through the chairs; he was a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias, of Browning, Mo., 
 which lodge surrendered its charter; is a member 
 of Elbert Camp No. 152, W. of W., of which he 
 is clerk; the Home FofUm, of Elbert, of which 
 he is secretary and examining physician; the Pa- 
 cific Circle, of which he is examining physician; 
 the Colorado State Medical Society, and the 
 American Medical Society. He is also local sur- 
 geon for the Union Pacific & Gulf Railway. In 
 religious attachment he was formerly an active 
 worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
 Browning, Mo. , and contributed liberally toward 
 the erection of the church there. 
 
 Since this sketch was written the doctor's 
 father died, November 19, 1898, and the doctor, 
 having no further interests in Elbert County, has 
 since returned to No. 329 Santa Fe avenue, Den- 
 ver, where he expects to practice medicine and 
 spend the balance of his life. 
 
 WILLIAM H. DICKENS, of Longmont, is 
 one of the wealthiest and most influential 
 men of Boulder County. While thousands 
 were investing almost fabulous sums in more or 
 less doubtful mining ventures, in enterprises 
 where great fortunes have been repeatedly sunk, 
 he steadily pursued old and reliable methods of 
 gaining riches, was conservative and wise in all 
 his investments, and prosperity long ago came to 
 him as his just reward. He is now the largest 
 payer of taxes, individually, in the county, it is 
 asserted, and no one has been more deeply in- 
 terested in the advancing civilization and prog- 
 ress of this immediate region than he. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the above, Charles 
 Dickens, was a near relative of the celebrated 
 author of the same name. He was born in 
 Leicestershire, England, and was a maltster, as 
 was also his son, William. Henry, father of our 
 subject. William Henry Dickens married Miss 
 Mary Ann Harris, a native of the same shire and 
 daughter of John Harris, a hotel-keeper and 
 farmer. He was a member of a company of 
 British cavalry at one time. His wife, Mary 
 Jerome, died in England and he accompanied the 
 family of his son when they came to this country 
 in 1843. He was over seventy years old at the 
 
 time of his death, which took place in Wisconsin. 
 His father, John Harris, Sr., was a man of 
 wealth and his fortune is still in chancery in 
 England. Fifty-five years ago, William Henry 
 Dickens, Sr., then a young man, sailed for 
 Quebec in the ship "John Walker. " His wife 
 and little daughter Eliza were with him, and 
 during the voyage a son, the subject of this 
 sketch, was born. May 26, 1843. The little 
 party traveled up the Welland Canal and the 
 great lakes to Columbus, Wis., where they set- 
 tled on a pre-emption claim. The father did not 
 long survive the rigors of climate and hard work, 
 but died in 1847, when but twenty -seven. His 
 eldest child, Eliza, married a Mr. Franklin, and 
 died in Colorado. John, the younger son, died 
 when three years old, and the youngest of the 
 family is Mrs. Maria Quist, of Ellis, Kan. The 
 mother became the wife of Alonzo Nelson Allen, 
 who had settled in Wisconsin on a farm, and 
 whose birthplace was Oberlin, Ohio. Five chil- 
 dren were born of this marriage and three .sons 
 and a daughter are living. 
 
 In 1859 W. H. Dickens started with a train 
 across the plains to Colorado, and arrived here 
 May I . He had followed the Platte River from 
 Omaha and had an uneventful journey. He had 
 accompanied a party of over a score of men, each 
 of whom rode a horse and led three others. Mr. 
 Allen located on the homestead now owned by 
 our subject and built a log cabin near the St. 
 Vrain River. Young Dickens assisted his step- 
 father to get settled and worked with him for 
 several years very diligently. When the stage 
 line began running by way of Denver, instead of 
 over the Black Hills, there was a great and 
 steady demand for hay in this localitj^ as the 
 route (the Salt Lake division) traversed it. The 
 value of farm laud rose accordingly and a good 
 market was afforded the pioneers for all their 
 products. 
 
 In 1864 the troubles with the Indians proving 
 of no slight consequence to the settlers, many of 
 them took up arms against the red men, and in 
 Jul}' of that year Mr. Dickens was mustered in as 
 a private ofCompanj'D, Third Colorado Cavalry. 
 He served about six months on the frontier and 
 participated in the engagement of Big Sandy. In 
 1863 he homesteaded a quarter-section of land 
 adjoining his step father's property; later bought 
 the other land and added to it from time to time. 
 
490 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He now owns six hundred and forty acres in the 
 one body. The St. Vrain affords necessary 
 water, and for over a mile of its course runs 
 through Mr. Dickens' land. At first he, as well 
 as others of his fellow- pioneers, knew little about 
 irrigation systems, but years of experience have 
 made him an expert on the subject. His land is 
 well watered by a splendid set of ditches, etc., 
 and improved with four good residences and 
 numerous barns and other buildings. His home 
 is a substantial brick structure and his best barn 
 is a model. It is 40x100 feet in dimensions; has 
 an eight-foot wall with seventeen-foot posts and 
 has a capacity of two hundred and fifty tons of 
 alfalfa and quantities of grain, etc. Sixty head 
 of cattle are often wintered under its roof, also. 
 Mr. Dickens has dealt extensively in stock, has 
 made a specialty of high-grade Shorthorn cattle 
 and blooded PercheronNorman horses, and 
 brought a dozen or more of brood mares here 
 some years ago. He leases land on Crow Creek, 
 northeast of Greeley, for cattle ranges and owns a 
 section of land northwest of Longmont. Here he 
 has a sheep ranch, many of the animals being of 
 the Shropshire variety. Besides, he owns half a 
 section of land in Weld County, three miles east 
 of Longmont, and this place is well irrigated. 
 
 In the early years of his residence here, Mr. 
 Dickens was engaged in freighting at certain 
 periods of the year. He continued to transport 
 merchandise between Cheyenne and Denver, 
 even after the Union Pacific had been completed 
 through the first-named town. Raising in the 
 neighborhood of ten thousand bushels of wheat a 
 year, he sells a portion of it, and, as he grows 
 four thousand or more sacks of potatoes a season, 
 he ships the product to Denver in car-load lots. 
 He owns a thresher, self-binder, and all kinds of 
 labor-saving machinery, and is thoroughly abreast 
 of the times in every way. 
 
 Since the Farmers' Mill and Elevator Company 
 was started Mr. Dickens has been president of the 
 concern, which he was mainly instrumental in 
 founding. The mill has a 'capacity of six hun- 
 dred sacks per day; is equipped with improved 
 roller machinery and "Pride of the Rockies," its 
 finest product, commands the highest market 
 price of any flour manufactured in the state. It 
 is shipped all over this and adjoining states, and 
 even to New Orleans and eastern cities. A large 
 warehouse (the old Washington Hotel site) at 
 
 Fifteenth and Wazee streets is utilized for storage 
 purposes. Mr. Dickens is a director in, and was 
 one of the incorporators of, the Farmers' National 
 Bank and is now vice-president of the same. He 
 belongs to the Cattle Growers' Association of 
 Colorado. He is a charter member of McPherson 
 Post No. 6, G. A. R. Ill politics he is a strong 
 and loyal Republican, and has persistently de- 
 clined public office and honors. 
 
 December 13, 1886, Mr. Dickens married Miss 
 IdaKiteley, a native of Walworth County, Wis. 
 Her parents were John and Catherine (Flans- 
 burg) Kiteley, her father a native of England 
 and her mother of New York state, of Holland- 
 Dutch descent. The father settled in Colorado 
 about 1872 and resides in Longmont. The five 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Dickens are: 
 William A., a member of the class of '98, of the 
 Fort Collins State Agricultural College; Rienzi C. , 
 Mary, Artalissa and John, at home. 
 
 BERNARD CHESTER KILLIN, a man of 
 much prominence in Elbert County, con- 
 ducts a large ranch near the town of Kiowa, 
 on section 20, township 8 south, range 63 west, 
 and is extensively engaged in stock-raising. He 
 is a son of Patrick and Sarah (Wakefield) Killin, 
 and was born in Washtenaw County, Mich., Feb- 
 ruary 6, 1845. 
 
 Patrick Killin, the father of our subject, was 
 born in Ireland and in his boyhood emigrated to 
 America with his parents, locating in New York 
 City, where he lived for a few years. In 1828 he 
 moved to Hartford, Conn., and in 1834 to Wash- 
 tenaw County, Mich. , where he was one of the 
 pioneers, and engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 during the remainder of his life. He married 
 Sarah Wakefield, a lineal descendant of the Wake- 
 fields who came to this country in the " May- 
 flower." 
 
 Bernard C. Killin is a man of superior educa- 
 tion, having taken a course in the state normal 
 school, of Ypsilanti, Mich., after attending the 
 public schools for a time. He was but fifteen 
 years old upon the demise of his mother, and 
 shortly after began to shift in the world for him- 
 self, going to Fulton County, Ohio, where he 
 was employed in lumbering pursuits for four or 
 five years. In the spring of 1866 he went to 
 Omaha, intending to go from there to Montana 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 491 
 
 by means of a wagon train. As the Indians were 
 very troublesome the journey was a dangerous 
 one, and the train was not allowed to start with 
 less than sixty wagons. They made such slow 
 progress that our subject and a few others decided 
 to go ahead, and soon the train was left far in the 
 rear, but all to no purpose, for at the next post 
 they were forcibly detained until there were the 
 required number of wagons. Although greatly 
 delayed he arrived safely at Denver, Colo., where 
 he was obliged to stop and seek employment, as 
 he was without means. He received work from 
 M. M. Delano, Esq., who was at that time mayor 
 of Denver. After laying by a neat little sum he 
 pre-empted the land upon which his home is now 
 located, and engaged in the cattle business on a 
 small scale. He soon after homesteaded another 
 piece of land and took up a timber claim. Hon- 
 est and upright at all times, energetic and indus- 
 trious, his business prospered, and now and again, 
 as his means justified, he added to his estate, 
 owning at the present time three thousand five 
 hundred acres in Elbert County. 
 
 December 30, 1891, Mr. Killin married Miss 
 Olive Adelia Grigg, of Greenville, Bond County, 
 111., where she was born. She was educated 
 principally in the public schools. She also took 
 a course in Almira College, of that town, and 
 taught school for a few years prior to going to 
 Colorado in 1891. She is a daughter of Jesse 
 Richardson Grigg and Sarah (Rhea) Grigg. Jesse 
 R. Grigg was born in Rutherford County, N. C. 
 He was taken to Bond County, 111. , when but two 
 years old, by his parents, Jesse and Susanah 
 (Taylor) Grigg. Sarah Rhea was born in Ma- 
 coupin County, 111. Her parents were Henry 
 Dill Rhea and Elizabeth (Adams) Rhea, of Ken- 
 tucky. The parents of Elizabeth Adams were 
 James Adams and Sarah (Ingram) Adams. Two 
 sons have blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kil- 
 lin: Bernard Chester and Valmi Grigg. 
 
 Politically our subject has always unswervingly 
 supported the principles of the Democratic party, 
 and has frequently been called upon to serve in 
 various official capacities. In 1873 he was elected 
 sheriff of Douglas County, which at that, time 
 comprised Elbert and Douglas Counties, but 
 when the division was made he resigned and was 
 elected superintendent of schools in the former. 
 He held that office for fourteen consecutive years, 
 with the exception of 1884 and 1885, serving 
 
 until 1892. Several times he has been elected j us- 
 tice of the peace, and was also appointed on the 
 state board of stock inspectors by Governor Waite. 
 Fraternally he is prominent, being the oldest and 
 one of the best-informed Masons of Elbert Coun- 
 ty; he became a member of that order in Febru- 
 ary, following his twenty-first birthday, at Wau- 
 seon, Fulton County, Ohio, where he took three 
 degrees. He has since taken the Scottish Rite, 
 up to and including the thirty-second degree, be- 
 ing a member of Union Eodge No. 7, of Denver; 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M.; Colorado Commandery 
 K. T.; No. I El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. 
 He is also a charter member of the Odd Fellow 
 Lodge at Elbert, of which he has filled a number 
 of the chairs; and a charter member of the Yeo- 
 man order, at Elizabeth, of which he is foreman. 
 Mrs. Killin is a charter member and secretary of 
 Lodge No. 29, W. R. C, of Elbert County, and 
 is a member of the S. O. O. B. Society No. i, of 
 Denver, an auxiliary of the Knights Templar. 
 Our subject is of genial disposition, a pleasant 
 companion, and has many friends in the various 
 communities in which he has lived. 
 
 0ANIEL T. CORT, a gentleman who has 
 been prominently identified with many busi- 
 ness enterprises and an owner of consider- 
 able real estate, some of which is in the city of 
 Denver, is a member of the Cort-Hames Mercan- 
 tile Company, dealers in general merchandise in 
 Elizabeth, Elbert County, of which he is a resi- 
 dent. He is a son of Simon and Sophia (Har- 
 den) Cort, and was born at Greensburg, West- 
 moreland County, Pa., November 20, 1849. 
 
 Simon Cort was also a native of Westmoreland 
 County, where he attended the public schools, 
 and at an early age learned the trade of a tan- 
 ner. After his marriage he moved to Leaven- 
 worth, Kan., where he embarked in the mercan- 
 tile business and successfully continued for a 
 period of four years. He then loaded his stock 
 in wagons and crossed the plains to Denver, 
 locating between Blake and McGee streets, where 
 he subsequently erected the first two-story brick 
 business block in East Denver, now occupied by 
 Barter s seed store. He continued in business 
 there with good results until he retired from 
 active business life, and has since been living 
 in Denver in the enjoyment of the fruits of an 
 
492 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 industrious and well spent life. He is now past 
 eighty-seven years of age, and has been an elder 
 in the Presbyterian Church for fifty -five years. 
 In politics he is a stanch Democrat and cast his 
 first vote for Andrew Jackson. He was frequently 
 called upon to accept ofiice, and at one time re- 
 fused the nomination for governor on the Prohi- 
 bition ticket. He was elected to the state legis- 
 lature from Jefferson County, of which he was a 
 resident for a few years, but was counted out by 
 a Republican legislature upon protest. He mar- 
 ried Sophia Harden, a native of Westmoreland 
 County, Pa., and a daughter of Capt. Harden, a 
 soldier of the war of 1812. 
 
 Daniel T. Cort attended the public schools of 
 Leavenworth, Kan., until he was eleven years of 
 age, when his parents moved to Denver. There 
 his education was supplemented by a course in 
 the public schools and the Methodist seminary, 
 leaving school at eighteen years. As a boy he 
 clerked in his father's store, later for W. B. Dan- 
 iels & Co. for four years, then for Walsen & 
 Levy three and one-half years, thereby gaining a 
 practical experience as to the best manner in which 
 to carry on the business. He then started in 
 business for himself with the last-named firm as 
 his backers financially. The business prospered 
 and in a short time he paid ofi" the indebtedness 
 and established himself at Franceville, El Paso 
 County, where he continued until 1890, and then 
 ■ moved to Elizabeth, in which town he and his 
 brother established a store a few years previous. 
 He has since resided there and has the best 
 equipped and stocked store in that section. He 
 is at present interested in a ranch, owns some 
 mining stock, and also considerable propertj' in 
 the city of Denver. He is a man of energy and 
 enterprise and has won his way to the front by 
 his individual efforts. A man of good character, 
 honorable and upright in all transactions, he pos- 
 sesses the confidence and esteem ofall with whom 
 he comes in contact in both business and social 
 relations. 
 
 Daniel T. Cort married Miss Minnie F. Cary, 
 a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a daughter of 
 Freeman G. Cary, who was president of the Far- 
 mers' College of that city for twenty-two years. 
 Among the noted scholars under his tutelage 
 were Murat Halstead, Benjamin Harrison and 
 Benjamin Butterworth. She was a cousin of 
 Phoebe and Alice Cary, who attained a world- 
 
 wide reputation as poets. She was called to her 
 final rest at Franceville in 1890, and was survived 
 by two children: Simon Levy, aged fourteen, 
 and Lelah Isabelle, aged ten years. The second 
 marriage of our subject took place April 3, 1892, 
 and united him with Miss Gertrude O. Randolph, 
 who was born in Ohio, educated in the normal 
 school at Valparaiso, Ind., and was a teacher of 
 Elizabeth prior to her marriage. Politically Mr. 
 Cort is an unswerving supporter of the Democratic 
 party, and in 1876 polled his first vote for Tilden. 
 He has never sought public ofiices, but was the 
 nominee of his party for the state legislature in 
 1894- ■ 
 
 j5^0RMAN D'ARCY, who is engaged in farm- 
 \l ing and stock raising on section 3, township 
 I ID 6, range 66 west, near the village of Parker, 
 Douglas County, was born in Monkstown, Ire- 
 land, September 18, 1856, and is a son of George 
 J. and Maria (Bingham) D'Arcy. His father, 
 who was a native of Ireland, was of French lin- 
 eage, as the name indicates. The earliest records 
 of the family indicate that they accompanied 
 William the Conqueror to England in 1066 and 
 from there removed to Ireland. 
 
 When our subject was a boy of about ten years 
 he came to America with his parents and settled 
 at Youngstown, Ohio, where he attended school 
 until he was fourteen. He then secured a posi- 
 tion as a clerk in a store in the city, and for three 
 years continued in the same place. The follow- 
 ing three years were spent as a clerk in Chicago. 
 In 1876 he went to Texas and began to work upon 
 a ranch, remaining in the state until 1881. He 
 then removed to New Mexico, where he bought 
 land and carried on a ranch until 1895. During 
 that year he came to Colorado and purchased his 
 present home of more than nine hundred acres, 
 where he has since been successful in carrying on 
 general farm work. 
 
 December 18, 1895, Mr. D'Arcy married Miss 
 Evelyn H. Woodbury, who was born in Colorado, 
 a daughter of Samuel S. and Evelyn (Hey wood) 
 Woodbury, and at the time of her marriage was 
 living in Douglas Count}-. Though reared in 
 the Republican faith, Mr. D'Arcy is a stanch ad- 
 vocate of Democratic principles and votes the 
 straight ticket. While he was in New Mexico 
 he was a candidate for county commissioner for 
 Bernalillo County. 
 
AUGUSTS COURVOISIER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 495 
 
 (Ti UGUSTE COURVOISIER. Both in physical 
 / I and mental endowments this well-known 
 I I watchmaker of Denver is a remarkable man. 
 Though advanced in years, he is hale and robust, 
 his hand is as steady and his eye as keen as in 
 days gone by. His skill in the repairing of 
 watches is so well known that they are sent to 
 him to be repaired from every part of the country, 
 between the lakes and the gulf, the Atlantic and 
 the Pacific, and never yet has he failed to repair 
 a watch perfectly. In fact, he has offered a re- 
 ward of $i,ooo for any watch that he cannot re- 
 pair, but it is not probable that he will ever be 
 called upon to pay this amount. 
 
 In points of years of work at the trade, Mr. 
 Courvoisier is the oldest watchmaker in the state, 
 having- followed the business for sixty-six years; 
 and he is third in point of time spent in Denver. 
 His location in this city was partly the result of 
 chance, as he had started from the east as Montana 
 as his objective point, but the Indians being 
 dangerous, he deemed it best not to proceed 
 further on his journey, so located in Denver in 
 the fall of 1866. He began in business on 
 Larimer street and built at Nos. 1732-34 during 
 the early days of his residence here, this being 
 the first brick building in the block. From there 
 he removed to Lawrence street, near Nineteenth, 
 where he also built, and both of these properties 
 he still owns. In 1889 he visited Europe and 
 attended the Paris Exposition, and after his re- 
 turn he built a two-story block, 60x60, corner of 
 Broadway and Dakota avenue, where he still 
 carries on a jewelry business. 
 
 In Canton, Neuchatel, Switzerland, our sub- 
 ject was born November 11, 1821, the son of 
 Hipolite and Felicite (Pernoud) Courvoisier, also 
 natives of Switzerland, but of French descent. 
 His paternal grandfather, David Louis Cour- 
 voisier, was a farmer, and his maternal grand- 
 father, Henry Francois Pernoud, followed the 
 watchmaker's trade; the latter attained the age 
 of nearly one hundred years. Our subject's 
 father was a woodturner and cooper and manu- 
 factured all kinds of woodwork. When an old 
 man he came to America and joined his son, 
 Auguste, in Madison, Wis., where he died. 
 Twice married, by his first wife he had five chil- 
 dren, of whom Auguste was next to the oldest 
 and is the only one living; by his second mar- 
 riage he had one child. 
 20 
 
 At the age of ten our subject was apprenticed to 
 a watchmaker for seven years and at the close of 
 his time he traveled in France, following his 
 trade. He took part in the Revolution of 1848. 
 When the republic was overthrown and an em- 
 pire again established, he came to America, 
 settling in Providence, R. I., in 1852. For eight 
 months he was in the employ of Sharp & Brown, 
 after which he started in business for himself. 
 During eight months of 1854 he worked at his 
 trade in Attleboro, Mass. In 1855 he removed to 
 Madison, Wis., and opened a store on Pinkney's 
 street. During the Pike's Peak gold excitement 
 of 1859 he started for Colorado, but instead of 
 mining settled in what is now DeSoto, Neb. In 
 the fall of the same year he removed to New Or- 
 leans, where he spent two years, returning thence 
 to Madison, but later going back to New Orleans. 
 When the war opened the Confederate gov- 
 ernment attempted to force him into ser\-ice; 
 not desiring to enlist, he started for France, but 
 was blockaded for forty- three days on shipboard. 
 Finally he succeeded in making his way up the 
 Mississippi to St. Louis, from which city he went 
 to Madison. In the fall of 1862 he started for 
 France, where and in Switzerland he spent a 
 year, then returning to Madison, Wis., remained 
 there until 1866, the date of his location in 
 Denver. He made the journey westward by 
 means of a mule train, enduring all the hardships 
 of such a trip. 
 
 Mr. Courvoisier has always had the greatest 
 faith in the future of Denver as a metropolitan 
 city. After being in Denver one year, and in 
 spite of the entreaties of some friends who wanted 
 him to locate in Golden, he answered that he 
 wanted to see Denver with fifty thousand inhabi- 
 tants. While there was no room in Golden for such 
 a population, the said friends laughed at him and 
 asked if he expected to live a couple of hundred 
 years. He believes that at no distant day Denver 
 will rise to a foremost position among the cities 
 of the United States, as it is now the principal 
 city of the great west. He owns a ranch two 
 and one-half miles from the heart of Denver and 
 consisting of one hundred acres, twenty of which 
 are within the city limits. His possessions here 
 are large and valuable, but he does not desire to 
 sell, preferring to hold all his property awaiting 
 the further growth and development of the city. 
 However, he does not believe that the west can 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 expect any continued prosperity until the cur- 
 rency question is adjusted on a more satisfac- 
 tory basis and the double standard is adopted. 
 He is a member of the Gruetli Verein, the Swiss 
 society here. While in Besancon, France, he 
 was made a Free Mason and was master of the 
 lodge there. In France he married Victorine 
 Colard, who was born there and died in Denver 
 September 21, 1896, aged seventy years. 
 
 (Tames IZETT. when a mere boy Mr. Izett 
 I came from Scotland to America and settled 
 (2/ with the other members of the family in 
 Denver, then a comparatively small and unim- 
 portant place, with few indications to the un- 
 observing eye of its present greatness. October 
 31, 1888, he opened a shop at No. 1131 Welton 
 street, where he has a building two stories in 
 height and 25x100 feet in dimensions, devoted to 
 the manufacture of vehicles of all kinds, though 
 making a specialty of delivery wagons. 
 
 The Izetts are a Scotch family. Grandfather 
 James Izett was born in Ayrshire, and for years 
 was a toll-gate keeper at Lanark, but afterward 
 kept a country inn in the same place. His son, 
 James, Jr., who was a native of Ayrshire and a 
 carpenter by trade, came to America in 1871 and 
 settled in Denver, where he was joined by his 
 family the following year. He worked at his 
 trade, being for a time in the shops of the Denver 
 & Rio Grande Railroad, but in 1878 he turned 
 his attention to merchandising, opening a store on 
 Welton street. After his death, which occurred 
 in 1889, at the age of forty-seven, the business 
 was continued by his second wife, Jane (Harvey) 
 Izett. His first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John 
 Harvey, was born near Lanark and died in Denver 
 in 1872. She was of distinguished Covenanter 
 descent; one of her ancestors, William Harvey, 
 was burned at the stake on account of his 
 religious belief. Of her six children all but one 
 are living. 
 
 James was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, June 
 2, 1863, and was the eldest of the family. At 
 the age of nine he came to Denver, where he at- 
 tended the grammar school. Afterward he 
 carried on his studies in the Boulder high school 
 for a year. At the age of fourteen he secured 
 employment on a ranch near Byers, where he 
 remained for six months; then returning to 
 
 Denver, he clerked in a hardware store for six 
 months and for a similar period was on a farm 
 near Clear Creek. At the age of sixteen he began 
 a four years' apprenticeship to the general black- 
 smith's trade under William Reid, and at the 
 expiration of his time he engaged in journeyman 
 work. He worked for the Colorado Iron Works, 
 and later worked eighteen months in the Denver 
 & Rio Grande shops. In 1883 he sailed for 
 Europe on the ship "Devonia," spending ten 
 days between New York and Glasgow. During 
 the winter he worked in Perth, Scotland, then 
 went to Glasgow and secured employment in the 
 Dubbs Locomotive Works as a blacksmith, re- 
 maining there for eighteen months. In 1885 he 
 came back to the United States, and the following 
 three and one-half years he worked as a black- 
 smith in the employ of David Orrock. 
 
 While in Scotland Mr. Izett was made a Mason 
 and is now a demitted member of the fraternity. 
 He was united in marriage, in Denver, with Miss 
 Alexandra Fraser, who was born in Aberdeen- 
 shire, Scotland, but has spent ten yearsof her life 
 in Denver, where her father, Gordon Fraser, was 
 a carpenter. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Izett are: Jeannie I., Elizabeth H. and James 
 Izett, Jr. 
 
 As a workman Mr. Izett has few equals, hav- 
 ing learned his trade thoroughly in two continents. 
 His growing business is in itself a testimony of 
 the appreciation Denver people have for his 
 ability. 
 
 QHILIP ZANG, founder of the Ph. Zang 
 Lr Brewing Company, of Denver, is a native of 
 j5 Bavaria, Germany, and is next to the oldest 
 among the six sons and two daughters of John 
 and Fredericka (Kaufman) Zang. His father, 
 who was a member of an old Bavarian family, 
 engaged in farming and the milling business, and 
 took part in the Napoleonic wars, accompanying 
 the illustrious general on his march to Moscow. 
 He died in 1849, at the age of sixty-two. Of his 
 children two sons and one daughter are living, 
 the latter being still a resident of Bavaria. One 
 of the sons, Alexander, came to America and dur- 
 ing the Civil war served in the Thirty-ninth New 
 York Infantry; he died in Denver in 1892. 
 
 In accordance with the national custom, the 
 subject of this sketch attended school until he was 
 fourteen, when he was bound out to learn a trade. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 497 
 
 For two and one-half years he was a brewer's 
 apprentice, after which he traveled around Ger- 
 many, working at his trade as he had opportu- 
 nity. In 1853 he came to America, going from 
 Rotterdam to Hull, thence to Liverpool, and from 
 there on the "City of Glasgow," which landed 
 him in Philadelphia after a voyage of eighteen 
 days. Ignorant of the English language, his 
 first endeavor was to gain sufficient knowledge to 
 converse with the people here, and during the 
 first six months in this country, while working 
 as a railroad hand, he was storing in his mind a 
 knowledge of our customs and language. In 
 January, 1854, he went to Louisville, Ky., where 
 he worked at his trade for one j'ear. Later, 
 desiring to learn engineering, he secured employ- 
 ment in a woolen mill, and remained there until 
 January, 1859, meantime becoming familiar with 
 the engineer's occupation. During the latter 
 year he built a brewery in Louisville and this he 
 conducted alone until 1865, when he erected a 
 large brewery, which was carried on under the 
 firm name of Zang & Co. Selling this in Feb- 
 ruary, 1869, he decided to locate in the growing 
 town of Denver. 
 
 Here Mr. Zang was engaged as superintendent 
 of the brewery owned by John Good until July, 
 1 87 1, when he bought out his employer and con- 
 tinued the business alone. The business had 
 been started by Mr. Good in 1859 on the same 
 spot, under the title of the Rocky Mountain Brew- 
 ery, which continued to be its name for some 
 years. In July, 1871, Mr. Zang enlarged the 
 brewery, which now has a capacity of one hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand barrels per annum, and is 
 the largest between St. Louis and San Francisco. 
 There are also a malt house, with modern equip- 
 ments; an ice plant, lager beer vaults, boiler 
 house, brewery stables, and a switch from the 
 railroad connecting with the main lines, in order 
 to facilitate the work of shipment. In 1880 the 
 name was changed to Philip Zang & Co. , and in 
 July, 1889, the business was sold to an English 
 syndicate, who changed the name to the Ph. 
 Zang Brewing Company. Adolph J. Zang, our 
 subject's only son, is now the manager of the 
 brewery, and our subject assists him by his 
 counsel and experience. He is interested in 
 mining companies in Cripple Creek and Eagle 
 County and also has interests in Silverton mining 
 districts. 
 
 In Philadelphia Mr. Zang married Miss Eliza- 
 beth Hurlebaus, who died in Chicago, leaving an 
 only child, Adolph J. In Denver, October 18, 
 1870, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Anna 
 B. Boch, nee Kalberer, an estimable lady and one 
 who has many friends in this city. The family 
 residence, built in 1887, stands at No. 2342 
 Seventh street. For one term Mr. Zang served 
 as an alderman of the sixth ward, to which 
 position he was elected on the Democratic ticket, 
 but he himself is independent in politics. While 
 in Louisville he was made a Mason and an Odd 
 Fellow, and he now belongs to Schiller Lodge 
 No. 41, A. F. & A. M., and Germania Lodge 
 No. 14, 1. O. O. F., of Denver, of both of which he 
 is a charter member. He is also connected with 
 the Turn Verein, Krieger Verein and Bavarian 
 Verein, and takes a prominent part in all local 
 affairs. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM ALBERT WEIGELE. In his 
 \ A / special line of business, no man in the we.st 
 Y Y is better known than Mr. Weigele, who is 
 proprietor of the Weigele Pipe Works at Nos. 
 2949-51 Larimer street, Denver. The building 
 he occupies, remodeled under his supervision to 
 meet his special needs, is two stories in height 
 and 25x125 feet in dimensions. Here are manu- 
 factured riveted steel water pipe, for placer min- 
 ing, water power and water works, for pressure 
 as high as five hundred pounds to the square inch, 
 and sheet steel work of all kinds. In 1895 he 
 manufactured sixty thousand feet of steel pipe 
 and the following year did even a larger amount 
 of business, his orders coming from all parts of 
 Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Idaho. 
 
 The Weigele family was founded in America 
 by John C, our subject's father, who was born 
 near Stuttgart, Germany, and emigrated with 
 three brothers to America, all settling in Lafay- 
 ette, Ind. These brothers were George, Charles 
 and Jacob, the last named now deceased. In 
 Lafayette John C. engaged in the bakery business 
 for many years, but upon retiring from active 
 labors he joined his children in Denver, where he 
 died at the age of fifty-five. His wife, who was 
 also born near Stuttgart, bore the maiden name 
 of Anna C. Hederly and accompanied her parents 
 to America, settling in Lafayette. Her death 
 occurred in Denver. Both she and her husband 
 
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 were consistent members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. They were the parents of six 
 children: E. George, who was the first to come 
 to Denver and still resides here; Caroline, wife 
 of Frederick Neef, of Denver; John C, who was 
 the second member of the family to settle in 
 Denver, and is now foreman in the Weigele Pipe 
 Works; Eda K., wifeof Alonzo Hewitt, of Kan- 
 sas City; William A., of Denver; and Margaret, 
 wife of W. R. Freeman, cashier of the Colorado 
 Midland Railroad. 
 
 During the residence of his parents in Lafay- 
 ette, Ind., the subject of this sketch was born, 
 July 24, 1869. July 8, 1880, he came with his 
 parents to Denver, where he completed his educa- 
 tion in the public schools. In 1885 he began in 
 the sheet iron business with a brother, later 
 serving an apprenticeship under John Young and 
 in the Colorado Copper and Sheet Iron Works. 
 He began for himself in 1892, having his shop 
 on Thirty-second and Market streets, but in the 
 spring of 1893 he removed to his present location. 
 He does the heaviest and largest business of any- 
 one in his line in the city and has built up not 
 only a large business, but also a reputation as an 
 honest, reliable and efficient business man. He 
 does not take an active part in politics, contenting 
 himself with depositing a Republican vote at 
 elections. He was married iii Denver to Miss 
 Beatrice Coad, who was born in Blackhawk, 
 Colo., her father having been one of the pioneer 
 miners in that town. They are the parents of 
 one child, a daughter, Doris Weigele. 
 
 The success which has attended Mr. Weigele 
 is an object lesson to every j'oung man who has 
 his own way to make in life. He was qualified 
 for the struggle of life by having inherited the 
 sterling virtues of honesty and industry, which 
 he brought into his ever}' action and contact in 
 business with his fellow-men. His word is never 
 doubted and the reputation he has built up in the 
 mountain states rests upon a solid foundation and 
 reflects honor and credit on his name. 
 
 ff 
 
 LEXANDER B. POTTER, representative 
 of the Manitou Mineral Water Company in 
 Denver, is of Canadian birth and English 
 descent. His grandfather, David Potter, a native 
 of Scotland, and of English parentage, emigrated 
 to America and settled in Albany, N. Y. In that 
 
 city occurred the birth of D. M. Potter, who in 
 early manhood moved to Canada and embarked 
 in business at Elora, Ontario, remaining there as 
 a manufacturer of machinery until his retirement 
 from business. He married Elizabeth Buchanan, 
 who was born in Canada, of Scotch lineage. 
 Both still make their home in Elora. Of their 
 six children three sons and two daughters are 
 living, Alexander being next to the oldest. He 
 was educated in his native town of Elora and in 
 youth was connected with his father in business. 
 For a time he was employed in the States, but 
 returning to Canada he bought his father's busi- 
 ness and engaged in the manufacture of ma- 
 chinery. Prosperity continued with him until the 
 burning of his property, which proved a serious 
 lo-ss; however, he rebuilt a part of the plant and 
 engaged in manufacturing shingles, having his 
 water power furnished from the Grand River. 
 
 Selling out the business in 1889, Mr. Potter 
 came to Denver and became city salesman for 
 one of the most prominent business houses here, 
 but after a short time he accepted a position as 
 traveling representative for the Manitou Mineral 
 Water Company, his territory comprising all the 
 district west of Chicago. In their interests he 
 traveled throughout the western states and 
 territories and British Columbia. When General 
 Adams was accidentally killed in the Gomery 
 Hotel disaster in August, 1895, Mr. Potter was 
 chosen to succeed him as representative of the 
 company in Denver, and has since had exclusive 
 charge of the warehouse at No. 131 7 Thirteenth 
 street. In April, 1S97, he also accepted the 
 position of manager for the Pabst Brewing 
 Company for the state of Colorado, the head- 
 quarters of the company being at No. 1824 Stout 
 street, and their cold storage warehouses at the 
 same place and also on Blake street. Fraternally 
 he is a Mason. 
 
 Mr. Potter was married June 21, 1898, in Buf- 
 falo, N. Y., to Luella H. Schlund, of Buffalo, 
 where her father, John B. Schlund, was foirmerly 
 a well-known business man. 
 
 gARL A. LAMMERS, proprietor of the C. A. 
 Lammers Bottling Company, of Denver, was 
 born and reared in the province of Hanover, 
 Germany, and received an excellent education 
 in the gymnasium at Osnabrueck. In 1882 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 499 
 
 he came to America and settled in St. Louis, 
 where he clerked with several well-known firms 
 and finally became a traveling man, selling brew- 
 ers' supplies in sixteen states east and west of the 
 Mississippi. His travels enabled him to obtain a 
 splendid insight into different localities, their re- 
 sources and prospects, and among other places 
 visited by him, Denver he found especially 
 pleasant and inviting. He was here in 1885 for 
 the first time and during the ensuing five years 
 frequently came here on short business trips, 
 which, however, enabled him to ascertain that 
 the city was enjoying a steady growth, with the 
 brightest prospects for the future. 
 
 Resigning his position with the St. Louis house 
 in 1890, Mr. Lammers visited his old home in 
 Germany and other places in Europe. Mean- 
 while his building in Denver, the C. A. Lammers 
 Bottling Works, was being erected. In July, 
 1 89 1, he started the business, which, two years 
 later, was incorporated with himself as secretary, 
 treasurer and general manager. The works 
 have a capacity of one hundred barrels per day, 
 and shipments are made to Colorado, Wyoming, 
 New Mexico, Utah and Nebraska. The build- 
 ing is a three-story stone structure, 88x80 feet 
 in dimensions, and the firm are the sole and ex- 
 clusive bottlers for the Philip Zang Brewing 
 Company. 
 
 In Germany, in 1891, Mr. Lammers married 
 Miss Mary Ohlhorst, who was born in the city 
 of Hanover. They have one child, Siegfried 
 Alexander. In fraternal relations Mr. Lammers 
 is identified with the Turn Verein, 
 
 (pTEPHEN NEUMAN, M. D., was born 
 2\ in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2, 
 Vy 1827, the son of Gen. Jacques and Leonore 
 (Raffalovitch) Neuman. His paternal grand- 
 father, Henry Neuman, M. D. , a native of Stutt- 
 gart, Germany, accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte 
 from France to Russia in 18 12 and remained in 
 the latter country, where he filled the same posi- 
 tion as in France, that of physician to the army, 
 with the rank of general. He died in Moscow in 
 1858, at the great age of one hundred and fourteen 
 years. Dr. Jacques Neuman graduated from the 
 Academy of Surgeons in St. Petersburg and 
 afterward held the position of physician in the 
 Russian army, participating in the Polish, Turk- 
 
 ish and Hungarian wars. He died in 1863, at 
 the age of sixty-eight. His wife was a daughter 
 of Col. Alexander Raffalovitch, a member of the 
 nobility and an ofiicer in the Russian army. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the eldest of 
 five children. His education was completed in 
 the St. Vladimir University of Russia, in 1859; 
 he subsequently took a three years' post-graduate 
 course in the Berlin University, where he gradu- 
 ated in medicine in 1861. He was then appointed 
 a surgeon in the Russian army, and attained the 
 rank of general, accompanying the army to 
 various fields of wars. He was present in the 
 engagements of the Crimean war, twice was sent 
 to Turkey and twice went to Poland during the 
 revolution there. Only once was he wounded 
 and then but slightly. After retiring from the 
 army he was surgeon in a hospital in St. Peters- 
 burg, but in 1889 resigned his commission and 
 came to America. He spent six months in New 
 York and then located in Denver, where he has 
 a general practice in medicine and surgery. 
 
 In St. Petersburg Dr. Neuman married Emelia 
 Raffalovitch, daughter of Alexander and sister of 
 Daniel Raffalovitch, counselor-at-law for all the 
 railroads and ship companies for the Russian 
 government and representative of his country in 
 the bimetallic conference at Brussels in 1893. 
 Dr. Neuman is a member of prominent medi- 
 cal societies in Germany and Russia, Denver 
 and Arapahoe, and also the American Medical 
 Association. He has frequently contributed to 
 medical journals, both in Russia and America, 
 and stands high in the councils of the medical 
 profession. 
 
 0ANIEL NEUMAN, M. D., has resided in 
 America since 1889. He came to Denver 
 in January of the following year, and in 
 1892 entered Gro.ss Medical College, from which 
 he graduated in 1895 with the degree of M. D. 
 While at college he held the position of chemist 
 to the County Hospital. He began in practice 
 here, having his ofiice at No. 131 1 Nineteenth 
 street. For a time he held the position of clini- 
 cal instructor of laryngology and rhinology in 
 Gross Medical College. He is a member of the 
 county, state and American medical societies, and 
 was vice-president of the alumni society of his 
 alma mater, 1897-98. A fluent writer and clear 
 
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 thinker, his contributions to medical journals are 
 valuable additions to the medical literature of 
 the times. In his native land he was a member 
 of the Society of the Fourth Gymnasium and the 
 Young Men's L,iterary Club of St. Petersburg. 
 
 The Neuman ancestry appears in the sketch of 
 his father, Dr. Stephen Neuman. Daniel was 
 the second of five children, the others being 
 Jacob, an attorney, who holds the office of 
 supreme judge in Eastern Siberia; Agate, whose 
 husband is the city physician of Moscow ; Matilda 
 and Sophia, who are with their mother in Mos- 
 cow. After graduating from the gymnasium of 
 his native city, St. Petersburg, our subject entered 
 the College of Pharmacy at St. Vladimir and 
 graduated with the degree of Master of Pharmacy. 
 Since coming to the United States he has built 
 up a large practice in Denver and has become 
 known as one of the rising physicians of the city. 
 His attention is closely given to his profession 
 and he has little time for politics or fraternal 
 organizations, though he is a member of the 
 Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Neuman took place in 
 Denver, where he was united with Miss Grace 
 Bailey, a native of England. They are the 
 parents of a daughter, Lizzie. 
 
 0AVID H. COOVER, M. D., professor of 
 clinical ophthalmology and otology in Gross 
 Medical College, oculist and aurist to St. 
 Anthony's and St. Joseph's hospitals and to the 
 Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, and Denver, 
 Leadville & Gunnison Railroads, is a well-known 
 and successful specialist in the treatment of dis- 
 eases of the eye and ear and has his ofiice in the 
 California building, Denver. He is a member of 
 the American Association of Railway Surgeons 
 and the American Medical Society, and since 
 coming to Denver he has identified himself with 
 the Colorado State Medical Society, Denver 
 Pathological Society and Denver and Arapahoe 
 County Medical Society. 
 
 The Coover family originated in Germany, 
 where the name was Kober, but Jacob, the doc- 
 tor's grandfather, changed the spelling to Cover, 
 and in the next generation it was changed to the 
 present form of spelling. Dr. E. H. Coover, 
 father of our subject, was born in Cumberland 
 County, Pa., and in 1840 graduated from the 
 
 Jefferson Medical College, after which for twenty 
 years he carried on a general practice in New 
 Cumberland. From there he removed to Harris- 
 burg, where he is still, though now advanced in 
 years, engaged in active practice. His wife, who 
 was born in Harrisburg and died there in 1889, 
 was Annie, daughter of David Hummel, of Ger- 
 man descent, and a native of Hummelstown, 
 Dauphin County, Pa., but for many years a sad- 
 dler in Harrisburg, where he died. His wife's 
 maternal grandfather was Christian Kunkle, a 
 quartermaster in the Revolutionary war. The 
 two sons of Dr. E. H. Coover are D. H. and H. 
 R., the latter a graduate of Jefferson Medical 
 College and a practicing physician in Harrisburg. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in New 
 Cumberland, Pa., in 1852, and received his edu- 
 cation in the public school there and the 
 high school in Harrisburg. The study of 
 medicine he continued under his father. In the 
 year 187 1 he entered Jefferson Medical College, 
 where he studied for three years, though the 
 regular college course was only two years. 
 After graduating in 1874 he engaged in practice 
 with his father, but two years later went to 
 Philadelphia and spent a year in study under 
 Dr. P. D. Keyser, in Welt's Eye Hospital. 
 For the purpose of extending his studies 
 he went to Europe in 1878 and studied dis- 
 eases of the eye and ear in the hospitals of 
 Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London, remaining 
 abroad for two years. On his return to Harris- 
 burg he at once entered upon the practice of these 
 specialties, in which department of therapeutics 
 he had gained a thorough practical knowledge by 
 his studies in America and Europe. He acquired 
 a large practice and a reputation as a skillful ocu- 
 list and aurist, but his wife's health made a 
 change of climate necessary and he therefore 
 came to Colorado. 
 
 In Harrisburg Dr. Coover married Miss Annie 
 Gross, by whom he had a son, David Gross. In 
 politics he is a Republican, but not active in party 
 affairs. He is a member of the University Club 
 and in religious connections is identified with 
 Central Presbyterian Church. 
 
 "HEODORE SESS, member of the firm of 
 Combs & Sess, of Denver, and a resident of 
 this city since 1889, was born in St. Louis, 
 Mo., May 31, 1852, and is a son of Henry and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 501 
 
 Elizabeth (Menke) Sess, natives of Germany. 
 His father, who engaged in carpentering in New 
 York and St. Louis, took his family to Leaven- 
 worth, Kan., in 1855, and there engaged in con- 
 tracting and building, and also operated a saw- 
 mill. During the exciting days of slavery agita- 
 tion he was an advocate of a free state. He was 
 accidentally killed at his mill in 1863. His wife 
 is still living in Leavenworth. Of their six chil- 
 dren, all but one are living, Theodore being the 
 oldest of the family and the only one in Colorado. 
 
 From the age of three years our subject spent 
 his childhood years in Leavenworth, where he 
 attended the public schools. At the age of six- 
 teen he began an apprenticeship of three years to 
 the trade of carpenter and cabinet-maker, and at 
 the expiration of his time he went to Creston, 
 Iowa, where he worked in the carpenter shop of 
 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. 
 For eleven years he held the position of assistant 
 foreman in the coach and cab department, after 
 which he engaged in building for two years. 
 Coming to Denver in 1889, he worked in the em- 
 ploy of contractors until 1893, when he began in 
 business for himself, forming a partnership with 
 O. N. Combs. He has made a specialty of store 
 and office fixtures and fine cabinet work. 
 
 In politics Mr. Sess is a silver Republican. He 
 is a member of the Carpenters & Builders' As- 
 sociation and the Woodmen of the World. He 
 was married in Creston to Miss A. E. Smith, a 
 native of Illinois. They have two children, Her- 
 bert and Mildred. 
 
 pQlLLIAM H. WEST. Among the business 
 I A/ ^'^^ °^ Denver this gentleman occupies a 
 YY responsible place. He is a contractor, 
 builder and jobber, with a specialty of laundry 
 work, in which department he has been partic- 
 ularly successful. Since taking up this work as 
 his specialty in 1896, he has refitted nearly every 
 laundry in the city, manufacturing their wood- 
 work and furnishing their supplies. In this line 
 he is considered the best workman in Denver. He 
 has his office at Nos. 1421-27 Eighteenth street. 
 Born in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, Mr. West 
 is of English descent. His grandfather, for whom 
 he was named, was born and reared in England, 
 where he learned the trade of weaving. He came 
 to America on a visit when advanced in years 
 
 and died here. Samuel West, our subject's fa- 
 ther, was born in Manchester, England, where 
 he learned the trade of gas manufacturer. He 
 went to Keokuk to take the superintendency of 
 the works there and remained in the city for 
 seventeen years. At this writing he resides on a 
 farm in Clark County, Mo. He married Mary 
 Bowden, a native of England and daughter of 
 James Bowden, who was an engineer there. 
 
 The eldest of five children now living, William 
 H. West spent the first ten years of his life in 
 Keokuk, after which he settled with the family 
 on a farm in Clark County. At the age of twen- 
 ty he began carpentering and cabinet-making in 
 Keokuk, Iowa, where he worked at the trade for 
 two years. In 1880 he came to Colorado and 
 settled at Silver Cliflf, where he assisted in erect- 
 ing the mill for the Silver Clifi" Mining and Mill- 
 ing Company. On the completion of the mill he 
 was made foreman of the pan and amalgamating 
 rooms. In January, 1881, he began to assist in 
 the erection of a wet process mill in the same 
 county and for eight months he was foreman of 
 the sluice. Later for a year he engaged in pros- 
 pecting, but then returned to Clark County, 
 where he settled upon his farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres. The succeeding five years were de- 
 voted to the cattle business and general farm pur- 
 suits. In 1887 he returned to Denver, where he 
 worked at his trade a short time, then went to 
 Colorado Springs and engaged in contracting and 
 building for two years as a member of the firm of 
 Weight & West. Returning to Denver in 1889, 
 he worked at his trade for others until 1893, since 
 which time he has been a contractor, with the 
 exception of seven months in 1894, when he was 
 erecting and starting a mill in Idaho Springs. 
 
 In Colorado Springs, Mr. West married Miss 
 Belle Fox, who was born in Missouri. Political- 
 ly he is a silver Republican. He was made a 
 Mason while in Keokuk, Iowa, where his mem- 
 bership remains. He is past officer of tl^e An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, in which he 
 has received the degree of honor. 
 
 EHARLES ARTHUR BEAMER. The opera 
 stables, of which Mr. Beamer has been mana- 
 ger since 1891, are situated at Nos. 1012-18 
 Fifteenth street, Denver, where a livery, board- 
 ing and sales business is conducted in a two-story 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 building, 50x100 feet in dimensions. The barn 
 was built about 1865 by John Hughes and was 
 then considered out of town, but the tide of busi- 
 ness has changed so as to make it now in the 
 heart of the city. 
 
 Mr. Beamer was born in St. Catharines, Onta- 
 rio, Canada, and is of German and French de- 
 scent. His father, William Jesse, was born in 
 Ontario, but removed to New York and engaged 
 in the mercantile business on Broadway, after 
 some years going west to St. l/ouis. During the 
 Civil war he enlisted in a Missouri regiment and 
 was made first lieutenant of his company, remain- 
 ing in the service until he died at Springfield, Mo. , 
 at the age of thirty-five. His wife, who was 
 Miss Emeline Woods, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., 
 the granddaughter of a Revolutionary patriot, • 
 who died in St. I<ouis at eighty-nine years of age. 
 Her father, Stephen, was born in Kentucky in 
 1805 and removed to Ohio, thence to Buffalo, 
 N. Y., where he was an architect, contractor 
 and builder. After the death of her first husband 
 Mrs. Beamer married John R. Parsons, of St. 
 Ivouis, by whom she had seven children, but 
 only one survives. Of her first marriage there 
 were four children, but our subject is the sole 
 survivor. He was two years of age when his 
 parents went to St. Louis, and his education was 
 obtained in the public and high schools of that 
 city. When not attending school he clerked for 
 his step-father, who owned a store on Fourth, be- 
 tween Olive and Locust, a business that is still 
 conducted there, with branch stores in New York. 
 
 At the age of twenty -four our subject embarked 
 in business for himself, opening a men's furnish- 
 ing store on Sixth street, St. Louis. In 1885 he 
 sold out and came to Denver. He was then a 
 widower, his first wife, who was Miss Nellie 
 Stewart, a niece of Congressman William H. 
 Stone, of St. Louis, having died in 1875, less than 
 a year after their marriage. In this city he be- 
 came buyer for McNamara & Co., in which ca- 
 pacity he went east five times a year. After 
 continuing with the firm about four years he re- 
 signed his position, and has since managed the 
 opera stables. He is a stanch advocate of bi- 
 metallism and fraternally is connected with Mount 
 Moriah Lodge No. 40, A. F. & A. M., in St. 
 Louis. 
 
 Five children, Charles Arthur, Jr., William 
 Jesse, Elsie Marie, Berenice Beryl and Laura 
 
 Frances (the latter deceased aged nine months) 
 have been born to the union of Mr. Beamer and 
 Miss Elva Hughes, an accomplished lady, who 
 was born in Kentucky, and received an excellent 
 education in eastern schools. She is one of eight 
 children, six of whom are living, comprising the 
 family of John and Laura F. (Carter) Hughes. 
 Her father, who settled in Denver in early days, 
 became largely interested in the development of 
 the place and had important real-estate interests 
 here. For some time he was engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business, in which he was prominent and 
 successful. In politics he was a leader of the 
 Democratic party in this section. At the time of 
 his death, which occurred in 1883, he was the 
 owner of a large amount of valuable property 
 situated in Denver, and the estate, divided among 
 his widow and children, left them in comfortable 
 circumstances. He is remembered as one of the 
 most progressive and enterprising among the 
 early business men of Denver, which owes its 
 growth to the energy of such citizens as he. 
 
 yyi J. DUNLEAVY, M. D. C, has built up a 
 Y large business as a veterinary dentist and 
 (9 surgeon. His practice is not limited to 
 Denver, but extends through the surrounding 
 country and is constantly increasing. Being 
 skillful and accurate, he has gained an enviable 
 reputation in his chosen calling and has won the 
 confidence of the people as to his efficiency and 
 reliability. He is a graduate in his profession, 
 and to the knowledge acquired in college has 
 added the information obtained by experience. 
 
 The parents of Dr. Dunleavy, M. J. and Bertha 
 (McHugh) Dunleavy, were natives of New York 
 state. The former, who was a stockman, resided 
 for a time in Albany, but afterward located in 
 Owensboro, Ky., and thence removed to Belvi- 
 dere, Boone County, 111., where he died at the 
 age of seventy-seven. His widow makes her 
 home in St. Louis. Of their family of three 
 sons and two daughters all are living except one 
 of the sons. Our subject, who was next to the 
 youngest, was born in Steuben County, N. Y. , 
 in 1863, and was eight years of age at the time 
 the family removed to Owensboro. His educa- 
 tion was obtained in the public school of that 
 place and the high school of Belvidere, from 
 which he graduated in 1881. 
 
DAVID ORROCK. 
 
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 505 
 
 Entering upon the study of veterinary den- 
 tistry, our subject became a student in Craig's 
 Veterinary Dental College of Chicago, from 
 which he graduated in 1883, with the degree of 
 V. D. After his graduation the college sent him 
 out, as an expert dentist, into different parts of 
 the country. For about three years he traveled 
 in this capacity, spending a short time on Iceland 
 Stanford's ranch in California, also visiting Ken- 
 tucky, Illinois, Montana, Iowa and Indiana. In 
 the meantime, in 1885, he established his head- 
 quarters in Denver, where he married Miss Alice 
 Fitzgibbons, a native of Utica, N. Y. 
 
 In 1893 Dr. Dunleavy entered the Chicago 
 Veterinary College, where he took the regular 
 course of study, graduating April 28, 1896, with 
 the degree of M. D. C. Returning to Denver, 
 he resumed his practice, and has since given at- 
 tention to both departments of his profession, 
 surgery and dentistry, having his office at No. 
 47 West Colfax avenue. For years he has been 
 given the city veterinary dental work and has 
 also done considerable work in the line of surgery. 
 He is active in the Woodmen of America and the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and is pop- 
 ular in social circles of the city. 
 
 0AVID ORROCK was founder and president 
 of the Orrock Carriage Company in Denver 
 and had the reputation of building the finest, 
 best and most durable vehicles of any manufact- 
 urer here. His death, which occurred January 
 18, 1898, was a loss to the business interests of 
 the city, which he had so honorably represented 
 and with which he had been so intimately con- 
 nected. The company with which his name is 
 connected was organized in November, 1896, and 
 incorporated, with himself as president, under 
 the laws of the state of Colorado. The building 
 he occupied was erected under his personal su- 
 pervision in 1887 and was 50x70, two stories in 
 height, the first floor being used for a blacksmith 
 shop and for woodwork and trimming, while the 
 second floor was a painting department. For 
 years he did most of the work for the fire depart- 
 ment, Colorado and Denver Packing Companies, 
 Metropole stables and other prominent concerns, 
 and he also made a specialty of the manufacture 
 of express spring wagons, his being the best of the 
 kind made in the city. 
 
 Near Dundee, in Farfarshire, Scotland, the 
 subject of this article was born March 24, 1858, 
 the descendant of an old family, some of whose 
 members were in the war of the Picts and Scots. 
 His father, Alexander, and grandfather, John 
 Orrock, were born in the same shire, where the 
 latter became wealthy in business as a contractor 
 of turnpikes and macadamized roads; he died 
 when ninety-seven years of age. Alexander Or- 
 rock was a large general contractor, but later be- 
 came chief forester of the Farthingham estate, and 
 held that position until his death, which was the 
 result of an accident. He married Cecelia Smith, 
 daughter of Alexander Smith, both natives of 
 Farfarshire, where the latter, a farmer, died at 
 the age of ninety-eight. Of their four children 
 only one is now living, Betsy, wife of George 
 Johnson, of Denver. 
 
 At the age of thirteen David Orrock began to 
 work upon a farm and continued in that occupa- 
 tion until he was eighteen, when he was appren- 
 ticed to the blacksmith's trade near Dundee. At 
 the expiration of three years, his time of service, 
 he engaged in journeyman work and six months 
 later was made foreman in a shop. In 1880 he 
 came from Glasgow to New York on the steamer 
 "Devonia," of the Anchor line, leaving Glasgow 
 July 17 and arriving at the old frame depot in 
 Denver August i, at 8 A. M. At once after com- 
 ing to this city he secured employment with War- 
 ren Purcell, but one month later he entered the 
 Union Pacific shops at South Park as a black- 
 smith, remaining in that position for nineteen 
 months. His next employment was with Mr. 
 Reed, whose partner he became in the shop on 
 Market, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth 
 streets. Later he bought his partner's interest 
 and continued in the same location until 1887, 
 when he bought the property at No. 1840 Mar- 
 ket street, where he continued in business until 
 his death. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Orrock was past officer of 
 Union Lodge No. i, I. O. O. F., and a member 
 of the Grand Encampment and Patriarchs Mili- 
 tant. In Denver he married Miss Carrie David- 
 son, who was born in this city, being the daugh- 
 ter of Joseph and Mary C. (Davies) Davidson, 
 natives respectively of Glasgow, Scotland, and 
 South Wales, England. Her mother emigrated 
 to America in 1856, landing in Boston April 6. 
 She accompanied her parents, David and Mary 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Davies, to Iowa City, Iowa, where her father 
 died. In the autumn of the same year the family 
 passed through Denver and located at Tulo Val- 
 ley, Utah, where they remained until the spring 
 of the following year. They then returned to 
 Denver, where the home of the family has since 
 been. After the death of Joseph Davidson, who 
 was a prominent citizen of Denver during the 
 war, his widow was married to Llewellyn Rees. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Orrock had two children, Cece- 
 lia Smith and David. Mr. Orrock was a man 
 who had the respect of his entire circle of ac- 
 quaintances and his death was mourned as a loss 
 to the city of which he had been an honored and 
 honorable resident. 
 
 EHARLES J. REILLY came to Denver in 
 the spring of 1880 and after having been in 
 the employ of others for four years he em- 
 barked in business for himself, becoming a con- 
 tractor for steam and hot water heating and ven- 
 tilating. In February, 1888, he removed to the 
 building he had just completed at Nos. 1425-27 
 Curtis street, where he has a store 25x100 feet, 
 and two stories in height. Afterward increasing 
 business made his quarters inadequate to his 
 needs, and he built a one-story structure, of the 
 same dimensions, adjoining, thus giving him 
 three floors for business. Among the contracts 
 he has had are those for heating the State 
 building. Equitable, Cooper, Railroad and Pi- 
 oneer buildingii. Cooper block and East Denver 
 high school; the Turk terrace, and residences of 
 J. W. Barker, John F. Campion, Dr. Stedman, 
 Dr. Whitney and others of the fine residences of 
 the city. In the fall of 1894 he started the Den- 
 ver Engineers' Supply Company at Nos. 1429-31 
 Curtis, where he carries on a wholesale and re- 
 tail business in that line. He is also interested 
 in the Onderdonk Air Valve Company, of Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 Mr. Reilly is of Irish parentage. His father, 
 Philip, was born in Dublin, but immediately after 
 his marriage he settled in Massachusetts, where he 
 engaged in general contracting. For more than fif- 
 ty years he made his home in Westfield and there 
 he died at the age of seventy-nine. His wife, Ellen, 
 was born in Ireland and died in Westfield. They 
 were the parents of four sons and three daughters, 
 all of whom are living. Charles J., who was 
 
 next to the oldest, was born in Westfield in 1843, 
 and at the age of nineteen came as far west as 
 Chicago, where he was apprenticed to the steam 
 and hot water heating trade with the firm of Wal- 
 worth, Hubbard & Co. After the expiration of 
 his time he worked at his trade there. In 1869 
 he became an employe of John Davis & Co. , with 
 whom he remained for more than fifteen years, be- 
 ing promoted from time to time until he became su- 
 perintendent. They chose him to represent them 
 in Denver, when in 1 880 they decided to open a 
 branch house here, and accordingly he came in 
 their interests. In 188 1 the firm name was 
 changed to Davis, Creswell & Co. , and he con- 
 tinued as superintendent until March i, 1884. 
 He then opened a store of his own at No. 417 Ara- 
 pahoe street, later removed to No. 404 Arapahoe, 
 then to No. 142 1 Lawrence street, and finally, in 
 1888, to his new building at No. 1425 Curtis street. 
 In Chicago Mr. Reilly married Miss Caroline 
 Emelia Stacy, who was born in Silver Creek, 
 N. Y., of French-Canadian descent. They have 
 four children : John J. , of Denver; Mrs. Nellie C. 
 Dougherty, of this city; William C, who is in 
 business with his father; and Charles J., Jr. Mr. 
 Reilly was made a Mason in Union Lodge No. 7, 
 A. F. & A. M., and is also a member of Denver 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Colorado Commandery 
 No. I, K. T., 'e1 Jebel Temple, N. M. S., and 
 the thirty-second degree Consistory, S. R. He 
 is also connected with the Woodmen of the World, 
 the Knights of Honor and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. Politically he is a silver Re- 
 publican. He is a charter member of the Master 
 Builders' Association of Denver and has been 
 identified with the Ma.ster Steam and Hot Water 
 Fitters' Association of the United States, all of 
 whose national meetings he attended priorto 1893. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM O'RYAN. St. Leo's par- 
 ish, of Denver, was organized in 1887 and 
 now has a handsome church building, pa- 
 rochial residence and the other equipments of a 
 modern parish. Much of the growth of the work is 
 due to the efiicient oversight of its pastor. Father 
 O'Ryan, who has been the spiritual adviser of 
 the congregation since 1892 and who has the rep- 
 utation of being one of the most brilliant orators 
 and intellectual priests in the city. 
 
 The parents of Father O'Ryan are Michael and 
 
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 507 
 
 Ellen (Maher) O'Ryan, natives of County Tip- 
 perary, Ireland, where they still reside. A num- 
 ber of relatives of the family are members of the 
 clergy in Ireland and the United States, among 
 them Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, and 
 Bishop Scanlon, of Salt Lake City. A brother. 
 Rev. Philip O'Ryan, of the Cathedral, San Fran- 
 cisco, is licentiate of theology of the Catholic 
 University, Washington, D. C, and editor of the 
 San Francisco Monitor. An uncle, Rev. T. 
 Maher, is one of the oldest priests of the Notre 
 Dame University, South Bend, Ind. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in the city 
 of Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, Febru- 
 ary 23, 1861. He was educated in the national 
 schools until twelve years of age, and then studied 
 in a private academy for three years, after which 
 he read rhetoric and philosophy in Thurles Col- 
 lege, Ireland, for three years. The next four 
 j'ears were spent in the study of theology in the 
 Royal College of Maynooth. He was ordained to 
 the priesthood by Cardinal Manning, in London, 
 October i, 1884, and for two years afterward 
 served under that eminent cardinal, but failing 
 health obliged him to seek a change of climate. 
 He had heard njuch of the healthfulness of Colo- 
 rado and decided to come here, which he did in 
 1887. He received an appointment in the Cathe- 
 dral of Denver, where he served for five years, 
 and in 1892 was transferred to his present pasto- 
 rate. He holds the diocesan offices of fiscal pro- 
 curator (similar to that of prosecuting attorney) , 
 defender of the marriage tie and examiner of the 
 clergy. 
 
 REV. MARIANO LEPORE. The Mount 
 Carmel Italian Church, of Denver, was or- 
 ganized March 18, 1894, by the gentleman 
 who has since held the pastorate. Through his 
 influence property was purchased and an edifice 
 built and furnished, $4,000 of the same being 
 provided for by himself through his own gifts and 
 personal solicitation of others. The congregation 
 owns seven lots on the corner of Palmer avenue 
 and West Thirty-sixth avenue, and is now prac- 
 tically free from indebtedness. Two hundred and 
 forty-seven families hold membership in the 
 church, and there are also one hundred and fifty 
 other families who live at too great distance to 
 attend services regularly. In 1898 a school was 
 
 built and it is the intention of the pastor to erect 
 a hospital as soon as the necessary funds are ar- 
 ranged for. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born near Naples, 
 Italy, September 16, 1868, and is the youngest of 
 five children, there being three daughters and two 
 sons. The latter is with his brother as manager 
 of the papers published here. The father, Dom- 
 inic Lepore, was born near Naples, where for 
 some years he engaged in merchandising, but is 
 now living retired; he married Louisa De Blasio, 
 who was born in Italy and died there in 1889. 
 Our subject pursued the study of the classics, the- 
 ology and philosophy in the College of Santa 
 Marie, Naples, and was ordained to the priest- 
 hood September 19, 1 891, in the Pride de Chapel, 
 by Bishop Cosenza. Immediately after his ordi- 
 nation he made preparations to come to America. 
 
 Arriving in New York City in May, 1892, a 
 month later he was made pastor in St. Anthony's 
 Church in Northvale, N. J., a congregation of 
 American worshipers. Though he was unfa- 
 miliar with the English language, yet a month 
 after becoming pastor he was able to read the 
 gospel in English. He filled that pastorate for 
 fourteen months and then accepted a call to Den- 
 ver, where he started the congregation of which 
 he has since been the head. In addition to his 
 regular work in the church he is the editor of 
 three Italian papers: La Nazione, a weekly 
 newspaper founded in 1894 and now publi.shedin 
 Denver; The Catholic, a monthly paper published 
 in Denver; L' Italiari, a weekly published in 
 Kansas City, Mo., and circulated through Mis- 
 souri and Kansas. These papers are widely read 
 among the Italian residents of the United States, 
 and bear witness to the ability and intellectual 
 attainments of their editor. 
 
 fi>6J ALTER FINLAY. A resident of Denver 
 \ A / since 1890, Mr. Finlay is now one of the 
 Y V well-known business men of the place. 
 Soon after coming here he embarked in the livery 
 business as the active member of the firm of W. 
 Finlay & Co., but in 1896 he bought the entire 
 interest and now has sole charge of the enter- 
 prise. The barns are located at No. 1432 Ar- 
 apahoe street, where he has a building, 50x125 
 feet in dimensions, and adapted to the general 
 livery and boarding business. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The Finlay family probably originated in 
 Scotland, but the subject of this sketch, his fa- 
 ther, John, and grandfather, Alexander, were na- 
 tives of Belfast, Ireland, the last-named being a 
 manufacturer of soap there. The father removed 
 to Brighton, England, in 1864, and remained 
 there until his death. His wife, who still makes 
 her home in England, was Elizabeth Finlay, 
 but, though bearing the same name, she was a 
 member of a different family from that to which 
 her husband belonged. She was born in County 
 Down, Ireland, and was a daughter of Rev. 
 Charles Finlay, who for years was pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Lake View, County 
 Armagh. Of her seven children, four are living, 
 Walter and Alexander in Denver, and two daugh- 
 ters in England. 
 
 At the age of eight the subject of this notice 
 became a pupil in the public school of Brighton, 
 England, but ten years later he returned to his 
 birthplace in Ireland, where he learned the linen 
 business with the company doing the largest 
 business in that line of any in Belfast. He re- 
 mained with the firm for eight years, and during 
 the last eighteen months represented the com- 
 pany in London, England, but finally resigned 
 and embarked in the tea business in Belfast. 
 Coming to America in 1884, he located at Raton, 
 N. M., where he engaged in the cattle business. 
 Hard times and depreciation in the price of cattle 
 unfortunately made his enterprise a failure, and 
 he sold out in 1890 and came to Denver. 
 
 The Republican party receives the support of 
 Mr. Finlay and its candidates rely upon his vote. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the United 
 Moderns and the Woodmen of the World. He 
 was married in this city to Miss Annie Leigh, a 
 native of Manchester, England, and daughter of 
 John Leigh, an old cattleman and wholesale 
 butcher residing in Boulder, Colo. 
 
 (T AMES R AE, who is proprietor of a carriage 
 I factory and general blacksmith works at 
 (*/ No. 1640 Wazee street, Denver, was born 
 in Chatham, N. B., October 29, 1857. His 
 father, James Rae, Sr., a native of Scotland, 
 crossed the ocean in young manhood and settled 
 in New Brunswick, where he followed the black- 
 smith's trade. When quite advanced in years he 
 retired in the enjoyment of the competency his 
 
 honest efforts had accumulated. He still resides 
 in Chatham and is sixty-nine years of age, hav- 
 ing been born in 1829. By his marriage to Mary 
 Ann Gillis, a native of Chatham, he has four 
 sons now living. 
 
 The next to the youngest of this family is our 
 subject. He attended the Chatham public school 
 and made that place his home until seventeen, 
 meantime having learned the blacksmith's trade 
 under his father. From Chatham he went to 
 St. Johns, where he completed his trade. In 
 1879 he came to Denver, where for four years he 
 was employed in the shop then owned by Camp- 
 bell & Welsh. In 1883 he bought out his em- 
 ployers and has since continued the business at 
 the old stand, having by honest application and 
 good management secured a good trade and built 
 up a profitable business. He makes a specialty 
 of horse shoeing, though he is proficient in every 
 line of work connected with his trade. He has 
 not identified himself with political matters, but 
 is a stanch Republican in belief. 
 
 In Denver he married Miss Anna Marshall, 
 who was born in Rock Island County, 111., and 
 of whom mention is made in this volume. They 
 are the parents of two children, Arthur Lester 
 and Ethel Frances. 
 
 yyiRS. ANNA MARSHALL RAE, M. D., of 
 y Denver, is a member of a family prominently 
 (9 connected with the history of America. 
 Her great-uncle was one of the fir-st chief justices 
 in the United States and was a man of great in- 
 fluence and prominence. Her uncle, James 
 Wilson Marshall, is illustrious as having been 
 the original discoverer of gold in California, hav- 
 ing found a nugget weighing six pennyweights 
 January 19, 1848. The news of this discovery 
 and the .subsequent hastening of men toward that 
 .El Dorado is a matter of history. In recognition 
 of this discovery a monument has recently been 
 erected to the memory of Mr. Marshall and 
 stands on a tract of one hundred and sixty acres 
 in Corona. 
 
 The father of Dr. Rae, Hon. William Marshall, 
 was born in Trenton, N. J., November 22, 1815. 
 In 1837 hs settled in Cordova Township, Rock 
 Island County, 111., where the family owned and 
 operated a sawmill. During the early days he 
 represented his district in the state legislature for 
 
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 509 
 
 two terms. To him belongs the credit of securing 
 for Rock Island both the Chicago, Burlington & 
 Quincy and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
 roads, as it was the adoption of his suggestions 
 and the use of his ideas by men of money that 
 rendered possible the innovation of railroads. 
 His initiative step in railroad development was 
 made in Cordova, 111., at the home of William 
 Marshall, and was the organization of a company 
 known as the Rockford, Rock Island and St. 
 lyouis Railroad Company, which was later bought 
 and operated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
 Railroad. Subsequently he planned the Western 
 Union (now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul), 
 extending the track from Freeport to Rock 
 Island. 
 
 The mother of Hon. William Marshall was 
 Catherine, daughter of James Larrison, and a 
 descendant of John Larrison, a Danish nobleman, 
 who took part in the war of 1665 between the 
 king and the nobility, but was defeated and his 
 property confiscated. Soon afterward he went 
 to Scotland and from there came to America, 
 where he bought a tract of land on Long Island. 
 Two of his sons were killed bj' Indians, and an- 
 other, who went to New Jersey, was James, 
 grandfather of Mr. Marshall. 
 
 Mention has before been made of a member of 
 the Marshall family who attained prominence in 
 the early history of our country. This was Judge 
 John Marshall, son of Col. Thomas Marshall, 
 who commanded a regiment of Virginia troops 
 in the Revolution. He was born in Fauquier 
 County, Va., in 1755, and, like his father, served 
 valiantly in defense of the cause of independence, 
 being a commissioned officer in the colonial army. 
 Afterward he was elected to congress, later served 
 as secretary of state under John Adams, and 
 January 31, 1801, was appointed chief justice of 
 the United States, which position he held until 
 his death thirtj'-four years later. 
 
 The mother of Dr. Rae was Rebecca Ennis, a 
 native of CoUinsville, Ind-, and now (1898) 
 seventy-two years of age. In her family there 
 were five children, namely: Mrs. Viola Mc- 
 Cormick, of Pueblo; Mrs. Florence Willett, of 
 Comanche, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Phillips, who died 
 in Illinois in 1895; Anna; and Norman, a gradu- 
 ate of the Jefferson Medical College, and now a 
 successful eye, ear and throat specialist in Clinton, 
 Iowa. Our subject was educated in Illinois, 
 
 graduating from Mount Carroll Female Seminary 
 in 1883. Six years later, in Colorado, she be- 
 came the wife of James Rae, whose sketch ap- 
 pears in this work. Under th& preceptorship of 
 her brother she first began the study of medicine, 
 and later continued her studies in Gross Medical 
 College, from which she graduated in 1897, with 
 the degree of M. D. She has since engaged in 
 the practice of her profession in Denver. 
 
 REV. J. J. GIBBONS. In every pastorate 
 which he has held Father Gibbons has 
 shown the greatest zeal in the discharge of 
 his duties. He has faithfully followed the apos- 
 tolic command, "Preach the Word; be instant in 
 season and out of season." To whatever charge 
 he has been called, it has been his earnest aim 
 to promote the welfare of the congregation, in- 
 crease its membership and advance the interests 
 of the church. Nor have his labors been in vain. 
 The record of his ministerial career is a record of 
 congregations built up and the spiritual and 
 financial interests of the church promoted. Called 
 to Denver November 16, 1892, he organized the 
 St. Francis de Sales' Catholic Church, which held 
 services at first in Russell hose house. However, 
 the church was completed within four weeks 
 after the organization of the church, and services 
 have since been held in it; later a parsonage was 
 built for the priest. 
 
 The parents of Father Gibbons are James and 
 Anna (Wade) Gibbons. The former removed 
 from Rhode Island to Walworth County, Wis., 
 and settled near Clinton, where he engaged in 
 farming. Later he went to Iowa and settled near 
 Waterloo, where he has since resided. He and 
 his wife are the parents of fourteen children, 
 eleven of whom are still living, our subject being 
 next to the oldest. He was born in Providence, 
 R. I., in 1855, but was taken to Wisconsin in in- 
 fancy, and from that state accompanied his par- 
 ents to Iowa in 1868. At the age of nineteen he 
 began to teach school, which occupation he fol- 
 lowed for four years, carefully saving his earn- 
 ings in order that he might have better educa- 
 tional privileges. For a time he attended the 
 Iowa State Normal, and for two years was a 
 student in St. Francis Seminary at Milwaukee, 
 Wis. , after which he taught school for eighteen 
 months. He completed his classical studies in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 St. Joseph's College, Dubuque, Iowa, where he 
 studied for three years. Afterward he spent two 
 years in the study of theology at St. Mary's, Bal- 
 timore, but was obliged to discontinue his work 
 there on account of illness. On recovering his 
 health he came to Illinois and soon entered the 
 seminary at Kankakee, 111., where he was or- 
 dained to the holy priesthood of the Catholic 
 Church. June 5, 1886, in Chicago, Bishop (now 
 Archbishop) Feehan ordained him for the Den- 
 ver diocese, and he soon began preparations for 
 work in his new field. He reached Denver June 
 17, 1886, and has been constantly "in the har- 
 ness" ever since, having never spent more than 
 twelve weeks out of the diocese. He was an 
 assistant in the Cathedral for six weeks, after 
 which he filled a vacancy in the Georgetown 
 pastorate until October 3, 1886, and then went to 
 Leadville as assistant to Father Robinson, con- 
 tinuing thereuntil August, 1888. His next field 
 of labor was in Ouray, but his work was by no 
 means limited to that town. Altogether, his 
 assignments included four counties, San Juan, 
 Ouray, San Miguel and Dolores, comprising the 
 charges at Silverton, Rico, Telluride, Trout 
 Lakes, Placerville, Ridgeway and fronton (where 
 he built churches) , Red Mountain and Sneffles, 
 all of which congregations, excepting those at 
 Ouray and Silverton, were organized through his 
 personal efforts. Much of his time was spent in 
 saddle, riding from one mission to another, over 
 the mountains where the roads were rough and 
 travel was hard. Frequently he rode sixty-five 
 miles in a day, in order to meet his appointments 
 for services. 
 
 After four and one-half busy years in this part 
 of the state, Father Gibbons was made pastor of 
 St. Francis de Sales' Church in Denver, his pres- 
 ent charge, the growth of which is due to his un- 
 wearied labors and excellent management. He 
 is connected with the different societies of the 
 church, and is chaplain of St. Joseph's Com- 
 mandery, Knights of St. John, and of St. Patrick's 
 Benevolent Society, C. M. B., as well as St. 
 Teresa's Auxiliary. 
 
 Father Gibbons is the author of a book entitled 
 "In the San Juan." The San Juan is a section 
 of Colorado which is very little known to eastern 
 people. It is a region of sitrpassingly beautiful 
 and sublime scenery. Indeed, in comparing its 
 grandeurs with those of the Alps, the tourist 
 
 hesitates as to which of these two wonderful 
 regions deserves the allotment of superiority. 
 The book consists of a series of .sketches in which 
 the author relates his wonderful experiences of 
 five years in that country. It is written in a 
 pleasing and simple style. Father Gibbons shows 
 throughout the entire work great sympathy with 
 nature. The habits and customs of the miners 
 are accurately described, and the sketches are 
 enlivened by interesting anecdotes. Prominent 
 features of the work are several pieces of 
 poetry, notably those written on the mummy and 
 the burro. The work is the first of the kind pro- 
 duced in Colorado and will be read with eager 
 interest not only in the state, but it is certain to 
 find many admirers elsewhere. Its moral tone 
 will be found to be of the highest order. 
 
 gHARLES E. WINGATE, a general con- 
 tractor and builder located at No. 1106 
 Eighteenth street, Denver, is of English 
 birth and descent. His paternal grandfather, 
 John Wingate, owned the ground and was the 
 first to build upon the present site of Kingsbridge, 
 where the fast clippers were afterward con- 
 structed. The maternal grandfather, Thomas 
 Toms, was a farmer and cattle dealer at Corn- 
 wood, Devonshire, where his daughter, Mary, 
 was born. In early womanhood she became the 
 wife of Charles Wingate, a native of Kingsbridge 
 and by trade a carpenter, who for thirty-five 
 years has been employed by the government as 
 foreman of works and now holds that position in 
 the Davenport dockyards adjoining Plymouth. 
 He is now sixty-five years of age and his wife is 
 two years his junior. 
 
 Their only child, our subject, was reared in 
 Plymouth and attended the public schools of this, 
 his native city. When a youth he became an 
 apprentice to William Ham, with whom he 
 remained for seven years, learning the carpenter's 
 trade and then for two years as an employe. 
 Later he was employed by a cousin for two years. 
 Meantime he had been reading much about 
 Denver, its wonderful growth, its remarkable 
 climate and the opportunities it offered to men of 
 moderate capital. He determined to come here 
 and investigate for himself. Accordingly in May, 
 1889, he came to this city and so well was he 
 pleased that he has since made it his home. In 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 5" 
 
 1 89 1 he became a sub-contractor, in which capac- 
 ity he was employed by several contractors. 
 Afterward he was a member of the firm of 
 Toogood & Wingate, but their partnership was 
 dissolved by mutual consent and he began in 
 business alone. While with others or by himself 
 he has had the contracts for the Morey Mercantile 
 warehouse, Jackson building, Governor Baxter's 
 residence, the Babcock and Young residences, etc. 
 While in Plymouth Mr. Wingate was made a 
 Mason in Brunswick L,odge No. 159, in which he 
 was junior deacon. He is now a member of 
 Denver Lodge No. 5, Denver Chapter No. 2, 
 R. A. M.; also of South Side Camp No. 71, 
 Woodmen of the World. In national politics he 
 is a Republican and in religious belief an Episco- 
 palian. Before leaving Plymouth, England, he 
 married Miss Lucy, daughter of John Elliott, a 
 traveling salesman. They are the parents of 
 three childreh, the eldest of whom, Byron, was 
 born in England, and the others, Lillian and 
 Dorothy, in Denver. 
 
 (lOHN J. BITTER has resided in Denver 
 I since 1879 and is well known among the 
 C2/ efficient, successful business men of the city. 
 Beginning as contractor in 1883, he has since 
 given his attention to the erection of public 
 buildiugs and private residences, among his con- 
 tracts being those for Hon. Fred Walson's resi- 
 dence, on Eighteenth and Grant avenues; the 
 Thompson building, on Fifteenth and Boulder 
 streets; and' the Garfield school, on the north 
 side. His office is located at No. 118 Seventeenth 
 avenue, and his residence at No. 445 Ogden 
 street. 
 
 The Bitter family is of German origin. Chris- 
 tian Bitter, who served in the German army 
 during youth, later was occupied as an architect 
 and draughtsman in Oldenburg, where he died 
 in 1849, at the age of more than fifty years. His 
 son, J. F. W., our subject's father, was born in 
 Oldenburg, but went to Amsterdam at the age of 
 fourteen and there learned the carpenter's trade. 
 After his marriage to Sophia Elizabeth Haut- 
 housen, a native of Amsterdam, he came to 
 America and settled in Albany, N. Y., where he 
 followed his trade for two years. Removing from 
 thereto Ohio, he settled in what is now Toledo, 
 and in 1853 purchased a tract of land included in 
 
 the present corporate limits of that city. This 
 land he tilled and cultivated, but later sold and 
 retired from active business. He and his wife 
 are still living, as are also seven of their eight 
 children. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Toledo, 
 Ohio, February 20, 1853, and was the fourth 
 among the children born to his parents. When a 
 boy he worked on the home farm and attended 
 private schools, where he obtained a fair educa- 
 tion. When quite young he was handy with 
 tools and had a taste for carpentering. At the 
 age of twenty he became an apprentice in Toledo 
 and for seven years remained with the firm of 
 Custer & Byer, assisting during that time in the 
 erection of the chamber of commerce and many 
 churches and large office buildings in that city. 
 In 1879 he came to Denver, where he worked 
 for others until 1883, but since that year has been 
 in business for himself. 
 
 In Toledo, Ohio, occurred the marriage of 
 Louisa Samson to Mr. Bitter, and five children, 
 now living, bless their union: Fred, a carpenter 
 assisting his father; Herman, who also works with 
 his father; Arthur, Gertrude and Clara. One 
 daughter, Elsie, died at three years of age. Mrs. 
 Bitter is a daughter of Herman Samson, who was 
 at one time the largest contractor in Toledo and 
 died here in 1892. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bitter is connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World. He is a charter mem- 
 ber of the Carpenters & Builders' Association. 
 Identified with St. John's German Evangelical 
 Lutheran Church, he has been a member of the 
 board of trustees for nine years; he was one of the 
 nine who organized the church in 1880 and was 
 the architect and contractor of the new church, 
 erected in 1896, at the corner of Fifth avenue and 
 Evans street. He also assisted in establishing 
 the missions at Brighton and Littleton, Colo. 
 
 yyi ALCOLM McCRIMMON came to Colorado 
 Y in 1873, arriving at Georgetown on the 
 (9 27th of March and embarking in business 
 as a blacksmith and wagonmaker. In January, 
 1877, he opened a shop at Lawson and continued 
 the two for six months, when he sold the newer 
 enterprise. Meantime he began to be interested 
 in mining, a considerable portion of his earnings 
 being invested in mining property. During the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 period of his residence in Georgetown lie served 
 as an alderman for two j'ears. May 12, 1886, he 
 came to Denver, where at first he carried on a 
 shop situated on Blake street, but in 1889 he sold 
 out and embarked in the grocery business on 
 the corner of Twelfth and L,arimer streets. For 
 twenty-two months he was a grocer, but then 
 sold out and resumed work as a blacksmith, 
 locating at No. 1730 Wazee street. His horse- 
 shoeing and wagon shop is now located at No. 
 1706 Wazee. 
 
 As his name indicates, Mr. M.Crimmon is a 
 Scotchman. He was born in Inverness in 1838, 
 and his father, Kenneth, and grandfather, Duncan 
 McCrimmon, were natives of the same shire, the 
 latter being a farmer and the former a stone- 
 mason by trade. During the dull seasons in 
 building, Kenneth McCrimmon engaged in fish- 
 ing, having a number of small boats that he used 
 for this purpose. In 1849 he removed with his 
 family to Canada, where he followed his trade 
 until he died, at sixty-six years of age. His 
 wife, Annie, was a daughter of Donald McClure, 
 of Scotland; she died in 1838, and of her nine 
 children Malcolm is the sole survivor. After her 
 death Mr. McCrimmon married again and two 
 children were born of that union. 
 
 When the family settled in Canada our subject 
 was a lad of eleven years. He remained at home 
 until August 14, 1857, when he began an 
 apprenticeship to the blacksmith's trade at Lan- 
 caster, and served until September 14, i860. 
 Five days later, on the 19th, he came to the 
 States, settling in Rutland, Vt. , where he worked 
 at his trade. April 15, 1861, he came further 
 west, and for two months engaged in the hotel 
 business at Bloomington, 111., later working at 
 his trade until October of the same year, when 
 he secured employment as a teamster in govern- 
 ment employ. He worked in Sedalia, Mo., until 
 February i, 1862, when he accompanied the 
 military command to Commerce, Mo., remaining 
 there two weeks. He then went to St. Louis, 
 and from there to Fort Leavenworth, where he 
 again worked as a teamster for the government, 
 hauling supplies between Forts Riley and Leaven- 
 worth. July I, 1862, he went to Fort Scott, 
 Kan., as a blacksmith for the government, and 
 two years later removed to Mapleton, Kan. , where 
 he opened a blacksmith shop. In 1866 failing 
 health induced him to stop work at his trade and 
 
 engage in farming; after a year as an agricult- 
 urist in Neosho County, Kan., he returned to 
 Mapleton and again engaged as a blacksmith, 
 continuing in that place until his removal to 
 Colorado, March 25, 1873. 
 
 While in Fort Scott, Kan., Mr. McCrimmon 
 married Miss Amy Ann Wells, who was born in 
 Lincoln County, Tenn. They are the parents of 
 six children now living, viz. : Archie and Edwin 
 P., who are engaged in the grocery business; 
 Annie, Lulu M., Malcolm and Milton H. For 
 some years, while in Georgetown, Mr. McCrim- 
 mon acted as an elder in the Presbyterian Church, 
 of which denomination he is a member. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with Washington Lodge 
 No. 12, A. F. & A. M., at Georgetown, and 
 politically he is a silver Republican. 
 
 r^ETER C. SCHAEFER. Among the natives 
 LX of other countries who have sought homes 
 ^^ in Denver and have, by their industry and 
 perseverance, contributed to the progress of the 
 city, mention belongs to the subject of this notice, 
 who is engaged in business here as a blacksmith 
 and carriage manufacturer. He is a son of Peter 
 and Catherine (Weimer) Schaefer, and was born 
 upon their farm at Dehrn, Hessen-Nassau, Ger- 
 many, in 1862, being one of twelve children that 
 attained years of maturity. The members of this 
 family are now scattered in different parts of the 
 world, only two of them being in the United 
 States. 
 
 The third of this large family was the subject 
 of our sketch. He received his education in the 
 public schools of his native place and followed 
 the common custom of leaving school to learn a 
 trade at the age of fourteen. For three years he 
 was apprenticed to a blacksmith and in this way 
 gained a thorough knowledge of that trade. In 
 the spring of 1880 he took passage at Bremen for 
 New York, from which place he proceeded west 
 to Chicago, but after working at his trade there 
 for three months, he came still further west and 
 settled in Denver. Here he remained working 
 at his trade until 1883, when he went to Cheyenne, 
 Wyo. , and was employed there for fourteen 
 months. 
 
 On his return to Denver Mr. Schaefer at first 
 worked for others, but in 1886 started in business 
 
CAVALIER GUISEPPE CUNEO, M. D. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 515 
 
 for himself, establishing a shop on Fifteenth, 
 between Wynkoop and Wewatta streets. About 
 five years later he removed to his present loca- 
 tion, No. 1333 Thirteenth street, where he is 
 engaged in making wagons and carriages and 
 also in doing general blacksmith work. Politi- 
 cally he is a silver Republican, favoring pro- 
 tecting of home industries and a new adjustment 
 of the currency question. He is a member of the 
 Turn Verein and holds office as past sachem of 
 Colorow Tribe No. 10, I. O. R. M., which he has 
 represented in the Grand Lodge. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Schaefer took place in 
 Denver in 1890, his wife being Miss Pauline 
 Ludolf, who was born in Macon, Mo., but came 
 from there to Denver with her father, Joseph 
 Ludolf. They are the parents of one child now 
 living, a son, Charles Peter Schaefer. 
 
 EAVALIER GUISEPPE CUNEO, M. D., 
 is Knight of the following Italian orders: 
 La Carona d' Italia and Santi Maurizio 
 e Lazzaro; is also con.sul of Italy for Utah 
 and Colorado, a practicing physician of Denver, 
 and a man of wide travel and cosmopolitan cult- 
 ure. The position which he occupies as repre- 
 sentative of the Italian government is one of im- 
 portance and responsibility. February 24, 1895, 
 he was appointed by the Italian government act- 
 ing counsel for thirteen states and territories, viz. : 
 Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, North 
 and South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, In- 
 dian Territory, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho and Ari- 
 zona. The following year President Cleveland 
 appointed him counsel at Denver for Utah and 
 Colorado, by reason of the royal patent, signed by 
 His Majesty, King Umberto the First, May 7, 
 1896. 
 
 In the town of Alpepiana St. Stefano d' Aveto, 
 state of Genoa, Italy, Dr. Cuneo was born Sep- 
 tember 2, 1856, the descendant of a family whose 
 history is traced back six hundred years in 
 Genoa, to the days of the existence of the Gen- 
 oese republic. It has furni.shed many men promi- 
 nent in business and the professions. One of 
 the name was a major under the illustrious Na- 
 poleon and was made a prisoner. Another, J. B. 
 Cuneo, was a wealthy business man of Mon- 
 tevideo and during the nine years' war he assisted 
 
 Garibaldi with the money that secured the free- 
 dom of the Argentine Republic. 
 
 The doctor's father, Joseph Cuneo, was a land 
 owner and agriculturist in Genoa, where he 
 died in 1888, at the age of seventy -eight. He 
 married Anna Maria Ertola, who was born in 
 Ertola St. Stefano d' Aveto, the town being named 
 in honor of the family, who had been identified 
 with its history for centuries. Some of the name 
 are now in almost every foreign country. Mrs. 
 Cuneo died in 1882, leaving eight children, name- 
 ly: John, who was educated in the United States 
 and now lives in Albuquerque, N. M.; George 
 A., a business man of Denver; Joseph, of this 
 sketch; Louis, a manufacturer' in St. Louis; 
 Mary, Mrs. A. G. Ghio, of St. Louis; Emelia, 
 Mrs. James Ghio, also of St. Louis; Beatrice, wife 
 of J. Turre, of Denver; and Julia, Mrs. J. Par- 
 etti, of Italy. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired in 
 the University of Pavia, and the Royal University 
 of Naples, from which latter he graduated in 
 the medical and surgical department in 1887. 
 After graduation he became surgeon on ocean 
 steamers that plyed the waters of the Mediter- 
 ranean along the northern coast of Africa and 
 southern coast of Europe. He was also on 
 steamers that visited India, China, Japan, Aus- 
 tralia and South America; and later was on the 
 Anchor line in trips from the Mediterranean to 
 North American seaports, being on the ocean for 
 four years altogether. During his voyages he 
 often was in great danger of shipwreck. His 
 ship encountered one of the dreaded monsoons of 
 East India; at another time a heavy fog ren- 
 dered the ship's course uncertain and death 
 seemed imminent when at the entrance to the 
 port of Iquique, Chile, and again, twelve days 
 later, at the entrance to the Strait of Magellan. 
 
 On account of his father's death, Dr. Cuneo 
 resigned as ocean surgeon and became adminis- 
 trator of the estate. He came to Denver in De- 
 cember, 1889, attracted hither by the genial cli- 
 mate which so much resembles that of Italy. In 
 January of the next year he opened an office at 
 No. 1449 Larimer street, but in 1893 removed to 
 the Pioneer building, Fifteenth and Larimer 
 streets, where he has since carried on a general 
 practice. For a time he was a member of the 
 stafi"of St. Anthony's Hospital, but pressure of 
 other duties caused his resignation. He is medi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cal examiner and an officer in Union Lodge No. 
 6i, A. O. U. W., and is honorary president for 
 the Italian government, of the Italian-Spanish- 
 American Columbian Protective Federation for 
 Colorado. He is also a member of the Denver 
 and Arapahoe County Medical Societies. Three 
 months after his appointment as acting consul, 
 the Italian Massacre at Walsenburg, Colo., oc- 
 curred, March 12, 1895, and the complications 
 ensuing therefrom he settled, in a manner satis- 
 factory both to this and the Italian governments, 
 doing this by going down to the .seat of the mas- 
 sacre at the risk of his own life. He also settled 
 the Ute and Ulay trouble, caused by the non-pay- 
 ment of wages due the Italian workmen in the 
 Ute and Ulay mining district. On account of his 
 services at the time of the massacre he was 
 knighted by King Umberto amember of the order 
 "Crown of Italy," dated Rome, December 30, 
 1895, No. 54, 210, which gives him the title of 
 Cavalier Guiseppe Cuneo. In recognition of his 
 services in securing the release from life sentences 
 in the state penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., of 
 five countrymen who were wrongfully convicted 
 for murder and had served six years, he was again 
 knighted by King Umberto of Italy, February 20, 
 1898, No. 25,567, Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro. 
 His countrymen appreciating the efforts he makes 
 in their behalf, have at different times presented 
 him with a number of medals, of the finest work- 
 manship and material, in recognition of his serv- 
 ices in their interests. 
 
 /gj FORGE J. CHARPIOT, a mechanic and safe 
 l__ expert residing in Denver, was born in 
 Q Belleville, St. Clair County, 111., in the 
 year 1864, and is a member of a family whose his- 
 tory appears in the sketch of his cousin, H. C. 
 Charpiot. His father, George, was born in 
 Paris, a son of Pierre Charpiot, who was the in- 
 ventor of the plating of tin. On coming to Amer- 
 ica, George Charpiot settled in Dubuque, Iowa, 
 and from there went to St. Louis, the home of 
 his sister, Mrs. Underbill. For a time he oper- 
 ated a coal mine near Belleville, whence he removed 
 to Virginia City, Mont., and engaged in the 
 wholesale liquor business. With ox- teams he re- 
 moved to Salt Lake, secreting a large quantity of 
 gold dust inside the collars used in harnessing the 
 oxen. In 1859 he came to Denver, where he 
 
 started a restaurant on Blake street, continuing in 
 the business for some years. He was a fine cook, 
 having served an apprenticeship to the occupa- 
 tion at Delmonico's. About 1891 he removed to 
 San Diego, Cal., where he now owns and resides 
 on a lemon ranch. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, Pierre Charpi- 
 ot, was born in France, where his father, Pierre, 
 Sr., was a schoolmaster and at one time mayor of 
 the city of Barth. The family is of the old French- 
 Huguenot stock. Pierre, Jr. , who was an expert 
 machinist, held a position as foreman in Lalance, 
 one of the largest manufactories of France. He 
 invented tin-plating by dipping and saved the 
 labor of over forty men a day. Afterward he went 
 to Lyons, France, where he engaged in manufact- 
 uring, but competition was so great that he de- 
 cided to come to America, hoping to meet with 
 greater success here. In 1854 he settled in Bal- 
 timore, but after a short time went west to Chi- 
 cago, where he started the first French hotel on 
 La Salle street. After operating this for many 
 years he removed to Iowa and settled on a farm 
 near Davenport, where he died at the age of sixty- 
 eight. He married Clemence, a daughter of David 
 Bauceer, who was a wealthy farmer of Barth. 
 She died in Chicago, and of her seven children 
 five are living. Charles died in Chicago and 
 Louis in Virginia City, Nev. Frederick is a 
 wealthy retired business man of Denver; George, 
 father of our subject, was the third of the sons; 
 Eugenia is married and lives in Denver; Jacques 
 lives in Iowa; and Henry is in Denver. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Celestine Huot, 
 a native of France. Her father, Victor Huot, 
 settled in Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged as 
 a contractor and builder, and as a manufacturer 
 of sash, doors and blinds, which business is now 
 carried on by his sons. Mrs. Celestine Charpiot 
 died when a young woman, and left three chil- 
 dren: Eugenia, Mrs. Jones, of Denver; Charles, 
 who is with the Armour Packing Company in 
 Kansas City, Mo.; and George J. Afterward the 
 father married Mrs. Margaret Pratt, widow of 
 Charles Pratt, who was at one time a millionaire 
 resident of St. Louis. 
 
 Upon the death of his mother our subject was 
 taken into the home of his uncle, Victor Huot, at 
 Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until six- 
 teen years of age. He then served an appren- 
 ticeship to the machinist' s trade in Indianapolis, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 517 
 
 Ind., and after three years, in 1882, became to Den- 
 ver, where he completed his trade with the Den- 
 ver & Rio Grande Railroad Company. Four years 
 later he went back to Indianapolis, where he was 
 foreman in a machine shop for two years. When 
 the firm sold out, he returned to Denver to take 
 charge of his father's property. He was employed 
 here as a safe expert, and is now one of two ex- 
 perts in that line in Denver. In 1897 ^^ opened 
 a shop at No. 16 10 Glenarm street, where he is 
 engaged in the manufacture and repair of bicy- 
 cles and safes. As safe expert he has traveled 
 through all parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Ari- 
 zona and Utah. 
 
 Politically Mr. Charpiot is a Republican. He 
 is a member of the Rambler Wheel Club and the 
 Wheelmen's Association. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Harmony Lodge No. 61, A. F. & A. 
 M., and the Knights of Pythias, while in religion 
 he is connected with the Twenty-third Avenue 
 Presbyterian Church . He was married in Indiana 
 to Miss Anna Hurley, who was born there, the 
 daughter of a physician. 
 
 ^EORGE N. BILLINGS is one of the old 
 |_ settlers of Colorado, having started west- 
 \j^ ward at the time of the discovery of gold in 
 Pike's Peak. However, he stopped in Belvidere, 
 111., during the winter of 1859-60 and in the early 
 spring assisted ih fitting out an expedition there, 
 the proprietors being John Q. A. Rawlins and 
 James McNes.ser. He crossed the Mississippi at 
 Clinton and the Missouri at Council Bluffs, after 
 which he followed the course of the Platte River 
 westward. In July, i860, he arrived in Denver, 
 where he was appointed deputy sheriff under 
 Andrew Snyder. But four weeks in the position 
 was sufficient for him and he resigned. He then 
 clerked for some months for Hewett & Bueford, 
 after which he took the contract for building a 
 mill for Lou Morris in Empire City, it being the 
 first stamp mill in that place. From there he 
 went to Central City, after which he came to 
 Denver as a clerk in the postoffice under Post- 
 master Samuel Curtis. In 1 863 Governor Evans 
 appointed him as ensign of the governor's guard 
 in the Colorado militia, and he was also commis- 
 sioned by Governor Gilpin as first lieutenant of 
 the First Regiment of Colorado Infantry, but 
 was unable to leave the postoffice, as the post- 
 
 master had accepted the commission of major. 
 In 1869 he resigned his position in the office and 
 embarked in the planing mill business, which he 
 now conducts at No. 1824 Blake street. 
 
 Mr. Billings was born in Apalachin, Tioga 
 County, N. Y., August 18, 1836. His great- 
 grandfather Billings was a drummer in the Revo- 
 lution and his grandfather, Charles Billings, was 
 a soldier in the war of 18 12. The latter removed 
 from Massachusetts to the Black River country in 
 early days and later settled upon a farm in west- 
 ern New York. The father of our subject, 
 Clinton Billings, was born in Great Barrington, 
 Mass., and engaged in lumbering on the Susque- 
 hanna River. The lumber was rafted down the 
 Susquehanna to Columbia and Green's Dam, and 
 some, eighty to ninety feet long, were floated 
 down to Baltimore. He owned two mills in 
 Apalachin and remained there until his death in 
 1874. 
 
 The mother of our subject, Anna Goodsell, 
 was born in Connecticut October 29, 1813. She 
 was a daughter of Lloyd Goodsell, a native of 
 Connecticut and a soldier in the war of 18 12, who 
 resided for some time in Wyalusing, Bradford 
 County, Pa., but afterward settled in Apalachin, 
 N. Y. She is still living and is now eighty-five 
 years of age. Her family consisted of two 
 daughters, both still living, and four sons, of 
 whom George N. is the sole survivor. He was 
 educated in the Apalachin public school and the 
 Owego Academy. From boj'hood he was inter- 
 ested in lumbering and by the age of sixteen he 
 had become a practical sawyer. He assisted his 
 father until 1853, when he removed to Belvidere, 
 Boone County, 111., and from there went to Chi- 
 cago as a clerk. Since i860, as already stated, 
 he has resided in Denver, and his planing mill is 
 the oldest in the city. It was built by him and 
 is constructed of brick, and operated by steam 
 power. He does all kinds of trimming, joining, 
 finishing and planing, and has carried on a profit- 
 able business in his line. From 1862 to 1870 he 
 was in partnership with T. W. Moffat, a nephew 
 of D. A. Moffat, conducting a planing mill where 
 his mill now stands. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Billings served 
 as alderman from the third ward for one term and 
 in 1866 was assessor. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Union Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., Denver 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Colorado Commandery 
 
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 No. I, K. T. , the Consistory of Denver, and El 
 Jebel Temple, N. M. S. In Denver he married 
 Miss Gertrude E. Jenks, who was born in Ohio, 
 being the daughter of a physician there. They 
 are the parents of three children: Marcia 1,. , who 
 graduated from the high school of Denver and is 
 now the wife of Benjamin Thomas, of Central 
 City, this state ; Anna, who completed her educa- 
 tion in Whitney, Canada, and is now the wife of 
 Prof. C. H. Thurber, dean of the theological 
 department of the University of Chicago; and Wirt 
 J., who was educated in Owego (N.Y.) Academy, 
 and is now with his father in business. 
 
 ROBERT LEVY, M. D., professor of physiol- 
 ogy and laryngology in Gross Medical Col- 
 lege, is also secretary of the faculty and the 
 board of trustees. Many of his professional arti- 
 cles have been published for distribution among 
 the profession, among them being the following: 
 "Inoperable Sarcoma of the Nose," reprinted 
 from the New York Medical Journal; "Treatment 
 of Laryngeal Phthisis," from the Medical and 
 Surgical Reporter; "Pharyngeal Tuberculosis" 
 from the Denver Medical Times; "Medical Edu- 
 cation," president's address delivered before the 
 Colorado State Medical Society June 17, 1897; 
 "The Treatment of Laryngeal Tuberculosis," 
 with a report of cases, reprinted from the New 
 York Medical Journal; "Fatal Hemorrhage from 
 the Nose and Pharynx from Unusual Cause," 
 read before the Colorado State Medical Society in 
 June, 1896; "Exaggerated Arytenoid Movement, 
 Anchylosis of the Crico, Arytenoid Articulation, " 
 reprinted from Annals of Ophthalmology and 
 Otology, in October, 1896; and "Direct Autoscopy; 
 Kirstein," reprinted from Gross Medical College 
 Bulletin. 
 
 Of Canadian birth, Dr. Levy was bom in Ham- 
 ilton, Ontario, May 30, 1864, and is the son of 
 Mandel and Rebecca (Eisner) Levy, natives re- 
 spectively of Germany and Vienna, Austria. The 
 latter has three brothers who are physicians, and 
 her father, Dr. Leopold Eisner, was also a prac- 
 titioner of note in Austria. In 1848 became to 
 America with the illustrious Louis Kossuth, with 
 whom he had participated in the Hungarian re- 
 bellion. He settled in New York and practiced 
 in Utica and Syracuse for many years. Mandel 
 Levy was an early settler of Hamilton, Ontario, 
 
 where he engaged in the mercantile business, but 
 from there he removed to Milwaukee, Wis. , and 
 continued in business. He now resides at Iron 
 Mountain, Mich., retired from active labors. Of 
 his five children Robert is the eldest and the only 
 one in Colorado. He was two years old when 
 the family removed to Milwaukee and he received 
 his education in the public and high schools of 
 that city. In 1879 he came to Colorado and took 
 a special course in the University of Denver. In 
 1880 he entered Princeton College, but after a 
 short time he left and took up the study of med- 
 icine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, grad- 
 uating in 1884, with the degree of M. D. While 
 in college he made a specialty of diseases of the 
 throat and nose. 
 
 Returning to Colorado, Dr. Levy engaged in 
 general practice in Denver for five years, when 
 he limited his attention to the practice of laryn- 
 gology. In the foundation of Gross Medical College 
 he was actively interested, and as soon as it was 
 established he became a member of the faculty 
 and board of trustees. Three years later he was 
 chosen secretary of both bodies, and has since 
 served in that capacity, besides having been in- 
 structor in the college from its organization. He 
 has his ofiice in the California building. 
 
 In Denver Dr. Levy married Miss Rebecca 
 Goldsmith, of Philadelphia, by whom he has a 
 daughter, Leona. He has been very prominent 
 in the medical fraternity of the city and state. He 
 assisted in the organization of the Denver and Ar- 
 apahoe County Medical Society, of which he was 
 afterward elected president. In 1896-97 he was 
 president of the Colorado State Medical Society .be- 
 fore which he delivered an address, on the expira- 
 tion of his term , that is said to have been one of the 
 most thoughtful ever presented before that body. 
 In it occurred a graphic comparison between the 
 specialist and the generalist. "The relation of the 
 specialist to general practitioner should be one of 
 concerted action, each taking advantage of the 
 other's experience and assistance. There is no 
 need of fear that either the general practitioner 
 or the specialist will be driven from the field. 
 Each has his prominent place in the profession, 
 and this place will be strengthened by each becom- 
 ing broader in his views. The generalist is often 
 too narrow, as is the specialist; they are both as 
 often at fault; but the fact that each class is a ne- 
 cessity assures us that the position of both will be 
 
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 so clearly defined and maintained that only good 
 will result. The specialist alone will be able to 
 make the rapid strides forward which point the 
 way. He will be the teacher of the future, and 
 his students will be practitioners of such thorough 
 knowledge as will best fit them for the struggle 
 which their life's work entails. They will be like 
 the experienced master of the ship who is, of 
 course, 'most competent to command, so long as 
 his voyage lies in the open sea; but when he ap- 
 proaches a strange harbor on a danger shore and 
 feels the full weight of responsibility that a valua- 
 ble cargo and precious lives impose, will certainly 
 take on a pilot who is especially familiar with the 
 channel and its peculiar perils.' " 
 
 Dr. Levy assisted in the organization of the 
 Denver Pathological Society and was its president 
 for a time. He is an honorary member of the 
 PuebloCounty Medical Society, a member of the 
 American Public Health Association, and fellow 
 of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and 
 Otological Society. In the Colorado Dental School 
 he is professor of physiology and he is also a 
 member of the Dental Club. In addition to his 
 other positions, he is laryngologist to Arapahoe 
 County, St. Luke's and St. Anthony's hospitals, 
 in Denver. Politically he is a Republican and 
 takes an interest in public affairs, keeping himself 
 posted concerning all the questions before the peo- 
 ple to-day, which he believes to be the duty of 
 every public-spirited, patriotic citizen. 
 
 Gj NTON SCHINDELHOLZ. The life of a 
 I 1 stockman is seldom one of continued, un- 
 / I interrupted success. There are times of 
 reverses, when losses come thick and fast, when 
 markets are poor, prices low and results unsatis- 
 factory. In spite of these discouraging features, 
 the man who has the courage to endure and the 
 determination to overcome misfortune invariably 
 attains a fair degree of prosperity. Such has 
 been the experience of Mr. Schindelholz, who 
 came to Colorado during the Pike's Peakexcite- 
 meut of i860 and has since been identified with 
 the history of the state. He is one of the oldest 
 cattle men of Colorado and still superintends his 
 ranch in Elbert County. About 1887 he started 
 a ranch in New Mexico on the Mora River, in 
 San Miguel and Mora Counties, where he owns 
 twenty-one thousand acres, all under fence. His 
 
 property is known as the Cherry Valley ranch or 
 the Peter Rosar pasture, and he has T. O. K. as 
 his brand. 
 
 During the early years of Mr. Schindelholz' 
 life in Colorado the Indians were very trouble- 
 some and hostile, and frequently drove off the 
 cattle of the ranchmen, thus causing constant 
 trouble. More than once he was brought into 
 personal encounter with them and more than 
 once he suffered from their depredations. It was 
 he who found the Hungate family on Running 
 Creek, when they were attacked and killed by 
 the Indians in 1864. As he was passing near he 
 noticed the smoke, and approaching nearer saw 
 the Cheyenne Indians escaping, after having 
 scalped the wife and children about three hun- 
 dred yards from the house. Mr. Hungate, who 
 had also seen the smoke, had hastened toward 
 his house, but the Indians pursued him three 
 miles down the creek and shot him, being too 
 intent in their pursuit of him to notice the other 
 white man near by. 
 
 Mr. Schindelholz was born in Canton Luzerne, 
 Switzerland, December 25, 1832, a member of an 
 old family there. His grandfather, a native of 
 the same canton, was a sugar and cheese manu- 
 facturer, and died at ninety-two years of age. 
 The father, Anton, was in the dairy and stock 
 business in that canton, where he died in 1844, at 
 forty-four years. His wife, who was born in the 
 same place, bore the maiden name of Barbara 
 Portmann, and died at the age of sixty. Of their 
 twelve children, seven attained maturity and 
 four are living, two sons in America and two 
 daughters in Switzerland. Anton, who was next 
 to the youngest of these, was eleven .years old 
 when his father died, and afterward he worked 
 for an uncle on a farm, receiving $5 for every six 
 months of labor. After a year, however, he 
 sought employment elsewhere. At the age of 
 twenty-one he went to Alsace, France, where he 
 was engaged in the dairy business for a time. 
 In 1856 he left Havre on the sailing vessel 
 "Ruessel," which reached New York City after 
 a voyage of thirty-seven days. A stranger in a 
 stange land and with but little money, his con- 
 dition was forlorn, but his courage never wavered. 
 He had enough money to buy a ticket to Chicago, 
 which city he reached in October, 1856, with $3 
 in his pocket. The day after his arrival in Chi- 
 cago he went to Evans, where he secured work in 
 
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 chopping. In the spring of the following year 
 he secured employment in a stone quarry near 
 Joliet, where he spent the summer. 
 
 The fall of 1857 found him in Leavenworth, 
 Kan., where he was engaged in burning lime for 
 a year, and later was employed in a dairy. Soon 
 after the Pike's Peak gold excitement began to 
 attract men to Colorado he and a partner, Mr. 
 Albus, started hither, with an ox-team wagon 
 and plenty of "grub. " When within two hun- 
 dred miles of Denver one of the oxen died, but 
 they hired a party who had two yoke, and finally 
 reached Denver, June 10, i860, where they sold 
 their outfit and bought two yoke of oxen, then 
 proceeded to the Blue River. They engaged in 
 prospecting and mining for a time, and in the 
 fall Mr. Schindelholz took a load of hides back to 
 Leavenworth, returning to Colorado in 1861 with 
 two yoke of oxen. He reached Denver in twenty- 
 seven days, but found that his partner, having 
 become lonesome, had returned east and the 
 claim was jumped. He soon formed a partner- 
 ship with N. Myer and bought a ranch on the 
 Blue River. In 1862, having saved about $500, 
 he came to Denver, bought twenty- one cows, and 
 started a dairy in partnership with Alexander 
 Rooney, locating the dairy between Bear Creek 
 and Golden. The partnership was dissolved in 
 1865, and his share was $5,000, but he loaned it 
 to his partner for thirty days and lost it all, 
 which left him with nothing. 
 
 Going up on Cherry Creek, he bought one 
 hundred head of yearling steers and one hundred 
 head of beef cattle, the latter of which he at once 
 sold, receiving more than enough to pay for the 
 beef and the steers. The latter he took to his 
 ranch in Elbert County. He continued buying 
 and selling. Later he riioved his ranch to Chey- 
 enne County, Kan., on the south branch of the 
 Republican, which property he subsequently 
 sold to George John Benkelman. He owns a 
 large number of cattle in Elbert County, Colo., 
 where he also owns over one thousand acres of 
 land and has a lease on many hundred acres of 
 land on which he pastures a large herd of cattle. 
 His cattle he sells largely in the east, taking train 
 loads at one time to the market. In 1879 be 
 built on the corner of Thirtieth and Lawrence 
 streets, in Denver, where he also owns other resi- 
 dence and business property. Since the organiza- 
 tion of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association 
 
 he has been one of its members. In politics he 
 is a Republican. His marriage, which took place 
 in Elbert County, united him with Miss Mary 
 Dietemann, a native of Alsace, France. Four 
 children were born of their union, but all died 
 when young. His niece. Miss Maria Lumena 
 Dietemann, presides over his Denver home. Miss 
 Dietemann was brought to America by her uncle 
 when a little girl and shared with him in the 
 hardships and privations of frontier life. 
 
 ©QlLLIAM H. McKELVEY is the senior 
 lAl ni^^berofthe firm of McKelvey & Mon- 
 VV criefi", plumbers, located at No. 1109 
 Eighteenth street, Denver. He was born in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., and is a son of Charles McKel- 
 vey, a native of Ireland, who came to America 
 with his parents and settled in Brooklyn . At an 
 early age he entered upon business pursuits and 
 for many years he was the head of a wholesale 
 and retail grocery in Brooklyn. When advanced 
 in years he retired from active labors and spent 
 his closing days in the enjoyment of the com- 
 petency he had acquired by honest effort. His 
 death occurred in 1890, when he was seventy-eight 
 years of age. He married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Richard Dytton, both natives of England, but 
 afterwards residents of Brooklyn, where Mr. Dut- 
 ton engaged in the mercantile business. Mrs. 
 McKelvey still resides in that city. She was the 
 mother of four sons and four daughters, of whom 
 all but one are living. 
 
 The next to the oldest of the sons in the family 
 is the .subject of our sketch. He was a pupil in 
 the grammar and high schools, but at the age of 
 fourteen his studies ceased and he began in the 
 world for himself. He was apprenticed to Arm- 
 strong & Blacklin, plumbers, of Brooklyn, with 
 whom he remained altogether twelve years. In 
 the fall of 188 1 he came to Denver, where he 
 secured employment at his trade, but after four 
 years in the employ of others he determined to 
 embark in business for himself. Forming a part- 
 nership with another plumber, under the firm 
 name of Reynolds & McKelvey, he opened a 
 shop at No. 1831 Arapahoe street. A year later 
 Mr. Reynolds died aud Mr. McKelvey continued 
 the business alone. In 1895 he removed to his 
 present quarters, and took Mr. Moncrieff into 
 partnership. He has had a number of important 
 
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 521 
 
 contracts for plumbing, among them the Y. M. 
 C. A. Building, Leonard, Montgomery and Hart- 
 wig blocks and numerous residences and terraces. 
 He is a member of the Master Plumbers' Associ- 
 ation and takes a warm interest in everything 
 connected with his occupation. Politically he 
 believes in the policy adopted by the Republican 
 party. 
 
 ~UGENE C. DAWSON came to Denver in 
 ^ 1890 for the purpose of developing a mechan- 
 ^ ical patent applied to electric lights for ad- 
 justing the height, and this patent he manufact- 
 ured until the contract was taken, on royalty, by 
 Flint & Lomax, of this city. For a time he was 
 in partnership with the American Motor & Dyna- 
 mo Company in the manufacture of motors and 
 dynamos, and since the firm went out of business 
 he has been engaged as an electrical engineer, at 
 No. 1407 Lawrence street. He is a man of invent- 
 ive genius and while in the jewelry business he 
 invented a vertical stem winder, now in use by 
 the Elgin Watch Company. In his shop he makes 
 and repairs electrical instruments, repairs bi- 
 cycles, manufactures Vim saddles and rewinds 
 dynamos and motors. 
 
 The Dawson family came from England and 
 settled at Cambridge, Md. , its first representative 
 being William, our subject's great-grandfather, 
 who for some time lived at a place called Dawson's 
 Hazard, an old Quaker settlement. The father 
 of our subject, Thomas, son of Greenbury Daw- 
 son, was born in Kent County, Del., and removed 
 from there to Templeville, Queen Anne's County, 
 Md. (where our subject was born); later he re- 
 turned, however, to Kent County and there died, 
 from the effects of sunstroke, at the age of thirty- 
 eight. His wife, Hester, daughter of Daniel 
 Greene, was born in Kent County and died there 
 in 1864. Her father, who was a farmer in Kent 
 County, was a son-in-law of John Simmons, a 
 soldier of the Revolution. Thomas Dawson and 
 his wife were the parents of five children, of 
 whom a son and daughter are now living. Our 
 subject, who was the fourth in order of birth, was 
 reared in Kent County, and at the age of eighteen 
 began an apprenticeship of three years to the 
 jewelers' trade in the city of Philadelphia. From 
 there he went to Wilmington, Del., where he 
 worked at his trade for eight years, being in busi- 
 
 ness for himself during five j'ears of that time. 
 While there he began the study of electricit}'. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1885, Mr. Dawson 
 spent five years in Greeley, where he engaged in 
 the jewelry business and at the same time per- 
 fected his invention of the Dawson light. Politi- 
 cally he is a Republican. He is a member of In- 
 dustry Lodge, A. O. U. W., in Wilmington, 
 Del.; also formerly held membership in Eden 
 Lodge No. 34, I. O. O. F. , and the Knights of 
 the Golden Eagle. He is connected with Lodge 
 No. 65, K. of P., in Denver, is past chancellor of 
 Greeley Lodge No. 31, K. of P., and represented 
 his lodge as its delegate in the grand lodge. In 
 Masonry he belongs to Temple Lodge of Wil- 
 mington, in which he was an officer; is a demit- 
 ted member of Wilmington Chapter of the Royal 
 Arch Degree, and belongs to St. John's Command- 
 ery No. i, and Consistory No. 13, of Wilmington. 
 
 . DWARD MATTHEWS came to Denver in 
 ^ 1888 and has since engaged in business as 
 ^ a carriage and wagon manufacturer, being 
 the proprietor of a shop, 36x100 feet in dimen- 
 sions, and extending from No. 5 1 1 West Colfax 
 to Nos. 1220-22 Glenarm streets. The building 
 is composed of two stories and a basement, the 
 latter being utilized for storage of materials for 
 manufacture and repair. On the first floor are 
 the blacksmith shop and carriage repository, 
 while the second floor has the woodshop and 
 paint and varnishing room. Usually about one 
 hundred wagons, heavy and light, are manu- 
 factured per annum. 
 
 The Matthews family was identified with the 
 earlj' history of Virginia. Caleb, son of Tedie 
 Matthews and father of our subject, was born in 
 Mississippi County, Mo., where he was reared 
 on a farm. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted 
 for service in the Mexican war. At the time of 
 the Civil war he was engaged in farming, but 
 was lured from home and murdered by guerrillas 
 in 1863. His wife, who bore the maiden name 
 of Labemma Slaton, was born in Missouri, where 
 her father, Thomas, was a farmer for many years; 
 later, however, he was a distiller in Middle Tenn- 
 essee. After the death of Caleb Matthews, his 
 widow became the wife of John Naron and in 
 1866 removed to Clay County, Mo., settling near 
 Liberty, but after a time went to Iron Mountain 
 
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 in Iron County, Mo., and from there to Crystal 
 City, in the same state, where Mrs. Naron died. 
 Afterward Mr. Naron went to Farmington, St. 
 Francois County, Mo., where his death occurred. 
 He and his wife were the parents of six children. 
 
 The only child of his mother's first marriage, 
 Edward Matthews was born near Charleston, 
 Mississippi County, Mo. At the age of twelve 
 he began to work for farmers and was thus em- 
 ployed for six years. He became an apprentice 
 to A. L. Edson in St. Louis, with whom he re- 
 mained four years, meantime learning the trade 
 of a carriage blacksmith. On the expiration of 
 his time he began to work as a journeyman in 
 St. Louis. Going to Booneville, Mo., in 1886, he 
 worked at his trade for two years, and then, in 
 1888, came to Denver, where he was in the em- 
 ploy of others for eighteen months, and afterward 
 opened a shop of his own. He is a man of con- 
 siderable mechanical genius and invented and 
 patented the Matthews and Brooks fifth wheel, 
 which has been placed on the market. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with Denver Lodge No. 5, 
 A. F. & A. M., Lodge No. 92, I. O. O. F., the 
 Woodmen of the World and the Junior Order 
 United American Mechanics, being treasurer of 
 the Woodmen organization. 
 
 In St. Louis Mr. Matthews married Miss Helen 
 Porter, who was born in Tell City, Perry County, 
 Ind. , but removed from there to St. Louis, where 
 her father, F. A. Porter, was connected with a 
 printing office. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Matthews are named Roy and Jessie Matthews. 
 
 0AVID D. SEERIE. The finest buildings in 
 Denver have been erected under contract by 
 the firm of Geddis & Seerie, who have estab- 
 lished a reputation second to no firm in their line. 
 The junior partner, to whose efficiency and talent 
 not a little of the success is due, is still a young 
 man, having been born in 1862; but he combines 
 the enterprise of youth with the wise judgment 
 usually found onlj' in older men. In 1885 he 
 began in business with his present partner, estab- 
 lishing the company that has since built up an 
 immense trade in stone. Their most important 
 contract, perhaps, was that for the building of the 
 state capitol, which was awarded to them after 
 the original contractor had been displaced by the 
 state board of capitol commissioners. The result 
 
 of their work is seen in the magnificent and im- 
 posing structure that is said by all visitors to be 
 one of the finest capitols in the entire country. 
 At the time the capitol was building, the firm 
 also had the contract for the completion of the 
 Brown-Palace Hotel, a beautiful building con- 
 structed of Arizona brown stone, and by compe- 
 tent judges declared to be without a peer from 
 Chicago to San Francisco, both as to the luxuri- 
 ousness of its appointments and the harmony of 
 interior effiects. 
 
 Scotch by birth and by a long line of ancestry, 
 Mr. Seerie was born in Vale-Strathmore, Forfar- 
 shire, March 1 1 , 1862, and received a good educa- 
 tion in the schools near his home. Under the 
 training of an uncle he learned the trade of a 
 stone-cutter and the more difficult calculations of 
 cubical sections, etc. In 1880 he crossed the 
 Atlantic and from New York came direct to Den- 
 ver, where he secured work with Hayes & Cain, 
 contractors. He continued in their employ until 
 the Geddis & Seerie Stone Company was formed. 
 Among the contracts he has had may be men- 
 tioned those for the railroad building on Larimer 
 street, the People's National Bank, Grace and 
 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Churches, the latter 
 being one of the finest churches owned by the 
 denomination in the United States; many of the 
 elegant stone residences on the hill: Wyoming 
 University, Laramie City, and the high school at 
 Rawlins. 
 
 A list of the buildings for which the firm has 
 been given contracts is sufficient to show the high 
 position they occupy in business circles and the 
 confidence which people place in their ability and 
 integrity. Their work is built to stand the wear 
 and tear of years. It is not of a temporary 
 nature, but permanent, and will be seen here, 
 strong and substantial, for generations yet to 
 come, proving a more lasting monument to their 
 faithful performance of pledges than the majority 
 of people will be granted. 
 
 Mr. Seerie was married December 8, 1887, i° 
 Denver, to Miss Maggie A. Price, daughter of 
 David H. and Elizabeth (Tudar) Price, natives 
 of Wales and descendants of ancient families, as 
 the Tudar name indicates. 
 
 Politically Mr. Seerie is a Democrat and has 
 taken a keen interest in local and national affairs. 
 In June, 1897, ^^ was appointed by Gov. Alva 
 Adams to the office of member of the board of 
 
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 public works. He is a member of all the Masonic 
 bodies except the Thirty-third. He joiued the 
 commaudery in 1890 and the following year 
 joined the Shriners. 
 
 0ILVIN LOUSTANO, a retired cattleman re- 
 ?\ siding in Denver, has been identified with the 
 0/ history of Colorado since the spring of 1861, 
 and has therefore been a witness of the growth 
 and development of the state, to which his per- 
 sonal efforts contributed not a little. Seven times 
 he made the long and perilous journey between 
 Leavenworth and the Rockies, his first trip being 
 made by mule to Topeka, then to Fort Dodge 
 and Pueblo and up the Arkansas to Terry Hall. 
 Subsequent trips were made via the Platte River 
 with mule and cattle trains. The most important 
 of these trips was in 1862, when he and a comrade 
 brought a wagon and six yoke of oxen and a herd 
 of sixty-three cattle with them to Colorado, mak- 
 ing the journey in forty -eight days. 
 
 Of his immediate family Mr. Loustano is the 
 sole representative in America. He was born in 
 the department of Bospernia, near Pau, France, 
 where also occurred the birth of his parents, 
 Joseph and Julia (Daje) Loustano. His father 
 was a merchant and his maternal grandfather, 
 John Peter Daje, a farmer there. Mr. Loustano 
 was one of seven children. At the age of seven- 
 teen, in 1853, he left Bordeaux on an English 
 sailing vessel and after a voyage of sixty-three 
 days arrived in New Orleans. He spent five 
 years in the south and in 1858 located in Leaven- 
 worth, Kan. Three years later he came to South 
 Park, Colo., where he followed freighting, and 
 also engaged in mining and prospecting. 
 
 About 1866 he began in the cattle business, 
 locating a ranch fifteen miles east of Denver, in 
 Arapahoe County, on Cold Creek, but later re- 
 moving farther east to Beaver Creek in the same 
 county. He purchased cattle from the ranges 
 south and became a large dealer, continuing suc- 
 cessfully in the business until 1888, when he was 
 obliged by ill health to discontinue. He then 
 came to Denver, where he now resides. He is a 
 member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Associa- 
 tion and at one time was a director in it. He is 
 also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He 
 was married in Denver to Mrs. Celestine A. 
 (Riche) Cotton, who was born in France. They 
 
 became the parents of two sons: Andrew J. , who 
 died April 2, 1898, and Silvin Riche, who resides 
 in Denver. Dr. Loustano was educated at the 
 Longfellow school and the Denver high school; 
 he also attended the University gf Colorado, 
 graduating in the medical department May 29, 
 1895; he was selected house physician at St. 
 Luke's Hospital for one year, after which he 
 located at No. 15 17 Stout street. He was one of 
 the most promising young physicians of his class 
 and was honored and esteemed by all who knew 
 him for his many sterling qualities of head and 
 heart. After leaving the hospital he was assistant 
 to Dr. W. B. Craig, of Denver, until his health 
 failed. He gave great promise of excelling in 
 his chosen profession, in which he had a high 
 and noble aspiration. 
 
 pQ INFIELD S. GARDNER. The machine 
 \ A / shop of which Mr. Gardner is' the pro- 
 YY prietor is situated at No. 1434 Blake 
 street, Denver, and is operated by steam power. 
 While he has been in this place for comparatively 
 a short period (having come here in May, 1897,) 
 he has alreadj- built up a fair business in general 
 job work and has become known as an expert 
 machinist and manufacturer. 
 
 During the Revolution a member of the Gard- 
 ner family came from Scotland to America as a 
 soldier in the British army. After the war closed 
 he settled in Virginia, but later removed to Ohio. 
 His son, John, who was born in the Old Do- 
 minion, accompanied the family to Muskingum 
 County, Ohio, and later settled in Morrow 
 County, the same state, where he engaged in 
 farming. He had a son, Washington, who is a 
 native of Morrow County and still resides there, 
 having engaged in farming, milling and lumber- 
 ing. During the war he was a soldier in the 
 Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and he is now a 
 Grand Army man. He married Mary Wise- 
 man, who was born and reared on a farm on 
 Sandusky Plains. 
 
 Of the four living children of Washington 
 Gardner, Winfield S. is the oldest. He was born 
 near Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, No- 
 vember 2, 1 85 1, and in boyhood attended the 
 Westfield public school. He had a love for ma- 
 chinery and many of his leisure hours in boyhood 
 were spent around the sawmill, which he soon 
 
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 learned to run. At the age of seventeen he was 
 apprenticed to John Cooper & Co., of Mount 
 Vernon, with whom he remained for four years, 
 learning the machinist's trade. Afterward he did 
 journeyman work in different places, but soon re- 
 turned to the employ of Cooper & Co. While 
 there he married Miss Mary Click, who was born 
 in Morrow County. 
 
 For a time Mr. Gardner worked in Dennison, 
 Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and later was with 
 Warder, Bushnell & Glessner in Springfield, the 
 same state. After holding the position of tool- 
 maker with the latter firm for ten years he went 
 to Delaware, Ohio, where he carried on a machine 
 shop for two years, but then sold and returned to 
 Springfield. In a short time he went west to 
 Nevada and took charge of the machinery in a 
 mining camp at Austin. Later he was with the 
 Central Pacific Railroad Company in their shops 
 at Sacramento, and then was with the Union Iron 
 Works in San Francisco. His first connection 
 with Denver was in 1887, when he came here to 
 work at his trade, but after several years he went 
 to Butte City, Mont. , where he was employed by 
 the Western Iron Works Company and the Ana- 
 conda Mining Company. Next he spent a short 
 time in Denver, but soon went to Arizona to take 
 charge of the works of William Church of Den- 
 ver, at Morenci. Eighteen months were spent 
 there, since which time he has been in Denver. 
 He is a member of the Machinists and Engineers' 
 Union and fraternally is identified with the Im- 
 proved Order of Red Men, having served as past 
 sachem of his tribe in Ohio. He and his wife are 
 the parents of an only son, John, a member of the 
 high school class of 1898, graduating June 10. 
 
 HENRY CHARPIOT, who is engaged in 
 bu.siness as a costumer at No. 15 16 Law- 
 rence Street, Denver, was born in Bort, de- 
 partment of Doubs, France, and is a son of 
 Pierre Charpiot. Reference to the family history 
 is made in the sketch of Henry C. Charpiot, else- 
 where in this volume. He was reared in Lyons 
 and Strasburg, and attended a boarding school in 
 the latter town. In 1854 he accompanied his 
 father to America and settled in Baltimore, but 
 after a short time went to Chicago, and later 
 worked on his father's farm near Davenport, 
 Iowa. From there he proceeded to St. Louis and 
 
 entered the quartermaster's department of the 
 United States' government, serving under General 
 Clarey the most of the time until 1864. 
 
 During that year Mr. Charpiot came west to 
 Virginia City, Mont., and after a short time went 
 to Memphis, Tenn., where he worked in the 
 quartermaster's department until the close of the 
 war. Next he came to Denver and carried on a 
 liquor business, but soon went to Fort Casper, 
 Nev. , as a sutler, and on his return to Colorado 
 secured employment in a restaurant at Central 
 City, remaining there for eighteen months. 
 Thence he came to Denver, later moved to Chey- 
 enne, where he remained for two years, and then 
 worked in Promontory, Utah, for a short time, 
 being there at the time the last spike was driven 
 in the railroad track connecting the Atlantic with 
 the Pacific. After a short time in Atlantic City, 
 Omaha and Kansas City, he went to San Fran- 
 cisco, Cal., and from there to Santa Rosa, finally 
 returning to Denver, where he was employed by 
 his brother. As an assistant to his sister, Mrs. 
 Underbill, he started in his present business, of 
 which he has been the proprietor since 1889 and 
 which is the largest business of its kind in the 
 city. His trade is not limited to Denver, but ex- 
 tends throughout Colorado, Wyoming, New 
 Mexico, Utah and Dakota. He was married in 
 St. Joseph, Mo., to Miss Mary Coffey, who was 
 born in Maryland. 
 
 EHARLES BYRON NICHOLS, M. D., pro- 
 fessor of clinical midwifery in Gro.ss Medical 
 College, Denver, and formerly for years an 
 officer in the United States navy, was born in 
 Enfield, N. H., of Efiglish descent. The family 
 was represented among the earliest settlers of the 
 Massachusetts colony and subsequent generations 
 resided in that state. Stephen Nichols, who was 
 born near Boston, removed to Unitj-, Sullivan 
 County, N. H., where he was extensively en- 
 gaged in the stock business. He was a deacon 
 in the Friends' Church and died in the Quaker 
 faith when eighty-seven years of age. 
 
 Humphrey, son of Stephen, was born in Unity, 
 N. H., and was a pioneer gold and silver smith, 
 establishing the first factory in the country at 
 Claremont, N. H., for the manufacture of silver 
 spoons by the die process, his own invention. In 
 1850, impelled by rumors of the great gold mines 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 527 
 
 in California, he went to the Pacific coast, via 
 Panama. On the way his three companions, 
 Messrs. Clough, Johnson and Currier, were 
 seized with a fever prevalent in Panama; he 
 nursed them until they died and afterward 
 buried their remains, then continued his jour- 
 ney alone. On reaching San Francisco he 
 entered the United States mint as a govern- 
 ment official. While in that city he became a 
 sergeant of the vigilance committee and executed 
 some of the most desperate criminals of that 
 state. 
 
 Having spent two years in the far west, Mr, 
 Nichols returned to Boston via the isthmus, and 
 began the manufacture of rolled silver and the 
 various kinds of silver work. Four years later 
 ill health obliged him to retire from business. 
 He was an invalid for three years, when he died, 
 at the age of forty-one. His wife, who was Ma- 
 tilda Jones, a native of Enfield, N. H., and de- 
 ceasedin 1893, was a daughter of Capt. John Jones, 
 who was born in Massachusetts, and prior to the 
 Revolution rode from there to New Hampshire. 
 The house that he built in Enfield is still stand- 
 ing, a relic of days gone by, and there may also 
 be seen, near the house, a large willow tree, 
 twenty-two feet in circumference, that he plant- 
 ed when a little switch. He enlisted in the Revo- 
 lution and was captain of a company that served 
 during the war. His father was also a soldier in 
 the colonial army. The family was related to 
 John Paul Jones, who was captain of a brig dur- 
 ing the Revolution. 
 
 At the time of his father's death. Dr. Nichols 
 was eleven years of age. Afterward he attended 
 the Enfield high school and Kimball Union Col- 
 lege at Meriden, N. H. When sixteen years of 
 age, in 1864, he passed an examination in New 
 York City and was admitted to the engineering 
 department of the United States navj', being ap- 
 pointed assistant engineer. He was of a more 
 youthful age than most of his fellow-lieutenants, 
 but was large and powerful in physique, with the 
 appearance of one much older than he actually 
 was. During the battle at Fort Fisher he was 
 wounded by a shell in the left temple and was re- 
 ported dead, but fortunately the wound was less 
 serious than first supposed. He was given leave 
 of absence until September, 1865, when he was 
 ordered upon the United States steamer "Shen- 
 andoah," which made a three years' cruise 
 
 around the world. He was at Rio Janeiro at 
 the time of the birth of the emperor's (Don Pe- 
 dro) granddaughter and took part in the impos- 
 ing celebrations in honor thereof He was at 
 Cape Town at the time the Duke of Edinburgh 
 was there, then sailed to the Isle of France, Ara- 
 bia and India. While in India the officers were 
 entertained by the governor-general and other 
 high officials, and given trips inland, also visit- 
 ing the Himalaya Mountains. While in Calcutta 
 he was seized with the cholera. The day he fell 
 ill seven of his comrades died of the same disease, 
 and all that saved his life was the fact that the 
 ship went out to sea that day. 
 
 With the commodore and eleven other officers. 
 Dr. Nichols went to Bangkok, Siam, as the guest 
 of the king, and remained there for two weeks, 
 during which time he saw the present king, then 
 a little boy, and had the honor of trotting him on 
 his knee. While at Saigon there was a mutiny 
 on board ship, but it was finally quelled. He 
 then went to Hong Kong, China, and afterward 
 spent four months in Yokahoma, Japan, mean- 
 time exploring the whole island. In Japan he 
 was made a Mason, joining Yokahoma Lodge 
 No. 1092, A. F. & A. M. Afterward the ship 
 coasted around the island, during which time he 
 visited the Albino colony some miles inland, also 
 the "missing link" fifty miles from the shore, 
 and the famous rock at Nagasaki. On return- 
 ing to Yokahoma the ship took part in the open- 
 ing of the port of Osacka, and for one week the 
 officers were guests of the emperor of Japan. 
 During that time Admiral Bell and eleven men 
 perished in a storm, and theirs were the first fu- 
 nerals of any foreigners at the port. 
 
 From Shanghai, China, the ship sailed to the 
 coast of Corea, in search of a captain and his wife 
 who had been wrecked and afterward murdered 
 by the natives. When two miles up the river the 
 natives began to fire upon the vessel, and the 
 order was given to retreat, fearing that otherwise 
 international trouble might be brought on. Va- 
 rious Chinese ports were visited, then the ship 
 sailed to Java and from there to Cape Town. 
 Within four hundred miles of Cape Agullus a 
 fearful storm arose and for three days the ship 
 lay helplessly in the wake of the wind. When 
 the sea subsided they went on to Cape Town, and 
 from there to St. Helena, and the doctor has some 
 souvenirs he gathered there. While at Cape Town 
 
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 the officers ot the ship were entertained by the 
 Duke of Edinburgh, attached to H. M. S. "Gala- 
 tea, ' ' the Duke also presenting Dr. Nichols with 
 his photograph. On returning to Boston he was 
 honorably discharged, in 1869. 
 
 While upon the high seas he had studied medi- 
 cine under the preceptorship of the ship surgeon, 
 and he now entered the medical department of 
 Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 
 1871 with the degree of M. D. He began pro- 
 fessional practice in Franklin, N. H., but after 
 three years went to Boston, where he made a 
 specialty of surgery. His wife's health failing, 
 after three years in Boston he went back to 
 Franklin, N. H., and spent eight years there. 
 In 1888 he settled in Sacramento, Cal., where he 
 practiced his profession. From there, in March, 
 1896, he came to Denver, where he made a spe- 
 cialty of surgery. In 1896 he was lecturer on 
 clinical midwifery in Gross Medical College, and 
 the following year was made professor of the 
 same. He has his office in the Denison build- 
 ing. 
 
 In Hanover, N. H., Dr. Nichols married a 
 daughter of John Mattocks, late of Chicago, and 
 a descendant of Gov. John Mattocks, of Vermont. 
 She died in Franklin, leaving a son, William 
 Mattocks, who is now engaged in business in 
 New York City. After the doctor arrived in 
 Denver he was married to Miss Linnie, daughter 
 of the late John Shy, of Byers, Colo. Like his 
 father and grandfather. Dr. Nichols is a Demo- 
 crat. He is identified with the New Hampshire, 
 Colorado State, and Denver and Arapahoe Coun- 
 ty Medical Societies. Fraternally he is high in 
 the ranks of the Masons. He is connected with 
 the lodge and chapter at Franklin, thecommand- 
 ery at Concord, consistory at Nashua, and mem- 
 ber of El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Den- 
 ver. He is past supreme representative of the 
 Knights of Pythias and is brigadier-general of 
 the Uniform Rank. While in Franklin he was 
 commander of the Grand Army post there and an 
 aide on the department staflf. 
 
 r"RANK E. MULVIHILL. The Carr House, 
 1^ Stables and Corral, of which Mr. Mulvihill 
 I ' is one of the proprietors, are located on the 
 corner of Fifteenth and Wynkoop streets, Denver. 
 The corral, which was one of the first started in 
 
 the city, was known originally as the Monmouth 
 corral, and has always been run in connection 
 with the Carr House. The present proprietors 
 have maintained the business in the excellent 
 condition in which it was left by their father. 
 They deal extensively in high-grade draft, work 
 and carriage horses, which they buy in the east for 
 shipment to Denver. 
 
 Comparatively few of the men now engaged in 
 business in Denver were born in Colorado, but 
 this distinction belongs to the Mulvihill brothers, 
 who were born in Longmont, Colo. The father, 
 John, a native of Canada, born near Quebec, in 
 1839, accompanied his parents to Malone, N. Y., 
 in boyhood, and after their death he went to 
 Oshkosh, Wis., where he worked in the lumber 
 region. In 1861 he crossed the plains with oxen, 
 bringing groceries to Denver, and for three years 
 afterward he continued in the freighting business 
 with ox trains. Meantime he preempted a claim 
 near Longmont, where he engaged in the .stock 
 business and in raising hay for feed and sale, 
 hauling to Gilpin County until the introduction 
 of the railroad. In 1866 he bought an interest 
 in the hotel, livery and feed business with S. H. 
 Carr, in Denver, and removed to thiscity in 1875, 
 retaining his farm, however. In the meanwhile 
 Mr. Peck had bought Mr. Carr's interest, and on 
 coming to Denver Mr. Mulvihill bought out Mr. 
 Peck, continuing the business alone. He died 
 in Denver in January, 1890, aged fifty-four. His 
 wife, Cynthia A. (Clough) Mulvihill, was born 
 near Marietta, Ohio, and died in Denver in 1888. 
 In 1861 she crossed the plains with an ox-team, 
 settling in Jefferson County, where her father, 
 Hiram Clough, became keeper of the toll gate 
 and inn at Golden, Colo. Of her four children 
 three are living., Frank E. , Arthur H. and 
 Walter J., all of Denver. 
 
 The primary education of our subject was ob- 
 tained in the Denver public schools, and later he 
 was a student in the California State Normal 
 School, in San Jose, from which he graduated in 
 1887. On his return to Denver he entered 
 business with his father, and on the latter's death 
 continued the business at the hotel and stables. 
 He and his brothers are also the owners of the 
 old homestead ranch of one hundred and sixty 
 acres in Longmont. Politically he favors Demo- 
 cratic principles, but is not active in politics. In 
 fraternal relations he is a member of Denver 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 529 
 
 Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M. He has one child, 
 Lela, born to his union with Miss Ella Wilbur, 
 a native of Wisconsin, and daughter of Thomas 
 Wilbur, who resided in Denver for some years 
 before his death. 
 
 (John M. SIMPSON. One of the well-known 
 I business concerns of Denver is the Colorado 
 Q) Planing Mill Company, manufacturers of 
 sash, doors, stairs, mantels, buffets, bookcases, 
 bank, store and oSice fixtures, and other house 
 and office finishing articles of a similar nature. 
 The mill stands at Tenth and Water streets and 
 is operated by steam power. The company is 
 composed of four members, James and Alexander 
 Silver, William W. Ewen and John M. Simpson, 
 the last-named being superintendent of the mill 
 and the principal factor in securing its present 
 success. A man of energy and indomitable will, 
 he pushes forward to a successful consummation 
 every measure in which he is interested. 
 
 Born in Chatham, N. B., Canada, the subject 
 of this sketch is a son of John and Abigail Mary 
 (Dickson) Simpson, natives respectively of Scot- 
 land and New Brunswick. He is next to the 
 youngest of four children, the eldest of whom, 
 William, is represented on another page, and in 
 his sketch will be found the family history. John 
 M. received a public-school education, and at 
 the age of sixteen was apprenticed to the carriage- 
 maker's trade, at which he served for four years. 
 Afterward he worked as a journeyman until 
 1879, when he left his native place and came to 
 Denver, securing employment here at the car- 
 penter's trade. He also worked at Leadville, 
 Blackhawk and Buena Vista. In 1883 he entered 
 the employ of the Hallack Lumber Company, 
 with which he remained until 1889, as a carpen- 
 ter. He remained with the concern under its 
 new title of Hallack - Sayre - Newton Lumber 
 Company, and was foreman of the mill for five 
 years. 
 
 Finally resigning his connections with the 
 company he started in business for himself, and 
 for six months ran a planing mill on Seventh and 
 Platte streets. He then formed the Colorado 
 Planing Mill Company, associated with the gen- 
 tleman already named. His attention is given 
 closely to his business. He has little time for 
 public affairs, but manages, nevertheless, to keep 
 
 himself posted concerning the affairs of import- 
 ance before the nation to-day. In former years 
 he advocated Republican principles, but the 
 change in the issues before the people caused a 
 change in his afiiliations and he is now a Demo- 
 crat. As a citizen he supports all measures for 
 the benefit of Denver, of the future of which he 
 has a most hopeful opinion, believing that at no 
 distant day, under favorable circumstances, it 
 will rank with the greatest of our cities in com- 
 merce, finance and population. He was married 
 in Colorado Springs to Miss Catherine Flieger, 
 who was born in Canada and is a daughter of 
 Archibald Flieger, for years the owner of a saw- 
 mill there. One child blesses their union, a 
 daughter, Ethel Jane. Mr. Simpson keeps in 
 remembrance his Scotch descent and takes an 
 active interest in the Caledonian Club, of which 
 he is a member. 
 
 EHARLES C. KRUSE is engaged in the 
 carriage and wagon manufacturing and 
 blacksmith business at No. 1407 Wazee 
 street, Denver, where he has built up an exten- 
 sive and profitable business in his special line. 
 He is of direct German descent, his father, John 
 C, having been born and reared in Oldenburg. 
 The latter, when a youth, learned the cabinet- 
 maker's trade and afterward engaged in work as 
 a journeyman in different localities, but after his 
 marriage he crossed the ocean and established his 
 home in the United States. The first six months 
 he spent in New York City, after which he was 
 employed at Peoria, 111., for two years, and then 
 settled in Springfield, the same state, where he 
 carried on business as cabinet-maker and under- 
 taker. He died in that city in May, 1886, aged 
 seventy-two years. His wife, Charlotta (Storm) 
 Kruse, was born in Germany and died in Denver 
 July I, 1895, aged seventy- four years. They 
 were the parents of six children, of whom four 
 are living, all in Colorado, the other son being 
 a bookbinder in Denver. 
 
 During the residence of his parents in Spring- 
 field, 111., our subject was born, March 15, 1857. 
 He attended the public schools of that city and 
 gained a fair education. At the age of fifteen he 
 became an apprentice to the trade of a carriage- 
 maker and faithfully served for three years. On 
 the expiration of his time he began to work in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Springfield, but one year later went to Auburn, 
 111., and in six months went south, visiting 
 Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile and other points 
 in that section of the country. On his return to 
 .Springfield he spent a year in that city and its 
 immediate vicinity. 
 
 The year 1878 witnessed the arrival of Mr. 
 Kruse in Denver, where he has since made his 
 home. In work at his trade he was employed 
 here and in other parts of this state, as well as in 
 Utah and elsewhere. Beginning independently 
 for himself, he opened the shop of which he has 
 since been the proprietor and founded the busi- 
 ness that has grown to large proportions. From 
 1893 to 1896 he was al.so engaged in prospecting 
 and placer mining in Boulder County. He has 
 been president of the Carriage Makers' Union 
 and is now treasurer of the organization. He is 
 also treasurer of Washington Camp No. 15, 
 P. O. S. of A. Politically he is a stanch advo- 
 cate of the Democratic party and a double stan- 
 dard of currency, holding the belief that national 
 prosperity can never be wholly conserv'ed until 
 silver is raised to its proper position as a medium 
 of exchange. 
 
 Mr. Kruse was "married May 25, 1898, in 
 Springfield, 111., to Miss Dora Grospitz, a native 
 of that city. 
 
 "T LLIS E. GOODALE. In the spring of 1897 
 ^ Denver had a multiplicity of tickets in the 
 ^ field. In the fifth ward the name of Mr. 
 Goodale had been placed on the ticket for alder- 
 man bj' the silver Republicans and Democrats, 
 and in the election that followed he was success- 
 ful by a majority of more than two hundred, this 
 being the largest majority ever given in the ward. 
 The circumstance is more noteworthy owing to 
 the fact that he was the only man elected on the 
 two tickets who was not also the candidate on 
 the taxpayers' ticket. Since becoming a member 
 of the board he has been stanch in his advocacy 
 of progressive measures and firm in the support 
 of plans for the benefit of his constituents in the 
 fifth ward. 
 
 The business connections of Mr. Goodale are 
 with the Colorado Iron Works Company, in 
 which he is the timekeeper and a stockholder. 
 He was born in Barry, Pike County, 111., August 
 4. 1853, the son of Jackson and Maria (Stokes) 
 
 Goodale, natives respectively of New York State 
 and Lebanon, Ohio. His father, who came to 
 Illinois in young manhood, followed the black- 
 .smith's trade there. In 1849 he started to Cali- 
 fornia, crossing the plains with an ox team and 
 enduring all the hardships of that journey in the 
 early days. While on the way the party was at- 
 tacked by Indians and some were killed and 
 others captured. Only a few reached their desti- 
 nation in safety, and Mr. Goodale was one of 
 these. He followed his trade for a time in New 
 Mexico, but in 1852 returned to Illinois, where 
 he continued to reside until his death, in 1894, at 
 the age of seventy-four. Twice married, he had 
 one son by his first wife. By his second wife, 
 who died in 1888, he had seven sons, of whom 
 five are living, Ellis E. being third in order of 
 birth and the only one of the sons in Colorado. 
 
 When fourteen years of age our subject began 
 to clerk in a mercantile store. In 1880 he came 
 to Colorado, where he was employed as salesman 
 by Welsh & Co., of Boulder, for nine mouths. 
 When the firm established a store in Denver he 
 came here with them, remaining with the con- 
 cern for five years in all, being in charge of the 
 silk department. He then went to Butte City, 
 Mont., where he was interested in merchandising, 
 but in less thaUv a year he returned to Denver. 
 In 1887 he became timekeeper for the Colorado 
 Iron Works Company, and still holds this posi- 
 tion. He was married in Denver to Miss Carrie 
 Feuersteiu, who was born in this city. She is a 
 daughter of Henry Feuerstein, a business man of 
 Aspen, and a descendant of German ancestry. 
 Mr. Goodale is connected with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen in Barry, 111., and the 
 Fraternal Union of Denver. 
 
 ~ DWIN S. KASSLER, who is engaged in the 
 ^ loan and investment business at No. 814 
 _ Cooper building, Denver, was born in this 
 city in 1866. His father, George W., was born 
 in New York state, the descendant of German 
 ancestors who have resided in America for two 
 hundred years or more. At the age of thirteen 
 he left home and began to earn his own livelihood, 
 at first clerking in a grocery at Canajoharie, the 
 town where he was born. From there he went 
 to Cooperstown, where he was a clerk in the 
 postoffice for about three years. From there he 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 531 
 
 went to Omaha, where he worked in a bank for 
 several years. In i860 he settled in Denver, 
 where he engaged in the book and stationery 
 business. About 1872 he entered the First 
 National Bank as assistant cashier and later was 
 made cashier, remaining in that position until 
 1881, when he retired. At Clinton, N. Y., May 
 31, 1865, he was united in marriage with Maria 
 T. Stebbins, and they came at once to Denver, 
 making the latter part of the trip by coach. Po- 
 litically he was a Democrat and on his party ticket 
 was elected to various official positions. He died 
 July 20, 1890, leaving two sons, Edwin S. and 
 Charles M. , the latter a clerk in the First National 
 Bank of Denver. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Kassler graduated from the Den- 
 ver high school. Immediately afterward he be- 
 came a clerk in the First National Bank, remain- 
 ing in that.. capacity for three years, when he 
 resigned to enter his present business. He is a 
 mau of excellent business qualifications, keen, 
 shrewd and energetic, and has already gained 
 unusual success for one of his age. He was mar- 
 ried in Denver to Miss Olivia Denham Cooper, 
 daughter of the well-known ex-governor and 
 financier. They have two children, Ruth and 
 Edwin S. , Jr. In politics Mr. Kassler gives his 
 support to the Republican party, but has never 
 identified himself closely with public affairs. He 
 was reared in the faith of the Episcopal church 
 and inclines toward its doctrines. Since 1S86 he 
 has been a member of the Denver Athletic Club. 
 
 SEORGE H. ADAMS. One of the most re- 
 markable instances of the adaptation of Col- 
 orado to the cattle industry may be found in 
 the business career of Mr. Adams, who is prom- 
 inent among the citizens of Denver. Embarking 
 in business as a stock-raiser in 1869, he then 
 bought the two first thoroughbred Shorthorn 
 bulls ever in the San Luis Valley. He has been 
 a pioneer in the introduction of Herefords, to 
 which exclusively his ranch has been stocked 
 since 1878, and he has paid as much as $2200 for 
 a bull and as high as $1500 for a two-year-old 
 heifer of that breed. The Adams Hereford ranch 
 covers more than four townships of land, embraces 
 twelve and one-half miles and in extent comprises 
 one hundred thousand acres, watered by eleven 
 streams and lakes, and bordering on the western 
 
 slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range. The entire 
 tract is fenced in pastures with eighty miles of 
 substantial fencing, while one hundred and forty 
 miles of ditches furnish water for the irrigation 
 of hay and the range. The herd consists of four 
 thousand head of pure-bred and high-grade Here- 
 ford cattle. From the ranch, cattle are sold and 
 shipped to Old Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, 
 Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Kan- 
 sas and Nebraska for breeding purposes. 
 
 Mr. Adams was born in Milwaukee, Wis. , the 
 only child of George and Agnes J. (Lace) Adams, 
 natives of Rochester and New York City respect- 
 ively. His father removed to Milwaukee in 1836 
 and engaged in the mercantile business there 
 until his death. His widow, who still resides 
 there, was a daughter of John Lace, who was 
 born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and settled in New 
 York City, where he owned a mercantile store. 
 Our subject was educated in the schools of Mil- 
 waukee. In January, 1863, when only seventeen 
 years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company 
 A, Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, for one 
 hundred days, but continued in the service, in 
 the Army of the Cumberland, until September, 
 1863, when he was honorably discharged as cor- 
 poral. Again, soon afterward, he enlisted as a 
 private in Company F, Forty-seventh Wisconsin 
 Infantry, and served as first sergeant and ser- 
 geant-major until September, 1865, when he was 
 honorably discharged at Nashville. 
 
 Returning to Milwaukee, Mr. Adams became 
 money receiving clerk for the United States Ex- 
 press Company, which, in 1867, sent him to 
 Kansas as messenger between Kansas City and 
 Fort Ellsworth, the terminus of the Kansas Pa- 
 cific. In the spring of 1868 he returned to Mil- 
 waukee, where he was superintendent of the 
 Goodrich Express Company until 1869, when he 
 resigned to come to Colorado. The trip to the 
 west he made via Cheyenne to Denver and from 
 this city went to California Gulch (now Lead- 
 ville), where he engaged in prospecting for two 
 months, but in December went to the San Luis 
 Valley. A pioneer in that section, he entered 
 one hundred and sixty acres on Rio Alto Creek 
 and embarked in the stock business. In 1871 he 
 entered the employ of a cattle company as fore- 
 man on Baca Grant No. 4, and later became pro- 
 prietor. In 1878 he brought to his place eighty 
 full-bred Hereford bulls and has since devoted 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his attention to the raising of pure- bred and high- 
 grade Herefords. He has been a director in the 
 American Hereford Association, is a member of 
 the Colorado Cattle Growers' and National Stock 
 Breeders' Associations, and, under appointment 
 by Governor Pitkin, served for eight years as a 
 member of the State Cattle Inspection and Round- 
 up Boards. In April, 1895, Governor Mclntire 
 appointed him president of the board of trustees 
 of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, to serve 
 for six years. 
 
 In Wisconsin, August 27, 1878, Mr. Adams 
 married Miss Addie J. Bertschy, of Appleton, a 
 graduate of the university at that place. They 
 have one child, Florence P. In politics Mr. 
 Adams supports the silver branch of the Repub- 
 lican party. He has frequently been delegate to 
 conventions, has served as a member of the state 
 Republican committee, and while in Saguache 
 County held the office of county clerk for one 
 term and was also justice of the peace and sherifiF 
 of the county. By service upon the school board 
 he advanced the educational interests of his com- 
 munity. Shortly after his return from the army 
 he became identified with Post No. g, Wisconsin 
 G. A. R. , as one of its charter members. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. 
 
 There have been so many successful cattlemen 
 in Colorado that it may not be considered a more 
 than ordinary statement to speak of Mr. Adams 
 as one of the most successful, as he is also one of 
 the most extensive. But when we consider that 
 he came to the state with comparatively little 
 capital and with no experience in the cattle busi- 
 ness, his present position is remarkable. By dint 
 of industry, executive ability and determination, 
 he has risen to rank among the foremost cattle 
 breeders of the state and may appropriately be 
 termed the "Hereford king" of the west. 
 
 (lOHN B. ROBERTSON is the president of 
 I the Robertson-Peery Leather Company, in- 
 (2/ corporated April i, 1898, wholesale and re- 
 tail dealers in leather and shoe findings, and 
 manufacturers of boot and shoe uppers and ladies' 
 and misses' leather leggins, with office and fac- 
 tory at No. 1526 Lawrence street, Denver. While 
 this business is not an old one, having been 
 started in January, 1896, yet through the energy 
 
 of the president and his excellent judgment it has 
 become known among the growing concerns of 
 the city. 
 
 The Robertsons are a Scotch family. Andrew 
 Robertson, a native of Scotland, was a soldier in 
 the English army during and after the Crimean 
 war, in the campaigns of which he bore an active 
 part. He was promoted from the ranks and 
 made a recruiting officer. While serving in the 
 army his death occurred. He had a son, Peter D., 
 who was born in Lanarkshire, and has .spent the 
 principal part of his life in Glasgow, of which he 
 was assessor for more than fifteen years; now, 
 however, he is living retired. He married Mary 
 Biggar, daughter of John Biggar, who engaged 
 in the cattle bu-siness in Scotland for some years. 
 She died in May, 1896, in Glasgow. 
 
 Of eleven children comprising the family all 
 but two are living, and of these John B. was third 
 in order of birth and is the only one in America. 
 He was reared in his native city, Glasgow, where 
 he attended the schools until seventeen years of 
 age. Afterward he served an apprenticeship to 
 the machinists' and draughtsman's trade, and 
 also clerked for a short time. In 1881 he took 
 passage for New York and from that city came 
 west to Colorado, where for two years he was 
 employed on a large ranch near Livermore, Lar- 
 imer County. For six years he was employed on 
 ex-Governor Routt's ranch at Pleasant Valley. 
 In 1889 he came to Denver and became an em- 
 ploye of the Dunn & Blass Leather Company, for 
 whom he was traveling salesman and bookkeeper. 
 On the incorporation of the company, with J. P. 
 Dunn as president, he became a stockholder in 
 the concern and was elected its secretary and 
 treasurer. His interest in the company he sold 
 in January, 1896, and started in the business with 
 which he is now identified. 
 
 Busy with his business affairs, Mr. Robertson 
 has never taken an active part in politics nor 
 identified himself closely with public affairs. 
 However, while residing in Larimer County he 
 served as treasurer of his school district. No. 7. 
 He is a member of the Caledonian Club, a social 
 organization composed of Scotchmen and the sons 
 of Scotchmen. He is secretary and treasurer of 
 the Denver Cricket Club, which he helped to or- 
 ganize, and is one of its best players, having mas- 
 tered the game thoroughly in his native country. 
 He has been twice married, his first wife having 
 
WILLIAM K. ROBERTS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 535 
 
 been Miss lyiilu Reed, who was born in Missouri 
 and died in Denver. Two children were born of 
 this union, William and Kate. His second mar- 
 riage united him with Mrs. Minnie (Powell) 
 Oleson, who was born in London. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM E. ROBERTS, chief of the fire 
 
 \ A / department, is one of the old and trusted 
 VY employes of the city of Denver, and his 
 honorable and efficient service entitles him to the 
 respect in which he is held. Under the adminis- 
 tration of Governor Waite he was appointed chief 
 of the department, but after serving one year to a 
 day he was reduced to the rank of assistant-chief 
 by the new board under Governor Mclntire. He 
 continued in the subordinate rank until Septem- 
 ber 4, 1897, when he was appointed chief by the 
 present board. The fire department is composed 
 of fourteen companies, aggregating one hundred 
 and twenty men, assigned to fourteen different 
 fire houses, and equipped for service with three 
 hook and ladders, seven engines and wagons, five 
 hose wagons, one chemical engine and one water 
 tower. 
 
 A Welshman by birth, Mr. Roberts was born 
 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, North Wales, Janu- 
 ary 12, 1858. His father, Edward, and grand- 
 father, David, were born in the same shire, where 
 the latter followed farm pursuits and the former 
 was employed as a stone carver and sculptor, but 
 died when our subject was only two and one-half 
 years of age. The wife and mother bore the 
 maiden name of Jane Thomas, and was born on 
 the island of Anglesea, which has been famous in 
 history for its Druid priests. Her father, Will- 
 iam Thomas, came from Anglesea to America 
 about i860 and settled in Emporia, Kan., but in 
 1867 removed to Denver, where he afterward re- 
 sided. The Thomas family has given to Wales 
 some of its greatest preachers and to the Presby- 
 terian Church some of its world-famous divines. 
 They have also been prominent as artisans, and 
 it is said that for more than three hundred 3'ears 
 successive generations have carried on business 
 as stone cutters in the same yard. Mrs. Jane 
 Roberts died at the age of thirty, leaving an only 
 child, William E., then eleven years of age. 
 
 22 
 
 At the age of eleven our subject was appren- 
 ticed to the stone cutter's trade and remained 
 with his master for about three years. In 1871 
 he came to America, reaching Chicago ju.st before 
 its disastrous fire in October. He was so young 
 that people refused to employ him at first, but 
 after the fire there was such a demand for labor 
 that he found no difficulty in securing work, and 
 for two and one-half years he worked at his trade 
 in that city. In December, 1873, he came to 
 Denver, where there were only about five stone 
 cutters. He cut stone for the city hall and some 
 of the large buildings here, including the first 
 brown stone block, the McClinton building and 
 the Central Presbyterian Church. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Roberts joined Volunteer Fire 
 Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, of which he 
 was elected foreman in 188 1 and with which he 
 continued until its disbandment in 1883. In 
 1 8-8 1 he was chosen assistant-chief of the fire de- 
 partment, in 1885 became a paid member of the 
 department as a ladder man, three years later 
 was transferred to captain of Steamer No. i, in 
 1 89 1 was transferred to be captain of Hook and 
 Ladder Company No. 2, and later was made cap- 
 tain of Steamer No. 2. During the city hall war 
 in 1894 he was discharged, but thirty days later, 
 on the 17th of April, he was reinstated and 
 afterward accepted the appointment of chief of 
 the fire department. While he has been rather 
 fortunate in his work as fireman, yet he has not 
 been without his share of accidents. During a 
 fire on Sixteenth street he fell in an elevator 
 shaft and his right ankle was broken; again, in 
 August, 1896, his horse ran away and he was 
 thrown from the buggy, and his shoulder was 
 broken. 
 
 Being a great reader, Mr. Roberts is well in- 
 formed concerning all matters of public interest. 
 He is a skillful amateur artist in crayon and 
 pastel, and his work may be seen in the office 
 and various parts of Denver. In this city he 
 married Miss Sarah M. Wright, who was born in 
 Birmingham, England, but at an early age ac- 
 companied her father, Edwin Wright, to Amer- 
 ica, settling in Denver, where he engaged in 
 business. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have three 
 children, Victor Edwin, Maud and Grace Roberts. 
 
 The following letter from the president of the 
 National Firemen's Association is indicative of 
 the esteem in which be Js held : 
 
536 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Omaha, Neb., Sept. lo, 1898. 
 Hon. Ralph Talbott, President Fire Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Dear Sir: — We wish to thank the city of 
 Denver for its kindness in sending its fire depart- 
 ment to attend the National Firemen's tourna- 
 ment, held at Omaha Sept. 5 to 1 1 , and wish to 
 add that the chief and his men and their efficient 
 work reflect credit upon the city of Denver. The 
 exhibition given by your men in extinguishing 
 the flames in the burning buildings, and their 
 gentlemanly conduct, place the Denver depart- 
 ment in the front rank as an active, efiicient, 
 first-class fire-fighting team. It is the unanimous 
 verdict of all who had the pleasure of meeting 
 Mr. Roberts that Denver made no mistake when 
 she placed him at the head of her fire depart- 
 ment. Yours very respectfully, 
 
 Fred a. Wood, 
 
 President. 
 
 nOHN J. HAGUS, who for years was a prom- 
 I inent business man of Colorado and is now 
 Q) living retired at No. 1 959 Washington ave- 
 nue, Denver, was born near Cologne, Prussia, 
 September 25, 1838, the son of Joseph and Eliz- 
 abeth (I/Crsch) Hagus. When he was ten years 
 of age, in the spring of 1849, the family came to 
 America, spending forty days on the ocean be- 
 tween Antwerp and New York; during that time 
 they encountered many severe storms, one of 
 which was especially dangerous, and the captain, 
 who thought all was lost, had the passengers 
 locked below, where they clustered together, all 
 terribly frightened, and some weeping, while others 
 prayed. 
 
 Landing in New York the family went from 
 there to Galena, 111., where they had friends. 
 The father, who was a tailor by trade, followed 
 his chosen occupation in Galena until 1877, when 
 he came to Colorado. Here he spent the remain- 
 der of his days, passing away in July, 1891, at 
 the age of eighty-three. The mother also died 
 here in June, 1893, at the age of eighty-five. 
 They were the parents of ten children, six of 
 whom died in infancy, and four are still living, 
 all in Colorado. Of these Andrew came to Colo- 
 radoatthe time of the gold excitement at Pike's 
 Peak in 1859, and he is now living near Brighton, 
 where he is a wealthy farmer and dairyman. 
 
 After receiving an excellent education in the 
 German language, our subject entered the public 
 school in Galena, where he was a pupil about 
 three years. At the age of fifteen he began to 
 clerk in a grocery, receiving a salary of $6 per 
 month. In i860 he followed his brother to Colo- 
 rado, leaving a position that paid him $12 per 
 month, board and lodging. His brother had 
 spent the winter of 1859-60 as a miner in Russell 
 Gulch, but in the spring he settled on a farm near 
 Brighton, sixteen miles from Denver, and on that 
 place our subject found him, upon driving across 
 the plains with a company of emigrants. They 
 spent six weeks on the way and frequently met 
 Indians, but all showed a disposition to be 
 friendly. 
 
 Upon arriving in the then state of Kansas he 
 went over into the Blue River country and began 
 mining, in which he engaged for four years, doing 
 fairly well. In the fall of 1863 he came down 
 from the mountains and took up a homestead 
 near Brighton, on the Platte River, and began 
 farming, which he followed until the fall of 1869. 
 
 Mr. Hagus then secured employment in a store, 
 where he remained for ten years, his salary being 
 $100 a month the last years. In 1870 he married 
 Miss Mary H. Flucken, of Galena, 111., whom he 
 had met while visiting there. She was born in Ger- 
 many and from' there accompanied her parents to 
 the United States, settling with them in Galena. 
 In 1879 he removed to Leadville and embarked 
 in the furniture business as a member of the firm 
 of Pryor, Hagus & Cooper, remaining in the bus- 
 iness for five years. In 1884 he sold out and 
 returned to Denver, where, the following year, 
 he started the Cooper-Hagus Furniture Com- 
 pany, a business that was conducted profitably 
 until 1896, when he sold out and retired. His 
 success illustrates the power of energy and deter- 
 mination of will. He began for himself when a 
 boy, penniless, with no influence to assist him in 
 getting a start, but with indefatigable persever- 
 ance he worked his way steadily forward until he 
 became the possessor of a competency. In boy- 
 hood he assisted in the support of his parents, 
 and when they became aged he and his brothers 
 cared for them, providing them with every com- 
 fort that could bring happiness to their declining 
 years. He and his wife became the parents of 
 seven children, but two died in infancy. The 
 others are: Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brandenburg, who 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 537 
 
 lives in Eldora; Joseph C, a salesman in Brown 
 Brothers' wholesale grocery house; Louis P., 
 Charles H. and Emma M. , who are pupils in the 
 Denver schools. 
 
 In politics Mr. Hagus is independent. When 
 in Leadville he was often urged to become a can- 
 didate for office, but always refused, not desiring 
 to enter public life. In religion he was reared 
 in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. His 
 money is largely invested in real estate in Denver 
 and in mining interests throughout the state, 
 from which investments he is in receipt of a fair 
 remuneration. 
 
 61 VERY R. THOMPSON, contractor and 
 U builder, has his office and shop at No. 1539 
 / I Stout street, Denver, and for some years has 
 carried on an extensive business in his line, 
 taking contracts for the erection of business blocks 
 and private residences. He is a descendant of 
 Scotch ancestors, who were identified with the 
 early history of South Carolina and took up arms 
 in defense of the colonies during the war with 
 England. His grandfather, Jeremiah Thompson, 
 who was the son of a Revolutionary patriot, was 
 born in South Carolina, and from there removed 
 to Highland County, Ohio, where he engaged in 
 farming. Laterhe went to Jefferson County, Iowa, 
 and there died in 1875, at the age of seventy-five 
 years. 
 
 Charles M. Thompson, our subject's father, 
 was born in Highland County, Ohio, bi:t spent 
 his life principally in Iowa, where he cleared a 
 farm in Jefferson County and engaged in agricult- 
 ural pursuits for many years. He was one of 
 the most honored men of his community, and his 
 life of steadfast integrity won for him the confi- 
 dence of all his associates. On the farm where 
 so many useful years had been passed, he died, 
 August 28, 1897, at the age of sixty-four. His 
 wife was Sarah McGuire, a native of Indiana and 
 the daughter of James McGuire, who removed 
 from that state to Iowa and settled upon a farm 
 there. She passed away at the age of forty-two 
 years, leaving nine children, all of whom still 
 survive. 
 
 The fifth of these is Avery R. , who was born 
 near Fairfield, Iowa, in 1866, and received a com- 
 mon-school education in Jefferson County. He 
 was handy with tools when a boy and could make 
 
 anything that could be constructed from his lim- 
 ited appliances. He liked carpentering and nat- 
 urally drifted into the occupation for his life-work. 
 In 1886 he started out for himself, and for a year 
 traveled through Kansas, following his trade in dif- 
 ferent parts of the state. The next year found him 
 in Denver, where for six months he was employed 
 with the Santa Fe Railroad Company, and after- 
 ward worked as a journeyman. In 1890 he be- 
 gan contracting for himself and has since done a 
 large general jobbing and building business. As 
 a carpenter he is accurate, careful and conscien- 
 tious, carrying out the architects' plans with the 
 utmost fidelity. He is a member of the Contract- 
 ors and Builders' Association, and takes an inter- 
 est in ever3'thing connected with his chosen occu- 
 pation. Through his energy and judicious man- 
 agement he has accumulated some property 
 which his present prosperous condition will enable 
 him to increase and improve. His family con- 
 sists of one son, Charles, bom May 29, 1893, and 
 his wife, who was Miss Ellen McKernan, is a 
 native of West Virginia. 
 
 HENRY E. HOKLAS is the junior member 
 of the firm of Cochran & Hoklas, architects 
 and builders, at No. 181 1 Stout street, Den- 
 ver. He was born in Bremen, Germany, June 
 4, 1848, and is a son of Henry and Margaret 
 (Raby) Hoklas, natives respectively of Holstein 
 and Bremen, and members of old German fami- 
 lies. His father, who carried on a button factory 
 in Bremen, emigrated to the United States in 1852 
 and settled in Peoria, 111., where at first he was em- 
 ployed by a furniture house, and later engaged in 
 the manufacture of cigar boxes. He died in 1895, 
 at the age of seventy-two. His wife is also de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Their only child, our subject, was reared in 
 Peoria, where he attended the public schools. At 
 the age of seventeen he began to learn the carpen- 
 ter's trade, of which he soon acquired a compre- 
 hensive knowledge. In 1875 he removed to Iowa 
 and settled near Corning, where he had a farm, 
 and also engaged in building. From there in 
 1888 he removed to Hastings, Neb., where he 
 worked at his trade as foreman in the building 
 of the court house. After some two years, in 
 1890, he came to Denver, where he was emploj^ed 
 as foreman in building. In 1895 he became a 
 
538 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 member of the firm of Cochran & Hoklas, who 
 take contracts for store and office work, furnish 
 plans and specifications for buildings of all kinds 
 and do carpenter work and jobbing, having their 
 oflSce and shop at No. i8ii Stout street. 
 
 By the marriage of Mr. Hoklas to Miss Lucy 
 Brockett, of Peoria County, 111., two children 
 were born, Wilbur and Wesley. Fraternally 
 Mr. Hoklas is connected with the Woodmen of 
 the World and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, in which he has been an officer. He is a 
 stanch supporter of the silver cause, and in reli- 
 gion is connected with the Baptist Church. 
 
 ^RANCIS D. MEAD, a veteran of the Civil 
 r^ war and a resident of Denver, was born in 
 I * Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass., in 1842, 
 being the youngest of the eleven children of Darius 
 L. and Artless (Comstock) Mead, natives respect- 
 ively of New York state and Great Barrington, 
 Mass. His father, who was the son of a physi- 
 cian, became a mechanic in early life and followed 
 the trade at New Lebanon Springs, N. Y., and 
 Pittsfield, Mass., the most of his life being spent 
 in the latter place. He is said to have been one 
 of the finest mechanics in the state. 
 
 Being handy with tools, at an early age our 
 subject learned carpentering and under his father's 
 instruction became an expert mechanic. In New 
 London, Conn., he was a member of the Lincoln 
 Wide-Awakes. He was at Norwich when the 
 first shot was fired at Fort Sumter and at once he 
 determined to enlist in the army. Going to 
 Lebanon, he assisted in drilling a company, and 
 soon afterward he enlisted from Hartford, as a 
 member of Company D, Fourth Connecticut In- 
 fantry (later First Connecticut Heavy Artillery) . 
 He took part in the seven days' siege at York- 
 town, during which his battery never lost a gun; 
 also in the battle of Malvern Hill, after which he 
 was ordered to Washington, D. C, from there to 
 Fredericksburg, and participated in the hard 
 fighting in front of Petersburg. At the expira- 
 tion of his time, in 1864, he was mustered out at 
 Hartford, Conn. April 7, 1865, he again enlisted, 
 becoming a member of Company K, Sixth Regi- 
 ment Hancock's Veterans, and was stationed at 
 Washington and Harrisburg until he was honor- 
 ably discharged, in June, 1866. 
 
 After the close of the war Mr. Mead followed 
 
 his trade in Pittsfield, Northampton, Portland 
 (Me.), Sparta (Wis.) and then went to Minnea- 
 polis and from there to Lansing, Mich. , where he 
 had charge of a furniture factory. Next he 
 engaged in jobbing in Omaha. He first visited 
 Denver in 1879, but did not locate here perma- 
 nently until 1889, when he came from California 
 and settled in this city. For four years he worked 
 in the employ of McPhee & McGinnity, and since 
 then has been in business for himself as a cabinet- 
 maker and carpenter. He was married in Harris- 
 burg, Pa., ill 1865 to a daughter of Rev. George 
 Kurtzman, a minister in the German Reformed 
 denomination. Three children have been born to 
 his marriage, namely: Florence, wife of William 
 I. Laird, who is traveling freight agent for the 
 Maple Leaf Railroad in Chicago; Guy, a book- 
 keeper and stenographer in Denver; and Grace, 
 wife of Edward N. Bullock, D. D. S. In politics 
 he adheres to Republican principles. With other 
 old soldiers he takes an interest in Grand Army 
 matters, his membership being in the Lincoln 
 Post No. 4 of Denver. 
 
 ELAYTON T. COCHRAN, senior member of 
 the firm of Cochran & Hoklas, of Denver, 
 was born in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada, 
 in 1844, and is the fourth of the seven children 
 of William P. and Margaret (Rupert) Cochran, 
 natives respectively of Scotland and Nova Scotia. 
 His father, who came to this country, engaged in 
 farming in Ontario until his death at seventy-nine 
 years; his wife was also seventy-nine at the time 
 of her death. 
 
 At the age of fifteen our subject began to learn 
 the carpenter's trade. In 1864 he came to the 
 States, spending four months in Bufialo, nine 
 months in Toledo, and then going to Chicago, 
 where he engaged in building until June, 1872. 
 At that time he came to Denver, where he has 
 since resided. At first he devoted himself entirely 
 to carpentering, but since 1893 he has taken con- 
 tracts, and has also designed his own plans. He 
 is an industrious, painstaking man, and makes 
 every effort to please those for whom he has con- 
 tracts. While he has met with business reverses, 
 he has never become discouraged, but has worked 
 with a perseverance and determination that almost 
 invariably win success. 
 
 In Chicago Mr. Cochran married Miss Belle 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 539 
 
 Fry, who was born in Bath, Canada, and died in 
 Colorado. The only child of this union is Mrs. 
 Belle Yale, of Waterloo, Iowa. His second mar- 
 riage took place in Canada and united him with 
 Miss Emily M. Armstrong, who was born there 
 and died in Denver, leaving an only son, Crandall 
 A. In religious connections Mr. Cochran is a 
 member of the First Baptist Church. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and in politics adheres to the doctrines 
 of the silver Republican organization. By his 
 present wife, who was Charlotte M. Miles, of 
 Canada, he has one child, Eleanor. 
 
 JJJEWTON ALDEN BOEEES and NETTIE 
 rV HUBBARD BOLEES. In 1897 the West- 
 I Is ern Institute of Osteopathy was founded at 
 Denver by Mr. and Mrs. Bolles, under charter 
 from the .state government, and it is now the only 
 school recognized by the American School of 
 Osteopathy. The school is located at No. 832 
 East Colfax avenue, where a two years' course of 
 instruction will be given similar to that in the 
 parent school at Kirksville, Mo. Of the institute 
 Mrs. Bolles is president and Mr. Bolles secretary 
 and treasurer. Both are members of the American 
 Association for the advancement of Osteopathy, 
 in which she has served as vice-president. 
 
 Up to a comparatively recent date very little 
 was known concerning osteopathy. It is a sys- 
 tem of treating disease without drugs, by skill- 
 fully tracing out and readjusting mechanical dis- 
 orders that interfere with the natural functions 
 of the body. It is the claim of those who ad- 
 vocate this course of treatment that when all ob- 
 struction to the free circulation of the fluids of 
 the body is detected and removed, the system can 
 then regain its normal condition. The touch is 
 educated to such a degree that practitioners of 
 this system can detect the least deviation from 
 normal in any part of the body. The science 
 was originated and developed by Dr. Andrew T. 
 Still, of Kirksville, Mo.' formerly a physician of 
 the old school, who for nearly twenty-five years 
 worked upon the principles of the system that 
 now constitute the science of osteopathy. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is of English de- 
 scent. Three brothers crossed the ocean in 1600 
 from England, two of whom settled in the north 
 and one went south. Alden Bolles, who was the 
 
 son of a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Mas- 
 sachusetts. His wife was Dorcas Munger, a na- 
 tive of Saratoga County, N. Y. Of their ten 
 children, William Alden Bolles was the young- 
 est. He was born in Milton, N. Y., July 7, 
 1 83 1 , aud at the age of eighteen began teaching, 
 which he made his life occupation. 
 
 In Louisville Professor Bolles married Mattie 
 A. Lewton, who was born in New Albany, Ind., 
 and was a teacher in the Louisville schools. Her 
 father, James Lewton, was born in Bristol, Eng- 
 land, and married Cynthia Parker, of York State, 
 by whom he had ten children, six still living. 
 Professor and Mrs. Bolles had nine children, and 
 of these six attained maturity, viz.: Newton 
 Alden, J. Lewton, Clarence William, Nettie B., 
 Arthur Elliott and Mary E. 
 
 While his parents resided in Lexington, Ky., 
 the subject ofthis sketch was born, May 20, 1859. 
 He accompanied his parents in their various re- 
 movals. In the fall of 1876 he entered the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas, where he studied for two 
 years, after which he taught for three years. In 
 the spring of 1881 he went to New Mexico and 
 traveled through that state, also visited Arizona, 
 Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Montana and Old Mexico, 
 spending four years in prospecting, mining and 
 assaying. The largest mine in which he was 
 employed was that owned by Senator Tabor, at 
 Chihuahua, Mexico. In 1896 he entered the 
 American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, 
 Mo. , from which he graduated in the spring of 
 1898, with the degree of D. O. Politically he is 
 a Republican and fraternally is connected with 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 At Olathe, Kan., December 7, 1887, Mr. Bol- 
 les married Miss Nettie Hubbard , who was born 
 in Marion, Douglas County, Kan. Her father, 
 David Hubbard, a pioneer of Lawrence, Kan., 
 aud during the war, when Quantrell made his 
 raid on Lawrence, w.as wounded by a bullet 
 that passed through his lungs. He recovered 
 from the wound, largely through the treatment 
 of Dr. Still, who was then living in Douglas 
 County. He now resides at Olathe. The Hub- 
 bard family is of English descent and remote 
 Norman extraction, the ancestors having crossed 
 the channel with William the Conqueror. The 
 mother of Mrs. Bolles was Martha J. Merrill, 
 daughter of Sherburne Merrill, of New Hamp- 
 shire. She is still living, as are five of her seven 
 
540 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 children. lu 1878, when a young girl, Mrs. 
 Bolles spent some months in travel through 
 France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She 
 graduated from the University of Kansas in 1885 
 with the degrees of B. S. and B. P. and later 
 took the Chautauqua course of study. In the 
 fall of 1892 she entered the American School of 
 Osteopathy and was a member of Dr. Still's first 
 graduating class, receiving the degree of D. O. 
 in 1894. During the last year of her college 
 course, 1893-94, ^^^ taught anatomy in the 
 school, and also taught one year after graduat- 
 ing. In the fall of 1895 she located in Denver. 
 She is a member of the college fraternity of Phi 
 Beta Phi and belongs to the Woman's Club of 
 Denver. In religious connections both she and 
 her husband are identified with the Plymouth 
 Coug;regational Church. Fraternally she is a 
 member of the Eastern . Star. 
 
 ■"DWIN H. park, attorney-at-law, with 
 ^ olEce at No. 711 Ernest and Cranmer build- 
 __ ing, Denver, was born in Waukesha, Wis., 
 September 23, 1864, and is a son of John W. and 
 Sarah I,. (Thomas) Park. His father, who was 
 a farmer near Waukesha, was born in Weston, 
 Vt. , and there grew to manhood upon a farm, 
 receiving an excellent academic education, after 
 which for several years he engaged in teaching in 
 country and village schools. About 1850 he re- 
 moved to Wisconsin and there carried on farm 
 pursuits. After going west he met Miss Thomas, 
 a native of Vermont, who had removed to Wis- 
 consin in 1837. They were married and soon 
 afterward went to Minnesota, where he laid out 
 and named the town of Owatonna. However, 
 after a few years he sold out and returned to 
 Wisconsin, settling in the town of Vernon, Wau- 
 kesha County. In early life he had been educated 
 for civil engineering, in which line, as well as in 
 surveying, he did considerable work during the 
 early days of Wisconsin. He passed away in 
 Waukesha County in August, 1879, at about 
 fifty years of age, leaving a wife and six children. 
 The boyhood days of our subject's life were 
 spent on the home farm near Waukesha. After 
 completing the public-school studies, he entered 
 Rochester Seminary, in Racine County, where he 
 prepared for college. In the fall of 1882 he 
 entered the University of Wisconsin, from which 
 
 he graduated in 1886, with special honors. After- 
 ward he taught for one year in a graded school as 
 its principal, but did not find the occupation con- 
 genial, and so turned his attention to the study of 
 the law. Later he took the regular course in the 
 law department of the state university, from 
 which he graduated in 1889. Soon afterward he 
 came to Denver, where he was attorney for the 
 Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company for one 
 year, and then opened an office for himself in the 
 Good block. In 1892 he opened an ofiice in the 
 Ernest and Cranmer building. He has been 
 identified with many important cases which 
 attracted more than local attention. In the fam- 
 ous case of Trimble vs. People he was attorney 
 for the plaintiff and succeeded in retaining Mr. 
 Trimble as a member of the fire and police board. 
 His specialty is mining law, in which he has been 
 eminently successful, and he is now engaged in 
 the prosecution of mining cases that involve vast 
 interests. 
 
 In Denver, December 31, 1891, Mr. Park mar- 
 ried Carrie I.. Old, who was born in Omaha, 
 Neb., a daughter of Prof. R. Orchard Old; she 
 was reared in Bath, England, received an excel- 
 lent education, and is a lady of many accomplish- 
 ments and charming disposition. Their only 
 child is R. Orchard, born in Nebraska City in 
 1893. 
 
 Though reared a Republican, Mr. Park became 
 an adherent of the People's party. He was a 
 candidate for city attorney of Denver, but was de- 
 feated. In 1896 he stumped Nebraska in Bryan's 
 behalf and at other times he has done much to 
 advance the interests of his party. He became a 
 Master Mason in Waterford Eodge No. 96 (Wis- 
 consin) and was demitted to Union lyOdge No. 7, 
 of Denver. 
 
 QERRY a. CEAY, formerly under-sheriff 
 L/ and for five months acting sheriff of Arapa- 
 f^ hoe County, was well qualified by nature 
 for the positions he has held, being the possessor 
 of ability and courage not unlike that displayed 
 by his relative, the illustrious Commodore Perry, 
 the hero of I^ake Erie. He is of English descent, 
 but his forefathers have been identified with 
 American history since an early period in the 
 settlement of this country, and his grandfather 
 and great-grandfather were patriotic soldiers, the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 541 
 
 one in the war of 18 12, the other in the Revolu- 
 tion. The grandfather, who was born in Ver- 
 mont, engaged in farming throughout his active 
 life; when eighty-seven years of age he was ac- 
 cidentally killed. His wife, who was a Miss 
 Perry, died at the age of one hundred and two 
 years. 
 
 The father of our subject, Daniel Theodore 
 Clay, was born in Rutland, Vt., in 1817, and in 
 early days removed to Wisconsin, where he be- 
 came a pioneer minister in the Baptist Church 
 and established a number of congregations. After 
 seventeen years in Wisconsin he moved to Cob- 
 den, 111., where he continued in the ministry un- 
 til his death, in 1878, at the age of sixty-four. 
 His wife, who was Olivia Maria Beardsley, was 
 born in St. Clair, Mich., and now makes her 
 home in Denver. Her father, Melvin Beardsley, 
 who was descended from English ancestors that 
 settled in Connecticut and took part in the Rev- 
 olution, was a native of the Nutmeg state, but 
 removed to Batavia, N. Y., from there to St. 
 Clair County, Mich., and thence to Baraboo, 
 Sauk County, Wis., where he was proprietor of 
 a store. When eighty-six years of age a severe 
 fall resulted in his death. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is one of a family of 
 four sons and two daughters, of whom two of the 
 sons are deceased. Harvey, the eldest brother, 
 was a member of a Wisconsin regiment during 
 the Civil war, was wounded in the battle of 
 Antietam, losing his right arm at the shoulder 
 joint. The record in the pension office shows 
 that, of all who received similar wounds in the 
 war, he is the sole survivor. His home is in 
 Fitzgerald, Ga. The second son, Orley T., died 
 in Illinois when thirty years of age. Mrs. Lizzie 
 D. Finley is the manager of the Western Union 
 telegraph office in Canon City, Colo. Perry A. 
 is next in order of birth. Melvin died at the age 
 of eight years. Mrs. Laura Morgan lives in 
 Denver. 
 
 In Kilbourn City, Wis., where he was born 
 June 4, 1859, our subject spent only his infant 
 days. He was six when the family removed to 
 Cobden, 111., and his education was obtained in 
 the district schools there and the State Normal 
 University at Carbondale, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1875. Afterward he taught for two 
 years at Makanda, 111., and then learned teleg- 
 raphy in the Illinois Central depot. He was 
 
 with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 
 road and the Western Union Telegraph Company 
 at St. Louis until 1882, when he came to Colo- 
 rado. He was with the Union Pacific on the 
 Kansas Pacific division in Colorado and later 
 with the Denver & Rio Grande road until 1889, 
 when he was appointed an officer on the police 
 force, and after patrolling a beat for nine months, 
 he was made sergeant and then promoted to the 
 rank of captain, which was virtually the office of 
 assistant chief. In 1894, through an attempt to 
 make a political machine of the police department, 
 the question arose whether or not the so-called 
 metropolitan system meant anything. Chief-of- 
 Police John F. Stone and Captain Clay contended 
 that removals could not be made for political 
 reasons, and acting under the advice of able 
 council and the main portion of the business 
 community of Denver, organized the police de- 
 partment, and held the city hall against the state 
 militia. When the matter finally reached the su- 
 preme court, a decision was rendered against 
 them, and Chief Stone, Captain Clay and fifty-six 
 subordinate officers retired voluntarily from the 
 city service. 
 
 During the next two years Mr. Clay and Mr. 
 Stone carried on a paper called the Patriot, in 
 the interests of the Republican party. Mr. Clay 
 is an adherent of that party, but a strong sup- 
 porter of its silver wing. In January, 1896, he 
 was appointed under-sheriff by Mr. Webb and 
 two years later he was again appointed to the po- 
 sition, which is practically that of acting sheriff. 
 In 1896 he went to Europe in search of the de- 
 faulting clerk of the district court of Arapahoe, 
 whom he arrested in Southampton and brought 
 back to Denver, after an absence of only forty-four 
 days. In May, 1898, Sheriff Webb died. The 
 last paper which he dictated and signed three 
 days before his death was as follows: "To the 
 Honorable Board of County Commissioners of 
 Arapahoe County, Colo.: Gentlemen: I am now 
 lying seriously sick. I respectfully request your 
 honorable body, in the event of my death, to 
 appoint Perry A. Clay sheriff. He has been a 
 most faithful friend to me, and as under-sheriff 
 has proven himself to be a most able and efficient 
 officer, and is thoroughly familiar with the duties 
 pertaining to the office of sheriff. 
 
 ; 'Very respectfully, 
 
 "E. H. Wbbb." 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The various Grand Army posts of the city 
 passed resolutions requesting this appointment, 
 and lawyers and business men joined fraternal 
 societies in the same request; but the county 
 board selected another man. Mr. Clay did not 
 wait for something to turn up. The next day he 
 bought a half interest in The Denver Examiner, 
 "the live weekly of the west." 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Clay is connected with Denver 
 Lodge No. 17, B. P. O. E., and Temple Lodge 
 No. 84, A. F. & A. M. His marriage in 1883 
 united him with Miss Annie M. Smith, who was 
 born in Jefferson City, Mo., the daughter of John 
 Smith, of that place. They have two children, 
 Horace Greeley and Archibald. In person Mr. 
 Clay is six feet one inch in height and weighs two 
 hundred and ten pounds. His countenance ex- 
 presses honor and honesty, thus reflecting the 
 true history of his life. He is no sycophant or 
 worshiper of power. He is consistently tem- 
 perate and moral. He is tolerant and generous to 
 a fault. He is a speaker and writer of no mean 
 ability. In December, 1892, he delivered a gen- 
 eral eulogy at the Elks' annual memorial service, 
 which was reproduced in over thirty of the great 
 metropolitan papers and magazines of the United 
 States. He has written verse which the Harper 
 publications have considered acceptable. He 
 possesses no small or petty larceny traits of char- 
 acter, nor is he "mealy-mouthed;" men and 
 things are called by their right names by Perry 
 A. Clay. 
 
 0AMUEL CRAFT, who has engaged in con- 
 ?\ tracting and building in Denver since 1888, 
 Cv/ and is a member of the firm of Craft & Gil- 
 more, was born in Boston, Mass., November 24, 
 i860, and was the fifth among ten children, all 
 but two of whom are still living. He is the son of 
 Reuben and Esther (Bailey) Craft, natives respec- 
 tively of St. Johns, N. B.,and Maine, both now de- 
 ceased. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Craft, 
 was born in New Brunswick, of Scotch descent, 
 and was a carpenter by occupation; the maternal 
 grandfather, Edmund Bailey, was a farmer in 
 Maine. 
 
 Having learned the carpenter's trade in Bos- 
 ton, in September, 1875, our subject went to Min- 
 neapolis, where in time he became foreman for a 
 firm of large contractors. In 1886 he began as a 
 
 contractor there, but two years later removed to 
 Denver, where he now owns residence and busi- 
 ness property. In January, 1897, he formed the 
 firm of Craft & Gilmore, which is doing a good 
 business in the city and vicinity. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Carpenters and Builders' Association 
 and takes an interest in everything pertaining to 
 his chosen work in life. Politically he adheres 
 to the principles of the Republican party, but has 
 never desired to identify himself with public af- 
 fairs, preferring to devote himself to private busi- 
 ness matters. Fraternally he is a member of Col- 
 orado Lodge No. I, K. of P., in which he is past 
 chancellor, and also belongs to the Uniform Rank 
 No. 17. While in Minneapolis he was married, 
 his wife being Martha Giemer, a native of that 
 city. 
 
 ■gEbRGE W. WILDER. The history of the 
 
 a Wilder family in America has about it an el- 
 ement of romance. Edward Marlow Wilder, 
 Earl of Shefiield, was an officer in the Queen's 
 army and received a wound in the battle of Wa- 
 terloo, from the effects of which he died. By his 
 marriage to a daughter of Sir Arthur Stuart, mem- 
 ber of the Scotch house of Hanover, he had an 
 only son, James, who ran away from home at the 
 age of thirteen years and was therefore disinheri- 
 ted, the Earl's personal property being willed to 
 his son's oldest son. James refused to receive 
 anything whatever from the estate. He came to 
 America, settled in Portland, Me. , and studied 
 law there and in Boston, afterward engaging in 
 the profession. In time he rose to be judge of 
 the supreme court of Massachusetts and while 
 holding that office he died, at the age of sixty- 
 eight years. Fraternally he was a thirty-third 
 degree Mason. He married Mary Morris, who 
 was born in Massachusetts and died there. They 
 became the parents of twelve children, all of whom 
 are living, George W., our subject, being the 
 only son and the youngest child. One of his sis- 
 ters, Ruth, is a missionary in India. 
 
 The primary education of our subject was ob- 
 tained in Dartmouth school, Boston. At the age 
 of nine he went to Nova Scotia, where he re- 
 mained for three years, and then returned to Bos- 
 ton. When thirteen he enlisted in the United 
 States navy and through successive promotions 
 rose to be mate, serving on the steamers "Wyo- 
 
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HON. RUFUS CLARK. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 545 
 
 ming," "Minnesota," "Tennessee" and "Ports- 
 mouth.' ' During hissix years' connection with the 
 navy he was in France, Spain, Germany, China, 
 Africa, and around Cape Horn and Cape of Good 
 Hope. He was honorably discharged in Washing- 
 ton in 1881. After resigning from the navy he 
 worked for four years at the carpenter's trade, but 
 first traveling for nearly a year, visiting Washing- 
 ton, Baltimore, Norfolk, Va., St. I,ouis, Mo., and 
 Kansas City. In 1882 he came to Colorado for a 
 New York firm, and after one year in their serv- 
 ice he began mining in the Gunnison district. 
 From there he went to Platte Canon, then to Black- 
 hawk, and later became owner of one-fourth in- 
 terest in eight hundred and forty acres in Douglas 
 County, where were placer and lead mines. In 
 the meantime he established his headquarters in 
 Denver, where he is now engaged in contracting 
 and building. He is a member of the Carpenters 
 and Builders' Association and politically is a Re- 
 publican. By his marriage to Hattie Williams, who 
 was born in Greeley, Colo., he has two children, 
 Daisy and Ida. 
 
 HON. RUFUS CIvARK. Perhaps there is 
 no life that more fully exemplifies what it 
 is in the power of God to accomplish than 
 does that of Mr. Clark. His has been a strange 
 and unusual career, and its record tends to in- 
 crease our faith in God's wisdom and grace. 
 When a lad of about fifteen he was converted, 
 but in a boyish way, that resulted from impulse 
 rather than reason. He became a sailor and went 
 to sea, which threw him into intimate association 
 with a class of men who were rough and Godless, 
 and naturally he soon fell into their ways. How- 
 ever he says it took him a year to learn to swear 
 without reluctance, for the oaths of the sailors at 
 first sounded very harsh to him. From swearing 
 he took another step and began to drink, in the 
 course of time becoming a confirmed drunkard. 
 These habits became so imbedded in his nature 
 that when he left the sea tbey clung to him. He 
 came to Colorado, a pioneer, and while financial 
 success attended his every effort he continued a 
 seemingly hopeless slave to drink. His appetite 
 for liquor was insatiable and demanded constantly 
 fresh stimulants. 
 
 It seems strange that, while so deep in the mire 
 of sin and drink that be contemplated committing 
 
 suicide, he still retained the confidence of busi- 
 ness men. This was doubtless because his word 
 could always be relied upon, even when he was 
 under the influence of whiskey. Whenever he 
 made a promise to merchants, they knew he 
 would fulfill the obligation. At any time he 
 desired the bankers gave him money without 
 security, though other business men they required 
 to furnish an additional signer as security. In 
 all these years he was never arrested, though 
 looking back over the past he wonders how he 
 escaped. 
 
 In the spring of 1873 the noted evangelist. Rev. 
 E. P. Hammond, was holding a great revival in 
 Denver, and out of curiosity he attended the 
 meeting on the 23d of March. His sense of hon- 
 or prevented him from desiring a rear seat where 
 might be others like himself, and so, thinking in 
 this way he would not create a disturbance, he 
 asked the usher to take him as far forward as 
 possible. He was given a seat near the minister. 
 The meeting was enthusiastic. Mr. Hammond 
 preached what was called the gambler's sermon. 
 Sinners wept and there was a great outpouring 
 of God's spirit. He came under conviction of sin 
 and was converted the same night. At once the 
 desire for drink was taken from him, and during 
 the twenty-five years that have followed he has 
 never had a craving for liquor. In this the grace 
 of God was abundantly manifested. At first 
 people said it was one of his jokes. Three days 
 after his conversion there was an open air revival 
 on the street, and he told the listeners the story 
 of his conversion. Those who heard him said 
 his conversion was genuine, but he was so soaked 
 with whiskey and rum he would never be able to 
 carry out his reform and good intentions. As 
 the days passed, however, the power of God 
 began to be shown in his life, and the fruits of his 
 conversion were evident on every hand. He 
 united with the United Brethren Church, to 
 which his benefactions have been continuous. 
 With another gentleman, he also donated the 
 building now occupied by the Salvation army, for 
 he is a thorough believer in the good accomp- 
 lished by this organization . At Shangay Sherbro, 
 Africa, sixty miles from Freetown, on the west 
 coast of Africa, he built, in 1886, a college thatis 
 known as the Rufus Clark and Wife Theological 
 Training School. The corner stone was taken 
 from John Newton's slave pen in Africa, which 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 had been built a century ago, John Newton later 
 became converted and was known as Rev. John 
 Newton, a noted evangelist and preacher. The 
 building was dedicated in 1887; it is a three- 
 story structure of granite, and at present has two 
 hundred and thirteen students. During its first 
 year he paid for thirteen scholarships to be pre- 
 sented to worthy young men, and in other ways 
 he has promoted its welfare. 
 
 The site for the University of Denver was the 
 gift of Mr. Clark, who gave it to the institution, 
 together with $500 in cash. At that time he es- 
 timated that he had given $16,000 to the college, 
 figuring that the eighty acres were worth $200 
 per acre, but the rapid rise in the value of real 
 estate in a very short time made his gift worth 
 $80,000. He has since been a trustee of the Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 The Clark family was founded in America in 
 1620, when one of that name came over from 
 England as mate of the "Mayflower." Rev. Josiah 
 Clark, a minister of the Congregational Church, 
 left Plymouth Rock in 1630, and went to Wind- 
 sor Locks, Conn., where he settled. John Clark, 
 who was born in Lebanon, Conn., served from 
 the beginning to the close of the Revolution, and 
 afterward engaged in farming at Coventry, Tol- 
 land County, Conn., where he died at ninety-six. 
 His son, Milton, our subject's father, was born 
 in Coventry, served in the war of 18 12, engaged 
 in farming in Tolland County and died there at 
 seventy -two years. His wife, Anna, daughter of 
 Daniel Dimmick, was a member of a family of 
 land owners and farmers in Tolland County. She 
 died in that place when fifty-nine years old. Of 
 her family of one daughter and four sons all but 
 one (the daughter) attained mature years. 
 
 The youngest of these, and the only one now 
 living, is Rufus Clark, who was born in Coventry 
 December 4, 1822. In 1836 he went to Farm- 
 ington and engaged in farming for eighteen 
 months, after which, in 1838, he went to sea in 
 the coasting trade. In 1 839 he went on a whaling 
 voyage on the "Delphos," which touched at King 
 George's Land, Australia, and was at sea for sev- 
 enteen months, mainly in the South Atlantic. 
 Afterward he shipped on the "Panama," of Sag 
 Harbor, L. L, to the South Atlantic and Cape of 
 Good Hope, a two years' trip. Next he was on 
 a whaling barque in the Indian Ocean, and then 
 became second mate of the "Portland," out of 
 
 Sag Harbor. In 1848 he was made chief mate of 
 the "Columbia," which sailed to the Arctic 
 Ocean, via Cape Horn, and reached the ocean 
 through Behring Strait, Latitude 64 North. 
 About this time occurred the discovery of gold 
 in California and the sailors wanted to desert, but 
 he went ahead and carried out his contract. The 
 fog prevented him from filling his ship, but the 
 captain gave him his discharge and he went to 
 the California mines, spending two and one-half 
 years near Columbus. In 1852 he started for 
 Australia, but was wrecked en route on the Nav- 
 igator Islands and was picked up by a ship bound 
 for Auckland, New Zealand. There he took 
 another ship for Sydney, where he worked in the 
 Turin gold mines. Next he traveled on foot four 
 hundred miles across the country and spent eight- 
 een months on the Melbourne side, returning to 
 the United States in 1854 and visiting his early 
 home in Connecticut. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Clark went to Taylor County, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farming and the manufac- 
 ture of lumber, erecting one of the first sawmills 
 there. In April, 1859, on the discovery of gold in 
 Pike's Peak, he started, with ox train, for Colo- 
 rado, taking his family via Omaha and the Platte, 
 and reaching Overland Park July 11. Here he 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, where 
 he engaged in farming. He still owns a part of 
 this property, which adjoins the city limits. 
 Making a specialty of potatoes, he raised in 1867 
 a crop that sold for $30,000, and he hauled as 
 much as $1,500 worth of potatoes to Denver in a 
 day. At one time he owned over twenty thousand 
 acres of land in Colorado, but he sold fifteen thou- 
 sand eight hundred acres, seven and one-half 
 miles southeast of Denver, to the Clark colony, 
 and the first few years after the sale he paid the 
 taxes on the property until the reorganization of 
 the colony in 1895, when the amount was made 
 good to him. He is still a very large owner of 
 ranches and city property, a fact which is shown 
 by the statement that his assessments take twelve 
 pages in the county assessor's books. He pays 
 taxes on forty-five hundred pieces of property, 
 this being more tracts that are taxed than anj^ 
 other property owner in the county has. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Clark was Miss Mary 
 Pomeroy, of New York state. In Iowa he mar- 
 ried Miss Lucinda Watts, who was born in Ohio 
 and died in Denver in 1861, leaving a daughter, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 547 
 
 now Mrs. Mary Walker, of Bedford, Iowa. His 
 third marriage was to Miss Mary Gaff, of Iowa, and 
 his present wife is Mrs. Ella (Knight) Ferryman, 
 of Illinois, a daughter of Rev. John Knight, a Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian minister, a pioneer of Fay- 
 ette County, 111. Her mother was Ann (Hinds) 
 Knight. 
 
 Politically Mr. Clark is a silver Republican. 
 In the fall of 1864 he was nominated for represent- 
 ative in the territorial legislature and was elected, 
 serving in the session of 1865, when the legisla- 
 ture met in Golden City. In 1867 he was chosen 
 a member of the board of education and during 
 his term a new school house was built; again in 
 1880 he served another term in this position. He 
 is a member of the Pioneers' Society. 
 
 Gl NDREW R. BATY is engaged in business 
 LA in Denver as a contractor, builder and 
 I I cabinet-maker. He is a descendant of an 
 old Scotch family, originally known as Beaty, 
 but the name has been shortened to the present 
 spelling by recent generations. His father, 
 Samuel, was a son of Adam Baty, a farmer in 
 Kentucky and a soldier in the war of 1 8 1 2 . After 
 learning the cabinet-maker's trade in his native 
 place in Kentucky, Samuel Baty removed to 
 Rushville and became a pioneer of Rushville, then 
 a small, unimportant hamlet in Schuyler County, 
 111. I,ater he followed his trade in Vienna, Scott 
 County, Ind., but went from there to Macon, 
 Macon County, 111., and resided in that place 
 until his death at fifty-five years of age. His 
 wife, Sarah Ross, was born in Kentucky and died 
 in Iowa when past eighty years of age. They 
 were the parents of four sons and. two daughters, 
 of whom all are living but one son and one 
 daughter. 
 
 Of these our subject was third in order of birth. 
 He was born in Rushville, 111., in 1832, and at 
 the age of ten accompanied his parents to Indiana, 
 where he received his education in a subscription 
 school, kept in a log house. In boyhood he 
 learned the cabinet-maker's trade and was a 
 practical workman when still quite young. Re- 
 maining with his father until twenty-one years of 
 age, he then took up carpentering and contract- 
 ing in Lexington, Ind., where he remained for 
 fifteen years. His next home was in Indianapolis, 
 where he engaged in contracting upon a large 
 
 scale, building as many as seventy or eighty 
 houses a year. After eight years in Indianapolis, 
 he went to Chicago, 111., where he had a jobbing 
 shop and engaged in contracting for five years. 
 In 1885 he came as far west as Lincoln, Neb., 
 and worked at his trade. The next year he 
 located a homestead near Gandy, in Logan 
 County, Neb., where he proved up his claim and 
 made improvements upon it. He remained there 
 until 1891, when he rented the place and came to 
 Denver. He has since engaged in contracting 
 here, having been located formerly at No. 1655 
 Broadway, but now at No. 1307 Broadway. 
 
 At one time Mr. Baty was a Knight of Pythias, 
 but he is not identified with the organization at 
 present. He is a member of the South Broad- 
 way Christian Church, of which Rev. S. B. 
 Moore is pastor. In political belief he is a Dem- 
 ocrat. He was married, in Lexington, Ind., to 
 America HoUenbeck, a native of that place and 
 the daughter of Henry HoUenbeck, who was an 
 agriculturist. They are the parents of three 
 children, namely: Frank, who is with the Novelty 
 Manufacturing Company; Samuel S., a charter 
 member of the Fraternal Union, of which he is 
 the grand treasurer and deputy grand secretary; 
 and May, wife of F. A. Falkenburg, who is head 
 consul of the Woodmen of the World, and its 
 originator in Denver. 
 
 r~ ERDINAND' BRINK has followed the oc- 
 1^ cupation of a carpenter and builder in Denver 
 I ^ for some years and has met with success at 
 the trade, having been employed in the construc- 
 tion of many residences and a immber of public 
 buildings in the city. Before coming here he 
 followed his trade in several other large cities ot 
 the United States, and being a conscientious, skill- 
 ful workman, had never experienced any diSiculty 
 in securing employment. Since starting in busi- 
 ness for himself he has done all kinds of job work, 
 as well as engaged in the building of houses. 
 
 In Jylland, Denmark, the subject of this sketch 
 was born March 17, 1859, being the fifth among 
 seven children who attained mature years and of 
 whom all but one are still living. His parents 
 were Soren and Georgiana Brink, the former a na- 
 tive of Jylland. The latter was born in Lolland, a 
 descendant of an old Danish family, and died in 
 1897. The father, who was for years a business 
 
548 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 man of Sundby, is now living there retired. Of 
 the children our subject was the only one who 
 settled in the United States. He was reared and 
 educated in Sundby and at the age of fifteen be- 
 came an apprentice to the carpenters and build- 
 ers' trade, at which he served for five years. He 
 then went to Copenhagen and secured employ- 
 ment at his trade. 
 
 When a young man, in 1882, Mr. Brink came 
 to America. After spending two weeks in New 
 York he went to Pennsylvania and for three 
 months remained in the vicinity of Altoona, in 
 the soft coal region of Pennsylvania. In the 
 spring of 1883 he went to Chicago, where he 
 worked at his trade for some months, but in the 
 fall of the same year he went further west. He 
 spent a few days in Seattle, Wash., and then 
 went on to San Francisco, Cal., where he re- 
 mained for three months. Afterward for a year 
 he worked in Sacramento. Returning east to 
 Chicago, he spent three years in his chosen oc- 
 cupation. In 1888 he came to Denver, where, 
 after working as an employe for some years, he 
 started in business for himself, in April, 1895. 
 
 In this city, in 1888, occurred the marriage ot 
 Mr. Brink to Miss Mary Schwartz, who was born 
 in Sweden and reared in Norway. Two sons 
 have been born of the union, Norman and Ros- 
 well. Fraternally Mr. Brink is actively con- 
 nected with the Woodmen of the World. Politi- 
 cally he is independent, voting for the best man, 
 regardless of party. 
 
 "T LMER P. NEWMAN. While the Newman 
 ^ pianos have been in the market for only a 
 _ short time, yet they have gained a wide repu- 
 tation for sweetness of tone and durability. They 
 contain some important improvements, which the 
 manufacturer has found absolutely necessary to 
 meet climatic conditions. The wood used in the 
 construction of the frames and cases is seasoned 
 and kiln-dried in Colorado and will not shrink or 
 warp, as is the case in pianos shipped to Colorado 
 from the east. The cases are made of solid 
 natural wood and the front has a nickel-plated 
 metallic guard to prevent the case from being in- 
 jured when it is moved through doors. The 
 four hundred pounds of iron used in each piano 
 come from the mountains of this state and are 
 cast in the foundries of Denver. A special feature 
 
 is the solid iron stringing frame with patent iron 
 grip bars for holding the tuning pins, and as the 
 tuning plank is not connected with the tuning 
 pins the pianos are not affected by excessive dry 
 or damp weather. There are four pedals, one 
 very soft, another medium soft, to be fastened 
 down when children are at practice; and a third 
 that operates a patent harp attachment which 
 brings into use an entire set of small hammers, 
 made of brass and faced with soft leather, pro- 
 ducing a nearly perfect harp tone. 
 
 The manufacturer of these pianos is a native 
 of Lansing, Mich., and a son of G. W. and 
 Eunice (King) Newman, natives of Rochester 
 County, N. Y., and Ohio respectively. The 
 former, who was a farmer in early years, settled 
 near Lansing, where he remained until his re- 
 tirement from active labors. Previous to this he 
 had started an orange grove at Palmetto, Fla., 
 and there he now resides. His wife died in 
 Michigan. She was a daughter of John King, 
 who was born in Medina, Ohio, and removed to 
 Michigan, where he owned and operated a farm. 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, Benja- 
 min Newman, was born in Greece, N. Y., and 
 was a member of an old eastern family that 
 followed agriculture principally. 
 
 Of a family of eight children, five now living, 
 our subject isoiext to the oldest. He was edu- 
 cated in the Battle Creek (Mich.) College, and 
 at the age of eighteen began to learn organ 
 making with a firm in Battle Creek, where he 
 remained for two years. He then went to Detroit, 
 where he learned piano making with a firm of 
 piano manufacturers. From there he went to 
 Chicago, where he was with George P. Bent, a 
 piano manufacturer. Returning to Lansing, 
 Mich., he engaged in the manufacture of the 
 Newman organs. In 1891 he came to Denver, 
 where he engaged in the sale of pianos and organs 
 for eastern manufacturers for five years. The 
 high price of these pianos and the fact that they 
 were not adapted to this climate, led him to en- 
 gage in the manufacture of pianos of his own. 
 He spent four months perfecting a pattern, which 
 was entirely original, and completed his first 
 pianos in November, 1896, since which time he 
 has engaged in their manufacture at Nos. 1805-7 
 Blake street. While selling some of other 
 makes, his largest sales are of his own pianos, 
 which are strictly high grade, sweet toned and 
 
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 549 
 
 sold on easy payments. In addition, he also 
 does considerable business in repairing and 
 tuning instruments. 
 
 0RRISON B. Mc DONALD, at the time of 
 the Civil war Mr. Mc Donald was a resident 
 of Iowa and he was one of four brothers 
 who enlisted in the Second Iowa Infantry. In 
 the spring of 1864 his. name was enrolled as a 
 member of Company G, which was mustered into 
 service and ordered to Rome, Ga. , and there as- 
 signed to Logan's corps for the Atlanta campaign. 
 With the others of his company he marched to 
 Savannah and then through the Carolinas on 
 Sherman's famous march to the sea, being in the 
 advance regiment at the time of Johnston's sur- 
 render. He participated in the grand review in 
 Washington and was mustered out in that city 
 in June, 1865, returning to his home with a fine 
 record as a patriot and soldier. 
 
 The Mc Donald family was founded in America 
 under strange circumstances. Our subject's grand- 
 father, Orrison McDonald, when a youth of 
 eighteen, was one day fishing in company with 
 three other young men and was kidnapped by 
 the English, taken on board a vessel and pressed 
 into service against the Americans, the Revolu- 
 tionary war being then in progress. He was a 
 Highlander and had been reared to believe in 
 liberty and freedom of thought as man's inalien- 
 able right. Naturally, therefore, he resented 
 his forced fighting against a people in whose 
 cause he thoroughly believed. After six months 
 with the British an opportunity came for him to 
 escape and he at once joined the Americans. He 
 was promoted to the rank of major in their army 
 and was twice wounded while in the service. 
 When peace was declared he received bounty land 
 situated at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He mar- 
 ried an American girl and from that time forth 
 his interests were all in America, where he re- 
 mained until his death at seventy years. 
 
 Among the children of Major Mc Donald was 
 a son who bore his name, Orrison. He was born 
 at Saratoga Springs and there grew to manhood. 
 From New York he removed to Sandusky, Ohio, 
 and from there to Fulton, Jackson County, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farming. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a man 
 of consistent Christian character. He died at 
 
 sixty-three years. His wife bore the maiden 
 name of Deborah West and was the daughter of 
 a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. She was born in Saratoga County, 
 N. Y. , and died in Iowa in 1894, aged ninety-one 
 years and six months. Of her family of fourteen 
 children, all but three are still living, Orrison 
 being the fourth of the number. He was born in 
 Lewis County, N. Y. , Julj' 3, 1828, and spent 
 the first twelve years of his life in that state. 
 Afterward he attended the public schools of San- 
 dusky, Ohio, and in that place he was apprenticed 
 to the tinsmith's trade at the age of seventeen. 
 He began in business for himself at Cold Creek, 
 Ohio, but after three years there returned to New 
 York and engaged in the tinware and stove busi- 
 ness at Angelica, Allegany County, for three 
 years. His next location was in Wisconsin, 
 where he carried on a tin and hardware and dry- 
 goods store at Kingston for two years. Going 
 from there to Iowa, he spent a short time in 
 Fulton, Jackson County, and afterward carried 
 on business at West Liberty, Muscatine County, 
 for sixteen years. 
 
 During the absence of Mr. McDonald in the 
 army, the business was conducted by his wife. 
 On his return he resumed work in the same place, 
 but in 1 87 1 sold out and moved to Virginia City, 
 then in the midst of its "boom." He built a 
 store building and engaged in plumbing and gas- 
 fitting, the manufacture of tinware and the sale 
 of tinware and hardware. A fire burned his 
 building to the ground and caused serious loss, 
 but with undaunted pluck he commenced again. 
 In 188 1 he came to Denver, where he started in 
 business near his present location. In 1893 he 
 located at No. 2628 Larimer street, where he has 
 a two-story building, 25x125 feet in dimensions. 
 He carries on the same line of business that he 
 has successfully conducted in other places, his 
 specialties being furnace work, plumbing and 
 gasfitting and the manufacture of tinware. In 
 1893 he formed the McDonald Hardware Com- 
 pany, his partner being J. S. Barber. 
 
 The principle of bimetallism has in Mr. Mc- 
 Donald one of its stoutest champions. He be- 
 lieves the highest prosperity will come to the 
 west only when silver is placed upon its proper 
 basis. Fraternally he is connected with High- 
 lands Lodge No. 86, A. F. & A. M., and Reno 
 Post No. 39, G. A. R. While residing in West 
 
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 Liberty, Iowa, he served as alderman for two 
 terms, and was also township trustee there for 
 two years. In Erie, Pa., he married Miss 
 Fidelia Harding, who was born in Steuben 
 County, N. Y. Four children were born of 
 their union, but two died in infancy. Martin, 
 who was in business with his father, died in 
 Denver at the age of thirtj^-two; he married 
 Anna Hanson, who survives him. The daughter, 
 Mrs. Cassie Elliott, lives in West Liberty, Iowa, 
 and is the mother of two children, Mrs. Edith 
 Harris and Efl<3ie. Mrs. Harris is the mother 
 of two daughters and one son, the latter named 
 Donald after his great-grandfather. 
 
 ELARENCE S. JACKSON, vice-president 
 and treasurer of the Jackson-Smith Pho- 
 tograph Company, and one of the rising 
 young business men of Denver, was born in 
 Washington, D. C, February 2, 1876, and is a 
 son of William H. and Emily (Painter) Jackson. 
 He is a great-great-nephew of Samuel Wilson, 
 the original of "Uncle Sam," the well-known 
 sobriquet of the United States. It is said that 
 after the declaration of war with England in 1812, 
 Elbert Anderson, of New York, then a contractor, 
 visited Troy on the Hudson, where he purchased 
 a large quantity of provisions. The inspectors of 
 the provisions were Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson, 
 and the latter (who was known as Uncle Sam) 
 usually superintended in person a large number 
 of workmen. The casks were marked "E. A.- 
 U. S." A facetious fellow, on being asked the 
 meaning of these letters said, it mu.st mean Elbert 
 Anderson and Uncle Sam. The joke passed 
 current among the workmen, and Uncle Sam was 
 occasionally rallied on the subject. Many of 
 these workmen went to the front, and there the 
 joke was told so often that, before the first cam- 
 paign ended, it appeared in print. It gained 
 favor until it was recognized in every part of the 
 country, and no doubt until the end of time 
 Uncle Sam will stand for the United States. 
 
 The father of our subject, who is now identified 
 with the Photochrom Company of Detroit, was 
 born in Keyesville, N. Y., in January, i84i,and 
 when he was quite young he moved to Troy, the 
 same state. When only ten years of age his taste 
 for art was apparent, and this talent he carefully 
 
 trained and developed. He was employed to 
 make backgrounds for large portraits, a work 
 that he did so rapidly that his employer could 
 not furnish him with a sufiBcient quantity of 
 pictures to keep him busy. During the war he 
 entered the army, going to Rutland, Vt. , where 
 he joined the Rutland Light Guards in Company 
 K, Twelfth Vermont Volunteer Infantry. Dur- 
 ing the Peninsular campaign he took part in 
 numerous battles. He was detailed to make 
 sketches of the country in which the battles were 
 fought. During the three days' engagement at 
 Gettysburg he was detailed to guard prisoners. 
 During his service of eleven months, all under 
 General Grant, he received many passes, orders 
 and other papers, all of which are now in the 
 hands of our subject. On receiving an honorable 
 discharge he returned to Troy, N. Y. , his old 
 home. Going to the west in 1866, he found 
 himself stranded in Detroit, and so started for 
 Chicago, walking a part of the way, and at other 
 times riding when the opportunity offered itself. 
 In Chicago he secured employment as a sign 
 painter and thus earned enough to get to Omaha, 
 where he joined an expedition for Salt Lake City. 
 By driving an ox team he paid his own way. 
 En route to Salt Lake City he passed through 
 Denver. In the possession of our subject is a 
 picture showing his father as he looked on his 
 arrival in Salt Lake City, also a picture showing 
 him "batching it" and in the act of baking buck- 
 wheat cakes. 
 
 The first employment Mr. Jackson secured in 
 the west was as a drover. The task he under- 
 took was no light one. It was that of driving 
 six hundred head of horses to Omaha, and at 
 times the horses stampeded, requiring days to 
 get them together again. In Omaha he met his 
 brother, E. C, who had been a captain in 
 the Civil war, and the two started in the photo- 
 graph business, which the captain had previously 
 learned. This was in 1868. Under his brother, 
 Mr. Jackson became familiar with the business, 
 which the two carried on in Omaha. While 
 there they entered into a contract to photograph 
 the places of interest on the Union Pacific Rail- 
 road, then building, and he was on the ground 
 when the last spikes (of gold and silver) were 
 driven. On his return to Omaha he joined the 
 Hayden exploring expedition, with Dr. F. V. 
 Hayden in charge and himself as photographer. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 551 
 
 After the death of his first wife he was a second 
 time married, being united with Miss Painter 
 October 8, 1873, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a lady whom 
 he had met at the Omaha Indian Agency, while 
 her father, Dr. Edward Painter, was Indian agent 
 of that place. Mr. Jackson went with the survey- 
 ing expedition to Washington, D. C, and Miss 
 Painter, accompanied by her brother, met him in 
 Cincinnati, where the marriage was solemnized. 
 They went to Washington to make their home 
 and during their residence in that city our subject 
 was born. 
 
 In 1875, while connected with the United 
 States government survey in the west, Mr. 
 Jackson was captured by the Indians and was 
 held a prisoner for a few days, before being put 
 to death in accordance with their intention. 
 Meantime he affected his escape. Afterward he 
 received a letter from James T. Gardner, who 
 had written to warn him of his danger of capture, 
 but the letter did not reach him in time for him 
 to act and thus prevent the capture. While on 
 the second government expedition he again 
 passed through Denver, which he liked so much 
 that he decided to locate here; accordingly, in 
 1879, he moved his family here. He then opened 
 a gallery at No. 413 Larimer street, in a poor 
 building, but after a few years he moved to No. 
 1615 Arapahoe street, and in 1893 transferred 
 the business to the present quarters. Soon after 
 coming to Denver he again became connected 
 with railroad photography, and in that line he 
 made himself famous. His name is known, not 
 only in the west, but throughout the entire 
 country, as that of the most successful photog- 
 rapher of mountain scenery in the country. 
 Visitors from the east, touring through Colorado, 
 invariably pause to admire, and then to purchase, 
 some of the charming scenes whose beauty he 
 has perpetuated through his incomparable scenic 
 photography. 
 
 One of the most admired photographic exhibits 
 at the World's Fair in 1893 was that made by 
 William H. Jackson, and- for it he received a 
 medal. In the fall of 1894 he was appointed 
 official photographer on the world's transporta- 
 tion commission for the Field Columbian Museum 
 in Chicago, and, with Maj. J. G. Pangborn as 
 head of the exposition, he traveled around the 
 world, spending eighteen months in different 
 countries, and making views of all points of in- 
 
 terest. These views are in the possession of 
 our subject and form a collection that has never 
 been surpassed, both in accuracy in detail and 
 beauty of finish. While in India he was given a 
 medal for an exhibition of views. He has re- 
 ceived altogether twenty-six medals, in fact, at 
 every place, but one, where he has made exhib- 
 itions, he has received medals. His attention 
 has been given so closely to his art that he has 
 had neither time nor inclination for public matters; 
 the prominence offered by office, and the influence 
 it gives, appeal alike to him in vain. His heart 
 is wrapped up in his chosen work. The success 
 he has gained shows that talent, guided by sound 
 judgment and fostered by painstaking effort, 
 brings its possessor name and fame. 
 
 The three children of William H. Jackson are, 
 Clarence S. , Louise and Harriet. Louise, who 
 was born in Washington, is a college graduate 
 and an accomplished young lady. Harriet, who 
 was born at Sandy Spring, Md., possesses marked 
 artistic tastes and is now studying under Professor 
 Reed, of Denver. When our subject was about 
 eleven years of age he entered Harned Academy, 
 at Plainfield, N. J., and graduated with the class 
 of 1893, after which he worked with his father 
 for a year. While the latter was abroad, the 
 family resided in Baltimore and our subject took a 
 position with the Fort Wayne Electric Corpora- 
 tion in Baltimore, working in their experimental 
 laboratorj' for one year, until the failure of the 
 firm. While his salary was but nomial ($4 a 
 week), yet he felt that the experience was worth 
 thousands of dollars to him, and the knowledge 
 he there acquired has been most helpful to him 
 since. In the fall of 1896 he was offered a posi- 
 tion in charge of the photographic work of the 
 American Mutoscope Company, New York City, 
 with which he remained about six months. 
 From there he went to Baltimore, then returned 
 to Denver, and from that time remained with his 
 father until March i, 1898, when the Jackson- 
 Smith Photograph Company was organized. 
 
 March 23, 1898, Mr. Jackson married Miss 
 Irene D. Wysham, who was reared in Catonsville, 
 Md. , and Norfolk, Va. The two met in Balti- 
 more in November, 1894, and became engaged 
 on St. Patrick's Day of 1895. Mrs. Jackson is 
 adaughter of the late William E. Wysham, M. D., 
 surgeon in the United States navy, in charge 
 of the Norfolk navy hospital, and during the 
 
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 war a surgeon in the Confederate army. Her 
 grandfather, Dr. Williamson, had served as a 
 surgeon in the United States navy prior to the 
 Civil war and received a medal from the French 
 govenmient for his services during an epidemic, 
 also was given the badge of the Legion of Honor. 
 
 0L. SMITH, president of the Smith-Brooks 
 Printing Company of Denver, was born at 
 Sandy Hill, N. Y., July i8, 1850, and is a 
 son of Abram and Emma (Harris) Smith. His 
 boyhood days were uneventfully passed at his 
 native place. Having attended school from the 
 age of six until thirteen, he then started out to 
 earn his own livelihood, and for a time worked in 
 a sawmill, and later was employed in a printing 
 office. From Sandy Hill he went to Philadelphia 
 at sixteen years of age, and secured employment 
 as driver of a delivery wagon. After two years 
 at that work he went into a printing office and 
 fini.shed learning the trade. After two years in 
 the office in Philadelphia he went to New York 
 and worked as a journieyman, going from there 
 to Albany, where he was employed as a printer. 
 Returning to New York in 1872, he resided there 
 till the spring of 1878. 
 
 In New York, November 13, 1872, Mr. Smith 
 married Miss Agnes Riordan, of New York, a 
 native of Cork, Ireland, whence she emigrated to 
 America in childhood with her parents. With 
 his family, in 1878, Mr. Smith went to Kansas 
 and settled in Ellsworth County, settling upon 
 the open prairie and building the first house in 
 that section. However, he found business there 
 unprofitable, and after two years he came to Den- 
 ver, arriving here without means. His first 
 position here was with the Denver Republican, as 
 a printer, and from that time until 1885 he worked 
 on different papers. During the latter year he 
 was elected a member of the first board of super- 
 visors, becoming president of the board and 
 serving for two years. 
 
 The firm of Smith & Ferl was organized in 
 1886 and continued until 1889, when the present 
 concern, the Smith-Brooks Printing Company, 
 was started, an enterprise that has met with con- 
 tinuous success. He gives time and money for 
 the Republican cau.se, and frequently served as 
 delegate to party conventions. When the Order 
 of Knights of Pythias was about three and one- 
 
 half years old, he became identified with it in 
 Philadelphia, in 1868, and is now a member of 
 Centennial Lodge No. 8, in which he has filled 
 the chairs and is now past grand chancellor of the 
 Grand Lodge. During the existence of the Order 
 of Knights of Labor he was identified with it. 
 He and his wife are the parents of two children: 
 O. L. , Jr., who was born in New York City and 
 is a director in the Smith-Brooks Printing Com- 
 pany; and Kate, who was born in Ellsworth 
 County, Kan. 
 
 (JOHN H. G. ERASER, member of the firm 
 I of Stocker & Eraser, contractors and build- 
 G' ers, came to Denver in 1879, when he was a 
 young man of nineteen years. He was born in 
 South Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 
 November 3, i860, the son of John and Sarah 
 (Dougherty) Eraser, also natives of that island, 
 where the former died at the age of sixty-five 
 years. The latter is also deceased. William 
 Eraser, one of our subject's grandfathers, was 
 born in Scotland and removed from there to 
 Prince Edward Island, where he engaged in 
 farming. The other grandfather, Donald Dough- 
 erty, also emigrated from Scotland and settled 
 upon a farm on the island. 
 
 In the parental family there were eleven chil- 
 dren and of these nine attained mature years and 
 are still living, John H. G. being the third young- 
 est of the number and the only one in Colorado. 
 He received a public-school education and when 
 a boy took up carpentering, which he has since 
 followed. In 1879 he came to Colorado and 
 settled in Denver, where for ten years he was in 
 the employ of McPhee & McGinnity, contractors, 
 being most of the time in charge of their jobbing. 
 Since 1890 he has been in business for him- 
 self, being first a member of the firm of Brower & 
 Eraser, but later in partnership with Allison 
 Stocker. Among the contracts he has had were 
 those for finishing the McPhee block, and build- 
 ing H. H. Hizer's residence in Highlands, D. W. 
 Mullen's house in West Denver and the Loretta 
 convent in Colorado Springs, 
 
 While Mr. Eraser has been too engrossed in 
 business to take an active part in politics, never- 
 theless he has decided opinions upon all subjects 
 of importance and always upholds Republican 
 principles. In religious belief he is a Baptist. 
 
DAN P. HADFXELD. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 555 
 
 Since coming to Denver he has established do- 
 mestic ties, being united in marriage with Miss 
 Maggie Stocker, who was born in St. Clair, 
 Schuylkill County, Pa., daughter of Matthew 
 Stocker and sister of one of the aldermen of Den- 
 ver. Four children were born of their union, one 
 of whom, Clay, is deceased, and three are living: 
 Elizabeth, Esther and William. 
 
 BAN P. HADFIELD came to Denver in i88r, 
 and, with the exception of short periods 
 spent elsewhere, has since made this city 
 his home. For a time he was employed in the 
 South Park shops, later was foreman on the Den- 
 ver & Rio Grande Railroad for a year and was sta- 
 tioned at Chama, N. M. On his return to Denver 
 he entered the general shops of the Union Pacific 
 road as foreman in the machine shop. Through 
 his work while in the employ of others he gained 
 the experience that has since been so valuable to 
 him and also accumulated sufficient capital to en- 
 able him to start out for himself. In 1889 he 
 began general contracting and plumbing, and now 
 has his place of business at No. 27 11 Stout street. 
 In the town of North Dighton, Bristol County, 
 Mass., the subject of this sketch was born in 
 1845. He is a son of Dan Hadfield, a native of 
 Lancashire, England, and a cotton spinner by 
 trade, but in 1840 an emigrant to America, where 
 he secured employment in the paper factory of 
 Lincoln & Co., at North Dighton, Mass. He 
 continued with the same company until he died, 
 at the age of seventy-eight. His wife, who bore 
 the maiden name of Mary Holt, was born in Eng- 
 land and died in Massachusetts in 1868, at the 
 age offifty-three. She was a daughter of Thomas 
 Holt, who was superintendent of stables at a large 
 cotton manufactory in England. 
 
 There were four children in the family of Dan 
 Hadfield, Sr., and three of these are living: Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Tisdale, of New Haven, Conn.; Dan 
 P.; and Mrs. Patience Haworth, of Denver. Our 
 subject was reared in North Dighton and Taun- 
 ton, Mass. , where he attended the public schools. 
 At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to the 
 machinist's trade in the Mason Machine Works, 
 where he continued for three years. He then 
 went to Boston, where he secured work with Mc- 
 Kay, the large shipbuilder, who built the "Great 
 Republic." During the two years he was there he 
 23 
 
 assisted in building three large steamers for the 
 Amazon River, Brazil, trade. His next position 
 was with the Rhode Island Locomotive Works of 
 Providence, after which he was a contractor with 
 the Burnside Rifle Works. Ill health forced him 
 to seek a change of climate and he went south, but 
 after a time located in Chicago, where he was 
 foreman in Crane Brothers Northwest pipe fac- 
 tory. For a short time he was with a railroad in 
 Urbana, 111., but returned to Chicago at the time 
 of the fire and remained there until the panic. 
 
 Returning to Massachusetts, Mr. Hadfield was 
 employed as a foreman with a manufacturing 
 company in Greenfield. Later he was for three 
 years with William Corliss, safe manufacturer, 
 in Rhode Island, and during the most of this time 
 he was engaged in perfecting the Corliss safe, 
 eleven of which he put in the banks of that town, 
 the first one costing $85,000. When through 
 this work he went to Kansas City, then in the 
 days of its first boom. He secured work in the 
 Union Pacific shops at Armstrong, Kan., and 
 later at Omaha, Neb., where he remained until 
 coming to Denver in 1881, 
 
 Politically Mr. Hadfield was a stanch support- 
 er of silver. Having made a careful study of the 
 currency question, he believes that the west can 
 never attain desired prosperity and wealth until 
 the standard of the two metals, gold and silver, 
 is changed. Regarding the tariff question he fa- 
 vors protection of home industries. He has fre- 
 quently been elected as delegate to local conven- 
 tions and has served on committees. In 1885, 
 on the Republican ticket, he was elected alderman 
 from the eighth ward and served for one term, 
 being a member of the license, water and health 
 committees. He was made a Mason in Wyan- 
 dotte, Kan., and was also at one time identified 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but 
 is not now. His wife, who was born in Vermont, 
 was Mrs. Emma A. (Walker) Hawthorne, daugh- 
 ter of Edwin Walker. 
 
 ©QlLLIAM SIMPSON, president of the Con- 
 \ A / tractors and Builders' Association of Den- 
 YV ver, is one of the well-known business 
 men of this city, where he has since 1879 made 
 his home. In 1882 he built at No. 1643 Champa 
 street and this property he still owns, as well as 
 his home at No. 2906 Boulevard, Highlands. As 
 
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 a contractor and builder he has had several very 
 important contracts, among them the Central 
 Presbyterian Church, the residences of Donald 
 Fletcher and J. C. Harley, and many other con- 
 tracts of less importance. In other lines of busi- 
 ness he has also been interested, and through en- 
 ergy and the exercise of good judgment he has ac- 
 cumulated a competency. 
 
 The Simpson family is of Scotch origin. The 
 father of our subject, John Simpson, was born in 
 Forfarshire and was reared on the home farm; in 
 youth he learned the carpenter's trade in Dundee 
 and shortly afterward came to America, settling 
 in New Brunswick, where he engaged in the 
 building business, also manufactured carriages 
 and farm implements, and was the owner of a 
 large farm in Chatham. His death occurred in 
 that place at the age of sixty-nine. His wife, 
 who bore the maiden name of Abigail Mary 
 Dickson, was born in New Brunswick and now 
 resides with our subject, being in the enjoyment 
 of fair health for one of her years (seventy-eight) . 
 Her father was an officer in the English army 
 and upon his retirement settled upon a farm in 
 New Brunswick. 
 
 In the parental family of four children, three of 
 whom are living, William is the eldest. He was 
 born in Chatham in 1851 and attended the public 
 schools and academy of that place, graduating 
 from the latter in 1871 . Afterward he served an 
 apprenticeship of four years to the carpenter's 
 trade and on the expiration of his time continued 
 with his former master, remaining with the same 
 man for eight years, lacking only a week. His em- 
 ployer dying, he continued the business alone for 
 seven years afterward. The ill health of a son 
 induced him to seek a change of climate, and 
 hearing much concerning the salubrious air of 
 Colorado he resolved to come hither. Accord- 
 ingly he settled in Denver in 1879 and embarked 
 in the building business here. When quite 
 young he made a study of architecture, and 
 many of the buildings he has erected were also 
 designed by him. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Simpson took place in 
 Canada, his wife being Annie, daughter of David 
 Mc Hardy, a farmer in New Brunswick, where 
 she was born. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have a 
 family of seven children, Etta, Hardy, Beatrice, 
 Kate, Mary, William and Colin. In national 
 politics Mr. Simpson is a Republican, but in local 
 
 elections votes for the man he believes to be best 
 qualified to represent the people in office. For 
 one term he was a member of the board of alder- 
 men. In the spring of 1896 he was nominated 
 for alderman from the fifteenth ward, but re- 
 fused to accept; he also declined the nomination 
 for member of the board of supervisors. Both 
 the men who were nominated after his refusal to 
 serve received the election, but he preferred to 
 devote his attention to business matters and not 
 mingle in public affairs. He was a charter 
 member of the Carpenters and Builders' Associa- 
 tion, of which he was the first president and is 
 still the incumbent of that office. Formerly he 
 was connected with the Central Presbyterian 
 Church, but he became one of the charter 
 members of the Presbyterian Church of High- 
 lands and is now chairman of its board of 
 trustees. 
 
 J DWIN J. HEIvLIER, one of Denver's suc- 
 ^ cessful contractors and builders, was born 
 _ in Sidmouth, Devonshire, England, and is 
 the eldest son of James and Emma (Hellman) 
 Hellier. His father, who is a member of an old 
 Devonshire family, is engaged in the shoe busi- 
 ness in Torquay, where he and his wife make 
 their home. The only member of their family 
 in America is Edwin J. , who was educated in 
 Sidmouth College, but at the age of only twelve 
 years began to learn the carpenter's trade, at 
 which he served in Torquay until he was twenty- 
 one, meantime gaining a thorough knowledge of 
 carpentering and building, brick-laying, stone- 
 cutting, papering and painting and draughting. 
 He successfully passed the examination in build- 
 ing construction and draughting in the school of 
 arts at Torquay, gaining the government prize 
 for draughting in 1885. 
 
 Continuing at his trade in his native land until 
 1889, Mr. Hellier then came to America, proceed- 
 ing direct from New York to Denver, where he 
 arrived in June of that year. Here he has since 
 engaged in general contracting. Among his con- 
 tracts may be mentioned those for Mrs. Fisher's 
 residence on South Fifteenth street, the Ursey 
 residence, St. Paul's rectory, the Slack home at 
 Mount Clair, Dr. Woods' residence. First District 
 school, and other buildings that rank among the 
 best of their kind in Denver. 
 
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 557 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hellier is connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World and Columbia Court No. 
 14, F. O. A. He is fond of the bicycle and is a 
 member of the Denver Wheel Club. In the 
 Carpenters and Builders' Association he holds 
 active membership. The possessor of a bass 
 voice of marvelous compass and power, he spends 
 considerable time with his music, and now sings 
 second bass in the Apollo Club of Denver, to 
 which he belongs. He also sings in the choir of 
 St. Mark's Episcopal Church. He is a man of 
 genial, pleasant disposition, and has won a host 
 of friends among the people of Denver. 
 
 'ANDY ALLEN HUGHES, M. D., presi- 
 dent of the board of pension examiners and 
 head physician of the Pacific iurisdiction 
 Woodmen of the World, has resided in Denver since 
 1867, and during a considerable portion of this 
 time has engaged in the practice of medicine. After 
 a three years' course of study in the St. Louis Med- 
 ical College, he graduated in 1883, with the degree 
 of M. D., and at once opened an office in Denver, 
 where he has since built up a large private prac- 
 tice. In 1888, during the finst term of Governor 
 Adams, he was appointed a member of the state 
 board of medical examiners, and served six years. 
 In 1896 he was again appointed by Governor 
 Mclntire and is still filling the position, having 
 beeu secretary during the larger part of his connec- 
 tion with the board. Under President Cleveland, 
 in June, 1893, he was appointed upon the board of 
 examining surgeons for United States pensions 
 and has since been president of the organization. 
 Actively interested in the establishment of the 
 Woodmen of the World, he now has the distinc- 
 tion of being the oldest member in the Pacific 
 jurisdiction. In 1890 he was made head consult- 
 ing physician of the order, and three years later 
 was promoted to head physician of the jurisdic- 
 tion, with six hundred physicians under him, his 
 duty being to pass upon all the applications for 
 membership in the order. He is local surgeon 
 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and 
 chairman of the Prudential Insurance Company 
 of New Jersey. In Denver Lodge No. 41, K. of 
 P., he is examining physician. He is connected 
 with both the Colorado State and American 
 Medical Associations. 
 The Hughes family was represented among the 
 
 early settlers of Virginia and some of its members 
 took part in the Revolution. Andrew S. Hughes 
 was for some years a resident of Kentucky,- but 
 removed from there to Missouri and became a pio- 
 neer of Clay County, where he engaged in the 
 practice of law. His son, Bela M., was born in 
 Nicholas County, Ky., a nephew of ex-Govern- 
 or Metcalf of that state. He was admitted to 
 the bar in Missouri, where he practiced for years. 
 In early days he went to St. Joseph, Mo., and 
 later located in Atchison, Kan. With his cousin, 
 Benjamin HoUiday, and others he started the 
 overland stage line between Atchison, Denver 
 and Salt Lake and this he was connected with 
 for some years as president and attorney. In 
 1864 he came to Denver, where he entered upon 
 the practice of his profession. He was one of the 
 most active promoters of the Denver Pacific 
 Railroad between Denver and Cheyenne and was 
 the first president of the company, also in pro- 
 moting the construction of the Denver & South 
 Park Railroad. While in Missouri he was gen- 
 eral of the state militia, and he is usually called 
 by that title. A Democrat in politics, he was 
 a member of the first state senate of Colorado. 
 He is still living in Denver, which he has seen 
 grow from a small and unimportant village to a 
 commercial, railroad, mining and stock-raising 
 center, the metropolis of the great Rocky Moun- 
 tain region. His wife is Laura, a daughter of 
 Maj. Tandy Allen, of Bourbon County, Ky., 
 whose father was a soldier of the Revolution and 
 a pioneer from Virginia to Kentucky, and after- 
 wards was a circuit judge in Kentucky for many 
 years, residing in Paris. 
 
 The youngest of six children comprising the 
 family of General Hughes was Tandy Allen 
 Hughes, who was born in St. Joseph, Mo., but 
 has spent his life principally in Denver, liaving 
 come here in boyhood. His great-grandfathers, 
 Allen and Hughes, were officers in the war for 
 independence, from the beginning of hostilities 
 with Great Britain to the end of the struggle. 
 He was given excellent educational advantages 
 and is a man of broad information, not only upon 
 subjects pertaining to medicine, but in matters of 
 historical, scientific or general importance. He 
 was married in St. Louis to Miss CecileS. Shorb, 
 of that city, and they have one child, Margaret 
 Belle. In political belief, like his father, he ad- 
 heres to Democratic principles. He is a director 
 
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 of the Denver Athletic Club, and is eligible to 
 membership in the Sons of the Revolution. His 
 attention has been closely given to his profes- 
 sional interests, which leave him but little time, 
 even had he the desire, to enter public life; how- 
 ever, he is well informed regarding the topics of 
 the age and is unswervingly loyal to the princi- 
 ples that he believes will best promote the happi- 
 ness and welfare of the people. 
 
 ©AMUEL W. AKINS, alderman of the eighth 
 ?\ ward, Denver, was nominated for that office 
 j2/ in April, 1897, upon the tax payer's ticket, 
 endorsed by the Populists; and, although there 
 were five candidates in the field, he was elected 
 by a majority of over six hundred, polling 
 three hundred more votes than the other four 
 combined. During his term of service in the 
 council he has been chairman of the committees 
 on rules and order of business, and member of the 
 committees on claims, electric light and gas, 
 markets, printing, public grounds and buildings, 
 street railways and water, and he expects to lead 
 the fight against the electric light and gas trusts. 
 He takes a very active part in the city's progress 
 and favors all plans for the advancement of the 
 people's interests. 
 
 In St. Joseph County, Ind., Mr. Akins was 
 born June 17, 1852, being the oldest son and fourth 
 child in a family of nine that attained maturity, 
 of whom seven are now living. His father, Sam- 
 uel B., was born in Toronto, Canada, and re- 
 moved in boyhood to Indiana, where he learned 
 the carpenter's trade. He became a contractor 
 and builder, following that occupation until his 
 death at the age of seventy-five years. He mar- 
 ried Sarah Burkett, who was born, of German 
 descent, in South Carolina and accompanied her 
 parents to Indiana, where she died at fifty-two 
 years. 
 
 Under the instruction of his father, our subject 
 learned the carpenter's trade. At the age of 
 sixteen he began to earn his own livelihood, 
 working afterward in Jewell County, Kan., and 
 Otoe County, Neb., then going in 1871 to Wyo- 
 ming, where he worked near Fort Steele. In 
 1873 and afterward he was employed at Alta, near 
 Salt Lake City. From there he went in 1878 to 
 Butte, Mont., then a small village of only four 
 hundred inhabitants, and he at once began to 
 
 work as a carpenter and builder, also invested in 
 real estate, and at one time owned the Maria mine. 
 The spring of 1881 found him located in Denver, 
 where he has engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing, also carried on a real-estate business. He 
 has his office at No. 2748 Franklin street. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Akins is identified with the 
 Woodmen of the World, and in national politics 
 he votes the Democratic ticket. He was united 
 in marriage, in Denver, to Mrs. Clara (Kreider) 
 Woodend, who was born in Pennsylvania. They 
 are the parents of three children, Blanche, Arthur 
 and Stewart. Mrs. Akins is a daughter of Daniel 
 F. Kreider, who was born in Lebanon County, 
 Pa., where he engaged in the mercantile business; 
 afterward he removed to Princeton, Mo. , and ac- 
 cepted a position as freight and ticket agent on 
 the Rock Island Railroad. He still resides in 
 Princeton and is a member of the United Breth- 
 ren Church of that place. His wife, who bore 
 the maiden name of Mary Thomas, was born in 
 Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pa., where her 
 father, James Thomas, was a farmer. 
 
 Gl LEXANDER V. SCHERRER. It was in 
 LJ 1864 that the subject of this sketch first saw 
 I I Colorado. During that year he came with 
 his parents, via ox-team train, from Omaha to 
 Boulder, and settling in the latter town he assist- 
 ed his father in the dairy business until Decem- 
 ber, 1867, when the family returned to Johnson 
 County, Iowa. However, he did not forget the 
 years spent here, and, believing the state offered 
 wonderful opportunities to industrious men, he 
 determined to establish his home here. In 1872 
 the way opened for him to come to the state and 
 he located in Denver, at once embarking in the 
 cattle business. He and his brother, with whom 
 he is in partnership, have made a specialty of 
 dealing in beef cattle and were the pioneers in 
 the dehorning of cattle, which has now become 
 so popular in the state. 
 
 Joseph and Theresa Scherrer, parents of our 
 subject, were born in Alsace, France, and after 
 their marriage, in 1847, emigrated to America, 
 settling upon a farm near Iowa City, Johnson 
 County, Iowa. There, with the exception of the 
 years already alluded to, they made their home 
 until 1882, when they came to Colorado a second 
 time and both died in Denver, the father in 1885, 
 
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 559 
 
 at the age of seventy-nine, and the mother in 1 884, 
 at the age of sixty- eight years. By trade the father 
 was a shoemaker, but after coming to this country- 
 he devoted his attention to farming. Of their 
 nine children all but one are still living. The 
 oldest child, Jacob, came to Denver in 1859 and 
 for some years was extensively engaged in the 
 cattle and real-estate business here, but now re- 
 sides in East St. lyouis, 111. Two sisters, Mrs. 
 F. Scherrer and Mrs. Schwanke, came to Colo- 
 rado in 1861; the latter resides in California. 
 Joseph A. is engaged in the cattle business at 
 Agate, Colo. Mrs. Guard and Mrs. McClure, 
 who came to this state in 1864 and 1876 respect- 
 ively, now reside in California, and the youngest 
 sister, Mrs. Doll, who came to Colorado in 1882, 
 is also now a resident of California. 
 
 The birth of our subject occurred near Iowa 
 City, April 13, 1848, and he was reared in John- 
 son County on the home farm. In 1864 and 
 again in 1882 he came to Colorado, the latter 
 year as a permanent settler. In January, 1884, 
 he originated the Arapahoe Cattle and Land Com- 
 pany, which was incorporated with himself presi- 
 dent and manager. The company located a 
 ranch at Agate and continued the cattle business 
 until 1891, when the sold out, and since then Mr. 
 Scherrer has bought the place. Meantime he 
 also pre-empted a homestead on the East Bijou. 
 On his large ranch he has a reservoir, and by 
 damming a gulch established a natural lake of 
 more than two hundred and fifty acres, from 
 which irrigation ditches run to every part of the 
 land. Little is raised on the place except hay, 
 which is used for feed; the land is principally de- 
 voted to the pasturing of stock, which are raised 
 here in large numbers. From the organization 
 of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association he 
 has been identified with it and for a time was its 
 vice-president. Politically he favors a readjust- 
 ment of the currency question, so that silver 
 may be placed upon its proper basis, and he votes 
 for the men who are pledged to the support of 
 silver. He is a member of St. Mary's Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 In Denver, in 1876, Mr. Scherrer married Miss 
 Angele Marion, who was born in Paris, France, 
 the daughter of Joseph Marion, a native of 
 Auxierre, France, and for years the largest seed 
 merchant in his native land. He married a 
 daughter of Blaze Savrie, a wine grower in 
 
 France, and in 1854 brought his family to 
 America, settling near Hartford, Conn., but after 
 two years removing to St. Louis, Mo., where he 
 engaged in general merchandising. In 1859 h^ 
 made the overland trip to Colorado and the next 
 year his wife joined him. He located in Denver, 
 and embarked in merchandising on Ferry street, 
 but after some years he engaged in mining in 
 Utah, where he makes his home in Salt I^ake 
 City. His wife died in Denver, August 6, 1896, 
 aged seventy years. They were the parents of 
 four children that reached maturity, of whom two 
 were born in Denver. Their names are: Leontine, 
 Mrs. Jacob Scherrer, of St. Louis; Angele, Mrs. 
 A. V. Scherrer; Josephine and Albert, of Denver, 
 and the latter is engaged in the real-estate 
 business in this city. Mrs. Scherrer remained 
 with her grandmother in Paris until 1863, when 
 her mother returned to France and brought her 
 to the United States. In 1864 she came to Colo- 
 rado by stage, and has since resided in Denver, 
 receiving her education in the Loretto convent 
 and Wolfe Hall here, and Sacred Heart College 
 in St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Scherrer are 
 the parents of seven children, namely: Edith, 
 who died in April, 1894, at the age of seventeen; 
 Harry, who is a member of the class of '98, in 
 Wallace Business College; Louise, William, 
 Josephine, Angele and Albert. 
 
 Gl LFRED H. MILES, one of the pioneers of 
 La Colorado, and a well-known resident of 
 / 1 Denver, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
 1820, and is a descendant of English ancestors. 
 His paternal grandfather removed from Vermont 
 to Ohio, and presented to each of his children a 
 farm of one hundred acres at Newburg, now a 
 part of the city of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time 
 of the removal the father of our subject, Theo- 
 dore, was twenty years of age. He began as a 
 farmer on the land given him by his father, and 
 there continued during his active life, retiring 
 when an old man, and dying in Newburg at the 
 age of seventy-four. His wife, who was born in 
 Ohio, was Fannie, daughter of Erastus Hawley, 
 who was of English lineage and occupied a farm 
 then two and one-half miles out of Cleveland, but 
 now within the corporate limits of the city. At 
 the time of her death she was eighty-one years of 
 age. 
 
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 Of the children of Theodore and Fannie Miles, 
 Alfred H. was next to the youngest and is now 
 the only survivor. He was educated in Ohio 
 and when a boy often shot squirrels in what is 
 now the public square of Cleveland. In 1840, 
 when a little less than twenty years of age, he 
 was married in Newburg to Miss Sophronia C. 
 Simmons, who died in Denver in 1891. Three 
 children were born of the union: Fannie D., Mrs. 
 Randall, who died in Old Mexico; Emma C, 
 Mrs. Stokely W. Slayden, whose first husband, 
 R. E. Whitsitt, was one of the founders of the 
 city of Denver; and George T., who lives on the 
 Zeandale farm. 
 
 In youth Mr. Miles learned the trade of car- 
 riage-maker, which he followed for a time. In 
 1850 he Went to California, via New York and 
 Panama to San Francisco, and from there found 
 his way to the mines, where he engaged unsuc- 
 cessfully in prospecting and mining. His next 
 venture was in a wagon shop at Stockton, but he 
 soon .sold that and entered the cattle business in 
 southern California. In 1853 he returned to Ohio 
 and bought a hotel at Newburg, which he carried 
 on for a few years. Later he bought and opera- 
 ted a sawmill at Eight-mile Lock. Selling out 
 in 1859, at the time of the discovery of gold in 
 Colorado, he started west, intending to go to Cal- 
 ifornia, but decided to settle in Colorado. At 
 Leavenworth he outfitted with two ox-teams and 
 a wagon, also taking provisions for a year and 
 the first cookstove ever in Colorado. After fifty- 
 nine days he landed in Auraria (Denver), and 
 soon pre-empted a tract of one hundred and sixty 
 acres four miles below Golden, on Clear Creek. 
 In 1864 he located a homestead in Denver, now 
 R. E. Whitsitt' s addition to Arlington Heights. 
 He erected the first brick residence in Denver, a 
 house that is still standing. Near the city he 
 bought a farm for $2,000 and after nine years sold 
 it for $72,000. He also owned the Bryn Mawr 
 addition to the city of forty acres, now sold to 
 the city for $24,500, to be included within a park. 
 His residence stands at No. 1018 South Fifteenth 
 street. 
 
 At the time he came to Denver Mr. Miles had 
 only $5, and his present financial position and 
 high standing speak volumes for the opportuni- 
 ties which Denver offers to every man of enter- 
 prise and determination. On concluding to set- 
 tle in this locality he took up a farm, and borrow- 
 
 ing the only plow in the country, in one day 
 (and that Sunday) he broke three acres. He 
 had one pound of turnip seed sent him from his 
 uncle in Ohio and this he sowed. He also started 
 a garden. The turnips proved to be the largest 
 ever .seen in the state, some of them measuring 
 one foot across. He took them to Central City, 
 where they sold for twenty -five cents apiece; 
 these were the first vegetables ever in that town, 
 and he was paid for them in gold dust. So anx- 
 ious were people to get turnips from him that 
 they traveled fifty miles or more for them and 
 ofiered cattle or horses in exchange. Out of the 
 pound he sowed he raised fifteen hundred bushels 
 of turnips; so it may truthfully be said that tur- 
 nips gave him his start in business. He paid 
 $2.50 per quart for potatoes, and from these he 
 raised eighteen bushels, which he sold at thirty 
 cents a pound. His uncle sent him some straw- 
 berry plants, but only two grew, and from these 
 in two years he was raising strawberries for sale, 
 disposing of the first of these at $32 ber bushel. 
 While in California he saw immense stalks of 
 corn, which, however, bore no corn; and he was 
 therefore much surpri.sed when a man from Cali- 
 fornia showed him a couple of ears grown there. 
 He concluded to try the experiment of raising 
 corn here, and bought Australian corn at $1 per 
 quart, which he planted on his Clear Creek farm 
 and from which he raised three hundred bushels. 
 The corn was of the finest quality and took a 
 prize at the fair. With the firmest faith in irriga- 
 tion and its necessity in this country, he was 
 among the first to take steps for providing water 
 for his ranch, and the experiment proved very 
 successful. His confidence in the growth of Den- 
 ver led him to invest in real estate here, some of 
 which he sold at a large profit, while some he 
 still retains in his possession. At one time he 
 owned two lots occupying the present site of the 
 postofEce. For years he has been connected with 
 the Colorado Society of Pioneers. Politically he 
 was first a Whig, later a Republican, then a Pop- 
 ulist and a champion of the silver cause. 
 
 When settling on his Zeandale farm Mr. Miles 
 had no lumber, but an abundance of limestone, 
 so he built a house of cement and limestone. It 
 stood on the trail between Golden and Denver. 
 The Indians had been very troublesome and dur- 
 ing one of their raids had killed the Hungate 
 family, frightening the other settlers so that they 
 
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 took refuge in Denver. After two years a com- 
 pany was organized, Capt. Clinton Tyler at the 
 head, to chastise the savages, in order to prevent 
 future attacks from them. The Utes had been 
 friendly, but the Arapahoes were hostile, cun- 
 ning and desperate, and an attack on them was 
 therefore planned. The Indians concealed them- 
 selves behind trenches, but the white men fired 
 the cannon horizontally into the trenches, thus 
 frightening and routing the enemy. For a time 
 there was peace, but in two years the Indians 
 made another raid up the Platte, and then started 
 up Clear Creek. The farmers, knowing that Mr. 
 Miles had a concrete house which could not be 
 burned, hastened thither and filled the building, 
 some of the men also standing guard without. 
 Meantime the people in Golden went to the top 
 of Table Mountain and fortified themselves there. 
 The Indians found themselves unable to success- 
 fully attack either party and so withdrew without 
 molesting the settlers. Afterward no further 
 trouble was experienced with them . 
 
 "HOMAS SKERRITT. It is always inter- 
 esting to read the experiences of the pio- 
 neers of '59, those brave men who endured 
 all the hardships of an overland journey to Colo- 
 rado and all the deprivations incident to life in a 
 frontier country. Nor were the experiences of 
 Mr. Skerritt less thrilling, nor his perils fewer, 
 than those of other early settlers. When the 
 gilded rumors of Pike's Peak spread through the 
 east he at once determined to come hither and 
 mine for gold. This he did, and Colorado has 
 since been his home. He is the owner of Shady 
 Side farm, where he is engaged in farming and 
 raising a fine grade of cattle, and he also owns a 
 ranch of one hundred and sixty acres at Rifle, 
 Garfield County, in the midst of a fine farming 
 country. 
 
 Mr. Skerritt was born in Parsonstown, Kings 
 County, Ireland, the oldest of eight children, of 
 whom seven are living. One of the brothers, 
 Richard, was a soldier in a Michigan regiment 
 during the war. The parents were Richard and 
 Catherine Skerritt, of Ireland, the former a sol- 
 dier in the British army and a member of the 
 British Horse police, doing duty in Ireland. He 
 was a fine horseman, an excellent judge of horse 
 flesh, and was detailed to buy horses for the Brit- 
 
 ish army. After his marriage he secured an hon- 
 orable discharge from the army. In 1835 he set- 
 tled in Oakland County, Mich., and engaged in 
 farming in White Lake Township until his death, 
 which occurred at fifty-six years of age. His 
 wife also died in Michigan. 
 
 After his father came to America, our subject, 
 who had remained in Ireland, was taken into the 
 home of an uncle, with whom he remained for 
 thirteen years. In 1848 he and his uncle, Thomas 
 Skerritt, came to America, where he spent one 
 year in Michigan. Then, with his uncle, he re- 
 moved to Amherstburg, near Fort Moulden, Can- 
 ada, where he engaged in farming from 1849 to 
 1856. Returning to Michigan in the spring of 
 the latter year, he settled in Wyandotte, Mich., 
 where he was contractor for A. B. Ward & Co. , 
 proprietors of the first rolling mill in the west. 
 In November, 1856, at Pontiac, Mich., he mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Skerritt, who was born in Kings 
 County, Ireland, the daughter of Thomas and 
 Mary (Proud) Skerritt. . She was one of four 
 children, of whom but two are living. Her 
 brother, Joseph, was an early settler of Oakland 
 County, Mich., where he engaged in farming 
 until his death. Another brother, Thomas, who 
 is with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 
 Denver, volunteered at the opening of the war in 
 a Michigan regiment and served until the close 
 of the conflict. He was wounded and taken pris- 
 oner at Lexington, but was paroled and ex- 
 changed. Mrs. Skerritt left Ireland at the age 
 of fourteen and came to her brother, Joseph, in 
 America, settling in Oakland County, Mich. 
 
 In December, 1856, Mr. Skerritt went to Chica- 
 go with the company that started the first rolling 
 mill there, but they closed down the mill after a 
 year and he then, in the spring of 1858, started 
 for Kansas, going by team to Leavenworth, 
 where he engaged in teaming and the livery 
 business. In April, 1859, he started, with a 
 horse team for Pike's Peak, but on the way west 
 traded his team for oxen and cows. After a dan- 
 gerous and tiresome journey of six weeks he 
 reached Denver, June 2, 1859, and then proceeded 
 to Central City, his wife being the first white 
 woman in that place. In August of the same 
 year he crossed the mountains to Breckenridge, 
 Summit County, his wife being the first woman 
 to cross the range. On the way they camped 
 once near the soda springs at Manitou and his 
 
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 wife made biscuit from soda water. November 
 5, 1859, he left Breckeiiridge, intending to spend 
 the winter in New Mexico, but when he reached 
 old Fountain City, near what is now Pueblo, he 
 was advised not to proceed further, as New Mex- 
 ico was no place for a white woman. For that 
 reason he turned back and came to Denver. 
 
 Immediately afterward Mr. Skerritt took up a 
 pre-emption claim on the Platte, where Peters- 
 burg now stands, and there he remained until the 
 flood of 1864 washed out his land. He then pre- 
 empted his present property. Shady Side farm, 
 where he set out the trees that make the name of 
 the place a very appropriate one. He has traded 
 some in land and in 1880 sold off the site of Orch- 
 ard Place. He irrigates his ranch from the city 
 ditch, by which means he can water every part of 
 the place. In early days he engaged in the cat- 
 tle business, but for some time has not been in- 
 terested in that industry. He and his wife are 
 members of the Pioneer Society. In religious 
 belief they are connected with the Episcopal 
 Church. Politically he is a Republican. For 
 over twenty -five }'ears he was a director of the 
 school board, during part of the time serving as 
 secretary ; and he was also road supervisor for nine 
 years. 
 
 The family of Mr. and Mrs. Skerritt consists of 
 eight children. Thomas, who was born in May, 
 i860, in Denver, is engaged in mining in Cripple 
 Creek and is a member of the Pioneer Association, 
 being perhaps the youngest member of that so- 
 ciety; Joseph is with a mercantile firm in Cripple 
 Creek; George is engaged in the livery business 
 at Shady Side; William died at thirteen years of 
 age; Marguerite and Mamie are with their pa- 
 rents; Harry is interested with his brother in the 
 livery business; and Charles manages his father's 
 ranch at Rifle, Garfield County. 
 
 eARL M. LINDQUIST, member of the 
 board of supervisors of Denver, is president 
 and general manager of the Lindquist 
 Bakery and Cracker Company, one of the well- 
 known business concerns of the city. In 1891 
 he built the works at No. 3528 Market street, 
 and carried on the business under the title of 
 C. M. Lindquist Biscuit Company, but March 2, 
 1898, the company was incorporated under its 
 present name. All kinds of bread, cake and 
 
 crackers are manufactured here, and the excellent 
 quality and reasonable prices of the bakery goods 
 have created a demand for them not only in this 
 .state, but also in Utah, New Mexico and Wyo- 
 ming and other adjacent states. 
 
 Mr. Lindquist was born in Enkjoping, Upplau, 
 Sweden, August 15, 1861, the .son of John and 
 Hilda Elizabeth (Ekeberg) Lindquist. His 
 father, who was a cabinet maker and manufacturer 
 of furniture, engaged in business in Enkjoping 
 until his death at the age of fifty-two years. He 
 married a daughter of John Ekeberg, a merchant 
 tailor in Sweden. When still quite young she 
 died, November i, 1861, leaving two sons, John 
 A., now of Denver, and Carl M. The latter was 
 only three months old when his mother died. 
 He was reared in Enkjoping and attended 
 the public .schools there. November i, 1878, he 
 went to Germany, and for a year worked at the 
 baker's trade in Kiel. In 1879 he went to Copen- 
 hagen, Denmark, and continued to work at his 
 trade in that city. 
 
 Having resolved to come to America, Mr. 
 Lindquist left Copenhagen, March 15, 1881, on 
 the steamer "Harold," which sailed first to Eng- 
 land for repairs and then crossed the ocean, an- 
 choring in New York April 25. From that city 
 he went to Pittsburg and secured employment 
 with the Marviij Biscuit Company, remaining in 
 their bakery for two years. Next going to Chi- 
 cago, he worked with the Aldrich Baking Com- 
 pany there until 1884. The work was injurious 
 to his health, and thinking an ocean voyage and 
 a visit to his old home would be beneficial, he 
 left Chicago November 5, and took passage at 
 Philadelphia for Copenhagen, going from there 
 to Stockholm and the old homestead in Sweden. 
 He spent seven months with his father and old 
 friends, and came back to America so benefited 
 by the trip that his fellow-workmen in the Chi- 
 cago shop scarcely recognized him. After con- 
 tinuing for another year with the Aldrich Com- 
 pany, he started in business for himself, opening 
 a bakery at No. 148 Milton Avenue, North Chi- 
 cago, where he engaged in business for eighteen 
 months. 
 
 Selling out the business June 23, 1887, Mr. 
 Lindquist came to Colorado, and on the 12th of 
 July he opened a bakery on Thirty-fifth and 
 Larimer streets, Denver, where he remained until 
 his removal to his present location in 1891. He 
 
HON. HENRY SUESS. 
 
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 565 
 
 is one of the most prominent Swedes in Denver, 
 and is now vice-president of the Swedish Repub- 
 lican Club. In national politics he is a silver 
 Republican. In 1897 he was nominated for city 
 supervisor on the national silver ticket, endorsed 
 by the tax payers and civic federation, and was 
 elected by a majority of eight thousand. He 
 took office April 14, 1898, for a term of two years, 
 and has since been a member of the important 
 committees and chairman of the license, market 
 and market place, and police and fire department 
 committees. He introduced the bill to license 
 and regulate the chattel-mortgage men, which 
 was passed by the board; also the bill compelling 
 street car companies to provide cars with vestibules 
 for motormen, which was carried after a hard and 
 prolonged fight. Other good measures have re- 
 ceived his warm sympathy and active support. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Lindquist is past sachem of 
 Red Cloud Tribe No. 14, I. O. R. M.; belongs 
 to Court Wallhalla, Order of Foresters, and 
 Uniform Rank, also Denver Conclave, of which 
 he is the commander; Northern Lodge No. 61, 
 I. O. O. F., and the Silver State Encampment. 
 While living in Chicago he married Miss Char- 
 lotte Maline, a native of Sweden. They have 
 four children, Carl Eugene, Hilda Christine, 
 Axel Wilbert and Lillie Evangeline. 
 
 HON. HENRY SUESS, who won the title of 
 major in the Civil war, was a member of the 
 Colorado legislature in the session of 1885- 
 86, during which he served as chairman of the 
 committee on roads and bridges and a member of 
 the railroad and other committees. He in- 
 troduced a bill which was carried, providing for 
 the use of the public improvement fund in the 
 erection of bridges, and under the new law the 
 iron bridge at Grand Junction was the first to be 
 built. During his term occurred the great con- 
 test between Hill and Teller for United States 
 senator. At first Mr. Suess supported Hill, but 
 when he saw the impossibility of the latter re- 
 ceiving the election he voted for the opposing 
 candidate. He was not a candidate for re-elec- 
 tion to the legislature, but afterward was nomi- 
 nated on the regular Republican ticket for state 
 senate. Unfortunately there was a split in the 
 party and a second nomination, which resulted 
 in a Democratic victory. 
 
 Born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, our subject 
 is a son of George Suess, a native of Zierenberg, 
 who located three miles from Hesse-Cassel and 
 engaged in the saddlery and harness busiuess. 
 After his death the business was continued by 
 his youngest son, George, who was a soldier in 
 the Franco-Prussian war. The father also was 
 a soldier, serving for ten years in the Garde du 
 corps, a regiment of cavalry. He died at the 
 age Of fifty-seven. In religious belief he was 
 identified with the Reformed Church. The name 
 Suess, translated into the English language, is 
 "sweet." 
 
 The mother of our subject was Amelia Pfeiifer, 
 daughter of a city official in Wolfhagen, Kur- 
 Hessen, where she was born. She died young, 
 leaving only one child. The father was mar- 
 ried three times and had one son by each mar- 
 riage. Julius, one of the sons, came to America 
 in 1847 and settled upon a farm in Adams Coun- 
 ty, 111. During the war he was employed at 
 Jefferson barracks in St. Louis. While on his 
 way back to Illinois, at the close of the war, he 
 was on a Mississippi River boat and was ac- 
 cidentally killed by stepping through the hatch- 
 way. The youngest son is George, now in Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Born in 1837, the subject of this skecth was 
 educated in the gymnasium in Hesse-Cassel, 
 where he completed the course. At the age of 
 fourteen he began to learn the saddler's trade, 
 serving for three years. In 1854 he left Bremen 
 on the steamer "Herman" and after a voyage of 
 two days landed in Southampton, from which 
 place he sailed to New York. He joined his 
 brother Julius, who then lived near New Balti- 
 more, Mich. , but soon went to Romeo, Macomb 
 County, Mich., where he worked at the saddler's 
 trade for two years. There he married Miss 
 Wilhelmina Lange, who was born in Prussia. 
 From Romeo he removed to New Baltimore and 
 started in business for himself, but the panic of 
 1859 caused his financial ruin. He then went to 
 St. Louis and secured employment at his trade. 
 In i860 he settled in Concordia, Mo., and started 
 in business for himself 
 
 Immediately after the capture of Camp Jack- 
 son, our subject organized a company of home 
 guards and was mustered into service as sergeant 
 at Booneville. He was elected first lieutenant of 
 Company B, of the Lafayette home guard, and 
 
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 at once engaged in guerrilla fighting. He was 
 stationed at Waverly, then near Concordia, where 
 he assisted in building the stockade and breast- 
 works, then went to the relief of four companies 
 at I,exington and was captured by General Price, 
 but afterward paroled. Returning home, he soon 
 re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company B, 
 Seventh Missouri Cavalry, in which he was 
 orderly sergeant for five days and then was elected 
 first lieutenant. He continued the guerrilla war- 
 fare, taking part in the Shelby raid and the Price 
 raid in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, and was 
 promoted to be major December i6, 1863. For 
 three months he commanded a boat on the Mis- 
 souri River, from Glasgow to Fort Leavenworth, 
 and with the aid of a company of infantry, twen- 
 ty-five cavalry and two pieces of artillery, suc- 
 ceeded in largely stopping the crossing of the 
 river by guerrillas. He served as inspector of 
 cavalry for the central district of Missouri on the 
 staff of Gen. E. B. Brown, then was transferred 
 to the staff of Gen. Alfred Pleasanton. At the 
 beginning of the Price raid he became identified 
 with that campaign and took part in all its skir- 
 mishes. He had charge of the prisoners taken in 
 the battle of the Osage and delivered them to St. 
 Louis. He was mustered out of service Decem- 
 ber 10, 1865. 
 
 The following day he began in business in 
 Sedalia, Mo., opposite the Missouri Pacific, where 
 he remained until 1878. Meantime, foi- six 
 j-ears, he was a member of the city council, being 
 its president for one term; mayor in 1867-68, 
 during which time the water works were built, 
 the fire department organized and the streets 
 macadamized; president of the board of educa- 
 tion for six years; county treasurer for one term; 
 one of the founders of the First National Bank 
 and a director in it. On selling out he took a 
 position with the Anheuser-Busch Brewing As- 
 sociation, being manager of their business in 
 Houston, Tex., for two and one- half years, and 
 then, in 188 1, was transferred to Denver. His 
 territory extends to the coast and he has opened 
 agencies in Kaslo, B. C, Spokane, Wash., and 
 coast cities. His location is at Tenth and Wazee 
 streets, where he has the oldest plant west of the 
 Missouri. 
 
 In 1891 Mrs. Suess died, leaving eight chil- 
 dren: Mrs. Flora Mansbach, of Denver; George, 
 a plumber and gas-fitter; Mrs. Mary Horn, of 
 
 Denver; Henry, who is in business with George; 
 Fred, also a plumber, in this city; Julius, who 
 died in 1896; Bertha and Theresa. The second 
 wife of Major Suess was Mrs. Kate L. (Lemen) 
 Taylor, a sister of Dr. L. E. Lemen. Fraternally 
 Major Suess is connected with the Loyal Legion 
 of Colorado, Lincoln Post, G. A. R., Turn 
 Verein, Elks and Masons. He was made a Royal 
 Arch Mason in Sedalia and took the Scottish 
 Rite degree here, being now a member of El 
 Jebel Temple, N. M. S. 
 
 nOHN GREGOR, of Denver, was born in 
 I Ratibor, Silesia, Prussia, October 16, 1850, 
 (2/ the son of Franz and Thekla (Maly) Gregor. 
 His father, who was a soldier in the Franco- 
 Prussian war of 1870, has been a lifelong resident 
 of Silesia, where he is still engaged in the manu- 
 facture of brick. Notwithstanding his seventy 
 active years, he is still hale and robust. His 
 wife, who was the daughter of John Maly, a car- 
 riage manufacturer and a soldier in the Prussian 
 army during the Napoleonic wars, was born in 
 Prussia and there died when advanced in years. 
 Of her three children, two are living, one in Ger- 
 many and the other in America. 
 
 In the common schools and gymnasiums of 
 Silesia our subject received his education. At 
 the age of sixteen he began an apprenticeship to 
 the brickmason's trade, which he followed for 
 three years in the summers, while during the 
 winter months he studied in an architect's office. 
 At the age of eighteen he was made foreman of 
 jobs, and worked in that capacity for a year, 
 when he decided to come to America. In the fall 
 of 1868 he crossed the ocean and spent a time in 
 traveling through New York, Pennsylvania, 
 Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. He then lo- 
 cated in Port Washington, Tuscarawas County, 
 Ohio, where he worked at his trade. In 1879 he 
 came to Colorado and settled in Denver, where 
 he worked at his trade in the employ of others 
 for three years, beginning as a contractor of 
 brickwork in 1882. He has had the contracts 
 for the tramway power house and residence and 
 business property. In the organization of the 
 Master Builders' Association and Brick Contract- 
 ors' and Manufacturers' Association he was an act- 
 ive factor, and has since been secretary of both 
 organizations. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Politically Mr. Gregor is a silver Republican. 
 He was made a Mason in 1888 and is identified 
 with Denver Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., of 
 which he was worshipful master in 1895-96; he 
 is also connected with Denver Chapter No. 2, 
 R. A. M. , of which he is an officer. At No. 
 1827 Pearl street he built the residence now oc- 
 cupied by himself and wife and their two daugh- 
 ters, Anna E. and Helen M. His wife, who was 
 Miss Ola Haskinson, was born in Port Washing- 
 ton, Ohio, where her father, who is of Scotch de- 
 scent, has long been engaged in farming. 
 
 Ki RS. F. C. BRAY, a very successful business 
 Y woman and the owner of valuable property 
 y in Denver, was born in Franklin County, 
 Ind., the daughter of Laborens and Agnes 
 (Shepherd) Brown, natives of Berlin, Germany. 
 In that land the family name was Braum, but the 
 change to the present form was made on coming 
 to America. Her father, who was a contractor and 
 builder by trade, brought his wife and children 
 to Indiana in 1849 and settled in Franklin Coun- 
 ty, where he followed his chosen occupation. 
 He soon became known as a man of skill and ex- 
 cellent judgment in his trade, and he was called 
 to almost every part of the state, as a contractor 
 in the erection of buildings. Much of his money 
 he invested in land, and he became the owner of 
 over six hundred acres in Franklin County. His 
 death occurred there when he was fifty-nine years 
 old. His wife also died in Indiana. 
 
 Of their children three sons and three daugh- 
 ters are living, Mrs. Bray being next to the 
 youngest. One brother. Christian Brown, en- 
 listed in an Indiana regiment and served through 
 the Civil war, being wounded in the shoulder at 
 the battle of Gettysburg; he is now living at the 
 old homestead in Indiana. Another brother, 
 Jacob, was a member of the Thirty-second 
 Indiana Regiment and served until the close of 
 the Rebellion. 
 
 Mrs. Bray was educated in the public schools 
 of Franklin County and Terre Haute, Vigo Coun- 
 ty. In 1875 she went to St. Louis, where seven 
 years later she became the wife of C. A. Bray, of 
 that city. Prior to that, in 1879, she started a 
 laundry in St. Louis, and in July, 1885, opened 
 the City laundry there, where steam power was 
 used. This laundry had a larger capacity than 
 
 any .similar concern in the city, except the Ex- 
 celsior, to which she sold out in November, 
 1889. In March of the following year she came 
 to Denver, and purchased the Elite laundry, that 
 had been established the preceding November. 
 She rebuilt and enlarged the laundry, at Eleventh 
 and California streets, near the West Colfax ave- 
 nue bridge. The management of this she has 
 since successfully superintended. In July, 1892, 
 she bought the City laundry and combined the 
 two, continuing them in one building. The oflSce 
 of the Elite laundry is at No. 15 13 Curtis street, 
 and has been recently enlarged, and its capacity 
 increased. Mrs. Bray is a member of the Laun- 
 drymen's Association. She is a capable business 
 woman, thoroughly familiar with everj' detail in 
 connection with the laundry business and efiicient 
 in superintending the work so as to secure satis- 
 factory financial returns. Her residence is at 
 No. 2712 Curtis street. 
 
 QROMAN W. BLAKLEY. In the list of en- 
 U' terprising business men of Denver we find 
 fS the name of Mr. Blakley, proprietor of the 
 United Carriage Company's stable, at Nos. 2012- 
 14 Lawrence street. This business he started in 
 the spring of 1897, when he remodeled a building 
 50x125 feet in dimensions, and here he has since 
 carried on a general livery and transfer trade. 
 He keeps a line of first-class livery and furnishes 
 carriages for funerals, weddings and operas. By 
 his energy and sagacious judgment he has built 
 up an excellent trade and has become known as 
 one of the judicious business men of the city. 
 
 The birth of the subject of this sketch occurred 
 in Oregon, Holt County, Mo., April 22, 1854. 
 He was next to the oldest of eight sons, of whom 
 all but one are living. His father, Charles Blakley, 
 was born in Kentucky, but settled in Missouri in 
 an early day and engaged in farming and the 
 stock business there. Often he bought cattle in 
 Texas, which he shipped to Fort Lea\'enworth 
 and Atchison and sold them there. In 1870 he 
 came to Colorado, where he engaged in the stock 
 business, shipping draft horses and milch cows 
 into the state, but later became proprietor of the 
 old Santa Fe stables, on Larimer between Twenty- 
 first and Twenty-second streets. His last years 
 were spent in retirement, and he died in Denver 
 at the age of seventy-three. He was water com- 
 
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 missioner of this city for one term under Dr. Buck- 
 ingham, then mayor. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Vilena Lewis, was born in Jack- 
 son County, Mo., and died in Denver. Her 
 father, Jesse Lewis, was born in Virginia, of 
 Welsh descent, and engaged in farming in Mis- 
 souri for some time, but finally removed to within 
 five miles of Atchison, Kan., where he died at 
 ninety-three years. 
 
 When our subject was eight years of age his 
 father moved to Platte City, Mo., and there he 
 attended the public schools. He was the first of 
 the family to come to Denver and some months 
 later he was joined by his father, with whom he 
 engaged in the stock business. July 4, 1876, he 
 started a carriage shop, and continued exclusively 
 in that industry until becoming interested in the 
 livery business. His attention has been given 
 closely to matters relating to his business, but 
 he has kept abreast with the developments of the 
 age and the march of thought. In politics he is 
 a stanch Democrat. He is a member of the Wood- 
 men of the World. 
 
 In Platte City, Mo., Mr. Blakley married Miss 
 Ella Moore, who was born in Missouri, and is the 
 adopted daughter of Judge E. H. Norton, a prom- 
 inent attorney, and for sixteen years judge of the 
 supreme court of that state. They are the par- 
 ents of two children, Norton and Berta. 
 
 I AWRENCEH. BALFE, plumbing inspector 
 I C for the city of Denver and third vice-presi- 
 12 dent of the United Journeymen Plumbers' 
 Association of the United States and Canada, is 
 a native of County Wexford, Ireland, where were 
 also born his parents, Thomas and Eliza (Kinsler) 
 Balfe, and his grandfathers, Miles Balfe, a horse 
 trainer by occupation, and Patrick Kinsler, a 
 large wholesale merchant of Courtowu Harbor. 
 Interested in horses from childhood, Thomas 
 Balfe became widely known as a successful jockey, 
 and in that capacity he was called to almost every 
 part of the British Isles. Later he retired from 
 that work and embarked in the wholesale grocery 
 business at Courtown Harbor, where he is still 
 living, hearty and stout, in spite of his eighty- 
 seven years. When he was seventy-six years 
 old he rode his own horse in a race and won it. 
 His wife is now eighty-five years of age. Of 
 their thirteen children that attained maturity. 
 
 eight are living, all in this country, except two 
 sisters who remain in Ireland. P. H. Balfe, the 
 oldest son, is represented on another page of this 
 volume; Edward is a blacksmith in the Grant 
 Smelter Works of Denver; Thomas is engaged in 
 the plumbing business in Omaha; Mrs. Mary 
 Rose lives in Omaha, and Mrs. Sarah Smith in 
 Chicago. 
 
 In the seaport town of Courtown Harbor our 
 subject grew to sturdy youth, attending the na- 
 tional school there for some time. At the age of 
 fourteen and one-half he enlisted in the British 
 navy and was ordered upon a man-of-war train- 
 ing ship which was stationed at Kingstown for 
 eighteen months. He was then given a furlough 
 and went home to visit his parents, but on his 
 return he made a mistake, and instead of board- 
 ing Her Majesty's ship he found himself on an 
 American vessel westward bound. He landed in 
 New York City in the fall of 1883, when seven- 
 teen years old. Four months he spent in Phila- 
 delphia, after which he went to Omaha and served 
 an apprenticeship of two and one-half years at 
 the plumbers' trade. In the spring of 1886 he 
 came to Denver, where he worked for one year 
 with Hohne & White, and then, did journeyman 
 work until 1890. The next two years were de- 
 voted to the business which he e.stablished for 
 himself. Iq 1892 he was appointed plumbing 
 inspector by Dr. L- E. Lemen, health physician, 
 and the appointment was approved by Mayor 
 Van Horn. After a term of two years and six 
 months he was reappointed by Dr. William P. 
 Munn, health physician, the appointment being 
 concurred in by Mayor McMurray. In 1896 he 
 was again appointed by the same gentleman, and 
 is now serving his third term in the office, which 
 he has filled with such marked capability. 
 
 In Denver, in 1888, Mr. Balfe married Miss 
 Annie Cahaney, a native of County Sligo, Ire- 
 land, and the daughter of Alexander and Bridget 
 (Irwin) Cahaney. Her father is still a farmer 
 and drover in County Sligo, but her mother died 
 some years ago. There were seven children in 
 the family and five are now living, Mrs. Balfe 
 being next to the oldest. She crossed the ocean 
 and came from her native land to Colorado at the 
 age of seventeen. Of her three children two are 
 living, John and Edward. 
 
 A member of the United Journeyman Plumbers' 
 Association of the United States and Canada, Mr. 
 
JOSE PIERRE ADAMS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 569 
 
 Balfe has held everj' ofiBce in the local branch, 
 and is now third vice-president of the organiza- 
 tion, having been elected to the position by the 
 convention at Nashville, Tenn., in 1897. He 
 expects to attend the convention at Cleveland, 
 Ohio, in 1898. In the local branch of the Ancient 
 Order of Hibernians he has been president, and 
 he is also a member of the Irish Progressive So- 
 ciety and the Foresters of America. He is well 
 known as an all-around athlete. November 8, 
 1892, he won the state championship by throw- 
 ing a sixteen-pound hammer, and he has since 
 held the championship. He has won medals 
 from the Denver Wheel and Denver Athletic 
 Clubs. For four years he played with the Den- 
 ver Athletic Club foot ball team, principally as 
 center rush, but now plays with the foot ball 
 team of the Denver Wheel Club. He is a member 
 of the Church of Annunciation. In politics a 
 Republican, he has frequently served as a delegate 
 to county and state conventions, and has taken 
 a warm interest in the success of the party. 
 
 (TOSE PIERRE ADAMS. The first ex- 
 I perience of Mr. Adams in the west was 
 Q) during the civil war, when he was but a 
 boy. He was then living in Missouri, but afiairs 
 in that state were exciting and residence there 
 undesirable; so in 1863 he went to St. Joe by rail- 
 road and there took the stage to Leavenworth, 
 where he hired as a driver of a six-yoke ox-team 
 over the government trail to Santa Fe. How- 
 ever, they soon had an unfortunate encounter with 
 the Indians. At Larned, Kan., while the men 
 were in camp and the cattle were grazing on the 
 plains, a band of Comanche Indians attacked the 
 party. The first volley by the whites killed 
 seven Indians and enraged the others so that 
 they continued fighting all afternoon, kilHng the 
 wagon master, and finally leaving with the oxen. 
 The following day government troops from the 
 Larned post rescued Mr. Adams and the other 
 members of the party. 
 
 During the years that have since elapsed Mr. 
 Adams has had many other thrilling experiences, 
 in all of which he has borne himself valiantly. 
 He is fond of Colorado, and is especially inter- 
 ested in the welfare of Denver, where he is 
 engaged in business as a commission merchant. 
 He also owns a ranch at Corona, sixty miles east 
 
 of Denver, on the Kiowa Creek, where he is 
 engaged in raising cattle and horses. While in 
 Douglas County he served as count}' commis- 
 sioner for two terms of three years each, and each 
 year he was re-elected chairman. In 1875 he was 
 elected sheriff of the county (which was Re- 
 publican) on the Democratic ticket, by a fair 
 majority, although there were two other candi- 
 dates. While he was in office he was instrumental 
 in securing the erection of the courthouse at 
 Castle Rock, one of the prettiest public buildings 
 in the state, for the erection of which $20,000 
 bonds were voted, but it was necessary to float 
 only $14,000 of the amount. 
 
 Near Brunswick, Mo., Mr. Adams was born 
 May 31, 1848. His grandfather, Jose Pierre 
 Adams, was born in Scotland, emigrated to 
 America in early manhood, married in Virginia 
 and was there employed as a chemist. While 
 testing a variety of herb he was accidentally 
 poisoned and soon died. He was then forty-five 
 years of age. He had two sons, George F. and 
 Alexander Washington, and three daughters. 
 The first-named son was born in Jefferson County, 
 Va. , where he engaged in farming until 1827, and 
 then removed to Chariton County, Mo., settling 
 upon a tract of prairie land that had been set 
 a.side for the war of 18 12 land grants. One of 
 these he bought and subsequently sold, after 
 which he was permitted to pre-empt another one 
 hundred and sixty acres, paying twelve and one- 
 half cents per acre, and was also given permis- 
 sion to take another tract of similar size. He 
 improv^ed all the land and devoted it principally 
 to the stock business, buying adjacent property, 
 until he finally owned a section. While there he 
 served as justice of the peace. In 1886 he came 
 to Colorado and afterward lived retired until his 
 death, at eighty-one years. 
 
 The mother of our subject, who was Cynthia 
 Lane, was born in Kentucky and died in Missouri 
 in 1861. Her father, John Lane, removed from 
 Kentucky to Chariton County, Mo., where he 
 died. She was the mother of four sons and four 
 daughters, all still living. James Casper is a 
 cattleman in Douglas County, Colo.; A. W. is a 
 stock commission merchant in Kansas City; and 
 John W. is a farmer, living near Marceline, 
 Chariton County, Mo. 
 
 After his encounter with the Indians at Larned, 
 our subject secured employment as driver of a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 train of. six mules up the Arkansas River to Fort 
 Lyons, Pueblo and Denver, which city he first 
 saw in July, 1863. For six months he was 
 employed as a stage driver from Julesburg to 
 Fort Morgan, and afterward for eighteen months 
 engaged in freighting. He then went to Ne- 
 braska City, where he attended school a few 
 months, and next spent a year on the home farm. 
 During this time he married Susan M. Pugh, 
 daughter of Alexander Pugh, who removed in 
 early days from Louden County, Va., to Missouri. 
 Coming to Colorado again in 1869, Mr. Adams 
 embarked in the cattle business in Douglas (now 
 Elbert) County, where he started a ranch. In 
 1873 he removed to a ranch on Plum Creek in 
 Douglas County, where he began to deal in cattle, 
 in addition to raising them. For fourteen years 
 he was a member of the firm of Adams & Green 
 at Ca,stle Rock. In 1893 he removed to Denver, 
 where he resides at No. 43 Sherman avenue and 
 has his place of business in the Exchange build- 
 ing. While in Douglas County he was active in 
 securing the removal of the county seat from 
 Frenchtown to Castle Rock. He has been active 
 in the Democratic party and has been a member 
 of the state central committee and a delegate to 
 state conventions. He and his wife have three 
 daughters: Mrs. Alice Hazleton, of Philadelphia, 
 Pa. ; Mary and Edna. He is still a member of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen at Castle 
 Rock, in which he was formerly an ofiicial. 
 
 ["RANK O. BLAKE, president of the Ber- 
 r^ mudez-Blake Contracting Company and 
 I ^ vice-president of the Pacific Asphalt Com- 
 pany, is the pioneer in American asphalt paving, 
 having been the first to meet with success in its 
 use. A careful student of chemistry, through 
 his experiments in the mixture of ingredients he 
 was enabled to devise the combination that re- 
 sulted in the successful laying of American 
 asphalt. He was the discoverer of a large deposit 
 of asphalt in Santa Barbara County, Cal., which 
 he found after a thorough search of several years 
 through the state, and which, with its twenty- 
 nine hundred and forty-five acres of deposit, his 
 company now controls. 
 
 The Blake lineage is traced back several cen- 
 turies, one of its members, of whom our subject 
 is a direct descendant, being Admiral James 
 
 Blake, of the English navy. Freelove and 
 Richard Blake, twins, emigrated from Ireland to 
 Litchfield, Conn., where Freelove followed the 
 trade of carpenter and builder. During the 
 Revolution both enlisted in the colonial service in 
 Company F, Ninth Regiment of Connecticut Vol- 
 unteers, raised on the Lexington alarm. His .son, 
 Henry, a native of Litchfield and in boyhood a 
 soldier in the Revolution, served as an officer in 
 the American army during the war of 18 12. 
 Much of his life was spent in New York, where 
 he engaged in contracting and building. He 
 married Isabella Barnes, of New York, who was 
 of Revolutionary stock. When advanced in life 
 he joined his children in Peru, Ind. , and there 
 died at sixty-seven years. 
 
 Col. Orris Blake, son of Henry and father of 
 Frank O., was born in the town of Clay, Onon- 
 daga County, N. Y., and in boyhood was a tow- 
 boy on the Erie Canal. When fifteen he went to 
 Peru, Ind., where he became a merchant tailor. 
 There he married Miss Sarah A. Todd, an esti- 
 mable lady, who was born in Indiana, of Scotch 
 descent. Her father, David Todd, was born in a 
 fort in the frontier of West Virginia and was 
 reared in Kentucky, removing from there to 
 Parke County, Ind. , of which he was one of the 
 earliest settlers. Afterward he removed to Peru, 
 Miami County, where he gained a livelihood by 
 following the blacksmith's trade, but devoted 
 much of his time to the gratuitous preaching of 
 the Gospel, traveling on horseback through parts 
 of Indiana and Illinois in order to meet appoint- 
 ments for preaching. He was ordained to the 
 ministry of the Presbyterian Church and his self- 
 sacrificing efforts to promote the spiritual welfare 
 of others were rewarded in the good he did and 
 the lives he uplifted. He was a brother of ex- 
 Governor Todd, of Kentucky, whose daughter 
 became the wife of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Receiving a contract from the government to 
 make pants for soldiers in the army, our subject's 
 father devoted his evenings to cutting the material, 
 which his wife would sew the next day. This 
 gave him an opportunity to' study law, which he 
 did under Judge Biddle, of Logansport, Ind., and 
 he was admitted to the bar. For two terms he 
 was prosecuting attorney for his district. At the 
 opening of the war he went into service as cap- 
 tain of Company I, Thirty-ninth Indiana Infan- 
 try. Later he organized the Twelfth Indiana 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 571 
 
 Cavalry, of which he was major and afterward 
 brevet-colonel. He was a staff ofEcer under 
 Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook. When the 
 war closed he resumed the practice of law in 
 Indiana, but his health was injured by service in 
 the army and, knowing a change would be bene- 
 ficial, in 187 1 he came to Denver, where he carried 
 on legal practice. On retiring from the profession 
 he removed to Boulder, where he died in" 1885, 
 aged fifty-six years, his death resulting from 
 paralysis brought on by exposure in the army. 
 Politically he was a Republican and fraternally a 
 Royal Arch Mason. His widow makes her home 
 with a daughter, Mrs. Isabella Crane, in Cincin- 
 nati. A son, James E., resides in Covington, Ky., 
 while the youngest child, Mrs. Daisy Conner, 
 lives in El Paso, Tex. 
 
 Born in Wabash, Ind., September 2, 1857, our 
 subject was three years of age when the family 
 removed to Peru, Ind., and there he attended the 
 public schools. In 1874 he came to Denver and 
 the following year began prospecting and mining 
 in Boulder County, where he located the Little 
 Daisy and also became interested in the Doss mine. 
 From 1878 to 1881 he studied law with his father, 
 and after being admitted to the bar he practiced 
 with his father. In 1883 he became interested in 
 the abstract title business, which he later bought 
 and carried on until 1887. During the latter 
 year he started an abstract and real-estate office 
 in Durango, Colo., but in 1890 located in Denver, 
 where he became a contractor for asphalt pave- 
 ments. Soon afterward he organized the Blake 
 Asphalt Company, which was incorporated with 
 himself as general manager. February 15, J898, 
 the concern was consolidated with the Bermudez 
 Asphalt Company, of Detroit, Mich., as the 
 Bermudez- Blake Contracting Company', Mr. 
 Blake being president and general manager. He 
 had the contract for East Larimer street from 
 Nineteenth street to Downing avenue. At first 
 his contracts were confined to Denver, but the 
 business now extends all over the United States. 
 
 In Boulder, in 1880, Mr. Blake married Miss 
 Fannie Hoskinson, who was born in Xenia, 111., 
 and received her education in Rollo, Mo. Her 
 grandfather was of Revolutionary stock and was 
 an early settler in Muskingum County, Ohio, 
 having gone there from Virginia. After the war 
 her father, Gamaliel Hoskinson, removed from 
 Zanesville, Ohio, to Illinois, and thence to Rollo, 
 
 Mo., where he engaged in merchandising for 
 .some years. During the war he was captain of 
 Company I, Fortieth Illinois Infantry, which 
 served under General Sherman. Afterward he 
 became a Grand Army member. When advanced 
 in years he removed to Boulder, Colo., and 
 became a mine operator. His death occurred at 
 the home of Mr. Blake in Denver in 1894. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Blake have four children: Frederick C. , 
 Frank O., Jr., Harold and Isabelle. 
 
 Mr. Blake was made a Mason in Columbia 
 Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., at Boulder, and 
 is how a member of Temple Lodge No. 5, in 
 Denver. He joined the Royal Arch Chapter in 
 Durango and is now identified with Denver Chap- 
 ter No. 2, also Colorado Commandery No. i, 
 K. T., Colorado Consistory, thirty-second degree, 
 and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. When General 
 McCook was commander of the Colorado Com- 
 mandery of Loyal Legion he became connected 
 with it, and still retains his membership. In 
 politics he favors Republican principles. 
 
 I UMAN MOODY BOGUE, president of the 
 jC Bogue Lead Company, at No. 18 10 Blake 
 li2f street, Denver, was born in Chicago, 111., 
 January 17, 1858, and is a son of Oswell A. and 
 Mary (Moody) Bogue. His father, who is a 
 descendant of Scotch ancestry and a native of 
 New York State, has spent his entire active life 
 in Chicago, where he formerly carried on a real- 
 estate business, but is now interested in the man- 
 ufacture of railroad gates. 
 
 When a boy the subject of this sketch attended 
 the public schools of Chicago. He carried on 
 the studies of the Hyde Park high school until 
 within one year of graduation, when he left in 
 order to begin work. At the age of fifteen he 
 secured employment in a drugstore, where he ob- 
 tained a fair knowledge of the drug business, and 
 after a time he entered the Chicago College of 
 Pharmacy, carrying on his studies there. For 
 seven years he engaged in the drug business as a 
 prescription pharmacist, but finally his health 
 failed and, hoping that a change of climate would 
 prove beneficial, he came to Denver when twen- 
 ty-two years of age. Here he has since resided. 
 
 In the organization of the Davis- Creswell Manu- 
 facturing Company Mr. Bogue took an active 
 part, and he became secretary and treasurer of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the concern, with which he was identified for 
 twelve 3'ears. On severing his connection with 
 that company he organized the Bogue Lead 
 Company and became its president, which posi- 
 tion he has since filled. The firm have a large 
 plant on Blake street, where they manufacture 
 the crude metals into lead pipe, etc. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bogue took place in Den- 
 ver February 28, 1888, and united him with 
 Miss Helen T. Creswell, who was born in Chi- 
 cago, a daughter of Joseph and Clara Creswell, 
 now of Denver. They are the parents of two 
 children, Genevieve and Joseph, both of whom 
 were born in Denver. Mr. Bogue was reared in 
 the Republican faith and has always adhered to 
 the principles of that party, but does not take an 
 active part in public affairs, preferring to con- 
 centrate his attention upon business matters. 
 Frequently he has been asked to accept positions 
 of responsibility within the gift of his fellow- 
 citizens, but all nominations he has invariably 
 declined. In religion he is connected with the 
 Congregational Church. In 1889 he was made 
 a Mason, uniting with Union Lodge No. 7, 
 A. F. & A. M. , and he has since become identified 
 with the Commandery and the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 EHARLES H. SISLER. The Rio Grande 
 shops in Denver have been declared by com- 
 petent judges to be among the most perfect 
 in operation and management of any in the entire 
 country, a result that is due almost wholly to the 
 judgment of the company in employing men of 
 superior ability. Mr. Sisler entered the com- 
 pany's employ in 1885, immediately after coming 
 to Denver, and for a time was occupied as ma- 
 chinist, later was given charge of the round house, 
 and in 1893 was promoted to his present position, 
 that of foreman of the machine shop, which is 
 large, thoroughly equipped, and turns out almost 
 everything in the line of railroad work. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Sisler occurred in Morgan- 
 town, now in West Virginia, but at that time a 
 part of the Old Dominion. He is of Revolution- 
 ary stock, the descendant of ancestors who came 
 to this country from Germany and settled in Penn- 
 sylvania, where they participated in the Indian 
 fights of early days. In religion they were Lu- 
 therans. The grandfather of our subject , George 
 Sisler, was born in Maryland, where his father 
 
 had made settlement from Pennsylvania. After 
 his marriage he removed to Virginia and .settled 
 on a farm near Morgantown. His son, Lorenzo, 
 was born near what is now Oakland, Md., and 
 after his father's death continued to operate the 
 farm of two hundred and eighty acres, lying near 
 Morgantown. He still resides upon the place, 
 which is finely improved, and devoted to the rais- 
 ing of stock and general farm products. During 
 the Civil war he was an officer in the Federal 
 army, and several of his relatives also took part 
 in the war, some of them losing their lives in the 
 service. 
 
 Our subject's mother was Mary, daughter of 
 William Robinson, who was a farmer in West 
 Virginia. The Robinson family came to America 
 from Scotland, settling in Virginia in the .seven- 
 teenth century, and participating in the Indian 
 wars and the Revolution. Mrs. Sisler is still liv- 
 ing and is now sixty-six years of age. Of her 
 seven children six are living, Charles H. being 
 the eldest of the family. When he was a mere 
 child, his father enlisted in the army and he suc- 
 ceeded to the management of the farm. There 
 were so many bands of Confederates in the 
 country that he drove the cattle and horses into 
 the mountains, by which means he was enabled 
 to keep them in safety. On his father's return 
 he resumed his school studies, and later took a 
 course in t"he state university at Morgantown, 
 completing the junior year. Afterward he 
 taught school and took the regular course in 
 Duft's Commercial College in Pittsburg, from 
 which he graduated. Soon afterward he became 
 an apprentice to the machinist's trade, at which 
 he served for five years in Lima, Ohio. He be- 
 came a practical machinist and engine maker, 
 with a thorough knowledge of every department 
 of his trade. 
 
 Entering the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road Company, Mr. Sisler worked for them in 
 Altoona, Pa., and later was foreman of erection 
 at Ft. Wayne, Ind. For a short time he also ran 
 a locomotive engine. In 1882 he went to To- 
 peka, Kan., where he had charge of the men in 
 the Santa Fe shops, remaining there until his re- 
 moval to Denver. He is an expert machinist, 
 thoroughly familiar with the work, and while his 
 position is one of great responsibility, he has 
 filled it successfully and to the satisfaction of the 
 company. He is a Republican, a member of the 
 
WILLIAM D. NASH. 
 
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 575 
 
 Woodmen of the World, and a fine singer, fre- 
 quently singing in church choirs. In Lima, 
 Ohio, he married Ella Bastable, whose father was 
 a merchant there and at one time sheriff of the 
 count}^ They are the parents of four children: 
 Charles Kenneth, who is a mechanical engineer, 
 employed in the shop with his father; Claudius 
 F. ; Nellie N. and Thomas L. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM D. NASH, president of the 
 lAl Farmer & Hale Undertaking Company 
 Y Y at No. 1625 Tremont street, Denver, is a 
 descendant of an English family whose history in 
 American can be traced back to 1637. During 
 that year Thomas Nash came from London and 
 settled in Stockbridge, Mass., where his remain- 
 ing years were spent. He had a son, Timothy 
 (born in England, 1626, died in Massachusetts, 
 March 13, 1699), who married Rebecca, daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hartford, Conn. 
 Their son, John, born August 21, 1667, was a 
 resident of Hadley, Mass. Stephen, next inline 
 of descent, was born September 20, 1704, and 
 engaged in business at Stockbridge, where much 
 of his active life was passed. His son, Moses, 
 who was born in Westfield, Mass., settled in 
 Stockbridge and from there enlisted as a lieuten- 
 ant in the Revolution, doing excellent service as 
 a member of a company of minute-men. He 
 married Miss Anna Bliss, daughter of a minister 
 in Boston, and both passed away in Stockbridge, 
 he in 1792. 
 
 The next generation was represented by Peltiah 
 Nash, our subject's grandfather, who was born 
 in Stockbridge August 2, 1770, and in early man- 
 hood moved to Dorset, Vt. , where he conducted 
 a furniture business. From there he went to New 
 York City and engaged in business, but later re- 
 tired and moved west to Mar.shall, Mich., where 
 he died in 1847. During his residence in Dorset, 
 Vt., a son, Harvey B. Nash, was born. The 
 latter engaged in the furniture and undertaking 
 business in New York for more than fifty years, 
 and was the patentee of the first bed-fastener and 
 mitre box, both of which he manufactured for 
 the trade. He married Mary J. Dunham, who 
 was born at Sandy Hill on the Hudson, N. Y., 
 the daughter of Samuel Dunham, who was of 
 Scotch descent and engaged in farming there. 
 She died at Sandy Hill in 188 1. Of her four 
 children, one son died at twenty-three years; the 
 
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 two daughters are Mrs. J. D. Sherrill, of Sandy 
 Hill, and Estella, of Denver. The youngest of 
 the family is the subject of this sketch. He was 
 born and reared in Sandy Hill, N. Y. , and at- 
 tended the grammar and high schools, from 
 which latter he graduated in 1879. He after- 
 ward embarked in business with his father, the 
 firm title being H. B. Nash & Son until the 
 death of the senior member. The son then suc- 
 ceeded to the business, which he carried on until 
 1888, and then sold out, locating in Denverthe 
 following year. 
 
 Here Mr. Nash became intere.sted in the firm 
 of Farmer & Hale, of which he was manager un- 
 til 1894. The business was then incorporated as 
 the Farmer & Hale Undertaking Company, with 
 himself as president, F. C. Farmer, vice-presi- 
 dent, and C. Hale, secretarj', until March, 1898, 
 when William D. Nash bought the entire stock. 
 Through his energy and good judgment a large 
 business has been built up, and the reputation of 
 the firm established for integrity and fair business 
 transactions. He is a graduate of the United 
 States College of Embalming in New York City. 
 In the organization of the Colorado State Funeral 
 Directors' Association he took an active part, 
 and is now .serving his second term as its presi- 
 dent. He is also identified with the National 
 Funeral Directors' Association. 
 
 In New York City Mr. Nash married Miss 
 Susie DeMaugh, whose father, John DeMaugh, 
 was born in that city, of French descent. By 
 this union two children have been born, Chaun- 
 cey and William D. During his residence in the 
 east Mr. Nash was made a Mason, and is now a 
 member of Oriental Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. 
 M., al.so of Denver Chapter No. 2. Denver 
 Lodge No. 41, K. of P., and the Royal Arcanum 
 number him among their members. He became 
 connected with the Modern Woodmen in New 
 York and took an active part in organizing the 
 Woodmen of the World in Denver. He has been 
 an officer in the lodge, and its delegate to the dis- 
 trict convention at Pueblo, the conventions at 
 Portland, Ore., and Helena, Mont., and at one 
 time representative of the Sovereign Camp at 
 Omaha. In the organization of local societies in 
 difierent parts of Colorado he has been actively 
 interested. He is a member of the Society of 
 Sons of the Revolution, and politically is of the 
 Republican faith. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 0AMUEL HERMAN MEUER, M. D. In 
 Ny liis work as a physician Dr. Meuer has 
 Qj gained a place among the able and successful 
 specialists of Denver, where, while engaging in a 
 general practice, he is at the same time making a 
 specialty of the treatment of diseases of the 
 nose, throat and lungs. He makes of his pro- 
 fession a never-ending source of investigation, 
 and as new remedies are discovered and new 
 methods of healing adopted he studies each care- 
 fully, with a view to incorporating every practi- 
 cable idea in his own practice. Although a 
 young man and still in the dawn of the success 
 that has attended his efforts, he has already 
 given abundant evidence of the ability that qual- 
 ifies him for a high place in the medical profes- 
 sion. Truly ambitious, and with an ambition 
 whose aim is high, there seems to be no reason 
 why his ability should not find full scope in re- 
 lieving the ills to which this suffering world is 
 heir. 
 
 The son of Louis and Eva (Minski) Meuer, 
 the subject of this article was born in the north- 
 eastern part of Russia February 21, 1866. When 
 he was six months old his father died. In 1877, 
 when only eleven years of age, he came to the 
 United States alone, and afterward made his 
 home with relatives of his father in New York 
 City, securing a fair education in the schools of 
 that city. From an early age he was desirous 
 of entering the medical profession, and his studies 
 were directed with that end in view. At the age 
 of eighteen he entered the New York University. 
 A year later he took up the study of medicine in 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, but at the 
 close of the first term, his money being almost 
 exhausted, he secured employment as traveling 
 salesman for a New York importing house, and 
 during the three years that followed he traveled 
 through much of the United States. 
 
 When his finances permitted him to resume 
 professional studies he entered Gross Medical 
 College in Denver, Colo., from which he was 
 graduated in 1894, completing the regular course 
 of study with credit to himself. While still a 
 medical student, in 1 891, he, in company with his 
 uncle, Dr. A. J. Meuer, went to Berlin, Germany, 
 to investigate Koch's discovery for the treatment 
 of tuberculosis. He took a full course, and on 
 their return to Denver opened the Koch Hospital 
 Sanitarium under most favorable auspices, but 
 
 after three years' work the hospital was aban- 
 doned. This experience materially aided Dr. 
 Meuer in the treatment of diseases of the lungs. 
 He at once took up the practice of medicine in 
 this city, where he has carried on a practice that 
 he is well qualified to conduct successfully. In 
 addition to his private practice he holds the posi- 
 tion of clinical instructor in nose and throat dis- 
 eases with his alma mater. Gross Medical College. 
 He is a member of various organizations, among 
 them the American Medical Association, and is a 
 valuable addition to the best society of Denver. 
 He was married in this city, in 1894, to Miss 
 Alice J. Killam. 
 
 r"RANKLIN COOK, who served honorably 
 ry as a soldier in the Civil war, came to Den- 
 I ver in 1891 and has since followed the occu- 
 pation of carpenter and builder, his location being 
 No. 1423 Champa street. He was born near 
 Whitehall, Washington County, N. Y. , and is one 
 of twelve children, eleven of whom attained years 
 of maturity. His paternal grandfather. Rev. 
 Richard Cook, was a native of Washington 
 County and a minister in the Society of Friends; 
 on the maternal side. Grandfather Richardson en- 
 gaged in farming in Vermont. 
 
 Seth Cook, our subject's father, was born in 
 Washington C^ounty, where for .some time he 
 carried on farm pursuits, later removing to Man- 
 chester, Vt., where he died at sixty-nine years. 
 His wife, who was born in the mountainous dis- 
 trict of Vermont, died when sixty-seven years of 
 age. Their son, our subject, was reared in Wash- 
 ington County and attended the public schools 
 when a boy. Injuly of 1862 he enlisted in the Fed- 
 eral service. He became a member of Company 
 K, One Hundred and Twenty-third New York 
 Infantry, and was mustered into service at Salem, 
 N. Y., after which he went to the front. Among 
 his first battles were those of Chancellorsville and 
 Gettysburg. Afterward the Eleventh and Twelfth 
 Corps were consolidated and became the Twen- 
 tieth, with Sherman as commander. Altogether 
 he took part in thirty-six engagements, and dur- 
 ing all these conflicts, with the exception of two 
 slight wounds, he escaped uninjured. He re- 
 mained with the company continuously until he 
 was honorably discharged in Albany, N. Y., in 
 June, 1865, after a service of three years lacking 
 two months. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 577 
 
 For two years after his return from the war 
 Mr. Cook engaged in farming in Vermont. After- 
 ward he engaged in carpentering in Washington 
 County, N. Y., and later became a contractor in 
 Granville. In 1885 he went to St. Paul, Minn., 
 and from there, in 1887, removed to Marion, 
 Fla., where he was interested in the building 
 business. The year 1889 found him in Phila- 
 delphia, but from there he soon went to Marion, 
 Ind., where he had the contract for the building 
 of six houses. A year later, in 1891, he came to 
 Denver, where he has business and residence 
 property at No. 1423 Champa street. Politically 
 he votes the Republican ticket, but has never 
 been active in public affairs. He is connected 
 with Lincoln Post, G. A. R., and like all old 
 soldiers heartily enjoys recounting, with other 
 veterans, incidents and experiences of those fate- 
 ful years, 1861-65. He was married in Phila- 
 delphia, his wife being Miss Georgia Williams, a 
 native of that city. 
 
 pCjlLLIAM THOMPSON, of Denver, was 
 
 I A/ ^^^^ ^^ Forfarshire, Scotland, the oldest 
 V V of six children comprising the family of 
 William and Margaret (Japean) Thompson, also 
 natives of Scotland. His father, who was a son 
 of William, Sr., engaged in farming in Forfar- 
 shire during his entire active life, with the ex- 
 ception of the period of his service in the English 
 army during the Peninsular war. His death oc- 
 curred when he about sixty-five years of age. 
 He had long survived his wife, who died in 
 young womanhood; she was a daughter of Robien 
 (Japean), a native of France and a farmer by 
 occupation. Of their five sons and one daughter, 
 two came to America, William and Robert, the 
 latter of whom died in Salt Lake City in 1894. 
 
 At the age of fifteen our subject was appren- 
 ticed to the carpenter's trade, at which he worked 
 for four years in his native place. He continued 
 working there for six months after the expiration 
 of his time, and then went to Dundee, where he 
 remained for nine months. Afterward he spent 
 a year in Edinburgh and three years in Galli- 
 shields. In 1871 he took passage at Glasgow on 
 a steamship bound for New York City, and after 
 reaching the United States settled in Chicago, 
 arriving in that city shortly after the great fire. 
 He secured work in hall and stair building, and 
 remained in the city until 1879. During that 
 
 year he came to Denver, where he was employed 
 as foreinan in a stair shop until April, 1880, and 
 then, with Thomas Nichol (ex-county commis- 
 sioner) and E. F. Hallack, started what is now the 
 Hallack-Sayre- Newton Lumber Company. After 
 assisting in running this for two years he sold 
 out and engaged in contracting, to which he has 
 since given his attention, being now a member of 
 the firm of Thompson & Helm. Among his con- 
 tracts were those for an addition to the Whittier 
 school, the contract for the Wayman school, 
 manual training school, Franklin school on the 
 west side, Logan school and Fairmount school, 
 the high .school on the north side, Columbine, 
 Louise A. Olcott and Webster schools; Arapahoe 
 block. Union depot, Charles block, and the finish- 
 ing of the Albany hotel. 
 
 In Chicago Mr. Thompson married Miss Mary 
 A. McGilivray, who was born in Forfarshire, 
 Scotland. They are the parents of five children: 
 James, a student in the School of Mines, class of 
 '99; Jessie, who graduated from the high school 
 of Denver in 1B97; George, Jane and Helen M. 
 Politically Mr. Thompson is a silver Republican. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Arapahoe Lodge 
 No. 24, and was one of the organizers of the 
 Master Builders' Association, of which he served 
 at one time as president. 
 
 (I AMES H. GORMAN. During the '60s the 
 I tide of emigration drifted steadily westward 
 (2/ to the mountains. A party, one hundred 
 strong, left Belvidere, 111., August 26, 1866, with 
 Colorado for their destination. They were well 
 equipped with horse and mule teams and an 
 abundant supply of provisions. Reaching the 
 Missouri at Council Bluffs, they crossed the river 
 on a ferry, and then proceeded up the Platte to 
 North Bend, where they again crossed on a ferry. 
 The long journey across the plains finally came 
 to an end. Denver was reached, from which point 
 one member of the party, Mr. Gorman, went on 
 to Golden and secured employment in freighting 
 between Golden and Central. As soon as the 
 weather became too cold for freighting, he en- 
 tered the employ of the Overland Stage Company. 
 In the spring of 1867 he opened a livery stable in 
 Golden and about the same time pre-empted a 
 ranch north of Table Mountain, where he en- 
 gaged in raising race horses. Later he bought 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 property south of the mountain. He assisted in 
 building the first race track in Jefferson County 
 and had a corral near by. 
 
 Selling this place in 1886, Mr. Gorman en- 
 gaged in the stock business between Golden, 
 Central City, Blackhawk and Georgetown to 
 Denv^er. Meantime he also stocked a ranch of 
 four hundred acres at Fort Lupton, placing on it 
 four hundred and fifty head of cattle. When the 
 excitement incident to the discovery of gold in 
 the Black Hills had drawn many men to that 
 place, he shipped the cattle there and sold out. 
 He then began to raise horses on his ranch, be- 
 coming the owner of the best-bred stallion in 
 Colorado, Hamilton Abdallah Pilot by Adminis- 
 trator, sired by Hamiltonian No. 10, dam Lucille 
 by Alex. Abdallah. Upon his farm he had as 
 many as one hundred and fifty horses at a time. 
 One of his colts he sold when nine days old for 
 $100. Another colt, E. S., had a three-year-old 
 record of 2:14. 
 
 Tiring of ranch life, in 1890 Mr. Gorman 
 shipped his horses to Illinois and sold them. He 
 then settled in Lupton, where he built three large 
 brick buildings. One of these was used for a dry 
 goods store and hotel, another for a carriage shop 
 and the third for machinery. He engaged in 
 business there until 1891, when he sold out. 
 Coming to Denver in the spring of that year, he 
 started a livery stable on Twenty-fourth street, 
 but after six months he located at No. 2055 Mar- 
 ket street, where he has a building with a front- 
 age of fifty -six feet, and one hundred and twenty- 
 five feet deep, two stories in height. He still 
 raises fine horses, and now owns Ida May, by 
 Abdallah Pilot of Hamilton, daughter of Ida 
 Martin by Weisbaten, full brother to Wedge 
 Wood; also Amazonia by Abdallah Pilot, dam 
 by Monarch Bell, with pedigree back to Strong 
 Monarch. He is also interested in mining. Po- 
 litically he is a Democrat, which party he has 
 often represented in county and state conventions 
 and upon county committees. While in Golden 
 he served a marshal and deputy sheriff". Frater- 
 nally he is a Knight of Pythias, belonging to 
 Brighton Lodge. 
 
 Mr. Gorman was born in Belvidere, Boone Coun- 
 ty, 111., November 27, 1841, and is a son of Philip 
 and Mary (Riley) Gorman, natives respectively 
 of Canada and Ireland. His father, settling in 
 Boone County in the early days, entered land 
 
 seven miles north of Belvidere and there con- 
 tinued to reside until his death, at seventy years. 
 His wife, who emigrated with her parents from 
 Ireland to Canada, now resides on the old home- 
 stead in Illinois and is about ninety years of 
 age. They were the parents of eight children 
 that attained mature years and of the.se three are 
 in Illinois and five in Colorado, James H. being 
 the oldest of all. He was reared in Illinois and 
 during the winter months attended a school 
 taught in a log house that stood upon the prairie. 
 At the age of nineteen he started for himself with 
 one span of horses. He engaged in threshing 
 and farming until 1866, when he came to Colo- 
 rado, where he has since resided. He was mar- 
 ried in Denver to Miss Mary E. Burns and they 
 have two sons, George H. and Philip J. Mrs. 
 Gorman is a daughter of James L. Burns, who 
 was born in New York state and is now engaged 
 in the dairy business near Denver. 
 
 Gl NDREW SAGENDORF. There may occa- 
 LA sionally be found, among the residents of 
 / I Denver, one who remembers it as it was in 
 1859. But almost none now living saw, as did 
 Mr. Sagendorf, the present site of the city at a 
 period earlier than that. He came across the 
 plains in 1858 with a party of forty-six, the trip, 
 which was made with oxen, taking sixty-three 
 days and coming to an end November 6. Of that 
 large party all were hale, robust men except the 
 subject of this sketch, who was an invalid seeking 
 the far west in the hope that the climate might 
 benefit his health; yet of all that party, so far as 
 he knows, only six are now living, and four of 
 these are in Colorado, viz. : Richard Blore, John 
 Sanderson, McCaslin, of Longmont, and himself. 
 Denver in 1 858 did not present a promising ap- 
 pearance and even the most cheerful optimist 
 could have found little upon which to build the- 
 ories for future greatness. The scenery, then, as 
 now, was charming. To the south and west 
 spread the beautiful mountains, snow capped dur- 
 ing much of the year, and containing, so rumor 
 said, countless stores of gold. Along the banks 
 of the Platte River grew tall cottonwood trees 
 and some outlined the course of Cherry Creek. 
 Houses there were none, nor any sign of human 
 habitation save tents and Indian wigwams. 
 Where now stands West Denver, on the west 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 579 
 
 bank of Cherry Creek, was Denver's rival, Aiira- 
 ria, which was laid out in October, 1858, and 
 was the more important town up to the time of 
 the flood, in 1864. It was given its name by 
 Green Russel, who had migrated from Auraria, 
 Ga. The first houses were constructed of cotton- 
 wood logs. For a time Auraria prospered more 
 than Denver. During the winter of 1858-59 it is 
 said that one hundred and twenty-five houses 
 were built there, but these were of a most primi- 
 tive character, destitute of board floors, nails and 
 glass. 
 
 Meantime Denver was given its present name 
 in honor of the then Governor of Kansas, Gen. 
 J. W. Denver, of Leavenworth. Houses were 
 built of hewed logs, a sawmill was built in March, 
 1859, and in April William N. Byers arrived here 
 and established the first newspaper, called the 
 Rocky Mountain News. There were a few Free 
 Masons in the place and in December of 1858 
 they met socially in Dr. Russell's cabin, on 
 what is now Tenth street, and later organized 
 Auraria Lodge. Among these men was Mr. 
 Sagendorf, who had been made a Mason in 
 December, 1856, when he united with Allen 
 Lodge No. 13, at Hudson, N. Y. Afterward 
 he afiiliated with Bellevue Lodge in Nebraska. 
 Auraria Lodge was instituted in Denver in Jan- 
 uary, 1859, working under a dispensation from 
 the Grand Lodge of Kansas. Henry Allen 
 was W. M. and Judge Smith secretary. The or- 
 ganization was maintained, and presently secured 
 a charter, by which it became independent of 
 Kansas jurisdiction and united with the Grand 
 Lodge of Colorado, as Denver Lodge No. 5. Mr. 
 Sagendorf attended the meetings of the lodge reg- 
 ularly and was its past master in 1864. His in- 
 terest in Masonry led him to identify himself 
 later with Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., and 
 Denver Commandery No. i, K. T. In 1874 he 
 assisted in the organization of a chapter of Royal 
 Arch Masons at Colorado Springs and was its 
 first high priest, holding the ofiice for two years. 
 Afterward he assisted in organizing Pike's Peak 
 Commandery No. 6, Of which he was the first 
 commander, holding that position for three years. 
 For one term he was master of El Paso Lodge No. 
 13, and in 1884 he was grand master of the grand 
 lodge of Colorado; he was also deputy grand 
 high priest of the grand chapter of Colorado. He 
 still belongs to the Colorado Springs Lodge and 
 
 is a member of El Jebel Temple of Denver. He 
 has been very prominently connected with the 
 fraternity and is one of its most active and pop- 
 ular officials. 
 
 All the facts that we have mentioned in the 
 early history of Denver are fresh in the mind of 
 Mr. Sagendorf, besides many others of equal in- 
 terest. His close connection with the early history 
 of Denver, and the fact that he is still one of her 
 most honored citizens, will make his biography 
 of interest to the people of this section. Many 
 years ago the Sagendorf family emigrated from 
 Germany to America and settled four miles east 
 of the Hudson, where some of their grant of land 
 is still held by their descendants. Harmon Sagen- 
 dorf, who was born in Columbia County, N. Y., 
 was one of seven brothers and had seven sons, to 
 each of whom he gave land adjoining the home 
 place. He was a member of the Reformed Church 
 of America. Of his sons, Andrew, our subject's 
 father, was born in Columbia County and was 
 captain of a company in the war of 181 2. He 
 continued to farm until his death in 1855, at the 
 age of sixty years. His wife, who was born in 
 the same county as himself, was Maria Whitbeck, 
 daughter of John Whitbeck, a major of the war of 
 18 1 2 and a member of an old Holland-Dutch 
 family. She died when seventy-four years old. 
 Of her four sons and four daughters all but one 
 son attained mature years, and one son and 
 three daughters are now living. 
 
 Andrew, who was next to the youngest of the 
 family, was born near the Hudson in Columbia 
 County, N. Y., and grew to manhood on the 
 home farm, receiving the advantages afforded by 
 public schools and Hudson Academy. For a 
 time he taught school in his native county, but 
 ill health forced him to discontinue the work and 
 seek a change of climate. In 1856 he started 
 west, going from Iowa City by stage coach to 
 Omaha, and then locating near Bellevue, Sarp}' 
 County, Neb. Subsequently he located and en- 
 tered three hundred and twenty acres, on which 
 later the town of Papillion, on the Union Pacific, 
 was built; he remained there until 1858. Mean- 
 time a rumor had been heard of the discovery of 
 gold in Colorado, and people were preparing to 
 seek their fortunes in the Rocky Mountains. 
 Among these adventurous pioneers was Mr. Sag- 
 endorf, who started west, intending to go to Salt 
 Lake, but, changing his plan.s, came to what is 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 now Denver instead. He engaged in prospect- 
 ing and mining in this vicinity with varying suc- 
 cess. May 8, 1859, he went to the Jackson bar, 
 and a few days after his arrival he and Ransom 
 Smith discovered the Spanish bar above Idaho 
 Springs, one of the richest bars in Clear Creek 
 County. He was taken ill and obliged to return to 
 Denver, leaving matters in charge of his partner, 
 who sold the bar. For some years he was secre- 
 tary of the Auraria Town Company on the west 
 side. Upon the establishment of the United 
 States government mint in Denver he was given 
 a position as weigher. Later he was private sec- 
 retary to Governor Evans. On resigning that 
 position he established a wholesale and retail 
 grocery on Fifteenth near Blake street, which 
 later he sold. In November, 1865, he was ap- 
 pointed postmaster by President Johnson and had 
 charge of the office, then located on Larimer 
 street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. The 
 work, however, was too confining, and in the 
 spring of 1869 he resigned. Shortly afterward 
 he went to the White River to superintend the 
 building of the first Ute Indian agency, for which 
 Governor A. C. Hunt had the contract, and he 
 remained there from July, 1869, until August, 
 1870. 
 
 For four years Mr. Sagendorf engaged in 
 stock-raising on his ranch in Douglas County, from 
 which place he went to Colorado Springs and en- 
 gaged in the drug business for eight years; then 
 sold out and came back to Denver. For one year 
 he was deputy assessor of internal revenue under 
 Revenue Collector J. S. Wolfe. In February, 
 1885, he was appointed register of the state board 
 of land commissioners, and served until April 15, 
 1 89 1. He is now secretary and treasurer of the 
 Tenderfoot Leasing and Mining Company and is 
 interested in Cripple Creek mines. He was among 
 the first citizens of Denver who built south of 
 Cherry Creek, his comfortable home at No. 133 
 West Fourth avenue having been built in 1889. 
 
 Reared a Democrat, Mr. Sagendorf became a 
 Republican during the war and has since ad- 
 hered to the principles of that party. In 1862, in 
 Denver, he married Mrs. Eliza D. McCook, whose 
 first husband was a brother of General McCook. 
 She was a daughter of Lazarus McLain, of New 
 Lisbon, Ohio, and came to Colorado in June, 
 i860, with two brothers, one of whom was assist- 
 ant surgeon in the United States army and a 
 
 member of the first legislature of Colorado; the 
 other, William D., was captain of the First Colo- 
 rado Light Battery, during the war. Mrs. Sag- 
 endorf died in 1894. She was a member of the 
 Society of Knight Templars' Wives, the Pioneer 
 Ladies' Aid Society and the First Congregational 
 Church. She left two sons, but one, William L-, 
 died in 1897, at the age of thirty-two; the other, 
 Andrew H., is an engineer and machinist at 
 Cripple Creek, this state. 
 
 3ER0ME C. CONVERSE, president of the 
 Denver Commission and Realty Company, 
 is also a prominent man in public affairs, be- 
 ing now the alderman from the eleventh ward. 
 At the election of 1897 he was solicited to accept 
 the nomination, which he refused, but was finally 
 induced to accept, and was elected by a good ma- 
 jority. At this writing he is chairman of the 
 committees on public grounds and buildings, 
 streets, alleys, bridges and claims. All measures 
 for the benefit of the city and the increasing of 
 her commercial importance receive his warm 
 sympathy and active support. 
 
 The Converse family is of English descent and 
 was represented among the pioneers of Massa- 
 chusetts, some of its members there enlisting for 
 service in the Revolution. Royal Converse 
 was born in the Lake Champlain district of New 
 York, but afterward removed to Portage County, 
 Ohio, where he entered and improved a tract of 
 land. His son. Chandler, who was born in the 
 same locality as himself, engaged in farming in 
 Kent, Portage County, where he died at seventy- 
 five years of age. He was a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church and a man of upright, unblemished 
 character. His wife, Johanna Gay lord, was born 
 in Springfield, Mass., and accompanied her father, 
 John Gay lord, from there to Kent, Ohio. She is a 
 descendant of English ancestors. For some years 
 she has resided in Cleveland , where she has a home 
 on Euclid avenue. Of her four children three 
 are living: Erwin resides in Cleveland; Ellen, 
 Mrs. M. J. Glasier, also resides in that city; 
 Edelbert, who was a member of Garfield's old 
 regiment (the Forty-second Ohio), died in the 
 south; Jerome C. , who was born in Franklin 
 Township, Portage Count}', is the youngest of 
 the family. 
 
 Reared on the home farm, our subject assisted 
 
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 in the cultivation of the place until he was twenty- 
 three. He then entered the employ of the 
 Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company, 
 which he represented for five years. Afterwards, 
 for seventeen years, he traveled as salesman for 
 the Akron Rolling Mill Company, having as his 
 territory Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Canada, 
 Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. In 
 1889 he resigned and came west, locating in 
 Denver, where he opened a grocery on the corner 
 of Thirteenth street and Colfax avenue west. 
 After a year he retired from the business and 
 organized the Denver Commission and Realty 
 Company, which has its office at No. 1538 Law- 
 rence street. They occupy a building of two 
 stories, 25x150, and are engaged in a general 
 comrai.ssion business. During the season of 1898 
 they handled fifteen hundred bicycles and their 
 other business has also been large. 
 
 In Ravenna, Ohio, Mr. Converse married Miss 
 Emma Rodenbaugh, who was born in Springfield, 
 Ohio. She is a daughter of John Rodenbaugh, 
 for years the state auctioneer and a very promi- 
 nent commission man, but who, on one of his 
 trips, was murdered for his money. Mr. Converse 
 has one son, Harry C, a member of the police 
 force of Denver. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Royal Arcanum, in religion is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 politically has always been stanch in his adher- 
 ence to Republican principles. His wife was a 
 charter member of the Civil Federation, and one 
 of its most active workers, being associated with 
 Mrs. Frank Hall and others upon important com- 
 mittees. 
 
 (Joseph C. KNOWLES. WWle many men 
 I have come to Colorado with the hope that 
 C) they might gain wealth from its hidden 
 stores of gold and silver, an equal, or perhaps 
 greater, number have come here, hoping that the 
 dry, pure air and delightful climate might bring 
 them the health and strength that are worth far 
 more than all the metalliferous mines of El Dorado. 
 Among the latter class may be mentioned Mr. 
 Knowles, a well-known and successful citizen of 
 Denver. Prior to coming here he had been en- 
 gaged in farming in Michigan, but his health be- 
 came so poor that during the last four years of 
 his residence there he was unable to work an en- 
 tire day. With his wife, herself an invalid, and 
 
 their two children, he started west in the fall of 
 
 1878, scarcely knowing what his destination 
 would be. Traveling slowly, as their strength 
 permitted, they reached Lewis, Iowa, forty miles 
 from Council Bluffs, in October, and as the 
 weather was cold and roads rough, they stopped 
 there for a time. From the time he left Michi- 
 gan he began to grow stronger. In February, 
 
 1879, they resumed their westward journey, but 
 on reaching the Missouri could not secure trans- 
 portation. The river was frozen over and he 
 risked crossing it on the ice, which was accom- 
 plished successfully. Continuing the journey 
 along the Platte, they passed long, lonely stretches 
 of land, where for a hundred miles not a house 
 could be seen. Added to the loneliness was the 
 danger, for the Indians had been exceedingly 
 troublesome the previous year and white travel- 
 ers were still in great peril in crossing the plains. 
 At one time the supply of hay gave out and he 
 was obliged to leave the family and ride horse- 
 back fifteen miles in order to secure some feed. 
 March 25, 1879, he arrived in Denver, strength- 
 ened in body, and able to take up business 
 pursuits. He had with him the finest team ever 
 seen in Denver at that time, and also two un- 
 broken colts, and ever since then he has al- 
 ways kept a span of fine horses, his fondness for 
 equine flesh being one of his noticeable character- 
 istics. 
 
 The Knowles family is of English and Welsh 
 descent. The grandfather of our subject was 
 Seth Knowles, a native of Connecticut and a 
 Revolutionary soldier, who about 1812 settled in 
 Livingston County, N. Y., and founded the town 
 of Springwater, which he named on account of 
 its numerous springs. His son, Girard Knowles, 
 was born in Connecticut in 1800 and was one of 
 twenty-one children that attained mature years. 
 From Livingston County he moved to Canadice, 
 Ontario County, where he engaged in farming. 
 He died while on a visit in Wisconsin. Twelve 
 children were born of his marriage to Diana 
 Farwell, a native of New York and of Scotch 
 descent. 
 
 One of the youngest of the children and the 
 only one to come to Colorado was Joseph C, who 
 was born in Springwater, N. Y., September 4, 
 1842, and was eight when the family removed to 
 Canadice. The next year he went to make his 
 home with the family's nearest neighbor, Mr. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Macomber, a shoemaker, who taught him the 
 trade and cared for him during the twelve years 
 he was an inmate of the house. In 1862 he at- 
 tempted to enlist in the army, but was rejected 
 on physician's examination. In 1863 he removed 
 to Albion, Mich., and the next year bought a 
 farm two miles east of Albion , where he engaged 
 in farming until his removal west. 
 
 On settling in Colorado Mr. Knowles began 
 freighting between Denver and Leadville. Later 
 he decided to engage in merchandising in Lead- 
 ville, but the altitude was too high and he was 
 unable to remain. He then bought one hundred 
 and sixty acres nine miles from Denver, where 
 Irondale now stands, and two years later started 
 a dairy, but after twelve months he sold out and 
 located nearer the city, buying a farm on which 
 he engaged in the dairy business and general agri- 
 cultural pursuits. Since then he has dealt in farm 
 and city property. About 1882 he disposed of his 
 farm in Michigan; but he still owns ranches in 
 different parts of Colorado. In 1885 he bought 
 land at $50 an acre, which he later sold at $250, 
 and also a tract at $55, which afterwards brought 
 him fSoo an acre. From boyhood he was in- 
 terested in fruits, and in Colorado he has been an 
 experimenter in orchards, having set out the first 
 orchard in Platte Valley. He has set out about 
 twenty acres in orchards, and one of his orchards 
 is considered the finest in the state. Its trees are 
 capable of bearing six to eight barrels of fruit 
 and have to be propped up in order that the 
 weight of the fruit may not break the branches. 
 The fruit problem was an enigma at the time he 
 came here and he spent considerable money in ex- 
 perimenting, but has found that all fruits will 
 grow here except pears, which cannot be raised. 
 In addition to his orchards, he has on his ranch 
 a fine residence and two artesian wells. In 1893 
 he bought the Knowles building, 60x125, four 
 stories in height, and adjoining the Getty.sburg 
 Panorama, on Champa near Seventeenth street, 
 one of the most desirable corners in the city. He 
 is also interested in mining. Politically he is a 
 silver Republican. 
 
 In Calhoun County, Mich., Mr. Knowles 
 married Miss Eliza A. Dart, who was born in 
 Barnstable, England. After the death of her 
 parents, Burwick and Ann Dart, which occurred 
 when she was small, she came with an uncle to 
 America and grew to womanhood in Michigan. 
 
 She is the mother of six children, the eldest of 
 whom, Mrs. Clara Adell Leggett, died in Colo- 
 rado. The others are Mrs. Evora Mabel Bowen, 
 of Denver; Chloe Anita, Arthur Seward, Isabelle 
 and Eva Viola. 
 
 /5JEORGE W. SCHECK, president of the 
 l_ Leonard-Scheck Saddlery Company at Nos. 
 \^ 1716-20 Arapahoe street, Denver, was born 
 in Nashville, Tenn. , July 7, 1857, and is a son of 
 Michael and Marie (Scharnagle) Scheck. His 
 parents, both of whom were natives of Germany, 
 came to the United States in early life, he cross- 
 ing the ocean first and securing employment as a 
 dyer and scourer in Alabama. As soon as he 
 was established in business, she joined him there 
 and they were married. After a year or more 
 they removed to Nashville, Tenn., where they 
 made their home during the entire period of the 
 war. 
 
 The earliest recollections of our subject are of 
 the fair southern city where he was born and the 
 excitement incident to war between the north and 
 south. He attended the public schools until he 
 was fourteen years of age, when he became an 
 apprentice to the harness-maker's trade, receiv- 
 ing $1 per week and his board. After two years 
 he secured another position that paid him $7 per 
 week, although, being obliged to board himself, 
 the profit was not large. A year was spent there, 
 after which he went into a larger establishment 
 to complete his trade, and later he was employed 
 as a journeyman for some six years. In 1881 he 
 came to Denver and for several j-ears worked as a 
 journeyman, but in 1888 started in business for 
 himself and two years later with S. B. Leonard 
 established the shop which they have since con- 
 ducted. The company engages in the manu- 
 facture and sale of harness, saddles and bicj-cles, 
 and carries on a trade amounting to more than 
 $100,000 per annum. 
 
 In 1882, in Denver, Mr. Scheck married Miss 
 Anna Hennekes, with whom he had become ac- 
 quainted in Cincinnati, her birthplace. Like 
 himself, she was of German parentage and pos- 
 sessed the energy and thrift characteristic of that 
 people. At her death, which occurred in 1892, 
 she left two children, Herbert and Laura. The 
 preseiit wife of Mr. Scheck, with whom he was 
 united in 1894, bore the maiden name of Mary 
 Fenger, and was born in Cincinnati, but formed 
 
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 585 
 
 the acquaintance of Mr. Scheck in Denver. Two 
 children bless this union, Raymond and Ralph. 
 In matters political Mr. Scheck has never given 
 his allegiance to either of the prominent political 
 parties, but maintains an independence of opinion 
 that finds expression in a ballot cast for the man 
 he deems best qualified for a position of trust and 
 responsibility. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Colorado Lodge No. i, K. of P. 
 
 HON. HIRAM PRINCE. Few of the farmers 
 and stock- rai.sers of the Boulder Valley have 
 been more successful than Mr. Prince, and 
 certainly none has exerted a greater or more 
 wholesome influence upon the citizenship of the 
 county. Life with him has been eventful; its 
 experiences many and thrilling, but its twilight 
 is being passed tranquilly in preparation for the 
 eternal reunion with loved ones gone before. 
 Among his fellow-citizens he has always been 
 popular; and when, in 1880, trouble arose in the 
 division of the water for irrigation purposes, 
 many men some distance down the creek who had 
 prior water rights being unable to get water, as 
 it was taken out of the ditch before it reached 
 them, a petition was gotten up and, with four 
 hundred names attached, was taken by J. P. 
 Maxwell to the governor, asking to have Mr. 
 Prince appointed water commissioner, the people 
 feeling that their troubles would be satisfactorily 
 settled if placed in his hands. He served accept- 
 ably in this position for five years. For three 
 years he was justice of the peace. In 1885, on 
 the Republican ticket, he was elected by a large 
 majority to represent the people in the state 
 legislature; again, in 1889, he was returned to 
 the lower house, during which term he was made 
 chairman of the committee on state institutions 
 and took an active part in regulating and remedy- 
 ing abuses in these institutions. 
 
 A native of Mobile, Ala. , Mr. Prince was one 
 of three children born to John and Mary (Cooper) 
 Prince. When about ten years of age he ran 
 away from home and shipped aboard a schooner 
 for New York City, there meeting parties who 
 were looking for sailors to man a whaling 
 schooner. He secured employment with them 
 and was sent to Stonington, Conn., where he 
 shipped on board the barque ' ' George. ' ' After 
 a trip of some eighteen months, when the vessel, 
 
 loaded with eighteen hundred barrels of oil and 
 a supply of bone, was on its journey home from 
 the Arctic, at the Hawaiian Islands he ran away 
 and boarded the barque "Croton," bound for 
 New Bedford, notwithstanding the fact that he 
 had more than $400 coming to him from the cargo 
 of the " George." The " Croton " encountered 
 a terrific storm at latitude 76 and the ship was 
 dismantled; finally, however, he arrived at New 
 Bedford on board a schooner. 
 
 After some years Mr. Prince shipped on board 
 a barque as second mate and made several trips 
 between Boston and New Orleans, after which he 
 shipped as second mate of a schooner bound for 
 the Sierre Leone Islands on the coast of Africa. 
 He made two trips on the schooner, during the 
 first of which every man on board came down 
 with the African fever and many perished. He 
 fell a victim to the disease, as did also the captain 
 and the first mate, and the latter was left blind. 
 After his second trip he returned to New York, 
 in poor health. He went to Mobile, Ala., where 
 he secured work on a lighter. Later a better 
 position opened for him and he became master of 
 a sloop, but his health was still poor and the work 
 was too much for his debilitated system. He 
 contracted yellow fever, on his recovery from 
 which he became cook on a wrecking steamer 
 that was raising railroad rails from a barge 
 wrecked some time before. While working in 
 this capacity, he was granted the privilege of 
 acting as a diver and during the six weeks he 
 spent in diving, he found five corpses that had 
 gone down with the wreck. His next employ- 
 ment was at steamboating on the Tombigbee and 
 Alabama Rivers in the cotton trade, for which he 
 received $90 per month. A few months later he 
 was stevedoring at Mobile. 
 
 At last, with several hundred dollars in his 
 pocket, Mr. Prince concluded to go to St. Louis 
 and, with a companion, he took passage on one 
 of the large steamers of the Mississippi. The 
 good time they had while on board the ship was 
 expensive, and left them with but twenty-five 
 cents apiece on arriving in St. Louis. Here Mr. 
 Prince secured employment fitting up the "Polar 
 Star," and when his work was finished he was 
 made second mate. When the boat left Boone- 
 ville, however, he was dissatisfied and left, going 
 to the lead mines in the southwestern part of 
 Missouri. From there he accompanied some 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 traders on an expedition among the Osage and 
 Comanche Indians, and during that time met 
 with many thrilling adventures. He made two 
 trips of this kind, then began to work for a black- 
 smith, who gave him a set of tools for a horse 
 and bridle, and for many nights, after his em- 
 ployer had retired to rest, he remained at work, 
 anxious to acquire a thorough knowledge of the 
 trade. Soon he secured work with another em- 
 ployer who was a finished mechanic, and it was 
 not long before he became an adept at all kinds of 
 iron work. Some three years later his employer 
 left and he married the latter' s daughter and 
 continued the blacksmith's business at the old 
 stand. Prosperity attended him and he bought 
 two hundred and twenty acres, which he farmed 
 in connection with work at his trade. 
 
 Seven years after his marriage to Miss Helen 
 M. Lindsay, which occurred in 1856, Mr. Prince 
 started across the plains for Colorado. Arriving 
 in Denver, he filled a government contract to put 
 up hay and various other things. The next year, 
 1864, he bought an interest in the Files House 
 and began as a hotel keeper. However, he 
 objected to the business on account of the bar in 
 connection with the hotel, so he sold out and 
 took a contract to put up two hundred tons of 
 hay at $40 a ton; Indian troubles prevented him 
 from filling his contract. In 1865 with another 
 man, he bought a blacksmith shop, of which he 
 later became the sole proprietor, and followed 
 wagon making and blacksmithing. He made the 
 first omnibus in Denver, which was sold for $2,700. 
 About that time troubles arose between the 
 colored and white children, and his opinions were 
 asked; on giving them, they were found to be so 
 practical that he was placed on the school board 
 by a majority of fifty to one. " Little do the chil- 
 dren now in Denver realize how much they owe 
 to Mr. Prince. Through his broad views on 
 educational matters he became one of the well- 
 known men of the city. When the school funds 
 ran low he kept the school open by leaving his 
 shop and giving his time to the circulation of a 
 subscription list, to which men of all classes con- 
 tributed when asked by him to do so. He justly 
 deserves the title of "Father" of the Denver 
 schools. In addition to his other work in behalf 
 of children, he opened a Sunday-school independ- 
 ent of any church. This project was frowned 
 upon by some, who believed it would not succeed 
 
 unless carried on under the auspices of the church; 
 but the school grew constantly until the capacity 
 of the building was taxed to its utmost. He took 
 the first excursion of school children out of Den- 
 ver to Greeley and Fort Collins, hiring a train of 
 palace cars for the occasion. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Prince bought a trust deed for 
 forty acres of land, which was on the corner on 
 the Larimer street bridge. His health failing, 
 he turned his attention to the stock business. In 
 1870 he sold that property and coming to the 
 Boulder Valley settled down to farming and 
 stock-raising. Here he has prospered and after 
 giving each of his six children eighty acres he 
 still retains two hundred and forty acres in his 
 home farm. His sons, Frank, Louis L., John 
 H. and Clarence E., are prosperous farmers, and 
 his daughters, MoUie, Mrs. Alphonso Schofield, 
 and Emma, Mrs. Elmer Schofield, are living in 
 this locality, where their husbands are progress- 
 ive farmers. 
 
 This sketch would be incomplete were not 
 mention made of Mrs. Prince. Whatever of suc- 
 cess has come to Mr. Prince, he owes in no 
 small degree to his wife. In early life he en- 
 countered hardships and made many unfortunate 
 ventures, but after he was blessed by the counsel 
 and co-operation of his wife, prosperity came to 
 him and whatever he undertook was crowned 
 with success. She was a broad-minded woman, 
 with keen insight and an intuition that was rarely 
 equalled. When death claimed her, February 21 , 
 1898, Mr. Prince received the greatest blow of 
 his whole life. He had encountered adversity 
 with a brave heart, but this bereavement dark- 
 ened his life and brought an unconquerable sor- 
 row to his heart. He is blessed by the afiection 
 of his sons and daughters, who have endeavored, 
 as far as possible, to alleviate his sorrow and, by 
 loving care, render his loss less difficult to bear. 
 
 QETER MAHLER, who owns and occupies 
 y!^ a farm of one hundred and twenty acres 
 M^ near Littleton, was born February 22, 1852, 
 in Miedesheim, Lower Alsace, now a part of 
 Germany. He is the son of George and Cath- 
 erine (Martin) Mahler, whose family consisted of 
 seven sons and two daughters, all still living but 
 two of the sons. They are as follows: Catherine, 
 wife of Jacob Siegefried, a farmer of Phafienhofien, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 587 
 
 Lower Alsace; John, who is engaged as a farmer 
 in Engweiler, Lower Alsace; Margaret, wife of 
 Michael Dorer, who is a barber in Orange, N. J. ; 
 Peter, of this sketch; Philip, who farms the old 
 homestead in Alsace; and Henry, who is an agri- 
 culturist in Kent County, Ontario. The farm 
 where Philip lives has been in the family for a 
 number of generations. There the father of our 
 subject was born in 18 15, and there he died in 
 1894, having devoted his active years to the culti- 
 vation of the homestead. He was a member of 
 the Lutheran Church and was highly respected 
 for his integrity and upright character. His 
 wife, who like himself was a consistent member 
 of the Lutheran Church, was born in Engweiler, 
 Alsace, in 1822, and died in 1887; she was a 
 daughter of Jacob Martin, a farmer of Engweiler, 
 where his ancestors had resided for many genera- 
 tions. 
 
 It was the universal custom in Alsace for the 
 boys to learn a trade, but our subject, not wish- 
 ing to be bound out as an apprentice, asked his 
 father to give him the money that his apprentice- 
 ship would require, and allow him to come to 
 America. His father consented, and accordingly, 
 March 20, 1867, the fifteen-year-old lad took 
 passage on the steamer ' 'Cele, ' ' bound from Havre 
 to New York. After a rough and stormy voy- 
 age of twenty-two days he landed in New York, 
 from which city he went at once to London, On- 
 tario, and from there to Delaware, Ontario, where 
 lived an older brother. 
 
 Among the farmers of that locality Mr. Mahler 
 secured employment, remaining there until the 
 spring of 1872, when his health being poor he 
 determined to seek a home in a more congenial 
 climate. For that reason he came to Colorado. 
 After his arrival he hired out by the month to 
 different farmers in Arapahoe and Douglas Coun- 
 ties. In 1884 he pre-empted a homestead claim 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, two miles south 
 of his present home, and for five years he re- 
 mained on that place, reaping the benefits of his 
 personal labor. In 1889 he sold the property for 
 a good sum, and at the same time purchased his 
 present farm, from which he sold forty acres in 
 1 891, leaving it one hundred and twenty acres. 
 He devotes his attention to the cultivation of the 
 property, the value of which has been greatly 
 enhanced by the improvements he has placed 
 on it. He has never taken part in politics and 
 
 does not ally himself with any party, voting for 
 the men whom he considers will best represent 
 the people. 
 
 March 27, 1890, Mr. Mahler married Mrs. 
 Eva C. (Erickson) Johnson. No children have 
 been born of this union, but three boys are given 
 a home by Mr. Mahler, one of them being Fred A. 
 Johnson, a son of his wife by her former mar- 
 riage, while the other two are orphans, Albert 
 and Arvid Erickson, sons of a deceased brother 
 of Mrs. Mahler. 
 
 G\ A. CLOUGH, M. D., who is a well-known 
 Ll physician and surgeon of Denver, and has 
 I I his office at No. 1349 California street, was 
 borti in Folsomdale, Wyoming County, N. Y., 
 March 21, 1859, and is a son of Nathan and 
 Electa Louisa (Rice) Clough. His father, who 
 was born on the old family homestead in Wyoming 
 County, made farming his life work and passed 
 the years of active manhood upon the place 
 where he was born, superintending the im- 
 provement of the place and the cultivation of the 
 land. 
 
 At the age of nineteen, having previously ob- 
 tained a fair education, our subject began to teach 
 in the school near his father's home. In 1879 
 he entered Griffith Institute, Springville, Erie 
 County, N. Y., where he completed two years' 
 work in one year, and was thus enabled to be- 
 gin his collegiate course in the fall of 1880. He 
 remained for four years as a student of Hamilton 
 College, Clinton, N.Y., from which he graduated 
 with the class of 1884, receiving the degree 
 of A. B. All of the expenses connected with 
 his college course he had himself defrayed, 
 doing any kind of work that offered itself in 
 order that he might obtain the desired education. 
 After having completed his literary education 
 he entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Niagara at Buffalo, N. Y., and spent 
 one year there. His mother had died of con- 
 sumption and his own lungs were weak, so, fear- 
 ing that he might inherit the disease that had 
 carried his mother away, he deemed it best to 
 seek a more salubrious climate. In 1885 he 
 came to Colorado, since which time he has made 
 his home in this state. March 27, 1884, he 
 married Miss Lela Barker, of Clinton, N. Y., 
 daughter of Col. Henry Barker. They were the 
 parents of one child, Aenona. 
 
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 Soon after removing to Colorado Dr. Clough 
 entered the medical department of the Univer.sity 
 of Denver, from which he graduated in 1886, 
 with the degree of M. D. He at once went to 
 Morrison, this state, to enter upon practice, and 
 had the unusual experience of being called into 
 service on the dayof his arrival. Heremained there 
 about a year and built up an excellent practice, 
 but believing Denver to be a much more preferable 
 location he returned to this city. Here for seven 
 years he was associated in practice with Dr. 
 Steadman, and afterwards was in partnership 
 with Dr. A. R. Seebass for three years, since 
 which time he has practiced alone. The degree 
 of A. M. was conferred upon him by his alma 
 mater. His second marriage occurred Septem- 
 ber 6, 1893, an^l united him with Miss Grace 
 Neely, daughter of Col. Floyd Neely, of West 
 Virginia. 
 
 Dr. Clough is a member of the county and 
 state medical societies, as well as of the American 
 Medical Association and the American Academy 
 of Medicine, and has attended and participated 
 in the work of several conventions, and is also 
 connected with the Alumni Association of the 
 Denver University. He was reared in the Re- 
 publican faith. In 1889 he was appointed com- 
 missioner of health for the city of Denver by the 
 mayor, Wolfe Londoner, and held the position 
 for two years. He is a man of inventive turn of 
 mind, and possesses the faculty of devising needed 
 improvements. Seeing the great necessity for a 
 street sweeper that will clean the streets while 
 dry, he in 1896 began to study out a model, in 
 the construction of which he was finally success- 
 ful, and a patent has been applied for. In this 
 work he is in partnership with H. H. Call, who 
 is a skilled mechanic of Denver. 
 
 (TOHN W. WALKER, who for years resided 
 I upon a ranch situated on section 34, town- 
 O ship 5, range 65, Weld County, removed in 
 August, 1898, to Delta, Delta County, Colo., 
 where he now lives in retirement from life's active 
 labors. He is a man of excellent character, re- 
 tiring in disposition and unobtrusive in manner, 
 but known for his honesty and integrity, and one 
 who numbers many friends among his associates. 
 In Chester District, S. C, Mr.Walker was born 
 in September, 1824, a son of John and Elizabeth 
 
 (Hood) Walker, natives respectively of County 
 Antrim, Ireland, and South Carolina. His father, 
 who accompanied his parents to this country about 
 1778, located in South Carolina, where he re- 
 mained for many years. In 1835 he removed 
 to Illinois, where he engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising, and spent the remainder of his life. 
 In politics he affiliated with the Democrats. His 
 death occurred in 1854, when he was eighty-seven 
 years of age. Of his eleven children, only two 
 are living, John W. and Thomas, of Orange, Cal. 
 The wife and mother died in Illinois when fifty- 
 four years of age. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch was about ten 
 years of age his parents removed to Illinois and 
 in that state his boyhood days were passed. 
 When a boy he attended school held in an old 
 log building, destitute of the equipments now 
 considered so essential to a school. After grow- 
 ing to manhood, he carried on a farm with his 
 brother Thomas, making a specialty of raising 
 cattle. In 1866 ill health forced him to abandon 
 all active participation in business. The follow- 
 ing year he and his brother came to Colorado, 
 arriving at Evans June 14, 1872. After a short 
 time his brother returned to Illinois, but he 
 remained, and, with the cattle he had brought 
 with him, embarked in the stock business. In 
 1873 he tocjk up as a homestead his present farm 
 and during the same year built a house, his 
 sisters, Jane and Margaret, joining him here and 
 making his home theirs until they died. During 
 his first six years on the ranch he made a specialty 
 of stock. In 1878 he formed a company and 
 constructed the Union ditch, which was completed 
 about 1882. For several years he served as 
 treasurer of the company. He also bought stock 
 in the Old Colony Ditch Company, built by the 
 Massachusetts colony. Since irrigating his land, 
 he has carried on general farm pursuits. Stock- 
 raising, however, has formed his principal indus- 
 try, and at one time he had two hundred head of 
 cattle and forty horses, but later sold most of his 
 stock, retaining only forty head of cattle and one 
 horse. His four hundred and sixty acres of land 
 are well improved and all under water, making 
 them responsive to cultivation. 
 
 Politically Mr. Walker is active in the local 
 ranks of the Republican party, which ticket he 
 has voted continuously since the party was or- 
 ganized. His sisters were members of the 
 
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 Reformed Presbyterian Church and active in 
 religious work. Both continued to reside with 
 their brother until they died, Jane on the 14th of 
 November, 1897, at the age of seventy- nine, and 
 Margaret in May, 1892, at the age of sixty-four. 
 A brother, James, also resided here until his 
 death, July 27, 1898, at the age of seventy-seven. 
 The four lived happily together for twenty-five 
 years, and were a congenial, united family. 
 After their death, and feeling the care of the 
 farm too much for his strength, Mr. Walker 
 retired from active cares and removed to Delta, to 
 pass his remaining years in retirement. 
 
 pCJlLLlAM H. MCCARTHY arrived in Den- 
 \ A/ ver September 15, 1876, having come 
 V Y from Chicago on the Kansas Pacific road, 
 via Atchison. On his arrival here he found that 
 but little work had been done in the line of his 
 trade, plumbing. He at once sought employ- 
 ment in his chosen occupation and secured a po- 
 sition with Brown & Kiefer, with whom he en- 
 gaged until 1879. Later for four years he was 
 foreman of their work in this city. Meantime he 
 organized the Journeyman Plumbers' Union and 
 was its president at the time of the strike in 1879. 
 Foreseeing trouble, and not wishing to have any 
 difficulty with his employers, he resigned his 
 position in the shop. He had no trouble in se- 
 curing other work and for six months had charge 
 of the plumbing in the Windsor hotel, represent- 
 ing the Chicago firm of Sanders Brothers, in 
 whose employ he had been before coming west. 
 Later he did the plumbing work in Senator Hill's 
 house. About this time he was sent for by 
 Brown & Kiefer, who offered him the position of 
 foreman. He accepted and continued with them 
 for four years, when he resigned in order to en- 
 gage in business for himself. 
 
 Forming a partnership with Henry Suess, Jr., 
 under the firm title of McCarthy & Suess, our 
 subject located on Champa street. After two 
 years he bought his partner's interest and after- 
 ward carried on the business at No. 1621 Champa 
 street, continuing to take contracts for plumb- 
 ing until the fall of 1897, when he was injured 
 by an accident that for some time prevented him 
 from looking after his business interests. Among 
 his contracts were those for the upper story of 
 the county courthouse, the county hospital and 
 
 the remodeling of the county jail, the sanitary 
 condition of which is now equal to that of any 
 prison in the country. He built his residence at 
 No. 2439 Emerson street and has built other 
 houses in different parts of the city. 
 
 Mr. McCarthy was born in one of the southern 
 counties of Ireland and was brought to America 
 when a child by his parents, Patrick and Margaret 
 (Grady) McCarthy, who settled in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and remained in that city until death. He 
 was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati. 
 In April, i860, he was apprenticed to the 
 plumber's trade and continued at that for a year, 
 when, at the opening of the war, he enlisted 
 with a company of volunteers and went into 
 camp at Camp Clay, Cincinnati. The Ethan 
 Allen Continental, a military company of which 
 he was a member, volunteered in Company D, 
 First Kentucky Infantry, a regiment that was 
 raised in Cincinnati, for three months' service. 
 Before being mustered in, a call came for three 
 years' men, and he enlisted for that time in Com- 
 pany H, Thirty-fourth Ohio Infantry, which was 
 mustered in July 23, 1861, at Camp Olive Grove, 
 near Batavia, Ohio. He was ordered to Camp 
 Dennison and was commissioned sergeant and 
 assigned to service in West Virginia. In the fall 
 of 1862, after the battle of Charleston, there was 
 skirmishing for several days during the retreat 
 along the Kanawha Valley, during which time 
 he was wounded in the right temple, on a line 
 with the right eye. For months afterward he 
 was obliged to remain in the Gallapolis hospital, 
 but finally recovered sufficiently to return home. 
 On account of the gunshot wound he was hon- 
 orably discharged from service in December, 
 1862. 
 
 It was more than two years before he was able 
 to engage in any work. In 1864 he returned 
 to his former employer, with whom he continued 
 his apprenticeship. In 1869 he came west to 
 Omaha, Neb., and spent a year at his trade, 
 working on the line of the Union Pacific as far 
 west as Rawlins, Wyo. The next year he went 
 to St. Paul, Minn., and worked at his trade 
 there and in Minneapolis. Two months after the 
 great Chicago fire of 1871, he went to that city, 
 thence went to Rock Island, 111., in the spring of 
 1872, where he was employed on the government 
 works on the island until October of that year. 
 He then visited Cincinnati , where he was married 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 October 6, 1872, to Miss Ellen McGee, who is of 
 Irish descent. During the same month he re- 
 turned to Chicago, from which city he removed 
 to Denver. 
 
 At one time Mr. McCarthy was president of 
 the Master Plumbers' Association, which he 
 represented as delegate to the national conven- 
 tion in Chicago, in 1887, and was also a delegate 
 to the convention held in Denver in 1890, when 
 he was elected sergeant-at-arms. He is a mem- 
 ber of Lincoln Post, G. A. R., and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. Besides his other 
 interests, he is connected with some mining com- 
 panies and is president of a stage line gold min- 
 ing company, that has opened up work along 
 West Creek, Colo. 
 
 By his own unaided efforts Mr. McCarthy has 
 made a success of life. The city of Denver is in- 
 debted to just such men as he, whose pluck, 
 thrift and courage enabled her to outrank all 
 other cities of the great west. He has a host of 
 fiiends. His work in his line of business is a 
 monument to his ability as a thorough mechanic 
 and business man. Politicallj' he has been iden- 
 tified with the Democratic party, but is thorough- 
 ly independent, preferring the man to the party 
 at all times. 
 
 WILLIAM L. SCOTT is the proprietor of a 
 fine fruit farm of twenty-four acres, sit- 
 uated near the county-seat of Boulder 
 County. He became the owner of the land, by 
 purchase, some thirteen years ago, since which 
 time he has made wonderful improvements and 
 changes on the place. He planted and set out 
 all of the splendid large orchards, comprising 
 various kinds of fruit, suitable to this climate, 
 and with constant care and judicious irrigation, 
 has brought them to their present fine condition. 
 He is a practical farmer, having had a life-time of 
 experience, and even the ver}- different methods 
 employed by the tiller of Colorado soil were soon 
 mastered by him. In every sense of the word he 
 is self-made and self-educated, and the success 
 which he has wrought out is therefore greatly to 
 his credit. His multitudinous friends enjoy his 
 victories over circumstances and unite in heart- 
 ily wishing him even better fortune in the future. 
 Born in Washington County, Pa., July 12, 
 1833, Mr. Scott is a son of John and Nancy (Gil- 
 more) Scott, who were likewise natives of that 
 
 county. The father, whose birth occurred iu 
 1809, shortly after his marriage removed to 
 Beaver County , Pa. , where he passed the rest of his 
 life. He lived to the ripe age of eighty -six years, 
 dying in 1895. His first wife died in 1851 and 
 later he wedded Ellen Stansbury, of West Vir- 
 ginia. The five children of this marriage are all 
 living and are named as follows: Mack M., 
 Joseph L. , Leonides H., Ellsworth L. and 
 Charles. Of the three children of the first mar- 
 riage our subject and brother, Samuel F. , of 
 Beaver County, Pa., survive. 
 
 Reared to early manhood on his father's farm, 
 young Scott had but limited advantages in an 
 educational way, as he worked on the homestead 
 much of the year and in the spring and winters 
 frequently was employed on coal-barges on the 
 river. In 1854 ^^^ started out toward the west, 
 with its promise of better things to the ambitious 
 and enterprising. He landed in Davenport, 
 Iowa, on Sunday morning, April 14. He had 
 but fifty cents in the world available and half of 
 that went for his breakfast. He bravely started out 
 into the country, hoping to find work of some 
 kind, and, after walking fourteen miles, arrived 
 at Le Claire, where he secured a place to take 
 care of a very sick man. This man died two 
 days later, and Mr. Scott had to look for other 
 means of earning a livelihood. For a year or 
 two he was employed at one thing and another, 
 whereby he might earn an honest dollar, and 
 then he settled down to farming. He was thus 
 occupied in that vicinity for twelve years, after 
 which he went to Story County and five years 
 later to Poweshiek County. Up to 1879 he de- 
 voted himself entirely to agriculture, with fair 
 success. Then, coming to Colorado, he em- 
 barked in mining enterprises in Gilpin County. 
 In the fall of 1885 he came to Boulder County 
 and in the following spring bought his fruit farm, 
 then but little improved. In 1895 and 1896 he 
 was the official inspector of fruit for Boulder 
 County, as he is now considered an authority on 
 this subject, to which he has devoted so much 
 attention and study. Fraternally he is associated 
 with Boulder Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F. His 
 right of franchise he uses in favor of the Repub- 
 lican party. 
 
 The companion of all his joys and sorrows for 
 the past forty- two years was before their mar- 
 riage Miss Minerva Glass, a native of Hollidays- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 burg, Pa. The worthy couple were married in 
 Scott County, Iowa, March 30, 1856. Their 
 daughter, Mary A., is the wife of D. E. Hayward, 
 of Boulder, and the mother of three girls and a 
 boy. WiUiani T., the son, is engaged in min- 
 ing in Gilpin County. He is married and has a 
 son and daughter. In religion Mr. and Mrs. 
 Scott are Baptists, and hold membership with 
 the Boulder Church of that denomination. 
 
 3 AMES J. COOKE, who has made his home 
 in Denver since Maj' of 1880, was born in 
 County Cork, Ireland, in 1856, and is the 
 youngest son of William Cooke, a contractor and 
 stone mason in that country. Reference to the 
 family history will be found in the sketch of his 
 brother John, upon another page. He received 
 a fair education in the model government school 
 in his native county, spending the winter 
 months in study, while the summer months were 
 devoted to the stone-mason's trade. Under the 
 instruction of his father, he became familiar with 
 every department of the trade and followed it, 
 not only in Ireland, but also in England, where 
 he was called to fill contracts. 
 
 Coming to America in 1878, Mr. Cooke spent 
 two years in Elmira, N. Y., where he followed 
 his trade. His firstjob in this country was as fore- 
 man of the stone work in the Soldiers' Home at 
 Bath, N. Y. In 1880 he came to Denver, where 
 he was employed by his brother, John, and others, 
 being foreman a part of the time. In 1887 he be- 
 came a partner of William Duthie under the firm 
 name of Cooke & Duthie, but after a year this 
 connection was dissolved, and he bought a half 
 interest in the contracting business of his brother, 
 John, having charge of the buildings erected by 
 them. At one time he had ten millions of brick 
 to lay, having the contracts for the Ernest & 
 Cranmer and Boston buildings, the county jail 
 and Mack block, and after these were completed 
 he had paper mill jobs, schoolhouses and resi- 
 dences. The partnership, was dissolved in 1894, 
 since which time he has been alone in business. 
 
 In Ireland Mr. Cooke married Miss Maggie 
 O'Leary, who was born in County Cork, the 
 daughter of Mortimer and Margaret O'Leary. 
 Her father was engaged in the shoe business in 
 Ireland, but died in Boston within a year after 
 coming to America. The mother still lives in 
 
 that city. Mr. and Mrs. Cooke reside at No. 25 16 
 Franklin street. They are the parents of eight 
 living children, namely: James A., who assists 
 his father in business; John, Ella, Paul, Francis, 
 Margaret, Monica and Leo. 
 
 While in Ireland Mr. Cooke was engaged in 
 the construction of government works, .some of 
 which were very difficult, and in this way he 
 gained a thorough knowledge of his trade. Much 
 of his work in Colorado has been of a most im- 
 portant and diflScult character, notable among 
 which may be mentioned the construction of the 
 Grant smelter smoke stack. In 1896 he had the 
 contract for the erection of business blocks in 
 Pueblo, the following year erected three buildings 
 on the university grounds at Boulder, and also 
 had the contract for the Consumptives' Home in 
 Highlands. In the Brick Contractors and Man- 
 ufacturers' Association he is a member of the 
 board of arbitration, and at one time he was a 
 director in the Master Builders' Association. In 
 his views he is liberal and in political opinions 
 independent. He is a Catholic in religion and is 
 corresponding secretary of Branch No. i, of the 
 Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association . 
 
 'HOMAS W. PAGE, who is interested in 
 the nursery business at Littleton, was born 
 in Louisiana, Pike County, Mo., October 2, 
 1 850, and is the sou of Thomas W. and Eli.za 
 (Stewart) Page. He was next to the youngest 
 of six children, of whom four are now living. 
 James M., the oldest of the sons, is connected 
 with the nursery owned by Stark Brothers in 
 Louisiana, Mo. ; William J. is a farmer in Lincoln 
 County, Mo.; and John W. is manager of an 
 orchard of one hundred and sixty acres for Messrs. 
 Kountze and Sheedy, of the Colorado National 
 Bank, having been formerly bridge builder for 
 the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad for several 
 years. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in Bedford 
 County, Va., August 10, 1808, and grew toman- 
 hood in his native place, but shortly after his 
 marriage he removed west and settled in Pike 
 County, Mo., purchasing one hundred and 
 seventy-five acres known as the Buffalo Knob 
 farm. Some five years prior to his death he re- 
 moved from there to Lincoln County, where he 
 afterwards made his home with his children. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 For years he was an elder in the Baptist Church, 
 and his life was so exemplary as to prove the 
 depth of his religious convictions. He passed 
 away August lo, 1872. 
 
 When our subject was seventeen years old his 
 mother died and the home was broken up, the 
 personal property being sold, and his father going 
 to Lincoln County. He and a younger brother 
 attended school in Louisiana for two years and 
 then he secured employment in a grocery, which 
 position he filled for four years. In 1874 he en- 
 tered the employ of Stark Brothers, proprietors of 
 a nursery, and learned the business in its every 
 detail, so that his services came to be very valu- 
 able. For years he was foreman of the nursery 
 in Louisiana, Mo. In 1888, when the firm de- 
 cided to purchase an orchard in Colorado, with a 
 view to one of the partnerspossibly locating here, 
 he was delegated to plant the trees and care for 
 the orchard. This caused him to remove to 
 Colorado, and he has since represented the firm 
 here, having charge of their nursery at Littleton. 
 In political belief he is a Democrat, but his 
 business afiairs engross his attention to such an 
 extent as to prevent his active participation in 
 political or tnunicipal affairs. 
 
 April 28, 1872, Mr. Page married Miss Mary 
 E. Haff, wlio,se father, Blan Haff, a Kentuckian, 
 removed to Bowling Green, Mo. , and for years 
 was a prominent merchant of that place, re- 
 moving finally from there to Louisiana, in the 
 same state. Mr. and Mrs. Page have had five 
 children, and of these four are living, namely: 
 William T., Edward W., Earl and Frank. 
 
 (S\ NDREW H. SMITH reached Denver May 
 T\ 25, i860, having made the journey from 
 /l Wisconsin, in company with his brother, 
 M. G., via Dubuque and St. Joseph, crossing the 
 Platte at Fort Kearney and reaching Denver 
 after a tedious trip of eight weeks. He has since 
 been connected with the mining and ranching 
 interests of Colorado. In 1884 he established his 
 home in Denver, where, until May, 1898, he re- 
 sided in Smith's terrace, a modern building 
 erected by himself on Twenty-sixth and Curtis 
 streets. He has erected houses in different parts 
 of the city, among them a commodious double 
 residence at Nos. 1 240-42 South Fifteenth street, 
 where he now resides. The summer months he 
 
 usually spends at his summer home, six miles 
 west of Denver on the road to Golden, where he 
 owns twenty acres, improved with a comfortable 
 cottage, and planted principally to fruit trees. 
 One of the attractions of the place is an artificial 
 lake that is stocked with fine perch. 
 
 In County Cavan, Ireland, Mr. Smith was born, 
 in the house where years before had occurred the 
 birth of his mother's father. He was the young- 
 est of the family, which consisted of three daugh- 
 ters and eight sons. His father, Peter Smith, who 
 was a stock dealer, brought the family to Amer- 
 ica in 1847 and settled in Franklin County, 
 N. Y., continuing in business at Malone until his 
 death at sixty-four years of age. Afterward the 
 widow and children removed to Madison, Dane 
 County, Wis. , and from there the mother came 
 to Colorado, where she died. 
 
 At the time the family came to America, Mr.. 
 Smith was four years of age. In 1855 ^^ accom- 
 panied his mother to Madison, Wis., where he 
 attended the university, earning his way by clerk- 
 ing in the morning and evening. In 1859 he 
 went to Louisiana and for a time worked on a 
 plantation near Vicksburg, but later engaged in 
 contracting. Shortly before the war began he 
 came north, and finding that his brother intended 
 to remove to the west, he decided to accompany 
 him. The two drove a team of horses from 
 Madison to Denver, and arriving in Colorado he 
 was one of the first to locate land on the Platte, 
 in what is now Weld County. He started a 
 ranch and embarked in the cattle business, also 
 gave considerable attention to the raising of horses, 
 of which he had as many as three hundred head 
 at one time. Among his horses was Viscount, of 
 Hambletonian, a half-brother to Goldsmith Maid; 
 he also raised Colorado Chief, a horse that be- 
 came noted for his speed. Some of his horses he 
 sold for $450 a span. He was known through- 
 out the state for his success in the raising of horses, 
 and at the starting of the Greeley colony he sup- 
 plied many of the men with their teams. He 
 used his own horses in the grading of the railroad 
 between Car and Fort Lupton, a distance of thirty- 
 five miles on the Denver Pacific. 
 
 In addition to his ranch on the Platte, Mr. 
 Smith pre-empted other tracts, among them one 
 hundred and sixty acres now included in Greeley; 
 also one hundred and sixty acres at Evans, where 
 he made his home until his removal to Denver, 
 
CARLOS GOVE. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 597 
 
 and of whose town council he was frequently 
 chosen president. At the time of the mining ex- 
 citement in Montana he drove to Virginia City, 
 where he engaged in freighting. He was present 
 at the hanging of the notorious Jim Slade by the 
 vigilance committee. In 1 864 he went to the head 
 of navigation at Fort Benton and from there 
 hauled baggage and provisions to Virginia City, 
 ferrj'ing the river by caulking the wagons and 
 swimming the stock. After an absence of a year 
 and a-half he returned to Colorado. In 1884 he 
 embarked in the live-stock business, buying stock 
 in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, and shipped the 
 herds to Denver, where he sold to packers and 
 butchers. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Smith married I<aura E. Lem- 
 mon, who was born in Illinois, but spent her girl- 
 hood in Colorado, her father, I. S. Lemmon, be- 
 ing an early settler and stockman of Weld County. 
 In the Association of Colorado Pioneers Mr. 
 Smith has been a director. For many years he 
 has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce 
 and Board of Trade. A Democrat in political 
 belief, he was at one time a member of the state 
 central committee. While residing in Weld 
 County he was chairman of conventions and 
 county committees and presided at the meeting 
 where occurred the discussion between Belford 
 and Patterson, both candidates for congress. He 
 is a self-made man, the architect of his own for- 
 tune. By industry, not by speculation, his prop- 
 erty has been accumulated. He is a pioneer in 
 the fullest sense of the word. 
 
 EARLOS GOVE, who has been in the west 
 ever since he joined the regular United 
 States arm)- on the frontier in 1837, arrived 
 in Denver June 11, i860, and remained for two 
 days in this city pending a decision as to his 
 future plans. Then, with his ox-team and six 
 wagons of groceries, he went to Lake Gulch, 
 where he cut down some trees and with the logs 
 built a room for his supplies, this being one of 
 the first stores in the place. Finding that he 
 needed more flour, he sent teams to Denver to re- 
 plenish his supply. October 3, i860, he sold the 
 goods and with his oxen returned to his former 
 home in Iowa. The next year he again came to 
 Colorado, but finding the cattle too slow, he used 
 mules, driving sixteen span with five wagons. 
 25 
 
 Again he went to Lake Gulch, to the log store 
 he had built the previous year, but finding the 
 competition too strong in the grocery business he 
 concluded to engage in the gun business. 
 
 In the fall of 1862 he started a gun .shop on the 
 corner of Sixteenth and Larimer streets, Denver, 
 later opened a branch store on Blake street, hav- 
 ing in both places $40,000 in goods. Afterward 
 he moved, his last location being on Blake and 
 Sixteenth streets. In 1884 he retired from busi- 
 ness. For years he was recognized as the best 
 shot in Denver, and even now advancing years 
 have not impaired the accuracy of his aim. He 
 has won scores of medals for skill with the gun, 
 among them the Fay and Creedmore medals, and 
 was recognized as the crack champion shot of the 
 territory. In matches he has won as much as 
 $1,000 at one time. 
 
 Mr. Gove was born in Wentworth, N. H., 
 April 19, 1817, the son of Enoch and Elsie 
 (Savage) Gove, natives of Wentworth andOrford, 
 N. H. His grandfather, Ebenezer Gove, who 
 was born in Seabrook, N. H. , and who was a 
 carpenter by trade, served in the Revolution, 
 carrying into battle a gun with a left-handed 
 lock made for his special use. He was a descend- 
 ant of one of two brothers, who came from Eng- 
 land and settled in southern New Hampshire, 
 but not being obedient to British rules, they were 
 taken back to their native land, where they were 
 tried and acquitted. One of the brothers died 
 there, but the other returned to New Hampshire. 
 Enoch Gove, who was a carpenter, lived on the 
 homestead farm until his death, at sixty-seven 
 years; his wife died when young. Their only 
 child, our subject, was reared in Wentworth and 
 at the age of sixteen, in 1833, .started out for him- 
 self, going to Cambridge, Mass., where he secured 
 employment in a brickyard at a salary of $9 per 
 month. The next year his wages were raised to 
 $16 and the third year to $25. Afterward he 
 served an apprenticeship of several years to the 
 gunsmith's trade in Boston. 
 
 When the First United States Cavalry was the 
 sole regiment of which our country could boast, 
 Mr. Gove enlisted in it in 1837, for three years. 
 During the preparations for the Seminole war 
 the Second United States Cavalry was organized. 
 He took part in that conflict with the Indians, 
 then was sent to Leavenworth, where he remained 
 until June, 1840, and was then mustered out as 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 sergeant. Soon afterward he was employed as 
 gunsmith in the Indian department of the gov- 
 ernment, and .was stationed at the Pottawattamie 
 agency, on the present site of Council Bluffs, for 
 four years. From there he went to St. Joseph, 
 Mo., which had less than a hundred inhabitants, 
 and remained there, engaged in the gun business, 
 until 1854, meantime making hundreds of guns 
 for the Indian department. Returning to Coun- 
 cil Bluffs in 1854, he found the country was rapidly 
 settling up, and he continued there for six years. 
 Meantime he became the owner of a farm of five 
 hundred acres near Glenwood, in Mills County, 
 Iowa, and he made his headquarters there until 
 he came to Colorado. 
 
 In i860 he outfitted at St. Joseph for his west- 
 ern trip. He had bought a stock of groceries in 
 St. Louis and shipped them to Plattsmouth,Neb., 
 and from that place he hauled the supplies, weigh- 
 ing about forty thousand pounds, in six wagons 
 drawn bj' eighteen yoke of oxen, via Fort Kear- 
 ney, and reaching Denver after thirty-seven days 
 of travel. As before stated, he located at Lake 
 Gulch, where he engaged in the grocery business. 
 On coming to Denver he opened a gunnery, 
 where he manufactured guns for the local trade 
 and for shipment to outlying points, having in 
 his employ seven men during busy times. He 
 built on Blake street and also erected residences 
 on Stout, between Fourteenth and Thirteenth 
 streets. During the Civil war he was out from 
 Denver in the various Indian campaigns. He is 
 the only man now living who was a member of 
 the United States Cavalry in 1837-40. In early 
 days he was president of the fire and police board 
 of Denver and bought the first steamer for the 
 department. While chairman of the sewer board 
 he superintended the laying of sewers in the city. 
 For six years he was a member of the city coun- 
 cil of Denver, and during four years of that time 
 served as its president. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Denver Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., 
 and Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Gove was a Miss Wood- 
 worth, of Illinois, who was the mother of Charles 
 Gove. After her death he married Miss Wood, 
 who was born in Illinois and died in Iowa, leav- 
 ing seven children: James and Oliver, who are 
 mining in the mountains; William, of Aspen, 
 Colo.; Burt, of San Antonio, Tex.; Belle, wife of 
 Mr. Pitsipous, secretary to the British consul to 
 
 Shanghai, China; Phoebe, Mrs. Frank Church, 
 of Denver; and John, who died at sixteen years. 
 The present wife of Mr. Gove was Mrs. Theresa 
 (Weeks) Stanley, who was born in Madison, 
 Wis., the oldest of five children, all yet living, 
 and was brought to Denver at the age of twelve 
 years. In Blackhawk she married Henry Stan- 
 ley, a merchant there, but later a miner at Marys- 
 ville, Cal., where he was accidentally killed. His 
 only child. May, died at five and one-half years. 
 By her present husband Mrs. Gove has one child, 
 Aileen Claire Gove. The Weeks family was 
 founded in America by Ricord Weeks, who was 
 born in Norway, became the owner of an ocean 
 vessel and died of cholera in St. Louis. Afterward 
 his wife, Mary C, was married to John Graves, 
 who was a lead miner in Wiscon.sin, but came to 
 Colorado in 1864 and engaged in mining until 
 his death, at forty-five years. Mrs. Graves was 
 born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and died in Den- 
 ver in 1895, aged seventj-- seven years. 
 
 . UGENE FARNY, who owns a stock and 
 ^ dairy farm in Arapahoe County, was born 
 ^ in St. Amarin, Alsace, Germany, February 
 4, 1855, ^ son of John Baptist and Mary Ann 
 (Clauser) Famy, natives of the same province. 
 His father, w^o has devoted his entire active life 
 to the shoemaker's trade, is still living in his 
 native land; his wife died in 1897, aged sixty-five 
 years. They were the parents of three sons and 
 three daughters, viz. : Eugene, our subject; Adolph, 
 who has been employed in the Colorado iron 
 works; Joseph, who remained in his native coun- 
 try; Mary, in Alsace; Rosalie, in Paris, France; 
 and Josephine, wife of Herman Zyser, who is a 
 baker on Champa street, Denver. 
 
 When only thirteen years of age the subject of 
 this sketch commenced to teach school in his 
 native country. During the Franco-Prussian war 
 he taught for five years and had sixty pupils under 
 his charge; and subsequently, when he was eight- 
 een years of age, in 1873, he sailed on a steamship 
 of the Red Star line, and on his arrival in this 
 country settled in Mercer County, Pa., where he 
 remained for two years. Returning to the old 
 country, he went to Paris and from there to 
 Switzerland, where for three years he was em- 
 ployed as bookkeeper. On his return to the 
 United States he came west to Colorado and en- 
 
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 gaged in mining for some time, after which he 
 was employed for two years as a teamster. 
 Since that time he has resided on his present 
 place. 
 
 In 1883, in Denver, Mr. Farny married Sophia 
 Gill, a native of Germany, whence she came to 
 the United States and first settled in St. Louis. 
 They are the parents of two sons and four daugh- 
 ters: Rosalie; Josephine, George, Anthony, Ber- 
 tha and Sophia. In politics Mr. Farny has been 
 a Democrat. He has served as a member of the 
 school board and has aided in promoting the wel- 
 fare of the local schools. When he settled on his 
 ranch it had no improvement except a small 
 stable and house, but under his supervision 
 buildings have been erected, improvements made 
 and a large dairy business established. The place 
 contains four hundred acres and is one of the best 
 improved in the county. 
 
 rSETER M AGNES, a pioneer of '59 and one 
 U' of the best-known men in Arapahoe County, 
 fD was born in Eksjo, Sweden, March 12, 1824. 
 He came to America in 1852 and settled in La- 
 Salle County, 111., where he was employed as a 
 farrier and veterinary surgeon for some years. 
 Crossing the plains at the time of the excitement 
 caused by the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak, 
 he arrived in Petersburg June i8, 1859. The 
 town was then a mere stretch of prairie land, 
 without houses or buildings of any kind. He 
 platted the land and laid out the village, where, 
 in 1874, he erected the Harvest Queen grist mill. 
 The enterpri.se proved a financial failure and he 
 soon abandoned it. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Magnes purchased his present 
 ranch of three hundred and fifty-nine acres, situ- 
 ated two miles southwest of Littleton, and in 1877 
 he removed to this place, where he has since re- 
 sided, though still retaining his landed interests 
 in Petersburg. He has been a prominent agri- 
 culturist and has received four silver and one gold 
 medal(the latter in 1871 at the State Fair of Colo- 
 rado), also many other premiums and valuable 
 rewards. In 1881 he married Miss Mary Young- 
 berg, a native of Sweden and an estimable lady, 
 who has been his faithful helpmate and com- 
 panion. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Magnes has been promi- 
 nent. In 1866 he was the nominee of both the 
 
 Republican and Democratic parties for the office 
 of county commissioner and received all the votes 
 in the entire county, serving from that year until 
 1869. In 1868 he purchased forty acres of land 
 on Broadway for the county, to be used for a poor 
 farm and hospital, paying for the same $300 out 
 of his private funds, but later this amount was 
 repaid by the county. Some years afterward the 
 same property sold for $26,000. In 1889 he was 
 nominated for county commissioner on a number 
 of tickets and was elected, serving until 1892. 
 Without doubt he gave as efficient service as 
 commissioner as the county has ever had. In 
 1890 he served four injunctions on other commis- 
 sioners for money voted for donations. During 
 the same year he was made chairman of the 
 finance committee and in 1891 served as chair- 
 man of the board of commissioners. During 1891, 
 after $6, 500 had been granted for eastern sufferers, 
 $500 in addition was allowed by other commis- 
 sioners, when he served an injunction on them, 
 thus stopping the matter here and in two other 
 districts. In the same year $385,000 was voted 
 for a courthouse, connected with the jail, but, 
 though his was the only dissenting vote, the 
 fact that he was chairman of the board caused the 
 court to sustain his objection. In all his work 
 he has been unselfish in his devotion to the in- 
 terests of the county and has striven to conserve 
 the public funds economically and wisely. For 
 this reason he deserves a place among the pro- 
 gressive, judicious citizens of Arapahoe County. 
 He is a Swedenborgian in religious belief, as is 
 also his wife. Both are well known to the older 
 residents of the county and highly honored for 
 their many good qualities of head and heart. 
 
 (TJAMUEL F. SHANNON, M. D., a success- 
 7\ ful practitioner of the school of homeopathy, 
 \zJ with office at No. 711 Seventeenth street, 
 Denver, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., July 15, 1857, 
 and is a son of William T. and Margaret F. 
 (Frew) Shannon. His grandfather, Robert Shan- 
 non, was born in County Down, Ireland, where 
 he spent his entire life. In the same place, in 
 1827, occurred the birth of William T. Shannon, 
 who crossed the ocean in 1843 ^"d secured em- 
 ployment as clerk in a dry-goods store in New- 
 castle, Pa., remaining there for four years. For 
 a short time he clerked for Thomas White &, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Brothers, in Pittsburg, after which he was with 
 Charles Arbuthnot for five years as an employe 
 and was then taken into partnership, remaining 
 a member of the firm for thirty years. His suc- 
 cess was the result of his energy and untiring 
 perseverance. At the time he landed in America 
 he had only $15, and his first year's salary was 
 only $50 and board and room, yet from that small 
 beginning he worked his way forward to a posi- 
 tion of influence as a business man and a financier. 
 At the time of his retirement he was well-to-do. 
 He is now a silent partner in a wholesale dry- 
 goods house in Pittsburg, the head of which is 
 his son, Robert F. 
 
 Politically Mr. Shannon was an adherent of 
 the Republican party, and in religious belief he 
 was connected with the United Presbyterian 
 Church. In Pittsburg, July 12, 1853, he married 
 Miss Frew, by whom he had six children, but 
 three of these died in infancy. The oldest child 
 is Robert F., of Pittsburg, who is married and 
 has five children. The only daughter is Eliza- 
 beth E., who, since the death of her mother in 
 1891, has affectionately cared for her father and 
 presided over his home. 
 
 After having completed the studies of the gram- 
 mar school, our subject in 1869 entered the high 
 school of Pittsburg, from which he graduated 
 with the class of '73, being one of ten who re- 
 ceived honors. In addition to the scientific and 
 philosophical studies, he took the languages and 
 became well versed in Latin and German. He 
 had a taste for the jewelry business and the 
 medical profession, but having an uncle who was 
 a physician he was influenced to enter that pro- 
 fession. He read for one year with Dr. J. C. 
 Burher and then entered the Hahnemann Medi- 
 cal College, Philadelphia, from which he gradu- 
 ated in 1879. He spent six months in Sewickley, 
 Pa., and then went to London, where he took 
 two full courses in the London School of Homeo- 
 pathy, carrying on hospital work at the same 
 time. After ten months in that city he returned 
 to the United States, in October, 1880, and opened 
 an office in Allegheny City, Pa. May 5, 1 881, he 
 married Miss Sue J. Murdock, daughter of H. J. 
 and Rachel V. (Hutton) Murdoch, and an estim- 
 able young lady, with whom he had been ac- 
 quainted ever since she was a child of seven 
 years. 
 
 After two years in Allegheny City, Dr. Shannon 
 
 returned to Sewickley April i, 1883, and there 
 continued to make his home, engaging in prac- 
 tice until March, 1889. He then came to Den- 
 ver and in this city has since carried on a general 
 practice, following the homeopathic school of 
 medicine. August 10, 1892, his wife died at 
 their old home in Sewickley, where he had taken 
 her a short time before, in the hope that, among 
 her old friends, she might regain her health. She 
 left two children, Hugh M., who was born in 
 Sewickley and is now thirteen years of age; and 
 Margaret F., who was born in Denver April 16, 
 1892. June 26, 1894, Dr. Shannon married Miss 
 S. Bertha Jacques, of Denver, who was born in 
 Newburg, N. Y., and is a daughter of Mrs. 
 Sarah E. Warner, of Denver. They have one 
 child, Kathleen, born March 4, 1897. 
 
 In politics Dr. Shannon is independent. He is 
 identified with Central Presbyterian Church and 
 an attendant at its services. He maintains an 
 interest in his profession and is devoted in his 
 allegiance to the particular school which he fol- 
 lows. In the sessions of 1892 and 1893 he held 
 the position of professor of materia medica in 
 Denver Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- 
 pital Association. In addition to frequent contri- 
 butions to medical journals, he has published a 
 book of five hundred and forty-four pages entitled 
 "A Repertory of the Tissue Remedies." He is 
 medical supervisor of Denver Orphans' Home. 
 He is connected with the American Institute of 
 Homeopathy and the International Hahnemann 
 Association, being one of the two physicians in 
 Colorado who are identified with the latter organi- 
 zation. 
 
 (lOHN L. BINNER, who resides near Little- 
 I ton, was born in Liverpool, England, Janu- 
 (2/ ary 11, 1869, the descendant of English 
 ancestors. His father, Edward Binner, was 
 foreman in Laird Brothers' shipbuilding yards at 
 Birkenhead, England, and assisted in the con- 
 struction of the ship "Alabama," but died when 
 he was still a young man. The son, being left 
 fatherless so early in life, was to a large extent 
 alone in the world and for this reason desired to 
 come to America. When he was eleven he 
 crossed the ocean. After his arrival in Colorado 
 he found a home with an uncle, John G. Lilley, 
 with whom he remained for two years. When 
 he began supporting himself he worked at any em- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ployment that was offered. After six years in 
 general work he turned his attention to mining, 
 and for five years engaged as a miner in Aspen, 
 Colo. He then went to Cripple Creek and estab- 
 lished what is now Beaver Park dairy. This he 
 stocked with seventy-five thoroughbred Hol- 
 steins. Success attended the enterprise, and he 
 still owns the dairy. 
 
 From Cripple Creek in 1898 Mr. Binner moved 
 to his present home in Arapahoe County, where 
 he settled upon a part of the Caley ranch. He 
 has gained many friends among the people in and 
 around Littleton, who respect him for the energy 
 he has shown in working his way up to success. 
 Fraternally he is a Chapter Mason, connected 
 with the lodge at Cripple Creek. He has never 
 identified himself with any political party, being 
 independent in his opinions. He was united in 
 marriage February 17, 1892, with Miss Minnie 
 M. Caley, an estimable lady, who shares with 
 him in the esteem of their neighbors and friends. 
 
 K^ATHANIELW. SAMPLE. Since 1871 Mr. 
 V^j Sample has been with the Denver & Rio 
 lis Grande Railroad in Denver, and his steady 
 advancement to positions of increasing impor- 
 tance proves the efficient and acceptable character 
 of his services. At the time he came west he ex- 
 pected to remain here but a short time, instead of 
 which he has remained a permanent resident, 
 identified with the growth and interested in the 
 progress of the city and state. He was made 
 general superintendent of the road January i, 
 1892, and has since held that responsible posi- 
 tion. 
 
 The Sample family is of remote Irish descent, 
 tracing its ancestry to John Sample, who with his 
 brother set sail from Ireland in 1680 and settled 
 in Peachbottom, York County, Pa., of which 
 he was a pioneer. From bim was descended 
 Rev. Nathaniel W. Sample, a native of York 
 County and a graduate of Princeton in 1752, 
 later pastor of the Leacock Presbyterian Church 
 in Lancaster County for forty years. Next in 
 line of descent was Nathaniel W. Sample, M. D., 
 who was born in York County, graduated from 
 the medical department of the University of 
 Pennsylvania, and afterward practiced his pro- 
 fession in Lancaster County until his death, at 
 eighty-six years. His son and namesake also 
 
 became a physician, graduating from Jefferson 
 Medical College and practicing in Lancaster 
 County until he died at thirty-two years of age. 
 In religious belief he was a Presbyterian. 
 
 The mother of our subject, Sarah Hamilton 
 (Steele) Sample, was born in Philadelphia, of 
 Scotch lineage, and died in Pennsylvania in 1893, 
 when seventy-four years old. She was a de- 
 scendant of Capt. William Steele, who was born 
 in Pennsylvania and accompanied the provincial 
 troops under Arnold to Quebec, having command 
 of a company that he had raised in the southern 
 part of Lancaster County. His son. Gen. John 
 Francis Steele, was a captain in the Revolution, 
 witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at York- 
 town and was later appointed major-general of 
 Pennsylvania state troops. Entering poHtics, he 
 received appointment as collector for the port of 
 Philadelphia, which he held for sixteen years. 
 He was also a director in the old United States 
 Bank of Philadelphia. He attained advanced 
 years and died in Philadelphia. His commis- 
 sion, signed by John Q. Adams, secretary of 
 state to George Washington, is now in the pos- 
 session of our subject. It is worthy of note that 
 both he and his father, the captain , studied for 
 the ministry, but abandoned it to take up arms, 
 the latter serving for some time in the regular 
 army, and after his resignation engaging in the 
 cultivation of a farm in Lancaster County until 
 his death at sixty-five years. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born near Gor- 
 donville, Lancaster County, Pa., August 14, 1843, 
 the same day and month on which were born his 
 father, grandfather and great-grandfather, all of 
 whom bore the same name. He was the second 
 of four children, the others being Jane, Mrs. C. 
 E. Long, who died in Lancaster in 1897; Mar- 
 garet, Mrs. S. C. Stewart, of Tyrone, Pa.; and 
 John, also a resident of Tyrone. When he was 
 eight years of age Nathaniel lost his father. He 
 was given fair educational advantages in the pub- 
 lic schools and Beck's Academy. In 1858 he 
 went to Philadelphia, where he was apprenticed 
 to the machinist's trade in the Baldwin Loco- 
 motive works, remaining there until some months 
 after the Civil war opened. 
 
 In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, 
 Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was mus- 
 tered in at Philadelphia, being assigned to the 
 Army of the Cumberland. During the Atlanta 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 campaign he was a non-commissioned ofiScer, 
 and afterward was commissioned first lieutenant 
 of his company by Governor Curtin. In Janu- 
 ary, 1865, he was appointed aide-de-camp on 
 the staff of Gen. W. J. Palmer, commanding 
 the First Brigade, First Cavalry, Military Divi- 
 sion of Mississippi. In July, 1865, he was mus- 
 tered out and honorably discharged at Nashville. 
 He then resumed his work as machinist in the 
 Baldwin shops, Philadelphia, where he remained 
 until 187 1. In that year he came to Denver with 
 three locomotives from the shops, which he was to 
 set up and start in the shops of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande, intending to return to Philadelphia as 
 soon as his work was ended. However, his plans 
 were changed and he remained with the Denver 
 & Rio Grande, becoming first foreman in the com- 
 pany's shops. In 1877 he was appointed master 
 mechanic and superintendent of machinery for 
 the company, which position he held until the 
 last of 1 89 1, and then resigned to become general 
 superintendent of the road. At the time that he 
 was superintendent of machinery the Denver & 
 Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western were under 
 one management, the line extending to Ogden. 
 He built the shop in Denver and that in Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Sample is a member of the Master Me- 
 chanics' Association of the United States and 
 Canada, and is also connected with the Society 
 of Colonial Wars and the Colorado Commandery 
 of the lyoyal l,egion. Politically he is a Repub- 
 lican and in religious belief a Presbyterian. His 
 first marriage united him with Miss Louisa Hoff, 
 of Philadelphia, who died six months later. In 
 August, 1890, in Denver, he was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Nellie Town, whose parents were 
 early settlers of Denver, coming from New York 
 state. They have three children, Nathaniel W., 
 Jr., William and Caroline Shopleigh. 
 
 (S\ LLISON STOCKER, member of the firm of 
 r I Stocker & Fraser and representative of the 
 / I fifteenth ward in the Denver city council, is 
 one of the well-known residents of Highlands. 
 In 1892 he was an alderman in that suburb and 
 the following year was the candidate on the Popu- 
 list ticket for mayor. In the spring of 1897 he 
 was elected alderman from the fifteenth ward, 
 which includes all of Highlands and Barnum. 
 
 Since becoming a member of the council he has 
 supported measures for the benefit of his constit- 
 uency. Among the important positions he has 
 filled while in the council is that of chairman of 
 the finance committee, water committee and 
 electric light and gas committees. 
 
 The first member of the Stocker family in 
 America was our subject's grandfather, who came 
 from Ireland and settled in Catawissa, Columbia 
 County, Pa. , where he engaged in farming until 
 his death. It is not known whether his son, 
 Matthews., was born in Ireland or Pennsylvania, 
 but if the former, he was brought to America in 
 infancy. He learned the carpenter's trade and 
 was a large contractor in St. Clair, Schuylkill 
 County, Pa. In 1879 he came to Colorado and 
 settled in Leadville, but his last days were spent 
 in Denver, where he died in November, 1884, at 
 the age of sixty years. His wife, who was born 
 in Mauch Chunk, Pa. , and resides in Denver, 
 bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Allison. Her 
 father, Joseph Allison, was born in England, but 
 came to America and settled in Mauch Chunk, 
 Pa., thence removed to St. Clair and became 
 superintendent of a colliery. He died about 1891, 
 when eighty -seven years of age. 
 
 In the family of Matthew S. Stocker there were 
 nine -children, but only four are now living. One 
 son, Alexander S., is with the Rio Grande & 
 Western Railroad in Salt Lake City; another son, 
 William, resides in Denver, which is also the 
 home of the only surviving daughter, Mrs. J. H. 
 G. Fraser. Allison Stocker was born in St. Clair, 
 Pa., in 1862, and received his education in that 
 place. Having learned the carpenter's trade, he 
 came to Colorado, in March, 1880, settling in 
 Leadville, where he worked at his trade and also 
 prospected. Two years later he came to Denver, 
 where, in 1888, he began contracting and build- 
 ing, and is now in partnership with John H. G. 
 Fraser, the firm having put up a large number of 
 buildings here. 
 
 Mr. Stocker is past master of Highlands Lodge 
 No. 86, A. F. &. A. M. He is a silver Demo- 
 crat and a member of the Jacksonian Democratic 
 Club. In religious connections he is identified 
 with the Boulevard Congregational Church in 
 Highlands, in which he is a chairman of the 
 board of trustees and has been president of the 
 Sunday Evening Club. His home at No. 2636 
 West Twentyrseventh avenue is presided over by 
 
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 his estimable wife, whom he married in Denver. 
 She was formerly Blanche Roerig and was born 
 in St. Clair, Pa., being a daughter of Henry 
 Roerig. The three children born of their union 
 are named, Jessie May, Harry Short and Ruth 
 Stocker. 
 
 HARRY NUTTING, cashier of the Bank of 
 Littleton and manager of the R. W. English 
 Lumber Company of Littleton, has taken 
 an active part in municipal affairs, contributing 
 to the commercial growth of the place and assist- 
 ing in the development of its resources. In 1892 
 he was chosen to occupy the office of town treas- 
 urer and has since served in this capacity. He 
 was largely instrumental in establishing the Little- 
 ton board of trade, which was organized April 7, 
 1892, and he held the office of secretary of the 
 board from that time until the dissolution of the 
 board in 1894. 
 
 Mr. Nutting was one of eight children, five of 
 whom are living: Burtis, who is married and has 
 one child; Drusilla and Rupert; Gladys, wife of 
 Charles H. Davis and mother of four children; 
 and Harry E. , who was born in Linn County, 
 Iowa, June 28, 1867. His father, Eugene Nutt- 
 ing, was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., 
 June 2, 1837, and at the age of twenty-four 
 removed to Marion, Iowa, where he married 
 Sarah Burtis. Soon afterward he settled upon a 
 farm, where he remained for a number of years. 
 In 1872 he migrated to Kansas and for eighteen 
 months made his home in Osborn City. From 
 there he came to Colorado and settled at Deer 
 Trail, Arapahoe County, fifty miles from Denver. 
 In 1880 he again removed, this time settling in 
 Silvercliff, where he spent some four years. Later 
 he located in Canon City, of which place he was 
 afterward a prosperous timber contractor. He 
 was a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and a guide of his lodge. In politics 
 he affiliated with the Republican party. He died 
 in Canon City March 6, 1898. 
 
 In the various removals of the family the sub- 
 ject of this sketch accompanied his parents. He 
 attended the public and high schools of Canon 
 City, but at the age of fourteen discontinued his 
 studies and began to earn his livelihood. For 
 some months his time was given to ranching, but 
 later he turned his attention to the lumber busi- 
 ness, in which he has since successfully engaged. 
 
 In 1 888 he accepted a position as bookkeeper for 
 R. W. English at Salida, where he remained for 
 one and one-half years, and then came to Little- 
 ton as manager for the R. W. English Lumber 
 Company, of this place. In 1892 the banking 
 business was opened up in connection with the 
 lumber trade, and on the first of March, 1896, 
 Mr. Nutting was made cashier of the bank, which 
 position he has since held, at the same time re- 
 taining the management of the lumber business. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Chapter 
 Masons, while in politics he votes the Republican 
 ticket, supporting the men and measures advo- 
 cated by his party. 
 
 ~DWARD BELL FIELD. Much has been 
 ^ written in praise of the glories of Colorado 
 ^ climate. Its beauties and its health-giving 
 qualities have made the state well known through- 
 out the entire world, and have attracted hither 
 people from every land, in the hope that the pure 
 air and fine climate ofthe mountain regions might 
 restore them to health. In the list of well-known 
 men of Denver who came west for their health 
 mention belongs to Mr. Field, who crossed the 
 country from Massachusetts, the victim of con- 
 sumption in its first stage. Naturally, since his 
 complete restoration to health, he is enthusiastic 
 regarding the climate of the west. Nor is he less 
 a believer in the future of Colorado as a commer- 
 cial center. With mining and stock-raising as 
 its principal and most profitable industries, with 
 a grand climate too, he feels that Colorado must 
 shortly become among the greatest states in the 
 galaxy of our country. 
 
 The Field family has been identified with the 
 history of America since an early period in the 
 existence of Massachusetts. From the original 
 home, Quincy, Mass., the descendants scattered 
 throughout New England, and one branch went 
 to Virginia. The father of the subject of this 
 article, James B. Field, was born in West New- 
 bury, Mass., and for years was manager of a 
 theater in Chelsea, but is now living retired, at 
 seventy-two years of age. His wife, who bore 
 the maiden name of Eliza Ann Bell, died about 
 i860, when thirty-three years of age. She, too, 
 was a member of a pioneer family of Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Ill Chelsea, Mass. , where he was born Septem- 
 ber 4, 1850, the subject of this article passed the 
 years of boyhood, alternating attendance at school 
 with the usual sports and employments of youth. 
 He was fifteen when he began to earn his own 
 livelihood. At the age of fifteen he entered a 
 wholesale woolen house in Boston, where, from 
 an unimportant position with small salary, he 
 worked his way, through diligence and perse- 
 verance, to a position of responsibility and trust. 
 Doubtless he would have been a resident of Bos- 
 ton to-day, had it not been for his health, which 
 failed so seriously that a change of climate was 
 rendered necessary. On coming to Denver, in 
 November, 1879, he at once began to improve in 
 health. In January, 1880, he secured employ- 
 ment as an operator with a telephone company 
 and while filling that place he spent his nights in 
 the study of electricity. After a year he was 
 promoted to be manager of the operating depart- 
 ment for the state of Colorado. In 1882 he was 
 appointed superintendent of the company and the 
 next year was made general manager, which po.si- 
 tion he still fills. He is also vice-president and 
 general manager of the Colorado Telephone and 
 Telegraph Company, which operates in New 
 Mexico, having been made an officer of the com- 
 pany in February, 1898. He is also vice-presi- 
 dent and general manager of the A. D. T. Com- 
 pany. 
 
 In all matters relating to politics Mr. Field 
 takes an intelligent interest. From youth to the 
 present time he has been a Republican, and be- 
 lieves that the principles of this political organ- 
 ization are best adapted to secure the progress of 
 free government and perpetuate the institutions 
 of our republic. However, he takes no further 
 interest than to express his sentiments through 
 the ballot, never having sought office for himself. 
 His business affairs have occupied his time and 
 absorbed his attention. He is connected with the 
 Masonic fraternity, the Denver Club, the Denver 
 Athletic Club and the Overland Park Club. In 
 all work pertaining to the welfare of the city and 
 state he has maintained a warm interest, and his 
 co-operation has always been given to public- 
 spirited projects. 
 
 In Chelsea, prior to his removal west, Mr. 
 Field was united in marriage with Mi.ss Mary A. 
 Legg, member of an old New England family 
 from Providence, R. I. They are the parents of 
 
 four children: Edward Bell, Jr., who is a gradu- 
 ate of the Denver high school and is treasurer of 
 the various companies in which his father is in- 
 terested; May Agnes, Martha I,, and Grace W. 
 Mrs. Field is a lady of refinement and culture. 
 In social organizations, particularly the Round 
 Table, she is warmly interested. She holds active 
 membership in the Denver Woman's Club, to 
 which, as to other organizations, she has fur- 
 nished articles posses.s)ng decided literarj- merit. 
 As a business man Mr. Field is known for his 
 keen and careful judgment. Through energy 
 and perseverance he has become prosperous, and 
 his prosperity is the reward of his discretion and 
 sagacity. While promoting his personal pros- 
 perity, he has also advanced the welfare of the 
 city and has done all in his power to promote its 
 commercial development. 
 
 GlNDREW MOSSBERG. The farm which 
 LI Mr. Mossberg now owns was purchased by 
 I I him in 1881, and lies three miles northwest 
 of Canfield, Boulder County. At the time of pur- 
 chase the one hundred and sixty acres were 
 wholly unimproved. In placing needed improve- 
 ments on the land he experienced all the hard- 
 ships of pioneer life, but discouragements did not 
 daunt him; he worked tirelessly, erecting sub- 
 stantial buildings and cultivating the land. As 
 prosperity attended him he added to his prop- 
 erty, until at present his possessions aggregate 
 five hundred and twenty acres, situated in the 
 best farming community of the county. Between 
 the time of his emigration to this county and 1891 
 he had acquired his present propertj', which 
 speaks volumes for his industry and persever- 
 ance. 
 
 A native of Sweden, born July 22, 1851, the 
 subject of this sketch was a .son of Andrew An- 
 derson. The latter was born in Sweden in 18 18 
 and worked on a nobleman's estate until 1880, 
 when he crossed the ocean and settled in Colo- 
 rado. He now makes his home with our subject 
 and is eighty years of age. Our subject received 
 a common-school education. At the age of thir- 
 teen he apprenticed himself to the tailor's trade, 
 at which he served for four years. In 1871 he 
 went to Norway and worked for six months, after 
 which he took passage on a steamer from Chris- 
 tiana, Norway, to Liverpool, England, and from 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 the latter city sailed on the steamer ' 'Bristol' ' to 
 New York, arriving in this country June 15, 
 1872. From New York he traveled by rail to 
 Denver, reaching this city June 25. He had 
 borrowed the money with which to pay his pass- 
 age to this country, so not only had nothing, but 
 was in debt when he began for himself in Colo- 
 rado. For six years he worked as a farm hand 
 in Boulder County, being for one year with 
 Nelson Bailer, his brother-in-law, and for five 
 years with William Howell. During the time he 
 was with Mr. Howell he saved his earnings, with 
 which he purchased eighty acres four miles south 
 of Ivongmont, and there, in 1878, he began farm- 
 ing for himself. Soon that place became too 
 small, and in 1881 he bought the land now com- 
 prising a part of his large estate. His attention 
 is given closely to the management of his ranch 
 and he has had little time for pubhc affairs. In 
 politics he is liberal, voting for the man whom he 
 deems best qualified to serve the people. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with Erie Lodge No. 139, 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 April 22, 1878, Mr. Mossberg married Miss 
 Katie Bailer. Four children were born of their 
 union, namely: Anna Caroline, Emily, Mathilda 
 Christina and Oscar Wilbert, all of whom are at 
 home. 
 
 30HAN ERNST MADLUNG, proprietor of 
 of the O. K. dairy, of Denver, was one 
 of the first settlers of the suburban town 
 of Harman. At the time he settled there the 
 town had but two or three houses. He bought 
 four lots, to which he subsequently added a tract 
 of similar size adjoining, on Third avenue and 
 Columbine street. Here he built a residence and 
 barns; also windmills with a tank eighteen feet 
 above ground, and on this place has about fifty 
 milch cows for his dairy business. He took an 
 active part in the building up of the town, was 
 one of its incorporators, and was chosen to serve 
 on the first board of trustees, subsequently occu- 
 pying the position three other terms and going 
 out of office the year before Harman was an- 
 nexed to Denver. He assisted in securing water 
 works and electric lights for the town, was inter- 
 ested in the establishment of the postoffice here, 
 and took an actiye part in the extension of the 
 street car line to this place. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Madlung were Henry and 
 
 Anna Maria (Kling) Madlung, natives of Saxony 
 and members of the Lutheran Church. His 
 father, who was a farmer, held local offices of 
 trust, among other positions being chosen to serve 
 as trustee and also as schultheis (mayor) of 
 Reischenbach, and there he remained until his 
 death, at nearly eighty years of age. His wife 
 was forty-five at the time of her death. They 
 were the parents of two sons and four daughters, 
 of whom Anna Marie and Mary are in German}'; 
 Mrs. Caroline Hogg and Mrs. Elizabeth Ham- 
 berger are residents of Denver; and Frederick 
 Carl a brewer in Sweden and a man of promi- 
 nence and considerable enterprise; the first tele- 
 phone in Sweden was built to connect his place 
 with Stockholm. 
 
 Mr. Madlung was born in Reischenbach and 
 attended the public schools of Saxony. At the 
 age of fourteen he was apprenticed to the cabinet- 
 maker's trade and served for four years, after 
 which he was employed as a journeyman in Kur- 
 Hessen, Marburg, Frankfort, Mentz, Heidelberg 
 and other places. After working at Baden-Baden 
 for a time he enlisted in the army and served as a 
 commissioned officer through the Austro-Prussian 
 war of 1866, taking part in the battle of Lan- 
 gensalza, and from there going south on a cam- 
 paigning tour. On the close of the war he took 
 a course in a school of design and then resumed 
 work at his trade. 
 
 As a passenger on a sailing vessel, "Marco 
 Polo," Mr. Madlung left Hamburg in 1869, and 
 after a voyage of seven weeks he landed in New 
 York, proceeding from there to Chicago, where 
 he worked as a carpenter and builder for eighteen 
 months. Coming to Denver in February, 1871, 
 he worked at his trade here; also for six months 
 was employed in locating the Chicago colony at 
 Longmont; then returned to Denver and engaged 
 in contracting and building. His first location 
 for a dairy was on the Platte, between Lupton 
 and Brighton, where he started in with three 
 heifers, and in seven years was the owner of one 
 hundred and sixty cows and four horses. Unfor- 
 tunately a dry summer, followed by a cold, severe 
 winter, resulted in the loss of considerable stock, 
 and induced him to sell out the remainder of his 
 herd. Returning to Denver, he was for a short 
 time employed in setting shade trees in the 
 Denver Investment Company's addition to the 
 city. In 1883 he bought the O. K. dairy, which 
 
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 at that time was located on Bear Creek, and he 
 at once moved it to Harman, his present location, 
 where he has a well-improved and valuable 
 place. In politics he is a Republican. Like his 
 parents he adheres to the Lutheran faith, and 
 fraternally he is a member of the German Krieger 
 Verein. In Denver he married Katie Vallbracht, 
 a native of Germany. They have two children, 
 Irene and Stuart. 
 
 r"RANK PIERCE BERTSCHY, head auditor 
 ra Pacific jurisdiction of Woodmen of the 
 I World and United States internal revenue 
 ganger, whose home is at No. 129 West Third 
 avenue, Denver, was born in Peoria, 111., June 
 18, 1853, and is a son of Jacob A. and Julia L. 
 (Pierce) Bertschy. His mother was a grand- 
 niece of Franklin Pierce, at one time president of 
 the United States. When he was three years of 
 age his parents went to Milwaukee, where his 
 father engaged in the mercantile business for a 
 few years, being in partnership with Jonathan L. 
 Pierce, an uncle of Mrs. Bertschy. When he was 
 six years of age the family moved to Appleton, 
 Wis., where he attended the public school, 
 graduating therefrom. At fourteen years he 
 entered Bryant & Stratton's Business College in 
 Milwaukee, from which he graduated two years 
 later. 
 
 After the Civil war the family went to Iowa 
 and settled at Sioux City, where our subject 
 joined them on completing his business educa- 
 tion. For a few months he looked after his 
 father's interests, assisting in locating the lands 
 in which his father was speculating in Cherokee 
 County, Iowa. Next he went to Omaha, where 
 he remained for a few months as assistant book- 
 keeper for a wholesale firm. In December, 1870, 
 he went to Columbine, Neb., and acted as private 
 secretary for Maj. Frank North, who was in 
 command of the Pawnee scouts in the Indian 
 fights. For eighteen months he remained with 
 Major North, after which he removed from Col- 
 umbine to Salt Lake City, making that place his 
 headquarters, while he traveled through northern 
 Colorado, southern Wyoming and eastern Utah 
 on horseback. He was at Ogalala Bluffs the day 
 after the Indians had wrecked the freight train 
 and robbed it of all they could carry off. 
 
 From the mountain country Mr. Bertschy re- 
 turned to Wisconsin, where he remained about 
 
 seven years, during two years of which he was in 
 the emplo}' of the Green Bay & Winona Rail- 
 road Company, and for one year he was chief 
 clerk of the freight department at Green Bay 
 .station, also for one year acted as station agent 
 at New London, Wis. He then returned to 
 Appleton and was deputy register of deeds for 
 Outagamie County for five years. Leaving Wis- 
 consin he returned to Colorado, arriving at Ala- 
 mosa February 3, 1879, and for a time remaining 
 on his brother-in-law's ranch as a cowboy. In 
 September of the same year he went to Orient, 
 where he engaged in mining in one of the first 
 iron mines opened, a mine that is now owned by 
 the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. After 
 having assisted in the development of the mine 
 for some years, it was sold to the company named. 
 In June, 1880, he entered the employ of Gotthelf 
 & Mayer, of Saguache County, with whom he re- 
 mained for a year as bookkeeper, and also assist- 
 ed in opening the books of the Saguache County 
 Bank, which has since been in successful opera- 
 tion. He was also employed by Otto Mayer to 
 take charge of the books of his toll-road .system. 
 After a year he went to Marshallport, riding in 
 the first stage coach that ever drove over the road. 
 
 During the Garfield campaign, in 1880, Mr. 
 Bertschy was the Democratic nominee for county 
 clerk and recorder of Saguache County, and 
 although the county usually gave a Republican 
 majority of two hundred he was defeated by only 
 ninety-three votes. In the following year he was 
 again nominated by the Democrats, and this time 
 was elected by a majority of three hundred. Two 
 years later he was elected by a majority of three 
 hundred and eighty. On the expiration of the 
 second term, January 13, 1886, he entered the 
 mercantile business at Villa Grove, Saguache 
 County, and carried on a profitable trade until 
 May, 1889, when he sold out and came to Denver. 
 
 In this city Mr. Bertschy engaged in the real- 
 estate business during the years 1889, 1890 and 
 1 89 1. He was appointed clerk of a justice court 
 and served in 1891-92. During 1893 he was 
 employed by the board of county commissioners 
 as expert accountant to the finance committee of 
 the board, which office he filled for a year, and 
 at the same time he was secretary' of the Demo- 
 cratic county central committee and chairman of 
 the city central committee. In the spring of 1891 
 he joined Silver State Camp No. 19, Woodmen 
 
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 of the World, in which he filled the office of con- 
 sul commander for a few months. In August, 
 1892, he was elected a member of the board of 
 head managers, Pacific jurisdiction, Woodmen 
 of the World. June i, 1894, he received the 
 appointment of United States Internal Revenue 
 Gauger, and in August of the same year he was 
 re-elected head manager, also selected by the 
 board as accountant for the jurisdiction. In 
 August, 1896, he was chosen head auditor for 
 the term ending in August, 1898. 
 
 March 5, 1884, Mr. Bertschy married Miss 
 Mary F. Bennett, who was born in Peoria, 111., a 
 daughter of William and Catherine (Slygh) Ben- 
 nett. She was educated in her native city and 
 for a time engaged in teaching. It was during a 
 visit she made to her brother in the San Luis 
 Valley that she met the gentleman she afterward 
 married. They have an only child, LaVeta, who 
 was born at Villa Grove, Colo. Mr. Bertschy is 
 a member of Harmony Lodge No. 61, A. F. & 
 A. M., Denver Lodge No. 41, K. of P., and Con- 
 clave No. 320, Ancient Order of Heptasophs. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM L. BRADBURN, a pioneer ot 
 \kl '63, who has had varied experiences since 
 Y V he came to Denver, was born in Franklin, 
 Simpson County, Ky., in 1839. He is a member 
 of an old Virginian family. His grandfather, 
 William, was born in Albemarle County, and 
 removed from there to Kentucky, where he was 
 a pioneer wagon-maker, settling eight miles from 
 Franklin. In 1853 he removed to Monroe County, 
 Ky., where he followed his trade and also en- 
 gaged in farming about fifteen miles from Tomp- 
 kinsville. From there in 1857 he went to Sullivan 
 County, Mo., there following the same business. 
 In the fall of 1864 he joined our subject in 
 Denver, where he remained two years, and then, 
 in 1866, located on the Maxwell Grant in New 
 Mexico. In 1868 he went to Fort Milan, Tex., 
 where he died at the age of sixty-two years. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Sarah Ryan, 
 who was born in Kentucky and died near Frank- 
 lin, that state, in 1848. Of her seven children 
 five grew to maturity, but only two are now liv- 
 ing, William L. being the oldest of these; the 
 other is a sister, Mrs. Davis, of Denver. The 
 father of Mrs. Bradburn was John Ryan, a native 
 of Kentucky and a large farmer near Franklin. 
 
 After the death of our subject's mother, his father 
 married again, and by his second marriage had 
 seven children, all but one of whom are still 
 living. 
 
 When a boy our subject learned the carriage- 
 maker's trade, beginning in the wood-working 
 department and learning every detail of the busi- 
 ness. In 1863 he came, overland, to Denver, 
 coming in company with a mule train. He went 
 from Denver to Golden Gate, where he worked 
 at his trade during part of the summer, but in 
 Julj' returned to Denver, where he worked for 
 others until October. He bought a shop on 
 Fifteenth street, near Wazee, where he continued 
 business until 1868, and then, forming a partner- 
 ship with a brother-in-law, he moved his shop to 
 Cheyenne, following up the line of the Union 
 Pacific Railroad, while his partner carried on the 
 business in Cheyenne. Finally he came back to 
 Denver, and engaged in business at the old stand 
 until 1873. He then bought out his partner's 
 interest and continued alone until 1876, when a 
 severe attack of rheumatism forced him to dis- 
 continue business. He then, with Dr. Case, 
 carried on a Turkish bath business, and by taking 
 the baths himself he was finally entirely cured. 
 After three years he sold out, and went to the 
 mountains, where he engaged in prospecting. 
 With four others he leased the Virginius mine, 
 which he operated, however, without success, 
 though afterward the mine proved very profitable 
 to others. He spent one winter in Garland City 
 and in the spring of the following year went to 
 Alamosa, where he was twice burned out; while 
 there he employed from ten to fifteen hands. 
 After three years he went to Gunnison and ran 
 the Ruby mine there for five years, spending 
 about $7,000 and finally selling out for $1,000. 
 He left there in debt, but has relieved himself of 
 that obligation, paying the last of the debt in 
 1897. In Granite, Colo., he carried on a black- 
 smith and carriage shop, but after a year he sold 
 out and removed to Aspen, where he continued 
 for a year, then sold out to his partner. Going 
 to Glenwood Springs, he engaged in business 
 there. In the fall of the same year he went to 
 the San Luis Valley, where he carried on a ranch 
 for one season, having some cattle on his place. 
 In the spring of 1884 he returned to Denver, 
 where he started a carriage business. After six 
 months he built a shop at Harman, a suburb of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Denver, and two years later sold out. For one 
 year he had a shop on Twenty-first and Blake 
 streets. Later he bought his present shop, which 
 he carried on with Mr. Nitt until the latter died, 
 in September, 1896, since which time he has been 
 alone. His location is No. 2238 Market street, 
 where he has a carriage and wagon repair shop. 
 Politically Mr. Bradburn is a Democrat. He 
 is a trustee of the Tabernacle Congregational 
 Church, of which the well-known Rev. T. A. 
 Uzzell is pastor. While in Alamosa he served as 
 an alderman. His wife, formerly Miss Fannie 
 B. Dunham, died in Denver in 1887. 
 
 EEORGE F. WILMORE came to Colorado 
 in the spring of 1873 and settled upon a farm 
 in the Platte Valley, where, upon rented 
 land, he engaged in raising garden stuffs and gen- 
 eral farm products. In 1877 he went to the Black 
 Hills and during the summer raised garden prod- 
 ucts, but in the late fall he returned to his ranch 
 on the Platte. In 1879 he bought fifteen acres 
 on Highland avenue, four blocks west of Man- 
 hattan Beach, and built a residence, to which, in 
 1880, he brought his family. In 1881 he sold 
 five acres to his son, Charles T., who is also a 
 gardener. Three years after settling here he 
 purchased ten acres in addition, making his gar- 
 den twenty acres in extent. 
 
 A native of Birmingham, England, born No- 
 vember 18, 1827, the subject of this sketch is a 
 son of Joseph and Susanna (Hodgetts) Wilmore. 
 He was one of six children, three of whom are 
 now living, namely: Martha, widow of Thomas 
 Poyner, one of the men who helped to make 
 the wires which composed the first ocean cable; 
 George F.; and Thomas H., of Michigan. His 
 father, who was born near Birmingham, learned 
 the trade of a gun-barrel borer, which he followed 
 in Birmingham during his entire active life. 
 
 When a boy our subject was apprenticed to the 
 trade of a cabinet-maker, which he followed for 
 several years. Afterward he began grinding 
 bayonets in the gun factory at Birmingham, 
 working in the same factory as his father. In 
 1850 he came to America, and on his arrival in 
 New York he began to work as a carpenter. After 
 some four years he and his brother, Thomas H., 
 went to Canada, where he was employed in a 
 ship yard in Kingston. Three months later he 
 
 went to Toronto, where he worked as a carpenter. 
 After eight months he went to Goderich, and for 
 twelve months was engaged in fishing, he and a 
 partner buying a small fishing schooner and 
 taking a load of fish down the Thames River to 
 Chatham, returning with a load of apples. After 
 having disposed of their fish their boat was 
 wrecked in a storm and the profits of the entire 
 season were lost. Selling the wreck for $5, they 
 walked a distance of sixty miles to Goderich. 
 
 In the spring of the following year our subject 
 went to Baltimore, Md., where for one year he 
 worked at carpentering, and then for a similar 
 period worked in a mill at Laurel, Md., changing 
 the plant from a cotton into a grist mill. Next 
 he removed to a farm near Laurel, where he en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits, remaining for 
 fourteen years. In the spring of 1872, after the 
 Chicago fire, he went to that city, where he se- 
 cured remunerative employment as a carpenter. 
 In the spring of 1873 he returned to Maryland, 
 sold his farming implements, and with his family 
 came to Colorado, where he has since resided. 
 
 In 1848 Mr. Wilmore married Miss Emma 
 Williams in Birmingham, England. In 1850, 
 when he came to America, his wife and their 
 daughter, six months of age, accompanied him. 
 He has had eight children, and of these all but 
 three are living. They are: Fannie E. (de- 
 ceased); Susan E. (deceased) and Clara A., 
 twins; Joseph H. (deceased); Charles T., who 
 is engaged in gardening on Highland avenue; 
 Fred G., also a gardener on Highland avenue; 
 William W. , a gardener and florist on Prospect 
 avenue; andJohnT.,a gardener and proprietor 
 of a cannery. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmore and their 
 daughter, Clara A. , are connected with the Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
 HRI M. NORTON, member of the contracting 
 firm of Norton & Reynolds, atNos. 1741-43 
 Curtis street, Denver, was born in St. 
 Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and is a son of Joseph 
 and Sarah (Wallis) Norton, who were born near 
 London and St. Thomas, Canada, respectively. 
 The family is of French lineage. His grand- 
 father, Harvey Francis Norton, was born in 
 Quebec and married a Miss Mudge, who was 
 born in Hartford, Conn., of Holland-Dutch de- 
 scent. The father and mother live upon a farm 
 near St. Thomas, where their entire married life 
 
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 613 
 
 has been passed. Their five children are, James, 
 Isaac, Uri, Sarah and Mar)'. The maternal 
 grandfather, Isaac Wallis, was born in Wiltshire, 
 England, and removed from there to Ontario, 
 Canada, where he engaged in farming. 
 
 Reared upon a farm, at the age of nineteen our 
 subject was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade. 
 He continued in or near St. Thomas until 1883, 
 when he came to Denver. Here, after working 
 at his trade in the employ of others for one year, 
 in the fall of 1884 he began contracting and build- 
 ing. Later he was foreman in the stair shop of 
 McPhee & McGinnity, remaining in their em- 
 ploy until 1895, when he resigned his position and 
 started in contracting, as a member of the firm of 
 Norton & Reynolds. 
 
 In political matters Mr. Norton is in sympathy 
 with the principles of the People's party. In 
 religion he is identified with the Baptist Church, 
 and fraternally he is a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. In Denver he married 
 Miss Agnes MacKiiizie, who was born in Boston. 
 They are the parents of three children, Thomas, 
 Joseph (deceased, aged three years,) andCorinne. 
 Mrs. Agnes MacKinzie is of Scotch descent. 
 Her parents, Thomas and Agnes, came from 
 Scotland before they were married. The Mac- 
 Kinzie family descends from one of the oldest 
 clans in the lowlands, near Glasgow, and is re- 
 lated to the old McGregor clan made famous by 
 Sir Walter Scott in his "Rob Roy." 
 
 (Tames a. RUNDELL, formerly mayor of 
 I Ward, Boulder County, and now a success- 
 Q) ful merchant of the town, has resided in Colo- 
 rado since 1888. He was born in Platteville, 
 Grant County, Wis., in 1858, a son of H. P. and 
 Elizabeth (Eudey) Rundell, natives of England. 
 He was next to the oldest of nine children, all 
 but one of whom are still living, and six are in 
 Colorado. His father, who resided in Platte- 
 ville for a time, removed from there to Iowa 
 County, where he carried on a farm. He is now 
 living retired in Platteville. 
 
 In the public schools of Iowa County our sub- 
 ject acquired a fair education. In 1883 he went 
 to South Dakota and engaged in farming near 
 Yankton, where he remained for three years. 
 He did not, however, feel satisfied with prospects 
 there, and so in 1886 came to Colorado, but after 
 
 a short time went to Iowa and for eighteen 
 months lived near Corning. In 1888 he came 
 permanently to Colorado and settled in Boulder, 
 where he operated the creamery for four years, 
 and then engaged in bookkeeping. In January, 
 1894, b^ came to Ward, and opened a store, which 
 he stocked with dry goods, groceries, clothing, 
 hardware and household utensils. At first he con- 
 ducted the store alone, but in 1897 admitted his 
 brother and another gentleman as partners, and 
 the firm title became Rundell Brothers & Wylam. 
 In addition to his business interests he owns a part 
 interest in the Binford stamp mill, but leases it. 
 In connection with the mill there is a small tract 
 of land, owned by the company and laid out as 
 the Humbolt addition. He also owns real estate 
 in Boulder, Denver and Ward. 
 
 Politically Mr. Rundell is a Republican. In 
 1897-98 he served as mayor of Ward and in 
 1896-97 he was treasurer of the town. He was 
 made a Mason in Instruction Lodge No. 275, in 
 Corning, Iowa, and is a charter member of Audu- 
 bon Lodge in Ward. In the Odd Fellows' Order 
 he is connected with Ward Lodge No. 22, and is 
 also a member of the encampment here. He is 
 an excellent business man, keen, persevering and 
 capable, and the financial success he has already 
 attained is justly merited by his perseverance and 
 determination. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM SCOTT LEE. Since the early 
 
 \ A / history of our country, when one of the 
 Y V name took an active part in colonial politics 
 and became a signer of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence, the Lee family has been prominent 
 and influential. The New England branch were 
 Congregationalists, regular attendants at church 
 and very strict in their observance of the Sab- 
 bath. The great-grandfather of the subject of 
 this article took part in the Revolutionary war. 
 His son, Nehemiah Lee, moved from Connecticut 
 to Peacham, Vt., and engaged in farming upon 
 an extensive scale. He married Lavinia, a half- 
 sister of ex- Governor Chauncey F. Cleveland, of 
 Connecticut, one of the members of the constitu- 
 tional convention. In their old age they removed 
 to Maine, where they remained with a son until 
 they passed away, at more than eighty years of 
 age. 
 
 Of their sons Harvey was born at Peacham, 
 where he spent the larger part of his life, dying 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 there at forty-three years of age. He was not 
 strong physically, but attended to his father's 
 business affairs and did as much as his strength 
 permitted. His wife, Laura Steele Smith, was a 
 daughter of Ebenezer Smith, of Cabot, Vt., a 
 man of powerful physique, six feet and four 
 inches in height, noted for his strength and 
 powers of endurance, and noted also for his intel- 
 lectual vigor and great will power. His father 
 was a soldier in the French and Indian wars. On 
 her mother's .side Mrs. Laura Lee was a descend- 
 ant of the old Steele family that took a prominent 
 part in the history of Vermont. She died in 
 Royalton, Vt., at seventy-one years of age. In 
 religion she was an active, earnest member of the 
 Congregational Church. She had only two chil- 
 dren, Mrs. Ellen Lee Stearns, of Royalton, Vt., 
 and William Scott Lee, of this sketch. The for- 
 mer was for many years principal of a well-known 
 academy at Royalton, and was prominent in ed- 
 ucational and Christian work in that locality. 
 Though of a very delicate physique and frail 
 health, she has accomplished a great work and 
 has fitted many young men for college. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was eleven years of age. His educational ad- 
 vantages were very meagre. He went on a farm 
 and worked by the month for one summer, then 
 entered a cabinet shop, where he worked for a 
 time. August 22, 1866, at the age of fourteen 
 years (he having been born December 11, 1851), 
 he left his native place in Orange County, Vt., 
 and went to Chester, the same state, where he 
 clerked for five years, and a part of the time he 
 studied during his leisure hours and recited at 
 the academy during two j^ears of that time. 
 From there he went to Greenfield, Mass., where 
 at nineteen years of age he became the head 
 clerk in a dry-goods .store. After five years in 
 that pcsition he became salesman for the John 
 Russell Cutlery Company, of Turner's Falls, near 
 Greenfield, and traveled for them among the job- 
 bers in the eastern and middle states. He re- 
 mained for five years in that position, after which 
 he embarked in the wholesale and retail hard- 
 ware business in Albany, N. Y., being a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Ackerman & Lee. His partic- 
 ular work was the financial management of the 
 business. However, he suffered severely in a 
 railroad wreck and his physicians advised him to 
 come west. By slow stages he traveled to Colo- 
 
 rado, reaching Denver in the spring of 1883. The 
 following year, after having regained to some 
 extent his former health, he embarked in the real- 
 estate business, and from the start met with suc- 
 cess. Through his large acquaintance in the 
 ea.st and the high esteem he was held in, he was 
 enabled to secure extensive business as financial 
 agent for eastern concerns and loaned out eastern 
 money on Colorado securities. 
 
 In politics Mr. Lee has always favored Repub- 
 lican principles. In 1884 he aided in organizing 
 the committee of One Hundred (of which he was 
 the first secretary), which helped to purify the 
 political atmosphere of Denver and vicinity. In 
 the fall of 1886 he was the Republican nominee 
 for county commissioner, and was no doubt 
 elected by a fair majority, but was counted out. 
 The following year he became the Republican 
 candidate for mayor and was elected by a large 
 majority. He served one term of two years and 
 then declined renoniination, turning his attention 
 again strictly to his business. In 1896 he was 
 nominated for secretary of state, but declined on 
 account of business reasons. His party, how- 
 ever, desiring his influence on the ticket, nomi- 
 nated him for lieutenant-governor, and he and 
 the remainder of the candidates carried the cen- 
 tral part of the state, but were defeated by the 
 large Democratic vote in the southern part of the 
 state. 
 
 In 1895 the New England Society was organ- 
 ized in Colorado and Mr. Lee was elected the 
 first president. He was succeeded by Rev. Dr. 
 Slocum, of the Colorado College at Colorado 
 Springs. During his administration as mayor, 
 Denver enjoyed a wave of unusual prosperity. 
 He assisted in electing Senator Wolcott and was 
 instrumental in strengthening his party in the 
 state. In the course of his public life he has 
 won the esteem of even his political enemies, who 
 respect him for his honorable character and enter- 
 prising disposition. For years he has been a 
 trustee in the Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 He is a -member of the Denver Club and the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity. In April, 1882, in Philadelphia, 
 he married Miss Sallie Moore Hesser, daughter 
 of J. Hesser, a well-known lumberman of north- 
 ern Michigan. They have two daughters, Ger- 
 trude L. and Ellen C. 
 
 The success which has attended Mr. Lee's 
 business efforts proves that he possesses qualities 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of a high order. When a boy he had few ad- 
 vantages. When his father died his mother was 
 left very poor, but was too proud to ask assistance 
 from his wealthy relatives, and so mother and 
 children struggled along until finally they were 
 above want. The schooling that he obtained he 
 paid for by shoveling snow and doing other work. 
 Reared among the economical, and sometimes 
 penurious, farmers of New England, he learned 
 lessons of economy and frugality which are es- 
 sential as the groundwork for a successful career. 
 In that way he gained an appreciation for the 
 broader life he subsequently entered. 
 
 gHRISTOPHER C. GIRD, a retired stock- 
 raiser and real-estate dealer, whose home is 
 at No. 2418 Lincoln avenue, Denver, was 
 born in Belmont County, Ohio, September 3, 
 1836, and is a son of James and Jane (Moore) 
 Gird. His father, who was born in Westmore- 
 land County, Pa., removed from there to Ohio 
 and followed the trade of a carpenter in Belmont, 
 Guernsey, Noble and Washington Counties, mov- 
 ing from place to place as an opportunity for 
 work was offered. The family were poor and 
 the son was therefore early obliged to assist his 
 father. During three months of the year he 
 attended school, and in spite of limited advan- 
 tages he acquired a fair education. When six- 
 teen years of age he began to learn the carpen- 
 ter's trade with his father, with whom he worked 
 until he was twenty-one. He then went to 
 Tennessee and spent one winter near Memphis, 
 taking contracts and following his trade. 
 
 Going to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1856, Mr. 
 Gird secured work at his trade there, remaining 
 in that city until the spring of i860. Meantime 
 he participated in the border warfare and was 
 with the forces of the free state movement during 
 many of their thrilling experiences of those peri- 
 lous days. From Leavenworth he came to Denver, 
 where he arrived June 5, i860, having driven 
 across the plains with a company of forty-two, in 
 an ox train, and consuming forty-two days upon 
 the road. Denver he found to be a town of tents 
 and wagons mostly; however, people were com- 
 ing in every day and there was an abundance of 
 work for a carpenter. For one year he followed 
 his trade, after which he carried on freighting 
 between the Missouri River and Denver for two 
 
 years and later was similarly employed in the 
 mountains and from Denver to Cherry Creek 
 pineries. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Gird took up a claim on Cherry 
 Creek, about fifteen miles south of Denver, and 
 there he put up a number of necessary buildings 
 and made other improvements. About one year 
 after he established his home there, and while he 
 was temporarily in Denver, May 19, 1864, occurred 
 the greatest flood Denver has. ever known. The 
 creek overflowed its banks and all of his build- 
 ings were washed away, necessitating consider- 
 able expense in replacing them. In the fall of 
 1869 he married Sarah Ramsey, who was born in 
 Beaver County, Pa., a daughter of James and 
 Jane Ramsey, and from Pennsylvania came west 
 to Colorado, where she was employed as a teacher 
 at Cherry Creek until her marriage. In 1880 he 
 removed from the ranch to Denver, where he has 
 now no business cares except those connected 
 with the management of his property interests. 
 
 Actively identified with the Republican party, 
 Mr. Gird has been elected upon that ticket to a 
 number of responsible po.sitions. In the fall of 
 1869 he was chosen to represent the counties of 
 Arapahoe and Douglas in the state legislature, 
 where he served as a member of the printing and 
 stock committees. Again, in 1878, he was elect- 
 ed to represent Arapahoe County in the lower 
 house, where he served on the stock committee 
 and had charge of the general legislation of the 
 live-stock interests. From 1885 to 1888 he served 
 as commissioner for Arapahoe County, and dur- 
 ing two years and nine months of that time he 
 was chairman of the board. The following reso- 
 lutions, which were printed, framed and presented 
 to him, show the respect in which he was held by 
 the other board members: 
 
 "State of Colorado, Arapahoe County. 
 
 "At a meeting of the board of county commis- 
 sioners of Arapahoe County, held on the ninth 
 day of January, A. D. 1888, the following reso- 
 lution was unanimously adopted: 
 
 "The terra of Christopher C. Gird, a member 
 of this board and for nearly three years past its 
 chairman, being about to expire, his associate 
 members deeming it proper that a record should 
 be made of our appreciation of his worth as an 
 officer and a citizen, do hereby unanimously 
 
 "Resolve, That in the retirement of Mr. Gird 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 from the board of county commissioners, this 
 county loses an able, zealous and conscientious 
 public ofBcer. As chairman of this board and 
 superintendent of the poor, he has always been 
 firm, impartial and discerning, and ever watch- 
 ful of the interests of the county, and with the 
 purest of motives he has been a model commis- 
 sioner. As a man we commend him for his 
 worth and we speak but the truth in saying that 
 the county is deeply indebted to him for the faith- 
 fulness and efficiency with which he has dis- 
 charged the trust reposed in him. In going from 
 us he takes with him our best wishes for his suc- 
 cess and welfare and he leaves only the kindliest 
 of memories. ' ' 
 
 "Attested by Joseph H. Smith, County 
 Clerk." 
 
 From the spring of 1893 to 1898 Mr. Gird was 
 auditor of Denver. Frequently he has repre- 
 sented his party in state and count)' conventions. 
 During the campaign of 1896 he cast his influ- 
 ence and vote in behalf of the silver Republican 
 cause. He was reared in the Methodist faith, 
 but did not unite with the church until he came 
 to Denver, when he became a member of the 
 Trinity Church. Since then he has served the con- 
 gregation as a steward. He has filled the chairs 
 in Union Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., and is a 
 thirty-second degree Mason. Three children were 
 born of this marriage, but all have passed away: 
 Elbert Grant at the age of eleven, James Hayes 
 at five years, and May when four months old. 
 
 I EWIS B. AMES, who has for thirty years 
 j C owned and occupied a farm near Littleton, was 
 O born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., 
 May 7, 1826. His father, Barnabas Ames, was 
 a native of Vermont, born in 1787, and when still 
 a boy moved to St. Lawrence County, N. Y., of 
 which he was a pioneer. He assisted in opening 
 up some of the oldest roads in the county, and 
 grubbed and improved land from which he de- 
 veloped a good farm. He was a man of retir- 
 ing disposition, and would never accept public 
 office, though he took an interest in politics and 
 aided his friends who were candidates for town- 
 ship or county positions. His death occurred in 
 
 1881. 
 The common schools of St. Lawrence County 
 
 furnished our subject with fair educational privi- 
 leges, which were further enhanced by a course in 
 the academy at Canton. After leaving school 
 for a few years he devoted his summers to farm 
 work and his winter months to teaching school. 
 In 1847 he went to Michigan and for four years 
 was employed in the office of the recorder of 
 Hillsdale County at the county-seat, Hillsdale. 
 In the spring of 1847 he visited Chicago for the 
 first time, seeing the delegates to the Rivers and 
 Harbor convention, among whom was General 
 Cass, of Michigan. He found but two brick 
 houses on the present site of the metropolis of 
 the middle states. 
 
 Returning to St. Lawrence County in 185 1, Mr. 
 Ames remained there for four years, and in 1855 
 went to Decorah, Iowa, where he opened a shoe 
 store in company with R. Willson, embarking in 
 business for himself. He spent five years in that 
 place and was fairly successful, but when the dis- 
 covery of gold in Colorado drew thousands of 
 men westward, he decided to try his fortune in 
 the mountains. June 8, i860, he arrived at 
 Denver and for five years he devoted his atten- 
 tion principally to mining nearBlackhawk. Be- 
 lieving, [_however, that the earth would give a 
 greater reward to the agriculturist than to the 
 miner, he decided to engage in farming, and in 
 1867 bought his present homestead of one hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, upon which he settled 
 the following year. During the years that have 
 followed, he has placed a number of substantial 
 buildings on the property, has provided it with 
 substantial fencing and the other improvements 
 that so materially add to the value of a farm. 
 During the year that he settled here, he was 
 chosen justice of the peace, in which capacity he 
 continued to serve until about 1882. In fraternal 
 relations he is identified with Weston Lodge No. 
 22, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 January 31, 1866, occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Ames to Miss Laura H. Larawa, an estima- 
 ble lady, devoted to the welfare of her family 
 and accommodating as a neighbor. She was a 
 consistent Christian and an active member of the 
 Episcopal Church. Her death, which occurred 
 July 27, 1897, was a deep bereavement to her 
 husband, who was thus left alone, their two chil- 
 dren having died. The younger son, Harry H., 
 died February 22, 1880, aged three years and 
 six months; Milo C. was born December 13, 1870, 
 
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 and was drowned in the city ditch July 15, 1885. 
 He was a bright, intelligent and manly boy. Mr. 
 Ames' home is now brightened by the widow of 
 his nephew, Mrs. Edward S. Bixby, and her 
 four children: George P., Joseph A., Alice J. 
 and Edward S., Jr. Mrs. Bixby, whose maiden 
 name was Ella Powell, is a daughter of James S. 
 and Julia A. (Griffith) Powell, of Kentucky, 
 who, in June, 1863, crossed the plains in a wagon 
 drawn by an ox-team and accompanying sixty 
 other teams; they located in Central City, Colo., 
 but returned to Douglas County in 187 1. Both 
 are deceased, leaving four children. 
 
 yyiAJ. AARON GOVE. The Gove family 
 Y was founded in America by John Gove, 
 who, with his sons Edward and John, Jr., 
 came to New England in an early day; he died 
 in Cambridge, Mass., in 1682, and his son and 
 namesake died in the same place November 24, 
 1704. About 1665 Edward Gove moved from 
 Cambridge to Hampton, N. H., and bought from 
 the Indians a tract of land, where he settled and 
 engaged in farm pursuits. In 1660 he had mar- 
 ried Hannah Titcomb, who accompanied him to 
 Hampton. His death occurred May 29, 1691. 
 One of their children was Ebenezer, born June 
 23, 1 67 1, married to Judith Sanborn December 
 20, 1692; among their large number of children 
 was Jeremiah, whose sons were Joseph, Nathan 
 and John. Joseph's sons were Jeremiah and 
 Ezekiel; the former married Mary Morrill, b3' 
 whom he had the following children: Jeremiah, 
 Aaron M., Susan, John, Mary, Hannah and 
 Charles. Aaron M. married Sarah Becket Hil- 
 ton, and had two sons, John Francis and Daniel. 
 John Francis Gove married Sarah Jane Wad- 
 leigh, and they had three children, Aaron, Frank 
 and Sarah J. F. The eldest of these is the sub- 
 ject of our sketch. His father moved from 
 Hampton to Boston, where he engaged in busi- 
 ness. About 1850 he came as far west as Rut- 
 land, LaSalle County, III.; and built the first 
 house on the prairie there, with not a single tree 
 for twenty miles around. Later he removed to 
 southern Illinois and from there went to Peoria, 
 where he died January 2, 1895. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Hamp- 
 ton, N. H., September 26, 1839. At the age of 
 eight he was taken by his parents to Boston, where 
 26 
 
 he attended the public school. He accompanied 
 the family to LaSalle County, 111., where his 
 father was a blacksmith for ten years. At the age 
 of fifteen he began to teach school, and while not 
 thus engaged gave his attention to the studies of the 
 Illinois State Normal School. In the summer of 
 1 86 1 he entered the volunteer service of the United 
 States army, remaining for three years, and dur- 
 ing the last two years was adjutant of the Thirty- 
 third Illinois Infantry. Soon after leaving the 
 service he returned to his profession and took 
 charge of the school at New Rutland, 111. In 
 1868 he accepted the position as superintendent 
 of schools at Normal. There he remained as- 
 teacher for five years, also owned and edited the 
 Il/i?iois Schoolmaster, a state educational journal 
 of high standing. In 1874 he was called to the 
 superintendency of the Denver schools, which 
 position he has since occupied. In 1888 he was 
 given the degree of LL-D. from the University of 
 Colorado. 
 
 When a child of only three years Mr. Gove 
 began to attend school and his entire subsequent 
 life, with the exception of the period spent in the 
 army, has been given to educational work. In 
 recognition of his high standing among the edu- 
 cators of the country, Dartmouth College in 1878 
 conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. 
 He is interested in the cause of education and 
 has done much to advance the standard of the 
 schools of Denver. His military experience and 
 tastes have caused his elevation to various posi- 
 tions of honor outside of educational circles. He 
 is a prominent thirty-third degree Mason and has 
 served as grand commander of the Knights Tem- 
 plar of Colorado, also for two years was commander 
 of the military order of Loyal Legion. He is 
 connected with Lincoln Post, G.A.R. For years 
 he has been a member of the board of trustees of 
 the First Congregational Church. In 1888 he 
 was president of the National Educational As- 
 sociation that met in San Francisco and is a life 
 director in the same. 
 
 At Andover, Mass., Major Gove married Miss 
 Caroline C. SpofFord, daughter of Farnham and 
 Lydia (Coggeshall) Spofford, of the Island of 
 Nantucket. Her father, who was a member of 
 an old-established family of New England, was in 
 early life a schoolmaster and later a tiller of the 
 soil. He was a man of noble character. Mrs. 
 Gove was educated at Andover. By her marriage 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 four children were born, namely: Frank Edward, 
 a member of the law firm of Yeaman & Gove; 
 Aaron M., whose sketch follows this; Ellen S., 
 wife of Henry Harrington, Jr. ; and Caro. 
 
 GlARON M. GOVE, one of Denver's most 
 Ll successful architects, was born in Rutland, 
 / 1 111., in July, 1867, and is a son of Prof. 
 Aaron and Caroline (SpofEord) Gove. He is the 
 second of four children, his brother and sisters 
 being Frank E-, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in 1888 and now an attorney; Ellen Spofford, 
 who is married and resides in Denver; and Caro, 
 who is now studying in Europe. When, in 
 1874, his father accepted the position of super- 
 intendent of school district No. i, in Denver, the 
 family removed to this city and our subject has 
 since made it his home. He was primarily edu- 
 cated in the old Arapahoe street school, where he 
 acquired a fair knowledge of common-school 
 branches. In 1886 he entered the School of 
 Mines, where he was a student for a short time. 
 
 Entering the office of Robert S. Roeschlaub 
 in 1887, Mr. Gove there learned the architect's 
 business and spent five years as an employe. In 
 1891 he entered the Illinois State University, for 
 the purpose of taking a special course in archi- 
 tecture, and after one year he returned to Denver, 
 where he secured employment in the office of 
 Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul. In 1892 he opened 
 an office for himself in the McPhee building, 
 where he has since remained, being now the 
 senior member of the firm of Gove & Walsh. 
 He has designed some of the finest residences in 
 the city, among them the homes of C. S. Morey, 
 on Sherman avenue, between Colfax and Six- 
 teenth avenues; Jacob Savageau, on Colfax and 
 Gilpin; Frederick Buckley, on Pennsylvania street 
 near Tenth avenue; Mrs. L. M. Gale, on High 
 street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth ave- 
 nues; Frank Miller, corner of Thirteenth and High 
 street; John F. Campion, corner of Eighth avenue 
 and Logan street; J. K. Mullin, corner of Ninth 
 and Pennsylvania; and J. S. Brown, Ninth and 
 Grant avenue; and warehouses for Mrs. E. K. 
 Watkins and the C. S. Morey Mercantile Com- 
 pany, on Sixteenth and Wynkoop. 
 
 In 1895, in Denver, occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Gove to Miss Elizabeth M. Farrar, by whom 
 he has one child, a daughter, Margaret. In po- 
 
 litical views he is independent and has never 
 identified himself with public affairs nor desired 
 the emoluments or honors of public position. 
 He takes an interest in everything pertaining to 
 architecture and is a charter member of the Colo- 
 rado Chapter of the American Institute of Archi- 
 tecture. Like his father, he is public-spirited, 
 desiring to do all within his power to promote 
 the welfare of the city where for so long he has 
 made his home. 
 
 (31 LFRED C. PHELPS. Our nation owes a 
 fl debt of gratitude that can never be repaid 
 I I to the brave soldiers who gallantly and fear- 
 lessly fought for the abolition of slavery and the 
 preservation of the Union, holding aloft the stars 
 and stripes on many a closely contested battle- 
 field. Among those who enlisted from Illinois 
 was a youth of less than twenty years, whose 
 brave heart formed a strange contrast to his deli- 
 cate appearance. Friends opposed his enlistment, 
 declaring he would be dead or discharged on ac- 
 count of ill health within six months. However, 
 their ominous predictions failed of fulfillment, for 
 the young soldier continued to serve his country 
 until the rebellion ended and the war closed. 
 
 Honorably discharged from the army, he turned 
 his attention to the study of the law, which, after 
 being admitted to the bar, he followed for some 
 years in Illinois, but in 1872, believing the tide of 
 population would drift westward and build up the 
 Rocky Mountain states, he removed to Denver. 
 He did not come, as have so many, in search of 
 the gold believed to be hidden in the metalliferous 
 mines of the mountains, nor in search of the re- 
 newed health so generously bestowed by the salu- 
 brious climate; but he came because he believed 
 Denver would in time become one of the great 
 cities on the continent and therefore offered great 
 opportunities to the legal practitioner. He still 
 retains his faith in the future of Denver, which 
 he has seen make marvelous strides in population 
 and commercial importance. 
 
 A study of the parentage of any man assists us in 
 gaining an insight into his own character. Mr. 
 Phelps was born in Woodville, Miss., December 
 4, 1842. His parents were born in New York, 
 but were married in Woodville, where they re- 
 sided for a few years, and until the death of the 
 mother. They were both opposed to slavery, 
 which they believed to have a debasing influence 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 621 
 
 upon both slaves and masters, and for this reason 
 they determined to seek a home in the north, amid 
 more congenial surroundings. The mother did 
 not live to see this plan carried out, but the father 
 gave up his lucrative law business and moved to 
 Illinois, settling upon a farm in Bond County in 
 the spring of 1844. Later he settled in Green- 
 ville, the county seat, where he has since prac- 
 ticed his profession until elected county judge. 
 
 The boyhood days of Mr. Phelps were passed 
 on the home farm, iu the cultivation of which he 
 assisted. In order to secure funds for continuing 
 his studies, he taught a country school and for a 
 time clerked in a store. It had been his inten- 
 tion to enter college in the fall of 1862, but the 
 breaking out of the war changed his plans, and 
 as soon as possible he entered the Federal service, 
 responding to the president's call for three hun- 
 dred thousand men. In July, 1862, he enlisted in 
 Company F, One Hundred and Thirtieth Ill- 
 inois Infantry, which was ordered to Tennessee 
 and from there went to Vicksburg, taking part in 
 the siege of that city. During the early part of 
 the siege occurred the march from Milliken's 
 Bend, and while it was being made the running 
 blockade of the Mississippi by boats took place, 
 after which the army crossed the river and 
 marched to the rear of the city. In this move- 
 ment, as well as in every part of the siege, Mr. 
 Phelps actively participated, his regiment being 
 incorporated in Smith's Division, Thirteenth 
 Army Corps. Soon afterward he was made ser- 
 geant of Company F, and later was detached from 
 his regiment to engage in recruiting colored 
 troops. He was commissioned second lieutenant 
 of the Twenty-fifth Regiment Corps d'Afrique, 
 afterward known as the Ninety-third United 
 States Colored Infantry, and he was chosen first 
 lieutenant of Company I, being its acting com- 
 mander, as the captain was engaged elsewhere as 
 a staff officer. On the close of the war he was 
 honorably discharged from the service. 
 
 Returning north, he took a short course in Ill- 
 inois College at Jacksonville, and then studied 
 law in Greenville, where he began to practice in 
 the spring of 1867. In company with ex-Govern- 
 or Cooper he came to Denver and for a time the 
 two were partners, but Mr. Cooper turning his 
 attention to other pursuits, Mr. Phelps entered 
 the law office of Charles & Elbert. On the elec- 
 tion of Judge Elbert as chief executive of the 
 
 state, he became a partner of Mr. Charles, but in 
 1875 entered into his connection with Judge Ben- 
 edict as a member of the firm of Benedict & Phelps. 
 He has never sought office, his tastes not running 
 in that direction, nor, indeed, has he cared to 
 identify himself with political affairs. At one 
 time he was mentioned for the office of attorney- 
 general, but withdrew his name in favor of a 
 gentleman from the southern part of the state. 
 With reluctance he accepted from the Republicans 
 nomination for the first state legislature. He was 
 elected and became a leading member of the lower 
 house, being chairman of its judiciary committee 
 and having a reputation as one of its most eloquent 
 speakers and logical debaters. For a time he 
 was city attorney of Denver and was tendered an 
 appointment as a district judge in the second 
 di.strict, which he declined. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Phelps married Miss Donnell, of 
 Bond County, 111. They are the parents of four 
 children. The eldest, Horace, graduated from 
 the Northwestern University at Evanston, 111., 
 and later from the law department of Yale Col- 
 lege. He married a daughter of Hon. D. H. 
 Ferguson, ex-president of the Denver Savings 
 Bank. He is now in the employ of the firm of 
 Benedict & Phelps. Already he has gained dis- 
 tinction as a rising young attorney. In 1897 ^^ 
 was tendered the position of assistant district at- 
 torney, but declined on account of not desiring to 
 relinquish his civil practice. The elder daughter, 
 Edelle, has been liberally educated, and is a tal- 
 ented musician. The two youngest children are 
 twins, Enid and Harlo, now fourteen years of age 
 and students in the city schools. 
 
 EHARLES BURKE established his home in 
 Denver in January, 1896, and is engaged 
 in the stock business, being connected with 
 the Union Stockyards here. In October of the 
 same year he started the Grand Junction .stock 
 and feed yards, of which he has since been the 
 proprietor and which are situated on his ranch 
 at Grand Junction, on the line of the Colorado 
 Midland, Rio Grande Western and Denver & 
 Rio Grande Railroads. He is a large buyer of 
 cattle, making purchases in Montana, Wyoming, 
 Nevada, Oregon, Colorado and New Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Burke was born at old Fort McPherson, 
 Neb., near what is now North Platte, lyiacoln 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 County. His father, John, emigrated from Ger- 
 many to America in young manhood, and after a 
 short sojourn in Illinois removed to Nebraska, 
 where in 1858 he settled a homestead at Fort 
 McPherson. Two years previous to this he had 
 visited the state and investigated its prospects 
 and opportunities. By government contract he 
 furnished the fort with hay, wood, freight and 
 beef, and also carried the mail from the railroad 
 to the fort. He started the first store on the 
 Platte, on this side of old Fort Phil Kearney, 
 near Fort McPherson. He was postmaster and 
 also had the stage and mail contracts. Indians 
 were troublesome and he took part in many 
 skirmishes with them. In 1872, when he was 
 sixty years old, he was carrying the mail accord- 
 ing to contract; freshets had washed away the 
 bridges across the Platte and he attempted to 
 cross by flat boat, but was drowned. His wife, 
 who bore the maiden name of Margareta Baurch, 
 was born in Germany and resides at the old 
 homestead near North Platte. At the age of 
 seventy-six she is still physically robust and 
 mentally active. Her family consisted of one 
 daughter and eight sous, of whom all but one 
 are living. Five are in Nebraska and the others 
 in Wyoming, Oregon and Colorado, respectively. 
 
 The youngest of the family is the subject of 
 this sketch. He was educated in public schools 
 and Nebraska College in Nebraska City and 
 Lincoln University, from which he graduated in 
 188 1. Meantime he and his brothers had en- 
 gaged in the cattle business in Lincoln County, 
 the firm of M. Burke & Sons comprising the 
 mother and eight sons. When the youngest son 
 reached his majority the business was divided, 
 but several of the .sons have continued together 
 since. Our subject still has cattle interests there 
 and a ranch that is well stocked. In 1890 he es- 
 tablished stockyards at North Platte, Neb.', on 
 the Union Pacific, which were incorporated as 
 the Union Stockyards Company, and his stock 
 in this concern he retained until very recently. 
 His brother, John, is now its manager. 
 
 In Nebraska, in 1891, Mr. Burke married Miss 
 Mary Hail, who was born in Nebraska City and 
 there grew to womanhood. She was next to the 
 youngest of four children, all living, one ol 
 whom, Charles M., resides in North Denver. 
 Her father, Granville Hail, was born in Vir- 
 ginia and in 1854 settled in Otoe County, Neb., 
 
 where he was a county and state officer for years, 
 but is now living retired. He married Sarah 
 Mahan, who was born in Kentucky and settled 
 as a pioneer of Otoe County, remaining there 
 until her death. Mr. and Mrs. Burke attend the 
 Episcopal Church. They and their children, 
 Margharetta and Evard Hail Burke, reside at 
 No. 2412 Marion street. In political belief he is 
 an advocate of free trade and free silver. 
 
 pQlLLlAM HELM, member of the firm of 
 \ A / Thompson & Helm, contractors andbuild- 
 Y V ers, of Denver, was bom in Dumfriesshire, 
 Scotland, July 26, 1841, and is a son of William 
 and Margaret (Scott) Helm, also natives of Scot- 
 land. His father, who was a son of William 
 Helm, Sr., was a sheep farmer in his native land, 
 and from there came to the United States, in 1S79 
 settling in Burlington, Coffey County, Kan., 
 where he died about 1892, at the age of ninety- 
 two. His wife, who was a daughter of Alex- 
 ander Scott, of Dumfries, Scotland, was born in 
 18 15 and is still living, making her home in San 
 Marcial, N. M. Of their nine children eight are 
 living, William being the oldest son and next to 
 the oldest child. 
 
 In the common schools of Dumfries and Rox- 
 burgh shires ojir subject obtained a fair educa- 
 tion. At the age of fourteen he became an ap- 
 prentice to the carpenter's trade in Edinburgh, 
 where he remained for six years, and then went 
 to England, spending three years on the Tyne. 
 He next shipped as carpenter on a merchant ves- 
 sel and spent fourteen years on the water, mean- 
 time taking three trips around the world. Twice 
 he was wrecked, once on the Mediterranean, 
 when the vessel sank and the crew escaped in 
 boats; again, on the Southern Pacific, when the 
 ship was saved. During his entire period of serv- 
 ice he was foreman of the carpenters, or "chips," 
 as they are called at sea, a very suggestive name, 
 as chips float and "chips" at sea are necessary to 
 keep the vessel whole and afloat. 
 
 While employed as ship carpenter, Mr. Helm 
 first touched American waters in 1863. In 1872 
 he settled in this country, following his trade at 
 Joliet, Will County, 111., for two years, and then 
 going to Emporia, Kan. , as contractor. Later 
 he was a salesman for the Chicago Lumber Com- 
 pany, in their yard at Burlington, Kan., and 
 
J. GEORGE BENKELMAN. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 625 
 
 after three years there worked for G. B. Shaw in 
 different places in southern Kansas. In 1888 he 
 came to Denver, where he engaged in contract- 
 ing, but three years later he went to Cripple 
 Creek, remaining there for six years. In Jami- 
 ary, 1896, he was made building inspector, but 
 in July of 1897 he resigned the position and re- 
 turned to Denver, to engage in contracting and 
 building here with William Thompson. 
 
 Politically Mr. Helm is a Democrat, and in re- 
 ligious belief supports Presbyterian doctrines. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias, and is an active Mason, being master of 
 Mount Pisgah Lodge No. 96, A. F. & A. M., at 
 Cripple Creek, member of the Royal Arch Chap- 
 ter in Sedan, Kan., and the Knights Templar 
 Commandery in Independence. His marriage, 
 in Goodland, Ind. , united him with Jessie D. 
 Galbraith, who was born in Geneva, N. Y. , and 
 is a daughter of George Galbraith, a farmer in 
 Indiana. They are the parents of four children, 
 William, George, Maggie and Robert. 
 
 (T GEORGE BENKELMAN. It was during 
 I the year 1&62 that Mr. Benkelman came to 
 Q) Colorado and located a ranch on Turkey 
 Creek. Like all the early settlers of Colorado, 
 he experienced many hardships in his journey 
 westward. He joined an ox and horse train at 
 Omaha and from there followed the Platte to Fort 
 Morgan, then crossed the plains to Denver. Nor 
 did his hardships cease with the end of his journey . 
 Colorado was then in its infancy. Comforts were 
 few and of improvements there were none, but 
 he had all the dauntless perseverance of his race 
 and remained undismayed bj' hardships and re- 
 verses. Finally, as a result of his judicious 
 efforts, he acquired a fortune. For several years 
 he has been retired from the cattle business, 
 giving his time to the supervision of his moneyed 
 intere.sts and to the enjoyments of the comforts 
 his industry has rendered possible. Since De- 
 cember, 1871, he has occupied a residence on the 
 corner of California and Eighteenth streets, 
 Denver. 
 
 The son of Leonard and Daro (Stahl) Benkel- 
 man, the subject of this notice was born in 
 Wurtemberg, Germany, where his father was 
 employed as a stone cutter, mason and farmer. 
 The family consisted often children, all of whom 
 
 came to America, and six are now living. Two 
 of the sons enlisted in the Union armj' from 
 Michigan during the late war. Our subject is 
 the only one in Colorado. He was fifth in order 
 of birth and was reared on the home farm, re- 
 ceiving a public-school education. In 1850, at 
 the age of twenty, he left Antwerp on a sailing 
 vessel and arrived in New York after a voyage of 
 forty-six days. Locating in Lancaster, N. Y., 
 he secured work on a farm, where he remained 
 for four years. In 1854 he went to California via 
 the New York and Nicaragua route to San 
 Francisco, from which place he proceeded to the 
 Yuba River, where he engaged in prospecting 
 and mining for eight years. In the fall of 1861 
 he returned east by Panama to New York City, 
 then went west to Michigan, and in the spring of 
 1862 came to Colorado with a view to mining 
 here, but instead turned his attention to the cattle 
 business. 
 
 After one year on Turkey Creek Mr. Benkel- 
 man located in Blackhawk, Gilpin County, where 
 he engaged in the meat business, and he also had 
 a market in Central City. In 1870 he located in 
 Denver and at the same time started a cattle 
 ranch on the Middle Kiowa, in Elbert County, 
 where he continued in business until 1876. His 
 next location was on the South Fork of the Re- 
 publican, in Cheyenne County, Kan., where he 
 first leased land, but subsequently bought a large 
 tract situated along the south fork of the Re- 
 publican River. The most of this he still owns 
 and now rents. On his ranch he had from 
 ten to twelve thousand head of cattle. Shipments 
 were made each fall to Chicago, often sending 
 two trains of thirty-three cars. In 1883 he re- 
 tired from business. He has been an active mem- 
 ber of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association 
 and is now a director in the Colorado Packing 
 and Provision Company, in which he is financial- 
 ly interested . Politically he votes the Republican 
 ticket. 
 
 At Sturgis, Mich., in December, i86r, occurred 
 the marriage of Mr. Benkelman to Miss Christine 
 Romel, who was born near Stuttgart, Wurtem- 
 berg, Germany. She was a daughter of Michael 
 and Barbara (Frey) Romel, the latter of whom 
 died in Germany; the former, who was a shoe- 
 maker by trade, joined his children in Michigan 
 and died there at the age of eighty-four. All of 
 his eight children came to America and six are 
 
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 still living, Mrs. Benkelman being the only one 
 in Colorado. She is the mother of three sons 
 now living: George W. , who is traveling sales- 
 man for the Colorado Packing and Provision Com- 
 pany of Denver; Charles A., who is engaged in 
 mining in the Cripple Creek district; and Harry J. , 
 formerly deputy secretary of state and a resident of 
 Denver. Another son, Frank B. , an exceptionally 
 bright and promising boy, died at the age of nearly 
 twelve years. The family are identified with the 
 English Lutheran Church. 
 
 WORTH BRASIE, who is a well-known 
 citizen of Denver, formerlj' made his home 
 in Minnesota and was prominent in the 
 public affairs of Monticello, Wright County. His 
 popularity in his county may be shown by the 
 statement that in 1872, when he was elected clerk 
 of courts, he was the Democratic nominee in a 
 county largely Republican. On beginning his 
 duties as clerk, he removed to the county seat at 
 Buffalo. In 1880 he was again nominated for the 
 office and this time was successful by a majority 
 of nine hundred, while James A. Garfield, candi- 
 date for president on the Republican ticket, was 
 elected by a majority of more than one thousand. 
 During his last ofiicial years in Wright County, 
 he also had a large fire insurance business in 
 Minneapolis, under the firm name of Brasie & 
 Bartlett. The climate of Minnesota, however, 
 did not prove healthful and hoping to be relieved 
 from asthma by a change of location, he decided 
 to come to Colorado. This he did, notwith- 
 standing the fact that in the same year (1884) he 
 was offered the Democratic nomination, and gen- 
 erally endorsed by the Republicans, for the office 
 of county clerk. Owing to the condition of his 
 health, he felt obliged to decline the nomination. 
 The Brasie family was founded in America by 
 Alfred Brasie, a native of Alsace, on the Rhine, 
 and after coming to America was a resident of 
 New York state, where he died. His son. Row 
 Brasie, was born on the home farm near the Hud- 
 son River and in youth entered the army as a 
 private soldier, but rose in rank to the position of 
 major- sergeant under Gen. W. J. Worth. The 
 regiment of which he was a member was the only 
 regiment of United States troops until the time of 
 the Seminole war. During his eight years' serv- 
 ice in the array he participated in the Seminole 
 
 war and later was stationed at Key West, Fla. 
 His service covered two terms of three and five 
 years respectively. On retiring from the army, 
 he settled on a farm near Peoria, 111., where he 
 improved and cultivated a large tract of land. In 
 1850 he removed to Wisconsin and engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits near Ripon; from there, 
 in 1854, ^^ went to Minnesota, pre-empting gov- 
 ernment land in Wright County and becoming a 
 pioneer of Monticello. While there he .served as 
 county treasurer, being elected to the position on 
 the Democratic ticket. His last days were spent 
 in Litchfield, Meeker County, Minn., where he 
 died in April, 1897, at the age of ninety-one. 
 His wife was Huldah Bettis, a native of York 
 state and in childhood orphaned by the death of 
 her parents. She died in 1886, at sixty-seven 
 years, leaving four sons: Henry S., a business 
 man of Monticello; W. Worth; John A., a promi- 
 nent business man of Monticello; and Charles A., 
 who is engaged in business in Litchfield. 
 
 While his father was stationed at Key West, 
 Fla., the subject of this sketch was born there in 
 1846. He was an infant when the family settled 
 in Peoria County, 111., and was only eight years 
 old when he went with his parents to Minnesota, 
 so that his young life was practically spent in 
 that state. He received his primary education 
 in Monticello ^nd later graduated from the high 
 school of Minneapolis, after which he was a stu- 
 dent in Lombard University until the close of the 
 sophomore year. In 1866 he graduated from 
 Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y. On completing his studies he embarked 
 in mercantile pursuits in Monticello, and con- 
 tinued in business until his election as clerk of 
 the district court in 1872. As a public official 
 his record was one reflecting the highest credit 
 upon himself. Accurate in judgment, conscien- 
 tious in even the smallest detail of work, and 
 unwavering in integrity, he won the confidence 
 of his electors, and the regard of all with whom 
 he had dealings. His first two years in Colorado 
 were spent at Canon City, and on regaining his 
 health he came to Denver in 1886, and has since 
 engaged in the buying and improving of prop- 
 erty. One of his first purchases was on Six- 
 teenth, between Glenarm and Welton, where he 
 tore down an old homestead occupying the site 
 and erected a three-story building known as the 
 Brasie block. He als,o built a fine row of houses 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 627 
 
 on Fourteenth street, and owns a three-story 
 brick block on Wazee, between Sixteenth and 
 Seventeenth streets, an excellent wholesale busi- 
 ness location. 
 
 While in Monticello Mr. Brasie was made a 
 Mason, and afterward he held the office of master 
 of the lodge at Buffalo; also was connected with 
 Zion Commandery No. 2, K. T., at Minneapolis. 
 He has always been stanch in his allegiance to 
 the Democratic party, whose principles, carried 
 into practical business, he believes will conserve 
 the best interests of state and nation. He was 
 married in Minneapolis to Miss Susie Weeks, 
 who was born in Maine and accompanied her 
 father, John Weeks, to Minnesota. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Brasie have an only son, N. Eugene, who 
 is a member of the class of 1900, Colorado State 
 University, at Boulder. 
 
 (S\ UGUST G. BURKE, who owns and occupies 
 r 1 a farm of one hundred and thirty acres near 
 I I Boulder, was born in Sweden December 14, 
 1835, and is a son of August G. and Anna 
 (Stiener) Burke. He was the only son among 
 three children, his sisters being Anna, wife of S. 
 Swanson, a farmer of Chautauqua County, N. Y. , 
 and Sadie, who married Ferry Anderson, a far- 
 mer, also of Chautauqua County. The father, 
 who was born in Sweden in 1810, learned the 
 trade of a miller under his father's instructions. 
 For nearly thirty years the latter was in the em- 
 ploy of the government as forester, a most respon- 
 sible position, that gave him charge of all the 
 government timber. 
 
 Purchasing a grist mill, August G. Burke, Sr., 
 carried on a milling business in his native land 
 until 1854. He then came to America and set- 
 tled in Brockton, Chautauqua County, N. Y. , 
 where he purchased one hundred and twenty 
 acres of railroad land and began the clearing and 
 cultivation of the property. He continued to re- 
 side on that place until his death. In addition 
 to the management of his estate, he speculated in 
 buying wheat and other 'grains, which he stored 
 in elevators until selling them . He was an ex- 
 cellent business man and became well-to-do. 
 
 When a boy the subject of this sketch learned 
 the trade of a baker and confectioner. In 1855 
 he came to America, sailing from Guttenberg to 
 Boston and landing in the latter city on the 15th 
 
 of November, after a stormy voyage of five weeks 
 on the sailing vessel "Richmond." One year 
 was spent in Dunkirk, N. Y., where he worked 
 for his father on the home farm and in some rail- 
 road work for which his father held the contract. 
 In 1856 he went to St. Paul, in what was then 
 the territory of Minnesota, and for a year worked 
 in a bakery, after which for seven months he 
 was pastry cook for the Fuller House, then the 
 leading hotel of St. Paul. 
 
 Afterward Mr. Burke hired as a cook for two 
 lieutenants and the captain of a companj', on an 
 expedition to make a treaty with the Sioux In- 
 dians. This trip took him through the two Da- 
 kotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado 
 and Arkansas, and took five months. On his re- 
 turn to Minnesota, he wentfrom thereto Chicago, 
 with the intention of returning to his old home 
 in Sweden. In Chicago he met a man who had 
 been his schoolmate in Sweden and who dis- 
 suaded him from returning home, by telling him of 
 the hard times in the old country. He insisted 
 upon our subject going to Pike's Peak with him, 
 and while Mr. Burke had just returned from the 
 mountains, he consented to return with his friend. 
 The two went by steam car to St. Joseph, Mo. , and 
 there bought a team of horses, with which they 
 crossed the plains, landing in Denver after a 
 three weeks' trip. On reaching this city, Mr. 
 Burke had $40 in his pocket. The night after 
 his arrival, in 1859, he played the violin, while a 
 colored man played the banjo, for a dance given 
 in a butcher shop on Larimer and Fifteenth 
 streets; the dancers were men, as there were no 
 ladies in Denver at the time. Though the price 
 of the tickets was $5, the attendance was large. 
 
 A German who was conducting a boarding house 
 and bakery in West Denver gave Mr. Burke em- 
 ployment for six months at $5 per day. In the fall 
 of 1859 he opened a bakery on Larimer street. 
 The brick of which he built his oven were the 
 first brick taken from the first kiln ever burned 
 in Colorado, and the brick for the oven alone cost 
 him more than $300. After carrying on a pros- 
 perous business, in 1863 he sold the store for more 
 than $7,000, but retained some fifteen lots on Fif- 
 teenth and Sixteenth and Larimer streets. Going 
 to Central City, he invested a part of his money 
 with a Boston company in a mine,but lost hisentire 
 investment. He then built a house and opened a 
 bakery, which after six months he sold and built 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in Nevada, where he again did a prosperous ba- 
 kery business. In the spring of 1865 he came to 
 Boulder and took up one hundred and sixty acres 
 three miles north of Boulder. At the same time 
 he took out his naturalization papers. In farm- 
 ing he was at first unfortunate, losing his first two 
 crops on account of the grasshopper plague. 
 With fifty cents in his pocket and his violin under 
 his arm, he walked to Julesburg, where he se- 
 cured employment at $5 per day for four months. 
 He then secured employment in Cheyenne for 
 eight months and finally returned to his farm and 
 resumed agricultural pursuits. In 1880 he pur- 
 chased the farm which he had rented since 1877 
 and upon which he has since resided. 
 
 September 14, i860, Mr. Burke married Miss 
 Mary J. Harding. Six children were born of 
 their union. Carl W., the oldest, is a farmer at 
 Lamar, Colo. Oscar A. carries on a farm in 
 Boulder County, as does also the third son, Frank 
 P. Kate L. is the wife of James Gallagher, a 
 farmer of Boulder County. Reuben V. is a teacher 
 in the Boulder public schools; Maud is the wife 
 of James Liverton, of Boulder. The second mar- 
 riage of Mr. Burke was solemnized .December 24, 
 1883, and united him with Mrs. Jennie Dorsy, 
 of Boulder. 
 
 EHARLES L. BURPEE. During the years 
 of his residence in Denver, Mr. Burpee has 
 built up a reputation for executive ability 
 and strength of character. He is one of the prom- 
 inent business men of the city, having his office 
 at No. 1530 Curtis street, and is extensively en- 
 gaged in the real-estate and loan business. For- 
 merly, and for some years, he was president of 
 the First National Bank of Urbana, 111. , but de- 
 cided to resign that position and remove to Colo- 
 rado, in the hope that the change of climate 
 might benefit his son, who was ill. 
 
 Mr. Burpee's ancestors on the Bailey and Bur- 
 pee sides, were soldiers in the war of the Revolu- 
 tion. He was born in Livingston County, N. Y., 
 in 1843, and is a son of Elijah and Myra (Bailey) 
 Burpee. When he was a child of ten years the 
 family removed to Rockford, 111., and there he 
 was a pupil in the public schools. When he was 
 twenty years of age, in September, 1863, he en- 
 listed as a member of Company F, Seventy-fourth 
 Illinois Infantry, and served for a period of twelve 
 months, but on account of poor health received 
 
 an honorable discharge before the war ended. 
 Among the battles in which he participated were 
 those of Perry ville, Ky., Stone River and Mur- 
 f reesboro, Tenn. , and it was the exposure at Stone 
 River that brought on his sickness. For sixty 
 days before his discharge he was in the hospital 
 at Murfreesboro. 
 
 On retiring from the army, Mr. Burpee went 
 to Leavenworth, Kan., where for a year he was 
 employed as clerk in a wholesale boot and shoe 
 house. In 1867 he went to Chicago, and after- 
 ward, until 1873, traveled for a wholesale boot 
 and shoe house of that city. Meantime he had 
 married, being, in 1870, united with Miss Myra 
 E. Cady, of Champaign, 111. Two sons were 
 born of their union, both born in Champaign, 111., 
 Fayette C. and Charles M., the latter a graduate 
 of Denver high school. No. i, in 1897. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Burpee established the First 
 National Bank of Urbana, 111. , of which he was 
 chosen the first president, and continued at the 
 head of the institution until 1888. Under his 
 management the bank was very successful and 
 gained a wide reputation for financial stability. 
 When he severed his relations with the institu- 
 tion of which he had been the head for fifteen 
 years, the board of directors adopted the following 
 resolutions: 
 
 "Whereas, Charles L. Burpee, the first presi- 
 dent of this bank, is about to retire from said oifice, 
 from the board and as a stockholder of this bank; 
 therefore be it 
 
 '■'Resolved, by the board of directors, that in the 
 loss of the services, high ability and sterling in- 
 tegrity of its first president, to whom the financial 
 success of the bank is in a large measure due, we 
 suffer a loss which we deeply feel, and one which 
 will be difficult to replace. 
 
 ''Resolved, that in the more noble realm of 
 true, manly friendship, we lose from our midst one 
 whom we shall ever cherish in fond recollection, 
 and to whom we give our assurance that in what- 
 ever walks of life he may hereafter wander, our 
 highest esteem, personal regard and good wishes 
 will ever attend him." 
 
 From early youth Mr. Burpee has been a stanch 
 advocate of Republican principles. In 1893 he 
 was elected a member of the board of supervisors 
 of Denver, of which he was made president in 
 1895; this board is the upper legislative house of 
 the city of Denver and its president is acting exec- 
 
COL. IVERS PHILLIPS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 631 
 
 utive of the city in the absence of the mayor. In 
 1897 he was again nominated for the position, 
 but declined to become a candidate. While in 
 Chicago he was made a Mason, identifying him- 
 self with Ashler Lodge No. 308, A. F. & A. M., 
 and later he became a member of the chapter and 
 commandery at Urbana. As a citizen he favors 
 all measures for the benefit of the people and the 
 extension of the commerce of the city, and his 
 personal influence is given to aid all public-spir- 
 ited projects. 
 
 EOL. IVERS PHILLIPS, of Boulder, is a 
 very remarkable man; his life, which very 
 nearly spans the present century, having 
 been characterized by unusual activity and enter- 
 prise in numberless directions. He has been the 
 president of railroad companies, financially con- 
 nected with banking institutions and other busi- 
 ness concerns; has ofiiciated with distinction in 
 public positions, both in the government and 
 military service; has been no less faithful in 
 minor civic offices, and was one of the founders 
 of the Republican party. Thus, very briefly, is 
 summed up a portion of the affairs which have 
 interested him — matters comprehensive enough 
 to have occupied a dozen different men, it would 
 seem, but he has been equal to much more than 
 this. 
 
 In tracing the history of Colonel Phillips we 
 find that his birth took place in Ashpenham, 
 Worcester County, Mass., July 28, 1805. He 
 recalls incidents of the war of 18 12, and though 
 he is now in his ninety-fourth year of age, he re- 
 tains everj' faculty and enjoys life as in days ot 
 yore. His childhood was spent in Fitchburg, 
 Mass., and Ipswich, where he attended the public 
 schools and Appleton Academ3^ He remained 
 under the parental roof uutil he attained his 
 majority, and the following year he determined 
 to see something of the then far west. Going 
 across Pennsylvania, until he arrived at the Ohio 
 River, he proceeded down it and the Mississippi 
 River to New Orleans. There he stayed for a 
 short time and then took passage in a sailing 
 vessel bound for Boston. Years afterward, in 
 1873, he once more traveled through the west; 
 and for nine years spent much of his time in 
 visiting all portions of the United States and 
 Canada. 
 
 But before entering further into the details of 
 
 the colonel's history it might be well to devote 
 some space to his forefathers. He is justly en- 
 titled to belong to the Sons of the Revolution 
 (and is connected with the Denver branch of that 
 order), as his grandfather, Seth Phillips, was a 
 lieutenant in the colonial army during that con- 
 flict. After the war he settled in Fitchburg, 
 Mass. , and died in that town when he was seventy- 
 five years of age. He was a native of Pembroke, 
 Plymouth County, Mass., in which locality his 
 English ancestors had settled in the early days 
 of colonial history. His father bore the name of 
 Lot Phillips. The parents of the colonel were 
 Samuel and Sally (Thurston) Phillips, both na- 
 tives of Fitchburg, and reared upon farms. The 
 formerremoved to Ashpenham, Worcester County, 
 Mass., but in 181 1 he returned to the old home- 
 stead where his boyhood had been passed. Two 
 of his brothers served in the war of 18 12, and 
 he would have enlisted but for physical dis- 
 ability. He departed this life when in his fifty- 
 eighth year. His wife, who died in 1848, was 
 likewise of English lineage. Her father. Deacon 
 John Thurston, a native of Plymouth County, 
 Mass., participated in the early Indian wars, and 
 later was a farmer in Fitchburg. The only sister 
 of our subject, Mrs. Sally Russell, died in Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 
 Col. Ivers Phillips continued to dwell on the 
 old parental homestead until 1833, when he was 
 appointed deputy-sheriff' of Worcester County. 
 Before his term had expired he was elected 
 county coroner, and acted in that capacity from 
 1836 to 1856. A portion of that time he also 
 officiated as a justice of the peace, and there was 
 not one interruption in his public office-holding 
 during his entire residence in his native state, 
 from 1833 to 1873. June i, 1825, he was made 
 corporal of a company of light infantry in the 
 Fourth Regiment, Seventh Brigade, Sixth Di- 
 vision, of Massachusetts .state militia. Sub- 
 sequently he was appointed ensign, later lieuten- 
 ant, and May 13, 1831, was commissioned major 
 of the regiment by Governor Lincoln. August 4 
 of the same summer he was raised to the rank of 
 lieutenant -colonel and March 12, 1833, was made 
 colonel of the Fourth by Governor Lincoln. 
 May 2, 1835, he resigned his commission, as other 
 affairs required his attention. Thus before he 
 was thirty years of age he had been colonel of 
 two different regiments (one infantry and one of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 light infantry) and was then honorably dis- 
 charged, merely at his own request. June 22, 
 1863, Governor Andrews commissioned Mr. 
 Phillips captain of the first company of Massa- 
 chusetts State Guards, organized under the 
 special law. He served as such throughout the 
 Civil war, and was once or twice called into ac- 
 tion for a few days at a time. Later he was 
 again appointed to the captaincy of the same 
 company by Governor Bullock. 
 
 In 1852 Colonel Phillips was elected to represent 
 his home district (Worcester County) as a senator, 
 and acted as chairman of the committee on militia 
 laws. At that time he was elected on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket. In company with one or two others 
 he set on foot a movement toward the founding 
 of a new party, called upon men in all portions 
 of the state to meet in Boston to agitate the 
 matter, and, in brief, the result of his determina- 
 tion and zeal was that such an assemblage did 
 convene at Worcester, Mass., in 1855, and the 
 new party was named Republican. Mr. Phillips 
 was sent as a delegate to the first national con- 
 vention of the party, which met in Philadelphia 
 the following year and nominated John C. Fre- 
 mont for the presidency. August 26, 1862, he 
 was appointed internal revenue assessor for the 
 eighth congressional district of Massachusetts by 
 President Lincoln, and held this office for seven 
 years. For years he was president of the Fitch- 
 burg & Worcester Railroad; later was president 
 of the Agricultural Branch Railroad and held a 
 similar position with the Boston, Barry & Gar- 
 diner Railroad. He has been connected with 
 numerous banks, among them being the Fitch- 
 burg State Bank and the Worcester Bank. Since 
 the First National Bank of Boulder was incorpo- 
 rated, he has been a director in it, also. He is 
 a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and has been a member of the Masonic order 
 since August, 1826. At that time he entered 
 the Blue Lodge in Leominster, Mass. , afterwards 
 took the Royal Arch degree in Fitchburg, and 
 is yet identified with the Knight Templar Com- 
 mandery of Worcester. Religiously he is a 
 Unitarian. 
 
 In 1882 the colonel built his beautiful residence 
 in Boulder, at No. 2145 Eleventh street. In ad- 
 dition to this he has erected several other houses, 
 here and elsewhere. His first marriage took 
 place in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1828; Miss Rebecca 
 
 Carter being the lady of his choice. She was 
 born in Leominster, Mass. , and was a daughter 
 of Thomas Carter, a farmer. She died in 1867. 
 Of her five children, Mary A. and Abigal (Mrs. 
 Lawrence) are residents of Fitchburg. Ivers C. 
 died in Cambridge; Mrs. Harriet R. Works died 
 in Fitchburg; and Sarah T. (Mrs. Wood) died 
 in Colorado in 1872. In 1869 the colonel married 
 in Worcester Mrs. Abigail R. Haines, a native 
 of Leominster, as was her father before her. Dr. 
 Sewell Richardson, and her grandfather, Luke 
 Richardson. The latter was a lieutenant of a 
 company which fought against the Indians in 
 colonial times. Luke was a son of James, who 
 was a son of Joseph, and he was a son of Thomas, 
 which is as far as the lineage can be traced. Dr. 
 Sewall Richardson was the youngest of nine 
 children, and for years he was successfully en- 
 gaged in practice in Leominster. His death, in 
 July, 1867, was the result of his accidentally fall- 
 ing down stairs. His wife, Abigail Kendall, was 
 a daughter of John and Rebecca (Hills) Kendall. 
 John Kendall was an extensive farmer and was 
 also a manufacturer of combs. He was of Eng- 
 lish descent. Mrs. Abigail R. Phillips had but 
 one sister, Clarissa, Mrs. Charles H. Colburn, 
 and she died several years ago in Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Phillips was reared in the Bay state, and in 
 early life became the wife of Daniel R. Haines, 
 a native of New Hampshire. He was a manu- 
 facturer of pianos, and was at one time an aide 
 on the staff of Major-General Morse of Massachu- 
 setts. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Haines, 
 William and Sewall, died while j'oung. Mr. 
 Haines departed this life in August, 1865. 
 
 EHARLES BAILEY PATTERSON. The 
 discovery of gold in Colorado caused thou- 
 sands of men in 1858 to start across the 
 plains with the hope that the hardships they 
 endured would receive a reward in the discovery 
 of nuggets of the precious metal. The trip at 
 that time was almost as difficult as the journey 
 undertaken forty years later by men who hoped 
 to find mines of gold in Klondike. Among the 
 number who journeyed overland to the moun- 
 tains was Mr. Patterson, who left St. Louis and 
 joined the tide of emigration that moved toward 
 Colorado. In July, 1859, he arrived in what is 
 now Denver. Its aspect then was widely differ- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 633 
 
 ent from its present appearance. A few houses, 
 rudely constructed, constituted the town that now 
 boasts of one of the finest state capitols in the 
 country besides a host of business blocks and 
 private residents that compare favorably with the 
 most substantial and elegant in the world . Since 
 that time he has made his home in Colorado, 
 whose development he has materially promoted 
 and whose growth he has watched with the 
 pleasure of a progressive, loyal citizen. 
 
 The Patterson family is of Scotch descent. 
 James Patterson emigrated from Dundee to 
 America and settled in Pennsylvania, where his 
 remaining years were spent. Hisson, Alexander, 
 was a successful farmer of Allegheny County, 
 Pa., and acquired a competence through his in- 
 dustrious efforts. When advanced in years he 
 ceased active farm labor and thenceforward lived 
 in retirement in Sharpsburg until his death, in 
 1857. He was a consistent Christian and an 
 oflBcer in the Presbyterian Church. His wife 
 was Hannah Bailey, a native of Belmont County, 
 Ohio. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Alle- 
 gheny County, Pa., November 7, 1839. He 
 acquired the rudiments of his education in the 
 common schools and afterward took apreparatory 
 collegiate course in Sewickley. On leaving home 
 and starting out in the world for himself, he 
 secured employment in St. Louis, where he re- 
 mained for eighteen months, coming from here 
 to Colorado in July, 1859. Here he embarked in 
 mining in Russell Gulch, where he spent two 
 years of hard but fairly successful work. He 
 then went to Empire, Colo., and opened a 
 general store, succeeding so well in the enterprise 
 that in 1864 he opened a branch store at George- 
 town. His mercantile experiences extended 
 over a period of nine years. In January, 1870, 
 he sold out his stores and settled in Denver, 
 where he engaged in the real-estate and insurance 
 business. In 1890 he removed to his palatial 
 home near Littleton, where he has since resided. 
 He has done much for the upbuilding of Denver 
 by his real-estate enterprises. Among the build- 
 ings he erected in this city are the Pioneer build- 
 ing and the block on the southeast corner of 
 Larimer and Fourteenth streets. 
 
 For years Mr. Patterson has been a regular 
 attendant upon the services of the Episcopal 
 Church, which he has served in an official ca- 
 
 pacity. His first vote was cast for Democratic 
 candidates and he has never swerved from his 
 allegiance to that party. During his residence 
 in Clear Creek County, in 1866 he was elected a 
 member of the state legislature and ably repre- 
 sented the people of his county in the house of 
 representatives. During the period of his service 
 he assisted in the election of two United States 
 senators, but the territory not being admitted as 
 a state, the election was rendered void. He has 
 never joined a society of any kind, is thoroughlj' 
 temperate and a model independent citizen. 
 
 (lOSEPH S. CLARK. In the spring of 1897 
 I Mr. Clark was nominated on the tax payers' 
 Q) ticket, for the position of alderman of the 
 seventh ward and was elected by a fair majority 
 over the other six candidates. About the same 
 time he accepted the position of representative 
 for the Nave & McCord Mercantile Company, of 
 St. Joe, one of the largest concerns of its kind in 
 the United States. Both in business and political 
 circles he is deservedly prominent, and his in- 
 fluence is felt for good in the advocacy of public- 
 spirited and progressive plans. As a member ot 
 the council he was chairman of the committees 
 on street railways, funerals and official visitors, 
 and member of the committees on electric light 
 and gas, finance, and drains and sewers. 
 
 Near what is now Carbondale, Lackawanna 
 (then Luzerne) County, Pa., the subject of this 
 sketch was born January 19, 1844. His father, 
 Judson, who was born near Canandaigua, N. Y. , 
 was one of the pioneer coal operators of Carbon- 
 dale, and among the first shippers of coal for the 
 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western road. From 
 Carbondale he removed to Scranton, where he 
 continued to operate extensively. He dis- 
 covered a vein of coal that was named the Clark 
 vein in his honor. In his efifort to keep his men 
 employed and his mine in active operation he 
 overworked himself, and fatal results followed. 
 He died in April, i860, when forty-eight years 
 of age. He was twice married, having six chil- 
 dren by his second wife. The mother of our sub- 
 ject, Emma J. (Grosvenor) Clark, was born in 
 Abington Township, Lackawanna (then Luzerne) 
 County, and died in Scranton at the age of sixty 
 years. She was a daughter of Joseph Gros- 
 venor, a farmer by occupation and descendant of 
 
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 English ancestors. Of her children four are 
 living: Lillie, Mrs. David Seward, of Green 
 Ridge, Pa.; Morris and Willis, ofScranton; and 
 Joseph S. 
 
 When our subject was six years of age the 
 family removed to Scranton. He was educated 
 in the schools of Providence, Scranton, and in 
 Wyoming Seminary and Williston Seminary at 
 East Hampton, Mass. Returning to Scranton 
 he engaged in the mercantile business at Provi- 
 dence Square, but after a time, in 1868, removed 
 to Valley Falls, Jefferson County, Kan., where 
 he bought land and engaged in farming. After- 
 ward he carried on a store at the same place and 
 was there during the famous grasshopper siege, 
 when Kansas was overrun with those "imple- 
 ments of destruction." Later he engaged in 
 railroading, with A. A. Robinson, in the engineer- 
 ing corps of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
 Railroad, which he assisted in surveying from 
 Granada to West Las Animas. The same year, 
 1874, he was in the company's office at Las 
 Animas, afterward clerked in the quartermaster's 
 office at the fort. 
 
 In the spring of 1876 Mr. Clark settled in 
 Denver, where he was shipping clerk for a 
 wholesale grocer, and later was with a mercantile 
 firm. In 1880 the board of trade appointed him 
 official city weigher at the scales on Nineteenth 
 street, and this position he held for two years. 
 For four and one-half years he was inspector for 
 the Colorado Railroad Pool Association, and for 
 eighteen months was in charge of the city ship- 
 ping department of the C. S. Morey Mercantile 
 Company, after which he was with Benjamin F. 
 Bowen in the wholesale commission business as 
 city salesman for eight years, resigning in April, 
 1896, and accepting the appointment of deputy 
 county assessor under Willard L- Ames, for 
 whom, he made assessments in the central portion 
 of the city. In the spring of 1897 he was nom- 
 inated for alderman and received the majority 
 of the votes in the election. 
 
 In Abington Township, Lackawanna County, 
 Pa., Mr. Clark married Miss Lucy Colvin, who 
 was born there. Her father, Ezra, was a son 
 of Otis Colvin, a native of Rhode Island and a 
 pioneer farmer of Lackawanna County ; he died 
 at the age of eighty, and his wife, Mary (Capwell) 
 Colvin, at the age of ninety. Ezra Colvin re- 
 moved from Pennsylvania to Valley Falls, Kan., 
 
 where he was proprietor of the Cataract House. 
 He died there at the age of forty-eight years. 
 Two of Mrs. Clark's great-grandfathers, Colvin 
 and Capwell, served in the Revolution. Her 
 mother was Celinda, daughter of George Parker, 
 who removed from New York state to Lacka- 
 wanna County, Pa., and settled upon a farm; 
 Mrs. Clark was educated in the Lewisburg Fe- 
 male Seminary. The three children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Clark are: Bertha, Mrs. Crumb, of Denver; 
 Lora, Mrs. Cusick, of La Junta, Colo.; and W. 
 Judson, who is a student in Denver. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Clark is a member of Hiram 
 Lodge No. 261, F. & A. M., in Scranton, Pa., 
 Chapter No. 185, in that city, and Coeur de Lion 
 Commandery No. 2 1 , in the same place. He is 
 connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and has been past master. He is also 
 identified with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows in Scranton. In the Galilee Baptist 
 Church he has been a trustee and the treasurer. 
 In former years he was a Democrat, and in 
 1878-80 was secretary of the Democratic county 
 committee, but he became identified with the tax- 
 payers in their first meeting and supported their 
 ticket at the last election. 
 
 r~RANKLIN, R. CALEY. Having passed 
 r^ almost his entire life in Colorado, Mr. 
 I Caley has been intimately identified with 
 the development of its agricultural resources and 
 has himself contributed to its growth. While he 
 is still a young man, his birth having occurred 
 August 31, 1869, he has already won a position 
 of prominence among the farmers and dairymen 
 of Arapahoe County. He is the owner of one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining his 
 father's homestead near Littleton and here he is 
 engaged in general agricultural pursuits. He has 
 recently made application for a patent on a retail 
 delivery milk can, an ingenious device by which 
 the milk and cream are delivered to a customer 
 in separate compartments after having passed 
 through a separator. This patent he hopes he 
 may use to advantage in the dairy business, in 
 which he has established himself. He is acquir- 
 ing valuable cattle interests and will undoubtedly 
 in time become one of the large land owners and 
 dairymen of the county. 
 The history of the Caley family is given in the 
 
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 635 
 
 sketch of our subject's father, Franklin T. Caley, 
 which appears on another page. The first five 
 years of our subject's life were passed in his 
 native town, Sullivan, Crawford County, Mo. 
 He accompanied his parents to Colorado and ob- 
 tained his education in the public schools and the 
 Agricultural College at Fort Collins. September 
 12, 1895, he was united in marriage with Edna, 
 daughter of E. W. Stradley, of I^ittleton. One 
 child blesses the union, a daughter, Alma E. 
 
 Giving his attention closely to his personal 
 affairs, Mr. Caley has never taken an active part 
 in politics. He is inclined to be independent in 
 his views, and casts his ballot for the men whom 
 he considers best qualified for office, whatever 
 may be their political affiliations. 
 
 /HHARLES LERCHEN. Persistence, when 
 1 1 joined with good judgment, almost invariably 
 \J brings success. Mr. Lerchen has never had 
 reason to regret that his foresight led him to per- 
 sist in making the journey to the west in the early 
 days. The excitement caused by the discoverj- 
 of gold in Pike's Peak caused many men to take 
 the long trip overland to the mountains; many of 
 these Argonauts, as history records, soon wearied 
 of the struggle and turned their faces eastward. 
 About this time four young men, of whom Mr. 
 lyerchen was the youngest, started from Daven- 
 port, Iowa, with a four-yoke ox-team and trav- 
 eled up the Platte toward Colorado. From time 
 to time they met groups of discouraged men going 
 eastward and the reports thus gained were not in 
 the least flattering, either to the mineral wealth 
 or other resources of California. The enthusiasm 
 of the men perceptibly decreased and near Fort 
 Kearney the three oldest of the party turned back, 
 leaving Mr. Lerchen with one yoke of oxen and a 
 sack of flour. He then joined another company, 
 which, when within two hundred miles of Den- 
 ver, also turned back. Again left alone with his 
 oxen and flour, he joined a man who was also 
 coming to Denver and the two reached here June 
 22, 1859, after having been ninety days absent 
 from Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Mr. Lerchen is of Saxon birth, and was born 
 near Dresden, September 11, 1839, the son of 
 Charles and Amelia (Lau) Lerchen. His father, 
 who was a harness-maker, brought the family to 
 America in 1843 and settled in Detroit, but in the 
 
 spring of 1850 went to Wheeling, W. Va., and 
 in the fall of the same year located in Davenport, 
 Iowa, where he worked at his trade. In the 
 spring of i860, accompanied by his sons, Charles 
 and William, he started for Colorado, from which 
 Charles had returned in November of the pre- 
 vious year. The three traveled towards the Blue 
 River country and engaged in mining there for 
 two seasons, after which Charles went to Mont- 
 gomery and mined. In the fall of 1863 the firm 
 of Charles Lerchen & Brother started a harness 
 business. The father died in 1892, when eighty- 
 four years of age. In politics he was originally 
 a Democrat, but after the formation of the Re- 
 publican party supported its principles. Our sub- 
 ject's mother was the daughter of a large landed 
 proprietor in Germany and the city of Lau, loca- 
 ted on his property, was named in his honor. 
 She resides in Davenport, and is the mother of 
 three sons and four daughters, all of whom are 
 living but one son. 
 
 The eldest of the children was Charles. He 
 was educated in Detroit and Davenport and ob- 
 tained a good knowledge of both the German and 
 English languages. As a boy he assisted his 
 father in the harness business until coming to 
 Colorado. Here he prospected for a few months 
 at Russell's Gulch, starting for Davenport in 1859, 
 on his twentieth anniversary. In the spring of 
 i860, with his father and brother William, he came 
 west again, making the journey with a mule team, 
 and crossing the Missouri at Omaha. He reached 
 Denver thirty-five days after leaving Davenport, 
 and at once began mining in the Blue River 
 country, five miles below Breckenridge. In 1862 
 he went to Montgomery, but was not so success- 
 ful there. In the summer of 1863 he and a brother 
 bought a harness business on Blake, between Fif- 
 teenth and Sixteenth streets, Denver, and carried 
 on business together until 1867, when he sold to 
 his brother. During the war the Indians were 
 very troublesome and frequently he joined private 
 companies that went out to fight the savages. 
 
 Mr. Lerchen embarked in copper and silver 
 lode mining in Custer and Huerfano Counties, 
 and during this time found some gold mines, but 
 the grant had been given by Governor Gilpin to 
 the Denver & Rio Grande road, and it was there- 
 fore inadvisable to work them. In 1880 he went 
 to the Bonanza camp in the San Luis Valley, and 
 prospected at Kerber Creek, being there at the 
 
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 time of General Grant's visit to the Colorado 
 mines. In 1883 he became interested in dealing 
 in cattle. This was not his first venture in that 
 line, as from 1868 to 1870 he had carried on a 
 cattle ranch in Arapahoe County, ten miles east 
 of Denver. He has brought more thoroughbred 
 bulls into Colorado than any other man in the 
 state, having made a specialty of full-blooded Dev- 
 oDshires, Herefords, Shorthorns and Durhams. 
 In 1892 he bought two carloads of full-blooded 
 Devonshires from Rumsey Brothers, in Westfield, 
 N. Y., and sold them in Middle Park and vicinity. 
 He was the first man in the state who gave indi- 
 vidual premiums for fine bred cattle. He is a 
 member of Colorado Cattle Growers' Association. 
 In national politics he is a Republican. From the 
 first carnival of the festival of the mountain and 
 plain he has been marshal of the first division on 
 Pioneers' day. Like all Fifty-niners still living 
 here, he holds membership in the Colorado Asso- 
 ciation of Pioneers. His office is in the Jacobson 
 block, No. 1029 Sixteenth street. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Lerchen married Miss Naomi 
 M. Haggerty, who was bom in Missouri, the 
 daughter of Henry and Mary (Gunter) Haggerty, 
 natives of County Derry, Ireland, and Nashville, 
 Tenn., respectively. Her father, who came to 
 America in early life, settled in Colorado in 1863 
 and was a merchant tailor here. In the fall of 
 1866 his family joined him in Denver. His wife, 
 who is still living, was a daughter of August 
 Gunter, a native of Mobile, Ala., for a time a res- 
 ident of Nashville, thence removing to St. Louis, 
 but soon afterward settling upon a farm in Clin- 
 ton County, where he remained until his death. 
 
 r^ J. CLEARY, proprietor of the West Denver 
 Ly Boiler Works, was born in County Clare, 
 fS Ireland, in 1845, the son of John and 
 Margaret (Rohan) Cleary, also natives of the 
 Emerald Isle. John Cleary was employed as 
 pound master in Ireland, and died there in 1849, 
 at the age of twenty-seven. Afterward Mrs. 
 Clearj' was married to M. Ryan, who was for 
 years foreman of the New York Central Railroad 
 at Rochester. In 1849 the family, comprising 
 two children, our subject and a sister, were 
 brought by the mother to America, and for a 
 time lived in New York City, but later moved to 
 Rochester, where she died at sixty-seven years. 
 
 The daughter, Annie, now resides in Brooklyn. 
 In 1850 an uncle of our subject, James Cleary, 
 came with his mother to America and located in 
 Grand Rapids, Mich., but later removed to La 
 Salle, 111., where the grandmother died at a very 
 advanced age, and the uncle still makes his home, 
 being retired from active business. 
 
 At the age of eleven, our subject began to work 
 on a farm in Mendon, Monroe County, N. Y., 
 and at the age of sixteen he was apprenticed as a 
 boiler maker in the New York Central & Hudson 
 River Railroad shops at Rochester, where he 
 served his time. Later he was employed by 
 Chapin & Terry, boiler manufacturers of 
 Rochester, and afterward was with Woodbury, 
 Booth & Co., of the same city. December 28, 
 1868, he went to Omaha, Neb., where he was 
 employed by the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany and by them sent to Laramie, Wyo., as 
 boiler maker in the car shops. He arrived in 
 Wyoming just before New Year's, 1869, and con- 
 tinued there until April 5, when he was trans- 
 ferred back to the Omaha shops, remaining in 
 them until 1872. He then returned east and 
 worked at his trade in Corning, N. Y. , for a few 
 months, then was at Painted Post, Addison and 
 Elmira, in the latter place being foreman in 
 charge of the boiler shops for three years and 
 seven months |br the La France Fire Engine 
 Manufacturing Company. Early in 1879 he start- 
 ed west, and reaching Stewart, Iowa, worked there 
 for five months, then in the fall of the same 
 year came to Golden, Colo. , where he was made 
 foreman in the boiler department of the Union 
 Pacific shops. This position he held until 1883, 
 after which he was foreman in the Denver & New 
 Orleans Railroad shops about four months, and 
 for seventeen months foreman in what is now the 
 Engineering Works of Denver. In the fall of 
 1884 he went to Evanston, Wyo., where he 
 worked at his trade about six months. On his 
 return to Denver he accepted a place as foreman 
 with the F. M. Davis Iron Works Company, 
 with whom he remained for five years and five 
 months, then resigned in order to start in busi- 
 ness for himself In July, 1890, he started in 
 business as a member of the firm of Cleary & 
 Campbell, but after eight months bought his 
 partner's interest and has since run the works 
 alone. He manufactures boilers and heavy 
 sheet iron of all descriptions. Among his con- 
 
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 637 
 
 tracts are the following: three boilers, eighty 
 horse-power each, for the Milwaukee Brewing 
 Company, of Denver; two sixty-five horse-power, 
 for the Greeley Light and Power Company; one, 
 eighty horse-power for the l,ongmont Flour 
 Mills; one eighty horse for the Alamosa Mills; 
 one forty-five horse for H. W. Bingham; and 
 two, each forty horse, in the Tabor block and 
 Tabor Opera House block; and other boilers. 
 The location of the shop is on Larimer and Fifth 
 streets. 
 
 In Rochester Mr. Cleary married Miss Mary 
 A. Huck, daughter of Edward Huck, a cooper 
 there. They have had ten sons and one daugh- 
 ter, but seven of these are deceased, viz.: John, 
 Katie, William, George (ist), George (2d), Emil 
 and Henry, who died between the ages of six 
 months and eight years. Those living are Ed- 
 ward James, who is employed in the Hungarian 
 Mills; William Tecumseh, Fred Joseph and 
 Albert John Rohan, all of whom are employed in 
 their father's shop. Politically Mr. Cleary was 
 at one time a Democrat, but is now a silver Re- 
 publican. 
 
 HON. O. F. A. GREENE, a pioneer attorney 
 of Boulder, is a member of an old eastern 
 family that was identified with the history 
 of Massachusetts during colonial days. The first 
 of the name to settle in Maine was the great- 
 great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, a 
 native of Massachusetts, and a pioneer of Maine, 
 where he was killed by Indians in one of the 
 early Indian wars. Seward, son of Joseph 
 Greene, was born in Maine and engaged in farm- 
 ing, in Troy, Waldo County, where he also served 
 as selectman and captain of militia. He married 
 Abigail Conner, daughter of John Conner, a 
 native of New England, whose father emigrat- 
 ed from Ireland and settled in Massachusetts. 
 Seward Greene and his wife died in Maine in 1859, 
 within two weeks of each other. Of their two 
 daughters and one son the latter alone survives, 
 he being the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Born in Troy, Me., February 2, 1842, our 
 subject passed his boyhood years in his native 
 town. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany M, First Maine Cavalry, and with his regi- 
 ment took part in the principal battles of the 
 Army of the Potomac, among which were 
 Antietam, Gettysburg and the Wilderness, He 
 
 was wounded at Blackwater Bridge, Petersburg, 
 in September, 1864, the bullet passing through 
 his arm and entering the right side, lodging 
 under the right shoulder blade, where it still 
 remains. Upon the expiration of his term of 
 enlistment he was honorably discharged, in 
 December, 1864. In 1865 he entered Bowdoin 
 College, where he was graduated in 1869, at the 
 head of a class of thirty-one. During the same 
 year he settled in Manitowoc, Wis., where he 
 taught school for one year, and then engaged in 
 studying law. After his admis.sion to the bar in 
 18 7 1 he practiced law in the same town until 
 December, 1874. Meantime, in 1873, he had 
 married Miss Carrie A. Mason, of Appleton, Wis. 
 Arriving in Boulder, Colo., in January, 1875, 
 Mr. Greene has been a practicing attorney of this 
 city ever since. In the sessions of 188 1 and 1883 
 he was a member of the general assembly of 
 Colorado, and served as a member of the state 
 senate in 1885-87, being chairman of the judi- 
 ciary committee both in the lower and upper 
 houses, in 1 88 1-83-87. For fourteen years, at 
 different times, he held the ofiBce of city attorney 
 of Boulder. His knowledge of the law is broad 
 and comprehensive. For ten years he has been 
 devoting leisure hours to the preparation of "A 
 Treatise on State Legislation" from a scientific 
 standpoint, which will soon be issued in book 
 form and will form a valuable addition to the law 
 literature of the state. He has been professor of 
 Roman law in the University of Colorado for a 
 number of years. 
 
 0TTO P. BAUR, senior member of the firm 
 ofO. P. Baur & Co., confectioners and ca- 
 terers, at No. 1572 Curtis street, Denver, 
 was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, October 15, 
 1846, and is a son of Dr. Joseph and Pauline 
 (Kohler) Baur. When he was a child of seven 
 years, his parents crossed the ocean to Philadel- 
 phia, and settled in Tamaqua, Pa., where they 
 remained until death. In that place the days of 
 Mr. Baur's boyhood and youth were spent. As 
 the family was large, it was necessary for him to 
 become self- supporting at an early age. His first 
 position was that of a clerk in a grocery estab- 
 lishment in his hometown, but the wages were so 
 small that he determined to seek employment 
 elsewhere, and at the age of sixteen he went to 
 Pottsville, Pa., where he spent three and one- 
 
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 half years in learning the confectioner's business, 
 receiving $10 per month until the last year, when 
 his wages were $16. 
 
 On the expiration of his apprenticeship, in 
 April, 1867, Mr. Baur left Pottsville and proceed- 
 ed westward until he arrived in Denver, on the 
 5th of May, having made the journey by rail to 
 North Platte, Neb., and thence by coach to Den- 
 ver. At Council Bluffs he was compelled to wait 
 for five days for an opportunity to cross the 
 river, which was exceedingly high, so that every- 
 thing was inundated and the trains could move 
 only at a snail's pace. At North Platte he slept 
 in a roofless hotel, with the floor for a bedstead, 
 and having only such bedding as he himself could 
 furnish. Indians were troublesome at that time 
 and traveling across the plains was dangerous. 
 The coach was overloaded with passengers and 
 delayed United States mails, which added to the 
 danger, when the Indians gave chase, but no 
 blood was shed. Our subject rode on the top of 
 the coach, lying on the mail sacks. The coach 
 that immediately followed this one was attacked 
 by the savages and several people were shot. 
 
 On reaching his destination Mr. Baur was JS5 
 in debt, the trip having cost more than he antici- 
 pated; in order to pay the entire amount of his 
 passage, he had borrowed from a companion who 
 was more generously provided for than himself. 
 He found Denver a town of four thousand inhab- 
 itants, prosperous and flourishing. He soon se- 
 cured employment in his line at $40 per month, 
 but the cost of living was so great that it was 
 impossible to save much. He paid $10 for a pair 
 of blue jeans, and everything else was as high in 
 proportion. In the fall of the same year he was 
 taken ill and for a time could not work. In Feb- 
 ruary, 1868, he went to Elizabethtown, N. M., 
 where gold had been discovered. He started on 
 horseback but walked a part of the way and suf- 
 fered many hardships en route. Having with him 
 a complete baker's outfit, he opened a bakery in 
 company with some friends who had preceded 
 him. The summer was spent there prosperously. 
 In the autumn he returned to Denver, where he 
 spent the winter, and then again went to Eliza- 
 bethtown, N. M. The second season, however, 
 brought him less good fortune than the first. 
 Coming to Denver again in the fall of 1869, he 
 joined a party and started a bakery at Evans, 
 Colo. , on the Denver Pacific surveyed line. At 
 
 that time the town existed "on paper" mostly. 
 After carrying on a bakery in a tent for a time 
 he returned to Denver, sold out his interest in 
 Mexico and in 1869-70 was employed as a cook 
 for the government surveying expedition in south- 
 ern Colorado, in the vicinity of the Spanish Peaks, 
 receiving $1 per day. That part of the state was 
 undeveloped and inhabited mostly by the In- 
 dians and Mexicans, who gave the surveying 
 party considerable trouble. On the return of the 
 party, when within thirty-eight miles of Denver, 
 a coach going southward brought the news that 
 the first railroad train on the Denver Pacific 
 would soon reach Denver. The men hastened on 
 at four o' clock and reached the grounds in time 
 to see the first train that ever entered Denver. 
 
 In August, 1870, Mr. Baur accompanied an- 
 other surveying expedition to the northeastern 
 portion of the state, and was again in danger from 
 Indians, but through strategy the surveyors kept 
 the savages at bay. Water was very scarce and 
 often the men suffered greatly from thirst. While 
 the others were at work, he was obliged to stay 
 alone in camp all day and protect the outfit, a 
 work of some danger, but fortunately he was 
 never attacked. In the fall of the same year, re- 
 turning from the expedition, he began to work in 
 a confectioner's store on Lawrence and Sixteenth 
 streets, and in February, 1871, he and a partner 
 bought out his employer. They started in a 
 small way and were obliged to go into debt to 
 begin, but after a time the debt was paid and 
 from that time the business prospered. After- 
 ward he bought out another confectioner, whose 
 business he consolidated with his own on Larimer 
 street, where he remained for seventeen years. 
 In 1891 he moved to his present location. In 
 his employ there are about twenty persons, and 
 a number of teams are kept on the road to deliver 
 goods. His catering establishment has the largest 
 and best equipped ice cream parlors in the city, 
 and he enjoys the patronage of Denver's select 
 society. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Baur married Marie Kuner, of 
 Denver, a native of Iowa. In politics he is inde- 
 pendent and has never allied himself with either 
 of the prominent parties. Fond of travel, he has 
 often found recreation from business cares in vis- 
 iting points of interest in this and other countries. 
 In 1885 he went to Europe and while there vis- 
 ited Switzerland and many well-known and his- 
 
CHARLES WESLEY BOWLES. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 641 
 
 toric cities of the continent. The winter of 1895 
 he spent in Florida, and while there crossed over 
 to Cuba. He has visited the far-famed Yellow- 
 stone Park and was one of the visitors at the 
 World's Fair in 1893. During 1898 he traveled 
 through Mexico and spent some time in its capital 
 city. Being a man of close ob.servation, he has 
 learned much from travel and has gained a breadth 
 of information that makes him an entertaining 
 companion. 
 
 gHARLES WESLEY BOWLES, who oc- 
 cupies a large ranch near Littleton, is one of 
 the progressive and energetic young men of 
 his locality and has already won noteworthy suc- 
 cess as a stock-raiser. After having been in 
 charge of a cattle ranch in Wray, Yuma County, 
 for four years, he returned to Arapahoe County 
 and leased from his father the large ranch owned 
 by the latter. Here he cultivates about one 
 thousand acres of land, raising ten thousand 
 bushels of grain, cutting eight hundred tons of 
 hay annually, and in addition he is extensively 
 engaged in raising stock. He possesses excellent 
 judgment, which, coupled with his tireless en- 
 ergy, will undoubtedly bring him constantly in- 
 creasing prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Bowles was born in Denver November 10, 
 1868, the son of Joseph Wesley and Cynthia R. 
 Miller (Blackburn) Bowles. His father, who 
 was born in Rockford, N. C, July 17, 1836, ac- 
 companied his parents to Johnson County, Ind. , 
 in early boyhood, and from there, in the fall of 
 1847, removed to Keokuk County, Iowa. Again 
 changing his place of residence in 1848, he set- 
 tled in Marshall County, Iowa, when that section 
 of country was comparatively a wilderness, with 
 a population not to exceed twelve families. He 
 settled upon a place, which he cleared, improved 
 and cultivated. In March, 1858, he went still 
 further west and settled in Riley County, Kan. , 
 where he cast his first vote, it being for the free 
 state constitution. 
 
 When the news of the discovery of gold in 
 Pike's Peak reached Mr. Bowles, he determined 
 to try his luck in Colorado. Accordingly, in the 
 spring of 1859 ^^ joined a band of fortune-seekers 
 and crcssed the plains, reaching the Cherry Creek 
 settlement on the 25th of May. Having come in 
 search of gold he at once turned his attention to 
 prospecting for that metal. He went to the 
 27 
 
 mountains, where he endured many hardships 
 and privations. In the fall of 1859 he .settled on 
 Quartz hill, Nevada district, where for three 
 years he engaged in mining on the Burroughs 
 lode. During his residence there he was twice 
 elected sheriff of the district under the miners' 
 organization. In the fall of 1862 he purchased a 
 homestead claim near the present town of Little- 
 ton, where he has since resided, and by subse- 
 quent purchases and many improvements he has 
 made the ranch one of the largest and best in 
 Arapahoe County. For some years he was ex- 
 tensively engaged in raising stock, his ranch 
 being on the Republican River, in Yuma County. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Bowles has been influen- 
 tial and prominent. In September, 1869, he was 
 elected to the board of county commissioners and 
 on the expiration of his term, in 1874, was again 
 chosen to occupy the ofiice, in which he was ac- 
 counted an able, efficient and conscientious officer. 
 In the fall of 1880 he was elected to the state 
 legislature. For some j'ears he was a director in 
 the City National Bank, and continued interested 
 in the institution after its absorption by the Amer- 
 ican National Bank. By the enhanced value of 
 his landed estate and by his success in the 
 cattle business, he has become wealthy, and after 
 more than thirty years of honorable labor he now 
 lives in contented retirement. By his marriage 
 to the daughter of Gideon Blackburn, a resident 
 of Pettis County, Mo., he became the father of 
 five children: Charles W.; Edward V., an exten- 
 sive cattle grower in Wray; Josie C. and Harry, 
 deceased; and Walter A., a youth of sixteen 
 years. Through all the years of his residence in 
 Colorado, Mr. Bowles has never entirely aban- 
 doned mining and he now has extensive mining 
 interests in Eldoro, Colo. , which promise much. 
 
 When our subject was three years of age the 
 family settled upon the ranch. He attended the 
 public schools of Littleton, later took a commer- 
 cial course at Notre Dame, Ind., and also spent 
 one year as a student in the State University at 
 Boulder. On completing his education he went to 
 Wray, where he was employed for four years as 
 foreman on his father's ranch. Since that time 
 he has resided on the home ranch. March 20, 
 1892, he married Addie N., daughter of T. J. 
 and Susan E. (Randolph) Lee, the former a 
 prominent farmer of Fort Logan. Three chil- 
 dren have been born of their union: Nellie C, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 who was born October 13, 1893; Albert, deceased; 
 and Baby Ed. Politically Mr. Bowles is a Re- 
 publican. In May, 1897, ^^ was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Littleton school board and in that ofiSce 
 has striven to advance the educational interests 
 of the town. 
 
 (TAMES B. TOURTELLOT. During the 
 
 I thirty-five years of his residence in Boulder 
 Q) County Mr. Tourtellot has owned many 
 tracts of land, and now has in his home place 
 some two hundred and eighty acres, where he is 
 giving his attention to the cattle business. Be- 
 sides this, he is the owner of three hundred acres 
 scattered in different parts of this county. As a 
 stockman he is enterprising, judicious and perse- 
 vering, and the prosperity he now enjoys repre- 
 sents his intelligent labor through the past years. 
 
 In Rhode Island, February 26, 1841, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was born to Jonathan A. and 
 Maria (Wade) Tourtellot, and is the only sur- 
 vivor of four children comprising the family. 
 His parents were natives of Rhode Island. His 
 father, who was born in 18 12, was a son of Jesse 
 Tourtellot, whose family resided in Rhode Island 
 while he engaged in business in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 he being one of the first pork packers in that 
 city. Once every year he visited his family in 
 the east, making the trip both ways on horse- 
 back. 
 
 A man of versatile ability, Jonathan A. Tour- 
 tellot was interested in various enterprises, hav- 
 ing farming interests, also engaged in the mer- 
 cantile and woolen mill business. In 1853 ^^ 
 moved to the western part of Connecticut, and 
 there remained until 1855, when he returned to 
 Rhode Island. The following year he came west 
 as far as Geneseo, Henry County, 111., where he 
 remained until i860. There his active dispo- 
 sition found a channel for its outlet in various 
 enterprises, such as farming, the hotel business, 
 the management of a flouring mill, etc. In i860 
 he formed one of the Colorado pioneers, coming 
 to Boulder, where he opened a hotel and general 
 store and became interested in mining. He was 
 one of the active business men of this city until 
 his death, which occurred in 1870. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years our subject left the 
 parental home. In 1859 he went to California 
 and worked for an uncle in San Francisco in the 
 milk business, spending the greater part of five 
 
 years in that city. From that state he took a 
 .steamer to the isthmus and thence to New York, 
 after which he visited his relatives for a short 
 time. It was his intention to proceed by .stage 
 from Atchison to Colorado, but at Atchison he 
 found the Indian depredations had resulted in an 
 abandonment of the stage line, so he went to 
 Omaha, where he traveled by stage to Fort 
 Kearney, and from there hired out to drive a 
 four- mule team to one of a train of freighters' 
 wagons bound for Denver. Notwithstanding 
 that Indians were exceedingly hostile, they ar- 
 rived at their destination without having encoun- 
 tered any of the red men. From Denver he came 
 to Boulder County, where he has since engaged 
 in the cattle business. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Tourtellot to Miss Sarah, 
 daughter of Marinus G. Smith, a Colorado pio- 
 neer of 1858, occurred April 8, 1866. Eleven 
 children were born of their union, namely: 
 Charles, who is a farmer in Arizona; James, of 
 Eeadville; Maria, wife of Arthur H. Allen, a 
 druggist in Denver; Albert; Louise, deceased; 
 Ralph, who lives in Leadville; Amy, a graduate 
 of the preparatory school in Boulder and now a 
 teacher in district schools; Jo, also a graduate 
 of the preparatory school; Curtis, who is engaged 
 in farming in Boulder County; Frank and Walter, 
 who are still at home. In politics Mr. Tourtel- 
 lot is liberal, with sympathies toward' the Demo- 
 cratic party. In 1866, being the lowest bidder, 
 he was appointed to assess Boulder County. He 
 has had no desire for public office, preferring to 
 give his attention wholly to business afiairs. 
 
 N OLDEN RENNINGTON ELDRED. Of 
 the pioneers of Colorado few crossed the 
 plains more times then did the gentle- 
 man whose name stands at the head of this re- 
 view, and very few had more narrow escapes and 
 thrilling experiences in dealing with the hostile 
 Indians than fell to his share. He has lived to 
 see peace and plenty, civilization and progress 
 possess those once barren valleys, and ' 'the desert 
 blossom like the rose," and can truly feel that he 
 has been no unimportant factor in the happy re- 
 sult. He is justly entitled to an honored place 
 among the Colorado Pioneers' Association, to 
 which he has belonged for many years. 
 
 Born in Medina County, Ohio, May 3, 1837, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 643 
 
 our subject is a sou of Dr. Holden and P0II3' 
 (Tryou) Eldred, natives of London, England, 
 and Glasgow, Scotland, respectively. Dr. Holden 
 Eldred was a graduate of a London medical col- 
 lege, and in the early part of this century crossed 
 the Atlantic Ocean in a sailing vessel, here to 
 found a home. He lived at first in New York 
 state, but later removed to Medina, Ohio, and in 
 1842 to Lowell, Dodge County, Wis., where he 
 was actively engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession until he retired from arduous labor. He 
 was ninety-four years old at the time of his death. 
 His wife was a daughter of David Tryon, who 
 was an Ohio farmer for many years. Mrs. El- 
 dred was severely injured when sixty-five j'ears 
 old, by a runaway team, and died from the effects 
 of the injuries received. Dr. Eldred and wife 
 were the parents of thirteen children, all but one 
 of whom lived to maturity. Six of the number 
 are now living. Two of the sons were soldiers in 
 the Union army during the Civil war; Daniel was 
 a colonel in the Tenth Wisconsin, of which his 
 brother Martin w^s also a member. Frederick 
 has been engaged in mining in Boulder since 
 
 1875- 
 
 H. R. Eldred received good common-school 
 advantages in Wisconsin in his youth. March 
 25, i860, he married Ophelia P. Allen, who was 
 a native of Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Judge 
 A. P. Allen and sister of Dr. H. W. Allen, of 
 Boulder. (See his sketch, which appears else- 
 where in this volume.) Upon the second of 
 April, i860, the young couple set out upon their 
 wedding tour, a journey across the plains. The}' 
 were accompanied by Judge Allen and other mem- 
 bers of his family, and by some friends and neigh- 
 bors. The party went to Denver by way of 
 Plattsmouth, ox- teams conveying them and neces- 
 .sary equipments. Our subject then engaged in 
 freighting to and through the mountains, and 
 crossed the plains nineteen times with teams. 
 Several times in 1863 and 1865 he participated in 
 skirmishes and fights with the Indians, and in the 
 intermediate year was lieutenant of the Tyler 
 Rangers, who were organized at Blackhawk, 
 for protection of .settlers and in order to keep the 
 route to the west free from attacks by the Red- 
 skins. He then took up his abode in Blackhawk, 
 and was there occupied in merchandising until 
 1867. He next went into partnership with his 
 brother, Frederick, and carried on a store in Val- 
 
 mont, but the grasshopper became a burden, and 
 in 1868 H. R. Eldred resumed his former occu- 
 pation of transporting goods. He freighted from 
 a point about three hundred miles east of Chey- 
 enne to that village, and thence to Blackhawk, 
 Valmont and Boulder. Later he turned his at- 
 tention to agricultural pursuits, his ranch being 
 near Valmont, on the Boulder River. From 1880 
 to 1883 he dwelt in Boulder, after which he re- 
 turned to his farm and cultivated the place for 
 ten years. In 1893 he sold the homestead, and 
 has since lived in Boulder. Here he purchased 
 the old Colorado livery stable and has since man- 
 aged it. The location of the livery is on Thir- 
 teenth street, west of the courthouse. Years 
 ago Mr. Eldred became identified with the Ma- 
 sonic order, and still holds membership with 
 Central City Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. Polit- 
 ically he is a silver Republican. 
 
 The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Eldred are: 
 Frank, of Sheridan, Wyo. ; Schuyler, who is 
 engaged in freighting, with his headquarters in 
 Boulder; Hanley Holden, now in the prepara- 
 tory school, of the classof '99; May, who died at 
 the age of six months; and Bertie, who lived to 
 be three years and seven months old. 
 
 "HOMAS CARROLL HAYES is the only 
 stone contractor doing business in Denver 
 who learned the trade in America. He be- 
 gan contracting in this city in 1878, his first work 
 being for ex-Governor Evans, Colonel Archer 
 and Edwin C. Platte, since which time he has 
 had contracts for some of the best buildings here. 
 Frequently he has been given the preference over 
 bidders lower than himself, a fact which speaks 
 volumes for his efiiciency, skill and reliability. 
 For years he furnished the stone for every build- 
 ing erected in Denver (including the granite for 
 the United States Mint), and he is still one of 
 the largest contractors in the city, where since 
 1891 he has had his business headquarters at 
 Lawrence and Sixth streets. 
 
 Mr. Hayes was born in County Kerry, Ireland, 
 in 1849, the fourth among nine children, all of 
 whom came to America and all are still living. 
 His parents, Patrick and Johanna (Carroll) 
 Hayes, came to this country when advanced in 
 years and joined their children in Ohio. The 
 father died while visiting in Ireland, and the 
 
644 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
 mother passed away in Toledo, Ohfo. Our sub- 
 ject was educated in the national schools at Banna 
 and Ardfert, and about 1868 came to the United 
 States, settling in Toledo, where he attended the 
 School of Design and learned the stonecutter's 
 trade. This occupation he followed in Ohio, 
 Michigan and Canada, and while in the latter 
 country had the contract for the erection of a 
 large bank building in Montreal. While in Ohio 
 he was foreman in the erection of a block for ex- 
 President Hayes and Gen. Ralph Buckland. In 
 November, 1875, he came to Colorado and en- 
 gaged as foreman with Alexander Young, under 
 whom he had been apprenticed in Ohio and who 
 now owned quarries in Morrison, Colo. In 1878 
 he began contracting in Denver as a member of 
 the firm of Hayes & Cain, with shop first on 
 Sixth and Lari'mer streets, then on Tenth and 
 Wazee streets, and finally on Sixth and I/awrence. 
 After dissolving his partnership with Mr. Cain 
 he was alone for a time, then became the head of 
 the firm of Hayes & McGilvery. He owns an 
 interest in large granite quarries in Fremont 
 County, and is also interested in the Platte Canon 
 quarries in Jefierson County. 
 
 Among his contracts may be mentioned the 
 following: Walla Halla Hall for Charles I,eisen- 
 ring; City Hall, built of Castle Rock stone; 
 Glenarm Hotel, Alkire block, Colorado National 
 Bank and Lathrop blocks, Times building, Symes 
 block and the Daniels and Fisher building, the 
 above by the firm of Hayes & Cain. While 
 alone he had many important contracts, among 
 them that for the first stone front in Cheyenne, 
 Wyo. , built by United States Senator (then Gov- 
 ernor) F. E. Warren, and for a time used as the 
 state capitol, but now utilized for business pur- 
 poses. While in partnership with John D. 
 McGilvery he built the postofi&ce, custom house, 
 St. lyeo's Church, Barth and Jacobson blocks, 
 Wolfe Londoner and Pioneer blocks, Granite 
 building, Lewis block, East Denver high school 
 building, Logan school, North Denver high 
 school building, Masonic Temple, I. O. O. F. 
 block, East Turner Hall, Kittredge building, 
 McPhee building, Welsh building (now the 
 Albert Hotel) , McClintock and McCune blocks, 
 power houses for both the tramway and cable, 
 Kinneavy block, both cable viaducts and bridges 
 across the river. Since he has been alone a 
 second time he has built the Printers' National 
 
 Home in Colorado Springs and rebuilt the Union 
 Depot after the fire; also the Hayes terrace on 
 Thirteenth and Curtis streets. 
 
 Mr. Hayes was one of the incorporators of the 
 Denver Paving Company, of which some of the 
 prominent men in Denver and on the Pacific 
 coast are members. He is a director of the 
 Master Builders' Association, and is treasurer of 
 the Stone Cutters' Association. On the organ- 
 ization of the Chamber of Commerce and Board 
 of Trade he became identified therewith. He is 
 a strong and faithful friend of the white metal, 
 and in national politics is allied with the Demo- 
 crats. In Denver he married Miss Jessie McGil- 
 vray, who was born in Ireland, but lived in 
 Forfarshire, Scotland, from the age of three until 
 she came to the United States. They have two 
 children, Alice and William Gladstone. 
 
 y/llCHAEL P. FOX is an energetic and 
 Y prosperous citizen of Boulder County, and 
 (3 in the varied operations to which he has 
 given his attention he has met with almost in- 
 variable success. His executive talent and fore- 
 sight are truly remarkable and well he deserves 
 the good fortune which he now enjoys. As late 
 as 1884 he began farming in earnest, and year 
 by year he has increased his landed possessions 
 until he is now one of the most extensive property 
 holders in the county. In all public affairs he is 
 conservative, keeping out of politics and devot- 
 ing himself almost exclusively to his business, 
 home and family. 
 
 The parents of our subject, Michael W. and 
 Delia B. (Prior) Fox, had eight children. Ann 
 is the wife of T. McTierman, a Denver builder 
 and contractor; Margaret is the wife of T. Mc- 
 Nulty, a coal miner; James and Timothy are 
 residents of Pennsylvania; .Frank is engaged in 
 mining in San Juan, Colo.; and Mary and Delia 
 are living in Ireland. Delia B. is the wife of 
 Louis Cull, of County Leitrim. The father was 
 a native of County Leitrim and followed agri- 
 cultural pursuits during his whole life. 
 
 Michael P. Fox was born in County Leitrim 
 in 1844 and resided under the parental roof until 
 he was sixteen years old. He acquired a general 
 education, sufficient for all his needs, in the 
 common schools, and in i860 he concluded to 
 strike out for himself. In August of that year 
 
GEORGE F. CHASE. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 647 
 
 he landed in New York City, where he found va- 
 rious kinds of employment for some six months. 
 Then he spent the most of two years working in 
 the state quarries in Vermont, after which he 
 went to Massachusetts. He became a practical 
 miner in the Hoosac Tunnel mines, where he 
 continued to be employed up to 1869. That year 
 he came to Colorado, and, settling in Erie, Weld 
 County, he engaged in coal mining there for a 
 year. Later he went to Ralston Creek, near 
 Golden, and mined for another two years. In 
 1 87 1 he purchased eighty acres of land in Boulder 
 County, a portion of his present homestead. He 
 continued his mining operations and in the year 
 that saw Colorado admitted to statehood he 
 bought his first tract of coal land. This he 
 worked up to four years ago, when he leased it 
 to other parties. In December, 1897, he com- 
 menced developing his valuable coal mine, which 
 is in full operation and promises yet greater 
 things. Since he settled in this county Mr. Fox 
 has invested his money largely in land and now 
 owns upward of sixteen hundred acres. Four- 
 teen years ago he became specially interested in 
 farming and stock-raising, and in these directions 
 he has met with success equal to that which has 
 blessed him as a miner. 
 
 The pleasant home of Mr. Fox owns as its 
 mistress a lady who before her marriage with our 
 subject was Miss Elizabeth Wilhelm, of Marshall. 
 The marriage of this worthy couple was solem- 
 nized in 1883, and to them five children have 
 been born, namely: Guy, Michael P., Charles J., 
 Alva T. (deceased) and Dewey. 
 
 "3 EORGE F. CHASE, of Boulder, is a charter 
 _ member of the Boulder County Pioneer As- 
 ^Jl sociation, and has been an active and inter- 
 ested witness in the development of this town and 
 county from its early history. He has made his 
 home in the county-seat for the past thirty years, 
 during which period he has been very influential 
 in the support of local improvements and indus- 
 tries. He was one of the promoters and builders 
 of the Boulder and Central City toll road, which 
 was later sold to the Union Pacific Railroad, and 
 was a liberal contributor to the Boulder Valley 
 Railroad at the time of its construction. Politi- 
 cally he is a true-blue Republican; has served 
 
 one term as county commissioner of this county 
 and has been a member of the board of trustees of 
 the town. 
 
 Three brothers of the name of Chase emigrated 
 from England to the United States, and settled 
 in New Hampshire, where they engaged in farm- 
 ing. One of the number was the great-great- 
 grandfather of the gentleman of whom we write. 
 Grandfather Nicholas Chase, a native of New 
 Hampshire and a farmer by occupation, lived to 
 be four-score years old. Our subject's parents 
 were George W. and Ann A. (Matthews) Chase, 
 natives of Stratham and Portsmouth, Rocking- 
 ham County, N. H., respectively. The father 
 was a contractor and builder, and in his early 
 married life lived in Lowell, Mass., thence re- 
 moving to Newfield, Me., where he engaged in 
 general merchandising, and operated a dyeing and 
 fulling mill. He died in that town in 1873, aged 
 sixty-four years. Religiously he was a Free- 
 will Baptist. His wife died in Lowell, Mass., in 
 1839, and of their two children but one lived to 
 maturity. 
 
 George P. Chase was born in Lowell, August 
 3, 1837, and in the public schools and academies 
 of Maine he received an excellent education. 
 When the western fever took hold of so many 
 citizens in this country, 1859, he and four other 
 young men started from Maine, and from Clinton, 
 Iowa, proceeded westward with wagons drawn by 
 oxen. While proceeding through Nebraska, 
 they met a continuous stream of wagons return- 
 ing east, and one day counted two hundred and 
 sixty. In place of the pictured elephant with the 
 legend, "We are going to see the elephant," 
 which had decorated many of the wagons west- 
 ward bound, was the sign, "We have seen the 
 elephant;" others had as« sequel to the old term 
 "Pike's Peak or bust," Pike's Peak and busted." 
 It had been the intention of Mr. Cha.se and his 
 comrades to go on to California, but, arriving at 
 Fort Laramie the day after Horace Greeley had 
 given an address there, in which he counseled 
 people to locate in Colorado instead, as he had 
 been in both states and spoke from experience, 
 the little party concluded to act upon his advice. 
 Colorado was then apart of Nebraska and Kansas 
 Territories, and the line between the states of 
 Nebraska and Kansas was not surveyed until 
 some months afterwards. Mr. Chase arrived in 
 Boulder July 22, 1859 (about six months after 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the town had been laid out) and with his com- 
 panions built the first two-story log house in the 
 place. They engaged in prospecting less than 
 two months before three of the party returned 
 east. H. P. Butler, now of North Park, was'the 
 other man who with our subject concluded to stay 
 here. 
 
 The fall of 1859 Mr. Chase took up land on 
 South Boulder Creek, three and a-half miles 
 southeast of this town. He erected a log house, 
 and in the spring of the year following put into 
 operation plans of irrigating the land that proved 
 very successful. He has ever since been engaged 
 in general farming and stock-raising on this 
 place, but has made his home in Boulder for 
 thirty years. In 1866 Mr. Chase took up a 
 quarter section of land in Weld County, near the 
 Platte River, and engaged in stock-raising there 
 up till 1875, when he sold the property; however, 
 he never lived in Weld County, but conducted 
 the place by tenants. In 1863 he built a frame 
 house here, but it was later burned, and he erected 
 another one for his family. 
 
 May 14, 1864, Mr. Chase returned to Maine and 
 married Miss Augusta A. Staples, a native of 
 that state, and daughter of Isaac Staples, a farmer. 
 He lived to the extreme age of ninety-five years, 
 dying in 1895. The young couple had an ex- 
 citing wedding journey across the plains, for In- 
 dian troubles were prevalent, and at Fort Kearney 
 they stayed until three hundred wagons had 
 assembled there when a government escort of 
 troops was provided the company. All along the 
 way they saw deserted ranches and ruined cabins, 
 and each night Mr. Chase and his brother-in-law 
 kept watch, taking turns in guarding their prop- 
 erty. The five children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Chase are: Frederick J^ , who graduated from 
 the University of Colorado in 1885; took a post- 
 graduate course in Yale College and is now pro- 
 fessor of astronomy in that institution; George 
 A., who was assayer in Boulder until his death 
 in 1897, at the age of thirty years; Charles H., 
 who died in his eighteenth year; Harry A. , a 
 member of the University of Colorado, class of ' 99 , 
 and captain of the university foot-ball team; and 
 Susie, who died in childhood. 
 
 For over thirty years Mr. Chase has been a 
 deacon and trustee of the Congregational Church 
 in Boulder. Fraternally he is a member of Co- 
 lumbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; isastaud- 
 
 ard-bearer of Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, 
 K. T.; is king of Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., 
 and belongs to El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, 
 of Denver. He was probably the first one initi- 
 ated into Columbia Lodge after it was removed 
 from Ward to Boulder, and for twenty-nine years 
 he has been its treasurer. He is one of the 
 trustees of the Boulder Masonic Temple Associ- 
 ation, which boasts one of the handsomest and 
 most complete lodge-rooms to be found anywhere. 
 Mr. Chase is also a member and noble commander 
 of the Order of the Golden Cross. He was in- 
 fluential in securing the university for Boulder. 
 
 pQlLLIAM C. AUTREY. In July, 1870, 
 
 I A/ ^^'■^ ^'^ brother Thomas, the subject of 
 V V this sketch homesteaded eighty acres of 
 land where he now lives, two miles .southeast of 
 Superior, Boulder County, and here embarked 
 in the cattle business. After a time another 
 eighty-acre tract was added to the original pur- 
 chase, and as other property came to them from 
 time to time, a division was finally made, William 
 receiving the homestead of one hundred and sixty 
 acres. About 1885 he purchased three hundred 
 and twenty acres of railroad land, making his 
 present place one of four hundred and eighty 
 acres, on which he is engagad in farming, dairy- 
 ing and stock-raising. 
 
 In Andrew County, Mo., Mr. Autrey was born 
 January 26, 1846, a son of James S. , and Sarah 
 (Robinson) Autrey. He was one of eleven chil- 
 dren, ten of whom are still living, namely: Mary, 
 wife of David Estey; Isaac; Sarah, wife of James 
 C. Jones; Thomas; William C. ; Edward; Elijah; 
 Mrs. Susan Ellsworth; Nancy M., wife of Henry 
 Holt; and George K. The father, who was a 
 native of North Carolina, born in 18 15, accom- 
 panied his parents to Tennessee in childhood and 
 there grew to manhood and married Miss Robin- 
 son, who was born in that state in 18 15. Shortly 
 after his marriage he moved to Indiana and for a 
 few years made his home there. Migrating to 
 Missouri, he resided in DeKalb and Andrew 
 Counties until 1869, and then came to Colorado, 
 where he invested in Denver real estate. During 
 the remainder of his life he engaged in no active 
 business, but gave his time to the management 
 of his property interests and received a good in- 
 come therefrom. With the exception of a short 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 649 
 
 time in Arkansas, he continued to reside in 
 Denver until 1892. From this city he went to 
 Cheyenne, where he bought property. After- 
 wards, for some years, he resided in Pueblo, 
 Colo. , where he owned residence and business 
 property. From Pueblo he returned to Denver, 
 but in 1892 removed to Canada, where he re- 
 mained until his death, in 1895. 
 
 The education obtained by our subject was 
 such as the common schools afforded. In the 
 spring of 1866 he began for himself, going to 
 Minnesota, where for eighteen months he was en- 
 gaged as a farm hand. Returning to Missouri in 
 1867, with his brother Thomas he engaged in 
 farming for two seasons. In 1869, when the 
 family migrated to Colorado, he accompanied 
 them, arriving in Denver in January of that year. 
 For a short time he attended school, after which 
 he engaged in freighting from Denver to the end 
 of the railroad, which had then reached Evans, 
 Colo. Since 1870 he has given his attention 
 successfully to agricultural pursuits. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Autrey occurred Decem- 
 ber 9, 1877, and united him with Miss Zelda E. , 
 daughter of William C. Hake (see sketch upon 
 another page for family history) . Five children 
 were born of their union, all of whom are at home. 
 They are named as follows: William Frederick, 
 born November 17, 1878; Clinton Elmer, October 
 24, 1882; Addie E., November 16, 1885; Byrna 
 Grace, September 23, 1892; and James Sterling, 
 May 20, 1898. Fraternally Mr. Autrey is identi- 
 fied with Louisville Camp No. 137, Woodmen of 
 the World, and his wife is connected with the 
 Ladies Circle No. 123, of Louisville, an auxiliary 
 of the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 3D. HILL settled in Littleton in 1870 and 
 has since made his home in this pretty and 
 prosperous suburb of Denver. For a time 
 after coming here he was employed in the Rough 
 and Ready mill, but in 1872 he embarked in the 
 mercantile business, which he has since con- 
 ducted, carrying in his store a general stock of 
 goods. About 1885, in connection with I. S. 
 Morse, he established the Littleton Creamery 
 Company, of which he has since been president 
 and Mr. Morse secretary and manager. To this 
 concern the most of his time and attention are now 
 given. The business includes creameries at 
 
 Littleton, Sedalia, Castlerock and Parker, with 
 an office and warerooms at Nos. 1732-36 Blake 
 street, Denver. From the parent creamery at 
 Littleton the other concerns have sprung, but at 
 the present time this is the least important sta- 
 tion of the four. 
 
 In the town of Spencer, Worcester County, 
 Mass., Mr. Hill was born August 13, 1843, the 
 son of Dexter and Eliza (Prouty) Hill. He was 
 one of five children, of whom besides himself two 
 survive, C. P., of Oakham, Mass., and O. G., a 
 druggist of Littleton. The father was born in 
 1807 in Worcester County, where his ancestors 
 had lived for several generations. He devoted 
 his active life to the mercantile business and died 
 at the age of forty- six. He was a man of good 
 moral character and undoubted integrity and as 
 such was highly respected. 
 
 Mr. Hill was eighteen j'ears of age when the 
 Civil war began. He had taught one term of 
 .school in New Hampshire prior to that time, but 
 at once abandoned the occupation and entered the 
 service of the Union. August 16, 1861, he en- 
 listed in Company H, Twenty-fifth Massachu- 
 setts Infantry, under Capt. O. Moulton and Col. 
 Edwin Upton. Among the important battles in 
 which he took part were those of Newberne, 
 N. C, Roanoke Island, Kenston, N. C, Bermuda 
 Hundred, Petersburg and Cold Harbor, and he 
 also bore himself valiantly in the minor engage- 
 ments of the regiment. In the statistics drawn 
 up by Colonel Fox, that great statistician states 
 that the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts heads the 
 list in number of its killed, having lost seventy- 
 one per cent, in the battle of Cold Harbor alone, 
 and of the three hundred fighting regiments in 
 the army none equalled that number. 
 
 Mustered out of service at the expiration of the 
 war, Mr. Hill returned to Worcester, Mass. , and 
 entered the employ of the Adams Express Com- 
 pany, remaining in that position for a year. July 
 24, 1866, he arrived in Denver after a trip of 
 twenty-six days across the plains. Shortly after 
 arriving here he secured a contract to cut one 
 hundred and fifty tons of hay on the Platte near 
 Fort Lupton. After this was finished he returned 
 to Denver and for a time was variously employed. 
 The Union Pacific road had by that time been 
 completed as far west as Fort Kearney and he 
 secured employment with the corporation, being 
 employed for two years in the construction of this 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and the Central Pacific roads. He came to Little- 
 ton in 1870 and has since become one of the pros- 
 perous business men of this place. He is a silver 
 Republican and, like all veterans of the war, 
 takes an interest in Grand Army matters. 
 
 Mrs. Inez B. Hill, our subject's wife, is a 
 daughter of B. J. Berry, who was born in 
 Machiasport, Me. , and from there moved to Colo- 
 rado in 1866, settling at Littleton, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death in 1897. On^ 
 daughter blessed this union, Eva E. Hill, born in 
 Littleton, and a graduate of the Littleton school. 
 
 i yiAXMILLIAN NEEF, treasurer of Neef 
 Y Brothers' Brewing Company and a resident 
 (^ of Denver since 1873, was born in Wolfach, 
 Baden, Germany, and is the son of Rudolph and 
 Paulina (Armbruster) Neef , both natives of Baden. 
 His paternal grandfather, Louis Neef, was for 
 many years engaged in the meat business in Ba- 
 den, and during the Napoleonic wars served as 
 captain of a company that accompanied the illus- 
 trious general on the march to Moscow ; during 
 his term of service he was seriously wounded. 
 He died when seventy-one years of age. 
 
 For years Rudolph Neef carried on the largest 
 hotel business of anyone in his place, which on 
 account of its springs was a noted health resort. 
 He was the originator of Kiefernadeln oil (the 
 original St. Jacob's oil), which he manufactured 
 from certain kinds of pine tree needles and from 
 which St. Jacob's oil has been produced, the two 
 being alike except that the American St. Jacob's 
 oil has coal for its principal ingredient. He died 
 at the age of sixty-five. Twice married, he is 
 survived by his second wife, who has conducted 
 the hotel since his death. By his first wife he had 
 twelve children and of these eight are living, all 
 in Germany except two. One son, Fred, came 
 to America in 1871 and two years later settled in 
 Denver, where he is now president of the Neef 
 Brothers' Brewing Company. 
 
 Concerning the life of Fred Neef we note the 
 following: He was born in Wolfach, Baden, Ger- 
 many, March 6, 1846, and was educated in the 
 gymnasium, going to Lyons, France, at the age 
 of seventeen and securing employment as a clerk 
 in the Credit Lyonais, one of the largest banking 
 institutions in the world. Later he became a 
 traveling salesman for a raw silk firm in Lyons, 
 
 of which in time he was made assistant manager. 
 This firm did from fifteen to twenty-five million 
 dollars' worth of business every year. In 1871 he 
 came to America and settled in St. Louis, Mo., 
 where he was in the employ of a wholesale paper 
 and wall paper firm for one year. Next he went 
 to Omaha as bookkeeper, later as salesman, for 
 the largest wholesale business of that city. In 
 1873 became to Denver, where he has since re- 
 sided. In 1884 he erected a three-story brick 
 building, and in August, 1891, with his brother 
 Max, he bought the Western brewery. He was 
 married in this city to Miss Carrie Weigele, a 
 native of Lafayette, Ind., and sister of William 
 Weigele, of this city. They have one child, Emil 
 Neef. 
 
 Primarily educated in Wolfach, the subject of 
 this sketch afterward was a student in the high 
 school at Breisach on the Rhine in Baden, where 
 he finished his schooling. For one year he was 
 apprenticed to the cooper's trade, after which he 
 spent two years as a brewers' apprentice in Fries- 
 enheim, and then went to Wurtemberg, working 
 there and in a number of other large cities and 
 later following his trade in Switzerland. In 1868 
 he took passage at Bremen on the steamer "New 
 York," which landed him in New York City, 
 from where he went to St. Louis, where he se- 
 cured employment in the Greentree brewery, and 
 for four and ohe-half years he remained in the 
 same place. His next position was in an Omaha 
 brewery, where he remained for a year. In 1873 
 he came to Denver and with his brother started 
 in the wholesale liquor business at No. 133 1 Fif- 
 teenth street, his brother being the head of the 
 concern. 
 
 After a time Mr. Neef accepted the position of 
 foreman of Ph. Zang's brewery, having been rec- 
 ommended to Mr. Zang by Mr. Sclilosstein, of 
 the Greentree brewery . One year later, however, 
 he resigned the place and returned to Fifteenth 
 street, forming with his brother the firm of Fred 
 Neef&Bro. In August, 1 891, they purchased 
 from J. B. Dostal a brewery at Nos. 1 201-19 
 South Fifth street, and at once took possession of 
 the recently completed plant. Two years later, 
 July I, 1893, the firm of Neef Brothers' Brewing 
 Company was incorporated with Fred Neef as 
 president, J. R. Schilling secretary and Max Neef 
 treasurer. The brewery has a capacity of seventy- 
 five thousand barrels per year. It has the mod- 
 
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 em improvements, including a substantial bottling 
 house. Besides the old ice machine, which has a 
 capacity of thirty-five tons, there is a new one of 
 fifty tons' capacity. The well-known "Wiener 
 Maerzen' ' is manufactured, shipments of which are 
 made to all points in Colorado, also to Wyoming, 
 New Mexico, Utah, Kansas and Nebraska. The 
 brewery occupies a block on South Fifth street 
 and Twelfth avenue, Denver. 
 
 In this city Mr. Neef married Miss Carrie 
 Sachse, who was born in Wisconsin. They have 
 four children: Rudolph, who is a graduate of 
 Central Business College and keeps the books for 
 the company; Emma F., Max and Louis. In 
 national politics Mr. Neef is a Democrat. He is 
 a member ofSchiller Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M.; 
 the Turn Verein; Badishe Verein, in which he 
 has held the offices of president and treasurer; 
 the Foresters, of which he is a charter member 
 and has served as treasurer; and Manulita Tribe 
 No. 20, I. O. R. M., of which he has been treas- 
 urer. 
 
 I AFAYETTE MILLER, in whose honor the 
 I C village of Lafayette, Boulder County, was 
 l_3 named, and who, from 1863 until his death, 
 was a resident of this section, was born in Tou- 
 lon, Stark County, 111., March 18, 1840, the son 
 of John and Mary A. (Able) Miller. He was 
 one of eleven children, six of whom are still 
 living. His father, who was a native of Rock- 
 away County, N. J., born October 8, 1800, ac- 
 quired in youth an accurate knowledge of both 
 law and medicine, and engaged in professional 
 practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, for some years. In 
 1836 he removed to Stark County, 111., and from 
 there, in 1852, went to Iowa, settling near Inde- 
 pendence, Buchanan County. His death occurred 
 in Johnson County, that state, May 13, 1884. 
 
 On the organization of Stark County, 111., John 
 Miller donated fifty acres of his farm as a site for 
 a town, and upon that land the village of Toulon 
 was built. For eight successive years he held 
 office as judge of the county or the probate court. 
 He also served as magistrate from the organiza- 
 tion of the county until his removal to Iowa. 
 The latter part of his life was devoted to farming 
 and stock-raising. 
 
 The education of our subject was completed in 
 Western College at Western, Iowa. December 
 
 24, 1862, he married Mary E. Foot. June i, 
 1863, they started for Colorado, and on the 19th 
 of August arrived at Burlington (now Long- 
 mont) . With him he brought the first threshing 
 machine that was ever hauled across the plains 
 and the first that was ever brought to Boulder 
 County. The long journey overland was made 
 with three wagons and twelve yoke of oxen that 
 formed a part of a train of fifty wagons. One of 
 the members of the party had a quartz mill, one 
 of the first in the state. Indians were numerous, 
 and two weeks after the party arrived at their 
 destination the red men commenced the long 
 series of depredations that cost so many emigrants 
 their lives. 
 
 Entering a homestead of one hundred and sixty 
 acres near Burlington, Mr. Miller began farming 
 and stock-raising. In 1864 he removed to Rock 
 Creek and bought a large hotel and stage station, 
 where he continued to make his home until 1871. 
 At that time he settled on the present site of 
 Lafayette village, where he pre-empted and pur- 
 chased six hundred and forty acres of land and 
 began agricultural pursuits. In 1874 he removed 
 to Boulder and there engaged in the meat busi- 
 ness until his death, which occurred June 28, 
 1878. He was a member of Phoenix Hook & 
 Ladder Company and also a member of the town 
 council. A public-.spirited man, he always sup- 
 ported enterprises for the benefit of the people and 
 the development of local resources. Generous, 
 whole-souled and hospitable, he was a typical 
 pioneer, whose latch-string always hung on the 
 outside of the door. The only fraternal organ- 
 ization in which he held membership was the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 Mrs. Miller was a daughter of John B. and 
 Sallie (Cole) Foot. Her father, who was a na- 
 tive of Pittsfield, Mass., was born in 1805, and in 
 farly manhood removed to Portlaud, Portland 
 County, N. Y. From there, shortly after his 
 marriage, he removed toGeneseo, the same state, 
 and embarked in the hotel business. One of the 
 early gold seekers in California, after ten months 
 in the mines he returned home with $10,000 in 
 gold. In 1852 he went to Hastings, Mich., 
 where he became proprietor of the largest hotel in 
 the town and also acquired extensive landed in- 
 terests. In 1858 he removed to Iowa, and there, 
 too, he became a large land-owner. His atten- 
 tion was given principally to farming in Iowa. 
 
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 In 1869 he came to Colorado, where he made his 
 home with Mrs. Miller until his death, Novem- 
 ber 12, 1885. 
 
 Six children were born to the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Miller. They are: Thomas J. and Charles 
 L,., who operate the home farm; George I., a 
 prominent farmer whose land adjoins the town of 
 Lafayette; James P. , a graduate of the law de- 
 partment of the University of Colorado and at 
 present located at Lafayette; and Frank and 
 Amelia, both deceased. Mrs. Miller has been 
 repeatedly elected to the office of school trustee, 
 and has acted in the capacity of secretary of the 
 board for the past eight years. She is deeply in- 
 terested in temperance work, and when the town 
 was founded she inserted a clause in every deed 
 prohibiting the sale of all intoxicating drinks in 
 the village. She has frequently been offered 
 large sums to give a deed with the prohibitory 
 clause omitted, but has steadfastly adhered to 
 this principle. 
 
 In 1884 coal was discovered on the Miller 
 ranch, and on boring a fourteen-foot vein was 
 struck. Three years later the first shafl was 
 sunk, under lease to John Simpson, and in 1888 
 the second shaft was sunk, the two forming the 
 best producing coal properties in the valley. 
 
 The village of Lafayette is situated on the 
 prairie knoll ten miles east of Boulder, and is 
 reached by the Union Pacific Railroad, which 
 runs two passenger trains each way daily, and by 
 the Burlington road, which has a passenger depot 
 near the village. The climate is exceptionally 
 fine, the water system perfect, the streets well 
 kept and its buildings substantial. Surrounded 
 by a fine farming country, the village will prob- 
 ably become a large agricultural center, as well 
 as a mining town, and every indication points to 
 a prosperous future for it and for its citizens. 
 
 ELARK A. TITUS, one of the well-known and 
 highly respected agriculturists of Boulder 
 County, is the proprietor of a valuable home- 
 stead located about two and a-half miles north- 
 west of Canfield. He has been a citizen of this 
 county for over a score of years and has taken an 
 active and interested part in everything tending 
 to promote its general prosperity and advance- 
 ment. He is a member of Pleasant View Grange 
 and for one term served as constable of this dis- 
 
 trict. Politically he sides with the principles set 
 forth by the Populist party. For a number of 
 years he has been a valued member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church and has always been 
 counted upon to use his influence in favor of 
 things upright, good and just. 
 
 On both sides of the family Mr. Titus is de- 
 scended from long-lived ancestry. His grand- 
 father, Jacob Titus, a native of New York, lived 
 to the ripe age of ninety-six years. He was a 
 member of the Society of Friends and was a 
 thrifty farmer, owning extensive tracts of land in 
 Delaware County, N. Y. The great-grandfather 
 of our subject on the maternal side was Jasper 
 Bush, who attained the advanced age of one 
 hundred years. He, too, was a New York state 
 farmer, and was of German extraction. 
 
 The parents of Clark A. Titus were Stephen 
 and Mary (Bush) Titus. The father was born 
 June 29, i8i», in Delaware County, N. Y., and 
 continued to dwell there, actively occupied in 
 tilling the soil up to 1880, when he came to this 
 state. Settling on a ranch near Longmont, he 
 gave his attention to its cultivation for about four 
 years, at the end of which time he came to live 
 with our subject. He was summoned to the 
 silent land March 6, 1897. His life was one full 
 of good deeds and kindly ministries toward his 
 fellow-men, and all who knew him loved and re- 
 spected him. His family comprised five children, 
 two of whom are deceased. A daughter, Fannie, 
 is the wife of W. A. Freeman, an insurance man 
 of Chicago, 111. George is a successful farmer 
 of Idaho. 
 
 Clark A. Titus was born November 15, 1850, 
 upon the old homestead in Delaware County. 
 There he passed his boyhood, and, more fortu- 
 nate than many, gained an excellent education, 
 as, after leaving the common schools he attended 
 the Delaware Literature Institute for four terms. 
 When he had reached his majority he began 
 teaching each winter, while the rest of the year 
 he worked on the farm. In 1877 he came to Col- 
 orado, believing that better opportunities awaited 
 him here. He arrived in Denver about the 
 middle of October and, going to Longmont, rented 
 a farm situated some six miles southeast of that 
 city. He did very well during the four years 
 that followed, but he wished to own a homestead, 
 and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres to 
 the northeast of Berthoud. Meeting with finan- 
 
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 cial reverses, he lost this property within a year 
 and this led him to make a choice of his present 
 farm. This place is one of a quarter-section, also, 
 and many substantial improvements stand upon 
 it, making it a most desirable country home. 
 Mr. Titus became the owner of it a few years 
 ago, and has been successful in its management. 
 He thoroughly understands agriculture and is a 
 systematic, practical business man. 
 
 In January, 1882, Mr. Titus married Mrs. 
 Ella A. Faulkner, whose maiden name was 
 Stebbins. A son and daughter were born to 
 them and are respectively named Willet C. and 
 Ella A. Mrs. Titus was called from the loving 
 family circle October 2, 1884, by the angel of 
 death, and the many friends to whom she had 
 endeared herself treasure her memory, scarcely 
 diminished, though long years have rolled by 
 since then. 
 
 JEORGE J. BOAL. During the years of his 
 residence in Denver Mr. Boal gained a wide 
 acquaintance and many warm personal 
 friends. His life, which covered a span of almost 
 sixty years, began in Boalsburg, Center County, 
 Pa., October 4, 1835, and was brought to an end 
 in Denver May 17, 1895. The family of which 
 he was a member was one of those Scotch families 
 that, on account of religious persecution, fled to 
 Ireland, settling in Count)' Antrim, where they 
 were at liberty to follow the doctrines of the Pres- 
 byterian religion. Both physically and mentally, 
 they were people of unusual strength. 
 
 In 1798 Capt. David Boal, who was born in 
 Ireland in 1764, came to America, accompanied 
 by his wife, Nancy Young, and his three brothers, 
 John, who settled in Union County, Pa.; William, 
 in Virginia; and one (unknown by name) who 
 settled in Bedford County, Pa. On the same 
 vessel were Rev. Samuel B. Wilie, D. D., and 
 Rev. John Black, of Pittsburg. Landing in Phil- 
 adelphia, Captain Boal and his wife made their 
 way to what was afterward known as Center 
 County. In Ireland he had been active in the 
 Presbyterian Church and on establishing his 
 home in Center County he at once identified him- 
 self with that denomination, worshiping with 
 the congregation at Slab Cabin, now Spring 
 Creek. He was afterward made an elder of the 
 church and served faithfully in that capacity until 
 his death, in March, 1837. The town of Boals- 
 
 burg, named after him, was built on his land. 
 His two children, Mary and John, were born in 
 Center County. 
 
 The older son, George, and his sister, Elizabeth, 
 were born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. 
 The former was a man of note in public affairs. 
 For many years he served as an associate judge 
 and in 1840 he was elected to the state legisla- 
 ture. During President Lincoln's administration 
 he held the office of United States revenue col- 
 lector. He was not a politician, and the offices 
 which he filled came to him without solicitation 
 on his part. During the war he supported the 
 Federal government and no man in Center 
 County exerted a larger influence in procuring 
 volunteers for the Union army than did he. His 
 honesty and integrity were proverbial. It may 
 truthfully be said of him that his record was with- 
 out a stain. His honor was unquestioned. In 
 manner he was affable and courteous, and he won 
 hosts of friends. His first wife, who died in 1843, 
 was Nancy, daughter of Michael and Su.sanna 
 Jack, pioneers of Center County. To this union 
 four sons and three daughters were born, namely: 
 David C, George Jack, James Wilson, John, 
 Susanna, Nancy Young and Mary. By his 
 second wife, Elizabeth Johnson, who survived 
 him, he had two children, Elizabeth Maria and 
 Robert Hamill Boal. Of these nine children, the 
 eldest, David, graduated from Jefferson College, 
 studied law with Hugh McAllister, of Bellefonte, 
 Pa., and became a brilliant and successful at- 
 torney; at the age of thirty-three years he served 
 as a member of the house of representatives 
 and died at the age of thirty-seven 5'ears; he 
 married Frances, daughter of the Supreme Court 
 Judge Buruside, and at his death he left two 
 children: a son, George O'Brien Boal, who is a 
 government official; and Nellie, whose husband, 
 F. M. Barnes, is also in the government service, 
 living in Washington, D. C. The third son, 
 Capt. John Boal, raised a company of volunteers 
 who enlisted August 31, 1861. He was killed 
 March 13, 1865, in North Carolina, while on. 
 Sherman's famous march to the sea. 
 
 The subject of this article was educated at the 
 Boalsburg Academy in Center County, of which 
 his father was one of the founders. In 1857 ^^ 
 went to Iowa City, Iowa, where he studied law 
 under the supervision of Hon. Rush Clark. After 
 having been admitted to the bar in 1859, he at 
 
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 once opened an office and began in the practice 
 of his profession. In 1866 he was admitted to 
 the supreme court of the United States. He was 
 held in high esteem by all the judges of the 
 supreme court before whom he practiced and was 
 considered one of the most successful pleaders 
 before that body in the entire country. For some 
 time he was lecturer of medical jurisprudence in 
 the Iowa State Medical University, which be- 
 stowed on him the title of LL. D. He was the 
 Democratic candidate for congress from his dis- 
 trict, but declined to accept the nomination; later 
 he was his party's choice for governor of Iowa. 
 He was a member of the American Bar Associa- 
 tion, and he and Hon. George G. Wright were for 
 a long time the only members from Iowa. He 
 was one of its vice-presidents. He was a member 
 of the general council and of the special commit- 
 tees, and was sometimes invited to read papers 
 before that association. 
 
 In Iowa City, August 21, 1861, Mr. Boal 
 married Miss M. Amanda Buttles, daughter of 
 the Hon. Joel Benoni Buttles, formerly of Warren, 
 Ohio. Five children blessed their union, namely: 
 George Buttles, who died at seventeen years; 
 Anna Theodora, who died in infancy; Theodore 
 Davis, Montgomery Davis, of Denver; and 
 Frederick, who died when an infant. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Boal came to Denver, having been 
 engaged, at a large salary, by J. B. Wheeler, of 
 New York, to look after his many interests in 
 Colorado, a position of great trust, and one that 
 he filled with the utmost efiiciency. He also 
 engaged in the practice of law and in mining, his 
 time and attention being more and more given to 
 mining as the years passed by. Fraternally he 
 was a Knight Templar Mason. He was reared 
 in the Presbyterian faith, but after his marriage 
 he identified himself with the Episcopal Church. 
 He was prominent in the work of St. John's 
 Cathedral of Denver and was a warm personal 
 friend of Dean Hart. To him came the honor of 
 being chosen to represent his diocese in the Tri- 
 ennial convention of the Episcopal Church of the 
 United States, and as delegate he served with 
 ability. He was a member of the standing com- 
 mittee of the diocese and of the Cathedral Chap- 
 ter, and served his congregation as senior church 
 warden. In all his church work his efiForts and 
 interests were nobly seconded by his wife, who, 
 especially while in Iowa City, assumed great re- 
 
 sponsibilities in the work of the church and was 
 most helpful in its success and welfare. For 
 some time he served as trustee of Wolfe Hall and 
 Jarvis Hall, which schools are under the super- 
 intendence of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 Personally Mr. Boal is a man of striking 
 appearance, above the average height, with clear- 
 cut features and kindly, courteous manner.- In 
 important gatherings, both of his church and pro- 
 fessional men, his presence was sought and his 
 counsel desired. In his home he was a fond hus- 
 band and indulgent father. He gave his .sons 
 excellent advantages and Theodore studied arch- 
 itecture in Paris for some years. Shortly after 
 the son's marriage in that city, Mrs. Boal 
 arranged to join him there, and Mr. Boal planned 
 to meet her en route at Cambridge, where 
 Montgomery was a student at Harvard Univer- 
 sity, and accompany her across the ocean, but 
 death unexpectedly frustrated all their plans and 
 ended his earth career at a time when others, and 
 himself as well, might have hoped for many 
 years of continued activity. There came to his 
 wife and sons many tributes of esteem in their 
 bereavement. The press and the people alike 
 spoke of his noble and useful life as a bright light 
 that had been suddenly extinguished; they re- 
 viewed his career with admiration, spoke of his 
 friendliness to young, aspiring but briefless, law- 
 yers; of his polished manners; his brilliancy as an 
 after-dinner speaker; his genial comradeship, and 
 those other admirable qualities that combined to 
 make hitn a man among men. 
 
 (James a. S. ANDRUS, a progressive agri- 
 I culturist of Boulder County, owns a farm of 
 C2?one hundred and twenty-six acres near Val- 
 mont, where he carries on a gardening and general 
 farming business and engages in raising stock. 
 In addition to other enterprises, he is one of the 
 largest melon growers in northern Colorado, and 
 has one of the finest young orchards (containing 
 one thousand trees) in the entire state. He has 
 resided on the place he now occupies since 1888, 
 when he traded a herd of cattle for three hundred 
 and thirty-three acres, but a portion of this tract 
 he afterward sold. 
 
 Born in Richland County, Wis., November 10, 
 1856, the subject of this sketch is one of eight 
 children, all living, that were bom to Horace and 
 
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 Mary (Slaughter) Andrus. His brothers and 
 sisters are: Carissa E., Frank M., Harrj' E., 
 Luella O., Zenobia M., Barbara M. and Bert H. 
 His father, a native of Ohio, born January 31, 
 1834, was the son of Horace and Eunice (Hurl- 
 burt) Andrus, and was one of seven children. 
 The grandfather, who was born in Massachusetts 
 about 1880, removed to New York, where he 
 devoted himself to farming for some years; later 
 he settled in Illinois, but after four years removed 
 to Wisconsin, where he worked in the lead mines 
 at Platteville for nine years. He continued there 
 until his death. In the Black Hawk war he 
 served under Governor Dodge of Wisconsin. 
 
 At the time of his father's death Horace 
 Andrus, Jr., was seventeen years of age, and 
 upon his shoulders devolved the care of the 
 family. When he was almost twenty-one his 
 mother married again and a few months later he 
 established domestic ties, being united with Miss 
 Mary L,. Slaughter November 20, 1855. Going 
 west to Indiana with his young wife, he settled 
 in Tippecanoe County, near L,afayette, where he 
 purchased eighty acres of land, and settled down 
 to a farmer's life. Some fourteen years were 
 spent on that place, and he then removed to 
 Wisconsin, where he remained eight years, en- 
 gaged in farming in Richland County. In 1875 
 he came further west to Kansas, and settled in 
 Rush County, where he took up a homestead of 
 one hundred and sixty acres. For four years he 
 also ran a livery in Rush City. Coming to 
 Colorado in 1883, he spent two years in and 
 around Boulder, after which he cultivated a farm 
 three miles east of Boulder for three years, and 
 in 1885 moved to Valmont, where he embarked 
 in the mercantile business and general gardening, 
 in which he is still interested. In 189 1 he was 
 appointed postmaster at Valmont under President 
 Harrison and has filled the oflBce ever since. 
 
 The subject of this sketch acquired a common- 
 school education in Wisconsin. When nineteen 
 years of age he accompanied his parents to 
 Kansas, driving a wagon and cattle some nine 
 hundred miles, and completing the journey in 
 nine weeks. One year after going to Kansas he 
 took up a claim on the frontier, in Rush County, 
 on Wall Creek, where he began farming. Buffalo 
 and antelope were plentiful, and he always had 
 a bountiful supply of meat on hand, as the result 
 of his skill in the use of a rifle. He proved up 
 
 on his claim, where he spent eight years. In 
 1883 he came to Colorado, where he spent two 
 years as a general contractor in the mountains. 
 Here, also, he prospected. In 1885 he came to 
 Boulder County, where he has since made his 
 home. 
 
 August 4, 1884, Mr. Andrus married Miss 
 Nellie E. Yockey, of Elgin, Kan., the ceremony 
 being performed in Boulder. She died December 
 10, 1889, leaving a daughter, Georgia E. The 
 present wife of Mr. Andrus, whom he married 
 December 2, 1894, was Miss Bertha, daughter 
 of J. A. Hairrell. They have two sons, 
 Clifton H. H. and James Ernest. Fraternally 
 Mr. Andrus is a member of Columbia Lodge 
 No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of Boulder; and secre- 
 tary of Boulder Valley Grange No. 131, also 
 deputy state master. As secretary of the school 
 board for District No. 14, White Rock, he has 
 rendered efficient service in the interests of free 
 schools. Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 ROBERT BOYEAN, a Colorado pioneer of 
 ' 60, owns and cultivates eighty acres of land 
 on Left Hand Creek, in Boulder County, 
 one and one-half miles south of Hay Stack moun- 
 tain. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio, January 
 2, 1841, a son of Samuel and Mary (Hoagland) 
 Boylan. He was one of eight children, five of 
 whom are now living, viz.: John, Robert, Amos, 
 Elizaljeth and Samuel. The father, a native of 
 Kentucky, born in 18 15, while still a young man 
 removed to Ohio, where he married and made his 
 home until 1846. Thence removing to Iowa, he 
 settled in Linn County, residing in Cedar Rapids 
 and Mount Vernon. From Iowa in 1856 he went 
 to Kansas and later settled in Gentry County, 
 Mo. In 1858 he established his home in St. Joe, 
 Mo., where he still resides. During his many 
 years of active life as a carpenter and builder he 
 acquired a competence and now, in retirement 
 from business cares, enjoys every comfort which 
 ample means can provide. His father, a native 
 of Virginia, was descended from Engli.sh, Irish 
 and German ancestors, and died in Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa. 
 
 When a boy of thirteen years the subject of 
 this sketch began life for himself During the 
 winter he followed the usual custom of country 
 lads and studied the three R's in the district 
 
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 school, while in the summer he followed the plow 
 or guided the harrow over the furrowed land. 
 March 29, i860, with a spring wagon and a yoke 
 of cattle he left St. Joe for Colorado, arriving in 
 Denver April 27. While en route west he had 
 come across a man who was walking acro.ss the 
 plains and, with a friendly desire to help him, he 
 brought the stranger with him. On reaching 
 Denver he learned of an uncle on Cherry Creek 
 and left his outfit and provisions with the stranger 
 while he looked up his relative. Three days 
 later he returned to find that the stranger, outfit 
 and provisions had vanished completely, leaving 
 him with but five cents in his possession. There 
 was nothing for him to do but make the best of 
 an unfortunate afiair. He secufed employment 
 in a sawmill, but after two weeks went to Buck- 
 skin Joe and from there to California Gulch, 
 where he worked in the mines for a month. 
 Returning to Buck.skin Joe, he soon afterward 
 discovered the Bates mine (now the famous 
 Cyclone mine) and there he worked for .some 
 months; but, while the mine was profitable, he 
 had become dissatisfied and abandoned it. After 
 spending the winter in Canon City, he returned 
 to Buckskin Joe in the spring, and there dis- 
 covered Excelsior Mine No. i, which was within 
 five hundred feet of his former mine. This he 
 abandoned after two months, although he had 
 taken out something like $3,000. It is worthy 
 of note that the Bates mine has been sold several 
 times for sums between two and three million 
 dollars and the Excelsior No. i has brought one 
 million. 
 
 Abandoning the Excelsior to go to Washington 
 Gulch on the breaking out of the excitement there, 
 he worked in the mines at that camp for a time. 
 During the winter that followed he was one of a 
 party of six that worked at Colorado Springs in 
 mines; but becoming "broke," they went to 
 Cripple Creek, where they built sluices. Three 
 of the men worked at gulch mining and three 
 others (among whom was our subject) worked at 
 sinking a shaft. From all that can be learned, it 
 is supposed that this shaft was sunk on the site 
 of the famous Stratton mine. 
 
 At Montgomery City Mr. Boylan worked on 
 the Cleaner mine, then went to Blackhawk and 
 worked in a quartz mill, thus getting a second 
 start in life. In the spring of 1863 he went to 
 Georgia Gulch and during the summer worked 
 
 by the day. With the money thus earned he 
 purchased three claims, Nos. 7, 8, and 9, paying 
 down all of his ready money and assuming a debt 
 of $1,000. Going to Blackhawk he worked dur- 
 ing the winter as stationary engineer in the New 
 York mill. In the spring of 1864, with his sav- 
 ings, he returned to Georgia Gulch to work his 
 claims. During the summer he bought three 
 other claims. He was so fortunate in his efforts 
 that in the winter he had a bank account of $100,- 
 000 standing to his credit. About that time he 
 bought twenty-five more claims, but the develop- 
 ment of these extensive properties brought such 
 heavy obligations to him that he was unable to 
 carry the load and sold the claims. Going to 
 Coal Creek, he engaged in the sawmill business, 
 and enjoyed a few years of prosperity, but finally 
 forest fires destroyed his mill. 
 
 Once more starting out without money, Mr. 
 Boylan came to Left Hand Creek and bought the 
 ranch where he has since resided. To this work, 
 as to all enterprises in which he has been inter- 
 ested, he brings energy, business ability and 
 determination, and as a consequence he has 
 become known as one of the successful ranchmen 
 of Boulder County. He is a member of Left 
 Hand Grange No. 9, in the work of which he 
 takes an active interest. 
 
 September 16, 1875, Mr. Boylan married Miss 
 Alice, daughter of J. B. Allen, a prominent far- 
 mer of Jefferson County. They are the parents 
 of five children, all of whom are at home but the 
 married daughter. They are: Judson C; John; 
 Robert R.; Hattie, wife of Clyde Jain, a farmer 
 of Boulder County; and Nellie. 
 
 3 AMES MONROE DUMM, a well-known 
 citizen of Boulder, first came to this place in 
 1872, and has ever since been more or less 
 actively identified with the local welfare. He is 
 a native of Carroll County, Mo., born in the 
 town of DeWitt, in 1852. His father, Wylie 
 Dumm, operated a carding-mill at that place for 
 several years, but died in 1854, when but forty- 
 one years of age. His father, Elijah Duram, was 
 a native of Pennsylvania, thence removed to 
 Ohio, where his son Wylie was born, and later 
 settled in Missouri. Locating in Brunswick, 
 Chariton County, he owned and managed a card- 
 ing-mill there. The mother of our subject was 
 
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 Miss Catherine Akers in her girlhood. She was 
 born in Iowa, and died in her native state while 
 the Civil war was in progress. 
 
 The five children of Wylie and Catherine 
 Dumm are all living at this writing. Ivy A. is 
 the wife of O. B. Kendrick, of Boulder; John 
 Milton is a merchant of DeWitt, Mo. ; Hattie E. 
 is the wife of A. T. Kendrick, of DeWitt, Mo.; 
 James M. is the next in order of birth; and 
 William Wylie is engaged in merchandising in 
 DeWitt, Mo. The two brothers of our subject 
 came to Colorado in 1872, at the same time that 
 he made the trip for the first time, but they re- 
 turned and settled down in' their birthplace, 
 within a few years. 
 
 James M. Dumm passed his boyhood chiefly in 
 DeWitt, Mo., though for a few years he resided 
 in Decatur, Iowa. Returning to his old home, 
 he continued to dwell upon a farm until he was 
 about twenty years of age, when a longing to see 
 something of the great west took possession of 
 him. His brothers being of the same frame of 
 mind, the three started forth and located at first 
 in Golden, Colo., upon their arrival in the state. 
 For several years Mr. Dumm was employed in 
 and around Golden, and in 1875 he went to Sun- 
 shine, where he became much interested in 
 prospecting and mining. The following year he 
 entered the employ of Captain Tyler, and was 
 foreman of his ranch for six years. In 1882 Mr. 
 Dumm set out fruit trees on a tract of land which 
 he purchased near Boulder, and four years later 
 he bought a ranch fourteen miles east of Boulder. 
 This farm, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, 
 he greatly improved, putting in a fine irrigating 
 system. After living upon the place for six years 
 he returned to Boulder, and took up his abode on' 
 his fruit farm, then in good condition, and 
 numbering one and three-fourths acres of orchard. 
 He grows all kinds of large and small fruits and 
 berries, and is reaping a goodly income from his 
 venture. He ships direct to wholesale merchants 
 in Denver, and always obtains good prices. Po- 
 litically he is afiSliated with the Democratic 
 party. 
 
 In 1895 ^Ir. Dumm built his pretty and com- 
 fortable house at the corner of Marine and Sixth 
 streets. His wife, who was Miss Sue Caton in her 
 girlhood, is a native of Brunswick, Mo., and 
 daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Dumm) Caton. 
 The Catons were an old Virginia family, and 
 
 members of it participated in the Revolutionary 
 war. Joseph Caton was born in Virginia and 
 was engaged in the tailor's trade in Brunswick. 
 He is now living in Booneville, Mo. His wife, 
 Harriet was born in Ohio and departed this life 
 in Brunswick. Five of their six children lived 
 to maturity. The eldest son, Eugene DeCourcey, 
 now a resident of New Frankford, Mo., was a 
 drummer-boy in the Civil war and was nick- 
 named "Harry." The name clung to him and 
 he still goes by it. Thomas Edgar is operating 
 lead mines in Galena, Kan. Otis O. is a 
 merchant tailor in Salisbury, Mo. Mrs. Sallie 
 Shantz lives in Marshall, Mo. The three chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Dumm are: Clinton O.; 
 James, who died at the age of eight months; and 
 Wylie Edgar. The parents are members of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church and are liberal to- 
 wards all good enterprises and institutions. 
 
 I EVI HAKE, a prosperous farmer and stock- 
 It raiser of Boulder County, was born in 
 |_3 Trumbull County, Ohio, March 3, 1840, 
 being the younger son of George and Catherine 
 Hake. He has a brother, Israel, who is a farmer 
 in Iowa; also a sister, Caroline, the widow of 
 John Sparks, and living near Sioux City, Iowa. 
 His father, who was a native of Pennsylvania, 
 born in 1813, grew to manhood on a farm, and 
 after his marriage settled down to a farmer's life. 
 His wife died, leaving six children. Some years 
 later he removed to Ohio, where he was united 
 in marriage with Mrs. Catherine Wire, a widow 
 with one child, Jacob, now in California. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch was four years 
 of age his parents removed to Wisconsin and 
 settled in Grant County, where the father devoted 
 his attention to farming and the cooper's trade, 
 which he had learned in youth. The son grew 
 to manhood on the home farm and acquired a 
 common-school education. At eighteen years of 
 age he began life for himself as a farmer, renting 
 land in Grant County. In 1859, when the tide 
 of emigration turned toward Pike's Peak, he 
 joined the procession moving westward, and with 
 an ox-team, in company with John Whittaker, 
 he crossed the plains to Colorado, landing in 
 Boulder about the ist of July. He went to Four- 
 Mile Canon, where he engaged in gulch mining 
 for four months. From there he proceeded to 
 
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 Golden, and in company with others opened up 
 a ditch for the purpose of hydraulic work on 
 Arapahoe Bar. The ditch was built, but the 
 venture did not prove to be a profitable one, and 
 some four months later he went to Central City, 
 where for a year he worked at lead mining. In 
 1 86 1 he came to Boulder and began to freight 
 from this place to Empire, also from the Missouri 
 River to Denver. 
 
 In the fall of 1863 Mr. Hake bought his present 
 farm of one hundred and thirty acres, purchas- 
 ing a claim for which he was given a quit-claim 
 deed. Here he began farming and for some 
 five years he also carried on freighting, in con- 
 junction with the cultivation of his land. In 
 1868 he gave up freighting and devoted himself 
 to farm pursuits and the raising of stock, which he 
 has continued to the present time. For a nirm- 
 ber of years he has served as a member of the 
 school board. In 1873 he was united in marriage 
 with Mrs. MaryE. Stotts, widow of Lewis Stotts, 
 and the mother of two children, one now living, 
 Luella, wife of Robert Gibbon, of Ward. Mr. 
 Hake is a hardworking, persevering man, and 
 deserves the prosperity he has attained. 
 
 'HOMAS E. GIELER. This well-known 
 citizen of Boulder has been the agent for the 
 Union Pacific, the Union Pacific, Denver & 
 Gulf and the Colorado & Northwestern Railroads 
 for some time at this point and is very popular 
 with the traveling public in general and with all 
 who are associated with him in business relations. 
 He has been engaged in railroading for nearly 
 twenty years, in one capacity or another, and thor- 
 oughly understands his business. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of Mr. Giller was 
 Thomas Giller, a wealthy manufacturer of Man- 
 chester, England, who, in partnership with 
 another man, owned all of the various stage lines 
 centering in that city prior to the establishment 
 of railroads. Thus he became quite rich and in- 
 vested large amounts in real estate. Our subject's 
 father, C. H., was born in Manchester, and came 
 to the United States about i860. He was inter- 
 ested in farming for a while in Kansas, and later 
 carried on a lumber business in Osawatomie, 
 Kan. He is the present postma.ster of that town 
 and for years has been a prominent Grand Army 
 man. During the Civil war he enlisted and served 
 
 in the Twelfth Kansas Regiment as second lieu- 
 tenant of Company I. He took part in the Red 
 River and Texas campaigns and did most gallant 
 service. He married Miss Amanda Holden, a 
 native of Marietta, Ohio. Her father, Thomas 
 Holden, was likewise born in the Buckeye state, 
 and was a farmer by occupation. In 1854 he 
 went to Kansas, where he became one of the pio- 
 neers of Spring Hill, Miami County, and in time 
 was numbered among the most extensive land- 
 holders in that section of the state. He was a 
 strong anti- slaver)' man, and very nearly lost his 
 life on account of his earnestly expressed opinions 
 more than once. On one occasion his home was 
 burned down by a band of Quantrell's guerrillas, 
 and their intention of shooting him had been 
 frankly avowed, but he tried to escape on horse- 
 back, and when he found that he could not do so, 
 he slipped from the animal into some bushes, 
 while they, not noticing the movement, pursued 
 the horse, and directed their shots toward the 
 thoroughly frightened creature, Mr. Holden, 
 meanwhile making good his escape. He lived to 
 be seventy- seven years of age and was loved 
 and respected by all who knew him. He 
 was a zealous member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. Mrs. Amanda Holden died at her 
 home in Kansas, leaving two sons and two daugh- 
 ters to mourrf her loss. 
 
 T. E. Giller was born in Paola, Kan., May 23, 
 1863, and in his boyhood attended the public 
 schools of his native town. From 1878 until 
 1880 he was engaged in the lumber business with 
 his father, at Osawatomie, Kan., after which he 
 entered the employ of the Missouri Pacific. He 
 learned telegraphy, and then was the operator at 
 ■Harrisonville, Mo. , for three years. Later he was 
 at Rich Hill, Mo. , two years, and with the Rich- 
 mond & Danville Railroad at Atlanta, Ga., for 
 two years, as an operator and train dispatcher. Re- 
 turning then to Harrisonville, he was the Missouri 
 Pacific agent there for about a year and next was 
 installed as agent for the same corporation in 
 Ottawa, Kan. This position he retained nine 
 years, and since the close of 1894 has been occu- 
 pying his present post of duty. 
 
 While living in Ottawa Mr. Giller was chair- 
 man of the Franklin County Democratic central 
 committee for several 3'ears, was a delegate to 
 numerous conventions, and was a favored candi- 
 date for postmaster. He was also a candidate 
 
PROF. P. V. CARLIN, M. D. 
 
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 for county treasurer and came within one hundred 
 and thirty votesof gaining his election. He joined 
 the Masonic order in Ottawa, and belonged to the 
 Blue Lodge chapter and commandery there, and 
 was, moreover, affiliated with the Woodmen of 
 the World there. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Giller and Miss Mary 
 Owens, a native of Kentucky, was solemnized in 
 Harrisonville, Mo., August 25, 1887. Her father, 
 Robert, was a farmer in that vicinity. Mrs. Gil- 
 ler departed this life February 15, 1897, in Boul- 
 der, leaving four children: Helen Mowbray, 
 Eleanor Louise, Henry Thomas and Charles Rob- 
 ert. Mr. Giller is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and is now acting in the capaci- 
 ty of trustee. 
 
 QROF. p. v. CARLIN, M. D., who has his 
 LX office at No. 1407 Champa street, Denver, is 
 yS connected with the University of Denver 
 Medical College as clinical professor of obstetrics 
 and is a member of the staff of St. Joseph's Hos- 
 pital. He enjoys the distinction of being, in 
 point of years of active practice, the oldest phy- 
 sician in Denver who is a graduate of a medical 
 college in this city. His success is the result of 
 energy, close application and sound judgment 
 and entitles him to a position among the foremost 
 physicians of the city. 
 
 Born in Ireland in 1854, Dr. Carlin was only 
 one year old when his parents crossed the Atlantic 
 and settled at Caledonia, Livingston County, 
 N. Y., where the father engaged in farming until 
 he was accidentally killed in 1867. The mother, 
 who bore the maiden name of Mary O'Neill, 
 reared her family on the home farm, but after- 
 ward came west and now makes her home with 
 her eldest child, our subject. Two sons, John 
 and James, are engaged respectively in farming 
 and mining, the former being in California. The 
 only daughter, Mar>' A., is a teacher in the Hyde 
 Park public school; and the youngest son, T. J., 
 is a practicing physician of Denver. 
 
 When a boy Dr. Carlin attended the Caledonia 
 public school. Later, by teaching, he earned the 
 money with which to defray his tuition in the 
 State Normal School in Geneseo. In 1878 he 
 began to study medicine in Rochester, under 
 Prof. E. M. Moore, but after a year entered the 
 medical department of the University of the City 
 of New York. He took a course of lectures there, 
 28 
 
 then came to Colorado with a brother who suf- 
 fered from pulmonary trouble. Arriving in Den- 
 ver, he became a student in the University of 
 Denver medical department, and was a member 
 of the first graduating class, composed of five 
 young men, only two of whom are in Colorado 
 and only one in Denver. After graduating in 
 1882, he was appointed resident physician to the 
 Arapahoe County Hospital by the board of 
 county commissioners, but after three months 
 resigned and formed a partnership with Dr. 
 Denison, the two practicing together for two 
 years. Since that time he has been alone. For 
 two years he held the chair of demonstrator of 
 anatomy in the University of Denver Medical 
 College, after which he was made adjunct pro- 
 fessor of anatomy, and is now clinical professor 
 of obstetrics. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, also belongs to the Colorado 
 State and Denver and Arapahoe County Medical 
 Societies, and is consulting physician to the 
 Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf, and Leadville & 
 Gunnison Railroads. Politically he votes the 
 Democratic ticket. He is married, his wife hav- 
 ing been Miss B. A. Delehanty, of Geneseo, N. Y. 
 
 ^ NDREW REED owns and occupies a farm 
 T\ of one hundred and sixty acres in Boulder 
 I I County. After the purchase had been made 
 and some improvements effected, the government 
 made the survey of this country and while he 
 still retained one hundred and sixty acres, the 
 boundaries of the farm were moved, and thirty 
 acres, on which were all the improvements, were 
 lost to him on one side of his ranch, while the 
 same amount was given to him on the other 
 side. Later, however, he bought the thirty 
 acres with the improvements, paying $500 for 
 the same. Recently eighteen acres of this land 
 were sold for $2,800. In addition to this property, 
 he owns a valuable farm of two hundred and 
 forty-two acres, some six miles west of Longmont, 
 in this county, which he has owned since 1863. 
 
 Mr. Reed was born in Alvesta, Sweden, Decem- 
 ber 14, 1828, a son of Swan and Anna (Larson) 
 Reed, being one of seven children, three of whom 
 survive, Carl, Andrew and Lars. His brothers 
 remain in Sweden and are engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits. The father, who was bom in Sweden, 
 was reared upon a farm and became an agri- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 culturist. Being a very energetic and progressive 
 man, he acquired much landed property, being 
 the owner of between four and five thousand 
 acres. At the time of his death he was seventy- 
 five years of age. 
 
 At an early age, upon the home farm, our sub- 
 ject gained a thorough knowledge of agriculture. 
 March 6, 1854, he took passage, in company with 
 his brother John, on a small sailboat, "Lulio," 
 bound for America. After a rough voyage of 
 more than two months, they landed in New York 
 City May 22, and from there went direct to 
 Chicago, where they spent three months, work- 
 ing in a stone quarry. From that city our sub- 
 ject went to Geneva, 111., where he secured farm 
 work; and his brother John went to Batavia, 
 where he died in February of the following year. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Reed moved to Minnesota, settling 
 in Rice County, where for the next six years he 
 farmed during the summers and spent his winter 
 months in the lumber camps of Steele County. 
 In 1862 he joined the procession westward and 
 with an ox-team crossed the plains to Colorado, 
 arriving in Denver July 7, 1862. The train was 
 composed of himself and wife with their two 
 children, two lawyers, one brewer, two musicians, 
 two clog dancers, one blacksmith and others, and 
 at night, when the camp was struck, music and 
 dancing were the order of the evening, and for a 
 time all the privations and hardships of the trip 
 were forgotten through the jolly disposition of 
 the men. Before they started an agreement was 
 made that there was to be no traveling on Sunday, 
 and this rule was strictly adhered to. On arriving 
 at the Platte River in Nebraska, they came to a 
 ranch whose owner -was a Mr. Hastings. They 
 found his farm was being raided and his supplies 
 stolen by another train, composed of disreputable 
 men. They surrounded the robbers and forced 
 them to return all the stolen goods. In Iowa one 
 member of the company captured an immense 
 turtle and on Sunday, with Mrs. Reed as chief 
 cook, a turtle soup diimer was served to the sur- 
 rounding farmers, with toasts and speeches from 
 the lawyer members of the party. With a can of 
 milk tied to the bow of the wagon, they would 
 have milk to drink for dinner and cream skimmed 
 from the morning's milk was thrown into the 
 milk that was left, which, through tlie motion 
 of the wagon, was churned into butter for supper. 
 
 On arriving in Denver, Mr. Reed at once made 
 
 preparations to go on to the mountains. As soon 
 as he arrived at Russell Gulch, he .secured 
 employment in the mine, while his wife served as 
 cook for the miners. When cold weather came 
 on, he went to Blackhawk, and spent a month in 
 going from there to Bob Tail Hill, where he 
 remained until April 8, 1863. He then went to 
 Clear Creek Valley, four miles west of Denver, 
 where he began to farm. In the fall of the same 
 year he removed to Marshall, where he remained 
 until spring, and then moved to his present place, 
 which he had purchased some months before. 
 
 In Minnesota, July 8, 1858, Mr. Reed married 
 Caroline Nyberg, of Sweden. Five children were 
 born to them, of whom Angenella and John A. 
 are deceased. Emma, who attended the state 
 university, at St. Louis, is the wife of Prof. 
 Charles H. Wright, who organized the first 
 manual training school in Denver and is now an 
 instructor in Throop's Institute, at Pasadena, 
 Cal. Oscar M. is a graduate of the manual train- 
 ing department of Denver university and now 
 in partnership with his father, owns valuable 
 mining property at Copper Rock, Colo., which 
 he superintends. Luella, who took a course in 
 the Denver high school, the Colorado state 
 university and the kindergartens in Colorado 
 Springs and Denver, is the wife of William A. 
 Heath, who is engaged in missionary work in 
 the mining regions of Trinidad, Colo. 
 
 For years Mr. Reed has been a member of the 
 school board. In religion he is identified with 
 the Congregational Church, and contributes gen- 
 erously to its maintenance. He gives his in- 
 fluence to aid those measures that will benefit 
 the people and aid in the developing of the re- 
 sources of the county. 
 
 QOBERT J. SPOTSWOOD, who was a well- 
 ^\ known character on the plains in early days 
 p \ and is now engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising at Littleton, Arapahoe County, was born 
 at Culpeper C. H. , Va. , October 25, 1839, a son 
 of Naborn B. and Sarah E. (Markham) Spots- 
 wood. He was one of two children, the other 
 being A. T., of Moscow, Idaho. His father, who 
 was born in Rappahannock, Va., about 1785, 
 moved to Missouri in 1847 and settled in Colum- 
 bia, Boone County, where he engaged in the 
 drug business and carried on a large practice as 
 
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 a physician until his death, in 1858. During the 
 war of 1 8 1 2 he served as a member of what was 
 known as the Petersburg Blues. He was a 
 grandson of Sir Alexander Spotswood, the first 
 colonial governor of Virginia. 
 
 After having attended the local public schools 
 for some years, the subject of this sketch entered 
 the University of Missouri at Columbia, where 
 he remained for two terms. In 1858, at the age 
 of eighteen, he went to Fort Leavenworth and 
 secured employment with Hickman & Parker, 
 who were sub-contractors under Majors, Waddle 
 & Russell, contractors to freight supplies from the 
 Missouri River to Camp Floyd, forty-five miles 
 south of Salt Lake City. He drove an ox-team 
 across the plains, and spent five months in cross- 
 ing, reaching Salt Lake in November. There 
 the teams were sold and in a very short time he 
 started back with a mule-team, which was con- 
 sidered a hazardous undertaking. It was in- 
 tensely cold when he reached Ash Hollow on the 
 North Platte. There he found a man whose 
 name was Sam McChatt, and the two camped to- 
 gether until the weather moderated and rendered 
 travel possible. He arrived at home in February. 
 
 With an outfit of his own, Mr. Spotswood went 
 on a trading trip to Fort Kearney. In i860 he 
 came to Denver, bringing a load of freight from 
 Atchison, and arriving in this city April 16, i860. 
 During that season he made three trips between 
 Atchison and Denver and spent the winter in 
 Atchison. In 1861 he went to Salt Lake as 
 wagon master, with twenty wagons and five 3'oke 
 of oxen, for David P. Power. The trip was 
 made in one hundred days, which was considered 
 a short time. Selling the outfit, he returned to 
 Atchison, where he arrived November i. He 
 was on the point of joining Gen. Odon Guiteau's 
 regiment and had gone down to take the boat; 
 when, as he stood on the landing, Paul Coburn, 
 of the Overland Stage Company, sent a boy down 
 to him with a request to come up at once, as Gen. 
 Bela M. Hughes wished to confirm him as mes- 
 senger. He went to Denver as messenger, spend- 
 ing six days and six nights on the trip, and re- 
 turning in the same length of time. Six months 
 later he was appointed division superintendent, 
 having the first division, from Denver to Jules- 
 burg, two hundred miles. While he had charge 
 of that division, he had horses changed every 
 ten miles, and he bought both the horses and the 
 
 supplies. Ben HoUiday owned the line from 
 Atchison to Salt Lake and Wells, Fargo & Co. 
 owned from Salt Lake to Placerville, Cal. While 
 Mr. Spotswood was in charge of the first division, 
 Mr. Holliday made his famous trip, to win a 
 wager with an ocean steamer that he would make 
 the trip to New York sooner than they would 
 make a given point. Our subject took him over 
 his division in seventeen and one-half hours, 
 which was the fastest time made during any part 
 of the trip. This occurred in 1862. 
 
 In the spring of 1864 Mr. Spotswood was en- 
 gaged in buying horses and supplies to outfit a 
 mail route, Mr. Holliday having secured mail con- 
 tracts from Salt Lake to Virginia City, Mont. In 
 May, 1864, the enterprise was started, with two 
 hundred head of horses and mules and coaches 
 and fifty men, Mr. Spotswood being ordered to 
 make a quick trip and get the line in operation by 
 July I. Instead of taking the stage line route via 
 Denver, he crossed the river at Julesburg and took 
 the old South Platte road, going through country 
 inhabited by hostile Indians, with whom, how- 
 ever, he had no trouble until he reached Poison 
 Springs, where there was a skirmish with the red 
 men and two of the whites were killed. He ar- 
 rived in Salt Lake June 20, and stocked the 
 road, of which he was superintendent for one 
 year. When Mr. Holliday came out on his 
 annual trip, he ordered Mr. Spotswood to take 
 the first division out of Denver on the Salt Lake 
 road, from Denver to North Platte, two hundred 
 and twenty six miles. During the five years he 
 was there, he had many experiences that were 
 thrilling and dangerous, and was in constant 
 skirmishes with Indians. 
 
 When the Union Pacific Railroad was built 
 through that section of the country, Mr. Spots- 
 wood gave up his work, and came to Denver, 
 where he was with John Hughes & Co. Later 
 he bought out his employers, and with William 
 C. McClellan, bought out the Colorado Stage 
 Company, which he operated ten years, staging 
 to Fairplay from Colorado Springs, and from 
 Fairplay to Alma and Dudley, also to Leadville 
 and Canon City. 
 
 In August, 1879, Mr. Spotswood bought five 
 hundred and twenty acres on Bear Creek, to 
 which he moved in 1880. In 1887 he sold a part 
 of the land to the United States government, to 
 be used for Fort Logan, and the remainder to 
 
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 Henry R. Wolcott for a ranch. Since then he has 
 owned and operated his one hundred and sixty 
 acres near Littletown. In Boston, Mass. , January 
 8, 1888, he married Jessie Broad, by whom he 
 had three children. Two are living, Minnie May 
 and Robert Wolcott. 
 
 P QlLIvIAM JAMES BAIRD, M. D. Among 
 \ A / the prominent members of the medical 
 V Y profession of Boulder County this young 
 man has taken a well-deserved place within a few 
 years. He is talented and scholarly, having 
 spared no pains in the acquisition of a thorough 
 education and the best possible preparation for 
 his chosen field of noble endeavor. Not content 
 with the ordinary degree of Doctor of Medicine, 
 he has given many additional years to post- 
 graduate work and special lines of study, and has 
 also had several years of invaluable experience 
 as a physician and surgeon in actual practice. 
 
 The family of which the above-named is a 
 sterling representative is of the same stock as the 
 celebrated Bairds of Auchmedden, Scotland, who 
 owned great estates and a fine castle for gener- 
 ations, and though this property passed from the 
 family for a period, it was eventually bought 
 back and is still in the possession of the Bairds. 
 They originated in Normandy and accompanied 
 William the Conqueror to England. Subse- 
 quently one of the brave and sturdy Bairds 
 rescued King William the L,ion from a bear 
 which was about to make short work of the royal 
 personage, and the lucky subject who had killed 
 the bear was forthwith given a coat-of-arms and 
 a large tract of land, which, in addition to that 
 which he already possessed, made him a very ex- 
 tensive land-owner. When this place, Auch- 
 medden, was in the hands of strangers the Bairds 
 lived in Lanarkshire, and one of the number, 
 Alexander, was a wealthy coal operator. Two 
 of his sons, Robert and James, became iron- 
 masters, owning at one time from forty to fifty 
 large blast furnaces with a combined capacity of 
 more than three hundred thousand tons per 
 annum, and affording employment to about ten 
 thousand men and boys. Besides, the brothers 
 were extensively interested in coal mines and 
 owned vast estates in various parts of Scotland. 
 Robert Baird became the purchaser of the old 
 family castle and property, Auchmedden, in 
 
 1856; and at his death it passed into the hands of 
 his brother, James. The latter, whose name was 
 given to the doctor, was a wonderful man in 
 many respects. From 1851 to 1857 he repre- 
 sented Falkirk Burgs in parliament, and in his 
 later years he built and endowed numerous 
 schools and was exceedingly generous toward 
 various philanthropies. He was a very devout 
 man, and in 187 1 set aside a fund for what were 
 called the "Baird lectures," a series of addresses 
 in the defense of orthodox theology in Scotland. 
 In 1873 he made a magnificent gift to the Church 
 of Scotland — $2,500,000 — to be used in meeting 
 the spiritual destitution among the people of that 
 country with the "bread of life." 
 
 The great-grandfather of Dr. Baird was an own 
 brother of the Alexander Baird previously men- 
 tioned. He came to America at an early period 
 and settled in Virginia. There his son, Capt. 
 John Baird, grandfather of our subject, was born. 
 He won his title in the war of 1812. Removing 
 from his native state to Alabama he became a 
 well-to-do planter in Madison County. The 
 parents of the doctor are Duke O. and Eliza 
 (Robertson) Baird, both natives of Alabama and 
 still living there. The father was an attorney- 
 at-law, but, as he had a decided preference for 
 medicine, he eventually abandoned the law and 
 became one of t^ie best phj^sicians and surgeons 
 of Pickens County, Ala., where he is still 
 engaged in active professional work. During the 
 Civil war he was a surgeon in the army. Mrs. 
 Baird is a daughter of Daniel Robertson, an 
 Alabama planter. The five children of Dr. 
 Duke O. and Eliza R. Baird are: W. J., Mary 
 Eliza, Jane Hamilton, Duke McCabe and Electra 
 Williams. 
 
 Dr. W. J. Baird was born at Coal Fire, Ala. , 
 June 21, 1 86 1, and was educated under private 
 tutors and in private schools. He took up the 
 study of medicine with his father and in 1879 
 entered the medical department of the University 
 of Alabama. A year later he enrolled himself in 
 the University of Maryland, and on the third of 
 the following March he was graduated from that 
 institution with the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine. Returning then to the south he established 
 an office and began practice in Birmingham, Ala. 
 From 1884 to 1887 he was the resident surgeon 
 for the Penn Mobile Coal Company at Corona, 
 Ala. In 1887 he returned to the University of 
 
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 Maryland and pursued a post-graduate course. 
 From 1890 to 1892 he was assistant chief surgeon 
 of the north and south divisions of the Louis- 
 ville & Nashville Railroad, and was also assist- 
 ant physician to the Jefferson County Hospital. 
 
 The year 1893 witnessed the arrival of Dr. 
 Baird in Boulder, and that winter he was a 
 student in the University of Colorado. In June, 
 1894, he went to Chicago and took a special line 
 of studies in the Chicago University, and from 
 January to October, 1895, was a fellow in 
 physiology in the institution. The following 
 winter of '95-96 he was instructor in experi- 
 mental physiology in the University of Colorado, 
 and in '96-97 he held the professorship of path- 
 ology in addition. During the summers of 1896 
 and 1897 he was a graduate student in the medi- 
 cal department of the Johns Hopkins University, 
 making a specialty of bacteriology and path- 
 ology. Thus from 1893 to August, 1897, he 
 gave all of his time and attention to perfecting 
 himself in scientific methods of treatment and 
 diagnosis of disease, save the periods that he 
 devoted to teaching along the same lines of 
 thought. 
 
 The doctor's office is at the corner of Pearl and 
 Fourteenth streets. He is examiner for the Des 
 Moines Life Insurance Company and is similarly 
 employed by the Fraternal Aid and the National 
 Union. He is a member of the Boulder County 
 and Colorado State Medical Association and 
 is also identified with the American Medical 
 Association. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Silver Queen Lodge No. 112, I. O. O. F., of 
 Boulder. When a student in Chicago he joined 
 the First Baptist Church on the south side, and 
 still holds membership there. 
 
 "HOMAS W. LIPSCOMB opened a law office 
 in Denver November i, 1879, when the city 
 had a population of about forty thousand, 
 and he has since been numbered among the able 
 attorneys and counselors-at-law of the place. 
 Though not a politician, in the usual sense of the 
 word, he is a stanch friend of the Republican 
 party and has frequently served as delegate to 
 conventions. For one year he held the office of 
 assistant district attorney under Judge Graham. 
 He has an extensive general practice in the 
 courts of the city and state. Among his notable 
 
 cases was that of Williams vs. Williams, in which 
 Mrs. Kate Williams sued her mother-in-law, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Williams, for alienating the af- 
 fections of her husband. He was engaged as 
 attorney for the plaintiff, whom the jury awarded 
 $12,500. The case was afterward appealed to 
 the supreme court, by whom the plaintiff was 
 given $16,000 damages. As attorney for the de- 
 fendant he took an active part in the celebrated 
 case of the People vs. Mackey, for the Sunday 
 closing of barber shops, where the defendant 
 won, the district court deciding that the law was 
 unconstitutional. He was employed as attorney 
 in the case ofDruryetal. vs. City of Denver and 
 the Denver Sanitary & Fertilizing Company, in 
 which the city and the company were enjoined 
 from using the Merz process in destroying the 
 garbage of the city. The case was bitterly 
 fought, but the city was permanently enjoined, 
 and the defendants did not consider it advisable 
 to carry the case before the supreme court. 
 
 Mr. Lipscomb was born in Marion County, Mo., 
 December 18, 1855; and is a son of Henry S. 
 and Martha E. (Maddox) Lipscomb. His 
 father, who was a native of Virginia, removed 
 from there to Missouri. He was a Democrat and 
 a stanch supporter of the Union. At the time 
 the war broke out he was a member of the Mis- 
 souri legislature and was one of the number who 
 refused to leave the hall when Clabe Jackson ad- 
 journed the legislature to Neosho, Mo. , and at- 
 tempted to take the state out of the Union. He 
 enlisted in the state militia for service in the 
 Union army and was a commissioned colonel. 
 At the close of the Rebellion he was the People's 
 party candidate for congress, but was defeated 
 by the Democratic nominee, John T. Glover. 
 He had been offered the nomination for attorney- 
 general of the state, but declined, preferring to 
 make the race for congress. He died in 1889, at 
 the age of sixty-nine. 
 
 The boyhood days of Thomas W. Lipscomb 
 were passed in Palmyra, Mo., where he prepared 
 for the University in St. Paul's college. At the 
 age of seventeen he entered the University of 
 Michigan, but spent only one year there, next 
 becoming a student in the University of Missouri 
 at Columbia and spending a year in the classical 
 course there. In Ann Arbor he was a sophomore 
 and in Columbia a member of the junior class. 
 Afterward he was in the office of his brother-in- 
 
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 law, Judge Slingerland, at Kirksville, Mo., until 
 his father removed to St. Louis, when he accom- 
 panied the family to that city. When about 
 twenty-one years of age he was admitted to the 
 bar in St. Louis, Mo. While in Marion County 
 he acted as deputy in the circuit clerk's office for 
 some time, in order to familiarize himself with 
 the proceedings of court. From St. Louis he 
 came to Denver in 1879. He was a candidate 
 here for the office of city attorney after it became 
 an elective position, but was defeated by Judge 
 Dawson. In 1889 he was the Republican candi- 
 date for county judge, but was defeated by Judge 
 George W. Miller. 
 
 Soon after coming to Denver Mr. Lipscomb 
 became a member of Union Lodge No. 7, A. F. & 
 A. M., and he has since taken the higher degrees 
 to the Mystic Shrine. In this city he married 
 Miss Clara B. Selleck, daughter of Mrs. George 
 W. Brown, of Denver. They have an only child, 
 Clara Belle Lipscomb. 
 
 qJ FORGE A. KOEHLER, agent for the Pa- 
 __ cific Express Company at Boulder, is a re- 
 J spected citizen of this place. He has been 
 in the United States for thirty years, and is a loy- 
 al citizen of his adopted country. He stands 
 high in business, fraternal and religious circles, 
 and is thoroughly upright and straightforward 
 in all his dealings with others. 
 
 The birth of our subject occurred in Dresden, 
 Saxony, Germany, April 28, 1846. His ances- 
 tors were noted for superior scholarship and at- 
 tainments in the world of science and education, 
 and many of their sterling characteristics have 
 been handed down to their posterity. Grand- 
 father Koehler was for years a member of the 
 faculty in the University of Leipsic, Germany, 
 and Carl G., the father of George A., was a na- 
 tive of that classic city. He graduated from the 
 university there with the degrees of Doctor of 
 Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity, and after- 
 wards was professor of philosophy and theology 
 in Dresden, being at the head of the Annen 
 Real school. He died while serving in that ca- 
 pacity in 1868, aged fifty -six years. His wife, 
 Marie, was likewise born in Dresden, and her 
 death occurred in i860. Her father. Dr. Henry 
 Schmalz, a native of Saxony, graduated from the 
 universities of Heidelberg and Leipsic, and from 
 
 the medical college at Bonn. He made a spe- 
 cialty of diseases of the eye, and became foremost 
 in that direction among the celebrated oculists 
 of Europe. His fame was widespread, and among 
 his patients were numbered many of the nobility 
 of various countries on the continent. He died 
 in 1 86 1, at the advanced age of eighty-seven 
 years. 
 
 George A. Koehler is the youngest of six chil- 
 dren and the only one of the family in the United 
 States. He grew to maturity in Dresden, was 
 educated in the government schools, and com- 
 pleted his studies in the University of Tharandt. 
 He continued as a student there for three years, 
 when he left, at the close of his junior year. His 
 mother had previously been summoned by the 
 death angel, and, his father then dying, the 
 young man decided to enter at once upon his 
 business career. Leaving Bremen, he sailed for 
 New York City, and as he could not speak 
 English, he knew he must accept a subordinate 
 position of some kind to that which he would 
 have liked. He was employed by Marburg 
 Brothers for a year and a-half in Baltimore, and 
 then, for a like period was an orderly at Castle 
 Garden. His next venture was to learn the proc- 
 ess of manufacturing powder and high explosives 
 in the works of J. R. Rand & Co., of Pequanoc, 
 N. J. During the seven years of his employment 
 with this firm he was once blown up and fell 
 into some acid, which so severely burned him 
 that he was laid up for about two months. He 
 thoroughly learned everything pertaining to the 
 business and ultimately became the superintend- 
 ent of the plant. He served as such until the 
 works were closed, and then, in April, 1882, he 
 came to Colorado, and was installed as foreman 
 of the powder works at Mooreville. This plant 
 also closed down in a year or thereabouts. The 
 auditor of the Union Pacific, who had met Mr. 
 Koehler at the station at Mooreville, told him 
 that a position was awaiting him at Como, and 
 accordingly the young man was made a clerk at 
 that station. At the expiration of a year he was 
 promoted to be agent at Como, and held the 
 post until February, 1893, when he deemed it 
 advisable to seek a lower altitude, on account of 
 his health. Coming to Boulder, he was im- 
 mediately offered a place as agent for the Pacific 
 Express Company, and accepted the same. In 
 1894 the Denver & Rio Grande Express Company 
 
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 669 
 
 had a contract with the Gulf Railroad, and made 
 our subject agent for both lines (Pacific & Rio 
 Grande). Since 1896 he has been joint agent 
 for the Rio Grande and the Pacific Express Com- 
 panies. The Denver & Rio Grande's contract 
 having expired in 1897, they discontinued their 
 local office here. A portion of Mr. Koehler's 
 duty is to look after all express matter for the 
 various mountain camps of this region, and he is 
 kept very busy. 
 
 In New York City the marriage of Mr. Koehler 
 and Miss Dorothea Witthoeff was solemnized in 
 1874. She is a native of Hamburg, Germany, 
 and has lived in the United States for twenty - 
 seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Koehler have one 
 son, Victor, who is a messenger on the new 
 Colorado & Northern Railroad. When he was a 
 resident of Como, Mr. Koehler was an alderman 
 for five years, and for seven years was a member 
 of the school board, serving as president, secre- 
 tary and treasurer at different times. Politically 
 he is a Democrat. In Boulder l/odge No. 112, 
 I. O. O. F. , he is a charter member, past officer 
 and ex-representative, and is a past officer of 
 Encampment No. 6, and was twice grand mar- 
 shal of the Grand Encampment. Of Canton No. 
 9, at Como, he is past commander, and with Can- 
 ton No. 16, of Boulder, he holds a similar place. 
 He is connected with the Kremlin Riga, of Den- 
 ver, and is an elder and member of the board of 
 trustees of the English Lutheran Church. 
 
 I EANDER WILLIAMS KIMBALL, a well- 
 I C known citizen of Boulder, is a veteran of the 
 12 Civil war and has always been a loyal Re- 
 publican, taking an active and influential part in 
 support of his party. He has worked in Repub- 
 lican leagues and has made a point of attending 
 local, county and state conventions, whenever 
 possible. In the last presidential campaign he 
 sided with the silver supporters, as he is a firm 
 believer in that side of the financial question. 
 He is past commander of. Nathaniel Lyon Post 
 No. 5, G. A. R. , and has served as an aide on 
 the staff of Gen. John A. Palmer. Thirty years 
 ago he was initiated into the Masonic order in 
 Kingsville, Ohio, and is now identified with 
 Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of 
 Boulder. 
 Our subject is a son of Chester and Victoria 
 
 (Williams) Kimball, natives of Montpelier, Vt. , 
 and Hartford, Conn., respectively. The father 
 of Chester, Lewis Kimball, was also of the Green 
 Mountain state, coming from an old family there, 
 and some time prior to his death he became a resi- 
 dent of Michigan, there spending his last years. 
 By occupation Chester Kimball was a carpenter 
 and builder, and for a number of years his home 
 was in Centerville, Allegany County, N. Y. His 
 death occurred in that town when he was in his 
 sixty-eighth j'ear. His first wife had died many 
 years previously, when but thirty-three years old. 
 His son George, now of Golden, Colo., was a 
 soldier of the Fifth New York Regiment in the 
 Civil war. Julia, the eldest daughter, died in 
 Golden and Victoria died in childhood. By a 
 second marriage Mr. Kimball had two daughters, 
 both living in Centerville, N. Y., at this time. 
 
 L- W. Kimball was born February 4, 1834, in 
 Centerville, and after completing his common 
 school education attended Rushford Academy, 
 graduating therefrom. He then engaged in 
 teaching school for two terms in Rushford, after 
 which he was a teacher in Harmonsburg, Craw- 
 ford County, Pa., up to the time of the war. 
 Seven days after Fort Sumter was fired upon the 
 young man enlisted in the three months' service 
 as a member of Company E, in the "Erie" regi- 
 ment, commanded by Col. John W. McLean. 
 Upon the expiration of the term of his enlistment 
 he assisted in raising a company, and was com- 
 missioned first lieutenant of Company E, One 
 Hundred and Eleventh Infantry. With his 
 regiment he was ordered south and took part in 
 all of its campaigns until, upon account of physi- 
 cal disability he was sent to Baltimore, where his 
 resignation from the service was accepted Novem- 
 ber 16, 1862, an honorable discharge being 
 granted him. 
 
 The following year Mr. Kimball entered the 
 employ of Powell Brothers, of Syracuse, N. Y. , 
 and for ten years represented them as their agent 
 in Pennsylvania and Michigan. During three 
 years of this period he was interested in the small 
 fruit business. F'rom 1880 until 1890 he was an 
 agent for T. Rupert, of Conneautville, Pa., travel- 
 ing mostly in Nova Scotia. Eight years ago he 
 came to Colorado, and locating in Boulder, bought 
 a piece of property at No. 646 Marine street and 
 built thereon. He established a nursery and 
 fruit-tree business here, and is the leader in this 
 
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 line in the county. His trade is not confined 
 to the limits of the county, however, as he has 
 built up a good patronage in Jefferson County, as 
 well. He has introduced many new varieties of 
 shrubs, rose-bushes, vines and small fruits, etc. 
 In addition to his regular business, he has invest- 
 ments in two mining claims in Eldora, Colo., and 
 others at Summerville and Boulder Canyon. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Kimball occurred in 
 Conneautsville, Pa., Miss Mary E. Smith, a native 
 of Crawford County, being the lady of his choice. 
 She died in Kingsville, Ohio, and two of their 
 sons died in childhood. Ernest, who graduated 
 in the Austinburg (Ohio) Commercial College, is 
 now a resident of Boulder. The lady who now 
 bears the name of our subject was formerly Miss 
 Emma Whitelock, a native of Hutchinson, Minn. , 
 and daughter of Sidney W. Whitelock, of Boulder. 
 
 EROCKETT RICKETTS, mayor of Boulder, 
 is the proprietor of the Boulder News, the 
 oldest paper published in the county, as it 
 was founded in 1866. During its existence it has 
 passed through many hands, but has always con- 
 tinued to be, as it is to-day, a strong and clear ex- 
 ponent of the principles of the Republican party. 
 It is printed each week and aims to give a concise, 
 yet sufficiently comprehensive review of the great 
 events which are engaging the attention of the 
 world, and at the same time present to its readers 
 an interesting account of the doings of the citi- 
 zens of this locality, of improvements and prog- 
 ress along all lines. 
 
 For the past decade Mr. Ricketts has been 
 editor and proprietor of the News. He had for- 
 merly been occupied in newspaper work for many 
 years and is a practical, broad-m;nded mail, ably 
 qualified, both by nature and education, for such 
 a responsible position as is afforded an editor, 
 who has the direction of the public mind, in great 
 measure. He has the welfare of the county and 
 city deeply at heart, and is a true patriot. 
 Though a mere lad, he enlisted in the Union 
 army towards the close of the war, being as- 
 signed to Company D, One Hundred and Thirty- 
 fourth Indiana Infantry. For years he has been 
 connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and is past commander of Nathaniel Lyon Post 
 No. 5, of Boulder. In 1872 he was admitted into 
 the Masonic order at Westport, Ind. , and was 
 
 made a Royal Arch Mason before leaving that 
 state. He now belongs to Columbia Lodge No. 
 14, A. F. & A. M., of this city. He is also iden- 
 tified with the Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 In tracing the history of the subject of this 
 review it is found that his paternal great-grand- 
 father settled at Rising Sun, Ind., on the Ohio 
 River, about the commencement of this century. 
 Grandfather Abraham Ricketts removed further 
 into the territory of Indiana (as it was then) 
 about 1820, settling in the wilderness of Decatur 
 County, near the present town of Greensburg. 
 At that time our subject's father, Nathan Rick- 
 etts, was a boy of six years. His whole life, 
 thenceforth, was spent within the boundaries of 
 Decatur County, where he was respected by all. 
 In 1835 he married Louisa, eldest daughter of 
 Abel Todd, who was one of the early pioneers of 
 Indiana, going to that state from Kentucky, 
 where his ancestors had been contemporaries of 
 the famous Daniel Boone. Nathan Ricketts died 
 in 1887. He was the father of seven children, 
 all but one of whom survive. LaFayette, the 
 eldest of the family, enlisted in the defense of the 
 Stars and Stripes, in the One Hundred and 
 Twenty-third Indiana Volunteers, and had his 
 leg shot off at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. 
 He died two months later from the effects of the 
 wound. 
 
 Crockett Ricketts was born near Greensburg, 
 Ind., March 24, 1846, and led the usual life of 
 the farmer's boy of the period. He worked on 
 the old homestead, attending the district schools 
 in the winter season, and when he returned from 
 the war he industriously laid his plans to secure 
 a better education than he had yet been able to 
 acquire. Part of the time he found employment 
 on farms and the remainder of the time he taught 
 in the country schools until he had a sufficient 
 amount to pay his way through college. After- 
 wards he read law in the office of Col. Simeon 
 Stansifer, at Columbus, Ind. , and then practiced 
 for a short period. He then became connected 
 with the Columbus Republican (a daily and 
 weekly paper) and in 1878 assumed the edi- 
 torial management of the journal, continuing 
 in that capacity for ten years, or until he came 
 to Boulder. In 1895 he was elected mayor, in 
 spite of his protest, and was re-elected in 1897. 
 
 April 6, 1876, Mr. Ricketts married Miss 
 Amanda E. Patterson, who was born in Hamil- 
 
DUDLEY D. MAYO. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 673 
 
 ton County, Ind. They have two daughters, 
 twins, Bessie and Blanche, and lost a son in his 
 infancy. Both daughters are students in the 
 University of Colorado, being members of the 
 class of 1 90 1. 
 
 eUDIyEY D. MAYO, manager of the Denver 
 and Rio Grande Express, with ofSce at No. 
 346 Equitable building, Denver, was born 
 in Newport, Ky., September 24, 1843, and is a 
 son of Henry Hunt and Louisa (Winston) Mayo, 
 also natives of Kentucky. The Mayo family is 
 of remote English extraction and was founded in 
 this country by three brothers, one of whom set- 
 tled in Massachusetts, another went to Connecti- 
 cut and the third established his home in Vir- 
 ginia. From the Connecticut branch our subject 
 is directly descended, some of the family having 
 removed from the Nutmeg state to Kentucky. 
 Daniel Mayo, who was born in Kentucky, was, 
 in partnership with Colonel Taylor, the owner of 
 the land on which Newport is built, and he be- 
 came the first postmaster of that town, a position 
 which he held for twenty-five consecutive years. 
 Henry Hunt, son of Daniel Mayo, was, on his 
 mother's side, a great-great-grandson of Gen. 
 Israel Putnam. A business man of large ability, 
 he carried on a planing mill and engaged in the 
 manufacture of sash, doors and blinds, as well as 
 all kinds of building material. At the beginning 
 of the Civil war his mills were burned down and, 
 while he rebuilt, he carried on business at a loss 
 during the war. His lumber yards were in New- 
 port and his mill in Covington, to which place the 
 family removed when our subject was a child ot 
 ten years. From that time until manhood he re- 
 sided in Covington, where he attended the public 
 schools and aided his father in business. He fin- 
 ished his schooling at an academy in Cincinnati. 
 During a part of the Civil war he worked on a 
 farm in Kentucky with his brother. 
 
 In 1863 he secured employment as express mes- 
 senger for the Adams Express Company between 
 Cincinnati and Indianapolis, -and this position he 
 held for two years, after which he became clerk 
 for the same company in Evansville, Ind. Two 
 years later he was transferred to Cincinnati as 
 messenger on the Kentucky Central Railroad, 
 serving in that capacity for three years. Between 
 1869 and 1877 he received successive promotion 
 from messenger to way-bill clerk, money clerk 
 
 and cashier, and in 1877 he was transferred to 
 St. Louis as cashier. He remained in that city 
 until 1880, when he was transferred to Colorado 
 as route agent, having charge of the Adams ex- 
 press business on the Denver & Rio Grande and 
 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads in 
 Colorado and New Mexico for ofie year, and 
 afterward took the agency for the Adams Ex- 
 press Company in Denver. When, eighteen 
 months later, the company withdrew from Den- 
 ver, he became cashier for Wells, Fargo & Co. 
 In 1883 he severed his connection with that con- 
 cern and accepted a position as cashier for the 
 Denver and Rio Grande Express. He was pro- 
 moted to be agent and in 1885 became general 
 agent, continuing in the latter position until 
 April, 1893, since which time he has been man- 
 ager. 
 
 In Covington, Ky., May 9, 1877, Mr. Mayo 
 married Miss Mary Ella Monk, a daughter of 
 Samuel Monk, who came to Denver during the 
 early '60s and has since resided in this city. The 
 three children that came to bless their union were 
 Ella Louisa, who was born in St. Louis and died 
 in Denver when about nine years of age; Flor- 
 ence and Dudley D., both of whom were born in 
 Denver. Mr. Mayo was reared in the Methodist 
 faith and his wife in the Episcopalian doctrines, 
 and after settling in Denver he identified himself 
 with the Episcopal Church, to which he has since 
 adhered. Politically he is a Democrat. While 
 in Newport he was made a Mason and after com- 
 ing to Colorado took the Royal Arch and Knight 
 Templar degrees; also became a member of the 
 Mystic Shrine of El Jebel, in which he holds the 
 office of Chief Rabbi. 
 
 U| ELVIN A. TENNEY, who came to Colo- 
 Y rado in 1875 and settled in Denver six years 
 (S later, was born in Lebanon, Grafton County, 
 N. H., June 26, 1833, and is a member of an old 
 Connecticut family that traces its lineage to Eng- 
 land. The first of the name in America were 
 three brothers, John, William and Asa, who 
 crossed the ocean in an early day and made set- 
 tlement in Connecticut. The father of our sub- 
 ject, Andrew Tenney, was born in Hanover, 
 N. H. , and followed the carpenter's trade in Leba- 
 non, where he died in 1836, at the age of thirty- 
 five. His wife, Eliza M. Miner, was born in New 
 
674 
 
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 Hampshire, her parents having removed to that 
 state from Connecticut. The Miner family is de- 
 scended from Henry BoUman, a brave Knglish- 
 nian, who owned and operated large mines in his 
 native land and who, when the Revolution broke 
 out, organized his men and marched at their 
 head, assistirig in quelling the revolution. For 
 this signal service he was knighted and given the 
 name of Miner. The Miner arms consisted of 
 a shield with three grifBn heads. 
 
 Our subject's mother died in New Hampshire 
 when seventy years of age. In her family there 
 were seven sons and one daughter, but only three 
 are living. A brother, Edwin A., who served as 
 a lieutenant in the Mexican war, died in I,a- 
 Crosse, Wis., in 1895. Charles V., who was in 
 the quartermaster's department during the Civil 
 war, died in Dixon, 111., where he had long made 
 his home. R. O., who was a member of a Ver- 
 mont regiment during the Civil war, for three 
 months, later served in the commissary depart- 
 ment for three years, and is now living at Fort 
 Collins, Colo. The only sister is our subject's 
 twin, Helen E. A. , wife of Charles Barrett, of 
 Somerville, Mass. 
 
 Our .subject was taken to Hanover when he 
 was but four years old. There he worked on a 
 farm during the summers and attended the'public 
 schools winters. At the age of seventeen he was 
 apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, but after 
 one year his boss died; however, he continued at 
 the trade with another man in Hanover, and after 
 finishing his term of service he was employed on 
 the Vermont Central Railroad as foreman in 
 bridge building. At the opening of the war he 
 determined to enlist in the Union service and in 
 October, 1861, his name was enrolled as a mem- 
 ber of a regiment, which was to be the First New 
 England Cavalry, but which, on the muster, was 
 made the First Rhode Island Cavalry. For two 
 years he remained in the service as quartermaster 
 sergeant, being with the Army of the Potomac 
 until mustered out by Order No. 126 from the 
 war department. He was honorably discharged 
 in 1863. 
 
 Returning to New Hampshire, Mr. Tenney en- 
 gaged in the building business until 1875. He 
 then came to Colorado and settled at Fort Collins, 
 where he engaged in ranching for two years, and 
 later resumed work as a carpenter. In i88i he 
 came to Denver, where he was interested in the 
 
 building of irrigation canals, being in charge of 
 all the woodwork and also giving levels in the 
 construction of the Highland ditch in the Platte 
 Valley. He superintended the operating of the 
 Highland and Platte Valley ditches, also the 
 Loveland and Greeley canal. In 1886 he re- 
 signed his position and went to Larimer, where 
 he had charge of the construction and giving 
 levels on the lone Land and Cattle Company's 
 canal for eight months. On returning to Denver 
 he began general carpenter work, which he has 
 since carried on, having his shop at No. 1856 
 Arapahoe street. In politics he is a silver Re- 
 publican. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Franklin Lodge No. 6, F. &A. M., at Leba- 
 non, N. H., in which he was Worshipful Master 
 for years. He was at one time commander of the 
 James B. Perry Post No. 6, G. A. R., at Leba- 
 
 (lOHN H. PRINCE, one of the progressive 
 I and enterprising farmers of Boulder County, 
 Q) has spent his entire life in Colorado and is 
 one of the few men now living in the state who 
 were born here. A native of Denver, his birth 
 occurred March 14, 1866, to Hiram and Helen M. 
 (Lindsay) Prince, of whom further mention is 
 made elsewhere in this volume. He passed his 
 boyhood years in the parental home and acquired 
 a fair education in the local common schools. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Prince was united in marriage with 
 Miss Margaret Huffmann, daughter of Thomas D. 
 Huffmann, a native of Iowa, but since 1894 ^ 
 resident of Colorado. His first home in this 
 state was at Boulder, where he resided until re- 
 cently. At this writing he is engaged in farm 
 pursuits and the stock business in Weld County. 
 One child blesses the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Prince, a daughter, Alice Mary, who was born 
 January 29, 1897. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Prince is identified with the 
 Knights of Pythias. At one time he was prom- 
 inent in the Woodmen of the World, but his mem- 
 bership in this order he has allowed to lapse. In 
 political belief he is an advocate of protection of 
 American industries, believing such a course 
 most helpful to workingmen of our country. He 
 is also a stalwart champion of the silver cause, 
 holding the belief that permanent prosperity can- 
 not be attained until silver is restored to its right 
 Standard. In addition to the cultivation of his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 place of eighty acres, he also manages the home- 
 stead comprising two hundred and forty acres; 
 and the oversight of these two estates consumes 
 his entire time, so that he has little leisure for 
 public affairs. However, he is a public-spirited 
 citizen and discharges every duty that comes to 
 him as a citizen of Colorado. 
 
 "HOMAS J. RHYNO came from Iowa to 
 Colorado in 1878, making the long journey 
 across the plains with a team of horses and 
 spending thirty-five days on the road. As soon 
 as he arrived in Boulder he began to freight from 
 this city to Leadville, covering intermediate 
 points, but after three years he discontinued that 
 work and, purchasing land, settled down to farm- 
 ing. In 1892 he purchased three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Louisville, Boulder County, 
 but afterward sold eighty acres and gave to his 
 son another eighty, leaving one hundred and six- 
 ty acres in his home farm. 
 
 Born in Putnam County, Ind., October 28, 
 1848, our subject is a son of William and Sarah 
 (Nunn) Rhyno, and was one of seven children, 
 all but one of whom are still living. His father, 
 who was a native of Wythe County, Va., born in 
 1822, moved to Indiana in early manhood and 
 settled down to farming in that state. From there, 
 in 1849, he migrated to Iowa and .settled in Mad- 
 ison County, where he made his home nearly 
 thirty j^ears. In 1878 he accompanied his son, 
 Thomas, to Colorado and was so delighted with 
 the prospects here that he returned to Iowa to 
 dispose of his property. Having done so, he 
 came to Colorado to establish his permanent home 
 here, and for five years resided in Denver, where 
 he had a contract in car-building for the Denver 
 &Rio Grande Railroad. From that city, in 1884, 
 he went to the North Fork of the Gunnison 
 River, where for three years he engaged in farm- 
 ing. Selling that property, he went to Iowa, and 
 in 1898 returned to Colorado, where he is now 
 making his home with our subject. He was one 
 of those men who, in i860, were led to the 
 mountain regions by reason of the discovery of 
 gold, but after a few months in the Blackhawk 
 district, not finding gold, he returned to Iowa. 
 His wife, who was born in Ohio in 1817, resides 
 in Delta County, Colo. 
 
 When a boy our subject was obliged to work 
 
 almost constantly on the home farm. Forty- 
 eight days at one time was his longest continued 
 experience of school life. However, by reading 
 and contact with men he has gained a broad and 
 useful knowledge. He remained at home until 
 he was twenty-three years of age, when he began 
 to work for the farmers of his neighborhood. No- 
 vember 6, 1871, he married Miss Emma Rancy, 
 and afterward devoted himself to farm work. In 
 1872 he bought fifty acres in Madison County, 
 which he cultivated until his removal to Colo- 
 rado. He left Iowa August 11, 1878, and has 
 since made his home in Boulder County. He 
 and his wife had three children, but the older 
 son, Charles E., is deceased. The only daugh- 
 ter, Rosa B., is the widow of Richard Strong; 
 and the younger son, Fred, who is married and has 
 one daughter, is engaged in cultivating a farm, 
 that adjoins his father's place. Mrs. Rhyno died 
 October 18, 1876. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Rhyno is identified with Col- 
 umbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of Boulder, 
 and is also a member of Camp No. 137, Wood- 
 men of the World, of Louisville. 
 
 r"RANK K. WAGNER, a successful contractor 
 r3 and builder of Boulder, is a young man who 
 I ^ numbers a host of sincere friends among his 
 fellow-citizens here and outside acquaintances. 
 His genial, cordial manners make him a general 
 favorite, and his rectitude and correct methods of 
 transacting his business affairs, entitle him to 
 the nigh reputation he bears in commercial 
 circles. 
 
 Born in Atchison, Kan., the subject of this 
 sketch is now in his thirty-fifth year. His father, 
 Tilghman Wagner, came from a sterling old 
 Pennsylvania family, and his birthplace was in 
 AUentown, Lehigh County. He came as far west 
 as Illinois in his early manhood, and there mar- 
 ried Miss Juliet Wilson, a native of Canada, who 
 had accompanied her father, Samuel P. Wilson, 
 to the Prairie state. The latter went to Cali- 
 fornia during the gold excitement and died on the 
 Pacific Slope a few years ago. The three chil- 
 dren of Tilghman and Juliet Wagner are: Frank 
 K. ; Charles, who is in business with his father in 
 Aspen, Colo.; and Jessie, who is at home. After 
 his marriage the father went to Atchi.son, Kan., 
 and about i860 started for Colorado by team. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He has followed brick-laying and contracting, and 
 erected many of the old-time brick residences and 
 business blocks yet standing in Boulder. The 
 first time that he came to this state he remained 
 but a year, then returning to his old home in 
 Atchison, where he was steadily employed at his 
 accustomed vocation up to 1874. That year he 
 came to Denver by railroad, and from that city 
 to Boulder by wagon. In 1893 he took up his 
 residence in Aspen, Colo., and is still living 
 there, his time being given to the manufacture of 
 bricks and to contract work. 
 
 Frank K. Wagner was about ten years of age 
 when he came to Colorado, and for some time he 
 was a pupil in the public schools of Boulder. 
 Afterwards he learned the butcher's trade and as 
 a member of the firm of Church & Co., carried 
 on a market up to 1889. About that time he 
 commenced learning the bricklayer's trade with 
 his father and brother and two years later he 
 started in contracting on his own account. He 
 plastered the Masonic Temple, built Dr. Dodges' 
 residence and that of Mr. Fulton and many 
 others, too numerous to mention. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Master Plasterers' Association and was 
 one of the organizers of the Boulder Brickbuild- 
 ers' Association. He is connected with the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Ruth 
 Rebekah Lodge No. 5, to which his wife also 
 belongs. In politics he is to be found on the side 
 of the Prohibition party. 
 
 Mrs. Wagner, who is a charter member of the 
 Ladies of the Hive of the Maccabees, and has 
 been commander of the same ever since it was 
 organized, is from an old and prominent Colo- 
 rado family. Her father, Samuel Mishler, was 
 born in Dayton, Ohio, and came to this state in 
 1859, when a young man. He settled on Dory 
 Hill, and for years was engaged in mining. He 
 died in Boulder in December, 1893, aged sixty- 
 four years. Three of his brothers were in eastern 
 regiments during the Civil war. His father, 
 William Mishler, was a native of Germany, and 
 lived in Pennsylvania and later in Ohio. The 
 mother of Mrs. Wagner, Mary A. , was born in 
 Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, and is now living in 
 Central City, Colo. She was the only child born 
 to the first marriage of George Lytle, who, in 
 company with three others, discovered and 
 named the famous Caribou mine after one which 
 Mr. Lytle had seen in California, of a similar 
 
 rock formation. He had gone to the Pacific coast 
 in 1848, and there engaged in mining for eight- 
 een years. Returning then to Colorado, he was 
 occupied in the same pursuit for years and died 
 here in September, 1896, at the ripe age of 
 seventy-one. The Caribou mine, which he and 
 his companions opened and worked for seven 
 years or more, they at last sold for $3,000,000. 
 Mr. Lytle also discovered the Idaho, which was 
 a large paying mine. 
 
 The marriage of our subject and wife was 
 solemnized near Blackhawk, Colo., in 1890. 
 She was formerly Miss Viva Mishler and was 
 educated in the preparatory school here, after 
 which she entered the University of Colorado, 
 and devoted three years to teaching. She is the 
 eldest of nine children, three of whom died while 
 young. Bertha died in Blackhawk, May i, 
 1891. Ida is the wife of Harry Feehan, of 
 Blackhawk; and Blanche, Dora and Irena are 
 residents of Central City. 
 
 gEORGE B. POOR, who is engaged in farm- 
 ing in Boulder County, was born in Chau- 
 tauqua County, N. Y. , May 28, 1842, and is 
 a son of Alanson and Ruth (Adams) Poor. He 
 was one of nine children, six of whom are still 
 living, namely: Tracy H., Andrew J., Charles B., 
 Cordelia, Qeorge B. and Dallas M. The father 
 was born in Vermont in 1793, and migrated to 
 New York state in boyhood, settling in Chau- 
 tauqua County, where he followed farm pursuits. 
 About 1852 he retired from active labors and 
 afterward made his home with his children. In 
 i860 he went to Hastings, Minn., where he made 
 his home with his eldest son up to the time of his 
 death, in 1866. 
 
 At the time of the mother's death, the family 
 broke up housekeeping, and our subject was 
 given a home with his sister, Mrs. Solomon Ben- 
 nett. He was then ten years of age, and for six 
 years he lived in his sister's home at Bust Eye 
 Corners, Chautauqua County. Afterward he 
 lived with his brother, Tracy H., in Centerville, 
 Crawford County, Pa., within eight miles of the 
 oil regions, where he engaged in teaming in con- 
 nection with his brother. In the fall of 1861 he 
 made a trip to Minnesota, where he spent the 
 winter in visiting a relative and attending school. 
 
 In April, 1862, Mr. Poor turned his face west- 
 ward. He secured employment as a cook for a 
 
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 train crossing the plains and went direct to Rus- 
 sell Gulch, arriving there on the 15th of July. 
 His brother, Andrew J., formed .one of the train, 
 and he having been in the state before was able 
 to give valuable counsel to the others. He owned 
 some mining claims in the gulch, and thither the 
 two brothers went. When the winter weather set 
 in they engaged in the wood business, and for 
 three years devoted themselves to this enterprise. 
 For two years following our subject engaged in 
 teaming and freighting from Denver and the 
 mountains. In 1867 he married Miss Artemissia 
 M. Mathewson, their marriage being solemnized 
 on the 20th of February. Afterward he came to 
 Boulder and took up a homestead of one hundred 
 and sixty acres, also pre-empted one hundred and 
 twenty acres, situated some three miles northeast 
 of town. Here he began raising stock and farm 
 products, and also turned his attention to dairy- 
 ing. During the thirty-one years he has lived 
 on this place he has been prospered in his enter- 
 prises and has gained a reputation as a man of 
 persevering disposition and upright character. 
 
 The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Poor are: 
 Ella E., deceased, and Arthur D., who assists his 
 father in the management of the farm. The 
 family are identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and contributors to its good works. 
 Fraternally Mr. Poor is a member of Centennial 
 State Lodge No. 8, A. O. U. W. While in the 
 main he has been prosperous and has attained a 
 competency through his untiring perseverance, 
 yet he has had his share of reverses. January 5, 
 1874, his residence was destroyed by fire, and on 
 the 29th of January, 1883, his barn burned down, 
 at the same time thirty-five head of cattle and 
 four horses being lost in the fire. 
 
 0EKALB STERNBERG, who owns and oc- 
 cupies a farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres one and one-half miles east of Boulder, 
 was born in Herkimer County, N. Y. , November 
 24, 1833, a son of Lambert and Ruvina (Stern- 
 berg) Sternberg. He was one of nine children, 
 seven of whom are living, as follows: Jane; 
 Mary, wife of Charles Reed, of Dakota; Rebecca, 
 the widow of Jacob Crouse, of Los Angeles, Cal.; 
 Marcus, of Mitchellville, Iowa; our subject; Jay, 
 living in Pomona, Cal.; and Lambert, a farmer 
 whose home is in Mitchellville, Iowa. 
 
 Lambert Sternberg was born in Schoharie 
 County, N. Y., in 1800, and in boyhood accom- 
 panied his father, Marcus, to Herkimer County, 
 where he grew to manhood and married. He 
 was a man of sagacity and integrity and, as he 
 prospered in farming, he enlarged his ventures 
 and became a stock speculator, attaining large 
 wealth. In 1857 he removed to Polk County, 
 Iowa, and established a hotel at the junction of 
 the Iowa City and Keokuk roads, which was one 
 of the noted points of pioneer days and was the 
 crossing point of five or six stage routes. He 
 also engaged in breeding and feeding stock, and 
 cultivating a farm, until his death, which oc- 
 curred in 1870. 
 
 The Sternberg family descends from three 
 brothers who came from Germany in an early 
 day and settled in Schoharie County, N. Y. 
 They became well known throughout the state 
 as the producers of the first wheat sold in their 
 count3^ Marcus Sternberg, grandfather of our 
 subject, was a farmer and the son of Nicholas 
 Sternberg. George M. Sternberg, well known 
 throughout the United States as a surgeon-gen- 
 eral of the regular army, is a member of this fam- 
 ily and a second cou.sin of our subject. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Ruvina Vroman, 
 but when she was a child her mother was mar- 
 ried a second time, becoming the wife of Marcus 
 Sternberg, and the daughter took her stepfather's 
 name, as did the other Vroman children. Dur- 
 ing the Revolution Indians massacred a father 
 and mother in the family of Vromans and captured 
 three or four of their children, whom they took 
 into Canada; one or two died of exposure to the 
 severe cold and of starvation. Others of the 
 family escaped by fortifying themselves in an old 
 stone church near their home. 
 
 In 1855 our subject removed to Polk County, 
 Iowa, where for six years he was engaged with 
 his father in farming and raising stock. In 1862 
 he went to Hamilton County, where he con- 
 ducted milling and farming pursuits until 1867, 
 and then disposed of his property and removed 
 to Ogle County, 111. Upon a farm of two hun- 
 dred and ninety acres that he purchased, he set- 
 tled down to farming. November 7, 1864, in 
 Hamilton County, Iowa, he married Miss Mary 
 Harris. Five children were born of the union. 
 Lambert, the eldest, is a member of the McAl- 
 lister Lumber & Supply Company, and manager 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the firm's interests and lumber yards at Louis- 
 ville, Colo.; he is a graduate of the Colorado 
 State University and took a law course at the 
 State University of Michigan. Guy V., the sec- 
 ond son, is a graduate of the State University, 
 degree of A. B., and graduated from the law de- 
 partment of the same school with the degree of 
 LL-B. He is now practicing his profession at 
 Grand Junction, Colo. Irene resides with her 
 parents; Emma L. , who graduated from the 
 State University with the degree of A. B., took 
 a four years' course in Germany, spending the 
 time in Berlin, Dresden and Leipsig; and Grace 
 R. is the wife of Dr. Charles Ambrook, of 
 Boulder. 
 
 Selling his property in Illinois in 1869, Mr. 
 Sternberg returned to Hamilton County, Iowa, 
 and remained there until February, 1870, when 
 he settled in Arapahoe County, Colo., some five 
 miles north of Denver, purchasing three hundred 
 and forty acres and engaging in farming. In 
 December, 1872, he removed to Boulder and 
 erected a gristmill. This he conducted until 
 1879 and then sold his interests and purchased 
 his present valuable homestead of one hundred 
 and sixty acres, where he has since resided. He 
 also owns eighty acres one-half mile east of his 
 homestead, which he acquired in 1880. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. In_ political views he is 
 liberal, supporting men and measures he believes 
 to be right, irrespective of the parties supporting 
 them. When the town of Boulder was incorpo- 
 rated he was a member of the council. 
 
 p\ETER HALDI, a pioneer of Altona, Boul- 
 LX der County, was born in Canton Berne, 
 fS Switzerland, November 25, 1845, a son of 
 Peter and Catherine (Reichenbach) Haldi. He 
 was one of nine children, of whom five besides him- 
 self are living, viz.: Catherine, Louisa, Maria, 
 Christian, Alfred and Susanna C. His father, a 
 native of Switzerland, born in 1826, learned the 
 trade of a blacksmith in youth and followed 
 that occupation in his native land until 1881, 
 when he crossed the ocean to Canada and spent 
 three years there. Returning to Europe, he re- 
 mained two years, and then, in 1886, came to the 
 United States, stopping eighteen months in Ohio 
 and coming from thereto Colorado in 1888. Es- 
 
 tablishing his home in the Left Hand Canon, he 
 engaged in the dairy business and farming on a 
 small scale, and has since continued to reside 
 there. 
 
 After acquiring a common-school education and 
 learning the blacksmith's trade, the subject of 
 this sketch entered the military service at the age 
 of twenty years and for three years was a member 
 of the Heavy Artillery, Company 5, Division No. 
 44. Upon the close of his term of service he re- 
 turned home, where he worked in the shop for a 
 short time. In 1869 he emigrated to America, 
 landing in New York on the ist of June. 
 From there he went to Carrollton, Mo., where he 
 worked as a journeyman blacksmith. In October, 
 1872, became across the plains to Colorado, as a 
 member of a party whose train was stopped sev- 
 eral times by herds of buffalo. Arriving in Den- 
 ver on the ist 6f November, he secured employ- 
 ment at his trade, in which capacity he continued 
 until April i, 1875. Atthat time became to the 
 mouth of Left Hand Canon and bought his pres- 
 ent shop, which had been built by Walt Wright 
 and Sam Noblet in 1870. This, and some other 
 buildings that he bought, cost him f 1,100. He 
 settled down to the blacksmith's trade and gradu- 
 ally built up a good custom. The township had 
 not yet been surveyed, and, wishing to take up a 
 homestead, he turned his attention to the survey, 
 which was finally made, in 1882, through his 
 efforts. He then entered one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land. In 1879 he was instrumental in 
 establishing a postoffice here. The original 
 name of Ni Wot was changed to Altona, on ac- 
 count of the confusion caused from the fact that a 
 railroad station on the Colorado Central Railroad 
 bore the name of Ni Wot. In 1880 he was in- 
 strumental in the building of the direct road 
 to Boulder. His father, on coming to Boulder 
 Canon, had taken up one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land, and this our subject bought later, 
 and with an eighty-acre tract that he also 
 bought, makes his place one of four hundred 
 acres. 
 
 In Denver, May i, 1872, Mr. Haldi married 
 Miss Anna E. Seekamp. Five children were 
 born of their union, three of whom are living: 
 Adolpli, Ida and Fred. For the past eighteen 
 years (with the exception of eighteen months) 
 Mr. Haldi has been a member of the school board, 
 and he is also actively connected with the Altona 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 68 1 
 
 Grange. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Swiss Gruetli Society of Denver and Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 nOHN N. EWING, a progressive agricult- 
 I iirist, whose farm is situated near Louisville, 
 Q) Boulder County, was born in Highland 
 County, Ohio, January 15, 1833, a son of Robert 
 and Elizabeth (Milton) Ewing. He was one of 
 ten children, five of whom are now living, namely: 
 Jessie C, Robert M., John N., Samuel E. and 
 Lorena I., wife of William P. Graham. The 
 father, who was a native of Brown County, Ohio, 
 born March 12, 1805, learned the trade of a car- 
 penter in youth, and followed it in Ohio for some 
 time, but in 1837 took his family to Illinois, 
 settling in Schuyler County, where he followed his 
 trade. As his boys grew toward manhood, wish- 
 ing to give them some practical experience in 
 farming, he bought eighty acres, which he super- 
 intended, while working at his trade. In 1857 
 he removed to Kansas and settled sixty-five 
 miles south of Kansas City. There he devoted 
 his attention entirely to farm work. For many 
 years he served as justice of the peace, and was 
 chosen a delegate to the convention that framed 
 the constitution of the state of Kansas. His 
 death occurred December 12, 1884. 
 
 In the common schools of the home neighbor- 
 hood our subject had fair educational advantages. 
 He worked on the home farm until the breaking 
 out of the war. September 16, 1861, he enlisted 
 in Company E, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, Colonel 
 Judson commanding. He took part in the 
 battles of Cain Hill, Prairie Grove and many 
 skirmishes. Upon the close of hostilities he was 
 mustered out of service January 5, 1865, at Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
 While in the army Mr. Ewing applied for a 
 short furlough. This was granted him, and Sep- 
 tember 4, 1862, he returned to Kansas, where he 
 married Miss Amanda Hodgson, sister of Wil- 
 liam E. Hodgson, whose sketch appears upon 
 another page. They were married September 6th 
 and on the 7th Mr. Ewing returned to his com- 
 mand. After the war closed he entered one 
 hundred and sixty acres in Linn County, Kan., 
 under the homestead law, and began to farm the 
 place, where he remained until 1880. He then 
 joined a wagon train composed of four wagons, 
 
 en route to Colorado, and after a journey of four 
 weeks arrived at Boulder May 26. He spent 
 the summer on Left Hand Creek, at job and day 
 work, being too late to put in a crop. In the 
 spring of 1881 he settled in Boulder Valley, one- 
 half mile north of his present home, and for seven 
 years operated rented land. In 1888 he pur- 
 chased fort}' acres where he now resides. This 
 he has improved and cultivated, in connection 
 with eighty to one hundred and sixty acres which 
 he rents each year. For many years he has 
 served as a member of the school board and is 
 heartily in sympathy with the free-school system. 
 The Boulder Valley Grange numbers him among 
 its active members. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ewing became the parents of 
 seven children, three of whom are living. They 
 also adopted a child, whom they reared as their 
 own. The daughters and son were named as 
 follows: Ida M., Hattie F. and Myrtie A., all 
 deceased; Anna J. ; Carrie S. , who married Albert 
 P. Carnahan and has a son, Raymond E. ; Mary, 
 deceased; Flora E. and Delton R. H. 
 
 (SlLBERT T. HENRY, who first came to 
 r 1 Boulder in the Centennial year, has been a 
 / I witness of vast changes in Colorado. His 
 beautiful home is situated at the corner of Hill 
 and Thirteenth streets, and in addition to this, he 
 is the owner of several valuable pieces of property 
 in the town, as well as other residences. He has 
 always taken an active and interested part in all 
 local enterprises, and has freely used his means 
 and influence for the development of the resources 
 of this region and for the improvement of the 
 town. 
 
 In early life Mr. Henry engaged in the milling 
 business in Rochester, N. Y., but later removed 
 to Michigan and subsequently became proprietor 
 of a hotel at Jack.son. As his health was not of 
 the best, he determined to try life on the plains, 
 and, accordingly, went to San Antonio, Tex., 
 where he remained until the spring of the next 
 year. He then started for Denver by team, 
 traveling part of the way with a body of United 
 States troops, and the rest of the distance with 
 Mexican trains, as the Indians were very hostile, 
 and emigrant trains which had preceded, as well 
 as several which followed, were destroyed by the 
 red men. The trip to Denver took three months. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and a few days after his arrival in the present 
 capital of Colorado, Mr. Henry settled in Boulder. 
 The next June he went east and at a point near 
 Sedalia, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad line, the 
 train in which he was traveling was "held up" 
 by the famous James boys and the Younger 
 brothers. He went to Cincinnati and Michigan, 
 and on his return to Boulder engaged in the 
 wholesale liquor and cigar business. He con- 
 tinued in this pursuit until 1894, when he sold 
 out and retired. 
 
 Mr. Henry was one of the original stock- 
 holders in the Boulder Milling and Elevator 
 Company, and has always been connected with 
 the organization in this capacity and also holds 
 stock and for some years was a director in the 
 First National Bank of Boulder. When the 
 Masonic Temple was in process of erection he 
 was one of the trustees and was treasurer of the 
 funds. When he was a young man, and a 
 resident of St. Joseph, Mich., he was initiated 
 into the Masonic order, and has long stood high 
 in the fraternity. He belongs to Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., and is its past 
 master, while his son, A. T., Jr. , is the present 
 master (and the youngest, by the way, who ever 
 occupied the chair in this lodge) . For eight 
 years Mr. Henry was the high priest of Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and in 1879 he received 
 the degree of Knight Templar, in Colorado 
 Commandery No. i, of Denver. Later he was 
 one of the leaders in the founding of Mount Sinai 
 Commandery No. 7, K. T., of Boulder, being 
 one of its charter members. With the exception 
 of once, when, in 1883, he was absent and travel- 
 ing in Europe, Mr. Henry has attended every 
 national conclave of the Masons. He is identified 
 with El Jebel Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
 Shrine of Denver. Formerly he was active as a 
 Knight of Pythias and Odd Fellow, but is not 
 at this time. He was first chancellor of the first- 
 mentioned order and belonged to the encamp- 
 ment and canton of the Odd Fellows' Society. 
 Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 Until about six years ago Mr. Henry owned 
 real-estate in Denver, but is now more interested 
 in his Boulder property. He is building three 
 cottages on terraced lots at the corner of Spruce 
 and Ninth streets, and is greatly improving that 
 locality. Other property in this town is also 
 owned by him, from which he derives a good 
 
 income. His attractive home is presided over by 
 his cultured wife, whose maiden name was 
 Carrie Andrews. They have two children, 
 Albert T., Jr., and Beulah Genevieve. The son 
 was educated in the University of Colorado, and 
 while there belonged to the glee club. At 
 present he is assisting in the management of his 
 father's interest. The daughter is a graduate of 
 the class of '98 of the state university. Both are 
 most promising young people. 
 
 yyilCHAEL L. ROSENBAUM, the owner of 
 y a large farm and sawmill near Louisville, 
 (3 Boulder County, was born in Homer, Neb. , 
 February 22, i860, a son of Anthony and Mary 
 (Boyle) Rosenbaum. He was one of twelve chil- 
 dren, ten of whom are living, namely: Michael 
 L., Christopher C, Harmon, Mary, Maggie, 
 Katie, Emma, Lizzie, Willie and Nettie. The 
 father, who was a native of German}', was born 
 on the River Rhine in 1837, and in youth learned 
 the trade of a carpenter. In 1855 he emigrated 
 to America with his father, Christopher Rosen- 
 baum, who was also a carpenter; and for some time 
 he worked in New York City. Later, when his 
 father returned to the old country, he settled in 
 Covington, Neb., and after working some time 
 at his trade he embarked in farming. Afterward 
 he kept a stage station for a number of years. 
 In 1863 he came to Colorado and opened a 
 carpenter shop on Fifteenth street, Denver, 
 where he worked for two years. In 1865 he 
 went to Virginia City, Mont., and opened a 
 shop. He made coffins for seven road agents 
 who had been hung, receiving $700 for the 
 seven coffins. A year later he went to Silver 
 Bow, where he was engaged in mining and con- 
 tracting. After some months he proceeded to 
 Diamond City, where he spent several years in 
 mining and contracting. A very substantial 
 monument to his memory there is the piping he 
 put in Altar Gulch, one-half mile each side of the 
 mountain, where a two-foot piping forced the 
 water up the. mountain for hydraulic purposes. 
 In 1870 he returned to Colorado and settled in 
 Boulder Valley, two miles north of our subject's 
 home, on Dry Creek, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing and continued to reside until his death, in 
 1897. 
 The maternal grandfather of our subject, 
 
JEREMIAH LEGGETT. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 685 
 
 Michael Boyle, was born in County Tyrone, 
 Ireland. In middle life he came to America on a 
 tour of inspection, leaving his family in Ireland. 
 He worked at various occupations, as he could 
 find employment. It was his plan to send for his 
 family as soon as he could secure a permanent 
 position, but while in New York City he was 
 sunstruck and died from the effects. Twenty 
 years afterward his widow, Ann Boyle, crossed 
 the ocean, accompanied by her son and two 
 daughters, and settled in Boulder County, where 
 she remained until her death. 
 
 When eighteen years of age our subject settled 
 in Louisville, where he engaged in the butcher 
 business for three years, but in 1881 sold his busi- 
 ness interests here and bought a farm adjoining 
 his father's land. In 1890 he purchased his 
 present homestead of two hundred acres, where 
 he has since resided, engaged in farming and the 
 raising of cattle. He has also acquired valuable 
 city property in Boulder and Loui.sville. In 1895 
 he established a sawmill in the mountains and 
 this has proved a very profitable investment. 
 Politically he is a Democrat, and active in party 
 interests. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Loui-sville Lodge No. 137, Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 In 1 88 1 Mr. Rosenbaum married Miss Nora 
 Doran, and they have three children, Anthony, 
 Julia and James. Mrs. Rosen baum's father was 
 born in 1820 and her mother in 1822, both in 
 Ireland. They came to America in 1864 and 
 settled near Langford, Boulder County, where 
 Mr. Doran embarked in farming, and he con- 
 tinued in that occupation until his death. His 
 wife is still living. 
 
 (lEREMIAH LEGGETT, whose farm in Boul- 
 I der County comprises a half-section of im- 
 Qj proved laud, was born in Licking County, 
 Ohio, May 16, 1837, and was one of the seven 
 children of James and Elizabeth (Younger) Leg- 
 gett. Of the family, five are-now living, namely: 
 Jeremiah; John W., a farmer of Madison County, 
 Iowa; Leander, who is engaged in farming in 
 Polk County, Iowa; Eliza, wife of Ezra Miller, of 
 Woodward, Iowa; and Sarah, widow of William 
 Leman, of Iowa. The father of these children 
 was born in Virginia in 18 16 and removed with 
 his parents in boyhood to Ohio, settling in Lick- 
 29 
 
 ing County, where he was reared and married. In 
 youth he served an apprenticeship to the shoe-' 
 maker's trade, which he followed in Licking 
 County until 1852, and then, accompanied by his 
 family, he migrated to Indiana. There for two 
 and one-half years he engaged in farming in 
 Henry County. In 1854 he again moved, this 
 time going to Iowa, where he farmed in Polk 
 County and also dealt extensively in cattle and 
 hogs. His death occurred on his farm in 1856. 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, 
 Thomas Leggett, was born in Scotland, and 
 coming to America in youth, settled in Vir- 
 ginia, where he married and lived for a number 
 of years. Later he removed to Ohio, where he 
 engaged in farm pursuits until his death. Our 
 subject's maternal grandfather, who was a Scotch- 
 man, settled in Virginia in youth. When a 
 boy our subject had few educational advantages, 
 but being a thoughtful reader he has acquired a 
 thorough education and is well posted on all the 
 current topics of the day. When his father died 
 he was nineteen j-ears of age and the support of 
 the family fell on his shoulders, he being the 
 eldest of the children. October 31, 1861, he 
 married Miss Augusta M. Hinman, daughter 
 of Porter T. Hinman, who was born near Buf- 
 falo, N. Y., July 6, 1816. Her grandfather, 
 Anson Hinman, was for many years judge of 
 the county court and was prominently identified 
 with military matters, holding the rank of gen- 
 eral in the state militia. Porter's parents dy- 
 ing when he was young, he was thrown upon 
 his own resources and at the age of fifteen he 
 went to Buffalo, thence, a few months later, 
 settled at Grand Island, on the Niagara River. 
 There he spent three years as clerk for the Grand 
 Island Company, a ship-building concern. His 
 next position was that of clerk on the steamship 
 "Constellation," plying on Lake Erie. Two 
 j'ears later he removed to Mansfield, Ohio, where 
 he taught a writing school for about five 
 years. During his residence there he married 
 Mary A. Smith, and in 1845 removed to Clinton 
 County, Ind., where he followed farming four 
 years. During the California excitement of 1849 
 he went to the Pacific coast, where he followed 
 freighting and mining until 1853. On his return 
 east he settled in Illinois and -for two and one- 
 half years engaged in farming in McDonough 
 County. His next position was that of clerk in 
 
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 the United States land ofBce at Des Moines. 
 Moving from there to Polk City, he embarked in 
 the sawmill business, becoming proprietor of two 
 sawmills, from which he reaped large profits. 
 During his residence in Polk City he served as 
 postmaster for three years. In i860 he came to 
 Colorado in company with his oldest son and pre- 
 empted one hundred and sixty acres on Left 
 Hand Creek. In 1862 he returned home and 
 came back with his second son. The next year 
 he returned and brought his family with him. 
 Afterward he gave his attention to the cultivation 
 of land. About 1876, with his youngest son, he 
 went to the mines at Hand's Peak, where he 
 operated for three years, and during that time he 
 served as judge of Routt County and postmaster 
 at Hand's Peak. In 1884 he represented his 
 county in the state legislature, being elected on 
 the Republican ticket. His death occurred June 
 8, 1894. 
 
 After his marriage our subject continued to 
 live at the old home, caring for the younger 
 members of the family. But when they had 
 mostly married and left home, he with his wife 
 and two children .started for Colorado in 1866. 
 Leaving Polk County April 5, they crossed the 
 plains with a team of horses and arrived on Left 
 Hand Creek May 18. This was not his first trip 
 to Colorado, as he had come, in i860, with three 
 others, making the journey with horses and two 
 wagons, and spending six months in the mining 
 regions. 
 
 On making permanent settlement in Colorado, 
 Mr. Leggett embarked in agricultural pursuits on 
 Left Hand Creek. After one year he removed to 
 Boulder Creek and took charge of the Ni Wot 
 Mining Company's landed property, where for 
 four years he remained. In 1871 he cultivated 
 the farm adjoining his present property, but in 
 1872 purchased and removed to one hundred 
 and sixty acres, to which he afterward added, 
 making his place one of three hundred and twenty 
 acres. He has given considerable attention to 
 the breeding and raising of cattle and horses. In 
 1897 he erected his present substantial brick 
 residence, which is one of the attractive country 
 homes of Boulder County, and is known as 
 Clifton Place. For the past ten years he has 
 served as president of the Boulder Industrial 
 Association, and for many years he has served on 
 the school board. Politically he favors the silver 
 
 Republican cause. Fraternally he is identified 
 with Eureka Lodge No. i, A. O. U. W., and 
 Boulder Valley Grange, of which he is now 
 master, and for one term was overseer of the 
 State Grange. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Leggett are the parents of six 
 children. Harriet A., who was born September 
 18, 1862, is the widow of Willard Slocum, and 
 resides in Loveland, Larimer County. Alice M. 
 was born in August, 1864, and died October 9, 
 1871. James E. was born August 8, 1866, 
 and died January 30, 1867. Edgar W., born 
 March 2, 1868, is superintendent of the Rock 
 Springs Mining Company and resides at Four 
 Mile, Routt County. Mary E., born April 17, 
 1 87 1, is a graduate of the State Normal School 
 and for the past four years has been a teacher in 
 the Erie school. Nathan H., born December 2, 
 1878, resides at home and assists in the manage- 
 ment of the farm. 
 
 fD G;|ILLIAM C. hake, one of the highly es- 
 \A/ ^^^'"^^ ^"*^ well-known old settlers of 
 YY Coal Creek Valley, Boulder County, has 
 been a land owner and resident of this section for 
 the past thirty-eight years. During this period 
 he has done all within his power to promote law, 
 order and gopd government in general and has 
 been an important factor in the increasing civili- 
 zation and prosperity which the state now enjoys. 
 He has been a witness of vast changes since he 
 came to Colorado, and, as an honorable and up- 
 right citizen, has substantially assisted in placing 
 the state and section in which he dwells on a safe 
 and sure basis. 
 
 William C. Hake hails from the sturdy, grand 
 old Buckeye state whose proud lot it has been to 
 produce such hosts of noble sons, men strong in 
 the councils of the government and the various 
 states. Mr. Hake was born in Trumbull County, 
 January 26, 1833, and is one of the six children 
 of George W. and Hannah (Sowers) Hake, and 
 now the sole survivor of the family. He was 
 reared to manhood in the old home in Ohio, and 
 gained a common-school education in the neigh- 
 borhood. The family removed to Grant County, 
 Wis., about 1853, and soon after our subject had 
 reached his majority he started out in the world to 
 earn his own livelihood. Going to Prairie du 
 Chien, Wis., he entered the employ of a stone- 
 
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 mason and worked industriously for about three 
 months, when he was obhged to return home, as 
 he had contracted the fever and ague. Six months 
 later he went to the Black River pineries and en- 
 gaged in logging there some four months. Then 
 he tried the arduous task of breaking prairie in 
 Wisconsin and finally settled down to farming in 
 that state. 
 
 October 16, 1856, Mr. Hakemarried Miss Em- 
 eline Davis, in Platteville, Wis. Mrs. Hake is a 
 daughter of Abnerand Sarah (Drake) Davis, the 
 former a native of Pennsylvania and a blacksmith 
 by trade, while his father, in turn, was a native 
 of Wales. Six children blessed the marriage of 
 our subject and wife. They are all living and 
 are as follows: Araminta J., wife of James F. 
 McCorkle, a prominent farmer of the state of 
 Washington; Zelda E., wife of W. C. Autrey 
 (see his .sketch upon another page of this vol- 
 ume); IdaC, wife of C. W. Gilbert, a well-to-do 
 farmer of this county; Ella M., whose husband, 
 F. J. L- MacCormac, is a member of the Indus- 
 trial Coal Mining & Mercantile Company; and 
 Charles W. and Mary Byrna, twins, the former a 
 member of the Industrial Coal Mining & Mer- 
 cantile Company, and the latter the wife of George 
 I. Miller, who has farming interests and is a clerk 
 in the employ of the Lafayette Supply Company, 
 of Lafayette. 
 
 May 10, 1859, Mr. Hake started for Colorado 
 with two wagons drawn by one yoke of oxen and 
 two yoke of cows. The little party, including the 
 family of our subject, arrived at Ralston Creek, 
 near Golden, July 7, and the same week went on to 
 Golden Gate. There Mr. Hake assisted in building 
 a house for a man who kept a restaurant, and was 
 thus occupied for about a month. He then loca- 
 ted in the .small mining camp of Arapahoe, on 
 Clear Creek, and proceeded to engage in gulch- 
 mining up to the following February. Then 
 coming to Coal Creek Valley he pre-empted a 
 quarter-section of land, proving it up later and 
 afterwards bought eighty acres adjoining. Thus 
 he had a large farm, which, by patient improve- 
 ment and good management has been made to 
 yield a good living. Mr. Hake has given much time 
 to dairying and stock-raising and has met with 
 well-deserved success in his labors. In the spring 
 of 1864 an unusually great flood exposed coal 
 upon his land, but it was not until 1895 that the 
 extent and value of the vein became known. It 
 
 proved to be seven feet in thickness and thus in 
 paying quantity. In 1896 the coal land was 
 leased by Mr. Hake to J. H. Hood, who organ- 
 ized a company, which has since operated the 
 mines. Politically Mr. Hake is a supporter of 
 the Democratic party. 
 
 EHARLES S. TURNER is the proprietor of 
 the oldest and only exclusive plumbing 
 establishment in Boulder. His place of 
 business is centrally located, being at No. 11 25 
 Pearl street. He thoroughly understands every 
 department of his calling, and has done consider- 
 able work for public buildings, as well as for 
 private concerns. That his fellows in the craft 
 place confidence in his executive ability is plainl}^ 
 shown by the fact that they chose him to serve 
 as vice-president of the Colorado Master Plumb- 
 ers' Association, in which capacity he is still 
 acting, and he also belongs to the National Asso- 
 ciation of Master Plumbers. 
 
 Mr. Turner is in the prime of early manhood, 
 as he was born July 12, 1867. Des Moines, Iowa, 
 was the place of his birth, and in that city his 
 boyhood was quietly passed. He attended the 
 public schools there and in 1882 accompanied his 
 family to Boulder, on their removal here. Soon 
 afterwards he began an apprenticeship to the 
 plumber's trade with the firm of Rutter & Han- 
 kins (later the Rutter Hardware Company) and 
 at the end of three years he was promoted to the 
 post of foreman in this department of their busi- 
 ness. He continued to act as such until March, 
 1896, when he purchased the plumbing outfit of 
 his former employers and has since carried on an 
 independent business. He takes and executes 
 contracts for all kinds of plumbing, gas, steam 
 and hot water pipes and appliances, and keeps in 
 stock a very extensive line of supplies commonly 
 used in the trade. From the time that he en- 
 gaged in business he has had charge of nearly 
 all work in the line of tapping the mains, and 
 among the numerous buildings which he has 
 done plumbing on are the various university 
 structures, the sanitarium and the Cheney block, 
 and the residences of Charles Davis, A. T. Henry, 
 Prof R. M. DeLong and Mr. Hazen. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Turner are Jeptha J. and 
 Elizabeth (Bond) Turner, both natives of Ken- 
 tucky. The father was born and reared in Louis- 
 
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 ville, and in his young manhood went to Iowa. 
 By trade he was a carpenter and for years he was 
 ver}' successfully engaged in building and con- 
 tracting in Des Moines. In the summer of 1882 
 he came to Boulder, and here made his home up 
 to the time of his death, in 1894. His widow is 
 now a resident of Denver. Of their four chil- 
 dren the subject of this article is the youngest. 
 
 The marriage of Charles S. Turner and Miss 
 Emma Hacker occurred in Boulder in 1891. 
 Mrs. Turner was born in Worcester, Mass. , and 
 is a daughter of R. A. and Eliza (Hentz) Hacker, 
 who were natives of Vienna, Austria and Ger- 
 many respectively. The father came to this 
 country in childhood with his father, Frederick 
 Hacker. R. A. Hacker was one of the gallant 
 Patriots who went forth under the stars and 
 stripes in the Civil war, enlisting at the begin- 
 ning of the conflict, and serving as a lieutenant 
 of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment of Volun- 
 teers. He has since been identified with the 
 Grand Array of the Republic. With his wife he 
 is living retired in Boulder, having come here in 
 1882. Mrs. Turner is the second of their three 
 children, and is a member of the Woman's Relief 
 Corps, and of the Degree of Honor. The latter 
 is auxiliary to the Ancient Order United Work- 
 men, to which Mr. Turner belongs. He is also 
 connected with the Woodmen of the World. Po- 
 litically he is a Republican. 
 
 GILBERT E. BOWEN is the proprietor and 
 I I manager of the Bowen Hotel, which he has 
 / I successfully operated for the past ten years. 
 This well-known hotel, the largest in Boulder, 
 stands as a pioneer here, as it was originally built 
 in 1876, the year of Colorado's admission to the 
 sisterhood of states. Formerly it was styled the 
 American House, but when Mr. Bowen took 
 charge of it and remodeled and improved it, the 
 name was changed to its present form. He is a 
 genial and popular landlord, and numbers hosts 
 of friends in the ranks of the traveling public. 
 Everything pertaining to the hotel is first-class; 
 well-served meals and neat and attractive rooms 
 being the constant aim of the proprietor. 
 
 The Bo wens are of Welsh extraction, three 
 brothers bearing the name having set forth from 
 Wales to found a new home in America at an 
 early day. They settled in Rhode Island, and 
 
 there our subject's paternal grandfather was born. 
 He removed to Vermont, becoming a farmer of 
 Bennington County. His son, Lorenzo, father of 
 A. E. Bowen, was born on the old Vermont 
 homestead, and was, in turn, an agriculturist, his 
 home being near Readsboro. He lived to the 
 ripe age of seventy-five years. The mother, who 
 bore the girlhood name of Beulah Blanchard, was 
 born in Bennington County, Vt., and died when 
 four-score. Her father, Isaac Blanchard, was 
 also a native of Vermont, and came from an old 
 New England family. 
 
 A. E. Bowen is one of ten children, seven of 
 whom are living. He was born on the old home 
 place in Bennington County, Vt., March 27, 
 1841, and was there reared to maturity with his 
 brothers and sisters. One of the number, Faxon 
 L., is a judge in the old Vermont town. Euphe- 
 mia A. is the wife of Dr. W. A. Scott, of Niagara 
 Falls, N. Y. ; Leora, Mrs. Wilson, resides in 
 Bennington; and Gertrude is Mrs. C. A. Russell, 
 of Wilmington, Vt. William A. is living in Ver- 
 mont and Fred L. is a merchant in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. Dr. Merritt A. and James E. died 
 in Massachusetts in 1896. Up to the time that 
 he arrived at his majority, our subject remained 
 at home, and acquired his education in the gram- 
 mar and high schools of his native town. In 
 1862 he went^to Hinsdale, N. H., and carried on 
 a hotel there for three years with very fair suc- 
 cess, as it was his first business venture. Then 
 he went to Shelburne Falls, and conducted a 
 mercantile enterprise for a period, after which he 
 was numbered among the leading merchants of 
 Hartford, Conn., for twenty years. 
 
 It was twelve years ago that Mr. Bowen came 
 to this state, and for two years he was the pro- 
 prietor of the Oasis Hotel of Greeley. The next 
 six months he was in the boot and shoe business, 
 then selling out. In the fall of 1888 he bought 
 the old American House, and has since very 
 profitably operated it. For perhaps nine years 
 he has been interested in mining. He developed 
 and still operates the Bowen lead mines at James- 
 town and the New York lead mine in the same 
 neighborhood. He also bought and placed in 
 successful working order the Pine Shade mine in 
 the Central district— the largest low-grade ' 'prop- 
 osition" in Colorado. When the Pine Shade 
 Mining Company (comprising but four members) 
 was instituted, Mr. Bowen was made vice-president 
 
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 of the concern. They have a twenty-stamp mill 
 and the plant is in full blast, it having been exca- 
 vated some five hundred feet already. Mr. Bowen 
 also owns three other fine pieces of mining prop- 
 erty, all situated in the Central district, in Cen- 
 tral Gulch, and named respectively Cashier, Gold 
 Ledge and Dutch Jake. He is a member of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a true- 
 blue Republican. In Greenfield, Mass., Mr. 
 Bowen married Miss Emma L. Gale, a native of 
 Massachusetts, and daughter of Otis and Martha 
 Gale, of that state. 
 
 (lOHN DE BACKER, a farmer in the Boulder 
 I Valley, was born in Belgium January 13, 
 (2/ 1827, a son of Robert and Marie (De Vondal) 
 De Backer. He was one of eleven children, of 
 whom four besides himself are living, namely: 
 Glamacy, widow of James McKane; Leopold, a 
 farmer and stock-raiser of this county; Peter, a 
 carpenter in Belgium; and Johanna. His father, 
 who was born in the province of Moerkacke, 
 Belgium, was in youth too weak to do the severe 
 manual labor required on a farm, and so enlisted 
 under Napoleon's banner in the Franco-Prussian 
 war, serving for France two years. On his re- 
 turn home he apprenticed himself to the mill- 
 wrighting trade, in which he followed the example 
 set by his father, who had been a millwright. 
 On completing his apprenticeship he began to 
 work as a journeyman. He continued to follow 
 his chosen occupation until too old to work; at 
 the time of his death he was eighty years of age. 
 Having no opportunities for an education, our 
 subject, however, by reading and by contact with 
 the world gained a broad fund of information. 
 He learned the millwright's trade, and in 1855 
 crossed the ocean from Antwerp to New York 
 City, on the sailing vessel "De Fanny," arriving 
 in this country May 16, after a voyage of fifty- 
 eight days. The voyage was rough and stormy, 
 and more than once the passengers gave up all 
 hope of ever seeing land again. From New 
 York he went to Norfolk, Va., where for three 
 months he worked for a gardener and farmer. 
 Returning to New York in August, he worked 
 for two weeks in the employ of a carpenter, after 
 which he secured work in Hecker's mill, con- 
 verting an immense cotton mill into a grist mill, 
 and putting in twenty-eight pairs of burrs. In 
 
 the spring of 1856 he resumed carpentering and 
 in the winter worked for a Mr. Provost, pro- 
 prietor of eleven grocery stores. 
 
 With his family and two countrymen who had 
 accompanied him to America, Mr. De Backer re- 
 moved to Iowa in 1857 and bought forty acres in 
 Johnson County, five miles from Iowa City, 
 where he began agricultural pursuits. May 16 
 he and his two partners left Iowa City for Colo- 
 rado. They crossed the plains with two ox-teams, 
 one of which he owned. They arrived in Bould- 
 er July 1 1 and proceeded direct to the mountains, 
 where they and three others bought a claim and 
 embarked in gulch mining. After they had taken 
 out something over $100, they sent two of the 
 company to Mexico for a load of provisions. On 
 their journey, after crossing the Mexican border, 
 they were robbed and massacred by a band of 
 Mexican bandits; so the company lost two of 
 their comrades, as well as considerable money 
 and their team. 
 
 Later Mr. De Backer built a quartz mill with a 
 water wheel forty feet high and nine stamps. 
 He embarked in lead mining, but the ore failed 
 to pay, and in i86o, after almost a year of mining, 
 he came to the South Boulder Valley, where he 
 took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, adjoining his present home on the east. 
 Here he engaged in the stock and dairy business, 
 milking some fifty cows and selling butter at a 
 good price. In 1865 he cut the timber from 
 Boulder Canon and framed a mill on his place, 
 to be erected in Valmont. His partner in the 
 enterprise was P. M. Housel, who went east to 
 the states for the machiner}'. After the timber 
 was framed, it was hauled to Valmont. The 
 fall of 1866 found the mill ready to grind 
 that year's wheat crop. After two years Mr. 
 De Backer sold his interest to his partner and 
 moved to Denver, in order to give his children 
 better educational facilities. His ranch had been 
 sold to his sister, Mrs. Blake, who looked after 
 his dairy business in his absence. After six 
 months in Denver he returned to Boulder 
 Valley and purchased one hundred and sixty 
 acres adjoining his former place on the west, 
 once more turning his attention to the cattle busi- 
 ness. As he prospered he added from time to 
 time to his farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 until his present place comprises six hundred 
 and forty acres. 
 
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 While his schooling was limited, Mr. De Backer 
 was broadmiuded and knew the value of an 
 education. After coming to the valley he was 
 largely instrumental in the construction of a 
 schoolhouse near Marshall. However, the dis- 
 tance was too great for his children to attend, and 
 he agitated the question of building a school in 
 Boulder Valley nearer to his home and the homes 
 of his neighbors. With a little encouragement 
 from his neighbors, he built a schoolhouse, and 
 here his children and those of his neighbors 
 were pupils. 
 
 In New York City, in 1856, Mr. De Backer 
 married Miss Marie Fouse. Of their five chil- 
 dren three survive: Louisa, wife of William 
 Niemaster, a real-estate dealer of Denver; Delia, 
 wife of C. L. Davis, whose sketch appears on 
 another page; and Frank, represented elsewhere 
 in this volume. The wife and mother died June 
 22, 1865. The present wife of Mr. De Backer 
 was Miss Marie Dane, a native of Germany. 
 Four children were born of this union, of whom 
 three are living, Martha, Marie and Emma. 
 The family are of the Catholic faith. 
 
 r~RANK DE BACKER, who is engaged in 
 Iw the stock and real-estate business in Boulder 
 I ^ County, also has extensive farming and 
 mining interests, was born in this county Feb- 
 ruary I, 1863, a son of John and Marie (Fouse) 
 De Backer. He grew to manhood on his father's 
 cattle ranches, of which he assumed the manage- 
 ment at the age of eighteen. When a boy he 
 attended the schools of the county, but his educa- 
 tion has been acquired principally by self-culture. 
 His father deeded him a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, four miles southeast of Boulder, and 
 he began life for himself. Here he devoted his 
 time to farming, feeding the produce of his farm 
 to his cattle. For ten years he was successfully 
 engaged in the cattle business, and in 1894, in 
 connection with his stock business he became 
 interested in raining, as a stockholder in the 
 Ward Rose Gold Mining Company, owners of 
 one of the valuable mining properties of Boulder 
 County, consisting of six mines with two mill 
 sites and two tunnel sites. He also owns a two- 
 third interest in the extension of the old Califor- 
 nia mine, one of the best leads in the Ward dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Acquiring city property in 1896, Mr. De Backer 
 embarked in the real- estate busine.ss, and soon 
 afterward removed his family to Boulder, where 
 he has since resided. His marriage united him 
 with Miss Nora Howard, a native of Boulder 
 County. Two children bless their union : Lester, 
 who was born August 17, 1886; and Ethel, born 
 February 29, 1888. Fraternally Mr. De Backer 
 is identified with Boulder Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F. 
 Besides his other interests, he is a stockholder in 
 the Enterprise Ditch Company, of which he was 
 president for two years and has served as super- 
 intendent since becoming the owner of stock in 
 the company. 
 
 j EMUEL McINTOSH, of Boulder, is one of 
 jt the sterling old pioneers who assisted in 
 U placing Colorado on a sound basis as a state 
 and did much toward the development of her 
 infant industries. Many a trip has he made 
 across the plains, and many a time has he feared 
 that the Indians would attack his home in the 
 valley of the Boulder River. With Rev. C. M. 
 Campbell, Judge Housel and others he built a 
 fort near Valmont, in early days, in order that 
 some protection might be afforded to their families 
 in case of an uprising among the Redskins. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Peter and 
 Elizabeth (Williams) Mcintosh, natives of In- 
 diana. The former was a son of George Mcintosh, 
 who was born in Scotland, and at an early period 
 settled in the Hoosier state. Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Mcintosh was of Welsh descent; her maternal 
 grandfather Bell, who was a soldier in the Rev- 
 olutionary war, removed from Kentucky to Iowa, 
 dying there at the advanced age of one hundred 
 and five years. She departed this life in Boulder 
 County when fifty -six years of age. She survived 
 her first husband several years, as he died in 
 1846, and subsequently she became the wife of 
 Joseph Hardin. Two of the four children of the 
 first union survive, and the three children of 
 the second marriage are living. Our subject's 
 own sister is Mrs. Hannah Corson, of Colorado 
 Springs. His brother Joseph, a member of Com- 
 pany D, Third Colorado Cavalry, during the 
 latter part of the Civil war was in the battle of 
 Sand Creek, and many years afterward was killed 
 in Smuggler mine, in 1889. 
 
 Lemuel Mcintosh was born in Indiana, March 
 20, 1838, and resided in Illinois until 1849, when 
 
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 the family removed, with teams, to Boone County, 
 Iowa. They settled in the neighborhood of the 
 present town of Madrid, Boone County, and 
 there our subject attended the local schools. His 
 step-father, Mr. Hardin, built a hotel at Boones- 
 boro (now Boone) and the young man assisted 
 him in running it up to 1858, when he joined the 
 state militia, and for a year or more was stationed 
 at Spirit Lake, Iowa, to keep down the Indians. 
 April 2, i860, he married Miss Angelina Stuart 
 and they at once started for the west. By horse- 
 team they proceeded to Omaha, and left that city 
 on the ist of May, having fitted up ox-teams for 
 their further journey. Their route was the old 
 trail along the Platte River, and down to Gold 
 Hill. There Mr. Mcintosh engaged in mining 
 and prospecting for a year or two, and in 1862 
 settled on a tract of land which he homesteaded 
 from the government. This ranch, situated two 
 and a-half miles from Boulder, he improved, 
 building a log-house, and making irrigation 
 ditches. He assisted in putting in one of the 
 first high-line ditches in the state, and had it in 
 successful operation by July i, 1862. The prop- 
 erty has since continued in his possession, with 
 the exception of twenty-five acres, which he has 
 sold. For some years he raised cattle and hay 
 and he set out a fine orchard of about fifteen 
 hundred trees. In September, 1896, he retired 
 and settled in Boulder, leasing his homestead. 
 For a number of years he has been connected 
 with Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., 
 and in politics is a Democrat. 
 
 Mrs. Mcintosh, who is a native of Hancock 
 County, 111., is a daughter of Dr. Alanson and 
 Mary J. (Eberhart) Stuart. The father was 
 born in Louisville, Ky., in 18 12, and in young 
 manhood moved to Indiana, where he was mar- 
 ried. Later he went to Illinois, and for years 
 practiced his profession in Montrose, Dahlonega, 
 and Stratford, all in Iowa. He was a graduate 
 of the Louisville Medical College, and was 
 a man of much ability and skill. His death 
 took place April 6, 1886, when he was in his 
 seventy-fourth year. His father, Alexander, was 
 of Scotch descent. He was born in the Blue 
 Grass state and died in Galveston, Tex., at the 
 home of his daughter, Mrs. Ferish. Mrs. Mcin- 
 tosh's mother was born in Greenfield, Ind., and 
 is still living, her home being in Iowa. Her 
 father, John Eberhart, a native of Maryland, was 
 
 an early settler in the Hoosier state and departed 
 this life in 1862. He was a minister in the United 
 Brethren Church and for years was a presiding 
 elder in Iowa. Mrs. Mcintosh is one of eight 
 children, three of whom have been summoned to 
 the better land. One sister, Mrs. Clara Bradford, 
 is a resident of Boulder. 
 
 The five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mcin- 
 tosh are as follows: Joseph Leander, Alene Flor- 
 ence, William Edward, Evelena and LeRoy 
 Stuart. The eldest son was the first male child 
 born of white parents in Gold Hill, Colo., the date 
 of his birth having been January 13, 1861. He 
 was educated in the University of Colorado, and 
 is engaged in farming near Lamar, Colo. Alene 
 F.,born in Boonesboro, Iowa, April 26, 1863, 
 was a student in the university here, and is now 
 Mrs. C. W. Burke, of Lamar, Colo. William E., 
 born on the old farm in this county, August 11, 
 1870, was accidentally killed. He was a member 
 of the Colorado National Guards, who were 
 placed on the defense of the Victor Mine at Crip- 
 ple Creek in the summer of 1894, and while on 
 duty he was so unfortunate as to fall into a shaft 
 two hundred and fifty feet in depth. He had 
 graduated but a short time before, in June, 1894, 
 from the University of Colorado, with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Philosophy, and had a most 
 promising future in store, as every one believed, 
 who knew him. Evelena, born on the old home- 
 stead, December 14, 1871, died January 27, 1877. 
 LeRoy Stuart, who was born July 10, 1881, is a 
 member of the preparatory school, and expects 
 to enter the university later. 
 
 ROSCOE M. CROSBY, a well-known mu- 
 sician and leader of bands and orchestras, 
 has been numbered among the successful 
 business men of Boulder for several years, being 
 the oldest in his line in the town. He is a native 
 of Maine, his birth having occurred in Bangor 
 in 1857. After completing his education in the 
 public schools he learned the trade of carpenter. 
 He was employed as a contractor in Marshall 
 County, Iowa, for two or three years prior to at- 
 taining his majority. The calling was not to 
 his liking, however, and in 1879 he began serv- 
 ing an apprenticeship to the jeweler's trade, for 
 from his childhood he had had a natural taste for 
 the business. After he had been employed some 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 three years in Marshalltown and Oilman, Iowa, 
 he embarked in an independent enterprise in the 
 town last mentioned and carried on a business 
 successfully for two years. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Crosby decided to try his fortunes 
 further west, and, locating in Denver, opened a 
 store and at the same time became actively inter- 
 ested in various musical organizations and clubs. 
 He started the Denver & Rio Grande orchestra of 
 Denver, and was the leader of both the band and 
 orchestra until he removed to Boulder in 1886. 
 Since that time he has been the leader of the 
 Boulder Band, now styled the Second Regiment, 
 Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias Band. 
 Under his leadership the band has risen into de- 
 served prominence, and is considered one of the 
 representative musical organizations of the state. 
 A portion of the time for the past decade Mr. 
 Crosby has been the leader of the Crosby 
 Brothers' orchestra. In 1886 he opened a 
 jewelry store, and is now located centrally at 
 No. 1310 Pearl street. He carries a fine line of 
 watches, diamonds, gems and silverware of all 
 descriptions, and also has a splendid stock of 
 optical goods and musical instruments. He is a 
 stockholder in the Boulder Building and Loan 
 Association. For several years he taught pupils 
 the violin and brass musical instruments, but 
 since 1891 has devoted himself to his other pur- 
 suits. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Crosby and Miss Isa 
 Beeson was solemnized in Grundy Center, Iowa, 
 in 188 1. Mrs. Crosby was born and brought up 
 in Marshall County, Iowa, of which locality her 
 parents, Joseph and Nancy Beeson, were pio- 
 neers, they having settled there in 1855. The 
 two children of Mr. and Mrs. Crosby are named 
 respectively Earl and Carmen. Mr. Crosby has 
 used his ballot in favor of the nominees of the Re- 
 publican party, and is now enrolled among the 
 silver Republicans. He is a member of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen and the Knights 
 of Pythias, Uniform Rank. Mrs. Crosby is pres- 
 ident of the Woman's Relief Corps, has been 
 grand chief of the Rathbone Sisters for two terms, 
 and is an active member in the Christian Church. 
 
 The Crosbys are of Scotch-Irish lineage, but 
 have been inhabitants of Maine for many gener- 
 ations. William Crosby, the paternal grand- 
 father of our subject, was a native of Maine and 
 was a boot and shoe manufacturer. One of his 
 
 brothers was a soldier in the war of 18 12. The 
 parents of R. M. Crosby are John and Charlotte 
 (Mclntyre) Crosby, both natives of Maine. They 
 went to Marshalltown, Iowa, in 1862, where Mr. 
 Crosby learned the business of a brick-mason, 
 builder and contractor, which he carried on until 
 his death. He was very patriotic, and two or 
 three times offered his services to the Union 
 army, both in Maine and Iowa, and even tried to 
 go as a substitute, but was refused each time on 
 account of the results of a broken leg, an accident 
 that had occurred in his childhood. In 1882 he 
 located in Grant County, S. Dak. , where he died 
 at nearly fifty years of age. The mother is now 
 a resident of Boulder, and three of their five chil- 
 dren survive. Herbert is a business man of Port- 
 land, Ore., and Wesley is employed in the 
 Boulder electric light plant. Mrs. Charlotte 
 Crosby's father, Hugh Mclntyre, was born in 
 Maine, and his grandfather was a native of Scot- 
 land. Grandfather Mclntyre was a hero of the 
 war of 1812. 
 
 j AWRENCE M. PURCELL is secretary and 
 It treasurer of the Joseph P. Dunn Leather 
 |_2f Company at No. 1748 Lawrence street, Den- 
 ver. His connection with this enterprise dates 
 from 1894. The firm are wholesale dealers in 
 leather findings and shoe-store supplies, and 
 manufacturers of boot, shoe and gaiter uppers. 
 They sell their products to the trade in Colo- 
 rado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, 
 Washington, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and 
 Nevada. 
 
 Mr. Purcell is a young man, having been born 
 in Ireland in 1871. In 1886, at the age of fifteen, 
 he came to New York City, and for about a year 
 he was engaged in the wholesale grocery busi- 
 ness; but hearing of the great resources of Col- 
 orado and being among the ambitious ones, he 
 came to Denver, and engaged in the building 
 business. He was looked upon as one thoroughly 
 competent in his line, which was plastering. At 
 the age of twenty he was given charge of that 
 work in the construction of the Equitable build- 
 ing. Afterwards he became interested in the cattle 
 business, and has a ranch nine miles south of 
 Denver, where he has since raised fine thorough- 
 bred Holsteins. Since 1894, as before stated, he 
 has been in business with Joseph P. Dunn. In 
 addition to being an officer of the company he 
 
ALONZO ALLEN. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 695 
 
 travels for it through the west, usually making 
 several trips every year. He is an energetic 
 young man, with a seemingly inexhaustible store 
 of pluck and a quick and accurate judgment in 
 business matters. 
 
 Having given his attention very closely to busi- 
 ness he has not identified himself with political 
 affairs, though he keeps posted on the issues 
 before the people and always supports the silver 
 Democratic principles. He was married in Den- 
 ver, in 1894, to Miss Agnes Emiley Dunn, a 
 sister of Joseph P. and Charles J. Dunn. 
 
 (31 LONZO ALLEN, treasurer of the Lake Ditch 
 LA Company, treasurer of the Altona Stone 
 / I Quarry Company, treasurer of the Altona 
 Grange, and for fifteen years secretary of the 
 Altona school board, is one of the most influential 
 farmers and business men of Boulder County. 
 He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, Octo- 
 ber 14, 1843, a son of John and Abigail (Broad- 
 swoard) Allen, and was one of seven children, 
 six now living, viz. : Alonzo, Joktan, Mary A., 
 Eliza J., Levi and Clara E. His father, who 
 was a native of Cheshire, England, emigrated to 
 the United States in early manhood with his fa- 
 ther, John Allen, and settled in Trumbull Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, where he married. In 1853 he re- 
 moved from there to Defiance County, Ohio, 
 where he has since engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits. 
 
 In the schools of the home neighborhood our 
 subject acquired a fair education. He remained 
 at home with his parents and assisted his father 
 in the management of the home place. In 1872 
 he married Miss Pruda Parker. Two children 
 were born of their union, namely: Edwin, now 
 deceased, and Eunice, wife of Clyde Bolton, a 
 prominent farmer of Boulder County. In the 
 fall of 1873 our subject migrated to Colorado, 
 and from Boulder went by stage to Gold Hill, 
 where he joined his brothers, Joktan and Levi. 
 After spending some days with them he came to 
 the valley and settled on Left Hand Creek, where 
 he built a cabin and engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising. His first work was on the Lake 
 ditch; in 1882, after the survey of the township, 
 he filed his claim for one hundred and sixty 
 acres, which he now owns, he and his brothers 
 together owning eight hundred and forty acres. 
 
 Joktan Allen was born in Trumbull County 
 January 3, 1845, and from his native place came 
 to Colorado in the fall of 1869, settling in Black- 
 hawk, where he hauled wood to the smelter for 
 three years. Next he went to Gold Hill and 
 worked in the mines for two years, after which 
 he worked at Sunshine for three years. In 1876 
 he came to this valley and took up one hundred 
 and sixty acres, which land he has since cul- 
 tivated. 
 
 Levi Allen was born in Defiance County, Ohio, 
 October 18, 1854. In the fall of 1871 he came 
 to Colorado, hoping to benefit his health, which 
 had been poor. For a time he remained in 
 Blackhawk and afterward accompanied his brother 
 to Gold Hill, thence going to Sunshine, where 
 he worked at sorting ore. Coming to Boulder 
 County in 1876 he settled on one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land, which he has since cultivated. 
 
 The three brothers are highly respected wher- 
 ever known. Joktan and Alonzo are members of 
 the Grange, in the work of which they take an 
 active interest. All are energetic, capable and 
 persevering, with the business ability and sound 
 judgment that invariably bring success. 
 
 pCJ ALTER EDMOND TOWERS, of Denver, 
 \ A / was born at Denny, seven miles from 
 Y V Sterling, Sterlingshire, Scotland, Sunday, 
 March 28, 1841. He is a descendant of English 
 ancestors, his paternal great-grandfather having 
 "removed from the North of England to the vi- 
 cinity of Edinboro. The latter' s son, Walter, 
 was born near that city, but removed to Bonney- 
 bridge, where he engaged in milling. In Bonney- 
 bridge, Sterlingshire, occurred the birth of his 
 son, Robert, who was for a few years engaged in 
 the freighting and hay and grain business be- 
 tween Sterling and Glasgow, but he died at the 
 early age of thirty-two. In religious belief he 
 was a Presbyterian. He married Agnes Mac- 
 Donald, a native of Sterlingshire, and deceased 
 at forty-nine. She was a daughter of Archibald 
 MacDonald, a farmer, who was born in the High- 
 lands and was a relative of the MacDonald family 
 massacred at Glencove. 
 
 In the family of Robert and Agnes Towers 
 there were six children, of whom four are living, 
 Walter Edmond being the third in order of birth 
 and the only one of the number in America. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He was the first child christened by John Edmond, 
 D.D., afterward Loudon's famous divine, who gave 
 him his name in recognition of the fact. He was 
 only seven when his father died, and as the family 
 were poor he was early obliged to earn his own 
 livelihood. For this reason he had no school ad- 
 vantages, and, with the exception of six months' 
 attendance upon night schools, he has acquired 
 his education by self-culture, experience and ob- 
 servation. At the age of eight he began to work 
 in a calico printing factory, where his first em- 
 ployment was that of dipping the blocks into the 
 colors. In time he was advanced to more impor- 
 tant positions. At the age of sixteen he left the 
 works and apprenticed himself to the carpenter's 
 trade in Denny, where he served about three 
 years. He then went to Glasgow, where he 
 worked as journeyman and later as foreman. 
 
 April, 1867, found Mr. Towers in Canada, 
 where he spent three weeks in Richmond and 
 Montreal. In May he went to Vermont and for 
 one season worked on a boat in the mountains. 
 His next location was in New York City, but 
 after a short time he went as far west as Chicago, 
 where he remained two years. In August, 1869, 
 he went to California, and worked in contracting 
 at Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose, re- 
 turning to Chicago in November, 1870, and engag- 
 ing in contracting and building there. The year 
 1877 found him prospecting and mining between 
 Webb City and Joplin, Mo., and later he was simi- 
 larly occupied in Galena, Kan., from which place 
 he came to Colorado, settling in Silver Clifi" in" 
 March, 1879. After prospecting there for a year he 
 went to the Bonanza camp in the San Luis Val- 
 ley, where he mined about one year. In August, 
 1881, he went to Pueblo, where he engaged in 
 contracting and building, but in June, 1885, 
 went east and two months later, returning to this 
 state, settled in Denver. His contracts here 
 have included some of the most important work 
 of the kind in the city, among them being the 
 Denver high school, Trinity Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church (the finest structure built by that de- 
 nomination in the world), St. James Church, 
 Iliff School of Theology (which always attracts 
 the admiring attention of visitors) , the elegant 
 residence of Bishop and Mrs. Warren at Uni- 
 versity Park, also remodeled the Markham and 
 the front of Daniels & Fisher's store, put in the 
 front of The Fair, the addition to the Colorado 
 
 National Bank, the Preston residence in Colo- 
 rado Springs and remodeled the Central block of 
 Pueblo. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Towers married Mrs. Susan 
 Aline (Tipton) Williams, who was born on the 
 farm owned by her parents and situated on the 
 battlefield of Gettysburg. The homestead was 
 originally purchased by her Grandfather Rogers 
 and is now a part of the National Park. Mrs. 
 Towers is the mother of one son, Ralph B. Will- 
 iams. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Towers is at 
 No. 104 South Lincoln avenue and his shop is in 
 the rear of No. 145 Champa street. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Master Builders' Association and 
 takes an interest in everything pertaining to his 
 occupation. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Masons in Chicago and in politics adheres to 
 the doctrines of the Republican party. 
 
 ^VRWIN E. KEELER, a member of the firm of 
 I W. B. Keeler & Sons, of Boulder, is a very 
 X energetic and successful business man. He 
 is upright and just in all his transactions and has 
 won the respect and high regard of everyone 
 who has had dealings of any kind with him. 
 About twelve years have passed since he cast in 
 his fortunes with the inhabitants of this attractive 
 valley town, and he has never seen reason to re- 
 gret his choice of a home and place of business. 
 He is politically allied to the Republican party, 
 firmly believing that its policy has been the cause 
 of our national success and standing among the 
 great powers of the earth since the dark days of 
 the Civil war, and that, under its banners, we, as 
 a people, shall march onward and upward to yet 
 greater glory. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the above-named 
 gentleman was Samuel Keeler, who was born in 
 New York and later removed to New Jersey, 
 where he was engaged in running a tannery. 
 Later in life he removed to Ohio, ^nd during 
 his last years he led a retired life in Columbus. 
 Both he and his wife attained the venerable age 
 of ninety years and over. Our subject's father, 
 William B. Keeler, was born in New Jersey, in. 
 18 16, and is still living, his home being in Boul- 
 der. In 1843 he moved to Iowa, settled in Bur- 
 lington, and from that point made frequent trips 
 into the interior, transporting supplies and goods 
 for people who were moving further west. In 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 1849 he took up a tract of government land near 
 Pella, Marion Count)', Iowa, and improved a 
 farm, which he placed under good cultivation, 
 adding much to its original value in innumerable 
 waj-s. In 1873 he located in the town of Otley, 
 in the same county, and embarked in a mercan- 
 tile enterprise, continuing there for ten years. 
 Going then to Greene County, Iowa, he conducted 
 a store in Rippey until the fall of 1886, when he 
 came to Boulder and started the business now 
 managed by his two sous. He has practically 
 retired from active life, and is justly entitled to 
 restful old age after the long years he has spent 
 in industrious and unremitting toil. His faithful 
 companion and helpmate along life's journey is 
 still sharing his joys and sorrows and is now in 
 her seventy-third year. She was Miss Ruth H. 
 Wilson before her marriage, and is a native of 
 Hunterdon County, N. J. This worthy couple had 
 a family of seven children, but four of the num- 
 ber have been called to the silent land. One son 
 is Rev. A. C. Keeler, pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church in Norton, Kan.; the other surviving 
 children are Irwin E. and Harry E. , who are 
 members of the firm which was established here 
 by their father. 
 
 Irwin E. Keeler was born on his parents' 
 homestead near Pella, Marion County, Iowa, and 
 spent his childhood in that state. His education 
 was such as the common-schools afforded him, 
 and under his father's judicious training he early 
 learned the principles of business. As early as 
 1873 he commenced his mercantile career by 
 clerking in the store owned by the senior Keeler, 
 and in 1883 was admitted to partnership, the 
 style of the newly -made firm being W. B. 
 Keeler & Son. They located in Rippey, Iowa, that 
 year and remained in that town for a period of 
 three years. The youngest son of W. B. Keeler 
 was taken into the firm in 1 890, it having since 
 been known as W. B. Keeler & Sons. In 1886 
 the business was brought to Boulder, and a store 
 was opened in the I/ippoldt building, on Pearl 
 street, near Eleventh. Their trade increased so 
 rapidly that within a year or two it was found 
 necessary to double their accommodations. In 
 1890 they moved about a block further up the 
 street, and occupied a space of 25 x roo feet. 
 Later this was extended twenty-five feet, but this 
 extra amount of room also proved inadequate and 
 in 1894 the firm built a fine store, 71^x125 feet, 
 
 placed hot-water heating pipes and other modern 
 appliances in the building, and have had every- 
 thing to their satisfaction since. The store is a 
 department concern and is run on the most ap- 
 proved city plan. A splendid line of dry goods, 
 carpets, shoes, groceries, etc. , is to be found here, 
 and trade is in a most flourishing condition. The 
 proprietors do a wholesale and retail business, on 
 a strictly cash basis, and are prospering. Mr. 
 Keeler, of this article, and his brother, Harry E., 
 are members of the Presbyterian Church and are 
 loyal and patriotic citizens. 
 
 GlLONZO C. STILWELL, water commis- 
 U sioner of district No. 6 and a prominent 
 / I citizen of Boulder County, began farming 
 pursuits on his arrival here, and, after having 
 operated as a renter for some time, he pre- 
 empted eighty acres some five miles northeast of 
 Boulder. To this tract he afterward added forty 
 acres of school land, and continued to improve 
 and cultivate the property until 1880, when he 
 sold the place. At the same time he purchased 
 one hundred and sixty acres in the same locality, 
 and here he has since resided. In politics he is a 
 stanch Republican. Governor Routt tendered 
 him, in 1891, appointment as water commissioner 
 of District No. 6, and the appointment was tend- 
 ered him later by Governors Waite, Mclntire and 
 Adams successi\'ely. He is a veteran of the war 
 and holds membership in Nathaniel Lyon Post 
 No. 5, G. A. R., of which he was commander for 
 one term. 
 
 A native of York state, born April i, 1845, the 
 subject of this sketch is a sou of Ezra and Mary 
 (Howe) Stilwell. He was one of eight children, 
 five now living, viz.: A. A., of Grant City, 
 Iowa; Sophronia, wifeof L. M. Lewis, of Albany, 
 Wis.; C. S. and H. H., both residents of Wau- 
 kon, Iowa; and A. C, of this sketch. The father 
 was born on Lake Champlain, in Vermont, and 
 in youth learned the trades of a wheelwright and 
 miller. He married Miss Howe, who was born 
 in Chesterfield, N. H., April 2, 1809. Shortly 
 afterward he removed to York state, where he 
 spent a number of years in Allegany County 
 following his trades. There all of his children 
 were born. In the fall of 1851 he removed to 
 Wisconsin, stopping for a short time in Milwau- 
 kee, Janesville and Dunkirk, and finally settling 
 in Fulton, where he soon died. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was about seven years of age. At the age of 
 seventeen he obtained employment as a farm 
 hand. When nineteen, May 10, 1864, he en- 
 listed in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty- 
 fourth Illinois Infantry, Captain Milligan, and 
 was sent down to Kentucky, where he remained 
 nearly four months, much of the time at May- 
 field. Going to Chicago, he was expecting his 
 discharge there, but as Price's raid occurred in 
 Missouri about that time, he was sent with his 
 company there, finding, however, on their ar- 
 rival that Price had retreated. They were then 
 returned to Chicago, where he was discharged 
 October 25, 1864. He proceeded at once to 
 Allamakee County, Iowa, and joined two broth- 
 ers at Buckland, where he assisted in getting out 
 wagon material which his brothers had con- 
 tracted to furnish. This occupied him some two 
 and one-half years. 
 
 Crossing the plains with his wife's relatives in 
 1867, Mr. Stilwell arrived in Ward June 23. 
 Here his father-in-law owned a sawmill, he hav- 
 ing resided here for some four years prior to our 
 subject's arrival. The latter began to work in 
 the mill and remained there eighteen months, 
 after which he began farming. He is an indus- 
 trious, persevering man, and the large farm that 
 he owns represents his unaided efforts through a 
 long term of years. 
 
 /gj ARRET A. GARRISON, architect, con- 
 l_ tractor and builder, of Denver. The family 
 ^_J of which Mr. Garrison is a member was 
 represented among the earliest settlers of New 
 Jersey and originated in Holland, where the 
 name was spelled Garretsen. It is thought that 
 they are connected with the New York family of 
 the same name. The great-grandfather of our 
 subject was born near Paterson, N. J., and was 
 accidentally drowned by the capsizing of a boat 
 in which he was crossing the Hudson to New 
 York. His son, G. A., who was with him, 
 escaped. The latter enlisted for service in the 
 war of 18 1 2, but was not called out. He owned 
 a farm in Bergen County, N. J., twelve miles 
 from Paterson, and there he died at eighty- 
 nine years of age. His wife was Adeline Za- 
 briskie, descendant of one of that name who, 
 when a boy, was kidnapped by the Indians, and 
 
 while in captivity learned their language. The 
 Indians were finally crowded by civilization and 
 moved westward, leaving Mr. Zabriskie, who 
 had reached maturity, in possession of a valuable 
 tract of land. 
 
 The father of our subject, Abraham Garrison, 
 was born on the old homestead near Paterson, 
 and there much of his life was passed, engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits. He also owned a farm 
 of four hundred and six acres in Bergen County. 
 His last years were spent in retirement in Pater- 
 son, where he died in 1891, at the age of eighty- 
 seven years. In religion he was identified with 
 the Reformed Church of America. His wife, who 
 bore the maiden name of Leah Harris, was born 
 in New York City and died at Paterson in 1888. 
 Their twelve children were as follows: Adeline 
 and Doramus, who died in childhood; Mary, who 
 died at Paterson when sixty years of age; John, 
 who occupies a portion of the old homestead; 
 Jane, who passed away during the '50s; Leah, 
 who died in 1862; Mrs. Ann McNama, who re- 
 sides in Bergen County; Garret A.; David and 
 Abraham, who are engaged in the carriage 
 manufacturing business in Paterson; Simeon, a 
 carpenter, also of Paterson; and Mrs. Ellen Ptillis, 
 of Allendale, N. J. 
 
 At the age of eighteen Mr. Garrison, of this 
 sketch, was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade 
 in Paterson and served for five years. In 1868 
 he embarked in business as a contractor and 
 builder, and from the first his skill and accuracy 
 were evident. Up to 1887 he had made his home 
 in or near Paterson, where he had been born in 
 September, 1842; but the west presented a field 
 for labor that seemed profitable and pleasant, and 
 he finally determined to seek a home beyond the 
 Mississippi. Accordingly he came to Denver, 
 and, as many buildings were being erected here 
 at that time, he at once stepped into a profitable 
 business. He had the contract for the telephone 
 building on Lawrence street and for other im- 
 portant public structures; in addition to which he 
 has erected many residences and terraces. 
 
 In politics Mr. Garrison is a Populist, believing 
 that the highest prosperity of our nation and its 
 people can be secured only when a double stand- 
 ard of money is adopted. Fraternally he still 
 holds membership in Joppa Lodge No. 29, F. 
 & A. M., at Paterson. His family are connected 
 with the Broadway Christian Church, but he is 
 
THOMAS AUTREY. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 701 
 
 not a member of any denomination. While re- 
 siding in Paterson he married Miss Rachel Van 
 Winkle, a native of Passaic County, N. J., and 
 daughter of Cornelius S. Van Winkle, for some 
 years a farmer of that county, but later a resident 
 of Paterson. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison are the 
 parents of five children: Mrs. Lizzie Curzons, 
 of San Francisco; Frank, a merchant tailor of 
 San Francisco; Laura, Mabel and Birdie, who 
 are at home. 
 
 'HOMAS AUTREY, who resides at No. 808 
 Pine street, Boulder, was born in Andrew 
 County, Mo., April 6, 1842, a son of James 
 Sterling and Sarah (Robinson) Autrey. Refer- 
 ence to the family history is made upon another 
 page, in the sketch of William Autrey. After 
 having acquired a fair education in the common 
 schools of Missouri, in the fall of 1862 our subject 
 went to Leavenworth, Kan., and hired to Power 
 & Faulkner, to drive a team to Denver, but after 
 going as far as Rock Creek, Kan., having grown 
 tired of that kind of work, he left his employers 
 and proceeded alone to Nebraska City, where he 
 was employed during the winter in chopping 
 cord wood. In the spring of 1863 he drove an 
 ox-team through to Cottonwood Springs for Jen- 
 nings & Humphrey, and from that point drove a 
 team to Denver for a Mr. Clark, thence going to 
 Central City for Mr. Jennings, working his way 
 for his board. After having been employed at 
 chopping cord-wood for fifteen days at Central 
 City, he started for Denver with $5 in his pocket 
 and walked the entire distance, bare-footed, and 
 with only such food as he could procure at the in- 
 frequent stopping places. 
 
 Arriving in Denver, Mr. Autrey hired with 
 Carlyle & HoUiday as a teamster and went to La- 
 Porte, where he worked for them during the sum- 
 mer at $25 per month. In the winter he had 
 charge of cattle at Cottonwood Springs and in the 
 spring resumed teaming, which he continued 
 through the summer. In the fall of 1864 he went 
 to Nebraska City, where he remained during the 
 winter. During the summer of 1865 he drove 
 six mules, and in the fall stopped on Laramie 
 Plains, where he wintered cattle. In the spring 
 of 1866 he became assistant wagon- master, and 
 later in the season was made wagon-master. In 
 the spring of 1867 he joined the wagon train of 
 Walters & Dunham, loaded with dry hides and 
 
 bound for Salina, Kan., he being assistant wag- 
 on-master. During the trip, at Cedar Point, one 
 of his employers was killed by Indians. After 
 herding cattle for the firm at Salina for a month, 
 he joined his employers on a trip to Fort Hayes. 
 From there he took the train for his home. 
 
 For two years afterward Mr. Autrey devoted 
 his time to farming. In the winter of 1869 he 
 emigrated to Colorado, in company with his 
 parents and brothers, William and George K. 
 In the spring of the following year he and his 
 brother, William, bought four mules and engaged 
 in freighting. For a time they worked for the 
 railroad company, constructing a track from 
 Evans to Denver. In the fall of 1870 they took 
 up a homestead claim of eighty acres, and con- 
 tinued together for some years, increasing their 
 possessions and meeting with success. When a 
 division of the property was made Thomas took 
 one hundred and twenty acres of railroad land in 
 township I south, range 69 west, in addition to 
 which he rented one hundred and sixty acres from 
 his father-in-law. After two years he bought 
 eighty acres previously rented, and on this land, 
 in 1893, he discovered coal. The following year 
 he leased the property to the Enterprise Coal 
 Company. For two years he carried on a meat 
 business in Louisville, and still owns one-half in- 
 terest in a shop there, besides having two houses 
 in the town. In 1895 he removed to Boulder, 
 where he owns valuable city property. In June, 
 1875, he married Miss Mary Mink. Four chil- 
 dren were born of their union, namely: James B., 
 Luella, Laura and Marion Thomas, all of whom 
 are living except Laura. Fraternally Mr. Aut- 
 rey is connected with Hiawatha Tribe No. 25, 
 I. O. R. M. 
 
 •gEORGE W. EGGLESTON, who is one of 
 _ the influential residents of Boulder County, 
 ^ was born near Simcoe, Canada, September 
 29, 1833, a son of Elisha and Rachel (Kinne) 
 Eggleston. He was one of eight children, those 
 besides our subject being Elisha M., a retired 
 businessman residing in Denver; Theodore D., 
 deceased; Susan E., who is married and lives in 
 Idaho; William W.; Wellington K., of Grand 
 Junction, Colo.; Charles B., of Denver; and 
 Albert L., of Ouray, Colo. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in Madison 
 County, N. Y., in 1804, and grew to manhood 
 
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 and married there. Afterward, removing to Can- 
 ada, he settled in Norfolk County on what was 
 known as Yankee street. Some five years were 
 spent there, and in 1837 'le removed to New 
 York, after having taken up arms in the Canadian 
 rebellion. For some six years he resided in 
 Onondaga County, and then went back to Can- 
 ada, again settling on Yankee street. After four 
 years he removed to another part of the county, 
 where he erected a sawmill and remained until 
 1850. His next location was McHenry County, 
 111., but after a year he moved to West Union, 
 Fayette County, Iowa, where he engaged in 
 farming, brick-making and milling. In i860 he 
 came to Colorado, where he spent the summer in 
 the mines and took up a claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres. Returning for his family in 
 1 86 1, he came back with them and settled on 
 Coal Creek, in Boulder County, where he engaged 
 in farming, stock-raising and mining, his ditch 
 being the first water taken out of Coal Creek. 
 His death occurred in 1868. 
 
 The great-grandfather of our subject. Bigot 
 Eggleston, was a native of London, England. 
 The grandfather, Darius Eggleston, was born in 
 Madison County, N. Y., and became one of the 
 leading contractors on the Erie canal when it was 
 constructed. He was a sawmill man and farmer, 
 and an active and successful business man. 
 
 In the common schools our subject acquired a 
 fair education. At twenty years of age he began 
 life for himself in Fayette County, Iowa, as a 
 brick molder and subsequently engaged in the 
 grocery business. Later he began teaming and 
 expressing from McGregor to West Union. In 
 1864 he came west to Colorado in company with 
 his brother, Elisha M., both bringing their fami- 
 lies. They left Iowa on May 15 with two wagons 
 and some five or six yoke of cattle, arriving in 
 Denver August i. Coming from there to Coal 
 Creek, our subject preempted one hundred and 
 twenty acres of land adjoining his father's place, 
 and afterward went into the mountains, spending 
 the winter at Blackhawk in mining and working 
 at other things. On the ist of March, 1865, he 
 returned to the valley and settled down to farm- 
 ing. With the exception of a short time spent 
 in mining, he has since devoted his attention to 
 farming and stock-raising. As he prospered he 
 added to his place of one hundred and twenty 
 acres by purchase until his property comprised 
 
 six hundred acres. The family own all together 
 twelve hundred acres in this valley, all of which 
 is supposed to be valuable coal land. 
 
 April 29, 1858, Mr. Eggleston married Miss 
 Sarah A. Smith, daughter of Daniel B. Smith, a 
 prominent farmer of West Union, Iowa. To 
 their marriage five children were born. The 
 oldest, Inez A., born September 12, 1859, is the 
 wife of E. A. Weston, a prominent farmer and 
 stockman of Chaffee County, Colo.; she owns a 
 farm on Coal Creek and city property in Boulder. 
 Charles E., the oldest son, was born August 17, 
 1 86 1, and is now a farmer and stock-raiser in 
 Boulder County. Ada Myrtle is a graduate of 
 the state preparatory school and a teacher in the 
 public schools of Boulder County. Nellie M. and 
 Bessie L. have also been given good advantages 
 and are with their parents. Politically Mr. Eg- 
 gleston is a silver Republican. For four terms 
 he served as justice of the peace, and for thirty 
 years he has been a member of the school board 
 of his district in Boulder County. 
 
 (TOHN J. WALLACE, who has resided upon 
 I his farm near Lafayette, Boulder County, 
 (2/ since 1885, was born in Jefferson County, 
 Ind. , December 29, 1827, a son of William and 
 Mary (Conway) Wallace, natives of Gallatin 
 County, Ky. His father, after some time spent 
 in Indiana, removed in 1848 to Wisconsin, where 
 his son, John J., had preceded him some months. 
 After entering eight hundred acres of land he 
 returned to Indiana and brought his family to 
 Wisconsin, where he had land in Iowa, Lafayette 
 and Grant Counties. There he remained until 
 his death. 
 
 At the age of twenty our subject went to Wis- 
 consin, where he attended the academy at Platte- 
 ville. Grant County. On leaving school he 
 turned his attention to farming, and in one fall 
 he broke up and put in a portion of one-quarter 
 section of the land his father had taken up. 
 Later he went to the lumbering woods up the 
 Wisconsin River, where he worked with three 
 other men rafting the logs down the river. In 
 the spring he ran the first lumber from Jennie 
 Bull to Little Bull, the former being the highest 
 camp up the river at that time. He rafted lum- 
 ber to build a slide over the falls, which he as- 
 sisted in building. Returning home his father 
 
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 gave him a quarter section of land in Lafayette 
 County, and with the proceeds of his winter's 
 labor he began farming for himself. After he 
 had improved his place he sold it and bought a 
 farm in Grant County, where he remained until 
 the spring of i860. 
 
 About the ist of April of that year he was 
 elected captain of an emigrant train bound for 
 Colorado, and composed of seven wagons and 
 many head of oxen. The weather was fine and 
 they traveled without interruption, arriving in 
 Denver the ist of May, and spending some days 
 there, thence he came to Boulder and went into 
 Gold Hill, where he prospected. Afterward he 
 was joined by his partner, a cousin of his wife, 
 who had accompanied him from Wisconsin, but 
 had gone west to California. The two worked 
 together in the erection of a fifty-stamp quartz 
 mill on Horse Falls, but when the work was 
 about completed, they found they had scarcely 
 water power enough to run a three-stamp mill. 
 Mr. Wallace took the mill down, moved it to 
 Left Hand Creek and set it up again. He had 
 some cattle and a wagon, and with these he went 
 to Gold Dirt, when the excitement incident to the 
 discovery of gold broke out. 
 
 The winter of 1860-61 was spent there, and in 
 the spring he went to what was then known as 
 the Wanamaker ranch on Upper Boulder Creek, 
 where he prospected during the summer. About 
 the same time he took up a ranch on a small 
 creek which leads up near the Caribou lode, and 
 there he hunted, fished, prospected and cut hay. 
 In the spring of 1862 he came to the valley and 
 began at ditch work and gardening. In the fall 
 he bought some cattle and a wagon, and cut hay 
 which he hauled to the mountains. In the spring 
 he rented a ranch on South Boulder Creek, and 
 there farmed during the remainder of 1863. The 
 following year he bought one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land near Valmont, where he engaged in 
 farming, at the same time superintending his 
 rented ranch. In 1865 he removed to his Val- 
 mont ranch, where he lived, with the exception 
 of one year in Blackhawk, until 1871, and, hav- 
 ing in the meantime become involved, he was 
 obliged to give up his farm. In 1872 he bought 
 back his former farm and there resided until 1876, 
 when he took a bunch of cattle and went down 
 the Platte, but was unfortunate in losing them. 
 Returning to the valley he resumed farming on 
 
 rented land and prospered, in spite of grasshoppers 
 and hail storms that injured his crop, and other 
 calamities. In 1885 he purchased his present 
 homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. Wher- 
 ever he has lived, he has planted trees and made 
 valuable improvements. 
 
 In October, 1855, Mr. Wallace married Miss 
 Mary A. Johnson, a native of Wisconsin. Six 
 children blessed their union, namely: Farnam J., 
 at home; William, deceased; Kittie M., deceased; 
 Lew, who is engaged in railroading; John W. , 
 who manages the home ranch and also owns one 
 hundred and sixty acres in partnership with his 
 brother; and Lena, the youngest of the family, 
 and the wife of Marion Hudson. 
 
 'IMOTHY SHANAHAN, a prosperous agri- 
 culturist of Boulder County, was born in 
 Tipperary, Ireland, March 3, 1835, and was 
 one of thirteen children, eight of whom are still 
 living, viz.: Mary, Kate, Julia, Bridget, Ellen, 
 Patrick, Edward and Timothy. His ancestors 
 were prominent in the history of County Tipper- 
 ar3% where his father, Timothy, and grandfather, 
 Edward, were born. The former, whose birth 
 occurred in 1794, came to America in 1845 with 
 his family, settling in Franklin County, N. Y., 
 where he remained for fifteen years. Thence he 
 went to Iowa and settled in Benton County, 
 and later lived in Washington and Henry 
 Counties. In 1863, with a team of mules, he 
 crossed the plains to Colorado, arriving in 
 August in Boulder, where he afterward made his 
 home with his son, Timothy. He was ninety- 
 six years of age when he died, and his wife, who 
 was Winifred Dunn, attained the great age of 
 one hundred and two years. 
 
 In early boyhood our subject attended school 
 during the winter months, while the summer 
 seasons were given to such work as his strength 
 permitted. His frugal and industrious habits 
 laid the foundation for active manhood and for a 
 successful business life. He began farming and 
 stock-raising for himself and was prosperous 
 from the first. His father and mother, who were 
 advanced in years, took up their home with him 
 and assisted him financially. Shortly after his 
 arrival in Boulder he bought one hundred and 
 sixty acres five miles southeast of Boulder and 
 began to cultivate the tract. After some years of 
 
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 successful fanning there, he sold the place and 
 purchased one hundred and sixty acres, about 
 one mile further west, where he now resides. 
 The most of his time and attention has been 
 given to the raising of cattle. He has acquired 
 additional land from time to time until now his 
 possessions aggregate six hundred and ten acres, 
 including a timber claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres. In 1875 he bought eighty acres on 
 section two. Finding indications of coal in the 
 soil, in 1893 he decided to bore for the black 
 diamond, and was successful in striking a twelve- 
 foot vein of superior coal. The development of 
 the mine was at once begun. After its develop- 
 ment he leased the property and March 25, 1898, 
 sold twenty-seven of the eighty acres, containing 
 the mine and all improvements, to a good ad- 
 vantage. 
 
 Politically Mr. Shanahan is liberal in his views. 
 In religion he is a consistent member of the Cath- 
 olic Church. His marriage took place in Boulder 
 in 1863, and united him with Mrs. Mar}' (Cough- 
 lin) Hoonahan, the widow of Thomas Hoonahan, 
 and the mother of a son, James Hoonahan, who 
 was cared for and reared by Mr. Shanahan. 
 
 EAREY K. FLEMING, M. D., professor of 
 gynecology, abdominal surgery and clinical 
 midwifery in Gross Medical College, is one 
 of the prominent and successful specialists of 
 Denver. On coming to Denver in 1889 he en- 
 gaged in general professional work, but he now 
 limits his practice to gynecology and abdominal 
 surgery, and, in addition to his private practice 
 and college professorship, he is attending gynecol- 
 ogist to St. Anthony's Hospital. In the organiza- 
 tion of the Denver Clinical and Pathological So- 
 ciety he took a very active part and is now presi- 
 dent of the organization. He is secretary of the 
 local committee of arrangements of the Western 
 Surgical and Gynecological Association, a meeting 
 of which was held in Denver in December, 1897. 
 For the meeting of the American Medical Society, 
 to be held in Denver in 1898, he is chairman of 
 the committee on exhibits. At one time he was 
 secretary of the Colorado State Medical Society 
 and also served as chairman of its executive com- 
 mittee. He has also been secretary of the Denver 
 and Arapahoe County Medical Society, of which 
 he is an active mepiber. His name is prominently 
 
 associated with the Rocky Mountain Inter-State 
 Medical Association, of which he is a charter 
 member. In addition to his other duties in Gross 
 Medical College he is assistant secretary of the 
 faculty and chairman of the dispensary com- 
 mittee. He is also assistant surgeon (with the 
 rank of captain) to the Colorado National Guard, 
 this appointment having been tendered him by 
 Governor Adams. 
 
 Tracing the record of the Fleming family in 
 this country we find that the doctor's great- 
 grandfather, James Fleming, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, enlisting from his native 
 state, North Carolina. After the close of the 
 war he removed to Indiana in the capacity of 
 civil engineer for the government, and entered 
 the land and laid out the village of New Paris, 
 where later he engaged in farming. His son, 
 James, was born and reared in Indiana and spent 
 his active life in New Paris. Josiah M. Fleming, 
 our subject's father, was born in New Paris, but 
 removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he engaged in 
 the mercantile business, and while there he en- 
 listed in an Ohio regiment for service in the Civil 
 war. Later he went to Cincinnati and thence to 
 Chicago, where he engaged in merchandising. 
 In 1889 he came to Denver, where he is a mer- 
 chant. His wife, who bore the maiden name of 
 Addie W. Cpm, was born in Cincinnati, of Ger- 
 man descent, being a member of a family that 
 early settled in Virginia. Her father. Rev. 
 George Crum, was born in Winchester, Va., and 
 became a pioneer minister of Cincinnati, being 
 for some time a presiding elder in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is the only living 
 child of his parents. He was educated in the 
 Chicago University, but left that institution at 
 the close of the junior year, and took up the study 
 of medicine. In 1883 he entered Chicago Medical 
 College, the medical department of the North- 
 western University, from which he graduated in 
 1886. He then engaged in practice in Chicago 
 until 1889, having, in addition to his private 
 practice, the duties of attending physician to 
 Chicago Orphans' Asylum and the South Side 
 free dispensary of Chicago Medical College. In 
 1889 he came to Denver, where, the next year, 
 he became connected with Gross Medical College 
 as an instructor, later was the lecturer and in 
 1894 became professor of gynecology, abdominal 
 
HON. C. A. CLARK. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 707 
 
 surgery and clinical midwifery. His office is in 
 the California building. He is editor of the 
 department of gynecology and obstetrics in the 
 Western Surgical and Medical Gazette. He is a 
 member of the Alumni Association of North- 
 western University, is connected with the Univer- 
 sity and Overland Park Clubs of Denver, holds 
 membership with the Sons of the Revolution, and 
 in religious connections is identified with Cen- 
 tral Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a 
 silver Republican, but, aside from the casting of 
 his vote, he has never taken any part in political 
 affairs, preferring to devote his attention ex- 
 clusively to his professional duties. 
 
 HON. CHARLES A. CLARK. The name of 
 this enterprising merchant of Louisville is 
 well known throughout Boulder County, 
 and in many parts of the state as well. It was in 
 1877 that Judge Clark came to Boulder Valley 
 and extensively embarked in the cattle and stock 
 business. He soon became prominent in the Re- 
 publican party in the county. In 1883 he was 
 elected to the state legislature, where he served 
 through the session of 1883-84, and was chair- 
 man of the committees on agriculture and irriga- 
 tion. Upon his return home from the legislature 
 he continued in the cattle business upon his 
 ranch of three hundred and sixty acres, which is 
 valuable coal land. Removing to Louisville in 
 1895, he opened a real-estate office and was ap- 
 pointed a notary public (which office he still 
 holds) and justice of the peace. Since 1895 he 
 has carried on a mercantile business, having a 
 stock of goods .suited to the wants of the people 
 of his locality, and conducting business upon an 
 honest and reliable basis that has won him many 
 patrons and friends. In addition to other inter- 
 ests he owns the town site of Clarkston, where 
 there is a fine creamery and cheese factory in 
 operation. 
 
 In Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., the 
 subject of this sketch was born, June 5, 1834, a 
 son of Henry I. and Mary (Mansfield) Clark, na- 
 tives of Virginia. His father, who was born in 
 1793, grew to manhood and was married in the 
 Old Dominion, but shortly after his marriage 
 he removed to Kentucky and settled in Christian 
 County, becoming one of the extensive planters 
 and slave holders of his locality. During the war 
 
 30 
 
 of 181 2 he enlisted and served, by various pro- 
 motions, in all the ranks up to that of captain. In 
 1836, selling his property in Kentucky, he re- 
 moved to Illinois and located near Bloomington, 
 McLain County. The section where he settled 
 was afterward incorporated in Woodford Count}-. 
 He was a prominent man of his locality and filled 
 the offices of county commis.sioner and justice of 
 the peace for several terms. His death occurred 
 in that county in 1874. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of Judge Clark was 
 Henry Clark, a native of Virginia, where he was 
 a slave owner and planter. He accompanied his 
 son to Kentucky, and there remained until his 
 death. The mother of our subject was a mem- 
 ber of a prominent Virginian family and was born 
 in 1794 and died in 1859. Her father, William 
 Mansfield, was a veteran of the Revolution and 
 was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. 
 The wife of Henry Clark was a cousin of the fa- 
 mous General Gaines, who is remembered es- 
 pecially through a law case that attracted the at- 
 tention of the entire world. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the common schools and a private high school, 
 where he studied for one term. At eighteen 
 years of age he began to clerk in a general store, 
 at Danvers, 111., but in 1854 went to Chicago, 
 where he clerked for others for two years and 
 then embarked in the grocery business for him- 
 self After two years he sold out and until Feb- 
 ruary, 1859, was employed as a clerk. At the 
 time of the Pike's Peak excitement he started 
 for the mountains. Going to Lawrence, Kan., 
 he, in company with three others, bought a wagon, 
 cattle and outfit, and started across the plains, 
 leaving his wife and family with her relatives, 
 who had moved to Lawrence some time previous. 
 He reached Denver June 14, 1859, and proceeded 
 direct to the mountains, where he spent the re- 
 mainder of the summer, in the vicinity of Nevada- 
 ville and Central City. Returning in the fall to 
 Lawrence for his family, in the spring of i860 he 
 made his second trip across the plains with an ox- 
 team. He again went to the mountains, and there 
 mined until late in 1862, when his health failed. 
 He then came to the valley, settling on Bear 
 Creek, in Jefferson County, where he carried on 
 a stock ranch for three years, and met with suc- 
 cess in that undertaking. Being elected sheriff 
 of Jefferson County, in 1865 he went to Golden, 
 
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 where he remained in the capacity of sheriff 
 for two years and deputy-sherifif two years. He 
 also served as justice of the peace for a number 
 of years in Jefferson County, and for eight years 
 in Boulder County. Upon retiring from the 
 deputy-sherift's ofiBce he established a mercantile 
 business, which he carried on for a number of 
 years, and until his removal to Boulder County. 
 For eight years he served as chairman of the 
 Jefferson County Republican central committee 
 and at the same time was a member of the execu- 
 tive board of the state committee. 
 
 In 1854 Judge Clark (for by the title of judge 
 he is best known) was united in marriage with 
 Miss Sabrina Smith, a native of Maine, who died 
 March 10, 1888. They were the parents of seven 
 children, but only two are living, Harry I,, and 
 Frank W. The former has for nine years been 
 superintendent and head assayer of W. J. Cham- 
 berlain & Co. , of Blackhawk. The latter, who 
 is an expert metallurgist, has for eight years been 
 superintendent and metallurgist of a large smelt- 
 ing plant at Tacoma, Wash. Fraternally Judge 
 Clark is connected with the blue lodge of Masons. 
 He is a member of the Colorado Association of 
 Pioneers, in which he takes an active interest. 
 The success that has met his efforts is the result 
 of his energy, business judgment and determina- 
 tion of will, qualities that almost invariably bring 
 their possessor a large share of financial success. 
 
 yyiARION FULWIDER, who came to Col- 
 y orado in 1877, was one of the successful 
 (9 ranchmen of this state and was for some 
 years prominently identified with the Colorado 
 Cattle Growers' Association as the chairman of 
 its executive committee. He embarked in the 
 stock business immediately after coming to the 
 state and for some time, in partnership with his 
 brother, owned and conducted a ranch in Arap- 
 ahoe County, but afterward he sold out. He 
 was later a member of the firm of Harrison & 
 Ful wider, engaged in ranching at Roggen, on 
 the Burlington road. 
 
 The Fulwider family originated in Germany, 
 but has long been identified with American his- 
 tory. The grandfather of our subject, David 
 Fulwider, was born in Virginia, and there en- 
 gaged in farming, also followed the trade of tan- 
 ner and currier, until advancing years rendered 
 
 further labor impossible. He died at the age of 
 ninety-three. Henry, our subject's father, was 
 born in Greenbrier County, in what is now West 
 Virginia, and about 1830 removed to the west, 
 spending a few years in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan 
 and Missouri, but in 1839 settling near what is 
 now Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa. He bought a 
 tract of government land, upon which not a 
 furrow had been turned. At once beginning to im- 
 prove the place, he soon brought it under excel- 
 lent cultivation. The land, which comprises four 
 hundred and eighty acres, was owned by our 
 subject. Upon that place the father died at the 
 age of eighty-two. He was an earnest Christian 
 and a consistent member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. His wife, in maidenhood Harriet 
 Kincaid, was born in Greenbrier County, of an 
 old Virginian family, and died in Iowa at eighty- 
 seven years. 
 
 The parental family consisted of ten children, 
 all but one of whom attained maturity. They are 
 as follows: Mrs. Betsey Bolton, who died in Ore- 
 gon; Mrs. Sallie A. Hanner, of Iowa; Mrs. Allie 
 Hill, and Mrs. Ellen Edmundstone, both of whom 
 died in Iowa; Mrs. Emily Speer, who lives in 
 that state; Andrew, a resident of Ringgold, Iowa; 
 Marion; Newton, who is proprietor of the Armory 
 stables in Denver; and H. M., a merchant in 
 St. Louis. Our subject was born near Tipton, 
 Iowa, in 1841, and was reared on the home farm. 
 The first school that he attended was conducted 
 in a log building, with none of the appurte- 
 nances now considered so necessary in teaching. 
 After a few years, however, a brick building was 
 erected, and he was a student in it until his 
 schooling was completed. From an early age he 
 was interested in stock-raising, and his farm con- 
 tained many head of fine animals, which he sold 
 in Tipton and neighboring towns. In the spring 
 of 1877 he came to Denver and here carried on 
 the stock business successfully until his death, 
 April 3, 1898. 
 
 Politically Mr. Fulwider voted the Democratic 
 ticket, but was not active in politics. He was 
 married in Iowa to Miss P. J. Reeve, a native of 
 Ohio, and a daughter of Rev. James Reeve, a 
 pioneer minister of the Baptist Church in Iowa. 
 They had two sons, the elder of whom, Forest E., 
 is with the Denver & Rio Grande Express Com- 
 pany; and the younger, Harold, is a student in 
 the manual training school. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Mr. Fulwider will long be remembered by his 
 friends and associates as a man of sterling worth 
 of character, whose word was his bond and whose 
 friendship was above price. His many good 
 qualities of head and heart endeared him to all 
 who knew him. 
 
 nOHN V. YOUNG, who located in Denver 
 I in 1887, was born in Andover, Allegany 
 (2) County, N. Y., in March, 1847, the son of 
 D. K. and I,avinia (Davis) Young, natives re- 
 spectively of Vermont and New York. His 
 father, who was a cooper in Auburn, N. Y., for 
 some years, removed thence to Andover and 
 opened a cooper shop, following that business for 
 many years. He died in 1887, at the age of 
 seventy-eight. His wife is still a resident of An- 
 dover. They were the parents of six children, 
 five living: Abbie J., wife of John C. Nichols, 
 of Andover; Ebenezer, who served in the Eighty- 
 fifth New York Infantry during the Civil war and 
 is now living retired in Almond, N. Y. ; Dewert 
 E., of Denver; John V.; and Viola J., wife of 
 Charles Hand, of Andover. The youngest son, 
 H. D., died in Denver. 
 
 The first twenty years of Mr. Young's life were 
 passed upon the home farm. At Alfred, N. Y., 
 in 1867, he married Miss Victoria Tucker, 
 daughter of Gardner Tucker, who was born in 
 Berkshire County, Mass. , and became a very suc- 
 cessful farmer of Alfred, N. Y., owning over a 
 thousand acres there. He was of English descent. 
 His father, Gardner Tucker, Sr., was born in 
 Rhode Island and settled upon a farm in Massa- 
 chusetts, but later became a pioneer agriculturist 
 of Alfred. The mother of Mrs. Young was 
 Martha Partridge, who was born in Berkshire 
 County, Mass., in 1810, the daughter of William 
 Partridge, who emigrated from England to Mas- 
 sachusetts and died soon afterward. She passed 
 away in 1890, and her husband in November, 
 1885, at the age of seventy-four years. They 
 were the parents of eight children, of whom six 
 are living, Mrs. Young being.next to the young- 
 est. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Young engaged in 
 farming near Alfred, but in 1887 he came west to 
 Colorado, where he located a ranch in Washing- 
 ton, Morgan and Weld Counties and embarked 
 extensively in the sheep- raising business; also en- 
 gaged in the wholesale meat business, mutton 
 
 and lamb exclusively. On his ranch he raises 
 alfalfa for feed and usually keeps twenty thousand 
 head of sheep, the flock being increased each 
 year by breeding and at the same time decreased 
 by the sale of sheep in the markets. He and his 
 brother are practical, experienced ranchmen, 
 with a thorough knowledge of the sheep busi- 
 ness, and possessing the energy and business 
 ability calculated to secure success. During the 
 time they have resided in Colorado they have 
 gained a large acquaintance among the people of 
 Denver, as well as among the ranchmen in the 
 state, and wherever known are respected for their 
 intelligence and good judgment. 
 
 While Mr. Young is not active in politics he is 
 firm in his opinions and adheres to the Repub- 
 lican doctrines. In religion he is connected with 
 Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his 
 wife are the parents of five children, namely: 
 Mrs. Fannie Shannon, whose husband is en- 
 gaged in the paint and wall paper business in 
 Denver; Mrs. Viola Cudworth, of Silverplume, 
 Colo.; Archie, Iva and Allen. 
 
 pCJlI^LIAM HUIvT, who is engaged in the 
 \A/ mercantile business at Salina, is a native 
 YV of Brooklyn, N. Y., where his father, 
 William, Sr., died in early manhood; his mother, 
 Elizabeth, is still living and makes her home in 
 Jamestown, N. Y. He was one of three chil- 
 dren, of whom himself and Conrad survive; the 
 latter, now a resident of Jamestown, served in 
 the Civil war under General Hancock and was 
 wounded upon several battlefields. In Brooklyn, 
 where he was born in 1856, our subject attended 
 grammar school No. 15. In 1871 he removed 
 with his mother to Jamestown, where for a time 
 he clerked for his brother, but in 1877 came west 
 to Colorado, settling in Leadville the following 
 year. After two years devoted to mining in that 
 town, he went to Red Clifi", where he prospected. 
 Crossing the range with a pack of burrows in 
 1880, Mr. Hult located the first claim and took 
 up the first mill site where Red Cliff is now lo- 
 cated. After three years in that location he re- 
 moved to the present site of Aspen, where then 
 there were only two log cabins and a tent. He 
 prospected through the "frying pan" country, 
 then went to the mount of the Holy Cross, where 
 now is Brook's camp, thence to the Bonanza at 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Saugre de Cristo range, from there to Iveadville, 
 where he resumed mining. In 1886 he settled 
 in Crisman, Boulder County, where he built a 
 store and engaged in merchandising. May 3, 
 1894, the flood washed his store and its contents 
 away, and he decided to remove to Salina. Here 
 he bought his present building and stocked it 
 with a choice grade of goods, since which time 
 he has carried on a general mercantile business. 
 
 In Leadville, in 1884, Mr. Hult married Miss 
 Kate Robinson, a native of County Clare, Ire- 
 land, whence she came to Montpelier, Vt., and 
 from there, in 1883, to Colorado. Her parents 
 both remained in Ireland until their death. 
 
 In the local ranks of the People's party Mr. 
 Hult is an active and influential worker. While 
 in Red Clifl" he served as deputy marshal and at 
 Saugre de Cristo he held the office of constable. 
 In 1893 he was elected commissioner of Boulder 
 County on the People's ticket, and served from 
 January, 1894, to January, 1897, being chairman 
 of the board during the last year of his term. 
 He was elected to this position as representative 
 of the third district of Boulder County. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hult was made a Mason in Co- 
 lumbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., to which 
 he still belongs, as he does also to Boulder Chap- 
 ter No. 7, R. A. M.; Mount Sinai Command- 
 ery No. 15, K. T., and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. 
 He is also a Knight of Pythias, belonging to the 
 Uniform Rank, and is first lieutenant of the Sec- 
 ond Regiment. In the Odd Fellows he is identi- 
 fied with lodge, encampment and canton, and is 
 also a member of the Muscovites of Denver. The 
 Woodmen of the World and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, both of Boulder, number 
 him among their active members. 
 
 y yi RS. LUCY J. (MATHEWSON) CARLE, 
 y who resides three and a-half miles north- 
 east of Boulder, was born in the town of 
 Walworth, Wayne County, N. Y. In her early 
 childhood she accompanied her parents, Daniel 
 and Celestia (Baker) Mathewson, to Chautauqua 
 County, N. Y., where she was reared and edu- 
 cated. When seventeen years of age she became 
 a school teacher, and this occupation she followed 
 for several years in her home county, after which 
 she went to Minnesota, and taught in the village 
 of Nininger (which was named in honor of the 
 
 then governor of the state). In this place she 
 made the acquaintance of J. H. Carle, a native of 
 Ithaca, N. Y. Two years afterward they were 
 married, the ceremony being performed by Rev. 
 J. H. Vincent, D.D., LL. D., of Chautauqua 
 and Sunday-school fame. They started for Colo- 
 rado April 5, i860, and reached the Rocky 
 Mountains on the 5th of June. After residing at 
 Blackhawk during the winter, they bought the 
 Half Way House on the road between Boulder 
 and Central City, where they remained for ten 
 years. They then moved to her present home, 
 which is less than four miles northeast of Boulder. 
 Here Mr. Carle died November 27, 1887, of 
 paralysis, leaving his wife to mourn his loss. 
 
 Mrs. Carle is of Scotch descent. Her great- 
 great-grandparents, on her father's side, migrated 
 from Scotland in 1602. There were two brothers 
 who came, Daniel and Artemus, and they settled 
 in Massachusetts, where their descendants resided 
 until 1810. At that time they migrated to Wal- 
 worth, Wayne County, N. Y. From early child- 
 hood George Mathewson exhibited remarkable 
 talent, especially in scientific and mechanical 
 pursuits. On his deathbed he said the only re- 
 gret he felt was that there was no one to step in 
 and carry on his scientific work, the foundation 
 for which he had laid. His son, Daniel, seemed 
 the best fitted to be his father's successor. When 
 a mere boy he began to teach andassist his father 
 in surveying. He was diligent and improved 
 every spare moment by study. While still quite 
 young he was considered one of the best mathe- 
 maticians in the state. At the age of twenty- 
 four he married Mrs. Celestia Baker, who re- 
 mained his faithful helpmate until death parted 
 them. He passed away in 1886 and .she in 1890. 
 
 Twelve children were born to the union of 
 Daniel and Celestia Mathewson. The eldest, 
 Alphonsso, is a business man of Hamlet, Chautau- 
 qua County, N. Y. ; George, the second son, is a 
 mechanical artist and preacher at College Place, 
 Wash. ; Lillies C. , the oldest daughter, is a widow 
 and resides on a farm near Park City, Mont.; 
 Lucy J., Mrs. J. H. Carle, was the .second 
 daughter; Artemisia, the third daughter, married 
 G. B. Poor, of Boulder; Mary A., the fourth 
 daughter, is married and lives in Fredonia, 
 Chautauqua County, N. Y.; A. J., the third son, 
 is a mechanic and farmer near Boulder; Daniel, 
 the fourth son, came to Colorado in 1864 and re- 
 
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 sided here for twenty-four years. He married 
 Miss Belle Montgomery, and they had four 
 daughters, the eldest of whom died in infancy. 
 Two of the daughters are now residents of Colo- 
 rado. The eldest of these, Mrs. Lillian French, 
 went to Forestville, Chautauqua County, N. Y., 
 at the age of sixteen and there fitted herself for a 
 teacher and taught several terms, when a young 
 man who had been in the habit of carrying her 
 dinner basket for her thought it would be better, 
 for their mutual welfare, if they were united. 
 Accordingly he went to New York for her and she 
 returned with him to the beautiful Rocky Moun- 
 tain region; they now reside at Hayden, Routt 
 County, Colo. Maud, a younger sister of Mrs. 
 French, married John Gri.swold, of Forestville, 
 N. Y. ; and the youngest sister, Louie, lives in 
 Boulder County, Colo. 
 
 The fifth daughter of Daniel Mathewson was 
 Sally A., who married Gordon Putnam, who is 
 engaged in the fruit raising business at Brocton, 
 Chautauqua, N. Y. Elijah Mathewson, a farmer, 
 lives near Fredonia, N. Y.; Ransom A. Mathew- 
 son, the youngest of the sons, is a teacher, sur- 
 veyor and experienced cheesemaker, at Sinclair- 
 ville, N. Y.; he is married and has one son. 
 Celestia, the sixth daughter and youngest child 
 of Daniel Mathewson and the namesake of his 
 wife, died in infancy. 
 
 r\ATRICK HENRY BALFE came to Denver 
 LX in 1879 and eight years later embarked in 
 fS the plumbing business, opening a shop at 
 No. 515 Sixteenth street, the present site of the 
 Kittredge building. While carrying on business 
 there he erected three stores at Nos. 1540-48 
 Stout street, and in 1890 removed his headquar- 
 ters to No. 1540, where he has his office, show 
 i-oom and shop. He has been given contracts for 
 plumbing, gas-fitting and sewerage in many of 
 the most substantial public buildings and private 
 homes of the city, among them being the resi- 
 dences of C. B. Kountze, D. Sheedy, William B. 
 Berger, Dr. Blickensderfer,' John F. Campion, 
 C. S. Morey, Dr. F. J. Bancroft, J. V. Dexter, 
 T. S. Hayden, D. G. Miller, A. B. Daniels, 
 William H. James and Edward Raymond; Colo- 
 rado National Bank, Denver Dry Goods Com- 
 pany building, Steele block and Hughes block. 
 Reference to the Balfe family history is made 
 
 in the sketch of L. H. Balfe, presented on another 
 page. Patrick Henry was the oldest son and the 
 fourth child in a family of eleven children. He 
 was born in Courtown Harbor, County Wexford, 
 Ireland, September 21, 1853. When a lad he 
 went to sea in the coasting and fishing trade, and 
 at the age of fifteen, in 1868, removed to Dublin, 
 where he spent two years. In 1872 he came to 
 America via Dublin to New York on the steamer 
 "Egypt," and at once began an apprenticeship 
 to the plumber's trade with Dougherty & Cain, 
 whose shop was located on the present site of the 
 Spring Garden Bank, Philadelphia. After two 
 and one-half years he started in business for him- 
 self, opening a shop at Eighteenth and Oxford 
 streets, Philadelphia, and meeting with such suc- 
 cess that he later opened another shop at Junipar 
 and Arch street. 
 
 In 1879, having decided to go to Australia, 
 Mr. Balfe traveled via railroad across the United 
 States, and, viewing the country as he traveled, 
 he was so pleased with the prospects that he de- 
 cided to stop at Denver and investigate the oppor- 
 tunities here. This he did, the result being that 
 he decided to locate here. He at once secured 
 employment, working for a time on the Windsor 
 Hotel, later as foreman for what is now the firm 
 of Johnson & Davis, and in 1880 taking charge 
 of the work at Idaho Springs. On his return to 
 Denver he entered the employ of Holme & White, 
 for whom afterward he became foreman, in full 
 charge of the business, at a salary of $5 per day. 
 His next venture was for himself, and the results 
 have been such as to prove his capability as a 
 business man as well as his efficiency in his trade. 
 Besides the management of his business he is in- 
 terested in mining and real estate, and has built 
 five stores and five houses. For some three years 
 he had a wholesale plumbing supply house in 
 Ogden, Utah, during the days of the "boom" 
 there, and he still owns real estate in that city. 
 He has had contracts in Colorado Springs, Man- 
 itou, Palmer Lake and Twin Lakes, and in every 
 place his work has given satisfaction. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Balfe married Miss Elizabeth 
 F. Langan, who was born in St. Louis. They 
 are the parents of five children now living: 
 Thomas F., Edward J., Patrick Henry, Jr., 
 Nora L. and Elizabeth M. In national politics 
 Mr. Balfe is a silver Republican. He has been 
 active in his party, which he has represented as 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 delegate in county, city and state conventions 
 and on local committees. Not only has he trav- 
 eled all over this country, but he has also made 
 three trips to Europe. In the fall of 1884 he 
 crossed the ocean, spending five months abroad; 
 again in 1891 and 1896 he visited Europe. He 
 is interested in the Capitol Building and Loan 
 Association of Denver. Fond of athletic sports, 
 he is an active member of the Denver Wheel 
 Club and was the first to compete against the 
 Denver Athletic Club, in which competition he 
 won medals. He is connected with the Knights 
 of St. John, the Woodmen of the World and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. During 
 1881-82 he was master workman of the Knights 
 of Labor for Colorado, and at this writing he is a 
 member of the executive committee of the Master 
 Plumbers' Association. Since becoming a con- 
 tractor he has always employed union men and 
 paid the regular scale of wages, his honest and 
 honorable manner of treating his employes hav- 
 ing won for him their regard and confidence, 
 while at the same time the skill and dispatch 
 with which he has filled his contracts have made 
 him popular among the people with whom he has 
 done business. He has recently returned (1898) 
 from an extended trip through Old Mexico and 
 the south, and moved to his new home which he 
 purchased at No. 2337 Grant avenue. 
 
 SEORGE W. DATZEL, foreman of the South 
 Broadway machine and blacksmith shops of 
 the Denver Consolidated Tramway Com- 
 pany, was born in Warren, Ohio, August 16, 
 1862, and is the son of Peter and Pauline (Bear) 
 Datzel, natives of Germany. His father, who 
 came to America in early manhood, followed the 
 trade of a carriage blacksmith for a time, and 
 later established a carriage and wagon shop in 
 Warren, Ohio, continuing the management of the 
 same until his death. His widow still makes her 
 home in Warren. Of their ten children six are 
 living, George being next to the youngest of the 
 family and the only one in Colorado. 
 
 The education of our subject was limited to a 
 few years' attendance upon the public schools of 
 Warren. In 1878 he went to Cleveland, where 
 he was apprenticed as a paper-hanger,, but the 
 occupation was not congenial, and as soon as an 
 opportunity came he made a change. For three 
 
 years he was an apprentice in the Vulcan Iron 
 Works, and at the expiration of his time he went 
 to Willoughby, where he worked as a machinist 
 for three months. His next location was in 
 Wellsville, Ohio, where he was employed in the 
 Cleveland and Pittsburg shops as a machinist for 
 five years. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in April, 1887, Mr. Datzel 
 was employed as a machinist in the Colorado 
 Iron Works, but after nine mouths resigned his 
 position and entered the printing business with a 
 brother-in-law, T. A. Macklind, under the firm 
 name of Macklind & Datzel. They opened a job 
 office in the Titus block on South Eleventh 
 street, but after five months the business, though 
 profitable, not proving congenial, the partnership 
 was dissolved and he resumed work as a machin- 
 ist. In 1889 he accepted a position as machinist 
 in the tramway cable shop on Colfax avenue and 
 Broadway, and two years later, on the comple- 
 tion of the South Broadway shop, he was trans- 
 ferred to it. For a time he was night foreman, 
 but since August of 1894 he has been general 
 foreman of the machine and blacksmith shops. 
 In addition to his daily duties he has made a 
 number of inventions, among them a wrecking 
 truck for the transportation of cars with broken 
 axles, a most useful contrivance, only six inches 
 high, which ^oes away with the necessity of re- 
 moving the car from the track. Mr. Datzel was 
 married August 17, 1886, to Miss Florence E. 
 Macklind. This union was blessed with one 
 child, Florence Cecil. Fraternally Mr. Datzel is 
 connected with Colorado Lodge No. i, K. of P., 
 and Silver State Camp No. 19, Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 IOELSON K. SMITH, who died December 
 rV 26, 1894, at his home in Boulder, was one of 
 1/9 the honored pioneers of Colorado, and for 
 eighteen years was a resident of the county-seat 
 of Boulder County. He was very active and 
 aggressive in the organization of the county and 
 state and was thoroughly respected and admired 
 by his associates and acquaintances. From the 
 time that the Republican party was formed until 
 his death he was an ardent and fearless defender 
 of its principles. For two terms he served as 
 county commissioner of Gilpin County, and in 
 1875 was maj'or of Blackhawk, resigning the 
 following year on account of his removal to 
 
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 Boulder. From 1866 to 1869 he was assessor at 
 Blackhawk and for years he was a director in 
 the National State Bank of Boulder. 
 
 The birth of N. K. Smith occurred September 
 16, 1810, in Genesee County, N. Y., he being 
 the sixth in a family of eleven children born to 
 Amos Smith and wife, who before their marriage 
 was Sarah Purdy. Both were natives of New 
 York state and of old eastern families. N. K. 
 Smith lived in the Genesee Valley until he was 
 sixteen years of age, when he went to Sandusky, 
 Ohio, and there his father died. About 1833 
 Nelson K. Smith settled in Cortland County, N. Y. , 
 and during his residence in that region he was 
 married to the lady who faithfully shared his 
 joys and sorrows until death separated them. 
 In 1835 they went to La Porte County, Ind., and 
 thence to Waukesha County, Wis. , in 1837. Mr. 
 Smith took up some government land near 
 Vernon, and improved the property. For the 
 first six weeks of their stay in that district, Mrs. 
 Smith was the only white woman in the county, 
 as far as was known. In 1850 our subject started 
 overland for California, with ox-teams, and at 
 the end of three years returned, by the Nicaragua 
 route. He had been occupied in mining and 
 desired to go back to the Pacific coast, provided 
 his family could accompany him. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Smith and his dear ones set out on 
 their long journey across the plains, but, owing 
 to the Indian troubles and the Mormon scare, 
 the little party abandoned their first plans and 
 took up their residence in Carroll County, Iowa, 
 for a few months. Finding that there was little 
 hope of their being able to safely cross the great 
 western plains and mountains for years to come 
 they returned to Baraboo, Wis. , where Mr. Smith 
 carried on a store up to i860. Then, once more, 
 the family started for the west, this time with the 
 intention of stopping in Colorado, and the plan 
 was carried out. In Blackhawk, Mr. Smith 
 engaged in mining for a short time and kept a 
 tavern at Smith's Hill, between Golden and 
 Blackhawk. He was connected with the build- 
 ing of the toll road along Clear Creek to Black- 
 hawk, in 1863, in company with his brother and 
 W. A. H. Loveland. In 1870 he constructed 
 the water-supply system of Blackhawk, the 
 pipes being of hollowed logs and the water being 
 brought from Dory Hill. In his pioneer days 
 here he was also engaged in the manufacture of 
 
 lumber and in various other enterprises. In 1876 
 he moved into his comfortable residence at the 
 corner of Thirteenth and Hill streets, Boulder, 
 he having just completed the building of the 
 house. He was a devoted member of the Baptist 
 Church, and nobly followed the teachings of the 
 Golden Rule in all his intercourse with his fellow- 
 men. 
 
 In 1832 Nelson K. Smith married Miss Helen 
 M. Campbell, a native of Cortland County, N. Y., 
 and a daughter of Benjamin S. and Sarah (Kies) 
 Campbell. The father was born in New Hamp- 
 shire and in the early '30s moved to Cortland 
 Count}', N. Y., where he engaged in farming 
 and served as sheriff. He lived to the ripe age 
 of seventy-two years, and his wife also departed 
 this life at that age. Both she and her father, 
 John Kies, were from Connecticut. The mater- 
 nal grandfather of B. S. Campbell, Hugh Argyle, 
 was born in Scotland, and was related to the 
 famous Argyle family there. Mrs. Smith, who is 
 now in her eighty-sixth year, is the only survivor 
 of a family that originally numbered eleven chil- 
 dren. 
 
 The marriage of N. K. Smith and wife was 
 blessed by the birth of seven children, namely: 
 S. Emma, widow of Captain Tyler (see his 
 biography printed upon another page of this 
 work); Lucian K., a resident of Aspen, Colo.; 
 Francelia, Mrs. J. P. Maxwell, of Boulder; 
 Medora, wife of Maj. D. D. Leach, an attorney 
 of Oklahoma; Rodolphus, whose home is in 
 Weld County, Colo. ; Jennie, widow of Dr. G. A. 
 Clark; and Nina, Mrs. E. J. Temple, of Boulder. 
 Mrs. Clark also dwells in this city. Her husband, 
 after his graduation from Rush Medical College, 
 of Chicago, practiced in Madison and Indianapo- 
 lis and in 1874 came to Colorado. For a year he 
 was occupied in professional work in Black- 
 hawk, and from 1875 until his death, in 1880, 
 lived in Boulder. 
 
 For a lady who is eighty-five years of age, Mrs. 
 Helen Smith is remarkably well preserved; and 
 she knits beautiful lace without the aid of glasses. 
 At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition 
 in 1893, some of her knitted lace was placed on 
 exhibition in the Colorado exhibit. A portion 
 of this, an infant's dress, and ten yards of three- 
 inch wide lace, was so beautiful and truly artistic 
 and like a delicate cobweb, that the authorities, 
 of their own accord, removed the exhibit to the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Manufactures Building, to compete with the lace 
 of the world. The result was, that the premium 
 medal and diploma was awarded to Mrs. Smith. 
 She uses very fine thread in much of her work, 
 some of it ranging from No. 130 to 140 and 150. 
 She estimates that she has knitted over six hun- 
 dred yards of lace, altogether. Since she was 
 sixteen years old she has been a devoted member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 (t)6)lLI.IAM H. GARDNER, who owns and 
 \ A / occupies one of the handsome suburban 
 Y Y homes of Boulder, was born in Buffalo, 
 N. Y., October 24, 1849, ^ son of Thomas and 
 Mary E. (McNaughton) Gardner. He was one 
 of eight children, five of whom are living, 
 namely: William H.; John, a farmer living in 
 Dent County, Mo. ; Lucy, wife of Otto Kindred, 
 also of Dent County, Mo.; Charles, who is en- 
 gaged in mining in Old Mexico; and Samuel, a 
 roll turner in the Illinois Steel Company's works 
 at South Chicago, 111. 
 
 A native of London, England, Thomas Gard- 
 ner was born in 1820. His parents dying when 
 he was a child, he was taken into the home of 
 his grandparents. At twelve years of age he 
 shipped on board a vessel as cabin boy, and for 
 twenty years followed the sea. During this time 
 he was a member of two whaling expeditions. 
 He applied himself to his calling, and by succes- 
 sive promotions was made first mate. About 
 1846 he settled in Buffalo, N. Y., where he fol- 
 lowed carpentering. In 1865 he migrated to 
 Springfield, 111., and followed the carpenter's 
 trade some three years. Thence he went to 
 Decatur, where he was employed as pattern- 
 maker in a rolling mill. He spent a short time 
 in Kansas City, and then removed to Chicago, in 
 . both of which places he was employed at pattern 
 making. He died in South Chicago, March i, 
 1898. While his education was limited, he was 
 a great reader and few men had a broader fund 
 of information at their command than did he. In 
 public affairs he took the interest of a progressive 
 and patriotic citizen. 
 
 In his fifteenth year, in February, 1864, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch left home and enlisted in an 
 independent company at Buffalo, N. Y., that was 
 attached to the Twenty-seventh New York Light 
 Artillery. Two weeks later he was sent to 
 
 Washington, D. C, where the company remained 
 nearly five weeks. From there he was sent to 
 the front, and after a few days took part in the 
 battles of the Wilderness. His next engagement 
 was at Spottsylvania Court House, after which 
 there were many skirmishes and minor engage- 
 ments; then came the great battle of Cold Har- 
 bor and the subsequent forced march to Peters- 
 burgh, where he took part in an important 
 engagement June 17, 1864. Later he partici- 
 pated in the Fort Fisher battle, the Weldon 
 Railroad engagement and many skirmishes. His 
 last important battle was at Petersburg, April 2, 
 1865, where he received a flesh wound in the 
 right arm. Orders were received to dispatch the 
 regiment to Alexandria, and from there he went 
 to Washington to take part in the grand review. 
 He was mustered out of the service at Buffalo in 
 July, 1865. 
 
 After his discharge Mr. Gardner went to 
 Springfield, 111., and there remained until the 
 spring of 1866, when he started across the plains 
 for Denver. An uncle who had charge of the 
 Wells Fargo & Company's interests at Denver h&d 
 written him to come to Colorado and take up land 
 near Denver. On reaching Leavenworth he 
 found the government was forming a train for 
 New Mexico, and he joined the expedition as a 
 driver, going through to Fort Union and Albu- 
 querque, and from there to Fort Bliss, Tex., 
 where he remained about one year, driving an 
 ambulance in the government service. From 
 there he went to Forts Riley, Harker and Hayes. 
 In the winter of 1869 he drove a team, hauling 
 supplies from Fort Dodge to Camp Supply, and 
 during the entire winter did not sleep indoors a 
 single night. 
 
 After a short visit to his parents in Decatur, 
 111., in the spring of 1870, Mr. Gardner again 
 started for Colorado. The fall of the year found 
 him in Greeley, and then he went to work at log- 
 ging on the Cache La Poudre River, sixty miles 
 west of Fort Collins. In the spring he secured 
 employment in a sawmill. After some eighteen 
 months he embarked with his father-in-law in the 
 business of tanning buffalo hides, and continued 
 in that occupation for three years, when he sold 
 his interest. Going to Sunshine, Colo., he en- 
 gaged in mining and at the same time accumu- 
 lated a number of cattle. In 1886 he drove his 
 cattle to Badger, Wyo., where he took up a cattle 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ranch, and for three years devoted his time to his 
 cattle interests. In 1889 he left the management 
 of the business with his partner and removed to 
 Ward, where he became proprietor of a hotel. In 
 the fall of 1895 he sold his Wyoming cattle ranch 
 to his partner, disposed of his cattle interests and 
 of his hotel property in Ward and removed to 
 Boulder, where he purchased twenty acres. This 
 land he has improved, largely increasing its value 
 by the improvements he has made. 
 
 In Greeley, November 19, 1874, Mr. Gardner 
 married Miss Eliza A. Hartley, daughter of John 
 Hartley, a general merchant of Ward, a sketch 
 of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Gardner have two children. Their son, 
 Arthur C, is looking after his father's interests 
 in the Old Mexico mines at Sonora. The daugh- 
 ter, Ivy M. , is with her parents. The interest 
 in the Mexico mine was purchased January i, 
 1898, when Mr. Gardner became a member of the 
 Bertha Mining and Milling Company. Frater- 
 nally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias 
 and is also a member of the Home Forum. Po- 
 litically he has always been a Democrat. Mrs. 
 Gardner is a member of the Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 r~ RANK L. BOLTON owns and occupies one 
 r^ of the valuable farms of Boulder County, 
 I ' consisting of one hundred and twenty acres 
 one mile northwest of Ni Wot. He was born in 
 Cleveland, Ohio, March 11, 1842, asonof Labon 
 and Loraine (Ingersoll) Bolton, being their old- 
 est child and the only survivor of three children. 
 His father, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 
 18 1 8, accompanied his parents to Ohio in boy- 
 hood and settled in Paris, Portage County, where 
 he grew to manhood and married. Shortly after- 
 ward he removed to Cleveland, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death. Some years 
 after he settled in Cleveland, his father removed 
 to Wisconsin. The maternal grandfather of our 
 subject, L. W. Ingersoll, was a farmer near 
 Cleveland, Ohio, until late in life, when he re- 
 tired and removed to Cleveland, spending his last 
 years in that city. 
 
 In early boyhood our subject had good educa- 
 tional advantages. When he was thirteen years 
 of age his father died and the support of the 
 family devolved largely upon him. At nineteen 
 years of age he went to Michigan to begin life for 
 
 himself, and for one summer worked on a farm 
 near Grand Rapids. November 2, 1861, he en- 
 listed in Company B, Second Michigan Cavalry, 
 and was sent to Fort Benton at St. Louis, where 
 the troops were drilled. Shortly afterward he was 
 sent to the front, where he served in Pope's 
 division at Madrid, and later was in Cook's 
 cavalry division. Among the first engagements 
 in which he took part were the siege of Corinth, 
 the battle of Perryville and almost continuous 
 skirmishes. He arrived at Murfreesboro too late 
 to participate in the battle. With his regiment 
 he took part in skirmishes through Tennessee, 
 and participated in the battle of Chickamauga. 
 From there he went to East Tennessee to relieve 
 General Burnside, and during the winter skir- 
 mished almost every day. On the expiration of 
 the term, the regiment re-enlisted and went home 
 on a thirty days' furlough, returning to Middle 
 Tennessee at the expiration of the furloughs. 
 There he remained until Hood came north, when 
 he took part in the battle of Franklin and gradu- 
 ally fell back to Nashville, fighting an important 
 battle in that city. From there the regiment 
 pursued Hood to the Tennessee River, and in the 
 spring of 1865 crossed the river with General 
 Stanley's cavalry command and with General 
 Croxton's brigade, which was detached from the 
 command. Going to Tuscaloosa, Ala., the 
 Federals captured the town, burned the Confed- 
 erate stores and started for Selma to join the 
 command, but being cut ofi"from the main route, 
 they came out at Macon, Ga., joining the main 
 command there. In that city Mr. Bolton was 
 honorably discharged Augitst 19, 1865. 
 
 From the south Mr. Bolton returned to Mich- 
 igan. Shortly afterward he was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Almira Strock, of Newton Fajls, 
 Ohio. He settled in Buchanam, Mich., and en- 
 gaged in farming, remaining in that place until 
 February, 1879, when he came to Colorado, 
 arriving in Boulder on the evening of February 
 21 of that year. He went to the mountains and 
 settled near Rockville, on Left Hand Creek, 
 where he remained for two and one-half years. 
 During that time he engaged in any work by 
 which he could earn an honest livelihood. In 
 1 88 1 he sold his property and returned to Boulder, 
 taking a mail contract from that place to Ward 
 for a period of fourteen months. At the ex- 
 piration of his contract he engaged in teaming 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in the mountains. In the spring of 1883 he rented 
 a herd of cattle and moved to North Park, where 
 he spent four years prosperously engaged in the 
 cattle business. After four years he sold his in- 
 terests there and came to Boulder Valley, settling 
 near Altona, where he had acquired two hundred 
 acres. In 1895 he sold that farm and moved to 
 his present place. In addition to his farming in- 
 terests, since 1889 he has served as secretary of 
 the Left Hand Ditch Company. Politically he 
 is a Republican and a stanch supporter of his 
 party. 
 
 Three children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Bolton, but the two eldest, Thomas 
 and Madge, are deceased. The only surviving 
 child is Otis Clyde, born August 7, 1879, and 
 now with his parents. 
 
 HON. CLINTON MONROE TYLER, de- 
 ceased, was one of the foremost citizens of 
 Boulder County, and to him is due much 
 credit for the prosperity which it now enjoys, as 
 he was one of those brave and sturdy patriots 
 who, unsparing of themselves, placed the county 
 on a sure and lasting basis of civilization, law 
 and good government. His business interests 
 were as varied as they were extensive and at his 
 death his estate was estimated to include over 
 thirteen thousand acres of land, situated in six or 
 seven counties of Colorado. In 1864 he recruited 
 a company of one-hundred-day men and was 
 commissioned their captain by Governor Evans. 
 They were a part of the Third Colorado Regiment 
 of Cavalry, which put down the Indians who 
 were making trouble for the pioneers, on account 
 of the absence of the regulars at the front in the 
 Civil war. Captain Tyler furnished many of the 
 horses ridden by the men of his company, and in 
 other material ways aided in effectually driving 
 the red-skins from this beautiful valley. 
 
 Captain Tyler, as he was generally styled, 
 came from patriotic stock, his grandfather Tyler 
 having fought in the war of the Revolution and 
 lost his life at Black Rock, and another of his an- 
 cestors, on the maternal side, having been one 
 of the Americans who captured Maj. John Andre 
 as he was returning to the British lines after his 
 conference with the traitor, Benedict Arnold. 
 The captain's parents were George W. and Lo- 
 doiski Tyler, natives of Vermont and Susque- 
 
 hanna, Pa. , respectively. The mother, who was 
 born about i8o8, removed with her parents, 
 Luther and Margaret (Halstead) Norton, to Li- 
 vonia, N. Y., in her girlhood, and was married 
 there to Mr. Tyler in 1829. Subsequently the 
 couple went to Rush, Monroe County, N. Y., 
 and in 1844 emigrated to Pulaski Township, 
 Jackson Countj', Mich., then a wilderness. The 
 trip, which can now easily be made in thirteen 
 hours, took thirteen days at that time. Mr. Ty- 
 ler improved a farm and died in 1859, leaving ten 
 children. The mother reared the family to be 
 good and useful citizens, and was summoned to 
 her reward June 14, 1870. 
 
 The birth of Captain Tyler took place in Living- 
 ston County, N. Y., January 16, 1834, and when 
 he was a lad often years he accompanied his family 
 to Michigan. He was educated in the public 
 schools, in Michigan Central College, and later 
 attended Oberlin College until his health forced 
 him to desist from study. April 4, 1856, he grad- 
 uated from Gregory's Commercial College in De- 
 troit, and soon afterwards he went to Illinois and 
 Wisconsin. Locating in Baraboo, Wis., he en- 
 gaged in the hardware business in company with 
 N. K. Smith, whose daughter be married. In 
 February, i860, with' his wife and little child, 
 Mr. Smith and his family, he set out for Colorado. 
 The party had seven wagons, drawn by oxen and 
 horses, and seven weeks were passed in crossing 
 the plains. They rested every Sunday, and with 
 a cast-iron stove, which they had brought with 
 them, baked what food they desired. They also 
 had a six-stamp mill among their merchandise, and 
 this was put up and operated after their arrival at 
 Blackhawk. 
 
 In the following spring Mr. Tyler was obliged 
 to return east for provisions, etc. , and brought 
 back a sawmill, which he managed in partner- 
 ship with Mr. Smith. Three j-ears later, he and 
 J. P. Maxwell erected a sawmill on South Boul- 
 der Creek, below Rollinsville, and operated this 
 until 1867. In the meantime he and N. K. and 
 E. B. Smith built the Central City toll wagon- 
 road, which was in use until the railroad was put 
 through. He also (in company with N. K. 
 Smith) made the Boulder Valley wagon road and 
 controlled the same until the Union Pacific bought 
 it. Gradually his possessions accumulated, by 
 his judicious investments, and he was very suc- 
 cessful as a raiser of live stock. He owned land 
 
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 in Boulder, Weld, Larimer, Arapahoe, Logan, 
 Morgan, Jefferson and Gilpin Counties, as well as 
 some in Wyoming. The town of Merino, Logan 
 County, was named for his enterprise in bringing 
 the first fine Merino sheep here in 1876. He 
 raised Hereford cattle and Percheron horses, in 
 addition to the common stock, and for years was 
 the most extensive raiser of mules in the west. 
 In 1874 he bought Judge Decker's ranch near 
 Boulder, it then being chiefly wild land. He in- 
 dustriously improved the property, made Tyler's 
 Lake, and within a few years had so entirely 
 transformed the property that no one would have 
 known it for the same. 
 
 Mr. Tyler was a strong Republican from 
 the time that the party was organized until his 
 death. He was a member of the first city gov- 
 ernment of Blackhawk and was elected to the 
 territorial legislature from Gilpin County by a 
 larger majority than any candidate before or 
 since ever received. Having been elected regent 
 of the University of Colorado, he did effective 
 service for the institution, in which he took great 
 pride, as he had been one of the hardest workers 
 in getting the college located here. His busy and 
 useful career was terminated by death, March 18, 
 1886, and his loss was one which was deeply felt 
 throughout northern Colorado. 
 
 December 24, 1857, Captain Tyler married, in 
 Baraboo, Wis., Miss S. Emma Smith, a native 
 of Cortland, N. Y. Her father, Nelson K. Smith, 
 was born in New York state, and by degrees 
 drifted westward until he finally settled in Colo- 
 rado. He was one of the so-called forty-niners, 
 and for three years was engaged in mining on the 
 Pacific slope. In this state he took a very active 
 part in the early days of its history. (See his 
 sketch which appears at some length elsewhere in 
 this volume.) His aged widow, now in her 
 eighty-sixth year, is living in Boulder. She was 
 formerly Miss Helen Campbell, of Scotch-Irish 
 descent. Mrs. S. Emma Tyler is the eldest of 
 seven children, the others being as follows: 
 Lucian K., of Aspen, Colo.; Francelia, wife of 
 Senator J. P. Maxwell, of Boulder; RodolphusN., 
 an extensive ranchman and stock-raiser of Coal 
 Creek, Colo.; Medora A., Mrs. D. D. Leach, of 
 Oklahoma; Nina M., Mrs. E. J. Temple, of 
 Boulder; and Jennie A., widow of the late Dr. 
 G. A. Clark, of Boulder. Since the death of Mr. 
 Tyler his widow and son, Frank, have managed 
 
 the homestead and estate. Under their super- 
 vision one hundred and eighty-five steers and 
 seventeen hundred lambs were fed and cared for 
 in 1898, the former being marketed in Boulder 
 and the latter in Chicago. 
 
 The seven children of Captain Tyler and his 
 estimable wife are: Lillian E. , Mrs. Samuel 
 Ward, of Boston; Ella, wife of Richard Whiteley, 
 a well-known attorney of Boulder; Bert, who 
 died in Boulder in 1885; Frank, previously men- 
 tioned; Frederick, who is in Montana; Dolph 
 Smith, a citizen of Philadelphia; and Lu Clinton, 
 an assayer in Boulder. Mrs. Tyler holds mem- 
 bership with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and is a generous contributor to religious and 
 benevolent enterprises. 
 
 GlDAM WEBER, owner and builder of the 
 LJ substantial brick business block known as 
 / I the Weber building, is one of the enterpris- 
 ing real-estate dealers of Boulder. He owns 
 some very valuable property here, and has in- 
 vested large amounts in improving and adding to 
 the beauty and desirability of the same. He is a 
 public-spirited citizen and takes great interest in 
 everything which tends toward the permanent 
 welfare of this place. He is identified with the 
 Knights of Pythias, and the Uniform Rank of 
 the same order, and in his political convictions is 
 a Democrat. 
 
 Nicholas Weber, the father of the subject of this 
 review, was born near Leipsic, Ohio, and when 
 he reached manhood he removed to a farm near 
 Marietta, Washington County, in the same state, 
 and thenceforth devoted his time and energies to 
 the cultivation of his homestead. His death 
 occurred in the fall of 1897. Towards the close 
 of the late Civil war he enlisted in an Ohio regi- 
 ment but was not called into active service. His 
 wife was Miss Martha Fisher before their mar- 
 riage. She is .still living in Ohio, and was born 
 in Pennsylvania. She is the mother of eight 
 children, only six of whom survive, and our sub- 
 ject is fourth in order of birth in the family. 
 
 Adam Weber was born on the parental home- 
 stead near Marietta, Ohio, in 1865, and passed 
 his youthful days upon the farm. He received 
 a good general education in the public schools of 
 the home district, and when he was in his six- 
 teenth year he went to Marietta, and began an 
 
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 apprenticeship to a barber. After spending three 
 and a-half yeans in this calling he concluded to 
 embark in business on his own account. In 
 April, 1887, he came west to Denver and a few 
 months later settled in Boulder, where he has 
 since dwelt. For some time he worked for 
 Charles Woolfer, whom he finally bought out. 
 From that time to the present he has succeeded 
 remarkably well, and having added bath-rooms 
 and other modern conveniences he commands a 
 large patronage among the best citizens of the 
 town. His place of business is No. 1914 
 Thirteenth street. 
 
 The beautiful home of Mr. Weber, No. 2329 
 Thirteenth street, was erected under his super- 
 vision a few years ago. He married one of 
 Boulder's charming daughters. Miss Alice Lytle, 
 in 1894. She was educated in the high school 
 here and finished her studies in the University of 
 Colorado. Her father, a noted pioneer of this 
 region, George Lytle, was one of four men who 
 discovered the wonderful Caribou mine, which 
 they afterwards disposed of for three million dol- 
 lars. He lived to reach the ripe age of seventy- 
 two years, and for a long period was a prominent 
 figure in Boulder. The only child of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Weber is Clarence A. 
 
 T" UGENE WILDER, for several years prom- 
 ^ inent in journalistic fields, has been a popu- 
 ^ lar public official in Boulder for a period of 
 over fifteen years, and has been very active in all 
 local enterprises and in the advocacy of improve- 
 ments calculated to accrue to the benefit of the 
 people of this vicinity. In 1882 he was made 
 assistant postmaster here, and occupied the 
 position for eighteen montbs. In 1885 he was 
 appointed clerk of the district court by Judge 
 Carpenter, and held this post under several ad- 
 ministrations, or until 1893, when there was a 
 change in the political condition. Later he was 
 appointed deputy-clerk, and is now acting in that 
 capacity. He is a stanch Republican, and has 
 been a member of the city council several terms. 
 While serving as an alderman sidewalks and 
 other substantial improvements were instituted. 
 Soon after he came to Boulder his enthusiastic 
 endeavors in getting the citizens interested in 
 providing a suitable fire department resulted in 
 the organization of the Hook & Ladder Company 
 
 of one hundred men. This movement, in turn, 
 was of even greater benefit to the people of 
 Boulder, for it soon became apparent that our 
 facilities for furnishing water in case of fire were 
 lamentably inadequate and the realization of this 
 fact led to the establishment of Boulder's present 
 fine waterworks. 
 
 Eugene Wilder, born in Canandaigua, N. Y., 
 September 14, 1840, is an only child. He was 
 educated in the public grammar and high schools 
 of Joliet, 111., and learned the printer's trade in 
 the office of the Joliet Signal. Then, going to 
 St. Louis, Mo., he found employment with the 
 publishers of Manford's Magazine for a short 
 time and next entered the service of the state, 
 doing provost-marshal duty in the militia. Sub- 
 sequently he was made lieutenant under Captain 
 Hancock. In May, 1863, he started for Colorado, 
 across the plains, and, arriving in Blackhawk, be- 
 came foreman of the Blackhawk Journal, re- 
 maining there for about three years, thus being 
 one of the pioneer newspaper men of this state. 
 From there he went' to Central City, where he 
 accepted a position as foreman and bookkeeper 
 of the Register. In 1874 the great fire oc- 
 curred in that city and Mr. Wilder removed to 
 Boulder and, as a member of the firm of Bixby & 
 Wilder, owned and operated the News. This 
 paper wasi afterwards consolidated with the 
 Courier, of Sunshine, the name continuing as 
 the Nezijs and Courier, and the new firm being 
 known as Shedd & Wilder. The latter withdrew 
 from the partnership in 1882 and has since given 
 the chief share of his attention to his public 
 duties, though he has some mining investments. 
 
 In July, 1889, Mr. Wilder and Miss Marie W. 
 Eddy were married in Cheboygan, Mich. Mrs. 
 Wilder was born near Saratoga, N. Y., and is a 
 highly educated and cultured lady. Mr. Wilder 
 was initiated into Masonry in Central City Lodge 
 in 1865, and assisted in organizing the lodge at 
 Blackhawk. He now belongs to Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; Boulder Chapter 
 No. 7, R. A. M., and is a charter member of 
 Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T., and El 
 Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Denver. 
 
 In tracing the ancestry of the subject of this 
 review it is found that his ancestors have been 
 loyal citizens of this country since 1639, when 
 Martha Wilder, widow of Thomas Wilder, came 
 to the infant colony in Charlestown, Mass., with 
 
HON. WILLIAM A. WILLIS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 723 
 
 her children, one of whom was Thomas, from 
 whom Eugene Wilder is directly descended. He 
 was a freeman of Charlestown in 1640, as the 
 colonial records show. His father, Thomas, Sr., 
 had been the proprietor of the Sulham estates, in 
 Berkshire, England. John, a son of Thomas, Jr., 
 was a farmer of Lancaster, Mass., as was also 
 his namesake, John, Jr., after him. The last- 
 mentioned married Sarah Sawyer, and one of 
 their children, Jonas, born in 1733, removed from 
 Lancaster to Lynn, Conn., and in 1760 to Hart- 
 land, Conn. He was a farmer by occupation and 
 lived to the extreme age of ninety-eight years. 
 His son, Jonathan, who was a native of Connecti- 
 cut, married a Miss Austin, and their son Clement 
 was the grandfather of our subject. He was born 
 in the Genesee Valley, N. Y., and married Urania 
 Doolittle, by whom he had two children, Maurice, 
 who died while young, and Marvin W. The 
 latter was the father of Mr. Wilder of this sketch. 
 He was engaged in the manufacturing of cloth in 
 Canandaigua, N. Y., until 1842, when he settled 
 in Wilmington, 111., and there manufactured 
 fabrics for the clothing trade. During the Civil 
 war he served in the quartermaster's department 
 and went with Banks on the Red River expedi- 
 tion. In 1872 he came to Boulder, where his 
 remaining days were quietly passed. His wife, 
 Louisa, was a daughter of William Bryant (own 
 cousin of the poet, William CuUeu Bryant), of 
 New Hampshire. He was the owner of large 
 estates and was a cloth manufacturer. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM A. WILLIS, county com- 
 missioner of Boulder County and a pioneer 
 of Louisville, was born in Todd Count}', 
 Ky., May 18, 1846, a son of Oliver G. and Martha 
 A. (Thompson) Willis. He was one of seven 
 children, of whom five are living, those besides 
 himself being as follows: Robert I., superintend- 
 ent of the Boulder County farm; George S., also 
 a farmer of this county; Mary E., wife of J. W. 
 Dameron, a farmer of Christian County, Mo.; 
 and Thomas N., a farmer of Boulder County. 
 
 The father of this family was born in Todd 
 County, Ky., in 1823, and graduated in medicine, 
 after which he practiced his profession in Elkton. 
 He was prosperous and became the possessor of 
 much valuable farming land, also the owner of 
 many slaves. In 1856 he disposed of all his'prop- 
 
 erty in Kentucky and removed to Dade County, 
 Mo., where he continued the practice of medicine 
 and became the owner of two hundred acres of 
 land. Shortly after the breaking out of the war 
 he removed to Texas and settled in Fort Worth, 
 where he remained until his death, in 1868. 
 
 Educational facilities being very meagre in his 
 locality, our subject had few advantages when a 
 boy. In 1864 he secured employment as team- 
 ster in a wagon train bound for Colorado. He 
 drove six yoke of oxen to a wagon, which com- 
 prised one of a train of fifty-two wagons. Indians 
 were very hostile, and the party were often com- 
 pelled to form stockades and corrals in order to 
 protect themselves and their cattle from the red 
 men. They arrived in Denver August 23, 1864, 
 and from there proceeded to Golden, where they 
 laid over for two days; then went to Central City, 
 where they arrived August 28. Going on to the 
 present site of Greeley, our subject freighted in 
 the employ of the man for whom he had driven 
 across the plains. He hauled hay to Denver and 
 the mountains. After three months he began to 
 freight for other parties, with whom he remained 
 some months. In the summer of the next year 
 he worked in the Golden Gate Hotel near Golden. 
 In September he came to Weld County and once 
 more resumed freighting. In the spring of 1866 
 he went to Arvada and farmed on a place owned 
 by George C. Swadley. In the fall he came to 
 Cole Creek and herded cattle, remaining until the 
 fall of 1867. 
 
 After his marriage to Miss Rachael A. Eggles- 
 ton, which occurred at this time, our subject 
 began general farming and the dairy business. 
 In 1 87 1 he went to Georgetown and commenced 
 to mine, but three years later returned to the 
 valley, settling near his present place and engag- 
 ing in stock-raising and farming. In 1876 he 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres where 
 he now lives. In the fall of 1879 he sold forty 
 acres, and continued to improve and cultivate 
 the remaining iract. At the time that he settled 
 here, there were no improvements and no timber 
 for miles around, and he and James F. Jones and 
 Owen Kilkerr were the first settlers in this sec- 
 tion. Since then he has devoted himself to cattle- 
 raising and farming. In July, 1894, ^^ discovered 
 coal on his land and in April, 1897, he sold the 
 entire property, with the exception of five acres, 
 to the Citizens' Coal and Coke Company. He is 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 now erecting a substantial and comfortable resi- 
 dence on his five-acre tract, and is planning to 
 put his land in fruit. 
 
 For two terms Mr. Willis served as constable. 
 In the fall of 1897 he was elected on the People's 
 ticket to the board of county commissioners. He 
 was one of four candidates (all old settlers) who 
 ran for the oflSce, and much to his surprise, he 
 was elected by a majority of three hundred and 
 eighty-six votes. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Camp No. 137, Woodmen of the World, at 
 Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have one son, 
 Oliver, who married Ida M. Jones, daughter of 
 Hon. J. F. Jones, of Louisville, this county, and 
 settled near the old homestead. 
 
 r~ REDERICK WHITE is one of the most ex- 
 r^ tensive real-estate dealers of Boulder, and is 
 I ' thoroughly enterprising and progressive in 
 all his ideas. The cause of temperance is one 
 which is especially near his heart, and in national 
 politics he uses his ballot on behalf of the plat- 
 form and nominees of the Prohibition party. He 
 was a candidate for the legislature and for the 
 state treasurership on the Prohibition ticket a few 
 years ago. Fraternally he belongs to Boulder 
 Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M. , of which he is 
 past ofifiicer, and in the local lodge of the Wood- 
 men of the World he is a charter member and a 
 past official. 
 
 The parents of our subject were John Charles 
 and- Sarah Ann (Harris) White. The father was 
 born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was a member 
 of the firm of William White & Sons, manu- 
 facturers of tobacco pipes. The senior member 
 of the firm, William White, the grandfather of 
 our subject, was at the time of the battle of 
 Waterloo a sergeant in a company of infantry. 
 He was a native of the county of Roxburgh, 
 Scotland. Mrs. Sarah White was a daughter of 
 Jonathan Harris, senior partner in the firm of 
 Jonathan Harris & Sons, manufacturers of thread 
 in the town of Cockermouth, England. The 
 family were members of the Society of Friends. 
 By the marriage of John Charles and Sarah 
 White five children were born, and all but one of 
 the number are living. 
 
 Frederick White was born in Glasgow, Scot- 
 land, October 25, i860, and is the only represent- 
 ative of his family in America. He received his 
 
 education in the northern part of England, and 
 when he was fifteen years of age he entered his 
 father's office, and was well trained in business. 
 In the spring of 1880 he came to Colorado, where 
 his father had investments in mining property, and 
 has since looked after the same. Included in 
 this is the Melvina mine at Salina and mines at 
 Camp Albion, which are now being operated 
 under his supervision. In 1890 he came to 
 Boulder and embarked in the real-estate business, 
 in which undertaking he has met with deserved 
 success. He is a member of the board of trustees 
 of the First Presbyterian Church of this place 
 and is also treasurer of the same. 
 
 The pleasant and attractive home of Mr. White 
 is presided over his charming wife, formerly Miss 
 Edith Ingram, of Boulder. She is a native of 
 Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Moses Ingram, 
 who removed to Boulder Yrom his former home 
 in Albany, Wis., many years ago, and is still 
 living here. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 White are named respectively Kenneth and 
 Winifred. 
 
 (JOSEPH N. WOOLLETT, president and 
 I general manager of the WooUett & Brown 
 (2/ Lumber & Supply Company, of Boulder, is 
 one of the most enterprising and energetic young 
 business men of this locality. Though he is 
 comparatively a newcomer here, he has already 
 won hosts of friends, both in business and social 
 circles. He has been connected with the Odd 
 Fellows' society for several years, and has identi- 
 fied himself with the local lodge. Moreover, he 
 is a Mason, belonging to Boulder Lodge No. 45, 
 A. F. & A. M., also a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias, Uniform Rank. 
 
 The records of the WooUett family show that 
 they originated in England many generations ago. 
 They were well-to-do and prominent people, and 
 the great -great-grandfather of the subject of this 
 article was an architect and carver of wood of 
 such skill that he was retained in the employ 
 of George III., King of England, and at his death 
 was honored by being interred among the great 
 ones of the realm in Westminster Abbey. His 
 son, the next in the line of direct descent, was 
 William L. WooUett, and he, too, was a wood- 
 carver and an architect of much ability. Will- 
 iam L., the second of the name, and our sub- 
 ject's grandfather, was a native of Oxford, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 725 
 
 England, and a graduate of the celebrated col- 
 lege of that place. He came to the United States 
 in early manhood, and, settling in Albany, N. Y., 
 engaged in the same occupation that had en- 
 grossed the time and energies of his sires. He 
 died in his adopted city and country at the age of 
 fifty-seven years. 
 
 William L. Woollett the third, father of J. N. 
 WooUett, was born in Albany, and had just fairly 
 embarked in business life when he was cut down 
 by death. He had started in the footsteps of his 
 forefathers, whose great talents had apparently 
 been handed down to him. At the time of his 
 death he was only thirty years of age, and when 
 his son, the fourth William I,., had attained ma- 
 turity, he succeeded to his father's business, 
 and is now pursuing it with success. The mother 
 of our subject bore the maiden name of Fannie 
 C. Nelligar. She is a daughter of Joseph Nelli- 
 gar, who came of an old New England family, 
 and though he is now retired, he formerly car- 
 ried on a drug store in Albany, the birthplace of 
 Mrs. Woollett (now Mrs. E. C. Lewis, of Boul- 
 der). 
 
 Of the four children born to William I,- Wool- 
 lett and wife, Fannie C, J. N. Woollett is the 
 second. He was born in Albany in 1874 and 
 passed his childhood uneventfully in that city. 
 After leaving the public schools he completed his 
 education in Albany Academy. At the age 
 of fifteen years he was given a position with a 
 large lumber firm in Albany, and became their 
 delivery foreman. Having gained invaluable ex- 
 perience he decided to strike out for the west, and 
 in the spring of 1894 landed in Boulder. He em- 
 barked in the lumber trade, having his yards at 
 the corner of Fifteenth and Walnut streets. He 
 has manufactured lumber extensively, his mill 
 having a capacity of fifteen thousand feet per 
 day. Six delivery wagons are kept running con- 
 stantly, in order to meet the demand for building 
 material, and everything connected with the en- 
 terprise is in a most flourishing condition. In 
 December, 1897, the Woollett & Brown Lumber 
 & Supply Company was organized, with Mr. 
 Woollett as president and general manager, and 
 under his good methods and supervision the trade 
 has been on the increase, and the outlook is most 
 promising for the firm. He is interested, also, in 
 the E. C. Lewis Company, which represents sev- 
 eral important fire insurance companies in Boul- 
 
 der. Politically Mr. Woollett is a silver Repub- 
 lican. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and is very liberal toward all worthy 
 charities. June 15, 1898, he married Nan Katha- 
 rine Brown, daughter of W. T. Brown, secretary 
 and treasurer of the Woollett & Brown Company. 
 
 "T MILE J. RIETHMANN, Swiss consul for 
 ^ Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, 
 __ and one of the pioneers of '59, was born in 
 Canton Lausanne, on Lake Geneva, in the French 
 part of Switzerland, March 5, 1844. His father, 
 John, who was a son of Jacob Riethmann, an 
 agriculturist, was born in the German part of 
 Switzerland and in youth learned the butcher's 
 trade, which he followed for some years in 
 Lausanne. In 1848, accompanied by his family, 
 he took passage on a sailing vessel from Havre 
 and after fifty-four days landed in New York 
 City. His first two years in this country were 
 spent in Utica, N. Y. , from which place he went 
 to Cincinnati, Ohio, and thence to Switzerland 
 County, Ind. , where he was employed as a drover 
 to the Cincinnati market. Moving to Council 
 Bluffs in 1856, he engaged in the stock business 
 and in farming. March 23, 1859, his sons, E. J. 
 and J. J., arrived in Denver, and in June of the 
 same year the father and other members of the 
 family joined them here. Soon afterward he 
 entered a large tract of land four miles from 
 Denver and there he engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising until his death at eighty-one years. 
 His wife still resides on the old homestead of 
 four hundred and thirty acres. She bore the 
 maiden name of Mary Hunzeker and was born in 
 Switzerland eighty-six years ago. 
 
 Of the family of seven children all but one 
 attained mature years. J. J. resides in Denver, 
 where the second son, L- D. , died; Mary married 
 John Milheim and makes her home in this city; 
 Emile J. is next in order of birth; Victoria, Mrs. 
 Foreman, lives in Leadville; and Fred owns and 
 operates a farm at Brighton. At the time the 
 family crossed the ocean our subject was four 
 years of age. During the winters, when the 
 family lived in Indiana and Iowa, he attended 
 the country schools, but in summer he helped 
 his father on the farm. In 1859, when he was 
 fifteen, he and his brother, J. J., were induced to 
 come to Colorado by reason of the discovery of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 gold in Pike's Peak. His older brothers had 
 come west in the fall of 1858 and 1,. D. remained, 
 but J. J. started back, and he was the first to 
 bring the news of the discovery of gold dust in 
 Colorado to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The brothers 
 started west with two teams and a wagon and 
 arrived in what is now West Denver, in the 
 spring, finding only a few log houses in this 
 place. They settled on the east side of Cherry 
 Creek, building a log house in what is now East 
 Denver. The house was of a primitive character, 
 built of logs and covered with dirt, while a rude 
 chimney of mud and sticks formed an outlet for 
 the smoke. The building of a house entitled a 
 settler to thirteen lots, six of which they could 
 choose, while seven were drawn by lot. They 
 constructed several cabins and thus became the 
 owners of some forty lots, some of which in time 
 became very valuable property. 
 
 In May, 1859, the three brothers went to the 
 mountains at South Boulder, then called Dead- 
 wood Diggings. From there they went to 
 Gregory's Diggings (Central City) and Russell's 
 Gulch, where they struck a lead and mined until 
 they received news of their father's arrival in 
 Denver. They then sold their claim and returned 
 to Denver, soon after which our subject began to 
 work upon the farm that the family entered. 
 While there, in 1864, ^e joined an independent 
 company, with Captain Brown in command and 
 Jim Baker as guide, and started in pursuit of 
 Indians who had molested the settlers. They 
 went toward Fort Lupton, twenty-eight miles 
 down the Platte River, and remained out scout- 
 ing for two weeks. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Riethmann started in the dairy 
 business five miles north of Denver, where he 
 had bought one hundred and sixty acres from 
 his brothers. From the dairy business he drifted 
 into raising stock. He called his place the 
 Pioneer dairy and milked as high as one hundred 
 and twenty-five cows, selling the milk in the 
 city. He started the first dairy wagon in Denver 
 (it was drawn by oxen) and was one of the first 
 dairymen in the state, having had charge of a 
 dairy wagon for his father as early as the fall of 
 1859. After having conducted the dairy business 
 for, twenty-two years, in 1888 he sold out to 
 Cooke Brothers, who carried it on under the 
 same name. The old homestead is still owned 
 by our subject, but in 1890 he removed to the 
 
 city and built his comfortable residence at No. 
 2030 Stout .street. He still superintends the 
 management of his farm at Brighton, which is 
 irrigated from the Platte River and contains 
 valuable improvements. In Denver he married 
 Miss Mary Yeisley, who was bom near Mans- 
 field, Ohio, and is the daughter of Henry Yeisley, 
 deceased. They have an only son, John F. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Riethmann was appointed Swiss 
 consul, which position he has since held. He is 
 a member of the Gruetli Verein and the Associa- 
 tion of Colorado Pioneers. Politically he is a 
 Democrat, which party he has represented in 
 state conventions. The election of James E. 
 Bates as mayor of Denver left a vacancy in the 
 board of county commissioners in 1885 and he 
 was elected to that position, afterward being 
 chosen for a full term. He served from Novem- 
 ber, 1885, to January, 1889, refusing the chair- 
 manship of the board, but holding many positions 
 of responsibility on its various committees. He 
 was chairman of jail, roads and bridges, and in 
 the latter capacity opened more roads and built 
 more bridges than had been secured during any 
 previous term of county commissioners. 
 
 (lOHN WALTERS, president of the Standard 
 I Meat an(J Live Stock Company, is at the 
 (2/ head of one of the largest firms that do busi- 
 ness in their line in Denver. Beginning without 
 capital, he worked his way forward until now he 
 occupies a position among the foremost business 
 men of the west. The firm is interested in sheep 
 raising in Wyoming, where they are engaged in 
 breeding and raising sheep, and they are also 
 buying, ranging and breeding sheep in Utah and 
 Colorado. They also feed sheep in Almena, 
 Norton County, Kan., and St. Paul, Neb., being 
 perhaps one of the largest sheep dealers and 
 raisers in the west. They are also engaged in 
 cattle feeding at Almena, Kan. 
 
 The first member of the Walters family in 
 America was our subject's grandfather, who 
 located in Bufialo nearly fifty-five years ago. 
 The father, Leonard Walters, was born in Wurtem- 
 berg, Germany, and in youth learned the baker's 
 trade, but the work was not congenial nor the 
 confinement healthful, so he changed his occupa- 
 tion and became an employe of the Lake Shore 
 & Michigan Southern Railroad. He died in 
 
p. W. SNYDER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 729 
 
 Buffalo at fifty-five years. His first wife died 
 there of cholera when quite young, leaving an 
 only child, John. Of his second marriage four 
 children are living, one of these being Leonard, 
 whose sketch appears on another page. 
 
 In Buffalo, N. Y., where he was born in 1853, 
 our subject passed his boyhood days. At the age 
 of thirteen he began to learn the butcher's trade, 
 while with his uncle, John Walters. In 1870 he 
 came to Colorado and for a few months worked 
 in the employ of others, but in the fall of 1870 
 started in the meat and live-stock business for 
 himself, beginning on a small scale near the 
 present location of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 yards. Several months later he embarked in the 
 sheep business, buying several hundred head in 
 New Mexico and driving them up to Denver 
 market, thus laying the foundation of the large 
 business of the present time. The meat business 
 was carried on as Walters & Co. for a time, then 
 changed to John Walters & Co., later became 
 Walters, Aicher & Walters, and finally was in- 
 corporated as the Standard Meat and Live Stock 
 Company (close corporation, same owners only), 
 with our subject as president, Mr. Aicher vice- 
 president, and Leonard Walters secretary and 
 treasurer. 
 
 Politically Mr. Walters adheres to Republican 
 principles. He was married, in Pennsylvania, to 
 Miss Mina E. Burgie.who was born in Rochester, 
 N. Y. They have four children. Pearl, Ruby, 
 Mina and John, Jr. 
 
 r^ W. SNYDER is an extensive stock-raiser 
 Ly and dairyman of Henderson, and is an 
 k) influential and highly respected citizen of 
 Arapahoe County. He was born February 11, 
 1837, in Clinton, Pa., his parents being Jacob 
 and Katherine (Walker) Snyder. His grand- 
 father came from Germany and settled in Penn- 
 sylvania, where he died while Mr. Snyder was a 
 small lad. Jacob Snyder was born in Berks 
 County and was a miller by trade, at the same 
 time cultivating his farm upon which his family 
 lived. In 1855 he moved to Wisconsin and 
 worked in a sawmill and later in a gristmill near 
 the Illinois state line, his work taking him from 
 one state to the other. In 1862 he went to Floyd 
 County, Iowa, where he died soon after at the 
 home of one of his sous. 
 
 31 
 
 Until past sixteen Mr. Snyder lived on the 
 farm and attended school, getting sufiicient edu- 
 cation to enable him to read, write and cipher. 
 He then went to Niagara Falls and clerked one 
 summer in a store, returning home in the fall to 
 attend school during the winter of 1854-55, ^nd 
 the next year worked on a farm. In 1856 he 
 went west, and after a visit to his father, the last 
 time he saw him, he went to Dubuque, where he 
 obtained a clerkship and remained during the 
 summer. The following winter he clerked in 
 Freeport, 111., and then went to Floyd County, 
 Iowa, where he had three brothers living, and 
 with one of them learned the trade of carpenter. 
 He worked here at his trade about two years and 
 a-half, and then, in answer to the first call for 
 troops, enlisted in Company K, Third Iowa In- 
 fantry, as a private for three years' service. In 
 this service he traveled over a great portion of the 
 south and saw some desperate battles fought. 
 He was first engaged in skirmishes along the 
 St. Joe Railroad, in Missouri, and fought in the 
 battle of Blue Mills. They spent three months 
 in the fall of 1861 drilling in Benton Barracks, 
 St. Louis, and then had several skirmishes when 
 on duty in central Missouri, near Mexico. They 
 were ordered south, and took transports at St. 
 Louis down the Mississippi and up the Tennessee 
 to Pittsburg Landing, where he took part in that 
 battle and the siege of Corinth. They camped at 
 LaGrange, then went to Cold water. Miss., Mem- 
 phis, Jackson, Tenn., and to Tallahatchie, where 
 a battle was fought, after which they returned to 
 Jackson and started for LaGrange, but were 
 driven back. They finally made LaGrange and 
 made their way back to Memphis through Holly 
 Springs and Coffey ville, and took transports down 
 the Mississippi and up the Yazoo to the rear of 
 Vicksburg, where they landed and took part in 
 the siege of that city. They remained until the 
 city surrendered and then went under Sherman's 
 command to Jackson, Miss., where they met and 
 whipped Joe Johnson. They then went into 
 camp at Natchez to guard that country for a 
 time, but were returned to Vicksburg and were 
 in the raids on Meridian and Enterprise, Miss. , 
 and returned to Vicksburg by a different route. 
 
 Here many of the men re-enlisted and were 
 granted furloughs, while the others, among whom 
 was Mr. Snyder, were sent up Red River to re-in- 
 force General Banks. This expedition was at- 
 
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 tended with hard fighting, both up and back, and 
 was his last engagement, as his term expired 
 upon his return to Memphis, and he returned to 
 Floyd County, Iowa. During all this time he 
 was neither wounded, captured nor in the hospital, 
 although in the thickest of the fray, and he 
 missed but one guard duty and once was unable 
 to march. He went to Waverly, and from there, 
 after a short time, to Pennsylvania to visit his 
 mother, with whom he spent the winter of 
 1864-65, leaving in April of 1865 for Fort Atchi- 
 son, where he joined an emigrant train and came 
 to Colorado. He drove cattle and walked all the 
 way, receiving for his services $25 per month. 
 He arrived in Denver July 3, 1865, and worked 
 at his trade, with a brother who lived here, for 
 four and one-half months. Then, going to Aus- 
 tin, Nev. , he worked in the silver mines two 
 years and one-half and did well. He was a man 
 of wonderful endurance, and besides doing the 
 regular work required did a great deal of extra 
 work. He returned to Sweet Water in a wagon, 
 and remained there until the fall of 1869, pros- 
 pecting for gold during the gold excitement. He 
 spent the winter in Denver and then returned 
 and again prospected in Sweet Water for another 
 year. In 1871 he began working at his trade in 
 Denver and continued that work until 1873, when 
 he and his brother bought two hundred and forty 
 acres of land near Henderson, where he now 
 lives. 
 
 March 31, 1873, Mr. Snyder married Miss 
 Mary M. Wolfe, of Denver, who was born in 
 Clinton County, Pa., a daughter of Thomas M. 
 and Esther (Kline) Wolfe, of Clinton County, 
 Pa., where they were pioneers. She came west 
 in 1871. The ranch purchased by Mr. Snyder 
 was in a wild and uncultivated state, having on 
 it a rude log cabin, and here he brought his 
 young bride and made his home. They at once 
 set about transforming it by cultivation and 
 otherwise improving it, until to-day their prop- 
 erty is second to none. He bought his brother's 
 interest in a few years and sold forty acres from 
 the original, and in 1892 erected a fine brick 
 residence, which is one of the most beautiful in 
 the community, while his barns and other build- 
 ings are in keeping with it. They have three 
 children, viz.: Wilbur N., who married Dora 
 Krueger and lives in Colorado Springs; Joseph 
 F., who married Tessie Roby and lives with his 
 
 father, managing the farm; and Ada, now twelve 
 years old and at home. Mr. Snyder is inde- 
 pendent in his politics, but has never been an 
 oflBce-seeker, although he is always interested in 
 good schools and has been president of the school 
 board for eighteen consecutive j'ears. He is a 
 member of the Grange and was formerly a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army. 
 
 p6|lI.LIAM F. McClelland, M. D., has 
 
 \ A / long been numbered among the skillful 
 Y V and successful physicians of Denver, where 
 he has his office on Lawrence and Fifteenth streets. 
 Through his long and useful life it has been his 
 aim to promote the w^elfare of humanity, not only 
 by the use of the proper remedial agencies, but 
 (and this is the indication of the true physician) 
 he has endeavored to impress upon mankind that 
 the laws of physiology should never be violated 
 and that those who have good health should by 
 proper exercise and care of the body preserve a 
 robust constitution. When he first came to Den- 
 ver, during the infancy of this now prosperous 
 city, he gave especial attention to the climate, 
 which he studied in its effects upon different 
 forms of disease. The information thus obtained 
 he gave to others, writing articles upon the cli- 
 mate of the state and its effect upon disease. He 
 found that certain forms of pulmonary and throat 
 trouble could be wholly cured here, and this fact 
 he told to eastern people, thus being the means of 
 bringing many invalids to the state and securing 
 their restoration to health; on the other hand, he 
 realized that certain types of disease are injuri- 
 ously affected by the high altitude, and this, 
 too, he published, in order that no one might be 
 misled in coming here. It will thus be seen that 
 as a physician he has exerted an influence by no 
 means limited to this state. 
 
 The McClelland family is of remote Scotch ex- 
 traction, but during the days of religious perse- 
 cution in Scotland they removed to Ireland and 
 from there came to America. The doctor was 
 born in New Philadelphia, Harrison County, 
 Ohio, May 29, 1821. He inherited the quickness 
 of the Irish race and the thrift of the Scotch, to- 
 gether with the sturdy determination of the Ger- 
 man (for his mother was of German descent). 
 He completed his literary studies in the Mount 
 Vernon (Ohio) Seminary. In 1847-48 he was a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 731 
 
 student in the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of New York City , but afterward he en- 
 tered Jefferson Medical College, from which he 
 graduated March 27, 1849, with the degree of 
 M.D. Hepracticed for one year in Mount Gilead, 
 Ohio, and then located in Mount Vernon, that 
 state, where he opened an office and embarked in 
 professional practice. After live years he removed 
 to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he became known 
 as one of the most skillful surgeons in that state. 
 While in Council Bluffs he performed what may 
 be called a remarkable operation for that day, 
 known as "Caesarean Section," which even at 
 this time is considered one where great skill and 
 judgment are required. The operation occurred 
 November 9, 1857, and was a complete success, 
 the life of the mother and child being saved and 
 the former making a rapid recovery, no longer 
 than an ordinary accouchment. The history of the 
 case was published at the time in the Boston 
 Medical and Surgical Journal and republished by 
 European medical journals, reflecting great credit 
 on Dr. McClelland's judgment and skill. Since 
 coming to Denver, in June, 1862, he has engaged 
 in general practice. 
 
 With the various associations of the medical 
 fraternity Dr. McClelland has been intimately 
 identified. In 1873 he was president of the Colo- 
 rado State Medical Society, and three years later 
 held the same office in the Denver and Arapahoe 
 County Medical Society. In 1876 he was chosen 
 treasurer of the State Medical Society, which po- 
 sition he held, by re-election, for seventeen years 
 and is at present its treasurer. During 1 864 he 
 was surgeon of the Denver Military Hospital. 
 For years he has been connected with the Ameri- 
 can Medical As.sociation. He has served as medi- 
 cal examiner and referee of the Equitable I,ife 
 • Assurance Company of New York for the district 
 composed of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyo- 
 ming. Upon the incorporation of the Millionaire 
 Mining & Tunnel Company in 1876 he was 
 chosen its president. He was also president of 
 the Denver Mutual Building and Loan Associa- 
 tion and a trustee of its property. With the 
 Denver Consolidated Tramwaj' Company he has 
 also been prominently connected, and is at present 
 a director and member of the executive board. 
 
 The enterprises with which Dr. McClelland has 
 been connected have resulted to his own good and 
 to the benefit of the city. He has erected a number 
 
 of houses here, and is still the owner of consider- 
 able real estate. His first wife, whom he mar- 
 ried in 1850, was Dorothy Leach, of Mount Ver- 
 non, Ohio; she died in 1854, leaving one child, 
 Amanda M. , wife of Frederic A. Driscol, of Den- 
 ver. His second marriage took place November 
 II, 1858, and united him with Miss Harriet B. 
 Honn, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, a sister of his 
 old partner. Dr. H. D. Honn. They became the 
 parents of four children, who reached maturity, 
 viz.: Etta, wife of Richard H. Malone; CoraC, 
 wife of George B. Lott, of Colorado Springs; 
 William F. , Jr., of New York City; and Jennie 
 M., wife of F. R. Wood, also of New York City. 
 Politically Dr. McClelland was long a stanch 
 Republican, but of late years has been a firm 
 believer in the silver party. 
 
 (TEROME F. GOULD. One mile northwest 
 I of Ni Wot lies one of the valuable farms of 
 G/ Boulder County. This place is the property 
 of Mr. Gould, who came to Boulder Valley in 
 August, 1862, and traded a yoke of oxen for one 
 hundred and twenty acres of unimproved land. 
 In the spring of the following year he returned to 
 Blackhawk, where he had been before coming 
 here, and secured employment in the Idaho mill, 
 remaining there until the fall of 1864, at $4.50 
 per day. On resigning his position, the value 
 placed upon his services was indicated by the 
 fact that he was urged to stay, at $5 per day, but 
 his health was so poor he believed it unwise 
 to remain. Coming once more to the valley, he 
 settled on his ranch and engaged in farming and 
 the dairy business. Here, with the exception of 
 four years spent in the vicinity of Boulder, he 
 has since made his home. 
 
 In Ontario County, N. Y., April 21, 1834, the 
 subject of this sketch was born, a son of Jotham 
 and Miranda (Patterson) Gould. He was one of 
 ten children, nine of whom attained mature 
 yearsand eight are still living. They are: Mary, 
 widow of Lyman Phillips; Elizabeth, widow of 
 Addison Day; Ora, Mrs. Mills; JeromeF.; James 
 B., also of Boulder County; Lee; Almira, wife of 
 Isaac Piatt; and Henry, who lives in Dakota. 
 
 Jotham Gould was born in Washington County, 
 N. Y., in 1799. After his marriage he removed 
 to Ontario County, N. Y., and after some twelve 
 years there, he went to Crawford County, Pa., 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 where be engaged in farming for sixteen years. 
 In 1854 he removed to Iowa, where he made his 
 home in Polk County until 1863. During the 
 latter year he settled in Colorado, establishing 
 his home upon the ranch his son had previously 
 purchased. Later he bought a farm on Boulder 
 Creek, and there his death occured in 1882. His 
 father, Ebeuezer Gould, was a prominent farmer 
 of Washington County, N. Y.; and his father-in- 
 law, Abel Patterson, who was a sea- faring man, 
 also made his home in Washington County. 
 
 Having previously acquired a thorough knowl- 
 edge of farm work, at the age of twenty-one 
 Jerome F. Gould began work as a farm hand. 
 Later he spent much of his time freighting. In 
 those days all supplies were hauled from the 
 Mississippi River west, and there was a demand 
 for teamsters, who, when competent, received 
 fair wages. In 1861 he started for Colorado, 
 leaving Iowa May 14 and arriving at Blackhawk 
 July 3. He spent the summer in the mines and 
 in the fall returned to Iowa for his family, whom 
 he brought west with him in the spring of 1862. 
 After a few months in Blackhawk, he came to 
 Boulder County in August and purchased the land 
 embodied within his present ranch. 
 
 In Iowa, May i, 1861, Mr. Gould married 
 Miss Amy Foster, of Van Wert County, Ohio. 
 Seven children were born of their union, six of 
 whom are now living, namely: Delia, wife of 
 A. M. Dodd, represented elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume; May, who married William EUinger, of 
 Boulder County; Flora, wife of Charles Sherman, 
 also of this county; Margaret, wife of Albert 
 Remley, a miner of Eldora; James, who assists 
 his father in the management of the ranch; and 
 Lola, who is with her parents. The family are 
 united with the United Brethren Church and Mr. 
 Gould is superintendent of the Sunday-school at 
 NiWot. Politically he is a Republican. Through 
 his energy and business judgment he has become 
 owner of two hundred and fifty-eight acres, the 
 value of which has been greatly increased by 
 systematic cultivation and improvement. 
 
 For the start he was able to make in life Mr. 
 Gould was indebted most of all to his devoted 
 mother, who was in some respects a remarkable 
 woman. She was born in Washington County, 
 N. Y., in 1802, and during much of her life has 
 lived amid frontier environments. While her ad- 
 vantages were meagre, yet she became a woman 
 
 of great mental power as well as physical en- 
 durance. Her time was wholly given to the 
 care of her family, and to promote their happiness 
 was her chief aim in life. She endured the hard- 
 ships of pioneer life, journeying from New York 
 to Pennsylvania, thence to Iowa, and from there 
 to Colorado, with no other mode of conveyance 
 except a wagon. She is still living and makes 
 her home in South Dakota near Rapid City. In 
 spite of her great age she is well preserved, and 
 has the command of all her faculties. She has 
 from early womanhood been noted for her 
 knowledge of .scriptures and has been a Bible 
 student all her life. Of her it may be said, as of 
 the woman of old, that her children shall rise up 
 and call her blessed. 
 
 (S\ LVA M. DODD, one of the prominent farm- 
 LA ers of Boulder County, purchased in 1884 
 I I his present place of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, one-half mile west of Ni Wot. At the time 
 he took possession of the property he owed everj' 
 dollar of the purchase price. From the first he 
 prospered, and in a short time was enabled to pay 
 for the place, upon which he afterwards made 
 valuable improvements. In the winter of 1897- 
 98 he built his present handsome brick residence, 
 which is one of the most comfortable farm-houses 
 in the county. 
 
 Mr. Dodd was born in Davis County, Iowa, 
 May 2, 1857, ^ son of John and Elizabeth (Bell) 
 Dodd. He was the youngest of fourteen chil- 
 dren, nine of whom are living. Those besides 
 himself are William, Thomas, Barnett, Charles, 
 Henry, Catherine, Jeannette and Jane. The fa- 
 ther, a native of Kentucky, born March 5, 1800, 
 married in that state and later removed to Indiana, 
 where he made his home until 1848; thence re- 
 moving to Davis County, Iowa, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death, January 30, 1874. 
 The grandfather of our subject, Hugh Dodd, was 
 born in the parish of Merton on the banks of the 
 River Tweed, near Kelso, England. Emigrat- 
 ing to America in 179 1, he settled in Kentucky 
 in 1798, and there in January of the next j-ear 
 he married Miss Millie Barnett. His death oc- 
 curred January I, i8o8. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was eighteen years of age, and he and his brothers 
 then assumed the management of the home farm, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 733 
 
 In 1880 he came to Colorado, arriving at Ni Wot 
 March 9. Here he worked by the month during 
 the summer. In the spring of the following year 
 he rented land and began farming for himself. In 
 1884 he purchased the ranch which he has since 
 owned and conducted. February 19, 1885, he 
 married Miss Delia Gould, a daughter of J. F. 
 Gould. To this marriage eight children were 
 born, fiveof whom are living, namely: Courtney, 
 Guy, Inez, Belle and Mary. The family are 
 identified with the United Brethren Church, to 
 the support of which Mr. Dodd is a generous con- 
 tributor. Politically he votes the Democratic 
 ticket. 
 
 Gl NDREW FRASER, a member of the firm of 
 Li Grant & Eraser, has been numbered among 
 I I the wide-awake business men of Boulder for 
 little more than six years, but has established a 
 reputation for thorough knowledge of his calling 
 and for general straightforwardness in the execu- 
 tion of all contracts, which is truly enviable. He 
 is a native of Scotland, and possesses the honest, 
 just and industrious traits of character which 
 have always been noticeably prominent in the 
 sons of that rugged land. 
 
 The youngest of five brothers and sisters, 
 Andrew Eraser was born in Invernesshire, near 
 the city of Inverness, November 8, 1858. His 
 parents, Andrew and Margaret Eraser, were 
 natives of the same locality, and both have passed 
 to the reward in the better land. The father was 
 a carpenter and contractor, which callings he fol- 
 lowed until shortly before his death at the age of 
 three-score years. His father, John, and his 
 grandfather, Andrew, were both natives of In- 
 vernesshire — the former a farmer and the latter a 
 stone-cutter by occupation. 
 
 Andrew Eraser of this sketch was educated in 
 the schools of Scotland, and when he was about 
 .seventeen years of age he began serving an ap- 
 prenticeship to a stone-mason. He thoroughly 
 mastered the details of stone- cutting and carving, 
 and worked as a journeyman for a year or two 
 before coming to the United States in 1882. Here 
 he traveled quite extensively, aswell as in Canada, 
 but finally located in Atchison, Kan., where he 
 was successfully engaged in contracting for about 
 eight years. In 1891 he came to Colorado and 
 for eighteen months remained in Denver. Dur- 
 ing that period he built the residence of William 
 
 N. Byers, the Berger Brothers' building and 
 many others. In September, 1892, he came to 
 Boulder and has since been busilj' employed. 
 He had charge of the stone-work upon the 
 Masonic Temple, the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 the Presbyterian Church, the high school, and 
 nearly all of the fine stone residences on Univer- 
 sity Place and Mapleton Addition. Besides this, 
 he has been given work in other places, such as 
 Central City, etc. He owns an interest in the 
 Markley building-stone quarries, and is prosper- 
 ing in all his business ventures, as he deserves to 
 do. In his political convictions, he is a Republi- 
 can, with a leaning toward the silver side of the 
 monetary issue. He is connected with the 
 Knights of the Globe, of Ereeport, 111. 
 
 Mr. Eraser married in Hutchison, Kan., Miss 
 Nellie Shottenkirk, April 12, 1888. She was 
 born in Iroquois County, 111., and is a daughter 
 of Chauncey E. and Eliza (Rowe) Shottenkirk, 
 natives of New York and Pennsylvania, respect- 
 ively. The father settled in Illinois before the 
 Rebellion, and served in a regiment from that 
 state during the war of the Rebellion. Later he 
 removed to Hutchison, and is still engaged in 
 managing a hardware store there. His family 
 comprised nine children, six of whom are living. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Eraser three children have been 
 born, namely: Chauncey, Margaret and Ve'rness. 
 They are members of the First Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 DWARD SNYDER, the owner of a farm 
 'y near Valmont, Boulder County, where he is 
 _ engaged in general agricultural pursuits, 
 was born in Lancaster, Erie County, N. Y., May 
 16, 1844, a son of Joseph D. and Catherine 
 (Snyder) Snyder. Of seven children comprising 
 the family, five are still living, namely: Emil, 
 Tillie, Lou, Edward and Mary. His father, a 
 native of the southern part of Germany, near the 
 French border, was born about 1808, and ac- 
 quired a fair education in French, English, Latin 
 and German, after which he became a teacher in 
 the German schools. While still a young man 
 he emigrated to the United States and for three 
 or four years was a teacher in the Buifalo (N.Y.) 
 schools, after which he purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres some ten miles from Buffalo. 
 Settling down to a farmer's life, he devoted him- 
 self to the cultivation of his place, and there he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 resided until his death, in 1859. He filled the 
 office of county commissioner and other minor 
 offices, and was a member of the school board 
 from the time of the erection of the schoolhouse 
 in the district where he resided. 
 
 At the age of fifteen the subject of this sketch 
 left home and secured employment in a sawmill, 
 where he remained for six months and then went 
 to Rochester, doing general work for a year. On 
 returning home he continued there for a few 
 months and assisted in the cultivation of the 
 farm. At the breaking out of the Civil war he 
 enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Six- 
 teenth New York Infantry, Captain Werts com- 
 manding. Soon after they went to the front they 
 were rushed through to the field of Bull Run, 
 but being delayed near their destination, they 
 did not arrive until the day after the battle. 
 After two months they were ordered to Baltimore, 
 and from there went across the country and 
 down the Mississippi to Baton Rouge, but were 
 soon sent back to Pennsylvania to clean out the 
 Black Horse Regiment, then committing so many 
 depredations. He took part in the battles of New- 
 berne, N. C. , Port Hudson Plains, the charge of 
 Port Hudson and other minor engagements. He 
 was wounded in the side and leg at Port Hudson 
 and was sent to the hospital at Baton Rouge, 
 where he hovered between life and death for 
 almost five months. Finally he was discharged 
 and sent home on account of chronic disability. 
 
 After regaining his health, in the spring of 
 1865, Mr. Snyder came to Colorado. He spent 
 two days in Denver and Valmont and then went 
 to Boulder, where he worked for three months 
 with the Boulder Canon Road Company. His 
 next position was in a sawmill. In 1866 he 
 bought five yoke of oxen and a wagon and com- 
 menced to haul lumber from South Boulder to 
 Blackhawk. In November he came to Boulder 
 and from here went into the mountains, where he 
 chopped and hauled logs for two years. Coming 
 back to Boulder, he worked at various occupa- 
 tions. In 1873 he married Miss Mary Larson 
 and they opened a boarding house in Boulder, 
 which they conducted for three years. On sell- 
 ing out he returned to the mountains, but after 
 six months he came back to Boulder and farmed 
 on the creek as a renter for a year. Going from 
 hereto Left Hand Creek, he bought one hundred 
 and sixty acres, which he farmed for thirteen 
 
 years. On his return to Boulder Valley he rented 
 for two years, after which he purchased his pres- 
 ent place of eighty acres, his present residence. 
 He is identified with the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public and takes an interest in everything con- 
 nected with his post. 
 
 The seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder 
 are as follows: Lewis D., a farmer of Boulder 
 Valley; Mary L. , wife of Adolph Anderson, a 
 gardener at Fort Collins; Katie (changed from 
 Christina), wife of Grant Hall, a stonemason 
 and bricklayer; John A., who is attending school 
 at Morgan; Mattie M., Bessie J. and Inez L., at 
 home. 
 
 y/lYRON W. JONES, manager for the Holt 
 Y Live Stock Company and a well-known 
 (9 citizen of Denver, was born in Minot, 
 Androscoggin County, Me., and is the descend- 
 ant of English ancestors who settled in Mas- 
 sachusetts in an early day. From that state 
 Elijah Jones removed to Maine, where he de- 
 voted his active life to the legal profession. Dur- 
 ing the Revolution he enli.sted in the colonial 
 army and did good service in the cause of liberty. 
 His son, Rev. Elijah Jones, was born in Hamp- 
 den, Me., received his education in Bangor Theo- 
 logical Seminary and in early manhood entered 
 the ministry^ of the Congregational Church, 
 whose doctrines he preached in Minot for about 
 fifty years, and until his death at seventy-nine 
 years. He was a man of remarkably upright 
 life, kind in heart, generous to the needy and in 
 sympathy with the suffering and sad, striving 
 conscientiously and vsrith self-sacrifice to do all 
 the good within his power to those among whom 
 his lot was cast. 
 
 By his marriage to Bathsheba Rider, member 
 of an old Puritan family. Rev. Elijah Jones had 
 nine children, all of whom are living, Myron W. 
 being the youngest of the family and the only one 
 in Colorado. One brother, Edward E., served 
 throughout the entire war as a member of the 
 Third Maine Infantry and is now a merchant in 
 New York City; another brother, Rev. W. L. 
 Jones, is a Congregational minister in Pomona, 
 Cal. Our subject was educated in the Minot 
 school. He studied law in Lewiston, Me., with 
 M. T. Ludden, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1873, after which he at once made preparations 
 to remove to the west. In 1874 he came to Colo- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 735 
 
 rado, but, instead of practicing his profession, he 
 formed a partnership with W. T. Holt in the live- 
 stock business at Colorado Springs. The two, 
 in 1879, organized the Holt Live Stock Com- 
 pany, of which Mr. Holt was president until his 
 death, in 1894. Since the organization of the 
 company Mr. Jones has been its manager and in 
 1 88 1 removed from Colorado Springs to Denver, 
 where he established headquarters and now has 
 an office in the Kittredge building. The com- 
 pany's ranch was started at the head of Horse 
 Creek in Elbert County, where sheep are raised; 
 and they also have a tract on Rush Creek, where 
 they pasture their cattle. In former years the 
 companj' had a range on the Pecos River in New 
 Mexico, where the cattle were bred and later 
 driven to Colorado, and they still buy in large 
 quantities in New Mexico. 
 
 While in Maine Mr. Jones married Miss Caro 
 Farrington, who died in Denver in 1894. He 
 . was one of the charter members of the Colorado 
 Cattle Growers' Association and is now a mem- 
 ber of the executive committee. Politically he is 
 a Republican and in religion is connected with 
 the Glenarm Congregational Church. He is a 
 member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge in Denver. 
 While in Maine he was made a Mason, and is 
 now identified with Denver Lodge No. 5, A. F. 
 & A. M.; King Hiram Chapter, R. A. M., in 
 Lewiston; Pike's Peak Commandery, K. T., in 
 Colorado Springs; and El Jebel Temple, N. M. 
 S., ofDenver. 
 
 (TOSIAHNEWH ALL HALL, M. D., profes- 
 I sor of medicine in Gross Medical College, 
 (2/ Denver, visiting phj-sician to the county and 
 St. Anthony's hospitals, ex-president and ex- 
 secretary of the State Board of Medical Examin- 
 ers, is prominently known among the physicians 
 of Denver, where he has his office in the Jack- 
 son building, on Tremont and Seventeenth streets. 
 A resident of Colorado since 1883, hecame to this 
 state from Massachusetts, where he was born, 
 reared and educated. He is a member of an old 
 family of New England,- founded at Medford, 
 Mass., by Stephen Hall, an emigrant from Eng- 
 land in 1652. The grandfather, William Hall, 
 was born in Medford and served in the war of 
 1812. 
 
 Stephen Hall, the doctor's father, was born in 
 North Chelsea, Mass., and followed farm pursuits 
 
 until the excitement caused by the discovery of 
 gold in California in 1849, when he sailed for 
 that country via Cape Horn. He spent three 
 years in the far west, in mining and prospecting, 
 after which he returned by way of Panama to his 
 native locality. His last years were spent in 
 Massachusetts, where he died at the age of seventy- 
 two. He married Evelina A. Newhall, who was 
 born in Lynnfield, Mass., a descendant of a fam- 
 ily who settled in the Bay state in 1640. Her 
 father, Gen. Josiah Newhall, was a soldier in the 
 war of 18 1 2, after which he was commissioned 
 brigadier- general of the Massachusetts militia 
 and in that capacity commanded the troops at 
 the reception of General Lafayette and the dedica- 
 tion of Bunker Hill monument in 1825. Mrs. 
 Hall resides at Revere (formerly North Chelsea) 
 and all of her children except our subject also 
 reside in Massachusetts, namely: Mrs. William 
 B. Brooks, of Amherst; Alfred S., who occupies 
 the old homestead; and Mrs. S. S. Harriman. 
 
 Reared in his native place. North Chelsea, the 
 subject of this sketch gained his primary educa- 
 tion in that town. Later he was a student in the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, 
 from which he graduated in 1878, with the degree 
 of B. S. A few months later he entered the Har- 
 vard Medical School and remained there until his 
 graduation in 1882, as an M. D. During the 
 last year of his course he was appointed house 
 physician in the Boston City Hospital, and held 
 the position for eighteen months, resigning on his 
 removal. In January, 1883, he came to Colorado, 
 where he practiced at Sterling, Logan County, 
 for nine years, meantime also serving as mayor of 
 the city in 1888 and also as examiner for pen- 
 sions. Hecame to Denver in 1892 and has since 
 carried on a general practice. For some years, 
 and until 1897, lie was lecturer in the department 
 of therapeutics in the University of Colorado, but 
 resigned when, by the decision of the supreme 
 court, the medical department was removed to 
 Boulder, the seat of the main university. In 
 1897 he was elected professor of medicine in Gross 
 Medical College, which position he now holds. 
 Appointed a member of the State Board of Medi- 
 cal Examiners in 1889, he was president of the 
 board in 1891 and its secretary for three years, 
 and served until the expiration of his term of six 
 years. While in Sterling, Colo., he was phj'si- 
 ciau for the Union Pacific and the Burlington 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 roads. While there he married Miss Carrie G. 
 Ayres, a native of Mississippi, and they have be- 
 come the parents of two sons, Sigourney D. and 
 Oliver W. 
 
 In national politics Dr. Hall is a silver Repub- 
 lican. He is a frequent contributor to medical lit- 
 erature, and his articles in medical journals com- 
 mand a wide reading. In the Woodmen of the 
 World he is medical examiner. For a time he 
 was vice-president of the Colorado State Medical 
 Society, of which he is an active member, as he 
 is also of the American Medical Association. In 
 1 895 he was president of the Denver and Arapahoe 
 County Medical Society, and he was also at one 
 time vice-president of the Clinical and Pathologi- 
 cal Society. On the organization of the Rocky 
 Mountain Inter-State Medical Society he became 
 a charter member. He is also identified with the 
 Medico-Legal Society of New York City and the 
 International Association of Railway Surgeons. 
 In these various organizations he is well and fa- 
 vorably known as one of the skillful and success- 
 ful physicians of the west, whose present high 
 standing is due wholly to his energetic and un- 
 tiring efforts in the past. 
 
 r^ROF. WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS, M. D., 
 LrJ' of Denver, was interested in the organiza- 
 1*3 tion of the Rocky Mountain University and 
 was one of the original promoters of Gross Medi- 
 cal College, of which he is treasurer and mem- 
 ber of the board of trustees, also professor of 
 dermatology since the inception of the institution. 
 In addition to his private practice and his duties 
 in connection with the college, he is president of 
 the Long's Peak Reservoir and Irrigation Com- 
 pany, which was organized for irrigating pur- 
 poses and has the finest body of water in the 
 state. 
 
 The Davis family is descended from English 
 ancestry. In colonial days two brothers, one of 
 whom was a physician, came to this country for 
 .settlement. Afterward returning to England on 
 a visit, they were passengers on the same boat 
 with Oliver Cromwell. Later the entire family 
 of five brothers came to America, two of whom 
 settled in New England, one dying there, child- 
 less, but the other leaving descendants. One 
 brother settled in the Carolinas, but all knowl- 
 edge of him was lost. The others settled in Vir- 
 
 ginia and Kentucky. Grandfather William Davis, 
 who was born in Kentucky, removed to southern 
 Indiana and engaged in manufacturing, mer- 
 chandising and farming in Jennings County, of 
 which he was a pioneer. He died in Decatur 
 County at the age of eighty-four. His wife, who 
 was a French school teacher, was a member of 
 the La FoUette family. They had a son, Phoe- 
 nell La Follette Davis, who was born in Indiana, 
 and in youth learned the trade of architect and 
 builder. He was engaged in business at Vernon, 
 Franklin and Martinsville. During the war he 
 was general superintendent of construction of 
 arsenal buildings at Indianapolis, where he later 
 engaged in work as an architect and builder. 
 In 1867, when he was forty -seven years of age, 
 he was killed by a boiler explosion in the fair 
 grounds at Indianapolis. 
 
 The marriage of P. L. Davis united him with 
 Sarah C. Pearcy, who was born in Jennings 
 County, Ind., the daughter of a non-commis- 
 sioned officer in the war of 18 12 and a farmer, 
 who died in Jennings County at the age of 
 seventy-three. She is now sixty-eight years of 
 age and makes her home with her sou, Dr. Davis, 
 in Denver. Of her four sons three are living, 
 Millard F., who was a pharmacist, having died 
 in Indianapolis. James M. is foreman on the 
 Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railroad at 
 Trinidad, Colo. ; and Oscar P. is foreman in a 
 bookbinding e.stablishment in Denver. There is 
 one daughter, and she resides in Indianapolis. 
 
 The oldest of the surviving sons is the subject 
 of this sketch, who was born in Vernon, Ind., 
 November 28, 1848. He received his primary 
 education at Franklin and Martinsville, and in 
 1862 accompanied his parents to Indianapolis, 
 where for a year he was a student in the literary 
 department of a business college. Soon after- 
 ward he entered the Northwestern Christian 
 University, later called Butler, and now Indiana- 
 polis University, where he was a student for two 
 years, there beginning the study of medicine 
 under Dr. R. T. Brown, who was one of the uni- 
 versity professors. In 187 1 he graduated from 
 the Indiana Medical College, now the medical 
 department of the Indianapolis University, re- 
 ceiving the degree of M. D. After a short period 
 of practice in Indianapolis, he went to Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical College, in order that the ad- 
 vantages offered by that famous institution might 
 
WILLIAM G. PELL. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 739 
 
 be enjoyed by himself, and in 1876 he graduated 
 from there. On his return to Indianapolis he 
 was superintendent of the City hospital for two 
 terms, 1877-79. 
 
 The severe strain caused by his professional 
 duties was too much for the constitution of Dr. 
 Davis and his health broke down . He came to 
 Colorado hoping the change of climate might be 
 beneficial, and in January, 1880, opened an office 
 in Denver. The following year he went to 
 Golden, where he became surgeon for the Colo- 
 rado Central Railroad and on the removal of their 
 shops to Denver, in October, 1883, he returned 
 here, continuing to act as surgeon for a time, 
 until he resigned. He has his office at No. 1209 
 Seventeenth street. In 1887 he took a post-grad- 
 uate course in the Polyclinic and Post-graduate 
 Hospital Medical Colleges of New York, where 
 he made a special study of dermatology. He has 
 one son, John B. Davis, who is a member of the 
 class of 1899, literary department of the Denver 
 University. 
 
 Politically Dr. Davis is a Republican. He is a 
 member of the Denver and Arapahoe County 
 Medical Society, the State and American Medical 
 Societies, and is grand medical examiner for the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen of Colorado, 
 New Mexico and Arizona. Fraternally he is 
 past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and is 
 connected with Denver I^odge No. 5, A. F. & A. 
 M. ; Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., and Colo- 
 rado Commandery No. i, Knights Templar. 
 
 pQlLI/IAM G. PELL, who owns and occu- 
 \ A / pies a farm near Ni Wot, Boulder County, 
 VV was born in Canada, August 10, 1820, a 
 sou of William and Anna (Van Antwerp) Pell. 
 He was one of nine children, five of whom are 
 still living, namely: Peter, who is engaged in 
 farming at Hiawatha, Kan.; William G.; Ed- 
 ward, of Ni Wot; Amelia, wife of Samuel John- 
 son, who lives in the state of Washington; and 
 Daniel, a carpenter of Vermont. 
 
 Sixty years of his life William Pell passed in 
 his native land, Canada. He then migrated to 
 Wisconsin and settled ten miles west of Racine, 
 where his death occurred five years later. His 
 wife, who was of Mohawk-Dutch stock, was born 
 in Canada prior to the breaking out of the Revo- 
 lution, her parents, who were in sympathy with 
 
 England, having removed from Schenectady, 
 N. Y., with other Tories, on the opening of hos- 
 tilities between the two countries. Her father 
 was not an active participant in the war, but his 
 sympathies were strongly on the side of England. 
 The father of William Pell was a native of Eng- 
 land and emigrated to Canada in his youthful 
 days, settling upon a farm, where he afterward 
 resided. 
 
 At the age of about twenty years the subject 
 of this sketch left home and went to Rochester, 
 N. Y., where he apprenticed himself to the black- 
 smith's trade. About three years later he went 
 further west, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where 
 he was employed for two years as a journeyman 
 blacksmith. On the discovery of copper in the 
 Lake Superior country, he went there, and for 
 eleven years worked at his trade in the copper 
 region. In 1859 he went home, fitted out for a 
 western trip, and early in May left Wisconsin for 
 Colorado. Crossing the plains in a light wagon, 
 with a pair of horses, he arrived in Boulder July 
 20, 1859, and is therefore one of the pioneers of 
 this locality. To him and to Carver Gauss belongs 
 the distinction of being the locators of the now 
 thriving city of Boulder. Making this place his 
 headquarters, he became interested in mining, 
 and followed gulch mining with intervals of 
 working at his trade until 1875. Then, in part- 
 nership with John Scroles, he grub- staked rich 
 property on Gold Hill. These two and John 
 Nicholson began the development of what was 
 known as the Slide mine, on the Slide lode. 
 Here, during the first week, they took out a 
 small shipment of ore near the surface, which 
 netted them $300 after .shipping and milling ex- 
 penses (which were then exorbitant). January 
 20, 1876, the Corning Tunnel Mining & Reduc- 
 tion Company filed an adverse claim and then 
 began a litigation which lasted some six years, 
 our subject and his partners winning every de- 
 cision rendered from the lowest court to the 
 United States supreme court. 
 
 About 1888 Mr. Pell disposed of his interest in 
 the mine and, with his family, removed to Den- 
 ver, making his home in that city until 1894. 
 He then removed to his present home farm at Ni 
 Wot, which he had owned for some years pre- 
 vious and which has since been his dwelling place. 
 In politics he is a Republican. In 1862 he en- 
 listed in the Second Colorado Cavalry and served 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his country during the Civil war. He was ap- 
 pointed sergeant November i, 1862. With his 
 regiment he went to Kansas and pursued Price, 
 whom they brought to bay at Kansas City, and 
 there had the first important fight of their cam- 
 paign. Following Price through Missouri, they 
 had other engagements. They were mustered 
 out of service at Fort Riley, Kan. 
 
 In 1 87 1 occurred the marriage of Mr. Pell to 
 Miss Eliza Parker, who was born in Wisconsin 
 and died in Boulder, Colo. , eighteen months after 
 her marriage. June 11, 1875, he was united in 
 marriage with Miss Ellen H. Bergeron, a native 
 of Quebec, Canada, her father, Gabriel Bergeron, 
 being of French lineage. There was born to this 
 union a son, Earnest, February 9, 1880, now a 
 student in the State Agricultural College, at 
 Fort Collins. During the period of his residence 
 in Denver, Mr. Pell carried on a stone yard. 
 While in Boulder he took an active part in pub- 
 lic affairs and for one term served as an alder- 
 man. He is identified with the As.sociation of 
 Colorado Pioneers. 
 
 'HOMAS N. WILLIS is one of the progress- 
 ive, wide-awake farmers of Boulder Coun- 
 ty. He is the owner of a fertile and well- 
 improved ranch, situated about one and a-half 
 miles south of the town of Lafayette, and in ad- 
 dition to this he is the fortunate possessor of 
 some valuable mining property in Summit Coun- 
 ty. Twenty years have rolled away since he cast 
 in his lot with the inhabitants of Colorado, and 
 during the intervening period he has labored in- 
 dustriously to gain a substantial foothold, and 
 to his credit be it said, has ably succeeded in his 
 commendable endeavors. 
 
 Born in Dade County, Mo., September 22, 
 i860, our subject is a son of Oliver G. Willis, 
 whose history is to be found in the sketch of 
 W. A. Willis, printed upon another page of this 
 work. Our subject was reared to manhood upon 
 his father's homestead in the southwestern part 
 of Missouri, and early became familiar with the 
 varied duties pertaining to the proper manage- 
 ment of a farm. The public schools of that por- 
 tion of Missouri were of a decidedly poor type 
 during the Civil war and for a decade or more 
 subsequently, and thus the educational privileges 
 of the youth were limited. When he was in his 
 
 eighteenth year he left home and embarked on 
 the independent sea of life, from that time 
 forward making his own livelihood. In 1878 he 
 turned his face we.stward to the new and promis- 
 ing state of Colorado, whose destinies were 
 thenceforth to be indissolubly interwoven with 
 his own. He landed in Denver on the 2d of 
 March and soon proceeded on his way to Coal 
 Creek, where his brother William was then liv- 
 ing. For nearly two years our subject found em- 
 ployment with farmers of the locality and thus 
 acquired the means for other ventures. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Willis went to Summit County 
 and for the next four years was concerned in 
 mining operations. He then returned to Boulder 
 Valley and rented the farm of Judge C. A. 
 Clark. This place he cultivated for the next 
 three years, in the meantime spending a few 
 months with his Missouri relatives, during the 
 winter of 1886-87. In the spring of the year 
 last named he went to Summit County again, and 
 from August until June, 1888, he was occupied 
 in mining operations in Leadville and vicinity. 
 The next six months he lived in Alma, Park 
 County, after which a similar period of time was 
 passed by him in Boulder Valley. Returning 
 then to Alma, he remained there until the fall of 
 1894, when he .took up a homestead of one hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, convenient to Lafayette, 
 Boulder County. He has given his chief atten- 
 tion to the management of this place ever since 
 and has made a financial success of the enter- 
 prise. He has not relinquished his mine prop- 
 erty in Summit County, however, some of it 
 being very valuable. He uses his right of fran- 
 chise in behalf of the nominees of the Democratic 
 party. 
 
 (TOHN D. MASON is the superintendent and 
 I general manager of the Boulder Electric 
 (2/ Light Companj', which was incorporated in 
 the summer of 1889, and has proved one of the 
 most successful and useful enterprises of Boulder. 
 In 1891 the fine new building and plant were 
 erected on Walnut street. The boiler room is 
 35x40 feet in dimensions and is equipped with 
 three boilers; while the dynamo and engine room 
 is 47x42 feet and is fitted with three engines, of 
 one hundred-horse power each. The plant fur- 
 nishes power for eighty arc lights and three 
 thousand incandescent lights. The success which 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 741 
 
 has attended this enterprise from its inception is 
 almost entirely due to the excellent business 
 management of Mr. Mason, and his thorough, 
 practical supervision of every detail connected 
 with the running of the plant. In 1888 he and 
 I. E. Storey and T. Austin, in partnership, 
 founded the electric light works, and after run- 
 ning it for a few months it was incorporated un- 
 der its present title. Mr. Mason is the only one 
 of the originators of the electric light works in 
 this city who is still actively interested in its de- 
 velopment and success. At first the plant was 
 located at Thirteenth and Spruce streets, but, 
 for various reasons, it was deemed best to remove 
 to the new site. 
 
 The birth of J. D. Mason occurred June 8, 
 1856, in Rossie, N. Y., and in the public schools 
 of that town he acquired his education. He is 
 one of the two children of John and Mary (Van 
 Dusen) Mason, natives of Scotland and Canada 
 respectively. The former came to America with 
 his mother when he was a young man, and set- 
 tled in Rossie, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. , 
 where he carried on the butcher business for a 
 few years. When on a trip through Michigan 
 during the '60s he contracted a fever, from the 
 results of which he died. Thus the mother was 
 left with her two little ones to bring up, and 
 nobly did she fulfill the task, being both father 
 and mother to them. Her daughter, Alice, is 
 now the wife of C. W. Rowland, of Boulder, and 
 she makes her home with her children in this 
 town. Her father, David Van Dusen, was from 
 an old and respected Dutch family of the Mohawk 
 Valley. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 For a few years he lived in Canada, but later set- 
 tled in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where he 
 died at the age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 When he was seventeen years of age Mr. 
 Mason commenced an apprenticeship to a car- 
 penter in Rossie, working there and in Ham- 
 mond, N. Y., for a period of about three years. 
 He then engaged in business upon his own ac- 
 count, and in the spring of 1882 came to Colo- 
 rado. Locating in Boulder, he became a con- 
 tractor and builder, erected numerous residences, 
 business blocks and the medical hall at the uni- 
 versity. For the past decade he has given his 
 time and energies to the electric light works, as 
 already mentioned. He has made a close study 
 of everything relating to electricity and electrical 
 
 appliances and machinery. The "Governor 
 Routt" mine, at Sunset, now being operated, be- 
 longs to him, and he takes great interest in min- 
 ing in general . He is a charter member of the 
 local lodge of the .Woodmen of the World and 
 politically is a Republican. He is one of the 
 board of trustees and ex-superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school of the Baptist Church here, to 
 which he belongs. His marriage, March 27, 
 1890, united him with Miss Josie Niles, daugh- 
 ter of H. S. Niles, of Boulder, and their two 
 children are named respectively, Guy H. and 
 Carl L. 
 
 yyiONTFORD S. WHITELEY, one of the 
 Y reliable and straightforward business men 
 (9 of Boulder, enjoys the confidence and es- 
 teem of his fellow- townsmen to an enviable de- 
 gree. He is progressive and thoroughly in ac- 
 cord with thespirit ot the times, favoring modern 
 improvements, advanced ideas in education and 
 all measures calculated to permanently benefit 
 the community, state and country in which his 
 lot has been cast. In politics his ideas coincide 
 with the principles of the Republican party, and 
 he earnestly believes that their policy has 
 brought this fair land to its present prosperous 
 condition. For two terms he has served in the 
 council here as alderman from the second ward. 
 
 Hon. R. H. Whiteley, father of the subject of 
 this sketch, died several years ago. He was a 
 very prominent 'man in his generation, was act- 
 ive and influential in politics, and in the business 
 world and commanded the esteem and respect of 
 all who knew him. His history is given at some 
 length in that of his son, R. H., Jr., printed else- 
 where in this volume. Montford S. Whiteley was 
 born in Bambridge, Ga., in i860, and received 
 good educational advantages in his native town. 
 In 1877 he came to Colorado, and the year that 
 the state university opened in Boulder he was 
 one of the students. He continued in the in- 
 stitution until the close of his junior year, when, 
 in 1 88c, he entered the commercial world. 
 
 At first Mr. Whiteley was interested in the 
 real-estate business here, and for a year or two 
 was employed by different firms. In 1882 he en- 
 tered the establishment with which he has since 
 been connected, and was bookkeeper for the com- 
 pany for some time. The store changed hands 
 once or twice, and he was retained iu the em- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ploy of each successive firm, the last being that 
 of the Brown Merchandising Company, dealing 
 in groceries and hardware, etc. When they 
 failed in business, in March, 1897, ^r. Whiteley 
 purchased the hardware department and has 
 since carried on the business alone very success- 
 fully. The store is modern and centrally located, 
 being No. 1413 Pearl street. The proprietor 
 carries a full line of shelf and heavy hardware, 
 general house furnishings, stoves, etc., and an 
 extensive stock of mining and milling machinery 
 and miners' supplies. The store building is 
 25x90 feet in dimensions, with a warehouse 
 25x50 feet additional, and the main structure is 
 two stories in height. Mr. Whiteley is prosper- 
 ing, and in the brief time that has elapsed since 
 he took hold of the enterprise has amply demon- 
 strated his executive and financial ability. He 
 is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and is one of the board of directors of 
 the Boulder Building & Loan Association. He 
 was one of the charter members of this organiza- 
 tion and a stockholder, later becoming a di- 
 rector. 
 
 Mr. Whiteley married, in this town, one of 
 Boulder's most charming daughters. Miss Mina 
 A. Andrews. Her father, George A. Andrews, 
 one of the prominent old settlers of this section, 
 is represented elsewhere in this history. The 
 four children of Mr. and Mrs. Whiteley are, 
 George, Moua, Marguerite and Mary. 
 
 (Joseph ho ward, who has been identified 
 I with the history of Colorado since the fall of 
 Q) 1865, was born on Prince Edward Island, 
 Canada, the son of Adam and Nancy (Stagman) 
 Howard. His father, who was born in Germany, 
 emigrated to Prince Edward Island, where he 
 cleared two farms, "grubbing" the land, cutting 
 down timber, and working for a long time with 
 his axe and hoe, in order to prepare the land 
 for cultivation. He died at eighty-eight years of 
 age. His wife, whose father emigrated from 
 France, was born on the island and grew to 
 womanhood upon a farm. She died at the age 
 of forty-five. She was the mother of thirteen 
 children, of whom "six sons and six daughters at- 
 tained their maturity; five sons and two daugh- 
 ters are yet living. The father had been previ- 
 
 ously married, by which union he had four chil- 
 dren, while by his third marriage he had eight 
 children. Only two of the family are in the 
 United States, Joseph and Mrs. Morrison, of 
 Denver. 
 
 On the home farm, near Augustine cove, on 
 theTryon River, our subject was born in Febru- 
 ary, 1834. His school advantages were limited 
 to a brief attendance at the pioneer pay schools, 
 where he was taught the three R's. When he 
 was in his teens, his brother-in-law, Edward 
 Warren, left the island and sailed around Cape 
 Horn on the brig, "Fannie," Captain Irving, 
 reaching California, where he spent two and one- 
 half years mining in the Grass Valley, and then 
 returned home. Joseph, hearing the accounts of 
 the Golden Gate and Pacific coast, resolved to go 
 there. Soon he was ready for the long trip. In 
 1854 lis atid two friends started for California, but 
 the friends returned home from New York, leav- 
 ing him to make the trip alone. He took pass- 
 age on the "Star of the West" to the Gulf of 
 Mexico and then crossed the Nicaragua canal, af- 
 terward going to San Francisco on the boat 
 "Cortez," which encountered a very severe 
 storm in the Pacific. 
 
 From San Francisco Mr. Howard went to Sac- 
 ramento, then to the mines in Placer County, 
 where he engaged in mining. Soon he bought 
 seven acres and began raising vegetables, for 
 which he always secured good prices in the 
 market. Afterward he went to the Salmon 
 River, where his nephew, John Simpson, had 
 been among the first to find the diggings. Prices 
 were exceedingly high there, nothing selling for 
 less than $1.25 per pound. He and six others 
 remained .six months, then went down the Snake 
 River to Walla Walla, and finally reached San 
 Francisco, without any money. He then went 
 to Last Chance, on the North Branch of the 
 American River, but while there he and his com- 
 panions had an altercation with an Irishman 
 who claimed he owned the claim and in the melee 
 the man was shot in the arm, but not seriously 
 wounded. The friends of the Irishman then at- 
 tacked the other party, who gave themselves up, 
 but were soon released. 
 
 After leaving Last Chance, he engaged in cut- 
 ting hay on shares. In the fall of 1864 he went 
 to Idaho and spent the winter, finding the snow 
 there eight feet on the level. A year later he 
 
HON. JAMES F. JONES. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 745 
 
 came to Colorado, where he was hired to take 
 charge of stock on Coon Creek and employed in 
 other wa3's for a 3'ear. He then freighted for the 
 stage company to the various stations out of 
 Denver. In 1868 he went to Cheyenne with a 
 mule team and hauled wood from the Black Hills, 
 later freighted to Elizabeth, making three trips 
 with groceries. On his return to Denver he 
 worked for the Denver & Rio Grande road and 
 D. C. Dodge, in the express and transfer busi- 
 ness, in which he was successful. Meantime he 
 erected four cottages on Champa street near Thir- 
 teenth, and two residences at Nos. 1425-31 Court 
 place. In 1876 he sold out his business and re- 
 tired. He has spent four winters in California 
 and visited the Midwinter fair. He also visited 
 his old home on Prince Edward Island and on his 
 return to Denver brought a sister with him, Mrs. 
 Lydia Morrison, who has since resided here. 
 
 HON. JAMES F. JONES, a member of the 
 present Colorado legislature, was elected 
 thereto by the silver Democrats and Repub- 
 licans. During the last sessions he introduced 
 and championed two bills in favor of mining in- 
 terests, though one of them failed to pass the 
 senate. He has always been deeply concerned in 
 everything tending to effect the welfare of the 
 hosts of people, here and elsewhere, who have 
 connection, directly or indirectly, with mines or 
 mining in Colorado. At the same time, he be- 
 longs to the class of agriculturists; that class, who 
 no less surely than the other, have brought this 
 state into prominence among those of the great 
 west, and have added, immeasurably, to the 
 desirability and convenience of citizenship here. 
 The parents of our subject were Samuel D. 
 and Ruth M. (Fisher) Jones, and of his eight 
 brothers and sisters but four survive. Mary is 
 the wife of John Gano, of Wisconsin. Charles 
 is a prominent ranchman and cattle-raiser of 
 Montana. Bruce is also engaged in the cattle 
 and ranch business in Montana. Blanche is 
 Mrs. N. Burgess, of Montana. The father, born 
 in 1803, was a native of Michigan. Early in 
 life he went to New York and there attained his 
 majority. He was married in the Empire state 
 and subsequently removed to Ohio. From that 
 state he gradually drifted westward, his home 
 
 being for a few years in Indiana, Wisconsin and 
 Kansas. His chief occupation in life was that of 
 farming. His death took place in Kansas. 
 
 A native of Delaware County, Ohio, James F. 
 Jones was born on the parental homestead near 
 the town of Delaware, October 13, 1843. After 
 he had mastered the elements of an education in 
 the public schools he left home to make his own 
 way in the world. He had heard much of the 
 great and growing west and determined to cast 
 in his lot with the steady stream of emigration 
 which was pouring into the immense plains and 
 valleys of the territory formerly given up to the 
 scattered tribes of red men. Leaving Iowa 
 County, Wis., May 18, 1863, he undertook to 
 drive a wagon with two yoke of oxen and twenty 
 head of cattle, for a woman who wished to join 
 friends in Colorado. The journey was at length 
 safely, accomplished, the little party reaching 
 Marshall July 19. Mr. Jones at once found em- 
 ployment upon the building of a furnace at this 
 point, and was kept busily at work until the fol- 
 lowing spring. From April to July he engaged 
 in mining at Blackhawk and next he put up hay 
 at $10 per ton. That autumn he teamed and 
 hauled hay into the mountains and in the early 
 part of December sold his cattle and wagon in 
 order to enlist in the ninety-day service. He was 
 in the command of Captain Berkeley during the 
 exciting campaign against the Indians, who had 
 become very troublesome to the white settlers. 
 
 After he had been honorably discharged Mr. 
 Jones had a very severe spell of illness, and the 
 savings of a long period were consumed. Not 
 only this, but he found himself $25 in debt. He 
 bought a yoke of cattle and a wagon on time and 
 bravely started out again to recover his independ- 
 ence. He cut hay on the prairie and sold it at 
 $40 a ton. Thus he soon paid for his outfit and 
 continued teaming. He found a ready market 
 for all the coal which he could transport from 
 Marshall to Denver, and received fiS or jj520 a 
 ton for the product. In the summer of 1866 he 
 settled down as a farmer in Boulder County, 
 having bought a claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres on Coal Creek. At the end of two seasons 
 he sold it, and, going to a point one and a-half 
 miles further up the creek, homesteaded a tract of 
 eighty acres. Here he resided about seven years, 
 after which he lived a year on a farm on Rock 
 Creek, and for a similar period on the present site 
 
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 of lyouisville. Twenty-one years ago he rented 
 a quarter-section of land, his present homestead 
 (then school property), and six years later he 
 purchased the same. He has made substantial 
 improvements from time to time and to-day the 
 place is one of the model farms of his township. 
 A true friend to the cause of education, Mr. Jones 
 has used his influence in favor of better schools 
 and teachers and has served as a member of the 
 local board for a number of years. Socially he 
 is identified with l,ouisville l,odge No. 94, I. O. 
 O. F., and with Louisville Camp No. 137, Wood- 
 men of the World. 
 
 March 17, 1868, Mr. Jones was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Sarah C. Minks, daughter of 
 James Minks, a native of Greene County, Pa. 
 Mr. Minks, who was a carpenter by trade, came 
 to Colorado from Burlington, Iowa, in 1863, and 
 thenceforth devoted himself to agriculture.. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Jones have eight children all living, 
 and named as follows: Maud, Adelle, George, 
 Ida, Charles, Chester, Edwin and Leroy. George 
 is engaged in mining at Gold Hill and Charles is 
 interested in farming. The three younger chil- 
 dren are still at home and Ida is the wife of Ollie 
 Willis, a rising young farmer of this county. 
 
 I GUIS SCHROERS, postmaster at Elyria, is 
 j C the only representative of his immediate 
 113 family in America. He was born in Kreis 
 Rees, Germany, October 16, 1830, the son of 
 Bernard and grandson of Henry Schroers, also 
 natives of the same province as himself. During 
 the war of 18 12-15 Bernard Schroers was a sol- 
 dier in the German army and a participant in 
 several conflicts. Under his father, who was a 
 blacksmith, he learned that trade, which he fol- 
 lowed in Ringenberg. Finally he accompanied 
 his children to America and settled in Henderson, 
 Arapahoe County, Colo., where he died at the 
 age of ninety-two. His wife, Johanna Dacke, 
 was born in Germany and died in Wisconsin in 
 1856. She was a daughter of Peter Dacke, who 
 held a government position as chief forester, an 
 office that remained in the family for years. 
 
 Four children of the Schroers family came to 
 America. Among these Louis was next to the 
 oldest and is the only one now living. He .spent 
 the first fourteen years of his life in Germany and 
 was a pupil in the public schools for some time. 
 
 In 1845, with his parents, he took passage at 
 Rotterdam on the sailing vessel ' ' Catherine 
 Jackson," that landed in New York City after a 
 voyage of fifty-two days. Going to Wisconsin, 
 he began to work upon a farm in the town of Oak 
 Creek, Milwaukee County. In 1854 he removed 
 to Dane County and there engaged in farming 
 until 1862. Meantime his brother, Henry Will- 
 iam, had gone to Colorado and the reports he 
 sent back were so encouraging that he determined 
 to remove to this state. To this resolution he 
 was partly led on account of ill health. He made 
 the trip via stage from Atchison, and, reaching 
 his destination, located on a ranch near Hender- 
 son, where he bought an interest with his brother 
 in the place and engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising on the Platte River. With a Colorado 
 regiment he took part in the one-hundred-day 
 service at Fort Morgan, but on account of illness 
 was honorably discharged. 
 
 Selling his ranch in 1894, Mr. Schroers settled 
 in Elyria, where he became deputy postmaster 
 under Postmaster McDermott. In February, 1895, 
 he was appointed postmaster through the influ- 
 ence of the a.ssistant postmaster-general, and 
 since then he has filled the position with eSiciency 
 and success. This is the only oflSce he has ever 
 held except that of road overseer, which he 
 occupied while on his ranch in district No. 3. 
 He was reared in the faith of the Lutheran Church, 
 but since coming to Elyria he has attended the 
 Congregational Church. At one time he was an 
 active worker in the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. While in Wisconsin he married Miss 
 Abbie Knoblach, who was born in Germany and 
 died in Dane County, Wis., in 1857. The only 
 child born of the union is now Mrs. Anna C. 
 Watt, of Elyria. 
 
 EHARLES H. WATKINS. A business man 
 of undoubted ability and excellent judgment, 
 Mr. Watkins has been an employe of the 
 Denver Fire Clay Company since 1895. In 
 April, 1881, he located in Elyria and seven years 
 later erected the house he now occupies. Ad- 
 joining this is the house occupied by his mother, 
 which was the first residence built in the Elyria 
 plot. In the election of 1896 he was chosen, on 
 the city party ticket, as trustee of Elyria for a 
 term of two years, and since becoming connected 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 747 
 
 with the board he has served as chairman of the 
 purchasing committee and a member of other 
 committees. 
 
 A native of Prince Edward Island, Mr. Wat- 
 kins was born in Charlottetown, November 6, 
 1867. His father, Samuel, was born in 1840 in 
 London, England, of Welsh ancestry, and when 
 a young man served as a soldier in the British 
 army. It was during his service in the army that 
 he was ordered to Prince Edward Island, where 
 he was stationed for some time. Soon after his 
 marriage he retired from the army and, having 
 learned the trade of stone mason and brick layer, 
 he moved to Halifax and engaged in work at his 
 occupation. In 1879 he came to Denver, where 
 his family joined him the following year. In the 
 spring of 188 1 he established his home in Elyria, 
 from which suburb he rode daily to the city. One 
 evening in November, 1881, while riding home 
 on the Union Pacific road, a collision occurred at 
 what is now Thirty-sixth street, and he received 
 injuries that resulted in his death two hours 
 later. Our subject was on the same train, but 
 jumped from the car and reached the ground 
 before the collision occurred. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Fannie Stewart, 
 a native of Charlottetown, to which place her 
 grandparents had come from Scotland. She was 
 a daughter of Charles Stewart, who was born and 
 reared on Prince Edward Island and engaged in 
 farming there until the gold excitement in Aus- 
 tralia in 1852, when he went to that country and 
 engaged in mining. On the return voyage home 
 he was shipwrecked and drowned. His wife was 
 Jane Heartz, a native of Prince Edward Island, 
 whither her father had come from New York. 
 The Heartz family is of German descent. 
 
 The family of which our subject is a member 
 consists of five children, namely: Charles; Frank, 
 of Elyria; William, who is employed on the 
 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at Trinidad, Colo. ; 
 . Jennie and May. Charles was educated in the 
 public schools of Halifax. He was a boy when 
 the family removed to Denver, and he at once 
 began to work in a planing mill, where he was 
 employed for five years. For three years he was 
 a machinist's helper in the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railroad shops at Burnham, and then for five 
 years was with the Union Pacific Railroad as 
 stone mason and in other capacities. Since 1895 
 he has been with the Denver Fire Clay Company. 
 
 In Denver, Mr. Watkins married Miss Emma 
 Hester, who was born in Richview, Washington 
 County, 111., the second among the four children 
 of W. R. and Mary (Butts) Hester, natives re- 
 spectively of Kentucky and Tennessee. Her 
 father was engaged in the marble business in 
 Illinois, and for ten years was with the Union 
 Pacific Railroad as foreman of the stone mason 
 department. Mr. Watkins has two daughters. 
 Ruby and Edith. Politically a Republican, he 
 has been a delegate to county conventions and 
 assisted his party in other capacities. He is a 
 member of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and fraternally is past master of Robert 
 Morris Lodge No. 92, A. F. & A. M., of Denver. 
 
 MITCHELL BURNS, M. D., a rising 
 young physician of Denver, is a graduate 
 of Gross Medical College, in which he now 
 holds a professorship as instructor of obstetrics. 
 Under the preceptorship of Dr. W. H. Buchtel 
 he began the study of medicine and afterward be- 
 came a student in Gross Medical College, from 
 which he graduated in 1893 with the degree of 
 M. D. For about a year he was interne in the 
 State Woman's Hospital. In 1892 he passed 
 the examination before the state board of medical 
 examiners and received a certificate to practice 
 medicine, which profession he has since followed, 
 having his office at No. 161 8 Glenarm street. 
 
 The Burns family is descended from the nobil- 
 ity, for its lineage can be traced back to the 
 house of Stuarts in Scotland. From Scotland 
 members of the family removed to Ireland and 
 from there to Canada, where the doctor's father, 
 T. M. Burns, M. D., was born and reared. For 
 some years he resided in Schoharie County, 
 N. Y., but his death occurred in California. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Minnie 
 Cochran, was born in Nova Scotia, a lineal de- 
 scendant of Lord Nelson, of England. She was 
 a daughter of Daniel Cochran, a merchant of 
 Nova Scotia, and the father of three sons, one a 
 physician and two that were sea captains on mer- 
 chant vessels engaged in the East India trade. 
 She is still living and makes her home in Denver, 
 where live her only surviving children, T. 
 Mitchell and Daniel C. , the latter a graduate of 
 the Denver University law department in 1895 
 and now a practicing attorney in this city. 
 
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 Dr. Burns was born in Richmondville, N. Y. , 
 January 3, 1868, and received his education in 
 the public and high schools of Homer, N. Y. In 
 1888 he came to Colorado and two years later be- 
 gan to study medicine with W. H. Buchtel, 
 M. D. After receiving his certificate from the 
 state board, he engaged in a general practice, 
 with a specialty of obstetrics. In 1892 he became 
 resident physician of the midwifery dispensary, 
 which he and Dr. Buchtel established and which 
 was one of the first of the kind in the United 
 States. In 1893 he was made instructor of 
 obstetrics in Gross Medical College, two years 
 later was made an adjunct professor in that de- 
 partment, and in 1897 was elected to the pro- 
 fessorship. Meantime he has been a frequent 
 contributor to medical papers and journals. He 
 is a member of the staff of St. Anthony's Hospital 
 and is still medical director of the midwifery 
 dispensary. In the organization of the Denver 
 Literary and Social Society he took an active 
 part and for a time was its president. In Decem- 
 ber, 1897, ^^ w^^ elected president of the Denver 
 Ralston Club on the occasion of the reorganization 
 of that club, which is now in a flourishing con- 
 dition, with a membership of one hundred and 
 fifty. He has served both as secretary and 
 president of the Gross Medical College Alumni, 
 of which he is a member. He is also identified 
 with the American and State Medical Societies, 
 the Rocky Mountain Inter-State Medical Society 
 and the Denver and Arapahoe County Medical 
 Society. 
 
 GILBERT G. SNYDER, who is engaged in 
 r 1 the real-estate and fruit-growing business 
 /l in Boulder, is a public-spirited citizen, re- 
 spected and esteemed by all who know him. In 
 1893 he was elected to serve as alderman from 
 the third ward by the Republicans, and in 
 1895 he was re-elected, thus serving four years. 
 He was chairman of different committees, and 
 while he was in office the city water system was 
 enlarged, sewers were built and many other valu- 
 able improvements instituted. 
 
 A. G. Snyder is a native of Canton Berne, 
 Switzerland, born on the 23d of November, 1845. 
 His parents, Benedict and Anne (Alleman) Sny- 
 der, of the same locality, were people of gcod 
 education and standing in the community where 
 they dwelt. The mother was a teacher in the high 
 
 school of Canton Berne prior to her marriage. 
 The father was a gardener by occupation and 
 participated in the Revolution of 1848 in the 
 German army. The same year he emigrated 
 with his family to the United States, and settled 
 in Carthage, Jefferson County, N. Y. There he 
 passed the remainder of his life, his death oc- 
 curring in 1866. He was an honest, industrious 
 man, respected and admired by all who knew 
 him. The mother died in September, i860. Of 
 their family, which comprised six sons and five 
 daughters, five are deceased. 
 
 With the exception of one sister, our subject 
 is the only one of the parental family in the west. 
 He was next to the eldest child and was brought 
 up in Jefferson County, N. Y., on a farm. From 
 the time that he was twelve years of age he 
 worked for farmers for his board and the privilege 
 of attending school during the winter term. He 
 was very anxious to enlist in the Union army at 
 the outbreak of the Civil war, but he was young 
 and his father would not give his consent to the 
 project. At last he relented, when our subject 
 found that he could enter a cavalry regiment, in 
 1863. The young man became one of Company E, 
 Twentieth New York Cavalry, being mustered 
 in for three years at Sacket's Harbor. At the 
 close of four months he was made a corporal; then 
 took part in the defense of Norfolk and Ports- 
 mouth, and later was stationed at points along 
 the coast of Virginia. During the last ten months 
 of his service he was duty sergeant. He was at 
 Fortress Monroe at the time that Jefferson Davis 
 was taken there as a prisoner, and there Mr. 
 Snyder was mustered out, his honorable dis- 
 charge being granted at Sacket's Harbor, August 
 II, 1865. Thus he had been a soldier for two 
 years, lacking three days. Returning home, he 
 suffered with malaria and fever for several weeks, 
 and as soon as he was recovered he turned his 
 attention to farming, as formerly. 
 
 November 5, 1867, Mr. Snyder started for 
 Missouri, and purchased a farm near Kingston. 
 This land was on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail- 
 road, and comprised one hundred and twenty 
 acres. In February, 1887, having rented his 
 farm, he came to Sterling, Logan County, Colo., 
 and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land. This property he improved and cultivated 
 for four years, and in 1891 became a resident of 
 Boulder. Here he bought two acres in High- 
 
WILWS ADAMS MAREAN. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 751 
 
 landlawn and planted large orchards and smaller 
 fruit, including grapes, strawberries and black- 
 berries. He has prospered in his venture and 
 has also done well in his real-estate dealings. He 
 built up considerable property and then sold the 
 same, and is still carrying on a brisk business in 
 this direction. He is quartermaster of N.athaniel 
 Lyon Post No. 5, G. A. R. 
 
 In Jefferson County, N. Y., Mr. Snyder mar- 
 ried Mary J. Pierce, in 1871. Mrs. Snyder is a 
 native of that county and is a daughter of Charles 
 Pierce, who was a farmer of the Empire state, and 
 whose birthplace was in Vermont. He departed 
 this life in 1898. The two children of our sub- 
 ject and wife are: Charles, manager of the Kilton 
 Gold Reduction Company (see his sketch, pub- 
 lished elsewhere), and Maude, who resides with 
 her parents. 
 
 P QlLLIS ADAMS MAREAN. The Marean 
 I A/ ^^'i^i^y ^"^'^s founded in America about 1650, 
 V Y when Dorman Marean, a native probably 
 of Normandy, crossed the ocean in company with 
 a number of persecuted pilgrims and settled near 
 Boston, where he took up land and established 
 his home. His descendants were founders of the 
 town of Newton Centre, Mass., where some of 
 them still live. Thomas Marean, great-grand- 
 father of our subject, was a soldier in the Revo- 
 lution and served with valor and fidelity until 
 independence was won. One of his sons, Lewis, 
 moved from Massachusetts to New York, and 
 made settlement in the midst of the forest, 
 taking up laud that is now owned by one of his 
 descendants. 
 
 Ransom, sou of Lewis Marean, was born in 
 Maine, Broome County, N. Y., April 17, 1817, 
 and in boyhood learned the mechanic's trade, 
 which he followed for a time. After he became 
 of age he entered Madison TTniversit)', where he 
 studied for the ministry, and on completing his 
 preparatory studies, began to preach the Gospel. 
 He continued actively in the Baptist ministry 
 until .seventy years of age, and now resides in 
 Rochester, N. Y. He was three times married; 
 his second wife, Clarissa Jane Adams, the mother 
 of our subject, was related to the old Adams 
 family of Revolutionary fame. Of the first mar- 
 riage two children were born, one of whom died 
 in infancy. The other, Charles, enlisted in the 
 Twenty-fourth New York Light Artillery and 
 
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 took part in its various engagements until he was 
 captured by the Confederates. For six months 
 he was imprisoned in Andersonville, after which 
 he was sent to Florence, S. C. , and there died for 
 lack of nourishment. Of the members of his 
 company who were captured by the enemy, only 
 oue came from the prison alive. 
 
 Of his father's second marriage, our subject is 
 the only survivor of three children. His older 
 brother, Lewis Pliny, studied medicine in Cin- 
 cinnati and engaged afterward in practice in 
 Wisconsin until his death. The third marriage 
 of Ransom Marean was blessed by a daughter, 
 Catherine, who lives with her father. 
 
 Born inthetownof Woodhull, Steuben County, 
 N. Y., May 24, 1853, the subject of this sketch 
 was a child of four years when, in 1857, the family 
 moved to Moscow, Livingston County, N. Y. 
 After four years they again moved to South 
 Livonia, in the same county, where the father 
 was pastor of the Baptist church for twenty-seven 
 yeans, and until his retirement from the ministry. 
 At the age of fourteen our subject began to learn 
 the trade of carpenter and joiner, working with 
 his father, who not only preached, but also fol- 
 lowed a trade in order to instruct his sons in the 
 craft. At different times Willis was in the em- 
 ploy of various builders. His summers were 
 given to the pursuit of his trade, while during 
 the winter he attended school. At the age of 
 seventeen he attended Middlebury (N. Y.) 
 Academy for one term, and the following two 
 winters he was a student in the State Normal 
 School at Geneseo, Livingston County, N. Y. , 
 where he completed the mathematical course in 
 the academic department. When twenty-one he 
 started for himself as a builder at Geneseo, N. Y., 
 and continued in that city for five years. Mean- 
 time he took private lessons in drawing, and the 
 winter of 1874-75 he spent in New York City, 
 where he studied under A. Colon, a French pro- 
 fessor of architecture. While in Geneseo he de- 
 signed and built many of the finest homes in the 
 place, also the auditorium for the State Normal 
 School, and the residence of the principal, William 
 J. Milne, LL. D. , now president of the State 
 Normal College at Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Leaving Geneseo in 1878, Mr. Marean went 
 to Rochester, where he was in the employ of 
 Josiah Putnam, a leading architect of that city. 
 In the spring of 1880 he came to Denver and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 entered the employ of Frank E. Edbrooke, with 
 whom he remained until the ist of January, 1881, 
 as an emplo}'e, and was then offered and accepted 
 a partnership with Mr. Edbrooke. Their con- 
 nection continued until April 1, 1895, during 
 which time Mr. Marean was in charge of the 
 office work and the planning and designing of 
 many of the principal buildings in Denver, among 
 them the Brown Palace Hotel, Cooper and Ernest 
 and Cranmer buildings, People's National Bank, 
 Masonic Temple, McPhee building. Central Pres- 
 byterian Church (the finest in the city and one 
 of the most beautiful in the west) , West Denver 
 high school and St. Mary's Academy of the 
 sisters of Loretta. 
 
 December 19, 1891, Mr. Marean married 
 Charlotte Therese Hemeranger, who was born in 
 Prairie du Chien, Wis., of French ancestrj' on her 
 father's side, and of Scotch and French descent 
 through her mother. Her maternal grandfather 
 Smith was a Scotchman and one of the principal 
 members of the Hudson Bay Fur Company, being 
 stationed at Hudson Bay, where his daughter was 
 born. He was an intimate personal friend of Sir 
 John Franklin and in the possession of Mrs. 
 Marean, as a valued souvenir, is a jewel ca.se 
 given by that famous explorer to her mother. 
 
 Since April i, 1895, Mr. Marean has had as a 
 junior partner Albert J. Norton. In politics he 
 was a Republican until 1893, since which time he 
 has been independent. In religious views he 
 is liberal. He is a charter member of Oriental 
 Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. M., of Denver, having 
 been made a mason in Geneseo Lodge No. 214, 
 where he served as senior deacon and senior 
 warden. He is a member of Denver Chapter 
 No. 2, R. A. M., Colorado Commandery No. i, 
 K. T., Colorado Consistory, having attained the 
 thirty-second degree, and El Jebel Temple, 
 N. M. S. He is also a member of the Denver 
 chapter of the American Institute of Architects 
 and the Artists' Club, is a lover of art in all its 
 branches, and takes an active interest in art 
 matters in the city of Denver, 
 
 [7 RANK V. KIRK, who cast in his lot with 
 1^ the people of the great commonwealth of 
 I * Colorado a score of years ago, is now ac- 
 ceptably filling the position of clerk of the district 
 court of Boulder County, his home being in 
 
 Boulder, the county-seat. He was appointed to 
 this important place in January, 1895, by Judge 
 Jay H. Boughton, and has discharged the duties 
 devolving upon him with promptness and fidelity, 
 thus gaining the commendation of all concerned. 
 
 Mr. Kirk is a native of Maryland, his birth 
 having occurred in the city of Baltimore, August 
 II, 1847. His father, Samuel Kirk, removed to 
 Baltimore from his former home in Delaware in 
 his childhood, and there, after growing to man- 
 hood, married Miss Sarah Suter, a native of 
 Baltimore, and a daughter of Henry Suter, who 
 was of English birth. He had located in Balti- 
 more, however, prior to the war of 1812 and took 
 part in that struggle with the mother country. 
 During the battle of North Point he was captured 
 by the British. He was engaged in manufactur- 
 ing enterprises, and his death occurred at his home 
 in Baltimore. For many years our subject's 
 father was employed in Chesapeake Bank in some 
 clerical capacity, and for a few years prior to his 
 death, in 1885, he held the important position of 
 president of the board of fire commissioners. 
 His wife died in Baltimore early in the year 1853, 
 and eight of their thirteen children grew to ma- 
 ture years, though but one son and four daugh- 
 ters are now living. One son, Samuel, Jr., 
 enlisted in the First Maryland Confederate 
 Volunteer In^fantry and served throughout the 
 Rebellion. He was a sergeant in his company and 
 with the exception of slight wounds received at 
 Richmond, he was never injured. Later he was 
 a clerk in the ofiice of the chief of police in Balti- 
 more, and his death took place in that city. 
 
 The education of Frank V. Kirk was such as 
 was afforded by the public schools of Baltimore. 
 He was an apt student and made good progress 
 in his school work, being particularly proficient 
 in mathematics. When he was about sixteen 
 years of age he took a position as a clerk in the 
 private bank of John S. Gittings & Co. A few 
 months afterward he entered a hardware store 
 as clerk and later was given a place in the Frank- 
 lin State Bank, of which Charles J. Baker was 
 president. There he continued for thirteen 
 years, working upward by merit and strict at- 
 tention to duty, from messenger to paying teller. 
 Believing that the west afforded great opportun- 
 ities for young men of push and ability, he 
 resigned his position in August, 1878, and coming 
 to Colorado, engaged in mining operations in the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 753 
 
 Jamestown district for a short time. He then 
 became connected with the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railroad, being baggage agent at' Manitou and 
 later Colorado Springs for a period altogether of 
 five years. Then he was in the Denver postoffice 
 department for about a j'ear; after returning to 
 Boulder he was made deputy postmaster under 
 Valentine Butsch. During his term of office he 
 was deputy for two years, and then for three 
 years he was deputy of postmaster S. B. Border. 
 He went out of office in May, 1894. He is an 
 adherent of the People's party. Fraternally he is 
 an Odd Fellow, a member of Silver Queen Lodge 
 No. 112, and belongs to Encampment No. 13. 
 
 In the summer of 1880 Mr. Kirk married Miss 
 Lillian Butsch, daughter of Valentine Butsch, 
 formerly of Indianapolis. Mrs. Kirk received 
 her higher education in St. Mary's Academy, in 
 the town of St. Mary's, Ind. The only child of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kirk, Bertha, died at the age of 
 six years. Mr. Kirk is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church, is secretary of the board 
 of trustees and is treasurer of the official board of 
 the church. 
 
 [5JEORGE W. TEAL is one of the most prom- 
 l__ inent mining and civil engineers of Boulder 
 ^J County, and is thoroughly posted in every- 
 thing pertaining to mines and mining in this 
 region. Nine years ago he was appointed city 
 engineer of the town of Boulder and served for 
 one year, after which he was elected to the position 
 and has since been re-elected, at each successive 
 election, the last time in April, 1898, his term to 
 expire in 1900. During this period he has laid 
 out several additions to the city, put in about 
 seven miles of sewers, laid out streets and roads, 
 etc., and in innumerable ways has enhanced the 
 desirability and beauty of the place. In 1891 he 
 was honored by being elected county surveyor of 
 Boulder County and was his own successor in the 
 office until January, 1898, when he resigned in 
 favor of the newly elected surveyor, C. Stradley. 
 The latter made Mr. Teal his deputy and as 
 such he is now acting. 
 
 The parents of our subject were George and 
 Hannah (Rich) Teal, natives of England. The 
 father was born and reared in the city of Man- 
 chester, and in 1849 went to California, by way 
 of Cape Horn, South America. On the Pacific 
 Slope he was in charge of a mining company as 
 
 superintendent for a few years, after which he re- 
 turned to England and was there married. In 
 1868 he again crossed the Atlantic, and, coming 
 to Colorado, became superintendent of the Terrible 
 mine (owned by a London company), then the 
 largest silver-producing mine in the state, located 
 in Clear Creek County, near Georgetown. He 
 was connected with this enterprise for eight years, 
 after which he took a similar position in the 
 Caribou mine, for an eastern concern. This mine, 
 one of the most famous in the state, was the best 
 producer in Boulder County for years. In 1882 he 
 retired from active cares and made his home in 
 Boulder. His death occurred in California, 
 (San Diego) in the winter of 189 1, when he was 
 in his sixty-seventh year. He was one of the 
 first men who operated mines in this state on a 
 scientific basis, and erected mills for the treat- 
 ment of ore. For several terms he was one of the 
 county commissioners of Boulder County and 
 was the chairman of the commissioners at the 
 time of the building of the beautiful and imposing 
 courthouse here, which will stand as a monu- 
 ment to his zeal and enterprise for decades to 
 come. There was great opposition to the plan 
 of constructing such an expensive building at the 
 time, but with his far-seeing belief in the future 
 of this section, he carried the ambitious enterprise 
 through to successful completion. His family 
 numbered twelve children, but only six lived to 
 maturity and but four survive: Mrs. Pughe, of 
 Boulder; Mrs. Foster, of Denver; Thomas, metal- 
 lurgical engineer in Montana; and our subject. 
 The father of Mrs. Hannah Teal was a manu- 
 facturer of machinery in England. She departed 
 this life while a resident of Georgetown. 
 
 George W. Teal was born in England in 1863, 
 and was about eight years of age when he accom- 
 panied the family to the United States in 1872. 
 He attended the Georgetown public schools until 
 1879, when he went to London, England, and 
 there was in college for two years. Then, going 
 to Cornwall, he studied mining scientifically, and 
 practically in the mines at Lands End, working 
 in every department, in order to thoroughly 
 equip himself with needful knowledge for his 
 future life-work. At the end of a year and a-half 
 he became a student in the School of Mining, at 
 Freiberg, Germany, and graduated from that 
 celebrated institution in 1883, with the degree of 
 Mining Engineer. Returning then to Colorado 
 
754 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he engaged in mining, surveying, etc. , with Mr. 
 Foster, who was then superintendent of several 
 large mines. For the past nine years Mr. Teal 
 has been the consulting engineer of the Chicago 
 & Colorado Mining Company, and has also been 
 employed by numerous smaller concerns here- 
 about, though in the meantime he was in New 
 Mexico for eighteen months. It was in 1885 that 
 he went to that region as mining engineer for a 
 Holland mining syndicate, on the Maxwell land 
 grant. Since 1886 he has lived uninterruptedly 
 in Boulder. Since 1887 he has been United 
 States deputy mineral and land surveyor. He is 
 a director, superintendent and manager of the 
 Yukon Gold Mining Company of Colorado, 
 which he assisted in organizing. It controls a 
 group of eleven mines at Ward, all now in active 
 operation. 
 
 Socially Mr. Teal belongs to Boulder Lodge 
 No. 45, A. F. & A. M.; Boulder Chapter No. 7, 
 R. A. M.; Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, 
 K. T., and El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, and 
 is also a Knight of Pythias. Religiously he is 
 an Episcopalian. Mrs. Teal was formerly Miss 
 Francisca Price, a native of Central City, and 
 was married in Denver in 1894. Her father, 
 John Price, an eastern man, came to this state in 
 the early part of the '70s. The only child of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Teal is their little daughter, 
 Annabel. 
 
 n AMES W. DEVELINE. Among the sterling 
 I pioneers and citizens of Boulder, no one is 
 (*) more thoroughly honored and respected than 
 this gentleman. Coming here in the Centennial 
 year, he identified himself with our people and 
 lias always done all within his power to promote 
 the development and prosperity of the county- 
 seat. Though he is now in his eighty-seventh 
 year, he is well preserved in mind and body and 
 personally supervises his business affairs now, 
 just as he did when in the prime of manhood. 
 Since the formation of the Republican "party he 
 has been a stanch and true friend to its principles, 
 and prior to that time was an ardent supporter of 
 the Whig party. 
 
 Mr. Develine is, to all intents and purposes, a 
 strictly self-made and self-educated man, as his 
 advantages in youth were extremely meager, and 
 he was early thrown upon his own resources. 
 He was born May i, 1812, in County Tyrone, 
 
 Ireland, and in childhood came to the United 
 States with his parents, the voyage being made 
 in a sailing vessel, the "Lady of the Lake." 
 Fourteen weeks from the date of their sailing 
 from port the weary passengers were landed on 
 the shores of the new world. This was in 1820, 
 and subsequently Mr. Develine had no school- 
 ing, but was at once apprenticed to a molder in 
 Montgomery County, Pa., to learn the trade. 
 Later he found employment in various states, 
 Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and 
 Ohio, finally settling down in the last-mentioned 
 state, about 1840. Having been in the employ 
 of George W. Siser, of Cleveland, Ohio, for some 
 six years, a part of the time as superintendent, 
 he moved to Norwalk, Ohio, and became a 
 partner in the firm of Perkins & Co. They 
 manufactured sewing machines and general 
 machinery, Mr. Develine being the superintend- 
 ent of the foundry. Thence he went to Toledo, 
 Ohio, at the expiration of a decade, and was 
 similarly engaged in business, as a member of 
 the firm of Smith & Develine, some six years. 
 
 In the fall of 1876 Mr. Develine came to Colo- 
 rado, and embarked in business at the same 
 location where his foundry may be seen to-daJ^ 
 He is the sole proprietor and his hand is yet 
 steady enough to make intricate moulds. The 
 shop is calle(i the Boulder Foundry & Machine 
 Shop and all kinds of general repair work is done 
 here, as well as castings and molds of all kinds 
 made for the trade. Mr. Develine has over ten 
 thousand dollars worth of patterns, and the cupola 
 has a capacity of three tons of metal. By in- 
 dustry and correct business methods, attention to 
 the wishes of his patrons and a thorough knowl- 
 edge of his trade he built up a business that has 
 steadily increased in proportions, and is, in itself, 
 a testimonial to his able qualifications. 
 
 Many decades ago Mr. Develine was admitted 
 to the ranks of the Masonic brotherhood in 
 Norwalk, Ohio, and rose to the Knight Templar 
 degree before coming to the west. For some 
 years he has been connected with Columbia Lodge 
 No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; is past high priest of 
 Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and is a charter 
 member of Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, 
 K. T., of Boulder. He was also a charter 
 member of the commandery at Norwalk, Ohio. 
 His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and he is one of the trustees of the same. 
 
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 755 
 
 Mr. Develine married in 1839, at Baltimore, Md., 
 Miss Elizabeth Van Zant. They have an only 
 child, a daughter, Harriet, now Mrs. Robert 
 Dillon, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 in Chatham, being the daughter of Archer 
 Fleiger, proprietor of a sawmill there. They 
 are the parents of one child, George Archer F. 
 
 gHARLES S. CARRUTHERS has the repu- 
 tation of being one of the best workmen in 
 Denver. He came to this city in 1889 and 
 secured employment at the carpenter's trade with 
 Erastus F. Hallack, on Fifteenth and Wynkoop 
 streets. On the ist of March of the same year 
 he became a contractor in the planing department 
 of McPhee & McGinnity and remained in that 
 capacity until early in 1897, when he was pro- 
 moted to the position of general foreman of the 
 same department. 
 
 A Canadian by birth and a Scotchman by de- 
 scent, the subject of this sketch was born near 
 Chatham, N. B. , February 6, 1861. He is a son 
 of George and Jane (Clayton) Carruthers, natives 
 of Scotland, but from childhood residents of New 
 Brunswick. The former has made agriculture 
 his life work and is still living on the old home 
 farm, where so much of his life has been passed. 
 His wife, who is still living, is a daughter of 
 William Clayton, a farmer and an early settler in 
 the vicinity of Chatham. The family of George 
 Carruthers consisted of ten children, of whom 
 Charles S. was the youngest son and sixth child. 
 He was reared on the old homestead and, being 
 one of a large family whose parents were not rich, 
 he was forced from an early age to earn his own 
 livelihood. Hence his school advantages were 
 few. However, in the winter, when it was im- 
 possible to work on the farm, he was permitted 
 to attend .school. 
 
 For some years Mr. Carruthers was employed 
 in a sawmill and later learned the planing-mill 
 business. In 1889 he left Canada and came west 
 to Denver, where he has since resided. He is a 
 skilled workman and discharges faithfully the du- 
 ties of the respon.sible position which he holds. 
 Formerly he was connected with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, but he has not re- 
 tained his connection with this organization. 
 The only secret .society with which he is now 
 identified is the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 Before leaving New Brunswick Mr. Carruthers 
 married Miss Mary A. Fleiger, who was born 
 
 . UGENE A. AUSTIN, who for three terms 
 ^ in succession served acceptably to the 
 ^ citizens of Boulder as mayor, having been 
 elected by the local Republicans, is now acting 
 as a member of the city council, as alderman 
 from the first ward. He previously served in 
 this capacity for two terms. Without doubt, he 
 is the youngest member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic in Colorado, not excepting drummer- 
 boys of the Civil war, and the circumstances of 
 his enlistment into the Union army are briefly as 
 follows: One morning, January 22, 1864, he and a 
 school- mate, Frank Nash, started for school as 
 usual, but when the bell rang they went over to 
 the recruiting oflRce. Young Austin, then but 
 fourteen and a-half years of age, but tall and 
 weighing one hundred and thirty pounds, was 
 accepted, and assigned to Company M, Fourth 
 New York Heavy Artillery. He was mustered 
 into the service in Rochester. The artillery 
 served most of the time as infantry in the Army 
 of the Potomac, from the battle of the Wilder- 
 ness until the surrender of the rebel forces at 
 Appomattox. He and his school-mate were 
 comrades and messmates until the disastrous en- 
 gagement of Ream Station on the Weldon Rail- 
 road, when his friend was wounded. Over two- 
 thirds of the regiment to which Mr. Austin 
 belonged was either captured or killed, and 
 every one of their field officers met death or re- 
 ceived wounds. Their regiment was on the 
 extreme left of the Union army, which was 
 attacked fiercely upon that wing. Their men 
 fought desperately and with distinguished hero- 
 ism, but the odds were against them. Neverthe- 
 less, their colors were saved by the daring color- 
 bearer, who was obliged to tear them from the 
 stafi" in order to preserve them, as they were all 
 cut to pieces. After Lee's surrender Mr. Austin 
 was assigned to guard duty in forts, etc., until 
 October, 1865, when he was mustered out and 
 honorably discharged. It was his privilege to 
 participate in the grand review at Washington 
 at the close of the war. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Clement W. 
 and Elmira (O'Rallow) Austin. The father, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 who now resides in Boulder, was born near 
 Bristol, N. Y., and was a farmer in the vicinity 
 of Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y., during his 
 active years. He and his wife were both from 
 good old New England families. She died in the 
 Empire state. They were the parents of five 
 children, four of whom survive. Mrs. Newcomb 
 is a resident of Denver and Mrs. Stanley lives on 
 the old homestead, while Alphonso is a farmer of 
 Monroe County, N. Y. 
 
 Eugene A. Austin was born August ii, 1849, 
 in Rochester, N. Y. , and attended the public 
 schools until his memorable enlistment in his 
 country's service. Upon his return from south- 
 ern battlefields he resumed his studies. In the 
 spring of 1866 he came to Colorado with his 
 father, and together they opened a coal-mine in 
 Erie, the first in Weld County. It was owned 
 by an uncle of our subject, and after it had been 
 mined for about two years, it was sold to the 
 Boulder Valley Railroad Company. In 1868 the 
 young man went to Gilpin County, where for 
 two years or more he was engaged in mining at 
 Central City, Blackhawk and Georgetown. In 
 1870 he .settled in Boulder, opened a meat- market 
 on Pearl street and for several years dealt quite 
 extensively in cattle and live stock as well. Then 
 selling out, he turned his attention to the real- 
 estate business and with his brother-in-law, Mr. 
 Russell, bought a tract of land known as North 
 Boulder (including Lover's Hill), some seventy 
 acres, and has laid it out in town lots. 
 
 When the excavations were being made at 
 Thirteenth street for filling in around the court- 
 house Mr. Austin noticed the peculiar feeling of 
 the moist clay under foot, one morning after a 
 rain, and curiously examining it, came to the 
 conclusion that it was a superior quality of shale 
 clay, used in the manufacture of fine pressed 
 brick. After testing it in various ways and 
 sending some of it to Chicago to experts for 
 analysis, he and Mr. Russell organized the 
 Boulder Pressed Brick Company and built their 
 works, equipping thesame with special machinery 
 brought from Chicago. The Boyd press has a 
 capacity of sixteen thousand brick per day. The 
 clay is very fine, being smooth, and capable of 
 being used in its natural state, with only the 
 processes of pulverizing, screening, dry pressing 
 and burning. The company has built up a large 
 and remunerative trade, shipping to Denver and 
 
 places in different parts of the state. Mr. Austin 
 is the president and general manager of the 
 company and Mr. Russell is the secretary and 
 treasurer. 
 
 January 8, 187 1, Mr. Austin married, in this 
 city, Miss Jennie A. Gilbert, who was born in 
 Ohio and who died here, leaving one child, Evan, 
 now attending the University of Colorado. Mr. 
 Austin was afterwards married in Michigan to 
 Miss Sarah Phelps, daughter of Henry Phelps, an 
 old settler of Flint, Mich. They have two chil- 
 dren, Russell and Hazel. Their handsome home. 
 No. 1543 Pine street, was built by Mr. Austin in 
 1875. He is past commander of Nathaniel Lyon 
 Post No. 5, G. A. R., and served on the staff of 
 General Carr, of the department of Colorado and 
 Wyoming, as quartermaster, with the rank of 
 colonel. 
 
 EHAUNCEY STOKES. This sterling citizen 
 of Boulder has made his home here since 1875 
 and has been actively interested in the up- 
 building and prosperity of the town and county. 
 He was" one of the original stockholders in the 
 Boulder Milling and Elevator Company and has 
 been connected with various local industries and 
 institutions. At one time he was a candidate for 
 the position of alderman from the first ward and 
 was elected v^ithout opposition. A man of honor 
 and uprightness in all his dealings, he enjoys the 
 respect and high regard of all who know him, and 
 no one is more justly entitled to be represented in 
 the annals of Boulder County. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
 John Stokes, a native of Ireland. He settled in 
 Connecticut at an early period, and thence re- 
 moved to the vicinity of Auburn, Caj'uga County, 
 N. Y. He was a farmer by occupation and was a 
 soldier in the war of 181 2. The father of Chaun- 
 cey Stokes was Augustus Stokes, whose birth 
 occurred on the old homestead near Auburn. 
 He was a carpenter and builder in central New 
 York. His death took place when he was in his 
 fifty-fifth year, and his wife, who survived him a 
 long time, died at the age of seventy-eight. Her 
 maiden name was Catherine Farrington, and 
 Long Island was her birthplace. Her father, 
 John Farrington, was a native of Germany, who, 
 after coming to this country, worked at his trade 
 of blacksmithing at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 
 and later removed to Long Island. Ten of the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 757 
 
 twelve children of Augustus and Catherine (Far- 
 rington) Stokes grew to maturity, but only two 
 of the number are now living, namely: Chauncey 
 and Henry, the latter in central New York. 
 
 Chauncey Stokes was born February 12, 1824, 
 near Auburn, N. Y., and spent his boyhood on 
 his father's farm. His education was obtained in 
 the district schools, which were in session during 
 the winter season chiefly. In those days, when 
 the majority of families made their own woolen 
 cloth, wholly or in part, the lad worked for as 
 little as six and a-fourth cents a day. When he 
 was twelve he began serving an apprenticeship to 
 the carpenter's trade with his father, and in 1820 
 he started out as an independent contractor and 
 builder. In 1853 he went to Wisconsin, and for 
 about six months lived in Madison, where he 
 found plenty of employment. Later he settled 
 in Walworth County, in the same state, and 
 • engaged in building at Elkhorn for several years. 
 In 1864 he took up his residence in Evanston, 
 111., and there erected Heck Hall, one of the 
 Northwestern University buildings (the cost of 
 which was about $13,000) and also a portion of 
 the main building. Many other beautiful struct- 
 ures and homes for the people of the pretty little 
 city were put up by Mr. Stokes during the few 
 years of his stay there. 
 
 It was in 1871 that the subject of this review 
 joined a colony of Chicagoans bound for Colo- 
 rado. They reached Longmont in February, 
 and after Mr. Stokes had located their lands he 
 proceeded to build a house, the first one on the 
 site of the now large and flourishing town. Later 
 he built the bank and hotel and many of the 
 houses of the colony. In the fall of 1872 he went 
 to Denver and was very busily occupied there at 
 his accustomed work for three years. He built 
 for Judge Stiles the beautiful residence now 
 owned by Willard Teller, and many other not- 
 able houses and business blocks. Coming to 
 Boulder in 1875, he engaged in the lumber 
 business at Eighteenth and Pearl streets; later 
 removing to Pearl, between Fourteenth and Fif- 
 teenth. He dealt extensively in lumber and 
 building material, and also gave much of his time 
 to architecture. He drew up plans for the presi- 
 dent's house at the University of Colorado and 
 those of many other fine homes and edifices in 
 the town and vicinity. He was employed to 
 superintend the erection of the courthouse here, 
 
 but resigned ere the work was completed, be- 
 cause the authorities were not disposed to give 
 him the support he deemed necessary. Six years 
 ago he sold out the lumber business, and has 
 since devoted himself to drawing up plans for 
 buildings, general architectural work, etc. In 
 1896 he planted five acres in fruit trees, and is 
 watching the outcome with great interest. The 
 orchard is situated at Manzanola, Colo., on the 
 Arkansas River. Mr. Stokes was president of 
 the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and superintended the building of the 
 new house of worship. He also supervised the 
 erection of the Presbyterian Church, the Masonic 
 Temple and the high school building. He is, and 
 has been for some years, connected with the 
 Boulder Building & Loan Association. In 1848 
 he identified himself with the Sons of Temper- 
 ance, and from the time that his influence counted 
 for anything, it has been used against the saloon. 
 He is now afiiliated with the Prohibition parly. 
 A member of the Masonic order, he belongs to 
 Boulder Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M. For many 
 years he has been a devoted worker in the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. At present he is a trus- 
 tee, and has been superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school and occupied other official positions. 
 
 The comfortable and attractive home of Mr. 
 Stokes is located on Pine street, near Sixteenth, 
 and besides this he owns several other residences 
 here. He was married in 1848 in Wisconsin to 
 Lucy, daughter of John P. Wylie, a farmer. She 
 was born in Oneida County, N. Y., and removed 
 to Wisconsin with her parents in 1844. The two 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Stokes are S. Stanley, 
 who for three or four years was the assistant 
 clerk of the Colorado legislature and is now a 
 Denver editor, and Mary J., Mrs. J. H. Parsons, 
 of Boulder. 
 
 'HOMAS M. HYDER is comparatively a 
 newcomer in Boulder, but has already 
 gained a foothold among the established 
 contractors and builders by the excellence of the 
 work he has done and his manifest knowledge 
 and experience in his chosen field of enterprise. 
 He is a wide-awake western young man, full of 
 energy and push, and is certain to carve out for 
 himself an enviable position in the business 
 world. 
 
 The father of Thomas Hyder, Rev. J. A. Hy- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 der, is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., and, having 
 been ordained in the ministry of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South, he was actively en- 
 gaged in preaching in Missouri up to the Civil 
 war. He then enlisted in the division of the 
 army commanded by General Price, and served 
 with the rank of captain. He was wounded and 
 captured in the battle where General Lyon met 
 his death, and was afterward paroled and banished 
 from the state. He then located in Council 
 Grove, Morris County, Kan., and turned his at- 
 tention to agricultural pursuits until the close of 
 the war. In the fall of 1865 he returned to Mis- 
 souri, and settling in Plattsburg, resumed his 
 ministerial labors. In 1890 he went to Abilene, 
 Taylor County, Tex., where he may be found to- 
 day, earnestly occupied in preaching the Gospel. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
 Malotte, is of French extraction. Her father, 
 Thomas Malotte, was one of the pioneers of Platte 
 County, Mo., and erected the first house put up 
 in that section. In 1868 he removed to Clay 
 County, where he lived until claimed by death, 
 in 1884. He was a local preacher of the Primi- 
 tive Baptist denomination, and was loved and 
 respected by all who knew him. Rev. J. A. 
 Hyder and wife have had eight children, all of 
 whom are still living. 
 
 Thomas Hyder, of this sketch, was born at the 
 close of the Civil war, in Council Grove, Kan., 
 August 17, 1865. He is the third child in the 
 parental family, and, with his brother, J. B., is the 
 only representative of the same in Colorado. He 
 was reared to manhood in Plattsburg, Mo., and 
 received an excellent education. His studies 
 were finished at Plattsburg College, where he 
 graduated in 1882. He then commenced serving 
 an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade at 
 Platte City, and at the end of two years went to 
 Kansas City, where he obtained a position as fore- 
 man for Hays Brothers, contractors and builders. 
 He spent three years in the employ of that firm, 
 and then embarked in independent business as a 
 contractor. Two years later he removed to West 
 Plains, Mo. , and was there successfully occupied 
 in his usual calling until the years that he con- 
 cluded to try his fortune in Colorado. Less than 
 two years ago he came to Boulder, where he has 
 been busily engaged in carrying out the contracts 
 for residences, stores, etc., that have come to his 
 share. Thus, specimens of his skill and thorough 
 
 workmanship are plentiful here now, and are 
 witnesses to his reliability and integrity in carry- 
 ing out his contracts to the letter. While living 
 in West Plains he was affiliated with the Odd 
 Fellows' society and is past grand in that state. 
 He also belonged to the encampment of the same 
 place; is a past ofiicer in the Ancient Older of 
 United Workmen and also of the Modern Wood- 
 men of America. Politically he is a Democrat. 
 
 An important event in the career of Mr. Hyder 
 occurred while he was a citizen of West Plains, 
 Mo., as there it was that Miss N. L. Stubblefield 
 became his wife, October i, 1885. She is a na- 
 tive of Howell County, Mo., and is a lady of good 
 education and social attainments. She holds 
 membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 South. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hyder are: Elva L., Erma L- and Harold A. 
 
 EHARLES J. DUNN. The large amount of 
 building done in Denver during the past 
 decade has made contracting and building a 
 very important occupation, and among the men 
 who have followed it with success a prominent 
 position belongs to Charles J. Dunn. A resident 
 of Denver since 1887, the following year he began 
 as a general carpenter and builder, and since then 
 has had many contracts for private and public 
 buildings. In addition to this work, he is also 
 vice-president of the Joseph P. Dunn Leather 
 Company, wholesale and retail dealers in leather 
 and findings, and manufacturers of boot and shoe 
 uppers; the office and factory are at No. 1748 Law- 
 rence street, and Mr. Dunn's carpenter shop and 
 office are at No. 1827 Arapahoe street. 
 
 Born in New York City, Mr. Dunn is a son of 
 Michael Dunn, who removed from New York to 
 St. Louis and was there engaged in the express 
 business for some years, but finally, about 1887, 
 removed to Denver, his present place of residence. 
 Of his five children all but one are living in Den- 
 ver. Charles J., who was next to the eldest of 
 the children, was educated in the public schools 
 of St. Louis, and there, at the age of seventeen, 
 began a four years' apprenticeship to the carpen- 
 ter's trade. When the family came to Denver 
 he accompanied them and since 1888 has engaged 
 in contracting and building here. 
 
 In this city Mr. Dunn married Miss Kate 
 Smith, who was born in Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
FREDERICK W. KOHLER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 761 
 
 She is the daughter of Johu T. Smith, a pioneer 
 freighter on the plains, and now a resident near 
 Holton, Kan. The three children of Mr. Dunn 
 are: John, Charles J., Jr., and Kate. While not 
 radical in politics, his sympathies are with the 
 principles of the Democratic part}\ He is a char- 
 ter member of the Carpenters and Builders' As- 
 sociation and is now the secretary of the organi- 
 zation. He is identified with the Knights of St. 
 John, a flourishing beneficiary association of the 
 United States. He is also a member of the Wood- 
 men of the World, Denver, Camp No. i. 
 
 r"REDERICK W. KOHI^ER, who for two 
 r^ terms was one of the commissioners of 
 I ^ Boulder County, is a prominent and in- 
 fluential citizen of Boulder City. He stands high 
 in business, fraternal and political circles and has 
 a host of sincere friends throughout this section 
 of the state. He is public- spirited, and a great 
 friend to education, as, for twenty years, more 
 or less, was made manife-st, for during that period 
 he served on the school board. He has reached 
 the highest degree in Masonr}', being a member 
 of the commandery and the Mystic Shrine of 
 Denver. He is identified with Columbia Lodge 
 No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of Boulder. He is a 
 stanch Democrat, and was elected on that ticket 
 to the office of county commissioner in 1885. 
 After serving three years another person took 
 his place, and three years later, he, in turn, 
 stepped down to make way for his predecessor, 
 who had been again elected to the position. 
 
 A native of Saxony, Germany, Mr. Kohler of 
 this sketch was born October 24, 1832. He is 
 one of the eight children of Frederick and 
 Christina Kohler, and with his sister, Joanna, 
 Mrs. Edward Bader, alone survives at this writ- 
 ing. His father was a man of considerable 
 prominence in Germany and for many years 
 filled a public oSice, similar to that of justice of 
 the peace in the United States, only more re- 
 sponsible. He died at a good old age on the old 
 homestead, where he had been reared and had fol- 
 lowed agricultural pursuits in mature life. 
 
 The boyhood of our subject passed quietly on 
 the family estate, and in 1849, when in his 
 eighteenth year, he came to the United States to 
 seek his fortune; landing in New York City he 
 proceeded direct to Pennsylvania, where for 
 
 seven years he worked for one man in Tioga 
 County, as a farm hand. At first he was not 
 able to speak any English, and his year's 
 wages amounted to but $roo. Year by year, 
 however, his earnings increased, until he was 
 paid $14 a month, then considered very good 
 remuneration. The young man was industrious 
 and economical, and at the end of the seven 
 years he had saved $600. He determined to 
 go to California and enter the lists with the. 
 gold-miners. Accordingly, in 1856, he crossed 
 the plains and began prospecting in the mount- 
 ains of Calaveras County, Cal. He met with 
 success and deposited his money until he had 
 $1,800 in the Adams Express Bank, which, 
 on account of the name, he naturally .supposed 
 was connected with the old, reliable Adams Ex- 
 press Company. One morning, however, he 
 found that the sign of the bank had been taken 
 down and the bank closed, while the proprietors 
 had disappeared with his hard-earned cash. Mr. 
 Kohler did not give way to despondency, as many 
 a man would have done, but bravely returned to 
 the mines and worked with redoubled energy. 
 In 1862 he started on his way to Colorado with a 
 goodly sura of money, the result of his long and 
 thrifty labors. 
 
 Settling in Boulder County, Mr. Kohler bought 
 a quarter-section of land from three brothers, 
 paying |8oo for the property. The land was 
 situated but a short distance from Boulder, and 
 when the government survey was made it turned 
 out that there had been misrepresentation, and 
 in consequence of this and legal technicalities, 
 Mr. Kohler lost the farm. He was more suc- 
 cessful the next time, as he bought a quit-claim 
 deed, on which he afterward filed as a homestead 
 one hundred and sixty acres. Here he made 
 many improvements, and has since dwelt in peace 
 and prosperity. From time to time he bought 
 additional land, until he now owns between seven 
 and eight hundred acres. The land is very fertile 
 and abundant harvests reward the owner's toil. 
 In the latter part of the '60s Mr. Kohler invested 
 somewhat extensively in a mining venture known 
 as the Conning Tunnel, in Gold Hill. After 
 four years of heavy expense the project was 
 abandoned. When the Boulder National Bank 
 was established our subject became a stockholder 
 and was made a director. 
 
 June 4, 1868, Mr. Kohler and Rosetta Viele, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Boulder, were married. Of their three chil- 
 dreu two survive: Frederick W., Jr., employed 
 in the Boulder National Bank; and Charles E., 
 an able agriculturist and business man, now 
 fitting himself to take charge of his father's 
 estates, whenever desired. 
 
 Gl NDREW J. CAMPION, secretary and gen- 
 . l\ eral manager of the Sigel-Barnes Live Stock 
 / I Commission Company, of Denver, was born 
 in Rutland, near Springfield, Mass., July 4, i860, 
 being the son of James and Margaret Campion. 
 When he was six years of age he was taken by his 
 parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his primary 
 education was obtained in the public schools. 
 After three years in that city the family removed 
 farther west, locating in Lafayette, Ind., where 
 he had such educational advantages as the district 
 schools afforded. In 1882 he came to Colorado 
 and for eight months was in the employ of Her- 
 man & Hirsch, but on the failure of that firm he 
 returned east as far as Chicago. However, in a 
 very short time he came back to Colorado, and in 
 the spring of 1883 he secured a position with 
 Henry Grimm, of Denver. Later he was a com- 
 mercial traveler, representing Joseph Metzler, and 
 in 1884 became a bookkeeper for H. H. Mills at 
 the stockyards, which position he held for three 
 years. 
 
 On the organization of the Burkhardt Packing 
 Company, Mr. Campion and Mr. Mills were the 
 chief stockholders in the new concern, but after 
 three years the partnership was dissolved, and 
 the name of the firm was changed to the Colo- 
 rado Packing Company. Some time afterward 
 the B. & M. Packing Company was organized, 
 and a year later Mr. Burkhardt sold his interest 
 in the company. At this writing Mr. Campion 
 is secretary and manager of the Sigel-Barnes Live 
 Stock Commission Company, at the Union Stock- 
 yards. He is an experienced stockman and in 
 matters relating to cattle interests his judgment 
 never errs. He is a member of the chamber of 
 commerce and is identified with other local in- 
 terests of the city where he resides. In June, 
 1890, he married Emily Kaub, daughter of Frank 
 H. Kaub, one of the oldest engineers of Denver, 
 and they have a pleasant home at No. 2343 Stout 
 street. One daughter blessed this union, Patricia 
 Marie Campion. 
 
 gAPT. ALONZO COAN, a worthy citizen 
 of Boulder, gained his title in the Civil war, 
 in which his services were distinguished for 
 unusual bravery and gallantry. But a youth at 
 the time of his enlistment in the summer of 1861, 
 he rose step by step from the ranks through all 
 the grades of promotion until he was commis- 
 sioned captain of his company. Five years of 
 his early manhood was the tribute of patriotism 
 which he paid to his beloved country — five years 
 of active campaigning, of the hardships and pri- 
 vations which are the common lot of the soldier 
 in the field, and since the war he has stood high 
 in the Grand Army of the Republic. He has 
 been commander of Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 5 ; 
 has been an aide on the department staff and has 
 occupied a similar position on the national com- 
 mander's staff. In 1896 and 1897 he was assist- 
 ant adjutant-general of the department of the 
 Colorado and Wyoming, having the rank of 
 colonel. 
 
 The captain's parents were Abraham and Mary 
 (Abbott) Coan, natives of Penobscot County, Me., 
 and New Hampshire, respectively. The former 
 was a son of Capt. Elisha Coan, a sea-faring man, 
 who was for years engaged in trading with East 
 Indian ports. He was a native of Cape Cod, 
 Mass., and at an early day located on Castine 
 Bay, at the m9uth of the Penobscot River. While 
 the war of 1812 was in progress he was in the 
 merchant marine service, and at one time his ship 
 was detained at Havre, France, owing to the 
 French embargo then prevailing. The Coans 
 were of English descent, members of the family 
 having settled at Cape Cod several generations 
 prior to the time of Capt. Elisha Coan. Abraham 
 Coan owned and cultivated a farm near Exeter, 
 Penobscot County, Me. This place he cleared 
 from the heavy forests of beach and maple trees 
 that covered it, and passed his last years in the 
 comfortable farm house which he had built upon 
 the homestead. He lived to be sixty years of 
 age. His wife, who attained the allotted age of 
 mankind according to the Psalmist, "three score 
 and ten," was the daughter of John Abbott, a 
 New Hampshire farmer. The seven children of 
 Abraham and Mary Coan were: Elisha, who died 
 on the old farm; Col. W. B., who died in Mas- 
 sachusetts; Julia, Mrs. James R. Simpson, of 
 Lawrence, Mass. ; Samuel, who died at the 
 beginning of the war, in Maine; Gilman R., 
 
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 whose death occurred in Massachusetts; Albert, 
 who died in Lawrence, Mass. ; and Alonzo. Col. 
 William B. enlisted in the Seventh New York 
 Regiment, of which he was a sergeant, and later 
 in the war raised a company for the Forty-eighth 
 New York, being commissioned a colonel for 
 meritorious services. Albert served for three 
 years as a non-commissioned officer in the Twelfth 
 Maine. 
 
 Capt. Alonzo Coan was born in Exeter, Me., 
 June 6, 1842. After he had graduated from 
 Exeter Academy he engaged in teaching, and 
 when Fort Sumter was fired upon, in April, 1861, 
 he at once offered his services to the Union. He 
 was refused at that time, but in the following Au- 
 gust was mustered into Company H, Fifteenth 
 Maine Infantry, at Augusta. He was sent to 
 Ship Island and joined Butler in his expedition 
 against New Orleans. Subsequently he ser\'ed 
 under General Banks in the siege of Port Hud- 
 son, and went on the Texas expedition in 1863, 
 capturing Brownville on the Rio Grande and at 
 Corpus Christi and Matagorda. After that the 
 Red River campaign followed and the battles 
 of Sabine Cross Roads and Pleasant Hill. Cap- 
 tain Coan helped construct the dam at Alexandria 
 on the Red River, in order to enable the gun- 
 boats to go down the stream. After the fight at 
 Marksville he was ordered to Virginia, and was 
 sent by boat to Washington, where he arrived in 
 July, 1864, at the time of Early's raid toward 
 that city. He was sent to follow up Early under 
 the command of General Wright, until Wright 
 was relieved by Sheridan. In the spring of 
 1864 he and his regiment veteranized in Texas, 
 and afterwards, when in Virginia, they were all 
 granted a thirty-days' furlough and returned to 
 Maine. After the battle of Winchester they re- 
 assembled and went with Sheridan up and down 
 the Shenandoah Valley in that campaign. At 
 the close of the war Captain Coan participated in 
 the grand review at Washington, and was then 
 sent to Georgia and South Carolina. He acted in 
 the capacity of quartermaster-sergeant, sergeant- 
 major, second lieutenant of Company H, first 
 lieutenant of Company K, and finally captain of 
 Company H, of the Fifteenth Maine Infantry. 
 In South Carolina he was provost-marshal of the 
 sub- district of Georgetown, and later was made 
 the judge of the provost- court of the same locality. 
 Afterwards he was an aide on the stafi" of Major- 
 
 General Ames, with the rank of captain, until 
 his superior left the service, when he returned 
 to his own company. In August, 1866, Captain 
 Coan was honorably discharged from the service. 
 
 For a year or more the captain was engaged in 
 business in his native state, but in 1867 he came 
 west to Missouri. Settling in Maysville, De- 
 Kalb County, he embarked in the manufacture 
 and sale of lumber, and also dealt in real estate 
 until the Centennial year. In April he came to 
 Boulder, since which he has been extensively 
 engaged in mining enterprises of this state, 
 Arizona and New Mexico. The Kej'stone mine, 
 near Magnolia, is operated by him. The Living- 
 stone, near Sugar Loaf, consists of seven claims, 
 owned by the Livingstone Gold Mining Company, 
 of which he is the vice-president and secretary. 
 The Logan he operates alone, and the Morning 
 Star, at Ward, is carried on by a company. All 
 of these mines are very valuable and in full opera- 
 tion. Since he became a voter the captain has 
 been a faithful Republican. From 1894 to 1898 
 he was alderman from the second ward in the 
 Boulder City council, and for three years has 
 acted as chairman of the finance committee. He 
 is public-spirited and devoted to the best in- 
 terests of the people, as they realize. Frater- 
 nally he belongs to Columbia Lodge No. 14, 
 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 The marriage of Captain Coan and Etta, daugh- 
 ter of Manford Lancaster, was solemnized in De- 
 Kalb County, Mo., July 12, 1875. Her father 
 was a native of Kentucky, and was an early 
 settler in DeKalb County. Edith, the only 
 daughter of the captain and wife, graduated from 
 the University of Colorado in 1897 and is the 
 wife of George A. McClure, of Boulder. Ralph, 
 the only son, is a student in the preparatory 
 department of the same institution. 
 
 <A ILO E. PLATT, who is engaged in stock- 
 y raising and farming in Boulder County, 
 (9 was born in Dallas County, Iowa, October 
 12, 1861, a son of Isaac and Elmira (Gould) 
 Piatt. He was one of twelve children, of whom 
 nine are living, viz.: Lee, John, Jerome, Milo 
 E., Mary, Lurinda, Eva, Emma and Laura. 
 His father, a native of Richland County, Ohio, 
 bcrn in 1834, grew to manhood in his native 
 locality, and from there migrated to Dallas 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 County, Iowa, where he married. In 1874 he 
 removed from there to Colorado with the inten- 
 tionof making this state his permanent home, 
 but after following farm pursuits in Boulder 
 County until 1886, he removed to Rapid City, 
 S. Dak., where he is now engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising. His father, Richard Piatt, was 
 born in Ohio and became a successful agricult- 
 urist of that state; while his father-in-law, Jona- 
 than Gould, was a native of New York. 
 
 In the schools near his childhood's home our 
 subject obtained a fair education. At the age of 
 eighteen he secured work as a farm hand and 
 five years later began as a farmer for himself, on 
 the place where he still resides. Here, for twelve 
 years or more, he has raised stock and such cere- 
 als as are adapted to the soil. January 1,1885, he 
 married Miss Bertha Davis, and five children 
 comprise their family, viz.: Pearl, Frank, Edward 
 George and Mary. 
 
 Politically Mr. Piatt is independent and votes 
 for the man whom he considers best fitted for 
 office, without regard to his political affiliations. 
 He is a friend of the free school system and has 
 served as a member of the school board sines 
 1889. Fraternally he is connected with Boulder 
 Tent No. 4, Order of Maccabees. He is also 
 actively identified with the Boulder Valley 
 Grange. 
 
 EHARLES O. RICE, M. D., has won unusual 
 prominence in his profession for one of his 
 years and stands very high among the phy- 
 sicians and surgeons of Boulder County. Though 
 he has been a resident of this valley but four 
 years, he has a large and lucrative practice and 
 for the past two years has been the regular sur- 
 geon for the Marshall mines. He is a member of 
 the Boulder County Medical Association, and 
 formerly was connected with the New York Med- 
 ical Association. When engaged in practice in 
 New York City he was a member of the local 
 board of health, and February 4, 1896, he was 
 appointed one of the United States pension exam- 
 iners, and served as treasurer of the board until 
 the following year, when a change of political ad- 
 ministration brought about a change in the 
 force. 
 
 Dr. Rice can boast of at lea.st two thoroughly 
 patriotic ancestors, for his father's maternal grand- 
 father, Everett, was a hero of the Revolutionary 
 
 war, as was also Great-grandfather Judd, the 
 grandfather of our subject's mother. The doc- 
 tor's parents are Brainard and Electa (Judd) Rice, 
 natives of New York state. The Rices origina- 
 ted in Connecticut, and representatives of the 
 family were early settlers in Jefferson County, 
 near the outlet of Lake Ontario. Grandfather 
 Leander Rice was born in that region as was his 
 son Brainard and grandson Charles, of this sketch. 
 Leander Rice married a Miss Philura Everett, 
 of New England birth, and daughter of the Rev- 
 olutionary soldier above mentioned. Mrs. Electa 
 Rice is a daughter of Philetus Judd, who was born 
 in New England, and in boyhood went with his 
 parents into New York state, subsequent to the 
 colonial struggle for independence, in which his 
 father had participated. Brainard Rice was a 
 farmer in former years, but has been a merchant 
 in Rivervievv, N. Y., for many years now. He 
 held the position of collector in the custom house 
 there for one term about a decade ago, under a 
 Republican administration, but aside from that 
 has not figured in public life to any extent. His 
 eldest son, Albert E., is a resident of Riverview, 
 N. Y. , as is likewise the only daughter, Mrs. 
 Jessie Harris. 
 
 The birth of Dr. Charles Rice took place at 
 Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, N. Y., January 
 8, 1868. He received good educational advan- 
 tages in his native state and pursued his higher 
 studies in Ives Seminary, and Watertown (N. Y. ) 
 high school. Then, having determined to enter 
 the field of medicine, he read with Dr. Spencer 
 of Watertown for about two years. In 1887 he 
 entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 in New York City, graduating from that celebra- 
 ted institution in 1889, with the degree of Doctor 
 of Medicine. He at once started on a post-grad- 
 uate course in the New York Polyclinic College, 
 in order to more thoroughly qualify himself for 
 the serious work before him. Then it was his 
 privilege to practice under the trained preceptor 
 whose advice, instruction and encouragement had 
 heretofore been almost invaluable to the young 
 man. Two years were most profitably spent 
 under his guidance, after which Dr. Rice felt 
 fully qualified to enter upon an independent ca- 
 reer. Going to New York City, he opened an 
 oflice on West Fifty-seventh street, and was suc- 
 cessfully engaged in practice in that locality for a 
 period of some four years. An attack of bronchitis 
 
JOHN ISRAEL BREWER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 767 
 
 interfered with his duties, and, proving quite se- 
 vere and weakening, he decided to trj' a change 
 of climate. This occurred in the winter of 1894, 
 since which time he has made his home in Boul- 
 der. He is a member of the Alumni Association 
 of Columbia College, New York City, and is the 
 examining physician of the local lodges of the 
 Knights of the Golden Eagle and of the Foresters. 
 Politically he is a silver Democrat. He was ini- 
 tiated into the mysteries of Masonry in Water- 
 town, N. Y. , and still holds membership with 
 Watertown lyodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M. , the 
 one to which ex-Governor Flower belongs. 
 
 The marriage of the doctor and Miss May 
 Frances Gordon was solemnized in New York 
 City, September 25, 1893. Her father, Edward 
 Gordon, is a well-known business man of Colum- 
 bus avenue. New York. The marriage of Dr. 
 Rice and his estimable wife has been blessed by 
 the birth of a little daughter, Ethel. 
 
 (lOHN ISRAEL BREWER enjoys the dis- 
 I tinction of being one of the best farmers and 
 (2/ business men of Arapahoe County. His 
 homestead, located on section 18, township 2 
 south, range 67 west, is a model one in every 
 respect, and can be excelled by few in this por- 
 tion of the state. In the year 1864 he entered 
 fifty acres of it from the government, it then be- 
 ing entirely unbroken and unimproved. From 
 time to time he purchased more, until he owned 
 four hundred and forty acres. He sold eighty 
 acres of this later, and deeded some to his sons 
 until he has now but one hundred and thirty 
 acres left, though this is ample for his needs. It 
 is well irrigated, and the owner is a stockholder 
 in the Colorado Agricultural Ditch Company, 
 having served as its secretary five or six years 
 and for several years as its president, while he has 
 been a director from the organization of the con- 
 cern. 
 
 On both sides of the family Mr. Brewer comes 
 of patriotic ancestry. His grandfather, John 
 Brewer, a native of New Jersey and of English 
 extraction, was about seventeen years old when 
 the war of the Revolution came on. He enlisted 
 and served under General Washington at Schuyl- 
 kill, Valley Forge and other notable places. His 
 two brothers, George and Paul, were killed in 
 the Revolutionary war. Adam Hinkle, the ma- 
 
 ternal grandfather of our subject, was a soldier 
 of the Revolution and was in the branch of the 
 army commanded by General Greene. After the 
 war he settled in Frederick County, Va. , where 
 he had located previously, upon arriving in this 
 country from Germany, his native land. He 
 married in Virginia and there his children were 
 born. 
 
 James H. Brewer, father of our subject, was 
 born on an island in the Susquehanna River, in 
 Union County, Pa. He was educated for the 
 Presbyterian ministry and went to Virginia in 
 that capacity. He there met and married Mary 
 Hinkle, by whom he had ten children. He died 
 March 13, 1833, when our subject was but four- 
 teen, and the latter, being the eldest son, felt that 
 the family was thus left to his charge in large 
 measure. For eight years they kept together, 
 living on a small farm which had belonged to the 
 father. The mother then married a second time, 
 and James H., who had manfully contributed his 
 earnings to'the support of the family, at last felt 
 that he was free. His education had materially 
 suffered, for, whereas his father had had college 
 advantages, he had only had a subscription- 
 school education. 
 
 John I. Brewer was born in Frederick, Va., 
 February 25, 18 19. He picked up the carpen- 
 ter's trade after his father's death and worked at 
 building barns, sheds and at whatever he could 
 find to do. In 1849 he joined a party of men who 
 were going to California after gold. The com- 
 pany was in charge of Frank Washington, who 
 was a nephew of President Washington. As Mr. 
 Brewer had some business affairs to settle he al- 
 lowed the others to precede. him and intended to 
 overtake them on the way. Cholera was abroad 
 in the land and he almost decided not to leave 
 home, but finally did set out, and had proceeded 
 to a point beyond Evansville, Ind., when he was 
 taken sick with the mumps, and not knowing 
 what was the trouble he did not continue his 
 westward trip. He spent the next two years in 
 Aurora, Ind., thence going to Harrison County, 
 Ky. , where he was married. Later he moved to 
 Carrollton, Ky., and in December, i860, went to 
 St. Joseph, Mo. About a year afterward he 
 came to Colorado with the intention of going 
 into the mines here. Instead he worked for 
 James M. Broadwell, of Denver, for a short time 
 and then rented a farm near his present home- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 stead. At the end of a year he rented another 
 place, and in 1863 went back for his family, 
 driving through to Colorado with them. Then, 
 in 1864, as previously related, he located on the 
 land where he still dwells. 
 
 From his early manhood Mr. Brewer has been 
 a Democrat. He was nominated for county com- 
 missioner here, but was not elected, and when a 
 resident of Kentucky he was tendered the nomin- 
 ation for the legislature, but declined the honor. 
 He served as a justice of the peace for two years. 
 In Aurora, Ind., he joined the Masonic order, 
 and when he moved to Carrollton, Ky., he be- 
 came a member of the Odd Fellows' society and 
 took the fifth degree. 
 
 December 15, 1850, Mr. Brewer married Miss 
 Hannah C. Zilar, a native of Fleming County, 
 Ky. Her parents were Jacob and Esther (Chad- 
 wick) Zilar, of English and Irish descent re- 
 spectively. The great-uncle of the mother was 
 Sir Andrew Chadwick, who was knighted for 
 saving the life of Queen Anne on one occasion 
 when her horses were running away. The faith- 
 ful wife of Mr. Brewer, his kind and helpful com- 
 panion through joys and sorrows, died on 
 Thanksgiving day, 1896, and was placed to rest 
 in Riverside Cemetery. Their five children, all 
 born in Carrollton, Ky., where Mr. Brewer kept 
 a hotel for several years, are as, follows: John 
 Randolph, born in 1851, is unmarried and lives 
 with his father; Mary Ellen, Mrs. F. S. McKay, 
 lives in Irondale and has six children; James M., 
 born in 1855, died November 8, 1897, ^^^ l^ft 
 ten children; JefiFerson Z., unmarried and wealthy, 
 is now living in Billings, Mont., and for thirteen 
 years was manager of a large cattle ranch; and 
 Louise Ada is the wife of John B. Zilar, of Weld 
 County, and is the mother of seven children. 
 
 EHARLES SNYDER, superintendent of the 
 Kilton Gold Reduction Company, a flourish- 
 ing business enterprise in Boulder, is a 
 young man of marked talent and executive 
 ability. He is connected with other local indus- 
 tries, is interested extensively in mining opera- 
 tions and has investments in real estate. With 
 the brilliant start he has already made in the 
 commercial world, it is safe to predict for him a 
 prosperous future. 
 
 The father of our subject is A. G. Snyder, who 
 
 is represented elsewhere in this volume. The sen- 
 ior Mr. Snyder is a native of Berne, Switzerland, 
 and came to the United States with his parents 
 at an early age. They settled in Carthage, N. Y. 
 on a farm, where the lad grew to manhood. 
 During the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in 
 the Twentieth New York Cavalry, and served 
 with fidelity and bravery until after the close of 
 hostilities, when he was granted an honorable 
 discharge, and returned home. Some time sub- 
 sequently he went to Missouri, where he took up 
 a homestead in Caldwell County, and operated 
 the place for a few years, then coming to Colo- 
 rado. Locating in Logan County, near the town 
 of Sterling, he conducted a farm and raised stock 
 quite successfully from 1887 until 1891, when he 
 took up his residence in Boulder. Since that time 
 he has been engaged in the real-estate business and 
 other enterprises. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Mary Pierce, comes of the same family as 
 B. F. Pierce of this city, and is a native of Penn- 
 sylvania. Her father was Charles Pierce, a 
 native of Vermont and a life-long agriculturist. 
 Two children came to bless the home of A. G. 
 Snyder and wife, namely: Maude and Charles, of 
 this sketch. 
 
 The birth of Charles Snyder occurred in 
 Kingston, Mo., August 2, 1872, and his early 
 recollections are of life on a prairie farm. When 
 he was about ten years of age he accompanied 
 his parents on a visit to New York state, and for 
 several years he pursued his studies in the ex- 
 cellent schools of Carthage. Eleven years ago 
 he came to Colorado, continued his course in the 
 school at Sterling, Logan Count}^ and finally 
 graduated with honors from the Sterling high 
 school. He then matriculated in the University 
 of Colorado in 1891, and passed two years very 
 profitably in that well-known institution of learn- 
 ing. At the close of his sophomore year he left 
 his studies to engage in business. 
 
 Ever since he has had the right of franchise, 
 Mr. Snyder has wielded his ballot on behalf of 
 the Republican party. In 1893, when but little 
 past his majority, he held his first public ofiice, 
 being made deputy county treasurer under B. R. 
 McNaughton. He proved thoroughly capable 
 and trustworthy and continued to occupy the 
 position of deputy with L. H. Smith until 1896, 
 when he resigned in order to give his whole 
 time and attention to a new enterprise. The 
 
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 Kilton Gold Reduction Company, formerly the 
 Kilton Gold Extraction Company, was then just 
 starting its plant in Boulder, and Mr. Snyder 
 was made the assistant manager of the concern. 
 In May, 1897, he resigned, and three months 
 later accepted the superintendency of the re-or- 
 ganized and consolidated company, under its 
 present name. The Boulder, Breckenridge, Idaho 
 Springs, Florence and Victor Companies were 
 all merged into the Kilton Gold Reduction Com- 
 pany. Mr. Snyder has been the superintendent 
 of the Boulder plant since its beginning. In 
 December, 1896, the Chlorination works were 
 added to the original estabhshment. All kinds 
 of minerals and ores are bought and treated here, 
 and the company handles the bulk of ore taken 
 out in this county. Mr. Snyder is the sole owner 
 of the Cash mine near Gold Hill, and owns a 
 stamp mill there also. 
 
 Socially Mr. Snyder is very popular in Boul- 
 der. He is a member of the Boulder Club and is 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 He is kind-hearted and liberal, being always 
 ready to lend a helping hand to those who are in 
 need of assistance. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM J. IREDALE, who has been the 
 
 \ A / proprietor of the Capitol Livery Stables 
 VV for about five .years, is one of the ener- 
 getic, popular business men of Boulder. His es- 
 tablishment, which he is managing with ability, 
 is one of the oldest in the county in its line, and 
 receives a large patronage. Mr. Iredale is very 
 prominent in the local fraternities; is a member 
 of the Boulder Brass Band and is one of the old- 
 est members, in years of service, in the A. J. 
 Macky Hose Company. He belongs to the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen; the Knights 
 of the Maccabees, and the Knights of Pythias 
 (Uniform Rank). 
 
 In a family that originally numbered thirteen 
 children, W. J. Iredale is the eldest of three sons 
 and five daughters who survive, and is the only 
 one residing in Colorado. His father, Thomas 
 Watson Iredale, is a native of Harfordshire, Eng- 
 land. He was married in that country and soon 
 afterwards came to America. He settled in St. 
 Mary's, Ontario, Canada, where he pursued his 
 trade of milling, and later removed to Manitoba. 
 He is now the postmaster of the little town of 
 
 Dolphin, in that province. His wife bore the 
 maiden name of Rebecca Game, and both are 
 members of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 W. J. Iredale was born in St. Mary's, Ontario, 
 September 20, 1856, and was educated in the 
 public and high schools of that town. He ob- 
 tained a position in a hardware store after he had 
 completed his studies, and learned the tinsmith's 
 trade. The Centennial year he came to Colo- 
 rado, being then in his twentieth year, and easily 
 found work at his trade in Boulder. Eighteen 
 months later he embarked in mining operations 
 in this count}', and continued in that line of en- 
 terprise for about a year. Since then he has 
 been engaged in freighting goods up the mount- 
 ains, farming, etc., and for the past few years 
 has been the manager of the Capitol stables and 
 a dealer in horses. He is also concerned in real- 
 estate transactions, and owns a one-third interest 
 in the Newland Addition to Boulder. Politi- 
 cally he is a Democrat, and religiously an Epis- 
 copalian. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Iredale and Miss Ida M. 
 Newland took place in this city September 20, 
 1883. Mrs. Iredale was born on the site of Lead- 
 ville, Colo., in pioneer days, and is one of the 
 four children of William and Mary E. (Harris) 
 Newland, the others being: Ivanhoe, who is oc- 
 cupied in mining enterprises; George W. a news- 
 paper man of Albuquerque, N. M. ; and Alonzo, 
 of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Iredale have 
 three children, Thomas Watson, Katie and 
 Mary E. 
 
 William Newland, who, from 1871 to the time 
 of his death, August 14, 1886, was a prominent 
 citizen of Boulder County, was one of the early 
 pioneers of Colorado, coming here across the 
 plains in the year i860. In tracing his history, 
 we find that he was born in Adams County, 111. , 
 March 7, 1833, ^^^ parents having been John and 
 Nancy (Irvin) Newland, of Adams County. 
 William was the eldest of six children, and a 
 brother, James, made the trip to this state in 
 i860, and is now living in Deadwood, Dak. 
 When he was a lad of but ten j'ears his father' 
 died, and he helped his mother what he could in 
 the farm work up to the time of his marriage, 
 in 1858. His wife was a native of Missouri, 
 daughter of George W. and Aurelia Harris, the 
 former of whom died when Mrs. Newland was a 
 little girl. The mother was a daughter of a hero 
 
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 of the war of 1812, who was a minister of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and also an Aboli- 
 tionist, though his people had been slave-holders. 
 He was an early settler in Jefferson City, Mo., 
 and later lived in Adams County, 111., his death 
 occurring in Columbus, 111. 
 
 In i860 William Newland located in California 
 Gulch, Colo., and in the fall returned to Mis- 
 souri for his family. In the following spring 
 they started with mule-teams, proceeding up the 
 Platte River, and upon reaching their destina- 
 tion, Buckskin Joe, near Leadville, Mr. New- 
 land turned his attention to mining. His health 
 becoming poor he settled on a farm near Colo- 
 rado Springs. Then for seven years he rained 
 at Breckenridge, after which he took contracts 
 for work on the Union Pacific Railroad west of 
 Cheyenne. His wife was a faithful helpmate, 
 keeping restaurants for people on the line of the 
 railroad, and assisting in various ways. Then 
 for two years Mr. Newland operated a cattle 
 ranch in Texas, but from 187 1 onward was en- 
 gaged in farming and dairying on his three-hun- 
 dred-acre ranch in Boulder County. He was in- 
 terested in mining during the Black Hills ex- 
 citement for two years. His numerous enter- 
 prises resulted in the accumulation of a large and 
 valuable property, which has been managed 
 since his death by his widow, who is an excel- 
 lent business woman. She sold the old home- 
 stead to an English company, but soon bought 
 it back, and has greatly increased its value by 
 judicious improvements. 
 
 "DWARD KOSSUTH STAFFORD is the 
 ^ popular city clerk of Boulder, to which po- 
 ^ sition he was appointed in 1892 for the first 
 time. He was re-appointed in 1893, and when 
 the .state legislature made the office an elective 
 one, he was nominated on the Republican ticket 
 and was duly elected for a term of two years. 
 Upon the expiration of that period he was re- 
 elected without opposition, and again, in 1898, 
 when he received a flattering majority, leading 
 the ticket. His present term expires April i, 
 1900. He is a true and tried Republican, and a 
 firm believer in the policy of that party. 
 
 In noting the birthplaces of several genera- 
 tions of the Stafford family it will be observed 
 that they, as a family, have been steadily moving 
 westward. The great-grandfather of our sub- 
 
 ject, John Stafford, was born in England, and 
 was an early settler in Vermont, where his son, 
 Edward, the next in line of descent, was born. 
 He was a soldier in the war of 18 12, and later 
 went to New York, locating in Franklin County, 
 where he carried on a farm. His son. Col. 
 Edward Stafford, father of our subject, was born 
 in Franklin County, and with the family re- 
 moved to Erie County, Pa., where he was reared 
 to maturity. Edward, Sr. , passed his last years 
 in Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Col. Edward Stafford was a talented man and 
 an ardent patriot, daring to do and say, during 
 and after the Civil war, what few men would 
 have ventured in those stormy times in the 
 south. He was .strong and fearless in his con- 
 victions and was thoroughly respected, even by 
 his political enemies. He was a lawyer by pro- 
 fession and practiced in Aurora, 111., and New 
 Boston, 111., prior to the war. While that strug- 
 gle was in progress he located in St. Louis, Mo., 
 and there organized a regiment of militia or 
 home guards, being then commissioned colonel of 
 the same by the governor of the state. They 
 were called into service in the southern part of 
 Missouri, serving for about a year. At the end 
 of that time the colonel was honorably discharged, 
 and, returning to St. Louis, remained there un- 
 til after peace had been declared. He then ac- 
 cepted an appointment as deputy United States 
 revenue collector of a district (East Scooba) in 
 Mississippi, and held the post for two years. 
 Going to Jackson, Miss., in 1868, he started the 
 first Republican newspaper ever published in the 
 state after the war — the Mississippi Ptio/. Both 
 in his journal and in public speeches he nobly 
 stood by the government and the Union. The gov- 
 ernor of Mississippi appointed him major-general 
 of the state militia and afterward appointedhim 
 chancellor of a district (or judge of the district 
 courts) at Greenville. He held that office most 
 efficiently for four years and in 1884 came to 
 Boulder. Here death came to him when he was 
 three score and ten years of age, his busy and 
 useful career having been well rounded out. His 
 wife, who had died at Greenville, Miss., with 
 the yellow fever, was a Miss Mary Merrill in her 
 girlhood. She was born in Ashtabula County, 
 Ohio, where her father, Isaac F. , was an early 
 settler, having gone there from his former home 
 in New England. 
 
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LEWIS HAGUS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Edward K. Stafford is the only surviving child 
 of his parents. He was born in Aurora, 111., 
 March 21, 1851, and was educated in the schools 
 of St. Louis principally. In 1867 he went with 
 his father to the south and learned the printer's 
 trade in the ofiBce of the Mississippi Pilot. Later 
 he became deputy clerk in the county court of 
 Washington County, Miss., when, on account of 
 poor health, he dropped confining clerical work 
 and engaged in the manufacture of lumber. In 
 188 1 he came to Boulder and obtained a position 
 as bookkeeper for Isaac Berlin, dealer in hard- 
 ware and groceries, then was employed by Brad- 
 ley & McClure, dealers in dry goods and carpets, 
 for four years, and. later was deputy in the post- 
 office. At the time of his acceptance of his 
 present position he was already familiar with the 
 duties pertaining to this ofiBce, as he had filled the 
 same kind of a position when a resident of Green- 
 ville, Miss. While there he was also made a 
 member of the order of Odd Fellows in 1876, and 
 isnowamemberof Boulder Lodge No. 9, of which 
 he has been secretary for ten years and is past 
 grand and ex-representative. Belonging also to 
 the encampment branch of the order, he has been 
 its scribe for the past eight years and is past chief 
 patriarch. Both he and his wife are identified 
 with Ruth Rebekah Lodge, I. O. O. F. They 
 are members of the Christian Church, and for 
 some years he has served as a deacon on the 
 ofiicial board and clerk of the church. In 1880 
 he was married in Greenville, Miss., to Miss 
 Ida B. Kelley. She is a daughter of James 
 Kelley and is a native of Cambria, Wis. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Stafford have three children: Hortense, 
 Frank and Harlow. 
 
 I EWIS HAGUS, one of the successful and en- 
 I C terprising farmers of Arapahoe County, is a 
 l~) native of the beautiful city of Cologne, 
 Prussia, Germany. He is a loyal citizen of his 
 adopted country, where he has dwelt since he was 
 six years old, and in all ways seeks to uphold 
 her laws and rights. He has lived in Colorado 
 for the past thirty -five years, and is justly entitled 
 to rank among the pioneers of the state, which 
 he has seen developed from almost a wilderness 
 to its present high cultivation. In everything 
 that has affected the growth or progress of the 
 
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 state or county in which he has made his home, 
 he has been actively interested, doing his share 
 toward improvement. 
 
 The parents of our subject, Joseph and Eliza- 
 beth (Lerch) Hagus, were natives of Prussia, 
 Germany, and both were born in the j'ear 1808. 
 They lived to a ripe age, the father dying in 
 1891 and the mother in 1893. The last years of 
 their lives were happily passed in Colorado with 
 their children, who dutifully and lovingly 
 smoothed their pathways, and who had sent for 
 them to come west, that they might be cared for 
 as they could not have been at a distance. 
 
 Lewis Hagus was born December 30, 1841, 
 and in 1847 crossed the broad Atlantic with the 
 other members of his family who were seeking a 
 home in the new world. The father was a tailor 
 by occupation, and plied his calling in Galena, 
 111., for many years successfully. In that pretty 
 little town our subject grew to manhood, receiv- 
 ing the advantages of an excellent education in 
 the meantime. When he was about seventeen 
 years old he accepted a position in a china and 
 crockery store, and continued to give his employ- 
 ers good satisfaction as to the manner in which 
 he discharged his duties as long as he remained 
 with them, which he did for some two years. 
 In i860 he went to Bellevue, Iowa, and there 
 soon found a situation as shipping-clerk for a 
 large grain firm. In the spring of 1863 he came 
 to Colorado in hopes of benefiting his health, 
 which was somewhat poor at the time. Desiring 
 to lead an outdoor life, according to the advice of 
 his friends he began working in the mines. 
 This pursuit he followed for two years or more, 
 and was rewarded by gaining his special object, 
 as well as by laying aside considerable money. 
 He next decided that he would invest his capital 
 in cattle and turn his attention to raising live 
 stock. He did so, and met with more than his 
 expected prosperity. Several years were spent 
 by him in this undertaking and he then went to 
 Denver. In that city he resided from 1880 to 
 1885, being engaged in the manufacture of brick. 
 In 1886 he purchased the tract ef eighty acres on 
 section 18, township i south, range 66 west, 
 which he still owns and operates. Since the 
 property came into his possession he has given 
 all of his energies to its cultivation and has made 
 substantial improvements. He is regarded by 
 his neighbors as a man who thoroughly under- 
 
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 stands his business and as one who can always 
 be depended upon to deal fairly and honorably 
 with all. He was reared in the faith of the 
 Catholic Church, being confirmed at the age of 
 thirteen years. Politically he is a Republican, 
 and cast his first presidential ballot for Hayes in 
 1876. 
 
 While living in Iowa, Mr. Hagus made the ac- 
 quaintance of the lady who became his wife on 
 New Year's day, 1878. She was Miss Josephine 
 Weinschenk, a native of Bellevue, Iowa, and 
 daughter of Xavier and Anna Weinschenk. 
 Three children came to bless the hearts and home 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Hagus, namely: Nelson J., a 
 bright and ambitious young man of about nine- 
 teen years; Agnes Louise, who is now six years 
 old; and Florence M., whose death occurred when 
 she was an infant of six months. 
 
 /3 EORGE KIRKBRIDE, who for a score of 
 |_ years has been a citizen of Boulder County, 
 ^J is engaged in the real-estate business and is 
 extensively interested in mining. Both he and 
 his wife are actively identified with temperance 
 work, and for some years he has given his support 
 to the Prohibition party. Upon several occa- 
 sions he has been the candidate of his party for 
 positions as alderman, state representative and 
 state senator, and though he was of course de- 
 feated, his political friends being in a minority, 
 his personal popularity was clearly demonstrated. 
 
 Mr. Kirkbride was born in the north of Eng- 
 land, near the town of Appleby, Westmoreland 
 County, September 28, 1843. His father, John, 
 and his grandfather, Thomas, were both likewise 
 natives of that locality, and were agriculturists. 
 The family originated in Scotland several gener- 
 ations before. John Kirkbride was not only a 
 farmer, but was also interested in lead-mining. 
 He lived to be seventy-two years of age, dying, 
 as he had lived, in the faith of the Church of 
 England. His wife was Miss Mary Law prior 
 to their marriage, she being a daughter of George 
 Law of Westmoreland County. Her ancestors 
 were English as far as they could be traced, and 
 her immediate family were identified with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. John and Mary 
 Kirkbride were the parents of three sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is the only member 
 
 of his family in the United States. He was edu- 
 cated in the national school at Ravenstonedale, 
 and from his boyhood worked on his father's 
 farm and in the mines. Later he engaged in the 
 butcher business at Kirkbythore for about four 
 years. In 1869 he came to the United States, 
 and, locating in Crawford County, Mo., engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising. He also superin- 
 tended some iron mines for a Pennsylvania com- 
 pany. 
 
 It was in 1878 that Mr. Kirkbride concluded to 
 come to Colorado, and upon arriving here he lo- 
 cated in the Gold Hill district. Later he became 
 the superintendent of the Prussian mine, and en- 
 gaged in mining on his own account. At present 
 he owns several valuable mining properties in 
 Gold Hill and Sugar Loaf mining districts, which 
 he is actively operating. For a short time he 
 carried on a grocery business at Gold Hill, and in 
 1 890 he removed to the vicinity of Longmont, 
 where he carried on a farm successfully for some 
 four years. Having traded that place for property 
 in Boulder he came to this city. At present he 
 owns some fine business and residence properties. 
 In his various enterprises he has met with de- 
 served success, for he has always exercised good 
 judgment and forethought. Fraternally he is 
 past officer in the Gold Hill lodge of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 In his native land Mr. Kirkbride married Miss 
 Jane Horn, who came from an old Westmoreland 
 County family, and whose parents were William 
 and Mary (Parker) Horn. Both died in England 
 at the old family residence. Four of their eight 
 children are living, but Mrs. Kirkbride is the 
 only one of the number in the United States. 
 She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and is a great worker in the Woman's 
 Christian Temperance Union. The marriage of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kirkbride has been blessed with 
 six children, namely: Mrs. Mary Parker Boyd, 
 of Gold Hill; Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Bellman, of 
 Boulder; Rachel Agnes, who is a student in the 
 University of Colorado, the class of 1899; John 
 William, now interested in mines near Gold 
 Hill; George Edward, who died at the age of 
 three years; and James Edwin, a student in the 
 preparatory school at Boulder, where the others 
 were all also educated. The central idea of Mr. 
 Kirkbride's life has been theology. In early 
 manhood he had appointments almost constantly 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 to preach and lecture, addressing hundreds and 
 sometimes thousands at a time. The following 
 are some of his doctrines: Belief in God, belief in 
 Jesus Christ as a revelation of God; belief in 
 evolution, infinite love being the evolving power; 
 belief that all religion is the result of this motive 
 power; that inspiration is not confined to any age 
 or people; that the power of love is omnipresent 
 and that the highest types of humanity are its 
 clearest revelation; that the Bible is the voice of 
 God thrown upon the canvas by mortal hands; 
 that the most spiritual life is associated with the 
 most spiritual environment; that the ego must 
 forever change from glory to glory as the un- 
 known becomes known, and that to know God is 
 life eternal. 
 
 gHARLES B. ANDERSON, a very success- 
 ful contractor and builder of Boulder, is of 
 the third generation of Andersons who have 
 devoted themselves to this line of employment. 
 Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since 
 he cast in his lot with the residents of the county- 
 seat, and during this period he has erected 
 numerous residences and public buildings, which 
 stand as monuments of his handiwork. He is a 
 conscientious workman, thoroughly master of 
 his trade and entirely reliable. He always makes 
 a point of carrying out, to the letter, every con- 
 tract he enters into, and his patrons are inva- 
 riably satisfied with whatever work they entrust 
 to him. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, Sven 
 Anderson, was a carpenter and builder, and a 
 much-respected man in his community in Sweden. 
 His son Andrew, who was our subject's father, 
 was likewise a native of Sweden, and followed 
 the same occupation as his father had done before 
 him. He lived to attain the good old age of four- 
 score and seven years, and his faithful wife lacked 
 but a year of the same age at the time of her 
 death, in 1896. In her girlhood she was a Miss 
 Gretta Larson, daughter of a man who was a 
 farmer and carpenter as well.. Andrew and 
 Gretta Anderson were the parents of four daugh- 
 ters and five sons. John, one of the number, died 
 iu December, 1873, and the others are still living. 
 August L. is now living in Boulder. 
 
 The birthplace of Charles B. Anderson is in 
 Elsborglan, near Gottenburg, Sweden. The date 
 of his birth is September 17, 1848. He attended 
 
 school until he was twelve years of age and 
 served an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade 
 with his father. He continued to work for him 
 for a few years, at the same time studying 
 draughting and the English language, for he had 
 determined to seek his fortune in America, whither 
 many of his young friends were going. For some 
 years, however, he remained with his father, be- 
 coming thoroughly versed in everything pertain- 
 ing to the business, and gaining invaluable 
 experience. 
 
 In May," 1869, Mr. Anderson went to Liver- 
 pool, England, where he took passage in the 
 good ship "City of Brooklyn," bound for the new 
 world. He landed in New York City at the end 
 of a voyage of eight and a-half days, and soon 
 proceeded to Chicago. There he found employ- 
 ment with the Chicago & North-western Rail- 
 way, at first as an interpreter, and later as a fore- 
 man. During the next three j'ears he traveled 
 extensively iu eighteen states and three terri- 
 tories of the south and west, and, after all, 
 concluded that Colorado offered the greatest 
 attractions to a young man of energy and ambi- 
 tion. In 1872, therefore, he became a permanent 
 resident of the state, and for about three years 
 made his home in Denver. In the spring of 1875 
 he came to Boulder, where he has since been a 
 citizen. During the first three months of his 
 stay here he was foreman in a carpenter shop, 
 but from that time onward, has been in business 
 alone. He erected the Highland school building, 
 the Episcopal Church, the residence of Mr. 
 DeLong, and many other prominent citizens, and 
 is a director in the Boulder Building and Loan 
 Association. While the wonderful boom was in 
 progress in Leadville and Ward, he was also 
 occupied in building there quite extensively. 
 The first plate glass window that Boulder boasted, 
 that in the Boston Clothing store, was put in 
 place by Mr. Anderson, who has since set many 
 others in various stores, etc. 
 
 The plea.sant home of Mr. Anderson is located 
 on Arapahoe street, in the eastern part of the 
 town. Here he owns nineteen acres of fertile 
 land, which is planted with two thousand fruit 
 trees. He has been very successful in this enter- 
 prise, and has some mining investments as well. 
 In his political affiliations, he is a Prohibitionist. 
 The Swedish mission work, which he started, is 
 in a flourishing condition, and he is the ruling 
 
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 elder, and the chief member of the little congrega- 
 tion. While in Denver, in 1874, Mr. Anderson 
 married Miss Catherine Norborg, who was born 
 in Sweden. They have a nice family of ten 
 children, all of whom have had, or are enjoying, 
 good educational facilities. Josephine is a gradu- 
 ate of the Boulder high school, and Emma is now 
 attending the University of Colorado. The 
 younger children are: Alice, William, Fred, Mary, 
 Katie, Charles, Reuel and Ruth. 
 
 30HN G. TREZISE, coroner of Boulder 
 County, is one of the most progressive and 
 enterprising business men to be found in the 
 county seat. Socially he ranks very high, being 
 identified with the Boulder Club and nearly all 
 of the local fraternal organizations. He is secre- 
 tary of the board of Boulder Cemetery trustees, 
 and is the Colorado chairman of the executive 
 committee and one of the arbitration committee 
 of the State Funeral Directors' Association. In 
 1893 he was appointed to the position of county 
 coroner by the county commissioners, and in the 
 fall of that year was elected for a two years' term 
 on the Republican ticket. Upon the expiration 
 of his term he was re-elected, and in 1897 was re- 
 turned to the office, receiving an overwhelming 
 majority. In 1893 his majority was one thou- 
 sand four hundred and two votes; in 1895 three 
 thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and 
 in 1897 three thousand two hundred and seventy- 
 six, the latter being by far the largest majorities 
 ever given to any candidate for a position in this 
 county. His increasing popularity is alsoplainly 
 manifested by these figures, and the high regard 
 in which he is held by his fellow-citizens is but 
 his just due, as he is faithful and conscientious 
 to the last degree in the discharge of his duties 
 and always strives to serve the true interests of the 
 public. 
 
 A native of England, Mr. Trezise was born in 
 London in 1856, being a son of Edward and Alice 
 Trezise, the latter of whom died when her son 
 was an infant. Another son, Edward W., is in 
 the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
 Paul Railroad at Meno, Wis., as city freight 
 agent. The father was engaged in mining in 
 Cornwall, England, up to 1858, when he went to 
 California. There he was also interested in min- 
 ing for a few years, after which he went to the 
 
 Lake Superior copper region, becoming superin- 
 tendent of the Delaware Company mines. There 
 his family joined him, and in 1871 John G. came 
 to Colorado. The following year his father 
 started in the milling industry in Central City 
 and continued there until 1896, when he took 
 charge of our subject's ranch of one hundred and 
 sixty acres five miles northeast of Boulder. 
 There large crops of hay and grain are grown 
 and fine standard driving horses are raised. The 
 ranch is improved with good fences and build- 
 ings, and is a model place. 
 
 Having learned the undertaking business with 
 au uncle, Mr. Trezise settled in Central City in 
 1 87 1, as previously noted. He was not yet 
 seventeen years of age when he started in busi- 
 ness on his own account, and now, with perhaps 
 one exception, he is acknowledged to control the 
 most extensive trade in the state in his line. 
 Before many years had passed he had established 
 branch ofiices in Idaho Springs and Denver, and 
 managed the whole until his health gave way. 
 Besides, he conducted a jewelry business in Cen- 
 tral City; owned a furniture store and a livery 
 and grocery as well. For two terms he was an 
 alderman in Central City and served as chairman 
 of the finance committee. 
 
 His many ambitious enterprises having under- 
 mined his health, Mr. Trezise went to Eng- 
 land in 1886 and spent six months in his native 
 land. During his stay there he married Miss 
 Georgiana Tyack, a native of Cornwall. They 
 settled in Boulder upon their arrival in Colorado, 
 believing that the lower altitude would prove 
 better suited to Mr. Trezise. He soon opened an 
 undertaking establishment here and for one year 
 carried a stock of furniture. In 1894 he started 
 a hack and livery business, has two barns, and 
 now has the largest trade in this line in the city. 
 One of the first embalmers in this state, he now 
 attends to a large business in this branch of work. 
 Within a few years he has opened undertaking 
 establishments in Erie, Weld County, and an- 
 other in Louisville, Boulder County, both of 
 which he carries on. 
 
 Formerly Mr. Trezise was a member of Central 
 City Lodge No. 3, A. F. & A. M., and is now 
 connected with Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & 
 A. M., ofwhich he is past master; Boulder Chapter 
 No. 7, R. A. M. ; Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, 
 K. T., and El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine. He 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 belongs toSilverQueen Lodge No. 12, 1. O. O.F. , 
 the Boulder Canton of the Encampment, the 
 Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias, the 
 Woodmen of the World, the Knights of the 
 Maccabees, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, 
 the Red Men, the Fraternal Accident Associa- 
 tion, the Fraternal Union and the Foresters. Of 
 the last-mentioned he is a past officer. A mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is one 
 of its trustees. The three children of our subject 
 and wife are Bessie, Ethel and Edith. 
 
 qJEORGE T. JONES, a respected citizen of 
 _ Boulder, has been a resident of the state of 
 J Colorado since 1880, and for about fifteen 
 years has been interested in stock-raising, in which 
 enterprise he has met with deserved financial suc- 
 cess. He has had considerable experience as a 
 pioneer, for in 1853 he went to California by way 
 of New York and the Isthmus of Panama, and 
 upon his arrival in San Francisco he soon set out 
 for the mines. For the next three years he was 
 actively engaged in prospecting and mining 
 along the Yuba River between Nevada City and 
 Grass Valley, and had many interesting expe- 
 riences. In 18^6 he returned to the east by the 
 same route as that which he had taken going 
 out. The memories of the free outdoor life 
 when he was young and an ardent seeker after 
 a fortune on the Pacific coast, however, always 
 remained with him and led to his coming west 
 again, at least as far as this state, in 1880, when 
 his health had become somewhat impaired by 
 long continued attention to business. 
 
 Several generations ago the founder of the 
 branch of the Jones family in the United States 
 came to these hospitable shores from his native 
 land, Wales. Benjamin Jones, the grandfather of 
 our subject, was born in Massachusetts and re- 
 moved to Otsego County, N. Y., where his son 
 Richard was born on the old homestead. The latter 
 married Amelia Tuckerman, of the .same county, 
 and in 1838 they removed to Hillsdale, Mich. The 
 father had a great task before him in clearing 
 away the primeval forests and preparing his land 
 for cultivation, but it was accomplished in due 
 course of time and an excellent farm was evolved. 
 Later the parents settled in Battle Creek, Mich., 
 where they resided until death, the father attain- 
 ing the ripe age of eighty-four years. The 
 
 mother was a daughter of Benjamin Tuckerman, 
 a native of Massachusetts and an early settler in 
 Otsego County, N. Y. He was a hero of the 
 Revolutionary war. 
 
 George T. Jones, who was born in Otsego 
 County, N. Y., in 1831, is the only son of Rich- 
 ard and Amelia Jones. His eldest sister. Flora, 
 died in Michigan; the next younger, Mary, is 
 Mrs. Talmadge, of Boulder, and Fannie, Mrs. 
 George McCullom, resides in Minnesota. When 
 he was a child of about seven years the family 
 moved to Michigan by way of the great lakes to 
 Toledo, and thence across the Maumee swamp. 
 In 1848 they located in Calhoun County, Mich., 
 on a tract of heavily timbered land north of Bat- 
 tle Creek, and there the youth grew to manhood. 
 He attended the district schools, where he learned 
 the rudiments of knowledge, supplementing this 
 later by a course of study in Olivet College. He be- 
 came a first-class farmer, and after his three years' 
 western trip, settled down to a quiet agricultural 
 life in Michigan. He continued to dwell there 
 until after the close of the Civil war, when he 
 took up his residence in the town of Battle Creek, 
 and for fifteen years carried on a butcher's busi- 
 ness there. Some eighteen years ago he came to 
 Colorado, and for three years was not actively 
 engaged in business on account of poor health. 
 He gradually gained his accustomed vigor in the 
 bracing air of these uplands, and in 1884, with 
 his two sons, Frank and Walter, started into the 
 cattle-raising business in Middle Park. His 
 large ranch, which is specially adapted for a cat- 
 tle range, is located on the Grand River about 
 twenty miles below Hot Sulphur Springs. At 
 present the two young men are in charge of the 
 ranch, and are making a splendid success of the 
 enterprise. They have a very large herd of cat- 
 tle, with a number of fine blooded Herefords 
 among them. Father and sons are loyal Repub- 
 licans, and are thoroughly patriotic, law-abiding 
 citizens. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Jones, Sr., was sol- 
 emnized in Battle Creek in 1856. The lady of 
 his choice was Caroline M. Convis, daughter of 
 Samuel Convis, of New York state, and the first 
 settler in Battle Creek. Mrs. Jones was the first 
 white child born in that locality, and there her 
 entire life was passed. She died May 27, 1872, 
 leaving three sons and a daughter, namely' 
 .Frank; Walter; Mrs. Annie Poole, of Nashville, 
 
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 Tenn.; and Earl, who is now living in Idaho 
 Springs, Colo. The present Mrs. Jones became 
 the wife of our subject in Edwardsburg, Mich. 
 Her maiden name was Jennie Carpenter, and her 
 birthplace was in Cass County, Mich. Her 
 father, Messick Carpenter, a native of Delaware, 
 was a pioneer of 1837 in Michigan, where both 
 he and his wife, Eliza (Clendeniel) Carpenter, 
 (also a native of Delaware) died. 
 
 mAMUELCOPELAND, a worthy and honored 
 /\ citizen of Boulder, is one of the pioneers to 
 Vy whose energy and tireless zeal this county 
 owes its development and progress in the march 
 of civilization. He is and always has been a 
 man of great public spirit and desire to do all 
 within his power to advance and uplift the people 
 with whom circumstances bring him into contact. 
 His first trip to Colorado was made in i860, and 
 during the next four years he crossed the plains 
 altogether nine times by ox-teams. He suffered 
 the hardships and vicissitudes incident to camp 
 life, and knows from intimate experience what 
 it means to leave the comforts and luxuries of 
 civilization, and instead, subsisting upon the 
 barest necessities of life. He is a very entertain- 
 ing conversationalist, and delights to recount his 
 recollections of pioneer days on the plains and in 
 the mountains, no less than his auditors are 
 pleased to have him call up the past. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject bore 
 the same Christian name, Samuel. He was a 
 New Hampshire farmer in his early manhood, 
 later removing to the neighborhood of Dexter, 
 Penobscot County, Me., where he cleared a farm 
 in the wilderness. His son Royal, father of our 
 subject, was born in New Hampshire, and in his 
 turn cultivated the old homestead near Dexter. 
 He was a soldier in the war of 18 12, and, follow- 
 ing his patriotic example, his son, Joseph T., 
 offered his services in the Civil war years later, 
 and rose to the rank of brigadier- general. He 
 was a resident of Michigan, and for six years 
 lived in Pontiac, while he was judge of the 
 supreme court of the state. He died in Jackson- 
 ville, Fla., in 1893, aged eighty years. Royal 
 Copeland removed to Michigan about 1846, and 
 passed the remainder of his life in the town of 
 Dexter, Washtenaw County, dying at the age of 
 seventy-nine years. His good wife, whose girl- 
 
 hood name was Alice Davis, was born in Wicas- 
 set. Me. , and departed this life in Michigan when 
 in her eighty-second year. Of their .seven sons 
 and two daughters but four survive. 
 
 Samuel Copeland was born in Dexter, Me., in 
 1819, and supplemented his public school work 
 by attending the academies of St. Albans and 
 Charleston, Me. When he was but sixteen he 
 embarked in the mercantile business in Dexter 
 and made a success of the enterprise. In 1848, 
 with the rest of his father's family, he went to 
 Michigan, and took up his residence in St. Clair, 
 where he carried on a store. In the autumn of 
 1852 he went to Chicago, and the following year, 
 on account of poor health, he concluded to pass 
 a few months in Havana, Cuba. Arriving there 
 he devoted his leisure time to various kinds of 
 artistic endeavor, drawing and painting, etc. ; 
 much improved in health he returned to Michi- 
 gan, and, having bought some pine lands in the 
 vicinity of East Saginaw, he proceeded to manu- 
 facture lumber, and at the .same time ran a store 
 of general supplies. He owned two mills that 
 were in active operation in Bay City, and was 
 interested financially in the company which was 
 then sinking salt-wells and turning out salt by 
 the solar process. 
 
 Scarcely five years after his return from Cuba, 
 the varied and arduous business enterprises of 
 Mr. Copeland proved too much for his strength, 
 and he decided that he would try a thorough 
 change of climate and occupation. In the spring 
 of i860 he started for the Colorado gold fields, 
 and at St. Joseph, Mo., fitted up eleven wagons 
 (besides a spring wagon) to be drawn by twenty- 
 eight yokes of oxen and four horses. This quite 
 extensive caravan carried, in addition to the 
 usual needed supplies and few household treas- 
 ures, steam-boilers and engines for a sawmill and 
 a quartz-mill. The latter was not of practical 
 value, as it turned out under the conditions pre- 
 vailing in this state, and that part of the plan of 
 Mr. Copeland was abandoned. Proceeding to 
 Gilpin County, he set up the sawmill, and 
 operated it in what was known as Michigan 
 Gulch until 1863. In the meantime he devoted 
 a portion of his time to mining also. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Copeland moved his machinery 
 into Boulder County, and erected his sawmill 
 about two and a-half miles north of the county- 
 seat. He engaged in the manufacture of lumber, 
 
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 shingles and building material, moving his mill 
 from time to time, as the supply of timber became 
 exhausted. At that period he was the most ex- 
 tensive manufacturer of lumber in the county. 
 From 1866 to 1870 he was in partnership with 
 W. A. H. lyoveland in the mercantile business in 
 Boulder, in addition to all of his other industries, 
 and he has been more or less interested personally 
 in mining operations. In January, 1898, he sold 
 the old mill that had done him such good service 
 and it has been set up in Boulder. The old 
 boiler is yet actively operating, and the new 
 owners are busily manufacturing lumber. Our 
 subject owns valuable real estate in Boulder, and 
 his cozy home is at No. 1508 Water street. He 
 is a member of the Boulder County Pioneer As- 
 sociation and formerly was identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically 
 he has always been a Republican, and is in favor 
 of a silver standard. 
 
 May II, 1862, Mr. Copeland was married, in 
 Saginaw City, Mich., to Miss Ellen E. Barnard, 
 a native of Gilmanton, N. H., born July 27, 
 1831. With her father, Timothy Barnard, and 
 the other members of his family, she removed to 
 Penobscot County, Me., in 1832, and in 1859 to 
 Michigan. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cope- 
 land was blessed with three children, Evart B., 
 Melville P. and Royal T. They have all been 
 occupied in the lumber business and in mining 
 ventures, and are bright, ambitious and success- 
 ful business men of this place. Evart B. is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men; Melville P. belongs to the Woodmen of the 
 World, aud Royal T. to the Odd Fellows' society. 
 
 HARLES H. LIPPOLDT, a worthy German- 
 
 1 r American citizen of Boulder, has made his 
 Vj home here for the past eighteen years, and 
 has won the confidence and respect of all with 
 whom he has had dealings. He was born at 
 Meisson, Saxony, May 14, 1846, received a good 
 education in the public schoolsof the Fatherland, 
 and .subsequent to the completion of his studies 
 traveled extensively in Germany, Switzerland 
 and France. In 1864 he determined to come to 
 America to seek a home and fortune, and em- 
 barking on a steamer at Bremen, landed in New 
 York City at the end of a voyage of thirteen 
 days. 
 
 The parents of our subject, John August and 
 Fredrica (Seipt) Lippoldt, who were likewise 
 natives of Saxony, came to the United States at 
 the same time. The father was a blacksmith by 
 trade, and worked at that calling during his 
 active life. At first the family settled in Milwau- 
 kee, but about a year later removed to Chicago. 
 The father had served in the German army and 
 took part in the Revolution of 1848, for which he 
 was imprisoned a short time. His death occurred 
 in Chicago when he had reached the age of 
 seventy-three years. His wife, who also died in 
 Chicago, was a daughter of August Seipt, a 
 blacksmith, who served under the great Napo- 
 leon and went on the famous march to Moscow. 
 Of the six children of John August and Fredrica 
 Lippoldt, four survive. One son. Otto, is time- 
 keeper for the Grant smelters, of Denver. 
 
 In his native land Charles H. Lippoldt learned 
 the blacksmith's trade with his father and became 
 an expert workman. After he located in Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., he continued to be employed at 
 his trade, and from January, 1865, to August of 
 the same year he lived in Chicago, where he was 
 similarly engaged. Having heard much of the 
 resources of Colorado, and having a young man's 
 love of adventure and outdoor life, he determined 
 to cross the plains. Going to Omaha, Neb., he 
 started with ox- teams for the west, and before he 
 arrived in Denver had had all of the experience 
 in "roughing it" that he required. At points 
 near Pine Bluff and Antelope Creek, his party 
 were attacked by Indians, but .succeeded in driv- 
 ing them off, without much loss. Until the spring 
 of 1867 the young man worked at his trade in 
 Denver, and then he joined a prospecting expedi- 
 tion bound for the Black Hills. They explored 
 and hunted to their heart's content, thoroughly 
 enjoying their experiences, and at the end of 
 about two months returned to Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Lippoldt then entered the employ of the 
 Union Pacific Railroad, which was then grading 
 and working on the line west of Cheyenne, con- 
 tinuing as their blacksmith until 1868. He then 
 went to Blackhawk, Gilpin County, Colo., and 
 for two years was employed by Captain Tyler, at 
 his trade. In 1870 he returned to Chicago, and 
 started a blacksmith's shop in that city, but six 
 months later his desire for the west overcome all 
 other considerations, and, giving the shop to his 
 father, he came back to Colorado. For nearly 
 
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 ten j'ears he lived in Nederland, Boulder County, 
 carrying on a blacksmith's shop, and at the same 
 time being more or less interested in mining 
 operations in Caribou and Russell Gulch. In 
 1880 he located in Boulder, and bought the livery 
 stable which he has since successfully managed. 
 The building is a substantial one, 50x110 feet in 
 dimensions, and two stories high. The first floor 
 is used for a feed and sale stable and the second 
 floor is reserved for carriages and vehicles. Every- 
 thing about the place is kept up in first-class 
 style, and the local patronage of the establish- 
 ment has steadily increased from the beginning of 
 the enterprise. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Lippoldt is connected with 
 several orders, among them being the Knights of 
 Pythias (Uniform Rank), the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, and Knights of the Maccabees. 
 In his political belief he is a Republican, with a 
 strong leaning toward the silver standard. He 
 is a charter member of the English Lutheran 
 Church of this place. His marriage with Mi.ss 
 Jennie A. Barr, a native of Alton, 111., took place 
 in Boulder in 1885. They have one daughter, 
 Genevieve. 
 
 3 AMES C. HANKINS, a very successful bus- 
 iness man of Boulder, has been a resident of 
 this county for nearly twenty years. In 
 1895 he became a stockholder in the National 
 State Bank of Boulder and has since been one of 
 the directors of that institution. For years he 
 has been actively engaged in various kinds of 
 merchandising and mining operations. He takes 
 an active interest in all local affairs, especially 
 everything affecting the welfare of this town, and 
 about 1885 served in the council as an alderman 
 from the fourth ward. 
 
 The father of the above-named gentleman was 
 Jacob Hankins, a native of Lancaster County, 
 Pa. When he was a young man he removed to 
 Jasper County, Iowa, there to found a home in 
 what was then the far west. He had learned the 
 blacksmith's trade in his youth and followed this 
 calling to some extent after he had attained man- 
 hood. He was also occupied in conducting a 
 mercantile establishment for many years and met 
 with fair success. He was honored and respected 
 in the community where he so long made his home 
 and for the period of about twenty-six years he 
 was county assessor. When well along in years, 
 
 in 1891, he came to Boulder to live, and died here 
 in 1896, aged about four-score. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Elizabeth Rutter, died when 
 the subject of this article was a child. She was 
 born in Ohio, and with her father, Andrew Rut- 
 ter, went to Iowa when she was 3'oung. She 
 was the mother of seven children, only one of 
 whom survives. 
 
 J. C. Hankins was born in Monroe, Jasper 
 County, Iowa, January 19, 1858. His education 
 was obtained in the common schools of his native 
 town and in the Iowa State Agricultural College, 
 at Ames, where he was a student for a year. His 
 initial experience in business was as a clerk in a 
 jewelry store. In 1879 he came to Colorado and 
 at Gold Hill engaged in merchandising under the 
 firm name of Rutter & Hankins. They carried 
 a full line of general supplies, commenced on a 
 small scale and gradually increased their stock 
 and facilities for doing business. At the end of 
 two years the partners sold out, and, removing to 
 Boulder, embarked in the grocery and hardware 
 business at the corner of Pearl and Fifteenth 
 streets. They continued in this enterprise until 
 December, 1888, in the meantime also running a 
 branch store at Gold Hill. At the time that the 
 partners concluded to dissolve their connection 
 Mr. Hankins took charge of the Gold Hill store, 
 and became t^ie partner of T. C. Johnson. To- 
 gether they transacted a large and paying busi- 
 ness as Johnson & Hankins up to 1896, when 
 our subject retired from the firm, selling his inter- 
 est to Mr. Johnson. In February, 1889, the 
 partnership of Hankins, Hiskey & Johnson had 
 been organized, for the purpose of conducting a 
 general store at Boulder, succeeding Isaac Berlin 
 at that place. This was a very paying venture, 
 but in the spring of 1894 Mr. Hankins sold his 
 share to Mr. McNaughton. The firm of Hank- 
 ins, Hiskey & John.son were the prime movers in 
 the organization of the Boulder Coal and Fire Clay 
 Company and opened the Allen Bond mine, which 
 was very actively and advantageously operated 
 until a short time ago. It is situated about six 
 and one-half miles from Boulder, and a branch of 
 three and a-half miles of railroad was built by the 
 owners in order to connect it with the Gulf Rail- 
 road, over which a large amount of coal has been 
 shipped each year from the mine. Mr. Hankins 
 has been treasurer of the company from the start 
 and for the past three years has also been the 
 
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 general manager. He has other mining enter- 
 prises under foot, and owns a one-fourth interest 
 in the Freiberg mine at Gold Hill, which is in 
 active operation. He is a member of Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., and is identified 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 Politically he is a Democrat. Maj' 29, 1884, oc- 
 curred his marriage to Emma Kaiser, in Monroe, 
 Iowa. She is a native of Paris, 111., and by her 
 marriage she has become the mother of one child, 
 Margaret M. 
 
 0AVID KERR, who is one of the pioneers 
 of Louisville, Boulder County, and is some- 
 times called the "father" of the village, 
 was born in Madison County, Ky., December 
 28, 1833, a son of Caleb and Edith (Stewart) 
 Kerr. He was one of twelve children, two of 
 whom are now living, namely: Leannah F. , 
 widow of Joshua Stewart, of Santa Fe, Mo.; and 
 David. The father, a native of Estill County, 
 Ky., born May i, 1805, married in that county 
 and settled upon a farm, both cultivating the 
 land and following the carpenter's trade. In 
 1830 he removed to Independence, Mo., where 
 he bought a farm. After some four years he se- 
 cured a government contract as mail carrier, in 
 which capacity he was retained for twenty years, 
 carrying the mail from Independence to Warrens- 
 burg, Harrisonville, Westport and Liberty, and 
 later from Westport to West Point and Harrison- 
 ville, and from Kansas City to Platte City and 
 Weston. He carried the first mail from Inde- 
 pendence and Westport ever carried into Kansas 
 City. He continued to reside in Missouri until 
 his death, which occurred in Bates County. His 
 wife, a native of Madison County, Ky., was born 
 March 30, 1809, and died in Cass County, Mo., 
 April 26, 1890. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, 
 George Washington Kerr, was born in Virginia 
 and settled in Kentucky the same year that Henry 
 Clay went to that state, the two being intimate 
 friends. He built the first frame house ever 
 erected in Richmond County, Ky. By trade a 
 millwright, he followed that occupation, together 
 with carpentering, and also owned a farm. The 
 maternal grandfather, David Stewart, was a na- 
 tive of Scotland and accompanied his parents to 
 this country when a child. He devoted his act- 
 ive life to farming and stock-raising. 
 
 The major part of his education our subject ac- 
 quired through reading and observation, as his 
 advantages in boyhood were limited to a brief at- 
 tendance at school. January 6, 1859, he married 
 Miss Mary A. Clark in Kansas City, Mo. From 
 that time on he not only supported his own 
 family, but assisted his father's family, for his 
 father had become almost blind, and at fourteen 
 the responsibility of the support of the others 
 practically devolved upon his young shoulders. 
 In 1861, with a wagon and two yoke of oxen, ac- 
 companied by his wife and son, he came to Colo- 
 rado, making the journey in about six weeks. 
 He arrived at California Gulch June 3, and after- 
 ward worked for three weeks in the mines, then 
 went to Buckskin Joe's, where for some months 
 he engaged in freighting. In the spring of 1862 
 a man arrived there from Missouri with a drove 
 of milch cows and a dairy outfit, and our subject 
 bought him out. At the same time he purchased 
 land three miles from the town. Establishing 
 himself in the dairy business, he had soon worked 
 up a good trade. In the fall of 1862 he removed 
 ten miles below Canon City, on the Arkansas 
 River, where he wintered the cows. May i, 
 1863, he went to Ralston Creek and ran a dairy 
 into Blackhawk and Central City. In the fall of 
 1864 he came to his present location, bought a 
 squatter's claim and pre-empted one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land. This he improved and later 
 bought one hundred and eighty acres more. 
 He was prosperous and continued in the cattle 
 and dairy business, besides having charge of ex- 
 tensive general farming interests. In. 1878 he 
 discovered and developed the first coal land in 
 this section. Through this discovery sprang the 
 thriving village of Louisville. In 188 1 he em- 
 barked in the mercantile business in Louisville, 
 but the venture was a very unfortunate one 
 financially; however, he possesses remarkable re- 
 cuperative powers and soon recovered from the 
 loss. He is a strong Jeffersonian Democrat and 
 an ardent supporter of his party. Fraternally 
 he is connected with Columbia Lodge No. 14, 
 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kerr became the parents of eight 
 children, of whom four are now living. They 
 are named as follows: James T., superintendent 
 of the Louisville Mining Company; Leannah F., 
 wife of John Mayhoffer, a farmer in this locality; 
 Edith M., wife of Daniel McNeill, superintend- 
 
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 ent of a mine in Glen Rock, Wyo.; and Mary A., 
 wife of David Allen, bookkeeper for the United 
 Mining Company. 
 
 "HOMAS C. KEIySEY, who has made his 
 home in the pretty town of Boulder since 
 1 88 1, has been no small factor in its beauty, 
 from an architectural point of view, as under his 
 supervision many of the finest and handsomest 
 public and private buildings have been erected. 
 He thoroughly understands his business, having 
 worked at it in all of its branches from his youth to 
 the present time. His methods of carrying out to 
 the letter every detail of the contracts which he 
 makes with others is one of the chief secrets of 
 the success which has attended him, for he there- 
 by inspires confideuce and genuine respect. 
 
 The Kelseys have long been numbered among 
 the best citizens of the United States. Originally 
 from England, they settled near the Long Island 
 Sound in Connecticut, and followed agricultural 
 pursuits, for the most part, an occasional member 
 of the family engaging in a sea-faring career. 
 Some of them were soldiers in the war of the 
 Revolution, and the great-grandfather of the sub- 
 ject of this article was one of those heroes. 
 Grandfather David W. Kelsey was a native of 
 Connecticut, and was a farmer near the city of 
 Hartford. He, also, was a participant in the 
 colonial struggle for freedom from the mother 
 country's rule, and he lived to an advanced age. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Hon. David P. 
 and Elizabeth (Wilcox) Kelsey. The mother 
 also came of good old Revolutionary stock, as her 
 Grandfather Wilcox, who was of Scotch descent, 
 was a soldier in that war. Mrs. Kelsey was born 
 in Connecticut, as was also her father, Joseph 
 Wilcox. She died at the ripe age of eighty-three 
 years. Hon. David P. Kelsey carried on a farm 
 not far from Hartford, and from his early man- 
 hood until shortly before his death he officiated 
 in one public position or another. Besides being 
 a justice of the peace and holding other county 
 offices, he served with credit in the house and 
 senate of the state. He died in 1880, when about 
 seventy-five years of age. Of the nine children 
 which blessed his marriage but four are now 
 living. 
 
 The birth of Thomas C. Kelsey occurred in 
 Hartford, Conn., May 20, 1830. His education 
 was obtained in the public schools and in 1848 he 
 
 commenced serving a three years' apprenticeship 
 to a carpenter in his home town. In 1852 he 
 began taking contracts on his own account, and 
 thus has been in the business for almost half a 
 century. In 1855 he started out west and in the 
 following spring located in Louisiana, Pike 
 County, Mo. In that vicinity he was occupied 
 in building and contracting for several years. 
 The courthouse of the county and many of the 
 finest residences there stand as evidences of his 
 handiwork. In 1872 he settled in Denver, be- 
 coming superintendent of the firm of McPhee & 
 McGinnity. In 1875 he resumed independent 
 work and took contracts and executed the same 
 for numerous large churches, business blocks and 
 residences in the city. Since he came to Boulder 
 perhaps the best examples of his skill are the 
 Masonic Temple; the high school building, and 
 the residences of S. A. Giffin; Mr. Rowlands, 
 A. T. Henry, etc. He was awarded the contract 
 for building all the depots and warehouses of the 
 Colorado & Northwestern Railroad here and 
 complied with all of the wishes of the company. 
 Before leaving his old home in Connecticut, 
 Mr. Kelsey married Miss Aurelia A. Smith, a 
 native of that state, and daughter of Samuel 
 Smith, a farmer. Since 1864 Mr. Kelsey has been 
 affiliated with the Republican party, and when 
 he was a resident of Louisiana, Mo. , he served as 
 an alderman. He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight 
 of Pythias, belonging to the Uniform Rank. 
 
 (TOHN PETERSON, who is engaged in farm- 
 I ing in Arapahoe County and is the owner of 
 O two farms of one hundred and sixty acres 
 each, was born in Drammen, Norway, January 
 21, 1846, a son of Peter and Johanna Gulbransen. 
 When he was a child of four years his mother 
 died and three years later his father, who was a 
 farmer in Norway, was taken away by death, leav- 
 ing him and his brother and sisters orphans and 
 alone in the world. His brother, Nicoli, a sailor, 
 was afterward drowned in the North Sea; his sister 
 Augusta lives in Norway; Josephine is married 
 to Martin Johnsen, and lives in Elyria; and 
 Torra, now Mrs. Hansen, lives in Drammen, 
 Norway. 
 
 When a boy our subject attended the national 
 schools of Norway. At the age of thirteen he be- 
 gan life as a sailor and for thirteen years he fol- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lowed the seas, visiting many remote ports and 
 seeing much of the world. Among others, he has 
 been all over the West Indies, recently the seat 
 of the Spanish- American war, and also visited 
 the East Indies, also Calcutta, in Asia; Alexan- 
 dria, Egypt; Brazil; around the Horn to Peru; 
 Valparaiso, Chili; around Cape of Good Hope 
 and African ports. In all this sea-faring ex- 
 perience he was never ship-wrecked. He also 
 sailed on the Great lyakes for three seasons. On 
 coming to America in 1872 he eventually per- 
 manently settled in Detroit, Mich. , where he spent 
 ten years working mostly for the Canada South- 
 ern Railroad. In 1882 he came to Colorado, 
 where for five years he worked in the Grant 
 smelter in Denver. In 1886 he purchased the 
 farm where he has since resided. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Peterson occurred De- 
 cember 5, 1874, and united him with Bertah 
 Johansen, who was born in Norway November 
 28, 1854. They are the parents of a son, Burton 
 Gilbert Nicoli, and a daughter, Jennie Louise. 
 Three sons died in Michigan. In politics Mr. 
 Peterson is stanch in his support of Republican 
 principles, but has never taken an active part in 
 political affairs. He and his wife are interested 
 in the public schools and the latter is now serving 
 as president of the school board of their district. 
 He gives his attention closely to the improvement 
 of his land, which he has fenced and cultivated, 
 and upon it he has built a neat and comfortable 
 dwelling for his family. 
 
 HON. DAVID H. NICHOLS, ex-lieutenant 
 governor of Colorado. This sterling old 
 pioneer of Boulder County is very well and 
 favorably known, not only in this section, but in 
 other parts of the state. He has taken an active 
 part in the founding of Colorado and in its mar- 
 velous development, and has fortunately lived to 
 see the wonders which he and his early asso- 
 ciates achieved. During Boulder County's pio- 
 neer history he served as sheriff" here, and in the 
 territorial legislature of 1864 and 1865 he took a 
 prominent part. In 1872 and 1873 he was again 
 a member of that honorable body, having been 
 elected as the candidate of the Republican party, 
 and served as speaker of the house. Then for 
 one term he was lieutenant-governor of Colo- 
 
 rado, and as president of the senate had the 
 honor of opening the first session of the legisla- 
 ture in the new capitol building. 
 
 Mr. Nichols is of Scotch-Irish descent, though 
 his paternal grandfather, Alpheus Nichols, was 
 a native of Vermont, and his maternal grand- 
 father, David Hopkinson, was born in New 
 Hampshire. His parents were Ethan H. and 
 Portia (Hopkinson) Nichols. They removed to 
 the vicinity of Prophetstown, 111., in 1836, and 
 on the farm which he had commenced to im- 
 prove there the father died during the following 
 year. His widow, surviving him many years, 
 died in Bozeman, Mont., in 1879. Of their thir- 
 teen children, five sons and two daughters at- 
 tained mature years. Ezra H., one of the num- 
 ber, enlisted in the Mexican war in Captain 
 Stapp's company from Warren County, 111., and 
 died at Castle Perote, Mexico. 
 
 The birth of Hon. David H. Nichols occurred 
 March 16, 1828, in Hardwick, Vt. He is the 
 eldest surviving member of his father's large 
 family, and with them started for the Illinois 
 prairies in 1836. He went as far as Buffalo, 
 N. Y. , in wagons, thence by boat to Toledo, and 
 from there on in wagons. The father built the 
 first house south of the Rock River, between 
 Rock Island and Dixon's Ferry at Prophetstown. 
 When our subject was a lad of about twelve 
 years he went to Jo Daviess County and worked 
 in the mines, after which he was employed in the 
 Wisconsin pineries during the winter season and 
 rafted logs down the Mississippi River in the 
 summer, selling the same. Thus he continued 
 to do up to 1846, when he commenced to feel the 
 need of a better education, and earnestly took up 
 several lines of study. He attended school in 
 Warren County for four months, and then went 
 to Shurtleff College at Upper Alton, 111., for six 
 years longer. His zeal and persistence were re- 
 warded, and though his health became impaired 
 by his close and confining study, knowledge has 
 ever been its own reward to him. For about a 
 year he taught in Warren County. About this 
 time he married and settled down upon a farm in 
 Whiteside County, near Prophetstown. 
 
 In the spring of i860 Mr. Nichols started for 
 Pike's Peak with two wagons, two yoke of oxen, 
 three yoke of cows and needed household goods. 
 He crossed the Mississippi River at Albany; 
 went to Nebraska City, thence up the Platte 
 
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 route and down to Boulder. Here he opened a 
 blacksmith shop and conducted the same for 
 about eighteen months. In the meantime he 
 bought a ranch on the outskirts of the town and 
 became interested in improving the place. He 
 built a log cabin on the site of his present hand- 
 some residence, and before he moved into it he 
 had made the eighty-rod ditch through his land, 
 connecting it with the Boulder Creek. There 
 was not a tree or shrub on the place, but as soon 
 as Mr. Nichols had set out some they began 
 growing at a wonderful rate, and in a few years 
 the beholder could not have believed that his lit- 
 tle paradise of greenery was the same desert-like, 
 barren-looking property of yore. A friend in 
 Illinois sent him a tiny branch of willow, about 
 six or seven inches long, in a large envelope. He 
 planted it, and to-day it is a tree of fine propor- 
 tions. He has carefully trimmed it every year, 
 and people from all parts of the county have 
 carefully treasured a small- branch thus cut off, 
 have planted and attended to it, until a large 
 tree rewarded their efforts. From the one tiny 
 slip originally planted here, countless thousands 
 of flourishing trees, in all parts of the state, have 
 been grown. At this time Mr. Nichols has forty 
 acres of land in his home place, which is one 
 of the thriftiest and most beautiful ranches in 
 the county, and all this is due to his care and 
 cultivation. 
 
 In Monmouth, 111., the marriage of Mr. Nich- 
 ols and Miss Elizabeth Adkinson was solemnized 
 September 5, 1848. She was born in Virginia 
 and went to Illinois with her parents at an early 
 age. The three children born to our subject and 
 wife are: Ezra H. and Horace A., who are en- 
 gaged in raising cattle in the Grand Encamp- 
 ment in Wyoming; and a daughter. Franc P., 
 who is at home. 
 
 On the anniversary of his birth, the year that 
 he attained his majority, Mr. Nichols was ini- 
 tiated into the mysteries of Ma.sonry in Mon- 
 mouth Lodge No. 37, A. F. & A. M., at Mon- 
 mouth, 111. He is now identified with Columbia 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., in Boulder, in 
 which he has passed all the chairs, and he also 
 belongs to Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M. 
 For years he was connected with the Odd Fel- 
 lows' society. Formerly he was captain of Com- 
 pany D, Third Colorado Cavalry. For a period 
 of nineteen years he was a member of the board 
 
 of penitentiary commissioners. He served as 
 chairman of the board of commerce and for a 
 time was secretary of the board. The Boulder 
 County and Colorado State Associations of Pio- 
 neers numbered him among their active members 
 for many years, but he does not often attend their 
 meetings now. Frequently he was sent as a 
 delegate to territorial and state conventions of 
 the Republican party up to 1890. He attended 
 the silver congress held in Washington a few 
 years ago, and at this writing is a strong advo- 
 cate of the People's party. When'the university 
 was located here he and Mr. Maxwell were in- 
 fluential in securing and keeping the institution, 
 and deserve great credit for their enterprise. 
 When the Colorado Central Railroad was built 
 through the valley he acted as agent for the com- 
 pany at Boulder for three years. 
 
 r"ERDINAND EBERT, who owns a ranch 
 1^ comprising twelve hundred and eighty acres 
 I and situated in Arapahoe County, was born 
 in Brunswick, Germany, October 20, 1823. In 
 1 85 1 he crossed the ocean to this country in the 
 new ship "Caparnicus," that anchored after a 
 voyage of forty-eight days. He settled in Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farming for seventeen years. 
 In the spring of ^868 he came to Colorado and 
 has since made his home on his present property, 
 where he has a ranch stocked with many cattle 
 and horses. The place is located fourteen miles 
 east of Denver, on the north side of the Kansas 
 Pacific Railroad. 
 
 June 27, 1858, Mr. Ebert was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Kate Roeder, a native of Ger- 
 many. She came to the United States in girlhood 
 with her mother, and was living in Iowa at the 
 time of her marriage. They became the parents 
 of three sons and three daughters. Ferdinand F. , 
 the oldest son, has spent his life principally with 
 his parents, with the exception of five years in 
 Salt Lake. He was educated in the schools of 
 Arapahoe County and has assisted his father very 
 greatly in the management of the ranch. The 
 second son, George W. , resides in Salt Lake 
 City; and the youngest son, William J., assists 
 on the home ranch. The daughters are: Mary, 
 who married Herman C. Behreus; Annie, wife of 
 B. Speier, of Denver; and Helena, at home. 
 In early life, after coming to this country, Mr. 
 
WIIvLIAM MYERS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Ebert was identified with the Republican party, 
 but later he became an adherent of the Democracy 
 and a firm friend of the silver cause. He has 
 never sought office and has held no position save 
 that of member of the school board. His time 
 has been closely given to the improvement of his 
 place, which is well irrigated by a ditch running 
 through the land. Among his improvements are 
 a large and substantial barn and a comfortable 
 house. 
 
 WILLIAM MYERS is a progressive agri- 
 culturist of Arapahoe County, his finely 
 improved farm being situated on section 
 10, township 2 south, range 67 west. He bought 
 this property in 187 1. It might then have been 
 appropriately named Cactus Hill, so barren and 
 wild a piece of land did it appear, but in 1875 the 
 owner erected a commodious brick house, then 
 almost a wonder in the community, and at once 
 set diligently to work to institute sweeping im- 
 provements. To-day he has one of the model 
 homesteads in this locality. In 1887 the Burling- 
 ton Ditch was constructed, and Mr. Myers 
 worked on the enterprise for nearly two months, 
 taking his pay in stock in the company. His 
 land is splendidly irrigated and on the place is an 
 artesian well. His original purchase comprised 
 one hundred and sixty acres, to which he later 
 added another eighty acres, but he afterwards 
 sold a part of the farm and now retains one hun- 
 dred and eighty acres. 
 
 The birthplace of William Myers was in Berks 
 County, Pa., and within the same county his 
 parents, Henry and Hannah CKohler) Myers, 
 were also born. The paternal grandfather of 
 our subject was a native of Germany, but came 
 to America in colonial days. Henry M3'ers, the 
 father, was born May 6, 1784, and offered his 
 services in the war of 181 2, but was not called 
 into battle. He was a carpenter and builder and 
 also owned and cultivated a small farm. He was 
 a Democrat and held several local oflBces in his 
 home district. He lived to be seventy-three years 
 old, dying in the county where his birth had 
 taken place. He was the father of fourteen chil- 
 dren, of whom but three survive. Obed, the 
 eldest, is carrying on the old homestead, and 
 Frank resides in Reading, Pa. 
 
 William Myers was born March 18, 1834, and 
 in the schools of his home neighborhood received 
 
 a good education. At seventeen he began learn- 
 ing the blacksmith's trade. He was paid $25 
 a year for two years, his board being also fur- 
 nished. Then for one year he worked as a 
 journeyman in Lancaster County, Ohio, earn- 
 ing meantime $10 a month and his board, and 
 later he was paid $2 a day in Shelbyville, 111. 
 Another year was spent by him in Iowa City, 
 Iowa, and in i860 he and three other men 
 drove through to Denver with a horse team. 
 They were thirty-five days on the way and 
 crossed the Missouri River at Plattsmouth. 
 Arriving in Denver June 9, Mr. Myers worked 
 as a journeyman blacksmith until fall, when he 
 went into partnership with the man who had been 
 employing him. The following year, however, 
 our subject started an independent shop and con- 
 tinued to run it until 1876. At the same time he 
 sold wagons and farm implements. He invested 
 in his farm, as previou,sly stated, in 1871, but did 
 not remove thereto for several years. He for- ^ 
 merly supported the Republican partj', but now 
 stands by the Prohibitionists. That he is an 
 earnest friend to the public schools may be seen 
 by the fact he has served as a school director for 
 fifteen years. He was reared in the Lutheran 
 faith, while his wife was identified with the Con- 
 gregational Church when young, and now both 
 are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Myers went to Geneseo, 111., on a 
 visit, and there became acquainted with the lady 
 who is now his wife, their marriage having taken 
 place in Denver September 9, 1869. She was 
 Hannah E. Kinsey before her marriage. The 
 five children born to this worthy couple are: 
 Elsie C; Herbert W.; Orville K., who died when 
 six years and five months old; Robert A. and 
 Henry L. Mrs. Myers is a daughter of Amos 
 and Charlotte (Engle) Kinsc}', natives of Bucks ' 
 County, Pa., and granddaughter of Edmund and 
 Elizabeth (Briggs) Kinsey, also Pennsylvanians. 
 
 The first of the Kinsey family to settle in 
 America was one John Kinsey, a Quaker from 
 England, and one of the commissioners for the 
 settlement of New Jersey under the purchase of 
 Edward Byllinge. John Kinsey arrived on the 
 ship "Kent," June 16, 1677. The majority of 
 the passengers on this boat settled at what is now 
 Burlington, N. J., but John Kinsey made selection 
 of three hundred acres of land on the east side of 
 the Delaware, above the mouth of the Schuylkill, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and near the spot afterwards famous as Perm's 
 Treaty tree, and the city of Philadelphia. The 
 land mentioned was bought from Peter Cock, a 
 Swede, but before the actual transfer of property 
 was consummated, John Kinsey died. However, 
 at a court held at Upland (now Chester) the 
 said Peter Cock appeared before the justices and 
 made formal acknowledgment of his deed of con- 
 veyance of said land to Elizabeth Kinsey, widow 
 of John Kinsey. John Kinsey, the second, son 
 of John and Elizabeth, it appears, did not accom- 
 pany them to America in 1677, but came the 
 next year and took charge of his mother's 
 business affairs. He afterwards became distin- 
 guished in public services, and his son John, like- 
 wise a Quaker, became chief justice in Pennsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 Edmund Kinsey, son of John Kinsey and his 
 wife, Elizabeth, and brother of Chief-Justice John 
 Kinsey, was the ancestor of Mrs. Myers, in direct 
 line. Edmund Kinsey married Sarah Ogborn or 
 Osborn, by permission of the Society of Friends, 
 at the house of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, in 
 Woodbridge', N. J., August 8, 1708. The young 
 couple at first resided in the town referred to, but 
 in August, 1 7 15, with her three children and per- 
 sonal effects, and accompanied by Jane Fitz Ran- 
 dolph (the widowed mother of Mrs. Kinsey) they 
 removed to the untried wilderness, now Bucking- 
 ham Township, Bucks County, Pa. They were 
 guided to their new home by friendly Indians. 
 Edmund Kinsey was deeply interested in the spir- 
 itual welfare of the people among whom his lot 
 was cast, and that his labors were appreciated is 
 shown by the fact that at a meeting of the minis- 
 ters and elders, in November, 1717, he received 
 commendation in public. He was one of the 
 founders of Buckingham Meeting in 1720. One 
 of the foremost mechanics of his day, he had a 
 scythe and ax factory in Buckingham, and, what 
 was remarkable at that time, he owned a trip or 
 tilt hammer, operated by water power. He was 
 the father of nine children, of whom the eighth, 
 Benjamin, was the great-grandfather of Mrs. 
 Myers. 
 
 61 UGUST MATSCHKE, a prosperous farmer 
 lJ of Arapahoe County and the owner of an 
 I I improved farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres here, was born in Brandenburg, Germany, 
 November 3, 1858, a son of August Matschke,' 
 
 Sr. , who died in middle life leaving two sons. 
 One of these, Ernest, is a cabinet-maker of Den- 
 ver. After the death of his father and mother 
 our subject was taken into the home of his grand- 
 mother and uncle, and there he remained for a 
 few years. At the age of fourteen he began to 
 learn the cabinet-maker's trade, which he fol- 
 lowed in Germany for ten years and traveled all 
 over Germany, mostly on foot, seeing much and 
 learning many valuable le.ssous in life. 
 
 In 1883, at the age of twenty-five, our subject 
 came to this country and settled in Eouisville, 
 Ky., but after a very short time he came to Den- 
 ver. In 1884 he took up a homestead, which is 
 now a valuable ranch of one hundred and sixty 
 acres. This he has fenced and improved and 
 upon it he still makes his home. In 1883 he 
 married Frieda Rebien, by whom he has two 
 sons and two daughters, namely: Elsie, Otto, 
 Carl and Martha. 
 
 Politically Mr. Matschke favors the principles 
 of the Republican party. He is interested in 
 educational matters and has served two terms as 
 a member of the school board. He is too busy, 
 however, to give much attention to politics or 
 official positions, preferring to devote himself en- 
 tirely to the management of his farm. All the 
 improvements on his place, fences, house, barn, 
 etc. , speak much for his industrious labors in the 
 past, and his success is commendable, especially 
 when it is considered that he was left an orphan 
 in early life and came to this country without 
 friends or means to assist him in getting a start. 
 
 QETER F. little. No one in Boulder is 
 L/^ more thoroughly respected as a business man 
 ^3 than is the subject of this article. Prompt 
 and faithful in meeting every obligation, pleasant 
 and genial in manner, enterprising and energetic 
 in disposition, he deserves the friendship which 
 he so freely enjoys among his acquaintances. He 
 has been a resident of Boulder about eight j'ears 
 and is interested in everything relating to the 
 progress and improvement of the place. 
 
 Born in the northern part of Ireland, near the 
 famous Giant's Causeway, our subject is one of 
 the thirteen living children of Patrick J. and 
 Ellen (McGovern) Little, who, with their family, 
 still reside on their homestead in the Emerald 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 791 
 
 Isle. Peter F. is the only one of the family in 
 America at the present time. He received a good 
 education in the national schools, and in 1880 
 crossed the Atlantic, going to Helena, Mout. 
 In 1 88 1 he located in Boulder County, and en- 
 gaged in mining and prospecting, in the Sugar 
 Loaf, Sunshine, Ward and Gold Hill districts, 
 for some time. Later he opened a hotel in Ward, 
 and was quite successful in this enterprise. 
 
 In 1890 he started in the livery business in 
 Boulder, and now has the most flourishing con- 
 cern in the county in this line. His livery is 
 situated at the corner of Fifteenth and Pearl 
 streets. It is equipped with a full line of car- 
 riages and vehicles and about one hundred horses 
 are kept on hand. In 1893 Mr. Little embarked 
 in a new enterprise. He began running a stage 
 to Ward, and afterward extended the route to 
 Eldora and Gold Hill. Thus his stages stop at 
 the chief mining camps in this section, and bring 
 the outside world within reach of those who are 
 necessarily absented from the mails, etc. He has 
 not lost his interest in mining operations and is 
 one of the lessees of the Morning Star mine at 
 Ward and the Golden Age mine at Jamestown. 
 He is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. In politics he takes his stand firmly on 
 the side of silver, regardless of party lines. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Little and Miss Sarah J. 
 Sale, a native of Kentucky, was solemnized in 
 Boulder, August 13, 1889. They are the par- 
 ents of two little daughters, namely: Catherine 
 and Ramona. The family have a pleasant home 
 and their friends in this community are legion. 
 
 EHARLES DAVIS, who has been a resident 
 of Colorado for over a quarter of a century, 
 is one of the most successful mine operators 
 of Boulder County. His beautiful home is sit- 
 uated on the corner of Pine and Thirteenth ave- 
 nues, Boulder, and for the past eight years he 
 has been a resident of the county-seat, and thor- 
 oughly identified with its upbuilding and im- 
 provement. He is a self-made man, having been 
 thrown upon his own resources at an early 
 age, and is entitled to great credit for what he 
 has accomplished. He is respected and honored 
 by all who know him, and stands high in the 
 
 Masonic order, belonging to Columbia Lodge 
 No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; 
 Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T., and El 
 Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Denver. 
 
 In 1871, when entering upon his mature life, 
 Charles Davis decided to come to Colorado. He 
 came across the plains with stockmen whose 
 names, many of them, are now well known in this 
 portion of the west: Todd and Pusey; Wilford 
 and Money. He remained near Rocky Ford, on 
 the Arkansas, until 1872, when he went to Colo- 
 rado Springs. The same year he engaged in 
 prospecting and mining in Park County, both in 
 California and Buckskin Joe Gulches, and in the 
 fall of 1873 went to Caribou, where he was 
 similarly occupied. He was one of the first to 
 engage in mining in Sunshine at the time of the 
 excitement over the New American mine. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Davis embarked in a new enter- 
 pri.se, for, going to Lake City, Colo. , he carried 
 on a hotel for a season, and when the railroad 
 was put through to that point he opened the 
 American House, which he managed success- 
 fully. In 1890 he took a lease on Golden Fleece 
 mine, a patented prospect, and "struck it rich" 
 soon afterwards. Later he sold out to the pres- 
 ent owners, the Golden Fleece Mining Company, 
 which has developed as rich a mine as can be 
 found in that section of the state. For eight 
 years Mr. Davis has been prospecting and min- 
 ing in Boulder County, and in April, 1896, 
 bought the Victoria Group of Mines, which he 
 has since operated with marked success. The 
 mines are, without doubt, among the best pro- 
 ducing ones in this county; are situated in the 
 Gold Hill district, and average a very high ratio 
 of the precious metal to the ton. In two years 
 the owner has made numerous openings and 
 shafts and levels (over thirty altogether); has 
 placed the most approved modern mining ma- 
 chinery on the property and now has everything 
 in excellent running order. He has patented 
 six different claims, and bids fair to soon retire 
 with a snug little fortune, should he so desire. 
 He gives his personal attention to the manage- 
 ment of the Victoria mines, the practical experi- 
 ence he has gained in his former mining ventures 
 being of untold benefit to him now. In his po- 
 litical affiliations he is a Democrat. 
 
 In February, 1876, Mr. Davis married Miss 
 Mary Griffin, of Boulder. She is a daughter of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 one of the pioneers of this region, and at one 
 time lived in Canon City, Fremont County. The 
 marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Davis has been blessed 
 with a son, Ralph G. They have a very pleas- 
 ant home and their many friends are always cer- 
 tain of a cordial welcome within their hospitable 
 doors. 
 
 on the school board for years. He is affable and 
 pleasant, a shrewd, keen man of business, whom 
 every body knows and likes. 
 
 [~ ERDINAND KUEHN owns a large ranch of 
 rfi six hundred and forty acres about fourteen 
 I ^ miles from Denver, and is one of the sub- 
 stantial farmers of the county of Arapahoe. He 
 was born in Schoenlanke, Prussia, July 2, 1832, 
 and is a son of David Kuehn, who, for thirty- 
 five years was treasurer of the city of Schoen- 
 lanke, Germany. He died in 1863. His wife, 
 Carolina Leu, died when Ferdinand was but 
 twenty-seven days old, leaving beside him a 
 daughter, who is now Mrs. Amalia Mittelstadt, 
 a widow living in Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Mr. Kuehn grew to manhood in his native 
 country, was educated in her schools, and from 
 the age of eighteen to twenty served in the 
 volunteer army, in which his uncle, August Leu, 
 was captain. When twenty-four he sailed for 
 America, on the ship "Oder," under Captain 
 Swanson. He first went to Chicago, where he 
 stayed for one year, when he went to St. Louis and 
 lived until he received his naturalization papers, 
 and became a citizen of this country. In 1861 he 
 went west to Wyoming and was 5)nnected with 
 the Ben Holliday stage line for a year. He then 
 returned to Germany for a ten months' visit, 
 coming back to this country about the time gold 
 was first discovered in Montana, in 1863. He was 
 in the gold mines for three years and then freighted 
 a year from St. Joe, Mo., to Montana. The next 
 year he went to St. Louis and freighted between 
 that city and Denver until the fall of 1866, when 
 he moved to Sand Creek, Colo., and the follow- 
 ing year settled on the place now occupied and 
 owned by him. He raises stock and hay, and 
 has improved his farm himself, putting on it just 
 such improvements as he desires. 
 
 He was married in 1882 to Helene Wolter, a 
 German lady, who.se father, Peter Wolter, was 
 a teacher in that country, and an old man when 
 he crossed the ocean to come to this country. 
 Mr. Kuehn is a Republican, and has been a reader 
 of the New York Tribune ^v^r since 1868. He 
 organized the district school here, and has been 
 
 yyiARCELLIN PINEAU came to Colorado 
 y in September, 1865, and settled in Denver, 
 (S where he worked at the tailor's trade. 
 After a time he located on Coal Creek, Arapahoe 
 County, where he now owns a valuable ranch of 
 four hundred and eighty acres. The place is 
 fenced and contains the usual improvements of 
 house, barn, etc., while a part of the land is 
 used for pasturage and the remainder planted to 
 corn and hay that is used for feed. The results 
 are due to his energy and perseverance, for he 
 has worked untiringly to secure needed improve- 
 ments on the place and has used every precaution 
 in purchasing stock to secure only the best grades. 
 
 A native of Chouviney, Middle France, Mr. 
 Pineau was born June 5, 1824, a son of John and 
 Jane (De Cham) Pineau. The parents remained 
 until death in their native land, the former dying 
 there in 1863. In his family there were two sons 
 and one daughter. Peter was a grain dealer in 
 France, but is now deceased. Mart married 
 Louis Repeaux and is living in France. Our 
 subject spent his early life in his native country, 
 where he was educated in the schools. At the 
 age of nineteen he started out for himself, having 
 previously learned the tailor's trade. He re- 
 mained in Paris until 1855, when he crossed the 
 ocean, settled in Chicago, and for seven years 
 carried on business in that citj'. After coming 
 to Colorado he worked at his trade until com- 
 ing to his ranch. He pre-empted, homesteaded 
 and made a timber claim. The former he sold 
 and later bought one hundred and sixty acres 
 more. He is married and has one son, Lucian 
 Marcell, who is in the Colorado Iron Works. 
 
 Since becoming a citizen of this country Mr. 
 Pineau has been loyal to the welfare of the nation 
 and its interests. Politically he believes in Re- 
 publican principles and votes the straight party 
 ticket. In his school district he has served as 
 treasurer, and it was through his eiforts that the. 
 first school was started here. In religion he is a 
 Catholic. He has been a very successful bu.siness 
 man and is one of the best-known stockmen in 
 this vicinity. For a time he lived in Central 
 City and managed the Central City Hotel while 
 there. 
 
FREDERICK AFFOLTER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 795 
 
 r-REDERICK AFFOLTER, deceased, was a 
 lo man who was universally respected and 
 I t esteemed by his neighbors and associates. 
 About thirty-five years ago he settled on a farm, 
 two miles southwest of Longmont, Boulder 
 County, and here he passed the remainder of his 
 busy, useful life. He was successful as a general 
 farmer and each year reaped abundant harvests of 
 hay and grain; nor was he less fortunate as a 
 dairyman and cattleman, for to each of these 
 various lines he gave much time and labor. In 
 a business point of view he won prosperity, pro- 
 viding well for his large family, and at the same 
 time was never neglectful of his duty to the pub- 
 lic and his responsibility as a citizen of his 
 adopted country. 
 
 Mr. AfFolter was a native of Switzerland, and 
 possessed the exalted sense of liberty, love of 
 peace and regard for the rights of his brother- 
 men, that are characteristic of the sons of the 
 mountain-land. He was one of the nine children 
 of Jacob and Elizabeth (Bombagger) Affolter, of 
 whom but one, Jacob, now survives. He is a 
 prosperous farmer of Phelps County, Mo. The 
 father, also of Swiss birth, was a stone-mason by 
 trade and died when the subject of this sketch 
 was a child. The latter, who was born June lo, 
 1832, grew up at home and under the roof of an 
 uncle. The relative mentioned was the owner of 
 a large hotel and of a distillery,. besides having 
 considerable farm land in his possession. 
 
 When he was in his twentieth year Mr. Affolter 
 and a brother set sail for the United States, and 
 reached these hospitable shores after a voyage of 
 six weeks' duration. Going thence to Ohio they 
 found employment with farmers, but, ere a year 
 had rolled away, our subject suffered so greatly 
 with chills and fever, that the brothers decided 
 to go elsewhere. Accordingly, they went to 
 Highland, 111., and in that vicinity worked 
 for farmers some three years. Then, going to 
 Missouri, they settled upon rented land near St. 
 Joseph, and commenced farming for themselves. 
 The country was not exactly to their fancy, and 
 later they went to Kansas, with a view to locat- 
 ing there permanently , but they liked it even less 
 than Missouri, to which state they returned, after 
 a short time. 
 
 Having acquired something of the Pike's Peak 
 excitement our subject and his brother started 
 across the plains in 1861, with the usual accom- 
 34 
 
 paniments of wagons drawn by yokes of oxen, etc. 
 After numerous adventures and hardships they 
 reached Denver at the end of six weeks, and a 
 few days later continued their journey towards 
 the mountains. They met numbers of dissatisfied 
 men, and, acting upon their advice, turned back, 
 also. Instead, they went to Boulder and tried 
 gulch mining in Eeft Hand Canon, but without 
 very gratifying success. Soon they took up a 
 claim on Left Hand, just below Haystack Mount- 
 ain and the following year cut hay and hauled 
 it to Blackhawk. In the winter of 1862 our 
 subject again crossed the plains to Missouri, and 
 returned in the spring with a large drove of milch 
 cows and cattle. Near Longmont he pre-empted 
 a claim of eighty acres, the land now owned and 
 cultivated by his family. With energy and well- 
 applied effort he set to work to improve this prop- 
 erty, which, in time, became very valuable. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Affolter formed the project of re- 
 turning to Switzerland, in order to learn the pro- 
 cess of making Swiss cheese, for which he was 
 convinced that he could find a ready market in 
 Colorado. He went as far as Ohio, where, on 
 stopping for a visit with an aunt's family, he was 
 persuaded to abandon his plan of going to Europe, 
 and he learned the business in Ohio. When on 
 the way back to this state he visited some cousins 
 in Greenville, 111., and there met the lady who 
 became his wife March 21, 1870. She was Miss 
 Elizabeth Ruch, a native of Switzerland, who, as 
 both her parents were dead, had come to Illinois 
 with some friends in the spring of 1869. The 
 young couple returned to Colorado after their 
 marriage and began housekeeping on the farm 
 which Mr. Affolter had pre-empted before he 
 went east. They were industrious and enterpris- 
 ing and within a few years were enabled to buy 
 other property adjoining, until their farm com- 
 prised two hundred acres. 
 
 Mr. Affolter was a quiet, unassuming man, 
 fond of his family and caring little for public life, 
 but in 1893 the People's party made him their 
 nominee for county commissioner, and, though 
 he was defeated by a small majority, his popu- 
 larity as a neighbor and a citizen was abundantly 
 proven. The whole community mourned his 
 loss when death took him from their midst, June 
 i7> 1 895' He left eight children, two having 
 preceded him to the better land. They were 
 named respectively, Frederick and Frank. The 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 others, all unmarried and living at home, are 
 named as follows: Emil, Mary, Edward, John, 
 Anna, Rosa, Paul and Lena. 
 
 pQlLLIAM R. JONES has been a resident of 
 I A/ Colorado since i860, and has followed 
 YV various occupations here with more or 
 less success. For nearly thirty years he has 
 lived in the neighborhood of his present home, on 
 section 31, township 6, range 66. One of the 
 organizers of district No. 17, he has been active 
 in the promotion of good schools and teachers 
 and for several years served as a member of the 
 board of education. He is a stockholder in the 
 Union Bank at Greeley, and has been prominently 
 connected with different ditch companies in this 
 locality. 
 
 Born July 18, 1838, W. R. Jones is the son of 
 John and Catherine (Foglesong) Jones, who were 
 natives of Virginia. The father was one of the 
 pioneers of Indiana, and about 1840 removed to 
 Schuyler County, Mo. In 1863 he again moved 
 westward, and, having brought with him from 
 Missouri a herd of young cattle, devoted himself 
 to their care for some time. He then sold out 
 and turned his attention to the management of a 
 ranch in Boulder County. His death took place 
 in 1873. While he lived in Missouri he was 
 occupied in the manufacture of woolen goods, 
 first having a mill in the country, and afterwards 
 in Lancaster. The following are the names of 
 his children: Mary, Mrs. William Buford, of 
 Lancaster, Mo.; Juda, Mrs. Robert Neeley, of 
 Lancaster; Lena, Mrs. Joseph Groseclose; Eliza, 
 Mrs. James Beasley, of Longmont; Lydia, widow 
 of Thomas Newman, of Colorado; W. R., of this 
 sketch; Isaac, a farmer of Oakland, Ore.; Wiley, 
 a ranchman and stockman of Idaho; and Mis- 
 souri, widow of Joseph Shelton, of Lowell, Wash. 
 The boyhood of our subject was spent in 
 Johnson County, Ind. , his birthplace, and in 
 Missouri. He assisted his father on the farm 
 and in the factory during his youth, and in i860 
 struck out for himself. Coming to this state, he 
 engaged in mining at Breckenridge for three 
 years, at the end of which period he went to 
 Poudre Valley, and in company with T. W. 
 Whiting (or Whitney) commenced work on the 
 Whitney ditch, for the purpose of watering his 
 land and that of his partner. Subsequently Mr. 
 
 Jones sold out his business interests there and en- 
 gaged in freighting from Omaha to Denver and 
 out-lying camps. In 1867 he homesteaded his 
 present ranch and at once began digging the 
 Jones ditch, a private ditch which he still owns. 
 Up to 1886 he and his brother Wiley were 
 occupied in feeding cattle, after which he raised 
 horses for a few years. He bought some thor- 
 oughbred animals and started in the business 
 of raising horses, but the ruinously low prices at 
 the time he wished to sell was disastrous, and he 
 lost nearly $20,000. Since then he has only 
 raised a few horses and cattle, suflScient for his 
 own needs on the farm, and has been interested 
 in general agriculture. He has bought and sold 
 land extensively and is now the owner of over 
 three hundred acres of fine bottom-land. In his 
 political opinion he is a strong Democrat. 
 
 June 16, 1876, Mr. Jones married Miss Alice 
 Goetchins, daughter of George G. Goetchins, a 
 native of Ohio. Three children comprise the 
 family of our subject and wife, namely: Carrie, 
 Millie and William R., Jr. Carrie is the wife of 
 James Warren, a ranchman and stockman of 
 Kersey, Colo. The two younger children are at 
 home. 
 
 gjEORGE J. ZILAR, who is engaged in the 
 _ stock business on section 23, township 4, 
 ^ range 65, Weld County, was born in Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, in 1854, a son of Reuben and Priscilla 
 (Blair) Zilar. His father, who was a native of 
 Kentucky, removed to Ohio in early manhood, 
 and spent the remainder of his life in that state, 
 principally in Cincinnati. For a number of years 
 he engaged in the mercantile business. His death 
 occurred in Cincinnati in 1883, when he was 
 sixty-five years of age. His wife passed away 
 in 1873, at the age of about forty-nine years.. Of 
 their nine children George was the third son. 
 He was educated in the public schools of Cincin- 
 nati. At the age of sixteen he began to learn 
 the printer's trade, but soon abandoned it. After- 
 ward he held a clerkship with the Cincinnati Ice 
 Company and held clerical positions until 1883, 
 when he started west, in search of a suitable 
 location for a stock farm. 
 
 After having spent a few months in New 
 Mexico, Mr. Zilar arrived in Denver in 1884. 
 Afterward he took up a pre-emption claim on 
 section 26, northeast of Denver, on the Bebee 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 797 
 
 Draw Valley, and started in the stock business 
 with a small herd. In 1885 he bought one-quarter 
 of section 23, adjoining his pre-emption, and 
 from time to time he increased his herd, until he 
 now keeps about two hundred head on his place. 
 He has one hundred and sixty acres in one body, 
 which he rents, and also has one hundred and 
 sixty arces on which he resides, eighty acres of 
 which are planted to alfalfa, which he raises for 
 feed. He makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle, 
 in raising which he has been successful. He has 
 erected a comfortable house and suitable farm 
 buildings, and has improved the land from barren 
 prairie to a cultivated farm, with fences and a 
 lateral for irrigation purposes. In 1895 ^^ dug a 
 well on his home farm, reaching water at a 
 depth of one hundred and fifty-three feet; and in 
 June, 1896, he dug a well on his property that 
 is rented, and at a depth of one hundred and 
 eighty-three feet struck an abundant supply of 
 pure water. 
 
 Besides his other interests, Mr. Zilar is a stock- 
 holder in the Platte Land Company, Limited, 
 commonly known as the English Ditch Company. 
 Politically he is a silver Republican. For several 
 terms he served as judge of election. In the or- 
 ganization of school district No. 84 he took an 
 active interest and for six years has been con- 
 nected with the board of trustees, of which he is 
 now the president. His interest in educational 
 work has been of long duration and has borne 
 fruit in the increased facilities for schooling in 
 his locality. He represented the department of 
 agriculture in this district in the way of statistical 
 information. Mr. Zilar is unmarried. 
 
 (31 ARON McGRAW, M. D., a successful phy- 
 Li sician and surgeon of Boulder, has been en- 
 I I gaged in the practice of the medical profes- 
 sion for forty-five years and for a score of years has 
 been a resident of Colorado. He is an honored 
 member of the Boulder County Medical Associa- 
 tion and keeps thoroughly posted in all modern 
 methods and discoveries along the lines of medical 
 science. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the doctor was of 
 Scotch extraction. He was a soldier in the war 
 of the Revolution, serving as second lieutenant. 
 He participated in the battle of Bunker Hill and 
 in that engagement received a wound which re- 
 
 sulted in his death. His son William, the doc- 
 tor's father, was a native of Albany, N. Y. , and 
 for many years was a farmer of Steuben County, 
 N. Y. His declining days were passed at the 
 home of our subject in Burton, Ohio. The 
 mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Van 
 Zandt, was likewise a native of New York state, 
 her birth having occurred in Albany County. 
 She was of Holland-Dutch descent, and of that 
 hardy stock which laid the foundations of the 
 state of New York, in large degree. 
 
 Dr. A. McGraw is the youngest in a family 
 originally numbering nine children. He was 
 born in March, 1832, in Greenwood, Steuben 
 County , N. Y. There his early years were passed 
 on the old homestead, and after leaving the public 
 school he went to Alfred Seminary, in Allegany 
 County, N. Y., and later attended Troopsburg 
 College. Then he took a course of lectures in 
 the Buffalo (N. Y. ) Medical College, and subse- 
 quently was a student in the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons in New York City. Gradu- 
 ating in 1852 with the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine, he opened an office in Hornellsville, Steuben 
 County, N. Y., and practiced his profession there 
 for ten years. He then became a contract surgeon 
 in the employ of the government, in the western 
 department of the army, and for three years served 
 in the south during the war. He next settled in 
 Burton, Geauga County, Ohio, where he con- 
 tinued successfully occupied in the duties per- 
 taining to his chosen work up to 1878, when, on 
 account of poor health, he came to Colorado. 
 He spent about nine months in the Sierra Nevada 
 Mountains, and then returned to Ohio, where he 
 took a post-graduate course in the Cleveland 
 Medical College. Thus more thoroughly equipped 
 for his future work, he came back to the west, 
 and traveled in California and other states, his 
 intention being to settle down in Denver, ulti- 
 mately. He was not strong, however, and con- 
 cluded to follow the advice of authorities and take 
 up his permanent residence in the foot-hills. 
 Selecting Boulder as a suitable town he opened 
 an office here and practiced medicine for about 
 five years in this locality. Having become much 
 better in health, he went to Denver, where he 
 made his home for the following six years; from 
 there he came to Boulder in the interests of the 
 health of his .son. As a general practitioner he 
 has been exceptionally successful, and much 
 
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 surgical work has fallen to his share. He is al- 
 ways very busy, and is constantly in demand in 
 the out-lying districts. His political preference 
 is for the principles of the Democratic party. 
 
 The doctor was first married in Greenwood, 
 N. Y., tooneofhis youthful companions, MissC. 
 Bowlby, and their three daughters, Louise, 
 Emma andLiHie, are all living in Denver. The 
 doctor's present wife, formerly Miss Fannie 
 Wood, was born in Missouri, and is a lady of 
 lovable disposition and pleasing social attain- 
 ments. 
 
 30HN HARTLEY, whose home has been in 
 Colorado since 1875, was born in Rochdale, 
 England, November 19, 1836, a son of 
 Abraham and Ann (Stott) Hartley, natives of 
 the same locality. His maternal grandfather, 
 Robert Stott, a mill operator, spent his entire life 
 in his native land. The paternal grandfather, 
 Richard Hartley, a native of Yorkshire, was a 
 member of the family whose most prominent 
 representative was a large coal operator of 
 Yorkshire. Moving to the vicinity of Rochdale, 
 he embarked in the cattle business and was suc- 
 cessful until he lost much of his property by fire. 
 He continued to reside in the same locality until 
 his death. Abraham Hartley, who was a mill 
 operator, made his home near Rochdale until 
 his death, when more than seventy years of age. 
 His wife passed away at sixty-two. Of their five 
 children, three are living, John being the eldest 
 of the family. 
 
 At the age of eight years our subject began to 
 work in the mills and when only ten he worked 
 regularly twelve and one-half hours per day. It 
 was not long until he was working overtime two 
 and one-half hours, which made his work extend 
 over fifteen hours of hard labor. His pay was a 
 .shilling (the same as twenty -five cents) a day. 
 After a time he began in the weaving of woolen 
 goods, for which he was paid $2.50 per week, 
 and extra for overtime. After he had been work- 
 ing hard for fifteen years he felt the need of a 
 better education and, the way being open, he be- 
 gan to attend night school, devoting six hours 
 each day to study. 
 
 In England, in 1856, Mr. Hartley married 
 Miss Elizabeth Kirshaw, the only child of James 
 and Eliza (Mellor) Kirshaw, natives of England. 
 Her paternal grandfather, James Kirshaw, was a 
 
 gentleman who inherited entailed property; her 
 maternal grandfather, Ralph Mellor, was a 
 merchant in England. In 1855 Mr. Hartlej' 
 commenced to teach school, and for three years 
 he had charge of the school at Haugh, England, 
 meantime also engaging in the tea and coffee 
 business, soliciting orders on Saturdays and 
 during evenings. In 1858 he settled at Oldham, 
 where he opened a general store, and soon he be- 
 came the proprietor of two stores. Oldham was 
 a cotton manufacturing town, and when the Civil 
 war broke out in the United States, an embargo 
 was placed on cotton, so that it was impossible to 
 obtain any. His business consequently declined 
 and collections were poor. Hoping to better his 
 fortune, he resolved to come to America, and 
 with his wife and one child crossed the Atlantic, 
 settling in Owego, N. Y., where for two years he 
 was employed on the railroad at $1 . 10 a day. For 
 a time he was also in the government employ in 
 railroad construction in Virginia. A second 
 time, in 1864-65, he was sent south in the gov- 
 ernment employ. 
 
 Removing to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1865, Mr. 
 Hartley engaged in carpentering, and for a time, 
 about the time of the close of the war, he was 
 employed by the government as construction 
 carpenter. He bought land near Dubuque and 
 for two years icngaged in the soap manufacturing 
 business, later engaging in the manufacture of 
 potash in Dubuque. The year 1873 found him 
 in Greeley, Colo. , and two years later he settled 
 in Sunshine, Boulder County, where he com- 
 bined mining with contracting. In 1877 he 
 moved to Ballyrat and at first engaged in mining, 
 but later bought a ranch and from 1880 to 1890 
 engaged in the stock business. In the year last 
 named he started a store at Ward, where he has 
 built a store building and carries on a large trade 
 in dry goods, groceries and hardware. The firm 
 title was first J. Hartley & Son, and, in 1894, 
 when another son was taken in, became J. Hart- 
 ley & Sons. While in Dubuque he was made a 
 Mason; he is also connected with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. Politically he is a 
 Republican. For five years he has served as a 
 member of the school board of Ward. He is a 
 member of the Congregational Church, which he 
 serves as deacon. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hartle)' are the parents of seven 
 children : Mrs. Eliza Gardner, of Boulder; Mrs. 
 
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 Anna Barr, of Ward; A. Lincoln, of Denver; 
 Joseph D., a member of the firm, and fraternally 
 a member of the Woodmen of the World and 
 Knights of Pythias; Mrs. Carrie Talbott, of Old 
 Mexico; John William, a partner of bis father, 
 and now in Old Mexico; and Ellery C, who is 
 also with his father. 
 
 "HADDEUS A. GAGE, the well-known live- 
 stock dealer of Fort Collins, is a descendant 
 of an old Connecticut family that was 
 closely related to the Alden family of Massachu- 
 setts. His father, Alden S. Gage, was born in 
 Putnam County, N. Y. , and from there removed 
 to Herkimer County, the same state, where he 
 engaged in merchandising in diiferent cities. The 
 last twenty-five years of his active life were spent 
 as a merchant in Utica. He retired from busi- 
 ness at seventy years and died when eighty- three, 
 in 1887. Politically he was first a Whig and 
 later a Republican, but, though differing in some 
 opinions from Horace Greeley, he was a great 
 admirer of that famous statesman. In religion 
 he was of the Universalist faith. His wife, who 
 bore the maiden name of Malina S. Eoomis, was 
 born in Herkimer County and died there when 
 in middle life. She had a brother who for years 
 was a prominent judge of Little Falls, N. Y. 
 Of her five children all but one are living, 
 our subject being the only son and youngest 
 child. He was born in Herkimer County No- 
 vember 7, 1844, ^°d was reared in Newport, re- 
 ceiving a grammar-school and high-school edu- 
 cation. When he was seventeen he accompanied 
 his parents to Utica, where he remained for a 
 year in the mercantile business with his father. 
 In 1863 he moved to Illinois, where for ten years 
 he was variously engaged in teaching, farming 
 and mercantile business. 
 
 In June, 1873, he moved to Colorado for the 
 benefit of his health. He came to Denver, and 
 for six months taught school in Arvada, after 
 which he clerked until the fall of 1874. He then 
 settled on a farm in Larimer County. In the 
 summer of 1885 he married Esther R. Riddle, 
 who was born in Iowa, and came here in 1870 
 with her father, John Riddle. 
 
 Commencing in the stock business in 1875, 
 Mr. Gage has since given much of his time to 
 this industry. He bought a ranch in the foot 
 
 hills near Livermore and engaged in dairying for 
 seven years, after which he turned his attention 
 to breeding Hereford cattle. He continued in 
 that occupation until 1893, since which time he 
 has purchased annually enough yearling steers 
 to keep his range stocked. In 1892, on account 
 of the scarcity of range near Livermore, he moved 
 his cattle to the north side of the Platte, in Weld 
 County. In January, 1886, he moved to Fort 
 Collins and for two years filled the office of coun- 
 ty assessor, but declined re-election. On the ex- 
 piration of his term he organized the Poudre 
 Live Stock Company, in connection with F. C. 
 Avery, E. H. Hall and others, and was made its 
 president and general manager, but after two 
 years sold his interest and purchased an interest 
 in the meat market of Evans, Thoman & Co. 
 Later he purchased their interests, and continued 
 the business with other parties about three years, 
 then selling out his entire interest. Since then 
 he has given his attention to the cattle business. 
 His brand is two half-circles. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Gage have two children: Ber- 
 tram A. , a graduate of the Agricultural College 
 in 1897, with the degree of B. S.; and Hattie, a 
 member of the class of 1901. In politics Mr. 
 Gage is identified with the People's party. Be- 
 sides the office of county assessor, he filled the 
 position of deputy county treasurer from 1894 to 
 1896. Fraternally he was made a Mason in Col- 
 lins Lodge No. 19, of which he is the present 
 master. He is also past high priest of Cache la 
 Poudre Chapter No. 11, R. A. M., and a mem- 
 ber of DeMolay Commandery No. 13. He is a 
 charter member of Unity Church, in which he is 
 chairman of the board of trustees. In the Colo- 
 rado Cattle Growers' Association he has been 
 appointed a round-up commissioner of District 
 No. II. He is also connected actively with the 
 Larimer County Stock Growers' Association. 
 
 HARRY A. LEE was appointed Commissioner 
 of Mines for the state of Colorado May 11, 
 1895. by Governor Albert W. Mclntire. 
 The Bureau of Mines of the state of Colorado was 
 created by an act of legislature, approved March 
 30, 1895. Owing to the financial distress of the 
 state, the status of the office was soon attacked 
 and the State Board of Equalization recommended 
 that the state auditor suspend payments of appro- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 priation provided by the legislature. Through 
 legal advice sought, it became clear to Mr. I^ee 
 that the establishment and maintenance of the 
 office was commanded by the constitution of 
 the state. Acting upon this theory, mandamus 
 proceedings were had by the commissioner of 
 mines against the state auditor in the district 
 court. The decision was in favor of the bureau 
 and was later affirmed by the supreme court of 
 the state. Both courts decided ' 'that the office was 
 created in pursuance of a constitutional man- 
 date, ' ' and that its status was the same as any- 
 other state office. Mr. Lee is well equipped for 
 the duties of his office and his interest and zeal 
 are evidenced by the progress made, having, 
 among other things, made one of the finest min- 
 eral collections in the west. 
 
 The father of our subject, E. A. Lee, M. D., 
 was born and reared in Ohio, graduated from 
 Rush Medical College at Chicago, and during the 
 Civil war served four years as surgeon in an Illi- 
 nois regiment, with the rank of major. After 
 the close of the war he located at Du Quoin, 111., 
 and followed his profession for several years. On 
 account of asthma, necessitating change of cli- 
 mate, California and other places were visited and 
 settlement finally made in Colorado Springs, Colo. , 
 in 1875. After several years' residence, another 
 change became necessary and he removed to Fort 
 Collins, Colo. , and is still practicing his profession 
 at that place. He married Margaret M. Farnan, 
 who was born at Sparta, 111., the daughter of 
 Joseph Farnan, a southern Illinois pioneer and a 
 medical graduate of an Irish college. Both Dr. 
 and Mrs. Lee are still living, as are two of four 
 daughters and one of two sons. 
 
 Born in Sparta, 111. ,our subject was there reared 
 and educated in the Du Quoin high school, com- 
 pleting the junior studies in the Illinois Industrial 
 University at Champaign, 111. He was self sup- 
 porting from an early age, having acquired the 
 trade of printer, which was dropped on account 
 ofhealth,and later the trade of machinist. In 1877 
 he began mining at Joplin, Mo., and in 1879 
 came to Colorado. In 1880 he went to the Gun- 
 nison country, and has since that time followed 
 mining in its various branches, settling at Ouray, 
 Colo., in 1887, which point he designates as 
 "home." 
 
 Mr. Lee has always been an ardent Republican 
 in politics. He was appointed colonel on the staff of 
 
 Governor John L. Routt and served as secretary 
 of the Republican state central committee in 1892. 
 Fraternally he is a member of Fort Collins Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M. ; Ouray Chapter, R. A. M., Ouray 
 Commandery, K. T. , of the state, and a member of 
 El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. He was married to 
 Tere.sa M. Killelea at Ottawa, 111., in 1887, and 
 they have three children living: Margaret Mary, 
 born August 10, 1891; Jiilius Joseph, born Octo- 
 ber 19, 1892; and Mary lone, born August 31, 
 1894- 
 
 (lOHN T. WILLIAMS, of Boulder, was born 
 I in Carter County, Tenn., August 30, 1856, 
 (2) a son of John Q. and Elizabeth (Haun) 
 Williams. He was one often children, eight of 
 whom are now living, namely: Jane, Nathaniel, 
 Margaret, George, Frank, Belle, John T. and 
 William N. The father, who was born in Carter 
 County in 1819, was a son of John L. and 
 Johanna (Patton) Williams, the former ofEnglish 
 and Welsh descent, and by trade a blacksmith. 
 
 Under his father's instruction John Q. 
 Williams learned the trade of a blacksmith. 
 After his marriage he settled upon a farm, which 
 had been given him by his father, and there he 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits and also estab- 
 lished himself in the blacksmith's trade, which 
 he followed until about 1888. Then, retiring 
 from active labors in field and shop, he settled 
 down to enjoy the fruits of his many years of 
 activity. He continues to reside in the county 
 where he was born. 
 
 Remaining at home until sixteen years of age, 
 the subject of this sketch then went to Memphis, 
 Tenn., where for two months he was employed 
 in a sawmill. He afterward took deck passage 
 onthesteamer, "Belle of Memphis," for St. Louis, 
 and on arriving in that city he followed the saw- 
 mill business. After two months he came to 
 Colorado, landing in Denver July 17, 1873, and 
 from there going direct to the mining camp at 
 Caribou. He arrived here without a dollar in 
 his possession. Securing employment in a 
 blacksmith shop, he applied himself to the trade 
 for eight months, during which time he became 
 so proficient that he was given a forge and em- 
 ployed at tool sharpening. More than two years 
 were devoted to this work, after which he went 
 to Ward and followed sharpening and running 
 a hoister in the Humboldt mine. Seven months 
 
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 later he went to Salina and for two years was 
 tool sharpener and also ran a hoister for the 
 celebrated Melvina mine. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Williams went to Leadville and 
 for the greater part of the following eighteen 
 years he followed general blacksmithing. During 
 the many years he spent in the mining regions, 
 he also did much prospecting and leasing. In 
 March, 1897, ^^ purchased two hundred and 
 forty acres of land about one mile north of Val- 
 mont and in August of the same year he sold his 
 interests in Leadville and removed to his farm, 
 where he completed the erection of a handsome 
 brick residence January 14, 1898. However, 
 he and his family did not feel satisfied with life 
 in the country and they purchased a city resi- 
 dence in Boulder, where they now reside, having 
 rented the farm. 
 
 December 29, 1887, Mr. WiUiams married 
 Miss Lucy A. White, daughter of Washington 
 White, a prominent farmer of Hamilton County, 
 Tenn. One son, Howard M., blesses this union. 
 Fraternally Mr. Williams is identified with 
 Columbus Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., Lead- 
 ville Lodge No. 40, A. O. U. W., and the Wood- 
 men of the World. In matters relating to 
 politics he is liberal in his views, voting for the 
 candidates whom he deems best qualified to repre- 
 sent the people. 
 
 EHARLES ALBERT RUSSELL, now serv- 
 ing his third term as alderman from the 
 second ward of Boulder, is noted for his public 
 spirit and progressivencss. He was first elected 
 to this office on the Republican ticket in 1893, 
 was re-elected in 1895, and again in 1897, and 
 has made a record of which his friends and asso- 
 ciates are justly proud. During his tenure of 
 office many material improvements have been 
 inaugurated, adding greatly to the desirability of 
 the town as a place of residence. Sewers have 
 been laid, the mountain water system has been 
 introduced, and the capacity of the plant doubled, 
 streets have been laid out and improved, and 
 numerous reforms started. Mr. Russell has been 
 a very active member of various committees hav- 
 ing these and other matters in charge, and has 
 been the chairman of the committees on streets 
 and judiciary. 
 
 The Russell family of which our subject is a 
 sterling representative is one of the oldest in New 
 
 England. His ancestors settled in the vicinity 
 of Boston, Mass., about 1635 or 1640, coming 
 from Scotland. Great-grandfather Russell was 
 a patriot of the Revolutionary war, and his son, 
 Philemon, the grandfather of our subject, was a 
 member of the governor's council in the Bay 
 state. Like his ancestors Hon. Levi Russell 
 (father of C. A.) followed agricultural pursuits 
 during active life, his home being in Somer- 
 ville, Mass. He represented his district in the 
 state legislature at one time, and was a prominent 
 man in his section. He died at his home when 
 in his seventieth year, and is survived by his 
 faithful wife, who was formerly Miss Martha 
 Smith, daughter of James Smith, a carpenter and 
 builder of Londonderry, N. H. The Smiths 
 were among the original settlers of that town, 
 having removed there from Londonderry, Ire- 
 land. 
 
 C. A. Russell is next to the eldest of five chil- 
 dren, and is the only one of the family that does 
 not live in Massachusetts. He was born in Somer- 
 ville November 9, 1850, and, after finishing his 
 public school education graduated from Tufts Col- 
 lege, in Massachusetts, in 1872, with the degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts. He then took a post-graduate 
 course, and in 1873 was granted the degree of civil 
 engineer. After serving for a short time with a 
 railroad corps he entered the United States Coast 
 Survey Department, and in the spring of 1874 
 surveyed along the Atlantic coast and Gulf 
 states, from Providence, R. I., to the mouth of 
 the Mississippi River. He was thus occupied 
 for six years, and for all but a year of this time 
 was stationed near the delta of the "father of 
 waters," being assistant engineer of the survey 
 for the "Eads" jetties. After the completion 
 of that task he resigned from the coast survey 
 ■Service and took a position as assistant engineer 
 with the Mississippi River Commission, still in 
 the employ of the government. His duties in 
 this department kept him on the river at points 
 between Cairo, 111., and Vicksburg, Miss. At 
 the end of three years he resigned, and ten days 
 later, January 10, 1883, arrived in Boulder. He 
 was soon made United States deputy mineral 
 surveyor, and has since given his energies to 
 prospecting and mining. He is also extensively 
 interested in real estate in this town and locality, 
 and is the owner of a fine hay ranch near Alliance, 
 Neb. His ofiice is centrally located, being in the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Masonic Temple. In 1890, in company with 
 E. A. Austin, he organized the Boulder Pressed 
 Brick Company, and is secretary and treasurer 
 of the same. This company has also laid out 
 sixty acres of land, known as the North Boulder 
 Addition, and has made extensive improvements 
 there. Mr. Russell is an able business man and 
 financier, and exercises superior judgment in the 
 management of his affairs. 
 
 In his early manhood Mr. Russell was initiated 
 into the Masonic order in his native state, and is 
 now connected with Columbia Lodge No. 14, 
 A. F. & A. M. He is the high priest of Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; iscommander of Mount 
 Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T., and belongs 
 to El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Denver. 
 He is a member of the board of trustees 
 of the Masonic Temple Association of Boulder. 
 June 12, 1888, Mr. Russell was married in Boulder 
 to Miss Jennie Phelps, daughter of Henry Phelps, 
 formerly of Flint, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Russell 
 have three children, Arthur, Austin and Ruth. 
 
 0AVID T. HIVELY, a farmer of Jefferson 
 County, settled in Denver in 1880 and for a 
 time worked at the carpenter's trade. In 
 April, 188 1, he was given charge of the mill- 
 wrighting of the Crescent mills, which position 
 he held until the mills were burned down in Sep- 
 tember, 1882. Afterward he had charge of im- 
 portant work in the construction of the Hun- 
 garian mills and later had charge of the building 
 of a mill in Durango, in which work he was very 
 successful. In the spring of 1885 he and his 
 family went east and spent some months visiting 
 in Toledo, Ohio, and his old home in Maryland. 
 Returning to Denver in the fall, he spent six 
 months in the city and then purchased twelve 
 acres on Prospect avenue, one and three-fourths 
 miles west of the city limits, where he has since 
 engaged in gardening. 
 
 The sou of Adam and Anna V. (Fowble) Hive- 
 ly, our subject was born July 2, 1852, in Carroll 
 County, Md. , one of seven children; five are 
 now living, namely: Theodore, of Cleveland, 
 Ohio; Charles, who lives in Carroll County, Md. ; 
 David T. ; Mary E. , wife of George Sharrer, of 
 Carroll County, Md.; and Mrs. Anna V. Rigley, 
 of Manchester, Md. The father was born in 
 Carroll County about 1824 and in youth learned 
 
 the trade of a cigarmaker, establishing himself 
 in business later and for many years carrying on 
 a cigar factory. He gave this business up in or- 
 der to attend to the cultivation of his farm, where 
 he afterward resided. His father, Capt. John 
 Hively, was an officer in the war of 1812; he was 
 a native of York County, Pa., and removed in 
 an early day to Maryland, where he engaged in 
 farming. Our subject's maternal ancestors came 
 from Germany, and upon settling in Carroll 
 County, took up a piece of land ten miles square, 
 founding a settlement that was known as Fow- 
 ble's colony. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years our subject was 
 apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, after which 
 he was employed in Baltimore and Washington 
 for four years. He then went to Detroit, and 
 worked at his trade for two years, also found em- 
 ployment for a time in Cleveland and Toledo. In 
 1880 he came to Colorado, where he has since 
 made his home. He stands high in the com- 
 munity where he resides, being esteemed as a 
 man of integrity and uprightness of character. 
 November 3, 188 1, he married Miss Mary A. 
 Richards, daughter of George and Mary A. 
 (Bramble) Richards and a native of Feverham, 
 England. Her father came to America, accom- 
 panied by his family, in 1861, and settled in 
 Cleveland, Ohio. Soon afterward he enlisted in 
 the service of the Union and served as a soldier 
 until the close of the Civil war. Afterward he 
 settled upon a farm and has since made agricult- 
 ure his occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Hively are 
 the parents of four children, namely: Harry R. , 
 who was born September 2, 1882; Charles D., 
 March 6, 1885; George A., August 8, 1887; and 
 Albert R., November 2, 1894. 
 
 (fOHNH. NEWELL, manager of the Berthoud 
 I roller mills, at Berthoud, Larimer County, 
 (2/ is one of the enterprising young business 
 men of this place. He is a native of this state, 
 born in Gilpin County, in 1869, to William T. 
 and Annie (Bradley) Newell, natives of Iowa. 
 His father, who was a Colorado pioneer of 1859, 
 crossed the plains at the time of the Pike's Peak 
 gold excitement and settled in Gilpin County, 
 where he remained for a number of years, but in 
 1884 removed to Weld County. Here he now 
 carries on general farming and stock-raising, be- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing one of the largest stockmen of his section. 
 In addition to his agricultural interests he owns 
 a number of mines in Gilpin County. He and 
 his wife were the parents of eight children, five 
 of whom are now living. 
 
 In the public schools of Gilpin Count}' the 
 subject of this sketch received his education. At 
 the age of twenty he became an employe in the 
 Berthoud roller mills, with which he has since 
 been connected. In 1896 he was selected by 
 the board of directors as general manager of the 
 mill, and under his capable supervision the busi- 
 ness has flourished to an unusual degree. He is 
 one of the stockholders of the company, whose 
 interests are safely guarded while in his hands. 
 He believes in Republican principles and is stanch 
 in support of them. For three years he held the 
 office of town clerk of Berthoud. His time, how- 
 ever, has been given so closely to his business 
 that he has little opportunity to mingle in public 
 affairs. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Newell took place in 1897, 
 uniting him with Miss Isa Fenton, daughter of. 
 W. L. Fenton, of this city; and by her he has a 
 daughter, Dora. Fraternally he is identified with 
 Columbia Lodge No. 99, K. of P., in which he 
 has passed the chairs. He and his wife attend 
 the Presbyterian Church and are popular in the 
 best social circles.of their town. He is the only 
 business man of Berthoud who was born in Colo- 
 rado, and possesses the enterprise that is pecul- 
 iarly noticeable in the west. 
 
 KNORMAN W. BELLROSE, M. D., a prom- 
 \l inent physician of Weld County and mayor 
 I Is of Eaton, is a native of Vermont, having been 
 born in Swanton, that state, December i, 1865. 
 His father, Joseph Bellrose, wasa native of Canada, 
 but through most ofhis life a resident of Vermont. 
 For twenty-five years he was connected with the 
 Barney Marble Company of Swanton, continuing 
 with them until their retirement from business in 
 1887. At the outbreak of the Civil war he en- 
 listed in Company K, Sixth Vermont Infantry, 
 as a private, for a period of ninety days. On the 
 conclusion of that term he re-enlisted, remaining 
 in the service until the conflict was ended. He 
 married Miss Lucy Beore, a native of New Eng- 
 land. To them were born six children: Lucy, 
 wife of Joseph Campbell, a resident of Turner's 
 
 Falls, Mass. ; Joseph G., a prominent druggist of 
 Burlington, Vt. , who was elected secretary of the 
 state board of pharmacy for a term of one year, 
 and subsequently appointed by the governor for 
 a term of five years, and has also been an active 
 factor in securing the adoption of pharmaceutical 
 laws in that state; Peter W. , at present engaged 
 in the milling business at Swanton, Vt. ; Julia A. , 
 wife of A. B. Laviolett, an employe of the Grant 
 Granite Works, at Barrie, Vt.; David H., a con- 
 tractor and builder, of Denver, Colo. ; and Nor- 
 man W., our subject. 
 
 The early education of Dr. Bellrose was ac- 
 quired in the public schools of his native town, 
 and at the age of fifteen he entered the employ of a 
 druggist, with whomhe remained until he attained 
 his majority. Subsequently he entered the medical 
 department of the University of Vermont, from 
 which he was graduated with the degree of 
 M, D., in 1889. During his collegiate career he 
 was a prominent member of the Delta Mu frater- 
 nity, serving in various official capacities. He 
 was elected chairman of the executive committee 
 of the class of '89. He stood high in his classes 
 and won the approbation of the faculty for thor- 
 oughness and close application. 
 
 On conclusion of his education Dr. Bellrose 
 took charge of Dr. G. H. Gorham's practice 
 at Alstead, N. H., where he remained until Oc- 
 tober, 1889. He then removed to Evans, Weld 
 County, Colo., and in .May, 1890, he settled 
 permanently in Eaton, his present residence. 
 Since establishing himself in Eaton he has 
 rapidly attained a prominent position among the 
 medical fraternity of northern Colorado, and is 
 recognized by his fellow towns people as a sterling 
 and upright citizen. May 19, 1891, he estab- 
 lished the City drug store, of which he is still the 
 proprietor and manager. He is a member of the 
 American Medical Association; the American 
 Public Health Association; the Colorado State 
 Medical and Pharmaceutical Association, and the 
 Weld County Medical Association, and is presi- 
 dent of the latter organization. He is also 
 medical examiner of the Equitable, New York 
 Life, Mutual Life of New York and Mutual Bene- 
 fit of New Jersey insurance companies, and 
 others. Fraternally he is connected with Seventy- 
 Six Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M., ofSwanton, Vt., 
 and Eaton Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is a contribu- 
 tor to the Journal of the American Medical 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 Association, and the Colorado Medical Journal, 
 and his articles in these papers have caused 
 favorable comment. 
 
 March i, 1893, Dr. Bellrose married Henrietta, 
 daughter of John and Ann (Dickson) Trenholme, 
 of Richmond, Province of Quebec, Canada. 
 William Trenholme, great-grandfather of Mrs. 
 Bellrose, was a native of Yorkshire, England, 
 who emigrated to America about 1820, settling 
 on the St. Francis River, between Montreal and 
 Quebec, and founded the town of Trenholmeville, 
 where succeeding generations of the family have 
 resided. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Bellrose are the parents of two 
 children: Kenneth William and Norman Dewey. 
 Politically the doctor is a stanch Republican, and 
 in 1898 was elected mayor of his town, although 
 the nomination was unsought by himself. He is 
 a member of the Congregational Church and a 
 firm advocate of the temperance cause. Socially 
 he and his wife are among the leaders of Eaton, 
 and his charming residence, one of the most 
 imposing in Eaton, is ever open for the enter- 
 tainment of their many friends. 
 
 I UTHER HIXSON, a well-known citizen of 
 IC Boulder, first came here in 1870, and, feel- 
 12 ing assured that it had a bright future in 
 store, decided to cast iu his lot with its people. 
 For the past three years he has been superin- 
 tendent of the contracting department of the 
 McAllister Lumber & Supply Company. About 
 a quarter of a century ago he embarked in the 
 contracting and building business here and has 
 kept steadily employed, in the meantime having 
 put up many of the best and most substantial 
 structures in this section, among others the state 
 university, the sisters' academy and the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church. Always deeply interested 
 in educational matters, he has acted as a member 
 of the board here for the past nine years and was 
 its president one year. During this period the 
 high school and Highland school were erected 
 and many improvements made, both in the 
 system of educating the young and in giving 
 them better facilities. 
 
 Our subject is the eldest of the thirteen chil- 
 dren of Jonathan and Catherine (Somers) Hix- 
 son, natives of Westmoreland and Somerset Coun- 
 ties, Pa., respectively. The father went to Ohio 
 
 in early manhood and engaged in cultivating 
 a farm near Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, 
 until shortly before his death, at the ripe age ot 
 eighty years. His father, Amos, was born in 
 Massachusetts and lived in Pennsylvania and 
 Ohio. He departed this life when in his eighty- 
 eighth year. Mrs. Catherine Hixson was a 
 daughter of Jacob Somers, a pioneer farmer of 
 the Buckeye state and a veteran of the war 
 of 18 12. His father- was a hero of the Revo- 
 lutionary war. 
 
 lyUther Hixson was bom in Shanesville, Ohio, 
 October 19, 1843, and grew to manhood upon a 
 farm. He received ordinary school advantages 
 and learned the carpenter's trade with an uncle. 
 When not yet eighteen years of age, in July, 
 1 86 1, the young patriot, following the example 
 of his worthy ancestors, volunteered his services 
 to his loved country. He joined Company G, 
 Fifty-first Ohio Infantry, which company had 
 organized in May for three months' service, but 
 were not accepted as the state quota was already 
 filled. Mr. Hixson was mustered in at Camp 
 Meigs, Ohio, and sent south by way of Camp 
 Dennison, and later was drilled at Camp Mitchell, 
 near Louisville, Ky., by General Mitchell him- 
 self. Then, being placed under the command of 
 General Nelson, they were transferred to Camp 
 Wycliffe, Ky.', and finally ordered to reinforce 
 General Thomas. The time of drilling and camp 
 life under which he and his comrades had been 
 chafing was now past and from that time on they 
 had all the active service they could possibly 
 desire. After taking part in the battle of Shiloh 
 Mr. Hixson participated in that of Stone River. 
 Here he was wounded in the right groin and had 
 a narrow escape, as a box of cartridges in his 
 watch pocket stopped the bullet and saved his 
 life. In a short time he managed to regain his 
 senses and had just bravely loaded his gun pre- 
 paratory to resuming the combat when he was 
 shot near the right shoulder-blade. He was sent 
 to the hospital, and as soon as he was able to 
 move around the plucky youth was back in the 
 ranks. At TuUahoma he arrived in time to take 
 the gun from the relaxing grip of a wounded 
 comrade and fought stanchly in the action that 
 followed. At Chickamauga he was placed in the 
 skirmish line and was wounded by a spent ball, 
 which he carried throughout the battle. Among 
 other famous engagements in which he had a 
 
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 hand are those of Lookout Mountain, Missionary 
 Ridge, Tunnel Hill (Ga.), Dalton, Resaca, 
 Kingston, Burnt Hickory, Kenesaw Mountain, 
 Peach Tree Creek, siege of Atlanta, Lovejoy 
 Station, Spring Hill (where he was with General 
 Thomas) , Franklin and Nashville. In the last- 
 mentioned encounter Hood's army was com- 
 pletely routed and numerous prisoners were 
 taken. When news of the surrender of Lee came 
 he was in Eastern Tennessee, and with other 
 "veterans" was soon sent to Texas to look after 
 affairs there which needed attention. Several 
 months were required to effect the entire sur- 
 render of the western rebels, but at last it was 
 accomplished and Mr. Hixson was mustered out 
 as first duty-sergeant and was granted an hon- 
 orable discharge at Columbus, Ohio, in the first 
 week in December, 1865. 
 
 After spending a few weeks at home, young 
 Hixson started for the west in search of a home 
 and fortune. Locating in Jefferson, Iowa, he 
 engaged with his brother-in-law in the hardware 
 and agricultural implement business, but the 
 indoor life proved too confining for one who had 
 passed over four years in the field. Therefore he 
 sold out and turned his attention to building and 
 contracting for bridges, and in the fall of 1866 he 
 settled in Fort Calhoun, Neb. In company with 
 a Mr. Hughes he made out the abstract for 
 Washington County, Neb. In the spring of 
 1867 he and seventy-five ex-soldiers took passage 
 in the first boat leaving Sioux City for Fort 
 Benton, Mont., arriving at their destination after 
 a trip of forty-one days. There Mr. Hixson en- 
 gaged in mining and farming, also working at his 
 trade, for which labor he received $14 a day. No- 
 vember I, 1870, he started for Colorado by team 
 and went to Greeley. He did not like the prospects 
 there and was on his way to Caribou when he ar- 
 rived at Boulder. Here he concluded to stay, and 
 the following morning started work at his trade. 
 He has never seen occasion to regret his decision 
 that he would permanently remain here, for he has 
 prospered and enjoyed his identification with the 
 town's interests. He owns a finely improved 
 farm two miles east of Boulder and superintends 
 its cultivation. 
 
 The marriage of Luther Hixson and Eveline 
 L- Milk took place in Boulder June 25, 1873. 
 Mrs. Hixson is a native of Cattaraugus County, 
 New York. The couple have three children: 
 
 Howard H., asteamfitter and plumber of Boulder; 
 Thomas Edison, whose education was acquired 
 in the high school and State University, and who 
 is now engaged in mining at Caribou; and Alice 
 Mary, of the class of 1901, University of Colo- 
 rado. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hixson belongs to Boulder 
 Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M.; is a member of 
 Boulder Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F. ; a charter 
 member of the encampment and a charter mem- 
 ber of Canton Boulder No. 13 and its first cap- 
 tain. He is also past commander of Nathaniel 
 Lyon Post No. 5, G. A. R. Politically he is a 
 silver Republican. When the English Lutheran 
 Church was organized here he was prominently 
 connected with the enterprise and is now a 
 trustee. 
 
 QUDOLPH KOENIG, formerly mayor of 
 |a Golden and commissioner of Jefferson 
 r\ County, came to Weld County in 1889 and 
 is now the owner of seven hundred acres here. 
 He is one of the largest cattle dealers in this 
 locality, having on his place about two hundred 
 head of fine cattle besides a number of horses. 
 While stock-raising has been his principal occu- 
 pation, he also engages in general farming, de- 
 siring to raise enough feed for his stock. In 
 addition to his other interests he is secretary of 
 the Hillsborough and the Farmers' Ditch Com- 
 panies. 
 
 A native of Switzerland, born in 1843, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch is a .son of Christian and Mag- 
 dalena Koenig. His father brought the family 
 to the United States in 1856 and settled in Alle- 
 gheny County, Pa., but after seventeen years 
 devoted to general farming there he came to 
 Colorado in 1873, settling in Golden. He died 
 there during the same year at seventy-seven 
 years of age. When a boy, his son, our subject, 
 attended the public schools of Allegheny County. 
 In 1867 he came to Colorado and began the 
 manufacture of fire brick at Golden, which busi- 
 ness he followed for five years. In 1879 he was 
 made president and general manager of the 
 Golden Smelting Company and remained in the 
 position until 1888, shortly before his removal to 
 Weld County. 
 
 The first presidential vote cast by Mr. Koenig 
 was for Abraham Lincoln, and he has continued 
 to be a Republican from that day to this. While 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 in Golden he took an active part in local politics, 
 and was one of the most influential residents of 
 the city. In educational matters, too, he has 
 been warmly interested, and his service as secre- 
 tary of school district No. 7 has been helpful to 
 the cause of education in his locality. Fratern- 
 ally he is identified with Golden L,odge No. i, 
 A. F. & A. M., of which he was treasurer for 
 ten years, and Golden Chapter No. 5, R. A. M. 
 In 1 88 1 he married Miss Emma Schupbach, by 
 whom he has seven children. 
 
 r^ETER TURNER, who resides in Berthoud, 
 Lr Larimer County, and has followed the occu- 
 k) pations of farmer, miner and stone-mason 
 through his active life, was born in Franklin 
 County, Va., in 1838. He spent the years of his 
 boyhood and youth in the Old Dominion, and 
 from there, in 1857, he went to Iowa, where he 
 remained for four years, engaged in farm pur- 
 suits. When the tide of emigration began to 
 turn westward to the mines of the mountains he 
 resolved to seek his fortune in the far west, as 
 Colorado was then considered. Having no fam- 
 ily, he felt free to brave the hardships and 
 dangers of* frontier life. Accordingly, in 1861, 
 he crossed the plains, and, arriving in Central 
 City, embarked in gulch mining, at which he 
 continued for some years. 
 
 Returning to Iowa in 1864, Mr. Turner mar- 
 ried Miss Elizabeth Searcy. Not wishing to 
 bring his young wife to the frontier, he settled 
 upon a farm in Iowa, and there he engaged as a 
 tiller of the soil, also following the stone-mason's 
 trade, until 1873. He then again crossed the 
 plains, accompanied by his family, making the 
 long journey with a team and wagon and camp- 
 ing at night by the wayside. Indians were 
 troublesome at that time, and the family suffered 
 no little anxiety, fearing an attack from the 
 savages. 
 
 For four years Mr. Turner followed mining in 
 the then new camp of Sunshine, which after- 
 ward became a noted mining camp. From 
 Boulder County, in 1876, he removed to his pres- 
 ent homestead, which was then barren, unim- 
 proved land. He took up a quarter section of 
 land, embarked in farming and built the first 
 house between the Big and Eittle Thompson. 
 In 1884 he laid off lots, which he sold for build- 
 
 ing purposes, and the town of Berthoud now 
 stands on a part of his original acreage. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Turner are the parents of six 
 children, namely: Beverly B.; William; Susan 
 Sunshine, who was the first child born in Sun- 
 shine camp and who for four years has been a 
 teacher in the graded public schools, being active 
 and successful in educational work; Mattie, wife 
 of Fen ton Matthews; Gustavus Adolphus and 
 James Adelphus. The family attend the United 
 Brethren Church, of which Mrs. Turner is an 
 active member. She is identified with the aid 
 society in connection with the church, and holds 
 the position of vice-president of the society. In 
 fraternal relations Mr. Turner is identified with 
 the Odd Fellows, while his wife is noble grand of 
 the Order of Rebekah. 
 
 Gl LFRED E. JOHNSON, who was the pioneer 
 Ll gardener in the Prospect Valley, six miles 
 / I from Denver, and who has prospered in his 
 enterprises here, was born near Boros, Sweden, 
 March -19, 1854, the son of John A. and Sarah 
 (Johnson) Johnson. He was one of a family of 
 five children, three of whom survive, himself and 
 two sisters, Anna J., wife of August Anderson, of 
 Sweden, and Christine C. His father is still liv- 
 ing in the vicinity of Boros, where his entire life 
 has been passed. Farming has been his chosen 
 occupation, but, in addition to it, he has engaged 
 in lumbering and the raising of cattle. He is now 
 eighty-six years of age. 
 
 With the exception of two years spent in work 
 for neighboring farmers, the subject of this sketch 
 remained beneath the parental roof until he was 
 twenty-five years of age. In the spring of 1880 
 became to America, landing in New York, but 
 spending only one night there. He went direct 
 to Providence, R. I., where he worked at any 
 occupation he could find. Finally he secured 
 steady employment with Budlong & Sons, the 
 extensive gardeners at that place. In the spring 
 of 1885 he returned to visit his parents and friends 
 in Sweden, and after a pleasant stay of a few 
 weeks, he came back to his American home. He 
 spent the summer of 1885 in Rockford, 111., where 
 he was employed in gardening. From there he 
 came to Colorado, and in the winter of 1885-86 
 he worked for the Denver Water Company. In 
 the spring of 1886 he secured work in Grandview, 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 where he remained for two years, and then, 
 coming to Clear Creek Valley, settled on forty 
 acres which he had bought one year previous. 
 Later he acquired the ownership of forty-six acres 
 in addition to his original tract, but since then he 
 has sold at different times, until now he owns only 
 a small portion of his original tract, but gardens 
 on leased land. 
 
 May 24, 1893, Mr. Johnson married Miss Kmma 
 Hawkinson, a native of Sweden. They are the 
 parents of three children: John Oscar, Esther 
 Elizabeth and Ellen Ruth. Politically Mr. John- 
 son is a stanch supporter of the Repubhcan party, 
 but has never taken an active part in party mat- 
 ters nor sought official honors. He is a member 
 of Pacific Lodge No. 18, A. O. U. W., and in 
 religious connections is identified with the Method- 
 ist Church. His business address is No. 2900 
 Forest street, Denver. 
 
 GlMOSJ. EMMONS, one of the early settlers 
 r I of Colorado, now owns a comfortable home 
 / 1 in Longmont, where he spends a portion of 
 each year, the remainder of his time being passed 
 at his old ranch-house, near Rinn, Weld County, 
 just across the Boulder County border. Coming 
 here a poor man, with his life all before him and 
 his fortune still to make, he industriously set to 
 work and by earnest and honest toil wrought out 
 a goodly competence. 
 
 The Emmons family of which our subject is a 
 representative, is of English origin. His pater- 
 nal great-grandfather was a hero of the war of 
 the Revolution. His father, John Emmons, was 
 a native of Morris County, N. J., as was grand- 
 father Amos Emmons, and both were farmers. 
 The father died in 1840, leaving his widow, for- 
 merly Betsey Leek, and their four children. One 
 son, George, went to Denver in the fall of 1864, 
 and was never heard from after his arrival. The 
 mother had died the previous spring. 
 
 Amos J. Emmons, born in Chester, N. J., in 
 1838, was quite young at the time of his father's 
 death. He remained on the old farm with his 
 mother until he was a youth of sixteen years or 
 more, his education being acquired in the local 
 schools. Later he engaged in farming on his 
 own account, his mother living with him. When 
 the Civil war came on he was very desirous of 
 enlisting, but yielded to the earnest entreaties of 
 
 his mother, who was in poor health. He did not 
 long delay, however, after she had been laid to 
 rest, but in May, 1864, joined Company K, 
 Twenty-seventh New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, 
 and being mustered into the service at Newark, 
 was sent to the front. There he participated in 
 the siege of Petersburg and the following arduous 
 campaign which led up to Lee's surrender. At 
 the end of eleven months of hard fighting he was 
 mustered out at Camp Frelinghuysen, Newark,, 
 though prior to that event he took part in the 
 grand review at Washington. Governor Parker 
 welcomed the home-coming troops at Trenton, in 
 a speech which the boys in blue never forgot. 
 
 The next fall Mr. Emmons set out for the west, 
 hoping to find his brother George, but, though 
 he was persistent and untiring in his search, and 
 had the matter deeply at heart for years, he never 
 found him nor learned his fate. He went by 
 way of Chicago and St. Joseph, thence to Omaha, 
 and there he decided to go on to Denver. Mak- 
 ing the acquaintance of four or five young men 
 they bought a team and camp outfit for $350. 
 Some dissatisfaction having risen among them, 
 Mr. Emmons luckily fell in with Captain Tyler, 
 then of Blackhawk, who arranged matters by 
 buying the outfit and agreeing to transport the 
 men for $50 apiece, then hiring them, should 
 they so desire. The journey was made quickly 
 for those times (about twenty days). Mr. 
 Emmons finally gave up the fruitless search for 
 his missing brother in Denver, and went to 
 Blackhawk, where Captain Tyler paid him $52 
 for the first month's work. Later he went 
 with the captain to the mouth of Boulder Creek, 
 and, after being in his employ for seven months, 
 received $75 a month, his board for the time he 
 had been in Blackhawk, and was not charged the 
 $50 agreed upon for his trip across the plains. 
 
 Thus encouraged by the generous captain, Mr. 
 Emmons had a prosperous beginning in the new 
 country. The next winter he baled hay, and in 
 the spring of 1867 he rented a ranch of a quarter- 
 section of land, on the lower Boulder. This 
 property he tilled and improved for nine years, 
 and in the meantime bought an adjoining tract 
 of eighty acres of school land and built upon it. 
 Now he is the owner of about one thousand acres 
 of valuable land, fenced, ditched and variously 
 improved. Two farms are located on the High- 
 land ditch, and though some of his property is in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Boulder County, most of it lies in Weld County. 
 Beginning in a limited way he raised cattle, and 
 improved the grade. He was quite extensively 
 engaged in the business at one time and has also 
 dealt to a large extent in high-grade horses, feed- 
 ing and shipping both cattle and horses to Denver. 
 In 1894 Mr. Emmons took up his abode in 
 lyOngmont, in order to give his children better 
 school facilities. They are six in number, 
 namely: Nettie, Elizabeth, Carrie, Emma, Jessie 
 and Harry. The eldest daughter, now Mrs. 
 Plumb, of lyongmont, graduated from the high 
 school here, in the class of '93, then attended the 
 normal for a year, and successfully taught for 
 .several terms. The next daughter, Miss Eliza- 
 beth, graduated in the class of '95 from the high- 
 school of Longmont. Mr. Emmons served as a 
 school director in early days and was actively 
 concerned in the building of many of the first 
 schools of his district. He has found a true 
 helpmate in his devoted wife, whose girlhood 
 name was L,ovina Robinson. She was born in 
 Belvidere, Boone County, 111., and is a daughter 
 of Elijah Robinson, who was a native of Maine 
 and died in Missouri. While in Weld County, 
 Mr. Emmons often served as a delegate to county 
 and state conventions of the Democratic party, 
 and always supports the platform of that party. 
 
 pQlIvLIAM W. WHITE, vice-president of 
 I A/ ^^^ McCIure- White Merchandising Coni- 
 YY pany of Boulder, is one of the leading 
 business men of this place, and possesses the con- 
 fidence and esteem of all who have been asso- 
 ciated with him in any manner. Over twenty- 
 two years have rolled away since he cast in his 
 fortunes with those of the inhabitants of this town, 
 and thus he has been a witness of remarkable 
 changes that have transformed the small hamlet 
 of the Centennial year into the large and pro- 
 gressive place of to-day. 
 
 The White family to which our subject belongs 
 was connected with the Society of Friends for 
 generations. W. W. White, father of our subject, 
 was a native of Indiana, of which state his father, 
 John, was a pioneer. W. W. White died when 
 just entering upon a successful career, at the age 
 of about twentj'-six years. His wife was Miss 
 Amy Wheeler in her girlhood. She was born in 
 Steubenville, Ohio, in July, 18 18, and is still 
 
 living, her home being in Seneca, Kan., where 
 she has resided for forty-one years. Her father. 
 Nelson Wheeler, came from an old eastern 
 family, and his death took place in Ohio. Sub- 
 sequent to her first husband's death, Mrs. White 
 married James LaRue. She went to Mercer 
 County, 111., in 1854 and three years later be- 
 came a permanent resident of Seneca, Kan. By 
 her first marriage she had three children, two of 
 whom grew to maturity. John, one of the sons, 
 who served in the Civil war in the Seventh 
 Kansas Cavalry, is now engaged in farming near 
 Republic City, Kan. The only child born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. LaRue is James W. , of Seneca. Mrs. 
 Amy LaRue is a devoted member of the Con- 
 gregational Church, and is loved by all who 
 know her. 
 
 W. W. White was born in Brown.sville, Ind., 
 March 19, 1850, and was bereaved of his father 
 before he was old enough to remember him. In 
 1857, with his mother and step-father, the child 
 came as far west as Seneca, Kan , the town then 
 consisting of but three houses. The journey 
 across the intervening states was made in wagons. 
 The family settled upon a farm adjoining the 
 village and there the subject of this sketch re- 
 ceived his early educational training, such as it 
 was. In i8$2 he went with his step-father up 
 the Platte River, and thence by the usual route 
 to Denver, ox-teams conveying them and their 
 supplies. They remained here only a few months, 
 returning then to Kansas. In the following year, 
 however, W. W. White came as far west as Jules- 
 burg, and was employed by the government in 
 supplying hay on contract to the old Ben Holli- 
 day line. Again, in 1865, he hauled corn and 
 freighted for the government, making his trips in 
 company with large trains, for protection against 
 the Indians. In 1870 he took a position as clerk 
 in a dry-goods store in Seneca, and served in this 
 capacity for two years. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. White became a resident of Golden, 
 and was in the employ of A. M. DeFrance for a 
 period of two and a -half years. Later he was 
 sent to Georgetown to establish a branch store 
 for Mr. DeFrance, and carried on this enterprise 
 successfully for fifteen months. After his mar- 
 riage Mr. White settled permanently in Boulder, 
 and was a clerk for Mr. Cornwall for a few 
 months, later working for Bradley & McClure. 
 In 1888 he became a member of the firm of 
 
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 Bradley- Wise Merchandising Company, and some 
 years afterwards the present firm of the McClure- 
 White Merchandising Compan}' was organized, 
 with himself as vice-president. Fraternally Mr. 
 White belongs to Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. 
 & A. M.; Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; 
 Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T., and to 
 the Boulder Club. In his political belief he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 December i, 1875, Mr. White married Miss 
 S. C. Hammond, of Georgetown, Colo. A daugh- 
 ter of Elias and Permelia (Simmons) Hammond, 
 she was born in Iowa, and with her family 
 removed to Golden, Colo., in 1863. Her father 
 has been engaged in building and contracting, 
 but is now retired from arduous labor. Mrs. 
 White is the third in a family of nine children, 
 one of whom is deceased. For some years she 
 was a member of the Fortnightly Club of Boul- 
 der. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. White 
 are: Fred L. , a member of the class of 1901 , of the 
 University of Colorado, and Eugene D., now in 
 the preparatory department of the same institu- 
 tion, and a member of the class of 1902. 
 
 'HOMAS SISK, for many years a prominent 
 railroad contractor, and now a leading 
 farmer and stock- raiser of Evans, Colo., is 
 a native of the far-off state of Massachusetts, his 
 birth occurring at Townsend Harbor in 1848. 
 His father, Morris Sisk, was born in Ireland, and 
 on crossing the Atlantic at the age of eighteen 
 years located in Massachusetts. For a quarter 
 of a century he followed the trade of a stone 
 mason, and later as a railroad contractor he con- 
 structed several roads in that and adjoining 
 states. In 1852 he removed to Lewis County, 
 N. Y., and opened up a new farm, which he 
 operated for four years. The year 1861 wit- 
 nessed his arrival in Illinois, where he continued 
 to engage in agricultural pursuits until some 
 time during the '70s, when he went to Nebra.ska 
 and resumed contracting on the Burlington & 
 Missouri River Railroad from Ottumwa, Iowa, to 
 Lincoln, Neb., before the latter city was laid 
 out. He erected a home there and engaged in 
 contracting and building, doing the stone work 
 on the state penitentiary there. He took a con- 
 tract to build a part of the Hannibal & St. Joe 
 Railroad, which was completed in 188 1, and the 
 
 following year he died at Hannibal, Mo. , at the 
 age of seventy-four. In early life he was a Demo- 
 crat, but during his last years he supported the 
 men and measures of the Republican party, and al- 
 ways took quite an active interest in public affairs, 
 serving as road commissioner in New York. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth 
 Lynch, died in 1893, aged seventy-six years. 
 To them were born twelve children, of whom ten 
 are still living, and our subject is the third son. 
 
 The early life of Thomas Sisk was principally 
 passed in Illinois, and in the public schools he 
 acquired his education. He engaged in railroad 
 contracting with his father until the latter's 
 death, and later took the contract for building 
 the extension of the Burlington & Missouri 
 River Railroad from Denver to Pawnee City, 
 Neb., which was completed in 1885. He con- 
 structed five hundred miles of the Oregon short 
 line in Idaho, and the road from Granger to 
 Boise City, Idaho, through Bellaire, which was 
 completed in 1888. Returning to Nebraska he 
 took a contract with the old company to build 
 one hundred and eighty miles of road from Hol- 
 drege to Newcastle, Wyo., in the Black Hills 
 district, which he completed in 1893. The same 
 year he came to Weld County, Colo., and en- 
 gaged in constructing a reservoir and ditches on 
 Crow Creek, at Campfield's Parish, which he 
 completed in 1895. He then located at Evans 
 and bought a farm of thirty-five acres and em- 
 barked in stock-raising, keeping a good grade of 
 cattle and horses, including Hereford and Gal- 
 loway cattle. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Sisk married Miss Mary Flynn, of 
 Illinois, who died in 1880, leaving three sons: 
 Thomas, who is in the United States navy and is 
 now stationed at Manila; Willie, a railroad fore- 
 man in Wyoming; and Paul, a photographer of 
 Denver. He was again married in 1884, his sec- 
 ond union being with Miss Alice Doyle, of 
 Beatrice, Neb. , by whom he has three children : 
 Charles, Marion and Frank. 
 
 Politically Mr. Sisk is a stalwart Republican, 
 and in 1897 ^^ ^^^ appointed city marshal ot 
 Evans by the board of trustees for one year. He 
 is an honored member of W. T. Sherman Post 
 No. 94, G. A. R. , having been one of the boys 
 in blue during the dark days of the Rebellion. He 
 had two brothers in the service: Edward, who 
 was captain of Company A, Seventh Maine In- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 fantry; and Job, who was orderly sergeant in the 
 Fifth New York Heavy Artillery. All escaped 
 uninjured. Our subject enlisted in 1863 in Com- 
 pany K, Fortj'-fifth Illinois Infantry, and during 
 the twenty-one months he was in the ser%'ice he 
 participated in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 
 1862, was with Sherman on the celebrated March 
 to the Sea, and from the time the regiment left 
 Atlanta until they reached Raleigh, N. C, were 
 under fire for fifty-four days. They then 
 marched to Washington, D. C, where they took 
 part in the grand review, were mustered out at 
 Louisville, Ky. , and discharged at Chicago, 111., 
 July 27, 1865. 
 
 (DQlLLIAM W. BROWN. Adjoining the vil- 
 \ A / lage of Eaton on the north may be seen 
 Y V one of the most desirable farms of Weld 
 County. It comprises one hundred and sixty 
 acres, on which have been made valuable im- 
 provements, including a substantial twostory 
 brick residence, a good barn, fruit and shade trees 
 and shrubbery. This property is owned and oc- 
 cupied by Mr. Brown, to whose efforts its im- 
 provements are due. Besides engaging in general 
 farm pursuits, he has been interested in sheep- 
 feeding for some years, and during the winter 
 months usually feeds twelve hundred head of 
 sheep. He has two wells on the farm, one used 
 for watering the stock, and the other, which is 
 one thousand feet in depth, used for the house. 
 
 Born in Iowa County, Iowa, December 14, 
 1861, our subject is a son of W. C. and Eliza 
 (Michels) Brown. His father, who was a native 
 of Ohio and a carpenter by trade, served in the 
 Mexican war and at the opening of the Rebellion 
 he enlisted in the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, ser- 
 ving until the close of the conflict. Among the 
 most important engagements in which he partici- 
 pated were those of Shiloh and Vicksburg. 
 When the war closed he returned to Iowa, where 
 he had settled about 1852. There he improved a 
 tract of raw prairie land, and, in connection with 
 farming, engaged in carpentering. In 1896 he 
 came to Eaton, where he now makes his home. 
 Politically a Republican, during his younger years 
 he was active in the party. In his family there 
 are six sons and two daughters, namely: John 
 who is a farmer and stock-raiser in Kansas; 
 George S'. , now treasurer of Graham County, 
 
 Kan., where he is a well-known agriculturist; 
 Marion L., who is engaged in farming in Weld 
 County; Sarah, who married Francis Smith and 
 lives in Missouri; William W.; Sherman, who is 
 foreman on the Wyatt ranch near Eaton; Clinton 
 D. , who is employed as foreman for Asa Sterling, 
 on a Platte River farm; and Jennie, who is the 
 wife of Alonzo Hand, of Moscow, Idaho. 
 
 In his boyhood our subject became familiar 
 with farm work, through assisting in the cultiva- 
 tion of the homestead. Going to Kansas in 1878, 
 the next year he secured employment in Kansas 
 City, but after two years there he settled in Colo- 
 rado. The village of Eaton was in its infancy 
 when, in 1882, he established his home here, 
 securing work with Governor Eaton as the driver 
 of a six mule team that broke prairie land for 
 cultivation. After the first year he was made 
 foreman and remained in the same position for 
 four years, when he engaged with Brown & Ree- 
 man, with whom he worked for two years. After- 
 ward he resumed work as foreman with Gover- 
 nor Eaton. When four years had passed, he in- 
 vested his savings in the purchase of his present 
 property, on township 7, range 65, where he has 
 since resided. He has been quite successful, 
 though suffering his share of reverses, notably in 
 1898, when t|he severe hail storm ruined his crops. 
 He is interested in the Larimer and Weld Irriga- 
 tion Company and the Windsor Storage Companj'. 
 
 Interested in public affairs, Mr. Brown is a 
 supporter of the silver wing of the Republican 
 party. He is identified with the Congregational 
 Church of Eaton and aided materially in the 
 building of the house of worship. January 2, 
 1888, he was united in marriage with Charlotte, 
 daughter of Jacob Byerly, of Iowa. Three chil- 
 dren bless their union, namely: Nellie, Nina and 
 Geneva. 
 
 30HN R. SAMUELS, of Loveland, is a 
 pioneer of Larimer County, where he made 
 settlement in 1863. Born in Illinois in 1842, 
 he is a son of Harvey H. Samuels, a native of 
 Indiana and for some years a resident of Illinois, 
 but from 1845 to 1863 a farmer of Iowa, and 
 after the latter year a resident of Colorado, where 
 he settled on the Big Thompson River and carried 
 on a large stock ranch. He was a very success- 
 ful man and was one of the largest stock-dealers 
 
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 of pioneer days. He continued to reside in 
 Colorado until his death, which occurred at 
 seventy-two years of age. 
 
 When the family settled in Larimer County, 
 the subject of this sketch was twenty-one years 
 of age. He assisted his father in the years that 
 followed, thus gaining a thorough knowledge of 
 ranch life and the best method of conducting 
 agricultural pursuits in these environments. 
 After the death of his father he and his brother, 
 F. M. , continued in the cattle business together. 
 He was so enterprising and efficient that pros- 
 perity rewarded his efforts, and he is now halt 
 owner (with his brother, F. M.,) of about two 
 thousand acres of land and large numbers of 
 cattle. In 1894 he took up his residence in 
 Loveland, and here he has since made his home. 
 
 In political belief Mr. Samuels favors the Demo- 
 cratic platform in national issues, but in local 
 matters he vote's for the man best qualified to 
 represent the people. December 5, 1893, ^^ was 
 united in marriage with Mrs. Carrie (Lawrence) 
 Clark, a widow with one child. A son and daugh- 
 ter have blessed their union, namely: William 
 and Edith. Mrs. Samuels is identified with the 
 Baptist Church and is a lady who stands high in 
 the esteem of her acquaintances. 
 
 ^ARD WIEST, M. D., one of the prominent 
 r\ physicians of northern Colorado, and a resi- 
 le' dent of Longmont, Boulder County, was 
 born in Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., Novem- 
 ber 5, 1867, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
 (Elmendorf) Wiest. He is of German ancestry, 
 being descended on the paternal side from John 
 Wiest, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, who 
 emigrated to America prior to the war of the Rev- 
 olution, and settled in Esopus, Ulster County, 
 N. Y., and later served as a member of the Con- 
 tinental army in that memorable struggle for 
 independence. He was the great-grandfather of 
 our subject. His son, Stephen, was born in Ulster 
 County, afterward served in the war of 18 12, and 
 on its conclusion engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
 He married Rachel Freer, of French Huguenot 
 stock, and their son Jacob, born in Esopus, was 
 the father of our subject. He early learned the 
 trade of a stone mason and bricklayer, and later 
 engaged in contracting and building. In 1855 
 he removed to Michigan, locating at Washington, 
 35 
 
 Macomb County, where he remained until 1866, 
 then settled at Pontiac. There he passed the re- 
 maining years of his life engaged in active busi- 
 ness until a short time before his death, which 
 occurred in 1896, in his eighty-second year. Dur- 
 ing his residence in New York state he served as 
 captain of an artillery company of Ulster County. 
 
 On the maternal side. Dr. Wiest is descended 
 from Wilhemus Elmendorf, a native of Holland, 
 who emigrated to America in 1616, with a colony 
 that settled in what is now New York state. He 
 was one of the first Europeans in America, and 
 was a descendant of Wilhemus, or William Prince 
 of Orange, sometimes called" William the Silent. ' ' 
 His son, Conrad, was born in Hurley, N. Y., as 
 were his son Wilhemus, his son Conrad and his 
 son Lucas, who was the father of Elizabeth (El- 
 mendorf) Wiest, the mother of our subject. Her 
 grandfather, Conrad Elmendorf, was a member 
 of the celebrated committee of safety during the 
 Revolutionary war. Many members of this fam- 
 ily achieved distinction in the professions, while 
 others were prominently identified with the social, 
 religious and agricultural life of that section. 
 
 Mrs. Wiest survives her husband and resides 
 at the old home in Pontiac, Mich. Of their fam- 
 ily nine children survive: Mrs. Mary Clark, Mrs. 
 Martha Tarbox, both of Pontiac; Mrs. Annie 
 Flater, of Ionia, Mich. ; Frank, of Detroit, Mich. ; 
 Newton, a physician of Denver; John E., post 
 engineer at Fort Riley, Kan.; Edwin, master 
 mechanic of the Manistee & North Michigan 
 Railway, at Manistee, Mich.; Howard, an attor- 
 ney of Williamstown, Mich.; and Sard, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 The early education of Dr. Wiest was acquired 
 in the public schools of his native town, and at 
 the age of eighteen he entered the employ of 
 George Gundrum, a druggist, of Ionia, Mich., 
 where he remained some eighteen months, when 
 he removed to Detroit to accept a similar posi- 
 tion. In 1888 he came to Denver, where an elder 
 brother had preceded him, and took a partial 
 course in Gross Medical College. He next en- 
 tered the employ of the Sechrist Electric Company, 
 where he remained one year, subsequently return- 
 ing to his medical studies, and in April, 1892, 
 was graduated with the degree of M. D. During 
 the years 1890-91 he served as house physician of 
 the Arapahoe County hospital. On the conclusion 
 of his medical education he removed to Longmont, 
 
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 Boulder County, where he established himself in 
 the general practice of his profession. He has 
 given special attention to diseases of the eye, and 
 is recognized as an authority upon this branch of 
 his profession. His possession of one of the most 
 extensive practices north of Denver is sufficient 
 evidence of the esteem in which he is held by the 
 general public. During his residence in lyong- 
 mont he has served three years as health officer, 
 and at present is surgeon for the Union Pacific and 
 Denver & Gulf Railways. He i$. prqsjjnent in 
 Masonic circles, being a membBr-ii^f i^tjiiVr^in 
 Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M. ; and of Delta 
 Lodge of Perfection No. i, Scottish Rite, of 
 Denver. He is also a charter member, past officer, 
 and present medical examiner of the local lodge 
 of Woodmen of the World. He has also taken 
 great interest in militia matters, having joined 
 while residing in Detroit, Mich., Company B, First 
 Regiment, N. G. S. M., as a private, and later 
 was promoted to the rank of corporal. On com- 
 ing to Colorado he was made sergeant of Company 
 C, First Regiment, N. G. C. June 18, 1896, 
 he was elected lieutenant and May 6, 1897, was 
 elected captain of the same company. He resigned 
 April 9, 1898, and was immediately appointed 
 assistant surgeon of the National Guard Corps, 
 with the rank of first lieutenant. During his 
 service as a member of Company C, First Regi- 
 ment, N. G. C, he served in the Leadville 
 riots. He is also a member of Longmont Hose 
 Company No. i. 
 
 In August, 1893, Dr. Wiest married Florence, 
 daughter of Elijah J. Hall, a well-known pio- 
 neer, and now a resident of Denver. Her mother's 
 maiden name was Florence Morrison. Dr. 
 and Mrs. Wiest have but one child, a daughter, 
 Naomi. The doctor and his wife are members of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and he has served as 
 elder, secretary and treasurer of the official board 
 of that organization. 
 
 0ANIEL F. CARMICHAEL, mayoi of Brigh- 
 ton, and at present agent for the waterworks 
 plant of Brighton, of which he was the 
 founder, was born near Niagara Falls, Canada, 
 April 17, 1844, and is a son of Daniel and 
 Eliza (Otis) Carmichael, natives respectively of 
 Orange County, N. Y., and Springfield, Mass. 
 His father, who was a railroad contractor, was 
 
 employed in connection with the construction of 
 the Welland Canal at the time the son was born, 
 but when the latter was one year of age the 
 father moved to New York City, later going to 
 Broome County, N. Y., where he had a contract 
 on the Erie Railroad. There he remained for 
 some years, and while still residing there he went 
 on business to Philadelphia in 1849 and there 
 died of the cholera. He was buried in Orange 
 County, N. Y. 
 
 The fourth in a family of five children, the 
 subject of this sketch was a child of five years 
 when his father died. The family being left in 
 good circumstances he received excellent educa- 
 tional advantages. He attended the public 
 schools of Geneva, N. Y., and later was a student 
 in Hobart College for three years, but in i86o, 
 shortly before he would have graduated, he left 
 college and accompanied his sister, Mrs. Skeel, 
 to Davenport, Iowa. On the outbreak of the 
 Civil war he enlisted in the Third Iowa Infantry, 
 Company A, as a private, for three years or until 
 the close of the war. He was assigned work in 
 Missouri along the Mississippi River. However, 
 after about ten months, he was taken ill and was 
 sent to the hospital, where he lay unconscious 
 for several weeks, suffering from typhoid fever. 
 At his motljer's request he was honorably dis- 
 charged from the service. He returned to Daven- 
 port, but soon went to Chicago, where he clerked 
 for six months. From that city he went to New 
 York, and enlisted as a private in Company F, of 
 the Twenty-eighth New York Infantry, assigned 
 to duty with the Army of the Potomac. He was 
 promoted to be a corporal, then a sergeant, later 
 second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain and 
 finally was made a major. Though he had been 
 under fire several times before, his first great 
 battle was at Gettysburg. Later he was ordered 
 to New York to help in suppressing the riots, 
 under command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, 
 whose presence soon put an end to the trouble. 
 Next he was sent to Elmira to guard the Confed- 
 erate prisoners, some fifteen thousand in number, 
 and was there for six months. Afterward he re- 
 ported to General Dix in New York, and when 
 the time of the majority of the regiment expired, 
 he with many others was mustered out. 
 
 Re-entering business pursuits, Mr. Carmichael 
 traveled for a New York wholesale dry-goods 
 house in Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska and other 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 western states until 1869, when he went to 
 Omaha, and secured employment in the office of 
 the company building the Missouri River bridge, 
 but within six months he was given full charge 
 of the construction as chief engineer and manager. 
 On the completion of the bridge he came to Colo- 
 rado to build the Julesburg branch of the Union 
 Pacific Railroad, from Julesburg to Greeley. 
 After a year in that work he went to Denver as 
 passenger and freight agent for the Colorado Cen- 
 tral Railroad and general agent lor the Union 
 Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads, with head- 
 quarters in Denver. 
 
 In 1870, while his home was in Omaha, he 
 married Miss Alice E. Evans, of New York. Of 
 their six children, five are still living. AlmetS., 
 who was born in Omaha, is now deputy county 
 assessor and lives in Brighton; Eliza and Mabel, 
 twins, were born in Golden, Colo., and graduated 
 from the Denver high school; Eliza died in 
 1897 and was buried at Brighton; Edward, born 
 in Denver, represents the interests of Mr. Skeel, 
 of New York, and lives with his parents; Eliz- 
 abeth, born in Denver, is a graduate of the Denver 
 high school; and Adelaide, the youngest, was 
 born in Denver and is now a student in one of 
 high schools of that city. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Carmichael severed his connection 
 with the railroads and entered the real-estate busi- 
 ness in Denver, and while thus engaged he ac- 
 quired the land where Brighton now stands. 
 This land he purchased in 1877 and two years 
 later laid out the town. In 1884 he erected a 
 residence and removed his family here, but he 
 did not retire from his business in Denver until 
 1894. In 1881 he built the Brighton opera house, 
 also started a drug store, hardware and furniture 
 establishments, put up a bank building and start- 
 ed a bank, built a few cottages and established a 
 newspaper called the Brighton Register. Besides 
 the land on which the town stands he owns four 
 thousand acres, on which he raises cattle, grain 
 and all the products of the farm. He has intro- 
 duced waterworks, put in mains and fire hydrants, 
 and made other improvements. The panic of 
 1894 crippled him, as it did so many business 
 men, in his projects, but he owned some property 
 in Denver, and this he turned over to his cred- 
 itors, who have left him in charge thereof. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. Carmichael was 
 elected mayor of Brighton on that ticket in 1888, 
 
 .served in the legislature from 1889 to 1891, was 
 chairman of the board of railroad commissioners 
 and also served as member of its finance com- 
 mittee. In April, 1898, he was again elected 
 mayor. While in the legislature the law was 
 passed regulating fees of public officers. When 
 the bill was introduced it was fiercely fought, as 
 it lowered official salaries, but it passed neverthe- 
 less. He was the promoter of the semi-annual 
 tax bill, which was bitterly fought, and in the 
 course of the fight he offered to put up a bond for 
 $25,000 that he could do the work for half of what 
 it was costing. He has served on the school 
 board and has been instrumental in securing good 
 schools. As delegate to county and state con- 
 ventions he has rendered his party good service. 
 Reared in the Presbyterian faith, Mr. Carmich- 
 ael has always adhered to this faith and is now 
 president of the board of trustees of the church, a 
 position that he has filled for many years. In 
 1869, while in Omaha, he was made a Mason. 
 He is now connected with Eureka Lodge No. 78, 
 A. F. & A. M., at Brighton, in which he has 
 served as junior and senior warden. While in 
 Denver he took all the degrees, up to and includ- 
 ing the thirty-second, in Masonry. 
 
 EHARLES CRADOCK is proprietor of what 
 is commonly known in Larimer County as 
 the " C. C. " ranch. This beautiful and ably- 
 managed homestead is situated in Livermore Park 
 and from various points in the grounds fine views 
 may be had of Steamboat Rock and other local 
 spots of interest and grandeur. The fortunate 
 owner of this property recently built an elegant 
 modern residence, which is furnished with every- 
 thing that the cultivated mind and heart could 
 desire. 
 
 Mr. Cradock is a charter member of the Lari- 
 mer County Stock Growers' Association and in 
 January, 1898, was a delegate to the National 
 Stock Growers' Association. He has devoted 
 much time and means to the raising of thorough- 
 bred cattle and horses, and thus done a great 
 deal toward elevating the grade of stock in this 
 section of the west. It was nearly a score of 
 years ago that Mr. Cradock came to America, the 
 immediate reason for this step being his health, 
 which, it was believed would be benefited by an 
 out-door life. His parents had purchased a ranch 
 
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 from an English company, said property being 
 situated near Fort Collins. The ranch, compris- 
 ing six hundred and forty acres, was well equipped 
 with all kinds of machinery of modern design, 
 and was stocked with cattle and horses, H. L. 
 Gilpin- Brown being for four years his partner. 
 Though his knowledge of western ranch life was 
 necessarily limited, our subject, in conjunction 
 with his partner, undertook the management of 
 affairs and at the end of four years they had oc- 
 casion to congratulate themselves upon the success 
 they had made of the enterprise, in spite of the fact 
 that they had expended large sums of money in the 
 improvement of the ranch. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Cradock sold the place and re- 
 turned home, where he remained some eighteen 
 mouths. The attractions of life on the plains 
 becoming overpowering, he again sailed for 
 America and went to North Park, where he em- 
 barked in the business of raising horses. Later 
 he brought Shorthorn cattle from Kansas and 
 enjoyed the distinction of owning the finest herd 
 in the country. Then he sold the cattle and once 
 more set his face homeward. Of late years he 
 has made his headquarters in Livermore Park, 
 though his business calls him to all parts of this 
 and neighboring counties, and he has crossed the 
 ocean nine times. In 1897 he purchased the 
 Calloway place, the oldest ranch in the park. 
 Here there are thirteen hundred and twenty acres, 
 about one hundred and fifty-three splendidly 
 watered with irrigation ditches. The land is on 
 the north fork of the Main Powder River, and is 
 fenced in and variously improved. Nearly two 
 hundred acres are alfalfa land, and fifty acres are 
 given up to the raising of wheat, barley, rye and 
 other grain. Mr. Cradock owns the finest team 
 of horses in this country and drives all over his 
 ranch, superintending and directing the work of 
 his employes. He takes little part in public 
 affairs, and uses his ballot in favor of the Demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 The Cradock family, as is well known, is of the 
 English aristocracy, their estates, near Richmond, 
 which have been handed down for generations, 
 being called Hartforth. The paternal grand- 
 father of our subject was Col. Sheldon Cradock, 
 M. P., a country gentleman. The father of 
 Charles Cradock, Capt. Christopher Cradock, was 
 the proprietor of Hartforth and Thorpe estates, 
 was deputy lieutenant of the county of Yorkshire, 
 
 held a captaincy in the army, was Master of Fox 
 and Hounds and was a magistrate during his 
 entire mature life. He died at the age of seventy- 
 one years, in 1895. His wife, the mother of our 
 subject, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 
 and died while a young woman. She was 
 Georgiana, daughter of Major-general Duff", 
 cousin to the Duke of Fife. 
 
 Charles Cradock, born May 22, 1863, and 
 brought up at the ancestral home of Hartforth, is 
 the third of seven children, two of whom are de- 
 ceased. The eldest brother, Capt. Sheldon, now 
 proprietor of Hartforth, and justice of the peace, 
 was a participant in the Soudan war, and while 
 in command of a company as captain had two 
 horses shot from under him in engagements with 
 the enemy. The second son, Capt. Montague, 
 held the rank which he now bears, in both the 
 Afghan and Eg>'ptian campaigns, and is still con- 
 nected with the army, being now in New Zealand. 
 Christopher, fourth son, is a commodore in the 
 English navy, and did gallant service at the bom- 
 bardment of Alexandria. He was on the royal 
 yacht for four years, accompanying the two 
 princes, Albert and George, on their trip around 
 the world. He is now in command of the Bri- 
 tannia training-school ship. Gwendolin, the only 
 sister, is Mrs. Herbert Straker, of Hartforth 
 Grange, near Richmond. 
 
 In January, 1898, Charles Cradock married 
 Miss Maud Vaughn Lloyd, daughter of Dr. Lloyd. 
 Mrs. Cradock was born in Richmond, Va., and 
 comes from one of the old and respected families 
 of that state. She is a lady of superior educa- 
 tion and attainments, her studies in the lan- 
 guages, music and art having been perfected in 
 England, France and Germany. 
 
 EHARLES P. SCOTT, one of the oldest 
 settlers of Loveland, was born in Yates 
 County, N. Y. , in 1842, and is a descendant 
 of a prominent and wealthy English family whose 
 heir owns the homestead, with its surrounding 
 land covering seven square miles. He is a son 
 of Charles and Sarah (Plaisted) Scott, who came 
 to this country from England and remained in 
 New York until their death. Their son, our 
 subject, spent his boyhood years in New York 
 City, and was educated in public and private 
 schools. After leaving school he began clerking. 
 
SOLOMON BATTERSON. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 For eight years he was engaged as an employe 
 in a wholesale hat and cap house in New York 
 City. In 187 1 he came west and spent a few 
 weeks in Greeley, Colo. He bought a tract of 
 land on the north side of the Big Thompson, 
 where he began general farming and stock-rais- 
 ing, in which he has since continued on his 
 eighty acres of land. He has made a specialty 
 of sheep-feeding, having about one thousand head 
 on his place. 
 
 In politics a Republican, in the spring of 1876 
 Mr. Scott was appointed county clerk of Larimer 
 County, and in the fall of the same year he was 
 regularly elected to the office, which he held for 
 three terms, at the same time being clerk of the 
 district court. He has always taken an active 
 part in public life and has favored plans for pro- 
 moting the welfare of the people. In 1881, 
 associated with F. C. Avery, of Fort Collins, he 
 established the First National Bank, of which he 
 served as cashier for three years. In 1882 he 
 was one of the organizers of the Bank of Big 
 Thompson and held the position of cashier for 
 three years, the bank doing a private banking 
 business meantime. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Scott, in 1870, united him 
 with Miss Hattie E. Edmond, of New York, 
 an estimable lady, who shares with him in the 
 regard and esteem of their acquaintances. Frater- 
 nally he has been identified with Loveland Lodge 
 No. 53, A. F. & A. M., since 1868, and is also a 
 member of the Eastern Star Lodge No. 23. In 
 religion he is connected with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. The prosperity that has come to 
 him represents diligent effort extending over 
 many years. He is a man of enterprise, joined 
 with sound common sense, and in his farming 
 enterprises has shown excellent judgment. In 
 addition to raising cereals, he has planted trees 
 and engages in fruit-growing, his specialty being 
 raspberries. His farm is near Loveland, and is 
 one of the best improved ranches in Larimer 
 County. 
 
 (pOLOMON BATTERSON is to-day one of 
 TN the most substantial and prominent stock- 
 \Z/ men of Larimer County, having acquired his 
 large property with the help of his brave and 
 energetic wife since their advent here some 
 twenty-eight years ago. He came to Livermore 
 in 1870, his only capital being two good wagons, 
 
 harness, five horses, eight head of cattle and $65 
 after the expenses of the trip were paid. He 
 paid $40 for a stove in Cheyenne, and the remain- 
 ing $25 went for groceries and other provisions. 
 He had his gun and it played a prominent part in 
 their struggle during their first years of western 
 life. He is a great hunter and a good shot, and 
 has traveled all over the mountains of this state, 
 killing deer, and would take the venison by 
 wagon to Greeley or Cheyenne, selling it in a 
 short time, but it would take about six weeks to 
 make the trip and get home with the provisions, 
 clothing, etc. He tanned the hides and then 
 helped his wife convert them into buckskin suits. 
 During this time she made butter for sale and 
 kept such boarders as could be found in that 
 locality, visitors to the mountains and people who 
 were traveling through. By their untiring zeal 
 they have acquired a considerable fortune, but the 
 habit of industry still clings to them and to-day 
 she has the best garden on North Park road. 
 
 Mr. Batterson was born in the town of Hume, 
 Allegany County, N. Y., August 26, 1830, his 
 parents being Henry and Hannah (Goff ) Batter- 
 son, of the same .state. His grandfather came 
 from Pennsylvania and settled in New York state, 
 where the father was for some years a farmer. 
 He then went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was 
 in the same business for twelve years, and from 
 there went to Chicago. After a short time he 
 settled on the Illinois River in Cass County, in 
 the "Pecan Bottom," about fifteen miles north- 
 west of Springfield. Later he moved to Chat- 
 field, Minn. , where he died. He married Hannah 
 Goff, whose grandfather served in the Revolution- 
 ary war. She died in Illinois. They had three 
 sons who grew to manhood: William, now a 
 resident of Minnesota, and a soldier in the Civil 
 war, from that state; Solomon, whose history is 
 given in this sketch; and Horace, who was burned 
 in the Chicago fire. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Batterson moved to Cleve- 
 land when he was two years of age, and there he 
 received his education in the public schools. 
 When he was fourteen they moved to Chicago, 
 and he worked out on the farm, first for Amos 
 Deck, for four years, receiving $13, which was 
 good wages for that time. The following four 
 years he worked for Josh Morris. He remained 
 at home until he was twenty-two and then went 
 to Rockton, Winnebago County, and stopped at 
 
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 Harrison, 111., on the Sugar River. He re- 
 mained here two mouths, and then went to Fort 
 Atkinson, Winneshiek County, Iowa, from there 
 to New Oregon, same state, where he lived for 
 five years. Going back to Harrison, 111., he 
 bought teams, wagons, etc., and in the fall set 
 out for Necedah, Wis., to take up land. As he 
 was not favorably impressed with the country, he 
 went on through LaCrosse, and located ten miles 
 from Owatonna, Steele County, Minn., where he 
 engaged in farming for eight years. While 
 living there the massacre of Blue Earth County 
 occurred, and he moved his family to Riceville, 
 Iowa, and from tliere to Algona, on the Des 
 Moines River. However, not liking it there, he 
 moved to Clear Lake and rented a farm of Judge 
 George Frost and farmed for three years. The 
 next two years were spent in teaming and rail- 
 roading, and in 1870 he brought his family and 
 teams, and drove his cattle through to Colorado. 
 They had started for California, but stopped at 
 the old Sherman place, near Fort Collins, to look 
 around for a week, and then came to what is now 
 Livermore Park, in August of that year, to locate. 
 He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres 
 and later pre-empted as much more, giving him 
 three hundred and twenty acres. He has since 
 that bought two quarter-sections three miles be- 
 low, and has fenced and improved it, as he has all 
 his land. He is engaged in the cattle business, 
 handling thoroughbred Shorthorns and Here- 
 fords. 
 
 Mr. Batterson was married in Decorah, Iowa, 
 by Judge Reed, to Miss Mary L. Fassett, who 
 was born in Allegany County, N. Y., February 
 6, 1833. She is a daughter of John Fassett, of 
 Pennsylvania, but of Scotch ancestry. He moved 
 to Allegany County, N. Y., and in 1844 to Illi- 
 nois, settling at Harrison, where he engaged 
 in farming and was one of the pioneers there. 
 Later he removed to Riceville, Iowa, where he 
 died. His second wife was Mrs. Sarah Peck, 
 whose maiden name was Sarah Henry; she was 
 a native of Rhode Island and her father was of 
 English origin. She died in Riceville, Iowa. 
 Of the first marriage of Mr. Fassett eleven chil- 
 dren were born, few of whom are now living. 
 The second marriage resulted in the birth of four 
 children, three of whom reached years of maturity : 
 Mary L., now Mrs. Solomon Batterson; Almon, 
 who resides in Iowa; and Phidelia, who died in 
 
 that state. To Mr. and Mrs. Batterson have been 
 born three children: William, a cattleman in 
 Larimer County, on the Elkhorn; Mina, Mrs. 
 W. E. Tibbits, of Livermore Park; and Azubah, 
 who is now deceased. Mr. Batterson is a Demo- 
 crat. He and his wife are members of the Seventh 
 Day Adventist Church. 
 
 HEODORE A. KIBBY, whose ranch is in 
 Weld County, near Berthoud, was born in 
 McHenry County, 111., in 1844, a son of 
 Augustus and Emily (Mason) Kibby. He spent 
 his boyhood years in the parental home and was 
 educated in local public schools. At the age of 
 twenty-one he enlisted in Company C, One Hun- 
 dred and Fifty-third Illinois Infantry, in which he 
 served as a private until the expiration of the war, 
 being most of the time in Tennessee and Ala- 
 bama. Returning to Illinois from the army, in 
 the spring of 1866 he removed to Iowa and set- 
 tled in Boone, where he engaged in teaming sup- 
 plies for the Chicago & North-western Railroad 
 then in process of building across the state to 
 Council Bluffs. From 1866 to 1870 he was em- 
 ployed as trainman on the road. 
 
 Going back to Illinois in 1872, Mr. Kibby 
 spent two ye^ars at his old home, after which he 
 carried on a lumber business in Wisconsin for two 
 years. In 1876 he visited his sister in Illinois 
 and from there crossed the country to Colorado, 
 where he had determined to settle. Renting land 
 on the Big Thompson River, he began to improve 
 the property. In the fall of 1877 he took up a 
 tract of government land where he now lives. At 
 once he began to improve the place, building a 
 house during the first year. Since then he has 
 given his attention to stock-raising and general 
 farming. He owns three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land, all of which is under cultivation, 
 representing years of efibrt on his part. 
 
 Besides his farm interests, Mr. Kibby has 
 always been interested in irrigation projects. He 
 was one of the original promoters of the Hills- 
 boro Irrigating Canal Company, of which he was 
 the first treasurer and secretary, and is now a 
 stockholder. Politically he is a pronounced Re- 
 publican and always attends local conventions of 
 the party. He is connected with the Grand Army 
 Post at Loveland. In addition to his other 
 moneyed interests, he is a stockholder in the Far- 
 
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 mers' mill at Berthoud. In 1880 he married 
 Miss Nellie Winship, of Wisconsin, and they are 
 the parents of five children, namely: I/Jray, 
 Sarah, Bertha, Arthur and Edwin H. 
 
 ROBERT S. COX, who owns a valuable fruit 
 farm near Loveland, Larimer County, has 
 been a resident of Colorado since 1883. 
 Coming to the state during that year, he bought 
 a quarter-section of land eight miles east of Ber- 
 thoud, and for seven years engaged in general 
 farm pursuits. In 1890 he moved to Greeley, 
 Weld County, and for a year was not actively en- 
 gaged in any occupation, but in 1891 he settled 
 near Loveland, buying forty-eight acres adjoining 
 the corporation of Loveland. Here he has planted 
 three hundred plum trees, and other varieties of 
 fruits, as well as all kinds of berries. While his 
 venture in the fruit business was something of a 
 risk, his success proves that his judgment was 
 sound in the matter. His fruit is of a fine qual- 
 ity and his orchards are constantly increasing in 
 value. In addition to this property, he owns an 
 interest in three mining claims in Larimer County 
 and one in Boulder County. 
 
 Born near Trenton, N. J., in 1837, Mr. Cox is 
 a son of Stewart W. Cox, who was a native of 
 Trenton, but came west in 1837, settling in Rich- 
 mond, Ind., where he followed the trade of a 
 bricklayer. In 1883 he came to Colorado and 
 afterward made his home with his son until his 
 death, which occurred in 1888, at the age of sev- 
 enty-three. From 1848 to 1881 he engaged in 
 general farm pursuits in Indiana, but after com- 
 ing to Colorado he became the owner of several 
 hundred acres of land. In politics he always ad- 
 hered to the Democracy. He married Julia Ann 
 Ivens, who died in Richmond, Ind. , leaving three 
 sons, namely: Joseph and John I., who served 
 in the army during the Civil war and are now de- 
 ceased; and Robert S., who was only three years 
 of age at the time of his mother's death. 
 
 When our subject was a bo'y educational advan- 
 tages were meagre in his section of country. For 
 a time he studied in an old sod schoolhouse, where 
 the method of instruction was as primitive as the 
 building itself. In youth he learned the .shoe- 
 maker's trade and was following it at the time the 
 war broke out, in 1861, when he at once stopped 
 work and enlisted in Company I, Forty-seventh 
 
 Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to be first 
 lieutenant after the battle of Vicksburg. While 
 the regiment was in camp, he was wounded, in 
 skirmish line. ' He fought in the battles of the 
 Mississippi campaign, the first battle of Island 
 No. 10 and was with Grant at Vicksburg, Port 
 Gibson and Champion Hills. At the close of the 
 war he was honorably discharged. Returning 
 home he resumed work at his trade, to which he 
 added carpentering and the mercantile business. 
 
 In politics Mr. Cox is an active Republican 
 and has never voted any other ticket than it. For 
 a number of years he served as justice of the 
 peace. Fraternally he is a member of the Love- 
 land Lodge No. 53, A. F. & A. M. In the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church he is an active worker 
 and for some time has served the congregation as 
 steward and secretary of the ofiicial board. His 
 marriage took place in 1861 and united him with 
 Martha J. Ogden, by whom he has had six chil- 
 dren. Those living are: Lulu May, wife of 
 F. M. Nevils; Nellie, who married W. H. Sheets; 
 Homer D. and Berthard M. 
 
 (lOHN VETTER owns and occupies a ranch 
 I in Weld County, near Loveland, and on the 
 O Big Thompson River, and here for some 
 years he has successfully engaged in stock- 
 raising. He is a native of Germany, and was 
 born in 1841, a son of John Vetter. Following 
 the custom in German families, he was. appren- 
 ticed to the carpenter's trade, and for some years 
 was engaged in work at that occupation. In 
 1865 he came to the United States, landing in 
 New York, from which city he proceeded to 
 Washington, D. C. For a year he followed his 
 trade in that city, after which, in 1866, he went 
 to Chicago, where he was employed for a year. 
 In 1867 he went still further west to Omaha, 
 Neb., and from that place started with an ox- 
 train across the plains. For a short time he 
 found employment in Pine Bluff, Laramie County, 
 Wyo., but soon proceeded to Denver and from 
 there to the mountains, where he engaged in 
 teaming. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Vetter began to operate rented 
 land on the Big Thompson River. In 1883 he 
 took up a homestead claim on the same river 
 and at once began farming and stock-raising, in 
 which he has met with success. He owns a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 quarter-section of land under good cultivation, 
 the value of which has been materially increased 
 by his labors. In addition to his farm interests, 
 he owns stock in the Loveland and Greeley Ditch 
 Company. He also owns two ranches in the 
 mountains which he uses as cattle ranges. He 
 is a loyal citizen of his adopted country, and in 
 politics favors the People's party. By his mar- 
 riage, in 1883, to Miss Sophia Webber, he has 
 two children, John and Charles. He has been 
 a resident of the western country from pioneer 
 days. When he was in Pine Bluff the Indians 
 were troublesome and stole their teams, but did 
 not make an attack on the men. He has wit- 
 nessed the growth and development of this state, 
 and has personally contributed to the develop- 
 ment of its stock and agricultural resources. 
 
 [{JEORGE O. STEVENS, who owns a finely 
 l_l improved farm near Greeley, Weld County, 
 \^ is one whom the equable climate of Colorado 
 has done wonders for. Years ago he was given 
 up to die by the best physicians of his old Michi- 
 gan home, but he possessed a brave heart and the 
 thought of leaving his wife and three little ones 
 dependent upon the mercies of the world nerved 
 him to a last desperate struggle for that priceless 
 boon, health. His faith and courage under most 
 trying conditions saved him from an untimely 
 grave, and he now bids fair to reach the advanced 
 age of his father, who passed the fourscore mark 
 by some two years. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Ira M. and 
 Amelia (Tripp) Stevens, natives of Connecticut 
 and New York, respectively. The father was a 
 prosperous farmer, and spent most of his mature 
 years in Michigan, of which state he was a 
 pioneer, settling there in 1839. George O. 
 Stevens was born near Lapeer, Mich., April 21, 
 1842, and grew to manhood upon the family home- 
 stead. He received such educational advantages 
 as might be expected in a new country, but 
 sparsely settled. When he was twenty years of 
 age, in August, 1862, his youthful patriotism led 
 to his enlisting in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry 
 to fight for the Union. He was a member of 
 Company K, a portion of which had the honor 
 of capturing JeSerson Davis. He was in what 
 was known as the Sabre Brigade, under the com- 
 mand of Colonel Minty, later promoted to be 
 
 brigadier-general. At the close of a year and a- 
 half of very arduous service young Stevens was 
 given an honorable discharge, on account of phy- 
 sical disability, his paper being dated January i, 
 1864. 
 
 Returning to his old home, Mr. Stevens recu- 
 perated to some extent and then engaged in work 
 as a carpenter in Oneida, Knox County, 111. 
 His home was in that city for about nine years, 
 after which he came to Colorado, in i87i,and 
 cast in his lot with a colony which located Green 
 City. This happened to be most unfortunate for 
 all concerned, for those who were at the head of 
 the enterprise were unable to secure necessary 
 water for the district, and the town had to be 
 abandoned. Everyone had spent much money 
 in the hope of receiving compensation and a suit- 
 ,able home, but their time and funds were wasted, 
 as it turned out. Mr. Stevens returned to Michi- 
 gan and began farming, but everything seemed to 
 militate against him and he was taken sick. For 
 three years he was an invalid, gradually growing 
 feebler, until death seemed imminent. Then it 
 was that the remarkable spirit of the man took 
 the lead, and he determined that he would make 
 the attempt to reach Colorado once more, where 
 he believed that he might recover. 
 
 During his army service Mr. Stevens had been 
 stationed in Quincy, 111., for a short time, and 
 there he became acquainted with the lady whom 
 he made his wife, August 4, 1863. She was a 
 daughter of Greenbury and Rebecca (Brown) 
 Polston, of Quincy. Mrs. Stevens, whose given 
 name is Macy, was born in Wheeling, W. Va., 
 and was but a child when her family removed to 
 Illinois. She has been a noble helpmate to her 
 husband, and without her assistance and cheer- 
 ing presence he probably would not have made 
 as much of a success of life as he has done. The 
 little family left Lapeer, Mich., May 17, 1877, in a 
 covered wagon, and, after the long journey across 
 the country, finally arrived in Greeley, safe and 
 sound. On the way the illness of some of the 
 party compelled them to stay about two months 
 at Guide Rock, Neb., but at length their journey 
 was resumed and was completed November 9. 
 From the time that they crossed the Missouri 
 River the husband and father seemed to improve, 
 and as the higher altitudes were reached the 
 benefit to his health became more marked. The 
 team of horses he drove were full brothers, three 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and four years old. They lived to be respectively 
 twenty and twenty-one years old, when one died, 
 and the other refusing food, apparently died with 
 grief about two weeks afterwards. 
 
 Though he never became very strong Mr. 
 Stevens greatly improved in health, and carried 
 on a rented farm near Greelej' for nine years. 
 He then built a good brick residence in Greeley, 
 and subsequently traded the place for the eighty- 
 acre ranch which he now owns. Having pur- 
 chased a small lot across the road from his home- 
 stead, as the location was pleasanter, he erected 
 a comfortable brick house, it being one of the 
 best farm houses in this valley. During his 
 residence in Greeley he was for three years 
 engaged in business, but lost about $1,200 before 
 he retired to agricultural life again. On the 
 whole he has been successful as an agriculturist, 
 though he has met with some reverses, and 
 in 1895 and 1896 his crops were destroyed 
 by grasshoppers. Fraternally he is an Odd Fel- 
 low, being a member of Poudre Valley Lodge 
 No. 12, of Greeley. He has always been a stal- 
 wart Republican. Religiously both he and his 
 estimable wife are members of theGreeley Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church. Their eldest child is 
 Etta, wife of Herman H. Preston, of Florence, 
 Colo. Ralph G., the only son, lives in Florence. 
 Mittie E. is the wife of Leland B. Kitter, and 
 lives with our subject on the ranch, her husband 
 assisting in the general management of the same. 
 
 ^AMES M. COOMBS, a retired farmer, re- 
 I siding in Longmont, Boulder County, was 
 (2/ born in Clark County, Ind., October 14, 
 1837, ^ son of John and Rachel (Hoagland) 
 Coombs. He was one of six children and is sec- 
 ond among four now living. His older sister, 
 Martha J., married Thomas W. Wells, and is 
 living in Girard, Kan.; John W. is engaged in 
 the cattle business in Cherry County, Neb.; and 
 Lizzie M. is the wife of Maland Russell, of Bruns- 
 wick, Ga. 
 
 In Clark County, Ind. , where he was born in 
 1809, John Coombs engaged in farming for some 
 years, but in 1843 removed to Lynn County, 
 Iowa, settling within six miles of the town of 
 Marion, and there carrying on a farm until his 
 death in 1879. James M., of this sketch, acquired 
 a common-school education and was reared to 
 
 a farm life. In 1864 he and a partner outfitted 
 themselves with a wagon and a team of oxen, 
 and on the ist of May of that year started across 
 the plains for Colorado. After a journey of two 
 months they arrived in Denver Julj' i, and the 
 4th was spent in Golden. Thence they went to 
 Blackhawk, and the first day's work done by 
 Mr. Coombs in Colorado was on the old stone 
 building now used as a depot in Blackhawk. For 
 that day's work he was paid $5.75. After a few 
 days there he began working at gulch mining, 
 at which he continued until the 14th of Septem- 
 ber. He then hired to a freighting outfit to go 
 to Virginia City, Mont., and on the 21st of Sep- 
 tember he left Denver with a train of twenty 
 wagons and twenty-five men. Reaching Snake 
 River they found the snow so deep that they were 
 compelled to abandon all hope of soon proceed- 
 ing further. While the train lay there until May, 
 our subject and fifteen other men walked to Vir- 
 ginia City, their employer paying their salaries 
 and furnishing them with food until their ar- 
 rival. 
 
 In Virginia City Mr. Coombs was employed in 
 the mines until June 21, when he bought a horse 
 and started back to Denver. On the Fisher road 
 ranch, five miles south of Denver, he worked for 
 five months, when he came to Boulder and pur- 
 chased a ranch on St. Vrain Creek. In the 
 spring of 1866 he went to St. Joe, Mo., with a 
 freighting outfit, and in the fall returned to his 
 ranch. During the winter, with a team he had 
 bought, he hauled hay to Blackhawk and Cen- 
 tral City. In the spring of 1867 he hauled hay 
 to Fort Laramie, for which he received $100 per 
 ton. From the ist of July to the latter part of 
 September he hauled wood and hay for the gov- 
 ernment to Fort Laramie. Returning to Weld 
 County, he worked at various kinds of employ- 
 ment. In the fall of 1869 he bought a bunch of 
 cattle and horses and embarked in the stock busi- 
 ness, which he carried on until 1876, and then 
 disposed of his interests. During the three fol- 
 lowing years he butchered beef and looked after 
 the cattle owned by George Zweck. Meantime, 
 in the fall of 1876, he had taken up a claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres in Larimer County, 
 and later bought a timber claim of eighty acres, 
 and in i88i settled down to farming. His wife 
 owns one hundred and sixty acres adjoining his 
 tract, making their joint farm one of four hun- 
 
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 dred acres. In 1890 he rented the ranch and 
 moved to lyongmont, where he has since resided. 
 February 27, 1894, Mr. Coombs married Miss 
 L,ena Mitchell, a native of Tennessee, and daugh- 
 ter of William S. Mitchell, a prominent merchant 
 of Clarksburg, that state. 
 
 ~PHRAIM K. C. EVANS, a veteran of the 
 ^ Civil war, now residing on a farm south of 
 ^ Loveland, Larimer County, was born in 
 Beaver County, Pa., in 1838, being a son of 
 North and Mary Ann (Black) Evans. His father, 
 who was a large land owner and successful farmer, 
 spent his entire life in his native commonwealth 
 of Pennsylvania, dying there when seventy years 
 of age. When a boy Ephraim attended the com- 
 mon schools in the home neighborhood, and on 
 leaving school learned the carpenter's trade, 
 which he followed for twenty-five years. In 1874 
 he started for the west, and arriving in Denver, 
 began to work at his trade. Two years later he 
 went to Longmont and from there, in the spring 
 of 1878, took up a homestead of government land 
 in Larimer County. He prepared the land for 
 cultivation and in 1880 put in his first crop, since 
 which time he has followed general farming, at 
 the same time having the contracts for several 
 houses and business blocks in Loveland. His 
 ranch comprises four hundred acres of land, some 
 of which is used for pasturage for his stock, 
 while the remainder is under cultivation. 
 
 During the McKinley campaign of 1896, Mr. 
 Evans was the Republican candidate for coun- 
 ty representative from Larimer County. He 
 is a true patriot, and showed his patriotism 
 during the Civil war, when he enlisted, in 1861, 
 in Company B, First Pennsylvania Light Artill-v 
 ery, as a private. During his service of three 
 years he participated in the battles of Gettysburg 
 and Antietam, and for a time was confined in a 
 hospital, after which he rejoined his company 
 in time to take part in the second battle of Bull 
 Run. He followed the Army of the Potomac in 
 all of its campaigns, and as a member of Cooper's 
 battery, was under heavy fire much of the time. 
 His health was seriously afifected by the exposures 
 and hardships of army life, and he has never 
 been strong since. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Evans married Miss Eliza Fenton, 
 of Pennsylvania. They have four children: 
 
 Lois G., wife of T.E.Burns; Alma B., who married 
 Elliott McNeal; Howard and Anna Cecelia. For 
 eighteen years Mr. Evans has officiated as an 
 elder in the Christian Church, in which he is an 
 active worker and to which he has contributed 
 liberally. For several years he was a director in 
 the Home Supply Ditch Company, of which he is 
 a charter member. He is one of the directors in 
 the Larimer County Bank, a stockholder in the 
 Handy Ditch Company and in the Berthoud roller 
 mill, in which for several years he served as a 
 director. Considering the fact that he began 
 without capital, he has accomplished results of 
 which he may well be proud, and he is not only 
 well-to-do financially, but is also respected as a 
 man of integrity and highest honor. 
 
 E GLUM BUS C. HAYS, a retired farmer and 
 stock-raiser residing in Loveland, Larimer 
 County, was born in Lafayette County, Mo., 
 in 1834. He is of English descent, his grand- 
 father, Jacob Hays, having emigrated from Eng- 
 land to Virginia, where he died. The father, 
 John Hays, a native of Virginia, sought a home 
 in the west in his early manhood and settled in 
 Missouri, where he successfully engaged in farm 
 pursuits during the remainder of his active life. 
 In politics he voted the Democratic ticket. Prior 
 to coming west he enlisted for service in the war 
 of 18 1 2 and continued in the army until the close 
 of the conflict. His death occurred in 1858, when 
 he was sixty-three years of age. By his mar- 
 riage to Rebecca Robinson, who died in 1838, he 
 had seven children, five of whom are living, 
 namely: William, of Kansas City, Mo.; Isaac, 
 Jacob and Columbus C, all of whom live in Colo- 
 rado; and Rose, Mrs. Hale, of Missouri. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject's life were 
 passed in Missouri and his education was obtained 
 in country schools. In 1853 he accompanied 
 Waddell, Russell & Majors on a teaming expedi- 
 tion to New Mexico, and for a number of years 
 afterward he was employed as teamster. In 1861 
 he began freighting in and around Denver and 
 along the Platte, at which work he continued for 
 five years. In 1866 he settled on Bear Creek and 
 began the improvement of a farm, on which he 
 made his home until 1871, and then settled up- 
 on a stock ranch in the mountain region. After 
 having made his home on that place for over 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 833 
 
 three years, in 1875 lie took up land near the 
 present site of Loveland, and here he followed 
 farming and stock-growing until 1890, when he 
 retired from active business cares and established 
 his home in Loveland. He is a director in the 
 Bank of Loveland and is in comfortable circum- 
 stances financially, having a competency for his 
 declining years. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Hays was united in marriage with 
 Miss Emeline Fletcher, of Missouri. They are 
 the parents of eight children, viz.: John, Lee, 
 George, Belle (wife of Frank S. Smith), Mary 
 (Mrs. Charles Maxwell), Pearl and Fern. The 
 family are identified with the Christian Church 
 of Loveland, and are prominent and popular 
 among the best people in Loveland's social circles. 
 
 V yi RS. ALICE M. BECKWITH, the present 
 y efl&cient county clerk of Weld County, 
 a was born at Huntley, near Elgin, 111., but 
 when a child removed to Wisconsin with her 
 parents, Noah and Jane (Coleman) Maltby, both 
 natives of New York state. The paternal grand- 
 father, Noah Maltby, Sr. , was also born in New 
 York, and was of English descent. Mrs. Beck- 
 with is next to the youngest in a family of seven 
 children, two sons and five daughters, the others 
 being James D., who died in the state of Wash- 
 ington; Adelia M., wife of G. S. Hill, of Glen- 
 dale, Ore.; Appleton N., a resident of Oakdale, 
 Wis.; Lydia J., wife of Alfred A. Howard, a 
 farmer and contractor of Greeley; Ada N., wife 
 of Lieutenant-Governor Brush; and Ruth M., 
 wife of Horace C. Clark, clerk of the supreme 
 court, of Denver. The sons were both soldiers 
 of the Civil war, Appleton being with Sherman 
 on the celebrated march to the sea as a member 
 of the Twenty -fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
 while James D. was a member of an Iowa regi- 
 ment, and both remained in the service over three 
 years, as they re-enlisted. Mrs. Hill was the first 
 of the family to come to Colorado, arriving here 
 in 1864, but she was soon afterward followed by 
 the others, the parents coming in 1871 and our 
 subject in 1876. 
 
 Mrs. Beckwith was married in Wisconsin to 
 Charles D. Wells, who was elected to the .state 
 legi-slature from Monroe County, that state, in 
 1875. By that union she had one daughter, 
 Lotta, now the wife of Charles E. Clark, deputy 
 
 clerk of Weld County. In 1879 she married 
 W. D. Beckwith, now a farmer and water com- 
 missioner of North Park, Colo. 
 
 Since 1888 Mrs. Beckwith has been connected 
 with the clerk's office in Weld County, having 
 applied for a position in January, that year, to 
 Captain Hotchkiss, then county clerk. So ac- 
 ceptably did she fill the position that she was 
 retained by his successors, Mr. Hufismith, T. C. 
 Williams and L. C. Mead. In June, 1897, she 
 announced her intention of becoming a candidate 
 for the office of clerk on an independent ticket, 
 and as her friends interested themselves in her 
 behalf she was endorsed by the People's, Repub- 
 lican and Prohibition parties, and at the fall 
 election received a majority of nearly one thou- 
 sand over her opponent. She was the first lady 
 elected to that office in Weld County and the 
 third in the state, the others being Mrs. Gunn, of 
 Logan County, and Mrs. Sue Callihan, of Boul- 
 der County. By her long clerkship she is espe- 
 cially qualified for the office, and is now most 
 capably and satisfactorily discharging its duties, 
 winning the commendation of all concerned. She 
 was the second lady to register after the female 
 suffrage bill was passed, has taken quite an 
 active, influential part in public matters, and has 
 clearly demonstrated the possibility of ladies 
 a.ssuming important positions in public life. She 
 attends the services of the Congregational Church, 
 though not a member, and in social circles she 
 stands high. 
 
 Gl BRAHAM SLATER, a pioneer of '59, settled 
 U upon an eighty-acre farm, one mile west of 
 / 1 Denver, in 1889, and here he has since en- 
 gaged in gardening and the raising of small fruits. 
 He is a native of Ontario, Canada, born March 27, 
 1828, and is a son of Benjamin and Maria 
 (Johnson) Slater. He was one of ten children, 
 six of whom are still living, namely : Isaac, who 
 resides in Sioux City, Iowa; WilHam, of Chicago; 
 Samuel, living in Polo, 111.; Lydia, the widow of 
 Henry Wagner, of Ontario; Abraham; and Mary, 
 widow of Daniel Appleford, of Polo. 
 
 The father ofthis family was born in Chenango 
 County, N. Y., about 1790, and there grew to 
 manhood. The inducements held out by Can- 
 ada to secure settlers led him to migrate to that 
 country, where, in order to secure land, he was 
 required to take the oath of allegiance. On the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 breaking out of the war of 1812 he was drafted 
 into the service by the Canadian government and 
 served as sergeant of his company until the close 
 of the war. He was then offered a homestead by 
 the government, but the land was situated so far 
 back in the country that he refused it, and 
 bought property in a more desirable place. Set- 
 tling down to farm pursuits, he spent his remain- 
 ing years as an agriculturist, and died on his 
 homestead about 1879. He was a man of in- 
 fluence and was highly respected. His first wife 
 died when our subject was six years of age and 
 afterward he married Mrs. McMurchy, a native 
 of Scotland. They became the parents of seven 
 children, five of whom survive: Catherine, Jona- 
 than, Sarah, l,ois and Joseph. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years our subject began 
 in life for himself, securing employment with a 
 Canadian farmer, with whom he remained for 
 three years. In 1849 he came to the States and 
 for seven years made his home near Polo, 111., 
 where he rented a farm. In 1856 he went to 
 Iowa and located in Chickasaw County, where 
 he farmed and worked for others until 1859. ^^ 
 the time of the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak 
 he determined to go west to the mountains, and 
 with an ox-team he started across the plains, 
 leaving Iowa on the 28th of March, 1859, and 
 arriving in Denver on the 14th of June following. 
 After a few days in Denver and Golden he went 
 to Central City and until November of the same 
 year he worked in the mines. In the fall he re- 
 turned to the valley, where he spent the winter, 
 and in the spring of i860 went back to the mines, 
 working at California Gulch until the fall. He 
 then again came back to the valley, and again in 
 the spring went to Central City, where he fol- 
 lowed various occupations. On his return in the 
 autumn to the valley, he settled on Clear Creek, 
 and in the spring engaged in farming on a quarter 
 section of land taken up by himself and a partner. 
 After one year he sold out and bought one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres iu the same neighborhood, 
 where he carried on farm pursuits. In 1889 he 
 removed from that place, which was situated 
 three miles west of Arvada, to his present property 
 on Prospect avenue, one and a-quarter miles from 
 the county line. Here he has since engaged in 
 farming and the raising of small fruits. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Slater married Miss Mary Moon, 
 and they have three children: Edgar \V. , who 
 
 cultivates the home farm; Nettie, who is at home; 
 and Nora, deceased. In political affiliations our 
 subject is a silver Republican. He was made a 
 Mason at Golden in 1863. In religious belief he 
 is a Methodist, and has been a well-known and 
 useful member of the church. 
 
 EHARLES WARREN was born in Aurora, 
 N. Y. , in 1840, and in boyhood removed to 
 Massachusetts, where he attended school in 
 the village of Lee. April 23, 1861, he enlisted 
 in the Fifth New York Duryee's Zouaves, and 
 with his regiment took part in many severe en- 
 gagements, among them being the Seven Days' 
 fight, siege of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, 
 Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, 
 second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericks- 
 burg and Chancellorsville. At the expiration of 
 his term of service he again enlisted, in October, 
 1864, becoming a lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth 
 New York Cavalry, and served until he was dis- 
 charged in November, 1865. At the close of the 
 war he was sent to Texas as a captain of a com- 
 pany. The following year, when the fear of an 
 outbreak no longer existed, he retired from the 
 service, and went to Savannah, Ga. With a 
 brother he e^ngaged in raising cotton for some 
 years. When Chester A. Arthur was collector 
 of customs of New York, Captain Warren was a 
 deputy under him. Later he engaged in the 
 wholesale and retail candy manufacturing busi- 
 ness in New York City. In 1872 he came to 
 Colorado and started the first lumber yard in 
 Fort Collins. At the same time he carried on a 
 sheep business with his cousin, F. E. Warren, 
 of Cheyenne, Wyo., owning large ranches on 
 Fossil Creek. 
 
 In order to irrigate his farm, which consisted 
 of four hundred acres, Captain Warren devised 
 an excellent plan. In 1873 he filled Warren 
 Lake, which formed a natural basin, from Cache 
 la Poudre, having one of the first water rights. 
 He incorporated the Warren Lake Reservoir Com- 
 pany, of which he was one of the largest stock- 
 holders. The water from the reservoir is used 
 iu the irrigation of the land, which in this way is 
 abundantly watered. In 1891 Captain Warren 
 was elected manager of the Harmony mills, a 
 farmers' mill, which he managed successfully for 
 five years, resigning in August, 1896. When 
 
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 in partnership with his son, Nathan, he founded 
 the Warren Commercial Company, and began to 
 deal in agricultural implements, also in grain, 
 large quantities of which he shipped . In addition 
 to other enterprises, he engaged extensively in 
 feeding sheep. 
 
 In the George H. Thomas Post No. 7, G. A. R. , 
 at Fort Collins, Captain Warren was past com- 
 mander. He continued to reside in this place 
 until his death, which occurred May 8, 1898. 
 He was then fifty-eight years of age. In 1872, 
 in New York City, he married Ida M. Warren, 
 who was born in Massachusetts and was a 
 daughter of Caleb S. Warren, of that state. She 
 is now living in Fort Collins. Of her six children 
 only three attained maturity, namely: Charles B., 
 an electrician in Cheyenne, Wyo.; Nathan C, 
 who is manager of the Warren Commercial Com- 
 pany, of Fort Collins; and Thomas J. , a graduate 
 of the State Agricultural College in 1898 and now 
 associated with his brother Nathan. 
 
 ~DWARD D. RIKER. This name is well 
 ^ and favorably known in Weld County, as, 
 _ for over thirty years, its owner has been a 
 progressive citizen of township 4, range 67, Weld 
 County, taking an active part in the promotion 
 of everything tending to the general upbuilding 
 and improvement of this section of the state. 
 After being of much service in the organization of 
 school district No. 21, he was president of the 
 board of education for a period of fifteen years. 
 Though he was a candidate for the offices of con- 
 stable and justice of the peace and was duly 
 elected, he did not qualify. In political opinion 
 he holds to the People's party platform. 
 
 Isaac W. Riker, father of our subject, was one 
 of the prominent merchants of New York City 
 for many years, prior to his death in 1851. He 
 was a native of Vermont and spent his early life 
 in the Green Mountain state. He learned the 
 tailor's trade and was the owner of a large mer- 
 chant tailoring establishment on Carmine street. 
 New York, and was the proprietor of the Crystal 
 Palace Hotel, at the corner of Sixth avenue and 
 Fortieth street. His wife, who survived him 
 many years, dying in 1882, at the age of sixty- 
 two, was Miss Harriet D. Dow in her girlhood, 
 and, like her husband, she was born in Vermont. 
 Edward D. Riker was a small child at the time 
 
 of his father's death. He was born in the 
 metropolis in 1850, and there nineteen years of 
 his life were spent, in which period he gained a 
 good general education in the public schools. In 
 i860 he earned his first regular wages, by clerk- 
 ing in a grocery, and for a few seasons he found 
 employment with farmers, while, in the winter 
 months he was privileged to attend school. In 
 
 1869 he came west, to look after some Colorado 
 property belonging to his mother, and, as the 
 Union Pacific and Denver & Pacific Railroads 
 were then in process of construction, he found 
 work on the line between Cheyenne and Denver, 
 and was thus employed for about a year. In 
 
 1870 he took up a homestead on the Platte River, 
 and devoted himself to the raising and feeding of 
 cattle and horses. Thirteen years passed in these 
 pursuits, and in 1882 he sold his property and 
 took a pre-emption on the claim of half of section 
 12, township 4, range 67. He has since sold a 
 quarter-section. At present he owns about forty 
 head of fine cattle and half as many horses. At 
 one time he was a stockholder in the Greeley 
 Creamery Company and he now sells large quan- 
 tities of milk to the local creamery. In 1896 he 
 and W. R. Adams, of Greeley, were the incor- 
 porators of the Little Thompson Reservoir and 
 Water Supply Company, and he is the president. 
 He holds stock in the Hillsborough ditch, and 
 was a director several times and is also con- 
 nected with the Little Thompson Lateral Ditch 
 Company, having been president of the same and 
 a director for some time past. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Riker married Miss Carrie Miller, 
 who was born in New York City. Her father, 
 Conrad Miller, is one of the oldest business men 
 of the metropolis, and is now the proprietor of the 
 Central Park House, of that city. He is a native 
 of Frankfort, Germany, but has resided in the 
 United States since 1848. At this writing Mr. 
 Riker is constructing a fine residence on a piece 
 of property that he recently purchased, the south- 
 east quarter of section 13, township 4 south, 
 range 67 west. 
 
 EHARLES B. RAMSDELLis one of the rep- 
 resentative farmers of Weld County and has 
 seen its development from a wilderness to 
 its present fertile and thriving condition. For a 
 number of years his residence has been in Evans, 
 of which town he has served as mayor. He still 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 owns and carries on a good farm in this vicinity, 
 it being situated on section 28, township 6, range 
 65. In all local affairs he has been active and 
 interested, discharging the duties which devolved 
 upon him as a citizen, in a conscientious manner, 
 and striving always to uphold law, order and 
 good government. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell is a native of Grey, Me., his 
 birth having occurred December 20, 1825. His 
 parents, Solomon and Paulina (Libby) Rams- 
 dell, were likewise both natives of Maine, and 
 spent their lives in that section of New England, 
 their home being on a farm. The family of this 
 worthy couple comprised five children, namely: 
 Ebenezer, who is deceased; Julia, who married 
 Oliver P. Hodsdon; Maria, wife of Willard Bray; 
 Henry, who was one of the gallant defenders 
 of the Union during the Civil war and died with 
 the yellow fever at New Orleans; and Charles B., 
 the second in order of birth. 
 
 The early years ofC. B. Ramsdell were passed 
 quietly on the old homestead. There he con- 
 tinued to dwell until 1859, when he started for 
 California. Arriving on the Pacific coast he en- 
 gaged in mining and prospecting for some six 
 years, meeting with fair success. He made the 
 trips, both ways, around by Panama, the voyage 
 taking about twenty-eight or thirty days. In 
 i860 he returned home and purchased a farm, 
 which he proceeded to cultivate for a number of 
 years. When the Greeley colony was founded, 
 in 1870, he joined it, and coming west, settled on 
 a tract of land near Lone Tree. Later he sold 
 this property, which he had improved, and for 
 ten years was a resident of Greeley. Then he 
 bought a ranch on the Platte River, and managed 
 the place until i89i,whenlie became the owner 
 of his present fine homestead of half a section. 
 He has made numerous substantial improvements 
 on the place and has erected buildings and fences. 
 The ranch is considered one of the very best in 
 this region, and each year abundant harvests are 
 garnered from its fertile fields. In addition to the 
 comfortable house on the farm, the owner has a 
 pretty residence in Evans, it having been built 
 by him in 1888. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell is a member of the Odd Fellows' 
 order, belonging to Evans Lodge No. 109. He 
 is also identified with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen of Evans. Religiously he is a Baptist 
 and is a member of the church at Greeley. His 
 
 marriage with Miss Mary J. Wadley was sol- 
 emnized in 1850. Her parents, Daniel and Mary 
 (Gerry) Wadley, were both natives of San ford, 
 York County, Me. To Mr. and Mrs. Ramsdell 
 five children have been born, the eldest of whom, 
 Edward E., assists his father on the home farm. 
 Adeline is the wife of Orriu Gerry, a farmer of 
 this section. Mary is the wife of John Parsons 
 and resides in Utah. Julia married William 
 Kimbley, whose ranch is within half a mile of Mr. 
 Ramsdell' s home. Nettie is the wife of Samuel 
 Pardee, a farmer near Evans. 
 
 0AVID S. ELLIS, a well-known citizen of 
 LaSalle, who has been prominently identified 
 with the agricultural and commercial inter- 
 ests of Weld County for some time, was born 
 December 29, 1849, in Washington County, 111., 
 and is a son of William and Margaret (Sawyer) 
 Ellis. The father was a native of Ireland, and 
 on coming to the new world in early manhood 
 located in Logan County, Ohio, where he was 
 married and followed farming for a time. Sub- 
 sequently he was engaged in the same pursuit in 
 Illinois, and from there removed to St. Louis, 
 Mo., in 1 85 1, when our subject was only two 
 years old. Jle was interested in the stock busi- 
 ness in that city until 1873, which year witnessed 
 his arrival in Evans, Weld County, Colo., where 
 he lived retired from active business cares until 
 his death, which occurred in January, 1883. He 
 made his home with our subject. 
 
 Until he attained his majority David S. Ellis 
 continued to live in St. Louis, and in the schools 
 of that city acquired a good practical education, 
 which was completed by a commercial course. 
 At the age of eighteen he accepted a position as 
 shipping clerk with Thompson Brothers, lumber 
 dealers, and with that firm remained until coming 
 to Colorado. He first came to this state with a 
 load of cattle for D. N. Edgerton, of Pueblo, and 
 from there came to Evans, where he spent one 
 season in working in the brick yard of L. B. 
 Willard. In the spring of 1872 he engaged in 
 stone work contracting with J. B. Evans, his 
 brother-in-law, and was thus employed for two 
 years, while for the following two years he taught 
 school. On coming to Evans in 1871 he took up 
 a homestead on section 34, township 5, range 65, 
 and gradually drifted into stock-raising and farm- 
 
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 839 
 
 iug. For several years he has also been interested 
 in dairying, and for this purpose keeps from 
 twenty-five to thirty head of high-grade Jerseys. 
 He has disposed of his original homestead and 
 now owns one hundred and sixty acres on sec- 
 tion 6, township 4, range 65, and as the town of 
 LaSalle has been laid out on his land, he has con- 
 ducted the store for Mr. Morrison at that place 
 since December, 1897, ^^^ ^" ^^^ ^^^ undertakings 
 is meeting with success. 
 
 October 22, 1873, Mr. Ellis was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Eliza J. White, of St. Louis, a 
 daughter of William White, and to them have 
 been bom nine children, namely: Jennie, now 
 the wife of A. B. Slater, of Emporia, Kan.; 
 Carrie E. , who is successfully engaged in teaching 
 school at Dewey's Alley, formerly known as 
 Bebee Draw; Hattie, who resides at home; Esther 
 and Adda, who are students in the State Normal 
 School; and Ruth, Ralph, Edith and Grace, all 
 at home. They form a bright, intelligent family 
 and have been provided with good educational 
 privileges. Mr. Ellis has always taken an active 
 part in educational matters and has been an 
 efficient member of the school board for six years. 
 In fact he gives an earnest support to all measures 
 which he believes calculated to advance the moral, 
 intellectual and material welfare of his town and 
 county. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Union Ditch Company, was elected its first presi- 
 dent and served in that capacity for some time. 
 He holds membership in the Reformed Presby- 
 terian Church of Evans, is clerk of the session, 
 and takes an active and prominent part in all 
 church and Sunday-school work, having served 
 as assistant superintendent of the latter organiza- 
 tion for fifteen years. Politically he is a free 
 silver Republican. 
 
 0EWEY W. STRONG. By a course of hon- 
 est and upright dealing with all, Mr. Strong 
 has gained the confidence of his fellow- 
 citizens and has become the most prominent mer- 
 chant in Brighton, where he has built up a large 
 and profitable dry-goods trade. In addition to 
 this enterprise, he carries on a dairy business in 
 partnership with J. C. Twombly and owns a fine 
 farm of one hundred and sixty acres, stocked 
 with cattle and situated near Brighton. While 
 he is not a politician, his interest in the progress 
 of his town led him to accept the office of alder- 
 
 man several terms and that of mayor one term. 
 He was reared in the Republican faith and cast 
 his first presidential ballot, in 1872, for General 
 Grant. Later, when the issue of currency was 
 brought forward, he became a supporter of the 
 silver standard, and in 1896 he was the candidate 
 of the silver Republicans for the legislature. 
 
 Mr. Strong was borninStrongsville, Cuyahoga 
 County, Ohio, July 28, 1848, a son of Clark R. 
 and Lydia (Stevens) Strong. His grandfather, 
 John Strong, was born in Connecticut, and mi- 
 grated from there to Ohio, where he surveyed 
 and laid out the town of Strongsville. Clark 
 R. Strong removed to Illinois in 1853 ^^d settled 
 in Kankakee, where he carried on a store and 
 also invested in land near the city. Soon after 
 he settled there his wife died and he afterward 
 married again, but had no children by his second 
 marriage. A few years after he came west he 
 died, leaving five children to the care of their 
 step-mother, with little money to support them, 
 but with about four hundred acres of land. He 
 was an industrious man, of good judgment, and 
 had he lived to old age he would undoubtedly 
 have attained a competency; but, as it was, his 
 children had little to support them. 
 
 A few years after the death of his father, our 
 subject went to Hillsdale, Mich., where he spent 
 a year with his brother, Emorj' M. Upon com- 
 pleting the studies of the public schools, he en- 
 tered the preparatory department of Oberlin Col- 
 lege, where he remained for two years. He took 
 a business course and then went to Indiana, 
 where he taught school for two years. Later he 
 spent two years as an insurance agent in Ashta- 
 bula County, Ohio, after which he went to Bur- 
 lington, Kane Count}', 111., and secured employ- 
 ment as clerk in a general store, receiving at first 
 a very small salary. In that place he married 
 Miss Nancy C. Roseborough, who was born 
 there. After four years in Burlington his health 
 failed and in May, 1873, he came to Colorado, 
 where he spent a year in Denver and the mount- 
 ains, and then located a homestead in Weld 
 County. For seven years he made his home on 
 that property, which he improved and placed 
 under cultivation. He took a great interest in 
 the development of the Fulton irrigating ditch, 
 also carried on dairying, and through outdoor 
 exercise regained his health. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Strong came to Brighton, then 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 just started. He moved a small house from his 
 farm and was the first permanent merchant of the 
 new town, starting in business on a very small 
 scale; but after a year he built his present store, 
 to which he has added as his business has de- 
 veloped. He bought twenty acres in the town 
 and platted it in lots, and still owns half of the 
 tract. His only child, Arthur James, who was 
 born in Denver, has been given a good education. 
 He was a graduate of the East Denver high 
 school and is now a student in the State Uni- 
 versity at Boulder. 
 
 In the Presbyterian Church of Brighton Mr. 
 Strong has officiated as an elder and trustee, and 
 for twelve years has been superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school. He was made a Mason in Bur- 
 lington, 111., and is a charter member of Brighton 
 Lodge No. 78, A. F. & A. M., in which he has 
 filled all the chairs except that of W. M. He is 
 also connected with the Odd Fellows. When 
 Garfield was president he was appointed post- 
 master, a position that he held until the first 
 term of Cleveland. 
 
 0SCAR ENNES, one of the most progressive 
 and highly esteemed farmers of Weld County, 
 was called to his final rest November 28, 
 1894. He was born near Oberlin, Ohio, July 
 19, 1835, but during boyhood accompanied his 
 father, James Ennes, on his removal to Bureau 
 County, 111., where the latter died. There upon 
 the home farm our subject grew to manhood, and 
 during his youth learned the carpenter's trade, 
 which he followed for a time in that state. 
 
 On the 27th of October, 1858, in Amboy, Lee 
 County, 111., he was united in marriage with Miss 
 Lavina Williams, who was about five years his 
 junior. She was also a native of Ohio, and a 
 daughter of Walter and Sophrona (Clork) Will- 
 iams. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ennes, viz.: Walter, now a merchant of Evans, 
 Colo. ; Nellie, wife of Cyrus Mount, a merchant 
 of Brush, Colo.; Clarissa, who died in early wo- 
 manhood; Celia, wife of Jesse Doney, a farmer 
 near Evans; Theodore, who carries on the Box 
 Elder ranch; Clayton, who operates the home 
 farm; and Joseph, who died in infancy. 
 
 Soon after his marriage, Mr. Ennes removed to 
 Rochester, Minn., where he followed his trade for 
 one year and then returned to Illinois. In i860, 
 however, he came to Colorado, driving overland. 
 
 He located in what is known as the Plum Bottom, 
 five miles from the present Ennes homestead, but 
 only remained there a short time. For several 
 years he had charge of the Gary ranch, and was 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising, but owing 
 to the Indian troubles he went to Nebraska City, 
 and engaged in freighting from Omaha for one 
 3'ear. He then located on the Platte River two 
 miles east of the present town of Evans, his origi- 
 nal homestead comprising eighty acres, but he 
 subsequently bought one hundred and sixty acres 
 four miles distant, and another one hundred and 
 sixty-acre tract in Box Elder, seven miles away, 
 and two and a-half miles from Kersey. Here he 
 extensively engaged in stock-raising, and took 
 an active and prominent part in advancing all en- 
 terprises for the public good. With Mr. Huff- 
 smith he commenced the Latham ditch, the first 
 in the vicinity, and remained a director and stock- 
 holder of the same until his death. He was a 
 promoter of educational interests, was an organ- 
 izer of the schools of his locality, and most of the 
 time served as a member of the board in school 
 district No. 11. He was pre-eminently public- 
 spirited and progressive and bore an important 
 part in the upbuilding and development of the 
 state, and on its roll of honored pioneers his name 
 should be found among the foremost. As a busi- 
 ness man he was upright and reliable in all his 
 dealings, and by good management and economy 
 succeeded in gaining a comfortable competency 
 for his family. 
 
 Walter Ennes, the eldest child of Mr. Ennes, 
 married, in 1885, Fannie, daughter of Nicholas 
 Baker, of Evans. They have two children, Oscar 
 W. and Arthur. In 1897 the second son, Theo- 
 dore, married Edna M., daughter of George H. 
 Young, the well-known merchant of Evans. 
 
 f^jEORGE CARTER, a farmer of Weld County, 
 l_ was born in Bedfordshire, England, in Nov- 
 \^ ember, 1842, a son of Amos and Carrie 
 (Stapleton) Carter, the former being a farmer 
 and landed proprietor in England. At the age of 
 twenty-four our subject came to the United States 
 and settled in Manchester, Iowa, where he en- 
 gaged in painting. From there, in 1872, here- 
 moved to Denver, Colo. , thence settled on a farm. 
 His wife, who was Sarah Smith, an English lady, 
 died at that place June 29, 1891, leaving three 
 
DAVID HERSHMAN. 
 
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 843 
 
 daughters, namely: Carrie, who is unmarried; 
 Ada, wife of Victor Banks, an electrician of Tre- 
 mont, Colo.; and Winnie, who married Harry 
 W. Hamilton and resides at Denver. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Carter bought an eighty-acre tract 
 in Weld County, but after three years he sold the 
 place. September 27, 1895, he married Mrs. A. 
 B. Augusta Miller, widow of Charles Miller, who 
 came to this state when it was a territorial wilder- 
 ness and took the first steps toward the develop- 
 ment of Weld County. During his early resi- 
 dence here Indians were numerous and hostile. 
 Mrs. Carter, too, was a pioneer of this locality, 
 having crossed the plains with her parents in an 
 early day. She owns a farm of two hundred and 
 forty acres of good land, most of which is rented. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Carter is a member of the 
 Order of St. George. Politically he votes the 
 Republican ticket. He is identified with the 
 Presbyterian Church and assisted in building the 
 house of worship at La Salle. His aunt, Mrs. 
 John Stapleton, was a niece of George Washing- 
 ton and was a member of a very wealthy English 
 family, whose large estates are still in chancery, 
 Mr. Carter being one of the heirs. 
 
 0AVID HERSHMAN, who resides one-half 
 mile south of Loveland, Larimer County, 
 was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Septem- 
 ber 24, 1839. He is a son of Philip Hershman, 
 a native of Pennsylvania, who removed to Ohio in 
 boyhood days and remained there until 1850. The 
 next fifteen years he resided in Michigan. In 
 1865 he went to Illinois, but after a year migrat- 
 ed to Kansas, where he followed the wheel- 
 wright's trade and farm pursuits. He became a 
 land owner and a successful man. Politically he 
 was a Democrat until the war, after which he ad- 
 hered to Republican principles. At different 
 times he was chosen to fill important positions, 
 in all of which he served acceptably. His death 
 occurred when he was seventy-two years of age. 
 By the marriage of Philip 'Hershman to Sarah 
 Henney, a native of Ohio, seven children were 
 born, six of whom are living, namely: John; 
 David; Sarah, wife of Conrad Weaver; Amanda, 
 who married J. H. Hines; Emma, wife of Elijah 
 Foster; and Mrs. Mary Mack. The mother of 
 these children died at the age of seventy-six. 
 Our subject spent his early life principally in 
 36 
 
 Lansing, Mich., where he was educated in the 
 public schools and in a private school taught by 
 Professor Olds. At the age of twenty- one he lo- 
 cated on a farm near Lansing, and for three or 
 four years engaged in general agricultural pur- 
 suits. In i86o he went to Illinois, where he 
 operated a rented farm for three years in Henry 
 County. 
 
 At the close of the war, in 1865, Mr. Hershman 
 came west to see the country. Arriving in Colo- 
 rado on a tour of inspection, he was pleased with 
 the prospects and bought his present farm, for 
 which he paid $2,000. He has since added to the 
 original tract until he now owns over four hun- 
 dred acres of fine farm land. During the early days 
 of his residence here, he frequently saw Indians 
 roaming in the vicinity, but they evinced no hos- 
 tility. In 1866 he opened a general store, but 
 after carrying on a mercantile business for a time 
 it interfered to such an extent with his farm work 
 that he sold out. He combines farming with 
 stock-raising and sheep-feeding, and raises a fine 
 grade of draft horses and Jersey cows. At the 
 time he settled here, the Big Thompson Manufac- 
 turing and Irrigating Company's ditch was partly 
 built, and he took an active part in its comple- 
 tion, and for several years served as president of 
 the company. He also took an active part in the 
 construction of the Home Supply ditch and was 
 one of the company's stockholders. At this 
 writing he is a stockholder in the Farmers' Ditch 
 Company, in the construction of whose ditch he 
 assisted. He is now aiding in the construction 
 of the Horse Shoe Park reservoir, of which com- 
 pany he is treasurer and a trustee. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Hershman was 
 coroner for some time during the early years of 
 his residence in Larimer County. He was one of 
 the organizers of school district No. 2, and for 
 some time served as president of its board of trus- 
 tees. In the United Brethren Church, of which 
 he is a member, he has officiated as trustee and 
 steward. In 1869 he married MissLydia Crytes, 
 a daughter of Peter Crytes, of Michigan. She 
 died in 1881, leaving five children, viz.: Ella, 
 now the wife of George Sniveley; Alta, whomar- 
 ried Theodore Bryan; Frank, who married Cath- 
 erine France, and resides on a farm near his father's 
 place; Emma, residing at home; and Hattie, 
 wife of Edward Sheffield. The second marriage 
 of our subject united him with Miss May, daughter 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of William Gruner, of Missouri. Five children 
 bless their union, namely: Ada, who is the wife 
 of Edward Simington; Clara, Mamie, Alice and 
 Grace. 
 
 pCJlLUAM H. MALONEY owns a large 
 \ A / ranch situated in Arapahoe County, along 
 VV Run Creek, one mile south of Watkins 
 Station, where he settled in 1868. He has en- 
 gaged in raising horses and cattle and also raises 
 hay and corn for feed. His ranch contains eleven 
 hundred and twenty acres, and is among the most 
 valuable places in the county. In the early days 
 of his residence here life on the frontier was 
 fraught with many dangers and hardships. The 
 Sioux, Cheyennes, Commanches and Arapahoes, 
 who had previously been friendly, became trouble- 
 some, and he had many skirmishes with them. 
 While he was on a hunting trip at Chalk Bluffs, 
 Wyo., in 1867, his horse was shot from under 
 him by an arrow from a Sioux Indian. He was 
 one of a party of eleven hunters who were charged, 
 on Little Crow Creek, by one hundred Indians, 
 and one of the Indians lost his life in the skirm- 
 ish. Two weeks previous to this assault, the 
 same Indians stole the white men's horses at 
 night, one Indian securing Mr. Maloney's horse 
 by cutting the lariat with which the animal was 
 picketed. The hunters pursued the thieves, but 
 after twelve miles, the Indians evidently having 
 muffled the horses' feet, they escaped. Two 
 weeks later the same party of Indians attacked 
 the white men. The latter were armed with 
 double-barreled hunting rifles, with telescope 
 sights, made by C. Gove, of Denver. To their 
 fine guns the men owed their escape. The hunt- 
 ing trips, though perilous, were very successful; 
 in fact, they gave Mr. Maloney his start on the 
 ranch. 
 
 Both the paternal grandfather and the maternal 
 grandfather of our subject were soldiers in the 
 Indian and Revolutionary wars. The latter, 
 John Conner, was a native of Pennsylvania. Our 
 subject was born in Allegheny County, Pa., 
 March 4, 1835, a son of John and Elizabeth (Con- 
 ner) Maloney. His father, who was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, followed the occupation of a blacksmith 
 in early life. Removing to Stark County, Ohio, 
 he settled near Canton, where he .spent the re- 
 mainder of his life. In religion he was identified 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of his 
 
 children we note the following: John, a painter, 
 who saw service both in the Mexican and Civil 
 wars; David, a tailor, and James, a blacksmith 
 and carriage maker, are deceased; Benjamin, who 
 enlisted in the Civil war, was captured, taken to 
 Andersonville and there he died. Mary, Mrs. N. 
 Huff, of Canton, Ohio, is deceased; Emily is the 
 wife of Frank Peedcod, of Beatrice, Neb.; Sarah 
 Ellen, the youngest of the family, is a widow and 
 resides in Chicago. 
 
 When a boy our subject was taken to Ohio, 
 where he was educated in the common schools. 
 At twenty years of age he started out for himself. 
 In 1859 he came to Colorado, making the trip 
 from Des Moines, Iowa, to Blackhawk, with a 
 wagon train. He prospected for gold in Black- 
 hawk, South Clear Creek, Central City, Idaho 
 Springs, Fall River and Georgetown on North 
 Clear Creek. Later he went to Virginia City, 
 Mont. , where he worked at placer mining. At 
 times he took out $500 in a single day. In 1868 
 he settled on the ranch he now owns. 
 
 Politically Mr. Maloney is a Republican and 
 has taken an active part in local political affairs. 
 For many years he has served as committeeman 
 from his district, has also been delegate to county 
 conventions, and for a long time held office as 
 road commissioner. He is president of the school 
 board of district No. 30. In the Association of 
 Colorado Pioneers he is an active member. He 
 is a member of the Stock Growers' Protective As- 
 sociation of Colorado. Personally he is a genial 
 man, whose courteous manners and kind heart 
 have won the friendship of his large circle of ac- 
 quaintances. His judicious management has 
 secured for him a competency to reward him for 
 a life of unremitting toil. 
 
 [Frederick H. badger is an active, en- 
 r^ ergetic business man of Weld County, 
 I within whose boundaries he has dwelt over 
 a score of years. Himself a farmer, he has given 
 much careful thought to the question of the best 
 method of disposing of farm produce, and has 
 been connected with two or more companies hav- 
 ing that object in view, and dispensing with 
 middlemen as much as possible, the farmer deal- 
 ing almost direct with the purchaser. Mr. Badger 
 was one of the organizers of the Farmers' Mer- 
 cantile Company of Greeley, which concern 
 
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 ships large quantities of farm produce. He was 
 also a partner in the firm of C. Adams & Co. , 
 of Timnath, Colo., shippers of produce. 
 
 F. H. Badger is the eldest in a family compris- 
 ing five children. He was born in Portsmouth, 
 N. H., October i, 1855, and is consequently in 
 the prime of manhood. His parents, Daniel D. 
 and Nancy (Campbell) Badger, were natives of 
 Maryland, but for years lived in Portsmouth, 
 where the father followed his trade of ship-car- 
 penter. He was a man much respected in the 
 city and was a member of the council for several 
 years. With the exception of our subject, the 
 family are all in the east. William and Annie, 
 Mrs. James Schurman, are residents of Ports- 
 mouth. Frank is a citizen of Boston and Charles 
 and Wesley live near Portsmouth, the former on 
 a farm and the latter in the little town of New- 
 ington. 
 
 The educational advantages of F. H. Badger 
 in his youth were excellent for the period, and 
 terminated with a course in the Portsmouth high 
 school. He learned ship building with his father 
 and when nineteen years of age went aboard the 
 "William H. Marcy" (named in honor of his fa- 
 ther's partner. Captain Marcy )as a ship carpenter. 
 The vessel was bound for San Francisco, around 
 Cape Horn, thence to Liverpool and back to New 
 York. This long voyage around the world took 
 one year and five days, and was one of the most 
 interesting periods of the young man's life, as he 
 saw many strange lands and people, and experi- 
 enced unusual vicissitudes. 
 
 The spring after his return from the high seas 
 Mr. Badger came to Colorado, this being in 1877. 
 In partnership with his brother-in-law he became 
 interested in the management of a ranch near 
 Greeley. In 1879 he purchased his present farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, it being located 
 on section 21, township 6, range 66. For the 
 past three years he has raised sheep in large num- 
 bers and prior to that gave his chief attention to 
 cattle-raising. For several years he was a direc- 
 tor of the New Cache la Poudre Irrigating Com- 
 pany and for four years was superintendent of the 
 same. When the Cache La Poudre Reservoir 
 Company was organized he was one of the prime 
 movers in the enterprise. Since then he has held 
 some official position in the company, and for two 
 years has been its president. His ranch is all 
 under cultivation and is one of the most valuable 
 
 places in the county. His residence was built by 
 him in 1898, and is commodious and pleasant. 
 Politically Mr. Badger is allied with the .silver 
 Democrats. He was a charter member of the 
 Cache la Poudre Grange and is thoroughly identi- 
 fied with the welfare of his brother-farmers. 
 
 September 18, 1878, the marriage of Mr. 
 Badger and Miss Fannie W. Taylor was solem- 
 nized in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Badger was born in 
 Connecticut and is a daughter of Charles A. and 
 Fannie (Wellcome) Taylor, natives of Massachu- 
 setts and New Hampshire respectively. The 
 father was a business man of Hartford, Conn., 
 for years. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Badger 
 has been blessed with one son, Herbert E., a 
 promising young man. 
 
 I EONARD ALKIRE, deceased, was born in 
 It Menard County, 111., October 17, 1830, the 
 U son of Leonard and Catherine (Davis) Alkire, 
 natives of Ohio and Virginia respectively. His 
 grandfather, John Alkire, was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, removed thence to Ohio, later settled in 
 Menard County, 111., and there remained until 
 death. The father, who settled in Illinois while 
 it was still a territory, engaged in stock-raising 
 and farming in Menard County, where he died 
 at ninety-one years. His wife, who was of Scotch 
 descent, died in Illinois. He was of German ex- 
 traction. They were the parents of five daughters 
 and four sons who attained maturity: Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Engle, of Menard County, 111.; Mrs. Nancy 
 Funk, of Chicago; Mrs. Susan Hughes, of Cham- 
 paign County, 111. ; Mrs. Amanda Olds, who died 
 in California; Milan, who died in Petersburg, 
 111., in 1897; Mrs. Lydia Turner, of Petersburg; 
 David, living at Maryville, Mo.; Leonard; and 
 John D. ; the latter engaged with our subject in 
 merchandising and farming in Menard County, 
 111., but came to Colorado in 1873 and for two 
 years engaged in ranching in Park County, but 
 then sold out and went back to Illinois, returning 
 to Denver in 1879. 
 
 On the home farm our subject passed his boy- 
 hood days. In early manhood he engaged in 
 dealing in cattle, and later had a dry-goods store 
 in Sweetwater with his brother John. In April, 
 1873, he came to Colorado and for four years 
 farmed in the mountains of Park County, after 
 which he returned to Denver in order that his 
 
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 children might have school advantages. In this 
 city he was identified with the firm of L. Alkire 
 & Co. , who had a large coffee business and also 
 owned coffee mills where coffee was roasted. He 
 started in this business in 1877, and during the 
 period of his connection with the enterprise, it 
 was the leading one of its kind in the city. About 
 1882 he sold out to his partner, D. T. Sanderson, 
 whose sons, Walter S. and George S., continue 
 the business. 
 
 While in Denver Mr. Alkire built two blocks on 
 Fifteenth and California streets, a house on South 
 Tremont street and was engaged in the construc- 
 tion of a residence on Broadway and First avenue, 
 when he was suddenly stricken with apoplexy 
 Sunday night. May 18, 1884, and died shortly 
 afterward. He had been out riding on the after- 
 noon of that day and had every appearance of 
 being in excellent health, so that the blow was 
 wholly unexpected. He was a leader in the 
 Christadelphian faith, to which his widow also 
 adheres. Politically he was a Democrat. 
 
 November 6, 1851, in Petersburg, III., Mr. 
 Alkire married Miss Mary A. Bracken, who was 
 born near Sweetwater, 111., March 18, 1833. Her 
 father, Walter Bracken, was born in Bath County, 
 Ky., and after his marriage to Elizabeth Wright, 
 a native of Ohio and the daughter of Rev. William 
 Wright, a Baptist minister, removed to Illinois, 
 where he engaged in farming until his death at 
 seventy-three years. He was of Virginian and, 
 remotely, of Welsh descent. His wife died in 
 Illinois at the age of seventy-one. They had five 
 children: George Washington, a farmer in Tiff 
 City, Mo.; Noble Walter, who is in Burlington, 
 Nodaway County, Mo.; William JeflFerson, who 
 died at seventeen years; Mary A.; and Louisa 
 Jane, wife of James Stone, who died near Green- 
 view, 111., November 11, 1895. Mrs. Alkire was 
 reared in Illinois and attended the pioneer schools, 
 but much of her time as a girl was devoted to 
 spinning, weaving and sewing. She is the mother 
 of eight children: Edwin Ruthven and William 
 Albert, who died at the ages of six and four years, 
 within two weeks of each other; Minnie May, 
 Mrs. N. Grimsley, who lives on a large farm in 
 Wayne County, Neb.; Annie Melissa, Mrs. P. C. 
 Horn, whose husband is a cattleman at McCoy, 
 Colo.; Walter Paul, who died at two years; John 
 Leonard, who looks after his father's estate; Ida 
 May, wife of E. W. Lehman, a wholesale paper 
 
 dealer in Denver; and Charles Wilbur, who died of 
 diphtheria at the age of nine years. Of the above, 
 John L. married Edith V. Miller, September i, 
 1886. She is a daughter of William H. and Anna 
 (Sewart) Miller, and is the mother of Leonard 
 Henry Alkire, born January 11, 1888. 
 
 ^AMES CONLIN, a progressive farmer re- 
 I siding on section 17, northwest corner of 
 (2/ township 4, range 65, Weld County, was 
 born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1835, a 
 son of Patrick and Ann (Armstrong) Conlin. In 
 1847 hs accompanied his parents to the United 
 States and settled with them on the Mason and 
 Dixon line, in Cecil County, Md., near what is 
 now known as the Brick Meeting House District. 
 Upon the farm there improved the father died in 
 1888. He was a man of prominence in his neigh- 
 borhood and was a pioneer fruit-grower, raising 
 peaches and apples successfully. His wife passed 
 away in 1882, when eightj^-eight years of age. 
 They were the parents of four children, namely: 
 James; John, a sheep-raiser residing near Sacra- 
 mento, Cal. ; William, who lives in Weld County; 
 and Patrick, who died in Maryland. 
 
 In 1869 our subject joined the Union colony at 
 Omaha, Neb., and crossed the plains to Colorado, 
 landing in the Poudre Valley and assisting in the 
 formation of the Greeley colony. After remain- 
 ing for a year with the colony, he bought four 
 hundred head of cattle, and embarked in the 
 stock business, turning the cattle out on the 
 range. For fifteen years he followed the busi- 
 ness with marked success. In 1882 he took the 
 cattle (six hundred head) up to the Black Hills 
 and sold them in the mining district. On his re- 
 turn to Weld County he bought a quarter-sec- 
 tion of railroad land, comprising his present 
 ranch. It was then a barren desert, and the im- 
 provements show his industry and constant ef- 
 fort. In 1879 he was one of the organizers and 
 constructors of the Bucker Ditch Company, of 
 which for several years he served as secretary and 
 treasurer and a trustee. From this ditch is de- 
 rived the water supply for his farm. Since 1882 
 he has devoted his time principally to farming, 
 though he also has some stock; and in addition 
 carries on a local loan business among his neigh- 
 bors. 
 Politically Mr. Conlin is a silver Republican, 
 
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 active in the interests of the party, but not desir- 
 ous of official positions. Fraternally he is identi- 
 fied with Prosperity Lodge No. 109, I. O. O. F., 
 of Eaton, in which he is past noble grand. He 
 was one of the organizers of school district No. 
 29 and a.ssisted in building the Big Bend school, 
 of whose board of trustees he was president for a 
 number of years. He is a progressive farmer, 
 and every year sends to different parts of the 
 country for new seed grain. He was the first to 
 introduce fall wheat in this section, and made a 
 succe.ss of the undertaking. He gives his atten- 
 tion closely to his chosen occupation, managing 
 personally the ranch and stock, and conducting 
 his affairs in such a way as to gain success. 
 
 HARPIN DAVIS is one of the pioneers of 
 Jefferson County, as he settled here about 
 thirty-five years ago. During all these 
 years he has been occupied in agricultural labors 
 and has lived on one farm, the homestead situated 
 about eight miles east of Golden. He is a 
 member of Clear Creek Valley Grange and aims 
 to keep fully posted on modern and improved 
 methods of farming. He stands well with the 
 Odd Fellows' society, having held every office in 
 the lodge with the exception of grand master. 
 He was the secretary of Morning Star Lodge 
 No. 47, A. F. & A. M., and was tendered the 
 position of master, but declined. On political 
 questions he is independent, preferring to be 
 pledged to no party. 
 
 Mr. Davis is a native of New Haven County, 
 Conn., and was born February 24, 1825. His 
 father, Anson Davis, was born in 1784, in Ox- 
 ford, Conn., and most of his life was spent on a 
 farm. He was a very well-educated man for 
 that early period in this country, and taught 
 school successfully for several years when he was 
 a young man. He filled numerous local positions 
 of honor and trust and possessed the admiration 
 and respect of his associates in a marked degree. 
 He lived to a good old age, his death occurring 
 in 1868. To himself and wife, whose maiden 
 name had been Sally Pruden, there were born 
 ten children. Four of the number survive. 
 Marcus is still carrying on the old homestead; 
 Homer is engaged in running a machine and 
 wagon shop at Winnemucca, Nev. ; Martha E. is 
 thewifeof Edwin Pruden, of West Haven, Coun. 
 
 Up to the time he was fifteen years old Mr. 
 Davis lived under the parental roof. At that 
 period he was very ambitious and desirous of see- 
 ing the world and so he bade adieu to the scenes 
 of his youth and set out to make his own liveli- 
 hood. He started for Philadelphia, but left the 
 boat at Burlington, twenty miles from that city, 
 and secured work on the canal, driving horses. 
 This employment was not to his liking and he 
 hired out to a farmer for a year. At the expira- 
 tion of that time he shipped aboard a coasting 
 schooner, later becoming one of the crew of a 
 full-rigged vessel which was engaged in trade 
 with the West Indies. When he finally left the 
 sea, he had risen to be mate of the ship and 
 during his service he had made a study of nav- 
 igation and was in line for promotion, though 
 but twenty-two years old. He did not wish to 
 make this his main business in life, however, and 
 returning to his old home became a brick and 
 stone work contractor. He also taught a few 
 terms of .school, making a success of the under- 
 taking, as his father had before him. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Davis went to California, with the 
 intention of making his permanent home there, 
 but his family disliking to move so far west he 
 returned the same year. Soon afterwards he 
 located in Davenport, Iowa, and found plenty to 
 do in the line of his trade, masonry, and also in 
 the sale of lumber, for he established a lumber 
 yard. In the fall of 1856 he went to Nebraska, 
 and settling in Florence, now a part of Omaha, 
 taught school for one term. Later he embarked 
 in the sawmill and lumber business. In 1863 he 
 came to Colorado, and after passing one year in 
 Central City he came to the vicinity of his present 
 home. This place he purchased about a year 
 subsequently and at once began making sub- 
 stantial improvements, which have materially 
 increased its value and beauty. 
 
 March 31, 1850, Mr. Davis married Miss Mary 
 A. Chatfield, daughter of Enos Chatfield, of Ox- 
 ford, Conn. She is a descendant of one of the 
 colonial families of the Nutmeg state, her 
 ancestor, George Chatfield, of England, having 
 cast in his fortunes with the inhabitants of New 
 England in 1639. He was accompanied by his 
 two brothers, Thomas and Francis, and they 
 were of the little party which was headed by Rev. 
 Henry Whitfield and made a settlement at Guil- 
 ford, Conn. George Chatfield later lived in 
 
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 Killingsworth, Conn., until he was claimed by 
 death. Some of his relatives were soldiers of the 
 Revolution. Four children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Davis. Charles H. is managing part 
 of the home farm. Ella M. is the wife of Mason 
 Seavey, a capitalist of Denver. Hattie C. mar- 
 ried W. M. Newton. Arthur L,. is a graduate of 
 the Gross Medical College, of Denver, and for 
 two and a-half years was head physician in St. 
 Anthony's Hospital. Recently he settled in 
 Central City, succeeding Dr. Moore. He is a 
 very promising young practitioner, having made 
 a splendid record thus far and giving assurance 
 of ultimate prominence in his profession. 
 
 HERMAN REUTER, one of the worthy Ger- 
 man-American citizens of Brighton, Arapa- 
 hoe County, is the secretary and general 
 manager of the Brighton Milling and Elevator 
 Company and is also the proprietor of a bakery 
 here. His residence in this place dates back eight 
 years, and during this period he has won the confi- 
 dence and high regard of the business community. 
 His principles of trade are reliable, strictly upright 
 and just to all concerned, and added to his in- 
 dustrious, persevering characteristics are account- 
 able for the gratifying measure of success which 
 he has attained. 
 
 A native of Bespingen, Hanover, Germany, 
 Mr. Reuter was born February 8, 1862. His 
 parents, natives of the same province, were Chris- 
 topher and Mary (Krueger) Reuter. The boy- 
 hood days of our subject were spent in a small 
 village, where he attended the government schools 
 until he was fourteen. The next three years he 
 served an apprenticeship to the baker's trade, in 
 the town of Saltan, in the meantime receiving 
 only his board as payment. When he had mastered 
 the business, he had no difficulty in obtaining 
 positions, and for several years he worked as a 
 journeyman baker in various cities. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Reuter entered the German army, 
 and was stationed at Blenkenhurst for two years, 
 doing garrison duty. He was then mustered out 
 of the service and resumed his former occupation. 
 A year or two later he decided to leave his father- 
 land and seek his fortunes in the United States, 
 and began to lay his plans accordingly. In 1886 
 he sailed for New York City, landing at his des- 
 tination April 4. He came direct to Colorado 
 
 and began working at his calling. At the end 
 of two years he opened a bakery of his own, but 
 a few months of experience in this direction con- 
 vinced him that he had best retire from the field, 
 as he was losing money. Not daunted, how- 
 ever, he came to Brighton in 1890, and started in 
 the same line of business here. He was soon 
 prospering and from time to time increased his 
 facilities, that, he might keep up the demand 
 upon him. His many friends take great pleasure 
 in his well-earned success, which they always 
 predicted would be his portion, sooner or later. 
 
 In July, 1888, Mr. Reuter married Miss Hen- 
 rietta Bock, who has faithfully aided him in all 
 his undertakings and has cheered him in times of 
 trial and discouragement.' She is also a native 
 of Germany and some years prior to her marriage, 
 which occurred in Denver, came to this state. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Reuter a son and daughter have 
 been born. Bertha and Herman; the former 
 claims Denver as her native city, while Herman 
 is a native of Brighton. 
 
 Mr. Reuter took the vow of allegiance to the 
 United States and became one of her citizens 
 while he resided in Denver. He is independent 
 in politics, but has acted in the capacity of alder- 
 man in this town. Religiously he is a Lutheran, 
 belonging to the church and contributing to its 
 support. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, and 
 has filled most of the offices in the local lodge. 
 He is also identified with the German organiza- 
 tion known as the Sons of Herman, and in this 
 order, as well, has occupied many official po- 
 sitions. 
 
 NON. D. C. BAILEY. As the incumbent of 
 various positions of honor and responsibility, 
 Mr. Bailey has discharged faithfully every 
 trust reposed in him and has won a high position 
 among the pubHc men of Colorado. While a 
 resident of Elbert County,- in 1886, he was elected 
 representative on the Republican ticket and 
 during the session that followed he served as 
 chairman of the committee on federal relations 
 and state affairs. On the expiration of his term 
 as representative he became the Republican 
 nominee to represent Elbert, Arapahoe and Bent 
 Counties in the state senate and was elected by a 
 large majority. During his term, from 1888 to 
 1892, he rendered much able service in behalf of 
 his constituents and his influence was always 
 
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 given to measures for the benefit of the people. 
 During the first session he was chairman of the 
 printing committee and the committee on state 
 affairs; while during the second session he was 
 a member of the committee on incorporation and 
 others of equal importance. 
 
 Mr. Bailey was born near Coldwater, Branch 
 Countj^ Mich., September 1,1858, the younger 
 of two children, his sister being Mrs. Ida Carroll, 
 of Eaton. Weld County, Colo. His father, 
 Gideon Bailey, was born nearLockport, Niagara 
 County, N. Y., the son of Benjamin Bailey, a 
 farmer there. In early life he removed to Michi- 
 gan and engaged in the mercantile business in 
 Coldwater, but later went to Quincy, the same 
 state, and from there, in 1872, went to Portland, 
 Ore., where he has since been a merchant. His 
 wife was Rachel A., daughter of Daniel Cross- 
 man, of English descent and a lifelong resident of 
 York state. She was bom in Niagara County, 
 N. Y., and died in Denver in 1893, aged sixty- 
 six years. 
 
 At the age of about thirteen our subject began 
 to study telegraphy on the Lake Shore road and 
 afterward was employed as an operator at stations 
 on the road between Toledo and Chicago, being 
 also agent during the latter part of his connection 
 with the company. Afterward he engaged in the 
 cattle business with an uncle at Nevada, Vernon 
 County, Mo. In June, 1879, he came to Colo- 
 rado, and established a ranch in Elbert County, 
 where he engaged in the cattle business for nine 
 years. In the fall of 1888 he removed to Denver, 
 but still continued the management of the ranch 
 until he sold it some years later. Since 1888 he 
 has been dealing in cattle at the Union stock- 
 yards, having handled over ten thousand head 
 per annum. After coming to this state he mar- 
 ried Miss Adella Brown, who was born in New 
 York state; they have a son, who is his father's 
 namesake, Dewey Crossman Bailey. 
 
 Frequently Mr. Bailey has represented the Re- 
 publican party as delegate to state conventions. 
 While senator he introduced and was largely in- 
 strumental in the passage of the bills establishing 
 Kit Carson, Cheyenne, Lincoln, Prowers and 
 Otero Counties, the names of which were decided 
 upon by a committee of whole in the senate. In 
 1888 he gave his influence for Hon. Edward O. 
 Wolcott as United States senator and two years 
 later voted for Hon. Henry M. Teller. In 1896 
 
 he was again his party's candidate for the state 
 senate, but of course suflfered defeat with the 
 rest of the party ticket. Under the administra- 
 tion of President McKinley he received the ap- 
 pointment of United States marshal for the Colo- 
 rado district. While residing in Elbert County he 
 was secretary of the county central committee 
 and for years he was a member of the state cen- 
 tral committee. 
 
 (lUDGE ALBERT P. RITTENHOUSE. The 
 I subject of this sketch is a native of eastern 
 (2/ Ohio. He was born in Bloomfield, Jefferson 
 County, May 26, 1844, and passed his early 
 years on his father's farm, near Cadiz, Harrison 
 County. He attended the public schools, and for 
 a time the Hopedale Normal School, so that 
 when he was about seventeen years old he ap- 
 plied for and received a certificate as a teacher. 
 After teaching for a short time he entered Frank- 
 lin College, at New Athens, Harrison County, 
 Ohio, and was a student there for two years. 
 September i, 1864, he married Miss Sue J. Baker, 
 the daughter of a neighboring farmer, and a 
 school teacher in the same county. She is since 
 deceased. By this marriage there were three 
 children, two daughters long since dead, and one 
 son now living, Harry S. Rittenhouse, of Mont- 
 gomery County, Mo. 
 
 Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Rittenhouse 
 enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and 
 Eightieth Ohio Infantry, and served as a pri- 
 vate soldier until after the war ended. He was 
 engaged in a number of skirmishes, and in 
 the battle of Kinston (Wise's Forks), N. C, 
 March 8, 9 and 10, 1865. In July or August of 
 1865 he was honorably discharged from the army, 
 and came home to his family. He began at once 
 the study of law, and was admitted to the bar at 
 Carrollton, Ohio, in 1869, then commenced to 
 practice in New Philadelphia, Ohio, where he re- 
 mained two years. He then removed to Vienna, 
 Maries County, Mo., and became associated in 
 partnership with Col. John M. Johnson, other- 
 wise known as "Miscal" Johnson, who had been 
 a raiding Confederate colonel under General Price. 
 There was no trouble between the blue and the 
 gray in this partnership; it flourished and pros- 
 pered abundantly, until dissolved by the death of 
 Colonel Johnson in 1874. The firm of Johnson 
 & Rittenhouse, besides a somewhat extensive 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 law practice, established and successfully con- 
 ducted the first newspaper ever published in 
 Maries County; it is still published, though the 
 name of it has since been changed. 
 
 In the fall of 1874, after Colonel Johnson's 
 death, Mr. Rittenhouse was elected to the Mis- 
 souri legislature, and served for two years. In 
 1876 he was a candidate for congress before the 
 Democratic convention of his district, but was 
 defeated by "Silver Dick" Bland. 
 
 Mr. Rittenhouse came to Colorado in January, 
 1882, and settled in Boulder. He was for a time 
 in partnership with L. W. DoUoff, then of Long- 
 mont. Governor Grant appointed him aide-de- 
 camp on his military staff with the rank of 
 colonel. It was a snap — barren of emoluments, 
 but free from danger. In the latter part of 1883 
 he moved to Greeley, and the next year he was 
 again married, his second wife being Miss Eliza 
 G. Reynolds, of Flint, Mich. There were no 
 children of this marriage. Early in 1887 the 
 eighth judicial district of Colorado was formed 
 of Boulder, Larimer, Weld, Washington and 
 Logan Counties, and Mr. Rittenhouse was ap- 
 pointed judge thereof bj' Governor Adams. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Rittenhouse moved to Denver, 
 and formed a law partnership with Hon. Ralph 
 Talbot, which continued one year. Though a 
 Democrat, he was, in 1890, elected a represent- 
 ative of Arapahoe County to the eighth general 
 assembly of Colorado, by a vote leading all other 
 successful candidates. In 1891 he entered into 
 a partnership for the practice of law with Hon. 
 M. B. Gerry, of Pueblo, and moved to that city. 
 In 1894 he returned to Denver, where he has since 
 made his home and practiced his profession. 
 
 Mr. Rittenhouse has long been a member of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and has 
 filled all the chairs of the subordinate lodge of 
 that order. He has also for many years been a 
 member of the Grand Army of the Republic, has 
 been commander of A. Lincoln Post No. 4, de- 
 partment of Colorado and Wyoming, and judge 
 advocate of the department. 
 
 Mr. Rittenhouse is a man of strong and marked 
 individuality of character; somewhat impulsive 
 and abrupt in his manners, original in his ideas 
 and the expression of them. He is considered 
 by his associates at the bar and the judges as a 
 good lawyer and a man of unquestioned integrity. 
 He is active and strong physically, and loves a 
 
 good horse like an Arab of the desert. He 
 would prefer a tent with his horse, to a palace 
 without it. He comes of a very old and honor- 
 able German family. The American branch of 
 it was established in America by two brothers 
 who came from the old fortified city of Arnheim, 
 on the Rhine, prior to 1688. William, one of 
 the brothers, and ancestor of Judge Rittenhouse, 
 settled in Germantown, Pa., in 1688, and there 
 built the first paper mill ever erected in America. 
 One of the family, David Rittenhouse, was a 
 celebrated astronomer and mathematician, and 
 was the first director of the United States mint, 
 appointed to that position by President Washing- 
 ton, upon the recommendation of Thomas Jeffer- 
 
 (T OHN SHERMAN STEELE, who is engaged 
 I in farming and stock-raising near Loveland, 
 (z) Larimer County, was born in Richland 
 County, Ohio, in 1857, ^ son of John and Mary 
 A. (Campbell) Steele. His father, who spent his 
 entire life upon the same farm, was recognized as 
 one of the most industrious agricitlturists and up- 
 right men in his section, and was a leader in his 
 community. He was a warm personal friend and 
 stanch admirer of John Sherman. While he never 
 sought office,^ he was frequently called upon to 
 represent his fellow-citizens in minor positions, 
 where honor and probity were prime requisites. 
 His death occurred when he was seventy-six years 
 of age. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject were spent in 
 the school and on the farm, and he continued to 
 assist his father in the management of the home- 
 stead until 1883, when he came to Loveland, 
 Colo. For a few years he was employed in the 
 old Loveland mill. In the spring of 1891 he pur- 
 chased about eighty acres of the Scott farm near 
 Loveland and began general farming, stock-raising 
 and sheep-feeding, in which he has since con- 
 tinued, having on his place about one thousand 
 head of sheep. He is known as a grower of alfalfa, 
 an imported plant used for stock-feeding. In his 
 farm work he is progressive, adapting new plans 
 and methods, when once convinced of their utility, 
 and introducing modern inventions and ma- 
 chinery to aid in his work. 
 
 Politically Mr. Steele is active as a Republican 
 and a supporter of the principles for which that 
 party stands. He is interested in temperance 
 
JOSEPH S. BEAMAN. 
 
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 work and is a stanch Prohibitionist, supporting 
 temperance principles both in theory and prac- 
 tice. In 1885 he married Miss Irene S. Halde- 
 raan, of Morrow County, Ohio. They are mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which 
 he has officiated as steward, trustee and Sunday- 
 school teacher. 
 
 (Joseph SEVEREN beam an came to 
 I Central City, Gilpin County, May 27, 1859, 
 C2/ and amid the privations and discourage- 
 ments which the early settler alone has felt and 
 can understand, helped to lay the foundation for 
 the improvements and civilization it enjoys 
 to-day. He was born in Bondorf, Baden, Octo- 
 ber 23, 1834, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth 
 (Ritter) Beaman. The Beamans are a well- 
 known, prominent family of Baden. The grand- 
 father, Martin Beaman, had charge of the gov- 
 ernment grain market, and was buyer of all the 
 grain. Joseph Beaman was a brewer in Baden, 
 but came to America in 1851. He sent his family 
 across in 1849, and himself .and oldest sons re- 
 mained until he could settle up his business. 
 About this time the revolution in Baden occurred, 
 and they were compelled to take part in it, de- 
 laying their coming to this country two years. 
 He lived in retirement in Louisville, Ky., near 
 which he died in his seventy-fourth year. The 
 mother, Elizabeth, was a daughter of John Ritter, 
 a farmer of Baden, and died in Kentucky when 
 fifty -six years of age. The family were Catholics. 
 Of the ten children, four came to America. 
 Henry is a farmer in Indiana; Rev. Englebert 
 has charge of a Catholic Church in Louisville, 
 Ky.; Joseph Severen is here represented; and 
 J. E. served in a Kentucky regiment in the Union 
 army, was wounded during service, and now 
 resides near Louisville. 
 
 While in Baden, Mr. Beaman attended the 
 school of Bondorf At the age of fifteen he sailed 
 from Havre, France, with his mother and other 
 members of the family, on the steamer "Hol- 
 yoke," to New Orleans, arriving there after forty - 
 nine days on the ocean. They came up the 
 Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to Louisville, and he 
 again entered school in Zanesville. He attended 
 St. Joseph College for three years, but the close 
 confinement of the school-room did not agree with 
 him and he left school. He was then apprenticed 
 for three years to learn the cabinet-making trade, 
 
 in Louisville. He worked at his trade there and 
 in Cincinnati until the Pike's Peak excitement in 
 1859, when he started for that Eldorado, taking 
 the boat down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi 
 and Missouri Rivers to Leavenworth, there fitted 
 out an ox-train and followed the Kansas and 
 Smoky Rivers until he came to the Divide, when 
 he went due west until he reached Denver, in 
 April, 1859. He came to Central City and 
 bought a claim in Russell Gulch; this he mined 
 until November, 1859, when he abandoned it, 
 thinking the deep snow would prevent him from 
 securing provisions and other necessar}' supplies 
 with which to continue his mining. He went to 
 Golden, built a log shop, and worked at his trade 
 of cabinet-making until spring, when he crossed 
 the Snowy range to Blue River, and mined in 
 Breckenridge and Georgia Gulch until 1861, 
 when he returned to Golden, and began the 
 manufacture of furniture in the same log shop. 
 In the spring of the next year he went to Black- 
 hawk and engaged in the same business, adding 
 an undertaking room, the first in the cit}'. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Beaman disposed of this business 
 and came back to Central City. He started a 
 sash, door and blind factory in Mountain City, 
 and later, in connection with it, ran a sawmill 
 eight miles east of Blackhawk. Two years later 
 he moved his mill and factory to Beaver Creek, 
 above Nederland, in Boulder County. He fur- 
 nished all the lumber for building Caribou, Car- 
 dinal and Nederland, during his two years' stay 
 there. In 1872 he returned to Gilpin County 
 and continued sash and door making in the build- 
 ing formerly occupied by him, adding a lumber 
 yard and doing contracting and building. After 
 having continued in these lines for four years 
 he started a soda factory and bottling works on 
 Spring street. Central City, which he operated 
 until 1893, when he disposed of the entire busi- 
 ness and retired with a sufficient competency to 
 enable him to spend the remainder of his life in 
 ease and comfort. He owns some of the most 
 valuable property in the city, both in the resi- 
 dence and business portion, including the Beaman 
 block, which contains eight commodious store 
 rooms. 
 
 In Blackhawk Mr. Beaman married Miss Car- 
 rie Meyer, who was born in Baden, and whose 
 father, George Meyer, came to Colorado at an 
 early day and became a resident of Blackhawk. 
 
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 They have six children. George Henry is an en- 
 gineer in Central City; Mrs. Eliza Fuelcher is 
 also a resident of Central City; Frank, Emily, 
 Florence and Bertie are still at home. Mr. Bea- 
 man is a Democrat, and has been several times 
 nominated for city and county offices, making a 
 good run, although not elected, as the party is in 
 the minority there. He is past officer of the 
 Knights of Honor, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, Encampment, and belongs to the canton. 
 At different times he has been president of the 
 Gilpin County Pioneer Society. He takes an 
 active part now, as he ever has, in promoting 
 any cause that will be of benefit to the city. It 
 was this public spirit that led him to build a con- 
 vention hall, dance hall and opera house, com- 
 bined, which property is still owned by him. 
 His reminiscences of early life in the state are 
 most interesting. In i860 he and John Lutz, a 
 partner, developed a mine near Blue River, where 
 they built a large two-story log house, intend- 
 ing to start a town there, but the mine proved un- 
 profitable and they abandoned it and left. A few 
 years later the thriving village of Breckenridge 
 sprung up on the same spot originally occupied 
 by them. At another time he was offered three 
 lots on Larimer and Fifteenth streets, in Denver, 
 as an inducement to locate there, but that point 
 seemed too far away, and he bought lots in 
 Golden, as being nearer the center of population. 
 Probably the first chair made in the state of 
 Colorado was manufactured by him in Golden, of 
 box elder and pine, the turning lathe used having 
 a ten -foot treadle, and being the creation of a 
 blacksmith of that place. While living in Black- 
 hawk he made a cradle for his first child; all of 
 his own children were rocked in it during their 
 infancy, and it is now in use by his daughter. It 
 was made entirely by him, turning, finishing and 
 all, and was of walnut lumber brought from the 
 states by team, and costing twenty-five cents per 
 pound. 
 
 0AVID ABNER STRICKLER, M. D., regis- 
 trar of the faculty of the Denver Homeopathic 
 Medical College and professor of principles 
 of medicine and medical technology in the same 
 institution, was born near Chambersburg, Pa., 
 March 26, 1859, and is a son of Jacob and Anna 
 (Stouffer) Strickler. The Strickler family origi- 
 nated in Switzerland and two brothers, Abraham 
 
 and Conrad, natives of Zurich, founded the family 
 in America. Upon their emigration to this 
 country in 1 705 they settled on the Susquehanna 
 River in Chester County, Pa., and many of their 
 descendants still reside in the same locality, where 
 they have made honorable records as citizens. 
 From Abraham descended Henry Strickler, who 
 removed from Franklin County, Pa. to Carroll 
 County, 111., and later went to Grundy County, 
 Iowa, where he died. 
 
 Jacob, son of Henry, and the doctor's father, 
 was born near Chambersburg in 18 15 and died at 
 the same place in February, 1895. He was a 
 prosperous business man, and in politics a stanch 
 friend of the Republican party. His marriage 
 united him with Anna Stouffer, who was born 
 April 15, 1816, and died August 10, 1881. She 
 was the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Ober- 
 holser; Stouffer, and was a descendant of Swiss 
 ancestors who came to America in 1728" and 
 settled in Lancaster County, Pa. 
 
 Of nine children the subject of this sketch was 
 the youngest. He was reared on the old home- 
 stead and received an academic education at 
 Chambersburg, studying the languages under 
 Prof. J. H. Shoemaker, who was principal of 
 the academy. After having gained a primary 
 knowledge of medicine by study with Dr. Ben- 
 jamin Bowman, in 1878 he went to Philadelphia, 
 where he took a three years' course, graduating 
 in 188 1. During the following year he was chief 
 interne in the Hahnemann Hospital. He began in 
 practice for himself at Sterling, 111., but after a 
 year returned to Chambersburg, where he spent 
 two years, and then took a special course in dis- 
 eases of the eye and ear at the Hahnemann Medi- 
 cal College, Philadelphia, under Prof William H. 
 Bigler. On leaving Philadelphia, he went to 
 Duluth, Minn., where, in conjunction with Dr. 
 F. C. Bowman, a former room-mate and class- 
 mate in medical college, he began in professional 
 practice. After four and one-half years of success- 
 ful work as a private practitioner, he was elected 
 professor of otology in the homeopathic depart- 
 ment of the University of Minnesota, and in order 
 to be conveniently situated regarding clinical 
 work, he moved to St. Paul in 1889. He con- 
 tinued his work very successfully until his wife's 
 failing health made a change of climate imperi- 
 tive. 
 
 In the autumn of 1895 Dr. Strickler came to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
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 Denver, where he has since built up a reputation 
 as a skillful practitioner in his specialty, and as a 
 well-known exponent of homeopathy. In the 
 spring of 1896 he was elected to the chair of his- 
 tory of medicine in the college here and a year 
 later was made registrar of the faculty. He is 
 now professor of the principles of medicine and 
 medical technology. He is a member of the city 
 and state associations of homeopathists, being 
 vice-president of the Denver Homeopathic Medical 
 Club and chairman of the executive committee of 
 the state society. He is a member of the board 
 of censors of the Missouri Valley Homeopathic 
 Medical Association and a member of the Ameri- 
 can Institute, in the last named of which he was 
 chairman of the committee on life insurance for 
 two years and secretary of the section of eye, ear, 
 nose and throat for the past year. Fraternally 
 he is a Mason and a member of the Royal Ar- 
 canum, while in politics he is a silver Republi- 
 can. Dr. Strickler is a widower and has two 
 children, Lynda Louise and Gertrude Aline. 
 
 (S\ NTHONY ARNETT, an honored old citizen 
 f 1 of Boulder, was one of the early pioneers of 
 / I Colorado.as he landed in this state in the sum- 
 mer of 1859. He was the first settler in the town of 
 Golden, arriving there June 10, 1859, and hauled 
 the first log to the site, then erecting a cabin. 
 His adventures and experiences in the "wild 
 west " — freighting across the plains and over the 
 mountains, suffering all kinds of hardships and 
 privations, pursued by Indians and wild beasts, 
 mining and prospecting, farming and merchan- 
 dising and engaging in dozens of various enter- 
 prises — the history of all these unusual occur- 
 rences and situations in his career would make a 
 book, and a very thrilling and interesting one to 
 the most casual reader. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Louis and 
 Clara (Shaddy) Arnett, natives of Alsace, France. 
 The latter' s father was killed during the Napo- 
 leonic wars. Louis Arnett was a farmer and 
 dealer in hemp in his native land. In 1828 he 
 brought his family to the United States and set- 
 tled in New York City. Later he removed to 
 Rochester; thence to Buffalo, and finally went 
 from his home on the mountains near Warren, 
 Pa., to Whiteside County, 111. There he and his 
 nine sons took up land and improved farms in the 
 
 vicinity of Prophetstown. The father died at the 
 age of seventy-nine years, and five of his twelve 
 children are deceased. 
 
 Anthony Arnett was born in Reisthof, on the 
 Rhine, Alsace, France, July 7, 1819, and was 
 about nine years of age when he came to the 
 United States on a sailing vessel, which took 
 seven weeks to reach its destination. He had 
 but meager school advantages, and was only six- 
 teen years old in 1835, when he started for Chi- 
 cago, driving through the Maumee swamps from 
 his old home near Warren, Pa. The winter of 
 1835-36 he engaged in teaming between Chicago 
 and Michigan City, after which he homesteaded 
 some Illinois prairie land, later selling it. Then he 
 went to Iowa, and made $450 in three months, 
 breaking prairie. It was very hard work, however, 
 for several yoke of cattle had to be hitched to the 
 great plow, which cut twenty -four inches into 
 the soil, then overgrown with rank weeds. Re- 
 turning to Illinois he was similarly employed un- 
 til 1846, when he embarked in the mercantile 
 business in Portland, 111. This enterprise did 
 not pay very well, so he turned his attention to 
 cultivating a forty-acre tract of land which he 
 owned. About this time he married Mary, daugh- 
 ter of William and Rose Graham, of Scotch-Irish 
 descent and natives of the town of Monaghan, 
 Ireland. She has always been a loyal help-mate, 
 sharing her husband's burdens and cheering him 
 by her love and sympathy. Their four children 
 are: Willamette, now in Alaska; Emmett, pro- 
 prietor of the Boulder laundry; Eugene, who is 
 in the army now at Manila; and Mrs. Jennie 
 Develine. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Arnett started for the gold fields 
 of California, from New York City, on the bark 
 "Clyde." They proceeded around Cape Horn, 
 and were over six months on the voyage. With 
 three comrades, who had but ten cents among 
 them, Mr. Arnett began his career in the far 
 west by working for his first meal in San Fran- 
 cisco. He soon found employment in freighting 
 goods over the mountains to the mines, and es- 
 corted one party to their new "diggings," put 
 up a log cabin for them, and then returned to 
 Stockton. That winter he teamed in mud almost 
 knee-deep, for he could obtain truly fabulous 
 prices for so doing. One load which he conveyed 
 to Wood's Diggings was paid for at the rate of 
 $1 per pound, but the trip of sixty miles con- 
 
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 sumed four days. He had made an arrangement 
 with his three companions, above mentioned, 
 that he should bring them all needed sup- 
 plies while they mined, and that they would 
 divide the proceeds in the spring. As a re- 
 sult of his labors he had over $3,000, while 
 the three others had but $48 among them. 
 Mr. Arnett's next venture proved successful also, 
 for having selected a suitable site he built an 
 18K26 frame house, started what is known to this 
 day as the Rock River Hotel, and inside of ten 
 days made $1,600. In the fall he sold the hotel 
 for $1,800, and subsequently put up another 
 mountain house, which was not a financial suc- 
 cess. For a time he operated a store on the 
 Feather River, and again transported goods, but 
 was not so prosperous during the last year of his 
 stay in California. In the fall of 185 1 he returned 
 to Illinois, crossing Nicaragua, and was one 
 of the first of the gold seekers to select that 
 route. In the Prairie state he cultivated a 
 farm of eighty acres for some eight years. 
 
 It was in 1859 that Mr. Arnett left his Illinois 
 home in a wagon drawn by oxen, bound for Col- 
 orado. The trip took about two months, and 
 he spent some time in Golden and Boulder be- 
 fore he returned to Illinois in the autumn. The 
 following year he came back to Boulder, and in 
 1862 he succeeded in fetching one hundred head 
 of cows from the east. His idea was that Boul- 
 der Valley might be made a good place for the 
 raising of cattle, and so it proved. In 1864 he 
 purchased the Boulder House and was its pro- 
 prietor for many years, and in 1875 he erected 
 the Brainard House. He has dealt considerably 
 in real estate, and his mining operations have 
 been very extensive. At present he owns the 
 Celestial mine and the Corning lode in Ward; 
 has investments in two mines near the Dew Drop 
 mine; Osborne group (or Ricco Alto, meaning 
 rich high), in Sugar Loaf, near Yellow Pine; 
 also the Maxwell lode on Gold Hill; an interest 
 in Horsefall mine at Gold Hill; Mack lode on 
 Gold Hill; the Greenback at Gold Lake; Lone 
 Widow at Sunshine; the I. O. U. at Sunshine, 
 and a one-third interest in the La Plata lode at 
 Rowena. 
 
 A great deal of credit is due Mr. Arnett for the 
 liberal manner in which he has supported all en- 
 terprises calculated to develop and add to the 
 beauty and desirability of Boulder and the Boul- 
 
 der Valley. That we have the state university 
 located here is very largely the result of his in- 
 fluence and financial assistance. Besides donat- 
 ing to the institution eighty-four acres of land 
 for a site, he gave $500 in cash on the spot. His 
 gifts altogether, including the property estimated 
 at its present value, would amount to about 
 $40,000. He had an old friend in the legislature 
 at the time that that honorable body was consid- 
 ering the location of the state university, and this 
 old comrade, who had been his companion on 
 one of his trips across the plains, used his influ- 
 ence, which was not slight, on behalf of Boulder, 
 in order to favor Mr. Arnett. When the railroad 
 was being built through the valley the officials 
 needed right of way and financial encouragement 
 and Mr. Arnett again came to the front, subscrib- 
 ing $2,200 toward the good cause. Then, with 
 three others, he built the Caribou road, a very 
 difficult undertaking, and believed to be an im- 
 possibility. He helped build the road to Central 
 City, and in fact, nearly every local enterprise 
 has received substantial aid from his generous 
 purse. Formerly he was identified with the Re- 
 publican party, and was a member of the first 
 board of aldermen here. Politically he is now 
 independent. Boulder County Pioneer Society 
 holds him f s one of its most honored members, 
 and every one who knows him respects and ad- 
 mires him for his sterling characteristics, and for 
 what he has accomplished in his long and useful 
 life. 
 
 pQlLBER R. THORNTON, a large land 
 I A/ °^"^'' °^ Larimer County and a prominent 
 Y V citizen of Berthoud, was born in Wyoming 
 County, N. Y., in 1853, a son of Richard and 
 Eleanor (Seeley) Thornton. He spent his early 
 years in his native county and received a fair edu- 
 cation in the public schools, after which he en- 
 gaged in teaching. In 1877 became west and for 
 a short time sojourned in Longmont, but came to 
 Larimer County in the spring of 1878 and took 
 up a tract of school land. For three years after 
 coming to this county he taught school, in ad- 
 dition to superintending the improvement of his 
 land. On the foot hills near the Big Thompson 
 he took up a quarter-section of government land, 
 but soon sold it and bought a stock ranch in the 
 hills. For some years, and until 1882, he en- 
 
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 gaged in raising cattle and carried on a dairy 
 business, as well as general farm pursuits. 
 
 Selling that place in 1882, Mr. Thornton 
 bought a farm east of Berthoud and moving there, 
 he engaged in general agricultural pursuits for 
 fifteen years. He .still owns the place and super- 
 intends its cultivation, but it is occupied by a ten- 
 ant, while he has made his home in Berthoud 
 since 1897. His landed possessions aggregate 
 twelve hundred and eighty acres, comprising 
 some of the best farming land in the county. 
 This property he has accumulated by his unaided 
 efforts, as he had nothing at the time he came to 
 Berthoud, and was dependent upon his own ex- 
 ertions for whatever of success he might hope to 
 attain. 
 
 In politics Mr. Thornton is a Prohibitionist. 
 On that ticket he was nominated for county com- 
 missioner in 1891. and with the endorsement of 
 the Populists arid Democrats he was elected for 
 a term of three years. He has also served as a 
 member of the city board of councilmen. During 
 1893 he was manager of the Berthoud roller 
 mills. In the work of irrigating the land in this 
 county he has been an important factor. He was 
 one of the promoters of the Mary Ann reservoir ; 
 and for seven years was superintendent of the 
 company, also serving as a member of the board 
 of directors. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Berthoud IvO<ige No. 83, A. F. & A. M. In 
 1877 he was united in marriage with Miss Jessie 
 Scoville, who had been a successful teacher in 
 York state and also engaged in teaching for a few 
 years after coming to Colorado. They are the 
 parents of three children : Clarence, Theresa and 
 Bruce. 
 
 gjEORGEC. SWADLEY. Among the com- 
 _ panics that started acro.ss the plains in 1859 
 ^ was one composed of fifteen men, who made 
 the long and tedious journey in a train of four 
 wagons, three of which were drawn by ten yoke 
 of oxen, while the remaining one was drawn by 
 a mule team. While en route for Colorado the 
 men stopped for one week and enjoyed a buffalo 
 hunt, thus laying in a large supply of meat, be- 
 sides having the unusual sport of hunting buffalo. 
 After six weeks from the time thej' started, the 
 wagons came to a halt in Boulder. It was then 
 about the ist of July. The men left the wagons 
 in Boulder and with packs on their backs started 
 
 for the mountains. After a tour of inspection 
 of a week, they learned of a toll road leading up 
 into the mountains, and three of the party de- 
 cided to take that road. One of these men was 
 Mr. Swadley. They took up a claim, which he 
 and one man left for the third partner to hold and 
 to clear of the timber, while they returned to 
 town to get their wagon and supplies. On their 
 return to the claim, they found their partner had 
 sold out their rights and had decamped for parts 
 unknown. This was somewhat discouraging, 
 but they were hardy, vigorous and determined, 
 and did not allow themselves to become disheart- 
 ened. Going to the diggings, they located claims 
 that paid $20 a day, but as winter was coming 
 on, they thought it best to look for something 
 else to do. They came to Arvada and that win- 
 ter found them mining below the town. 
 
 In the spring of the following year Mr. Swad- 
 ley turned his attention to a ver}' different line of 
 work. After a short time in the mountains, he 
 came back to the valley and planted a crop of 
 onions, which he found to be a profitable invest- 
 ment. During the winter he and two others 
 hired a man to go to Mexico for onion seed. 
 After three months the man returned, bringing 
 four pounds of seed, the cost of which was $60 
 per pound (counting the expense of the trip), 
 but some of the seed was disposed of at $16 per 
 ounce. The following summer others planted 
 their seed and harvested a crop that sold at from 
 fifteen to twenty-five cents a pound. Mr. Swadley 
 sold all the marketable onions; the scullions or 
 unsalable ones he left in the ground and har- 
 vested them in the spring of the following year, 
 selling the crop for ft, 000. In the fall of i860 
 he removed to his present farm, which he had 
 taken up under the Land Claim Club in May, 
 i860. Here he put in his first crop in the spring 
 of 1 86 1 , and his success was especially encourag- 
 ing, because his was the first farm in Colorado 
 that was farmed on upland. 
 
 Continuing his experiments as an agricultur- 
 ist, Mr. Swadley began to raise wheat in 1863, 
 and that year he harvested as high as fifty-three 
 bushels to the acre, for which he found a market 
 at $7.50 per bu.shel. During all this time he 
 lived in a cabin that had been the stopping place 
 of Horace Greeley when that illustrious states- 
 man visited Denver. He had bought the house 
 in that city and from there removed it to his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 place, making it his home until he had the means 
 to build a better house. In 1865 he erected a 
 substantial frame residence, which stood as a 
 mark of his increased prosperity. He also added 
 to his property from time to time until he became 
 the owner of four hundred acres, the amount of 
 his present possessions, and in 1894 he built a 
 palatial brick residence, where he now lives, sur- 
 rounded by every comfort. 
 
 Such a life proves that a man who has grit and 
 energy can succeed in Colorado. Certainly these 
 two attributes are prominent qualities in the char- 
 acter of Mr. Swadley. Perhaps they are his by 
 training, but doubtless they are to some extent 
 inherited from his grandfathers, who were men of 
 dauntless bravery. His paternal grandfather 
 was one of the men who drove the Indians across 
 the Ohio River at Guyandot, when the river ran 
 blood. The other grandfather was a soldier in 
 the war of 18 12 and died while in active service. 
 
 In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia Mr. 
 Swadley was born September 26, 1837, a son of 
 William and Margaret (Pence) Swadley. He 
 was one of eight children, of whom besides him- 
 self five are living: Elizabeth, widow of James 
 Kinkead, of Highland County, Va.; Mary, Mrs. 
 George Beveridge, of Pocahontas County, W. 
 Va.; Lydia, wife of Frank Gum, living in High- 
 land County, Va. ; John L., a farmer of Bath 
 County, Va.; and Hannah, who married Mark 
 Simmons and lives in Highland County. The 
 father of this family was born in the Old Domin- 
 ion in 1809 and in youth was apprenticed to the 
 tanner's trade in Lancaster, Pa. Later he em- 
 barked in business for himself, starting a tannery 
 in Rockingham County, Va., and for twenty 
 years engaging in business there and in High- 
 land County. His last years were spent in re- 
 tirement from active labors. His wife, who was 
 born in 181 1, is now eighty-seven years of age 
 and resides on the old Virginia homestead. 
 
 At the age of fifteen our subject went to Bridge- 
 water, Rockingham County, where he remained 
 three years as an apprentice to the carpenter's 
 trade. From there he went to Cedar County, 
 Iowa, in 1856, and began in business as a car- 
 penter. In the winter months, when there was 
 little work at the trade, he attended school. 
 Cedar County was then sparsely inhabited and 
 the surrounding country was new. The Rock 
 Island Railroad had been completed to Iowa City, 
 
 which was farther west than any other railroad 
 had been built. When the panic came in 1859 
 business was dull and he was therefore the more 
 eager to join the gold seekers in their journey 
 across the plains. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Swadley married Mary E. Pollock, 
 of Missouri, whose father, John Pollock, came to 
 Colorado from Holt County, Mo., in 1863. She 
 died October 21, 1896, and is survived by four of 
 her five children. Clara, the eldest, is her father's 
 housekeeper and affectionately ministers to his 
 comfort. William Robert married Josephine 
 Bright, and is engaged in cultivating a part of 
 the home farm. John Ira was born November 
 27, 1870, and died May i, 1871. The two 
 youngest of the family are daughters, Laura and 
 Sarah, both accomplished and popular young 
 ladies. 
 
 Politically Mr. Swadley is an ardent Democrat. 
 In 1883 he was elected county commissioner on 
 the Democratic ticket and served for one term. 
 The county is strongly Republican, but when he 
 was his party's candidate for representative in 
 the state legislature, he was defeated by only 
 about thirty votes. He is a man of public spirit, 
 desirous to secure the advancement of his town 
 and county, and interested in every measure that 
 promises to promote the welfare of his fellow- 
 citizens. 
 
 [{JEORGE C. BRIGGS. The career of him 
 l_ whose name heads this review illustrates 
 V_J most forcibly the possibilities that are open 
 to a young man who possesses sterling business 
 qualifications. It proves that neither wealth nor 
 social position, nor the assistance of influential 
 friends at the outset of his career are necessary to 
 place him on the road to success. It also proves 
 that ambition, perseverance, steadfast purpose 
 and indefatigable industry, combined with sound 
 business principles, will be rewarded, and that 
 true success follows individual effort onl)'. Mr. 
 Briggs has gained recognition and prestige as one 
 of the influential and representative business men 
 of Evans, and is to-day the senior member of the 
 well-known firm of Briggs & McAfee. 
 
 He is an honored son of Pennsylvania, born in 
 Jefferson County, May 10, i860, while his par- 
 ents, Lorenzo N. and Elmira (Gardner) Briggs, 
 were natives of New York and Pennsylvania re- 
 spectively. The father was a merchant for many 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 863 
 
 years and also a dealer in lumber in Elk County, 
 Pa. All of his five children are yet living. Dur- 
 ing his boyhood and youth our subject obtained 
 a good practical knowledge of business affairs in 
 his father's store and also acquired a fair literary 
 education in the common schools. 
 
 I/caviug home at the age of twenty years, Mr. 
 Briggs came to Evans, Colo. , where he was var- 
 iously employed for a time, but finally accepted a 
 position as clerk in the store of H. C. Sherman, 
 with whom he remained a number of years. For 
 six years he was a member of the firm carrying 
 on business under the style of the Union Mer- 
 cantile Company, and then purchased the store, 
 which he conducted alone for several years. In 
 1889 he was appointed postmaster under Presi- 
 dent Harrison and acceptably served in that 
 office until 1894, but still continued his interest 
 in the mercantile business. In the spring of 
 1898 he formed his present partnership with Mr. 
 McAfee, and as dealers in general merchandise, 
 produce and all kinds of farming implements, 
 wagons, carriages and supplies, are conducting a 
 large and profitable business. They do an es- 
 pecially large business in farm machinery, and 
 handle the Osborn binders, mowers and reapers, 
 employing George T. Parks, who is an expert 
 machinist, to attend to the putting up of the ma- 
 chinery. They also handle Studebaker's wagons 
 and carriages, and besides their commodious 
 store they have a large warehouse. In connec- 
 tion with his real-estate interests in Evans, Mr. 
 Briggs owns city property in Denver; is inter- 
 ested in mining in various places; owns a fine 
 farm in the Platte Valley, in the Big Bend coun- 
 try, which he rents; is president of the Evans 
 Mill and Elevator Company, which he assisted in 
 organizing; and is director of the Buckers Ditch 
 Company. 
 
 On the 3d of January, 1889, Mr. Briggs was 
 united in marriage with Miss Isabelle Parks, a 
 native of Randolph County, 111., and a daughter 
 of James G. Parks, of Washington, Kan., and to 
 them have been born four children : Ethel L.; 
 Mary E., known as Mira; Eula A., known as 
 Agues; and James Glen. 
 
 Until recently Mr, Briggs supported the Re- 
 publican party, but is now known as a silver 
 Republican. He takes quite an active and promi- 
 nent part in public affairs, and in 1889 was 
 elected mayor of Evans, and so capably and satis- 
 
 factorily did he fill that office that he has been 
 four times re-elected. Socially he belongs to 
 Prosperity Lodge No. 109, I. O. O. F., of which 
 he is vice-grand, and he is a charter member of 
 Camp No. 194, W. O. W. and is council com- 
 mander. Being a fine shot he finds his chief 
 source of recreation and delight in hunting, and 
 is the owner of a number of excellent guns. Suc- 
 cess in life is not measured by the heights which 
 one may chance to occupy, but by the distance 
 between the starting point and the altitude he 
 has reached; and as Mr. Briggs started out a poor 
 boy he has gained a most brilliant success, a just 
 reward of meritorious, honorable effort, which 
 commands the respect and admiration of all. 
 
 (lUDGE PETER M. HOUSEL, as one of the 
 I oldest pioneers of Boulder County, is justly 
 Qj entitled to representation in the history of 
 her early settlers and prominent citizens. No 
 one is held in higher esteem in this section, and 
 few, if any, of the founders of the county's pros- 
 perity have been more aggressive in works of 
 improvement and progress than he has been. 
 His influence has ever been exerted for the bene- 
 fit and well-being of his fellows, and the de- 
 tailed history' of his life is a history of innumer- 
 able kindly deeds and aid extended toward those 
 in need of his assistance. 
 
 The parents of the judge were William and 
 Julia (Johnson) Housel, natives of Northumber- 
 land and Union Counties, Pa., respectively. The 
 father was a son of John Housel, a farmer near 
 Milton, Pa., and an extensive land-owner. He 
 was of German extraction, his ancestors having 
 been numbered among the earliest settlers of the 
 Keystone state, and of the Reformed Church 
 in religious creed. The judge's father was a 
 watchmaker, silversmith and jeweler by trade, 
 and made the old-fashioned, tall "grandfather's" 
 clocks still common throughout Pennsylvania. 
 He passed his last days on a farm near Lewis- 
 burg, Pa. , dying there at the age of sixty years. 
 His wife, Julia, was a granddaughter of Captain 
 Christopher Johnson, of English descent, and a 
 native of New Jersey, where he lived until the 
 war of the Revolution, when he enlisted and rose 
 to the rank of captain. Subsequently he moved 
 to Union County, Pa., where he carried on a 
 farm until well along in years. Both he and his 
 
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 wife lived to attain their eighty-fourth year. 
 They were adherents of the Presbyterian Church. 
 Mrs. Julia Housel was summoned to her reward 
 when she had reached the threescore and ten 
 years, spoken of by the Psalmist as the usual 
 duration of life. She was the mother of two sons 
 and three daughters, of whom but three now 
 survive. 
 
 Judge Housel'was born November 2, 1823, in 
 Northumberland County, Pa., and grew to man- 
 hood in the neighborhood of Milton. He attend- 
 ed the old fashioned subscription schools and the 
 academy in Lewisburg, Pa. Then, having mas- 
 tered the trade of his father he practiced the 
 calling in Bellefontaine for a few years. In 1852 
 he came as far west as Davenport, Iowa, the 
 journey in those days being no small undertaking. 
 He went as far as Erie, Pa., by railroad, thence 
 to Girard, Pa., by stage, from there to Cleveland, 
 Ohio, by rail; and on to Cincinnati in the same 
 fashion; then by boat down the Ohio and up the 
 Mississippi. For seven years he made his home 
 in Davenport, his time being employed at his 
 trade. The western fever then being at its 
 height, he decided to make a trip to Pike's Peak, 
 and fitting out with ox-teams he left Newton, 
 Iowa, in 1859. He came by way of Omaha, and 
 Fort Laramie, and encountered a vast number of 
 discouraged travelers, who told him stories of the 
 difficulties of the road and the small inducements 
 they had found to stay in the west. Reaching 
 Laramie, Wyo. , Mr. Housel had the good fortune 
 to hear Horace Greeley give a lecture and sound 
 advice to the effect that seekers of a home and 
 better prospects than they had hitherto enjoyed, 
 should locate in Colorado, instead of continuing 
 their trip to far-distant California. He concluded 
 to follow the famous man's coun.sel, and came 
 to Boulder by way of the present city of Chey- 
 enne. Arriving in this county July 12, 1859, he 
 went to Gold Hill, and engaged in mining on 
 Horsefall Lode, one of the best-known mines in 
 the county. He bought it of the discoverer, 
 operated it for some years and then leased the 
 property. Upon the organization of Colorado 
 Territory in 1862 he was elected the first county 
 judge of Boulder County and, entering at once 
 upon his duties after the election, served for two 
 terms to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. 
 
 In the fall of 1865 the judge returned to Iowa 
 on a visit, and when he came back to this county 
 
 built a flour-mill at the junction of the North and 
 South Boulder Rivers, having brought the burrs 
 and machinery from Chicago, and from Nevada, 
 Iowa, by team. This mill was the first one of 
 any consequence in the county, and after running 
 it for several years he disposed of it. At that 
 time he owned a farm near Valmont, improved it 
 with irrigating ditches, etc. , and finally sold the 
 place. He located and constructed the Marshall- 
 ville ditch, one of the best in the county, and is 
 still a stockholder in the company. In 1876 he 
 went to Bear Gulch in the Black Hills, and made 
 enough gold from his mining to pay for another 
 farm. Returning, he purchased a homestead 
 about five miles east of Boulder, and still owns 
 this place, which he has greatly improved. He 
 also spent four or five years in mining in the 
 leading camp at Bonanza. In 1898 he retired 
 from active live, and is making his home in Boul- 
 der. For forty years he has been a ruling elder 
 in the Presbyterian Church. When the first 
 Republican sub-committee met in Iowa City he 
 was a member of the body and has continued 
 loyal in his adherence to the principles of the 
 party ever since, though he takes issue with it on 
 the silver question. In his early manhood he 
 was a member of the Sons of Temperance and has 
 long been connected with the Odd Fellows' soci- 
 ety. 
 
 The wife of his youth was a Miss Sarah Nesbit 
 prior to their marriage. She was born in Penn- 
 sylvania and died a year and a-half after their 
 marriage. Later, Miss Eliza Stuart, of the same 
 state, became his bride, and for thirty-eight years, 
 or until her death, was his companion and help- 
 mate. Her father. Col. Andrew Stuart, was a 
 hero of the war of 18 12 and was a very prominent 
 politician in Pennsylvania, serving in both the 
 upper and lower house of delegates. He traced 
 his lineage to the famous Stuart line in Scot- 
 land. The four children born to the judge and 
 wife Eliza are living and as follows: Edgar 
 Stuart, of Boulder, a fruit grower and lumber 
 manufacturer; Mrs. Julia Bentley, of this city; 
 William C, a journalist of Bo.ston, Mass.; and 
 James, who is a mining engineer, no* in Cripple 
 Creek, Colo. William C, a linguist of great 
 ability, is a graduate of the University of Colo- 
 rado and of the University of Michigan. Going 
 abroad, he then took a post-graduate course in 
 Leipsic, Germany, and in Geneva, Switzerland. 
 
JOHN G. COY. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 867 
 
 The present wife of Judge Housel is a native of 
 Maine, and was Louise P. Bixby in her girlhood. 
 She was first married to Rev. Horace Wolcott, a 
 Congregational minister, and the three sons of 
 that union are named respectively: Edward, 
 Charles and Frank. The last-mentioned is a 
 student in the University of Colorado and the 
 eldest, Edward, is a business man of Denver. 
 
 (TOHN G. COY has resided on his present 
 I homestead in Larimer County since August 
 G) I, 1862. His settlement here was due to ac- 
 cident. He had started to California, with six 
 oxen and two cows, but at Fort Kearney three of 
 the oxen and one cow were stolen, and he was 
 unable to make the long journey to the Pacific 
 with the few left. In this way he was induced 
 to establish his home in Colorado, the represen- 
 tations of Mr. Ames, whom he met, causing him 
 to locate on the Cache la Poudre, where a govern- 
 ment post was established. His first home was 
 a log shanty left by a squatter. He continued 
 on the claim and in 1866 proved up on the land, 
 securing the title to one hundred and sixty acres, 
 and here, across the river from Fort Collins, he 
 has improved a place that is the admiration of 
 every visitor. 
 
 Mr. Coy was born in Oswego, N. Y. , April 14, 
 1834. His father, William, a native of Lincoln- 
 shire, England, came to America in young man- 
 hood and became boss miller in the Oswego mills. 
 He died when his son, our subject, was ten years 
 of age. The wife and mother, who bore the 
 maiden name of Elizabeth Thorp, was born in 
 England and died in Oswego six months after the 
 death of her husband. She left three children, 
 John, Benjamin (now a contractor in Oswego, 
 N. Y.) and William (who died in St. Louis). 
 Our subject, the oldest son, was taken into the 
 home of an uncle, but after a few months went to 
 work for a miller, three miles from Oswego. 
 There he remained until he was thirteen. In 
 1847 he went to Illinois and settled in Blooming- 
 dale, DuPage County, where he had an uncle, a 
 farmer. He made his home with the uncle and 
 during two winters attended school. In 1852 he 
 returned to Oswego, then went via New Orleans 
 . to St. Louis. In the spring of 1853 he joined a 
 company of twelve men, accompanying a cattle 
 train of three hundred head of cattle, also some 
 37 
 
 horses. He went from St. Louis to Kansas City, 
 thence up the Kaw River to Fort Kearney, then 
 followed the Platte to Julesburg, where he crossed, 
 and struck the North Platte at Ash Hollow, then 
 went up the south side of that river, which he 
 crossed one hundred miles above Fort Laramie, 
 paying a heavy toll to cross the bridge. From 
 there he went through South Pass, thence to the 
 head of the Humboldt and down to the desert, 
 from there to the Sacramento Valley. At Nich- 
 olas, on Feather River, he and his friends broke 
 camp and separated. He secured employment 
 on a farm, but after two months engaged in 
 mining on the Yuba River. When the rainy sea- 
 son began he left the mine and went to Grass 
 Valley, where he made shingles during the win- 
 ter. In the spring he went to St. Louis, Cal., 
 where he worked at mining by the day. His 
 next location was at Goodyear' s Bar, where he 
 took up a claim and mined during the summer, 
 thence went to lone Valley in the fall and there 
 mined for one year. From Shasta, his next loca- 
 tion, he went to Dog Creek, a tributary of the 
 Sacramento River, and there remained two years, 
 thence to Dogtown, in Butte County, where he 
 engaged in mining for three and one-half years. 
 He returned east from San Francisco in 1861 
 across the isthmus, where he first heard of 
 the Civil war. Returning to Oswego, during 
 the same year he again went west, traveling 
 through Kansas and Nebraska. Near Fort 
 Scott, Kan., he was captured by the "Jay 
 Hawkers," who thought he was a southerner, 
 but who released him on learning he was from 
 New York. On his way to an uncle in Cuba, 
 Mo., via Kansas City, he was caught by the Con- 
 federates at Warrensburg, and was held for sev- 
 eral days, but fortunately was acquainted with a 
 captain in the regiment from there, and from him 
 secured release. Finally reaching his uncle, he 
 spent a few weeks there, then returned to Oswego, 
 using a provost marshal's pass, which he still 
 holds. From Oswego he went to Iowa, and in 
 Fayette, that state, in the spring of i86?, married 
 Miss Emily Adams, who was born in England, 
 but was brought to America by her parents when 
 a child. With his wife he went to Cuba, Mo., 
 where he outfitted for a trip across the plains, 
 intending to go to California, but, as above stated, 
 landing in Colorado. In the spring of 1866 he 
 took his wife and child back east, to Iowa and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Oswego, where they remained for a few months, 
 returning via St. Joseph with a mule team. 
 
 In 1864 Mr, Coy started the ditch from the 
 Cache la Poudre one mile away, to his farm, and 
 this has given him an abundance of water ever 
 since, as he has a priority of water right. After 
 securing one hundred and sixty acres he pre- 
 empted another tract adjoining, of the same size, 
 and later sold twenty acres, which left him three 
 hundred acres, all under cultivation. Hisson-in 
 law built the Hoffman mill, a grist mill, which has 
 fine water power. He has improved the farm 
 with a good residence and substantial barns. 
 For a time he grazed cattle near Sherman. He 
 now owns a cattle ranch on the North Platte in 
 Wyoming, where he has a son who is engaged in 
 raising stock. 
 
 Mr. Coy has been interested in the stock busi- 
 ne.ss and has fed sheep and cattle profitably, being 
 among the first to engage in these industries. 
 The first ten crops of wheat that he raised aver- 
 aged over twenty-six bushels to the acre, and his 
 two best crops reached forty bushels to the acre. 
 Politically he is identified with the People's party 
 and has been chairman of the county committee. 
 In early days he was the Labor Union candidate 
 for the legistature, also was candidate for county 
 treasurer. In 1890 he was the Union Labor can- 
 didate for governor, but his party was in the 
 minority. He has been connected with the 
 Grange and Farmers' Alliance, and for one term 
 served as president of the Fair Association. His 
 wife attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 They are the parents of six children: Elizabeth, a 
 graduate of the Agricultural College and wife of 
 Walter Lawrence, who is a professor in that insti- 
 tution; William B., who is ranching in Wyoming; 
 Fannie E., wife of John Hoffman, of Fort Collins; 
 Anna B. and John E. , who are graduates of the 
 high school; and Burgis G., the three last named 
 at home. 
 
 HARVEY JAY PARISH, county commis- 
 sioner of Weld County, is one of the enter- 
 prising young agriculturists of northern 
 Colorado. In 1893 he was elected on the People's 
 party ticket, and, being endorsed by both of the 
 other parties, he was victorious by a large major- 
 ity. He was one of three elected on that ticket, 
 and was so well liked by the people that he was 
 again, in 1896, chosen for the same office, and 
 
 elected by the Populists and silver Republicans. 
 The last year of his first term he acted as presi- 
 dent of the board. 
 
 In everything affecting the public Mr. Parish 
 has always been deeply interested, endeavoring 
 to do his share at all times. Practically a son of 
 Colorado, as he was but four years old when 
 brought here, he has been an earnest believer in 
 the future of this glorious state and has stanchly 
 stood by her industries, educational and other in- 
 stitutions and has used his influence in favor of 
 progress along all lines. His birth took place in 
 Taylor County, Iowa, February 5, 1862, and in 
 1866 the family removed to this locality. Here 
 he attended the public .schools, and when he 
 arrived at man's estate he homesteaded a farm on 
 the open prairie, his present home. He pitched 
 his tent in the northeast corner of what is now 
 his door-yard and at once began the cultivation 
 and improvement of his property. The Hills- 
 borough ditch was constructed soon afterwards, 
 and, as it crosses his farm, it has been of immen.se 
 benefit to his land. He became a stockholder in 
 the company at that time and in 1881 was one of 
 the foremost advocates of the Big Cut Lateral 
 and Reservoir ditch. His original farm is 
 situated on section 8, township 4, range 67, and 
 later he became the owner of a quarter-section 
 of section 5, and a similar tract in township 6, 
 range 67. The last-mentioned farm he rents to 
 tenants. He has made agriculture his chief 
 business, though he has also raised some stock. 
 For two years he was president of the Hills- 
 borough Ditch Company and he was also one of 
 the original stockholders of the Farmers' Mill 
 and Elevator Company of Berthoud, and for two 
 years one of the trustees of the same. Fraternally 
 he is past master of Berthoud Lodge No. 83, 
 A. F. & A. M., and is connected with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 February 5, 1884, Mr. Parish married Miss 
 Mary Wygal, daughter of Rufus and Mary 
 Wygal. The father, a native of Missouri, was a 
 Colorado pioneer, and Mrs. Parish was born in 
 this state. The following- named children com- 
 prise the family of our subject and wife: Albert, 
 Lottie B., C. Raymond, Ruthford, Jay and John. 
 John Parish, the father of Harvey Jay, is still 
 living, his home being near Sunshine, Boulder 
 County. He was born in Michigan and made 
 farming his business in life until of late years. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 869 
 
 when he became interested in mining and pros- 
 pecting. In 1864 he came to this state and 
 settled upon what is known as the old Bucking- 
 ham place. This property he entered and, after 
 cultivating it for several years, in the meantime 
 assisting in the construction of the first ditch in 
 that locality, he moved to a ranch eight miles 
 east of Loveland. This place he managed up to 
 the time that he retired from farming life. To 
 himself and wife, whose maiden name was Mary 
 Madden, three children were born, namely: 
 Harvey Jay, Katie and Stillman. The daughter 
 is the wife of Godfrey Koeig, of Windsor. Still- 
 man is the superintendent of the Weld County 
 hospital, near Greeley. 
 
 r" RANK N. THOMAS is one of the leading and 
 ly influential citizens of Eaton, Weld County, 
 I who has taken an active part in promoting its 
 substantial improvement and material develop- 
 ment. The business interests of the city are well 
 represented by him, and whether in public of pri- 
 vate life, he is always a courteous, genial gentle- 
 man, well deserving the high regard in which he 
 is held. 
 
 Mr. Thomas was born in Homer, N. Y. , May 
 8, 1865, and is a son of Myron F. and Jennie R. 
 (Newton) Thomas, natives of New York. His 
 paternal great-grandfather was born in Connecti- 
 cut, as was also the grandfather, Edward Thomas, 
 who engaged in farming in early life and after his 
 removal to the Empire state cleared some land 
 there. The father obtained a good practical edu- 
 cation in his native state, and became quite a 
 prominent contractor and builder. In 1872 he re- 
 moved to Denver, which at that time was not 
 much larger than the present city of Greeley, 
 and among the important buildings he erected at 
 that place was the Markham Hotel. Our subject's 
 maternal grandfather was Charles Newton, of 
 New York state. 
 
 Frank N. Thomas is an only son, and his edu- 
 cation was obtained in the high school of Denver 
 and the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, at 
 which place he later engaged in mercantile busi- 
 ness. In 1893 he organized the State Bank of 
 Eaton and served as cashier of the same until its 
 liquidation. The bank did a good business while 
 in operation, the deposits running up to $35,000. 
 Mr. Thomas has erected several houses in Eaton 
 
 and still owns a number of lots. He has taken 
 quite a prominent part in public affairs, was a 
 member of the town council four j'ears, and in 
 1897 was elected mayor. Politically he is identi- 
 fied with the Republican party; socially affiliates 
 with Eaton Lodge No. 130, Woodmen of the 
 World; and Fort Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & 
 A. M.; and religiously is a member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. 
 
 On the 29th of June, 1893, Mr. Thomas mar- 
 ried Miss Kate M., daughter of Rev. J. H. 
 Ailing, of Evanston, 111., and to them has been 
 born one child, Lotta J. Mrs. Thomas, who is 
 an exceptionally cultured and refined lady, is a 
 graduate of the Chicago high school and the 
 Northwestern University, and at the time of her 
 marriage was principal of the Michigan Female 
 Seminary at Kalamazoo, Mich. She is a charter 
 member of the National Collegiate Alumni, 
 now being started at Denver. She was a member 
 of the branch at Chicago, also belongs to the 
 Kappa Kappa Gama society and chapter, and in 
 1897 and 1898 was president of the Woman's 
 Club of Eaton, of which she was one of the 
 founders. Her father is a Methodist minister 
 and member of the Rock River Conference. 
 
 0ANIEL WESTOVER, a well-known farmer 
 and apiarist living near Evans, Weld 
 County, was born in Fayette County, Ind., 
 January 15, 1830, and is a son of Hiram and 
 Minerva (Campbell) Westover, natives of New 
 York and Maine respectively. The mother was 
 a descendant of Alexander Campbell, the founder 
 of the Christian Church, and died in Indiana at 
 the age of fifty-five years. The father, who was 
 a farmer by occupation, also spent much of his 
 life in the Hoosier state, but died in Colorado at 
 the age of seventy-five. Of their nine children 
 four are still living, namely: Daniel; Oliver; 
 Charles, a resident of California; and Minerva, 
 wife of W. J. Young, an old settler of Evans, Colo. 
 Daniel Westover spent his boyhood and youth 
 in Indiana, his education being obtained in its 
 public schools. At the age of thirty-five he re- 
 moved to Marshall County, 111., where he fol- 
 lowed agricultural pursuits until 1859. The 
 following spring he started west, traveling over 
 the plains with a cattle team and landing in Den- 
 ver June 9, i860. After a short stop there he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 went to Gilpin County, then known as the 
 Gregory mining district, where he engaged in 
 mining and teaming and also conducted a feed 
 stable, remaining there seven years. Returning 
 to Denver in 1867, he formed a partnership with 
 his brother, Oliver S. Westover, and opened a 
 specimen store on Larimer street between Four- 
 teenth and Fifteenth, dealing in rare stones, 
 choice furs, and taxidermist's supplies. Our 
 subject traveled all over the country collecting 
 curios, while his brother managed the store. In 
 this way they did a successful business for about 
 five years, and on selling out in 1 87 1 Mr. Westover 
 came to the Platte bottom and purchased a claim 
 of seventeen acres, his present home. The same 
 year he embarked in bee culture, and now has an 
 apiary consisting of about one hundred and fifty 
 colonies, which produce several tons of honey per 
 year. As the product of his apiary is of an excel- 
 lent grade it finds a ready sale at the highest mar- 
 ket price in Denver and eastern points. Besides 
 this industry he is also interested in gardening to 
 some extent. 
 
 Mr. Westover first married Miss Mary Gilmore, 
 a cousin of John Gilmore, but she died after a 
 short married life, leaving two children, Lee and 
 Isabel, the latter now deceased. On the 14th of 
 May, 1863, he wedded Miss Emma HufFsmith, a 
 daughter of Adam Huffsmith, of Iowa. There 
 are no children by the second union. 
 
 In political views Mr. Westover is a stanch 
 Republican, and takes quite an active interest in 
 public affairs, but is not an office seeker. Both 
 he and his wife are leading and influential mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having 
 been teachers in the Sunday-school for some 
 time, and take an active part in all church work. 
 He is also president of the Evans branch of the 
 New York Tribune's Sunshine Society, a literary 
 society connected with that paper, one of its 
 objects being to distribute religious literature 
 among the poor. His support is cheerfully given 
 any enterprise for the good of the community and 
 he has the respect and esteem of all who know 
 him. 
 
 Cynthia M. Westover, an author well known 
 in American literature, came to Colorado a 
 motherless girl with her uncle Daniel, our sub- 
 ject, she being a daughter of his brother Oliver. 
 She has not only made for herself a name in the 
 literary world, but also in practical affairs. She 
 
 was for three years connected with the street 
 cleaning department of New York as Mr. Beatty 's 
 private secretary, and connected with the United 
 States custom department at New York as lady 
 inspector. While connected with the former .she 
 invented a dump cart which possessed sufficient 
 merit to be generally adopted not only in this 
 country, but in European countries as well, and 
 she received a medal from England in recognition 
 of its merits, though the officials of that govern- 
 ment supposed they were giving it to a man. 
 She was a delegate from New York to the World's 
 Biennial convention held at Denver in June, 1898. 
 She is the author of several well-known works, 
 her first production being "Bushy." She is now 
 the wife of John Alden, a well-known author of 
 New York City. 
 
 (TOHN McARTNEY resides one mile .south 
 I of Eaton, Weld County, his farm comprising 
 \Z/ one hundred and sixty acres in township 6, 
 range 65. In connection with general farming 
 he gives some attention to cattle-raising, for which 
 occupation his place, with its running water, is 
 admirably adapted. He raises Jerseys exclusive- 
 ly, desiring only the best grade of milch cows. 
 Forty acres of the farm are planted to red top and 
 timothy and-is used for pasture-land. Owing to 
 the fact that the land has a gentle slope, it is 
 more easily irrigated than many farms. Among 
 the improvements on Ihe farm is a fine two-story 
 frame residence, erected in 1896, on the edge of 
 a grove of trees, all set out by himself. He has 
 justly earned a reputation as a careful and 
 successful farmer. 
 
 A native of Cota, Province of Quebec, Canada, 
 born November 2, 1850, our subject is a son 
 of James McArtney, who settled in Canada, 
 coming from Ireland. In Quebec he married 
 Clara Costelo, a native of the city of Quebec, 
 Canada. They had seven children, five of whom 
 are living, namely: Sarah, who resides in New 
 York state; James and George, merchants of 
 Fort Covington, N. Y.; William, who is a 
 physician in Fort Covington; and our subject. 
 The father removed to Fort Covington, Franklin 
 County, N. Y., about 1859 and followed the trade 
 of a shoemaker. His death occurred in 1892. 
 His widow survives and resides at the old home. 
 Early in life our subject became interested in 
 farming. In 1878 he came to Colorado and em- 
 
HARRISON FOSTER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 873 
 
 barked in farm pursuits in the old Greeley colony 
 district. For two winters he was employed in 
 the construction of the Larimer and Weld ditch. 
 In 1880 he took up the homestead where he has 
 since resided, lying on the road from Greeley to 
 Eaton. At that time the village of Eaton had 
 not been founded, but he saw the possibilities of 
 the district and as water was secured in the spring 
 of 1 88 1 he was favorably situated for farming. 
 The land had not been broken, and not a furrow 
 had ever been turned in the soil, until he settled 
 upon the place and began to break and improve 
 the property. He is one of the intelligent farmers 
 of Weld County, and uses good judgment in all 
 of his transactions. Besides his farm interests, 
 he holds stock in both the Larimer and Weld 
 reservoir and the ditch. 
 
 In politics Mr. McArtney is identified with the 
 People's party. He and his family attend the 
 Catholic Church of Greeley. February 18, 1884, 
 he was united in marriage with Margaret, 
 daughter of Michael Rowley, of Franklin County, 
 N. Y. They have one child, Nellie C. 
 
 HARRISON FOSTER owns and occupies a 
 ranch seven miles northeast of Longmont, 
 in Weld County, comprising a quarter-.sec- 
 tion of land, which he purchased in January, 
 1878, and upon which he established his home in 
 the summer of 1 880. After a time he acquired an 
 additional forty acres, making his farm one of two 
 hundred acres. He also owns one hundred and 
 twenty acres given over to Highland Ditch 
 Company's reservoir No. 3. As a representative 
 of the integrity and intelligence of the farmers of 
 Weld County, he occupies a high place in the 
 esteemof those who know him. By a course of 
 good management he has become well-to-do 
 financially, and his valuable place indicates in a 
 marked degree to what good purpose the owner 
 has labored. 
 
 In Cortland County, N. Y,, the subject of this 
 sketch was born December 10, 1846, a son of 
 George H. and Louisa M. (Burr) Foster. He 
 was one of six children, four of whom are living, 
 namely: Ann, wife of John Bates, of New Lon- 
 don, Ohio; Helen, who married Louis T. Ruggles, 
 of Bettsville, Ohio; Harrison; and George, a 
 farmer living in Fitsville, Ohio. The father, 
 who was a native of Delhi, Delaware County, 
 
 N. Y., born in 18 13, grew to manhood in his 
 native place, where he married Miss Burr, who 
 was born there in i8n. After his marriage he 
 engaged in farming. In 1856 he removed to 
 Illinois, but after one year spent in Ogle County, 
 he went back east as far as Ohio, where he set- 
 tled in Huron County. There the greater part 
 of the remaining years of his life were spent, his 
 death occurring in 1895. His first wife died in 
 i860, and afterward he married Mrs. Delia 
 (Rounds) Ryan. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject were unevent- 
 fully passed on the home farm. In the spring of 
 1868 he went to Toledo, and during the summer 
 engaged in teaming. On his return home in the 
 fall he gathered in the crop (his father being 
 sick with the ague) and during the winter he 
 chopped cord wood and split rails. Early in 
 1869, in partnership with a brother-in-law, he 
 opened a meat shop in Shelby, Ohio, but after 
 eight months of unsuccessful business the shop 
 was closed. After a short time spent in various 
 kinds of work he began to work in a sawmill, 
 where he was soon promoted from the lowest 
 position to that of head sawyer. He continued 
 in that place until April, 1873, when he came to 
 Colorado, arriving in Denver on the 4th of April. 
 The Sunday following was spent in Denver, and 
 he then came to Boulder, thence to a mill on Left 
 Hand Creek, eight miles northwest of Boulder, to 
 accept a position which had been tendered him 
 while still in Ohio. He at once began to work 
 in the mill, but not being satisfied with the 
 position, he quit, and went to work in a shingle 
 mill near by. He remained in that mill until 
 November, with the exception of a short time 
 spent in the mountains, and one month spent on 
 the plains hunting buffalo and antelope. From 
 the latter trip he returned with his wagon, to 
 which he had hitched two yoke of oxen, heavily 
 loaded with game, most of which was sold in 
 Longmont, the buffalo meat bringing three cents 
 per pound and the antelope only $2 apiece. 
 
 While Mr. Foster was out hunting, his former 
 employers had put a sawing rig in connection 
 with their shingle mill, and he was given charge 
 of the saw. In April of the next year he was 
 united in marriage with Miss Alice Lloyd, daugh- 
 ter of Noah Lloyd, of Red Oak, Iowa. Desiring 
 to go in business for himself, he asked his em- 
 ployer for a settlement, as not only was a large 
 
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 amount of back salary due him, but his employer 
 had also borrowed money from him. Being un- 
 able to effect a monetary settlement, he was given 
 a half-interest in the mill. Some eight months 
 later he bought out his partner and ran the busi- 
 ness alone, continuing it until the summer of 
 1880, when he sold out and came to his present 
 property. Since then he has given his time to 
 general farming. In addition to his farming in- 
 terests he is a director in the Highland Ditch 
 Company, having been connected with it for the 
 past fifteen years. He is also president of St. 
 Vrain Reservoir and Fish Company of Longmont. 
 He was one of the charter members of Mountain 
 Valley Camp, of Longmont, and has also 
 served as master of his local grange. He is 
 not connected with any church, but is a lib- 
 eral supporter of religious work and charitable 
 enterprises. He and his wife became the parents 
 of three daughters, one of whom, Blanche, is de- 
 ceased. Elsie L. is the wife of Percy L. 
 Thompson, of Longmont, and Nellie B. is attend- 
 ing the Loretto Academy near Denver. 
 
 EHARLES E. MILLER, deceased, was num- 
 bered among the honored pioneers of Colo- 
 rado, who located in Weld County when this 
 locality was a wild and unimproved region. In 
 the work of development he took an active part 
 and aided in opening up the country to civiliza- 
 tion. As the years passed he faithfully performed 
 his duties of citizenship, and his interest in the 
 welfare and progress of the community never 
 abated. Becoming widely and favorably known 
 he made many friends, and his death was a loss 
 to the entire community. 
 
 Mr. Miller was born in Dutchess County, N. Y. , 
 February 24, 1834, a son of Edmund and Mary 
 B. Miller, farming people, and he remained in 
 New York until he reached the age of twenty- 
 four. With a large party he came overland with 
 ox teams from Nebraska City to Fort Bridger, 
 where they were detained by snow, and they 
 finally decided to return. They were engaged in 
 freighting for Russell Waddell & Co. , but with a 
 four-mule team they started back, it being 
 Christmas before they reached Nebraska. Out 
 of twenty-five only seventeen lived to reach the 
 government train which was sent out from Fort 
 Kearney to meet them. The following spring 
 
 Mr. Miller went to Pike's Peak, and he followed 
 prospecting and mining in California Gulch. He 
 and his cousin, John T. Doughty, employed one 
 hundred miners in placer and gulch mining, and 
 met with ordinary success. In 1863 our subject 
 accepted a position as driver for the government, 
 under Orlando Black, then wagonmaster, and 
 carried supplies to the troops stationed in Den- 
 ver. The following year he accepted a clerk- 
 ship with Campell & Jones, wholesale grocers and 
 government contractors of Denver, but was with 
 them onl3' a short time when he was made gov- 
 ernment teamster under Major Fillmore, pay- 
 master on the frontier at that time, and he re- 
 tained that position during the winter of 1864-65. 
 
 On the 5th of June, 1865, Mr. Miller was united 
 in marriage with Miss Augusta B. Dibble, better 
 known as Augusta Goflf, her step-father being 
 Lorin A. Goff, chief of police at Denver. She 
 was born at Cainsville, Iowa, now Council Bluffs, 
 May 22, 1847, ^^'^ is a daughter of Ira T. and 
 Lucretia A. (Lane) Dibble. At the age of six- 
 teen she accompanied her parents on their re- 
 moval to Denver, where she made her home until 
 her marriage. She lost her father when only five 
 years old, and her mother afterward married Mr. 
 Gofi", who was killed by lightning on the streets 
 of Denver. -By her first marriage she had four 
 children: Nancy M., widow of Thomas Donahue 
 and a resident of Omaha, Neb.; Charlotta, who 
 died in infancy; Augusta B. ; and Emma J., wife 
 of George Stewart, of Myrtle Point, Ore. There 
 was one daughter by the second union: Buena, 
 deceased wife of Charles E. Goodfriend, of Lead- 
 ville, Colo. For her third husband the mother 
 married John Orrendorf , of Denver, now a resi- 
 dent of St. Louis. She died at Denver, Janu- 
 ary 22, 1889, and was buried in Riverside Ceme- 
 tery. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had no children of 
 their own. However, they adopted Carrie D., 
 daughter of Shelby Thomas, at the age of one 
 year and seven months; she is now the wife of 
 Walter Sylvester, who lives on the old Miller 
 homestead. Mrs. Miller, now Mrs. George Car- 
 ter, of Evans, also reared a boy from the age of 
 thirteen years, John Taylor, who is now married 
 and living near Fort Lupton. She is at present 
 rearing a brother and sister, Lloyd and lima, 
 children of Zachariah Reynolds. 
 
 Immediately after his marriage, Mr. Miller and 
 his cousin, Mr. Doughty, bought what is still 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 known as the old Beaver Creek ranch, on the 
 South Platte, along the old stage route between 
 Denver and Omaha, but disposed of it nine 
 months later and purchased the old Fisher ranch, 
 now within the corporate limits of Denver. On 
 selling that place to Edward Kettle, Mr. Miller 
 removed to Castle Rock, south of the city, 
 where he made his home upon a ranch for 
 two years, but was forced to leave it in the fall 
 of 1868 on account of the hostile Indians. In 
 the spring of 1869 he moved to the Godfrey 
 Bottom along the Platte, where he bought a 
 claim of Mr. Doughty, which he sold five years 
 later to Mr. Grifiin. For the following four years 
 he occupied rented land, but in 1878 bought 
 the Perkins place; but sold it a year later and 
 rented the Godfrey place until 1881, when he 
 bought a ranch of Kram Brothers in Weld 
 County. There he spent his remaining years, 
 his death occurring at that place May 11, 1892, 
 and his remains being interred in the Riverside 
 Cemetery of Denver. He was a leading spirit in 
 all enterprises tending toward the improvement 
 of the county; was president of No. 3 Irrigating 
 Ditch Company, assisted in organizing school dis- 
 trict No. 65; and was a member of the school board 
 for some time, serving as its secretary at his 
 death. He was one of the organizers and char- 
 ter members of the Weld County Fair Associa- 
 tion, and his aid was never withheld from any 
 object which he believed calculated to prove of 
 public benefit. Politically he was a strong 
 Democrat, and as one of the prominent and influ- 
 ential citizens of his community was a recog- 
 nized leader in local affairs, but he cared nothing 
 for the honors or emoluments of public oflBce. 
 
 (Tames a. DANIELS is the owner of a good 
 I ranch on section 6, township 4, range 66 
 Qj west. Weld County. He is one of the fron- 
 tiersmen of 1859, and has been a witness of the 
 great changes and increasing population of the 
 now wonderful state of Colorado. His experience 
 covers many a year of hardship, strange adven- 
 ture and privation and struggle, known only, in 
 the fullest extent, by the hardy pioneer, the har- 
 binger of civilization and culture. Little did he 
 dream, in the quiet, peaceful days of his boyhood, 
 in the English home of his parents, what a future 
 of endurance under trial and constant struggle 
 
 against cold and hunger it would be his lot to 
 pass through within a few years. But those days 
 have passed and he has entered into the fruits of 
 his toil, being well provided for, and a man of 
 position and respect. 
 
 Born in Gloucestershire, England, August 17, 
 1838, our subject is a son of Michael and Martha 
 (Blackmore) Daniels, both natives of the same 
 section. The father was a mechanic and stone- 
 cutter, and pursued his trades in the town of 
 Burley, the scene of the childhood of James A. 
 The latter was apprenticed to the baker's trade 
 when he was fourteen years old, and for nine 
 months worked for a man in a small town about 
 three miles from his old home. Not liking the 
 place, he ran away to London, and hired out as a 
 stable-boy. At the end of a year he became an 
 employe in a bakery carried on by a woman 
 named Woodard, and continued there about two 
 years. 
 
 In 1857, in company with his brother Henry, 
 Mr. Daniels sailed for America, going to Quebec, 
 and thence to Wisconsin. In that state another 
 brother, Hophny, a farmer, was living. Our sub- 
 ject found work upon a farm for a year or two 
 and in the spring of 1859 set out for Kansas. 
 Upon reaching the Missouri River, the gold ex- 
 citement swept him away, and he joined a com- 
 pany of eighteen or twenty men. Their equip- 
 ment consisting of one wagon and three yoke of 
 cattle, they were obliged to agree to the rule that 
 no one should get into the wagon while it was 
 moving. Thus they walked the entire distance 
 across the plains, the wagon being used for the 
 conveyance of their supplies. At the end of 
 nearly three months they reached the mountains, 
 June I. Denver was then a group of ten or 
 twelve cabins, with one frame house, that of Jack 
 O'Neil. Mr. Daniels went to Clear Creek Valley, 
 near the present Blackhawk, and there he found 
 encamped and living in their wagons, some four 
 hundred or more men, who, like himself, were 
 interested in mining operations. That season he 
 prospected without success and in the fall and 
 winter following he was in Russell Gulch. The 
 next spring he and others fitted out a man to go 
 as their agent on an exploring tour, and it trans- 
 pired that he was one of the discoverers of Cali- 
 fornia Gulch. Mr. Daniels followed his agent as 
 soon as he heard of the great find, and was cha- 
 grined to learn that the claim which had been 
 
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 taken for him was ignored by the rushing pros- 
 pectors. Then he went to the southwestern part 
 of the state, only to return and resume opera- 
 tions in California Gulch. He was one of the 
 first miners in the Buckskin Joe mines in 1861, 
 and was actively engaged in working the Gregory 
 mines later. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Daniels added a squatter's claim 
 to a quarter- section of his present ranch, and oc- 
 cupied it under the homestead act. The place 
 was wild land, the only improvement consisting 
 of a rude cabin. The new owner became a dairy- 
 man, disposing of his supplies in Denver at good 
 prices. In 1865 he went to Iowa, having sold his 
 cattle, and intending to buy more stock, but he 
 finally returned without purchasing. About this 
 time he and Mr. Bennett, with a few other farm- 
 ers, organized the Big Thompson and Platte 
 River Ditch Company. The ditch was made 
 seven miles in length and four feet wide across 
 the bottom, it being the work of the promoters of 
 the enterprise, and dug out entirely with shovels. 
 It was not large enough to be effective and some 
 ten years later its width was doubled. Mr. Dan- 
 iels was president of the company for nine years 
 and for five years has been its secretary. In 1882 
 he took his herd of some two hundred cattle to 
 Wyoming, but this was not a judicious move, as 
 many of them perished in the cold weather. He 
 has purchased another quarter- section of land, it 
 being watered by the Loveland and Greeley 
 ditch, in which corporation he is a shareholder. 
 He aided in the organization of school district 
 No. 21, and gave the land upon which the school 
 was built, in 1879, besides serving as a director 
 most of the time since. When the Weld County 
 Fair Association was organized he took an active 
 part in the enterprise, and was made vice-presi- 
 dent of the company. 
 
 April 2, 1889, Mr. Daniels married Mrs. Fan- 
 nie S. Beer, widow of Edward Beer, and daughter 
 of John and Mary (Osmotherly) Denniss. Mrs. 
 Daniels was born in St. Neots, England. Her 
 father was a civil engineer in the employ of 
 the government. He went to India when Mrs. 
 Daniels was six years old, taking his family with 
 him. They remained abroad for four years, then 
 returning to England by way of the Suez canal, 
 and Cairo, Egypt, in which quaint city they 
 spent three days. On the way to India the 
 family went in a sailing-vessel, which took seven- 
 
 teen weeks to make the trip, as it was driven far 
 from its course. The father was engaged in rail- 
 road construction and, with his household, lived 
 at a point about six hundred miles from the 
 coast, back from Beypore, in the jungle. Under 
 his charge five hundred laborers worked, and he 
 was allowed eight body servants. His death oc- 
 curred in East Bengal, in 1866. Subsequently 
 the widow, her four sons and daughter came to 
 America and settled in Beardstown, 111. There 
 she afterwards married again and in that town 
 Mrs. Daniels was first married. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Beer had three children. Edward J. married 
 Floris Combs, of Kansas City, and is now taking 
 the whole charge of the half section of land 
 owned by our subject. Eleanor is the wife of 
 Louis H. Bailey, an employe of the R. H. Johns 
 Grocery Company of Greeley, and they have a 
 son, Alfred Harold. Alfred A. is a member of 
 Company F, First Regiment of Colorado Volun- 
 teers, now in the Philippine Islands. 
 
 (Jerome Frederick loustalet. 
 
 I Among the young men of Weld County who 
 (2/ have selected agriculture as their vocation in 
 life, and who, judging from present indications, 
 are bound to realize their most sanguine anticipa- 
 tion, is the subject of this biographical notice. 
 He is an upright, reliable business man and is 
 already one of the -most prosperous farmers and 
 stock-raisers of the community, his home being 
 on section 27, township 4, range 64. 
 
 Mr. lyoustalet was born at Brighton, Colo., May 
 14, 1870, and is a worthy representative of one of 
 the oldest and most honored pioneer families of 
 the state, his parents being Honore and Marie 
 (Canton) Loustalet, who are repre.sented else- 
 where in this volume. At the age of two years 
 he was brought to Kersey, this region at that 
 time being a vast wilderness and the few settle- 
 ments widely scattered . As his father died when 
 he was but seven years old, he early began to 
 assist in the management of the estate, and soon 
 acquired an excellent knowledge of every depart- 
 ment of farm work and cattle-raising. He also 
 obtained a good practical education, attending 
 the public schools of Greeley, and also taking a 
 course at the Greeley Business College. Thus well 
 fitted for the responsible duties of life he has met 
 with success in his business undertakings, and 
 
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 he and his brother, Frank, now own from seven 
 hundred to one thousand head of cattle and two 
 hundred head of horses. They buy and ship 
 stock extensively and occupy a prominent position 
 in business circles, being recognized as two of the 
 most energetic and enterprising young men of the 
 county. In political sentiment they are Repub- 
 licans. 
 
 Jerome F. Loustalet was married November 
 23, 1892, to Miss Nettie Scobey, a native of Boul- 
 der County, Colo., and a daughter of D. M. 
 Scobey, of Hardin, who is also a highly respected 
 pioneer of this state. One child blesses this union, 
 Grace. 
 
 "HOMAS C. SELLMAN, who is engaged in 
 general farm pursuits in Jefferson County, 
 was born in the lower town of Ann Arbor, 
 Mich., February 25, 1835, being a son of William 
 and Sarah (Ingram) Sellman. He was one of 
 five children, of whom the only survivors are 
 himself and his brother, Ralph C, a school teacher 
 in Grand Rapids, Mich. His father, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, born in 1803, was taken, when an 
 infant, into New York state, being carried on the 
 back of a horse. He grew to manhood in Canan- 
 daigua, and at the age of sixteen secured employ- 
 ment as a teamster between Canandaigua and 
 Albany, that being before the canal was opened. 
 About 1832 he removed to Michigan and settled 
 in Washtenaw County, where he remained about 
 five j^ears. From there he removed to Livingston 
 County, where he engaged in farming until his 
 death, in 1847. His wife died some four years 
 later. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, 
 Thomas Sellman, was a native of Pennsylvania 
 and removed from there to Canandaigua, N. Y., 
 about 1804, later opening the Canandaigua House 
 at the foot of the lake and remaining its pro- 
 prietor for years. Finally he went to Michigan 
 and settled in Kensington, Oakland County, 
 where he continued to cultivate a farm up to the 
 time of his death. Our subject's maternal grand- 
 father, Thomas Ingram, moved from New York 
 state to Michigan in an early day. Our subject 
 remembers having heard his mother tell that her 
 grandmother's first husband was hanged on an 
 apple tree by the Tories. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was twelve years of age and four years later his 
 
 mother died. From that time he worked on farms 
 in Michigan. In 1864 he started with a train 
 across the plains to Colorado, leaving Michigan 
 in September and arriving in Denver in August 
 of the following year. At that time the Indians 
 were exceedingly troublesome and, to avoid them, 
 the party were obliged to camp on the Missouri 
 River near Payne's landing about seven months. 
 The burning of Fort Julesburg and the massacre 
 there and at Plum Creek happened during that 
 time. While in camp Mr. Sellman acted as night 
 herder of teams for a man who was bringing 
 through to Colorado a quartz mill and a party of 
 one hundred and ten persons. They reached 
 Denver on the 17th of August, 1865. From that 
 city Mr. Sellman proceeded to the vicinity of 
 Arvada, where he began gardening on the old 
 Rand farm. In 1873 he entered one hundred and 
 sixty acres where he now lives, but on account of 
 a contention he was unable to prove up until 
 1876. Since then he has resided here, and since 
 1893 has given his attention to farming, having 
 given up gardening. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Sellman was elected county 
 assessor on the Democratic ticket and the follow- 
 ing year he was re-elected. For three years he 
 was justice of the peace and for about one year 
 served as road overseer. In politics he now 
 afiiliates with the People's party. At one time 
 he was actively identified with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, but has allowed his 
 membership to lapse. 
 
 pQlLLIAM BRAMKAMP, who has resided 
 \ A / in Arapahoe County since July 4, 1874, 
 V V embarked iu the dairy business in the year 
 1876 on Third Creek, near Barr, where he home- 
 steaded one hundred and sixty acres. He de- 
 voted much of his time to the improvement of his 
 property and to the stocking of the ranch with 
 cattle, but in 1888 sold the place and bought a 
 tract eighteen miles northeast of Byers. From 
 the Deer Trail Creek he made a reservoir, and in 
 other ways improved the property. On the land 
 he raises corn, hay and alfalfa, but the larger 
 portion is devoted to the pasturage of cattle and 
 horses. His summers are spent on the ranch. 
 During the winter he resides at his Denver home, 
 No. 2441 Lafayette street. 
 
 The son of Frederick and Dorothy (Lukens) 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Bramkamp, our subject is the only survivor of 
 seven children and is the only one who ever came 
 to America. He was born in the Province of 
 Hanover, Germany, and grew to manhood in the 
 little village of Bramkamp, Aumpt Diepenau. 
 In 1847 b^ l^fl^ Bremen on an American sailing 
 vessel, that anchored in New Orleans after a voy- 
 age of seven weeks and four days. He then went 
 up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to Hamilton 
 County, Ohio, where he remained for four years, 
 engaged in carpenter work. Afterwards he re- 
 moved to Massac County, 111. , working at his 
 trade and also buying and improving government 
 land near Metropolis. That county was his home 
 from 1851 to 1874, when he sold out and came to 
 Colorado. 
 
 Politically Mr. Bramkamp is a silver Repub- 
 lican, but is not active in public affairs. He is 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 While living in Illinois he married Catherine 
 Speckman, daughter of Henry Speckman. Mrs. 
 Bramkamp was born in Indiana and in 1855 
 accompanied her father to Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Bramkamp are the parents of eight children: John, 
 who is a ranchman residing near Barr; Sophia, 
 now Mrs. Thomas Quinn; Annie; Charles, who 
 owns a ranch adjoining his father's; Henry; 
 Emma; Barbara, now Mrs. G. W. Maloney; 
 and Sarah. 
 
 RUFUS RICE, one of the sturdy pioneers of 
 Boulder County, has had a varied and inter- 
 esting career and is numbered among the 
 prominent citizens of this locality. He was born 
 in Auburn, Worcester County, Mass., February 
 26, 1836. He was reared under the loving, judi- 
 cious oversight of his parents, and formed habits 
 of industry, perseverance and honesty of word 
 and deed that have been paramount in his 
 character to this day. His educational advan- 
 tages were not such as are commonly afforded 
 the children of this period, but he made the best 
 of his limited opportunities, and by reading and 
 study became well posted on general affairs. 
 
 Soon after attaining his majority Mr. Rice 
 started for the west. Upon arriving in Illinois 
 he obtained a position with a farmer in Bureau 
 County, and, as the wages he could make there 
 were double the amount received by men in a 
 similar position in his former home, he was well 
 pleased. Believing, after a time, that he could 
 
 do better elsewhere, he went to Caldwell, Mo. , 
 where he spent two years, and in i860 he set out 
 for Colorado. He paid $25 to an emigrant who 
 agreed to take him, his provisions and supplies, 
 through to Colorado. They reached Boulder in 
 June, and Mr. Rice, leaving his provisions and 
 supplies with his companion, went into the Gold 
 Hill district to prospect. Returning after a week, 
 he found the emigrant had di.sappeared and had 
 sold his stores, with the explanation that he had 
 become homesick and had started east. Thus he 
 was left in a new country, with little money and 
 no provisions. He returned to Gold Hill and 
 secured work as an experienced blaster. He 
 finished the work and received the sum for which 
 he had accepted the contract. 
 
 The same year Mr. Rice came to Boulder Valley 
 and took up a claim at a point a mile and one- 
 half east of Burlington. He found that he could 
 command a high price by cutting hay and mar- 
 keting it in the mountains, and this he did, often 
 obtaining $60 a ton. When the war broke out he 
 enlisted in Company I, Second Colorado Cavalry, 
 and continued in the Union army from the fall of 
 
 1862 to 1865, some three years. In the spring of 
 
 1863 he was sent from Denver to St. Louis and 
 from there to the front. At Pilot Kneb he and 
 his companioiis built a fort, after which they were 
 sent to the western part of Missouri, and met 
 Price, who was on his raid through that section. 
 After defeating him in the battle of Shilob, where 
 General Marmaduke was captured, they went to 
 the Kansas frontier, where skirmishes with the 
 enemy were a daily occurrence. Later they had 
 several encounters with the Indians along the 
 Arkansas River, and in the fall of 1865, after 
 three years of active service, were mustered out 
 at Leavenworth. 
 
 Returning to Colorado, Mr. Rice pre-empted a 
 claim. After six years he homesteaded a quarter 
 section of land adjoining his other property on 
 the south. At that time ditches were made 
 through the upland and by systems of irrigation, 
 land was increased ten-fold in value. On account 
 of the better location Mr. Rice removed his home 
 to the piece of property last taken up by him and 
 has since resided there. Politically he favors the 
 People's party platform. 
 
 July 6, 1877, the marriage of Rufus Clark and 
 Miss Kate Rowe was solemnized in Denver. Mrs. 
 Rice is a native of Massachusetts and a daughter 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of Appleton and Rosella (Field) Rovve. Her 
 paternal grandfather was a hotel keeper in Am- 
 herst, Mass., for many years. The two children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Rice, Mamie B. and Maud A., 
 were educated in the Longmont high school and 
 academy, and are accomplished young ladies. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Rice were Comfort and 
 Lucinda (Wood) Rice. All but one of their nine 
 children survive, namely: Austin, Malinda, Sam- 
 uel, Alden, Rufus, John, Sarah and Mary. The 
 father, who was born in Vermont about 1795, 
 was less than four years of age when his mother 
 died. The family soon afterward removed to 
 Worcester County, Mass., where he was reared 
 to maturity and spent his life as a farmer. His 
 death occurred in 1868. 
 
 GILBERT H. MYERS. Everywhere in our 
 f 1 land are found men who have worked their 
 I I own way from humble beginnings to leader- 
 ship in the commerce, the great productive in- 
 dustries, the management of financial affairs, and 
 in controlling the veins and arteries of the trafiic 
 and exchanges of the country. It is one of the 
 glories of our nation that it is so. Prominent 
 among the self-made men of Weld County is the 
 subject of this sketch, a man honored, respected 
 and esteemed wherever known, and most of all 
 where he is best known. He is now one of the 
 leading business men of Eaton. 
 
 Mr. Myers is a native of Zurich, Switzerland, 
 bom June 21, i860, and is a son of Frederick 
 Myers, a wagon-maker, who was born in Switzer- 
 land and came to the United States about 1850. 
 In religious belief he is a Lutheran. He married 
 Miss Elizabeth Bear, also a native of Switzerland, 
 and they have become the parents of five chil- 
 dren, namely: Albert H., of this sketch; John D., 
 who is engaged in the transfer business in Pasa- 
 dena, Cal. ; James, a blacksmith of Gilbertsville, 
 Otsego County, N. Y.; Charles, a farmer resid- 
 ing in Eaton, Colo.; and Elizabeth, wife of 
 George A. Cannon, of Sidney, N. Y. 
 
 Albert H. Myers is indebted to the district 
 .schools of New York state for his early educa- 
 tion, which was supplemented by an academic 
 course. On coming west he spent one year in 
 Boulder County, Colo., but in 1882 arrived in 
 Eaton, which was then only a town by name, 
 consisting only of a railroad switch and one 
 
 building. Here he engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits for ten years upon a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres, raising potatoes, grain and stock, 
 and meeting with excellent success. He then 
 rented his farm and engaged in buying and ship- 
 ping potatoes quite extensively. In the spring 
 of 1898, in company with F. G. Reeman, he 
 bought out the firm of Steele & Smillie, and has 
 since engaged in the lumber, coal and farm 
 implement business with success. They have 
 sold as high as seventeen binders in one week. 
 They are also extensive shippers of Colorado 
 potatoes, and as Weld County is noted for the 
 excellence of this product it makes it a most 
 profitable business. They ship principally to 
 Kansas and Texas, though their trade also ex- 
 tends to Missouri and Nebraska, and the ship- 
 ment from Eaton in 1897 reached nearly one 
 thousand eight hundred car loads. They are 
 one of the most energetic, enterprising and reli- 
 able firms in the county, and the success that has 
 crowned their efforts is certainly justly merited. 
 
 November 25, 1885, Mr. Myers was married 
 to Mi.ss Jennie Storms, daughter of James Storms, 
 of New Windsor, Colo. , and two daughters bless 
 their union, Nellie and Ellen. Fraternally he is 
 a member of Eaton Lodge No. 130, Woodmen of 
 the World, and politically is rather independent 
 in his views, but leans toward the Republican 
 party. He takes a deep interest in local affairs 
 and is now efficiently serving as alderman of 
 Eaton. He holds membership in the Congrega- 
 tional Church, was a liberal contributor to the 
 erection of the house of worship in Eaton, and 
 has since been one of its supporters. 
 
 iA AJ. H. L. BOYD, one of the largest land 
 y owners of Larimer County, was born in 
 is Adams County, Pa., in 1838, a son of 
 Hiram and Matilda (Harbaugh) Boyd, and a 
 descendant through his father of Scotch ancestors. 
 Hiram Boyd was a miller and spent much of his 
 active life in Cumberland, Md., but in 1847 re- 
 moved to Ohio, where he continued to follow his 
 trade for four years. He died of cholera in 185 1, 
 during the epidemic of that plague in the United 
 States. 
 
 When the family settled in Ohio, the subject 
 of this sketch was seven years of age and he was 
 eleven when his father died. He was educated 
 
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 in the public schools of Marion, Ohio, and in 
 Oberlin College. He was still carrying on his 
 studies in college when the war broke out, and 
 at once, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 
 Fourth Ohio Infantry. For three years he held 
 the rank of sergeant, to which he was promoted 
 soon after enlistment. At the expiration of that 
 time he opened a recruiting ofiBce in Marion, 
 Ohio, and organized a body of men that reported 
 for service. Of this company he was made first 
 lieutenant, and continued to serve in that capacity 
 until he was appointed quartermaster at Mur- 
 freesboro, Tenn. The principal battles in which 
 he participated were those of Rich Mountain, Va., 
 Malvern Hill, second battle of Bull Run, Gettys- 
 burg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Mine 
 Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, 
 Franklin, Nashville and Kin.ston, N. C. Be- 
 sides these important engagements he bore a part 
 in many skirmishes, and, while he was often in 
 the thickest of the fight, he escaped without a 
 wound. During most of his service he was under 
 General Grant. 
 
 Returning home at the close of the war, Major 
 Boyd visited relatives during the winter. In the 
 spring of 1866 he came to Colorado and began to 
 cultivate land near Denver. From there, in 
 1 874, he came to Larimer County and settled on 
 Boyd Lake, near Loveland, taking up govern- 
 ment land and beginning its improvement and 
 cultivation. In 1881 he bought his present 
 homestead, where he gives his attention to farm- 
 ing and fruit-growing. At one time he was 
 among the largest sheep growers in the county, 
 and also raised cattle extensively, but of late years 
 he has given less attention to stock and more to 
 fruit. The land which he owns aggregates four 
 hundred and eighty acres. His success is 
 especially noteworthy, when it is considered that 
 he started with nothing and was forced, amid 
 discouragements and hardships, to work his own 
 way to prosperity. During one winter he pros- 
 pected and mined, but, not finding any gold, he 
 determined to turn his attention wholly to an 
 industry for which Colorado is especially adapted, 
 that of stock-raising. In later years he trans- 
 ferred his attention to the fruit business and 
 general farming; so, while he never dug any 
 gold out of the earth, he has secured it through 
 diligent effort in a profitable line of work. In 
 1874 he married Miss Marion Alford, daughter of 
 
 William B. Alford, who lives near Denver. 
 They are the parents of seven children, namely: 
 Albert A.; Ethel W., wife of Charles Parker; 
 Joseph, Marion, Eugenie, Susan and Martha. 
 
 QOHN W. SAUER, E. M., manager of the 
 
 I Ingram mine, owned by the Ingram Mining 
 (2/ and Milling Company, at Salina^^ Boulder 
 County, was born in Evansville, 111., the son of 
 Nicholas and Elizabeth (Gerlach) Sauer, natives 
 of Illinois and Wheeling, W. Va. , respectively. 
 His paternal grandfather, Philip Sauer, emigrated 
 from Germany to Illinois and became a pioneer 
 of Monroe County. The maternal grandfather, 
 John Gerlach, also a native of Cassel, Germany, 
 crossed the ocean and settled in West Virginia, 
 but soon migrated to Illinois, of which he was a 
 pioneer farmer. 
 
 For the past thirty years Nicholas Sauer has 
 been engaged in the milling business at Evans- 
 ville, 111., besides which he has other business 
 interests in St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. He 
 has four sons and one daughter living. A 
 son, William E. , is a post-graduate student at 
 Heidelberg, Germany; Philip E. is in business 
 with his father; George N. is a student at Shurt- 
 leff Colleges and Lena E. is at home. 
 
 Born March 11, 1868, our subject was reared 
 in Evansville, 111., and at the age of fifteen entered 
 Washington University in St. Louis, where he 
 took a four years' course of study. From there 
 he went to Freiberg and Clausthal, Germany, 
 where for three years he was a studeut in the 
 Prussian Royal Academy of Mines. On the con- 
 clusion of the regular course he took the Prussian 
 examination for mining engineer and was 
 graduated in 1893, with the degree of E. M. 
 Returning to St. Louis, he shortly afterward came 
 to Colorado, to take charge of the Ingram mine, 
 in the Gold Hill mining district. It is one of 
 seven claims, operated by tunnel and shaft, and 
 the work in which is carried on by the use of a 
 shaft, six hundred and twenty-five feet deep. 
 The depth has been doubled since he assumed 
 the management of the mine. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Sauer is identified with 
 Boulder Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., Boulder 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and the Knights of 
 Pythias, at Boulder. Everything pertaining to 
 his chosen work in life receives thoughtful at- 
 
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 tention on his part. As an engineer he is pro- 
 gressive and enterprising. He is connected with 
 the American Institute of Mining Engineers and 
 socially is identified with the Boulder Club. 
 While he has never been an active politician, he 
 is well posted concerning public affairs and casts 
 his ballots for Republican candidates. 
 
 'HOMAS G. MAYFIELD, one of the sturdy 
 and honored pioneers of Colorado, owns 
 and manages a valuable farm which is lo- 
 cated about five miles northeast of Longmont. 
 During his earlj' experiences in Colorado he 
 mined and freighted, prospected and farmed, 
 kept hotel and cut hay; and, in short, ran the 
 whole gamut of occupations of the frontiers- 
 man of the period. He has been an active and 
 interested witness of the great progress which 
 the state has made in every direction, contribut- 
 ing his share to the glorious Colorado of the 
 present. He has met with serious reverses and 
 discouragements in his career, but has always 
 kept up a brave heart, making the best of cir- 
 cumstances, and eventually coming ofi' victor in 
 his endeavors. 
 
 In a family originally including seven children, 
 T. G. Mayfield is one of two survivors. His 
 brother, William B., is a prosperous farmer of 
 the vicinity of Fort Lupton, Colo. The father, 
 John F. Mayfield, was born in Virginia in 1814, 
 and in youth went to Kentucky with the other 
 members of the family. There he married Miss 
 IvUcinda Miller and a few years afterward settled 
 in Orange County, Ind. He bought a farm, 
 which he proceeded to cultivate up to the year 
 1873, when he came to Colorado. He took up 
 his residence in the neighborhood where his son, 
 our subject, dwelt, and here he passed the re- 
 mainder of his life, his demise taking place in 
 1877. During the gold excitement about 1850 
 he was one of the many thousands who crossed 
 the plains in quest of the yellow treasure, but he 
 only stayed one year. His father, Elijah May- 
 field, was a native of either Virginia or Tennes- 
 see and was a respected and influential man in 
 his time. 
 
 T. G. Mayfield, of this sketch, was born in 
 Liberty County, Ky., December 23, 1839. With 
 his parents he went to the new home in Indiana, 
 and was there reared to maturity, his education 
 
 being such as the district schools afforded. In 
 1 86 1 he made the long journey to Colorado, com- 
 ing as far as St. Louis by train, thence to Keokuk, 
 Iowa, by boat, to Ettaville by rail and from that 
 point to Council Bluffs, a distance of two hundred 
 and twenty miles, by stage. Crossing the Mis- 
 souri River at Omaha he found a team of oxen 
 awaiting him to be driven to a place twelve miles 
 above Golden, Colo. The team belonged to the 
 young man's uncle, and as soon as the former 
 reached his relative they entered into a partner- 
 ship which continued in force for a number of 
 years, proving both profitable and pleasant. The 
 trip across the Nebraska plains was a tedious 
 one, as it took forty-four days. That winter 
 young Mayfield worked in a lumber camp cutting 
 logs and the next spring he and his uncle built a 
 hotel on the old Gregory road, midway between 
 Central and Golden, and for years the Mayfield 
 hotel was a favorite stopping-place for the travel- 
 ers who passed that way. In the spring of 1863 
 the partners did a freighting business in connec- 
 tion with their hotel, running a team until the 
 winter set in. Then our subject worked in the 
 mines of Nevada and Alps Hill, the hotel mean- 
 time being rented. The spring and summer of 
 1864 the nephew and uncle again operated the 
 hotel and engaged in freighting. In September 
 they sold the business, and removing to Golden, 
 devoted their whole time the following winter to 
 carrying supplies to the different mining camps. 
 It was in March, 1865, that T. G. Mayfield 
 first regularly engaged in farming here. He lo- 
 cated on a ranch which he rented, it being situ- 
 ated on the St. Vrain River, seven miles east of 
 Longmont. The season was a particularly dis- 
 astrous one, as grasshoppers devoured the entire 
 crop and all of our subject's labors were thus 
 sacrificed. That autumn he went out on the prai- 
 ries and cut wild hay, which he hauled to Central 
 City and sold. He also bought hay at $30 a ton, 
 and, after transporting it to Central City, disposed 
 of it at $80 a ton. In 1866 the uncle and nephew 
 each took up a quarter-section of land in the lo- 
 cality where the latter had formerly rented. They 
 continued to farm and freight supplies to various 
 points in partnership up to 1870, when they sold 
 all but one hundred and sixty acres. A division 
 of their assets ensued and T. G. Mayfield pur- 
 chased his senior's interest in the ranch, which he 
 still owns. In February, 1872, he returned 
 
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 home on a visit, being gone about a month. 
 From the time of his Colorado home-coming 
 until 1883 he lived on the farm just mentioned, 
 making substantial improvements. His health 
 not being of the best, he came to the conclusion 
 that a more elevated location might prove bene- 
 ficial, and he purchased his present country 
 home, five miles from Longmont. He has never 
 been an office-seeker or politician, but does his 
 whole duty as a citizen and uses his ballot on be- 
 half of the Democratic party. 
 
 March 4, 1875, Mr. Mayfield married M. 
 Catharine, daughter of Rev. John Cooke, of Clay 
 County, 111., who was a talented and well- 
 known Methodist minister. Mr. and Mrs. May- 
 field have three children, Charles, Lulu and 
 William. 
 
 HAMES L. McCAIN, an honored veteran 
 I of the Civil war, now most creditably serving 
 Qj as justice of the peace and notary public 
 in Evans, was born near Amity, Washington 
 County, Pa., October 29, 1840, and is a son of 
 James and Sarah (Morrow) McCain, the former 
 a native of Ireland, the latter of Pennsylvania. 
 During boyhood the father came to America and 
 located in Washington County, Pa., where he 
 was married and followed the occupation of farm- 
 ing for some years. In 1852 he removed to Ohio, 
 and in that state died four years later. He was 
 a successful farmer and became quite well-to-do. 
 Politically he was a Jacksonian Democrat, and 
 though he took an active interest in public affairs, 
 he was never an office-seeker. All of his seven 
 children are still living. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was twelve years old 
 when he accompanied his parents on their re- 
 moval to Meigs County, Ohio, where he grew to 
 manhood, assisting his father in the farm work 
 and attending the local schools, completing his 
 education, however, attheTupper's Plains Acad- 
 emy. At the outbreak of the Civil war he re- 
 sponded to the first call for troops, enlisting in 
 Company D, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
 which regiment was placed on guard duty on the 
 Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad. Before the ex- 
 piration of his term of enlistment he re-enlisted 
 for three years in Company K, Thirty-ninth Ohio 
 Infantry, and by again re-enlisting in the same 
 regiment remained in the service until the close 
 of the war. As a member of the Sixteenth Army 
 
 Corps, commanded by Gen. G. M. Dodge, he 
 participated in twenty-six pitched battles and 
 many skirmishes, including the engagements at 
 New Madrid, Island No. 10, Corinth, luka and 
 Jackson. They followed the rebel General Price, 
 and afterward were on guard duty at Memphis 
 for six months, then went to Decatur, Ala., and 
 Mr. McCain's command was the first to cross the 
 Tennessee River. Joining General Sherman's 
 forces at Chattanooga, they remained with him 
 until the close of the war, taking part in the At- 
 lanta campaign, during which our subject was 
 wounded July 22, 1864. They followed Sherman 
 to the sea; from Atlanta went by transports to 
 Beaufort, were in the battle of Bentonville, 
 Sherman's last engagement, and were present at 
 the surrender of Johnston. The troops then 
 marched to Washington, D. C. , where they took 
 part in the grand review. Mr. McCain's com- 
 mand then proceeded to Louisville, Ky., and 
 from there to Camp Dennison, Ohio, where he 
 was mustered out July 19, 1865, with a war 
 record of which he has just reason to be proud. 
 With the exception of the journey from Savannah 
 to Beaufort, N. C, he had marched all the way 
 from Memphis, Tenn. , to Washington, D. C. He 
 had enlisted as a private, but was gradually pro- 
 moted until -he attained the rank of first lieuten- 
 ant, and was mustered out as adjutant. 
 
 During his youth Mr. McCain had learned the 
 carpenter's trade, at which he worked in Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., after the war until coming to Colo- 
 rado in 1879. He first located in Denver, where 
 he engaged in his former occupation, and in 
 1882 bought a farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres nine miles west of the city, where he was 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising for three 
 years. On selling that place he came to Weld 
 County, in the spring of 1885, and here purchased 
 another claim on the northwest quarter of section 
 30, township 4, range 65, where he continued to 
 follow agricultural pursuits and stock-raising 
 until 1893, when he rented his place and removed 
 to Evans, his present home. 
 
 At Denver, Mr. McCain was married in 1882, to 
 Miss Margaret I. Boggs, a native of Allegheny 
 City, Pa., and a daughter of James Boggs, of that 
 place. To them was born a son, Wallace Bruce, 
 who at the age of eight years met a sad death by 
 being run over by the cars at Evans. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. McCain was elected justice of the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 peace, to which office he was re-elected two years 
 later, and which he is still filling with credit to 
 •himself and entire satisfaction of the general 
 public. He was previously appointed notary 
 public by Governor Waite, and until coming to 
 Evans had served as a member of the school board 
 for almost twenty years, having always taken an 
 active and commendable interest in educational 
 affairs. In early life he was connected with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, but is now a mem- 
 ber of the First Presbyterian Church of L,a Salle, 
 in which he has served as elder and one of the 
 trustees since its organization and also as super- 
 intendent of the Sunday-school. He affiliates with 
 the Rnights of Honor, the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, the Royal Arcanum, and W. T. 
 Sherman Post No. 23, G. A. R., of which he 
 served as commander for three years. In all the 
 relations of life he has been found true and faith- 
 ful to every trust reposed in him, and his upright, 
 honorable life has won for him the confidence 
 and respect of all' with whom he has come in con- 
 tact. 
 
 HON. JAMES H. SWAN is one of the most 
 enterprising citizens of Livermore, Larimer 
 County, and is closely identified with the 
 business interests of the place. He owns the 
 most beautiful property to be found in this part of 
 the state. Swan's Hotel, on the North Park 
 road, at the north fork of the Cache la Poudre, 
 is one of the best known hotels in central Colo- 
 rado, as it is also one of the most pleasant. It has 
 an elevation of six thousand one hundred feet 
 above the sea, is surrounded by shady groves and 
 smooth lawns, and is cool and refreshing even on 
 hottest summer days, while the view that can be 
 obtained of Steamboat Rock and the surrounding 
 country is one of the most magnificent in the 
 state. 
 
 Mr. Swan is a native of Millington, Middlesex 
 County, Conn., born June 11, 1843, his parents 
 being James E. and Lydia (Harris) Swan. His 
 grandfather, Asa Swan, was a farmer in that 
 state, and died there after serving in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. James E. Swan, who was also a 
 farmer there, served in the state legislature 
 several times as a representative of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and was also justice of the peace. 
 He married Miss Lydia Harris, of Millington, 
 Conn., a daughter of Samuel Harris, an agri- 
 
 culturist and extensive land owner who lived and 
 died there. Both parents died while in the prime 
 of life, the father at the age of forty-one, in 1856, 
 and the mother when forty-eight. There were 
 five children, four daughters and one son, of 
 whom our subject is the only one living. 
 
 Mr. Swan was the third child of the family, 
 and lost his father when thirteen years old. He 
 attended the public schools and worked on the 
 farm until he was twenty-three, when he em- 
 barked in the mercantile business at Moodus, 
 Conn., with a cousin, H. B. Niles, under the 
 name of Niles & Swan. They continued in this 
 business about three years, when he disposed of 
 his interest in the business and came to Colo- 
 rado, locating near EaPorte, where he bought a 
 claim, homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres 
 on the Poudre, and engaged in farming and stock 
 business. After ten years here he sold out and 
 returned to his old home in Connecticut, but 
 after two months there he longed for Colorado 
 once more and set out for this country. He 
 bought a place in Fort Collins, and was soon ap- 
 pointed assistant postmaster, under Charles Ray- 
 mer, continuing under Ansel Waters, during 
 Cleveland's administration, and again under 
 Raymer during Harrison's presidency. He was 
 thus employed about seven years. In 1891 he 
 bought the Livermore Hotel and resigned his 
 position to take charge of the business. He was 
 immediately appointed postmaster and took 
 charge in July, 1891. His hotel is nicely situ- 
 ated, being midway between Manhattan and Fort 
 Collins, also between the latter place and St. 
 Cloud. His is the half-way house, and has three 
 stage lines with daily mail from Fort Collins. He 
 is on the line of the Colorado Telephone Com- 
 pany. He has improved the building until it is 
 now a large, commodious structure, and finely 
 appointed. He has added a dance hall, and done 
 all in his power to make it meet the requirements 
 of his guests, and it is deservedly popular. In 
 connection with this he runs a livery and feed 
 stable, and has a blacksmith shop attached. 
 About the time he took charge of the hotel he 
 opened a mercantile establishment, which he 
 still conducts. He carries on an extensive and 
 increasing local business. He owns one hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of land on which he raises 
 cattle. 
 
 Mr. Swan has been twice married. In East 
 
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 Haddam, Conn., he married Miss Julia M. Doane, 
 of New Jersey, who died in Fort Collins. His 
 second wife was Mrs. Minerva (Hornerd) Saxton. 
 She had one daughter, Cora Saxton, now Mrs. 
 Leslie Horsley, of Livermore. By his first mar- 
 riage he had three children, viz.: Herbert, who 
 lives in Victor, Colo.; Walter F., in Seattle, 
 Wash.; and Sylvia, Mrs. H. L. Gilpin-Brown, of 
 Livermore Park. He is president of the school 
 board in Pleasant Valley district, and was justice 
 of the peace several terms there. In 1893 he was 
 elected on the Republican ticket to the office of 
 county commissioner for Larimer, took the oath 
 of office in January, 1894, and held it until 1897. 
 He is a McKinley Republican, and takes a promi- 
 nent part in local politics, rendering much aid in 
 their caucuses and conventions. He was a charter 
 member ofFort Collins Lodge No. 10, A. O. U. W. 
 He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Fort Collins, and have an unusual 
 degree of popularity among those who have come 
 in contact with them. 
 
 /TIALVIN H. THOMAS. One of the most 
 I ( progressive farmers of Weld County is the 
 U subject of this sketch, who is engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising on township 7, range 
 65, seven miles northeast of Eaton. A pioneer 
 of this part of the state, he came to Colorado 
 with the Union colony and found but a cactus 
 plain stretching as far as the eye could discern. 
 He broke the ground and began the cultivation 
 of the land. Wishing to have trees to beautify 
 his place, he set out a grove of one thousand, but 
 all died. He then planted two thousand, which 
 now constitute his beautiful grove. The place is 
 also beautified by many flowers. 
 
 Born in Salem, Ohio, November 15, 1844, Mr. 
 Thomas is a son of Jacob and Rebecca (Lee) 
 Thomas, natives respectively of Bucks and Berks 
 Counties, Pa. His father, who was a Quaker, 
 grew to manhood in Berks County, where he en- 
 gaged principally in farming, though he also fol- 
 lowed milling for a time. During the war he 
 advocated Union principles and was a stanch 
 Abolitionist. He and his wife were the parents 
 of two sons and six daughters, namely: Mary, 
 widow of Robert Tolerton; Catherine, Hannah, 
 Jesse, Priscilla, Calvin H. ; Lydia, who married 
 A. J. Strong; and Sallie, wife of Dr. Coats. 
 
 When less than .seventeen years of age our 
 subject enlisted, in October, 1861, in Company 
 C, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, and participated in all of- 
 the cavalry engagements of the Army of the Poto- 
 mac. He .served through the entire period of 
 the war, was wounded in both limbs, and re- 
 ceived his honorable discharge August 17, 1865. 
 After leaving the service he attended school for 
 two years, then took a trip west, and on his re- 
 turn home engaged in farming. In 1870 he came 
 to Greeley as a member of the Union colony. 
 Three years later he returned to Ohio and was 
 there married. In 1874 he came a second time 
 to Greeley, where he carried on farm pursuits for 
 six years, and in 1880 settled on his present 
 quarter-section of land. Here he has engaged in 
 raising grains and cattle. He is a stockholder in 
 the Larimer and Weld Reservoir Company and 
 the Larimer and Weld Ditch Company, and has 
 his land nicely laid out for irrigating. 
 
 In political questions Mr. Thomas votes the 
 Republican ticket in national elections, but in 
 local matters votes for the man whom he consid- 
 ers best suited for office. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and is also a member of U. S. Grant Post 
 No. 14, G. A. R., of Greeley. April 8, 1874, he 
 married Sophia, daughter of John Nickum, of 
 Salem, Ohio, who was a furniture dealer in that 
 town and held office as captain of a militia com- 
 pany, but could not enter the service during the 
 war, as he was too old. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
 have four children: Helen M., Myra L., Thurza 
 Theda and Daniel B. L. 
 
 While his service in the army prevented Mr. 
 Thomas from enjoying the educational advan- 
 tages so desirable to the young, he has endeav- 
 ored by self-culture to atone for the deficiencies 
 of his education, and is a man who is continually 
 studying and progressing. He is a close and 
 thoughtful reader and assists his children in their 
 studies, going over their lessons with them. On 
 the questions of the day he is well informed. In 
 his efforts to do all possible for his children, he is 
 ably aided by Mrs. Thomas, who is a cultured 
 and educated lady, and for two years was presi- 
 dent, and is now vice-president, of the Greeley 
 branch of the Kliothalian Club of the Woman's 
 Federation. They own a home in Greeley and 
 spend a part of each year there, in order that 
 their children may have the advantage of the 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 8gi 
 
 superior schools of that place. During the 
 World's Fair Mr. Thomas took his wife and eldest 
 daughter to Chicago, less as a sight-seeing expe- 
 dition than for what the daughter would learn, 
 audit is his expectation to take one of his daugh- 
 ters to Paris in igoo. He is a Quaker, but lost 
 his birthright by joining the army during the 
 Civil war. An intelligent, agreeable and hos- 
 pitable man, he is esteemed and respected wher- 
 ever known. 
 
 0AVID W. ERVIN, a pioneer of '60, now 
 residing in Weld County, seven miles south- 
 east of L,ongmont, was born in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., July 27, 1833, a son of William and Sarah 
 (Christman) Ervin. He was one of thirteen 
 children, seven of whom are still living. His 
 father, a native of Lincolnshire, England, came 
 to America at twelve years of age, in company 
 with a sister, Mrs. Repass, with whom he re- 
 mained in Philadelphia until he was grown to 
 manhood. After his marriage he settled in a 
 home of his own in Philadelphia, where he re- 
 mained for some years, but in 1840 he removed 
 to Washington, Northumberland County, and 
 bought a piece of timbered land, which his sons 
 cleared and improved. During a large part of 
 his active life he followed the trade of a farrier, 
 in which he was an expert. His death occurred 
 in Northumberland County in 1862, when he was 
 fifty -seven years of age. 
 
 At twenty-one years of age the subject of this 
 sketch went to Illinois to visit a relative. While 
 there the son of the relative returned home and 
 persuaded our subject to go to Iowa. While in 
 that state he assisted in carrying the chain to lay 
 out the town of Waterloo. Having a few dollars 
 of his own, he invested in a livery stable, begin- 
 ning in business with six horses, and increasing 
 until he had twenty-five horses and fifteen bug- 
 gies at the end of two years; besides this he 
 owned a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and 
 some town lots. On disposing of his livery sta- 
 ble he turned his attention to other enterprises, 
 remaining in Waterloo until i860. When a call 
 was made for volunteers at the opening of the 
 Civil war he enlisted for one hundred days, in 
 the Twenty-first Iowa Infantry. At the expira- 
 tion of his time he was discharged in Sedalia , Mo. 
 Immediately after being discharged Mr. Ervin 
 bought a team of mules, and, with four other men, 
 38 
 
 started for Colorado. He arrived in Denver on 
 Independence day of i860. Here he was offered 
 some lots on the east side of Blake street for his 
 mules and outfit, but refused the offer. During 
 the summer he worked for Rodney Curtis near 
 Denver, helping to dig potatoes. In the fall, 
 with his mules, he hauled the potatoes to Buck- 
 skin Joe and there fell a victim to the mining 
 fever, which sooner or later has seized every 
 "tenderfoot" from the east. During the winter he 
 traded his outfit for claim No. 6, of the Phillips 
 lead, where he worked until May of the following 
 year. Finally abandoning his claim, he went to 
 Central via California Gulch and Fairplay, and 
 for a time worked by the day. Later, when the 
 Grinnell Central Gold Mining Company was 
 formed, he was made foreman of the mine at $6 a 
 day, and afterward was advanced to be general 
 superintendent, for which he received $7 a day. 
 In Nevada City, in 1866, Mr. Ervin married 
 Miss Elizabeth Hochstrasser, daughter of Peter 
 Hochstrasser, of South County, Ontario, Canada. 
 About the same time he came to this valley and 
 rented land on Boulder Creek, in Weld County. 
 In 1870 he took up a claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, where he now lives, this being a tract 
 adjoining the one he had rented. He is inter- 
 ested in all matters pertaining to the welfare of 
 his county and is especially active in educational 
 affairs, having for twenty-seven years served as 
 secretary of the school board in district No. i. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and Select Knights. 
 He and his wife are the parents of the following- 
 named children: Mary E., wife of William Van- 
 daford Lafayette; Sarah, who married Joseph 
 Milener, of Canada; William, of Golden, Colo.; 
 Francis, deceased; and Ernest, at home. 
 
 "TDWARD NAIRN GARBUTT, deceased, 
 ^ was a pioneer of Colorado and a highly re- 
 ^ .spected resident of Fort Collins. He was 
 born near Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y., 
 July 20, 1844. His father, Volney John Gar- 
 butt, was born in Wheatland, near Rochester, 
 N. Y., and was a son of John Garbutt, a native 
 of Northumberland, England, and one of three 
 brothers who came to this country with their 
 father, Zachariah. The family settled in the 
 town of Wheatland and a station was established 
 
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 near their home that is still known as Garbutt. 
 In addition to cultivating land they engaged in 
 operating a mill. Our subject fell heir not only 
 to a watch that was owned by Zachariah Gur- 
 butt, but also to the name of Zachariah's wife, 
 who was a Miss Nairn, of Scotland. 
 
 In all the enterprises tending to the develop- 
 ment of Monroe County each generation took an 
 active part. John Garbutt carried books from 
 Albany to his home and started the first library 
 in Monroe County. He built a two-story house 
 at Garbutt and engaged in the hotel business, be- 
 sides operating his farm. Later he built plaster 
 and flour mills; also constructed "to the Genesee 
 River a railroad of plank, drawn by horses, over 
 which he hauled his produce to the market, and 
 from there he floated the flour down the river in 
 flatboats. He continued his shipments in this 
 way until the canal was built. During the war 
 of 181 2 he served as a captain. For a time he 
 was a member of the state legislature of New 
 York. His death occurred in Monroe County 
 when he was seventy-six years of age. 
 
 Volney John Garbutt engaged in farming in 
 Monroe County. He located in the town of 
 Greece, three miles from the Genesee River and 
 Lake Ontario. There he engaged in farming 
 until his death at sixty-nine years. His wife, 
 Lucy Howard Bennett, was born in the Wyoming 
 Valley, Pennsylvania, and died in New York at 
 forty-si x years of age. Her father, Frederick Ben- 
 nett, was born in Massachusetts, but at the age 
 of two years was taken by his parents to the 
 Wyoming Valley and was there during the 
 Wyoming massacre. Afterward they returned 
 to Massachusetts, but when the fear of Indians 
 no longer existed they once more settled in Penn- 
 sylvania. He removed to the Genesee Valley 
 in New York and engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness in Monroe County, where he died at eighty- 
 seven years; his wife passed away when eighty- 
 four. 
 
 The family of which our subject was second 
 consisted of eight children that attained years of 
 maturity. H. Irving is an attorney in Fort Col- 
 lins, having come here from New York; during 
 the Civil war he enlisted in the Thirteenth New 
 York Infantry, and at the first battle of Bull Run 
 was taken prisoner, remaining in Libby Prison 
 for eleven months. Volney, who was in the New 
 York Light Artillery, died soon after the close of 
 
 the war in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. 
 Jane E. died in 1872. Zachariah is an attorney 
 at Boyne City, Mich., and Cameron W. a stock- 
 man at Sheridan, Wyo. The youngest child, 
 Nettie, married Rowland Herring, of New York, 
 subsequently moved to Colorado, and died at La 
 Porte, this state. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject were spent 
 in the town of Greece. In August, 1862, he en- 
 listed in Company I, One Hundred and Fortieth 
 New York Infantry, being mustered into service 
 at Rochester September 21. He was ordered to 
 Harper's Ferry, from there to Fredericksburg, 
 took part in the battle of Gettysburg, and the 
 day after the battle was over fell ill with typhoid 
 fever. For weeks he lay at death's door in the 
 hospital. Finally, however, he became strong 
 enough to return home, and was discharged Sep- 
 tember 21, 1863, on account of disability. After 
 becoming well enough to resume his studies he 
 entered Lima Seminary, in Livingston County, 
 N. Y., and for a time both taught and studied. 
 After graduating he settled in Greenville, Mich., 
 where he bought a farm and remained one year. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Garbuttcame to Colorado, making 
 the journey by rail to Fort Riley, Kan., where 
 he secured work as driver of ox-teams across the 
 plains at $25" per month. The route lay along 
 the Smoky Hill road, where water was so scarce 
 that twice he went for twenty-four hours without 
 any. Arriving at Denver July 23, he heartily 
 enjoyed the sight of the town after so many days 
 on the hot and dusty road. A day after reaching 
 Denver he left, coming by stage to Fort Collins, 
 where he had a cousin, Fred Wallace. At that 
 time there were only about six houses in the 
 town, and there was little to invite or attract the 
 settler. He went on to LaPorte, then a rather 
 lively little place, and there he and his cousin en- 
 gaged in farming until 1874, when the grass- 
 hoppers destroyed his crop and he decided to 
 quit. While there he was secretary of a school 
 district that covered forty square miles. In Sep- 
 tember, 1875, he was elected county superin- 
 tendent of schools and served for two months 
 over two terms. During that time he reorgan- 
 ized the schools and the school districts of the 
 county. In the fall of 1879 he was elected county 
 treasurer on the Republican ticket, and in Janu- 
 ary, 1880, took the oath of ofiice. The next 
 year he was re-elected, also in 1883, .serving until 
 
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 January, 1886. For several years he was deputy 
 district clerk, and for five years served as deputy 
 county clerk under Scott, Montgomery and Du- 
 Bois. These several positions he filled in con- 
 nection vv-ith his treasuryship. In 1 886 he bought 
 the abstract books and continued in charge of 
 them for some time, bringing abstracts up to 
 date; however, the work was too confining for 
 him. He became seriously ill and went to Den- 
 ver for treatment, but blood poison fever result- 
 ing from the treatment set in and threatened his 
 life. While ill he sold the abstract books. Dur- 
 ing much of the time when he was in ofiice he 
 carried on a store at LaPorte, which he owned 
 from 1877 to 1893 and then- sold. For many 
 years, at different periods, he served as post- 
 master at LaPorte. On selling his store he took 
 in exchange one hundred and eighty-seven acres 
 south of Fort Collins, which he rented. 
 
 Politically Mr. Garbutt was a silver Repub- 
 lican. While he held many offices he perhaps 
 refused as many as he accepted. Fraternally he 
 was connected with Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. 
 & A. M., of which he was master for five years; 
 Cache la Poudre Chapter No. 11, R. A. M., 
 and DeMolay Commandery No. 13, K. T. Sep- 
 tember 16, 1880, in Greenville, Mich., he mar- 
 ried Miss Libbie O. Holmden, who was born in 
 that place. Her father, George Holmden, was a 
 native of England, and on coming to this country 
 settled in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Garbutt had 
 two children, namely: Stuart Bennett, who was 
 born July 24, 1880, and will graduate from the 
 Agricultural College in 1900; and Edna Eliza- 
 beth, who was born November 22, 1885. They 
 also took into their family a sister's child, Ed- 
 ward Irving Herring Garbutt. 
 
 Mr. Garbutt's death occurred October 25, 1898, 
 at his residence in Fort Collins. He was buried 
 with Masonic honors. 
 
 (lOHN MONTGOMERY,- one of the most 
 I successful farmers of Weld County, owns a 
 Q) finely improved homestead, one and one- 
 quarter miles west of Eaton, on township 7, 
 range 66. He settled here in 1887, buying one 
 hundred and sixty acres of fine land, all of which 
 is under cultivation. The improvements have 
 been made under his personal supervision, and 
 include a well two hundred and thirty feet deep, 
 
 with excellent soft water, which a windmill con- 
 nects with the house. The barn, which is the 
 finest for miles around, is of brick, 40x50 feet in 
 dimensions, and with ceilings seventeen feet high. 
 The residence is also of brick and thoroughly 
 modern in its appointments. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery was born in Ireland in No- 
 vember, 1832, a son of George and Eliza (Dren- 
 nin) Montgomery, who emigrated to Canada in 
 1835, settling in Melbourne, Richmond County, 
 Quebec, and there the father died May 6, 1838. 
 Our subject was educated in district schools in 
 Melbourne, but his opportunities for attending 
 school were limited, as he was obliged to assist 
 in the farm work while still quite young. Of the 
 five children he was next to the youngest. He 
 assisted his older brother in cultivating the home 
 place until the brother became of age, after which 
 our subject cultivated it alone. In 1887 he sold 
 the place and came to Colorado, settling on the 
 farm where he has since resided. His youngest 
 son, Christopher L. , superintends the cultivation 
 of the land, and is a young man of intelligence 
 and ability. However, Mr. Montgomery is not 
 content when idle, and usually finds something 
 to occupy his time and thought in managing the 
 estate and in suggesting improvements. In polit- 
 ical views he is a stanch silver advocate. In re- 
 ligion he has always adhered to the Episcopalian 
 faith, but as that denomination has no church 
 near here, he attends the Congregational Church 
 at Eaton. 
 
 December 22, 1857, i" Durham, Canada, Mr. 
 Montgomery married Mary Ann, daughter of 
 William Lyster, a resident of that place. She 
 was an estimable lady, and her death, October 6, 
 1894, was a heavy loss to her family. There 
 were four sons and four daughters born of their 
 union, namely: Eliza A., who married Albert E. 
 English, of La Grange, Colo.; Frederick Will- 
 iam, living at Holly, Colo.; George A., who 
 owns one hundred and sixty acres adjoining his 
 father's place, and is now road superintendent of 
 this section; Mary Esther, who married James 
 Smillie, of Richmond, Canada; Albert E., who is 
 engaged in farming west of his father's place; 
 Julia Matilda, who married James G. Milne, a 
 farmer living near Lucerne; Christopher L. , who 
 operates the homestead; and Charlotte Matilda, 
 who died at eleven years of age. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery owns two water rights in the 
 
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 Larimer and Weld reservoir, and two in the Lari- 
 mer and Weld ditch . He also has a private res- 
 ervoir of nine acres, which he finds of inestima- 
 ble value, it furnishing him with plenty of water 
 whenever needed. It has been his custom to 
 have the water run in at night, and thus he has a 
 full supply in the daytime. In the well-remem- 
 bered suit against the English company for the 
 control of the water company, he was very active 
 in upholding the interests of the farmers and 
 strong in advocating the transfer of the control 
 to them, as per contract. At the end of seven 
 years of litigation they were finally successful, 
 and the control passed into the hands of those 
 who held the three hundred and sixty-six and 
 one-half original rights, instead of being held by 
 B. H. Eaton, who proposed to divide the water 
 among five hundred, a larger number than the 
 ditch could suppl}'. Although the suit was finally 
 decided in the farmers' favor, they were kept out 
 of po-ssession of the water until January of the fol- 
 lowing year, 1898. Mr. Montgomery is a mem- 
 ber of the Northern Colorado Produce Exchange 
 of Greeley. Besides his other interests he is a 
 feeder of sheep for the Chicago market, and an- 
 nually buys about one thousand for this purpose. 
 
 G) AMUEL J. McAFEE, junior member of the 
 2\ well-known firm of Briggs & McAfee, gen- 
 Q/ eral merchants of Evans, Weld County, is 
 an enterprising, wide-awake business man, who 
 has been identified with the interests of this 
 state throughout the greater part of his life. He 
 was born in Washington County, 111., in 1862, 
 and is a son of John and Margery (Stevenson) 
 McAfee. The father was a native of Ireland, but 
 when a lad of eight years was brought to this 
 country by his parents, who located in Philadel- 
 phia, where the grandfather was one of the first 
 to engage in the manufacture of brick, following 
 that occupation there until his death. In the 
 Quaker City John McAfee grew to manhood, but 
 in the early '40s, when twenty-five years of age, 
 he went to Chicago, which at that time contained 
 less than three thousand inhabitants. There he 
 engaged in farming for a time, and later followed 
 the same pursuit in connection with brick making 
 in Washington County, 111., until 1870, when he 
 came to Evans, Colo., as a member of the St. 
 Louis and Western Colony, with which he was 
 
 identified during the remainder of his life. He 
 made the first brick in this part of the country, 
 and engaged extensively in its manufacture for 
 several years. He spent two summers at Canon 
 City, as superintendent of the state brick yard 
 under convict labor, but passed his last years 
 quietly on a farm three miles south of Evans, 
 where he departed this life in 1889, at the age of 
 seventy-six years. His wife had previously been 
 called to her final rest, dying in Evans, in 1886, 
 aged seventy-two years. Only three of their ten 
 children are now living, namely: Alice, wife of 
 Judge Edward V. Higgins, of Lehigh, Utah; 
 Samuel J., the subject of this sketch; and John J., 
 a resident of Salt Lake City. 
 
 Samuel J. McAfee was only nine years old when 
 he came with the family to Evans, Colo. , and at 
 that place he acquired his education in the public 
 schools. At the age of fifteen he started out to 
 learn the carpenter's trade, but gave it up after 
 following it for a few weeks and entered the print- 
 ing office of the Evans y(??<r«a/ as an apprentice, 
 remaining there one year. The following three 
 years he was employed as a general printer in the 
 office of the Hotel Reporter, owned by John C. 
 Kennedy, and remained in Denver for six years, 
 working on different papers. Returning to Evans 
 in 1884, he ptirchased the IBiVaxis Journal in com- 
 pany with Thomas M. Todd, but a year later the 
 firm became Cheely & McAfee, and as such the 
 business was conducted for the following year. 
 They then sold the paper and Mr. McAfee went 
 to S3'racuse, Kan., as manager of the Syra- 
 cuse Sentinel for about twenty-three months. In 
 1889 we again find him in Denver, where he was 
 engaged in newspaper work for a short time, 
 and on leaving that cit3' he went to Castle Rock, 
 where he had charge of the Castle 'R(xk Journal 
 for seven months. In 1890 he returned to Evans 
 and established the Evans Coiirier, a weekly 
 journal, whose first issue appeared May 24, 1890. 
 On the ist of February, 1895, he sold the paper 
 and the same day bought the mercantile stock of 
 George C. Briggs, and was engaged in general 
 merchandising alone until November i, 1897. 
 On the first of the following February, in partner- 
 ship with Mr. Briggs, under the firm name of 
 Briggs & McAfee, he again embarked in business. 
 They carry a large and well-selected stock of 
 general merchandise, farming machinery and im- 
 plements, and by fair and honorable dealing they 
 
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 have secured a liberal share of the public patron- 
 age. While engaged in newspaper work, Mr. 
 McAfee invented a mailing machine, which he is 
 still manufacturing in connection with Lorin C. 
 Vanderlip, and he is also interested in the Evans 
 Milling and Elevator Company. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. McAfee was united in marriage 
 with Miss Sallie M. Bovard, a native of Indiana, 
 and a daughter of George Bovard. To them 
 have been born the following-named children: 
 Harry, Elizabeth, Montgomery, George and Blair. 
 He is an honored member of Prosperity Lodge 
 No. 109, I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand, 
 and also belongs to Evans Camp, Woodmen of 
 the World. Politically he an ardent Democrat 
 and takes quite an active and influential part in 
 local affairs, attending all the county conventions 
 of his party. He was elected trustee of the town 
 of Evans in 1890, and three years later was 
 elected mayor. The reins of city government 
 were never in more capable hands, for he is a 
 progressive man, pre-eminently public-spirited, 
 and all that pertains to the public welfare receives 
 his hearty endorsement. He has also served as 
 town clerk many years, was police judge and 
 justice of the peace for a time, and was post- 
 master of Evans during President Cleveland's 
 second term. His ofScial duties have always 
 been most ably discharged, and both his public 
 and private life are alike above reproach. 
 
 |7J|HARLES TOWNSEND WYGANT, pro- 
 I ( prietor and principal stockholder of the 
 \J Charles T. Wygant Carriage Company, has 
 resided in Denver since 1888. For three years 
 after coming here he followed the trade of sign 
 writer and painter, and then bought out Emmons 
 & Smith, of the Novelty Carriage Works Com- 
 pany, and carried on the business at No. 2956 
 Arapahoe street. In 1892 he removed to Nos. 
 2816-18 Larimer street, but soon the business 
 outgrew the capacity of the building, and in 
 1897 ^^ removed to more commodious quarters 
 at Nos. 2924-32 Larimer, where he has a two- 
 story structure, with a frontage of fifty feet and a 
 depth of sixty feet. About the time of the re- 
 moval the name of the firm was changed to its 
 present title. He carries on a large business in 
 the manufacture and repair of carriages and wag- 
 ons. On the first floor he has his blacksmith 
 
 and woodwork department, while on the second 
 floor are the painting, trimming and storage de- 
 partments. The concern is conducted on strictly 
 business principles, for which reason it has had 
 a steady prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Wygant was born in Meadville, Pa., April 
 20, 1849, the son of John P. and Sarah (Boyle) 
 Wygant, natives of Orange County, N. Y. His 
 mother was a daughter of Prof Charles Boyle, 
 at one time an instructor in a New York college, 
 but afterward a farmer near Meadville, where he 
 died. John P. Wygant was the grandson of 
 Jonathan Wygant, a Revolutionary patriot, and 
 the son of Jonathan Wygant, Jr., who was among 
 the first of the New York settlers on the Holland 
 laud grant near Meadville. When he went there 
 the Indians were numerous and troublesome, and 
 the white settlers were obliged often to take up 
 arms in defense of their families and possessions. 
 
 When a boy John P. Wygant accompanied his 
 parents to Pennsylvania, where he assisted in 
 clearing a farm and later carried on a livery busi- 
 ness in Meadville, also was proprietor of a livery 
 stable. During the war he bought horses for the 
 government, and also for the New York and 
 Philadelphia markets. His purchases of fine 
 horses and subsequent trades frequently took 
 him from home, and from one of these trips he 
 never returned. It was supposed that he was 
 murdered for his money, of which he frequently 
 carried large sums. His widow continues to 
 make her home in Meadville, but only one of 
 their four children remains there. The younger 
 son, William E., is an importer of crockery in 
 Jackson, Mich., and a sister, Emma, lives in 
 Flushing, that state; while the younger sister, 
 Mrs. Ida Hewitt, remains in Meadville. 
 
 The eldest of the family was the subject of this 
 sketch. He attended the public and high schools 
 of Meadville, and Bryant & Stratton's Business 
 College, from which he graduated. For a time 
 he carried on a book and stationery business in 
 his native town, after which he became traveling 
 salesman for a New York house, his territory 
 comprising the western part of Pennsylvania, 
 eastern Ohio and western New York. In 1869 
 he learned carriage painting, and at the same 
 time engaged in the manufacture of carriages in 
 Meadville. Six years later, in 1875, he began in 
 the wholesale and retail shoe business in Mead- 
 ville, and carried on business in that line for 
 
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 some years, removing in 188 1 to Escanaba, 
 Mich., where he engaged in the carriage and 
 wagon business. At the same time he was pro- 
 prietor of the opera house and skating rink, and 
 also served as deputy sheriff. He remained there 
 until his removal to Denver. Meantime, in that 
 city, in 1882, he married Mary E. Harrington, 
 who was born in Welland, Ontario, Canada, the 
 daughter of James Harrington, now of Denver. 
 They have two children, Harry and Jeanie. Mr. 
 Wygant is the oldest member of the order of 
 Knights of Pythias in Denver, he having joined 
 a lodge in Meadville in 1870. Politically he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 Mr. Wygant is a descendant of German Lu- 
 theran stock, in which is apparent the result of 
 many generations of honest lives. The original 
 progenitor of the family in America was Michael, 
 son of Rev. George Herman Weigand, Lutheran 
 minister at Niederschule, in the Rhine Palatin- 
 ate. Michael Weigand was born in 1656. Before 
 he was fairly out of his teens he entered the 
 army, afterward serving through several disas- 
 trous campaigns in defense of his native land. 
 On leaving the army he became a husbandman, 
 married, and settled atOsthofen, near the city of 
 Worms. There his children, Anna, Maria, To- 
 bias and George, were born, and there he and his 
 good wife, Anna Catherena, hoped by industry 
 and wise management to rear their offspring 
 creditably, and with a competency honestly ac- 
 quired, to spend their declining years in peace. 
 But in this worthy ambition they were destined to 
 cruel disappointment, for their rooftree had been 
 planted in a land to which peace was an utter 
 stranger. 
 
 "In the counties intersected by, or lying near 
 .the Rhine, it would be difBcult to find any cas- 
 tles or fortresses whose battered bastions do not 
 betray the vestiges of hostility, any towns which 
 are not built on the ashes of their former edifices, 
 and any plains which have not been drenched 
 with blood." During the long reign of Louis 
 XIV., which began in 1651, and did not end 
 until 1715, this unfortunate country, which had 
 for centuries previous seemed devoted to carnage 
 and conflagration, experienced anew the horrors 
 of devastation. In 1706 an invading army of 
 Louis with fire and sw:ord swept over and laid 
 waste hundreds of the most productive farms, and 
 not a few villages adjacent to Worms. Michael 
 
 Weigand, after beholding the incendiary flames 
 devour the home which had sheltered his wife 
 and little ones, and witnessing the wanton de- 
 struction or confiscation of every vestige of the 
 accumulation of years of toil, resolved to quit 
 forever the land of his birth and seek a new 
 home in America. 
 
 In this undertaking he was joined by his pa.s- 
 tor. Rev. Joshua D. Kockerthal, and eight other 
 families, that, like his own, had been despoiled 
 by the cruel invaders. This little band fled to 
 England, which they reached in utter destitution. 
 There they appealed to Queen Anne, frankly 
 stating their lamentable condition, and petition- 
 ing for transportation to and a grant of land in 
 America. The good queen, after receipt of a fa- 
 vorable report from the Lord Commissioner of 
 Trade and Plantations, to whom their appeal had 
 been referred, granted their request, and in ad- 
 dition gave them an allowance from her private 
 purse. The grant of lands given then embraced 
 what is now the city of Newburgh. The Wei- 
 gand family received title to the two hundred 
 and fifty acres lying between Renwick and Wash- 
 ington streets, and running from the river to the 
 western limits of the city. The historic Wash- 
 ington's headquarters building lies within the 
 limits of the Weigand farm. A portion of that 
 famous old stone structure was built by the sons 
 of Michael Weigand, who is supposed to have 
 died there about the year 1725. 
 
 The descendants of this early settler have ever 
 shown themselves, by word and deed, loyal and 
 patriotic Americans. Both of his sons, Tobias 
 and John, who were aged respectively seven 
 and five years when, on the 23d of June, 1708, 
 they reached these shores, became members of 
 the first military company organized in the pre- 
 cinct of Newburgh in colonial times. At the 
 breaking out of the war with the mother coun- 
 try, their sons, without an exception, promptly 
 ranged themselves on the side of the colonies, and 
 unhesitatingly signed the Revolutionary Roll of 
 Association, while four of their number, together 
 with John, Jr., grandson of Tobias, took up arms 
 in defense of the sacred cause they had espoused. 
 In the war of 1812 the family was honorably rep- 
 resented, and in the war for the preservation of 
 the Union, not a few of its members died on the 
 field of battle. 
 
 About 1745 Tobias, son of Michael, who had 
 
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 grown up with the settlement, and for two dec- 
 ades had held a prominent place in its social, 
 religious and public affairs, during which he had 
 served as a trustee of the Glebe, and an officer 
 of the little Lutheran Church his father had 
 helped to build in the wilderness, sold out his 
 interest in the original Queen Anne grant, and 
 removed to a more extensive tract of land of 
 which he had become the owner, and which was 
 located near the present village of Highland 
 Mills, some fourteen miles distant. A number of 
 his descendants may still be found in that locality, 
 where the name is spelled Weygant. 
 
 ROBERT BOYD, who is not only one of the 
 oldest pioneers of Colorado, but also enjoys 
 the distinction of being the first farmer in 
 the Poudre Valley, resides on sections 34, 35 and 
 36, township 6, range 66, Weld County. He was 
 born in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1838, and was a son 
 of Andrew Boyd, who emigrated from Scotland 
 to the United States and died in Pittsfield in 1845. 
 At that time our subject was only seven years of 
 age. Afterward the family removed to a tract of 
 land in New York state, which had been 
 previously bought by the father, and here the 
 boy grew to man's estate, meantime attending 
 common schools and an academy. 
 
 Leaving the farm in 1857, Mr. Boyd went to 
 Leavenworth, Kan., and for two years worked 
 for Reed & Lawrence, land agents. In the winter 
 of 1858-59 he returned home and resumed his 
 studies. In 1859, at the time of the Pike's Peak 
 excitement, he started with a party for Colorado, 
 taking the Smoky Hill route, and arriving in 
 Denver May 22. During the summer he pros- 
 pected and mined at Blackhawk. In the fall he 
 went back to Kansas on account of sickness, but 
 in February of the next year he again came to 
 Colorado, accompanying Joseph Howe. After 
 reaching Mountain City he and Lewis A. Rice 
 opened a butcher shop there and for two years 
 carried on that business, also had a milk route. 
 In i860 he took out a squatter's claim on the 
 Platte River and put in a crop; but in May of the 
 following year a band of Indians camped on the 
 land and destroyed the crops. Abandoning the 
 claim, he took up a squatter's claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres in the Cache la Poudre 
 Valley, associated with Graham Scott, Lewis 
 
 Rice and George Hunt, each of whom had a 
 quarter-section of land. After he had remained 
 with them for a few years, in 1865 he bought 
 out the interests of Rice and Scott. In i860 he 
 built a sod house, and twenty-five years later 
 he rebuilt. 
 
 From an early day Mr. Boyd has been inter- 
 ested in irrigation. In 1861 he assisted in build- 
 ing the Boyd and Freeman ditch, which was the 
 first one in the entire country and was a private 
 ditch. In 1865 he engaged in freighting for the 
 government from the Missouri River to Denver, 
 and afterward he had the contract for hauling 
 ties for the Union Pacific Railroad, also the 
 contract for grading four miles of the Cheyenne 
 & Denver road, from LaSalle to Platteville. 
 From 1863 to 1870, in addition to running his 
 farm, he engaged in freighting across the plains. 
 In 1866 he had a road ranch on Meadow Creek, 
 along the Wells, Fargo & Co. route to Salt 
 Lake, and another at Barrel Springs in Wyo- 
 ming. He is the owner of eight hundred and 
 twenty acres of fine land, all under irrigation; 
 also has four sections at Big Springs as pasture 
 for stock, of which he has two hundred head of 
 cattle and one hundred of horses. From 1878 to 
 1885 he carried on a lumber business, owning a 
 sawmill at the foothills. While he engages in 
 farming and stock-raising on a large scale, being 
 one of the largest agriculturists in his section of 
 the county, he nevertheless finds time for raising 
 vegetables, and in 1897 shipped fifty carloads of 
 cabbages, besides large quantities of onions and 
 potatoes. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Boyd, in 1870, united 
 him with Miss Agnes M. White, of York state, 
 a daughter of Andrew P. White, who was for 
 eleven years a government official in Washington, 
 D. C, and for a number of years was superinten- 
 dent of schools of Ellington, N. Y. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Boyd have five children: Robert, Jr., 
 Aurelia, Charles, Jennie and Elizabeth. The 
 family attend the Congregational Church, of 
 which Mrs. Boyd is an active member. 
 
 The large success Mr. Boyd has obtained 
 is due to his determination of will and force of 
 character. He started with no capital, left New 
 York, in fact, with only $1 in his possession, 
 yet he has been able, in spite of many hardships 
 and obstacles, to achieve a success not always 
 gained by men who start under advantageous 
 
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 circumstances. In the early years of his residence 
 here he had many thrilling experiences, and the 
 student of history, gleaning material for future 
 work, might with profit converse with him 
 for hours. It seems strange, when we review 
 his long lite on the plains, that during all that 
 time he never saw a living hostile Indian. Once, 
 in 1864, when crossing the plains with a gristmill, 
 he saw some dead Indians and white men, 
 who had fallen iu a skirmish, but the living 
 Indians whom he has seen have always showed 
 themselves to be friendly and anxious to pre- 
 serve peace. During the Indian troubles at 
 the time of the Civil war he was in his saddle 
 night and day, and rode alone and unprotected, 
 through unsettled parts of the country, yet he 
 was always permitted to go unmolested on his 
 w'ay. His life has been an eventful one, and he 
 deserves the comforts that surround him now, as 
 he approaches the twilight of his useful existence. 
 
 I yiARTlN W. BARB, of Longmont, is a 
 Y splendid type of well-preser\^ed manhood, 
 (S and demonstrates, in a remarkable degree, 
 the success that may be attained by pluck and 
 energy. He was the first contractor, and first 
 brick manufacturer of the place, and many of 
 the best buildings are monuments of his industry. 
 He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1824, 
 the son of Jacob and Naomi (CoxJ Barb. His 
 great-grandfather was of German descent and 
 served in the Revolutionary war. His grand- 
 father, William Barb, was a native of New Jersey, 
 but moved to Virginia at an early day and was 
 engaged in farming in Shenandoah County. 
 From there he took his family to Ohio, conveying 
 his goods by team over the Allegheny Mountains, 
 his wife making the trip on horseback. He was 
 well-to-do for those days and one of the fore- 
 most men of the times. He settled in Trum- 
 bull County in 1805 and was among the pioneers. 
 The Indians were his neighbors and as he made 
 it a rule to treat them well, they thought highly 
 of him and made him no trouble. The land 
 upon which he settled was a dense forest, and to 
 him fell the work of clearing it and placing it in 
 a state of cultivation. He bought farms adjoin- 
 ing his own for each of his children. He was 
 a member of the German Reformed Church. He 
 died at the age of seventy years, after an honor- 
 able, upright life. 
 
 Jacob Barb, the father of our subject, was born 
 in Virginia in 1798, but spent the greater part of 
 his life in Ohio. The early years were spent in 
 improving the land given him by his father, -near 
 Bristol, but in 1836 he sold this property and 
 bought land at Mesopotamia, from which he 
 cleared the timber, and was engaged in its culti- 
 vation at the time of his death, in 1868. He 
 married Naomi Cox, a native of Ohio. She was 
 a daughter of John Cox, formerly of Pennsyl- 
 vania, but later a re.sident of Trumbull County, 
 Ohio. He died at the advanced age of eighty 
 years. Mr. and Mrs. Barb were members of the 
 Universalist Church. She died at the age of 
 seventy-six years, leaving a family of six chil- 
 dren, three sons and three daughters. The sons 
 only are living at this time. Martin W., the 
 oldest of the family, resides at Longmont, Colo.; 
 J. Ransom is a retired farmer of Crookston, 
 Minn. ; and Gabriel P., the youngest of the family, 
 served through the late war in an Ohio regiment 
 and now resides in the vicinity of the old home. 
 
 Martin W. Barb was reared in Ohio, and edu- 
 cated in the district schools. He afterwards at- 
 tended a select school for two terms, and learned 
 the carpenter's trade while still a boy. The lum- 
 ber was hewn from the timber and used in con- 
 struction. He built many large barns and mills, 
 and at the age of twenty -one began contracting 
 and building, besides superintending the cultiva- 
 tion of his farm at Mesopotamia. In 1856 he 
 moved to Wisconsin and located in Prescott, 
 where he did contracting and building. He re- 
 mained there seventeen years, and became closely 
 identified with the interests of the village; was a 
 member of the board of trustees, of which he 
 was president, and was also assessor. In 1873 he 
 came to Longmont, and was the fir.st contractor 
 to locate here. He has followed that business 
 ever since, and in 1876, seeing the need of a brick 
 yard, he started one, and manufactured the 
 first brick made in Longmont. Most of the large 
 buildings in the city were erected by him and 
 bear evidence of his skill as a workman. The 
 Central and Bryant schools, the Presbyterian 
 Church, Emerson and Buckingham Bank (the 
 first brick building erected in the city), Imperial 
 Hotel, Dickens block. Masonic Temple, Union 
 block, Odd Fellows' hall and other buildings are 
 lasting testimonials to his ability. He has built 
 and improved a number of residences for himself 
 
HANS P. NELSON. 
 
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 and has dealt to a considerable extent in real 
 estate. While serving on the board of trustees 
 he helped put in water works, and was superin- 
 tendent of construction. He has been trustee of 
 Longmont many terms, was mayor pro tern and 
 was also mayor, by election, for one term. 
 
 Mr. Barb has been twice married. While in 
 Mesopotamia he married Miss Candace Kibbee, 
 a native of that state, who died there in 
 1874. They had one child, Irene, who died at 
 the age of nine years. The second wife of Mr. 
 Barb was Mrs. Emma M. Henderson, also of 
 Ohio. She had two children: Mrs. Halliday, 
 who lives in Denver, and Mrs. Dunn, who lives 
 in Salt Ivake. Mr. Barb joined the Odd Fellows' 
 order while in Wisconsin, was a charter member 
 of his lodge and the encampment. He has al- 
 ways been a Republican until late years, but now 
 affiliates with the silver party. 
 
 NANS P. NELSON is one of the sturdy, en- 
 terprising sons of Denmark, who, years ago, 
 cast in his lot with the citizens of the United 
 States, and worked his way upward from a 
 humble, unknown condition to one of respect and 
 prominence. He has been identified with the 
 fortunes of Colorado for several decades and since 
 1890 has been an agriculturist of Boulder Valley. 
 His handsome country home is situated upon a 
 one hundred and sixty acre farm two miles east 
 of Longmont. This property, well improved and 
 very desirable for general farming purposes, is 
 owned by our subject, who for the past eight 
 years has given his whole time and energies to 
 the development and cultivation of the place. In 
 Masonic circles Mr. Nelson is deservedly popu- 
 lar. He belongs to Blackhawk Lodge No. 7, 
 A. F. &. A. M. , and is a member of Central City 
 Chapter No. i, R. A. M. 
 
 Born September 22, 1841, Mr. Nelson is one of 
 the four children of Nels and Butil (Petersen) 
 Hansen, and with his sister,. Nelsina, is now the 
 only representative of the family surviving. The 
 father was born about 181 1 in Denmark and fol- 
 lowed farming as an occupation from his boy- 
 hood until his death, at the age of thirty-four 
 years. His father, Hans Nelson, also a tiller of 
 the soil, lived to the advanced age of ninety-six 
 years. 
 
 In his early years young Nelson of this sketch 
 
 attended the common schools of his fatherland, 
 and from his fourteenth to his twenty-first year 
 he industriously worked at farming. Then he 
 entered the army, according to the continental 
 custom, and served his full term of three years. 
 April 10, 1865, he put into effect a long cheri.shed 
 dream, as upon that day he started on his journey 
 across lands and sea to America. Going to Liv- 
 erpool he took passage upon a vessel bound for 
 New York, but on board there was the grim pas- 
 senger, death, and ere the ship arrived at her 
 destination, three hundred of the twelve hundred 
 passengers had died of the dreaded cholera. Pro- 
 ceeding direct to Chicago, our subject found there 
 that he had but a few dollars left, and it becoming 
 necessary for him to earn some more at once, he 
 walked to the docks, and as good fortune would 
 have it, he ran across the captain of a schooner, who 
 understood the strange Dani.sh tongue, and when 
 asked for work the official told him to report at 
 the ship the following morning. Mr. Nel.sondid 
 so, and found that the work in question was in 
 the pineries of Michigan. This occupation was 
 carried on by him for a couple of j'ears, or until 
 the spring of 1867, when, as he had learned that 
 the Union Pacific Railroad was paying large 
 wages to workmen at Omaha, he went to that 
 city. There the rumors which had reached him 
 proved to be fabrications; but, as the air was filled 
 with reports of western gold-mining reg»ions, he 
 very soon took the universal fever and planned 
 to go further west. He had about decided to 
 drive a team across the plains to the Pacific slope, 
 when he was dissuaded by a man who had been 
 there and also to Colorado, and believed that the 
 state last named had even greater possibilities 
 before it than the other. So Mr. Nelson went on 
 the train to Cheyenne, there took the stage for 
 Blackhawk, and soon was busily at work in mining 
 in Russell Gulch. A few months later he began 
 saw milling, and the next winter he obtained a 
 position in the stamp mills. Twenty- three years 
 of faithful service for one company, the Bob Tail 
 Mining Company, sums up the history of the 
 next chapter in the life of Mr. Nelson. Some 
 time after this company had been consolidated he 
 was given the responsible post of foreman, and 
 for the last ten years of his service with them he 
 occupied that trustworthy place. At length his 
 health gave way to a certain extent, and he wisely 
 decided to seek a change. The past years of out- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 door life on his farm have proved beneficial to 
 him and he now bids fair to enjoy a rugged, hale 
 old age. 
 
 The lady who has been the sharer of his joys 
 and sorrows for a quarter of a century was for- 
 merly Miss Emma Larsen. They were blessed 
 with six children, one of whom is deceased, while 
 the others are: Fred, of Central City; Selma, 
 Victor, Linda and Ruby. The younger ones are 
 still at home. 
 
 'HOMAS TREGONING is a self-made man 
 who, without family or pecuniary advan- 
 tages at the commencement of life, has bat- 
 tled earnestly and energetically, and by indomita- 
 ble courage and integrity has achieved success 
 and gained a comfortable competence. By sheer 
 force ot will and untiring effort he has worked his 
 way upward, and is to-day a well-to-do citizen of 
 Weld County, his place of business being in Evans 
 and his home on a ranch on section 20, township 
 4, range 65. 
 
 Mr. Tregoning was born in Redruth, Cornwall, 
 England, May 14, 1839, and is a son of Thomas 
 and Mary A. (Jones) Tregoning, natives of 
 Gwenep, that country. The father held the po- 
 sition of overseer or captain in the copper mines 
 of Cornwall, as did also the grandfather, Rich- 
 ard Tregoning, and the uncles of our subject 
 were similarly employed. At the age of eight 
 years our subject entered the mines, doing such 
 work as was adapted to his strength, and when 
 about fourteen became connected with the under- 
 ground department as a regular miner. In 1863 
 he was employed by a London company to go to 
 New Grenada, Spanish Columbia, to take charge 
 of a silver mine as sub-manager, a position which 
 he held for three years. On his return to Eng- 
 land he was made superintendent of a mine for the 
 Bolitho Company at Penzance, Cornwall, and held 
 that position until the mine was abandoned two 
 years later. 
 
 While there Mr. Tregoning was married to 
 Miss Jane Toy, a daughter of Samuel and Eliza- 
 beth Toy, Cornish people, who lived at Porkeles, 
 Wendron, near Helstrom. By this union six 
 children were born, namely: Mary A., wife of 
 James Adams, who is interested in the oil busi- 
 ness in Butler County, Pa.; Thomas J.; Richard, 
 who is engaged in the cattle business in Montana; 
 
 Ernest, who was accidentally killed in Pennsyl- 
 vania at the age of eight years; Frederick C, 
 who operates his father's farm, near Evans, Colo. ; 
 and Clara A., wife of William H. Launder, of 
 Central City, Colo. The wife and mother died in 
 1877, ^nd Mr. Tregoning was again married, 
 October 18, 1879, his second union being with 
 Catherine Stevens Gregory, daughter of William 
 and Mary (Major) Gregory, of St. Ives, Corn- 
 wall, England, though the father was of Scottish 
 lineage. 
 
 In April, 1869, Mr. Tregoning came to America 
 and first located at Mount Hope, N. J., where he 
 worked as a laborer in the iron ore mines for three 
 months. He was then appointed superintendent, 
 but resigned his position three months later to go 
 to Friendship, N. C, near Goldsboro, where he 
 was employed in sinking shafts at the iron mines 
 of the Tuscorrow Iron Company, and in contract 
 work for Fox, Fisher & Wistors, a Philadelphia 
 company, remaining there two years, when on ac- 
 count of the decline in iron, the mines suspended 
 operations. Soon after his return to Philadel- 
 phia he went to Clarion County, that state, locat- 
 ing at Foxburg, which was named in honor of 
 Mr. Fox, the head of the oil firm for whom he 
 worked. He was superintendent of oil wells 
 there for fourteen and a-half years, having charge 
 of from fifty to one hundred wells. 
 
 Resigning that position in October, 1886, Mr. 
 Tregoning came to Weld County, Colo., and 
 bought eighty acres of railroad land on section 
 17, township 4, range 65, now owned by Robert 
 M. Barr, within five miles of Evans. At that 
 time it was entirely unimproved, but is now 
 watered by the English ditch or the Platte Valley 
 Irrigation Canal and is one of the best farms of 
 the locality. The family ate their first dinner in 
 the new home on Christmas day without a fire, 
 as the weather was so warm. Mrs. Tregoning 
 assisted her husband in setting out the trees upon 
 the place, holding them while he filled in the dirt 
 around them. Here he engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits and stock-raising, keeping one hundred 
 head of cattle and fifty head of horses, but at the 
 end of six years sold out to a Mr. Taylor from 
 Iowa, who in turn sold to a Mr. Barr. In the 
 meantime Mr. Tregoning located on an eighty 
 acre timber claim, which he had purchased on 
 coming to the county, and to which he added 
 another eighty acres, making a fine farm of one 
 
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 hundred and sixty acres of highly improved land 
 which his son operates. 
 
 In 1889, Mr. Tregoning was elected on the 
 Republican ticket to the ofiBce of justice of the 
 peace, which he filled for seven consecutive years, 
 also serving as police magistrate of Evans for two 
 years of the time. In 1894 he was appointed 
 notary public of Evans by Governor Waite and re- 
 appointed by Governor Adams February 24, 1898. 
 In April, 1893, ^^ established an office in Evans, 
 and since 1896 has done quite an extensive real- 
 estate business, buying, selling and negotiating 
 sales for other parties. He is also agent for several 
 insurance companies — the Fire Association of 
 Philadelphia; the Niagara' Company of New 
 York; the Lancashire Company of England; and 
 the Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Com- 
 panies of Denver. At the age of sixteen years and 
 four months, Mr. Tregoning entered the English 
 army and took part in the Crimean war, being 
 honorably discharged at the end of two years and 
 one hundred and sixty-five days of service. For 
 almost thirty years he has been identified with 
 the Odd Fellows' society, and is a charter mem- 
 ber of Prosperity Lodge No. 109, I. O. O: F., of 
 Evans, of which he is past grand. He also be- 
 longed to the grand lodge of the state of Penn- 
 .sylvania. He has made for him.selfan honorable 
 record in business, and by his well-directed ef- 
 forts has acquired a handsome competency. As 
 a citizen, friend and neighbor he is true to every 
 duty and justly merits the esteem in which he is 
 held. 
 
 (p[ UGUSTUS C. ALBEE was one of the first 
 LA settlers on the Platte River bottom land in 
 / I Weld County, and has long been numbered 
 among the well-to-do citizens of this region. His 
 present ranch is situated on section 17, township 4, 
 range 66, not far from the town of Platteville, where 
 he carries on business in dairy supplies. He has 
 taken a very active part in the building of ditches 
 and in other enterprises calculated to benefit this 
 community. As an upright, straightforward busi- 
 ness man he stands second to none in this portion 
 of the county, and his word is always considered 
 as good as his bond. 
 
 Mr. Albee is a native of Massachusetts, his 
 birth having occurred in Milford in 1835. His 
 parents, Clark and Vianna (Holbrook) Albee, 
 were likewise both natives of Massachusetts. 
 
 The father, who was born and passed his whole 
 life in Milford, was one of the prominent busi- 
 ness men of the place. He was engaged in the 
 manufacture of boots up to the time of his death, 
 which took place when he was in the prime of 
 manhood, thirty-eight years of age. A stanch 
 Republican, he often took part in campaigns as a 
 stump speaker in his own community and was 
 universally recognized as being a man of ability. 
 The Albee family were among the first settlers of 
 Milford, Mass. Mrs. Albee lived to reach about 
 threescore years. Her eldest son, H. Clinton, 
 is deceased; Seth, the third son, is a resident of 
 Worcester, Mass.; and Albert and Alfred are 
 twins. 
 
 The education of A. C. Albee was such as was 
 to be gained in the public schools of his native 
 town. He followed his father's business until 
 1857, when he came as far west as Clinton, Iowa. 
 For three years he was engaged in farming in 
 that section, and was one of the pioneers of that 
 sparsely settled county. When he needed mer- 
 chandise he was obliged to drive sixty miles to 
 Sioux City. In i860 he started with ox-teams 
 for Colorado, coming across the plains from 
 Omaha to Denver, five hundred and fifty miles. 
 Arriving in Denver in May, i860, he found a big 
 snow-storm raging. He at once began teaming 
 and freighting from Plum Creek to Denver and 
 the next year he made several trips across the 
 plains to Council Bluffs, allowing about ten 
 weeks for each journey. In 1862 he freighted 
 to the mountains, to the various mining camps, 
 Blackhawk, Central City, California Gulch and 
 Breckenridge. In 1863 he commenced mining in 
 French Gulch, at Lincoln City, on Bed Rock 
 Flume, and continued there for two years. 
 
 It was in 1865 that Mr. Albee went into the 
 dairy business on the Kiowa River, forty miles 
 from Denver, his main trade being in cheese. 
 A year later he returned to Lincoln City and re- 
 sumed work in the mines for about a year. The 
 winter of 1866-67 he was associated with Warren 
 Batchelor in general merchandising in Denver, 
 and the following spring he settled on the Platte 
 River, forty-three miles northwest of Denver. 
 He took up a homestead of eighty acres, which 
 he has since sold. Then crossing to the eastern 
 side of the road he bought a quarter-section of 
 land, on which he has since made his home. He 
 makes a specialty of raising draft horses and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cows, keeping from twenty-five to thirty head of 
 each. For fourteen years he was secretary of 
 the Farmers' Independent Ditch Company, 
 which ditch he helped materially in getting con- 
 structed. He still holds stock in the same and 
 also in the Big Bend Ditch, of which he built 
 one-third, and besides, he is financially inter- 
 ested in the Albee and Warden ditch. 
 
 While he does his entire duty as a citizen and 
 voter Mr. Albee has not been desirous of public 
 ofiice-holding. He is a good Republican and 
 takes quite an interest in the success of his party. 
 For three years he was road overseer, but he re- 
 fused the nomination for county commissioner. 
 In 1863 he married Helen E. Clark, daughter of 
 Josiah Clark, who came from Illinois to Colorado 
 in 1859 and became a miner and prospector. The 
 children of our subject and wife are named as 
 follows: Louisa, deceased; Frank, Emma, Calvin, 
 Susie, Ida, George, Augusta and Almira. The 
 three last-named are deceased. 
 
 (TjTEFHEN H. CARR, a pioneer of '59, re- 
 /\ sides upon a ranch in Weld County, seven 
 y^ miles southeast of Longmont, where he has 
 owned and cultivated valuable farming land since 
 1872. During the winter months he usually 
 spends considerable time in Denver, in order that 
 his children and grandchildren may have the 
 benefit of the Denver schools. He was born in 
 Belknap County, N. H., January 23, 1825, ason 
 of Jacob and Lucinda (Hadley) Carr, and was 
 one of three children. His father, who was born, 
 reared and married in New Hampshire, removed 
 from there to Maine and settled at Old Town, on 
 the Penobscot River, where he engaged in the 
 lumber business for many years. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired in 
 the common schools and at the academy at South 
 Berwick, Me. At seventeen years of age he and 
 two other young men embarked in the hardware 
 business at Meredith, N. H., but after about two 
 years he drifted to Lowell, thence to Boston, and 
 from there to Providence, R. I., finally returning 
 to Boston, where he was for some time employed 
 in a broker's office and for a short time in a fur- 
 niture store. In 1854 he went to New York City 
 and with two others embarked in the second- 
 hand furniture and auction business, but after 
 two years disposed of his interest there. In 1856 
 
 he came west on a trip of inspection and recrea- 
 tion, and spent three months in Council Blufis, 
 Iowa, then returned to New York City, where 
 he remained a year. Then, selling his property 
 there, as well as some city real estate in Boston, 
 he again went to Council Bluffs, where he be- 
 came interested in farming, the hotel business 
 and other enterprises. 
 
 At the time of the discovery of gold in Colorado 
 Mr. Carr resolved to come to the mountain re- 
 gions of the west. Accompanied by his wife, he 
 traveled across the plains with three yoke of oxen 
 and a team of ponies which he drove to a light 
 covered spring wagon. He reached Denver Octo- 
 ber 10, 1859. Going from there to the divide 
 with a number of other men, he got out logs for 
 a house and returned to Denver with the material 
 for a home, but soon afterwards he sold the logs 
 and rented a hotel on Tenth street, two blocks 
 down from Larimer street, becoming the proprie- 
 tor of the Jefferson House. This place he con- 
 ducted for two years and then traded some Iowa 
 property for forty acres on the north side of 
 Denver, near the Larimer street bridge. During 
 the summer and fall of 1861 he was engaged in 
 the mercantile business at Breckenridge and was 
 also interested in dairying and other enterprises, 
 returning to his Denver property late in the year. 
 In the spring of 1862 he sold that place and 
 bought one hundred and sixty acres on the Big 
 Thompson, where he spent the summer. In the 
 fall he traded the ranch for property four miles 
 from Blackhawk, where he followed teaming, 
 having a contract with a mill to furnish their 
 logs. During the two years that followed he was 
 prosperous, but in the fall of 1864 he sold the 
 property and removed to the foot of Guy Hill, 
 where, purchasing a timb'ered ranch, he spent the 
 winter. In the spring of 1865 he bought what is 
 now called the Carr House property, on Fifteenth 
 street, between Wewatta and Wazee streets, open- 
 ing there a feed and sale stable and a hotel, which 
 he conducted for seven years. That place in 
 1872 he traded for his present farming property, 
 seven miles southeast of Longmont. Since then 
 he has divided his time between the ranch and 
 Denver. 
 
 In 1859, prior to his removal to Colorado, Mr. 
 Carr married Miss Lizzie Oliphant, a native of 
 Pennsylvania. Three children blessed their 
 union, but all are deceased, and they now have 
 
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 with them an adopted daughter, Orpha. Nellie, 
 who married B. F. Hersha, died leaving two 
 sons, Abraham Scott and Stephen Karl. The 
 other children were Emma J. and Louie B. 
 
 r~ REDERICK S. WHITNEY, a well-known 
 rft pioneer of the Poudre Valley, Weld County, 
 I ' has been living retired from active labor for 
 the past ten years, in the enjoyment of the com- 
 petence which he gained in former years by in- 
 dustry and well-applied energy. He owns about 
 three hundred acres of well-improved land, which 
 he rents to responsible tenants, and has other 
 property and investments besides. His life has 
 been characterized by straightforwardness of pur- 
 pose, earnest and zealous desire to do the right 
 and act fairly toward all men, and small wonder 
 is it that he is held in high regard by all who 
 know him. He is a member of the United Breth- 
 ren Church, and has been a liberal contributor to 
 religious, educational and benevolent enterprises. 
 F. S. Whitney is one of the four children of 
 David and Polly Whitney, natives of Fairfield 
 County, Conn., the mother of the town of Dan- 
 bury. They spent their entire lives in their na- 
 tive state, Mr. Whitney carrying on a farm. Ed- 
 ward, the eldest son, was a salesman for a boot 
 and shoe house many years ago, and disappear- 
 ing, was never heard from . William is a machin- 
 ist for the Union Pacific Railroad, located at 
 present at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Nancy, the only 
 daughter, is the wife of Edward Wickwire, of 
 Waterbury, Conn. 
 
 The birth of F. S. Whitney occurred January 
 22, 1830, on his father's farm in Fairfield Coun- 
 ty, Conn. He received a good general education 
 in the public schools, and at the age of twenty- 
 two years accepted a position with the New York 
 & Erie Railroad Company. Gradually he was 
 promoted, being brakesman, fireman and engin- 
 eer, and in 1855 he went to Chicago, where he 
 ran as fireman on the Chicago & North-western 
 Railway between that city and Freeport. Later 
 he was engineer for the passenger train running 
 from Chicago to Fulton City until i860. That 
 year he assumed the charge of an engine in the 
 stamping mills in Nevadaville, Colo. At the 
 close of a year he engaged in teaming wood and 
 quartz for the Blackhawk and Central City mines. 
 In 1862 he came to this valley, and the day be- 
 
 fore Christmas located on a squatter's claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres, about a mile south 
 of Windsor. The tract is now owned by ex-Gov- 
 ernor Eaton. Afterwards he liomesteaded a 
 quarter-section adjoining, and cultivated this 
 land for a number of years. He improved the 
 land, principally by means of an irrigation ditch 
 from the river. Few settlers were hereabouts at 
 that early day, and among the nearest neighbors 
 of our subject were the Newell brothers, "Ran- 
 ger" Jones and Tom Ernest, all of whom lived a 
 mile or a mile and a-half away. Here Mr. Whit- 
 ney was busily occupied in farming and stock- 
 raising for some twenty years, at the end of 
 which time he rented his farm and became a res- 
 ident of Greeley. After living in the town eight 
 years Mr. Whitney bought three hundred and 
 twentj' acres of land on section 15, township 4, 
 range 67 west. This property was railroad land, 
 wholly unimproved, and a great task was before 
 the new owner, who was not, however, daunted, 
 but bravely overcame the obstacles in his way. 
 About two hundred and seventy-five acres are 
 now under cultivation. In his political relations 
 he is a Republican. 
 
 On the loth of May, i860, Mr. Whitney mar- 
 ried Miss Margaret Nettleton, who was born in 
 Troy, N. Y., but grew to womanhood in Chicago. 
 They have never had any children. 
 
 (TOHN W. PROUT, of Golden, was born in 
 I Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pa., the son 
 G) of William and Rhoda (Parfet) Prout. He 
 is a member of a family that has long been con- 
 nected with the mining interests of Wales, where 
 the genealogical record can be traced back to the 
 old Britons. Thomas Prout, an experienced 
 miner, had a son, Thomas, Jr., also a practical 
 miner and a life-long resident of Wales. The lat- 
 ter's son, William, was born in Pembrokeshire, 
 and at an early age learned every detail connected 
 with the operating of a mine. About 1847 he 
 crossed the ocean, settling in Pennsylvania, where 
 for many years he was superintendent of the Ly- 
 kens Valley Coal Company. Later becoming a 
 mine owner, he operated in Schuylkill, Luzerne 
 and Northumberland, having charge of the Lo- 
 cust Gap Colliery in the last-named county. In 
 1872 he came to Colorado, where he leased and 
 operated the Murphy mines for two years, and 
 
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 then leased the Baker coal mine in Boulder Coun- 
 ty. While in that mine, September 21, 1875, he 
 was accidentally killed by a falling rock. His 
 remains were taken for interment to Erie, Weld 
 County, this state. At the time of his death he 
 was forty-seven years of age. He was recognized 
 as one of the most experienced and successful 
 coal miners and operators in the United States 
 and his name is still famous in that respect in the 
 part of Pennsylvania from which he came. Wlien 
 he settled in Pennsylvania he taught the people 
 of that state how to mine anthracite coal, which 
 heretofore had been worked in an indifferent 
 manner. On coming to Colorado he found the 
 mines here were not operated successful Ij', and 
 coal mining interests were in their infancy. He 
 took charge of the Murphy mine, which under 
 his management was made very profitable, and 
 was doing the same with the Baker mine at the 
 time of his death. 
 
 The mother of our subject was a descendant of 
 a fine old family of Breconshire, Wales. She 
 died in Idaho, in 1895, leaving five sons and one 
 daughter, namely: James, a merchant in Boise 
 City, Idaho; John W.; Rhoda, wife of John 
 O'Brien, of Denver; William, a miner living in 
 Golden; George W,, who is engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business in Boise City; and Rev. Thomas 
 A., a minister ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 now in Oregon. John W. was born August 8, 
 1855, and spent the first seventeen years of his 
 life in Pennsylvania, accompanying his father 
 through the mines in Dauphin, Northumberland, 
 Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties. When only 
 seven years of age he was working in coal mines, 
 studying coal formation, and when about fifteen 
 he became a paid assistant in a mine. July 4, 
 1872, he arrived in Golden. Afterward he worked 
 in the Murphy and Baker mines and was within 
 two feet of his father when the latter was killed. 
 Afterward he engaged as a contracting miner in 
 the Ralston coal mine, and later was employed by 
 John Nichols, Sr., at the Pittsburg mine, and the 
 old Loveland mine. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Prout married Emma S. Scud- 
 more, who was born in London, England, the 
 daughter of Charles Scudmore, a mechanic in that 
 city. Through her influence Mr. Prout was in- 
 duced to abandon mining. He then engaged in 
 the stage and express business between Denver 
 and Golden, from which, after having accumu- 
 
 lated a fortune, he retired in 1893. At the same 
 time he became interested in gold mining. In 
 the intervening years, though not actively en- 
 gaged in mining, he had continued his geological 
 and mineralogical studies as prompted by his 
 father, and became so well informed that his serv- 
 ices were of value during the early days of mining 
 in the erupted regions. He is considered to-day 
 one of the most expert eruptive mining authori- 
 ties in the west. In his mining speculations his 
 silent partner is Charles D. Baker, the assistant 
 general manager of the famous mercantile firm of 
 J. S. Brown & Bro. , in Denver. Among the 
 mines in which he is interested are the noted 
 Blake mine, west of Cripple Creek, and the Mabel 
 Grace mine, in the Freshwater mining district. 
 For many years he has been noted as a shrewd 
 dealer in mining stocks. His knowledge of mining 
 is extensive and well known. He is frequently 
 called on to make examinations of mines in differ- 
 ent parts of the state and render a decision as to 
 their condition for profitable working, and invari- 
 ably the parties interested act on his judgment to 
 their advantage. His reports on mines show 
 careful research, and are clearly, accurately writ- 
 ten, setting forth the facts ofthe case fully. 
 
 The old Everett Bank block, in Golden, Colo., 
 which Mr. Prout purchased in 1897, was remod- 
 eled at an expense of about $8,000, fitting it up 
 for stores. The ground floor storerooms were 
 all connected, in which he placed a fine stock of 
 groceries, and installed his oldest son, John W., 
 Jr. , as manager of the store. He has three other 
 children, all at home: Essie M., Roscoe and- 
 Regis. While he is not a politician, he has firm 
 convictions upon the questions before the people 
 of this age and always supports the Republican 
 party and its principles. In religious belief he is 
 a Methodist, and fraternally holds membership 
 with the Odd Fellows. 
 
 ^OUAVE ELLSWORTH MONCRIEFF was 
 I, brought to Colorado in a prairie schooner 
 /^ when he was only three years of age, and 
 much of his subsequent life has been passed in 
 this state. He remembers Denver when it was a 
 small town, populated principally by miners and 
 their families, with little except its glorious cli- 
 mate to attract settlers. Railroads had not yet 
 
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 been introduced, nor was there much business of 
 any kind in the place. In fact it was only those 
 of optimistic faith (of whom there were not a few 
 in Colorado at that time) who would boast of the 
 wonderful future before Denver. 
 
 In Winterset, near Des Moines, Iowa, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was born August 9, 1861. He 
 was named for Colonel Ellsworth, who was shot 
 in Baltimore while on his way south with his 
 zouave regiment in the opening months of the 
 war. He was the third among five children, 
 whose parents were John and Lavina (Reigel) 
 Moncrieff, natives respectively of Scotland and 
 Pennsylvania. His father, who was born and 
 reared near Glasgow, learned the carpenter's 
 trade, which he followed a short time in his na- 
 tive land. About 1853 he came to America, and 
 after a time in New York went to Ohio, thence 
 to Iowa, and from there in 1863 to Colorado, 
 making the latter journey overland to look up a 
 location. He was pleased with the prospects, 
 and in 1864 brought his family here, settling in 
 Denver, where he engaged ill contracting and 
 building until his retirement from business. In 
 1889 he returned to his native land on a visit, 
 spending some months in renewing the associa- 
 tions of his youth. His last days were spent in 
 Denver, where he died in December, 1893. His 
 wife is still living in this city. 
 
 Educated in the grammar and high schools of 
 Denver, Mr. Moncrieff began to learn the car- 
 penter's trade as soon as his school days ended. 
 He finished the trade under his father, and in 
 1884 went to California, where he worked as a 
 carpenter for a year. Afterward he was em- 
 ployed in St. Louis for eighteen months and in 
 Chicago for a year. From the latter city he 
 came back to Denver and followed carpentering 
 in connection with his father, until the latter's 
 retirement in 1889, since which time he has been 
 alone. As a contractor and builder he is skillful, 
 accurate and energetic, and whatever he under- 
 takes others have the greatest confidence he will 
 succes-sfully complete. His shop is at No. 11 19 
 Eighteenth street. He is a member of the Con- 
 tractors' Association and is warmly interested in 
 everything pertaining to the building occupation. 
 Politically he is a Republican, but not radical in 
 his opinions. 
 
 While in St. Louis Mr. Moncrieff married Miss 
 Mary W. Hynson, and they have two children, 
 
 Laura and Ellsworth. Mrs. Moncrieff was born 
 in St. Louis, of which city her father, A. R. Hyn- 
 son, was an early settler and hardware merchant. 
 
 30HN M. MICHAEL has become prosperous 
 and influential in Weld County within a few 
 years comparatively, and owes his success 
 solely to himself. He possesses just those char- 
 acteristics that rarely fail of good results, and re- 
 lies upon no one to lend him as.sistance. By in- 
 dustry and persevering toil he has made his way 
 in the world, and had to begin his business career 
 on an humble scale at first. His homestead is 
 situated on sections 21 and 28, township 5, range 
 66 west. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Michael took place forty-four 
 years ago, November 8, 1854, in Monroe County, 
 Pa. He is a son of John Michael, of the same 
 place. He was a farmer and spent his entire life 
 in Monroe County, dying in November, 1868, 
 when fifty-two j^ears of age. He was the son of 
 John Michael, who was a native of German}-, and 
 with his three brothers and father (George) came 
 to this country and were numbered among the 
 early settlers of Monroe County, where their 
 property has been handed down from generation 
 to generation. The mother of our subject bore 
 the maiden name of Susan B. Eilenberger, and 
 she, too, was from Monroe County. Of the eleven 
 children of John and Susan Michael all but two 
 are living. Mrs. Michael died in 1889, aged 
 sixty-eight years. 
 
 John M. Michael was the sixth son of his pa- 
 rents' family. He was educated in the schools of 
 his home district and worked on the farm until 
 he attained his majority. When he was thirty 
 years old he decided to come west, and having 
 made up his mind that Weld County had a prom- 
 ising future he took up a homestead on the north- 
 east corner of section 28, and began general 
 farming. Later he purchased one-half of section 
 21, and now owns altogether four hundred and 
 eighty acres. Much of the property is under a 
 high state of cultivation and is well adapted to 
 the raising of grain and other crops. To some 
 extent the proprietor has followed dairying, and 
 nearly all of his enterprises have met with suc- 
 cess. He is a stockholder in the Greeley and 
 Loveland Ditch Company. In politics he is in- 
 dependent, preferring to vote foi the man whom 
 
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 he thinks best fitted for any given oflSce, regard- 
 less of party ties. He is a member of the Greeley 
 Lodge of the Ancient Order of' United Workmen, 
 and belongs to Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12, 
 I. O. O. F. September 24, 1884, he married 
 Sarah R. Sherwood, of Raritan, Somerset Coun- 
 ty, N. J. She is a daughter of Augustus Sher- 
 wood, and by her marriage has become the 
 mother of one child, Susie A. The family attend 
 the Congregational Church of Greeley, Mr. 
 Michael being a member of the same and a gen- 
 erous contributor to its work. Among his old 
 acquaintances and neighbors he is held in the 
 highest esteem, and his word is sufficient security 
 at any time with those he does business with. 
 
 (TjAMUEL W. MORRISON, a leading mer- 
 2\ chant, farmer and stockman of Weld Coun- 
 V2' ty, the senior member of the firm of S. W. 
 Morrison & Son, of Evans, is an important 
 factor in business circles, and his popularity is 
 well deserved, as in him are embraced the char- 
 acteristics of an unbending integrity, unabated en- 
 ergy and industry that never flags. As a public- 
 spirited citizen he is thoroughly interested in 
 whatever tends to promote the moral, intellectual 
 and material welfare of the community. 
 
 Mr. Morrison was born in County Antrim, 
 Ireland, in 1841, but when only five years old was 
 brought to this country by his parents, James 
 and Mary (Irwin) Morrison. After spending 
 two years in New York City the family removed 
 to Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and 
 with his father learned the stone-mason's trade, 
 while he acquired a good education in the .schools 
 of that state. At the age of twenty he com- 
 menced teaching, and successfully followed that 
 profession through the winter months, while in 
 the summer season he worked at his trade and 
 on the farm. On attaining his majority he 
 joined the boys in blue, enlisting in August, 
 1862, in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty- 
 third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under 
 Col. John B. Clark, a United Presbyterian minis-' 
 ter of that state. He participated in the battles 
 of Antietam and Fredericksburg; "Burnside's 
 stick in the mud march' ' and the engagement at 
 Chancellorsville. Although his clothes were per- 
 forated by bullets four or five times, he fortu- 
 nately escaped without even a .scratch, and when 
 
 his nine months' term of enlistment expired he 
 was honorably discharged at Harrisburg, Pa., 
 in May, 1863, and returned home. He continued 
 to engage in school teaching and farming in the 
 Keystone state until 1866, when with the family 
 he removed to Harrison County, Ohio, where 
 the father purchased land and spent his remain- 
 ing days engaged in agricultural pursuits, dying 
 there in 1892. In the family were eight chil- 
 dren, but only four are now living: Samuel W., 
 of this review; Nannie C, wife of William J. C. 
 Blackwood, a commission merchant of Pittsburg, 
 Pa.; Jennie, wife of Marshall McCall, a farmer of 
 Guernsey County, Ohio; and James E., who 
 operates the old home farm in Ohio. 
 
 For two years after the removal of the family 
 to Ohio, Samuel W. Morrison worked on his fa- 
 ther's farm; and then, in company with his 
 brother-in-law, Mr. Blackwood, embarked in mer- 
 chandising at Smyrna, Harrison County, Ohio, 
 but two years later the latter sold his interest to 
 our subject, who took another partner, William 
 Lawrence, for one year. He then carried on busi- 
 ness alone until 1879, when he came to Colorado 
 and Mrs. Morrison conducted the store for two 
 years. In this state he became interested in the 
 raising of sheep, buying one thousand ewes and 
 eighty acres of land on Thompson River within 
 four miles of Evans. This venture proved quite 
 profitable, for in eighteen months he made 
 $1,500, but at the end of two years he sold his 
 stock and bought a sixth interest in the Evans 
 flouring mill. Returning to Ohio, he closed out 
 his business there and brought his family to 
 Colorado and purchased the entire mill, which 
 he operated for ten years. After selling that 
 property he bought fifty acres of land within the 
 coporate limits of Evans, and in 1895 purchased 
 the store property and built a wareroom and 
 dwelling house in connection, known as the Sher- 
 man block, in which he opened a general store 
 under the name of S. W. Morrison & Son. They 
 buy all kinds of produce and have for sale every- 
 thing needed by the farmer. A branch store 
 was 'established at La Salle in 1897 and placed 
 under the management of David S. Ellis. 
 
 In Ohio, Mr. Morrison was married, in 1867, 
 to Miss Eliza Logan, a daughter of James Logan, 
 of Guernsey County. To them was born a son, 
 William E., junior member of the firm of S. W. 
 Morrison & Son, who married Maggie, daughter 
 
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 of Gideon K. Carson, of Sparta, 111., and has one 
 son, Vernon C. 
 
 The Republican party has always found in Mr. 
 Morrison a stanch supporter. He holds mem- 
 bership in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 
 and for many years was superintendent of the 
 Sabbath school, and when at length forced to 
 resign he was presented with a fine cane by the 
 school in recognition of his long and effective 
 service in its behalf. In temperance and reform 
 work he and his son both take an active and 
 prominent part, and both have been elected on 
 the temperance ticket to the office of mayor, the 
 duties of which they discharged to the entire 
 satisfaction of the general public, law and order 
 prevailing throughout their administrations. As 
 a business man Mr. Morrison has been remark- 
 ably successful, and the prosperity that he has 
 achieved is due to his own industry, good man- 
 agement and the able assistance of his worthy 
 wife, who has indeed proved a true helpmeet to 
 him. The son now has charge of the store in 
 Evans and is proving a most progressive and 
 capable young business man. He is a graduate 
 of the Greeley Business College, and enjoys the 
 respect of all his associates, either in business or 
 social life. 
 
 (Joseph b. finucan, m. d. The hot 
 
 I soda springs of Idaho Springs, Clear Creek 
 (2) County, have been justly famed for thirty- 
 five years or more, but have not yet received their 
 due meed of commendation. It is only of recent 
 years that their merits have been spread abroad 
 to any great extent, and few inhabitants of dis- 
 tant states are aware that the springs possess the 
 same properties as do the world- famed Carlsbad 
 Springs in Europe. Here, among the beautiful 
 mountains of our own land lies a panacea for 
 numerous of the "ills that flesh is heir to" and 
 the time is not far distant when this fact will be 
 more universally recognized. 
 
 The gentleman whose name appears at the 
 opening of this sketch has recently leased the hot 
 springs tract, some ten acres, with the bath 
 houses, swimming pool and other improvements, 
 which were originally made by his father-in-law, 
 H. Montague. In addition to these he is insti- 
 tuting others of practical utility and beauty and 
 has the finest natatorium in the state. The water 
 from the springs descends, by the simple law of 
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 gravity, into the baths and large pool, which is 
 40x80 feet in dimensions. A well-appointed 
 hotel, with dressing rooms, refreshment parlors, 
 and various accessories for the comfort of visitors, 
 is a thing of the near future. 
 
 Dr. Finucan is a native of Mendon, N. Y., 
 born February 17, 1863. His parents were Dan- 
 iel and Margaret (Fitzell) Finucan, natives of 
 Ireland. Grandfather Thomas Finucan was a 
 farmer of County Kerry during his whole life- 
 time. His ancestors were of Holland origin; 
 possessed a coat of arms and spelled the surname 
 with a slight variation from its present form. 
 Daniel Finucan, after his marriage, emigrated to 
 America, and buying some land in Monroe 
 County, N. Y., lived there until his retirement 
 from active cares. He died at the age of sixty- 
 three years. His widow is still living, her home 
 being in Mendon, N. Y. She is a daughter of 
 Adam Fitzell, who was a native of Ireland, but 
 whose grandparents were born in Germany. The 
 family of Daniel Finucan and wife numbered nine 
 children and six are living, the doctor being the 
 youngest of the sons. His boyhood days were 
 passed in the locality of his birth. His educa- 
 tion was completed in Lima Seminary, Lima, 
 N. Y., after which he took up medical studies 
 under the guidance of Dr. P. D. Carpenter, of 
 Pittsford, N. Y. Later he entered Buffalo Medi- 
 cal College, and graduated therefrom in February, 
 1888, with the degree for which he had labored. 
 His initial practice was undertaken in Bloom- 
 field, N. Y., and at the expiration of two and a- 
 half years he purchased the practice of his old 
 family physician, Dr. T. D. Rupert, of Mendon. 
 
 Two years rolled away, and all was going well 
 and promising gratifying success for the future, 
 but about this time the health of the ambitious 
 young doctor gave way, and it became advisable 
 for him to seek a change and rest for a time. De- 
 ciding to travel in the west, he arrived in Denver 
 January 13, 1893, and July 17 following came to 
 Idaho Springs. By the spring of 1894 ^^e was so 
 far recovered that he wished to resume his pro- 
 fessional work and opened an office here in the 
 Elliott building. He is a member of the United 
 States board of pension examiners and is now sec- 
 retary of the same. Formerly he was identified 
 with the Ontario County Medical Society in New 
 York, and is also connected with the Monroe 
 County Medical Association. Fraternally he be- 
 
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 longs to the Uniform Rank, K. of P. Active in 
 the ranks of the Democratic party, he has been 
 chairman of the county and city committees of 
 the same here. 
 
 The doctor has been twice married. His first 
 wife was Miss Cora Pillsbury in her girlhood. 
 She was barn and reared to womanhood in West 
 Bloomfield, N. Y., and was a daughter of S. 
 Edward Pillsbury, a relative of the great flour 
 merchant of Minneapolis. Mrs. Finucan died in 
 Idaho Springs. The present wife of the doctor 
 was formerly Miss Maude Montague, daughter of 
 Harrison and Helen (Webster) Montague, of this 
 place. Mr. Montague has been a representative 
 citizen of Idaho Springs since 1866, and for years 
 has owned the hot soda springs property. He 
 was county superintendent of schools here for 
 two years and was one of the charter members of 
 E. D. Baker Post, G. A. R. In New York, his 
 native state, he married Miss Helen M. Webster, 
 of EUi.sburg, Jefferson County, and their two 
 children are Mrs. Finucan and Harrison Phelps. 
 
 'JJEORGE M. LAIRD. For a period of twenty 
 _l years the Register- Call, published in Central 
 ^ City, Gilpin County, has been the leading 
 newspaper of this section. That it can safely lay 
 claim to being the oldest paper in the county is 
 shown by the fact that it has been issued since 
 1 86 1, and but two other journals in the state 
 have had a longer existence. The paper has ex- 
 perienced the varied fortunes common to all pub- 
 lications of nearly twoscore years of age, but it 
 has triumphantly gone through every difficulty 
 and has long been the standard news organ of 
 this prosperous region. Started in the initial 
 year of the Civil war under the title of the Daily 
 Miner' s Register, it came into the hands of Mr. 
 Laird in 1878. He had come to this town five 
 years previously, and accepted a position on the 
 paper as foreman, and in 1876 he started a job 
 printing office, which was a great financial suc- 
 cess. A year later he and Den. Marlow estab- 
 lished the Evening Call, a daily paper, and when, 
 in 1878, the Register was for sale, the partners 
 became the purchasers of the plant, which they 
 consolidated with their own. Then began the 
 reconstructed journal known as i\\e Reg isle? -Call, 
 and until 1890 it was published both daily and 
 weekly. Since that date it has been found best 
 
 to print the paper but once a week. Mr. Marlow 
 continued as a partner up to the time of his death, 
 in 1895, since which Mr. Laird, having bought 
 the interest of the deceased from the heirs, has 
 been the .sole proprietor. 
 
 In tracing the history of the well-known and 
 popular editor of the Register- Call, it is found 
 that he is a native of Ohio. His birth took place 
 in Columbus, the state capital, December 4, 1847, 
 his parents being David C. and Henrietta (Oyler) 
 Laird, who were natives of Virginia and Pennsyl- 
 vania respectively. The Lairds are a very old 
 family in the annals of Virginia, and descended 
 from Scotch ancestors. In his early manhood 
 David C. Laird settled in the Keystone state 
 and from there went to Columbus, Ohio. He 
 was engaged in running a boot and shoe business 
 there until about 1850, when he went to Free- 
 port, 111., and there was interested in general 
 merchandising. In 1871 he took up his residence 
 in Montgomery City, Mo., and is now retired 
 from business, being in his eighty-sixth year. 
 His wife, who was of German descent, died in 
 Missouri at the age of seventy-six years. She 
 was a daughter of Jacob Oyler, whose ancestors 
 settled in Pennsylvania many generations ago. 
 Mrs. Laird's brother, Thomas J., came to Colo- 
 rado in 1861, and is a merchant of Blackhawk at 
 this time. Six children were born to Mr.^ and 
 Mrs. Laird, and two ofthe number are deceased. 
 Charles has been in the postoffice department in 
 Washington, D. C, for a quarter of a century; 
 and William, a resident of Texas, represents the 
 Brown Tobacco Company, of St. Louis, Mo.; 
 Belle, the only sister living, resides in Missouri. 
 
 George M. Laird was the eldest of his parents' 
 family. He was educated chiefly in the grammar 
 and high schools of Freeport, 111., and in 1863 
 commenced serving an apprenticeship to the 
 printer's trade in the office of the Freeport 
 Bulletin. After three years in that office he took 
 a position in Polo, Ogle County, as foreman of 
 the Polo Press. Two years later he went to 
 Missouri, and in 1872 came to the west. He was 
 a compositor for a short time on the Blackhawk 
 Daily Journal and then became foreman of the 
 office. He has greatly improved the Register- 
 Call since he took the management of the paper. 
 In connection with it he operates a job-printing 
 department, and has steam-power presses and 
 various up-to-date machinery and all necessary 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 appliances known to the trade. The politics of 
 the paper are strongl}' Republican, and thus re- 
 flects the views of the owner, in large measure, as 
 he is loyal to the principles of the party. 
 
 In Freeport, 111., Mr. Laird married Miss 
 Anna A. Buckman, a native of Rochester, N. Y., 
 and daughter of Guy J. Buckman, a contractor, 
 now a resident of Denver. The four living chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Laird are: Guy, Lottie, 
 Ray and Leah. One child, Glenn, died when a 
 year and a-half old. 
 
 r[REDERICK S. BOLSINGER, of Nevada- 
 r^ ville, Gilpin County, was born in Chatfield, 
 I ^ Minn., March 26, i860, and is a son of 
 Maxwell D. and Emily (Atchison) Bolsinger. 
 His grandfather, John Bolsinger, who was of 
 sturdy German stock, died in New Salem, Fay- 
 ette County, Pa. , and in that town and county 
 Maxwell D. was born and reared, but about 1855 
 he removed to Colesburg, Iowa, where he mar- 
 ried Miss Atchison, a native of Illinois, and a 
 daughter of Frederick Atchison, who .served in 
 the Black Hawk war and died in Chatfield, Minn. 
 In November, 1858, Mr. Bolsinger moved his 
 family to Chatfield, but two years later came to 
 Colorado and located in Gilpin County, where 
 he engaged in mining. He took up the Herbert 
 mine in Nevada and became the owner of other 
 mining property, some of which is now operated 
 by his children. During the campaigns against 
 the Indians he served in the Third Colorado 
 Cavalry. He was a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic and the Gilpin County Pioneer 
 Society. His death occurred in 1892, in this 
 state, and his wife passed away in Chatfield, 
 Minn., five years later. The following are the 
 children of Maxwell D. Bolsinger: Henry C. ; 
 Frederick S. ; Charles C. , who resides on the old 
 homestead at Chatfield, Minn.; and Maxwell D., 
 also a resident of Chatfield. 
 
 HON. HENRY C. BOLSINGER is and has 
 been for many years an influential man in 
 the councils of the Democratic party in 
 Colorado. He was a member of the sixth gen- 
 eral assembly of the state, having been chosen to 
 represent Gilpin County in the legislature, and 
 for the past eight years he has ably served his 
 
 party and constituents in the senate. He was 
 elected to that honorable body in 1890, and again 
 in 1894. He has probably been interested in 
 the development of more mines in the Nevada- 
 ville district than any other man, and few are 
 better posted in the mineral geology of this coun- 
 ty than he. 
 
 Born in Colesburg, Iowa, September 12, 1858, 
 H. C. Bolsinger is a son of Maxwell D. Bol- 
 singer, whose history is given in the biography 
 of Frederick S. Bolsinger, which precedes this 
 sketch. The early years of our subject passed 
 uneventfully in the town of Chatfield, Minn., 
 much of his time being devoted to mastering the 
 elementary branches of learning up to 1873. At 
 that time he came to Nevadaville with his father, 
 and assisted actively in the development of the 
 Hubert mine. Later he was engaged in operat- 
 ing one after another of the important mines of 
 this district, until he has been connected with 
 nearly all of them. Among these were the 
 Shafts, the American Flag, Fourth of July, Cali- 
 fornia, Gardner, Centennial, Clayton, Price and 
 extension of the Hubert. 
 
 In 1885 he, in company with his father, 
 Thomas J. Burke and William Bush, of Denver, 
 bought the old Hubert mill property. The mill, 
 built in i860, was the first stamp mill put up in 
 this county, and was operated steadily from that 
 year until 1896. The gentlemen mentioned op- 
 erated the mill and the mines as the Hubert Mill- 
 ing Company for about eleven years, after which 
 they organized the Vendome Mining and Milling 
 Company, now in an active and successful condi- 
 tion. In addition to being a director in that cor- 
 poration, Mr. Bolsinger owns an interest in, and 
 and is a member of, the board of directors of the 
 Colorado Trading and Investment Company, and 
 is now developing the Parole vein, one of the 
 most promising mines he has heretofore worked. 
 
 In the Centennial year occurred the marriage 
 of Mr. Bolsinger and Miss Mary Stirling. She 
 was born in Wisconsin, in the pretty town of 
 Mineral Point, and is a daughter of the sturdy 
 pioneer, Samuel Stirling, who came to this state 
 in 1865. The three children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Bolsinger are: Hubert, Henry C, Jr., and 
 Gladys. 
 
 In the various fraternities Mr. Bolsinger has 
 for years taken a high place. He is a member of 
 the Masonic order, being connected with Nevada- 
 
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 ville Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M.; belongs to 
 Chapter No. i, R. A. M., of Central City, and 
 Centennial Commanderj'^ No. 2, K. T., of the 
 same place. He has also been associated with 
 the Patriotic Order Sons of America, the Knights 
 of Honor and the Red Men. 
 
 HENRY H. HORNBAKER was born near 
 Muncie, Ind.,in October, 1839. His pa- 
 rents, Isaac and Sarah (Thompson) Horn- 
 baker, were members of old southern families. 
 Isaac Hornbaker passed his early years in Ken- 
 tucky, then moved to Indiana, where he pur- 
 chased a piece of land, covered with forest trees, 
 near Muncie. This property he cleared ofiF and 
 otherwise improved until he had a fine farm. In 
 1856 he moved with his family to Iowa, stopping 
 near Albia, in Monroe County, where he secured 
 and improved another farm, upon which he died 
 at the age of sixty years. Sarah (Thompson) 
 Hornbaker was born in Virginia of German and 
 Irish parentage. She died aged sixty-three 
 years; she came from a long-lived family, her 
 mother living to the age of ninety-nine years. 
 Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Horn- 
 baker who reached years of maturity, and of 
 those one son and two daughters are now living. 
 One son, George, served through the Civil war 
 in an Indiana regiment and later died in that 
 state. 
 
 Henry H. Hornbaker is the only one of the 
 family residing in Colorado. Educational ad- 
 vantages in tho.se days were meager, and he was 
 compelled to be content with a short attendance 
 at the district school, while the greater part of 
 his time was spent in chopping trees, grubbing, 
 and otherwise assisting his father in the clearing 
 of the land. When seventeen years of age he 
 accompanied his parents to Iowa, the trip being 
 made with wagons and horses. He remained 
 at home and worked for his father until he was 
 twenty -four, when he married and began farming 
 for himself. In 1864 he brought his family, 
 with that of his father-in-law, Enoch Way, 
 through to Colorado. This journey was made 
 by ox-teams, their cattle being driven along, 
 through Nebraska City, across the plains to 
 where Ni Wot now stands. They were seventy - 
 three days on the way, and reached here July 
 9, shortly before the Indian outbreak. The day 
 
 of their arrival he located a homestead of one, 
 hundred and sixty acres, which he irrigated and 
 improved, making it among the most desirable 
 farms in that section. This land he still owns, 
 and he added to it until he at present owns a 
 farm of six hundred and forty acres, all nicely im- 
 proved and fenced. He carried on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, having a large herd of 
 cattle on his range. These cattle were graded 
 and mixed breeds and were all branded with the 
 letter "H" on the left shoulder. He has rented 
 his farm since 1888, when he moved with his 
 family into Longmont in order to give his chil- 
 dren better educational advantages. He has also 
 been largely interested in mining duringlate years, 
 and now operates the Summit mine, near Eldo- 
 rado, which he spent two years in searching for, 
 following the float. This mine has been in suc- 
 cessful operation four years and shows ore of the 
 best grade. He also has a quarter interest in the 
 Ground Hog mine and a half interest in the 
 Surprise mine. He was among the originators 
 and controlling factors of the Farmers' Milling 
 and Elevator Company. 
 
 Mr. Hornbaker married a most estimable lady, 
 Sarah Isabelle Way, who was a true helpmate to 
 him in all the vicissitudes of life. She died in 
 April, 1898, leaving six children and a large cir- 
 cle of friends to mourn her loss. These children 
 are: William, Frank, Ora Belle(Mrs. McWithey), , 
 Enoch Edward, Phena (Mrs. Titus) and Samuel. 
 Mrs. Titus resides in Idaho, and the others live in 
 Colorado. Mr. Hornbaker has been a director in 
 the schools from the time the first school was estab- 
 lished here and helped build the first school house, 
 which was a log house and stood on the corner of 
 his farm. The location was moved in later years, 
 in accordance with the formation of new districts. 
 The family were formerly members of the United 
 Brethren Church, but as there was no organiza- 
 tion of that denomination in Longmont, they 
 united with the Congregational Church, in both 
 of which Mr. Hornbaker has served as trustee. 
 In politics he affiliates with the People's party. 
 He is a man who has added to a naturally keen 
 intellect habits of close observation, and is among 
 the best informed men of his day. 
 
 Mrs. Hornbaker's father was a native of one of 
 the Carolinas, but moved to Iowa at an early 
 day and there engaged in farming in Wapello 
 County until 1864, when he came to Colorado 
 
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 with Mr. Hornbaker's family, and settled on a 
 homestead, where he died. His wife also died 
 here. She had one son by a former marriage, 
 William Stewart, a resident of Boulder County. 
 Her marriage to Enoch Way resulted in the 
 birth of one son and seven daughters, as follows: 
 Sarah Isabelle, Mrs. Williamson, who died in 
 Boulder County; Mrs. Miller, who resides in 
 Kansas; Mollie, wife of John Brush, who resides 
 at Rocky Ford, Colo.; Mrs. Martha Matthews, 
 a resident of lyongmont; Mrs. Ellen Randall, 
 who lives in Oregon; Mrs. Snyder, a resident of 
 Denver; and Clinton, who lives in California. 
 
 HON. DAVID J. BALL, of Empire, Clear 
 Creek County, is justly entitled to the name 
 of founder of the town, and is the only one 
 left here of the original pioneers of the locality. 
 In the early days he occupied various official po- 
 sitions and won the high regard of all by his 
 strict adherence to his duties. In the fall of i860 
 he was made recorder of the mining district of 
 upper Union and held the post until the organ- 
 ization of the county, when he turned over the 
 records to the proper authorities. He was re- 
 corder when the town of Empire was laid out, 
 and upon its incorporation in 1884 he became a 
 trustee, which office he has since held almost un- 
 interruptedly. The cause of education has been 
 one near to his heart, and he has often served on 
 the school board. From his early manhood he 
 was a strong Republican until the late campaign, 
 when he came out on the side of silver as a stan- 
 dard. At present he is a member of the county 
 and state central committees. In 1864 he was 
 elected to the territorial legislature on the Repub- 
 lican ticket, serving in the sessions of 1865. 
 
 James A. and Ann Ball, parents of the above- 
 named gentleman, were both natives of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and passed their early married life in Ohio. 
 Grandfather Abraham Ball moved to Ohio many 
 years prior to the Civil war, and followed agri- 
 cultural pursuits. J. A. Ball was also a farmer 
 by occupation. In 1857 ^^ ^""^ ^^^ family went 
 to West Liberty, Muscatine County, Iowa. 
 There Mr. Ball became quite prominent and for 
 years was the postmaster of the town and one of 
 the leading merchants. He lived to the ripe age 
 of eighty-five years. Of his eight children who 
 grew to maturity all but two are living. N. W. 
 
 Ball, of the Third Iowa Regiment of Volunteers, 
 died as the result of disease contracted while at 
 the front in defense of the flag in the Civil war. 
 
 David J. Ball was born in October, 1840, in 
 Carrollton, Ohio, and received his education in 
 that state. In 1857 ^^ went to Iowa, and three 
 years later he set out for Colorado. At Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa, he outfitted with ox-teams, and at 
 the end of two months from the time that he had 
 left home he arrived at Auraria, on Cherry Creek. 
 A week later he went up Gregory Gulch and en- 
 gaged in prospecting, and upon the 1 3th of Sep- 
 tember he came to the present site of Empire. 
 Only three men were here ahead of him, namely: 
 Judge Coles, Edgar Freeman and George Merrill, 
 and of these only Mr. Freeman, now a resident 
 of Colorado, is living. Mr. Ball prospected and 
 discovered several valuable mines in this vicin- 
 ity, and later assisted in developing the same. 
 Among these were the Tenth Legion and the 
 Pioneer, of early fame. About 1876 he opened an 
 assaying office and has continued in this business 
 ever since. The first lode discovered by his 
 party, who hailed chiefly from New York, was 
 named and recorded as the Empire Silver Lode, 
 and from this the town and mountain took their 
 names. Since that time it has been found to be 
 a great misnomer for the mountain, which con- 
 tains much more gold than silver, to all appear- 
 ances. Mr. Ball is interested in and is manager 
 of the Cambria Gold Mining and Milling Com- 
 pany, a Milwaukee (Wis.) corporation, and has 
 other mining properties. In the course of his 
 mining here he has worn out three stamp mills, 
 including the one which he erected in 1879. 
 
 It was about thirty-five years ago that Mr. 
 Ball was initiated into the rites of Ma.sonry. At 
 that time he became a member of Nevada Lodge 
 No. 4, A. F. & A. M.,of Nevadaville, and when 
 Empire Lodge No. 8 was organized he was one 
 of its charter members. For years he was secre- 
 tary of the lodge, which was formerly very flour- 
 ishing, sometimes having as many as sixty-five 
 members. 
 
 Gl LLEN R. GODFREY, who is engaged in 
 LA farming on section 2, township 4, range 66, 
 I I Weld County, was born near Cleveland, 
 Ohio, in 1845. He is a son of Holon Godfrey, a 
 native of New York state, born in 18 12, but who 
 at the age of less than twenty went to Ohio, and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 from there, about 1844, with a brother, William, 
 went to Chicago, looking for work at the car- 
 penter's trade. He was employed there when 
 the city had a population of only between two and 
 three thousand. The next year he returned to 
 Ohio and brought his family west with him, set- 
 tling in Wisconsin, twenty-five miles north of 
 Milwaukee, where he bought one hundred acres 
 of land and engaged in farming and carpenter- 
 ing. With his brother, William, he secured con- 
 tracts for building docks and piles on Lake Mich- 
 igan, and did other work of a similar nature. 
 
 During the Pike's Peak excitement of 1859-60, 
 Mr. Godfrey left his family and started for Colo- 
 rado. It was not his first experience in mining 
 life, for in 1849 he had gone via sailing vessel to 
 San Francisco, but on account of trade winds 
 they were delayed, spending three months and 
 ten days on the water. On reaching California 
 he began gulch mining at Wyreka and was fairly 
 successful, remaining there for five years, and 
 returning with $5,000 in 1854. Afterward he 
 bought the right for cutting and welding wagon 
 tires in several counties in Missouri and Iowa, 
 but followed that business for a short time only. 
 His time was then given to farming until i860, 
 when he outfitted at Council Blufis and crossed 
 the plains by ox-team to Denver. While going 
 west he saw many people returning home, and the 
 accounts they gave were most discouraging. By 
 these reports he was influenced to change his 
 plans. He settled on a ranch near Julesburg, and 
 there remained for two years. Selling out in 
 1863, he settled thirty miles southeast of Fort 
 Morgan, on what is now known as Fort Wicket 
 ranch. Here he built a sod house and stable, and 
 kept a general road ranch, remaining until the 
 fall of 1868, when the Union Pacific Railroad 
 reached Cheyenne. Previous to this he sent for 
 his family in Wisconsin and all came excepting a 
 son and daughter. Everything prospered with 
 him until 1864, when the Sioux and Cheyennes 
 attacked his ranch and drove away eighty -two 
 head of cattle, also set the grass on fire around 
 the house, and committed other depredations. 
 He shot a number of Indians during that time 
 and succeeded finally in driving them away. There 
 was another raid in 1867, but afterward no further 
 trouble was experienced with the red men. 
 
 At the time the Union Pacific Railroad came 
 through to Cheyenne, Mr. Godfrey removed to 
 
 the Platte River district and bought three-quarters 
 of a section for $5,000. There he engaged in 
 farming and the stock business during the remain- 
 der of his life. In the development of the county 
 he bore an active part. In 1869-70 he was the 
 prime mover in organizing Section No. 3 Ditch 
 Company and assisted in building the ditch, 
 which was the means of developing this section 
 of country. For ten years he officiated as the 
 company's president. In 1873 he assisted in or- 
 ganizing the South Platte Ditch Company, of 
 which he was elected president. From 1869 to 
 1880 he engaged in farming and stock-raising and 
 was among the largest stockmen of the county. 
 Politically he has always been a Republican, and 
 interested in local and national pohtics. A man 
 of energy, excellent judgment and executive abil- 
 ity, his influence was apparent for good during 
 the early days of the county. He is still living 
 and enjoying good health. His wife, who died 
 in 1879, was Matilda Richmond, of Ohio. Of 
 their seven children six are living, namely: Mar- 
 tha, wife of Daniel Hawks; Allen R.; Anna, who 
 married H. M. Godfrey; Celia, wife of Wesley 
 Mullen, of Gunnison, Colo.; Carrie, Mrs. C. H. 
 Welch; and Cuba, of Wyoming. 
 
 In 1 86 1 our subject enlisted in Company K, 
 Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry , in which he served 
 for three years"! Upon his honorable discharge he 
 entered Bryant & Stratton's Business College in 
 Chicago, but after a few months there re-enlisted 
 in Hancock's Veteran Corps, Second Regiment, 
 and served until the war closed, in all, a period of 
 four years. During his first term of service he 
 was under Grant and Sherman in the western 
 division, and in his second enlistment he served 
 in Washington, forming a part of the Army of the 
 Potomac. He was mustered out in Winchester, 
 Va., and was one of thirteen out of a company of 
 one hundred that returned home. After the war 
 closed his company was sent to Albany, N. Y. , 
 and took charge of camps, later were similarly 
 engaged at Elmira and Ogdensburg, N. Y., and 
 Brattleboro, Vt. , returning home in the spring 
 of 1866. 
 
 Upon his graduation from the business college 
 in Chicago in 1867, Mr. Godfrey joined his pa- 
 rents at South Platte, Colo., and soon became his 
 father's partner in farming and the stock business. 
 His services were in demand for clerical work, 
 and he was secretary of No. 3 Ditch Company, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 t)l£, 
 
 in the organization of which he had assisted. In 
 1874 he took a part of the home farm, and upon 
 his half-section he built a fine brick residence. 
 He has since engaged in farming and the stock 
 business, and has his land under cultivation and 
 furnished with an excellent water supply. Under 
 the territorial law he was the prime mover in or- 
 ganizing school district No. 14, of which he was 
 secretary for some years. After the state was ad- 
 mitted into the Union he secured the organiza- 
 tion of the I,a Salle school, of whose board he 
 has been the only president and which employs 
 three teachers, with ninety pupils enrolled. Po- 
 litically a Republican, he was a candidate for 
 superintendent of schools of Weld County under 
 the territorial law, and for county commissioner 
 under state law. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Greeley Lodge, I. O. O. F. At this writing 
 he is commander of William T. Sherman Post 
 No. 23, of Evans, and is an active Grand Army 
 worker. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Godfrey married Miss Kate Welch, 
 who died in 1890, at thirty-eight years of age. 
 They were the parents of seven children, namely: 
 Bert G.; Jessie, deceased; Fannie, wife of A. L. 
 Reeves; Charles A.; Roy; Walter, deceased; and 
 Tillie. 
 
 HON. ARMOUR C. ANDERSON, formerly 
 a member of the Ninth General Assembly 
 of Colorado, has been engaged in the 
 real-estate and loan business in Denver since 
 1885 and has had his ofBce for the past eight 
 years at No. 1762 Curtis street. Mr. Anderson 
 was born on a farm near Trenton, N. J., and is of 
 Scotch ancestry. His father, William Anderson, 
 was reared in the city of New York and married 
 Ellen Marshall and settled in New Jersey on a 
 farm. 
 
 In 187 1 Mr. Anderson moved to Maryland 
 and for ten years assisted his father on the farm, 
 at the same time receiving his education from the 
 country school near by. When eighteen years 
 of age he came to Colorado and at once entered 
 the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Rail- 
 way Company, at the same time going to night 
 school at the Denver Business College, where he 
 studied shorthand. Afterward for a year he 
 served in the business, office of the Old Denver 
 Tribune, during the days of Eugene Field, and 
 later with O. H. Rothacker, on the Opmion. 
 
 Leaving Denver after an attack of pneumonia, 
 he spent six months at Batopilas, in Old Mexico, 
 with Alexander R., better known as "Boss" 
 Shepherd, the great mining king of that country. 
 Finding this location too remote from civiliza- 
 tion and friends Mr. Anderson in 1885 returned 
 to Denver and started in his present business, 
 which has proved very successful. 
 
 Though a member of a Democratic family, 
 Mr. Anderson has voted the Republican ticket 
 ever since he was old enough to cast his ballot, 
 and his first vote, of which he is proud, was cast 
 for Hon. James G. Blaine. In 1892 he was 
 chosen to represent this county in the legislature, 
 and served in the regular session as well as the 
 special session called by Governor Waite. Dur- 
 ing these sessions he served as chairman of the 
 engrossing committee and was a member of the 
 railroad committee, also of the committee on 
 Indian and military affairs. He took a great in- 
 terest in his legislative work and during the 
 entire sessions did not absent himself for a single 
 day, and endeavored always to be present when 
 the roll was called. He introduced a bill for a 
 home for disabled miners, and succeeded in 
 getting it through the lower house. The house 
 stood thirty-three Republicans (of which side he 
 was one of the leaders) to thirty-two Democrats. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is a Presbyterian, and has been 
 actively engaged with one of the largest churches 
 of the city, both as a member and officer, ever 
 since he came to Denver. Fraternally he is 
 connected with thejunior Order United American 
 Mechanics. He is a self-made man, having come 
 to Denver a poor boy, and he has worked his 
 way up to what he now is. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM J. LEWIS, ex-member of 
 the Colorado state legislature, is a citizen 
 well known throughout Gilpin County. His 
 home has been in Central City for the past nine 
 years, though his business is chiefly in Black- 
 hawk, and his investments are somewhat scat- 
 tered. He has always taken great interest in the 
 success of the Republican party, and in 1878 was 
 nominated and elected to represent Gilpin County 
 in the sessions of 1878-79 in the general assem- 
 bly. He afterwards refused to allow his name to 
 be used as a candidate, and has had no desire to 
 again enter the lists for public preferment. The 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cause of education finds in him a sincere friend 
 and for a period of twelve years, while his resi- 
 dence was in Nevadaville, he acted as a member 
 of the school board, and for much of the time 
 was secretary and treasurer of the organization. 
 
 As his surname indicates, W. J. Lewis is of 
 Welsh extraction. His father was a native of 
 Wales, and in his country was a civil engineer 
 and surveyor. Over half a century ago he came 
 to the United States, and, settling in Armstrong 
 County, Pa., built and took charge of the tram- 
 ways for the Great Western Iron Works. Later 
 he removed to Pittsburg, and lived retired from 
 active cares until his death. His wife, Jane 
 (Carter) Lewis, whose death likewise took place 
 at their Pittsburg home, was a native of Devon- 
 shire, England. They were the parents of seven 
 children, three of whom survive at this writing. 
 The eldest .son, Robert H., was a lieutenant in 
 command of the First Delaware Battery during 
 the Civil war, and died afterwards in Cleveland, 
 Ohio. 
 
 The birth of William J. Lewis occurred in 
 Brady's Bend, Pa., November 25, 1843. His 
 boyhood was spent in that town and for a few 
 years he attended school there. When he was 
 thirteen the family removed to Pittsburg and 
 three years later he was apprenticed to a machin- 
 ist. He served four years in the James Reese 
 engine shops, where were manufactured the en- 
 gines used on the river boats. When he had 
 thoroughly mastered the trade, young Lewis 
 worked for a year in Wheeling, W. Va. In the 
 summer of 1865 he came to Colorado, and for one 
 year was engineer for the Corydon Mining Com- 
 pany, of Central City. Later he was employed 
 at various mines up to 1870, when he leased the 
 Whitcomb twenty-five stamp mill, in Nevada- 
 ville. After running it for some years success- 
 fully he purchased the property, which he did 
 not dispose of until ten years ago. In 1889 he 
 became the superintendent of the Hidden Treas- 
 ure mill, in which capacity he has been acting 
 from that time until the present. During the 
 past thirty years he has been more or less finan- 
 cially interested in many mines, among them the 
 Flack, Illinois, Kansas, Windsor, Corydon, etc. 
 Now he owns stock in the Pierce mine, which is 
 being operated with good results. Mr. Lewis 
 thoroughly understands his business and is equal- 
 ly well versed in mining and milling operations. 
 
 The Hidden Treasure mill is one of the largest 
 atid best in Gilpin County, handling larger ore 
 than most mills here. It has fine water power 
 and boa,sts one of the largest water wheels in the 
 state. Its diameter is fifty feet, and it is equal to 
 three hundred horse-power. 
 
 Mr. Lewis married in Nevadaville, in 1868, 
 Miss E. M. Southworth, a native of New York 
 state. They have two children: Robert N., en- 
 gineer in the Hidden Treasure mill, and a mem- 
 ber of Central City Commandery No. 2, K. T. ; 
 and Lottie J., Mrs. E. W. Davis, of Central City. 
 Mr. Lewis is past master of Nevada Lodge No. 4, 
 A. F. & A. M.; is past ofl^cer of Central City 
 Chapter No. i, R. A. M., and for two successive 
 years was eminent commander of Central City 
 Commandery No. 2, K. T. He is also identified 
 with El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Denver. 
 Mrs. Lewis is a member of the Episcopal Church, 
 as is also her daughter, Mrs. E. W. Davis. 
 
 HOMAS H. JOHNSON enjoys the honor 
 of being the organizer of the Republican 
 party in Larimer County. For years he 
 has been one of the most influential politicians in 
 the county. His activity in local affairs, his en- 
 ergy in promoting campaign work, together with 
 his successful service in positions of responsibility, 
 won for him the sobriquet of ' 'cowboy statesman." 
 He was elected to the state legislature in 1882 
 and served as a member of the fourth general 
 assembly. He was a supporter of Senator Jerome 
 B. Chaffee, in his day, as he is now of Henry M. 
 Teller, the present senior senator of Colorado. 
 Under Governor Mclntire, then warden at Canon 
 City, he served as deputy in 1894. 
 
 In Dixon, 111., May 23, 1839, the subject of 
 this sketch was born to Eben H. and Sarah 
 (Johnson) Johnson. His father, who was a 
 native of New York, spent almost his entire life 
 in Illinois, where he died in 1885, at the age of 
 seventy -five years. He was a stanch Republican 
 from the organization of the party, and was 
 present at almost every convention of his county 
 and state. His son, our subject, was educated in 
 the common schools of Illinois. At the age of 
 twenty-one, in i860, he came to Colorado and 
 settled on the Big Thompson River, where he 
 took up government land. In 1861-62 he assisted 
 in building the first irrigating ditch in northern 
 
JACOB SCHUTZ. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 923 
 
 Colorado, and, thus securing an abundance of 
 water for his place, he successfully prosecuted 
 farming and stock-raising. For a number of 
 years as a stockman he took his share with the 
 cowboys, and during that time he experienced 
 many exciting episodes of frontier life. How- 
 ever, he has always possessed a courage that 
 nothing daunts, and his perils in early days ex- 
 cited, but did not frighten him. In 1874 the 
 Indians burned his cow camp at Pawnee Buttes, 
 Weld County, but he soon built another and 
 better one. In time he became one of the large 
 stock-dealers in the northern part of the state, 
 and he also secured valuable interests in mines, 
 handling several claims, and recently owned a 
 group of mines in Boulder County. In 1891 he 
 was one of the pioneers of the famous Creede 
 Silver Camp, one of the richest silver camps in 
 the world. In 1868 he was united in marriage 
 with Miss Eliza Rogers, and four children were 
 born of their union, namely: Burton W., Myrna, 
 Flora and Edna Grace. 
 
 (T ACOB SCHUTZ is the owner of about twen- 
 I ty-five hundred acres of land in Douglas 
 (2) County, his home being three miles from 
 Franktown and seven miles from Elizabeth. 
 Here he is engaged in raising thoroughbred Short- 
 horn and grade cattle, in which department of 
 agriculture he has met with success. After 
 having worked in this country for one year. May 
 19, i860, witnessed his arrival at the place he 
 now calls home. It was then a wild, unimproved 
 tract of land, far from other homes. He built a 
 log house, and at first hauled lumber and wood 
 for others, in order to earn his livelihood. In 
 1 86 1 he planted a crop, which he harvested. 
 After the surveys were made he took a pre-emp- 
 tion and later a homestead, the two adjoining 
 each other, and afterward he bought other prop- 
 erty until his land reached its present extent. In 
 1878 he built a substantial .stone residence, con- 
 taining all modern improvements, and here he 
 and his wife have an attractive and comfortable 
 home. 
 
 October 20, 1836, our subject was born in 
 Muelenberg, Canton Berne, Switzerland, about 
 twelve miles west of the city of Berne. He was 
 reared on the farm owned by his parents, Jacob 
 and Mary (Palmer) Schutz, and received a fair 
 
 education. In November, 1853, he accompanied 
 the family to America, arriving in New York 
 January 16, 1854. From there they proceeded 
 to Will County, 111., but three weeks after their 
 arrival the father died, leaving his widow and 
 five children with only $30 in money. Our sub- 
 ject secured employment at $25 a year. After 
 one year, when he came to realize what his serv- 
 ices were worth and demanded fair pay, he was 
 given $18 a month. In 1855 he went to Minne- 
 sota and for three summers worked by the month, 
 sending his money home to aid in supporting 
 his mother. In the fall of 1857 he returned to 
 Illinois and for a few weeks attended school, 
 working for his board. In 1858 he worked on a 
 farm in Kankakee County, 111. The next year 
 he and his brother, together with a brother-in- 
 law, started with two yoke of cattle and a wagon, 
 for southern Kansas, and on arriving in Butler 
 County took up land, but after three weeks they 
 decided to leave. They had but $30 in cash, and 
 had hoped to secure employment that would 
 afford them a livelihood while improving their 
 land. However, they found everyone in the same 
 condition as themselves, and thought it wisest to 
 leave. They met three men who were taking a 
 herd of cattle to California and joined them, assis- 
 ting in driving the cattle, in return for which they 
 were given their board on the way . They parted 
 from the drovers at Bent's Ford, on the Arkansas, 
 and came on to Douglas County, where they 
 arrived in July, 1859. During the winter that 
 followed Mr. Schutz secured employment in a 
 sawmill. May 19, i860, he squatted on his 
 present homestead, and from the then raw land 
 he has evolved a valuable ranch. In 1864 he 
 enlisted in Company M, Third Colorado Cavalry, 
 and served for one hundred days, being stationed 
 in the vicinity of Camp Wheeler as protection 
 against the Indians. 
 
 Returning to Illinois in 1868, Mr. Schutz there 
 married Miss Caroline Schumacher, who was 
 born in Hanover, but resided in Will County for 
 some years prior to her marriage. They became 
 the parents of three children, but lost two. Their 
 only living child, Rosa B., is the wife of John R. 
 Campbell, by whom she has five children: Albert, 
 Pecer, Emma E., Isaac J., Dora A. and Edith M. 
 In politics our subject is a Republican. He has 
 served as county commissioner by appointment 
 from Governor Evans for one year and by election 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for a term of three years. He has also served as 
 assessor of the county for a year and for twelve 
 years was a member of the school board, during 
 which time he aided much in advancing the 
 interests of the local school. 
 
 (TOHN H. BUTTERWORTH, who resides 
 I three and one-half miles southwest of Long- 
 Qj mont, Boulder County, was born in Wash- 
 ington County, Tenn., October 23, 1861, a son 
 of Stephen S. and Nannie (Bashor) Butterworth. 
 He was the oldest of six children, the others being 
 James L., of California; Sarah E., Charles B., 
 Virginia C. and Nettie, all still living. His 
 father, who was a native of Lynchburg, Va., born 
 December 16, 1824, married for his first wife a 
 Miss Pitts, by whom he had two daughters. The 
 older of these, Mary J., is the widow of Frank 
 Basher, of Boulder County; and the younger, 
 Martha, is the widow of 1,. P. Ballinger, of 
 Tennessee. 
 
 After the death of his first wife Stephen S. 
 Butterworth removed to Tennessee and there 
 married Miss Bashor. He was a millwright by 
 trade and erected many mills in Virginia, Tenn- 
 essee and Missouri, the last years of his life being 
 spent in Green County, Mo., where he settled in 
 1866. His death occurred on a farm in Arkansas 
 February 2, 1895. He was a son of Buckley 
 Butterworth, a native of Ohio, but during the 
 most of his life a resident of Virginia, where he 
 followed the milling business. The maternal 
 grandfather of our subject, Henry Bashor, was a 
 native of Pennsylvania and the descendant of 
 Dutch stock. In early manhood he moved to 
 Tennessee and later went to Missouri, where he 
 became a prominent farmer and miller, owning 
 four mills at one time. He attained the advanced 
 age of ninety-two years and during the summer 
 prior to his death plowed corn in his fields. He 
 was a remarkably strong and well-preserved man, 
 and retained the use of his faculties to the last. 
 At the age of sixteen years the subject of this 
 sketch apprenticed himself to the carpenter's 
 trade in Springfield, Mo., under John Oliver, 
 with whom he remained for four years. He then 
 settled at Ash Grove, twenty miles west of 
 Springfield, and for four years followed his trade 
 in that place. July 27, 1884, found him in 
 Longmont, Colo., where he established himself 
 
 in the contractor's and builder's business, and 
 this occupation he followed until his marriage in 
 1888. Since then he has given his attention to 
 the cultivation of the farm of three hunded and 
 twenty acres where he and his wife reside. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Butterworth united him 
 with Mrs. Clara C. (Peck) Cranson, the widow 
 of John Cranson, and daughter of Thomas S. 
 and Susan E. (Walthall) Peck. Her father, 
 whose sketch appears on another page, was a 
 Colorado pioneer of 1859 and a member of the 
 First Colorado Infantry during the Civil war. 
 By her first marriage Mrs. Butterworth had three 
 children, namely: Blanche, who is the wife of 
 Burns Will, of Longmont; Jennie, who married 
 Gaorge Darby, of Ordway, Colo. ; and Thomas S., 
 deceased. By her marriage to Mr. Butterworth 
 she has two daughters, Callie Grace and Carmen 
 G. She is a refined and cultured lady, with a 
 broad fund of information and excellent judgment. 
 She is a competent business woman, and has 
 served efficiently as secretary of the Peck Lateral 
 Ditch Company. In educational matters she is 
 deeply interested and filled an unexpired term of 
 two years as secretary of the school board, after 
 which, in the spring of 1898, she was elected to 
 the office for a full term. Fraternally Mr. Butter- 
 worth is connected with Mountain Valley Lodge 
 No. 31, Woodiflen of the World. For some years 
 he has been a member of the Bankers' Association 
 of Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 REUBEN F. COFFIN, one of the most promi- 
 nent agriculturists of Weld County, owns 
 a ranch two and one-half miles east of 
 Longmout, on the Boulder County line. This 
 property he took up in 187 1 and settled upon 
 the following year, proceeding to make a farm 
 out of the wild piece of prairie land. He im- 
 proved the one hundred and sixty acres and 
 added to it from time to time until his farm finally 
 consisted of five hundred acres. Later, however, 
 he sold all the property except the original home- 
 stead, where he still resides. 
 
 In Delaware County, N. Y., the subject of this 
 sketch was born November 15, 1842, a son of 
 Jacob and Mary A. (Hull) Coffin. He was one 
 of twelve children, six of whom are living. They 
 are: Morse H.; Elizabeth, wife of S. W. Patton; 
 George W.; Ellen C, wife of Porter R. Pennock; 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Reuben F.; and Emma, Mrs. J. W. Daniels. 
 The family history appears in the biography of 
 Morse H. Coffin, upon another page. 
 
 The educational advantages received by our 
 subject were somewhat limited. At eighteen 
 years of age he began life as a farm hand. After 
 one year the war broke out and he enlisted, July 
 10, 1 86 1, in Company G, Nineteenth Illinois 
 Infantry, Col. G. B. Turchin commanding. The 
 principal battles in which he participated were 
 those of Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission 
 Ridge, Resaca and Altona Pass. He was mus- 
 tered out of service at Chicago, June 27, 1864. 
 From that time until the spring of 1866 he oper- 
 ated rented land in Illinois. 
 
 February 6, 1866, Mr. Coffin started across the 
 plains with a team of horses. He arrived on the 
 St. Vrain, just above the mouth of Boulder Creek, 
 April I, and at once embarked in farming, which 
 occupation he followed for two years. Afterward 
 he teamed on the Union Pacific Railroad for a 
 year. In 1869 he engaged in freighting from 
 Denver and Cheyenne to the mountains, princi- 
 pally to Blackhawk and Central City. In 1872 
 he came to the ranch where he has since resided . 
 Fraternally he is identified with St. Vrain Lodge 
 No. 32, A. F. & A. M., the Improved Order of 
 Red Men, the Ancient Order of United Workmen 
 and McPherson Post No. 6, G. A. R. 
 
 In 1877 ^r- Coffin was united in marriage 
 with Miss Lydia E. Gregg. Six children com- 
 prise their family, namely: Roy; Stanley, who is 
 a member of Torrey's Cavalry of Rough Riders, 
 engaged in service in the war with Spain; Claude, 
 Clair, Vinton and Ruby, who are at home. 
 
 QOHN GLOVER, formerly one of Boulder 
 I County's representative farmers, but now 
 (2/ deceased, was born on Prince Edward Island, 
 May 5, 1855, a son of David and Sarah (Schur- 
 man) Glover, and was one of six children, four 
 of wliom survive. His father, who was born on 
 the same island as himself, spent his entire life in 
 the same place, where his birth occurred May 29, 
 18 1 9, three days after his parents landed in Amer- 
 ica, and where he died April 28, 1878. In youth 
 he learned the shoemaker's trade, but after his 
 marriage he settled on a farm, and during the 
 years that followed he gave his attention to farm- 
 ing, profiting by his trade only so far as to wake 
 
 the shoes for his own family. For many years 
 he served the Presbyterian Church as an elder, 
 and firm in the religious faith that had supported 
 him in life's trials, he passed into the great un- 
 known, April 28, 1878. 
 
 February 13, 1851, David Glover married Miss 
 Schurman, who was born September 29, 1827, 
 and died July 11, 1866. Her father, William 
 Schurman, was a member of an eastern family; 
 he died at ninety and his wife, Elizabeth, when 
 ninety-one years of age. The paternal grandfa- 
 ther of our subject, William Glover, was a native 
 of Scotland and came to America in 1819, settling 
 on Prince Edward Island, where he engaged in 
 farming for many years. When his death occurred 
 he lacked only one year of rounding out a full 
 century. His wife, Sarah, was eighty-seven at 
 the time of her death. 
 
 Having a liking for farm life, the subject of 
 this sketch adopted agriculture for his occupation 
 on reaching manhood. When his father died he 
 was twenty-three years of age. The estate was 
 then divided, and one hundred acres fell to his 
 lot. On this tract he began farming, remaining 
 there until the fall of 1883, when he and his 
 family came to the States, settling in Yankton, 
 S. Dak., where his wife's parents lived. The 
 country did not suit him and after two months he 
 left his family and came to Colorado to look for 
 a suitable location. Being pleased with prospects 
 in this state, he sent for his family and secured 
 work as a farm hand. In the spring of 1886 he 
 rented land eight miles northwest of Longmont, 
 where he embarked in farming for himself. After 
 one year he went to Denver, and rented a farm 
 six miles northeast of that city, in Arapahoe 
 County, where he remained for six years. In 
 the fall of 1892 he bought the farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres now owned and occupied by 
 his widow, and hither, in the fall of 1893, he 
 brought his family, going to work at once with a 
 determination to succeed. All who knew him 
 can testify to the zeal and energy with which he 
 carried on the work of cultivation and improve- 
 ment. Early and late he worked in order that 
 he might bring the land to the high state of culti- 
 vation that he desired. Doubtless it was due to 
 overwork that his life was cut short in its prime. 
 He passed away October 31, 1896, mourned by his 
 wife and children, and by those less intimately 
 connected with him, but who had come to appre- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 date his genuine worth of character. While he 
 was not identified with any denomination, he was 
 a believer in the Presbyterian faith and supported 
 all church work. Fraternally he was connected 
 with the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 January 12, 1881, Mr. Glover married Miss 
 Matilda S. McQuarrie, daughter of Donald and 
 Matilda (Stewart) McQuarrie, natives of Prince 
 Edward Island. Her father learned the trade of 
 shipbuilding in his youth and followed this for 
 many years, in conjunction with farming, he 
 having settled on a farm immediately after mar- 
 riage. In 1883 he removed to Yankton, S. Dak., 
 where he died at eighty years of age. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Glover became the parents of four children, 
 namely: Elmer R., born February 7, 1882; Ray 
 W., September 28, 1883; Lora M., July 11, 1885; 
 and Hazel 1,., March 26, 1891. 
 
 rSETER E. CHAPMAN, the proprietor and 
 LX owner of Maple Park ranch, which is situ- 
 yS ated three miles north of IvOngmont, Boulder 
 County, is a progressive farmer, good business 
 man and reliable citizen. He has been the archi- 
 tect of his own fortunes, for, upon arriving in 
 Colorado less than a score of years ago, he was 
 obliged to begin at the very foot of the ladder. 
 Possessing those necessary qualities of industry 
 and perseverance he soon gained a foot-hold and 
 steadily advanced toward prosperity. When a 
 few years had rolled over his head he was in a 
 position where respect was accorded him and to- 
 day he stands among the representative men of 
 his section. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
 John Chapman, a native of New Jersey. When 
 he had reached manhood he chose for his com- 
 panion and helpmate a Miss Nancy Cole, and to- 
 gether they settled down to a quiet, industrious 
 agricultural life. Our subject's father, whose 
 Christian name is John, is one of the most promi- 
 nent and successful farmers of the community in 
 which he dwells, in Morris County, N.J. He 
 has occupied the responsible position of constable 
 for the past fifteen or sixteen years and has fre- 
 quently been tendered minor offices of trust and 
 honor. Born in the year 1828, in the state where 
 he still resides, he has always given his attention 
 to agricultural affairs and is considered an authori- 
 ty on the subject among his neighbors and associ- 
 
 ates. Upon reaching man's estate he married 
 Miss Ann Emmons and nine children came to 
 bless their home. Eight of the number are still 
 living. 
 
 Peter E. Chapman was born March 14, 1853, 
 in New Jersey, and was reared under the kind 
 and judicious instruction and training of his lov- 
 ing parents. He attended the district schools 
 and mastered the ordinary branches of learning. 
 When he had reached his majority he commenced 
 the battle of life in earnest, his only capital being 
 a horse and cow. As he had no money to buy a 
 farm he rented a place for six years, and, in fact, 
 as long as he continued to live in his native state 
 he leased land. Success did not attend his efforts 
 to any great degree and he finally concluded that 
 he would try his fortune in the west. Coming to 
 Colorado in 1880 he entered into the employ of 
 an uncle and worked on his farm during the next 
 eight months. In 1887 he purchased his fine 
 homestead, known as Maple Park ranch, and 
 since then he has greatly improved and beautified 
 the farm. 
 
 In his political preferences Mr. Chapman is a 
 supporter of the Democratic party. His marriage, 
 December 23, 1871, united him with Miss Annie 
 Burnett, who was born in New Jersey, Septem- 
 ber 30, 1853, and is a daughter of Theodore and 
 Sarah (Lawrenee) Burnett. One child was born 
 of their union, a daughter, now Mrs. Holmes, of 
 Weld County, Colo. 
 
 pQlIyLIAM CLARK, a retired farmer, has 
 I A/ ^^^^ making his home in Berthoud, Lari- 
 V V mer County, for several years, in the mean- 
 time renting his homestead. He has taken an 
 active part in public affairs here and has served 
 as mayor of the town and as a member of the 
 local board of trustees. Politically he has always 
 given his allegiance to the Republicau party until 
 recently, when he became independent, and now 
 uses his franchise for the nominees and principles 
 which he deems best, regardless of party lines. 
 Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Berthoud 
 Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M. He is also identi- 
 fied with the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 Mr. Clark is a native of County Galway, Ire- 
 land, born September 9, 1845. His parents were 
 John and Nellie (McDonald) Clark. They came 
 to the United States with their family when our 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 927 
 
 subject was a child of some six or seven years. 
 At first they settled in White Hall, Washington 
 County, N. Y., from there removing to Beloit, 
 Wis. Until he was eighteen years of age our 
 subject remained with his parents, but from that 
 time on he earned his own livelihood indepen- 
 dently. 
 
 In the spring of 1864 William Clark came west 
 with a company of friends. Upon reaching Colo- 
 rado he located first at Stilson's Patch, about a 
 mile from Breckenridge, in Summit County. 
 There he engaged in gulch mining for several 
 months, but the following winter went to Black- 
 hawk. There he found plenty of employment at 
 hauling produce and supplies from the valley to 
 the various camps, ox-teams being used for the 
 purpose. After he had worked in this manner 
 for several years he entered the employ of Captain 
 Tyler, of Erie, laerding his cattle. He continued 
 for this employer for fifteen years, rendering 
 faithful service, as can be inferred, and investing 
 his savings in live-stock, on his own account. 
 Then he took up his abode upon his present farm 
 and later bought another half-section of land. He 
 became interested in constructing ditches and has 
 been very active in the advocacy of further irri- 
 gation sources and supplies. While he has been 
 particularly successful in dairying and stock- 
 raising he has been prospered in general farming 
 as well, and this year the eighteenth crop is being 
 harvested on his homestead. He is a stockholder 
 in the Berthoud Flouring Mill and Elevator Com- 
 pany. 
 
 January i, 1878, Mr. Clark married Miss Cora 
 Graham, daughter of Thomas Graham, of Erie, 
 Weld County. Three children, a son and two 
 daughters, bless their union, their names in order 
 of birth being Ella, Maude and Hugh. 
 
 r^ETER J. JOHNSON, who owns a valuable 
 L/' farm five miles west of Longmont, was born 
 f!^ in Smolan, Sweden, December 16, 1833, a 
 son of John and Anna (Carlson) Larson. He 
 was one of five children, three ofwhom are living, 
 those besides himself being: L- G., a carpenter 
 in Chicago; and Christine, wife of A. P. Ander- 
 son, of Sweden. His father, who was a native of 
 the same place as himself, grew to manhood on a 
 farm, married and continued to reside in his native 
 place until his death. 
 
 The education obtained by our subject was limi- 
 ted to a brief attendance in the common schools 
 of his native land. At twenty-two years of age 
 he began farming for himself, and for thirteen 
 years he cultivated the place which he owned and 
 which was worth ten thousand krona at the time 
 he sold it. In 1868, a year after selling his place, 
 he decided to come to America. On the 14th of 
 April he left his old home, bound for a foreign 
 land. Going to Gottenburg, he took pa.ssage on 
 a small steamer for Hull, England, and from 
 there traveled by rail to Liverpool, where he 
 shipped on board the steamer "Moravian," of the 
 Allen line. Thirteen days later he landed in 
 Quebec, Canada. From that city he went to Red 
 Wing, Minn., where he arrived May 14. During 
 the summer that followed he worked as a farm 
 hand for a friend. 
 
 On the ist of September, 1868, Mr. Johnson 
 took a steamer down the river to Clinton, 111., 
 where he took the train for Cheyenne, Wyo. , and 
 from there journeyed by stage for Burlington 
 (now Longmont). The stage being filled, he 
 took a place on the top and traveled all night in 
 the rain. For such unsatisfactory accommoda- 
 tion he paid a fare of $16. Six weeks prior to this 
 the stage had been robbed by Indians and the 
 driver murdered, and afterward armed guards 
 accompanied the stage. With Mr. Johnson on the 
 top of the coach, were six men with rifles. 
 
 Arriving in Burlington, Mr. John.son struck 
 across the country for the neighborhood of Boul- 
 der, in search of his cousin, Andrew Reed, whom 
 he found after considerable trouble, occasioned 
 by his inability to speak English. He secured 
 work with his cousin, with whom he remained 
 for thirteen months. In the summer of 1870 he 
 rented land and began farming near Boulder. 
 The previous year he had sent to the old country 
 for his family, whose passage cost him $500, al- 
 most his entire capital, so when he began farm- 
 ing for himself he had only $15. The man from 
 whom he rented furnished him with a team. In 
 the fall of 1870 he took up a homestead of one 
 hundred and sixty acres where he now lives, five 
 miles from Longmont, and after two more years 
 of farming as a renter, he took his family to their 
 own home in 1873. No improvements save a 
 little hut had been made on the claim, and for 
 sometime he had a struggle to maintain his fam- 
 ily. His first work was to provide the land with 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 water. He was one of the charter members of 
 the Swede Ditch Company, through whose efforts 
 the land in that section was irrigated. As the 
 years passed he added to his property until his 
 landed possessions aggregated six hundred and 
 fifty-five acres. I^ater, however, he sold all of 
 the land except the original homestead. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Johnson married Mi.ss Mary S. 
 Nelson, a native of the same town asher husband. 
 They became the parents of six children, namely: 
 Carl A. , who is engaged in the restaurant busi- 
 ness at Telluride, Colo.; Amanda C, who died 
 while attending Augustona College, at Rock 
 Island, 111. ; John F. , who died while attending 
 Gross Medical College in Denver; A. Sophia, 
 wife of John Burgstrom, a merchant tailor of 
 Boulder; Oscar A., one of the most promising 
 young attorneys of Boulder; and Esther A. , who 
 is with her parents. The family are identified 
 with the Lutheran Church, to which, as to other 
 worthy objects, Mr. Johnson contributes as his 
 means permit. Politically he is a silver Republican. 
 
 yyilLES H. VAN METER, a contractor and 
 Y builder of Denver, was born in Grayson 
 y County, Ky., October 4, 1842, being a de- 
 scendant of an old Virginian family that came to 
 this country from Holland. His father, Rev. 
 Isaac Newton Van Meter, a son of Abram, was 
 born in Grayson County and grew to manhood 
 upon a farm. March 15, 1855, he established his 
 home in Macomb, McDonough County, 111. , then 
 a very small place, with little appearance of future 
 prosperity. He was a pioneer minister in the 
 Baptist Church in Illinois. The people were 
 poor, money was scarce and it was difficult for a 
 congregation to support a pastor, so he operated 
 a farm and in that way supported his family, 
 preaching without charge. The farm that he 
 cultivated is still owned by his wife, and upon it 
 he passed away when nearly eighty years of age. 
 The mother of our subject bore the maiden 
 name of Lucinda Lawson, and was born in Har- 
 din County, Ky. Her father, Henry Lawson, 
 was a farmer at Lawson, Ky. , which was named 
 in honor of the family. She is now seventy-eight 
 years of age and is hale and strong. Of her ten 
 children all but one attained years of maturity. 
 They were: Henry, who enlisted in the Eighty- 
 fourth Illinois Infantry and died at Ringgold, 
 
 Ga., after having participated in Sherman's 
 famous march to the sea; Miles H. is next in 
 order of birth; Cyrus L- is a farmer near the old 
 homestead in McDonough County; Mary is the 
 wife of Martin Shields, of Macomb; Mrs. Sadie 
 Runkle also resides in Macomb; Hiram is in the 
 employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 
 at Gunnison, Colo.; David is agent for the Chi- 
 cago, Burlington & Quincy road at Macomb; 
 Mrs. Mattie Randolph and Mrs. Hattie Fuhr also 
 reside in Macomb. 
 
 Reared in Illinois, our subject as a boy attended 
 the pioneer school of the district, held in a log 
 house, with puncheon floor and split logs for 
 benches. To reach this school he was obliged to 
 walk two and one-half miles. At the age of 
 twenty-one he bought a threshing machine, which 
 he operated during the season. In 1868 here- 
 moved to Brookfield, Linn County, Mo., where 
 he engaged in carpentering. Two years later he 
 went to Malta Bend, Saline County, Mo., and 
 followed the same occupation there until 1879, 
 when he entered the employ of the Consolidated 
 Tank Line Company. This concern he repre- 
 sented in Missouri and Kansas for two and one- 
 half years, having his headquarters in Kansas 
 City. In 1882 he removed to Denver and repre- 
 sented the same firm in Colorado, Utah, New 
 Mexico, Wyoming and Montana for ten years, 
 but retired in 1892. Since then he has engaged 
 in the erection of residences and public buildings, 
 under the firm name of M. H. Van Meter & Son. 
 He owns a comfortable home at No. 3245 High- 
 land avenue. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Van Meter took place 
 in Saline County, Mo., and united him with Miss 
 Clara Reeves, whose father, Felix Reeves, was 
 an old commission merchant on the Missouri 
 River. She was born in Saline County and died 
 there, leaving two children: Harry L., who is in 
 partnership with his father; and Joseph R. The 
 older son has the reputation of being one of the 
 finest amateur actors in Denver and indeed in 
 Colorado. May 11, 1898, he enlisted in Troop 
 A, Colorado Cavalry, under Colonel Torrey, and 
 participated in the Spanish-American war. Mr. 
 Van Meter was married in Emporia, Kan., to 
 Miss Allie Lynn Truslow, who was born in 
 Charleston, W.Va., the daughter of James A., 
 and Fannie (Claspell) Truslow, of that place. 
 One daughter, Mabel A., blesses this union. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 929 
 
 While in Malta Bend Mr. Van Meter was one 
 of its first five trustees who succeeded in securing 
 the incorporation of the place. Two of the trus- 
 tees were in favor of licensing saloons; two were 
 opposed. His was the deciding vote, and as long 
 as he was trustee there were no saloons in the 
 town. Politically he is a Republican and belongs 
 to the Republican Club. He was formerly a 
 member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America. 
 
 GlNDREW J. FORBES, a retired farmer, 
 I I whose home is situated on section 19, town- 
 I I ship 6, range 66, Weld County, is one of 
 the honored early .settlers of this locality, and 
 was one of the celebrated Union colony, which 
 organized and founded the town of Greeley. He 
 has been actively interested in the development 
 of this region, and has used his influence at all 
 times for improvement and progress. When the 
 Windsor Creamery was started, and at the time 
 of the organization of the Wind.sor Mill and Ele- 
 vator Company, he was one of those who were 
 most aggressive in favor of the enterprises being 
 carried on, and at other times he has been an im- 
 portant factor in the founding of industries. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, John 
 Forbes, attained the extreme age of one hundred 
 years. He was one of those heroes who fought 
 in the Continental army under Washington, at 
 the battles of Trenton and Monmouth, and at 
 Valley Forge. He was orderly-sergeant of the 
 great general, and after the war was granted a 
 pension, which he drew as long as he lived. He 
 was a shoemaker by trade and taught the bu.si- 
 ness to his son John, the father of the subject of 
 this article. John Forbes, Jr., was a native of 
 Vermont and married Lavina Lawrence, who 
 was born in Connecticut. He had removed to 
 Seneca County, N.Y., with his parents, and after 
 the birth of our subject the family went to Cayuga 
 County, N.Y., and lived in the town of Fleming. 
 
 A. J. Forbes was born November 10, 18 19, in 
 Fayette, N. Y., and grew to manhood in Cayuga 
 County. When he was about eleven years old 
 his father died and the lad went to live with a 
 neighbor, Henry Witbeck, a farmer. It was 
 stipulated that he should attend school three 
 months each year and to receive his board and 
 clothes, and when he was twenty-one he was to 
 be given two suits of clothes and $100 in money. 
 
 His part of the contract was that he should work 
 steadily at whatever the farmer desired him to 
 do. They were both upright and honorable and 
 each lived fully up to his agreement. After he 
 had reached his majority Mr. Forbes still made 
 Mr. Witbeck's house his home for a long time, 
 even' when he was working elsewhere. 
 
 In 1843 Mr. Forbes went to what is now East 
 St. Louis and was offered a school to teach, but 
 he declined the position on account of the malaria 
 prevalent there. He went to Galena, 111., and 
 taught school there, his recommendation from 
 Governor Seward, of New York, an old friend, 
 securing him the position. The schools of that 
 period were run on the subscription plan, and 
 the first one he taught in Galena was held in the 
 basement of the old Methodist Church. August 
 19, 1858, Mr. Forbes married Lydia Pyle, a 
 young lady of excellent education, a graduate of 
 Mount Carroll Seminary. Her parents were 
 John and Ann (Lodge) Pyle, natives of Pennsyl- 
 vania and Delaware respectively. Mrs. Forbes 
 was born in Chester County, Pa., and after her 
 marriage, she, as well as her husband, engaged 
 in teaching for several years. In the spring of 
 1 86 1 they rented the old Pyle homestead near 
 Mount Carroll, a place of two hundred acres. 
 They resided there for five years and then rented 
 farms in that vicinity for four years longer, teach- 
 ing school during the winter terms meantime. 
 
 In 1S70 Mr. Forbes became a member of the 
 Union colony, and though he did not come to 
 Greeley until March 20, 1871, he had a certifi- 
 cate of membership. He took a five- acre tract 
 in what was called the Delta, and a business and 
 residence lot in the town. That autumn he set- 
 tled upon his small farm and purchased another 
 five-acre place adjoining, then building an addi- 
 tion to the house which was alreadj- on the piece 
 of property last bought. Three years later he 
 and Robert Boyd went to the mountains to en- 
 gage in lumbering, but lost everything he pos- 
 sessed, as he was obliged to mortgage his land 
 and available assets in order to get the required 
 funds for his enterprise, and then the whole bus- 
 iness went by the board. He rented a farm from 
 Mr. Boyd for a year and then for two years rented 
 the place which he now owns. Though he was 
 fifty-five years old at the time of his business 
 failure and was in debt $1,000, he managed to 
 pay off" this amount and later purchased his pres- 
 
930 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ent farm from Dr. Emerson. The tract, a quar- 
 ter-section, was then unimproved, and he has de- 
 veloped it from a wilderness. He is a stockholder 
 in ditch No. 2. Politically he supports the Peo- 
 ple's party, and has represented his district in 
 state and county conventions, and in 1896 was a 
 delegate to the silver convention held in Denver. 
 Fraternally he was an Odd Fellow, but is not 
 active in the order now. In early life, also, he 
 was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 but is not now connected with any denomination. 
 The three living children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Forbes are: Elsie, wife of Charles Devine, who is 
 a farmer of the vicinity of Greeley; C. Edward, 
 a Montana farmer, whose wife was formerly Ra- 
 chel Clayton; and Jesse R. , who married Delia 
 Morrison, daughter of Homer Morrison. Jesse 
 R. resides on our subject's ranch and has charge 
 of the place. C. Edward joined Company H, First 
 Montana Infantry, and went to the Philippine 
 Islands in the Third Division of troops sent to 
 those distant shores in the recent war with Spain. 
 
 GJRCHIBALD A. CRAWFORD is one of the 
 Ll representative citizens of Weld County, his 
 I I home being on section 34, township 5, range 
 67 north. He came to Colorado a poor man and 
 by industry and economy, perseverance and well- 
 applied energy has become comfortably well-to- 
 do. He possesses the sterling uprightness, busi- 
 ness sagacity and enterprise characteristic of the 
 Scotch people from whom he is descended. Un- 
 assuming and not desirous of public office, he 
 has nevertheless been called upon at times to 
 hold positions of public trust, and has acquitted 
 himself creditably each term. He was justice of 
 the peace for some years and served as president 
 and secretary of school district No. 2 1 . For the 
 past ten years he has been a leader in the People's 
 party, and enjoys the friendship of many of the 
 prominent public men of the times. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Robert and 
 Jane (Deane) Crawford, natives of Scotland, in 
 which country they passed their entire married 
 life. The father died in 1845 and the mother in 
 1870. A. A. Crawford was born in the town of 
 Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1843, and thus 
 has no recollection of his father. When he was 
 four years old he came to the United States with 
 
 his mother and his boyhood was passed near Chi- 
 cago. After his public-school education was 
 completed he took a commercial course in Bryant 
 & Stratton's Bu.siness College. At eighteen he 
 began serving an apprenticeship to the black- 
 smith's trade with Philip Hicks, of Chicago. At 
 the end of two years he became an employe of 
 the Northwestern Manufacturing Companj^, as a 
 blacksmith and machinist, and two years later he 
 became connected with the mechanical depart- 
 ment of another firm in Chicago. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Crawford started westward, and 
 landed in Denver July 3, having come from St. 
 Joseph, Mo., across the plain with mule teams. 
 Two of his companions were O. P. Bassett and 
 Dick Van Allan. They camped near Denver, on 
 the site of the present railroad hospital. At the 
 end of a few days Mr. Crawford went to Black- 
 hawk, and thence to Bruce Johnson's ranch on 
 the Big Thompson River. He found emploj'- 
 ment with T. H.Johnson (the "cowboy states- 
 man"), among others, at cutting hay and grain. 
 In partnership with O. P. Bassett he threshed all 
 the grain raised on the Cache la Poudre and 
 Thompson Valley. He had brought with him 
 from the east the first threshing machine ever 
 used in this region and for two years he had all 
 he could do in this line during the season. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Crawford took up a pre-emption 
 on a quarter-section of land on the banks of the 
 Big Thompson, and the following year began 
 farming in earnest. Needing a ditch he exca- 
 vated one seven miles long with the shovel, it 
 novv being known as the Big Thompson and 
 Platte River ditch, and he also was active in the 
 construction of the Bee Line ditch, being its sec- 
 retary for some time. For over thirty years he 
 has devoted his time chiefly to agriculture and 
 stock-raising, though for two years he freighted 
 from Cheyenne and Sidney, Neb., to the Black 
 Hills. In 1880 he sold out his first ranch and 
 took up a homestead north of Thompson . Here 
 he has since dwelt, and has added eighty acres to 
 his original place, thus making it one of two hun- 
 dred acres. It is watered by the Loveland and 
 Greeley ditch, in which, as well as in the Thomp- 
 son and Platte River ditch, he owns stock, of the 
 latter serving as secretary for several years. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Crawford married Mrs. Anna 
 (Frazier) Tucker, widow of W. E. Tucker. She 
 is a daughter of Josephus and Susanna Frazier, 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 933 
 
 the latter still living on the old home place where 
 Mrs. Crawford was born, Point Isabel, Ohio. 
 The two children of Mrs. Crawford's first mar- 
 riage are Montrovel H. and Katie, Mrs. C. L,. 
 Flower, of Greeley, Colo. 
 
 30HN HAHN, county commissioner, and one 
 of the largest land owners of Larimer 
 County, was born in Germany in 1840, and 
 at the age of three years was brought to America 
 by his parents, Nicholas and Caroline Hahn, 
 who settled in Rock Island, 111. Very shortly 
 after they arrived in their new home his father 
 died, and afterward his mother became the wife 
 of Mr. Schuck, with whom she removed to the 
 Rock River bottom and settled upon a farm. 
 
 The education of our subject was begun in 
 public schools, but has been principally self-ac- 
 quired. At nineteen years of age, in i860, Mr. 
 Hahn was one of a party of about fifty persons, 
 who, on the 8th day of March, started from 
 Whiteside County, 111., in wagons drawn by 
 horses and mules for Denver, Colo. He drove 
 mules to his wagon, which was well provisioned. 
 Three companions rode with him, whom he 
 charged $50 each for board and conveyance dur- 
 ing the trip. They came by way of Davenport, 
 Iowa, Nebraska City and the South Platte River. 
 On arriving in Denver our subject had some- 
 thing in hand above his expenses. Accompanied 
 by William A. Bean, he struck out for Cal- 
 ifornia Gulch, prospecting for gold, but shortly 
 returned unsuccessful, and came to Larimer 
 County, where, in equal partnership, they en- 
 gaged in land purchase and stock-raising. After 
 a time they separated, but Mr. Bean is still a 
 resident of Larimer County. 
 
 For twenty-five years Mr. Hahn continued to 
 reside on his original farm, where he engaged in 
 stock-raising, being one of the largest stock deal- 
 ers in the entire territory. The ranch is still in 
 his possession, but has not been his home for 
 thirteen years. In 1885 he purchased a ranch 
 about one mile east of Lov eland, and there he 
 engaged in the stock business for thirteen 
 years. Through business judgment and energy 
 he has accumulated a large tract of land, 
 aggregating twelve hundred and forty acres. The 
 land is well irrigated and is suitable both for 
 stock-raising and general farm purposes. In 
 40 
 
 1897 he erected an elegant brick residence in 
 Loveland, at the corner of West and Third 
 streets. Justly considered the best house in 
 town, it is fitted out with all modern conven- 
 iences and richly and tastefully furnished under 
 the supervision of his wife and daughters. The 
 grounds occupy half a block, including garden, 
 stabling, etc. 
 
 During the early days of his residence in Colo- 
 rado, Mr. Hahn endured all the hardships inci- 
 dent to frontier life. He came to the territory 
 intending to dig for gold, and for a few months, 
 in the Leadville district, he did make an effort to 
 secure some of the longed-for ore, but he soon 
 saw that it was useless for him to waste time in a 
 futile effort. Accordingly he turned his atten- 
 tion to ranching. The land that he purchased 
 was utilized mostly in raising hay, of which he 
 cut about two hundred tons (all with a .scythe) 
 in a season. After the hay was cut he hauled it 
 to Central City and Blackhawk, a distance of 
 seventy-five miles, a team of oxen furnishing the 
 motive power. During those early days Indians 
 were numerous and oftentimes troublesome. In 
 1867 a report came that the savages were on the 
 war path and were coming toward the settlements 
 of the whites. At once the settleirs fortified 
 themselves and prepared for an attack, but the 
 Indians, after stealing as many horses as they 
 could find, withdrew to their remote mountain 
 fastnesses. 
 
 As an advocate of Republican principles, Mr. 
 Hahn has long been active in local politics. For a 
 number of years he served as chairman of the 
 delegation from Loveland, and presided over the 
 county conventions of the Republicans, promot- 
 ing, by his good judgment and enterprise, the 
 success of the old party. In 1897 ^^ was elected 
 a member of the board of county commissioners, 
 to serve for three years. For a number of years 
 he took an active part in educational work as a 
 member of the school board. On the organiza- 
 tion of the Bank of Loveland he became a char- 
 ter stockholder, and has since served as a director 
 of the institution. During the early days he was 
 a prominent member of the grange, in which he 
 held office as a trustee for many years. Frater- 
 nally he is identified with the Loveland lodge of 
 Masons. In 1876 he was united in marriage 
 with Miss Ellen A. Kempster, of Illinois, and 
 
 tUree children were born of their union. Mabel 
 
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 J., Jessie and Edisou K., who died at the age of 
 twelve years. Mrs. Hahn and her daughters 
 are connected with the Presbyterian Church, to 
 which, though not a member, Mr. Hahn has 
 been a regular and generous contributor. 
 
 (TOHN HENRY SARGISSON was born in 
 I Hogsthorpe, near Alford, lyincolnshire, Eng- 
 (2/ land, in the same house in which eight or 
 ten of his ancestors were born. He first saw the 
 light of day December 29, 1843, and was a son 
 of Henry, and a grandson of John Sargisson, 
 who fought in the English army in the war of 
 18 1 2, and against Napoleon. He was a hus- 
 bandman and died at the age of eighty-six or 
 seven. Henry Sargisson was also a farmer of 
 Alford, until his retirement, and is now in his 
 eighty-sixth year. He married Susan Starmer, 
 a daughter of John Starmer, of the same vicinity, 
 and of a prominent and aristocratic family, their 
 dead being buried in the chancel of the church. 
 The mother died when but little past fifty, leav- 
 ing six children, all of whom are living, namely: 
 John Henry, our subject; Charles, who lives in 
 New Zealand; Alfred, a merchant of Alford; 
 William, a farmer, and Mary, both at the old 
 home; and Annie, Mrs. Nicholson, of Wales. 
 
 Mr. Sargisson is among the successful cattle- 
 men of lyivermore, and located in this state in 
 187 1. His boyhood was spent in Hogsthorpe, 
 and his education was received at Grantham Aca- 
 demy, from which he graduated. He was ap- 
 prenticed to a dry-goods merchant in Boston, 
 Lincolnshire, for five years, and then went to 
 Manchester, the great manufacturing city, where 
 he secured a position as salesman in a large whole- 
 sale house that employed four or five thousand 
 men. After remaining there three or four years 
 he decided to come to America, which he did in 
 1869, coming to Chicago and clerking for the 
 large mercantile house of John B. Shay, where he 
 was buyer in the linen department. In the spring 
 of 187 1 he concluded to try his fortunes in the 
 west, and came to LaPorte, Colo. , and the follow- 
 ing year to the Livermore district, about four or 
 five miles southeast of his present ranch. Here 
 he became interested in the cattle business, which 
 he conducted until 188 1, when he took his stock 
 to Wyoming, where he left them, as he did not 
 like the country. He returned to this state, 
 
 locating on his present ranch. He homesteaded 
 one hundred and sixty acres, and added to it, 
 until he now has two hundred and forty acres. 
 He is still engaged in raising cattle, his farm be- 
 ing stocked with full graded Shorthorn, Polled 
 Angus and Herefords. His farm and everything 
 pertaining to it show the care and attention that 
 are bestowed on it, everything being in the best 
 possible shape. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Sargisson was in this 
 county, to Miss Martha Sloan, whose father, 
 William Sloan, moved here from Leavenworth, 
 Kan., in 1880. At her death she left one daugh- 
 ter, Minnie. In 1891 he was married to Mrs. 
 Mary Sigourney Ross Luckett, who was bom in 
 Owenton, Owen County, Ky. She is a lady of 
 education and refinement, and traces her ancestry 
 back to George Ross, a signer of the Declaration 
 of Independence. His son, William Coleman 
 Ross, her great-grandfather, was a large planter 
 in the state of Virginia, where he was born. Her 
 grandfather, Andrew Ross, was born at Fairfax, 
 Va., and moved to Kentucky, where he was 
 a planter and merchant. He was a nephew of 
 Governor DeShay, of Kentucky. He married 
 Sallie Craig, whose father. Rev. Joseph Craig, 
 was a minister of the Baptist Church, and came 
 to Kentucky from Culpeper, Va. Mrs. Sargis- 
 son's father, Hon. Thomas Craig Ross, who was 
 born in Warsaw, Gallatin County, Ky. , was a 
 graduate of Yale, and was a prominent business 
 man, being a miller, merchant, manufacturer and 
 planter. He was one of the organizers of the 
 town of Sparta, and was in the legislature for 
 three terms. He went to Canon City, Colo., and 
 engaged in mining four years, and then to Eldo- 
 rado Springs, Mo., where he died in 1885. Her 
 mother, Jane Briscoe, was born in Georgetown, 
 Scott County, Ky., and was a daughter of 
 Lindsey Briscoe, of Frederick City, Md. Lindsey 
 Briscoe fought in the war of 181 2, when sixteen 
 years old; his father, Ralph Briscoe, a Maryland 
 planter, and a soldier of the Revolutionary war, 
 was also in this war. Her grandfather moved to 
 Georgetown, Ky. , where he married Eliza 
 Duval, whose father, Mareen Duval, was a Baptist 
 minister, formerly of Virginia. Her great-great- 
 grandfather, Mareen Tramwell Duval, was a 
 French-Huguenot refugee, and one of the early 
 settlers in Frederick City, Md. The Briscoes are 
 of English descent. Her mother is at present in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 935 
 
 Wister, Indian Territory, having married again, 
 her husband, Mr. Thomasson, being postmaster 
 of that place. There were nine children in the 
 familj', four of whom are living. Alexander Camp- 
 bell, who was educated at Bethany College, under 
 Rev. Alexander Campbell, was lieutenant of the 
 Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, and was killed in 
 Hobson's raid at Mount Sterling, in June, 1864; 
 William Andre was a private in the same com- 
 pany with his brother, and now lives at Kenton, 
 Ohio, where he is superintendent of the gas and 
 electric light works; Thomas B. is a farmer of 
 Wallula, Wash.; Mattie, now Mrs. Duncan, lives 
 in Oklahoma; and Mary Sigourney is now Mrs. 
 Sargisson. Her childhood was spent in Ken- 
 tucky, and she was educated in the Daughters' 
 College at Harrodsburg, that state. She married 
 Capt. J. N. lyuckett, of New Castle, Ky., captain 
 of Company H, Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, in 
 the Federal army. Later he engaged in the hotel 
 business in Covington, Ky., and then went to 
 Fort Worth, Tex., later to Fort Smith, Ark., 
 and back to Kentucky, to Louisville. While in 
 Fort Smith he was engaged in farming and 
 handled race horses; he continued farming in 
 Kentucky, subsequently moved to Arkansas, and 
 he died in Huntington, Ark. After his death 
 Mrs. Luckett came to Colorado Springs, in 1891, 
 and there married Mr. Sargisson. She had one 
 child, Bessie Luckett, who graduated from the 
 Daughters' College, and is now married to 
 Lee Haskins, of Fort Scott, Kan. She has long 
 been a member of the Christian Church, and is 
 an honorary member of the Livermore Literary 
 Club. Mr. Sargisson is a member of the Masonic 
 lodge, and in politics both he and his wife are 
 stanch Democrats. In the campaign of i8g6 
 Mrs. Sargisson was strongly in favor of Palmer 
 and Buckner, the sound money Democrats, while 
 Mr. Sargisson voted for Bryan. 
 
 nOHN McNEY, of Livermore, Larimer Coun- 
 I ty, has lived a life of excitement and advent- 
 Q) ure that has been equalled b}' few men. For 
 many years he engaged in hauling freight for the 
 government to western posts, during which time 
 he took part in many encounters with the Indians, 
 and it was his privilege at one time to save a mother 
 and three children from becoming their victims. 
 He was born in Shefi6eld, Yorkshire, England, 
 
 and is the son of John and Isabelle (Muir) Mc- 
 Ney, and a grandson of David McNey, who died 
 in Scotland, where he had been engaged in agri- 
 culture. His father was born in Kirkcudbright- 
 shire, Scotland, but moved to Sheffield, England, 
 where he was a dry-goods merchant for a time, 
 but finally returned to his old home and took up 
 the occupation of a farmer and stockman, contin- 
 uing in this business iintil his death, which oc- 
 curred in his forty-seventh year. He married 
 Miss Isabelle Muir, who was born at the same 
 place, and whose father, James Muir, was a far- 
 mer. She died when sixty-five years old. Of 
 her thirteen children four are now in America. 
 Those living are: James, in New Zealand; Mary, 
 in Ontario, Canada; William, who lives in the 
 same place; Margaret, in New York City; Jessie 
 Dudley, in England; and John, our subject. 
 
 John McNey was educated in the national 
 schools of Scotland, and when about sixteen 
 years of age went to Wallsall, England, where 
 he was apprenticed in the dry-goods business for 
 two or three years. About 1856, during the 
 Crimean war, he came to America in a sailing 
 vessel, the "Benjamin Adams." He located in 
 South Carolina and accepted a clerkship, later re- 
 turned to New York and secured a position in the 
 upholstery department of the dry-goods store of 
 A. T. Stewart. Afterwards he clerked in James 
 Gray Company's lace house. During the war 
 he volunteered in the Seventy-ninth Regiment, 
 but they were disbanded, owing to some disagree- 
 ment. He went to Orange Countj^ N. Y. , and 
 then to New York City, where he occupied his 
 old place nearly all through the war. For some 
 time he worked in a grocery store in Galesburg, 111. , 
 and then went to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. In 
 1867 he joined a government train, engaging to 
 drive a six-mule team through to its.destination. 
 
 This was the time of Custer's first expedition, 
 and they had a fight with the Indians at Stormy 
 Hollow, on the Smoky Hill route, in which three 
 men were killed, and the seven leading wagons, 
 with twenty mules, were carried off by the red 
 men. It was here he was given the opportunity 
 to rescue the woman and her three children from 
 the blood-thirsty wretches. The Indians and 
 their captives, who were a soldier's wife and chil- 
 dren, were running near a gulch, and Mr. NcNey 
 undertook the task of rescuing them unaided. 
 He crawled down the gulch and shot, wounding 
 
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 one of the Indians, who returned his fire, without 
 hitting him, and then ran off, leaving their cap- 
 tives behind. On different occasions he buried 
 the dead after skirmishes. He continued to haul 
 goods from Ellsworth to Forts Hayes, Zerah and 
 Wallace. He was thus employed during the 
 summer and fall, and after the treaty with the 
 Indians hauled supplies to Medicine Lodge, Kan. 
 He then returned to Leavenworth and received 
 his discharge. In 1868 he drove an ox-train to 
 Colorado. Fifty wagons were ordered from Ells- 
 worth to Cheyenne, and there loaded for Fort 
 Bridger and Camp Douglass. This trip took all 
 summer, but no serious trouble with the Indians 
 occurred. The following year he left Fort Brid- 
 ger and hauled government supplies for Colonel 
 Bracket to Fort Ellis, at the head of the Missouri 
 River. The Indians were troublesome at this 
 place also. He then returned to Fort Bridger and 
 sold the outfit to a contractor near Salt Lake, 
 while he remained at the fort in charge of the 
 cattle. He finally sold out to the government 
 and returned to Leavenworth. In 1875 he crossed 
 the plains with cattle and teams, his wife driving 
 a team, intending to cross the "Divide" to Snake 
 River. When they reached Livermore Park they 
 were caught in the snow and had to turn their 
 cattle out and winter there. They then decided 
 to locate there, and he secured employment with 
 N. C. Alford for a couple of years. He then pre- 
 empted one hundred and sixty acres near the 
 postofiice, which he sold a year later, and settled 
 on his present farm, one hundred and sixty acres, 
 at the head of Livermore Park. He proved his 
 claim, improved and added to it, until he now has 
 two hundred and forty acres, fenced and in a good 
 state of cultivation. The fine springs on the 
 ground make it an especially desirable place, and 
 here he raises cattle and horses, making it a profit- 
 able business. 
 
 Mr. McNey married Miss Frances Stewart in 
 Leavenworth in 1875. She was born in Des 
 Moines, Iowa, and was a daughter of John W. 
 Stewart, of Indianapolis. Her grandfather, 
 Charles Stewart, was born in Kentucky, but 
 moved first to Indiana, and later to Des Moines, 
 Iowa, where he settled his four sons on a quarter- 
 section of land. One of these sons was her father, 
 who afterward moved to Leavenworth, Kan. 
 Her great-grandfather, Charles Stewart, was of 
 Scotch parentage, while on her mother's side she 
 
 was of Irish origin. Her mother, Mary Boyle, 
 was born in Indianapolis, where her grandfather 
 Boyle conducted a shoemaking shop. The mother 
 died in Leavenworth, leaving five children, four 
 of whom are living, as follows: Frances, now 
 Mrs. McNey; Josephine, Parrott and Elmer, all 
 of Leavenworth. Mr. and Mrs. McNey have 
 three children: Stewart, Walter and John, Jr. 
 Mr. McNey organized school district No. 28, and 
 was first treasurer of the board, while his wife 
 was secretary for ten years. He built the first 
 school house, and has given valuable aid to the 
 cause of education in this section. He also did 
 much toward making the roads, and was overseer 
 of the same for more than sixteen years. In pol- 
 itics he is a Republican. Both he and his estima- 
 ble wife have many friends. 
 
 3 AMES ANDREW, a pioneer of Colorado and 
 a highly esteemed citizen of Boulder County, 
 is a native of Cheshire, England, born No- 
 vember 20, 1831. From infancy he was an in- 
 mate of the home of his grandfather, William 
 Andrew, who was a prominent and prosperous 
 dairyman of Cheshire. There his boyhood years 
 were uneventfully passed, in the acquirement of 
 an education and in aiding his grandfather in the 
 dairy. When he had reached his twenty-fifth 
 year he decided to try his fortuhes in a foreign 
 land. Accordingly, in 1856 he embarked for 
 America, landing in New York, and proceeded 
 direct to Wisconsin, where he joined a cousin in 
 Grant County. For two years he worked as a 
 farm hand there. 
 
 During his residence in Grant County, Mr. 
 Andrew met and married Miss Margaret Wain. 
 After his marriage he began to work in the lead 
 mines near Lancaster, remaining at that place 
 until 1863, when he migrated to Colorado, 
 making the trip across the plains with a wagon 
 and team of horses and arriving after a journey 
 of six weeks at a point just south of the present 
 limits of Longmont (then known as Burlington). 
 It was on the 13th of June that he reached this 
 town, which then boasted of but one building, a log 
 hotel, that served also as a postoffice. The mail 
 arrived every Saturday by stage from Fort 
 Lupton. 
 
 On the land now included in the farm of W. H. 
 Dickeos, Mr. Andrew settled shortly after hisar' 
 
JOHN ALFRED MELBURN. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 939 
 
 rival in Boulder County. The one hundred and 
 sixty acres lay on the creek bottom, and was 
 valuable, fertile land. In the summer he worked 
 in the mines at Blackliawk, but soon returned to 
 his farm and began its improvement. In 1875 
 he sold his farm to W. H. Dickens and for four 
 years afterward operated rented land. In 1879 
 he bought his present place, two miles east of 
 Longmont. The place then consisted of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, but in 1892 he sold 
 eighty acres to the canning factory owners, who 
 planted the land to currants, making the largest 
 currant field in the world. 
 
 Six children were born to the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Andrew, but only two of these survive. 
 They are Luella and William. Those deceased 
 were: Sarah, Rebecca, Fannie and one that died 
 unnamed. Mrs. Andrew is a devoted member of 
 the Episcopal Church, to which Mr. Andrew, 
 though not a member, contributes generously 
 and which he attends regularly. Both he and 
 his wife exert a personal influence for good 
 among those with whom they associate. They 
 are charitable, ever ready to assist the poor and 
 needy. In disposition both are domestic, quiet 
 and unassuming, and have a host of warm per- 
 sonal friends. 
 
 (lOHN ALFRED MELBURN. No better 
 I example of the fruits to be derived from 
 C2J thrift and industry can be found in the his- 
 tory of Elbert County than in the life of the gen- 
 tleman named above, who is proprietor of the 
 Native hay and stock farm, which consists of one 
 thousand and eight hundred acres on section 20, 
 township 10 south, range 64 west, and one of 
 the most progressive and influential citizens of 
 the community. From a humble start in life, 
 when he did not possess a cent, he has gradually 
 ascended the ladder of life until he occupies his 
 present enviable standing among Elbert County's 
 leading and most prominent men. He is a son of 
 William H. and Mary (Pearson) Melburn, and 
 was born in Newburgh, Upper Canada, October 
 25, 1847. 
 
 William H. Melburn was born in England, 
 and was brought to this country by his parents 
 when a mere child, locating in Canada, where he 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits through 
 
 life. He closed his eyes in final sleep May 8, 
 1894. He married Mary Pearson, who was also 
 born in England, and emigrated to America with 
 her parents during childhood. She is now en- 
 joying life at an advanced age, residing with a 
 daughter in Napanee, Canada. 
 
 John Alfred Melburn's boyhood days were 
 spent in the same manner as most other farmer 
 boys, performing chores while not in attendance 
 at school. He obtained a fair schooling, and at 
 the age of eighteen years became apprenticed to 
 the trade of a blacksmith, at which he continued 
 for a period of four years; for the first year his 
 services brought $30 and board, the second $40 
 and board, the third $50 and board, and during 
 the remainder of the time he received the regu- 
 lar wages of a journeyman. Being ambitious by 
 nature, he desired to better his condition, and 
 realizing the advantages ofl'ered in the western 
 states, he started across the plains to San Fran- 
 cisco. Upon reaching Denver in midwinter, he 
 was without any means whatever, and all efibrts 
 to secure employment proved futile for a time, 
 but perseverance finally conquered, and he re- 
 ceived a position which paid $4 per day, through 
 the kindness of William Cliilds, who generously 
 took him to his home about six miles from Den- 
 ver for a month. He faithfully retained that po- 
 sition until his health became poor, when he 
 went to work upon a milk ranch and continued 
 for about two years. During that time he ac- 
 quired one hundred and sixty acres where his es- 
 tate now lies. Upon the expiration of that time 
 he returned to Canada for a visit, and upon go- 
 ing back to Colorado located on his homestead. 
 He was still in poor circumstances. Upon his 
 property he built a small log hut, a crude afiair, 
 in which he lived alone and did his own house- 
 work. However, Dame Fortune was kind and 
 smiled upon his every eSbrt. He added many 
 improvements to the place, erected a blacksmith 
 shop, and plied his trade with good results. He 
 also raised cattle, and by successful management 
 accumulated considerable wealth and added to 
 his estate, u^til he now owns nearly eighteen 
 hundred acres of valuable land, known as the 
 Native hay and stock farm, located four miles 
 south of the town of Elbert. He has a fine herd 
 of high-grade Shorthorns, which are the admira- 
 tion of all. The success which has attended our 
 subject's efforts is richly deserved, and by his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 honest and straightforward dealings he has won 
 the respect and esteem of a large circle of ac- 
 quaintances. 
 
 August 20, 1879, Mr. Melburn married Miss 
 Maggie Hughes, who was born in England 
 March 30, 1853. Her parents died when she was 
 quite young, and she came to America and lived 
 with her uncle and aunt, when the latter located 
 in Philadelphia, Pa. Owing to ill health, she 
 moved to Colorado at the age of sixteen years 
 with Mr. and Mrs. Newkirk, a wealthy family of 
 Philadelphia. Subsequently she met our sub- 
 ject, to whom she was married. They became 
 the parents of four children, namely: Anna May, 
 Charles Allen, Bessie Maude and Roy Henry. 
 Our subject was bereaved of his beloved wife's 
 companionship by death June 6, 1892, when she 
 was thirty-nine years of age. Politically Mr. 
 Melburn has always been a member of the Re- 
 publican party, but in local issues he is inde- 
 pendent, supporting the man best qualified for 
 ofiSce. 
 
 HONORfi LOUSTALET. No state in the 
 Union can boast of a more heroic band of 
 pioneers than Colorado. Their privations, 
 hardships and earnest labors have resulted in the 
 establishing of one of the foremost commonwealths 
 of America, the possibilities of which are far 
 greater than many of her sister states. Their 
 work is nearlj' completed, and every year sees 
 more new graves filled by those who helped to 
 build an empire, and soon, too soon, will the last 
 of those sturdy pioneers be laid away ; but their 
 memory will forever remain green among those 
 who have lived after them and appreciated their 
 efforts. Among those who have already been 
 called to the world beyond is Honore Eoustalet, 
 an honored and highly respected citizen of Kersey, 
 who died December 28, 1878. 
 
 He was born in Basses Pyrenees, France, in 
 1820, and was well educated, having made his 
 home with a priest in early life. -Before coming 
 to America he was principally engaged in teach- 
 ing, but also engaged in agricultural pursuits on 
 the farm of his father, who was a landed proprietor. 
 He was married in France in 1849, to Miss Marie 
 Canton, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Berger) 
 Canton. She was alone in the world, as her only 
 sister had died in childhood, her father when she 
 was three and her mother when she was about 
 
 thirteen years old. They left a nice little prop- 
 erty which she retained until after her husband's 
 death. 
 
 With a view to bettering his financial con- 
 dition, Mr. Loustalet came to the United States 
 in 1855, and for two years was engaged in clerical 
 work in New Orleans. He then went to Leaven- 
 worth, Kan., near which city he entered a tract 
 of land, and there established a milk route. He 
 soon afterward sent for his wife and they re- 
 mained in that state for four years. In 1862 they 
 concluded to go farther west and started across 
 the plains with an ox-team and a small herd of 
 cattle, stopping, in July, one mile north of Denver, 
 where they remained in camp for two or three 
 weeks. Near that city they made their home 
 for about a year, and there Mr. Loustalet also 
 engaged in the milk business. With his ox team 
 he brought a load of apples from Leavenworth to 
 Denver, being only eighteen days on the return 
 trip. The following fall he started for Montana, 
 but on account of inclement weather, as it was 
 late in the year, he camped during the winter of 
 1863-64 on the Thompson River at the foot of 
 the mountains. As the Indians grew trouble- 
 some in the spring he feared to remain there 
 longer, and went to Brighton, where he took up 
 land. While camping he engaged in hauling hay 
 from a hay ranch near by, owned by a French- 
 man, to Denver, a distance of fifty miles, leaving 
 his wife and two little children all alone. In the 
 spring he located on land which is now within 
 the corporate limits of Brighton, and there he en- 
 gaged in raising both cattle and horses, and also 
 conducted a dairy, remaining there for about ten 
 years. In 1870 he entered eighty acres of land 
 on the present site of Kersey, but his wife did 
 not come to this place until two years later. He 
 also bought one hundred and sixty acres of rail- 
 road land west of that place, and there made his 
 home until his death. In 1891 Mrs. Loustalet 
 removed to Greeley, but two years later returned 
 to Kersey, where she erected her present com- 
 fortable residence in 1896. 
 
 The family is one of the oldest in this section 
 of the state, and in his new home Mr. Loustalet 
 prospered, becoming an extensive stockman, 
 owning from five to six hundred head. During 
 the later years of his life he gave the cattle busi- 
 ness his entire attention, and so successful was he 
 that he was able to leave to his family one hun- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 941 
 
 dred and sixty acres of valuable land at Brighton 
 and two hundred and forty acres near Kersey. 
 In his political affiliations he was a Republican, 
 and he was a true and loyal citizen of his adopted 
 country. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. I^ustalet became the parents of 
 five children, two of whom were born in France. 
 Sophia M., the eldest, is now the wife of John 
 Smith, a retired stockman of Greeley ; Anna is the 
 wife of Asa Sterling, president of the First 
 National Bank of Greeley; Adaline is the wife of 
 Lathan Green, of Greeley; Frank occupies the 
 old homestead and is engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising; and Jerome is a stock- raiser and 
 farmer near Kersey. Mrs. Loustalet is a bright, 
 intelligent lady, who was well educated in 
 France, and has shown remarkable executive 
 ability in the management of her property and in 
 rearing and educating her children, all of whom 
 are now occupying honorable positions in life. 
 Both she and her husband belonged to highly re- 
 spected and well-to-do families in France, and in 
 their adopted country won the esteem and friend- 
 ship of all with whom they came in contact. 
 
 I GUIS NELSON, secretary of the board of 
 I C education in his home neighborhood, is an 
 |_3 industrious and progressive farmer of Boul- 
 der County. His homestead is situated about 
 five miles west of Longmont, and is a very desir- 
 able piece of property. He has devoted many 
 years to the improvement of the place and has 
 developed it from a tract of almost barren land to 
 its present condition of fertility and beauty. In 
 the Lutheran Church he takes an active part, and 
 in all matters affecting the welfare of the public 
 he may always be found aggressive and energetic. 
 Born in Sweden, January 20, 1845, Louis Nel- 
 son is a son of Nels and Pernilla (Johnson) Lar- 
 son, and, according to the custom of his country, 
 he takes his surname from his father's Christian 
 name instead of his last name. A history of his 
 father may be found in the sketch of the elder 
 brother of our subject, August Nelson. (See 
 his biography, which appears elsewhere in this 
 volume.) Louis Nelson was a pupil in the 
 schools of his fatherland until he was in his six- 
 teenth year, when he took the initial step toward 
 earning his own living, by hiring out as a farm 
 hand. Thus he was employed some four years, 
 
 at the end of which time he went to the city of 
 Halmstad and for two years was engaged in 
 teaming there. In March, 1867, following in his 
 elder brother's footsteps, he sailed from Gothen- 
 burg for Hull, England, thence went to Liver- 
 pool, and from there steamed away for America, 
 the land of promise. He first set foot on the soil 
 of the land thenceforth to be his own, April 10, 
 1867, in New York. From that metropolis he 
 went to Chicago and Batavia, 111. In the last- 
 mentioned town his brother was then employed 
 in the stone quarries, and our subject also found 
 work there. He remained at this point for nearly 
 four years, or until he received word from his 
 brother, who had gone on to Colorado, that he 
 had broken his leg, and would like to have him 
 come out and take care of him. 
 
 When our subject's brother had recovered the 
 former obtained a position in the Blackhawk 
 smelter and worked there for almost a year. 
 Becoming dissatisfied, he returned then to Illinois 
 and resumed his old work in the quarries. He 
 was so unfortunate as to place his spare funds, 
 which he was carefully saving, in a bank which 
 failed, and he lost all that he possessed. The 
 young man concluded to try his fortunes again in 
 Colorado, and once more became an employe of 
 the smelting company. In 1874 he came to 
 Boulder Valley and pre-empted eighty acres of 
 land, about five miles from Longmont. With 
 zeal and great ambition he started in to develop 
 and carry on his farm, but at first fortune seemed 
 against him, for the grasshoppers and drouth 
 spoiled his crops during two or three seasons, and 
 thus, being out of money and without resources, 
 he was forced to resume his old place in the Black- 
 hawk smelter. Four years more of steady work 
 in the mill, with his funds carefully laid aside, 
 enabled him to go back to his farm. He was the 
 more ready to do this, owing to the fact that the 
 smelter was removed to Denver about this time. 
 Soon after coming back to an agricultural life 
 Mr. Nelson traded his eighty-acre tract for 
 another of like dimensions. This land, his 
 present homestead, he added to later another 
 eighty-acre piece of property adjoining. In 
 addition to this he owns a one-third interest in a 
 farm of three hundred and twenty acres of un- 
 incumbered land, his partners being his brothers, 
 John and August. His many sincere friends 
 rejoice in the success which he now enjoys, as 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the result of his persistent, unwavering faith and 
 efforts. From his life many valuable lessons may 
 be learned by the young man who is anxious to 
 succeed, and his children can do no better than 
 to follow his worthy example. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Nelson married Miss Anna Benson, 
 who has been a faithful friend, adviser and com- 
 panion to him along the rugged pathway of life. 
 Joy and sorrow have come into their lives, and 
 they have lost a son and daughter, but six chil- 
 dren have been spared to them, and their home 
 has always been a happy, peaceful one, where 
 their friends love to come. In order of birth 
 their children are as follows: Nellie, Amanda 
 (deceased), Vendla, Emma, Herman (deceased), 
 Herbert, Albert and Carl. 
 
 3 AMES W. WIER, proprietor of Wier's ad- 
 dition to the city of Denver and a resident of 
 Colorado since June, i860, was born in New 
 Wilmington (then in), Mercer County, Pa., Jan- 
 uary 28, 1827. He represents the third genera- 
 tion in descent from a Scotchman, who left his 
 native land at the time of the religious persecu- 
 tion and settled in Washington County, Pa., 
 engaging in farming there and enlisting from 
 there to serve in the Revolution. 
 
 The father of our subject, George Washington 
 Weir (our. subject is the only member of the 
 family who spells his name Wier), was born in 
 Washington County, Pa. Thence he settled on 
 the Whitewater River in Indiana, to which lo- 
 cality his father, William, had removed in an 
 early day and engaged in "grubbing" land and 
 improving a farm. Later the family removed to 
 Trumbull County, Ohio. William was a soldier 
 in the war of 18 12, showing the same patriotic 
 spirit which his father had displayed during the 
 Revolution. 
 
 In Ohio and Pennsylvania George W. Weir 
 engaged as a millwright in the erection of mills. 
 He was foreman in the rebuilding of the locks 
 that had been burned in the Pittsburg fire. At 
 the opening of the war he and his son, George 
 W., enlisted in a Pennsylvania corps known as 
 the Roundhead Regiment, and he died in 1861, 
 while on a forced march to Washington. His 
 son continued in the army until the close of the 
 war and won much praise for his bravery in battle; 
 he now resides in Trumbull County, Ohio. The 
 
 mother of our subject was Margaret Thompson, 
 a native of what is now Lawrence County, Pa., 
 and the daughter of William M. Thompson, who 
 was born in Lancaster County, Pa., and engaged 
 in farming in Lawrence Count}^ until his death. 
 The Thompsons came from the north of Ireland 
 and were of the Scotch-Presbyterian faith. Mrs. 
 Weir died in Pennsylvania when sixty-four years 
 of age. Of her nine children, all but four at- 
 tained years of maturity. James W. is the eldest; 
 Hannah, who is married, resides in Pennsylvania; 
 Nancy and Elizabeth died in that state, where 
 now lives the youngest sister, Mrs. Margaret 
 Black. 
 
 When a boy our subject attended a subscription 
 school in New Wilmington, Pa. It was like all 
 primitive schools, held in a log building, with 
 slab benches and puncheon floors, and the instruc- 
 tion was almost as crude as the building. For 
 eight years he worked with his father learning 
 the carpenter's trade and following it in the em- 
 ploy of others. Then for fourteen years he was 
 successfully engaged in the livery business at 
 New Wilmington, and also, during part of the 
 time, had a livery stable in New Castle, carrying 
 on both enterprises and running hacks to Youngs- 
 town, Ohio. From 1857 to 1859 he was engaged 
 in taking horses to Illinois, and in i860 he, with 
 his wife and two (Jhildren, took passage at Leaven- 
 worth in a coach for Denver, where he arrived 
 June 28. At once he settled on his present 
 homestead, the family occupying a log house on 
 the banks of the Platte River. In the fall of the 
 same year he embarked in the dairy business on 
 Eleventh street, but afterward had his head- 
 quarters on his farm, which he proved up in 
 1864. He owned about one hundred milch cows 
 and engaged in dairying on .an extensive scale 
 until 1890, when he retired. 
 
 All but fifty- five acres of his place had previ- 
 ously been disposed of, and the remaining acres 
 he platted into an addition, that is within the city 
 limits. Here he owns and occupies a commodi- 
 ous residence. He gave the site for the sulphide 
 pulp mill and is interested in the Sulphide Pulp 
 Mill Company, that used in manufacturing the 
 white spruce timber from th^ Rocky Mountains. 
 During the early days he engaged in coal mining 
 in Boulder for two years and assisted his brother- 
 in-law in opening the first mine there. 
 
 Mr. Wier was the first man to make a call for 
 
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 an organization of the Democrats of Colorado, 
 this being about the time of the close of the war. 
 In response to his efforts members of the party 
 gathered in convention and established a party 
 organization, which has been continued since. 
 In those days, however, the party was in the 
 minority and while Mr. Wier was sometimes a 
 candidate, the effort to secure a Democratic vic- 
 tory was hopeless. Governor Gilpin appointed 
 him a member of the first board of commissioners 
 of Arapahoe County, at which time the members 
 had to give their individual notes as security for 
 the books and records of the county. 
 
 In West Greenville, Pa., December 25, 1857, 
 Mr. Wier married Miss Frances Middaugh, who 
 was born in Tioga County, a daughter of William 
 H. Middaugh. They have had five children, 
 but only two are living: Minnie, who was edu- 
 cated in Livingston Institute at Rochester, N.Y., 
 and is now married and resides in Denver; and 
 Lucy, Mrs. Hartman, of Toledo, Ohio, who was 
 educated in the Denver convent and university. 
 Mr. Wier is a member of the board of trustees of 
 the Colorado Pioneer Association. In New Castle 
 he joined the Odd Fellows forty- seven years ago, 
 and is a charter member of Arapahoe Lodge No. 
 24, member of the encampment, and chaplain of 
 the canton here. He is also identified with the 
 Muscovites and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. 
 
 6] SA HARRISON ALDRICH, deceased, made 
 T\ his home in Colorado from the fall of 1881 
 I I until his death, and owned a stock ranch in 
 Livermore Park, Larimer County. He was born 
 in Lewis County, N. Y., March 21, 1832, a 
 descendant of an old Green Mountain family, 
 and died at his home August 23, 1898. His fa- 
 ther, Valentine, was bom in Rutland County, 
 Vt. , a son of Jonathan, who removed from Ver- 
 mont to New York and settled in Lewis County, 
 where he carried on a stock business and general 
 farming. Valentine, who .was a carpenter by 
 trade, removed to Illinois in 1838, one year later 
 went to Walworth County, Wis., and after farm- 
 ing for a time he moved to the lumber woods, 
 where he ran a sawmill, a blacksmith shop and a 
 Store, at the junction of two rivers, fifteen miles 
 from Manitowoc. His death occurred there when 
 he was sixty-eight years of age. 
 
 The mother of our subject was Susan (Bedell) 
 
 Aldrich, a native of York state, and granddaugh- 
 ter of a Revolutionary soldier. Her father, Bar- 
 ney Bedell, who served in the war of 18 12, en- 
 gaged in farming in Schoharie County in his native 
 commonwealth, but from there removed to Wal- 
 worth County, Wis., later returning to York 
 state, where he died. Mrs. Aldrich died in Wis- 
 consin when eighty-one years of age. Both she 
 and her husband were faithful members of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the 
 parents of eight children, namely: Amasa, who 
 lived in Marquette County, Wis., and died in 
 September, 1898; A. H.,our subject; Harriett A., 
 who is married to James Vanderhoof and lives in 
 Winnebago County, Wis.; Henry A., who took 
 part in the Civil war with the Seventeenth Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, and is now living in Manitowoc; Mrs. 
 Ann Smith, of North Lake, Waukesha County, 
 Wis.; Mrs. Helen King, of Cooperstown, Mani- 
 towoc County, Wis.; Mrs. Emogene Ording, of 
 Brown County, Wis. ; and Mrs. Emerette Dem- 
 mer, whose home is in Denmark, Brown County, 
 Wis. 
 
 At the age of seven years our subject entered 
 the public schools of Walworth County, where he 
 afterward carried on his studies for some years. 
 At the age of twenty he left home and secured 
 employment in the construction of the Illinois 
 Central Railroad at Cairo, 111. , working for four 
 years on two hundred miles of track extending 
 north from Cairo, and during much of that time 
 he was employed as foreman. On account of 
 suffering from the ague, he thought it best to 
 return to Wisconsin. He embarked in the mer- 
 cantile business in Sauk County, and later was at 
 Westfield, Marquette County, for three years, 
 after which he located on a ranch in Faribault 
 County, Minn., but after one summer he returned 
 to Marquette County, Wis. At Montello, that 
 county, February 4, 1858, he married Miss Fran- 
 ces Tibbits, who was born in Manlius, N. Y. 
 She was a daughter of Thomas Tibbits, a native 
 of the Mohawk Valley, and a blacksmith at Man- 
 lius, whence he removed to Richville, Genesee 
 County, N. Y., and learned the milling trade. 
 Later he made his home at Clarence Center, Erie 
 County, N. Y. In 1853 he removed to Omro, 
 Winnebago County, Wis., but soon went from 
 there to Oshkosh, thence to Westfield, and is now 
 living at Packwaukee, Marquette County; he is 
 hale for one of his years, eighty-five. His father, 
 
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 Job Tibbits, was a farmer in the Mohawk Valley, 
 and a descendant of Holland-Dutch ancestors. 
 
 The mother of Mrs. Aldrich, Minerva Drace, 
 was born in Rutland County, Vt., daughter of 
 Elijah 1,. Drace, who was descended from French 
 and Holland-Dutch ancestry. Her father was born 
 in Vermont, removed thence to Camden, N. Y., 
 where he engaged in milling; later settled near 
 Waupaca, Wis., where he died at the age of 
 seventy-five. His step-father, Mr. Lewis, assisted 
 in constructing the first brass cannon cast in 
 the United States; he was a soldier of the Revolu- 
 tion, and died in Camden when one hundred and 
 eighteen years of age. Mrs. Minerva Tibbits 
 died in Packwaukeein 1881, at the age of sixty- 
 three years. Of her ten children the following 
 attained mature years: Mrs. Aldrich; Jason H., 
 who served in the First Wisconsin Heavy Artil- 
 lery during the Civil war and now lives in Adams 
 County, Wis.; Elmeda L., who is married to 
 Mark Tomlinson, and lives in Adams County, 
 Wis.; Mrs. Sophia White, also of Adams County; 
 Mrs. Carrie Thomas, of Packwaukee, Wis.; 
 Franklin, a miller in Barren County, Wis. ; and 
 William, of Livermore Park , Colo. Mrs. Aldrich 
 was fourteen when the family settled in Wiscon- 
 sin, where she resided from that time until 1881. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Aldrich settled in Green 
 Lake County, and improved a farm near Man- 
 chester. He also engaged in steamboating on 
 the Fox River for five years, building the ' 'Vero- 
 na" and "Yellow," but ill health forced him to 
 abandon that occupation. For four years he lived 
 in Brown County, then settled in Packwaukee, 
 and in 1878 settled on the North Fork of the So- 
 lomon, in Decatur County, Kan., where he home- 
 steaded a claim. The Indians were troublesome, 
 especially the Sioux and Cheyennes, and twice 
 he was forced to leave his claim in order to save 
 his life and that of his family. After two years 
 in Kansas and one year in Nebraska, he came to 
 Colorado, and with a partner he constructed three 
 miles of the Burlington Missouri River Railroad, 
 in the sand hills of eastern Colorado. He then 
 took up a ranch near Manhattan, where he em- 
 barked in the cattle business. The altitute did 
 not agree with his wife, and he therefore removed 
 to Livermore Park, where two years later he 
 bought the ranch he owned at his death. For 
 five years he carried on a hotel in Fort Collins. 
 He had two hundred acres in his farm, most of 
 
 which is under ditch, and on it he raised about 
 one hundred tons of alfalfa every year. He had 
 a large number of graded Shorthorns and a few 
 horses on his place, and was quite successful in 
 the stock business. Politically he was a Demo- 
 crat. He and his wife had four children: Mary 
 S., who is the wife of A. N. Aldrich, of Liver- 
 more Park; Lillie E., wife of William Batterson, 
 living on the Elkhorn, in this county; Minnie, 
 who died at sixteen months; and Millie, Mrs. 
 Keach, who died in 1893, at twenty-one years of 
 age. 
 
 cJEORGE S. redd came to Denver in 1893 
 
 a and opened an ofiice in the Equitable build- 
 ing, where he began in the practice of law. 
 He has since become a well-known attorney in the 
 city, where, with his ofiice in the Kittredge build- 
 ing, he carries on an important practice in all of 
 the courts. Active in public affairs, his life in 
 Kansas, where he resided previous to coming to 
 Denver, was of a nature calculated to develop his 
 interest in politics. He was closely connected 
 with the development of the western part of the 
 state, especially with its political history and 
 progress. Until the campaign of 1896 he always 
 supported Republican principles. At the sena- 
 torial convention held in Larned, Kan., in 1884, 
 he was a candidate for the ofiice of state senator 
 and the contest was so close that no nomination 
 was made for two days, when he withdrew in 
 favor of another gentleman. In 1887 he was rec- 
 ommended by the bar of his county for the 
 position of district judge and during the campaign 
 that followed he made stirring speeches in behalf 
 of the principles he supported. 
 
 Near Moundsville, W. Va. , George S. Redd 
 was born March 31, 1854, to Samuel B. and 
 Julia A. (Stidger) Redd. When he was a child 
 of three years his parents removed to Keosauqua, 
 Iowa, where he grew to manhood upon a farm, 
 meantime attending the public schools of the 
 town. At the age of seventeen he taught one 
 term of school, after which he entered the state 
 university at Iowa City, and until 1877 taught 
 and attended school alternately. He worked his 
 way up from teacher in a country school to 
 principal of the schools in Unionville, Mo. On 
 discontinuing his work as instructor he began 
 the study of law with Shelton & Stidger, of 
 Unionville, and in 1879 was admitted to the bar 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of Missouri, after which he began to practice at 
 Ness City, the county seat of Ness County, Kan. 
 While there the Republican party elected him 
 county attorney and this position he filled efficient- 
 ly for two years, being the first to occupy the office 
 in the newly organized county. For two years he 
 held the office of mayor of Ness City, being the 
 first to hold that position. He continued in 
 practice there until 1893 and made considerable 
 money, but was unfortunate in investing it in 
 Kansas property that depreciated in value in the 
 decay of the boom, so that he left the state almost 
 as poor as when he went there. However, since 
 coming to Denver he has retrieved his fortunes 
 and gained a position at the bar that will without 
 doubt bring him prominence and prosperity. 
 
 At West Bay City, Mich., October 12, 1885, 
 Mr. Redd married Miss May Chilson, of that 
 place, with whom he became acquainted during 
 a visit she made in Ness City. They are the 
 parents of four children, namely: Ada, Gertrude 
 and Samuel B., who were born in Ness City; and 
 Cornelia, who was born in Denver. The family 
 are identified with the Methodist Episcopal de- 
 nomination, holding membership in Asbury 
 Church, in which he is a trustee and Sunday- 
 school worker. While in Ness City he became 
 connected with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, in which he filled the various chairs. 
 He is also connected with lyodge No. 40, K. of P. , 
 in Denver. 
 
 (Joshua stone is one of the many residents 
 I within the bounds of Weld County who 
 O started out in life with naught but an abun- 
 dance of determination and indefatigable industry 
 and a strong and healthy constitution, and who 
 have succeeded through their own diligence, 
 energy and economy. He is now successfully 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock-raising 
 near L,a Salle, on section 20, township 5, range 
 64, where he owns one hundred and sixty acres. 
 Mr. Stone was born in Hasley, Oxfordshire, 
 England, July 14, 1848, and is a son of John and 
 Mary (Smith) Stone. As his parents were poor 
 he had to assi.st in the support of the family from 
 an early age and therefore had to obtain his edu- 
 cation in night schools. At the age of twenty- 
 three he came to America with the hope of bene- 
 fiting his financial condition and first located in 
 Vermilion County, 111., going there with an 
 
 acquaintance, Thomas Stevens, who was taking 
 some English draught horses to that section. 
 Here Mr. Stone found employment on a farm at 
 $20 per month and remained with one man for 
 three years. 
 
 September 25, 1873, Mr. Stone was married to 
 Miss Mary Hendricks, a native of Illinois, and a 
 daughter of John and Mary (Dyke) Hendricks, 
 farming people of Vermilion County, of that state. 
 Her father was a member of the Fourth Illinois 
 Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil war, but 
 being in poor health he was discharged on account 
 of disability before hostilities ceased. To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Stone were born seven children, but 
 only three are now living: Emma, Charles and 
 Gladys Helen. They also have an adopted son, 
 who has made his home with them since the age 
 of seven years, and who is now known as James 
 Stone. Their eldest son, John, was born January 
 29, 1876, and died January 4, 1897, ^ f'^w days 
 before attaining his majority; James W., born 
 June 9, 1882, died September 12, 1885; Albert J., 
 born December 31, 1884, died October 8, 1889; 
 and Mary E. , born April 14, 1888, died March 
 
 25> 1895- 
 
 After his marriage, Mr. Stone rented land and 
 engaged in farming on his own account in Ver- 
 milion County, 111., for three years. After two 
 years spent on rented land in Champaign County, 
 the same state, he returned to Vermilion County, 
 where he operated one farm for eight years. In 
 1887 he concluded to come to Colorado, and loca- 
 ted in the "rain belt" of eastern Colorado, near 
 Holyoke, in Phillips County, where he took up 
 three quarter sections of land, one under pre- 
 emption, another under the tree claim, and the 
 third under the homestead act, and then bought 
 the other quarter, so that he had the entire sec- 
 tion. But the climate being unfavorable and 
 drought prevailing, he was compelled to leave 
 that locality after having spent $4,000 of his hard 
 earned savings. In the fall of 1 890 he came to 
 Weld County, his property consisting of $5 in 
 money, a fine herd of horses and three cows. 
 He spent the first winter on the Glaziers horse 
 ranch southeast of Evans, and there worked for 
 wages in order to secure another start in life. In 
 the spring he removed to the farm owned by 
 Nathan B. Carr and after renting it for two years 
 he purchased the place, which comprises a quar- 
 ter section of land mostly under cultivation and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 well watered by the English ditch, of which he is 
 a stockholder. In connection with general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising he gives considerable atten- 
 tion to the dairy business and for this purpose 
 keeps on hand twenty-five cows. For the suc- 
 cess that he has achieved he certainly deserves 
 great credit, and his course through life has been 
 such as to win for him the confidence and respect 
 of all who know him. Religiously both Mr. and 
 Mrs. Stone are earnest and faithful members of 
 the Methodist Church of Evans, and Mrs. Stone 
 has served as one of the trustees of the church 
 which meets in the Big Bend school house. 
 
 ©COTT W. BULIyARD is the owner and pro- 
 2\ prietor of the Oasis livery stables in Greeley, 
 V2' Weld County. This business he established 
 here some seven years ago, and from the first has 
 been very successful in the enterprise. By his 
 uniform courtesy and square-dealing he has won 
 the esteem of the public and his fellow-citizens, 
 and commands a good share of their patronage. 
 He has twenty-five or more first-class carriages 
 and vehicles, besides a fine hearse. His horses 
 are all good animals, some used to the saddle. 
 
 The birth of S. W. Bullard occurred on a farm 
 near Bennington, N. H., November 21, 1846. 
 He is one of nine children, six of whom were 
 boys, and with the exception of himself, all of 
 the number have made their homes in New 
 Hampshire. The parents were Benjamin and 
 Rosanna (Wilkins) Bullard, both natives of New 
 Hampshire and well-to-do farmers of that state. 
 
 When he was about twelve years of age Scott 
 W. Bullard left home to earn his own livelihood. 
 For the following four years he worked on farms, 
 attending school during the winter terms. Then 
 he went to the town of Lowell, Mass., where he 
 learned the barber's trade. He stayed in Lowell 
 about two years, at the end of which time he 
 established a businessofhis own in Keene, N. H., 
 and for twelve years carried it on with good 
 success. 
 
 June 15, 1870, Mr. Bullard married Miss 
 Fannie M. Crossfield, daughter of Kendall G. 
 and Rebecca (Martin) Crossfield, citizens of 
 Keene. The father was a carpenter and con- 
 tractor and was active in the public affairs of his 
 community. The only child born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Bullard died at their home in Keene. In 
 
 1880 Mr. Bullard removed to Eldon, Wapello 
 County, Iowa, where he carried on a hotel for two 
 years. He next went to Denver and embarked 
 in business as a barber. Coming to Greeley in 
 1883 he opened a shop which he conducted for 
 six years, then becoming manager of the Oasis 
 Hotel, a position he retained eighteen months. 
 He then went into the livery business under the 
 firm name of Miner & Bullard. They carried on 
 this business until he came to his present location 
 in 1891. 
 
 While a resident of Keene, Mr. Bullard served 
 for three years in the state militia, belonging to 
 the Second New Hampshire Regiment. Since 
 coming to Colorado he was for three years con- 
 nected with the Second Regiment of this state. 
 Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, being identified 
 with Poudre Valley Lodge No. 13, of Greeley. 
 He has always given considerable attention to 
 politics, and in 1896 was a candidate for the 
 office of sheriff on the Democratic ticket. Mrs. 
 Bullard is a highly educated lady and was the 
 organizer of the successful and exclusive literary 
 club of Greeley known as the Progress Club. 
 The seven original members met at Mrs. Bullard' s 
 residence in January, 1894, and planned a course 
 of study for improvement and self-culture. The 
 membership of the club was then and there 
 restricted to twenty persons. Their work has 
 been very beneficial and has included a very 
 comprehensive review of the history of the de- 
 velopment of the human race, as seen in the 
 annals of the ancient nations and the successive 
 governments which have passed along the stage of 
 life. The club has studied modern authors, book 
 reviews and current topics, and keeps well posted 
 on the great events of day which are having in- 
 fluence upon the progress of civilization and 
 history. 
 
 (lOHN R. GILLIES. Canada has furnished 
 I to the United States many bright, enterpris- 
 Qj ing young men who have left the Dominion 
 to enter the business circles of this country with 
 its more progressive methods, livelier competi- 
 tion and advancement more quickly secured. 
 Among this number is Mr. Gillies, head miller 
 of the Eaton Milling and Elevator Company, at 
 Eaton, Weld County. He is a native of Hunt- 
 ington, Province of Quebec, Canada, born August 
 14, 1857, aiid is of Scotch lineage. His grand- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 father, John Gillies, was born in Scotland and on 
 crossing the Atlantic settled in Canada, where he 
 engaged in farming. In his family were two 
 sons: John, the father of our subject; and James, 
 who was engaged in mining in Australia for 
 twenty-three years, but returned to Canada, and 
 there died. The older John Gillies was born in 
 Canada, and for a few years followed farming, 
 but the greater part of his life has been devoted 
 to the manufacture of farm machinery and to 
 mercantile pursuits in Huntington, Huntington 
 County, Canada. He is a strong adherent to 
 the principles of temperance, and is an active 
 and prominent member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, in which he has .served as deacon the 
 greater part of his life, superintendent of the 
 Sabbath school many years, and leader of the 
 singing. He has also been a member of the town 
 board. He married Jane Morrison, who was 
 born in Glasgow, Scotland, but removed to 
 Canada when about ten years of age. To them 
 were born nine children, two sons and seven 
 daughters, as follows: Jeannette, wife of W. F. 
 Willis, living north of Eaton, Colo.; Mary, wife 
 of A. S. Lincoln, living a half-mile west of 
 Eaton; John R., of this sketch; Andrew, a farmer 
 living three and a-half miles from Eaton; Mar- 
 garet, wife of C. W. Clapp, living in Eaton; 
 Jane, wife of F. B. Shattuck, living three miles 
 east of Eaton; Agnes, postmistress at Eaton; 
 Eva Wallace, at home; and Grace, assistant post- 
 mistress at Eaton. 
 
 John R. Gillies completed his education at the 
 academy in Huntington, Canada, and when 
 young learned the trade of a miller at Fort Cov- 
 ington, N. Y., to which place his father had re- 
 moved when he was sixteen years of age. Leav- 
 ing there four years later he came direct to Gree- 
 ley, Colo. , where he worked on the Larimer and 
 Weld canal the first winter, then on a hay ranch, 
 running a hay baler. For two years he was em- 
 ployed on a stock ranch in Wyoming for what is 
 now the Bay State Live Stock-Company, and when 
 the mill was started at Eaton he became identified 
 with it, at first running the elevator, but as the 
 business did not agree with his health he again 
 went to the country, and for the following two 
 years conducted a ranch. In 1892, however, he 
 returned to the Eaton Milling and Elevator Com- 
 pany, and has since been with them, his thorough 
 knowledge of the business making him well 
 
 qualified for the responsible position he holds, 
 having entire charge of the operation of the mill, 
 which turns out two hundred barrels of flour per 
 day. Except when closed for repairs the mill 
 keeps running steadily and the product is sold 
 throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyo- 
 ming and Arkansas, but the main part is dis- 
 posed of in Denver. 
 
 Mr. Gillies was married June 3, 1885, to Miss 
 Belle Parkhurst, of Ohio. He erected one of the 
 first houses in town, has witnessed its entire de- 
 velopment, and as a public-spirited and enterpris- 
 ing citizen he has taken an interest in all matters 
 that will aid in its advancement or promote the 
 general welfare. In his political affiliations he is 
 an ardent Republican, and he has most accept- 
 ably served his fellow-citizens as town clerk and 
 a member of the board of trustees. He is a 
 prominent member of Eaton Lodge No. 130, 
 Woodmen of the World, of which he is clerk. 
 
 EAPT. CYRENEUS D. NEFFowns and oper- 
 ates a valuable farm on sections 15 and 16, 
 township 6, range 66, Weld County. The 
 neat and thrifty appearance of his land indicates 
 his careful supervision. Substantial improve- 
 ments are surrounded by well-tilled fields, and 
 all of the accessories and conveniences of a model 
 farm are there found . In connection with general 
 farming he is also engaged in stock-raising. 
 
 The captain was born in the Province of Onta- 
 rio, Canada, in 1840, and is a son of Samuel F. 
 Nefi", a native of the same place, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until 1852, when he removed to 
 Iowa, spending eight years there. His next 
 home was near Buffalo, N. Y., where he engaged 
 in farming and fruit-growing, making a specialty 
 of horticulture, in which he met with excellent 
 success. He is the author of a work on the sub- 
 ject, which became quite popular, and was a man 
 well known in his county. He died at the ripe 
 old age of seventy-nine years. In early life he 
 married Miss Maria Miller, and to them were 
 born four children: Cyreneus D., Oziel H., Lou- 
 isa M. and Edward N. The mother, who was 
 prominent in church work, died at the age of 
 seventy-two years, at the old home near Bufialo. 
 The subject of this sketch was twelve years old 
 when he accompanied his parents on their removal 
 to Iowa, where he grew to manhood, bis educa- 
 
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 tion being obtained in the public schools of that 
 state and Valparaiso, Ind. On leaving school at 
 the age of twenty he began learning the harness- 
 maker's trade at Waverly, Iowa. At the open- 
 ing of the Rebellion in 1861 he was at Waterloo, 
 Iowa, and there enlisted for three months in a 
 cavalr}' company, which drilled for some time, but 
 finally the head ofBcers refused to go to the front. 
 
 He then went to Dubuque, Iowa, where he 
 opened a recruiting office and formed a company, 
 which was mustered into the United States serv- 
 ice as Company G, Ninth Iowa Volunteer In- 
 fantry, and was assigned to the Army of the 
 Tennessee, under General Curtis. He entered 
 the service as corporal, but for meritorious con- 
 duct on field of battle he was gradually pro- 
 moted until commissioned captain of his old 
 company. He remained at the front for nearly 
 four years, was in thirty-three battles under Gen- 
 erals Grant and Sherman, and was in thirty en- 
 gagements in which the company did not partici- 
 pate, he volunteering to go. He was a brave and 
 daring soldier, but fortunately escaped uninjured. 
 
 When the war was over Captain Neff went to 
 New York state, where his parents were then 
 living, and associated with his brother in market 
 gardening for two years. In 1868 he went to the 
 oil regions of Pennsylvania, and after two years 
 spent in the oil business he opened a harness shop 
 at Pit Hole City and a branch shop at a neigh- 
 boring town, carrying on operations there for two 
 years. On selling out his business he went to 
 Parker City, Pa., where he engaged in the same 
 line of trade for a similar period. He disposed 
 of his stock there in 1873 and came to Greeley, 
 Colo. Attheendofthirty days, August 15, 1873, 
 he bought a part of his present farm, a quarter- 
 section in the Cache la Poudre Valley, to which 
 he has since added two hundred acres, making a 
 fine farm of three hundred and sixty acres. He 
 is a stockholder in the Big Ditch No. 2, and is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 having two hundred and fifty head of cattle upon 
 his place. For five years he rented his farm and 
 engaged in mercantile business in Greelej^ hav- 
 ing a seed and feed store, and after selling out 
 spent one year in California, but since 1896 has 
 lived upon his ranch and devoted his attention to 
 agricultural pursuits. 
 
 In 1864 Captain Neff married Miss Agnes E. 
 English, a daughter of Joseph English, a native 
 
 of Ireland, who was then residing in Iowa. To 
 them have been born six children: Charles, who 
 is on the home farm; Frances B.; Nellie M. and 
 Bessie, both teachers; Grace N. and Edward C. 
 Feeling the need of a better education in his own 
 life. Captain Neff" has provided his children with 
 good school privileges, and has taken an active 
 part in educational work, assisting in organizing 
 school district No. 27, and serving as a member 
 of the board of trustees. In politics he is a silver 
 Republican. While a resident of Pennsylvania 
 he affiliated with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. He has met with a well-deserved 
 success in life and is now the possessor of a com- 
 fortable competence and pleasant home, erected 
 in 1888. His son Charles first married Maud 
 Near, who died in 1895, leaving one child, Will- 
 iam. For his second wife he married Mary Jack- 
 son, of Wisconsin. The family is widely and 
 favorabl3- known and has a host of friends in 
 Weld County. 
 
 (lOHN W. HELBIG, who is a well-known at- 
 I torney of Denver and a leader of the silver 
 G/ cause in this state, was born in Lynchburg, 
 Va., March 23, 1866, being the son of John and 
 Emilie (Bonitz) Helbig. He received his pri- 
 mary and grammar-school education in his native 
 city, and when about twenty years of age, hav- 
 ing determined to enter the profession of law, he 
 became a student in the University of Virginia, 
 where he carried on studies in his chosen line, 
 graduating in 1888. Soon afterward he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. 
 
 In the spring of 1889 Mr. Helbig came to Den- 
 ver and opened a law office, since which time he 
 has given his attention to the management of a 
 giadually increasing practice. Since coming to 
 this state he has made a study of the currency 
 question, realizing what a powerful factor it is in 
 national prosperity. The result of his thought- 
 ful investigation of the subject was that he be- 
 came convinced of the fact that the demonetiza- 
 tion of the white metal worked incalculable injury 
 to the nation, an injury that should be repaired 
 by the restoration of bimetallism and the raising 
 of silver to its proper standard. 
 
 The work done by Mr. Helbig in the interests 
 of the silver cause, caused its friends to place him 
 in nomination for the legislature in 1896 and he 
 
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 was elected by a fair majority. He at once 
 entered upon his duties as a legislator. He was 
 appointed chairman of the Indian and military 
 committee and the Denver charter committee, 
 besides serving as a member of other committees. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Washington 
 I,odge No. 32, K. of P., and Manuhta Tribe No. 
 10, Improved Order of Red Men. 
 
 On Christmas day of 1890, in Wilmington, 
 N. C, occurred the marriage of Mr. Helbig to 
 Miss Carrie Earl Hanby, daughter of John H. 
 Hanby, of that city. They have two children, 
 John and Douglas, both of whom were born in 
 Denver. 
 
 iA ORSE H. COFFIN, one of the most promi- 
 y nent agriculturists of Weld County and 
 y one of the early pioneers, resides three 
 miles east of Longmont. A member of an an- 
 cient English family, he descends from the 
 Coffeen (as the name was then spelled) family 
 that came from the Netherlands with William 
 the Conqueror in the eleventh century. The 
 head of the family was knighted by tlje king and 
 was given a grant of land in Alwington County, 
 near Land's End, which was then named Coffeen 
 County. At the present time the eldest member 
 of the family sits in the house of lords. Tristram 
 Coffeen came to America in 1 642 and settled near 
 Haverhill, Mass., where he became very influen- 
 tial in local affairs, serving as sheriff and in 
 numerous other positions of trust. Letters writ- 
 ten by him are on exhibition in the state house 
 of New York. 
 
 One of the sons of Tristram settled on Nan- 
 tucket Island, where numerous descendants still 
 reside. Another son went up the Hudson River 
 and settled near Albany, founding the branch of 
 which our subject is a member. Edward Coffin 
 (supposed to be our subject's great-grandfather 
 or his brother) was a member of the colonial 
 army during the Revolution, and one of his 
 powder horns is a prized souvenir, now in the 
 possession of our subject. Isaac Coffin, our sub- 
 ject's grandfather, was born at Fishkill, N. Y., 
 in 1773, and was a farmer and hotel keeper 
 throughout his active life; he died February 9, 
 1839. 
 
 Jacob Coffin, father of our subject, was born 
 in Bethlehem, Albany County, N. Y., in 1800, 
 and in youth learned the trade of a blacksmith, 
 
 which he followed in connection with farming. 
 In 1845, however, he moved west to Illinois and 
 settled near Belvidere, Boone County, where he 
 afterward devoted his entire attention to agri- 
 culture. He was a faithful member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years 
 held the office of class leader, also served as super- 
 intendent of the Sunday-.school. His death oc- 
 curred at DeKalb, DeKalb County, in 1876, and 
 he was buried in Boone County. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, a son of Jacob and 
 Mary A. (Hull) Coffin, was born in Roxbury, 
 Delaware County, N. Y., September 20, 1836. 
 In 1845 he removed with his parents to Boone 
 County, 111., where his father was a pioneer agri- 
 culturist. There during the summer months our 
 subject assisted his father on the farm, while in 
 the winter he attended the district school, acquir- 
 ing a limited education. At the age of twenty- 
 one he began for himself as a farmer, being 
 given entire charge of his father's farm. In 
 1859, with two friends, he started across the 
 plains, with three teams of oxen and a wagon, 
 also with $40 in money and a shotgun, which 
 articles, together with his clothes, constituted his 
 entire worldly possessions. Leaving Illinois May 
 5, they arrived in Boulder July 18. On their 
 westward journey they met many emigrants re- 
 turning and all gave a very gloomy picture of 
 Colorado. All these reports had their effect on 
 the men. By the time they had reached the 
 Missouri River, their decision had been made to 
 outfit and continue their journey to Oregon or 
 California. However, on their arrival at Fort 
 Laramie, two days after Horace Greeley had 
 made his famous trip to the state, they heard his 
 version of the country, and it decided them in 
 their course. They stopped in Colorado, where 
 Mr. Coffin secured work with Low, Goss & Pell. 
 He whip-sawed lumber until he had paid an 
 obligation to R. S. Low, a member of the firm. 
 Afterward he continued in the same work during 
 the fall and winter, whip-sawing lumber for the 
 first frame house built (by H. C. Norton) in 
 Boulder County. 
 
 Coming to Weld County in the spring of i860, 
 Mr. Coffin took up one hundred and sixty acres 
 on the St. Vrain, three miles east of Longmont, 
 where he settled and began the improvement of a 
 farm. By subsequent purchase he became the 
 owner of three hundred and sixty acres, constitut- 
 
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 ing his present farm. During the late war he 
 enlisted in Company D, Third Colorado Volunteer 
 Cavalry, and is now a member of McPherson Post 
 No. 6, G. A. R., of which he is commander. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Coffin united him with 
 Miss Julia A. M. Dunbar, a native of Otsego 
 County, N. Y. She is a daughter of Andrew B. 
 Dunbar, who was born in Massachusetts and 
 from there, in middle life, removed to New York, 
 where he was engaged in business as a merchant, 
 butcher and farmer. Five children were born to 
 the union of Mr. and Mrs. Coffin, and of these 
 four are now living. Geneva, the eldest of the 
 family, is a graduate of the State University at 
 Boulder and has been successful as a teacher in 
 the high school of Deadwood, S. Dak., and Glen- 
 wood Springs, Colo. Merton D. has been en- 
 gaged in the fruit-growing business in De Soto 
 County, Fla. Adelbert B. assists his brother in 
 the management of his father's farm. Morse H. 
 Jr., is deceased. Julia Etta is attending the 
 Longmont high school, preparatory to a course 
 in the State University. 
 
 n ACOB HETZEIv, who is the owner of one of 
 I the best improved farms in Boulder County, 
 (2/ was born in Stillwater, Sussex County, N. J., 
 October 5, 1833, a son of George and Sarah L. 
 (Ribble) Hetzel. He was one of eight children, 
 of whom six besides himself are still living. 
 They are: Mary, Daniel, Fannie, Elizabeth, 
 Ann and Addie. His father, a native of New 
 Jersey, born in 1812, learned the trade of a clock- 
 maker when a youth and this occupation he 
 followed in his home neighborhood until 1840. 
 Removing during that year across the line into 
 Pennsylvania, he carried on various business en- 
 terprises. He was born with genius as a me- 
 chanic and developed that talent so that he was 
 an adept in the construction of mechanical 
 devises. He ran a blacksmith shop and carried 
 on an axe factory, also was interested in other 
 enterprises. 
 
 About 1878 Mr. Hetzel migrated to Colorado 
 and settled in Longmont, where, his health being 
 poor, he lived in retirement from active business 
 cares. At that place he resided until his death, in 
 1897. He was of German parentage, his father 
 having come from Germany ;while his wife's father 
 was a native of Holland. The subject of this 
 
 sketch grew to manhood in the east and acquired 
 in the common schools a limited education. lu 
 1855 he left the parental roof and began life for 
 himself. Going to Rockford, 111., he entered a 
 jeweler's shop and worked for some three years, 
 learning the trade. Thence he went to Macoupin 
 County, 111., where he bought land and also for 
 five years engaged in business, being proprietor 
 of one of the best hardware and machine .stores in 
 southern Illinois. On disposing of his business 
 interests, he gave his attention to the management 
 of his land. In 1871 he sold out and moved to 
 Colorado, arriving in Denver March 20, and 
 coming from there direct to Longmont. 
 
 After having engaged in farming in the 
 vicinity of Longmont for two years, Mr. Hetzel 
 removed to the neighborhood of his present 
 location, five miles north of the town. He be- 
 gan to work with a will and a determination to 
 succeed. In 1882 he bought two hundred and 
 forty acres of land where he now lives. The tract 
 was unimproved, and had neither a building nor 
 a stick of timber, there being but little improve- 
 ment between this point and Greeley. Every- 
 thing was in its primeval condition, the wide- 
 stretching plain extending unbroken as far as 
 the eye could discern. Having no money, he 
 obligated himself for the entire amount of the 
 purchase price. At 'a later date he added one 
 hundred and sixty acres. In 1887 he was in 
 debt to the amount of $10,000, for which he paid 
 nine per cent interest. To-day there is not a 
 dollar of indebtedness standing against him, and 
 his farm of four hundred acres is one of the best 
 improved estates in Boulder County. This speaks 
 volumes for his business sagacity and force of 
 will. 
 
 In Pennsylvania, in 1857, Mr. Hetzel married 
 Miss Susan Van Gilder. Eight children were 
 born of their union, three of whom are now 
 living: Edward, the eldest child and only son, 
 is a farmer of Weld County; Emma is the widow 
 of John Elliott, of Boulder; and Etta is at home. 
 September 9, 1889, Mr. Hetzel married Miss 
 Angle Salisbury, a native of New York state, and 
 the daughter of Peter and Emily (Cooper) Salis- 
 bury. Her grandmother Salisbury was in maid- 
 enhood Nancy Van Buren, and was an own 
 cousin of President Van Buren. The grandfather, 
 Chrisjohn Cooper, was a member of the Coopers 
 of Cooperstown, to which family belonged the 
 
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 955 
 
 illustrious writer, J. Fenimore Cooper. In re- 
 ligious belief Mr. Hetzel is a Baptist, while his 
 wife is identified with the Episcopal Church. 
 
 QETER THEOBALD, a pioneer of Colorado, 
 LX one who suffered all of the severe trials and 
 K> privations that fell to the lot of the brave 
 men of the early '60s, is now living in the en- 
 joyment of the fruits of his long years of toil and 
 hardship. He owns a beautiful home, surrounded 
 by lovely grounds, in a pleasant situation in 
 Idaho Springs. He was one of the founders and 
 on the first survey of this town, and for eight or 
 ten years was numbered among the early trustees 
 of the place. One of the organizers of the Bank 
 of Idaho Springs, he was a director in the same 
 from the start until he saw fit to sell out. 
 
 Mr. Theobald is a native of Germany, born 
 April 8, 1830, in the town of Haschbach, Bavaria. 
 His father, Jacob, was born in the same town 
 and there passed his entire life, dying at the ripe 
 age of eighty-six years. He was a farmer, and a 
 weaver and dealer in hemp as well, running two 
 looms. The mother, whose maiden name was 
 Maria Kpoll, was born in Zweibryggen, Bavaria, 
 and lived to be ninety-three years old. Of their 
 seven children, four are in America — two in Penn- 
 sylvania and one, Daniel, in Colorado, besides 
 our subject 
 
 Peter Theobald, after leaving the public schools 
 at the age of fourteen, learned his father's trade 
 and became a good weav^er. He participated in 
 the Revolution of 1848, joining the so-called rebel 
 forces at two different times. In the spring of 
 1852 he sailed from Havre, France, in the three- 
 masted ship " Ontario," and after a forty days' 
 voyage landed in New York City. His brother 
 Charles was then a resident of the Empire state 
 and his uncle, Peter Theobald, also lived in the 
 States. At first our subject hired out to a farmer 
 at $3 a month, but soon found a place in a tan- 
 nery in Parksville, N. Y., there receiving $8 per 
 month and board. Six weeks later he was given 
 $10 and within the year $133 month by the same 
 employer. At length he drifted to Cherry Ridge, 
 Pa. , a place about seven miles from Honesdale, 
 where the tannery of Roberts & Gale, then one 
 of the largest in the United States, was situated. 
 Here he received $14 and then $15 per month 
 and board. 
 
 41 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Theobald went to Iowa, where he 
 worked at various kinds of employment, in saw- 
 mills, foundries, etc. The Pike's Peak excite- 
 ment of 1859 carried him with the tide, and in 
 company with a Mr. Scott (who died at Fort 
 Kearney), Mr. Clark and Mr. Stanton, heinvested 
 in a sawmill and started for Golden City. The 
 trip took from May 15 to July 4, and after 
 assisting in the erection of the mill, charging 
 nothing for his work, Mr. Theobald was offered 
 $1 a day, and continued at this rate until the fol- 
 lowing April, erecting two houses in Golden in 
 the meantime. Refusing then $2.50 a day, he 
 went to Central City, bought a placer mine and 
 began business on his own account. He did not 
 meet with very brilliant success for some time, 
 but he persisted and May 15, i86o, came to Idaho 
 Springs. Here he bought three placer mines, 
 near the mouth of Chicago Creek, paying for 
 them on instalments. During the next three 
 years he and his fellow-workers made as high as 
 $70 a piece per day. Before he had seen any 
 such returns, he had purcha.sed an interest in a 
 general store with Mr. Kenyon and P. P. Shafter 
 and he retained his share in the enterprise up to 
 1872, when he sold out. In the meantime Mr. 
 Kenyon retired from the firm and a Mr. Jones 
 came in, and he, in turn, was bought out. For 
 years our subject was the sole proprietor. He 
 built the first two-story frame house in Idaho 
 Springs, and had his store in it. He now owns 
 about a dozen houses here, property in Freeland 
 and other places, and is very well-to-do. Years 
 ago he bought eight hundred acres of land on 
 Bear Creek road, at Soda Creek, and putting up 
 a sawmill, manufactured lumber for four years. 
 Later he carried on farming to some extent and 
 his brother now manages the place. He not only 
 improved the ranch, but developed from the 
 rough boulder land the fine resident property 
 where his home now stands. He is the owner of 
 the Peter Theobald mine and the Peter mine in 
 Jackson district, bath being now operated on 
 lease. He also owns other mines, the Fortune 
 and the General Custer among them. Both of 
 these he discovered and developed, and formerly 
 he owned the Shafter, which he sold. 
 
 Though he has been the architect of his own 
 fortunes, and has won success by the hardest 
 effort, Mr. Theobald is always ready to lend a 
 helping hand to others and is generous with his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 means. He has given two school-building sites 
 in different parts of his ranch and is in favor of 
 good schools for the rising generation. Politi- 
 cally he is independent, but is a strong silver 
 man. Formerly he was affiliated with the Demo- 
 cratic party. He belongs to Idaho Springs L,odge 
 No. 26, A. F. & A. M., of Idaho Springs. He 
 was married in this place to Miss Jane F. Leibing, 
 who was born in Germany and came to this state 
 with her parents. She died at her pleasant home 
 here March 19, 1895. 
 
 r"RED W. PARKS. As a member of the 
 |3 legal fraternity of Denver and a rising young 
 I lawyer of the city, Mr. Parks has already 
 established a reputation among the people and 
 has won recognition from his seniors in the prac- 
 tice. He takes an active part in public affairs 
 and in politics, keeping posted concerning topics 
 of national and international importance, as well 
 as regarding matters that have to do with the 
 welfare of city and state. In boyhood he became 
 an enthusiastic Republican and he continued to 
 vote the straight party ticket from the time he 
 attained his majority until the campaign of 1896, 
 when he championed bimetallism. He is now 
 secretary of the silver Republican county central 
 committee. In 1897 he was tendered the position 
 of deputy district attorney, but declined, as he 
 did not wish to relinquish civil practice. 
 
 In Geneseo, Livingston County, N. Y. , Mr. 
 Parks was born September i, 1871, the son of 
 James R. and Isabella (Oliver) Parks. He is a 
 descendant of Scotch ancestors, who, how- 
 ever, did not come direct to this country from 
 Scotland, but resided for a time in Ireland. His 
 father was born in New York and there mar- 
 ried Miss Oliver, who was born near Wheeling, 
 W. Va., but lived in New York from early child- 
 hood. Of their seven children only two are 
 now living, Fred W. and Edward G., the latter 
 a merchant in the westerq part of New York. 
 The father and grandfather were also merchants, 
 the former following that occupation until his 
 death, which occurred in New York when he was 
 fifty-seven years of age. 
 
 From the age of six until the age of sixteen 
 Mr. Parks attended the New York State Normal 
 School at Geneseo. He was threatened with lung 
 trouble and was advised to try Colorado climate. 
 
 Being acquainted with a gentleman at Canon 
 City, Fremont County, he went there, but a few 
 months later came to Denver. While in the 
 former place he was employed as deputy to the 
 county clerk, J. H. Peabody. On arriving in 
 Denver he secured employment with an insur- 
 ance company and during the two years he re- 
 mained in that position he devoted his spare mo- 
 ments to the study of law. In 189 1 he started an 
 insurance agency, which he conducted success- 
 fully until 1893 and then sold the business to 
 Thompson & Benedict. For two years he was 
 a student in the University of Denver, after 
 which he took the law course at the State Uni- 
 versity in Boulder, graduating in 1895. For a 
 j'ear he was in the law oflSce of R. D. Thompson, 
 after which he and Mr. Lindsey established the 
 firm of Lindsey & Parks. The firm have become 
 well known as reliable practitioners and have 
 built up a valuable clientage. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Parks is a member of Oriental 
 Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. M., of which he was 
 made Worshipful Master in December, 1897. He 
 is also identified with Denver Chapter No. 2, 
 R. A. M., Colorado Commandery No. i, K. T., 
 and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S., ot which he has 
 been recorder for some years. 
 
 (TOHN J. RICE, of Boulder County, is a typi- 
 I cal Colorado pioneer. His life has been a 
 QD very interesting one, filled as it has been with 
 all kinds of adventures while on the plains, 
 mountains and valleys of the great west. He 
 has engaged in all the varied occupations of 
 the frontiersman — mining, haying, farming and 
 freighting — and, in the course of his business 
 during the early days, crossed the plains no less 
 than twenty-four times. He has suffered from 
 the need of food, from cold and privation, and has 
 had numerous narrow escapes from Indians and 
 wild beasts. 
 
 From the heart of New England civiliza- 
 tion our subject sprang, as he is a native of Wor- 
 cester County, Mass., born November 18, 1837. 
 His parents, Comfort and Lucinda Rice, are 
 mentioned at some length in the sketch of our 
 subject's brother, Rufus Rice, elsewhere in this 
 volume. In 1855 J. J. Rice left home and for 
 two years worked as a farm hand in Bureau 
 County, 111. Thence he went to Kansas and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 957 
 
 Missouri. After passing eighteen months in 
 Caldwell County, Mo. , he and a partner started 
 for Pike's Peak with a team of mules and camp- 
 ing outfit. They arrived in Breckenridge in June, 
 i860, and prospected until the following spring, 
 when, as their provisions were growing short, 
 the partner started back for new supplies. On 
 the way he was captured by the Confederates and 
 nothing was ever learned of his fate or of the dis- 
 position of the teams and wagons. Our subject 
 entered the employ of a man in French Gulch 
 that summer and worked steadily for several 
 months, and as he was not in need of spending 
 his wages, he left it in the hands of his employer. 
 That worthy went to Denver, ostensibly to pur- 
 chase provisions, but when he had been gone six 
 weeks and the scanty supplies he had left had be- 
 come exhausted, Mr. Rice shouldered his blank- 
 ets and set out for Denver. Arriving in that 
 city, he found, upon inquirj' at the Old Cherokee 
 hotel, in which his employer had had an interest, 
 that the gentleman in question had sold his 
 share in the hostelry and had returned to the 
 east. 
 
 On his journey from the mines to Denver Mr. 
 Rice had an unusual experience. He had reached 
 a point between Colorado City and Park City, 
 near the foot of Pike's Peak, and, upon coming 
 around some rocks, found himself in the midst of 
 a camp of Arapahoe Indians. With rare pres- 
 ence of mind he went bravely forward to the tent 
 of the chief, and, throwing down his weapons, 
 told the red man that he was lost and hungry. 
 The chief gave him food, and, learning where he 
 wished to go, cautioned him to beware of some 
 Ute Indians who were encamped below them in 
 the canon, and, putting him upon a horse, es- 
 corted him beyond the danger line. From Den- 
 ver Mr. Rice weut to Boulder Valley to visit his 
 brother, but after a few weeks he again took the 
 trail to Blackhawk and Central City, and mined 
 until the autumn, when he returned and helped 
 his relative in putting up hay. When the brother 
 enlisted in the Union army our subject remained 
 on his ranch and attended to affairs there. The 
 life became intolerably monotonous to him after 
 two winters and a summer, and in the spring of 
 1864 he returned to the mines, and continued 
 his labors there for a year or more. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Rice went to Denver and con- 
 tracted to drive ox-trains across the plains for tWo 
 
 years. He was to receive $75 a month, and, 
 as he was assistant wagon-master and night- 
 herder he was paid $150 a month for this 
 duty. Later he and two others, boys of the 
 train, bought the whole outfit, and, not having 
 ready money, Wells, Fargo & Co. took their 
 note for the amount, $16,500. From that 
 time until the Union Pacific was put through 
 to Ogden, Mr. Rice carried freight for the ex- 
 press company to different forts and other points. 
 Next he transported a quantity of goods to Boise 
 City for a Jew merchant, and then sold his train. 
 
 A desire to see the old friends and scenes of his 
 youth now took possession of Mr. Rice and he 
 spent the winter of 1870 in the east. Returning 
 in the spring he engaged in the cattle business and 
 took up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 in the bottoms, two miles east of Burlington (as 
 Longmont was then called) . Building a hut, he 
 persistently toiled at farming and raising cattle 
 for many years, becoming well-to-do and thor- 
 oughly respected in this portion of the county. 
 He has never given much attention to politics, 
 but votes the People's party ticket. 
 
 On Christmas eve, 1871, Mr. Rice married 
 Miss Georgiana Simons, a native of Kingsville, 
 Ontario, Canada. To them were born a daughter 
 and two sons, namely: Georgiana, wife of H. C. 
 Rundle, a farmer of Boulder County; Harry L. 
 and William J. The sons are both at home and 
 are now managing the ranch. When his chil- 
 dren were grown and the boys were capable of 
 running the homestead, the old love for mining 
 took possession of Mr. Rice, and in June, 1896, 
 he started for his old mountain haunts. Since 
 that time he has spent his time in prospecting 
 and to-day has some of the most promising prop- 
 erty in Gilpin County. Some of his samples of 
 ore assay as high as $100 to the ton. 
 
 yyi RS. M. JENNIE PERRIN, widow of John 
 Y C. Perrin, is one of the esteemed early 
 (3 settlers of the vicinity of Longmont, Boul- 
 der County! Nearly thirty years ago she and her 
 respected husband took up their abode here, and 
 during the long years which have intervened 
 their name has always been associated with good 
 citizenship, uprightness of life and a just regard 
 for others. Beginning their western life under 
 every different circumstances and conditions than 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 those which charactized their career in the east, 
 they made the best of everything, bravely over- 
 came the difficulties they encountered and in time 
 became prosperous and independently well-to-do. 
 Mrs. Perrin was a true, womanly helpmate, shar- 
 ing her husband's trials and discouragements, and 
 by her bright, cheery ways instilling fresh hope 
 and energy into his life. 
 
 Mrs. Perrin is a daughter of John G. and 
 Mary A, (Hendershot) Peg, and has five sur- 
 viving brothers and sisters, named as follows: San- 
 ford, Henry C, Alice, Emma and Ida. The two 
 last- mentioned are half-sisters, children of the 
 mother's second marriage, with William Peg, a 
 brother of John G. Peg. The father of our sub- 
 ject was a native of Pennsylvania, and when he 
 had reached mature years he settled down on the 
 old family homestead, in Columbia County, 
 which he managed until his death. As already 
 mentioned his widow later became the wife of his 
 brother,, and subsequent to the early demise of 
 the latter she wedded Thomas McGargel. Her 
 father, Michael Hendershot, was a respected 
 Pennsylvania farmer, of which state he was a 
 native; he married Mary Cornelison, whose rela- 
 tives were from New Jersey. 
 
 The lady whose name heads this sketch was 
 born in Columbia County, Pa., and there grew to 
 womanhood. On Christmas day, 1865, she be- 
 came the wife of J. C. Perrin, a worthy young 
 man. He was a native of Danville, Pa., born 
 August 12, 1838. In that locality he passed his 
 boyhood and youth, learning the trade of painter 
 and paper-hanger, and in these pursuits he was 
 occupied until he came to this state, in 1870. It 
 was in the spring of that year that he found him- 
 self in the neighborhood of Longmont, and, being 
 pleased with the country, he took up a home- 
 stead of one hundred and sixty acres two and a- 
 half miles northeast of the city. That autumn 
 he returned to Pennsylvania and brought his 
 family to their new home. As the years rolled 
 away he made frequent improvements and finally 
 added to his original tract another piece of land 
 adjoining, thus making his homestead one of two 
 hundred acres. In all his dealings with his fel- 
 low-men he was noted for the strictest honesty, 
 fairness and justice. While he was not a member 
 of any denomination he attended the Presbyterian 
 Church and was interested in religious enterprises. 
 Death put an end to his busy and useful life. 
 
 April 12, 1888. His father, John Perrin, was 
 born in Gloucestershire, England, and came from 
 a wealthy family. He followed a sea-faring life 
 for many years in his early manhood, and ulti- 
 mately settled in Pennsylvania, where he passed 
 the remainder of his days. 
 
 The marriage of John C. and M. Jennie Perrin 
 was blessed with four children, of whom Laura B. 
 is a widow of Frederick Huyck; Jessie P. is the 
 wife of John E. Rothrock, a merchant and mining 
 operator of Lake City, Colo.; John H. is also a 
 resident of Lake City, and interested in mining; 
 and James G. is deceased. 
 
 GILBERT F. PETERS resides upon a ranch 
 Ll in Weld County, eight miles northeast of 
 I I Longmont. He is of German parentage. 
 His father, Adam Peters, was born in Germany 
 in 1830 and at the age of fifteen years accom- 
 panied his mother to America, his father having 
 died prior to their emigration. His first employ- 
 ment in this country was as assistant in a furni- 
 ture store in New York, where he remained for 
 some months. The family then removed to 
 Sharon, Wis. , and there grew to manhood and 
 married Margaret Everhart. Settling upon a 
 farm, he engaged in agricultural pursuits there 
 throughout his entire active life, but recently re- 
 tired from business cares, and is now enjoying 
 the fruits of his labors in years past. He and his 
 wife are the parents of six children, all living, 
 namely: Charlotte, wife of John Ramsey, of Long- 
 mont; Sarah, wife of Rev. John Dietrich, of 
 Fond duLac, Wis. ; John, Edward and Clara, 
 Mrs. Rufus Piper, all of whom live in Sharon, 
 Wis.; and A. F., of this sketch. 
 
 In Sharon, Walworth County Wis., our sub- 
 ject was born February 8, 1870. He graduated 
 from the high school of his native town at twenty 
 years of age, and shortly after that he began life 
 for himself. Leaving the parental roof, he came 
 to Colorado, joining his sister in Longmont. 
 There for two years he worked in the employ of 
 neighboring farmers. In 1892 he assumed the 
 management of a ranch of two hundred and forty 
 acres belonging to his sister, and this place he 
 has since successfully superintended. In June, 
 1898, he purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 adjoining his sister's property, making four hun- 
 dred acres under his direct management. 
 
MILTON MATTHEWS. 
 
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 The marriage of Mr. Peters took place in the 
 fall of 1892 and united him with Miss Eva Bishop, 
 who was born in Missouri and accompanied her 
 father, John Bishop, to Colorado in 1880, settling 
 upon a farm in Weld County. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Peters are the parents of two children, namely: 
 Leona, who was born January i, 1894; and Carl, 
 born January 21, 1896. In religious connec- 
 tions Mr. Peters is identified with the Lutheran 
 denomination, while his wife is a member of the 
 United Brethren Church. 
 
 yyilLTON MATTHEWS is one of the pro- 
 y gressive farmers of Boulder County, his 
 (3 fine ranch of four hundred acres lying in 
 one body, being situated about eight miles south- 
 east of Longmont. He has devoted his entire 
 time and attention to the cultivation of this place 
 since it came into his possession, and has made a 
 specialty of raising fine blooded cattle and horses. 
 At present he undoubtedly owns as fine a herd 
 of Hereford cattle as are to be found in northern 
 Colorado, and he also has been successful in rais- 
 ing large numbers of fine Hambletonian and 
 Percheron-Norman horses. In January, 1898, 
 he attended the National Stock Growers' Con- 
 vention held in Denver, as a delegate from Boul- 
 der County. 
 
 The parents of our subject were John and Bar- 
 bara (Symmonds) Matthews, the father a native 
 of North Carolina and the mother of Indiana, 
 her birthplace being within seven miles of Indian- 
 apolis. They both traced their ancestry to Eng- 
 lish sources. Grandfather George Matthews re- 
 moved from the south with his family at an early 
 day, settling first in Ohio, later in Morgan Coun- 
 ty, Ind. He was about the first white man to 
 drive a wagon across White Lick Creek, and the 
 Indians were very numerous throughout the 
 country when he located in Indiana. He lived 
 to the good old age of eighty-four years. Grand- 
 father John Symmonds was a native of New Eng- 
 land, and was a tall, muscular figure, every inch 
 a man of excellent physical proportions. He 
 was a soldier in the war of 18 12, and died in 
 Hancock County, 111., when he was in his eighty- 
 fifth year. John Matthews was an agriculturist 
 by occupation, and in his early manhood he 
 owned a farm now a portion of the city of Indian- 
 apolis. After selling that place he removed to 
 Adams County, 111. , and engaged in the manage- 
 
 ment of a farm located some sixteen miles north 
 of Quincy. Subsequently he lived in Hancock 
 County, and in 1871 he came to Colorado. 
 When on a visit to his old home in Morgan 
 County some years later he was struck by a loco- 
 motive and killed, then being in his eighty-fifth 
 year. His wife died at the age of fifty-three 
 years. Eight of their children lived to mature 
 years. Peter, John and Newton were all in the 
 Union army during the Civil war, the first in a 
 Missouri regiment, the second in an Indiana reg- 
 iment, and the last-mentioned in an Illinois regi- 
 ment. Peter died in Weld County, Colo., and 
 his widow is a resident of Boulder. John died in 
 Missouri; Newton lives in Boulder; George, the 
 next younger, is a contractor in Blackhawk, 
 Colo. ; Eliza resides in Carthage, 111. ; Margaret 
 lives in Canfield, Colo.; and Sarah A. is de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Milton Matthews was born on a farm about 
 one mile west of the statehouse in Indianapolis, 
 Ind., February 6, 1837. He was reared upon 
 farms in Adams and Hancock Counties, 111., and 
 attended district school. When he arrived at his 
 majority he embarked in farming on his own ac- 
 count, and in 1865 he started for Colorado, driv- 
 ing a team for John McWirt. The journey was 
 one of three months' duration. From Julesburg 
 to Blackhawk he accompanied John Warner's 
 train. In November, 1865, he took a place as 
 wagon-master of Hocker's train, and traveled 
 through Colorado until 1866, when he com- 
 menced freighting, and followed that calling sev- 
 eral months. He then engaged in the grocery 
 business at Ralston Crossing, Jefferson County, 
 and in 1868 located at Stage Crossing, on the 
 lower Boulder, in this county, and conducted a 
 store there up to 187 1. After his marriage he 
 took up his abode on his present farm on the 
 lower Boulder, near Erie. He first owned a 
 quarter section of land, which he proceeded to 
 improve with irrigating ditches, etc., and later 
 he added two hundred and forty acres to the orig- 
 inal tract. In 1883 he built a comfortable house 
 in Longmont, and during the school year his 
 family lived therein, in order to give his children 
 educational advantages. He assisted in organiz- 
 ing school district No. 5 of this county, and 
 served as a member of the board for many years. 
 He is a strong silver man and an adherent of the 
 People's party politically. 
 
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 On New Year's day, 1871, Mr. Matthews mar- 
 ried Mrs. Martha Brush, who was born in Wa- 
 pello County, Iowa. Her father, Enoch Way, 
 came to Colorado in 1864, and was a pioneer of 
 Boulder County. The first marriage of Mrs. 
 Matthews was with William Brush, who was 
 killed by the Indians while he and a companion 
 were engaged in harvesting a crop of hay on the 
 Platte River in Colorado, in August, 1868. One 
 child was born to this union, a daughter, Minnie 
 B., wife of Alva J. Mayne, of Evans, Weld 
 County. The two children of our subject apd 
 wife are: Carrie, Mrs. Levritt D. Scofield, of this 
 county; and Nellie, Mrs. Thomas F. Johnston, 
 of Ivongmont, a graduate of the city schools 
 there. 
 
 (TAMES S. NEWELL, one of the substantial 
 I citizens of Weld County, is a pioneer of this 
 (2/ section of the state. Forty years ago he saw 
 it for the first time, but it was wild and barren, 
 and bore small resemblance to the now fertile, 
 well-cultivated country which it is to-day. Dur- 
 ing these twoscore years he has been very 
 prominently associated with the development of 
 this county, and has always considered his per- 
 sonal interests as secondary to the general wel- 
 fare. He was elected to the office of justice of 
 the peace in the '60s and served for two years, 
 and for twenty years was a member of the school 
 board. School district No. 4 was organized while 
 he was in office, and numerous important meas- 
 ures affecting education were carried through, 
 largely by his influence. Then for eight years 
 he was one of the board of trustees of Cache la 
 Poudre Irrigating Company, Ditch No. 2, and 
 was one of the original members of the com- 
 pany which constructed Cache la Poudre reser- 
 voir in 1892. In the same year he was elected 
 county commissioner, and upon the expiration 
 of his term was re-elected. Both terms he acted 
 as president of the board. Ever since casting 
 his first vote for Fremont he has been loyal in 
 his support of the Republican party. He is a 
 Mason, belonging to Windsor Lodge No. 69, 
 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 Some, perhaps, of the keen business ability pos- 
 sessed by Mr. Newell is inherited from his pa- 
 ternal grandfather, who was a native of Ireland. 
 Our subject's father, Matthew Newell, was born 
 in Pennsylvania, and was married in that state to 
 
 Miss Anna Anderson, born in the same section 
 of country. James S., of this sketch, was born in 
 Franklin County September 4, 1833, and was but 
 a year old when his parents removed to Richland 
 County, Ohio. They settled upon a farm there, 
 and remained in that vicinity as long as they 
 lived. Their eldest son, William W., came to 
 Colorado with James S. in 1858, and engaged in 
 mining and farming until his death, in 1869, in 
 Weld County. Sarah, the eldest daughter, was 
 the wife of B. F. Roberts, of Huron County, 
 Ohio. Anna B. married Dr. L. Nichols, of Rich- 
 land County, Wis. Elizabeth became the wife of 
 Leonard Rathbon, a miller, and came to Colo- 
 rado in 1883. They Hved in Boulder County 
 until death claimed them both. Dr. Oliver A. 
 formerly practiced medicine in Ohio, but of late 
 years has operated a farm in this county. M. T. , 
 deceased, was a merchant of Carthage, Mo. 
 Agnes M. married Lewis Stone, of Crook County, 
 Wyo. There he was engaged in raising cattle. 
 
 J. S. Newell received a good education for a 
 country lad, as he attended a select school and 
 later completed his studies in a commercial col- 
 lege. Going to Dubuque, Iowa, he obtained a 
 position in a wholesale grocery house, and re- 
 mained there two years. He then took charge of 
 a school in Louisa County, Iowa, and continued 
 as a teacher for two -years. When the Pike's 
 Peak excitement was at its height, in 1859, he set 
 out for the west with a caravan going from Louisa 
 County. Upon his arrival here he homesteaded a 
 tract of land on the Poudre River (the farm now 
 owned by B. H. Eaton) and commenced the rais- 
 ing of cattle and grain. In 1872 he sold this 
 place and removed to his present farm, where he 
 had pre-empted eighty acres. Later he bought, 
 another eighty- acre tract, thus making his farm 
 one of one hundred and sixty acres. It is located 
 on section 22, township 6, range 67 west, two 
 miles east of Windsor. Mr. Newell has raised a 
 general line of crops and has been particularly 
 successful in dairying and stock-raising, and has 
 also engaged extensively in fruit-growing. 
 
 In March, 1871, the marriage of Mr. Newell 
 and Catherine Fulton, of Louisa County, Iowa, 
 was solemnized. Mrs. Newell was a daughter of 
 George and Elizabeth (Fulton) Fulton. She 
 died February 6, 1891. The two children of this 
 marriage were: Edwin E. , who died at the age of 
 nineteen years, and Leila, wife of L. F. Kimball, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of the Greeley postal service. In November, 1897, 
 Mr. Newell married Mrs. F. A. Fulton, widow of 
 Joseph H. Fulton, who was a brother of the first 
 Mrs. Newell. 
 
 (I AMES H. RUSSELL is one of the most 
 I prominent farmers and stock-raisers in Weld 
 (2/ County, where he owns a farm nine miles 
 northeast of Eaton, on township 7, range 65. 
 He is a native of New York, born in Earlville, 
 Madison County, April 4, 1853, and is the oldest 
 of five children comprising the family of Mar- 
 tin L. and Sarah (Torrey) Russell, who lived 
 upon a farm in that county. Four of the family 
 are living, one sister having died in childhood. 
 Helen is the wife of William Tate, formerly con- 
 nected with the car shops of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railway, of Denver; Herbert A. is en- 
 gaged in farming in Weld County, near Greeley; 
 and Bertrand is a carpenter at Waukegan, Mich. 
 In 1865 the family removed to Oregon, Ogle 
 County, 111., and two years later settled in St. 
 Charles, Kane County, where the father engaged 
 in farming. He is now retired and resides in 
 Braidwood, Will County. Our subject was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of St. Charles and 
 Woodstock. He was engaged in the butter and 
 cheese business for eleven years, meeting with 
 success in the undertaking. In 1878 he came to 
 Colorado and settled at Greeley. Soon afterward 
 he settled upon his present farm, where he has 
 since engaged in farming and stock-raising. At 
 the time he settled here there was not a house 
 within five miles of his home, but his foresight 
 told him what the future of the locality would be. 
 He labored industriously, making many friends 
 among those with whom he had business or social 
 relations. Not only has he gained the respect of 
 his associates, but his employes, too, have always 
 honored him, and one man remained on his farm 
 steadily for eight years. His house and barn are 
 substantial structures, while the other improve- 
 ments are equally valuable. The land is located 
 on the outer edge of the irrigation district, and 
 one hundred and sixty acres are under cultiva- 
 tion, planted to grain, alfalfa and potatoes. The 
 stock, consisting of Polled- Angus cattle (about 
 eight hundred feeders), are kept in a fenced 
 pasture of eight hundred acres. 
 
 Besides his farm, Mr. Russell has money in- 
 vested elsewhere. He owns eight shares in the 
 
 Larimer and Weld Reservoir Company, which 
 owns one of the largest reservoirs in the state; he 
 is also interested in the Larimer and Weld Ditch 
 Company. Politically he votes the Republican 
 ticket and supports, both by influence and ballot, 
 the principles of the party. His first marriage, 
 in 1875, united him with Miss Nora Haight, 
 daughter of Sandford Haight, a prominent mer- 
 chant of Huntley, 111. She died in 1880, and 
 six years later he was united in marriage with 
 Lucy Piper, daughter of Thomas Piper, a retired 
 farmer, of Greeley. They are the parents of one 
 daughter, Stella. 
 
 gONRAD STOCKFLETH is of the sturdy 
 German race, whose members, wherever 
 found, are noted for thrift and energy. A 
 pioneer of Weld County, he has assisted in de- 
 veloping the agricultural resources of this section 
 of the state, and through his good judgment 
 and industry has not only paid for his home- 
 stead near Eaton, but has also been able to put 
 money out at interest. He was born in Hilde- 
 sheim, Germany, May 3, 1862, a son of George 
 and Helen (Soehlemann) Stockfleth. His father, 
 though having few advantages when young, 
 worked his way to a position of influence in his 
 community, where he held ofiice similar to that 
 of justice of the peace. For years he was em- 
 ployed as a bookkeeper and accountant in an iron 
 and steel factory, where there were fifteen thou- 
 sand hands. In his family there were four sons 
 and two daughters, namely: Henry, who came 
 to the United States in 1884; Frederica, who 
 married Carl Lohmann and lives in Hildesheim; 
 Conrad; Frederick, a mining director in Ger- 
 many; George, who is connected with a publish- 
 ing house in Germany; and Henrietta, wife of 
 Otto Juergens, of Denver, Colo. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was a student in the 
 public schools of Germany up to the day prior to 
 his departure for America. He came direct to 
 Denver, where he was employed as a boilermaker 
 and at other occupations. In 1884 he came to 
 Eaton, Weld County, which at that time had 
 comparatively few inhabitants. For a time he 
 worked at gardening, after which he was in the 
 employ of the Eaton Milling and Elevator Com- 
 pany for three years, and then worked for A. J. 
 Eaton for one year. Wishing to be independent, 
 he rented a farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and was so successful in its cultivation that, at 
 the end of five years, he was able to buy a portion 
 of the place upon which stand the improvements. 
 In i8gi he erected a brick residence, and six 
 years later built an addition to the house, which 
 he now occupies. On his farm he raises grain, 
 alfalfa and potatoes, and through industry and 
 economy has made a success of his farming 
 operations. 
 
 In politics Mr! Stockfleth is a Republican. In 
 the Congregational Church, of which he is an 
 active member, he was treasurer for six years and 
 has also been connected with Sunday-school 
 work. Fraternally he is identified with the 
 Woodmen of the World. Twice he has returned 
 to Germany and renewed the associations of boy- 
 hood, the first of the trips being made in 1886 
 and the second in 1895. His marriage took place 
 January 30, 1896, and united him with Theresa, 
 daughter of Theodore Rempen, who was born 
 near the same place as himself. They have one 
 child, George. 
 
 'HOMAS O. STEPP, who owns valuable 
 farming property five miles northeast of 
 Longmont, in Weld County, was born near 
 Bloomington, Monroe County, Ind., August 29, 
 1840, a son of Joshua and Rebecca(Owens)Stepp. 
 He was one of twenty-two children, sixteen of 
 whom attained maturity and seven are now living. 
 They are as follows: Jackson, who was a captain 
 in the Civil war, and is now an upholsterer in 
 Portland, Ore.; William, who is engaged in farm- 
 ing near Golden, Colo.; Sarah J., wife of J. D. 
 Sherman, of Trinidad, Colo. ; Thomas O.; Sum- 
 ilda, Mrs. Byron Markert, of St. Louis, Mo.; Per- 
 ilda, Mrs. Sayers, who lives in Henderson Mo.; 
 and Paris C, a prominent lawyer of Missouri, and 
 judge of the district including Grundy, Mercer 
 and Harrison Counties. 
 
 A native of North Carolina, born in 1800, 
 Joshua Stepp was an infant when his parents re- 
 moved to Kentucky. There he grew to man- 
 hood and married. Shortly after his marriage 
 he went to Indiana and settled upon a farm in 
 Monroe County, where he continued to reside for 
 many years, later removing to Grundy County, 
 Mo. He attained the age of eighty-fo;ir years. 
 His wife, who was born in Virginia, died in Mis- 
 souri when seventy-four years of age. Their son, 
 Thomas O., received a common-school education. 
 
 In the fall of 1861 he started for Colorado, coming 
 through with a cousin, and making the trip with 
 an ox-team. They arrived in Denver in October 
 and spent the winter in that city. He and his 
 brother, who had accompanied him here, em- 
 barked as farmers in the spring of 1862, staking 
 out a claim on Clear Creek, near Denver, just 
 north of the Jesuit College. In the spring of 
 1863 he went to the mines at Empire, where he 
 worked until late in the autumn, and then, going 
 to Montana, engaged in mining in Alder Gulch, 
 Summit District, until September, 1864. 
 
 With the intention of enlisting in the army, 
 Mr. Stepp returned to Mi.ssouri. However, 
 while employed in the mines, he had contracted 
 a severe cold that seriou.sly affected his eyes. 
 For this reason he was rejected when he en- 
 deavored to enlist. Prior to his western trip he 
 had taught one term of school, and he again be- 
 gan to teach, this time in Grundy County, Mo. 
 In 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss 
 Elizabeth Swayze, a native of Warren County, 
 Mo., but reared in Canada, whither her parents 
 removed in her childhood. After his marriage 
 Mr. Stepp continued to reside in Grundy County 
 until the spring of 187 1, when he decided to go 
 west to Washington Territory. He accordingly 
 closed out his interests in Missouri and made the 
 long journey westward to Kittitas County, be- 
 coming one of the first settlers in that region. 
 Since that time the city of Ellensburg has been 
 built upon his former claim. He taught the first 
 school ever held in that county. For seven years 
 he engaged extensively in the stock business, 
 after which, selling his cattle, he turned his at- 
 tention to the real-estate business, which the 
 large tide of immigration had made important. 
 For seven years he engaged in buying, trading 
 and selling lands. 
 
 Coming to Colorado for the second time in 1886, 
 Mr. Stepp began farming on the St. Vrain, six 
 miles east of Longmont, in Weld County, where 
 he had acquired a quarter section of land through 
 trade some eight years before. He continued to 
 reside on that place until 1897, when he sold the 
 property and purchased his present ranch five 
 miles from Longmont. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with St. Vrain Lodge No. 32, A.F. &A.M. 
 In religion he and his wife are identified with the 
 Christian Church. They are the parents of eight 
 children, vii.: William O., a teamster at Long- 
 
JOSEPH OAKS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 mont; Montana A., wife of W. W. Stone, M. D., 
 of the Indian Territory; S. R. Alberta, at home; 
 J. Merrill, who is engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising in California; G. Berry, at home; Mary 
 A., a public-schoolteacher; Reno C, a watch- 
 maker and engraver, employed in Longmont; 
 and Elmer E., a graduate of the Grand Island 
 Business and Normal College, at Grand Island, 
 Neb., who is now representing a New York firm 
 at Lead, S. Dak. 
 
 (TOSEPH OAKS, whose home is on section 
 I 23, township 9, range 64 west, near the vil- 
 O lage of Elbert, in Elbert County, was born 
 in Upper Canada, January 16, 1840, and is a son 
 of Gideon and Elizabeth (Bowman) Oaks. His 
 father, who was born in Baden, Germany, emi- 
 grated to Canada and there married Miss Bow- 
 man, who was born in Pennsylvania. Afterward, 
 about 1850, they removed to New York, settling 
 at Tonawanda, near Buffalo. Some years later 
 they established their home in Washington Coun- 
 ty, Wis. At the time of removal to Wisconsin, 
 Joseph Oaks was a lad of some fourteen years. 
 He had no educational advantages, his time being 
 closely given to the task of clearing and cultivat- 
 ing land. In 1859 he went to St. Joseph, Mo., 
 where for a few months he worked at any employ- 
 ment he could find. In i860 he joined a .survej^- 
 ing party that surveyed the head of the Repub- 
 lican River. Indians were troublesome and it 
 was impossible, on their account, to complete the 
 survej'. After being robbed of their provisions, 
 the men where transferred by the Cheyennes 
 across the Platte. It was the agreement that Mr. 
 Oaks should receive $40 a month, but he never 
 received a penny; and so was without money 
 when he reached Denver, in December, i860. 
 His first work in this state was on the survey up 
 Clear Creek to Blackhawk and Central City, his 
 provisions, surveying instruments, etc., being 
 hauled there by hand sleds. His second work 
 was that of cutting cordwood. Later he worked 
 on a wagon road near Boulder. In 1861 he 
 bought a squatter's claim, and since then he has 
 bought other land, until his landed possessions 
 now aggregate about two thousand acres. . 
 
 In what was then Douglas (now Elbert) Coun- 
 ty, in 1865, Mr. Oaks married Miss Maria Ann 
 Arterburn, a native of Illinois. Seven children 
 were born of that union. Of his second marriage. 
 
 which united him with Paulina Ribley, three 
 children were born, viz. : Louis Gideon, Frank 
 Bernhardt and Lena Josephena. Four of his 
 children are married, viz.: Agnes, who married 
 John Cliber, and has six children; Joseph Will- 
 iam, who married Mabel Salt and has one child; 
 Laura E., who married Wilham Green, of Elbert 
 County, and has three children; and James N., 
 who married Ida Gifferd, of Elbert County. 
 Politically Mr. Oaks is a Democrat in national 
 issues, but independent in local affairs. 
 
 Gl UGUST NELSON, one of the most substan- 
 Ll tial farmers of Boulder County, is a man 
 / I who is justly entitled to great credit for the 
 success he has made of his life. Beginning his 
 career in the United States in his early manhood, 
 he overcame all of the obstacles of the strange 
 language and customs, rose above the frequent 
 financial reverses which came to him, and by 
 energy and perseverance at last won the victory. 
 All honor must be paid such a man, one who, at 
 the same time, is loyal to the law and government 
 of his adopted country, upholding her schools 
 and seeking to promote her general pro.sperity.- 
 
 Mr. Nelson, whose home is located about four 
 and one-half miles from the town of Longmont, is 
 a native of Sweden, and was born April 16, 1841. 
 He has five brothers and sisters living, and nine 
 are deceased. The father, Nels Larson, was 
 born in 1800 on the old family homestead in 
 Sweden. This property has been in the family 
 for many generations. Nels Larson was one of 
 the most influential men of his neighborhood and 
 time, and though he had little schooling,- was so 
 well read and well informed that he was looked 
 up to as an authority upon all subjects. He 
 filled nearly every local office within the gift 
 of his friends and associates, and of him it could 
 be truly said that he had not an enemy in the 
 world. He headed every public movement for 
 the good of the community, sympathized and 
 consoled the weak and afflicted, and put into 
 daily practice the loving, helpful spirit of Chris- 
 tianity. He passed to his reward in 1883. His 
 father, Lars Anderson, a farmer, was blind for 
 twenty-six years, but ten years prior to his death 
 regained his sight. 
 
 August Nelson attended the public schools un- 
 til he was fifteen years of age, and then, leaving 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 home, he started out to make his own livelihood. 
 During the next ten years he labored industri- 
 ousl}^ improving his opportunities, and April 
 26, 1866, he bade adieu to the friends and scenes 
 of his youth and sailed from Halmstad to Gothen- 
 burg, and thence to Hull, England, on his way 
 to the New World. At Liverpool he took pas- 
 sage in a steamer bound for New York, but the 
 ship had proceeded on her way only as far as 
 Queenstown when she was obliged to return to 
 her starting-point, owing to the fact that cholera 
 had broken out on board. The passengers had to 
 remain on the ship for eight days, while scores 
 of deaths took place. At last they were placed 
 in quarantine, and held for twenty-one days. 
 Then Mr. Nelson again embarked for New York 
 and reached that city June 13, after being kept in 
 quarantine three days. He had but $29 in 
 gold, and this amount had been borrowed. He 
 went by train to Chicago, and from there to 
 Batavia, 111., where he found employment in 
 the stone- quarries for the next four 5'ears. 
 
 It was in 1870 that Mr. Nelson came to Colo- 
 rado. He arrived in Blackhawk April 9, and 
 during the succeeding four years he labored in 
 the mines and smelting mills of that region. In 
 the year 1874 he came to the valley of the Boul- 
 der with a capital of some $3,000. He purchased 
 a quarter-section of land for $1,000, it being 
 wild and without improvements. He busily 
 set to work to cultivate the land and to make 
 it a model farm, such as he desired, but, after 
 three crops had been destroyed by the grass- 
 hoppers and lack of water, the owner of the 
 property found himself without funds and there- 
 fore returned to Blackhawk and resumed his for- 
 mer employment there. Six months passed and 
 he came back to his farm with sufficient money 
 to put in another crop. This time fortune smiled 
 upon him and from that year he met with suc- 
 cess, and to-day is one of the well-to-do farmers of 
 the valley. As he could afford it he invested in 
 other land until he now finds himself the owner 
 of five hundred and fifty acres — a fine homestead. 
 He takes great interest in the public schools and 
 is a member of the local board of education 
 Religiously he is a Lutheran, and is an active 
 member of the church. In his political attitude 
 he is Republican. 
 
 July 2, 1877, Mr. Nelson married Miss Clara 
 Soderburg and to them have been born seven 
 
 children. Six of the number are living and are 
 bright, intelligent young people, of whom their 
 parents have occasion to be proud. They are 
 named as follows: Nancy A., Arthur P., Clara 
 A., Axel L., August E. andJohnH. Thefourth 
 child, Charles Fi, died several years ago. 
 
 HERRICK McLEOD, a very energetic and 
 popular young man, is now acting efficiently 
 in the double office of city clerk and city 
 treasurer of Central City, Gilpin County. To the 
 last-named position he was elected on the Peo- 
 ple's party ticket in 1896, was re-elected in 1897 
 and again in 1898.. In the spring of 1898 he was 
 further honored by being made city clerk by the 
 board of aldermen. In national affairs he sup- 
 ports the Democratic platform and nominees by 
 his ballot, but in county politics he sides with the 
 People's party, and for the past two years has 
 been the chairman of the city central committee. 
 He has proved himself to be thoroughly trust- 
 worthy, painstaking and faithful to the interests 
 of his fellow-citizens, and, in consequence, he en- 
 joys their respect and admiration. 
 
 The parents of our subject are Francis B. and 
 Elizabeth (Morrison) McLeod, natives of Prince 
 Edward Island. The father was a man of excel- 
 lent educational attainments, and for a period 
 was a teacher in his native district. While still 
 a young man he attended Grinnell College in 
 Iowa, and from that point came to this state 
 about 1867. He married here and engaged in 
 farming and mining enterprises. Afterwards he 
 returned to Prince Edward Island and taught 
 school and carried on a farm there until 1877, when 
 he again settled in Colorado, this time to become 
 a permanent resident. He has been interested 
 in a ranch and in mines in Gilpin County, and is 
 now living in this city. He was county super- 
 intendent of schools for one term, and has been 
 recognized as an authority on educational mat- 
 ters wherever he has dwelt for any length of 
 time. His family comprises ten children. Flor- 
 ence died in childhood; Malcolm was drowned in 
 Missouri Lake while trying to save the life of his 
 uncle;. William is interested in mining enter- 
 prises, and lives in Central City; Carrie and 
 Rachel are teachers here, the former being in the 
 high school faculty; the younger children are: 
 George, Catherine, Mary, Felicia and Martha. 
 
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 The paternal grandfather of Herrick McLeod 
 was Rev. Duncan McLeod, who was a native of 
 the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He was a minister 
 of the Presbyterian Church and labored diligently 
 for the spread of the gospel. At an early day he 
 settled in Prince Edward Island, and continued 
 to live there until summoned to his reward. The 
 father of Mrs. Elizabeth McLeod was Angus 
 Morrison, who was born in Rosshire, Scotland, 
 ninety-six years ago, and is still living, his home 
 being in this city. He located in Prince Edward 
 Island when he was a young man, and for years 
 was a seafaring man, sailing along the Atlantic 
 coast, fishing and engaging in various maritime 
 enterprises. 
 
 Herrick McLeod was born at Missouri Lake, 
 Gilpin County, April 2, 1870, and is the eldest 
 of his parents' large family. He was but two 
 years old when he was taken back to Prince Ed- 
 ward Island, and within a few years he accom- 
 panied his elders toBellevue, Iowa. After living 
 there for three years he came to this county and 
 attended the public schools of Central City. In 
 1 886 he graduated from the high .school here and 
 soon embarked in mining and prospecting. He 
 developed the Notaway mine in Russell Gulch 
 until the profits from it were decidedly remu- 
 nerative. For nearly five years he was book- 
 keeper for Morrison, Harris & Co. He then 
 resumed operations in the Notaway mine, and 
 was connected with it altogether eleven years, 
 then selling out in 1897. He is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, and has 
 been financier of the local lodge. With the other 
 members of his family he attends the Presbyte- 
 rian Church. He is a musician of no small 
 abilit}', and with his excellent bass voice com- 
 pletes a quartette composed of himself, brother 
 and sisters. 
 
 30HN HERTHA, one of Boulder County's 
 representative farmers, came to the present 
 site of Longmont in 1868, and took up a 
 homestead of eighty acres one and one-half miles 
 east of the present town, at once beginning the 
 task of cultivating the place. After a few years 
 of industrious and persevering effort he was en- 
 abled to purchase a tract of forty acres adjoining 
 his original acreage, and since that time he has 
 given his time and attention closely to the im- 
 provement of the ranch of one hundred and 
 
 twenty acres. Since early boyhood he has been 
 interested in machinery, and as earlj' as 1854 he 
 was interested in running a threshing machine in 
 Illinois. In 1864 he operated a machine for 
 other parties in Colorado, and four years later he 
 purchased a thresher of his own, since which time 
 he has followed threshing during the season. 
 
 In Saxe-Coburg, Germany, the subject of this 
 sketch was born November 10, 1836, a son of 
 John C. and Margaret (Schilling) Hertha. His 
 father, who was a native of the same place as him- 
 self, learned the carpenter's trade and in 1840 
 crossed the ocean to America, where for thirteen 
 years he followed his trade in New York City. 
 From there removing to Illinois, he settled upon 
 a farm in Lee County, where he continued to re- 
 side until his death. 
 
 The education obtained by our subject was 
 limited to a brief attendance at common schools. 
 After reaching man's estate, he went south and 
 engaged in steamboating, running on the Julius 
 H. Smith, as watchman, from St. Louis to Flor- 
 ence. Ala. The captain of the boat was P. H. 
 Rhody, afterward known as "Rebel" Rhody. 
 On the breaking out of the war he came to St. 
 Louis and enlisted in the Third Missouri Infan- 
 try, under Colonel Siegel, in April, 1861. The 
 regiment was immediately sent to the front, and 
 their first engagement was at Camp Jackson, Mo. 
 Later they participated in the battles of Dug 
 Springs, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Fort Donel- 
 son, Shiloh and Corinth. In the battles of Wil- 
 son's Creek and Corinth Mr. Hertha waswounded, 
 and in July, 1862, he was mustered out of the 
 service on account of sickness. When the Sioux 
 war broke out, in the fall of 1862, he was in St. 
 Paul, Minn. Buying a horse, saddle and bridle, 
 and providing himself with fire-arms, he joined 
 what was known as Cullom's Guards, a company 
 of state mihtia, and started after the Indians. Af- 
 ter burying the dead of a company of men whom 
 the red men had slaughtered on the lower bound- 
 ary of the reservation, he and the others of the 
 party crossed the river and camped at Birch 
 Cooly. On the next morning they were sur- 
 rounded by about five hundred Indians, and for 
 forty-six hours they fought against desperate 
 odds. So fiercely did the battle rage, that out of 
 more than ninety horses, only one remained alive 
 and Mr. Hertha had two bullets in his body when 
 Colonel Hale fortunately came to his relief. From 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 that place the men were ordered to Fort Richley 
 and from there were sent back to St. Paul, where 
 they were disbanded, on refusing to agree to take 
 their prisoners alive. 
 
 Shortly after his return from active warfare, 
 Mr. Hertha was united in marriage with Miss 
 Mary A. Meinhardt. Afterward he went to 
 Davenport, Iowa, and spent the winter, but see- 
 ing no business opening there for him, he went to 
 Atchison, Kan., and began freighting on the 
 plains. He continued freighting until the Union 
 Pacific Railroad was completed, his route extend- 
 ing from the end of the road until it reached the 
 North Platte. From Cheyenne he later freighted 
 to Blackhawk and other mining camps. When 
 the Denver Pacific road was built, freighting 
 ceased to be profitable, and he then came to Boul- 
 der County, settling on the ranch where he has 
 since made his home. 
 
 Six children were born to the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hertha, namely: John, deceased; lyouisa, 
 wife of S. A. Fuller, of Longmont; Edwin, a 
 stationary engineer at Eongmont; Louis S., pro- 
 prietor of the livery stables at Berthoud, Larimer 
 County; George W., deceased; and Albert, at 
 home. The wife and mother died August i6, 
 1876, deeply mourned by her husband and chil- 
 dren. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Hertha is identified 
 with St. Vrain Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M., 
 Montezuma Tribe No. 34, I. O. R. M., and Mc- 
 Pherson's Post No. 6, G. A. R. 
 
 ■JJEGRGE H. HALL, one of the early settlers 
 _ of Colorado, has resided for a score of years 
 ^ on his present fine homestead, which is 
 situated three and a-half miles northeast of Long- 
 mont. Within his memory and knowledge this 
 thriving western city has sprung up, as it is 
 built upon ground which he formerly tilled, and 
 at that time, shortly after the close of the Civil 
 war, he lived in one of the two houses which 
 stood on the site. The house which sheltered 
 him then was later removed, and to-day, in its 
 stead, stands the Imperial Hotel. In his pioneer 
 life he experienced the vicissitudes which fell to 
 the lot of all, and in turn he mined, farmed, pros- 
 pected and freighted, without becoming rich or 
 comfortably well-off at any of these pursuits. 
 The fortunes which some were so happy as to 
 
 acquire did not fall to his share, and it was only 
 by earnest, unremitting labor that he came into 
 possession of the competence which he now en- 
 joys. 
 
 Grandfather Asa Hall, a man of Scotch descent 
 and hardihood of character, was a native of 
 Canada, and was a prosperous farmer for his day. 
 His son David, father of George H., was born in 
 the city of Toronto in 18 13. When he arrived at 
 man's estate he adopted his father's vocation, 
 and in 1850 removed to Illinois. Taking up his 
 abode in Kane County, he lived there until death 
 put an end to his career some five years later. He 
 married, before leaving Canada, Miss Charlotte 
 Hooker and to them were born two children, a 
 son and daughter. The latter is Sarah, wife of 
 D. S. Coffman, who is interested in mining oper- 
 ations, and lives in Glendale, Colo. 
 
 George H. Hall, whose birth occurred in 
 Canada, September 21, 1842, was a lad of but 
 thirteen years when his father died, and his 
 mother's death taking place three years later, he 
 was thus early thrown upon his own resources. 
 He came into possession of the old homestead in 
 Kane County, 111., and diligently set about its 
 management, to the best of his youthful ability. 
 He was young at the time that the war broke out, 
 and, having no one to restrain him, he enlisted 
 in an independent c6mpany. Later he was 
 attached to Company H, Fifteenth Illinois Cav- 
 alry, sometimes called Dodson's Cavalry. This 
 company served during the war as the body- 
 guard of Curtice, Halleck and Steele, each in 
 turn. Mr. Hall was an orderly on General 
 Steele's staff from March, 1862, until he received 
 his honorable discharge from the army in the 
 autumn of 1864. Prior to being on the general's 
 staff he was on detached duty, carrying dis- 
 patches, etc. Returning to Illinois, Mr. Hall 
 bought horses for the government during much 
 of the following year. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Hall started for the west, going 
 much of the distance to Denver by stage. He 
 arrived in that city October 10, 1865, and thence 
 proceeded to Nevadaville, where he engaged in 
 mining. Failing in his endeavors to obtain satis- 
 factory results for his labors he came to this 
 valle}', which he first beheld on the anniversary 
 of Washington's birth, 1866. Then, as pre- 
 viously mentioned, he embarked in farming on 
 the very laud now occupied by Longmont. In 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 the autumn of 1866 he harvested a goodly crop 
 here, but the next year, after he had planted 
 wheat, and paid twelve and a-half cents a pound 
 for the seed, the grasshoppers indeed made "life 
 a burden," for they swept the land bare of vege- 
 tation. He was left without resources, and 
 started in the business of freighting. He hauled 
 the lumber for the first house erected in Chey- 
 enne, and continued in the transportation busi- 
 ness until April, 1869. The White Pine mining 
 excitement then drew him to Nevada and for the 
 next two years he traveled and prospected in 
 that state and in Utah, California and Arizona. 
 Once more, in the spring of 187 1, the attractions 
 of Colorado proved alluring, and since that time 
 he has never sought for a home or occupation 
 elsewhere. For seven years after his return here 
 he rented land in the neighborhood of Longmont, 
 and in 1878 he permanently located on the home- 
 stead where he is to-day. 
 
 Mr. Hall has always been highly in favor of 
 good schools and the best possible educational 
 privileges for the young. For some twelve years 
 he served efficiently as secretary of the local 
 board of education. Fraternally he is associated 
 with Ivongmont Lodge No. 9, A. O. U. W., and 
 McPherson Post No. 6, G. A. R. His ballot is 
 used in favor of the principles and nominees of 
 the Republican party. His marriage to Miss 
 Nellie Mumford occurred in 1875, in Longmont. 
 
 ""LISHA M. PERKINS, the well-known 
 ^ mayor of Evans, and the genial and popular 
 ^ proprietor of the Perkins Hotel, was born in 
 Tazewell County, 111., December 17, 1833. His 
 father, Elisha M. Perkins, Sr., was probably a 
 native of Virginia, but spent his youth in Ken- 
 tuck}', and removed to Illinois at an early day, 
 becoming one of the pioneer settlers of Tazewell 
 County. He engaged in farming and dealing in 
 fine stock, and also conducted a shoe store for a 
 time. About 1841 he laid -out the town of Cir- 
 cleville upon his land in Illinois, erected a large 
 hotel, which he conducted for several years, while 
 the community around him grew to a thriving 
 country town. He was one of the best-known 
 men in that part of the country, was an ardent 
 Democrat in politics, took an active part in the 
 presidential campaign of 1840, and served as dep- 
 uty sheriff of Tazewell County for one term. He 
 
 died at the age of fifty-nine years, near Des 
 Moines, Iowa, where he lived for a few years. 
 He had also spent three years in Warren County, 
 111. , and the same length of time in Gentry County, 
 Mo. , after which he removed to Iowa, where he 
 was engaged in the milling business. He married 
 Susan Barker, of Kentucky, and to them were 
 born eleven children, but only five are now liv- 
 ing: Isaac N. , a resident of Indian Territory; 
 Daniel; Zedec C, of Nebraska; Artemecia, widow 
 of William McGee; and Elisha M. The wife and 
 mother died at about the age of seventy. 
 
 Our subject obtained the greater part of his ed- 
 ucation in an old log school house in Iowa. Leav- 
 ing home at the age of sixteen he went to Des 
 Moines, Iowa, where he spent a few years with a 
 cousin, and then returned to the parental roof. 
 He worked on the home farm and with his brother, 
 Isaac N. , operated his father's mill. In 185 1 he 
 went to Adams County, 111., on horseback, and 
 spent the summer with his brother, Zedec C. In 
 1852 he went to Pike County, that state, and be- 
 gan learning the carpenter's trade, which he fol- 
 lowed until 1859. In the spring of 1854 he bought 
 a piece of land in Marion County, Iowa, and give 
 some attention to farming for two years. While 
 at that place his first wife died. May 22, 1854. 
 
 Mr. Perkins then returned to Warren County, 
 111., and with his brother, Isaac N., rebuilt the 
 old mill, which he sold on its completion. In 
 the winter of 1856 he went to Kansas, where 
 he erected houses for sale, and served as constable 
 ofCapioma, Nemaha County. In i860 with his. 
 brother, John W. Perkins, Stephen Shelton, J. S. 
 Dunbar and H. C. Stanley, he started over the 
 plains to Denver, arriving there on the 22d of 
 May. A few days later he went to Central City, 
 where he engaged in mining, but after the Civil 
 war broke out he returned to Denver and enlisted. 
 He only remained there for a few weeks, how- 
 ever, when he again went to Central City and re- 
 sumed mining. A few weeks later he returned 
 to Denver and started for home by the way of the 
 Platte River, but when near that city the boat 
 capsized and he lost all his belongings. In com- 
 pany with two other men he started out on foot 
 looking for work and proceeded down the South 
 Platte to its mouth, where he was employed on a 
 farm that summer. In 1862 he again went to 
 ' Denver, acting as cook for the wagon train of 
 Garrison & Hulbert, and the following winter 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 worked on the rancli of N. H. Gage. While 
 there he married his present wife, Margaret Jane 
 Hoover, daughter of C. J. Hoover, of Denver. 
 He then bought a ranch on the Platte River, on 
 the main stage line between Denver and Jules- 
 burg, and successfully operated the same for two 
 years, but in 1864 was driven away by the Sioux 
 and Cheyenne Indians, who killed two men. Go- 
 ing to Fort Wicket he entered into partnership 
 with Holan Godfrey, and together they conducted 
 a ranch until the Indian massacre January 16, 
 1865, when the red men drove off their stock. 
 That spring he returned east after his family, and 
 on again coming to Colorado, in the fall of 1865, he 
 settled on his old ranch on the Platte, his broth- 
 ers, D. R. and J. W. , being with him. In partner- 
 ship with J. S. Dunbar he opened a stage station 
 at Bijou Creek, which they conducted about a 
 year in connection with the ranch. Mr. Perkins 
 then took charge of the home stage station for 
 Wells, Fargo & Co., sixteen miles distant. After 
 spending the winter of 1868-69 io Denver, he 
 took up government land at Godfrey Bottom on 
 the Platte River, where J. S. Dunbar now lives, 
 and there carried on farming and stock-raising, 
 dealing in fine eastern cows. In 1871 here- 
 moved to the town of Evans, and the next year 
 opened the Gerry Hotel, which he conducted 
 one winter. The following year he was en- 
 gaged in the livery business in St. Louis Valley, 
 and in 1874 was appointed deputy sherifi"of Weld 
 County, under David C. Wyatt, being re-ap- 
 pointed under Joseph McKissock two years later. 
 Since retiring from that office he has been inter- 
 ested in the hotel and livery business in Evans, 
 and he and his wife have become the owners of 
 some good residence property in that place. To 
 Mr. Perkins and his second wife one child was 
 born, a daughter, Ida M. She became the wife 
 of Albert Huffsmith, of Evans. Mrs. Hufismith 
 died in 1890, leaving two children, Jesse B. and 
 J. Miller, who are now living with their grand- 
 father, our subject. 
 
 As a Democrat, Mr. Perkins has taken quite 
 an active and prominent part in local political 
 affairs, and has been honored with several official 
 positions of trust and responsibility. He served 
 as county commissioner for three years, and as a 
 trustee of Evans for three terms, and in April, 
 1898, was elected mayor, which oifice he is now 
 filling with credit to himself and to the entire satis- 
 
 faction of his constituents. At one time he was 
 nominated for sheriff of Weld County, but with- 
 drew in favor of James Bailey, an old friend. As 
 a citizen he stands ready to discharge every duty 
 devolving upon him, and he has proved a most 
 faithful and popular official. 
 
 •gUSTAVE A. LUNDIN, numbered among 
 
 a the prosperous agriculturists of Bouldei 
 County, owns a well-improved homestead 
 comprising eighty- three acres. It is situated one 
 and three- fourths miles to the north of the town 
 of Canfield and is a valuable country place. A 
 vacancy having occurred in the school board in 
 1894 Mr. Lundin was appointed to occupy the 
 post, which was that of president of the honorable 
 body. He served so creditably that he was reg- 
 ularly elected the" following year, and when his 
 term had expired he was made secretary, which 
 office he is still holding to the satisfaction of 
 everyone. In 1895 he was elected justice of the 
 peace and continued to serve in that capacity up 
 to the ist of January, 1898. In his political 
 affiliations he is a Democrat. In 1889 he joined 
 the Odd Fellows' Lodge at Aspen, Colo., and 
 now he is identified with Erie Lodge No. 46, of 
 Erie; and is a member of Rose of Sharon Lodge 
 No. 29, Daughters of Rebekah, I. O. O. F., his 
 wife being connected with the last-named order, 
 as well. He also is associated with Perseverance 
 Lodge No. 139, Woodmen of the World, of Erie. 
 G. A. Lundin is the only son of John and Mary 
 Caroline (Lindblad) Lundin. A sister, Edla A., 
 is the wife of Gustave E. Wedeen and lives on 
 the old family homestead. The father, born in 
 Sweden in the province of Nerike, November 
 13, 1821, died" January 29, 1892. He was a 
 farmer by occupation and possessed great mechan- 
 ical genius, making his own wagons and shoes, 
 and in short, it was his pride that he was 
 able to construct nearly everything that he needed, 
 in his humble and simple life. His wife was a 
 daughter of Olaf Lindblad, who for thirty years 
 was a corporal in the Royal Regiment No. 21. 
 Our subject's paternal grandfather, John Lundin, 
 and his great-grandfather, Andrew Lundin, were 
 both farmers. The latter was a son of the 
 celebrated Swedish general, John Lundin, who, 
 for twelve years was a prisoner in the fort at 
 Bender, Turkey, along with the unfortunate 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 973 
 
 Charles XII. of Sweden. The general escaped 
 at the end of twelve years of captivity, as did also 
 Lord Hamilton, and together the two walked all 
 the way across the continent, at last safely arriv- 
 ing at their old homes. The poor general found, 
 like Enoch Arden, that his wife had given him 
 up as dead and had married again, and to add to 
 his sorrow, the old homestead, which had been 
 long in the family, had been parted with to 
 strangers, during a dreadful famine, for a sack 
 of flour. 
 
 When he was a lad of eight years Gustave A. 
 Lundin could read and write and thoroughly 
 knew the Lutheran Church catechism. His 
 father took great pride in his only son and was 
 determined that he should settle down on the 
 home farm. The youth attended school until he 
 was twelve, when he turned his whole attention 
 to the management of the old farm, and this 
 routine continued for six years. But he chafed 
 under the restraint and finally went to Stockholm 
 and began serving an apprenticeship as a machin- 
 ist in the railroad machine-shops. He received 
 very small wages for the first six months, and, 
 as he could not subsist upon such a sum, and his 
 father refused to assist him, he was finally com- 
 pelled to return home. He became very desirous 
 of coming to America then, but to this plan his 
 father turned a deaf ear also, and, as he was not 
 of age, would not allow him to come. When he 
 was only six years old his mother had deposited 
 $5 in the bank for him when he became a man, 
 and year by year this amount had grown, as the 
 boy added to the amount from time to time, and 
 thus, upon his twenty-first birthday, May ii, 
 1880, he had $400 to his credit. 
 
 March 29, 1880, young Lundin sailed 
 from Gothenburg to Frederickshaven, Denmark, 
 whence he went to Bremen, and there embarked 
 on the steamer "Rehm" for New York City. He 
 reached the great metropolis April 22, and at 
 once went to Chicago. There, while employed as 
 a day laborer in Lincoln Park, he set out many 
 trees that now afford beauty and shade to that 
 well-known recreation ground. On the 2d of 
 June he took out naturalization papers. The 
 following day he took the train for the northwest, 
 and landing in Green Bay, Wis., thence went by 
 stage to Ephraim, that state. In the autumn he 
 located seventy-five miles north of Green Bay, 
 Wis., and bought forty acres' of land, with the 
 
 expectation of becoming a permanent resident of 
 the county. At the end of two years, however, 
 he returned to Chicago, and entered the employ 
 of the Bowmanville Nurseries. There he labored 
 for twelve months, then accepting a position with 
 Coyle Brothers, undertakers and liverymen. 
 
 June 4, 1884, Mr. Lundin started for the west. 
 After passing a week in Idaho Springs he came 
 to Boulder, and for several months worked for 
 William Newland, on his fruit farm. The mining 
 fever then took possession of him, and returning 
 to Idaho Springs he engaged in mining operations 
 for several years, in the meantime leasing 
 numerous well-known properties. In 1887 he 
 went to Aspen, Colo., and continued mining with 
 varying success until 1893, when he purchased 
 his present homestead, since which time he has 
 given his chief attention to farming. During the 
 summer of 1890 he visited Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 and there bought two city lots which he still 
 owns. Later he was employed in the mines at 
 Eureka, Utah. 
 
 Upon the thirty-second anniversary of his 
 birth, May 11, 1891, Mr. Lundin married Miss 
 Ingrid Pearson, in Denver. Mrs. Lundin is the 
 daughter of Andrew Pearson, who was a railroad 
 station-master in Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Lundin 
 are members of the First Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Aspen. Their only child is Walter E. , 
 a bright little fellow, born in 1892. 
 
 RODOLPHUS N. SMITH, one of the prosper- 
 ous ranchmen of Weld County, his home 
 place being six miles southeast of Long- 
 mont, was born in Waukesha County, Wis., 
 February 20, 1844, a son of N. K. and Helen M. 
 (Campbell) Smith. He was one of seven chil- 
 dren, who were named as follows: Emma S., 
 now the widow of C. M. Tyler; Frank O. , wife of 
 Senator J. P. Maxwell; Nina F., Mrs. E. J. 
 Temple; Dora O., who married D. D. Leach; 
 Jennie S., widow of Dr. G. A. Clark; L. K. and 
 Rodolphus N. 
 
 The father of our subject was a native of York 
 state, born in Jefferson County in i8io. He grew 
 to manhood on the home farm. With a love for 
 study, he readily acquired a thorough education. 
 In early manhood he fitted himself for a civil en- 
 gineer and divided his time between school teach- 
 ing and engineering. When about twenty- one 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 years of age he went to Canada, but three years 
 later removed with his family to Ohio, thence to 
 Indiana, and a short time later to Wisconsin. In 
 1849 he left his family on their farm in Waukesha 
 County and crossed the plains to California, 
 where he spent three years in the mining regions, 
 returning home in 1852. The next year he and 
 his family started, by wagon, for California, he 
 driving a herd of cattle; but when he reached 
 Iowa, the Indian depredations were so numerous 
 that he abandoned the proposed trip, and spent 
 the next two years in Iowa. Removing in 1855 
 to Baraboo, Wis. , he embarked in the hardware 
 business, but after some years sold his stock and 
 opened a grocery, conducting the latter until i860. 
 Then with his family, he again started for the 
 west, bringing with him across the plains one of 
 the first quartz mills erected in Blackhawk. Ar- 
 riving in Colorado, in the spring of i860 he and 
 a brother constructed the Smith toll road from the 
 end of the old Golden Gate road up to Central 
 and Blackhawk, which proved a most profitable 
 undertaking. 
 
 In the spring of 1861, with C. M. Tyler, our 
 subject embarked in the lumber business in 
 Blackhawk, having extensive sawmill interests 
 near that town, and for three years they had a 
 business that averaged $1,500 per day. In 1877 
 he sold his many and valuable interests in the 
 mountains and moved to Boulder, where he 
 erected a handsome residence and settled down 
 to enjoy the fruits of his labor. His death oc- 
 curred December 26, 1894. For six years he 
 served as commissioner of Gilpin County, and 
 was recognized as one of the best commissioners 
 the county ever had. For a number of years he 
 also held office as assessor. He was known as a 
 man of integrity and upright life, one whose for- 
 tune was amassed in honorable channels and 
 whose character was irreproachable. He married 
 Miss Campbell, who was the first white woman 
 in Vernon, Waukesha County, Wis., and who 
 took the first prize for needlework at the World's 
 Fair. 
 
 One year after our subject came to Colorado, 
 he and two sisters returned to Wisconsin to finish 
 their educations, and for one year they attended 
 a seminary at Baraboo, after which they were in 
 the Mezomanie high .school for one term. While 
 there, he wrote his parents that he wanted to en- 
 list in the army; his father replied that there 
 
 were prospects of trouble in Colorado with the 
 Texas rangers and, if he wished to fight, to come 
 home and enlist, where his fighting would not 
 only serve the government, but assist in protect- 
 ing his home folk as well. He accepted the ad- 
 vice, returned home and engaged in freighting on 
 the plains, but the need of his services as a sol- 
 dier did not arise, so he continued teaming until 
 1866. While near Alkali Station in Nebraska in 
 1865, he and the train of sixty wagons of which 
 he was captain, were attacked by five or six hun- 
 dred Indians. They at once corraled their stock 
 and prepared to meet their savage foes. After 
 one or two volleys the Indians retreated and the 
 train resumed its journey to Omaha. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Smith came to his present farm of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, six miles south- 
 east of Longmont, where he embarked in the 
 stock business. He has since given his attention 
 to general agriculture. Politically a Republican, 
 he was in 1884 the Republican nominee for 
 county commissioner and was elected by a large 
 majority. The office was so efficiently filled that 
 at the expiration of his first term he was re- 
 elected, and again at the end of the second term, 
 serving nine consecutive years. For twenty- 
 seven years he held the office of treasurer of the 
 school board. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Smith married Miss Josie Pendle- 
 ton, a native of Cook County, 111. Six children 
 were born to their union. The oldest son, Fred 
 N., has charge of the home farm; he is identified 
 with the Woodmen of the World. The second 
 son, Frank M., who is a member of the Odd Fel- 
 lows' and Woodmen lodges, is engaged in the 
 transfer business at L,ongmont. The third son, 
 Dolph F., is with his parents. Florence H., the 
 fourth child, is deceased. Alice D. is the wife of 
 Lowell S. Smith, of Longmont; and Jeannette H. 
 is at home. 
 
 (7|AMUEL L. JOHNSTON, a farmer of 
 7\ Douglas County, resides on section 25, town- 
 J,jJ/ ship 10, range 67 west, two and one-half 
 miles southeast of Greenland. He was born at 
 Bishop Mills, Canada, December 29, 1850, a son 
 of William and Jane (Wilson) Johnston, natives 
 of the north of Ireland. After their marriage, 
 some time during the '30s, they emigrated to 
 Canada, and have since made their home at 
 
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 J. H. PHILLIP ROHLING. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 977 
 
 Bishop Mills. During his active life the father 
 was a farmer, but now, at eight3'-six years of 
 age, is living retired from active labors. His 
 wife is eighty-one. 
 
 When a boy our subject had few advantages, 
 as he was obliged to work early and late on the 
 home farm. In 1875 he came to Colorado and 
 for a time engaged in freighting, making Denver 
 his home. Later, for some years, he herded cat- 
 tle for ranchmen in Douglas County. In 1872 
 he entered one hundred and twenty acres where 
 his house now stands, and two years later he 
 moved to the place, the cultivation of which he 
 at once began. From time to time he has added 
 to his possessions, until he now owns eleven hun- 
 dred and sixty acres and, besides, has leased two 
 hundred and eighty acres, which he uses as a 
 stock range. His place contains the usual im- 
 provements of a western ranch, and has proved a 
 very profitable investment for the owner. His 
 entire time is given to the management of his 
 estate, and he has had little leisure for participa- 
 tion in public affairs. However, he is a stanch 
 Republican and always supports the candidates 
 of his party. 
 
 November 25, 1890, Mr. Johnston was united 
 in marriage with Miss Orie Dakan, of Perry 
 Park, Douglas County, Colo., a daughter of 
 William A. and Elizabeth Dakan. They have 
 two children, William Ross and Gladys Belle. 
 
 (| H. PHILLIP ROHLING, a pro.sperous 
 I business man of Black Hawk, Gilpin Coun- 
 (2/, ty, has, it is said, the largest dry-goods 
 store in the county, and it is certainly one of the 
 best equipped. He has conducted busine.ss at 
 this location for fourteen years and enjoys the 
 confidence and good will of the entire com- 
 munity, lu 1896 he started a branch store on 
 Main -street, Central City, and has placed a 
 manager at the head of the same. There, how- 
 ever, he deals exclusively in boots and shoes, 
 while here he keeps a full line of dry goods, cloth- 
 ing, carpets, etc., in addition to footwear. From 
 1895 to 1897, *-^^'0 terms, he was mayor of Black 
 Hawk, and from 1892 to 1894 he was treasurer of 
 the city. For several years he was a member of 
 the school board here, and all public matters 
 concerning the local advancement and welfare 
 receive his earnest attention. 
 42 
 
 The parents of the above-named gentleman were 
 Phillip and Agnes (Heidplacke) Rohling, natives 
 of Westphalia, Prussia. The father was a butcher 
 by trade, but followed the veterinary surgeon's 
 business for years and at one time was swimming 
 master in the Prussian army. His death occurred 
 in the Fatherland. His five sons and one daugh- 
 ter are all liviug, and three of the number are 
 residents of the United States. August is a 
 merchant in Fort Collins, Colo., and William is 
 a business man of Danville, 111. Grandfather 
 Henry Rohling was employed by the Prussian 
 government. 
 
 J. H. Phillip Rohling was born in Westphalia, 
 Prussia, October 12, 1850, and as soon as he reached 
 a suitable age he entered the local schools, which 
 he attended, according to the law of that land, 
 until he was fourteen. He was then apprenticed 
 to a dry-goods and grocery merchant in Lem- 
 forde, near the old home, and continued there for 
 two years. In 1867 he sailed for the United 
 States, and, in order to gain knowledge of the 
 English language and customs, he hired out to a 
 farmer near Indianapolis, Ind., going to school 
 during the winter season. Afterwards he worked 
 in Indianapolis for a year or so and in 1870 went to 
 Deer Lodge, Mont. , where he clerked in a whole- 
 sale grocery. In 1872 he returned to the land of 
 his birth on a visit and stayed there for six 
 months. Coming back to America, he took a 
 position as stockman in the wholesale dry-goods 
 house of Murphy, Hibben & Co. , at Indianapolis, 
 Ind. He was a faithful employe of the firm for sev- 
 eral j'cars and thoroughlj' mastered the business. 
 In 1878 he opened a retail dry-goods store in the 
 same city and successfully managed the enter- 
 prise up to 1884, when he brought his stock to 
 Black Hawk. Here he started in business in the 
 same building which he now occupies. He has 
 two floors, 25x80 feet each, and owns the build- 
 ing in which his store is situated. 
 
 In the autumn of 1885 Mr. Rohling purchased 
 the old Prospect mine and began its develop- 
 ment. It is now known as the Chemung Bel- 
 mont mine, and is located on Bobtail Hill. He 
 has partners, but is the chief stockholder and 
 manager, and in addition to this he is financially 
 interested in mines in Stewart Gulch, Tip-top, 
 Rallinsville, Pine Creek and Central and is a 
 director in the Rocky Mountain National Bank 
 of Central City. In his political belief he was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a Republican for years, but of late has been an 
 adherent of the People's party, and has been 
 quite active in support of its nominees. He is a 
 Knight of Pythias and has been treasurer of the 
 local lodge for the past seven years. 
 
 In the city of Indianapolis Mr. Rohling was 
 married in 1874 to Miss IvOuisa Witthoft, a native 
 of Pennsylvania. They have four daughters and 
 two sons. Louisa is Mrs. Klein, of Black Hawk. 
 John P., the eldest son, is in business with his 
 father. The younger children are named respect- 
 ively: Agnes, Annie, Laura and Phillip, Jr. The 
 family attend the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 ~ PHRAIM C. PHILLIPS, one of the largest 
 ^ grain and potato raisers in Boulder County 
 ^ and the owner of extensive lands here and 
 in Weld County, was born in Adams County, 
 Ohio, October 11, 1842, a son of Theophilus and 
 Mary A. (Moore) Phillips. He was one of a 
 family of ten children, five of whom are now 
 living. His father, a native of Adams County, 
 born in 18 12, resided upon a farm in his native 
 place until 1862, when he removed to Iowa and 
 settled in Wayne County. After some three 
 years there he removed to Saline County, Kan., 
 where he continued to reside until his death, in 
 1875. His wife, who like himself was a native 
 of Adams County, was a daughter of John Moore, 
 a prominent farmer of that section of Ohio and a 
 man well known for his integrity and industry. 
 John Phillips, grandfather of our subject on his 
 father's side, was born in Ohio and was connected 
 with an iron manufacturing plant; his ancestors, 
 for years before him, were foundry men and iron 
 workers. 
 
 In the schools near his home our subject ac- 
 quired a fair education. At the breaking out of 
 the Civil war he enlisted in Company H, Fifty- 
 sixth Ohio Infantry, October 25, 1861, and was 
 ordered with his regiment to Fort Donelson, 
 where he was assigned to service under General 
 Grant. His principal engagements were at Fort 
 Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, siege of Corinth, 
 the Vicksburg campaign, battle of New Orleans 
 and the Red River campaign under General 
 Banks. Going back to New Orleans, he was 
 mustered out of the service November 27, 1864. 
 In the battle of Champion Hill, near Vicksburg, 
 he was wounded May 16, 1864. 
 
 On his return to his Ohio home, Mr. Phillips 
 resumed life on the farm, with its attendant 
 duties. He felt, however, that the west offered 
 greater opportunities for a young man and in 
 1866 he drove a team across the plains for Mr. 
 Perry, who accompanied a train of seventy-five 
 wagons. He reached Helena, Mont., July 29, 
 1866. On his arrival at that point he bought 
 three teams and began to haul drifting timbers 
 for the mines, continuing successfully in that 
 work for one year. Next he took a contract to 
 deliver ore to the old Jim Whitlatch mill, which 
 occupied his attention for seven months. Dur- 
 ing that time he made as high as $44 per day. 
 
 Returning east to Wyoming he secured em- 
 ployment on the Union Pacific Railroad, in con- 
 struction work on the Green River. Buying a 
 lot of Texas bronchos he broke them and put 
 them to use, receiving $12 per day, of weekdays, 
 for each team, and $24. on Sundays. As they 
 cost only $15 to $20 apiece the investment proved 
 a profitable one. After one year, the road being 
 completed, he came to Colorado in 1869. On 
 the trip from Cheyenne he drove the stage to 
 Denver and passed through the yard of a wild 
 cattle ranch, for which property he was destined 
 to pay $50 per acre twenty- one years later. 
 Arriving in Denver Jie began to buy and sell 
 cattle. On his arrival he was offered the Mam- 
 moth corral for $10,000 and could possibly have 
 bought it cheaper, as the parties were anxious to 
 sell. A few years later it sold for $150,000. 
 While in Denver he married Miss Estella Barn- 
 hizer, a native of Lima, Ohio. 
 
 In 1870, on the construction of the Kansas 
 Pacific Railroad, he went to Kansas, and took 
 contract work. While at old Fort Wallace, his 
 outfit was stolen by Indians. Afterward he 
 worked on the Lawrence & Galveston road. 
 During the twenty-four years that followed, he 
 built many miles of railroad for different com- 
 panies. In 1890 he returned to Denver and put 
 one hundred teams at work on the old Bob Creek 
 ditch. The same year he bought his present 
 farm of three hundred and twenty acres, two and 
 one-half miles north of Longmont. At the 
 same time he built the St. Louis Valley Railroad. 
 In 1891-92 he had extensive contracts in widening 
 the gauge of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 
 from Leadville to Denver. In 1893 he moved to 
 his farm, bringing with him two hundred teams. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 which he had used in his contract work. A 
 short time afterward he sold his stock to ad- 
 vantage, and settled down to the life of a farmer 
 and stock-raiser. With his son, he owns eight 
 hundred and forty acres in Boulder and Weld 
 Counties and also rents three hundred and twenty 
 acres, all of which he has planted to grain and 
 potatoes. His cattle interests are also large and 
 important. He has made a scientific study of 
 the cattle business, and consequently has met 
 with success in it. When starting for himself in 
 Helena, he had only $60, but through energy and 
 perseverance, combined with good business 
 judgment, he is now one of the substantial men 
 of his section. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 McPherson Post, G. A. R. He and his family 
 are identified with the Methodist Church. 
 
 Four children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Phillips. Henry R., the oldest, is a 
 graduate of Wesleyan College, Salina, Kan., and 
 resides at Eaton, Weld County, where he is in- 
 terested with his father in the farming and stock 
 business. Lucy, the oldest daughter, is the wife 
 of Dr. St. Clair, of Longmont; Nora married 
 Leon Rash, patentee and manufacturer of body 
 braces, residing in Salina, Kan. ; and Pearl is the 
 wife of Charles Newby, a farmer of Boulder 
 County. 
 
 (pi DIN H. NEWTON. Alike in business, po- 
 Ll litical and fraternal connections Mr. New- 
 / I ton has become one of the prominent men 
 of Denver. He is the proprietor of a grocery 
 and feed store at No. 3352-56 Clear Creek avenue, 
 with a branch at No. 1632 Thirty-fourth avenue 
 west, his building being 50x125 feet in dimen- 
 sions, with basement. In 1897 he was nominated 
 for alderman by the silver Republicans, endorsed 
 by the tax- payers of the sixth ward, and was 
 elected to the council by the largest majority 
 ever given in the ward. Since his term of service 
 began he has served as chaifman of the commit- 
 tee on public grounds and buildings and as a 
 member of the fire, judiciary and license com- 
 mittees. 
 
 The connection of Mr. Newton with the Patri- 
 otic Order Sons of America has been one of trust 
 and responsibility. He is a member of Washing- 
 ton Camp No. 15, and was a charter member of 
 Camp No. i, organized in 1881, in which he was 
 
 an officer. He assisted in instituting the order 
 in Colorado and has always been one of its most 
 progressive workers. For two terms he has 
 served as state president, and he is also the na- 
 tional district commander-general for Colorado of 
 the Uniform Rank, to which position he has been 
 twice elected. 
 
 In Moretown, near Montpelier, Washington 
 County, Vt., the subject of this article was born 
 May 10, 1852, being a member of an old Puritan 
 family that originated in England. His grand- 
 father, Ebenezer, settled in Vermont when it was 
 a part of New Hampshire and when Ethan Allen 
 was the most famous man in that part of the coun- 
 try. Settling upon a farm he remained there 
 until his death, at eighty-nine years. In religion 
 he was identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Harry Newton, father of Adin, was 
 born in Vermont, where he engaged in farming 
 and also operated a sawmill that was run by 
 water-power. He married Matilda Colby, whose 
 father, Hezekiah Colby, was a farmer in the town 
 of Berlin. Of their six children four attained 
 mature years and three are living: Mrs. Matilda 
 Warren, of Vermont; Ira E., of Denver; and 
 Adin H. The mother died in 187 1. 
 
 After the death of Harry Newton, which oc- 
 curred when he was fifty-six years of age, his 
 family became scattered. Our subject, then a 
 small child, remained in Vermont until he was 
 eight, when he went to Lewis, Essex County, 
 N. Y., and there worked on a farm until he was 
 fourteen . Returning then to Vermont he secured 
 work in Burlington, where he remained until 
 1876. In the fall of that year he came west and 
 settled in Guthrie Center, Iowa, where he clerked 
 for two years. Starting from there to Leadville 
 he was delayed at Wa-Keeney, Kan., by the out- 
 break of the Cheyenne Indians. Wa-Keeney had 
 just been started and work was plenty. He se- 
 cured work as a teamster, but soon was made 
 freight agent for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, re- 
 maining in that capacity for eighteen months. 
 In June, 1880, he proceeded westward with a 
 team and after a tedious journey reached Denver. 
 He had been troubled with rheumatism, but un- 
 der the influence of this geniaV climate soon be- 
 came free from the disease. For three months 
 he was employed under Colonel Ellsworth as 
 driver on the old street-car line. 
 
 The next venture of Mr. Newton was in the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 grocery business. He built a store on the corner 
 of Nineteenth and Hartford, where he carried on 
 business for a time. Later he was in business 
 for seven years at Nineteenth and New Haven. 
 Meantime, in 1882, he bought property at No. 
 737 Clear Creek avenue, where he built one of 
 the first houses in that section. He now resides 
 at No. 3333 Witter street. In May, 1887, he 
 built a store on the corner of Clear Creek and 
 Kent, now Thirty-fourth avenue west. He 
 is a member of the Woodmen of the World. 
 When permitted to take a vacation from his 
 store and public duties he seeks a quiet place 
 in the country where the fishing is good and 
 where wild game may be found, and he always 
 returns home with some trophies of his skill with 
 the fish-hook and the gun. 
 
 In Essex County, N. Y., in 1874, Mr. Newton 
 married Miss Mary Lewis, who was born there, 
 a daughter of Fred and Lovinia (Nichols) Lewis. 
 Her grandfather, Horace Lewis, was born in 
 Connecticut, but became an early settler in the 
 town of Lewis, Essex County, which was named 
 in his honor. He was of Welsh descent. The 
 maternal grandfather of Mrs. Newton was John 
 Nichols, a farmer, who removed from Connecticut 
 to New York. Fred Lewis engaged in farming 
 and the lumber business in Essex, his native 
 county. In his family there are four living chil- 
 dren, of whom Mrs. Newton is next to the oldest. 
 They are the parents of four children: Walter, 
 Jessie, Bertha and Dora. 
 
 aBRAHAM HOWARTH, whose home is on 
 section 12, township 6 south, range 69 west, 
 in the northwestern part of Douglas County, 
 near Littleton, was born near Manchester, Eng- 
 land, April 7, 1837, being a son of David and 
 Mary (Mills) Howarth. When a boy he attended 
 school for a short time, during half of the day, 
 while his remaining time was devoted to work in 
 the cotton mills. When he was only seven years 
 of age he -was forced to aid in his own support, 
 and was employed to sweep out the alleys in the 
 mills. A year later he was promoted to handling 
 bobbins, which, when filled, he distributed to 
 points where they were needed. By the time he 
 was eighteen he was overlooker, being the young- 
 est who ever occupied that position in the mills. 
 In 1857 Mr. Howarth took passage on a sailing 
 
 vessel bound for America, and arrived in this 
 country after a voyage of seven weeks and four 
 days. After having spent some time in the east- 
 ern states he went to Chicago. He had no money 
 and secured work through an intelligence office, 
 on a farm in McLean County, 111. Though he 
 had never done farm work, his services proved 
 satisfactory to his employer. While there he was 
 married, in Bloomington, October 21, 1859, to 
 Miss Alice Barlow, who was born near Manches- 
 ter, England, and to whom he had been engaged 
 before coming to the United States. She was a 
 daughter of Robert and Sarah (Dutson) Barlow, 
 and by her marriage has become the mother of 
 three children, namely: Abe, who was born in 
 England and assists his father on the farm; Sarah, 
 Mrs. Arthur B. Mitchell, of Littleton, and the 
 mother of one child, Alice Helen; and Alice, who 
 was born on the farm where the family now live. 
 
 After farming for some time on rented land in 
 McLean County, Mr. Howarth went to England, 
 in 1862, and spent some six years there. How- 
 ever, he had been in America too long to remain 
 contented with the customs and environments in 
 England, even though he might attain a greater 
 prosperity in his native land. On his return to 
 this country he worked in a cotton factory in St. 
 Louis for a time, thenpe went to Kansas, where 
 he worked in a packing house, and during the 
 three years spent there he was joined by his fam- 
 ily. From Kansas City he came to Denver, 
 where he built a residence, but soon afterward, in 
 1875, removed to the farm he now occupies. On 
 coming here he had but little of this world's 
 goods. For nine years he cultivated the land, 
 meantime accumulating a large amount of money, 
 which, however, he did not make an effort to save. 
 He finally concluded it would be wiser to save a 
 little, and in three years' time he had saved 
 enough to buy the place, consisting of one hun- 
 dred and seventy-five acres, and to this he has 
 since added, until at the present writing he has 
 nearly five hundred acres. 
 
 Politically Mr. Howarth votes the Republican 
 ticket in national issues, but is independent in 
 local matters. In 1897 he was elected county 
 commissioner, but the election was in direct oppo- 
 sition to his wishes, as he has always refused to 
 hold office. His interest in educational matteis 
 led him, soon after he came to this county, to 
 accept a position on the school board, and he has 
 
BRYANT s. Lagrange. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 983 
 
 served as a school director ever since. Frater- 
 nally lie was formerly connected with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, but has allowed 
 his membership to lapse. His son Abe is iden- 
 tified with the blue lodge of Masons. 
 
 gRYANT S. I.AGRANGE, who died at his 
 home near Greeley, Weld County, Septem- 
 ber 24, 1895, was a man of more than local 
 reputation, for he occupied numerous public po- 
 sitions of importance during a long period, and 
 was noted for the executive skill and ability 
 which he manifested in the discharge of his 
 duties. It was in 1870 that he came to this 
 state, .settling in the vicinity of Greeley, and for 
 a quarter of a century he was actively interested 
 in the development of this region. 
 
 The parents of Mr. LaGrange were Daniel H. 
 and Experience N. (Stoddard) L,aGrange, na- 
 tives of New York and Connecticut respectively. 
 Bryant S. LaGrange was born in the town of 
 Vestal, Broome County, N. Y., August 14, 1823, 
 and grew to mature years in his native county. 
 He married Miss Susan Mersereau, daughter of 
 Daniel and Susan (Latourette) Mersereau, of old 
 Huguenot stock, their ancestors having first set- 
 tled in New Jersey, and later removed to New 
 York state. Daniel Mersereau followed agricult- 
 ure for a livelihood. His family comprised 
 fourteen children, eleven of whom lived to ma- 
 ture years, while five yet survive, and, with the 
 exception of Mrs. LaGrange, reside in the east. 
 
 Until 1863 Mr. LaGrange carried on a farm in 
 Broome County, N. Y., but in the year men- 
 tioned he removed to Port Huron, Mich. There 
 he cleared land and engaged in lumbering, and 
 also did contracting for grading and road work. 
 When he came to Greeley he homesteaded a tract 
 of eighty acres, about five miles from the town, 
 and two years later built a house and began im- 
 proving the place, which was then barren and 
 covered with wild grass and cactus. Within a few 
 years, by irrigation and care, he had transformed 
 the property, which is now one of the fertile and 
 productive ones of the county. From time to 
 time he invested in more land, until his estate 
 comprised four hundred acres. He was placed in 
 charge of the construction of the first ditch in 
 Greeley district No. 3, which supplies this region 
 with water from the river. Later he was in- 
 
 terested in the building of ditch No. 2 as super- 
 intendent of the work. The governor then ap- 
 pointed him to attend to the proper distribution 
 of water from the river, iu order that one locality 
 might not suffer at the expense of others. For 
 seventeen years, during different party adminis- 
 trations, he served as a member of the state 
 board of agriculture, belonging to the first assem- 
 bly of the same in the state. During 1888-89 he 
 was active in the construction of the Dolores Land 
 and Irrigation ditch in the Montezuma valley, in 
 the extreme southwestern portion of Colorado, 
 and was made an honorary member of the irriga- 
 tion engineering corps. Then he served as a 
 member of a special commission for selecting the 
 state school lands, and in 1892 was appointed by 
 the governor to act on a committee on agricult- 
 ure to arrange for the state exhibit at the 
 World's Columbian Exposition. The same year 
 he was sent as a commissioner by the govern- 
 ment to Dakota, in order to introduce irrigation 
 methods in that state. His extended experience 
 and knowledge on this subject made his opinion 
 most valuable, and it was considered authorita- 
 tive. His life was an unusually busy and useful 
 one, and all his old associates deeply mourn his 
 loss. He was a member of the Masonic order, 
 and was buried in the cemetery at Greeley with 
 the honors of the fraternity. Politically he was 
 loyal to the Republican party, though he never 
 sought public distinction. 
 
 The four children born to Mr. and Mrs. La- 
 Grange are: Ella M., wife of Daniel Witter; 
 Catherine, wife of Thomas J. Stimson, of Gree- 
 ley; Jennie L., wife of John Gladston; and Ward 
 H., who is unmarried and lives upon the family 
 homestead. 
 
 Q HARLES H. SCOTT, a successful business 
 I C man of Denver, has invested considerably 
 vj in real estate and now carries on an exten- 
 sive abstract business, with his office in the Cali- 
 fornia building. Though not a native of the 
 United States, he is intensely devoted to the wel- 
 fare of his adopted country and took out naturali- 
 zation papers in 1873. At the same time he joined 
 himself to the Republican party, by the members 
 of which he was elected clerk. At various times 
 he has been chosen delegate to county and state 
 conventions, and for years he has been an active 
 worker in the political field. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 In London, England, Mr. Scott was born in 
 January, 1852, a son of Charles W. and Harriet M. 
 (Paice) Scott. His father, who was connected 
 with the government service from the age of 
 eighteen until his death in London in 1893, was 
 registrar for the colonies during much of his life 
 and was a man of great energy and fearless integ- 
 rity of character. In the schools of his native 
 land our subject received a fair education, being 
 for some time a pupil in the Mercer school. 
 When he was almost twenty-one years of age, in 
 1872, he crossed the ocean to America and settled 
 in Denver, where he at once entered into the ab- 
 stract business. This he followed until 1875, 
 when he became deputy county clerk. For eight 
 years he filled the position of deputy with 
 efficiencj% and so satisfactory was his work that, 
 at the expiration of that time, he was elected to 
 the office of clerk, which he held for four years. 
 On retiring from office he resumed the abstract 
 business, in which he is still engaged. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Scott occurred in Denver, 
 January 7, 1888, and united him with Miss Anna 
 M. Long, who was born in Fairfield, Iowa. One 
 child, Margaret, blesses their union. The family 
 stand high in the regard of their acquaintances 
 and have many warm friends among the people of 
 Denver. Fraternally he is actively identified 
 with Occidental Lodge No. 3, Woodmen of the 
 World, of which he is a charter member and to 
 the development of which he has contributed. 
 His business affairs are conducted with the meth- 
 odical system characteristic of him in every mat- 
 ter, and all his transactions are fair, honest and 
 satisfactory in even the smallest detail. 
 
 K)EWTON B. ALDERMAN. This well- 
 \j known farmer of Douglas County, whose 
 1/9 home is on section 21, township 10, range 
 65 west, ten miles west of Greenland, was born 
 in Jacksonville, 111., and is a son of James H. and 
 Adelia (Beckman) Alderman. His father, a 
 native of New Jersey, learned the tailor's trade, 
 which he followed in Jacksonville, 111., but after 
 a time he moved to a small farm near the city. 
 From the time of his birth, October 24, 1852, 
 until he was nineteen years of age, our subject 
 resided in Illinois, where he attended common 
 schools and received a fair education. 
 
 In 1872 James H. Alderman came to Colorado 
 
 and embarked in the tailoring business. The 
 next year our subject joined him here and for 
 three years carried on a dairy business in Denver. 
 In 1876 he came to the divide and homesteaded 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land, later bought 
 two hundred acres of bottom land, and added 
 other tracts from time to time until he finally be- 
 came the owner of six hundred acres. In 1879 
 he erected a neat residence and in 1893 built a 
 substantial barn, both of which form valuable 
 improvements to Silver State farm, as his place is 
 named. Besides general farming, he is engaged 
 in the dairy business, and in 1894 he became a 
 partner in a creamery known as the Spring Val- 
 ley creamery. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Alderman married Miss Ida Stark, 
 who was born in Missouri, but was living in 
 Douglas County at the time of their marriage. 
 She died in 1887, leaving three children, Minnie, 
 James Grant and Ida. In 1889 Mr. Alderman 
 married Miss Georgia Sutphin, who was born in 
 New Jersey and graduated from a normal school; 
 she came to Colorado and taught school in Douglas 
 County prior to her marriage. The first vote of 
 our subject was cast in 1876 for Rutherford B. 
 Hayes and he has continued since to support 
 Republican candidates. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Elbert Camp, Woodmen of the 
 World. f 
 
 K^EWTON D. OWEN is one of the promi- 
 Py nent and influential men of Central City, 
 I/d Gilpin County, and was born in Whites- 
 boro, Oneida County, N. Y., January 4, 1845. 
 His parents were David and Nancy (Hall) 
 Owen. His father was born in Wales, but came 
 with his father, David, to America, where the lat- 
 ter engaged in farming in Oneida County, and 
 died. The father of our subject was a contractor 
 and builder in Whitesboro, N. Y., where he died 
 at the early age of thirty-three. The mother, a 
 daughter of Harry Hall, a farmer of the same 
 place, and belonging to an old New England 
 family, makes- her home with her son, New- 
 ton D. 
 
 Mr. Owen was an only child, and was edu- 
 cated and learned the trade of a carpenter in 
 Whitesboro, and there began contracting and 
 building. In 1865 he went to Paraje,New Mexico, 
 and embarked in the general merchandise busi- 
 ness for three years, when he came to Central 
 
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 City. For several years he worked here at con- 
 tracting and building, and finally drifted into the 
 mining business. That he was a first-class me- 
 chanic is shown by the buildings erected by him, 
 among which are the Teller House, Episcopal 
 Church, high school, and many others. He 
 built a great many buildings that were destroyed 
 by the fire of 1874. About 1878 he discovered 
 and developed the Boss mine, of which he still 
 owns about a mile of the lode. He was also in- 
 terested in other mines, some of which were dis- 
 covered by him. 
 
 He married in Whitesboro, N. Y., December 
 16, 1869, Miss Sarah E. Bush, of Sangerfield, 
 same county, whose father, Lee Bush, was also 
 a New Yorker. They have two children, Lena 
 E. and Frank H., both graduates of the high 
 school, the latter superintendent of the Cayuga 
 Lake Mining Company, of Quartz Valley dis- 
 trict. He has been four years alderman of the 
 city, and in the fall of 1897 was elected county 
 commissioner for the second district on the silver 
 Republican ticket. He took the ofiBce in Janu- 
 ary, 1898, to continue for three years. He was 
 made a Mason in Central Lodge No. 6, and is 
 past officer. He is past high priest in Central 
 City Chapter No. i, past eminent commander of 
 Central City Commandery No. 2, and a member 
 of El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. 
 
 T~ RANK G. REEMAN, senior member of the 
 ry firm of Reeman & Myers, dealers in lumber, 
 I ^ coal and agricultural implements, at Eaton, 
 Weld County, is a native of England, born Janu- 
 ary 18, 1856, to James and Mary Charlotte Par- 
 meuter (Meeking) Reeman. His father, a suc- 
 cessful and prosperous man, was engaged in 
 farming in Guildford, Surrey, where he was road 
 overseer and a member of the board of health. 
 Not only was he the possessor of business ability 
 of a high order, but he was gifted as a poet, and 
 many of his writings are gems of thought clothed 
 in beautiful language. In his death, which oc- 
 curred in May, 1897, the community lost a pub- 
 lic-spirited citizen and the family a devoted, kind 
 husband and father. 
 
 From among the poems of Mr. Reeman we se- 
 lect two which we quote. The beauty of the 
 imagery will be apparent to even a careless 
 reader, while the mind, trained to a love of beau- 
 
 tiful thoughts, beautifully expressed, will dwell 
 upon them with delight: 
 
 WHEN ROSE LEAVES FALL. 
 
 The purple tints spread o'er the heath 
 And autumn twines a flashing wreath 
 
 Of gold for all. 
 The swallows know their day is o'er 
 And fly to seek a distant shore. 
 
 When rose leaves fall. 
 
 And so, when youth has passed away, 
 With fleeting joys and fancies gay, 
 
 Beyond recall, 
 Our hopes, our dreams, one by one^ 
 With lingering sweetness soon are gone. 
 
 As rose leaves fall, 
 
 But love shall lead our hearts aright 
 And into everlasting light. 
 The light of a)l. 
 
 Though earthly joys may fade away 
 When softly dies the ebbing day — 
 When rose leaves fall. 
 
 1890. PRIMROSE DAY. 
 
 Sweetest of the early flowers. 
 Primrose, born in shady bowers, 
 Bringing back our childhood hours. 
 In Cockfield tho' you will not grow. 
 Or in Laushall thy pale blossom show 
 The reason I've oft wished to know. 
 While in places all around 
 Thy sweet flowers may be found, 
 In springtime decking all the ground 
 Clad in robes of richest green. 
 In the dark and mossy den. 
 Where no human foot has been. 
 
 There thy sweet and smiling face 
 Looks up from its hiding place. 
 With a look of tender grace. 
 In recesses all unseen 
 Thou of all spring flowers the queen. 
 Yet with unassuming mien. 
 Cheerless home, 'neath wintry trees. 
 How ye live no mortal sees, 
 Mystery of mysteries! 
 
 Though a teacher to us sent, 
 Silently thy days are spent; 
 Yet in silence eloquent. 
 Something human thou must be. 
 Looking in thy face we see 
 Innocence and modesty. 
 
 Yes, a thought of God thou art, 
 Of humanity a part; 
 For you touch the human heart. 
 Dainty primrose fair to see. 
 May we learn and be like thee 
 In thy sweet humility. 
 
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 In the family of James Reeman there were 
 eleven children, nine of whom are living, namely: 
 William, who is rector of the Episcopal Church 
 at Durham, England; James, a farmer living in 
 Durango, Colo. ; Charles P. , a retired army con- 
 tractor; Frank G., Fannie A. A., Charlotte S., 
 Phoebe J., Louisa Mary and Susie P. The 
 subject of this sketch was educated at Christ 
 Church school, London. For three years he was 
 an apprentice to Brice & Sons, of Northampton, 
 with whom he learned the dry-goods trade. He 
 then spent two years in London, with William 
 Whiteley, of Westbourne Grove, after which he 
 was employed by Thomas White, at Aldershot. 
 In 1880 he came to America, and for two and 
 one-half years engaged in farming with Kellogg 
 Austin, at Owasco, N. Y. In 1882 he came to 
 Eaton, Colo., and entered the employ of Gov. 
 B. H. and A. J. Eaton, in their mercantile busi- 
 ness. Five years later he bought one hundred 
 and sixty acres one-half mile east of Eaton, in 
 township 5, range 65, which he still owns, but 
 rents. For two years he conducted a meat busi- 
 ness, after which he sold to Foster & Waldo and 
 they in turn sold to Rudolph & Jacobs. With 
 the latter firm Mr. Reeman remained for nearly 
 four years, during which time the trade of the 
 firm was large, owing principally to his wide 
 circle of personal friends. 
 
 In connection with Mr. Myers, in 1898, Mr. 
 Reeman bought the lumber business of Steele & 
 Smillie, and with this enterprise he has since 
 been identified. He has been successful and has 
 a large trade, especially in the sale of farm ma- 
 chinery, having sold as many as seventeen binders 
 in one week. Coming to Eaton when the village 
 was just started, he has witnessed its growth to 
 its present proportions and has assisted materially 
 in the development of the county. Prior to the 
 silver issue he was a supporter of the Republican 
 party, but since the campaign of 1896 he has been 
 independent in his political allegiance. In 1897 
 he was elected a member of the town board. He 
 has interests in the Larimer and Weld Irrigation 
 Company and the Farmers' Reservoir Company. 
 He is the only honorary member of the Woodmen 
 of the World at this place. 
 
 December 21, 1888, Mr. Reeman married 
 Blanche Isabelle Stevens, daughter of Joseph 
 Stevens, of Brixton, London. She was born in 
 England and died at Eaton, January 3, 1890. 
 
 One month after her death her only child, Charles 
 Wallace Stevens Reeman, also passed away. 
 Both are buried in Lynn Grove Cemeterj' at Gree- 
 ley. The present wife of Mr. Reeman, with whom 
 he was united April 17, 1898, was Nellie M. Row- 
 ley, daughter of Michael Rowley, of Fort Coving- 
 ton, Franklin County, N. Y. 
 
 "TDWARDS. BLAKE, of Blackhawk, is an 
 'e) old soldier and one of the substantial 
 ^ citizens of Gilpin County. Descended from 
 an old New England family, he was born in 
 Rockland County, Me., in 1839, his parents be- 
 ing Osgood and Abigail (Simmons) Blake. His 
 father was born in Maine, but during the gold 
 excitement, in the early days, he went to Cali- 
 fornia. He made two trips, and after the second 
 one settled down to farming in Maine, where he 
 remained until his death. The mother was also a 
 native of Maine and died there. They had a 
 family of seven children, five of whom are living. 
 Three of the brothers, Warren, Osgood and 
 Edward, went from Maine to the Civil war. 
 Previous to this our subject had remained at 
 home, after attending the public schools until 
 1863. He then enlisted in Company F, Twenty- 
 sixth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served on 
 the Mississippi from the 9apture of Fort Hud- 
 son until the expiration of his time, when he was 
 mustered out and returned home. He again took 
 up the work of teaming and farming, but re- 
 ceived word that his brother Warren was in New 
 Orleans, stricken with paralysis, and went down 
 to bring him home. In 1867 he came to Black- 
 hawk and has been engaged in teaming ever 
 since. He hauls- quartz and does transfer team- 
 ing, and at one time ran nine wagons, but at 
 this time has only two or three. He has also 
 been identified with the.mines here for the past 
 twenty-five years. He operates the Belmont, in 
 Gregory, and is interested in the Argo, the 
 United States and the Sunset, the latter of which 
 he discovered and developed. 
 
 He married after coming here. Miss Kate Carr, 
 a native of St. Louis. They have three children, 
 all living in Blackhawk. Osgood has a position 
 as a clerk; Otto is a bookkeeper; and Harry is still 
 in school. Mr. Blake has a nice home on Clear 
 Creek street, which he improved. For nineteen 
 years he has served the city as alderman, acting 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 on all the committees. He is a member of Black- 
 hawk I.odge No. II, A. F. & A. M., and Ells- 
 worth Post No. 20, G. A. R., and is a stanch 
 Republican. 
 
 "TDSON WARREN, who resides four miles 
 ^ northwest of Fort Collins, was born in the 
 __ town of Rush, Monroe County, N. Y., 
 August 13, 1843, and is a son of Stephen and 
 Susan (Smith) Warren. His grandfather, New- 
 man Warren, was a farmer in Massachusetts, but 
 moved to New York, where he cleared the timber 
 from his land in the town of Wheatland, and 
 cultivated it until his death. He belonged to the 
 old historic Warren family of Massachusetts, 
 and was a relative of General Warren, of Rev- 
 olutionary fame. Stephen Warren moved to 
 Canandaigua, N. Y., with his father, but as he 
 did not like that location he settled in the town 
 of Wheatland, Monroe County, and later im- 
 proved a farm in the town of Rush, where he was 
 for several years a justice of the peace. One of 
 his brothers, Benjamin, was in the war of 18 12. 
 He married Miss Susan Smith, of Bethlehem, 
 Pa., a daughter of Abraham Smith, formerly of 
 Pennsylvania, but later a resident of Rush. 
 Stephen Warren died in 1873, and his wife 
 July 4, 1884. There were five children, viz.: 
 Mrs. N. H. Meldrum, of Denver; James, of New 
 York; Joseph, of Michigan; Mrs. John W. Mel- 
 drum, of Wyoming; and Edson, who was the 
 third child of the family. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was educated in the 
 public schools and in Geneseo Academy, and 
 remained at home until he was twenty-three, 
 when he started on a tour through Michigan, 
 Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, thence back to New 
 York. Six months later he started for Colorado, 
 locating in Larimer County in 1870. He pur- 
 chased an interest in his present farm, his partner 
 being his brother-in-law, Hon. N. H. Meldrum. 
 He engaged in farming and stock-raising and 
 later bought the remainder of the farm, consist- 
 ing of two hundred and forty acres. He. set out 
 a nice grove, and took up a timber claim of eight 
 acres. He was one of the small company to con- 
 struct an irrigating ditch, and his farm is well 
 improved, with not a foot of waste ground on the 
 place. He raises grain and alfalfa, and feeds 
 large numbers of lambs, having at this time about 
 two thousand head which he is feeding. 
 
 Mr. Warren was married in LaPorte to Miss 
 Susannah L. Riddle, who was born in Iowa. Her 
 father, John G. Riddle, settled in this state in 
 1870, and died twenty years later; he was born in 
 Indiana, his father, Stephen, coming from North 
 Carolina, and settling in Indiana, where he was 
 a pioneer farmer. John G. was also a farmer, 
 and when still a young man he moved to Iowa, 
 married in Attica, Marion County, and engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits in that state until 1870, 
 when he brought his family to Fort Collins, and 
 bought a farm two miles northwest of that city. 
 This he improved and continued to cultivate up 
 to his death, in July, 1887, at the age of sixty- 
 eight years. He married Frances May, of Craw- 
 fordsville, Ind. , whose father, Alexander, moved 
 to Iowa and died there. She is living in Boul- 
 der, Colo. There are eleven children, namely: 
 Mary E. , Mrs. Levi Hake, of Boulder; Frances J., 
 Mrs. M. L. Landes; Stephen Alexander, in Colo- 
 rado Springs; E. Asbury, who resides at LaPorte; 
 Esther R., Mrs. T. A. Gage, of Fort Collins; 
 F. P., living near that place; Susannah L. 
 Mrs. Edson Warren, of LaPorte; John M., near 
 Fort Collins; Rachael E., Mrs. Watrous, who 
 died in California at the age of thirty-one; Isaac C, 
 on the old home near Fort Collins; and Ida May, 
 Mrs. Owens, of Colorado Springs. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Warren .have four children: Frances, Marion, 
 Whitney and Myrne. The two eldest daughters 
 are now students at the State Agricultural 
 College at Fort Collins. Mr. Warren is a silver 
 Republican, but has never cared for ofiBcial 
 position. 
 
 (lOHN PEARSON SANDERSON, who came 
 I to Colorado in 1879, is the owner of a stock 
 Q) ranch in Elbert County, in partnership with 
 his brother. Dr. W. Raymond Sanderson. He 
 was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1855, and is de- 
 scended from Irish ancestors, who founded Lee 
 University, in Dublin, Ireland. His great-great- 
 grandfather, Francis Sanderson, started the foun- 
 dry business in the heart of Baltimore, in the 
 early days of that city, and was engaged in 
 that business until his death. His son, William 
 Raymond, was born in Baltimore, but removed in 
 early manhood to Frederick, Md., of which he 
 was a pioneer and successful merchant. Being a 
 man of recognized integritj', on the formation of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Frederick County he was offered the position of 
 county commissioner, but the pressure of other 
 duties obliged him to dechne it. 
 
 Thomas, son of William Raymond Sanderson, 
 and father of the subject of our sketch, was born 
 in Frederick, Md., in 1812, but removed to Balti- 
 more, where he carried on successfully the whole- 
 sale dry-goods business. From this he retired 
 early in life to his country seat, The Plains, a 
 handsome estate in the suburbs of Baltimore, 
 where he died in 1877. He was a relative of the 
 illustrious founder of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity in Baltimore, also of the Shrivers and Bidge- 
 lys, well-known Maryland families. His cousin, 
 Christopher Hughes, was sent as minister to The 
 Hague during the Monroe administration, but 
 died before reaching his post. His brother. Dr. 
 W, Raymond Sanderson, was for many years a 
 well-known figure in Frederick, being a man of 
 great information and widely read on different 
 subjects. He died in Frederick at an advanced 
 age, and was buried in the ancient cemetery in 
 which repose so many of the Sanderson family. 
 
 Thomas married Hannah Ann Pearson, of Balti- 
 more, daughter of Joseph Pearson, of English an- 
 cestry, and one of the defenders of Baltimore at 
 the battle of North Point in 18 12. He was a 
 successful fur merchant, and retired from business 
 in 1850, living on his estate. Highland Park, 
 until his death, in i860. His daughter, Mrs. 
 Sanderson, was a woman of great strength of 
 character and fine executive ability. She died in 
 the same year as her husband, leaving eight chil- 
 dren, most of whom are married and settled in 
 the neighborhood of Baltimore. They are as fol- 
 lows: Mary, who married Rev. Robert H. Will- 
 iams, of Highland Park; Francis, engaged in 
 business in Baltimore and editor of one of the 
 departments of the Baltimore American; Marga- 
 ret, who resides in Baltimore; Inez J. , wife of 
 John F. Williams, a well-known attorney and 
 politician; John Pearson, the subject of our 
 sketch; Dr. W. Raymond, graduate of the Univer- 
 sity of Maryland, who came to Colorado in 188 1 
 and is engaged in the cattle business with his 
 brother John; Julia Hedges, married to Edward 
 C. Eichelberger, a prominent attorney and owner 
 of real-estate in Baltimore; and Eleanor, who 
 married Graham Johnston, of Frederick, and 
 grandson of one of the governors of Maryland. 
 Mr. Sanderson received his education at Aca- 
 
 demia, a school on the Juniata, Pa. After finish- 
 ing his studies he returned home, and took charge 
 of the family estate. The Plains, until he came to 
 Colorado in 1879, bringing with him letters of 
 introduction to Governor Gilpin and other men of 
 prominence. He settled in Elbert County, where 
 he purchased the Hillside ranch, on East Bijou 
 creek, raising high-grade Shorthorn cattle and 
 French coach horses. This ranch is well im- 
 proved and well situated for the business; the 
 chief feature is ample provision against loss. All 
 calves at weaning time are vaccinated with the 
 Pasteur lymph as a preventive against black 
 leg. Mr. Sanderson is one of the early members 
 of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association. 
 
 In 1882 he married Lucy May Fullerton, of 
 Baltimore, daughter of Robert B. Fullerton, a 
 well-known dry goods merchant of that city, and 
 a Scotch- Irishman of good family, having been 
 born at Mayne House, the family estate, near 
 Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. The founder 
 of the family emigrated from Scotland during the 
 rebellion of Sir William Wallace. Mrs. Sander- 
 son is of English parentage on her mother's side, 
 and a descendant of Sir William Hemsmith, a 
 captain in the British army. Her mother, Mrs. 
 Eleanor Fullerton, is well known in literary circles, 
 east and west. They have three children, John 
 Pearson, Jr. , Eleanor May and Thomas Campbell. 
 Mr. Sanderson's family have always been Pres- 
 byterians and favored the Union cause during the 
 Civil war. He is a stanch bimetallist, and votes 
 for men who favor that cause. 
 
 ©AMUEL A. RANK, civil and mining engi- 
 2S neer, has been United States deputy mineral 
 K/ surveyor for Colorado for nearly a score of 
 years, having been appointed by Albert Johnson, 
 surveyor-general of the state, May 13, 1879. He 
 is a member of the firm of Chase & Rank, Mr. 
 Chase being in charge of their oflSce, No. 509 
 Mining Exchange, Denver, while Mr. Rank 
 takes the management of their Central City office. 
 Mr. Rank was named in honor of his paternal 
 grandfather, Samuel Rank, who was a native of 
 Pennsylvania and was a pioneer in Indiana, in 
 which state his death occurred. The father of 
 our subject was William Rank, born near Will- 
 iamsport, Pa., and for years a farmer of Wa- 
 bash, in the state of Indiana. In 1835 he moved 
 
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 to Olnistead County, Minn., where he was a pio- 
 neer farmer. He is still living in the vicinity of 
 Dover, where he first located, and has served as 
 county commissioner and in other positions of 
 local importance. His wife, of an old Virginia 
 family, was Miss Elizabeth J. Donaldson prior to 
 her marriage. When a young girl she went from 
 her native state to Kentucky with her mother. 
 She became the mother of ten children, all but 
 two of whom she saw live to be useful men and 
 women, the others dying in childhood. She died 
 in 1896. 
 
 The birth of Samuel A. Rank took place De- 
 cember 15, 1848, in Wabash, Ind. He received 
 an excellent education and after completing his 
 high-school studies entered the University of 
 Minnesota in 1869. After taking two courses of 
 college work he graduated with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer. Then, 
 for a time, in order to gain practical experience, 
 he was employed in railroad construction and in 
 the spring of the Centennial year he came to Colo- 
 rado. Going to Blackhawk he was employed in 
 the smelting plant until the spring of 1877, when 
 he entered the service of Hal Sayr. Four years 
 having rolled away he left Mr. Sayr and started 
 in business for himself in Central City. From 
 1881 until 1884 he was alone and then a partner- 
 ship between himself and former employer was 
 formed. In 1886, Mr. Sayr retiring, Mr. Rank 
 and Edwin E. Chase entered upon their connec- 
 tion. They are both United States deputy min- 
 eral surveyors. In his line of duty Mr. Rank 
 has made a great many maps of Gilpin and Clear 
 Creek Counties, and assisted in surveying the 
 road of the tramway company. He has laid out 
 ditches and roads also, and has been county sur- 
 veyor of Gilpin County five terms. In fact, he 
 and his partner have divided the honors of that 
 position between them for nearly eighteen years. 
 
 For six or seven years Mr. Rank held the ofiice 
 of city surveyor of Central City, being elected 
 each year. He has always been a loyal Repub- 
 lican, but in the last campaign favored the silver 
 side in the great contention. He has often at- 
 tended the conventions of his party and has been 
 chairman of the county committee. For one term 
 he acted in the capacity of city alderman. His 
 personal popularity is plainly manifested by the 
 numerous and varied public positions of trust 
 and prominence which he has been called upon 
 
 to fill from time to time. Fraternally he is a 
 Mason, belonging to Central City Lodge No. 6, 
 A. F. & A. M. When a student in the Univer- 
 sity of Minnesota he was identified with the 
 Alpha Nu and the Chi Psi Greek letter societies. 
 In 1879 Mr. Rank married Miss Clara B. 
 Childs, of Prescott, Wis. She was born in Ohio, 
 and is a daughter of Joel Childs, also a native of 
 Ohio. The five children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Rank are: Clara Louise, Arzelia Marr, Mollie 
 Fay, Frank and Raymond. In 1895 Mr. Rank 
 took his family to Denver and located them in a 
 pleasant home there, in order that the children 
 might enjoy better educational advantages. His 
 eldest daughter is a member of the Denver high 
 school, in the class of 1899. 
 
 "HOMAS F. WALSH, junior member of the 
 firm of Gove & Walsh, architects, with 
 office in the McPhee building, Denver, was 
 born in Chicago August 5, 1866. The house 
 where he was born stood on Sherman street, about 
 one-half mile from the present site of the court- 
 house. At the time of the great fire the family 
 lived on Fifth avenue, between Polk and Taylor 
 streets, in the block where the fire first crossed 
 the river. When the flames leaped madly from 
 house to house and the people fled in terror before 
 the fire fiend, they escaped on a wagon drawn by 
 men, as horses could not be obtained at any 
 price. After going a few blocks to the south they 
 reached the limit of the fire, and were then safe. 
 
 Though Mr. Walsh was then a child of only 
 five years, he distinctly remembers the terrors of 
 that night, which left an impression never to be 
 eradicated from his mind. At the time the fire 
 started the family were in bed, but between ten 
 and eleven o'clock they got up and dressed, and 
 at one in the morning they were compelled to flee 
 for their lives. They took refuge on a freight 
 platform, where they spent the entire day. Of 
 their wearing apparel and household goods they 
 saved only a mattress, a basket of dishes and the 
 clothes they wore. Relatives accommodated them 
 with two rooms, and after a few days they rented 
 a house on the west side. Four months later, 
 February 9, 1872, the father died, and the day 
 after his youngest child, a daughter, was bom. 
 
 The primary education of our subject was ob- 
 tained in the parochial schools, which he attended 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RBCORD. 
 
 until twelve years of age. At the age of thirteen 
 he secured emplo3'nient in the office of a firm of 
 architects, where he remained a year, and after- 
 ward he was with Edbrooke & Burnham, of Chi- 
 cago for six years. Coming west to Denver, he 
 was for one year an employe of Robert S. Roesch- 
 laub, but then returned to Chicago, where he 
 spent six years with Holabird & Roche. In 1894 
 he entered into his present partnership, as a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Gove & Walsh. He is a skill- 
 ful architect, possessing the excellent judgment 
 and shrewd business qualifications that almost 
 invariably bring success. He was married iu 
 Denver in 1891, his wife being Flora L. Clem- 
 mons, by whom he has three children: Loraine, 
 born in Chicago; and Donald and Thomas F., Jr., 
 born in Denver. 
 
 The success which Mr. Walsh has won is largely 
 due to his untiring perseverance. He is a tireless 
 worker, with keen intuition and great energy. 
 His success is all the more commendable when 
 the fact is considered that he has been self-sup- 
 porting from boyhood. His father, John Walsh, 
 died when he was a mere lad, and from that time he 
 was obliged to assist in the maintenance of the other 
 members of the family. He was the third in a 
 family of six children and the oldest son in the 
 family, so that upon him the responsibility of 
 supporting the others largely devolved. 
 
 PIINCENT McDowell, a farmer and stock- 
 \ / raiser living in the southeastern part of 
 Y Douglas County, owns valuable property on 
 section 21, township 10, range 66 west, four miles 
 from Greenland. When he came to Colorado in 
 1879 he settled in Douglas County, about eight 
 miles from his present place of residence. After 
 a year he sold the property and for two years 
 operated as a renter, after which he bought two 
 hundred and forty acres. By a subsequent pur- 
 chase he has become the owner, altogether, of 
 nine hundred and sixty acres, the whole forming 
 a valuable ranch. 
 
 Born in Dallas County, Mo., January 12, 1839, 
 our subject is a son of Garrett and Nancy (Estes) 
 McDowell. His father, who was born in Ken- 
 tucky of Scotch ancestry, removed to Illinois 
 with his parents in boyhood and settled in St. 
 Clair County, where he married. Later he re- 
 moved to Fountain County, Ind., and from there, 
 
 in 1837, to Dallas County, Mo. In 1846 he went 
 to Mahaska County, Iowa, and thence to Jasper 
 County, the .same state, where he died in 1855. 
 He left four children, of whom Vincent, the third, 
 was about sixteen years of age. At the time of 
 his death he was operating a hotel in Monroe and 
 was also the owner of forty acres near that town 
 and two hundred and forty acres in Mahaska 
 County . To the latter place the widowed mother, 
 with our subject and a sister, returned soon after 
 his death, and there the mother remained until 
 1866. 
 
 In i860 our subject came to Colorado for the 
 first time, driving acro.ss the plains with an ox- 
 team and spending fifty-eight days on the way. 
 He arrived in Denver June 2 and from there pro- 
 ceeded to the mines at Central City, where he re- 
 mained until March, 1863. Then, returning to 
 Iowa, he remained until 1864, when he drove an 
 ox-team to Virginia City, Mont., taking a load of 
 flour and bacon. He sold the flour at $32 a hun- 
 dred and bacon at fifty cents a pound. Selling 
 his team and buying a team of mules, he drove 
 to Salt Lake, where he sold the mules and bought 
 horses. With the latter he came through to 
 Denver in the same year, 1864. Going to the 
 mines at Idaho Springs, he remained there until 
 July 4, 1865. He then returned to Iowa, and in 
 1866 moved the family to Jefferson County, Kan., 
 where he engaged in farm 'pursuits for twelve 
 years. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. McDowell in Monroe 
 County, Iowa, October 29, 1863, united him with 
 Miss Rhoda M. Donegan, of Monroe County, but 
 a native of Jefferson County, Iowa. Her parents, 
 John and Maria (Roberts) Donegan, were natives 
 respectively of Ohio and Maine, and were mar- 
 ried in Ohio, removing thence to Iowa in 1844. 
 From Kansas oitr subject came to Colorado and 
 has since made his home in Douglas County, 
 where he is known as an experienced and enter- 
 prising cattle-dealer and raiser. His attention is 
 given closely to farm work, and he has little 
 leisure and less inclination to mingle in official 
 matters. However, he is a firm adherent of 
 Democratic principles, having voted that ticket at 
 every election since 1864, when he supported 
 George B. McClellan. He and his wife became 
 the parents of seven children. Etta, who was 
 born in Kansas, married Edgar Chambers and 
 has one child, Darrell, now six years old. Mrs. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Chambers is a widow and lives with her parents. 
 Eva and Effie (twins) were born in Kansas. The 
 former is the wife of Richard Peake, of Grand 
 Junction, and has one daughter, Frances L.; 
 Effie married James Mclnroy, of Douglas County, 
 and has a son, Harold Vincent. The other chil- 
 dren are: Mary, Alice, Frank and James. 
 
 3 AMES F. WRIGHT, the owner of a ranch 
 comprising one hundred and sixty acres, 
 situated one and one- half miles west of 
 Franktown, Douglas County, was born in Lin- 
 coln County, Me., March 21, 1835, a son of 
 Joseph and Rosalind (Ripley) Wright. His 
 father was born near Bath, Me., of English an- 
 cestry, while his mothei, also a native of Maine, 
 was of English and Scotch lineage. The former, 
 who was a blacksmith by trade, had a shop on 
 his farm, and the family for years lived in the 
 country. Our subject attended district schools 
 and at an early age began to assist his father in 
 the shop. When about nineteen years of age he 
 went to Charlestown, Mass., and for nearly three 
 years worked for small wages, completing his 
 trade. He then entered a carriage shop in 
 Boston, where he learned the trade of a carriage 
 and wagon ironer and blacksmith. For two 
 years he worked in Dedham. 
 
 While in the latter town Mr. Wright was 
 united in marriage with Miss Maria E. Broad, of 
 Milton ^ Mass., who was born in Maine, but re- 
 moved to Massachusetts in childhood. During 
 his period of residence in Dedham Mr. Wright 
 was connected with the blacksmith's department 
 of a woolen plant, but after a few years in that 
 capacity he started a shop of his own at Pine 
 Tree Brook in Milton, where he carried on busi- 
 ness for some years. On selling out he returned 
 to Dedham, where he opened a harness and 
 trimming shop, and also followed the trades of 
 wheelwright and blacksmith. After a number 
 of years he bought an interest in a livery stable, 
 which he conducted for two years. 
 
 In 1874, disposing of his interests in Massa- 
 chusetts, Mr. Wright came to Colorado, where 
 he worked in Pueblo a few months. In July he 
 went to Idaho Springs, where he worked for a 
 stage company. In December, 1876, he sent for 
 his family, who joined him, and the}^ resided in 
 Idaho Springs until their removal to Douglas 
 
 County in 1878. Here he homesteaded the farm 
 he has since placed under cultivation and im- 
 proved with good buildings. He and his wife 
 are the parents of three living children, namely: 
 Louise, Minnie and Frank H. Louise married 
 Daniel Wilson, by whom she has five children; 
 they reside on a ranch near her father's place. 
 Minnie is the wife of Hiram Ellis and has four 
 children, their home being on a ranch near the 
 old homestead. Frank H. is married and makes 
 his home in Denver. From early boyhood Mr. 
 Wright has been a stanch Republican and his 
 first presidential ballot was cast for Abraham 
 Lincoln in 1856. When in Dedham he became 
 a member of Orient Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He 
 is an industrious, hard-working man, who richly 
 deserves the pro-sperity he has gained as well as 
 whatever of fortune the future may bring him. 
 
 0EORGE E. ALEXANDER, M.D., of Castle 
 |_ Rock, Douglas County, is a descendant in 
 ^_J the fourth generation of a Scotchman who 
 crossed the ocean and made settlement near 
 Salem, Middlesex County, Conn. Since that 
 time the family have been residents and farmers 
 in that state. The doctor's father, George W. 
 Alexander, was born in New London County, 
 Conn., and married Nancy R. Chapel; both are 
 now about sixty-seven years of age. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born at Uiicas- 
 ville, New London County, Conn., January 9, 
 1859. His boyhood days were spent in the 
 village, where his father moved from the farm 
 when he was eight years of age. He attended 
 the graded schools and after completing the reg- 
 ular course therein he went to Portville, Cattar- 
 augus County, N. Y., where he studied medicine 
 under Dr. Goodrich. At the same time, and in 
 order to earn the means with which to pro.secute 
 his studies, he worked in the oSice of William G. 
 Johnson, a manufacturer of dyes in his home 
 town, for three years. Afterward he took a four 
 years' course of study in the medical department 
 of the Buffalo University, from which he gradua- 
 ted with the degree of M. D. in 1885. During 
 his summer vacations he worked in a drug store 
 and in the state in.sane hospital, where for two 
 years he had considerable experience in the treat- 
 ment of nervous diseases. 
 
 After his graduation in 1885, Dr. Alexander 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 returned to his home and began to practice his 
 profession, continuing in Uncasville for four 
 years. While there he married Arline H., the 
 daughter of Frederick Harris, member of the 
 firm of Shepherd & Harris, merchant tailors of 
 New London. Mrs. Alexander was born in New 
 London and received splendid educational advan- 
 tages, being a graduate of Vassar. She became 
 the wife of Dr. Alexander February 13, 1889. 
 Her health failed while the doctor was taking a 
 course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 in Brooklyn, and he brought her to Colorado, 
 settling in Fort Collins, where he built up a good 
 practice. The change, however, did not benefit 
 his wife, and she died in 1892. The following 
 year, having invested and lost almost his entire 
 property in mining interests, he came to Castle 
 Rock and has since established a reputation as a 
 skillful physician among the people here. Febru- 
 ary 3, 1898, he married Miss Bessie Shaw, who 
 was born in Oregon, received her education at 
 Athens, Ohio, and at the time of her marriage 
 was living at Canon City, Colo. , where her father 
 held a pastorate. 
 
 While he was reared to believe in the Democ- 
 racy Dr. Alexander has for some years held his 
 allegiance to the Republican party and voted for 
 its candidates. While living in Connecticut he 
 became connected with the Oxoboxo Lodge No. 
 116, A. F. & A. M., of Montville, Conn., from 
 which he received a demit on his removal. He 
 is medical examiner for the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World 
 at Castle Rock. 
 
 "TUGENE E. CLARK, one of the reliable, 
 ^ successful merchants of Blackhawk, Gilpin 
 __ County, has been engaged in business here 
 for nearly a score of years and no one is more 
 highly esteemed among our citizens. Coming 
 here a young man, with his position and fortune 
 yet to make, he steadily advanced toward the 
 goal he had set before him, and now enjoys the 
 realization of many of his youthful dreams. 
 This result was not achieved without the 
 exercise of all his talents and strict attention 
 to business, but he was not one to be discouraged 
 by obstacles or failures, and eventually won de- 
 cided victories over circumstances. He is a 
 valued member of Blackhawk Lodge No. 11, 
 A. F. & A. M., and Chapter No. I , R. A. M., of 
 
 Central City, and is connected with the Knights 
 of Pythias. Though he has always been a believer 
 in the principles of the Democratic party, he has 
 not been an admirer of ex- President Cleveland, 
 either from a personal or political point of view, 
 nor did he approve of his peculiar methods and 
 political machinery. 
 
 The subject of this biography is of English de- 
 scent, though on both sides of the family his 
 ancestors were connected with the colonial New 
 England for generations. The Clarks, an old 
 Massachusetts family, took a leading part in the 
 development of the state and furnished numerous 
 brilliant men to the commonwealth. 
 
 Eugene E. Clark is the only member of a once 
 large family circle in the west. He was born in 
 Westville, N. Y., January 18, 1854, and was 
 brought up in that vicinity. He received good 
 educational advantages, and was a student in the 
 public schools of his home district until he was 
 seventeen years old. In 1888 he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Lowell & Clark, and continued 
 the business at the old location, on Gregory 
 street. In January, 1897, having purchased his 
 partner's interest, Mr. Clark succeeded to the 
 whole business and has since managed it entirely 
 alone. His large double store warehouses and 
 three basements are splendidly stocked with a full 
 line of heavy and shelf hardware, mill, mine and 
 assayer's tools, implements and supplies. The 
 volume of trade, both wholesale and retail, which 
 he handles, is really phenomenal, and speaks well 
 for his far-sightedness and judicious methods of 
 transacting business. He is a director in the 
 Rocky Mountain Bank of Central City and has 
 investments in mining property. In manner he 
 is genial and courteous, making friends wherever 
 he goes and winning the esteem of all. 
 
 In 1 88 1 Mr. Clark married Miss Catherine 
 Launder in Blackhawk. Mrs. Clark is a native 
 of Michigan, while her parents were from New 
 Haven, Conn. Three sons and one daughter 
 comprise the family of Mr. and Mrs. Clark, and 
 are named as follows: Ernest, Chester, Elmer 
 and Dorothy. 
 
 |gjEORGE RATCLIFFE is one of the largest 
 l_ land owners in Douglas County, and, indeed, 
 \^ in the entire state of Colorado. He is the 
 owner of a ranch comprising five thousand acres, 
 all of which, excepting one-half section, lies in a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 995 
 
 body.onW est Plum Creek, ten miles from Sedalia. 
 Here he settled in 1861, when the land was wild 
 and raw, and settlers few, his nearest neighbor 
 being where the schoolhouse now stands. At 
 first he bought a comparatively small tract, but as 
 the years passed he added to it until his posses- 
 sions reached a large acreage. 
 
 In Derby, Derbyshire, England, Mr. Ratcliffe 
 was born January 26, 1837, a son of Richard and 
 Elizabeth (Ball) Ratcliffe. He was reared on a 
 farm and received a common-school education. 
 In Chester, England, May 12, 1857, ^^ married 
 Miss Mary Nixon, who was born near Hartford, 
 Cheshire, England, a daughter of Andrew and 
 Ziprah Nixon. Soon after their marriage they 
 started for America, and after a voyage of six 
 weeks and three days, landed in New York in 
 July, 1857. From there they went to Marengo, 
 Iowa County, Iowa, where Mr. Ratcliffe secured 
 work by the day. After two years he went to 
 Salt Lake and began to work for Miller, Russell, 
 Waddell & Co., with whom he remained, on the 
 pony express conducted by them, until i860. 
 He then came to Denver, and here loaned out all 
 his money and soon lost it through the failure of 
 the parties to whom it had been loaned. Re- 
 maining in Denver until February, i860, he then 
 took a hunting trip in the vicinity of his present 
 home, and was so pleased with the location that 
 he took a squatter's claim down the creek from 
 his present home. In 1862 he sold the claim and 
 moved to his present location, where he has since 
 improved a valuable ranch, and has four hundred 
 and fifty head of cattle. In 1868, during the 
 Indian troubles, he removed his family to Lit- 
 tleton. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ratcliffe have four children, the 
 eldest of whom, Elizabeth, married William 
 Dillon, an attorney of Chicago, and has four 
 children. The others are Pearl, Richard and 
 Lucy, Mrs. John H. Clark, who lives on a ranch 
 near the home of her parents. In politics Mr. 
 Ratcliffe has been a firm adherent of the Demo- 
 cratic party ever since he came to this country, 
 and upon that ticket he was three times elected 
 county commissioner of Douglas County. In 
 his native land he attended the Episcopal Church 
 and has always favored its doctrines, though he 
 has not identified himself with the denomination. 
 He assisted in the erection of St. Philip's Church, 
 which is near his home. Since he came here, 
 
 more than thirty-five years ago, he has witnessed 
 many changes in the surrounding country. Set- 
 tlers have been attracted hither, farms have been 
 opened up and land improved, while on every 
 hand little towns have sprung into existence. 
 He well remembers how, in his early days here, 
 he often was obliged to go armed while.gathering 
 his crops, lest he might be suddenly attacked by 
 the Indians, who, though friendly at first, after- 
 ward proved to be treacherous and dangerous 
 enemies. In common with other early settlers he 
 holds membership in the Association of Colorado 
 Pioneers. 
 
 (lACOB WOLFENSBERGER is engaged in 
 I stock-raising and the dairy business in 
 (2/ Douglas County, where he owns a ranch 
 four miles from Castle Rock. He operates one 
 thousand acres, of which amount seven hundred 
 have been deeded to him by purchase. A native 
 of Switzerland, he was born March 17, 1865, and 
 in his native land the first eighteen years of his 
 life were passed. When only six months old his 
 mother died and when he was eight, his father, 
 Henry Wolfensberger, passed from earth. After- 
 ward he made his home with a brother and sister, 
 and attended school until he was ten. When 
 thirteen years old he began to learn the shoe- 
 maker's trade, at which he was employed for 
 four years. On leaving the service of his master, 
 he was paid one hundred and fifty francs. Going 
 to Germany, he worked for six months, earning 
 another one hundred and fifty francs. In this 
 way he secured the money to pay his passage to 
 America. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Wolfensberger crossed the ocean 
 to America, spending eleven days on the ocean 
 and landing in New York, whence he went to 
 Milwaukee, joining a brother in that city. He 
 secured employment on a farm in Wi.sconsin. 
 After he had been in this country for eighteen 
 months he entered school, in order to perfect 
 himself in the English language. He was suc- 
 cessful in his work, and being economical, when 
 he landed in Denver, March 17, 1S86, he had 
 $300 in cash. After coming here he engaged in 
 various occupations, and at such employment as 
 would furnish him an honest living. He took 
 up a homestead near Sedalia, but sold it after he 
 had held it for five years and proved up on it. , 
 July 17, 1891, Mr. Wolfensberger married Miss 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Martha Bengtson, who had a homestead near 
 their present place of residence. She was born 
 in Sweden and accompanied other members of 
 her family to this country. After she had set- 
 tled in Colorado, her father, John Bengtson, came 
 here and also took up a homestead. Of her mar- 
 riage three children have been born: Edward, 
 Torgny and Alice. In politics Mr. Wolfens- 
 berger is independent, but in 1888 he voted for 
 the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland. He 
 inclines to the Lutheran Church, having been 
 reared in its faith. Fraternally he in connected 
 with Castlewood Camp, Woodmen of the World. 
 
 ©AMUEL BRINKERHUFF is one of the 
 ?Sk progressive and influential agriculturists of 
 Qj Weld County. A man just in the prime 
 of life, he is energetic, imdustrious and thoroughly 
 imbued with the spirit of the age. He has lived 
 upon his present homestead for just a score of 
 years, during which time he has wonderfully im- 
 proved the place, adding greatly to its usefulness 
 and beauty by judicious expenditure and labor. 
 It is situated about seven miles to the eastward 
 of Longmont, Boulder County, being just across 
 the Weld County line. 
 
 Born in Cass County, Iowa, December 3, 1858, 
 our subject is one of the six children of James W. 
 and Isabelle(Slater) Brinkerhuff. Only three of 
 the little family circle remain, Samuel, James 
 and Rebecca. His father, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania, was born July 8, 181 1. He married while 
 young, and had five children by his first 
 marriage, of whom two, George and Adeline, 
 survive. After his first marriage James W. 
 Brinkerhuff removed to Ohio, and made his home 
 in that state until 1854. He then settled in Iowa 
 and in 1866 came to Colorado. Here he engaged 
 in farming on Clear Creek, near Denver. Some 
 years afterward he took up his residence on Ral- 
 ston Creek, about six miles from Golden, and on 
 this farm his death took place in 1874. His 
 marriage with our subject's mother had been 
 solemnized in Ohio. She survived him, and in 
 1878 she homesteaded a tract of eighty acres, a 
 portion of the farm now in the possession of her 
 son Samuel. Her death occurred in 1891. After 
 his father's death our subject took upon himself 
 many of the cares and responsibilities of the 
 household, and rapidly developed into a stalwart, 
 
 noble manhood. He worked with a will in im- 
 proving the new farm and ere many years had 
 rolled over his head, he was classed with the 
 best farmers of the district. In 1892 he purchased 
 one hundred and twenty acres of adjoining prop- 
 erty, thus increasing his home farm to one of two 
 hundred acres. He is a member of the order of 
 the Woodmen of the World, belonging to 
 Mountain Valley Camp No. 31. Politically he 
 advocates the Democratic party platform. 
 
 Im 1885 Mr. Brinkerhuff married MissLavina 
 Ballinger, daughter of Harmon Ballinger, their 
 marriage being celebrated at the home of the 
 lady's father, a few miles from Golden. She is a 
 native of Colorado, her birth having taken place 
 upon the parental homestead on Ralston's Creek. 
 Five daughters grace the happy home of our sub- 
 ject and his wife. Their names in order of 
 birth are as follows: Rosa May, Jennie L. , 
 Beulah M. , Bertha L. and Erma I. The family 
 ranks deservedly high among the residents of 
 this locality and their pleasant home is the fre- 
 quent scene of cheerful gatherings of friends. 
 
 Q LFRED AULSEBROOK is the proprietor of 
 LI the Pioneer ranch, on section 21, township 
 I I 10, range 65 west, ten miles east of Green- 
 land, Douglas County, h'is land aggregating nine 
 hundred and fifty-five acres,-of which all but forty 
 acres lie in one body. He was born near Not- 
 tingham, England, December 23, 1842, and was 
 brought to America at four months of age by his 
 parents, John G. and Martha (Cocking) Aulse- 
 brook. His father, who settled in Jefferson 
 County, Wis., bought a farm of eighty acres and 
 there resided until his death, at eighty-three 
 years. His wife afterward came to Colorado and 
 made her home with a daughter in Gilpin County, 
 where her death occurred. Her remains were 
 taken back to Wisconsin and buried beside her 
 husband's body. 
 
 When about nineteen years of age our subject 
 began to be self-supporting. In 1863 he came to 
 Colorado and for a time worked in mines. As 
 soon as he had earned a little money, he paid a 
 debt of $40 owed an older brother, who had 
 loaned him the necessary amount to make the 
 trip to Colorado. In time he became owner of a 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 999 
 
 twelve j'ears. Meantime he and his brother pur- 
 chased one hundred and twenty acres of his pres- 
 ent homestead. From time to time they bought 
 other tracts and made improvement on the prop- 
 erty. Here he has resided since 1868 and has 
 given his attention principally to farming, al- 
 though he still owns mining interests in' Gilpin 
 County. He was reared in the Democratic faith, 
 but has little time for politics and no inclination 
 to strive for office. 
 
 In Gilpin County, in 1886, Mr. Aulsebrook 
 married Miss Carrie Kloth, who was born in 
 Galena, 111. , of German parentage, and received 
 a fair education. The year after their marriage 
 they settled upon their present farm, and here 
 they have since resided. They are the parents 
 of three children, viz.: Perry, who was born in 
 Gilpin County April 24, 1887; Lena, who was 
 born in Gilpin County July 7, 1889; and William, 
 who was born on the home farm in Douglas 
 County August 7, 1896. The farm property is 
 well improved and speaks volumes for the care 
 and cultivation bestowed upon it by its owner. 
 In addition to raising general farm products, he 
 handles cattle and has on his farm about one 
 hundred head of fine cattle. 
 
 EHARLES GILPIN-BROWN. Among the 
 ranches of Larimer County, and indeed 
 among those in the state, there are few that 
 excel in improvements the one owned and occu- 
 pied by the subject of this article. Coming to this 
 country from England, instead of the almost per- 
 petual fogs of his native home, he has enjoyed the 
 almost perpetual sunshine of his mountain home. 
 His place comprises twelve hundred acres, in one 
 body, situated on Lone Pine and Rabbit Creeks, 
 and irrigated by many miles of private ditches. 
 About two hundred acres are planted to alfalfa, 
 while much of the remaining tract is utilized as 
 pasturage for his graded Shorthorn cattle. The 
 land is situated twenty -four miles from Fort Col- 
 lins and one and one-half miles from Livermore, 
 adjoining Leslie Horsley 's ranch on the east. Up- 
 on it stands one of the most attractive homes in 
 the county. Built of frame, -three stories in height, 
 surrounded on three sides by a broad piazza, it 
 contains fourteen commodious rooms, furnished 
 with taste and elegance, and supplied with hot 
 and cold water and all the conveniences of modern 
 43 
 
 life. The surrounding scenery is wild and pic- 
 turesque; in the rearward stretch the mountains, 
 grand and rugged in their stately beauty. Their 
 presence has a value besides that of gratifying 
 an esthetic taste, for they temper both the heat 
 of summer and cold of winter and prevent undue 
 extremes of temperature. 
 
 On his father's landed estate, Sedbury, near 
 Richmond, England, Charles Gilpin-Brown was 
 born September 24, 1857. His father, George Gil- 
 pin, was a son of John Gilpin, of an old Engish 
 family. He was an only son and until 1840 
 bore the name of Gilpin, but on account of the 
 heirship of some property, he added the name 
 of Brown, making the family name Gilpin-Brown. 
 He was a large land owner and was proprietor of 
 the estate, Sedbury, in Yorkshire, also lord of 
 the manor of Arkendale, consisting of twenty-two 
 thousand acres, twenty miles from Sedbury. His 
 father, who was an Episcopalian clergyman, was 
 also lord of the manor of Arkendale. One of 
 his most famous ancestors was Bernard Gilpin, 
 who lived in the time of Queen Mary, and, being 
 police to the clergy, had to suffer the penalty. 
 He was condemned to be beheaded and was on 
 the way to London when he broke his leg. For- 
 tunately for him, while his limb was healing, the 
 queen was beheaded, and thus his life was saved. 
 For years it had been a favorite saying of his that 
 everything that happened was for the best; and 
 certainly this proved true at that time. 
 
 Fraternally George Gilpin-Brown was a Ma.son. 
 For some time he served as a magistrate. He 
 died in December, 1887. His wife, who was 
 Louisa Dundas, was a member of an old family 
 and is now living at Sedbury. Of their twelve 
 children all but two are living. George Thomas 
 is a magi.strate and resides at the family manor, 
 Sedbury. William lives in Lincolnshire and 
 Frances at Sedbury. Edward, who took part 
 with the Ninety-second Highlanders in the Af- 
 ghanistan campaign of 1876-78, was promoted 
 from lieutenant to captain for meritorious service. 
 He also served through the Egyptian campaign. 
 He now lives in Regina, Canada, and is captain 
 of the Regina mounted police. Louisa lives at 
 Sedbury; Charles is next in order of birth; Octa- 
 via is at Sedbury; Harry L. is represented on 
 another page of this volume; Helen remains at 
 the old home place; and Frederick is a first lieu- 
 tenant in the English navy. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In the public schools at Harrow and the 
 Wimbledon Military school, the subject of this 
 sketch received his education. The latter insti- 
 tution he left just before the time to take the civil 
 service examination. Afterward he operated 
 coal mines at Durham, in the north of England, 
 but not liking the business, he came to America, 
 intending only to visit his brother, H. I,., but 
 was so pleased with the climate of Colorado that 
 he decided to locate here. Accordingly he 
 bought the Weymouth ranch, which he has 
 since improved and occupied. In addition he 
 owns a ranch of three hundred and twenty acres 
 six miles south of Fort Collins, which he has im- 
 proved, irrigated and now rents. Trilby Station, 
 on the Gulf Railroad, is located on the farm. 
 
 The marriage of Charles Gilpin-Brown, in 
 lyivermore, united him with Miss Helen Poland, 
 who was born in Boston, Mass., and accompanied 
 her father, William Poland, to Livermore, Colo. 
 They have two daughters, Margaret Louisa and 
 Helen. Mr. Gilpin-Brown was made a Mason in 
 Fort Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M., to 
 which he has since belonged. Since coming to this 
 country and studying the political issues that con- 
 front the people, he has given his allegiance to 
 the Republican party. In religion he adheres to 
 the faith of the Church of England. 
 
 HARRY L. GILPIN-BROWN. In Larimer 
 County, about twelve miles east of Fort 
 Collins, Mr. Gilpin-Brown located upon 
 coming to the United States in 1880, from Scar- 
 boro, Yorkshire, England, where he was born 
 October 11, i860. At once after settling here 
 he embarked in the stock business and from the 
 first he met with success. After three years on 
 the same farm he located in Livermore in 1883, 
 and in 1890 bought the ranch near this place 
 where he has since resided. Here he has three 
 hundred and sixty acres sown to alfalfa, while 
 the remainder of the land is devoted to the graz- 
 ing of cattle and horses. Many valuable improve- 
 ments have been made on his land, the most con- 
 spicuous of which is his elegant and commodious 
 residence, one of the finest in the entire county. 
 The parentage and ancestry of Mr. Gilpin- 
 Brown are given in the sketch of his brother, 
 Charles. He is a nephew of Governor Gilpin, 
 who was the first governor of Colorado and was a 
 
 man of prominence and influence throughout the 
 entire mountain region. Of the early youth of 
 our subject, it may be said that he attended the 
 schools of England and had all the advantages 
 which the son of wealthy parents can enjoy. 
 While .still a mere youth he came to America and 
 has since made his home in Colorado, by his 
 good management adding to the fortune that he 
 inherited. The cattle business is his specialty, 
 and since 1880 his brand, "Z. U.," has been one 
 of the best known in Larimer County. He 
 raises a fine grade of Herefords and keeps only 
 the best stock. His land is irrigated by private 
 ditches running from Lone Pine Creek. He is a 
 member of the Larimer County Stock Growers' 
 and Protective Association, and he served upon 
 its executive committee. In January, 1898, he 
 was elected a delegate to the National Stock Grow- 
 ers' Convention at Denver. The ranch that he 
 owns was once the property of Jim Baker, the 
 noted scout, and later belonged to George 
 Burnham. 
 
 In religious faith Mr. Gilpin-Brown adheres to 
 the doctrines supported by his ancestors for gen- 
 erations back, being identified with the Episco- 
 palian Church. Politically he votes the Repub- 
 lican ticket, but is not active in public affairs, 
 his tastes not running in that direction. His 
 marriage was solemnized January 18, 1893, in 
 Livermore, and united him with Sylvia Swan, 
 who was born in Pleasant Valley, Larimer County, 
 and is a daughter of James H. Swan, a sketch of 
 whom is given on another page. She is popular 
 in social circles and at this writing holds of- 
 fice as president of the Woman's Club of Liver- 
 more. 
 
 0AVID R. WILLIAMS. Standing conspic- 
 uously in the foremost ranks of the manu- 
 facturers of Douglas County is the gentle- 
 man whose name appears at the head of this brief 
 narrative, who is the owner and proprietor of the 
 largest cheese factory in the county, which is 
 located at Williamsville, on Cherry Creek, and 
 ten miles from the village of Greenland. This 
 prosperous and enterprising citizen embarked in 
 his present business in the year 1889, and has, 
 by his honest and straightforward dealing, 
 coupled with the quality of his product, estab- 
 lished a large and paying patronage. His prin- 
 cipal shipping points are Denver, Colorado 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Springs and Pueblo, where his products com- 
 mand a ready sale. He also owns eleven hun- 
 dred and eighty acres of deeded land and a sec- 
 tion of school land leased. 
 
 Mr. Williams was born in Barre, Worcester 
 County, Mass., July i, 1837, and is a son of 
 Bela and Mary (Parker) Williams. His maternal 
 grandfather was Nehemiah Parker, who served 
 throughout the Revolutionary war, and died at 
 the ripe old age of ninety-five years, our .subject 
 having a faint recollection of the funeral. Our 
 subject's mother attained the advanced age of 
 eighty-four years, while his father entered the 
 unknown beyond at the age of seventy-three 
 years. 
 
 David R. Williams obtained his education in 
 the public schools of his native township, and 
 spent his leisure hours working on his father's 
 farm. Leaving the parental roof in 1857 he went 
 to New York City, where he took the steamer 
 for the Isthmus of Panama, and then crossed to 
 the Pacific Ocean, and took the steamer for San 
 Francisco, Cal. His first three years in that 
 state were spent working at placer mining and 
 stock-raising, and in 1861, with a party of one 
 hundred and thirty people, who had thirty-two 
 wagons, he drove through unexplored lands to 
 the eastern part of Oregon, where the party made 
 rich discoveries. They made a settlement there, 
 which is now Canon City, the county seat of 
 Grant County, and our subject built the first 
 house there. After remaining in that settlement 
 eighteen months, during which time he bought 
 considerable land, he went to the mines at Boise 
 City in 1863, and spent the summer of that year 
 mining, but as the prospects for doing a large 
 business were small, he returned to the settle- 
 ment in Grant County and sold his property. 
 Continuing to California, he then sold his cattle, 
 which he had raised and which were left in 
 charge of his cousin. He then returned to Ore- 
 gon, and while en route from the eastern to the 
 western part of the state, with a party of men, 
 their guide became lost, and after following their 
 leader for nine days without any progress, they 
 refused to follow his course any further, and our 
 subject acted as guide. Some of the party suf- 
 fered so from thirst that their tongues protruded 
 from their mouths, but in less than an hour our 
 subject led them to a body of water. Later they 
 came near getting snowed in, but took refuge in 
 
 a summer ranch, which had been deserted; they 
 found provisions and a couple of steers left there, 
 which had been overlooked by the former oc- 
 cupants, and they immediately killed one of the 
 steers to appease their appetite. 
 
 After our subject had sold out the ranch, he 
 took his cattle, which consisted of one hundred 
 and twenty-five head, to Grant County, Ore., 
 where he remained one year. In 1865 he started 
 east, and after a journey of two hundred miles he 
 took the steamer at the Dalles, Ore., to Portland, 
 thence to Victoria and to San Francisco; there 
 he took the steamer for the Isthmus of Panama 
 and returned to his native town, by the same 
 route by which he had gone; he returned a much 
 wiser and richer man as a result of his various 
 experiences during those eight years. He pur- 
 chased an interest in a chair manufacturing es- 
 tablishment, and was engaged in that business 
 for a period of seven years; at the expiration of 
 that time he sold his interest in that establish- 
 ment, and in the fall of 187 1 he startefl west 
 again. He arrived in Chicago the Saturday pre- 
 ceding the great fire, which he witnessed, and 
 later started further west, having bought his 
 ticket through to California. However, reaching 
 Denver, then in the midst of a great boom, he 
 concluded to locate there, and bought a lot on 
 Welton street, and built a house. He then sent 
 for his family, who resided in his native state. 
 Although he made his home in Denver, he rented 
 land on Clear Creek and carried on farming; he 
 was also engaged in the boot and shoe business 
 in Denver. In the spring of 1873 he took up a 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres on Antelope 
 Creek, in Douglas County, and resided there 
 until about 1880, by which time he had some 
 four hundred acres, and then selling his property, 
 he spent a year traveling over the state. In 
 1 88 1 he purchased two hundred acres of his pres- 
 ent homestead, and engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising; in 1889 he started a creamery and 
 cheese factory and has conducted the same up to 
 the present time. He has his farm stocked with 
 some seventy-five fine milch cows and one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five head of other cattle. His 
 factory is the oldest one of its kind in the state, 
 as well as one of the largest. 
 
 On Thanksgiving day in 1866 Mr. Williams 
 married Miss Elvira O. Pond, daughter of 
 Jonathan and Eliza J. (Fisher) Pond, of West 
 
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 Medway, Mass. They are the parents of five 
 children, namely: Harry, a native of Massachu- 
 setts, who is working on a ranch in this county; 
 Nellie M., who was born in Denver, grad- 
 uated from the State Normal at Greeley, and is 
 now engaged in teaching in the public schools of 
 Greeley; Carrie E., who is a graduate of the State 
 Normal and the wife of Frederick 1,. Sparling, 
 of South Omaha, Neb.; Anna, a student at Gree- 
 ley; and Gertrude, at home. Our subject is a 
 Democrat in politics, and has .served nine years 
 as county commissioner of Douglas County. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Mount Zion 
 Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Barre, Mass. He 
 takes an active interest in all educational institu- 
 tions, and all measures that tend to advance the 
 interests of the county. He is an honest and up- 
 right citizen, and enjoys the respect and esteem 
 of a host of friends. Mrs. Williams is a member 
 of the Congregational Church. 
 
 r^HILIP KLATT, who is an enterprising 
 L/^ business man of Golden, was born near 
 yS Cairo, III., March 29, 1857, the son of John 
 and Minnie (Landroth) Klatt, residents of Golden. 
 His father, who was born in Mechlenburg, Ger- 
 many, came to America shortly after his marriage 
 and settled upon a farm in Illinois, but afterward 
 removed to Chippewa Falls, Wis. Soon after 
 his removal he enlisted in the Thirtieth Wisconsin 
 Infantry and raised Company K, of which he 
 was chosen captain. He served for three years 
 in this command, being honorably discharged in 
 1864. He then re-enlisted in Hancock's Veteran 
 Corps, of which he was made first lieutenant, 
 serving in that capacity until the close of the 
 war, when he was discharged at Davenport. The 
 exposures of camp life and long journeyings from 
 one place to another proved very hard upon him 
 and he returned home with his constitution seri- 
 ously undermined. In 1868 he removed from 
 Wisconsin to Colorado and engaged in mining at 
 Blackhawk, where his family joined him the 
 following year. On retiring from active work, 
 he went to Golden, his present home. He and 
 his wife were the parents of six children and all 
 but one of these are still living, Philip being 
 the oldest son and third child. 
 
 The early boyhood days of our subject's life 
 were spent in Madison and Milwaukee, Wis. , but 
 
 in 1866 he went to Iowa, later spent a short time 
 in Missouri, and in 1869 came to Colorado. For 
 a short time he was a pupil in the Blackhawk 
 schools. In 1870 he came to Golden, where he 
 served an apprenticeship of three years to the 
 blacksmith's trade. Then for several years he 
 worked in Cheyenne and Georgetown, being in 
 business for himself a part of the time. Later 
 he spent two years in Golden, and afterward for 
 eighteen months was employed by the Oregon 
 Railway and Navigation Company in Oregon. 
 
 Returning to Golden in the spring of 1882, 
 Mr. Klatt embarked in the blacksmith's business 
 with a partner, under the firm name of Klatt & 
 Brennen, but after four months he bought his 
 partner's interest. In the fall of 1884 he bought 
 out the business owned by J. P. Fowler and has 
 since carried on trade at his present location. He 
 does a general jobbing business in shoeing horses 
 and repairing wagons and carriages, and has made 
 a comfortable living for himself and family 
 through his industrious efforts. From D. K. Lee 
 of Denver, he bought a fine residence on Ford 
 street, and besides this he owns property in Du- 
 rango, Colo. , and Los Angeles, Cal., and is also 
 interested in mining in Clear Creek. Politically a 
 Democrat, he was elected on that ticket as alder- 
 man from the second ward and during his term of 
 service he was a member of the park, waterworks 
 and street committees. His marriage, which 
 took place in Clear Creek Valley, united him 
 with Miss Anna E. Shirick, who was born in 
 Nevadaville, Colo., daughter of W. W. Shirick, 
 who came to Colorado in 1862 and is now engaged 
 in farming in Jefferson County. The two sons 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Klatt are Carl and Fred. 
 
 (T OHN PROBERT is the senior member of the 
 I firm of Probert & Williams, general mer- 
 Q) chants, of Erie, Weld County. He was born 
 in Wales in 1848, a son of William and Ann 
 (Price) Probert. The family of which he was a 
 member consisted of thirteen children, seven of 
 whom are living, namely: Howell, who is living 
 in Wales; William, John and Edward, who are 
 in the United States; Zantype, Martha and Mary, 
 in Wales. The father, when young, learned the 
 carpenter's trade, married, and settled down to 
 the pursuit of his chosen occupation, which he 
 followed until his death. 
 
JOHN THOMPSON. 
 
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 The first seventeen years of our subject's life 
 were passed at home and in the acquirement of a 
 common-school education. In the spring of 1866 
 he crossed the ocean and landed in New York 
 City, from which place he went direct to Brook- 
 field, Ohio, and secured employment in the coal 
 mines. Prior to leaving his native land he had 
 been employed in mines, so was familiar with the 
 business. From 1866 to 1876 he continued in the 
 coal mines of Brookfield and Urichsville, Ohio, 
 Evansville, Ind., and Murphysboro, 111. In 1876 
 he came to Colorado and settled in Erie, where 
 he worked for four years in the mines. He then 
 became a salesman for J. T. Williams, a general 
 merchant, and by energy and business ability 
 gradually rose from a clerkship to a partnership 
 in the business. The firm was then composed of 
 J. T. and J. W. Williams and Mr. Probert. Later 
 J. T. Williams retired from the business, since 
 which time the store has been conducted by the 
 two younger members of the firm. 
 
 During his residence in Illinois, in 1872, Mr. 
 Probert was united in marriage with Miss Sarah 
 Thomas, a native of Ohio. To their marriage 
 three children have been born, Harriet, William 
 and Anna. The family are highly respected and 
 are prominent in the best social circles of their 
 town. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Probert is identified with Erie 
 Lodge No. 46, I. O. O. F., and Lily of the Valley 
 Encampment No. 10. Politically he is a sup- 
 porter of Greenback principles. For one term 
 he .served as clerk of the town of Erie. He is 
 especially interested in educational matters and 
 during the twelve years that he has held position 
 as member of the school board he has been instru- 
 mental in raising the standard of education and 
 promoting the welfare of -the schools. 
 
 (TOHN THOMPSON is one of the represent- 
 I ative agriculturists of Weld County, and 
 (2/ owns one of the finest and most highly im- 
 proved ranches in this section of the state. To 
 himself alone he owes his present prosperity, as 
 it is the result of years of patient, zealous labor 
 and wisely directed business ability. He has 
 been a public-spirited citizen, doing his full share 
 toward the general welfare, and endeavoring to 
 promote all worthy enterprises to the best of his 
 ability. 
 
 Mr. Thompson inherits from Scotch ancestors 
 many of the sterling traits of character he possesses. 
 His parents, Robert and Jane (Pennman)Thomp- 
 son, were natives of Scotland, and their marriage 
 took place in the land of the thistle. They came 
 to America in 18 19, and at first settled in Rhode 
 Island. Later they removed to Massachusetts, 
 where the father, who was a weaver of woolen 
 cloth on the old-fashioned hand-looms, found 
 plenty of employment at his trade. In 1844 he 
 removed from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, where 
 he became one of the pioneer farmers of Racine 
 County, and there passed the remainder of his 
 life. 
 
 Seven brothers and sisters of the subject of this 
 article grew to .maturity. Grace, the eldest, who 
 was born in Scotland, married Emerson Lombard 
 and settled in Wisconsin. Robert P. was a mer- 
 chant in New York City for years. Thomas F. 
 was one of the Union colony who settled in 
 Greeley, Colo., in 1870. Jane M. married Gus- 
 tavus Goodrich, who was a captain in the Twenty- 
 second Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil 
 war and died soon after the cessation of hostilities 
 from disease and exposure. William remained 
 on the old homestead in Wisconsin. Margaret 
 is the wife of James C. Bennett, of Kalamazoo, 
 Mich. James lived in Wisconsin up to the time 
 of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Eighth 
 Regiment of that state. His death resulted from 
 the exposure and hardships incident to his army 
 life. 
 
 John Thompson was born in Worcester, Mass., 
 September 29, 1829, and in the Bay state the first 
 fifteen years of his life were passed. Then, ac- 
 companying the rest of the family to the west, he 
 grew to manhood on the Wisconsin farm. He 
 finished his common-school education with a 
 course in the University of Wisconsin . He learned 
 the weaver's trade of his father, but never fol- 
 lowed it to any extent. Instead, he cultivated 
 the home farm until i87i,when he joined the 
 Union colony that had settled in Greeley the pre- 
 vious year. He had secured a certificate of mem- 
 bership a year before, however, and upon his 
 arrival in Greeley he took up a five- acre lot near 
 the town and bought a pre-emption right to an 
 eighty-acre tract of land on section 24, township 
 6, range 66. This is a portion of his present 
 farm, which now includes one hundred and twenty 
 acres of land purchased by him in the fall of 1879. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He built a comfortable house and made other 
 substantial improvements, and engaged actively 
 in the cultivation of his land and in stock-raising. 
 He was one of the original stockholders of the 
 Farmers' Mercantile Company and owns some 
 stock in the Cache la Poudre Reservoir Company 
 and in ditch No. 2, which provide irrigation for 
 his farm. Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 In Wisconsin Mr. Thompson married, in 1857, 
 Miss Mary Lombard, by whom he had four 
 children. One child died and Mrs. Thompson de- 
 parted this life in March, 1866. November 3, 
 1868, Mr. Thompson married Kate N. Near, 
 daughter of Barnard H. and Eleanor (Tarpany) 
 Near, natives of New York. Mrs. Thompson was 
 born in the city of Utica, N. Y. The three chil- 
 dren of Mr. Thompson's first marriage are: Her- 
 bert J. , ex-county treasurer of Weld County; Will- 
 iam O., a farmer near Lincoln, Neb.; and Mary 
 R., wife of Max K. Gerry, who resides on our 
 subject's farm and assists in its management. 
 
 0EORGE STROEHLE enjoys the distinction 
 l_l of doing the best work and putting on the 
 V_J market the best buckets for hoisting in Colo- 
 rado. He has large boiler shops in Blackhawk, 
 which are under the immediate management of 
 his son, and the work turned out is first-class in 
 every particular. Having spent many years in 
 bringing his business to its present state of per- 
 fection, he has now practically retired from active 
 business. 
 
 He was born in Tyrol, Austria, in 1838, his 
 parents being George and Catherine (Berhtold) 
 Stroehle. His father was a stone cutter and 
 stone mason, and came to the United States soon 
 after the death of his wife, locating first in New 
 Orleans, and later in St. Louis. He went to Cali- 
 fornia during the gold fever in 1849, but returned 
 to Rock Island, 111., where he died in 1865. 
 There were eight children in his family, six of 
 whom are living and came to America with him. 
 
 The eldest of these was George Stroehle, our 
 subject, who was about twelve years old when he 
 came to this country. He attended school in 
 Rock Island one winter and was then appren- 
 ticed to learn the boiler trade in the same city. 
 At the breaking out of the war he was among the 
 first to offer his services to the country. In 
 August, 1 86 1, he enlisted in the Forty-fifth lUi. 
 
 nois Regiment, and was a member of the band. 
 He was at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth and 
 Jackson, Tenn. When orders were given to dis- 
 band, all the regiment bands were mustered out, 
 and he returned to Rock Island. In 1865 he 
 came by mule team to Colorado, stopping at 
 Denver and Blackhawk. He remained there 
 only until December, when he returned to Rock 
 Island. The following year he came back to 
 this county by mule team, bringing his family, 
 and started a boiler shop in the old St. Louis 
 mill. This he conducted for some time and 
 then built a small shop which was replaced in 
 
 1895 by his present large shops. He manufact- 
 ures and repairs boilers, makes buckets, and does 
 all kinds of sheet iron work, having the oldest, 
 largest and best repair shop in the county. In 
 
 1896 he took his son, John, into partnership with 
 him and the firm is known as George Stroehle 
 &Son. 
 
 In Rock Island, 111., in July, 1861, Mr. Stroehle 
 married Miss Christine Stapp and the next month 
 left his young bride to be a soldier. She was born 
 in Hessen-Darmstadt, and bore him three chil- 
 dren, viz.: Annie, Mrs. W. W. Huntington, of 
 Oilman, Colo.; John, who is in partnership with 
 his father; and Fred, who is also with his father. 
 He is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge, 
 and Ellsworth Post No. 20, G. A. R., and is a 
 stalwart Republican. 
 
 gENEDICT SCHUTZ is postmaster and gen- 
 eral merchant of Franktown, a village in 
 the Cherry Creek Valley, thirty-three miles 
 southeast of Denver, and ten miles from Parker, 
 the nearest railroad point. He was born in Muel- 
 enberg, Canton Berne, Switzerland, April 21, 
 1839, and at the age of fourteen years accom- 
 panied his parents, Jacob and Mary (Palmer) 
 Schutz, to the United States. The voyage, on a 
 sailing vessel, consumed about sixty days and was 
 extremely rough; the pa.ssengers more than once, 
 in time of storm, feared that the ship, which was 
 an old one, would go down. 
 
 Landing in New York in January, 1854, the 
 family proceeded direct to Chicago, where they 
 expected to find relatives, but learned on arrival 
 that they had moved to Michigan. The father 
 took the family about thirty miles from Chicago 
 and settled in a small place. He had but limited 
 
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 1005 
 
 means and soon afterward was paralyzed, and 
 after some months of suffering died. The widowed 
 mother was left with five children, two of whom 
 were younger than Benedict. The latter secured 
 employment on a farm and thus assisted in the 
 support of the family. His opportunities for se- 
 curing an education were meagre, but he at- 
 tended school whenever it was possible to do so. 
 
 In 1859, with his older brother Jacob, and a 
 brother-in-law, Mr. Schutz started for Kansas, 
 making the trip with a wagon and two yoke of 
 oxen. For a short time they squatted on govern- 
 ment land on the Whitewater River, after which 
 they joined a company and proceeded to Colorado, 
 arriving in August, 1859, on the present site of 
 Denver. Soon Mr. Schutz came back up Cherry 
 Creek to a sawmill near where Russellville now 
 stands, and here he secured work. For some 
 years he engaged in hauling lumber to Denver. 
 In 1862 he took a squatters' claim on Russell 
 Gulch, which he sold two years later and invested 
 the money in stock. He already had ten cows 
 and the purchase of fifty-three calves gave him a 
 good start. He continued successfully engaged 
 in the cattle business until 1881, when he sold out 
 for $6, 000 and the following year embarked in 
 the mercantile business. For a few years he was 
 in partnership with another man, whom he later 
 bought out, and has since continued the business 
 alone. During the early years of his residence in 
 this state, in 1864, he enlisted for one hundred 
 days in Company M, Third Colorado Cavalry, 
 and was stationed at Camp Wheeler during the 
 larger part of his time. He always votes the 
 straight Republican ticket, and in religion is of 
 the Protestant faith. 
 
 HON. I. A. VAN GORDEN, a well-known 
 citizen of Morrison, Jefferson County, was 
 a member of the sixth general assembly of 
 the Colorado legislature, and served with credit 
 to himself and constituents in that honorable 
 body. He was elected on the Democratic ticket, 
 receiving a handsome majority, although the 
 county was strongly Republican at the time. The 
 following year, 1887, he was appointed to the of- 
 fice of water commissioner by Governor Adams, 
 and was again honored in this manner by Gov- 
 ernor Waite in 1893, and in 1897 ^y ^^^ present 
 state executive. A man of liberal education and 
 
 training, he is a friend to the people, to education 
 and to all other measures which, as he believes, 
 are for the general welfare. In his home district 
 he has served as a member of the school board 
 for many years. He was one of the most influen- 
 tial men in the organization of Morrison Lodge 
 No. 82, I. O. O. F., and is also identified with 
 the encampment. 
 
 The father of the above-named gentleman was 
 John W. Van Gorden, who was born in Dela- 
 ware in 1823, and, with his parents, removed to 
 Susquehanna County, Pa., when he was a child 
 of about eight years. The farm on which the 
 family settled was an almost unbroken forest, 
 but with energy and untiring industry they set 
 to work to clear and improve the place, and in 
 time succeeded in making a model farm of the 
 tract. John W. fell heir to the homestead and 
 dwelt upon it altogether some sixty -six years, or 
 until death claimed him, April 3, 1898. In his 
 choice of a wife he was especially fortunate, for 
 she was companion, friend and helpmate, a sharer 
 of all his joys and sorrows. Her maiden name 
 was Louisa Love, her father being Andrew Love, 
 a neighbor and worthy pioneer of the same county 
 and township as that in which the Van Gorden 
 family lived. Six children were born to the mar- 
 riage of John W. and Louisa Van Gorden. One has 
 been called to the silent land and the others are: 
 I. A., of this sketch; Andrew L-, of Carbondale, 
 Pa.; John L., of Pine City, Minn.; Charles E. , liv- 
 ing on the old homestead; and Jennie M., wife of 
 Frank Pinnock, of Meshoppen, Wyoming County, 
 Pa. The father was a man universally respected 
 and loved; a trusted counsellor, a loyal friend, a 
 devoted citizen. In the home his best qualities 
 shone forth, and among those of his own house- 
 hold he was a model of uprightness and loving 
 kindness. He was an earnest Christian, and all 
 who knew him feel that the world is truly a better 
 place for his too brief presence in it. His earthly 
 labors finished, he sleeps peacefully in the beauti- 
 ful Brick Chapel cemetery on the bank of the 
 Susquehanna River, two miles above Meshoppen. 
 
 The birth of Hon. I. A. Van Gorden took 
 place in Susquehanna County, Pa., June 6, 1852. 
 He received a good education, completing his 
 studies in the Factoryville (Wyoming County, 
 Pa.,) high school. From that time until he was 
 twenty-eight years of age he taught school dur- 
 ing the winter terms and worked on the farm the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 remainder of the year. In the spring of 1 88 1 he 
 concluded to try his fortunes in the west, and 
 came to Colorado. Here he passed the first year 
 of his residence within the state in selling goods 
 for the World's Publishing Company. He then 
 settled upon a farm in Bear Creek Valley, and 
 has devoted much of his time since to the culti- 
 vation of his homestead. Possessing in a large 
 degree the stable, industrious and admirable 
 traits of his honored father, he enjoys the high 
 regard of a large circle of friends here and in the 
 east, his former home. 
 
 In July, 1884, Mr. Van Gorden married Miss 
 Margaret Cole, a daughter of William F. Cole, 
 an old and esteemed citizen and prosperous mer- 
 chant of Susquehanna County, Pa. Five chil- 
 dren have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Van Gorden, namely: Maud H., Grace M., 
 John W., I. A., Jr., and Frank V. 
 
 ilLBERT M. AVERY is one of the pioneers 
 of Colorado, and one of the oldest residents 
 of Empire, Clear Creek County. Few, if 
 any, of the citizens of this place have been more 
 active and interested in its upbuilding and pros- 
 perity, and with short intermissions he has 
 served in the capacity of trustee ever since the 
 town was incorporated. He has also been a 
 zealous member of the board of education, and 
 has often been the president of that honorable 
 body. He is a valued member of the Associa- 
 tion of Colorado Pioneers and of the Clear Creek 
 County Pioneer Association. Since he arrived at 
 his majority he has given his allegiance to the 
 Republican party, but in the last campaign he 
 declared himself in favor of a silver standard. 
 
 Frederick Avery, the father of our subject, 
 was born in Connecticut, and was of an old family 
 in that state. He removed to Pittsfield, Mass., 
 where he was occupied in farming for years. 
 About 1840 he took his family to Wisconsin and 
 became a resident of Lake Mills, Jefferson Coun- 
 ty. His death occurred in that place, after 
 which his widow, Mary (Croson) Avery, went 
 to live with her children, and died in Arkansas. 
 She was born and reared to womanhood in Con- 
 necticut. 
 
 G. M. Avery, one of ten children, was born in 
 Pittsfield, Mass., February 28, 1833. His chief 
 schooling was gained in Wisconsin, and as soon 
 
 as he could be of use on the farm he gave his as- 
 sistance to his father in the management of the 
 homestead. In 1856 he came as far west as Kan- 
 sas, and carried on a farm near Lawrence until 
 1859, when he became anxious to come to the 
 gold fields of Colorado. Starting out with ox 
 teams over the old trail of the Arkansas and 
 Santa Fe, he finally arrived at his destination, 
 Central City, and engaged in mining and pros- 
 pecting. At first he tried lode mining, and in 
 the spring of i860 turned his energies to gulch 
 mining in Nevadaville and vicinity. There he 
 built a cabin, whip-sawing the lumber, as he had 
 previously done when he constructed a shanty at 
 Gregory mine. It was in the same year, i860, 
 that he crossed the snowy range to California 
 Gulch, now known as Leadville. At the end of one 
 sea.son he started for Mobile, Ala., where a situ- 
 ation had been offered him, but he went no fur- 
 ther than Greenwood, Ark., below Fort Smith, 
 as he found that the coming event of the great 
 Civil war had so unsettled business that it was 
 not advisable for him to remain. Returning to 
 Springfield, Mo., he thence went to Kansas, and 
 in 1863 drifted back to Colorado with a mule train 
 across the plains. The same year found him in 
 Empire, and his time occupied in mining and pros- 
 pecting. That fall he returned to Lawrence,Kan., 
 was married, and the following spring brought 
 his wife with him to Empire. After a residence 
 here of two years or more t&ey resumed farming 
 on the homestead owned by Mr. Avery in Kan- 
 sas, but in 1868 they became permanent citizens 
 of Empire. Mr. Avery discovered and began 
 the operation of the Cambria mine, and was also 
 the discoverer and developer of the Denver City 
 lode and the Americus City lode. Both of the 
 last named are fine properties, and he is still a 
 one-half partner in the first mentioned, and one- 
 third owner in the other. In addition to this he 
 was superintendent of the Clear Creek Milling 
 Company, and holds like positions with the 
 Hecla Gold Mining Company and the Silver 
 Mountain Mine Company. The proprietors of 
 the last mentioned are Boston capitalists, and the 
 mines in question are the Pittsburg and Silver 
 Mountain lodes, large producers. The mines are 
 near northern Empire, while the mills are at 
 Empire station. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Avery and Miss Laura 
 Sinclair, a native of Ohio, was celebrated in Law- 
 
GEORGE STEARLY. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 rence, Kan., January 6, 1864. They have but 
 one child, a son, William, born in Colorado, and 
 residing with his parents. 
 
 SEORGE STEARLY may be counted among 
 those who, by industry and frugality, have 
 gained a competency, and are classed as 
 substantial, representative citizens of Colorado. 
 He is now living in LaPorte, Larimer County, 
 where he has six acres of land planted to fruit, 
 his orchard containing choice apple, cherry and 
 plum trees. He is of the sturdy German race, 
 having been born in Wurtemberg, Germany, near 
 Stuttgart, April 19, 1851. His father, George, 
 was a brick manufacturer of that place, but 
 brought his family to America about 1854, and 
 settled in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pa., 
 where he engaged in coalmining until 1868. He 
 then moved to Wood River, Buffalo County, Neb. , 
 and took up a homestead, upon which he resided 
 until his death, when over seventy years old. 
 The mother, Barbara Craft Stearly, was also a 
 native of Germany, and now resides on the old 
 homestead. There were eight children, seven 
 sons and one daughter. Six sons are living, 
 three in the vicinity of the old home, and three 
 in Colorado. John lives near Pueblo, and Sam- 
 uel at Victor. 
 
 George Stearly was the oldest member of the 
 family, and lived in Pennsylvania until seven- 
 teen years of age. He attended the public schools 
 until twelve, when he began work as a slate picker 
 in a colliery, and later was employed in mines. 
 In the spring of 1868 he came west to Nebraska, 
 where he was employed for a year at Sheldon, 
 on section 30, on the Union Pacific Railroad. 
 The following year he went to Nebraska City, 
 and was apprenticed for two years to learn the 
 trade of a blacksmith. At the expiration of his 
 apprenticeship he began blacksmithing for him- 
 self at Marysville, Kan. , where he remained two 
 years, then came to LaPorte and continued the 
 same work. His shop for the first two years was 
 in an old log building, and in 1875 he built the 
 shop now owned by him. About this time he 
 went to Snake River, Grant County, on a pros- 
 pecting and mining expedition, but returned to 
 his old stand, and once more took up black- 
 smithing, which he still carries on. He is inter- 
 ested in mining, being one of the owners of the 
 
 Gold Bug mine at Manhattan. Hehas a finely 
 improved farm of five hundred and sixty acres, 
 near LaPorte, which he pre-empted, timber 
 claimed and homesteaded. This is all under 
 high cultivation, has good buildings, and is 
 irrigated by the Water Supply and Storage Com- 
 pany, whose ditch he helped put through. There 
 is a large orchard on the farm, and he raises a 
 large crop of onions, also wheat, oats and alfalfa. 
 When he came to the state there were many 
 French and Indians, and the main business was 
 stock-raising, as the country was all an open 
 plain. He is a large stock-raiser, for the past 
 seven years devoting much of his attention to the 
 raising of mules, and easily takes the lead in that 
 line in the county. His brand is the letter T with 
 lazy S. He made a great many brands when in 
 the shop. 
 
 Mr. Stearly was married in Denver to Miss 
 Sarah E. Winter, a native of Pennsylvania. 
 They have one child, Byron. Politically Mr. 
 Stearly is a silver Republican , and is interested 
 in the success of his party, but has never been an 
 aspirant for ofiBce, although he has served on the 
 school board. 
 
 HENRY G. CHURCHES, a successful farmer 
 residing six miles east of Longmont, in Weld 
 County, was born in Somersetshire, Eng- 
 land, September 11, 1852, a son of John and 
 Mary A. (CoHipriest) Churches. He was one of 
 seven children, of whom three are living: Geor- 
 giana, wife of Kane G. Baldwin, of Nashville, 
 Tenn.; Henry G., our subject; and Sarah A., 
 who resides with her parents. His father, also a 
 native of Somersetshire, was born in 1823 and 
 grew to manhood upon a farm. After his mar- 
 riage he settled upon a farm of his own, and 
 being a" man of great enterprise and activity, he 
 engaged successfully in farming, dairying, cheese- 
 making, butchering and stock-raising. In 1855 
 he crossed the ocean and settled in Dubuque 
 County, Iowa, where he spent the winter; thence 
 removing to Sullivan County, Mo., he resided 
 there for five years, engaged in farming. His 
 next removal, in 1862, brought him and his 
 family to Colorado. For one year he worked for 
 a dairyman in Jefferson, assisting in butter and 
 cheese making. He then bought his present 
 property, four miles northeast of Golden, consist- 
 ing of three hundred and twenty acres. At first 
 
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 he bought squatters' rights and when the land 
 was surveyed, proved on it. Here at first he 
 gave his entire attention to cheese and butter 
 making, but later embarked in the stock business 
 and horse-breeding quite extensively. For twelve 
 years he also carried on a meat market in Golden. 
 To-day he is one of the substantial men of Jeffer- 
 son County, owning nearly nine hundred acres 
 of land and other interests. Among his large 
 circle of acquaintances he is known as "Uncle 
 Johnny." 
 
 At twenty-one years of age our subject began 
 business life for himself. For seven years he 
 farmed one hundred and sixty acres, owned by 
 his father, in Weld County, receiving one-half of 
 the products for his own, and also one hundred 
 and sixty acres of his own. In 1881 he acquired 
 his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 in Weld County, six miles from Longmont. Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1881, he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Belle Haslip, a native of Pennsylvania. 
 She is a daughter of Robert Haslip, who was 
 born in Ireland, of Scotch descent, and came to 
 America in 1830, settling in New York state, 
 where he spent some years. On his removal to 
 Pennsylvania, he settled upon a farm in Mercer 
 County. In 1856 he removed to Blue Earth 
 County, Minn., and there continued to reside 
 until his death, which occurred in 1892. 
 
 After his marriage our subject, with his young 
 wife, settled on his newly acquired homestead 
 and began farming his land, also embarked in 
 the cattle business. He gained an increasing 
 prosperity, and is to-day one of the representative 
 farmers of the county. He and his wife became 
 the parents of six children, four of whom are 
 living: Mary E. , Harry Boyd, Henry Glen and 
 John Robert. In rehgion Mr. Churches is identi- 
 fied with the United Brethren denomination. 
 Fraternally he is a member of Longmont Tent 
 No. 13, K. O. T. M. 
 
 HENRY F. STEWART owns a valuable 
 ranch on section 21, township 4, range 68 
 west, Weld County. This property came 
 into his possession by purchase nearly a score of 
 years ago, but at this writing bears little resem- 
 blance to the barren, unimproved tract of that 
 date. Mr. Stewart is a progressive farmer, thor- 
 oughly understanding the methods which are 
 
 used by the Colorado agriculturist, who deals with 
 nature under very different conditions from that 
 of the eastern states. He has. taken an active 
 part in the public affairs of his locality, serving 
 as j ustice of the peace for some eight years. In 
 1 896 he was nominated on the Populist ticket for 
 the legislature. When the Farmers' Milling 
 Company of Berthoud was organized he was quite 
 influential in the enterprise, and is still a stock- 
 holder in the same. 
 
 Garrett M. Stewart, father of our subject, was 
 a native of Kentucky. He became a pioneer in 
 Missouri, having entered from the government 
 land in Schuyler County. He was a justice of 
 the peace for years, and was twice a candidate for 
 the legislature. Always interested in educa- 
 tional matters, he organized the first school dis- 
 trict in his section of Missouri, and was himself 
 a teacher for several years. His wife, who was 
 Sarah B. Goodrich prior to their marriage, 
 was a native of Tennessee. Their family com- 
 prised seven children, only two of whom now 
 survive, Henry F. and Isaac N., of Weld County. 
 
 The birth of H. F. Stewart occurred in Schuy- 
 ler County, Mo., June 2, 1849. His father died 
 when he was a child of eight years and the 
 mother lived but eight years longer. The eldest 
 brother, James G., lost his life in the Civil war. 
 He had volunteered as a private in the Tenth 
 Missouri Infantry, and while on duty as a guard 
 for prisoners of war at Rock Island, 111., he con- 
 tracted small-pox, which disease resulted in his 
 death. A sister, Sarah, married Isaac M. Yates, 
 a teacher in the schools of Ottumwa and Oska- 
 loosa, Iowa. After the death of our subject's 
 father and elder brother the care of the family 
 gradually devolved upon his youthful shoulders. 
 He assumed the management of the old farm 
 and eventually bought out the other heirs. 
 
 In 1877 H. F. Stewart sold the farm to his 
 brothers, W. R. and Isaac N. , and removed to 
 Colorado. At first he settled near Longmont, 
 but in 1879 purchased his present farm of one 
 hundred and sixty acres. There were no ditches 
 here then, and he became one of the most active 
 promoters of the Home Supply Ditch and Reser- 
 voir Company. This company was organized by 
 about a score of the pioneers who met and dis- 
 cussed plans but were unable to raise the small 
 amount of the incorporation fee. They managed 
 to carry on the project, giving notes, and had the 
 
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 company incorporated with a capital stock of 
 $50,000. Since then the capital stock has been 
 doubled and everything is in a most flourishing 
 condition. Mr. Stewart was the president of the 
 concern for three years and has been on the board 
 of directors. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Stewart was with 
 Anna L. Brantley, a native of Alabama. The 
 ceremony was performed January 27, 1871. Their 
 only child is Mary, wife of William Ginther, who 
 is a farmer of Lone Tree Lake district, Larimer 
 County, Colo. May i, 1879, Mr. Stewart mar- 
 ried Hannah J. Whittaker, daughter of I. N. 
 and Louisa (Norman) Whittaker, natives of Vir- 
 ginia. The father was a successful farmer, and 
 was one of the early settlers of Schuyler County, 
 Mo. , where Mrs. Stewart was born. There he 
 held the office of justice of the peace for years 
 and was a man of prominence in his prime. He 
 is now living with his married daughter, Lu- 
 cinda, Mrs. William Branstraitor, of Davis 
 County, Iowa. The six children of Henry F. 
 and Hannah Stewart are named as follows: 
 Louie M., Don G., Hallie, Clay W., Homer F. 
 and Ruby P. Mrs. Stewart is a member of the 
 Missionary Baptist Church. 
 
 [^ ENJAMIN PRINCE, senior member of the 
 1^ firm of B. Prince & Son, coal miners and 
 r\J dealers, at Morrison, Jefferson County, was 
 born in Worcestershire, England, May 25, 1848, 
 a son of George and Anne (Sambrook) Prince. 
 He is the eldest of the five surviving members of 
 the family, the others being: Catherine, wife of 
 Thomas Williams; John, who lives in Erie, Weld 
 County, Colo.; James, also living in Erie; and 
 Rachel, wife of Joseph Sambrook, of Erie. 
 
 A native of England, born at Oldbury in 1826, 
 George Prince was employed in coal mines from 
 earliest youth, and followed mining until his 
 death, which occurred in 1896. His wife is still 
 living and makes her home with her daughter in 
 Erie. Benjamin Prince, of this sketch, acquired 
 a very limited education, and the knowledge he 
 now possesses was obtained principally by read- 
 ing and self-culture. In boyhood he secured 
 work in the Oldbury coal mines, where he re- 
 mained until eighteen years of age. Thence go- 
 ing to Yorkshire, England, he worked at Nor- 
 manton, twelve miles from Leeds, for ten years. 
 
 January 4, 1877, he set sail for America, buying 
 a ticket direct to Golden, where he arrived Janu- 
 ary 25. Here he was employed in the coal mines 
 for eighteen months, after which he came to his 
 present location and leased the coal bank that he 
 has since operated, with the exception of three 
 years (1882-85) spent in Denver. In 1885 he re- 
 leased the coal bank and two years later bought 
 the property, consisting of eighty acres. Here 
 may be seen some of the most valuable clay beds 
 in Colorado, the veins running from six to one 
 hundred and twenty-five feet wide. The strata 
 contains twenty-three veins of clay and seven 
 veins of coal. 
 
 May 20, 1866, Mr. Prince married Miss Maria 
 Louise Basterfield, a native of Worcestershire. 
 Ten children were born of their union, but only 
 four of these are now living, viz.: George W., 
 Sarah J., Albert B. and David S. The eldest 
 son, who is the junior member of the firm of B. 
 Prince & Son, is one of the rising young business 
 men of Colorado. He has practically grown to 
 manhood in the mines, and profiting from what 
 he has seen, he has become an expert miner. 
 Some time since he, with his brother Albert as a 
 partner, located a group of five mines on Soda 
 Creek, three miles below Idaho Springs, known 
 as the Chance group of mines. Here the broth- 
 ers worked diligently to develop the property, 
 and recently were rewarded for their labors by 
 striking a rich body of ore. So highly are they 
 regarded by their acquaintances that they are not 
 only welcomed as genial companions, but their 
 good judgment is praised and their advice is 
 sought by many miners who have made mining 
 their lifetime study. They have bright prospects 
 before them, and there is every indication that 
 ere many years shall have passed they will rank 
 among the wealthy and prominent miners in the 
 state. 
 
 Gl LONZO STRONG BABCOCK. Four miles 
 LI south of Littleton, on section 6, township 6 
 I I south, range 68 west, lie nine hundred and 
 sixty acres comprising the homestead of Mr. 
 Babcock. In addition to this property he has 
 the control of six hundred and forty acres, also 
 lying in Douglas County. Since he came here, 
 in the fall of 1859, and took up a squatters' claim, 
 his nearest neighbor being on Wolcott's place, 
 he has witnessed the gradual development of 
 
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 Douglas County, and its settlement by substantial 
 farmers. The land was a wilderness when he 
 came, and it was only after years of labor on his 
 part that it was placed under cultivation. For 
 some time he made his home in a log cabin, and 
 later he built a log house that furnished him with 
 more room; the house in which he now lives is a 
 stone building of a substantial character. He 
 has given his attention to general farming and 
 the cattle business, in the latter of which he has 
 been particularly successful. 
 
 In Willimantic, Windham County, Conn., the 
 subject of this sketch was born February 20, 1838, 
 a son of Elijah and Mary A. (Strong) Babcock. 
 His paternal ancestors were of English stock, 
 and had been identified with New England from 
 colonial days. He grew to manhood on the 
 homestead farm and received a fair education. 
 In 1859 he came to Colorado, in company with 
 a brother, the two traveling by ox-team from 
 Iowa City, where they left April 11, arrivitig in 
 Boulder June 25. In the latter city he assisted 
 in laying out the town. His ventures at mining 
 did not meet with success, although he tried it in 
 the mountains at Central City and other places. . 
 He came to what is now Douglas County and 
 during the first winter here lived on what game 
 could be secured by the aid of his rifle. Deer 
 were especially plentiful, and many of them fell 
 beneath his unerring aim. Early in i860 he 
 settled upon his present homestead. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Babcock took place 
 in 1864 and united him with Miss Rose Estlack, 
 by whom he had three children, namely: Jessie, 
 who married John Pollock and lives at Spring 
 Valley, Colo.; Eugene and Charles A., who 
 reside on the home farm. In 1878 Mr. Babcock 
 was united in marriage with Miss L,illian Darrow, 
 whose home was near Chicago, but who had 
 for some time been teaching school in Douglas 
 County. She was born in IvaSalle County, 111., 
 and was a graduate of Chicago schools. Her 
 parents, Anderson and May (Henderson) Darrow, 
 were pioneers of Illinois. 
 
 Politically a Republican, having cast his first 
 vote for Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Babcock has 
 been a delegate to various conventions and was 
 nominated by his party for sherifi" of Douglas 
 County. The nomination, however, was made 
 against his wishes and he refused to make a can- 
 vass for office. From December, 1878, to 1882, 
 
 he served as deputy United States marshal for 
 the district of Colorado. At this writing he is 
 serving as deputy sheriff. He remembers this 
 section of country in the days when settlers were 
 few and improvements rare, and when Indians 
 threatened the lives of the few white men here. 
 In 1864 the red men came through this county 
 on a raid, and our subject, with a company of 
 nearly forty men, chased them some ninety miles, 
 failing, however, to overtake them. He has 
 contributed his quota to the development of the 
 material resources of the county, among whose 
 citizens he has long held a prominent place. 
 
 HOWARD WILLIAMS is engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and the cattle business on sec- 
 tion 32, township ID, range 65 west, Doug- 
 las County, thirteen miles from Monument, El 
 Paso County. He was born at Shell Rock, But- 
 ler County, Iowa, February 15, 1859, a son of 
 Henry K. and Catherine (Colver) Williams. 
 When he was eight years of age his parents 
 moved to Bates County, Mo., where his father 
 bought a farm and remained until his death five 
 years later. As he left some property the chil- 
 dren were given fair educational advantages. In 
 1876 the mother with one daughter and two sons 
 came to Colorado, all of them but one son mak- 
 ing the trip by wagon anA consuming six weeks 
 on the road. They had traded their Missouri 
 property for two hundred and fortj' acres in Doug- 
 las County, near the present home of our subject. 
 In this locality he has since resided and is now 
 the owner of eleven hundred acres of farming 
 land. 
 
 January 3, 1882, Mr. Williams married Miss 
 Mary Russell, of El Paso County. She was born 
 in Douglas County, a daughter of John and Hon- 
 ora (Foley) Russell, and received a public-school 
 education. They are the parents of seven living 
 children, namely: Minnie, Anna, Oliver Perry, 
 Frances, Ruth, Grace and William McKinley, all 
 of whom were born on the home farm. Mr. Will- 
 iams owns about seventy head of cattle but makes 
 farming his principal occupation, and in it he has 
 met with success. Politically he has alwaj'sbeen 
 a Republican. His party elected him county 
 commissioner, which position he held for three 
 years. He was also nominated for the legisla- 
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 of election. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Monument Camp No. 302, Woodmen of the 
 World, of which he was consul for a time. 
 
 The mother of Mr. Williams continued to make 
 her home in Colorado until her death, which oc- 
 curred November 27, 1897, ^t eighty-one years 
 of age, her birth having occurred May 16, 1816. 
 Her husband was a year older than herself, born 
 in 1815. 
 
 T" LIAS ROBERTS resides in the southeastern 
 ^ part of Douglas County, on section 31, 
 ^ township II, range 65, ten miles northeast 
 of Monument, El Paso County. In 1879 he 
 bought the improvements already made and 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, to 
 which he has since added until his landed posses- 
 sions now aggregate four hundred and eighty 
 acres in his home ranch and three hundred and 
 sixty acres near Eastonville. Here he engages 
 in general farm pursuits. 
 
 In Shelby County, Ind., Mr. Roberts was born 
 April 3, 1842, a son of Wade and Mathana (Nail) 
 Roberts. When he was nine years of age his 
 parents moved to Macoupin County, 111., where 
 they rented land for a few years. Later they 
 bought two hundred acres in Montgomery Coun- 
 ty, and from there in 1866 removed to Dade 
 County, Mo. In 1872 removal was made to 
 Morgan County, Mo., but two years later they 
 went to Texas, and from there returned to 
 Morgan County, where the father died in 1893. 
 The mother is still living in Morgan County and 
 is seventy-eight years of age. All of her ten 
 children are living, Elias being the second of 
 these in order of birth. His boyhood days were 
 spent in farm work in the various places where 
 his parents resided. He received a fair education 
 in common schools. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Roberts was solemnized 
 October 27, 1864, and united him with Miss 
 Nancy A. Laughlin, who was born in Beaver 
 County, Pa. She accompanied her parents, 
 Thomas and Nancy (Wright) Laughlin, to Dade 
 County, Mo., and from there during the war 
 moved to Montgomery County, 111., where they 
 remained until the close of the war. It is a sin- 
 gular coincidence that Mr. and Mrs. Roberts 
 were born on the same day and year, he the sec- 
 ond of ten children and she the second of nine, 
 and both had one sister older. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Roberts settled in Dade County, 
 Mo., and rented land belonging to his wife's 
 father. A year later he bought sixty acres of 
 unimproved land, and there remained until 1872, 
 when he sold out and the following year came to 
 Colorado. Leaving his old home May 13, with 
 an ox-team and a drove of cattle he started on 
 the long journey across the plains, and after a 
 hard trip often weeks he reached his destination. 
 In the fall he took a pre-emption claim near 
 Eastonville, and for a few weeks slept in his 
 wagon, but as soon as he had built a log shanty 
 he removed his household effects to it. In 1878 
 he sold the claim and the following year bought 
 his present property. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have three children: 
 The older son, Thomas W., was born in Mont- 
 gomery County, 111., and is a farmer, owning two 
 hundred and twenty acres of land near the home- 
 stead; Ida Adella was born in Dade County, Mo. , 
 and is with her parents; Homer L., also a native 
 of Dade County, owns and cultivates sixty acres 
 of land near Eastonville. Mr. Roberts was reared 
 in the faith of the Democracy, but is not active 
 in politics, preferring to devote himself to his ag- 
 ricultural interests. 
 
 ^OREN SORENSEN, one of the successful 
 2\ merchants of Golden and a member of the 
 Q) firm of Wasson & Sorensen, was born in 
 Nordordalen, Norway, June 12, 1849, the son of 
 John and Kari (Olson) Sorensen, also natives of 
 Norway. His father, who was a farmer in the 
 old country, died in Kansas while visiting his son 
 there in 1896; and during the same year his wife 
 passed away in Norway. They were the parents 
 of ten children, all but one of whom are still 
 living, six of these being in America. 
 
 In the common schools of Norway the subject 
 of this sketch received a fair education. In July, 
 1868, he came from Copenhagen to New York, 
 thence traveled west to Janesville, Wis. , where 
 he was employed for a short time. In the spring 
 of 1869 he took up a homestead claim in Kansas, 
 eighty acres of which were within the railroad 
 limit, in Waubansee County, near Altavista. 
 After he had proved up on the property he bought 
 an adjacent tract, making a total acreage of one 
 hundred and sixty, which he improved and placed 
 under cultivation.? Eighteen years were spent on 
 
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 that place, after which, in 1887, he came to 
 Golden, but soon went to the mining district in 
 the San Luis Valley, where he pre-empted a 
 claim. Returning to Golden in less than two 
 years, he formed a partnership with his brother- 
 in-law and established the grocery house of 
 Wasson & Sorensen, on Washington aventte, 
 where he has since conducted business. In 1897 
 he built a comfortable residence on Second street. 
 Politically Mr. Sorensen is a Republican and 
 while in Kansas served as treasurer of his school 
 district. During his residence in that state he 
 married Margaret E. Wasson, who was born in 
 Peoria, 111. They are the parents four sons, Roy, 
 George, Dudley and Alfred. He has a fine family 
 of sons and is justly proud of their ability and 
 intelligence. He is a man of great moral worth 
 and fine character. He is fond of his home, as 
 is natural to the people who come from that 
 country where nothing is held in higher reverence 
 than the sanctity of the home and family. Like 
 others of that nationality, he possesses the thrift, 
 sound common sense and determination of char- 
 acter that almost invariably bring financial pros- 
 perity. By his honest dealings with all, he has 
 won the patronage of the people of Golden and 
 the surrounding country, who hold him in the 
 highest esteem for his integrity and honorable 
 character. 
 
 (lOHN E. BLUNT, a farmer and dairyman, 
 I resides one and one-quarter miles east of 
 Qj Sedalia, Douglas County, where he owns a 
 ranch of sixteen hundred acres. He came to this 
 state from Kansas in 1873, driving a herd of 
 cattle, and joined his wife and son, who had pre- 
 ceded him some months. Soon settling on his 
 present homestead, he bought one hundred and 
 sitxy acres, to which he has added from time to 
 time until the place has reached its present pro- 
 portions. In 1874 he erected the residence where 
 he has since made his home. 
 
 In the town of Franklin, Hancock County, 
 Me., Mr. Blunt was born June 18, 1836, a son of 
 John and Elmira (Blunt) Blunt. His father, who 
 was a farmer, moved to Darke County, Ohio, in 
 1852 and bought land, making his home there 
 until the fall of 1855. Early in that year John E. 
 and his older half-brother, Elbridge G., went to 
 Franklin County, Kan., and squatted on govern- 
 ment land, the father soon following his sons. 
 
 He was three times married and had children by 
 each union. James G. , who was born of the 
 first marriage, graduated from the Columbus 
 (Ohio) Medical College and went to Kansas in 
 1856, afterward taking part in the border wars 
 of pre-Rebellion times. When the Civil war 
 opened he raised a company, of which he was 
 made captain, and later, by reason of valor in con- 
 flict, was promoted to be a major-general. After 
 the war he made Leavenworth, Kan., his home, 
 but the management of business for Indian tribes 
 kept him in Washington, D. C, much of his 
 time and there he died. He left three children. 
 
 Elbridge G. Blunt, who was a son of Jobs. 
 Blunt by his first marriage, was a sailor for a 
 number of years previous to the war. He crossed 
 the ocean twelve times and was shipwrecked 
 three times; once, when sailing to Ireland, dur- 
 ing the famine there, with a cargo of corn, he 
 was wrecked and was obliged to throw all the 
 corn overboard. During the Civil war he served 
 in the command of his older brother, the major- 
 general, and acted as a scout. After the war he 
 removed to Chicago, where he was employed as 
 an engineer. His death occurred in that city in 
 September, 1896. He had married Miss Mary E. 
 Garton, of Darke County, Ohio, and left five 
 children. 
 
 In 1861 the subject of this sketch enlisted in 
 Company A, Third Kansas Infantry, which after- 
 ward was consolidated with the Fourth Kansas 
 Infantry, and became Company C, Tenth Kansas 
 Infantry. In July, 1862, he was raised from the 
 ranks to be first lieutenant of Company D, Third 
 Regiment of Indian Home Guards, and was in 
 the scouting service, taking part in many skir- 
 mishes and the battles of Newtonia, Mo., and 
 Greenleaf Prairie, I. T. He was never wounded 
 nor captured, and though sick for a time, he was 
 too plucky to go to the hospital. At Newtonia he 
 was in command of sixty Indians; there were a 
 few hundred against several thousand, and the 
 small band, after being surrounded, had to cut 
 their way out. In the fall of 1863 he resigned 
 on account of poor health and because his father 
 needed his assistance. After his resignation he 
 took part in the battle of Westport, where he 
 commanded a companj-, and later he was com- 
 missioned as captain by Governor Crawford. 
 
 In April, 1864, Mr. Blunt married Miss May 
 Hansborough, their wedding being solemnized at 
 
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 Mount Gilead, Anderson County, Kan. Three 
 children were born of their union. The oldest, 
 Elmer Valentine, whose birth occurred in Frank- 
 lin County, Kan., February 14, 1865, is now 
 living at the home place. The only daughter, 
 Ella, died in Kansas when two years of age; and 
 Harry, the youngest child, died in Colorado when 
 eight years of age. The only surviving son was 
 married, January 27, 1891, to Miss Fannie E. 
 Brooking, of Littleton, Colo., but a native of 
 Huntsville, Mo. ; and they have one child, Mar}' 
 Eugenia, born July 19, 1892. Fraternally our 
 subject is connected with J. G. Blunt Post No. 65, 
 G. A. R. , of which he is past commander. His 
 father was a Whig and all the .sons became Re- 
 publicauf . Mr. Blunt was elected county com- 
 missioner of Douglas County and served for 
 three years. 
 
 0AVID BIRKLE, the owner of valuable 
 residence and business property in Platte- 
 ville, where he resides, and also the owner 
 of finely improved farm property in Weld 
 County, was born near Stuttgart, in the south of 
 Germany, in 1838, a son of Christopher and 
 Phillipene Birkle. His parents spent their en- 
 tire lives in Germany, where they died, the father 
 at seventy-five and the mother at fifty-five. 
 
 At the age of fifteen years our subject started 
 for America, in company with an older sister. 
 He landed in New Orleans in April, 1854, and 
 from there proceeded to St. Joseph, Mo., where 
 he followed the blacksmith's trade and teaming. 
 Remaining there until i860, he then came west 
 in search of a location, and arrived in Denver on 
 the 1st of June, after a tedious trip across the 
 plains with an ox -team. Two weeks were spent 
 in Denver, after which he went down to the 
 Platte River and began cutting hay. Later he 
 took up government land. In 1866 he obtained 
 a patent for section 25, township 3, range 67, and 
 began general farming and the stock business. 
 From time to time he purchased other land, un- 
 til he is now owner of five hundred and sixty 
 acres, all under cultivation. As a stock dealer 
 he has been quite successful, keeping on his 
 place about two hundred and fifty head of cattle, 
 besides a number of fine horses. 
 
 Recognizing the necessity of suitable irrigation, 
 Mr. Birkle took an active interest in securing 
 ditches and laterals. In 1866 he aided in the 
 
 organization of the Meadow Island Ditch Com- 
 pany, and helped to build the ditch, which 
 waters a portion of his land. For several years 
 he served as president of the company. In 1876 
 he took part in organizing the Beaman ditch, in 
 which he became a stockholder, and for several 
 years held the ofiices of president and treasurer. 
 In 1862 he built a private ditch for watering his 
 land, but after the construction of the larger 
 ditches he abandoned his first ditch. In 1878 he 
 erected a substantial stone barn on his home- 
 stead, which is said to be the finest barn in Weld 
 County. Two years before he had built a two- 
 story residence. Remaining on the farm until 
 1893, he then removed to the village of Platte- 
 ville, where he had built the Birkle hall in 1888, 
 and where he now owns several public buildings 
 and residences. 
 
 Politically Mr. Birkle is a Democrat. He was 
 the organizer of school district No. 13, and for 
 eighteen years served upon the board of trustees, 
 as president or treasurer. In 1864 he went to 
 Missouri and there married Miss Johanna Bruner, 
 whom he brought back with him to his frontier 
 home. Reaching the place, he found that the 
 Indians had been there in his absence and had 
 driven away some of his stock. He and his wife 
 have gained the respect of their acquaintances 
 during the long years of their residence in Weld 
 County, and are known and honored for their in- 
 tegrity, industry and perseverance. They are 
 the parents of five children, whom they have 
 trained to useful manhood and womanhood. The 
 oldest daughter, Elizabeth, is the wife of William 
 Egner, a farmer of Weld County. The sons are 
 John and Louis, who manage the old homestead, 
 and the j'ounger daughters, Rosie, wife of Charles 
 Howard, of Platteville; and Hattie. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Birkle are members of the Catholic Church. 
 
 (TOHN LOUGHRAN, a successful mine super- 
 I intendent, whose home is in Central City, 
 (2/ Gilpin County, is a self-made man in every 
 way, as circumstances forced him to rely upon 
 himself when he was but a child, and from a very 
 early age he supported himself entirely. When 
 most children are privileged to attend school he 
 was working hard in a factory and in 1862 he 
 and his brother Enos set out together to seek a 
 new home and fortune in the United States, he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 being then but fourteen years of age. They ex- 
 perienced many of the ups and downs of life in 
 the strange country, but managed to gain a foot- 
 hold and finally came off victors in the struggle. 
 
 John Loughran, Sr., was a native of Ireland, 
 and so was his wife, whose name before their 
 marriage was Agnes Gollogly. In early man- 
 hood the father came to America, locating in 
 Pennsylvania, but ultimately returned to the 
 Emerald Isle and in 1852 removed with his 
 family to Ayrshire, Scotland. The mother and 
 children came to America after the death of the 
 father. James, the eldest son, died in Iowa, and 
 Frank, the youngest, died in Colorado. Enos, 
 previously mentioned, is now living in Denver, 
 as is also the next younger brother, Hugh. 
 Maggie resides in Georgetown and Ellen in Cen- 
 tral City. Mrs. Loughran departed this life in 
 this city. 
 
 The birth of the subject of this article occurred 
 in Ireland in 1848, and when he was in his fifth 
 year his family moved to Scotland. Two years 
 later he was initiated into the grim world of busi- 
 ness by being employed in an Ayrshire factory, 
 and at thirteen he was apprenticed to a brick- 
 moulder and learned the trade. He sailed from 
 Liverpool in the good ship "Universe" twenty- 
 six years ago, and after a tedious voyage of six 
 weeks and three days landed at his destination, 
 New York City. From there he went to Wiscon- 
 sin and a month later started across the plains 
 with a party who outfitted with ox- teams. Their 
 journey was by the oft-traveled Platte River 
 route, a trip of seven weeks' duration. In July 
 our subject arrived in Denver and at once came 
 to the mountains. He prospected at Bobtail Hill, 
 Gilpin County, for a time and then entered the 
 employ of the old Blackhawk Company. In the 
 years that followed he worked in nearly every 
 mine of any importance in the district and for 
 nine years was inside foreman of the Saratoga 
 mine. He is now operating Wood & Buckly's 
 mines, and exercises general management of the 
 whole. Personally he is interested in various 
 mining ventures and in company with three 
 others is operating the mine known as Mountain 
 City. He is a practical man of affairs, thoroughly 
 understanding his business. In his political 
 opinion, he holds with the Democratic party. 
 
 In Central City Mr. Loughran and Miss Maria 
 Donovan were married in 1870. She was born 
 
 in Boston, Mass., and has lived in this town since 
 1869. The following-named children were born 
 to our subject and wife: James, an engineer at 
 Central City; Mrs. Mamie Mackin. of Denver; 
 John, at home; Maggie, who died when young; 
 Katie and Joseph, both deceased; Loretta; Henry 
 and Francis, twins. 
 
 gHARLES G. HICKOX, of Central City, 
 Gilpin County, was born in this county 
 January 18, 1865, near the left hand fork 
 of Willis gulch. His father, George Hickox, 
 was born in England, but came to New York 
 when a young man, and in 1859 came to this 
 state and engaged in mining in Willi% gulch, 
 Russell gulch and Gilson gulch. His wife, Louisa 
 Heramenway, was born in New York state, and 
 died in 1872, just three months from the time of 
 her husband's death. Of their thirteen children, 
 ten are now living, of whom Charles and Hiram 
 are now in Colorado. One brother, Lewis, served 
 through the war in a Colorado regiment, but is 
 now in Illinois. 
 
 Charles G. Hickox, who was the youngest of 
 the family, lived near Central City until nine 
 years old, and then went to Golden. After his 
 parents' death he had to do for himself, and his 
 schooling was such as could be obtained by at- 
 tending during the winter months. He remained 
 in Jefferson County for three years, and then 
 went to Larimer County and worked on a farm 
 until fifteen. At that age he began working in a 
 sawmill at Ralston, Jefferson County, and soon 
 became head sawyer for Neil Brothers on Boulder 
 Creek. In 1894 he came to Central City and 
 bought the stone and brick structure, in which 
 he lias his livery, sale and boarding stable. It is 
 a large building, 60x90 feet and two stories high; 
 the basement is the horse stable, and the first 
 floor is used for carriages, coaches, etc. He runs 
 a daily stage to Idaho Springs via Russell, and a 
 line of hacks from Blackhawk to Central City 
 and Nevadaville. While working in the sawmill 
 he engaged in the cattle business, and after he 
 had been at this for a time bought a farm and 
 continued to handle stock until he opened his 
 livery barn. This farm consists of five hundred 
 acres and is situated on the Ralston at the ex- 
 treme east of Gilpin County, and is on the county 
 road, occupying a beautiful location. The place 
 
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 has been improved by its owner until it is one of 
 the most desirable pieces of property in that vi- 
 cinity. He now rents it, as his Hvery business 
 requires all his attention. 
 
 After going to Golden Mr. Hickox married 
 Miss Hattie Spears, who was born in New York. 
 Her father was an early settler in this state and 
 died in this county in 1896. They have two chil- 
 dren, Blanche and George. He was elected 
 alderman of the city in 1896 on the People's 
 party ticket, and was re-elected in 1898. He is 
 a member of the water committee, the street and 
 alley committee, and chairman of the police com- 
 mittee. He is a member of the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. His residence on Lawrence 
 street was built by himself, and is a model of 
 comfort and convenience. He is of social disposi- 
 tion, and everybody knows and likes him. 
 
 I EVI BOOTH, a successful farmer, dairyman 
 I C and stock-raiser, resides on section 18, town- 
 Li/ ship 4 south, range 67 west, and is the owner 
 of five hundred and sixty acres of land, nearly 
 all of which lies in one body. The nucleus of 
 his present property was formed in 1864, when 
 he bought a claim and entered a homestead of 
 one hundred and sixty acres. In his first efibrt 
 to pre-empt a claim he was unfortunate and made 
 a mistake, locating land six miles froth the correct 
 place, but his second effort was more successful. 
 The improvements on the place have been made 
 under his personal supervision and have increased 
 the value of the land greatly. He has planted a 
 large number of trees, making a beautiful grove 
 that adds to the attractiveness of his homestead. 
 For a number of years his attention was given 
 almost wholly to the raising of stock, but he now 
 engages, besides, in general farm pursuits and the 
 dairy business. 
 
 In Moravia Township, Cayuga County, N. Y., 
 May I, 1829, the subject of this sketch was born 
 to Ager and Betsey (Dowing) Booth, natives of 
 Connecticut, and there reared and married, but 
 for years residents of a New York farm. Both 
 the Booth and Dowing families originated in 
 England. When our subject was about fifteen 
 years of age he left the home farm and went to 
 Dodge County, Wis. , where he joined his brother, 
 David L. After a year he went to Madison, Wis. , 
 where he had an uncle. A year later be entered 
 44 
 
 the preparatory department of the University of 
 Wisconsin and was otie of two young men com- 
 prising the first class that graduated from that 
 institution, with the degree of A. B. After com- 
 pleting his literary education he studied law with 
 an uncle, J. G. Knapp, who afterward became a 
 judge in the southern district of New Mexico. 
 He was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty- 
 seven. 
 
 While still in Madison, Wis., August 15, 1854, 
 prior to his admission to the bar, Mr. Booth mar- 
 ried Miss Millie A. Dowing, who was born in 
 Erie, Pa. , a daughter of David and Emily (Whit- 
 ney) Dowing. For a short time he conducted a 
 real-estate office in Prairie du Chien, Wis., and 
 he was similarly engaged in Black River Falls 
 for a year. Returning to Madison he completed 
 his law studies and formed a partnership with his 
 uncle and another gentleman, and for some five 
 3'ears engaged in practice there. In i860, with 
 a team of horses, he drove from Omaha to Den- 
 ver in eighteen days, accompanying George W. 
 Stoner and Charles Hilton. The wagon was so 
 crowded with provisions and supplies that he 
 thought best to leave his law books in Omaha, 
 although he had planned to practice law in Colo- 
 rado. Instead, however, he went to California 
 Gulch (now Leadville), where he engaged in 
 mining. 
 
 Returning east for his family, who had been 
 visiting in Sandusky, Ohio, Mr. Booth brought 
 them as far west as Fremont, Neb. , with horse 
 teams, but in the latter town disposed of his 
 horses and bought cattle, with which he made the 
 remainder of the journey. They left Madison 
 April 18, 1861, and arrived at California Gulch 
 July 12. While on the way one of their children, 
 a girl of three years, died and was buried on the 
 plains July 2. Arriving at his destination he re- 
 sumed mining, while his wife at the same time 
 kept a hotel, express office, postoffice and store. 
 In the meantime his uncle had been appointed, 
 by President Lincoln, a judge in New Mexico, 
 and he decided to join him there. In the fall of 
 1863 he and his family drove, with horses, to La 
 Masilla, taking with them four loads of merchan- 
 dise. They left Denver September 4, and arrived 
 at La Masilla early in November, after some 
 exciting experiences with the Mexicans, who 
 made repeated efforts to steal from them. They 
 engaged in the mercantile business, but Mrs. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Booth did not like the country, on account of the 
 few white women there and the many privations 
 people were compelled to endure. For this reason 
 they sold out and returned to Denver. While on 
 their way north, in fording a stream, they were 
 washed down the current, and one horse went 
 under. They cut the horses loose and took refuge 
 on an island, where they were in dire distress 
 until rescued by the help of Peter Dotson, United 
 States marshal for Utah at the time of the Moun- 
 tain Meadow massacre. Since his return to 
 Arapahoe County Mr. Booth has occupied his 
 present homestead. 
 
 The oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Booth is 
 Gillett I,., who is represented elsewhere in this 
 work. Emma, who was born at Black River 
 Falls, Wis., March 25, 1858, died on the plains 
 when the family were removing to Colorado. 
 Lillie B., who was born in La Masilla, N. Mex., 
 November 25, 1863, married Judge C. C. Hol- 
 brook, and lives at Alamosa, Colo. Ella Grace, 
 the youngest of the family, was born in the house 
 where her father now lives, November 13, 1868, 
 and is the wife of D. W. Working, who is a 
 newspaper man and has been secretarj' of the 
 State Agricultural College at Fort Collins; they 
 and their two children live on Mr. Booth's farm. 
 
 Reared in the faith of the Whig party, Mr. 
 Booth remained true to its principles until its dis- 
 integration. Since then he has been a Republi- 
 can. In 1856 he voted for John C. Fremont. 
 He was appointed county commissioner to fill an 
 unexpired term. He was nominated by the 
 Prohibition party for state treasurer, but he re- 
 fused to accept the nomination, as he did also for 
 state senator. Since the organization of the 
 Grange he has been identified with it, and for 
 many years was master of the state Grange. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Harman Lodge 
 No. 105, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled vari- 
 ous offices. 
 
 r"RANCIS M. JEWETT, whose pleasant 
 rft home is located at a point about six and a- 
 I * half miles east of Longmont, across the line 
 in Weld County, is one of the representative citi- 
 zens in the locality in which he dwells. His high 
 standing as a business man, and his undoubted 
 energy and general ability, led to his being 
 chosen as one of the county road commissioners 
 in 1892, and from that time to the present he 
 
 has officiated in that capacity, giving satisfaction 
 to all concerned. He is a Populist in his polit- 
 ical faith, and is not an aspirant for public posi- 
 tions. Among the fraternal orders he has asso- 
 ciated himself with two, the Odd Fellows and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. In the first- 
 mentioned he belongs to Longmont Lodge 
 No. 29. 
 
 The father of our subject is Dr. George C. Jew- 
 ett, whosebirth occurred in the city of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. There he grew to maturity, receiving ex- 
 cellent public school advantages. He adopted the 
 medical field as his choice of a profession and, after 
 graduating from a well-known Cincinnati col- 
 lege, settled in Ohio, there embarking in prac- 
 tice. Later he removed to Iowa, and for many 
 years was an inhabitant of Decatur County. The 
 mother of our subject came from one of the old, 
 aristocratic families of Kentucky. She was Lydia 
 C. Logan, the daughter of John E. and Eliza 
 (Baker) Logan, ol Whitley County, Ky. John 
 E. Logan was a man of much prominence in his 
 community, being president of a bank iia Line- 
 ville, and extensively interested in the raising 
 and breeding of fine live-stock. 
 
 F. M. Jewett was born in Decatur County, 
 Iowa, October 9, 1859, being one of six children, 
 one of whom has since passed to the silent land. 
 He was reared under the loving guidance of his 
 parents, and was given good educational advan- 
 tages. Early in life he developed a taste and 
 genius for agriculture, and, as his mother owned 
 a ranch in Iowa, he was allowed to work the 
 place on shares. This he continued to do up to 
 1883, when he sold off his stock, and as he was 
 in rather poor health, he decided to come to Colo- 
 rado. He arrived in Denver May 5, 1883, and 
 at the close of the first year he could see a marked 
 improvement in his general strength, and he de- 
 termined to make this his future home. Locat- 
 ing on the St. Vrain, he rented a farm for several 
 years. He was prosperous in his undertakings, 
 and in 1891 found himself in a position to own a 
 homestead. He invested his funds in a parcel of 
 land one hundred and sixty acres in extent, and 
 here he has since dwelt, making .such improve- 
 ments as he deemed best, and making a model 
 farm in every respect of the place. 
 
 November 25, 1886, Mr. Jewett married Miss 
 Alice E. Cady, a native of the Empire state, her 
 birth having occurred in the vicinity of Auburn, 
 
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 102I 
 
 N. Y. A son and three daughters grace the 
 home of Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, and are named re- 
 spectively: John Logan, Ethel M., Edna L. and 
 Ada C. 
 
 (lOHN McCORMICK is a successful agiicult- 
 I urist of Weld County, his home being on 
 (2/ section 24, township 4, range 69, half a mile 
 east of Berthoud. In addition to following gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising he has dealt quite 
 extensively in live stock, buying, selling and 
 shipping. His well-applied energy and industry 
 can be seen upon every hand about his ranch. 
 His comfortable house, built of brick, was the 
 first one constructed of that material in this lo- 
 cality. His barn is one of the largest and best 
 in the neighborhood. The prosperity which he 
 now enjoys is entirely the result of his own 
 labors, for, when he arrived in America, in early 
 manhood, he was a poor Irish boy, having less 
 than $5 in the world. Now he ranks with the 
 best farmers and citizens of this county and is 
 always counted upon to do whatever he can to ad- 
 vance the welfare of the public. As one of the 
 stockholders of the Farmers' Mill and Elevator 
 Company, of Berthoud, he has been actively inter- 
 ested, this being one of the most beneficial insti- 
 tutions of this section of the county. 
 
 Born in County Clare, Ireland, June 4, 1840. 
 our subject is a son of John and Margaret 
 (McMahon) McCormick, who were well-to-do 
 farmers. When he was seventeen years of 
 age John McCormick, Jr., came to the United 
 States with his married sister, Mrs. Mary S. 
 Slashary. He worked in the iron foundries of 
 Philadelphia for about a year, and then proceeded 
 westward as far a Blackhawk County, Iowa, 
 where he had an uncle living. In his employ he 
 continued five years, at the expiration of which 
 period he concluded to come to Colorado and em- 
 bark in mining enterprises. 
 
 From 1872 until 1875 he followed mining and 
 prospecting, in company with his brother Martin, 
 who had come to America at the same time, in 
 1857. They were in Central City much of the 
 time and the mountain altitude did not seem to 
 agree with our subject. Therefore he went to 
 Golden and engaged in railroading and coal- 
 mining, later working on the Gulf Railroad, 
 which was then in process of construction between 
 Cheyenne and Longmont. When the line was 
 
 completed he was made foreman of the Loveland 
 section, and five or six months afterward took 
 charge of the Berthoud section. This he worked 
 on for nearly three years, and in the meantime 
 had bought one-quarter of a section of land near 
 Loveland, renting the same. While employed 
 on the Berthoud section he became the purchaser 
 of the farm where he now makes his home. The 
 Hardy ditch was then the only one in this locality, 
 and the land was dry and gave little promise. 
 Mr. McCormick was not discouraged, but bravely 
 set about altering and improving things on his 
 property. His home ranch comprises one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, and besides this he owns 
 another place of similar extent, about eight miles 
 distant, which homestead he rents. 
 
 January 14, 1884, Mr. McCormick married 
 Miss Phoebe McCafferty, who is a native of the 
 northern^art of Ireland, but has lived in America 
 since she was eighteen years old. This worthy 
 couple have no children of their own, but have 
 taken into their hearts and home two little ones, 
 Katie and Thomas, aged respectively twelve and 
 seven years. They are the children of Mr. 
 McCormick' s sister, Kate, wife of James Roach, 
 of County Clare, Ireland. They made the journey 
 from their far-away home in Ireland with a friend 
 to Chicago and from there alone as far as Denver, 
 where their uncle met them. In 1887 he and his 
 wife made a three months' visit in Ireland. Po- 
 litically he is a Democrat. In religious faith he 
 and his wife are Catholics, attending the church 
 at Longmont. 
 
 Gl LPHONSO SCHOFIELD. Among the 
 Ll farmers living in Boulder County prominent 
 I I mention belongs to Mr. Schofield, who for 
 some years has followed agricultural pursuits in 
 this part of the state. In 1894 he purchased the 
 property which he has since owned and superin- 
 tended. It consists of eighty acres, situated three 
 miles north of Lafayette. Since his purchase he 
 has added many improvements to the property, 
 conspicuous among which is a modern residence 
 of brick, one of the largest houses in the neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 A native of Nova Scotia, the subject of this 
 sketch was born in 1863, being a .son of William 
 H. and Mary (Downing) Schofield. When a 
 child he removed with his parents to Boston, 
 M^ss., and in the public schools of that city he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 acquired his education. On reaching the age of 
 eighteen he came west to Colorado, hoping to at- 
 tain success in this growing state. He settled in 
 the vicinity of Canfield, Boulder County, where 
 he embarked in farming. After some years he 
 removed to the farm he now owns and occupies. 
 He has shown great enterprise in the manage- 
 ment of his business interests and is well and 
 favorably known as one of the most progressive 
 men of this section. 
 
 February 21, 1892, Mr. Schofield married Mary 
 M. Prince, daughter of Hon. Hiram and Mary 
 (Lindsay) Prince, prominent residents of Boulder 
 County. The history of the Prince family is 
 given in the sketch of her father, presented else- 
 where in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Schofield 
 are the parents of a daughter and two sons: Mary 
 E., Archibald J. and George F. 
 
 HON. JOHN J. CLARK, the popular mayor 
 of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, has lived in 
 this state for thirty years and has not only 
 witnessed the great and sweeping changes that 
 have come to this section of the Union, but has 
 aided materially in the grand result. Formerly 
 he acted in the capacity of city clerk and treasurer 
 of this town for many years, and was elected to 
 his present office in 1898. Ten years ago he was 
 living in Jefferson and was nominated on the Re- 
 publican ticket for the state legislature. In the 
 fall elections he was given a good majority and 
 was a member of the seventh general assembly of 
 the state, the sessions of 1888-89. He introduced 
 the bill asking for an appropriation to be used to 
 investigate methods of purifying Clear Creek 
 waters and this bill was duly passed. He was 
 concerned with irrigation and other bills and did 
 effective work on behalf of his constituents. In 
 1884 he was elected to the fifth general as- 
 sembly of the state for Gilpin County and served 
 with credit. 
 
 Mr. Clark was born in Liscard, England, in 
 November, 1846. His father, Joseph Clark, was 
 a native of the same locality, and was a miner by 
 occupation. In 1865 he brought his little fam- 
 ily to the United States, and settled in Keweenaw 
 County, Mich. , remaining there about three years. 
 In 1868 he came to Nevadaville, and for a few 
 years was interested in mining and prospecting 
 in various parts of Gilpin County. He died here 
 
 when in his fifty-third year. The mother of our 
 subject was a Miss Martha Bennie prior to her 
 marriage to Mr. Clark. She was born in Eng- 
 land and died in that country at the time that 
 her son John J. was but eight years old. She 
 had but two children, and the other son, William 
 H., was killed when he was seventeen years old, 
 by falling down a mine shaft near Nevadaville. 
 The father subsequently married again, and had 
 four children by that union, two of whom sur- 
 vive. 
 
 Until he was twelve years old John J. Clark 
 attended the English schools to a greater or less 
 extent, working at intervals, also, in the mines. 
 He became a practical tin and copper miner 
 while still a mere boy, and in 1865 he determined 
 to try his fortunes in America. Accordingly he 
 sailed from Liverpool and arrived in New York 
 City at the end of a tedious voyage of six weeks' 
 duration. Thence he proceeded to the copper 
 mines of the upper peninsula of Michigan. In 
 May, 1868, he came to Colorado, preceding his 
 family about five months. Here he prospected 
 and developed mines in different parts of the 
 Kansas lode, and was reasonably successful. 
 He now owns a half interest in the Enterprise 
 mine on Yankee Hill and a half interest in the 
 Eureka on the same hill. In addition to these, 
 he has investments in Nevada mining property 
 and is connected with the thampion Gold Min- 
 ing Company, which is operating the Champion 
 mine. From 1878 to 1884 he conducted a gen- 
 eral merchandise business in Nevadaville and in 
 the year last-mentioned sold out and opened a meat 
 and vegetable market in Central City, running the 
 same for two years. In 1887 he located on a 
 ranch of three hundred and twenty acres at Ber- 
 gen Park. This place is situated near Beaver 
 Brook, in the foot hills, and during the following 
 six years Mr. Clark devoted much of his time 
 and energies to general farming and stock-raising 
 there. In 1893 he went to Golden, becoming 
 superintendent of the White Ash coal mines, but 
 in the fall of 1895 he returned to this place. He 
 still owns the ranch already alluded to, and is 
 one of the proprietors of the largest store in the 
 town. For the past three years he has been 
 connected with the Colorado Trading and Invest- 
 ment Company, takes an active part in its man- 
 agement and is its vice-president. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Clark and Miss Sarah 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
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 Souden was solemnized in 1873 in Nevadaville. 
 Her father, William Souden, came to this state 
 in 1871, turned his attention to mining enter- 
 prises and died here a few years later. His wife, 
 Miss Mary Rogers before their marriage, also 
 died at her home in this place. They were the 
 parents of four children, three of whom survive. 
 William, now a resident of Butte City, Mont., 
 served throughout the Civil war in the Twenty- 
 first Wisconsin, and rose to the rank of second 
 lieutenant. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have two adopted 
 children. Mrs. Clark is a member of the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church and is associated with the 
 Daughters of Rebekah. Fraternally Mr. Clark is 
 an Odd Fellow and is past officer of the lodge and 
 encampment. At present he is serving his second 
 term as a member of the local school board, 
 being the treasurer of the same. 
 
 ~ RNEST LE NEVE FOSTER, superintend- 
 V) ent of the Saratoga mine for the Saratoga 
 ^ and Cyclops Gold and Silver Consolidated 
 Mining Company, is ex-state geologist and a man 
 who thoroughly understands mining, having at- 
 tended the best schools of mines in England and 
 Germany and had thirty years' experience. He 
 was born in I,ondon, England, the son of Peter 
 L,e Neve and Georgiana Elizabeth (Chevallier) 
 Le Neve Foster. His great-grandfather was 
 named Peter EeNeve, but in the next generation 
 the name Foster was added, and since then the 
 family has been known as Le Neve Foster. The 
 Ee Neves are of Norman descent and trace their 
 ancestry back prior to the year 1400, at which 
 time and for a long time afterward they were 
 owners of large estates in Norfolk. Peter Foster, 
 the grandfather of our subject, was born in Nor- 
 folk, and was a miller of that place, where his 
 son, Peter Ee Neve Foster, was born. This son 
 was a barrister by profession but afterward became 
 secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of 
 the Arts and Sciences, in Eondon, which position 
 he filled for more than twenty -five years. He 
 died there when sixty-nine years of age. He 
 married Georgiana Elizabeth Chevallier, of Suf- 
 folk, England, whpse father, Dr. Clement Chev- 
 allier, of French-Huguenot extraction, was in 
 his time eleventh wrangler of Cambridge Univer- 
 sity, a fellow of his college, and was tutor to 
 
 Wordsworth. She died in Eondon, leaving ten 
 children, of whom nine are living. 
 
 The only member of this family residing in 
 America is Ernest Le Neve Foster, who reached 
 manhood in London, having attended the private 
 schools of that city, and later the Royal School of 
 Mines, of the same place, from which he gradua- 
 ted in 1868. He then went to Freiburg, where 
 he entered the King's and Emperor's Mining 
 Academy, where he took a special course during 
 the year of 1868-69. Immediately upon leaving 
 this academy he went to Italy and was assistant 
 in some gold mines in the Alps for eighteen 
 months. He returned to England at the end of 
 that time and stayed nine months, and in 1872 
 came to America as the superintendent of the 
 Snow Drift Silver Mining and Reduction Com- 
 pany, and located near Georgetown, Clear Creek 
 County. He continued there and also had charge 
 of other mines in Georgetown district, several of 
 whicb he developed. He was manager of the 
 Colorado Central mine for five years, and de- 
 veloped mines in Summit County, near Rath- 
 bone. The latter he is still interested in and op- 
 erating. In 1893 he became superintendent of 
 the Saratoga mine, which is nine hundred feet 
 deep and one of the heaviest producers in this 
 section. 
 
 He was married in Central City in 1875 to Miss 
 Charlotte Teal, who was a native of Manchester, 
 England, a daughter of George Teal, of Boulder, 
 this state, and a sister of George W. Teal, an ex- 
 tensive mine owner of that city. They have one 
 child, Oscar Le Neve Foster, a graduate of Jarvis 
 Hall, Denver, and a student of Princeton, of the 
 class of igo2. In 1893 our subject moved his 
 family to Denver, where they reside on LaFayette 
 street. While in Georgetown he was county com- 
 missioner for Clear Creek for six years, during 
 which time he was chairman of the board. He 
 was also surveyor of the same county one term. 
 In 1883 he was appointed by Gov. J. B. Grant, 
 as geologist for the state, serving one term. 
 He is a member of Denver Lodge No. 84, A. F. 
 & A. M. , Colorado Chapter No. 29, Denver Com- 
 mandery No. 25 and Denver Consistory, A. & 
 A. S. R. ; also the El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. 
 He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and in 
 national politics he usually votes with the Repub- 
 lican party. He belongs to the American Insti- 
 tute of Mining Engineers, and is second vice- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 president of the Colorado Scientific Society, to 
 which he has belonged since its organization. 
 He is a fellow of the Geological Society of Lon- 
 don. 
 
 pQlLLIAMF. PICK. Probably no man in 
 \ A / the state is more widely known, through 
 Y Y the medium of the article he manufactures, 
 than is the gentleman whose biography it is our 
 pleasant duty to present here. He came to Colo- 
 rado in 1873, and worked at his trade, which is 
 that of a wagonmaker, and has succeeded in the 
 business beyond his highest expectations. See- 
 ing the necessity of a better wagon for the haul- 
 ing of quartz and general mountain use, he read- 
 ily recognized the weak points in the old style of 
 wagon, and set about perfecting one that should 
 meet the requirements of this community. Hav- 
 ing been accustomed to the country and knowing 
 the greatest strain would come on certain parts of 
 the wagon, he manufactured one of extra 
 strength, with large double tires. These wagons 
 are of national reputation as the Blackhawk 
 wagon, and are shipped to all parts of the United 
 States and even into British Columbia. 
 
 Mr. Pick was born in Stargard, in the province 
 ofPomerania, Prussia, October 17, 1845, his par- 
 ents being Christopher and Louisa (Kryger) 
 Pick. Both his father and grandfather were 
 wagonmakers of Stargard, a town famed for its 
 manufactories. His grandfather, Christopher 
 Pick, was in the Prussian army, and took part in 
 the battles of Leipsic, Waterloo and Austerlitz. 
 His father was born in 1823, in Prussia, but forty 
 years later brought his family to this country, 
 locating in St. Joe, Mo., where he now lives. 
 He married Louisa Kryger, ofPomerania, who 
 died in St. Joe in 1891. Of the ten children born 
 to them, eight grew up and seven are now living. 
 William P., the oldest of the family, attended 
 the public school in his youth, until he was four- 
 teen, when he was apprenticed, under his father, 
 to learn the trade of a wagonmaker. He con- 
 tinued there until October i, 1863, when he left 
 the fatherland, sailing from Hamburg to New 
 York, landing here November i , and going di- 
 rectly to St. Joe, where he worked at his trade. 
 While in that city he became a member of the 
 Missouri Home Guard. In 1873 he located in 
 Blackhawk and accepted a position as wagon- 
 maker with Leitzman & Boellert. He worked for 
 
 them until 1879, when Mr. Boellert took the busi- 
 ness, and he continued with him two years more 
 and then became a partner. This partnership 
 continued for ten years, at the expiration of 
 which time he became sole owner of the business 
 and continued it alone until 1897, when he took 
 James Hoick as partner. The firm is now Pick 
 & Hoick. Besides the many wagons they manu- 
 facture, they do a large business in blacksmith- 
 ing. They are located on Main street, and have 
 the oldest establishment of the kind in the 
 county. Mr. Pick is also one of the operators 
 and owners of the Cameron Claim Gulch mine. 
 
 He married while in St. Joe, Miss Katie 
 Hines, of Wurtemberg, Germany. They have 
 five children, viz.: Milton, a machinist in the 
 employ of the Gold Coin Company; Lewis, a 
 wagonmaker in his father's shop; William, a 
 blacksmith, also in his father's shop; Oscar, at- 
 tending the Boulder Preparatory school, class of 
 '99; and Prederick. Mrs. Pick is a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a lady of 
 many noble qualities. Mr. Pick has been elected 
 for several terms as mayor and alderman, and is at 
 present a member of the school board of which he 
 is president. He joined the Savannah Lodge, P. 
 & A. M., in Missouri, but has transferred his 
 membership to Blackhawk Lodge No. 11. He is 
 a Democrat in politics. In all his dealings he 
 has been honest, upright and Jionorable to a fault, 
 and is highly esteemed. 
 
 (lOHN D. STICKPORT. The popular resort 
 I known as Military park, at Fort Logan, was 
 Q) opened by Mr. Stickfort in 1887, when he, 
 with his partner, Mr. Curn, cleared the under- 
 brush and built all the improvements now on the 
 place, making a sightly, inviting spot out of a desert 
 waste. After having carried on the park for one 
 year, it was sold at a good price and he removed 
 to his present farm, which he had purchased in 
 1882, when it was an uninviting tract of wild 
 prairie land. Prom the time of the purchase he 
 instituted improvements, among them planting 
 an apple orchard, which is now the largest bear- 
 ing orchard in Jefferson Count}^ and from which 
 he gathered in 1897 more than one thousand 
 barrels of apples. 
 
 Mr. Stickfort was born in Hanover, Germany, 
 May 2, 1849, and is a son of G. H. and Mary 
 
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 (Van Otten) Stickfort. He was one of six chil- 
 dren, four of whom are now living, namely: 
 G. H., a retired business man living in Denver; 
 Henry; Herman, who was born August 15, 1845, 
 and is now our subject's partner; and John D. 
 The father, who was born in Hanover, engaged 
 in farm work in his native land until i860, when he 
 emigrated to America and settled in St. lyouis 
 County, Mo. He followed farming until his 
 death, which occurred three years alter his emi- 
 gration to the United States. After his death 
 his three oldest sons enlisted in the Civil war, 
 while our subject remained at home, carrying on 
 the farm. In 1865 he opened a mercantile store 
 in St. I,ouis, under the firm name of J. D. Stick- 
 fort & Co. , and he continued in business until 
 1874, when he and his partners sold out the busi- 
 ness to the Union Depot Company at a good 
 profit. 
 
 During the same year, 1874, Mr. Stickfort be- 
 came the company in the firm of H. Seaver & 
 Co., a few blocks from his old location. He con- 
 tinued prosperously engaged in business until 
 1879, when he went to Texas. For three years 
 he carried on a stock business and was successful 
 in his undertakings, but the climate was not 
 suited to his constitution; so he disposed of his 
 interests and made a tour of inspection through 
 Kansas, Colorado and the Indian Territory, 
 finally settling in Denver. Here he saw an open- 
 ing in the wholesale |_liquor business, and in the 
 spring of 1882, as a member of the firm of Stick- 
 fort & Curn, he opened a store on Fifteenth and 
 lyawrence streets. He continued the business 
 until he opened up Military park in 1887. His 
 brothers, who went to Texas in 1874 and engaged 
 in the cattle business, remained in that state un- 
 til 1882 and then settled in Denver. They are 
 now identified with our subject's farming in- 
 terests. He has equipped his place with every 
 modern improvement and has a storage reservoir, 
 built at a cost of $40,000, by the Harriman Ditch 
 Company, in which the Stickfort brothers are 
 stockholders; he also uses the Harriman ditch and 
 irrigating system for the irrigation of the up- 
 land of Bear Creek Valley. 
 
 Politically Mr. Stickfort is a Republican. He 
 has been identified with the Masonic fraternity 
 and Knights of Honor, and was the seventeenth 
 member initiated in the lodge in St. Louis, which 
 was then newly founded. He was also connected 
 
 with the Ancient Order of Druids. However, 
 on leaving St. Louis, he allowed his lodge mem- 
 berships to lapse and has not retained his associa- 
 tion with any of the societies. 
 
 EHRISTOPHER L. FOX, who is a member 
 of the school board of Blackhawk, Gilpin 
 County, is the foreman of the New York 
 seventy-five-stamp mill here, and is a thoroughly 
 competent man for this responsible position, as 
 has been made manifest during the five years he 
 has been in charge of the plant. He came to 
 Colorado seventeen years ago, and since that 
 time has been directly or indirectly interested in 
 mining operations. In 1885 he located the May- 
 flower in the Enterprise district, patented the 
 claim and has developed it to some extent. The 
 same year, 1885, he became an employe of the 
 company which he is still serving, and by prompt- 
 ness and fidelity, industry and strong common 
 sense, made him.self valuable to his superiors, 
 who repose great confidence in him. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, John 
 Fox, was a native of England, and by occupation 
 was a farmer. His son, George Fox, father of 
 our subject, was born in Lintolnshire, and was in 
 the English navy for twenty-one years and fifty- 
 two days, when he was retired upon a pension, 
 as a non-commissioned oflBcer. He died in Eng- 
 land. His wife, whose maiden name was Eliza- 
 beth Freeling, was born in Lestershire, and is 
 now a resident of Newton, Lincolnshire. Their 
 family comprised twelve children, ten of whom 
 are living. Annie died at the age of thirty years 
 in Wisconsin; George is engaged in blacksmith- 
 ing in Big Patch, Wis.; Rev. John is a minister 
 of the Congregational Church in Granville, 111. ; 
 Thomas is a farmer of Hampton, Franklin County, 
 Iowa; Charles is a graduate of the state normal 
 and is a professor in the Platteville (Wis.) 
 schools; James is a farmer of Hampton, Iowa; 
 William was accidentally scalded at the age of 
 three years and died from his injuries; Mary, 
 Mrs. George Bird, lives at Hampton, Iowa; 
 Freeling graduated from the state normal in Wis- 
 consin and is teaching in that state; Harriet 
 lives at the old home in Newton; and Harry is in 
 business in the mill of which our subject is fore- 
 man. 
 
 C. L. Fox was born December 9, 1858, in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAIv RECORD. 
 
 Newton, Lincolnshire, England, and passed six- 
 teen years of his life there. He attended the 
 common school and was but eight years of age 
 when he commenced to earn his own livelihood. 
 He continued to work for neighboring farmers 
 until he came to the United States in 1875. I,o- 
 cating near Platteville, Wis., he went to school 
 one winter and then gave his whole energies to 
 agriculture for several years. Iui88i he conclud- 
 ed to try his fortunes in Colorado, and proceeded 
 direct to Blackhawk. Here he found employ- 
 ment in a mill until he entered his present line of 
 business. He has been very successful and has 
 merited the prosperity which he now enjoys. 
 Politically he is identified with the Prohibition 
 party. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Fox and Miss Elizabeth 
 Bellamy was solemnized in Darlington, Wis., in 
 1898. Mrs. Fox was born in Sheffield, England, 
 and was reared to womanhood in the town of 
 Newton. Two children came to bless the home 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Fox, but the daughter, a lovely 
 little one, Lottie Bernice, was summoned to the 
 better land when she was four years and ten 
 months old. Raymond Buttery is a bright child 
 of three years. Mrs. Fox is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 (S\ LBERT W. EATON came west to Colorado 
 r 1 in 1872 and settled in Denver, with the in- 
 / I tention of engaging in the cattle business; 
 but, a suitable opening not being found, he ac- 
 cepted employment at his former occupation, the 
 milling business. In 1878, when his present 
 farm in Jefferson County was placed on the 
 market, he purchased the property and removed 
 to it immediately afterward, meantime renting 
 the place in Denver that he had bought soon 
 after coming to the city. For nineteen years he 
 has given his attention to gardening and fruit- 
 raising, in which occupations he has been very 
 successful. 
 
 Born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., January 
 12, 1827, the subject of this sketch is a son of 
 Earl W. and Margaret (Brownell) Eaton. He 
 was one of nine children, all deceased but him- 
 self and his brother,- Joseph, a farmer and dairy- 
 man in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. His father, 
 who was born in Connecticut in 1804, removed 
 from there to New York state with his parents 
 
 when he was a boy and settled in Chemung Coun- 
 ty, where he remained until seventeen years of 
 age. Then, with his clothes in a pack on his 
 back, he started out in the world to seek his 
 fortune. He journeyed through the wilderness 
 to Cattaraugus County, where he took up a farm 
 of sixty-five acres and began the task of clearing 
 and cultivating a homestead. From time to time 
 he added to his property until his estate com- 
 prised almost four hundred acres. In 1869 he 
 sold his farm and moved to town, where he lived 
 in retirement until he died, in 1888. 
 
 The Eaton family is descended from three 
 brothers who emigrated from Europe (presum- 
 ably from Scotland) to America in an early day, 
 one settling in New England, another in Nova 
 Scotia and the third in Virginia. This branch 
 of the family descends from the New England 
 settler. The grandfather of our subject, Harri- 
 son Woster Eaton, settled in Chemung County, 
 N. Y. , where he died in 1841, at the age of about 
 seventy-two years. Our subject received a pub- 
 lic-school education and grew to manhood in his 
 native county. At twenty-one years of age he 
 married Miss Elizabeth Locke. Previous to his 
 marriage he had begun to work for Mr. Locke 
 in a sawmill and also assisted in the construction 
 of a gristmill. On the completion of the grist- 
 mill he bought an interest in it and in the saw- 
 mill, both of which were conducted successfully. 
 In time he bought his father-in-law's interest in 
 the business and became the sole proprietor, con- 
 tinuing until 1869, when the mill was destroyed 
 by fire, entaihng a heavy loss upon him. For 
 some two years afterward he found employment 
 among neighboring millers, but he finally decided 
 that the west would offer him a better opening 
 than the east, and accordingly, in 1872, he came 
 to Denver. The results have proved the wisdom 
 of his decision. He has prospered in business 
 transactions and has become the possessor of a 
 valuable homestead, on which he raises garden 
 truck and fruit for sale in the Denver market. 
 
 Four children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Eaton, three of whom are now living. 
 James E., who is a graduate of the State Nor- 
 mal school in Fredonia, N. Y. , is now a druggist 
 in Binghamton, that state. Evangeline, also a 
 graduate of the New York State Normal, is now 
 engaged in teaching in the Denver schools. 
 Jessie is deceased. Albert L., a graduate of the 
 
JAMES T. BAIRD. 
 
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 East Denver high school, later took the full four 
 years' course in the School of Mines in Golden 
 and is now an assayer in Leadville. 
 
 (Tames T. BAIRD, one of the most success- 
 I ful cattlemen of Colorado, in 1888 purchased 
 O his present place on Cherry Creek, known 
 as Baird's mammoth stock ranch and comprising 
 nineteen hundred acres, all fenced and in one 
 body. Here he has since engaged in the stock 
 business, raising a fine grade of Shorthorn cattle 
 and graded Kentucky horses crossed with Clydes- 
 dales. In 1 89 1 he brought his family to Denver, 
 where they have since resided, but necessarily a 
 large portion of his time is spent in the manage- 
 ment of his ranch. 
 
 Born in Milan, Sullivan County, Mo., our sub- 
 ject is the son of M. B. and Mary (Harrington) 
 Baird, natives of Kentucky and Missouri respect- 
 ively. The Harrington family came to this 
 country from England, while the Bairds formerly 
 resided in Scotland, where they were manufact- 
 urers of fine shawls. The paternal grandfather 
 of our subject, James Baird, was born in Ken- 
 tucky, and after his marriage moved his family 
 to Putnam County, Mo., of which he was a pio- 
 neer farmer. The maternal grandfather, James 
 Harrington, was a native of Virginia and an early 
 settler of Knox County, Mo., where he owned 
 and cultivated a large farm. 
 
 For some years M. B. Baird engaged in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising in Sullivan County, but in 
 1863 he and his family journeyed westward, with 
 ox-teams and wagons, via Omaha, the North 
 Platte and South Pass, to Union County, Ore., 
 which they reached after a tedious journey of 
 five months. He was a pioneer of that county, 
 where he took up government land and embarked 
 in the stock business, remaining in the same 
 place until his death, at sixty-eight years. His 
 wife died when fifty-eight years old. Both were 
 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of 
 their twelve children nine attained mature years 
 and four are living. 
 
 ■ The birth of our subject occurred April 6, 1844. 
 In boyhood he attended the public schools of 
 Sullivan County. He accompanied the family to 
 Oregon and on reaching his majority embarked 
 in the stock business in the Grand Round Valley; 
 he traveled through different parts of Oregon and 
 
 Idaho and bought stock, which he afterward sold. 
 In the fall of 187 1 he returned to Sullivan Coun- 
 ty, and there, in 1872, he married Ann Mary 
 Henry, daughter of David and Rebecca (Smith) 
 Henry, natives of St. Louis County, Mo., and 
 Fauquier County, Va. Her grandfather, Thomas 
 Henry, a native of Pennsylvania, settled upon a 
 farm near Augusta, forty miles from St. Louis, 
 where he was a surveyor, civil engineer and large 
 stockman. In 1 842 he removed to Sullivan Coun- 
 ty, where he bought a large farm and continued 
 in the stock business. He died there at eighty- 
 five years of age. He was a descendant of Irish 
 ancestors, who settled in Pennsylvania in an early 
 day. 
 
 For years David Henry was a large stock dealer 
 in Sullivan County, but in 1852 he settled in the 
 Rogue River Valley of Oregon, and thence went 
 to CaHfornia, but in 1861 returned to Missouri, 
 and from there in 1864 he again removed to Ore- 
 gon, this time settling in the Grand Round Val- 
 ley. In 1871 he went to Denver, thence to St. 
 Louis, and from there to Texas, and shipped 
 cattle from the south to the St. Louis market. 
 From Missouri he went back to Oregon in 1877, 
 bringing with him a herd of cattle. He came 
 from there to Colorado and located a ranch on 
 Cherry Creek. Soon afterward he took the cattle 
 to Trenton, Mo., where he sold them. He then 
 went to Fort Worth, Tex. and bought another 
 herd, which he brought to Colorado in 1879. In 
 1890 he went to Greeley, where he died the next 
 year, at the age of seventy-four. He was a man 
 of great enterprise and met with uniform success 
 in his dealings. 
 
 The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Baird was 
 Joseph Smith, who was born in Virginia, of Eng- 
 lish descent, and served during the war of the 
 Revolution. His mother was a Miss Doniphan, 
 member of one of the F. F. Vs. He was a large 
 miller, owning and operating fifteen grist mills 
 at the same time. He married Elizabeth Headley , 
 a native of Virginia, the descendant of an English 
 nobleman, who was among the early explorers of 
 the Old Dominion. Her parents were born in 
 England and became the owners of a large plan- 
 tation, with many slaves, in Virginia. After the 
 death of Mr. Smith his widow removed to Mis- 
 souri with her family, and located in St. Charles 
 County. She died in Sullivan County when 
 sixty years of age. Ex-Governor William Smith, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Virginia, was a nephew and adopted son of 
 Joseph Smith. At the time of coming to Mis- 
 souri, Rebecca Smith was a young lady of seven- 
 teen years. She afterward became the wife of 
 David Henry, in Sullivan County, and two chil- 
 dren were born of their union: Mrs. McNeeley, 
 of Sullivan County; and Mrs. Baird. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Baird went to Oregon, 
 driving across the plains with a team of horses, 
 and settling in the Grand Round Valley, where 
 he engaged in the cattle business. In 1873 he 
 went back to Missouri and handled cattle in the 
 Cherokee nation. In 1877 he made another trip 
 to Oregon, then back to Missouri, and in 1878 
 went to Texas and the Indian Territory, buying 
 cattle for the northern market. The two follow- 
 ing years he also went south, and in 1882 settled 
 upon the old homestead at Milan, Mo., where he 
 engaged in raising cattle, horses and mules. 
 From there he came to Colorado in 1888. He is 
 a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Asso- 
 ciation, and politically is a Democrat, which has 
 been the political faith of his ancestors as far back 
 as the record extends. In religious connections 
 he is identified with Central Presbyterian Church, 
 of Denver. He and his wife have a son and 
 daughter, David Barnet and Mary Catherine, the 
 former of whom was born in Union, Ore., July 17, 
 1873, and received his education in St. Francis 
 College, graduating at sixteen years of age. The 
 latter was born March 28, 1878, in Sullivan 
 County, Mo., and is a student in the Denver 
 schools. 
 
 RICHARD BROAD WILLIAMS . We pause 
 a moment in the rush and turmoil of life 
 to pay a tribute to the memory of one who, 
 in life, was a friend to right and justice, and 
 whose death was felt to be a loss to the entire 
 community. Richard Broad Williams, or, as he 
 was more familiarly called, "Dick," was a man 
 remarkable for his fearlessness, strength and 
 vigor. He was a large, fine looking man, of 
 commanding presence, weighing about two 
 hundred and twenty pounds, and of good pro- 
 portions, his height being six feet. His generous- 
 hearted, kindly disposition made him a favorite 
 wherever he went, and it was in aiding an 
 officer to enforce the law that he met his death. 
 Richard Broad Williams was born in Devon- 
 shire, England, December 10, 1847. His parents, 
 
 John H. and Jane (Broad) Williams, came to 
 America about three years after his birth, where 
 his father engaged in copper mining at Eagle 
 River, Lake Superior, Mich. In 1867 he came 
 to Colorado, and engaged in mining in this 
 county with his son, Richard, and about eight 
 years later bought a large ranch in San Joaquin 
 Valley, this state, and from there moved to San 
 Jose, Cal., where he bought property and now 
 resides with his wife. They have seven chil- 
 dren. John was killed in 1876; while attending a 
 local horserace at Lake View, an altercation arose 
 between two factions, or nationalities, which re- 
 sulted in a fight. A man shot him at short range, 
 mortally wounding him, but of such strength and 
 hardihood was he that he attacked his murderer 
 and killed him with no weapon other than his two 
 hands, but he expired within twenty-four hours 
 afterward. Josiah, the third child, is a resident 
 of California, as is also Elizabeth, of San Jose; 
 Samuel is a dentist in Mexico; Eliza is in Sacra- 
 mento, Cal.; and Rev. Henry is a Baptist 
 minister in the state of New York. 
 
 The boyhood of Mr. Williams was passed at 
 Eagle River, Mich., and in 1865 he went on an 
 exploring trip through the west through Gilpin 
 County, Breckenridge, and up to "Buckskin Joe." 
 He then returned to Michigan, and two years 
 later engaged in mining at Nevadaville, where 
 he worked with his father seven years, when he 
 opened a meat market, and in connection with it 
 dealt in stock and did a wholesale butcher busi- 
 ness. In 1888 he moved to Denver and gave his 
 attention to the stock business, but preferring 
 this county as a place of residence, he returned 
 to Central City in the spring of 189 1 and took up 
 the livery business at his old stand on Eureka 
 street, and was still there at the time of his death. 
 He was mayor of Nevadaville and also marshal. 
 In 1879 he was elected sheriff of this county, and 
 was re-elected in 1881 and again in 1883, the last 
 time without opposition, serving six years. He 
 was a very efficient officer, and most successful 
 in quelling riots and quarrels. So popular was he 
 that they tried to have him take the ofiice a fourth 
 time, but he refused the nomination. In the fall 
 of 1 89 1 he was elected county commissioner of 
 Gilpin and served a term of three years, and in 
 April, 1895, he was elected mayor of Central 
 City, serving to April, 1896, his term having ex- 
 pired only a few days before his death. 
 
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 April 15, 1896, the marshal of Central City 
 was shot in an upstairs office, and Mr. Williams, 
 hearing the shot, was hastening to his assistance, 
 when the murderer, coming from the stairway, 
 met and shot him. He was at once taken to his 
 home and everything possible done for him, but 
 to no avail, and he died four days later. In the 
 meantime, his murderer, while trying to escape, 
 was shot down with a Winchester. Mr. Williams 
 was in the prime of life when cut down, being 
 only forty-nine years old. He was buried, in 
 Bald Mountain Cemetery, and his was the largest 
 funeral ever held in the county. 
 
 Mr. Williams was fond of sport, and refereed 
 many athletic matches, and was himself a skillful 
 boxer, being strong, agile and fearless. In sev- 
 eral prize fights in which he took part he was 
 the victor, and in one wrestling match he won 
 $1,300, and this, with what he had made in min- 
 ing, started him in the meat business. He kept 
 some fine thoroughbred horses, and ' 'Sleepy Cap, ' ' 
 one of the thoroughbreds, won a race from the 
 Indians at Hot Sulphur Springs, winning to his 
 owner several of their horses, which he sold. 
 He was a prominent figure in the Denver races 
 also. His courage was so well known, that if 
 there was a disturbance in the country, and he 
 was available, he was always sent for to make 
 peace. He was a Republican, and an earnest 
 worker for the success of the party. Fraternally 
 he was a member of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows and the Sons of St. George. He 
 retained his interest in mining stock, and left 
 valuable property to his family. 
 
 Mrs. Libbie Williams, the widow of R. B.. 
 Williams, was born in Dodgeville, Iowa County, 
 Wis., and is a daughter of John P. Bartle, of 
 Cornwall, England. He came to this country, 
 and engaged in mining operations in the lead 
 mines of Wisconsin. In 1851 he started for 
 California, around Cape Horn, and for two years 
 mined in the vicinity of San Francisco. He went 
 back to Wisconsin by way of Panama, and re- 
 mained a short time, but hearing of the gold 
 found in California by the fortunate hunter, he 
 determined to give it one more trial, and again 
 spent some time there in mining. This venture, 
 like the first, proving unsuccessful, he returned to 
 Wisconsin, moved his family to Copper Falls, 
 Mich., and here mined until 1868, when he 
 located in Colorado. He was joined by his 
 
 family the following year, and settled in Nevada- 
 ville, where he mined and has since resided, with 
 the exception of a few years spent in the fur busi- 
 ness in St. Ivouis. After returning from that 
 city he retired from business, and is taking a 
 well-earned rest, being nearly seventy-six years 
 old. In Cornwall, England, he married Elizabeth 
 Holman, who is in her seventy- fourth year. The 
 family are Episcopalians, and earnest Christian 
 people. They have five children, three boys and 
 two girls having been born to them, viz. : Kate, 
 (Mrs. Richards) and James, engaged in mining, 
 both of whom live in Nevadaville; Frank, who 
 died in Redcliffe, being killed by the accidental 
 discharge of his revolver; William, who died in 
 Pueblo; and Mrs. Williams. 
 
 Mrs. Williams was educated in the public 
 schools of Wisconsin and Michigan, where her 
 girlhood was spent. She was married, after com- 
 ing to this state, in 1870, on the 25th of Decem- 
 ber, to R. B.Williams. Since the death of her 
 husband she has continued the livery business 
 on Eureka street, and also looks after the mining 
 interests left by him. She has stock in the 
 Little Annie and another mine in the Buckeye 
 district, also the mine on Thompson's ranch, 
 and has proved herself a shrewd woman of busi- 
 ness. She is the mother of five children: Oscar, 
 who has charge of the livery barn; Mabel, George, 
 Edna and Ruth. She is a zealous worker in the 
 Episcopal Church and in the Guild, is a strong 
 Republican politically, amemberof the Woman's 
 Relief Corps, and Pocahontas Lodge, of which 
 she is keeper of Wampon. 
 
 L. ASHBAUGH, M. D., of Central City, 
 is one of the leading physicians of Gilpin 
 County, where he has served several years 
 as coroner, a position he still occupies. He was 
 a soldier of the late Rebellion and has a fund of 
 interesting anecdotes concerning army life which 
 seem to receive additional interest from his man- 
 ner of recounting. Dr. Ashbaugh was born in 
 Delaware County, Ohio, the son of John M. and 
 Mary Catherine (Artz) Ashbaugh, and a grand- 
 son of John Ashbaugh. 
 
 John Ashbaugh, the grandfather, came to this 
 country from Amsterdam, Holland, accompanied 
 by two brothers, Armenis and Cyrus. They 
 landed in New York and there separated, one go- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ing to Pennsylvania, one remaining in New York, 
 and John trying his fortunes in Canada. Here 
 all trace of each other was lost and the fate of the 
 other brothers is unknown. After remaining a 
 short time in Canada, John went to Ohio, which 
 was then a territory, and became a very success- 
 ful farmer of Marion County. He had the honor 
 to kill, on what is now the present site of Col- 
 umbus, the largest panther ever killed in the 
 state. 
 
 John M. Ashbaugh, the father of Dr. Ash- 
 baugh, carried on the trade of a potter in Dela- 
 ware County until 1849, when he moved to 
 Mercer County, 111., locating near the present site 
 of Aledo. Jlere he and his father-in-law, John 
 Artz, bought a grist and sawmill which they 
 operated until the spring of 1868. This mill was 
 located on the Edwards River and the settlement 
 took the name of Millersburg. In 1868 he 
 moved to Moundville, Mo. , some eight miles from 
 Nevada, Vernon County, and here followed the 
 quiet pursuits of agriculture until his death, which 
 occurred at the age of sixty-two years. He mar- 
 ried Mary Catherine Artz, who was born in 
 Woodstock, Va., and who is still living on the 
 old homestead in Missouri. Her father, John 
 Artz, was born in Rotterdam, whence he came to 
 America, settling in Virginia, where he married 
 Sarah Lambert, a daughter of one of the old 
 Virginia families. He was a soldier of the war 
 of 1812, and a pioneer of Delaware County, Ohio, 
 where he lived until 1849, when he went to Illi- 
 nois and was engaged in the milling business 
 with his son-in-law up to the time of his death. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Ashbaugh were born thirteen 
 children, as follows: William H. H. was a mem- 
 ber of Grant's regiment of Illinois, and died in 
 1877; Armenis Fletcher died young; T. L,., our 
 subject, was next in order of birth; Lewis L. ser- 
 ved during the Civil war in the Seventy-eighth 
 Illinois Infantry, and is now living in Colorado; 
 Morilla Josephine (Mrs. Jenkins) resides in 
 Norfolk, Neb.; John Isaac is a graduate of Rush 
 Medical College, of Chicago, and is now a 
 practicing physician of Fort Smith; Abraham is 
 a physician of Central City; Sarah Sophia (Mrs. 
 McDonald) resides in Missouri; Varian lives on 
 the old homestead; Ollie graduated with the 
 degree of D. D. S. and later died in Missouri; 
 and Blanche also lives in Missouri. 
 
 Dr. T. L. Ashbaugh was born May 3, 1844. 
 
 In 1849 his parents took him to Illinois, where he 
 attended the public schools until August of 1862, 
 when, at the age of seventeen, he ran away from 
 home and school to enlist in Company K, One 
 Hundred and Second Illinois Infantry, at Aledo. 
 During the battle of Resaca he was hit on the 
 head by a piece of shell and badly injured. He 
 was unconscious and for nearly three daj-s con- 
 tinued in that state. The wound resulted in 
 paralysis of the left arm so that it has remained 
 almost useless to him ever since. He would enter- 
 tain no thought of returning home, so remained 
 with his regiment and as soon as he could be 
 about was detailed as forager. On Sherman's 
 famous march from Atlanta to the sea he en- 
 countered man}^ dangers and always brought back 
 provisions to the camp, although his left arm was 
 a useless member. He was in the grand review 
 in Washington, where he was mustered out June 
 5, 1865, received his discharge and was paid oflf 
 in Chicago, after which he returned home. 
 
 While still in the army he began the study of 
 medicine, and. he now began to read under Dr. 
 J. Merritt and graduated from the Burlington 
 Medical College in 1866. He then attended Rush 
 Medical College, of Chicago, taking the first 
 course in 1866-67, when he began the practice of 
 his profession at Pre-emption, 111., in Mercer 
 County. He remained there until the spring of 
 the following year and then removed to Mound- 
 ville, Mo. , where he practiced for eleven years, 
 meeting with the most flattering patronage. 
 During this time, in 1875, he returned to Rush 
 College and took the final course, graduating in 
 1876 with the degree of M. D. At the same 
 time he graduated from the Charitable Eye and 
 Ear Infirmary of Chicago, also with the degree 
 of M. D. His patients receive the most pains- 
 taking care and attention, so that his ability was 
 readily admitted and his popularity widespread. 
 In 1879 he came to Colorado and located at Cen- 
 tral City, where he continued until 1887, when 
 he went back to Missouri and tried farming for 
 one year. Not liking this he once more came to 
 Colorado, practicing at Trinidad a year and at 
 Aspen until 1896, when he returned to Missouri 
 to spend the summer, and in the fall of the same 
 year once more took up his residence in Central 
 City, where he had no trouble in establishing 
 himself with his old degree of popularity, and he 
 now enjoys a large and lucrative practice. 
 
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 Dr. Ashbaugh was married while in Pre- 
 emption, 111., to Miss Pauline Hardy, who was 
 born at Delia, Tazewell County, that state. One 
 child has blessed their union, a son, Flor, who 
 graduated from Ann Arbor University as LL. B., 
 and is now practicing in Central City. Dr. 
 Ashbaugh is well known and liked throughout 
 the entire community and acted as coroner dur- 
 ing his entire residence in Central City from 1879 
 to 1887; was coroner of Aspen County from 1892 
 to 1894, and in the fall of 1897 was again elected 
 to the same office in Gilpin County. He is a 
 member of numerous social orders, the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, 
 Select Friends, Chosen Friends, Knights of the 
 Maccabees, Patriotic Order Sons of America, 
 Foresters, and others, for many of which he is 
 medical examiner. He is also a prominent 
 member of Ellsworth Post No. 20, G. A. R. He 
 is a stanch Republican and has always taken a 
 lively interest in the success of his party. He is 
 a most amiable and accomplished gentleman and 
 commands the full respect, confidence and esteem 
 of the people for his upright conduct. 
 
 pCjlLLIAM J. WELLS, of Nevadaville, Gil- 
 \ A / pin County, has lived in the Rockies 
 Y V since his earliest recollections and is active- 
 ly interested in the development of the resources 
 of this great and wonderful state. When but 
 fourteen years of age he started forth to do battle 
 with the world and win a place for himself, and 
 bravely overcame the difficulties that he encoun- 
 tered. Like the majority of young men in this 
 region he became imbued with the mining fever, 
 and has operated more or less for several years, 
 though he has been wise enough not to devote 
 his whole time and energies to this extremelj' 
 uncertain fortune. For about a year he held a 
 lease on the Bobtail mine and developed the 
 same to some extent, and subsequently for two 
 years operated the Justice, m Lake district. 
 
 W. J. Wells was born in Elkhart, Ind., 
 November 24, 1863, and was deprived of his 
 loving father's care and guidance when he was a 
 child. The father, Thomas Wells, was likewise 
 a native of the Hoosier state, and owned an im- 
 proved farm near Elkhart. Grandfather Joseph 
 Wells, who died in Indiana, was a farmer also. 
 The mother of our subject, Helen, was a native of 
 
 New York state, where her family had resided 
 for many years. Her father, William Rowley, 
 was an early settler in the neighborhood of Elk- 
 hart, Ind. After the death of Thomas Wells, 
 his widow removed to Denver with her only son, 
 W. J., of this sketch. She is now Mrs. Bostwick, 
 and has five children by her second marriage. 
 
 In his youth W. J. Wells managed to gain 
 a liberal education, and was a student in the 
 high school of Central City until June, 1878. 
 His aptitude and fondness for mathematics 
 led to his being ofiiered a position in the Rocky 
 Mountain Bank, and for nine years he was a 
 teller in that institution. In 1887 he resigned 
 and embarked in business for himself by taking 
 a lease on the Teller House, which had been 
 closed for some time. He soon had everything 
 in running order and opened the house for busi- 
 ness. He continued as proprietor of the hotel 
 for a few years, or until 1890, when he sold out. 
 The succeeding year he held a place as under 
 sheriff to Daniel J. McKay, and had charge ot 
 the sherifl's office much of the time. Next, he 
 was in the employ of Jenkins, McKay & Co., 
 hardware merchants, for two years, and after 
 spending about three years in mining operations 
 he came to Nevadaville as book keeper for the 
 Colorado Trading and Investment Company. 
 He is also occupying a similar position with 
 the Vendome Mining and Milling Company. He 
 is a first-class business man and is a trusted and 
 reliable employe. Politically he is a Democrat, 
 with a decided belief in free coinage. 
 
 In Central City, Mr. Wells married Miss Clara 
 Clark, whose birthplace was in Massachusetts, 
 whence her father, William Clark, came to this 
 state. Two children, a son and daughter, were 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Wells and are named 
 respectively, Samuel and Dorothy. Mrs. Wells 
 died in Denver. 
 
 "HOMAS COLLINS was born in Cornwall, 
 England, in February, 1861, and is a son of 
 Thomas and Mary Ann (Mayle) Collins, of 
 the same place. His father belonged to an old Eng- 
 lish family and is superintendent of a tin stamp mill 
 in Cornwall, a position he has held for many 
 years. His mother died in 1893. He was the 
 only child to reach manhood, and his first years 
 were spent in the public schools. When he 
 reached the tenth anniversary of his birth his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 father took him in the stamp mill, where he learned 
 the treating of tin ore, staying there until 1881, 
 when he crossed the ocean to seek a home in this 
 country. He located in Blackhawk, Gilpin Coun- 
 ty, and for two years was employed in the Greg- 
 ory mill. From there he came to the Mead mill 
 as feeder, and was promoted to mill-boss, and in 
 1894 took charge of the mill, his present position. 
 He has also become the owner of some mining 
 stock, and is interested in three different mines 
 in this county. 
 
 Since coming to Blackhawk he married Miss 
 Phillippa Bishop, a native of the United States. 
 They have one child, Thomas A. Mr. Collins 
 is a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He is a pleas- 
 ant, genial gentleman, and a liberal contributor 
 to worthy causes. 
 
 ROBERT H. GILSON, whose home is located 
 about a mile and a-quarter northwest of 
 Canfield, Boulder Count}', has had a very 
 interesting career in the mining regions of Colo- 
 rado. For many years he prospected and mined 
 in what is now known as Gilson's Gulch, near 
 Idaho Springs, it being named in his honor, owing 
 to the fact that for a long period he was the only 
 man there occupied in mining operations. He 
 was the discoverer of numerous valuable tracts 
 and acquired others through purchase, and among 
 those which he still retains, is the Legal Tender 
 mine, which is too well known to need special 
 mention. In 1893 he removed his family to their 
 present home and two years later became the 
 owner of the farm, which comprises eighty acres 
 and is a very desirable country place in every 
 respect. 
 
 Mr. Gilson was born in Rush County, Ind., 
 January 21, 1832, and is a son of David and Mar- 
 garet (Boone) Gilson. He had seven brothers 
 and sisters, and until the spring of 1898 the num- 
 ber was unbroken by death. A brother, seventy- 
 two years of age, departed this life in April of the 
 year mentioned. The father was born and reared 
 in Virginia, and after his marriage removed to 
 the then frontier state of Indiana. He was one 
 of the first settlers in Rush County and in later 
 years enjoyed the honor of being one of the repre- 
 sentative and well-to-do agriculturists of that 
 section. He was an ardent member of the Bab- 
 tist Church and was noted for his uprightness of 
 
 word and deed. Long life was his portion, as 
 death did not claim him until he had entered 
 upon his ninety-fourth year. His faithful wife, 
 who was loved and admired by all who came 
 within the sphere of her influence, was cloSfely 
 connected with the celebrated Daniel Boone in 
 relationship. 
 
 Our subject early learned the various duties 
 pertaining to farm life, but concluded he would 
 embark in some other field of enterprise. In 
 1856 he went to Clarinda, Page County, Iowa, 
 and there opened a grocery, which he conducted 
 with more or less success for nine months. Sell- 
 ing out, he went to Kansas and carried on a gro- 
 cery' business in the town of Leroy up to i860. 
 That summer he was married and with his bride 
 started for Colorado in wagons drawn by yokes 
 of oxen. They reached Denver August 3, and 
 ten days later went on to Missouri City. About 
 three weeks were spent by Mr. Gilson in looking 
 over the country, with a view to settling perma- 
 nently somewhere, and finally he decided upon 
 a spot near Idaho Springs. There he engaged in 
 placer mining for about two years, but, as it was 
 not very remunerative, he began freighting from 
 Denver to the mountains, to Idaho Springs, 
 Georgetown, Empire, Central City, etc. He thus 
 spent the years of 1863 and 1864, but the follow- 
 ing year he took up his abode in the gulch later 
 called Gilson's, and now a 'prosperous mining 
 camp. For j'ears he worked at silver mining in 
 this region, becoming well-to-do. Three years he 
 worked in the Marshall basin, in the San Juan 
 district, at an altitude of twelve thousand five 
 hundred feet, operating the Mendota mine under 
 bonded lease. This mine was one of the best-pay- 
 ing properties in the state, but Mr. Gilson was 
 forced to abandon it, on account of a snow-slide 
 which swept the camp out of existence, killing 
 eleven men and causing him a loss of $20,000 or 
 more. 
 
 As previously stated Mr. Gilson was married 
 just before he entered upon his arduous toils and 
 ventures in the mountains of Colorado. The 
 lady who shared with him his pleasures and pri- 
 vations was formerly Miss Euphrasia Randall. 
 Seven children came to bless their home, and of 
 these, six are living. Sophronia is the wife of 
 Clarence Ross, a wealthy farmer, who owns a 
 ranch on the Platte River and one on the Divide. 
 
 Robert Wesley is engaged in the grocery busi- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
 1035 
 
 ness in Idado Springs. Burleigh is a progressive 
 farmer, living on the Divide. Lucia is the wife 
 of William Jones, a resident of Cripple Creek, 
 where he is interested in mining. Maggie is the 
 wife of William Williams, who is engaged in min- 
 ing operations at Idaho Springs. L,ee resides 
 in Canfield, and is interested in a flouring mill. 
 
 In 1876, when he felt that his children needed 
 better educational facilities, Mr. Gilson took his 
 family to Denver, where they remained some 
 twelve years. They returned to the gulch in 1888 
 and for the past five years have made their home 
 near Canfield. Mr. Gilson devotes a portion of 
 his time to the cultivation and improvement of 
 this farm, and the remainder to his mining inter- 
 ests. He is liberal, in a political point of view, 
 favoring the silver standard. 
 
 I GUIS A. CRAMER. Among the farmers 
 I C and stock-raisers of Douglas County few are 
 lJ2f better known and none more highly respected 
 than the subject of this article, whose ranch is 
 situated three and one-half miles southwest of 
 Sedalia. He was born in Cumberland County, 
 111., September 21, 1870, and was brought to 
 Colorado at three years of age by his father, 
 David I> Cramer, whose sketch appears elsewhere 
 in this work. His primary education was ob- 
 tained in the Sedalia school, after which he was 
 a student in the Logan school, Denver, and 
 graduated therefrom with the class of 1892. 
 
 Soon after completing his education Mr. Cramer 
 took up a homestead three miles from Sedalia, 
 which he fenced and partly improved. For two 
 years he assisted his father in the threshing busi- 
 ness, after which he went to Indiana. Having a 
 taste for machinery, it was his hope to secure em- 
 ployment in the machine shops at Terre Haute, 
 but at that time financial reverses, common 
 throughout the entire country, caused the manu- 
 facturers to close their shops, and accordingly 
 work was scarce. He spent several months in 
 visiting difierent points, then returned to Colo- 
 rado. 
 
 June 19, 1895, Mr. Cramer married Miss Annie 
 C. Jarre, who was born on Jarre Creek, a daugh- 
 ter of C. Alphonso and Christina (Carlson) Jarre. 
 Her parents, who were natives of France and 
 Sweden respectively, came to America and became 
 acquainted near Littleton, Colo. ; they were mar- 
 
 ried in Denver July 29, 1875. Mrs. Cramer, who 
 was their eldest child, was born December 5, 
 1876. She was given good educational advan- 
 tages, attending the public school at Sedalia and 
 the Swansea school in Denver. Her only brother 
 dying when he was about ten, left her the princi- 
 pal inheritor of the estate, at the time of her 
 father's death, March 4, 1888. Afterward her 
 mother married John Overstreet and of that 
 union was born a daughter, Emma, who on the 
 death of her mother became one of the heirs of 
 the Jarre estate. The Jarre homestead was en- 
 tered by Mr. Jarre from the government about 
 1870, and here Mrs. Cramer has continued to 
 reside since her marriage. Two children have 
 been born of her union with Mr. Cramer. Ray- 
 mond Alphonso was born September 25, 1896, 
 and Pearl Constance, October 18, 1897. 
 
 In political belief Mr. Cramer is a Republican 
 and voted for Benjamin Harrison in 1892, this 
 being his first presidential ballot. In religious 
 connections he is identified with the South Broad- 
 way Christian Church of Denver, whose pastor 
 is Rev. S. B. Moore. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Sons of Veterans, Washington Camp 
 No. 19, Division of Colorado and Wyoming, in 
 South Denver, and has served as chaplain of his 
 camp. 
 
 0ANIEL FUELSCHER, proprietor of the 
 Central City bottling works, is a member 
 of the board of aldermen here, having been 
 elected to represent the second ward in the 
 spring of 1897. He is a member of several com- 
 mittees and is chairman of various ones. A 
 young man of enterprise, he is a worthy exam- 
 ple of the patriotic German-American citizen. 
 He is active in the interests of the Democratic 
 party, and is a member of the county central 
 committee. 
 
 The father of our subject, C. H. Fuelscher, a 
 well-known resident of Central City, was born in 
 the same locality as was his son Daniel, near the 
 mouth of the River Elbe, twelve miles from the 
 city of Hamburg, Holstein, Germany. He was 
 proprietor of a large brewery anH distillery there, 
 and also practiced veterinary surgery. Eighteen 
 years ago he came to the United States and for a 
 few years made his home in St. Louis, Mo. In 
 1885 he settled upon a ranch near Julesburg, on 
 the Platte River, and raised cattle on an exten- 
 
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 sive scale there. He still owns and superintends 
 the place, though he now lives in Central City, 
 and is, as formerly, engaged in the practice of his 
 profession. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Wilhelmina Dibbern, was likewise a native of 
 Holsteiu, and died in that country in 1880. Of 
 their fourteen children, nine survive. 
 
 Daniel Fuelscher, next to the eldest of his par- 
 ents' family, was born April 25, 1864, in the 
 fatherland and received his education in the 
 gymnasium, the government schools. He then 
 gave his father his time and assistance in his 
 business until 1881, when he sailed from Ham- 
 burg for the United States. From New York he 
 proceeded to St. Louis, where he readily obtained 
 a clerkship. In June, 1S85, he went to Denver, 
 and two months later continued his westward 
 journey to California. He spent nearly two 
 years on the Pacific coast, a portion of the time 
 in Oregon, but in the fall of 1887 returned to 
 Denver. The following spring he entered the 
 employ of J. S. Beaman, then the proprietor of 
 the Central Cit}^ bottling works, and remained 
 with him until the ist of January, 1893, when, 
 having bought the Beaman interest in the plant, 
 he succeeded him in the business. In 1894 he 
 became sole agent for the Philip Zang Brewing 
 Company and three years later bought the 
 Lehmkuhl brewery of this city, but does not 
 operate it. His establishment is situated on 
 Spring street and four large buildings are re- 
 quired for the business. One is used for storage 
 and refrigerating; one for storing bottled beer, 
 and the other for storage of wines and liquors, and 
 the main building for offices and the cigar depart- 
 ment. Only a wholesale business is transacted, 
 and under the skillful management of Mr. Fuel- 
 scher, his trade is constantly growing in value and 
 general proportions. He manufactures all kinds 
 of "soft" drinks and finds a ready sale for this 
 line in both Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties. 
 
 In addition to his regular business, Mr. Fuel- 
 scher has mining property. He owns an interest 
 in the Bismark Tunnel Company of Blackhawk, 
 and was one of the organizers and incorporators 
 of the Happy Valley Placer Companj', who own 
 and laid out the town site of Eldora. Frater- 
 nally he is a Knight of Pythias. He is also a 
 member of Blucher Lodge No. 10, Sons of Her- 
 man, is past officer of the same and was its rep- 
 resentative to the grand lodge. For perhaps a 
 
 dozen years he has been an official member of 
 Rocky Mountain Turn Verein, of Central City, 
 this being the oldest society of the kind in the 
 state. He was formerly secretary and is now 
 treasurer of the local society. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Fuelscher and Miss 
 Oletha Beaman, one of Central City's most popu- 
 lar young ladies, occurred at the home of her 
 father, J. S. Beaman (whose sketch is printed 
 upon another page of this volume) in June, 1892. 
 The young couple have one child, Walter J. 
 
 (John HILBURGER, a retired farmer of 
 I Douglas County, who has resided in Castle 
 (2/ Rock since 1891, was born in Regenburg, 
 Bavaria, Germany, July 24, 1845, being a son of 
 Paul and Katherine (Bet.s) Hilburger. His boy- 
 hood years were spent upon a farm and in attend- 
 ance at a local school, where he obtained a fair 
 education. He remained at home until twenty- 
 one years of age, when, wishing to avoid being 
 forced into the army, he came to America. It 
 was then early in the year 1867. He took pass- 
 age on a steamer at Hamburg and spent sixteen 
 days upon the ocean, landing in New York. 
 From there he came at once to Colorado. 
 
 During his first two years in this state Mr. 
 Hilburger worked on a ranch in Douglas County. 
 In November, 1869, he wa^ united in marriage 
 with Miss Kate Forster, to whom he had been 
 engaged in his native land. After marriage they 
 settled upon a homestead, but a year later bought 
 another farm of one hundred and sixty acres. 
 
 In time Mr. Hilburger, through good manage- 
 ment and business ability, became the owner of 
 twelve hundred acres, which he disposed of in 
 1889 for $22,000. During his active life he de- 
 voted himself principally to stock-raising, in 
 which line of agriculture he was exceptionally 
 successful. He .sold all of his land excepting 
 one hundred and sixty acres, and in 1891 came 
 to Castle Rock, where he hopes to spend his re- 
 maining years, quietly and in retirement from 
 life's active duties. His first wife died in 1879. 
 Of their marriage four children were born, 
 namely: George, who died at eleven years of age; 
 John, who is a farmer in Douglas County; Fred- 
 erick, also a farmer in this county; and Anna, 
 who is with her father. The second marriage of 
 Mr. Hilburger united him with Miss AnnaFenn, 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
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 a native of Bavaria, and with whom he was united 
 in 1 88 1. They have one child, I^izzie. 
 
 For j'ears Mr. Hilburger voted the Republican 
 ticket, but when the Republicans declared for 
 gold in 1896, he left the party and allied himself 
 with the Populists. By them he was given the 
 nomination for the legislature. He has served as 
 village trustee for two years, and while living on 
 the ranch he held office as a member of the school 
 board for nine years. His ancestors were Catho- 
 lics and he was reared in that faith, his family 
 also being identified with that church. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and is now foreman of Castle 
 Rock Lodge No. 27. Aside from his other in- 
 terests he owns stock in a mining company at 
 Cripple Creek and also in a stock company oper- 
 ating another mine. 
 
 (1 AMES S. BARBER resides on the East Evans 
 I ranch, which is situated on sections 15-22, 
 Q) township 5, range 65, Weld County. This 
 is one of the historic sites in the state. Here oc- 
 curred the birth of the first white child born in 
 Colorado, a girl, still living, and now in Arizona. 
 Here was old Fort Latham, the headquarters of 
 the government troops during the Indian troubles 
 of 1860-64, and here, too, was the old ford on the 
 Platte River. Through the land ran the main 
 stage line from Kearnej' to Denver. During the 
 early days of the ' 60s the county seat was at Fort 
 Latham, the postoflBce being called Latham, and 
 the county court was presided over by Judge 
 Wells. The outlines of the old town site are still 
 visible and the old trees still stand, landmarks of 
 pioneer days. 
 
 In Meadville, Pa. , Mr. Barber was born Janu- 
 ary 3, 1845, a son of Hiram P. and Nancy 
 (Silsby) Barber, natives of New York state. His 
 father removed to Pennsylvania when a young 
 man, and from Meadville later went to Ashtabula, 
 Ohio, but in 1859 settled in Columbia County, 
 Wis., buying a farm near Columbus. In 1861 
 he enlisted in the Gray Beard Regiment of Iowa 
 Infantry, but when he had been in service less 
 than one year, died in Illinois, aged sixty-nine 
 years. Farming was his life work and he owned 
 about four hundred acres in Wisconsin. At one 
 time he was interested in a railroad extending 
 from Columbus to Watertown, Wis., and in it he 
 45 
 
 served as a director. His wife died in Dakota in 
 1884, at the age of seventy-six years. They 
 were the parents of seven children, butonlj' three 
 are living, viz. : Nancy, wife of Louis Underwood, 
 of Cromo, Colo.; Mary, who married Alonzo B. 
 Frizzell, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. ; and James S. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject were spent 
 in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. At the 
 age of twenty he went to Fillmore County, Minn., 
 where he bought land and embarked in farming 
 pursuits. In 1864 he was drafted for the army, 
 but the war closed before he was sent to the front. 
 In 1865, at the time of the Sweet Water gold ex- 
 citement, he started for Wyoming, but on reach- 
 ing Council Bluffs the militarj' authorities in the 
 town refused his party permission to proceed fur- 
 ther, owing to depredations of the Indians at that 
 time. After four months he went to the southwest- 
 ern part of Missouri and organized a company of 
 eight, who started for Sweet Water in the spring 
 of* 1866. At Council Bluffs the number was 
 increased to fourteen. They traveled over the 
 plains to Cheyenne, and from there went to the 
 gold regions, arriving about the middle of June. 
 In a short time he went to work on the Union 
 Pacific Railroad, in process of construction from 
 Cheyenne to Ogden, and continued in that con- 
 nection until the road was completed, two years 
 later. Returning to Missouri in 1868, he re- 
 mained there for some years, and in the meantime 
 married Miss Louisa J. Bailey. In the spring ol 
 1873 he started for Colorado and arrived in Evans 
 June 3, shortly after which he settled on his pres- 
 ent ranch, then the property of his father-in-law, 
 Daniel B. Bailey. He was one of the organizers 
 of the Union Ditch Company and assisted in the 
 construction of the ditch. Since then he has 
 served as an officer of the company, having been 
 its president since 1891. In 1876 he assisted in 
 the organization of the Latham Ditch Company, 
 of which he was president and a director for sev- 
 eral years. After bringing water to the land, he 
 began general farming and the raising of fine 
 cattle, of which he has about one hundred and 
 fifty head. He also raises Berkshire hogs, and 
 until 1894 was largely interested in the raising of 
 sheep, his herd numbering about five thousand. 
 
 Besides his other interests, Mr. Barber owns 
 considerable mining stock, and is president of 
 the Leadville Gold and Silver Mining Company. 
 His landed possessions aggregate four hundred 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and forty-nine acres of land in the Platte River 
 bottom, the value of which has been increased by 
 his improvements. Politically a Republican, he 
 was appointed county commissioner by Governor 
 Cooper in the fall of 189 1, and in 1893 was regu- 
 larly elected for three years. During his term he 
 served as chairman of the board. In the organi- 
 zation of school district No. 1 1 he took an active 
 part; he has served on the board of trustees since 
 1875, and has held each of the offices in that 
 body. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Barber united him with a 
 daughter of D. B. Bailey, a native of Kentucky, 
 who came to Colorado from Missouri in 1861 and 
 for many years engaged in the stock business, 
 being the largest dealer of this section. He now 
 makes his home in Greenfield, Dade County, Mo. , 
 and is seventy-four years of age. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Barber have one son, Frederick S., at present a 
 student in the Evans high school. Fraternally 
 Mr. Barber is identified with Occidental Lodge 
 No. 20, A. F. & A. M., Greeley Chapter No. 14, 
 R. A. M., and Greeley Commandery, K. T. 
 
 EAPT. RINALDO P. BEAN, of Douglas 
 County, owns a ranch on section 24, town- 
 ship 6 south, range 69 west, eight miles 
 from Littleton. He was born in Gilead, Oxford 
 County, Me., October 4, 1842, a son of John M. 
 and May (Mason) Bean. His father was a car- 
 penter by trade, but also owned and operated a 
 farm, and upon that place our subject's boyhood 
 days were passed. He attended the public 
 schools for some time, after which he was a stu- 
 dent in Gould's academy, at Bethel, for one term, 
 and then commenced to teach school. However, 
 one week after his school had opened, he enlisted 
 in Company B, Twenty-third Maine Infantry, for 
 nine months. He was promoted from fourth to 
 first sergeant, and served for one month longer 
 than the term of his enlistment. Shortly after 
 being mustered out, in July, 1863, he went to 
 Iowa, where he became a member of Company 
 K, Ninth Iowa Infantry. The regiment, how- 
 ever, was at the front with Sherman, and it was 
 some months before he was ordered to join it. 
 He was then sent to Nashville, where he took 
 part in a battle and for the first time was under 
 fire from the enemy's guns. While there he was 
 given the rank of captain and had charge of a 
 
 company. At Kingston, N. C, he participated 
 in the three days' fight and afterward was in 
 many skirmishes. When the war ended he took 
 part in the grand review at Washington and was 
 mustered out in Iowa, in July, 1865. 
 
 After spending a few months in Iowa, in No- 
 vember Captain Bean returned to Maine and fol- 
 lowed the carpenter's trade there until 1870. He 
 then came to Colorado as a passenger on the first 
 passenger train that ever entered Denver. With 
 him was a brother who was very low with asthma. 
 For a few months he experimented, at mining in 
 Central City, and then engaged at his trade in 
 the same place, where he remained for five 
 months. He worked in Denver for three years, 
 after which, in 1873, he took up a ranch on sec- 
 tion 23, which he still owns. Later he bought 
 the land where he is now engaged in dairying 
 and stock-raising. He is the owner of four hun- 
 dred acres in one body, upon which he has made 
 improvements that add to the value of the ranch. 
 
 In Louisville, Ky., November 14, 1865, Cap- 
 tain Bean married Miss Matilda Clarke, with 
 whom he became acquainted while in the army. 
 She died while they were living in Maine and 
 left one son, Llewellyn, who is married, has two 
 children, and lives on Plum Creek, In April, 
 1873, in Maine, our subject married Miss Mary 
 Hamlin, a distant relative of Hannibal Hamlin. 
 Five children were born of fheir marriage, name- 
 ly: Alta, wife of Charles Conrad, of Douglas 
 County, and mother of one child; Gertrude, 
 Grace, Herbert and Gladys, at home. 
 
 The first presidential vote cast by Captain Bean 
 was in support of Abraham Lincoln, in 1864. 
 Since then he has continued to uphold Republi- 
 can principles and candidates. For two years 
 (1889 to 1891) he served as assessor of Douglas 
 County, and from 1891 to 1897 held office as 
 county commissioner. While living in Bethel, 
 Me., he was made a Mason, joining Bethel Lodge 
 No. 97, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 HENRY S. GILBERT, one of Boulder Coun- 
 ty's well-known farmers, settled upon his 
 present place in 1888, when he purchased 
 eighty acres of land, lying two miles south of 
 Longmont, under cultivation. After a time, being 
 prospered, he was enabled to buy one hundred 
 and sixty acres additional, thus making his pres- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1041 
 
 ent estate one of two hundred and forty acres. 
 Here he engages in raising general farm products 
 and in the dairy business, the latter of which he 
 has found to be a profitable adjunct of farming. 
 
 In St. Lawrence County, N. Y., Mr. Gilbert 
 was born October 19, 1831, a son of Orlando S. 
 and Dorcas (Place) Gilbert, and the grandson, on 
 his father's side, of a Scotchman. He was one 
 of a family of ten children, whose father was a 
 stone mason and contractor. The determination 
 of his character was apparent when he was but a 
 boy. He refused, when attending school, to 
 study grammar, and when he was about to be 
 forced to do so, he left school. His parents pro- 
 tested with him for so doing, and he thereupon left 
 home, and began shifting for himself. His first 
 work was on the Erie Canal, where he was em- 
 ployed for three months. He then secured a posi- 
 tion on a farm, where he was employed until 
 eighteen years of age. 
 
 The year 1849 found Mr. Gilbert in Fond du 
 Lac, Wis., with $4.50 in his possession. There 
 he secured work by the month. At the expira- 
 tion of four years he had saved a sufficient 
 amount of money to enable him to buy a team 
 and wagon. His town was the terminus of the 
 railroad, and he was fortunate in securing good 
 contracts in freighting for the company. From 
 that time he prospered. During the war period 
 he ran a livery business and made money rapidly. 
 Following that he engaged in the stone business, 
 buying a stone quarry which had been pronounced 
 A. No. I by an expert. He erected a mill to 
 work the stone, bought heavy wagons and put 
 his employes to work, with a monthly pay roll 
 of $1,800. After his business was in operation 
 he refused a cash offer of $30,000 for the quarry. 
 A short time later the stone ran out and he was a 
 loser to the extent of his offer of $30,000. 
 
 While the experience was discouraging, it did 
 not daunt him. He went to Minnesota and 
 opened a promising piece of land, with some 
 $5,000, which had been left him out of his pre- 
 vious misfortune. The land lay between the 
 Winona & St. Peter and the St. Paul & Sioux 
 City Railroads. After two years, during which 
 time he had made many improvements and in- 
 vested all of his money, the railroads claimed 
 the property, and after some litigation he left the 
 place. With a son-in-law he came to Colorado, 
 arriving at Longmont July 4, 1877. With him 
 
 he had a team of horses and $50 in money. He 
 engaged in freighting in the mountains, and fol- 
 lowed that occupation, together with staging, 
 until 1888, when became to his present property 
 near Longmont. During his active life he has 
 met with many discouragements and has had 
 obstacles to encounter and hardships to meet; 
 but they only served to make him more deter- 
 mined to succeed. The spirit of determination 
 that set him adrift upon the world in his teens 
 has followed him all through life, and he has 
 prospered where another man, with less deter- 
 mination of character, would have given up un- 
 der misfortune. 
 
 In 1 85 1 Mr. Gilbert married Miss Melvina 
 Pelton, of Fond du Lac, Wis. Two children 
 were born of their union: D wight, of Dallas, 
 Tex.; and Ida, deceased. In politics Mr. Gil- 
 bert is liberal, voting for the best man, irrespec- 
 tiveof political affiliations. In fraternal relations 
 he holds membership in the blue lodge, A. F. & 
 A. M., in Fond du Lac, and Longmont Chapter 
 No. 8, R. A. M. 
 
 r"RED H. BUCK MAN, proprietor of the 
 JM Golden mills and elevator and a pioneer of 
 I '59> was born in Hanover, Germany, in 
 1834, and is the youngest of three children. He 
 had a sister who died in Germany, while his 
 brother, Henry, resides near Yankton, S. Dak. 
 His father, John, was the son of a soldier who 
 fought under Wellington at Waterloo. He was 
 a farmer and miller, and also engaged in the 
 lumber business, cutting and selling timber for 
 the construction of wagons and ships. His wife 
 died when her youngest child was six months old. 
 The boyhood days of our subject were passed 
 on the Wieser, about twenty miles from Bremen. 
 He attended the common schools and worked in 
 the mill until fourteen years of age, when, in 
 company with two other boys, he left Bremen on 
 the sailing vessel "Neptune" and landed in New 
 Orleans in 1849, after a voyage of forty-two days. 
 He came up the Mississippi to St. Louis and on 
 to Dubuque, Iowa, securing employment on a 
 farm in Dubuque County. Afterward, for several 
 years, he was employed in a mill, and later en- 
 gaged in buying and selling land; also carried on 
 a grocery business. During the height of the 
 Pike's Peak excitement, in 1859, he left Dubuque 
 on the 14th of February with two wagons and a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 team each of horses and mules. He went west 
 to Omaha, then up the Platte, which he crossed 
 at Fort Kearney, and at the forks he followed 
 the south branch of the river. He arrived at 
 Denver at four o'clock in the afternoon of 
 April 17. From this city he journeyed to Middle 
 Dry, where he engaged in mining, and during 
 the sixteen days he was there with a hand-rocker 
 he took out $73.53 worth of gold. He then went 
 to Arapahoe Bar, below Golden, and afterward 
 worked at Gregory Gulch. In June of the same 
 year he returned to Omaha for a load of pro- 
 visions, which he brought back to the mountains, 
 and then opened a bakery and grocery. By 
 Christmas he had cleared $3,000. He then re- 
 turned by team to St. Joseph and from there by 
 rail to Dubuque. 
 
 Coming west again in the spring of i860, Mr. 
 Buckman brought a load of groceries with two 
 four-horse teams and located in Mountain City, 
 Gilpin County, where he started a grocery and 
 bakery. After two or more years he turned his 
 attention to mining, and later engaged in the 
 stock business as a dealer and butcher. In 1866 
 he took up the Michigan ranch at the old stage 
 station, and there carried on farming and also 
 kept a stage station. The place, which he still 
 owns, comprises four hundred and eighty acres, 
 and is carried on by his son. For some time he 
 carried on the wholesale stock business in Gilpin 
 and Clear Creek Counties. When the Colorado 
 Central was started, during the '70s, he came to 
 Golden and started the Eagle corral, but after 
 one year he went back to Gilpin County. In 
 1873 he located in Idaho Springs, where he en- 
 gaged in freighting for a year, and afterward 
 spent several years on the Michigan ranch. In 
 1880 he opened a meat market at Blackhawk, but 
 after three years again returned to the ranch. 
 In 1889 he bought the old Barnes mill, which 
 was started April 18, 1864, being the first built 
 on Bear Creek below the present site of Morrison. 
 There not being water enough for power, in a 
 few months it was moved to its present site on 
 Clear Creek. Mr. Buckman has all the latest 
 machinery for the manufacture of flour, feed and 
 all milling products, and in the spring of 1898 he 
 bought an elevator, which he now operates, and 
 which has a capacity of one hundred cars of 
 grain. In 1876 he bought the Golden Gate toll 
 road, and for manj' years he lived at the toll gate 
 
 within sight of the Guy Hill Mountain. His 
 youngest son was born there and the mountain 
 was named for him. 
 
 Politically a Democrat, Mr. Buckman was his 
 party's candidate for mayor of Golden in 1897, 
 but the Republicans having a majority in the 
 city, he failed of election. He was one of the 
 first aldermen of Central City, being a member of 
 the board on which Senator Teller also served. 
 He is identified with the Society of Gilpin County 
 Pioneers. His wife, who was a Miss Thomas, 
 was born in Pennsylvania and died at Golden in 
 1879, leaving three children: Julia May; Jesse 
 Lee, who assists his father in the mill; and Guy 
 Hill, who manages the Michigan ranch. 
 
 (TOHN CLARK, a pioneer of '60, resides upon 
 I a farm of one hundred and sixty acres situ- 
 (2/ ated in Jefferson County, where he is en- 
 gaged in raising stock and general farm products. 
 In early days he was known as "Wheat" Clark, 
 owing to the fact that in 1863 he raised the first 
 wheat that was ever profitably raised in Colorado. 
 A native of England, he was born in Somerset in 
 1833, and is the son of Abraham and Charlotte 
 (Parsons) Clark. He was one of six children, 
 two of whom are now living, John and Mrs. 
 Charlotte Belgian, of Liverpool, England. 
 
 Abraham, son of Stephen Clark, was born in 
 Somerset and there engaged in farming until his 
 death, at the age of seventy-five years. He was 
 a member of an old family of Somerset, the most 
 of whose members had followed farm pursuits. 
 John was reared on the home farm. In 1856, at 
 the age of twenty-three, he came to America and 
 settled in Madison, Wis., where he engaged with 
 Governor Farwell as assistant in landscape gar- 
 dening. Shortly afterward he began farming on 
 shares, and continued in that way until the fall 
 of 1859, when he went to Missouri, and from 
 there, after spending the winter, to Leavenworth, 
 Kan., on a tour of inspection. He saw nothing 
 in that place that impressed him favorably, so 
 continued his journey westward, arriving in Den- 
 ver May 4, i860. In July he traveled from here 
 to the Missouri River with an ox-team and re- 
 turned with provisions in November. During 
 the winter he made two trips to California Gulch, 
 freighting with an ox-team. In the spring of 
 1 86 1 he rented the place he now owns and he has 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1043 
 
 since engaged in farming. During the winter of 
 1861-62 he took up a claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres on Thompson Creek, but was dis.satis- 
 fied with the prospects, and returned to Denver. 
 
 Not long afterward Mr. Clark was employed 
 by Dr. Hamilton and Edward Cheeseman to 
 manage the ranch which he had farmed in 1861 
 and of which he is now the owner. He continued 
 here until 1864, when he took up an adjoining 
 homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and 
 engaged in farming on his own account. After 
 remaining thereuntil 1872, he bought the place 
 he now owns and soon removed to this place. 
 He is interested in educational matters and for 
 nine j'ears was a member of the school board. 
 As a citizen he favors all measures for the benefit 
 of the people. 
 
 In Madison, Wis., September 15, 1857, Mr. 
 Clark married Miss Mary Mitchell, and one son 
 was born of their union, D. F. , formerly a general 
 merchant and contractor residing in Sargents, 
 Colo., but whose death occurred suddenly in 
 September, 1898, In September, 1862, our sub- 
 ject married Miss Eliza J. Ward, and five chil- 
 dren were born of their union. They are: 
 Edwin A., who is engaged in mining in Cripple 
 Creek; Florence M., wife of Judson Towne, a 
 farmer on Ralston Creek; Marietta, wife of 
 Thomas Kinnett, who assists in cultivating his 
 father-in-law's place; Walter, who is engaged in 
 the express business at Cripple Creek; and Ida 
 v., wife of Clarence Milner, who carries on an 
 express business in Denver. The wife and 
 mother passed away September 23, 1894. 
 
 ©QlLLIAM H. QUINTRALL, chairman of 
 \ A / the board of commissioners of Gilpi n Coun- 
 Y Y ty, is a citizen of Russell Gulch and has a 
 pleasant home here. He is highly respected and 
 esteemed by his associates and fellow-townsmen 
 and is an upright, enterprising business man. In 
 the fall of 1892 he was nominated and elected on 
 the People's party ticket; was re-elected in 1895, 
 his term to extend to January, 1899. Since he 
 has been in office much attention has been paid 
 by the board of commissioners to the erection of 
 bridges, and to the highways of this section, as 
 they fully realize the importance of the matter. 
 Mr. Quintrall has the good of the public at heart 
 and is in favor of improvements along all lines. 
 
 The parents of the above-named gentleman 
 were natives of England, the father, William 
 Quintrall, born in Cornwall. Grandfather Quin- 
 trall was accidentally killed in the Cornwall 
 mines. William Quintrall was also a miner by 
 occupation, and, having heard much about the 
 rich copper mines of Tennessee, he came to the 
 United States many years ago, and lived in the - 
 state mentioned. Subsequently he moved to 
 Maryland, thence to Pennsylvania, and in i860 
 went to California, where he mined and pros- 
 pected for a couple of years. In 1862 he and 
 another man discovered the Vivian mine near 
 Silver City, Nev., and this he continued to 
 operate until his death, three years later, at the 
 age of thirty-nine years. His wife, Mary, is still 
 living, her home being in Denver, where four of 
 her children reside, namely: Mrs. CordeHa Tan- 
 gye, James, Mrs. Jennie Wright and Samuel. 
 Charles is in Central City. Mrs. Quintrall's father, 
 Henry Woolcock, settled in North Carolina while 
 the Civil war was in progress, and afterwards 
 lived in Virginia City, Neb., until his death. 
 
 W. H. Quintrall was born in Polk County, 
 Tenn., August 26, 1858, and from 1863 to 1880 
 lived in Silver City, Nev., where he was a student 
 in the public schools. At the age of fifteen he 
 commenced working at the mines, being in the 
 blacksmith' s shop at first, and in charge of miners' 
 picks and tools. In one way and another he 
 gained considerable knowledge of mining opera- 
 tions and in 1880 came to Russell Gulch, where 
 he was employed in the mines for eight months. 
 In the same year he went to Leadville, and eight 
 months later came to Gilpin County. While en- 
 gaged in mining hereabouts he had numerous nar- 
 row escapes from death and twice read in the Regis- 
 ter-Call accounts of his supposed departure from 
 this sphere of action. Once in the Nugget mine, 
 he and his partner were nearly overcome with foul 
 air. The other man left and soon returned with as- 
 sistance, but Mr. Quintrall was not rescued before 
 he had suffered for three and a-half hours the 
 deadly gases. At another time he was in an iron 
 mine, when the roof gave way and he was buried 
 under twenty feet of earth and rock. By what 
 appeared almost a miracle an immense rock fell 
 in such a way that a small crevice was left, down 
 which enough air came to keep life in the unfor- 
 tunate man. The rescuing party worked heroic- 
 ally and had to put in timber braces in order to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 safely extricate Mr. Quintrall, and in spite of 
 their best efforts it was seven and a-half hours 
 before he was taken out of his living tomb. 
 Small wonder that he then concluded not to tempt 
 fate a third time, but became an engineer on the 
 West Frontenac. He has since worked for dif- 
 ferent companies and is now engineer of the Hot 
 Pot mine in the Virginia Canon. He helped 
 develop the 2.40 mine and others and is now 
 associated with three men in operating the Cham- 
 pion mine in Elkhorn Gulch. 
 
 August 2, 1886, Mr. Quintrall married Miss 
 Bessie Vivian in Denver. She was born in Cen- 
 tral City and was reared and educated there. 
 Two children bless this union, their names being 
 respectively Florence and Bessie. Mrs. Quintrall 
 is a daughter of Thomas and Jane (Gerrans) 
 Vivian, natives of Cornwall, England. The 
 father was an early pioneer of Central City, arriv- 
 ing there about i860, and from that time until 
 his death, in 1885, he was occupied in mining. 
 His wife died in 1890. Their eldest son, Will- 
 iam, was killed by the caving in of a cellar in 
 Central City in 1897, and Charles, the second son, 
 was accidentally killed by the falling of a ladder 
 in Bobtail mine in 1893. Frank, the youngest, 
 is now in Russell Gulch; Mrs. Hattie GriflBth, 
 next younger sister of Mrs. Quintrall, resides in 
 Russell Gulch; and Mrs. Ivillie Flagler lives in 
 Central City. 
 
 RENJAMIN C. CATREN, Jr., is a very 
 y\ prosperous and prominent resident of 
 C^ Georgetown, Clear Creek County, and is 
 among the most extensive mine operators in the 
 county. He is still a young man, but possessed 
 of remarkable business acumen, which easily 
 places him in the lead and caused him to be 
 elected to a number of offices of responsibility in 
 the county. I,ike so many of the residents of 
 this section, he is an American only by adoption. 
 He was born in England, near Penzance, in Decem- 
 ber, 1 86 1, and came to this state when seven 
 years of age. His parents, B. C. and Mary J. 
 Catren, were natives of England. The mother 
 died in Georgetown in 1876, and the father is 
 still living and engaged in mining. He came to 
 America in 1865 and located in Central City, and 
 the following year moved to Georgetown, where 
 he was one of the first discoverers of silver mines, 
 and was placed in charge of the Griffith lode 
 
 during the years 1867-69. This was the principal 
 mine here at that time. Later he acted as 
 superintendent of different mines, and at present 
 he occupies the position of general manager of 
 the Dunderberg mine. He resides in Silver 
 Plume and is interested with his son, our subject, 
 in several mining properties. Of the six children 
 born to theai but four are living, of whom our 
 subject is the eldest. William C, of Silver 
 Plume, has charge of the Smuggler mine, the 
 property of Benjamin C. , Jr. , and his father; 
 Mary, now Mrs. Thompson, lives in Florence; 
 and John G. is in Silver Plume. 
 
 B. C. Catren, Jr., received his education in 
 the public and high school of Georgetown. 
 When a lad of ten years he met with a painful 
 accident that came near co.sting him his life. He 
 was going along a mountain road above which 
 some loggers were rolling logs down the mountain 
 some two or three hundred feet above him, and 
 he was hit by a boulder and terribly injured. 
 The left leg was cut off both above and below 
 the knee by the boulder, and he was badly 
 bruised all over. The leg was bruised and 
 amputation was necessary above the upper cut; 
 even then he was twice given up for dead. How- 
 ever, a strong constitution and youth enabled 
 him to withstand the shock, and in time he 
 recovered his former strength and health. While 
 a student in the high school, during the last year, 
 he left school to accept a position in Wyman's 
 store in Georgetown. He then was appointed 
 deputy clerk of the district court, a position he 
 held for three or four years. In 1884 he was 
 elected town clerk of Georgetown, and in Jan- 
 uary of the following year was appointed re- 
 cording clerk of the state senate. After the 
 adjournment of the senate, he entered the state 
 auditor's office as deputy and continued there 
 until the fall of that year, 1885, when he was 
 elected county clerk for two years. He was 
 elected on the Republican ticket with one hundred 
 majority; was re-elected in 1887 by a large 
 majority, and in 1889 received two-thirds of all 
 the votes cast in the county. In 1891 he was 
 again a candidate for the office, but a factional 
 fight was on, and the Democrats elected their 
 entire ticket. 
 
 During the years since 1881 Mr. Catren has 
 been bookkeeper and clerk for the Dunderberg 
 Mining Company, a position he still holds. In 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1045 
 
 1 886 he began to devote his time largely to 
 mining and has discovered and developed many 
 mines with his father. The Smuggler, owned by 
 them, is well developed and a good producer, one 
 of the leading properties of the county, and 
 located above Silver Plume. The Crown Point 
 mine, also discovered and developed by them, 
 consists of a dozen lodes in one group situated 
 between Georgetown and Silver Plume. They 
 also own fifteen or twenty claims in the same 
 vicinity, known as the Cross group, and own 
 and operate the Cascade group of eight lodes on 
 Cascade Creek, Cascade district, this county, 
 besides other property. 
 
 November 28, 1889, Mr. Catren married Miss 
 Clara Arnold, a native of White Haven, Pa.; 
 they have two children, lyillian Blaine and Mary 
 Lucile. Their residence is on the corner of Taos 
 and Eighth, on the same side of the street upon 
 which his father first located and where he was 
 reared. He has improved afld remodeled the 
 residence until it is now one of the finest in the 
 city. Fraternally he is a past officer in the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. A strong 
 Silver Republican, he is secretary of the Clear 
 Creek Silver Republican committee, was a mem- 
 ber of the state central committee, and a mem- 
 ber of the state executive committee. 
 
 GlNDREW BALLER settled in 1877 upon an 
 f 1 eighty-acre tract five miles south of Long- 
 / I mont, where he applied himself to farm pur- 
 suits, and as he prospered, from time to time he 
 added to his original purchase, until his place 
 now comprises two hundred and eighty-five 
 acres. He was born in Sweden, April 23, 1843, 
 a son of Anderson and Carrie (Boressen) Bailer. 
 He was one of nine children, eight of whom are 
 living, namely: Mary, Ole, Andrew, Nels, 
 Charles, Ida, Katie and Gust. The parents were 
 born in Sweden, the father in 181 3 and the mother 
 in 181 1, and the former died in his native laud 
 when his children were small. Afterward, in 
 1875, the widow and her children came to 
 America; the last years of her life she spent with 
 her children, dying in 1896, at the age of eighty- 
 five. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject was 
 fourteen years of age. The next year he began 
 to work in a sawmill, where two of his brothers 
 
 also were employed. After three years he began 
 to work as a farm hand, remaining, however, 
 with the same employers as before. At the age 
 of twenty-one he became hostler and coachman 
 for his employers, who owned three large saw- 
 mills, three large flour mills and extensive farm- 
 ing interests. After some five years at that work, 
 he emigrated to the United States on the sail 
 boat "Argonaut," from Christiana, Norway, 
 April 19, 1869, and arrived in Quebec, June 19. 
 From that city he went direct to Carroll County, 
 111. He had borrowed the money to come on, 
 but was soon able to pay oS" the debt. After some 
 five months spent in Illinois at farm work, he 
 came to Colorado, arriving in Denver, December 
 15, 1869. Going to the mountains, he spent two 
 weeks in the mines, after which he secured em- 
 ployment on a farm in the valley. A few months 
 later he began driving a coach for a hotel man in 
 Golden, in which position he was employed fif- 
 teen months. Returning to Denver, he worked 
 in a planing mill in that city for five years and 
 three months. While in that position he pur- 
 chased eighty acres of land near Longraont, 
 and has resided here since 1877. 
 
 While in Denver, in 1874, Mr. Bailer was 
 united in marriage with Miss Sophia Larson. 
 They became the parents of five children, four of 
 whom are now living, namely: Mathilda, Char- 
 lotte, John Frederick and Albert. The family 
 are identified with the Lutheran Church, Mr. 
 Bailer in this respect following the religious be- 
 lief of his forefathers. In political views he is 
 stanch in his support of Republican doctrines. 
 
 pGjlLLIAM D. ARNOLD, for four years one 
 lAl of '^^^ bo^^'^ of selectmen of Georgetown, 
 Y Y Clear Creek County, has made his home 
 in this place ever since Colorado was admitted to 
 the Union, in 1876. In everything relating to 
 the development of the town or the increasing of 
 its prosperity he has been deeply concerned, do- 
 ing his share towards the general welfare. He is 
 past grand of the local lodge of Odd Fellows here 
 and enjoys the honor of being past grand of the 
 grand lodge of the state. Besides this, he is ex- 
 representative and past oflScer of the encamp- 
 ment, and belongs to the Daughters of Rebekah 
 Lodge. In politics he is an adherent of the silver 
 party. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Arnold was 
 born February 26, 1854, and reared to manhood 
 in Luzerne County. His education was chiefly 
 acquired in the towns of White Haven and Fair- 
 mount, Pa. In his early manhood he was en- 
 gaged in the lumber business in his native state, 
 but since September, 1876, when he landed in 
 Colorado, he has devoted himself exclusively to 
 mining operations. Beginning at the bottom 
 round of the ladder leading to success he pros- 
 pected and at last discovered both the Harold and 
 Marguerite mines, later developing them. In 1884 
 he became superintendent of the Columbia Tun- 
 nel and Mining Company, which is not active at 
 present, though a general supervision of the 
 property is kept up bj' Mr. Arnold. Afterwards 
 he was connected with Alande mine No. 2, suc- 
 ceeded bj' Alande consolidated, and he is now 
 operating the Smuggler, one of the most success- 
 ful and paying mines of this region. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Arnold took place in 
 Georgetown July 30, 1895, when Miss Charlotte 
 Johnson, a native of Sweden, became his wife. 
 The parents of our subject are Hiram and "Mary 
 A. (Dunbar) Arnold, natives of Luzerne and 
 Lehigh Counties, Pa., respectively. The father 
 was a contractor and builder in White Haven, 
 Pa., for many years and about 1879 came to 
 Georgetown. The next year he located in Lead- 
 ville, where he resided until his death, in 1887. 
 The mother now makes her home in Georgetown, 
 where several of her children reside. James died 
 in this city, and Samuel is a merchant here. 
 Three daughters, Mrs. Sarah J. Walters, Mrs. 
 Clara V. Catren and Mrs. Minnie Thompson, live 
 here also. Mrs. Martha E. Forester and Mrs. 
 Lillie Hollingshead reside in Leadville. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, Abra- 
 ham Arnold, was born in the Connecticut Valley, 
 and was an early settler in the Wyoming Valley, 
 Pa., where he passed the remainder of his days. 
 His father was a soldier of the Revolution, enlist- 
 ing from his native state, Connecticut. Subse- 
 quently he took his family to the Wyoming Valley, 
 and settled on the Susquehanna River, about ten 
 miles below Wilkesbarre, near the present town 
 of Nanticoke. At the time of the dreadful Wyo- 
 ming massacre his family took refuge in the old 
 Fort Wilkesbarre block-house. The maternal 
 grandparents of our subject were Samuel and 
 Mollie (Ross) Dunbar. The former, who was a 
 
 hero of the war of 18 12, was a contractor and 
 builder of iron furnaces and at one time owned 
 the present site of the town of Slatington, Pa. 
 
 MEORGE W. BRIGGS, whose home is situ- 
 \fm ated on section 35, township 6, range 67 west, 
 Vj Weld County (about five miles southeast of 
 New Windsor), is one of the pioneers of Colo- 
 rado and California, and his life is replete with 
 interest. A native of Columbus, Ohio, born 
 May 20, 1834, he is a sou of Henry and Sarah 
 (Chambers) Briggs, who were from New York 
 state, the former a farmer by occupation. In 
 1850 our subject and his father started for the 
 gold fields of California, making the long four- 
 months' journey across the plains from St. Jo- 
 seph, Mo., by teams. They finally settled in 
 Sacramento and carried on a grocery and restau- 
 rant until, the father's health failing, they came 
 home by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and up 
 the Mississippi River. The father lived only 
 eleven days after his arrival at home. 
 
 For a few years young Briggs worked on farms 
 and once went'to New York, assisting in driving 
 a herd of cattle to the metropolis. In 1855 he 
 went to Henderson County, 111., where he found 
 employment, and thence he proceeded to Clark 
 County, Iowa. Remaining there for a year or so, 
 he then drifted to Dakota County, Neb., and in 
 1858, when gold was discovered on Cherry Creek, 
 Colo. , he and George Williamson fitted out an 
 ox-team and came west, arriving at their destina- 
 tion about November i . He erected a cabin on 
 the Big Thompson River, about eight miles from 
 New Windsor, and in December went to Boulder 
 with the members of his company, now increased 
 in number to about fifty persons. Going into 
 camp there, they were the first settlers of the 
 town, and during that winter built eight or ten 
 cabins. In February, 1859, Boulder was organ- 
 ized and laid out in lots. Each citizen received 
 seven lots and, being required to put up a house 
 on his land, had to build it of logs, as there was 
 no lumber to be obtained. 
 
 Gold was found at Gold Run, eight miles west 
 of Boulder, and the members of the colony located 
 claims there, Mr. Briggs having an interest in 
 two such. He worked for different parties in the 
 mines, at rates ranging from seventy- five cents to 
 $2 a day, for a year or more. During this time he 
 

 
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 went to Blue River and California Gulch and the 
 Horsefall mines, but was not very successful. 
 In the fall of i860 he and John GriflRn went to 
 New Mexico, and early the next spring went to 
 Baker's Park, in the San Juan Mountains. 
 There he prospected for seven months, but at last 
 returned to Colorado, and worked for wages in 
 California Gulch. In November, 1862, he took 
 charge of a farm belonging to a Mr. Brookfield, 
 while the latter and his family were absent on a 
 trip to Nebraska City. By the first of the year, 
 when they returned, Mr. Griggs concluded to 
 abandon mining, as he had faithfully tried the 
 business and had not succeeded. He went to 
 Taylor County, Iowa, and bought twenty-seven 
 cows and a pony and drove them across the 
 plains. He arrived with them in Boulder in July, 
 and, as he had lost his property there, by a re- 
 " organization of the town, and new laws regarding 
 lots, he ranged his cattle on the prairie, keeping 
 watch over them while he worked for farmers. 
 The following winter was an unusually hard one, 
 snow falling in November, and he removed his 
 herd to the Cache la Poudre and then to a point 
 north of Fort Collins. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Briggs took up one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land two miles south of the present 
 town of Windsor. He lived upon the place four 
 years, in the meantime making his principal busi- 
 ness the grazing and care of his live stock. Then 
 he sold his farm for $1,000, and in the year 1867 
 homesteaded another quarter-section of land, his 
 present farm. Prairie-dogs and cacti were then 
 the only products of the property. Antelopes 
 were very plentiful and could easily be killed. 
 In the winter of 1871-72 our subject had over 
 three hundred head of cattle and lost seventy- 
 odd'. In 1875 he sold his herd of two hundred 
 and twenty-two cattle for $5,140, A. N. Whit- 
 comb, of Cheyenne, being the purchaser. He 
 was a contractor who furnished supplies to the 
 government for the Indian agencies. In 1876 
 Mr. Briggs very unfortunately loaned $5,000 
 to the firm of West & Buckingham, the first 
 bankers of Greeley. This banking house changed 
 hands several times and finally failed, and our 
 subject lost all but $700 of the sum he had 
 placed in their hands. That small amount he 
 had luckily drawn out, in order to invest 
 $1,000 in the Greeley National Bank, or he 
 would have been just that much the poorer. 
 
 In spite of the numerous losses and reverses 
 which he has encountered he has kept a brave 
 heart and is well-to-do; From time to time he 
 bought land near his first farm, until he now 
 owns four hundred acres, all fenced and improved. 
 During the past five years he has raised horses 
 and been quite successful in the enterprise. For ' 
 a year or more he has leased his farm, and has 
 made 'his home in New Windsor. He is a Repub- 
 lican and is a member of Windsor Lodge No. 69, 
 A. F. & A. M. He is a stockholder and vice- 
 president of the Windsor Mercantile Company, 
 a very successful corporation. Through diSicul- 
 ties innumerable he has worked his way, and is 
 entitled to great credit for the manly struggle he 
 has made in the battle of life. 
 
 September 9, 1869, Mr. Briggs married Emily, 
 daughter of George Gutches, who was born in 
 the same section of Ohio as was our subject. To 
 the home of Mr. Gutches the young man went 
 when he started out for Iowa, a few years after 
 his return from the Pacific slope. Frank, the 
 only son of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, owns stock in, 
 and is a salesman for, the Windsor Mercantile 
 Company. Minnie O., the only daughter, is the 
 wife of Elmer Moore, of Spokane Falls, Wash. . 
 
 0AVID BARNES, a farmer and stock-raiser 
 residing on the Greeley road, near Love- 
 land, Larimer County, was born at Rock 
 Island, 111., in 1858, and is a son of David Barnes, 
 Sr., a pioneer of Colorado. His father, who was 
 a native of Pennsylvania, settled at Russell Gulch 
 in 1861, after having made the long trip across 
 the plains. In a short time, pleased with pros- 
 pects in the then territory, he returned east and 
 brought his family with him to his new home. 
 After a few years he built a flour mill on Bear 
 Creek, and this he operated for several years, but 
 finally moved the mill to Golden, continuing its 
 management there until 1878. On selling out 
 he came to Loveland and bought a tract of railroad 
 land, included within which is the site of the 
 present town of Loveland. He did much toward 
 laying out the town, and imported two carloads 
 of shade trees from the neighborhood of Denver. 
 Here he successfully engaged in farming and 
 cattle-rai.sing. He was a man of upright charac- 
 ter, possessing, too, the courage, physical strength 
 and powers of endurance .so necessary to those 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI< RECORD. 
 
 who would be pioneers. He kept posted con- 
 cerning public affairs and voted the Democratic 
 ticket in both local and national elections. His 
 death occurred February 14, 1886, when he was 
 sixty-five years of age. He is remembered by 
 those who knew him personally as a man of gen- 
 erous impulses, whole-souled and open-hearted, 
 possessing the traits of character that won for 
 him the respect of people in his locality. ■ As a 
 man whose energies were devoted to the develop- 
 ment of the agricultural resources of Larimer 
 County his name well deserves mention in this 
 work. 
 
 The mother of our subject, who was in maiden- 
 hood Sarah Coleman, is now living at Loveland, 
 Colo. To David Barnes and wife eight children 
 were born. Of these Edward died in Illinois at 
 four years of age. Those living are as follows: 
 Caroline, wife of A. I. Derby, a farmer and stock- 
 raiser of Larimer County; Samuel, engaged in 
 mining and a resident of Eoveland; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Jerry Quigley, a fruit farmer one mile east 
 of Loveland; Sarah, wife of William P. Ogden, 
 the oldest passenger conductor on the Union 
 Pacific road; David and Lena (twins), the latter 
 .the wife of A. H. GifFord, residing on a fruit 
 farm near Loveland; and Alice Maud, wife of 
 Abe LaFevre, a cattle ranchman in the mountain 
 districts of Larimer County. 
 
 Our subject was four years of age when he was 
 brought to Colorado by his parents. When a 
 boy he attended school at Golden. In 1875 he 
 began farming on the Big Thompson with his 
 father, and continued in the same place until 1886, 
 when he purchased his present property and has 
 since engaged in raising farm cereals and cattle. 
 Like his father, he is a stanch Democrat and 
 takes an interest in public affairs. He is con- 
 nected with the Knights of Pythias and contrib- 
 utes to the support of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, though not a member thereof In 1885 
 he was united in marriage with Miss Lulu 
 Alkire, of this county. 
 
 (TAMES H. BRINKERHUFF, a successful 
 I farmer and stock-raiser of Jefferson County, 
 G) was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 
 12, 1854, and is the son of James W. and Isabelle 
 A. (Slater) Brinkerhufi". He was one of six 
 children, three of whom are living, namely: 
 
 Rebecca, wife of J. Shank, who lives in Denver, 
 Colo.; Samuel C, a farmer residing near Long- 
 mont, Colo.; and James H. The father, who 
 was born in Lancaster County, Pa., in 1811, 
 learned the trade of moulder in youth, and in 
 early manhood married Miss Mary Crumbly. 
 Of their five children two now survive: George 
 C, who is employed in the smelter in Argo, 
 Colo.; and Adeline, wife of E. L. Pearson, a 
 farmer of Cass County, Iowa. 
 
 After the death of his first wife, James W. 
 Brinkerhuff moved from Pennsylvania to Wayne 
 County, Ohio, where he worked at his trade in the 
 Coulter Iron Foundry, of Wooster, for a number 
 of years. On leaving that position he engaged 
 in the grocery business. In 1855 he removed to 
 Iowa and settled in Cass County, where he took 
 charge of the Nipper ranch. After a time he 
 took up one hundred and twenty acres for him- 
 self, and there he engaged in cultivating the land. 
 Selling this property in 1866, he started west, 
 and with two teams crossed the plains to Colo- 
 rado, he driving one team, while our subject, then 
 a boy of twelve, drove the other. On the way 
 they saw many indications of depredations com- 
 mitted by the Indians. People in front of them 
 and some behind were killed, and they them- 
 selves were momentarily in expectation of an at- 
 tack, in preparation for which they three times 
 corralled their stock, but fortunately e.scaped an 
 attack. 
 
 Arriving at Clear Creek, some nine miles west 
 of Denver, October 17, 1866, the subject of this 
 sketch secured employment on a farm, as did his 
 father also, but the latter, in the spring of 1867, 
 began to operate a rented farm and in 1872 pur- 
 chased a place known as the Titus farm, on Ral- 
 ston Creek, where he remained until his death, 
 which occurred in 1874. He was a man of force 
 of character and great perseverance, and, though 
 he never became wealthy, yet he was enabled to 
 provide the comforts of life for his familj\ 
 
 At the age of twenty our subject secured 
 work in the Boston Colorado Smelting works at 
 Blackhawk, where he remained from November, 
 1874, to December, 1876. Then, with the money 
 he had meanwhile saved, he purchased teams 
 and engaged in hauling wood to the smelting 
 works. Later he hauled coal. In the spring of 
 1877, with his brother, he rented the homestead 
 from his mother and for two seasons engaged in 
 
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 105 1 
 
 cultivating that place. In 1879 he went to Den- 
 ver, and with William I,ee purchased a livery, 
 feed and sale stable, but two months after buying 
 the business they sold it at a profit, and he then 
 rented a farm, which he operated one year. In 
 1877-78 he engaged in farming in partnership 
 with another gentleman, but the venture was un- 
 profitable, and the fall of 1878 found him with 
 $1 ,400 less than nothing. In spite of discourage- 
 ments, however, he worked bravely, and in time 
 placed his finance upon a solid footing. In 1881 
 he rented the two farms of I^. A. and A. L,. Law- 
 rence, and remained there until 1885, when he 
 sold his stock and crop to A. L,. Lawrence. In 
 1886-87 ^is farmed land belonging to William 
 Allen, and afterward cultivated the Cook farm. 
 In 1889 he rented the farm owned by Laura A. 
 Hyatt and carried on the two places in conjunc- 
 tion until 1892, when he removed his family from 
 the Cook homestead to the Hyatt place, since 
 which time he has given his entire attention to 
 cultivating this estate. For some years, during 
 the threshing season, he worked for William M. 
 Graves, but of late years he has engaged in buy- 
 ing stock and fattening them for the market. 
 
 In politics Mr. BrinkerhufFis a Democrat. For 
 two years he acted as deputy sheriff under John 
 A. Hoagland. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Woodmen of the World and Golden Lodge 
 No. 13, I. O. O. F. September 14, 1879, he 
 married Miss Lillian Cook, and three children 
 were born of their union: Emma, Ollie and Guy. 
 
 iA ISS CATHERINE ENNIS is one of the 
 y be.st-known ladies of Georgetown and 
 (S Clear Creek County, as for a quarter of a 
 century she has been at the head of affairs at the 
 Ennis House and for much of this period has been 
 the sole proprietor of this popular hostelry. The 
 hotel is centrally located, being at the corner of 
 Fifth and Taos streets. The rooms are large, 
 airy, and well furnished, and everything about 
 the premises bespeaks the constant, watchful at- 
 tention to details that no one knows better how 
 to bestow than a woman. The patronage of the 
 hotel is noticeably large, particularly during the 
 summer season, at which time its capacity is 
 taxed to the utmost, and numerous additional 
 cottages near are pressed into service for the 
 accommodation of guests. The latter are princi- 
 
 pally fitted up for families or parties who desire 
 separate lodgings, while at the same time they 
 may take their meals and have all the further ad- 
 vantages of the hotel. A fine table-service is one 
 of the features of the house and everything to be 
 found in the market, near and far, is levied upon 
 for the benefit of patrons. 
 
 The Ennis family is from Ireland, and both the 
 grandfather, George Ennis, and the father of our 
 subject, James Ennis, were natives of the town of 
 Wexford. The latter left his native land and the 
 friends of his youth when he was eighteen years 
 of age, and, coming to this continent, took up his 
 abode in St. Johns, New Brunswick. There he 
 was industriously occupied in farming as long as 
 he lived. His busy career was terminated by 
 death in 1861, when he was in his fifty-third 
 year. His wife, Barbara, was a daughter of 
 William Burns, who, with his family, removed to 
 St. Johns, New Brunswick, from their native 
 land, Firmaugh County, Ireland, Mrs. Ennis be- 
 ing then thirteen years of age. Mr. Burns owned 
 and managed a farm in St. Johns up to his death, 
 when he was seventy-two years old. Mrs. Ennis 
 came to Colorado late in life and made her home 
 with the lady whose name heads this article un- 
 til she was called to the silent land, when in her 
 seventy-fourth year. 
 
 Miss Catherine Ennis is the eldest in a family 
 which originally comprised twelve children. 
 She has always exercised the love and care of an 
 elder sister toward all her brothers and sisters, 
 and the four younger ones still make their home 
 with her much of the time. George, the eldest 
 brother, was the first of the family to settle in 
 this state. He reached Central City September 
 14, 1865, and soon afterwards found himself in 
 Georgetown. Here his brother Thomas joined 
 him soon afterwards, and together they built the 
 Ennis House. November 26, 1872, Miss Cath- 
 erine Ennis came to Colorado from Philadelphia, 
 Pa., where she had been living for four years. 
 In February, 1873, she took charge of the hotel, 
 and has managed it ever since. In 1884, when 
 Thomas Ennis went to Middle Park, where he 
 owns a large ranch, and carries on an extensive 
 business in cattle, he gave her the hotel. George 
 Ennis is now living in Mexico. Both he and 
 Thomas were soldiers in the Union army during 
 the Civil war, George being in the quarter- 
 master's department. William was drowned 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 when in his twenty-second year, in New Bruns- 
 wick. John died in Georgetown, as the result 
 of an accident from a runaway team, he being 
 forty-four years old at the time of his demise. 
 James and Richard died when young. Nicholas, 
 Robert and James (the second of the name) are 
 engaged in mining enterprises near Georgetown. 
 Mrs. Jane Keating died in Portland, Me.; and 
 Annie, unmarried, lives with Miss Ennis. The 
 latter was born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, and 
 there grew to womanhood. She is a lady who is 
 universally admired and liked, and her well-wish- 
 ers are legion. Her friends are not limited to her 
 acquaintances in Georgetown circles, but in- 
 clude many others, from neighboring towns and 
 more distant places. 
 
 ^OHN H. lyUNDY, the popular treasurer of 
 I Elbert County, having been elected to that 
 Q) office in 1897, is now serving his fourth term 
 in that capacity, the duties of which office are 
 performed in such a manner as to gain the confi- 
 dence and esteem of the citizens of the county. 
 He is also engaged in agricultural pursuits and 
 stock-raising, and is proprietor of a fine farm locat- 
 ed on section 27, townships, range 63 west. He 
 was born in Belfast, Ireland, December 16, 1845, 
 and is a son of Henry and Sarah (Carlin) Lundy. 
 John H. IvUndy was about three years of age 
 when his parents left their native land and emi- 
 grated to the United States, locating in Paw- 
 tucket, R. I., where they purchased a little home 
 and spent the rest of their lives. Our subject, at 
 twelve years, began to work on a farm during 
 the summer months, and the winters were spent 
 attending the district school. This mode of life 
 was continued for four years, when, in the spring 
 of 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A, 
 Ninth Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry. Shortly 
 after the second battle of Bull Run he was taken 
 sick with chronic diarrhoea and was soon after- 
 ward discharged. Returning to his home in 
 Rhode Island, he began to learn the trade of a 
 blacksmith, but did not follow that occupation 
 long, as in 1865 he started for Colorado. From 
 St. Joe, Mo., he drove an ox- team to Denver, 
 arriving there in August of that year. He began 
 working in the mines at Russell Gulch, and 
 when they were closed in the fall, he went to 
 South Boulder, where he spent the winter. In 
 
 April of the following year he came to Elbert 
 County and for two years he worked in a saw- 
 mill near Running Creek. The next few years 
 were spent engaged in farming, having rented 
 a farm near Kiowa Creek. He then went to 
 California Gulch, now Leadville, taking with 
 him three mules, and worked at setting out ties. 
 This business was not followed long, and he 
 sold his mules to a contractor there, taking his 
 note, which he still holds, as the contractor 
 shortly afterward failed. He returned to Elbert 
 County and worked in a sawmill for about a 
 year, and then took up a tract of land consisting 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, located along 
 the Comanche Creek. Farming and stock-raising 
 have been his principal occupations, in which he 
 has been very successful, and is now the owner of 
 fourteen hundred acres of land, well stocked 
 with Shorthorn cattle. 
 
 In April, 1880, at Colorado Springs, Mr. I^undy 
 married Miss Sarah King, a native of Indiana, 
 and this union has been blessed by the birth of 
 five children, named as follows: Eddie, Harry, 
 Ella, George and Glenn. Politically our sub- 
 ject is a firm supporter of the Democratic party, 
 and in 1873 he was elected sheriff, serving two 
 consecutive terms; and was elected treasurer of 
 Elbert County in 1883-8595 and 97. He has 
 also been delegated to county and state con- 
 ventions several times. He is a, member of Elbert 
 Lodge No. 85, I. O. O. F. 
 
 EG. BARCLAY, a prosperous and enterpris- 
 ing citizen of Parker, Douglas County, is 
 the proprietor of a general merchandise store 
 at that point. He is a son of Dr. William D. and 
 Mary (Murray) Barclay, and was born in Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, August 21, 1861. Dr. Barclay 
 was of Scotch nationality, and came to America 
 when a young man, immediately thereafter enter- 
 ing a medical college in Philadelphia, Pa. Upon 
 the completion of his course he went west as far 
 as Iowa and practiced in a number of cities in 
 that state, among them being Cedar Rapids, where 
 he lived for several years. He then returned to 
 Pennsylvania, and upon the outbreak of the Civil 
 war he offered his services as a surgeon, and 
 served under General Grant throughout the war. 
 Upon its close he returned to Philadelphia and 
 there resided during the remainder of his life. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1053 
 
 He married Mary Murray, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania and a descendant of a well-known family. 
 
 C. G. Barclay returned to his native state at 
 the age of thirteen years and was engaged as a 
 clerk in different .stores at Muscatine and Daven- 
 port for four years. He then went to St. Louis, 
 Mo., where he clerked for a time, and later be- 
 came a traveling salesman for Dr. J. H. McLean, 
 of St. Louis, Mo. , continuing with him for a few 
 years, when he entered the employ of the Boone 
 Tobacco Company of that city. One year later, 
 in 1886, he moved to Colorado, and was employed 
 as a clerk in the grocery house of M. E. Dodge, 
 at Denver, and subsequently at Littleton, for a 
 period of about eight years, gaining a wide expe- 
 rience as to the manner in which the mercantile 
 business should properly be carried on. In 1898 
 he located at Parker and established a neat and 
 well-stocked general merchandise store, which is 
 patronized by the leading citizens in that section 
 of Douglas County. Since making the latter 
 town his home he has gained a large circle of 
 friends and well-wishers for his future happiness 
 and prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Barclay, like his father, is a stanch Demo- 
 crat; he cast his first vote in support of Grover 
 Cleveland. In 1897 he was called upon to serve 
 as mayor of Littleton, and discharged the duties 
 of that office to the satisfaction of his constituents. 
 He is a member of Weston Lodge No. 22, A. F. 
 & A. M., of Littleton, of which he served as 
 junior warden and acting master for a time. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARDS. Twenty years ago 
 this well and favorably esteemed citizen of 
 Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, came 
 to Colorado. During this period he has been act- 
 ively occupied in mining and prospecting and has 
 been blessed with more than an ordinary amount 
 of success in his undertakings. For one term 
 he served as a member of the board of aldermen, 
 and he has always stood stalwartly by the Re- 
 publican party, though he has never been a poli- 
 tician, in any sen.se of the word. All public 
 measures having for their object the good of the 
 community receive his hearty co-operation and 
 endorsement and he is safely counted upon to 
 promote causes of right, law and good govern- 
 ment. 
 The Edwards family to which our subject be- 
 
 longs is a very old and respected one in Cardi- 
 ganshire, Wales. His grandfather, John Ed- 
 wards, and his father, William Edwards, were 
 both natives of the town of Aberestwith, South 
 Wales, and were miners by occupation. The 
 mother of our subject bore the maiden name 
 of Elizabeth Vaughan. Her father, Jenkins 
 Vaughan, was born in Wales, but was of Scotch 
 ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards both 
 passed their entire lives in Wales, and died some 
 years ago. Of their large family, numbering 
 twelve children, all but two have been called to 
 the silent land. Jenkin and William are resi- 
 dents of Idaho Springs. 
 
 The birth of William Edwards of this sketch 
 took place in 1839 in Aberestwith, Wales. He 
 was but ten years old when he began working in 
 the mines, though at intervals he attended the 
 public or private schools. In 1857 he went away 
 from home to the northern part of Wales, and 
 took a position in a stamp-mill, where gold-bear- 
 ing ore was handled. In 1870 he came across 
 the ocean, and locating in Wilkesbarre, Pa., en- 
 gaged in contracting, sinking shafts, and similar 
 work. Seven years later he came to Colorado, 
 and going to Freeland, began working as timber- 
 man in the mines owned by John M. Dumont. 
 Subsequently he embarked in mining on his 
 own account, and has been prospered in his en- 
 deavors. He has mined and prospected in both 
 Summit and Clear Creek Counties and has dis- 
 covered and developed many valuable properties. 
 He located the Cardigan mine; located, worked 
 and owned the Monte Cristo group on Spanish 
 bar; helped develop the Salisbury and owns a 
 part interest in the Bellevue-Hudson in Lawson 
 and the Silver Link in Freeland and, in partner- 
 ship with his wife, owns the Stanton mine on 
 Spani-sh bar. The Monte Cristo, a very success- 
 ful enterprise, was sold by him, a few years ago, 
 to the Quaker Mining Company, which is still 
 operating it. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Edwards built a pleasant and com- 
 fortable home on Colorado street, in Idaho 
 Springs. He was married in the northern part 
 of Wales to Miss Winnifred Evans, who was born 
 in that section of the country. Fraternally he is 
 associated with the Order of Foresters. Religi- 
 ously he is a Presbyterian, and for years has been 
 a member of the board of trustees of the church 
 here, and for a period was president of the same. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He enjoys an enviable reputation for square- 
 dealing and justice in all his relations with his 
 fellow-men, and is entitled to the confidence which 
 is reposed in him by all who know him. 
 
 (Tames MADISON IRELAND is a prosperous 
 I grocer and business man of Idaho Springs, 
 (2/ Clear Creek County, his prosperity having 
 been secured after a long struggle and only by 
 persistent effort and industry. He was born 
 August 22, 1851, in Maumee, Lucas County, 
 Ohio, the son of Michael and Mary (Housen) 
 Ireland. His great-grandfather Ireland came 
 from Scotland and settled in Virginia, and the 
 grandfather fought in the Revolution under Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Michael Ireland, a native of Virginia, came to 
 Ohio when a young man and settled on the banks 
 of the Maumee River, in Lucas County. That 
 was long before Toledo was thought of, its only 
 buildings being two fishermen's shanties on the 
 bay. He settled first on Swan Creek, but soon 
 removed to where South Toledo now stands. 
 There for many years he farmed, but finally re- 
 tired to Bowling Green, Wood County, that .state, 
 where he is now living in his ninety-eighth year. 
 He was twice married, the first marriage result- 
 ing in three sons, who served in the late war, in 
 an Ohio regiment. Robert died in Libby prison; 
 Henry was taken sick in the army and returned 
 home, where he soon afterward died; and Heze- 
 kiah returned after the close of the war and 
 moved to Colorado, where he died. The second 
 union was with Mary Housen, who was born in 
 Germany and came with her parents to this 
 country when a child. The name was formerly 
 Eleukhousen, but was contracted to Housen by 
 her father, who was a sailor in his native country, 
 but a farmer after moving to Ohio. The mother 
 died many years ago, leaving the following- 
 named children: Avery, in Ohio; James M., our 
 subject; Edwin A., a merchant in Kansas City; 
 William, who was killed in a mine in Idaho 
 Springs; and Capitola, now Mrs. Townsend, of 
 Denver. 
 
 James M. Ireland spent his early years in 
 Lucas County, Ohio, and attended the district 
 schools and those of Maumee, until he was seven- 
 teen years of age. In the year 1868 he moved to 
 Kansas and engaged in farming, twenty-five 
 
 miles west of Atchison, in Jackson County. 
 Here he bought land of the railroad company in 
 the old Kickapoo reservation, which he improved 
 and continued to farm until February 13, 1874, 
 when he moved to Georgetown, this state. The 
 next day he began prospecting and mining, and 
 engaged in that work for three years, after which 
 he spent two and a-half years prospecting on the 
 Texas frontier. He then returned to George- 
 town and mined until 1881, his efforts this time 
 being attended with success. That year he lo- 
 cated in Idaho Springs, bought his present lot 
 and built a frame building in which he conducted 
 his store for many years. Later he built the 
 commodious brick building which he now occu- 
 pies. The building is two stories high, with a 
 basement. It is 26x84 feet, with a wing added 
 later, in 1897, 26x42 feet. This wing contains a 
 heating plant, which serves also to heat his resi- 
 dence adjoining the store. The same year he 
 erected warehouses and stables across the rail- 
 road track. He does a general produce and 
 grocery business, handling hay, grain, coal, 
 wood, lime and cement. He and a partner 
 started a brick yard east of town which was later 
 incorporated as the Placer Brick and Tile Com- 
 pany. They manufacture building brick and he 
 has been the president from the start. He was also 
 a prime mover in organizing the Idaho Springs 
 Light and Power Company, o^ which he is di- 
 rector. He has several valuable mines which he 
 operates and which are patented. 
 
 Mr. Ireland was married in Mankato, Minn., 
 to Miss Clara Leader, a native of Milwaukee, 
 Wis. They have four children: Harold, Warren, 
 James M., Jr. , and Grace. For two terms Mr. 
 Ireland was a member of the town council, and 
 he was an original member of the chamber of 
 commerce. He is identified with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows' lodge and encamp- 
 ment, in both of which he is past oiEcer and 
 ex-representative. 
 
 LIVER FEAY and his estimable wife are 
 numbered among the pioneers of Colorado, 
 and few of the early settlers of the state ex- 
 perienced greater hardships and dangers. They 
 have not only been witnesses of the great changes 
 which have taken place in the past forty years in 
 the Centennial state, but have been active and 
 earnest workers toward the grand result, and are 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI^ RECORD. 
 
 1055 
 
 entitled to proportionate credit. They know 
 what it means to live in daily and hourly fear of 
 an attack by a band of hostile Indians, and at 
 times lawless and outlawed desperadoes were 
 even more feared by them than the redskins. 
 Peace and plenty are now their well-deserved 
 portion, and where the wilderness formerly was 
 now may be seen beautiful farms and villages. 
 
 Thirty-one years ago Mr. Feay took up his 
 abode on the fine farm which he still owns and 
 cultivates. It is situated six miles from Golden, 
 in Jefferson County, and comprises three hundred 
 and twenty acres'. The place is well adapted for 
 general farming, and is kept in fine condition by 
 the enterprising owner. He is a native of Fay- 
 ette County, Pa., having been born February 22, 
 1838. He was reared to maturity under his 
 father's roof, and received a liberal public- school 
 education. When he had reached his majority 
 he left home to make his own way in the world 
 thenceforth, and wisely determined to seek his 
 fortune in the new west, then claiming the atten- 
 tion of this great country. In July, 1859, he 
 arrived in Colorado and for a short time stayed 
 at Ralston 's Creek. He then repaired to the 
 mountains to seek the precious metals and spent 
 one year in the Central and Blackhawk districts, 
 while the following year he prospected and mined 
 in California Gulch. His experience was that of 
 many others before and since — -he and his part- 
 ner discovering many valuable silver lodes which 
 they believed to be lead and discarded them ac- 
 cordingly. At last, feeling that he was not des- 
 tined to become rich as a miner, Mr. Feay turned 
 his energies to agriculture. Settling on Ralston' s 
 Creek, he bought a tract of land and set to work 
 in earnest to improve and cultivate the place. 
 In 1867 he removed to the homestead which was 
 owned by the heirs of George L,. Strope, and in 
 1872 he purchased one hundred and .sixty acres 
 of the farm. The other one hundred and sixty 
 acres is the property of Mrs. Feay. 
 
 In June, 1867, Mr. Feay married Mrs. Sarah 
 J. Strope, widow of George L. Strope. By her 
 first marriage Mrs. Feay had five children, four 
 of whom are living. They are as follows: Henri- 
 etta, wife of A. M. De France, who is now absent 
 on an expedition to the Klondike; Andrew M., 
 who is employed in the postoffice department at 
 Denver; Fannie, the deceased wife of Frank 
 Morrison, the superintendent of Church ditch. 
 
 and a resident of Golden; and Ida M., wife of 
 John Belcher, a private detective of Denver. To 
 the union of Mr. and Mrs. Feay one child was 
 born, Florence A., whose husband, Harvey R. 
 Jones, is a salesman with home and headquarters 
 in Denver. Recently our subject and his devoted 
 wife have adopted and taken into their home 
 their grandchild, Viola S. 
 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Feay have multitudes of 
 interesting stories of their pioneer experiences. 
 The latter crossed the plains fourteen times, and 
 on many of these trips sat in the stage with two 
 revolvers in her lap, ready to use them at a mo- 
 ment's notice, while in all directions could be 
 seen from the windows of the primitive vehicle 
 the burning homes of fleeing pioneers. It so 
 happened that she made a trip on the first train 
 leaving Julesburg for Omaha on the just-com- 
 pleted Union Pacific Railroad, and while waiting 
 for the train witnessed a shooting affray between 
 two men who shot at each other with determina- 
 tion to kill. She enjoys the honor of having 
 been the first woman to cast her vote in this 
 school district, and for one term she ofiiciated as 
 treasurer of the local board of education to the 
 entire satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Feay is 
 a present member of the school board, on which 
 he has served creditably for several years. He 
 also was for two terms a constable. In his po- 
 litical affiliations he is a true-blue Republican. 
 He belongs to Enterprise Grange No. 25. In 
 August, 1864, he enlisted for one hundred days 
 in the Third Colorado Cavalry for the defense of 
 the settlers against the Indians, who were on the 
 warpath and ravaging these valleys. He finally 
 served until January, 1865, when he was honor- 
 ably discharged and was again free to resume the 
 peaceful avocations of life. 
 
 The parents of Oliver Feay are Alexander and 
 Mary (Ashbaugh) Feay. The father was born 
 in Maryland in 1804, and in his early life he was 
 employed for several years on boats which ran on 
 the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. I<ater 
 he embarked in the lumber business and operated 
 a sawmill up to the year 1850. He then removed 
 to Iowa and, settling in Clayton County, engaged 
 in farming. He pre-empted one hundred and 
 sixty acres, to which he subsequently added an- 
 other tract of one hundred acres. A man of honor 
 and prominence in his community, he commanded 
 the respect and esteem of all . He held the ofiice of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 justice of the peace and other local positions for 
 many j'ears. His death occurred in 1867. 
 Grandfather Levy Feay was of Scotch descent, 
 and, it is believed, was a native of Maryland. 
 He owned and operated a sawmill during his 
 active life. For a few years he made his home in 
 Pennsylvania, and his last years were passed in 
 Virginia. Of the nine children born to Alex- 
 ander and Mary Feay three are deceased. Joseph 
 and James M. are farmers of Clayton County, 
 Iowa, and Henry is a millwright of Fayette 
 County, Pa. Urilla, widow of John Davidson, 
 resides in South Dakota; and Susanna, widow of 
 William Brooks, lives in western Iowa. 
 
 HOSEPH DENNIS, Jr., a successful business 
 I man of Golden, is the proprietor of a livery 
 G) and feed stable, situated on Jackson street 
 near the Denver, Lakewood & Golden depot. 
 The business was formerly conducted under the 
 firm name of Lake & Dennis, but in November, 
 1897, he bought his partner's interest and has 
 since been alone. He ha* also engaged in the 
 retail coal business since 1893, and is a general 
 contractor for the Denver & Gulf Railroad, the 
 city of Golden and county of Jefferson. 
 
 Mr. Dennis was born in Truro, Cornwall, Eng- 
 land, February 9, 1862, and is a son of Joseph 
 and Eliza J. (Staple) Dennis, also natives of Corn- 
 wall. His paternal grandfather, Josiah Dennis, 
 was born in the same county and engaged in 
 mining there; the maternal grandfather, John 
 Staple, was a farmer by occupation. Joseph 
 Dennis, Sr., was a miner, both in his native land 
 and in America, to which country he emigrated 
 in 1866, being joined by his wife and children 
 the following year. He located near Tamaqua, 
 in Schuylkill County, Pa., where he engaged in 
 mining for a year, and then went to Johnstown, 
 the same state, where he followed mining. In 
 1878 he came to Golden, where he left his family, 
 but for a time he engaged in mining in Nevada. 
 Since his permanent location in Golden he has 
 engaged as a contractor in coal mining, and now 
 assists his son in the management of the business. 
 In religious belief he is a Methodist. His wife is 
 a descendant of an English soldier, who fought 
 in the Napoleonic wars of 18 12- 15 and took part 
 in the famous battle of Waterloo. They are the 
 parents of two children now living, Joseph and 
 
 Mrs. Laura Owens, of Golden. Their older 
 daughter, Minnie, died when twenty-one years 
 of age. 
 
 At the age of five years our subject was brought 
 to the United States. He remained in Pennsyl- 
 vania from 1867 to 1878, meantime attending the 
 public schools. On coming to Golden, he se- 
 cured work in a coal mine, where he remained for 
 eight months, and then began teaming. About 
 188 1 he began as a clerk in a grocery, where he 
 rferaained for ten years. In June, 1891, he 
 started a livery business at the Stanley Hall barn, 
 but after one year and nine months at that loca- 
 tion, he came to his present place of business near 
 the depot. As a business man, the term often 
 heard in western cities, "hustler," is indicative 
 of his disposition better than any other word. He 
 is quick, energetic, enterprising, ambitious to suc- 
 ceed, and a tireless worker. 
 
 In Golden Mr. Dennis married Miss Anna E. 
 Hewitson, who was born in Canada. Their chil- 
 dren are nained: Joseph Edward, Ethel Anna, 
 Minnie Janet, Orville LeRoy and Marion Emily. 
 The family attend the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, in which Mr. Dennis is a member of the 
 board of trustees. In politics he is a Republican. 
 He represented the fourth ward for one term as a 
 member of the board "of aldermen, during which 
 time he served as chairman of the committees oh 
 streets and alleys and fire and police. He is a 
 member of Excelsior Fire and Hose Company, of 
 which he was foreman, and also served as assist- 
 ant chief of the fire department until his election 
 as alderman. In the order of Knights of Pythias 
 he is past chancellor, and was second lieutenant 
 of the Uniform Rank until the lodge surrendered 
 its charter. He is senior warden of Golden Lodge 
 No. I, A. F. & A. M., excellent high priest of 
 Golden Chapter No. 5, R. A. M., and a member 
 of the board of managers of the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 ROBERT H. DENNEY, M. D., county phy- 
 sician and health officer of Elbert County 
 and a practicing physician of Elbert, was 
 born in Carroll County, Ohio, November 21, 
 1872, and is a son of H. H. and Eliza J. (Gregory) 
 Denney. The first eight years of his life were 
 spent on the home farm, where he was born. 
 From that place he accompanied his parents to 
 CarroUton, the county seat, where he attended 
 
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 the high school, graduating at the age of eight- 
 een with honors. For a year or more he kept 
 books for his father, who was engaged in the 
 grain business. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 189 1 , the subject of this 
 sketch began to teach school in Elbert County, 
 and this occupation he followed for four terms, 
 mostly in the summer seasons. Meantime he 
 engaged in the study of medicine under Dr. 
 McNeilan, of Elbert, and took a course of 
 lectures in Gross Medical College, Denver, 
 from which he was graduated in 1896, with 
 the degree of M. D. Soon afterward he began 
 to practice in Elbert and here he has since built 
 up a good practice and has become known as a 
 rising young physician, with a prosperous future 
 before him. He is identified with the American 
 Medical Association and the Colorado State 
 Medical Society, and takes a warm interest in 
 everything pertaining to the profession. In 1898 
 he was chosen county physician and health officer, 
 which position he is filling with efl[iciency. In 
 Elbert Camp No. 152, Woodmen of the World, 
 he is the examining physician, as he is also for 
 the Equitable, New York and Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Companies. In political belief he is a Re- 
 publican. 
 
 [EORGE DANE, a farmer living twelve miles 
 southeast of Harman, Arapahoe County, 
 owns two hundred and eighty acres of land 
 situated on section 30, township 5 north, range 
 66 west. He was born in the County of Vic- 
 toria, parish of Andover, Canada, February 16, 
 1835, a son of William and Mary Dane, natives 
 respectively of England and the north of Ireland. 
 Both were reared in their native shires, and com- 
 ing to America, were married near St. John's, 
 after which they settled upon a farm. 
 
 Assisting his father in the cultivation of the 
 home farm, the subject of this sketch spent the 
 first twenty-three years of his life beneath the 
 parental roof. At that age he went to Minne- 
 sota and for three years was employed in the 
 pineries, it being the agreement that he was to 
 receive f 16 a month, but hard times befell his 
 employer, who was unable to sell his lumber, and 
 as a consequence the wages were not paid the 
 last year. Leaving Minnesota in March, i860, 
 he went with a company to Pike's Peak, paying 
 them $60 for his board and the transportation of 
 46 
 
 his baggage, while he walked all the way and did 
 the cooking during part of the time. In July he 
 arrived at California Gulch, where he worked 
 until fall, and then went to New Mexico pros- 
 pecting for gold. Only a few months were spent 
 there, and he then returned to Colorado, where 
 he remained at Gold Run until the fall of 1861. 
 
 About that time Mr. Dane enlisted as a private 
 in Company E, First Colorado Cavalry, and after 
 a few months was promoted from the ranks to be 
 first corporal. From time to time he received 
 other promotions, until he was made third ser- 
 geant, but was then reduced to the ranks be- 
 cause he had made merry at a ludicrous blunder 
 of the first lieutenant and had refused to apologize 
 for so doing, declaring he had nothing to apol- 
 ogize for. He was in the company enlisted by 
 Maj. Scott J. Anthony, a company that enlisted 
 as cavalry, but served as infantry for some time, 
 until they could get their horses. They were in 
 New Mexico for a time and took part in the bat- 
 tle of Pache Canon, then returned to Colorado 
 City and received their horses, after which they 
 engaged principally in guard duty in this state. 
 
 After serving until December i, 1864, Mr. 
 Dane was mustered out in Denver. During his 
 term of service he was never in the hospital nor 
 the guard hou.se. He had saved his earnings, 
 amounting to about $1,100, it having been his 
 custom to work at anything he could find to do, 
 and at one time he cut hay with a scythe at 
 Booneville, Ark., for the government, receiving 
 $4 a day. After his discharge he began to cut 
 wood near his present home. During the winter, 
 in visiting a sick soldier, he was exposed to the 
 measles, and caught the disease; during his sick- 
 ness he lay in a shanty, with a blanket for a door. 
 In the spring of 1865 he fitted up a team of oxen 
 and engaged in freighting, which proved profit- 
 able. In the fall of 1868 he returned to his old 
 home in Canada, and there, March 26, 1869, he 
 married Miss Elizabeth L. Clark, a daughter of 
 Enoch and Sarah A. (Phamphey) Clark. She 
 was born within a mile of the birthplace of her 
 husband and had received fair educational ad- 
 vantages in her home neighborhood. Her fa- 
 ther was born in Rochester, England, at Roches- 
 ter Castle, and was a son of Sir Richard and 
 Mary (Russell) Clark and grandson of Lord John 
 Russell; her mother was a native of Canada. 
 
 Directly after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 Dane came to Colorado and settled, in August, 
 1869, at their present place. He had bought a 
 squatter's claim of eighty acres, which he after- 
 ward horaesteaded, together with eighty acres 
 given him for a soldier's claim. He has since 
 bought one hundred and twenty acres, and all of 
 the land, two hundred and eighty acres, is im- 
 proved. The larger part of his money has been 
 made in stock-raising, which he has found a 
 profitable industry. In the Grange he has served 
 as master one year and many years as overseer, 
 and in the State Grange has held office as gate 
 keeper. 
 
 The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Dane is John F. , 
 who was born on the home farm May 24, 1870, 
 graduated from the East Denver high school and 
 married Isabelle Kenney, by whom he has a 
 daughter, Ethel H., born in Denver October 20, 
 1892. He is an employe of the United States 
 government in the Denver postoffice. 
 
 Politically Mr. Dane is a Republican and has 
 voted that ticket ever since the presidential elec- 
 tion of 1864. He has been content with voting 
 and has never desired to receive for himself the 
 votes of others, preferring to give his time to 
 business matters. In 1869 he was made a Mason 
 in the blue lodge at Presque Isle, and soon after- 
 ward was demitted to Union Lodge No. 7, at 
 Denver. He is also identified with the Associa- 
 tion of Colorado Pioneers, and is a member of 
 Lincoln Post No. 4, G. A. R. 
 
 n AMES HENRY, who was a member of the 
 I Union colony and a pioneer of Weld County, 
 (2/ resides on township 6, range 65, directly 
 north of Greelej'. As a pioneer, he has been 
 identified with the history of this section from 
 its earliest settlement, and enjoys the distinction 
 of having built the first house in Greeley. In 
 spite of his eighty-seven years he is active and 
 rugged, retaining all his faculties except his 
 hearing. All of his work is under his direct 
 supervision, though his plans are carried out 
 with the assistance of hired men, it being un- 
 necessary for him to do manual labor. Strong 
 and hearty, it seemed possible for him to enjoy 
 many more years of usefulness, and that he may 
 do so is the wish of his large circle of friends. 
 
 Born in New York City, March 28, 1812, the 
 subject of this sketch is a son of Thomas and 
 
 Susan Henry, natives respectively of New Jersey 
 and New York. His father, who followed the 
 occupation of a mason and builder in the metropo- 
 lis, bought a farm in Newtown (now part of 
 New York City) in 1828 and there carried on 
 farm pursuits. Politically he was a Democrat, 
 and for some time held office as assistant captain 
 of the watchmen of New York (then employed 
 instead of policemen). In religion he was identi- 
 fied with the Methodist Church. By his marriage 
 to Susan Lawrence, nine children were born, James 
 being the youngest of the sons. He attended 
 school on Long Island, and learned the mason's 
 trade, which he followed for a time in New York, 
 and afterward worked in different places. After 
 some time in New Jersey he went to Pennsyl- 
 vania, from there to North Carolina, thence to 
 New Orleans (where he worked in a foundry) 
 and finally secured employment in Memphis. In 
 1870 he came to Colorado and for five years en- 
 gaged in building houses in Greeley, also erected 
 the Episcopal Church. In 1875 he came to his 
 present place of residence, and without assistance 
 put up the house where he now resides. It is of 
 adobe, covered with a cement that gives it a neat 
 finish, and possesses the desirable quality of being 
 cool in summer and warm in winter. Here he 
 raises grain, alfalfa and potatoes, the work being 
 under his personal supervision. He is also a 
 stockholder in No. 2 ditch. , 
 
 In political matters Mr. Henrj' is independent, 
 with Democratic tendencies. He has been twice 
 married. One child was born of his first union, 
 but it died young. In 1844 he married Miss 
 Simons, and they had three children, but only 
 one survives, Drusilla, who married Ben C. 
 Rinks and resides near the old homestead. 
 
 jILLIS BRYANT. One mile northwest of 
 Sedalia, Douglas County, lies the farm 
 owned and operated by Mr. Bryant. It 
 was purchased by him in 187 1 and consists of 
 seven hundred acres, which he has improved and 
 upon which he is engaged in ranching, stock- 
 raising and the dairy business. In 1873 he 
 erected a substantial brick house, but it burned 
 to the ground in 1897, and soon afterward he 
 built the residence the family now occupies. 
 
 The son of John and Fannie (Smith) Bryant, 
 our subject was born in Worcester County, Mass. , 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
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 July 10, 1825. He was next to the youngest 
 among six children and was seven years of age 
 when his father died. Afterward his mother 
 sold the farm and settled in Holden, Worcester 
 County, where he attended the public schools and 
 completed the regular high-school course. At 
 the age of eighteen he taught one term of school. 
 In 1844 he went to Illinois, joining a brother in 
 Nauvoo, Hancock County, and was there at the 
 time the Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, was 
 killed at the county-seat, Carthage. He had 
 seen the famous apostle of Mormonism on his 
 way to the county jail. 
 
 After a year in Nauvoo Mr. Bryant returned 
 to Massachusetts, but two years later joined his 
 brother, who had moved to St. Louis, Mo. For 
 two years he clerked in a store that his brother 
 had opened. He then again returned to Holden, 
 Mass. , where he clerked in a store, and later was 
 made a partner in the business under the firm 
 name of Nichols & Bryant. In 1856 he went to 
 Chicago, and made a tour of inspection of the 
 northwestern country as far as Lake Superior. 
 While in Minnesota he took up a government 
 claim and improved the land, for which he secured 
 a deed. In i860 he came to Colorado, where he 
 engaged in mining, prospecting and freighting 
 for some years, until the purchase of his present 
 property in 1871. Though now advanced in 
 years, he is as active and mentally vigorous as he 
 was twenty years ago, and bids fair to be spared 
 for many years to come. His mother, who was 
 bom in 1789, spent most of her life in Massa- 
 chusetts, but finally went to Plainfield, 111., and 
 made her home with a daughter until her death, 
 which occurred January 14, 1889, when ninety- 
 nine years, eight months and twenty-six days 
 old. 
 
 On Thanksgiving day of 1873 Mr. Bryant mar- 
 ried Miss Mary A. Murphy, of Douglas County,but 
 a native of Chicago, 111. In 1859 she accompanied 
 her parents, Henry C. and Mary (Roice) Mur- 
 phy, to Colorado, where her mother died in 1875 
 and her father is still living in Denver. By her 
 marriage she is the mother of an only daughter, 
 Fannie B. , who received an excellent education 
 in a high school of Denver and the State Normal 
 at Greeley (from which she graduated in 1898) 
 and also took a business course in Colorado 
 Central Business College of Denver. She is fitted , 
 both by natural qualifications and education, for 
 
 the teacher's profession, and is intensely devoted 
 to this work, in which she has met with striking 
 success. 
 
 In early life a Whig, Mr. Bryant cast his first 
 presidential ballot for Gen. Winfield Scott. In 
 1856 he supported John C. Fremont, and ever 
 since then he has cast a straight Republican 
 ticket. At one time he was a candidate for 
 county commissioner, but was defeated by a few 
 votes. In Worcester, Mass., in 1855, he was 
 made a mason, and has since taken all the degrees 
 through the Royal Arch. He was a member of 
 Morning Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Wor- 
 cester, Mass. , at the time of coming west, in 
 which he was a paid-up life member, and he has 
 never transferred his membership. Mrs. Bryant 
 is an adherent of the Roman Catholic faith. 
 
 n OEL J - DELL, whose farm is situated on the 
 I Big Thompson, in Weld County, near Love- 
 (2/ land, was born near Battle Creek, Mich., in 
 1854, a son of Richard and Agnes (Lisk) Dell. 
 His father, a native of York state, settled in 
 Michigan in early manhood and engaged in farm- 
 ing there until 1865, when he retired from farm- 
 ing for a time. In 1871 became to Colorado and 
 settled in Longmont, where he made his home 
 until 1888. Since that year he has resided with 
 his son, our subject. He and his wife are both 
 seventy-five years of age. They are a worthy 
 couple and are respected by all to whom they are 
 known. 
 
 The first seventeen years in the life of our sub- 
 ject were spent in Michigan, where he enjoyed 
 public-school advantages. At the age of seven- 
 teen he accompanied his parents to Colorado, and 
 in 1877 he began to farm as a renter. Three 
 years later he took up a quarter-section on the 
 Big Thompson and bought at the same time an- 
 other quarter, so that his farm now comprises 
 three hundred and twenty acres of improved land 
 devoted to general farming. The entire tract is 
 under cultivation, and the improvements repre- 
 sent the tireless labors of the owner, who has 
 spared no pains in order to bring the land to a 
 high state of cultivation. In addition to his pri- 
 vate farm interests he is a stockholder in the 
 Loveland and Greeley and the Farmers' Ditch 
 Companies, and has served as treasurer of the 
 latter for a number of years. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Dell is a man of positive convictions, strict- 
 ly honest, and never afraid to stand by what he 
 believes to be right. In his friendships he is 
 strong and in his dealings honorable. He is a 
 Republican by political faith and has kept him- 
 self intelligently conversant with public affairs. 
 
 GlNTON FRITHIOF ECKDAHL, city au- 
 Ll ditor of Denver, was born in Osterjotland, 
 / 1 Boxholm, Sweden, May 19, 1861, the son 
 of Andrew Frederick and Johanna Louise (Jons- 
 son) Eckdahl, natives respectively of Boxholm 
 and Mjolby. His father, who is a merchant 
 tailor by trade, came to America in 1869 and set- 
 tled in Chicago, 111. , where he carried on business. 
 At the time of the great fire his store was burned 
 down, but he resumed business in another loca- 
 tion and continued until his retirement. He and 
 his wife still make Chicago their home. Qf their 
 eight children all but one are living, Anton being 
 third in order of birth and the only member of 
 the family in the west. Two sons, Axel and Al- 
 bert, are engaged in the mercantile business in 
 Chicago. 
 
 When twelve years of age our subject secured 
 work as an office-boy, and his subsequent educa- 
 tion was obtained in the night schools. When 
 seventeen he was given a position as salesman 
 with Nelson Brothers, with whom he remained 
 for eight years in all, being for a part of the time 
 in charge of the clothing department of their 
 wholesale and retail house. For two and one- 
 half years he was chief manager of the clothing 
 department of the Chicago Clothing Company, 
 and afterward was given the management of a 
 branch store at Thirty-first street and Wentworth 
 avenue, owned by Nelson Brothers. 
 
 In March, 1890, Mr. Eckdahl came to Denver 
 and for a year was salesman in a clothing house, 
 after which he engaged in the real-estate business, 
 having his office first in the Colorado National 
 Bank building and later in the Ernest & Cran- 
 mer building. In 1892 he was the nominee of 
 the silver Democrats and the Populists for repre- 
 sentative to the state legislature, but was de- 
 feated. In April, 1893, he was appointed clerk 
 of the police magistrate court of Denver by Judge 
 A. S. Frost and held the position until 1895. On 
 the expiration of his term he went to Cripple 
 Creek, then in the incipiency of its boom, and 
 
 engaged in mining and the brokerage business 
 there. On his return to Denver, six months 
 later, he became general manager of the leading 
 Swedish paper of the west. The Swedish Corre- 
 spondetit, which is published weekly and is an or- 
 gan of the silver party. He continued its man- 
 agement until he was elected city auditor. In 
 the spring of 1897 he was nominated for this of- 
 fice on the Tax Payers, Democratic and People's 
 party tickets and was elected by a plurality of 
 eighty-five hundred, having twice as many votes 
 as his leading opponent. He took the oath of 
 ofiice April 13, 1897, for a term of two years. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Eckdahl is an officer in Rath- 
 bone Lodge No. 59, K. of P., and he is promi- 
 nently connected with the American League of 
 Liberty. He was among the first to espouse the 
 cause of the white metal in Colorado. Believing 
 that the highest prosperity can never be attained 
 by the people of this state as long as the demon- 
 etization of silver is permitted to continue, he has 
 steadily and faithfully championed its restoration 
 to the proper standard. During the exciting 
 presidential campaign of 1896 he was called east 
 to deliver political speeches in behalf of the silver 
 Democratic party, and remained seven weeks in 
 active campaigning, visiting many town in Illi- 
 nois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and winning a reputa- 
 tion as a logical, eloquent and earnest speaker, 
 who was thoroughly informed regarding all the 
 intricacies of the currency question. 
 
 gENEDICT KIMBER is a young man of un. 
 usual business qualifications, developing a 
 knowledge of the milling business at an early 
 age that induced his father to place him as man- 
 ager of one of his mills when but little more than 
 a boy. This confidence in his ability was re- 
 warded by a close attention to detail and a 
 shrewdness in the management that surprised 
 even his friends. He was born in Central City, 
 Gilpin County, December 19, 1865, and is a son 
 of Job Vernon and Virginia (Lehmer) Kimber. 
 His father was born in Brownsville, Pa., and 
 crossed the plains in i860, while yet a young 
 man. He traveled by ox-team to Central City 
 and engaged in mining. He then erected a quartz 
 mill and did a milling business. In 1868 he 
 bought the Polar Star, a small mill on the Black- 
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 to it and improved it to a forty-ton mill, which it 
 has been for the past twenty years. He was also 
 interested in the two Kimber and Fullerton mills 
 on North Clear Creek, and the Gunnell and 
 Whiting mines. He was county commissioner 
 one term. He died April 5, 1897, ^t the age of 
 seventy-four years. He married, in Colorado, 
 Virginia Lehmer, a native of Pennsylvania, and 
 now a resident of Santa Barbara, Cal. There 
 were six children, of whom five are living. 
 
 Mr. Kimber is the oldest of his father's family, 
 and the only one residing in the state. He re- 
 ceived his education in the schools of Central 
 City and Blackhawk. He was always about his 
 father's mills, and mastered the trade of milling 
 while yet a lad. He was given charge of the 
 Polar Star mill in 1886 and has been manager 
 and superintendent of it since that time. After 
 the death of his father he took charge of the 
 different mills and mines owned by him, and has 
 managed them very successfully. He is manager 
 of the Kimber and Fullerton mills, and they handle 
 all the ore from the Gunnell mines, having a ca- 
 pacity of about forty tons each, per day. He is 
 largely interested in these mines which yield a 
 high grade ore and are the oldest here. He mar- 
 ried in this city. Miss M. E. Lynch, who came 
 here with her father. They have one child, J. V. 
 Mr. Kimber is a Democrat, and a strong advocate 
 of silver money. 
 
 (TONATHAN HOUSE, who is engaged in the 
 I fuel and feed business at Sedalia, Douglas 
 Q) County, and is also the owner of a large 
 ranch near the village, was born in Morgan 
 County, Ohio, July i, 1839, being a son of Will- 
 iam and Mary (Fickel) House. His father, who 
 for some time served as sheriffof Morgan County, 
 afterward became a railroad conductor, and the 
 family owned and resided upon a farm in Morgan 
 County. However, whenour subject was twelve 
 years of age they removed to Muskingum County, 
 and for four years lived in Zanesville. About 
 1855 they settled in Adams County, Wis., and 
 cleared a farm from the woods. During the three 
 years spent there our subject, who was the oldest 
 child, had much of the difiicult work of clearing 
 the land to do himself. From there they moved 
 to Van Buren County, Iowa, and settled in the 
 town of Farmington, w^here the father died in 
 1873- 
 
 Having decided in 1859 to come to Colorado, 
 our subject began to make his arrangements for 
 the journe)'. In i860, with others, he drove 
 across the plains with ox-teams. Their only ex- 
 perience of a trying nature was the stampeding of 
 their horses, for which they hunted and finally 
 gave up in despair, but later were successful in 
 finding them. In June they arrived in Denver 
 and soon afterward proceeded to California Gulch 
 (now Leadville) , where Mr. House engaged in 
 mining, and he also wintered the first domestic 
 animals ever brought to that place. At first he 
 was successful in mining, but afterward lost every- 
 thing by buying up poor claims. In 1865 he be- 
 gan to freight and in the nine years that followed 
 he freighted to many points in Colorado, and 
 crossed the plains thirty-eight times. In 1865 
 he engaged as wagon-master for May & McQuen 
 and made a trip to Virginia City, Nev. Finally 
 he began ranching at Henderson, below Denver, 
 where he remained for three years, in partner- 
 ship with Albert A. Kneeland. In 1869 became 
 to Douglas County, where he bought Judge John 
 Craig's ranch, and in November settled upon 
 the land now occupied by Sedalia. Near this 
 village he owns a ranch of almost three hundred 
 acres, and he also owns city lots in Denver. 
 
 October 24, 1869, Mr. House married Miss 
 Mary Atchison, of Denver, with whom he had 
 become acquainted in St. Joseph, Mo., while he 
 was engaged in freighting across the plains. She 
 was born near Lexington, Mo., and by her mar- 
 riage became the mother of one son, Claude Lee, 
 now living at Lyons, Colo. The first vote cast 
 by Mr. House was in 1876, when he supported 
 Samuel J. Tilden for president, and he has since 
 given his allegiance to the Democratic party. 
 For a number of years he served as constable, but 
 with that exception has held no office, preferring 
 to devote his time to his personal business affairs. 
 
 jJjORMAN CHATFIELD. A perusal of the 
 yt briefest history of the eventful life of the 
 I ID gentleman of whom this article is penned 
 yet brings to any imaginative mind strange pic- 
 tures of stirring adventures by land and sea; of 
 vicissitudes, hardships, good and bad fortune, 
 not often crowded into the life of one man. A 
 man of real genius, equally at home on the high 
 seas, in the mines and mountains, on the plains 
 
1064 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 or prairies, lakes or rivers, as master of a boat or 
 manager of a mill, his like is rarely seen. At pres- 
 ent he is the superintendent of the Kansas mill, 
 owned by the Gold Coin Mining Company. This 
 is a forty-stamp mill, located at Nevadaville, Gil- 
 pin County. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, Nich- 
 olas Chatfield, came from an old agricultural 
 family in Kent, England. Nicholas, Jr., father 
 of Norman Chatfield, was likewise a native of 
 Kent, and there learned the tanner's and cur- 
 rier's trade. Coming to America, he started a 
 tannery at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, and later 
 removed it to Canterbury Township, on a creek 
 of the same name. After a busy and successful 
 career, he died in 1881, at the advanced age of 
 fourscore years. His wife, who departed this 
 life in 1880, when in her eighty-third year, was 
 born in Kent, and was a Miss Susan Nye in her 
 maidenhood. Their nine children all grew to 
 maturity, and all but two are still living. Two 
 sons, George and Howard, took part in the Civil 
 war. 
 
 Norman Chatfield was born at Cornwall,N.Y., 
 January 20, 1842, and attended the school of 
 Canterbury until he was a lad of fourteen. In 
 1856 he shipped aboard a sailing vessel at Nan- 
 tucket and started on a long whaling voyage. 
 They proceeded southward to the Cape of Good 
 Hope, thence to New Zealand, cruised near 
 Kamchatka, spent the summer season in the 
 north and winters further south, and thus passed 
 four years. Young Chatfield, who went as a 
 cabin boy, was gradually promoted, was a stroke- 
 oresman, and the third year was made a har- 
 pooner. On three different occasions he was 
 dashed out of the boat, the latter being smashed to 
 pieces by the infuriated whale, which the crew 
 were endeavoring to capture. Each time Mr. 
 Chatfield escaped but little the worse for his ter- 
 rible experience. At length the cargo was un- 
 loaded in San Francisco and the crew discharged. 
 In the fall of 1859 our young friend returned 
 home by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Next 
 year he made two trips to London as third mate 
 of the packet ship "Patrick Henry," and in 1861 
 took a position as mate on the clipper "B. F. 
 Hoxie, ' ' which left New York with a cargo of gen- 
 eral merchandise, went around the Horn, and 
 reached San Francisco at the end of about four 
 months. Upon landing in the last-named city, Mr. 
 
 Chatfield became captain of a schooner, the 
 "Dart," plying between Benicia, Mexico and San 
 Francisco. This place he held for a year, and next 
 we find him as second mate on the bark ' ' Catalpa , ' ' 
 running to Hong Kong. Following this, he was 
 second mate on the "Elizabeth F.Willetts," which 
 went from the Golden Gate to New York around 
 the Cape of Good Hope, and weighed anchor at 
 her destination February 10, 1863. One of the in- 
 cidents of the trip was that of being chased by the 
 privateer schooner ' ' Retribution . ' ' Owing to the 
 fact that the merchant marine service was so 
 badly crippled by the Civil war then in progress, 
 Mr. Chatfield spent two years sailing on the riv- 
 ers and bays of the northern Atlantic coast, and 
 this terminated his sea- faring life. 
 
 In February, 1865, our subject started from 
 New York for Colorado, proceeding from Atchi- 
 son by mule teams to Denver, where he landed 
 April 26. That summer he mined and prospected 
 along Clear Creek, and in the autumn took 
 charge of the Stoner stamp mill in Nevada. At 
 the end of a year he became engineer of the 
 Whitcomb mill, where he remained another 
 twelvemonth. His next venture was to lease the 
 Stoner, I,a Crosse and Pacific National mills, an 
 aggregation of forty-eight stamps. When the 
 season had closed he was made engineer of the 
 Kansas mill, after which he took charge of and 
 operated the Mercer County ,mine and the Amer- 
 ican Flag. In 1874 ^^ returned to his old home 
 in the east, and buying the schooner "Jane," 
 sailed on the Hudson River for three years. 
 Having disposed of his ship to good advantage, 
 Mr. Chatfield went to Galveston, Tex., and en- 
 gaged in lightering cotton outside the harbor and 
 wrecking for the next six months. His family 
 had been living in Chicago during this period, 
 and he now joined them, and for one season ran 
 on the ' 'Jonathan Doane' ' between Chicago and 
 Buffalo. In the fall of 1879 he returned to Colo- 
 rado, and for five years was occupied in mining 
 and milling. He then entered the employ of 
 the firm with which he is at present, and for 
 three years was at Hidden Treasure mill in 
 Blackhawk. Afterwards he mined in Nevada 
 until the spring of 1889, when he went to Black- 
 hawk again and took charge of the Cashier mill, 
 remaining there a year. In 1890 he went to 
 Brazoria County, Tex., and bought a ranch of 
 five hundred acres, about twenty miles from Gal- 
 
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 1065 
 
 veston. In June, 1894, his former employers 
 urged him to return to them and he did so, be- 
 coming foreman of the Gilpin mill of Blackhawk 
 during the two months' absence of the superin- 
 tendent. In September of the same year he be- 
 came superintendent of the Kansas mill and is 
 still connected with the same. 
 
 Mr. Chatfield was married in Central to Mrs. 
 Sophronia Parker (nee Buzzell) , who was born in 
 Vermont, and was a daughter of Aaron B. Buz- 
 zell. The four children of this marriage are: 
 Charles, who is in the Blackhawk mill; Norman, 
 Jr., a fine electrician and engineer, now of Den- 
 ver; William, who is managing the ranch in 
 Texas; and Louisa, who is with her mother and 
 brother on the homestead in Texas. The family 
 located there permanently in 1893, and the son 
 is extensively engaged in stock-raising and gen- 
 eral farming. 
 
 Some years ago Mr. Chatfield identified him- 
 self with the Masonic order in Blackhawk, and 
 belongs to the blue lodge and chapter. He is a 
 member of the Merchants' and Shipmasters' As- 
 sociation of New York City. In politics he is in- 
 dependent. 
 
 r"REDERICK A. BEIN, who is engaged in 
 rft farming in Weld County, his home place 
 I * being on township 4, range 68, was born in 
 Scott County, Iowa, in 1861, a son of Augustus 
 Bein. His father, who was a native of Iowa and 
 a life-long resident of that state, engaged in farm 
 pursuits during his entire active business life and 
 held a position among the leading agriculturists 
 of Scott County. The early years in the life of 
 our subject were passed in the home neighbor- 
 hood, where he was reared to a knowledge of 
 farming. In 188 1 he came west to Colorado and 
 settled in Boulder County, where he took up land 
 and engaged in ranching. 
 
 After three years, however, he removed to 
 Platteville, and settled on a farm near the town, 
 where he remained for a year. In 1887 he pur- 
 chased his present property, consisting of one 
 hundred and sixty acres of fine land. He immedi- 
 ately began the work of improvement and to-day 
 has one of the most valuable tracts in the county. 
 His land he devotes to general farming and stock- 
 raising. His land is watered by the Home Sup- 
 ply ditch, of which company he is a stockholder. 
 In politics he takes an interest in all local afiairs. 
 
 For seven years he has acted as a member of the 
 school board, and as its secretary, and through 
 his interest in and knowledge of educational work 
 he has been enabled to promote the welfare of the 
 schools. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Berthoud Lodge of Masons and the Woodmen of 
 the World. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Bein married Miss Martha, daugh- 
 ter of James Akins, of Boulder County. They 
 have six children, Mabel, Arthur, Lewis, Lena, 
 Effie and Violet. Mr. Bein is one of the successful 
 farmers of his county and deserves especial credit 
 from the fact that he commenced without means. 
 He owns besides his farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, an interest in mining camps in Boul- 
 der County. 
 
 'HOMAS graham, who resides on town- 
 ship 4, range 67, in Weld County, is a 
 native of the north of Ireland, born in 1826, 
 and is a son of Hugh Graham. The years of his 
 boyhood, however, were spent principally in Scot- 
 land, and he was educated in the schools of that 
 country. At the age of fifteen he left home and 
 began to earn his own livelihood. Becoming a 
 coal miner, he gained a thorough knowledge of 
 that business, his experience in which brought 
 him into contact with well-known mining com- 
 panies. In 1857 he came to the United States 
 and settled in Ray County, Mo. , where he en- 
 gaged in mining. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1875, Mr. Graham set- 
 tled in Erie, Weld County. He soon found em- 
 ployment with the Boulder Valley coal mine, and 
 remained in that position until 1882, when he 
 bought a claim on government land occupying the 
 location of his present farm. He embarked in 
 general agricultural pursuits and from the first 
 met with success, having, in addition to his 
 regular farm interests, stock in the Hillsboro 
 Ditch Company and in the Berthoud roller mill. 
 For a number of years, unfortunately, his health 
 has not permitted him to do active manual work 
 as he did in other years. 
 
 Politically Mr. Graham is a stanch Democrat. 
 While still in Scotland, he was made a mason in 
 Ayrshire about fifty years ago and by various 
 degrees arose to the thirty-second, but since 
 coming to the United States he has not taken an 
 active part in the order. In 1854 he was united 
 in marriage with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 John and Elizabeth (McClean) Kane, the former 
 a leadingmerchantof Kilbourne, Scotland. They 
 became the parents of six children now living, 
 and three, Thomas, Maggie and Bessie, deceased. 
 John lives in Erie, which is also the home of 
 Hugh; Cora is the wife of William Clark; Maggie 
 (2d) is the wife of Edward Russell, of Cripple 
 Creek; Nannie is the wife of C. C. Clark; and 
 Allan, who married Nellie M. I,aughlin, carries 
 on the old homestead. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM J. LEWIS, of Georgetown, Clear 
 
 \ A / Crs^^ County, has had a remarkably event- 
 Y Y ful life, and few men have traveled more 
 extensively in all parts of the world. He is an 
 authority on mines and mining operations under 
 all conditions and owns numerous valuable prop- 
 erties in this state and elsewhere. One of the 
 pioneers of Colorado, as he came here as early 
 as 1859, he was associated with some of the noted 
 frontiersmen of that period, Estes, Dunstan, 
 Guy, and scores of others, and once operated a 
 ranch on the present site of Longmont. 
 
 The birthplace of Mr. Lewis is in Anglesea, 
 North Wales, where his ancestors owned large 
 estates, and rejoiced in the honor of being the 
 oldest family of that locality. The old homestead 
 is still in the possesssion of relatives of the same 
 name, as it has been for generations, even before 
 the time of William the Conqueror. Originally 
 the name was Llewellyn, but it was officially 
 altered to the simpler form of Lewis. The 
 Christian names of William J. are also very old 
 ones in the family and have been handed down 
 from father to son for generations. The father 
 and grandfather of our subject both bore the 
 given names of William J. and both were minis- 
 ters in the Church of England. 
 
 Born in the year 1830, William J. Lewis, of 
 whom we write, received a college education and 
 graduated from Oxford with the degree of Master 
 of Arts, after which he pursued theological studies 
 and was ordained when about twenty-five years 
 old. For two years he was head master of 
 Cheltenham College, but the desire to see some- 
 thing of the world grew upon him and he 
 traveled extensively in Canada and the United 
 States for a period. In the course of his wander- 
 ings he arrived in this county, and becoming in- 
 
 terested in what he foresaw was to be a great 
 state he cast in his fortunes with the pioneers 
 here. He made a success of ranching, and at 
 length he commenced to give much attention to 
 mining. During the years that followed he 
 mined in Montana, Arizona and other states, as 
 well as in Colorado. In the meantime he made 
 several journeys to England and also went to 
 western Australia. In that far-away land he 
 proceeded two hundred miles or more into the 
 interior, engaged in prospecting for gold, but 
 found nothing better than the gold-mines of Colo- 
 rado. He has also tried mining in the Tyrol, on 
 the continent, but the .summing up of all his 
 experience leads him to believe that Colorado sur- 
 passes all other gold-bearing sections. 
 
 Mr. Lewis discovered and developed the Silver 
 Cloud mine and the Gluck Auf (meaning good 
 luck) , which he sold. Later he came into posses- 
 sion of another Gluck Auf mine, and still owns 
 this property. In 1879 he discovered and began 
 the operation of the Doric mine and July 5, 1896, 
 the great Doric tunnel was commenced. The 
 Cosmos tunnel of the Doric mines is a wonderful 
 piece of engineering, and is now-finished into the 
 heart of the mountain some three thousand feet. 
 It is 8x9 feet in dimensions and is provided with 
 two exhaust jets, which afford sufficient venti- 
 lation. At the innermost point, where two of 
 the most modern machines, are drilling into the 
 solid rock, there are twenty-five hundred feet of 
 rock and earth overhead. The group of Doric 
 gold mines have twenty -six miles of underground 
 works and seventeen difierent lodes have been 
 struck. The company is incorporated as the 
 Doric Gold Mines, limited, of England, with Mr. 
 Lewis as manager. They have thirty-four pat- 
 ented claims on Grifiith and Saxon Mountain. 
 These join the Griffith mine, and the next three 
 lodes which will be struck will be the Griffith 
 lode of the Griffith tunnel. Mr. Lewis is also 
 the manager and promoter of the Georgetown 
 Syndicate, limited, of England. This company 
 has a tunnel and shaft on the Mascot, and struck 
 thirteen diSerent lodes from which ore is shipped 
 that yields six and eighty-one one-hundredths of 
 gold to the ton, ninety -eight ounces of silver and 
 twenty-two per cent, of copper. Besides these, 
 the firm of Lewis & Swanton are interested in 
 the Freeland, in the Ariadne group, between the 
 Lambertine and Freeland Extension mines. 
 
DAVID PATTERSON. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Here lead runs sixty-five per cent , gold one and 
 a-half ounces and silver twenty-six ounces to the 
 ton. 
 
 April 6, 1872, in Georgetown, Mr. Lewis mar- 
 ried Mrs. Mary Ann (Fichler) Morton. She is 
 a native of the vicinity of Augsburg, Bavaria, 
 Germany, and came to America with her parents. 
 In i860 she and her brothers came to Colorado 
 from Iowa, where the family had been living. In 
 the great flood of 1864, in Denver, when Cherry 
 Creek overflowed the country, she narrowly es- 
 caped death, but was rescued by some soldiers. 
 By her first marriage she had a daughter, Alice 
 Anna Morton, who is the wife of J. W. Mattern, 
 an experienced mine authority. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lewis have a son, William J., who attends to 
 much of the actual superintendence of the Doric 
 mines. 
 
 0AVID PATTERSON, a well-known and 
 prosperous ranchman of Deer Trail, Arapa- 
 hoe County, owns the largest ranch in this 
 vicinity, and is a self-made man, who has worked 
 his own way since he was twenty years of age. 
 He was born in Forfar, Scotland, May 8, 1844. 
 His father, Charles Patterson, a farmer by occu- 
 pation, was born in 1805 in the same vicinity, 
 but five miles from where the son was born. The 
 mother, Elizabeth (Laing) Patterson, was also 
 born near there in 18 15, and is still living. Of 
 their ten children David is the only son living, 
 one son having died in Scotland at about forty- 
 five years of age. Of the daughters, Jean is the 
 widow of Archibald Campbell, of Scotland; 
 Elizabeth is married and lives in New Zealand; 
 Diana is married and living in Edinburgh; Isa- 
 belle is the wife of Joseph Belford, of Broughty 
 Ferry, Scotland; Agnes is married and living on a 
 sheep ranch in New Zealand; Mary and Margaret 
 are deceased. 
 
 Mr. Patterson was educated in the public 
 schools of his native country, and remained there 
 until he was twenty years old, when he went to 
 Argentine Republic, South America, and for five 
 years was in the stock business in that country. 
 He then returned to Scotland and there remained 
 until 1872, when he came to the United States, 
 locating first, for a time, in Lincoln, Neb., then 
 settled in Huerfano County, Colo., in 1874. In 
 the spring of 1877 he moved to Arapahoe County, 
 south of Byers, and in 1878 located on the ranch 
 
 where he now lives, about ten miles northeast of 
 Deer Trail. He is extensively engaged in the 
 sheep and cattle business, and all the improve- 
 ments on the place have been made under his 
 personal supervision. He also owns property in 
 Denver. 
 
 Before leaving Scotland, in 1872, Mr. Patter- 
 son married Miss Margaret Edwards, whose 
 father was a farmer there. She died in Denver. 
 Their three sons and three daughters are as fol- 
 lows: David, Jr., who is on a stock farm in Mon- 
 tana; James, Ollie, Jessie, Margaret and Libbie, 
 at home. Mr. Patterson is a member of the 
 Twenty-third avenue Presbj'terian Church of 
 Denver. In politics he is a strong Republican. 
 For years he has been a member of the school 
 board. While still in Scotland he joined the 
 lodge of Masons. 
 
 30HN E. BIRD, who owns three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land situated on the Greeley 
 road, near Loveland, Larimer County, was 
 born in New Orleans, La., a son of John and Re- 
 becca Anna (Bird) Bird. His father left the south 
 in 1844, when his son, our subject, was two years of 
 age, and removed to Fort Madison, Iowa, where 
 he engaged in farming and in carriage manufact- 
 uring. Later he also purchased stock and en- 
 gaged in raising some of the fine grades. Politi- 
 cally a Democrat, he was made a justice of the 
 peace and held the oSice for several years. He 
 died when sixty-four years of age. 
 
 The early years of our subject's life were spent 
 on a farm in Iowa, and his education was ob- 
 tained in common schools. In youth he learned 
 the carpenter's trade, which he followed in con- 
 junction with farming. He also taught school 
 successfully for eight terms of three months each. 
 His health failing in this sedentary occupation, 
 he was advised to go west. In the spring of 1880 
 he came to Colorado and for two months worked 
 with George Little at Loveland. Next, going to 
 Breckenridge, he engaged in carpentering and 
 mining for three years. While he was very suc- 
 cessful as a miner and made large profits, yet he 
 invested in mines that proved unprofitable and so 
 lost heavily. With but little money left he turned 
 his attention to agriculture. In 1883 he rented 
 the Darrow (now Allen) farm, where he remained 
 for five years, and then, in 1888, purchased a 
 farm from William Bean. He is now engaged in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 farming and stock-raising, and through diligent 
 application has won a large measure of prosperi- 
 ty. He is known as a man of sound and careful 
 judgment in agricultural matters, and by perse- 
 verance has achieved a success that he richly 
 deserves. He is a stockholder in the Farmers' 
 Irrigating Ditch Company, of which he is treas- 
 urer. 
 
 Politically Mr. Bird is a free silver Democrat, 
 and in 1897 he was appointed a delegate to the 
 silver Democratic convention. However, he is 
 not a seeker for office, and the interest that he 
 takes in public affairs is only that of a public-spir- 
 ited citizen. 
 
 (~ DWARD D. KREUTZER, who is a well- 
 1^ known business man of Sedalia, Douglas 
 I County, was born in Fischbachau District, 
 Miesbach, Germany, March 29, 1847, being a 
 son of Peter and Margaret (Baer) Kreutzer. His 
 father, who was a soldier for eighteen years, rose 
 from the ranks to be a corporal and later was 
 promoted to the gendarmes. Upon resigning 
 from the army, he was employed in another de^ 
 partment of government service, but in 1848 his 
 sympathies were on the side of the Revolution. 
 For this reason he was captured, sent to a forti- 
 fication and kept under surveillance for two 
 years, notwithstanding the fact that he had taken. 
 no part whatever in the uprising. On being lib- 
 erated he applied for a government position, but 
 was rejected, owing to his revolutionary sym- 
 pathies. He continued, however, to reside in his 
 native land until his death. 
 
 Leaving school at fourteen years of age, our 
 subject began to learn the manufacture of fancy 
 rattan for chairs. He continued in that occupa- 
 tion in his native country until 1867, when he 
 crossed the ocean and landed in New York. 
 There he made his home with an uncle, William 
 F. Roth, under whom he learned the cigar-mak- 
 ing business. For a year he worked without 
 wages, but afterward he started a cigar store on 
 Eighth avenue, his uncle furnishing the capital. 
 However, the close confinement to the shop told 
 on his health, and he was obliged to seek another 
 occupation. Selling out, he went to Pennsyl- 
 vania and learned the machinist's trade in Corry. 
 The factory there was closed down and he went 
 to Titusville, where he was employed by Charles 
 Fette, a master workman, with whom he com- 
 
 pleted the trade. After a year with him he se- 
 cured wages in the employ of Charles Miller for 
 three years. While in Titusville he aided in 
 starting a singing society known as the Con- 
 cordia and was chosen to sing in the choir of the 
 Spiritualist Church. It was while acting in this 
 capacity that he formed the acquaintance of Miss 
 Jane Keppel, who was a member of the same choir. 
 They were united in marriage February 16, 
 
 1873- 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Kreutzer came to Denver. Soon 
 afterward he was joined by his wife and her fa- 
 ther, John Keppel. He had a letter of introduc- 
 tion to a Mr. Hoffer,a prominent butcher of Den- 
 ver, and through his influence secured a clerk- 
 ship in a cigar store. After a few months he 
 started across the Snowy range with a company 
 of men, who were the first to cross Gore range 
 with a wagon. They camped there one night, 
 and it was while there that he received from the 
 Indians the nickname of the Dutch general. He 
 was looking for a location for a colony and found 
 a desirable place, but as it was one hundred and 
 twenty miles from a postofiice, no one would con- 
 sent to go. and the proposed colony had to be 
 abandoned. He resumed work at his trade and 
 later was employed in a bakery and hotel. 
 
 Coming to Douglas County in 1875 Mr. Kreut- 
 zer took up a pre-emption ten miles west of 
 Sedalia, and later homesteaded a claim. At this 
 writing he has four hundred and eighty acres, a 
 part of which was willed by his father-in-law. 
 During the fourteen years spent there he was 
 twice burned out, the second time by lightning, 
 and as he carried no insurance, the loss was a 
 heavy one for him. In addition, he was burned 
 out in Denver in 1876, without insurance, and 
 lost all of his furniture and clothes. January 17, 
 1 880, when he had secured a fair start, he was 
 accidentally shot in the knee, and was laid up for 
 four and one-half years. During the first two 
 years of this time he could do nothing, and this 
 was a serious setback to him, for he had begun 
 to see his way clear to success. As soon as he 
 began to convalesce, he commenced to work at 
 his trade. He was poor, and of course could not 
 get credit. At that critical time, when friends 
 were few and discouragements many, Mrs. I,. B. 
 France (now deceased), a friend of his wife, be- 
 came his surety for $400, and with this he started 
 to manufacture cigars, which his wife sold. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1071 
 
 While he was still sick, some one jumped his 
 homestead. There was at first talk of an appeal 
 to congress, but that idea was abandoned. Mr. 
 Kreutzer wrote the man to come to Sedalia and 
 see him. This the jumper did, and when he 
 learned the circumstances, ascertained the pov- 
 erty of the family and his long illness, he was so 
 affected that he burst out weeping and declared 
 he would give up the place. After recovering 
 the place he made it his home until 1890, when 
 lightning struck and destroyed the crop. He 
 then went to Denver, where he worked at his 
 trade and later manufactured cigars on the ranch, 
 selling them in Denver. In 1891 he moved to 
 SedaHa. The last time he was on the ranch he 
 tried three crops and lost all, having spent $600. 
 Feeling it was useless to attempt the work of 
 farming longer, he has since given his attention 
 to cigar making. 
 
 Eight children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Kreutzer. Of these two died in in- 
 fancy. Minnie, the oldest of the family, was 
 born in Titusville, Pa., and married John Cell, of 
 East Monitou, Colo. William R., the fourth 
 child, is in the employ of the United States as a 
 forest ranger under Colonel May; and John 
 Elmer is in the employ of H. H. Metcalf. 
 George C, a fourteen-year-old lad, is working 
 with his father. Margaret E. and Agnes E. 
 are five and three years of age respectively. The 
 children have been given good advantages and 
 are a credit to their parents. Politically Mr. 
 Kreutzer is a Republican. He has been a candi- 
 date for justice of the peace, but was defeated. 
 He has long been active in educational matters 
 and for twelve years served as secretary of the 
 school board of District Nos. 5 and 7. Mr. 
 Kreutzer and his wife were in younger years act- 
 ively identified with the Spiritualists and were 
 married by Mrs. Watson, pastor of the Spiritual- 
 istic Church of Titusville, they being the second 
 couple she had united in marriage. 
 
 QETER CHRISTENSEN, who for the past 
 LX twenty years has been numbered among the 
 fS enterprising merchants of the town of Mor- 
 rison, Jefferson County, is one of her most sub- 
 stantial citizens. For fifteen years he served as 
 a member of the school board and in many ways 
 has manifested his concern in educational affairs. 
 
 Since the Morrison Water Company was organ- 
 ized he has been president of the same, and in 
 fact he is alwaj's to be found using his influence 
 in favor of progress and improvement. He stands 
 well with the Odd Fellows' society, being a 
 trusted member of Morrison Lodge No. 82. His 
 right of franchise he uses in behalf of the nomi- 
 nees of the Fusion party. 
 
 Our subject was one of three children whose 
 parents were Louis Erasmus T. and Christina 
 Christensen, natives of the province of Schleswig, 
 Germany. The father was born in 1806 and in 
 his youth learned the trade of a shoemaker. He 
 continued to follow this calling during the greater 
 part of his life. Having purchased a small farm 
 of twenty acres he then gave much of his time to 
 gardening, of which he made a success. His 
 death occurred in 1876. The only daughter of 
 this good man is Anna M. , wife of Peter A. Peter- 
 sen. Christian, the younger son, is engaged in 
 the dairy business in the town of Evergreen, Jef- 
 ferson County, Colo. 
 
 Peter Christensen was born in Schleswig, Ger- 
 many, January 20, 1839. When he was sixteen 
 years of age he apprenticed himself to the trade 
 which had been followed by his father. Subse- 
 quently he pursued the occupation up to 1870, in 
 his home district, but at that time he concluded 
 that he would come to America. Reaching New 
 York City in August he proceeded to Chicago, 
 and a few weeks later went on to Iowa, where he 
 had some friends living. There he worked at his 
 trade for several months, but in September, 187 1, 
 he drifted to Colorado, and from that fall until 
 the spring of 1875 he was employed as a journey- 
 man. On the I St of April of the last-named year 
 he came to Morrison and opened a shop. Three 
 years later he bought a small stock of shoes and 
 boots and embarked in the retail trade in connec- 
 tion with his regular line of business. He met 
 with success and gradually added to his stock and 
 number of customers until he now does a thriving 
 trade. He is accommodating and reliable and 
 makes friends of all his patrons. His stock is 
 large and varied, comprising all kinds of boots 
 and shoes, rubber goods, etc. In 1878 he pur- 
 chased his present business site and in 1890 the 
 frame building which was occupied by his store 
 was destroyed by fire. This unfortunate occur- 
 rence took place in June, but by the following 
 September Mr. Christensen had erected a good 
 
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 stone structure on the spot and has since used 
 the building for his store purposes. His prosper- 
 ity is the result of his constant and unremitting 
 attention to his business and his earnest wish to 
 give his customers the best possible value for their 
 money. 
 
 Mr. Christensen has been twice married. His 
 first wife was Miss Cecelia Jensen prior to their 
 marriage, which took place in Denver, December 
 15, 187 1. Three daughters and two sons were 
 born to them, namely: Jennie C, wife of Asa 
 Lewis; Dora C, who is teaching in the Villa 
 Park school, near Denver; Erasmus C, a farmer; 
 Peter P. , a teacher in the schools of Jeiferson 
 County; and Anna M., a young lady, at home. 
 The wife and mother departed this life November 
 21, 1887. The lady who now bears the name 
 and shares the fortunes of our subject was formerly 
 Mrs. O. Drake, widow of John T,. Drake, a pio- 
 neer of Bear Creek district. Mr. and Mrs. Chris- 
 tensen's marriage was solemnized November 26, 
 1896. 
 
 pQlLLIAMS. BLAINE is a member of the 
 I A/ ^o^''^ of aldermen of Black Hawk, Gilpin 
 Y V County, representing the third ward, and 
 was chosen by this honorable body to serve on 
 the school board as well. He is a master me- 
 chanic and has the reputation of being an expert 
 in everything connected with machinery. ■ He 
 comes from the same family as did Hon. James 
 G. Blaine, whom many able critics esteem to have 
 been the most brilliant statesman and profoundest 
 legislator who has been prominent in the history 
 of this nation during the past half-centurj'. The 
 native genius and talent of the Blaines have de- 
 scended, in no small degree, to the subject of this 
 article. 
 
 Archibald Blaine, father of W. S. Blaine, and 
 a second cousin of Hon. J. G. Blaine, was born in 
 Harrisburg, Pa., and in 1845 removed to the 
 vicinity of Iowa City, Iowa. He was occupied 
 in farming during the greater part of his life and 
 was universally respected and liked by those who 
 knew him. He died when William was a youth 
 of fourteen years. The mother of W. S. Blaine 
 was Miss Elizabeth Cox in her girlhood. She 
 was a native of Indiana and died in Iowa when 
 her son, our subject, was only seven years old. 
 His brothers and sisters are James B., of Council 
 Bluffs, in the employ of the Chicago & North- 
 
 western Railroad Company; John D., city clerk 
 and recorder in Cedar Rapids; Otis E., who is 
 an engineer in Leadville, Colo. ; and Mrs. Flora 
 Woods, of Iowa Center, Iowa. 
 
 The birth of William S. Blaine occurred in 
 Solon, Iowa, in 1863. When he was about six- 
 teen years of age he went to Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa, and commenced serving an apprenticeship 
 to the firm of Whiting Brothers Manufacturing 
 Company. He continued with them for three 
 years, and in the meantime went to night school, 
 where he made a specialty of mechanics. Subse- 
 quently he was employed four years by the Elk- 
 horn Railroad at Missouri Valley, Iowa, in their 
 machine shops, and in 1888 he went to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., where he acted in a similar posi- 
 tion with the Southern Pacific. In June, 1888, 
 he came to Colorado, and during the next four 
 years was master mechanic in iron and silver 
 mines in Leadville. By this time he had gained 
 a wide-spread reputation for his ability at hand- 
 ling pumping machinery. From 1892 to 1894 
 he was superintendent for the Chicago & Aurora 
 Mining Company of Leadville, after which he 
 worked for the R. Jenning Juniata Mining Com- 
 pany a year or more. In September, 1895, he was 
 sent for by Commissioner of Mines Harry A- Lee, 
 who urged him to take charge of pumping out 
 the water from the Sleepy Hollow and Americus 
 mines at Black Hawk. Six,teen men had been 
 drowned here and in order to recover their bodies 
 the mines had to be pumped to the bottom. Mr. 
 Blaine started in the undertaking, bringing with 
 him from Aspen a large pump and by working 
 three months night and day the water was low- 
 ered so that fourteen bodies were found, but it 
 was not imtil the following July that the other 
 two were taken from the mine, as it had been 
 necessary to pump it to the bottom of the shaft, 
 seventeen hundred feet. 
 
 Having completed his contract, Mr. Blaine's 
 services were sought for by the Bobtail Gregory 
 Mining Company, who employed him to take en- 
 tire charge of all of their machinery. The pumps 
 which he operates keep the water down in half a 
 dozen mines, among these the Gold Coin, Amer- 
 icus, Sleepy Hollow, Fick, Cook and a number of 
 others. Mr. Blaine has invested considerable 
 time and money in mining on his own account, 
 his special favorite being the Mountain City and 
 Tierney on Bobtail Hill. 
 
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 1073 
 
 Initiated into the Masonic Order in Black 
 Hawk Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M., Mr. 
 Blaine is now connected with Central City Chap- 
 ter No. I, R. A. M., as well. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 In his political preferences he is a Republican. 
 He married in Missouri Valley, Iowa, in 1886, 
 Miss Patience Van Hoesen, who was born in 
 Winterset, Iowa, and they have one child, 
 James G. Mrs. Blaine is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 GlUGUST NEUMAN. Among the foremost 
 [\ tillers of the soil of Elbert County is the 
 I I gentleman whose name heads these brief 
 lines, who is of that sturdy German extraction. 
 His homestead, which ranks among the best in 
 this communit}', is located on section 14, town- 
 ship 9, range 63 west, near the town of Elbert. 
 He was born in Holstein, Germany, June 2, 
 1832, and is a son of John Henry and Elizabeth 
 (Moring) Neuman. 
 
 August Neuman spent his younger days assist- 
 ing his father in his blacksmith shop and attend- 
 ing the common schools of his native town. At 
 seventeen years he began to serve an apprentice- 
 ship to the blacksmith trade. In 1848 he de- 
 cided he would rather be a soldier, but as he was 
 rejected from the army he resumed his former 
 occupation. At twenty-two years of age he was 
 drafted into the army, and as he had changed his 
 notion about becoming a soldier he refused to 
 serve, and consequently, in 1854, he departed for 
 the United States. After a voyage of thirty-three 
 days he landed safely in New York City and im- 
 mediately set out for the city of Chicago, where 
 he remained one year, when he went to Daven- 
 port, Iowa. In i860, in company with four 
 others, he left Davenport and drove to Central 
 City, Colo., the trip consuming a period of nine 
 weeks. From 1861 to 1865 he prospected from 
 Central City to New Mexico and return. In the 
 winter of 1861 our subject, who was with a party 
 of about eighty-five men, stopped in what is now 
 Gunnison County, Colo., where they had dis- 
 covered "pay dirt," and while there it snowed 
 about twelve feet deep, and had it not been for 
 the game they caught the whole party would 
 have probably starved to death, as their pro- 
 visions were very low. The party then started for 
 
 California Gulch, where they replenished their 
 supplies and returned and worked their dis- 
 covery. 
 
 Finding that it would not pay to work it, our 
 subject returned to Central City and later left for 
 Montana, where he spent two years mining. He 
 then returned to Central City, where he followed 
 raining until 1870. In 1878 he bought two hun- 
 dred and eighty acres of farming land, and has 
 since added to his first purchase from time to time, 
 until he now owns five hundred and sixty acres 
 in all. He is engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising, and is one of the prosperous and well-to- 
 do members of his community. He enjoys the 
 well- merited confidence of his community, and is 
 doing his share toward the building up of his 
 adopted country. 
 
 August Neuman and Miss Teresa Folster, of 
 Central City, were united in marriage May 10, 
 1870. She was also a native of Germany and 
 came to Colorado in 1867. Three children were 
 born of this marriage, namely: Albert, who is a 
 painter and decorator; Theodore, who is assist- 
 ing his father on the ranch; and Emma, who is a 
 graduate of the State Normal School and is now 
 engaged in teaching. The wife and mother died 
 in September, 1883. Our subject is a Repub- 
 lican in politics and votes uniformly and con- 
 scientiously with that party. His first vote was 
 cast for Hayes in 1876. 
 
 'QEORGE H. KIMBALL came to Colorado 
 _ in the spring of 1866, crossing the plains in 
 >_J a "prairie schooner" and locating at Spanish 
 Bar, just above Idaho Springs. A few months 
 later he came to Golden, where at first he worked 
 as a carpenter, but soon embarked in contracting 
 and building, and this occupation he has since 
 followed. He has had contracts for many of the 
 most substantial and important buildings here, 
 among them the School of Mines, and the first 
 building of the Industrial School. He superin- 
 tended the erection of the high school of Golden, 
 and the additions to the south side school; was 
 foreman in the building of the Jefierson County 
 courthouse and has built many of the finest resi- 
 dences and stores in Golden. In 1897 ^^ ^^s 
 unfortunate in breaking a limb by falling when 
 at his work, but the leg was set and finally healed, 
 so that he is now able to be about once more. 
 
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 Mr. Kimball was born in Centerville, Allegany 
 County, N. Y., in December, 1835, the son of 
 Chester and Victoria (Williams) Kimball, natives 
 respectively of Vermont and New York. His 
 father, who was a cabinet-maker by trade, en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of furniture in Center- 
 ville, where he died at the age of sixty-five. 
 His wife died in 1844, at the age of thirty-three 
 years. She left three children, the eldest of 
 whom, L. W., was captain in the One Hundred 
 and Eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry during the 
 war and is now engaged in the nursery business 
 in Boulder, Colo; George H. was second in order 
 of birth; and the youngest was Mrs. Julia Potter, 
 who died in Golden. 
 
 When our subject was a boy of nine years his 
 mother died, and afterward he lived with his 
 aunt, Mrs. Higgins, upon a farm. His education 
 was obtained in the Centerville public schools 
 and Rushford Academy. He was united in mar- 
 riage, in Centerville, in 1861, with Miss Ann 
 Eliza Veazey, who was born in that place. After- 
 ward he engaged in farminguntil the fall of 1864, 
 when he enlisted in Company C, First New York 
 Dragoons, which was first an infantry regiment, 
 but was afterward mounted. He took part in the 
 engagements in the Shenandoah Valley under 
 Sherman, until the surrender of Appomattox. At 
 Sullivan Station, after the battle of Five Forks, 
 he was wounded in the hip by a rifle ball. He 
 was mustered out of the service at Rochester, 
 N. Y., July 18, 1865. Shortly after his return 
 home he moved to Colorado. He and his wife 
 had four children, but only two attained mature 
 years: Mrs. Belle McGowan, of Denver; and Mrs. 
 Emma Fenn, who died in Denver in November, 
 1897. Mrs. Kimball is a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church and assists in its various enter- 
 prises. 
 
 Upon the organization of the town Mr. Kim- 
 ball was made president of the board of trustees. 
 He was a member of the first board of aldermen, 
 and some years later was appointed to fill a va- 
 cany upon the board. During his sixteen years 
 of service upon the school board he was treasurer 
 a part of the time and also president. He has 
 held the position of chairman of the Republican 
 county central committee at various times, and 
 has represented his party as delegate to county 
 and state conventions. He is a supporter of the 
 white metal and belongs to the silver branch of 
 
 the Republican party. T. H. Dodd Post No. 3, 
 G. A. R. , which is next to the oldest post in the 
 state, numbers him among its charter members 
 and he has been its commander. He has held 
 the position of assistant quartermaster general of 
 the department of Colorado and Wyoming. Un- 
 til his lodge surrendered its charter he was iden- 
 tified with the Patriotic Order Sons of America. 
 
 G| LSON HOWARD EGGLESTON, a promi- 
 Ll nent representative of the agricultural in- 
 / I terests of Douglas County, is located on 
 his farm four and one-half miles south of Parker, 
 on section 15, township 7, range 66. Heisason 
 of James Harvey and Eliza (Howard) Eggleston, 
 and was born in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio, 
 August 30, 1844. 
 
 James Harvey Eggleston was born in the state 
 of New York, and in childhood went to Ohio, 
 where he followed farming after attaining matu- 
 rity. He subsequently moved to Greenup, Ky., 
 thence to Covington, Ky., where he resided for 
 two years and followed his calling. In 1856 he 
 settled upon a tract of government land near 
 Manhattan, Kan., which he cultivated, but two 
 years later returned to Ohio and located in Cincin- 
 nati, where he dealt in butter and eggs bought on 
 the Western Reserve. In i860, the time of the 
 Pike's Peak gold fever, he jvent to Colorado by 
 means of two ox-teams, the journey requiring 
 thirty days. In connection with several others 
 he engaged in mining for a brief period, after 
 which he hired a man to take his place. He en- 
 gaged in freighting until the spring of 1861, when 
 he went upon a ranch at Cache la Poudre, taking 
 up a piece of government land. In 1866 he sold 
 out to his son, Alson Howard, and returned to 
 Bainbridge, Ohio, where he resided until his 
 death in 1884. He was united in marriage with 
 Eliza Howard, a native of Connecticut, and 
 five children were born to them, but only one is 
 living, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Alson Howard Eggleston was but one year old 
 upon the death of his mother, after which he 
 was taken to the home of his grandfather. Free- 
 man Howard, in Portage County, Ohio. He 
 resided there until he was twelve years of age 
 and attended the district schools. He then went 
 to live with his father at Greenup, Ky., and con- 
 tinued with him in tb? various states in which he 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1075 
 
 lived until the fall of 1861. When the latter was 
 engaged in mining, our subject was employed as 
 cook in the camps and acted as such until he lo- 
 cated in Cache la Poudre. In 1861 he went to 
 Junction City, Kan., and in the spring of the fol- 
 lowing year offered his services to the govern- 
 ment, which were refused owing to his youth. 
 However, he was accepted as a teamster at Fort 
 Union, N. Mex., but returned to Kansas a few 
 months later. He was then permitted to enlist in 
 Company E, Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 
 and served faithfully for three years, lacking six 
 days, participating in a number of important en- 
 gagements. He met with many thrilling ad- 
 ventures, but always exhibited great daring 
 and coolness in the face of danger. At Pea 
 Ridge, Prairie Grove, Ark., he received a severe 
 wound upon the right hand, but fought on with 
 unflagging energy. He was present at the taking 
 of Van Buren and Fort Smith on the Arkansas 
 River, in the former engagement being knocked 
 from his horse by a piece of flying shell; he was 
 stunned, but in a few minutes he pluckily regained 
 his saddle and was up with his comrades. He 
 received his honorable discharge in 1865, and then 
 went to Leavenworth, Kan. There he was mar- 
 ried and resided until July 26, 1866, when he and 
 his wife started for their present home, making 
 the journey with one span of horses. Upon 
 reaching his destination, he purchased the estate 
 of his father and began farming, his specialty 
 being the dairy business, in which he has been 
 more than ordinarily successful. Besides the 
 original tract of one hundred and sixty acres, he 
 acquired an equal amount from the government by 
 pre-emption, which he now owns. He is a man 
 of great industry and enterprise, and has improved 
 his farms to such an extent that they are unsur- 
 passed in that section. He is a man of excellent 
 character, is very popular and numbers many 
 friends. 
 
 August 24, 1865, Mr. Eggleston married Miss 
 Eliza Cook, of Leavenworth, Kan., whose ac- 
 quaintance he formed through her brother, who 
 was a member of the same company as he; he 
 was left upon the field of battle badly wounded 
 and upon the following day his life was brought 
 to a close by a rebel. This happy union was 
 blessed by twelve children, namely: George H., 
 who died at the age of twelve years; Clara Ann, 
 who became the wife of Charles Austin and lives 
 
 in Douglas County; Alice M., the wife of Benja- 
 min Hudson, of the same county; Sadie Lorette, 
 the wife of George Kelty, of Douglas County; 
 Eva W. , who married Anson Brackett, of Douglas 
 County; Earl A., a resident of Douglas County; 
 Mary A., the wife of Edward McCasland, who 
 lives in Douglas County; Kate, Earl and Henry, 
 who are at home with their parents; and Dora 
 and Charles, both deceased. 
 
 Our subject has always been an ardent Repub- 
 lican and cast his first vote for Lincoln, while in 
 the service. In 1884 he was elected county com- 
 missioner, and served with such satisfaction as to 
 gain the re-election three years later. He was 
 general road-overseer for two terms, deputy 
 county clerk for the same length of time, and 
 was also elected justice of the peace, but as the 
 duties of that office proved uncongenial to him 
 he soon relhiquished it. He is a member of 
 Castle Rock Lodge No. 27, A. O. U. W., of 
 which he has been master workman; and of the 
 J. G. Blunt Post, G. A. R., of which he is past 
 commander, has been chaplain, and is now serv- 
 ing as adjutant. In religious attachment, he is 
 a faithful member and a class-leader of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church, having attended the 
 church of that denomination since childhood. 
 He takes an active interest in Sunday-school 
 work, and has been superintendent. 
 
 EOL. F. F. OSBISTON, of Idaho Springs, 
 was born January 23, 1843, the seventeenth 
 in a family of twenty-two children, eight of 
 whom attained maturity and six are now living. 
 Robert lives at Sydney, New South Wales, and is 
 editor of the Journal of the Institute of Bankers. 
 The other brothers and sisters are still living in 
 England. Their parents, Samuel and Ann (Long) 
 Osbiston, were natives respectively of Derby, 
 Derbyshire, and Norfolk. The father ran a flour- 
 mill in Norfolk until shortly before he died, when 
 in his sixty-fifth year. The mother died in 1878. 
 The grandfather, Thomas Osbiston, was born in 
 Derbyshire and removed to Norfolk, where he 
 carried on a farm. The family name was origi- 
 nally Osbaldistone and was shortened to its pres- 
 ent form at the time the clan removed from the 
 southern part of Scotland to the country further 
 south. 
 
 In his boyhood Colonel Osbiston attended the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Snettisham grammar school. After finishing his 
 studies he obtained a position as a clerk in the 
 lyondon and Westminster Bank, remaining there 
 from 1861 to 1864. That year he came to the 
 United States as the secretary of an English 
 mining company. Proceeding to the present site 
 of Reno, Nev. , in their interests, he soon was 
 made superintendent of the Washoe Mining Com- 
 pany. Gaining valuable experience in the next 
 few years, he became secretary and assistant 
 superintendent of the Yellow Jacket, on the Corn- 
 stock lode, of Gold Hill and Virginia City, near 
 Gold Hill, Nev. Later he was the confiden- 
 tial agent and mine expert of the Bank of Cali- 
 fornia (under Ralston & Sharon) , then operating 
 numerous mines. At the end of three years the 
 Bonanza firm of Mackey, Flood, Fair & 
 O'Brian appointed him superintendent of the 
 Savage mine of the Comstock lode. Subsequently 
 he held similar positions in the Gould and Curray 
 mine and in the Best and Belcher mines. In 1879, 
 the colonel, in company with Messrs. Mackey, 
 Rosener and Roberts, purchased the Freeland 
 mine at Freeland, Clear Creek County. He was 
 installed as manager and the firm was incorpo- 
 rated as the Freeland Mining Company. In con- 
 nection with the mines a concentrator and a 
 smelter were operated at each mine, and every- 
 thing was conducted under the most approved 
 modern methods. The Freeland mine, which was 
 bought for $235,000, produced about $3,000,000, 
 under the energetic and able management of our 
 .subject. He controlled the Hukill, now the Stan- 
 ley mine, for a number of years, selling out his 
 interest in the same in 1892, after he had taken 
 out nearly f 1,000, 000 worth of ore. He and 
 his brother-in-law, Horace White, of New York 
 City, own the Freeland Extension mine property, 
 one of the finest in this section. The develop- 
 ment of the Freeland mine was of great general 
 benefit to this region, bringing it into prominence 
 as it had never been before, and from that time to 
 the present its growth and prosperity have been 
 truly wonderful. 
 
 Colonel Osbiston has been a recognized leader 
 in the Republican party for many years. In 1882 
 he was elected to represent Clear Creek County 
 in the state legislature and served in the fourth 
 general assembly. In 1884 he had the honor of 
 being a presidential elector, standing by Blaine 
 and Logan, and four years later he was similarly 
 
 singled forth, that time using his influence for 
 Harri.son and Morton. While living in Nevada 
 he was a member of Governor Blaisdell's staff, 
 having the rank of colonel. Later he held the 
 same office under Governors Bradley and Adams, 
 though they were both Democrats. At another 
 time he was appointed to a like post of honor on 
 Gov. J. B. Grant's staff, but declined. He has 
 maintained unflagging interest in the welfare of 
 Idaho Springs since casting in his lot here and 
 has served as a member of the town board and 
 the school board several terms. In July, 1898, 
 he was a delegate to the International Mining 
 Congress in Salt Lake Cit}'. 
 
 Initiated into the Masonic fraternity in Reno, 
 Nev., in 1873, Colonel Osbiston became a 
 Royal Arch Mason in Virginia City the following 
 year, and in the same city was made a Knight 
 Templar in 1877. He retains his membership 
 with the same lodges. Religiously he is an 
 Episcopalian. In 1871 he married Miss Frances 
 Hinman, in Virginia City. She is a native of 
 Beloit, Wis. The only child of this marriage is 
 Bessie, wife of Oscar Lachmund, superintendent 
 of the Kilton Sampling Works, of Idaho Springs. 
 
 i EORGE KELTON, a farmer of Elbert Coun- 
 ty, resides on section 12, township 9, range 
 63 west. He was born in the province of 
 Ontario, April 19, 1846, a son of Dominie Kel- 
 ton. He was deprived by death of his mother 
 when he was only eight days old. His boyhood 
 years were spent in Ontario, where he received 
 fair educational advantages. At eighteen years 
 of age he went to Michigan, where he secured 
 employment as clerk in a clothing store. His 
 previous experience in a. similar line while in On- 
 tario proved helpful to him and he was retained 
 by his employers for several years. In April, 
 1865, he enlisted in the Union service and was 
 assigned to the Eighth Michigan Cavalry, but 
 while he was in camp at Jackson waiting to be 
 ordered to the front the war came to a close. 
 
 Learning the tinner's trade Mr. Kelton followed 
 it for a year or more, and afterward worked at 
 other occupations. In 1870 he went to Kansas 
 and from there to New Mexico, where he re- 
 mained one year. Then coming to Colorado, he 
 farmed government land near Trinidad fot a year, 
 but was cheated out of his crops, so made noth- 
 
HERBERT J. THOMPSON. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1079 
 
 ing out of the venture. Coming to Denver he 
 worked in and about this city, and also in the 
 mountains; later herded cattle for some years in 
 El Paso County. His next experiment was the 
 purchase of sheep, which he pastured on his pres- 
 ent property of one hundred and sixty acres. At 
 this writing he gives his attention largely to gen- 
 eral farming, although he also engages in stock- 
 raising to some extent. 
 
 In June, 1878, Mr. Kelton married Mrs. Adel- 
 gunda (Ulo) Maul, who was born in Saxony, 
 and came to this country in girlhood. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Kelton always voted the Democratic 
 ticket until the campaign of 1896, when he fa- 
 vored the gold standard and cast his ballot for 
 President McKinley. 
 
 HERBERT J. THOMPSON, former treasurer 
 of Weld County, and one of the prominent 
 agriculturists of northern Colorado, is a 
 native of Wisconsin, having been born in Thomp- 
 son ville, Racine County, August 27, 1858. He 
 is of Scotch ancestry. His grandfather, Robert 
 Thompson, emigrated from Scotland to America 
 about 1815, settling in Munson, Conn., but in 
 1838 removed to Racine, Wis. , and became one 
 of the pioneers of that section. He engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits and was actively and promi- 
 nently identified with the growth and develop- 
 ment of Racine County. His family consisted of 
 five sons and four daughters, our subject's father, 
 John, being seventh in order of birth. 
 
 The latter was born in Connecticut, and at the 
 time of his parents' removal to Wisconsin was 
 about sixteen. His education was acquired in 
 the public schools of Munson and Madison, Wis. , 
 and until attaining his majority he assisted in the 
 carrying on of the home farm. He then pur- 
 chased a place of his own, but in 1871, desiring 
 to take advantage of the fertility of Colorado, he 
 became a member of the Union colony and re- 
 moved to this state, settling four miles northwest 
 of Greeley. He there engaged in improving a 
 tract of two hundred acres, which under his ju- 
 dicious management is now one of the most valu- 
 able properties ill this region. In 1891 he retired 
 from active business life, and placed his property 
 under the management of his sou-in-law. Max 
 Gerry. He has been twice married, first to Mary 
 Lombard, a native of Connecticut, who became 
 47 
 
 the mother of four children: Herbert J., of this 
 sketch; William O., a resident of North Platte, 
 Neb.; Ellen, who died when four years old; and 
 Mary, Mrs. Max Gerry. 
 
 Herbert J. Thompson received his early edu- 
 cation in the public school of Thompsonville, and 
 on his removal to Colorado completed his studies 
 at Greeley. He assisted his father in the man- 
 agement of his property from an early age and re- 
 mained with him until the spring of 1881, when, 
 in company with his brother, William O., he 
 purchased a tract of three hundred and twenty 
 acres two miles northwest of Eaton, and in 1884 
 acquired the sole ownership. Since then he has 
 added from time to time until the present, now 
 being the owner of four hundred and eighty 
 acres, the larger part of which is leased to ten- 
 ants. On the remainder he carries on general 
 farming, and the prominent position which he 
 has attained among the farmers of northern Colo- 
 rado is due to his untiring energy and correct 
 business methods. He is also interested in the 
 buying and fattening of lambs for the Chicago 
 markets, wintering on the average two thousand 
 five hundred. He was one of the organizers and 
 first directors of Larimer and Weld reservoir, 
 one of the largest in the state, and is also a stock- 
 holder in the Greeley National Bank. 
 
 Since attaining his majority, Mr. Thompson 
 has been active in political matters, and a stanch 
 supporter of the Republican party. He has 
 served four years as road supervisor and two 
 terms as a member of the board of school direc- 
 tors, and was secretary of the latter body. In 
 1889 he was nominated — and elected by a flatter- 
 ing majority — treasurer of Weld County, and on 
 the expiration of his term re-elected for a second. 
 During his incumbency of the office, his admin- 
 istration of its affairs was such as to cause entire 
 satisfaction to the general public. He clearly 
 demonstrated the possession of executive ability 
 of a high order and as an appreciation of the high 
 regard in which he is held he has recently been 
 nominated, by the Republicans, as candidate for 
 the state legislature. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World;and is also 
 a member of Forest City Lodge No. 3 1 , K. of P. , 
 Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F., of 
 Greeley; and Camp No. 130, Woodmen of the 
 World, of Eaton. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 February 5, 1885, Mr. Thompson married 
 Fannie M., daughter of Charles C. Searing, of 
 Westchester, Westchester County, N. Y. To 
 them have been born six daughters: Helen H., 
 Hattie, Frances M., Amy, Martha E. and Grace. 
 
 30NATHAN P. KELLY, who owns and oc- 
 cupies a ranch of four hundred acres four 
 miles north of Sedalia, Douglas County, was 
 born in the town of Wayne, Ashtabula County, 
 Ohio, and is a son of Cyril and Abigail (Folsom) 
 Kelly. His father, who was a stone mason, 
 moved to the town of Green, Trumbull County, 
 in the same state, and there were passed the boy- 
 hood days of the subject of this sketch. He was 
 born January 19, 1829, and was a young man of 
 twenty years when, in 1849, he went to Kane 
 County, 111. There he learned the carpenter's 
 trade and was fortunate in receiving wages from 
 the start of his apprenticeship. 
 
 While in Kane County, March 27, 1851, Mr. 
 Kelly married Miss Esther M. Berry, who was 
 then living in Kane County, but was born in Erie 
 County, Pa., a daughter of Henry and Deborah 
 (Miller) Berry. In i860 Mr. Kelly crossed the 
 plains with an ox-team, and after a journey of 
 six weeks arrived in Denver on the 20th of June. 
 In that city he worked at his trade during the 
 summer, and in the fall of the same year he took 
 a squatter's claim to one hundred and sixty acres, 
 comprising a part of his present farm. In Sep- 
 tember, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Colo- 
 rado Home Guards, for six months. His company 
 and another were left to guard Denver, while 
 the remainder of the regiment was sent to the 
 front. At the expiration of the six months he 
 was offered a commission in the Second Colorado 
 Infantry, but as he had a wife and two children 
 to care for he thought it best to refuse. Return- 
 ing home he gave his attention to his farm and 
 the hauling of wood to Denver, and was prosper- 
 ous from the first. In the early days he was 
 known as a skillful hunter, and by the aid of his 
 rifle he provided deer and antelope for his family. 
 Reared in the Whig faith, in 1852 Mr. Kelly 
 voted for John P. Hale, the free-soil candidate 
 for president. Four years later he voted for John 
 C. Fremont, and in 1876 for R. B. Hayes, since 
 which time he has continued to support Repub- 
 lican candidates. At one time there was a^post- 
 
 office (known as Keystone) on his ranch, and he 
 served as postmaster for two years. When a 
 child he attended the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, his parents being identified with that 
 denomination, but during his residence in Illi- 
 nois he joined the Baptist Church, to which he 
 has since belonged. He and his wife became the 
 parents of four children. The oldest son , Everett 
 B., who was born in Kane County, III., married 
 Miss Amy Houghten, by whom he had one child. 
 By occupation he was a miner. He died on Dec- 
 oration day of 1898, at Anaconda, Colo., of heart 
 disease. The second son, William C, who was 
 born in Kane County, married Miss Lillie Sny- 
 der and is living on his father's farm. The third 
 son, Walter, who was born in Colorado, died at 
 two years of age and is buried in the family cem- 
 etery, on the home farm. The only daughter, 
 Emma, is the wife of Berlin F. Roberts, of Ana- 
 conda, a miner, and they have one child, Esther. 
 
 nOHN H. LINDER is the owner and manager 
 I of a large hardware'store in Golden. The store 
 \Z/ that he occupies on Washington avenue has 
 a frontage of seventy-five feet, with a depth of 
 over one hundred feet. Since starting in busi- 
 ness he has built up a large trade and is now 
 numbered among the most successful merchants 
 of Golden. His success is (lue to the fact that he 
 has used sound common sense in business trans- 
 actions, as well as to the other no less important 
 fact that he has been honest and accommodating 
 in his dealings with customers, thus winning their 
 confidence in his reliability and efiiciency. 
 
 A native of Golconda, Pope County, 111., the 
 subject of this sketch is a son of Joseph Linder, 
 who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, but 
 emigrated to America and settled in Golconda, 
 111., where he engaged in business for many 
 years. He died there when seventy years of age, 
 having long survived his wife, who died when 
 our subject was fourteen. There were three sons 
 and one daughter in the family, J. H. being the 
 youngest of the number. His brothers are both 
 in Colorado, J. V. being in JeSerson County and 
 D. C. in Denver. The sister, Barbara C, is the 
 wife of Charles Hacker, and they reside at Gol- 
 conda. 
 
 After having attended the public schools for a 
 number of years, our subject was apprenticed to 
 
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 the tinsmith's trade in Golconda and served a 
 term of three years, from fourteen years of age to 
 seventeen. In 1877 he went to Indiana, but re- 
 mained there for a short time only, soon going 
 back to Golconda, where he carried on business 
 as a dealer in ice. In 1882 he came to Colorado 
 and settled in Golden, where for a time he was 
 employed as a clerk in a hardware store. In 1 887 
 he bought out H. S. Van Gorden, and with a 
 partner, under the firm name of Parker &I,inder, 
 carried on business for a year. He then bought 
 out the other member of the firm and carried on 
 the business alone, but when Mr. Parker had re- 
 gained his health he again became financially in- 
 terested in the concern, and the name was changed 
 to J. H. Under & Co. In 1895 Mr. Parker sold 
 his interest a second time and Mr. I^indcr has 
 since been alone. He has a warehouse in con- 
 nection with the store, and carries implements of 
 all kinds, also manufactures articles from tin and 
 sheet metal, and in addition carries on a plumbing 
 and heating business. 
 
 Politically Mr. Linder is a Democrat. He is 
 identified with the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Odd Fellows. His marriage occurred in Golden 
 and united him with Miss Hattie E. Sherick, a 
 lady of amiable disposition and a lifelong resident 
 of Colorado. She is a daughter of W. W. Sher- 
 ick, who settled in the Gilpin district in i860, 
 but since 1878 has resided in Jefferson County, 
 where he is engaged in farming and fruit-grow- 
 ing. 
 
 "■rNEST-L. BICKFORD, M. D., is one of 
 ^ the successful young phj'sicians of the 
 __ Boulder County medical fraternity. He 
 has been occupied in the practice of his profession 
 in Longmont for the past five years and has won 
 the respect and good will of all who know him. 
 He is a member of the Boulder County Medical 
 Society, the Whatcom County (Wash.) Medical 
 Society and the American Medical Association. 
 He keeps thoroughly abreast of the times in all 
 discoveries and new methods adopted by his pro- 
 fessional brethren, and while he is sufficiently con- 
 servative he is not out of the march of progress 
 in his chosen field of labor. 
 
 Dr. Bickford is one of the two children of 
 I. F. and Calista Hale (Hall) Bickford. The 
 father was born in Rochester, N. H., and in 1859 
 went to Minnesota, where he was one of the pio- 
 
 neer farmers. During the war he was a soldier 
 in a Minnesota regiment. He continued to live 
 in that state until 1894, when he removed to 
 Seattle, Wash., and has since been engaged in 
 a mercantile business there. His mother was a 
 Miss Hayes before her marriage, and her ancestry 
 dates back to the early Puritan colony in Massa- 
 chusetts. Mrs. Calista H. Bickford was born in 
 Massachusetts, and comes from good old Revolu- 
 tionary stock. Her mother, a Miss Hale prior 
 to her marriage with Mr. Hall, was a relative of 
 the celebrated Nathan Hale, who was a spy in 
 the service of the American army during the 
 war of the Revolution and was unfortunately cap- 
 tured by the British, and as the important papers 
 which he had in his possession left no doubt as 
 to his object in venturing within the lines of the 
 enemy, he was hung, with small ceremony. The 
 heroic young man's last words were these, that 
 have thrilled the souls of thousands of patriots 
 since, "My only regret is that I have but one 
 life to give for my country. ' ' Both the Halls and 
 the Hales can be traced back to the first settle- 
 ment of Massachusetts. 
 
 The doctor was born in Fairmont, Martin 
 County, Minn., April 1,1866, and with his 
 brother, Arthur F., who is now a merchant in 
 Seattle, Wash., grew to manhood. He attended 
 the public schools and the high school at Win- 
 nebago, after which he graduated from a Minne- 
 apolis business college. The following year he 
 engaged in teaching school, and next took up 
 the study of medicine under Dr. Fred Hunt, of 
 Fairmont. After he had mastered the elementary 
 department of medical work and science he en- 
 tered the Missouri Medical College, and three 
 years later, in 1890, received the degree of Doctor 
 of Medicine, upon his graduation. His initial 
 steps as a physician were taken in Fairhaven, 
 Wash., where, in addition to conducting a 
 general practice, he was on the surgical staff of 
 St. James Hospital. In 1893 he came to Long- 
 mont and at once entered upon a career that has 
 been most gratifying. His office is conveniently 
 situated in the town, being on Main street. 
 
 Dr. Bickford is a member of Longmont Lodge 
 No. 29, I. O. O. F. , and is a past officer of the 
 encampment at Columbus, No. 18. He is also 
 a Knight of Pythias, belonging to Fairhaven 
 Lodge No. 56, and is medical examiner for the 
 Pacific^circle, Woodmen of the World, of which 
 
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 he is a member. Since his college days he has 
 been a member of the alumni association of the 
 Missouri Medical College. Politically he is 
 identified with the Republican party. 
 
 In 1892 Dr. Bickford married Miss Belle Dearie, 
 in Fairhaven, Wash. She was born in London, 
 England, and is a daughter of Edward Dearie. 
 The doctor and wife have two children, Ernest D. 
 and Pansy May. 
 
 (lOHN S. HILL owns a farm in Weld County, 
 I situated on township 4 south, range 67 west, 
 Q) and comprising five hundred and fifty-one 
 acres of fine land, the most of which is under 
 cultivation. He was born in Pennsylvania in 
 1836, and was one of thirteen children composing 
 the family of Rev. Robert M. and Calpornia 
 (Miles) Hill. His father, who was a native of 
 New York, was a minister in the Methodist 
 Episcopal denomination and for years engaged in 
 preaching and other religious work in Meadville, 
 Pa. His death occurred at Franklin, Pa., when 
 he was seventy- three years of age. His wife died 
 in JeSersonville, Ind., in i860. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject were spent 
 largely in Meadville, -Pa. , and his education was 
 obtained in public schools. For a few years he 
 was employed in a foundry at Meadville, Pa. In 
 1856 he went to Louisville, Ky., and for ten years 
 carried on a gold pen manufacturing business, 
 but his health became so poor that he was 
 obliged to close out the business and seek a more 
 healthful climate. Coming to Colorado, he set- 
 tled at Central City, where, as soon as his health 
 improved, he began to prospect and mine, becom- 
 ing the owner of interests in between fifty and 
 sixty mines. After the $100 act was passed in 
 1878, he went to Golden, and for ten years con- 
 ducted a mercantile business. He had a fine 
 residence in the town and still owns property 
 there. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Hill came to Weld County, where 
 he took up government and railroad land and 
 began farming and stock-raising. He is now 
 one of the largest stockmen in the county, hav- 
 ing a large number of fine horses, cattle and hogs. 
 On settling at his present place he built a ditch 
 from the Highland ditch to his farm, a distance of 
 seven miles. He also owns Pleasant Lake of 
 fifty acres, which he uses for private irrigation. 
 The property which he now possesses represents 
 
 his unaided efforts, for he came to Colorado a 
 poor man and without assistance from others he 
 has pushed his way forward to success. His 
 prosperity shows that a poor man can attain a 
 competency in this state, and become well-to-do, 
 influential and successful, if he has energy and 
 perseverance. 
 
 Politically Mr. Hill has never identified him- 
 self with any party, but votes for the best man 
 for the place. Since i860 he has been identified 
 with the Masons and Odd Fellows; in the former 
 lodge he is past master and in the latter he has 
 become identified with the encampment. He was 
 united in marriage in 1862, with Miss Elizabeth 
 Tipton, an estimable lady, who shares with him 
 the regard of acquaintances. 
 
 (TOHN KEY. Colorado is pre-eminently a 
 I raining state, and in no part of it is this fact 
 (2/ more forcibly brought to mind than in the 
 county of Gilpin, where the country is dotted 
 over with stamp mills, there being several hun- 
 dred stamps within a radius of two miles. Among 
 the pioneers in the erection of stamp mills is Mr. 
 Key, to whose spirit and enterprise may safely be 
 attributed a share of Blackhawk's prosperity. 
 He was born in 1851 in that part of London, 
 England, between Bow Bells and the famous 
 London bridge. His parents, Richard and Betsey 
 Elizabeth (Sergeant)_Key, were natives respect- 
 ively of Kent and Suffolk. They came to the 
 United States in 1881 and now reside upon a 
 farm near Kinsley, Kan. 
 
 In the city of London our subject grew to man- 
 hood. The advantages he received in the way 
 of an education consisted of only three or four 
 weeks' schooling in his early years. While he 
 was yet a small lad he began to assist his father 
 in the store, also made a little money as newsboy, 
 and was engaged later in the marketing of fruits 
 and vegetables in Victoria Dock road, near the 
 Thames iron works. In 1871 he set sail for 
 America. For a year after arriving here he was 
 employed in the paper mills at Hyde Park, Mass. 
 He then went to Kinsley, Edwards County, 
 Kan,, where he engaged in the stock business, 
 pre-empting a homestead of two hundred and 
 forty acres, upon which he erected suitable build- 
 ings and made other improvements. Afterward 
 he gave eighty acres to his father and eighty to 
 
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 his wife, reserving the remaining eighty for him- 
 self. Upon his part of the estate the father still 
 resides. 
 
 While in Kansas Mr. Key was a prime mover 
 in locating the county-seat of Edwards County. 
 In the fall of 1873 he came to Blackhawk, Colo., 
 where he was a feeder in the Fullerton mills, but 
 in less than three years he was made superintend- 
 ent of the mills on North Clear Creek, and there 
 he remained for nearly twenty years. He was 
 actively engaged in operating the Lone Star mine 
 and the Robert Emmett mine of Chase Gulch, in 
 both of which he was moderately successful. In 
 1893 a partnership was formed with Mr. Olden, 
 John Beattie and our subject, the Gilpin mill 
 being the outcome. Mr. Olden is a fine mechanic 
 and the building was erected mainly by him, 
 while the practical management of it is left in the 
 hands of Mr. Key. About two years after this 
 partnership was formed, Mr. Beattie sold his in- 
 terest in the business to Mr. Jenkins, and the 
 company have so continued to this time. This is 
 a fifty-stamp mill and is run by steam power, 
 having two engines and steel boilers of eighty- 
 horse power. This enterprise is conducted on 
 the most improved methods, and no trouble or 
 expense is spared to make the work first-class in 
 every respect and obtain the best possible results. 
 They use the plate amalgamation and bumper 
 concentration, and it has run continuously since it 
 was built in 1894, giving perfect satisfaction. 
 They put in a siding from the Gulf Railroad, 
 which greatly facilitates conveying the difierent 
 kinds of ore to their mill. The success of the 
 Gilpin mill is due to the untiring and well-directed 
 energy of its manager, John Key, whose shrewd 
 business foresight is well recognized in the com- 
 munity. 
 
 Mr. Key married Miss Maria Elizabeth Fann- 
 ing, who, like himself, was a native of London. 
 The ceremony which united them was performed 
 in St. Thomas Church of that metropolis. Four 
 children, now living, have been sent to brighten 
 their home: Harry Richard; Emma Elizabeth, 
 William James and Raymond Charles. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Key are communicants of the Episcopal 
 Church. He is an ardent Republican and for- 
 merly took an active part in all political affairs 
 until his steadily increasing business required his 
 entire time and attention. He was elected alder- 
 man of Blackhawk one terra, and was mayor 
 
 pro tem to fill a vacancy. He was also a member 
 of the school board one term, and lent valuable 
 aid to the cause of education. He is a member 
 of Blackhawk Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M.; 
 and has been a member of the Odd Fellows for 
 upwards of twenty years, serving as past chief of 
 the encampment. He is an open hearted, liberal 
 citizen, a man of sterling worth, and is deservedly 
 popular throughout the county. 
 
 lAMUEL R. HUFFSMITH, a representative 
 and prominent farmer and stock-raiser, 
 carrying on operations on section 26, town- 
 ship 5, range 65, Weld County, was born Janu- 
 arj' 15, 1846, in Monroe County, Pa., and is a son 
 of Adam and Sarah A. (Rees) Huffsmith, also 
 natives of Pennsylvania. His father, who en- 
 gaged in farming in Pennsylvania until his 
 removal to Iowa in 1852, resided in the latter 
 state until 1864, when he located in Colorado, 
 one year after our subject came here. He con- 
 ducted a hotel in Denver for some time, and then 
 settled on a farm northwest of that city, which he 
 later sold. His next home was near Evans, in 
 Weld County, where he followed farming and 
 stock-raising until his death, which occurred 
 February 22, 1889. In his family were six sons 
 and six daughters, and all reached years of 
 maturity with the exception of two daughters. 
 The sons are: Samuel R., of this sketch; Peter, 
 who is engaged in the implement business in 
 Greeley; Milton, who died in Minnesota; William, 
 residing in Evans with his mother, who is now 
 seventy-eight years of age; Albert, also a resident 
 of Evans; and Charles, the editor and proprietor 
 of the Evans Courier. 
 
 The subject of this sketch spent the first five 
 years of his life in Pennsylvania and then was 
 taken by his parents to Delaware County, Iowa, 
 where he made his home until 1863, in the mean- 
 time acquiring such an education as the district 
 schools of the locality afforded and obtaining an 
 excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits. 
 With his sister Emma and her husband, Daniel 
 Westover, he came overland with an ox-team to 
 Colorado, arriving in Denver, July 3, 1863. The 
 following August he enlisted in Company G, 
 First Colorado Cavalry, under Colonel Chiving- 
 ton, and remained in the service until the close 
 of the war, being most of the time stationed on 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORD. 
 
 the frontier in New Mexico and Colorado, thougli 
 a portion of the command was ordered to Missouri. 
 He saw a great deal of hard service, and the most 
 severe engagement in which he took part was the 
 battle of Sand Creek, Colo., with the Indians. 
 When hostilities ceased he was honorably dis- 
 charged at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., November 
 18, 1865. 
 
 At the close of the war, Mr. Huffsmith located 
 in Pottawatomie County, Kan., where he en- 
 gaged in farming. He was married there, 
 December 7, 1869, to Miss Rachel C. Gillespie, a 
 native of Pittsburg, Pa., and a daughter of 
 Mathews A. and Martha A. (Carnahan) Gillespie. 
 Seven children were born of this union, four sons 
 and three daughters, namely: William R., who is 
 now conducting the home farm; Milton B., a 
 resident of Denver; Edward, who operates the 
 farm of his grandmother Huffsmith; Jennie, wife 
 of Colin Caddow, an expressman and employe of 
 the Electric Light Company of Denver, Colo.; 
 Maude, Harry and Rachel A., who are residing 
 with their parents. 
 
 Mr. Huffsmith remained in Kansas until the 
 fall of 1878, when he came to Weld County and 
 at first operated rented land. Having accumu- 
 lated some capital, in 1881 he purchased his 
 present farm of eighty acres, and to general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising has since devoted his atten- 
 tion with good success, keeping from fifty to one 
 hundred head of stock. Formerly he was quite 
 extensively interested in the raising of horses. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Evans cheese 
 factory, being in reality the originator of the 
 same, and he does a large dairy business, keeping 
 on hand for this purpose twenty head of cows. 
 
 Mr. Huffsmith has always taken quite an active 
 and prominent part in public affairs, and origin- 
 ally supported the Republican party, but is now 
 independent in politics. He served as a delegate 
 to the different conventions of his party, and for 
 two terms most capably filled the ofiice of justice 
 of the peace. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Prosperity Lodge No. 109, I. O. O. F., of Evans; 
 and W. T. Sherman Post No. 23, G. A. R., of 
 which he is past commander, and which he has 
 represented a number of times in the grand posts. 
 At one time he also held membership in the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. He has pro- 
 vided his children with good educational advan- 
 tages, sending them to school in Evans and 
 
 Greeley, and he has most efficiently served as 
 president of the school board most of the time 
 since coming to Colorado. For the success that 
 he has achieved in life he deserves great credit 
 for from an early age he has made his own way 
 in the world unaided, and by his perseverance, 
 enterprise and good management he has become 
 quite well-to-do. 
 
 In November of 1898, Mr. Huffsmith was 
 elected county commissioner for a term of three 
 years, having received his election on the silver 
 Republican ticket. 
 
 ID. ELLIS, alderman of Idaho Springs and 
 proprietor of a fine livery and feed stable, 
 came to this state August 4, 1864, and for 
 many years engaged in teaming to the mountains. 
 He began driving before he was large enough to 
 harness his own teams and has been most indus- 
 trious all his life. He was born in Adrian County, 
 Mo., the son of Amos and Mary R. (Chitwood) 
 Ellis. Amos Ellis was born in Shelby County, 
 Ky., and moved to Adrain County, Mo., 
 where he followed his trade of shoemaking. 
 In 1864 he came to Idaho Springs and began 
 gulch mining. He died in 1896, while on a visit 
 to West Virginia. His wife, Mary (Chitwood) 
 Ellis, was born in Ralls County, Mo., and moved 
 with her parents to Kentucky. She now resides 
 in Idaho Springs. There were children as 
 follows: John and Milton, who were killed in 
 the war; Sarah, who resides in West Virginia; 
 Amanda, who died in Missouri in 1897; Hiram, 
 who lives in Castle Rock, Colo. ; Henry, in Idaho 
 Springs; Jane, who died in Pueblo; and I. D., 
 the youngest and subject of this biography. 
 
 Mr. Ellis was born May 11, 1856, and came to 
 this state with his parents when he was eight 
 years old. They crossed the plains with an ox- 
 train and were three months on the way, coming 
 through Omaha and up the Platte, reaching Den- 
 ver July I, 1864, and the 4th of the next month 
 stopped at Idaho Springs. He secured his first 
 work and began it the next day, driving a horse 
 on the Seaton mine. He went to school during 
 the winters, and after a long time began driving 
 freight teams. He drove a bull-team from 
 Cheyenne to the mountains before the railroad was 
 completed to Denver. Later he worked in livery 
 stables until 1886, and then bought out Turner's 
 
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 livery business, which he has since conducted. 
 He also conducts a feed, grain and hay store and 
 handles coal and wood. His coal sheds are two 
 blocks west, on a siding of the Gulf Railroad, 
 while the offices are on Miner street and First 
 avenue. His livery stable is in the basement of 
 the same, where he also has his feed and sale 
 stable. He is still engaged in hauling; has now 
 three four-horse teams through this, Gilpin and 
 Boulder Counties, engaged in heavy hauling, 
 such as lumber, ore and freight. 
 
 In this place Mr. Ellis married Miss Mary R. 
 Batchelder, who was born in Canada, and is a 
 daughter of Charles Batchelder, now of this city. 
 They have one child, Nettie. Mr. Ellis is a 
 member of the board of aldermen, serving first 
 from 1895 to 1897, and in 1898 was again elected. 
 He is chairman of the committee on streets and 
 alleys, public buildings and the cemetery, and a 
 member of other committees. He belongs to the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is finance 
 keeper of the Knights of the Maccabees. He was 
 a member of the chamber of commerce from its 
 organization. Politically he votes with the 
 People's party. 
 
 (lOHN OWEN, of Idaho Springs, Clear Creek 
 I County, is a very successful mine owner and 
 (2/ promoter. He enjoys a most enviable repu- 
 tation for honesty and straightforwardness, and 
 has won the confidence and esteem of his men by 
 paying them living wages. His parents were 
 wealthy planters of Mississippi. His father, Hon. 
 B. T. Owen, was born in Virginia, the family 
 being old residents of that state, and by perse- 
 verance and industry he became an attorney of 
 ability. He located in Holmes County, Miss., 
 continued the practice of his profession, and was 
 elected to the legislature. He was the attorney 
 for the Mississippi Central (now the Illinois Cen- 
 tral) Railroad, and at the time of the breaking 
 out of the war was the owner of a large planta- 
 tion and was worth about $250,000, which he lost 
 during the struggle. He died in Mississippi in 
 1872. He married Mary Kemp, who was born 
 in Georgia and came with her father to Missis- 
 sippi, where he owned a large plantation. She 
 died in 1893, when past seventy years old. Of 
 the five children, but two are living, a son and 
 daughter. 
 
 Mr. Owen was born in October, 1846, in I<ex- 
 
 ington, Miss., and remained there until the war 
 began. He left school in the spring of 1862 to 
 enlist in Company A, Thirty-eighth Mississippi 
 Confederate Volunteers, and was in the siege of 
 Vicksburg and a number of other engagements. 
 He was captured eleven times, but made his escape 
 each time except once, at Vicksburg, where he 
 was kept until paroled. The last year he was 
 scout under General Forrest and surrendered with 
 him in Alabama. He was orderly sergeant of 
 the company in Vicksburg, and later was mounted 
 scout, as captain of from twelve to sixty men. 
 He was slightly wounded at different times 
 during the engagement, and when he surrendered 
 it was with the determination that his gun would 
 be taken up by him again only in defense of the 
 stars and stripes. After the close of the war he 
 borrowed some money and began a mercantile 
 business at Durant, Miss. He was very success- 
 ful there and also in Lexington and Crystal 
 Springs. In 1873 a number of the banks failed 
 and he was obliged to go down, as did so many 
 others during those panicky times. He settled 
 up his affairs and six years later the story of the 
 great discoveries at Leadville determined him to 
 come to this state and- try to repair his ruined 
 fortune. Accordingly he started for Denver, but 
 came instead to Idaho Springs, where he went to 
 work about the mines in order to learn all about 
 mining. In fifteen months he had made over 
 $2,000 and he then brought his family and settled 
 down there and engaged in mining and pros- 
 pecting. He developed the Dove's Nest on 
 Seaton Mountain, and spent over $80,000 before 
 he took out any ore, and also managed the Silver 
 Glance. He is now manager of the Sun and 
 Moon Mining and Milling Company located on 
 Seaton Mountain, and owns and controls the 
 Gum Tree Mining Company. He is a practical 
 miner, studying his mines and knowing to a cer- 
 tainty just what to do. The GumTree mine pays 
 the highest wages of any mine in this county, 
 which fact is fully appreciated by the many men 
 in his employ. He owns some valuable mining 
 property. 
 
 In Lexington, Miss., Mr. Owen married Miss 
 Fannie Thurmond, who was born in Kemper 
 County, that state, and whose father, Thomas 
 Thurmond, owned a large plantation which is 
 now in her possession. She was related to the 
 statesman, Allen G. Thurman. They have two 
 
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 children: Mary, a graduate of Wolfe Hall, Den- 
 ver, in 1885, andB. T., a practical miner in charge 
 of Gum Tree mine. The daughter is a zealous 
 member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Owen is 
 an Independent silver man, was one of the origi- 
 nal members of the chamber of commerce, and 
 chairman of the committee on mining for many 
 years. He is also a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. They have a beau- 
 tiful residence on High street, and he owns ten 
 acres in the corporation which some day will 
 make a fine plat. 
 
 HON. JAMES KELLY, M. D. Since com- 
 ing to Jefferson County in 1861 Dr. Kelly has 
 been intimately associated with the devel- 
 opment of its resources and the advancement of 
 its interests. For four years he not only engaged 
 in practice, but also conducted an extensive live- 
 stock business upon the farm where he resided. 
 In the fall of 1863 he was elected to the territorial 
 legislature and at the expiration of his term of 
 two years he removed to Golden, where he has 
 since made his home, carrying on professional 
 practice and a drug business. It is probable that 
 he has practiced more years in Colorado than any 
 other physician in the state, and his record as a 
 physician is of the best. 
 
 The Kellys are an old Virginian family. James, 
 who was born in the Old Dominion, as was his 
 father, engaged in farm pursuits and owned a 
 plantation near Morgantown, Monongahela Coun- 
 ty. He married Jane Dale, of Virginia, a de- 
 scendant of English ancestors, and among their 
 children was Matthew, born in West Virginia in 
 1802. In an early day he removed to Ohio and 
 from there went to Decatur County, Ind., in 
 1839, settling upon a farm, where he died at 
 eighty-six years of age. His wife, Charity How- 
 ard, was born in Elizabethtown, Pa. , and died in 
 Indiana at the age of seventy-six years. Her 
 father, Stephen Howard, removed from Pennsyl- 
 vania to Ohio, where he died. During the war 
 of 181 2 he served in the American army. 
 
 Matthew and Charity Kelly had twelve children, 
 eight of whom attained mature years, and several 
 are still living, the doctor being the oldest of all. 
 Two of the sons enlisted in the Civil war, Stephen 
 as a member of an Illinois regiment and David 
 with a company of Indiana soldiers. James was 
 born in Ohio on the last day of 1826 and in 1839 
 
 accompanied his parents to Indiana, where he 
 lived on a farm in Decatur County. After com- 
 pleting the common-school studies he taught in 
 a primitive log schoolhouse in Decatur County 
 for two years. Meantime he began the study of 
 medicine with Dr. Swem, of Greensburg, and in 
 1853 he entered the medical department of the 
 University of Michigan, from which he graduated 
 in 1854 with the degree of M. D. After gradu- 
 ating he settled in Webster County, Iowa, where 
 he practiced his profession. There he remained 
 until i860, when he decided to come to Colorado. 
 He outfitted at Topeka, Kan., and made the trip 
 with an ox-team, reaching Denver June 11 of 
 that year. He practiced for a year in Idaho 
 Springs, and in 1861 removed to a farm on Clear 
 Creek, Jefferson County, where he stocked his 
 place with one hundred head of cattle. It was 
 his intention to devote himself to stock-raising, 
 but so many calls for attendance upon the sick 
 came to him that he finally decided to remove to 
 Golden and open an oiEce, which he did. His 
 practice soon extended all over his own county, 
 and into Clear Creek, Arapahoe and Gilpin Coun- 
 ties. To facilitate his work he found it advisable 
 to open a drug store, and this he has conducted 
 since 1866. For some years he has not engaged 
 in active practice, but a few families who have 
 long had him as attending physician still insist 
 upon his presence during illness, finding his min- 
 istrations more satisfactory than those of a stranger 
 could be. The most of his practice, however, he 
 has relinquished to his son, John Perry, who 
 graduated from the State University medical de- 
 partment in 1881 and is said to be one of the 
 finest physicians in this part of the state. 
 
 On the Republican ticket, in 1866 and 1868 
 Dr. Kelly was elected treasurer of Jefferson Coun- 
 ty. Several times he has been elected mayor of 
 Golden and he also served as alderman until he 
 refused further nomination. He was made a 
 Mason in Homer, Iowa, and is now a member of 
 Golden Lodge No. i, A. F. & A. M., of which 
 he has five times been past master. He also be- 
 longs to Golden Chapter No. 5, R. A. M., in 
 which he is a past officer; and is identified with 
 Colorado Commandery No. i, K. T., at Denver, 
 and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. His son, John 
 Perry, is a thirty-second degree Mason and also 
 belongs to the state and national medical associ- 
 ations. 
 
GEORGE RITTMAYER. 
 
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 In Iowa Dr. Kelly married Miss Minerva G. 
 Dowd, who was born in Ohio, and accompanied 
 her father, Alexander Dowd, to Iowa, settling 
 upon a farm. She died June 14, 1890, at the age 
 of fifty-two years, leaving two sons: John Perry 
 and George, the latter a commission merchant of 
 Denver. The family home is one of the most 
 comfortable and substantial residences in Golden 
 and the grounds indicate the careful supervision 
 of the owner. A man of public and progressive 
 spirit. Dr. Kelly has always been willing to as- 
 sist in the upbuilding of the town and has erected 
 several good houses here. 
 
 SEORGE RITTMAYER. In each commu- 
 nity will be found someone who is not sat- 
 isfied to travel in a beaten track, simply be- 
 cause it is expected, but who wishes to try new 
 methods, introduce new ideas, and make some 
 advancement in the customary manner of doing 
 business. Such a person is a blessing to a neigh- 
 borhood, as he acts as an educator to many who 
 would plod along in the old way if someone did 
 not have the courage to set them an example. 
 Colorado is noted, among other things, for its 
 immense ranges, and the number of cattle within 
 its borders. These cattle, however, are mostly 
 shipped out of the stafe and sold to eastern mar- 
 kets, yielding their owners a neat sum, to be 
 sure, still far short of what they should, and it 
 started one man to thinking how he could in- 
 crease the profit and save the waste entailed. To 
 this end he built a large creamery, fitting it up 
 in the most complete manner, putting in steam 
 and all the improved machinery, including a 
 separator for taking the cream from the milk; 
 and he has practically demonstrated the correct- 
 ness of his views; that he could make a hand- 
 some profit from his cattle, yet in a more agree- 
 able way, to him, than of shipping them off. This 
 man was George Rittmayer, of Arapahoe County. 
 He was born near Bamberg, Germany, Janu- 
 ary 8, 1863, and is a son of Andrew and Anne 
 (Leipold) Rittmayer, natives of the same place. 
 His father came to America in 1872, and settled 
 on a farm in Arapahoe County, Colo. He now 
 lives in retirement on his large ranch not far from 
 the home of our subject. He married Anne Lei- 
 pold, by whom he had five children, as follows: 
 William J., at home; Adam, who conducts a 
 
 grocery store in Denver; John P., who is con- 
 ductor on the street car line; Barbara A. , wife of 
 Frank Walter; and George. 
 
 George Rittmayer was nine years old when his 
 parents landed in this country, and it was here 
 that he received his education. At the age of 
 twenty-five he started out for himself, and three 
 years later he purchased his present property of 
 three hundred and twenty acres. This place is 
 conducted with the most complete system, and 
 is kept in perfect order. He has a large dairy of 
 forty cows, whose milk is taken to the creamery 
 on his ranch, and run through the separator; the 
 cream is made up in choice butter, which finds a 
 ready sale, while skim milk is utilized in raising 
 a great number of hogs and young calves. 
 
 In 1 89 1 Mr. Rittmayer married Miss Anna E. 
 Eachner, a native of the same place, and a 
 daughter of a large grist mill owner and farmer, 
 who djed about fourteen years ago, leaving three 
 sons and one daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. Ritt- 
 mayer have been born two daughters, Leona 
 M. and Barbara G. The family are identified 
 with the Catholic Church. Mr. Rittmayer is 
 liberal in politics. He has served on the .school 
 board and as judge of elections, and is a very 
 popular man in his community. 
 
 r"REDERICK R. BAKER, mayor of Fort 
 r^ Collins, and a resident of Larimer County 
 I ^ since 1873, is of English birth, the son of 
 Richard Baker, a farmer, who brought his family 
 to America in 1852, and settled in Ohio, near 
 Elyria, where he has since engaged in farming, 
 making a special feature of the stock business. 
 His specialty has been the raising of thorough- 
 bred Shorthorns. He is an expert judge of all 
 thoroughbred cattle, and serves as such at the 
 great fairs. He served on the Ohio state board 
 of agriculture for many years, and also as presi- 
 dent of the board. While his life has been pro- 
 longed through eighty active and busy years, he 
 is still hale and robust. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Sarah Gaudern, was born in 
 England and died in Ohio in 1892, at the age of 
 seventy- eight. Of their seven children only two 
 are living, Lizzie C. Baker lives with her father 
 in Ohio. Three died in Colorado, two being on 
 a visit here at the time of their deaths. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in North- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ampton, England, iu 1844, and was educated and 
 grew to manhood in northern Ohio. In 1863 he 
 enlisted in the Union Wght Guard, Seventh Inde- 
 pendent Troop Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, famous 
 as the Black Horse Cavalry, that served as escort 
 to President Lincoln. He, with one hundred and 
 three men composing the company, was raised by 
 Governor Todd for special service, but enlisted 
 as regular three- year volunteers, at Columbus, 
 Ohio, and engaged in duty at Washington, D. C, 
 carrying dispatches of great importance to and from 
 the president and the war department and the 
 army during the excitement of the great Civil 
 war. For a time he did duty for Colonel Baker, 
 chief detective of the war department. He par- 
 ticipated in the grand review and in September, 
 1865, was mustered out of service, and holds to- 
 day an honorable discharge. He cherishes many 
 pleasant remembrances of Abraham Lincoln, 
 whom he became well acquainted with, and con- 
 siders him not only the greatest of statesmen, 
 but the simplest and kindest man he ever knew. 
 After his discharge from the army he engaged in 
 farming in Ohio until 1873, when he came to 
 Colorado and took up a homestead on the bank 
 of the Cache la Poudre River, one-half mile south- 
 east of Fort Collins. This farm, consisting of 
 one hundred and twenty-five acres, he still owns, 
 which proved to be a valuable and productive 
 piece of property. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Baker returned to Ohio and mar- 
 ried Elenora S. Jackson, of Amherst. In Janu- 
 ary of the next year they commenced house-keep- 
 ing upon his homestead. One child was born, 
 Edward R. , at present a student in the State Ag- 
 ricultural College. From 1890 to 1893 Mr. Baker 
 served as county commissioner of Larimer Coun- 
 ty. At that time he moved to Fort Collins. 
 With twenty-four others he was associated in 
 building up the Larimer County Fair Association 
 that gave to the county the best fairs in the state. 
 He has for twelve years been a director of the 
 First National Bank of Fort Collins. Politically 
 he is a Republican and always takes an active 
 part in work for his party. For twenty years, he 
 has been a trustee of the Presbyterian Church 
 and is now president of the board. During the 
 building of the church edifice he was active in 
 the work and generous in his contributions to the 
 building fund. He was a charter member of 
 George H. Thomas Post No. 7, G. A. R., and 
 
 has served as an aide on the staff of the depart- 
 ment commander. In the organization of the 
 Colorado Development Company he took an act- 
 ive part, and is now its president and manager, 
 the company being engaged in buying land and 
 water rights and carrying on large farms. In 
 1895 he was elected mayor of Fort Collins on the 
 anti-license ticket, and in 1897 ^^s re-elected, 
 which ofiice he now holds. Mr. Baker is con- 
 nected with a good many other enterprises, and 
 is one of the busy men of Fort Collins. 
 
 fTREDERICK R. McILHENNY, postmaster 
 IQ and general merchant at River Bend, Elbert 
 I County, also a prominent ranchman, owning 
 a cattle ranch four miles south of the village of 
 River Bend, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 
 1856, a son of Dr. William S. and Catherine 
 (Achufl") Mcllhenny, natives of the same city as 
 himself. The Mcllhenny family came to this 
 country from Scotland. A son of the original 
 settler was Dr. Joseph E. Mcllhenny, who de- 
 voted his entire business life to the dental pro- 
 fession in Philadelphia. His son, William S., 
 was born and reared in Philadelphia and studied 
 for the medical profession, but changed to 
 dentistry, which he practiced. In political views 
 he was a pronounced Republican. He died in 
 December, 1894. The maternal grandfather of 
 our subject, William Achufi^, was engaged in the 
 shoe business in Philadelphia, and was a son of 
 Samuel Achuff, a native of that city. 
 
 The mother of our subject is still living and 
 makes her home with our subject. She has 
 another son, William A., who is postmaster at 
 Iredell, Tex. 
 
 The education acquired by our subject was such 
 as the public schools of Philadelphia afforded. 
 At seventeen he started out for himself. Coming 
 to Colorado, he spent a short time in Manitou, 
 and from there went on a ranch on the divide. 
 In 1874 he started in the hunting business with 
 T. S. Harper, and continued in that way for 
 eight years, after which he came to River Bend 
 and established a store. Later he purchased his 
 present general mercantile business and his store 
 building. 
 
 In politics Mr. Mcllhenny has never allied him- 
 self with either of the prominent political parties, 
 but preserves an independent attitude, voting for 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 the mail or the measures that he believes will 
 best promote the welfare of the people. He has 
 been nominated for clerk and treasurer of the 
 county. In August, 1881, he married Mary M. 
 Hudson, daughter of Rev. A. J. M. Hudson, 
 pastor of an Episcopal Church in Baraboo, Wis. 
 The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Mcllhenny 
 are: Katharine, Theodore, Harold, Norman and 
 vStanley. 
 
 EHARLES W. McFADDEN, who is engaged 
 in farming on Ralston Creek, Jefferson 
 County, was born in Lee County, Iowa, 
 October 25, 1846, being a son of Charles W. and 
 Sarah (Murphy) McFadden. He was one of 
 twelve children, four of whom are still living: 
 Rachael, wife of Benjamin Hall, a farmer in Bel- 
 mont County, Ohio; Jesse, who is engaged in 
 farming and fruit-raising in Yolo County, Cal. ; 
 Henrietta, widow of Jerry Twiggs; and Charles W. 
 
 The father of this family, who was born and 
 reared in Ohio, learned the trade of a millwright, 
 which he followed during his entire life. About 
 1844 he moved to Lee County, Iowa, and settled 
 in Keokuk, when that now flourishing city had 
 only seven houses. He was not spared to reap 
 financial success in his new home, for two years 
 later his life was brought to a close. Seven days 
 after his death his son and namesake was born. 
 The widowed mother attained the age of eighty 
 years and during the latter part of her life traveled 
 extensively; she died in Pueblo, Colo., in 1892. 
 
 At the age of seventeen our subject started out 
 in the world for himself. He arrived in Colorado 
 June 25, 1863, with only thirty cents in his 
 pocket. Soon he secured work as a farm laborer, 
 working on a farm until fall, when he drove a 
 team to the Missouri River for supplies. Return- 
 ing in the spring of the following year, he once 
 more began to work on a farm. August 22, 1864, 
 he enlisted in the Third Colorado Cavalry, for 
 service against the Indians, who were committing 
 many depredations. The regiment pursued the 
 Indians down the Platte River and had a few 
 skirmishes with them, finally succeeding in bring- 
 ing them to bay, when the memorable battle of 
 Sand Creek was fought, with eight hundred 
 Indians killed, and only twenty-eight killed and 
 twelve wounded among the white men. Return- 
 ing to Denver, the cavalry was mustered out of 
 service January i, 1865, 
 
 In the spring of 1865 Mr. McFadden rented 
 eighty acres of land on Ralston Creek and this he 
 purchased two years later; then, ten years after- 
 ward, bought an adjoining eighty acres, so that 
 his present estate comprises a quarter-section of 
 land. On Thanksgiving day of 187 1 he mar- 
 ried Margaret Mallon, of Golden, a native of 
 Genesee, N. Y. They became the parents of four 
 children, three of whom are now living, namely: 
 Katie, a graduate of St. Mary's Academy in Den- 
 ver and now a teacher in the Boulder schools; 
 Charles W. , a graduate from Ralston high school 
 and Denver Business College; and Blanche, a 
 bright child of eight years. Mr. McFadden is a 
 friend to education and at various times has 
 served as a member of the school board. In 1884 
 and again in 1890 he was elected county assessor 
 on the Republican ticket, serving the two terms 
 with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of 
 the people. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Major Anderson Post No. 88, G. A. R. 
 
 0UNCAN E. HARRISON. In 1883 Mr. 
 Harrison opened a drug store on Washing- 
 ton avenue, Golden, and here he has since 
 carried on business, occupying a part of his two- 
 story block of three business places. He carries 
 in stock a full assortment of drugs and medicines, 
 with an accompaniment of toilet articles and 
 notions. He is a pioneer of '59, having been 
 attracted to the state by rumors of the discovery of 
 gold. On the i8th of March he left McGregor, 
 Iowa, with a mule train, and journeyed via Coun- 
 cil Bluffs and Omaha, up the Platte to Fort Lara- 
 mie. At the latter place he learned that the illus- 
 trious statesman, Horace Greeley, was across the 
 river, and so he crossed over to see him. An 
 opportunity arose for a conversation and he asked 
 the advice of one whom he believed was so well 
 fitted, by experience and observation, to give it. 
 Mr. Greeley had been in Colorado and advised 
 him to come here, for he believed prosperity await- 
 ed the industrious settler. Encouraged by this 
 advice, he pushed his way on to the west. He 
 spent a short time at Lake Gulch, where he 
 opened the finst gulch claim, picking the dirt up 
 with a shovel, placing it in a wooden wheelbarrow 
 and wheeling it about three hundred yards to the 
 lake, where he washed the metal out with a hand- 
 rocker. In this work he was reasonably success- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 fill. December 12, 1859, he arrived in Gold- 
 en, where, though he did not entirely abandon 
 mining, he gave his attention principally to con- 
 tracting and building until he started in the drug 
 business. He is a registered pharmacist and has 
 been quite successful in the business. 
 
 John Harrison, father of our subject, was born 
 in London, England, and when a young man 
 enlisted in the British army. He was sent with 
 his regiment to Canada, where he was paymaster 
 sergeant until his retirement from the service. 
 He then settled upon a farm in Cornwall, Ontario, 
 Canada, where he died at the age of fifty 'years. 
 
 He married Annie Mcintosh, who was born in 
 Edinboro, Scotland, and came to America with 
 her father, Duncan Mcintosh, settling in Corn- 
 wall, Ontario. She died in Canada at the age of 
 eighty-six. Her family of fourteen children all 
 attained mature years and all but one are still 
 living, our subject being next to the youngest of 
 the number. He was born in Cornwall in 1829, 
 and received a common-school education. At the 
 age of fifteen he went from Canada to Potsdam, 
 N. Y. , where he served an apprenticeship of three 
 years to the trade of carpenter and joiner. He 
 then went to Ogdensburg, N. Y. , where he was 
 employed as pattern-maker in a pattern shop. 
 From there he went to Canada, then to Indiana, 
 and finally, in 1856, located at McGregor, Iowa, 
 where he assisted in the erection of many build- 
 ings. He remained in that place until he came 
 to Colorado. 
 
 At the old Cataract House, in Niagara Falls, 
 N. Y., August 30, 1854, Mr. Harrison married 
 Miss Mary M. Miles, who was born in Addison 
 County, Vt., the daughter of R. C. Miles, who 
 removed west and settled in Michigan City, Ind. 
 She is a lady of estimable character and a consist- 
 ent member of the Episcopal Church. The 
 union was blessed by the birth of five sons, 
 namely: George R. , deceased; Edward E., a 
 miner at Eureka, Utah; Harry M. , who is a brick- 
 mason in Pittsburg, Pa.; John R. , deceased; and 
 Louis B., who is mining in Durango, Colo. 
 
 Politically a Democrat, Mr. Harrison was elect- 
 ed on that ticket a member of the first board of 
 county commissioners of Jefferson County and 
 served for three years. He is a member of the 
 Association of Colorado Pioneers, the Jefferson 
 County Pioneer Society and Masonic Veteran 
 Association, Pacific coast. Fraternally he is con- 
 
 nected with Golden Lodge No. i, in which he 
 has twice been an officer. He is a man of public 
 spirit, interested in whatever is calculated to pro- 
 mote the welfare of his fellow-men. In business 
 he is quick, keen and discriminating, and by 
 membership in the State Pharmaceutical Associa- 
 tion and in other ways he keeps posted on mat- 
 ters touching his cho.sen occupation. He and his 
 family occupy a pleasant home, situated on the 
 hill across from the School of Mines, and many 
 of his leisure hours are devoted to the care of his 
 grounds. 
 
 CJAMUEL I. LORAH, well known to every- 
 rS one in Central City, Gilpin County, is one of 
 \Z/ the pioneers of the place, as he came here in 
 i860, and from that time to the present has been 
 closely connected with its interests. In 1895 he 
 was appointed by the commissioners of this 
 county to fill the vacancy in the county treas- 
 uryship, owing to the death of Mr. French. He 
 completed the term satisfactorily and has since 
 acted as deputy treasurer. At various times in 
 the past he was a candidate for county oflBces and 
 for the state legislature, but the Democrats, 
 whose nominee he was, were then in a large 
 minority. From 1871 to 1879 he was city clerk 
 of Central City, and in 1891 was elected mayor 
 and served as such for a year. He is a member 
 of the Gilpin County Pioneer Society and has 
 been president of the same three times, and is 
 also identified with the Association of Colorado 
 Pioneers. 
 
 The Lorah family is of German extraction. 
 The great-grandfather of our subject lived and 
 died in Pennsylvania. He was a Revolutionary 
 war patriot, and his son, John, grandfather of the 
 gentleman whose name heads this sketch, was a 
 hero of the war of 18 12. He also took part in 
 some of the Indian wars. This John Lorah, who 
 was born in Berks County, Pa., removed to 
 Wayne County, Ohio, about 1814 or 1815 and 
 settled upon a farm. He died in Wooster, Ohio, 
 when about seventy-six years old. 
 
 Hon. Samuel L- Lorah, father of our subject, 
 was born in Berks County, Pa., in 1809. He 
 was about five years old when he went to Ohio 
 with the family, and, considering his limited ad- 
 vantages in an educational way and in other 
 ways as well, his success in life was truly re- 
 markable. Until 1838 he carried on a tannery 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1093 
 
 at Fredericksburg, Ohio, and was then appointed 
 clerk of the court of common pleas, a position he 
 retained for fifteen years. When the probate 
 court was established in Ohio he was the first 
 probate judge elected for his own, Wayne County, 
 and well did he meet the responsibilities of the 
 office during the next three years. In 1855 he 
 located in Cass County, Iowa, and engaged in 
 farming near Atlantic. He was a member of the 
 Iowa legislature from Cass County for one term; 
 was county judge of Cass County two terms, and 
 in 1858, though defeated, was a candidate for the 
 office of state treasurer. He was prominent as a 
 Knight Templar Mason, and when he died, in 
 1886, was buried with all the honors of the rite. 
 His wife, who had died in Iowa in 1879, was 
 Rachel, daughter of John and Jane (Carson) 
 Wilson, of Scotch and Irish descent and Presby- 
 terians in faith. John Wilson was born in Penn- 
 sylvania and was an early settler and farmer of 
 Wayne County, Ohio. Mrs. Rachel Lorah was 
 born in what was then Beaver County, Pa., in 
 18 13. By her marriage she became the mother 
 of seven children, all of whom are living. They 
 include Mrs. Jane Oathoudt, of Cass Count3% 
 Iowa; Mrs. Ellen Ankeny, of Des Moines, Iowa; 
 Mrs. Emeline Howard and Mrs. Lavinia Ballard, 
 of Cass County; John, of the same county; and 
 Emmett, of Fort Collins, Colo. 
 
 The birth of Samuel I. Lorah occurred in 
 Fredericksburg, Wayne County, Ohio, Janu- 
 ary 20, 1834. He supplemented his public school 
 education by two years of study in Jefferson 
 College, and then, returning home, worked on 
 the farm with his father. In 1856 he went to St. 
 I/Ouis, where he obtained a position as book- 
 keeper in the Darby & Barksdale Bank. In the 
 fall of 1858 he returned to Iowa and was at home 
 until the spring of i860. May 7 of that year he 
 set out for Colorado in the ox-train, overland 
 style, across the plains, up the Platte River from 
 Omaha. Arriving in this state June 10, he pro- 
 ceeded through Boulder and .Gold Hill to Central 
 City, reaching here June 28, i860. The next 
 day he crossed the mountain to Idaho Springs, 
 and for the six weeks following engaged in 
 mining on Grass Valley Bar. Accidentally 
 breaking a leg by the caving in of a mine, he 
 came back to Central City as soon as possible, 
 and in October became a clerk in the post office. 
 Four months later he was given a place as deputy 
 
 postmaster under Sam S. Curtis, in Denver. 
 There he continued to serve three years, or until 
 January, 1864. Then for seven or eight months 
 he was bookkeeper in a private bank in Central 
 City. He resigned in order to join the campaign 
 against the Indians, who were proving very 
 troublesome in northern Colorado. Having been 
 mustered into Company B (Capt. Hal Sayr), 
 Third Colorado Cavalry, he was immediately 
 promoted from the ranks to be sergeant-major of 
 the regiment. At the end of three weeks he was 
 appointed adjutant with the rank of first lieuten- 
 ant by Gov. John Evans, and served under Col. 
 G. E. Shoup, now United States senator from 
 Idaho. Subsequent to the battle of Sand Creek 
 the regiment was mustered out in January, 1865. 
 Mr. Eorah came back to Central City and for two 
 years was a clerk in the office of the count}' clerk 
 and recorder. Since that he has held positions 
 in the First National Bank and with J. B. Chaf- 
 fee & Co.; from 1886 to 1890 he served as re- 
 ceiver of public moneys for the United States 
 land office of Central City, and has spent consid- 
 erable time and money in mining enterprises. 
 At one time he was the owner of the Saratoga, 
 which was one of the best-paying mines in the 
 county. He erected eight buildings in this city, 
 blasting the material out of the solid rock. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Lorah was celebrated 
 in Rochester, N. Y., the lady of his choice being 
 Mrs. Olive (Paton) Gorslin, a native of Alle- 
 gany County, N. Y. She died in this city No- 
 vember 4, 1890. Bela I. Eorah, the eldest child 
 of this union, graduated from the State School 
 of Mines and was engaged in the assay office in 
 Central City. He met his untimely death in the 
 Gumry Hotel disaster, August 19, 1895. Mrs. 
 Olive E. Stark, of Denver, is the only living 
 child of Mr. Eorah' s first marriage. His present 
 wife was formerly Mrs. Agnes O'Neil Manahan, 
 of Faribault, Minn. 
 
 March 29, 1865, Mr. Eorah was made a Mason 
 in Central Eodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and the 
 same year was elected secretarj'. He served in 
 that office until 1890, and again, in 1897, was re- 
 elected to the same position and occupies it to- 
 day. In July, 1866, he was made a member ot 
 Central City Chapter No. i, R. A. M. Elected 
 secretary of the chapter in 1868, he continued to 
 serve them up to 1890, and has done so again for 
 the past year. In February, 1871, Mr. Eorah 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 became a Knight Templar, connected with Central 
 City Commandery No. 2, and since December of 
 that year has been recorder of the same. He is 
 a charter member of Ellsworth Post No. 20, 
 G. A. R. , has been adjutant and quartermaster, 
 and has been an aide on the staff of the depart- 
 ment commander at different times. Politically 
 he has been very active in the Democratic party, 
 working in the county and state committees. 
 Many terms has he been on the school board, 
 both in early days and later, and was serving on 
 it at the time that the high school was built. 
 For years he has been a vestryman in the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 ["RANK L. MONTGOMERY, a prosperous 
 IQ and energetic farmer of Douglas County, 
 I ^ where he has been successfully engaged in 
 the cultivation of the soil since 1872, occupies a 
 handsome farm on Cherry Creek, near the town 
 of Parker, on section 34, township 6, range 66 
 west, and is the proprietor of six hundred and 
 forty acres in this county. In addition to carry- 
 ing on general farming he is also engaged in 
 stock-raising, being one of the largest stock-rais- 
 ers in his community. This highly esteemed 
 citizen was born in Coos County, N. H. , October 
 6, 1846, and is a son of William S. and Mehita- 
 bel E. (Pike) Montgomery. 
 
 Frank L,. Montgomery was but a boy of four 
 years when his parents migrated west and settled 
 in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wis. There his 
 father carried on carriage-making, which trade 
 he had learned in New Hampshire. Our subject 
 was reared to manhood in Oshkosh and spent a 
 number of years working on a farm, his father 
 having settled on a farm on account of his poor 
 health. The mother of our subject died when 
 Frank I,, was eight years of age. He remained 
 under the parental roof until he attained the age 
 of eighteen years, during which time he attended 
 the public schools of that vicinity. In January, 
 1865, he enlisted in Company C, Forty-sixth 
 Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, for one year and 
 was mustered out of the service in October, 1865. 
 His regiment was not in any battle, but was en- 
 gaged in guarding railroads and doing garrison 
 duty in the state of Alabama. 
 
 After our subject received his honorable dis- 
 charge he returned to his home in Wisconsin, and 
 
 March i, 1866, he departed for Denver, Colo., 
 arriving there the 15th of the following month. 
 After working on a ranch a short time he began 
 freighting between Denver and Pueblo and Salt 
 Lake City. He discontinued that business in 1872, 
 and took up a claim of eighty acres of land; later 
 he took up another eighty and then one hundred 
 and sixty acres, the most of which is prairie land. 
 He has since increased his estate to six hundred 
 and forty acres. He has made many improve- 
 ments since taking up his first claim, and his farm 
 ranks among the foremost in this community. 
 He is popular with his fellow-citizens and com- 
 mands the respect of a host of acquaintances. 
 
 November 7, 1872, Mr. Montgomery and Miss 
 Elizabeth Ellen O'Neil, of Arapahoe County, were 
 united in the bonds of matrimony. She is a na- 
 tive of Missouri and a daughter of J. C. and 
 Agnes (Evans) O'Neil. To this happy union six 
 children have been born. Mary Agnes is the wife 
 of Joseph Young and they are the parents of two 
 children; Frank I,, is a farmer by occupation ; 
 Charles G. is employed on a ranch; Nellie is the 
 wife of W. C. Schroer, of Arapahoe County, 
 Colo., and one child has been born to them, Will- 
 iam H.; Edgar and LiHie, the two youngest, are 
 at home. 
 
 Politically Mr. Montgomery is a strong Repub- 
 lican and his first vote was cast for Hayes in 
 1876. For two terms he has served as county 
 commissioner, has been chairman of the board, 
 and it was during this term that the county court- 
 house was erected; he was again offered the 
 chairmanship, but declined. He is a member of 
 Castle Rock Lodge No. 27, A. O. U. W., and 
 J. G. Blunt Post No. 65, G. A. R. 
 
 JqJEORGE E. marsh, who has been a citizen 
 l_l of Georgetown, Clear Creek County, for 
 \^ over thirty -one years, i& one of the honored 
 landmarks of the place. He made the survey of 
 Georgetown which is still used, has been county 
 surveyor for a number of terms and has served as 
 city surveyor for many years. In 1872 he was 
 commissioned to act as United States deputy 
 mineral surveyor, and gave such satisfaction that 
 he was retained longer in office than any other 
 deputy in the state. In all matters of local de- 
 velopment and progress he has taken a very active 
 and interested part, at?d while one of the board of 
 
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 selectmen was enabled to further numerous works 
 of public improvement. For several terms he 
 also was city clerk. In his political opinion he 
 is a stalwart Republican and favors the silver side 
 of the monetary question. From his boyhood 
 his fondness and aptness for scientific matters has 
 been marked, and in 1862 he graduated from the 
 scientific department of Harvard College with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Science. He holds mem- 
 bership with the Harvard Alumni Association 
 and with the Harvard Club, of Denver. 
 
 The Marsh family is of sterling old New 
 England stock; sturdy, industrious, striving al- 
 ways to do full duty towards God and man, and 
 adhering always to the stern old Puritanical 
 faith expressed, in later days, in the Congrega- 
 tional creed. The first of the name in America 
 sailed from England to Connecticut in colonial 
 days and afterward lived in that state and in 
 Massachusetts for generations. The great-grand- 
 father of our subject was a veteran of the Revo- 
 lutionary war. Grandfather Joshua Marsh was 
 born in Montague, Franklin County, Mass., en- 
 gaged in farming there and died in the same 
 locality. 
 
 Dexter Marsh, father of George E. Marsh, was 
 a remarkable man. According to a history of 
 him, given in Appleton's Encyclopedia, he was a 
 humble tiller of the soil, but in that very soil 
 he made discoveries which have been of untold 
 value to the scientific world. Always of a deeply 
 studious bent, he saw the wonderl of nature with 
 a keenly interested, alert mind, and became cele- 
 brated for his researches in the field of geology. 
 He was the discoverer of the fossil footprints in 
 the old Connecticut Valley sandstone in 1830, and 
 made a wonderfully valuable collection of the 
 same. At the time of his death, in 1852, his 
 collection, then the largest in the World it is be- 
 lieved, was divided between the Boston Society 
 of Natural History and Amherst College. For 
 years he was a member of the United States 
 Scientific Society. His wife, Eunice M. , was a 
 daughter of Jacob Everett, of Vermont. She was 
 born in Halifax, Mass. , and was related to Edward 
 Everett. She is now a resident of Greenfield, 
 Mass., and is eighty-three years of age. Her 
 grandfather. Dr. Everett, was a surgeon in the 
 colonial army during the Revolutionary war. 
 Frank, elder son of Dexter Marsh and wife, was 
 a member of the Ninth Illinois Cavalry during 
 
 the Civil war, and now lives in Lexington, Neb. 
 Belle, a daughter, makes her home in New York 
 City; and Emma, youngest of the family, lives in 
 Greenfield, Mass. 
 
 George E. Marsh was born in Greenfield, 
 Mass., in 1840. His education was obtained in 
 the public and high schools of that place, after 
 completing whose curriculum he entered Harvard 
 University. Immediately after graduating and 
 being awarded his degree, in 1862, he enlisted as 
 a private in Company A, Fifty-second Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in 
 at Greenfield. He went on the Banks expe- 
 dition, relieving Butler at the siege of Port Hud- 
 son. At the end of a year he was mustered out 
 of the service at Greenfield. From that time 
 until July, 1866, he was assistant civil engineer 
 on the Troy & Greenfield Railroad, now the 
 Hoosac Tunnel Eine, and on the New London 
 Northern. Having imbibed a strong desire to 
 see Colorado, Mr. Marsh came west in the sum- 
 mer of 1866 and spent a few months in Idaho 
 Springs. The following spring found him in 
 Georgetown and fairly established as a surveyor, 
 civil engineer and mining expert. He has been 
 kept busily engaged in these kindred lines of em- 
 ployment during all the intervening years up to 
 the present time. In 1868 he became a charter 
 member of the first Grand Army post in George- 
 town, and is now connected with Thornburg 
 Post No. 2. He has been commander of the post 
 several times and has frequently been an aide on 
 the staff of the deputy commander. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Marsh married Fanny E. Crosby, 
 of Washington, D. C, daughter of Capt. F. W. 
 Crosby. They have one son, George, Jr., now a 
 student in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, of Boston. 
 
 HON. ALEX. D. JAMESON. Since com- 
 ing to Colorado in 1870, Judge Jameson 
 has been chosen to serve in a number of po- 
 sitions of responsibility and trust, and in every 
 ofiice of which he has been the incumbent every 
 duty has been faithfully and efiiciently dis- 
 charged. For three years he was deputy clerk 
 and recorder of Jefferson County, after which he 
 served as justice of the peace for one year, at the 
 same time carrying on the study of law. In 1875 
 he was the Democratic nominee for probate 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL, RECORD. 
 
 judge, and receiving the election, served for a term 
 of two years. Under the new and ratified con- 
 stitutional convention, the office became that of 
 county judge, to which he was elected in 1880, 
 serving from January, 1881, until January, 1884. 
 Afterward, failing health made it advisable 
 for him to relinquish his professional work and 
 engage in another occupation, and he therefore 
 began merchandising, as a member of the firm 
 of Jameson & Koenig, which partnership was 
 dissolved two years later. In 1887 he was ap- 
 pointed clerk and cashier of the state peniten- 
 tiary, which position he held under two wardens, 
 resigning in 1891. On his return to Golden he 
 engaged in the abstract title business for a short 
 time, but soon sold out. The year of his return 
 to this city he was appointed deputy district at- 
 torney, which position he still holds, having 
 served under four consecutive district attorneys. 
 For two years he represented his ward upon the 
 board of aldermen of Golden, but at the expira- 
 tion of his term refused to serve further, though 
 elected a second time to the position. He is a 
 leading Democrat and a member of the county 
 central committee of the partj\ 
 
 The Jamieson (for in that way the name was 
 originally spelled) family originated in the north 
 of Ireland, and from there three brothers came to 
 America, all of whom settled in New Hampshire. 
 One of them, Thomas, our subject's grandfather, 
 was a soldier in the Revolution and the war of 
 18 12. He removed to western New York and 
 settled in Erie County, where it is supposed his 
 son, Alexander D., Sr., was born. The latter, 
 with an older brother, Archibald, accompanied 
 his father to the front as a soldier in the war of 
 1812. In 1849 he moved to Iowa and located 
 three miles north of Andrew, in Richland Town- 
 ship, Jackson County, where by purchase of gov- 
 ernment and other laud, he acquired the title to 
 four hundred acres. His death occurred on his 
 farm there at the age of fifty years. His wife, 
 Helen, was born near Buffalo, N. Y., the daughter 
 of Dr. William Warriner.who was born in Ver- 
 mont, and engaged in medical practice in New 
 York. During the war of 18 12 he served as a sur- 
 geon, and his death occurred about that time. He 
 married a daughter of Captain Bemis, an ofiicer in 
 the Revolution, who was shot in the leg while 
 in a battle, and died from the effects of the injury 
 received. Mrs. Jameson died in Iowa at the age 
 
 of sixty-seven. Of her five children three are 
 living, our subject being the youngest. The 
 oldest child, W. H., served in the war as a mem- 
 ber of the Second Iowa Cavalry, and now resides 
 in Marshalltown, Iowa. 
 
 Near Buffalo, Erie County, N. Y., the subject 
 of this sketch was born December 31, 1847. He 
 was reared in Jackson County, Iowa. At the 
 age of fifteen he ran away from home and en- 
 listed in Company H, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, which 
 was mustered into service at Davenport and sent 
 south. In the spring of 1864 he took part in the 
 famous march through Georgia, participating in 
 the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Snake Creek, 
 Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Lovejoy Station 
 and the siege of Atlanta, then back to Nashville 
 under General Thomas, and taking part in the 
 battles of Columbia, Duck Creek, Franklin, 
 Nashville, the second battle of Franklin and the 
 engagement at Pulaski. The winter of 1864-65 
 was spent in camp in Alabama. In the spring 
 of 1865 he took part in the Wilson raid from De- 
 catur, Ala., to Selma, Ala., and Macon, Ga., 
 looking for Jefferson Davis. Later he did recon- 
 struction duty at Atlanta. He was mustered out 
 at Nashville August 11, 1865, and honorably 
 discharged at Clinton, Iowa. During all his 
 period of service he was neither wounded nor 
 captured. He was the youngest member of the 
 regiment and one of the youngest soldiers in the 
 army. He is a member of T. H. Dodd Post No. 
 3, G. A. R., of which he is past commander. 
 
 After returning from the war he attended 
 Bailey Commercial College at Dubuque, where he 
 graduated. He then accompanied the family to 
 Audubon County, settling near Atlantic. A year 
 later, in 1870, he came to Colorado and has since 
 made Golden his home. Here he married Sarah 
 A. Thornton,' a native of England, and by her 
 he has five children: Helen Grace, a graduate of 
 the Colorado State Normal School at Greeley, 
 and a teacher in the high school of Golden; Ger- 
 trude B., a graduate of the high school here; 
 Blanche, Alexander Thornton and Catherine S. 
 Mrs. Jameson for many years has been a member 
 of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally Mr. 
 Jameson is connected with the Knights of Pythias 
 and the Patriotic Order Sons of America. For 
 several terms he served as secretary of the school 
 board, during which time he was in charge of 
 the building of the North school building. 
 
WARCELLIN PINEAU. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAIv RECORD. 
 
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 I R ARCElvLIN PINEAU came to Colorado in 
 y September, 1865, and settled in Denver, 
 y where he worked at the tailor's trade. 
 After a time he located on Coal Creek, Arapahoe 
 County, where he now owns a valuable ranch of 
 four hundred and eighty acres. The place is 
 fenced and contains the usual improvements of 
 house, barns, etc. , while a part of the land is used 
 for pasturage and the remainder planted to corn 
 and hay that is used for feed. The results are 
 due to his energy and perseverance, for he has 
 worked untiringly to secure needed improvements 
 on the place and has used every precaution in 
 purchasing stock to secure only the best grades. 
 A native of Chouviney, Middle France, Mr. 
 Pineau was born June 5, 1824, a son of John and 
 Jane (De Cham) Pineau. The parents remained 
 until death in their native land, the former dying 
 there in 1S63. In his family there were two sons 
 and one daughter. Peter was a grain dealer in 
 France, but is now deceased. Mart married Louis 
 Repeaux and is living in France. Our subject 
 spent his early life in his native country, where 
 he was educated in the schools. At the age of 
 nineteen he started out for himself, having pre- 
 viously learned the tailor's trade. He remained 
 in Paris until 1855, when he crossed the ocean, 
 settled in Chicago, and for seven years carried on 
 business in that city. After coming to Colorado 
 he worked at his trade until coming to his ranch. 
 He pre-empted, homesteaded and made a timber 
 claim. The former he sold and later bought one 
 hundred and sixty acres more. He is married 
 and has one son, Lucian Marcell, who is in the 
 Colorado Iron Works. 
 
 Since becoming a citizen of this country Mr. 
 Pineau has been loyal to the welfare of the nation 
 and its interests. Politically he believes in Re- 
 publican principles and votes the straight party 
 ticket. In his school di.strict he has served as 
 treasurer, and it was through his efforts that the 
 first school was started here. In religion he is a 
 Catholic. He has been a very successful business 
 man, and is one of the best-known stockmen in 
 his vicinity. For a time he lived in Central City 
 and managed the Central City Hotel while there. 
 
 County. He was born in Guernsey County, 
 Ohio, May 14, 1864, and received a fair edu- 
 cation in the public schools of his native place. 
 At nineteen years of age he went to Iowa, where 
 for eighteen months he was employed as a farm 
 hand, and in that way he gained an excellent 
 knowledge of agricultural pursuits. Returning 
 from Iowa to Ohio, he engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising for himself, and, being industrious 
 and persevering, he was prospered. 
 
 Believing, however, that Colorado offered better 
 opportunities to a farmer than did his own state, 
 in 1888 Mr. Secrest came to Colorado. On his 
 arrival here he became a partner of his brother 
 in the farming and stock business in Jefferson 
 County, the two owning a well-improved farm 
 near Ar\'ada. For some years they have also 
 been engaged in the threshing business, being 
 proprietors of a steam threshing machine, which 
 they operate during the season. 
 
 The two brothers are men of business ability, 
 energetic, capable and honorable. Agriculture, 
 in its various departments, has formed their chief 
 occupation in life, and the manner in which they 
 have taken advantage of every method or plan 
 tending to the enhanced value of their property 
 has had considerable to do with their success. 
 They own and cultivate a valuable tract of land, 
 and everything about the farm indicates their 
 careful and intelligent supervision. 
 
 I UTHER C. SECREST is in partnership 
 I C with his brother, T. E. , in farming and the 
 12 threshing business, and ranks among the 
 enterprising young agriculturists of Jefferson 
 48 
 
 'HOMPSON E. SECREST, a progressive 
 and well-known agriculturist of Jefferson 
 Count}', was born in Guernsey County, 
 Ohio, February 8, 1865, a son of Henry G. and 
 Hannah S. (Rose) Secrest. He remained at 
 home until fifteen years of age, when he came 
 west as far as Iowa, and for two years taught in 
 public schools in that state. In 1S82 he refused 
 a school tendered him and came to Colorado on a 
 tour of inspection, arriving in Denver on the 
 12th of April. He was favorably impressed with 
 the country and determined to locate here. After 
 about a week he and a companion, who had come 
 with him from Iowa, went up into the mountains 
 and built a hut at Kenosha, in South Park, where 
 they remained for three months. 
 
 Returning from Kenosha to the vicinity of 
 Denver, a short time afterward the two young 
 men crossed the plains into Kansas. In three 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 months, however, Mr. Secrest was again in Den- 
 ver, and afterward he worked as a farm hand in 
 the neighborhood of that city. During 1885 he 
 rented a tract of land, which lie began to culti- 
 vate. The next year he bought his present farm, 
 which is situated some three miles northeast of 
 Arvada, and here he and his brother, Luther C. 
 have since carried on a general farming and 
 cattle-feeding business, in which they have been 
 very successful. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Secrest took place June 2, 
 1897, and united him with Elizabeth Ault, an 
 estimable lady, of this county. In the public 
 affairs of his locality he takes an intelligent inter- 
 est. Politically he is a Democrat. His attention, 
 however, is given almost entirely to his farm 
 interests and to operating a threshing machine 
 that he owns. 
 
 "HOMAS JEFFERSON STIVER, M. D., of 
 Denver, was born in Center County, Pa., 
 January 9, i860, and is a descendant of 
 German ancestry. His great-grandfather, Samuel 
 Stiver, was a native of German}' and founded the 
 family in America, crossing the ocean to Pennsyl- 
 vania and settling in Penn's Valley, in Center 
 County. Next in line of descent was Samuel, Jr. , 
 who had one of the original land grants of Center 
 County, consisting of a large tract of land, in the 
 improvement of which he engaged. Honest and 
 industrious, as well as intelligent, he wielded an 
 influence for good among his neighbors, and was 
 one of the most highly respected men of his 
 locality. He attained the age of almost ninety 
 years. His marriage united him with a Scotch 
 lady and they reared a large family. 
 
 Of their sons one was Thomas Jefferson Stiver, 
 Sr. , father of the doctor. He was born in Center 
 County and upon arriving at man's estate selected 
 farming for his life work. To it he devoted his 
 active years, but not to the exclusion of matters 
 relating to the public welfare. He was always 
 interested in the growth and progress of his 
 county, and took an especial interest in educa- 
 tional matters. For twenty-seven years he was 
 president of the school board, in which capacity 
 he did much toward promoting the standard of 
 education in his neighborhood. His name among 
 his acquaintances stood for every quality that 
 marks a good citizen. To each of his six sons 
 he gave good educational advantages and he was 
 
 proud of their attainments and honorable char- 
 acter. He died in 1872, at the age of seventy-six 
 years. His wife, Mary F., was a daughter of 
 William Bike, of Aaronsburg, Pa. They are the 
 parents of eight children: Rev. Samuel Stiver; 
 William Stiver, M. D.; Prof. Perry O. Stiver; 
 James R. and Thomas J., both physicians; David 
 S. Stiver, D. D. S. ; Maggie; and Belle, wife of 
 Edward Ward, M. D., of Bellefonte, Pa. 
 
 After having studied in an academy for a time, 
 the subject of this sketch began to teach school 
 when he was sixteen years of age and continued 
 in the occupation during the winters until he was 
 twenty-two, the intervening summers being de- 
 voted to academic study. He studied for three 
 years in the medical department of the University 
 of Denver, from which he graduated in 1895. 
 After graduating he became assistant to the chair 
 of rhinology and laryngology in the university, 
 which position he has since held. He is a mem- 
 ber of the alumni of the university and the Colo- 
 rado State Medical Society and also a member of 
 the American Medical Society. During the short 
 time he has engaged in professional work he has 
 built up a good practice, with flattering prospects 
 for future success. 
 
 UJELSON FRANKLIN, superintendent and 
 rV manager of the State Ore Sampling Com- 
 IZd pany, of Blackhawk,, Gilpin County, is a 
 gentleman who has risen to prominence and pros- 
 perity by native force of character and genius. 
 Handicapped to an unusual degree in his youth, 
 he made a brave struggle and eventually won 
 success as he truly deserved. Always an inter- 
 ested student along scientific lines he mastered 
 with comparative ease problems in chemistry, 
 mineralogy and assaying and is an authority on 
 these subjects. He is a member of the Colorado 
 Scientific Society and has given his earnest atten- 
 tion to the matter of extracting gold and .silver 
 from the ore in which it occurs. 
 
 The eldest in a family of six children. Nelson 
 Franklin practically brought up his brothers and 
 sisters, even though he did not possess the best 
 of health when he was a young man. He was 
 born in Brantford, Canada, in 1857, his parents 
 being Job and Fannie (Field) Franklin. The 
 father was a native of Herefordshire, England, 
 born in 1830. He was about twelve years old 
 when he accompanied his father, William Frank- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lin, and the rest of the family to America, and 
 settled in the neighborhood of Brantford, Ontario, 
 where they engaged in farming. When he had 
 reached man's estate he married a lady whose 
 birth had also taken place in Herefordshire, and 
 whose father, John Field, of the same locality, 
 had become a fanner of Brantford, Canada, when 
 she was a young girl. Mrs. Franklin died at the 
 old home near Brantford in 1874. The father 
 went to California in 1873, and from that time 
 until his death, in i89i,was a ranchman and con- 
 tractor in the vicinity of San Francisco. They 
 were the parents of six children, all of whom 
 survive. The eldest daughter, Jennie, is Mrs. 
 Thomas H. Fair, of Toronto, and the next one. 
 Rose, is Mrs. J. Holtby, of Belvidere, 111. Will- 
 iam, the forth child, is engaged in running a 
 market in Belvidere, 111. Mrs. Annie Hart re- 
 sides in Red Bluff, Cal.; and Job, the youngest, is 
 in Santa Rosa, Cal. 
 
 On account of his delicate health Nelson Frank- 
 lin did not attend school very much in his boy- 
 hood, and is indebted to his own private study, in 
 a large measure, for his liberal education. When 
 he was sixteen he became a bookkeeper for a dry- 
 goods house, and within six months was made 
 head bookkeeper, which position he retained for 
 six years. He then went to Buffalo, N. Y., and 
 occupied a similar place for two and a-half years, 
 after which he came to Colorado. This was in 
 1882, and during the following four years he 
 prospected and mined in the San Juan district, 
 and opened and developed the Vanderbilt and the 
 Blizzard mines, which he still owns. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Franklin commenced taking con- 
 tracts for building railroads, and for four years 
 was employed in carrying out work for the Mid- 
 land, the Rio Grande, the Santa Fe, the Rio 
 Grande Southern and Franklin & Carroll. One 
 mile of railroad which he built for the Rio 
 Grande, in the Grand River canon, is a marvel of 
 skill and engineering and cost the corporation 
 $1 16,000. In 1890 Mr. Franklin became superin- 
 tendent and chemist for the Gold and Silver Ex- 
 traction Company, and was the first to success- 
 fully develop and use in practical manner the 
 cyanide process. For the next few years he was 
 busily occupied in introducing this new system 
 and erecting mills in various localities. Since 
 1896 he has been the manager of the State Ore 
 Sampling Company, which concern operates a 
 
 plant capable of handling one hundred tons per 
 day. Mr. Franklin is interested in several mines 
 and is developing mines in Nevada District, Gil- 
 pin County. 
 
 Fraternally our subject is a Mason, having 
 been admitted to the lodge in Brantford, Canada; 
 made a Royal Arch Mason in Buffalo, and while 
 in that city becoming a member of Lake Erie 
 Commandery No. 21, K. T. He now belongs to 
 Union Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., of Denver; 
 Royal Arch Chapter of Denver; Colorado Com- 
 mandery No. I, K. T., of Denver, and El Jebel 
 Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is master workman 
 of Central City Lodge No. 16, A. O. U. W., of 
 Central City, and is identified with Blackhawk 
 Lodge No. 4, K. of P. Politically he is a Demo- 
 crat and has often attended conventions of the 
 party as a delegate. 
 
 Mr. Franklin was married in Denver to Miss 
 Zora Seaman, who was born in Georgetown, Colo. 
 Her father, LaFayette Seaman, was an early 
 pioneer in this state, coming here in i860, and 
 his death took place in Denver a few years ago. 
 The two children born to our subject and his 
 estimable wife are named Electa and LaFayette. 
 The family reside in Central City, where they 
 have a very pretty and attractive home. 
 
 (TOHNS. McCLAVE owns and occupies one 
 I of the most comfortable brick country houses 
 O to be found in Weld County. It was erected 
 by him in 1 886 and adds greatly to the value and 
 desirability of the homestead. Fifteen years ago 
 he bought his property, known as Fulton fann, 
 and has since been extensively engaged in stock- 
 raising and general farming. The place com- 
 prises two hundred and forty acres, and is well 
 adapted for the pasturing of live stock. During 
 the winter Mr. McClave feeds about fifteen hun- 
 dred sheep, to say nothing about his cattle and 
 horses, of which he keeps a good many at all 
 times. In addition to this farm he owns eight 
 hundred acres located on the Arkansas River, and 
 that property is managed by his sons. Beard and 
 Perry, enterprising young men. The success 
 which our subject has achieved in life is some- 
 thing of which he may be justly proud, for he 
 began the battle without capital, save his strong, 
 willing hands and brave heart. 
 
 Stephenson McClave, father of the above, was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a native of Grafton, N. H., born in 1806. When 
 he was a young man he went to Boston to learn 
 the machinists' trade and from there he went to 
 Mobile, Ala. He remained in that city three 
 years and in the dread yellow fever epidemic of 
 1830 he was one oi the sufferers. As soon as he 
 had suflSciently recovered he settled in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, where he passed the rest of his days, 
 chiefly engaged in farming. He died in 1883. 
 In politics he was a Whig andlater a Republican. 
 He was a son of John McClave, of New Hamp- 
 shire, in which state the common ancestor of the 
 family had settled upon his arrival here from 
 Scotland. Our subject's mother, Sarah (Bang- 
 heart) McClave, was a native of Trenton, N, J., 
 and died in 1874, aged sixty-four years. Of her 
 six children five survive: J. S.; William, a 
 resident of Illinois; Sarah, wife of Erskine 
 Sellick, of Buckley, 111.; Michael J., of Loveland; 
 and Stephen, of the same place. 
 
 John S. McClave was born near Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and was educated in the public schools and 
 in Antioch College. Then he taught school in 
 Clermont County for some five years, and later 
 turned his attention to farming. From 1872 to 
 1883 he was a wholesale dealer in grain in 
 Illinois, buying and selling in all parts of the 
 state. March 16, 1883, he landed in Platteville, 
 with the intention of locating here permanently, 
 and the following autumn he purchased his pres- 
 ent place. He is a stockholder in the Platteville 
 Ditch Company and has been president of the 
 same for some six or seven years. 
 
 During a period of three years Mr. McClave 
 was secretary of school district No. 31. In 1888 
 he was brought forward as a candidate for the 
 Colorado legislature, but was defeated, owing to 
 the much greater acquaintanceship and longer 
 years of residence here of his opponent, Francis 
 W. Hammitt. He has always been an active Re- 
 publican, and when in Illinois was a justice of 
 the peace. He is a charter member of Platte- 
 ville lyodge No. 81, I. O. O. F. , and is past grand 
 and is a member of the grand lodges of Illinois 
 and Colorado, and formerly was identified with 
 the encampment in Illinois. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. McClave married Miss Hattie M. 
 Goodell, daughter of John Good ell, of Lime, 
 Grafton County, N. H. Eight children were 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. McClave, namely: Albert, 
 Beard T., Maude M. (Mrs. R. Haythorn), Perry, 
 
 Hattie, Ada, Blanche and Ray E. Albert has 
 much of the responsibility of the management of 
 the home farm. Ray is attending the State Agri- 
 cultural College in Fort Collins. Hattie and Ada 
 are graduates of the state preparatory school at 
 Boulder. Ada is now teaching in the Denver 
 public schools; and Hattie and Blanche are teach- 
 ing in the Eaton schools. 
 
 r"REDERICK C. SCHRODER was born in 
 r^ Germany December 24, 1849, ^^^> aside 
 I ^ from his brother Henry, was the only child 
 of Eilert Schroder, a native of Elmendorf, Ger- 
 many, born about 1822, and a farmer by occupa- 
 tion. When he was a boy he had such advan- 
 tages as the neighboring schools afforded. At 
 the age of twenty-one he enlisted in the army 
 and took part in the Franco- Prussian war, serv- 
 ing for two years and eight months in thcarmy. 
 On his return home he resumed work on the 
 farm. In 1876, having decided to emigrate to 
 America, he set sail on a steamer, which landed 
 him in New York City after a short voyage. In 
 a few days he went to Kansas, where he spent 
 two years each in Donovan and Washington 
 Counties, engaged in farm pursuits. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1880, Mr. Schroder 
 begun mining in Summit County, where he re- 
 mained for fifteen years, puring that time for- 
 tune favored him and he discovered valuable 
 mining properties. For some eight months, in 
 1890-91, he engaged in prospecting in New Mex- 
 ico. He came to Clear Creek Valley in 1895 
 and purchased his present place of twenty-five 
 acres, where he has since engaged in gardening 
 and fruit-growing. In 1895 he built a substan- 
 tial and commodious brick residence, which is 
 handsomely furnished and provides a comfortable 
 home for his family. 
 
 October 7, 1894, Mr. Schroder married Mrs. 
 Julia A. Petrie, widow of William H. Petrie. 
 She was born in Pleasantville, Weschester Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., a daughter of Milo M. Parrish, a na- 
 tive of Stockbridge, Mass. Her father removed 
 in early life to Westchester County and for many 
 years carried on business as a marble contractor 
 in Plea.santville and Tuckaho, being the owner 
 of valuable marble quarries. His wife was Mary 
 Tallman, a native of Newburg, N. Y. Mrs. 
 Schroder is a woman of far more than ordinary 
 
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 ability. She possesses qualities that make her 
 counsel valuable not only in the management of 
 household afiairs, but also in the conduct of the 
 business. In December, 1896, she became the 
 owner of a half-interest in the Puzzle group of 
 mines, one of the valuable mining properties of 
 Breckeniidge, and now operated under lease to 
 Messrs. Nelson and Young. 
 
 gENJAMIN WOODBURY, proprietor of the 
 Fruitvale Nurseries near Boulder, purchased 
 his present home place often acres in 1882. 
 At that time there was not a tree or building on 
 the land, and it bore little resemblance to the 
 beautiful, well-kept country place it is to-day, 
 with its fine orchards, lawns and residence. The 
 latter was erected by our subject in the summer 
 of 1883, since- which he has added to and im- 
 proved it until it is one of the most desirable 
 modern homes of Boulder or vicinity. He is a 
 pratical fruit-grower and florist and is making a 
 success of the undertaking. 
 
 The father of our subject, Simon Woodbury, 
 was born in Bremen, Lincoln County, Me., in 
 1806. He learned the trade of a millwright and 
 carpenter, following those callings in his native 
 place until shortly before his death, at the ad- 
 vanced age of eighty-nine years. He was county 
 commissioner two terms and acted in various 
 minor ofiices in his community. His wife bore 
 the maiden name of Hannah Yates, and all of 
 their six children are living. Thomas is a resi- 
 dent of San Francisco County, Cal. Matilda, 
 Lucy and Caroline are married; and John L. is a 
 contractor and builder in Denver, Colo. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of Benjamin Wood- 
 bury of this sketch bore the same Christian name. 
 He came to this country from England accom- 
 panied by two brothers, one of whom went to 
 Cleveland, Ohio, while the other located in the 
 northern part of Maine. He took up his own 
 abode in Lincoln County, Me., and devoted him- 
 self to agriculture. Grandfather Thomas Yates, 
 also a Maine farmer, and a veteran of the Revo- 
 lution, was a native of the Emerald Isle. On his 
 father's side, the great-grandfather of our sub- 
 ject, a Mr. Farrer, was a participant in the war 
 of the Revolution, but more remarkable than 
 this is the fact, that of his family of ten sons 
 and two daughters, eight of the sons were also 
 
 soldiers in the colonial struggle for independence. 
 It is a question if such a record was made by any 
 other family, either in that war or in any of the 
 succeeding wars of this country, for where is 
 there another case where a father and his eight 
 sons were participants in one great battle, as was 
 the case when this notable nine fought for the 
 same cause in the engagement at Lake Cham- 
 plain. Small wonder that a land which could 
 muster forth such devoted families should con- 
 quer over all her enemies and become one of the 
 grandest governments on the earth. 
 
 Benjamin Woodbury was born in Bremen, 
 Me., July 27, 1 83 1, and under his father's in- 
 struction learned the trades of carpenter and 
 millwright. For two seasons he worked in the 
 ship-yards at Bath, Me., and in 1853 he deter- 
 mined to seek his fortunes in the west. At St. 
 Louis he took the first steamer that went up the 
 Missouri River that spring. Kansas had not yet 
 been organized into a territory, and it stretched 
 out toward the setting sun in dreary, unbroken 
 prairie. Some fifteen or twenty families had 
 settled at a point that was called Ossawatomie, 
 and here Mr. Woodbury located. He built a 
 shop and a house and then proceeded to erect 
 numerous houses and barns for the new citizens of 
 the little town. The place was near four Indian 
 reservations, and, as the red-skins were doing 
 considerable farming, our subject found his spare 
 time well occupied in manufacturing and repair- 
 ing wagons, farm implements, etc. He also 
 entered eighty acres of land, but he suflfered so 
 severely with ague that he sold out about twenty 
 months later and returned to Chicago, where he 
 had spent a few days when on his westward 
 journey. In that city, destined to become a 
 great metropolis, he worked at his trade and at 
 building canal boats. In 1859 he had charge of 
 the hydraulics of the Illinois and Michigan 
 Canal Company. 
 
 In i860 the attractions of the great and grow- 
 ing west again appealed to him so strongly that 
 he came to Colorado, and for a few months pros- 
 pected in Gilpin County. In the autumn he 
 went to New Mexico, only to return here in the 
 spring following. That summer and fall he 
 worked at gulch mining near Idaho Springs. In 
 1 86 1 he returned to Gilpin County and for the 
 next three years put up mills in Blackhawk and 
 vicinity, often employing from forty to eighty 
 
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 men, their labors extending to Clear Creek and 
 Boulder Counties. In 1867 our subject built the 
 first wing of the Canon City penitentiary, for the 
 government, and in 1872 he built^the first wing of 
 the Laramie City penitentiary, also for the gov- 
 ernment. In 1873 Mr. Woodbury moved his 
 family to Denver, and purchased a small home 
 on Wheat Ridge, north of Sloan's Lake. His 
 land here numbered eight acres. In 1875 he re- 
 moved to Boulder and again engaged in mill- 
 wrighting until he invested in his fruit farm. He 
 was a mason, belonging to the lodge at Black- 
 hawk, of which he was a charter member. 
 Politically his ballot is used for the nominees of 
 the silver Republican party. 
 
 "HOMAS A. LEWIS is a member of the 
 firm of Abbo & Lewis, proprietors of a liv- 
 ery and sales stable in Morrison, Jefferson 
 County. He is a native of Kingston, Canada, 
 bom July 14, 1847, and was one of nine children, 
 seven now living, who comprised the family of 
 Joel and Jane (Henderson) Lewis. His father, 
 who was born in Edwardsburg, Canada, in 1823, 
 remained in that place until thirty-four years of 
 age, meantime devoting himself to farming and 
 contracting on the Grand Trunk Railroad. In 
 1857 he moved to Kansas, and for two years cul- 
 tivated land in Franklin County. Accompanied 
 by his family, in the spring of 1859 he crossed 
 the plains with an ox-team, arriving in Denver 
 on the loth of June. After a few days he went 
 to Golden and from there he soon proceeded to 
 Boulder and spent the winter of 1859-60 in pros- 
 pecting there and in Russell Gulch. In the 
 spring of i86c he went to Nevadaville and en- 
 gaged in mining there until the fall of 1862, 
 when he came to Bear Creek and purchased the 
 ranch which he has since operated, and where 
 he still makes his home. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one our subject went to 
 the mountains with a team and began hauling. 
 After one year he returned to Bear Creek, where 
 he rented land four miles east of Morrison. The 
 following year he rented a place in Littleton, 
 then returned to Bear Creek, where he operated 
 as a renter for two years. Afterward, buying a 
 farm of one hundred and sixty acres on Bear 
 Creek, one and one-half miles east of Morrison, 
 he settled down to the busy life of a farmer. In 
 
 1876, during the Black Hills excitement, he sold 
 his place and went to the new mining country, 
 where he engaged in the dairy business and in 
 putting up hay. On his return he bought an 
 eighty-acre farm in Longmont, but after two 
 years sold that place and went to the Gunnison 
 country, where he embarked in the dairy busi- 
 ness. 
 
 On his return to Bear Creek in 188 1, Mr. Lewis 
 bought two hundred and eighty acres situated 
 four miles east of Morrison. This property he 
 afterward sold, and purcha.sed five hundred and 
 fourteen acres adjoining it, which he now owns. 
 In 1892 he rented that place and bought an 
 interest in the liverj' business of Abbo & Brown, 
 which business has since been continued under 
 the firm title of Abbo & Lewis. He still owns 
 two hundred acres of land one-half mile east of 
 Morrison, but the property is operated by ten- 
 ants. Fraternally he is connected with Morrison 
 Lodge No. 82, I. O. O. F. , and is the present 
 treasurer of the lodge. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Lewis married Miss Sarah E. 
 Donovan, daughter of Cornelius Donovan. Her 
 father, who was a native of Bourbon County, 
 111., moved to Illinois in boyhood and remained 
 there until 1859, when he came to Colorado. He 
 endured all the hardships and shared the expe- 
 riences common to the pioneers of 1859. Farm- 
 ing was his life work, and in it he met with fair 
 success. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 
 are: Amy L. and Oscar R. The daughter is 
 the wife of James Abbo, member of the firm of 
 Abbo & Lewis, and a prominent farmer of Jefier- 
 son County. 
 
 ©AMUEL STROUSSEis one of the old resi- 
 /\ dents of Georgetown, and has been the 
 \Z/ longest engaged in his line of business of 
 any merchant in the city. He has been enter- 
 prising and very successful, and has frequently 
 established branch houses elsewhere, afterwards 
 disposing of them, while he continued to retain 
 his original location here. He possesses the es- 
 teem and respect of the entire community, who 
 do not begrudge him the prosperity so justly 
 gained by him in the legitimate lines of trade. 
 
 Mr. Strousse is a native of Bavaria, Germany, 
 his birth having occurred near the city of Augs- 
 burg, April 29, 1850. His father was of an old 
 and respected family there, and was a land- 
 
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 owner and stock-dealer. Both parents lived and 
 died in Germany. The mother bore the maiden 
 name of Clara Laubheimer, and in her girlhood 
 her home was in Wurtemberg. Of the eight 
 children of this worthy couple all but two remain 
 in Germany. These two, Emil and Samuel, 
 are in America, Emil being in business with our 
 subject in Georgetown. 
 
 When he was a lad of thirteen years Samuel 
 Strousse went to the city of Frankfort-on-the- 
 Main, where he served an apprenticeship to the 
 trade of manufacturing passamenterie trimming. 
 Then, on account of the law forcing young men 
 into the army for a term of years, he decided to 
 come to the United States. He left Havre in 
 1869, and upon reaching New York he obtained 
 a position as a clerk, and held the place for a 
 few months. In December, 1869, he landed in 
 Georgetown, and found employment with a Mr. 
 Trapp, a merchant. In 1870 he started in busi- 
 ness for himself on Sixth street, and has since 
 been extensively engaged in dealing in dry 
 goods and clothing. He opened a branch store 
 in Silver Plume, and carried it on until the busi- 
 ness was purchased of him by his brother-in-law, 
 Mr. Morgenthau. 
 
 In 1880 Samuel Strousse embarked in business 
 in Leadville, and was the proprietor of one of the 
 largest houses of the kind in that place, until, at 
 the end of some three years, the strike of the 
 Molly Maguires occurred, when Mr. Strousse 
 closed up his store and brought his goods to 
 Georgetown. In addition to his other afifairs, he 
 has investments in mining property and real 
 estate, and loans money, as well. Politically he 
 is a stanch Republican. For years he has been 
 treasurer of the Odd Fellows' Lodge No. 18, and 
 is now noble grand. He is also identified with 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 April 9, 1873, Mr. Strousse married Miss Flora 
 Morgenthau, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. 
 Strousse is the eldest in a family of seven children, 
 her parents being Sampson and I<ena (Gutmann) 
 Morgenthau, natives of Fiirth and Dispecht, 
 Bavaria, Germany, respectively. The father was 
 a merchant in Cincinnati and later in New York. 
 Both parents died in New York City. The fa- 
 ther was a member of the Ohio State militia at 
 the time of the Morgan raid during the Civil war. 
 April 9, 1898, Mr. and Mrs. Strousse celebrated 
 their silver wedding anniversary in New York, 
 
 their children and a large circle of friends being 
 assembled to do honor to the occasion. Howard 
 is a graduate of a commercial college and is a 
 bookkeeper in the employ of his father. Lena is 
 the wife of L. E. Young, the largest manufacturer 
 and dealer in hats in New York. Arthur is at- 
 tending Weingart's Institute in New York. 
 
 ^EORGE W. MANHART, the well-known 
 I if. merchant of Sedalia, was born in Luzerne 
 \^ County, Pa., February 5, 1855, a son of 
 Christian and Sarah (Barney) Manhart, reference 
 to whom appears elsewhere in this volume. He 
 was five years of age when his parents came to 
 Colorado, settling near Montgomery, and from 
 there, in October, 1866, removing to the ranch 
 they have since occupied. On that place our 
 subject continued to make his home until his 
 marriage, which took place June 21, 1876, at the 
 old homestead, his bride being Miss Bertha Hoff- 
 man, daughter of Louis and Ellen (Gallagher) 
 Hoffman. 
 
 March 4, 1878, Mr. Manhart embarked in 
 business in Sedalia, but the business was at first 
 conducted on a small scale, in a small building. 
 From that beginning he has built up his present 
 large and profitable trade. In the summer of 
 1889 he erected a stone store, which is a sub- 
 stantial building and would be a credit to a much 
 larger city than Sedalia. It is three stories in 
 height, including a basement, and is heated by 
 steam and lighted by electricity, Mr. Manhart 
 owning a dynamo that lights both his store and 
 his residence. At one time his business in cash 
 sales aggregated $30,000 per annum, and it is 
 now about $12,000. As a merchant he is keen, 
 painstaking, anxious to please, and content with 
 small profit on each sale. His goods he sells at 
 reasonable prices, which makes' him popular 
 among the people of the surrounding country. 
 His entire time and thought are given to his 
 business, and he has never mingled in public af- 
 fairs, other than to cast a Republican ticket at 
 elections. 
 
 Twelve children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Manhart. The eldest of these, Albert, 
 was born on the ranch where his paternal grand- 
 father resides, June 20, 1877, and is now a book- 
 keeper and clerk in the store. The others are: 
 Cora Maude, born December 17, 1878; Herbert, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 November 15, 1880; Bertha H., October 5, 1883; 
 Sarah E., born December 22, 1884, died August 
 6, 1893; Clara Florence, born February 2, 1886; 
 Mary W., born April 9, 1887, died October 13, 
 1891; Ethel Irene, born September 10, 1888; 
 Frances Elsie, April 17, 1890; Christian Louis, 
 May 26, 1892; Edna Ada, November 25, 1894; 
 and Arthur Henry, December 18, 1896. 
 
 NON. ENOCH J. COFFMAN, ex-member 
 of the state legislature, and one of the most 
 prominent and influential citizens of Long- 
 mont, was born in Preble County, Ohio, October 
 19, 1837. His parents were Jacob and Mary 
 (Stover) CofFman. His father was born in Mary- 
 land, and was a son of Daniel Kaufmann, who 
 went to that state from Germany and followed 
 the trade of a miller, changing his name to the 
 present spelling — CofFman. Jacob Coffman en- 
 tered the war of 1812 while yet a boy, then car- 
 ried on freighting until 1832, in Maryland. At 
 that time he went to Ohio, where he engaged in 
 farming; from there he removed to Ogle County, 
 111., and continued his occupation of farming for 
 seventeen years. In 1865 he came to Colorado 
 and entered one hundred and sixty acres, now 
 the Secor estate, where he died at the age of sev- 
 enty-two years. His wife died in Eongmont, 
 having attained her seventieth year. She was 
 born in Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of 
 Daniel Stover, afterwards of Preble County, Ohio. 
 They were the parents of a large family of chil- 
 dren, of whom all but one grew to adult years. 
 These were as follows: Daniel S., who is en- 
 gaged in mining in Glendale, Colo. ; Susanna, 
 Mrs. Hooker, now deceased; Christiana, Mrs. 
 Slifer, a resident of Eongmont; Simon, who died 
 in this state in i860; Enoch J., whose name 
 heads this sketch; J. D., who is now living in 
 Denver, and was a soldier of the Seventy-second 
 Illinois Regiment; Rev. J. F., a minister of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, now located in Black- 
 hawk; G. F., who is also a resident of Denver; 
 Rev. A. W., who is also a minister in the Meth- 
 odist Church and has a charge in Nebraska; Cor- 
 nelia, who died while the family were living in 
 Illinois; and Helen M., who is Mrs. W.W. Secor, 
 of Eongmont. 
 
 When he was about eleven years of age Mr. 
 Cofifman's parents moved to Illinois, where he 
 
 was placed in the public schools, and later grad- 
 uated from Mount Morris Seminary. After leav- 
 ing school he taught for two years in Illinois and 
 one in Iowa, and then, hearing such wonderful 
 stories of the wealth of this territory, determined 
 to come and investigate for himself. Accordingly, 
 in 1862, he started overland with a horse train, 
 crossed the mouth of the Platte and followed that 
 stream until he reached the central part of the 
 state. When he arrived in Gilpin County he had 
 been four weeks on the road, and here he halted 
 and devoted the following three years to mining. 
 In this enterprise he met with moderate success, 
 in the meantime making several trips back and 
 forth to the river. In 1865 he entered a home- 
 stead of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which 
 he is now living. Eighty acres of this, in Eong- 
 mont, he sold to the Chicago and Colorado Col- 
 ony, and one of their streets is named in honor 
 of him. The adjoining eighty was divided up, 
 twenty in town lots, Coffman 's addition to Eong- 
 mont, and the remaining sixty he cultivates. 
 This is devoted to general farming, stock-raising, 
 etc. In addition to this he owns ten acres on 
 Reservoir hill. He was among the first to take 
 up with the plan of making ditches for irrigation, 
 and the Coffman ditch, which runs through his 
 farm and is three miles long, was constructed en- 
 tirely by him. He has always retained his inter- 
 est in mining, and is one of three owners of Lord 
 Byron mine in the Gold Hill district. 
 
 While in Iowa Mr. Coffman married Miss 
 Electa McConahay, a native of Ohio, and a 
 daughter of Thomas McConahay, a blacksmith 
 and machinist. They have one child, Stella, who 
 is a graduate of the Eongmont high school and 
 academy, and is engaged in teaching. Mr. Coff- 
 man was made a trustee of the Chicago and Colo- 
 rado Colony when it was started and still occu- 
 pies that ofSce. He has served the city as trustee 
 and also as school director for many years. He 
 assisted in erecting all of the first school build- 
 ings here, and has always been a strong friend to 
 education. In 1892 the People's party placed 
 him on their ticket as candidate to the oflSce of 
 representative from Boulder County, and elected 
 him by a majority of six hundred and ten. He 
 served through the session of 1893, and the extra 
 session of 1894, where he was chairman of the 
 irrigation and a member of other committees. 
 He has been an adherent of the People's party 
 
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 since its organization, and has been a prominent 
 factor in its county and state conventions, and its 
 chosen delegate to the national convention at 
 Omaha in 1892. He is a zealous worker in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has 
 been a member many years, and has held many 
 oflBces. A prominent Mason, he is well known 
 throughout the state in that connection. He is 
 past master of St. Vrain Lodge No. 23; has for 
 years served as secretary of Lodge No. 8, 
 R. A. M.; was recorder of Long's Peak Com- 
 mandery No. 12; and charter member and first 
 worthy patron of the Eastern Star. In 1866, dur- 
 ing the Indian outbreak, he was one of a local 
 company that spent a few months in trying to 
 quell the trouble. In public as in private life he 
 is above reproach, and he is held in the highest 
 esteem by the people among whom he has lived 
 so long and who know him so well. 
 
 [EN. JOHN N. IVES, ex-attorney general 
 of Kansas, is the present county attorney of 
 Boulder County. He is a man of high 
 standing in business, professional and fraternal 
 circles, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of 
 all who have the pleasure of an acquaintance- 
 ship with him. Of late years he has devoted 
 much of his time, means and energies to mining 
 enterprises and has met with success. He is a 
 native of New England, and possesses the keen, 
 clear judgment and able executive talents for 
 which the Yankees are noted, added to which are 
 numerous qualities of character gained by wide 
 experience and association with the world in the 
 various activities in which he has been engaged. 
 Born in the town of Topsham, Orange County, 
 Vt., May 9, 1837, the general isa son of Stephen 
 and Sarah (Nutt) Ives, natives of Clairmout, 
 N. H., and Topsham, respectively. The Ives 
 family were among the first settlers of Walling- 
 ford. Conn., and were represented in the Revo- 
 lutionary war on the colonial side. Grandfather 
 John Ives was born in the Nutmeg state, and 
 was a farmer in New Hampshire. He died when 
 his son Stephen was but seven years of age. The 
 latter became a well-to-do woolen manufacturer 
 in New England, and about 1839 moved to New 
 Philadelphia, Ohio. Two years later he went to 
 Muskingum, where he was employed as before, 
 in the manufacture of woolen fabrics. At the 
 
 expiration of another two years he settled in 
 Plainfield, Ohio, engaged in the same line of 
 business till 1855, and passed his last years in 
 Tipton, Iowa, dying there in 1857. His second 
 wife survived him nearly forty years, her demise 
 taking place in 1896. Her father, John Nutt, 
 was a New England farmer. Stephen Ives had 
 married in early manhood Miss Sally K. Wal- 
 lace, a descendant of the great Sir William Wal- 
 lace, of Scotland. She died leaving two chil- 
 dren. One, Orange T. Ives, resides at No. 3715 
 William street, Denver. The two sons and two 
 daughters born to the marriage of Stephen Ives 
 and Sarah Nutt are still living. William, a vet- 
 erinary surgeon of Stanwood, Iowa, was in the 
 Eighth Iowa Cavalry during the Civil war, and 
 also in an Iowa infantry regiment. 
 
 The boyhood of General Ives was chiefly 
 passed in Ohio, and after completing his common- 
 school education he attended the academy at 
 West Bedford. Then he taught school for three 
 terms in Ohio, and in 1855 went to Iowa, where 
 he conducted schools for three or four terms. ■ 
 For a few years he was occupied in the manu- 
 facture of woolen goods near Tipton, Iowa, and 
 then he commenced the study of law. Having 
 been admitted to the bar in Iowa, he practiced 
 for a short time in the southern part of the state, 
 mostly in Monroe County. In 1875 he settled in 
 Hutchinson, Minn., and later practiced his pro- 
 fession in Browntown,in the same county, for two 
 years. His next home was in Crookston, where 
 he was the attorney for the Crookston & St. Hi- 
 laire Railroad, subsequently merged into the 
 Great Northern lines, but not until the general 
 had been their legal representative six years. 
 While he was there he was nominated attorney- 
 general on the Democratic ticket, a great sur- 
 prise to him, and though the Republicans won 
 the victory, he lowered their majorities materi- 
 ally. January 17, 1888, he opened an ofiice in 
 Sterling, Kan., and in the fall of 1890 he was 
 nominated on the Farmers' Alliance ticket for 
 the position of attorney-general. This honor 
 also came as a thunderbolt to him, as he was 
 first made aware of the fact by the daily papers. 
 The Democrats, likewise, made him their candi- 
 date, and he was elected by the splendid majority 
 of forty-seven thousand seven hundred and 
 eight votes, being the only one elected on the 
 ticket, while the Republican pluralities ran from 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 five to eight thousand. He entered upon the 
 duties of his office in January, 1891, and served 
 until January, 1893, when he retired. 
 
 In November, 1892, General Ives became con- 
 nected with and was elected president of the Or- 
 phan Boy Extension Mining & Milling Com- 
 pany, of Copper Rock, this county, the name of 
 which has since been changed to the Dew Drop 
 Mining Company, and he spent about half of his 
 time in this state. The company purchased the 
 Dew Drop mine a few years ago, and commenced 
 the extensive enlargements and improvements 
 there which have resulted so prosperously. He 
 was president of the company which controlled 
 the mine until he resigned in favor of Mr. Dan- 
 iels, the present president and general manager. 
 He is still a director in the company, which is 
 operated on the co-operative plan, a new depart- 
 ure in mining in this state. April i, 1897, he 
 settled in Boulder and opened a law office. In 
 July he was appointed county attorney, and has 
 since acted in that capacity. April 28, 1897, ^^ 
 and others organized the Wheelmen's Mining and 
 Tunneling Company, which has a capital stock 
 of $600,000. The tunnel is but eight miles from 
 Boulder, in Boulder Canon, and will cut through 
 at least seventeen already famous gold-bearing 
 veins. The plan of tunneling in mining opera- 
 tions needs no explanation or setting forth, as 
 the superiority of this method is well known by 
 this' time to everyone who has had anything to 
 do in mining under the conditions existing in 
 this region. Neither is anything necessary to be 
 said in regard to the management of the Wheel- 
 men's Company beyond this, that it has at its 
 head General Ives, and as secretary and treas- 
 urer W. G. Houston, while among its directors 
 are Messrs. P. D. Seeley, B. H. Seeley and J. 
 M. Shafer, three practical miners, with years of 
 experience in various Colorado and New Mexico 
 mines. 
 
 In the fall of 1875 General Ives was initiated 
 into the Masonic order in Temple Lodge No. 59, 
 A. F. & A. M., of Hutchinson, Minn. He 
 became a Royal Arch Mason in Crookston, 
 Minn., and is still connected with the Hutchin- 
 son Commandery, and with Isis Temple, Mystic 
 Shrine, of Salina, Kan. He is also a member 
 of Topeka Lodge, Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks. 
 
 The first wife of General Ives was Miss Isa- 
 
 belle Ford, a native of Tipton, Iowa, and daugh- 
 ter of Andrew Ford, an Iowa pioneer. Mrs. 
 Ives died in Chariton, Iowa, in 1873. Of her 
 three children one is deceased. Dr. J. F. is a 
 graduate of the St. Joseph (Mo.) Medical Col- 
 lege, and is practicing his profession in Langdon, 
 Kan. C. E. is an engineer on the Union Pacific 
 Railroad, his run being out of Salt Lake City. 
 While a resident of Hutchinson, Minn., General 
 Ives married Mrs. Anna Reeks, a native of 
 England. Her father, Joseph Sudborough, came 
 to the United States, and was engaged in manu- 
 facturing enterprises in Ohio, Canada and Min- 
 nesota. By her first marriage Mrs. Ives has two 
 children: William J., a graduate of the law de- 
 partment of the State University at Lawrence, 
 Kan., and Etta, a graduate of the Topeka Art 
 School, and an excellent amateur artist. 
 
 g RUSSELL SKINNER, a farmer of Weld 
 County, owner of a well-improved place on 
 township 4, range 68, was born in Cook 
 County, III., in 1852 and is a son of L. T. and 
 Eliza (Curtis) Skinner. His mother came with 
 her parents from England when eight years of 
 age; his father, a native of Vermont, settled in 
 Illinois when a young man and for a time made 
 his home near Fort Dearborn (now Chicago). 
 He devoted himself to agricultural pursuits dur- 
 ing his entire life and also, for some years, served 
 as superintendent of the poor farm, which place 
 he managed successfully. In political belief 
 he was a Republican and on that ticket was 
 chosen county commissioner. His death occurred 
 in 1864, when he was forty-three years of age. 
 
 The public schools gave our subject such educa- 
 tional advantages as he received. At the age of 
 seventeen he went to Fayette County, Iowa, and 
 for four years was devoted to tilling soil there. 
 On his return to Illinois he spent some time in 
 Chicago. In 1876 he came to Colorado and 
 settled in Longmont, where for some months he 
 worked on the Highland ditch. In 1878 he took 
 a contract to build five and one-half miles of the 
 Handy ditch, which occupied him during the 
 year. In the spring of 1878 he came to his 
 present farm, where he took up a quarter-section 
 of railroad land, and here he has since engaged 
 in stock-raising and general farming. He is a 
 stockholder in the Home Supply Ditch Company, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mi 
 
 of which he has been a director. In the year of 
 1889 he erected a substantial brick residence on 
 his farm, and here his family have a comfortable 
 home. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Skinner has 
 served as justice of the peace and as director of 
 school district No. 36. In 1881 he married 
 Catherine, daughter of John A. Rowe, of Weld 
 County. They have three sons: Roy, Hobart 
 and Harley. The family are connected with the 
 Baptist Church. In addition to his farm, Mr. 
 Skinner owns some dwelling-house property in 
 Berthoud. 
 
 KA ATTHIAS HANSEN is a self-made man 
 y in every sense of the word, and possesses 
 is the sturdy independence of character and 
 the strict integrity and industriousness for which 
 the people of his native land are noted. Only 
 fifteen years ago he landed in the United States, 
 a stranger in a strange land, unacquainted with 
 the language or customs of our citizens and 
 handicapped in many other ways. He has a 
 brave and manly heart, however, and with energy 
 he worked at whatever he could find to do at 
 first, until he had gained a foothold. Success 
 was the result of his efforts, and he is now num- 
 bered among the stable, respected citizens of 
 lyOngmont. 
 
 Thirty-five years ago Matt Hansen, as he is 
 familiarly called and generally known, was born, 
 in the island of Bornholm, Denmark. His par- 
 ents, Diedrick Peter and Annie Christine (Jor- 
 gensen) Hansen, were also natives of that island 
 and passed their entire lives within its narrow 
 boundaries. The father, who is still quite act- 
 ively engaged in business, has followed the car- 
 penter's trade and has built a great many houses 
 and other structures. His faithful companion 
 and helpmate was called from his side by death 
 in June of 1897, and of their large family, which 
 originally numbered ten children, only two re- 
 main in Denmark. The other four living chil- 
 dren are all residents of Colorado. 
 
 In his boyhood Matt Hansen attended the 
 public schools of his native land, and when he 
 was fourteen years of age he commenced serving 
 an apprenticeship to the blacksmith's trade. He 
 worked industriously at this calling for five years, 
 a part of the time being employed as a journey- 
 man. In the spring of 1884, when he had 
 
 reached his majority, he concluded that he would 
 set forth for the land of promise, fair America, of 
 which he had heard so many favorable reports. 
 He was the first of his family to take the step of 
 parting with home and fatherland to encounter 
 unknown difficulties as best he might. Going to 
 Copenhagen he sailed from that city for New 
 York, and soon continued his journey toward the 
 west, stopping at Clinton, Iowa, that summer. 
 In September he came to Longmont and was em- 
 ployed on the railroad and at farming for about a 
 year, after which he resumed work at his trade. In 
 1896 he built his shop in I,ongmont and started 
 in business for himself, and has been very suc- 
 ces.sful. He does all kinds of wagon repairing, 
 horse-shoeing, etc., and has a reputation of being 
 the best plow-sharpener in the country. He runs 
 two fires and has everj' facility for doing work 
 expeditiously. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hansen and Miss Mary 
 Anderson was celebrated in Boulder, Cola. , Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1890. Mrs. Hansen is also a native of 
 the island of Bornholm, Denmark. The three 
 children who grace the union of this worthy 
 couple are named respectively, Ella, Valborg and 
 Dora. Mr. Hansen is a member of lyongmont 
 Lodge No. 29, I. O. O. F. , of L,ongmont, and is 
 connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. In his political preferences he sides 
 with the Populist party. 
 
 (pAMUEL LARSON GRIFFIN, a prominent 
 2\ and well-to-do business man of the town of 
 VlJ/ Elbert, has been engaged in the mercantile 
 business here since 1888, and is the silent partner 
 of the firm of D. S. Enbank & Co. He was born 
 in Jacksonville, Ala., December 12, 1848, and is 
 a son of Forester M. and Florentine (Willis) 
 Griffin. He was a lad of three years when his 
 parents moved to Williamson County, Tex., 
 where he was reared to manhood. His father, 
 who was a farmer and stock-raiser, was a strong 
 anti-slavery man. 
 
 Our subject is mainly self-educated, having ob- 
 tained only six months of schooling. At twelve 
 years of age he commenced to provide for himself 
 and began herding cattle, following that occupa- 
 tion until he attained his majority; his salary 
 was fixed at $25 per month. While herding he 
 visited all the prominent cities of Mexico and 
 
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 other states of that section. At the age of 
 twenty-one years he left Grant County, N. Mex., 
 with a herd of five thousand cattle which he 
 had been herding there, for California, but upon 
 reaching the state of Colorado he found it would 
 not pay, so decided to stay where he was. He 
 continued the stock business until 1874, when 
 he sold out and began freighting and setting 
 out ties for the railroad, following the same 
 until the great discoveries of gold at Lead- 
 ville. In 1888 he became a citizen of Elbert, 
 and, in company with D. S. Enbank, he em- 
 barked in the mercantile business under the firm 
 name of D. S. Enbank & Co. This firm has 
 been very successful in business, and by their 
 honest and straightforward ways of dealing have 
 established an enviable patronage. Our subject 
 is enterprising and public spirited, and possesses 
 a multitude of friends in his community. 
 
 Mr. Griffin was married July 9, 1879, to Mrs. 
 Mary Hall, nee Gray, of Douglas County, Colo., 
 and they made their home in that county for a 
 number of years, living five miles from Spring 
 Valley, where our subject built one of the finest 
 homes in that section of the county. The home 
 of this union was blessed by the birth of four 
 children, namely: Tina, who is attending school 
 at Denver; Iva, Grace and George. Politically 
 Mr. GriflSn is an unwavering Democrat, and cast 
 his first vote for Horace Greeley in 1872. He is 
 a member and has been manager of the Wood- 
 men of the World of this community since its or- 
 ganization; he is also a charter member and 
 treasurer of the Home Forum. 
 
 HENRY G. SMITH is one of the enterprising 
 and progressive farmers and stock-raisers of 
 Elbert County. He has here resided since 
 1866, when he took up a tract of one hundred 
 and sixty acres near the town of Kiowa; he has 
 since increased his estate to twelve hundred acres. 
 His homestead is one of the finest and most im- 
 proved in the Comanche Valley, and is located 
 on section 18, township 8, range 62 west. The 
 gentleman whose biography we write is of Ger- 
 man descent, and was born in Hesse- Darmstadt, 
 Germany, November 13, 1834. 
 
 Henry G. Smith was reared to manhood in his 
 native country, where he received a fine educa- 
 tion. He emigrated to the United States in 1 860, 
 
 and landed in New Orleans, La. He then went 
 up the Mississippi to St. Louis, where he worked 
 on the river a short time, and afterward found 
 employment on a farm in Illinois; the next year 
 was spent working for the United States govern- 
 ment at Benton Barracks. In 1865 he drove 
 across the plains to Denver, Colo., arriving there 
 June 25. He spent the remainder of the sum- 
 mer working in the gold mines, but as he did 
 not succeed well, he accepted a government posi- 
 tion, driving a team, in which capacity he re- 
 mained one year. In 1866 he took up a claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres and began farming 
 and stock-raising. He has since taken up many 
 claims, and has found none more desirable and 
 suitable in every way than his present homestead, 
 which is located in the fertile valley of Coman- 
 che. Our subject has made many improvements 
 upon his property, and it now ranks among the 
 foremost in the county. His principal occupa- 
 tion is stock-raising, and he always keeps from 
 one to three hundred head of fine cattle. He 
 owns a residence property in Denver, at No. 1422 
 South Eighth street. He is greatly respected 
 and esteemed in the community of which he 
 has so long been a resident, and he is a lead- 
 ing factor in all movements made to promote the 
 general welfare of his community and county at 
 large. 
 
 In November, 1877, Mr. Smith married Minnie 
 Scherer, of Denver. She is a native of Germany 
 and came to this country when she was ten years 
 of age. A family of four children blessed their 
 home, namely: Henry, William, Carl and Louisa. 
 In politics our subject is a solid Republican and 
 his first vote was cast for Hayes in 1876. Relig- 
 ously he favors the Lutheran Church. In 1868, 
 when the Indians were making one of their usual 
 raids through the valley, a party consisting of 
 two ladies, two children and two hired men, 
 came up to the home of our subject and warned 
 him of the approaching Indians. Mr. Smith 
 changed his clothes and went to assist the party; 
 thinking they had gone west to Kiowa, he also 
 took that route, but finding the road clear, he was 
 on his return when he met a part of them and 
 learned that one of the ladies and one child had 
 been killed and the rest of the party had taken 
 refuge at Kiowa. A posse was immediately or- 
 ganized to recover the bodies of the dead and to 
 drive the Indians away. Arriving at the home 
 
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 of Mr. Smith, they found that the Indians had 
 been there and had taken his horses, saddles, and 
 all his provisions and furniture, the only thing 
 remaining was a picture of our subject, which was 
 in an old tin box. 
 
 I OUIS DUPREE, a retired business man of 
 I C Greeley, Weld County, is one of the early 
 |_2f residents of this place, and has been closely 
 associated with the upbuilding and development 
 of this immediate region. He owns considerable 
 real estate in this city and county, and by indus- 
 try and strict attention to business has become 
 independently well-to-do. In politics he is lib- 
 eral, giving his ballot and influence to the cause 
 and nominees which he deems best for the wel- 
 fare of the public. 
 
 As his surname indicates, Mr. Dupree is of 
 French extraction, though both he and his par- 
 ents were natives of Canada. The latter, Julius 
 and Natalie (Nolin) Dupree, were farmers and 
 spent their whole lives in the peaceful routine of 
 agricultural pursuits. Louis Dupree was born 
 on the old homestead in Canada, March 18, 
 1843. He grew up on the farm, attending the 
 common schools of the vicinity. When he was 
 in his seventeenth year he left home, with the 
 consent of his parents, and went to Webster, 
 Mass. , where he found employment in a cotton 
 factory for a year. Then, after paying a visit of 
 a few weeks among his relatives at the old home 
 he entered upon an apprenticeship to the black- 
 smith's trade in Worcester, Mass. Having mas- 
 tered the same and worked for a period in the lo- 
 cality of his Canadian home he went to Troy, 
 N. Y., where he obtained a good position in the 
 Spring Carriage Works. A year or more having 
 passed he went to North Haddam, Mass., .and 
 thence to Chicopee Falls, remaining some three 
 years in these towns, plying his trade. Next, 
 he returned to Worcester, Mass. , and lived there 
 for a few months prior to coming to the west. 
 
 In the summer of 1870 Mr. T)upree crossed the 
 states and reached Blackhawk, Colo., where he 
 worked at blacksmithing until autumn. The 
 town of Greeley had been started the preceding 
 spring, and hearing of the place he concluded to 
 settle permanently here. Thus he was one of the 
 first residents of the far-famed village. Entering 
 into partnership with Alfonse Dow, he opened a 
 shop, but they continued together only three 
 
 months, after which Mr. Dupree became an em- 
 ploye of Mr. Rea, who had previously established 
 a shop and was doing a good business. Within 
 a few months our subject had become a partner in 
 the same, and finally bought out Mr. Rea. He 
 continued in business until 1878, when, his 
 health failing, he sold out. In the meantime, he 
 had also invested in cattle, and had prospered in 
 that enterprise. During the three following 
 years, when he was unable to perform hard labor, 
 he rented land, and then bought a farm of eighty 
 acres near Greeley. A year later he became the 
 owner of another eighty-acre piece of property 
 and this land he cultivated for about nine years. 
 In 1895 he leased his homestead, and in the win- 
 ter of 1897 sold the land. He owns a number of 
 good business and residence lots in Greeley, and 
 has an abundance of means for his future needs. 
 May 29, 1872, Mr, Dupree married Miss Lu- 
 cretia Burchill, of Greeley. She is a daughter of 
 Joseph and Ann (Abbott) Burchill, natives of 
 New Brunswick, who came to the United States 
 in early life. Mrs. Dupree is the youngest of six 
 children, and is the only survivor of the family. 
 She was born in Buffalo, N. Y., and was reared 
 in Davenport, Iowa, to which city her parents 
 had removed when she was a child. The two 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Dupree are: Lena, 
 who died in infancy, and Frank B., now attend- 
 ing the Greeley school. In the spring of 1865 
 Mr. Dupree enlisted in the Nineteeth New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, and served until there was no 
 longer need, when he was mustered out and hon- 
 orably discharged. 
 
 n OHN POLLOCK is a worthy representative 
 I of that excellent Irish element which came 
 (2/ to the state of Colorado and materially as- 
 sisted in the development of the agricultural 
 districts. He now occupies a well-improved farm 
 on section 27, township 10, range 66 west, where 
 he has continued at the occupation of farming 
 since the year 1884. He began in life with moder- 
 ate means, but, by untiring energy and a wise 
 economy, has succeeded in obtaining a handsome 
 estate of five hundred and sixty acres. He is a 
 son of Richard and Sarah (Morrison) Pollock^ 
 and was born in the city of Philadelphia, May 1 1 , 
 1848. 
 Richard Pollock was born in Belfast, Ireland, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and came to the United States with some of his 
 relations, when he was but a mere lad. He 
 landed in Philadelphia, and early in life embarked 
 in the grocery business in that city, and succeeded 
 in acquiring a handsome competency, but during 
 the oil excitement he lost the greater portion of 
 his fortune. He passed from this life in 1868. In 
 1834 he married Sarah Morrison, who was a 
 native of Glasgow, Scotland, but came to this 
 country with her parents when a child. She 
 passed to the unknown beyond in the year 1858. 
 
 John Pollock attended the grammar schools 
 and had intended to take a complete course in the 
 high school, but upon the death of his father he 
 was compelled to earn his own living. After 
 working in Philadelphia at the painter's trade a 
 short time, in 1868 he went to Omaha, Neb., 
 thence to North Platte, and from there to Den- 
 ver. Two weeks' residence in that city was 
 enough for him, and he returned to Omaha on 
 horseback, remaining in that city until 1871. He 
 began work in the painting department of the 
 Union Pacific Railroad shops; later he became 
 time keeper and bookkeeper for Joshua Taylor, 
 who had taken the contract for the stone used in 
 the erection of the Lincoln penitentiary, which 
 made it necessary for him to go to Lincoln, Neb. 
 Upon the completion of that work he and his 
 employer started for St. Paul, Minn., but stopped 
 off at Knoxville, Iowa, where his employer took 
 a contract for getting out stone for culverts on the 
 Albia & DeMoines Valley Railroad. At the time 
 of the great Chicago fire, Mr. Pollock went to 
 that city to see the ruins. After spending several 
 months in his native city and New York City, in 
 June, 1874, he returned to Colorado, where he 
 was awarded the contract for painting the court- 
 house at Castle Rock ; in the following j-ear he 
 went to San Juan County, Colo., where the gold 
 excitement ran high, and in the fall of 1875, he 
 began to herd cattle on his own account as well 
 as for Albert Benjamin, herding in the vicinity of 
 Acquia until 1879, when, on account of the scarc- 
 ity of grass, he started his herd for the head- 
 waters of the North Fork of the Republican 
 River. In 1883 he sold his herd, which con- 
 sisted of some three hundred head, receiving about 
 $16,000; he then returned to Denver and later 
 bought his present farm, where he has since been 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Pollock was united in matrimonial bonds 
 
 July 23, 1884, with Miss Jessie M. Babcock, of 
 Douglas County, and a daughter of Alonzo A. 
 and Rosa (Estlake) Babcock. Politically Mr. 
 Pollock has always given his support in favor of 
 the Republican party, and his first vote was cast 
 for Hayes in 1876. He has been a candidate on 
 the Republican ticket for the legislature, but met 
 defeat by a narrow margin; and was also defeated 
 for the ofiice of county commissioner in 1889. 
 Socially he is a member of the Western Lodge, 
 No. 22, A. F. & A. M. of Littleton; and Royal 
 Arch Lodge of Denver, No. 2. 
 
 (lOHN E. CONNELLY, who for some four 
 I years has been the efiicient and popular 
 (2/ postmaster at Silver Plume, Clear Creek 
 County, has been a resident of this place for the 
 past eleven years and has taken great interest in 
 the upbuilding and development of this locality. 
 In every sense of the word he is a self-made man, 
 as he commenced his business life the only stay 
 and support of a widowed mother and was obliged 
 to work his way upward, unaided. All credit 
 is due him for the manly struggle which he 
 made and the position of respect to which he 
 has risen by true merit. 
 
 The father of our subject was Anthony Con- 
 nelly, who married and settled in Philadelphia, 
 Pa. , in which city he died June 8, 187 1, when he 
 was but little over thirty-five years old. His 
 widow, whose maiden name was Annie Fitzpat- 
 rick, survived him some years, her death occur- 
 ring in the Quaker City, January 2, 1882. Of the 
 five children who blessed the marriage of this 
 worthy couple, only one, John E., remains. 
 
 The birth of J. E. Connelly took place in 
 Philadelphia, March 22, 1866. He was noted 
 for his bright, alert mind as he grew up and, 
 having been admitted as a student in the Christian 
 Brothers School in his home city, he made such 
 rapid progress that he had completed the course 
 long before the majority of his classmates. When 
 but twelve years old he obtained a position as a 
 cash-boy in the great store of John Wannamaker, 
 and continued with that house some four years. 
 During this period he mastered many of the lead- 
 ing principles of the commercial world and com- 
 manded the respect and good will of all of his 
 superiors by his strict attention to duty and uni- 
 form courtesy to all. His next venture was to learn 
 
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 the trade of a barber. At first he worked in the 
 shop of the St. George Hotel, Philadelphia, after 
 which he completed his apprenticeship in another 
 location on Twenty-fourth street, near Brown. 
 In the last-named place he remained until he 
 decided to come west, October 11, 1886. His 
 mother had previously died and he had no fur- 
 ther ties to keep him in the east. After a few 
 weeks spent in Denver he went to Georgetown. 
 There he stayed from November 2 until July 11, 
 1887, when he came to Silver Plume. Soon 
 after arriving here he bought out John Ryan and 
 has since kept a first-class barber-shop. His place 
 of business is conveniently located on Main street. 
 
 Mr. Connelly was formerly a Democrat, but is 
 now a Populist. March 21, 1894, he was ap- 
 pointed to the office of postmaster of Silver Plume, 
 by President Cleveland, and has given general 
 satisfaction. In the Ancient Order of Hibernians 
 he ranks high and has been a delegate to numer- 
 ous conventions. He is ex-president of Division 
 No. I, of Silver Plume. Religiously he is a 
 Catholic and is one of the board of trustees of St. 
 Patrick's Church. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Connelly married Miss Theresa 
 Shea, May 17, 1892. Mrs. Connelly was born in 
 Wisconsin and is a daughter of John Shea, who 
 was an early settler of Gilpin and Clear Creek 
 Counties and is now a resident of Denver. The 
 two children of our subject and wife are named 
 respectively, I,eo and I^ewis. 
 
 r)EV. FRANK SAWDEY purchased one hun- 
 1^ dred and sixty acres on Pleasant View Ridge, 
 r\ Weld County, in 1896 and at once settled 
 here. Two years later he purchased an eighty- 
 acre tract near his home farm, but now rents the 
 entire property, and gives his attention to evangel- 
 istic work. He is a believer in the doctrines of 
 the Free Methodist Church and has accomplished 
 much good through his personal work indifferent 
 parts of the state. 
 
 In Cayuga County, near Batavia, N. Y., Mr. 
 Sawdey was born April 28, 1852, a son of Curtis 
 and Harriet (Van Burger) Sawdey. He was 
 one of fourteen children, nine of whom are liv- 
 ing, namely: Elizabeth; Mary; John, of Spokane, 
 Wash.; Catherine; Edward and Edgar (twins), 
 the former living in North Dakota, the latter in 
 Rouse, Colo.; Stewart, who is engaged in the 
 
 commission business in Denver; Alonzo C, of 
 Warren, 111.; and Frank. The father of this 
 family was born in York state November 15, 
 18 10, and there grew to manhood and engaged in 
 farming. In 1854 he removed to Wisconsin and 
 settled in Wayne, Lafayette County, where he 
 spent much of his life. For some time he was 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 but later he identified himself with the United 
 Brethren Church, and the last twelve years of his 
 life were given to preaching and religious work. 
 
 The education obtained by our subject was 
 such as the common schools afforded. At nine- 
 teen years of age he began in life for himself. 
 In May, 1871, he turned his face westward and 
 started for Colorado, joining a brother at Erie, 
 Weld County. During his first season here he 
 worked as a farm hand. In the spring of 1872 
 he went to the mountains and for two years en- 
 gaged as a teamster and miner in Central City. 
 Coming to the valley in the spring of 1874, he 
 rented a place three miles north of Erie, where 
 he put in a crop, but sold it before harvest and 
 went to San Luis Valley, where he planted 
 another crop. This he sold and spent the fall 
 and winter working in a sawmill in the moun- 
 tains. In the spring of 1875 he removed to Kan- 
 sas, but the country did not please him and he 
 remained only five months. Going from there to 
 Sidney, Cheyenne County, Neb., he was there at 
 the time of the Custer massacre. In that place 
 he engaged in a freighting expedition bound for 
 the Black Hills. After his return to Sidney he 
 sold his outfit and in a short time returned to 
 Colorado. 
 
 Renting land on the Little Thompson, Mr. 
 Sawdey put in a crop in 1877. The next year 
 he bought eighty acres of school land in the 
 Highland Lake district, where he settled and 
 began to farm. A short time afterward he added 
 one hundred acres. In 1884 he removed to Long- 
 mont, where he engaged in the restaurant busi- 
 ness. From there, in 1886, he went to Denver, 
 where he engaged in the livery business and also 
 devoted considerable time to the preaching of the 
 Gospel. While he had many teams and did con- 
 tract work on a large scale, j'et he gave an in- 
 creasing amount of his time to church work, in 
 which he has met with gratifying success. From 
 1888 to 1896 he gave his entire attention to mis- 
 sion work through different points . in the state, 
 
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 and ill the latter year, selling his landed interests 
 at Highland Lake, he bought his present ranch. 
 
 October i6, 1870, Mr. Sawdey married Miss 
 Hannah E. Lewis, who was born in Rock County, 
 Wis. , a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Street) 
 Lewis. Her father, who was a native of New 
 Jersey, removed to Wisconsin after his mar- 
 riage and for years was a prominent farmer of 
 Walworth County. Five children were born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Sawdey, namely: Ivens E., who 
 assists in the management of his father's farming 
 interests; Allie B., wife of Charles E. Bogan, 
 an electrician of Denver; Minnie M., at home; 
 Gertrude L., deceased; and Frank E., Jr., a 
 student in the Denver school. 
 
 r^ORTER R. PENNOCK is a retired farmer 
 Ly and respected citizen of Longmont, Boulder 
 fS County. For several years he has been a 
 member of the board of aldermen of this city and 
 is now chairman of the finance committee and of 
 the committee on building permits. He was 
 elected on the People's party ticket, and is very 
 popular with the majority of our citizens. An 
 ardent worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 he has been a trustee and steward for over twenty 
 years and has been one of the pillars in the con- 
 gregation. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject was of 
 English descent, but came from an old and hon- 
 ored Vermont family. He was a soldier in the 
 war of the Revolution, and his son Russell, who 
 was the father of P. R. Pennock, was a drummer- 
 boy in the war of 1812. Russell Pennock was 
 born in the Green Mountain state and was an 
 early settler in Ohio, where he improved a farm. 
 He removed to the vicinity of Rockford, 111., in 
 1844, and owned and improved a homestead on 
 Whig Hill, three miles from the town. Here he 
 lived until he received his summons to the better 
 land, when he was in his sixty-third year. His 
 wife was Fannie Holmes in her girlhood and was 
 a native of New York state. Of their eleven 
 children, two only survive: Porter R., and his 
 eldest brother, William D., who resides with him. 
 
 The birthplace of P. R. Pennock was in El- 
 mira. Portage County, Ohio. He was born in 
 1834, and was the youngest of the family of 
 brothers and sisters. His education was obtained 
 in the public schools of Ohio and Illinois, and he 
 
 continued to reside under the parental roof until 
 he was twenty years of age, when his father died. 
 In 1859 he started for Pike's Peak, going over- 
 land by ox-teams. He proceeded only as far as 
 central Iowa that year, continuing his journey 
 the following spring. After he had pursued the 
 usual route along the Platte River he went on to 
 Denver, arriving in that city July 6, i860. Thence 
 he went to Gilpin district, and for a short time 
 engaged in business there. The same autumn 
 he took up a homestead in the St. Vrain Valley, 
 near Burlington, put in ditches and began rais- 
 ing grain and hay. In 1864 he sold out and re- 
 turned to the east, and for seven years resided in 
 his old home district and in Boone and DeKalb 
 Counties, 111. The attractions of Colorado proved 
 irresistible in the end, however, and in 1871 he re- 
 turned, and buying a farm two and a-half miles 
 east of Longmont, improved the place. Within a 
 few years the splendid ranch of three hundred and 
 twenty acres, with fences and good buildings, irri- 
 gation ditches, etc. ,wasjustly considered one of the 
 best homesteads in this section. The owner was 
 one of the first to introduce Percheron-Norman 
 horses, and full-blooded Shorthorns. Of the fine 
 horses he brought a car-load at one time. 
 
 Since his second settlement in Boulder County, 
 Mr. Pennock has made his home in Longmont 
 most of the time, altogether some sixteen years. 
 He bought and improved ' an attractive place on 
 Main between Second and Third streets. In for- 
 mer years he had a business oflSce in Longmont, 
 and was the local representative for the Glidden 
 Barbed Wire Company, which now well-known 
 and useful article of commerce he was the first to 
 introduce into this state. He was one of the orig- 
 inal stockholders of the Longmont Mill and El- 
 evator Company ; the Longmont Creamery Com- 
 pany, and many other local enterprises, and at 
 present is interested in the Longmont Reduction 
 Works. Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Pennock and Miss Ellen 
 Coffin, a native of New York state, took place in 
 Boulder County, in 1864. They have three 
 children living, one son and two daughters. Viv- 
 ian R. graduated from the medical department 
 of the Colorado University in 1894, and is now 
 successfully established in Cripple Creek. Lew- 
 ellenisat home. Carrie, Mrs. Sanborn, lives 
 near Denver, Colo. 
 
R. D. MILLER. 
 
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 RICHARD D. MILLER, the owner of a large 
 cattle ranch in Arapahoe Count}', was born 
 in Cumberland County, Ky., July 28, 1826, 
 a sonof Gaddis E. and Catherine (Degraffenreid) 
 Miller. His paternal grandfather, Gaddis Miller, 
 and the maternal grandfather, John Degraffen- 
 reid, were natives of England, and the latter was 
 a cabinet-maker by trade. Gaddis E. Miller, 
 who was born in Prince Edward County, Va., 
 spent his entire life as a farmer and planter, and 
 moved from the Old Dominion to Missouri, where 
 he spent the remainder of his life. During his 
 residence there he served in the state legislature 
 and for many years held oflSce as justice of the 
 peace. Politically he was a Democrat and in re- 
 ligion held membership in the Baptist Church. 
 In his family there were three sons. William B. , 
 who died at twenty years, remained at home until 
 his death. Gaddis E., deceased, was a stockman 
 in New Mexico. . 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the private schools of his home neighborhood in 
 Missouri and Arkansas. At the age of seventeen 
 he started out in life for himself. After a short 
 time spent in Arkansas, in 1845 he went to Texas, 
 where his time was principally spent until 1866. 
 He then came to Colorado and settled upon his 
 present farm, where he has since engaged in 
 raising stock. He has witnessed the improve- 
 ment of the county and has assisted in the de- 
 velopment of its agricultural resources. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Miller married Miss Mary J. Cure- 
 ton, who was born in Franklin County, Ark., 
 where her father was for some years a farmer and 
 where her mother died. Mr. and Mrs. Miller 
 became the parents of two sons and two daugh- 
 ters, the latter, Ollie and Maud, being with their 
 parents. The older son, Warner D. , is married 
 and has three children now living. He is a stock- 
 man and owns land adjoining his father's prop- 
 erty. The younger son, William B., who mar- 
 ried Ruth M. Van Wormer, daughter of I. P.. Van 
 Wormer, had one child, a son, named Braxton 
 Miller. He was engaged in' the cattle business 
 near the homestead. When in the prime of man- 
 hood he was called from this life, September 26, 
 1898. He had many good qualities of head and 
 heart and consequently numbered many friends 
 among his acquaintances. Fraternally he was a 
 member of Union Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., 
 
 49 
 
 and was buried with the impressive ritual of the 
 Masonic Order. 
 
 The political afSliations of Mr. Miller are with 
 the Democratic party, and he has always voted ' 
 for its men and measures. He served in both the 
 Mexican and Civil wars, in the latter spending 
 much time on the frontier under Gen. Kirby 
 Smith. His wife is connected with the Methodist 
 Church, to which, as to other praiseworthy enter- 
 prises, the family contribute liberally of their 
 means. 
 
 pCjILLlAM LITTLE, who has efficiently 
 
 \ A / served in the capacity of clerk of Elbert 
 Y Y County since 1897, is a man of intellectual 
 attainments and a substantial citizen of Kiowa. 
 He is of English nationality, having been born 
 in Manchester, England, November 20, 1866, 
 and is a son of William and Harriet (Rennison) 
 Little. As a boy he attended the Bolton high 
 school and after the completion of his course en- 
 tered Tettenhall College at Wolverhampton, Staf- 
 fordshire, from which institution he was grad- 
 uated with the class of 1886. As a life vocation 
 he decided upon the profession of an architect 
 and became an apprentice under George Wood- 
 house, Esq., serving time until 1888, when he 
 came to America, realizing that as a new coun- 
 try it offered greater advantages to the rising 
 generations. He immediately proceeded to Colo- 
 rado, where he purchased a tract of land four 
 miles south of Kiowa, Elbert County, and en- 
 gaged in the stock business. Although inex- 
 perienced in that line, he was a man of excep- 
 tional business qualifications, and by Jhe exercise 
 of good judgment and hard work, the business 
 prospered. In political affiliations he is a stanch 
 Democrat and in 1893 was appointed deputy 
 county clerk under Mr. Turtle, serving for four 
 years. The satisfactory manner in which he dis- 
 charged the duties of that office resulted in his 
 nomination for clerk of Elbert County in 1897, 
 and he was in due time elected for a term of two 
 years. He has since retained that office, to the 
 entire satisfaction of everj'one concerned. He is 
 a man of noble impulses, kind-hearted and gentle 
 in manner, and occupies a prominent place in the 
 affections of his fellow-citizens. 
 
 December 31, 1891, Mr. Little married Miss 
 Nellie Maguire, a woman greatly admired and 
 
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 loved for her many estimable traits of character. 
 She is a daughter of Thomas and Letitia Ma- 
 guire, and was born in Russell Gulch, near Cen- 
 'tral City, and educated in Denver University. 
 This union is blessed with one son, who was 
 born October 31, 1892. Our subject is a charter 
 member of Fowler Lodge No. 108, I. O. O. F. , 
 of Elizabeth; and of the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 HON. THEODORE S. HARPER, ex-repre- 
 sentative from Lincoln and Elbert Counties, 
 is a resident of River Bend, Colo., and is 
 well and favorably known throughout the entire 
 state. He was born in Fox Chase, Pa., June 6, 
 1854, ^^^ *s ^ so'^ of William and Elizabeth 
 Harper. His father was also a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, and in his early life was a machinist 
 and inventor of some note. He invented some 
 of the first presses for making hoes and rakes, 
 but during the past thirty years he has 
 given his life to the more peaceful pursuits of 
 agriculture, as did his father. He is a Republi- 
 can. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Abel 
 S. Hallowell, a retired farmer living near Phila- 
 delphia on the property that has been in his fam- 
 ily since they first settled there, before the Revo- 
 lution. They have eight children. Smith is a 
 stockman in Elbert County, Colo. ; William is a 
 farmer in Pennsylvania; Alice married Henry 
 Edwards, and lives near Philadelphia; Eva mar- 
 ried Jacob Auer, of the same place; Mary, the 
 wife of George Blake, also lives there; Anna 
 Bell married Albert Boileau, of Chester County, 
 that state; Rebecca is the wife of Albert Ridge, 
 of Somerton, Pa.; and Theodore S. is the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 His childhood was spent in his native state, 
 where he obtained his education in the schools of 
 Philadelphia. At the age of nineteen he started 
 for Colorado, arriving here with a capital of six- 
 teen cents. He first went to Manitou, where he 
 spent the first year in surveying, and the follow- 
 ing year (1874) engaged in hunting buffalo and 
 antelope for the Denver and Kansas City markets, 
 at which he continued for some ten or twelve 
 years. He also mined during the summer, and 
 in this way got the means to embark in the stock 
 business. He began dealing in cattle and horses 
 in this vicinity, and has lived in his present 
 quarters for ten years. His principal stock now 
 
 is cattle, but he also has some horses. He retains 
 his mining interests. His home, Rockledge, is 
 one of the most pleasant and well-appointed 
 ranches in the state. 
 
 October 12, 1887, Mr. Harper married Miss 
 Lillian Hertel, a daughter of George W. and 
 Artemissa Hertel. George W. Hertel was born 
 in Kentucky, but spent much of his life in this 
 state, crossing the plains with an ox-team in 1861, 
 and he worked sawmills in the state. First by 
 appointment and afterward by election he served 
 as commissioner of Grand County. Mr. Harper 
 has always been a Republican, and worked for 
 the interests of that organization . He was elected 
 sheriff of Elbert County in 1886 and reelected 
 in 1888. In 1893 he was elected to the legis- 
 lature the first time, and again in 1895, receiving 
 large majorities over his opponents. He is a 
 prominent Mason, and has taken the thirty- 
 second degree. 
 
 (S\ NTHONY SHABLE is one of the aggressive 
 LJ farmers of Weld County, and, in his due 
 I I measure, has been responsible for the pros- 
 perous condition of this fine farming section of 
 Colorado. A few years ago this was a wilder- 
 ness of prairie, covered with rank grass, and 
 giving small prospect of the fertility and beauty 
 which it would soon assume under the genius 
 and labor of man. Mr. ^hable found the secret 
 of comfort, peace and plenty when he turned his 
 back on the mines, in which he, like hundreds of 
 others, had wasted an endless amount of toil 
 and anxiety for years, and settled down to 
 an agricultural life. The wealth of any country 
 lies in her farmers, so the philosophers say, and, 
 certainly the soil contains true wealth for the 
 honest, industrious worker. 
 
 The ranch owned by Mr. Shable is located on 
 section 6, township 4, range 66, and his postoffice 
 is Evans. By birth he is a German, and about 
 sixty-eight years ago he entered upon the battle- 
 field of life, January 8, 1831. His parents were, 
 like himself, natives of Wurtemberg and were 
 well-to-do farmers, owning their own well-im- 
 proved homestead. They were named respectively 
 Xafera and Barbara (Burnhart) Shable. The fa- 
 ther held the office of justice of the peace and 
 was a man of prominence in his neighborhood. 
 Of his six .sons and three daughters Anthony is 
 the only one who ever came to America. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 II2I 
 
 Until he was twenty years of age our subject 
 remained on the old homestead, working at farm- 
 ing and in a brewery not far distant, at intervals. 
 Determining to seek his living in the United 
 States, he sailed for these hospitable shores, and 
 reached New York City August 26, 1852. Within 
 a few days he went to Philadelphia, and going 
 into the country, found employment with a farmer 
 for a couple of years. Afterwards he worked 
 for another man during a year, and in this period 
 saved about $100 from his wages. In the spring 
 of 1856 he went to Audubon County, Iowa, and 
 there rented land. Part of the year he carried 
 on agricultural labors and during the winter 
 operated a sawmill. 
 
 In the spring of i860 Mr. Shable crossed the 
 plains and, upon reaching the end of his journey, 
 engaged in mining at Gregory Point and Cali- 
 fornia Gulch for some time, but was not very 
 successful. In the autumn of 1 860 he went to the 
 valley of the Big Thompson and put up some 
 hay, but, unfortunately, this was destroyed by 
 fire. The next three years he industriously la- 
 bored at mining, being chiefly in California 
 Gulch. In 1863 he abandoned that business and 
 -bought one hundred and sixty acres of land from 
 a man in whose employ he was at the time. He 
 had become responsible for a herd of two hun- 
 dred cattle, finding pasturage for them and taking 
 as his payment a share in them. For his newly 
 acquired property .laying in the Thompson Valley, 
 he paid $300. This land he sold in 1865 and 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of 
 his present farm, since adding forty acres to 
 the original amount. It is watered by the 
 Big Thompson and Platte River ditch. This 
 company was actively supported by our subject 
 in the beginning of the enterprise and he has 
 served for the past four years as its president. 
 In the organization of the Little Thompson ditch 
 he was one of the prime movers. In matters of 
 political bearing he is independent, and uses his 
 franchise as he deems best, without regard to 
 party. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Shable and Miss Mary E. 
 Kempsey was solemnized in this state November 
 9, 1876. She is a daughter of David and Sarah 
 (Woodsides) Kempsey, natives of Kentucky, 
 though she was born in Perry County, HI. A 
 son and daughter were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Shable. Jennie, the daughter, died April 24, 
 
 1894, aged seventeen years and six months. The 
 son, William A., is a promising young man and 
 is of great assistance to his father in the work of 
 the farm. 
 
 (T OHN F. ELLIOTT, M. D. Numbered among 
 I the leading citizens and members of the 
 Q) medical profession of Clear Creek County is 
 this representative physician and surgeon of 
 Idaho Springs. During a period of sixteen years 
 he has been a valued member of the State Medical 
 Association and is now holding the important 
 office of president of the pension board . He is also 
 identified with the American Medical Association 
 and neglects no means of keeping thoroughly 
 posted in everything pertaining to his profession. 
 Dr. Elliott comes from a worthy line of patriots 
 and pioneers of America. His remote ancestor 
 in this country was one of the passengers in the 
 celebrated "Mayflower," and his great-grand- 
 father, Joseph Elliott, was one of the early settlers 
 of Bradford County, Pa. The old home which 
 sheltered him and his, situated near Camptown, 
 was built prior to the war of the Revolution and 
 is still standing. He was a native of Connecticut 
 and was a young man at the time of the dreadful 
 Wyoming massacre. He and one companion, 
 Lebbeus Hammond, though captured by the red 
 men, managed to escape, but in doing so Mr. 
 Elliott was shot through the left lung and carried 
 the bullet to his dying day. Nevertheless, he 
 lived to reach the remarkable age of ninety-three 
 years. His son John, next in the line of descent, 
 was born in Bradford County, as was also the 
 father of the doctor. John Elliott, the grand- 
 father, was an industrious and well to-do farmer, 
 respected by all his contemporaries, and at one 
 time served them in the Pennsylvania legislature. 
 He was about fourscore and four years old at the 
 time of his demise. 
 
 The parents of Dr. Elliott were George W. and 
 Lois (Pickett) Elliott, natives of Bradford County 
 and Jessup, Susquehanna County, respectively. 
 The father of Mrs. Elliott, Jared Pickett, was a na- 
 tive of Vermont, and in early life was occupied 
 chiefly in fishing in Lake Champlain. Later he 
 took up his abode in Pennsylvania and thenceforth 
 devoted himself to farming. George W. Elliott 
 improved a homestead in the wilderness and 
 made a good living for his large family. He held 
 various local positions in the community where 
 
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 he dwelt aud was a man esteemed by all. He 
 died in 1883, when in his sixty-fifth year. His 
 widow, who survives him, is now approaching 
 threescore years and ten, and is living with the 
 doctor. Nine of her ten children grew to maturity 
 and seven of the number survive. 
 
 The birth of Dr. J. F. EUiott occurred in Camp- 
 town, Pa., in 1 85 1. After his public-school educa- 
 tion had been completed he entered the normal 
 school at Mansfield, Pa., and attended that in- 
 stitution at intervals for several years, in the 
 meantime teaching in order to meet the expenses 
 of his higher education. He graduated from the 
 normal in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Elements and soon afterwards began his initial 
 work in the field of medicine. In 1878 he went 
 to New York City and became enrolled as a 
 student in the medical college. In 1881 he 
 graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine 
 from the Long Island medical college, of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. The succeeding year he served 
 as surgeon on the Atlas line of steamships plying 
 between New York and the West Indies and South 
 American ports. In 1882 he decided to locate 
 permanently in the west and settled in Clear 
 Creek County, Colo. Until nine years ago he 
 practiced his profession in the town of Empire, 
 and has since been a resident of Idaho Springs. 
 Here he has built up a large and remunerative 
 practice, and has a place second to none in the 
 estimation of our citizens. He was married in 
 Wyoming County, Pa., in 1882, to Miss Harriet 
 Sterling. Mrs. Elliott was born and reared to 
 womanhood in the little village of Meshoppen, 
 Wyoming County. Three children have blessed 
 their marriage, George, Ida Lois and Sterling. 
 
 •QEORGE L. HAMES, a successful business 
 _. man of Elbert County, is a member of the 
 J Cort-Hames Mercantile Company at Eliz- 
 abeth. He was born in Hawley, Pa., Novem- 
 ber 4, 1857, ^ son of John B. and Mary (Engle) 
 Hames. His father, who is still living near 
 Newfoundland, Wayne County, Pa. , was for some 
 years interested in a lumber business, but now 
 makes his home on a farm, which he cultivates. 
 
 During boyhood our subject worked in a saw- 
 mill and in the woods, getting out lumber and 
 assisting his father. When he was twenty-one 
 years of age, in 1879, he came to Colorado aud 
 
 settled on a ranch, where he worked by the 
 month for two years. Later he clerked in a store 
 at Elbert for a year, then spent two years work- 
 ing in a sawmill. His present partnership was 
 formed in Franceville in 1885, and in 1892 the 
 firm came to Elizabeth, where he has since re- 
 sided. At the time of coming to this state he 
 was without means, as his father had been bank- 
 rupted. The competency he has obtained repre- 
 sents his industrious and intelligent effort in this 
 state, and proves that he is a man of business 
 ability. 
 
 Since the organization of Elizabeth Camp 
 No. 304, Woodmen of the World, Mr. Hames 
 has been identified with it as an officer. In 
 political opinion he advocates Democratic princi- 
 ples and always votes the straight party ticket. 
 While he never cared for oflBce, his fellow-citizens 
 influenced him to accept the mayoralty of Eliza- 
 beth in 1893, and as the chief executive of the 
 town he was instrumental in advancing its well- 
 fare and promoting its prosperity. 
 
 ■^EGRGE W. FOOTE, who is a well-known 
 _ and successful business man of Loveland, 
 J Larimer County, was born and reared near 
 Wilmington, Del., receiving his education in the 
 schools of that city and Philadelphia, Pa. He 
 and his brother, William^ and sisters, Susan and 
 Esther, are the only survivors of thirteen chil- 
 dren who composed the family of William and 
 Susan (Faulk) Foote. His paternal and maternal 
 grandfathers were William Foote, Sr., who was 
 a prosperous cooper and farmer of Delaware, and 
 John Faulk, a miller, also a life-long resident of 
 that state. 
 
 The father of our subject spent his entire life 
 upon the farm where he was born, but died at his 
 summer home in Pennsylvania when he was 
 eighty-five years of age. He was recognized as 
 one of the most enterprising and efficient agri- 
 culturists of his locality, and was also esteemed 
 as a citizen, being progressive and public-spirited. 
 Politically he voted the Whig ticket. His wife 
 passed away when eighty-seven years of age. 
 
 It was in 1874 that the subject of this sketch 
 came west and settled in Greeley, Colo., where 
 he remained for six years. While residing in 
 that place he bought the stage line between 
 Greeley and Namaqua, and this he operated for 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 seven years. In 1881 he sold the stage line and re- 
 moved to Loveland, becoming connected with 
 Mr. Stoddard in the livery and sale stable busi- 
 ness, which firm has since carried on a successful 
 business. In 1880 he bought one-eighth of a 
 section of land, to which he later added another 
 eighth; upon this place in 1887 he built a hand- 
 some residence, and at different times has made 
 other valuable improvements. He owns nine 
 hundred and sixty acres of ranch land near the 
 mountains at the foot hills, and raises cattle and 
 horses of the best breeds. Besides his other in- 
 terests, since 1894 he has been vice-president of 
 the Larimer County bank. In political affiliations 
 a Republican, he has, however, never shown any 
 partisanship in his preference, but is fair-minded 
 and broad. He takes a warm interest in local 
 affairs and favors any plan whereby the welfare 
 of the county or town may be advanced and the 
 prosperity of the people promoted. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Foote was Sarah A. 
 Woodward, who died in 1892, leaving an only 
 child, James Lindsey. After her death he was 
 a second time married, choosing as his wife 
 Delia E. Weaver, of Muscotah, Kan., by whom 
 he has a son, Lester G. 
 
 (T M. COPELAND, cashier of the Bank of 
 I Clear Creek County, has been a resident of 
 (2/ Georgetown since 1874. He was born in 
 Wayne County, Mo., September 18, 1855, and is 
 a son of Jacob Copeland, a native of Tennessee. 
 The Copeland family settled in New England 
 long before the Revolution, and a branch of them 
 went to the Carolinas, and from there to the east- 
 em part of Tennessee, where they were large 
 planters. Some of them took up arms against 
 the British during the war. Jacob Copeland, the 
 father, settled in Wayne County, Mo., in his 
 early days, and helped establish the first free 
 schools in that section, where he taught for some 
 time. In 1864 he moved tp near Evansville, 
 Ind., and there remained until his death, which 
 occurred in 1889, at the age of sixty-nine years. 
 He married Sarah Barry, a native of Missouri, 
 where she died. Her father was among the old- 
 est settlers there. Five sons and one daughter 
 were bom to them. The daughter was drowned 
 in Missouri when a young girl. Three sons are 
 living: Amos L-, a farmer in Indiana; Joseph A., 
 
 in the milling business in Adrian, Mo. ; and J. 
 M. , the eldest of the family living, is the subject 
 of this biography. 
 
 When nine years old J. M. Copeland was taken 
 to Indiana, where he attended the district school 
 until he was thirteen. He then secured work as 
 clerk in a general mercantile establishment, re- 
 maining there until 1874, when he came to this 
 state, and located in Georgetown, where he has 
 since resided. He first secured employment as 
 clerk in the furniture store of Henry Boyer. 
 Another three years was spent in the hardware 
 store of Mr. Curtis, and in January, 1880, he 
 started in the banking business, and has held 
 the position of cashier since that time. He is a 
 director in the bank also, and is recognized as 
 a wide-awake, energetic business man. He is 
 the receiver for Pay Rock Silver mines, and has 
 the management of the mines this.sicie of Silver 
 Plume. 
 
 After coming to this city Mr. Copeland married 
 Miss Eliza McAithur, who was born in Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, and came to this place with her 
 father, Duncan McArthur, in 1874. They have 
 three children, Ruth, J. M., Jr., and William. 
 The bank is in the Fish block, on the corner of 
 Sixth and Rose streets. The remainder of the 
 ground floor is used for stores, while in the rooms 
 above the different lodges of the Masonic frater- 
 nity meet. Mr. Copeland is the present city 
 treasurer, as he has been at different times during 
 the past seven years. He has been a member of 
 the school board for nine years, serving as treas- 
 urer of that body the entire time. He was made 
 a mason in Washington Lodge No. 12, A. F. & 
 A. M., and is treasurer of the local lodge, as he 
 is in Chapter No. 4, R. A. M., and also belongs 
 to Commandery No. 4, K. T. In religion he is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
 has been a Republican and is now a strong silver- 
 man. 
 
 (TOHN J. SHERWIN, president of the cham- 
 I ber of commerce of Idaho Springs, is a 
 (2/ prominent business man of this place. He 
 was born in Belle Plaine, Scott County, Minn., 
 August 30, 1858, and is a son of John E. and 
 Cynthia W. (Smith) Sherwin. His grandfather, 
 John Sherwin, was born of Scotch-Irish parents 
 who settled in New Hampshire at an early day 
 and later moved to New York, where he was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 born. He moved to Michigan, where he married 
 and reared his family. John E. Sherwin, the 
 father of our subject, was born in that state, and 
 when he reached mature years he went west to 
 Minnesota, where he married. He bought gov- 
 ernment land in Scott County, which he im- 
 proved and upon which he lived. While clearing 
 his land and engaging in its cultivation, he at 
 the same time followed his trade, which was that 
 of a cabinet-maker. When the Indian trouble 
 broke out in 1862 a company was organized in 
 St. Paul to quell the disturbance, and passed 
 through Belle Plaine on the way to the seat of 
 trouble. John E. Sherwin joined them at that 
 point and furnished them with horses. In Sep- 
 tember of that year they fought a battle with the 
 Indians at Birch Coolie, where he was badly 
 wounded, having been struck with two arrows 
 and two bullets, receiving such injuries that he 
 died at . Fort Ridgely in his thirty-third year. 
 His wife, Cynthia W. Sherwin, was born near 
 Bellows Falls, Vt., where her parents were en- 
 gaged in farming. She now resides in Monti- 
 cello, Minn., and is the mother of three children, 
 as follows: John J., our subject, who is the eldest; 
 Etta Mae, now Mrs. Mealey; and Edward H., a 
 merchant, both living in Monticello. 
 
 When John J. Sherwin was five years old he 
 went to Saxton River, Vt. , where he attended 
 school for four years. Later he attended the 
 public schools of Monticello, Minn. , graduating 
 from the high school of that place when eighteen. 
 He then began the study of pharmacy, and in 
 1879 opened a store in Hancock, that state, and 
 there continued until November, 1883, when he 
 disposed of the stock and came to this state, lo- 
 cating in Idaho Springs. Here he bought out 
 the drug business of a Mr. Horton, and is still en- 
 gaged in that line, having the oldest as well as 
 the largest and finest establishment of that kind 
 in the city. He is also interested in mining, 
 being the owner of some valuable mining prop- 
 erty. 
 
 In Boston Mr. Sherwin married Miss E. M. 
 Moore, a native of London, England, by whom 
 he has one child, John Hastings. He was one of 
 the incorporators of the Idaho Springs chamber 
 of commerce in January, i8g6, and was chairman 
 of the committee on railroads and rates. The 
 following year he was elected president, and was 
 re-elected in 189S. He was alderman one term, 
 
 and served as secretary of the school board for 
 three years, until 1897. He belongs to Lodge 
 No. 26, A. F. & A. M., of which he is past 
 master, as he is in Idaho Springs Chapter No. 30, 
 R. A. M. He is a member of Central City Com- 
 mandery No. 2, K. T. , and El Jebel Temple, 
 N. M. S. He is a member of the State Pharma- 
 ceutical Association, and in politics is a silver 
 Republican. 
 
 EHARLES FREDERICK BLUNCK ranks 
 among the most successful farmers and lamb 
 dealers in Larimer County. In June, 1886, 
 he came to Fort Collins and has since engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits, owning a farm of one hun- 
 dred and seventy- five acres three miles southeast 
 of Fort Collins, upon which he has made valu- 
 able improvements in fencing and ditching and 
 which he devotes to raising alfalfa for feed. He 
 also owns another farm seven miles southeast of 
 this town, in Harmony District, consisting of 
 eighty acres, which he rents. He was among 
 the first to engage in the lamb-feeding industry 
 in this section of the state and for three years or 
 more he has also engaged in dealing in sheep, 
 which he brings here from Oklahoma, Arizona, 
 New Mexico and southern Colorado. He feeds 
 about four thousand and handles twenty-five or 
 thirty thousand per annum, raising for their feed 
 almost one thousand tons of alfalfa. 
 
 TheBlunck family is of German origin. Henry 
 Blunck, father of our subject, was born in Sybeck, 
 Germany, and removed to Davenport, Iowa, 
 where he followed the carpenter's trade. From 
 there he went to Winona, Minn., where his son, 
 our subject, was born December 23, 1856. In 
 that city he engaged in business as a contractor 
 and builder for a time, also homesteaded a claim 
 near the town, but on account of trouble with the 
 Indians he deemed it best to return to Daven- 
 port, where he resumed carpentering. During 
 the war he enlisted in the Sixth Iowa Infantry 
 and was injured in the service. While in Ger- 
 many he had served for four years in the Danish 
 war. In 1868 he moved to Johnson County, set- 
 tling on a farm near Iowa City, then moved to 
 Ringgold County, Iowa, where he died in 1895, 
 at the age of seventy-five years. He was a mem- 
 ber of a Grand Army post. His wife, Dora, 
 bore the same family name as his own, but was 
 not related; she was born and married in Ger- 
 
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 many, and now lives in Ringgold County, Iowa. 
 Of her seven children all but two are living, 
 three of these in Iowa, and two in Colorado, John 
 being near Loveland. 
 
 In 1868 the subject o( this sketch accompanied 
 his parents to Johnson County, where he attended 
 the district schools. At the age of twenty- two 
 he began farming independently, remaining in 
 Iowa until 1886, when he came to Fort Collins. 
 Politically he is an adherent of Republican princi- 
 ples. He was a charter member of the Larimer 
 County Sheep Feeders' Association, in the work 
 of which he takes a warm interest. Fraternally 
 he is identified with the Woodmen of the World. 
 His marriage, which took place in Mount Ayr, 
 Ringgold County, Iowa, December 18, 1883, united 
 him with Miss Mary Atz, who was born in Swit- 
 zerland and accompanied her parents to Iowa 
 when she was twelve years of age. They are the 
 parents of four daughters, Viola G., Elva M., 
 Mary A. and Ruth D. 
 
 (T H. BURKHOLDER is one of the most suc- 
 I cessful business men of Georgetown, and has 
 (2/ the most complete line of hardware in this 
 part of the county. He was born June 5, 1856, 
 in Fort Wayne, Ind. , his parents being Joseph 
 and Roxanna (Emrick) Burkholder. His father, 
 who was a cabinetmaker in Pennsylvania, settled 
 in Fort Wayne about 1853, and later went to 
 Ohio, but returned to Fort Wayne, where he 
 ran a furniture factory. He was engaged in this 
 work until he retired from active business, when 
 he moved to Illinois and from there to Kansas, 
 where he owns a large farm of six hundred and 
 forty acres, near Harper. He married Roxanna 
 Emrick, of Ohio. She was a daughter of Andrew 
 Emrick, who was formerly from Pennsylvania, 
 where the Emricks were farmers, and later lived 
 near Millersburg, Ohio. The mother died at an 
 early age, leaving two sons and two daughters. 
 One son went to seek his fortune in Klondike. 
 The father was married a second time and this 
 union resulted in the birth of two sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Until about fifteen years old, Mr. Burkholder 
 lived near Shreve, Ohio, and received his educa- 
 tional training at the public schools. He then 
 went to Fort Wayne and entered his father's fac- 
 tory, learning the different departments of that 
 
 industry. He spent one winter in Florida, and 
 then returned once more to Fort Wayne to re- 
 build the factory which had burned down. He 
 conducted this business until 1880, when he came 
 to Denver and accepted employment with Halleck 
 & Howard for one year, and then went to Gun- 
 nison and engaged in prospecting until that fall, 
 when he returned to Denver. In the spring of 
 1882 he came to Georgetown to take charge of 
 G. W. Hall's oresampling and lumber mill. He 
 was there nine years, until 1891, in the ore sam- 
 pling business and then had to leave, as the dust 
 in the mill was injurious to him. Later he pros- 
 pected and mined, and helped to build a mill at 
 Empire. He also spent a short time in Black- 
 hawk, experimenting on tailings with a table he 
 had invented. His next position was as mill 
 man with Dewey, in his concentrator and sam- 
 pling works, where he remained until April, 
 1896, and then bought out Henry Siefreid, and 
 opened a hardware store. He has greatly in- 
 creased the stock and now occupies a building 
 one storj^ high with an area of 25x96 feet, and a 
 warehouse for heavy irons, ore cars, wheelbar- 
 rows, etc. He handles stoves, a complete line of 
 miners' supplies, glass, paints and oils, and also 
 does pipe laying, plumbing and heating, and 
 puts on tin and iron roofing. 
 
 In Denver Mr. Burkholder married Miss Sarah 
 Harrison, a native of Nova Scotia. They have 
 two children, Edward and Hazel. Mrs. Burk- 
 holder is the landlady of the Elliott House, the 
 leading hotel of Georgetown, and one of the best 
 in the county. Her success is shown by the 
 large patronage accorded her, and no effort is 
 spared to cater to the comfort of her guests. Mr. 
 Burkholder is a member of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, the Daughters of Rebekah, and 
 the Red Men. He is a strong silver man, but is 
 not an aspirant for oflBce. 
 
 QHILIP POIRSON, of Silver Plume, Clear 
 LX Creek County, is a gentleman whose history 
 t^ is unusually interesting, partaking, as it 
 does, of military life and honors gained in the 
 servicj of his native land, fair France. Both his 
 grandfathers were soldiers in the French army 
 under the great Napoleon, and their heroic ex- 
 ample as patriots was emulated by our subject in 
 later years. 
 
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 Born in Nancy, Lorraine, September 4, 1840, 
 Philip Poirson is a son of Claude and Catherine 
 (Genire) Poirson, natives of the same place. 
 The father was a coppersmith by occupation. 
 Our subject is the youngest of six children, and 
 the only one of the number in America. In 1855 
 he volunteered in the French navy and went 
 aboard the training-ship "Jambard" for three 
 years. At the expiration of that period he en- 
 listed in the French army as a private in a Zouave 
 company, and the next year was sent to Algeria. 
 After taking part in a few battles in the moun- 
 tains he returned home for the purpose of assist- 
 ing the Italians to drive the Austrians from 
 Lombardy. That year, 1859, he fought in the 
 battles of Palestro, Magenta and Solferino, and 
 at the close of the campaign was presented with 
 a medal by the Italian government. He person- 
 ally was granted a special medal for illustrious 
 bravery at the battle of Solferino, in saving the 
 life of an Italian officer. His services no longer 
 needed, the gallant young soldier returned to 
 France, and in the autumn of the same year was 
 assigned to duty in Pekin, China, where dreadful 
 massacres of missionaries had been committed 
 and further trouble was expected. There he 
 took part in the battles of Pekin and others in 
 i860, acting as a sergeant, and for his meritor- 
 ious services was awarded a medal by France. 
 His next duty was in Cochin- China, where he 
 remained until 1863. Once more returning to 
 his native land he continued in the army up to 
 1868, being a second lieutenant these later years, 
 and attached to the staff of Marshal Magnau, as 
 his private secretary. In 1868 he resigned and 
 received an honorable discharge. 
 
 For a brief time only Mr. Poirson was destined to 
 enjoy the pursuits of peace in his beloved France. 
 He was engaged in the banking business for a 
 year or two with his brother, under the name of 
 Poirson Brothers, in the town of his birth, but the 
 war-cloud followed him, and in 1870 the great 
 Franco-Prussian war broke upon the peace of 
 Europe. When it became certain that his birth- 
 place, Lorraine, was to become the possession of 
 the enemy, Philip Poirson determined to leave 
 and make a new home in America. He sgld out 
 his business and in September, 1871, landed in 
 New Orleans, La. There misfortune seemed to 
 have followed him, for, though he opened a 
 grocery and did well for a couple of years, his 
 
 place of business was then destroyed by fire. He 
 went then to Missouri and found employment in 
 the iron and lead mines. In 1879 he came to 
 Colorado, and located in Silver Plume. Here he 
 was in the lumber business for three years, after 
 which he mined and prospected for eight years. 
 In 1890 he bought out Mr. Cliff and has since 
 freighted and handled ore, conveying the prod- 
 ucts of several mines hereabout to Georgetown. 
 He also deals in coal, feed, grain and hay, mine 
 timbers, etc. In addition, he has built up a good 
 trade in groceries and provisions and general 
 supplies. He owns a substantial house, store 
 and warehouses, as well as large barns, and by his 
 well-applied energy is gradually acquiring a 
 competence. 
 
 Politically Mr. Poirson endorses the platform 
 of the People's party. He was one of the alder- 
 men of Silver Plume for four years and for three 
 years was a member of the school board. He is 
 past grand in the Odd Fellows' society and is past 
 chief of the encampment. For his wife he chose 
 a lady, who, like himself, is a native of France. 
 Their marriage was solemnized in Europe and 
 the ten children who bless their home are: Henry 
 and Frank, who are in business with their father, 
 and Henrietta, Louis, Sophia, Leo, Emma, 
 Jennie, Matilda and Edward. 
 
 gLARENCE E. PRINCE. One noticeable 
 characteristic of Colorado life is the large 
 number of young men who are engaged 
 in enterprises of importance and are success- 
 fully conducting important interests. Such an 
 one is the subject of this sketch, who as a 
 farmer has shown himself to be a man of ability 
 and energy. He has commenced his career as an 
 agriculturist with a determination and enter- 
 prise that speak well for the future. Undoubt- 
 edly, should nothing unforeseen prevent, he will 
 attain a position among the most prominent men 
 of Boulder County, where he resides, near Lafay- 
 ette. 
 
 A native of Boulder County, Colo., Mr. Prince 
 was born May 7, 1874, and is a son of Hiram and 
 Helen M. (Lindsay) Prince, to whose sketch 
 upon another page the reader is referred for the 
 family history. He grew to manhood on the 
 home farm and had such advantages as the com- 
 mon schools afforded. February 24, 1896, he 
 
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 was united in marriage with Miss Charlotte 
 Schofield, daughter of WilHam H. and Mary E. 
 (Downing) Schofield, natives of Nova Scotia. 
 About 1870 her parents came to the United States 
 and settled in Boston, but nine years later they 
 came west to Kansas, settling in Central, where 
 they remained until 1891. During that year they 
 settled in Colorado, establishing their home near 
 Canfield, but later moving to the Weisenhorn 
 place, which Mr. Schofield has since cultivated. 
 One child, Irene E., was born April 17, 1897, to 
 the union of Mr. and Mrs. Prince. 
 
 From boyhood Mr. Prince has been firm in his 
 allegiance to the Republican party and supports 
 its principles by his ballot and influence. 
 
 j ESLIE HORSLEY. Immediately adjoining 
 I C Livermore is a ranch of some eight hundred 
 [2 acres, beautifully situated on Pine and 
 Rabbit Creeks and Cache la Poudre River. The 
 Lone Pine runs through the land, and furnishes 
 water for its irrigation. It is devoted to the 
 raising of grain and stock and is owned by Mr. 
 Horsley, who came to the state in 1891, and was 
 so well pleased with the country, climate and 
 facilities for farming and stock-raising that he 
 bought property, and now has one of the finest 
 ranches in the country. He was born in Barton, 
 Yorkshire, England, March 21, 1867, and is the 
 son of Gen. Frank and Fannie (Cradock) 
 Horsley. 
 
 His grandfather. Judge John Horsley, was a 
 native of England, but moved to India, where he 
 served as judge tor the English government. 
 The family were prominent in parliamentary 
 circles, and a great-great-uucle, Bishop Samuel 
 Horsley, was bishop of Worchester, and dean of 
 "Westminster, and was the last bishop to wear the 
 wig. An uncle, Ralph Avelsem, was a magis- 
 trate in India, and was assassinated by the na- 
 tives. 
 
 Gen. Frank Horsley entered the Indian army 
 before Queen Victoria became an empress. He 
 was in service in 1836, and served throughout 
 the Indian mutiny. He was a member of the 
 First Cavalry, of which only three were left after 
 the mutiny, and later served in the Third Cavalry. 
 He was retired with the rank of general. Re- 
 turning to England, he lived on his estate in 
 Gloucestershire. He was a member of the Ma- 
 
 sonic order. His wife, Fannie (Cradock) Hors- 
 ley, was born on the Hartforth estate, near 
 Richmond, England. She was a daughter of 
 Col. Sheldon Cradock, who was a colonel in the 
 English army, proprietor of Hartforth, and a 
 member of parliament. She died at the age of 
 fifty-six j^ears, leaving two children: Meta, who 
 married W. D. Gilpin-Brown, of Sidney, Eng- 
 land; and Iveslie, of I,iverniore, Colo. 
 
 Mr. Horsley was reared and educated in Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland. For three years after complet- 
 ing his education he gave his attention to farm- 
 ing, and became an adept in agricultural pursuits. 
 In 1892 he came to Livermore Park, and two 
 years later bought the Landes farm of four 
 hundred acres adjoining Livermore. The follow- 
 ing year he purchased the Chase place, and still 
 later bought an adjoining one hundred and sixty, 
 making a large tract of eight hundred acres, in 
 one body, of deeded land now owned by him. 
 His land is well irrigated, he having extended 
 the Chase ditch to bring more land under culti- 
 vation. He has about two hundred and fifty acres 
 sown to alfalfa, and this is used in feeding his 
 cattle, of which he raises large herds. He keeps 
 large herds of beef cattle, consisting mostly of 
 graded Herefords and Shorthorns. He also has 
 some full-blooded Herefords, and a few Jerseys. 
 He has nice groves on his land, and the barns 
 are of the most modern and convenient style, 
 while the residence has been enlarged and im- 
 proved in such a manner as to make a comfortable 
 home. 
 
 Mr. Horsley married Miss Cora Saxton, an 
 eastern lady, and a daughter of Mrs. J. H. Swan, 
 of Livermore. They have two children, Dorothy 
 Sylvia Meta and Frances Elizabeth. A wide- 
 awake, shrewd man of affairs, Mr. Horsley is 
 quick to see and take advantage of a plan that 
 will benefit him. He was a charter member of 
 the Larimer County Stock Growers' Protective 
 Association. In religion he is identified with the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 EHARLES EMERSON,ofLivermore,Larimer 
 County, is the oldest settler in Livermore 
 Park, and the junior member of the firm 
 of Emerson Brothers, the wealthiest and among 
 the most prosperous stock dealers in the county. 
 Their ranch is located about two and one-quarter 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 miles from I^ivermore, on the Lone Pine, and 
 consists of two thousand one hundred and sixty 
 acres of fine land, all fenced and improved. It 
 is irrigated by four ditches which carry the 
 water from Pine Creek. The brothers were 
 among the first to adopt alfalfa as feed, and try 
 raising it for that purpose in this vicinity, and 
 they have sown from four hundred to five hun- 
 dred acres in alfalfa, which is used in feeding their 
 herds of cattle; the latter they .ship to the eastern 
 markets, and derive therefrom considerable profit. 
 
 Mr. Emerson was born in New Hampton, 
 N. H., Novembers, 1849. He is a son of Samuel 
 and Anna (Carter) Emerson, and a grandson of 
 Nathan Emerson, all of New Hampshire. The 
 grandfather was a farmer of Plymouth, where he 
 died. The great-grandfather, Jordan Emerson, 
 came from Newburyport, Mass., and was a sol- 
 dier of the Revolution. He was appointed judge 
 for his district by the continental congress. The 
 Emerson family came from England early in the 
 seventeenth century and settled in Massachu- 
 setts, whence they scattered to all parts of the 
 United States. Samuel Emerson, who was a 
 farmer in New Hampton, went to California in 
 1856, by way of Panama, and there remained 
 four or five years, dealing in stock. He then re- 
 turned to his native state, where he died in the 
 ripeness of age, having attained eighty-two years. 
 
 For many years he was selectman, also served 
 as tax collector, and represented his county in 
 the state legislature for two terms. He was a 
 member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife was 
 Anna Carter, born in New Hampton, and a daugh- 
 ter of Levi Carter, also a native of New Hamp- 
 shire, but a member of an old family of Massachu- 
 setts. She died at the age of eighty-one. Nine 
 children were born to them: Mary, who died in 
 New Hampton; Horace W., who resides in 
 Maine, a partner of our subject, retired since 
 1893; Mrs. Laura Kelley, and Abbie, both of 
 whom died in New Hampton; Almeda, Mrs. 
 Curtice, of Bristol; Charles, of Livermore, the 
 subject of this sketch; Francis A. , of New Hamp- 
 ton; Ella and Auntha, who both died there. 
 
 Charles Emerson was educated in the public 
 schools and best literary institutions to be found 
 in New Hampton, and in the spring of 1869 
 started for LaPorte, Colo., by way of Cheyenne, 
 and from there by the overland stage through the 
 canon of the Cache la Poudre River. At Cham- 
 
 bers Lake he accepted a position with the rail- 
 road company, and helped get out ties for the 
 Denver & Pacific Railroad, of which his brother 
 was foreman. They were engaged in that work 
 from March until November of that year getting 
 out one hundred and eighty-three thousand ties 
 and running them down the Poudre to Greeley. 
 He remained with the company in charge of that 
 department of work until the spring of the next 
 year, when he and his brother went to Nebraska, 
 bought some cattle at North Platte City, brought 
 them to Colorado and established the ranch which 
 they have since conducted so successfully. 
 
 At that time the Park was unnamed, the creek 
 was called Lone Pine from one solitary tree which 
 stood on its bank, and the name clung to that 
 vicinity for four or five years until the postofiBce 
 was established in 1874, when it was called Liver- 
 more Postoffice and became Livermore Park. 
 The name was chosen by a Mr. Moore who lived 
 on the site of the present postoffice, and who had 
 come there from Livermore, Me. When he settled 
 there, one other settler, William Calloway, was 
 there and had established a ranch on the north 
 fork of the Poudre near the canon, where he lived 
 until his death, a few years ago. 
 
 In 1877 Emerson Brothers moved to Wyoming 
 and established a ranch near Fort Fetterman. 
 This consists of eight hundred acres, all fenced, 
 and large numbers of cattlje were raised there, but 
 of late years their cattle have been raised entirely 
 on their large farm in Colorado. In 1883 they 
 began to improve their property in this state, and 
 bought of their neighbors, the state and the gov- 
 ernment, lands immediately adjoining them until 
 they have their present farm of two thousand 
 one hundred and sixty acres. They are among 
 the most extensive cattle dealers in this part of 
 the country, most of the stock being bred on the 
 place, and consisting of Herefords and Short- 
 horns, while a few are purchased for breeding. 
 Their brand is the circle "O." 
 
 Mr. Emerson married Miss Alice Freeman, of 
 Prospect, Me., June 11, 1877. Fraternally he is 
 a member of Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & 
 A. M. He was a charter member and is now 
 treasurer of the Larimer County Stock Growers' 
 Protective Association. He is also an associate 
 member of the National Stock Growers' Associa- 
 tion, and was a delegate to the Denver convention 
 held in 1898, in January. In politics he is a 
 
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 strong McKinley man, and was a member of the 
 county Republican committee. In the fall of 1898 
 he was nominated for the office of state senator 
 by the Republican party. 
 
 This sketch would be incomplete without a 
 brief history of Horace W. Emerson, the brother 
 who has been so intimately connected with our 
 subject in all his business transactions. He was 
 born in New Hampton in 1838, and engaged in 
 the stock business befoi^e leaving there. In 1866 
 he went to Nebraska and secured work with a 
 large contracting firm, Coe & Carter, the latter 
 an uncle. They did work for the govenunent 
 and the railroads, and were at that time engaged 
 in getting out railroad ties and other wood. He 
 was made superintendent of the work and was 
 sent to Sherman, Wyo., in 1867 or 1868. About 
 this time the partnership was formed with his 
 brother in the stock business, Charles taking 
 charge of it. He was given charge of the con- 
 tract of Coe & Carter with the Denver & Pacific 
 Railroad in 1869, and continued with them until 
 1875. He also built the postoffice building for 
 the government at Fort Lyon. From 1875 to 
 1893 his time was spent principally on his ranch, 
 but at the end of that time he moved to Winter- 
 port, Me. , where he now lives in retirement. He 
 is a Mason and a Republican. He has been 
 twice married, first to Miss Lizzie Freeman, of 
 Maine, who died in Livermore, and afterward to 
 Miss Marrietta Freeman, also of Maine, a sister of 
 his first wife. They have one child, Dorothy. 
 
 3 GEL K. PALMER. In the beautiful valley of 
 Clear Creek, between North and South Table 
 Mountains, Mr. Palmer settled in i860, and 
 here he has made his home ever since, evolving 
 a beautiful and finely improved fruit and garden 
 farm out of the virgin soil. The surroundings 
 are picturesque, the grand old mountains forming 
 a background to a picture of peace and plenty. 
 During the spring and summer months the place 
 is a modern paradise, with its wealth of fruit- 
 beariug trees, its gardens of strawberries and 
 vegetables, and its air of thrift and prosperity. 
 The improvement of the farm is due to the efforts 
 of the owner, who since first coming here has 
 done pioneer work in planting trees, finding what 
 varieties of fruits best suit the soil and laboring 
 to secure the best possible results from his land. 
 
 He has introduced an excellent system of irriga- 
 tion, by which water in abundance is furnished 
 to his trees and garden. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Palmer occurred in Steuben 
 County, N. Y., February 13, 1832. He is a de- 
 scendant of an English family that was among 
 the earliest settlers of Maine. His grandfather, 
 Thomas Palmer, was born in Maine and from 
 there went to the front as a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion. The father, William, also a native of 
 Maine, moved to Steuben County, N.Y., in early 
 manhood, and there married Amanda Haines 
 and engaged in farming. In 1837 ^^ and his 
 family traveled in a "prairie schooner" to Iowa, 
 where he settled in Scott County, near Princeton, 
 on the Mississippi. His remaining years were 
 given to the cultivation of a farm there. He died 
 at the age of fifty-four, and his wife when fifty- 
 seven. They were the parents of ten children 
 who attained mature years, and of these five are 
 now living. One of the sons, David, enlisted in 
 an Iowa regiment during the Civil war and died 
 at Memphis while engaged in service. Another 
 son, A. J., is living upon a farm near Laramie, 
 Wyo. 
 
 The only member of the family in Colorado is 
 Joel K., who was next to the youngest of the 
 children. He was five years of age when the 
 family removed to Iowa, and his education was 
 limited to a brief attendance, during winters, at 
 a school taught in a log building, with slabs for 
 seats and greased paper for window panes. In 
 1853 he started out for himself, having bought a 
 farm near the old homestead, and there he en- 
 gaged in farming until 1859. The news of the 
 discovery of gold in the mountains led him to 
 start westward. He stopped for a time in Blue 
 Rapids, Marshall County, Kan., but the country 
 and the prospects did not please him, and in the 
 spring of i860 he came further west, landing at 
 Golden June 4. He had his team and wagon and 
 $6.65 in money, with which he began life in the 
 new country. As might be imagined, the work 
 was by no means easy. He dug a small ditch on 
 the land he secured, and began to irrigate and 
 improve it; he also cleared the brush and trees . 
 from the bottom of the creek, making the land 
 tillable. By degrees success came to him. His 
 strawberries have become known as the finest in 
 his section, and his apples and grapes are also of 
 the best. He is the owner of a private ditch and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 also holds an interest in two of the large ditches. 
 Of his original tract of one hundred and sixty 
 acres he still owns eighty-five acres, the most of 
 which is planted to orchards and gardens. 
 
 Mr. Palmer has had little time to study politics, 
 but he believes that, from a common-sense point 
 of view, the citizens of Colorado should favor the 
 silver cause and he himself is an earnest sup- 
 porter of bimetallism. He was united in mar- 
 riage, in Iowa, with Miss Matilda Lewis, a native 
 of Canada, and the daughter of William and 
 Mary A. (Aukman) Lewis. They are the 
 parents of six children: Charles, Mary, Nelson, 
 Frank, Rose and Alice. 
 
 SI DAM RINNERT, a prominent and influen- 
 1 I tial farmer of Elbert County, owns and 
 / I occupies a beautiful homestead, located 
 near the village of Kiowa. He has been a 
 resident of the Centennial state for a score and 
 eight years, and it is hardly necessary to state 
 that in that length of time he has witnessed great 
 and gratifying changes, and, in common with 
 others who settled here at that time, has assisted 
 in bringing this section to its present state of 
 cultivation and civilization. His homestead, 
 which consists of fourteen hundred and forty 
 acres, is located near the town of Kiowa, and he 
 also owns seventeen hundred and twenty acres 
 near Elbert, this county. He came to this vicinity 
 in moderate circumstances and has climbed up to 
 his present position by his own industry, economy 
 and perseverance. He has accomplished this by 
 fair means and enjoys the confidence and esteem 
 of the community of which he is a valued mem- 
 ber. He was born in the city of New York, July 
 i8, 1851, and is a son of Adam and Catherine 
 (Lappa) Rinnert. 
 
 Our subject's parents were both natives of 
 Germany, but were married in New York City. 
 He was a shoemaker by trade and when our sub- 
 ject was about two years of age he moved to 
 Colchester, Conn., two years later he moved 
 to St. Catharine, and in 1862 to Port Crescent, 
 where he bought a farm and carried on gen- 
 eral farming in addition to working at his for- 
 mer trade. Our subject received a common- 
 school education and in 1870 he came west and 
 settled in Elbert County, Colo. At first he 
 worked by the month, but later took up a large 
 
 claim and engaged in farming; he sold his first 
 claim and has since bought other property, and is 
 one of the largest land owners of that community. 
 Mr. Rinnert has been united in marriage twice. 
 His first wife was Nannie H. Graham, by whom 
 he reared three children, namely: Adam G., born 
 in June, 1879; Mary Christina and John M. His 
 first wife died in 1890, and later he married Mrs. 
 Edith Caswell, a widow, with one child, Mila 
 Edith, who resides with her parents and is attend- 
 ing school at Kiowa. The second union has 
 been blessed by the birth of one son, Lewis Lent. 
 The second wife of Mr. Rinnert, whose maiden 
 name was Edith Lent, was the daughter of Lewis 
 Thatcher and Caroline (Wattles) Lent, natives 
 of Bradford County, Pa., and still residents of 
 that state. Her father follows agricultural pur- 
 suits. Mrs. Rinnert owns two farms in her own 
 right in Elbert County, aggregating one thou- 
 sand two hundred and eighty acres. Politically 
 our subject is a stanch Republican, and cast his 
 first vote in 1876 for R. B. Hayes; in that year he 
 was elected sheriff of Elbert County and served 
 one term. He is a member of Elbert Lodge No. 
 86, I. O. O. F., and has filled all the chairs of 
 that order. 
 
 fojEORGE PANKHURST. Having disposed 
 l_ of his business interests in Jackson County, 
 y^ Iowa, Mr. Pankhursti started for Colorado 
 May 14, 1859, and cros.sed the plains with four 
 yoke of cattle. Not being able to cross the river 
 at Kearney, he and his brother-in-law, who ac- 
 companied him, rode to Laramie, where, after 
 many difficulties, they finally succeeded in cross- 
 ing. The ferry boat had been cut loose by 
 deserting soldiers, and, in order to secure means 
 of passage, they felled some large cottonwood 
 trees, and by unloading and taking to pieces 
 their wagons, effected a passage on their im- 
 provised boats. They proceeded to Boulder and 
 on arriving at that place, began to look around 
 for a suitable location. Their first camping place 
 was between Russell and Gregory Gulch, where 
 they took out as much as $1.80 a pan and they 
 could have bought the property (known as the 
 bob- tail lead) of four hundred feet, for a few 
 dollars; but a few days later thirty-two feet sold 
 for $8,000. After a few days, the pound diggings 
 excitement broke out and they decided to try 
 their fortune in the new place, which they did. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 When the weather became too cold to permit 
 further work in mines, Mr. Pankhurst went to 
 Colorado City, where he built a cabin and en- 
 gaged in hunting during the winter. In the 
 spring he returned to the diggings in Breckenridge 
 and resumed mining. During the seven years 
 he remained there he met with varying success, 
 working some days for $i.oo and other days tak- 
 ing out an ounce of gold. In 1865 he went back 
 to Jackson County, Iowa, and built a sawmill, 
 which he carried on for seven years, getting out 
 lumber for the railroad. Later he engaged in 
 farming. In 1880 he visited Colorado, but re- 
 turned to Iowa after five weeks, and remained 
 there for seven years, then made another visit to 
 Colorado. In 1891 he brought his family to 
 Colorado and settled in Breckenridge. Three 
 years before he had secured valuable mining 
 interests, and he is now half owner in the valu- 
 able property, the Puzzle group of mines, which 
 is leased to parties operating them; he also owns 
 other valuable mining properties. In June, 1897, 
 he purchased his home of sixty-one acres on 
 Prospect avenue, and since the fall of that year 
 he and his family have lived here. 
 
 Mr. Pankhurst was born in Sussex County, 
 England, April 20, 1826, a son of William and 
 Sarah Pankhurst. He is one of the four sur- 
 vivors among thirteen children, his sisters and 
 brother being Mary, Jemima and Joseph, all living 
 in England. His father was born and reared in 
 Sussex County, and there learned the trade of a 
 wheelwright, which he followed during the 
 greater part of his life. His wife was a native of 
 Kent, England. Their son, our subject, began 
 for himself at sixteen years of age, and in com- 
 pany with a young man of about his own age, 
 he emigrated to America, landing in New York 
 May ID, 1842. From that city he went to 
 Philadelphia and thence to Huntingdon, where 
 he secured employment in a wagonshop; and in 
 a short time he became known as the most skilled 
 workman in the shop. After a time he resigned 
 there and began to work in the Nefi mills, where 
 he remained until the spring of 1843. His friend 
 then persuaded him to open a wagon shop of 
 his own. He did a good business for two years 
 and then moved his shop to Alexandria, Pa., 
 where he remained for two years. While in the 
 latter place he was united in marriage with Miss 
 Susan Sisler April 18, 1846. The next year, his 
 
 wife's people deciding to go west, he determined 
 to accompany them and they went to Iowa, settling 
 in Jackson County, where he and his brother-in- 
 law carried on a blacksmith shop until they 
 started for Colorado in 1859. 
 
 The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Pankhurst 
 were seven in number, namely: Charles, deceased; 
 Theodore; Lorett, Arabella and John, all three 
 deceased; George and Alice. 
 
 30HN ROTHROCK. It is our pleasure to 
 introduce in this biography a gentleman 
 who was among the first settlers in the ter- 
 ritory of Colorado; coming here in the year 1858, 
 he is probably the oldest resident of Boulder 
 County, and has seen the country develop from a 
 wild, uncultivated waste, inhabited only by the 
 wild beast and the Indian, to its present highly 
 improved and civilized condition. He came to 
 Boulder County with a party of prospectors, who 
 built their cabins and began prospecting for gold. 
 A band of Indians were camped near them and 
 were quite friendly until they found that the 
 white man had discovered gold, when they be- 
 came very hostile and tried to drive them from 
 the country, giving them three days in which to 
 leave. This the white men decided not to do, 
 and as they had plenty of arms and ammunition 
 they fortified some of the cabins, and determined 
 to make a fight for their rights if necessary. After 
 three days had passed, Old Bear, the chief of the 
 tribe, came to the cabins to consult with them, 
 saying he had had a fearful dream and inter- 
 preted it for them, viz. : ' 'The water in Boulder 
 creek would rise, so he was informed by the 
 Great Father, until it would overflow both the 
 Indian and white camp unless an ox was 
 slaughtered, in which case He would allay the 
 flood." They made up their minds that if one 
 ox was sacrificed they would have to kill them 
 all, and refused. After a couple of days the In- 
 dians withdrew and left them in peace. It cost 
 something in those early times to buy the ma- 
 chinery needed on a farm; his first plow was 
 made in Denver from boiler iron, and cost $75, 
 while the second was made of cast iron and was 
 brought, by freight, from the states, costing him 
 $110. The first seed wheat purchased by him 
 cost the moderate sum of twelve and one-half 
 cents per pound, or $7. 50 per bushel. 
 
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 Mr. Rothrock is a nativeof Pennsylvania, born 
 in Bellefonte, Centre County, April 3, 1834. His 
 parents were Henry and Nancy A. (Ramsaj') 
 Rothrock. The family descend from Philip 
 Rothrock, who was born December 8, 1713, near 
 Worms, Germany, and emigrated to America in 
 1733. He was married seven years later to 
 Catherine M. Kuntz, a native of Moravia. They 
 settled at York, York County, Pa., where 
 the grandfather, John Rothrock, was born 
 February 18, 1744. He was twice married, first 
 to Dorothy Gump, who left him two children, and 
 the second time to Charity Worley, who was 
 born at York February 20, 1759, and died March 
 I, 1828, fifty-two years after her marriage. Her 
 husband had died in 1805. Of the thirteen chil- 
 dren born to them, Henry Rothrock, the father 
 of our subject, was the third youngest, and was 
 born January 5, 1792, in York, Pa. He learned 
 the trades of tanner and plasterer, at which he 
 worked during his early life, but later moved to 
 a farm near Bellefonte, which he cultivated until 
 his death, August 2, 1872. He married Nancy 
 A. Ramsay, who was born in Milton, Pa., and 
 died in Howard, that state. Of their six chil- 
 dren, Joseph died young; Thomas is a physician 
 of Eagleville, Pa. , and was a surgeon in a Penn- 
 sylvania regiment during the war; David lives in 
 Centre County, Pa. ; John is the subject of this 
 sketch; Ann Elita (Mrs. Long) resides in How- 
 ard; and Henry continues on the old homestead. 
 
 John Rothrock spent his boyhood on a farm, 
 and received such schooling as was afforded by 
 the public schools at that time. When he had 
 reached his twenty-first year he went to Nebraska 
 as a member of a surveying party, and helped 
 survey the sixth principal meridian and the fifth 
 sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth parallels of lon- 
 gitude. He was engaged in this work until 
 1858, when he joined a company of thirty-two 
 who traveled by ox and horse- train, joined the 
 Nebraska City Company near Kearney, and 
 reached Boulder County in November of that 
 year. He and John Hall surveyed the public 
 square and the first one hundred lots in the 
 place. The settlers built log houses, thirty-two 
 in all, making quite a settlement. In the spring 
 of the following year they discovered gold in the 
 run at Gold Hill and embarked in mining. John 
 Gregory got up a crowd to go to Summer Valley 
 prospecting, but the trip was unsuccessful, and 
 
 they returned to Boulder. Mr. Rothrock then 
 went to Spring Gulch, Gilpin County, where he 
 bought a claim of one hundred and fifty feet, 
 which he operated successfully for some time, 
 and then left in care of his partner, G. R. Will- 
 iamson, while he went to Hamilton, South Park, 
 thence to California Gulch, where he operated 
 mines and lost considerable money. He then re- 
 turned to Boulder, where he owned a farm, and 
 began its cultivation, irrigating and otherwise 
 improving it. He built the second ditch ever 
 constructed in the state. This farm consists of 
 four hundred acres eight miles south of Long- 
 mont, and is still owned by him and conducted 
 as a general crop and stock farm. Part of this 
 farm is operated by him and the remainder by 
 his son. He also owns forty acres adjoining the 
 city of lyOngmont, which is devoted to general 
 farming. For several years he was interested in 
 the mercantile business under the name of Will- 
 iams & Rothrock, carrying a general line of 
 dry goods. In politics he has always been a 
 Democrat. 
 
 Mr. Rothrock married Miss Eliza C. Beuford 
 in Denver. She was born in Schuyler County, 
 Mo. , and is a daughter of William Beuford, of 
 Virginia formerly, but later a resident of Mis- 
 souri. He was married in Virginia to Mary Ann 
 Jones, and came to Denver in i860 and engaged 
 in business, freighting, and, also built two quartz 
 mills. He afterwards returned to Missouri, 
 where he was interested in a woolen factory and 
 a store, and then retired from active business life. 
 Mr. and Mr. Rothrock have but two children: 
 William H., who is living on part of the old 
 homestead, and is a prominent member and a 
 deacon of the Presbyterian Church; and John 
 Edmund, who is a merchant of Lake City, being 
 one of the proprietors of a dry-goods store there. 
 
 n E. ROBILLARD, M. D. Less than three 
 I years ago this enterprising young physician 
 Q) and surgeon of Idaho Springs, Clear Creek 
 County, took up his residence here and some time 
 subsequent to that event established an ofiice 
 and commenced practice. He is doing finely, and 
 is rapidly gaining the esteem of our citizens, as 
 well as a large share of their patronage. The 
 doctor is wide-awake and thoioughly in accord 
 with the spirit of the times in all things, especially 
 
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 in his chosen field of labor. He is an exponent 
 of modern research in the medical and scientific 
 world and is a great student, making it his aim 
 to keep abreast of the age, in utilizing the methods 
 and discoveries which are constantly being made 
 in this direction. 
 
 About four generations ago the Robillard 
 family was founded in L,enoraie, Quebec, Canada. 
 As -the name suggests, the Robillards are of 
 French extraction. The great-great-grandfather 
 of the doctor was a native of the province of Nor- 
 mandy, France, but decided to make a home for 
 himself and family in the new world, and sailed 
 across the sea. Locating in Lenoraie, Canada, 
 he improved the first farm settled upon in that 
 region, and on this old estate generation after 
 generation of his descendants have been born, and 
 have lived and died. The place is now owned 
 and managed by the father of our subject, J. B. 
 Robillard. The mother, a native of the same 
 section of Canada, was a daughter of O. Page, 
 who lived in that locality, as did her grandfather. 
 Her great-grandfather Page was a native of 
 France, and was one of the pioneers of Canada, 
 and belonged to the agricultural class to whose 
 labors much of the prosperity of the province is 
 credited. 
 
 Dr. J. E. Robillard is the tenth child in a 
 family of twelve brothers and sisters. Eleven of 
 the number grew to maturity and four are 
 deceased at this writing. The doctor was born 
 on the old home-place of the Robillards, Decem- 
 ber 29, 1868, and grew up on the farm. He 
 received his elementary education in the public 
 schools of the neighborhood, and later was a 
 student in the normal school at Montreal. After 
 he had completed his classical and scientific 
 education he took up the study of medicine and 
 was a pupil in the Victoria Medical College for 
 about one year. Then he went to Montreal, and 
 in 1892 graduated from the La Valle University, 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Medicine. After 
 two more years of study he was granted the 
 degree of Doctor of Medicine'. About this time 
 his zealous work as a student resulted in illness, 
 and he returned to his old home, where it was 
 hoped that the active out-door life of a farmer 
 would prove of benefit to him. He remained 
 there for eighteen months or more, but the rigors 
 of Canadian winters were hard upon his system 
 and in January, 1896, he came to Colorado. 
 
 Arriving in this hospitable state on the twelfth of 
 that month he spent some five weeks in the town 
 of Littleton, and in February landed in Idaho 
 Springs. He was greatly impressed with the 
 beauty and climate of this place and has steadily 
 improved since coming here. 
 
 (Tames T. PHILLIPS, justice of the peace 
 I of the town of Elizabeth, Elbert County, is 
 v2? also successfully engaged in the cultivation 
 of the soil, owning one hundred and sixty acres 
 of well-improved farming land in that vicinity. 
 This popular and much respected citizen was 
 born near Hagerstown, Del., March 9, 1840; his 
 parents are Thomas J. and Catherine (Smith) 
 Phillips. He was but five years of age when his 
 parents drove across the wild and unbroken lands 
 to the state of Ohio, where they remained one 
 year, when they renewed their journey westward 
 to the state of Illinois. They made a settlement 
 in Whiteside County, and there our subject lived 
 until he attained his manhood. He received his 
 early mental training in the subscription schools 
 of that county, and at the age of twenty years he 
 taught one term of school; he then rented a small 
 farm, and by the exercise of economy he suc- 
 ceeded in laying aside a large portion of his earn- 
 ings, and later bought the farm, which consisted 
 of eighty acres; later he purchased another eighty 
 acres, for which he was obliged to go in debt to 
 some extent, but soon paid it off. 
 
 About 1867 our subject moved to Gencseo, 
 Henry County, where he took up his former oc- 
 cupation, and while a resident of that village he 
 served as highway commissioner for three years. 
 He was re-elected the following term but resigned 
 his position in 1879, and moved further west on 
 account of the poor health of his wife. Locating 
 in Elbert County, Colo. , he entered the employ 
 of the railroad that ran through the town of Eliza- 
 beth, and later took up a tract of land, his present 
 farm, and has since been engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Phillips chose for his life companion Miss 
 Anna Elizabeth Schuck and they were happily 
 united in marriage, June 9, 1861; as a result of 
 this marriage five children were born, three of 
 whom are living. George T. owns a ranch near 
 Elizabeth, and is the father of two children; Ida 
 M. is the wife of Richard Clow, of Elizabeth, 
 
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 and they were blessed with seven children; 
 and Daisy Pearl is the wife of James Tallman. 
 Mrs. Phillips entered the world of rest April 9, 
 1887. 
 
 Our subject is a Democrat in politics, endorsing 
 the principles of that party with all the conscien- 
 tiousness and energy which has characterized his 
 conviction upon all other questions of the day. 
 In 1892 he was nominated on the Populist ticket 
 for county commissioner, but was defeated; in 
 1880 he was elected to the office of justice of the 
 peace and served eight consecutive years. Four 
 years later he was again elected to that position 
 and has served in that capacity up to the present 
 time, the duties of which office he honestly and 
 faithfully discharges. Religiously he is a devoted 
 member and liberal supporter of the Methodist 
 Church, and is an active worker in the Sunday- 
 school. He is overseer and a charter member of 
 the American Yeoman and Elizabeth I,odge. 
 
 (31 BNER SANDERSON, a retired farmer of 
 lI Weld County, was one of the first settlers 
 / 1 of the vicinity of Berthoud, and during 
 his busy career here he has done his share toward 
 the development of the resources of this section 
 of the state. In the days of his first sojourning 
 here only two lights could be seen on all the sur- 
 rounding prairie at night, the lights which marked 
 the houses of his two nearest neighbors, Peter 
 Turner, now a citizen of Berthoud, and Daniel 
 Osborn. The postoffice was called Old Berthoud, 
 and the letters, which arrived at very infrequent 
 intervals, were kept in a cigar-box. The fine 
 row of shade-trees which are so beautiful and 
 effective a portion of the landscape in front of our 
 subject's house, were then tiny saplings, and for 
 some years were faithfully cared for and kept alive 
 with water brought from the river. In his exam- 
 ple may be found what can be accomplished with 
 perseverance and industry, joined to wise and 
 systematic methods of agriculture, for he has 
 transformed the wild prairie land of less than a 
 score of years ago into a fertile, well-cultivated 
 farm, many times increased in value for his labor. 
 The parents of our subject were Abner and 
 Sally (Sanderson) Sanderson, who, though hav- 
 ing the same surname prior to their marriage, 
 were not related. Mrs. Sanderson was a daughter 
 of Nathan Sanderson. Grandfather Abner San- 
 
 derson, Sr., was an influential man in his day 
 and district. He served as a justice of the peace 
 and was the representative of his locality in the 
 state legislature for several years. By occupa- 
 tion he was a tiller of the soil. Both he and his 
 son, Abner, Jr., spent their entire lives in their 
 native state, Massachusetts. The family of Abner 
 and Sally S. Sanderson were six in number. 
 Eliza married Oscar Tyler and resides in Wal- 
 tham, Mass. Isaac, who went to California in 
 1849 and later returned to the east, is now a resi- 
 dent of Farmington, Minn. Mary, who is un- 
 married, lives in lyincoln, Mass., of which town 
 the youngest sister, Sarah, is also a citizen. The 
 latter is the wife of James A. Wheeler. Benja- 
 min is a farmer in the neighborhood of Grinnell, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Abner Sanderson was born September 13, 1828, 
 in Waltham, Mass., and remained on the farm 
 until he was eighteen years of age, receiving a 
 common-school education. He then went to 
 Boston, and taking a position in a store as a sales- 
 man was thus employed at the time that the Cal- 
 ifornia gold excitement of 1849 came on. In 
 October of that year he went with a company of 
 his old acquaintances on board a ship which sailed 
 from Boston, and after five months and six days 
 landed at the wharf in San Francisco, having 
 rounded the Horn. Mr. Sanderson at once pro- 
 ceeded to the place where ^gold had first been dis- 
 covered, and from that time until 1866 engaged 
 in mining and agriculture in the valley of the 
 Sacramento River. Then he returned to his old 
 Massachusetts home, going by way of the isthmus 
 this time. During the nine years which followed 
 he was engaged in the produce commission busi- 
 ness. Then he moved to Greene County, Iowa, 
 and turned his attention to farming for some five 
 years. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Sanderson came to Colorado, hav- 
 ing disposed of his business and property. His 
 especial reason for making the change was the 
 poor health of his wife and son, Willard. After 
 spending some time in traveling in this state, he 
 purchased the quarter- section of school land on 
 which he now resides. L,ater he bought another 
 quarter- section of land adjoining, and a similar 
 tract five miles north of Windsor. The last- 
 mentioned he rents and his home place is now 
 under the management of his elder son. For a 
 winter or two after tUeir arrival here the children 
 
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 had to attend school at Loveland, eight miles 
 distant. Other privileges were exceeding meagre 
 for some time, and all water had to be hauled six 
 miles in barrels from the Big Thompson River. 
 Mr. Sanderson set about remedying as many of 
 these things as possible, and largely to his efforts 
 many measures which have been of untold value 
 to this community were carried. He served sev- 
 eral terms as a member of the school board. Po- 
 litically his preference is for the Republican party. 
 November 30, 1866, Mr. Sanderson married Lu- 
 cinda B. Dow, who is a native of Groton, Vt. Her 
 parents were Judge William andLydia (Richard- 
 son) Dow, likewise of Vermont. The father was 
 a very prominent man and held the oflSce of 
 judge for a number of years. The maternal 
 grandfather of Mrs. Sanderson was Robert Rich- 
 ardson, and he, in turn, was a son of Zachariah 
 Richardson, who was on the muster-roll of the 
 Fifth New Hampshire Regiment of militia in the 
 early part of the continental revolution, and was 
 ordered to re-inforce the patriot band in New 
 York December 6, 1776, by Major-General Hob- 
 son. His wife was Miss Abigail Smith before their 
 marriage. Owing to her illustrious grandsire 
 Mrs. Sanderson is entitled to the rank of a Daugh- 
 ter of the Revolution. The children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Sanderson are three in number. Gertrude 
 is the wife of Wesley Brush, who is a nephew of 
 Lieutenant-Governor Brush. Abner C. resides 
 at home and is carrying on the farm. Dr. Will- 
 ard E. is a student in the Colorado College of Den- 
 tal Surgery. 
 
 gHARLES W. TRIMBLE, who came to Colo- 
 rado in April, 1874, is successfully engaged 
 in farming and dealing in stock, operating 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land in Larimer 
 County and raising principally alfalfa, which he 
 uses for feed. He has resided upon his present 
 farm since the fall of 1891 and has made a num- 
 ber of valuable improvements on the place. He 
 was among the first to embark in lamb feeding 
 and shipping, and handling sheep, which he 
 brought here from New Mexico and Arizona. In 
 the winter of 1897-98 he handled twenty-eight 
 thousand head of lambs, and the previous year 
 fed and shipped from his farm five thousand two 
 hundred head, which was a larger number than 
 any individual or company in the county has 
 50 
 
 ever fed in one season. These he shipped to the 
 markets in Buffalo and Chicago. Last year 
 (1897-98) he fed thirty-one hundred. 
 
 In connection with A. F. Brown, Mr. Trimble 
 is also interested in the sheep business in Arizona, 
 buying sheep in California, and shipping them to 
 Arizona, where he has a range extending from 
 Navajo Springs south into the White Mountains. 
 He bought Shropshire sheep in Wisconsin and 
 sent them to his ranch, they being the finest that 
 had ever been shipped to the southwest, and 
 these he crossed with Oxford Downs. He has 
 shipped lambs and sheep from ocean to ocean. 
 In the cattle business, to some extent, he has 
 also engaged, but he finds the sheep industry 
 more profitable. A hard worker, continually on 
 the go, he deserves the large success that has 
 attended his efforts. 
 
 Our subject is of Irish descent. His grand- 
 father, John, accompanied by his brothers, Will- 
 iam and James, emigrated to America and settled 
 as a pioneer in Missouri, William locating in Ken- 
 tucky, while James was lost track of John died 
 while comparatively young and left two sons, 
 who reared families in Missouri. One of these, 
 William H., the father of our subject, was a 
 native of Mexico, Mo. , and a soldier in the Mexi- 
 can war, later a merchant at Gentryville, Mo. 
 In 1862 he came to Colorado for the first time, 
 driving a herd of cattle acro.ss the plains and sell- 
 ing them to E. W, Whitcomb in Cheyenne. The 
 next year he freighted with oxen between Neb- 
 raska City and Denver, bringing his family to 
 the latter city. In 1864 he took them back to 
 Missouri and settled in Paradise, Clay County, 
 where he engaged in the mercantile business 
 until 1872. He made a trip to Fort Collins in 
 1873 and arranged to settle here, embarking in 
 the stock business with Abner Loomis. The fol- 
 lowing year he brought his family and settled 
 permanently in the town. After a .short time in 
 merchandising he turned his attention to the 
 cattle business at Horse Creek, Wyoming. On 
 selling out there he started a herd in Bates Hole, 
 Wyo. , and, while his range was there, he died in 
 Fort Collins in 1879, aged fifty-two years. He 
 was a member of the Christian Church and fra- 
 ternally was identified with the Masons. 
 
 The mother of our subject, who bore the 
 maiden name of Catherine Allen, was born in 
 Gentrj-' County, Mo. , and resides in Fort Collins, 
 
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 her mother, who is still living, being with her- 
 Her father, George Allen, a native of North 
 Carolina, was married there to Miss Martha 
 Whidbee, and soon afterward settled in Ray 
 County, Mo. ; he engaged in merchant tailoring 
 until his death, which occurred in Harrison 
 County, Mo. Our subject is the second of five 
 children, the others being named as follows: 
 James H. , who died in Ogden, Utah, in 1892, 
 when about thirty-five years of age; Mattie,wife 
 of C. H. Sheldon, cashier of Poudre Valley Bank, 
 Fort Collins; Robert E., assistant professor of 
 civil and irrigation engineering in the State Agri- 
 cultural College; and Edgar H., of Fort Collins. 
 
 In Gentryville, Gentry County, Mo., where he 
 was born November 30, 1859, the subject of this 
 sketch grew to manhood. He accompanied his 
 parents to Fort Collins, where he attended the 
 public schools. At the age of eighteen he started 
 in the cattle business with his older brother and 
 for one year ranged cattle on the Rishau, in 
 Wyoming. The Indians at that time were very 
 troublesome and stole their horses and committed 
 other depredations, which made it unsafe for the 
 brothers to remain longer in that locality, so they 
 left the range and during the winter engaged in 
 freighting to Deadwood, S. Dak. In the spring 
 they returned to the range and sold their cattle, 
 and engaged in trading cattle from Utah into 
 Wyoming. The first year our subject bought 
 seven hundred head, the second year twelve hun- 
 dred, and during the fourth and last year bought 
 two thousand head, which he .sold to J. A. Brown. 
 During his life on the plains he was troubled 
 greatly by weakness of his eyes. On selling out 
 his business interests in Colorado he went to 
 Eureka Springs, Ark., where he engaged in the 
 hotel business for four years, being proprietor of 
 the Hancock House. He then brought cattle 
 from Arkansas to Colorado, sold out, returned, 
 then brought another herd, continuing in that 
 way for two years. Next he engaged in the gro- 
 cery business at Fort Collins for three years and 
 in the fall of 1891 disposed of his business inter- 
 ests and settled on his farm. He is connected 
 with the lyarimer County Sheep Feeders' Associ- 
 ation. Politically he votes the Democratic ticket. 
 
 In Eureka Springs, Ark., Mr. Trimble married 
 Miss MoUie Collins, who was born in Helena, 
 that state, and died in Eureka Springs, leaving a 
 daughter, MoUie. In Venice, 111., Mr. Trimble 
 
 was united in marriage with Miss Emma Robin- 
 son, who was born there, and is the daughter 
 of Henry Robinson. They have two daughters. 
 May and Helen. 
 
 (TOSEPH H. SHAY, a pioneer of '60, felt a 
 I victim to the gold fever in the spring of 
 (2/ i860 and started across the plains for Cali- 
 fornia, but on reaching the Missouri River he 
 found the rush seemed to be for Pike's Peak and 
 he changed his destination accordingly. Reach- 
 ing Denver, he secured employment in a lumber 
 yard, and in the fall, with the money he had 
 saved during the .summer, he started for the 
 Central district, where he prospected and mined 
 with little success. In the spring of 1861 he 
 worked in the quartz lode mines and in the sum- 
 mer secured employment in gulch mining in 
 Peck Gulch. 
 
 When the war excitement ran high, in the fall 
 of 1 86 1, Mr. Shay enlisted in Company L, First 
 Colorado Cavalry, serving for four years and two 
 months. The most of his service was among the 
 Indians. He was at Pawnee Fork in 1864, when 
 General Blunt, with four hundred men and four 
 pieces of artillery, were in pursuit of the Chey- 
 enne Indians. Learning that they were camped 
 on Pawnee Fork, the company rode all night, but 
 on arriving at that place they found the Indians 
 had fled. The company was sent on a scouting 
 expedition and on coming up with the Indians, 
 a running fight was kept up. In August, 1863, 
 while about sixty of the boj'S of Company I, were 
 stationed at Fort Union, N. Mex. ,the Indians stole 
 a whole train of some hundred mules from Mexi- 
 can freighters, en route from Kansas City to 
 Santa Fe, and forty of the soldiers, including our 
 subject, were ordered to regain the mules. The 
 lieutenant in command was the present senator, 
 George Shoup. They left Fort Union August 
 10, and with a month's rations and eighteen 
 mules started on their quest. They returned 
 October 10 with ninety-eight mules. During 
 the battle of Sand Creek our subject was detailed, 
 with two others, to burn up wigwams of the 
 Indians. He was mustered out of the service in 
 Leavenworth November 18, 1865. 
 
 With the intention of settling in Iowa, Mr. 
 Shay went there as soon as he was mustered out 
 of the service. The winter of 1865-66 was cold 
 and wet, "and the weather so unpleasant that he 
 
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 determined to return to Colorado. In April, 
 1866, he left Iowa and on the loth of May arrived 
 in Colorado, going at once to the mines, where 
 he engaged in teaming during the summer. 
 Later he was employed in quartz mills. In the 
 spring of 1868 he began to farm on Boulder 
 Creek and in 1871 purchased eighty acres where 
 he now lives, to which he added by purchase, 
 in 1876, another eighty acres, and by purchase, 
 in 1890, a pasture land of one hundred and sixty 
 acres in the foot hills. Here he has engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising. 
 
 Mr. Shay was born in Tyrol, Austria, February 
 6, 1839, a son of Michael and Catherine (Even- 
 hohe) Shay. He was one of eleven children, all 
 of whom are dead but himself and his brother, 
 Gebhart, a farmer in Wapello County, Iowa. 
 His father was born in Austria about 1804 and in 
 youth learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, be- 
 coming a finished mechanic. During the revo- 
 lution of 1847 1^^ determined to come to America, 
 and on his arrival in this country, he settled in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. After a few months, having 
 suffered from the ague, he decided to go. to New 
 Orleans, and went south to that city, but fell a 
 victim to the yellow fever there and died in the 
 summer of 1849. 
 
 Some ten years after his father and oldest 
 brother came to America our subject and his 
 mother crossed the ocean, lauding in New York 
 about the ist of November, 1856, after a very 
 rough voyage, during which forty-two persons 
 died. He had letters of introduction and by 
 presenting these secured a position in a drug 
 store; however, he did not feel satisfied there, for 
 he wanted to join a brother in California, but did 
 not have enough money. Thinking to gradually 
 work his way around by water, he shipped on 
 board a vessel. He was on the ocean only six 
 months, but that period was eventful. Twice 
 the ship was wrecked, but fortunately he escaped 
 both times. He returned to New York and was 
 soon joined by his brother from California, who 
 was en route to Europe on a visit. Through his 
 advice, our subject went to Franklin County, 
 Ohio, and secured employment as a farm laborer, 
 working for one year. However, he suffered 
 considerably from the ague, and thinking it best 
 to try a change of climate he went to Iowa, join- 
 ing his brother, who had returned to America 
 and settled there. In January, 1858, he settled 
 
 in Blakesburg, Iowa, where he worked on a farm 
 until the spring of i860. He then came west 
 and has since made his home in Colorado. 
 
 February 17, 187 1, Mr. Shay married Miss 
 LucindaTinsley. They are the parents of three 
 children : Gertrude, who was a student in Frank- 
 lin high school in Denver and Golden high school, 
 and is now the wife of Harry Mayhan, who is en- 
 gaged in railroading in Denver; Herman C, a 
 graduate of the Ralston high school, and now at 
 home on the farm; and Roy J., who is also at 
 home. In politics Mr. Shay is a Democrat. 
 Fraternally he is a member of Major Anderson 
 Post No. 88, G. A. R. A friend of the public- 
 school movement, he has served as secretary of 
 the school board for years and has done all in his 
 power to aid the cause of education in his com- 
 munity. 
 
 /{)AIUS SMITH is a general farmer and a 
 l_ prominent citizen of Arapahoe County, and 
 \^ his home is located on section 29, township 
 5, range 66 west, where he owns nine hundred 
 and twenty acres of well-improved and finely cul- 
 tivated land. He came to Arapahoe County in 
 1873, locating four and one-half miles below the 
 town of Parker, and secured the farm which is at 
 present in his possession. It was unimproved at 
 the time of his purchase, and he immediately 
 commenced tilling the soil; it required great in- 
 dustry and perseverance to bring it to the desired 
 condition, but he being a man of great energy 
 was soon enabled to view with satisfaction the re- 
 sult of his labors. He was born in Triangle, 
 Broome County, N. Y., October 26, 1843, and is 
 a son of Erastus and Angeline (Lewis) Smith, 
 and grandson of Hendrick J. Smith. 
 
 Little is known of the great-grandfather of our 
 subject, other than that he was a man of Revolu- 
 tionary fame. Hendrick J. Smith purchased a 
 large tract of land in Broome County, N.Y. , from 
 King George, and the deed signed by the latter 
 is now in the possession of our subject. Hend- 
 rick was a lad of nine years when he was stolen 
 by the Indians and adopted by an Indian chief. 
 He was held a captive for nine years and was 
 liberated much against his will; he always re- 
 mained good friends with the red men, with whom 
 he visited back and forth all his life. 
 
 Erastus Smith was born in Broome County, 
 N. Y., and when a man he was given a tract of 
 
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 land by his father; he was reared to agricultural 
 pursuits and made that independent calling, 
 farming, his life's vocation. By his marriage to 
 Angeline Lewis six sons and one daughter were 
 born, the latter dying in her infancy. The boys 
 were named as follows: Hendrick, Jr., Horace 
 Iv., Jasper, Gaius, Perry and Robert. Hend- 
 rick, Jr., is a carpenter by trade and resides at 
 Olean, N.Y. He is the father of a family of five 
 children, and had one son in the Spanish- Ameri- 
 can war. He served three years and nine months 
 in the Civil war, and at the battle of Chancellors- 
 ville he was taken a prisoner, but as he received 
 a severe wound in the head in that engagement, 
 he was released and returned to the ranks of the 
 Union army; his father learning of the wound re- 
 ceived by his son, obtained a pass from Secretary 
 Stanton, which allowed him to go through the 
 ranks of the Union army in search of his son. 
 This pass is now in the hands of our subject. 
 Horace L- is a retired citizen of Binghamton, 
 N. Y., and has one child. He also served in the 
 Civil war and was taken a prisoner at Chancel- 
 lorsville; he was first sent to Andersonville and 
 later transferred to the famous Libby prison, and 
 was among those who gained their freedom and 
 escaped to New York by digging their way out. 
 Jasper lives on the homestead in Broome County, 
 and he also served three years and nine months 
 in the Rebellion, being a member of the Fifteenth 
 New York Heavy Artillerj'. Perry, who is now 
 deceased, was a carpenter by trade and lived near 
 the homestead; he was married and reared one 
 child. Robert, the youngest child, died in 1884. 
 Gaius Smith spent his early years working on 
 his father's farm and attending the district school; 
 at fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to the 
 carpenter's trade and pursued the occupation for 
 five years. He first received a salary of $4 per 
 month, but by the fifth year his salary had been 
 increased to $25 per month. At twenty years of 
 age he began contracting and made his home near 
 the old homestead. In 1873 he came west and 
 located in Colorado, purchasing five acres of land 
 near the town of Harman and engaging in dairy- 
 ing. He made many improvements upon that 
 place and set out many trees along the road in 
 front of the Grout property. In 1884 he bought 
 four hundred and forty acres where he now re- 
 sides, and has since purchased more land at various 
 times until now he is the owner of nine hundred 
 
 and twenty acres. Farming is his vocation, and 
 in it he has been remarkably successful. He is 
 well known throughout the county and commands 
 the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens. 
 
 Mr. Smith made the acquaintance of Miss Jen- 
 nie Simpson in Denver, this state, and they were 
 married November 22, 1886; she is a native of 
 De Kalb County, Tenn. , and a daughter of John 
 and Elizabeth r Woodson) Simpson. The father 
 of John Simpson owned twenty-five- slaves, and 
 when the Civil war broke out his two brothers 
 joined the Confederate army, while John enlisted 
 in the Union army and was captain of a company 
 for five years. After peace had been restored 
 John moved to Nebraska, where he engaged in 
 farming; he died in the city of Omaha, May 19, 
 1897. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have four children, 
 namely: Freddie, born August 28, 1887; Robert 
 B., October 2, 1889; Horace LeRoy, September 
 15, 1894; and Willis, January 17, 1896. On the 
 night of his twenty-first birthday our subject be- 
 came a Mason in the Upper Lisle Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. , of New York, and filled all the chairs in 
 the blue lodge and took the Royal Arch Degree 
 at Greene, N. Y. When he came west he was 
 demitted from the lodge. 
 
 (Joseph G. SCHALL, treasurer of Jefferson 
 I County and a resident of Golden, was born 
 Q) in York County, Pa., December 16, 1857, 
 and is a son of James A. and Catherine S. 
 (Small) Schall. He was the eldest of six chil- 
 dren, all but one of whom are still living. His 
 brothers and sisters are: J. E. , secretary of the 
 Susquehanna Iron Company, and a resident of 
 Columbia, Pa. ; W. Y. , bookkeeper for the Colum- 
 bia rolling mills at Columbia, Pa.; Annie H. and 
 Catherine S. Both the father and grandfather 
 were natives of York County, Pa. The former 
 was for thirty years cashier of the York County 
 National Bank, and for ten years before he had 
 held a less important position with the same 
 bank; he died in 1888. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired in 
 public and private schools, and in the local colle- 
 giate institute. From eighteen to twenty-two 
 years of age he was employed as bookkeeper for 
 a railroad in York County. In 1881 he came 
 west, having secured the position of bookkeeper 
 for the firm of Lauius & Co. , then a prosperous 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
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 hardware firm of Golden. There he remaiued, a 
 trusted employe, until the firm retired from busi- 
 ness in 1888. In the fall of 1890 he was made 
 deputy treasurer under Charles T. Clark, and 
 later held the same position under R. E. Jones. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Schall was placed in nomination 
 on the Republican and the silver Republican 
 ticket for the office of county treasurer, and was 
 elected by a handsome majority. His experi- 
 ence as city treasurer, which position he filled 
 for three terms during the '80s, fitted him for the 
 more responsible position of county treasurer, and 
 he has discharged his duties with efficiency and 
 fidelity. Fraternally he is a member of Golden 
 Lodge No. I, A. F. & A. M., Golden Chapter 
 No. 5, R. A. M., and Golden Lodge No. 10, 
 K. of P. His marriage, June 28, 1893, united 
 him with Miss Thirza Merryman, of Golden, the 
 daughter of Joseph Merryman, now a resident of 
 Denver. 
 
 (Jonathan l. rand all, who is en- 
 
 I gaged in farming near Arvada, Jefferson 
 Q) County, was born near Whitewater, Wal- 
 worth County, Wis., July 16, 1850, and is the 
 only survivor among the three children of Sidney 
 and Sarah (Loonier) Randall. His father, who 
 was born about 18 10, settled in Wisconsin in 
 early manhood and carried on a farm there. 
 About 1859 he came to Colorado and spent eight- 
 een years in different parts of the state, the 
 greater part of his time being given to prospect- 
 ing. He then returned east and spent some time 
 in Ohio and Wisconsin, but in 1882 again came 
 to Colorado, where he died six weeks later. 
 
 When eight years of age our subject was or- 
 phaned by his mother's death. He was then 
 taken into the home of his grandfather, Jonathan 
 Loomer, with whom he remained until he was 
 thirteen years of age. He then secured employ- 
 ment with neighboring farmers, and from that 
 time on he was independent, making his own 
 way in the world. In 1870, having decided to 
 come west, he journeyed to' California, but after 
 six weeks, not finding remunerative employment 
 there, he went to Nevada, and found work as 
 fireman on the railroad. During the nine months 
 that he held that position he gradually worked 
 his way back to Colorado. 
 
 In the spring of 1871, after spending a night 
 in Denver, Mr. Randall secured and accepted 
 
 employment on a ranch on Clear Creek, where 
 he worked some three years as a farm hand. He 
 then took up a soldier's homestead of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, but after two years the 
 grasshopper plague made the place worthless and 
 he was glad to sell it for $150. Starting out 
 anew he was made superintendent of the Arapa- 
 hoe ditch, and after a year in that position he 
 rented the Davis farm for one j^ear. In 1878 he 
 opened a livery, feed and sale stable in Denver. 
 It was during the time of the Leadville boom, 
 and as he took advantage of the demand for stock 
 for freighting purposes he prospered. In 1879 he 
 sold the business advantageously. 
 
 October 9, 1879, Mr. Randall married Laura 
 E. Cook. In the spring of the following year he 
 rented land and began to farm, but in 1881 he 
 purchased eighty acres for $1,400 and a year 
 later sold it for $4,000. In 1884 he purchased 
 another eighty-acre tract for $1 ,000, and two years 
 later sold it for $4,000. Following this he was 
 engaged in the general mercantile business in 
 Golden for four years, but sold out in 1890 and 
 removed to Denver, where he entered the real- 
 estate business. However, he soon secured an- 
 other grocery stock and for a few months carried 
 on business, after which he purchased one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres under cultivation in Weld 
 County. In the summer of 1892 he came to his 
 present ranch, and the following year removed 
 his family to the place, which is a part of the old 
 Cook homestead and belongs to his wife. Since 
 1892 he has rented his farm in Weld County. 
 
 Politically Mr. Randall is a Democrat. For 
 years he was president of the school board, and 
 for two years, 1890-91, he served as an alderman 
 in Golden. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Major Anderson Post No. 88, G. A. R. He and 
 his wife are the parents of three children : Her- 
 bert M., Ida I. and Laura A. 
 
 EHARLES B. BULLOCK, who died July i, 
 1898, came to Colorado in 1869, and was 
 among the substantial men of Georgetown, 
 Clear Creek County. He was born in Woodford 
 County, 111., July. 18, 1842, the son of Hon. 
 Thomas and Agnes (Ware) Bullock, natives of 
 Kentucky. The Bullock family moved from 
 Virginia to Kentucky in the early days, and 
 fought in the wars of the Revolution and 18x2. 
 
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 The grandfather, Thomas Bullock, was a minis- 
 ter in the Baptist church in Kentucky, and was 
 also engaged in farming there, where he died. 
 The father, Hon. Thomas Bullock, went to 
 Illinois in 1832, and settled at Walnut Grove, 
 Woodford County, locating permanently the fol- 
 lowing year. He improved a farm, upon which he 
 died in 1889, after he had passed his eighty-fifth 
 year. He was a member of the Illinois state 
 senate during 1847 or 1848. His wife was Agues 
 Ware, a native of Franklin County, Ky., a 
 daughter of William Ware, who was born in 
 Virginia, but moved to Franklin County, Ky., 
 where he was engaged in farming and was made 
 circuit judge. Her grandfather Ware moved 
 from Virginia to Kentucky at an early day and 
 was a pioneer farmer. She died at the age of 
 seventy-six years. Of her thirteen children nine 
 grew to adult years, and six are still living. 
 Horace, the postmaster of Georgetown, is now 
 the only one living in Colorado. Two brothers 
 and one sister reside in Illinois, one sister is in 
 Texas and one in Kentucky. Thomas served 
 through the Civil war in the One Hundred and 
 Seventeenth Illinois Regiment, and now lives 
 near Walnut Grove. 
 
 Charles B. Bullock, the second youngest of the 
 children, was reared on a farm and received his 
 education in the public schools. He remained at 
 home until he attained his majority, in 1863, 
 when he entered the employ of the government. 
 He was commissioned as government storekeeper 
 at Springfield, 111., and remained there for two 
 years. In 1868 he came west to Cheyenne and 
 Denver, and in 1870 located in Georgetown, hold- 
 ing a situation as clerk for four years. He then 
 started a feed, grain and transfer business for 
 himself, and in 1877 added coal to the other sup- 
 plies carried. His residence was well situated 
 on Taos street, and his place of business was on 
 the corner of Rose and Eleventh streets. 
 
 Mr. Bullock married Miss Maggie Keiser, who 
 was born in Germany. They became the parents 
 of one child, Harry, who is now attending the 
 University of Colorado. Mr. Bullock served four 
 years as alderman of Georgetown, and was on the 
 school board four and one-half years as treasurer. 
 He was an ardent Democrat, a member of the 
 county central committee and the state committee, 
 but never was an aspirant for office. He was 
 made a Mason in the Georgetown Lodge No. 48, 
 
 belonged to Royal Arch Chapter No. 4, George- 
 town Commandery No. 4, and El Jebel Temple 
 N. M. S., Mystic Shrine of Denver. 
 
 (TUDGE HENRY J. CRIST, the popular and 
 I efficient judge of Clear Creek County, was 
 \Z/ born in Germantown, Montgomery County, 
 Ohio, September i, 1851, and in 1879 came to 
 Colorado, where he has since been engaged in 
 prospecting and mining. His father, Jacob Crist, 
 was born at Frederick, Md., in 1792, and his 
 grandfather, Henry J., was born May 18, 1769, 
 and moved with his family to Ohio in 181 1, set- 
 tling near Germantown, where he was a pioneer 
 farmer. He died September 5, 1844, at the age 
 of seventy-five years. His wife, Anna Barbara, 
 was born November 6, 1764, and died April 10, 
 1845. 
 
 Jacob Crist went to Ohio in 18 11 with his par- 
 ents, and the next year took up arms against 
 the Indians, who were causing much trouble 
 throughout the state. He was in Captain Gunck- 
 le's company of Ohio militia. After the war he 
 returned to the farm on which he first located, 
 and engaged in farming until his death, February 
 17, 1872. He was a member of the United Breth- 
 ren Church, and a conscientious. Christian gentle- 
 man. He married Annie Eckhardt, who was 
 born in Hesse- Darmstadt, Qermany, and came to 
 America alone, in 1844, when but a girl. She 
 made her home in Ohio, where she met and mar- 
 ried the father of our subject. She was the 
 mother of six children, two of whom, H. J. and 
 George are living, the latter in Ohio. The other 
 four, Mary, Louise, John and Edward, died in 
 Ohio. Mrs. Crist is now eighty-one years old 
 and resides with her son, the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 The early years of Judge Crist were spent on 
 his father's farm, where he attended the public 
 schools. He afterwards attended college at Mid- 
 dletown, Ohio, and returned to the farm, where 
 he occupied himself with agricultural pursuits 
 until he was elected assessor. He served two 
 terms, until the fall of 1879, when he came to 
 Idaho Springs, where he has since been engaged 
 in mining. He has worked several different 
 mines, besides being engineer for a number. He 
 married in Georgetown, Mrs. C. V. Rease, a na- 
 tive of the city Of Cassel, Hesse-Cassel, Germany. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
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 She had two children by her first marriage, only 
 one of them being alive, Carl Rease, who is en- 
 gaged in mining. Judge and Mrs. Crist have a 
 family of four children, Louis V., Herman E., 
 Minnie and Alma. In 1895 he was nominated 
 by the Populists as county judge, to which office 
 he was elected. The nomination was entirely 
 unsolicited by him, as he was at work and knew 
 nothing of the proceedings until word was brought 
 that his name was the successful one before the 
 convention for that ofiice. He took the oath of 
 office January 14, 1896, the term extending to 
 the same month in 1899. He is an active worker 
 in the People's party. He is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen of Idaho 
 Springs, The Red Men in Georgetown, and Poca- 
 hontas Lodge. As a judge he has met with 
 hearty endorsement for the fairness and impar- 
 tiality of his rulings, and as a private citizen he 
 is held in high esteem for manly, upright bearing. 
 
 30HN G. ROBERTS, proprietor of the Jack- 
 son mill at the junction of Clear Creek and 
 Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, has had 
 a most interesting and eventful history. He has 
 been engaged in various kinds of mining enter- 
 prises in different parts of the world; is a thor- 
 ough mechanic and millwright, and is a man of 
 excellent business judgment. He is a member, 
 and was one of the originators of the chamber of 
 commerce in Idaho Springs, in which town he has 
 made his abode for several years. 
 
 Mr. Roberts, who first landed in Idaho Springs 
 in 1873, is a native of Beddgelert, north Wales, 
 born January 29, 1842. He was reared at the 
 old homestead. His parents, Robert and Cath- 
 erine (Edwards) Roberts, were natives of the 
 same locality. The father died at the age of 
 seventy-two years, the mother when in her six- 
 ty-ninth year, both at the old home. The father 
 was engaged in the mining of copper during his 
 active life. 
 
 John G. Roberts, of this sketch, left school and 
 home when fourteen years old, shipping on a 
 vessel engaged in the coasting trade. On one 
 occasion he was shipwrecked near the Island of 
 Skye, Scotland. At length he went aboard the 
 "Tim Whiffler," bound for the East Indies via 
 the Cape of Good Hope. After a voyage of one 
 hundred and thirty-two days they arrived at 
 
 Bombaj', where their merchandise was unloaded 
 and another cargo placed on board. The home- 
 ward trip was made in one hundred days. Young 
 Roberts next went with some naval reserves in 
 her majesty's service to Melbourne, Astralia; 
 there left the ship and, going to Gippsland dig- 
 gings, engaged in reef-mining or lode- mining for 
 a year and a-half. Another year was passed in 
 the Queensland mines, whence he proceeded to 
 the mines near Auckland, New Zealand. At the 
 expiration of three months he continued his 
 search for the treasure for which he was seeking 
 by going to the west coast of the Middle Island, 
 New Zealand. There he was actively occupied 
 in placer-mining for four and a-half years, with 
 success attending his efforts. Returning to Mel- 
 bourne he took passage in a ship bound for home 
 around Cape Horn, and thus he has completely 
 circumnavigated the globe. One winter at home 
 sufficed this young adventurer, and spring found 
 him sighing for new worlds to conquer. 
 
 As he had not yet beheld the far-famed Ameri- 
 cas, Mr. Roberts decided to cross the United 
 States, while heading toward New Zealand once 
 more, but it happened that this fair land held out 
 to him greater attractions than any other had 
 hitherto done, and here he has remained. It was in 
 the spring of 1870 that he crossed the ocean, and 
 proceeding westward, he engaged in the hotel 
 business in Emporia, Kan., for three years. April 
 I, 1873, he came to Idaho Springs, and engaged 
 as a foreman for John Collom, with whom he con- 
 tinued in that capacity for four and a-half years. 
 Another year he held a similar position with Mr. 
 Collom in his smelting plant in Golden, after 
 which he operated that gentleman's concentrator 
 in Blackhawk. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Roberts returned to Idaho 
 Springs, here renting and carrying on the old 
 Collom mill for some time. In 1880 he went to 
 Nevada, where for a few months he was in 
 charge of a concentrator. The following year he 
 erected a concentrator in Russell Gulch, and 
 placed it in successful running order. His next 
 venture was to build the mill now known as the 
 State Ore Sampling Works in Idaho Springs, 
 and upon its completion he continued as super- 
 intendent of the plant. In 1882 he put up a con- 
 centrator in Lake City, Hinsdale County, and 
 then for five years was interested in machine 
 shops in this place and Georgetown. The Silver 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Age concentrator and mill, located about a mile 
 below this place, was constructed and managed 
 for over a year by him. In other towns and lo- 
 calities he built and operated concentrators and 
 mills, and in 1893 ^''■^ was honored by being com- 
 missioned to plan and make one to be shipped to 
 mines in Peru. This work was done in Con- 
 necticut during a three months' stay there for 
 the purpose. After having been the manager of 
 the Dewey concentrator in Georgetown, he was 
 chosen to build the Lincoln mill here. He leased 
 and ran the Silver Age mill for four years, and 
 then in 1876 constructed the Jackson mill, which 
 is thoroughly modern, having every late device 
 and improvement in the line. He owns and 
 manages the property, and is meeting with splen- 
 did success in the enterprise. The mill has a ca- 
 pacity of forty tons; is run by water power; is 
 provided with rolls for crushing ore, and is fully 
 equipped in every manner. Mr. Roberts is also 
 interested in the Jewell mine in this district, and 
 owns other property. 
 
 The first marriage of our subject was cele- 
 brated in 1873 in Idaho Springs, Miss Mary Jones 
 becoming his wife. She was born in Glamor- 
 ganshire, Wales, and died in Blackhawk. The 
 only child of this union is Lena, Mrs. Ben Owen, 
 of Idaho Springs. In 1881 Mr. Roberts married 
 Margaret Bowen in Minnesota. She was born in 
 •Pennsylvania, and by her marriage has become 
 the mother of four children: Mary, Helen, Paul 
 and Bruce. 
 
 When a resident of Emporia, Kan., Mr. Rob- 
 erts joined the Masonic order, and is now affiliat- 
 ed with Idaho Springs Lodge No. 26, A. F. & 
 A. M., of this place. He is independent in poli- 
 tics, and is a ruling elder of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM H. RICHARDS, a promi- 
 nent citizen of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, 
 was called upon to represent this district in 
 the Colorado legislature in 1890, being elected 
 on the Republican ticket. Thus he served in the 
 eighth general assembly, during the sessions 
 being active in passing the Australian ballot law, 
 the fee and salary bill and others of importance. 
 He lent his influence and ballot to the electing of 
 H. M. Teller to the United States senate and has 
 been quite a leader in the ranks of his party in 
 this section. 
 
 One of the ten children born to Edward and 
 Margaret (Harris) Richards, our subject lived in 
 his native country, England, until he attained 
 his majority. He was born March 4, 1848, and 
 received no educational advantages worthy of 
 mention, therefore has been forced to rely en- 
 tirely upon his own efforts in this direction. liis 
 father was born in Cornwall, England, near the 
 town of Camborne, and was a miner by occupa- 
 tion. He died in the same locality when he was 
 seventy -two years of age. Both he and his 
 faithful wife were hard-working, honorable, in- 
 dustrious people, who strove to do their whole 
 duty toward God and man. Religiously they 
 were Methodists. Eight of their children grew 
 to manhood and womanhood and four of the 
 number came to America. Peter was a resident 
 of Gilpin County for some time, but eventually 
 returned to England. George was killed in a 
 mine at Gregory in 1875. Caroline lives in Cen- 
 tral City. 
 
 When he was but ten years old W. H. Richards 
 began working in the mines near his birthplace, 
 Camborne, Cornwall, and was employed inter- 
 mittently at easy labor for several years. At 
 thirteen he commenced the business systematic- 
 ally, under the instruction of his father. In 1869 
 he sailed from Liverpool to New York. Thence 
 he went to San Francisco, by way of Panama, 
 and from the Golden Gate to Virginia City, Nev. 
 There he was occupied in mining until October, 
 1870, when, the Union Pacific having been com- 
 pleted, he came to Gilpin County, Colo. Here 
 he was employed at contract mining, etc., and 
 mined and prospected at intervals, on his own ac- 
 count. He is now interested in the Star of Gil- 
 pin, in Russell Gulch, and the Little Annie, in 
 Tip top district. At one time he was foreman of 
 the Monmouth mine at Central City, and in Au- 
 gust, 1897, was made superintendent of the 
 Columbus mine in Russell Gulch. Since 1870 
 he has made his home chiefly in Nevadaville, 
 and has been alderman of the place four times. 
 He has been very successful in a business point of 
 view, as well as in other ways, and enjoys the 
 confidence and respect of the entire community 
 and all who know him. He is past officer of the 
 Odd Fellows' society here and is past officer of the 
 encampment. 
 
 In Nevadaville, in 1878, Mr. Richards and 
 Miss Kate Bartle were married. The lady is a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 daughter of John P. Bartle of this place and is a 
 sister of Mrs. Libbie Williams, of Central City, 
 who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. 
 Richards was born in Cornwall and by her mar- 
 riage has become the mother of two children. 
 Georgia is living with her parents; and Lucretia 
 died when but three years old. The family are 
 connected with the Episcopal Church. 
 
 EHRISTIAN MANHART is the owner of 
 Keystone ranch, comprising eighteen hun- 
 dred acres, located six miles from Sedalia, 
 Douglas County. He was born near Catawissa, 
 Columbia County, Pa., April 30, 1835, a son of 
 Philip and Sarah Manhart, natives of Alsace, 
 Germany. A few years after their marriage his 
 parents emigrated to America and settled in Phila- 
 dalphia, where the father followed the wheel- 
 wright's trade; later, however, he removed to a 
 farm near Catawissa, in Columbia County, where 
 the remainder of his life was passed in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. He died there in 1861 and his 
 wife passed away seven years later. Of their 
 seven children three were born in Germany, one 
 on the ocean, and three in the United States. 
 Five attained years of maturity and four are still 
 living, Christian being the youngest. Philip, 
 who is the oldest, is still living in Columbia 
 County, Pa.; Frederick, a retired businessman, 
 resides in Knoxville, Iowa; and John Michael 
 makes his home at Roaring Creek, Montour 
 County, Pa. 
 
 In boyhood our subject was given fair school- 
 ing advantages. At the age of sixteen he began 
 to learn the carpenter's trade with his oldest 
 brother at Plymouth, Ivuzerne County, Pa., and 
 at the close of two years of apprenticeship he 
 began to get journeyman's wages. When only 
 nineteen, April 23, 1854, ^^ married Miss Sarah 
 Barney, who was born in Plymouth, lyUzerne 
 County, Pa., a daughter of Henry and Susan 
 (Keller) Barney. November 6, 1856, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Manhart started for Iowa and arriving in 
 Marion County, settled in Marysville, where he 
 commenced to work at his trade. In the spring 
 of i860 he drove through to Colorado with an 
 ox-team, in, company with a party of emigrants, 
 spending forty-five days on the road. In Park 
 County he engaged in various pursuits, mining, 
 prospecting, working at his trade, and during 
 
 one season carrying mail once a week from Buck- 
 skin to Montgomery, Park County. He came to 
 his present place in 1866 and bought a claim of 
 one hundred and twenty acres, to which he added, 
 by pre-emption and homesteading, as well as 
 purchase, until he acquired his present acreage. 
 The log cabin in which he first made his home is 
 still standing. Since 1883 he has made his home 
 in a substantial frame residence. At one time he 
 had two hundred head of cattle, but since the 
 range has become limited, he has reduced the 
 number to one hundred and fifty. 
 
 In the fall of 1868 the neighborhood in which 
 Mr. Manhart lived was disturbed by the Indians. 
 In the afternoon word was received that the 
 Indians were coming. At nightfall Mr. Man- 
 hart loaded his wife and children into a wagon 
 and drove to Denver, where they remained 
 during the winter, Mr. Manhart and his hired 
 help staying on the ranch. They lost consider- 
 able in the line of clothing, provisions and stock, 
 on account of the Indians, and were obliged to 
 guard their possessions and do their work with 
 arms always within reach. 
 
 Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Manhart we 
 note the following: George W., who was born at 
 Plymouth, Euzerne County, Pa., is engaged in 
 the mercantile business at Sedalia, his sketch 
 appearing elsewhere; John F., who was born in 
 Marysville, Marion County, Iowa, died in Colo- 
 rado March 6, 1885, his death being the result of 
 having been accidentally thrown from a horse; 
 Alice Susan, who was born in Park County, 
 Colo., married Arthur H. White, and lives near 
 Sedalia; Clara B., who was born in Douglas 
 County, is the wife of William O'Brien, living 
 near Williamsburg, El Paso County, Colo.; they 
 have five children; Henry P. was born on the 
 home farm and still resides here; October 26, 
 1898, he married Mary A. Lowell, of Sedalia, a 
 daughter of Charles and Lydia E. (Bowman) 
 Lowell; AnnaC, Mrs. William Burke, lives in 
 El Paso County and has one child; Alphonso is 
 at home; and Frances C. married Matthew 
 Rogers, of Eldora, Colo. 
 
 Although his father was a Democrat, our sub- 
 ject became a Republican. He did not vote at a 
 presidential election until 1876, when he cast his 
 ballot for R. B. Hayes. He was elected sheriff 
 in 1874, upon the organization of Douglas County 
 and served until the fall of 1875, being the first 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 elected after the division of the county. In Park 
 County he served as a constable, and also held 
 the office in Douglas County both before and 
 after he served as sheriff. During the administra- 
 tion of President Hayes Mr. Manhart held the 
 office of postmaster at Sedalia. For twenty-five 
 years he has served as a school director. Through 
 his assistance the schools of his section have been 
 promoted and the system of teaching advanced. 
 He is a friend of the public school system and 
 gave his children the best advantages possible, 
 not only in local schools, but also in those of 
 Denver. Though reared in the Lutheran Church, 
 he supports the Episcopal Church and assisted in 
 building St. Philip's Church near his home. In 
 1872 he became identified with Weston Lodge 
 No. 22, A. F. & A. M., at Littleton, with which 
 he has since been connected. He is also a 
 member of the Association of Colorado Pioneers 
 and Plum Creek Camp No. 226. As a citizen he 
 is progressive and public-spirited, and justly oc- 
 cupies a position among the most prominent and 
 influential men of his county. 
 
 (EORGE W. PARFET. Gold and silver 
 mining is known the world over as a great 
 industry in Colorado, but comparatively 
 few know anything concerning the clay mines 
 of Golden. George W. Parfet, of Golden, is the 
 pioneer clay operator, miner and shipper of Colo- 
 rado. The great clay deposits lie against the foot 
 of the mountains and have assumed an almost 
 vertical position. They contain various kinds of 
 clay, viz.: Plaster clay, fire clay, fire sand and a 
 red clay used in the manufacture of vitrified 
 brick. There are also fine veins of silica run- 
 ning near the clay veins. The mines have been 
 opened and are provided with tunnels, siding to 
 railroads and other conveniences for the facili- 
 tating of the work. 
 
 The Parfets are of British origin. George 
 Parfet, father of our subject, was born in Wales, 
 but came to America in boyhood and began to 
 work in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. For 
 some years he was engaged in operating mines in 
 the anthracite coal regions of Schuylkill and 
 Northumberland Counties, and later worked in 
 iron mines in Juniata County. In 1874 he 
 brought his family to Ralston, Colo., where he 
 was among the first to engage in coal mining in 
 
 a practical way. He followed the business for a 
 few years, until failing health obliged him to re- 
 tire from active work. He died in 188 1, when 
 about fifty-eight years of age. He was a prac-. 
 tical miner and knew every detail of the business. 
 During the Civil war he was a member of a 
 Pennsylvania regiment that served in the Union 
 army. 
 
 Three times married, by his first wife George 
 Parfet had one son, James, who is now proprietor 
 and editor of the Gillett (Colo.) Fonim. His 
 second wife was Lavina Matter, who was born in 
 Dauphin County, Pa., the daughter of a farmer 
 of that locality. She died in Pennsylvania, and 
 of her six children four are living: John, who 
 lives in Denver; George W.; Benjamin, living in 
 Gillett, El Paso County, Colo.; and C. E., of 
 Golden. The third marriage of Mr. Parfet united 
 him with Sarah Morgan, of Pennsylvania, now 
 residing in Golden. Of this union five children 
 were born, namely: Isaiah M., Mrs. Emma 
 Fisher, Mrs. Ella McLean, Rhoda and David. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Juniata 
 County, Pa., October 5, 1858. Until fourteen 
 years of age he was a student in public schools, 
 but at that time he began to work in iron ore 
 mines. He came with his father to Colorado in 
 March, 1874, and afterward engaged in coal min- 
 ing until 1877, when he turned his attention to 
 clay mines. He still operates the mines near 
 Golden that he leased and opened, and where he 
 has leased a tract of one hundred and twenty 
 acres. In 1879 he opened the Apex mines, which 
 he has since operated. 
 
 December 13, 1882, in Golden, Mr. Parfet 
 married Mattie Bates, who was born in Tennes- 
 see, the daughter of M. L. Bates, who removed 
 from the south to Colorado and settled in Golden. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Parfet own and occupy a residence 
 on Ford street. A member of the silver Repub- 
 lican party, he has been active in party affairs in 
 Jefferson County, has served as a member of the 
 county central committee, and for one term was 
 alderman of the second ward. He was appointed 
 general road overseer of Jefferson County by the 
 board of county commissioners and served two 
 years. At this writing he is a member of the 
 board of education for district No. i and its 
 treasurer. In the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 he is a trustee and steward; also superintendent 
 of the Sunday-school. He is a past officer in the 
 
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 Independent Order of Good Templars, a member 
 of the Temple of Honor, the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, and the Patriotic Order Sons of 
 America. 
 
 3UDGE GEORGE FAHRION has attained 
 prominence as judge of Elbert County, in 
 which capacity he has efficiently served for 
 many years. He is a highly esteemed resident 
 of Kiowa, and an extensive land owner in this 
 county. He is of German birth, having been 
 born in Wurtemberg, April i6, 1836. George 
 Fahrion was reared in a suburb of Leonberg. He 
 obtained his intellectual training in the public 
 schools of that country, which are everywhere 
 recognized as the best in the world, and there be- 
 came a fluent speaker of the L,atin and French 
 languages. In 1853, at the age of sixteen years, 
 he emigrated to America, and as he came in the 
 spring of the year, encountered many bad storms 
 on the passage here. Landing in New York City 
 in April, he immediately went to Buflalo, N. Y., 
 where he secured employment in a factory. One 
 year later he moved into the country and en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits, making a spe- 
 cialty of gardening, and subsequently he started 
 for Detroit by way of Lake Erie. As it was in De- 
 cember, the lake was unusually rough, and the 
 boat, heavily loaded with over a hundred horses, 
 foundered; after a perilous twenty-four hours 
 they were rescued by a passing boat, and con- 
 tinued on their way to Detroit, Mich. Remain- 
 ing in that city for three or four years, in 1859 
 he decided to cross the plains to Colorado, but 
 upon reaching Leavenworth, Kan., he encoun- 
 tered so many returning with tales of bad luck 
 that he became discouraged and decided to re- 
 main where he was. He accepted a position 
 hauling for the government to Fort Laramie, and 
 in the summer of i860 continued to Colorado, 
 where he engaged in mining at French Gulch, 
 and later in Gilpin County. He continued until 
 September, 1861, when he enlisted as a private 
 in the First Colorado Volunteer Infantry, and 
 served for three years and three months. He 
 saw hard service, mostly in New Mexico, and on 
 the frontier from Texas to Utah, taking an active 
 part in many engagements and having many 
 narrow escapes from death. 
 
 Upon receiving his honorable discharge at 
 Denver in November, 1864, our subject settled 
 
 on a squatter's claim in Elbert County, and after 
 the survey of 1866 he secured by pre-emption a 
 tract on section 8, township 8 south, range 63 
 west. Later he homesteaded one hundred and 
 sixty acres and acquired a timber claim, having 
 in all four hundred and eighty acres. He has 
 since purchased other lands from time to time, 
 and at present owns .some one thousand two 
 hundred and eighty acres of valuable land. In 
 political belief he is a firm Democrat, but prior 
 to 1872 was a supporter of the Republican party. 
 In 1868 or 1869 he was elected justice of the 
 peace and served in that capacity for nearly four 
 years; he was later elected judge of Elbert Coun- 
 ty, an office for which he is well qualified and 
 has since retained. He has frequently been 
 called upon to represent his district in different 
 party conventions. By the impartial and straight- 
 forward course he has pursued in the discharge 
 of his duties, he has not only retained the sup- 
 port of his constituents, but gained favor in the 
 eyes of his party opponents. 
 
 July 19, 1865, Judge Fahrion married Miss 
 Elizabeth Swena, of Denver, who was born in 
 Whiteside County, 111., and their union resulted 
 in the following issue: George A., a stock- raiser 
 on Comanche Creek, Elbert County; Thomas, a 
 teacher, who obtained his education in the public 
 schools at Greeley; Frank, a stockman living 
 near Elbert; Frederick, who is clerking for Rus- 
 sell Sage at Peyton, Colo.; Alice; and Paul, who 
 is living at home. Our subject is a man of high 
 moral character, and has many friends through- 
 out that section. 
 
 (lAMES BLAND, who has been postmaster of 
 I Bland, Elbert County, since 1883, and is also 
 Q) engaged in ranching in this county, was born 
 in Westmoreland, England, in 1840, and is a son 
 of James and Agnes (Berry) Bland, natives of the 
 same place as himself His father, who was a 
 descendant of an old family of England, was con- 
 nected with public works in his native land 
 throughout his entire life, and there passed away, 
 his wife having died some years previously. 
 
 Our subject, who was the only child of his 
 parents, was educated in Cheshire, England. At 
 the age of twelve he began to work for himself, 
 his first work being railroading with his father, 
 who had an excellent position. He spent six- 
 teen years in the same business, after which he 
 
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 came to America, landing in this country June i , 
 1870. Proceeding to Omaha, he was there con- 
 nected with the Omaha & Southwestern Railroad 
 about eighteen months. In 1872 he came to 
 Denver and in 1873 settled on the ranch which he 
 still owns. This he has stocked with cattle, 
 principally Herefords. The place is situated on 
 Wilson Creek. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Bland married Miss Mary Lock- 
 year, a native of Broadclist, Devonshire, Eng- 
 land. They are the parents of two daughters; 
 Annie, wife of Clarence H. Wood, who is engaged 
 in ranching near Mr. Bland's place; and Ada, 
 who is with her parents. Politically Mr. Bland 
 favors the policy adopted by the Republican party 
 in its dealings with matters, at home and abroad. 
 He has witnessed the growth of the county from 
 its first start, and has contributed personally not 
 a little to the development of its resources. 
 
 pCjATSON E. COLM AN is engaged in gen- 
 
 \ A / eral farming and the dairy business on the 
 Y Y old Burrel ranch, in the northern part of 
 Jefferson County, Colo. In the fall of 1884 he 
 brought his family to Colorado and after spend- 
 ing the winter in Golden, in the spring of 1885 
 purchased his present property. It consisted of 
 one hundred and sixty acres, to which he subse- 
 quently added a tree claim of eighty acres, making 
 his ranch two hundred and forty acres in extent. 
 He has been largely instrumental in promoting 
 the growth of Broomfield and was the prime fac- 
 tor in starting the Caledonia cheese factory in 
 this village, where is manufactured the best 
 cheese in the state. 
 
 A member of an old Revolutionary family, Mr. 
 Colman was born in Vassalborough, Me., April 
 19, 1837. He is the sole survivor of six children 
 born to the union of Jeremiah and Mercy C. 
 (Doe) Colman. The origin of the name" Colman 
 is peculiar. Many years ago there was a com- 
 pany of the king's body-guard who were so 
 noted for their daring horsemanship that they 
 were called "Coltmen" and from that the name 
 was merged into its present form. During colo- 
 nial days our subject's great-grandfather came to 
 America from England and settled in Newbury - 
 port, Mass., where he reared his family. Some 
 of his sons were soldiers in the Revolution and 
 took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. The 
 
 grandfather, Joseph Colman, was a native of New- 
 buryport, Mass., and from there moved to Vassal- 
 borough, Me., where he married. On the divi- 
 sion of the family property, he had been given 
 his share of the estate in colonial money, and 
 with it he bought a forest tract on the west .side 
 of Weber pond, where he took up one hundred 
 and sixty acres. There his death occurred when 
 he was about eighty-four years of age. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in Vassal- 
 borough, Me., in 1808, and there resided until 
 1850, when he removed to Athens, in the same 
 state, and in that place he remained for eighteen 
 years. His next place of residence was New- 
 port, Me., and there he died. He was a skilled 
 mechanic, and followed carpentering, wagon- 
 making and_blacksmithing, also engaged in farm- 
 ing. He was seventy-four years of age when 
 he died. He was married three times, and ten 
 children born of his third marriage are still liv- 
 ing, namely: Omar M., of Golden, Colo.; Ozias 
 T., who lives in Manchester, N. H.; Rose, wife of 
 Charles French,. of Tewksbury, Mass.; Green- 
 leaf and Obed, of Manchester, N. H.; Lelia, 
 whose husband. Rev. Walter Prince, is a grad- 
 uate of Yale and a minister in the Methodist 
 Church; Nellie, of Manchester; Cora; Wesley, 
 who lives on the home farm in Newport, Me. ; 
 and Jeremiah, of Portland, Me. 
 
 At the age of twenty ojir subject went to Eew- 
 iston. Me., where he learned the machinist's 
 trade. He worked as a journeyman with the 
 Franklin Company, builders of cotton and gen- 
 eral machinery. March 20, 1861, he married 
 Julia A. Sanford, daughter of Ezekiel and Soph- 
 ronia (Carr) Sanford,and a memberof an old Revo- 
 lutionary family. Her father, who was born and 
 reared in Palermo, Me., engaged in farming and 
 lumbering as long as he lived, and died at the 
 age of eighty at Bradford, Me. Shortly after 
 his marriage our subject moved to Portland, Me. , 
 and took a position with the Portland Company, 
 Locomotive and Marine Engine Works, and for 
 three years worked as a journeyman; afterward 
 he took a contract with the company and was 
 given charge of the heavy machinery in the lower 
 room, which important position he held for twen- 
 ty-three years. His especial work, besides loco- 
 motive and marine engine work, was the fitting 
 of wheels of the locomotives and cars and during 
 all the time he was thus engaged he never had a 
 
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 loose wheel. On account of the poor health of 
 his daughter, in 1884 he resigned his position 
 and came to Colorado, where he has since re- 
 sided. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Colman became the parents of 
 two children. Their daughter, Helen Isabel, 
 born December 19, 1864, was given an excellent 
 education and became an accomplished musician; 
 she possessed a beautiful character and was be- 
 loved by all who knew her, so that her death, 
 March 11, 1890, was a deep bereavement, not 
 only to her parents and brother, but also to her 
 many friends. The son, Ralph W., who was 
 born July 23, 1866, is the proprietor of the Silver 
 Standard Flour and Feed Mills, at Broomfield, 
 his specialty being wheat, graham, rye, graham- 
 rye flour, corn meal and whole wheat flour. In 
 politics our subject is a Republican. Since 1863 
 he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
 belonging to Ancient Landmark Lodge, in Port- 
 land, Me. Since 1871 he has been a member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and since 
 1874 has been identified with Bramhall Lodge, 
 K. of P., both in Portland, Me. 
 
 •gEORGEH. YOUNG, the well-known mer- 
 _ chant of Evans, Weld County, was born in 
 ^ Columbus, Ohio, February 12, 1844, being 
 a son of William H. and Maria (Biddle) Young, 
 natives respectively of Charlestown, W. Va., and 
 Wales. His father spent the larger part of his 
 active life in Ohio, where he was engaged in con- 
 tracting and building at Columbus. He died at 
 the age of .seventy-three years. His wife passed 
 away at Columbus, when seventy-one years of 
 age. Of their seven children all but two are liv- 
 ing. They are George H. ; Mary E. , the widow 
 ofE. D. W. Lawrence, of Columbus; Charles L., 
 of Springfield, Mass.; Margaret, wife of G. F. 
 Ramsey, Plains City, Ohio; and Joseph W. , who 
 is living in Columbus. 
 
 Mr. Young acquired his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Columbus, Ohio. At the age of 
 thirteen he entered the employ of John Zettler, a 
 grocer of that city, with whom he remained until 
 1862. He then enlisted in Company A, Ninety- 
 fifth Ohio Infantry, and served in the western 
 division of the army until the close of the war. 
 In the battle of Richmond he was wounded in 
 the left arm and was taken to a hospital, where 
 
 he remained for some time, first as a patient, and 
 later as a nurse. Under General Grant he par- 
 ticipated in the Vicksburg campaign, being on 
 hospital detail mainly. He was captured in 
 Mississippi and confined in Andersonville, Mil- 
 len, Blackshire and Thomasville prisons, alto- 
 gether, for more than nine months. In April, 
 1865, he was aboard the "Sultana" going from 
 Vicksburg with twenty-two hundred prisoners, 
 when the ves.sel blew up near Memphis, Tenn. 
 Out of the entire number of prisoners, only seven 
 hundred escaped, and many of these were fright- 
 fully wounded, and died later from their injuries. 
 Mr. Young sustained serious injuries through 
 being scalded by steam. 
 
 After being mustered out at Columbus, August 
 14, 1865, Mr. Young entered a business college 
 at Columbus, and on the completion of the course 
 there he became an employe of J. W. Pope, with 
 whom he remained about two years. He was 
 afterward variously employed until 1872, when 
 he came west to Kansas and located at Atchison, 
 where he followed the carpenter's trade. After 
 a short time he went back to Ohio. In 1873 he 
 started for Colorado, believing that this climate 
 would relieve him of asthma, with which he suf- 
 fered. He arrived in Denver June i, and a few 
 days later reached Evans. Shortly after coming 
 here he bought out Davis McMechan, dealer in 
 furniture and coal, and until 1895 be carried on 
 the business. Meantime, however, he became 
 interested in other enterprises. About 1885 he 
 embarked in the mercantile business, which he 
 has since conducted. He has also bought an in- 
 terest in the Central City Mining Company, and 
 owns two farms near town, upon which he en- 
 gages in farming and stock-raising. He is a 
 stockholder in the Union and Independent Ditch 
 Companies, and has served as a trustee in the 
 former. 
 
 In politics a Republican and active in local af- 
 fairs, Mr. Young has served his town as mayor, 
 alderman and treasurer. For six years he held 
 office as justice of the peace, and for one year 
 served as county commissioner. As president and 
 treasurer of school district No. 15, he has been 
 helpful in promoting educational work in his 
 section, and he al.so assisted in the erection of the 
 State Normal School building at Greeley. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with Prosperity Lodge 
 No. 109, I. O. O. F., and Weld Encampment; 
 
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 also the Woodmen of the World and May Camp 
 No. 5, I. O. R. M., of Ouray. He has held all 
 the ofiBces, up to and including that of com- 
 mander, in William T. Sherman Post, G. A. R.,of 
 Evans and in the National Encampment has been 
 appointed an aide on the staflf of the department 
 commander of Colorado and Wyoming. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Young was Martha, 
 daughter of James Mills, a native of Wales, who 
 died in 1881, leaving five children: Grace E.; 
 CoraL., wife of A. H. Storer; Sarah M.; Will- 
 iam D., who married Etta Robinson, a native of 
 Illinois; and Edna M., wife of Theodore Ennes. 
 In 1889 Mr. Young married Miss Lydia C. 
 Herriott, daughter of George Herriott, who came 
 from Ohio in an early day and settled upon a 
 farm in Weld County. This union is blessed 
 with three sons, George P., Edwin H. and Ben- 
 jamin U. 
 
 (I AMES H. POTTER, M. D., was one of the 
 I brave boys in blue during the Civil war, and 
 (2/ suffered wounds and untold hardships in or- 
 der that the Union might be preserved. He stands 
 deservedly high in his profession. He is treasurer 
 of the Boulder County Medical Society, a mem- 
 ber of the Colorado State Medical and the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association, and formerly, when in 
 Illinois, was connected with the Central Illinois 
 Association, being its president for .some time, 
 and held a similar responsible office in the DeWitt 
 County Medical Society. Ten years ago he 
 opened an office and established himself in prac- 
 tice in Longmont, and has been very successful 
 in building up an extensive business. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the doctor was a 
 soldier of the war of 181 2 on the American side, 
 and was a resident of Washington County, Pa. 
 The parents of our subject were John and Jane 
 (Boyce) Potter, both natives of Washington 
 County, Pa. The father was a manufacturer of 
 farm implements and wagons, and made some of 
 the first cast-iron plows ever used in this country. 
 A firm in Pittsburg, Pa., still manufacture plows 
 under his name. He also made a reputation as 
 the maker of the large "Conestoga" wagon, once 
 in very extensive use in the east. In 1846 he 
 moved to West Union, Ohio, and turned his at- 
 tention to agriculture, and later he settled in 
 Wapella, DeWitt County, 111., where he operated 
 a farm until his death, when in his sixty-sixth 
 
 year. His wife also died on the old Illinois 
 homestead. Three of their sons offered their serv- 
 ices to their country, and one of them was sac- 
 rificed on the altar of liberty and the Union. He, 
 their eldest born, David S., was killed at the bat- 
 tle of Stone River. He was a sergeant in the 
 same company as were the subject of this sketch 
 and another brother, R. B., who is now an as- 
 sayer in Boulder. William, a physician, died in 
 1852, in West Union, Ohio. The only daughter, 
 E. B., is the wife of Rev. John Wilson, of Long- 
 mont. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Potter was born March i, 1843, in 
 Washington County, Pa., and received his edu- 
 cation in the public schools and Salem Academy. 
 In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, 
 Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and among the 
 battles in which he participated were Pittsburg 
 Landing, Perryville and Stone River. The en- 
 gagement at Stone River began on the last day 
 of 1862 and waged furiously for three days or 
 more. On January 2d, toward evening, Dr. Pot- 
 ter was wounded by a ball which struck his right 
 leg abov^e the knee, shattering the bone, so that 
 sixty pieces have since been taken out. He lay 
 on the battlefield from Friday night until Sun- 
 day noon, without any attention, save that ren- 
 dered him by his brother, R. B., who at last found 
 him and brought him some water. Then followed 
 a long and painful period of intense suffering, 
 covering seven months spent in hospitals here 
 and there, for he was transferred from one to an- 
 other as the exigencies of war made advisable. 
 On July 28 he asked for his discharge from the 
 George Street Hospital, Cincinnati, and, it being 
 granted him, he started for home on crutches. 
 Two weeks afterward he resumed his interrupted 
 studies in Salem, but more than five years passed 
 ere he could walk without crutches. 
 
 After young Potter had made considerable 
 progress in medical studies under the direction of 
 Dr. T. W. Davis, of Wapella, 111., he entered the 
 Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. During his 
 course in that institution he taught school and 
 practiced medicine at intervals, thus working his 
 own way through college. He graduated with 
 the degree for which he had striven so bravely, 
 in 1870, and for seventeen years practiced in 
 Wapella. The winter of 1872-73 he took a post- 
 graduate course at his alma mater, and since 
 coming to Longmont, in 1888, he has taken an- 
 
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 other graduate course, going to Rush Medical 
 College, Chicago, for three months' special study, 
 in 1894. In 1887 he moved west to Denver, and 
 within a j'ear he concluded to become a perma- 
 nent citizen of Longmont. He practices medi- 
 cine in general and surgery in all its branches. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Potter and Miss E. B. 
 Williams took place in Wapella, 111., in 1873. 
 Mrs. Potter was born in Farmington, 111., and is 
 a daughter of J. C. Williams, now of Parsons, 
 Kan. Harry J., eldest child of the doctor and 
 wife, has been in the medical college of the Uni- 
 versity of Colorado for three years and will grad- 
 uate in 1899. He was a member of Company C, 
 First Colorado Regiment of National Guard, and 
 participated in the lyeadville campaign. Frank 
 S. is employed in the office of the lyongmont 
 Daily Times as a printer. Jennie and Eva, twins, 
 were born February 29, 1884; and Mabel is the 
 youngest of the family. 
 
 In Wapella, 111., Dr. Potter was commander 
 of Seward C. Nelson Post, G. A. R. , for three 
 terms, and was a member of the Odd Fellows' so- 
 ciety. He belongs to the Longmont encamp- 
 ment, and in company with his wife has taken 
 the degree of Rebekah. He is medical examiner 
 for the Ancient Order of United Workmen and is 
 a member of the Union Veteran League. Relig- 
 iously he is a Congregationalist, and politicall}' 
 he is a true-blue Republican. 
 
 REV. JOHN J. DONNELLY, pastor of the 
 Catholic Churches in Georgetown and Sil- 
 ver Plume, was born in Bruce County, On- 
 tario, Canada, November i, 1862, and is a son of 
 James and Ellen (Desmond) Donnelly, both of 
 whom are living in the home county engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits. 
 
 Father Donnelly was the third child of a family 
 of eight, and was educated in the public schools 
 of Ontario during his early years, and then en- 
 tered St. Jerome College, of Berlin, Ontario, in 
 the fall of 1883, graduating four years later. He 
 then became a student of the Grand Seminary at 
 Montreal, from which he graduated in 1890. He 
 was ordained by Bishop Dowling May 31 of that 
 year, at Hamilton, for the Hamilton diocese, and 
 was assistant in Arthur for one year. Following 
 that he was assistant in the cathedral at Hamil- 
 ton until 1892, in May, when he was transferred 
 
 to the Colorado diocese, and was made pastor of 
 St. Patrick's Church at La Junta and the congre- 
 gation at Las Animas. He remained in this 
 charge five months, and during that time built 
 the St. Mary's Church at the latter place, raising 
 the funds to pay for it. From there he went to 
 Montrose, where he remained three months, and 
 then located in Ouray as pastor of St. Patrick's 
 Church of that place, at the same time retaining 
 charge of Montrose and adding Ridgeway and 
 Ironton to his circuit. While here he paid off 
 the indebtedness of the churches at both the 
 latter places and placed them on a sound footing. 
 In 1894 he took charge of La Junta, Las Animas 
 and Rocky Ford. During his absence a fine stone 
 church had been partially erected, but owing to 
 financial embarrassment, remained incomplete. 
 Father Donnelly completed the church and 
 placed the parish on a sound financial basis. 
 
 Owing to the low altitude his health gave way 
 and he was sent to Glenwood Springs, in the 
 hope that he might recuperate there. He re- 
 mained pastor there five months and then took a 
 vacation of four months, which he spent in south- 
 ern California. He then returned to Colorado 
 and took charge of the church at Grand Junc- 
 tion, remaining there eight months. In Septem- 
 ber, 1897, he was transferred to his present 
 charge in Georgetown, Our Lady of Lourdes and 
 St. Patrick's Church at Silver Plume. The 
 church in Georgetown has a fine property and 
 controls several societies. The parochial school 
 is taught by sisters of St. Joseph, and the hos- 
 pital, which is carried on in connection with the 
 church, is in charge of six sisters of St. Joseph. 
 A branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is 
 held here, although the headquarters of the 
 society are at Silver Plume. 
 
 The church was started in the summer of 187 1 
 by Bishop Matz, of Denver, who preached to 
 the first congregation. Father Foley then took 
 charge for a short time and was followed by 
 Father McGraw, who built the first small frame 
 church, and afterwards erected the walls of the 
 brick edifice. Father Hewlett was in charge but 
 a few months and gave way to Father Matz, now 
 Bishop Matz, who furnished the church and built 
 the parsonage, school and hospital. He was 
 here eight years and was dearly beloved by his 
 people. Next in order were: Fathers M. J. Car- 
 raody. Lea, Volpe, Hickey, Morrin and Howlett, 
 
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 who again returned to this charge. Father Pickle 
 was in charge eighteen months, and was followed 
 by Father Donnelly, who is doing much to 
 strengthen the church, and has made many 
 friends outside of his own denomination. 
 
 EHARLES K. WOLFE is one of the repre- 
 sentative citizens of Georgetown. Since 
 coming here he has been connected with 
 W.J. Chamberlain and Frank Dillingham in the 
 Georgetown Ore Sampling Works, the firm being 
 known as that of W. J. Chamberlain & Co. 
 The partners bought out the old firm of Duncan 
 & Wheeler, who were conducting a public samp- 
 ling plant. Mr. Wolfe has been the manager of 
 the concern from the start and it long .since be- 
 came one of the leading and successful enterprises 
 of this county. The plant has a capacity of sixty 
 tons daily, and is equipped with all kinds of 
 modern machinery and inventions. 
 
 Mr. Wolfe was born in Kittanning, Armstrong 
 County, Pa., Januar}' 12, i860, and was but four 
 years of age when he was left an orphan. He 
 was then taken into the family of his paternal 
 grandparents, who lived upon a farm in the 
 vicinity of Kittanning. The grandfather, Joseph 
 Wolfe, was a native of Pennsylvania, and by trade 
 was a carpenter and builder, which occupations 
 he followed in connection with managing his 
 homestead. The father of our subject. King 
 Wolfe, was also a Pennsylvanian, his birth having 
 occurred in Armstrong County. In his early 
 manhood he learned the blacksmith's trade and 
 this vocation he continued up to the time of his 
 death. He received injuries while shoeing a 
 horse, from the effects of which he never recov- 
 ered, and his life was brought to a close in 1864. 
 Three months subsequently his devoted wife, 
 whose maiden name was Mary Grimm, followed 
 him to the grave. She, too, was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, and with the exception of Charles K. , 
 all her children, eight in number, are residents 
 of that state. 
 
 When he was eight years old the subject of 
 this sketch accompanied his grandparents to 
 Dixon, Tenn., and there he was educated in the 
 public schools. In 1873 he returned to his native 
 state and entered a drug store at East Brady, at 
 the same time attending school a portion of the 
 year. From 1877 to 1879 he lived in various 
 
 towns, Petrolia, Millerstown and Fairview. In 
 February, 1879, he came to Leadville, Colo., and 
 later took a position as a clerk with Mr. Brown- 
 yard, in Georgetown. The craze for mining 
 gradually took possession of him, and he tried 
 the business for a short time on Red Elephant 
 Mountain. Then he bought a grocery at the 
 town of the same name and carried on business 
 there for eighteen months. To his efforts it was 
 due that a postoffice was established there and 
 he was made the first po.stmaster. This position 
 he resigned, and, returning to Georgetown, 
 clerked for Tucker Brothers for several years. 
 The partnership of Eagle & Wolfe was next 
 organized, their business being located on Sixth 
 street. The firm dealt in clothing and furnishing 
 goods, and prospered. Mr. Wolfe found, how- 
 ever, that the altitude was not beneficial to his 
 health, and he sold out and went to Denver. 
 After spending some months in prospecting 
 above Aspen, Colo., he- and a Mr. Jacobson em- 
 barked in the grocery business at the corner of 
 Sixteenth and Fremont streets, Denver. Three 
 months later our subject sold his interest and 
 turned his attention to real estate. In 1889 he 
 went to Nevada, and bought ore for W. J. Cham- 
 berlain & Co. , chiefly in the vicinity of Austin 
 and Eureka. In this manner he became con- 
 nected with the gentlemen with whom he is now 
 associated in business. Hfe owns a half-interest 
 in Clark's Magnetic Mineral Springs, of Pueblo, 
 quite a health resort. The firm of Clark & 
 Wolfe is engaged in bottling the waters of this 
 noted health-giving spring, and has built up a 
 good trade. 
 
 February 8, 1883, Mr. Wolfe married Miss 
 Eva M. Conway, in Georgetown. She is a native 
 of Browning, 111., and, with her parents, Martin 
 and Caroline (Hollingsworth) Conway, came to 
 this city in 1874. The three children born to 
 our subject and wife are: Adda Gertrude, Caro- 
 line Emma and Charles J. The son died when 
 but two years old. 
 
 Since 1897 Mr. Wolfe has been master of 
 Georgetown Lodge No. 48, A. F. &. A. M. He 
 is also a member of Georgetown Chapter No. 4, 
 R. A. M. , and Georgetown Commandery No. 4, 
 K. T. The other orders to which he belongs are 
 the Odd Fellows (Harmony Lodge No. 18), the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen (Georgetown 
 Lodge No. 57) and the Red Men (Mohican Tribe 
 
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 No. 54). Up to 1896 he was a stalwart Repub- 
 lican, but since that time has been active in the 
 Democratic party, being the chairman of the 
 town committee. 
 
 "T NSIGN S. WRIGHT, a representative citi- 
 ^ zen of Georgetown, has been longer engaged 
 _ in the drug business than any one in the 
 state of Colorado. He erected the first stone 
 building in this place in the year 1869, and soon 
 after coming here he embarked in the jewelry 
 business, which he has continued to the present 
 time. His own store, occupied all these years, 
 was constructed thirty years ago by him, and 
 thus he and his business are landmarks of 
 Georgetown. No one here has been more earn- 
 est in the support of everything tending to the 
 improvement and progress of this immediate sec- 
 tion, but he has persistently refused to accept 
 public office. Politically a Republican for years, 
 he espoused the platform of the People's party 
 during the last campaign. Since the organiza- 
 tion of the State Pharmaceutical Association he 
 has been identified with the same. 
 
 Mr. Wright comes from an old Massachusetts 
 family. His paternal grandfather, Washington 
 Wright, was a ijative of the state mentioned. 
 The parents of our subject were Simon and Eu- 
 nice (Brown) Wright, natives of Wendall, Mass., 
 and Buxton, Me., respectively. Simon Wright 
 was engaged in the grocery business in the out- 
 skirts of Boston, near Cambridge, up to the time 
 of his death, which event occurred in 1828, when 
 he was in the prime of life, scarce twoscore years 
 old. The faithful mother, thus left to provide 
 for her family of six children, bravely shoul- 
 dered the burden and lived to see them useful 
 members of society. She died in 1842, in Boston. 
 Of her children, Eunice Moulton, Mrs. Hall, who 
 died July 11, 1898, aged eighty-one years, for 
 several years made her home with our subject. 
 A brother, Simon Flood Wright, was a detective 
 officer in the employ of the United States govern- 
 ment for many years, recruited soldiers at Gov- 
 ernor's Island, and was accidentally killed on the 
 Colony Railroad in 1867. Louisa, Mrs. John 
 Davey; William R., a pharmacist; andSarahJ., 
 a school teacher, who- died in 1840, are the other 
 members of the family. 
 
 E. S. Wright, the youngest of his family of 
 brothers and sisters, was born in Boston, June 13, 
 51 
 
 1826. He was educated in the old Mayhew 
 school, and in 1846 he commenced serving an ap- 
 prenticeship to his brother, the druggist. March 
 I9> 1855, he was granted a pharmacist's di- 
 ploma and became a partner of his brother. The 
 latter opened a new drug store, of which he took 
 charge, while he left E. S. to manage the old 
 store. This partnership continued until 1866, 
 when E. S. Wright came to Colorado, sending 
 before him a stock of drugs to Empire. Upon 
 reaching that point he built several structures 
 there and kept a store until 1868. Georgetown 
 was then giving great promise for the future, and 
 he concluded to establish himself in business 
 here. In addition to his numerous other enter- 
 prises he has been more of less connected with 
 real-estate traTisactions, and has been instrumental 
 in building up the town. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Wright was with 
 Miss Mary E. Wright, who was born in Pep- 
 perell, Mass., and wasadaughterof Levi Wright, 
 a contractor and builder of that state. Mrs. 
 Wright died December 27, 1865, leaving one 
 child. This daughter, Isabella Frances, born in 
 Boston, September 19, 1859, is the wife of 
 P. J. R. Manegold, of Georgetown. The second 
 wife of Mr. Wright was formerly Mrs. Mary E. 
 Blinn. She was born in Brookline, N. H., a 
 daughter of Jonas Lawrence, and for a time lived 
 in Boston, but subsequently came to Georgetown 
 and was here married. She had three children 
 by her first husband. The two daughters are 
 living in Denver. Her death occurred at her 
 home in this city April 4, 1892. 
 
 EHARLES FISHER ANDREW, M. D., is 
 one of the rising young physicians and sur- 
 geons of Boulder County, and though he has 
 been engaged in practice in Longmont but four 
 years he has gained a reputation for skill and 
 knowledge of his professional duties. He is pro- 
 fessor of medical jurisprudence, hygiene and pre- 
 ventive medicines in the Universitj' of Colorado, 
 is a member and the treasurer of the pension 
 board and was city physician during 1897. ^^ 
 these several capacities he has acquitted himself 
 in a most creditable manner, bringing down upon 
 himself the warmest praise of those who are com- 
 petent judges and critics. He is the examining 
 physician for the Knights of the Maccabees, the 
 
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 Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Fraternal 
 Aid Society, and the Bankers' Life Insurance 
 Company, of Des Moines, Iowa. He is a mem- 
 ber of St. Vrain Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M., 
 Longmont Chapter No. 8, R. A. M., and to 
 Long's Peak Commandery No. 12, K. T., and 
 also of Longmont Hose Company No. i . Pro- 
 fessionally he is connected with the Boulder 
 County Medical, the Colorado State Medical and 
 the American Medical Associations, and is also a 
 member of the alumni association of the Mis- 
 rouri Medical College. 
 
 The birth of Dr. Andrew occurred in New Sa- 
 lem, Pike County, 111., January 7, 1871. He is 
 the eldest of the six children of John and Harriet 
 (Fisher) Andrew, the others being: Harry B., a 
 graduate of the Missouri Medical College in the 
 class of '96, and now associated with our subject 
 in practice in Longmont; Maude, Alice, John, Jr., 
 and William, all in the parental home in Illinois. 
 Dr. Harry B. is a member of various medical so- 
 cieties and is connected with the Masonic order. 
 John Andrew, Sr. , is now engaged in conducting 
 a mercantile business in New Salem, 111., as he 
 had been for the past thirty-five years. During 
 the Civil war he served in the Union army as a 
 lieutenant in Company K, Ninety-ninth Illinois 
 Volunteers, and participated in the siege of Vicks- 
 burg, after which campaign he was mustered out 
 by special order. He is a native of Lincolnshire, 
 England, and came to this country in early man- 
 hood, taking up his residence in Pike County, 
 111. His wife was born in William sville, Ohio, 
 and is a daughter of Daniel Fisher, who was a 
 native of Pennsylvania, later removed to Ohio, 
 and about 1840 settled in Illinois, where he pur- 
 sued his trade of gunsmith until shortly before 
 his death. 
 
 Dr. Andrew had excellent educational advan- 
 tages in his youth, finishing his studies in North- 
 ern Illinois Normal School at Dixon. He was 
 but seventeen when he commenced teaching, and 
 for four years he gave his chief attention to that 
 calling. During this period he took up the study 
 of medicine, and for some time was under the 
 tutelage of Dr. J. G. McKinney, who had a sani- 
 tarium in Barry, 111. The young man also pur- 
 sued his higher studies at Lombard University, 
 Galesburg, 111., for two years. In 1892 he ma- 
 triculated in the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons in Chicago, and spent a year there. The 
 
 World's Fair then coming on, he accepted a po- 
 sition as a Columbian guard for a few months. 
 His medical course was completed in the Missouri 
 Medical College, of St. Louis, Mo., in 1895. He 
 had the honor of being president of his class, and 
 was one of .seven students out of a class of seventy- 
 eight who received special distinction on account 
 of excellence of scholarship. Soon after his grad- 
 uation he removed to Longmont to succeed Dr. 
 J. J. Topliff, the old family physician of his own 
 people. The venerable doctor had just died, and 
 our subject took up his practice, and from the 
 first met with gratifying success. In June, 1896, 
 the doctor married one of the charming daughters 
 of Longmont, Miss Mary E. Tyrrell. She is a 
 native of this place, was educated in the public 
 schools and academy here, and is the only daugh- 
 ter of Hon. J. W. Tyrrell, one of our popular 
 citizens. 
 
 HON. JOHN F. VIVIAN, deputy superin- 
 tendent of insurance for the state of Colo- 
 rado, is among the most prominent citizens 
 of Golden, where he has made his home since 
 1879. He was born in Phoenix, Houghton 
 County, Mich., December 9, 1864, the son of 
 Joseph and Mary (Tresidder) Vivian, natives of 
 England. His father, who came to the United 
 States in youth, was one of the pioneer miners of 
 copper and iron ore in the northern peninsula of 
 Michigan, where he died in 1867. His wife, who 
 accompanied her parents from England at an 
 early age, settled with them in the northern part 
 of Michigan, where her father was a man of con- 
 siderable prominence and influence. The year 
 after her husband's death she came to Colorado, 
 where she afterward married Robert Bunney, and 
 now resides in the vicinity of Golden. She has 
 a son and daughter, the latter being Ida, wife of 
 Theodore Merkle, of Golden. 
 
 When a boy Mr. Vivian worked upon a farm, 
 but upon reaching his majority he entered the 
 mercantile business. He has always been inter- 
 ested in politics and has taken an active part in 
 public affairs. In recognition of his services in 
 behalf of the Republican party, he was in 1890 
 tendered the office of postmaster. In 1893 he 
 was elected clerk and recorder of Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, defeating a man who had held the office of 
 county clerk for tweuty-one years. Two years 
 later he was re-elected, this time by a majorit)' 
 
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 of eleven hundred out of a total of three thousand 
 votes cast in the county, it being the largest ma- 
 jority ever given any candidate in the county. 
 He held the office until February 14, 1897, when 
 Auditor Lowell appointed him deputy superin- 
 tendent of insurance for the state. In 1897 he 
 attended the national convention of insurance 
 commissioners held at Old Point Comfort, Va., 
 and in September, 1898, expects to attend the 
 convention at Milwaukee. In his present posi- 
 tion he is said to be just in his rulings, accurate 
 in his decisions and faithful in the discharge of 
 every duty. His official reports are models of 
 accuracy, system and correctness. To his work 
 he brings a conscientious desire to do what is 
 best and wisest, in view of the circumstances. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Vivian was elected a delegate 
 from the first congressional district to the na- 
 tional convention of the Republican party. He 
 took an active part in the exciting scenes of that 
 famous meeting, doing all within his power to 
 secure recognition of the cause of silver by the 
 convention. In this effort he united, under the 
 leadership of Senator Teller, with A. M. Steven- 
 son, C. H. Brickenstein, of Conejos County, 
 J. M. Downing, of Pitkin County, Dr. J. W. 
 Rockefellow, of Crested Butte, F. C. Goudy, of 
 Denver, and Judge Hart, of Pueblo, all of whom 
 left the convention hall when monometallism was 
 championed by the party. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Golden Lodge No. 10, K. of P., in 
 which he is past chancellor. He was united in 
 marriage, in Golden, with Miss Addie E. Hig- 
 gins, who was born in this city, the daughter of 
 John A. and Emily Higgins, early settlers of Jef- 
 ferson County from Hendricks County, Ind. 
 They have two sons, John C. and Chauncey. 
 
 QROF. EDWARD F. HERMANNS, princi- 
 L/' pal of Denver high school district No. 2, 
 fS was born in Cologne, Germany, December 
 15, 1846, and is a son of Capt. Jerome and Ja- 
 cobine (Halm) Hermanns. In 1854 he accom- 
 panied his parents to America, landing in New 
 York after a voyage of fifty days on a sailing ves- 
 sel. The father had previously been captain on 
 a steamer running from Rotterdam, Holland, to 
 Mannheim, Baden, on the Rhine River, and he 
 had also .served for three years in the German 
 army. Settling in Milwaukee, Wis., he engaged 
 
 in the livery business. In 1861, at the first call 
 for volunteers, he enlisted in the army and served 
 throughout the war in the body guard of General 
 Fremont, taking part in the campaigns of Mis- 
 souri and Arkansas and being slightly wounded 
 at one time. After the war he moved from Mil- 
 waukee to St. Louis, where he engaged in various 
 occupations, and later went back to Milwaukee, 
 dying there November 12, 1875. His wife died 
 "during their residence in St. Louis. 
 
 . Professor Hermanns received the greater part 
 of his education at the German and English Acad- 
 emy in Milwaukee, known as " Engelmann's 
 school, ' ' from which he graduated in 1863. From 
 there he went to Germany and entered the Royal 
 Polytechnic Institute at Aix-la-Chapelle. After 
 graduating from this institute he returned to 
 America and became instructor in mathematics 
 in the academy in which he had been a student 
 some years before. Later, for a year, he taught 
 in a female academy in St. Louis and then was 
 principal of a school in Nashville, 111., for two 
 years. On account of illness he was obliged to 
 discontinue this work and return to his father's 
 home in St. Louis, where later he taught Latin 
 and German in the High school. In 1870 he ac- 
 cepted a position in St. Charles, Mo., and the fol- 
 lowing year was made Principal and Superintend- 
 ent of the city schools, holding this position until 
 July I, 1882. In 1875 he was elected County 
 Commissioner of Public Schools, which position 
 .he held for four successive terms, until 1882. On 
 resigning his various offices he entered the gov- 
 ernment service as United States Assistant Engin- 
 eer. As United States Assistant Engineer Mr. 
 Hermanns worked along the Missouri River, as- 
 sisting in its improvements and having much of 
 the responsibility of its management. In 1886 
 lie became an assistant iu the Kansas City High 
 school, though he still retained some connection 
 with the United States Engineer Office. From 
 Kansas City, in 1891, he came to Denver, where 
 he has since been connected with the schools. 
 In St. Louis County, Mo., in 1877, he married 
 Miss Evelina Weber, daughter of C. Henry and 
 Elizabeth T. Weber. Her father was founder of 
 the oldest music house west of the Mississippi 
 River, having established the firm of Balmer & 
 Weber, which still exists in St. Louis. They 
 are the parents of one son, Francis E., who was 
 born in St. Charles, Mo., graduated from the 
 
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 West Side Denver High school in 1895, and is 
 now a student in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology in Boston, a member of the class of 
 1899. 
 
 In religion Professor Hermanns is a Unitarian. 
 For two terms he served as president of the State 
 Association of County Commissioners of Missouri. 
 He aided in founding the Colorado Schoolmasters' 
 Club, of which he was the first president. He 
 has also been president of the Colorado Superin- 
 tendents and Principals' Round Table and High 
 school and College Section of the State Teachers' 
 Association, and a member of the Colorado Edu- 
 cational Council from its beginning, said council 
 being the governing body of the State Teachers' 
 Association. He represents the Schoolmasters' 
 Club in the Executive Board of the Educational 
 Alliance of Denver. He was elected president of 
 the Department of Secondary Education at the 
 meeting of the National Educational Association, 
 held in Washington, D. C, in July, 1898. 
 
 (lOHN SCOTT WILSON enjoys the di.stinc- 
 I tion of standing among the foremost of the 
 O prosperous farmers of Douglas County, in 
 which county he owns seven hundred and sixty 
 acres of well-improved land, and his home is lo- 
 cated on section 22, township 7, range 66 west. 
 He was born in Holmes County, Ohio, December 
 I, 1847; his parents are James and Dorcas A. 
 (Miller) Wilson. James Wilson was a black-, 
 smith by trade, and early in life moved to Ma- 
 rion County, Iowa, and located in the town of 
 Swan, where he continued his occupation; later 
 he embarked in the mercantile business, but is 
 now living in retirement, and his two sons are 
 carrying on his business; he is now past his sev- 
 enty-seventh birthday. The mother of our sub- 
 ject died October 19, 1897. 
 
 John Scott Wilson was three years of age 
 when his parents moved to Iowa, and he was 
 reared to manhood in the village of Swan. His 
 high-school education was supplemented by a 
 course in Simpson's Seminary at Indianola, and 
 by one term in the college at Pella. At the age 
 of twenty-one years he began teaching school, 
 and taught one term in Iowa, and after coming to 
 Colorado in 1876 he taught three terms in Doug- 
 las County. He then turned his attention toward 
 agricultural pursuits and has since been engaged 
 
 in general farming and stock-raising. Gradually 
 adding to his first purcha.se, he now owns seven 
 hundred and sixty acres, having purchased one 
 hundred and sixty acres on section 24; one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres on sections 22 and 23; one 
 hundred and sixty acres on sections 14 and 15; 
 and one hundred and forty acres on section 2 1 . 
 He is one of the enterprising and progressive 
 members of his community; is regarded with 
 great consideration and respect in his section, and 
 has done well his part toward the development 
 and advancement of Douglas County. 
 
 The first vote of Mr. Wilson was cast for Grant 
 in 1868; he is now serving his fourth term as 
 justice of the peace, and of all the cases tried be- 
 fore him, only one has been appealed and re- 
 versed, and that one was due to the fact that 
 there was no evidence introduced before our sub- 
 ject on the part of the defense, but it was after- 
 wards introduced when tried in the county court. 
 In religious views our subject is a member and a 
 liberal supporter of the Methodist Church, and 
 has been a class leader and superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school of that church. Fraternally he is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen 
 No. 27, of Castle Rock. January 31, 1873, he 
 married Mary E., daughter of Jonathan and 
 Elizabeth (Beam) Drake, of Swan, Marion Coun- 
 ty, Iowa. To them has been born one child, a 
 daughter, Nellie Grace, born January 31, 1884, 
 in Douglas County, Colo. 
 
 Gl LFRED PETERSON, of Elbert County, re- 
 Ll sides on section 34, township 10, range 64 
 I I west, near the village of Elbert. He was 
 born in the southern part of Sweden, November 
 2, 1844, and is a son of Per and Mary (Person) 
 Larson. His boyhood years were spent in farm 
 work and in attendance upon local schools. In 
 1870 he came to America via Liverpool to New 
 York, spending eleven days on the ocean. After 
 a short time spent in New Jersey he went to 
 Connecticut and secured employment from a con- 
 tractor, with whom he worked in a stone yard and 
 also in a lumber yard. 
 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Peterson came to Colorado, where 
 he worked in a sawmill and aLso got out lumber 
 for railroad ties. In the fall of 1873 he took up 
 a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres on 
 section 32, where he remained about sixteen 
 
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 years, meantime placing the land under cultiva- 
 tion. From time to time he has purchased other 
 property, until his lauded possessions aggregated 
 fourteen hundred and eighty acres. Here he 
 raises general farm products and also a high 
 grade of Shorthorn cattle. 
 
 July 19, 1879, Mr. Peterson married Miss 
 Anna Olson, who was born in Sweden and with 
 whom he became acquainted in Denver. They 
 are the parents of twelve children, namely : Arthur 
 Leonard, who was born December 31, 1880; Con- 
 Tad, August I, 1882; Alger C, February 15, 
 1884; Fritz A., December 19, 1885; Axel Edwin, 
 August 17, 1887; Julius Arnold, June 16, 1889; 
 Karl Otto, November 11, 1890; Ninian Valfred, 
 January 28, 1892; Theodore Emile, June i, 1893; 
 Anna Elvina, October 30, 1894; Per Talof, April 
 II, 1896; and Knut Torwald, January 3, 1898. 
 The family are identified with the Lutheran 
 Church, in which Mr. Peterson is an active 
 worker and to which he has given liberally. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Gl LBERT WOLFF, a prosperous and progress- 
 Ll ive farmer of Jefferson County, residing 
 / I two miles south of Arvada, was born in 
 Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, Decem- 
 ber 29, 1846, a son of John B. and Caroline Jane 
 (Hedges) Wolff. He was one often children, of 
 whom four besides himself are now living. They 
 are: Hiram G., living in Highlands, a surburb of 
 Denver; John, who lives four miles north of Den- 
 ver; Charles H. , of Boulder; and Elvira, wife of 
 Rudolph A. Leimer, general agent for the Pacific 
 Express Company, at Denver. 
 
 Joseph Wolff, grandfather of our subject, was 
 born in Pennsylvania and when quite young en- 
 listed and served in the war of 1812. Hiram 
 and Hannah Hedges, the maternal grandparents 
 of our subject, were born in Virginia. John B. 
 Wolff was a native of Virginia and in early life 
 studied dentistry, medicine and law. When his 
 son, Albert, was two years of age he returned to 
 the Old Dominion from Ohio and settled in 
 Wheeling, where he operated the first steam 
 printing press ever run in Wheeling. In 1858 he 
 removed with his family to Kansas, where he 
 had previously sought a suitable location. How- 
 ever, in 1 859, when the gold fever broke out in 
 Colorado, he joined the throng of emigrants that 
 
 crossed the plains to the mountain regions of the 
 west. Some months later he returned to Kansas 
 and made final arrangements to move to Denver, 
 where he settled in the spring of i860. His 
 family did not join him here until two years 
 later. With the ej'e of a keen observer he saw 
 that gardening would prove profitable and decided 
 to embark in the business. Settling two miles 
 west of our subject's present location, he spent 
 two years there and then purchased the property 
 now owned by Albert. In the years that followed 
 he accumulated much valuable property and at 
 the time of his death was well-to-do. Politically 
 a stanch Republican, he took a leading part in 
 the shaping of local political affairs wherever he 
 made his home, and was one of the organizers of 
 the party during the '50s. While in Virginia he 
 stumped the state against old Governor Wise. 
 He was also prominent in the anti-slavery fight 
 in Kansas in 1857. 
 
 At the time of his death, Mr. Wolff was en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C. 
 He was a man of broad learning and was recog- 
 nized as one of the best-informed men of his 
 time. As he was proficient in law, so too he was 
 earnest in religious work, and for years officiated 
 as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 In his circuit riding, in early days, he rode over 
 the prairies where Chicago now stands; but the 
 few log huts and prairie grass that grew five feet 
 tall gave no promise of the mighty city that was 
 to be. 
 
 In the public schools of his home neighbor- 
 hood, which were inferior in all respects to those 
 of the present day, the subject of this sketch re- 
 ceived his education. When his father left the 
 home farm in 1868, he and his older brother took 
 charge of the place, which they purchased the 
 following year, and for eleven years they carried 
 on the homestead in partnership. On dividing 
 their interests, the brother took the property in 
 Highlands and our subject retained the home 
 farm. The latter, in 1894, built a beautiful and 
 commodious residence, which, with its substan- 
 tial farm buildings and neat grounds, makes one 
 of the most attractive homes of the county. 
 
 February 7, 1878, Mr. Wolff married Mrs. 
 Mary E. (Royce) King, daughter of Phineas W. 
 Royce and a native of Ohio. Her father was born 
 in New York, and for some years resided in Ohio, 
 whence in 1864 he came to Colorado. Mr. and 
 
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 Mrs. Wolff are the parents of two children: Ches- 
 ter A. , who is attending the high school in his 
 home neighborhood; and Percy H., a bright boy 
 of nine years. 
 
 The political aflfiliations of Mr. WoliF are with 
 no especial party, for he supports the men and 
 measures he believes to be best adapted to pro- 
 mote the welfare of the people. In religion he is 
 of the Presbyterian faith, but in the absence of a 
 church of that denomination in the neighbor- 
 hood, he and his family attend the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He is identified with the 
 Clear Creek Valley Grange, of which he has 
 been master for nineteen years. 
 
 A. HAGGOTT, the highly esteemed su- 
 perintendent of the Idaho Springs schools, 
 is a fine scholar, and still devotes a great 
 share of his time to self-improvement in that line. 
 He came to this state in 1887, when a young 
 man, and has pushed his way rapidly to the front 
 of public educators, winning a deservedly popu- 
 lar place in the public esteem. He is a native of 
 Ohio, born in Sidney, that state. May 18, 1864. 
 His parents were Benjamin P. and Margaret 
 (Gamble) Haggott. The first of the name in 
 this country came from England and settled with 
 the Salem Colony, in that town, in 1836, and 
 some of them were killed in the colonial and In- 
 dian wars. The great- grandfather, William Hag- 
 gott, was born in Andover, Mass., was a soldier 
 of the Revolution, and lost his life in the battle 
 of Bunker Hill. The grandfather, also William, 
 was born in the same town and moved to Con- 
 way, N. H. He was major in a New Hampshire 
 regiment, anfi after his term expired, in 1814, he 
 took his family to Ohio, first to Cincinnati, and 
 later to Hamilton, Butler County, that state, 
 where he died at the age of sixty-three years. 
 He married a Miss Pearl, whose father fought in 
 the Revolution and was with Arnold on his ex- 
 pedition to Quebec. He died in New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Benjamin P. Haggott was born in Conway, 
 N. H., and went with his father to Ohio, where 
 he lived until his death, in 1881. During the 
 Civil war he served as hospital steward of the 
 Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry. He married Mar- 
 garet Gamble, of Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, 
 a daughter of Samuel Gamble, who came from 
 
 Pennsylvania to Ohio in his early days, and 
 fought in the war of 18 12. Her grandfather was 
 a Revolutionary soldier. Her mother was a 
 member of the Gordon family who moved from 
 Virginia to Kentucky in early times and later 
 went to Ohio; her grandfather Gordon was also a 
 soldier of the Revolution. She died in 1876 in 
 Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Haggott was elected superintendent of the 
 schools of Idaho Springs in 1890, and he has 
 since been retained in the position. His work 
 here has been of the most satisfactory character, 
 and he has raised the standard of the schools, 
 making them most thorough. He established the 
 high school with a four years' course, and held 
 his fourth annual commencement in 1898. 
 
 December 29, 1897, he married Miss Lou 
 Willie Cecil, of Columbia, Tenn., whose family 
 were originally from Cecil County, Md. He is 
 president of the Clear Creek Valley Teachers' 
 Association, and a member of both the State and 
 National Educational Associations. That he is 
 a j'oung man of great energy and industry is 
 evidenced by the fact that he worked his way 
 through college, and studied law while teaching, 
 so mastering the subject that he was admitted to 
 the bar in Denver June 15, 1892. However, he 
 devotes his entire time to educational work, and 
 promises to become one of the most prominent 
 educators in the state. 
 
 i yiARQUIS VICTOR, of Sedalia, Douglas 
 Y County, was born in northern France, near 
 (g Avesnes, December 14, 1839, ^ son of 
 Francis Dennis and Rosine (Mercier) Victor, the 
 former of whom was an engraver and also for 
 years served as a soldier in the French army. 
 When our subject was a boy of nine j'ears he ran 
 away from home and sailed before the mast, going 
 to Jersey Island and thence crossing the ocean to 
 Newfoundland, Boston, and other West Atlantic 
 ports. Returning to Europe, he sailed through 
 the Mediterranean to Naples, from there to the 
 island of Madagascar on the east coast of Africa, 
 thence to London and finally back to Jersey Isl- 
 and. Upon receiving his pay he started home, 
 but the absence of three years and his seafaring 
 life had so changed him that his father, whom he 
 met on the road near his old home, failed to rec- 
 ognize him. Without disclosing his identity, he 
 
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 proceeded to Belgium, and there began to learn 
 the shoemaker's trade, but his boss being a man 
 of very low character, he left him and began to 
 learn the blacksmith's trade with another man. 
 He remained for three years as an apprentice, 
 during which time he received only eighty cents 
 a month until the last year, when he was paid 
 about sixty cents a day. 
 
 When about seventeen years of age Mr. Victor 
 began to work as a journeyman. After two years 
 he concluded to go home and see his parents. 
 This time, as before, his father failed to recog- 
 nize him, but his mother, after a few minutes' 
 conversation, knew him, in spite of all changes. 
 For three days he enjoyed a visit with old friends, 
 then returned to Belgium, but after a few months 
 he left and went to London, from there to Jersey 
 Island, and finally crossed the Atlantic to New 
 Brunswick, thence to Quebec, where he worked 
 at his trade for a year or more. On coming to 
 the United States in 1861 he followed his trade in 
 New Hampshire. While there he enlisted in 
 Company H, Fifth New Hampshire Infantry, and 
 served for nine months, afterward joining the 
 Sixteenth Regular Infantry and serving three 
 years. He participated in many battles and had 
 many narrow escapes. On one occasion, iu a 
 battle, his clothing was shot through, but not a 
 single bullet penetrated his flesh. At another 
 time he was captured by the Confederates, but 
 soon succeeded in effecting his escape. For 
 meritorious service he was promoted to be cor- 
 poral. He was honorably discharged at the ex- 
 piration of his time. 
 
 Upon the close of the war Mr. Victor returned 
 to New Hampshire, but soon came west to 
 Chicago, thence to Grand Haven, Mich., and in 
 1867 migrated to Colorado, where he worked on 
 a railroad and also in a sawmill. In 1874 he 
 settled in Sedalia, where, with only a few tools, 
 he opened a blacksmith's shop. From that small 
 beginning he worked up a large and profitable 
 trade. He now owns the finest brick house in 
 Sedalia and also has a ranch of seven hundred 
 acres, which he secured as a soldiers' homestead 
 and by pre-emption in part, and the remainder 
 by purchase. His residence was bought in 1876 
 and is substantial and commodious. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Victor married Miss Marjorie 
 Monteith, who died in 1892, leaving no children. 
 November i, 1894, he married Miss Joanna Fail- 
 
 ing, daughter of Henry and Abigail (Casey) 
 Failing. She was born in Nemaha City, Neb., 
 but was brought to Colorado at five years of age, 
 and has since resided in Douglas County. 
 
 For years Mr. Victor voted the Democratic 
 ticket, but in 1896 he gave his support to William 
 McKinley for president. For twenty-two years 
 he served as a school director, but, other than 
 that, he has refused official positions. He was 
 reared in the Catholic faith, but his wife is a 
 Methodist, and they support that denomination. 
 Fraternally he is connected with J. G. Blount 
 Post No. 65, G. A. R. , in which he is past com- 
 mander, and is also aide-de-camp in the depart- 
 ment of Colorado and Wyoming. 
 
 HENRY H. GANDY. The gentleman whose 
 name stands at the head of this sketch came 
 to Douglas County, Colo., in 1884, and is 
 now residing on a fine homestead consisting of 
 three hundred and sixty acres, located on section 
 23, township ID, range 66 west, six miles east 
 from the town of Greenland. He was born in 
 Hunt County, Tex., January 6, i860, and is a son 
 of Sheppard Miles and Drusilla (Hulse) Gandy. 
 
 Henry H. Gaudy was six years of age when 
 his parents moved to Cherokee County, Kan., 
 and there he worked on his father's farm until 
 1883; his parents both died in that county and he 
 was nine years of age when his mother passed 
 from this life. He is one of a family of ten chil- 
 dred, seven sons and three daughters, seven of 
 whom are now living. As his father was poor, 
 our subject at the age of twelve years was com- 
 pelled to battle for himself; he worked out and 
 received a fair salary, and, as most do, he failed to 
 lay aside a part of his earnings. He rented a 
 small piece of land in Cherokee County and 
 followed farming until 1883, when he drove to 
 Pueblo, Colo. He and his family departed from 
 Cherokee County June 5, and arrived at Pueblo 
 July 6; camping along the road-side made their 
 journey somewhat longer, but nevertheless the 
 more enjoyable. 
 
 Their stay in Pueblo was very brief, as they 
 soon left for Manitou, where our subject worked 
 at grading a road; the following summer and fall 
 were spent working at various jobs at the Divide, 
 and his family lived in the wagon a number of 
 months and later they moved to a log cabin . Up 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to the month of January our subject worked at 
 digging potatoes, but in that mouth he returned 
 to Manitou, and later went to Oak Creek, where 
 he visited an old friend. In the spring of 1884 
 he rented a farm in Douglas County, but soon 
 afterward bought the place, which consisted of 
 one hundred and sixty acres; by his successful 
 methods of farming, he succeeded in accumulating 
 enough funds with which to purchase more land, 
 and is now the proprietor of three hundred and 
 sixty acres. He is regarded as one of the sub- 
 stantial farmers of Douglas County, and enjoys 
 the respect and good will of his neighbors and 
 acquaintances. 
 
 Mr. Gaudy was joined in marriage January 6, 
 1878, at Joplin, Mo., with Miss Mary A. Smith, 
 a native of the state of Kansas. A family of six 
 children was the result of this happy union, 
 namely: Luther K., born in Cherokee County, 
 Kan., March 12, 1883; Lula E., born in Doug- 
 las County, Colo., August 19, 1885; Lillie B., 
 born October 29, 1888; L,ee Noah, born March 
 26, 1893; Lydia Mary, born May 8, 1895; and 
 Lena C, born June 2, 1897. ^^^ subject is an 
 ardent Republican and cast his first vote for 
 James G. Blaine in 1884. 
 
 0AMUEL ARMSTRONG, a pioneer of Colo- 
 /\ rado, left Illinois for the west April 14, 1866, 
 Q) making the long trip across the plains with 
 a team of mules, and arriving in Denver June 9. 
 Soon after he reached that city he embarked in 
 freighting from Cheyenne to Denver and the 
 mountains, which he continued up to 1871. He 
 then came to his present place, two and one-half 
 miles east of Longmont, in Weld County, where 
 he took up eighty acres of land and began the life 
 of a farmer. He has since given his time to the 
 cultivation of the place, upon which he raises 
 the usual farm products common to this locality. 
 The son of William and Barbara (Pitman) 
 Armstrong, our subject was born in Bedford 
 County, Pa., November 9, 1832. He was one of 
 eight children, all of whom are deceased except 
 himself and a sister, Henrietta, wife of Seymour 
 Knapp, of Garden Plains, 111. His father, who 
 was a native of Pennsylvania, grew to manhood 
 there, engaged in farming, and made that state 
 his home until death. Samuel was reared on a 
 farm and received common-school advantages. 
 
 In 1849 he came west as far as Whiteside County, 
 111., where for some years he worked as a farm 
 hand. Afterward he rented land and farmed for 
 himself. On the breaking out of the war his 
 sympathies were at once enlisted on the side of 
 the Union. August 9, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany F, Ninety-third Illinois Infantry, and took 
 part in the battle of Champion Hill and the siege 
 of Vicksburg. After the surrender of the latter 
 city he was taken ill and sent north, where he 
 remained until the close of the war, and was 
 mustered out of the service at Detroit, Mich., 
 July 5, 1865. 
 
 Returning to Illinois on his discharge from the 
 army, Mr. Armstrong spent the winter of 1865-66 
 there, and in the spring of 1866 came to Colo- 
 rado, where he has since made his home. As a 
 farmer he is energetic and capable, with a deter- 
 mination to succeed no matter what obstacles 
 stand in his path; as a citizen he favors meas- 
 ures for the benefit of the people and the advance- 
 ment of local interests; as a friend he is accom- 
 modating and helpful. In political matters he 
 advocates Republican principles and supports this 
 belief by his vote at elections. 
 
 Mr. Armstrong has been twice married; first, 
 in 1858, to Sarah E. Davis, of Albany, 111., and 
 to them one child was born. Belle, now the wife 
 of Dr. Sammis, of Chicago. In 1878 he married 
 as his second wife, Mrs. J^emima Maddux, who 
 was born in Ohio, but has been a resident of 
 Colorado since 1866. By her first marriage, 
 which united her with Peter Maddux, she is the 
 mother of six children now living, namely: James, 
 of Alamosa; Catherine, wife of J. Harrison Kent, 
 of Clinton, Mo. ; John S., ofLeadville; Marj'A., 
 wife of James Mason, of Larimer County; 
 Maria S., wife of John Hodgson, of Niles, Mich.; 
 and I. Oliver, of Delta, Colo. 
 
 (tjAMUEL B. SMITH, of Castle Rock, Doug- 
 2\ las County, was born in Pomeroy, Meigs 
 VS^ County, Ohio, September 21, 1849, and is a 
 son of Isaac Barker and Susan (Stevens) Smith. 
 His father, also a native of that county, spent his 
 entire life upon a farm there. The family con- 
 sisted of seven children, six of whom are still 
 living, Samuel being the youngest of these. He 
 was so young when his mother died that he has 
 only a faint, dim remembrance of her, and when 
 
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 he was ten death deprived him of a father's care. 
 Afterward he was taken care of by his older 
 brothers and sisters. By working during the 
 summer months he was enabled to pay his tuition 
 in a select school, which he attended for two 
 winters. 
 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Smith became an apprentice to 
 the blacksmith's trade in Pomeroy, at which he 
 worked for three years, during the first year re- 
 ceiving his board only, but for the next two years 
 receiving $16 a month and his board. In 1876 
 he went to Marshall County, Iowa, where he 
 secured employment upon a farm, but after a year 
 began to work at his trade in Durant, that state. 
 In 1878 he opened a shop of his own, but a year 
 later moved to Colorado, settling in Denver, 
 where his first work was at chopping wood. 
 Later he worked at his trade in Castle Rock, 
 where, in January, 1881, he bought his present 
 shop. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Smith, July 12, 1881, 
 united him with Mi.ss Nellie Sellars, of Castle 
 Rock, but a native of Jefferson County, Colo., 
 and a daughter of John C. and Nancy (Wiggins) 
 Sellars, now living in Colorado Springs. When 
 she was only two weeks old her parents moved to 
 Douglas County, and here she has since resided. 
 Her five children are: Nora, Dollie, Etta, Samuel 
 Aaron and Hugh Bernice. 
 
 Since casting his first vote for U. S. Grant in 
 1872, Mr. Smith has always supported Repub- 
 lican principles. He served as city marshal and 
 was trustee from 1883 to 1894, after which, for 
 two years, he held the ofiice of mayor. He is 
 now master workman of Castle Rock Lodge No. 
 27, A. O. U. W. 
 
 ITEPHEN BUTLER is manager of • the 
 Farmers' Mill and Elevator Company, of 
 Longmont, which plant is the largest and 
 finest one of the kind in northern Colorado. He 
 is a natural mechanic and his genius in fitting 
 up and managing machinery makes him just the 
 one for the position he occupies. The large and 
 growing business transacted by this company is 
 something remarkable, and for some time it has 
 been necessary to run the mill night and day, in 
 order to meet the demand for its products. Mr. 
 Butler is a director in the company and is 
 financially interested in the Longmont Reduction 
 Works, as well. He is a silver Democrat, and 
 
 was one of the trustees of this city from the 
 spring of 1894 to the spring of 1898, or for two 
 terms. 
 
 The Butlers were originally English, and set- 
 tled in Virginia in colonial times. The grandfa- 
 ther of our subject was John Butler, born near 
 Richmond, and a planter in later life. In 1801 
 he settled in Knox County, Ohio, and foiuided 
 the town of Mount Vernon, where he died at 
 the age of eighty-seven. He was a farmer and 
 stock-raiser in the Buckeye state. His eldest 
 son, Stephen, was a soldier in the war of 18 12. 
 Jesse Butler, father of our subject, was born in 
 Ohio in 1807 and was a farmer, also. He took 
 up his abode in Holmes County in 1848 and sub- 
 sequently lived in Allen County, Ohio. In 1874 
 he went to Iowa, with his son Stephen, and died 
 in the vicinity of Creston, about two years later. 
 His wife was a Miss Eliza Caddington in her 
 girlhood. She was born in Genesee County, 
 N. Y., and died in Iowa when in her seventy- 
 fourth year. Three of their sons were in the 
 Union army during the Civil war, David in the 
 Thirty-fourth Ohio Infantry, Lewis in the First 
 Ohio Cavalry and John in the Eighty-fourth 
 Ohio Infantry. David died in the Buckeye state; 
 Lewis is a resident of Indianapolis and John lives 
 in Missouri. Henry, the third son, is now in 
 Nebraska. Simon was accidentally killed by the 
 upsetting of a wagon, which caused a log to fall 
 upon him. Thomas Jefferson lives in Longmont. 
 Helen, the only daughter, is a Mrs. Munch, of 
 Iowa. 
 
 Stephen Butler was born in the neighborhood 
 of Millersburg, Ohio, November 11, 1832, and 
 as he was the oldest child he was of great aid to 
 his father in the work of the farm and had but 
 meager school advantages. When he was twen- 
 ty-two he started out to make his living inde- 
 pendently and during the next score of years he 
 cleared and improved two farms. He also worked 
 at the carpenter's trade, which he picked up by 
 his own wit, and soon could handle tools with the 
 best. In 1874 he went to Creston, Iowa, having 
 traded his property for an improved farm. He 
 was quite successful in his new undertaking and 
 in 1879 turned his attention to carpentering in 
 Oberlin, Kan. 
 
 July 25, 1881, Mr. Butler came to Colorado, 
 and, locating upon Left Hand Creek, proceeded 
 to cultivate a farm in Boulder County. A por- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tion of the time he took contracts for building in 
 IvOngmont, and assisted in the construction of the 
 opera house here. He also erected several resi- 
 dences in Boulder and in 1886 was one of the 
 incorporators of the Farmers' Mill and Elevator 
 Company. He superintended the con.struction 
 of the mill and when it was finished was made 
 chief engineer, and had charge of it for seven 
 years. March 13, 1893, he was given the posi- 
 tion of manager and has since efficiently acted in 
 that office. He takes just pride in the mill, 
 which is equipped with full roller process, thir- 
 teen stands rolls, two boilers, of one hundred 
 and twenty-five horse-power each, and all neces- 
 sary modern machinery. The capacity of the 
 elevator is about one hundred and twenty-five 
 thousand bushels, and in the storage room of the 
 mill twenty thousand sacks of grain are kept on 
 hand, for the mill has a capacity of eight 
 hundred sacks per day, as it was materially 
 enlarged in July, i8g8. A switch connects the 
 plant with the Denver, Gulf and Burlington 
 & Missouri River Railways, and about fifty 
 carloads are shipped each month from the mill 
 and elevator. Colorado wheat is used almost 
 exclusively and the celebrated brand "Pride of 
 the Rockies" originated here and, needless to 
 say, is the flour of the highest reputation in the 
 state. Other first-grade brands manufactured 
 here are "Pride of Longmont" and "Free Coin- 
 age," while next in quality are "Pride of the 
 Mountains" and "Perfected." In 1898 the com- 
 pany purchased a mill at Canfield, Boulder 
 County, refitted it, and are now running it suc- 
 cessfully. Various kinds of feed and chops are 
 made in these mills and find ready sale. A large 
 quantity of flour is sold to freighters across the 
 mountains, and thus mining camps all through 
 this section are supplied with the best products 
 of the land. Much of the credit of this enter- 
 prise is certainly due to Mr. Butler, who is faith- 
 fulness itself in looking after the company's in- 
 terests. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Butler was with an 
 Ohio lady, Miss Mary J. Taylor, daughter of 
 John Taylor, a farmer of Knox County, Ohio. 
 Mrs. Butler died in Longmont, in June, 1893, 
 leaving four children: Willis, a farmer; Mrs. 
 Alice Wheeling, of Windsor, Colo. ; Mrs. May 
 Jennings, of Jennings, Kan.; and Elmer, who is 
 second miller in the mill with which his father is 
 
 connected. The lady who now bears the name 
 of our subject was formerly Miss Rosalia Walker, 
 a native of Wisconsin, and who has lived in this 
 state since 1881. Mr. Butler is past officer of 
 St. Vrain Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M.; like- 
 wise of the chapter, and is a Knight Templar and 
 member of the Order of the Eastern Star. He 
 belongs to the Christian Church. 
 
 (TOHN W. WHO WELL is the owner of four 
 I hundred and eighty acres, all under cultiva- 
 (2/ tion, and lying in Weld County, near Ber- 
 thoud. He is also a stockholder in the Hills- 
 boro Irrigating Canal Company, of which he is 
 the present treasurer; holds stock in the Home 
 Supply ditch and reservoir, and is, besides, a 
 stockholder in the Farmers' roller mill at Ber- 
 thoud. 
 
 Near Boston, in the village of Melrose, Mass., 
 the subject of this sketch was born in 1865. His 
 father, John Whowell, who was a native of Eng- 
 land, settled in Melrose, where for nearly forty 
 years he engaged in building and contracting. A 
 citizen of influence, he was well known in the 
 village where for so long he made his home. He 
 was a Republican and took an active part in local 
 party affairs. His death occurred when he was 
 sixty-three years of age. He had married Sarah 
 Rankin, whose birth occUrred on the border of 
 England and Scotland, and who died in Lynn, 
 Mass. , at the age of eighty years. Of their three 
 children, our subject was the only son. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Melrose and 
 Boston, and spent his boyhood years in the home 
 of his parents. Learning the cabinet-maker's 
 trade he followed it for two years in his home 
 neighborhood. From there, in 1881, he came to 
 Colorado, settling at Highland Lake, near Long- 
 mont, where he spent three years on a farm. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Whowell bought his present 
 homestead in the Little Thompson Valley, and 
 here he has since resided, engaged in stock-rais- 
 ing and general farming. The position of influ- 
 ence which he has attained in the community 
 proves him to be a man of worth and ability, 
 while his success as a farmer .shows that he pos- 
 sesses good judgment and industrious, econom- 
 ical habits. In 1887 he married Miss Annie 
 Lynn, of Indiana (but born near Marietta, Wash- 
 ington County, Ohio), and by her has one son, 
 
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 Harry O. In religion he is of the Episcopalian 
 faith. Fraternally he is connected with Berthoud 
 Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M., in which he has 
 passed the chairs, and in politics he is a silver 
 Republican. 
 
 ROBERT O. ROBERTS, who has resided in 
 Colorado since 1874, and is a successful 
 stockman in Livermore Park, was born in 
 Utica, N. Y., January 8, 1829. His father, Owen 
 Roberts, was born in Bala, Merionethshire, North 
 Wales, on the estate Bwlch Tyno, where his an- 
 cestors had resided for many generations. He 
 was a son of Robert Ellis, and in accordance with 
 a custom followed in his part of the country, he 
 took as his surname the Christian name of his 
 father. When about twenty years of age he em- 
 igrated to America and settled at Whitesboro, 
 N. Y., but after a time removed to Utica, where 
 he followed the stone-cutter's trade. When quite 
 advanced in years he came west to Colorado and 
 here he died, at the age of ninety. His wife was 
 Catherine Jones, daughter of John Jones, who was 
 born in North Wales, and settled upon a farm 
 in Oneida County, N. Y., dying there at seventy- 
 five years. She was born near Utica, and died 
 in that city when forty-seven years of age. Of 
 her ten children nine are living, our subject be- 
 ing third in order of birth. The others are: Mrs. 
 Mary Halligan, of Larimer County; John, who 
 is living in Box Elder, this county; Mrs. Ehza- 
 beth Birge, of Clinton, N. Y. ; Evan, of Lincoln, 
 Neb. ; Owen, who resides in Denver, Colo. ; Sarah, 
 Mrs. Dean, whose home is near Utica, N. Y.; 
 Mrs. Catherine Barker, of Box Elder; and Ellis, 
 who lives in the same place as his sister Cathe- 
 rine and his brother John. 
 
 In the public schools of Oneida County the 
 subject of this sketch received his education. At 
 seventeen years he was apprenticed to the furni- 
 ture business, and learned how to varnish, polish, 
 paint and upholster furniture. After a short 
 time in Waterville, N. Y., and'Muskegon, Mich., 
 he went to Chicago, where he was employed from 
 1870 to 1874. On the 7th of February, 1874, he 
 arrived in Greeley, Colo., and during the same 
 year he located at Livermore Park, entering the 
 one hundred and sixty acres on which he later 
 built the Forks hotel, the first in Livermore. 
 This he conducted for seven years, then sold it. 
 Afterward he located one hundred and sixty acres 
 
 and homesteaded one hundred and twenty acres, 
 on North Fork of the Cache la Poudre, from 
 which he has private ditches running through 
 his land. At once after coming to this state he 
 embarked in the cattle business, which he has 
 since followed, raising on his place large quanti- 
 ties of alfalfa to be used for feed. He makes a 
 specialty of raising Herefords, and has as many 
 as one hundred and fifty head of that breed. His 
 ranch is improved with orchards and groves, and 
 different varieties of fruits are successfully grown . 
 In addition to this property, he owns real estate 
 in Fort Collins, on Sherwood street, and they 
 have recently moved to the city to reside. 
 
 In Watertown, N. Y., Mr. Roberts married 
 Miss Mary Tuttle, who was born in that place, 
 her father, Theodore Tuttle, having removed 
 there from Connecticut. The five children of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are as follows: Charles E., 
 a traveling salesman, with headquarters in Fort 
 Collins; George F. , who is interested with his 
 father in the cattle business at Livermore; Ernest 
 W., who also assists his father in the manage- 
 ment of the ranch; Eva May, wife of Herbert 
 Swan, of Victor, Colo.; and Grace, at home. 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are stanch believers 
 in free silver and free trade; they are members of 
 the Democratic party. He assisted in the organ- 
 ization of the first school in his district in Liver- 
 more, and has always aided educational interests. 
 He and his sons are members of the Larimer 
 County Stock Growers' Protective Association, 
 in which his son Ernest holds the office of sec- 
 retary. 
 
 EAPT. WILLIAM M. POST, who spent 
 thirty-three years on the sea and has resided 
 in Colorado since June, 1870, making his 
 home in Fort Collins, was born in Essex, Mid- 
 dlesex County, Conn., a son of Russell and 
 Jemima (Pelton) Post, both natives of Connecti- 
 cut. The former, who was a son of David Post, 
 served in the war of 1812 and followed for an 
 occupation farm pursuits in Connecticut, dying 
 in Essex at the age of ninety-nine years. He was 
 a descendant of a Holland-Dutch family that 
 settled with Rev. Mr. Hooper's colony at Say- 
 brook, Conn. 
 
 At the age of thirteen our subject went to sea 
 as cabin boy on the packet line to Mobile. He 
 sailed before the mast from 1836 to 1840 between 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 New York City and Mobile, receiving promotion 
 to second and later to first mate. In 1846 he was 
 made master of a schooner, in which capacity he 
 continued until he left the sea in 1869. He made 
 a number of trips to Europe. From 1861 to 1865 
 he was master in the United States navy, on the 
 store ship "Relief," and the gunboat "Sonoma," 
 in the North Atlantic and Flying squadron, being 
 for nine months in the West Indies after priva- 
 teers. He secured two prizes, one the "Virginia," 
 which he took to New York, and the other the 
 steamer "Ida," which he brought from the 
 coast of Georgia. 
 
 Resigning from the government service in 1864, 
 Captain Post engaged in the West India trade 
 and made nine voyages to the island of Porto 
 Rico. At one time, while visiting his sister in 
 Connecticut, he saved her house from being 
 burned, but the effort he made in so doing caused 
 him to be seriously burned, and, by a miracle 
 only, his left hand was saved. For some time 
 afterward he was ill, and for that reason was un- 
 able to command his brig, "John R. Plater," on 
 one of its voyages. Another captain was .secured 
 in his place, but the ship was wrecked in a hurri- 
 cane and went to pieces on the island Eleuthera, 
 the crew being fortunately rescued. 
 
 On retiring from his seafaring life. Captain 
 Post came to Colorado and bought a homestead 
 ten miles west of Fort Collins, near Bellevue and 
 improved the place, bringing the land under 
 irrigation and engaging in raising alfalfa and 
 cattle. He has also been interested in the real- 
 estate and loan business and has loaned money 
 for eastern parties, some of whom he has never 
 seen, but who have the fullest confidence in his 
 judgment. In 1880 he settled in Fort Collins, 
 and three years later was elected alderman when 
 the town was made a city of the second class. A 
 lifelong Republican, he took the side of the silver 
 branch of the party during the campaign of 1896, 
 holding the opinion that a standard of bimetallism 
 should be established. 
 
 In Connecticut, May 27, 1847, Captain Post 
 married Miss Almena T. Collins, who died in 
 that state April 5, 1862. Afterward he was 
 married, in East Haddam, Conn., March 30, 1863, 
 to Miss Emeline E. Jones, who was born in that 
 place, a daughter of A. P. and Emeline (Emmons) 
 Jones, who lived on a farm near East Haddam; 
 Samuel Emmons, her grandfather, enlisted in the 
 
 Revolutionary war when fourteen years of age, 
 and later was a major of the militia. She is a 
 descendant of a family that settled in New Haven 
 July 10, 1639, the original progenitor being 
 Thomas Jones, who for years served as marshal 
 of the plantation in Guilford, Conn., then re- 
 turned to England, where he died. His son, 
 Samuel, became very wealthy and was the legatee 
 of the Indian chief, Uncas. At his death each of 
 his sons inherited over one thousand acres. One 
 of these sons, Samuel, had seven children, one of 
 them being Daniel, the next progenitor of the 
 family of Mrs. Post. 
 
 Captain and Mrs. Post have a son and daugh- 
 ter. The former, Frederick Edward Post, was 
 educated in the State Agricultural College, and 
 now has a photographic studio on the corner of 
 Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, Denver, where he 
 is known as a successful artist, with a special 
 talent for taking babies' pictures. He is a 
 man of strong character, fond of his chosen occu- 
 pation and winning in it a reputation that he de- 
 serves. The daughter, Lillian Ellen, who re- 
 ceived her education in the State Agricultural 
 College, married H. H. Grifiin, superintendent 
 of the Rocky Ford Experimental Station of the 
 Agricultural College. 
 
 (Tames W. WOODRO'W, mayor of Empire. 
 I Clear Creek County, was the only man elected 
 C2/ on the People's ticket in the spring of 1898, 
 a fact which attests his great popularity among 
 his fellow-townsmen. He is a young man of su- 
 perior business talent and unusually extensive ex- 
 perience for one of his years, and by travel and 
 education has become broad-minded, liberal and 
 public-spirited. He graduated from Princeton 
 College in 1886 with the degree of civil engineer, 
 after a four years' course of training, and is now 
 an honored member of the American Institute of 
 Mining Engineers and of the Colorado Mining 
 Association. In May, 1896, he came to Empire 
 to take charge of the Conqueror Gold Mining and 
 Milling Company's plant, as manager and vice- 
 president of the concern. He acted in those ca- 
 pacities up to 1898, when he was made secretary 
 and general manager of the company. The gen- 
 eral offices of the same are in the Equitable build- 
 ing, in Denver, and E. F. Welles is president of 
 the company, which is capitalized at $600,000. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 The Conqueror group of mines includes seventy - 
 two patented acres, with shafts and tunnels, and 
 four veins of ore crossed by the tunnels. A first- 
 class mill and concentrator with a capacity of 
 fifty tons, situated about two miles north of Em- 
 pire, was erected by the company, which thus 
 handles its own ores. 
 
 The Woodiow family can be traced back to the 
 eleventh century, the progenitor of the same hav- 
 ing accompanied William the Conqueror from 
 Normandy. The name at that time was spelled 
 Wodrow. The great-great-grandfather of our 
 subject, Rev. Robert Woodrow, a native of Scot- 
 land, was the leading historian of the Presbyter- 
 ian church. James Woodrow, uncle of our sub- 
 ject, was appointed to the scientific congress in 
 Russia, and is now president of the University of 
 South Carolina, and Dr. Woodrow Wilson, now 
 of Princeton, is a cousin. The grandfather, 
 Thomas Woodrow, D. D., was born in Glasgow, 
 Scotland, and graduated from the University of 
 Edinborough. Coming to America, he was pas- 
 tor of a Presbyterian Church in Rockford, Canada, 
 later preached in Chillicothe, Ohio, for years, and 
 died in Columbus at the ripe age of eighty-four 
 years. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Thomas and 
 Helen (Sill) Woodrow, the former born in Car- 
 lisle, England, in 1825, and the latter in Chilli- 
 cothe, Ohio, in 1843. The father graduated from 
 the University of Glasgow, and accompanied his 
 parents to this country. Going to Chillicothe, 
 he became one of its pioneer merchants, and was 
 interested in the construction of the old Dayton 
 & Southeastern Railroad. He died in 1886, aged 
 sixty-two years. His wife was the daughter of 
 Joseph Sill, an attorney, and one of the first 
 settlers of Chillicothe. He lived to the extreme 
 age of ninety-one. His family, which had a crest 
 andcoat-of-arms,wasone of the oldest in England, 
 as it dates back to 1323. In 1637, Capt. John 
 Sill, the founder of the family on these shores, 
 came to Massachusetts with his wife and settled 
 in Newtown, later Cambridge. Some of the Sills 
 were active participants in King Philip's war 
 and in the Revolution there were no less than 
 nineteen of the name who served honorably in 
 defense of the rights of the colonies, several of 
 the number having ranks of lieutenant-colonel, 
 major, etc. The grandfather of our subject's 
 mother, Rev. Richard Sill, was a minister, and 
 
 his brother Zachariah was a hero of Dorchester 
 Heights, in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Helen 
 Woodrow is now living in Ann Arbor, Mich., 
 where her three younger children, Thomas, Helen 
 and Herbert, are students. Thomas will gradu- 
 ate from the University of Michigan in the class 
 of '99, with the degree of Doctor of Laws. The 
 elder sister, Hattie, Mrs. E. F. Welles, resides 
 in Denver. 
 
 James W. Woodrow was born June 26, 1865, 
 and was reared in Chillicothe, Ohio, there receiv- 
 ing his elementary education. Upon finishing 
 his high-school course he entered Princeton in 
 1882. In 1886 he went to Fort Wayne, Ind., 
 and was in the employ of the New York, Chicago 
 & St. Louis Railway, in the engineering de- 
 partment, up to June, 1888. The following months 
 he worked for the Smith Bridge Company, of 
 Toledo, Ohio, and in February, 1889, he went to 
 Venezuela, South America, on a four months' con- 
 tract. There he remained, however, until June, 
 1 89 1, being occupied in locating and constructing 
 railroad lines for a Paris and London Company. 
 The Tehauntepec Railway Company, of Mex- 
 ico, next commanded his services, after which he 
 operated for the Mexican Central, laying out a 
 line from the City of Mexico to Tampico. Two 
 years and a-halfhe was "engineer of maintenance 
 of way' ' for the Mexican Northern Railroad. In 
 the spring of 1895 he was employed by the Kan- 
 sas City Consolidated Smelting and Refining Com- 
 pany at Sierra Mojada, Mexico, but he continued 
 there only until the close of the year, then com- 
 ing to Colorado. 
 
 August 4, 1897, Mr. Woodrow married in Chil- 
 icothe, Ohio, Miss Nancy Mann Waddle, whose 
 name is familiar in all parts of this country as 
 that of a writer of great ability. For some three 
 years she was a regular Contibutor to the Ladies' 
 Home /ournal, later on the editorial staff of the 
 Daily News, of Chillicothe, owned by her brother, 
 C. C. Waddle. She is a regular contributor to 
 the leading magazines and papers of the day, such 
 as the New York Herald, Harper' s, Mimsey' s and 
 the Illustrated American. Her parents. Dr. Will- 
 iam and Jane S. (McCoy) Waddle, were both na- 
 tives of Chillicothe. The doctor, who died in 
 1895, at the age of eighty-five years, was a grad- 
 uate of Jefferson Medical College, and was en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession in his home 
 city for half a century. For many years he was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 president of the Ohio state board of examining 
 physicians, and was a director in numerous state 
 public institutions. His father, John Waddle, 
 was a farmer and merchant and one of the pio- 
 neers of Chillicothe. Grandfather John McCoy, 
 born in Carlisle, Pa. , was also a business man and 
 early comer to Chillicothe, where it is said that he 
 cut the first tree and built the first house. Mrs. 
 JaneS. (McCoy) Waddle is still living in her old 
 home. Her great-grandfather. Rev. Samuel Fin- 
 ley, was one of the early presidents of Princeton 
 College. Mrs. Woodrow is next to the youngest 
 of nine children. Two are deceased and the others 
 are: Mrs. Elizabeth Renick, whose husband is 
 president of the First National Bank of Chillicothe; 
 Eleanor; Jane, Mrs. F. M. Guthrie, of Duluth, 
 Minn.; L,ucy; Edward, M. D. , assistant surgeon 
 of the Seventh Ohio Regiment; and Charles, ex- 
 mayor of Chillicothe and editor of the Daily 
 A'fw^ of that city. Mrs. Woodrow is a inember 
 of the society of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution. She is a woman of fine literary abil- 
 ity, a strong and versatile writer, easy and grace- 
 ful in her diction, and fluent in language. 
 
 EHARLES J. NICHOLAS, an experienced 
 mine developer and owner of Georgetown, 
 Clear Creek County, was born in the county 
 of Cornwall, England, January 27, 1858, and is 
 a son of William and Annie (James) Nicholas. 
 The father was a merchant and farmer, whose 
 entire life was passed in that vicinity, and the 
 mother was also born there of Welsh parentage, 
 and died when Charles was but four years old. 
 Eight children were born to them, of whom there 
 are three living, in remote parts of the earth. 
 John is a mine foreman in Bessemer, Mich.; 
 William M. is in Australia, a minister of the 
 Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church; and 
 Charles J., our subject, and the youngest of the 
 family. 
 
 He was reared in Cornwall, educated in the 
 national schools of that place, and later on at- 
 tended the Royal School of Mines. In 1876 he 
 went to Africa, landing at Capetown and at once 
 making his way to Beufort, the we.st extension of 
 the English government's public works, where 
 he had charge of the books in the government 
 office for two years. At the expiration of that 
 time he returned to England by way of Cape- 
 
 town, and afler a few months spent there came 
 to America and located in Eureka County, Nev., 
 in the fall of 1878. He engaged in mining there 
 until the spring of 1880, when he came to George- 
 town and continued the same work. Two years 
 later he became superintendent for Mr. Cole, of 
 Wisconsin, owner of the Montreal mine and 
 other property. He remained with him in that 
 capacity four or five years, and still looks after his 
 business. In 1890 he became identified with the 
 Terrible mines, and later on was made superin- 
 tendent of them. These mines are composed of 
 thirty or forty patent claims, are operated by 
 shafts, tunnels, drifts, etc. , and are the best pro- 
 ducers in this section of the county. He is also 
 interested in other mines in different parts of the 
 county, and in a store in Anaconda which is 
 known as the N. D. Cornish & Company store. 
 He was married in Nevada City, Cal., to Miss 
 Mary E. Rowe, who was born in Tennessee, of 
 English parents. They have one child, Gwen- 
 doline. Mr. Nicholas served as city clerk for 
 one year, and for three j'ears has been a member 
 of the school board, of which he is treasurer. He 
 was postmaster from December 9, 1890, until 
 February 15, 1895, under President Harrison, 
 and during the entire time kept up his supervis- 
 ion of the mines. He is a past officer and ex-rep- 
 resentative of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and was a member of the encampment. In 
 politics he has been a Republican, and is now a 
 .silver Republican. He is a genial, kindly man, 
 and deservedly popular throughout the commu- 
 nity. 
 
 EHARLES L. REED is one of the most reli- 
 able and prominent citizens of Longmont, 
 and has achieved his present standing here 
 entirely by his owu efforts and integrity. Com- 
 ing to the state in 1877, he worked his way 
 from a grocers' clerk to his present honorable 
 position, that of city clerk and superintendent of 
 the water works, and the probity of his public 
 life will admit of no question. 
 
 Mr. Reed was born in Clayton County, Iowa, 
 May 17, 1859, his parents being Josiah D. and 
 Lydia (Post) Reed, and his grandfather, Samuel 
 Reed, formerly of Indiana, but later of Iowa, where 
 he died. Josiah D. Reed was born in Indiana, 
 and became a merchant of Clayton County, Iowa, 
 but afterwards followed farming in Dodge Coun- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1 1 69 
 
 ty, Minn., where he died in 1873. He married 
 Ivydia Post, a native of New York. Her father, 
 Joel Post, came from New York and settled on a 
 farm in Iowa, halfway between Prairie du Chien 
 and Fort Atkinson, Iowa. There he kept a gov- 
 ernment station, which afterwards took the name 
 of Postville, in honor of him, his farm being the 
 present village site. He wife, who was a Miss 
 Stevenson, survived him and continued living in 
 the same place until her death, in 1883, at the 
 advanced age of seventy-six. Mrs. Reed now 
 resides in Longmont. She was the mother of 
 eight children, five of whom, four daughters and 
 one son, grew to adult years. 
 
 Of these Mr. Reed was second in order of birth. 
 When four years of age he was taken by his par- 
 ents to Dodge County, Minn., where he attended 
 public school until he was fourteen. On the death 
 of his father the family returned to Postville. He 
 attended the high school at that place until 1877, 
 when he decided to try his fortune in a more 
 western state, and came to Colorado, locating at 
 first on Ralston Creek, near Golden City, where 
 he spent two years in farming. Not finding this 
 employment congenial to his taste, he moved to 
 Longmont and was clerk in the grocery store of 
 R. M. Hubbard until December, 1883. At that 
 time Mr. Hubbard was appointed postmaster, 
 having the office in his store, and our subject 
 was made his deputy, with such satisfaction to 
 the patrons of the office that he was continued in 
 that capacity under the administration of Dr. J. J. 
 Topliff, from 1886 to 1S90, and succeeded the lat- 
 ter as postmaster, serving until 1894, when he 
 in turn was succeeded by A. C. Oviatt. In 1896 
 when A. C. Oviatt died, his bondsmen selected 
 Mr. Reed to take charge of the office until a new 
 appointment could be made. He was appointed 
 city clerk and superintendent of the water works 
 in April, 1895, by the board of trustees, and was 
 re-appointed each year until 1898, when Long- 
 mont became a city of the second class and the 
 oflSce became elective. He was then elected, 
 without opposition, as city clerk, and the board 
 of aldermen appointed him superintendent of the 
 water works. He has charge of the collection of 
 the water rents and licenses, etc. The works are 
 supplied with over twenty-two miles of mains, 
 two reservoirs and five hundred and seventy- five 
 taps. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Reed married Miss Sallie E. Fer- 
 
 guson, who was born in Missouri. She was a 
 daughter of Horace W. Ferguson, who located in 
 Weld County, this state, in 1871, and was an ex- 
 tensive stock trader. Four children have blessed 
 their home: Louise, Mabel, Charles and Roland. 
 Mr. Reed has always been prominently identified 
 with the Republican party, and is now a strong 
 silver Republican. 
 
 (lOHN F. WITHEROW is a leading farmer 
 I of Boulder Countj^, and is recognized as one 
 C2/ of her most reliable, conscientious and thor- 
 oughly wide-awake men. He was born near 
 Fairfield, Adams County, Pa., September 30, 
 1849, and was but a lad of thirteen when the 
 battle of Gettysburg took place. As his home 
 was distant but about six miles from the scene of 
 the battle, he was an interested spectator of the 
 greater part of the engagement, and at its close 
 went all over the field. The scene was a never- 
 to-be-forgotten one, and continues in Mr. Withe- 
 row's memory as clearly as if it actually occurred 
 before him. His father was a Union man, and 
 being thoroughly conversant with the surround- 
 ing country he guided that army, by short cuts 
 and by roads, across the country, hoping to cut 
 off Lee's retreat. 
 
 His great-great-grandfather came from Scot- 
 land, settling first in Virginia, and later in Fred- 
 erick County, Md. The name was spelled Wath- 
 erow in Scotland, and is so inscribed on the 
 tombstones in that country. The grandfather, 
 David, changed the spelling to Witherow. He 
 was a native of Virginia, married a Miss Stewart 
 and settled in Fairfield, near Gettysburg, where 
 he died. Joseph Witherow, the father, was born 
 here and became a farmer, his farm lying on the 
 Maryland line, half his house lying in that state 
 and half in Pennsylvania. He died here at the 
 age of sixty-seven years. He was married to 
 Lydia Ann Ridinger, who was born near Taney- 
 town, Carroll County, Md. She was a daughter of 
 Peter Ridinger, of German extraction, who fought 
 in the war of 18 12, and died in the county in 
 which she was born. She died in her seventy- 
 second year, at the home of her husband in Penn- 
 sylvania. Ten children were born to this family, 
 four sons and six daughters, all living. The war 
 was an exciting time for them, as for many other 
 families, and during the battle of Gettysburg they 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 took their horses, for safety, to a sort of natural 
 island formed in a swamp by Marsh and Rock 
 Creeks. This island was at times covered with a 
 rank growth of underbrush, making it a good 
 hiding place. 
 
 John F. Witherow was the second child of the 
 family, and attended public and private schools 
 at Taneytown, at the same time assisting about 
 the farm in his spare hours. He remained at 
 home until 1873, when he was twenty- three years 
 old, when he went west on a prospecting trip, 
 and located in Central City for two years, meet- 
 ing with good success in his business. In 1876 
 he crossed the mountains and visited Steamboat 
 Spring and Cady, and in the fall of that year re- 
 turned to Penns3'lvania, where he remained 
 eighteen months. He then went to Missouri, 
 near Kingston, where he remained about seven 
 months, then to Delavan, Tazewell County, and 
 engaged in farming there for eight years. In the 
 fall of 1887 he once more set out for Colorado, 
 and in the spring of the following year bought 
 and moved onto his present farm. This proper- 
 ty already possessed a good house, but he has 
 otherwise improved it by building barns, fences, 
 and setting out a fine orchard and a large quan- 
 tity of small fruit. His orchard covers five acres 
 and contains a very choice variety of fruit, being 
 a source of much pleasure as well as profit to the 
 owner. His farm is devoted to the raising of 
 grain and potatoes, for which Colorado is noted. 
 He has also a dairy of grade Jerseys which bring 
 him a neat income. His farm consists of eighty 
 acres and lies near the city line of Longmont. 
 
 While in Pennsylvania in 1878, he was mar- 
 ried to Miss Martha J. Gordon, of Franklin 
 County, near Shady Grove, a daughter of Alex- 
 ander Gordon of the same vicinity, and a grand- 
 daughter of Alexander Gordon, a farmer and 
 innkeeper of that state. He and his wife, who 
 was Elizabeth Smyth, of Scotch descent, kept the 
 stage inn on the road leading to Pittsburg. Mrs. 
 Witherow 's father was a farmer of Shady Grove 
 and died there when in his eighty-fifth year. 
 Her mother was born in Greencastle, Pa., and 
 was Joanna, a daughter of Hon. David Fuller- 
 ton, who represented his state in the senate. He 
 married Miss Joanna l,iud, and was a large far- 
 mer between Greencastle and Chambersburg. 
 They were Scotch-Irish and strong Presbyterians. 
 Her mother died in 1849, and six of her ten chil- 
 
 dren are still living. One brother, J. C. R. Gor- 
 don, was in the Civil war in Company K, One 
 Hundred and Twenty-sixth regiment, known as 
 the Pennsylvania Guards. He is living in Lyons, 
 this county. Another brother, Matthew, is resid- 
 ing at La Junta, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Witherow 
 have five children, viz.: Nanny L. F., John G., 
 Martha E., Anna Lind and Joseph Stuart. He 
 has an interest in the Farmers' National Bank, 
 and is also a stockholder in the Longmont Build- 
 ing and Loan Association. For many j'ears he 
 has filled his present office of director and presi- 
 dent of the Oligarchy Ditch Company. This 
 ditch is about fifteen miles in length and irrigates 
 a large tract of land. He is a Republican and 
 takes a prominent part in local politics, having 
 served on different committees and been a num- 
 ber of times delegate to conventions. They are 
 members of the Central Presbyterian Church of 
 Longmont, in which he is ruling elder. He 
 is also a zealous worker in the Sunday-school, 
 and is the acting secretary. . 
 
 EHARLES L. PALMER. Upon a portion of 
 the homestead located by his father in i860, 
 the subject of this sketch is engaged in mar- 
 ket gardening and the fruit business. In the 
 raising of vegetables he l^as been especially suc- 
 cessful and now makes larger shipments of these 
 than any other gardener here, marketing the 
 produce in the mountain towns through Jefferson, 
 Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties. During the 
 season not a train leaves Golden that does not 
 bear some of the products of his farm. Finding 
 there would be a sale for hothouse vegetables, 
 he built three greenhouses, 16x60 feet, in which 
 he raises vegetables, principally lettuce and rad- 
 ishes, and it is said that he raises larger quanti- 
 ties of lettuce than anyone in the vicinity of 
 Golden . The hothouse is kept at an even tem- 
 perature by means of hot water pipes and is ad- 
 mirably fitted for the winter growing of vegeta- 
 bles. On the farm there is a packing and ship- 
 ping house, where vegetables and fruits are 
 crated and weighed, and bills of freight are made 
 out. In addition to the raising of vegetables he 
 has given some attention to fruits, and has plant- 
 ed two orchards, with apple, plum, pear and 
 peach trees. 
 
 Mr. Palmer has the distinction of being the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1171 
 
 third or fourth white child born in Colorado. He 
 was born October 6, i860, on the farm near Gold- 
 en, where he now resides. He is the son of Jo- 
 seph K. Palmer, of whom mention is made upon 
 another page of this volume. His education was 
 obtained in the public and high schools of Golden. 
 In 1881 he began as a market gardener and later 
 bought fift3'-nine acres of the old homestead, sit- 
 uated on the south side of Clear Creek, where he 
 has since engaged in gardening and the whole- 
 sale produce business. 
 
 In 1 88 1 Mr. Palmer married Miss Fannie 
 Blatter, who was born in southern Illinois, but 
 has spent most of her life in Golden. Their 
 children are: Ethel, Mabel, Lillian and Roy. Fra- 
 ternally Mr. Palmer is connected with the Wood- 
 men of the World and the Woodmen's Circle. 
 The temperance cause has in him a warm sup- 
 porter and he does all within his power to promote 
 its success. He is a friend of the white metal 
 and believes that silver should be restored to its 
 proper standard. That he is meeting with suc- 
 cess is due to the fact that he understands his 
 business thoroughly and grasps each detail con- 
 nected with its management. The prosperity 
 that has already come to him is undoubtedly but 
 an indication of the success which future years 
 will bring him. 
 
 HON. ROBERT T. SHAW, A. B., M. D., is 
 a man of integrity and sterling worth, and 
 by his kindly bearing and upright life has 
 made innumerable friendships. He came to this 
 state in June, 1882, locating in Silver Plume, and 
 ten years later moved to Georgetown. He was 
 born near Washington, in Washington County, 
 Pa., February 14, 1849, a son of John Shaw, and 
 grandson of Joseph Shaw of the same locality. 
 His grandfather bought and improved the farm 
 there upon which both the doctor and his father 
 were born. His father was an agriculturist on 
 this property until his death at the age of seventy- 
 five years. Sarah Harsha Shaw, the mother, 
 was also a native of that county, and was a 
 daughter of John Harsha, a chair manufacturer 
 there. She died at the age of fifty-nine years. 
 She was the mother of thirteen children, of 
 whom seven grew to adult years and five sons 
 are now living. Three of these served in the 
 Civil war, viz.: William, in the Eighty-fifth 
 Pennsylvania, now a resident of Iowa; Joseph, 
 
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 who was a member of the same regiment, and lives 
 in his native county in Pennsylvania; and James, 
 of the First Virginia Cavalry, who lives in Cam- 
 bridge, Ohio. The other brother cultivates the 
 old homestead. 
 
 Dr. Shaw is the youngest son and was reared 
 on his father's farm. He attended the public 
 school until he entered the Washington-Jefferson 
 College, at Washington, Pa., from which he 
 graduated in 1874, with the degree of A. B. The 
 following year he entered Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, of Philadelphia, and graduated two years 
 later as an M. D. He was appointed resident 
 physician to West Pennsylvania Hospital, of 
 Pittsburg, for one year, gaining valuable experi- 
 ence in his work. He then practiced in his home 
 county until June, 1882, when he located in 
 Silver Plume and began a general practice of his 
 profession. So rapid was his advancement in the 
 estimation of the people that two years later he 
 was nominated on the Republican ticket for the 
 legislature, and was elected, serving in the session 
 of 1885 for Clear Creek, in the Fifth General 
 Assembly, and voted for H. M. Teller for United 
 States Senator, after Hammill retired from the 
 contest. In 1890 he was again elected, and in 
 the session of 1891 again voted for Teller. He 
 was chairman of the committee on temperance 
 and medical affairs, and a member of a number 
 of other committees. In 1892 he moved to this 
 city, where he has since practiced medicine and 
 surgery, and is physician to St. Joseph's Hospital 
 here. His "success in both places of residence 
 has been most flattering. Politically he is a sil- 
 ver Republican, he has been delegate to county 
 and state conventions, served as a member of 
 the town council in Silver Plume, and was coun- 
 ty coroner one term. In fraternal relations he is 
 identified with the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Red Men. He has been connected with the State 
 Medical Association. 
 
 30HN A. LITTLE, who resides one mile east 
 of Loveland, Larimer County, was born in 
 Iowa in 1843, a son of Robert and Catherine 
 (Miller) Little, natives respectively of Ireland 
 and Virginia. His father, who was born in 1813, 
 emigrated to the United States at sixteen years of 
 age and settled in Ohio. There he met Miss 
 Miller, who had accompanied her parents from 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the Old Dominion to the Buckeye state. About 
 1842 he removed to Iowa and became a pioneer 
 of lyCe County, where he was living at the time 
 of the Mormon outbreak. In 1867 he removed 
 to Baxter Springs, Kan., and opened a store, 
 which he carried on for a number of years. On 
 disposing of his stock of goods he settled on a 
 farm in Kansas. He continued in agricultural 
 pursuits until 1890, when he retired from active 
 labors, and since then he has made his home with 
 his children. Politically he has always been a 
 stanch Democrat. He still retains his faculties 
 in spite of his advanced years. 
 
 When a boy our subject attended common 
 schools. At the age of twenty-two he and his 
 brother Charles took a load of goods from Kansas 
 to Colorado, and sold the stock in Central City. 
 Coming on to Boulder City, he worked for An- 
 drew Doudey in the construction of a flour mill, 
 after which he accompanied his employer to Big 
 Thompson, to Old St. Louis, and aided in build- 
 ing a mill. After its completion Mr. Little and his 
 brother George leased the mill, which they ran 
 for two years. Returning to Kansas, our subject 
 married and with his wife came to Colorado in 
 the spring of 1868. Here he resumed the mill 
 business, which he followed successfully until 
 1869. During early days he also followed the 
 carpenter's trade and made all the coffins in this 
 vicinity. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Little bought a quarter-section of 
 land on the Big Thompson River, and here he 
 has since engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising. He assisted in the construction of the 
 Chubbuck ditch, now called the Loveland and 
 Greeley ditch, in which he is a stockholder. For 
 a number of years he served as secretary and 
 treasurer of the company. He has made many 
 improvements on his place, which is considered 
 one of the finest in the county. He makes a 
 specialty of raising blooded cattle, of which he 
 has a herd of one hundred and fifty. Besides 
 farming and milling, he has had other interests. 
 In 1883, with E. A. Seibert, he became inter- 
 ested in the Loveland Reporter, which the two 
 conducted together for a number of years, and 
 afterwards he carried it on alone for a short time. 
 
 Politically Mr. Little is independent, voting 
 for the men whom he considers best qualified for 
 official positions. However, he leans toward the 
 Prohibition party. In 1868 he married Miss 
 
 Frances Silsbee, daughter of Erastus Silsbee, of 
 Wisconsin. They are the parents of four chil- 
 dren, Erastus, Lillie, Grace and Ralph. The 
 family are identified with the United Presbyterian 
 Church, in which Mr. Little has been a member 
 of the board of trustees and took an active part 
 in the building of the new church in 1893. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM P. MULLIGAN is the owner of 
 \ A / a ranch of two hundred acres, lying eight 
 YV miles northeast of Longmont, in Weld 
 County. Here he settled in 1875 and here he 
 has since resided. He has added forty acres to 
 his original tract of a quarter-section and has car- 
 ried on general farm pursuits industriously and 
 efficiently. He came to Colorado from South 
 Bend, Ind., where he was born October 5, 1851, 
 and where his boyhood days were spent in the 
 home of his parents, Edward and Mary A. 
 (Gribbon) Mulligan. The family of which he 
 was a member consisted of ten children, all but 
 one of whom are still living. His father, a na- 
 tive of County Cavan, Ireland, was born in 1803, 
 crossed the ocean at twenty-one years of age and 
 settled in Indiana, where he embarked in farm 
 pursuits in Mishawaka, St. Joseph County. 
 There he continued to reside until the time of his 
 death, in 1868. 
 
 Believing he could gain greater success in 
 Colorado, the subject of this sketch crossed the 
 plains in 1873 and went direct to the mountains, 
 working in the mines at Georgetown for nine 
 months, after which he worked for Governor 
 Evans, who had claims at the head of Snake 
 River, near the foot of Gray's Peak. Three 
 months were spent there, after which he came to 
 St. Vrain Valley in the spring of 1874, and for a 
 year worked as a farm hand, then took up the 
 land where he has since engaged in general 
 agricultural pursuits. By untiring industry and 
 perseverance he has brought this property to a 
 high state of cultivation, and is recognized as 
 among the prominent farmers ofthe locality. 
 
 November 22, 1885, Mr. Mulligan married 
 Miss Jennie E. Wilson, a native of Iowa, and a 
 daughter of James L. Wilson, who came from 
 Iowa to Colorado in 1872. Her mother was in 
 maidenhood Mary A. McCorkle. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Mulligan are the parents of four children: Mark 
 L. ; James E. and William, both of whom are de- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ceased; and William Philip. The family are 
 identified with the Catholic Church. In frater- 
 nal relations Mr. Mulligan is a member of Moun- 
 tain Valley Camp No. 31, Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 |~RANK E. HARTMAN, senior member of 
 JM the firm of Hartman & Romigh, and a well- 
 I known business man of Longmont, is the 
 pioneer in his line in this city, having been 
 the first to establish a first-class meat market 
 here. The firm of which he is a member com- 
 mands the largest trade in this section and is 
 recognized as an enterprising and honorable busi- 
 ness concern. Mr. Hartman is a self-made man, 
 in the best sense of the term. Early in life he 
 started out for himself and came west, where, by 
 energy and application to business he has become 
 well-to-do. He is popular with his customers 
 and with all who have any transactions with him, 
 for he is fair and honorable in his treatment of 
 all and looks out for the interests of others. 
 
 The father of our subject was Henry Hartman, 
 a miller by trade. He was a native of York, 
 Pa. , from which state he went to Ohio, pursuing 
 bis calling in Cincinnati for some 3'ears. Later 
 he removed to Mount Plea.sant, Iowa, and after a 
 period spent in the milling business there he 
 went to live upon a farm. He died while a resi- 
 dent of Iowa, some years ago. His faithful com- 
 panion and helpmate, whose name before their 
 marriage was Mime Brown, was born in Cincin- 
 nati, and is now living in Carthage, 111. They 
 were the parents of five children, four sons and 
 one daughter, and all but one son survive. 
 
 Frank E. Hartman was born September 3, 
 1848, in Hamilton County, Ohio, and with his 
 parents went to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in the 
 spring of 1850. When old enough he was sent 
 to the schools of that town, and at the age of 
 fifteen he began working regularly in a mill. He 
 learned the trade and continued to follow this 
 means of earning a livelihood until 1871, in 
 Weeping Water, Cass County, Neb. At that 
 time he came to Colorado, and for a year or two 
 was employed at farming in old Burlington. In 
 1873, when the Fox mill was completed, he be- 
 came a miller in it, remaining there for about 
 eight years. He then came to Longmont and 
 embarked in the business he is in to-day, that of 
 keeping a meat market. He has been located in 
 
 this same place during all the intervening years. 
 He deals more or less extensively in live stock 
 and manufactures sausage, packs hams, etc. In 
 1896 he entered into partnership with O. H. 
 Romigh, under the firm name of Hartman & 
 Romigh. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hartman belongs to the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of 
 the World and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, being a charter member of the last- 
 named lodge here. He is a stalwart Republican. 
 June 8, 1885, he married Josie Carmean, who 
 was born in Hancock County, 111. Her father, 
 John Carmean, now a resident of this place, was 
 formerly of Ohio. The two children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hartman are named respectively, Or- 
 ville and Vernon. 
 
 0AVID D. DEWEY, of the firm of Dewey 
 Brothers, ore samplers and brokers, has 
 been a resident of Georgetown, Clear Creek 
 County, since 1891, and is ranked among the 
 most progressive men of the place. He is man- 
 ager of the company's ore sampling and concen- 
 trating works here, and is a young man of un- 
 doubted business qualifications. He was born 
 July 27, 1866, near Syracuse, N. Y. , and traces 
 'his ancestry back, through a long line, direct to 
 one Thomas Dewey, who came from Sandwich, 
 Kent County, England, to Massachusetts in 1630 
 or 1633, and in 1634 to Windsor, Conn. He was 
 cornetist of the town troop of mounted light in- 
 fantry, and was also juror and deputy to the 
 general court. He married the widow of Francis 
 Clark, and died April 27, 1648, after which she 
 moved back to Massachusetts. Their children 
 were: Thomas; Josiah, the ancestor of the re- 
 nowned Commodore Dewey; Anna; Israel, the 
 forefather of our subject; and Jedediah. Among 
 the children of Israel Dewey was David, who also 
 had a son David, born in the year 1700. His 
 son, also David, was the great-great-great-grand- 
 father of our subject and was born in 1725. 
 David was a family name, and when a son was 
 born April 18, 1725, in Massachusetts, he was 
 given that name and became a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war. He was a private in the 
 company of Capt. William Douglass, and also 
 served in the regiment of Col. Benjamin Si- 
 monds from December 16, 1776, to March 22, 
 
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 1777, where he fought at the battle of Ticou- 
 deroga under Captain I,ush. He was under Col. 
 John Brown from September 21 to October 13, 
 1777, as corporal, and received the commission 
 of second lieutenant of the Twelfth Company on 
 the 17th of February, 1780. He was married 
 February 25, 1774, to Serviah Knowlton, and 
 died January 16, 1836. His son, the great-grand- 
 father of our subject, was also named David, 
 and came from Massachusetts to Herkimer Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., December 22, 1775. Later he went 
 to Deerfield, some six miles from Utica, where 
 he engaged iu running a distillery. He was 
 not successful in this business and removed 
 to Bridgeport in 1808, and resided there two 
 years. During this time he was at work on an 
 invention which proved of some value, and he 
 rode the entire distance to Philadelphia in order 
 to secure a patent on it, after which he sold out, 
 obtaining a good price, with which he returned 
 to his former home and paid up his entire indebt- 
 edness. In 1812 he removed to Cambridge, and 
 later to Madison County, where he took a farm 
 three miles south of Bridgeport, upon which he 
 spent the remainder of his life. May 28, 1794, 
 he married Margaret Tracy, with whom he lived 
 until his death. May 27, 1837. One of his sons, 
 Chauncey, the grandfather of our subject, was 
 born in Westfield, Mass., April 13, 1800. He 
 engaged in agriculture in the vicinity of Bridge- 
 port, and on February 20, 1823, he married 
 Lucina Hulbert. Their children were: Almira, 
 Franklin, Bradley, Louise, David, Edward and 
 Newton. Bradley S. Dewey, the father, was 
 born on the farm near Bridgeport, February 16, 
 1827, bought the place formerly owned by his 
 grandfather, and continued its cultivation until 
 his death, February 2, 1873. He married Doro- 
 thy A. Dunham, who was born in Bridgeport, 
 October 20, 1834. She was a daughter of Fred- 
 erick Dunham, who ran a fulling mill in that 
 city. They were members of an old New England 
 family. She had three children: Harriette L-, 
 Mrs. F. E. Jennings, of Denver; Chauncey Ed- 
 ward, of the same city; and David D., our subject. 
 She resides in Denver with her son Chauncey, 
 who came to the state in the spring of 1880. He 
 first went to Georgetown, where he worked as 
 civil engineer and surveyor until 1885, when he 
 embarked in the mining and milling business, in 
 partnership with our subject, under the name of 
 
 Dewey Brothers. They run a concentrating and 
 ore buying works at Georgetown, and he individ- 
 ually built and operated a large mill at Lake 
 City, where he operated the Hidden Treasure 
 mine. He belongs to the society of Colonial 
 Wars, in which wars many of his ancestors partic- 
 ipated. 
 
 Mr. Dewey first attended the district school 
 and later graduated from Phoenix Academy. He 
 devoted the next five years to farming, and seeing 
 the necessity of a thorough knowledge of stock 
 and their ailments, he entered the Toronto Veter- 
 inary College, from which he graduated in 1889, 
 as D. V. S. After practicing one year in Phoenix, 
 he engaged in the lumber business in Georgia, 
 manufacturing lumber for the market, and in 
 1891 came to Georgetown, Colo., and associated 
 with his brother in business. They bought the 
 old Clear Creek mill, remodeled it, and engaged 
 in ore sampling and concentrating. Their ore 
 sampler has a capacity of seventy-five tons per 
 day, and the concentrator has a capacity of forty 
 tons. In 1895 they built works of the same capa- 
 city in Idaho Springs, which were managed by 
 David Dewey until December, 1897, when they 
 disposed of them to the Kilton Company. He 
 then returned to Georgetown and took charge of 
 the plant there. They have a pleasant ofiice in 
 the Boston building, Denver, which is occupied 
 by C. E. Dewey. 
 
 Our subject was married iu Denver to Miss 
 Georgie Johnson, who was born in Big Rapids, 
 Mich., a daughter of Harley M. Johnson, who 
 settled in that city and is connected with the 
 Denver and Rio Grande Express Company. Mrs. 
 Dewey is a graduate of the east Denver high 
 school, and is an intelligent, pleasant lady. Mr. 
 Dewey is a member of the Woodmen of the World. 
 He was a Republican until 1896, when he joined 
 the ranks of the Democratic party. 
 
 yyi ILO GUERDON SECOR, a successful far- 
 Y mer and stockman, is also engaged in the 
 (3 seed business, and has, on Main street 
 in Longmont, what is undoubtedly the largest 
 store of its kind in northern Colorado. From his 
 youth he has been interested in farming and 
 stock-raising, and in both industries he has en- 
 gaged with profit. In 1889 he bought a half in- 
 terest in a lumber yard and the business was con- 
 
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 ducted as Hall & Secor until 1892, when he 
 bought his partner's interest, but the following 
 year sold out the entire business. He owns a 
 ranch adjoining Estes Park, at Muggins Gulch, 
 where he has nearly five hundred acres, all 
 fenced. 
 
 The father of our subject, William W. Secor, 
 was a son of Gordon Secor, whose life history is 
 given in the biography of his son, Judge F. P. 
 Secor, presented elsewhere in this volume. Will- 
 iam W., who was the eldest of three sons, was 
 reared in York state and Wisconsin, and about 
 1859 came to Colorado, at the time of the Pike's 
 Peak excitement. Subsequently he made four 
 trips across the plains. He came through Boul- 
 der County as early as i860. He engaged in 
 mining and for a time drove a stage. About 
 1866 he went to Cheyenne, Wyo., and for some 
 time afterward carried mail and engaged in 
 freighting. In 1869 he settled in Boulder Coun- 
 ty, near what is now Idaho Station, where he en- 
 gaged in farming and the stock business. In 
 1870 he homesteaded one hundred and sixty 
 acres and by the Colorado Central Railroad (now 
 Union Pacific) land grant eighty acres was taken 
 from him by the railroad. He bought of the Jacob 
 CoflFmau estate one hundred and sixty acres and 
 to this he added until he had four hundred and 
 eighty acres, which the family still own, our sub- 
 ject managing it. 
 
 In 1872, with Mr. Buckingham, on Main street, 
 Longmont, Mr. Secor embarked in the livery 
 business, which he continued until 1876 and then 
 sold. He built a brick store on Kimbark street, 
 where he carried on an implement and lumber 
 business, continuing thus engaged until his death, 
 October 19, 1888. Meantime he also engaged in 
 stock-raising and the cattle business on his several 
 ranches. Politically he was a Democrat, loyal 
 to party principles. For four years he served as 
 deputy sheriff of Boulder County. Fraternally 
 he was a Knight Templar Mason, and was buried 
 with Masonic honors. 
 
 The mother of our subject was a sister of Hon. 
 E. J. Coffman, to whose sketch the reader is re- 
 ferred for the Coffman history. Of her five chil- 
 dren Milo Gordon was the eldest and was born in 
 Cheyenne, Wyo., June 5, 1868. His boyhood 
 years were spent in Boulder County. He attended 
 the grammar and high school of I^ongmont, and 
 at an early age began to assist his father in the 
 
 care of the cattle. On the death of his father he 
 succeeded to the management of the estate, which 
 is under high cultivation and is improved with 
 ditches and fences. 
 
 In Galena, 111., Mr. Secor married Alice M. 
 Fiddick, who was born in that city and attended 
 the high school there. Her father, R. H. Fid- 
 dick, was engaged in the wholesale and retail 
 dry-goods business in Galena and was a man of 
 prominence. In politics Mr. Secor is inclined to be 
 independent, though he agrees with the Republi- 
 can party in favoring protection of home indus- 
 tries. Fraternally he is connected with St. Vrain 
 Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M., Longmont Chap- 
 ter No. 8, R. A. M., Long's Peak Commandery 
 No. 12, K. T., and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. 
 
 pCJiLLIAM G. CHAMBERLAIN, the artist 
 I A/ ^'^° introduced the now popular Rocky 
 Y V Mountain views to public notice, was born 
 in Newburyport, Mass., November 9, 1815. His 
 father, Ichabod Chamberlain, was born in Chelsea, 
 Vt, and was a well-known and successful engineer 
 in Massachusetts. The mother, Caroline Gunni- 
 son, was born in Newburyport, Mass., and reared 
 five children. William G. was the eldest of the 
 family; Charles died in Peru; Caroline (Mrs. 
 Vincent) lives in Boston ; Louisa (Mrs. Matthews) 
 died in New York; and Edward resides in Mc- 
 Pherson, Kan. The Chamberlain family was of 
 English origin, and the remote ancestors were 
 among the earliest settlers of New England and 
 figured prominently in her Indian and colonial 
 wars. 
 
 When Mr. Chamberlain was about nine years 
 of age his parents removed to Boston, where, 
 with the exception of a few years in Lowell, he 
 remained until 1839. Being then in his twenty- 
 fourth year, and possessing the natural ambition 
 of youthful years (and probably its adventurous 
 impulses also), he improved a proffered opportun- 
 ity to visit South America, and took passage in 
 New York, via Cape Horn, for Lima, Peru. The 
 journey was accomplished in ninety -three days 
 without incident other than usual to an ocean 
 voyage. He resided in Peru thirteen years, with 
 the exception of a few months in 1844, when he 
 returned by way of Panama to Boston, on business 
 matters. These attended to, he returned to Peru, 
 and suffered shipwreck on entering the harbor of 
 
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 Chagres (now Colon). The Peruvian govern- 
 ment encouraged the manufacture of silk of all 
 kinds, which induced Mr. Chamberlain to engage 
 in the manufacture of silk. He introduced the 
 mulberry into that country from the United States, 
 obtaining the eggs of the silk worm from France. 
 He sent to his father, who was a mechanical en- 
 gineer and inventor, for a small machine for reel- 
 ing and twisting the silk from the cocoons. His 
 first experience was personal and individual, 
 three hundred miles inland, and was successful. 
 The Peruvian government becoming interested, 
 contracted that the business was to be established 
 in Lima, and there the Jesuit convent was placed 
 at his disposal, but the climate was not suitable 
 for the scheme, being too near the ocean. In 1847 
 he severed his connection with this industry. 
 Were it not for extending this narrative to undue 
 length, we could chronicle many incidents of his 
 Peruvian life and experience that would be highly 
 interesting. 
 
 The all-important event of this period was his 
 marriage to Miss Frances R. Allen, a young 
 English lady, whose parents then resided in Lima. 
 At that date the Protestant Church was not toler- 
 ated in the country, and there were no clergymen 
 other than Catholic, so he availed himself of the 
 right and privilege of an American in a foreign 
 country and solicited the aid of the United States 
 minister plenipotentiary, a Mr. Jewett, and July 
 28, 1846, they were, by the power and authority 
 invested in him, declared husband and wife. 
 Miss Allen was born in Birmingham, England, 
 and was a daughter of Jabez Smart Allen, and a 
 granddaughter of John Allen, both glass manu- 
 facturers. Her father made a circuit of the globe 
 and located in Lima, there managing a glass 
 manufactory until 1854, when he located in 
 Chicago. Later he settled in Onawa, Iowa, 
 where he died. Her mother was Catherine Ar- 
 nold, of Henley, on the Avon, England, whose 
 father, John Arnold, was a manufacturer there. 
 She died in Denver, where she had joined her 
 children. 
 
 In 1848 Mr. Chamberlain became associated 
 with two other American residents of Lima in a 
 mining venture, in the noted silver mining section 
 of Cerro de Pasco, situated in the heart of the 
 Andes. They purchased a small steam engine 
 for raising water in the shaft of an abandoned 
 mine. This mine had been formerly operated by 
 
 the Spaniards, the native Indians working the 
 pumps by hand, and was abandoned by them, 
 their pumps proving inadequate for the purpose. 
 The machinery now purchased had to be carried 
 across the Andes to the eastern slope, a distance 
 of one hundred and fifty miles, on the backs of 
 mules. They were the first to use steam for that 
 purpose, although in later years it became com- 
 mon, and they were sanguine of reaping a fortune, 
 as the reports of the richness of the mine led 
 them to expect that water was the main difficulty 
 to be overcome. But a few mouths of hard work 
 and heavy expenditure served to prove the mine 
 worthless. With the expectation of being perma- 
 nently located in Pasco he had taken his family 
 there by the only means of transportation then 
 possible, mule back, carrying the bedding and 
 provisions necessary for one hundred and fifty 
 miles of mountain trail, of which Colorado experi- 
 ence gives no conception. Disappointed and 
 crippled in finances, but with the sanguine dis- 
 position of early manhood, with health and 
 energy unimpaired, he became enthused by the 
 glowing accounts of new gold discoveries in the 
 states, and in the early spring of 1849 took pass- 
 age for California. The life experienced in those 
 early days in California is too well known to need 
 mention. He remained there less than two years 
 and had in a measure retrieved his misfortune of 
 the Cerro de Pasco venture. He remained in 
 Lima until the spring of 1852, when he took pass- 
 age with his family for the United States, by way 
 of Panama. While residing in Lima three chil- 
 dren were born, Helena, WiUiam J. and Fanny. 
 The latter died in Denver in 1863, while the two 
 former still reside in Denver. Having reached 
 the states, he spent some weeks with his parents 
 in Boston, but as idleness was not congenial to 
 his nature, having completed their visit, they 
 started westward, making a tour of the states, the 
 only stop of any length being made at Niagara 
 Falls until they reached Chicago. Here they re- 
 mained until the fall of 1855. 
 
 Two young men made a tour through Chili 
 and other countries in 1847 with a daguerreotype 
 outfit, and while in Lima met Mr. Chamberlain. 
 At that early date the sun picture was a marvel 
 and he became greatly interested in the process. 
 Having many leisure hours, from the nature of 
 the business in which he was then engaged, he 
 was induced to purchase an apparatus and mate- 
 
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 rial from them to use as a recreation. For the out- 
 fit and instruction he paid several hundred dol- 
 lars, a large sum for such things in these days. 
 By improving his leisure hours in practice, he 
 soon became quite proficient, and being greatly 
 interested in the art, he decided, upon his arrival 
 in Chicago to make it his business and hung out 
 his sign on Lake Street. The chemicals used in 
 the daguerreotype business are decidedly un- 
 healthy, and they, with close application to the 
 business, so afiected his health that he found it 
 necessary to retire altogether from the work. 
 About that time he became acquainted with part- 
 ies from the New England states who had formed 
 a company to locate a township in northwestern 
 Iowa. The agent sent to locate and report on 
 this subject gave such promising accounts of the 
 country that he decided to make a trial of pioneer 
 life, so in the fall of 1855, in company with his 
 brother-in-law, John L. Lay, and wife, started 
 with teams and outfit for Iowa. Mr. Lay became 
 the inventor of torpedoes used in the Civil war 
 and one was used to destroy the ' 'Albemarle, ' ' in 
 the James River. The location of the new colony 
 in Iowa proved to be unfortunate, as their lands 
 bordered the Little Sioux River, which overflowed 
 every spring, and their buildings and fences were 
 destroyed by prairie fires. He battled with these 
 adversities until 1859, when he decided to leave 
 Iowa and seek a home elsewhere. The Pike's 
 Peak excitement of that date is well remembered, 
 and with a suitable outfit he started for this land 
 of promise. This was the spring of the great 
 stampede from Colorado; hundreds of returning 
 emigrants gave such discouraging reports that 
 many were induced to turn back. But with him 
 there was no turning back; his Iowa experience 
 propelled him on, but, instead of Denver as the 
 goal, he pushed on to California with a small num- 
 ber of the original party, and arrived there in the 
 fall without mishap or adventure. He returned 
 from California in the winter of i860, intending to 
 take his family back with him-in the spring. His 
 family had now increased to five by the addition 
 of Kate and Walter, and his wife was in such 
 poor health that she was not able to stand the 
 fatigue of travel, so he decided to come to Denver 
 that spring, bring his family later, spend the 
 winter in the city, and the following spring travel 
 overland, by Salt Lake City, to California. In 
 due time the family arrived and after the winter's 
 
 sojourn, improved health and other considerations, 
 decided him to make Denver their permanent 
 home. As previously mentioned, the daguerreo- 
 type foreshadowed his future line of business, he 
 having been very successful with it in Chicago. 
 But the march of invention is ever onward, and 
 the ambrotype and tin- type had advanced to the 
 front and were the pictures of the day. He opened 
 his business in Denver in the fall, having spent 
 the summer in Middle and South Parks. Soon 
 the improved picture, the photograph, came into 
 prominence, and this opened the way for the pro- 
 duction of views of our mountain scenery, and 
 while continuing his business in Denver he de- 
 voted his personal attention every summer to 
 obtaining view negatives in every part of the 
 state, thus laj-ing the foundation for extensive 
 production of Colorado views of the grandest 
 scenery to be found, and which are prized 
 .souvenirs in homes the world over. In 1881 he 
 disposed of his business and has not since been 
 engaged in active operations of that nature. 
 
 Mr. Chamberlain was the father of six children. 
 Helena, Mrs. Robert James, lives in Denver; 
 W. J. is a member of the firm ofW. J. Chamber- 
 lain & Co., ore brokers, of Denver; Fanny died 
 herein 1863, at the age of twelve years; Lucy 
 died in Iowa when four years old; Kate, Mrs. 
 Frank Dillingham, resides in Denver; and 
 Walter A. lives in Boulder and is manager of 
 the W. J. Chamberlain Company's sample works 
 there. Politically Mr. Chamberlain is a Republi- 
 can and a strong silver man. 
 
 NGN. JAMES F. GARDNER, a retired 
 farmer and stock-raiser of Castle Rock, 
 Douglas County, was born near Attica, 
 Wyoming County, N. Y., November 2, 1833, ^^^ 
 is a son of Neadham Adolphus and Mehitable 
 (Moulten) Gardner. His paternal ancestors 
 were of Scotch stock. His grandfather, Flinton 
 M. Gardner, was born in Broomfield, Mass., and 
 served in the war of the Revolution. Our sub- 
 ject's father was also born in Broomfield, but 
 soon after his marriage removed to the vicinity 
 of Attica, Wyoming County, N. Y. , his father 
 going there at the same time. Both engaged 
 in farming and continued to reside there until 
 death. 
 
 In 1856, when twenty-two years of age, the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 subject of this sketch went to the territory of 
 Nebraska and settled in Burt County, forty- 
 five miles north of Omaha, where he secured a 
 squatters' claim to government land. After he 
 had been there for two years he entered govern- 
 ment land and gradually built up a comfortable 
 home. His trip to Nebraska was made with Col. 
 John B. Folsom, grandfather of Mrs. Grover 
 Cleveland, and William B. Beck, brother of 
 the late Senator Beck of Kentucky, each of whom 
 took up government land near his own. The trip 
 was made by railway to Des Moines, Iowa, and 
 from there by stage to Council Bluffs (then called 
 Kanesville), Iowa. At Omaha Mr. Gardner 
 hired out to William N. Byers, now of Denver, 
 to go on a surveying expedition and went up the 
 Platte and Elkhorn Rivers in Nebraska, remain- 
 ing in the employ of Mr. Byers for four months. 
 Meantime Mr. Folsom and Mr. Beck had laid out 
 a town called Tekamah, and near there Mr. 
 Gardner located his land, remaining there for 
 three years. 
 
 During the early days of the Pike's Peak gold 
 excitement, in 1858, Mr. Gardner fitted out a 
 Mr. lyOwry for the trip across the plains, furnish- 
 ing him with a double ox-team and a wagon. In 
 the winter Mr. I,owry sent back such glowing 
 reports that Mr. Gardner decided to join him. 
 He started March 15, 1859, with an ox-team, 
 driving through with William B. Beck and George 
 M. Chilcott, who afterward represented Colorado 
 in congress and in the United States senate. 
 They spent two months on the road, and arriving 
 in Colorado, engaged in prospecting on Clear 
 Creek. Mr. Beck was an old California miner, 
 and, having a plan for a machine that would help 
 to save the gold, he and Mr. Gardner had con- 
 structed such a machine in Tekamah and had 
 hauled it in their wagon, together with sixty 
 pounds of quicksilver, which was to be used with 
 the machine. They found a suitable place to use 
 the machine and there set it up, but after work- 
 ing for a few days they found they had neither 
 gold nor quicksilver. They left the machine 
 standing and never used it again. From the last 
 reports of the machine, some one had put it away 
 as a relic. 
 
 This closed Mr. Gardner's experience in min- 
 ing. In September and October, 1859, he was 
 very low with typhoid fever. In November he 
 secured employment with Thomas A. Bayaud, 
 
 who was engaged in the manufacture of lumber 
 in what is now Douglas County. This brought 
 Mr. Gardner to the locality where he has since 
 resided. In June, i860, he fitted out a team and 
 began to haul lumber to Denver, which business 
 he followed for a year, doing fairly well. Buy- 
 ing another team, he took a contract for logging 
 to a mill, and during the year he was thus en- 
 gaged he took a squatters' claim on Cherry 
 Creek, near the present site of Franktown. There 
 he made his home until 1863, when he sold the 
 claim, and again began contracting for logging 
 for the same mill he had been with before. He 
 continued in that occupation until August, 1864, 
 whep the mill was closed, on account of the 
 Indian outbreak. He was obliged to give up his 
 contract, as two men who drove his teams for him 
 refused to continue, on account of the danger. 
 It being especially urgent that some shingles be 
 gotten out to close a contract, Mr. Gardner went 
 with his team to get a load about one mile from 
 the mill. When about half way back he was 
 attacked by Indians, and would have been cap- 
 tured and doubtless killed had not the hands at 
 the mill, seeing his danger, rushed to his rescue 
 and frightened the red men away. Most of the 
 families in the neighborhood, fearful of an attack, 
 moved away, Mr. Gardner taking some of them 
 to California ranch, now Franktown. Having 
 some horses running loose, he went to look for 
 them, fearful lest they would fall into the hands 
 of the Indians. He could not find the horses but 
 found a man on foot, who had been at the mill 
 and was hurrying along, as Indians were near. 
 He took him up on his horse and they rode 
 rapidly toward the ranch. When within one-half 
 mile of it, the Indians thought best to give up 
 the chase, but had the distance been any greater, 
 both men would undoubtedly have been captured. 
 As it was, the man who had been walking was 
 undoubtedly saved by the kindness of Mr. 
 Gardner. At the camp there were about sixty 
 men and fifteen women. They organized a mili- 
 tary company, of which Mr. Gardner was chosen 
 the commander. He applied to the governor 
 for arms, which were furnished. They also 
 built a stockade of logs, eight to twelve inches in 
 diameter, and extending a depth of eight to nine 
 feet above the ground. In that stockade they 
 remained from August until November. 
 
 While there Mr. Gardner was sent for by 
 
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 Colonel Shoup, of Denver, who made the proposi- 
 tion that if he would enlist the men into a regi- 
 ment, such as preferred to go could do so, and 
 the others could remain to guard their homes. 
 Mr. Gardner enlisted the men and took them 
 to Camp Wheeler, where they remained until 
 December, serving one hundred days, with him- 
 self as commissary sergeant. In December, 1864, 
 on being mustered out, he returned on a visit to 
 New York state, where he remained until July of 
 the following year. He then came back to Cali- 
 fornia ranch and bought the land, with the large 
 hotel. The travel along the road was enormous, 
 sometimes as many as one hundred teams going 
 by in a single day. He was successful in the 
 hotel business, which he followed until 1867. In 
 the meantime he acted as agent for the Denver & 
 Santa Fe Stage Company. On renting out his 
 hotel, he embarked in the mercantile business, 
 which he continued for ten years. Afterward he 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising until 1884. 
 In 1882 he received from President Arthur a 
 commission as Indian commissioner for the con- 
 federated bands of Ute Indians, and was one of 
 five who settled the Indians on their reservation. 
 The work was completed in a year and he then 
 resigned. In October, 1883, he was appointed 
 Indian agent with headquarters at the reservation 
 in Utah, where he remained for three years. 
 
 January 13, 1867, Mr. Gardner married Miss 
 Helen J. Knox, of Douglas County, a native of 
 Champaign County, 111., and a daughter of John 
 and Barthena (Lyons) Knox. She accompanied 
 her mother to Colorado in girlhood and has since 
 made her home in Douglas County. She has 
 five children, the eldest of whom, Grace, mar- 
 ried Martin Tchudy and resides in Park County, 
 Colo.; they have two children, Frank and Alfred. 
 Frederick J., our subject's oldest son, is married 
 and lives at La Junta, Colo.; Lilian M., wife of 
 Daniel J. Murphy and mother of two children, 
 lives in Denver; Lacey married Ernest Gooding 
 and resides in Castle Rock,' and Edith H., the 
 youngest of the family, is with her parents. 
 
 Though reared a Democrat, Mr. Gardner early 
 espoused the cause of the Republican party. 
 While in Tekamah he served as city clerk for a 
 year. In 1862, when Douglas County was 
 organized, he was appointed the first county 
 clerk and served for a year. In 1863 he was 
 elected county treasurer. At the expiration of 
 
 his term he was elected to the territorial legisla- 
 ture and served for two years, after which he 
 served one term as county treasurer. In 1872 
 he was again elected to the legislature, and in the 
 fall of 1876 was chosen state senator, which 
 position he filled for four years. From 1888 to 
 1892 he was again a member of the senate and in 
 1896 was elected to the lower house. During his 
 service in the legislature he took part^in the 
 election of United States senators seven times. 
 He also served as chairman of a number of im- 
 portant committees and as a member of others. 
 In point of years of service he is ilext to the 
 oldest of all those who have served in the legisla- 
 ture, and his service has been as efiBcient as it has 
 been long. 
 
 WALTER M. PRIEST, who served as sher- 
 ifi" of Douglas County for two terms, and 
 whose home is on Craig ranch, near Castle 
 Rock, was born in Louisville, Ky., September 4, 
 1854, being a son of Temple G. and Ann(Nailor) 
 Priest. His father, who followed the carpenter's 
 trade, was employed as head foreman and pattern- 
 maker for Dennis Long, a contractor in Louis- 
 ville. The son grew to manhood in his native 
 city and received a fair education in the public 
 .schools. In youth he learned the blacksmith's 
 trade and this occupation he followed for a num- 
 ber of years, first in Kentucky and after 1878 in 
 Colorado. 
 
 July 22, 1885, Mr. Priest was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Sarah J. Van Tilburg, of Castle 
 Rock, but a native of Macon County, Mo., where 
 she was reared and educated. 
 
 The first presidential vote cast by Mr. Priest ■ 
 was in 1876, when he supported Rutherford B. 
 Hayes. Since that time he has been stanch in 
 his allegiance to the principles of his chosen party 
 and has always voted for its men and measures. 
 He keeps well posted concerning the issues of the 
 age and favors the principles of protection of 
 home industries, and the expansion of territory, 
 for which his party stands. In 1891 he was 
 nominated for sherifi"by the Republicans of Doug- 
 las County, but was defeated by two votes. 
 Two years later he again became his party's 
 candidate and this time he was successful, being 
 elected by a majority of ninety-seven. He was 
 again nominated for the office in 1895 and received 
 a majority of ninety-eight. He was again nomi- 
 
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 nated in 1897, but defeated, since which time he 
 has given his attention to ranching. Fraternally 
 he is identified with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen at Castle Rock. 
 
 HENRY W. WILCOX, M. D., is a rising 
 young physician and surgeon lately located 
 in the pretty town of Silver Plume, Clear 
 Creek County. He possesses an excellent edu- 
 cation, and by experience in the world of busi- 
 ness gained that general knowledge which is so 
 necessarj' to success in any given line of com- 
 mercial or professional work. Since coming to 
 Colorado he has become a member of the State 
 Medical Society, and in other ways has manifested 
 his purpose to keep thoroughly in the progressive 
 spirit of the times. 
 
 Dr. Wilcox comes from a good old NewUngland 
 family. From a long line of earnest, industrious, 
 self-respecting and respected forefathers he has 
 inherited their essentially good qualities of mind 
 and heart, as well as of physical strength and 
 business ability. His ancestors have been con- 
 nected with the Congregational Church for gen- 
 erations, and he was brought up in that rule of 
 faith. His grandfather Wilcox was accidentally 
 killed. The parents of the doctor are both living 
 at their old home in Middletown, Conn. The 
 father, Walter S. Wilcox, was born in North 
 Colebrook, Conn., and from his early manhood 
 until he retired, a few years ago, was engaged 
 in machinist's work. He is now • in the decline 
 of life, having reached the age of threescore and 
 ten years. His wife, also a native of Connecti- 
 cut, was Miss Martha Smith, daughter of David 
 Smith, a farmer. Some of her Smith ancestors 
 were in the American navy during the Revo- 
 lution. 
 
 The birth of Dr. H. W. Wilcox occurred in 
 1868. He is the only living child of his parents, 
 one other having died ere reaching maturity. 
 He was educated in the grammar and high 
 schools of Hartford, Conn. When he started 
 out in the business world he embarked in life in- 
 surance, being employed by the old standard 
 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for 
 five years, as private secretary of the medical di- 
 rectors. In 1893 he came to Colorado and in the 
 following year he entered the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Colorado. In 1897 
 
 he was graduated with the_ degree of Doctor of 
 Medicine and the same summer he succeeded Dr. 
 Pennock in practice in Silver Plume. He de- 
 votes all his time and attention to medicine and 
 has been very successful. In his political prefer- 
 ences he is a Republican. He enjoys the sincere 
 friendship and respect of all who have the pleas- 
 ure of his acquaintance, wherever he goes. He 
 married Dr. Sara S. Comacher in October, 1898. 
 
 HOMAS JEFFERSON KING, who is a 
 retired farmer living in Castle Rock, Doug- 
 las County, was born near Bedford, the 
 county seat of Trimble Count}', Ky. His parents, 
 Richard and Nancy (Williams) King, were na- 
 tives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky, and 
 were married in the Blue Grass state. The father, 
 who was a farmer, owned a farm of two hundred 
 acres, and upon that place his ten children were 
 reared. The fourth of the family was the subject 
 of this sketch. When he was a boy there were 
 no free schools in his locality. He was born 
 March 9, 1826, and at that time advantages were 
 few in comparison with those of the present day. 
 However, he learned to read and write, which 
 was more of an education than many others ob- 
 tained in that day. When he was twenty-one 
 he rented land and began farming, in which way 
 he secured bis start in life.' 
 
 April 10, 1 85 1, Mr. King married Miss Mary 
 E. Evans, who was born in Floyd County, Ind., 
 and was about six years of age when her parents 
 moved back to their native Kentucky. There 
 she was reared, being given such advantages as 
 were within the means of her father, Charles 
 Evans, and her mother, whose maiden name was 
 Sena Palmer. About two and one-half years 
 after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. King, in 1853, 
 moved to Atchison County, Mo., and there he 
 bought eighty acres of land, later adding to the 
 property, which they improved and out of which 
 they evolved a valuable homestead. 
 
 On account of poor health and because of the 
 troublous war times, in 1863 Mr. King decided 
 to move to Colorado. He drove across the plains 
 with an ox team, spending six weeks on the road. 
 Landing north of Denver, near Golden, he spent 
 the winter there, and after was at Arvada for two 
 years, cultivating land. He then moved below 
 Denver on the Platte, and after three years in 
 
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 that place came to Douglas County, in 1868, 
 taking a homestead on Cherry Creek. After 
 seven years, during which time he had improved 
 the land, he traded it for his present home. He 
 has always been a pronounced Democrat, but 
 has never been active in local politics. With 
 his wife he held membership in the Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian Church in Missouri, but as 
 that denomination is not represented in this 
 locality, they have identified themselves with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church south. They are 
 the parents of six children. Their older daughter, 
 Mary E., was first the wife of Holly Warner, by 
 whom she had two children; she is now the wife 
 of Alexander Bird, of Mount Rose, and four 
 children have been born of this union. The other 
 children of Mr. King are: John S., at home; 
 William R., a farmer residing near Pendleton, Ore.; 
 Charles E., who died at twenty-six years; Bell- 
 zora, who married David A. Jennings and died, 
 leaving three children; and Thomas J., who is 
 second lieutenant in Torrey's Rough Riders, in 
 the war with Spain. 
 
 |~REDERICKA.WII.MARTH,M.D., county 
 fft physician for Douglas County, local surgeon 
 I ^ for the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Com- 
 panj', and a successful practicing physician of 
 Castle Rock, was born at Milford (now Hopedale) , 
 Mass., June 30, 1861, and is a son of Dr. Jerome 
 and Abbie (Munyan) Wilmarth. His boyhood 
 days were spent in the town of Upton, where he 
 attended the high school, graduating in the class 
 of 1878. From childhood it had been his am- 
 bition to become a physician. However, after 
 completing his high -school course, he entered the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, 
 and spent three years in study there, when fail- 
 ing health obliging him to leave. For three 
 years he was employed in the straw shops at 
 Upton, and during that time he regained his 
 health. In 1884 he entered- the medical depart- 
 ment of Harvard University, from which he was 
 graduated in 1888, with the degree of M. D., and 
 subsequently he spent one year in the city hospi- 
 tal at Worcester, which privilege he earned by a 
 competitive examination. 
 
 After practicing at Upton for a year. Dr. Wil- 
 marth removed to Milford, where he assisted his 
 father in practice. Three years later he was 
 
 obliged, by poor health, to temporarily retire 
 from the profession. A year later, in 1894, he 
 came to Colorado and for two and one-half years 
 he remained in Denver, recuperating. In March, 
 1897, he settled in Castle Rock, where he estab- 
 lished himself in the general practice of his profes- 
 sion. Since coming here he has been surgeon for 
 the Denver & Rio Grande Railway and also 
 county physician. While in the east he was a 
 member of the Massachusetts State Medical So- 
 ciety, but resigned on leaving the state. At this 
 writing he is identified with the Denver and 
 Arapahoe Medical Society. 
 
 September 11, 1888, Dr. Wilmarth married 
 Cola 1,., daughter of Lambert and Mary (Brown) 
 Gillis, of Denver. She was born in Victor, N. Y. , 
 and took the trained nurses' course in the hospi- 
 tal at Worcester, where she became acquainted 
 with Dr. Wilmarth. One son has blessed the 
 union, Frederick Jerome, who was bom in Mil- 
 ford, Mass., November 3, 1889. 
 
 Though trained in youth in Republican prin- 
 ciples. Dr. Wilmarth is now independent in poli- 
 tics, and supports the best men and the best 
 measures, regardless of party. He was reared 
 and confirmed in the Episcopal faith. While in 
 Massachusetts he was made a Mason in Grafton 
 and is still identified with the fraternity, being a 
 member of Montgomery Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
 Milford, Mass. Among the charter members of 
 this well-known lodge was Paul Revere, whose 
 signature on the charter is one of the few in ex- 
 istence. Asa physician Dr. Wilmarth is skillful, 
 efiBcieutand painstaking, and has justly earned a 
 reputation for reliability in his chosen profession. 
 
 Q)AN BUREN KEESEY, who served as the 
 \ / first sherifi" of Weld County, from 1863 to 
 Y 1865, is one of its substantial citizens and 
 pioneers. He owns a well- improved ranch on 
 section 7, township 2, range 66, and hispostofiBce 
 is Fort Eupton. In the early days of this county 
 he helped in the organization of schools, and for 
 years was one of the members of the board of edu- 
 cation. In other ways he assisted in placing this 
 region on a safe and sure basis of prosperity and 
 is justly entitled to a place among its represent- 
 ative men. 
 
 Born in Perry ville, Ashland County, Ohio, 
 April 20, 1839, our subject is one of the seven 
 
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 children of James and Sophia (Cowan) Kelsey. 
 His father was a native of Ireland, born in the 
 neighborhood of Dublin, and the mother, though 
 of Irish parentage, was born near Pittsburg, Pa. 
 The surviving brothers and sisters of our subject 
 are all living west of the Mississippi River at 
 present. William, Sarah and George are in 
 Kansas, and John is in Montana. 
 
 The boyhood of Van Buren Kelsey was passed 
 quietly upon a farm in Ohio until, in 1859, when 
 he was twenty years old, he became infected with 
 the gold fever. He left home with a company 
 who were provided with two horse- teams. They 
 went to Cincinnati, and followed the general 
 course of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri 
 Rivers as far as Boonville, Mo. In Johnson 
 County, Kan., one of the party, Jonas Brantner, 
 bought a herd of cattle, and young Kelsey as- 
 sisted him in driving them across the plains. 
 They arrived at Cherry Creek about July 10, and 
 camped some five miles above Denver. For the 
 next three years our subject continued in the em- 
 ploy of Mr. Brantner, and by strict economy had 
 saved enough of his earnings to enable himself to 
 go into business on his own account. Having 
 bought a herd of yearlings he came to Weld 
 County and led a pastoral life for the next five 
 years. In 1866 he took up a claim within five 
 miles of Denver, but later sold this land to John 
 Castor. It is now a part of the McCool ranch. 
 In i860 he and Jonas Brantner commenced work 
 on the Brantner ditch, the first one made in 
 Arapahoe Count}', and it still goes by the name 
 it formerly bore. In 1876 Mr. Kelsey purchased 
 his present ranch of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 the boundaries of which homestead he has since 
 increased to two hundred and forty acres. The 
 land is watered by the Platteville Irrigating 
 Canal and is fertile and productive. The owner 
 has been occupied in general farming and stock- 
 raising, and has given some time and attention to 
 the dairy business as well. His success he has 
 wrought out by himself, without outside assist- 
 ance, and he is entitled to much credit for his ex- 
 cellent judgment and management. 
 
 Politically Mr. Kelsey is a Democrat. Fra- 
 ternally he is a Mason, belonging to Brighton 
 Lodge No. 78, A. F. & A. M. He was married 
 November 30, 1868, to Miss Laura G. Bailey, 
 daughter of Lawrence Bailey, and a native of 
 Muskingum County, Ohio. Her father was born 
 
 in Vermont. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Kelsey was blessed with seven children, all of 
 whom are living. They are named as follows: 
 Helen A. W., Charles B., George D., Kate I., 
 Sophia, Wheeler and Camile. 
 
 HENRY SEIFRIED, cashier and principal 
 owner of the Bank of Georgetown , is one of 
 the most successful men of the state and is 
 highly esteemed in the community. He was 
 born in Chicago, 111., forty-six years ago, and 
 came to this state in the fall of 1876. His father, 
 Francis Seifried, was born near Frankfort, Ger- 
 many, as was also his mother, Magdaline Ham- 
 melman. They located in Chicago about 1850, 
 and are both living. Four children blessed their 
 union: Henry; Frank, who is in the real-estate 
 and loan business in Denver; Emma, who lives in 
 Chicago; and William, who is with Baker Broth- 
 ers of that city. 
 
 Henry, who is the oldest of the family, at- 
 tended the public schools of Chicago, and after 
 completing the grammar school took a commer- 
 cial course in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial 
 College of that city. In 1866 he went into the 
 Merchants, Farmers and Mechanics' Saving 
 Bank as bookkeeper, and was promoted to the 
 position of head bookkeeper, in charge of real 
 estate and loans. After Remaining there ten 
 years he resigned and came to Georgetown, where 
 he bought the foundry and machine shops, now 
 the Union Iron Works, of Georgetown, and re- 
 mained with the company as president until 1879. 
 In 1882 he started the Bank of Georgetown, in- 
 corporated it as a state bank, and brought it up 
 to its present state of perfection. He is the 
 principal stockholder in the institution, and has 
 worked hard to place it on its present solid foot- 
 ing. It was the only bank in the city that was 
 able to pass over the panic of 1893 without a stop 
 or refusing to meet the demands made upon it. 
 It does a general banking business, and he has 
 held the position of cashier since its organization. 
 
 Besides his banking interests, Mr. Seifried is 
 also engaged in the real-estate business and rep- 
 resents some of the leading old line insurance 
 companies. He also owns and operated some 
 good mines. He was one of the organizers and 
 developers of the American Sisters mine at Clear 
 Creek, one of the largest properties there, con- 
 
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 sisting of six lodes, which are now being oper- 
 ated. He is a director in the First National Bank 
 of Idaho Springs, and has built several business 
 and residence properties in Georgetown, and also 
 owns real estate in Denver. In Pocahontas, 111., 
 he married Miss Cora Johnston, a nativeofOhio. 
 They have two children living: Marguerite and 
 Ruth. In politics a Republican, Mr. Seifried 
 has served Georgetown in the capacity of alder- 
 man, treasurer and mayor, each one term. He 
 was made a Mason in Chicago, joining the 
 National Lodge, A. F. & A. M., but transferred 
 his membership to Georgetown Lodge No. 48, 
 where he has held the post of treasurer fifteen 
 years. He is a member of the American Bank- 
 ers' Association, and spares no effort to add to 
 the stability of his business. He is an attendant 
 of the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is a 
 member. 
 
 ©IMON WEST, the owner of a valuable ranch 
 ^\ situated five miles southeast of Longmont, 
 V2/ Boulder County, was born in Sweden, Sep- 
 tember 21, 1849, a son of Nels and Christina 
 (Nillsen) West. He was next to the youngest 
 of five children, the others being Nels, Andrew; 
 Mary, who still resides in Sweden; and Peter, 
 who lives in Todd County, Minn. His father, 
 who was a prosperous farmer of Sweden, was 
 born in 1812, and attained the age of eighty 
 years, dying in his native land. 
 
 Our subject remained at home and assisted in 
 the cultivation of the home farm until his thirtieth 
 year. In 1880, having heard of the bright op- 
 portunities offered in America, he decided to cross 
 the ocean. Hetook passage on the steamer"Erie," 
 and after a voyage of thirteen days landed at 
 old Castle Garden, New York. His ticket had 
 been bought through to Cheyenne, Wyo., so he 
 continued his journey westward, arriving at Chey- 
 enne and from there proceeding to Longmont, 
 where he secured employment with Nels Bailer 
 as a farm hand. After two years in that place 
 he rented land and for one year engaged in farm- 
 ing there. Next he went to Clear Creek Valley 
 near Arvada, where he rented land from Gust 
 Bailer and farmed for one year. On his return to 
 Longmont he farmed for one year and then came 
 to his present location, the old Robinson place, of 
 three hundred and twenty acres. After three 
 years of successful farming here, he bought the 
 
 property, for which he paid $1,000 in cash and 
 gave his note for $5,000. His crops continued 
 good and in the course of five years the land was 
 paid for and he was on the road to independence. 
 The succeeding years have brought him enhanced 
 prosperity, and he now ranks among the well-to- 
 do farmers of his county. His success is espec- 
 ially commendable when it is considered that he 
 came to this countrj' without friends or money, 
 and was so poor that he had no place to sleep ex- 
 cept a bed of straw. Honesty and integrity won 
 him many friends and his industry and persever- 
 ance pushed him forward to independence and 
 success. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. West married Miss Anna Nielsen, 
 a native of Sweden and his sweetheart in the old 
 days there. After he was in a position to support 
 a wife, he sent back to Sweden for her and she 
 joined him in Colorado. They became the parents 
 of four children, three of whom are living, namely: 
 Fred, Oscar and Rosa N. One daughter, Hilda, 
 is deceased. The surviving children are being 
 given every advantage their parents can provide, 
 it being their father's desire that they may have 
 good educations and not be forced to struggle 
 against poverty as he did. In religion he and 
 his wife are members of the Lutheran Church. 
 
 EHRISTOPHER TREZISE. The popularity 
 of a man in this county is pretty well esti- 
 mated by the votes he receives when a candi- 
 date before the people, and judging by this 
 standard Mr. Trezise is one of the men in whom 
 is placed the highest degree of confidence and re- 
 spect. In 1895 he was made the nominee of the 
 Democratic and People's parties as county treas- 
 urer, and was elected along with county judge, 
 county superintendent of schools and sheriff. The 
 oath of oSice was taken by him in January, 1896. 
 He was re-elected in 1897, the second term to 
 expire in 1900. 
 
 He was born August 22, 1852, in Cornwall, 
 England, four miles from Land's End. His fa- 
 ther, William Trezise, was also born there and 
 was a miner, becoming chief engineer of the 
 mines. He died at the age of sixty-nine. He 
 married Miss Elizabeth Daniel, a daughter of 
 Thomas Daniel, of the same vicinity. She died 
 in England, leaving a family of fifteen children, 
 ten of whom grew to maturity, and eight of 
 
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 whom are now living. Christopher was the thir- 
 teenth child. Four of the family are in Colorado, 
 while a brother and two sisters live in Nevada. 
 
 Mr. Trezise was reared and educated in Corn- 
 wall, after which he entered on the life of a miner, 
 working in the mines of his native country until 
 1872, when he came to America, and secured 
 work in the iron ore mines of Dover, N. J. The 
 next year he went to the copper mines in Michi- 
 gan and worked a year, and then started for this 
 state, reaching Central City May 20, 1874. Most 
 of the time since coming here has been spent in 
 prospecting and superintending mining opera- 
 tions. The company of which Mr. Trezise was 
 one leased and developed the Old Colony mine, 
 on the Prize lode, and operated it awhile, and is 
 now interested in the Champion mine in the 
 Nevada district, and the Mountain Rose mine in 
 Gregory district. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Trezise was elected assessor for 
 Gilpin County and served from January, 1890, 
 until the same mouth in 1892. In 1891 he was 
 the Democratic nominee for treasurer, but was 
 defeated bj' about sixty-four votes, and the rest 
 of the ticket also failed. He refused the nomi- 
 nation in 1893, but two years later allowed his 
 name to be placed on the ticket with the result 
 that he was the only man on it to be elected. 
 While in Nevadaville he was a member of the 
 board of aldermen, and also served as treasurer 
 for two years. He is a member of Rising Sun 
 Lodge No. 2, Order of Red Men, the Sons of 
 St. George, Select Friends and Knights of Pythias. 
 
 WILLIAM B. NEELEY, secretary of the 
 Boulder and White Rock Ditch Company, 
 of Longmont, was born in Lancaster, 
 Schuyler County, Mo., July 13, 1853. He is a 
 son of R. S. and Judy D. (Jones) Neeley, natives 
 respectively of Ohio and Virginia. After having 
 spent his early years in Ohio, in 1845 R. S. 
 Neeley removed to Missouri, where he took up 
 government land and embarked in farming, later 
 engaging in the stock business, and also operat- 
 ing a sawmill and factory. He became a man of 
 prominence and had a wide acquaintance through- 
 out his part of Missouri. On the organization of 
 Schuyler County he was elected the first sheriff, 
 and the first lawsuit in the county was tried in 
 his house. His life in Missouri was one of activ- 
 
 ity and was rewarded by a large degree of suc- 
 cess. In 1879 he disposed of the larger part of 
 his interests in that state and removed to Colo- 
 rado, where he nov/ resides near Alamosa, Cone- 
 jos County, in the San Luis Valley. He is now 
 .somewhat advanced in years and for this reason 
 does not perform the manual labor to which he 
 was accustomed in younger life; however, he 
 still superintends his large ranch and attends to 
 all business matters personally. 
 
 The family of R. S. Neeley consisted of seven 
 sons and one daughter, all of whom are living. 
 Of the four born to his first marriage, William B., 
 the youngest, was only eighteen months old 
 when his mother died. She was a daughter of 
 John Jones, who was born in Virginia and spent 
 much of his early life there, but became a pioneer 
 of Indiana, thence removed to Missouri, and still 
 later, in 1863, settled in Colorado. For some 
 time he carried on farm pursuits, but afterward 
 lived in retirement, in Boulder County, where he 
 died at seventy-six years of age. Much of his 
 life was given to the work of a pioneer, and he 
 was one who was well fitted, by nature, for the 
 responsible and arduous tasks incident to frontier 
 life. 
 
 The boyhood years of our subject were spent 
 in Missouri. He received such educational ad- 
 vantages as could be obtained in the public 
 schools of his home neighborhood, and to the 
 knowledge there obtained he added by self-culture, 
 thus acquiring sufficient education to fit him for 
 practical business life. When eighteen j'ears of 
 age he came to Colorado, and during the two suc- 
 ceeding years was engaged in teaming and 
 freighting, then a common and profitabe occupa- 
 tion. In 1874 he settled in Boulder County and 
 there purchased a tract of eighty acres. This 
 land he cultivated and improved, making of it 
 a valuable farm. He remained there until 1890, 
 when he came to his present home, Longmont. 
 About 1877 he was made general superintendent 
 of the Boulder and White Rock Ditch Company, 
 and has been connected with the company in 
 this capacity ever since, a longer time than any 
 one in the state has held such a position. As 
 secretary of the company he attends to its col- 
 lections and his services are of the greatest 
 value to its president, J. J. Beasley, as well as to 
 the stockholders and other officers. The ditch 
 is about thirty miles long and through it much 
 
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 of the land in this section has been made profit- 
 able. In addition to his other interests, he is 
 financiallj^ interested in the Farmers' Milling 
 and Elevator Company and the Farmers' Na- 
 tional Bank and is a stockholder and director in 
 the Longmont Electric Light and Power Com- 
 pany. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Neeley took place in Boul- 
 der in 1879, and united him with Miss Mary C. 
 Cay wood, who was born in Iowa and accom- 
 panied her father, W. W. Caywood, to Colorado 
 in 1866. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Neeley 
 consists of four sons: Robert W., James G., 
 William R. and Elbert E., all of whom are living. 
 The father of Mrs. Neeley, W. W. Caywood, 
 was a native of Kentucky and removed from that 
 state to Iowa in 1855. There he resided until 
 1866 and then came to Colorado, of which state 
 he remained a resident until his death in 1888. 
 While in Kentucky he married Katie D. New- 
 man, and the family resulting from this union 
 consisted of five sons and five daughters. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Neeley is connected with the 
 lodge and encampment, I. O. O. F., in which he 
 has been an ofiicer, and he is an honorary mem- 
 ber of the Daughters of Rebekah and Ancient 
 Order United Workmen. Personally he is a 
 genial, affable gentleman, whose uprightness of 
 life and energy in business have won for him a 
 host of friends. 
 
 /JJEN. GEORGE WEST, editor of the Colo- 
 |_. rado 7Va«im)!>/, president of the Association 
 \Ji of Jefferson County Pioneers and ex -adju- 
 tant-general of the state, was born in Claremont, 
 N. H. , November 6, 1826, the descendant of 
 English ancestors. His father, Aaron, who was 
 a native of Claremont, followed farm pursuits, 
 and during the war of 1812 served as sergeant. 
 His death was the result of an accident and 
 occurred when he was fifty years of age. He 
 married Elizabeth Leslie, who was born in New 
 Hampshire and died in Boston,' Mass., at the age 
 of eighty-five. Of their ten children seven attained 
 maturity, George being the only one of the family 
 in Colorado. He was reared in Claremont until 
 seventeen and then, in 1843, went to Boston, 
 where he worked in the composing room of the 
 Boston Cultivator. For three years previous he 
 had served at the printer's trade on the National 
 Eagle of Claremont. He was prospered in his 
 
 work in the city and in 1853 became one of the 
 proprietors of the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 
 now a large business concern of Boston. 
 
 When the Pike's Peak excitement spread over 
 the country he was among the first who deter- 
 mined to come west. In the spring of 1859 he 
 organized a party of eight members, called the 
 Boston Company, and they journeyed westward 
 together. Reaching St. Joe, they traveled from 
 there with ox-teams and arrived at the point 
 where Golden now stands, June 12, 1859. He 
 is the only one of the company left here now. 
 He assisted the others in building the first house 
 in Golden, a log structure of two stories, which, 
 weather- boarded and painted, is still a comfort- 
 able house. Soon after settling in Golden he 
 established the Western Mountaineer here, it be- 
 ing the first regularly published paper in the 
 place. In the spring of i860 he returned to 
 Boston, disposed of his business interests there 
 and bought a printing press, which he brought 
 via mule-train to Colorado. In the spring of 
 1861 he sold the Western Mountaineer to a gentle- 
 man who took the plant to Canon City. He 
 turned his attention to freighting, and made three 
 trips between Denver and the Missouri River. 
 
 In the spring of 1862 he enlisted in the Second 
 Colorado Infantry, and was made captain of Com- 
 pany H, receiving his commission from the war 
 department. The regiment was ordered to St. 
 Louis, where it was consolidated with the Third 
 Colorado Infantry and made the Second Colo- 
 rado Cavalry, his command becoming Company 
 F. At the close of the war he was honorably dis- 
 charged at Fort Riley, Kan., and returned to 
 Golden. During his period of army service 
 occurred one of the most important events of his 
 life. In 1863 he was ordered to Colorado by 
 General Blunt to recruit for his regiment, and 
 after attending to these duties, he did not neglect 
 another important, but more personal matter. 
 He was united in marriage with Miss Eliza M., 
 daughter of Judge T. P. Boyd, of Golden. In 
 January, 1864, his wife joined him at Sedalia, 
 Mo., and remained with him at the front until 
 the close of the war, being engaged in hospital 
 work during much of the time. 
 
 After returning to Colorado, Captain West be- 
 came city editor of the Rocky Mountain News at 
 Denver. In November, 1866, he founded the 
 Colorado Transcript at Golden, which he still 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 owns and edits. At first the paper was quite 
 small, but as its patronage increased the dimen- 
 sions of the paper were enlarged to correspond. 
 It is now a six-column quarto. In politics it is 
 unswervingly Democratic, but in local affairs it 
 does not display a partisan spirit, always support- 
 ing any measure for the good of the people, what- 
 ever its political birth might have been. In con- 
 nection with the paper, there is a good job office 
 and a specialty is made of first-class job work. 
 The presses are modern and are operated with 
 electricity as the motive power. In 1887 he was 
 appointed adjutant-general of the state by Gov- 
 ernor Adams, and during his term of office 
 occurred the Ute outbreak. The National Guard 
 were ordered to the field to quell the disturbance, 
 and with General West at their head drove the 
 marauding Indians back to their reservation. 
 The Guard spent a month in active service, and 
 their success was so marked that the Utes have 
 since refrained from stealing and killing cattle, as 
 heretofore. He served for two years as adjutant- 
 general and became very popular with the Guard, 
 whose equipment and drill he noticeably im- 
 proved. Under his direction new uniforms were 
 purchased and armories established at Denver, 
 Leadville and Colorado Springs. A signal corps 
 was also instituted, which has since been made 
 one of the permanent adjuncts of the Guard. 
 He is now an officer on the retired list, with the 
 rank of brigadier-general. 
 
 General West is commander of T. H. Dodd 
 Post No. 3, G. A. R. and is past senior vice-com- 
 mander of the department of Colorado. He 
 organized the Association of Jefferson County 
 Pioneers, of which he has been president much of 
 the time since. In religious belief he and his 
 wife are Episcopalians. They have three chil- 
 dren: Marguerite, Mrs. George M. Kimball, of 
 Golden; Leslie B., who assists his father in the 
 publication of the Transcript; and Harley D., now 
 at Manila, P. I., as a member of Company K, 
 First Colorado Volunteers. 
 
 EHALMON WRAY, a farmer of Larimer 
 County, residing on township 4, range 69, 
 was born in Franklin County, Va., in 1847, 
 and is a son of Daniel and Naomi (Johnson) 
 Wray, natives of Virginia. His father, who 
 spent his entire life in the Old Dominion, followed 
 
 the pursuits of farmer, tanner and blacksmith, 
 and was for a number of years squire of the 
 town, of which he was a leading citizen. His 
 death occurred in 1S63, when he was fifty-one 
 years of age. His widow, who is now ih her 
 eightieth year, resides with her son, Mankino, in 
 Iowa. 
 
 At the age of eighteen, in 1865, Mr. Wray, of 
 this sketch, came as far west as Marion County, 
 Iowa, and there embarked in general farming in 
 connection with his brother, the two renting a 
 farm together. In 1873 he crossed the plains to 
 Colorado, arriving in Longmont on the 4th of 
 July. The following year, in partnership with 
 his brother-in-law, R. J. Patterson, he rented a 
 farm, which he assisted in cultivating for a year. 
 He then returned to Tennessee to buy cattle, 
 which he fed on the range. Coming from that 
 state to Colorado, he stopped at his old home in 
 Iowa. In 1875 he returned to Longmont and 
 bought some cattle, which he pastured on the 
 South Platte River. He engaged in cattle-rais- 
 ing until 1878, when he sold out. During the 
 same year he bought eighty-four acres on section 
 14, where he now resides. March i, 1878, he 
 hauled the first load of stone for his present home. 
 He made a number of valuable improvements and 
 has followed general farming, dairying and stock- 
 raising, on his eighty-four and one-third acres of 
 fine land, all of which is improved. He is a 
 stockholder and director in the Farmers' roller 
 mill at Berthoud. For some years he has held 
 stock in the Handy Ditch Company, of which he 
 was among the original promoters. 
 
 Politically Mr. Wray was a Democrat until 
 1892, since which time he has voted the People's 
 party ticket. In religion he is identified with 
 the German Baptist Brethren Church. April 7, 
 1878, he was united in marriage with Stella, 
 daughter of John R. UUery, one of the pioneers 
 of Boulder County, having come here in 1863. 
 At that time the Indians were on the warpath; 
 they had been very troublesome some years before 
 and more so shortly afterward, but Mr. Ullery's 
 family were fortunate in getting through un- 
 molested. They are the parents of three chil- 
 dren: Nettie V., Katie E. and Edward N. The 
 family residence is situated on the farm, near the 
 town of Berthoud on the west. Mr. Wray raises 
 fine fruit (principally apples), which he ships to 
 Denver and adjoining places. He is interested 
 
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 in fruit-raising and for a number of years was 
 secretary of the board of horticulture, during 
 which time he inspected fruit in various sections. 
 In 1895 lis served as judge of fruits at the Love- 
 land fair. He has frequently taken premiums 
 for the finest displays of fruits, and also for his 
 wheat, which has scaled sixty-five pounds per 
 bushel. 
 
 [gj EORGE CLARKE, a leading and successful 
 j_ farmer of Boulder County, is a self-made 
 ^_J man, having won his way from poverty to 
 affluence by his own exertions. He came to the 
 state in 1873, with little means, and by industry 
 and frugality has been able to amass considerable 
 property. He was born in Shropshire, England, 
 at Woolston, Oswestry, on the moor side at 
 Masbury, March 13, 1849. His father, John 
 Clarke, was born in the same house as himself, 
 and was a farmer, dying November 6, 1890, at 
 the advanced age of seventy-eight years. This 
 house had been in the family for years, and his 
 grandfather, John Clarke, was also born there. 
 The Clarkes were an old family of Oswestry. 
 John Clarke had been a family name for several 
 generations, and a brother now bears the name. 
 His father married Elizabeth Edwards, of Mon- 
 mouthshire, Wales. Her parents were farmers in 
 that country. She died April 23, 1891, aged 
 seventy-one years, and lies buried, with her hus- 
 band, in the WestFelton churchyard. Five chil- 
 dren, four sons and one daughter, survive them: 
 John, who resides on the old homestead; Mary, 
 Mrs. Samuel Lloyd, who died at Oswestry; 
 Thomas, a farmer of Boulder County; George, 
 the subject of this biography; and Richard, a 
 farmer of Weld County, this state. 
 
 The first nineteen years of his life, Mr. Clarke 
 spent on his father's farm, attending pay school, 
 where the money for the schooling had to be 
 taken every Monday morning. From 1868 to 
 1870 he secured employment in Oswestry, and at 
 the end of that time set sail for America, coming 
 byway of Liverpool, on the steamer, "City of 
 Pathia." He landed in New York, and at once 
 went to Connecticut, where he worked on a farm 
 near Meriden for two years, and then pushed his 
 way west as far as Iowa, stopping near Iowa City 
 until the following year, when he came to Colo- 
 rado. He at once set about finding work as a 
 farm hand, at which he continued two years, and 
 53 
 
 then rented a farm two miles north of Longmont. 
 In 1876 he purchased eighty acres from the north 
 part of this farm which he at once began to im- 
 prove. He enlarged the ditch that his land might 
 have better irrigation, and began in the cattle 
 business. He also dealt in horses. He then 
 purchased one hundred and sixty acres east of 
 his first purchase, and later another forty adjoin- 
 ing, and on this makes his home. He now owns 
 two hundred and eighty acres of land in one 
 body, within a quarter of a mile of the corpora- 
 tion of Longmont, in a high state of cultivation. 
 He also owns one hundred and sixty acres west 
 of Longmont and city property in addition. His 
 is one of the best improved farms in this part of 
 the state, having a fine residence, large, roomy 
 and convenient barns, a windmill to pump and 
 carry water, and all the improved machinery that 
 is needed to aid in the work. He is quick to 
 adopt modern methods when he sees they will be 
 a benefit to him, and one idea recently taken ad- 
 vantage of by him is the potato planter and 
 digger, a great labor saving machine. He is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 At one time he had a cattle range in Little Elk 
 Park, then on the Platte. His farm is stocked 
 with some fine horses, among them being Perch- 
 eron and draft horses. He was for many years 
 a member of the firm of Clarke & Delfor, stock 
 dealers and butchers of Longmont, but afterwards 
 sold his interest. He is closely identified with 
 the public interests of the city, being a stock- 
 holder in the Farmers' Milling and Elevator 
 Company, the Longmont Creamery Company 
 and the Farmers' National Bank. 
 
 Mr. Clarke was married in 1871, in Con- 
 necticut, to Miss Margaret Thurrott, a lady of 
 pleasing address and amiable disposition, who 
 has been a constant help to him by her en- 
 couragement and counsel. She was born in New 
 Brunswick, and is a daughter of John Thurrott, 
 a native of Scotland, near Edinburgh. Her 
 grandfather, John Thurrott, settled in Weldford, 
 Kent County, New Brunswick, and was a farmer. 
 He was a strong Presbyterian and a good man. 
 He died at quite an advanced age, after a long life 
 of usefulness. Her father was also a farmer, and 
 died after attaining his seventy-eighth year. 
 Her mother, Mary Morton, was born in Scotland, 
 a daughter of James Morton, a farmer, and died 
 at the old home when nearly seventy. Twelve 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 children grew to adult years, ten of them still 
 living. One brother lives in Connecticut, and 
 the remaining eight live within sight of the old 
 home. Mrs. Clarke was the sixth child, and was 
 educated and reared in Weldford. They have 
 three bright children. Alma, Ethel and Lynn, 
 who give great promise for the future. 
 
 Mr. Clarke was the first of his family to come 
 to this country, and since his coming two 
 brothers, Thomas and Richard, have joined him. 
 He is past grand in the lodge of Odd Fellows, a 
 member of the encampment, and both he and 
 his wife are members of the Rebekah Lodge. He 
 also belongs to the Woodmen of the World. 
 They are attendants of the Congregational Church 
 of Longmont, and give valuable aid to that so- 
 ciety. He is captain of the Longmont Gun Club, 
 and a fine .shot, as is shown by him capturing 
 the gold medal of the club twice, besides securing 
 a number of other prizes. He is a silver Repub- 
 lican and has served as delegate to conventions. 
 
 30HN J. WHITE, who, although a compara- 
 tively young man has had much experience 
 in the practice of his profession, stands in 
 the foremost rank among the lawyers of Clear 
 Creek County, and is an influential citizen of 
 Georgetown. He is a son of P. F. and Ann 
 (McCaughery) White, and was born in Nevada- 
 ville, Gilpin County, Colo., March 25, 1870. He 
 is of Irish extraction and is a grandson of John 
 White, who followed the occupation of a farmer 
 in Ireland throughout his entire life. 
 
 P. F. White, the father of our subject, was 
 born in Ireland and performed the duties which 
 characterize the life of every farmer boy, until he 
 was nineteen years of age, when he emigrated to 
 America. He located in Massachusetts, and 
 obtained his first employment in the iron mills of 
 Taunton, Bristol County, continuing until 1862, 
 when he decided to cross the western plains. 
 The great railway systems of to-day, which con- 
 vey passengers to all parts of the country in a 
 few days, were then in their infancy, and the long, 
 tedious journey was accomplished by means of 
 ox-teams, many difficulties being encountered 
 and overcome. This hardy old settler located at 
 Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colo., and there 
 engaged in mining and prospecting for some time, 
 and later in freighting between Denver and George- 
 
 town, Clear Creek County, moving his family to 
 the latter town in 1872. He continued at that 
 line of work until 1874, when he turned his at- 
 tention to mining and at the present time holds 
 the responsible position of inside foreman of the 
 Joseph Reynolds mines at Silver Creek, near the 
 town of Lawson. He married Ann McCaughery, 
 by whom he had seven children, three of whom 
 now live, namely: Bernard, George J. and John 
 J., all worthy citizens of Georgetown. Mr. White 
 was bereaved of his beloved wife's companionship 
 by death in May, 1896. 
 
 John J. White was taken to Georgetown by his 
 parents in 1872, and there obtained his primary 
 education in the public schools. In 1885 he 
 entered Brown University, of Providence, R. I., 
 one of the best educational institutions our coun- 
 try affords, and attended until the close of the 
 junior year, when he returned to his home in 
 Colorado. He then conducted a pharmacy in the 
 town of Empire for a period of seven months, 
 and subsequently engaged in the grocery business 
 for one year at Idaho Springs. He next went to 
 Lawson and was employed in the Two Sister 
 mines for one year, after which, in 1892, he began 
 the study of law in Denver, a profession for which 
 he is well qualified by natural talents, and in the 
 following year entered the law department of the 
 University of Denver, paying his own way with 
 the means he acquired during his years of work. 
 He was graduated in June, 1895, and received the 
 degree of Bachelor of Law. In the same month, 
 he was admitted to the state bar, and immediately 
 thereafter entered upon a practice in Georgetown, 
 where he has since continued. A man of unusual 
 shrewdness and judgment, a deep thinker and 
 convincing speaker, he has won many cases before 
 the courts and is firmly established in a large 
 clientage. He is enterprising and energetic and 
 in addition to his law practice is financially inter- 
 ested in mines. He is one in whose character 
 there is much to admire, and he is held in the 
 highest esteem by his many friends and fellow- 
 citizens. 
 
 In political affiliations Mr. White is an ardent 
 Democrat and in 1898 was elected president of 
 the school board ; his popularity is shown in that 
 election by the fact that out of a possible four 
 hundred and thirty-six votes his opponent received 
 but one hundred and twenty. Fraternally he is 
 a member of Lodge No. 5, I. O. O. F., Silver 
 
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 Queen lyodge of Georgetown, and Pocahontas 
 Lodge, Mohican Tribe No. 54, I. O. R. M., of 
 which he has been sachem. He is also a member 
 of the alumni association of the law department 
 of the University of Denver. 
 
 k yiRS. JULIA A. HARMON. Feeling that 
 y some of the most important events in my 
 (^ life will not be preserved if I leave the task 
 of writing them to others, I have decided to pre- 
 pare it myself. I was born in Randolph County, 
 Va., in 1835, the daughter of Samuel and 
 Naomi (Hoffman) Rexroad. My father, who 
 was born in 1803, was engaged in the lumber 
 business in New Albany, Ind., and died there 
 December 18, 1840, when I was quite young. 
 My mother, who was born January 15, 1807, was 
 a second time married, a few years after the 
 death of Mr. Rexroad becoming the wife of 
 Hiram Harmon. She died Februarj- 8, 1857. 
 After her death her brother, P. H. Hoffman, of 
 Kentucky, wrote her obituary, which appears 
 
 below: 
 
 "It falls to my lot to chronicle the exit from 
 earth to heaven of my dear sister, Mrs. Naomi 
 Harmon, who departed her life at her husband's 
 residence, in Whiteside County, 111., Februarys, 
 1857, at five o'clock A. M. Sister Harmon was 
 the eldest daughter of Michael and Susannah 
 Hoffman. She was born in Pendleton County, 
 Va., January 15, 1807, and from the best of my 
 information she embraced Christianity in 1830, 
 and united herself with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Churcli, at the same time under the ministry of 
 Rev. Mr. Tucker, of the Pittsburg conference in 
 the Randolph circuit. She continued a worthy 
 and accepted member of the church from her first 
 connection to the day God said, 'It is enough. 
 Come up higher.' Sister Harmon has been 
 the subject of much affliction for many years. In 
 early life she met with the misfortune of Icsing, 
 by death, the husband of her youth, Samuel 
 Rexroad, with whom she had lived in happiness, 
 and who left her in charge of five small children, 
 four daughters and one .son. She resided at that 
 time in New Albany, Ind. Her second daughter 
 went to Henderson, Ky., to spend a short time 
 with a friend, but, alas! she was seen no more 
 by her mother. The sad intelligence was soon 
 returned that Amanda was burned to death in 
 
 Henderson. The youngest daughter was sent 
 to live with her grandmother in Virginia, but 
 sweet little Emma was returned no more to her 
 afflicted parent; word soon fell on her ear that 
 Emma, too, was dead. 
 
 "Thus in a short time three of her dear family 
 were taken away from her, and she was left to 
 mourn her irreparable loss. She moved to Illi- 
 nois to spend her remaining days with friends. 
 There to ameliorate her condition, she was mar- 
 ried to Mr. Harmon, who now feels deeply his 
 loss occasioned by her death. She lived but a 
 few years after her second marriage. Sister Har- 
 mon was a high-minded and kind-hearted Chris- 
 tian lady, pleasing and affable in her manners, 
 though unassuming, yet much respected and 
 loved by her neighbors. She had been an obedi- 
 ent daughter. She was an affectionate wife and 
 kind mother, and an obliging neighbor. Her 
 end was peace and consolation, in the promises 
 of Him in whose hand are the issues of life and 
 death, feeling that all things work together for 
 good to them that love God. Truly her change 
 of worlds was triumphant. I was informed by 
 Miss S. V. M. that two or three weeks prior to her 
 death were spent in prayer and praise; that her 
 greatest desire was to depart and be with Christ, 
 who had always been her best friend, in affliction 
 and in health. A few minutes before she closed her 
 eyes on earth, she inquired of a sister how long 
 it would be before she was released. She was in- 
 formed that one hour would in all probability 
 close her earthly pilgrimage. She gave assent, 
 by a nod of her head, and in a few minutes her- 
 work was ended, as peacefully as the summer sun 
 sinks into the western horizon. O, that this dis- 
 pensation may be sanctified to the everlasting 
 good of her two remaining daughters, orphaned 
 son and afflicted husband, and all her kindred." 
 
 In the year 1861 my husband, myself and 
 our two little girls, Katie and Nellie, came to 
 Colorado, leaving Illinois April 11, crossing the 
 plains in a covered wagon, and arriving in Golden 
 City June 8. In our travels we saw many Indi- 
 ans, but they were not on the warpath at that 
 time. Later on many white people were killed 
 and much property destroyed. We came here as 
 gold seekers, but that was not a success. We 
 then moved to a farm on Boulder Creek. With 
 the care of a large dairy and a family of small 
 children my^life was a very hard one. My son. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 Wilson M., was born August 26, 1861; Frank 
 H. was born January 30, 1863; and Guy D., 
 March 5, 1867. When my children were old 
 enough to go to school, we moved to Boulder, 
 where I maintained them the best I could, always 
 working very hard. After a few years we again 
 moved on a farm where my boys made for them- 
 selves and me good homes ten miles southeast of 
 the city of Boulder. 
 
 All of the children are married except Frank, 
 who lives with me. Katie is the wife of T. B. 
 Compton, a shoemaker by trade, living in Boul- 
 der. They have two children: Claude, eighteen 
 years old, who is attending the high school; and 
 Camille, thirteen years old, who is not strong 
 enough to attend public school and is studying 
 under a private teacher at home. Nellie is mar- 
 ried to John R. Miner, a farmer living in Weld 
 County. They have two children: Nettie and 
 Ray, sixteen and fourteen years old respectively. 
 The first of the boys to marry was Guy, who 
 married Maggie Dixon, an English girl; they 
 have one son, Raymond, now six years of age. 
 Wilson married Mary Harris, a Welsh girl. They 
 have three children: Earl, six years old; Julia, 
 four; and Ella. 
 
 r\ETER H. MULLIGAN, whose home is on 
 L/^ section 14, township 9, range 63 west, El- 
 t^ bert County, was born in County Mayo, 
 Ireland, August 15, 1846, a son of John and 
 Bridget Mulligan. He was about ten years of 
 age when his parents moved to Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, and there he was employed in cotton mills 
 for some years. In 1864, at the age of eighteen, 
 he emigrated to America, and for a year made his 
 home in New York, but afterward went to Jack- 
 son County, Mo., and from there a few months 
 later removed to Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
 While in the latter city Mr. Mulligan enlisted 
 in Company G, Third United States Infantry, of 
 the regular army. He remained in the service 
 for three years, then was discharged at Fort Lyon, 
 Colo., but after some time re-enlisted in the same 
 company for five years, then was discharged at 
 Conchoda, La. He re-enlisted for five years and 
 was discharged at Fort Shaw, Mont. In the fall 
 of 1868 he took part in the battle of Wichita 
 Mountains under General Custer. In September, 
 1874, he took part in the quelling of the riot at 
 New Orleans, and in 1877 he was similarly en- 
 
 gaged at Pittsburg. On being ordered west, he 
 went to Montana to watch the movements of 
 Sitting Bull and was stationed at Fort Logan, 
 Mont., for some time, but from there went to 
 Milk River, Mont, and then came to Fort Shaw, 
 where he was discharged September 20, 188 1. 
 
 In 1870, in Fort Lyon, Mr. Mulligan married 
 Miss Henrietta Kunze, daughter of Frederick 
 Kunze, and a native of Germany. She was 
 quite small when brought to America by her 
 parents and was given a fair education in the 
 common schools of this country. Five children 
 were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan, namely: 
 August, who was born at Lamar, Mo., in 1873; 
 Frederick, who was born at Jefferson Barracks, 
 La., in 1875, and is a private in Company G, 
 First Colorado Infantry, now on duty on the 
 Philippine Islands; Isabelle, who was born at 
 Fort Shaw, Mont.; Richard and John, who were 
 born in Elbert County, the latter June 13, 1886. 
 
 In 1 88 1 Mr. Mulligan bought one hundred 
 and sixty acres that form the nucleus of his 
 present property. To it he added from time to 
 time until his possessions now aggregate nine 
 hundred and twenty acres, lying on Comanche 
 Creek and containing valuable improvements. 
 The location of the property makes it desirable 
 for cattle-raising, and we find that Mr. Mulligan 
 has made a specialty of tfiis business, in which 
 the larger portion of his property has been ac- 
 cumulated. He is identified with Elbert Lodge 
 No. 86, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all of 
 the chairs and is now past grand. He is also a 
 charter member of the Home Forum. In 1872 
 he voted for Grant, but is now an advocate of the 
 People's party, and in 1895 was the Populist 
 candidate for sherifi" of Elbert County. 
 
 pQlLLlAM M. GRAVES, one of the well- 
 \ A / known residents of Jefierson Count}% was 
 YV born near Bloomington, 111., August 12, 
 1846, a son of Oliver and Lucy (Story) Graves. 
 He was the eldest of five children, the others of 
 whom are: John, a farmer, living near Broom- 
 field, Colo. ; Mary, who married E. Porter Smith, 
 a farmer near Broomfield; Edward, who resides 
 in Denver and is interested in mining; and Harry, 
 a merchant of Broomfield. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in Montpe- 
 lier, Vt., March 13, 1813, and spent the years of 
 
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 youth in his native town, but after his marriage 
 he removed to New York state, where he re- 
 mained some years. Removing thence to Bloom- 
 ington, 111., he opened up a wholesale and retail 
 grocery business, which he carried on for four 
 years, and then retired from business and em- 
 barked in farming. In 1849, when the California 
 gold fever was at its height, he started across the 
 plains, and pursued his way, amid dangers from 
 Indians and perils from other sources, until he 
 reached his destination. His journey was a 
 thrilling one, and while he escaped arousing the 
 enmity of the Indians himself, he witnessed many 
 harrowing scenes, one of which was the skinning 
 of a white man, alive, by the Indians, as a re- 
 venge upon him for shooting an Indian squaw. 
 With the skin of the man they whipped his bro- 
 ther and father. Such dreadful scenes as these 
 he was forced to witness, and it was with grati- 
 tude in his heart that he finally reached his des- 
 tination. He was very successful and after two 
 years returned home, with his grandfather. Palmer 
 Story, bringing a neat sum of money with him. 
 
 Coming to Colorado during the Pike's Peak 
 excitement of 1859, Mr. Graves engaged in 
 mining at Spring Gulch. In i860 he returned 
 to Illinois and brought his family west with him, 
 settling twelve miles from Black Hawk, where he 
 bought a toll road from Golden Gate, twelve miles 
 up into the mountains. However, he was unable 
 to hold it and in 1862 he removed to Arvada, 
 where he had taken up a ranch in January, 1861. 
 Here he settled and continued to reside until his 
 death. May 4, 1896. 
 
 At the age of seventeen our subject apprenticed 
 himself to the blacksmith's trade at Golden Gate, 
 under Ashley Howard. At the expiration of 
 eighteen months he went to Denver and served 
 Ansel Barker, on the present site of Brown Bro- 
 thers' wholesale grocery business. While there 
 he was offered six lots on that site for $350, but 
 refused to buy them. After working for two 
 years in the same position, -his father's illness 
 caused him to resign his place and return home, 
 where he took charge of the home farm. After 
 eighteen months, January 14, 1868, he was united 
 in marriage with Miss Klizabeth Perrin, and then 
 began farming independently. After three years 
 he turned his attention to the threshing busi- 
 ness, having bought a thresher in the fall of 1868. 
 About the same time he had also built a black- 
 
 smith's shop in Arvada, and here he has since 
 followed his trade. He now has three steam 
 threshers, which are busy during the season, and 
 in connection with his blacksmith business he has 
 a shop fitted up with feed grinders, planing mill, 
 turning lathe, band saw, etc. 
 
 Eleven children were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Graves, but three of them died in in- 
 fancy. The others are named as follows: Ollie, 
 Charles, Ruth, Annie, Robert, Ida (deceased), 
 Louise and Nellie. In 1892 Mr. Graves was 
 elected county commissioner on the Republican 
 ticket and served for two terms in that capacity. 
 For fifteen years he has been a school director of 
 his district. 
 
 pCjlLLIAM L. BUSH, cashier of the First 
 \ A / National Bank of Idaho Springs, was born 
 YV in Ontario County, N. Y., January 4, 
 1861, and is a son of Henry C. and Helen M. 
 (Benham) Bush, both natives of the same coun- 
 ty. The father's family had been old-time resi- 
 dents of the east, where he was engaged in farm- 
 ing. Later he crossed the plains to California, 
 where he remained many years, then moved into 
 Montana, and from that state to Colorado, ar- 
 riving here in 1872 or 1873. He first located in 
 Denver and then went to Golden, where he opened 
 a hotel and made considerable money, enabling 
 him to retire to a farm and spend the remainder 
 of his days in comfort. He still resides on this 
 farm, which is situated near Brighton. During 
 the war he lived in New York and volunteered 
 for the army, but was rejected by the examining 
 physician. He married Helen Benham and they 
 had four children, three of whom are still living, 
 as follows: Andrew M. , a fruit grower in Arvada, 
 this state; Mar}-, Mrs. C. J. Hart, of Pueblo; and 
 William. 
 
 William L. Bush came to this state with his 
 father's family and a brother-in-law. Judge Hart, 
 stopping first at Living Springs Station, a small 
 station on the Overland stage route, where they 
 remained a little over a year. About this time 
 the Indians became very hostile and murdered 
 the people on a neighboring ranch some five or 
 six miles distant, and when the news of the mas- 
 sacre was reported the family moved to Denver. 
 William attended school there and at Golden, 
 where they afterwards moved, just before the 
 Colorado Central Railroad was built. He was a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 student at Jarvis Hall and in Golden for two 
 years, and then accompanied his parents to 
 Brighton, where they engaged in farming and 
 raising horses. He assisted with the work about 
 the farm and attended school at Pueblo, and the 
 Centennial high school during the winters. His 
 brother was agent for the Union Pacific at Bright- 
 on, and there he picked up a pretty good knowl- 
 edge of telegraphy, and when about twenty years 
 old was appointed night operator at that station. 
 He was then transferred to Erie station on the 
 same road for a short time, then went to Fort 
 Collins as operator and bill clerk. He was there 
 from June, 1882, until January, 1883, when he 
 came to Idaho Springs as agent for the Colorado 
 Central division of the Union Pacific Railroad. 
 He acted in that capacity until February, 1S86, 
 and then accepted a position as bookkeeper in 
 the First National Bank, which was then in its 
 third year as a national bank. Two years later 
 he was made assistant cashier, and in 1895 was 
 appointed cashier, which position he still holds. 
 This is a conservative bank, one of the most reli- 
 able in the state, has strong resources, and went 
 through the panic without a run. He is a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Bush & Armstrong, general 
 insurance, representing the old-line insurance 
 companies, and is the largest here. 
 
 Mr. Bush married Miss Jennie C. Griswold, of 
 Niles, Mich. Her parents died while she was 
 young, and her education was received in Niles. 
 She is a member of the Episcopal Church, and a 
 lady of high character. For two terms Mr. Bush 
 was city treasurer, and is now the president of 
 the school board. He belongs to the American 
 Bankers' Association, and was one of the organi- 
 zers of the Idaho Springs chamber of commerce, 
 of which he has been treasurer from the first. In 
 politics he is a Republican, deeply interested in 
 the success of his party. Fraternally he is iden- 
 tified with the Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of 
 the World, and is one of the most prominent Ma- 
 sons in the state. He was made a member of 
 that body December 15, 1884, in Lodge No. 26, 
 Idaho Springs, was elected master December 19, 
 1888, and each succeeding year until 1893. In 
 September, 1890, he was appointed grand orator, 
 and was elected junior grand warden the follow- 
 ing year, and senior grand warden in 1892. He 
 was deputy grand master of Colorado in 1893, 
 and grand master the following year, being the 
 
 second youngest man in the United States to 
 fill that office, according to the records of the 
 Grand Lodge. He is representative for the 
 Grand Lodge of South Dakota, and the Grand 
 Chapter of South Carolina, near the Grand 
 Lodge and Grand Chapter of Colorado. He was 
 initiated in Central City Chapter No. i, R. A. M., 
 on the i8th of May, 1892, signed the petition 
 for dispensation of Idaho Springs Chapter No. 
 30, was one of its organizers and first high priest, 
 serving from 1893 to 1896 inclusive. In 1895 he 
 was appointed grand royal arch captain of the 
 Grand Chapter of Colorado, and the following 
 year was made G. P. S. In 1897 he was ap- 
 pointed grand captain of the host and elected 
 grand scribe in 1898, which position he still 
 holds. He belongs to Central City Coramandery 
 No. 2, K. T., of which he became a member July 
 I, 1892. 
 
 (TUDGE FRANK P. SECOR. Prominent in 
 I the legal profession as well as in the ranks 
 (2/ of the Republican party. Judge Secor isknown 
 far and wide in Colorado, of which he has been a 
 resident for seventeen years. In January, 1895, 
 he received the appointment of deputy attorney 
 general of the state, and ablj' discharged the 
 responsible duties of that position until the follow- 
 ing autumn, resigning when he was nominated 
 for the office of judge of feoulder County. He 
 was the only man elected on the Republican ticket 
 in this county, which fact speaks well for his 
 personal popularity and acknowledged worth as 
 a citizen and member of the bar. Entering upon 
 the new duties January i, 1896, for a term of 
 three years, he has amply justified the predictions 
 of his innumerable friends, and has made a record 
 of which they are proud. He is an ardent champ- 
 ion of the principles of the Republican party, and 
 has attended every state convention as a delegate 
 since he cast in his lot with the people of this 
 commonwealth. In 1890 he was elected to the 
 Colorado legislature, and during the sessions of 
 1891 served as chairman of the committee on ju- 
 diciary and succeeded in getting passed a bill on 
 irrigation. 
 
 The Secor family is of French and Holland- 
 Dutch extraction, and for several generations 
 were representative people of Massachusetts. 
 The paternal grandfather of the judge, Walter 
 Secor, was a native of New York state, and in 
 
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 1842 he went to Wisconsin and engaged in farm- 
 ing near Racine. His son Theodore was a mem- 
 ber of the first constitutional convention of Wis- 
 consin, and is now a resident of Iowa. 
 
 Gurdon Secor, father of our subject, was born 
 in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y., and accompan- 
 ied his father in his removal to Wisconsin. He 
 was interested in agricultural pursuits during his 
 active years, and spent his last days in Longmont, 
 Colo. , where his death took place when he was 
 in his seventy-seventh year. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Jane Stuart, was of Scotch 
 descent, and was a native of New York. She 
 died in Wisconsin in 1867, at the age of fifty-two 
 years. All but two of their nine children lived 
 to grow up, and two have since passed away. 
 Minerva, Mrs. R. M. Walker, lives in Racine; 
 William W., who died in 1888, was a farmer and 
 lumber merchant in Longmont, and one of the 
 pioneers of this state; Eliza, Mrs. D. G. Purma, 
 died in Platteville, Wis. ; Marilla is Mrs. D. G. 
 Purma, of Washington, D. C; David E. lives in 
 Longmont; and Rosalia is Mrs. Stephen Butler, 
 of the same town. 
 
 The birth of Judge Secor occurred October 25, 
 1852, in Racine, Wis., and when he was seven- 
 teen years of age he entered the state normal 
 school at Platteville, there preparing himself for 
 college, and in the meanwhile teaching school 
 for a portion of each year. In 1875 he went to 
 Evanston, 111., where he entered the preparatory 
 department of the Northwestern University and 
 in the Centennial year he was enrolled as a stu- 
 dent in the University of Michigan. During the 
 junior year he resumed teaching again, and from 
 January, 1879, to the close of the school year in 
 the summer of 1881, he was the principal of the 
 Chippewa Falls, Wis. , schools. In 1881 he came 
 west. The same fall he took up the study of law 
 with Attorney -General Carr, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1883. He continued his pleasant con- 
 nection with Mr. Carr, who, when he was elected 
 attorney-general, made the young man his deputy. 
 For several years Judge Secor has made his home 
 in Longmont, and has been attorney for the town 
 and secretary of the school board here. He is a 
 member in high standing in numerous fraternal 
 organizations; is past master of Longmont Lodge 
 No. 23, A. F. & A. M.; belongs to Longmont 
 Chapter No. 9, R. A. M.; Long's Peak Com- 
 mandery No. 12, K. T., and was grand lecturer 
 
 of the grand lodge of the state in 1895. He is 
 also identified with the Odd Fellows' Society at 
 Longmont, with the Woodmen of the World and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen . 
 
 In February, 1884, Judge Secor married Miss 
 Sarah Ross, of Longmont. She is a daughter of 
 Jonathan Ross, who died in Longmont when 
 threescore and ten years old. Mrs. Secor is a 
 native of Pittsburg and was educated in the public 
 schools of Chicago, 111. The judge and wife have 
 two children, Gray and Harriet. 
 
 At this writing, owing to the ill health of Mrs. 
 Secor, which requires a residence in a lower 
 climate, Judge Secor has decided to remove in 
 the near future to Chicago, 111., where he will 
 enter the legal firm of Washburn, Secor & 
 Munger, William D. Washburn, the senior mem- 
 ber, being a classmate of our subject. At the 
 last county convention of the Republican par- 
 ty, Judge Secor was renominated for his present 
 ofiBce by acclamation, but was obliged to resign 
 for the reason above stated. 
 
 EHARLES H. WELCH, whose home is lo- 
 cated on section 36, township 5, range 66, 
 Weld County, is one of the gallant heroes 
 of the great northwest, one of those who fought 
 and suffered untold hardships that the way might 
 be cleared for the on-coming civilization. He 
 was a member of the famous Seventh Cavalry, 
 U. S. A., belonging to Company D, under com- 
 mand of General Reno. A portion of the regi- 
 ment, under the leadership of General Custer, a 
 dashing officer, were ruthlessly massacred by the 
 Sioux Indians, who, several thousand in number, 
 had encamped on the Little Big Horn River. 
 Not one of Custer's brave little band survived to 
 tell the story, but it is believed that he led his 
 men forward to the attack upon the red men 
 (who were on the warpath and had been ravag- 
 ing Wyoming and Montana), without sufiicient 
 caution and should have waited for re-inforce- 
 ments. General Reno had attacked the Indians 
 at the lower end of their encampment, which ex- 
 tended along the banks of the river for some three 
 miles, and maintained his position on the bluffs 
 until fresh troops reached him. The Seventh 
 Cavalry lost two hundred and sixty-one men and 
 had fifty-two wounded in this unfortunate cam- 
 paign. 
 
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 June 3, 1873, Mr. Welch had enlisted in the 
 army, and after five years of gallant and distin- 
 guished service he was honorably discharged on 
 account of physical disability, June 2, 1878. In 
 the fall of 1877 he took part in an important cam- 
 paign against the Nez Perce Indians and fought 
 in the battles with Chief Joseph at Snake Creek, 
 Mont., September 30, and October i, 2 and 3. 
 Here he met with the great misfortune of his life, 
 for since then he has been crippled. He was shot 
 in the right hip, the bone being shattered, and 
 after he had fallen to the ground was again struck 
 by a bullet, it entering the left knee. He was in 
 the advance charge and was directly exposed to 
 the murderous fire of the Indians, who were en- 
 trenched in a ravine. Mr. Welch lay on the 
 ground uncared for from eight to five o'clock, but 
 had dragged himself about one hundred yards 
 away to a safer position. He was then carried 
 off the field in a blanket, but his leg was not set 
 and properly attended to for twenty-two days, or 
 until they arrived at Fort Buford. For several 
 years he was obliged to use crutches and was 
 quite an invalid. During these years he lived 
 with his brother-in-law, Mr. Godfrey. While in 
 the service Mr. Welch acted as an orderly for 
 General Custer and was well and intimately ac- 
 quainted with the gallant ofiicer. For his own 
 bravery and notable service he was recommended 
 for medals of honor, and is thoroughly deserving 
 of the admiration which is universally accorded 
 him. 
 
 In many ways Mr. Welch has had more to con- 
 tend with in life than most men. He was but 
 four years of age when, to all intents and pur- 
 poses, he lost his father, and from that time for- 
 ward he has had an up-hill struggle. He was 
 born March 16, 1845, in the city of New York, 
 his parents being James and Alice Welch, natives 
 of Ireland. The father was largely interested in 
 coal mines in Pennsylvania for a few years, but 
 in 1849, when the California gold excitement 
 came on, he joined a company who started across 
 the plains and was never heard from again. He 
 left a wife and six children. The latter all lived 
 to maturity, namely: John, the eldest, now de- 
 ceased, who was a soldier of the Civil war; Maria 
 F., who never married; Anna; Patrick, who died 
 in the east; Katie, the wife of Allen Godfrey, 
 of Weld County, Colo.; and Charles H. 
 
 When he was a lad of twelve years Charles H. 
 
 Welch left his mother's roof and went to Nash- 
 ville, 111., where he lived with his brother Pat- 
 rick. He spent ten years in that section of the 
 country and then went to St. Paul, where he enlist- 
 ed in the army. June i, 1880, he married Carrie 
 Godfrey, daughter of Holon and Matilda (Rich- 
 ards) Godfrey. She was born in what is now 
 Logan County, but was then included in Weld. 
 Her father was one of the early pioneers and In- 
 dian fighters of this locality. Mr. and Mrs. Welch 
 settled down upon their present ranch, which 
 property had been taken up by Mr. Godfrey. 
 Though he is not able to do very active work our 
 subject superintends the place and is prospering. 
 He has made numerous improvements on the 
 farm, and it is now considered one of the best in 
 the neighborhood. He has always been a Re- 
 publican and is an Odd Fellow, a member of 
 Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12. His five children 
 are named as follows: Katie A., Alice Maude, 
 Elmer, Lydia and Custer. The youngest child, it 
 is needless to mention, was named in honor of the 
 brave general whom all admire and honor. 
 
 HON. GEORGE A. PATTEN. The career 
 of this esteemed and honored pioneer of 
 Idaho Springs is one made up of unusual 
 enterprise, energy and wise forethought. His 
 life has been busy and useful and his influence 
 far-reaching. Whatever has affected the welfare 
 of his fellows in this section of the state he has 
 taken a deep and personal interest in, and has 
 often exercised his talents, means and time in 
 furthering public measures of value. That his 
 ability has been recognized and appreciated may 
 be seen by those who read his interesting history. 
 Born in Surry, Hancock County, Me., in 1835, 
 Mr. Patten is one of the seven children of Am- 
 brose .and Sarah (Cook) Patten. His great- 
 grandfather, Matthew Patten, of Massachusetts, 
 was one of the first settlers of Surry, Me. , and in 
 his honor many local points were named, such as 
 Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond, etc. He was a 
 worthy representative of a very old family in 
 New England, of English descent, and was com- 
 monly known as "Colonel" Patten. His son, 
 John, grandfather of our subject, was a farmer 
 and lumberman, and these occupations were fol- 
 lowed by Ambrose Patten, in turn. The latter 
 was also interested in ship-building, often having 
 
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 vessels in process of construction on Patten's 
 Bay, and in addition to this, he was more or less 
 concerned in the coasting trade. Born in June, 
 1808, he lived to pass the years allotted to man 
 by the Psalmist, as he died in 1881. His wife 
 was sixty-three years old at the time of her death . 
 Both were devout members of the Baptist Church, 
 the father having been a deacon and elder for 
 over a quarter of a century. Mrs. Sarah Patten 
 was a daughter of Captain Cook, of Beverly, 
 Mass. He was lost at sea and at a later date his 
 family removed to Maine. 
 
 George A. Patten is the eldest of his parents' 
 family. One child died in infancy and the other 
 brothers and sisters are: Mrs. Sarah E. Phillips, 
 of Surry; Eydia T. , of Boston; Mrs. Priscilla 
 Haynes, of Boston ; Ambrose and Charles L. , a 
 grocer of Idaho Springs. Ambrose served in the 
 Civil war in a Maine regiment, came to Colorado 
 in 1864 and died in Aspen, this state. They were 
 all reared to mature years in the town of their 
 birth, receiving public-school advantages. 
 
 When a youth of about seventeen years Mr. 
 Patten entered the coasting trade, and made 
 several trips. In the autumn of 1857 he started 
 for the then far west, and settling in the territory 
 of Minnesota, turned his energies to lumbering. 
 At the end of two years he returned home for a 
 visit, but in the fall of 1859 he again landed in 
 St. Paul. The next spring he joined a wagon 
 train bound for Pike's Peak. The party pro- 
 ceeded through Iowa to Omaha, thence up the 
 Platte River, taking sufficient time to allow their 
 cattle to graze along the way. The journey thus 
 consumed over two months, but was safely com- 
 pleted about the ist of May. From Golden City 
 Mr. Patten went to Blackhawk, arriving there 
 May 6. Liking the place and believing in its 
 future, he entered the lumber trade and for about 
 a year was also interested in placer-mining in 
 Lake Gulch. 
 
 It was in the beginning of 1861 that Mr. Pat- 
 ten came to Idaho Springs and-engaged in placer- 
 mining. Three years later he opened a store 
 containing general merchandise on Miner street. 
 The building which he thus occupied was then 
 the only frame structure in the town. Buying 
 the property, he continued to do business there 
 for several years. Success attended him and his 
 friends throughout this -section became legion. 
 All of his supplies had to be brought across the 
 
 plains from Missouri by teams. At length, in 
 company with a Mr. Bogue, Mr. Patten built a 
 livery barn here and embarked in the transporta- 
 tion business. A few years later he sold the 
 livery but continued merchandising until 1892, 
 being the oldest business man of the town at the 
 time that he dispo.sed of his store. In the mean- 
 time he built two substantial biick blocks, each 
 two stories in height, and situated centrally on 
 Miner street, between First and Second avenues. 
 In addition to the enterprises mentioned, he has 
 been active in mining operations. He owns the 
 Patten & Patten Extension, the Red Jacket 
 (which he developed) and others. These valu- 
 able mines are situated about a mile and a-quarter 
 from this town in Virginia Canon, and are tun- 
 neled six hundred feet into the side of the moun- 
 tain. 
 
 Mr. Patten has been an enthusiastic Republican 
 since the party was organized. lu the Centen- 
 nial year, made memorable by the admission of 
 Colorado to statehood, he was chosen to represent 
 this district in the first legislature convened in 
 the infant commonwealth. He was the nominee 
 of the Republicans, and well did he discharge 
 the numerous duties which fell to his share. He 
 served on a great many important committees, 
 mining, roads, etc., and about this time voted 
 first for Teller and Chaffee for United States 
 senators. In 1884 Mr. Patten was again elected 
 to the assembly and was chairman of the com- 
 mittee on engrossing, besides acting as a member 
 of the committee on mining, etc. Once more he 
 used his ballot in favor of Senator Teller. From 
 1868 to 1883 Mr. Patten was the postmaster of 
 Idaho Springs, then tendering his resignation. 
 Several terms he has been treasurer of the local 
 school board and during these periods he has 
 assisted in the erection of numerous school build- 
 ings. He was one of the board when the fine 
 high school was put up and has ever used his in- 
 fluence on the side of excellent facilities for the 
 children. In early days he was one of the incor- 
 porators of the town, serving on its first board of 
 trustees, and later, as well, on several occasions. 
 For years he has been connected with the blue 
 lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Idaho Springs. 
 
 In his native town Mr. Patten married Miss 
 Sophia E. Osgood in 1875. She was born in Blue 
 Hill, Me. Three children constituted the family 
 of this worthy couple, Georgia, Lillian G. and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Ruby E., but Georgia died when quite young. 
 The family are identified with the Presbyterian 
 Church. Mrs. Patten is the daughter of Nuvell 
 and Adaline (Grindle) Osgood, natives of Maine. 
 Her father was a prominent merchant and real- 
 estate dealer at Blue Hill and Surry, Me., and 
 was a prominent man in his community. 
 
 qJEORGE S. VAN DER KARR, proprietor of 
 _l the Forks Hotel, also postmaster and mer- 
 ^ chant at Forks, Larimer County, a large 
 stock dealer and partner of his brother in a mer- 
 cantile business at LaPorte, was born in Newark, 
 Wayne County, N. Y., December 22, 1858. He de- 
 scends from an old Revolutionary soldier, who was 
 a member of an influential Holland family in New 
 York, and was related to the Van Ness and Scher- 
 merhorn families. A son of this soldier, Samuel, 
 removed from Albany to Newark, where he en- 
 gaged in farming. During the war of 1812 he 
 enlisted and fought in defense of our country. 
 
 Next in line of descent was Abraham Van der 
 Karr, father of our subject. He was born near 
 Albany, N. Y., and for years was an extensive 
 stock dealer and farmer at Newark, but is now 
 living retired. His wife, now deceased, was Mary 
 Gardiner, a native of Kinderhook, N. Y., and of 
 Dutch descent; her father, Aaron Gardiner, was 
 born on the Hudson and removed to Wayne 
 County, where he engaged in farming. He was 
 a public-spirited man and assisted in the con- 
 struction of churches and school houses. The 
 family of which our subject was a member con- 
 sisted of two sons and three daughters, but he 
 and his brother Aaron, of LaPorte, are the only 
 survivors. 
 
 In the public schools of Newark our subject re- 
 ceived his education. In 1882 he came to Colo- 
 rado and for ten years was engaged in the cattle 
 business near Fort Collins, but finally went to 
 Sioux City, Neb., where he had a ranch stocked 
 with horses and cattle, and made shipments of 
 stock from there to New York, Illinois and Indi- 
 ana. In April, 1895, he brought his stock of 
 goods to LaPorte, where he embarked in busi- 
 ness. The following year he settled on his ranch 
 of one hundred and sixty acres at Forks, where 
 he raises alfalfa for feed. In 1891 he bought the 
 Forks Hotel, which he rented for five years, but 
 now conducts personally. This house, which was 
 
 built in 1874 and has since been conducted as a 
 hotel, is the oldest inn in the county, and, 
 through additions made to it, furnishes ample 
 accommodations for all who patronize it. He 
 also built a commodious and substantial bam, as 
 well as a store, in which he has the postoffice and 
 keeps a general stock of goods. The postoffice 
 was only recently established and he is the first 
 postmaster. In addition to his other interests, 
 he is connected with the mercantile business 
 . that is managed by his brother in LaPorte. On 
 his ranch he raises graded Hereford and red polled 
 Angus cattle, and has over one hundred head of 
 horses, mostly Percherons and Normans. Politi- 
 cally he is a Democrat. 
 
 In Fort Collins, February 11, 1896, Mr. Van 
 der Karr married Mrs. Delilah (Currie) Clark, 
 who was born in Clinton County, Iowa, and re- 
 moved to Wyoming in 1878, coming from there 
 to Larimer County. Her father, George Currie, 
 was born in Canada, and after engaging in farm- 
 ing for some years in Hamilton County, Iowa, 
 he came to Colorado in 1891 and now lives in 
 Pleasant Valley. His wife, Margaret, was born 
 in Canada, as was also her father, Ebenezer 
 Nickeson. Mrs. Van der Karr was second among 
 eleven children, of whom all but two are now 
 living, those besides herself being Milo, of Iowa; 
 Charles, of Manhattan, Colo.; Frank, whose 
 home is in Nebraska; Fred, living in Boulder 
 County, Colo.; John, of Pleasant Valley; Viola, 
 Mrs. William Thomas, of Nebraska; Sarah, who 
 is the wife of Isaac Niece, and lives in Nebraska; 
 and Minnie, who married David Murray, of 
 Boulder County. The first husband of Mrs. Van 
 dei- Karr was George Clark, by whom she had 
 one son and two daughters. 
 
 •JJ IDEON C. PRATT is a prominent and sub- 
 _ stantial farmer of section i, township 10, 
 (_>| range 66 west, Douglas County, and a man 
 who has carved his way to success by the exercise 
 of his own industry and perseverance. He made 
 his way unaided by any other means, and is a 
 striking example of what one may accomplish by 
 courage and determination. He was born near 
 the village of Goshen, Orange County, N. Y., 
 June 8, 1834, and is a son of Alanson E. and 
 Sarah (Noble) Pratt. 
 
 Alanson Pratt was a merchant of Elmira, N. Y., 
 
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 where he moved when our subject was ten years 
 of age. In 1856, with his family, he moved west 
 and settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he bought 
 a large tract of land and began tilling the soil. 
 After a few years of farming life, he embarked in 
 the mercantile business in that town, pursuing 
 that line of business until 1867. In that year 
 he disposed of his stock and moved to Colorado 
 Springs, Colo., where he conducted a mercantile 
 store until he retired; he then went to St. Louis, 
 Mo., to live with our subject's brother, and later 
 he moved to Sedalia, Mo., where he passed from 
 this life in 1893. 
 
 Gideon C. Pratt took advantage of the oppor- 
 tunity to obtain an academic education, and at 
 seventeen years he began clerking in David A. 
 Tuttle's store at Elmira, N. Y., his salary being 
 $50 per year, out of which pay he had to clothe 
 himself. At nineteen years his father moved to 
 Muscatine, Iowa, and settled on a farm, where 
 our subject worked; when his father opened a 
 mercantile store, our subject entered the store as 
 a clerk. In 1862 he went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
 from which point he took the coach for Denver, 
 Colo., the trip occupying six days and nights. 
 He entered the employ of the bank of O. D. Cass 
 & Co., as clerk, remaining with that company 
 until 1864; he did all the collecting for the bank 
 and in June, 1862, he was sent across the range 
 to collect a large bill, and was obliged to go by 
 night, in order to take advantage of the crust 
 which would form over the snow; he collected the 
 full amount in gold dust. Later he was trans- 
 ferred to the branch office at Central City, where 
 he continued to do the collecting. In June, 
 1867, he became interested in a sawmill on the 
 divide in Douglas County, and in 1869 he bought 
 three hundred and twenty acres of land, where he 
 now lives. He has since been engaged in farm- 
 ing and has increased his estate to seven hundred 
 and twenty acres; he is energetic and enterpris- 
 ing, and has won many friends by his many ster- 
 ling qualities. 
 
 While a resident of Muscatine, Iowa, Mr. 
 Pratt was married, November 10, 1858, to Miss 
 Lydia M. Cass, a daughter of Rev. M. G. and 
 Sophia (Putman) Cass; her father was pastor of 
 the Presbyterian Church of that town. Nine 
 children blessed the home of our subject and 
 wife, four of whom are now living. They were 
 named as follows: Lily I.; Nellie S., wife of 
 
 D. J. Shinner, of San Luis Valley, Colo., and they 
 are the parents of five children; Gideon C, who 
 resides with his father; and Agnes P. Our sub- 
 ject's father was a Democrat in his early days, 
 but being opposed to the institution of slavery, he 
 voted for John C. Fremont, upon the organization 
 of the Republican party; our subject also voted 
 for Fremont, and has ever since been an ardent 
 supporter of the Republican party. He has 
 served three years as county commissioner; two 
 terms as assessor; as deputy assessor; and in 
 1885, he was honored with a seat in the legis- 
 lature. 
 
 HON. AMOS G. WEBSTER, attorney-at- 
 law of Castle Rock, and formerly county 
 judge of Douglas County, was born in the 
 town of Noble, LaPorte County, Ind., July 14, 
 1 841, a son of Amos Gillette and Hilah (Hard- 
 ing) Webster. Upon the farm where he was 
 born the first twenty-one years of his life were 
 passed. He attended the country schools and 
 also a village graded school. August 14, 1862, 
 he offered his services to his country and was 
 mustered into Company K, Seventy-third Indi- 
 ana Infantry. During the almost three years of 
 his service he participated in many skirmishes 
 and the battles of Perryville, Stone River and 
 Nashville. When on a raid near Rome, Ga., 
 he and his comrades were captured by the Con- 
 federates and he was sent to Belle Isle. Though 
 the terms of surrender stipulated that they should 
 be sent through the lines in twelve days, yet the 
 officers were held for twenty-one months. Fortu- 
 nately, however, our subject and a few compan- 
 ions were soon sent back on parole, and were ex- 
 changed and sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, 
 where he guarded prisoners. The winter of 
 1863-64 he spent at Nashville, where he was drill 
 master on siege guns Nos. 6 and 8. He was later 
 engaged on guard duty at Larkinsville, Triana 
 and Athens, Ala., and Lavergne, Tenn., on the 
 line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railway. 
 From the ranks he was promoted to be corporal 
 and was mustered out as sergeant in July, 1865. 
 Returning to Indiana Mr. Webster entered 
 the academy at Westville, where he carried on 
 his studies for a time. In 1867 he began the 
 study of law in the office of Capt. L- A. Cole at 
 La Porte, and the following year was admitted to 
 the bar, soon after which he opened an office at 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Perry, Dallas County, Iowa. November 11, 
 1868, ill LaPorte County, he was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Phila L,. Romans, who accom- 
 panied him to their new home in Iowa. For 
 eleven 3'ears he engaged in practice in Perry, 
 whence in 1879 he removed to Colorado, hoping 
 that the change of climate would benefit his 
 wife's health. Resettled on a ranch in Douglas 
 County, but in 1882 established his home in Cas- 
 tle Rock and began the practice of his profession, 
 in which he has since engaged. His father was 
 a Whig and he has always been a Republican. 
 He was nominated by his party for the legisla- 
 ture in 1882 and received a majority of seven, 
 but was counted out and declared beaten by one 
 vote. In 1886 he was elected county judge and 
 later was appointed to the office to fill a vacancy, 
 serving for four years. Fraternally he is identified 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of 
 which he has been master workman , is the present 
 financier, and has been selected to represent his 
 lodge in the grand lodge. 
 
 HON. ALBERT HALL. Among the citizens 
 of Idaho Springs none has been more ear- 
 nest in endeavoring to advance her best in- 
 terests than this gentleman, who has been more 
 or less closely associated with local upbuilding 
 for the past fifteen years. He has developed 
 and managed several mining enterprises in the 
 vicinity and is quite extensively interested in 
 real estate hereabout. In 1897 he erected the 
 Hall block, which is 44x59 feet in dimensions and 
 is three stories in height. Among the mines in 
 which he has invested are the Tolland County 
 group, Mansfield, Canfield, Alport, Stafford, 
 Union, Port Jarvis, Governor Bulkeley and Chlo- 
 ride. Many of these are very valuable and are 
 being pushed with energy and ability by the 
 fortunate owner. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the above-named 
 citizen was Nathan Hall, a native of Connecticut, 
 in which state he resided until his death. The 
 father of our subject was Gardiner Hall, a well- 
 known cotton and thread manufacturer and one 
 of the first to engage in the production of sewing 
 thread in the United States. He was born in 
 Mansfield, Conn., in 1809. In 1857 he accepted a 
 responsible position with the Willimantic Linen 
 Company, placed the machinery for the plant and 
 
 subsequently superintended the manufacture of 
 their goods. He died in Willington, in 1879. 
 He was one of a rather remarkable family, num- 
 bering thirteen, eleven of whom lived to be large, 
 strong men and women, taking leading places in 
 the several communities in which they dwelt. 
 In 1867 he was a member of the legislature of 
 his native state and frequently he served as a 
 selectman, and was county commissioner three 
 years. His wife, mother of our subject, bore 
 the girlhood name of Zeviah Emeline Essex. She 
 was born in Colche.ster, Conn. , and was a daughter 
 of William F. Essex, a clothier. She is now in 
 her ninety-first year. Six of her eight children 
 lived to maturity, and five are still living. Or- 
 line, Mrs. J. R. Champlain, resides in Norwich. 
 Gardiner is a large manufacturer of thread and 
 cotton goods in South Willington, Conn. Emiline 
 is Mrs. M. M. Johnson, her husband president 
 and manager of the National Thread Company, 
 of Mansfield, Conn. William H. enlisted in Com- 
 pany H, Eighteenth Connecticut Infantry, in the 
 Civil war and was killed in 1864 at Newmarket, 
 in the Shenandoah Valley, being then but twenty- 
 two years of age. Origin was a member of the 
 same regiment and company, and served to the 
 close of the war; he is now living in the Nutmeg 
 state and is the representative elected from Will- 
 ington for 1899. 
 
 Hon. Albert Hall, the Youngest of the family, 
 was born April i, 1846, in the town of Stafibrd, 
 Conn. He was educated in Willington and 
 Willimantic, and after leaving school was em- 
 ployed in the thread factory and machine shop of 
 G. Hall, Jr., & Co., for thirteen years, part of 
 the period being the foreman of the works. In 
 1883 he came to Colorado and has ever since 
 spent a portion of each year in the Centennial 
 state, though retaining his legal residence in 
 Connecticut. In the autumn of 1883 he was 
 nominated on the Republican ticket to the legis- 
 lature of his own state and being elected, served 
 in the session of 1884, representing the same 
 town as had his honored father seventeen years 
 before. He was initiated into Masonry iti Uriel 
 Lodge No. 24, A. F. & A. M., of Mansfield, 
 Conn. He Ijas always adhered to the principles 
 of the Republican party, and is now an advocate 
 of free coinage. 
 
 December 29, 1868, Mr. Hall and Miss Alice 
 Eaton were married in Stafford, in which town 
 
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 Mrs. Hall had been reared, though her birth had 
 taken place in Massachusetts. Their three chil- 
 dren were Arthur Edwin, who died in infancy; 
 Owen Gardiner, whose death occurred when he 
 was but seven years old; and Etta M., a graduate 
 of the Wesley an Academy at Wilbraham, Mass., 
 and now Mrs. C. V. D. Peek, of New York City. 
 
 I AWRENCE WELTY, a pioneer of Frank- 
 It town, Douglas County, was born in Baden, 
 |_2 Germany, in February, 1832. The first 
 sixteen years of his life were passed in his native 
 land, where he received fair educational advan- 
 tages. In 1848 he accompanied his parents and 
 a younger sister to America, and after a voyage 
 of thirty-six days in a sailing vessel they landed 
 in New York, but soon after proceeded to Roch- 
 ester, where the father procured employment at 
 the shoemaker's trade. During the time they 
 resided in that city our subject gained a thorough 
 knowledge of his father's trade. In 1852 he went 
 to Michigan and followed the trade in Kalama- 
 zoo. Two years later he was joined by his father 
 and mother. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Welty married Miss Louise Siler, 
 of Kalamazoo, but a native of Baden, Germany. 
 The year after his marriage he went to St. Joseph, 
 Mo., leaving his family in Michigan, but after 
 two years they joined him in his new home. 
 They remained there until 1863, when they came 
 to Colorado. In 1861 Mr. Welty enlisted as a 
 private in Company B, Thirteenth Missouri In- 
 fantry, and took part in the battle of Lexington, 
 where he was taken prisoner by the Confederates. 
 However, he was soon paroled and sent back to 
 St. Joseph, where he was on parole at the time of 
 coming to Colorado. He started across the plains 
 on the I St of April with a team of horses, and 
 landed in Denver on the ist of May. For some 
 years he engaged in prospecting and mining, at 
 which he was fairly prosperous. Later he en- 
 gaged in the boot and shoe business in Denver. 
 In 1864 he joined Company M, Third Colorado 
 Cavalry, which was organized to fight the Indi- 
 ans, and served for one hundred days, during 
 which time he was stationed at the barracks at 
 California ranch (now Franktown). His family 
 were at first on a farm he had rented near here, 
 but they were finally obliged to move to the fort 
 for protection. 
 
 Upon the land which he took up as a claim 
 Mr. Welty resided for some years after the war, 
 and he still owns two hundred acres of ranch 
 property, wlych he farms. In 1872 he came to 
 Franktown, where he has since followed the shoe- 
 maker's trade. In politics he is a Republican 
 and takes a warm interest in local afiairs. He is 
 a member of Blunt Post, G. A. R., of Castle 
 Rock. He and his wife are the parents of two 
 children, the elder of whom, Mary, married John 
 A. Blatt and lives at Leed City, S. Dak.; she 
 has three children: Louisa, Herman and John. 
 The younger daughter, Anna, is the wife of 
 Henry Nink, of Salt Lake City, and has three 
 children: Clara, Henry and Lawrence. 
 
 FTrEDERICK p. DEWEY, assistant cashier 
 JM of the Bank of Clear Creek County, at 
 I Georgetown, and one of its directors, also in 
 charge of the electric light plant of Georgetown, 
 where he resides, came to Colorado in September, 
 1879, and has made his home in Georgetown 
 since that time. He was born in Phoenix, Os- 
 wego County, N. Y., March 14, i860, a son of 
 Solomon and Sophia (Fish) Dewey, natives re- 
 spectively of Massachusetts and Halifax, Vt. 
 The founder of the Dewey family in America was 
 Thomas Dewey, a native of Kent, England, who 
 came to Massachusetts about 1630 and was en- 
 rolled as a freeman in 1634. In 1638 he moved 
 to Windsor, Conn., where he married a widow, 
 Mrs. Frances Clark. He filled a number of local 
 positions, among them that of deputy to the gen- 
 eral court, juror, and an officer in the light in- 
 fantry. In his familj' there were five children: 
 Thomas; Josiah, the ancestor of Admiral Dewey, 
 who gained fame in the war with Spain; Anna; 
 Israel, ancestor of our subject; and Jedediah. 
 
 Deacon David, sou of Israel Dewey, had a son, 
 David, whose son, David, was the father of 
 Asaph, a native of Richmond, Mass., and our 
 subject's grandfather. Asaph died in Richmond 
 in January, 1833, and was buried in Lenox, 
 Mass. C. E. Dewey, of Denver, David Dewey, 
 of Georgetown, and our subject are descendants 
 of Asaph Dewey. Solomon Dewey settled near 
 Syracuse, N. Y., where he was a pioneer and 
 improved a place. Of his first marriage six chil- 
 dren are still living, all of whom reside near the 
 old homestead. His second wife, Sophia, was 
 
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 born in Halifax, Vt., a daughter of Simeon Fish 
 and the widow of Dr. Benjamin Henry. Her 
 father, a native of Vermont, removed to Oswego 
 County, N. Y., and became a prominent military 
 man, being general in the New York state militia 
 for some time. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the only child 
 of his parents. He attended the grammar and 
 high school of Phcenix, Oswego County, N. Y. , 
 from which latter institution he graduated in 
 1878. In September of 1879 he came to George- 
 town and entered the Bank of Clear Creek County 
 as bookkeeper, but in January, 1880, was made 
 assistant cashier, which position he has since 
 held. He was at one time interested in the gas 
 works of Georgetown, and upon its consolidation 
 with the electric light plant as the United Ught 
 and Power Compau)' he was made secretary and 
 treasurer, in which capacity he has since been 
 retained. This company supplies light and 
 power to Georgetown and Silver Plume. He has 
 been engaged in the management of various mines 
 and mining affairs, and his numerous interests 
 leave him little leisure time. 
 
 In Windsor, Dane County, Wis., June 23, 
 1887, our subject married Miss Edna M. Sabin, 
 who was born in that town, a daughter of Deacon 
 Henry Sabin. They are the parents of one child, 
 Robert S. For a few years the family have made 
 their home in Denver. Politically Mr. Dewey 
 formerly voted the Republican ticket, but when 
 that party declared for a gold standard of cur- 
 rency he ceased to give it his support and gives 
 his vote and influence to men pledged to advocate 
 the silver cause. Fraternally he is trea.surer of 
 Mohican Tribe of Red Men No. 54, and is also 
 connected with Georgetown Lodge No. 48, A. F. 
 & A. M., of which he is past master, and 
 Georgetown Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. 
 
 (lOHN WILLIAM WRIGHT, who is one of 
 I the most prosperous ranchmen of Arapahoe 
 Q) County, owns a large stock farm situated on 
 Running Creek, in township 5 south, range 64 
 west. Since he settled here in 187 1 he has 
 bought land from time to time, until his present 
 possessions aggregate sixteen hundred and eighty 
 acres, all under fence. On the ranch are a large 
 number of cattle, for it is largely through the 
 stock business that Mr. Wright has been pros- 
 
 pered. In the spring of 1 897 he sold five hun- 
 dred head, but he still has a large herd left on the 
 ranch. 
 
 In Dallas, Tex., July 31, 1848, the subject of 
 this sketch was born to John Wilson and Eliza- 
 beth (Leonard) Wright, natives of Tennessee. 
 His paternal grandfather, Thomas Wright, was 
 born near Nashville, Tenn., and descended from 
 English ancestors, who were among the early 
 settlers of Colorado. He became a large planter 
 in Tennessee and later owned a plantation in 
 Texas, where he had a number of slaves to oper- 
 ate the land. Among his associates he was 
 known as an honest and honorable man, and as 
 such he was highly esteemed. In political belief 
 he was a Whig. During the war of 18 12 he en- 
 listed and served in defense of American inter- 
 ests. His death occurred in Texas when he was 
 eighty-seven years of age. 
 
 By the marriage of Thomas Wright to Miss 
 Tate, a southern lady, there were born twelve 
 children who reached mature years. Of these 
 John Wilson was born near Nashville, and in 
 youth learned the shoemaker's trade, but after 
 removing to Texas he gave his attention wholly 
 to farming. Born June i, 1820, his life extended 
 over the greater part of the nineteenth century, 
 and was brought to a close after seventy useful 
 years. During the Civil vyar he enlisted in the 
 Confederate army and served for the cause he be- 
 lieved to be right. Politically he voted the 
 Democratic ticket. His marriage, December 15, 
 1842, united him with Miss Sarah E. Leonard, 
 who was born in Tennessee, October 19, 1827, a 
 daughter of George and Mary J. (Dooley) Leon- 
 ard, of Scotch -Irish descent and Protestant faith. 
 While still a young woman she died, June 19, 
 1855. Their family consisted of six children, of 
 whom Martha Ann died in infancy. The others 
 are: George Thomas, a farmer in Texas; John 
 William, of this sketch; Sarah Elizabeth, who is 
 married and lives in Texas; James Wilson, a 
 stockman in that state; and Mrs. Ada Catherine 
 Brooks, also of Texas. 
 
 In the common schools of the Lone Star state 
 our subject received his education. His boyhood 
 years were spent on a farm, and he early ac- 
 quired a thorough knowledge of agriculture. In 
 1868, when twenty years of age, he began to buy 
 and sell stock, which he drove from Texas to 
 Colorado and sojd in Denver prior to the advent 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of the railroad. He assisted in loading the first 
 train load of cattle shipped east over the Kansas 
 & Pacific road. He continued driving stock 
 across the plains until 1871, and with the money 
 acquired in the meantime he bought the place 
 where he has spent the past twenty-seven years. 
 When he started out for himself he did not have 
 a dollar, but through energy and perseverance he 
 has become prosperous. 
 
 In New Mexico, March 29, 1874, Mr. Wright 
 married Miss Catharine Granger, daughter of 
 John and Sarah Granger. Her father, who was 
 a native of England and was in the English serv- 
 ice in the West Indies, afterward settled in the 
 United States; he and his wife spent their last 
 years with their daughter, Mrs. Wright, in 
 whose home he passed away July 26, 1898, at the 
 age of eighty-four, and she November 3, 1896, at 
 seventy-three years. Both were highly esteemed 
 in this locality, where they had resided almost a 
 quarter of a century. Politically, like his father, 
 Mr. Wright is a stanch Democrat, and keeps 
 posted in national and state afiairs. 
 
 (lOHNS. WHEELER has tlie distinction of 
 I being the oldest surviving settler of Weld 
 Qj County. He was born in Worcester County, 
 Mass., in 1834, a son of John B. and Laura J. 
 (Graves) Wheeler, both natives of the old Bay 
 state. His father ran away from home at the 
 age of seventeen and shipped on a whaling ves- 
 sel from Boston to southern and eastern ports. 
 For seven years he followed the water, being 
 successively third and second mate. After aban- 
 doning a seafaring life, he settled at Flat Hill, 
 seven miles from Fitchburg, Mass. , and there he 
 died at forty-five years of age. He and his wife 
 were the parents of three sons, John S. , Theodore 
 E. and Albert. After Mr. Wheeler's death, his 
 widow married Lawrence Bailey, and in 1844 
 moved to Dresden, Muskingum County, Ohio, 
 where our subject grew to manhood. He en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business in that town un- 
 til 1859, when failing health forced him to seek 
 another occupation. 
 
 The eastern states were at that time in a fever 
 of excitement caused by the discovery of gold in 
 the mountains. Hundreds were already seeking 
 the mountain regions, in the hope of finding a 
 fortune in the mines. He followed the tide west- 
 
 ward and arrived in Denver June 17, 1859. 
 From there he went to Golden, thence to Black- 
 hawk and engaged in mining until July 16. Later 
 he located two claims at Fairplay. Returning to 
 Blackhawk in August he went on to the Platte 
 River and took up government land, establishing 
 a ranch which he made his home. He was the 
 first man in the county to open a ranch and begin 
 farming. Until the fall of 1878 he continued 
 there, but then went to Leadville and began min- 
 ing, thence going to West Ten Miles, and estab- 
 lished the first sawmill in that place. He also 
 founded the station and postofiice of Wheeler, 
 which stands on the Denver & Rio Grande and 
 Denver & South Park Railroads. He moved his 
 family there and remained for five years, mining 
 on Wheeler, Copper and Sheep Mountains. He 
 was the leading man in the place and was known 
 by all the people around for many miles in 
 every direction. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Wheeler went to Denver and from 
 there back to Weld County, where he has since 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising on his ranch 
 of two hundred acres. Through his efibrts the 
 Lupton Bottom ditch was constructed and for 
 several years he served as president of the com- 
 pany. He also aided in the construction of 
 Meadow Island ditches Nos. i and 2, and was 
 president of both companies. In the Platteville 
 Ditch Company he was one of the charter stock- 
 holders. He also held office as president of the 
 Side Hill Ditch Company and was a stockholder 
 in the Evans and Platte Valley Ditch Company. 
 
 As judge of Weld County, elected on the 
 Democratic ticket, Mr. Wheeler served for four 
 years, and during that time he began the study 
 of law, which he has since continued, having 
 charge of practically the entire legal business of 
 the town. June 27, 1898, he was appointed 
 notary public by Governor Adams, to hold office 
 for four years. In 1876 he was a member of the 
 constitutional convention and the following year 
 was a candidate for secretary of state and a presi- 
 dential elector. In party work in his county he 
 has always been an active factor. He has been 
 a director in the Association of Colorado Pioneers 
 and fraternally is identified with the Brighton 
 Lodge of Masons. 
 
 In February, 1857, Mr. Wheeler married 
 Amelia D. Jones, daughter of Elon and Elizabeth 
 Jones, of Dresden, Ohio. Three children were 
 
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 born of their union. Frank E., the eldest, was 
 chairman of the board of county commissioners 
 of Mineral County, Colo., and is manager of the 
 Creede Co-operative Mining Company. Theo- 
 dore Albert is clerk and recorder of Mineral 
 County, and lives in Creede. Amelia D., now 
 the wife of Frank Somerville, of Fort Collins, 
 was for several years principal of the Platteville 
 public school and also taught in Fort Collins for 
 three years, her work ranking with that of the 
 best teachers in the county. 
 
 ~DWARD TURNER JEFFERY, president 
 ^ and general manager of the Denver & Rio 
 ^ Grande Railroad Company, was born in 
 Liverpool, England, April 6, 1843. In child- 
 hood, after the death of his father, who was an 
 officer in the British navy, he accompanied his 
 mother to the United States. His connection 
 with railroad service began as a boy thirteen 
 years of age, in October, 1856, when he secured 
 employment as office boy and machinist appren- 
 tice in the service of the Illinois Central Railroad 
 at Chicago. In this place he availed himself of 
 the opportunity to learn mechanics. He was 
 transferred in 1863 to the office of the mechan- 
 ical draughtsman as an apprentice, in which po- 
 sition he gained a practical knowledge of ma- 
 chinery and mechanical drawing, and later be- 
 came mechanical draughtsman and secretary to 
 the superintendent of machinery of the Illinois 
 Central. From February i, 1871, to May 4, 1877, 
 he was assistant superintendent of machinery for 
 the same road. At the latter date he was pro- 
 moted to be general superintendent of the road, 
 and December 15, 1885, became general man- 
 ager of the company, which position he resigned 
 September 2, 1889, after more than thirty-three 
 years continuous service. 
 
 Upon the severance of his connection with the 
 Illinois Central Railroad Company, Mr. Jeffery 
 had numerous offers of positions of responsibility 
 with other railroad companies, but the long serv- 
 ice he had given his company had told some- 
 what on his strength, and he preferred a period 
 of rest and recuperation. About that time Chi- 
 cago citizens were beginning to agitate the loca- 
 tion of the World's Fair and a strong effiart was 
 being put forth to secure the exposition for that 
 
 city. He was warmly interested in the project, 
 and was a member of the citizens' committee of 
 one hundred that was formed to push the matter. 
 In the furtherance of the committee's plans, he 
 was selected to visit the Paris Exposition as com- 
 missioner from Chicago, with a view to utilizing 
 the information there obtained, should Chicago 
 meet with success in her efifort to secure the fair. 
 He went abroad in the fall of 1889 and spent two 
 months in close .study of the exposition, present- 
 ing, on his return, a report that was most com- 
 prehensive and satisfactory, and that assisted ma- 
 terially in the organization of the work at Jack- 
 son Park. 
 
 In the winter of 1889-90 Mr. Jeffery became 
 interested in the Grant Locomotive works of Chi- 
 cago, and was made president of the company, 
 which position he held until October i, 1891 
 when he resigned his connection with that com- 
 pany in order to accept the presidency and gen- 
 eral management of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Railroad Company. Up to the time he removed 
 from Chicago, he maintained an active connec- 
 tion with World's Fair plans. He was one of 
 the leading members of the board of directors, 
 and was chosen one of three representatives who 
 appeared before the senate committee in Wash- 
 ington to set forth the claims of Chicago. He 
 held the responsible position as chairman of the 
 grounds and building committee, a most import- 
 ant committee, to whom was given the task of 
 planning and grouping the buildings, and super- 
 intending their construction and beautifying the 
 grounds. 
 
 Conjointly with his duties as president of the 
 Denver & Rio Grande, Mr. Jeffery assumed, in 
 August, 1893, the receivership of the Rio Grande 
 Southern Railroad, a line of one hundred and 
 eighty miles, located in southwestern Colorado, 
 which line had become insolvent during the 
 panic of 1893. ^Y judicious management of the 
 affairs of that company he worked out the salva- 
 tion of the road, and put its finances upon a pay- 
 ing basis, as well as adjusted all claims. In De- 
 cember, 1895, when his receivership ceased, he 
 was made president of the road. 
 
 The tastes of Mr. Jeffery lie in the direction of 
 business affairs, to the exclusion of politics. He 
 is not a politician in any sense of the word. 
 While living in Chicago he was repeatedly urged 
 by prominent citizens of Illinois to become a can- 
 
DAVID EDWIN SEVERANCE. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1203 
 
 didate for ofl&ces of honor and trust, but all these 
 invitations he refused. Though not caring for 
 oflBce, he has never shirked his dutj' as a citizen. 
 He favors measures for the benefit of the people, 
 and aids public enterprises which tend to pro- 
 mote the welfare of his fdlow-citizens. His suc- 
 cess in the management of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railroad, the largest corporation in the 
 state of Colorado, is largely due to his energy and 
 force of will. Among other railroad officials 
 he is regarded as one of the most successful 
 and able railroad managers in the United States; 
 and the general public, too, have the greatest 
 confidence in his sound judgment and integrity. 
 
 The large interest which Mr. Jefiery feels in 
 the prosperity and happiness of railroad employes 
 is due in no small measure to the fact that he was 
 once an employe himself, and can sympathize 
 with their needs and ambitions. His men, know- 
 ing that they can trust him implicitly, repose 
 unlimited confidence in him; for, while he is strict 
 in insisting that every man shall do faithful and 
 efficient work, yet at the same time he has a high 
 sense of justice, and is always impartial and just 
 in his treatment of employes. 
 
 The fact that Mr. Jeffery has risen from ap- 
 prentice to general manager, from office boy to 
 president, indicates that he is the possessor of 
 qualities of an unusual order. He has been the 
 maker of his own fortune. Through his strong 
 mind and energetic will he has achieved a large 
 success. Beginning without capital or influential 
 friends, he has gained both through a life of in- 
 tegrity and industry. 
 
 As a public "speaker Mr. Jeffery is earnest and 
 eloquent, and in this way he has lent his effiDrts 
 in the aid of public work and benefactions. 
 When dealing with questions of facts he has few 
 superiors. With a mind unprejudiced, and 
 with a ready command of language, he is always 
 able to interest his hearers. While he had few 
 opportunities in youth for acquiring an educa- 
 tion, yet, even in the midst of hard work, he 
 made systematic study the rule of his life. He 
 is known as a close student of history and Eng- 
 lish literature, and as a mathematician is unusu- 
 ally gifted. 
 
 In Chicago Mr. Jeffery married Miss Virginia 
 O. Clarke, who was born in Maryland. Her 
 father, Col. James C. Clarke, one of the pioneer 
 railroad men ot the United States, was president 
 
 54 
 
 of the Illinois Central Railroad Company for 
 some years, and later, until his retirement in 
 1898, served as president of the Mobile & Ohio 
 Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Jefl'ery are the parents 
 of a son and daughter: James C, who is a stu- 
 dent in Yale College; and Edna T. 
 
 0AVID EDWIN SEVERANCE, one of the 
 most prominent agriculturists of Weld 
 County, was born in Tuftonborough, Car- 
 roll County, N. H., May 6, 1848, and is a son of 
 David and Ruth (Welch) Severance, natives of 
 New Hampshire. The founder of the Severance 
 famil}' in America was John Severance, who 
 emigrated from England about 1620, being a 
 member of the colony that made the voyage on 
 the "Mayflower." Subsequently he resided in 
 Massachusetts. Jonathan Severance, great-grand- 
 father of our subject, a native of Massachusetts, 
 removed to New Hampshire about 1750 and took 
 up government land near what is now the town 
 of Tuftonborough, becoming one of the pioneers 
 of that section. His son, Benjamin, and grand- 
 son, David, succeeded in turn to the family es- 
 tate, which was retained until recently in the 
 family; our subject, the last heir, disposed of it. 
 
 David Edwin Severance obtained his early 
 education in the district schools of his native 
 place up to the age of sixteen years, and later at- 
 tended the academy at Wolfsborough two years. 
 On attaining the age of eighteen he left home 
 and removed to Boston, Mass., where he learned 
 the trade of steam-fitting. This occupation he 
 followed for five years. On the death of his 
 father, which occurred in 1869, he returned to 
 the old home, and served as executor of the es- 
 tate, subsequently acquiring the propertj'. He 
 continued to manage the property until 188], 
 when he disposed of his interests in New Hamp- 
 shire and removed to Colorado. 
 
 Becoming a resident of Weld County, Mr. 
 Severance purchased three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land on section 36, township 6, range 67 
 west. This property was wholly unimproved at 
 the time and had no water. He at once set about 
 to secure the needed water for said land, and was 
 one of the leading spirits in the building of the 
 North Side lateral, which covered about five 
 thousand acres of land, and he was a heavy 
 stockholder of the same. He has succeeded in 
 bringing his estate under a high state of culti- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 vation, adding the necessary farm buildings, as 
 well as a residence that is among the most mod- 
 ern and commodiovis in the county. His energy 
 and enterprise have brought him success, and his 
 high sense of honor has brought him many 
 friends, who recognize him as one of the leading 
 citizens of the county. Always a stanch Demo- 
 crat, in 1898 his party placed him in nomination 
 as their candidate for the legislature. He was 
 elected by a majority of eight hundred. Frater- 
 nally he is a member of Windsor Lodge No. 69, 
 A. F. & A. M. He was one of the leading fac- 
 tors in forming school district No. 52, and was a 
 member of the school board for three years. In 
 1895 he secured the placing of a postoffice near 
 his residence, and this has been named Severance 
 in his honor. 
 
 April 16, iSyi.Mr. Severance married Mary A., 
 daughter of Ivory Milliken, a prominent farmer 
 ofOssipee, N. H. To them were born five chil- 
 dren, but two of these, Augusta and Fred, are 
 deceased. Those surviving are: Dora, David and 
 Mary. Dora is a graduate of the state normal 
 of Colorado, and David a graduate of the com- 
 mercial course of the State Agricultural College 
 of Colorado. Mary, at the age of twelve, is still 
 at school. The family home is situated at Sev- 
 erance, midway between Eaton and Windsor. 
 
 1 YMAN W. MILLER, postmaster of Sullivan 
 I C (Oakes) Arapahoe County, and a well- 
 1^2^ known apiarist of the place, was born at 
 Newton Falls. Trumbull County, Ohio, May 24, 
 1838, a son of William and Hannah (Doud) 
 Miller. When he was one year old his father 
 died, and nine years later his mother, who had 
 married again, removed to DeKalb County, 111., 
 where he grew to manhood on a farm, meantime 
 receiving a fair education. At the age of thirteen 
 he began to work by the month, and ever since 
 that time he has been self-supporting. After 
 working for others for several years he rented 
 and cultivated land. 
 
 When less than nineteen years of age, April 8, 
 1857, ^^- Miller married Miss Martha Ann Van 
 Dusen, of DeKalb County, but who was born near 
 Willoughby, Ohio, and removed to Illinois in 
 childhood. In 1863 Mr. Miller removed to Dodge 
 County, Minn., where he embarked in farm pur- 
 suits on a larger scale than before. While there 
 he enlisted in Company M, First Minnesota 
 
 Heavy Artillery, and was stationed at Chatta- 
 nooga, Tenn., where he did garrison duty until 
 the close of the war. While engaged at target 
 practice at Fort Creighton he was injured, and 
 has suffered from its effects since. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Miller returned to DeKalb Coun- 
 ty, 111., and from there, four years later, moved 
 to Madison County, Neb. During the eleven 
 years spent there he served for four years as jus- 
 tice of the peace, and in 1883 was elected to the 
 Nebraska legislature, where he served for one 
 term. Afterward he was again elected justice of 
 the peace. In all his service as an officer he was 
 noted for fidelity and uprightness. While in the 
 legislature he served as a member of several im- 
 portant committees and introduced a number of 
 bills, but they failed of passage because he did 
 not support the bill for an appropriation for the 
 capitol building. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1889, Mr. Miller spent 
 one year in Denver and then came to Sullivan, 
 where for a time he was engaged in digging 
 wells 'for the American Water Company, being 
 the first man to take charge of that work for 
 them. He had engaged in the well business in 
 Nebraska, so was fitted to carry it on successfully. 
 Before leaving Illinois he became interested in 
 bee-culture, and soon after settling at Sullivan he 
 embarked in the business, ihaving two swarms at 
 first, but now about two hundred and twenty-five. 
 He usually takes out five tons of honey a year. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Miller became the parents of five 
 children. Seymour, the eldest, is a conductor on 
 the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Rail- 
 road, and lives in Norfolk, Neb.; lie is married 
 and has one child; Melvin, who was also a rail- 
 road man, was drowned at Overland Park, Den- 
 ver, June 8, 1894; he left three children, who 
 make their home with our subject; Lyman, also 
 a railroad man in Nebraska, is married and has 
 two children; William, who is engaged in the 
 well business in Arapahoe County, is married and 
 has one child; Frank P., who is a partner with 
 his father in the bee business, married Myrtle 
 Grems, who was born in Minnesota. 
 
 As has already been intimated, Mr. Miller is 
 active in public affairs. Politically a Republican 
 he is proud of the fact that he voted for Abraham 
 Lincoln in i860 and 1864. In 1897 he was elect- 
 ed justice of the peace at Sullivan, and at the 
 same time his son, William, was elected constable. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1205 
 
 For his services in the Civil war he receives a 
 pension of $12 a month. A believer in the doc- 
 trines of the Christian Church, in every place 
 that he lived prior to coming to Colorado, he as- 
 sisted in the organization of a church of that 
 faith. While in Minnesota he was actively con- 
 nected with the Masonic fraternity and filled all 
 the chairs in his lodge except that of master. He 
 was formerly an attendant upon meetings of the 
 Washington Post, G. A. R., but of late years has 
 been less active in Grand Army matters. 
 
 JH. SHEPHERD is one of the leading citi- 
 zens of Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County. 
 For five years he was the postmaster here, 
 having been appointed to the position by Presi- 
 dent Harrison. Entering upon the duties of the 
 office in June, 1889, he served until July, 1894, in 
 the meantime establishing the postoffice in its 
 present commodious and central quarters. The 
 general public was entirely satisfied with the 
 methods employed by him in the management of 
 the office, and few who have held the position 
 have been more popular. 
 
 Mr. Shepherd is a native of Putnam County, 
 111., and was reared in that locality. He received 
 a good public and normal school education, and 
 in 1873 went to Kansas City, where he engaged 
 in the railroad business. He was connected with 
 the Kansas Pacific and the Kansas City, Fort 
 Scott & Gulf Railroads for several years, in fact, 
 up to 1880, when he came to Colorado. He re- 
 sided in the vicinity of Leadville for a year, and 
 then came to Idaho Springs. During this period 
 he was occupied in mining enterprises, but after 
 his appointment to the place of postmaster here, 
 he opened a book and stationery store in the same 
 building, running the business without conflicting 
 with his other duties. When he retired from 
 office, he sold out his book- store and has since 
 given his attention to mining. For a dozen 
 years or more he has been interested in the Shafter 
 Mining Company, of which he has long served as 
 the general manager. The Shafter mineis situated 
 on the southern slope of Bellevue Mountain, and 
 is in active operation. It is a good producer, the 
 ore being reached by a shaft. In addition to this 
 mine, Mr. Shepherd is financially concerned in 
 others and is making a success of his various in- 
 vestments. He has always been a zealous Re- 
 publician, and has often been a delegate to the 
 
 state conventions of his party. In 1894 he was 
 a candidate to the Colorado legislature, but, as 
 the Populists were in a large majority, he was 
 not elected. 
 
 The Shepherds were one of the foremost and 
 oldest families of Virginia, where they owned a 
 large grant of land long prior to the Revolution. 
 The grandfather of our subject, Jacob Shepherd, 
 was a native of Shepherdstown, Va. , which was 
 founded by his father under a grant from the 
 Crown of England and named in his honor. 
 Jacob Shepherd the grandfather of J. H. , removed 
 to Brown County, Ohio, at an early day, be- 
 coming one of the pioneers of that section, and 
 there he passed his last years. Some of the 
 Shepherds still live at Shepherdstown, Va., on a 
 portion of the estate known as Wild Goose farm. 
 Nelson Shepherd, father of J. H., was born in 
 Ohio, and about 1827, when Illinois was in her 
 infancy, he located on land lying along the 
 banks of the Illinois River, in Putnam County. 
 He continued to dwell there during the rest of 
 his life, his death occurring October 22, 1892, 
 when he was eighty-four years of age. His faith- 
 ful wife did not long survive him , as she died 
 only a few weeks later, in the following Decem- 
 ber, at the age of four-score. In her girlhood 
 she was Miss Mary Baird, a native of Brown 
 County, Ohio. Five of the children of Nelson 
 and Mary Shepherd are yet living. Three of 
 their sons were gallant defenders of the stars and 
 stripes in the Civil wai, all enlisting as privates 
 in the Twelfth Illinois Infantry. Cyrus, one of 
 these brave soldiers boys, died while in the 
 service. Albert is living on the old homestead; 
 and Lysle is a citizen of Kankakee, 111. 
 
 EHRIST JOHANNSEN, who is the owner of 
 a ranch in Arapahoe County, was born in 
 Segeberg, Holstein, Germany, April i, 1848, 
 a son of Jurgen and Annie Katie (Buttenschon) 
 Johannsen, also natives of Germany. His father, 
 who was a farmer, died at the age of sixty-six 
 years, while his wife had passed away at thirty- 
 six, when our subject was only five years old. 
 Both were faithful members of the Lutheran 
 Church. 
 
 Of the brothers and sisters of our subject we 
 note the following: Christ Henry, who was a 
 school teacher in Germany, is now a stockman 
 of Colorado; Claus Henry, who is a brick mason 
 
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 by trade, is now engaged in the stock business in 
 Colorado; Frederick is also a stockman and 
 farmer in Colorado; Hans, a carpenter by trade, 
 is now a farmer in this state; Christine is the 
 wife of August Stander, and lives near Alamosa, 
 Colo. ; Mary is living in Germany, where Doris 
 also resides; both are married. 
 
 In the schools of his native land the subject of 
 this sketch received a fair education. At the age 
 of seventeen he began to learn the trade of a 
 harness-maker, which he followed for six years 
 in Hamburg, Germany. When he was twenty- 
 four he and his brother, Claus H. , and Maggie 
 Walther, to whom he was married three years 
 later, in Denver, sailed for America in the 
 steamer "Normannia," arriving in New York 
 May 9, 1872. He worked till February, 1873, in 
 Michigan, on the Michigan Central Railroad, 
 and then crossed the continent as far as Colorado, 
 settling in Denver, where he engaged in the 
 hide business, under the employ of the old firm 
 of James Tynon in that business. After four years 
 in the same position he bought his present ranch 
 of four hundred and eighty acres, where he has 
 since engaged in the stock business. 
 
 May 29, 1875, Mr. Johannsen married Mar- 
 garetha Walther, born June 2, 1846, in Scholen- 
 fleth, Holstein, Germany, where her father was 
 proprietor of a bakery. They had only one 
 child, Annie Katie, born December 8, 1880, and 
 were bereaved by her death January 15, 1881. 
 Politically Mr. Johannsen is a Democrat. For 
 some years he has served as a member of the 
 school board. His time, however, is principally 
 given to the raising of stock and the management 
 of his ranch, and he is a highly respected and 
 prosperous citizen. 
 
 (lACOB MUMMA, a prominent ranchman of 
 I Deer Trail, Arapahoe County, was born 
 (2) February 28, 1842, in Ogle County, 111., his 
 parents being William and Rebecca (Pope) 
 Mumma. William Mumma was a native of 
 Maryland, and in early life settled on a farm 
 about one hundred miles west of Chicago, on 
 Pine Creek, when there were no railroads in the 
 state. He farmed there for some twenty years, 
 and then moved to Grand Detour, Ogle County, 
 where he kept a grocery store and livery stable. 
 From there he moved to Boone, Iowa, in 1864, 
 
 and engaged in business for a short time with his 
 son, Jacob, but soon returned to Ogle County, 
 111., where he spent the remainder of his life, dy- 
 ing in 1872. He was an old-line Whig, and in 
 later years a Democrat. His wife, Rebecca 
 (Pope) Mumma, was a native of Maryland, but 
 died when our subject was a small lad, conse- 
 quently but little is known of her family. There 
 were ten children, as follows: Joseph lives in 
 Illinois; William and Henry died young; John 
 is janitor of the eastern Denver high school; 
 Rose married Thomas Brooks, a farmer of Ogle 
 County, 111.; Nancy is the wife of George 
 Palmer, of the same place; Lizzie and Maudy are 
 deceased; and a child who died in infancy, be- 
 sides the subject of this biography. 
 
 Jacob Mumma passed his youth in Grand De- 
 tour, 111. , receiving his education in the public 
 schools of that place. At the age of nineteen he 
 began work as a brakeman on the Illinois Cen- 
 tral Railroad, and after some time spent in that 
 line was promoted to be a conductor on the same 
 road. He remained there until 1865, when he 
 quit railroading, and opened a livery business 
 with his father in Boone, Iowa, where he con- 
 tinued until 1867, when he disposed of his busi- 
 ness. Until 1871 he worked for Henry Stepp 
 and in settling up his own affairs, and in the 
 spring of that year went to Abilene, Kan., and 
 finally to Kansas City, where he was employed 
 in the fruit store of Whitaker & Holmes. That 
 fall he was sent by his employers to Denver with 
 five cars of fruit. After executing his commis- 
 sion he severed his connection with the firm , and 
 the following March entered the fruit store of 
 Pooler & Chittenden, of Denver. He next be- 
 gan working in a furniture store. There he re- 
 mained until 1876, when he took a partner, 
 E. B. Stires, and with him began raising sheep, 
 first at Collins, and after the first year four miles 
 east of Byers. About four years were spent here 
 when he bought out his partner and spent the 
 next year on the Muddy, in the same business, 
 when he moved to Pinneo on the Burlington & 
 Missouri Railroad. Losing his wife, he rented 
 his sheep on shares for one year, and during that 
 time sold furniture for the Hax-Gartner Furni- 
 ture Company. At the end of the year he selected 
 a good sheep ranch located on his present ranch, 
 which is two and one-half miles southeast of Deer 
 Trail, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Here for 
 
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 the past eleven or twelve years he has been en- 
 gaged in raising sheep, and making it a source 
 of considerable profit. He also handles horses. 
 He has improved the place since taking it, put- 
 ting up windmills, barns, house and other build- 
 ings, making it a home to be much desired. 
 
 In 1882 he married Miss Minnie Gildersleeve, 
 who died after two short years of married life. 
 He then married Delia Pooler in 1890, a native 
 of Susquehanna, Pa. She is a daughter of Hi- 
 ram Pooler, a descendant of one of the oldest 
 families of Pennsylvania. She is a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Mumma 
 has always been a Democrat, but has never as- 
 pired to office, as his time was fully occupied in 
 looking after his private interests, and his only 
 capital when he started out was his two hands 
 and a determination to succeed. 
 
 Frederick p. waite, who owns and oc- 
 
 fft cupies a ranch of one hundred and sixty 
 I '^ acres at Highland Lake, Weld County, was 
 born in Medina County, Ohio, February 7, 1844, 
 a son of Erastus and Polly (Burroughs) Waite. 
 He was one of thirteen children, all but two of 
 whom attained mature years, and six are now liv- 
 ing, namely: George A., Seth A., Frederick P., 
 Henrietta, Emerancia and Sarah. His father, a 
 native of Massachusetts, born in 1796, removed 
 from his early home in 1830, becoming a pioneer 
 of Ohio, where he cleared eighty acres in Medina 
 County. In that place he continued to reside 
 until his death, in 1882. 
 
 At the age of seventeen the subject of this 
 sketch began life for himself. Going to Trumbull 
 County, Ohio, he was employed during the sum- 
 mer in larm work and in the fall and winter at- 
 tended college at Gustavus. Thence he went to 
 Toledo and secured employment with the hard- 
 ware firm of Olmsted, Jones & Co., where he 
 served an apprenticeship to the business. While 
 with that firm, in the spring of 1864, he enlisted 
 in Company C, One Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio 
 Infantry. The regiment was ordered to John- 
 son's Island, where they drilled and guarded pris- 
 oners. A month later the men were ordered to 
 the front with Grant's army, in front of Peters- 
 burg, and Mr. Waite took part in the siege at 
 that place. After four and one-half months of 
 service he was relieved and sent home, where he 
 
 was mustered out of service in November, 1864. 
 While he was serving his country, his employers 
 not only held open his position until his return, 
 but continued his salary during the entire period 
 of his absence. 
 
 In 1866 the firm opened a branch house in 
 Chicago and Mr. Waite was sent to that city to 
 take charge of their western business. He estab- 
 lished the house and had entire charge of the busi- 
 ness until 1869, when failing health compelled 
 him to resign his position. For a time he endeav- 
 ored to recuperate at his home, but finding a 
 change of climate necessary, he came to Colorado, 
 making the journey by rail to Cheyenne and from 
 there by stage to Denver. Consultation with 
 difierent parties revealed the fact that (to quote 
 his own words) "the best way to regain health 
 was to buy a California broncho and some cattle 
 and go to New Mexico, ' ' He followed the advice 
 and wintered his stock among the Indians and 
 Mexicans, which gave him an insight into frontier 
 life that was new to him. In the spring of 1870 
 he drove the cattle to Denver, where he sold 
 them. In the summer he went back to Cleve- 
 land on a visit, returning to Colorado for the 
 winter. 
 
 Believing the sheep business would prove 
 profitable, Mr. Waite located in St. Vrain Canon, 
 where he remained until the winter of 1872-73, 
 when he sold his sheep interests and returned to 
 Ohio, hoping to be able to remain there. How- 
 ever, after a stay of six months, he found that the 
 climate would not permit him to remain. Ac- 
 cordingly, in the fall of 1873 he returned once more 
 to Colorado. On his arrival he located his pres- 
 ent home of one hundred and sixty acres at High- 
 land Lake. In the spring of the following year 
 he improved his new home, his family remaining 
 in Longmont. By dint of industrious efibrt he 
 transformed the wild prairie into a substantial 
 homestead, bearing valuable improvements. He 
 is a member of McPherson Post No. 6, G. A. R. 
 In religion he and his wife are active workers in 
 the Congregational Church. 
 
 While residing in St. Vrain Canon, in the fall 
 of 1 87 1, Mr. Waite was married to his first wife, 
 their wedding being solemnized in Denver. She 
 was Miss Effie M. Fowler, a native of Chardon, 
 Ohio. Four children were born of their union, 
 three of whom are living. The oldest child, 
 Charles H., is deceased. Vesta M. is a gradu- 
 
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 ate of the normal school at Greeley and a teacher 
 in the public schools. Frederick M. finished his 
 education with three years in the preparatory 
 school and one year in the university at Boulder, 
 and is now in the postal service as mail carrier 
 in Boulder. Metta E. attended the high school 
 at Greeley until completing the course, and is 
 now in the preparatory school in Boulder. The 
 mother of these children died in the fall of 1882. 
 The present wife of Mr. Waite, with whom he 
 was united in marriage October 9, 1884, was for- 
 merly Melissa A. Ward, of Longmont. She was 
 for some years a resident of Kelley's Island, Ohio, 
 where she successfully taught in the public 
 schools. After coming to Colorado she en gaged 
 in kindergarten work in Longmont. A lady of 
 superior intelligence and broad information, she 
 is esteemed wherever known and has a host of 
 friends among those she has met since coming to 
 this state. Mr. Waite takes an interest in public 
 affairs and aids in every way possible the ad- 
 vancement of the county and the development of 
 its resources. On the organization of his pre- 
 cinct, he was made justice of the peace, an office 
 that he has held continuously to the present 
 time. 
 
 (S\ NDREW MISNER, a successful farmer of 
 r I Douglas County, resides on section 34, town- 
 I I ship 8, range 66 west, near Castle Rock, and 
 is the owner of eleven hundred acres, besides 
 which he leases a school section. The improve- 
 ments on the place are of a substantial character 
 and have increased the financial value of the prop- 
 erty. Mr. Misner was born in the town of Tross- 
 ingen. Province of Wurtemberg, Germany, April 
 13. i839> ^ son of Christian Ludvig and Anna 
 (Koch) Misner, and was reared on a farm, re- 
 ceiving a fair education. In 1858 he came to 
 America, spending twenty-seven days on the 
 ocean and landing in New York, from which city 
 he proceeded west to Chicago, thence to Grand 
 Traverse City, Mich. After a year in the latter 
 place he went to DuPage County, 111., and se- 
 cured employment on a farm. 
 
 September 10, 1861, Mr. Misner enlisted in 
 Company E, Fifty-fifth Illinois Infantry, in which 
 he served for four years, participating in the bat- 
 tles of Pitts burg Landing, Corinth, Holly Springs, 
 Germantown, Tallahatchie, Champion Hill,Vicks- 
 burg (where a buckshot struck the buckle of 
 
 his belt and knocked him senseless), Jackson, 
 Miss., Big Sandy, Ga., Kenesaw Mountain, At- 
 lanta, Eyra Chapel, Ga. , Jonesboro and Nash- 
 ville. At Pittsburg Landing a ball struck his 
 right shoulder, but aside from cutting his blouse 
 and leaving a black spot on the flesh, did not 
 affect him. June 30, 1864, he joined the Illinois 
 First Light Artillery, and while on duty was 
 kicked by a horse, which broke his leg. He was 
 sent to the hospital, where he remained for three 
 months. When he was discharged as recovered 
 the war had closed and his battery was mustered 
 out two days later. 
 
 Returning to Chicago, Mr. Misner worked for 
 Peter Schuttler for fourteen months. Later he 
 started a flour and feed store, but within three 
 months he lost all (about $800) he had saved 
 during his army service. Discouraged by his 
 ill-success, he went to Grundy County, 111., and 
 for two years was employed in a warehouse. In 
 that county, March 30, 1869, he married Miss 
 Elizabeth Herren, who was born in Switzerland, 
 and was brought to America by her parents when 
 six weeks old. Leaving his wife in Illinois, he 
 came to Denver via the Union Pacific to Chey- 
 enne, and thence by stage. For two months he 
 worked in the mines at Blackhawk. He next 
 took a homestead, where he now lives, and has 
 added to the original tract, from time to time, 
 until he now owns a large amount of land. In 
 politics he is a silver Republican and in religion 
 a Protestant. In the Grand Army Post at Castle 
 Rock he has held various official positions. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Misner are the parents of eight 
 children , all of whom were born in Colorado. The 
 oldest child, Anna, married Hon. Robert E. Palm, 
 the present county judge of Douglas County, 
 Colo., and resides near Castle Rock. The other 
 children are: Mary, Teresa, Barbara, Emma, Rosa, 
 Bertha and Christina. 
 
 0AVID I. CRAMER owns one and one-half 
 sections of land, in one body, lying three 
 miles south of Sedalia, Douglas County, 
 Colo., and here he is engaged in general farm 
 pursuits and stock-raising. He was born in New- 
 ark, Ohio, May 2, 1843, a son of Peter and 
 Martha (Martin) Cramer. When he was three 
 years of age his father, who was a carpenter, 
 went to Missouri by steamboat, hoping to find a 
 
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 suitable location there. Not likiug the country, 
 however, he started to drive back to Ohio. In 
 passing through Jasper County, 111., he was so 
 pleased with the country that he decided to settle, 
 and accordingly took up land near what is now 
 Granville. There, about two years later, he died. 
 In the fall of the same year (1848) his widow 
 returned to Ohio, and, when her son was about 
 eight, she married again. Three years later she 
 removed to Cumberland County, 111., settling 
 upon a farm there about 1854. Two years later 
 she died. 
 
 Making his home with his step-father until he 
 was eighteen, our subject then enlisted in Com- 
 pany F, Fifth Illinois Cavalry, and was sent to 
 Missouri, where he took part in the battles of Pea 
 Ridge, Cotton Plant and Island No. 62. In the 
 latter engagement a man on each side of him was 
 shot, a ball that scratched his right side did not 
 injure him seriously, but took the right ear off 
 the horse. At Helena, Ark., as an advance 
 guard, he rode up to the gate of a farm one day, 
 and there was hailed by a picket, who called 
 "Halt," and at the same instant fired at him. 
 Mr. Cramer at the same moment shot at the Con- 
 federate. The powder from the picket's gun 
 burned his face and eyes and for some time he 
 was in a serious condition. From Helena he was 
 ordered to the Cherokee nation as a scout. There, 
 while on picket duty, he and his comrade saw a 
 white man and a negro leave a house. They im- 
 mediately sneaked up on the side, and when the 
 men were close, they fired, killing both. Return- 
 ing to Helena, while he was one day helping to 
 shoe government horses, he was kicked in the 
 pit of the stomach by a mule. The kick cut a 
 hole into the stomach that is still there. The 
 injury incapacitated him for active service. Soon 
 afterward he fell a victim to typhoid fever and 
 was sent to the hospital in Helena, where he lay, 
 unconscious and almost dying, for weeks. While 
 he was still in the hospital his regiment moved 
 to Vicksburg, in April, 1863. Wishing to join 
 them, he secured the permission of his captain, 
 and was assisted to the boat, while still too weak 
 to stand alone. However, he gradually regained 
 his strength, and remained with the army until 
 after the surrender of Vicksburg, when he was 
 discharged, July 25, 1863, at Milldale, Miss. 
 
 For months after he returned home, Mr. Cra- 
 mer was in poor health. At the time of enlisting 
 
 he had weighed one hundred and eighty-three 
 pounds, and one year after his return home, in 
 spite of considerable gain during that time, he 
 weighed but one hundred and forty pounds. In 
 Cumberland County, 111., July 28, 1864, he mar- 
 ried Miss Frances Stults, of that county, but a 
 native of Perry County, Ohio, and for some years 
 in childhood a resident of Fairfield County, that 
 state. She is a descendant of German ancestors, 
 but the family has been represented in America 
 for many generations. She accompanied her 
 parents, I^ewis and Elizabeth (Strockbine) Stults, 
 to Illinois, settling in Cumberland County. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Cramer sold his farm of forty acres 
 in Cumberland County and came to Colorado, 
 where he took up land near Monument, making 
 his home on that place for four years. On re- 
 linquishing his claim he rented land for a time. 
 In 1879 he came to Douglas, where he operated 
 as a renter for a 3'ear, and in 1880 bought the 
 right to school land, on which he settled after 
 Christmas day of that year. He also homesteaded 
 and pre-empted land, and became the owner of a 
 half section in that way. On his place he has 
 made good improvements, including a substantial 
 house, barn and fruit trees. 
 
 Four sons and two daughters comprise the 
 family of Mr. and Mrs. Cramer. Lydia, the 
 eldest of these, married F. A. Curtis, of Arapa- 
 hoe County, and they have four children. Amos, 
 the eldest son, works in the Grant smelter at 
 Denver; Lewis, who is married and has two chil- 
 dren, lives on a ranch near his father's home. 
 Carrie is the wife of Charles Harcourt, living 
 near L,ittleton, and has one child. Curtis P. is a 
 student in the School of Mines at Golden, class of 
 1899. David S. is in Alaska, where he went in 
 the hope of discovering gold. 
 
 Our subject's father was a Whig and his step- 
 father a Democrat. In 1868 he voted for Grant 
 and again in 1872. Four years later he cast his 
 ballot for R. B. Hayes, and in 1880 supported 
 James Garfield. In 1884 he voted for Cleveland, 
 four years later supported Benjamin Harrison, as 
 he did also in 1892, and in 1896, casting his vote 
 in support of the silver standard, he supported 
 Bryan. For three years he served as a school 
 director and while in that position the schoolhouse 
 in Sedalia was built. He was the Democratic 
 nominee for county treasurer in 1894, but was 
 defeated by nine votes. At another time he was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the candidate for county commissioner, but did 
 not work for the election and consequently was 
 defeated, though by seventeen votes only. The 
 parents of Mr. and Mrs. Cramer were religious. 
 In life they were faithful members of the United 
 Brethren Church. 
 
 (lOHN H. MORCOM, superintendent of the 
 I Colorado Iron Works, was born near Land's 
 (2/ End, Cornwall, England, and is a member of 
 one of the old families of that shire, to which the 
 first of the name in England are supposed to have 
 emigrated from Normandy. His father, John, 
 who was a son of David Morcom, was born in 
 Cornwall, where he followed the baker's trade 
 during his active life. When advanced in years 
 he came to America, and from that time until his 
 death he resided in DeSoto, Mo. He married 
 Jane Goodman, who was a native of Cornwall, 
 and is now living in Kansas. Their only child, 
 who forms the subject of this sketch, was reared 
 in his native shire, where, at the age of fourteen, 
 he began an apprenticeship to the blacksmith's 
 trade in the foundry owned by one of the largest 
 manufacturers of machinery in England. Three 
 years were spent in the foundry, after which he 
 went to London and entered the employ of Rennie 
 & Co., ship and gunboat builders, with whom 
 he completed his trade. 
 
 In 1867, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. Morcom 
 came to America and settled in Renovo, Pa., 
 where he worked in the Sunbury & Erie Railroad 
 shops. One year later he went to St. Charles, 
 Mo., and was employed in the Northern Missouri 
 shops there for two years, after which he spent 
 a similar period in the Missouri Pacific Railroad 
 shops in St. Louis. His next employment was as 
 master mechanic in the blast furnace of the South 
 St. Louis Iron Works at Carondelet, a responsible 
 position and one that he filled with efficiency. In 
 1877 he resigned, having decided to come to 
 Colorado for the benefit of his family's health. 
 At Golden he secured work in the railroad shops 
 of the Colorado Central, where he continued until 
 the fall of 1879, and then came to Denver. From 
 that time until August, 1881, he was employed 
 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company. 
 He then accepted a position as foreman in the 
 blacksmith shop of the Colorado Iron Works 
 
 Company, later was made foreman in the ma- 
 chine shop, taking up the mechanical part of the 
 
 machinery, together with the oversight of the 
 men. In the fall of 1887 he was made superin- 
 tendent of the works, which position he has since 
 held, besides being a director of the company. 
 At times he has had as many as six hundred men 
 employed in the foundry, machine, pattern, black- 
 smith and boiler shops, and his capable manage- 
 ment of the hands, as well as his intelligent su- 
 pervision of the plant, has materially increased 
 its prosperity. 
 
 In London, England, Mr. Morcom married 
 Catherine Tripp, who was born in Cornwall. 
 They have a son and daughter: Philip, who is 
 foreman of the blacksmith shop of the Colorado 
 Iron Works; and Carrie, at home. Mr. Morcom 
 has never taken an active part in politics, but 
 keeps well posted concerning public affairs and is 
 a Republican in belief. Fraternall)' he is con- 
 nected with the Ancient Order of Foresters, also 
 with Oriental Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. M., 
 and Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M. 
 
 ^ ILLETT L. BOOTH is engaged in general 
 |_ farming and the dairy business in Arapahoe 
 \^ County, where he owns a ranch situated just 
 across Cherry Creek from the postoffice of Oakes. 
 He was born at Prairie du Chien, Wis., April 18, 
 1856, a son of Levi and Mijlie (Downing) Booth. 
 His father, who was an attornej', was one of the 
 two first graduates of the University of Wiscon- 
 sin, and removed in 1857 to Madison, where he 
 engaged in professional practice about four years. 
 In i860 he came to Colorado and here, a year 
 later, he was joined by his wife and son, who had 
 been visiting near Sandusky, Ohio. He engaged 
 in mining and other occupations. For three 
 years he lived in Leadville and then removed to 
 Lamacia, six miles from Las Cruces, and forty 
 miles from Old Mexico, where for six months he 
 carried on a mercantile business. Though he 
 was prospered financially, the location and sur- 
 roundings were not congenial. In the entire 
 town of ten thousand inhabitants there were but 
 three white women. In 1864 he removed to 
 Denver and took up land near the city, where he 
 has since made his home. 
 
 Until fourteen years of age our subject did not 
 attend school. However, under his mother's in- 
 structions he was taught to read and write and 
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 to Denver he attended school in this city and in 
 time became the possessor of a fair education. 
 At twenty-one years of age he rented a farm, but 
 after a year he returned to the home place, where 
 he remained six years. May i, 1884, he married 
 Miss Carrie E. Hale, of Denver, who was born 
 near St. Johnsbury, Vt., a daughter of Loren and 
 Roxanna (Brown) Hale, who moved from New 
 Hampshire to Vermont. She received an 
 academic education. Three years before his mar- 
 riage he had bought a home and to it he took his 
 wife. In 1896 he embarked in the dairy busi- 
 ness, in which he has also been successful. 
 
 Politically Mr. Booth is a Republican. In the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a 
 member, he takes an active part and is especially 
 interested in Sunday-school work. As superin- 
 tendent of the school he was instrumental in pro- 
 moting its welfare. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Harmon Lodge No. 105, I. O. O. F. He is 
 a member of Cherry Creek Grange No. 58, in 
 which he has filled various offices. He and his 
 wife are the parents of four children, Levi G., 
 Perley Thomas, Charles Holbrook and Hazel 
 Lillian. 
 
 HIRAM MARFELL, who is a successful mine 
 operator and is the owner of valuable coal 
 lands about two and a-half miles south of 
 Erie, Weld County, is one of the representative 
 citizens of that locality. He is a native of Eng- 
 land, his birth having occurred in Gloucester- 
 shire, May 15, 1840. His parents were Edmund 
 and Ann (Burdock) Marfell, and of their family, 
 which originally comprised six children, only two 
 remain. A sister, Belinda, is the wife of Cor- 
 nelius Harris, of Dry brook, England. 
 
 Edmund Marfell was born in the same neighbor- 
 hood as that in which the birth of the subject of 
 this article took place. His life extended from the 
 year 1800 to 1884, and was busy, useful and 
 happy, in spite of business reverses and the sor- 
 rows and trials which came to him, as to all. In 
 the early part of his career he followed agricult- 
 ural pursuits for a few years, and then turned 
 his attention to mining, in which he prospered. 
 In time he became one of the comparatively rich 
 men of his neighborhood, but he went security 
 for friends and lost heavily, until but a small 
 portion of his property remained. For several 
 years he held the responsible position of overseer 
 
 of the parish, a similar office to that of county 
 commissioner in America. His wife, Ann, was 
 born in 1807. The Marfell family have been 
 residents of Gloucestershire for a great many 
 generations and have been marked for traits of 
 independence, good citizenship and uprightness 
 of word and deed. Our subject's grandfather, 
 Moses Marfell, was a well-to-do farmer of the 
 shire mentioned and at the time of his death he 
 had reached the ripe age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 In his boyhood Hiram Marfell obtained a com- 
 mon-school education, and long before he had 
 arrived at his majority he worked with his father 
 in the old stone-quarries of the neighborhood of 
 his early home. About 1863 he took a position 
 as time-keeper in a colliery and continued to act 
 in that capacity for some seven years. In 1870 
 he set sail for the United States, and upon land- 
 ing in Portland, Me., went to New York, and 
 thence to Mahoning City, Pa. During the follow- 
 ing two years he found employment in the anthra- 
 cite coal mines, after which he concluded to travel 
 in the west, seeing something of the country. He 
 remained for a few days in Virginia City, Nev. , 
 and then spent two or three months in the Grass 
 Valley mines in California. Returning to Colo- 
 rado he commenced working in the Erie coal 
 mines. At the end of about eighteen months 
 there arose dissatisfaction among the men, and 
 the result was, that nineteen of the number, 
 including our subject, formed a combination and 
 leased the Mitchell mine. Mr. Marfell was chosen 
 from them to represent their goods in Denver 
 disposing of the production of the mine. The 
 plan prospered for a time, but dissensions arose 
 as to the management of the business, and the 
 company ultimately suspended operations. 
 
 The next step of Mr. Marfell was to embark in 
 business for himself, and up to 1893 ^^ liad 
 Henry Goodrich as a partner. In 1880 they 
 sunk the shaft of the Stewart mine, which they 
 actively operated for thirteen years, and sold in 
 1893 to the People's Coal Company. A short 
 time prior to this transaction Mr. Marfell had sold 
 his coal business in Denver to Dresser & Wise. 
 Since then he has given his chief attention to his 
 landed interests, as he owns six hundred and 
 forty acres two and a-half miles south of Erie. A 
 quarter-section of this property is valuable coal 
 land. In 1896 he leased some coal land four 
 miles south of Erie, and has since been operating 
 
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 it. He is a man of excellent business ability and 
 few more thoroughly understand the value and 
 possibilities which lie in the vast coal-beds of this 
 state. 
 
 In Denver, May 24, 1882, Mr. Marfell married 
 Miss Elizabeth Flannagan, of that city. After a 
 happy life together of little more than eight 
 years, Mrs. Marfell died, in November, 1890. 
 While he is not identified with any church or 
 denomination, Mr. Marfell is interested in relig- 
 ious enterprises and contributes liberally toward 
 their support. He is a Mason, belonging to the 
 blue lodge, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 AVID J. TINTIyE, who resides in the south- 
 eastern part of Douglas County, was born 
 November 30, 1856, at Bloomingdale, a lit- 
 tle town in the northwestern part of New Jersey. 
 When he was five years of age his father died 
 and one year later his mother, who was in poor 
 health and realized she had not long to live, placed 
 him and a younger brother in Foster Home, at 
 Newark, N. J., a Presbyterian institution. There 
 dwells, clearly through all the intervening years, 
 fresh and strong in the memory of our subject the 
 remembrance of the last sad parting with his 
 mother, for he never saw her again until taken 
 to her funeral. He remained at the Home until 
 ten years of age and was well treated, both he 
 and his younger brother being sent to school reg- 
 ularly. In fact, the larger part of his education 
 was obtained in those years. 
 
 From the Home the orphan boy was bound out 
 to Sam J. Randall and worked for him at all kinds 
 of work that falls to the lot of a strong, healthy 
 boy in the country. He did not always receive 
 the best of treatment and was not sent to school, 
 although such had been promised to the Home 
 authorities. When two years had passed away 
 Mr. Randall found that he could not keep the 
 boy without fulfilling his part of the contract, and 
 the boy, knowing the .same to be true, ran away 
 and began to work for his next neighbor, John 
 Ross, a large dry-goods merchant of New York 
 City. He remained with Mr. Ross for some 
 time, receiving his wages regularly. From there 
 he drifted to Paterson, N. J., where he drove a 
 milk wagon for J. B. Corter. He then visited 
 an uncle in Brooklyn, with whom he found his 
 only sister, and becoming very much attached to 
 
 her he spent the next two years in Brooklyn, but 
 was obliged to pay board regularly to his uncle. 
 He was anxious to become a sailor and haunted 
 the Brooklyn navy yard until his uncle, fearing 
 he might succeed in finding a place at last, per- 
 suaded a boy-chum of our subject to coax him 
 out west. They were sent by the Children's Aid 
 Society to Missouri and arrived at Lathrop when 
 he was about fourteen years old, but quite large 
 and strong for his age. He soon found employ- 
 ment with Alexander Judy, with whom he re- 
 mained for two years. He was then sent to Di- 
 vide, Colo., with others, driving- a herd of cattle 
 across the plains. 
 
 June 9, 1872, Mr. Tintle arrived in the neigh- 
 borhood of his present home. Being too young 
 to take up land he worked at farming, logging, 
 etc. He spent a few months in San L,uis Valley 
 then returned to the Divide, where he became a 
 cowboy and worked for some of the best cattle 
 men in the state, one of these being H. H. Met- 
 calf, secretary of the stock association at the pres- 
 ent time. In the summer he rode from Colorado 
 to Texas, but most of the winters he spent on the 
 Divide. In 1878 he became acquainted with Miss 
 Julia Alderman, a teacher in the little country 
 school near where he lived, and the youngest 
 daughter of James H. and Adelia Alderman, of 
 New Jersey, but then residjug with their sons on 
 the Divide. She was born in Jacksonville, 111., 
 in 1 860, and moved in 1872 to Denver, where she 
 was educated, graduating from the Denver high 
 school in 1880. After her graduation she began 
 to teach in the school, where she continued until 
 her marriage at her brother's home, December 
 21, 1881. 
 
 Up to the time of his marriage Mr. Tintle had 
 saved nothing and owned no land. He rented a 
 little farm three miles from his present home and 
 furnished a little house, in which he and his wife 
 began housekeeping very comfortably for the 
 west. In February, 1882, he took a herd of cat- 
 tle on shares, and bought for $1,000 (on time) 
 the place he was renting. After four years he 
 sold out to a wealthy miner and had enough left 
 to pay part down on a larger place, farther up 
 the creek, and the present home of the family. 
 It contained three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land, well watered and timbered, but scarcely a 
 furrow had been turned in the soil. Since then 
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 on the place, and expects to continue the im- 
 provements until he has a model country home. 
 He and his wife have three sons and three daugh- 
 ters, all born on the Divide except Mary, who 
 was born in Denver. The oldest daughter, Mil- 
 lie, a bright girl of fifteen, is attending school in 
 Denver. The sons, Frank L. (eleven years ,of 
 age), David J. (nine) and Lawrence M. (seven), 
 attend the district school at the present writing. 
 Mary E. is three and one-half years of age and 
 Ruth ten months. The children will be given 
 every advantage within the reach of their parents, 
 who wish to give them the best possible prepara- 
 tion for the responsibilities of active life. 
 
 Giving his whole attention to private matters, 
 Mr. Tintle has never taken any interest in politi- 
 cal aifairs. In 1892 he was asked by his friends 
 to run for commissioner, but refused, as he did 
 not feel that he could leave home. Three years 
 from that time he was told by prominent men of 
 the county that he would be nominated for com- 
 missioner and to be at the convention to accept. 
 That was the first convention he had ever at- 
 tended, but he has attended most of the county 
 and state conventions since. He was nominated 
 on the Republican ticket and elected. He has 
 always been a strong Republican and is now an 
 equally strong silver supporter. In January, 
 1898, he was elected chairman of the board of 
 commissioners and has since held the position. 
 During his term of service he has built a number 
 of roads and valuable bridges and otherwise im- 
 proved the county. It is his aim, and the desire 
 also of the other board members, to run the 
 county for the best interests of the majority of 
 the people, regardless of politics; and, while 
 striving to neglect nothing that demands atten- 
 tion, they are nevertheless quite economical, and 
 no expenditure is authorized without due consid- 
 eration. November 8, 1898, he was re-elected 
 commissioner on the fusion ticket. 
 
 Neither Mr. Tintle nor his wife is a member of 
 any church, being liberal in their views, but 
 cherishing the greatest respect for Christianity 
 in its sincere and honest form. In all their deal- 
 ings they strive to be upright and do as they 
 would be done by. They are very charitable in 
 disposition and no one is ever turned away from 
 their door hungry. Mr. Tintle has never forgot- 
 ten the days when he was homeless and his heart 
 goes out in sympathy for all who have no place 
 
 on earth they can call home. Fraternally he is 
 identified with the Woodmen of the World and 
 the Odd Fellows' Lodge of Elbert, but living at 
 such a distance he cannot attend meetings regu- 
 larly, and has not taken an active part in their 
 proceedings. What he has accumulated repre- 
 sents continuous hard work through many years. 
 He is an able business man, an efficient worker, 
 and possesses the executive ability that should 
 secure a high degree of prosperity for its pos- 
 sessor. However, he has never cared to hoard 
 money, but prefers to spend it in securing com- 
 forts for his family and good educations for his 
 children. 
 
 DWARD B. BOWLES, a general farmer re- 
 "y siding in Harris, Arapahoe County, was 
 ^ born in Dade County, Mo., November 16, 
 1846, and is the son of Williamson and Louise 
 (Priddy) Bowles. He was one of seven children, 
 of whom all but two are still living, those besides 
 himself being Alonzo C. , a farmer living in Waco, 
 Tex.; Sanford, a farmer in Dade County, Mo.; 
 Maria, wife of Tully King, a farmer of lone, 
 Ore.; and Newton, who is engaged in agricult- 
 ural pursuits in Weld County, Colo. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in Hanover 
 County, Va., in 1814, a son of John W. Bowles, 
 of English descent. He grew to manhood on the 
 home farm and after his marriage removed to 
 Missouri, where he remained for years. He gave 
 up active business affairs some ten years before 
 his death, and during his remaining days resided 
 with his children in Colorado and Missouri. He 
 died in 1897 at the age of eighty-three years. 
 Our subject grew to manhood beneath the pa- 
 rental roof and had such educational advantages 
 as the neighboring schools afforded. In 1863 he 
 turned his steps westward, coming to Colorado 
 with a party of fifteen other emigrants, with oxen 
 and a herd of three hundred cattle. For five 
 years he was occupied in freighting on the plains 
 from the Missouri River to Salt Lake, Denver, 
 Santa Fe and other important points. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Bowles became interested in farm- 
 ing. For three years afterwards he cultivated 
 rented land, and in 1871 took up the homestead 
 where he has since resided. In 1871 he married 
 Miss Elizabeth Longan. Nine children were 
 born of their union, all living, and named as fol- 
 lows: Benjamin, who is a farmer in Weld 
 
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 County; Jesse, who assists his father on the home 
 farm; Newton, John, Bessie, Maria, Bruce, 
 Marietta and L,awrence, all at home. In politics 
 Mr. Bowles is independent, never having allied 
 himself with any political party, but voting for 
 the men he believes best qualified for office, 
 whatever their political affiliations. 
 
 gENJAMIN C. JOHNSON purchased a tract 
 of forty acres near Harris, Jefferson County, 
 in 1882, and has since made this place his 
 home. He engaged in carpentering until 1889, 
 meantime having practically built the entire vil- 
 lage of Lafayette, but since that year he has 
 given his attention to the sale of machinery. A 
 native of Champaign County, Ohio, he was born 
 November 25, 1844, and was one of the three 
 children of Benjamin and Maria (Means) John- 
 son. His father, who was born and reared in 
 Greenbrier County, W. Va., removed at the age 
 of twenty-eight years to Ohio, where he resided 
 until his death, following farm pursuits. He was 
 a man of sterling qualities and was held in high 
 esteem by all who knew him. 
 
 After having spent his first fifteen years at 
 home, our subject took a trip through the south 
 in company with Joshua Haines, who was buying 
 mules for the southern trade. Not only did he 
 go through the south, but his travels extended as 
 far as South America. After eight months he 
 returned home, where he continued to reside un- 
 til the breaking out of the war. May 12, 1861, 
 he enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Artillery, and 
 when, at the battle of Shiloh, the Thirteenth lost 
 its guns, he was transferred to the Tenth Ohio 
 Artillery, in which he served until August 18, 
 1865. He took part in the siege of Vicksburg, 
 the battle of Corinth and in the battles between 
 Chattanooga and Jonesborough. He was brev- 
 eted lieutenant, but did not receive his commis- 
 sion, and was mustered out of the service as 
 corporal. Among his souvenirs of the war is a 
 medal given him by the state of Ohio, for brav- 
 ery in leading a charge of men at Peach Tree 
 Creek, Atlanta, to drain the fire of the Con- 
 federates, while the army secured a crossing. 
 
 When the war closed Mr. Johnson returned to 
 his home, but after one year he went to Mahaska 
 County, Iowa, where he settled and engaged in 
 farming. September 24, 1870, he married Miss 
 
 Mary R. Derby, who was born in Lee County, 
 Iowa, November 12, 1849, a daughter of Chaun- 
 eey Derby, a prominent farmer of Lee County. 
 Shortly after his marriage he determined to come 
 west and the same year, 1870, found him in 
 Mitchell County, Kan., where he learned the car- 
 penter's trade. Four years later, in 1874, he 
 returned to Iowa, where he worked at his trade 
 in Mahaska County for three years, and at the 
 same time purchased and operated a sawmill. In 
 1878 he again came west, stopping in Kansas 
 from March to November, when he came to Colo- 
 rado. Going direct to the mountains, he ran a 
 sawmill from November to July, when he came 
 to Denver and engaged in carpentering. Since 
 1882 he has resided on his small farm near Harris. 
 Politically Mr. Johnson is an ardent Republi- 
 can. He is a member of Major Anderson Post 
 No. 88, G. A. R. , in which he has held all the 
 higher offices and is now past commander. He 
 and his wife are the parents of three children. 
 Birtsel E., who was born November 13, 1871, 
 and who graduated at the Denver high school in 
 1 89 1, is now employed in the office of the Colo- 
 rado News Company; William C. was born March 
 I, 1877, ^"*^ is now engaged in farming; Eliz- 
 abeth Adell was born February 27, 1882. 
 
 nOHN KOERBER, a well-known dairyman 
 I and ranchman of Arapahoe County, was 
 (2/ born in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany, 
 May I, 1848, a son of George and Margaretha 
 (Neuner) Koerber, natives of the same place as 
 himself His father, who engaged in farming, 
 died when in the prime of life, and left two sons 
 and three daughters. Of these, John, an older 
 brother, is engaged in farming in Germany; 
 Josephine is the wife of John Stenline, of Michi- 
 gan; Maggie married Frank Power; and Cora is 
 the widow of John Arnot, of Michigan. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject were passed 
 in attendance upon the public schools of his native 
 land. He was twenty-one years of age when he 
 sailed for the United States. Arriving in this 
 country, he settled in Michigan, where he was 
 employed for a time in the iron mines. He spent 
 ten years in Michigan and in 1879 came to Colo- 
 rado, settling at Golden Run, where he carried 
 on a hotel for a number of years. From that place 
 he came to Denver in 1888. In 1893 he pur- 
 
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 chased the ranch where he now resides. He 
 raises hay for feed for his stock, and has placed a 
 number of valuable improvements on his ranch, 
 including a substantial house, good barn and 
 other outbuildings. It is one of the very best 
 dairy farms in the country and has splendid im- 
 provements. 
 
 August 12, 1872, Mr. Koerber married Annie 
 Schilling, a native of Germany. They are the 
 parents of three sons and five daughters, namely: 
 John, Jr., Walter, Anthony and Maggie, who are 
 at home; Cora, wife of John Hughes, a farmer of 
 Arapahoe County; Mary, Annie and Abalena, at 
 home. Politically Mr. Koerber is liberal in his 
 opinions. He has served as a director of his 
 school district and in other ways has promoted 
 the interests of his locality. Both he and his 
 wife are members of the Catholic Church, in which 
 faith they have reared their children. 
 
 (IACOB mack, deceased, formerly the owner 
 I and proprietor of a large ranch in Arapahoe 
 (2/ County, was born in Metz, France, March 
 14, 1834, and when five j^ears of age was brought 
 to this country by his parents, John and Amalia. 
 The family settled in New Orleans, where the 
 father and mother died of the yellow fever. Of 
 the seven sous, only three attained manhood; 
 the mother and three sons died in one day of 
 yellow fever. Shock, the oldest son, was drowned 
 in the Mississippi River when thirty-three years 
 of age; and John, who was a soldier in the Civil 
 war, died at fifty-three years of age. 
 
 When a boy our subject did not have the edu- 
 cational advantages that fall to the lot of the boys 
 of the present generation. His parents were 
 poor and after their death he was obliged to 
 fight the battles of life for himself. The infor- 
 mation that he obtained he secured through self- 
 culture and with the assistance of his wife, who 
 was his helpmate in every sense of that word. 
 At the age of nineteen he went up the Mississippi 
 to St. lyouis. He enlisted for three months in 
 Company D, Fifth Missouri Infantry, and at the 
 expiration of his term of service he enlisted in the 
 Second Regiment of Missouri State militia or 
 State Home Guard, remaining in the army for 
 more than two years. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Mack cameto Colorado and settled 
 on a ranch one mile from Bennett, on Kiowa 
 
 Creek. Here he remained until his death, May i, 
 1878. His marriage, July 20, 1858, united him 
 with Christina Schaller, a native of Altenheim, 
 Baden, Germany, who came with her parents to 
 America at fifteen years of age and settled in St. 
 lyouis. Mo. Her father, Jacob Schaller, who was 
 a weaver in Germany, died soon after coming to 
 the United States. Mrs. Mack was educated in 
 Germany. She is a lady of gentle, amiable dis- 
 position, especially devoted to the welfare of her 
 immediate family, but kind and helpful in her 
 intercourse with all. In religion she is a Presby- 
 terian. Since her husband's death she has 
 superintended the ranch, which is stocked with 
 cattle and horses; and has made a number of 
 valuable improvements. The place contains a 
 good house, barn and outbuildings, and is three 
 hundred and sixty acres in extent. At the time 
 the family settled here, the nearest neighbors 
 were from fifteen to eighteen miles distant. They 
 themselves were poor in this world's goods, and 
 it was only by diligent effort on the part of both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Mack that they secured a com- 
 petency. He was a Republician in politics, but 
 was too busy with his ranch work to take an 
 active part in public affairs. 
 
 Eight children, seven sons and one daughter, 
 were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Mack. 
 John and Julius died in boyhood. Katie Amelia 
 is the wife of Henry Nordloh, a stockman; 
 George C. assists his mother in the care of the 
 homestead. William C. died when eight years 
 of age, and John also died when young. Fred 
 married Nellie Bates; Henry, the youngest of the 
 family, died when a boy of five years. 
 
 ii ARX KERN is engaged in general farming 
 Y four miles north of Parker, where he owns 
 (3 a well-improved place on section 32, town- 
 ship 5 north, range 66 west. When he came to 
 Arapahoe County he had little capital, but, pos- 
 sessing an abundance of energy and determin- 
 ation, he gradually attained prosperity, and his 
 landed possessions now aggregate seventeen hun- 
 dred acres. At one time he made a special 
 feature of stock-raising, but of late years he has 
 to some extent discontinued this line of work. 
 
 Mr. Kern was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, 
 December 9, 1832, a .son of Adam and Rose Kern. 
 He was reared on a farm and received a common- 
 
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 school education. When he was about sixteen 
 years of age his father died, and he, being the 
 oldest son, was obliged to support the other 
 members of the family. For this reason he was 
 not called into military service. In 1854 he took 
 passage on a sailing vessel and after a voyage of 
 thirty-two days landed in New York, from which 
 city he proceeded west to St. Louis. There for a 
 year or more he worked at any honest occupation 
 he could find. Going from St. Louis to Park- 
 ville, Platte County, Mo. , and thence to Brown 
 County, Kan., in the latter place he pre-empted 
 one hundred and sixty acres and made his home 
 there until i86o. In that year he fell a victim to 
 the Pike's Peak gold fever and came to Colorado 
 with ox-teams, accompanying three other men. 
 
 After having engaged in mining for two 
 years, Mr. Kern came to Cherry Creek Valley, 
 where he worked by the month, and with the 
 money he saved, he bought a team of oxen. 
 From 1863 to 1869 he engaged in freighting, but 
 in the year 1867 took up a homestead of eighty 
 acres and turned his attention to farming and 
 stock-raising. He was married October 30, 1869, 
 to Miss Margaret Brenn, of Denver, who, like 
 himself, was a native of Germany. They settled 
 in a house built of hewed logs, and in this they 
 still make their home, though they have boarded 
 and plastered it, transforming its appearance en- 
 tirely. They have only one child living, Lena 
 Bell, who is with them on the ranch. Their 
 older, daughter Emma, died aged seven years. 
 Mr. Kern was reared in the Lutheran faith and 
 inclines toward that church. In the grange he 
 has officiated as treasurer and steward and is now 
 gate keeper. In political views he is a Republi- 
 can, and has voted that ticket at every election 
 since the presidential campaign of 1876. 
 
 gEORGE ATCHESON, M. D. , whose office 
 is pleasantly situated in the Hanchett block, 
 Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, has a 
 large practice. He is particularly skillful in sur- 
 gical cases and complicated diseases, but also de- 
 votes much of his time and attention to general 
 family practice. Success has attended him in 
 all of his professional work and the high praise 
 which he receives from those best fitted to pro- 
 nounce an unbiased verdict upon his career is 
 but his just due. 
 
 Dr. Atcheson, who is especially qualified, both 
 by natural abilities and talents, as well as by 
 careful education and training, for his chosen life- 
 work, is a native of New York City and is now in 
 his early prime. He was born in 1866, and since 
 1873 has been a resident of Colorado. His grand- 
 father, John Atcheson, was a Scotchman, who, 
 upon being given control of large estates in Ire- 
 land by King George of England, removed to 
 the Emerald Isle and there passed the rest of his 
 days. At one time he did considerable civil en- 
 gineering in Canada. John Atcheson, Jr., father 
 of the doctor, was born in Templemore, Ireland, 
 and was a mere youth, less than twenty years of 
 age, when he left home, in order to come to the 
 United States. Arriving in New York City, he 
 shipped before the mast, and was on the high 
 seas for some two years, after which he en- 
 gaged in ship-carpentering in the yards in Brook- 
 lyn and New York. His brother George was a 
 lieutenant in the Union army during the Civil 
 war, serving under G. B. McClellan. Afterward 
 he was appointed Indian agent in Minnesota and 
 in 1870 located in Blackhawk, whence he re- 
 turned to the east some years later. John Atche- 
 son joined his brother in Blackhawk and was in 
 business with him for a period. In 1873 his 
 family came west, and dwelt on a large ranch on 
 Cherry Creek, in Douglas County. Mr. Atche- 
 son made a goodly fortune in the cattle business 
 and is now living retired in Denver. The wife 
 and mother was Miss Jane Amelia McDonough 
 in her maidenhood. She was born in New York 
 City, a daughter of James and Jane (Wood) Mc- 
 Donough, both of Scotch descent, though the 
 father was born in Ireland. 
 
 In a family comprising six sons and five 
 daughters, of whom two sons and four daugh- 
 ters are living, the subject of this sketch is the 
 eighth in order of birth. He was but three 
 years old when his parents removed to the 
 neighborhood of Pleasant Hill, Cass County, Mo., 
 and engaged in farming. On account of malaria 
 they concluded to change their habitation and in 
 1873 settled in this state. The lad attended the 
 public schools as soon as he arrived at a suitable 
 age, and made rapid progress in his studies. In 
 1887 he started upon a four years' course in the 
 University of Denver. Upon finishing the same 
 he entered the medical department of the institu- 
 tion, graduating in 1893 with the degree of Doc- 
 
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 tor of Medicine. During the last year of his 
 studies he was a nurse at the Union Pacific Rail- 
 road Hospital, and after he had been awarded his 
 degree he was honored by being made house- 
 physician of St. Luke's Hospital. He remained 
 there for almost a year, receiving invaluable ex- 
 perience, and then accepted a position as surgeon 
 for the White Hills Mining and Milling Company, 
 of White Hills, Ariz. At the close of two 
 months he resigned and upon April 14, 1894, he 
 came to Idaho Springs. Here he soon built up 
 an enviable reputation and won the confidence 
 and respect of the citizens. He belongs to the 
 alumni association of the University Medical 
 College. Politically he is a silver Republican. 
 
 While connected with St. Luke's Hospital in 
 Denver, Dr. Atcheson made the acquaintance of 
 Miss Effie Moore, whom he made his wife June 
 27, 1894. She was born in Indiana and is a' 
 graduate of the training school for nurses, associ- 
 ated with the hospital mentioned. The young 
 couple have one child, John George by name. 
 
 SEORGE VOLLMAR, a retired farmer resid- 
 ing on section 12, township 2, range 67, 
 Weld County, was born April 16, 1834, in 
 the province of Alsace, then a part of France, but 
 now in Germany. His boyhood days were spent 
 in the home of his parents, Sebastian and Barbara 
 (Ritter) Vollniar, at Strassburg on the Rhine. 
 At the age of eighteen he crossed the ocean to 
 America, landing in New Orleans November 20, 
 1852, with only five francs in his possession. 
 He spent two weeks in New Orleans and then 
 worked his way to St. Louis, where he engaged 
 in carriage-making, a trade that he had learned in 
 Germany during his apprenticeship of three 
 years. His next stopping place was St. Joseph, 
 Mo., where he engaged for himself in wagon and 
 plough manufacturing. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Vollmar started overland for Pike's 
 Peak, making the trip in company with a Mr. 
 Caverly, and driving a three-yoke team of cattle. 
 Reaching Denver, he found a mining town with 
 only a few houses, and those insignificant in 
 appearance. He left the team and went to the 
 mountains, where he prospected, but two dis- 
 couraging weeks convinced him that he knew 
 nothing of mining and should turn his attention 
 to something else. He engaged in cutting hay 
 
 and hauling it to mining camps, in which work 
 he continued for two years. In 1862 he took up 
 land on section 25, township 3, range 67, where 
 he made some improvements and remained until 
 1865, carrying on general farming and stock- 
 raising. On selling his claim in 1865, he settled 
 upon his present ranch, where he owns four 
 hundred and eighty acres of fine land, all the 
 improvements of which have been made by him- 
 self. Here he carries on farming, stock-raising 
 and dairying. He is a stockholder in the Side 
 Hill Ditch Company.which waters his land; and in 
 the Meadow Highland Ditch Company. 
 
 Mr. Vollmar has never allied himself with any 
 party, but preserves an independent attitude in 
 political matters. In the organization of school 
 district No. 13 he was a prime factor, and for 
 many years he serv^ed as president of the board 
 of trustees. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Platteville Building and Loan Association, of 
 which he was for some time a trustee. A man of 
 energy and ability, he has acquired a valuable 
 property, in spite of reverses that he has met with 
 and obstacles he has been obliged to overcome. 
 
 May 24, 1865, Mr. Vollmar married Anna, 
 daughter of William and Ann Shortley. She 
 died in 1878, leaving four children. The eldest 
 of these, Frank, has charge of the home farm. 
 The second, Charles L., a dairyman of Denver, 
 was the founder of the Platteville creamery and 
 erected the building now occupied by it. Belle, 
 the third child, is the wife of Michael Gottwiller. 
 The youngest, Benjamin, is now managing the 
 separator for the Littleton creamery, near Colo- 
 rado Springs. In 1 88 1 Mr. Vollmar married Mrs. 
 Lydia Shortley, widow of John Shortley, but she 
 died a year later. In 1883 he was married to 
 Agatha Birkle, sister of David Birkle, of Platte- 
 ville; she died in 1886. Two children were born 
 of this union, Lena, and a son who died at the 
 age of six months. 
 
 gHARLES KOEHLER, proprietor and mana- 
 ger of the Club stables, is in point of years 
 of active business the oldest liveryman in 
 Denver, where he has resided since September, 
 1869. He is of German descent. His father, 
 John W. Koehler, was born in Hamburg and 
 emigrated, with his wife and family, to Illinois, 
 settling in Macon County, of which he was the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 first German resident. Establishing his home in 
 Decatur, then a small village, he built a house in 
 what is now the heart of the city. By trade he 
 was a locksmith, which he followed for a time in 
 Decatur, but later built the first brewery in the 
 town, and this he and his son-in-law operated for 
 some years, under the firm name of Koehler & 
 Richards. Unfortunately, after having accumu- 
 lated a fortune, he was obliged to sacrifice every- 
 thing on account of the defalcation of the sheriff, 
 whose bondsman he had been. He then removed 
 to Barton County, where he engaged in farming 
 until his death at sixty -three years of age. Polit- 
 ically he was a Democrat and in religious belief 
 a lyUtheran. His wife, Martha Koehler, was 
 born in Germany and died in Missouri at the age 
 of eighty years, seven months and seventeen days. 
 Of their family of five sons and two daughters, 
 all are living but one of the sons. 
 
 Charles, who was third in order of birth among 
 the children, was born in Decatur in November, 
 1846, and in boyhood attended the schools of that 
 city. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed 
 to the blacksmith's trade, and after three years 
 began in the horse business. In 1865, when 
 eighteen, he went to Memphis, Tenn., and spent 
 eight months working there. Next he was em- 
 ployed as wagon master for the government in 
 Omaha until 1866, having for two years had 
 charge of the wagon trains from Julesburg to 
 Fort Larimer and from Reno to Phil Kearney. 
 Often he encountered Indians, then quite numer- 
 ous on the frontier. Once, at Horseshoe ranch, 
 he was surrounded by savages in the night, when 
 the camp was in slumber. However, he had a 
 horse whose scent was keen, especiall}' in relation 
 to Indians, and he awoke Mr. Koehler by neigh- 
 ing. Seeing the danger, our subject immediately 
 hitched up and started to save the train, in which 
 be was successful. In 1866 he came through to 
 Denver with a government train. In 1868 he 
 resigned from the government employ and en- 
 gaged in the horse business in Omaha, remaining 
 there until he came to Denver in 1869. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Koehler secured employment with 
 the Denver horse railway, which he assisted in 
 constructing, being superintendent of the work, 
 and when the road was completed he pulled the 
 first street car ever run in Denver. For nine 
 years he continued with the company in the capa- 
 city of superintendent. In 1879 he embarked in 
 
 the livery business as proprietor of the Telephone 
 stables, which he remodeled from an old church 
 on Arapahoe street. Selling out eighteen months 
 later, he located on Curtis across from the St. 
 James (then known as the Wentworth house). 
 For three years he carried on a livery business in 
 that location and then built a barn on Champa, 
 between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, where 
 he remained for five years. In 1886 he started 
 the Club stables at No. 1441 Curtis, where he 
 remained for five years, removing in 1891 to his 
 present location immediately adjoining. He car- 
 ries on a liverj', feed and sale stable, and has in 
 his barn a fine livery stock. 
 
 Politically Mr. Koehler is a Republican. He 
 is connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Fraternal Union, and is a char- 
 ter member and director of the Alliance Insur- 
 ance Company of Denver. By his first marriage 
 one child, Sophia M., was born. Afterward he 
 married, in Denver, Mrs. Emma (Hummel) 
 Steehn, who had one child by her first marriage, 
 a daughter, Magdalene. Mrs. Koehler died Oc- 
 tober 26, 1897. 
 
 HEODORE NOTT, of Hazeltine, is said to 
 have the best farm in the state; certainly 
 the place would be a credit to any com- 
 munity. It is well irrigated and kept in the best 
 of order; the buildings are all good and a look of 
 neatness and order prevails that is refreshing to the 
 eye. Mr. Nott was born in St. Lawrence County, 
 N. Y., August 8, 1842, and there grew to man- 
 hood on a farm. He attended the district schools, 
 and afterward the academy, beginning to work 
 for himself when about nineteen. For about 
 four years he ran a stage line and carried the 
 mail between Antwerp, Jefferson and Ogdens- 
 burg, N. Y., and the next year conducted a 
 livery barn in Carthage, that state. The follow- 
 ing four years he carried on the same business at 
 Antwerp. He then decided on locating in the 
 west and took passage, by rail, to Cheyenne, in 
 the spring of 1869, coming from there to Denver 
 by stage. Here he engaged in the dairy business, 
 with a brother, in the vicinity of Blackhawk and 
 Central City, remaining about four years. 
 
 October 11, 1865, Mr. Nott married Miss Carrie 
 P. Proctor, of Antwerp, N. Y., and in the fall of 
 1869 his family followed him to Colorado. After 
 leaving his ranch in Jefferson County, he went to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Denver and ran a dairy for three years more, and 
 then moved into the country in Arapahoe Coun- 
 ty, thirty-two miles east of Denver, where he be- 
 gan raising sheep. He was extensively engaged 
 in this business for seventeen or eighteen years, 
 and made quite a handsome profit from it. This 
 money he invested in Denver real estate, which 
 was then having a boom, and when the collapse 
 came, most of his money was lost. In 1892 he 
 traded for one hundred and sixty acres of land in 
 section 6, township 2, range 67, upon which he 
 now lives. They had six children, viz.: Edward, 
 who married and lives in Denver; Maud, who 
 married Edward Clay, a railroad man, and has 
 one child, Dorothy; Ernest, who lives at home; 
 Reuben, who is married and lives in Arapahoe 
 County, where his father formerly had his sheep 
 ranch; Stella, who died in 1891, and is buried in 
 Fairmont Cemetery; and Fred, who lives as 
 home. 
 
 Formerly Mr. Nott was a Democrat, but since 
 coming to this state he has joined forces with the 
 Republicans. He has been an earnest supporter 
 of superior school advantages, and has probably 
 done more for the cause of education than anyone 
 else in the county. He has been school director 
 fully four-fifths of the time since coming to the 
 state. 
 
 I OWEIvL H. SMITH, M. D., ex-county 
 I C treasurer of Boulder County, is a gentleman 
 12/ who ranks second to none in the estimation 
 of his fellow-citizens in Longmont, where he has 
 dwelt for the past eighteen years. In 1893 he 
 was nominated for county treasurer by the Peo- 
 ple's party and was elected by a good majority, 
 and in 1895 he was again elected to the respon- 
 sible position. He refused to allow his name to 
 go before the convention of 1897, and thus served 
 from New Year's day, 1894, to January i, 1898, 
 when he surrendered the office. He was justice 
 of the peace here for two terms; was deputy county 
 physician one year, in 1882, and could have held 
 other local positions of more or less importance 
 had he so desired. 
 
 Dr. L. H. Smith has had a varied and interest- 
 ing career. He has not confined himself to the 
 practice of his profession, though in later years 
 he has given it most of his time and thought, 
 and in whatever line of business endeavor he has 
 engaged he has nearly always met with success 
 55 
 
 as a result of his ability and perseverance. A 
 native of Keysville, N. Y., born in 1833, he was 
 reared in Ohio from the time he was four years 
 of age. When he was in his fifteenth year he en- 
 tered the freshman class of the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, of Delaware, Ohio, and as he was 
 paying his own way and taught school for nearly 
 four years in the meantime, he did not graduate 
 until 1853, when he received the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Arts. Three years later he had earned 
 the additional degree of Master of Arts. He con- 
 tinued teaching and was but six months over 
 twenty years of age when he was made superin- 
 tendent of the New Richmond (Ohio) schools, 
 remaining there two years. Going to Cincinnati 
 as assistant of the Third district school, later he 
 was given the position of principal of the Corry- 
 ville school. In the last-named capacity he served 
 for two years. At the same time he was making 
 a study of law and was admitted to the bar in 
 September, 1858. On account of family affairs 
 he returned to the country and resumed teaching 
 in the Clermont County schools. Altogether he 
 has spent eleven full years of his life in teaching. 
 In the fall of i860 he was employed by the state 
 superintendent to visit all the city schools of Ohio, 
 and was occupied in this line at the time of the 
 outbreak of the war. 
 
 Dr. Smith was then, as he has always been, 
 an enthusiastic patriot. He immediately set to 
 work to raise a company, and within just a week 
 from the opening shot of the war he presented 
 himself and men at Camp Jackson, ready for the 
 fray. They were mustered in April 23, 1861, as 
 Company E, Twenty-second Ohio Volunteers, 
 Dr. Smith being their second lieutenant. They 
 were sent to West Virginia for four months, and 
 when mustered out the doctor proceeded to raise 
 another company. This little band was enlisted 
 as Company E, Fifty-ninth Ohio Infantry, for 
 three years' service, with the doctor as first lieu- 
 tenant. They were with General Nelson on his 
 campaign up the big Sandy, then were sent into 
 Kentucky and participated in the battles of Pitts- 
 burg Landing and Siege of Corinth, besides many 
 minor engagements. The doctor was for a time 
 quartermaster of his regiment; then brigade quar- 
 termaster, and finally was promoted to be bri- 
 gade commissary of the First Brigade, Second 
 Division, Fourth Army Corps, serving as such 
 from the battle of Stone River until his command 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 was mustered out November i, 1864. He was 
 commissioned captain of his company in the 
 spring of that year. While in the army he had 
 considerable experience in hospital work as well. 
 
 When he resumed the ordinary avocations of 
 life Dr. Smith went to Cincinnati, where he was 
 employed in merchandising for a couple of years. 
 He had studied music in his college days and in 
 1866 was offered a position as professor of the art 
 in Monmouth College, Monmouth, 111. At the 
 expiration of the school year he returned to Cin- 
 cinnati and engaged in the drug business, at the 
 same time continuing medical studies and prac- 
 ticing a little. Then selling out the drug store 
 he became interested in the lumber business, sell- 
 ing the same on commission, and was thus em- 
 ployed until 1874. He received a flattering offer 
 from a Salina (Colo.) company which was then 
 building a mill for the treatment of ore, to be 
 their assayer, and this brought him to this coun- 
 ty first. The concern failed in time and the doc- 
 tor began practicing his profession. In 1878 he 
 located in Spring Dale, and two years later he 
 came to L,ongmont, which has since been his 
 home. He has made a specialty of rheumatism, 
 skin diseases and children's ailments, and has 
 conducted a general practice. He is president of 
 the Longmout Ore Reduction Company, which 
 is erecting a new mill for the treatment of gold 
 and silver by chemical process (a patented meth- 
 od) , thus separating the precious metals from al- 
 loys within a few hours. 
 
 The doctor is past grand in the Odd Fellows' 
 society; belongs to Longmont I^odge No. 23, 
 A. F. & A. M., and for two successive years was 
 commander of McPherson Post No. 6, G. A. R. 
 His marriage to Miss Mary Schuessler was sol- 
 emnized in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1855, and 
 their three living children are: Mrs. Bessie Wil- 
 cox, of Cripple Creek; lyowell S., a printer of 
 Boulder; and Charles B., a merchant in Oska- 
 loosa, Kan. Mrs. Smith was born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and is a daughterof John Jacob Schuessler, 
 a native of Wurtemberg, Germany. 
 
 The Smith family to which our subject belongs 
 settled in Massachu.setts about 1650, upon their 
 arrival from England. The great-grandfather 
 and the grandfather of the doctor were both born 
 in Massachusetts, and the latter, Moses Smith, 
 was a hero of the Revolutionary war. His son, 
 Moses, Jr. , father of the doctor, was a native of 
 
 Franklin County, Mass. He lived in New York 
 state for a year after his marriage, and in 1837 
 settled in Oberlin,Ohio. In i839hewent to Mount 
 Vernon, Ohio, and from 1847 until his death in 
 1879, his home was in Delaware, Ohio. He was 
 born in 1804 and was an expert machinist and 
 manufacturer of machinery. His eldest brother, 
 Rev. Lowell Smith, went as a missionary to the 
 Sandwich Islands in 1832. The mother of our 
 subject bore the maiden name of Sarah Taylor. 
 She was born in New York state and died in Ohio 
 when forty-five years of age. Of her five chil- 
 dren who lived to maturity but three now sur- 
 vive. One of her sons, Elam, an orderly sergeant 
 of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio, 
 was killed at the battle of New Hope Church, 
 dying before his commission as lieutenant reached 
 him. Russell Frederick, another son, was first 
 lieutenant of the doctor's company, Company E, 
 Fifty-ninth Ohio, and died in Cincinnati in 1881. 
 
 ^OHN J. RYAN, a pioneer of '60 and one of 
 I the prominent residents of Earimer County, 
 (2/ was born in Roscrea, County Tipperary, 
 Ireland, and is a son of John and Ann (Meagher) 
 Ryan, natives of the same county as himself. 
 His paternal grandfather, Cornelius Ryan, was 
 an agriculturist in County Tipperary, where he 
 died. Some time during the '40s, John Ryan 
 brought his family to America and settled near 
 St. Eouis, Mo., where he engaged in farming. 
 Afterward he joined his oldest sons in Chicago, 
 111. , where he died at the age of about sixty 
 years. By his first marriage he had four children, 
 two of whom are living, Cornelius and Patrick, 
 who are eighty and seventy-five years of age 
 respectively, and who are living in Chicago. Of 
 the second marriage our subject is the sole 
 survivor. 
 
 Born in May, 1837, Mr. Ryan was a mere 
 child when the family emigrated to this country. 
 He attended the public schools of St. Louis and 
 the commercial college established by Jonathan 
 Jones, who was the first to embark in the com- 
 mercial plan of instruction. While studying 
 nights, he devoted the days to a clerkship in a 
 commission house, where his employer was kind 
 and gave him many opportunities for study. In 
 1856 he went to Davenport, Iowa, as bookkeeper 
 for a St. Louis gentleman, who embarked in the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lumber business there. While in Davenport, he 
 was married, in October, 1859, to Miss Palegia 
 J. Leonard, daughter of Harvey Leonard, who 
 was born in Indiana of an old eastern family. 
 He was a pioneer of Scott County, Iowa, where 
 he was a brick manufacturer, builder and con- 
 tractor, and owned a part of the present site of 
 Davenport. For over twenty years he was sheriff 
 of Scott County, to which office he was elected, 
 on the Democratic ticket, during the war, over an 
 unusually large Republican majority. For a time 
 he served as mayor of Davenport. At the time of 
 his death he was seventy-eight years of age. 
 
 Shortly after his marriage Mr. Ryan came to 
 Colorado, having settled up the business of the 
 firm he was with in Davenport and which had 
 failed. With five others he went to Kansas City 
 and outfitted with ox-train and a year's supplies, 
 crossing on the Sante Fe trail to the Arkansas 
 River, thence up to the present site of Pueblo, 
 and from there to Denver, where he arrived after 
 a trip of five weeks. He went on to Central City 
 and bought a gulch claim, where he engaged in 
 mining. One of the men with him, a Mr. 
 Spencer of Davenport, was an expert miner, 
 having been in California during the gold ex- 
 citement there. However, he was unfortunate in 
 his mining enterprises, and left the claim, coming 
 down on the Big Thompson, where he hoped he 
 might earn enough money to enable him to re- 
 turn to civilization. He and Mr. Spencer took 
 up a claim in June, i860, adjoining the present 
 town site of Loveland on the south, which land 
 he still owns. Mr. Spencer returned to Iowa iu 
 the fall, but Mr. Ryan concluded to remain, and 
 with the help of a German he put up over fifty 
 tons of hay, which he hauled, with four yoke of 
 cattle, to Golden Gate. He had bought from a 
 Mr. Tucker of Golden, two teams and a wagon, 
 contracting to pay for the same on the sale of the 
 hay. This he did, and also purchased provisions 
 for himself In the spring he sold the balance of 
 the hay for $30 per ton and from that time to 
 this he has never known the want of a dollar. 
 
 Going to Fort Hallock, Wyo., with W. C. 
 Stover in 1861, Mr. Ryan assisted in building 
 that fort. In 1863 he and eleven others began a 
 small ditch, known as the Big Thompson Irri- 
 gation and Manufacturing Compan}''s ditch, 
 which is owned to-day by practically the same 
 men as those who started it. He was one of the 
 
 directors and incorporators of the company. 
 Prior to that he kept a stage station on the Big 
 Thompson, on the overland stage line, but sold 
 out after a year. In 1863 he returned to Iowa, 
 with a mule team and a light spring wagon, and 
 in the same vehicle brought his family back to 
 Colorado, where they settled in a small log 
 house. 
 
 A Missourian, driving cattle overland to Cali- 
 fornia, stopped on the Buckhorn during the 
 winter. In the spring the cattle began to die, 
 and, fearing he would lose them all, he adver- 
 tised them for sale. Mr. Ryan bought seventy- 
 five or eighty head and in that way embarked in 
 the cattle business. When his boys became old 
 enough to assist him, he gave them an interest 
 in the business, as Ryan & Sons. Meantime he 
 bought more land, now owning .some of the finest 
 farms in the county. At one time he owned a 
 large ranch thirteen miles west of Loveland, but 
 this property he sold. He brought four carloads 
 of Shorthorn cattle from Kansas and for some 
 time made a specialty of raising this breed, but 
 in 1894 he retired from the cattle business and 
 moved his family to a fine residence that he had 
 purchased in Fort Collins. Since the organiza- 
 tion of the Bank of Loveland he has been its 
 vice-president and a director. His five children 
 are named as follows: John Harvey, in Salt Lake 
 City; George Leonard, in Idaho; Charles, who 
 was assistant chemist in the State Agricultural 
 College at Fort Collins and will graduate from the 
 University of Michigan in 1899; William L. , who 
 was educated in the Colorado State Agricultural 
 College; and Hattie, who graduated from St. 
 Mary's Academy in Denver, married W. J. Gal- 
 ligan, a merchant of Loveland, where they 
 reside. 
 
 During the early days, prior to the organiza- 
 tion of the county, law was administered by a 
 Claim Club, of which Mr. Ryan was one of the 
 organizers in i860 and later its secretary', Robert 
 Hereford being president, and J. M. Sherwood 
 judge. A short but stringent code of laws was 
 enacted by the club, which meted out justice 
 throughout the Cache la Poudre and Big Thomp- 
 son Valleys. Those who lived under it declare that 
 never was more exact justice meted out than 
 under this organization of settlers. An instance 
 of this may be given from Mr. Ryan's own ex- 
 perience, At one time he went to Central City 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 with a load of hay and, stopping to visit friends 
 in the town, was gone longer than actually neces- 
 sary. A neighbor, noticing his long absence, 
 sent word to a relative in Boulder, inviting him 
 to jump the claim. The knowledge of this occu- 
 pation, which was of course contrary to their 
 laws, reached the members of the association, 
 and several of them at once called on the jumper 
 and warned him to desist and leave the country. 
 The association commanded the respect of all, and 
 even those who were unruly elsewhere here tried 
 to keep within the bounds of the law. All dis- 
 putes were referred to the association judge, and 
 dissatisfied parties could appeal to the president, 
 whose decision was final. When the county was 
 organized Mr. Ryan was appointed one of the 
 first commissioners and assisted in perfecting the 
 organization. For one term he was mayor of 
 Loveland. For years he was a member of the 
 school board, during which time he assisted iu 
 building the first school house. In early days he 
 was the Democratic nominee for the territorial 
 legislature, but the district being Republican, he 
 was defeated, although he received the votes of 
 both Democrats and Republicans in his own 
 county. In 1877 he was appointed a trustee of 
 the Colorado State Agricultural College by Gov- 
 ernor Routt, an appointment that was afterward 
 renewed by Governors Pitkin, Cooper and Adams 
 (the latter in 1897). He is by many years the 
 oldest member of the board of trustees, of which 
 for two years he officiated as president. He has 
 been a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' 
 Association. For many years he was a member 
 of the Democratic state central committee. He 
 has served as delegate to every state convention 
 but one since the state was organized, and in 
 1888 was alternate to the Democratic National 
 convention, which he attended. The Association 
 of Colorado Pioneers numbers him among its 
 active members. 
 
 pQlLLIAM MITCHELL, sheriff of Gilpin 
 I A / County, entered upon the responsible duties 
 YY of his office in January, 1898, and is making 
 a good record for the faithful manner in which 
 he performs his work as a public servant. He 
 was nominated on the Republican ticket for the 
 same office in 1895, and though' not then elected 
 his friends rallied strongly to his aid in the cam- 
 paign of 1 897 , when his name again came up for the 
 
 position. At various times he has done effective 
 service on the county and state committees of his 
 party, and is recognized to be a man of influence 
 and high standing in political circles. Well and 
 favorably known throughout this county, he has 
 been a resident of Central City for the past twen- 
 ty-six years, and has been actively associated 
 with its upbuilding and general advancement. 
 Among the fraternities he is connected with the 
 Knights of Pythias and the Sons of St. George. 
 
 William Mitchell is one of ten children whose 
 parents were Thomas and Honor (Williams) Mit- 
 chell, natives of County Cornwall, England. 
 The mother is still living on the old homestead, 
 but the father died some years ago, at the age of 
 seventy-three years. He was a blacksmith by oc- 
 cupation and carried on a profitable business, 
 owning his shop and necessary appliances. His 
 father, John Mitchell, was a farmer of the same 
 locality. All but one of the brothers and sisters 
 of our subject reached maturity, and are still liv- 
 ing. Four of the sons are in the United States. 
 Thomas and John are residents of California and 
 Henry is in Colorado. 
 
 After he had completed his education in the 
 public schools William Mitchell learned the black- 
 smith's trade of his father, serving a regular ap- 
 prenticeship. At the expiration of this period 
 the young man sailed for America, leaving Liver- 
 pool and going direct to New York. The first 
 year of his residence in the United States Mr. 
 Mitchell was employed in the car shops of the Le- 
 high Valley Railroad at Lehighton, Carbon Coun- 
 ty, Pa. Thence he proceeded to Utah and the 
 west and was variously occupied up to the fall of 
 1872, when he landed in Central City. Here he 
 turned his attention to mining operations, with 
 more or less success from the start. He has de- 
 veloped the Robert Emmett mine, the Warwick 
 and the Bobtail and is now connected with the 
 East Nodaway Mining Company, which is oper- 
 ating the mine of that name, it having been par- 
 tially developed previously by Mr. Mitchell. The 
 Robert Emmett he sold at a good price, after hav- 
 ing placed it in fine condition. By application 
 and industry he has amassed a comfortable fort- 
 une and at the same time has adhered strictly to 
 correct methods of doing business, and deserves 
 the respect which is accorded him by all who 
 know him. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Mitchell and Miss Eliza- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 beth Jane Stephens was celebrated in Central 
 City in 1 874. Mrs. Mitchell was born in Eng- 
 land and came to Colorado with her father, who 
 located here in 1870 and died in 1873. Six chil- 
 dren grace the union of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell. 
 Thomas Henry, the eldest, is interested in mining 
 and is associated with his father. The other 
 members of the little household are named in the 
 order of their birth as follows: Annie, William, 
 Maude, Jane and Flora. 
 
 NON. ALLISON H. DeFRANCE, judge of 
 the first district of Colorado, was born in 
 Mercer County, Pa., August 5, 1835, and 
 is of French descent, his ancestors being repre- 
 sented among the early settlers of the Keystone 
 state. His great-grandfather, who founded the 
 family in this country, bore a valiant part in the 
 French and English wars in the middle of the 
 eighteenth century. His son, James, inherited 
 his father's courage, which fact was shown by 
 his honorable participation in the Revolution; 
 by occupation a farmer, he settled in Crawford 
 County and improved a homestead there. 
 
 Allison DeFrance, the judge's father, was born 
 in Pennsylvania and was one of three brothers 
 who served in the war of 181 2. About 1824 he 
 settled in the forest of Mercer County, where he 
 cut down timber, grubbed the land and improved 
 a valuable farm. There he continued to reside 
 until his death at seventy-two years. He married 
 Martha Montgomery, a native of Mercer County, 
 where she died at the age of seventy-nine. In 
 religious belief she was a seceder. Her father, 
 James Montgomery, was of Scotch descent, also 
 a seceder, and, like others of that class, possessed 
 strong convictions and the courage to maintain 
 them in spite of opposition. During the war of 
 18 1 2 he was colonel of a regiment and later he 
 represented his district in the state legislature. 
 
 The family of Allison and Martha DeFrance 
 consisted of five sons ^nd six daughters who at- 
 tained mature years, of whom the following sur- 
 vive: Mrs. Eliza Sears, of Santa Cruz, Cal.; James 
 Montgomery, an attorney of Kirksville, Mo., 
 now in his seventy-second year; John Boone, 
 who occupies the old homestead in Mercer Coun- 
 ty; William, of Golden; Allison H.; and Archi- 
 bald M., who is in Oregon. Our subject was 
 reared on a farm until fifteen years of age. He 
 
 attended the public schools and a private school 
 in Meadville. At the age of sixteen he taught 
 school for one winter, and then spent a year in 
 Alleghany College, at Meadville, after which he 
 attended Westminster College at New Wilming- 
 ton, Pa. , where he was a student about two years. 
 He then returned to Meadville and continued a 
 student of Alleghany College until 1857. Mean- 
 time he began the study of law at home and after 
 completing his literary education he continued 
 his law course under William M. Stevenson. 
 
 When the Pike's Peak excitement commenced 
 Mr. DeFrance started for the west. On his way 
 to Colorado he stopped to visit a brother, 
 James M., in Milan, Mo., and the latter persuaded 
 him to remain and complete his law studies. 
 This he did, staying in Milan from August, 1859, 
 to April I, 1861, and meantime receiving ad- 
 mission to the bar. With the intention of carry- 
 ing out his original plan he went to St, Joseph, 
 Mo., expecting to cross the plains by coach; but 
 at the hotel a man called him by name, and turn- 
 ing, he found an old friend from Pennsylvania on 
 his way to Colorado, with an ox-team. The 
 friend invited Mr. DeFrance to join him, and the 
 two came along the Platte, reaching Denver 
 June 6, 1 86 1, after a trip of forty days. Our 
 subject went to Delaware Flats, seven miles from 
 Breckenridge, where he practiced his profession 
 under the mining laws. His brother, James M. , 
 came to Colorado in 1862, and settled on Ralston 
 Creek, in Jefierson County, and in the winter of 
 1862-63 they opened a law office in Denver; but 
 in the spring he decided to embark in the dairy 
 business; he hired twenty milch cows from his 
 brother, which he took to Fairplay. He carried 
 on business there during the summer, and while 
 there was nominated for the legislature against 
 Jacob Stansell (Republican), but the Democrats 
 being in the minority, he was defeated, though 
 by only a small number of votes. In the fall of 
 1863 he located twelve miles north of Colorado 
 City, but in the spring of 1864 he settled on 
 Ralston Creek, Jefferson County, remaining there 
 until he removed to Golden in November, 1868. 
 In 1867 he was elected prosecuting attorney for 
 the county, without opposition, and held the 
 position for a year, which was the limit of a term 
 at that time. In 1868 he opened an office in 
 Golden, where he has since carried on professional 
 practice. In the fall of 1869 he was elected to 
 
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 represent his county in the territorial legislature 
 and was a member of the session of 1870. In 
 187 1 he was elected a member of the territorial 
 council and served in the council of 1872. Upon 
 the admission of Colorado as a state he was 
 elected on the Democratic ticket to the first state 
 senate, and on the deciding of the length of term 
 by lot he drew the four-year term. He was a 
 member of the session of 1877, at which time the 
 general statutes were adopted. In 1880 he was 
 re-elected, and served until 1884, in the first, 
 second, third and fourth general assemblies. 
 Governor Adams appointed him one of the su- 
 preme court commissioners in December, 1887, 
 and he served until April 3, 1889, when his term 
 expired. In the fall of 1888 he was the Demo- 
 cratic nominee for judge of the first district, but 
 was defeated with the rest of the ticket. He was 
 again nominated in 1894, as the candidate of the 
 Populists and Democrats, and this time was 
 elected by a large majority. He took the oath of 
 ofiice in January, 1895, to serve until 1901, as 
 judge of the district, embracing Jefferson, Gilpin, 
 Clear Creek and Grand Counties. He has been 
 a member of the state Democratic central com- 
 mittee and in many ways has promoted the prog- 
 ress of his party. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Knights of Honor. 
 
 In Golden, Judge DeFrance married Lucretia 
 C. Howell, who was born in Carroll County, 111. 
 They are the parents of four children now 
 living: Hugh H., who is studying law; Alli- 
 son H., Jr., Cora and Vera. 
 
 HENRY W. SPANGLER, attorney and 
 counselor-at-law, of Denver, was born in 
 Heidlersburg, Adams County, Pa., March 
 20, 1858, and was the eldest of the three children 
 of Jacob R. and Sarah A. (Bender) Spangler, 
 both natives of Adams County. He had a sister, 
 Alverda Minerva, who died in Pennsylvania at 
 twenty years of age, and a brother, Jacob Ben- 
 son Spangler, M. D., who graduated from Hah- 
 nemann Medical College in Philadelphia, and is 
 now a practicing physician of Mechanicsburg, 
 Pa. The family is of remote German ancestry, 
 but has long been represented in the Keystone 
 state. The maternal grandfather of our subject 
 was formerly a farmer of Adams County, and the 
 town of Bendersville was named in his honor. 
 
 The father, who is now about seventy years of 
 age, resides in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch was a child of 
 twelve years, the family removed to Franklin 
 County, and there he was a pupil first in a school 
 taught in an old log building, built after a primi- 
 tive mode of construction. Later he attended 
 the G. Fred Zeigler Academy at Greencastle for 
 two years, and then entered the preparatory de- 
 partment of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa. 
 At the age of twenty-two he entered the colle- 
 giate department, from which he graduated four 
 years later, with the degree of A. B. While in 
 that institution he took an active part in the or- 
 ganization of the Phi Delta Theta, which society 
 has grown to be the strongest in the college, and 
 of which he is still a member. 
 
 Accepting the chair of mathematics and Latin 
 in the academy at Greencastle, Mr. Spangler 
 actively entered upon his work as an instructor. 
 His evenings were devoted to the reading of law 
 under Hon. Lewis E. MeComas, of Hagerstown, 
 Md., which town was only a few miles from his 
 father's home. At the age of twenty-nine he was 
 admitted to the bar, the two previous years hav- 
 ing been devoted exclusively to law study. 
 About that time his alma mater conferred upon 
 him the degree of A. M. He was admitted to 
 practice before the supremp court of Maryland, 
 but decided not to remain in that state, as the 
 west presented better opportunities to a young 
 man. He went to Eldorado, Butler County, 
 Kan. , where he opened a law office and built up 
 a good business in law, loans and real estate. 
 Unfortunately, after he had made large invest- 
 ments in town property and had laid out in town 
 lots what was known as Spangler's addition, a 
 depreciation in the value of property caused the 
 loss of all he had invested. 
 
 In the spring of 1889 Mr. Spangler came to 
 Denver and began the practice of law. On the 
 9th of May, a fewdaj's after his arrival, he mar- 
 ried Libbie E. Schlosser, who was born in Cham- 
 bersburg. Pa., and accompanied her parents to 
 Denver during the year that Mr. Spangler set- 
 tled in Eldorado. Their family consists of four 
 living children: William Earl, Henry Roy, Ruth 
 and Helen Elizabeth, and they lost one child in 
 infancy. They are members of Trinity Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church, in which denomination 
 Mrs. Spangler's father was a minister. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1225 
 
 Reared a Republican, Mr. Spangler advocated 
 the principles of that party for some time, but he 
 is now a stanch Populist. For one year he 
 served as police magistrate, and for three years 
 he held the ofBce of town attorney for Harman, 
 Arapahoe County, later, for a similar period, 
 holding the position of attorney for Globeville. 
 He has represented both the Republican and Peo- 
 ple's parties as delegate to state and county con- 
 ventions, and has taken a warm interest in pub- 
 lic affairs. Fraternally he is a member of Camp 
 No. I, Woodmen of the World, which is one of 
 the largest camps in the west. 
 
 0AVIDC. BEAMAN, attorney and counselor- 
 at-law, is also secretary for the Colorado 
 Fuel and Iron Company, one of the most 
 important industries of Colorado and the west. 
 At the time he became connected with this com- 
 pany it was comparatively small in capitalization, 
 but already it had begun to reach out for the ac- 
 quisition of coal lands and afterward, by the ab- 
 sorption of other coal companies, its influence was 
 greatly increased. In 1892 consolidation was 
 effected with the Colorado Coal and Iron Company 
 and the name was changed from the Colorado 
 Fuel Company to its present title. The combined 
 capital is $13,000,000, and each mouth from $100,- 
 000 to $1 20,000 is paid out in wages to the employ- 
 es, numbering from five to seven thousand. The 
 company owns twenty-three coal mines in Colo- 
 rado, having about seventy thousand acres of coal 
 and iron laud in Colorado, besides eight thousand 
 acres of coal land in Wyoming that is not yet 
 opened. They own substantially all the anthra- 
 cite coal in Colorado and in fact, west of the Alle- 
 ghanies, except a little in Arkansas and New 
 Mexico. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 
 1897, the gross earnings were $5,061,734.27, 
 which was a decrease from the preceding year of 
 a half million dollars, but the year 1898 has shown 
 a vast increase over 1897. 1*^^ coal produced 
 for the year ending June 30, 1897, was 2,056,000 
 tons; coke, 262,000 tons; iron ore, 20,000 tons; 
 and iron and steel, 105,000 tons, which was some 
 decrease over the previous year. For operating 
 expenses and management $4,250,000 was paid 
 out, nearly all of which was expended in Colo- 
 rado. As a home industry, therefore, the com- 
 pany has exerted a large influence and accom- 
 
 plished much for the developing of the resources 
 of the state and the furnishing of steady employ- 
 ment to hundreds of men. The steel plant at 
 Pueblo has been recently remodeled with electric 
 appliances, at a cost of over half a million. 
 
 The ofiicers of the company are as follows: J. C. 
 Osgood, president; Henry R. Wolcott, first 
 vice-president; J. A. Kebler, second vice-presi- 
 dent and general manager; John L. Jerome, treas- 
 urer; A. C. Cass, third vice-president and gen- 
 eral sales agent; D. C. Beaman, general attorney 
 and secretary; S. I. Heyn, assistant secretary. 
 The general offices are in the Boston building, 
 Denver, where about sixty men are employed. 
 The board of directors consists of John G. Moore, 
 Henry W. Cannon, E. Thalmann, and George 
 H. Prentiss, all of New York; C. D. Simpson, of 
 Scranton, Pa.; A. C. Cass, J. C. Osgood, Henry 
 R. Wolcott, Dennis Sullivan, W. H. James, 
 C. H. Toll, John 1,. Jerome and J. A. Kebler, of 
 Denver. 
 
 Mr. Beaman was born in Lawrence County, 
 Ohio, November 22, 1838, the son of Rev. Gama- 
 liel C. and Amelia (Crichton) Beaman. His 
 father, who was a native of Massachusetts, was a 
 son of David Beaman, a selectman of his town; in 
 youth he was given excellent educational advan- 
 tages and prepared for college at Amherst Acad- 
 emy, later graduating from Union College, in 
 Schenectady, N. Y., and in 1831 completing the 
 theological course at Andover. His first charge 
 was in Piketon, Pike County, Ohio, and from 
 there he went to Burlington, Lawrence County, 
 Ohio, where he served as pastor of the church 
 and also as principal of the academy. In 1846 
 he removed to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, and 
 one of the most vivid recollections in our subject's 
 mind is of the burning of the Mormon Temple 
 just across the Mississippi River, at Nauvoo, 111., 
 which took place two years after they settled in 
 Iowa. At different points in Lee County the 
 father continued to make his home until 1874, 
 and then settled in Croton. He died at the age 
 of seventy-six years. 
 
 At the time of removing to Iowa our subject 
 was less than eight years of age. His education 
 was obtained in the public schools, Denmark 
 Academy and Oberlin College, two years being 
 spent in the preparatory department of the latter 
 institution. On returning to Iowa he entered the 
 railroad business as station agent at Croton for the 
 
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 Des Moines Valley Railroad, and continued with 
 the same company until 1861, when he enlisted 
 in the United States service; however, before his 
 company was mustered in, he entered the revenue 
 service of the United States, which was connected 
 with the railroad service. His company took 
 part in two engagements before he entered the 
 revenue service. He and General Belknap were 
 standing side by side when they heard the first 
 shot of a rebel cannon in the battle of Athens, Mo. , 
 and Mr. Beaman afterward secured the ball, which 
 he preserves as a memento of the Rebellion. 
 
 Upon leaving the railroad and revenue service, 
 Mr. Beaman entered the mercantile business, 
 which he carried on for a few years. During that 
 time he began the study of law and in 1869 he 
 was admitted to the bar in Van Buren County, 
 Iowa, where he was then living. He carried on 
 legal practice in the same place for five years and 
 then moved to the county seat, Keosauqua, where 
 he formed a partnership with Joseph C. Knapp, 
 who was a member of the' committee appointed 
 by the church to try Henry Ward Beecher, on 
 account of the Tilton affair; the committee, how- 
 ever, reported that there were no charges against 
 the famous preacher except vague newspaper 
 rumors and hence the trial never came off. 
 
 From 1874, when he formed a partnership with 
 Mr. Knapp, Mr. Beaman had an important and 
 lucrative practice and also bore a prominent part 
 in public affairs. At one time he was the Repub- 
 lican nominee for thelegislatiire, but was defeated. 
 In 1882 he moved to Ottumwa, Iowa, where he 
 formed a partnership with E. H. Stiles and re- 
 mained there .until 1887. While in Keosauqua 
 and Ottumwa he was attorney for the Burlington 
 and Rock Island Railroads, which constituted his 
 principal practice. In 1887 he came to Colorado 
 and accepted the position of general attorney for 
 the Colorado Fuel Company, since merged into 
 the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, in which 
 he is a stockholder. 
 
 At Athens, Mo., December 31, i860, Mr. Bea- 
 man married Luella A. Smith, who was born in 
 Kentucky, a daughter of Dalzell and Mary A. 
 (Thome) Smith, and a relative of Professor 
 Thome, of Cleveland Ohio. They are the par- 
 ents of four children. The eldest, James L., who 
 was born in Independent (now Selma) , Van Buren 
 County, Iowa, is a printer by trade, and at this 
 writing holds the office of sheriff of Pueblo County, 
 
 Colo. He is married and has three children. 
 George C, who is also married, is chief clerk in 
 the company's coal mines at Picton, Huerfano 
 County, this .state. The only daughter, Mrs. 
 Alice M. Harper, is the mother of two children 
 and lives in Ottumwa, Iowa. The youngest son, 
 Arthur D. , who is married and has one child, 
 is mine clerk at Walsenburg, Huerfano County, 
 for the company of which his father is secretary. 
 The sons are capable business men and in politics, 
 like their father, support the silver cause, being 
 firm in their allegiance to the movement for the 
 restoration of silver to its proper standard. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM ALTON BURR, M. D., came to 
 \A/ Denver November 2, 1882, and has since 
 V V engaged in the general practice of medicine 
 here. In the ranks of the homeopathists he has 
 been prominent and influential. He assisted in 
 the organization of the Denver Homeopathic 
 Medical Club, of which he served as president, 
 and he has also held the oSice of vice-president of 
 the Colorado State Homeopathic Medical Society. 
 When the advisability of establishing a college 
 for instruction in homeopathy was being dis- 
 cussed, he enthusiastically favored such a step 
 and made the motion for organization. He has 
 since been deeply interested in the growth of the 
 college, in which he is noUf professor of theory 
 and practice. An editor of the Denver Journal 
 of Homeopathy, he remained on the staff of the 
 paper when its name was changed to the Critique. 
 In Livingston County, N. Y., Dr. Burr was 
 born June 15, 1840, the son of Lyman E. and 
 Fannie (Kelsey) Burr. The family name was 
 originally Burres, but the present spelling has 
 been in use for generations. The family origin- 
 ated in England, whence three brothers came at 
 different times to America, Benjamin becoming 
 the progenitor of the Hartford branch, John 
 of the Fairfield branch, while Rev. Jona- 
 than Burr founded the branch in Dorchester. 
 From Benjamin the ancestral line is traced 
 through Samuel, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Samuel 
 and John, to Lyman E. Burr. The last-named 
 was born in Haddam, Conn., and in 1837 moved 
 to Genesee County, N. Y., where he improved a 
 tract of land. He was a man of influence and 
 was popular among his fellow-citizens. In 1843 
 he moved to McHenry County, 111., where he 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1227 
 
 died in 1849, aged forty-six years. Prior to his 
 removal from Connecticut he represented his 
 district in the state legislature. In 1824 he mar- 
 ried Fannie Kelsey, who died in McHenry 
 County, 111., in 1859, aged fifty-seven years. Of 
 their eleven children all but two reached mature 
 years. 
 
 After gaining a common-school education in 
 McHenry County, the subject of this sketch 
 entered Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa, 
 his brother-in-law. Rev. S. M. Fellows, being 
 president of the institution at the time. During 
 the war, while in college, he and a number of 
 other students enlisted in Company D, Forty- 
 fourth Iowa Infantry, serving until the close of 
 the Rebellion. He then returned at once to his 
 studies, and continued in college until his gradu- 
 ation from the classical course in 1867. On the 
 completion of his literary course he began the 
 study of medicine in the Michigan State Uni- 
 versity at Ann Arbor, but after one 3'ear there he 
 entered the Hahnemann Medical College, from 
 which he graduated in 1869. Immediately after- 
 ward he opened an office in Lincoln, Neb. , where 
 he became known as a competent physician and 
 surgeon. While in that city, in 1872, he was 
 elected lay delegate to the general conference of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. For several years he was county coroner. 
 In 1874 he came to Colorado and located in 
 Georgetown, being county coroner during four of 
 his eight years there. From Georgetown he re- 
 moved to Denver in 1882. He is an active mem- 
 ber of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 of Denver, and for several years has served upon 
 its official board. During his residence in Lincoln 
 he married Florence A., daughter of Philetus 
 Peck, of that city, 'and who, like himself, is a 
 Methodist in religious belief. 
 
 ■"RWIN L. REGENNITTER, LL. B., dis- 
 'p trict attorney for the first district of Colo- 
 ^ rado, is the youngest attorney to hold that 
 office in the state, and is a graduate of the law 
 department of the University of Colorado. He 
 was born in Davenport, Iowa, May 17, 1870, the 
 son of Diederich and Lena (Hoeck) Regennitter. 
 His grandfather, Gerhardt Regennitter, emigrated 
 to America from Prussia and settled in Daven- 
 port, Iowa, in 1854, there engaging in mercantile 
 
 business until his death, at more than seventy 
 years of age. Diederich Regennitter was bom at 
 Wesel on the Rhine, in Prussia, and was seven 
 years of age at the time the family emigrated to the 
 United States. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Davenport, where he still makes his 
 home. For many years he has been a commer- 
 cial traveler. During the war he served in an 
 Iowa regiment. His wife, who was born near 
 Kiel, Holstein, is a daughter of the late Heinrich 
 Hoeck, who settled in Davenport in 1853. By 
 her marriage four children were born, namely: 
 Franklin H., of Chicago, 111.; Erwin L.; A. Es- 
 tella and C. Josephine, both of Davenport. 
 
 It is doubtless due to his inheritance from his 
 Holland-Dutch ancestors that the subject of this 
 sketch possesses the force ofwill and perseverance 
 that acknowledge no obstacle. He graduated 
 from a commercial college in Davenport, and then 
 became a clerk in a wholesale house in Des 
 Moines, where he remained for two years. After- 
 ward he traveled for the house in Iowa and Illi- 
 nois. Returning to Davenport after eighteen 
 months on the road, he engaged in mercantile 
 business for himself. In the fall of 1892, having 
 decided to take up the profession of the law, he 
 entered the law office of Alfred Claussen, and 
 studied under him until the next June, when he 
 came to Denver. That fall he entered the law 
 school of the University of Colorado in Boulder, 
 from which he graduated in June, 1895, with the 
 degree of LL- B. He was always at the head of 
 his classes, and was class president the senior year. 
 He was admitted to the bar of Colorado, March 
 13, 1895, three months before graduation. After 
 leaving college he located in Idaho Springs and 
 opened a law office, where he has since been en- 
 gaged in the general practice of law, and has ac- 
 quired a very lucrative and desirable business. In 
 1897 he was nominated for district attorney on 
 the Democratic ticket and was endorsed by the 
 Populists. The first district embraces Clear 
 Creek, Gilpin, Jefferson and Grand Counties, and 
 his majority in his home county was sweeping, 
 three to one, eleven hundred and twenty-six ma- 
 jority, which was sufficient to overcome the oppo- 
 sition of the other counties and give him a major- 
 ity of three hundred in the district. He took his 
 office in January, 1898, for three years. He gives 
 his entire attention to the practice of the law. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Regennitter carried to the supreme 
 
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 court of the state a case in which more general 
 interest has since been manifested than in any 
 case which has appeared on the docket of that 
 court for many years. It is the case of Wilkins 
 vs. Abell. He is trying to have the higher court 
 reverse the judgment entered by the court below 
 by attempting to show that a statute which, by 
 implication, gives a lien on the estate of the lessor 
 to a person working for a lessee — -for wages due 
 him by the lessee — should not be so construed. 
 Many such liens were enforced under this statute 
 prior to the filing of the first brief in this case by 
 Mr. Regennitter, but since that time five out of 
 the thirteen district judges in the state have held 
 the law to be as contended for by him. 
 
 In Idaho Springs, in 1896, Mr. Regennitter 
 married Miss Annie P. Houghton, daughter of 
 Henry I,. Houghton, a merchant of Portland, 
 Me. , where she was born. She was a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church and a most ex- 
 emplary lady. She departed this life in October, 
 1898. Mr. Regennitter is a Democrat in politics. 
 He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and 
 keeps in touch with the university from which 
 he graduated, being a member of the Alumni 
 and of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of that 
 institution. 
 
 (I AMES MONROE WALKER, M. D., came 
 I to Colorado from Illinois in 1873 and opened 
 (2) an oflice near the corner of Larimer and 
 Fifteenth streets, Denver, where he began in the 
 practice of the medical profession. Later, for 
 fifteen years, he had his office on Stout and 
 Seventeenth streets, while at this writing he is 
 located at No. 1265 Broadway. Upon his arrival 
 he identified himself with the Homeopathic fra- 
 ternity, who recognize in him a valuable addition 
 to their ranks. For a time he ofiiciated as presi- 
 dent of the Colorado State Homeopathic Medical 
 Society, in which he is an active worker; and he 
 has also been president of the Colorado State 
 Board of Medical Examiners, and is identified 
 with the American Institute of Homeopathy. 
 
 Dr. Walker was born in Covington, Va., 
 September 29, 1847, and is a descendant of one of 
 the F. F. Vs. George Walker was born in 
 Pennsylvania, of German parentage, and re- 
 moved from that state to Virginia, where he set- 
 tled upon a plantation. His son, Daniel, was 
 born in Botetourt County, that state, March 14, 
 
 1793, and selected agriculture as his life work, 
 following it through his entire active life. He 
 was united in marriage in 1815 with Catherine 
 Myers, of Virginia, who attained the advanced 
 age of ninety, while he died at the age of eighty- 
 nine, near Charleston, W. Va. It is a remark- 
 able fact that all their twelve children are living 
 at this date (1898), the youngest being seventy 
 years of age. 
 
 One of the six sons was Alfred, father of Dr. 
 Walker. He was born in Botetourt County, Va. , 
 in May, 1824, and in 1849 removed to Greenfield, 
 111. , where he has since resided. By occupation 
 he is a farmer. At times he has been called upon 
 to officiate as a local minister in the Methodist 
 Church, of which denomination he has long been 
 a member. Politically he has been a Republican 
 since the organization of the party. His honored 
 and useful life has brought him the esteem and 
 confidence of all who know him. He married 
 Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Dew, a na- 
 tive of North Carolina. She died at the age of 
 thirty-six, leaving only one child that reached 
 mature years. 
 
 After completing an academic education, the 
 subject of this sketch began to teach school and 
 during the two years that he followed that 
 occupation he devoted his leisure hours to the 
 study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. 
 David Jones, of Girard, 111. Later he entered 
 the St. Louis College of Homeopathic Physicians 
 and Surgeons, from which he graduated in 1871. 
 On the completion of his medical studies he 
 opened an office in Winchester, Scott County, 
 111., and there he remained for three years, until 
 he removed to Denver. In that city, April 25, 
 1872, he married Caroline Moses, daughter of 
 Hon. John Moses, who was judge of the county 
 court for some time and at one time a banker in 
 Winchester. For years he was an active figure 
 in the politics of Illinois. From Winchester he 
 removed to Chicago, where he resided until his 
 death in 1898. Few citizens of Illinois were 
 better informed than he regarding the history of 
 the state, and his extensive information on this 
 subject h& compiled and published in a history of 
 Chicago and Illinois. As secretary of the State 
 Historical Society he also assisted in the gathering 
 of data that will be of priceless value to future 
 generations. Dr. and Mrs. Walker have two 
 children: James F. and Stanley Moses. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1229 
 
 Though not active in public affairs, Dr. Walker 
 has decided opinions on political questions and is 
 a stanch Republican. When he was a mere lad 
 the Civil war broke out and his sympathies were 
 on the side of the Union. In September, 1864, 
 he enlisted in the armj' as a member of Company 
 E, Twenty-eighth Illinois Infantry, and partici- 
 pated, among other engagements, in the siege of 
 Mobile, being honorably discharged at the close 
 of the war. 
 
 3AC0B H. ROBESON, mayor of George- 
 town, and superintendent of the Dives Pelican 
 mine, is the son of a Colorado pioneer and 
 descends from Scotch ancestry. His great-grand- 
 father, Solomon Robeson, a native of Scotland, 
 settled in Virginia, where he bought a plantation, 
 but removed to Ohio in an early day and settled- 
 in Knox County. His son, Joseph, was born in 
 Rockingham County, Va., and engaged in farm- 
 ing in Knox County, Ohio, where he died at 
 seventy-nine years of age. Next in line of de- 
 scent was Solomon, a native of Mount Vernon, 
 Knox County, and the son of Joseph and Sarah 
 E. (Roof) Robeson, the latter a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, of German descent. He was one of a 
 family of seven sons and four daughters, all of 
 whom but two sons are still living, he being the 
 fifth. Three of the sons took part in the Civil 
 war as members of an Ohio regiment. 
 
 In 1856 Solomon Robeson removed to Astoria, 
 111., where he engaged in farming. In 1859 he 
 crossed the plains via ox-train from Fort Leaven- 
 worth over the Smoky Hill route to Denver, 
 where he arrived May 15, 1859. On the way he 
 met discouraged people returning, believing that 
 nothing but starvation awaited a prospector in 
 Colorado. While they were in Denver, resting 
 from their long journey, news came of the dis- 
 covery of gold at Gregory's camp. Mr. Robeson 
 hastened to Central City, where he engaged in 
 prospecting and raining. Returning east in the 
 spring of i860 he came to Colorado a second time, 
 and resumed prospecting at Central City. In 
 the fall of i860 he again went back, remaining 
 until the spring of 1862, when he came with his 
 brother and others, and went over the range 
 from Gunnison, where he engaged in gulch min- 
 ing. He went from there to Blackhawk, where 
 he worked for a time. March 14, 1863, he started 
 for Montana, driving twelve mules, and engaging 
 
 in gulch mining on his arrival at the gold dig- 
 gings. While there he discovered Colorado 
 Gulch. When fall came he returned to Illi- 
 nois, where he spent the winter, and in the spring 
 again came to the mountains, his brother Thomas, 
 who was in charge of the mines, having died 
 during his absence. 
 
 After having remained in Gilpin County until 
 1867, Mr. Robeson located in Georgetown, where 
 he has since made his home. Among the mines 
 he discovered are the Ruby Lode, Great Western, 
 Charter Oak, Fisk, Illinois, Central, Louisa, 
 Rosa, Robbie, Horace, Morrison, Crystal, etc., 
 some of which have been good producers. 
 
 While in Illinois he was made a Mason, and 
 now holds membership in Georgetown Lodge No. 
 48, A. F. & A. M. He is also connected with the 
 Clear Creek County Pioneers' Society and the 
 Association of Colorado Pioneers. In religion 
 he is a Universalist, and politically advocates 
 Democratic doctrines. He crossed the plains 
 nine times by team, before the days of railroads, 
 and was fortunate in that his part}' was never at- 
 tacked by Indians, although the savages were 
 hostile and murdered many emigrants during 
 those early days. 
 
 In New Castle, Ohio, Mr. Robeson married 
 Miss Louisa Zimmerman, who was born in Cosh- 
 octon County, Ohio, and was a daughter of David 
 and Rebecca (Gifiin) Zimmerman; her father, who 
 was a member of a Pennsylvania family, was a 
 hotel keeper in Mount Vernon for many years. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Robeson had three children, namely: 
 David, who is inside superintendent of the Peli- 
 can mine; Sarah Ellen and Jacob H. 
 
 Jacob H. Robeson was born in Fulton Count}', 
 near Astoria, 111., August 15, 1861. In i87i,he 
 came with the family to Colorado, where he was 
 a pupil in a private school until the public school 
 was established in 1874. In 1879 he graduated 
 from the high school, and afterward turned his at- 
 tention to mining, working with his father until 
 1887, when he was made superintendent of the 
 Mayflower mine in Idaho Springs. Two years 
 later he resigned the position and accepted the 
 superintendency of Dives Pelican mine at Silver 
 Plume, which includes twenty-two claims. Re- 
 cently the 7:30 property, with sixty-five patented 
 claims, has been added to it. The underground 
 workings extend over twenty miles, being the 
 largest of any mine in Colorado. Constant em- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ployment is furnished two hundred and sixty- 
 five men. It is a remarkable fact that the Dives 
 Pelican mines paid more taxes in 1897 on gross 
 output than all the mining interests of Clear 
 Creek County. In addition to this business, Mr. 
 Robeson owns interests in mines in the Dailey 
 mining district, and is a prosperous and exten- 
 sive miner. 
 
 In the Democratic party Mr. Robeson is a local 
 leader, and also exerts an influence upon the 
 party in the state, being a member of the state 
 central committee and the state executive com- 
 mittee. In 1897 h^ w^s chairman of the county 
 and district convention, and frequently he has 
 been chosen a delegate to the state convention. 
 At this writing he is chairman of the county cen- 
 tral committee. April 4, 1898, he was elected 
 mayor of Georgetown by a majority of one hun- 
 dred and thirty-eight, and is filling this responsi- 
 ble position in a manner highly creditable to 
 himself and satisfactory to people of all political 
 parties. He was married in Idaho Springs to 
 Miss Nettie Rose Smith Williams, who was born 
 in Warsaw, Ind. ,and they have had two chil- 
 dren, Chester Woodson and Lawrence Jerome, 
 but the older of these sons died at four months. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Robeson is past 
 master of Georgetown Lodge No. 48, A. F. & 
 A. M., and is also identified with Georgetown 
 Chapter No. 4, R. A. M.; Georgetown Com- 
 mandery No. 4, K. T., and holds membership 
 with the Red Men and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 HPTON T. SMITH, treasurer of Douglas 
 County and a well-known citizen of Castle 
 Rock, was born in Monroe, Waldo County, 
 Me., September 22, 1843, and is a son of Gusta- 
 vus Watson and Rosilla (Pattee) Smith. His 
 paternal grandfather, Daniel Smith, who it is 
 thought was born in New Hampshire, settled in 
 Waldo County, Me., about 1800, and there the 
 father was born and reared, later becoming one 
 of the most prominent citizens of the town of 
 Monroe, which he served as selectman. His 
 fellow-townsmen would have gladly elected him 
 to the legislature, but he refused to accept the 
 nomination, not desiring the office. 
 
 When our subject was thirteen years of age, his 
 father having married again and removed to an- 
 other county, he went to make his home with a 
 
 cousin, and there remained about four years, 
 meantime attending the country schools and later 
 the academy at Newburgh for one term. For 
 one year he was employed as a messenger for the 
 high sheriff of Penobscot County. In May, 1861, 
 at the first call for three months' service, he en- 
 listed, but the company was not accepted under 
 that call. On the 28th of the same month he 
 again enlisted, becoming a member of Com- 
 pany H, Sixth Maine Infantry, which was as- 
 signed to the Army of the Potomac. Among the 
 engagements in which He took part were those of 
 Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor, Antie- 
 tam, Fredericksburg, Rappahannock Station, 
 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and many skir- 
 mishes. Though always at the front he was 
 neither wounded nor captured. After a service of 
 three years he was honorably discharged at Port- 
 land, Me., and returned to Levant, where his 
 father had removed. At Bangor the sheriff ap- 
 pointed him a deputy. After three months, feel- 
 ing the need of a better education, he entered the 
 academy at Searsport and a year later went to 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , where he took a business 
 course in Eastman's College, graduating in April, 
 1867. 
 
 For one term Mr. Smith taught school in Saddle 
 River, Bergen County, N. J. He then went to 
 New York City, and for a year was employed by 
 the Brooklyn City Railway Company as a con- 
 ductor. While there he met Parker N. Savage, 
 who had mines in Colorado and who was coming 
 west. Mr. Smith accompanied him to Colorado, 
 arriving at Central City March i, 1869, after 
 staging from Cheyenne. He prospected at first, 
 but was not fortunate, and in September, with a 
 brother who had recently come from Maine in 
 company with Newton S. Grout, he went on a 
 surveying expedition. In the fall of 1869 he en- 
 tered from the government one-quarter of sec- 
 tion 26, township 8, range 68 west, which he. 
 improved and still owns. Later he added four 
 hundred acres, making a total of five hundred 
 and sixty acres. 
 
 Returning to Maine in 1872, Mr. Smith was 
 married in the town of Monroe, November 8, to 
 Miss Sarah E. Grout, who was born in Jackson 
 Township, Waldo County, Me., a daughter of 
 Robert C. and Elizabeth (Stowers) Grout. They 
 are the parents of four children, namely: Hattie 
 Avis, who was born on the home farm Novem- 
 
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 ber 2, 1873, and is the wife of Thomas Hall, of 
 Douglas County; Edwin W. , who was born Feb- 
 ruary 19, 1878, attended the State Agricultural 
 College at Fort Collins and now carries on the 
 home farm; Guy W., born October 7, 1885; and 
 Roger Putnam, born October 3, 1887. There is 
 one grandchild, of whom naturally Mr. and Mrs. 
 Smith are quite proud. The youngest son was 
 named Putnam in recognition of the fact that his 
 paternal grandmother was a direct lineal descend- 
 ant of Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame. 
 
 The first presidential vote cast by our subject 
 was in 1864, when he supported Abraham Lin- 
 coln. Ever since then he has been a stanch 
 Republican, active in politics. In 1897 he was 
 nominated by the silver Republicans for county 
 treasurer and elected. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of Castle Rock Lodge No. 27, A. O. U. W., 
 at Castle Rock, and Blunt Post No. 65, G. A. R., 
 of which he was the first commander and served 
 as such for two terms, besides filling most of the 
 other offices. He is deeply interested in educa- 
 tional matters, and has served as secretary of his 
 school district for many years. The success that 
 has come to him in life is not the result of acci- 
 dent, but comes from hard, careful and long- 
 continued werk. When in the army he was 
 accustomed to send $10 home to his father every 
 month, and when he returned home the money 
 was given back to him that he might use it in ob- 
 taining an education. All that he has made from 
 that time to this has been accumulated through 
 his unaided efforts. 
 
 GlLFRED F. STOTT, sheriff of Douglas 
 LI County, and an influential citizen of Castle 
 I I Rock, was born at Milton, Ulster County, 
 N. Y., December 10, 1868. He is a son of 
 Charles E. and Elizabeth (Place) Stott, natives 
 respectively of Virginia and Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 and now residents of Milton, N. Y. His father, 
 who is an expert pharmacist, and for years an 
 employe of Tilden & Co., wholesale druggists 
 in New York City, held a government position 
 under President Cleveland as appraiser of drugs 
 for the port of New York. 
 
 After receiving his education in the Milton 
 public schools and Pelham Institute, at the age 
 of eighteen our subject became an employe in the 
 Chemical National Bank of New York, but his 
 
 health soon failed and for three successive years 
 he was obliged to spend the winter months in 
 Florida. On his return he was employed for 
 eighteen months as bookkeeper for Ginn & Co., 
 a publishing firm of New York City. In the fall 
 of 1890 he came to Castle Rock, Colo. , and for 
 one winter was emploj^ed in a hardware store, 
 after which he carried on a meat business for a 
 year, and then embarked in the drug business at 
 Castle Rock; the latter bu.siness he sold in 1897 
 to C. W. Todd. July 17, 1895, he married 
 Miss Alma Belle Calkins, of Evanston, 111., whom 
 he first met at Castle Rock and married at Colo- 
 rado Springs. She is a daughter of Willian T. 
 Calkins and by her marriage has two children, 
 Charles Edwin and Helen Elizabeth. In religion 
 she is identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, while Mr. Stott inclines toward the 
 Episcopalian faith, in which he was reared. 
 
 Politically a Democrat, our subject voted for 
 Cleveland in 1892, his first presidential ballot. 
 In November, 1893, he was appointed postmaster 
 at Castle Rock and held the office until January i, 
 1898. In 1897 he was elected by the Democrats 
 and silver Republicans to the office of sheriff", 
 which he is now ably filling. In the Woodmen 
 of the World he has served as banker and is now 
 consul of Castlewood Camp No. 303. 
 
 I EONARD WALTERS. The Standard Meat 
 It and Live Stock Company, of which Mr. 
 liy Walters is secretary and treasurer, is the 
 largest concern of its kind, not only in Denver, 
 but in the entire west, carrying on a business 
 that extends through many states and involves 
 large financial transactions. In addition to their 
 establishment in Denver they have headquarters 
 at Rollins, Wj'o.; Manti, Utah; Almena, Kan.; 
 and St. Paul, Neb. At one time they owned 
 large tracts of land in New Mexico and now have 
 a ranch at Fort Morgan, Colo. 
 
 In this business Mr. Walters is associated with 
 his brother, John, whose sketch appears upon 
 another page. Leonard is the oldest child born 
 to the second marriage of his father, Leonard, Sr. , 
 which united him with Louisa Sihler, now a 
 resident of Buffalo, N. Y. The other children 
 are named as follows: Fred, who is superintendent 
 of live stock with the Standard Meat and Live 
 Stock Company; Charles, who died in boyhood; 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 William and I/)uisa, who are in Buffalo. Leon- 
 ard was born in Buffalo October 25, 1858, and re- 
 ceived a public-school education in that city. In 
 1876, at the age of seventeen, he secured a posi- 
 tion with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
 Railroad Company, being employed as car re- 
 porter for two years. 
 
 Coming to Denver in 1878, he became an em- 
 ploye of his brother, John, but after a year be- 
 came interested in the business and opened a 
 branch house in Idaho Springs, under the firm 
 name of Walters & Co. In 188 1 the firm became 
 John Walters & Bro. During that year he re- 
 turned to Denver and was given the financial 
 management and oversight of the business. The 
 firm name was changed to Walters, Aicher & 
 Walters in 1887, when F. X. Aicher was taken 
 into partnership, and after three years under that 
 title, the business having meanwhile assumed 
 quite proportions, it was decided to incorporate 
 under the name of the "Standard Meat and Live 
 Stock Company." 
 
 Politically Mr. Walters is a Republican. He 
 is a member of Schiller Lodge No. 41, A. F. & 
 A. M., Denver Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Colo- 
 rado Commandery No. i, K. T., Colorado Con- 
 sistory and El Jebel Temple, N. M. S. In Den- 
 ver, in 1883, he married Miss Ida Hensler, and 
 they are the parents of four children, Frank, 
 William, Lillian and Mabel. Mrs. Walters was 
 born in Milwaukee, Wis., being the daughter of 
 William Hensler, a member of a Wisconsin regi- 
 ment during the Civil war and by trade a cabi- 
 net-maker. 
 
 HON. JACOB J. ELLIOTT. The history of 
 Idaho Springs and Clear Creek County could 
 not well be written were the name of this 
 sterling citizen omitted from its annals for any 
 reason. For over a score of years he has been 
 intimately connected with the development of this 
 region and has neglected neither means nor effort 
 in placing it upon a sure basis of prosperity. Act- 
 ive and interested in all public improvements 
 and enterprises; far-seeing and judicious in meet- 
 ing every duty, whether to his fellow-citizens or 
 to his near friends and associates, he commands 
 the esteem and high regard of all. A man of 
 strong convictions, he hesitates not to take issue 
 with the popular opinion when he deems best, 
 even though he is well aware that he may be in 
 
 a hopeless minority. In short, he is the embodi- 
 ment of the rule which he has followed through- 
 out life, "do the right and fear no man." 
 
 One is not surprised in tracing the antecedents 
 of Mr. Elliott to learn from what a sturdy, patri- 
 otic stock he is descended. His paternal grand- 
 father, in whose honor he was named, was a lieu- 
 tenant on the staff of General Stark in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. He was wounded at the battle of 
 Bennington, a bullet passing through his powder 
 horn and entering his body, and was cared for 
 while lying on the field of battle by an Indian 
 girl. He survived about forty years thereafter, 
 dying in Chester, N. H., at the advanced age of 
 ninety odd years. He owned a large farm and 
 kept the best and most commodious inn between 
 Concord and Boston, it being located in Chester. 
 The Elliotts originally came from England and 
 some of the family drifted to Selma, Ala., though 
 many of them dwelt in New Hampshire. A bro- 
 ther of the aforementioned Lieut. Jacob J. Elliott, 
 John, was a Revolutionary soldier, enlisting in 
 New Hampshire, and died on a prison ship of the 
 British, in Halifax harbor. 
 
 James M. Elliott, the father of the subject of 
 this article, was born on the old homestead near 
 Chester, about twenty-three miles north of the 
 Massachusetts state line, and after his father's 
 death he succeeded to the propertj' and managed 
 the old tavern. When the Civil war came on he 
 enlisted in the Eighth New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers and subsequently was a lieutenant in the 
 Eleventh regiment of that state. Hedied in 1872, 
 aged over threescore years. To himself and 
 wife, Abigail R. , four children were born, of whom 
 two survive. Mrs. Elliott, like her husband, a 
 native of Chester, was a daughter of Josiah 
 Morse, a ship carpenter, and was an own cousin 
 of Professor Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. 
 
 The birth of Hon. J. J. Elliott took place in 
 Chester in 1843, and in the public schools of that 
 locality he laid the foundations of knowledge. 
 After leaving the Chester Academy he entered 
 the United States navy and served on the good 
 ship, "Pensacola", in the gulf squadron, under 
 Admiral Farragut. Later he was assigned to the 
 Atlantic squadron, and participated in the James 
 River campaign. At the close of over three years 
 in the navj' he was honorably discharged. Re- 
 turning to his native state he enlisted in the First 
 New Hampshire Artillery, Battery K, and served 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1233 
 
 until the close of the war. He took an active 
 part in the siege of Petersburg and Richmond and 
 other illustrious maneuvers and was in the grand 
 review at Washington. He was mustered out in 
 the fall of 1865, but soon entered the government 
 quartermaster's department, being under the 
 orders of General Haskins at Camp Distribution 
 until November. His service in this branch of 
 the nation's business extended over a year, fol- 
 lowing which he was employed in the navy de- 
 partment up to 1870, his home being in Wash- 
 ington in the meantime. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. EUiott came to Colorado to cast 
 his fortunes with the infant state, that year ad- 
 mitted to the Union. He engaged in mining and 
 milling enterprises in Georgetown for about a 
 year, but in September, 1877, came to Idaho 
 Springs. Here he pursued the same occupations, 
 also doing assaying. For some time he ran Miles 
 mill on Clear Creek, and ultimately he, in com- 
 pany with John G. Roberts and the Miners' 
 Smelting Company, erected the large mill 
 which stands on the site of the old one. It is now 
 known as the State Sampling Works. Mr. Ell- 
 iott has developed a number of important mines, 
 among which is the celebrated Specie Payment. 
 Since 1881 he has had his assaying office at its 
 present location, but his business in this line has 
 extended over a score of years in this town and 
 has brought him into close relationship with a 
 great many people interested directly or indirectly 
 in mining. Nor have his energies been confined to 
 one channel. He was the builder and owner of 
 the bridges between Idaho Springs and George- 
 town. These were started on the toll system and 
 were really the first of any importance erected in 
 the county. From the inception of the local 
 electric light plant, incorporated in February, 
 1887, and placed in operation the following June, 
 he has been president and manager of the same. 
 He was also a founder and is a director in the 
 First National Bank here; was mayor of the 
 place for one term and was president of the 
 school board for six years. 
 
 From his early manhood Mr. Elliott favored 
 the principles of the Republican party and was 
 an earnest advocate of its policy until a mon- 
 etary issue brought about a division of senti- 
 ment in the minds of many. He was one of 
 the delegates to the national Republican conven- 
 tion in St. lyouis in 1896, who with Senator Tell- 
 
 er withdrew, to march under the silver banner. 
 In the Grand Army of the Republic he has always 
 taken great interest and has not only been com- 
 mander of E. D. Baker Post No. 30, but has 
 served as an aide in department and national 
 committees of the organization. In February, 
 1898, he established his family in Denver. His 
 wife, whom he married in Washington, D. C. , in 
 1867, was then Miss Emma J. Williams, a native 
 of that city. They have nine living children, 
 one of whom, William, is in the cattle business 
 on Bear River, in Routt County. 
 
 NGN. SAM VAN CORT NEWELL, of 
 Central City, is not only one of the most 
 prominent men in mining circles of Gilpin 
 County, but of the state of Colorado. His name, 
 used in connection with any enterprise, lends 
 weight to the same and is a synonj-m for success. 
 Jovial, kind-hearted, generous and sincere, he is 
 very popular with his associates and hosts of warm 
 friends and acquaintances. The Republican 
 party of the state holds him as one of its most 
 influential champions. He officiated often as 
 chairman of local and county committees, and has 
 served on the state Republican central committee. 
 In 1884 he was elected to the state legislature, 
 and in 1886 was honored by being elected to the 
 Colorado senate. While holding that responsible 
 office, from 1887 to 1889, he was chairman of the 
 finance committee and acted on numerous other 
 committees, winning laurels for his earnest and 
 disinterested labors on behalf of his constituents. 
 Several terms he has been one of the city fathers 
 here, and was mayor for one term, always using 
 his power to the lasting welfare of his fellow- 
 citizens. 
 
 In the spring of 1872 S. V. Newell cast in 
 his fortunes with the people of Colorado, then a 
 territory. He arrived in Central City on the 6th 
 of April and at once entered the employ of his 
 cousin, William T. Newell, a lumber merchant 
 of this place. With this relative the young man 
 continued in business for five or six years, after 
 which he and his brother opened a coal and feed 
 establishment. In the meantime he had been 
 making investments in mining property, and had 
 become much interested in the occupation. He 
 developed .several mines in Summit and Pitkin 
 Counti.es and took out about $700,000 from mines 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 on the Hidden Treasure and California veins in 
 Gilpin County, before he sold them. He has 
 incorporated and promoted the Americus Gold 
 Mining and Milling Company, of which he is vice- 
 president; the Bates and German Gold Mining 
 Company, of which he is president; and the Con- 
 crete Gold Mining Company, of which he is vice- 
 president. These concerns are all in fine work- 
 ing order and have mills in connection with the 
 mines. The Penn Milling Company and the 
 Iron City Mill Company, both having Mr. Newell 
 as vice-president, are capitalized at $50,000 
 each. Their mills each have a capacity of two 
 thousand tons per month. The Penn mill is 
 equipped with automatic feeders, "thirty-five 
 slow or Gilpin County stamps and ten rapid-drop 
 stamps," and is provided with both steam and 
 water-power. The Iron City mill is strictly 
 modern in all appointments; automatic twenty- 
 five-stamp, rapid drop and runs by steam-power. 
 Both of the aforementioned mills are connected 
 with the mines by the Gilpin County Tramway, 
 a two-foot gear steam railroad. All of the mining 
 and milling companies mentioned above (with 
 the exception of the Bates and German) have 
 branch ofiices in the Carnegie building, in Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. Mr. Newell has been ably seconded 
 in his great undertakings by his brother, Lyne 
 Sterling Newell, Jr. They lately organized the 
 Gilpin County Gold Securities Investment Com- 
 pany. It is capitalized at $700,000, and handles 
 strictly gilt-edged mining stocks and other secur- 
 ities. S. V. Newell is president of the company, 
 while L. S. Newell is secretary. The brothers 
 are men of the highest standing in the business 
 world, their unusual genius and executive talents, 
 as well as their honor and fairness in all financial 
 dealings, being above question. 
 
 Born in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1854, S. V. 
 Newell is one of the four children of Lyne Ster- 
 ling and Esther (Miller) Newell. The father, 
 who is a native of Findlay, Ohio, became blind 
 when he was six or eight years old, as the result 
 of illness, and when grown was given a position 
 as superintendent of the blind asylum in Indian- 
 apolis. He was a man of fine education and 
 genuine ability, and was professor of music in the 
 institution, in addition to being manager. Now 
 about seventy years of age he is passing his de- 
 clining years in his old home in the state capital 
 of Indiana. He is of remote Scotch-Irish descent, 
 
 as his great-grandfather, Hugh Newell, came 
 from the northern part of Ireland to America 
 and, buying land from William Penn, became one 
 of the first settlers of Washington County, Pa. 
 His son, Hugh, next in the line of descent, lived 
 and died on a farm in Washington County. The 
 father of 1,. S. Newell, Sr., the third Hugh 
 Newell, was a native of Washington County; 
 married Sarah Thrift, of an eastern Virginia 
 family, and went to Ohio. He lived in Knox 
 County at first, but later went to Hancock 
 County, and for years was a merchant in Findlay, 
 in which city he died. The mother of S. V. 
 Newell was born in Penn Yan, Yates County, 
 N. Y. , and died in Indianapolis in 1859. Her 
 father, Samuel Van Cort Miller, was a descend- 
 ant of the pioneer Holland-Dutch stock of the 
 Empire state. He reared a family of thirteen 
 children on his home farm in Yates County, N. Y. 
 Alice, the only sister of our subject, lives in 
 Indianapolis, and his elder brother, Hugh Arthur, 
 died in Findla}^, Ohio, when twenty-one years old. 
 
 After his mother's death, when he was five 
 years old, S. V. Newell lived with relatives in 
 Penn Yan, N. Y. , for two years, after which he 
 made his home with John Newell, a brother of 
 his grandfather, Hugh Newell. In 1869 the 
 youth returned to Findlay, Ohio, and at the end 
 of eighteen months he w^ent to Indianapolis, 
 where he became a clerk in a mercantile estab- 
 lishment, and remained in that employment until 
 the year that witnessed his arrival in Colorado. 
 He was married in the Presbyterian Church of 
 Central City in 1878. Mrs. Newell, formerly 
 Elizabeth N. Bolthoff", was born in Burlington, 
 Iowa, and is the only daughter of Henry Bolt- 
 hoff, a member of the firm of Hendrie & Bolthoff, 
 of Denver. The only child of this marriage is 
 Herbert C, a member of the class of '98, Mich- 
 igan Military Academy, Orchard Lake, Mich. 
 In 1896 Mr. Newell established his family in 
 Denver, and spends a portion of his time in that 
 city, though his main business interests are in 
 Central City. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Blackhawk Lodge No. 4, K. of P. , and of Central 
 City Lodge No. 16, A. O. U. W. 
 
 During the administration of President Harri- 
 son S. V. Newell was the collector for the 
 United States laud ofiice here, and continued to 
 act in that capacity until the ofiBce was removed 
 to Denver. He has been greatly interested in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1235 
 
 railroad legislation, and in 1885, when a member 
 of the house, succeeded in getting a bill through, 
 to establish a commission with power to make 
 rates. This bill, however, was rendered about 
 useless by the senate, which provided one com- 
 missioner, without such power. When a mem- 
 ber of the senate Mr. Newell made strenuous 
 efforts to carry his point in this matter, but was 
 again unsuccessful. With a few other statesmen 
 he was largely responsible for the defeat of a bill 
 calling for a constitutional convention, the main 
 object of this measure being the reversal of the 
 present state constitution, in the interest of cor- 
 porations. 
 
 Since the above was written Mr. Newell has 
 been again elected to the state senate from Gilpin 
 County, now the twenty-sixth, formerly the 
 fourth senatorial district of Colorado, upon the 
 Teller silver Republican ticket, in opposition to 
 which the straight Republican, Democratic and 
 Populist parties each ran candidates for the same 
 office, making the contest very warm and deter- 
 mined. Mr. Newell, however, was successful by 
 a handsome plurality. 
 
 HON. DAVID F. RANEY, who died Septem- 
 ber 19, 1892, was one of the honored old 
 settlers of Weld County, being respected 
 and loved by a large circle of friends and ac- 
 quaintances throughout northern Colorado. He 
 was a man of sterling character, upright and just 
 in all his transactions and, progressive and enter- 
 prising in all his ideas. It was often said of him, 
 in his official life, that he and Judge Hammitt, of 
 this county, were two men of the legislature who 
 could not be bought or sold — that they were posi- 
 tively above suspicion of bribery. Mr. Raney 
 was elected to the Colorado assembly in 1877 on 
 the Republican ticket and served as a member of 
 that honorable body for one term. He took an 
 active part in temperance and educational work, 
 and always kept before him the highest ideals of 
 living. 
 
 Mr. Raney was a native of Greene County, 
 Ohio, born in the vicinity of Jamestown, Decem- 
 ber 24, 1832. He was a youth of perhaps four- 
 teen years when his parents removed to Van 
 Buren County, Iowa, settling near Birmingham. 
 The father was a cooper by trade, and pursued 
 that calling throughout his life. The parents 
 56 
 
 died about the same time, and left a large family, 
 of whom only two survive: John, a resident of 
 Villiska, Iowa, and Mrs. Johnson Birdsell, of 
 Frankfort, Kan. After the death of his parents 
 our subject made his home with Rev. Dr. Peter 
 Walker, of Van Buren County, Iowa. 
 
 In the spring of 1850 Mr. Raney joined a com- 
 pany of men bound for California, and crossed the 
 great plains with ox-teams. Arriving in the 
 neighborhood of Sacramento he engaged in min- 
 ing there and at Shasta City for nine years, 
 meeting with fair success. January 24, 1861, 
 having returned to Iowa, he married Lucinda M. 
 Drake, who had been born in Ohio and reared in 
 Iowa. Her parents were David and Mary (Brewer) 
 Drake, natives of Ohio and New York respect- 
 ively. Just three months after their marriage 
 Mr. Raney and his bride started on their long 
 journey across the plains, with oxen and wagons 
 and a herd of thirty dairy cows. Their trip took 
 from March 24 to June 9, and upon their arrival 
 in this county they took up a squatter's claim on 
 section i , three miles south of Platteville. 
 
 This property, known as Clear Spring farm, 
 on account of the fine springs which are thereon, 
 was regularly entered as a homestead by Mr. 
 Raney when the land was opened and surveyed. 
 He became extensively interested in stock-raising 
 and dairying, and gradually acquired a comforta- 
 ble fortune. He had a partner for a few years, 
 but eventually bought him out and continued his 
 enterprises alone. Up to the time of his death he 
 owned a large herd of cattle, but for the last nine 
 years of his life he was obliged to delegate to 
 others the oversight of his affairs. He was 
 stricken with paralysis and for nearly a decade 
 was an invalid, though his mind was as clear and 
 active as ever and he exercised a general super- 
 vision of his business. 
 
 As they were not blessed with children Mr. and 
 Mrs. Raney adopted a daughter, when the child 
 was but eight years old. This daughter is Ella 
 J. Howe, wife of George F. Raney, a nephew of 
 Mr. Raney, and son of his brother John. The 
 nephew now carries on the ranch and attends to 
 all the numerous duties of the place. A few years 
 prior to his death Mr. Raney built his comfortable 
 residence in Platteville, and here his widow lives 
 with her aged mother, a well-preserved old lady. 
 Though he was not identified with any denomi- 
 nation, Mr. Raney was a liberal contributor to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church of Platteville. 
 For several years he served as president of the 
 school board of his district, and was always sure 
 to be on the side of better educational facilities for 
 the young. 
 
 HON. THOMAS M. PATTERSON. The 
 life which this narrative sketches began in 
 Ireland on the 4th of November, 1840. The 
 . Pattersons were from the north of Ireland, where 
 James Patterson, grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch, was a large stock dealer and prominent 
 citizen. In his family there were five children, 
 one of whom, Thomas, a midshipman, was killed 
 in the battle of Trafalgar. Another son, James, 
 was born at Cavan and for some years engaged 
 in business as a merchant and jeweler there, but, 
 going to England, settled in I^iverpool, where he 
 carried on business for twelve years. By his 
 marriage to Margaret, daughter of Alexander and 
 Margaret (McDonald) Montjoy, he had three 
 children: James, who fell in the battle of Win- 
 chester during the Civil war; Catherine and 
 Thomas M. 
 
 During the summer of 1853 the family emigrat- 
 ed to America, landing in New York in Novem- 
 ber of that year. At that time the subject of this 
 narrative was a boy of thirteen, energetic, de- 
 termined, quick to learn and prompt in action. 
 After a few years in the city of New York he 
 moved west with the family to Crawfordsville, 
 Ind. His education was an excellent one and 
 was procured largely through his own efforts, for 
 at the age of fourteen he began to work in a print- 
 ing office and afterward he assisted his father in 
 the jewelry business. He spent one and one-half 
 years in Asbury (now DePauw) University and 
 two years in Wabash College, where he took the 
 regular course of study. The degree of A. M. 
 was conferred upon him by Asbury University. 
 
 On completing his literary studies, Mr. Patter- 
 son read law with M. D. White, M. C, of Craw- 
 fordsville, and upon his admission to the bar he 
 formed a partnership with Judge J. R. Cowan, 
 with whom he continued as long as he remained 
 in Indiana. In December, 1872, he came to 
 Denver, where he became connected with C. S. 
 Thomas. In April, 1873, he was elected city at- 
 torney and the next year was re-elected. He 
 soon became a leader of the Democratic party 
 here, and his talents led to his selection, by the 
 
 party, as candidate for important offices. In the 
 summer of 1874 he was chosen territorial dele- 
 gate to Congress, being the first Democrat ever 
 elected to that position in the then territory. Al- 
 though at the time of his nomination he was still a 
 comparative stranger to the people, having been 
 a resident of Denver for less than two years, while 
 his antagonist, Judge H. P. H. Bromwell, was 
 well known and highly esteemed, yet Mr. Pat- 
 terson was elected by a large majority, carrying 
 nineteen of the twenty- five counties in the terri- 
 tory. This election made him a delegate to con- 
 gress at a most important time, for Colorado 
 was applying for admission to the union as 
 a state. Grant was then president. The sen- 
 ate was Republican, the house Democratic. 
 Hence, there was a division as to the advisability 
 of admitting Colorado. Mr. Patterson had been 
 successfully elected on the Democratic ticket, and 
 the senate feared to admit a state that would 
 possibly give a presidential Democratic majority. 
 In this crisis Mr. Patterson did effective work 
 and it was due to his judicious labors, seconding 
 the influence of Senator Chaffee, that a bill to ad- 
 mit Colorado finally passed both congress and sen- 
 ate. On the 4th of July, 1876, the day of admission, 
 he sent this message from Washington, D. C, to 
 the people of Denver: "Through you I greet 
 the Centennial state, the latest but the brightest 
 star in the political firmament. I am proud of 
 the consciousness of representing the grandest 
 state, the bravest men and the handsomest women 
 on the continent." 
 
 Mr. Patterson served in the forty-third and 
 forty-fourth sessions of congress, retiring in 1878 
 and resuming the practice of law in Denver. 
 About that time occurred the discovery of the 
 great Leadville silver mines, . which resulted in 
 more litigation than had ever existed in a mining 
 camp. He was connected with almost all of the 
 great mining suits that originated there, among 
 them the mines of the Silver Mining Company, 
 whose claim he contested against other mining 
 companies with success. His party placed him 
 in nomination for governor in 1886, but the ticket 
 met with defeat. In 1892 he retired from the 
 practice of law, in which he had so long and so 
 successfully engaged, and bought the controlling 
 interest in the Rocky Motmtain News, of which 
 he has since been the owner. In 1892 he was 
 delegate tP the national convention of the Demo- 
 
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 1237 
 
 cratic party in Chicago, that nominated Grover 
 Cleveland for a second term as president. In that 
 convention he, with almost no support, made a 
 brave fight in behalf of free coinage, endeavoring 
 to secure its recognition in the party platform, 
 but he was disappointed. However, four years 
 later the plank was introduced in the platform. 
 Meantime, he had given his support to the Pop- 
 ulist party and in 1896 was its delegate to the St. 
 Louis convention, where Bryan was endorsed for 
 president. He took the stump in favor of free 
 silver and under the auspices of the national com- 
 mittee canvassed Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, 
 Kansas and Nebraska, doing all in his power to 
 promote the success of the measure which he was 
 convinced would mean enhanced prosperity to 
 America, and especially to the great west. He is, 
 in fraternal relations, identified with the Masonic 
 order. 
 
 In Watertown, N. Y., July 23, 1863, Mr. Pat- 
 terson married Miss Kate Grafton, a granddaugh- 
 ter of Alexander Campbell, whose name is in- 
 dissolubly associated with the establishment of 
 the Christian Church. They have an only daugh- 
 ter, Margaret, who is the wife of R. C. Campbell, 
 formerly of Wheeling, W. Va., now of Denver. 
 
 While Mr. Patterson has more than once, at 
 the head of his party, suffered defeat in the sup- 
 port of principles he has espoused, yet his has 
 been a most successful life; for the influence of a 
 gifted mind, in molding thought and giving di- 
 rection to events, cannot be measured by official 
 position, but is as enduring as time itself. The 
 mental qualities that brought him eminence as a 
 lawyer have made him a power in the newpaper 
 world, a leader in the journalistic field, for he not 
 only has the telescopic quality of mind, which 
 enables him to grasp things beyond the ordinary 
 vision, but he also has the microscopic quality 
 that enables him to examine into little details, so 
 often neglected by great minds. His interest in 
 the welfare of Colorado is that of active patriot- 
 ism, which works tirelessly to promote the pros- 
 perity of the people and secure the development 
 of local resources. He has adhered with steadfast 
 and zealous support to the principles of free coin- 
 age and free trade, when one less devoted to prin- 
 ciple might have swerved for policy's sake. To 
 every worthy cause he has come to the aid with a 
 generous response, and much of the beautj' and 
 attractiveness of Denver is due to his liberal and 
 
 active enterprise. Generosity, whether to public- 
 spirited projects or to the needy and destitute, is 
 a prominent trait of his character, and his bene- 
 factions have been large and unstinted. While 
 many with greater opportunities than he had in 
 youth gained for themselves neither wealth nor 
 position, yet he, by the force of an indomitable 
 will, by reliance upon himself and his own ability, 
 has advanced step by step until he has attained a 
 position among the illustrious men of the state. 
 
 gYRON ALBERTUS WHEELER, M. D., 
 has been a prominent factor in the organiza- . 
 tion of various professional and political 
 movements for the benefit of his city and state. 
 On his motion the Homeopathic Club was founded 
 and he officiated as its first president. He bore 
 an active part in the establishment of the Denver 
 Homeopathic Academy, in which he was warmly 
 interested. In the organization and reorganiza- 
 tion of Colorado State Homeopathic Medical 
 Society he took an active part, and afterward 
 occupied various official positions in the society. 
 He assisted in organizing the Denver Homeo- 
 pathic Medical College and Hospital Association, 
 of which he has been president since the spring of 
 1895 and in which he also occupies the chair of 
 mental and nervous diseases. In politics, too, 
 he has been interested. Believing that certain 
 reforms must be instituted before the welfare of 
 the people could be promoted, he called together 
 delegates from different labor organizations in the 
 state, and the result was the formation of the 
 Populist party. He was made secretary of the 
 new movement, but the president being in en- 
 feebled health, the responsibility fell almost 
 entirely upon the secretary, who, in justice to 
 other duties, was finally obliged to resign the 
 position. 
 
 In Prairieville (now Waukesha), Wis., Dr. 
 Wheeler was born January 30, 1842, the son of 
 Truman and Irene (Whittier) Wheeler. The 
 Wheeler family was established in New York in 
 an early day by representatives from Holland, 
 who belonged to the famous old Knickerbocker 
 stock. Truman Wheeler was born in the central 
 part of the state and in youth learned the wheel- 
 wright's trade, becoming a pioneer wheelwright 
 in the territory of Wisconsin. He settled at 
 Fond du Lac, and built the first mill there, but, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 while still a young man, he was killed in the 
 woods when getting out the last piece of timber 
 for the mill. His wife, who was born at Green- 
 ville, near Montpelier, Vt. , was, like himself, a 
 consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and died when still young. They were 
 the parents of two children who reached maturity, 
 Lucius Nathan and Byron Albertus. By a former 
 marriage he had a son, Norman W. , who died in 
 New York City. Lucius N., who was a foreign 
 missionary of the Methodist Episcopal denomina- 
 tion, established the first Methodist mission in 
 Pekin, China, and also the first mission in west- 
 ern China, at the headwaters of the Yang Tse 
 Kiang River. Twice failing health compelled him 
 to return to America, but each time, as soon as he 
 had sufficiently recovered, he returned to his post 
 of duty, and he finally died in China. His daugh- 
 ter, Frances, is still a missionary there. 
 
 While our subject was teaching school in 
 Wisconsin the Civil war began, and when a call 
 was made for seventy-five thou.sand men he en- 
 listed, becoming a member of Company I, First 
 Wisconsin Infantry, At the expiration of his 
 time, three months, he returned home and taught 
 school one winter, but in the spring again en- 
 listed, joining Company I, First Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the 
 war. He entered the army as a private and was 
 discharged as ordnance sergeant of the regiment. 
 He participated in the battles of Chickamauga, 
 Atlanta and Resaca, as well as many minor en- 
 gagements, but was never wounded. While in 
 the three months' service he took part in the 
 battle of Falling Waters, Va., resulting in the 
 capture of Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry by 
 the Union forces. 
 
 Returning to Wisconsin at the close of the war 
 he took up the study of medicine under Dr. T. J. 
 Patcher, of Foud du Lac, and in the fall of 1865 
 entered Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 
 from which he graduated in March, 1867. He 
 opened an office in Byron, Fond du Lac Countj^, 
 Wis., but less than a year afterward, his wife's 
 health being poor, he decided to seek another 
 location where the climate would be more favor- 
 able. He then went to Boone County, Iowa, and 
 built up a good practice, but his own health fail- 
 ing after four years of labor, he decided to come 
 to Colorado. He reached Denver on the ist of 
 January, 1872, and in April of the same year 
 
 opened an office on Larimer street, near Four- 
 teenth. His next location was on the corner of 
 these two streets, but afterward he moved his 
 office to No. 1447 Stout street, and then to his 
 present location at No. 1441 Stout street. Frater- 
 nally he is a life member of the blue lodge and 
 also belongs to the Knight Templar Commandery 
 in Denver. 
 
 In Bryon, Wis., August 20, 1865, Dr. Wheeler 
 married Miss Frances Amelia Noyes. They have 
 seven children: Maude L., wife of Amos L. Miks, 
 of Topia, Durango, Mexico; Mary E., wife of 
 Lieut. C. H. Hilton, of the First Colorado 
 Volunteers, who participated in the occupation of 
 the Philippine Islands; Pearl B., who is a phy- 
 sician; Ernest T. ; Vera E. , wife of H. C. Korf- 
 hage, of Sinaloa, Mexico; Irene W. and Lucius 
 B. Wheeler. 
 
 'IMOTHY WILLIS MILES, M. D., of 
 Denver, was born near Cleveland, Ohio, 
 January 30, 1849. He represents the third 
 generation of the Miles family in America. His 
 grandfather, Timothy Miles, who was a native 
 of England, crossed the ocean to the new world 
 in company with two brothers, Thomas and Ab- 
 ner. Thomas settled in Pennsylvania, and among 
 his descendants is General Miles, of the United 
 States army. Abner became a sea captain. 
 Timothy, who settled in the colony of New 
 Hampshire, served as a soldier in the Revolution 
 and was taken prisoner by the British, being held 
 for a time in a British ship in New York harbor. 
 After the war he settled upon a farm in Vermont, 
 where he continued to reside, with the exception 
 of a few 3'ears spent in Canada, until he passed 
 from earth. 
 
 The wife of Timothy Miles was Theda, daugh- 
 ter of James and Theda (Woldbridge) Blodgett, 
 and the descendant of English ancestors who set- 
 tled in Salem and Bromfield, Mass. Her father 
 was born December 21, 1723, in Massachusetts, 
 where he spent his entire life; he had a family 
 of five sons and three daughters. Timothy and 
 Theda Miles were the parents of five daughters 
 and four sons, namely: Theda; Marcia, Mrs. 
 Daniel Moulton, whose granddaughter became 
 the mother of the present secretary of war. Gen. 
 Russell Alger; Lucia, Dolly, Almira, Timothy, 
 John, James and Justin. 
 
 Born in Vermont January 25, 1791, Jarnes 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 1239 
 
 Miles followed various occupations in life, being 
 a farmer, cooper, phj'sician and an ordained min- 
 ister in the Christian Church. He was a man 
 much beloved by his acquaintances and honored 
 by all who knew him. Brave, upright and pub- 
 lic-spirited, his influence was always for good. 
 When a young man he moved as far west as 
 Ohio, settling near Cleveland and engaging in 
 the clearing and cultivation ot a farm. There, 
 May 14, 1823, he married Sophia Waite, a rela- 
 tive of Chief Justice Waite, and a granddaughter 
 of Benjamin Waite, known in history as Benja- 
 min the Brave, on account of his valor and suc- 
 cess in fighting the Indians. Her father, Ben- 
 jamin Waite, Jr., married Zylphia Hayward, of 
 which union she was born. She died in 1857, at 
 the age of fifty-three, while her husband, surviv- 
 ing her for ten years, passed away in Iowa, 
 Christmas, 1867, at the age of seventy-seven. 
 They were the parents of thirteen children, ten 
 of whom reached mature years, viz.: Harriet, 
 Edward, James A., Lydia S., Marcia, Justin, 
 Daniel, Mary, Timothy W. and Frances Grace. 
 The early education of our subject was received 
 in Jackson County, Iowa, and he attended col- 
 lege at Cornell, that state. Later he was a stu- 
 dent in the Bennett Eclectic Medical College of 
 Chicago, and the Eclectic Medical Institute of 
 Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1875. 
 He opened an oflBce at Joplin, Mo., but after 
 three years in that place removed to Schell City, 
 Mo., and from there came to Denver in June, 
 1882. He spent the summer of that year in travel 
 through the state, and in October opened an 
 office in Denver, where he met with success in 
 his profession. He has his office in the Toltec 
 building, on Seventeenth and Stout streets, and 
 his residence at No. 1 544 Franklin street. He is 
 secretary of the Colorado State Eclectic Medical 
 Association, and second vice-president of the Na- 
 tional Eclectic Medical Association. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, 
 Woodmen of the World and Independent Order 
 of Odd fellows. Politically he is a silver Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 In Cincinnati, in 18S3, Dr. Miles married Miss 
 Cornelia Scudder, by whom he has a son, Robert 
 Willis. The family are members of the Central 
 Christian Church, of which the doctor is a dea- 
 con. Mrs. Miles is a descendant of English an- 
 cestors. The American progenitor of the family, 
 
 Thomas Scudder, was born in or near London, 
 and emigrated to Salem, Mass., in 1635. He 
 was familiarly known as "Goodman" Scudder. 
 His sou, Thomas, left Salem in 1651 and settled 
 in Huntington, E. I. Next in descent was 
 Benjamin, who moved to New Jersey in 1740, 
 and became a large land owner. The latter' s 
 son Enoch moved west from Westfield, N. J., 
 but his son John returned to the old home 
 in that place. The latter had a son John, 
 who was the father of Lieut. Robert Scud- 
 der, of the Army of the Cumberland dur- 
 ing the Civil war, and was also the father of 
 Mrs. Miles. His brother. Dr. John M. Scudder, 
 of Cincinnati, was the founder of the eclectic sys- 
 tem of medicine in Cincinnati, and the author of 
 many valuable medical works, being for years 
 dean of the Eclectic Medical Institute. Mrs. 
 Miles is also a descendant of the Fords and Kitch- 
 ells, of Morristovvn, N. J., the original William 
 Ford coming to Plymouth on the ship "Fortune" 
 in 1861. On her mother's side Mrs. Miles traces 
 her lineage to the Scotch family of Holland, who 
 fled to Ireland in 1641 on account of religious 
 persecution. She is a graduate of the Woodward 
 high school and the Cincinnati Normal School, 
 and possesses a broad education, together with 
 the faculty of imparting knowledge to children in. 
 an interesting and successful manner. For thir- 
 teen years she has been identified with the East 
 Denver schools, and is now principal of the 
 Broadway school. She is a member of the 
 Woman's Club of Denver, and is also identified 
 with the State Historical Society. 
 
 WIAJ. JACOB DOWNING. It would be im- 
 Y possible to write a history of Colorado 
 (g without making frequent reference to Major 
 Downing. In early days in a military capacity, 
 and later as a citizen, he has been intimately con- 
 nected with the development of the state. Especi- 
 ally has he been inseparably associated with the 
 growth of Denver, one of whose avenues is named 
 in his honor and also one of the suburban towns. 
 Within a mile of the city limits he has a ranch of 
 about two thousand acres, with irrigation ditches, 
 sewerage and a commodious brick residence. 
 Here general farm pursuits are carried on, and 
 cattle and horses are raised. 
 
 In the introduction of improvements Major 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Downing has been a pioneer. In 1862 he intro- 
 duced alfalfa into Colorado, bringing the seed 
 from Old Mexico and planting it on his farm. 
 However, he raised it for years and used it for 
 feed before others would consent to use it; now 
 it is considered indispensable and every farmer 
 raises it in large quantities. He also introduced 
 some of the first fine breeds of poultry raised in 
 the state, and brought fourteen dozen quail to 
 Colorado, the first ever in the state. By impor- 
 tation from the east he brought fine Arabian stal- 
 lions into the state, and in the recent festival of 
 the mountain and plain his horses were the finest 
 in the parade. He owned the celebrated horse 
 South Australian, sired by West Australian, a 
 thoroughbred horse on both sides, and the finest 
 of its kind ever in England. His standard-bred 
 and blooded horses are as fine as can be found in 
 the United States. For twenty years he has 
 raised sugar beets, often having as much as five 
 hundred tons annually, and he has a machine 
 that cuts them up for feeding to the stock. In 
 cattle-raising he makes a specialty of Shorthorns. 
 He brought the first Herefords ever in Colorado, 
 buying them from Erastus Corning of Albany, 
 N. Y. This was considered the best herd in Eng- 
 land or America. He paid $1,000 for three calves 
 only six months old. 
 
 The Downing family were Hicksite Quakers of 
 English extraction. Elias Hicks, founder of that 
 branch of the Friends, was a cousin of Jacob 
 Downing, Sr., our subject's father. The latter 
 was born at Glencove, ly. I., in 1785, the son of 
 a Revolutionary soldier, and removed to Albany, 
 N. Y., where he speculated in western lands. 
 He owned several large farms in Ohio and Illi- 
 nois. Much of his work was of a nature perma- 
 nent in its good results. About 1843 he built the 
 Boston & Albany railroad from Boston. He 
 graded Brooklyn Heights and cleaned out the bar 
 in the Hudson. Politically he was a Democrat. 
 While on a business trip to Ohio in 1858 he died, 
 in Rochester. His wife, Jane Winne, was born 
 in Albany and died at her daughter's home in 
 Cleveland when nearly eighty years of age. She 
 was of Holland-Dutch ancestry. Her father, 
 William P. , was born in Albany and died there 
 at the age of one hundred and eight years. Of 
 her eleven children, seven attained maturity and 
 four are living. 
 
 Our subject, who was the youngest of the 
 
 family, was born in Albany in April, 1830, and 
 received his education in Albany Academy. At 
 the age of fourteen he entered the Albany City 
 bank as clerk under Erastus Corning, president 
 of the New York Central Railroad. In 1850, 
 while returning from Cleveland to Albany, he 
 took passage on a Lake Erie steamer, the "Amer- 
 ica," and during the trip the boiler burst. He 
 and five others were in a stateroom at the time 
 and a half-hour later he was the only one living. 
 After the explosion he tried in vain to kick the 
 door open, and finally found an auger hole 
 through which he could inhale fresh air. His 
 hands were burned and the pillow over his head 
 was in flames. The steamer was seen by the 
 "Alabama," whose crew put out the fire and 
 rescued the passengers. Mr. Downing suffered 
 so severely from the explosion that his health 
 was seriously impaired and he traveled in the 
 south for some time, hoping to recover his 
 strength. On his return to Albany he resumed 
 work in the office, but the confinement proved 
 injurious to him, and he again started to travel. 
 This time he went through Canada, visited Chi- 
 cago and made a tour through Texas, and for 
 some time hunted buffalo on the plains. He 
 studied law with Ward & Stanford in Chicago 
 and in 1858 was admitted to the Illinois bar. He 
 opened an office in Denver and in the summer of 
 i860 was elected municipal judge, but resigned 
 soon after to resume his law practice. 
 
 On hearing of the attack on Fort Sumter in 
 1 86 1, he organized Company D, First Colorado 
 Cavalry, of which he was commissioned captain 
 by Governor Gilpin. He marched with it to 
 New Mexico and was engaged in all the battles 
 of that campaign, being promoted from captain 
 to major for gallantry in these actions. March 
 26, 1862, he was with the command that defeated 
 the Texas rangers and drove them back toward 
 Texas. Two days later they were again defeated. 
 The skirmishes were attended with much blood- 
 shed and many of his men were killed. On his 
 return he had only four or five men who had not 
 been injured during the campaign and of these 
 only one is now in Denver, Mike Ivory, who 
 carried the colors. It is a peculiar fact that the 
 regiment was not mustered into service until six 
 months after it had been on the field. 
 
 When relieved from New Mexico duty Major 
 Downing returned to Colorado. On arriving at 
 
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 1241 
 
 Fort Lyon, on the Arkansas River, he was 
 ordered to proceed to Fort Larned, Kan. , and take 
 command of that post. For five months he was 
 stationed there. He was compelled to protect 
 two hundred and forty miles of the Arkansas 
 stage and emigrant rente, with only one hundred 
 and fifty men. He wrote General Schofield for 
 more men, but they could not be furnished. 
 Major Downing said he would hold the post if he 
 could, and General Schofield said "Go ahead." 
 The major had consultations with the northern 
 and southern chiefs separately and managed so 
 as to have them fighting each other, which pre- 
 vented them from molesting the whites. When 
 relieved from the command, he was highly com- 
 plimented by Major- General Curtis for the able 
 manner in which he had performed his duties, for 
 during his term of management not a life was 
 lost, nor were the stages materially molested. 
 He was appointed assistant inspector- general to 
 inspect Camp Fillmore, Fort Lyon, Camp Wyn- 
 koop. Fort Garland, Guadaloupe, Forts Laramie 
 and Halleck, Camps Collins, Sanborn and Weld, 
 embracing an immense territory inhabited only 
 by Indians. During the depredations of 1864 
 many people had been killed by the savages and 
 supplies seized. Colonel Chivington, then com- 
 manding the military district of Colorado, ordered 
 Major Downing to take such troops as could be 
 spared from Camp Sanborn and to find and pun- 
 ish the Indians. After a long search he found 
 them camped at Cedar Canon, and charged upon 
 them, routing them with a loss of thirty-eight 
 killed and many wounded. On returning to Den- 
 ver three weeks later, he was placed under arrest 
 for causing an Indian war and was ordered to the 
 states; but, upon the request of the inspector- 
 general, he reported that the cause of the trouble 
 was the action of the Indian agents, who were 
 robbing the Indians of the supplies intended for 
 them; the Indians knowing what they ought to 
 have would take revenge by killing white settlers. 
 A copy of this report reached President Lincoln, 
 who investigated and found that matters were 
 even worse than reported, and had his life been 
 spared the disturbances would soon have been 
 remedied. 
 
 In 1865 Major Downing was mustered out of 
 service and turned his attention to -the practice 
 of law. The next year he went to New York 
 City, but not liking the place he returned west. 
 
 In 1867 he was elected probate judge on the Re- 
 publican ticket and held the position for two 
 years. Having become the owner of two thou- 
 sand acres five miles west of Denver, in 1869 he 
 began the improvement of the tract by irrigating, 
 fencing, etc. Here he has since engaged in rais- 
 ing cattle and horses, and in general farming. 
 He laid out Downing' s addition to North Denver, 
 eighty acres; Downing' s addition to East Den- 
 ver, one hundred and twenty acres; and Down- 
 ington, three hundred acres, on Colfax avenue 
 near City Park. In land and money he gave 
 $18,000 toward the building of the Colfax avenue 
 street car. Some years ago he originated the bill 
 providing six hundred and forty acres for City 
 Park, which pa.ssed the lower house, but was re- 
 duced to three hundred and twenty acres in the 
 senate. With the assistance of other property 
 owners he improved Mount View boulevard, ex- 
 tending from the park six miles east, running 
 north of Downington; the street is one hundred 
 and twenty feet wide and will eventually be the 
 finest drive in the city. His ranch is called 
 Downingdale and is one of the most highly im- 
 proved in the vicinity of Denver. 
 
 In 1863 Major Downing joined Union Lodge 
 No. 7, A. F. & A. M. For years he was com- 
 mander of Phil Kearney Post, G. A. R., but not 
 being able to attend the meetings he resigned. 
 The post afterward disbanded and he then joined 
 Reno Post. He was president of the Soldiers 
 Association of Colorado, which in 1866 was ab- 
 sorbed in the Grand Army. In 1851 he joined 
 Forest City Lodge No. 162, I. O. O. F., at Cleve- 
 land, and afterward joined the order in Denver, 
 but is not connected with it at present. At one 
 time he was a Knight of Pythias. He was a 
 Republican from the organization of the party, 
 and voted for General Fremont for president. He 
 has never desired public office for himself, but 
 has been active in aiding his friends who enter 
 the lists of candidates for offices. 
 
 In Glens Falls, N. Y., Major Downing married 
 Miss Caroline Rosecrans, who was born near 
 Albany and received an excellent education at 
 Mrs. Willard's Seminary, Troy (the first ladies' 
 seminary in the state of New York) . She is of 
 Dutch descent, a member of a pioneer family of 
 New York. Her great-grandfather, with two of 
 his brothers, took part in the Revolution, and a 
 cousin, recently deceased, was a prominent gen- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 eral in the Civil war; another cousin, Judge Enoch 
 Rosecrans, is a prominent jurist in New York. 
 The parents of Mrs. Downing were Henry and 
 Mary (Mosher) Rosecrans, the former a farmer 
 who died in York state at the age of seventy-one; 
 the latter a native of Dutchess County and of 
 English lineage. Mrs. Downing is president of 
 the Pioneer Ladies' Aid Society, and belongs 
 to the Woman's and Clio Clubs, has been identi- 
 fied with the First Baptist Church for twenty -two 
 years and takes an active part in benevolent and 
 religious enterprises. She is a life member of 
 the Denver Orphans' Home Association and gave 
 the first $100 received by that institution. She 
 is also a member of the Homeopathic Hospital 
 Association, the Kindergarten Association, the 
 Newsboys' Home, Denver Sewing Guild and 
 Denver Coal Guild. Her capability in executive 
 management has made her a prominent factor in 
 important enterprises where the assistance of 
 ladies is essential, while her winning manners 
 and unfailing courtesy of demeanor make her 
 popular in every circle. The following poem was 
 composed by her, and dedicated to 
 
 COLORADO PIONEERS 
 Should old acquaintance be forgot, 
 And the ties of many years 
 And all the lessons that were taught 
 By the early pioneer? 
 
 The early pioneer so brave — 
 
 The hardy pioneer, 
 Let all unite to sing the praise 
 Of the early pioneer. 
 
 And as the years go rolling on 
 And they've reached the other shore, 
 For their deeds of valor and of love 
 You'll prize them more and more. 
 Then give to them a loving hand 
 
 And hearty words of cheer 
 As you follow in the footsteps of 
 The early pioneer. 
 
 IJNORMAN GRISWOLD BURNHAM, M. D., 
 I / was one of the prime movers in the organiza- 
 l/j tion of the Denver Homeopathic Medical 
 College and served as the first president of the 
 institution. He was president of the Colorado 
 State Homeopathic Medical Society, in the 
 growth of which he has always been actively 
 interested. For several years he was president 
 of the Humane Society, of which he is a charter 
 member. In other matters relating to the health 
 
 of the people he has taken a warm interest. He 
 is an enthusiastic homeopathist, and has done 
 much to promote the success of this school of 
 medicine in Denver. 
 
 In 1819, while the red men still roamed un- 
 molested through the forests of Ohio, two brothers, 
 Ellsworth and Moses Burnham, came to that 
 state from Connecticut and located in Erie 
 County, of which they were pioneers. Their 
 father, Capt. Joseph T. Burnham, was born in 
 Connecticut, of English descent, and followed 
 farm pursuits to some extent, but gave his atten- 
 tion largely to the occupation of a carpenter and 
 builder. He was a man of means as well as of 
 noble character, and his influence was felt in the 
 progress of his locality and the development of 
 its interests. When he was quite old he made a 
 trip in his private conveyance to Ohio and Mich- 
 igan, where he visited relatives and friends. 
 
 Ellsworth Burnham, who was one of a family 
 of four sons and two daughters, was born in 
 Connecticut and died in Saginaw, Mich., when 
 eighty-four years of age. His occupation was 
 that of farming, which he followed in Ohio, retir- 
 ing from active business life in Michigan. He 
 married Maria Walker, who was born in Tolland 
 County, Conn., a daughter of Norman and Hulda 
 Walker, of Connecticut. Her death occurred in 
 Michigan when she was eighty-four years of age. 
 In her family there were three sons, Joseph T. , 
 Norman G. and Henry E. Norman G. was born 
 in Berlin, Erie County, Ohio, September 30, 1829, 
 and grew to manhood on the home farm. At the 
 age of seventeen he became a student in the 
 Norwalk Academy, where he had for his room- 
 mate the late Gen. James B. McPherson. While 
 studying in the summers he devoted the winters 
 to teaching school. After some years devoted to 
 the study of medicine, he graduated at the Cin- 
 cinnati Eclectic Medical College, and commenced 
 his active connection with the profession. 
 
 For two years Dr. Burnham was physician to 
 the Berlin Heights Sanitarium and was associated 
 with Prof. B. L. Hill, M. D., who procured the 
 charter for the Cleveland Homeopathic College. 
 For a time he attended the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University and afterward spent one winter in the 
 Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, whose 
 faculty conferred upon him an honorary degree. 
 While in Cincinnati he attended the first course 
 of lectures on homeopathy delivered west of the 
 
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 1243 
 
 AUeghenj' Mountains. He was associated for 
 three years with Prof. H. P. Gatchell, former 
 dean of the Cleveland Homeopathic College, 
 under whose preceptorship he gained a broad 
 fund of medical and scientific knowledge. From 
 Cleveland he went to Indianapolis, where he 
 located and built up a large practice. After 
 eleven busy and profitable years there, he re- 
 moved to St. lyouis, and three years later removed 
 to Colorado, reaching Denver October 9, 1879. 
 
 Dr. N.G. Burnham was married May 7, 1861, 
 in Medina, Medina County, Ohio, to Miss Mary 
 K. Treat, a daughter of Adner A. Treat, who is a 
 man of remarkable vitality and, though now one 
 hundred and one years of age, still retains much 
 of the vigor of his prime. He now makes his 
 home with his daughter in Denver. Mrs. Burn- 
 ham received an academic education in Medina, 
 Ohio. She is a native of Fayetteville, N. Y., 
 where her childhood was spent amid rural scenes. 
 She is noted for her domestic qualities, and takes 
 an active interest in the Woman's Club of Den- 
 ver, of which she is a member, and she also has 
 been a most active member of St. Mark's Epis- 
 copal Church. Dr. and Mrs. Burnham have four 
 children: Arthur T. ; Grace N., wife of Eugene 
 Knight; Florence T. , wife of N. O. Vosburgh, Jr., 
 of Denver; and Norman G., Jr., who died when 
 seventeen years of age. The family are identified 
 with St. Mark's Episcopal Church, which the 
 doctor assisted in organizing and in which he was 
 a vestryman for five years while it was yet a 
 mission. Fraternally he is connected with Den- 
 ver Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., Colorado Com- 
 mandery No. i, K. T., and took his thirty-second 
 degree in the consistory of Indiana at Indiana- 
 polis; he is also a member of El Jebel Temple of 
 the Mystic Shrine. In addition to his professional 
 work he is interested in the insurance business as 
 president of the Denver Life Insurance Company. 
 Politically he has been a Republican, but in the 
 campaign of 1896 he allied hiipself with the silver 
 forces and* cast his vote for William Jennings 
 Bryan. While in Ohio he voted for John Sher- 
 man at his first election to congress and supported 
 John C.'Fremont for president. He is a member 
 of the medical staff of Arapahoe County Hospital, 
 also a member of the advisory board of health of 
 Denver. 
 
 No citizen is more desirous to see his city, state 
 and nation attain the highest prosperity than Dr. 
 
 Burnham. An article written by himself and 
 published in the Denver Republican of March 16, 
 1898, gives an idea of his earnestness and zeal as 
 a citizen, devoted to his country's welfare. We 
 quote from it, as follows: "The wild manifesta- 
 tions of selfishness and greed among the business 
 elements, past and present, at the expense of the 
 competitor, the reputation and welfare of the city 
 and state, has been too much in evidence. It is 
 high time that a halt should be called, a retro- 
 spect be taken and a change of policy entered 
 upon, laying aside the 'swaddling clothes' of the 
 past, deep dyed in the blood sweat effort, each to 
 slaughter the other with treachery and usurpa- 
 tion. 
 
 "The time has come when questionable ways 
 of business men must be eliminated. How better 
 can we enter upon such an era than by profiting 
 by the experiences and adopting the methods of 
 some of our neighboring cities, who have estab- 
 lished and well-regulated associations, whose 
 members work together as a unit for the advance- 
 ment and protection of their respective business 
 interests, as well as to guard the reputation and 
 aid the growth of their municipalities. Such 
 united efforts with an ever watchful care in 
 guarding our varied business interests must form 
 the key to our future growth. Concentration of 
 earnest effort is the only hope for large success." 
 
 G| UGUST H. KOEPER, an enterprising farmer 
 LJ and sheep- feeder of Larimer County, resid- 
 / I ing in Bellvue, was born in Auglaize 
 County, Ohio, near the village of New Bremen, 
 July 19, 1853, being a son of Henry and Annie 
 (Simer) Koeper, natives of Germany, but from 
 early life residents of Ohio. Of their six children 
 all but one are still living, our subject being the 
 oldest of the number and the only one in Colo- 
 rado. He was reared on a farm and at an early 
 age bought a farm of seventy acres, to which he 
 added until he had one hundred and fourteen 
 acres devoted to general farming. 
 
 In the fall of 189a Mr. Koeper came to Colo- 
 rado, having made arrangements to settle in 
 Larimer County. The next year he brought his 
 family here and settled on two hundred and forty 
 acres six miles south of Fort Collins. During 
 the same year he bought his present farm of two 
 hundred and twenty acres, and for a year farmed 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD, 
 
 both places, after which he gave his attention 
 solely to the cultivation of this property. He 
 has improved the land by the erection of a neat 
 residence and two barns and windmill. For the 
 shelter of his sheep he has a shed about four 
 hundred feet long. He has sown his land to 
 alfalfa, which he uses for feeding his sheep. He 
 also deals in horses and cattle, owning a number 
 of Percherons, Shorthorns and Jerseys. For the 
 convenience of shipment he has a siding from the 
 Gulf Railroad on his place. In coming to this 
 state, it was his intention to engage in the sheep- 
 feeding business, and he has made no mistake in 
 his choice of occupation, for he has been very 
 successful. He is a member of the Larimer 
 County Sheep Feeders' Association. 
 
 While living in Ohio, Mr. Koeper married 
 Alvina Corlina Schroeder, a native of that state, 
 and a daughter of Richard and Corlina (Leets) 
 Schroeder, of New Bremen. Mr. Schroeder had 
 four children : Julius, who is in Ohio, and the son 
 of his first wife, Sophie (Breggemann) Koeper, 
 deceased; Alice, Herbert and Dewey, children of 
 his second marriage. Since 1894 Mr. Koeper 
 has been a member of the board of school direc- 
 tors of district No. 50, and is now its president. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen 
 of the World and the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. In religious belief he is a Lutheran. 
 
 (TOHN A. WASSON, a successful merchant 
 I of Golden and member of the board of alder- 
 (2) men, was born in Page County, Iowa, in 
 1 862 , the son of George and Harriet (Munsho wer ) 
 Wasson, natives respectively of Schenectady, 
 N. Y. , and Pennsylvania. His grandfather, 
 Thomas Wasson, who was the son of a Revolu- 
 tionary soldier, was born in New York, of Scotch 
 descent, and in an early day removed to Iowa, 
 where he afterward engaged in farming. Three 
 of his sons served in the Second Iowa Cavalry 
 during the Civil war, remaining at the front for 
 three years. 
 
 When a young man George Wasson went to 
 Page County, Iowa. After the close of the war, 
 in which he served for three years, he located in 
 Peoria, 111., and there, after a long and honorable 
 connection with the city street railway company, 
 he is living in retirement. He is a member of 
 the Grand Army in that city. His wife, who was 
 
 a daughter of John Munshower, a farmer of 
 Pennsylvania, died in Kansas, where the family 
 resided from 1876 to 1886, but after her death her 
 husband returned to Peoria. They were the 
 parents of two children: John A., and Maggie, 
 wife of Soren Sorensen, who is a partner of Mr. 
 Wasson. 
 
 From infancy until fourteen years of age, the 
 subject of this sketch made his home in Peoria, 
 and afterward he resided upon a farm at Alta- 
 Vista, Wabaunsee County, Kan. His father, Mr. 
 Sorensen and himself owned farms in the same 
 neighborhood, and he engaged in the cultivation 
 of his tract of one hundred and sixty acres until 
 1887, since which time he has rented it. Coming 
 to Colorado in 1887, he located in the San Luis 
 Valley, then in the midst of its boom, and there 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising, also 
 assisted in opening the Loveland and Henry 
 ditch. In 1889 he came to Golden and in part- 
 nership with his brother-in-law opened a grocery 
 on Washington avenue, three doors from his 
 present location. In 1898 the firm erected anew 
 building, fitted up for their business, and here 
 they have since carried on a large trade in 
 groceries and produce. 
 
 In Golden Mr. Wasson married Eleanor M. 
 Behr, who was born in Blackhawk, Colo., the 
 daughter of Adolph Behr, a pioneer of Golden, for 
 some years a miner in Gilpin County, but now a 
 resident of Golden. Politically Mr. Wasson is a 
 silver Republican. On this ticket, in 1897, he 
 was elected to represent the first ward upon the 
 board of aldermen and has since been chairman 
 of the committee on streets and a member of other 
 committees. He has represented the Knights of 
 Pythias of Golden in the Grand Lodge three 
 times and is a past ofiicer of the lodge, also re- 
 corder of the Uniform Rank. 
 
 ^EORGE A. SNOW, a prominent merchant 
 |_ of Byers, Arapahoe County, was born in 
 Vj Currytown, Montgomery County, N. Y. , 
 May 16, 1848, and is a son of Dr. Simeon and 
 Margaret (Dievendorff ) Snow, natives of Massa- 
 chusetts and New York respectively. His father 
 removed to New York in early life and settled at 
 Yatesville, but later removed to Currytown, 
 where he spent the remainder of his life engaged 
 in professional work. He was prominent in the 
 
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 1245 
 
 Democratic party and took an active part in local 
 aifairs. For some time he served as county com- 
 missioner of Montgomery County, and also served 
 in the state senate of New York. He died about 
 1865. The Snow family was founded in America 
 by two brothers, who came from England and 
 settled in Massachusetts. His father-in-law, 
 Jacob Dievendorff, of Holland descent, was scalped 
 by the Indians in boyhood during the Revolu- 
 tion, but lived and in time became a well-to-do 
 farmer. 
 
 The family of Dr. Simeon Snow consisted of 
 five sons and two daughters. Jacob D., the old- 
 est son, resides near the old homestead in New 
 York. Norman Leslie, now deceased, was sur- 
 geon of the One Hundred and Fifty-third New 
 York Regiment during the Civil war. Hora- 
 tio N. is an ofiicer in the Mechanics and Farm- 
 ers' National Bank, of Albany, N. Y. Charles S. 
 resides on the old homestead, which he assists jn 
 cultivating. Elizabeth is the wife of Seth Ram- 
 sey, of Argusville, N. Y. ;and Margaret E. mar- 
 ried Dr. A. Van Der Veer, of Albany, N. Y., a 
 specialist in surgery. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the graded schools of Fairfield, N. Y. He en- 
 gaged in the lumber business from 1866 to 1879 
 at Alban)', N. Y., and in the latter year came to 
 Colorado, settling in Arapahoe County and start- 
 ing a sheep ranch eight miles south of Byers, 
 which he conducted for several years, when he 
 removed his flock to Trego County, Kan., re- 
 maining only one year, when he returned to 
 Albany, N. Y. There he again engaged in the 
 lumber business till 1887, when, on account of 
 health, he returned to Colorado and engaged again 
 in the stock business. He bought an interest in 
 a store at Byers about 1890, and one year later 
 bought out his partners. He has since handled 
 general merchandise, hay, grain and farm ma- 
 chinery. 
 
 In Currytown, N. Y., Mr. Snow married Miss 
 Maria Frances Diefendorff, who was born in the 
 same place as himself. They have one son and 
 one daughter, Anson Leslie and Eva Frances. 
 In politics Mr. Snow is a Democrat. Under the 
 administration of President McKinley he was ap- 
 pointed postmaster, which oflBce he still fills. His 
 wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church, to 
 which he contributes. During his residence in 
 Albany he was for twelve years a member of the 
 
 National Guard. Mr. Snow has been successful 
 in business enterprises, and his life is an example 
 to a younger generation. 
 
 CJiDEON L. BURTON, a well known mer- 
 l_ chant of Deer Trail, Arapahoe County, is 
 Vj also the owner of a store situated one-half 
 mile from his store, and, besides superintending 
 the management of his mercantile interests, he 
 also engages in raising sheep, horses and cattle. 
 He was born in Stokes County, N. C, in 1850, 
 and is a descendant of a race of seafaring Eng- 
 lishmen, who settled in Virginia in an early day. 
 His grandfather, Samuel Burton, who was a 
 sailor, served as a soldier in the Revolution. 
 
 The father of our subject, David Burton, was 
 born in Charlottesville, Va. , and enlisted in the 
 Henry County volunteers during the war of 1812, 
 serving until he was discharged February 27, 
 18 1 5, at Richmond, Va. Three years later he 
 married Winifred Lawson and moved to North 
 Carolina, where he spent his remaining years 
 upon a farm. He was one of the commissioners 
 appointed to divide Stokes County. Politically 
 he was first a Henry Clay Whig and during the 
 Civil war a Democrat, though he did all within 
 his power to prevent war. He was a deacon in 
 the primitive Baptist Church, with which he was 
 identified for more than forty years. He died 
 May 8, 1872. 
 
 Our subject's mother, Winifred (Lawson) 
 Burton, was a native of North Carolina, her par- 
 ents having settled with the French colony in 
 that state shortly before 1 8 1 2 . They were French , 
 and were driven from their native land on account 
 of their religious views, being members of the 
 Baptist Church. Some of the exiles who came 
 with them to America settled near New Orleans. 
 Mr. Lawson was a traveling Baptist minister, and 
 preached in many parts of the south. She was 
 born in 1815 and is still living in Stokes County, 
 N. C. Besides our subject she has two living 
 children: James S., a farmer in North Carolina; 
 and Melissa, wife of W. P. Sans, living in the 
 same county with her mother. 
 
 The early years in the life of our subject were 
 spent in Stokes County, where he attended the 
 public schools and the Danbury Institute. At 
 the age of twenty-one he was appointed deputy 
 sheriflf and a few months later was made cou- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 stable. He held the latter office for two years 
 and was then re-elected, but resigned in order to 
 accept the position of deputy sheriff and jailer. 
 In that capacity he served for four years, when 
 the sheriff failed, and he was appointed to serve 
 out the unexpired term of one year. At the ex- 
 piration of that time he was elected treasurer of 
 the county and served a full term of two years. 
 Soon afterward, in 1884, on account of poor 
 health, he came to Arapahoe County, and home- 
 steaded his present ranch at Deer Trail. Four 
 years after coming here he purchased the store 
 which he has since, with the assistance of a clerk, 
 conducted successfully. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Burton married Miss Ruth E. 
 Lackey. She was born in Stokes County, N. C, 
 and her father, Samuel J. Lackey, was a miller 
 and farmer, as well as a primitive Baptist 
 preacher. To Mr. and Mrs. Burton were born 
 four children who are now living, namely: 
 Robert W. , Samuel D., George E. and Laura 
 Ethel, all at home. Mr. Burton has been a life- 
 long Democrat and was elected justice of the 
 peace a few months after settling in Arapahoe 
 County. In 1895 he was appointed postmaster, 
 and is still filling that position, to the satisfaction 
 of all. In religion he is identified with the prim- 
 itive Baptist Church. 
 
 (Tames O. PHILLIPS is a well-known and 
 I successful farmer and stock-raiser, located 
 (2) on section 32, township 10 south, range 63 
 west, and has been pursuing that independent 
 calling in this vicinity since the year 1870, when 
 he took up a claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres; he now owns sixteen hundred and forty 
 acres in all, part of which is in and around the 
 town of Colorado Springs and the rest near Pueblo. 
 He was born in Saco, Me., February 20, 1840, 
 and is a son of Oliver and Eliza (Moulton) 
 Phillips. 
 
 Oliver Phillips was also born in Maine in 1807 
 and was of sturdy Irish origin. He followed 
 farming the major part of his active days. In 
 politics he was a stanch Democrat. He married 
 Eliza Moulton, who was born in Maine in 1805, 
 and they reared four sous, namely: Daniel, Will- 
 iam Wallace, James O. (our subject) and Ivory. 
 Daniel enlisted in Company H, Twelfth Maine 
 Volunteer Infantry, as first lieutenant, but was 
 
 soon promoted to captain; he participated in many 
 engagements and was killed in General Sheridan's 
 famous battle. William Wallace served about 
 six months as a private. Ivory was also in the 
 Civil war, and was a private in the Twenty-fifth 
 Maine Regiment. He is now a resident of New 
 Milford, Conn., but owns a large tract of land in 
 this state; he came to Colorado in 1869, where he 
 resided many years, during which time he was 
 engaged in raising sheep and was one of the 
 largest sheep-raisers in the state. 
 
 James O. Phillips was reared on his father's 
 farm and spent five terms in the academy at 
 Gorham, Me.; he then taught school one term, 
 and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted in 
 Company G, Forty-seventh Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, serving about two years on guard 
 duty. After peace had been restored he returned 
 to his home in Maine and in 1865, in company 
 with six of his schoolmates, he started for Colo- 
 rado. They went by rail as far as Nevada, Iowa, 
 and from there, having bought three teams, they 
 drove across the plains, arriving in Denver on 
 April I of that year. The first two years in that 
 state were spent in Central City, engaged in 
 mining; in 1866 he returned to his native state, 
 where he remained until 1870, when he again 
 went to Colorado, and in partnership with his 
 brother he engaged in rai'sing sheep. It was 
 not his intention to make Colorado his home 
 when he left for that country, but as he met with 
 such great success in the sheep business, he 
 changed his mind and in 1870 took up a tract of 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land; in the fol- 
 lowing year he bought another one hundred and 
 sixty acres. He has added to his first purchase 
 from time to time, until now he is the proprietor 
 of sixteen hundred and forty acres. He owns 
 valuable real estate in Pueblo, Colorado Springs 
 and in El Paso County. His principal occupation 
 is cattle- raising and breeding horses, but he car- 
 ries on general farming to a large extent; he is 
 highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens and does 
 all in his power to promote the welfare of his 
 adopted county. 
 
 Ill 1866, when Mr. Phillips returned from Colo- 
 rado to his native state, he married, December 
 16 of that year, Emma J. Harmon, of Boxton, 
 Me. , and their home has been blessed by the birth 
 of six children, as follows: Frank; Clarence; 
 Stella, a graduate from the Colorado State Nor- 
 
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 1247 
 
 mal and now engaged in teaching school; Edith, 
 the wife of Frank Capell and they live on a ranch 
 near our subject; Anna; and James Harmon, born 
 August 6, 1 88 1. Our subject has been a life-long 
 Democrat, as was his father; his father was a 
 Douglas man, and he wrote and delivered a 
 speech for him. Our subject has served as county 
 commissioner seven years; ten years as postmaster 
 of Bijou Basin; and as justice of the peace for 
 many years. Fraternally he became a member 
 of the Masonic order at Gorham, Me. 
 
 IT DWIN VOLNEY BEDFORD is numbered 
 1^ among the enterprising young business men 
 Li of Boulder. About five years ago he first 
 embarked in trade in this place and from that 
 time to the present his patronage has steadily 
 increased and the circle of his friends widened 
 in the same proportion. He is genial, well 
 educated and popular with all who have the 
 pleasure of his acquaintance. Fraternally he 
 belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is the 
 recorder of the Boulder lodge of the Uniform 
 Rank of that order and is vice-chief of the local 
 lodge of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. 
 
 The history of the Bedford family in England 
 appears in the various volumes of heraldry, not- 
 ably Burke's "Peerage," the Duke of Bedford 
 being among the peers of the realm. The records 
 show that the first of the name to emigrate from 
 England to America was William Bedford, who 
 crossed the Atlantic in the "James" in 1621, set- 
 tling in Virginia at a very early period in the 
 history of the colony. His name appears in the 
 "Muster of the Inhabitants of the Neck-of-L,and 
 neare James Citty, taken February the 4th, 
 1624." The parish register states that his son, 
 Richard Bedford, died in July, 1679, and was 
 buried on the 23d of that month. The descend- 
 ants of the latter became scattered through vari- 
 ous parts of the Old Dominion, and were mainlj' 
 planters b}' occupation. A collateral represent- 
 ative of the same family was Gunning Bedford, a 
 friend of Benjamin Franklin, and deceased in 
 181 2. His monument in the churchyard in 
 Market street, Wilmington, Del., bears on one 
 side the family arms, an escutcheon charged with 
 three lion's gambs couped and erect within a 
 bordure. For crest: A lion's gamb couped and 
 erect. 
 
 Littleberry Bedford, great-grandfather of E. V. 
 Bedford, was born in Virginia, but removed from 
 there to Kentucky in an early day. His son, 
 A. v., the next in line of descent, was born and 
 reared in Kentucky, and, following his father's 
 example in the choice of an occupation, he be- 
 came a practical farmer. For a few years he en- 
 gaged in fanning near the old homestead, and 
 then removed to the neighborhood of Paris, Bour- 
 bon County, Ky. His .son, James G., father of 
 our subject, was born near Paris, Ky. , and was 
 one often children. Going to Missouri, he turned 
 his attention to the cultivation of a homestead 
 which he purchased near Paris, Monroe County. 
 In 1879 he came to Colorado, and invested in 
 mining enterprises, in several of which he met 
 with gratifying returns. Later he resided in 
 Breckenridge, and there was likewise engaged in 
 mining. Ill health at last overtook him and his 
 death occurred in the Denver hospital in 1886. 
 During the Civil war he enlisted from Paris, Ky., 
 and was made captain of a company in the First 
 Kentucky Regiment of Mounted Rifles, and 
 served valiantly throughout the strife, on behalf 
 of the cause in which he believed. Two of his 
 brothers, J. D. and B. Bedford, were members of 
 the same regiment. The wife of James G. Bed- 
 ford, who died in Georgetown, Colo., in i88r, 
 while on a visit, bore the maiden name of Nannie 
 HoUiday. She was born in Monroe County, Mo. , 
 being the daughter of T. H. Holliday, a pioneer 
 of that section of the state. He was a native 
 of Kentucky, and after settling in Missouri, 
 became an extensive dealer in cattle and mules, 
 and was a man of wealth and prominence in his 
 community. The Hollidays (or Hollydays, as 
 some branches of the family spelled the name in 
 early days) were early settlers of Virginia. The 
 muster of inhabitants of St. Michael's, taken in 
 1680, states that among the residents of the town 
 were William Holliday, his wife and four chil- 
 dren and a servant. 
 
 Edwin V. Bedford is in the prime of early man- 
 hood, as he was born but little over thirty years 
 ago, March 26, 1867. His early years were 
 passed quietly and without incident on the paren- 
 tal homestead in Monroe County, Mo. Of his 
 brothers and sisters five lived to maturity and all 
 but one of the number survive at this writing. 
 He is the eldest of the family. In the fall of 1879 
 he left home and went to Colorado Springs, in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 order that he might enjoy better educational 
 privileges than he had had hitherto, and it was 
 not until 1881 that he returned to Missouri, his 
 native state. He continued his studies in HoUi- 
 day, Monroe County, for a period, and resided in 
 that town up to 1887. Then, going to Humans- 
 ville, Polk County, Mo., he entered into partner- 
 ship with his brother, T. H. , under the firm name 
 of Bedford Brothers, in the retail meat market 
 business. They were thus associated for about 
 two years, at the expiration of which time our 
 subject sold out his interest. Then, in company 
 with H. B. Anderson, he started into the business 
 of feeding and dealing in cattle, and was very 
 successful in this undertaking. He came to 
 Boulder in 1893 and with his partner bought the 
 market with which he has since been connected. 
 It is located at No. 1122 Pearl street, and until 
 the death of Mr. Anderson, in 1894, was run 
 under the style of Anderson & Bedford. Mr. 
 Bedford purchased the whole business at that 
 time and has since conducted it alone, on a strictly 
 cash basis. The success which he has achieved 
 is the result of his earnest desire to meet the 
 wishes of his customers. Politically he sides 
 with the Democracy. 
 
 Q ENJAMIN H. TALBOTT, of Elbert County, 
 r^ owns and occupies a farm on section 13, 
 LIJ township 8, range 64 west, six miles east of 
 the village of Elizabeth. He was born in Put- 
 nam County, Ind., August 2, 1859, a son of 
 James and Paulina (Dicks) Talbott, and was six 
 years of age when his parents moved to Paoli, 
 Kan., but after two years, during which time his 
 father had engaged in the mercantile business, the 
 store was traded for a farm in Linn County, and 
 the family settled upon that place. 
 
 From an early age Mr. Talbott was helpful, 
 assisting in the cultivation of the home farm and 
 taking charge of the family while he was still 
 young. During his residence in Linn County, 
 March 5, 1887, he married Miss Nellie Keran, a 
 native of that county, and a daughter of John and 
 Elvira (Stites) Keran. One son was born of 
 their union June 27, 1889. In 1890 Mr. Talbott 
 came to Colorado and homesteaded his present 
 property, where he has since conducted agricult- 
 ural pursuits and carried on a small dairy. 
 
 While Mr. Talbott and his wife had only such 
 
 advantages in childhood as the common schools 
 afforded, they are well informed and intelligent, 
 and rank among the best people of their county. 
 He takes an interest in public affairs, and in po- 
 litical views is a stanch advocate of Republican 
 principles. His first presidential vote was cast 
 in 1880 for James Garfield. His interest in poli- 
 tics is that of a private citizen merely, as he has 
 never sought office nor cared for political dis- 
 tinction. 
 
 ■gPEELEY W. WHITFORD, of Denver. 
 __ United States attorney for the district of 
 J Colorado, was born in Rockville, Parke 
 County, Ind., June 5, 1856, and is a son of Prof. 
 John W. and Jane (Harlan) Whitford. His 
 father, who was born in New York, in childhood 
 went to Indiana with his father. Dr. Welcome 
 Whitford, and grew to manhood upon a farm, re- 
 ceiving his education in Asbury University and 
 graduating from that school in the class of which 
 Senator Voorhees was a member. On complet- 
 ing his studies he began to teach, which occu- 
 pation he followed for a number of years. He 
 was principal of the Rockville schools and served 
 for two terms as county superintendent of schools 
 of Parke County. His marriage was solemnized 
 at the Harlan homestead by Bishop Simpson, 
 who was president of Asbury University at 
 that time. Five children were born of the union 
 and four of these are still living. Mary H. mar- 
 ried H. W. Leedham and lives in Denver; 
 James C. is engaged in business at Mount Pleas- 
 ant, Iowa; and Clay B. is an attorney in Denver. 
 Mr. Whitford was a Whig in early life and later 
 affiliated with the Republicans. In religious be- 
 lief he was identified with the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. In January, 1859, when his son, 
 our subject, was less than three years of age, he 
 died from the result of an accidental injury. He 
 was a man of great mental vigor and, had his life 
 been spared, would undoubtedly have attained 
 success. Being of an inventive turn of mind, he 
 devoted himself to originating improvements, 
 especially in printing. It was his theory that a 
 combination of type could be secured that would 
 not make it necessary to pick up each type by it- 
 self; to make his ideas practical he spent consider- 
 able time and money, but at the time of his death 
 he had not yet met with success, and the family 
 was therefore left without means. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1249 
 
 On account of his father's death our subject 
 was forced to make his own way in the world 
 from an early age. He was taken into the home 
 of John T. Brown, who had married the 
 sister of his mother, and there he remained 
 until fifteen years of age, meantime attending 
 school in the winter and working on the farm in 
 the summer. It was the understanding that he 
 was to receive $25 the first year, $35 the second, 
 $45 the third, and so on until he was eighteen, 
 and Mr. Brown was to pay interest on it until 
 that time. When our subject's father knew he 
 could not recover he had requested that Senator 
 Harlan, his brother-in-law, maintain an over- 
 sight of the children and see that they were 
 given educations. The senator wrote to Mrs. 
 Whitford, when our subject was about fifteen, 
 that if she could get the children together again, 
 she might have the use of his farm near Mount 
 Pleasant, Iowa. Mrs. Whitford at once went 
 from Kansas to Iowa, where she was joined bj' 
 the children. Her son. Clay B., entered the col- 
 lege at Mount Pleasant and Greeley W. became 
 a pupil in the public school, while the oldest son, 
 James C, thinking he was too old to start into 
 school, said he would manage the farm and 
 support the family. This he did. 
 
 After a short experience in school life, our 
 subject began to learn the printer's trade, in the 
 office of the Mount Pleasant Journal. He re- 
 mained there about eighteen months, when, feel- 
 ing the necessity of a better education, he entered 
 the preparatory department of Iowa Wesleyan 
 University at Mount Pleasant. Through his 
 work in the printing office and the insane asylum, 
 also by teaching school, he earned money for his 
 education. His mother's health failed to such an 
 extent that it was thought best to break up house- 
 keeping, and she went to make her home with a 
 daughter in Kansas. 
 
 In the office of his older brother, who was an 
 attorney, our subject read law until 1882, when 
 he was admitted to the bar: He was without 
 books and in debt, so made application to 
 Frank Hatton, then assistant postmaster-general, 
 through whose influence, and that of Senator 
 Harlan, he was appointed a railway postal clerk 
 in North Dakota. He remained in the service 
 eighteen months, meantime receiving promotion. 
 By this means he paid his debts and purchased 
 law books. From Dakota he went to Washing- 
 
 ton Territory, and located at Whatcom, on Puget 
 Sound, where he began in practice, remaining 
 there until 1887. Before going he had applied 
 to Mr. Hatton to appoint him postmaster, as he 
 was not sure the law would make him a living. 
 Senator Harlan advised him not to take the 
 position, but he did, and found himself in the 
 midst of a political struggle, for he was a stranger 
 in the place and his appointment to the place 
 had made him many enemies. However, he 
 held the position until Cleveland became presi- 
 dent. In 1883 he came to Denver, joining his 
 brother, who had settled here in 1883. After 
 they had been in partnership eighteen months he 
 was appointed deputy city attorney bj' Mr. 
 Shafroth. He became junior member of the law 
 firm of Rogers, Shafroth & Whitford, and when 
 Mr. Rogers was elected mayor, Mr. Whitford 
 formed a partnership with F. A. Williams. In 
 1891 he was again appointed deputy city attorney. 
 In 1894 he was elected attorney for the second 
 judicial district, which embraces Denver, but that 
 position he resigned April 30, 1897, i" order to 
 accept his present office. He cast his first ballot 
 for President Garfield and has served as delegate 
 to many of the Republican conventions; in 1896 
 he stumped the state of Colorado and while in 
 Washington he also did considerable political 
 work. 
 
 At Mount Pleasant, Iowa, June 4, 1890, Mr. 
 Whitford married Miss Ida Spaulding, daughter 
 of Rev. W. J. Spaulding, D. D., and Martha 
 (Berry) Spaulding. They have three children: 
 Kent Kelton, who was born in Mount Pleasant; 
 Ruth Edna and Jane, born in Denver. In the 
 Knights of Pythias Mr. Whitford has filled all the 
 chairs. He is a member of Union Lodge No. 7, 
 A. F. & A. M., and Denver Chapter, R. A. M. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM T. LAMBERT, general manager 
 
 \ A / of the Lambert Orchard Company, and 
 YY proprietor of one of the finest ranches in 
 the state, was born in Portland, Me., September 
 18, 1850, and is a son of Joseph and Cynthia 
 (Meader) Lambert. In 1858 the family moved 
 to Muscatine County, Iowa, where his father, 
 who had been a contractor in Maine, became a 
 farmer. From Iowa, in 1865, in a wagon drawn 
 by an ox-team, they came to Denver, where the 
 father first engaged in contracting and building. 
 
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 and then for five years served as jailer of Arapa- 
 hoe County. Previous to this he had served as 
 street commissioner and city jailer. In politics 
 he always adhered to the .Republican party. 
 After his marriage to a Quakeress he became a 
 member of that society. He was a sir knight in 
 Masonry and held various official positions. He 
 passed away February 27, 1887, and his remains 
 lie in Riverside Cemetery. 
 
 The only child of his parents, our subject early 
 began to assist his father, learning to lay brick 
 and do other manual work. From sixteen until 
 twenty- one he was employed as a bricklayer, and 
 then engaged in the wholesale produce business 
 on a small scale. He prospered until the panic 
 of 1873, when, after paying one hundred cents on 
 every dollar of indebtedness, he closed out the 
 business. With his father he bought a ranch of 
 one hundred and sixty acres two miles west of 
 Sedalia, Douglas County, Colo., where he at 
 once began farming and stock-raising. While 
 working as a brick-layer he gained a knowledge 
 of civil engineering, a taste for which he in- 
 herited from his grandfather. In 1882 he was 
 elected surveyor of Douglas County, and twice 
 was re-elected, but resigned before the last term 
 was out. 
 
 From time to time Mr. Lambert added to his 
 ranch, until he now has nearly two thousand 
 acres, all well stocked. At another place he has 
 four thousand acres. He has planted many fruit 
 trees on his ranch, having now twenty thousand 
 cherry, plum and apple trees, and four hundred 
 thousand trees in the nursery. Over two hun- 
 dred acres are irrigated by one windmill under 
 the Lambert sub-irrigation system. In the study 
 of irrigation Mr. Lambert spent several months 
 in California, examining the various systems in 
 use there, and after much thought and study he 
 evolved a system for which he has applied for a 
 patent. This will, without doubt, enable the 
 people to irrigate the hills, and will thus be of 
 great financial benefit, not only to Colorado, but 
 also to the entire desert country, as it will be 
 cheaper than irrigation by ditches, even on the 
 plains where ditches can be maintained. 
 
 January 11, 1874, Mr. Lambert married Rachel 
 Parman, of Fort Worth, Tex., who was born in 
 Missouri, a daughter of Giles Parman. They 
 are the parents of four living children and lost 
 one in infancy. The eldest, J. F., who is now 
 
 eighteen years of age, is president of the Lam- 
 bert Orchard Company, which was organized by 
 his father in 1896, originally with ten thousand 
 shares, but now having fifty thousand of $1 each. 
 It is exclusively a family company, and no one 
 outside of the family is allowed to hold stock. 
 The second son, W.T. Lambert, Jr. , is secretary of 
 the company, Bessie is assistant secretary, and 
 Webster, a nine-year-old boy, is assi.stant man- 
 ager. Mrs. Lambert is treasurer. Mr. Lam- 
 bert's idea in this is to make his children familiar 
 with business matters and give them, by prac- 
 tical experience in youth, the knowledge that 
 will be so valuable to them in after years. The 
 family spend the winters in Denver and the sum- 
 mers on their ranch. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Lambert cast his first presidential 
 vote for General Grant, and he has since been a 
 stanch Republican. He served for three terms 
 as county surveyor and one term as county as- 
 sessor under the territorial jurisdiction, later 
 under the state board. He introduced the 
 first system of land book entry for the as- 
 sessor, and through this means between five hun- 
 dred and a thousand little errors were detected, 
 which were afterward corrected. In 1882 he 
 joined Denver Lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., and 
 soon afterward became identified with Denver 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., still later becoming a 
 member of Colorado Comlnandery No. i, K. T. , 
 and finally joining Denver Council No. i. Royal 
 and Select Masters, and El Jebel Temple, 
 N. M. S. 
 
 |~RANK L. PECK, clerk of the district court 
 JM of Clear Creek County, is also the owner of 
 I ' the Gold Dirt group and the Atlantic mines; 
 the former, which consists of a group of four 
 mines, is the best in the Clear Creek County. 
 Our subject was born in Oswego, N. Y., the date 
 of his birth being December 6, 1843, and is a son 
 of James and Mary (Parsons) Peck, and grand- 
 son of John Peck, a farmer, who descended from 
 an old New England family. 
 
 Joseph Peck was born and reared at Ogdens- 
 burg, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. , and although 
 educated to agricultural pursuits, early in life he 
 began to clerk in the flour store of Fitzhugh & Lit- 
 tlejohn; in 1843 he migrated west and located 
 in the city of Chicago, where he engaged in the 
 grain business, first becoming agent for an Oswego 
 
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 line and later had charge of a grain elevator. 
 This he conducted until the panic of 1859, in 
 which year he gave up that line of business. In 
 the following year he journeyed across the plains 
 to Colorado, and locating at Nevadaville, better 
 known as Whitcomb, he purchased the Whit- 
 comb quartz mill, which he operated one year. 
 In 1861 he became interested in the Van Dearn 
 mill at Trail Creek, now known as Freeland, and 
 operated the same until 1862, when he moved to 
 Empire. There he founded the Peck Company, 
 of which our subject later became the owner. 
 Mr. Peck died in 1880, at the age of seventy-nine 
 years. He was twice united in marriage; by his 
 first wife he reared one daughter, Mary, the wife 
 of Charles Brown, of Chicago, 111. His second 
 wife was Mary Parsons, a native of Connecticut, 
 and a daughter of Maj. Joseph Parsons, who was 
 of Revolutionary fame, and a native of Enfield, 
 Conn., where he was engaged in merchandising. 
 Four children blessed this union, three of whom 
 are still living, namely: Frank L,., the subject 
 of this personal history; James, Jr. ; and Harry 
 Bristol, the latter two being located in Routt 
 County, this state. 
 
 Frank L. Peck was reared in Chicago, 111. , and 
 received his education in the public schools of 
 that city and then attended Dr. Reed's Walnut 
 Hill Preparatory school at Geneva, N. Y. ; return- 
 ing to Chicago, he entered and graduated from 
 Sloan's Business College. In 1861, in compatiy 
 with his father, he went to St. Joe, Mo., from 
 which place he took the stage and crossed the 
 plains to the state of Colorado. He first located 
 on Trail Creek, where he engaged in milling and 
 mining, and in 1862 he came to Empire, then the 
 best mining camp in the state, and in the follow- 
 ing year he took charge of a merchandise store 
 for his father; remaining in that capacity until 
 1867, he then moved to Georgetown, where he 
 accepted a like position with Charles B. Patter- 
 son; later the business was known as Peck & 
 Patterson, under which name the business was 
 conducted until 1868, when our subject sold his 
 interests and returned to Empire. 
 
 Afterward Mr. Peck engaged in a stock com- 
 pany at Deer Creek in the southeastern part of 
 Jefferson County, in which company he remained 
 until 1 87 1, when he began railroading. He ac- 
 cepted a position as agent at Golden, on the 
 Colorado Central Railroad, and when the track 
 57 
 
 was extended to Blackhawk he became agent at 
 that town, remaining there until June, 1872; in 
 that year Mr. Peck returned to Empire and with 
 his father embarked in the hotel business, the 
 establishment being known as the Peck House. 
 In January, 1873, he returned to the employ of 
 the Colorado Central Railroad, upon the earnest 
 solicitation of General Sickler, and was located at 
 Floyd Hill, where he had charge of the com- 
 pany's interests, including money and all. In 
 1875, when the Denver- Western forcibly took 
 possession of the road, he was the only agent to 
 retain his position with the new company. In 
 1877 the railroad was completed to Idaho Springs, 
 where our subject was agent until August of that 
 year, when he became financial agent at George- 
 town. Upon the death of his father, our subject 
 in 1880 resigned his position and came to Em- 
 pire, where he took charge of his father's interests 
 in the Gold Dirt property and the Atlantic mines, 
 and has operated the same up to the present 
 time. In 1886 he went to Denver, where he was 
 engaged in the mining business until 1889, when 
 he returned to Empire and started the Peck 
 House, which was the principal hotel in the 
 town. 
 
 Politically Mr. Peck has always been an un- 
 swerving supporter of the principles of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and has served as mayor of Empire 
 several terms, in the town council a number of 
 years, as a member of the school board, and as 
 county clerk and recorder. In 1879 he was a 
 candidate for county clerk and recorder, but was 
 defeated by a scanty six votes; in 1881 he was 
 again a candidate for the same office and was 
 elected by a majority of about one hundred votes; 
 was re-elected in 1883; and in 1885 he was again 
 a candidate for that oflBce, but as he was sum- 
 moned to the death bed of his daughter at Den-, 
 ver on the morning of election day, he was unable 
 to be at the polls and the result was he was de- 
 feated by seventy-eight votes. In 1868 he was a 
 candidate for county treasurer of Clear Creek, 
 but was defeated by his opponent, J. W. Dripps, 
 as that was the year of Republican triumph all 
 over the United States. 
 
 Mr. Peck was married at Golden to Miss Mal- 
 vina V. Mclntire, who was born in Montgomery 
 County, Ky., and this union resulted in the birth 
 of five sons and one daughter, namely: Charles 
 P., who is under sheriff and deputy clerk of the 
 
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 district court of this county; Grace, who died 
 aged fourteen years; Howard Gorman; Mabel 
 Olmstead; and Frankie Elliott. Fraternally our 
 subject was a member of Idaho Springs L,odge 
 No. 26, A. F. & A. M., but was demitted and 
 became a charter member of the Georgetown 
 Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M.; he is also a mem- 
 ber of the I. O. R. M. of Empire. He is popular 
 in both business and social circles, is public- 
 spirited, and performs all the obligations of a 
 patriotic citizen. 
 
 EHARLES ATMORE, whose home is in 
 Brighton, was born in the parish of old 
 Buckingham, county of Norfolk, England, 
 March 26, 1828. His parents, Matthew and 
 Maria (Pond) Atmore, were born in 1797 and 
 1800 respectively, the former being the son of a 
 wealthy farmer, while the latter was the daugh- 
 ter of poorer, but equally honorable, parents. On 
 account of the difference in their social positions, 
 objection to the marriage was made on the part of 
 the Atmore family, but John Atmore, the father 
 of Matthew, overruled the objections, believing 
 that poverty was not a bar to the marriage, as 
 the Pond family were respected and well edu- 
 cated. The young couple were married in 1823, 
 and there still may be seen a solid silver spoon, 
 bearing the date of the event, as well as other 
 souvenirs. 
 
 Of the Atmore family two are known to be in 
 Africa, one of whom, a cousin of our subject, 
 was at one time mayor of Cape Town. Another, 
 Robert Atmore, located in Philadelphia and there 
 establi.shed the business of making English plum 
 pudding, canned and mince meat. His descend- 
 ants are still living in Philadelphia. Another 
 member of the family is prominent in Kentucky. 
 
 When our subject was six years of age he be- 
 gan to study under a governess employed by the 
 family and continued in that manner until ten, 
 when he was sent to a private school. To this 
 school he and his brother, with their three sisters, 
 rode back and forth each day in a covered cart, 
 and sometimes they were accompanied by the 
 children of neighbors. It was one and one-half 
 miles from the farm to the town of lyOdden, where 
 the boys attended a boys' school and the girls a 
 school for girls. There our subject was taught 
 reading, writing, arithmetic, geography and 
 grammar, but on account of the harshness of the 
 
 teacher he left the school. He was next sent to a 
 boarding school in the city of Norwich in Golden 
 Dog Lane, where he studied under an excellent 
 teacher, one who knew how to manage boys and 
 how to instruct them. During the two years 
 spent there he finished the common branches 
 and also studied Latin, but he did not enjoy that 
 language, although his father was an excellent 
 Latin scholar and loved the classics. Only once 
 was he threatened with a whipping in this school, 
 a mode of punishment frequently resorted to in 
 his first school. On that occasion he was to be 
 punished for something he felt himself not to 
 blame for. He refused to take the punishment and 
 was for that reason assigned to do extra study in 
 the room of a professor of astronomy, and during 
 the two weeks he remained there he gained a 
 knowledge of many things unknown to him be- 
 fore. He was permitted to read Robinson Crusoe 
 and books of a similar character while he was in 
 school, though other boys were not allowed such 
 privilege. 
 
 The father of our subject was a local preacher 
 in the Methodist Church. He lost his property 
 by giving it to that denomination, and believing 
 he could do better in America, he crossed the 
 ocean, accompanied by his family, in 1844, on the 
 "Mediator," a sailing-vessel. Captain Chadwick, 
 that started on the voya§;e March 1 7 and landed 
 in New York after twenty -three days on the ocean. 
 The mother being very ill was taken to a hos- 
 pital and the father remained with her, while all 
 the children except the youngest (a babe in arms) 
 were taken to Michigan by a friend. The father 
 overtook them at Albany, where they were await- 
 ing the subsidence of a flood. They went via 
 Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence by steamer across 
 the lake to Detroit, and settled in Calhoun 
 County, Mich., on a farm near Battle Creek, 
 driving through from Detroit by wagon. While 
 journeying through the wilderness the boys 
 passed the time in hunting quails and other game. 
 
 When they reached their destination the 
 father, who was then a man of more than forty 
 years, bought a tract of eighty acres of timber 
 land with some little improvements and a snug 
 little frame house. While farming he also con- 
 tinued to preach. As time passed by, he pur- 
 chased more laud, and this he cultivated. He 
 made one trip back to England and during the 
 year he spent there delivered lectures on America. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 To slavery in any form he was opposed. Two 
 of his sons served four years in the army, one of 
 them fighting the Indians and the other as a 
 teamster. Both are still living, John being in 
 Middle Park, Grand County, Colo., and Matthew 
 being in Santa Paula, Ventura County, Cal. 
 The father died in 1878, at the age of eighty-one, 
 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle 
 Creek, Mich. 
 
 Soon after coming to America the subject of 
 this sketch was bound out to his brother-in-law, 
 James Bryant, a farmer, with whom he remained 
 for five years, it being the agreement that he was 
 to have two winters in school, also fioo in money 
 and two suits of clothes when he was twenty-one. 
 When he reached his majority he began to work 
 for $14 a month, being foreman on a farm. He 
 had kept his $100 intact, but was hurt and unable 
 to work, on which account he was obliged to 
 spend all his earnings. After he recovered, he 
 hunted game, in which way he earned about $50. 
 He had bought a small tract of land and intended 
 to have a home of his own, but his sickness forced 
 him to postpone this plan. He returned to work 
 at $14 a month, and during the winter again 
 hunted, thus earning quite a neat sum of money. 
 In the spring of 1 852 he went to Paw Paw, Mich. , 
 where he sold his pelts. On his return home he 
 found the gold fever in full blast. With two 
 brothers, Richard and John, and with George 
 Blunderfield, he started for California with a four- 
 horse team and wagon, himself* being captain of 
 the company. He had about $300, his brothers 
 had $100 each and his friend the same amount. 
 They left Battle Creek March 22, 1852, and trav- 
 eled through LaPorte, Ind., then traveled across 
 Illinois, going forty miles south of Chicago, 
 thence to Rock Island, where they ferried across 
 the river. They found the mud axle-tree deep, 
 all the way to St. Joseph, Mo. They crossed the 
 corner of Iowa near where Iowa City now stands, 
 a village then marked alone by a log house. 
 With his rifle he supplied the party with game. 
 They stopped at houses until in Iowa, where 
 they began camping out, either on a small 
 stream, or in a little grove. Their first night in 
 Iowa, being afraid of Indians, they slept in the 
 wagon, with feet to feet, and guns by their sides. 
 In the night the friend aroused our subject, say- 
 ing Indians were near, and our subject was about 
 to shoot, when he discovered the noise was caused 
 
 by one of their horses. Many a joke was cracked 
 about the Indians they had seen, and the man 
 who thought he had seen them was not allowed 
 soon to forget his mistake. 
 
 When the party reached St. Joseph, the river 
 was so high that they were obliged to wait ten 
 daj-s before they could cross. In the meantime 
 there had congregated in that place about one 
 thousand wagons, four thousand or five thousand 
 horses and mules, and about the same number of 
 people, of all classes and dispositions. May 10 
 they crossed the river and then proceeded through 
 timber land and mud, often waist deep. All 
 along the road they passed wagons stuck in the 
 mud, but they traveled without an accident, each 
 one wading through slough with a shoulder to the 
 spoke. 
 
 In Nebraska they found a camp of Sacs and Fox 
 Indians on a little stream, where there had been 
 a bridge built by them, and for crossing this they 
 demanded $1 per capita. About twenty-five 
 miles from St. Joseph they came to Iowa Mission, 
 where were a stockade and some outbuildings, 
 the only buildings west of the Missouri River 
 that they found, except the forts, until they 
 reached Nevada, going north of Salt Lake some 
 distance. After they had gone two or three hun- 
 dred miles they found many discouraged men re- 
 turning east, but these kept off to one side as 
 much as possible on account of the jeers with 
 which they were greeted. 
 
 About twenty miles west of Iowa Mission they 
 came to a deep slough, where they found in 
 abundance, bacon, corn, oats, etc., left by those 
 who had overloaded their wagons. All who 
 needed helped themselves. They crossed the 
 Big Blue which, having steep and muddy banks, 
 was difficult to cross, and for some distance it was 
 deep swimming. When they reached the Little 
 Blue, they turned to the north to avoid crossing. 
 On reaching Fort Kearney they learned that a 
 Sioux Indian, who had been captured by the 
 Pawnees, had been in training to run for his life, 
 which privilege had been secured by the United 
 States government. The Indian had acquired 
 great speed, and to watch the race, a great com- 
 pany of Indians had been brought together. 
 
 From Fort Kearney to Fort Laramie the roads 
 were excellent and game plentiful. From the 
 former fort, the party went up the south fork of 
 the Platte to Ash Hollow, where they forded the 
 
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 river. Tliey found Fort Laramie a lovely place, 
 in a beautiful location. After traveling for three 
 days up the river they forded and struck north- 
 west into what is now Wyoming. They crossed 
 at Pacific Spring, but were unconscious of the 
 fact until one day, when they discovered the 
 stream flowing in a different direction. They 
 crossed Raft River seven times in one half day. 
 From Independence Rock they descended toward 
 the Pacific through a canon and reached Harris 
 Park, where they forded the South Platte River, 
 which had quicksand and was three-quarters of 
 a mile wide. They followed Ash Hollow and 
 struck the North Platte about fifteen miles south 
 of the junction of the rivers. Cholera was preva- 
 lent and they saw many new made graves. They 
 met a company of men digging a grave in the 
 road in which they were to bury their father, 
 and every day for a month they saw human bones 
 along the trail that had been dug out by the 
 coyotes. 
 
 Saturday night, July 3, the party camped out, 
 it being their rule not to travel on Sunday. The 
 next morning, about ten o'clock, they were visited 
 by two Indians, who begged for food and after 
 eating laid around the camp for several hours. 
 When it was time for our subject to go on 
 guard, he heard the neighing of horses and 
 found that the Indians had stampeded their 
 horses and were rolling stones off the divide in 
 order to keep the animals excited. Our subject 
 and another of the party at once began to pur- 
 sue the Indians and followed them until one 
 o'clock at night. When they reached the divide 
 the wind was high and the night so dark it was 
 impossible to pursue their way, so they were 
 obliged to turn back to camp. On their way they 
 heard a bell which they judged to indicate that 
 Indian ponies were near. They threw rocks at 
 the object, and soon men approached, with a very 
 forcible salutatiou, inquiring what they were 
 doing. After some parley they found friends. 
 As soon as possible they made their way back to 
 camp, five miles distant. The camp was soon 
 astir and preparing breakfast for those who started 
 at day-break in search of the horses. The men 
 went to the divide, where each one took a separate 
 trail, and our subject soon saw the horses, a 
 quarter of a mile away. He told his friends of his 
 discovery and all followed in the direction of the 
 animals. When they reached the place there was 
 
 but one Indian, and they concluded the other had 
 gone for help. The Indian jumped on the back 
 of his pony and lassoed one horse, but it pulled 
 back, and gave the men an opportunity to catch 
 up with him. He finally was obliged to cut the 
 rope. With four of the horses the men started 
 back toward camp. Soon about twenty-five In- 
 dians were pursuing them, but they found friends 
 and were enabled to get to their wagons and out 
 of danger. 
 
 After crossing the Sweet Water, the men trav- 
 eled over the country to the Green Ri.ver, which 
 was so high that a man had been drowned the day 
 before they reached there. However, they forded 
 it successfully, pulling the wagons across with 
 ropes and carrying provisions across on horse- 
 back. The next important stream was Bear River 
 in Colorado, which they ascended till they reached 
 Steamboat and Soda Springs. There they found 
 Indians encamped, in the hope of trading horses 
 for powder and tobacco, but as the party had nei- 
 ther of these articles, they gave the red men a 
 wide berth. Two days afterward, when out after 
 game, our subject and his brother saw some white 
 wolves and though a long way off our subject tried 
 his marksmanship, but failed to kill any of them. 
 Soon afterward they saw at a distance some In- 
 dians who proved to be friendly and with whom 
 they traveled for a time, going through Thousand 
 Spring Valley. 
 
 The party reached California in August. On 
 the way they had buried one member of the 
 company. Soon after crossing the desert their 
 provisions were exhausted, but later they suc- 
 ceeded in getting some that had been sent out 
 from California by the state government. In 
 Carson Valley they found a Mormon settlement 
 in a most uninviting location. Later they camped 
 in a beautiful grove of Cottonwood trees, where 
 they found many others. It was there that one 
 member of the party died. He was buried in the 
 middle of the road, with suitable funeral services. 
 When on the Sierra Nevada they sold their teams 
 for $500 in gold, with the privilege of using them 
 for the next seventy-five miles, to Mud Spring, in 
 Eldorado County, Cal. There they turned the 
 teams over and took their blankets, sleeping in 
 these for one night in a barn. 
 
 At daybreak our subject started to join a 
 friend who lived near Sacramento. He walked 
 slowly, spending three days in going twenty-five 
 
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 miles, when he arrived at the ranch of old Squire 
 Gilson. After a week there he went on to Sac- 
 ramento, where the money was divided equally 
 among the members of the company; this, too, 
 although he had put in the most money on start- 
 ing west. He secured board at $3 per day, and 
 in a few days was made sick by the food he ate. 
 He received an offer of work if he would go 
 three hundred miles into the mountains. Imme- 
 diately after he heard of this, he took passage on 
 a steamboat, traveling one hundred miles by 
 water, up the Sacramento to Marysville, then 
 one hupdred miles by stage, and one hundred 
 miles on foot. For his work it was agreed that 
 he would be paid $75 a month and board. He 
 spent two weeks in reaching his destination, and 
 had with him a brother who was ill and had to 
 be carried. 
 
 After working a month our subject's employer 
 asked him to go to Mary.sville, one hundred and 
 fifty miles distant, and carry a sack of gold to 
 Ragtown. When he saw the sack, which weighed 
 twenty-.six pounds, he concluded it was too heavy 
 to be carried by one person, whereupon the 
 owner agreed to carry it half of the time. When 
 they were about twelve miles from camp tliej' 
 heard the bush crackle and expected to be at- 
 tacked, but a black-tailed deer put in an appear- 
 ance, much to their relief. They reached their 
 destination without any incident of note. For 
 his second month of work our subject re- 
 ceived $100 and for the third $150. Afterward 
 he fitted out to hunt, but the great fire in Sacra- 
 mento occurring, he changed his plans and went 
 to that citj', where he was paid $15 a day for 
 himself and team and $10 a night for watching 
 hay. He continued in that way for two months, 
 in order to save the hay from the flood, which 
 was from two to four feet deep in the streets. 
 
 With $3,000 that he had accumulated, our 
 subject returned to Michigan in the winter of 
 1853-54, going via the Nicaragua route. While 
 en route a German sitting near him was robbed, 
 but recognized the robber, and after an exciting 
 attack secured his money; for attempting to rob, 
 the man was lashed. From New York our sub- 
 ject went to Michigan, where he bought horses 
 to take to California. March 22, 1854, he started 
 upon his second overland trip, with twelve horses, 
 and acconipannied by a younger brother and a 
 friend. He reached St. Joseph, Mo, , about the 
 
 15th of May. His first trip was made in the re- 
 markably short time of sixty-two days from 
 St. Joseph to Sacramento, but the second trip 
 from May 15 to September 25. On the second 
 trip, at Devil's Gate, on Sweet Water, they 
 camped on Saturday night upon a little stream. 
 Our subject had been ill for some time and they 
 were traveling with others for protection. Cap- 
 tain Grove, a veteran of the Mexican war, was 
 in command. They had with them three tents, 
 four wagons heavily loaded, a two-seated car- 
 riage, forty head of horses and two mules. For 
 two weeks our subject had been too sick to know 
 what was going on about him, but that night 
 (July 4) as he lay awake, he heard a great rush- 
 ing sound and in a moment Indians swept through 
 the camp and drove off all the horses, except two 
 that were tied to the wagons. Though sick, our 
 subject and another man jumped on the two 
 horses and pursued the Indians. After about 
 three miles, they heard the neighing of horses, 
 but were afraid to go near, believing them to be 
 the horses of Indians. Our subject's brother de- 
 cided to watch to daylight, and our subject re- 
 turned to camp, but before he had reached the 
 camp, his brother joined him with ten of the 
 horses. They mounted and started a second time 
 in pursuit, having with them supplies cooked by 
 the women in the night. They divided into 
 squads and after leaving the stockade, our subject 
 soon struck a trail of horses with shoes. After 
 two miles were traveled he caught a glimpse of 
 something going over the divide at full speed. 
 He followed, and when he reached the top he 
 saw Indians mounted. When they saw him they 
 began a race, but he was well mounted and gained 
 on them. 
 
 On coming close to the Indians, our subject 
 called to them, but they denied any knowledge of 
 the horses. However, he was convinced they 
 were near. He went into camp near by where 
 some Missourians were, and when they denied 
 any knowledge of the horses, he insisted on in- 
 specting the stock, and there he found five of the 
 horses. These he took with him. He soon 
 found another trail, which he followed for a time, 
 and then rested his horse while he sent back for 
 help. He followed the trail leisurely and finally 
 came to the place where he expected to see them. 
 While he could not be certain about the honses, 
 the horse that he rode recognized a half-sister 
 
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 and at once hastened to join her. When they 
 reached a sandy place he recognized the foot 
 track of a large horse that belonged to him, and 
 it was not long before this horse began to show 
 .signs of recognition. While he was drinking at 
 a brook his horse neighed and soon the twenty- 
 two horses were coming at full speed, having 
 broken away while the Indians were asleep. At 
 once transferring saddle and bridle to one of 
 them, and cutting the ropes that had been 
 fastened to them, he started at full speed. He 
 was shot at time and again by the Indians, but 
 escaped by lowering his body to the side of his 
 horse. He succeeded in getting his horses safely 
 through to California, but did not realize a large 
 profit on their sale. 
 
 During the eighteen months our subject re- 
 mained in California he engaged in mining. In 
 1856 he returned to Michigan via the Isthmus 
 of Panama, with about $1,500 he had saved. 
 The steamer took fire in mid ocean, but the fire 
 was extinguished. He bought land and soon 
 married, being united January i, 1857, with Miss 
 Eliza Jane Knight, who was born in Calhoun 
 County, Mich., of English parentage. He es- 
 tablished his home in Marengo Township, Calhoun 
 County, where he cleared a tract of eighty acres 
 of heavy timber land in a rocky district, also forty 
 acres one-half mile away. After the Civil war he 
 sold the farm for $4,500 and then bought his 
 father's old homestead. That place he sold in 
 1888, upon coming to Colorado. Here he bought 
 one hundred and sixty acres, which he has im- 
 proved, and from this place in 1897 he cut four 
 hundred tons of hay, also a crop of corn and oats, 
 and milked a dairy of forty cows. 
 
 The three children of Mr. Atmore are George 
 P., of Denver, who is a traveling salesman, is 
 married and has an adopted daughter; Anna 
 Maria, who resides with her father; and Rose 
 Alleta, who married F. W. Hill and resides at 
 No. 22 West Bayaud street, Denver. Politically 
 our subject has always been a Republican. 
 While in Michigan he served as a director of a 
 school district. In Brighton he was a member of 
 the board of aldermen for several years. He 
 was identified with the grange at one time and 
 still supports the principles of the society, but 
 failing hearing caused him to drop his active 
 membership. Though now over seventy years 
 of age, he is as active as many a man of forty. 
 
 He can ride any broncho on his farm, can tie a 
 steer, or pick his rope from the ground when his 
 horse is running. Every year he goes to the 
 mountains, where he camps out and acts as cap- 
 tain of the party accompanying him. In 1882, a 
 few months before he came to Colorado, a family 
 reunion was held at his home in Michigan. 
 Over eighty members of the family were present 
 from all parts of the country and representatives 
 of four generations might be seen, including 
 his mother, who was then eighty-three years 
 of age. Two years later she passed away and 
 was laid to rest beside the body of her husband 
 in Oak Hill Cemetery, at Battle Creek, Mich. 
 
 HON. H. H. METCALF, secretary of the 
 State Board of Cattle Inspection Commis- 
 sioners, secretary of the Colorado Cattle 
 Growers' Association and of the executive com- 
 mittee of the^ame, has resided in Colorado since 
 1870. He was born in Providence, R. I., and is 
 a descendant of English ancestry. The origin of 
 the family name was peculiar: During the time 
 of the Knights of the Round Table, there was a 
 tanner, who, one day while crossing the king's 
 park, encountered a bull calf that attacked him, 
 but he was strong and dexterous, and succeeded 
 in killing the calf, in memory of which feat he 
 was knighted Sir William' Metacalf. I^ater the 
 name was shortened to its present form. 
 
 Henry Metcalf, our subject's father, was a son 
 of Joel Metcalf, a tanner and currier in Providence, 
 and this trade the former also learned, continuing 
 in it until his death, in 1854, at the age of thirty- 
 six. His wife, who bore the maiden name of 
 Eydia French, was born in Rhode Island, and 
 still resides in Providence. Her father, Zachariah 
 French, was for years a sea captain. She was 
 the mother of five children, but only two are 
 living, a son and a daughter. Our subject was 
 educated in the public and high schools of Provi- 
 dence and the year after graduating he entered 
 the army, his name being enrolled in 1861 as a 
 member of Company D, First Rhode Island In- 
 fantry. At the expiration of three months he 
 was honorably discharged, but at once re-enlisted 
 in Battery C, Third Rhode Island Heavy Artil- 
 lery, and went to Virginia, later assisted in taking 
 Port Royal, S. C, and then went to Fort Wag- 
 ner, in front of Charleston. Next he was ordered 
 
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 to Florida, then returned to Virginia as first lieu- 
 tenant of the battery, and served through the Vir- 
 ginia campaign until thesurrender of Petersburg. 
 
 At the close of the war Mr. Metcalf was honor- 
 ably discharged in Rhode Island. He then en- 
 tered the general freight office of the Atlantic and 
 Great Western (now the New York, Pittsburg 
 and Ohio) , with whom he remained one year at 
 Meadville. In 1866 he went to Leavenworth, 
 Kan., where he was western agent for the Star 
 Union freight line for two years; afterward, for a 
 year, he and a friend hunted buffaloes on the 
 plains of western Kansas. In 1870 he settled at 
 River Bend, on the Kansas Pacific road, in Elbert 
 County, Colo., where he established a ranch and 
 has since engaged in the stock business. He 
 makes a specialty of Durham bulls, but also has 
 some fine Holsteins. 
 
 In Topeka, Kan., Mr. Metcalf married Miss 
 Bertha Snyder, who was born in Altoona, Pa., 
 but in childhood went with her parents to Law- 
 rence, Kan. , her father building the first house 
 in that place. Later she removed with them to 
 Topeka. She died in Colorado. Afterward Mr. 
 Metcalf married Mrs. May (Barker) Pierce, a 
 native of Cincinnati, and they have one child, 
 Lydia May. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Metcalf is connected with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In politics 
 he is a Republican. He served in the Kansas 
 legislature of 1870-71, that elected Caldwell to 
 the United States senate. When Elbert was a 
 part of Douglas County, he was the Republican 
 candidate for the territorial legislature, but the 
 issue was sprung that he was a friend of railroad 
 corporations and his opponent was against them, 
 and on that issue he was defeated. For several 
 years he was a director of the Colorado Cattle 
 Growers' Association, and is still secretary of it's 
 executive committee. In 1883 he was elected 
 secretary of the association, which position he 
 has since held by annual re election. In 1893 
 Governor Cooper appointed him a member of the 
 State Board of Cattle Inspection Commissioners 
 and he was elected secretary each year, during 
 the term of four years. Governor Adams ten- 
 dered him, in 1897, a continuance of the .same 
 position, which he accepted, and was again chosen 
 secretary of the board. He is a member of the 
 Colorado Commandery of the Loyal Legion. In 
 all the positions he has held it has been his am- 
 
 bition to discharge every duty faithfully and 
 conscientiously, and especially has he endeavored 
 to promote the cattle interests of the state, real- 
 izing that in the prosperity of the stock business 
 the prosperity of the state itself can be secured. 
 
 (T W. NEELEY, who has resided on a ranch 
 I of three hundred and twenty acres, situated 
 (2/ near Longmont, Boulder County, since Oc- 
 tober, 1896, was born in Schuyler County, Mo., 
 June 6, 1850, a son of R. S. and Julia (Jones) 
 Neeley. He was one of four children, and 01 
 these three survive, of whom W. B. is represented 
 elsewhere in this volume. The father, who was 
 a native of Lancaster, Ohio, migrated to Mis- 
 souri in young manhood and there married and 
 invested in a woolen mill, which he conducted 
 for a number of years. Through his business 
 ability he became the owner of large landed 
 possessions, but afterward reverses overtook him 
 and he lost heavily. In 1879 he determined to 
 come to Colorado, hoping to recuperate his losses. 
 He settled in San Luis Valley, where he pur- 
 chased relinquishments on claims, and as pros- 
 perity attended him he acquired additional land, 
 his landed possessions now aggregating about 
 eleven hundred acres. 
 
 Twice married, R. S. Neeley had, by his first 
 wife, Sarah M. Smith, eight children, five of 
 whom are living. They are: James H., a prom- 
 inent farmer of San Luis Valley; Robert F., a 
 well-to-do agriculturist of Mitchell Bottom, Neb.; 
 Perry; Jane, wife of A. C. Coe, of Alamosa, Colo.; 
 and Charles, a farmer of Lancaster, Mo. The 
 subject of this sketch had very few advantages 
 when a boy, as he began to work in a factory 
 when small and from that time forward he was 
 self-supporting. At eighteen years of age he left 
 home and went to Johnson County, Mo., where 
 he was employed at teaming. In September, 
 1868, he came to Colorado and a short time after- 
 ward began to work for Henry Church, with 
 whom he remained for three months. However, 
 after working night and day during that time, his 
 employer refused to pay him for what he had 
 done, because the boy refused to remain longer. 
 Hoping to secure more satisfactory employ- 
 ment, Mr. Neeley went to work as hay bailer, 
 but in this he was also unfortunate, failing to 
 collect the amount due him. Subsequently he 
 
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 went to the mouth of Four-Mile Creek, where for 
 three mouths he got out fence posts. At Wide 
 Awake he cut cord wood, which he hauled 
 to Blackhawk. Afterward he spent three 
 months in Middle Park, thence went to Russell 
 Gulch and from there to Pine Creek, where he 
 worked in a sawmill for four years. The town 
 of Apex was built on the old mill site. There 
 he hired with a man to go to Washington Ter- 
 ritory at $120 per month, but on reaching the 
 Cache la Poudre River he turned east and went 
 to Missouri with an uncle. There he farmed for 
 two years, but met with no success. 
 
 April 16, 1876, Mr. Neeley married Miss Dora 
 F. Lockett, and afterward for a year farmed in 
 Sheridan County. In March, 1877, he went 
 back to Schuyler County, where he engaged in 
 farming for three years. He then sold out and 
 went to San l,uis Valley, Colo., where he re- 
 mained about four months. Then, returning to 
 Missouri, he resumed farm work, which he fol- 
 lowed up to 1888, with the exception of one year 
 when he was manager of a cattle ranch. In 1888 
 he again came to Colorado and settled on his 
 brother's ranch in Boulder County, near his 
 present place of residence. In 1896 he purchased 
 his present property, to which he removed in Oc- 
 tober of the same year. He is a member of the 
 Pleasant Valley Grange and takes an interest in 
 all matters pertaining to agriculture. He and 
 his wife are the parents of five children, namely: 
 Mary E., Timothy G., Verde Esther, Robert S. 
 and John Wesley. 
 
 (lOHN PURSE, Jr., is one of the most prom- 
 I ising and thrifty citizens of Arapahoe County, 
 (2/ and was born in Gray Abbey, near Belfast, 
 Ireland, April 17, 1853. He is a son of John 
 Purse, who was born in the above place and who 
 came to America in advanced manhood and set- 
 tled in Colorado, where he is still engaged in 
 farming. He married Jane Lemon, a native of 
 Ireland, and they reared a family of seven chil- 
 dren. Of this family, James is the eldest; Will- 
 iam is a farmer and in the dairy business; Frank 
 and Hugh are also farmers and dairymen; Annie 
 married James McFerran; and Jennie is at home, 
 unmarried. 
 
 John Purse, Jr., came to this country with his 
 father when a lad. His schooling was begun in 
 
 Ireland and completed this side the ocean. At 
 the age of seventeen he began to work in a brick 
 yard in Denver, and then teamed for some time 
 there. In 1885 he started in the dairy busi- 
 ness, and bought a half-interest with Mr. Epler, 
 subsequently buying the whole of Mr. Epler's in- 
 terest. Six years ago he purchased his present 
 home, putting on all the improvements since 
 then. He has a good brick house, good barns, 
 and a large dairy. Besides his dairy he also 
 raises large quantities of oats and alfalfa. 
 
 He was married June 10, 1887, to Miss Mary 
 E. McFerran, whose father, John McFerran, is a 
 farmer in Ireland. They have four daughters, 
 Adalaide, Ruth, Lillian and Marie. Politically 
 he has been a Republican, but is now an advocate 
 in the cause of silver, voting more for the best 
 man, often regardless of party lines. He has 
 served as director and secretary of the school 
 board. The family are members of the Twenty- 
 third Avenue Presbyterian Church of Denver, 
 which he helped to build. He has also been an 
 officer in the organization. 
 
 EARL R. LU PLOW, a prosperous farmer and 
 stock-raiser of Elbert County, is living on 
 the family homestead on section 32, town- 
 ship 7, range 62 west. He is a son of Carl and 
 Wilhelmina Luplow, and ^as born in Chicago, 
 111., April 14, 1866. Carl Luplow left Chicago 
 in 1869, and moved to LaPorte, Ind. , where his 
 time was employed in the manufacture of doors, 
 sash, etc. After residing there for a period of 
 four years he moved to Denver, Colo., and there 
 was successfully engaged in contracting and 
 building for a few years. In 1878 he purchased 
 a ranch of three hundred and twentj^ acres and 
 embarked in the cattle business; and, although 
 unfamiliar with it, he soon had it on a paying 
 basis. He acquired considerable wealth and from 
 time to time purchased additional land, owning 
 six hundred acres at the time of his death. He 
 and his wife, Wilhelmina, had five children, 
 namely: Minnie, the widow of William King, 
 and now a resident of Chicago; Herbert, who 
 conducts a ranch at Jamestown, Boulder County, 
 Colo.; Carl R., the subject of this record; Lizzie, 
 who became the wife of Arthur Turner and lives 
 in Chicago; and William, who is a miner located 
 in Jamestown. , 
 
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 Carl R. Luplow was but three years of age 
 when his father moved to LaPorte, Ind. , and four 
 years later he accompanied him to Denver, where 
 he received a limited education in the public 
 schools. He then remained on his father's ranch 
 near Kiowa until the latter's death, when he fell 
 heir to a portion of the estate and purchased the 
 remainder. He has since lived upon the home 
 farm, and by iudustrious and energetic work has 
 been decidedly successful, from time to time add- 
 ing to his property until he now owns one thou- 
 sand and one hundred acres. He is a man of 
 excellent habits, a good citizen, and stands high 
 in the estimation of his fellow-men. 
 
 November 12, 1895, Mr. Luplow married Miss 
 Lizzie Rachel Blessing, of South Charleston, 
 Ohio, who came to Denver with her parents in 
 1889. They have one daughter, Miriam. In 
 political belief Mr. Luplow's opinions conform to 
 the principles of the Democratic party, and he 
 cast his first vote for Grover Cleveland. He is 
 president of the school board, and uses his influ- 
 ence in elevating the standard of education in the 
 district. Religiously he is a devout member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church and is an active 
 worker in the Sunday-school. 
 
 y /I D. MORRISON, one of the representative 
 y men of Boulder County, was elected in 
 a 1897 to be alderman in the city council of 
 Boulder, from the first ward. He is chairman 
 of the committee on sewers, and takes great in- 
 terest in all local improvements which he believes 
 will be of permanent value to the community. 
 He is an ardent Republican and ranks high in 
 the fraternities. In Monroe, Iowa, he was initi- 
 ated into Masonry, and now holds membership 
 with Riverside Lodge, of Colfax, Iowa. He is a 
 Royal Arch Mason, belonging to the chapter in 
 Newton, and is connected with Oriental Consist- 
 ory, K. T., of that place. Since coming to 
 Boulder he has joined Queen City Lodge, I. O. 
 O. F. A charter member of the Caledonian Club, 
 of this town, he is now its first assistant chief. 
 
 The father of our subject, James Morrison, is 
 still living and is remarkably hale and hearty, in 
 view of the fact that he is ninety-six years of age. 
 He was born in Sutherland, Scotland, and in- 
 herited from sturdy Scottish sires not only 
 strength of body and constitution, but love for 
 
 freedom, humanity and God. He has led a life 
 worthy of emulation, a life replete with acts of 
 kindness and love towards his fellow-men and all 
 who have known him have been made the better 
 for having met him. In his early manhood he 
 left the land of his birth and became a farmer on 
 Prince Edward Island, where he is still living 
 and attending to his business affairs. For sixty- 
 five years he has been an elder in the Presbj'terian 
 Church. His wife, whose girlhood name was 
 Wilhelniina McKay, was a native of Edinboro, 
 Scotland. She lived to be over fourscore years 
 old, and was then summoned to her reward. Of 
 their twelve children who grew to mature years, 
 eight are living to-day. Three of the .sons are 
 living in Iowa and one daughter, also, while one 
 son aud two daughters are residents of Canada. 
 William participated in the Civil war, enlisting 
 first in a Massachusetts regiment, and later serv- 
 ing as captain in a Wisconsin regiment, and died 
 some time after the war, while serving as county 
 clerk at Fort Scott, Kan. 
 
 M. D. Morrison was born in Prince Edward 
 Island, August 9, 1853, and attended the public 
 schools of that locality until he was a youth of 
 fourteen years. He then began serving an ap- 
 prenticeship to the blacksmith's and carriage- 
 maker's trade, and was thus employed for about 
 five years. In 1872 he came as far west as Mon- 
 roe, Iowa, and was in business with his brothers, 
 at one time six of them being in partnership to- 
 gether. They manufactured all kinds of car- 
 riages, wagons, plows, farm implements, etc., and 
 had an extensive trade. From there our subject 
 went to Colfax, Iowa, where he carried on the 
 manufacture of buggies and wagons for twelve 
 years quite successfully. While a resident of that 
 town he served for three terms as alderman, and 
 was prominent in all local affairs. 
 
 In 1 89 1 Mr. Morrison came to Boulder, bought 
 a piece of land and built his large and well- 
 equipped factory, which has a frontage of forty 
 feet. He manufactures all kinds of carriages and 
 wagons, and has built up a substantial reputation 
 in his line of business. Six months after his 
 arrival here he started out on a prospecting tour 
 of the mining region, and in 1892 he discovered 
 the mine now called the Village Belle, which, 
 after being worked for three years, proved profit- 
 able. The Mayham Investment Company pur- 
 chased the mine in January, 1898. It was the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 discovery of this miue that was the making of 
 Eldora, and since 1892 Mr. Morrison has also 
 brought into notice the Virginia, Bimetallic, St. 
 Elmo and Anaconda, all of Eldora district, and 
 all of great promise. 
 
 In Monroe, Iowa, Mr. Morrison married Miss 
 Virginia M. Adams, a native of that place and a 
 graduate of the high school there. Her father, 
 Aaron Adams, who was postmaster of Monroe, 
 for twenty years, died in Boulder, May 2, 1896. 
 
 r"RANKLIN T. CALEY, of Littleton, has 
 rft been interested in mining for some years 
 I * and at one time owned a share in the Robin- 
 son mine, but disposed of this to good advantage, 
 and now has valuable interests in the Dillon, 
 Santa Rita and Portland mines in the Cripple 
 Creek district. In 1890 he established his home 
 in Denver, but after five years removed to a farm 
 of six hundred and eighteen acres, two and one- 
 half miles southwest of Littleton, where he has 
 since resided. He has increased the size of his 
 estate by the purchase of one hundred and sixty 
 acres and has made of his place one of the finest 
 homesteads in the vicinity of Littleton. 
 
 The father of our subject, Robert, was a son of 
 Michael Caley, a banker in the Isle of Man. 
 Robert was born in Port Erin, Ireland, as was 
 also his wife, Catherine (Gallon) Caley. For a 
 time he followed the shoemaker's trade, which 
 he learned in his youth. Later he engaged in 
 the hat business in Ohio, but after his removal to 
 Racine, Wis., he opened a shoe store, which he 
 carried on for some time. In 1866 he removed 
 to Missouri and for about nine years made his 
 home in Reedville, following the shoemaker's 
 trade. From there he came to Colorado and, 
 being in poor health, he did not engage in busi- 
 ness, but made his home with his children. The 
 last two years of his life were spent in Arizona, 
 where he died in August, 1884. 
 
 Franklin T. Caley was born in Racine, Wis. , 
 May 13, 1844. When a lad of sixteen he en- 
 listed in the Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry, 
 but being a minor his parents took him out of the 
 army. Two years later he enlisted in Company 
 D, Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, and served 
 for nine months. He was stationed in Memphis 
 when Forrest attacked the Union forces. His 
 young and restless spirit sought adventure and 
 
 he started west. In his perilous journey across 
 the plains he had many miraculous escapes from 
 the savage Indian foe. He went to Leavenworth 
 andonthe2oth of May, 1866, he hired out to 
 Phillips & Freeland as a teamster, for $50 for the 
 trip. There were twenty-two in the party, eleven 
 Confederates and eleven Federal soldiers. They 
 had fourteen six- mule teams, and every man 
 went armed to the teeth. All went well until 
 when within fifty miles of Julesburg. There one 
 of the men was accidentally shot through the hips, 
 and Mr. Caley volunteered to take the wounded 
 man to Julesburg. They were two days and two 
 nights on the road. The caravan continued to 
 Fort Laramie, where the men were halted by 
 United States soldiers and their wagon master was 
 sworn in as captain. On noon of the next day 
 they were attacked by Indians, of whom they 
 killed four. Three days later Mr. Caley loaded 
 eleven buckshot into a Springfield rifle and had 
 an opportunity to fire it at five Indians, of whom 
 he mortally wounded two. They established a 
 reputation as fighters among the Indian tribes of 
 the northwest, and had continual skirmishing un- 
 til they reached Virginia City, Mont. 
 
 From that place Mr. Caley rode on horseback 
 five hundred miles to Silver City, Idaho, where 
 he mined for three years, clearing about $4,000. 
 Via the Isthmus of Panama he rethrned to Roch- 
 ester, Racine County, Wis'. There he married 
 in 1869. Later, removing to Sullivan, Mo., he 
 bought two thousand acres and cleared a portion 
 of the tract. After two years he left the farm and 
 secured work as a carpenter in the Scotia iron 
 works in Crawford County, Mo., also engaged in 
 hauling ore and contracting. For a time he was 
 prosperous, but finally lost heavily. In January, 
 1873, he came to Denver, and soon after began 
 mining at Alma, also contracting for the sinking 
 of shafts, etc., later kept a hotel. In September 
 of that year his family joined him at Alma. In 
 the spring of 1874 h^ leased a mine, the Security, 
 which he operated for many years. Shortly after- 
 ward he leased the Centennial, which he operated 
 successfully for six months. For a time he had 
 his family in Colorado Springs, but in the spring 
 of 1875 he returned to Alma, where he hauled 
 ore. Ill health forced his wife to return to Wis- 
 consin. He took his two teams and hauled coke 
 and lead and silver bullion over the Western pass 
 during the winter, and in the spring went to 
 
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 Leadville, where he manufactured brick, but at a 
 loss. Next he cut and hauled cordwood near 
 I^eadville. In the fall, with W. H. Yankee, he 
 started a transfer hauling ore company, hauling 
 from the Robinson mine to Leadville. In Janu- 
 ary, 1877, he bought a one-fourth interest in the 
 Robinson mine for $6,500, and in one year cleared 
 $50,000 and sold his interest. He next bought 
 a one-sixth interest ($5,000) in the Hibernia 
 mine, from which he cleared $50,000. Mean- 
 time he engaged extensively in the butcher busi- 
 ness, and packed frozen beef. Next he invested 
 $35,000 in mules and wagons as a freighting out- 
 fit, which he operated from Weston and Buena 
 Vista to Leadville. This was a profitable venture, 
 but his next was unfortunate, that of contracting 
 on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in New 
 Mexico. He moved his outfit from New Mexico 
 to Colorado and sold it at Marshall Pass. 
 
 After a visit to Wisconsin, accompanied by his 
 family, Mr. Caley returned to Colorado with two 
 other gentlemen and began in the cattle business 
 on Rock Creek, Wyo. In two and one-half 
 years he cleared $24,000. He then bought a 
 ranch of six hundred and eighteen acres near 
 Littletown, and here engaged in dairying until 
 1884, but the business involved him in a debt of 
 $25,000. To pay this debt, he was obliged to 
 work hard at mining for many years. When the 
 snow was two feet deep, in 1892, he went to 
 Cripple Creek, with forty cows and opened a 
 dairy, shipping the feed from Denver. In this 
 he was very successful. He sold his interest to 
 his partner, John L,. Binner, and in the fall of 
 1892 leased the Black Diamond mine, adjoining 
 the Portland. For two years he worked it, with 
 poor encouragement for success. About that 
 time W. S. Stratton bought an interest in the 
 mine for $10,000 and three days later they began 
 to ship ore. He also secured a bond and lease 
 on one-third interest in the Portland for $50,000 
 and a lease and bond for the Bobtail mine for 
 $100,000, the same now constituting a part of the 
 Portland group of mines. 
 
 Mr. Caley received in shares $25,000, which 
 he sold for $50,000 and realized over $150,000 on 
 his work. His mining interests now aggregate 
 nearly a quarter million dollars in value. 
 
 January 19, 1868, Mr. Caley married Grace, 
 daughter of George and Mary (Ormiston) Caley. 
 Her father, who was a native of Scotland, came 
 
 to this country at eighteen years of age and en- 
 gaged in farming at Dover, Wis. In 1849 he 
 went overland to California. One of his party 
 was killed en route and he experienced many 
 hardships, finally returning richer in little save 
 experience. His remaining years were spent on 
 his farm in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Caley are 
 the parents of five children now living, one 
 daughter. Alma, having died at thirteen years. 
 Franklin R. is mentioned elsewhere; Minnie is 
 the wife of John L,. Binner, a farmer; William is 
 a student in the law department of the University 
 of Michigan and is also a well-known foot ball 
 player; Daril and Edwin are students in the State 
 University at Boulder. Fraternally Mr. Caley is 
 connected with the Knight Templar Masons, and 
 is a member of the Mount of the Holy Cross 
 Commandery. Politically he was reared in the 
 Republican faith, but is now a Populist. His 
 ranch of six hundred and eighteen acres is called 
 the Pride of the Valley. 
 
 Gl RTHUR H. WHITE is engaged in stock- 
 Li raising and a general ranching business in 
 / I Douglas County, his homestead being two 
 miles northwest of Sedalia. A native of England, 
 he was born in Somersetshire, June 4, 1856, a son 
 of Isaac and Jane (Hewitt) White. He was about 
 fifteen years of age when his father died and 
 from that time he became self-supporting. For 
 the active duties of life he had been prepared by 
 a thorough education in public schools. When 
 about eighteen years of age he came to America, 
 landing in New York in the fall of 1876, and 
 came to Colorado, where he had acquaintances. 
 Here he worked by the day or month for some 
 years. 
 
 December 27, 1883, Mr. White married Miss 
 Alice S. Manhart, daughter of Christian and 
 Sarah (Barny) Manhart. Reference to the his- 
 tory of her family appears in the sketch of Mr. 
 Manhart, upon another page. Before his mar- 
 riage Mr. White took up a claim in Jefferson 
 County, where he made his home for several 
 years, meantime improving the land and placing 
 it under cultivation. On selling that place, he 
 moved to his present property in Douglas County, 
 where he has three hundred and sixty acres in his 
 home place, and is also the owner of four hundred 
 and forty acres near Sedalia. 
 
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 Mr. and Mrs. White are the parents of four 
 children. The eldest, Charles C. , died at the 
 age of seven j'ears and is buried in Bear Canon 
 Cemetery; Sarah Jane, the oldest of the living 
 children, was born on this farm June 21, 1889; 
 William Arthur, January 23, 1893; and Gertrude 
 Florence, January 6, 1898. Mr. White's first 
 presidential ballot was cast for James Garfield in 
 1880 and from that time to this he has been firm 
 in his allegiance to Republican principles. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with Sedalia Camp, 
 Woodmen of the World, and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen at Castle Rock. He is not 
 identified with any denomination, but inclines to 
 the Episcopalian faith, in which he was reared. 
 
 'HOMAS RICHARDS has been engaged in 
 general merchandising in Erie, Weld County, 
 for the past eighteen years and has won an 
 enviable reputation for square dealing, courtesy 
 and fairness to all his patrons. No one of our 
 business men is more enterprising and public- 
 spirited, more loyal to the welfare of his fellows 
 than he, and all measures reaching out towards 
 progress and improvement are certain to find favor 
 in his eyes. He is a member of Erie Lodge No. 
 46, I. O. O. F., and is captain of the staff of Rose 
 of Sharon Lodge No. 29, Daughters of Rebekah. 
 He also holds membership with Perseverance 
 Camp No. 139, Woodmen of the World. For 
 ten years he was the secretary of the school board, 
 at present is town treasurer, and in September, 
 1898, was appointed postmaster by President 
 McKinley. 
 
 JohnD. Richards, the father of our subject, was 
 a native of Wales, and a weaver by trade. In 
 early manhood he sailed for America. Settling 
 in Pomeroy, Ohio, he worked in the coal mines 
 of the locality until 1866, when he removed to 
 Missouri. From that time until his death in 
 1876 he lived upon a farm about five miles distant 
 from New Cambria, Macon County, on Brush 
 Creek. His first wife bore the maiden name 
 of Helen Davis, and to them three daughters 
 were born. Mary, the eldest, was the wife of 
 John Roberts and two children survive them, 
 Katie and William, living in Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
 Margaret is the wife of E. A. Edwards, of 
 New Cambria; and Anna, of Pomeroy, Ohio, is 
 
 the widow of George Cole. The second mar- 
 riage of John D. Richards was with Mrs. 
 Mary (Phillips) Evans, widow of Thomas Evans. 
 She, too, was a native of Wales, and was the 
 mother of four children at the time of her mar- 
 riage to Mr. Richards. Three of her sons by 
 the first union survive, namely: Rev. John T., of 
 Arvonia, Kan.; David T., of Huntsville, Mo.; 
 and Daniel T. , who lives on the old Richards 
 homestead near New Cambria, Mo. Her daugh- 
 ter, Sarah, married David Jones, of New Cam- 
 bria, Mo.,- two children survive: Thomas A., 
 who is a member of the Seventh Infantry, U. S. A. , 
 and took part in the battle of Santiago; and 
 Mamie, who is the wife of John Shuttleworth, 
 of Erie. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Richards was 
 blessed with five children, as follows: Thomas; 
 Samuel R., a mine operator at Breckenridge, 
 Colo.; Ellen, wife of John S. Morgan, of Erie, 
 Colo.; Elizabeth, Mrs. Edmund Scholes, of La- 
 fayette, Colo.; and Charlotte, Mrs. James L. Wil- 
 son, of Erie, Colo. A sister of John D. Richards 
 came to the United States from Wales and settled 
 in Jackson County, Ohio. She was the wife of 
 John S. Davis, a farmer of this county; both are 
 deceased. 
 
 Thomas Richards, of this sketch, was born in 
 Pomeroy, Ohio, October i, 1852. He grew up 
 under the parental roof and 'acquired but a limited 
 education, as he preferred to work in the mines to 
 attending school when he was a boy. At twelve 
 years of age he was regularly employed in the 
 Pomeroy coal mines, but, when the family re- 
 moved to Missouri, the youth turned his energies 
 in the direction of agriculture. Thus he passed 
 the years between 1866 and 1874, with the excep- 
 tion of a few months at his old business of mining. 
 With about $70 in his pocket, the young man 
 started for Colorado in the year 1874, and pro- 
 ceeding to Coal Creek, he worked until the fol- 
 lowing April in the mines there. Thence, go- 
 ing to Rosita, he found employment in the old 
 Pocahontas silver mine for another year or two. 
 In the summer of the year that saw Colorado 
 admitted to the Union he came to Erie and began 
 to work in the coal mines here. Four years later 
 he established a store here, but for a few months 
 longer kept up his mining operations as well. 
 Since August, 1881, he has given his time to his 
 business affairs and has succeeded in building up 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 a prosperous trade. He is also manager of the 
 Erie Review. His franchise he uses on behalf of 
 the Republican partj'. 
 
 In the 5'ear 1877 Mr. Richards married Eliza- 
 beth Thomas, who was born in Illinois. Of their 
 six children, three were called from them by the 
 angel of death, Arthur A., Samuel A. and Mary. 
 The eldest son, John T., is a member of Company 
 F, First Colorado Volunteer Infantry, enlisted for 
 service in the war with Spain. Ella and De Witt, 
 the younger children, are at home with their 
 parents. 
 
 (lOHN C. JENKINS, mayor of Central City, 
 I was elected on the Democratic ticket in 1896, 
 (2/ was re-elected the next year and the year 
 following, and consequently is now entering upon 
 his third term. Previously he was a director of 
 the local schools for three years and at all times 
 he has labored diligently on behalf of the public 
 welfare. Beginning his business career at the 
 foot of the ladder he has steadily progressed in 
 influence and fortune and has won a splendid 
 name for square-dealing and uprightness in all 
 his transactions. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins was born in Dodgeville, Wis., 
 February 13, 1864, and is one of the four sons of 
 David and Anna (Owen) Jenkins. The father 
 was born in Glamorganshire, Wales, near the 
 town of Swansea. When he was a young man 
 he came to the United States, and for some time 
 was engaged in working in lead mines in north- 
 western Illinois and southern Wisconsin. In 1864 
 he came to Colorado across the plains in an ox- 
 team, being accompanied by his wife and three 
 little boys. The family took up their abode in 
 Central City, while the father turned his attention 
 to prospecting and mining in the vicinity. He 
 developed the Comstock mine, now one of the 
 large producers. In 1884 he was accidentally 
 killed by the falling of some rocks while he was 
 at his accustomed occupation. His wife, who 
 was born in the northern part of Wales, died in 
 1887. Their son Evan departed this life when 
 he was in his twenty-eighth year, in Central City. 
 Richard A., the eldest son, and William O. , the 
 youngest of the family, are residents of this town, 
 the latter being connected with the First National 
 Bank. 
 
 As he was an infant when brought to this state, 
 our subject has always been closely associated 
 
 with the development and progress of Colorado 
 since his first recollection. His education was 
 gained in the public schools of Central City, and 
 when he was about fifteen he commenced clerk- 
 ing in a grocery here. He remained in that posi- 
 tion for two years and then was employed on 
 Main street. In 1886 he entered into partnership 
 with D. J. McKay and David Henderson and 
 bought out C. W. Ladd, of this city. The new 
 firm, organized under the style of Jenkins, 
 McKaj' & Co., has continued as such ever 
 since. Their location is on Low street, where 
 they have a fine, large store with a frontage of 
 seventy-five feet. Three stories are occupied, 
 the basement for storage, etc. , the first floor for 
 retail trade and the second for a tinshop and gen- 
 eral stock. A verj' extensive stock of hardware 
 is carried, and a full line of roofing materials, 
 plumbing and gas-fitting supplies, etc. Not 
 having sufficient room in this building the firm 
 also occupies two warehouses on Spring street, 
 adjacent to the Gulf Railroad. Year by year the 
 sales of the concern have increased, and their 
 shipments of mining machinery, mill supplies, 
 etc. , have been on an ascending scale in quantity. 
 Mr. Jenkins has brought to bear upon his busi- 
 ness enterprises rare good judgment, and to him, 
 in large measure, the success of the company is 
 attributable. He is a stockholder in the First 
 National Bank of this city, and he also holds stock 
 in the Gilpin Mill at Blackhawk and is interested 
 in mining operations. 
 
 In Central City Mr. Jenkins married Miss Kate 
 McLeod, who was born and reared in this place. 
 They have two sons and a daughter, John, Rob- 
 ert and Catherine. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are 
 members of the Episcopal Church, and are held 
 in high esteem by a large circle of friends. 
 
 HIRAM T. LAMEY, general agent for the 
 British American and Western Assurance 
 Company, has his oflSce in the Railroad 
 building, Denver. He was born in Venango 
 County, Pa., August ii, 1856, and is a son of 
 John Lamey. He represents the fifth generation 
 in line of descent from a native of Baden, Ger- 
 many, who emigrated to America in 1750 and 
 established the family in this countr)'. His 
 great-grandfather, John, was born in 1760, his 
 grandfather in 1798, and his father in 1827. The 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI^ RECORD. 
 
 latter is still living on the farm where he settled 
 in 1835, when it was one hundred and fifty miles 
 from the settled part of the country. 
 
 Primarily educated in the common schools, at 
 the age of sixteen our subject entered college. 
 After completing his collegiate course in 1876 he 
 went to Europe, where he spent two years in 
 travel, visiting all the important cities of the con- 
 tinent. On his return to America he entered the 
 newspaper business in Mi.ssouri, but soon found 
 he was not fitted for that line of work and gave 
 it up. He then moved to Nevada, in the same 
 state. In 1881 he began to travel for an insur- 
 ance company as a special agent, and in 1883 ac- 
 cepted a position with the firm he has since rep- 
 resented. At first he was their special agent in 
 the western and southern states, but in 1891 he 
 came to Denver and opened a branch ofiice, of 
 which he has since been in charge, having under 
 him six special agents, seven hundred local 
 agents and all the territory from the Missouri 
 River to the coast. He is a man of keen business 
 ability, with a faculty for the special line in which 
 he has for some years so successfully engaged. 
 
 At Nevada, Mo., in 1880, Mr. Lamey married 
 Miss M. F. Wright, of that city. He was reared 
 in the Democratic faith, but has never actively 
 identified himself with public affairs nor taken a 
 prominent part in politics. While in Nevada he 
 was made a Mason, joining the blue lodge there, 
 and at this writing he is connected with the 
 Oriental lyodge and Nevada Chapter No. 56, 
 R. A. M. 
 
 (lACOB ARMSTRONG is an extensive stock- 
 I raiser and the owner of one of the finest 
 O ranches in I,arimer County. He is a breeder 
 of standard horses and is also one of the largest 
 dairymen in this vicinity. Old Hadley place, 
 upon which he lives, comprises one hundred and 
 sixty acres, beautifully situated on the Cache la 
 Poudre. Mr. Armstrong is of Scotch- Irish de- 
 scent and was born in Dixon, 111., February 13, 
 1 85 1, the son of Jacob and Mary (Coyne) Arm- 
 strong. His father, a native of Coxsackie, N. Y. , 
 was orphaned at an early age. He was reared 
 on a farm near his birthplace, whence some time 
 in the '40s he removed to Dixon, Lee County, 
 III., and embarked in the real-estate and loan 
 business. In 1874 he came to Colorado and for 
 six months was interested with W. B. Miner in 
 
 sheep-raising, locating on a ranch for that pur- 
 pose. However, the work did not prove con- 
 genial and the partnership was dissolved. Going 
 next to Fort Collins he engaged in the real-estate 
 and loan business until his death, in 1888, when 
 seventy-three years of age. His wife, Mary, died 
 at the same age as himself They had three 
 children, Jacob and two daughters, now living in 
 Dixon. 
 
 Our subject was the third of the children. He 
 received the advantages of a good education. He 
 completed the scientific course in the Jesuit Col- 
 lege, St. lyouis. For a short time he was em- 
 ployed as bookkeeper. In 1874 he came to Colo- 
 rado and bought the Green Lake ranch, four 
 miles northeast of Fort Collins. There he em- 
 barked in sheep-raising. He went to the vicinity 
 of Whitewater, Wis., and bought some merino 
 ewes with which to stock his farm; these he 
 shipped to Cheyenne and from there drove them 
 to his ranch. In March, 1878, in a severe snow 
 storm, he lost some three thousand of his herd 
 that were caught out on the range. Two years 
 later he .sold his sheep and began to raise horses, 
 having from one hundred to two hundred and 
 fifty head on his place. He handled nothing but 
 high-grade horses, and had a standard-bred stal- 
 lion at the head of the herd. His place became 
 headquarters for good horses. In 1893 he sold 
 out the business and again engaged in feeding 
 lambs, raising cattle and carrying on general 
 farming. At one time he was an extensive land 
 owner, having some fourteen hundred acres, but 
 he has sold much of the land, retaining besides 
 the home place of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 two other farms near here. He cultivates two 
 farms and has a large cattle range in the north- 
 ern part of the county. His dairy is one of the 
 best in the locality. Fifi:een acres of his farm are 
 planted to apple, plum and cherry trees, and he 
 also raises small fruits in abundance. In addi- 
 tion he engages in gardening on a large scale, 
 and during 1898 had four acres in onions. 
 
 In Fort Collins Mr. Armstrong married Miss 
 Varah A. Buss, a native of Booneville, N. Y., 
 daughter of George E. and Frances Amelia (Butts) 
 Buss, and grandfather of Fortinatus and Eliza- 
 beth (Goddard) Buss. Her grandfather was of 
 a pioneer New England family and died when 
 her father was thirteen years of age. The latter, 
 a native of Massachusetts, learned the trade of 
 
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 builder and contractor, removed to New York 
 state and worked in a chair factorj' until the war. 
 In 1861 he enlisted in the Fourteenth New York 
 Infantry as a private, but was soon made ser- 
 geant. He re-enlisted in the Twenty-first New 
 York Cavalry, of which he was a second 
 lieutenant, and later a first lieutenant. He was 
 mustered out in Denver, in June, 1866, with a 
 captain's commission. Returning home at once 
 he brought his wife and only child across the 
 plains to Colorado. He improved a farm of four 
 hundred aud forty acres, where he resided until 
 he retired to Fort Collins. He is connected with 
 the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife was 
 the daughter of Thomas Bradford Butts, a lum- 
 ber manufacturer of Rome, N. Y. His mother, 
 Sarah Bradford, was a member of the family to 
 which belonged Governor Bradford, the first gov- 
 ernor of Massachusetts. Thomas Bradford Butts 
 married Alzina Bedora Otis, whose ancestors set- 
 tled in Massachusetts before the Revolutionary 
 war, and who,se uncle, Judge Butts, wrote the 
 "Maiden's Reply to the Gypsy's Warning." 
 The mother died at the age of forty-eight years. 
 Mrs. Armstrong was eight years of age when 
 her parents came to Colorado. She attended 
 school held in a building made of logs. She was 
 twelve when the first schoolhouse was built. In 
 order to secure children enough to organize a 
 district the latter was laid out eight miles long 
 and four miles wide, and, fortunately, she lived 
 near the center of the district. Before she started 
 to school her mother heard her lessons every day, 
 but it was difficult to do so .satisfactorily, as leis- 
 ure moments were few. Sometimes the book 
 was placed on the bench beside the mother's 
 washtub or ironing-board. The same difficulty 
 arose as to learning the lessons. For four years 
 the crops were raised without a fence, and it was 
 her duty to keep the stock away from the grow- 
 ing crops, so her study was often carried on in 
 the open field. The country at that time was 
 infested with Indians. Horses were corraled 
 every night so that the red men could not steal 
 them. During the winter of 1866-67 her father 
 was away for a week and a band of Arapahoe In- 
 dians camped within a mile of them. The chief 
 of the tribe had been reared by a white man in 
 St. Louis, but had rejoined his tribe. When she 
 came here Fort Collins was but a hamlet. While 
 the family were crossing the plains, when about 
 
 three hundred miles from Nebraska City, an In- 
 dian of the Pawnee tribe wanted to buy her, offer- 
 ing to trade a pony for her. From the age of 
 sixteen she has shown a talent for literary work 
 and is now a lady of marked intelligence and 
 ability. Though she has always been a bu.sy 
 woman she has found time to keep up her writing, 
 which is of a high character, as is proved by the 
 appearance of articles from her pen in such mag- 
 azines as The Ladies' Home Journal, where no ar- 
 ticle is printed that does not possess superior merit. 
 She has written much for local and state papers. 
 Her story, "Why the White Farm Failed," which 
 appeared Easter, 1898, elicited much favorable 
 comment. She has also composed a number of 
 poems. 
 
 At the age of nineteen Miss Buss became the 
 wife of Mr. Armstrong. They have four chil- 
 dren: Laura, who is attending the State Agricult- 
 ural College at Fort Collins and will graduate 
 in 1900; Lucy Isabelle, George J. and Clarence 
 Melville. Mrs. Armstrong is a supporter of the 
 silver standard. She served for one term of three 
 years as president of the school board in district 
 No. II, but declined re-election. Several years 
 ago she started an apiary and became so inter- 
 ested in the work that for a time her literary 
 work was neglected, but she now gives attention 
 to both. Her apiary she has found a source of 
 both pleasure and profit. 
 
 Politically Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat. He 
 was made a Mason in Collins Lodge No. 19, 
 A. F. & A. M., is identified with the Knights of 
 Pythias, Odd Fellows and the Encampment. 
 His has been a life filled with adventure and in 
 some of them he has had narrow escapes. In 
 May, 1874, before coming to this state, he was 
 attending a Baptist meeting at Dixon, 111. The 
 congregation was on the east side of Rock River, 
 which was spanned by a Truesdale patent bridge, 
 considered unsafe, as the frost had broken some 
 of the stringers. About one thousand people 
 stood on the bridge when the stringers broke and 
 the crowd were precipitated into the stream. Fifty 
 people were drowned. Mr. Armstrong, who was 
 near the center of the bridge, went down with 
 the rest, but being a good swimmer he dived and 
 made for a pier, which he succeeded in reaching. 
 He then rescued six drowning persons (two girls 
 at one time) and assisted in bringing two dead 
 bodies to shore, after which, becoming exhausted. 
 
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 he was obliged to return home. Four years later, 
 when hunting sheep on one of his ranches, he 
 was bitten by a rattlesnake on the first joint of 
 the forefinger. He had no remedy, not even a 
 string, so he at once began to suck the blood and 
 bite the finger to stop the circulation. He did 
 this until he reached the wagon, when he took a 
 hatchet and cut the finger off at the second joint; 
 a heroic measure, but the finger bled freely and 
 did not swell; so he saved his life. His is not a 
 nature to shun danger of any kind; and when 
 onl}' a boy of twelve he made several efforts to 
 enlist as a drummer boy in Illinois regiments, 
 but they refused to accept him. 
 
 JOSEPH SAUTER, a substantial farmer of 
 I the vicinity of Berthoud, Weld County, is a 
 Q) native of Germany, and is a most worthy 
 citizen of his adopted country. He is public- 
 spirited, taking great interest in the progress and 
 improvement of the county, and is always ready to 
 do his full share for the good of the community. 
 He is a self-made man, and not only has he 
 struggled along in the battle of life without as- 
 sistance from anyone, but has even helped others 
 very materially from time to time. A man of the 
 strictest honesty, industrious, economical and just, 
 he enjoys the respect of all who know him and is 
 entitled to credit for the position he has made for 
 himself. 
 
 Born in the province of Wurtemberg, Ger- 
 many, in 1842, our subject is a son of Ignatius 
 Sauter of that country. His five brothers and 
 sisters are all in America now, and one by one 
 were aided by him to make the trip and to get a 
 start in the new world. He sent for them as soon 
 as he was in a position to be of service to them, 
 and has generously come to their rescue many a 
 time when they were in need. 
 
 When he was twenty-five years old Joseph 
 Sauter decided to come to the United States to 
 make his fortune. He had received a good gen- 
 eral education in the fatherland, and was quali- 
 fied to earn his livelihood in various fields of en- 
 terprise, but he believed that there were wider 
 opportunities for him abroad. The first five 
 years after he landed in America he worked on a 
 farm in Westchester County, N. Y., and thence 
 went to St. Joseph, Mo. He bought a tract of 
 forty acres in Buchanan County, Mo., and, as he 
 
 prospered, added to his original farm other prop- 
 erty until he had one hundred acres. In 1883 he 
 sold out and came to Colorado. Here he invested 
 in a quarter-section of land, only twenty acres of 
 the place having been broken or ever under culti- 
 vation. There was no house nor improvements 
 upon the farm, and thus he has been obliged to 
 begin at the beginning and work his way up- 
 ward. Of late he has given much of his time to 
 the raising of live stock, principally hogs. By 
 good management he has succeeded, even beyond 
 his own expectations. In the different ditch 
 companies of this section he holds stock, and he 
 is also represented in the Berthoud Mill and Ele- 
 vator Company. Three miles distant from his 
 home place he owns another quarter-section of 
 land. In politics he is afiiliated with the Demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 Mr. Sauter' s wife was born in Indiana and her 
 father was a native of Germany. Their children 
 are: Joseph (now a resident of Nebraska), John, 
 Antoine, Frederick, Frank, Anna, Lizzie, Rosie 
 and Katie. The family are Catholic in religious 
 faith. 
 
 HOMAS W. O'DONNELL, attorney-at- 
 law, of Denver, was born in Longmont, 
 this state, November 12, 1874, ^^^ is a son 
 of Thomas and Johanna O'Donnell. His father, 
 who has devoted his active life to ranching, is 
 now living near Longmont, where he is engaged 
 in general farm pursuits and in raising horses. 
 The boyhood days of the son were spent on this 
 place assisting in its cultivation, and in attend- 
 ance upon the public schools. At the age of fif- 
 teen he became a student in the Jesuit College in 
 Denver, where he continued for five years and 
 then graduated, with the degree of A. B., as a 
 member of the class of 1894. He had taken the 
 studies of the regular classical course, having as 
 a boy determined to become a lawyer and, with 
 this purpose in view, he desired to lay a solid 
 foundation for professional work. 
 
 The study of law he carried on in the ofiice of 
 Hon. I. N. Stevens, and in 1896 he was admitted 
 to practice at the bar, since which time he has 
 carried on professional work with considerable 
 success. He is a young man of keen discern- 
 ment, with a faculty of reading human nature 
 and understanding the motives that control 
 human action. When a boy he was initiated into 
 
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 the Democratic party, but in the campaign of 
 1896 he supported William McKinley for presi- 
 dent. He favors the silver cause, believing that 
 no true prosperity can come to the nation until 
 the debased metal is restored to its true stand- 
 ard. Frequently he has been chosen as delegate 
 to county conventions. In 1896 he was a dele- 
 gate to the state convention of the national silver 
 party, and during the same year he served as a 
 delegate to the convention of that party in St. 
 Louis, where his services were effective in formu- 
 lating the principles of that party. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. O'Donnell is connected with 
 the Modern Woodmen of the World, though he 
 became a member of the organization less for its 
 social benefits than for its insurance. He ad- 
 heres to the faith of the Catholic Church, in which 
 belief he was reared. It may safely be predicted 
 of him that future years will enhance his success 
 and increase his material prosperit}^ and what- 
 ever of public or professional honors may come to 
 him, without doubt they will but deepen the es- 
 teem in which he is held, and the regard that 
 comes to him deservedly as the result of his up- 
 rightness and perseverance. 
 
 (T A. BANNING, a farmer of Weld County, 
 I was for many years actively engaged in 
 O the construction of railroads, taking and ex- 
 ecuting contracts on sections of the same. He 
 proved to be thoroughly efficient and reliable, 
 true to the smallest detail of his business agree- 
 ments, and thus won the regard of those who em- 
 ployed him. He also had actual experience dur- 
 ing a period of some five years in the building 
 of ditches in various parts of Colorado. Thus 
 his life was very active and somewhat unsettled 
 until within the past few years, as he necessarily 
 traveled a great deal, and might be at one end 
 of the country or the other, according to his busi- 
 ness. Four years ago he bought his present 
 ranch, a fine place of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, located on section 25, township 3, range 67. 
 Since that time he has devoted himself to general 
 farming and stock-raising and is making a suc- 
 cess of his operations. He deals extensively in 
 Shorthorn and graded cattle and keeps some 
 fine specimens of Cleveland Bay horses and 
 Poland-China and Berkshire hogs, which he 
 raises for the Denver markets. 
 58 
 
 The birth of J. A. Banning occurred in Wheel- 
 ing, W. Va., in 1836. The first twelve years 
 of his life were passed in that city, and then with 
 his parents, John and Mary (Anderson) Banning, 
 he removed to Burlington, Iowa. There he fin- 
 ished his education in the public schools and 
 later went to the Mount Pleasant high school, 
 which at that time had a high reputation. When 
 he had attained his majority he went to Nebraska 
 and for the following four years engaged in 
 freighting across the plains from Nebraska City 
 to Salt Lake, his associates in the enterprise be- 
 ing Messrs. Russell and Waddell. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Banning came to Colorado, and lo- 
 cating in Lincoln City, embarked in mining oper- 
 ations. He owned an interest in mines No. 40 
 and 41, in the Lincoln district, and remained 
 there until 1864. At that time he went to Gold- 
 en City and helped develop some coal mines 
 during the next two years, as a member of the firm 
 of Wheeler & Banning. In 1866 he went to 
 Omaha and took the contract of building a .sec- 
 tion of the Union Pacific Railroad, and completed 
 his contract in November, 1867. In the spring 
 of the next year he was awarded the contract for 
 the line of railroad between Cheyenne and Den- 
 ver, a portion of the Denver & Pacific Railroad, 
 and this too he carried out with promptness, 
 completing it in 1869. The following year he 
 started on a contract for the construction of the 
 Kansas Pacific Railroad between Sheridan and 
 Denver, and brought it to a successful termina- 
 tion in 1 87 1. His next enterprise was to become 
 one of the incorporators of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande road from Denver to Pueblo, Colo. Hav- 
 ing sold his stock in the company he took the 
 contract for the work of building the road and 
 completed it in 1872. The year 1873 was marked 
 by his work on the old Julesburg, now the Omaha 
 Short Line. Here he finished his contract for 
 one hundred miles of the road in 1874. For the 
 succeeding five years he was employed in making 
 irrigating canals all over the west. Some of the 
 largest of these were the Eaton, Arapahoe, 
 Welch, and the Banning and Beasley ditches. 
 For several years he owned a half-interest in the 
 last-named ditch, which he helped to incorporate, 
 and was president of the same for years. In 1896 
 he built a private ditch, which receives water 
 from the Platte River. During the years 1881, 
 1882 and 1883 he graded and constructed a por- 
 
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 tion of railroad on the Santa Fe and Southern 
 Pacific lines. Fraternally he is an official mem- 
 ber of Golden Chapter No. 5, R. A. M., and be- 
 longs to Golden Lodge No. i, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 In i860 the marriage of Mr. Banning and Miss 
 Susan Tompkinson, of Burlington, Iowa, took 
 place at the home of the bride's parents, Henry 
 and Ann Tompkinson. Two sons and three 
 daughters have graced the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Banning, namely: Morgan, John William, Leon- 
 ora, Belle and Susan. Leonora is the wife of 
 Henry Johnson; Belle married Charles Greene; 
 and Susan is the wife of Edward Shannon, of 
 Omaha. 
 
 GJBRAHAM ASHBAUGH, M. D., of Central 
 LA City, came to Gilpin County in 1879 and 
 I I has since attained a high position as a skill- 
 ful physician. For many years he held the of- 
 fice of county physician and also acted as sur- 
 geon for the Union Pacific Railroad at this point. 
 He has been most successful in building up a 
 lucrative practice, although he gives medical at- 
 tention alike to the poor and the rich, and he is 
 among the busiest professional men in the county. 
 Besides his practice he has other interests, par- 
 ticularly mining, and owns and operates the 
 Lombard group of mines, which he discovered 
 and developed and which are seven miles from 
 Central City. 
 
 Dr. Ashbaugh was born in Aledo, Mercer 
 County, 111., August 27, 1852, and is a son of 
 John and Catherine (Artz) Ashbaugh. His 
 father was a son of John Ashbaugh, Sr,, a farmer 
 of Marion County, Ohio, where the former was 
 born and reared. However, in an early day he re- 
 moved to Mercer County, 111., and settled upon a 
 farm near Aledo. In 1868 he removed to Vernon 
 County, Mo., and embarked in farming near 
 Moundville. His death occurred in Central City 
 in 1882, when he was fifty-two years of age. His 
 wife was born in Virginia, whither her father emi- 
 grated from Germany; later he moved to Ohio, 
 and then to Illinois, where he died. She is liv- 
 ing on the old homestead in Missouri. Of her 
 thirteen children nine are living; three of the 
 sons served in an Illinois regiment during the 
 Civil war and one was wounded. 
 
 In the schools of Illinois and Missouri the sub- 
 ject of this .sketch received his education. For 
 two years he was employed in the Vernon County 
 
 nursery, after which he began the study of medi- 
 cine. In the fall of 1875 he entered Rush Medi- 
 cal College of Chicago, and after two years of 
 study, graduated with the degree of M. D. He 
 at once began the practice of his profession in 
 Reynolds, Rock Island County, 111., where he 
 remained two years. In 1879 he came to Central 
 City, where he has a large patronage, extending 
 throughout the entire county. He is identified 
 with the Colorado State Medical Society, the 
 American Medical Association, and is treasurer 
 of the United States board of pension examiners 
 for this district, including Gilpin, Clear Creek, 
 Jefferson, Park and Grand Counties. The board 
 meets in Idaho Springs and was established about 
 1893, when he was appointed to the office of 
 treasurer. 
 
 In Rock Island County, III. , Dr. Ashbaugh 
 married Miss Sarah, daughter of Joseph Asquith, 
 who came to Illinois from England. Two chil- 
 dren, Guy and Roy, comprise their family. 
 Politically a Republican, Dr. Ashbaugh has al- 
 ways refused to accept office; on one occasion, 
 against his expressed wishes, he was elected 
 mayor, but refused to qualify for the office. He 
 was made a Mason in Pre-emption, 111., and is 
 past officer in Nevada Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M. 
 For five years he has served as high priest of 
 Central City Chapter No.,i, R. A. M., and re- 
 fused to accept the office of eminent commander 
 of the Central City Commandery No. 2, in which 
 he is generalissimo. He is also identified with 
 El Jebel Temple, N. M. S., of Denver. He is 
 medical examiner for the Knights of Pythias, 
 with which he is connected as a member, and is 
 also examiner for the majority of the insurance 
 companies represented here. 
 
 DGAR A. KEELER. The excellent street 
 ^ railway system of Denver is the subject of 
 ^ frequent comment on the part of visitors to 
 the city. To the efforts of Mr. Keeler, as much 
 as to those of any other resident, is this satisfac- 
 tory result due. From the organization of the 
 Denver Tramway Company he was connected 
 with that enterprise, and remained with it under 
 its later name of the Denver Consolidated Tram- 
 way Company, until January, 1898, when he sold 
 out. When the tramway was started it was a 
 cable line extending from the postoffice to Dakota 
 
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 avenue on Fifteenth street and South Broadway. 
 Reports from other cities indicated that electricity 
 could be used as a motive power, at no greater 
 cost and with more satisfactory results. He was 
 chosen to go to Boston and Providence for the 
 purpose of investigating the electric sy.stem in 
 operation in tho.se cities. This he did, and upon 
 hearing his report the directors decided to con- 
 struct electric roads with trolley lines overhead, 
 it being found that underground construction was 
 less satisfactory than the other. He superin- 
 tended the construction of the first electric line, 
 and afterward the company constructed similar 
 lines on other streets. 
 
 Mr. Keeler was born in Union, Broome County, 
 N. Y., June 4, 1843. He traces his ancestory to 
 Ralph Keeler, who was born in England in 161 3, 
 learned the carpenter's trade in his native land 
 and in 1639 located in Hartford, Conn., origi- 
 nating the family in this country. From him 
 were descended Samuel (ist), Samuel (2nd), 
 Matthew, Thomas and Lewis, thelast-named our 
 subject's grandfather, who was born in Litchfield, 
 Conn., August 14, 1768, and married Elizabeth 
 Wheeler. With his family he migrated to 
 Broome County, N. Y. , and built the first hotel 
 in Binghamton, but later became a farmer and 
 lumberman of Union. Of his six children, 
 William H., the third in order of birth, was born 
 in Litchfield, Conn., June 8, 1804, and accompan- 
 ied his parents to Broome County. There he 
 engaged in the lumber and mercantile business. 
 Upon the completion of the Shenango Canal from 
 Binghamton to Troy, he bought canal boats aud 
 engaged in the canal business, shipping from 
 Buffalo to New York via Troy. He was first a 
 Whig, later a Republican, and in fraternal rela- 
 tions a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. His death occurred November 1 , 1868. 
 
 In Litchfield, Conn., in 1833, William H. 
 Keeler married Janett Wheeler, who was born in 
 Sharon, that state, and died in Union, N. Y., 
 April 20, 1880, at the age of sixty-nine years. 
 In religious belief she was a Presbyterian. Her 
 father, Hon. Hiram Wheeler, was a large farmer 
 of Sharon and represented his district in the 
 legislature for several terms. In her family there 
 were two daughters and one son, the latter, the 
 youngest and the only one living. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and the Homer Acad- 
 emy, Cortland County, N. Y. In 1864 he went 
 
 to Illinois and embarked in the mercantile 
 business in Ottawa, LaSalle County, but in 1867 
 sold out and went back to Binghamton. For 
 seven years he was traveling salesman for a 
 wholesale dry-goods and notion house in Bing- 
 hamton, his territory lying in New York and 
 Pennsylvania. In 1874 he embarked in the lum- 
 ber business in Binghamton, and later carried on 
 a wholesale trade in pork, seeds, wool and lum- 
 ber, under the firm name of Conklin & Keeler. 
 Having a wide acquaintance through that section 
 of couotry , he soon worked up a large and profit- 
 able business. The lumber that he manufactured 
 was rafted down the Susquehanna and sold to 
 the Erie Railroad and over that road he shipped 
 the first tan bark ever shipped by rail. 
 
 In Union, N. Y. , Mr. Keeler married Miss 
 Diantha A. Cafferty, daughter of William Caf- 
 ferty, once a pilot on the river, but later a farmer 
 and lumberman. They became the parents of two 
 children. Their daughter, Clara M., was mar- 
 ried, December 22, 1887, to Alexander C. Fer- 
 gusson, who was born in Scotland and was the 
 son ofWiUiam H. Fergusson, a brother of Alex- 
 ander and John Fergusson, wholesale druggists 
 of Philadelphia. Mr. Fergusson was educated 
 in Philadelphia and was a bookkeeper in the First 
 National Bank of Denver when he died, August 
 15, 1888. He was a faithful Christian, a member 
 of Central Presbyterian Church of Denver, and 
 was active in Sunday-school work. His wife, 
 daughter of our subject, was educated in the Den- 
 ver high school and Denver University, from the 
 latter of which she graduated. She died of heart 
 failure, without sickness, November 22, 1895, 
 leaving a daughter, Helen Keeler Fergusson, 
 who was born December 22, 1888. 
 
 The only son of Mr. Keeler is Walter E., who 
 graduated from the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan in 1893 ^"<J is now a clerk in 
 the district court of Arapahoe County. He 
 married Miss Mabel M. Baliss, of Ann Arbor, 
 Mich. They have one son, Edgar T. Keeler, 
 born October 22, 1895. In 1891 Mr. Keeler 
 came to Colorado, hoping that a change of climate 
 might benefit his wife's health. She recovered 
 her strength rapidly and was in good health for 
 a number of years, but died in 1892. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Keeler bought an interest in the 
 Montezuma Cattle Company, of which he was a 
 director and later the general manager, but finally 
 
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 resigned the position. In ten years he built more 
 than one hundred and fifty houses in Denver, 
 among them two blocks of substantial residences 
 on Irvington place, where he now resides. On 
 severing his connection with the tramway 
 company he engaged in the cattle business more 
 extensively, and now, in partnership with A. C. 
 Dake, he handles from fifteen to thirty thousand 
 head of cattle a year, buying in Oregon and 
 Arizona, shipping from there in the spring to 
 Kansas, where they grass on his ranges at Morris, 
 Dickinson County, and in the fall, selling to 
 farmers and feeders in that state and Nebraska. 
 He is also interested in the real-estate business. 
 Politically he favors Republican principles. He 
 has been a successful man in all his undertak- 
 ings and, wherever known, is respected as an 
 upright, honorable citizen. 
 
 EHARLES L. DAVIS, who resides in Boulder 
 and is largely interested in some valuable 
 mines in Colorado, was born in Waukesha 
 County, Wis., September 5, 1850, a son of John 
 and Lucy (Lyman) Davis. He was one of seven 
 children, of whom three besides himself are now 
 living. They are: Mary A. , wife of Alonzo Still- 
 well, of Boulder County; Frank W., manager of 
 The Ward Rose Gold Mining Company; and 
 Bertha E., wife of M. E. Piatt, a farmer of Boul- 
 der County. 
 
 John Davis, who was born in Massachusetts 
 April 30, 1817, spent the first nine years of his 
 life on the home farm in Franklin County, after 
 which he worked in a cotton factory for fifteen 
 years. In 1841 he went to Grant County, Wis., 
 and took up land, on which he afterward dis- 
 covered lead. For eighteen months he engaged 
 in farming and lead mining, after which he re- 
 turned to Massachusetts and for two years again 
 worked in a cotton mill. In 1844 he married 
 Miss Lucy Lyman, of Warren, Mass., and the 
 next year returned to his farm in Wisconsin, 
 where he resumed farm work and lead mining. 
 In 1850 he removed to Waukesha County, Wis., 
 and embarked in the mercantile business, at the 
 same time starting a match factory, which he 
 operated for two years. In 1852 he removed to 
 Allamakee County, Iowa, where he purchased 
 and ran a sawmill. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1863, JohnDavis, in 
 
 partnership with Austin Smith, erected a saw- 
 mill in Ward District, Boulder County, which 
 they ran together until 1886. He then pur- 
 chased his partner's interest, and with his son, 
 our subject, operated the mill. In 1865 he pre- 
 empted one hundred and sixty acres of land six 
 miles northeast of Boulder. Two years later he 
 returned to Iowa and brought his family to Colo- 
 rado. While en route across the plains he was 
 twice attacked by Indians, but after sharp skir- 
 mishes escaped without loss of life. On reaching 
 his farm, he resumed agricultural work, and at 
 the same time prospected and engaged in mining. 
 He was the owner and discoverer of the Gray Bird 
 mine and al.so owned a half-interest in the Cross 
 Lode mine, as well as owning other valuable 
 mining interests. The last thirteen years of his 
 life were spent with his daughter. Bertha E. , 
 wife of Milo E. Piatt, of Boulder County, and in 
 her home his earthly life ended March 7, 1898. 
 Fraternally he was a Knight Templar Mason. 
 An ardent supporter of the Republican party, he 
 did much to advance its interests in this state. 
 Of the two hundred and forty acres he owned he 
 had sold fourteen acres, and at the time of his 
 death left two hundred and twenty-six acres. 
 
 As our subject grew toward manhood he ap- 
 plied himself to farming. In 1872 he pre-empted 
 one hundred and sixty acr^s one-half mile north 
 of where he now lives. From that time until 
 1883 he alternately worked in his father's mill 
 in the mountains and prospected; and during this 
 time he discovered the Cross mine and his father 
 discovered the Gray Bird mine, in both of which 
 he is largely interested. He is also a stockholder 
 of The Ward Rose Gold Mining Company and was 
 made president in 1896, shortly after its organ- 
 ization. The properties include the Chief, the 
 Rose, Tenderfoot, Little Joker, Forest Queen and 
 Little Charlie. 
 
 April 23, 1883, our subject married Delia De 
 Backer. Afterward he settled down to farming, 
 and acquired the eighty acres where he now 
 lives; in addition to which he has, adjoining it, 
 his original pre-emption of one hundred and 
 sixty acres. Here he engages in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, in addition to his work in 
 connection with mines. He and his wife 
 have four children: Lucy, Frank Elmer, John 
 Arthur and Clara Ella. Fraternally Mr. Davis 
 is a member of the Boulder Lodge of Maccabees, 
 
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 also a charter member of Silver Knight Lodge 
 No. 2, of the Fraternal Union. In 1891 he was 
 elected road overseer on the Republican ticket, 
 and filled the office for one term. 
 
 HON. LEANDER R. WEST. As a represent- 
 ative of the eighth district in the senate, 
 Mr. West has been true to every trust re- 
 posed in him and has rendered able service in 
 behalf of his constituents. His labors have been 
 of such a nature as to win for him the esteem 
 even of his political opponents, while he justlj^ 
 stands high as a leader of his own party in Jeffer- 
 son County . In the fall of 1896 he was the Demo- 
 cratic nominee for senator and in spite of the fact 
 that the county is Republican, he received the 
 election by a fair majority. While some of the 
 plans he hoped to carry through at the time of 
 his election have failed of fruition, owing to the 
 fact that his party is in the minority, yet he has 
 accomplished much for the people. Economy in 
 the expenditure of the public funds is one of his 
 watchwords, it being his theory that money raised 
 by taxation should be wisely and economically 
 expended in the interests of the people by whom 
 it was paid. 
 
 Senator West owns and resides upon a fine fruit 
 farm five miles from Golden. He was born in 
 Nova Scotia, December 21, 1843, and is a son of 
 Enoch and Abigail (Ryan) West, of whose five 
 children three are now living, Leander R., Gibbs 
 and Mrs. Emma Newcomb. His father, who 
 was born in Canning, Nova Scotia, in 1822, was 
 the son of Elijah C. West, who, being of royalist 
 belief, found Massachusetts an uncongenial home 
 during the Revolutionary period and therefore 
 migrated to Nova Scotia. The family is of Eng- 
 lish descent, the great-grandfather having been 
 the first to come to this country. They were 
 shipbuilders by trade, and this occupation Enoch 
 West followed throughout his active years. He 
 died May 22, 1891. 
 
 The subject of this sketch grew to manhood 
 beneath the parental roof and in the midst of the 
 rugged scenery of Nova Scotia, where he learned 
 the trade of his people. He followed a seafaring 
 life for five years, and during the last two of these 
 years he was master of a ship engaged in the 
 Mediterranean trade. In 1868, on retiring from 
 the sea, he came to Colorado and spent a year in 
 
 Denver, after which he engaged in prospecting 
 for a suitable place to locate and visited both Utah 
 and Nevada, but finally decided that Colorado 
 offered the best prospects for a settler. He lo- 
 cated on Coal Creek, Jefferson County, where he 
 embarked in stock-raising and general' farming. 
 In 1872 he purchased his present place, where he 
 has since engaged extensively in fruit culture, in 
 connection with raising stock and general farm 
 products. 
 
 July 12, 1870, Mr. West married Miss Zipporah 
 Hiltz, daughter of Alexander Hiltz, of Nova 
 Scotia. Five children were born of their union. 
 Enoch C. , the eldest of the family, is married and 
 resides in Jefferson County, where he is engaged 
 in farming. George A., also married, resides on 
 the homestead, of which he is the manager. Em- 
 ma is the wife of William E. Cole, superintendent 
 of Arapahoe ditch. Abigail and Leander A. are 
 still at home. 
 
 30HN R. LEWIS. As a mechanical genius, 
 the gentleman named above was without a 
 superior, and followed that line of work in 
 different sections of the United States, Canada and 
 South America. Beginning as a boy without 
 means, he availed himself of every opportunity 
 for advancement, and step by step ascended the 
 ladder of success until he was given charge of 
 making the tools used on the Kansas Pacific Rail- 
 road. His work was in Denver, but he lived 
 upon his farm of three hundred and twenty acres 
 in Arapahoe County, sixteen miles south of that 
 city, on section 18, township 5, range 66. 
 
 Mr. Lewis was a son of Robert and Esther 
 (Ashworth) Lewis, and was born in Bolton, Lan- 
 cashire, England, August 31, 1841. He was 
 reared in a town in the vicinity of Manchester, 
 England, where he attended school; and, al- 
 though intellectually bright, he had no taste for 
 study, preferring rather to ramble about in 
 the woods admiring nature and making friends 
 with the untamed inhabitants. At an early age 
 he became an apprentice to the trade of a machin- 
 ist, and after becoming a skilled workman, he 
 moved to Montreal, Canada, at the age of twenty- 
 three years, and was there employed in the 
 Grand Trunk Railway shops. It was in that 
 city that he met Miss Emma Clara Mayo, and 
 their acquaintance ripened into .something more 
 than friendship, and they were married in Port- 
 
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 land, Me., December 4, 1866. In the latter city 
 our subject became identified with the Portland 
 Machine Company, by whom he was sent to As- 
 pinwall. South America, to fit up the engines for 
 the railroad across the Isthmus. About one year 
 later he returned home, and subsequently moved 
 to Farmington, Me., where he resided until he 
 located in Denver, Colo. , and entered the employ 
 of the Rio Grand Railroad. A short time after- 
 wards a tool room was built in that city, and he 
 was placed in charge of the manufacture of all 
 the tools used by the company. Subsequently he 
 was called to accept a similar position with the 
 Kansas Pacific Railroad, in which capacity he 
 served with credit to himself and to the company 
 until his death. Repurchased a tract of three 
 hundred and twenty acres of land in Arapahoe 
 County, upon which he and his family moved in 
 the spring of 1883, and which is still the family 
 residence. 
 
 As a boy he had a great love for natural his- 
 tory and would watch animals in their native 
 homes for days at a time, making a careful study 
 of their nature and habits. Later he skinned and 
 mounted animals and acquired a very handsome 
 and valuable collection. While in South Ameri- 
 ca, he helped to prepare many specimens for the 
 Smithsonian Institute of Washington. He left 
 a large variety of unmounted skins of birds, 
 amounting to several hundred, when he died, and 
 also a large collection of mounted ones, which are 
 dearly treasured by his family. He left many 
 keepsakes, resulting from his mechanical skill, 
 which are the works of a master. Politically he 
 was a member of the Republican party, but was by 
 no means a politician. Socially he was in early 
 life a member of the Amalgamated Society of 
 England, and later of St. George Lodge, A. F. & 
 A. M., of Montreal, and of the Colorado State 
 Grange. His death occurred May 10, 1894, and 
 he lies buried in the burial ground on the family 
 estate. He was a man of slight statute, five feet 
 and seven inches in height; weight, one hundred 
 and forty pounds, and with his black and wavy 
 hair and honest blue eyes, he never failed to make 
 a good impression, although rather reserved upon 
 forming an acquaintance. However, once his 
 friend, always his friend, and he could boast of 
 innumerable ones in the various cities in which 
 he had lived. 
 
 Mrs. Lewis was born in Birmingham, Eng- 
 
 land, and was a daughter of Henry and Clara 
 (Bolton) Mayo, the former of whom was among 
 the first engineers brought from that country to 
 work on the Grand Trunk Railroad in Canada. 
 He continued as an engineer on that road until a 
 short time before his demise. For some time 
 they lived at Belleville, Out., and then at Mon- 
 treal, where Miss Mayo became acquainted with 
 our subject. She possesses an amiable disposi- 
 tion, and is dearly loved by a large circle of 
 friends, who sincerely sympathized with her in 
 the loss of her husband. Their happy union 
 was blessed by the birth of four children. John 
 Henry, who was born in Portland, Me., and now 
 resides on the farm with his mother, married 
 Emma Retter Hawkey, who died in January, 
 1891; Charles Robert, born in Portland, Me., is 
 a plumber by trade, and is in the employ of the 
 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad; Walter Mayo, 
 born in Farmington, Me., lives at home; and 
 Esther Clara, who was born in the city of Den- 
 ver, is a student in the Denver high school. 
 
 r^ETER ANDERSON, who is one of the most 
 U' successful business men of Fort Collins, has 
 JD been a resident of Colorado for many years. 
 He was born near Hannefas, Norway, October 17, 
 1845, a son of Andrew and Sarah (Peterson) 
 Anderson, natives of the same locality. His 
 father, who was principal of schools and engaged 
 actively in educational work, died in 1850 and 
 two years later the widowed mother brought the 
 five children to America, taking passage on the 
 sailing vessel, "Shaufnau," Captain Nelson, and 
 arriving in Quebec after a voyage of nine weeks. 
 From Quebec she went to Chicago and thence to 
 Whitewater, Walworth County, Wis., where she 
 died at the age of sixty-five years. Her children 
 are still living, viz. : Mrs. Ida Blodgett, of Oconee, 
 Neb. ; Gilbert, who is engaged in the clothing 
 business at Whitewater; Mrs. Mary Dahlen; Peter; 
 and Andrew, who served in the Fifth Wisconsin 
 Infantry during the war and is now president of 
 the First National Bank of Columbus, Neb. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired 
 principally in Whitewater. He was employed 
 in farming until fourteen, when he began an 
 apprenticeship to the harness-maker and saddler's 
 trade. On the completion of his term of service, 
 in 1863, he went to St. Louis. In the spring of 
 
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 the next year he entered the government service 
 as a saddler. For some time he was stationed at 
 Chattanooga, Tenn., and from there he went to 
 St. Joe, Mo. Soon afterward he started for Colo- 
 rado, traveling across the plains with ox-teams 
 from Marysville to Denver, and spending two 
 months on the way. He arrived in Denver in 
 December, 1864, and was employed by the govern- 
 ment as a saddler, with shop on Larimer, between 
 Eleventh and Twelfth streets, until the spring of 
 1865, when he returned, via ox-team, to Ne- 
 braska City. 
 
 His second trip to Colorado Mr. Anderson 
 made in November, 1865. He came to Larimer 
 County in January, 1866, and took up a pre-emp- 
 tion claim near Fort Collins. After proving up 
 he took a homestead. In 1866 he started a ditch 
 about one and one-half miles above his residence, 
 he and Joshua Ames, now of Iowa, digging the 
 ditch themselves; it is registered as Josh Ames 
 Ditch No. 25. Later he put in another ditch, he 
 and eleven other starting the Larimer and Weld 
 County ditch, of which he was at one time presi- 
 dent, and which, as now enlarged, is the largest 
 ditch, not only in the county, but north of Den- 
 ver. He is still interested in this ditch. For a 
 time he had William Lindeumeier as partner, and 
 on dividing the land, he retained three hundred 
 and sixty acres in one body, all tillable land. He 
 is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 At one time he was extensively interested in the 
 cattle business. He raises large quantities of 
 alfalfa, and in 1897-98 fed twenty-six hundred head 
 of lambs. Besides this place, he owns a farm in 
 Weld County. In 1888 he started in the imple- 
 ment business. He carries all kinds of imple- 
 ments, representing the John Deere Plow Com- 
 pany the Deering Harvesting Company, and carry- 
 ing a full line of machinery for farm work. He 
 erected a building, 30x170 feet, two stories and 
 basement, in which he carries his stock of im- 
 plements, also seeds of all kinds for Colorado 
 soil. 
 
 The business which Mr. Anderson carries on 
 is very extensive in all of its branches. He 
 handles coal, hay, grain, potatoes, wagons, 
 carriages, bicycles, in addition to agricultural 
 machinery of all kinds. Owing to the increase of 
 business, he was obliged to enlarge his quarters, 
 and added a warehouse and storeroom in the rear 
 of his old building. The structure was designed 
 
 especially to meet his wants and is very con- 
 veniently arranged, the cellar being fitted up for 
 the storage of potatoes, while the other floors are 
 devoted to implements, wagons, buggies, etc. 
 Each succeeding year has witnessed an increase 
 of the trade, which now amounts to thousands of 
 dollars yearly. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is a director and vice-president 
 in the First National Bank of Fort Collins. He 
 was one of the organizers and a director of the 
 First National Bank of Columbus, Neb., of which 
 his brother, Andrew, is president. His first 
 marriage took place in Wisconsin and united him 
 with Miss Mary Severson, a native of that state; 
 she died in Colorado, leaving a daughter, Cora. 
 The second marriage of Mr. Anderson was solem- 
 nized in Colorado, his wife being Annie (Ander- 
 son) Kraplin, a native of Norway. They are the 
 parents of three sons, Paul, Lester and Howard. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Anderson is connected with 
 the Woodmen of the World; the Home Forum, 
 of which he was the first president; the Eastern 
 Star, to which his wife also belongs; Collins 
 Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M., of which he is 
 past master; Collins Chapter No. ir, of which he 
 is past high priest; DeMolay Commandery No. 13, 
 of Fort Collins, of which he was a charter mem- 
 ber and the first eminent commander; and El 
 Jebel Temple, N. M. S. Politically he is a Teller 
 silver Republican. He is one of the trustees, 
 and president of the board, also chairman of the 
 board of stewards of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He is identified with the Larimer 
 County Sheep Growers' Association and the 
 Wyoming Stock Growers' Association and was at 
 one time connected with the Colorado Cattle 
 Growers' Association. 
 
 qOSEPH A. SCHERRER. This well-known 
 I ranchman of Elbert County was born in 
 Q) Riverside, Iowa, in 1858. He is the son of 
 Joseph and Tessa (Cheerheart) Scherrer, both 
 natives of France. His father, who emigrated to 
 America in early life, engaged in farming in Iowa 
 for some years, but after a time removed to Den- 
 ver. The last years of his life were spent in that 
 city, retired from business cares, and there he 
 died in April, 1885. Politically he voted the 
 Democratic ticket. He and his wife, who died a 
 year before his death, were the parents of eight 
 
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 children now living. They are named as follows: 
 Jacob, who was formerly engaged in the real- 
 estate, loan and stock-mining business in Denver, 
 but now resides in St. Louis; Alexander V., who 
 is engaged in the stock business and lives in 
 Denver; Mary, who is the wife of Frank Scher- 
 rer, of Windsor, Colo.; Josie, who married Harry 
 Gard and resides in Los Angeles, Cal. ; Rose, 
 wife of C. B. McClure; and Tessa, Mrs. H. C. 
 Chwanky; and Minnie, wife of S. A. Doll, all of 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 Joseph Scherrer, the remaining member of the 
 family, came to Colorado when a small boy with 
 his parents, who soon returned to Iowa in order 
 to educate their children. He attended the public 
 schools of Riverside, that state, and at the age of 
 twenty-three started out to try life for himself. 
 His first venture was in a store, then he farmed 
 in Iowa during the next few years. In 1882 he 
 came to Denver and engaged in the commission 
 business with his brother for a few years, and in 
 1886 came to Elbert County and located on the 
 ranch he now occupies. From a small beginning 
 he has steadily advanced by industry and fru- 
 gality until to-day he owns one of the finest 
 ranches in the vicinity, and furnishes an example 
 worthy of emulation. He handles principall}' 
 cattle and horses, and puts up several hundred 
 tons of hay each year, furnishing work to a large 
 number of men. He has a large cattle range, 
 and his farm is supplied with a reservoir that en- 
 ables him to irrigate one hundred acres of land. 
 He is a Republican, but his life has been too 
 much filled with business to engage in politics. 
 
 |5^ICH0LAS 0. COLE came to his present 
 Yl home near Morrison, Jefferson County, in 
 \Id 1S78, and began to cultivate the land, in 
 addition to which he took up another farm as a 
 timber claim. Here he has since engaged in 
 general farm pursuits. Since 1894 he has oper- 
 ated a threshing machine during the season. In 
 the spring of 1898 he purchased a sawmill on the 
 divide in Elbert County and this he has since 
 run. Politically he is a Democrat. For seven 
 years, during the '80s, he held the office of road 
 overseer and he also served as a member of 
 the school board for one term. 
 
 The son of David and Margaret (VanAsdoll) 
 Cole, our subject was born in Wyoming County, 
 
 Pa., August 8, 1843, and was one of eleven chil- 
 dren. Seven are now living, as follows: Charles 
 O., who resides at Otsego Springs, Mich.; Har- 
 riet O. , wife of William Mowry, of Wyoming 
 County, Pa.; Mary A., Mrs. William Cole, of 
 Susquehanna County, Pa.; JohnL., of Wyoming 
 County; Nicholas O. ; Nelson A., who lives in 
 Pine, Jefferson County, Colo. ; and Levantia, who 
 is the wife of Sylvester Bush, of Scranton, Pa. 
 
 David Cole was born in Cooperstown, N. Y. , 
 October 12, 1807, and when a boy was bound 
 out to Nicholas Overfield, with whom he lived 
 until he became of age. He was married in De- 
 cember, 1828, and afterward bought a tract of tim- 
 ber land near Meshoppen, Pa., where he built a 
 house and improved a farm. On that place he and 
 his wife lived happily together for sixty-four years. 
 Of their eleven children two sons were sacrificed 
 on their country's altar during the Civil war, 
 Benjamin V. falling in the battle of Antietam, 
 while Philip H. died of typhoid fever on Morris 
 Island. The father died May 2, 1893. 
 
 At twenty-one years of age our subject started 
 out in the world for himself. He .spent nine 
 months on a trip through Virginia, Kentucky, 
 Ohio and Illinois, after which, returning home, 
 he carried on the home place while his four 
 brothers were at the front in the Civil war. In 
 the fall of 1865 he came to Colorado, arriving in 
 Bear Creek Valley March 6,' 1866. After having 
 operated rented land for four years he began to 
 farmland of his own. In 1867 he pre-empted 
 eighty acres and took up another eighty acres as 
 a homestead. During the wintersof 1870-71 and 
 1871-72 he engaged in hunting buffaloes on the 
 plains and during that time killed more than 
 three thousand of them. One day he counted 
 more than fifty that he had killed while standing 
 in one place. During these winters he had many 
 exciting experiences with Indians. 
 
 April 28, 1875, Mr. Cole married Miss Emma 
 Drake. Afterward they opened a boarding house 
 in Daily district, in Clear Creek County, and at 
 the same time he engaged in mining. In 1876 
 he became engineer for the St. Johns Company 
 and moved to St. Johns. In the spring of 1877 
 he returned to the Bear Creek Valley, where he 
 cultivated a rented farm. From that place, one 
 year later, he came to the farm he has since 
 owned and operated. He and his wife are the 
 parents of six children, namely: David M., who 
 
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 manages the threshing machine for his father 
 and is a capable young man of twenty-one years; 
 May E.; John W. , who assists in running the 
 sawmill; Winifred, Ben C. and Nicholas O., Jr. 
 
 «]rDA NOYES BEAVER, M. D. One of the 
 I well-known physicians of Denver, was born 
 X in Rhode Island, near Fall River, Mass., 
 April 28, 1859, and is a daughter of Alfred and 
 Lucina (Sanford) Noyes, natives respectively of 
 Nashua, N. H., and Canandaigua, N. Y. The 
 Noyes family is of direct English descent, the 
 first of the name in America coming from Eng- 
 land in the latter part of the seventeenth century. 
 One of her ancestors participated in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill and other memorable engagements 
 of the Revolution. The grandparents, Micajah, 
 Jr., and Eliza (Chamberlain) Noyes, had four 
 children who attained years of maturity, two sons 
 and two daughters. Of the sons Alfred, the fa- 
 ther of Dr. Beaver, was a resident of Detroit, 
 Mich. , for many years. He served in the Mexican 
 war for two years, during which time he was 
 wounded on five different occasions. Though an 
 invalid for years, he is still living. His wife, 
 who is also living, bore the maiden name of 
 Lucina Sanford, and was the youngest daughter 
 and thirteenth child of Rev. Philip Sanford, of 
 Canandaigua, N. Y., who was of English de- 
 scent. Mr. Sanford chose as his wife Phoebe 
 Castanoe (spelled in France Castaneaux), daugh- 
 ter of Raymond Castenoe, who was the youngest 
 son of the Marquis of Castenoe, the companion- 
 in-arms of General Lafayette. Ida was the only 
 child born to Alfred and Lucina Noyes. 
 
 Until twelve years of age the subject of this 
 article studied mainly under the tutelage of her 
 father, a scholarly and educated gentleman, al- 
 though for four terms (two years) she attended 
 a country school. Shortly before she was sixteen 
 she began to teach, and for three summers was 
 thus employed, the autumns -and winters being 
 spent in the high school at Detroit, Mich. In 
 September, 1878, she was appointed principal of 
 the union school at Elsie, Mich. , which position 
 was given her on account of her reputation as a 
 disciplinarian. Her older pupils in the higher 
 grades, some forty in number, were nearly all 
 country school teachers. As a teacher she was 
 unusually successful. 
 
 After one year at Elsie she entered Michigan 
 University, taking the Latin scientific course. 
 She remained there only one year, but by exami- 
 nations passed nearly half of the junior work. 
 Overstudy undermined her health, and she left 
 .school. After recovering she began teaching. 
 In her vacations she worked in the editorial rooms 
 of the Christian Herald zX. Detroit, with a view to 
 entering the journalistic field. Her work there 
 consisted in reading proofs, writing book reviews, 
 furnishing local and state news, and contributing 
 each week either a story, essay or editorial. She 
 continued to contribute articles to the Christian 
 Herald and other journals, while teaching. 
 
 She was employed in the city schools of Detroit, . 
 principally the Tappan, about five years. One 
 of the principal features of her work in Detroit 
 was her participation in the abolishment of a 
 notorious saloon and using the building for a 
 Sunday-school, which grew to such proportions 
 that a church was organized and Wesley Chapel 
 built, which is now merged into the Preston 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of Detroit. In the 
 little mission that owed its existence principally 
 to her energetic work, she labored successively as 
 assistant superintendent, infant class teacher and 
 recording steward. She was the first lady church 
 official in the history of the Methodist Episcopal 
 denomination in Michigan. Her primary class 
 grew from eleven to one hundred and fifty, and 
 her noble, self-sacrificing work bore abundant 
 fruit. Constant work caused her health to fail, 
 and hoping a change would bring needed recu- 
 peration she went to Florida, thence to Cuba and 
 the Bahama Islands. Though so ill as to be con- 
 fined to her cot much of the time, she continued 
 writing and contributed to Detroit papers. On 
 one of her trips she met Benjamin N. Beaver, 
 whom she married in Detroit, September 2, 1884. 
 They established their home in Dayton, Ohio, 
 where Mr. Beaver was a wealthy manufacturer. 
 She devoted her leisure time to benevolent work 
 and was a prime factor in the founding of the 
 Bethany Home, and also a home for working 
 girls. She became interested in the Woman's 
 Christian Temperance work about this time and 
 served as president of the local and treasurer of 
 the district Y. W. C. T. U. She was elected by 
 unanimous vote recording secretary, in 1886, of 
 the Ohio state W. C. T. U. An address delivered 
 by her during this time was so forcible and elo- 
 
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 quent that she was invited to deliver addresses 
 throughout the state. An address deHvered at 
 Canton, Ohio, was listened to by William Mc- 
 Kinlej', who complimented her and encouraged 
 her in the work. During this time, for a period 
 of two years, she was employed as editor of a 
 department of the Dayton Daily Herald. 
 
 Her fondness for study led her to enter in 1887 
 the Union Biblical Seminary at Dayton, Ohio, 
 where she studied Hebrew, theology and Greek. 
 Her average in Hebrew was ninety-eight, Greek 
 ninety-six, ancient history ninety-six and theology 
 ninety-eight, this being the highest in the class, 
 of which she was the only woman member. Her 
 study of the classics being unusual for a wealthy 
 married woman attracted considerable com- 
 ment, but its influence for good was far-reaching. 
 Business reverses caused her to discontinue study 
 and aid her husband in his office, and in time she 
 superintended his five-story building used as a 
 sash, door and blind factory. This she did satis- 
 factorily, gaining the good will of the workmen, 
 who called her the "little boss" and filling this 
 position until the concern passed into other hands. 
 In September, 1889, she accepted the position of 
 preceptress of Midland College, at Atchison, Kan., 
 and remained there for a year, being much be- 
 loved by pupils and faculty, who refused to ac- 
 cept her resignation at the end of the year. 
 
 On account of ill health, Mrs. Beaver came to 
 Colorado and, desiring to continue medical studies 
 begun elsewhere, she entered the University of 
 Colorado at Boulder, where she passed the two 
 years' examination in the medical department. 
 In the fall of 1890 she went to Chicago and en- 
 tered the senior class of the Woman's Medical 
 College, a department of the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity, from which she graduated a year later. 
 For two months she was interne at the Hospital 
 for Women and Children in Chicago. Returning 
 to Denver, she opened an office in June, 1891, 
 and here she has met with phenomenal success as 
 a physician. In the spring of 1894 she took a 
 post-graduate course in New York City. 
 
 In the fall of 1894 Dr. Beaver was elected an 
 officer in the East Capitol Hill Women's Repub- 
 lican Club. Later she was appointed a member 
 of the state board of charities and corrections 
 for a term of six years, and also a member of the 
 state board of pardons for two years. After 
 having served for two years as a member of the 
 
 state board of pardons, she was retained in the 
 office by the Democratic governor. Governor Alva 
 Adams. Representing the board of charities and 
 corrections, she was sent as a delegate to the na- 
 tional conference at New Haven, Conn., and the 
 following year was appointed by the governor to 
 visit state institutions and insane asylums in Ohio 
 and Michigan. In the summer of 1895 she made 
 a trip to Europe and attended the international 
 convention of the W. C. T. U. in London, also 
 the international prison congress at Paris. She 
 traveled through Scotland, England, France, 
 Germany, Belgium and Holland, visiting medical 
 schools, hospitals, prisons and insane asylums. 
 For years, and until the death of the loved na- 
 tional leader, she numbered Frances Willard 
 among her friends, and has also been intimately 
 associated with other women of prominence in 
 reform work. Her life has been a very busy one, 
 and now, in its prime, she can look forward hope- 
 fully to many years of continued usefulness in the 
 large field to which she has been called. 
 
 ELYDE O. SECREST, A. B., superintendent 
 of schools of Jeiferson County, was born in 
 Senecaville, Guernsey County, Ohio, Au- 
 gust 22, 187 1, and is of German descent. The 
 family, however, has been identified with Amer- 
 ican history since an early period in the settle- 
 ment of this country. He is a son of Henry G. 
 Secrest, and a brother of Luther C. and Thomp- 
 son E. Secrest, whose sketches appear on page 
 1099. The youngest of the family is the subject 
 of this sketch. He graduated from the Seneca- 
 ville high school in 1887 and then entered the 
 sophomore class of Scio (Ohio) College, from 
 which he graduated in 1890 with the degree of 
 A. B. Upon completing his education he turned 
 his attention to educational work. His first po- 
 sition was that of superintendent of schools at 
 New Akron, Ohio. In the fall of 1892 he be- 
 came principal of the Lathrop schools at Golden, 
 where he remained until he accepted the princi- 
 palship of the Ralston high school. In the fall 
 of 1897 he was elected county superintendent of 
 schools on the joint Republican and silver Re- 
 publican ticket, and took the oath of office the 
 second Tuesday in January, 1898, for a term of 
 two years. He introduced the system of a com- 
 parison of work among teachers of the county, 
 
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 and has instituted other improvements tending 
 to advance the standard of scholarship and the 
 thoroughness of work done bj' teachers. He 
 has actively promoted the district normal insti- 
 tute, which comprises the counties of Gilpin, 
 Clear Creek and Jefferson, and a meeting of 
 which was held in Golden. In promoting the 
 County Teachers' Association he has rendered 
 efiRcient service. He is also identified with the 
 State Teachers' Association and the National 
 Educational Association. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Woodmen of the World. He 
 has been Sunday-school superintendent in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a 
 member, and has frequently lectured before Ep- 
 worth Leagues and Christian Endeavor societies. 
 
 fAMUEL BROWN. Among the represent- 
 ative farmers of Douglas County, Colo., the 
 name of our subject stands out prominently 
 as representing a good citizen and enterprising 
 business man, and a farmer of the first class. He 
 resides on section 14, township 10, and range 66 
 west, six miles east of the town of Greenland, 
 and his homestead consists of six hundred and 
 twenty- five acres. He was born in Greenup 
 County, Ky., June 11, 1832, and is a son of Will- 
 iam and Mary (Warnock) Brown. 
 
 Mr. Brown was reared on his father's farm and 
 his opportunities for education were only such as 
 afforded by the pioneer school; upon reaching 
 manhood, he left the parental roof and went to 
 Lee County, Iowa, where he remained but a short 
 time, when he went to Scotland County, Mo., 
 and his first six months in that county were spent 
 teaching school; after returning home a few 
 months, he began working on the Ohio River. 
 The next few months were spent engaged in farm- 
 ing in Jackson and Cass Counties, Mo., but in 
 1854 he moved to what is now Lynn County, 
 Kan., where he took up a tract of land and began 
 farming. In the following year he was wedded 
 to Martha Hobbs, by whom he reared two chil- 
 dren: Melvin G. is on a ranch in Douglas 
 County, Colo., and he is the father of five chil- 
 dren; Mahala J. is the wife of James Buckner 
 of North Carolina, and they are the parents of 
 six children. Our subject was a resident of Kan- 
 sas fourteen years, during which time he was a 
 member of the state militia; he went to that state 
 
 with James Montgomery, a leader of the Free- 
 Soil party, who was later colonel in the Re- 
 bellion; during the Civil war when Price and his 
 band of Confederate robbers kept plundering the 
 people of that state, the state militia, under the 
 leader, Samuel Pleasanton, succeeded in driving 
 Price out. In the spring of 1863 he went to 
 Fort Scott to superintend a sawmill, but later re- 
 turned to Lynn County and purchased a farm, 
 carrying on general farming and dealing in cattle. 
 In the year 1867 Mr. Brown was unfortunate in 
 lo.sing his wife. In 1868 he sold out, and on 
 May I, he and his family, with a party of about 
 seventy other white settlers, moved to Colorado, 
 arriving there on the 23d day of the following 
 month; the settlers made the journey with one 
 team of horses and the rest Texas wild cattle, 
 their conveyance being a covered wagon, which 
 afforded their only shelter from the storms that 
 overtook them on the way. The journey was 
 slow, as they were often molested by the Indians, 
 and then they were often delayed by their ox 
 teams; they being wild it required many hours to 
 yoke them; at night, the people slept within a 
 circle formed by the wagons and the men would 
 take turns in watching for the Indians. 
 
 Arriving in Colorado, our subject stopped at 
 Castle Rock a short time, but soon after moved 
 to Divide, where he found employment in a saw- 
 mill; at first his salary was $50 per month, but 
 was later increased to $3.50 per day. At first 
 his family lived in their covered wagon, but later 
 they moved into the log house erected by our 
 subject, where they remained one year. During 
 the winter of 1868, two of the mill hands were 
 killed by the Indians, and after that a man was 
 left on guard, but by the following spring the In- 
 dians had ceased to molest the mill, and had left 
 that section of the country. In December of that 
 year, he and his children started back to Kansas; 
 they drove through the deep snow to Eagle Tail, 
 Kan. , from which point they took the train for 
 Kansas City, and resumed their journey to Kan- 
 sas. After getting located in Kansas, he took a 
 trip to his old home in Kentucky; spent several 
 months back in Colorado, and then visited the 
 ruins of the Chicago fire. Returning to his home 
 in Kansas a short time, he moved to southwestern 
 Missouri, where he bought a herd of cattle, and 
 after keeping them about a year, he sold them 
 for horses, which he later shipped to Colorado, 
 
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 He then bought logging teams and engaged in 
 logging at Divide; there he purchased two hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land and began farming. 
 A few years later he drove to Texas, passing 
 through forty-one counties of that state, and buy- 
 ing horses, he drove them to the northern part of 
 the state, where- he disposed of them; after spend- 
 ing the winter in the Indian Nation , he went to San 
 Antonio, Tex. .where he bought about one hundred 
 horses and drove them through to Colorado, 
 where he traded them for the land he now owns. 
 He has since devoted the most of his time to agri- 
 cultural pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Brown formed a second marriage with 
 Mrs. Jane Cormack, nee Keene, a native of Ten- 
 nessee, and by her first marriage she reared three 
 children, namely: John P., who is married and 
 the father of two children; Mrs. Nancy Ritchie; 
 and Mrs. Emma Lawrence, who is the mother of 
 five children. Our subject was reared a Whig, 
 and later became a Democrat, but is now an ar- 
 dent Populist. In 1869 he was elected sheriff of 
 El Paso County, Colo., served as justice of the 
 peace of Linn County, Kan., and was a candidate 
 on the Populist ticket for highway commissioner 
 of Douglas County, Colo., but was defeated. 
 Fraternally our subject became a member of the 
 Paris Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M., of Kansas, 
 but when he left that state he obtained a demit. 
 Mr. Brown has made two trips to the southwest, 
 one by wagon and the other by foot, visiting the 
 ruins of the Aztecs. 
 
 WILLARD TELLER. The Teller family 
 was represented in the United States in an 
 early day, the first of the name in this 
 country having emigrated from Holland to New 
 Amsterdam, and in the rapid growth of that sub- 
 stantial Dutch municipality they bore an impor- 
 tant part. William Teller, the progenitor of the 
 family in America, was a farmer and a man of 
 sterling traits of character, if tradition may be 
 accepted. He and his descendants adhered to 
 the Protestant faith. 
 
 John Teller, father of the subject of this article, 
 was born and reared in New York state. He 
 was married, in Allegheny County, to Miss Char- 
 lotte C. Moore, daughter of Willard Moore, of 
 Rochester, N. Y. She is now ninety years of 
 age, and lives at Morrison, 111., ministered to by 
 
 her children and rejoicing in their usefulness and 
 success. Since 1862 her home has been in Illi- 
 nois. Her family comprises eight children, all 
 living. The husband and father died at eighty 
 years of age. In religion he was identified with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. Originally a 
 Democrat of the pioneer type, in 1848 he declared 
 himself in favor of free silver, and he never 
 swerved in his advocacy of bimetallism. Prior to 
 and during the war he sustained Abolition prin- 
 ciples. 
 
 The subject of this sketch acquired the rudi- 
 ments of his education in the public schools, after 
 which he attended Alfred University, Rushford 
 Academy and Oberlin College, graduating from 
 the classical course of the last-named institution 
 in 1858, with the degree of A. B. He began to 
 read law in Angelica, N. Y., and was admitted to 
 the bar at Buffalo in 1859. Opening an office at 
 Olean, N. Y. , he remained there for two years, 
 and then came as far west as Morrison, 111. Af- 
 ter three years in that town, he crossed the plains 
 in 1864, settling in Central City, where he began 
 the practice of law. The country was new, and 
 the large number of companies engaged in mining 
 caused considerable legal business, a share of 
 which he secured. 
 
 The rapid increase of their practice led the 
 Teller brothers to remove their ofiice from Cen- 
 tral City to Denver in the fall of 1877. Their 
 partnership, formed in 1864, continued until 
 1882, when Senator Teller became a member of 
 the cabinet. About the same time Mr. Orahood 
 was admitted into partnership, and in 1893 E. B. 
 Morgan became a member of the firm, and so 
 continued until July i, 1898, when he retired. 
 Teller & Orahood have carried on a general law 
 practice, making, however, a specialty of corpo- 
 ration and mining law, and have acted as attor- 
 neys for the Union Pacific Railroad since 1872. 
 Their practice is probably one of the largest 
 and most lucrative of those in the United States 
 court. 
 
 In Olean, N. Y., in 1862, Mr. Teller married 
 Miss Weltha A. Gleason, of that place, and a 
 member of an old Massachusetts family. His at- 
 tention has been concentrated upon his practice, 
 to the exclusion of any connection with clubs or 
 fraternal organizations. A logical thinker, force- 
 ful speaker and broad-minded man, he has won 
 his success by native talents as well as by the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 exercise of determination and perseverance. Be- 
 ing an exceptionally strong man mentally, with 
 force of will, lie has won his way in spite of 
 obstacles that might have discouraged a man of 
 less perseverance. Only his intimate friends know 
 how valuable have been his services to his party. 
 As a lawyer, it has been his rule in life to identify 
 himself thoroughly with his clients' interests, and 
 his loyalty to their welfare was never questioned. 
 Laborious and patient in the conduct of his cases, 
 he has exhibited, alike in professional practice 
 and private affairs, the self-reliant spirit and 
 strong individuality that mark his character. 
 
 ©ALKELD SMITH, manager of the lands 
 ?Sk belonging to the Union Live Stock and In- 
 ISf vestment Company of Denver and one of the 
 thrifty farmers of Lakewood, Jefferson County, 
 was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, May 23, 1850, 
 a son of Samuel and Mary Anna (Western) 
 Smith. He was one of eleven children, five of 
 whom are now living, namely: Cuthbert, whose 
 home is in Australia; Mrs. Sarah Bolton, also of 
 Australia; and Thomas, who lives in the same 
 country; Elizabeth D., wife of Rev. J. D. Bug- 
 lass, of Stockport, England; and Salkeld. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in Stock- 
 port, England, about 1794, and was descended 
 from an old and respected Yorkshire family. He 
 was the son of a clergyman in the .Church of 
 England, but did not sympathize with the views 
 of the state church and became a dissenting 
 preacher. Failing health obliged him to give- 
 up much of his work and he removed with his 
 family to the Isle of Man, where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his life. He continued, however, to 
 preach to the last, in spite of poor health, and his 
 death occurred five minutes after he came from 
 the pulpit, after preaching, as usual, to the 
 people. He had a brother, Salkeld, who was a 
 lieutenant and was one of three who took the 
 gates of Delhi during the Indian mutiny, meet- 
 ing his death there. 
 
 Under a private tutor. Rev. B. F. Clark, the 
 subject of this sketch finished his education. At 
 fourteen he began to work in the office of the Mona 
 //'^^■a/ii^of Douglas, one of the oldest newspapers on 
 the Isle of Man. The work, however, confined 
 him more than he liked, and after one year he left 
 and apprenticed himself to the millwright's trade. 
 
 at which he served for five years, and then became 
 a journeyman millwright. In 1870 he crossed 
 the ocean to America and settled in Chicago, 
 where he worked for three years on Canal and 
 Twelfth streets, in the employ of Heeney & 
 Campbell, stair builders. In the spring of 1872 
 he came to Colorado and established himself in 
 business on the corner of Sixteenth and Arapa- 
 hoe streets. His first work was the building of a 
 stairway in the residence owned by David H. 
 Moffat. He continued in the business until 
 1879, when he disposed of his interests and 
 bought his present ranch of one hundred and 
 sixty acres. The land was at that time a tract of 
 wild prairie, with no improvements whatever. 
 In the nineteen years that have since elapsed he 
 has shown what can be done in the cultivation of 
 the orchard interests of Colorado. He has made 
 a special study of the blight and has in a great 
 measure mastered its disastrous effects. On his 
 place between twenty and thirty acres are planted 
 in fruit, and his orchards are among the best in the 
 county. In addition to the management of his 
 land, he has since 1888 been manager of the lands 
 (more than one thousand acres in cultivation) 
 owned by the Union Live Stock and Investment 
 Company of Denver, and his superintendence of 
 this valuable property has been most efficient. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Smith married Miss Martha A. 
 King, of Denver. She was a daughter of Wil- 
 son E. King, who came from New Hampshire as 
 far west as Waupaca County, Wis., shortly after 
 his marriage. Mrs. Smith was reared and edu- 
 cated in that county, from which place she came 
 to Colorado and for some time was a teacher in 
 the Arapahoe street school, then the principal 
 school in Denver. She is a woman of broad in- 
 formation and culture, and not a little of her hus- 
 band's success is due to her wise counsel and act- 
 ive co-operation. They are the parents of three 
 children: Samuel W., a graduate of the Manual 
 Training School of Denver; Clarence S., also a 
 graduate of that school; and Martin W., who is 
 attending the school from which his brothers 
 graduated. The education of the sons has been 
 greatly promoted by the care and oversight of 
 their mother, who has aided them in the acquire- 
 ment of knowledge and has spared no pains to 
 advance their interests. She is an active worker 
 in the cause of prohibition in both Jefferson and 
 Arapahoe Counties. The family have a city resi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 dence at No. 2422 Grant avenue, where they 
 spend the winters, returning to the ranch for the 
 summer. In religion they are identified with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Smith 
 is steward and Sunday-school superintendent. 
 
 (I OHN HELMER. Ten miles south of Little- 
 I ton, on section 26, township 6 south, range 
 Q) 69 west, Douglas County, stands the home- 
 stead of Mr. Helmer. He was born in Tyrol, 
 Austria, January 16, 1858, and is a .son of Frank 
 and Judith (Scholl) Helmer. During the year 
 of his birth his parents came to America and for 
 a time made their home in New Jersey, where 
 the father followed the blacksmith's trade. Dur- 
 ing the war he enlisted in the Ninth New Jersey 
 Infantry as a musician, and served for three years 
 and five months. After the close of the war he 
 came to Colorado, going to St. Joseph, Mo., by 
 train and steamboat, and from there he and his 
 son, our subject, who was then eight years of 
 age, walked across the plains, accompanying a 
 party of emigrants. The long tramps over the 
 plains were very hard on the boy, who, often, 
 when night came, threw himself on his blanket, 
 too weary to eat. Added to other hardships, 
 water was scarce and they were put on short 
 allowance. Finally, after thirty-one days, they 
 arrived in Denver, where they remained until 
 1872. Some months after they arrived they were 
 joined by another son, Anton, and in 1867 the 
 mother arrived from the east. In 1872 the father 
 entered government land one mile south of our 
 subject's present home. Later he bought the 
 two hundred acres our subject now owns. In 
 1888 he moved back to Denver, and there his 
 death occurred March 27, 1892. His wife died 
 December 10, 1891. Of their twelve children 
 only three attained maturity: Anton, who is a 
 ranchman in this locality; John; and Mary, who 
 . married Louis Miller, of Elbert County, and has 
 three sons. The father was a Republican in poli- 
 tics and in religion adhered to the Catholic faith. 
 When the family removed to Douglas County 
 our subject was about fourteen years of age. He 
 received a fair education in the common schools. 
 When eighteen years of age he began to haul 
 freight, and while thus engaged was in most of 
 the towns about Denver. September 15, 1888, 
 he married Miss Nellie Regan, who was born in 
 
 County Cork, Ireland, a daughter of William 
 and Margaret Regan. When about eleven years 
 of age she crossed the ocean, spending nine days 
 on the voyage, and encountering a severe storm 
 that endangered the lives of the passengers. At 
 first she lived in Hannibal, Mo., but in 1886 
 came to Denver, thence removing to Georgetown, 
 and was married in Denver. Since their marriage 
 Mr. and Mrs. Helmer have resided on their 
 ranch. They are the parents of three children : 
 Julia, who was boru August 18, 1892; John 
 William, who died at the age of one year and 
 eight months; and Pauline Anna, born October 
 20, 1896. The family are identified with the 
 Roman Catholic Church, in which Mr. Helmer 
 was confirmed in New Jersey and his wife in Ire- 
 land. Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 DWARD T. GARTLEY is one of the pro- 
 >) gressive farmers of Bear Creek Valley. In 
 _ 1892 he purchased forty acres of land near 
 Morrison, Jefferson County, and shortly afterward 
 added another forty acres, giving him a neat 
 little fami to cultivate and improve. He has 
 since given his attention to the development of 
 this place, and, being industrious and persevering, 
 has already achieved a large degree of success. 
 He is prominent in his community and has the 
 respect of those with whom he has business or 
 social relations. 
 
 In Ontario, Canada, the subject of this sketch 
 was born October 19, 1855, son of Edward B. 
 and Jane (Sheridan) Gartley. He was one of 
 seven children, six of whom survive, viz. : Will- 
 iam; Martha, wife of Oliver Curlis; Edward T. ; 
 John; Margaret, wife of Joe Gibson; and Grace, 
 Mrs. William Hood. His father, who was a 
 native of England, came to Ontario in his boy- 
 hood days and there grew to manhood, married 
 and engaged in farm pursuits. He still makes 
 his home in the province of Ontario. 
 
 When a boy the subject of this article learned 
 the trade of a miller, which he followed until he 
 was twenty-four years of age, in his native land. 
 In 1880 he came to Colorado and for two years 
 followed milling in Littleton, as an employe in 
 the Old Rough and Ready mill. Afterward he 
 worked for one year on a reservoir four miles 
 west of Littleton, and from there came to Bear 
 Creek Valley and began to work as a ranch hand. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 He was economical and saved his earnings; until 
 he was able to purchase the farm he now owus 
 and occupies. Politicall}' a Republican, he was 
 elected road overseer on his party ticket in 1889, 
 and for eight consecutive j'ears held the office, 
 discharging its duties with eflSciency and success. 
 March 28, 1883, Mr. Gartley was united in 
 marriage with Miss Mar}' Schaefermeyer, daugh- 
 ter of Christian Schaefermeyer, a prominent 
 farmer of this valley. One child was born of 
 their union, a son, Edward C, now deceased. 
 
 HENRY CASADAY, a successful business 
 man of Boulder, first came to Colorado in 
 1877, aud though he returned to the east 
 at the end of a few months, he was not content 
 to remain there permanently, having once beheld 
 the beauties of this state and foreseen its brilliant 
 future. He has made his home in Boulder for 
 the past fourteen years, and has been actively 
 interested in its growth and prosperity. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of the above-named 
 gentleman was a native of Westmoreland County, 
 Pa., while the latter's parents, W. H. and Mary 
 (Miller) Casadaj', were of Pennsylvania and Del- 
 aware birth respectively. The father, W. H., 
 was connected with the First National Bank of 
 Allegheny, Pa., from the time of its organization 
 until he retired late in life from busine.ss cares. 
 He was an attorney-at-law. Mrs. Casaday is still 
 living at her home in Allegheny, Pa. Their 
 family comprised three sons and three daughters, 
 of whom five are yet living. One son, J. B., is 
 a resident of Colorado Springs. 
 
 Henry Casaday was born December 5, 1856, in 
 Allegheny City, Pa. His education was obtained 
 in the public schools, and after he had completed 
 his higher studies he took a position in a dry- 
 goods store. The close and confining work, 
 however, proved injurious to his health, and in 
 July, 1877, he came to Colorado, hoping to be 
 benefited. He remained here four months, and 
 then returned to his old home, where he stayed 
 for a year or more. In the spring of 1879 he be- 
 came manager of the Pueblo (Colo.) branch ol 
 the Continental Oil and Transportation Company 
 and continued there for two years. Thence he was 
 sent by them up the Rio Grande Railroad, and 
 established a station for his company at Gunni- 
 son City. Up to 1884 he was the manager of that 
 
 branch and since then he has held a similar posi- 
 tion with the same company in Boulder, though 
 it is now known as the Continental Oil Company. 
 Mr. Casaday has under his supervision the branch 
 stations in Longmont, lYOuisville and Erie, and 
 smaller towns in this county, shipments of oil 
 being made to them from Boulder, in iron bar- 
 rels, by freighters. He has been very energetic 
 in his undertakings, and his company owe to his 
 excellent executive ability and forethought the 
 large trade which they have in this region. He 
 is financially interested in the Boyd Concentrat- 
 ing Mill, having originally bought the old Boyd 
 plant, and now handles the ore with the most ap- 
 proved modern methods. He also organized the 
 Brooklyn Mining, Milling and Investment Com- 
 pany, the oldest of the kind in the valley, and is 
 the president of the same. When the company 
 laid out Mapleton Addition to Boulder he was 
 influential in the work, and was the first person 
 to build a residence west of the ditch. His home 
 is a very attractive and handsome modern resi- 
 dence, located near the western end of Pine 
 street. 
 
 In politics Mr. Casaday was always actively 
 concerned in the success of the Republican party 
 until the presidential campaign of 1896, when he 
 took issue with it on the money question. For- 
 merly he attended county and state conventions 
 and did effective service for his party. He is a 
 member of Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M. 
 He holds membership with the Baptist Church, 
 and is chairman of the board of trustees. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Casaday occurred in Alle- 
 gheny, Pa., the lady of his choice being Miss 
 Elizabeth Robertson, likewise a native of that 
 city. Her parents were from Scotland. The 
 three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Casaday are 
 Barton, Edith and Arthur. 
 
 y/j ICHAEL JOSEPH McMAHON, of River 
 Y Bend, Elbert County, was born May 15, 
 (9 1845, in Limerick, Ireland, and came to 
 America with his mother, who died soon after 
 reaching Washington, D. C, leaving him, a boy 
 of eleven years, alone in the world without any 
 means of support, except such as he was able to 
 obtain by his own industry. He was a lad with 
 great strength of purpo.se, and this enabled him 
 to win his way where another would have failed. 
 
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 His father, Michael McMahon, was an officer in 
 the British army, where he was arrested in 1848, 
 for treason, and died shortly after of cholera. His 
 mother, Margaret Lyons, was a native of the 
 same vicinity, and after the death of her husband, 
 thought to try this country with her youngest 
 children, with a view to bettering their condition, 
 but died, as before stated, soon after her arrival. 
 
 There were eight children: James was a captain 
 of artillery in the French army, and came on a 
 visit to this country with McMahon and O'Neil; 
 Patrick, who was a midshipman in the English 
 navy, afterward came to America and kept a 
 boot and shoe store in Bridgeport, Conn. ; Den- 
 nis, who after years in France, finally located in 
 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he kept a boot and 
 shoe store; John, who was educated for a Cath- 
 olic piest, died in Ireland before he was ordained; 
 Thomas also died in Ireland while young; Sarah 
 was married in England to a Mr. Regan and 
 died in Washington, D. C; Margaret married in 
 Washington, a Mr. Howe, who died of wounds 
 received in the Civil war; she is also deceased; 
 and Michael J. completes the family. 
 
 Mr. McMahon received his schooling in Ire- 
 land, before he was eleven, but he is a great 
 reader, and has added to his general fund of in- 
 formation, until to-day he is far ahead of many 
 who boast a college education. After his mother's 
 death he went to Connecticut, where he met Mr. 
 Baldwin, a machinist, who took him as an 
 apprentice, and with him he remained about two 
 years when he went to Baltimore, Md., and there 
 he found himself in a strange city, with the 
 princely sum of three cents on which to subsist. 
 He managed to live on this for three days, when 
 fortunately for him, he ran across a cousin who 
 was a large railroad contractor and furnished him 
 work. He went to Virginia and worked for his 
 cousin two years, until the war broke out, when 
 he enlisted as a guard in President Lincoln's 
 house. On the ist of April, he accompanied the 
 Sixty-ninth regiment that had come from New 
 York to Arlington Heights. He crossed the Po- 
 tomac at Georgetown, D. C, and from there his 
 regiment was sent to Harper's Ferry. Thence 
 he returned to Washington. He was all through 
 the war, serving under Generals McClellan, 
 Mead and Sherman, and was mustered out at 
 Louisville, Ky., after the grand review in Wash- 
 ington, in 1865. He attended the funeral of 
 
 President Lincoln. Later he went west to 
 Leavenworth, Kan., thence to Hayes, this state, 
 where he stayed until the fall of 1868, and then 
 entered the employ of the United States Express 
 Company at Chalk Bluff, seventeen miles east of 
 Wallace, Kan. The following year they sent 
 him to Park Station, next he went to California, 
 then returned east and remained a short time, 
 after which he came to Denver and remained a 
 year before purchasing his ranch in Elbert 
 County, where he has lived for the past fourteen 
 years. He has a large ranch of twenty-three 
 hundred acres, and deals principally in sheep. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. McMahon married Miss Mary 
 Ellen Collison, of Maryland, whose father was 
 an Englishman. She died about a year ago, 
 leaving the following-named children: Thomas 
 Edward, a hotel keeper in the mountains; John 
 Emmett, a section foreman on the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railway; Patrick S. and Wolf Tone, 
 both at home; Eliza Margaret, wife of William 
 Mack; Marj', wife of W. E. Brookman; and 
 Jennie, wife of M. L. Moore, of Denver. Mr. 
 McMahon was a Democrat in early life, but 
 for the past twenty j-ears has been a strong Re- 
 publican. For two years he has been surveyor of 
 Elbert County, and for six years sheep inspector. 
 He was reared in the Catholic faith. 
 
 (lOHN J. THORNTON is known as one of 
 I the largest and most successful horse dealers 
 (2/ and as an extensive farmer of Weld County, 
 his home property being near Berthoud. He was 
 born in Wyoming County, N. Y., in 1856, and 
 is a younger brother of Wilber R. Thornton, 
 elsewhere represented. In his boyhood he was a 
 student in neighboring schools, and alternated 
 work at home with attendance on the school. On 
 leaving school he learned the cabinet-maker's 
 trade, which he followed in the home neighbor- 
 hood for a few years. 
 
 Coming to Colorado in 1877, ^r. Thornton 
 settled upon a farm west of Loveland and em- 
 barked in farming and stock-raising. After six 
 years on the same ranch, in 1883 he purchased a 
 claim on the Big Thompson River in Weld County, 
 and here became interested in the dairy business 
 and in raising Jersey cattle and Cleveland horses, 
 which branches of agriculture he has since fol- 
 lowed with success. He is the owner of seven 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 hundred acres of good farming land, a large part 
 of which is under cultivation. The stock which 
 he owns are all of the best grades, and command 
 good prices, by reason of their acknowledged 
 superiority. Besides his other interests, he is a 
 stockholder in the Farmers' mill at Berthoud. 
 
 Politically Mr. Thornton is an advocate of the 
 People's party. In religion he is a believer in 
 the doctrines of the United Brethren Church, 
 with which denomination he affiliates. He has 
 passed the chairs in Berthoud Lodge No. 83, 
 A. F. & A. M., and has also been active in the 
 work of the Woodmen of the World. In 1878 
 he was united in marriage with Miss Frances E. 
 Neville, daughter of Edward Neville. They are 
 the parents of seven children. 
 
 'HOMAS E. WARD, who is one of the keen 
 and capable businessmen of Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, was born March 7, 1853, on Cow Creek, 
 near the Little Muskingum, in West Virginia. 
 He was one of thirteen children, nine of whom 
 are still living, whose parents were Stephen G. 
 and Cassinda (Joy) Ward. His father, who was 
 a native of Ohio, born in 18 14, grew to manhood 
 in his native place and, with the Testament for 
 his only text book, he acquired an education that 
 was broad and thorough. As years passed by, 
 he had an opportunity to read books of worth in 
 the line of history, science and fiction, and this 
 careful study of good books made him a well- 
 informed man. He studied medicine, and, being 
 especially skillful in the treatment of diseases of 
 the eye, he had considerable practice as an oculist. 
 A gifted orator, his services were frequently util- 
 ized by the Republican party, of which he was 
 a member. During the Abraham Lincoln cam- 
 paign he " stumped " his section of the country. 
 In religion he was identified with the Christian 
 Church, in which he preached for years and also 
 did considerable evangelistic work. Viewed from 
 all sides, his character was well rounded and 
 admirable. He won the esteem of men with 
 whom he had business or social relations and was 
 held in the highest regard by his personal friends. 
 During the Civil war he was wounded and cap- 
 tured by the Confederates, who confined him in 
 Andersonville prison; and his sufferings while 
 there eventually led up to his death, which oc- 
 curred in Great Bend, Kan., in 1877. He had 
 59 
 
 been a wide traveler in the states, and had made 
 his home in Ohio, Indiana, Illinoisr, West Vir- 
 ginia, Kentucky, Colorado (where he settled in 
 1873) and Kansas. 
 
 The subject of this sketch had meagre advant- 
 ages when he was a boy. His entire period of 
 schooling did not exceed six months. In 1870 
 he started out in life for himself and came to 
 Colorado, landing in Denver May 27. Here he 
 witnessed many wild scenes, for the town was 
 new and its inhabitants rough and reckless men. 
 Board was high, and his first meal cost him $1. 
 While he had no money, he was fortunate in 
 securing work at $30 per month and board, and 
 by Christmas had saved $300. Afterward he 
 rented land and began its cultivation. Saving 
 his earnings each year, he applied them to the 
 purchase of property. In 1889 he bought his 
 present place of forty-six acres near Golden, 
 Jefferson County, and erected a substantial resi- 
 dence, where he has since made his home. 
 
 Returning to Illinois in 188 1, on the 5th of 
 April of that year, Mr. Ward was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss MoUie Trago, of Fairfield, Wayne 
 County, and the two came at once to Colorado. 
 They are the parents of three children, Edna V., 
 Viola M. and Howard L. In politics Mr. Ward 
 votes the Republican ticket, and fraternally he is 
 identified with the Woodmen of the World. He 
 is a man of fine business ability, shrewd, ener- 
 getic and persevering. His fine farm and pleas- 
 ant home are monuments to his industry, economy 
 and good judgment; and the bright prospects 
 which seem to await his future efforts are the 
 legitimate results of his exemplary course. 
 
 (TOHN W. GANLEY, ex-treasurer of Clear 
 I Creek County, is secretary and treasurer of 
 (2/ the Colorado Trading and Investment Com- 
 pany, and since August, 1895, has been engaged 
 in conducting an extensive business in Nevada- 
 ville, Gilpin County. This establishment is the 
 largest of the kind in the county, and, centrally 
 situated on Main street, the store has a frontage 
 of fifty feet, extends back to the next street, 
 occupies two floors and two additional ware- 
 hou.ses. All kinds of general merchandise and 
 supplies may be found here in endless variety, 
 quantity and quality, at reasonable prices. Mr. 
 Ganley is an enterprising and progressive busi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ness man, thoroughly understands the demands 
 of the trade and has always been successful in his 
 undertakings. 
 
 Born in September, 1850, John W. Gauley 
 spent the first five years of his life in Ireland, his 
 native country. He came to America with his 
 parents, James and Eleanor (Kirwin) Ganley, in 
 1855, and for two years lived in Plainfield, N. J. 
 In 1857 they settled in Joliet, 111., and later re- 
 moved to Chicago, where the father's death oc- 
 curred. The wife and mother is still a resident 
 of Chicago. She had three daughters and one 
 son who lived to maturity. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the public schools of Joliet and in Grower's Insti- 
 tute. In 1S65 he went to Chicago and obtained 
 a position in a grocery, where he was employed 
 for a couple of years. In 1867 he came to Colo- 
 rado, and was employed by his uncle, M. Mc- 
 Laughlin, a pioneer of this state and then en- 
 gaged in merchandising in Nevadaville. In 1869 
 the young man became interested in mining oper- 
 ations and developed the Jones mine near this 
 place, during the next four years. Then, going 
 to Silver Plume, he was one of the first business 
 men of the place, being a member of the firm of 
 Dee & Ganley, and later of the firm of John W. 
 Ganley & Co. He assisted in getting the post- 
 office located there and was the first postmaster 
 of the town, being appointed by President Grant. 
 He served for six and a-half years and during 
 this period was also occupied in mining enter- 
 prises in that locality, and, in fact, still has 
 interests there. He located and developed the 
 County Treasurer group of mines. These have 
 since been operated by him, and are tunneled 
 five hundred feet into the mountain. In 1883 
 Mr. Ganley was elected on the Democratic 
 ticket to the office of county treasurer, receiving 
 a large majority and in 1885 was re-elected. 
 Thus he held the position from January i, 1884, 
 to January, 1888. In June, 1888, he went to 
 Denver, where he was with the Hubert Mining 
 Company as assistant secretary and treasurer for 
 two years. In July, 1888, he was influential in 
 the organization of the Colorado Trading and 
 Investment Company, Thomas Burke being made 
 president of the concern, and himself secretary 
 and treasurer. They dealt in real estate, etc. 
 The present president is F. S. Bolsinger, and 
 John J. Clark is the vice-president, while Mr. 
 
 Ganley retains his old office and is the only one 
 of the original incorporators left in the business. 
 He is also secretary and treasurer of the company 
 which owns the Champion mine. 
 
 The thriving town of Silver Plume is greatly 
 indebted to Mr. Ganley for its start. He was one 
 of the founders of the place and was a member of 
 its first board of officials and for six years was a 
 school director there. He is a silver Democrat. 
 An influential member of the Ancient Order of 
 Hibernians, he was the state president of the 
 organization for a period of six years, making a 
 most efficient officer. In Georgetown, Colo., he 
 married Miss Ellen V. Sullivan, who was born in 
 Wisconsin. They have five children. For the 
 past ten years the family has resided in Denver, 
 where better school facilities and advantages can 
 be within reach of the children. 
 
 (Tames S. JELLISON, justice of the peace at 
 I Villa Park, Arapahoe County, settled upon a 
 (2) farm on the South Golden road in 1 883 and 
 for the past fifteen years he has been extensively 
 interested in the cattle and dairy business, in 
 connection with his farming. He now cultivates 
 three hundred and twenty acres of land and has 
 on his place about $5,000 worth of stock. Asa 
 farmer and stock-raiser h^ is energetic, keen to 
 discern improved methods and quick to adopt 
 them for his own use, and in the improvement of 
 his place he has shown himself efficient. 
 
 The son of Ivory and Eunice (Smith) Jellison, 
 our subject was born in York County, Me., 
 October 7, 1842. He was fourth among eight 
 children, seven of whom are still living. Mary 
 A. is the widow of Stephen Grant, of Berwick, 
 Me.; Cynthia is the wife of R. C. Clark, of Ber- 
 wick; Electa married H. J. Austin, also of Ber- 
 wick; Charles E., now retired, was for twenty- 
 two years a member of the police force of Boston, 
 Mass.; Ellen is the wife of Thomas Brown, of 
 Lewiston, Me.; and Lloyd I. lives in Boston. 
 
 The father of our subject was born in York 
 County, Me., in 18 16, and was reared on a farm. 
 He engaged in raising and selling stock and in 
 cultivating a farm, and became a man of much 
 influence in his neighborhood. His death oc- 
 curred in 1894. Our subject's maternal grand- 
 father, James Smith, was a native of York 
 County, where h^ engaged in farming until his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1285 
 
 death, at eighty years of age; his wife, Mollie, 
 also a native of York County, attained the age of 
 eighty-four. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years our subject went 
 to Boston, where for a year he was employed as 
 driver of an express wagon. He then returned 
 to Maine and apprenticed himself to the black- 
 smith's trade, which he finished in two years. 
 Going to Watertown, he became an employe in 
 the arsenal, where he worked for two years. He 
 then took a western trip, and while in Chicago 
 the government issued a call for mechanics for the 
 army. He volunteered his services and went to 
 St. Louis, where he was sworn into service. 
 From that city he went to Nashville, where he 
 remained one month, afterwards spending four 
 months in Chattanooga and five months in Au- 
 gusta, Ga. On the expiration of his term he was 
 honorably discharged. While in Maine, in 1862, 
 he had enlisted as a volunteer, but was rejected; 
 the following year, while working in the arsenal, 
 he was drafted but was again rejected. 
 
 On leaving the army our subject returned to 
 Maine and opened a blacksmith shop in Berwick, 
 which he conducted for a year. Afterward for 
 two years he and a brother-in-law, who was also 
 a blacksmith, carried on the old homestead which 
 they had bought, and at the same time they con- 
 ducted a blacksmith shop in the village of Ross' 
 Corners, one mile distant. In 1869, when the 
 severe financial depression came on, our subject 
 went to Boston, and secured employment as a 
 fireman in the engine room in the American 
 House, one of the leading hotels of the city. 
 After three weeks in the engine room he was 
 transferred to the kitchen, where for five months 
 he was employed as fireman. He was then trans- 
 ferred to the cooking department and acted as 
 the boiler, and three months later was promoted 
 to the position of head meat cook. He left the 
 American to accept a position as head broiler in 
 Young's Hotel, where he received a better sal- 
 ary. However, his health soon failed, and after 
 six months he returned to his farm in Maine. 
 His experience in the army had fitted him for 
 successful work in a- hotel, for he had been com- 
 missary-sergeant at Chattanooga, having one 
 hundred men or more in his shops; and in Au- 
 gusta he had been employed as foreman of the 
 shop. 
 
 After returning to the old homestead Mr. Jel- 
 
 lison devoted himself to farming for one year. 
 The place was his own, he having bought his 
 brother-in-law's interest in 1869. Selling the 
 property, he removed to Ross' Corners, where 
 he opened a blacksmith shop, and there he 
 continued, doing a prosperous business, until 
 1880, when he was taken down with pneumonia. 
 He was ill for weeks and as soon as able to leave, 
 was compelled to seek a milder climate. Accord- 
 inglj' he came to Colorado, and for five months 
 remained at the hot springs at Buena Vista. On 
 regaining his health, he went back to Maine, but 
 was dissatisfied there, and in the spring of 1882 he 
 moved his family to Colorado. After one year 
 in Denver, during which time he was superin- 
 tendent of the agricultural ditch, he settled down 
 to farming on the South Golden road, where he 
 has since resided. 
 
 In York County, Me., in 1869, Mr. Jellison 
 married Miss Anna Stevens, who died the follow- 
 ing year. He was again married in 1872, his 
 wife being Miss Abbie M. Pitts, of York County. 
 Seven children were born of their union, but two 
 died unnamed in infancy. The others were 
 named as follows: John P., deceased; Mabel L.; 
 Charles E., who died in boyhood; Alva H. and 
 James B. 
 
 < /j ARION HODGSON, one of the capable and 
 Y enterprising young farmers of Boulder 
 (9 County, is the subject of this sketch, who 
 owns and occupies a place situated eight miles 
 east of Boulder. His farm is one of the best 
 eighty-acre tracts for miles around. It was given 
 to him by his father shortly after he was married 
 and he has since made it his home, giving his at- 
 tention to its cultivation. He is well versed in 
 the principles of agriculture, employs the best 
 methods in the cultivation of his laud and de- 
 rives a comfortable income from the sale of his 
 farm products. He personally superintends the 
 management of his property and gives to his val- 
 uable business interests the thoughtful attention 
 characteristic of him in every department of ac- 
 tivity. 
 
 Born in Linn County, Kan., October 6, 1872, 
 the subject of this sketch is a son of William E. 
 and Christina (Payton) Hodgson, to whose sketch 
 upon another page the reader is referred for par- 
 ticulars in regard to the family history. He grew 
 to manhood on the home farm and acquired a 
 
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 common school education. October 6, 1894, he 
 married Miss Lena E., daughter of J. J. Wallace, 
 who is represented elsewhere in this volume. 
 One child blessed this marriage, Gladys, born 
 September 14, 1896. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Hodgson is identified 
 with Lignite Lodge No. 69, K. of P. , and Louis- 
 ville Lodge No. 37, Woodmen of the World. He 
 is also a member of the Boulder Valley Grange. 
 
 (fOHN FRANCIS CAMPION, of Denver, 
 I was born on Prince Edward Island Decem- 
 (2/ ber 17, 1849, a son of M. B. and Helen 
 (Fehan) Campion, natives of that island, and of 
 English and Scotch descent. The progenitor of 
 the Campion family in America was John Fran- 
 cis Campion, Sr., a native of England, where for 
 manj' generations his ancestors had been large 
 landed proprietors. Accompanied by his wife 
 and children, he crossed the ocean and settled on 
 Prince Edward Island, where he bought property 
 and in time became a man ofgreat local influence. 
 He died at seventy-five and his wife when seventy 
 years of age. They were the parents of four sons 
 and five daughters, all of whom are deceased ex- 
 cept one daughter. 
 
 Of the sous M. Brevort was a ship owner and 
 captain, and built his vessels in his shipyards. 
 He sailed to foreign ports and was well known in 
 the maritime world. He represented Kings 
 County, his home county, in the Prince Edward 
 Island parliament. In politics he was a liberal 
 first, but later a conservative. Regarding public 
 aflfairs he had broad and keen views. He was a 
 man of aiFairs and took a deep interest in matters 
 of common interest. The last twenty years of 
 his life were spent in Colorado, and his death 
 occurred in Leadville. His wife, Helen, was the 
 daughter of a well-known physician of Prince 
 Edward Island, who perished one winter night, 
 while crossing Northumberland Strait, nine miles 
 in width. Of her four children, one, George F. , 
 resides in Denver; two daughters live in Canada. 
 The oldest of the four children was John Fran- 
 cis, of this sketch. In 1862 his parents removed 
 to California, but being desirous to give their 
 sons good educational advantages, he was sent 
 back, with his brother, to Prince Edward Island, 
 where he attended the Prince of Wales College at 
 Charlottetown. While in school the boys ran 
 
 away, in order to enlist in the United States 
 navy. George F., who was only fifteen, was re- 
 jected; but John F. , who was seventeen, was 
 accepted at Boston, where he enlisted, and having 
 passed a satisfactory examination, was appointed 
 assistant quartermaster. He was sent to the 
 United States dispatch boat, "Dolphin," and on 
 it carried the first despatches to General Sherman 
 at Savannah when the latter had just completed 
 his famous march to the sea. The river at Savan- 
 nah was a seething furnace of burning cotton, 
 making the passage dangerous; and it was also 
 filled with sunken hulks of boats. However, the 
 trip was made without misfortune and the dis- 
 patches delivered. 
 
 At the close of the war, in 1865, Mr. Campion 
 visited his parents in Sacramento, Cal., and from 
 there went into the mountains as a miner. In 
 1868 the discovery of the White Pine silver mine 
 induced him to locate there. At once he became 
 a successful mine operator, but after his good 
 luck had continued for some time, he met with 
 misfortune and lost his all (some $5,000) in the 
 mine. However, he soon made a fortune in 
 Eureka, Nev., where he developed and sold 
 mines. Later, going to Pioche, Nev. , with his 
 father and brother, he bought a valuable silver 
 mine, known as the Pioche Phoenix mine. Soon 
 the Pioche Phoenix Minii^ Company was organ- 
 ized. There was much contention over the 
 possession of the mine, which others claimed, and 
 the latter tried again and again to gain possession 
 of the mine by force, but each time they were re- 
 pulsed with loss. The strife was finally settled 
 by recourse to the law, and Mr. Campion retained 
 possession. After some years he sold the mine. 
 In April, 1879, he went to Leadville, Colo., then 
 at the height of its "boom." He immediately 
 bought several producing mines and claims, of 
 which he subsequently disposed. He still con- 
 siders Leadville his home, though his business 
 interests take him into other parts of the state 
 much of the time. At this writing he is inter- 
 ested in the Pison, Elk, Reindeer and Ibex 
 (better known as the Little Johnny) mines, all of 
 which were started by him and named after some 
 animal; also properties at Breckenridge, Summit 
 County and Larimer County. 
 
 The mining enterprises with which Mr. 
 Campion is Connected are of large value. They 
 are of a nature requiring great courage to start 
 
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 and wise judgment to conduct, both of which 
 qualities he possesses to an unusual degree. As 
 an operator in mines, he was bold and inspired 
 all with faith in his enthusiasm and judgment. 
 The qualities required of a mining operator are 
 of no unimportant magnitude. New conditions 
 confront the operator like a constantly changing 
 kaleidoscope. Great expectations sometimes 
 bring great defeats, but if the operator is a man 
 qualified by nature and experience, great triumphs 
 reward his efforts as well. 
 
 Many exciting experiences have occurred in the 
 life of Mr. Campion, whose name and success are 
 known in every mining camp in the Rockies. In 
 his operations he has usually been alone, relying 
 on his own resources and reaping his own re- 
 ward. His varied experiences before coming to 
 Leadville aided him in his operations here. 
 He is fond of mining. Its continual shifting 
 scenes and its rich promises of reward fascinate 
 him. When he was still a young man, his name 
 became known as a talisman for success among 
 the miners of Nevada, and he was known in Lead- 
 ville as a successful miner before he came here. 
 However, he has had his share of reverses, and 
 the ultimate success he achieved has depended 
 upon the lessons learned in the stern school of 
 experience. That he has profited by these les- 
 .sons is well known, for he now stands foremost 
 among the mining operators of America. 
 
 In 1896-97, Mr. Campion built a palatial home 
 at No. 800 Logan avenue, Denver. His summer 
 months are spent at Twin Lake, fifteen miles 
 from Leadville, where he has a beautiful summer 
 home. He was married in Denver, April 16, 
 1875, to Miss Nellie May Daily, a sister of 
 Thomas F. Daily, of Denver. They have one 
 son, John Francis Campion, Jr., born June 26, 
 1896. 
 
 Politically Mr. Campion has always been a 
 Republican and is a supporter of the silver cause. 
 His time has been given so closely to business 
 that he has not had leisure for official positions, 
 even had he a taste in that direction. In personal 
 characteristics he is known for his equipoise of 
 power, which taken by itself would probably not 
 be supreme, but taken in conjunction with other 
 qualities, constitute a genius of high order. 
 Brave in spirit, to him reverses mean fresh re- 
 solves, and hardships mean greater rewards in 
 the future. He is worthy to rank with the great 
 
 mining operators and financiers of our republic. 
 Younger men are indebted to him for a splendid 
 example of perseverance and determined efforts. 
 From an early age he relied upon his own efforts, 
 thus attaining a self-discipline which is indis- 
 pensable to success. He is essentially straight- 
 forward and manly and is by nature a well- 
 equipped man, a typical product of American 
 life in the nineteenth century and affording an 
 example of the opportunities offered by our great 
 west. 
 
 QHARLES a. BRANHAM, who is engaged 
 j ( in the real-estate and insurance business at 
 U No. 16 17 Lawrence street, Denver, was born 
 in Vernon, Ind., April 20, 1857, and is a son of 
 James and Eveline (Allen) Branham. His pater- 
 nal ancestors were of English extraction and were 
 prominent in the early days of Virginia and Ken- 
 tucky, from which states they removed to Indiana, 
 and became wealthy and influential. Some of the 
 name are now extensively engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business in St. Louis, of which city they 
 are prominent citizens. A brother of James 
 Branham was one of the pioneers of Kansas City, 
 with the growth and development of which he 
 was intimately associated; he was the prime mo- 
 ver in the organization of the First National Bank, 
 of which he served as president, and he was also 
 president of the chamber of commerce and board 
 of trade. He died in that city about 1890. 
 
 During his entire business life James Branham 
 was a railroad contractor and at the time of his 
 death, which occurred when he was fifty-six and 
 his son fourteen years of age, he had on hand 
 contracts to the amount of $150,000. He held 
 the position of superintendent of construction of 
 the Indiana & Vincennes Railroad, which was 
 built and operated by relatives of his own name. 
 Three times married, he had six children by his 
 first wife, four by his second, our subject being 
 next to the youngest of the family. Besides him- 
 self two are now living. 
 
 Prior to the death of his father our subject as- 
 sisted in railroad construction, but afterward he 
 went to Indianapolis and became connected with 
 the Indianapolis Coffin Manufacturing Company 
 as shipping clerk. He began on a salary of $6 
 per week, but his services were so valuable that 
 he soon received promotion . For eighteen months 
 he traveled for the firm and at the time of his 
 
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 resignation he was receiving $125 per month. 
 In 1875 he made his first trip to the west, going 
 to Cheyenne and the Black Hills, but was obliged 
 to return east on account of the hostilities of the 
 Indians. Afterward he entered the transportation 
 department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with 
 which he continued until 1880. During the lat- 
 ter year he came to Colorado and at Colorado 
 Springs had charge of A. 1,. Millard's furniture 
 and undertaking establishment for one year. 
 Coming to Denver in 188 1 he entered the employ 
 of B. H. Bayler, and when the latter sold out, in 
 1882, he took charge of the closing of the furni- 
 ture establishment and the settling of accounts. 
 Having finished that work, he and two other 
 employes of Mr. Bayler formed a partnership in 
 the upholstering business, having their store on 
 the site now occupied by the Ernest and Cranmer 
 building. After a year he bought out one partner 
 and later purchased the other's interest. 
 
 On selling out the business after six years, Mr. 
 Branham went to Los Angeles, Cal., where he 
 entered the mercantile business, but through un- 
 fortunate investments lost most of the money he 
 had made in Denver. In 1889 he came back to 
 this city and entered the real-estate business, 
 platting land for lots, buying and selling, and 
 during the four years that followed he cleared 
 over $60,000, which he invested in city property. 
 The unfortunate decrease in value of property 
 obliged him to sell land that had been worth 
 $35,000 at $1,100, and he, in common with all 
 owners of property in the city, suffered heavy 
 financial losses. 
 
 July I, 1884, in Denver, Mr. Branham married 
 Miss Josie E. Turner, of Louisiana, Mo. , with 
 whom he had become acquainted during a visit 
 she made in Denver. They have one son, who 
 was born in Denver, May 26, 1889. Accompa- 
 nied by his wife, in 1887, he made a tour of the 
 world, sailing from San Francisco to the Sand- 
 wich Islands, where they spent six weeks. From 
 there they journeyed to Australia, touching at 
 Samoa and Auckland, New Zealand. After two 
 months in Sidney they went to Wellington, and 
 from there to London via South America, touch- 
 ing at Rio Janeiro. One of their never-to-be-for- 
 gotten experiences was in the latter city, where 
 they witnessed the celebration of the emancipa- 
 tion of slaves. After touring through Great Brit- 
 ain, they visited all the points of interest on the 
 
 continent, enjoyed the magnificent view from 
 Mount Blanc, crossed the Mer de Glace and Gla- 
 cier der Bossons, visited the scene of the fateful 
 battle of Waterloo, crossed the German Pass, 
 thence down the Rhine through Belgium, and 
 visiting the castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva, so 
 well known through Byron's description of the 
 prisoner of Chillon. Before they had completed 
 their tour as planned, business matters called Mr. 
 Branham to the United States in 1888, and they 
 therefore crossed the ocean to New York, and 
 from there proceeded west to Colorado and Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Though reared in the Republican faith, Mr. 
 Branham supported the Democracy from early 
 youth until recent years, when he became con- 
 vinced that the principles of the Republican party 
 would conduce to the best interests of the people 
 and the welfare of the country. He is prominent 
 in the work of the Central Christian Church, of 
 which he is a deacon and chairman of the finance 
 committee. He became a member of this church 
 shortly after settling in Denver, and was chosen 
 assistant superintendent of the Sunday-school. 
 While acting in that capacity he was married at 
 a pic-nic given by the Sunday-school at Palmer 
 Lake. He is a public-spirited citizen, active in 
 all enterprises for the advancement of the city 
 and the promotion of its welfare. 
 
 'HOMAS J. MILLER, who was the first 
 mayor of the now thriving little city of 
 Lafayette, Boulder County, is a native of 
 this county, and from his earliest recollections 
 has been earnestly interested in its upbuilding 
 and development. He occupied the ofiBce of 
 mayor for two successive terms, giving general 
 satisfaction to the citizens, and later he served in 
 the capacity of justice of the peace for four years. 
 He is identified with Lignite Lodge No. 64, K. P., 
 and is past chancellor of the lodge. In his polit- 
 ical proclivities he is a Democrat, strongly in favor 
 of free silver. 
 
 The birth of T. J. Miller took place upon his 
 parents' farm about three miles east of Longmont, 
 Boulder County, June 22, 1864. The parents, 
 Lafayette and Mary E. Miller, most worthy peo- 
 ple and pioneers of this section, were the founders 
 of the town of Lafayette. Subsequent to the 
 death of the father the family removed to a farm 
 
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 near the town meiitioued and here our subject 
 grew to manhood, his education being acquired 
 in the district schools. In 1887 he took a posi- 
 tion as a stationary engineer, and being a thor- 
 ough and practical mechanic and a conscientious, 
 careful man, his employers placed the utmost 
 confidence in his skill and judgment. For some 
 time he was in charge of the engines of a mine 
 owned by the Citizens' Coal Company. In 1895 
 he turned his energies to the sale of farm and 
 mining implements and tools at Greeley, but at 
 the close of the year, when he cast up his ac- 
 counts, he found that the business was not pay- 
 ing him and he returned to the old homestead. 
 Here in partnership with his two brothers, 
 Charles L,. and George I., as Miller Brothers, he 
 began the cultivation of the farm. In 1896 he 
 purchased a threshing machine, which he runs 
 during the season. 
 
 September 2, 1890, Mr. Miller married Miss 
 Sarah Abernethy, whose father, Thomas Aber- 
 nethy, came to Colorado in 1883 and was one of 
 the first settlers of Lafayette. He is a native of 
 Scotland, and upon his immigration to America 
 in 1864, settled in Pennsylvania. There he lived 
 for a number of years, working in the coal mines. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Miller three children have been 
 born, but only one remains to them, namely: 
 Mollie A., born March 29, 1897. A little son, 
 Lafayette, and the eldest child, Maggie Pearl, 
 died in infancy. Our subject and wife have many 
 sincere friends in this vicinity and enjoy the re- 
 spect of all who know them, here or elsewhere. 
 
 EHARLES E. KUHN. One of the largest 
 ranches in this part of the state is situated 
 near Kuhn's Crossing, in Elbert County, 
 and covers an area of ten square miles. This 
 land is devoted principally to grazing. It is 
 owned by Charles E. Kuhn, who came here in 
 1872, after traveling over a large part of the 
 United States, and was chosen by him as a most 
 desirable location for a home. He was born in 
 1836, in East Berlin, Adams County, Pa., about 
 twelve miles from the famous battleground of 
 Gettysburg. 
 
 His parents were Joseph J . and Jane R. ( McCabe ) 
 Kuhn; his grandfather, John J. Kuhn, was a na- 
 tive of Reading, that state, and was a farmer dur- 
 ing the early days of the state. The father was 
 
 also born in Adams County, and was a drummer 
 boy in the war of 18 12, and during the Civil war 
 a colonel of the state militia. His occupation 
 was that of farming, but for fifteen years he acted 
 as associate judge of Adams County, besides hold- 
 ing many minor offices. He was born in 1803 
 and lived to be seventy-six years of age. He mar- 
 ried Jane R. McCabe, a native of Pennsylvania, 
 but of Irish descent, her father, Edward McCabe, 
 having emigrated to this country from Ireland 
 about the time that that people were coming un- 
 der the dominion of the English. She lived to 
 the advanced age of eighty-two years and was 
 buried beside the husband and father. 
 
 Of their children we note the following: Ed- 
 ward J. is a wealthy farmer of Hanover, Pa. 
 Louis DeBarth, who was surgeon in the United 
 States navy during the war, is now a practic- 
 ing physician in Brooklyn; he married Miss 
 Pettygrove, of Portland, Ore., daughter of the 
 founder of that city. Joseph A. is a lawyer of 
 considerable wealth, president of a bank at Port 
 Townsend, Wash.; he has been in the legislature 
 and state senate for twenty years and is a promi- 
 nent Mason, a past master of the grand lodge of 
 Washington, and a shriner. John R. is a law- 
 yer in Brooklyn; and George R., a physician of 
 the same city. Maria R. married C. F. Leison, 
 auddied while on her wedding journey, in Cuba. 
 Jane is the widow of P. Riley, an eminent law- 
 yer of New York, where she is still residing. 
 Charles is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He received his education in the public schools 
 of his native state and still further supplemented 
 it by a course in Calvert College, Carroll County, 
 Md. , finishing at the age of nineteen. He then 
 went to Mexico, where he and a brother bought 
 horses, selling them in Missouri. After that he 
 was for years engaged in driving cattle across the 
 plains, until 1872, when he came from Missouri 
 With a yoke of oxen, some cattle and horses, and 
 took up his residence on his present home place. 
 This property had no improvements whatever 
 when he took possession of it, and he has just 
 completed a nice residence and will soon irrigate 
 five hundred additional acres of his land. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Kuhn married Miss Jennie Myers, 
 a native of his own county and daughter of a 
 farmer there. They have one child, Cora, who 
 is at home. Mr. Kuhn has always been a Demo- 
 crat, and treasurer of Elbert County for years, 
 
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 but has no desire for public office. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic lodge, a Knight Templar and 
 a member of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 pQlLLIAM S. FLORA, proprietor of a gro- 
 lAl '^^^y and meat market at Berthoud, is one 
 V Y of the well-known business men of Lari- 
 mer County. He is a stockholder in the Handy 
 Ditch Company, and for five years served as su- 
 perintendent of construction, also held the office 
 of director for four j'cars. When the ditch was 
 building he made the first application for water 
 from it, to be turned on his place. He is also a 
 stockholder in the Berthoud rolling mill and 
 Longmont creamery. As one of the first settlers 
 of Berthoud, he has witnessed its growth from a 
 barren tract of land, destitute of houses, to the 
 present thriving little village. Before the town 
 was laid out, he delivered the first load of wheat 
 ever brought here. 
 
 In Monroe County, Ind., in 1847, the subject 
 of this sketch was born to Elijah and Arminda 
 (Atwood) Flora. When he was six years of age 
 he accompanied the family to Greene County, 
 the same state, and later went to Sullivan County, 
 Mo., and from there removed to Page County, 
 Iowa. In the different places where he resided 
 he attended the public schools whenever opportu- 
 nity offered. At the age of fifteen he came alone to 
 Colorado and for some time engaged in teaming. 
 While he was on the plains, hauling freight, the 
 Indians were on the warpath and for three years 
 he was in almost constant danger of attacks 
 from them, having many narrow escapes and 
 thrilling adventures during that time. After 
 four years he purchased a team and began team- 
 ing for himself, following it for a year. In 1867 he 
 went back to Iowa, where he engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising for seven years. Dur- 
 ing this time, in 1868, he married Miss Susannah 
 E. Scarlett. 
 
 Failing health caused Mr. Flora to come to 
 Colorado in 1876. This time he settled in Long- 
 mont, where he farmed for two years. In 1878 he 
 took up government land near Berthoud, and be- 
 gan farming and stock-raising, becoming in time 
 one of the most extensive cattle men of his lo- 
 cality. He still owns and cultivates the farm. 
 For one year he carried on a meat business in 
 connection with farming, and then added to that 
 
 a general grocery .store, of which he has since 
 been the proprietor. In its management and in 
 the care of farm lands and handling of stock in 
 trades, his time is busily passed. In poHtical 
 opinion he is a Democrat and fraternally is identi- 
 fied with Berthoud Lodge, I. O. O. F. , in which 
 he passed the chairs and from which he was the 
 first representative to the grand lodge. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Flora are the parents of eleven 
 children, as follows: May E., wife of G. A. 
 Saltzman; Arminda, who married John B. Sloan; 
 Susannah E., Mrs. Albert Beeler; William H. ; 
 George M., who died at nine years of age; 
 Augu.st,' Peet, Rosie, Pink, Elijah and Carl. 
 
 HON. ELTON T. BECKWITH. TheBeck- 
 with family is of English lineage. George 
 C. Beckwith was born in Halifax, Nova 
 Scotia, to which place his father had removed 
 from Connecticut. For a time he engaged in the 
 mercantile business in Ellsworth, Me., but after- 
 ward became a builder and owner of ships en- 
 gaged in the Mediterranean, West Indian and 
 South American trade. During the war a part 
 of his large fleet of vessels was chartered by the 
 government as transports. He was then living 
 in Boston, but later went to Philadelphia, and in 
 1869 came to Colorado for his health. His la,st 
 years were spent in Oakland, Cal. , where he died 
 at his beautiful villa in 1892, aged seventy-four 
 years. His wife, who was of English descent, 
 was a native of Mount Desert Island, Me. She 
 was a collateral descendant of General Heath, 
 famous in Revolutionary annals. Her death oc- 
 curred in Denver. 
 
 On Mount Desert Island, one of the fashion- 
 able watering places of the people in this country, 
 Elton T. Beckwith was born, April i, 1847. He 
 was educated in the schools of Cambridge and 
 Boston. In 1866 he embarked in the wholesale 
 flour and grain business in Philadelphia, but in 
 1869 closed out the business and in April of the 
 following year came to Denver to engage in the 
 .stock business. The previous year his brother, 
 Edwin F., had settled in what is now Custer 
 County, and the two formed a partnership and 
 have since carried on a large and profitable busi- 
 ness. 
 
 While residing upon his ranch, known as the 
 "Waverly Ranch," Custer County was estab- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lished. In 1886 he was elected upon the Repub- 
 lican ticket to represent his district in the state 
 senate, and served as chairman of the committee 
 on education and educational institutions, and 
 was chairman of the stock committee. Not de- 
 siring re-election, he retired to private life at the 
 close of his term. He has been a delegate to 
 county and state conventions and in other ways 
 has been actively identified with the party of his 
 preference. 
 
 Mrs. Beckwith, who was formerly Miss Elsie 
 A. Chapin, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
 graduated from the Michigan Female Seminary 
 at Detroit. She is a daughter of Adam and 
 Polly (Stone) Chapin, natives of Massachusetts 
 and residents successively of Boston, Detroit and 
 Chicago, where Mr. Chapin was engaged in 
 business. In religious belief she is an Episco- 
 palian and takes a warm interest in the work of 
 that church. The culture of Mrs. Beckwith and 
 her daughter, Velma, who is a graduate of 
 Ogontz Seminary, makes them ornaments of so- 
 ciety, while their taste for the beautiful is evinced 
 by the appointments of their home. 
 
 The business career of Mr. Beckwith has been 
 a succe.ssful oue. His honorable dealings with 
 all men have become proverbial with the busi- 
 ness men of Colorado, who look upon him as one 
 of the most substantial and enterprising citizens 
 of the Centennial state. There are many lessons 
 in his life to a younger generation; and now, as 
 the shadows lengthen and the pathway down the 
 mountain side enters the peaceful glow of life's 
 evening, he can look back upon the heights 
 with a satisfaction few are privileged to enjoy. 
 
 gEORGE WASHINGTON ALLEN, a wide- 
 ly known pioneer of Boulder County, was 
 born upon the anniversary of the birth of 
 the "father of his country," February 22, 1854, 
 and, as was most fitting, was named in honor 
 of the great general, statesman and patriot. 
 The subject of this narrative has had a very 
 interesting and eventful history, as it is indis- 
 solubly interwoven with that of the early settle- 
 ment of this portion of Colorado, and he has 
 always borne his full share of the enterprises 
 which have resulted in the civilization and pres- 
 ent high standing of this state in the great 
 commonwealth. 
 
 The parents of the above were Alonzo N. and 
 Mary (Harris) Allen, natives of New York and 
 England respectively. (For sketch of the mother 
 and her people see biography of W. H. Dickens, 
 a son by her first marriage.) A. N. Allen re- 
 moved from his native state to Ohio, and thence 
 to Columbus, Wis., where he was a pioneer 
 farmer and mill operator. He owned large stone 
 quarries, raised immense crops of wheat and was 
 very prosperous until the panic of 1857 crushed 
 him financially. Two years later he set out for 
 Pike's Peak, driving yokes of oxen and cows at- 
 tached to the primitive wagons or "prairie 
 schooners" of the period. He settled on the St. 
 Vrain River, homesteading a tract of land, and 
 soon embarked in haymaking on a large scale. 
 The hay, which was all cut and raked by hand, 
 he hauled to Blackhawk, receiving incredible 
 prices for it, but groceries and everything in the 
 line of merchandise was proportionately high. 
 Later he turned his attention to stock-raising and 
 mining. He went to the Black Hills, where he 
 was in the placer mines, and upon his return to 
 this county he continued his mining enterprises. 
 His last years were spent in Longmont, where he 
 died in 1895, aged seventy-eight years. His 
 eldest son, Rudolphus N., died in Longmont. 
 Charles F. , the third son, is proprietor of the 
 Imperial Hotel of Longmont; and A. H., the 
 youngest, is foreman in the Longmont Canning 
 Factory. 
 
 G. W. Allen was born in Columbus, Wis., and 
 in the summer of 1863, with his mother, crossed 
 the plains by way of St. Joseph and the Platte 
 River. They reached the small log house that 
 the father had erected on his farm for the family 
 October 25, 1863. The old-time stage lines 
 passed right near their cabin door, and the senior 
 Allen kept an inn and built large barns for the 
 use of the stage company. The nearest town, 
 now Longmont, was then called Burlington. Our 
 subject and his brothers drove teams for the colo- 
 nists, and the former, in 1864, though but ten 
 years of age, accomplished the work of a full- 
 grown man by driving three yoke of oxen in the 
 difficult task of "breaking prairie." For this 
 labor he was paid $10 per month, while men were 
 given $60. With his money thus hardly earned 
 he bought an Indian pony captured by his step- 
 brother, W. H. Dickens, at Sand Creek, and 
 started to raise horses, and within a few years 
 
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 had sixty head. For a few months he was em- 
 ployed by the Ben HalHday Stage Company at 
 $25 per month, and in the winter he attended 
 school. In 1 87 1 he ran a stage between Erie and 
 Burlington and kept a feed stable at the last- 
 named point up to 1875. Then, in company 
 with his brother, R. N., he leased a herd of 
 cattle, eight hundred in number, for five years, 
 on shares, and took them to Cedar Creek, one 
 hundred and ten miles northeast of L,ongniont. 
 The venture was not altogether successful on ac- 
 count of one particularly hard winter, but at the 
 end of the five years our subject started a herd 
 of his own and continued in the stock-raising 
 business up to 1889, when he sold out. For the 
 past fourteen years he has handled live stock for 
 various parties in the west, and upon one occasion 
 one thousand head of cattle were given to him to 
 sell on commission by the Wabash Cattle Com- 
 pany, of Navajo Springs, Ariz. He was not 
 asked to give one cent of .security, and transacted 
 the business to the entire satisfaction of the inter- 
 ested parties, who afterward wrote a highly com- 
 mendatory letter to him. At another time he 
 sold a ranch and stock for a Mr. Pauley, of St. 
 Louis. This was the largest land deal of the 
 kind ever known in the annals of Boulder Coun- 
 ty, the total sum which changed hands amount- 
 ing to $60,000. Mr. Allen owns considerable 
 land himself, one tract being in the vicinity of 
 Golden, Colo. For years he has borne the repu- 
 tation of being the most extensive cattle dealer 
 in the county, and his shipments are generally to 
 Denver and Omaha. When actively engaged in 
 ranging cattle he was a member of the Colorado 
 Cattle Growers' Association. 
 
 Some years ago Mr. Allen improved a piece of 
 ground at Coffman and Third avenue, Long- 
 mont, and now resides in the comfortable home 
 which he established here. He was married in 
 Longmont, in 1881, to Miss Carrie Smith, daugh- 
 ter of William and Annie (Skeel) Smith. The 
 father was a British subject who came to the 
 United States in his early manhood and at first 
 lived on the Hudson River, where he worked at 
 his calling of architect and builder, but in the 
 fall of i860 he went to California, and a few 
 months later died in the city of San Francisco. 
 Mrs. Smith, a native of Scotland, was a daughter 
 of William Skeel, whose death occurred in that 
 country. She reared her family in Tarrytown, 
 
 N. Y., and is still living there. Mrs. Allen grew 
 to womanhood in the Empire state and in 1878 
 came to Longmont. She has three children by 
 her marriage, namely: Vernett S., who is a 
 member of the class of 1902 of the agricultural 
 college; Annie Pearl and Wilhelmina Fern. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Allen belongs to the Odd Fel- 
 lows' society, to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and to the Knights of the Maccabees, 
 while his wife is associated with the Ladies of 
 L. O. T. M. In his political convictions Mr. 
 Allen is a Republican. 
 
 (lOSEPH O. DOSTAL. Soon after the close 
 I of the war, in which he had borne an honor- 
 (2/ able part as a soldier, Mr. Dostal determined 
 to seek a home in the west. April i, 1866, he 
 and a comrade who had served in the same regi- 
 ment with him left Iowa City and proceeded west- 
 ward along the line of the Platte, but at North 
 Platte the friend started on the Salt Lake trail 
 and Mr. Dostal proceeded toward Colorado, set- 
 tling at Central City, where he engaged in the 
 butchering business, first working for William 
 Nicholson, a Scotchman, but not a practical 
 butcher. After working eighteen months here 
 and learning the ways and customs of the people, 
 he returned to Iowa City and married Miss Mary 
 Hamllik, who accompanied faim back to Central, 
 via Cheyenne, to which point they traveled by 
 rail, then took the stage to Central. 
 
 He immediately started a meat market at 
 Nevadaville (now Bald Mountain) with William 
 Nicholson as partner, where they successfully 
 conducted the business for one year. Mr. Dostal 
 then purchased Nicholson's interest and moved 
 to Central on Spring street, where by close 
 attention to business he built up a large trade, 
 which necessitated his engaging larger quarters. 
 He moved to a more central location on Main 
 street, purchasing a building in which he fitted 
 up the finest market in the city, enjoying the 
 patronage of the surrounding towns and mining 
 camps. 
 
 In 1874, when the great Central City fire swept 
 the entire town and reduced it to a mass of ruins, 
 his market was a total loss, but, not discouraged 
 with his severe loss, he at once opened a market 
 stall in the only building then standing, the 
 Hasard Powder Company building, into which, 
 
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 shortly after, the O. K. clothing store, and the 
 Henry Swerder boot and shoe house, moved, each 
 of the three merchants managing to conduct his 
 respective business in this one room, without 
 interfering with the others. 
 
 December 19, 1874, Mr. Dostal moved to his 
 new building, the handsome Dostal Block, on 
 which work was commenced at once. In this 
 block he conducted a first-cla.ss business for one 
 year, building up an excellent trade, but failing 
 health from overwork compelled him to change 
 his occupation and seek the open air; it was then 
 he rented his store and moved to his ranch at 
 Aroya, Colo., in Bent (now Cheyenne) County, 
 on the Kansas Pacific Railway, about one hun- 
 dred and thirty miles east of Denver, which 
 ranch he stocked with sheep, cattle and horses; 
 in 1896 he closed out his sheep and now handles 
 cattle and horses only. He has constructed an 
 under-flow irrigating ditch from the Big Sandy 
 and his extensive alfalfa fields make his ranch 
 one of the best in eastern Colorado. While he 
 and his family were living on the ranch, the 
 Indians made a raid near them and killed a man, 
 which caused the settlers to feel their daily peril, 
 and he soon afterward removed his family to Den- 
 ver, where he resides at No. 2550 Stout street. 
 
 Mr. Dostal was born in Reichnau, Bohemia, a 
 university city sixteen miles from Prague. His 
 grandfather, George Dostal, was born there and 
 engaged in business as a millwright and builder. 
 One of his sons took part in the Revolution of 
 1848. Another son, George, Jr., our subject's 
 father, was a manufacturer of woolen cloth in 
 Reichnau, his native town; but in 1856 he brought 
 his family to America, going first from Hamburg 
 to Liverpool, and thence to New York by sailing 
 vessel. After a voyage of four weeks and five 
 days he reached this country and at once went to 
 Iowa City, Iowa, where he remained until his 
 death in 1866, at the age of fifty-five years. His 
 wife, Jennie, was a daughter of John Blazek, a 
 woolen cloth manufacturer. She was born in 
 Bohemia and died in Iowa in 1893, aged seventy- 
 eight. Ot their eight children all are living but 
 James, who came to Colorado in 1868 and died 
 here; and Frank, who died in Iowa. Three of 
 the daughters are living in Colorado and one in 
 Iowa, while the oldest son, John P., is a resident 
 of Iowa City. 
 
 At the time of coming to America, the subject 
 
 of this sketch was thirteen years of age. He had 
 previously studied in the night schools in his 
 native land and had acquired a good knowledge 
 of both the Bohemian and German languages. 
 He began to work at once after reaching Iowa, 
 first following any occupation that was presented, 
 then working upon a farm, and at the age of 
 fifteen beginning in the butcher's trade. In 1862 
 he volunteered as a member of Company K, 
 Twenty-second Iowa Infantry, which was mus- 
 tered in at Davenport, Iowa, and ordered from 
 there to Springfield, Rolla, West Plains and St. 
 Genevieve, Mo., .successively, and then to Vicks- 
 burg. Miss., joining Grant's army there in the 
 Thirteenth army corps. He took part in the 
 siege of that city and at its close was sent to join 
 the Nineteenth Corps in New Orleans, going 
 from there to Matagorda Bay in Texas, later re- 
 turning to New Orleans, then marching to New 
 Iberia, La., from there back to New Orleans, 
 next transferred to Petersburg, Va., and from 
 there three weeks later to Washington, D. C, 
 where new outfits were furnished. From the 
 capital city he marched to Harper's Ferry, then 
 joined General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Val- 
 ley and participated in that famous campaign, in 
 which he bore an honorable part in three battles 
 and four skirmishes, all fought within thirty days 
 of one another. From Baltimore he went on a 
 transport to Savannah, marched from there to 
 Augusta, returned to Savannah, where he was 
 mustered out, then went back to Baltimore and 
 from there to Davenport, Iowa, where he was 
 honorably discharged August 25, 1865. During 
 his long term of service he was but once wounded 
 (at Cedar Creek, Va.,) and then but slightly. 
 As a non-commissioned officer, he was detailed in 
 the quartermaster's department, but with that 
 exception spent the entire time in the service. 
 
 After two years in Colorado Mr. Dostal returned 
 to Iowa City, where, June 10, 1868, he married 
 Miss Mary Hamllik, who was born near Prague, 
 Bohemia, the daughter of John and Catherine 
 (Rha) Hamllik, also natives of Bohemia. Her 
 father, who was a carpenter, brought his family to 
 America in 1854 and settled in Iowa City, where 
 he engaged in contracting and building during 
 the remainder of his active life. Now at the age 
 of eighty-four, he is living retired. His wife is 
 still living and is seventy-eight years of age. Of 
 their eight children, six are living, two sons and 
 
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 two daughters in Colorado, one son in Oregon 
 and a daughter in Iowa. Mrs. Dostal was nine 
 years of age when the family came to America 
 and from that time until her marriage she resided 
 in Iowa City. She is the mother of three chil- 
 dren: George, a graduate of the Denver high 
 school, teller in the Denver National Bank and 
 president of the Knights of St. John; J. F. , a 
 graduate of the Denver manual high school, class 
 of '98, and member of class of 1902, University 
 of Colorado, where he is fitting himself for an 
 electrical engineer; and Mrs. Delia Livingston, 
 who graduated from the Academy of the Ladies 
 of the Sacred Heart and now resides in Denver. 
 Mr. Dostal was one of the original promoters 
 of the Colorado Cattle Growers' Association and 
 is now a member of its executive committee. 
 Politically he is a silver Republican. He has 
 served in the city council in Central, and as 
 county commissioner in Cheyenne County. He 
 holds membership in Lincoln Post and takes a 
 warm interest in all Grand Army matters. 
 
 NARRY T. HALLOCK, M. D., is a physi- 
 cian in the prosperous little town of Arvada, 
 Jefferson County, and is also interested in a 
 drug and mercantile business here. Coming to 
 Colorado in 1893, he opened an office in Denver 
 and engaged in professional work there for three 
 years, then removed to Arvada, but still retain- 
 ing much of his practice in Denver. His med- 
 ical education was obtained in the east, and 
 there, too, he acquired a thorough experience in 
 the profession, both by hospital work and by 
 private practice. 
 
 The Hallock family was founded in America 
 in 1635, when some of that name emigrated from 
 England to Southold, Long Island. Related to 
 this branch of the family is Gen. William H. 
 Hallock, commander-in-chief of the United States 
 army at one time. Luther C. Hallock, our sub- 
 ject's father, was born in Smithtown, Long Isl- 
 and, in 1816, and at the age of about twenty- 
 seven graduated from the Auburn Theological 
 Seminary, after which he accepted the pastorate 
 of the Congregational Church at Wading River, 
 Long Island. Later he was called to a Brooklyn 
 pastorate, and from that city went to Charleston, 
 S. C. While in the south the war cloud dark- 
 ened the horizon, and, his sympathies being with 
 
 the north, he preferred to return to his old home. 
 He was given a charge at Port Jefferson, and 
 from that time until 1880 his time was divided 
 between Port Jefferson, Brooklyn and Hunting- 
 ton. A chronic throat trouble that rendered ar- 
 ticulation sometimes painful, caused him to re- 
 tire from the ministry, and at the same time he 
 settled on a farm near Port Jefferson, where he 
 remained until his death, in 1890. His father, 
 Minor Hallock, was a sea captain and made his 
 home in Smithtown. 
 
 The marriage of Luther C. Hallock united him 
 with Fannie Tuthill, who was born in Wading 
 River, Long Island, in 1828, and is now living 
 with her daughter, Margaret, in Buffalo. Her 
 father, Harry Tuthill, was an old sea captain, 
 and made his home at Wading River, becoming 
 a large land owner in that locality. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hallock had four children, and three of 
 these are still living, Harry T. being the eldest. 
 Reuben P. graduated from Yale College in 188 1, 
 and is now principal of the Louisville (Ky.) 
 high school; and Margaret S., who graduated 
 from Vassar College in 1889, was for two years 
 afterward a professor in the Halifax (N. S.) La- 
 dies' College, later for three years professor of 
 natural science in Elmira Free Academy, and 
 then resigned as instructor, and began the study 
 of medicine in the Buffalo Medical College, grad- 
 uating four years later, sincd which time she has 
 engaged in practice in Buffalo. 
 
 The birth of Dr. Hallock occurred in Port Jef- 
 ferson, Long Island, January 16, i860. Until 
 fifteen years of age he remained at home, and 
 then went to sea, taking several trips with an 
 uncle, Thomas Hallock, on whose .ship he visited 
 several ports in Central and South America and 
 the West Indies. After his return home he en- 
 tered the high school at Riverhead, and later took 
 a course of study in Bridgehampton Academy, of 
 which Prof. Lewis Hallock was the principal. 
 He then spent two years at the New Haven mili- 
 tary Academy, of which Gen. William H. Rus- 
 sell was the principal. He finished his literary 
 course in the University of the Citj' of New York 
 in 1878, after which he taught mathematics in 
 the White Plains Military Academy for one year, 
 resigning the position to study medicine with 
 Dr. Allen Parker, of New York City. Later he 
 spent one year in the medical department of the 
 University of the City of New York, and three 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1295 
 
 years afterward graduated from the I,oug Island 
 College Hospital. For one and one-half years 
 he was physician to the hospital for women and 
 children in Brooklyn, and then for eleven years 
 served as physician to the hospital in Brooklyn, 
 where nervous and mental diseases are treated. 
 At the same time he carried on a private prac- 
 tice in Brooklyn. In 1893 he came west to Den- 
 ver, and three years later settled in Arvada. 
 
 October 12, 1894, Dr. Hallock married Miss 
 E. A. Crowe, of Iowa. During his residence in 
 Brooklyn he was a member of the church to 
 which Henry Ward Beecher ministered. Polit- 
 ically he is independent, never having allied 
 himself with any party. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Knights of St. John & Malta, 
 the National Providence Union and the Wood- 
 men of the World. He is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, and while in 
 Brooklyn was actively identified with the Kings 
 County Medical Society. For four years past he 
 has been an associate editor of the New York 
 Medical Examiner. 
 
 HORACE NORMAN HAWKINS. The rec- 
 ord of the Hawkins family shows that its 
 first representatives in this country came 
 from England and settled in Pennsylvania during 
 an early period in the history of that state. John 
 Hawkins, who was born in Pennsylvania, removed 
 from there to Kentucky and settled on the Blue 
 Lick River, in Bath County, where he engaged 
 in farming. His family consisted of thirteen 
 sons, eleven of whom attained mature years, and 
 the majority of these became professional men. 
 Probably the most prominent among them was 
 Alvin, who served as governor of Tennessee in 
 1880-82, also held office as judge of the supreme 
 court of Tennessee and was consul to Havana, 
 Cuba. Albert, a prominent attorney, for fifteen 
 years held the office of judge of the circuit court. 
 Joseph, the third son, has be'en prominent in legal 
 circles and served efficiently as judge of the cir- 
 cuit court. Camillus is a successful attorney of 
 Tennessee. James is a farmer and minister in 
 Kentucky. Samuel, now deceased, was a minis- 
 ter in Texas, where William is engaged in farm- 
 ing. Frank served in the Civil war, where he 
 fell in battle. Elvis was a prominent physician 
 in Tennessee. 
 
 The fifth of these sons was Ashton W. , who 
 was born in Bath County, Ky., and read law in 
 that state, intending to become an attorney. 
 This profession .seems to be the favorite one with 
 the family, over fifty of whose members are law- 
 years. However, he became interested in medi- 
 cine, which profession he practiced throughout 
 active life. Politically a Republican, he served 
 as commissioner of agriculture in the state of 
 Tennessee and was commissioner of internal rev- 
 enue for the western district of Tennessee under 
 President Grant; later he served as clerk of the 
 circuit court of Carroll County, Tenn., in which 
 capacity he was engaged at the time of his death. 
 He also held the office of railroad commissioner 
 of Tennessee. 
 
 When a young man Dr. Hawkins enlisted in 
 the Mexican war, and participated in the storming 
 of Vera Cruz, Mexico, and other engagements. 
 When the Civil war came on, it found the family 
 divided in opinions. The father, who was a 
 Whig, had died prior to the war. The mother, 
 Mary (Ralston) Hawkins, was a member of one 
 of the most influential families of the south and 
 was intensely southern in her .sympathies. In 
 her sentiments her sons sympathized and they all 
 became adherents of the Confederacy, excepting 
 the oldest, Alvin, and Ashton W., who, like 
 their father, were stanch Whigs and supporters of 
 the Union. Albert was an adjutant under Gen- 
 eral Forrest, the famous Confederate leader; Will- 
 iam was a captain in a Confederate regiment; 
 Frank fell while fighting under the stars and 
 bars; and Joseph also was a soldier of the Confed- 
 eracy. Carrying out his convictions, Ashton W. 
 enlisted in the Federal service and became a cap- 
 tain in the army. Thus the different members 
 of the same family were arrayed in battle against 
 one another; such were the horrors of our civil 
 strife. bmncrott Lib l..^' if' 
 
 In Dickson County, Tenn., Dr. Hawkins mar- 
 ried Miss Sarah May, a member of an old Ten- 
 nessee family. He settled at Huntingdon, Carroll 
 County, Tenn., but during the war, on account 
 of having northern sympathies, he removed to 
 Olney, 111., where he remained until peace was 
 declared. He died in Huntingdon when sixty- 
 two years of age, and his wife passed away at the 
 same place and age, in 1894. Both were Method- 
 ists in religious belief. They were the parents 
 of six children, namely: Wilhella, widow of A. S. 
 
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 Brevard, of Huntingdon, Tenn.; John M., of 
 Los Angeles, Cal.; William A., who lives in El 
 Paso, Tex.; Horace Norman, the subject of this 
 article; Lena, wife of Rev. C. A. Waterfield; and 
 Effie, Mrs. J. D. Luten, ofFlorence, Ala. 
 
 In the public schools of Tennessee Mr. Haw- 
 kins, of this sketch, obtained a fair education. 
 He studied law with his uncle, Joseph R., and 
 was admitted to the bar at Huntingdon, Tenn., 
 where he practiced until 1892. Afterward he 
 took the regular course of study in Vanderbilt 
 University, from which he graduated in June, 
 1893. On the 1 8th of September he arrived in 
 Denver, where he has since resided. He entered 
 the oflBce of Thomas M. Patterson, and in Sep- 
 tember, 1895, was admitted into partnership. Po- 
 litically he was in youth a Republican, but has 
 affiliated with the Democrats for some years. 
 While living in Tennessee he served as deputy 
 circuit clerk under his father, and when the latter 
 died, before the expiration of his term, a Demo- 
 cratic judge held open the office for the son, until 
 he should attain his majority and be eligible for 
 office. He was then appointed clerk. On the 
 expiration of the term he was elected to the office, 
 but at the expiration of that term he declined re- 
 nomination. 
 
 In Nashville, Tenn., May 14, 1896, Mr. Haw- 
 kins married Miss Frances Rubin, who was edu- 
 cated in that city. They have an only child, 
 Mary O'Neill, born June 13, 1897. Socially Mr. 
 Hawkins is identified with the University Club 
 of Denver. 
 
 ""MELE E. POUPPIRT, D. V. S., who is 
 ^ a successful ranchman and practicing vet- 
 __ erinary surgeon of Arapahoe County, was 
 born November 27, 1865, in the county where he 
 still resides. His father. Modest Pouppirt, a 
 native of France, emigrated to America in early 
 manhood and settled first in Colorado, but later 
 removed to Leavenworth, Kan., where he now 
 resides. In early life he engaged in farming, but 
 he now lives retired from active labors. Politic- 
 ally he was a Democrat in early life. 
 
 The parents of Emele E. Pouppirt were Modest 
 and Louise Pouppirt. They had five sons and 
 two daughters, namely: Oscar, a carpenter in 
 Leavenworth, Kan.; Modest, Jr., a farmer, of 
 Douglas County, Colo.; Eddie, a farmer in 
 Douglas County; Annie, wife of W. H. O'Brien, 
 
 of Leavenworth, Kan. ; Emma, who resides with 
 her father; Frank, a veterinary surgeon in Leav- 
 enworth; and Emele E., of this sketch. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject were passed 
 principally in Kansas, where he attended the 
 public schools of Leavenworth. He studied vet- 
 erinary surgery in the Kansas City Veterinary 
 College and Denver University Medical College, 
 and began to practice in Denver, where he re- 
 mained until 1897. He then purchased a half- 
 section, where he has since engaged in raising 
 cattle and horses. He is an extensive stock- 
 dealer and has met with success in that depart- 
 ment of agriculture. In politics he is independ- 
 ent, voting for the men and measures he believes 
 to be best adapted to the welfare of the people. 
 He is identified with the American Medical As- 
 sociation. October 26, 1887, he married Mamie, 
 daughter of John Wilson, who was born in Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, and became a resident of Henry 
 County, 111. His wife, Hattie Wilder, was born 
 in Rhode Island. 
 
 0ANIEL W. PAINE, superintendent of the 
 Platte canal, has held this position since 
 1890, but had been connected with the com- 
 pany tor a number of years prior to his appoint- 
 ment as its manager. From 1890 to 1895 he 
 made Denver his home, but the company having 
 built a house one mile from Oakes Postoffice, he 
 moved here, and in this place he has continued to 
 reside. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land in Platte canon and bought addi- 
 tional tracts until, at this writing, his landed 
 possessions aggregate six hundred and forty 
 acres, all in one body. Of his property one hun- 
 dred acres lie below the ditch line. The farm is 
 well improved and is operated under lease by 
 tenants, Mr. Paine giving his attention princi- 
 pally to the management of the canal company's 
 affairs. 
 
 A son of James L. and Maria J. (Boardman) 
 Paine, the subject of this sketch was born in 
 Fulton, Mich., April 23, 1853. His boyhood 
 days were passed on a farm situated in the 
 county where he was born. He attended the 
 country schools and acquired a fair education. 
 At nineteen years of age, in the spring of 1873, 
 he came to Colorado, where for six years he en- 
 gaged in mining at Central City. However, his 
 adventures in this line did not prove profitable. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI, RECORD. 
 
 1297 
 
 and he concluded to turn his energies to other en- 
 terprises. Going to lyittleton he leased a dairy, 
 and embarked in the dairy business. After two 
 years, in March, 1881, he began to work at build- 
 ing flumes on the Platte irrigation canal, and 
 continued in the emploj- of the company in dif- 
 ferent capacities, until 1890, when he was made 
 superintendent of the canal. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Paine June 17, 1879, 
 united him with Miss Lydia A. Worthmann, 
 who was born in New York City, and in her 
 childhood accompanied her parents to Oxford, 
 Iowa, later settling in Central City, Colo. Six 
 children have been born to them, namely: Ar- 
 thur Watson, who died at the age of three years 
 and eight months; Albert L,. , Hugh E. , Lydia 
 Estella, Olive May and Judene C. (twins), the 
 latter of whom died at the age of four years and 
 six months; Jane Catherine and David W. 
 
 In matters political Mr. Paine affiliates with 
 the Republican party. His first presidential bal- 
 lot was cast in 1876, when he supported Ruther- 
 ford B. Hayes. He has, however, never sought 
 official position for himself, nor cared to actively 
 identify himself with parti.san politics, his in- 
 terest being that of a private citizen rather than 
 a politician. Fraternally he is associated with 
 Camp No. 71, Woodmen of the World, in 
 Denver. 
 
 (lOHN S. FLOWER. In the early days of 
 I American history, when as yet few from 
 (2) foreign lands had braved ocean storms and 
 the no less danger of Indian hostility in order to 
 found homes on an unknown shore, a shipload of 
 emigrants, under the leadership of Lord Baltimore, 
 anchored on the west coast of the Chesapeake 
 Bay and founded the town of St. Mary's, the 
 first settlement in Maryland. The people who 
 came on this expedition were for the most part 
 men of education, energy and determination, 
 therefore the colony prospered. Among those 
 who came on this pioneer expedition was the first 
 representative of the Flower family in America. 
 Nothing is known of his life work and his char- 
 acter, but it may safely be presumed that he 
 possessed great enterprise and dauntless perse- 
 verance. 
 
 Subsequent generations were connected with 
 the history of St. Mary's City. Gustav Flower, 
 who was born there and owned large tracts of 
 
 land in the same locality, served as a soldier in 
 the war of 181 2. His son, John Burnett Flower, 
 also a native of that town, succeeded to the pos- 
 session of a large tract of laud, in the cultivation 
 of which and in the management of his mercan- 
 tile store, he passed his active years, dying there 
 in 1872. He married Mary, daughter of William 
 Bean and granddaughter of William Bean, Sr., 
 who was a soldier in the Resolution and was of 
 English and Scotch descent. She died in St. 
 Mary's City; of her seven children two daugh- 
 ters and one son are now living. 
 
 In St. Mary's City, where he was born in 
 1862, the subject of this sketch spent the days of 
 early childhood. He was orphaned at the age of 
 ten and two years later went to Baltimore, where 
 he was a student first in St. Mary's, then in St. 
 Martin's Academy. On leaving school he se- 
 cured employment with a publishing house in 
 Baltimore, where he remained for three years. 
 Coming to Denver in 1880, he became an em- 
 ploye of the Tribune Publishing Company, but 
 after two years in this position he changed to the 
 Merchants' Publishing Company and continued 
 in their employ for eighteen months. In 1886 he 
 started the loan and real-estate business he has 
 carried on since. He bought one hundred and 
 twenty-five feet frontage at the corner of Seven- 
 teeth and Glenarm streets in 1894 and with C. J. 
 Parrott, his partner, built the block in which he 
 has his office and which he still owns. He is a 
 director in the Colorado Building and Loan 
 Association. 
 
 In Monroe, Wis., Mr. Flower married Miss 
 Nellie, daughter of Arabut and Caroline (San- 
 derson) Ludlow. Her father, who was of a 
 Vermont family, was a pioneer in Monroe, where 
 he built the Ludlow, the finest hotel property in 
 the state, and in that city he engaged in busi- 
 ness as a banker, merchant and farmer, until his 
 death. Mr. and Mrs. Flower have two children, 
 Caroline and Ludlow. 
 
 Gl DOLPH COORS. Many of the most suc- 
 Ll cessful brewers of the United States have 
 I I come to this country from Europe, and 
 among these is Mr. Coors, owner and manager 
 of the Golden brewery. He was born at Ritters- 
 hausen, in the province of Rhine, Prus.sia, Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1847, and grew to manhood in his 
 
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 native laqd, where he learned the business in 
 which he has since engaged. In the spring of 
 1872 he came to Colorado and for more than a 
 year afterward engaged in bottling beer and 
 wines at Denver. In the fall of 1873 he formed 
 a partnership with Jacob Schueler in the Golden 
 brewery and since that time has been a resident 
 of the city of Golden. The business was esta'b- 
 lished with a capital stock of $20,000, of which 
 Mr. Schueler contributed $18,000 and Mr. Coors 
 $2,000. The first output of beer was placed upon 
 the market in 1874, and from that time on there 
 has been an ever-increasing sale for the products 
 of the brewery. In May, 1880, Mr. Coors pur- 
 chased his partner's interest and has since carried 
 on the business alone. Through his energy and 
 sound business judgment the busine.ss continued 
 to prosper, and seven years after he became sole 
 owner the output was seven thousand and forty- 
 nine barrels per annum. Since then an even 
 greater increase has been shown. In 1890 the 
 output was seventeen thousand six hundred 
 barrels. In 1892 over twenty thousand barrels 
 were produced, while since then a gratifying in- 
 crease has been shown. 
 
 The brewery has established agencies at Den- 
 ver, Pueblo, Trinidad, Colorado Springs, Aspen, 
 Fort Collins, Louisville, Blackhawk, Como, 
 Meeker, Buena Vista, Del Norte, Creede, Gun- 
 nison and Aquilar. The Denver branch is in 
 charge of William Coors, a brother of our sub- 
 ject, and formerly superintendent of the bottling 
 department at Golden. About one-third of the 
 entire output is bottled, the sale for which has ex- 
 tended throughout the entire west. 
 
 The grounds occupied by the brewery are 
 340x200 feet in dimensions, with the South Table 
 Mountain in the rear, the city of Golden on the 
 west, and Clear Creek flowing near by . Shade trees 
 have been planted, with carriage drives between, 
 and artificial lakes to add picturesqueness to the 
 scenery. The buildings are commodious and 
 provided with every modern improvement that 
 will facilitate business. A large corps of work- 
 men are given steady employment, which fact 
 adds to the importance of Golden as an indus- 
 trial center. In addition to the force of work- 
 men large sums of money are paid out for coal and 
 barley, thus aiding these two lines of business in 
 the vicinity of Golden. The stimulus thus 
 created is felt in every line of trade. The 
 
 DeCoppett absorption process is used in the 
 manufacture of ice, the machine having a ca- 
 pacity of forty tons per day. 
 
 April 12, 1879, Mr. Coors married Louisa 
 Weber, by whom he has six children. The 
 family occupy a beautiful home, provided with 
 all the luxuries that wealth will secure. 
 
 r"RITZ NIEMEYER, of Evans, one of the 
 j^ most successful farmers and stock-raisers of 
 I Weld County, was born in Germany Decem- 
 ber 2, 1839, and was a son of August Niemeyer, a 
 successful farmer, who spent his entire life in his 
 native land. Fritz remained in Hanover, Ger- 
 many, until 1865, when he crossed the ocean, 
 landing in New York November 9, 1865, on the 
 steamer "America" after a voyage of eighteen 
 days. He remained in that city until the middle 
 of January, 1866, when he went west as far as 
 Atchison, Kan. There he bought teams and 
 wagons with which to make the overland journey 
 to Colorado. In company with a party of over 
 one hundred men, with forty -six teams, he crossed 
 the plains, reaching Denver in April. There he 
 sold the goods he had brought with him, reaping 
 a large profit. He also sold a number of his 
 teams and with the remainder secured work in 
 hauling brick. With two horses he hauled five 
 thousand bricks per day. He continued in that 
 business until the fall, when he sold his teams 
 and went to Jamestown, Boulder County. Prior 
 to leaving Denver he bought a number of resi- 
 dence lots there which he still owns (about 
 twenty-five altogether) . 
 
 In partnership with others Mr. Niemeyer be- 
 gan prospecting and mining at Jamestown, where 
 he remained until the fall of 1867. During the 
 winter that followed he built a house in Cheyenne, 
 Wyo. , and kept an hotel for two years afterward. 
 In the fall of 1869 he came to Evans, then a new 
 town, just laid out. In partnership with another 
 gentleman he engaged in the brewing business. 
 On the founding of the Greeley colony he went 
 there, but soon returned to Evans, where he has 
 since resided. In 1872, with Eldridge Gerry, he 
 built the Gary block, which still stands. 
 
 Near Harding Station Mr. Niemeyer took up 
 a pre-emption claim in township 4, range 64, 
 and also bought a timber claim in the same lo- 
 cality. He is now the owner of an entire section 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 near Harding. He irrigated the land from the 
 Latham ditch, made improvements and placed 
 the land under cultivation. In the construction 
 of the Latham ditch he took an active part, and 
 is now a stockholder in the company. For a 
 number of years he served as president of the 
 Latham Extension ditch, which he assisted in 
 building. In 1884 he bought a half-section situ- 
 ated on section 8, township 4, range 65, and he 
 also now owns four hundred and eighty acres in 
 the Box Elder country in Weld County. He 
 owns altogether fifteen hundred acres. In 1884 
 he embarked in the stock business and for some 
 time had two hundred head of cattle, and now 
 owns one hundred head of fine horses. Since 
 taking up land he has followed farming and 
 stock-raising. He was an active factor in the 
 organization of the Evans creamery, and owned 
 a large share in the stock. In politics he usually 
 votes the Republican ticket, but is inclined to be 
 independent. For a number of years he has 
 served as town trustee. 
 
 In 1S79 Mr. Niemeyer married Agnes Freud- 
 enberg , who was born in Berlin, Germany, and 
 came to the United States in 1868. Their mar- 
 riage was solemnized at the residence of Mr. 
 Rose, a friend in Denver. They have three 
 daughters living: Rosie, Blanche and Phoebe, 
 and lost two sons, Frederick Charles and Ru- 
 dolph. 
 
 (S\ NTON KAEMPFER came to Colorado via 
 r I railroad to Cheyenne and thence by stage 
 I I to Denver, making the trip in 1870. Soon 
 afterward he settled upon his present property 
 in Douglas County, where he pre-empted a sol- 
 dier's homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. 
 At a later date he purchased other property and 
 is now the owner of six hundred and forty acres, 
 embellished with valuable improvements, and 
 devoted to general farming and cattle-raising. 
 The land lies on section 8, township 9, range 65 
 west, and eight miles .southwest of Elizabeth. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Kaempfer occurred August 
 10, 1832, at Nassau, on the Rhine, in Germany. 
 His father, Jacob, died when the son was only 
 eleven days old, and he was reared by his 
 mother, Anna Maria (Kuhu) Kaempfer. His 
 educational advantages were excellent, and he 
 gained a thorough knowledge of German, French 
 and English. He also studied mining engineer- 
 60 
 
 ing, at which he worked, as well as in the iron 
 mines, until he was twenty-three years of age. 
 He was drafted to serve in the army, but was 
 afterward released. In 1855 became to America, 
 spending thirty days in a sailboat on the Atlantic. 
 From New York, where he landed, he went to 
 Milwaukee, joining a brother in that city. There 
 he was employed by others for some time, but 
 finally started a store for himself. 
 
 During the war, in 1862, Mr. Kaempfer en- 
 listed in Company A, Twenty-sixth Wisconsin 
 Infantry, in which he served for six months. 
 During a skirmish in Virginia he was injured, 
 and being unable to serve longer, was honorably 
 discharged in 1863. Returning to Milwaukee, 
 he resumed business pursuits, remaining in that 
 city until 1870. In 1862 he was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Wilhelmina Augusta Pieritz, 
 who was born on the ocean while her parents 
 were en route to America and was reared on a 
 farm near Watertown. Five children have been 
 born to them, namely: Emma E., who married 
 Gus H. IngersoU and has three sons; Mrs. 
 AdeliaJ. Adams, who has four children; Anton 
 C. G. , who is a teacher and a blacksmith; Mrs. 
 John A. Kroeger, of Silverton, who has one 
 daughter; and Minnie C, who is with her 
 parents. 
 
 In politics Mr. Kaempfer in independent. In 
 1876 he was nominated by the Democrats for 
 assessor. He is identified with Elbert Post, 
 G. A. R. , at Elizabeth. In religion he was 
 reared in the faith of the Reformed Church, but 
 is liberal in his views and has never allied him- 
 self with any denomination. He is, however, a 
 friend of the churches and a contributor to 
 philanthropic effort. 
 
 nOHN A. LITLE, who resides one mile east 
 I of Loveland, Larimer County, was born in 
 (2/ Iowa in 1843, a son of Robert and Catherine 
 ( Miller) Litle, natives respectively of Ireland and 
 Virginia. His father, who was born in 1813, 
 emigrated to the United States at sixteen years 
 of age and settled in Ohio. There he met Miss 
 Miller, who had accompanied her parents from 
 the Old Dominion to the Buckeye state. About 
 1842 he removed to Ohio and became a pioneer 
 of Lee County, where he was living at the time 
 of the Mormon outbreak. In 1867 he removed 
 
I300 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to Baxter Springs, Kan., and opened a store, 
 which he carried on for a number of years. On 
 disposing of his stock of goods he settled on a 
 farm in Kansas. He continued in agricultural 
 pursuits until 1890, when he retired from active 
 labors, and since then he has made his home with 
 his children. Politically he has always been a 
 stanch Democrat. He still retains his faculties, 
 in spite of his advanced years. 
 
 When a boy our subject attended common 
 schools. At the age of twenty -two he and his 
 brother Charles took a load of goods from Kan- 
 sas to Colorado, and sold the stock in Central 
 City. Coming on to Boulder City, he worked 
 for Andrew Doudey in the construction of a flour 
 mill, after which he accompanied his employer 
 to Big Thompson to Old St. Louis and aided in 
 building a mill. After its completion Mr. Litle 
 and his brother George leased the mill, which 
 they ran for two years. Returning to Kansas, 
 our subject married and with his wife came to 
 Colorado in the spring of 1868. Here he re- 
 sumed the mill business, which he followed suc- 
 cessfully until 1869. During early days he also 
 followed the carpenter's trade and made all the 
 coffins in this vicinity. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. L,itle bought a quarter- section of 
 land on the Big Thompson River, and here he 
 has since engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising. He assisted in the construction of the 
 Chubbuck ditch, now called the Loveland and 
 Greeley ditch, in which he is a stockholder. For 
 a number of years he served as secretary and 
 treasurer of the company. He has made many 
 improvements on his place, which is considered 
 one of the finest in the county. He makes a 
 specialty of raising blooded cattle, of which he 
 has a herd of one hundred and fifty. Besides 
 farming and milling he has had other interests. 
 In 1883, with E. A. Seibert, he became inter- 
 ested in the Loveland Reporler, which the two 
 conducted together for a number of years, and 
 afterward he carried it on alone for a short time. 
 
 Politically Mr. Litle is independent, voting for 
 the men whom he considers best qualified for of- 
 ficial positions. .However, he leans toward the 
 Prohibition party. In 1868 he married Miss 
 Frances Silsbee, daughter of Erastus Silsbee, of 
 Wisconsin. They are the parents of four chil- 
 dren: Erastus, Lillie, Grace and Ralph. The 
 family are identified with the United Presbyterian 
 
 Church, in which Mr. Litle has been a member 
 of the board of trustees and took an active part in 
 the building of the new church in 1893. 
 
 GlBRAHAM ASHBAUGH, M. D., of Central 
 LI City, came to Gilpin County in 1879 and 
 I I has since attained a high position as a skill- 
 ful physician. For many years he held the ofiice 
 of county physician and also acted as surgeon 
 for the Union Pacific Railroad at this point. He 
 is now local surgeon for the Union Pacific Den- 
 ver & Gulf Railway. He has been most success- 
 ful in building up a lucrative practice, although 
 he gives medical attention alike to poor and the 
 rich, and he is one of the busiest professional 
 men in the county. Besides his practice he has 
 other interests, particularly mining, and owns 
 and operates the Lombard group of mines, which 
 he discovered and developed and which are seven 
 miles from Central City. 
 
 Dr. Ashbaugh was born in Aledo, Mercer 
 County, 111., August 27, 1852, and is a son of 
 John Meek and Catherine (Artz) Ashbaugh. 
 His father was a son of John Ashbaugh, Sr. , 
 who started a poor boy and became a noted 
 chemist, claiming the distinction of compounding 
 and manufacturing the first lard-oil. John Meek 
 Ashbaugh, the doctor's father, removed from 
 Ohio with his father to Mercer County, 111. , in 
 the days when Illinois was considered the great 
 west, settling upon a farm near Aledo. In 1868 
 Mr. Ashbaugh again turned his face toward the 
 .setting sun and migrated to Missouri, settling in 
 Vernon County, when the deer, the wild turkey 
 and prairie chickens were there in abundance. 
 His death occurred in Central City, Colo., in 
 1 88 1, when he was sixty-two years of age, having 
 came to the mountains for his health and to visit 
 his two sons who were in business, practicing 
 medicine at this point. 
 
 Dr. Ashbaugh's mother was born in Virginia, 
 in 1820, whither her grandfather came from Hol- 
 land; later her father moved to Ohio and thence 
 to Illinois, where he died. Mrs. Ashbaugh, the 
 doctor's mother, is living- in good health on the 
 old homestead in Missouri; a pleasant old Dutch 
 lady, who, true to her Dutch habits, milks her 
 cow, makes her cheese and cultivates her flowers 
 under the sunny skies in old Missouri. Of her 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1 301 
 
 thirteen children nine are living; three of the 
 sons served in an Illinois regiment during the 
 Civil war, and two were wounded. Three sons 
 are now practicing physicians, all having grad- 
 uated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and one 
 daughter, OUa Ashbaugh, was a dentist. 
 
 In the schools of Illinois and Missouri the sub- 
 ject of this sketch received his education. For 
 two years he was employed in the Vernon County 
 Nursery, after which he began the study of medi- 
 cine. In the fall of 1875 he entered Rush Medi- 
 cal College and after two years of study gradu- 
 ated with the degree of M. D. He at once began 
 the practice of his profession in Reynolds, Rock 
 Island County, 111., where he remained two years. 
 In 1879 he came to Central City, where he has 
 a large practice extending throughout the entire 
 county. He is identified with the Colorado State 
 Medical Society, the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, and is treasurer of the United States Board 
 
 of Pension Examiners for this district, including 
 Gilpin, Clear Creek, Jefferson, Park and Grand 
 Counties. This board was established in 1893, 
 when he was appointed to the office of treasurer. 
 In Rock Island County, 111. , Dr. Ashbaugh mar- 
 ried Miss Sarah, daughter of Joseph Asqtiith, who 
 came to Illinois from England. Two children, 
 Guy and Roy, comprise their family. Politically 
 Dr. Ashbaugh is a Republican. He was made a 
 Mason in Pre-emption, 111. , and is now past officer 
 in Nevada Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M. For 
 five years he has served as high priest of Central 
 City Chapter No. i , R. A. M. , and is generalissimo 
 of the Central City Commandery No. 2, K. T. 
 He is also identified with El Jebel Temple, 
 N. M. S., of Denver. He is medical examiner 
 for the Knights of Pythias, with which he is con- 
 nected as a member, and is also examiner for the 
 majority of the insurance companies represented 
 in Central City. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 Adams, Hon. Alva 115 
 
 Adams, George H 531 
 
 Adams, John 23 
 
 Adams, John Quincy 39 
 
 Adams, Jose P 569 
 
 Affolter, Frederick 795 
 
 Aicher, Frank X 247 
 
 Akin, Myron H 348 
 
 Akins, Sanmel W 558 
 
 Albee, Augustus C 903 
 
 Alderman, Newton B 984 
 
 Aldrich, AsaH 945 
 
 Alexander, G. E., M. D. . . . 993 
 
 Alford, Hon. N. C 339 
 
 Alkire, I^eonard 845 
 
 Allen, Alonzo 695 
 
 Allen, George W 1291 
 
 Allen, Henly W., M. D.. . . 267 
 Allen, William P., M. D.. . 377 
 
 Ames, I^ewis B 616 
 
 Aramons, Hon. E. M 423 
 
 Anderson, Hon. A. C 919 
 
 Anderson, Charles B 775 
 
 Anderson, Peter 1272 
 
 Andrew, C. K., M. D 1155 
 
 Andrew, James 936 
 
 Andrew, Joseph W 355 
 
 Andrews, Charles B 365 
 
 Andrews, George A 357 
 
 Andrus, James A. S 656 
 
 Anthony, Maj. Scott J 340 
 
 Armstrong, Jacob 1261 
 
 Armstrong, Samuel 1162 
 
 Arnett, Anthony 857 
 
 Arnold, William D 1045 
 
 Arthur, Chester A 99 
 
 Arthur, Hon. James B 275 
 
 Ashbaugh,Abraham,M. D.1300 
 Ashbaugh, T. L., M. D....1031 
 Atcheson, George, M. D.. .1216 
 
 Atmore, Charles 1252 
 
 Atwood, Joseph T 317 
 
 Aulsebrook, Alfred 996 
 
 Austin, Eugene A 755 
 
 Autrey, Thomas 701 
 
 Autrey, William C 648 
 
 Avery, Frank C 326 
 
 Avery, Gilbert M 1006 
 
 B 
 
 Babcock, Alonzo S 1011 
 
 Badger, Frederick H 814 
 
 Badger, Harry S 191 
 
 Bagot, William S., M. D.. .418 
 
 Bailey, Hon. D. C 850 
 
 Baird, James T 1029 
 
 Baird, William J., M. D. . . 666 
 
 Baker, Frederick R 1089 
 
 Baker, James H., I,I<. D. . . 3G1 
 
 Bal f e, Lawrence H 568 
 
 Balfe, Patrick H.- 711 
 
 Ball, Hon. David J 917 
 
 Bailer, Andrew 1045 
 
 Bancroft, F. J., M. D 142 
 
 Banning, J. A 1267 
 
 Barb, Martin W 898 
 
 Barber, James S 1039 
 
 Barclay, C. G 1052 
 
 Barclay, J. B., M. D 285 
 
 Barnes, David 1W9 
 
 Barnes, Hon. J. W 426 
 
 Barry, Alexander 265 
 
 Barth, Moritz 205 
 
 Barth, William 208 
 
 Bartlett, Reuel, M. D 212 
 
 Batterson, Solomon 825 
 
 Baty, Andrew R 547 
 
 Baur, Otto P 637 
 
 Baxter, Hon. George W... 148 
 
 Beach, Tom 395 
 
 Beaman , David C 1225 
 
 Beaman, Joseph S 855 
 
 Beamer, Charles A .501 
 
 Bean, Capt. R. P 10-10 
 
 Beaver, Ida Noyes. M. D..1275 
 Beckwith, Hon. Elton T..1290 
 Beckwith, Mrs. Alice M. . 833 
 
 Bedford, Edwin V 1247 
 
 Behrens, John H 388 
 
 Bein, Frederick A 1065 
 
 Bell, William N 290 
 
 Bellrose, N. W., M. D 807 
 
 Benkelman, J. George 625 
 
 Bennett, Christian A 452 
 
 Bennett, Isaac Willis 470 
 
 Benson, Aaron S 317 
 
 Bermont, George E 222 
 
 Bertschy , Frank P 608 
 
 Best, J. D 221 
 
 Beuck, August H 266 
 
 Bickford, E. L., M. D 1081 
 
 Billings, George N 517 
 
 Binner, John L 600 
 
 Bird, John E 1069 
 
 Birkle, David 1015 
 
 Bitter, John J 511 
 
 Blaine, William S 1072 
 
 Blake, Edward S 986 
 
 . Blake, Frank 570 
 
 Blakley, Proman W. 567 
 
 Bland, James 1149 
 
 Blunck, Charles F 1124 
 
 Blunt, John E 1014 
 
 Boal, George J 655 
 
 Bogue, IvUman M 571 
 
 Bolles, Nettie Hubbard. ... 539 
 
 Bolles, Newton A 539 
 
 Bolsinger, Frederick S. . . . 913 
 Bolsinger, Hon. Henry C. . 913 
 Bolton, Frank 1, 717 
 
 Bond, Cornelius H 359 
 
 Bond, LsaacI,., M. D 320 
 
 Booth, Gillett I, 1210 
 
 Booth, Levi 1019 
 
 Bosserman, Elijah 425 
 
 Bottom, John T 308 
 
 Bowen, Albert E 688 
 
 Bowles, Charles W 641 
 
 Bowles, Edward B 1213 
 
 Boyd, Frank 238 
 
 Boyd, Maj. H. L 881 
 
 Boyd, Robert 897 
 
 Boyer, Henry 482 
 
 Boylan, Robert 657 
 
 Bradburn, William L 609 
 
 Bradley, H. N 318 
 
 Brainerd, Col. Wesley 305 
 
 Bramkamp, William, 879 
 
 Branham, Charles A 1287 
 
 Brasie, W. Worth 626 
 
 Bray, Mrs. F. C 567 
 
 Breath, Hon. S. M 420 
 
 Brewer, John Israel 767 
 
 Briggs, George C 862 
 
 Briggs George W 1046 
 
 Brink, Ferdinand 547 
 
 Brinkerhuff, James H 1050 
 
 Brinkerhuff, .Samuel 996 
 
 Broad, Richard, Jr 446 
 
 Bromwell, Hon. H. P. H. . 367 
 
 Brown, Henry C 169 
 
 Brown, Hon. Hiram R 385 
 
 Brown, Hon. James H 195 
 
 Brown, J. Sidney 165 
 
 Brown, Junius F 315 
 
 Brown, Samuel 1277 
 
 Brown, William W 816 
 
 Browning, John W 338 
 
 Bryant, Willis 1060 
 
 Buchanan, James 75 
 
 Buchtel, W. H., M. D 297 
 
 Buckmau, Fred H 1041 
 
 BuUard, Scott W 948 
 
 Butlock, Charles B 1141 
 
 Burchinell, William K 407 
 
 Burke, August G 627 
 
 Burke, Charles 621 
 
 Burkholder, J. H 1125 
 
 Burnham, N. G., M. D....1242 
 Burns, T. Mitchell, M. D. . 747 
 
 Burpee, Charles I, 628 
 
 Burr, William A., M. D....1226 
 
 Burton, Gideon L 1^15 
 
 Bush, William L 1191 
 
 Butler, Stephen 1163 
 
 Butterworth, John H 924 
 
 Byers, Hon. William N 145 
 
 c 
 
 Caley , Franklin R 631 
 
 Caley, Franklin T 1260 
 
 Calhoun, William C 201 
 
 Campbell, Charles M 232 
 
 Campbell, Jacob, M. D 271 
 
 Campion, Andrew J 762 
 
 Campion, John F 1286 
 
 Carle, Mrs. Lucy J 710 
 
 Carlin, P. v., M. D 663 
 
 Carmichael, Daniel F 820 
 
 Carpenter, Prof. L. G 380 
 
 Carr, Gen. Byron L 185 
 
 Carr, Ezra T 405 
 
 Carr, Stephen H 904 
 
 Carrigan, Rev. J. P 310 
 
 Carmthers, Charles S 755 
 
 Carter, George 840 
 
 Casaday, Henry 1281 
 
 Catren, Benjamin C, Jr.. .1044 
 
 Casey, Piof. W. V. C 189 
 
 Chaffee, Hon. Jerome B.. . 129 
 Chamberlain, Walter A. .. 359 
 Chamberlain, William G..U75 
 
 Chapman, Peter E 926 
 
 Charpiot, George J 516 
 
 Charpiot, Henry 526 
 
 Chase. George F 647 
 
 Chatfield, Norman 1063 
 
 Cheney, Lewis '. 182 
 
 Chenoweth, M. S., M. D. . 487 
 
 Christensen, Peter 1071 
 
 Churches, Henry G 1009 
 
 Churchill, Harry E 269 
 
 Clark, Hon. C. A 707 
 
 Clark, Cornelius 487 
 
 Clark, Eugene E 994 
 
 Clark, John 1012 
 
 Clark, Hon, John J 1022 
 
 Clark, Josephs 633 
 
 Clark, Hon. Rufus 545 
 
 Clark, William 926 
 
 Clarke, George 1187 
 
 Clay, Perry A 540 
 
 Cleary, P. J 636 
 
 Cleveland, S. Grover 103 
 
 Clongh, A. A., M. D 587 
 
 Coan, Capt. Alonzo 762 
 
 Coates, Edwin L 211 
 
 Cochran, Clayton T 538 
 
 Coffin, Morse H 951 
 
 Coffin, Reuben F 924 
 
 Coffman, Hon. E. J 1106 
 
 Cole, Nicholas 1274 
 
 Collins, Thomas 1033 
 
 Colman, Watson E 1150 
 
 Conlin, James 846 
 
 Connelly, John E 1114 
 
 Converse, Jerome C 580 
 
 Cook, Franklin 676 
 
 Cooke, James J 593 
 
 Cooke, John 279 
 
 Coombs, James M 831 
 
 Cooper, Hon. J. A 155 
 
1304 
 
 INDKX. 
 
 Coors, Adolpli 12W 
 
 Coover, David H., M. D.. . 600 
 
 Copeland, J. M 1123 
 
 Copeland, Samuel 778 
 
 Cornwall, William T 226 
 
 Cort, Daniel T 491 
 
 Courvoisier, Augiiste 49.') 
 
 Cowles, Grace E. Patton. . 295 
 
 Cox, Roberts 827 
 
 Coy, John G 867 
 
 Ctadock, Charles 821 
 
 Craft, Samuel 542 
 
 Cramer, David 1 1208 
 
 Cramer, I^uis A 1035 
 
 Crawford, Archibald A.,.. 930 
 
 Crist, Judge Henry J 1142 
 
 Crosby, Roscoe M 691 
 
 Cuneo, G, M. D 515 
 
 D 
 
 Dailey,JohnL 296 
 
 Dailey, William M 207 
 
 Dane, George 1059 
 
 Daniels, A. B 128 
 
 Daniels, James A 875 
 
 Daniels, William P 178 
 
 D'Arcy, Norman 492 
 
 Datzel, George W 712 
 
 Davies, Llewellyn P 472 
 
 Davis, Charles 791 
 
 Davis, Charles I, 1270 
 
 Davis, Harpin 819 
 
 Davis, Prof. W. H., M, D. . 736 
 
 Dawson, Eugene C 521 
 
 DeBacker, Frank 690 
 
 DeBacker, John 689 
 
 Decker, Westbrook S 397 
 
 DeFrance, Hon. A. H 1223 
 
 Dell, Joel J 1061 
 
 Denison, Lucius H 259 
 
 Denney, R. H., M. D 1056 
 
 Dennis, Joseph, Jr 1056 
 
 Desch.C. S 415 
 
 Develine, James W 754 
 
 Dewey, David D 1173 
 
 Dewey, Frederick P 1199 
 
 Dick, Hon. Fred 147 
 
 Dickens, William H 489 
 
 Dickson, Hon. Louis H 346 
 
 Dodd, Alva M 732 
 
 Dodge, Horace O., M. D... 401 
 
 Donnelly, Rev. John J 1153 
 
 Donovan, Dennis C 395 
 
 Dostal, J.0 1292 
 
 Downing, Maj. Jacob 1239 
 
 Drake, William A 836 
 
 Drummond, Hon. Duncan. 437 
 
 DuBois, Bradford H 133 
 
 Dulin, Frank, M. D 200 
 
 Dumm, James M 658 
 
 Duncan, Elisha 461 
 
 Duncan, Guy D 465 
 
 Duncan, Robert A 466 
 
 Dunleavy, M.J 502 
 
 Dunn, Charles J 768 
 
 Dupree, Louis 1113 
 
 Durbin, L. T., M. D 190 
 
 Dyer, Warren C 316 
 
 E 
 
 Eaton, AlbertW..^ 1026 
 
 Eaton, Hon. Benjamin H. 417 
 
 Ebert, Ferdinand 786 
 
 Ebert, Hon. F. J 400 
 
 Eckdahl, Anton F 1062 
 
 Edwards, William iaT3 
 
 Eggleston, AKson H 1074 
 
 Eggleston, George W 701 
 
 Elbert, Hon. S. H 116 
 
 Eldred, Holden R 642 
 
 Elliott, Hon, Jacob J 1232 
 
 Elliott, J. F., M, D 1121 
 
 Ellis, Alston, LL. D 299 
 
 Ellis, Davids 838 
 
 Ellis, L D 1084 
 
 Elwood, A. S., M. D 389 
 
 Emerson, Charles 1129 
 
 Emmons, Amos J 813 
 
 Ennes, Oscar 840 
 
 Ennis, Miss Catherine 1051 
 
 Enos, Charles W„ M. D. . . 412 
 
 Erdman, OttoA 245 
 
 Ervin, David W 891 
 
 Eskridge, J. T., M. D 131 
 
 Evans, Ephraim K. C 832 
 
 Evans, Hon. James C 427 
 
 Evans, Oliver 458 
 
 Ewing, John N 681 
 
 F 
 
 Fahrion, Judge George. . .1149 
 
 Falkenburg, Alfred A 382 
 
 Farnsworth, Charles H... 241 
 
 Farny, Eugene 598 
 
 Feay , Oliver 1054 
 
 Pick, William F 1024 
 
 Field, Edward B 603 
 
 Fillmore, Millard 67 
 
 Fiulay, Walter 507 
 
 Finucan, J. B., M. D 911 
 
 Fleming, Carey K.. M. D. 704 
 
 Flora, William S 1290 
 
 Flower. John S 1297 
 
 Fonda, George F 358 
 
 Foote, George W 1122 
 
 Forbes, Andrew J 929 
 
 Foster, Ernest LeNeve . . . 1023 
 
 Foster, Harrison 873 
 
 Fox, Chri-stopher L 1025 
 
 Fox, Michael P 644 
 
 France, Lewis B 444 
 
 Franklin, Nelson 1100 
 
 Fraser, Andrew 733 
 
 Fraser, John H. G 552 
 
 Fraser, John J 302 
 
 Fuelscher, Daniel 1035 
 
 Fulwider, Marion 708 
 
 G 
 
 Gage, Thaddeus A 801 
 
 Gale, Jesse S 387 
 
 Gallup, Avery 227 
 
 Gallup, Mrs. C. R 229 
 
 Gandy, Henry H 1161 
 
 Ganley, John W 1283 
 
 Garbutt, Edward N 891 
 
 Gardner, Hon. James F. . .1177 
 
 Gardner, William H 714 
 
 Gardner, Winfield S 525 
 
 Garfield, James A 95 
 
 Garrigues, James E 345 
 
 Garrison, Garret A 698 
 
 Gartley, Edward T 1280 
 
 Gebhard, Hon. Henry 378 
 
 Gibbons, Rev. J.J 509 
 
 GifEn, Luman M., M. D.. . 177 
 
 Gilbert, Henry S 1040 
 
 Giller, Thomas E 660 
 
 Gillies, John R 948 
 
 Gilpin-Brown, Charles.... 999 
 
 Gilpin-Brown, H. L 1000 
 
 Gilson, Robert H 1034 
 
 Gird, Christopher C 615 
 
 Glover, John 925 
 
 Godfrey, Allen R 917 
 
 Goodale, Ellis E 530 
 
 Gorman, James H 577 
 
 Gould, Jerome F 731 
 
 Gove, Maj. Aaron 619 
 
 Gove, Aaron M 620 
 
 Gove, Carlos 597 
 
 Graham, Alexander J 237 
 
 Graham, Thomas 1065 
 
 Grant, Hon. James B 159 
 
 Grant, Ulysses S 87 
 
 Grant, W. W., M. D 152 
 
 Graves, William M 1190 
 
 Greene, Hon.O. F. A 637 
 
 Gregor, John 566 
 
 'Gregory, Jacob 249 
 
 Griffin, Samuel L 1111 
 
 Griffiths, David 181 
 
 Guebelle, Ernest 279 
 
 Gutheil, Alfred H 258 
 
 H 
 
 Hadfield, Dan P 555 
 
 Haggott, W. A 1160 
 
 Hagus, Andrew 246 
 
 Hagus, John J 536 
 
 Hagus, Lewis 773 
 
 Hahn, John 933 
 
 Hake, Levi 659 
 
 Hake, William C 686 
 
 Haldi, Peter 680 
 
 Hale, Hon. Horace M 117 
 
 Hale, Gen. Irving 120 
 
 Hall. Hon. Albert 1198 
 
 Hall.GeorgeH 970 
 
 Hall, J. N., M.D 735 
 
 Hallett, Hon. Moses 171 
 
 Hallock, Harry T., M. D. .1294 
 
 Hames, George L 1122 
 
 Hammitt, Hon. F. W 469 
 
 Handley, Col. J. L., M. D. 328 
 
 Hankins, James C 780 
 
 Hanna, John R 410 
 
 Hanisen. Matthias 1111 
 
 Harding, Prof. George L.. 312 
 
 Harmon, Mrs. Julia A 1189 
 
 Harper, Hon. Theodores. 1120 
 
 Harriman, George W 436 
 
 Harrison, Duncan E 1091 
 
 Harrison, Benjamin 107 
 
 Harrison, William Henry, 51 
 
 Hartley, John 798 
 
 Hartman, Frank E 1173 
 
 Hawkins, Horace N 1295 
 
 Hawley, H. J 459 
 
 Hayes, Rutherford B 91 
 
 Hayes, Thomas C 643 
 
 Haynes, Harry Neil 386 
 
 Hays, Columbus C 832 
 
 Helbig, JohnW 950 
 
 Held, Frederick 249 
 
 Hellier, Edwin J 656 
 
 Helm, William 622 
 
 Helmer, John 1280 
 
 Henry, Albert T 681 
 
 Henry, James 1060 
 
 Hermanns, Prof. E. F 1157 
 
 Hershman, David 843 
 
 Hertel, Charles F 486 
 
 Hertha, John , 969 
 
 Hetzel, Jacob 952 
 
 Hickox, Charles G 1016 
 
 Hilburger, John 1036 
 
 Hill, John S 1082 
 
 Hill, J. D 849 
 
 Hill, Wilbur 247 
 
 Hively, David T 804 
 
 Hixson, Luther 808 
 
 Hodg.son, Marion 1285 
 
 Hodgson, William E 256 
 
 Hoklas, Henry E 537 
 
 Hood, James H 233 
 
 Hooper, Col. S. K 217 
 
 Hoover, Corbrey J 229 
 
 Hopkin.s, S. D., M. D 282 
 
 Hornbaker, Henry H 914 
 
 Horsley, Leslie 1129 
 
 House. Jonathan 1063 
 
 Housel, Judge P. M 883 
 
 Howard, Joseph 742 
 
 Howard, Hon. Mason W. . 237 
 
 Howarth, Abraham 980 
 
 Hubbard, James E 287 
 
 Huffsmith, Samuel R 1083 
 
 Hughes, T. A., M. D 557 
 
 Hult, William 709 
 
 Hurst, Schuyler G 262 
 
 Hyder, Thomas M ..."... . 757 
 
 I 
 
 Iliff, JohnW 127 
 
 Iredale, William J 769 
 
 Ireland, James M 1054 
 
 Irwin, James M 196 
 
 Ives, Gen. John N 1109 
 
 Izett, James 496 
 
 J 
 
 Jackson, Andrew 43 
 
 Jackson, Clarence S 550 
 
 Jameson, Hon. A. D 1095 
 
 Jefferson, Thomas 27 
 
 Jeffery, Edward Turner. . .1202 
 
 Jellison, James S 1284 
 
 Jenkins, John C 1263 
 
 Jenkins, Hon. William O 481 
 
 Jewett, Francis M 1020 
 
 Johannsen, Christ 1205 
 
 Johnson, Alfred E 810 
 
 Johnson, Andrew 83 
 
 Johnson, Benjamin C 1214 
 
 Johnson, Nathaniel D 286 
 
 Johnson, Peter J 927 
 
 Johnson, Thomas H 920 
 
 Johnson, William E 277 
 
 Johnston, Samuel L 974 
 
 Jone.s, Frank 332 
 
 Jones, George T 777 
 
 Jones, Hon. James F 745 
 
 Jones, John D 372 
 
 Jones, Myron W 734 
 
 Jones, William R 796 
 
 Joralmon, H. M 466 
 
 Jordan, James H 235 
 
 K 
 
 Kaempfer, Anton 1299 
 
 Kassler, E. S 530 
 
 Keeler, Edgar A 1268 
 
 Keeler, Irwin E 696 
 
 Kelly, Hon. James, M. D.,1086 
 
 Kelly, Jonathan P 1080 
 
 Kelsey , Thomas C 784 
 
 Kelsey, Van Buren 1181 
 
 Kelton, George 1076 
 
INDEX. 
 
 1305 
 
 Kennedy, William W 291 
 
 Kern, Marx 1215 
 
 Kerr, David 78S 
 
 Key, John 1082 
 
 Kibby, Theodore A 826 
 
 Killin, Bernard C 490 
 
 Kimball, George II 1073 
 
 Kimball, Capt. George K.. 450 
 
 Kimball, Leander W 669 
 
 Kimber, Benedict 1062 
 
 King, Joel B 457 
 
 King, Thomas J 1180 
 
 Kirk, Frank H 472 
 
 Kirk, Frank V 752 
 
 Kirkbride, George 774 
 
 Klatt. Philip 1002 
 
 Kn^po, rrof. Warren E. . • 167 
 
 Kneisel, Hon, Henry 433 
 
 Knowles, Joseph C 581 
 
 Koehler, Charles 1217 
 
 Koehler, George A 668 
 
 Koenig, Rudolph 809 
 
 Koeper, August H 1243 
 
 Koerber, John 1214 
 
 Kohler, Frederick W 761 
 
 Kreutzer, Edward D 1070 
 
 Kruse, Charles C 529 
 
 Kuehn, Ferdinand 792 
 
 Kuhn, Charles E 1289 
 
 L 
 
 I,aGrange, Bryant S 983 
 
 I,aird, George M 912 
 
 Lambert, William T 1249 
 
 Lamey, H. T 1263 
 
 Lammers, Carl A 498 
 
 I^andes, Martin L 369 
 
 I^awrence, John H 270 
 
 Lee, Harry A 801 
 
 Lee, William Scott 613 
 
 Leech, M. F 186 
 
 Leggett, Jeremiah 685 
 
 Lemen, Lewis E., M. D... 130 
 
 LeMond, R. F.. 422 
 
 LeNeve-Foster, Ernest... .1023 
 Lepore, Rev. Mariano... 507 
 
 Lerchen, Charles 635 
 
 Levy, Robert, M. D 5J8 
 
 Lewis, John R 1271 
 
 Lewis, Thomas A 1104 
 
 Lewis, William J 1066 
 
 Lewis, Hon. William J. . . . 919 
 
 Lilley, Hon. John G 198 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 79 
 
 Linder, John H 1080 
 
 Lindquist, Carl M 562 
 
 Lippoldt, Charles H 779 
 
 Lipscomb, Thomas W 607 
 
 Litle, John A 1299 
 
 Little, Peter F 790 
 
 Little, Hon. R. S 176 
 
 Little, William 1119 
 
 Locke, Henry L 271 
 
 Loomis, Abner 329 
 
 Lorah, .Samuel 1 1092 
 
 Lough ran, John 1015 
 
 Louslalet, Honore 940 
 
 I,oustalet, Jerome F 876 
 
 Loustauo, Silvin 525 
 
 Love'and, Revile 362 
 
 Lnndin, Gustave A 972 
 
 Lundy. John H 1052 
 
 Luplow, Carl R 1258 
 
 Lykins, Mrs. Ann Gilman. 256 
 
 Lykins, David J 255 
 
 Lyman, C. B., M. D 209 
 
 M 
 
 McAfee, Samuel J 894 
 
 McArlney, John 870 
 
 McCain. JamesL 886 
 
 McCarthy, William H 591 
 
 McClave, John S 1101 
 
 McClelland, W. F., M. D.. 730 
 
 McClure, George M 310 
 
 McCounell, Cyrus 262 
 
 McCormick, John 1021 
 
 McCreery, Hon. James W^ 325 
 McCriramon, Malcolm.... 511 
 
 McDonald, Orrison B 549 
 
 McDowell, Vincent 992 
 
 McFadden, Charles W 1091 
 
 McGraw, Aaron, M. D 797 
 
 McGregor, J. W., M. D... . 248 
 Mcllhenny, Frederick R..1090 
 
 Mclntire, Hon. A. W 161 
 
 Mcintosh, Lemuel 690 
 
 McKelvey, William H.... 520 
 
 McKenzie, Neil D 192 
 
 McKinley, William Ill 
 
 McLeod, Herrick 968 
 
 McMahon, Michael J 1281 
 
 McMillan, Elisha 240 
 
 McNey, John 935 
 
 Machebeuf, Rt-Rev. J. P. . 140 
 
 Mack, Jacob 1215 
 
 Macky, Andrew J 375 
 
 Madison, James 31 
 
 Madlung, J. E 607 
 
 Magnes, Peter 599 
 
 Mahler, Peter 586 
 
 Maloney, William H 844 
 
 Manhart, Christian 439 
 
 Manhart, George W 1105 
 
 Mann, Hon, Joseph 476 
 
 Marean, WillisA 751 
 
 Marfell, Hiram 1211 
 
 Marsh, George E 1094 
 
 Marsh, L. E, M. D 433 
 
 Martiue, Charles A 479 
 
 Mason, John D 740 
 
 Matschke, August 790 
 
 Mathews, Jerome 376 
 
 Matthews, Edward 521 
 
 Matthews, Milton 961 
 
 Mauldin, James A 458 
 
 Maxwell, James G., M. D 479 
 Maxwell, Hon. James P. . 319 
 Maxwell. W. J., M. D. ... 479 
 
 Mayfield, Thomas G 885 
 
 Mayo, Dudley D 673 
 
 Mead, Francis D ,538 
 
 Melburn, John A 939 
 
 Merchant, Harmon 242 
 
 Metcalf, Hon. H. H 1256 
 
 Meuer, Samuel H., M. D. . 576 
 
 Michael, John M 907 
 
 Middaugh, .\5a F 261 
 
 Miles, Alfred H 559 
 
 Miles. T. Willis, M. D 1238 
 
 Milheim Alexander 268 
 
 Milheim, Frederick 281 
 
 Miller, Charles E 874 
 
 Miller. Charles P., M. D. . 368 
 
 Miller, Lafayette 653 
 
 Miller, Lyman W ...1204 
 
 Miller, Ri<-hard D 1119 
 
 Miller, Thomas J 1288 
 
 Milne, James G 460 
 
 Miner, John R 461 
 
 Miner, William B 349 
 
 Misner, Andrew 1208 
 
 Mitchell, William 1222 
 
 Mixsell, Philip 419 
 
 Moffat, David H 135 
 
 Monash, Edward 369 
 
 Moncrieff, Z. E 906 
 
 Monroe, James 35 
 
 Montgomery, Frank L • . 1094 
 
 Montgomery John 893 
 
 Moore, Maj. J. D 251 
 
 Morcom, John H... 1210 
 
 Morrison, M. D 1259 
 
 Morrison, Samuel W 908 
 
 Mo.ssberg, Andrew 604 
 
 Moynahan, Hon. James. . 179 
 
 Mulligan, Peter H 1190 
 
 Mulligan, Williarn P 1172 
 
 Mulvihill, Frank E 528 
 
 Murphy, William R 290 
 
 Mumma, Jacob 1206 
 
 Myers, Albert H 881 
 
 Myers, William 789 
 
 N 
 
 Nash, William D 575 
 
 Nay, Marshall M 456 
 
 Neef, Maxniillian 6,50 
 
 Neeley, J. W 1257 
 
 Nceley, William B 1184 
 
 Neff, Capt C. D 949 
 
 Neikirk, Hon. Henry 170 
 
 Nelson, August 967 
 
 Nel.son, Hans P 901 
 
 Nelson, Louis 941 
 
 Nesmith, Hon. John W.. . 119 
 
 Neuman. August 1073 
 
 Neumati, Daniel, M. D. . . 499 
 Neuman, Stephen, M. D... 499 
 
 Newell, James S 962 
 
 Newell, John H 804 
 
 Newell, Hon. Sam V 1233 
 
 Newlon, Henry B 405 
 
 Newman, Elmer P 548 
 
 Newmarch, Charles T 467 
 
 Newton, Adin H 979 
 
 Nicholas, Charles J 1168 
 
 Nicholls, John, Sr 440 
 
 Nichols, Charles B., M. D. 526 
 
 Nichols, Hon. David H 785 
 
 Nicholson William 377 
 
 Niemeyer, Fritz 1298 
 
 Noi -on, Uri M 610 
 
 Nott, Theodore 1218 
 
 Nulling. Harry 603 
 
 o 
 
 Oaks, Joseph 967 
 
 O'Donnell, Thomas W.. .1266 
 
 Old, Robert 475 
 
 Olden, Ellis F 480 
 
 Orahood, Col. Harper M.. 175 
 
 Orrock, David 505 
 
 ORyan, Rev. William.... 506 
 
 Osbiston, Col. F. F 1075 
 
 Oviatt, Albert C 4.30 
 
 Owen, John 1085 
 
 Owen, Newton D 984 
 
 P 
 
 Page, Thomas W ,593 
 
 Paine, Daniel W 1296 
 
 Painter, Joseph E 370 
 
 Palmer, Charles L 1170 
 
 Palmer, Joel K 1131 
 
 Pankhurst, George 1132 
 
 Parfet, George W 1148 
 
 Parish, Hars-ey J 868 
 
 Park, Edwin H 540 
 
 Parks, Fred W 956 
 
 Parmelee, Edward C 327 
 
 Parrett, C. Jerome 250 
 
 Patten, Hon. George A . . . . 1194 
 
 Patterson, Charles B 632 
 
 Patterson, David 1069 
 
 Patterson, Hon. T. M 1236. 
 
 Pattison, Albert E 278 
 
 Paulding, John M 272 
 
 Peasley, George K 365 
 
 Peck, Frank L 1250 
 
 Peck, Thomas S 435 
 
 Pell, William G 739 
 
 Pen nock, Charles E 428 
 
 Pennock, Porter R 1116 
 
 Perkins, Elisha M 971 
 
 Perrin, Mrs. M. Jennie 957 
 
 Perry, James D 471 
 
 Peters, Albert F 958 
 
 Peterson, Alfred 1158 
 
 Peterson, John 784 
 
 Phelps, Alfred C 620 
 
 Phillips, Ephraim C 978 
 
 Phillips, Col. Ivers 631 
 
 Phillips, James 1246 
 
 Phillips, James T I135 
 
 Pierce, Franklin 71 
 
 Pineau, Marcellin 1099 
 
 Piatt, Milo E 763 
 
 Poirson, Philip 1125 
 
 Polk, James K 59 
 
 Pollock, John 1113 
 
 Poor, George B 676 
 
 Post, Capt. William M..,.1165 
 
 Potter, Alexander B 498 
 
 Potter, James H., M. D 1152 
 
 Pouppirt, E. E 1296 
 
 Powell, Joseph R 350 
 
 Powers, William A 265 
 
 Pratt, Gideon C 1196 
 
 Priest, Walter M 1179 
 
 Prince, Benjamin 1011 
 
 Prince. Clarence E II26 
 
 Prince, Hon. Hiram 585 
 
 Prince, John H 674 
 
 Prince, Louis I, 292 
 
 Probert, John 1002 
 
 Prout, John W 905 
 
 Pughe, John 236 
 
 Purcell, Lawrence M 692 
 
 Purse, John, Jr 1258 
 
 Q 
 
 Quick, Benjamin 443 
 
 Quintrall, William H 1043 
 
 R 
 
 Rae, James 508 
 
 Rae, Mrs. A. M., M. D.... 508 
 
 Ramsdell, Charles B 837 
 
 Randall, Jonathan L 1141 
 
 Rauey, Hon. David F 1235 
 
 Rank, Samuel A 990 
 
 Ratcliffe, George 994 
 
 Raverdy, Rev. J. B 367 
 
 Redd, George S 946 
 
 Reed, Andrew 663 
 
 Reed, Charles L 1168 
 
 Reeman, Frank G 985 
 
 Regennitter, Erwin L 1227 
 
 Reid, John S 211 
 
 Reilly, Charles J 606 
 
1306 
 
 ySTDEX. 
 
 Renter. Herman 850 
 
 Rhyno, Thomas J 675 
 
 Rice, Charles O. , M. D 761 
 
 Rice, John J 956 
 
 Rice, Rufus 880 
 
 Richards, Thomas 1262 
 
 Richards, Hon, W. H 1144 
 
 Ricketts, Crockett 670 
 
 Riethmann, Emile J 725 
 
 Riker, Edward D 837 
 
 Rinnert, Adam 1132 
 
 Rittenhouse, Judge A. P. . 851 
 
 Rittmayer, George 1089 
 
 Roberts, Elias 1013 
 
 Roberts, John G 1143 
 
 Roberts, Robert O 1165 
 
 Roberts, William E 535 
 
 Robertson, John B 532 
 
 Robertson, Thomas H 371 
 
 Robeson, Jacob H 1229 
 
 Robillard, J. E., M. D 1134 
 
 Robinet, Rev. R. P 288 
 
 Robin.son, Very Rev. H.. . 896 
 
 Rockwell, Fred S 477 
 
 Roe, Capt. Nelson C 239 
 
 Rohling, A\igust 1 399 
 
 Rohling, J. H. Phillip 977 
 
 Rosenbaum, Michael I,... 682 
 
 Ross-I<ewin, George E 141 
 
 Rothrock, John 1133 
 
 Rothwell, W. J., M. D 347 
 
 Routt, Hon. John I. 156 
 
 Rundell, James A 013 
 
 Russell, Charles A. 803 
 
 Russell, James H 963 
 
 Ryan, John J 1220 
 
 Sacred Heart Catholic 
 
 Church 215 
 
 Sagendorf. Andrew 578 
 
 Sample, Nathaniel W 601 
 
 Samuels, John R 816 
 
 Sanderson, Abner 1136 
 
 Sanderson, John P 989 
 
 Sargisson, John H 934 
 
 Sauer.JohuW 882 
 
 Sauter, Joseph 1266 
 
 Sawdey, Rev. Frank 1115 
 
 Schaefer, Peter C 512 
 
 Schall, Joseph G 1140 
 
 Scheck, George W 582 
 
 Scherrer, Alexander V 558 
 
 Scherrer, Joseph A 1273 
 
 Schindelholz, Anton 519 
 
 Schofield, Alphonso 1021 
 
 Schroder, Frederick C... 1102 
 
 Schroers, Louis 746 
 
 Sehutz, Benedict 1004 
 
 Schutz,Jacob 923 
 
 Scott. Charles H 983 
 
 Scott, Charles P 822 
 
 Scott, William I, 592 
 
 Secor, Judge F. P 1192 
 
 Secor, MiloG 1174 
 
 Secrest, Clyde 1276 
 
 Secrest, Luther C 1099 
 
 Secrest, Thompson E 1099 
 
 Seely, Joseph S 289 
 
 Seerie, David D 522 
 
 Seifried, Henry 1182 
 
 Sellman, Thomas C 879 
 
 Sess, Theodore 500 
 
 Severance, David Edwin.. 1203 
 
 Shable, Anthony 1120 
 
 Shafroth, Hon. J. F 120 
 
 Shanahan. Timothy 703 
 
 Shannon S. F., M. D 599 
 
 Shaw, Hon. R. T., M. D. . .1171 
 
 Shay, Joseph H 1138 
 
 Shepherd.J. H 1205 
 
 Sherwin, John J 1123 
 
 Simms, James M 485 
 
 Simpson, John M 529 
 
 Simpson, William 555 
 
 Sisk, Thomas 815 
 
 Sisler, Charles H 572 
 
 Skerritt, Thomas 561 
 
 Skinner, C. Russell 1110 
 
 Slater, Abraham 833 
 
 Smith, Andrew H 594 
 
 Smith, Gains 1139 
 
 Smith, Henry G 1112 
 
 Smith, Lowell H., M. D. . .1219 
 
 Smith, Nelson K 712 
 
 Smith, O. L 552 
 
 Smith, Rodolphus N 973 
 
 Smith, Salkeld 1279 
 
 Smith, Samuel B 1162 
 
 Smith, Upton T ....1230 
 
 Smith, W. Henry 437 
 
 Sraythe, S. S, M. D 206 
 
 Snow, George A 1244 
 
 Snyder, Albert G 748 
 
 Snyder, Charles 768 
 
 Snyder, Edward 733 
 
 Snyder, P. W 729 
 
 Sopris, Capt. Richard 391 
 
 Sorensen, Soren 1013 
 
 Spalding, Rt-Rev. J. F.... 121 
 
 Spangler, Henry W 1221 
 
 Spotswood. Robert J 661 
 
 St. Patrick's Parish 310 
 
 Stafford, Edward K 770 
 
 Stearly, George 1009 
 
 Steele, John S 852 
 
 Stepp, Thomas 961 
 
 Sterling, Asa 428 
 
 Sternberg, DeKalb 679 
 
 Stevens, George 828 
 
 Stevens, Isaac N 425 
 
 Stevick, Guy LeR 259 
 
 Stewart, Henry F 1010 
 
 Stickfort, John D 1024 
 
 Stilwell, Alonzo C 697 
 
 Stiver, Thomas J., M. D. .1100 
 
 Stocker, Allison 602 
 
 Stockfleth, Conrad 963 
 
 Stokes, Chauncey 756 
 
 Stone, Joshua 947 
 
 Stott, Alfred F 1231 
 
 Stradley, Dr. Ayres 408 
 
 Stradley, Daniel N., M. D. 409 
 
 Strickler, D. A , M. D 856 
 
 Stroehle, George 1004 
 
 Strong, Dewey W 839 
 
 Strousse, Samuel 1104 
 
 Suess, Hon. Henry 565 
 
 Swadley, George C 861 
 
 Swan , Hon. James H 887 
 
 Sway ze, Walter J 231 
 
 T 
 
 Tabor, Hon. H. A. W ISfi 
 
 Talbot, Ralph 162 
 
 Talbott, Benjamin H 1248 
 
 Taylor, Zachary 63 
 
 Teal, George W 753 
 
 Tedmon, Hon. H. E 390 
 
 Teller, Harrison 434 
 
 Teller, Hon. H. M 128 
 
 Teller, Willard 1278 
 
 Temple, Hon. E.J .'SI 
 
 Tenney. Melvin A 673 
 
 Theoliald, Peter : 955 
 
 Thomas, Calvin H 888 
 
 Thomas, Hon C. S 449 
 
 Thomas, Frank N 869 
 
 Thompson, Avery R 537 
 
 Thompson, Edward A.... 411 
 
 Thompson, Herbert J 1079 
 
 Thompson, John 1003 
 
 Thompson, Thomas J 210 
 
 Thompson, William 577 
 
 Thornton, John J 1282 
 
 Thornton, Wilber R 858 
 
 Tintle, David J 1212 
 
 Titus, Clark A 654 
 
 Tourtellot, James B 642 
 
 Towers. Walter E 695 
 
 Tregoning, Thomas 902 
 
 Trezise, Christopher 1183 
 
 Trezise, John G 776 
 
 Trimble, Charles W 1137 
 
 Trovillion, E. B., M. D... . 199 
 
 Tucker, Cromwell 337 
 
 Turner, Charles S 687 
 
 Turner, Peter 810 
 
 Tyler, Hon. Clinton M. .. . 718 
 Tyler, John 55 
 
 u 
 
 University of Colorado 360 
 
 V 
 
 Van Buren, Martin 47 
 
 Van der Karr, George S. . 1196 
 
 Van Gorden, Hon. I. A 10<S 
 
 Van Meter, Miles H 928 
 
 Van Valkenburg, Rev.R.J. 225 
 
 Van Wormer, Isaac P 455 
 
 Vetter,John 827 
 
 Victor, Ma rquis 1160 
 
 Vivian, Hon. John F 1156 
 
 Vollmar, George 1217 
 
 w 
 
 Wagner, Frank K 675 
 
 Waite, Frederick P 1207 
 
 Walker, James M., M. D..1228 
 
 Walker, John W 688 
 
 Wallace, John J 702 
 
 Walsh, Thomas F 991 
 
 Walters, John 726 
 
 Walters, Leonard 1231 
 
 Ward, Thomas E 1283 
 
 Warren, Charles 834 
 
 Warren, Edson. 989 
 
 Washington, George 19 
 
 Wasson, John A 1244 
 
 Watkins, Charles H 746 
 
 Weber, Adam 719 
 
 Webster, Hon. Amos G...1197 
 Weigele, William Albert.. 497 
 
 Welch, Charles H 1193 
 
 Wells, Hon. Reuben C... 416 
 
 Wells, William J 1033 
 
 Welty , Lawrence 1199 
 
 West, Gen. George 1185 
 
 West, Hon. LeanderR....1271 
 
 West, Simon 1183 
 
 West, William H 501 
 
 Wpstover, Daniel 869 
 
 Wheeler, B. A., M. D 1237 
 
 Wheeler, John S 1201 
 
 White, Arthur H 1261 
 
 White. Frederick 724 
 
 White, John J lies 
 
 White, William% 814 
 
 Whiteley, Monfford S.... 741 
 Whitelcy, Hon. R. H.,Sr. 331 
 Whiteley, Hon. R. H., Jr. . 331 
 
 Whitford, Greeley W 1248 
 
 Whitney, Fredericks 905 
 
 Whowell, John W 1164 
 
 Wier, James W 942 
 
 Wiest, Sard, M. D 819 
 
 Wilcox, Henry W., M. D..1180 
 
 Wilder, Eugene 720 
 
 Wilder, George W 542 
 
 Williams, David R 1000 
 
 William.?, Howard 1012 
 
 Williams, John T 802 
 
 Williams, Richard Broad. 1030 
 Williamson, George R.... 379 
 
 Willis, Robert 1 260 
 
 Willis, Thomas N 740 
 
 Willis, Hon. William A... 723 
 Wilmarth, F. A., M. D. . . .1181 
 
 Wilmore, George F 610 
 
 Wilson, Hon. Adair 321 
 
 Wilson, John S 1158 
 
 Wingate, Charles E 510 
 
 Wirtner.Verj'Rev.Modest. 215 
 
 A^itherow, John F 1169 
 
 Wolcott, Hon. E. 438 
 
 Wolfe, Charles K 1154 
 
 Wolfensberger, Jacob 995 
 
 Wolff, Albert 1159 
 
 Woodbur>', Benjamin 1108 
 
 Woodrow, James W 1166 
 
 WooUett, Joseph N 724 
 
 Wray, Chalmon 1186 
 
 Wright, Ensign S 1155 
 
 Wright, James F 993 
 
 Wright, John William 1200 
 
 Wyatt, DavidC 335 
 
 Wygant, Charles T 895 
 
 Young, George H 1151 
 
 Young, John V 709 
 
 Youtsey, Herman S 356 
 
 Zang, Philip 496 
 
 Zilar, George J 796 
 

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