_J 
 
 LEGISLATIVE, 
 
 HISTORICAL && BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO, 
 
 EMBRACING 
 
 pertinent to the rnn*ti >u <>\' in i -rrit ai;il umi Man- IIUVITI.H. 
 together with fiill.li( of Olttcert'ftnd i . mni intt-i 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 rnor, ^tnt- ruttors ami l{*-|.i - nf tin- 
 
 Sixth 
 
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University of California -Berkeley 
 
LEGISLATIVE, 
 
 HISTORICAL ss& BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO, 
 
 KMIUIACIM; 
 
 Information pertinent to the r.'nimiioti <>f ii Territorial ami stat.- t;.'M-rmi" ..is. 
 
 r with ;i full lirtt <>!' Olliri-rs and Lc^'islatoi-fi. ami inli-r-- litifr 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 <)| the (...vtnior. >tnt' oiliccrs, Senators and Keprt'sentatives r tin- 
 Sixtli lUcnnii'l Lt-^islaturc; 
 
 -ALSO,- 
 
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 Aii'l i-nti-i'tiiinin^ ri'inini.NciMiccs <>!' I>isin>;uislu'il Men iilrntiflni \\ith Itn- 
 aii'l proLrrcsH of dillVrcnt jinrtiiins ul' the state. 
 
 HI NVI i;. . MI. MI; \|,,,. 
 oleman's Pul.lihliin^ i 
 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by 
 
 ATKINSON, COLEMAN & DELO, 
 the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 
 
HON WILLIAM GILPIN 
 (FIRST GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF COLORADO.) 
 
GOVERNOR ALVA ADAMS. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In offering the L; .1. .\\i> BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 .i>o t tin- piihlir, v\v claim for it merit- 
 
 that make it not milv well w :-iptitn pri'-e, hut 
 
 a \\ork of intrinsir value, inasmuch as many im 
 tin' hi.Mory of Colo ncln ar' at t. li^lit. \vli: 
 
 would have luM-n ImriiMl iu uhlivioii. Thf hi- :itu- 
 
 tinual Cmivciitiou fiiriiisln^l u- lv .linl^f K. T. NVt-lls. i> al-mc a 
 (locuiuciit nf incalculable value to the future historian who may 
 asjiiiv to c.il;iti' every feature of iinj)oi'ta: 
 
 In - 3 for iMo^raphieal B\ puli- 
 
 li>lu-rs have . are 
 
 entitletl ioa place in a i\-rorl of puhiir men. \Vant 
 
 many hunl: 
 
 From a o'lance over the lioMTajhie- of ;iany 
 
 lii-iorical reinini- ^ieane-1 that will he handed d 
 
 to po>1eritv with proiit. and ^''V' 4 :m idea -hips 
 
 that were im i y t:i-ir for . when thethrivi 
 
 and c 1th all their ;il >urroimd' 
 
 harrdi \\ i'ordino; | ir ji ; nor fan 
 
 for MII fort. 
 
 The pnM oistor] "i' ' -how.- that !'; 
 
 ownership t. a part - 
 
 in. \ p.iin asserle,! her 
 
10 
 
 proprietorship in the same Territory. When the United States 
 Government purchased Louisiana from France, it was merely the 
 entering wedge which was to open to her the possession of the 
 vast country then claimed l>y Spain. Numerous expeditions sent 
 out by the Government developed the wealth and resources of this* 
 country. The explorations of Lieutenant Pike, in 1805; Colonel 
 Long, in 1819; Captain Bonneville, in 1832; Fremont's expedi- 
 tions of 1842 and 1844, and other pioneer explorations are all 
 matters of historic note that have been duly recorded. The change 
 that has been made since Colorado passed into the possession of 
 the United States is wonderful in itself, and is a matter of pride 
 to the nation, as well as to the State. In this book ~,ve have en- 
 deavored to present some new facts. 
 
 More particularly to the members of the Sixth Legislature 
 will this book be of special interest, because it gives them a 
 definite knowledge of who and what their associates were and are. 
 As a work of reference it will be found valuable in every study 
 and library in the State of Colorado. 
 
 The thanks of the Publishers are specially due His Excellency, 
 Governor Alva Adams, for many favors extended. 
 
 With these remarks we thank the many gentlemen who have 
 so graciously furnished us data, and sincerely hope some measure 
 of appreciation may be accorded our humble efforts. 
 
 THE PUBLJSHEKS. 
 
DEPARTMENTS OF STATE. 
 
 EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL. 
 
 
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 F. \V. I'itkin, 
 
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 Eaton, 
 
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 H A'. \V Tab 
 
 11. A. W. Tal... 
 
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 \V. H. Mi-v< r~. 
 
 P. \V. lir. 
 
 X. II. M.'ldrum, 
 
 
 W.M.C1 
 
 I. Mrldium, 
 
 X. H. Mrldruin, 
 
 OF 
 
 1 S 77 Mi-lvin Kdwanls. 
 9 Mclvin Kdw;.. 
 
 ' Jamee Rice, 
 
 1883 
 
 
 K. Sxvall- 
 
 ae, 
 
 
 !:. K -lii, 
 .). A. I ;: 
 
 .7 
 
 .1. C. AM.ott, 
 
 Hiraiu A 
 
 !) P. Kingsley. 
 
 1888 
 
 1887 
 
 A. .1 ~ on, 
 
 C, \V. Wrfght, 
 
 ( . II. Toll, 
 
 I>. < ' I'nuv, 
 
 H T'li-.i. 
 
 L881 Alviii 
 
 
 SUIT'S OF 2PTJSLIO 
 
 .1 C. Sliaituck. 
 L.8 
 
 
 ,,ll, 
 
 Cnnu-11. 
 aell, 
 
 1887 
 
DEPABTMENTS OF STATE. 
 
 CTTJIDGrlES F3 TT "F^T?. IF 1 . "M~ T*" 1 . OOTJIE&I 1 . 
 
 Kbenezar Wells, 
 
 1877 
 
 W. E. Beck, 
 
 1883 
 
 H. C. Thatcher, 
 
 1877 
 
 W. F. Stone, 
 
 1883 
 
 S. H. Elbert, 
 
 1877 
 
 J. C. Helm, 
 
 1883 
 
 H. C, Thatcher. 
 
 1879 
 
 W. E. Beck, 
 
 1885 
 
 S. H. Elbert, 
 
 1879 
 
 W. F. Stone, 
 
 1885 
 
 W. F. Stone, 
 
 1879 
 
 J. C. Helm, 
 
 1885 
 
 S. H. Elbert, 
 
 1881 
 
 W.E. Beck, 
 
 1887 
 
 W. F. Stone, 
 
 1881 
 
 J. C Helm, 
 
 1887 
 
 W. E. Beck, 
 
 1881 
 
 S. H. Elbert, 
 
 1887 
 
 SENATORS. 
 
 1877- 
 
 E. S. Randall, R 
 
 El Paso 
 
 N. H. Meldrum, R 
 
 Larimer 
 
 J. F. Gardner, R 
 James Moynahan, R 
 
 Douglas 
 Park 
 
 T. O. Saunders, R ) 
 J. P. Maxwell, R / 
 
 Boulder 
 
 J B. Hall, R, Lake 
 
 and Saguache 
 
 L. C. Backwell, R 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 James Clelland, D 
 
 Fremont 
 
 
 ( Gilpin 
 
 8 W. Hill, D 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 W. W. Webster, R 
 
 j Summit 
 
 W. B. Hamilton, D 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 
 ( Grant 
 
 D. L. Taylor, D ) 
 Casimero Barela, j 
 
 Las Animas 
 
 W. A- Hamill, R ) 
 Albert Johnson, R j 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 W H. Meyer, R 
 
 Costilla 
 
 A. H. DeF ranee, R 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Juan F. Chacon, R 
 
 Conejos 
 
 H P. Bennett, R 1 
 
 
 Henry Henson, R 
 
 f Rio Grande 
 ! Hinsdale 
 1 La Plata 
 
 L. C. Ellsworth, R j 
 Alfred Butters, R f 
 J. E. Bates, R J 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 8. B. Haynes, R 
 
 San Juan 
 Weld 
 
 Eugene Gaussoin, D 
 
 f Elbert 
 \ Bent 
 
 1879. 
 
 J, A. Baca, 
 
 Costilla 
 
 J. W. Hill, 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 Casimero Barela, 
 
 Las Animus 
 
 J. M. John, 
 
 Las Animas 
 
 Alfred Butters, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Albert Johnson, 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 J. F. Chacon, 
 
 Conejos 
 
 J. P. Maxwell, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Frank Church, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Henry Newkirk, 
 
 Boulter 
 
 A. H. DeF ranee, 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 T. C. Parrish, 
 
 Custer, etc 
 
 L. C. Ellsworth, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 F. C. Peck, 
 
 Hinsdale, etc 
 
 J. F. Gardner, 
 
 Douglas 
 
 L. R. Rhodes, 
 
 Larimer 
 
 Eugene Gaussion, 
 
 Bent 
 
 M A. Rodgers, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 J. B. Hall, Saguache and Lake 
 
 r. Trujillo, 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 Assyra Hall, 
 
 Park 
 
 W r . W. Webster, 
 
 Summit, etc 
 
 S. B. A. Haynes, 
 
 Weld 
 
 E. O. Wolcott, 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 J. C. Helm, 
 
 El Paso 
 
 H. R. Wolcott, 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 1881. 
 
 J. A. Baca, 
 
 Costilla 
 
 Henry Newkirk, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 C. Barela, 
 
 Las Animas 
 
 T. C. Parrish, 
 
 Custer 
 
 Frank Church, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 F. C. Peck, 
 
 Hinsdale 
 
 F. T. Cochrane, 
 
 Elbert 
 
 T. R. Rhodes, 
 
 Larimer 
 
HKI'AUI Ml N 
 
 18 
 
 rder, 
 A. H. DeFranoe, 
 H H Eddy, 
 
 .1. M. Freeman. 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 .i.-ii'. 
 
 Suniniit 
 Weld 
 
 M. A . 1 : 
 
 J. 8. Stai 
 
 Uieii/i Streeter. 
 c. I-:. Stui.i.s 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 Boulder 
 
 I*' I I ** w 1 1 
 
 J. A. Gale, 
 
 A--yria Hall, 
 
 Con 
 i-.i Paso 
 
 C. Trujillo, 
 
 ton, 
 
 i,l i t i> < ) 
 
 Huei t'ano 
 f * i L" i * 
 
 K. T. Jaeoh.-on, 
 .1. M. John, 
 
 Kearney, 
 
 A ra pa In.*- 
 A ninias 
 Clt-ar rn-rk 
 
 K. < >. Wolrott, 
 H. K. Wolcott, 
 
 1 ^l K t 
 
 Clenr ( 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 1883. 
 
 ( '. Karela, 
 J. \V. BoMwiek, 
 
 Las Animus 
 < iilpin 
 
 .la.-. Mnynahan, 
 
 Park 
 i Fremont 
 
 A. ('order. 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 C. C. I'ar^nio, 
 
 Lake 
 
 Frank < 'oehran. 
 
 Blbert 
 
 A .) . Ri>in#, 
 
 ( ' u >t (> 
 
 A. n. DeFrance. 
 
 C. 1'. Kl.; 
 
 Jefferson 
 Arapanoe 
 
 J. S. Siai 
 Kien/i Sti'e( i 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 Boulder 
 
 H. H. Kddy, 
 
 Summit 
 
 A. M. Stevenxm, 
 
 ( Junni-oii 
 
 .1 . M. Freeman, 
 
 Weld 
 
 .1. H.Stea.i. 
 
 ( Mi:it?;.i' 
 
 .). A. Gale, 
 
 J . M. ( ;allo\vav, 
 
 M. \v. Eoward, 
 
 Oonejbs 
 
 San Juan 
 A.rapahoe 
 
 A. Sala/ar, Huerlano and Custillu 
 Frank Tilloni, Aiapahoe 
 11. K. 'Pednian, Larimer 
 
 I. II i. wi.ert, 
 
 Kl Paso 
 
 A. 8. Weston, 
 
 Lake 
 
 C. L. Hall. 
 
 Lake 
 
 L. W. Wells, 
 
 Ooi lu las 
 
 Kearney, 
 
 Clear Crrrk 
 
 
 
 1885. 
 
 .1 M . F iv. -man. 
 
 Weld 
 
 L. Mall, 
 
 Lake 
 
 ii !: Tedman, 
 
 Larimer, etc 
 
 ( 1 . c, Para 
 
 Lake 
 
 0. P. A \Mi Me, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 J. T. Klki.,-. 
 
 Lake 
 
 .1. \V. P>,.,t \viek, 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 H. H. Kddy, 
 
 1'laule, etc 
 
 ( '< .1 nish. 
 
 Clear Crei-k 
 
 A.M. Stevenson, 
 
 ( Jimni.-on, etc 
 
 M. \V. Howard, 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 .James Mnvnahan, 
 
 Fremont, etc 
 
 Frank Til Ion I. 
 
 Arapalnie 
 
 J. H. Stead, 
 
 Chaffee 
 
 A \v. Waters, 
 
 A.rapahoe 
 
 G. M. Chilcott, 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 M. I',. ( 'arpt -liter, 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 A. .I. Hisintr, 
 
 Ouster 
 
 Henry I. 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 ( 'a>imer<> liarela, 
 
 Las Animas 
 
 [rving iiowhert. 
 
 Ml ! 
 
 A A. Hala/ar, 
 
 Euerfano 
 
 L \V. \\ 
 
 Arapah(K\ etc 
 
 A. I). Arelmleta, 
 
 < '> 
 
 <; M Woodworth, 
 
 ArapahtK', eti- 
 
 J. P. (Jalloway. 
 
 1 
 
 La Plat; 
 
 1387. 
 
 chuleta, 
 
 ('(!! 
 
 < >. ]'. A. ( Ireene, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Salllia-i Ad::;: 
 
 Lake 
 
 C T. llarkison, 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 AI.lK.lt, 
 
 Cha 
 
 .John Kinkaid, 
 
 Gunnison 
 
 miro l>arcia. 
 
 La- Animas 
 
 Heni'\ 1 
 
 Jeff 
 
 Ballard, 
 
 Larimer 
 
 .1. A.. McCand 
 
 mont 
 
 i: T Beokwith, 
 
 ( 'u>ter 
 
 Juan I ). M<>; i 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 M. I',. ( '.-irju HUT. 
 
 A raj.alioe 
 
 S. V. Newell, 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 .I'Mi II ( 'aliijil.cll, 
 
 Kl 1 
 
 J. II. I'oule. 
 
 Arapanoe 
 
 <;. M rhilrott. 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 T. r. Ryan, 
 
 
 ('. .!. Cliri-tiaii. 
 
 Lake 
 
 A. \V \\ 
 
 Ar:i: 
 
 Thoina- Cm nMi, 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 L \V. \V, Us, 
 
 I)- ) 
 
 H. II. K.ldy, 
 
 iield 
 
 Adair \\'i 
 
 Hio ( J ramie 
 
 .1 M ail, 
 
 Weld 
 
 <; M Woodworth, 
 
 i:. nt 
 
14 
 
 DEPARTMENTS OF eiATK. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 1877. 
 
 W. D. Anthony, R ] 
 Adolph Schinner, R | 
 W. H. Pierce, R 
 Geo. C. Griffin, R } 
 A. C. Phelps, R 
 John McBrown, R I 
 J. C. Meyer, R j 
 
 Isaac Can field, R ] 
 Geo. H. Young, R 
 Daniel Ransom, R 
 A. A. Smith, R 
 T. J. Watts, R 1 
 
 G. A. Patten, R j_ 
 T. F. Simmons, R 
 P. E. Morehouse, R J 
 A. C. Marshman, R) 
 H. J. Kruse, R 
 H. W. Lake, R ) 
 
 J. C. Helm, R 
 C. R. Seiber, D ) 
 Richard Irwin, D j 
 J. T. Chavez, D 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Clear Cree k 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 Fremont 
 
 Ifeurfano 
 Alva Adams, D 
 
 J. R. Esquibel, D 
 Geo. Rand, D 
 M. V.Luther, D 
 
 D. F. Raney, R 
 Abiier Leonard, R 
 R. M. McMurray, D 
 Meliton Alberts, R 
 P. R. Trujilla, R ) 
 Don Arcliuleta, R f 
 N. C. Alford, R 
 John Moss, D 
 A. M. Vigil, R 
 G. A. Lord, D 
 A. D Wilson, D 
 J. H. Stokes, D 
 W. H. Green, R 
 W. J. McDermith, R 
 Z. Searles, R 
 G. W. Wilson, R 
 I<aa<; Gotthelf, R 
 C. H. Mclntire, R 
 Rio Grande 
 
 Huerfano 
 Jefferson 
 
 J. N. Caiiile, D ) 
 
 G. Langford, D } Puebl 
 
 Weld 
 Weld 
 
 Costilla 
 
 Conejos and 
 
 Costilla 
 
 Larimer 
 
 La Plata 
 
 Con] os 
 
 Douglas 
 
 Elbert 
 
 Grand 
 
 Hinsdale 
 
 Lake 
 
 Park 
 
 Summit 
 
 Saguache 
 
 San Juan 
 
 1879. 
 
 Wm. R Bartlett, 
 Frank Binghani, 
 Lucas Brandt, 
 H P. H. Bromwell 
 J. L. Brush, 
 T. J. Caution, 
 Geo. M. Chilcott, 
 J. H. Clark, 
 M. O Coddington, 
 J5enito Cordova, 
 Jas. H. Crawford, 
 R. Douglass, 
 J, G. Evans, 
 J. T. Flower, 
 Henry Gebhardt, 
 C, C. Gird, 
 Isaac Gotthelf, 
 A. T Gunnell, 
 Richard Harvey, 
 Jos. Hoffman, 
 
 Summit 
 Bent 
 Larimer 
 Arapahoe 
 Weld 
 
 < "lear Creek 
 Pueblo 
 Las Animas 
 (^lear Creek 
 Las Animas 
 Routt & Grand 
 El Paso 
 Boulder 
 Park 
 Elbert 
 Arapahoe 
 Saguache 
 Hinsdale 
 Gilpin 
 Conejos & Costilla 
 
 J. Hutchison, Gunui^D :,nd Lake 
 H K. Kimberly, Arapahoe 
 
 W. J. Lewis, Gilpin 
 
 'Jas. McD. Livesay, Gilpin 
 
 Juan B. Lovato, Conejos 
 
 H. E. Luthe, 
 Vincent Maez, 
 Joseph Mann, 
 W. J. Mann, 
 J. B Martinez, 
 J. A. McCandless, 
 W. McLaughlin, 
 Lorin C. Mead, 
 M. D. Morehead, 
 J. G. Pease, 
 Ivory Phillips, 
 Robert S. Roe, 
 Wm Scott, 
 Daniel L. Sheets, 
 H. Slockett, 
 R. A. South worth, 
 Wm. Spruance, 
 RienzaStreeter, 
 John J. Thomas, 
 Wm. D. Todd, 
 C H. Toll, 
 R. Trujillo, 
 Martin Y'Valdez. 
 J. H. P. Voorhiez, 
 Ouray. 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Las Animas 
 
 Fremont 
 
 Ouster 
 
 Weld 
 
 Douglas 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 El Paso 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Boulder 
 
 La Plata 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Rio Grande 
 
 Costilla 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 San Juan and 
 

 1881. 
 
 .1. i;. Aguiler, 
 
 - 
 
 .1 A . 1 |i:i-_'l:unl. 
 
 Jell. 
 
 T, 
 
 
 
 Ki' ' 
 
 .1. P,. liallanl, 
 
 (iilpin 
 
 n. 
 
 i .1 Uan 
 
 C. 1L Hai 
 
 
 T. H. J. ans< n. 
 
 HUT 
 
 shur, 
 
 
 
 ( '] 
 
 A !'.' 
 
 Park 
 
 II. 1 . Lnuii-r. 
 
 Ala: 
 
 ll' 11 Bi,vhard, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 II-ury 1 
 
 
 J. II . Bu 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Andrei Lunny. 
 
 
 th, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Ahram 1 
 
 ( ; ilpin 
 
 
 Weld 
 
 A. J. Man 
 
 i hi. 
 
 ( . p. Bryan, 
 
 M Creek 
 
 .i. P.. M.irriiie/.. 
 
 
 John Bon 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 .1. A. M-C;,n,i! 
 
 iont 
 
 M P.. ( arp Qt 
 
 A rapaiioe 
 
 
 La Plata 
 
 .1. S. Coulter, 
 
 Clrar Creek 
 
 .i. A. 
 
 : >ahoe 
 
 .1. P, 
 
 Pile 1- > 
 
 \'\-< ~(( >.[ N i ; i 
 
 Him 
 
 < Iruz, 
 
 1 1 nerl'ano 
 
 ;an, 
 
 ahoe 
 
 L H. Di.-k 
 
 Ider 
 
 .1 B Orman, 
 
 Pu< 
 
 M. A 
 
 Don 
 
 Kl 1 
 
 .) \V. P. 
 
 .1 J. lloWrli. 
 
 Bent 
 Cut 
 
 .1 A. ( iaivia, 
 
 Co)' 
 
 A A Sa! 
 
 itilla 
 
 Henry (iebhard, 
 
 Elbert 
 
 A 1 1. Smart, 
 
 ,nl 
 
 treene, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 J. II. Sw 
 
 Snmmii 
 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 J. M. Va 
 
 
 !'. .1. Hart man, 
 
 Haguache 
 
 \V. \\ 
 
 ilder 
 
 1883. 
 
 A. D. ArrhuVta, 
 
 Conejog 
 
 \V. II Jones, 
 
 Cha 
 
 V Ah.-yto, 
 
 B Animas 
 
 Jam.-- Kirk. 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 John Anuuin 
 
 ( Hlpin 
 
 S. A. Ki* 
 
 Cl.-ar < fl 
 
 T. M. Bow. n. 
 
 Kio ( J ramie 
 
 J. H. Kerr, 
 
 Kl Paso 
 
 Peter Breene, 
 
 Lake 
 
 H nry 1 
 
 JefTerst n 
 
 Simon Blonuvr, 
 
 Lake 
 
 .lerrol.l Leteher, 
 
 ( hnay 
 
 P,. '. Baldwin, 
 
 CusU r 
 
 John LeKevi* 
 
 iait t and ( ; rand 
 
 S. 11. Ballanl, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 J. K. Mi-Intviv. 
 
 ( i iinni-i ;i 
 
 A. B, Uelisim, 
 
 Larimer 
 
 Otto M. 
 
 ache 
 
 \ I'xT^h, 
 
 Paik 
 
 L J. McClosky, 
 
 La Plata 
 
 B. II. Butcher, 
 
 Summit 
 
 I-'. L < Ni-i-l<Ml. 
 
 Clear Cn ek 
 
 L. A. < lurtioe, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 J. P.. OnnMI. 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 ( i. T. Clark, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 A. K. Pier<-e. 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 C. A. Clark. 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Ktl \vani Pi-. 
 
 
 M. .1. C.Mello, 
 
 Lake 
 
 \V. \V. Perrin. 
 
 
 M. 11. Chapman, 
 
 Elbert 
 
 1',. K Ho. ka! llo\v. 
 
 
 J. II 
 
 
 T. ! 
 
 Hue 
 
 J. \V. Dripps. 
 
 (ii 
 
 D. A. K 
 
 Pu 
 
 i-:. \v. Davis, 
 
 
 
 La- A n 
 
 Kiehard Darling, 
 
 til la 
 
 MI. le. 
 
 
 C. D. K..nl. 
 
 !'! > 
 
 J.O 
 
 A i a 
 
 < . !'. A . < treene, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 T M 
 
 
 ll - 
 
 
 Weld 
 
 cell, 
 
 ( a 
 
 \V. 11. H Walker. 
 
 ilder 
 
 S. D. 1 loiVmaii, 
 
 Hill-dale 
 
 
 
 1885. 
 
 ,lev, 
 
 
 .1. < 
 
 
 C. \Y 
 
 Kl ' 
 
 ily, 
 
 
 
 
 lin. 
 
 
 
 monl 
 
 .1. 1. 
 
 
 J. \v. Buckl 
 
 <Jlnni->M. ete 
 
 \\' 11. M< < '-rmiek 
 
 La 
 
 Mk Bl.iki 
 
 
 Wrn. Me 
 
 
16 
 
 DEPARTMENT* 
 
 )F STATE. 
 
 John Campbell, 
 Ony Carstarphen, 
 Pedro Chacon, 
 
 El Paso 
 Custer 
 Las Animas 
 
 S. B. Newell, 
 Barney O'Driscoll, 
 G. A. Batton, 
 
 Gilpin 
 Saw Juan 
 Clear Creek 
 
 M R. Chapman, 
 John Clark, 
 
 Elbert 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 Lafe Pence, 
 D H.Pike, 
 
 Dolores, etc 
 Boulder 
 
 Louis Cohn, 
 
 CostiJla 
 
 J. H. Poster, 
 
 La Plata 
 
 J. C. Davidson, 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 G, C. Pratt, 
 
 iCouglas 
 
 H. H. DeMary, 
 
 Lake 
 
 Hiram Prime, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 L. H. Dickson, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 R. A. Qullian, 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 J. S. Dorman, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 S. H Rath von, 
 
 Saguache 
 
 C. P. Evans, 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 N. Rollins, 
 
 Lake 
 
 John Ewing, Jr., 
 
 Rio Grande 
 
 R. F. Slaw, 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 H. V. A. Ferguson, 
 R. H. Gilmore, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 Arapahoe 
 
 E. B. Sopris, 
 E. I. Stirman, 
 
 Las Animas 
 Hinsdale 
 
 P. T. Hininan, 
 
 Grand, etc 
 
 T. B. Stuart, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 G. E Hodge, 
 J. W. Bughes, 
 W. E. Hugo, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 Cone] os 
 Lake 
 
 Henrv Suess, 
 L. J. 'Taylor, 
 Klass Wildbon, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 Pueblo 
 Pueblo 
 
 Frank Hunter, 
 
 Custer 
 
 
 
 1887. 
 
 W. H. Adams, 
 
 Conejos 
 
 W. E. Meek, 
 
 El Paso 
 
 Ramon Aguilar, 
 F H. Allison, 
 
 Las Animas 
 Douglas 
 
 R. S. Morrison, 
 H. Newkirk, 
 
 Clear Creek 
 Fremont 
 
 D. C. Bailey, 
 
 Elbert 
 
 C. E. Noble, 
 
 El Paso 
 
 H. 8. Balsinger, 
 J. N. Beaty, 
 
 Gilpin 
 Bent 
 
 R, W. Orvis, 
 T. R Owen, 
 
 Larimer 
 Boulder 
 
 G. M. Bowen, 
 
 Chaftee 
 
 G. E. Pease, 
 
 Park 
 
 J. B Cordova, 
 
 Las Animas 
 
 Owen Prentiss, 
 
 Lak,e 
 
 J. H. Crawford, 
 
 Routt 
 
 Wm. Rowan, 
 
 Hinsdale 
 
 J R Curry, 
 
 San Juan 
 
 J. L. Russell, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 G. W. Davis, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 J. H. Shaw, 
 
 Rio Grande 
 
 J. A. Dean, 
 
 Lake 
 
 F. J. V Skiff, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 J. T. Donnellan, 
 
 San Miguel 
 
 J. H. Stotesbury, 
 
 Lake 
 
 W. W. Durkee, 
 
 Costilla 
 
 F. Q. Stuart, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 
 Melvin Edwards, 
 T. Edwards, 
 
 Eagle 
 Custer 
 
 T. B. Stuart, 
 F. H. Sutherland, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 Pueblo 
 
 C. A. Eppich, 
 C. P. Evans, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 Jefferson 
 
 P. W. Sweeney, 
 J. W. Turrell, 
 
 Huerfano 
 
 Boulder 
 
 J. R Garber, 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 T. A. Van Gorden, 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 R.B. Griswold, 
 
 Clear Creek 
 
 Samuel Wade, 
 
 Delta 
 
 F. W. Hammitt, 
 
 Weld 
 
 J. H. Wells, 
 
 Boulder 
 
 J. R. Hicks, 
 
 Gilpin 
 
 W G. Wheeler, 
 
 A rapahoe 
 
 J.G Hoffer, 
 J. F. Hoover, 
 
 Arapahoe 
 Lake 
 
 Jesse White, 
 W. R. Winters, 
 
 Custer 
 La Plata 
 
 Leopold Mayer, 
 
 Saguache 
 
 
 
PART II 
 
 EXECUTIVE AND STATE OFFICERS 
 
 Governor Alva Adams. 
 
 In opening the biographical part of the COMPENDIUM >F 
 COLORADO, no more appropriate subject than His Excellency, 
 Governor Alva Adams, could be selected, not only because he 
 occupies the foremost position in the State as the chosen 
 representative of the majority of the commonwealth, but also 
 he is a true type of an American cicizen, one who 
 honorably won his way from tin 1 humblest walks of life 
 to that of tin* highest i^it't possible to be awarded by his con- 
 stituents, fn him we have an exemplification of the su 
 periority of <>ur Lcrand republican form of government, which 
 
 recognizes every citizen on an equality, and awards its dis- 
 tinctive u r ifts to those who use their natural ability to the best 
 
 possibl'- advantage, thus compensating those who are anibi 
 - and capalh- of i^oveinin^ and leading in the race of lite. 
 
 In Governor Adams w.- ha\-" just such a noble representative. 
 ras bom iii [owa county , Wisconsin, May i-i. I850,recei\- 
 
 inu: a common school education, and one that has since iitted 
 
18 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 him to appear to advantage with the graduates of the most 
 pretentious institutions known. He came to Colorado in the 
 spring of 1871, and the first employment he was engaged in 
 was that of hauling ties on the first section out of Denver of 
 the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. None of those who la- 
 bored with him in that arduous occupation ever dreamed that 
 the honest toiler and companion, whom they respected, would 
 attain the proud distinction that has since been justly award- 
 ed him. Later on we find Mr. Adams in the employ of Mr. 
 C. W. Sanbom, and he built the first house for that gentle- 
 man in Colorado Springs, completing it August 7, 1871. His 
 next advance was to that of purchasing agent in the lumber 
 business for Mr. Sanborn, and shortly after he went into the 
 hardware business on his own account. Following the exten- 
 sion of the Denver & Rio Grande line, he moved to Pueblo in 
 1874, Del Norte in 1875, Garland in 1877, Alamosa in 1878, re- 
 turning to Pueblo in 1882, and he has made the latter place 
 his home ever since. His commercial ability can best be 
 judged from the fact that he has established branch houses 
 of his hardware business in Alamosa, Durango, Silverton, Tel- 
 luride and Gunnison, and successfully conducts them all. He 
 has interested himself in mining with a fair degree of success. 
 He has also devoted some attention to the cattle business, be- 
 ing among the foremost to assist in developing that important 
 industry. Governor Adams has always been a Democrat, 
 and the lively and decided interest he has taken in advancing 
 that party was acknowledged by his election to the first State 
 Legislature in 1878, representing Rio Grande county. His 
 pronounced advocacy of Democratic ideas has frequently 
 brought him prominently forward. In 1884 he was nominated 
 for Governor of Colorado, and polled such a large vote that 
 his nomination and election two years later was almost an 
 assured fact, notwithstanding that the State was strongly 
 Republican. In 1884 he ran far ahead of his ticket, and in 
 the last campaign he was elected by over five thousand ma- 
 jority. At no time has he sought any political preferment, 
 and in accepting proifered nominations he has simply bowed 
 to the will of the people. Whilst he has been faithful to 
 his party, he has always been true to friends, regardless of 
 their political ideas ; hence his remarkable popularity with 
 all classes. He was married to Miss Ella Nye, in Manitou, 
 Colorado, in 1872. One son, eleven years of age, Alva Blan- 
 chard Adams, adds to the present domestic felicity and future 
 hope of the honored couple. Socially, Governor Adams' 
 genial and pleasant disposition endears to him all who meet 
 him. No matter what degree of humbleness or the preten- 
 
m< \i. < '< >M i'i-:\ in i M OF coi.oi; \ ho. 
 
 sion> <>f rank of those who are thrown lliCOD'act with him 
 all whether clothed in weather or time -worn. but hon- 
 
 in liveried and borrowed plumage lie is tli-- same 
 dignified, courteous and considerate i^-nt l.-rnan. Horn of the 
 
 people, laboring ID unison and for the be<r interests of Un- 
 people. a!ld elevated to his exalted position by the people, his 
 
 ideal thou-ht that he is still i)iit an humble and ordin- 
 ary American citi/en. feeling that on that plane alone he is 
 <n" an equality with the highest potentates of the world. Aj 
 can be judged by his portrait, which embellishes a froiitis- 
 of 'this book, he is a man of line personal appearance. 
 possesses a keen perception, and readily grasps at the min- 
 utest points of subjects brought to his notice and therefore 
 well (jualitied to assnmo and ably conduct the responsible 
 position which he now holds. His inaugural address and his 
 lirst message to the Legislature showed so much thought and 
 sound judgment that they were commended by all parties, 
 and from the manner in which he has commenced the dis- 
 charge of his executive duties, it is safe to predict that his 
 term as (Governor of Colorado will not only prove creditable 
 to him, but also highly beneficial to the State. 
 
 James Rice. 
 
 The people of Colorado, when left to choose for themselves 
 who shall serve them in the high offices of State, never fail to 
 pick men of worth and ability, and in the case of the subject 
 of this sketch, our Secretary of State, they have chosen one of 
 nature's noblemen. Captain James Rice was born December 
 29, 1848, in Hartford, Vermont. He began his education in 
 the public schools of that town, and there litted himself for 
 college, entering the State University at Norwich, from which 
 laduated with distinguished honor. On the nth of July, 
 iM'd, lie was married to Miss Carrie E. Stevens, of Vermont. 
 ( 'aptain Rice, like a true patriot, was one of the first to enlist 
 in r.->ponse to the President's call for troops and soon after 
 his enlistment was promoted to the rank of captain, which 
 rank he held to the end of the struggle. He was a good ollicer 
 and did valiant service throughout the war. In 1SC.S ( 1 ai 
 
 Uice came to Colorado and settled in Pueblo, where he lias 
 
 He \m< b.M'ii as closelj identified with 
 
 the u-rowth and development of that city a^ any one of its cit 
 i/.ens. When he first settled there it was a men- village, but 
 through the untiring elforts (> f hinjself and associates it has 
 
 iit to its present rank as the third cit y of the s 
 Captain Rice lias taken a lively interest in the schools, and 
 
20 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 the present school board of Pueblo owes its existence to his 
 efforts. For six years he was President of the board, and 
 for three years served as Mayor of that city. He was 
 a member of the Board of Regents of the State Uni- 
 versity for a period of six years. For the office he now 
 holds he was elected by an overwhelming majority, lead- 
 ing his ticket. Ever sirice coming to Colorado he has been 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits, and though not wealthy, he 
 has been successful. His honesty and integrity ^has become 
 proverbial among his neighbors, and to know him is to lespect 
 him. The Captain is a man of plain and unpretentious habits, 
 easily approached, and has a pleasant word for all, gaining 
 friends wherever he goes. Of tall, commanding appearance, 
 with pleasant features, expressive of more than ordinary in- 
 telligence and forethought, he is one of those every-day sen- 
 sible sort of men one delights to meet in the upper walks of 
 life. 
 
 Peter W. Breene, 
 
 Our present State Treasurer, to whom is entrusted the funds 
 of the State, is, as his name implies, a son of the ever green 
 and glorious Isle of the Sea. He was born in the Province^of 
 Leinster, Ireland, and sprung from an honored and influential 
 family. He was educated by a private tutor in his father's 
 
 house an advantage which few possessed in that country. 
 
 The efficacy of the education thus obtained may best be 
 judged from the success that has attended his intercourse 
 with others since that time. Mr. Bre,ene has resided thirteen 
 years in Colorado, and though apparently of a quiet and re- 
 tiring disposition, took an earnest interest in politics, and so 
 diligently has he labored for the success of the Republican 
 party, with which he has been allied, that his work has been 
 considered of sufficient value to secure for him one po- 
 sition of trust after another, in successive grades, up to the 
 present time. He was a member of the Fourth Legislative 
 General Assembly, representing Lake county, and was next 
 elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State. Previous to his 
 eentry into politics, the business he followed was that of 
 mining, and to his credit can it be said that he laid the founda- 
 tion of his present popularity whilst faithfully and advantage- 
 ously using the pick and drill in that work. By the sweat of 
 his brow did he earn his bread, and by keen observation and 
 diligence in the performance of that arduous labor did he lay 
 the foundation for the prosperous state of financial affairs he 
 has attained. Socially he possesses every requisite qualifica- 
 tion that should adorn a scholar and a gentleman, making no 
 
BIOOBAPHIOAL < OM l'K\ DIUM OF < oi.oRADO. -M 
 
 distinction between poverty and atlluence, as long as those 
 with whom he is thrown in contact are governed by upright 
 motive-. Charitably disposed towards political opponents, 
 a^ well should betit us all in the brief lit'*' allotted to u<. h- 
 iiy grateful to those who, in recogni/iim' his in 
 trinsic political and social worth. hav-e placed him in the p, , 
 sition of trust and honor he now occupies. Mr. Hre,-n- was 
 married in L.-:nlvill-,.!iiiie y>. 1 SSI, to Miss Mary L. McCarthy, 
 a highly respect. -d young lady of Calumet. Mich. So far no lit 
 tie trouble- have crossed the threshhold of his house to mar 
 their honeymoon. Like a true Irishman, whilst he is faithful 
 and ferveni in his allegiance to the land of his adoption, hi- 
 heart and his energies revert back to the afflictions of his 
 early home, and he longs for the day when some im-asm 
 justice will be accorded her. So far he has proved eminently 
 deserving of the political honors bestowed on him, and it is 
 to predict that other and greater triumphs await his fu- 
 ture and justly ambitious aspirations. 
 % 
 
 Darwin P. Kingsley. 
 
 The experience of mankind has stamped with the signet of 
 truth the popular saying that "'success denotes merit." and 
 when a young man attains a position of honor and prominence 
 in a community, whether it be in the political or mercantile 
 world, that fact should be taken as a proof of merit of no or- 
 dinary kind in the make-up of the one achieving such honor 
 and distinction. Darwin P. Kingsley. our present Auditor of 
 iiplitication of the above and his elevation 
 io the responsible position which he now holds shows that 
 his past life has been spent to good purpose and that he has 
 availed himself of his leisure time to store his mind with a 
 fund of literary and political lore, which served him so well 
 before the people of Colorado in the last election. He was 
 born in Alburgh. Vermont. May r>. is:>7. and is therefore but 
 
 : was lilted for college at 1 anv. V ermon t . am 1 
 graduated from the I'niversity of Vermont in 18S1. iMuiiiL: 
 his r,,]l, er he \\, dependent, and did what few 
 
 young men of this day would have done in order to tinish 
 ducaiion : in th- summer vacation doing the most menial 
 i upon the farm : -spending his spare moments during the 
 ion in picking apples, sawing wood, and in what-- 
 he mi-ht earn a penny, lie then displayed and develop 
 ed those qualities which are bringing him into prominent 
 day. He was married to Mary M Mitchell, at Milton. ^ 
 
 mont, June 19, 1884, and in all the world he could not 
 
22 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 chosen better. Mrs. Kingsley is a lady of whose worth too 
 much cannot be said. She is a great grand-daughter of Hon. 
 Thomas Ghittenden, the first Governor of Vermont. They 
 have one child, a six months old son. Mr. Kingsley is a 
 lineal decendent from the family of Rev. Charles Kingsley, 
 the famous English author. His father was a staunch old 
 Whig and Abolitionist, and afterward a Republican. Mr. 
 Kingsley is himself a Republican. In January of 1883 Mr. 
 Kingsley removed to Grand Junction, the county seat of the 
 new County of Mesa, and the centre of the then almost un- 
 known Western Colorado. Here he purchased a half interest 
 in The News and in the conduct of that paper soon identified 
 himself with the progressive citizens of his portion of the 
 State and was looked upon as one of the strongest factors in 
 every movement for the development and public good of his 
 chosen section. Mr. Kingsley was sent as an alternate delegate 
 to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1884, 
 and the following winter served with credit and honor to 
 himself as Secretary of the Committee of Finance, Ways and 
 Means of the Lower House of the Fifth General Assembly. 
 He was nominated as State Auditor on the Republican ticket 
 of 1886 and was elected by a handsome majority, polling 29,- 
 459 votes. In the few weeks which have passed since he 
 took possession of his office he has mastered its intricacies 
 and will not content himself with being merely the nominal 
 head of his department. Mr. Kingsley belongs to that class 
 of young men who have come prominently before the public 
 and have attained honor and distinction for sterling qualities 
 and native talent. Standing as he does upon the very thresh- 
 hold of life, he can but feel an honorable degree of pride in 
 the importance and- responsibility of his present high posi- 
 tion, and with an ambition to deserve the commendation of 
 all honorable men he has anchored himself to truth, honesty 
 and justice. He is himself a bright example of the doctrine 
 which he so strongly urged during his campaign : "that poli- 
 tics need purifying ; that it is the duty of every honorable 
 citizen to interest himself in them ; that it is peculiarly the 
 duty of young men to keep up the standard of political ideas 
 and political methods. 1 ' Mr. Kingsley is one of the most fin- 
 ished orators and logical speakers upon the platform of Colo- 
 rado, and during his canvass the past fall was listened to with 
 an attention and respect scarcely accorded any other. His 
 language is beautiful, his logic convincing, and the writer has 
 no hesitency in predicting that the end is not yet of his use- 
 fulness to the people of this State. He is proving himself 
 every way worthy of the great confidence reposed in him by 
 
< O.M PEN I'll M OF OLOBADO. 
 
 p t M,pl<- ( f the Stat<- and is adding Laurels to those al 
 
 read\ won. Ee makes friends slowly, oul n.-v.-r ].osos mi.- 
 
 whMi niio- mad*', llr ivlislirs n ikf and is liinis^lf rrpl.-t*- 
 with an- !!' i^ an untiring worker and in his car'-r. 
 
 though short, he has displayed a^force of charactrr and in- 
 
 doniital>lt' .'iiiTirv, which in tin- lJn^ run IH-V.M- t'aiN to land 
 
 possessor or tnese qualifications at the top. 
 
SENATORS. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor N. H. Meldrum, 
 
 And President of the Senate, was born October 11 1841 
 in Mixville, Alleghany county, N. Y. He received a 
 good common school education. In 1861 he was one of the 
 first to respond to the call for volunteers, and en- 
 listed in the One Hundredth New York, Volunteer Infantry 
 He was under General McClellan through the Chickahoming 
 campaign, participating in the battles of Williamsburp-, Fair 
 Oaks and the Seven Day's light, He was subsequently com- 
 missioned Second Lieutenant in the Twenty-first New York 
 Cavalry, and did service in the Shenandoah Valley. He was 
 appointed Aid-de-camp on the staff of General Hunter, in his 
 raid on Lynchburg and was also in the valley campaign with 
 Sheridan, where he was present in eighteen general engage- 
 ments. At the close of the war, he was ordered with his 
 regiment to Colorado and on the 13th of July, 1866, was mustered 
 out of the service with the rank of captain. After his dis- 
 charge he settled in Colorado but soon afterward removed to 
 Cheyenne, Wyo., and in 1867 was elected Treasurer of that 
 city. At the expiration of his term he returned to Colorado 
 and was Assessor of Larimer county for two years. Was a 
 member of the last Territorial Legislature which convened in 
 Denver in 1875, and on October 3, 1876, was elected 
 a member of the Senate of the First General Assembly. In 
 the fall of 1878, before his term had expired in the First Gen- 
 eral Assembly, he was elected Secretary of State and entered 
 upon the duties of this office, on the 14th, of January, 1879. 
 He was again re-elected on November 2, 1880. He was ap- 
 pointed Surveyor General of the district of Colorado April 
 2, 1883, by President Arthur, and served until December 
 9, 1885, when he was removed by President Cleveland for 
 "offensive partisanship." He was elected to his present posi- 
 tion, as Lieutenant Governor, on November 2, 1886. Dur- 
 ing his residence in Colorado he has been engaged in stock- 
 raising and is now the President of the Independence Horse 
 and Cattle Co., which has as line herds of Norman horses and 
 Hereford cattle as there are in the State. 
 
BIOGRAPHIC A I. < oMi'K.MUr v LOBADO, 
 
 Adair Wilson. 
 
 Though Colorado is ;i y<.inm State and has not had time to 
 train many mm into wide fields of usefulness and experience 
 in affairs Of state, yet she numbers among her people mm 
 who have trained in other fields, and have brought with them 
 a knowledge ,,t' men and affairs which made their usefuhi'-s- 
 incalculable. Such an on.- is Senator Adair Wilson, who ivp- 
 its th- Twenty-first District in the pre^-nt Senate. Sen- 
 ator Wilson was horn in Salina county. Missouri. November 
 1(1, 1S11. His father was horn in A ugusta county. Virginia, 
 and his mother in Todd reunify, Kentucky. He was educated 
 at the Masonic College. Lexington. Missouri, and graduated 
 in 1S.~>S. He was married to Miss Margaret K. Kdwards at Ar 
 row Rock. Missouri. Jane 9, 1868, and is the tathei of four 
 rliildren. Tin- Senator came to Colorado in the spring <>f 
 of 18()1, but went on to California the same season, cio 
 the plains with a mule team. He located in San Francisco 
 and resumed the study of law in the office of his uncle, (ten. 
 John Wilson. Two years later, in the early part of 1863. he 
 went to Virginia City, Nevada, where he was tendered and a< 
 c.-pted the position of city editor of the Virginia City Union. 
 In the fall of 1864 he moved to Austin, Nev., and soon rose to 
 the position of editor-in-chief of the Reese River Reveille. In 
 the Senator returned to San Francisco, and for two year- 
 engaged in newspaper work upon various journals in that 
 city, and in 1867, becoming wearied of his unsettled life in the 
 he determined to return to his old home in .Marshall. 
 Mo., and made the voyage via the Isthmus of Panama and N 
 York. Arrived there lie settled down in tin* practice of 
 law, and in isr,8was married. During the year 1872 he again 
 ret umed to Colorado and in company with (iovernor Adam- 
 was one of the firel settlers of South Pueblo. Here he sue. 
 fully practical his profession until the latter part of 1S7:J. 
 when he removed to Del Norte, at that time the centre of San 
 Juan mining region, where he has ever since resided. In 
 
 as nominated and elected a member of the Territorial 
 -lature from the Kleveiith Council District, and upon the 
 mbling of that body was chosen President of the Council, 
 which position he tilled with honor ami credit to himself and 
 to the satisfaction of all concerned. In 1.^7 '> he was the De ni- 
 ne deh'gate to the National Convention in St. Louis, and 
 was a member of the committee which --'w York 
 
 and informed Samuel .1. Tilden of his nomination. 
 \Vilsonwasunanimouslytendered the nomination for 1 
 ernor by the Democratic State Convention iu Leadville in 
 
26 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 1880, but because df the serious illness of his wife he was 
 compelled to decline the honor. He presided over the Demo- 
 cratic State Convention of 1876, 1880 and 1884, which selected 
 delegates to the National Conventions, and in 1886 was elect- 
 ed State Senator from the Twenty-first Senatorial District, 
 embracing the counties of Rio Grande, Saguache, Hinsdale, 
 Ouray, San Miguel, San Juan, Dolores and La Plata. In the 
 Territorial Council he represented the territory now compris- 
 ing the counties of Costilla, Conejos, Rio Grande, Archulita, 
 La Plata, Dolores, San Juan, Hinsdale, Ouray and San Miguel. 
 Few men have lived a life of wider experience than has Sena- 
 tor Wilson, and the Twenty-first District could not have chos- 
 en another one among her citizens who would more ably rep- 
 resent her than he None are listened to with more deference 
 and respect than he. Of a strong analytical mind, he quickly 
 separates the wheat from the chaff in every measure which 
 comes before that body, and is always found arrayed on the 
 side of the right. 
 
 Charles T. Harkison. 
 
 The honorable gentleman who heads this sketch was born 
 in Center county June 22,1842, and was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Pennsylvania. Senator Harkison is of Scotch 
 origin, was brought up in the Presbyterian faith and has al- 
 ways been a consistent member of that church. His father was 
 a Jacksonian Democrat. Senator Harkison was married in 
 1880 to Miss Mary Connor, of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, 
 and they have one son, who it is hoped will emulate the cred- 
 itable example set by his honored father. Senator Harkison's 
 war record redounds specially to his credit. At the breaking, 
 out of the war of the rebellion he enlisted in Company F, 114th 
 Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served in the First 
 Brigade. First Division, Third Army Corps. He was wound- 
 ed at Gettysburg on the second day ; was taken prisoner and 
 confined in the Belle Island prison. When paroled he was 
 afflicted with scurvy and chronic diarrhea. After he recovered 
 and was exchanged he served to the end of the war and was 
 engaged in the principal battles of the army of the Potomac. 
 He came to Colorado in 1879. He is a gas and steam fitter by 
 trade and also an hydraulic engineer. In the latter capacity he 
 served the Union Pacific railroad for sixteen years. He was 
 elected to serve in the present Legislature on the Republican 
 ticket. He has always voted that ticket, and it is with pride 
 he boasts of having cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln for 
 the second term of that illustrious patriot's elevation to the 
 Presidential chair. At that important period of his life he 
 
i;i(H,i;Ai'Hh AI. roMi'KMHi M OF COLORADO. 
 
 Matiolled ill front <>t' 1 '< 't -1'S 1 > 1 1 1'LT. Mll'l when ''IlSlill^ ilJS 
 
 Ballot was arrayed in I'nch- Sam's uniform, and had a 
 gun iii his hand. When interviewed in regard to his care.-r. 
 
 Harkison stated that In- had no history worti 
 counting. In making such a statement as (his we have to add 
 tin- special v in tie of modest y to his many personal traits, and 
 to the moiv fre.'ly accord to Initial! the well-earned credit he 
 
 gained as a gallant soldier, a trustworthy and respe 
 ciri/.en, who knows his duty towards his fellow men and 'I 
 to fulfill it with out fear or favor. 
 
 James M. Freeman. 
 
 Senator James M. Freeman was born in Saratoga county, 
 N-w York, and received his education at Charlottsville and 
 afterwards at Fairtield Academy, New York ; graduated from 
 the Law College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and was imme- 
 diately afterwards admitted to practice in the Supreme Court 
 of New York and the Federal courts at Washington. The 
 Senator was married to Miss Emma Brownell, of that city, in 
 New York, in 1872, and now has ei^ht children in his family. 
 He came to Colorado in 1873, obedient to the advice of Hor- 
 ace <Tiveiey, and settled in the town named after that distin- 
 lied gentleman. In 1880 he was elected Mayor of the city 
 of (iieeley. and iii the fall of the same year was elected to 
 ivpiv>Mit his county (Weld) in the Senate. His services were 
 11 appreciated that he was again returned in 1SS4. Sen- 
 ator Kreemnn is a large man. who evidently believes in good 
 living and good health. He enjoys a joke with the keenest 
 and upon occasions can make a ringing speech. He takes 
 the greatest interest in all measures that come up in the Sen 
 ate, and his ability to detect the weak points therein make 
 hN ions most valuable. He has always a watchful 
 
 eye upon the interests of his constituency, and their welfare 
 is hi- fust car". The Senator is a Republican, but his parti 
 saii-hip i> iruided by good judgment and what he looks upon 
 as the I 
 
 Edwin A. Ballard. 
 
 In the day> to come when the youth of our nation have 
 m'"\vn to man'.- estate and have taken the place of those win. 
 now are upon iln- <tare of action, it will be a matter ot fam- 
 ily piide to be able to Bay, "my father wa> a soldier in tlh- 
 \Var of the Rebellion." It is a pleasure always to n-rite the 
 
 nr Nation'- heroes and to u r ive them the pi 
 which' they have so richly earned. The subject of t hi- -ketch. 
 
28 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Senator Edwin A. Ballard, was born in Trumbell Co., Ohio 
 and traces his descent back to the Puritans. He received his 
 education in the common shools of his native State, havino- 
 had but four terms in the high school. He is now one of the 
 most respected members of the Sixth Senate of Colorado 
 elected from the Second District in 1886. In response to the 
 nation's call he enlisted in the army on the 28th of Oct., 1861, 
 served through the entire war and was mustered out at Little 
 Rock, Arkansas, Sept. 30, 1865. He was at different times in 
 the commands of Buell, Rosencrans, Thomas and Sherman- 
 was in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga. Mission 
 Ridge and more than thirty other engagements. He accom- 
 panied Sherman in his march to the sea, and was in the fa- 
 mous Atlanta campaign. He received but one slight wound 
 throughout the entire war, which was of no consequence, and 
 from which he quickly recovered. He is a large man, of com- 
 manding presence and a strong speaker. He has been in the 
 successful practice of the law for twenty-one years. He com- 
 mands the attention of the august body of which he is a mem- 
 ber, and his remarks are listened to with the utmost respect, 
 He is a Democrat of the staunchest kind. 
 
 Charles H. Abbott 
 
 Was born on the 19th of August, 1847, in the State of Michi- 
 gan, and like many of the men of our day received his 
 education in the common schools. He comes from old New 
 England stock, dating his lineage from the original settle- 
 ment at Plymouth Rock. Captain Joshua Abbott, from whom 
 the Senator is a direct descendant, was in the battle of Bunker 
 Hill, and participated in the stirring events of the war of the 
 revolution, and after seven years of bitter struggle had the 
 gratification of knowing that the land for which he had fought 
 was free. The family have contributed men of worth 
 and of national reputation, notably, John S. C. Abbott, the 
 historian and biographical writer ; Jacob Abbott, author of 
 plain scientific works. Many of the family are holding posi- 
 tions of honor and trust throughout New England. The father 
 of Senator Abbott was a member of the Michigan Legislature 
 for a number o^' years, being returned by his constituency 
 until he refused to longer accept their favors. He was a per- 
 sonal friend of Henry Wilson, William Lloyd Garrison and 
 "Old Zach" Chandler, and like these illustrious characters 
 was a loyal friend and advocate of the doctrine of equal rights 
 for all men. When Senator Abbott was but fifteen years 
 old, at the opening of the war, his father sent him to an uncle 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM <>i- COLORADO. 29 
 
 who was in command of a iv^nm-nt in the field to cure him 
 of his desire to enlist He participated in the exciting BCenefl 
 about Yicksburg and was wounded in the same day's battle 
 in which his uncle lost his lift-. After this In- returned home 
 and was sent to college, but tin- war fever was still 
 in him and it wa- not long before In* enlisted in thei'.th Mass- 
 achusetts Volunteer Infantry and again repaired to the scene 
 of action, where he remained until the close of the war. His 
 tirst trip to the west \\as with a party of U. P. Railway en- 
 ginerrs and after footing it twice through to Salt Lake 
 on preliminary surveys he settled down to business in Colo 
 rado The Senator has been engaged in mining and has ex- 
 perienced all the ups and downs of that life. He holds his 
 pi e>ent position with the universal good will of his constitu- 
 ency. He is a Republican, of the stalwart type. 
 
 H. H. Eddy. 
 
 There are men who attain the good of political or personal 
 prominence by reason of their wealth, others because of their 
 knowledge and recourse to political trickery, others because 
 of their happy, genial dispositions, social qualities and facil- 
 ities for making friends; but they are few indeed, who are 
 honored with distinction through merit alone. The gentleman 
 of whom we are writing has succeeded thus far because he 
 merited success and is popular because he is possessed of in- 
 dustry. energy and an ambition to excel. Senator H. H. 
 Ivldy. who represents the 12th Senatorial District composed 
 of the counties of Summit, Eagle and Garfield was born in 
 Milwaukee, Oregon, March 11, 1855 and was educated at 
 TuttVs College, CoUege Hill, Mas-. After his graduation, 
 which occurred in 18?<>. he began the study of the law and 
 wa- admitted to the bar of New York in 'lS?S. Soon after 
 liis successful debut into the l"j-;;l arena in 1878, he removed 
 to Topeka. Kansas, where lie put out his shingle and remained 
 until attracted to Leadville by the excitement of 1871). Here 
 he practiced his profession until the fall of the same year. 
 when he changed his residence to Summit county, and in con- 
 nection with his law practice ensia^i'd in mining. In the fall 
 of 1880 he was nominated and elected State Senator on the 
 Republican ticket and airain rn elected in 188-1. In 18s-.' he 
 was appointed Special Air'MM of the Land Department by 
 I'p-ident Arthur, which position he held for two years. In 
 :ain changed his residence to (iartield county. 
 when* he now resides, successfully en^a^ed in the cat tie bus- 
 Senator Kddy is one of the youngest men in the Srn- 
 
30 BIOGKAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 ate, having only attained his thirty-second year. He has the 
 advantage of a classical education, and brings to his work a 
 foreseeing mind, quick thought and understanding, and the 
 happy faculty of quickly analyzing and getting at the merits 
 and demerits of all measures that come up. He is one of the 
 most logical and forcible speakers in the Senate, and is always 
 listened to with the- utmost respect whenever he takes the 
 floor The Senator is of short, heavy build, with a good- 
 shaped head and a clear, piercing eye. He is unmarried and 
 the fault is his own. When the present Senate convened he 
 was made chairman of the committee on corporations and 
 railroads, which position he is filling to the satisfaction of 
 all concerned. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 The above-mentioned Senator was born in Monroe county, Indi- 
 ana, oil September 13, 1853. He received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the common schools of Iowa, and afterward entered the 
 State University, from which he graduated in 1877. The succeed- 
 ing fall he entered the law department in the same institution, 
 from which he graduated in 1879. He was the valedictorian of 
 his class in both cases. His father's family were Scotch, 
 descent, having settled in Kentucky at an early clay ; his mother's 
 family are Virginians. The Senator removed to Colorado Springs, 
 Colorado, and began the practice of law in January, 1880. In the 
 spring election in that city the same year he was elected city attor- 
 ney, which position he held for three consecutive terms. In the 
 fall of 1884 he was chosen to represent his county in the Lower 
 House of the Legislature, and in 1886 was elected from the Eighth 
 District as Senator, which position lie now holds. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trustees of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 
 and chairman of their executive committee. The Senator takes a 
 deep interest in all matters which come before the Senate that 
 will in any way bear upon the welfare of the people. His collegi- 
 ate training lias given him a knowledge of parliamentary laws, 
 which eminently fit him to preside; as a consequence he is as often 
 called to the chair as any other member, when in committee 
 of the whole. His decisions are always equitable and prompt upon 
 any point which may arise. When lie lias work to do, he goes at 
 it with a will, and is exceedingly successful with all his bills. He 
 is a finely-built, medium-sized man, with a full beard and dark 
 hair and always meets you with a smile. In June, 1881, he mar- 
 ried the daughter of his former professor in Greek and history at 
 the university, Miss Harriet J. Parker, at Iowa City, Iowa. The 
 
KAPHICAL oMi'KMHlM 01 < OLORADO. 
 
 tor ha- proven him-elf a -iicce--ful lawyer; enjoy- tin- conli- 
 deuce nf his people at home anil lias forced him-elf into tin- c 
 will <f his co||-ao-|ie- in tin- Senate by his o-M.nl fellowship and >H- 
 perior ahilit y. 
 
 Oscar Fitz Allen Greene 
 
 tte of tin' oldest ill year- a> Well as wisdom of the pre-en: 
 
 llf \\a- born in Troy. \\"al<l< county. Maine. l'VIniar\ '.'. 
 IM'J. where In- remained tllTOUghoul his boyhood la\-. \t the 
 i'l-ra kino- out .>t'tlic war in iMil IK- ciili>t(Ml in ( "... II. Fir>t Main. - 
 ali-y. and M-rvt-d until di.M'liaroyd in I )r(M-inl-r. ^<'1. Ilcwa>in 
 tin- fani)U> (no-ao-ciiicnt> !' . \ntirtani and ( icttv^l'iiro; and numer- 
 ous other liattlfs, and wa> >rvrn-ly wmnidrd in Septendier. IM'.I. 
 near I'eter.-huro-. Virginia, from wliidi In- di<l not ciitin-ly recover 
 until In- wa> dix-liarm-d. The Senator \va> and>itioii> to x-cnn- an 
 education. an<l with that end in \ iew allowed no Opportunity to oo 
 
 unimproved in which he iiiio-lit u'ain something. He studied in 
 
 camp and >n the march, ami i-\vn employed his time while on picket 
 duty to tit himself for CMlleo-e when the war was ended. At the 
 (Apiration of his term of enlistment he returned north and in 1865 
 entered Mowdoin Colleo-e. from which he oraduated in 1 M'.'.I <\vitli 
 the highest -tandine,- in a clas> of thirty-two. Leaviim- 
 colleo-,- he came to and settled in Manitowoc. \Vi>e.n>in. in tlie 
 latter part of the >ame year. lie wa> admitted to practice at the 
 l>ar in 1^11. IN 1 left KfanitOWOC in December, l^lk and after a 
 
 time he settled in the town of Boulder, Oolo., in L8 75, where he has 
 
 ever since resided. He was for eiVht years city attorney of that 
 place and was chosen a member of the Ilmi-enf Representatives in 
 
 L880and re-elected in 1^^'J. In iss^ he was elected to the posi- 
 
 tion which he is now tilling with such ability. The Senator has 
 not lost any of the traits which lie BO strongly displayed during 
 the war and the determination which then characterized him i^ 
 still visible in the persistency with which he ma>ter> the details ..f 
 . measure which comes before the Senate. He is ..ften upon 
 the floor but always to purpose, and his Mpiniuns and judgment 
 are lunked iijiofi as CMnrlii-i\ e. The Senator was married 
 < 'arrie A. Ma-on. at Appleton. \\' isCMiisin. Sept. '1 1 . l s ~i-'i. 
 
 Thomas Cornish. 
 
 It is a matter of pride and al>< of pleasiii'e, to the writer, to 
 chronicle the event- incident to a life like that of Senator Tli< 
 
 The Senator was horn in Knedaiid. .Ian. 1. 1 s 1 1 and 
 with hi- parents immiirrated to Amei'ica when but a small 
 f -made ninii. having had but t'e\v >-liool d 
 
32 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 and those confined to the mid-winter weeks when he was relieved 
 from work. His boyhood days, with the exception of a few years 
 of his earliest life, were spent in Wisconsin where his parents set- 
 tled soon after their arrival in this country. The Senator has been 
 engaged in mining ever since. First in the copper mines of Mich- 
 
 O o O _t _L 
 
 igan, then in the lead mines of Wisconsin, and lastly in the mines 
 of Colorado. He came to Colorado in 1868 and w^as first located 
 in Gilpin county, but in 1869 removed to Clear Creek county 
 where he has ever since resided. He cast his first vote in the city 
 of Georgetown and has never voted anywhere else in his life. He 
 was chosen Alderman by his townsmen in 1883 and in 1884 was 
 sent to represent his district in the Senate of Colorado. He was 
 elected Police Justice and Mayor of Georgetown in 1886, which 
 position he now holds in conjunction with that of Senator. Sena- 
 tor Cornish is Manager of the Colorado United Mining Co. (lim- 
 ited), of London England, a position which his experience as a 
 miner eminently fits him for. He is a man of about five feet nine 
 inches in stature, squarely built, strong physique and of imposing 
 appearance. With his jet black hair combed carefully backward 
 from his forehead, he is never seen without a smile upon his face, 
 and a mirthful twinkle in his eye. Though not a brilliant speaker 
 and seldom asking for the floor, he is nevertheless always accorded 
 the utmost attention when he does rise to speak. He is univer- 
 sally respected by all who know him. He is still unmarried, and 
 this we believe is the only fault he possesses in the mind of the 
 fair sex. 
 
 Oasimiro Barela. 
 
 Two or three centuries ago, when Colorado and New Mexico 
 were nothing but vast deserts of adobe land, sand plains and 
 sparsely tree-covered mountains, whose solitude and silence had 
 never been broken by the sound of man's voice, there came a hardy 
 race to their borders and set their seal upon the land and conquered 
 it for their own. These people were Spaniards, or of Spanish 
 descent, and among the earliest of these were the ancestors of one 
 of the best known citizens of our State, Senator Casimiro Barela. 
 He was born at Embudo, New Mexico, and educated at Moro, in 
 that Territory, by Rev. J. B. Salpointe, the present Roman 
 Catholic Archbishop of Xew Mexico. The Senator has been twice 
 married, the first time March 4, 1867, and the second time Febru- 
 ary 16, 1883. He is the father of nine children, all by his first 
 wife, of whom there are but three daughters still living. The Sen- 
 ator settled in his present home, the village of Barela, in the valley 
 of San Francisco, Las Animas county, Colorado, in the spring of 
 1867. In 1870 the Senator was nominated and elected Assessor of 
 
\IMIM 01 ' OLOB U 
 
 !ld 'In- \ear follo\V!i;._ 
 
 (' the ! r of the ' '>!<. rado Terri' 
 
 'id in 1 v "tli term- with 
 
 ! 
 
 memher of til' 
 
 of ( en ( loilnl -m-er of <mt \ 
 
 
 
 !. anil at the 
 
 ' didate hn 1 Presidential Klector upon the 
 1. \\\> name j.|)c:irii)o- t \\-irt- upon the 
 
 Jri'i-Mtl'i 
 
 rilollu'll Jri'i-Mtl'i! ,' 
 
 ^aiii t-l. Senator by an overwhelming majority, lie 
 
 County Judge immediately HJKMI his elee- 
 
 tidi <f Scnatcr. havino- held ihat >t}ice one year, but, however, 
 
 to the >ati>t'acti<Mi f hi> entire enmity. h: the eleetinn nf la>t fall 
 line ;i|je:irel lipnll the I Jeim lerntie ticket a.- t he eaii'liila ' 
 . \uditni-. and altliniio'li defeated he led his |rede<-e->"i- upon 
 the >anie ticket for the sirfie pnsitiu 1\ nmre than five thni>;unl 
 n Senator Dan-la tirM cani'- to Colorado he eno-a^vd in 
 id the rai-ino- ,,f stock. Afterward he >tarted in 
 liandi/inu;. altlmno-h he >till continued in the -tnek l>n>' 
 handling sheep, cattle an<l Imrses. in which lu>iiie.-s he .-till re- 
 inaiti-. lie i- at j.iv.-ent one of the lafe-'e^t -tneklmlders ill tlie 
 
 dad ( 'attic ( '.. and in the Barela Bro s. Cattle Co. M\\ 
 
 nan of keen perception and analytical mind, and one whose 
 
 word- are ! : to with more than nnliuary :ittentim when lie 
 
 in hi> | peak in the Senati-. Althoim-h he speak> the 
 
 i>h lano'iiao'e with much dillicnlty. his idea.- are alway- th>e 
 
 of a el. >-e thinker. lie i> coiiiparati\-ely a ynmia man yet. and has 
 
 - 'fe him. 
 
 J. D. Montez 
 
 horn in New M > 1 and was educate.) in the 
 
 ( .-ndent t'rnn. 
 
 II of tl.- .-du- 
 
 d in h 
 
 : -h well 
 
 - 
 
 .inrial I > 
 arried h I'nnidad 
 
 Miity in the 
 
34 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 last two State Republican Conventions. lie is engaged in stock 
 raising, in which business he is very successful. He also has a 
 large general store at his home, and like his other business has also 
 made this a success. The voting population of his district is largely 
 Mexican, and lie enjoys their confidence to a large degree. 
 
 George M. Ohilcott. 
 
 During the greater portion of the present session of the General 
 Assembly, the absence of Hon. George M. Cliilcott has been greatly 
 felt in the Senate chamber on account of severe illness. Mr. Cliil- 
 cott was born in Trough Creek Valley, Huntingtoii county, Perm., 
 January 2, 1828. He was educated in country schools and worked 
 on a farm during vacation. After working on a farm in Jefferson 
 county, Iowa, a few years, he taught school, at the same time pur- 
 suing the study of medicine until the spring of 1850. On March 
 21st of that year he was married to Miss Jennie Cox. In 1853 he 
 was elected on the Whig ticket as Sheriff of Jefferson county, la. ; 
 serving one year. In 1856 he removed to Burt county, Nebraska, 
 and was shortly afterwards elected to represent Burt and dimming 
 counties in the Lower House of the Legislature. In 1859 he again 
 pushed further west, and arrived in Denver in May. He prospect- 
 ed during that summer. In the fall he was elected to the Consti- 
 tutional Convention from the county of Arapahoe. The same year 
 he returned to his family in Nebraska, and the following spring 
 came back to Colorado. The summer of 1860 he spent upon Cherry 
 creek, and in the fall he moved to Southern Colorado, where he was 
 robbed of his wagon, team and the little property he had by 
 one he had befriended. Left penniless in a strange land, he was 
 fortunate enough to hire out on a farm until 1863, when he located 
 on a farm twelve miles from Pueblo. He then went to Nebraska 
 for his family. He served as a member of the Territorial Legisla- 
 ture in the first two sessions of that body. In 1863 President Lin- 
 coln appointed him Register of the United States Land Office for 
 the District of Colorado, which position he held nearly four years. 
 In 1866 he was elected to Congress under the State organization, 
 which sought admission to the Union, but as Congress refused to 
 admit it he could not take his seat. In 1867 he was elected dele- 
 gate to Congress for the Territory of Colorado, serving one term. 
 during which time he got a bill passed repealing the act which dis- 
 criminated against all the territory west of Kansas and east of Cali- 
 fornia, by charging letter postage on all printed matter between 
 the two boundaries. He succeeded in getting large appropriations 
 for surveys, and also got the St. Vrain and Vigil Land Grant bill 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OK COLORADO, 
 
 lie W9 B menihcr of the Territorial ( '..iinci! and al-o 
 f that hody durine. the session !' 1 .ml wa> al-o 
 
 1 in 1874. In 187o be d to the 6 
 
 P6. L"i- the Sixth < M-iieral A emhly he 
 
 : 1'uehlo. Mine prevented him from aidintr that 
 
 hody with hi.- wi-e coun-el and .-olid, cl- -'lin^ 
 
 a -launch Republican and ha- al\\a\- '"'en popu 
 
 lar w::h hi- party. 
 
 Timothy B. Ryan 
 torn on the 10th day of October, IMo. in the town ,f Yir- 
 
 -. \'ei-moiit, ami received hi.- education in the puhlic school.- 
 of Franklin county, New York. A 1 a rov- framed, rohu.-t younn- 
 
 . full of life and energy, he eould not endure the plodding 
 
 and 80 came to try his fortune in the wonderland of 
 the west. He arrived in Colorado in' March, l^To. and .-ettled at 
 Silver Plume. Here he at once ene/aovd in mining, in which pur- 
 suit he met with the usual and varying success until 1878. In 
 that year, while the excitement was at its heiedit in Leadville, he. 
 like thou>aml- of other.-, went to that hoomino- camp to try hi> for- 
 tune amid it- ru>h. That city ha> heen hi> home ever -ince. I'o- 
 ! of a .-tronir arm and a determination to Micceed, hy dili- 
 trent u-e of the pick and .-luvfl he laid the foundation for hi> pre.- 
 ent pr.peril\ . He i- a >tockhol<ler in the *\dam> M inin^r Co.. 
 who.-e property is regarded a> one of the e-TeateM silver pi'oducer.- 
 of the State, and he i> also interested in cattle in dartield county. 
 He i- a memher of the Democratic State Central Committee, and 
 
 tall wa- nominated hy the Democrats <>f Laket till the \acan- 
 cy in the State Senate, occasioned hy the death of John T. Klkin.-. 
 and 'ed jiverthe Uejuihlican camlidate hy a large majority, 
 
 'vino- a laroyr \te than any ther camlidate on either ticket in 
 Lake county. He i> a (juiet, oh.-er\ant man. t-vnr watchful of the 
 intere-t- he repre-ent-. and act i no; only upon due consideration hi.- 
 jude.-ment i.- M-ldom at fault. 
 
 Antonio D. Archuleta 
 
 horn September 2, 1885, in Taos county, Nen Mexico. He 
 ded .-chn.il at different times in the counties of Oonejos and 
 
 in the \eai-- from V.o to ''!. and in IsTO came to Denver, 
 re lie attended >chool until '71. after which he went home and 
 1 until he wa- twenty one year- of :IL: - m after attain 
 
 hie majority he wa- nominated and elected upon the Kepuhli 
 8 a meniher of the tir-t Le^i>lat lire of thi- State, ami 
 
36 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 was re-elected iii '81. In '84 lie was chosen to represent his dis- 
 trict in the State Senate. He was married to Miss Lawriand G id- 
 le] os, daughter of Lina Gallejos, of Taos county, N. M., in 1877. 
 aiid the couple have been blessed with one child, a son, Daniel R. 
 Archiileta. Senator Archuleta's parents located on the Conejos 
 river, in Taos county, New Mexico, in the early part of 1856. where 
 they have ever since remained. "When the Territory of Colorado 
 was cnt off from New Mexico, the part in which they lived was in- 
 cluded within the borders of the new. Territory. The Legislature 
 of '84 created the new county of Archnleta, which was named after 
 the Senator's family. They are one of the wealthiest and most in- 
 fluential families in that section, and can always be found arrayed 
 upon the side of right. The Senator is himself a merchant and a 
 stock grower, in which business he has been most successful. 
 Though but just entering the last half of the second score of 
 years of his life, he has attained considerable prominence and 
 wealth among his people. Although he is a Mexican by birth, he 
 is at the same time thoroughly an American, and is imbued with 
 American ideas. Liberal minded, patriotic and a strong advocate 
 of public schools, he can always be found arrayed upon the side of 
 the weak as against the strong. The Senator is, and always has 
 been a Republican, in his convictions. 
 
 A. W. Waters. 
 
 Representing the Sixth District in the Senate, is a citizen of Arap- 
 ahoe county and of Denver. Lie was elected to his position by rea- 
 son of his personal popularity and fitness for it. Owing to ill 
 health he has been unable to occupy his seat and is now traveling 
 in Southern California. He was elected in the fall of 1884 and 
 during the last session of the Legislature was a wise, efficient mem- 
 ber of the Senate. His interests are with those of the people he 
 represents. Mr. 'Waters is well known in the city of Denver as 
 an enterprising and successful merchant. He came to Colorado 
 from Wisconsin several years ago and became a member of the 
 firm of Haskell & Waters, commission merchants, in which busi- 
 ness he' still remains. Previous to his nomination upon the Re- 
 publican ticket for the position which he now holds, Mr. Waters 
 did not take an active part in politics but employed his time with 
 his business. His many friends hope for his speedy and entire 
 recovery. His welcome, upon his return will be a glad one by 
 his associates in the Senate, who miss his business tact and ready 
 help in handling the weighty problems which come up for their 
 solution. 
 
BIOGB \IMIK \i. o\i \'\ \ mr M OF ' "l. <>i: \ DO. : '-< 
 
 Charles J. Christian, 
 
 ,111. from tin- K; District, is a civil 
 
 and mining engineer, with oilices at Leadville. Mr. ( 'hristian 
 bom in IS.M at Pottaville, Schuykill Co Pa. Tin- Sena 
 tor ha- resided in thN State SII '.and in Leadvillesince 
 
 Gilbert M. Woodworth, 
 
 iiting tin* Tenth Senatorial District, was born Novem- 
 OUnty, Pennsylvania. He was ><lu- 
 
 l at the Vienna High School. Ontario county, New York. 
 'intent from an old-time Whig, and is a thorough 
 Republican himself, having always voted that ticket and ad- 
 principles. On his mother's side his ancestors 
 >tch, one of them. William Gordon, was one of the 
 pirators against the Crown in the Irish rebellion, headed 
 by Robert Kmmett in I 788. Defeated and disheartened. Wil- 
 liam (Gordon made his escape to America, where he was joined 
 by his family, one by one, as they were able to get out of Ire- 
 land without being overtaken by their English hunters. The 
 only daughter of William Gordon married, in this coun- 
 try, a man by the name of Bennett, and her son is the pn ^ 
 ent James (Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Chi' 
 
 ion. who met his death so heroically in E^ypt, was sec- 
 uiisin of Senator Woodworth. The Senators father was 
 ied out of Virginia at the lu^inninu: of the u'l-eat struggle 
 }>y his rehel neiu'hboi-s. who ottered live hundred dollars for 
 him. dead or alive, his only crime being that he was an Abo- 
 litionist. From Virginia he went to Kansas in ls.")7. and 
 bore a large part in the anti-slavery discussion, on a number 
 
 ions barely scaping with his life, lie was a del, 
 Constitutional Convention, and at the opening of the 
 
 f his sons to do battle for thepnnciples ! 
 
 dearly loved. One of these \va -nator Woodworth, who 
 
 1 a varied and checkered life. He rame to Colorado 
 
 in !>''.( . but returned to Kansas in the following year and en 
 
 d in the Fifth Kansas Volunteers, in which command he 
 
 ,ti's. He was in the Fourth Arkansas for eight 
 
 months of the war. Knlisting as ; , private s.-ldier. he 
 
 at the end of his first thre of service chosen li<-u 
 
 tenant of the Twelfth Kansas Militia and made adjutant of 
 
 Afterwards h. --moted to a lieuteiiant- 
 
 y for his gallant conduct near Independence. .Missouri. 
 
 in the famoii- " Pap. Price campaign." Senator \Voo<lworth 
 
 ha- been a prornineui citi/en ot Iient county. Colorado, ever 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 since 1865, and is one of the leading stockmen of that section. 
 He organized the Republican party of that county in 1875, 
 and was chairman of the County Central Committee for eight 
 years. In 1884 he was elected to the position he still holds, 
 and in which he is gaining honor and friends with each suc- 
 ceeding day. 
 
 Leonard W. Wells 
 
 Was born in the State of Ohio in 1837 and received his edu- 
 cation in the schools of that State. His father was a Jeffer- 
 soniari Democrat, but failed to impart his political sentiments 
 to his son, who is strong Republican. The Senator came to 
 Colorado in 1860 and settled in Douglas county. In 1864 he 
 enlisted in the Third Colorado Regiment of Volunteers. He 
 was married in 1868 to Miss Alice James, of Denver. 
 Three children have been born to them, but only one is now 
 living a son, who is being educated at the State Agricultu- 
 ral College at Fort Collins. Mr, Wells served his county 
 for three years as county commissioner and in 1880 
 was elected to the State Senate from Douglas county. In 
 1884 he was re-elected a joint or float Senator from the coun- 
 ties of Arapahoe and Douglas. The Senator is one of the 
 oldest settlers in Colorado, and has always taken an interest 
 in the welfare of the State. Having watched her growth 
 through all the years of her existence, he is thoroughly ac- 
 quainted with her needs and requirements, and his experi- 
 ence, coupled with his good, sound sense, eminently fits him 
 for the position he now holds. His constituency need have 
 no fear but that their interests will be well guarded while en- 
 trusted to him. 
 
 
 
 James A. McOandless 
 
 Is a resident of Florence, Colorado, and is one of the oldest 
 settlers in the State. He was born February 28, 1836, in Ash 
 county, North Carolina, and received his education in the 
 common schools of that State. Though born and raised in a 
 Southern State, he is nevertheless a Republican, of the most 
 stalwart kind and has always kept to the standard of that 
 party. The Senator is a married man and the father of eight 
 children. He immigrated to and settled in Fremont county, 
 Colorado, in 1864, and has been identified with every onward 
 movement in the State since that time. He was a commis- 
 sioner of Fremont county from 1877 to 1880; was elected 
 to the State Legislature in 1879, and again in 1881, and last 
 year was elected, to his present position. Because of his long 
 
BIOGRAPHIC A I. < oMPi.MHlM 01 \ DO, 
 
 [dence in Colorado. Senator Mc( 'andl- 
 nit with its history and n- any man ii 
 
 ate : thi> knowledge, backed by hN 
 him a valuable member of that body. His people have in 
 
 liim a careful and able champion. 
 
 Henry Lee. 
 
 Was born il \ Old Kn^lanil" in IS-r.\ and h 
 
 his nativity in . ,tture. He is endowed \vith a tenacity 
 
 of purpose peculiar to his race, and has reached 8 
 
 in.l : Mandally and of honor politically, repres 
 
 nth District in the Semite. He is* - the 
 
 '.n.iC l>usin'ss men of Di'iivrr. owning a laruv farm ini]>l- 
 
 mrnt lions.' on I Street, and is regarded as one of the 
 
 of l)Miv-r. I lis j)atr I all 
 
 senator L. farcied as one o1 long- 
 
 Mcn in the Senate by his associates there, and though la- 
 
 boring under extren i vantages lie is one of th-- most 
 
 '.il ni'-n in that body. 
 
 John H. Poole. 
 
 One of th< looking ^entipnien upon the floor of the 
 
 Sena an of iiujMisin^ appearance: OUH who aiTesrs the 
 
 eye of an observe]- 1>y tho mere act of rising to \i\< f.-ei : a 
 war horse of democracy. Senator Poole is one of the hn 
 men in i he chandler. He is an a.L r ii-ressive aid fearless advo 
 
 my measure in which he is interested. In the 
 Of the fall of 188C the Seiiaioi w&8 elected from the 
 Sixth, a sn-oii'rly Republican district, ( oiiuty of A rapahoe. 
 including Denver, pollinu- a lar.u^M- vote than any other 
 man upon either ticket. The Senator and Ms brol 
 owneix and mai of the Denver one of ilie 
 
 nterprises in the city. Their manuf; 
 
 are sold and universally used in all the adjoining 
 States and Territories. The Senator ie 
 
 the General bly, ir 
 
 and enterprise \\n< hnilt up a which 
 
 throughout il ..... ntiiv West Although W 
 are 
 
 friend of the workin^nian and IS alwi ' -und 
 
 in earnex. >npi .liable m 
 
 eir condition. The S -i\- \ in Du- 
 
 bn|iie. Iowa. re<-.-ivin^ his edmytion in tlie public 
 
40 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 schools of that city. He is of English parentage and has in- 
 herited many of the traits peculiar to his race, but is at the 
 same time a thorough American. He came to Colorado first 
 in 1877, and has been a resident of Denver since 1883. 
 He is a good citizen, an enterprising and successful business 
 man, a judicious and liberal advertiser and patron of the 
 press, a man whom it is safe to bank upon. We predict for 
 him greater heights than he now occupies, 
 
 Elton Towers Beckwith. 
 
 Born on the Island of Mt. Desert, Maine, raised amid the 
 roar of old oceans' waves, over whose billows he sailed to 
 many lands, first officer of his own ship, he developed the 
 spirit of independence and liberty of action which we see so 
 strongly displayed in him to-day. Unbiased bv prejudice, 
 knowing no law but that of honor. Senator Beckwith holds 
 his place in the affections of his constituency and the people 
 of his section of the State by his true manhood. The Senator 
 received his education at Cambridge, Mass., and seventeen 
 years ago immigrated to Colorado. He settled in Wet Moun- 
 tain Valley, Caster county, with a brother who had preceeded 
 him, there he has resided ever since. He is the owner of sev- 
 eral ranches in the valley, which are all well stocked with 
 fine horses and cattle. He is one of the largest tax-payers 
 in his county and has always been looked upon as "a pro- 
 gressive citizen, taking a deep personal interest in every 
 movement looking to the advancement of his chosen section. 
 He was married to Mrs. Elsie A. Davis, of Chicago, 
 on Nov. 30, 1875 ; they have one child, a daughter. 
 Born in an Abolition State he is a Republican by every 
 right cf birth and training and is not backward in maintain- 
 ing his convictions. He has represented his county in al- 
 most every county and state convention since 1870. He 
 was elected to his present place in the Senate in 1886 and 
 can always be found in his place. He makes friends of 
 all by his genial manner and pleasant smile. He keeps a 
 watchful eye upon the interests of those whom he represents 
 and supports that which he believes to be good. 
 
 Samuel Adams. 
 
 of Leadville, representing the Eleventh District, was born in 
 New Brunswick and gained his education by persistent study 
 and application, without the aid of schools or teachers. Born 
 in the far north and of a hardy race he has made his own 
 
i;i<>< . i; \ I'!! 1 1 \i. < o\i j'KN Dl r.M <! OOLORA] -11 
 
 in tli- world ami !ia- -pent the later years of his life in 
 ado. H- LS a thorough Democrat and dors not i'ail upon 
 -how his ad IK- i ' ihe principle- of hi 
 
 !dom heard upon the floor of 
 
 ate. bul hisacii uided by good judgment and 
 
 lie was married in I Miss Annie Hums. 
 
 tor Adams is Manager of tin- Adams Mining (' 
 
 one <>t' tlif nio-t prosperous and successful com- 
 panies operating there. He is a shrewd business man and is 
 1 ( >f ( tnsiderable wealth. 
 
 Samuel V. C. Newell, 
 
 nting the Fourth Senatorial District, is one of the 
 
 rerprisin^ and successful members of that august 
 
 body. He takes a deep interest in all measures which coine 
 
 up and is never at fault as to his duty and convictions on <-ach. 
 
 He\va- born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 28th of April, 1854 
 
 and was educated in the common schools of Northwestern 
 
 Ohio and \Vest Virginia. The foundation there laid has 
 
 built upon by strong effort and extensive reading. 
 
 H" is the author of many bills, all of which are of 
 
 Seal value to the people of the State, and has been unus- 
 ually successful with them. His voice can be frequently 
 heard speaking upon questions of law and costitutionality 
 and always with the undivided attention of the Senate. He 
 was married to Miss Libbie Bolthoff on Sept. ^i. L878, at 
 
 ral City, Colo.; they have one child, a boy. SM 
 Newell is a partner in the banking lirmotM. Mellor & Co., of 
 
 al City. Colorado. 
 
 Mason B. Carpenter 
 
 Was born in Orange county. Vermont. Oct. ?. 1SI.\ li 
 
 titcation in the Marre. Vermont, academy from 
 
 which he graduated in 1804. afterwards entering the I'niver- 
 
 noiit and graduating therefrom in 1868. He was 
 
 burn of po.r but respectable p. mdhas a\\\ n a 
 
 ibli'-an. lb- wa^ married to Fanny M. P>rainard. at 
 
 klyn. New York. Dec. ID, l,s?l ; they ha\'e t hree children. 
 
 The Senator served iatanl Secretary ol the \ermont 
 
 ie durinu- th.- L869 to 1872, and was Secretar 
 
 th- -ame body from !>?_' to L874 IJeinoving to Colorado he 
 
 chosen a member of the Eoose offeepresentatives in 
 
 and WB& el.-cte.l to thw position which he now holds, as S- 
 
 a the Sixth District, in I8S1. Senator Carpenter 188 
 
42 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 man of about medium height, with dark hair and eyes and 
 fine form. Possessed of a finished education and polished 
 mind he is able to cope with all questions of vital interest ; 
 with his quick powers of analysis he unravels the tangles 
 which sometimes occur, and by an opportune suggestion, 
 which is always adopted, he makes clear what was before 
 dark. His speeches are short and to the point, and always 
 meet, the approval of those who hear. His District could not 
 have chosen better, 
 
 John Kinkaid. 
 
 The tallest and one of the best built men in the Senate is 
 Hon. John Kinkaid, representing five counties in the Thir- 
 teenth Senatorial District. He was born in Pennsylvania 
 and is but thirty years of age. He is a sterling Democrat, 
 and realizes that he has been sent to the Senate to do some 
 good, practical service. Consequently we find him on all oc- 
 casions taking a lively interest in every discussion that comes 
 up, offering suggestions and arguing the varied points with a 
 degree of wisdom and knowledge that is keenly appreciated 
 by his associates. The Senator is an unmarried man, but ev- 
 idently he possesses every qualification that might go towards 
 making a loving husband and fond father. The future is 
 promising for Senator Kinkaid, as he is in every sense an able 
 and representative man. He is a lawyer by profession and 
 enjoys a good practice at his home in Gunnison. 
 
REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 Thomas B. Stuart. 
 
 i Ion. Thomas I>. Stuart, Speaker of tin- Nous.-. and 
 the representatives of Arapahoe county, was burn in M 
 
 COUDtj, OMo, April -\ IS-IM. lit* was educated in 111 
 
 and [owa, and was married to Miss Helen M. Richart. in Mon- 
 mty, Iowa, in is?:'., they have three children, 
 
 Stuart \\ : d on a farm until he was sixteen year 
 
 iat time he enlisted in Company C, Eighteenth R 
 
 Iowa Infantry, and served three years and three months 
 iii'li the rebellion, never missing a march or a day oil' duty 
 during that time. At the end of the wai he law 
 
 otlire of the tii-in of Stuart Brothers, at Chariton, Iowa. 
 
 admitted to the bar in 1SC.7. He continued in the prac 
 if law in Iowa, until ISS'J, when he came to l>env< 
 rado. At the suggestion of leading members of the Grand 
 Arm\sof the Republic he WES placed ii]>on the Republican 
 
 member of the House of Representatives for i 
 and was elected by the largest majority received by any can- 
 didate on his party ticket, and upon the convening of the 
 'slatuiv he was selected as Speaker. In lss'. he was airain 
 nominated by the Republican party, and he a^ain led 
 ticket. A second time he was elected to the Speaker-hip a 
 position which his alfability and Denial manners, comb 
 by his ivady conception of ri.irlit and wn>nic on all point-, 
 mirably lit him for that honorable and responsible duty. 
 The duties of a Speaker requires a ready sagacity, a CO] 
 and (prick judgment, a bold independence and ;icit\ 
 
 and disposition tor hard work. The work which a Speak--i 
 
 : do while other men are asleep more severell 
 qualities than does the public duty ot directing the daih 
 ;islati\e Assembly. In the Speaker's i 
 1'irden of commit EUlization, and upon his 
 
 judgment and fairness in this uTeat duty lianas the c<>n troll in-- 
 
 -latioii : and in the duty o 
 r intellii:,. m decision and 
 Stuart ha< made a ^ood Speaker, and his election 
 
 Miial compliment. \Vhils; Strongly Republican in 
 
44 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 principle, Mr. Stuart is also anti-monopoly, and at all times 
 and in all places favors and advances ideas which are calcu- 
 lated to benefit the laboring man, recognizing in them the 
 bone and sinew of the land. He also knows that it is from 
 the ranks of the laboring classes we number our brightest 
 ornaments, and through them have we had enacted the most 
 just and equitable laws that adorn both the State and the 
 National Governments. Mr. Stuart is a gentleman of unques- 
 tionable honesty and confessed ability in the profession which 
 he follows, and his points are always well taken on legal mat- 
 ters. His suavity of manner and his honesty of purpose 
 combine to give him the eminent success he has attained. 
 
 John L. Russell 
 
 Was born June 22, 1858, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was 
 educated in the public schools of Baltimore county during the 
 winter months and worked on his father's farm during the 
 summer. He was married to Miss Mary J. Divane, April 17, 
 1882. in Denver. They have two boys. Mr. Russell came 
 to this Slate in 1877, having been so reduced in finances as to 
 have to borrow the money from his sister to get here. Being 
 a professional florist, upon arriving here he soon obtained 
 employment at his business. By industry and frugality he 
 soon saved sufficient to make a start for himself, and after a 
 short time acquired a flourishing trade, making many ac- 
 quaintances socially, and firm supporters politically ; as 
 he is a genial, whole-souled gentleman, all who have become 
 intimate with him have profited by so doing. Thrift and 
 prosperity have followed as a consequence of his strict atten- 
 tion to business, until now he is able to say that he has accu- 
 mulated a fair competency. Amongst his enterprises is that 
 of a large tract of land on the Platte river, which he is laying 
 out for a fruit orchard, and hopes to prove by his test that 
 this State is capable of producing fine fruit when intelligently 
 and properly looked after. Mr. Russell's father was a Demo- 
 crat, but failed to instil the same doctrines in his son, who is 
 a sterling Republican. In the present Assembly he has done 
 good service for the people he represents, atid has proved his 
 capability to serve as a legislator. 
 
 John T. Donnellan. 
 
 Belongs to that class of quiet, unassuming men who plod 
 their way along through life industriously without pre- 
 suming to usurp to themselves all the power and control of 
 
BIOGRAPHIC A I. <>M PI-AMI v ORADO, 
 
 allairs. His worth ha- been acknowledged hy those obs< 
 
 ant of liis character, and without seeking ii li- has i \\ pli 
 
 in th ion of n ; In- 1 loiisr of I 
 
 atatives from Tellm ! county, and in tliat 
 
 rapacity In- -\vn niurh ahility and sound j iid-m.-i' t in 
 
 his adv'ocac\ of different measures in which In* has he.-n in- 
 
 Mr. Donnellan was horn in Madison. WlSCOnsi] 
 Ee was married to Miss Li//.ie \. Schiel, of <>uray. 
 . in 1883; they have one daughter, Mr. Donm-Han 
 ill.- advania. &1 terms in the common schools of 
 
 native fo\\ n. These, together with a year at \\'orthin-: 
 r,iiM Uoge, at M.adison. Wis., embraced his school days, 
 
 Ih'd dit for his persistent effort to attain a 
 
 knowlMju-.- of hMUM-s and l)iisin'ss iimU'r thf most trying !)- 
 cinnstaiK-.-s, his father having died when h- wa> less than 
 one year old, since he was ten years old he has sup). on, -d 
 himself, and when prosperity has shone upon him has not 
 he.Mi unmindful of the folks at home, as his mother and sister 
 still reside in Madison. Mr Donnellan came to Colorado in 
 the spring of 1875 when but nineteen years of age. lie came 
 for tlu j sake of his health, and in order to get here hud to 
 horrow the money, landing here among a strange people 
 in a strange country without a dollar in his pocket. Mr. 
 Donnellan made mining his avocation after his arrival in Col- 
 orado. 11,. spent one year in Georgetown, but in the spring of 
 ivmov.-d to the s'an .luaii country and settled in th-- Sail 
 Miguel valley. In the fall of 1878 he discovered the M< j mlo:a 
 min'>. hut it was several years before he realized anything 
 from it on account of litigation and trouble from the intlow- 
 
 >f surface water, lie now owns a half interest in the mine 
 which is panning out well and employing a large force of 
 men. Mr. Donnellan is considered an important factor in d^ 
 
 ping the resources of San Miguel county and he faithfully 
 
 rs to deserve tin- trust placed iii him. 
 
 Leopold Mayer, 
 
 Mnnh'T from Suguuche. w;,^ hon, in Alsace. France, an 
 
 iiication there. In l^f) !-f> h" lived in "I 
 Kan He was married to Mis< Marhara Solomon, who 
 
 horn in Lalayettf. Indiana : lh<-y have four dii! 
 Mr. in Ma\ 
 
 I ing th;, to plank down 
 
 own lot two lo- 
 
 ii and Larimer streets. In L863-4 he served in 
 l)-nvM- City Council. HI- followed mercliandi/.im, r and i: 
 
46 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO, 
 
 years 1865, 1866 and 1867 he made trips to Montana, and in 
 1869 he moved to Cheyenne, at the time of the completion of 
 the U. P. R. R., and then followed the construction of the 
 road to Corrinne, Utah, the point of completion, Following 
 his return to Denver, he went to San Luis, Gostilla county 
 where he remained for four years, at the end of which time 
 he again came to Denver and opened a wholesale clothing, 
 hat and cap store. His next move was to Saguache, and so 
 much interest has he taken in that community that we find 
 him now honorably placed as a Representative of that district. 
 Mr. Mayer is a Democrat of the old school. Through all these 
 years his business has increased and we find him to-day in- 
 terested largely in the cattle business, and also conducting a 
 general merchandize and a banking business, employing 
 over twenty men. Combined with shrewd business tact he is 
 also a social and talented gentleman, making many friends 
 wherever he goes. 
 
 / 
 
 R. B. Griswold. 
 
 Among the hale and hearty Representatives there are none 
 of the members who "bobs up serenely" and more graciously 
 than does the above named honorable representative from 
 Clear Creek county. Mr. Griswold was born in Chemung 
 county, New York, February 9, 1830, and in that rural dis- 
 trict first imbibed a knowledge of correct English language, 
 seated on a slab bench in an old log hut, and occasionally 
 rolling a log to the fire-place to toast his shins. To this quaint 
 old-fashioned school house cling the sweetest memories of 
 his life. Very early did he attach himself to Democratic 
 principles, and voted first for Franklin Pierce in 1852. After 
 1854 he espoused the Republican cause, and ever since has 
 been prominently identified with that party. In 1849 he went 
 to Wisconsin, following the occupation of farming. In 1861 
 he steered still further west, arriving in Denver in July of 
 that year. Settling down for a time in Clear Creek county, 
 engaged in mining. The summer of 1863 he spent freight- 
 ing on the plains. For seven years he was chosen commis- 
 sioner for that county, and in 1873 entered the town of Idaho 
 Springs in trust for the people. He successively served five 
 years as Mayor of that town ; was chosen again for the sixth 
 term, but positively declined the honor. Since then he has 
 been elected four times in succession for the same position, 
 and at the last State election was chosen as a Representative 
 by a majority of 300 votes. Mr. Griswold was married in 
 Richleau county, Wisconsin, to Miss Eleanor Hooper, and th e 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM 01 COLORADO. 17 
 
 union ha> left t lit 'in with (wo children. < hie of his sons is a I 
 . lerk of tin- corporations and railroad commit tee, of 
 which Mr (iris wold is chairman. Mr. ( iris w<. Id's grandfather, 
 on his father's side, lived to the good old age of s:{, and his 
 other -landfather. named Mel )owell. lived till he \, 
 old. Mr. (iriswold's \\ell preserved appearance promises fair 
 
 ink him among the centenarians, and there N no doubt 
 Imt that while he does live he will remain a useful citi/en. 
 
 1 and respected by his neighbors. He is proud of having 
 a Btreak of Irish blood coursing through his veins, which pro)) 
 aMy accounts for his native wit, generosity and good humor. 
 
 J.fR. Garber, 
 
 al>o\v gentleman, from Pueblo, is one of the strongest 
 of Democratic principles in the House, and no mem 
 ber of that party is more earnest in his efforts to favor any 
 mea>mv which can honestly advance its interests. He is 
 and always has been a staunch advocate of constitutional 
 law. and is firm and unflinching in advocacy of all measures 
 that have a tendency to uphold its supremacy. He is a phy- 
 sician and surgeon by profession, and has successfully prac- 
 ticed for twenty years. Dr. Garber was born in Livingston, 
 Alabama, Feb. 14. 1847, and was educated at the university 
 at Tuskaloosa, Alabama. He boasts that the staunch Demo 
 crane principles he holds have been successively handed 
 down in his family for over one hundred years. He was mar 
 ried Nov. 14, 1877, to Miss Katie Morgan, of Georgetown. 
 South Carolina, who has always been a devoted member ol 
 the Catholic Church. They have two daughters. Dr. Garber 
 came to Colorado in .Inly 1881 and settled in Pueblo, wheir 
 he has taken an active part in the interest of the community 
 in which he lives, politically and socially, and whilst there 
 has also obtained and deserved a lucrative practice in his 
 profession. Socially he is a most genial gentleman, a ready 
 wit, and has been a most agreeable companion to those occu- 
 pying desks in his row during the session. 
 
 William G. Wheeler. 
 
 William <J. \Vhe.-h-r, who so ably represents hi> pe,pl, in 
 
 the House, was Ix.i-n in Rochester. New York, Dec, 
 
 He received his education in the State of Illinois. He came to 
 
 Colorado in the Spring of 1S7D, settling in Denver, and whilst 
 
 he won the esteem and confidence of all with whom he 
 
48 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 came in contact, either in business or socially. Amongst the 
 important positions he has held was one in the Post-office 
 Department, and also as deputy sheriff under Mr. G. H. Gra- 
 ham. On June 15, 1880, he was married to Miss Lizzie 
 Gomes, of Denver, and the happy couple have one little girl 
 to add sunshine to their household. Mr. Wheeler is at pres- 
 ent engaged in mercantile and mining business. He is a man 
 of enterprise and unusual business tact, and is sure of suc- 
 cess. 
 
 John H. Wells. 
 
 The above-named gentleman is one of the most imposing 
 men of the House, as he posseses a fine form and an 
 intelligent and pleasant face. He hails from Longmont. Boul- 
 der county, and is always wide-awake in matters of pubjic in- 
 terest, paying special attention to those whom he directly 
 represents. Mr. Wells was born in Henry county, Illinois, 
 March 28, 1842 ; was educated in the common schools of 
 Galesburg, in that State, and was a close student. By pro- 
 fession he is a lawyer, and has been very successful in the 
 practice of it, being a man of sound reasoning qualities, a 
 good, clear and concise speaker and well versed in all the in- 
 tricacies of legal lore. He served as County Judge in 1886, 
 and was distinguished for the wisdom of his decisions. Mr. 
 Wells came to Colorado in 1866 and took an active interest in 
 the political formation of the Territorial Government, serving 
 in the Territorial Legislature of 1870. Mr. Wells has also a 
 war record, having served valiantly in the Seventeenth Illinois 
 Regiment for three years, participating in all of the battles 
 and hardships of the western campaign. H has always been 
 a Republican, and glories in his early affiliations with the 
 Abolitionists. He was married to Miss Romelia A. Smith, of 
 Nashua, Iowa, September 8, 1875.' A boy of ten years and a 
 girl of eight add pleasure and hope to their lives. Mr. Wells 
 is a genial and public-spirited gentleman, and will always be 
 classed among the useful' and cherished citizens of the State. 
 
 George M. Bowen. . 
 
 Hon George M. Bowen, the gentlemanly representative 
 from Alpine, Chaffee county, was born in Amsterdam, Mont- 
 gomery county, New York, May 25, 1846. After receiving a 
 common, school education in Wisconsin, in early years he af- 
 filiated with the Republican party, and has remained firm in 
 that political faith ever since, being of sufficient service to be 
 
BIOGBAPHIOAL ( OMPENDIUM <>! COLORADO. 
 
 fairly entitled to the position he now holds in tin- present 2Lfl 
 sembly. Mi-. Bowen was married November -'?. L8&4, to Miss 
 
 ibel Paine j they have one son, Dm-ini: the war 
 ot' th" rebellion Mr. I5owen served a year and a halt' in the 
 
 ;ith \Visconsin Infantry. Ee came to Colorado in 1 
 and sim-e then lias been en^mvd in merchandizing and in op- 
 erating in mines. II. is a -<'ntleman who has the friendship 
 and esteem of all his acquaintances, and the sound judgment 
 which char;. 3 his actions in the Legislative Assembly 
 
 makes his opinions and advice of great weight to all who 
 know him. 
 
 James R. Hicks 
 
 born in Knu'land in ls.V>, and was educated at Ballarat r 
 Victoria. Australia, with the intention of adopting school 
 teaci' M- a livelihood, but finally learned a trade. 
 
 Though l\"publican in ]olitics, he has always favored pr, 
 tion. He is at ]>resent treasurer of Nevadaviile. having re- 
 cently been elected to it. Mr. Hicks located in (iilpin county 
 in lS?r> and has been a resident of that county up to the pres- 
 ent time He is a '-lever and talented young gentleman, and 
 his election at this time, we predict, is but the beginning of 
 an honorable and useful public career, as he is possessed of 
 a fair share of vim and adaptability to make a responsible 
 and careful man for any position that he may be chosen for. 
 He is still on the unmarried list. 
 
 T. H. Newkirk, 
 
 Of Rockvale, Colorado, waa born in Washington county. Penn- 
 sylvania. August 1 1. is:>(), and was educated in the Sonth- 
 
 rn Normal School, in California. Pa., and graduated at 
 Iron City College. Pittsburg. ( ,f that State. He is and ah' 
 has been a Democrat. Mr. Newkirk was married to Miss Km- 
 ma Cook, at Florence, Colorado, November 1-J. INM. The 
 couple have one daughter, six months old. whom they call 
 Kdna. Mr. Newkirk belongs to a strict Methodist family. 
 He has b.-en :: resident of Fremont county for four years, and 
 
 mployed by tils- Santa Fe Railroad company and the 
 Canon City coal company. The Democratic party nominat- 
 ed him lor Assessor of Fivmont county in the fall o'f IsS.">; he 
 I by but 43 VOteS, although the count \ is strongly 
 In iSSi; he was nominat-'d for Representative 
 
 on the Democratic ticket and was elected by I -is majority. 
 Previous o; coming west he served seven years in the 
 
50 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Government employ in the Pittsburg postoffice, under Repub- 
 lican administration, there being but one other Democrat re- 
 tained out of 160 employes. This we can take as ample proof 
 of his personal worth and sociability of character. Mr. New- 
 kirk has never been an aspirant for a political office, but hav- 
 ing been chosen by the people, endeavors to act in a liberal 
 manner, endorsing all measures which subserve the best in- 
 terests of the masses. Mr. Newkirk is a strong advocate of 
 labor interests and appreciates the worth of laboring men. 
 
 William Wells Durkee. 
 
 Brooklyn, New York, was the birthplace of the above- 
 named honorable representative of Costilla county, this State, 
 and Zapato is his present residence. Mr. Durkee was educat- 
 ed at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, and 
 also at the Columbia College Law School. He is an earn- 
 est Republican, and the members of that party evidently ap- 
 preciates his interest in it. Mr. Durkee has followed the cattle 
 business in San Luis valley for the past seven years, and has 
 been successful. So much interested has he been in his 
 business, that he has not had time to devote to the fair sex, 
 but some day he may take in a partner, and all who 
 know him join in hoping that if such proves true all of his 
 troubles will be little ones. 
 
 Jose Ramon Aguilar, 
 
 Hon. Ramon Aguilar, whose address is Aspishapa P. O., 
 was born in New Mexico, February 10, 1853, and received a 
 common school education in that place. He was elected to 
 serve on the Democratic ticket, and is conscientious in his 
 endeavors to stand by his party. He was married December 
 7, 1885, to Miss Necolasa Coca, at Apishapa. Mr. Aguilar was 
 a Representative in the House in 1881, and the fact that he 
 has again been chosen to serve another term from the same 
 district is sufficient indorsement of his earnestness and abil- 
 ity to represent them. He is a fine looking .gentleman, and 
 always attracts respectful attention. 
 
 George E. Pease, 
 
 Member from Park county, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, 
 August 31, 1833. He was educated in the Norfolk Academy, 
 preparatory for Yale College, and graduated at Yale in the 
 lass of 1856. He studied law in Dayton, Ohio, with his un- 
 
BIOGR A run \I. roMPKMUI.H OF COLORADO. 51 
 
 ole, .Fudge George R Holt, ami with the exception of the civil 
 war period he practiced law at Pana. Illinois, for fourteen 
 Ih- also practical law in Fairplay, Park county, this 
 Slat.-, tVoin L873 to L878, 11'- was married t,, Miss Belle L. 
 Hond, in IS?:;, in 1 Jo nd count y, Illinois, and four child i en bless 
 his household. Mr. Pease has always taken an active part in 
 politics, and is a warm advocate of Democratic measures A& 
 aspeaker he is easy and lluent, has a genteel bearing and al- 
 ways conimands the respectful attention of those within the 
 sound of his voice. 1 le was a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention of Colorado of 18?.") f> from Park and Lake roun- 
 and in the present Legislature has displayed excellent 
 judgment on all important subjects brought before the As- 
 sembly. During isr.-j and isn: 5 Mr. Pease served as captain 
 of Company M. Third Illinois Cavalry, and made a good and 
 faithful soldier. Socially he is a polished and considerate 
 gentleman, an ornament to the society he moves in and a use- 
 ful citi/eii. Besides practicing law he is interested in mining 
 and cattle business. 
 
 William E. Meek. 
 
 One of the most pleasant and agreeable gentlemen in the 
 House is Hon. William E. Meek, who is one of the Republi- 
 can Uepresentatives of Kl Paso county. Mr. Meek was born 
 in I'looke county. West Virginia, July 2, 1848, and was edu- 
 cated in \Vashingron, Iowa. He was married to Miss Amoret 
 S. Barton, November 10, 1870, and had the misfortune of los- 
 ing his beloved wife June 18, 1873, at Marion. Kansas, leaving 
 him the care of an infant daughter. Mr. Meek's ancestors, on 
 his father's side, came from Ireland in the early part of 1700, 
 settling in Virginia and enduring all the hardships incident 
 to pioneer life, and their descendents are now scattered all 
 over the I nited States, being found in nearly every State and 
 Territory in the I'nion. The famous Oregon pioneer, Colonel 
 Joe Meek, was an offshoot of the family. On his mother's 
 side, Mr. Meek's people were of English descent, and settled 
 in Connecticut 4)efoie the Revolution. They are numerously 
 distributed over the country and some have honorably filled 
 oilices of trust. Mr. Meek came to Colorado in lS?:i, and set- 
 bled on the Divide in Kl Paso county. By profession he is a 
 civil engineer, and as such has hel'd tin-position of County 
 
 Surveyor for several terms. He owns a large and well im- 
 proved farm in that county, and though he has shown great 
 Ability in representing the interest of his constituents, he 
 
 does not aspire to further political emoluments, preferring to 
 
52 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 quietly attend to the needs of his farm. His neighbors, how- 
 ever, seem to recognize his merit as a public man, and it is 
 more than likely that he will be frequently obliged to exer- 
 cise his ability in a similar way in the interest of those who 
 will not be content to let him " hide his light under a bushel. " 
 
 Juan Benito Cordova. 
 
 Representative from El Moro, Las Animas county, was born 
 in Taos, New Mexico, March 21, 1837, and was educated at 
 the place of his birth. Politically he is a Democrat, and 
 whilst supporting every measure in the interests of that party, 
 he is also solicitous in advocating the interests of all his con- 
 stituants in the section of country which he represents. Mr. 
 Cordova springs from one of the leading families of New 
 Mexico, which owns and controls large tracts of land in that 
 Territory. He was married June 8, 1860, at Taos, New Mex- 
 ico, to Marina Rivera, daughter of Miguel Rivera, one of the 
 great families of that Territory. Mr. Cordova was elected to 
 serve in the House of Representatives in 1878, and has al- 
 ways been considered a public and leading man in the com- 
 munity in which he lives. For six years he was school di- 
 rector in El Moro, and again he has been chosen to represent 
 Las Animas county in the last session of the Legislature. 
 He is a clever gentleman, and always retains the respect and 
 friendship of those who enjoy the pleasure of his acquaint- 
 ance. 
 
 William R. Winters. 
 
 From Durango, was born at Paterson, Passaic county, New 
 Jersey ,1852. He is professionally a physician and surgeon, 
 and received his education as such in the medical department 
 of the University, New York City, and in 1879 was awarded 
 the highest honors known to the profession in the United 
 States, the Valentine Mott struck-gold medal. He came to 
 Colorado the same year and settled in the San Juan country, 
 and has been identified with its establishment and growth 
 almost continuously since. He was one of a*party who form- 
 ed an expedition to explore the confluence of San Juan with 
 the Colorado river, and speaks in glowing terms of the sub- 
 limity, richness and grandure of that country. He spent the 
 winter of 1879, at Parrott City, and suffered untold priva- 
 tions. The Doctor has been a successful practitioner, and be- 
 ing located in a country where many rough affairs have trans- 
 pired, he has been called upon to perform many trying sur- 
 gical operations, and has the credit of knowing that he per- 
 
BIOGRAPHIC A I. roMl'KXDIUM <>F COLORADO. 53 
 
 formed the tirst hip-joint amputation in the State, in Novem- 
 ber, 1886. Ee was married to Miss Julia K. Lewis, of Du- 
 raim'". in and the young GOUple have two children. Dr. 
 
 Winter is allied to tin- Republican party, and ably represents 
 
 his district in the House. 
 
 Robert S. Morrison. 
 
 One of the shrewdest and at the same time most useful 
 
 members of the House is Honorable R. S. Morrison, of George 
 town. He was born October 7, 1843, in Alleghany City, 1'a. 
 and was educated a1 Kast Hampton Seminary* He also at- 
 tended a special course at Amherst College. Mr. Morrison 
 was married to Miss Kdelmira Manuela De Soto, in Denver 
 in the year 1873; three children is the extentof their family. 
 Mr. Morrison is courteous and agreeable in his demeanor to- 
 ward all with whom he has any business relations. In the 
 House he is very attentive to all matters coming before that 
 body: he is quirk in discerning defects in any clause, and 
 has a cool, convincing and decided way in expressing his 
 ideas on any subject. It is seldom that he endeavors to 
 carry a point that he is not successful. He is an able lawyer, 
 behiLr well versed upon all subjects pertaining to the profes- 
 
 . a studious reader and a careful observer of human na- 
 ture. Mr. Morrison came to Colorado in 1870. He was the 
 Democratic candidate for Congress in 1880: and as a member 
 of the Sixth (General Assembly, creditably represents the 
 party who chose him for that position. In all arguments he 
 
 <>d tempered but firm in the right. 
 
 Recellus W. Orvis. 
 
 One of the most sedate and gentlemanly men in the House 
 is Hon. H. W. Orvis. M r. Orvis was born in Stark county, 
 Ohio. January 'J-J, 1S-W He was educated at Kdinburjj;, Por- 
 county, Ohio, in the common schools. Mr. Orvis was 
 married June l. isr.i;. to Miss HattieL. Rogers, of Kdinburg: 
 they have one child. He enlisted in the army April :?!, 1861, 
 and served for three years and three months in the Seventh 
 
 ( )hio Volunteers, until the close of the rebellion, thus achiev- 
 
 rame and glorjj in the service of his country. He ably 
 
 -eciion in the House and U a RepublJ 
 
 Iways i to with marked attention and 
 
 Mr. Orvis came to Colorado February 1, l^S-J. and 
 
 i--ed in the lumber business. At the close of the war he 
 
 led il,,. boot and sh"e business, Mr. Orvis is a member 
 
54 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 of the Christian Church and for sixteen years has been 
 an elder in that church. In every station in life his affability 
 and genial manners ha"ve caused his comrades and acquaint- 
 ances to respect him. 
 
 William Rowan. 
 
 Lake City, Hinsdale county, Colo., delegated Hon. Wm. 
 Rowan as its Representative in the House, and certainly it 
 would be hard to find a finer looking specimen of manhood 
 in that or any other district. Notwithstanding his imposing 
 appearance, he is modest but firm in all of his sayings and 
 doings, and therefore wields a respectful influence in every 
 measure he is called upon to advocate. Mr. Rowan was born 
 in Alleghany county, Pa., September 14, 1829, and though 
 having passed more than the average middle age of manhood 
 looks to be in the full vigor of life Politically he has always 
 been a Republican. He was married to Miss Jane McGinnis 
 in Butler county, Pa., Sept. 25, 1851 ; they have had three 
 children, two of whom are still living. In Pennsylvania Mr. 
 Rowan followed the lumber business. Since coming to Colo- 
 rado he has been engaged in the business of mining and has 
 met with a fair share of success. 
 
 Thomas Edwards. 
 
 One of the most genial and influential gentlemen in the 
 House is Mr. Thomas Edwards, who is a resident of Rosita, 
 Custer county. He was born in Warwickshire, England, in 
 1837, and received his education in a private boarding school. 
 He was married to Miss Margaret Patton, in Woodford county, 
 Illinois, in 1859, and they have four children. Mr. Edwards 
 has always been a Republican, and he ably represents that 
 party in the House, taking a lively interest in every im- 
 portant debate that comes before the body of which he is a 
 worthy member. He immigrated to Colorado in 1880, and 
 has been continuously engaged in mercantile business and 
 mining in the county of Custer. 
 
 Judson W. Turrell. 
 
 The above-named gentleman was born at Forest Lake, Sus- 
 quehanna county, Pa., August 26, 1843. Politically he is a 
 Democrat, born and bred such, and still fervent in his adher- 
 ence. He was married Sept. 29, 1861 to Miss Mary V. Tiffany, 
 
iu()<;i:\i>incAr COMPENDIUM: OF COLORADO. 55 
 
 at Montrose, Pa : four children are the result of tin* union. 
 Mr. Turrell came to (Colorado in tin* fall of 1866, and finally 
 
 settled at liiiiTniirton, Boulder comity. In t lit' summer of 1 
 from there h<- went to the new town of ( Mieyrnne. and in 
 
 September of the same year, opened the first dm^ store in 
 that town. He removed to ( Colorado airain in ISIH). In 1871 
 he became identified with tlie Chicago Colorado Colony, and 
 settled at Lnnirmont, where he lias continuously remained in 
 the drim- and stationery business. Mr. Turrell received his 
 education at the Moiitrose Normal School, Pennsylvania, 
 where he obtained a competent knowledge of drugs and 
 pharmacy. 1 le is a prominent and exemplary citi/en, and 
 fully deserves all the prosperity with which he has met. 
 
 Frank Q. Stuart, 
 
 Of Denver, was born January 24, 1856, in Monroe county, 
 Iowa, and received his education in the common schools of 
 that State, uTaduat ing from the high school of ('hari ton. Iowa, 
 He was married Sept. 14, 1876, to Miss Ida M. Pennick, ( 1 har- 
 iton ; three children is the result of the union. Mr. Stuart is 
 rded as a Conservative Republican, and a gentleman 
 whose convictions of right and justice takes the precedence of 
 all other claims, regardless of political bias. Before coming 
 to Colorado he was connected with the law iirm of Stuart 
 Bros, of Iowa, which was one of the most prominent leual 
 firms of that State. Mr. Stuart is a young man of ma; 
 ability, and his election to the present General Assembly 
 may be looked upon as only the commencement of a useful 
 ana notable career in, the public service of the State, which 
 claims him as one of her choicest citizens. 
 
 John R. Curry. 
 
 Occasionally we find amongst the ranks of our State K* 
 96ntatii ileman who will condesend to step down from 
 
 the dignified and jmen viable position of editor-in-chief of, a 
 newspaper to serve the people. In the person of John R. 
 Ourry, of Silvertpn, the House possesses a distinguished and 
 talented journalist Mr. Curry was born in Vorktown. \\ 
 chester county. New York. Xov. .">. IS 17. and received his edu- 
 cation in the Peekskill public schools. He was lirst mar- 
 ried in Sandwich. DeKalb county, Illinois, Nov. 1C. ls?l.to 
 Mi>s Delia Puller, who died Jane 36, IsS.V Mr. Curry ai:ain 
 married on Decembei 25, 1886; the lady this time was Miss 
 Delia Farley. He has one child seven years old. Mr. Curry 
 
56 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 /descended from Republican stock, though he is a firm Dem- 
 ocrat. Some of his ancestors came from Ireland two hun- 
 dred years ago and settled in Peekskill, New York. Mr. 
 Carry is also related to Dr. Daniel Curry, formerly editor of 
 the New York Christian Advocate, and to John Curry, of 
 San Francisco, California, formerly Judge of the Supreme 
 Court of that State. He is also connected with the Moon 
 family, of Virginia, being a descendent of John Moon, the first 
 Attorney-General of Pennsylvania and Secretary of the first 
 Carolina Colony, from 1660 to 1670. Mr. Curry has had quite 
 a varied experience in newspaper work, having started the 
 first paper in Silverton in 1875, the first paper in Rico, in 1879 
 and the first paper in San Miguel county in 1881. He 
 now publishes the Democrat in Silverton and has been very 
 successful with it; being possessed of good literary ability 
 he takes pains to turn out a good paper to serve to his pat- 
 rons. He is a careful and reliable man in the House and 
 bears the good will and respect of his colleagues. 
 
 Jasper N. Beaty. 
 
 The biography of the gentleman whom we herewith pre- 
 sent is not one of very great extent, but it is none the less an 
 honorable one. Mr Beaty was born in Carroll county, Mis- 
 souri, and was educated in the schools of that district. He 
 was married in Pueblo in 1883, to Miss Ross ; they have one 
 child. By occupation he is a farmer, and being chosen from 
 amongst the many who till the soil for a livlihood to repre- 
 sent the county of Gilpin in the House, shows that he is 
 held in high esteem where best known. His able record 
 whilst acting in that capacity cannot be otherwise than ac- 
 ceptable to his constituents. A Democrat of the most sturdy 
 sort he adheres to his party doctrines. Mr. Beaty's steady 
 application to farm life has been fruitful to the county in 
 which he resides as well as to himself. 
 
 James H. Crawford. 
 
 The above-named gentleman hails from Steamboat Springs, 
 Rontt county. He was born March 80, 1845, in Pettis county, 
 Missouri, and received a public school education in that State. 
 He was married May 25, 1865. to Miss Margaret E. Bourn ; 
 they have four children. Mr. Crawford springs from an hon- 
 ored pioneer stock of Missouri and of Kentucky, his father 
 having been a militia colonel in the early times, and also a 
 member of the Missouri House of Representatives. Mr. Craw- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL OM I'lNDUM oi COLORADO. 
 
 ford was the first settler of Roiitt comity, having located at 
 St.-.-uiiboat Springs, and is yet the largest property owner at 
 that place. He was appointed < '.ounty Jud.uv of R.mtt county 
 by Governor lloiitt. at (In* time of it- oi-M-ani/.ation, and has 
 since been elected to serve in the same office. He was clect- 
 ed as a member of the Second General Assembly in 1881 on 
 
 the Democratic ticket, of which party he is a warm adherent, 
 and lias aicain been chosen to represent his party in the Sixth 
 (general Assembly. Personally he is a tine appearing gentle- 
 man, and socially he is admired by all who know him for 
 
 his intrinsic worth and sound judgment. 
 
 F. J. V. Skiff. 
 
 The honorable ovntlemaii who is the subject of this sketch 
 [sanative of Massachusetts and was born in the year 1851, 
 receiving a common school education. With literary 
 tastes, like many another unfortunate, he got entangled in 
 newspaper work in various parts of the country, from the 
 Atlantic to the Pacific States. At one time in Denver he was 
 city editor of the News, and later on was on the editorial 
 staff of the Tribune. At the present time he is Secretary of 
 the Colorado Land Company, in San Juan Park ; and the Re- 
 publicans of Arapahoe Co. show their appreciation of him by 
 sending him as their Representative to the Lower House. 
 He has proven a useful member of that body. 
 
 Joseph H. Hoover. , 
 
 Pennsylvania has been the birthplace of many of ourmost 
 noted public men mm who have capably filled every class 
 of important positions in lite. Amongstthe number of able 
 fives in the House we find still another Pennsyl- 
 vanian, Mr. Joseph F. Hoover, who was born in Carlisle. 
 Cumberland county. April 22, 1845. Mr. Hoover began a 
 course at Dickenson College, Carlisle, but left there when 
 only sixteen years old to join the army to ti^ht Tor the main- 
 tenance of the Union, and though young he bore the hard 
 ships of the li. -Id and march with the strength and ardor of a 
 id true man. The partner of his married life has 
 
 r home, but there remains four u'irN and 
 who share his pleasures and few of his trials. Since 
 lived in Leadville. and has pr d and mined 
 
 dXtent of country. In politics he has adh 
 
 the K publican party, and Wl ell founded 
 
 in the esteem of \\\< neighbors that he was nominated fr the 
 
58 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 position lie now holds without even attending the convention 
 or requesting his name mentioned. A proof that he was 
 popular lies in the fact that he was the only Representative 
 elected from Lake county on his ticket. Supported by the 
 laboring men of both parties he was elected without the loss 
 of a single hour's time from his employment. Socially he is 
 plain and unassuming, possessing solid business sense which 
 has great weight with his associates. 
 
 Melvin Edwards, 
 
 The honorable gentleman from Eagle county was born in 
 Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1852, and received his rudiment- 
 ary education in the district schools of that county during the 
 winter months, and labored on his father's farm during the 
 summer. At the age of sixteen he entered the Lawrence Uni- 
 versity, at Appleton, Wisconsin, his parents having moved to 
 that State. There he finished his education. At the age of 
 twenty he chose the occupation of druggist, and succeeded so 
 well that within a few years he was occupying the important 
 position of manager of a large wholesale and retail drug store 
 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coming to Colorado in 1874 he 
 settled in Denver. In 1880 he went to Red Cliff, where he 
 proved successful in business and in politics, having presided 
 there once as Mayor. Three times he has been a delegate to 
 Republican State Conventions, and served as Secretary of the 
 State two successive terms from 1883 to 1887, and is now one 
 of the most influential Republican members of the House. 
 He is quick in discerning the merits and demerits of every 
 bill brought before the Assembly, a ready and fluent debater, 
 and therefore a man well deserving of all his acquired honors. 
 Only one thing may be said against him, and that is that he 
 is unmarried. Time may obliterate this objection. 
 
 George W. Davis, 
 
 Of Denver, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 11, 1846, 
 and was educated in the common schools of that place. On 
 September 28, 1868, he was united in marriage to Mrs. 
 Josiephia Garfield ; they have one child. Mr. Davis came 
 to Colorado in the year 1865, and went to mining until 1869, 
 when he moved to Evans, then the end of the Denver Pacific 
 Railroad, and commenced work for that road in March, 1870, 
 as night watchman. From that he was promoted to fireman , 
 and then to engineer, and has retained that position in the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 5 9 
 
 same company up to the present time. He was one of the 
 candidates <ii the Democratic ticket for Representative in 
 
 the year ISSi.and was defeated, as wen- ;i 11 on the same ticket 
 that year. He was renoininated in 1886, and the election re- 
 sulted more favorably tor him. Mr. Davis represents his con- 
 stituents ablv. Beini: chosen from the ranks of the laboring 
 classes, he naturally affiliates with all projects tending to 
 their benefit. He is porrly, good-natured and true to his call- 
 ing, and commands the respect of his associat- 
 
 William H. Adams, 
 
 Whose residence is in Alamosa, was born in Blue Mounds, 
 Wisconsin, February 15, 1861, and attended public schools 
 both in Wisconsin and in Colorado. In the spring of 187- he 
 was elected Treasurer of Alamosa and the year following he 
 was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Alamosa. 
 In iNSf) he was elected Mayor of Alamosa, and was re-elected 
 in 1SSC). In the fall of 1885 he was elected Commissioner of 
 ( 1 onejos county, and last year he was elected as a Represent- 
 ative to the Sixth General Assembly from the same county. 
 Merchandizing and stock raising are his chosen occupations, 
 and he has been very successful in them. He has not yet en- 
 
 i the matrimonial market, but as he is young, handsome 
 and of a social temperament, it is safe to predict that he wijl 
 not long continue to selfishly enjoy alone all the honors and 
 
 laments lie wears with such becoming dignity and grace. 
 
 John G. Hoffer, 
 
 Representative from Arapahoe county, whose residence is at 
 l?l? Downing Avenue, Denver, was born in Buffalo. New 
 York, and educated in a German school at that place. In 
 1860 he went to California, and remained there until 1865, 
 havini: seived three years in the Second Cavalry, California 
 Volunteers. After that he returned to Buffalo, New York, in 
 IM;:>. and engaged in the meat business, and in July, 1SU7, he 
 returned to Denver. From 1874 to 1876 he served as 
 Alderman in his ward. Whilst closely adhering to his 
 business, that of a butcher, he has always taken an active 
 part in politics. Mi-cause of this political activity he was 
 
 fall placed in nomination by the Democrats as a KVjire- 
 sentative in the pres.-nt Assembly. Mr. llotfer was married 
 in Mullalo. New York. February 34, L870, to Miss L. M. Mait- 
 
 ! : they had <>ne child. Mr. Ilotl'er has proved to 
 be an active member ofthe House and has done credit to his 
 constituency. 
 
60 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Ohristoph A. Eppich. 
 
 Resides at No. 2602 Welton street. He was born in Germany 
 on the 22d day of March, 1844, and received his education 
 there. In politics he is a Republican. On the 1st of June, 
 1867, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Riegel, a young Ger- 
 man lady, in the city of Chicago. They have eight children, 
 of whom five are now living. Mr. Eppich. left Germany alone 
 when but fourteen years of age, in the year 1858, and landed 
 in Canada. There he learned the shoe trade and remained 
 until 1865. In that year he went to Chicago and engaged in 
 the restaurant and hotel business until 1878, when he came 
 to Denver, and here he embarked in the restaurant and ba- 
 kery business. Afterwards he became a dealer in real estate, 
 in which he has been very succcessful. The present term in 
 the Sixth General Assembly is his first experience, and he 
 is proving himself a careful and capable man, and has done 
 good work for his constituency. To those who have any 
 dealings with him he is pleasant and obliging, and socially 
 he not only makes friends, but has the happy faculty of re- 
 taining them. 
 
 Patrick W. Sweeney. 
 
 The gentleman whose name we give above was born Febru- 
 ary 25, 1854, at Syracuse, New York, and received a common 
 school education in that State. One year he spent studying 
 with the late Colonel Slayback, in St. Louis. On February 26, 
 1877, he was married to Miss Jennie Bearing, of St. Louis, Mo. 
 Mr. Sweeney is of Irish parentage, and therein, no doubt, can 
 we account for his open, genial face and his robust and pow- 
 erful figure. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Sweeney 
 is ever vigilant in the interests of the laboring classes, and is 
 always ready to indorse and assist in any and every measure 
 looking to their interests. At the present time he is Chair- 
 man of the Republican Central Committee of Huerfano county, 
 and is a capable man for the position. In 1880 he followed 
 mining in Hall's gulch, since that time he has been connected 
 with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and also the Colo- 
 rado Coal and Iron Company. Mr. Sweeney resides in Wai- 
 senburg where he is known as an active and successful party 
 worker. By his sound sense and concise manner of present- 
 ing his ideas he secures the undivided attention of his list- 
 eners and his arguments carry with them great weight. 
 A jovial gentleman ; an agreeable associate ; it is safe to -pre- 
 dict that the end is not yet of his usefulness to the people 
 whom he represents. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL roMi'KNint M OF < OI.OKADO. 61 
 
 John H. Shaw 
 
 B !' tin- Hi" ble im-ii in tin- Si \t h ( ieneral A--emM\. 
 
 ami represents Kiotiramle c..imiy. Mr. siia\\ '- residence la at 
 
 Del Norte. He wa- l>orn in Krie <'>iiiil\. NVu York. March 6, 
 '. and wa- educated in the di-trict sclmuls of Illinois, attend 
 -hniil on an a\eraov,,f four month.- each year for eleven \ 
 
 U' puMican in politic.-, ami ha.- alwav- voted that ticket. He 
 married in IM'I; to Sophia M. Phillip-. Lee county. Iliim-i-; 
 they bave a family of four 1><V> ami m- o-irl. tin- three \<MI' 
 children Itcinn l,.rn in this State. Mr. Shaw came first t. ('.>!<- 
 i-a<l in INO'.I, ami n-turm-l t. lllim.is in the fall <>f l^t.O. lie 
 entered tin- army in the fall >f \^\\. enli>tino; in the Seventh llli- 
 mi< \'lnnteei- ( 'avalry. with the rank f lieutenant, and >ervii 
 le-canij) under < iencral Palmer at the hattle..!' St.m- : 
 Immediately after hi> a|pint ment \\ a> cntirmed he >ei'\ ed in 
 that capacity until the end >f the \\ar. llewa> also rec< >mmende<l 
 
 f.r promotion l>y the general orders of bis superior officers. In 
 
 1 he was appointed a State Director on the Chicago and Rock 
 Falls railroad, and re>i^ned -that position in IsTlI and returned to 
 ( 'olorado. Qe settled m Del Nolle and to,.k the lir.-t .-team -aw 
 
 mill over the Sangre De Ohristo range in l^l-'l. He Kuilt the lirst 
 
 luisinos Mock in Del \..rte in that year and in 1>7> e>talli>lied a 
 toll p.ad to the Summit mines. He wa- elected ( 'mint y Treasurer 
 of Rio Grande county in 1*7^, and was elected to the Hoi; 
 Etepresentatives la-t fall. Mr. Shaw is a straightforward, consci- 
 
 entiou- man. and is respected l>y bis colleagnes. 
 
 Samuel Wade, 
 
 \\'ho represents the countie- of (immis.ni. I'itkin. >rontrosc. Delta 
 and Me.-a in the I^wer II.ii>enl' the present Legislature, wa- horn 
 
 in Miama county, Ohio, Febmary 28, 1^'J' 1 . While he was still 
 
 an infant his parenu removed to Southwestern Indiana, where his 
 father BOOH afterwards died. Four year- following his mother 
 aUodied, leaving y.nuia Samuel at the mercy of every wind that 
 Mew. [n accordance with the law. In- wa- liound out to a man 
 from New York, who removed to Wi>emsin in l s l<. a'id re- 
 ceixnl the must cruel treatment from tho-e who should have heen 
 
 hi.- pi-oteetor-. At seventeen jrears of age, released \>\ a defect in 
 
 the bond- under which he wa- held, he -truck out to make hi> wn 
 l-'eelin-j- tlie m (-< | of an education, he entered the acadei 
 
 Milt. >n. \Vi-con-iiuaiid hv the mnst prudent ee. mm v and di! ' 
 aj)plication he completeil his emirse !' -tudy. < >n the l^th of 
 
 Af.ril. l^oU. he married Miss ^Manraret Merriii^tnn. at Ma<: 
 
62 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Wisconsin. Two years afterward lie removed *to West Union, Iowa, 
 where he engaged with unusual success in business as an architect 
 and builder. In 1859 he changed his residence to Estherville, the 
 county seat of Emmett county, Iowa, where he was soon elected to 
 the position of County Clerk, at the same time filling 
 the position of Clerk of the District Court. In 1861 he enlisted 
 in the army, entering the cavalry service. His troop being com- 
 posed of western men, was place'd, on the frontier against the 
 Sioux Indians. In March, 1865, he was commissioned First 
 Lieutenant of Company A, Second United States Volunteers, com- 
 posed of enlisted prisoners of war, from the prisons at Rock 
 Island, Illinois, and joined his company at Fort Leaven worth, 
 where he served until the end of the war. After being mustered 
 out he again resumed his old business, but because of disease con- 
 tracted in the war he was obliged to give up contracting and devote 
 his entire time to architecture and superintending. He superin- 
 tended the erection of several noted buildings in Missouri, Kansas 
 and Texas. His health still remaining poor, he at last sought re- 
 lief in the mountains of Colorado, where he arrived in 1874, and 
 the next year he became interested in mining in the San Juan 
 country, where he met with a fair degree of success. In 1880 he 
 closed out his mining interests and removed to the town of Pitkin, 
 then in the county of Gunnison, where, in concert with Governor 
 Pitkin, he succeeded in having a daily mail and post office estab- 
 lished. Having a strong liking for and a desire to engage in the 
 growing of fruits, he removed to Delta county and selected a site 
 on the North Fork of the Gunnison river at what is now known as 
 Paonia. Here he has been able to fulfill all his expectations, and 
 to-day has one of the best stocked and most beautiful fruit farms 
 in the state of Colorado. During the last season many of his trees 
 bore an abundance of luscious fruits, including , peaches and apri- 
 cots. Mr. Wade has successfully demonstrated Colorado's fruit 
 possibilities. 
 
 T. A. VanGorden. 
 
 The pleasant little town of Morrison, Jefferson county, sent to 
 the House of Representatives the jovial and talented gentleman 
 whose name heads this sketch. Mr. Yan Gorden was born, bred, 
 lives and hopes to die a Democrat. He inherits his firm faith in 
 that party from his father and grandfather, and he is destined to 
 do honor to their memory in his firm adherence "to the political 
 doctrines they held. Mr. Yan Gorden was born in Susquehanna 
 county, Pa., June 6, 1852, and received his education in the public 
 schools of that State. He taught school for seven years. He was 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL <'u.M I'KNDIUM OP COLORADO. 63 
 
 married in I )en\ er. .1 uly !'>, 1 S M. to Miss Mao^ie 11. Cole, and 
 they have one child. W hilst his h< >me is his castle, he enjoys a 
 run with the boys occasionally. < 
 
 Dewey C, Bailey. 
 
 HOD. I). C. P.ailey wa- born at Ouincy, Michigan, in Is.VJ. lie 
 uarried to^Mi-s Adelia P.. P>n>wne at Kiowa, Colorado, Decem- 
 .'<. LSSO ; they have one child. Mr. P.ailey is a staunch Re 
 publican, and comes from a st r<>n<j; Republican family. lie Lg COn- 
 -ci-ntiiis in his emleavrs t<> serve his cmst it uents faithfully^ and 
 will return t them with the honor conviction that he has well and 
 faithfully performed that duty. The people <>f Klhert county have 
 chosen i'n Mr. Uailey an energetic and capable man to represent 
 them. He has lived in Colorado for ei<_rhr years, and during that 
 time has been Successfully engaged in stock raising. He i> of a 
 clever and >ocial disposition and is well liked by all of his asso- 
 
 Oharles E. Noble. 
 
 Amongst those in the House who take an active and decided 
 stand in every question brought up for debate, is Hon. Charles 
 fable, who' i> a representative of El Paso county. Mr. Xoble 
 was burn in Washington county. New York. May \"i. ^l^.and 
 wa> married in that State in 1^7>: two children are the tnfts in 
 which lie feels a fatherly pride. Politically Mr. Noble is a Repub- 
 lican, and his constituents have ample cause to feel a pride in the 
 earnest manner in which he looks to their interest. He is a plain, 
 matter-of-fact, but brilliant gentleman, and will leave a record that 
 will most certainly entitle him to serve many other term- 
 representative man from his county. His resilience is in Colorado 
 Spring, where he enjoys the respect of all around him. 
 
 Jesse White, 
 
 The above-named <_rent lemaii resides in Silver Cliff when at 
 home, and repr- u-ter county. II e \va- horn in the State 
 
 of New York in l s :!~i. I'.v hi- adherence to the Republican party 
 he has attained his present political portion. Mr. White served 
 in the Army of the Potomac from 1 V, 1 to ls'l, and was honor- 
 ably discharged from service on account of ill health. Mr. White 
 <-:tnie to ( 'olorado in ls"is. and i- regarded by all who know him 
 
 as a <^ood and useful citi/en. Ee is a married man ami a la 
 
 by profession. 
 
64 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 J. H. Balsinger. 
 
 Though hailing from Bald Mountain, Mr. Balsinger is quite a 
 young man to hold such an important position, his age being set 
 at twenty-eighty years. He is a native of Iowa, and is a married 
 man. In all important discussions he makes his best effort to serve 
 his constituents faithfully, and by continued perseverance we pre- 
 dict that he will yet make a good record. In the House Rules we 
 find him classed as a Democrat, whilst the Tribune-Republican puts 
 him down as an Independent-Republican. At all events, he is a 
 good-looking young man, and evidently a favorite with his asso- 
 ciates. 
 
 J. H, Stotesbury, 
 
 Mr. Stotesbury is one of the Lake county representatives, resid- 
 ing in Leadville, and was sent to the Sixth General Assembly by the 
 Democratic party. He is a native of Georgia; a married man, and 
 has large mining interests near Leadville. He is pleasant and 
 obliging to every one, and always willing to impart any knowledge 
 in his possession to those desiring in. In his business transactions 
 he is shrewd, wary, and at the same time upright to the letter. 
 His age is set down at 35 years. 
 
 T. R, Owens. 
 
 Mr. T. R. Owens, who resides in Boulder, and represents Boulder 
 county, is one of the best talkers in the House, and evidences good 
 judgment in every bill of any moment coming before that body. 
 He was born in North Carolina in 1347, and has had the advantage 
 of a good education. He is a lawyer by profession and a Demo- 
 crat in politics. He has held several important offices in Boulder 
 county, and has deserved the frequent evidences of trust and con- 
 fidence which- the people of his county have placed in him. 
 
 Owen Prentiss 
 
 Is a resident of Leadville, and represents Lake county in the present 
 House. He is no small factor in the delegation from that county 
 and on occasion his happy hits in logic and terse statement of 
 facts have won for him the admiration of his colleagues. He was 
 born in Charleston, North Carolina, July 10, 1852, and laid the 
 foundation for his education at home. He went to New York 
 City when about sixteen years old and engaged in mercantile per- 
 suits ; attending the Thirteenth Street night school, where he com- 
 pleted his school life. He has, however, not been idle with respect 
 
BIOGKAI'IIK -AL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 65 
 
 to books since that time, luit lias mad*- a profitable list- "f hi.- ..p- 
 
 portunities. Mr. Pivnti- -.inly Democrat, and comes IV'-m 
 
 a Democratic family; his father wa- a hemocrat and liis irrand- 
 father a \Vhio-. II" is a married man. but tin- couple have not 
 had any children. Mr. Pnnti-- i- descended from Yalentn 
 Preiiti-.-. one of tin- Pilgrim Fathers, from \vliuin tin- name was 
 transmitted. He came to( 'olorado the tir-t time in 1 ^ :l. hut hnsi- 
 
 lias called him to the eastern States several time- since. For 
 the past fourteen year< he ha- followed the newspaper profes.-iiin. 
 His tir.-t e\peri-nce in this line \va- afl a reporter <>n the New York 
 Sun; he then went on the local -tall' of the New York Trihune; 
 leaving that position he went to Chicago where he w as em- 
 ployed hoth on the Time- and on the Herald as reporter. Si.Ij.uis. 
 
 . -uri. was his next field of operation, where he wa- eno-ajjvd a> 
 
 reporter on the Globe-Democrat. Since comino; to thi> state his 
 
 new.-pap'T experience ha> lu-en limited to employment on the old 
 Democrat, of Leadville, and also on the I lerald- 1 )emocrat and 
 Chronicle of the -ame city. The reportorial work which Mr. 
 IVenti.-- did on all of the publications upon which lie ha> Keen em- 
 ployed has heen marked hy his oreat enerjj;y as a new.-e/at her. and 
 hi- t'.xcellent judo-meiit in handlino; the muhifarioii.- matter> which 
 every day come under the supervision of a local editor. He did 
 not follow the heaten path of a >imple record of pa.-Hiio- events, 
 hut >taniped hi.- news item> and comment with an individuality of 
 style that alway> made them readable. A>p5rino- to other lields of 
 usefulness, he emhraced every opportunity to read law. and was 
 admitted to the har in thi> State in January, 1885. Since that 
 time lie has acquired a profitable practice, and is regarded amongst 
 
 the most >ucce--ful pleaders in his district, and his perseverance 
 and praiseworthy amhitioii is -lire to secure for him a brilliant and 
 profitable future. 
 
 Fernando H. Sutherland, 
 
 The ijuiet. ovnth'inanly Representative from Pueblo, was horn at 
 I'uion Hall, Virginia, May '2 \ . 1^4s.aiid has a record that stamps 
 him amoii L r the COremOSt men of the Sixth (ieneral Assembly. He 
 
 wa- educated in the sch.oi- <,f Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 
 
 al.- in Illinois Normal School, and during that time had to work 
 his way throuirh school, as his father lost hi.- property in the year- 
 of the rebellion. He chose the j.rofessit.n of denti-try. in which 
 he lias heen a mo-t -iicces-ful practitioner. The doctor is a man 
 of letters, and i- \eryenthii-iastic over the unbounded re-our- 
 our State. In -peaking ,, n this subject, i ; iat since he came 
 
66 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 to Colorado in 1871 lie has witnessed, in some respects, a very 
 rapid development in railway building which has materially aided 
 in the settlement of the south and west portions of the State. Col- 
 orado is an empire within itself ; infinite within its resources ; un- 
 bounded in its future prospects ; unrivalled in climate and scenery ; 
 and peopled with the very choicest brain, and brawn of a cosmo- 
 politan nation. Dullness and lack of prosperity have character- 
 ized the State within the past few years, mainly due to a cessation 
 of industrial mining and railway activity. We are again entering 
 upon a period of renewed prosperity, under auspices more favora- 
 ble, which are indicative of coming industry. Without ill-advised 
 legislation, the State bids fair to outspeed and outstrip in the ri- 
 valry of commercial and industrial pursuits many of the elder sister 
 States. Like all who have resided in Colorado for a number of 
 years and enjoys the blessings of its unequalled climate and wit- 
 nessed its inexhaustless sources of wealth, Dr. Sutherland loves to 
 expatiate on its marvelous growth and the still grander develop- 
 ment that awaits its future. The Doctor was- a candidate for the 
 Senate in 1880, for the Fifth Senatorial District. His grandfather 
 on his mother's side was a successful lawyer and also a soldier, 
 having served through the war of 1812. Dr. Sutherland was mar- 
 ried to Miss Belle H. Grimes, at Colorado Springs, in 1872. The 
 Doctor enjoys a good practice in Pueblo, and is worthily consid- 
 ered a representative man. 
 
 A, J. Dean 
 
 Is one of those modest, unassuming men who objects to seeing his 
 name in public print. He is one of the people's public representa- 
 tives from Lake county, and is a Democrat in principle. He was 
 born in the State of Mississippi in 1845 ; is a married man, and 
 follows mining for a livelihood. As a legislator he has done some 
 good service for his constituents, being a man of good common 
 sense and decided convictions on all questions coming before the 
 honorable body of which he is a member. 
 
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT 
 
 j^isr ID- 
 
 DISTINGUISHED MEN. 
 
 Chief Justice William E. Beck 
 
 rted for the exalted position of Judge of the Supreme 
 Court, October 7. ls7D; in- quaMed January 0, 1880, and BUC- 
 oeeded to the otHce of Chief Justice January 9,1883. Judge Meek 
 was born in ls:j:>, in Vanango county, Pennsylvania, andw as edu- 
 cated at the Pine drove and Mont View Academy of Centre county. 
 the .-ai ne State, an<l finished at the Classical and Coniniereial High 
 School at Lawrenceville, .New Jersey. Like many other of our 
 
 :nen, .Judge Heck was brought uj> on a farm, where in the sol- 
 
 itude of the field while following the plow he formed the habits of 
 
 thought and silent reasoning, which stand him in such good 
 
 ; in the responsible position which lie at present holds. After 
 quitting x-hool he engaged in teaching for a few years and after 
 ward- devoted himself to the study.of the laws as a profession. 
 He i-.MiHved to La Salle cuimty, Illinoi>, in the fall of 1850, and 
 wa- admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois in No- 
 vember, 1S01. He wa> marrieil to Miss Klla Ifoyle, of Linneus. 
 Linn county, Missouri, May 5, 1803. He continued in the prac- 
 tice of his profession at Mend ot a andOttowa. Illinois, until 1871, 
 when he removed to Colorado. .Judge Heck located in the town 
 of Hoiilder in 1 X V.'. where he remained in the practice of his pro- 
 LOB until the fall of 1^7*'). In October. I s7o. he was cho M -ii as 
 
 a d- to the Constitutional Convention, and assisted in the 
 
 forming of that inijiortant <iocument. What could be more fitting 
 
 than that lie who aided in it- creation should be placed ftfl its chief 
 
 interpreter? Ee Wafi elected Judge of the First .Judicial I>i>trict 
 
 :n()ctober. 1^7>. in which psition he served three 
 
 .Judge lieek's twenty-five year-' r \ p.-ri -nee in the practice 
 
 the law. combined with a natural, fair and unprejudiced turn 
 
68 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 of mind, eminently fit him to fill the office of Chief Justice. Un- 
 biased by politics, untrammeled by business cares and needs, he 
 brings to his work a conscientious conviction of his duty in the 
 high trust placed upon him; an educated mind, finished and sharp- 
 ened by a quarter of a century's contact with other minds, and 
 above all, a superb knowledge of law, justice and equity. In him 
 the people of Colorado have one in wliose hands they may safely 
 trust the keeping of the Scales of Justice, with the assurance that 
 they will always hang upon an equal balance. 
 
 Judge S. H. Elbert 
 
 Was born in Logan county, Ohio, in 1833. Graduated at the 
 Ohio Wesleyan University in 1854 and soon after began the study 
 of the law at Dayton in the same State, but emmigrated to the 
 then West, soon after his admission to the bar. Succeeding this 
 he successfully practiced his profession for some years in Iowa and 
 Nebraska. In the latter State he began his political career by a 
 successful candidacy for the upper house of the State Legislature. 
 In 1862 he was appointed Secretary of Colorado Territory, which 
 had been organized the previous year, by President Lincoln. Hon. 
 John Evans being at the .same time appointed Territorial Gov- 
 ernor. Judge, or as he is most commonly called, "Governor" 
 Elbert, was married to Miss Josephine Evans, daughter of the 
 Governor, in 1865, Mrs. Elbert, however, lived but a short time 
 and the Judge has never remarried. For the years succeeding his 
 secretaryship of the Territory Judge Elbert was associated with 
 Hon. J. Q. Charles in the practice of the law, they two proving 
 one of the strongest firms in the Territory. He served one 
 term in the Territorial Legislature, 1869 and 1870, and 
 was Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of the Terri- 
 tory. He was appointed Governor of the Territory in 1873 but 
 was soon thereafter superseeded because of the machination of Wash- 
 ington politicians. After this Judge Elbert spent a year or two 
 abroad at various European capitals. At the admission of Colo- 
 rado as a State he was nominated and elected by a large majority 
 as Judge of the Supreme Court. The six years term fell to his 
 lot, three of which he served as Chief Justice. He was a second 
 time elected in 1885, and will again in turn succeed as Supreme 
 Judge. Judge Elbert's connection with the history of Colorado, 
 dating almost from its organization as a Territory, has been an 
 exceedingly prominent one. He took an active part in raising 
 and organizing the Third Colorado Kegiment of Yolunteers and 
 other bodies of troops, which were kept busy with the Indians for 
 
I:H>.I: APHICAL COM I>KM>I IM <>F < m.Mi;.M)O. 69 
 
 a numher of \ When lie first arrival in Denver it was a vil- 
 
 11 1 | ..... pit-, and he ha- watched it-orowth from 
 
 that time until now, participating; with /eal<>u- ferv>r in every 
 movement for it> ami the State'.- advancement. He ha.- not rou- 
 tined hi.- attention al>ne to law and politics, hut is the author of 
 an ahle treti.-e n the reclamation of the arid lands of the State, and 
 
 ireful student of the science of irrigation. Judov Klhert ha- 
 
 at various time- hern very favorahly mentioned for 
 the 1'. S. Senate. The Judge has an independent fortune 
 ami in him his frirnd,- tind a large-hearted, open-handrd. 
 evner"U- gentleman and ovnial companion. 
 
 Judge Joseph 0, Helm 
 
 \V,t- l.orn in the Statr of Illinois, June 30, 1848, in the 
 city "f ( 1iirao-,>. He finished hi.- rducation at the I 'niversity of 
 Iowa, through which institution he worked his own way. Judov 
 llrlm i- in every >rn.-e a self-made man, having won his way to 
 the position which he now holds hy persistent and determined 
 etl'ort. He is a -terlino- Ufpuhlican and is descended from an old 
 AVliio' family. He holds his political convictions l>y ri^ht <i' birth 
 a.- well as helief, and i.- looked upon a> one of the l>e>t repre.-enta- 
 tivefl of his party. He was married on Septemhei 1 '^7, 1881, to 
 Mi-- Marcia Stewart, at Colorado Springs. Hi.- war record is one 
 of which he i> justly pi'oiid, havintr rntrrrd the 13th U.S. Infantry 
 a- a dmmmer DOy, Serving as Such and as a private for three year.-. 
 
 He afterwards eidi.-te.Ja> a private in the (>th Infantry, First Army 
 Corps, in which lie served for one year. lie was at the sie L 
 Victsbnrg, participated in the hattles of Champion Hills, Jacks. n, 
 Collier.-ville and other en^am-ment.-. ami was a prisoner of war at 
 Belle Isle for three months. Here he endured all the privations 
 to which the rehels siihjected their pri.-oiiers. He immigrated to 
 Colorado at an early day and has heeii one of its most public spirit- 
 ed and useful citizen-. He \\a- a memher of the House from Kl 
 COUnty in the first (iem-ral A->emhly. and a mrmlu'r of thr 
 Senate in the Second. He rrsi<rncd fi-oin the Senate in ISM) and 
 
 elected Judge of the Fourth .Indicia! District, .ludoy Helm 
 
 WBfi rai-ed to the Supreme hench in the election of the fall of 
 ! and (jualitied in January. 1^-'). The position is one which 
 hi- leaal attainment.- emmineiit ly tit him for and the honor i.- one 
 which is ju.-tly due an old soldier. lie, like his associates on the 
 hrnch, i- a man in whom the people of the State place a ^Teat 
 trust, and it will never he .-aid of J nd^e Helm that he did not 
 faithfully and jcalou-ly L r uard that trust. He has made hi.- name 
 
70 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 an honored one and holds as his own by right the confidence and 
 respect of all. 
 
 James A, Miller, 
 
 Clerk of the Supreme Court of Colorado, was born in Jackson, 
 Ohio, and received a common school education, finishing with a 
 few terms in the Ohio State University. He was married to Mary 
 S. Powell, of Portsmouth, Ohio, March 20, I860;- they have four 
 children, two boys and two girls, all living. Mr. Miller came 
 west in 1860 and out on the plains in the employ of the Govern- 
 ment in transporting supplies to the western forts. At this early 
 day there were no railroads west of the Missouri river, and all sup- 
 plies were sent by ox and mule teams. Mr. Miller followed this 
 life for eight years, during which time he underwent hardships that 
 few men care to endure, gaining an experience and knowledge of 
 western life and western methods which has been of vast advan- 
 tage to him in later life. He has been engaged in many enterprises 
 in Colorado and other portions of the west at various times since 
 quitting the plains. In all of these he has met with a fair degree 
 of success, gained a large and extended acquaintance which is par- 
 ticularly useful to him in the position he now occupies as clerk of 
 the highest court in the State. Mr. Miller's fitness for his place 
 is attested by the fact that he has held it so long. His quiet, unas- 
 suming, yet friendly manner has gained for him the universal 
 respect of all who know him. 
 
 Ex-Governor William Gilpin. 
 
 In the publication of a book purporting to give a partial his- 
 tory of Colorado, as gleaned from its pioneers and early settlers, 
 the work would be incomplete if a full chapter at least was not 
 devoted to the remarkable career of the distinguished gentleman 
 whose name appears above this sketch. In offering the COM- 
 PENDIUM OF COLORADO to the public, we feel that an apology is 
 due our readers in this instance, in having to curtail the biography 
 of Hon. William Gilpin down to a bare condensation of the 
 few facts we have at hand. In the regular order of all natural 
 results, the day will come when some brilliant writer will be 
 impelled to do justice to his varied career and give a vivid 
 word painting of the arduous trials he has undergone, sifting out 
 and presenting in detail to the many of the present, to the ris- 
 ing and to future generations his prophetic and wonderful 
 genius. Unlike the dormant youths, who lack spirit and energy 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMI'KXDK M (>F COLORADO. 71 
 
 :il that which can he Cleaned from teach- i-nmr (iilpin 
 
 from his boyhood day- runrrix cd o-rrat and original idra> which in 
 later yrar> havr developed into ivalitie-. Pride of aiire.-try tilled 
 him with ambition^ dr-irr-, and when the wonderful family tree 
 from whence he >prnno; >hall have withered int.. eternity. Cil 
 with the mo-t formidable of i^ hranches will he inscrihed the 
 name of William (iilpin. He WB6 horn <>n the hatt lefield of P.ran- 
 dywine. in the State if Delaware. October 1. L822, of Ouaker par- 
 ent-, who traced tneir origin to the CromwellB, and >till farther 
 hack to Richard I), (iylpin, who livrd during the reio-n of Kiner 
 John, in the thirteent h cent nrv. When old enough In- was .-rut to 
 Fnedand and received the first three years of education there. He 
 wa- afterwards >ent to the I niver.-ity in Pennsylvania, and from 
 then- was appointed a cadet to the National Military Academy by 
 (General ,Iaek>on. and trradnate<l frmn there in iVJti. Dnrino- the 
 Seminole war he wa> coinmi>-ioned Lieutenant in the Second 
 Dragoons, and accompanied ( irneral Harneyto Florida. !Ieal>o 
 
 d as an e.-cort to (Jeneral Jessup. After re>i<rnini_r hi> c<m- 
 mi>-ion lie locate<l in S?. Louis, in ls:V., where 1 lie 'e^an to .-tudy 
 plans to carry out the oreat scheme of making tl." circuit of the 
 world. Whilst a cadet at We>1 Point he studied law with his 
 hrother, lion. II. I), (iilpin. who was al'terwari! Gen- 
 
 eral under President Van IJuren. In 1841 (iu t venmr (iil- 
 pin went to Independence, Mionri. and there riio-aj^rd in the 
 practice of law. The >ame year he was cho>eii Srci'rtary of the 
 
 ra] Armhly <>t' that State, >ervintr two yeiir-. In l^4';> he 
 had matured his lontr cheri>hed plans for making the circuit of 
 the world, and >et out to explore a pa>s through the K -cky monn- 
 tain>. After months of arduous lahor and Buffering many priva- 
 tions he rrarhrd the Pacific roa.-t, where he met nio>t <f the pioneers 
 ami adventurous character:- who then travrrsi-d the o;reTit exti-nt of 
 country het ween northern ( 'alifornia, alone.- thnmtrh < )re>j;oii. Wa>h- 
 inirton Territory and Uriti>h Columbia. That \a>t ti-rritory wa^ 
 then ruled hy the Hud-on 1 Jay Company, and was inhabited only 
 by the aoent> of that company. Indians, French Canadian ( 'atholic 
 
 mi.-^ionarir>, a e.- \\\ nnmbrr of Amrrican trapper- and hunter-. 
 
 and a >turdy lot of farmer> who >oiitrht some oi th" fi-r^lr valleys 
 of that far-off land to e-tabli^h homes fur theni.-rlvr.- and p<'-trrity. 
 On the 4th of March. 1^ i I. a party of pioneer.-, to the nnmbrr of 
 
 ^atheivd on the bank- of thr Willamrttr rivrr to found Port- 
 land. The >ite then chosrn wa> about four '!<:!"> abo\c whrrr thr 
 cit\ of Portland now stands, on thr opp>itr -i-'.eof the rivrr: and 
 a little town callrd Milwaiikir i> all that is now known of thr. 
 inal Portland. At that a.->rmblatre Mr. (iilpin prr-ided. and on 
 
72 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 him rested till the labor of establishing the town. At that meeting 
 he drew up articles of agreement and arranged for a Territorial 
 government for Oregon, and soon afterward appeared in Washing- 
 ton as the "squatter delegate from the Pacific Coast," but amidst 
 the greatest opposition he finally succeeded in his mission. Whilst 
 on the Pacific Coast he associated with those saintly missionaries, 
 Archbishop Blanchet, of Oregon; Bishop Blanchet, of Nesqualy, 
 and Father DeSmet all of whom have since gassed to their last 
 home, where peace and happiness await those who suffered and la- 
 bored so long in the Lord's vineyard. Finding his scheme of 
 making the circuit of the world impracticable at that time, 
 upon the breaking out of the Mexican war, Governor Gilpin reen- 
 terred the army and was chosen Major of the First Regiment of 
 Missouri Cavalry, and served with distinction throughout. In the 
 spring of 1848, with 1,200 men under his command, he left Pike's 
 Peak, where he had wintered, and made an active campaign against 
 the hostile Indians, and subjugated them so thoroughly that peace 
 was had for the next eighteen years. In 1851 he returned to 
 Independence, Missouri, and \vhilst there lost no time or oppor- 
 tunity to advertise the vast resources of Colorado. In 1859 he pub- 
 lished the " Central Gold Region,' 1 the first work of great value 
 and interest to this country. In the year 1873 he again 
 published a work entitled " The Mission of the North American 
 People." It contained six charts, in some of which were shown 
 the course of temperature and the practicability of establishing 
 a railroad line around the world, on the fortieth parallel of lati- 
 tude, and on which are located nearly all the great cities of the 
 world. The work he published at an expense of $10,000, and 
 whilst he has personally realized nothing from it, it has furnished 
 solid material for those who have drawn large salaries as corre- 
 spondents to the eastern press, and few indeed are the instances 
 where any credit has been given him. The prophetic predictions 
 of the mineral and pastoral resources of Colorado, as appearing in 
 that work, have since been realized. In 1861 he was appointed 
 iirst Governor of Colorado by President Lincoln, and his year in 
 that position was an eventful one in the history of the Territory. 
 Governor Gilpin was married to Mrs. Julia Pratte in St. Louis, 
 February 15, 1874; four children have been born to them. It 
 will be seen from the foregoing brief synopsis that Governor Gil- 
 pin's career has been so eventful that it would be an impossibility 
 for us to do him justice in a work of this kind. He is a man of 
 good height, with a military bearing, a quick eye, sturdy and im- 
 petuous temperament, an entertaining conversationalist and a man 
 whose imposing and genteel bearing will always command special 
 
BKX.KAI'HK AI. rnMI'HMUrM < > ! <>[.,, i;.\DO. 7:'. 
 
 attention in a community. < ' m-Merin^ the pn niinence of hi- 
 
 il oriirin. coupled with hi- own praise\\ r\ h v record. In- po- 
 tt little of that unenviable quality of vanity and conceit iisii- 
 allv found in men \vho form a distinguished member of BO ran 
 lieraldic geneological tree, and he is t herel'i >re entit led to the greater 
 prai-e for \\\> hecMilline/ mode-tV. He i- still in the enjoyment of 
 
 o-ood health, and livinii- quietly with his family in I )enver has the 
 sati-faction of witnessing the fultilment of many of hi.- early pro- 
 phecie-. Though taking no acti\f part in dictating Of guiding 
 
 ami mouldine; puhlic opinion in matters i' aenei'al interest, he look> 
 
 on with a deep concern and n>te> the mo\ement> of tlne who 
 
 li:i\e fallen into line in the local and national o-overnment of public 
 
 -. and hi> opinion.- alway> combine the two e ential (jiialitie> 
 
 l.< >m and ex perience. 
 
 Edwin S. Nettleton. 
 
 The position of State Kno-ineer i> one which of neceity retjiiii-e- 
 
 a laree dre-ree of information UJMUI special >nb|V<-t>, subject.^ that 
 
 net-.U yean <>f training and stmly in order to properly exercift 
 
 fiinrtinns. Kdwin S. Nettleton, the pre>ent incumbent of that 
 
 otlice. was born at Medina, Ohio, ( )ctober ~~, l^iU.. He was edu- 
 
 at Melina Academy. ( )berlin College, Ohio, and was appren- 
 
 ticed and under private instruct in> with Zacharia I )eane in cival 
 
 and machanical engineering-. The name of hi> tutor alone i>>ntli- 
 
 cient onaranteeof the thoroiio-h and careful training which he brintrs 
 
 to hi> work. Add to tliis a ijnarter of a century's experience and 
 
 it will be seen that few can equal and none excel Mr. Nettleton 
 
 in the work <>ver which he has charge. Mr. Nettleton i> a Repub- 
 
 lican of the old school, but never BO radical but that he is ready to 
 
 admit the truth let it be found where it may. He has the univer- 
 
 sal respect of all classes of men. lle'Aas married to Mis.; I.ucy 
 
 jenor al Medina, <>hi<. < )ct<ber l~i. IM'.I ; they ha\e two 
 
 cliildren. I le came to ( ',loi-ado in 1>>70 with the Tin'..!! Colony 
 
 of (ii-eeley. ami d iiri lie/ t he year> 1^70 1 was the ene-ineer-in-chief, 
 
 -vd in lay i no- out the tnwn and lands surrounlinr, and build- 
 
 lie irriinitino- canals. He wa> appointed engineer of the Col- 
 
 Durin t 
 
 Orado Spi-in^s ('inqany in ls"Jl. During that and the followino- 
 inployed in laying (ut the towns of Colorado Springs 
 
 and Manitoii, in surveyintr the siii'roiindino coiinti-y and planning 
 and completine.- the canal systems of that section. In the fall of 
 
 ! he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Centra] Colorado Im- 
 
 nient ('oinpany (now the Colorado Coal and I nui Cninpany i. 
 
 lie wa- appointed the first postmaster of South Pneblo in 1 
 
 and held that otlice under President- < T rant . Hayes and (iarlield. 
 
74 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOKADO. 
 
 On the 22d of February, 1882, he resigned that office. In 
 1878 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Larimer and 
 Weld^Irrigation Company, and was in charge of the construc- 
 tion of the canal by the same name, built by Governor B. H. 
 Eaton. In 1880 he was appointed Engineer-in- Chief of the 
 Northern Colorado Irrigation Canal Co., and was engaged in 
 the construction of their canal until 1873, when he was ap- 
 pointed State Engineer by Governor J. B. Grant. In 1885 he 
 was reappointed to the same position by Governor B. H. 
 Eaton, which office he now holds in addition to being a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Capitol Managers for the construction of 
 the State capitol at Denver. No man in Colorado, perhaps, 
 had more to do in a personal way with the development and 
 advertising of the entire State than Engineer Nettleton. Es- 
 pecially has he been a moving power in the settlement and 
 establishment of the towns upon the east of the range ; from 
 Greeley to Colorado Springs, from there to Pueblo, and so on, 
 opening and preparing the way for the incoming of settlers 
 and the building up of commonwealths, which in due time 
 will rival their elder sisters of the east. 
 
 Hon. Horace A. W. Tabor. 
 
 In producing the COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO we -have un- 
 dertaken no trifling task, and we realize our inability to do 
 the subject justice when we endeavor to give a pen picture of 
 Hon. H. A. W. Tabor, who for the past twenty-eight years 
 has been identified with every foremost feature in the pro- 
 gress of the State. The fact is, there are few men in Colo- 
 rado who can look back with pride to a more honored or 
 useful career than the gentleman who is the subject of this 
 sketch. Looking down the vista of time we see him at the 
 foot of the hill in ordinary circumstances, struggling along 
 the routine of a common farmer boy's life. Without f ecount- 
 ing his adversities, we find him to-day an honored citizen of 
 this commonwealth, surrounded by all the comforts and de- 
 sired luxuries of life, and the recipient of the honor, esteem 
 and confidence of his fellow men. These advantages and 
 blessings are not all the result of a streak of good luck. 
 They are mostly the result of an unswerving ambition, an 
 unsullied integrity, an enterprising, active mind that will 
 overcome all obstacles and knows no such word as fail. His 
 position is always at the front, and he is accorded the leader- 
 ship in any movement in which he assumes an interest. Mr. 
 Tabor was born in Orleans county, Vermont, November 26, 
 1830. The days of his youth were spent on a farm, and paj; 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COM 1'KNDIUM OF COLORADO. 76 
 
 of the time he received a good common school education. In 
 1855 he went to Kansas, took an active parr in the troubles of 
 "Bleeding Kansas." and in 1857 was chosen as a memb- 
 the Tope k a Legislature. Two years later Senator Tabor earn*' 
 to Colorado, settling in Denver. The following spring he 
 went to Leadville, then known as California Gulch, mid fol- 
 lowed mining until ISO."). From then until 1878 he also 
 followed merchandising and saved quit*- a large sum of 
 money. In the spring of '78 he ''grub-staked" Am 
 Rische and George F. Hook, who discovered the famous 
 Little Pittsburg mine, which was the solid foundation for the 
 fortune which Senator Tabor has since acquired. The history 
 of that mine and its enormous output are matters of statisti- 
 cal importance in yearly products of the State. For fourteen 
 years, during the wildest times in the mining camp of Lead 
 ville. Senator Tabor presided as Mayor, and by firmness and 
 unusual tact preserved order in the rough element which th^n 
 pervaded that community. In 1878 he was elected Lieut en - 
 ant-Governor of the State, and served ably in that capacity 
 for two consecutive terms. The next important position liV 
 held was that of short-term Senator, and in the legislative 
 halls of our National Congress he showed his ability to do 
 great service for the State. At the present time he is Chair- 
 man of the Republican State Central Committee, and his 
 management of the political affairs coming under his ca re 
 have been remarkably successful. He understands how to 
 organize and manage a campaign with keen, perceptive 
 faculties, and the highest merits of generalship are cone- 
 to him in that line. As to his wealth, and the general distri- 
 bution of it, it is unnecessary for us to make more than a 
 passing mention. Every resident of this State, and every 
 visitor to it from all quarters of the globe, have expat i; 
 on that subject in letters to their friends and to the press. 
 Book 'publishers, editors, professional correspondents and 
 sight-seers have written page after page of the magnificence 
 and costliness of the buildings which bear Mr. Tabors name, 
 and which will leave his memory as endurable as the magni- 
 ficent monuments he has had raised for the use and oi-namen 
 tatioii of the (Jueen City of the Plains. We can safely afi 
 that there is not a hamlet, town, city or country on tin 
 of the civilized globe in which some mention has not 
 made, at some time or other, of one or of all the buildings 
 which bear his name. The interest he has taken in er.-ciinir 
 such beautiful structures as the Tabor ( )j-ra llou^.- and the 
 Tabor Block, Costing Over a million of dollars, prove his faith 
 and confidence j n the boundless resources of Colorado. ; 
 
76 BIOGKAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 sonally, Mr. Tabor is a plain, unassuming gentleman, whom 
 the most ordinary individual might approach without hesi- 
 tancy, with the assurance that he was addressing a man who 
 pays no attention to wealth or station, recognizing that in 
 this land of liberty all who mean right are on a grand scale 
 of social equality. Senator Tabor was ma,rried to Miss Eliza- 
 beth B. McCourt, March 1, 1883, "Baby Tabor," the beauti- 
 ful child whose portrait adorns thousands of homes in this 
 and other cities, has been chosen as a model of grace by the 
 leading artists of the land, and to the fond parents she has been 
 and will long remain, as expressed by the poet Tupper, 
 
 "A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, 
 A messenger of peace and love." 
 
 Senator Tabor resides at his beautiful mansion, No. 1260 
 Sherman avenue. Notwithstanding his ability to live at ease, 
 he still takes an active part in political and commercial affairs, 
 and is of such an active temperament that it is safe to say 
 whilst he lives he will remain foremost amongst the most 
 public men of the State. The Senator is a man above me- 
 dium height, rather heavy set, and bearing every evidence of 
 good care in his keeping ; he has a good constitution and, 
 no doubt, is destined to yet enjoy a long and useful life. 
 
 Leonidas S. Cornell. 
 
 Among the public institutions of our country none more 
 deservedly attract the attention of all lovers of law and order 
 than do our public schools. It is all-important, therefore, 
 that each commonwealth should have some man of learning 
 and ambition at the head to represent, as it were, in a single 
 individual the individual interests of every child in the State. 
 Especially is this the case in our own State, where we are in 
 reality just laying aside the swaddling clothes of self-govern- 
 ment and endeavoring to lay broad and deep the foundations 
 of a government for higher and more prosperous days to 
 come. Not but what we are as far advanced in educational 
 interests, perhaps, as we are in other interests of a public na- 
 ture, but what we are doing for the cause of education at the 
 present time is but a poor sample of what we intend to do in 
 the near future, when our valleys and hillsides are teeming 
 with the fruits of the husbandman, and our wants and neces- 
 sities in that direction become more general. In order, how- 
 ever, to prepare for this good time coming, it is requisite and 
 necessary that we should make wise laws and most thoroughly 
 systematize the workings of our common schools, and by 
 these and other Cleans better prepare them for their expaiv 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL < (>M I'KNDIUM OF COLORADO. 77 
 
 sion and improvements in the t'utmv. Our legislators are 
 suiliciently wise to make the laws, but no system .f a uni- 
 form coins.' of public instruction can be complete without a 
 h'-ad center, and in this head center in a great measure de- 
 pends the success or failure of the common school system un- 
 der his control. Leonidas S. Cornell, our present State Su- 
 perintendent of Public Instruction, was born at Athens, Ohio, 
 April 1'J, IS 1:2 and was educated in Illinois, at Fulton Semi- 
 nary and West field College. He was married to Miss Mary 
 Dawson at her home in Lexington, Illinois, July 17, 1864; four 
 children have been born to them, three of whom are now liv- 
 ing. Mr. Cornell came to Colorado early in the seventies and 
 has always been known as one of the States' most enterpris- 
 ing and progressive citizens. He early took an interest in 
 the founding and building up of our State school system, and 
 to-day has the proud satisfaction of knowing that to him 
 more, perhaps, than to any other man in the State is due its 
 present high standing. He was elected County Superinten- 
 dent of schools in Boulder county in 1877, and again in 1879 ; 
 was chosen to his present position on the Republican ticket 
 in 1880, and has since been twice elected to the same posi- 
 tion. The last time there was no opposition, which shows 
 the high regard in which he is held by the people of the State. 
 Faithful to the teachings of that great school master, Horace 
 Mann, he takes into his work a true appreciation of his al- 
 most divine mission, and a strong conviction of the grave 
 responsibilities placed upon him. His long experience, 
 coupled with a character against which no reproach can be 
 brought, makes him the best guardian of the corner stone of 
 our republican institutions,, the public schools. . Mr. Cornell 
 is still in the prime of life and it is to be hoped has before 
 him yet many years of usefulness. There is a love of his 
 work inculcated into him by his long-continued connection 
 with public instruction, the necessary qualifications of a suc- 
 cessful business career, and a spirit of that progress to the 
 overthrow of old-fogyism, if necessary, which will insure to 
 his educational work the advancement which it ought to 
 make. 
 
 L, 0. Tracy. 
 
 There are men born into the world who bring with them 
 the happy faculty of making friends who cling to them with 
 ady allegiance not to be shaken by any ordinary occur- 
 rence. Such a one is L. C 1 . Tracy, the present Deputy State 
 tamer. He was born in Middletield, Orange county, Ohio, 
 'mber 17, ls.V>. II.- was educated in the common schools 
 
78 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 of his native county, and finished in the graded High School 
 of Garrettsville, the same State. Mr. Tracy's grandfather was 
 one of the leaders of the Whig party in Northern Ohio, and 
 an exceedingly active man in the political field throughout 
 his long life of nearly a century. His father was a staunch 
 Republican, and his son is as strong in the faith as he. Mr. 
 Tracy remarked that no male member of the Tracy family 
 have been anything else than Republican since that party 
 had an existence. Mr. Tracy came to Colorado for his health 
 in 1879, and located in Leadville, where he was agent for 
 Charles Barton, of Colorado Springs, and manager of the 
 Chicago planing mills and machine shops until December, 
 1881. Since that date he has been connected with the city 
 and county government of Lake county in various clerical ca- 
 pacities, and was also Deputy United States Marshal for 
 Western Colorado for eighteen months. He was appointed 
 to his present position by Hon. P. W. Breene on January llth 
 of the present year. Mr. Tracy*s boyhood days were spent 
 in Northern Ohio, where he early made the acquaintance of 
 James A. Garfield, the martyr President, whose friendship he 
 retained up to the day of that illustrious statesman's death. 
 He was a member of the same lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 246 
 of Ohio, as President Garfield, and treasures as his most 
 precious remembrance the friendship which that great man 
 had for him. Mr. Tracy was at pne time tendered the position 
 of sutler's clerk at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, by General 
 Hazen, but did not accept the proffered favor. 
 
 Frank A, Taylor, 
 
 Adjutant General of Colorado and the most active man in 
 military affairs who has held that office since its creation, 
 was appointed by Governor B. H. Eaton, February 26, 1885. 
 He is a resident of Lake City, Colorado, with which city's 
 growth he has been identified for a number of years. He is 
 a charter member of the Pitkin Guards, Co. A, 2nd Infantry, 
 C. N. G. and was elected sergeant at the formation of that 
 company, May 14, 1879 ; was chosen first lieutenant May 21, 
 1879, and elected cap tain on August 24, 1882. General Tay- 
 lor was born February 17, 1847, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 and received his education in the schools of that city. In 
 politics he is a Republican and a strong believer in the prin- 
 ciples of that party. His appointment was a handsome com- 
 pliment to the section of the State from which he came and 
 also a just recognition of the ability of the man. His con- 
 duct of the affairs of his office have been a ringing endorse- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 79 
 
 ment of the justness of the Governor's choice. None of his 
 predecessors ran show as good a record of practical benefit to 
 the State National Gtaaro. General Taylor is a tall, Jim* 
 looking gentleman, of soldierly appearance and pleasant 
 countenance, who greets all with a word of welcome and kind 
 ness. Those who know him best appreciate him most. 
 
 C. W. Burris. 
 
 The subject of this sketch spent the first five years of his life 
 in the State of Kentucky, after which he received an educa- 
 tion in the grand old State of Iowa, which as a foundation en- 
 abled him to build a structure, reared in after life. When yet 
 under twenty years of age he settled in Kansas, where, with a 
 favorite brother, Col. John T., he fitted himself for the prac 
 tice of law, when he entered the profession for a time and 
 the firm was known under the name of Burris & Burris. In 
 1871 he removed to Aberline, Kansas, residing there until 1875. 
 During this time he filled the position of County Judge for 
 two years, attended several State Conventions of the Repub- 
 lican party and was widely known throughout the State. In 
 1875 he settled in Silverton, Colorado. In 1876 he was elected 
 District Attorney of the Fourth Judicial District and was at 
 the end of his term nominated and re-elected to the same 
 position, serving until the spring of 1881, when he resigned 
 and received the appointment or Judge of the Seventh Judic- 
 ial District. The fall of the same year he was elected for the 
 unexpired term in said District. From the above it will be 
 seen that Judge Burris has been in office almost continuously 
 from 1876 till 1883. In 1884 he settled in his present home, 
 Grand Junction, where he enjoys a lucrative practice. Dur- 
 ing his residence in Colorado Judge Burris has taken an 
 active part in politics and was a strong worker in the fall 
 campaign of 1886. 
 
 Jeremiah Mahoney, 
 
 Of Leadville, Private Secretary to Governor Adams, was born 
 on the 1st of June, 1853, in Ontenagan county, Michigan. 
 \Vh*n six years old his parents moved to HooghtOD county, 
 Michigan, in the public schools of which he was educated and 
 ]>r< -pared to enter the State University. Mr. Maiiony springs 
 from a Democratic family, his father having /.'alously 
 worked for the election of Lewis Case to the Presidency Mr 
 l>'iiiLr the only citi/eu of Michigan who has ever been 
 hon.iivd with a nomination for that exalted position. On the 
 7th of January, 1884, Mr. Mahoney was united in marria. 
 
80 BIOGEAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Dobson Fisher in the city of Memphis, Tenn. 
 Miss Fisher's father was one of the most substantial business 
 men of that city. Mr. Mahoney is the happy father of a four- 
 teen-month-old girl Claire Fisher Mahoney. " Only one fea- 
 ture is wanting to complete Mr. Mahoney 's happiness, and 
 that is the positive assurance that some day he may realize 
 the fact that Mahoney & Son will figure extensively in the 
 commercial world. Mr. Mahoney left Marque tte county, Mich- 
 igan, in 1874, for Colorado. Previous to his coming he had 
 been engaged for some time on a newspaper edited and owned 
 by the present Governor of Alaska, the Hon. A. P. Suineford, 
 and settled near the village of Sunshine, in Boulder County, 
 and embarked at once in the pursuit of mining, in which he 
 has been engaged ever since. Attracted by the reported dis- 
 coveries of mineral in San Juan, he emigrated to that section 
 early in 1876, enduring the hardships incident to the early 
 pioneers, and soon became recognized as a zealous as well 
 as an intelligent miner, and a trustworthy and deserving 
 citizen. In the fall of 1878 Mr. Mahoney went to Leadville 
 where he has since resided and where he is interested in 
 many good mining claims. Mr. Mahoney has taken an 
 active interest in politics and has been honored by his party 
 with positions implying the greatest confidence. In 1880 he 
 was chosen Secretary of the Democratic State Central Com- 
 mittee, and acted in chat capacity for two years, giving the 
 most absolute satisfaction to* his party. He has frequently 
 conducted campaigns in Lake county and never suffered de- 
 feat, and to his credit, victory never came to him through 
 the channels of fraud, corruption or intimidation. At the 
 late Democratic State Convention he was unanimously 
 chosen for Secretary of State, and made the campaign of 
 that portion of the State, which time permitted him to visit, 
 with Rev. Myron W. Reed, candidate for Congress, and the 
 Hon. T. M. Patterson. His canvass was characterized by an 
 address, manner and courtesy indicating a high sense of 
 honor and a true conception of what an honorable op- 
 ponent deserves and should always receive, and although de- 
 feated, like all his colleagues on the ticket, excepting the 
 candidate for Governor, the result has no unpleasant 
 memories or bitter recollections for him; nor has it shaken 
 in the least his sublime confidence in the ultimate triumph of 
 his party in the State. Mr. Mahoney is interested with 
 Senator T. B. Ryan, in cattle, in Garfield county, and with an 
 eye always open to business. We may safely predict that 
 he will yet roll in wealth, and certainly there are few whom 
 we believe could make better use of it. 
 
BIOOBAPHIOAIi COMPENDIUM 01 < "LORADO. 81 
 
 James F. Gardner, 
 
 Of Frankstown, this State, was l><>rn in Attica. Wyoming 
 county. New York. November -j. ls:M. and was educated in 
 the common school of that town. Mr. (Jardner in former 
 times was a Democrat, hut latterly he has acted with the KV 
 publican party. He was married in 1807 to Miss Helen I. 
 . in this State; they have four children. Mr (Jardner 
 came to Denver, May 14. 1S">9, and has lived in this State 
 ever since, and at one time was in the Third Colorado 
 Volunteers. He has held the positions of County Clerk and 
 of County Treasurer; was in the Territorial Legislatures of 
 1866 and IS?'-': served as State Senator in the sessions of 1876 
 and 1880. In every community in which he has lived he has 
 proven a prominent and useful member, capable, honest 
 and faithful in serving the public. 
 
 Richard Harvey. 
 
 Mr. Harvey, of Central City, was born in Cornwall, En- 
 gland, July 9, 1826. He had a little schooling in the land of 
 his birth, but otherwise is self-educated. The first vote he 
 cast was for Zachariah Taylor for President. In 1856 he 
 voted for John C. Fremont, and has been a Republican 
 ever since. On September 30, 1882, he was married to Miss 
 Rebecca H. McAllister, in Illinois. The honored couple have 
 five children living, the eldest daughter being married. Mr. 
 Harvey's father was a miner. He has one brother a post- 
 master in Council Hill, JoDaviess county, Illinois, and another 
 brother in San Francisco, California both stalwart Repub- 
 licans. Mr. Harvey came to Colorado and located in Central 
 City, October 1866, and lived and voted in the Third ward of 
 said city ever since, taking considerable interest in the 
 politics of said city, county and State. In 1872 he was elected 
 Alderman of said city and in November, 1878, was elected to 
 represent, with two others, the said county in the Second As- 
 sembly of the State. On August. 9, 1879, he was appointed 
 ister of the U. S. land office in Central City by President 
 Hayes; re-appointed January -Jl. 1884, by President Arthur. 
 and at present is holding said ollice. 
 
 Julius H. Clark 
 
 Was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, October 30, 1853, 
 
 and was educated at Station! in the same State. His father 
 served during the civil war and was killed at Ashland. 
 
82 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Virginia March 15, 1865. Mr. Clark came to Colorado and 
 settled in Trinidad in October, 1873, his first occupation being 
 that of clerk for Messrs. Davis & Sherman. Three years later 
 he engaged in the lumber business. In 1876 he was elected 
 County Clerk and Treasurer, and was re-elected for each of 
 the four succeeding years. He was elected to the Legisla- 
 ture in 1877, by 300 majority, and was the first Republican 
 ever elected from that county. President Hayes appointed 
 
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 ever eiecieu. iroiii mttt uuuu.tj. ^ *< ^~ **Vj 
 
 him postmaster at Trinidad in 1880, when he served four 
 years Ever since he has been engaged in the book and 
 stationery business. Mr. Clark was married to Miss Annie 
 E Jordan on January 8th of this year, and being a man ot a 
 kindly disposition he looks forward, with joyous anticipa- 
 tion to the time when he can delight his little ones by 
 dandling them on his knee. We trust he will not be disap- 
 pointed. 
 
 Willard B. Felton 
 
 Is a descendant of Nathaniel Felton, who came to America 
 from England in 1633, He was born at Prescott, Massachu- 
 setts, November 26, 1837, and received a common school 
 education at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr Felton came 
 to Colorado in the spring of 1862 and mined in Lake county 
 from 1862 to 1870, and then resided in Saguache county from 
 1870 to December 1880. Politically he has always been a 
 Republican and has filled many offices of trust and honor 
 He represented Lake county in the first State Constitutional 
 Convention of 1864, and was enrolling clerk of the Territorial 
 Council of 1864-5. In 1868 he was elected County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools of Lake county, and the same year was 
 appointed County Judge of same county. to 
 
 SaLache county in 1870 and in 1871 was Superintendent of 
 Schools of that county. In 1872 he was elected County 
 Assessor, and was County Judge of Saguache county from 
 1873 to 1881, and was then elected to another term of three 
 years but resigned before the term commenced. He was 
 Clerk of the District Court for Saguache county during the 
 year 1880, and he represented Saguache county in t 
 stitutional Convention of 1875, which framed our State 
 stitution. He was Chief Clerk of the House of Representa- 
 tives during the first and second ^sessions of the State 
 Legislature. In February, 1879, Governor P W Pitkm 
 appointed him one of the Commissioners of the 
 Stentiary, which position he held till he was appwngd 
 Warden of the same institution in December, 1880, serving 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL o M 1'KNDII M <>K COLORADO. 
 
 as warden till March -Jo, 1S83. He was clerk of the District 
 
 Court of Fremont county from April 1, 1884, to July 1, i 
 Mr. Felton published the BaglUtohe Chronicle from April 1, 
 
 . to January i, isso. He is at present publishing the 
 ( 1 anon city Record, of which he has been proprietor since 
 April i, iss:i, and Is Quite extensively engaged in unit raising. 
 
 lit* is president of tin- I'Yemont County Horticultural Society. 
 He married Miss Tillie Hemmerle, J uly 30,1885. He has a 
 -son and daughter by a previous marriage. It will be seen 
 from the lortrninir that Mr. Fel ton's ability has placed him in 
 many honorable positions, all of which he has tilled credit- 
 ably to himself and for the benefit of those who placed him 
 in trust. / 
 
 Sylvester Nichols, 
 
 The present Secretary of the Senate is a short, squarely 
 built man with light complexion and hair, active, wiry frame 
 and clear ringing voice which of course is a great advantage 
 to him when relieving the reading secretary as he occasion- 
 ally does. Mr. Nichols was County Clerk and Recorder of Gil- 
 pin countv from 1877 to 1882; Secretary of Republican State 
 Central Committee, 1882 to 1884; Dispersing Officer U. S. court 
 house and post-office, and Melter for the Denver Mint to 1885, 
 his commission for the latter office expiring March 4, 1885; 
 Private Secretary for Senator Teller and Clerk U. S. Senate 
 Committee on Mines and Mining 1885-0, and was elected to 
 thefposition which he now holds at the beginning of the Session. 
 His fitness for this position is demonstrated by the satisfaction 
 with which his work is received by the members. He is a 
 jolly companionable fellow and never without friends. He 
 ily appreciates a joke and on occasion can tell a good 
 story himself. He was born in Athens, Greene county, New 
 York, .July -JS, is.vj and was educated at Fair-field Seminary, 
 Herkimer county, New York. He was married October 16, 
 1S7S, to Miss Nelly Marshall, of Denver, Colorado, in this 
 city. Mr. Nichols Is a wheel-horse Republican and it is a 
 predition that he will never sail under any other colors. 
 His partisanship is however tempered with a sound judgment 
 and good sense which makes it reasonable and not intolerate. 
 
 Qeo. M. Huskins. 
 
 It requires no small amount of courage in a young man to 
 strike out from the older Kastern States, leaving behind all 
 tliH comforts and conveniences of civilization, and plunge 
 
84 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 into an unknown West, there to carve out for himself wealth, 
 and fame maybe. Once upon this western field of life's 
 battle, his dormant powers are brought out and his slower 
 eastern brother is left far behind. Geo. M. Huskins, the 
 subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania in 1857, 
 where h'e remained until a young man. Impatient at the 
 restrictions placed upon him by slow methods of the East, 
 and eager to enter the battle of life in earnest, he came to 
 Colorado in 1878, bringing with him his wife, whose maiden 
 name was Miss Mattie A. Sharp, to whom he was married at 
 Coatesville, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1878. Locating first at 
 Canon City, then the advance station on the Denver and Bio 
 Grande Railroad. From there he successively lived at 
 Salida, Gunnison, Montrose and Grand Junction, which were 
 each in succession the advance station of the road. Follow- 
 ing the division of the Ute reservation into counties, he was 
 chosen the first treasurer of Montrose county in 1883 and was 
 afterwards deputy county clerk of Mesa county for three and 
 a half years. On the llth of January of the present year he 
 was appointed Deputy State Auditor by Hon. D. P, Kingsley. 
 An expert book-keeper and a long acquaintance with county 
 records, make him, perhaps the best who could possibly have 
 been chosen for that position. The friends he has already 
 made added to the neat and correct appearance of his books 
 show the fitness of his choice. Mr. Huskins is a sterling 
 Republican and his fealty to his party can never be im- 
 peached. He is with it first, last and all the time. 
 
 Wm. D. Pierce 
 
 Was born April 1, 1859, in South Charleston, Clark^ county, 
 Ohio and was educated in the common schools of his native 
 town, afterwards spent a year at the National Normal School, at 
 Lebanon, Ohio, and one year at the Normal School of Indiana, 
 at Valparaiso. His people are quakers and were citizens 
 of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He came to Colorado in 
 March, 1880; and was married to Miss Lizzie Janney, of 
 Denver, Colorado, August 23, 1881. They have one child, a 
 boy. He served the State in various clerical capacities 
 during his first year in Colorado and on February 12, 1881, 
 was appointed Deputy Auditor by Joseph A. Davis; was re- 
 appointed under John C.. Abbott in 1883 and by Hiram A. 
 Spruance in 1885. At the expiration of his last term he was 
 offered and accepted a position in the Supreme Court of the 
 State. In our journey through life we sometimes run across 
 a young man who in business, social and political circles, 
 
BIOGBAPHIOAX < OM i'KM>i r.M OF COLORADO. 
 
 )i;is fairly distanced coin]).-! itors, endowed with greater ad- 
 vantage* perhaps. l)iit still lacking some qualifications 
 d by tin- young man. who so soon outstrips -in the 
 That qualification may be embraced iu the words "an 
 honest ambition;" without it life loses half its charm and 
 wraith its attendant pleasures. Thr young man who is the 
 subject of thr sketch is endowed with ambition, coupled 
 with industry, integrity and good business sagacity. To this 
 hr adds a happy genial nature, full of life and fan and a vast 
 capability for making and retaining friends. We predict 
 for him a bright future. 
 
 William B. Pelker. 
 
 is work contains descriptions and biographies of many 
 of the most eminent men of the State, but we doubt if there 
 is another mentioned therein who has a more command- 
 ing presence and a more pleasing and imposing address 
 than Mr. Felker. Though well advanced in years, he is hale 
 and hearty, and walks, talks and feels as if still enjoying 
 thr prime of life. Mr. Felker was born in New York, Feb- 
 ruary 9, is:*?, and therefore has just turned his fiftieth year. 
 In his native State he received a full academic course of in- 
 struction, after which he was accorded a full legal course of 
 training, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. During the 
 same year he was married to Miss S. J. Sprague, in Wiscon- 
 sin; one child has been the result of their union. Since Mr. 
 Felker was admitted to the bar he has confined himself 
 strictly to his profession, and bears the reputation of ranking 
 amongst thr foremost practitioners. He is a studious reader, 
 a profound thinker and an earnest and logical talker. All of 
 his actions through life have been marked by his judicious 
 combination of wisdom and justice, and therefore lie always 
 enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow men. With 
 such dualities, it could not be expected that his practice 
 would 'be otherwise than lucrative. As an additional mark 
 of the magnetism of his address and of his intellectual 
 ability, he has been frequently employed as speaker in 
 Presidential campaigns, when the most eloquent, logical ami 
 influential speakers are ivquired to advance the interests of 
 their party. He has always been an uiiswerin;: KVpublicaii. 
 and whilst persistently refusing to be placed on the role of 
 honors and emoluments of thai party, preferring to continue 
 t the practice of law. he nrvni heh-s w.rk> faithfully and 
 rM'ertively for it> interests during all political campai 
 Mr. Felker came to Colorado in ISS'J, and did some mining 
 
86 BIOGBAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOKADO. 
 
 for the three years following. At the present time he is Rail- 
 road Commissioner for the State a position which his know- 
 ledge and legal training eminently fits him for, and as he is 
 the personification of integrity, those who have business witk 
 him realize that he is strictly honest and straightforward in 
 all his transactions. 
 
 Charles Spalding Thomas, 
 
 Mr. Thomas, of the legal firm of Patterson & Thomas, was 
 born in Darien, Georgia, Dec. 6, 1849, and received his educa- 
 tion in that State, remaining there until the close of the civil 
 war. Afterwards he resided for a time in both Connecticut 
 and Michigan. Coming to Colorado in 1871, he pursued the 
 practice of his profession in Denver until 1879, when he re- 
 moved to Leadville, remaining there for the next five years. 
 Returning to Denver again, he and Mr. Patterson severed 
 their connection with their other partners and began 
 business on the basis of their old partnership, as conduct- 
 ed in 1873. Mr. Thomas served as City Attorney in Denver 
 from 1875 till 1877. At the present time be is a member of 
 the National Democratic Committee for this State. Mr. 
 Thomas' qualifications as an attorney are well-known as 
 ranking him with the best in the State. He is quick to see 
 into the technicalities of every case. A profound thinker, 
 logical and forcible in argument, makes him one of the most 
 successful lawyers practicing at the bar. He has always 
 been a Democrat of the -firmest type, and weil capable of 
 leading in political matters; always retaining the respect 
 of his political opponents. He was married, to Miss Emma 
 Fletcher, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, December 29, 1873; four 
 children have blessed their union. 
 
 Nathan S. Hurd, 
 
 Denver, Colorado, was born at Middlesbury, Vermont, 
 November 15, 1830, and was educated at Troy Conference 
 Academy, West Poultney, Vermont. He is a Republican 
 from away back. In Denver, 1869, he was married to Maggie, 
 eldest daughter of the Pioneer Samuel T. Hawkins. They 
 have four children, two boys and two girls. His forefathers 
 were among the first settlers in Vermont. Mr. Hurd removed 
 from Vermont to Illinois in 1856. He came from Morrison, 
 Whiteside county, in 1860, and settled on Spanish Bar, Clear 
 Creek county, and was associated with the Badger State 
 
BIOOHAIMIICAL COMPKNMl \1 ..K COLORADO. 
 
 Mining iV Milling Company. He en-rt^l a twelve stamp mill 
 at the month of Trail Run, which was one of tin* lirst mills 
 
 operated in Clear Greek county. an<l he mined the Kelley, 
 
 Donaldson and Coyote mines. \.-\t lie moved the mill to 
 Mosquito, Park county, in lM>l. It was the tiist mill in that 
 irulrh. lie assi>ted and laid out the District of Mosquito, 
 bnilt the wa.u'on road from where London .Junction now i* 
 to the mines, and in connection with Dr. Pollok and .liiu Cot 
 ton located Pollok District, at the head of Blue River, and 
 prospected their for one season Next he was engrossing 
 clerk of the House of Representatives in IS(>r>, and then left 
 Park county in isw> and prospected from the Chug- Water, 
 above Cheyenne, as far north as the present National Park. 
 The same party also prospected in the Black Hills two years 
 before General Ouster made his report to the Government. 
 They saw no indications that white men had been there 
 b.-fdiv. and found rich diggings; but could not work them on 
 account of the Indians. They remained in Wyoming and 
 Montana two years and was most of that time in the 
 hostile Sioux nation, which at that time was making the 
 warpath red. Mr. Hurd was severely wounded by an arrow 
 in a light at the Badlands, Wyoming. He returned to Colo- 
 rado in 1868 and went to Georgetown in 1869, and was 
 one of the first to discover and successfully work the rich 
 float ore on Leavenworth mountain. Among others, he 
 opened up the Dives-Pelican mine and, owing to the fierce 
 litigation and the unsettled condition of mining laws at that 
 time, had to work the mine with a standing army. There 
 were several men wounded and Mr. Synder killed. Mr. Hurd 
 remained in (ieorgetown until 1878, and then came to Denver 
 and stayed two years. Afterwards he was in Leadville two 
 years, and from there went to Bonanza, Saguache county. 
 with < ol. \\ . P. Linn and opened the Rawley mine, and after 
 expending $30,000 on the mine, the death of Mr. Linn made 
 it necessary to close the same. Mr. Hurd returned to Park 
 county in 1885 in charge of the Great West mine, and is now 
 mining in Lake. Park and Clear Creek counties Mi Hurd 
 was appointed to the position which he now occupies a- i 
 uty Commissioner of Insurance, on the 1 ith of January. ' 
 This appointment by lion. D. P. Kingsley is complimentary to 
 the tatter's judgment as well as to the people of the star*-. 
 
 J. E. Martinez. 
 
 Mr. J. K. Martine/, from Oicharas. Colorado, wa> born in 
 San Luis, this State, March .\ 1859, and was educated in a 
 
88 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 private school in the Mexican tongue, and obtained a good 
 knowledge of the English language by his own study. On 
 the 5th of February, 1876, he was married to Maria Celestina 
 Abeyta; two children were born to them, and it is a singular 
 coincidence that both died when three months and eighteen 
 days old. The parents of Mr. Martinez are both living at San 
 Luis. Mr. Martinez is a Republican; and being a supporter 
 of that ticket, he was chosen as Deputy Sheriff for four years. 
 He is a devout Catholic. In worldly "matters he is pretty 
 well'lixed, being a stock raiser and having interests in mines. 
 He has three 160-acre ranches in the above-named county, 
 from all of which he is realizing a handsome income. 
 
 James W. Bucklin 
 
 Was born on a farm in Kansas county, Illinois, November 
 13, 1856, and was educated in the common schools at Wheat- 
 on, Illinois, finishing his professional studies at Ann Arbor, 
 Michigan. Mr. Bucklin was married to Miss Margie 
 Champion, at Denver, Colorado, April 2. 1884. Mr. Bucklin's 
 married life was a sad one; on the 25th of March, 1885, his 
 wife died, immediately after giving birth to 'twins, both of 
 whom followed their mother in the month of June, leaving 
 Mr. Bucklin a grief -stricken man. His wife's funeral was 
 attended by the Colorado Legislature, of which Mr. Bucklin 
 was at the time of her death a member. Mr. Bucklin is ^ of 
 New England parentage, where for generations his family 
 have lived. He first came to Colorado in 1874 but soon re- 
 turned East. He again made his way to Denver in 1877, 
 where he established himself in the practice of the law, re- 
 maining until the following year when he penetrated to the 
 new Gunnison county and put out his shingle. Remaining 
 here until the spring of 1882 he pushed in further West to 
 the growing town of Grand Junction, where he has since 
 resided, enjoying a large and lucrative practice in his pro- 
 fession, being associated therein with L. A. Staley, and Ben 
 Safely. Mr. Bucklin was a Representative in the Fifth Gen- 
 eral Assembly of Colorado where he numbered as his consti- 
 tuency the counties of Pitkin, Gunnison, Montrose, Delta 
 arid Mesa. While a member he secured an appropriation 
 for Construction of the State Bridge at Grand Junction, 
 spanning the Grand River. Mr. Bucklin was one of the 
 original members of the Town Company which platted, 
 laid out and organized the Town of Grand Junction in 1881 
 and 1882. Was also actively interested in the creation of 
 Mesa county r and in its early efforts to secure public schools 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL < < >M I'KN nil \l OK COLORADO, 
 
 and churches. He wa-> al><> largely instrumental in securing 
 tlif lM-ation of the National Indian School at that point. In 
 tin* Legislature he was chairman of Committee of u Finan06, 
 \Vays and Means." and in that capacity made himself a 
 power i the House. Mr. Bncklin's reputation at home and 
 ad is an enviable one. 
 
 Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell. 
 
 The chaplain of the House. Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell, was born 
 at Lebanon, St. Glair county, Illinois, March 12, 1848. He 
 \\as educated at Asbury University, Greencastle, Putnam 
 voniity. Indiana. He took a regular classical course for 
 11 years, and worked his way through college. His father 
 wa> a Democrat, but early in life Mr. Uzzell became attached 
 to Republican principles, and has remained steadfast in them 
 ever since. He was married to Henrietta Vincent, of Lead- 
 ville. December, ls?i>. and they have four children. Mr. 
 Uzzell is one ot the most popular preachers in the Methodist 
 church. He was transferred from the Southeast, Indiana, 
 conference to the Colorado conference in August, 1877, and 
 was stationed at Fairplay. He was the lirst preacher in Lead- 
 ville. and remained there from 1878 until 1881. Reorganized 
 and built the Methodist church there. He was one year in 
 Pueblo, one year in North Denver, and two years in George- 
 town. For the last two years he has been pastor of the Peo- 
 ple's Tabernacle, Denver, and the zealous work he has done 
 and is still doing to redeem the fallen, is well known. He is 
 an earnest worker in the cause to which his heart is solely 
 and many there are who bless him for his timely 
 . advice and substantial assistance. 
 
 William R. Bartlett, 
 
 At tiie present time a resident of Breokenridge, Colorado, 
 
 norn March *j<).. IS-}:*, in Athens county, Ohio. Mr. Hart 
 
 let! was Successively a student at Alltisch College, Yellow 
 Spring. Ohio; \Vittenburu' College. Springfield, Ohio, and of 
 the Law Department, of Colombia College, Washington, I). 
 In politics Mr. Martlet! is a staunch Republican and is 
 always an active participant in all compaiirns. lleprac; 
 law in the city ot Cincinnati. Ohio, on in Kansas City. 
 
 tWO yean; and in Colorado thirteen Kniiirratin 
 
 Colorado in IN?1 he has been an interested participant in 
 Interest for the advancement of the Territory and State 
 
90 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 since that time. Mr. Bartlett was a private soldier in the 
 war of the rebellion for three years and three months, having 
 enlisted in she 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was for six years 
 an employee in the U. S. Treasury Department at Washing- 
 ton, and member of the General Assembly of Colorado from 
 Summit county, in the years 1879 and 1880. 
 
 Hon. Charles P. Evans, 
 
 Republican Representative from Jefferson county, is a lum- 
 ber dealer at Evergreen. Mr. Evans is thirty-two years of 
 age, and was born in Mehoopany, Wyoming county, Penn- 
 sylvania. The early years of his life were spent upon a 
 farm. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school, and 
 by careful management and hard work acquired a good edu- 
 cation and a fair living at the same time. Finally he became 
 sufficiently self-taught to enter the Keystone Academy, and 
 there graduated. In April of 1878 he came to Colorado 
 and located in Jefferson county, and for three years did cler- 
 ical work. The opportunity of entering business presenting 
 itself, he engaged in lumbering, and the result of five years 
 in this branch of trade is manifest in the thriving business 
 he has built up for himself at Evergreen. Mr. Evans was a 
 member of the Legislature of 1885, and both that and the last 
 term he has served with marked credit to himself and to his 
 constituents. 
 
 Edward J. Brooks, 
 
 Private Secretary to Lieutenant- Governor Meldrum and Act- 
 ing Reading Secretary of the Senate, was born in Detroit, 
 Michigan, October 13, 1830, and was educated in private 
 schools, finishing at the Detroit Academy. He cast his first 
 vote with the old Whig party, but at the beginning o"' the 
 war fell into line with the "Young Giant" and has ever since 
 been a staunch Republican. Col. Brooks was married to 
 Miss Belle Deane at Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 22, 1857; 
 they have seven children, three sons and four daughters. 
 The Colonel indicated in furnishing the matter for the sketch 
 that he was descended from a race of strong, well-made men, 
 who did not lack in intellectual powers ; he is himself a 
 fine specimen of strong manhood, tall, straight as an arrow 
 and with quick, comprehensive powers of mind and speech. 
 The Colonel came to Denver in September, 1878, and in the 
 spring of 1883 was elected as an Alderman from the Eighth 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMIM NDII \1 >F COLORADO. -M 
 
 ward; succeeding himself to? three consecutive terms. He 
 
 \\.-i- President of the Hoard and Acting Mayor of tin- oil 
 portion of tli. time. Away bark in 1SI1 Colonel Hrooks was 
 a Paice in tin* I'. S. Senate, in which position he remained for 
 two years. At tin- breaking out of the war with Mexico in 
 ! Colonel i.rooks enlisted in the KirM N.-w York Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, and served until tlie close, and at the break- 
 ing out of the rebellion went into the field and active service 
 as Colonel of the Fourth Arkansas U. S. Infantry, in which 
 command he remained during the entire war. Colonel Brooks 
 is one of the few remaining veterans of the Mexican war, who 
 still retain their prestine vigor, activity of mind and 
 body. \Ve regret that space does not allow us to give a de- 
 tailed history of his life, because it would be exceedingly in- 
 teresting and entertaining. But honor to whom honor is due. 
 Colonel Brooks as a gentleman and soldier is deserving of 
 and has the highest respect of all classes of men. 
 
 Charles T, Linton. 
 
 Mr. Charles T. Linton, of Denver, is a native of Northamp- 
 ton, England. He served as Sergeant-at-Arms for the House 
 in the Sixth General Assembly, and was distinguished for 
 his uniform courtesy to all the members and also to visitors. 
 Mr. Linton is a pioneer of this State, coming here in 1869, 
 settling down to his trade, shoemaking, making many friends 
 and gaining and aspiring to other positions. He was ap- 
 pointed in the mail service in 1878 as local mail agent. In 
 1 he was appointed Under-Sheriff under Sheriff Spangler, 
 of Arapahoe county, and at the same time was appointed as 
 detective under Pinkerton. During the time he served as 
 Under- Sheriff, he made many important arrests and displayed 
 the much-required qualities of wisdom, caution and courage. 
 One notable event was that of arresting a party and recover- 
 ing $15,000 the particulars of which received wide-spread 
 publicity at the time. After his connection with the sheriff 
 he ran the Brunswick Hotel for a long time. Politically he 
 has always been a Republican. Mr. Linron's father was mem- 
 ber of tlit* City Council for four years, and for two yean was 
 coroner. Mr. Linton was married to Miss Annie K.'Tibi* 
 of Denver, in 187:$: they have two boys. Mr. Linton is a 
 youim and vigorous man and is destined to !> of valuable 
 LOG to ih- community in whatever capacity he may be 
 called upon to act. His promptness in an emergency ' and 
 abilty to make himself master of the situation are proverbial. 
 
92 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Milton R. Moore, 
 
 Mr. Milton R. Moore, the present Clerk of the House, was born 
 in Madison county, Indiana, September 27, 1846, and attended 
 the common schools of Indiana and Kansas, completing his educa- 
 tion at the Lincoln College, Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Moore was mar- 
 ried to Miss Annie J. Perkins, at Tecumseh, Kansas, near Topeka; 
 he is the happy father of five children. Though born and raised 
 in North Carolina, from boyhood his father was an Abolitionist, 
 and for thirty years before the breaking out of the war he was a 
 station agent on the underground railroad. He was a soldier in 
 the Union army and died in the service of his country. Mr. Moore 
 was one of the early settlers of the San Juan country, and spent 
 five years in the newspaper business at different points in that sec- 
 tion of the State. For the last seven years he has been a resident 
 of Salida, where he was engaged in the publishing business until 
 three years ago. He has held the position of clerkship several 
 times in Kansas, and held the same position during the First, Sec- 
 ond, Third and Sixth General Assemblies. He is an accomplished 
 fentleman, and being naturally obliging is sure to not only make, 
 ut retain friends. In politics he is Republican. At the age of 
 sixteen he enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, and in October, 
 1864, was severely wounded in an engagement sixty miles south of 
 Little Rock, Arkansas, receiving a minnie ball through the right 
 lung, causing paralysis of the right arm. 
 
 James Fitzgerald. 
 
 In interviewing prominent men we occasionally run across the wild 
 Irish lad who furnishes a pleasant theme for song and story. In 
 the above-named gentleman we have just such a character. Mr. 
 Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1844. His ancestry belonged to 
 the family of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who died in prison because of 
 his Republican sentiments. Young James, like other wild boys, 
 unfortunately imbued with romantic and will-o'-the-wisp ideas, ran 
 away from home when but twelve years of age, and since that time 
 has supported and educated himself. When a boy he served his 
 time as a stone-cutter for the Brighton Stone Company, on the 
 Hudson river, Ulster county, New York. After finishing his trade 
 he went to New York city in 1875. and from there to Philadel- 
 phia, where he remained until 1878 as foreman of a large stone- 
 yard for Morriss Bros. In 1868 he was a member of the New 
 York Home Guards. Mr. Fitzgerald came to Colorado in 1878, 
 and located first in Rosita. Since then he has been mining in 
 
BIOUKAI'HH AL COMI'KNDII'M OF COLORADO. 93 
 
 rarions parts of the State, silver clitT i- bis present home. In 
 
 1 hr married Mary K.-r^ui. in Dlster OOIUltj, New York. AjB 
 y<t lie ha- ii"t commenced to en II merat r his proe-vn y : l,iit a- 
 that whiUt there i- life there i- hope. In the Senate 'f tlii.- 
 he i- acting a- 3ergeant-at-Arm8, ami manage- tin- many duties 
 with skill. 
 
 Stanley Stokes, 
 
 Mr. Stanley Stoke-, who >cciipie- the important po-ition of As- 
 -i-tant Clerk of the llmisr. was horn in Montexunia. New V..rk, 
 and recei\eda puhlic school education at Klkhom, Wiscmisiu. He 
 i- a Ke[>ullican in politic.-. He i> .-till a sinn-h- man, hut as he is 
 in n<> way singular or odd in his habits, it is safe to say that lie 
 \yill not loiia remain in that lonely and desolate state, as he is 
 gifted not Only With good looks, hut a happy disposition. He 
 came to Colorado in 1>7H. and >eryed fifteen months as Agency 
 Clerk for the I'ncompaidire I'tes, on their present reservation in 
 I'tali. He has al>o had sonn- newspaper experience, having been 
 the mininir reporter for the Rocky Mountain News three seasons. 
 He held the position of Assistant Clerk of the House for 
 three consecutive term >. Mr. Stores resides at Louisville, Colo- 
 rado, and is highly esteemed by the people of that locality. 
 
 Clifford 0. Parks. 
 
 Mr. Clifford C. Parks was born April 18, 1860, at Neponset, 
 
 P> urea 11 county. Illinois, and was educated at the common schools 
 of that State. Though boasting Republican ideas he is a single 
 man. Mr. Parks sprung from an Abolition family, who were com- 
 pelled to leave Virginia in iSol on account of entertaining those 
 sentiment-. In 1*7'.' Mr. Parks caine to Colorado, local in e.- in 
 Leadville. The following year he pu>hed on to (iunnison, where 
 he ha-s >ince n-si<led. He 'ha> taken an active part in politics since 
 he ha> be-n of age, attending every county convention. In 1884 
 and in ISSH he was elected delegate to the Republican State con- 
 vention-, and wa> elected Assistant Secretary of the Senate during 
 the .-(--ions of the (ieneral Assembly in L*V r ) and 1^-S7 the last 
 time beiiio- electe<l without opposition. 
 
 Charles D. Bradley, 
 
 <M' Canon City, Colorado. wa> born in Albany county. New York, 
 l-'ebruarv 1 1 . 'l W.I, and was edueate<l in the county and city schools 
 of the Bame OOUnty and State. His father \va> a 'Democrat, but he 
 
94 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 is a Republican. Mr. Bradley comes from the oldest families in 
 America, both from his paternal and maternal side. In 1872 he 
 was married to Miss Mary H. Rush, of St. Louis, Missouri; they 
 have one child. Mr. Bradley came to Colorado in 1867. In 1875 
 he was appointed United States Attorney for Colorado by Presi- 
 dent Grant, which office he held until the State was admitted into 
 the Union. In March, 1881, he was appointed Judge of the Sixth 
 Judicial District of this State. In November of the same year he 
 was re-elected to the same office, and in November, 1884, he was 
 elected member of the General Assembly for the county of Fre- 
 mont. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of law 
 at Canon City, where he is regarded with the greatest esteem, both 
 for his undisputed ability and his excellent social qualities. 
 
 Stanley Wood. 
 
 The political and business history of Colorado heretofore have 
 monoplized the best efforts of our popular local writers. The lit- 
 erary, art and social history of the State has almost been ignored, 
 yet in the latter elements a great factor is combined that has quietly 
 but steadily worked in harmony in opening to 'the world a positive 
 and tangible knowledge of the beauty of our scenery, the boundless 
 resources we possess and the salubrity of our climate. These com- 
 binations have drawn to us thousands of useful citizens who have 
 little care or ambition to benefit themselves politically. In the 
 world of letters and art, Colorado has furnished themes that have 
 developed the genius of the greatest minds extant. It remains 
 now for some brilliant writer to scan over the pages written by 
 scientists, poets, humorists and travelers, and cull from them the 
 choicest gems. In having this done we can present to the world a 
 work that for brain and brilliancy cannot be equalled. Here we 
 have the resources and beauties that prove a stimulus to gifted 
 minds, and it behooves to preserve the results of their observations, 
 studies and inspired poesy and prose. Foremost amongst our lit- 
 erary lights, who is destined to figure in the literary history of our 
 State, is Stanley Wood, who was born in Perue, Huron county, 
 Ohio, in 1850. He was educated in Oberlin College, and gradu- 
 ated in a classical course in 1875. Mr. Wood was married to Miss 
 Nora Fowler, October 23, 1883, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio; one 
 daughter has been born to them. Mr. Wood's father, E. R. Wood, 
 was a prominent clergyman in Ohio, and his mother, Mrs. N. L. 
 Wood, was a lady of rare literary ability, being a well-known writer 
 of pleasing and popular prose an d verse. It will be seen from this 
 that Mr. Wood comes honestly by his rare literary attainments. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COM I'KNDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Ill tin- fall of l^o. BOOB alter gradual in_er, he was employed onjhe 
 city department of the New York Tri hunt-, which portion he re 
 
 mained in one year, leaving that to accept a position on the city 
 
 department of tin- New York World. \Vliil>t iheiv. in conjunc 
 tion with Mr. (i. T. Lanae-'an, they wrote the catchine. \, 
 Tin- World Hallads." which became so popular at that time. He 
 
 ilso cinplovc<l for special descriptive work on The World until 
 
 I, when he came to Colorado a> a correspondent for the same 
 influential journal. The BCdnic grandeur of the State and the cli 
 mate just suited Mr. \V ..... 1, and he concluded to remain here per 
 manently, and as- timed the city editorship of the ( 'ol<>rad<> Spring 
 
 Ue. Resio-nino- that position in tin* fall of 1 sM , he next 
 brought out the opera of llrittli 1 Silver," a brilliant conception of 
 hi- own. e-peciallv designed for Colorado, the niu^ic of which 
 
 composed by Mr. \V. F. Hunt, and wliich was success- 
 fully produced at the Tabor Opera House in Denver, .January 23, 
 1^'J. (hi the \>\ of May, the s;mic year, he took charge of the 
 literary bureau of the Denver vV Rio (irande railroad, in which po- 
 sition he lias specially distinguished himself as a writer and brought 
 into prominence the mineral wealth, climate and bounteoasnefi 
 our roources in terse and convincing language. Uesides writino- 
 up mattei-s of >pecial interest for the road with which he is still 
 employed, he has contributed both prose and ver>e to the Century. 
 Harper'.- Mao-a/ine, St. Nicholas, Wide Awake and other standard 
 publication-. M r. Wood is also the author of the libretto ,,f -IVis- 
 cilla." an opera in three acts, which was produced at the Tabor Op- 
 
 era House. Aueru.-t :>1. l^ s ">. and proved a popular 8UCC688. The 
 mu>ic of "I*ricilla" wa> coinpo>el by Carl Major. We 
 the disposition to dwell at length on the benefit which Mr. 
 W..od'.- Writings have been to our State, but the limited time for 
 the production of this work precludes us from >o doine--. When 
 the time conies for the creation of such a book as v/e have named 
 
 that of collating :l history of ( 'olorado's literary tri'iiius and art 
 the name ,,f Stanley Wood will shine as resplendent in its pa- 
 M "lirittle Silver." 
 
 Henry Himber. 
 
 Mr. Henry Ilimher, the robust and aOOOminodatlDg clerk in 
 
 the ll.nise. was born in Ilildesheim, (ierniany. .June 1. IMo, and 
 
 veil his edu-ation in the Ilildesheim J 1 iedi School, and WHS 
 
 there titled for the acceptance !' any and all clerical positions that 
 
 it ha- been ' for him to accept in after life. Politically 
 
 with the Uepublican iarty. He wa- man'ied t i 
 
 \"irL r inia, in IM '."). to Mi l.u-\ ( -. A. Wintield. of 
 
96 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Petersburg, and is the proud and noble father of eleven children. 
 During the civil war he enlisted in the Fifth IT. S. Cavalry and 
 served with honor and distinction. He was wounded at Win- 
 chester, September 19, 1864. He came to Denver, Colorado, in 
 1880, and engaged in drain and sewer laying and general contract- 
 ing. He is a large, honest-looking gentleman, and it can truth- 
 fully be said that he does not deceive his looks. He is a good 
 husband and takes special good care of his children, and there- 
 fore cannot be otherwise than a trustworthy and honorable citizen. 
 
 Oelestino Garcia. 
 
 . This gentleman was born December 8, 1861, in Conejos, this 
 State, and he was educated in the public schools of Pueblo. He 
 was married in Conejos, August 21, 1884. Mr. Garcia is a Demo- 
 crat. During the present term ne acted as one of the interpreters 
 for the Mexican members of the House. He also occupied the 
 same position in the Senate during the legislative session of 1885. 
 He is an intelligent and obliging young gentleman and we predict 
 for him a bright career. 
 
 Charles M. Collins, 
 
 Who served as one of the messengers of the House, belongs to 
 Denver. He was born December 27, 1847, in Stowe, Middlesex 
 county, Massachusetts, and was educated in the common and high 
 schools of that State. His father was Captain of Company F, 
 40th Regiment, M. Y. M., during the civil war, and lost his life 
 fighting to preserve the Union. Mr. Collins lived eleven years in 
 Bourbon county, Kansas. His occupation in this State has been 
 in car-repairing and bridge building. Politically he is Republican. 
 He has been an obliging messenger and has given good satisfac- 
 tion in that capacity. 
 
 John Peter Deus, 
 
 Of Malachite, Colorado, was born at San Luis, March 20, 1860, 
 and was educated in the public schools of this State. During 
 September, 1882, he was married to Miss Chonita Cisneros, in 
 Walsenburg; three children have been born to them. Mr. Deus 
 is the only son of Captain C. Deus, well and favorably known. 
 In politics he is a Republican, and on that ticket was elected 
 Justice of the Peace. He has served as Deputy County Assessor, 
 
KNMiKAIMIIC AI. O >M I'KMUr M OF '< ' I-< ' U ADO. 
 
 Deputy Sheriff and Deputy County Clerk, and a candi- 
 
 date i 1 ,', r ' . but was defeated by l' 1 In 1 S M he ws 
 
 interpreter in tlit- Senate, and at tin- piv.-ent - la interpivter 
 
 Senator J. 1>- Monte/. Mr. DeU8, IS a man <>i' al.ih'ty. having 
 a I'-.M.d ediiration. He taught >rho<>l for seven term.-. 
 
 Thomas M. Patterson. 
 
 All men an- rivaled free and (jual," read.- very nice and 
 plea.-ant. and mav In- true a> far a- the "rival iuii" i- concerned. 
 Imt there the equality end-. All \vlm c..nie into thi> world de- 
 velopr different traits a> they mature, and whilst many who are 
 horn with a >ilver S|MMHI" in their mouths pass thmno-h life the 
 veriest n>neiititie>. others a^ain who relish wholesome norrido-e 
 from their infancy, artjuire a nourishment ami backbone that later 
 on -deads tliem on to fame and t fortune." It is <.f such a one 
 a> the latter we n.w have in e,.n>ideral ion. I I<M. Tlicma> M. 
 Patter-on was bom in County Carlow, Ireland, November I. 1M<. 
 and came witli his parent- to N'-vv York City in lN-i'.. There he, 
 attende*! public >chool until he was fourteen yrars of ao-,-. when he 
 >ecured a po-ition as cK'rk in a business hou>e, and I'emained there 
 until his father removed to ( 'rawfordsville, Indiana. In Craw- 
 
 fonl.-ville he entered a printing ottice. serving two years at the 
 
 Art Preservative." (uittiiitr that work he tried his hand at the 
 
 \r\ bu>ine in his fatherV shp. and remained at that until 
 tlu- war broke out. when he enli>ted in the Kleventh Indiana In- 
 fantry. beino- appointed Sreoiid Sergeant. Returning; ao;ain to liis 
 father'- >hop. he continued in that jewelry e.-tabli>lnneiit until 
 
 .when lie resumed studies at A-hiirv ( ' ni versity. ( nvenra>tle. 
 and then at \Vabash College. Crawfordsville, preparator\ - t<> >tu<ly- 
 ino- law. He -tudieil law under M. \). White ami in l>)7hewas 
 admitted to practice in the ( 'ircnit and Supreme ( 'mirts of Indiana. 
 In 1^\! he came to I)enver and in 1^71 he was elected City At- 
 torney. In the .-prino- ,.f that >ame year he was nominated to 
 
 the Territory of ( 'olorado in Congress, ivreivinir 
 J.I MM l ma jority. and to hi> ofl'ort< i.- largely dm- theadm: 
 of ( 'olorado a- a Stale by the Forty-third Congress. He was the 
 
 tir>t member on the National Democratic Committee from this 
 In lN7> he wa- nnanimonsly renominated f or < 
 
 but on account of some defVrt in the dec! ,! liotitt 
 
 decided ae.-ain>t Mr. Patterson and in I'avnr of Mr. P.elfonl. Mr. 
 
 .pjieared before the Hoii>e of Kepr-nit ,, 
 
 <.f tlr ' tttesl th" -eat. and after a h 
 
 conte-t eraine*! hi.- point and -med that term in ( with 
 
98 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 marked credit, having secured the passage of several important 
 bills for the benefit of this State. In 1878 he was renominated 
 for Congress, but this time suffered defeat in company with the 
 rest of those on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Patterson has always 
 been a Democrat and has been chief amongst the leaders of that 
 party in this State, and no convention is complete without "Tom 
 Patterson" being present to guide and direct its deliberations. As 
 u speaker Mr. Patterson has a ready command of language and 
 fine rhetorical ability, combined with an earnestness and force that 
 rarely fails to make a lasting impression on those who listen to 
 him, either at the bar or on the stump. At every public gather- 
 ing, 'for charitable and other useful objects, Mr. Patterson's ser- 
 vices are always enlisted and freely given. Mr. Patterson is a 
 man of medium height, compact frame and pleasing in his address. 
 
 Francis W. Hammitt, 
 
 Of Platteville, Colorado, was born April 18, 1833, in Stark connty, 
 Ohio and received a public school education. Later on he was 
 .sent to the Troy Academy, Troy, Iowa. From 1856 to 1876 he 
 was a Republican; since then he has been a Prohibitionist and a 
 Oreenbacker. On the 27th of March, 1860, he was married in 
 Davis county, Iowa, to Miss Sarah A. Duckworth. His first wife 
 died September 2, 1878, at Platteville, this State. Mr. Hammitt 
 was married the second time to Mrs. Louisa Shea, June 15, 1 
 in Platteville; he is the father of nine children. In April, 1860, 
 Mr. Hammitt started for Pike's Peak, but settled on his present 
 farm near Platteville in June of the same year, and was elected 
 President of the Platte River Claim Club, the only form of gov- 
 ernment then existing in the Platte Valley, below Denver. After 
 the Territorial organization in 1861, he was elected Probate Judge 
 of Weld county. In 1875 was elected one of the County Com- 
 missioners. He has been engaged in farming, stock-raising and 
 dairying in Weld county for over twenty-six years, and is con- 
 sidered one of the most reliable citizens in that section. In the 
 Sixth General Assembly, of which he is a member, his words are 
 listened to with great respect, and his constituents have the satis- 
 faction of knowing that he has labored honestly, earnestly and 
 with good effect in their interests. 
 
 George N. Scamehorn, 
 
 An enterprising young business man of this city, who is destined 
 .to become connected with its growth and prosperity in a com- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL (OMI'KMHIM OF COLORADO. '''' 
 
 la] WUy, roe l".ni Octohrr g, l^Y.i. at Sinit htield. ( )hi<>. 
 Through the winter months In- recei\ ed hi> fihicatii.il in a common 
 count x>l, Heine. amhitioti.- and oh-rrvant In- lias added 
 
 eonsidrrahle hy -tudyand experience -ince lra\ ino; x-lmnl. Mr. 
 Scamehorn i> a Democrat. his fat her \\ a Democrat. Hi- 
 
 o-randfather wa- "lie of tin- earlie-t -ettler- in Ohio and was killed 
 hv Indian- near Min^u. in tin- year lM)*2. Mr. Scainclmrn came 
 
 Inradn in the year of L8ol, having inve-ted >.ni<- in uiim--. 
 IMraM-.l with tin- climate, he ivsnlvcd t. make Denxcr his Imme. 
 >d hn>ine>> in real e-tate and l.ans. at N.I. 11 li! 
 Larimer 91 d th-e \vlio have .cca>im tn entru>t hn>iin- 
 
 llis Care find him thoroughly i-eliahle. He i> a >tinlin> reader. 
 and has aceuinnlated a valuable li'hrary. II- is a >in<Je man. hut 
 heino- sm-iahh- and atl'ahle, as well as handsome, we predict that he 
 will not lontr contiinio to livt- aloiu'. 
 
 Joseph E. Bates. 
 
 Prominent anmno- the men wlio have made I )en\'ei- t he ren- 
 de/vou< for enterprise, talent and industry may !'< menti<.ned tin- 
 aenth-man whse name is the hrief title of this hino-papliy. Hon. 
 lates. Mavor l',ate> \\a> hnni in ( 'hatamjua county, 
 New York, in May, 1^)7. and hr received hi> education in Michi- 
 gan >chn.ls. CominLT to ( 'oloi'ado in June, lM>0. his tir>t c 
 cnpation was that of ininiiitr and milling at Ulack Sawk, where 
 he remained until lM')k Durino; that year he removed to Denver, 
 and has resided here ever >ince. The first office he held in l)en 
 ver was that of Aldi-rman in 1SKS. In Is7'2 lie wa> electe(l Mayor 
 of the citv. There wa> no >alary attached to the position at that 
 time, hut when he retired the City Council, in consideration of the 
 time ami valuahle >ervices he had devoted to the city, voted him 
 SI, (Mil), which he voluntarily donated to the Fireman's Relief 
 Fund. From l^V. to l v ~.''> be Served as 8 memher of the hie/her 
 hranch of the Territorial Legislature. In 1 s ^'2 he wa> elected 
 county commissioner, and was chosen chairman <f the hoard. 
 in in Isv") he was electe.l Mayor hy the Kepuhlican party, of 
 wliich he ha- heen a prominent memher. I)urinr his pre>ent in- 
 (Millihenry a- Mayor the entii'e tlnatino; deht of the Mty. annnintiiitr 
 to .,ver s",i i.iUKI, upon which ten percent, inteiv-t WB heing ex- 
 penled annually, has heen wholly paid nil'; the etliciency nf the 
 tire and police departments have hern largely iiKM'ea-ed. e>prcially 
 that of the latter hy the addition of the police patrol >ysteni. 
 Many other impmv-nn'nt> f'T the >afety and _j-, ,d order of the 
 city ha- heen carried into ell'ect. Mayor Batefl make- a study of 
 
100 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 every point that can possibly be of public benefit, and thus fully 
 realizes and anticipates every requirement. The honors belonging 
 to the position are deservedly his; he is not a figure-head, but an 
 active man to hold the reins of city government. In 1881 he was 
 elected first Yice-President of the Pioneer Association, and twice 
 since has been elected President of that body, and the third time 
 declined the honor of a re-election. During his long official career 
 in Denver he has held the confidence of the people by his strict 
 integrity, uniform courtesy and honest dealing with all whom he 
 has been brought in contact with, regardless of political affilia- 
 tion. 
 
 Wolfe Londoner. 
 
 The subject of the sketch is perhaps the most widely known 
 citizen of Denver, coming as he did to the State at an early day he 
 has had to do with every great advance which has been made since 
 that time. Has taken an active part in the organization and gov- 
 ernment of a number of new counties; was Treasurer Of Fremont 
 county; Commissioner of Lake county: Clerk and Kecorder of 
 Lake county at a latter date and also held the office of Clerk of the 
 District Court of the Territory. His wide experience and travel 
 in the West, particularly on the coast, in the mines of California, 
 made him just the sort of a settler that would win in Colorado. 
 After four or five years wandering on the Pacific coast he returned 
 home at the earnest solicitation of his parents and became interest- 
 ed in business with his father and older brothers, but they, like 
 thousands of others were obliged to succumb to the pressure in 
 the panic of 1867-68. Wolfe, with his mother and remaining 
 members of the younger portion of the family, came to St. Louis 
 and shortly afterward h secured employment at $25 per month. 
 On this the family subsisted. In the early spring of I860 he left 
 St. Louis to come to Denver in the employ of Hanauer, Dodd & 
 Co., then engaged in freighting across the plains. Arriving in 
 Denver he took charge of his employers store in West Denver, and 
 that same summer was sent to Canon City to start a branch busi- 
 ness. Here he did a thriving business, owing- to the rush from 
 California Gulch to the San Juan country. In the spring, 1861, 
 he started in business for himself in Leadville, then known as Cali- 
 fornia Gulch, where he continued for five years doing an immense 
 business. Four years of the time he held the county offices as 
 enumerated above. In 1865 he came to Denver and started his 
 present business, building up a large and constantly increasing 
 trade until now he does more than $1,000,000 a year. Having 
 
RAPHICAL OMPBNDIUM OF < '< !.. .i:.\DO. 101 
 
 .-! a fortune In- i.- enahlcd t n-ive hi.- ovner. .11- nature full 
 
 . ami i.- almost world-widr in hi.- reputation for ho>pitality 
 
 ami deedfi "I" kindne--. lie i> >urh a riti/.rna- 1'. ha\e the 
 
 ereditof . iml there never comes to Denver an e\cur>ion 
 
 rt\ of distinguished visitors hut they an- made to feel a hearty 
 
 Ome at tin- hand- ! Wolfe Londoner. He wa.- elected a mem- 
 f the Hoard of Uenvnt- ,,f the State rnivcrsity in 
 fall'- rlectinn. 
 
 Nathaniel P. Hill. 
 
 ator N. I*. II ill \vas horn Frh. 1^. l^-'!^. iii < h-a 
 
 t\. \c\\ ^ <>rk. Senator Hill'.- fatlirr \vas a |ii'o>|ero::^ tanner of 
 that count, and >erved a> a inendter of the Ne\\ ^'r 
 
 ! hut si\ ir> old yoiino- Nathanii'l was left in charge .,f 
 
 a, and with a jiersistriit energy which ha> >ince 
 ristic of him in all puhlic matters, he Mil-mounted tlie 
 ditlicuitie> that presented them>elve> ami colitlucted the buBl 
 
 until he was twenty -one years of age. His opportunities fo;- re 
 
 fcion uji to that time were indeed limited, hut hy 
 
 :tpplieati(n at nitrht and durino- the \yintrr month- he ha<l 
 
 dvanrrd liimself t< i-ntei 1 IJmwu I'liivrrsityat Pro- 
 
 . Uhde Uland, whei-e he quickly advanced in all ,-tudie-. 
 
 hut i.ecame particularly jiroiicient in chemi>tr\. havine.- hi-ru ap- 
 
 pointed tutor in the chemical department in l^-V,. rlrctrd prfr-- 
 
 if chrmiMi-y in lsU, and occupying the chair until \^\\. In 
 
 that year he wa- >ent to ('olorado hy a company of r,o>ton and 
 
 ce capitalists in n-p.!-t on the Beaubien land n-i-ant, with 
 
 \v tp purchase, and \vhil>t hrrr investigated the mine>and he- 
 
 .-niially intei-e>t.-(l in thriu. inakinn- the >ui>ject of -melt- 
 
 ireful .-tudy. Alter visiting several >nirltinn- center- 
 
 of Kuropr in ls7 he -lu-ceed.-d in forminn- the llo-ton and ( 
 
 Smeltinn; Company, and --rected a smrltinn- furnace at l.lack 
 Hawk. 1'Yom that date until l^X when t he work> were rei< 
 . the tire,- were never out, hut enlarovim-nt- and imp- 
 
 L the business were a continual necessity. In l^V.' I*m- 
 
 Or Hill wa.- elected to repre-Mlt the State in the ("nited State- 
 ar term, and faithfully did he prrtWui that 
 
 duty, hrcniii' ally noteil |\>r hi.- chain jiion-hip of the .-ilver 
 
 ijur-tiiiii: local ami foreijj'ii correspondents alhulinn- to him a- the 
 
 iinn; hi-mrtali-t of . \inei The po-tal t i len;raph hill wa> 
 
 Hated hy him. and although defeated, it- adoption at some 
 
 future time will pro\- it> need and etliciency. Land-n-rahher.- and 
 
 monopolist- found a hitter opponent in th- 
 
102 BIOGEAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 an observant and considerate gentleman, and plainly sees the ruin 
 that is imminent to our local, State and National government by 
 allowing monopolists and land-grabbers full sway. In personal 
 appearance he is above medium height, good figure, grave but 
 kindly face, showing every evidence of earnestness, industry and 
 integrity in his expression, and a man who will stand by his friends 
 and pay little attention to his foes. He is a good writer, a ready 
 and impressive talker, and an ardent worker for the interests and 
 advancements of the Republican party. He was married in 1860 
 to Miss Alice Hale, of Providence, R. I.; they have three children. 
 
 Samuel Eccles Browne. 
 
 Amongst the long and useful lives of the old settlers in Colo- 
 rado, whose names appear in this work, foremost among them may 
 be classed the venerable but still robust and healthy gentleman 
 whose name heads this sketch. General Browne was born in 
 Franklin county, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1822, and received his 
 education at Marshall College, of Mercersburg, of the same State. 
 For three years he followed school-teaching, and then studied law 
 in Springfield, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1848. 
 Several times he was honored by being elected to the Legisla- 
 ture of Ohio, and held other important positions. During the 
 civil war he occupied many positions of trust. At one time he 
 was Quartermaster of the Army of Ohio, under General McClellan ; 
 was Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Cavalry, and at another time 
 Captain of the Seventeenth Regiment Regular Infantry. The latter 
 position he resigned to accept a position of Assistant Registrar of 
 the Treasury Department under Secretary Chase, and signed the 
 first 160,000,000 of greenback currency issued, known as the de- 
 mand notes. General Browne came to Colorado May 1, 1862, as 
 United States Attorney, when Denver was a town of but 2,500 in- 
 habitants, mostly settled on the west side, Ferry street being the 
 principal business centre. Those were wild and stirring times, on 
 account of the dangers from the Indians. In the fall of 1864, in 
 order to resist the depredations of the red devils, on the authority 
 of the President, General Browne raised a regiment of cavalry and 
 was appointed Colonel of the same January 14, 1865. That winter 
 was spent on the plains, keeping open communications with the 
 Eastern States. At the same time he held the office of Attorney 
 General by special permission of the President. On June 7, 1847, 
 he was first married to Miss Lemira M. Bell, of Circleville, Ohio, 
 and after her death he was married a second time, May 15, 1855. 
 to Miss Mary E. Skinner, of Delphos, Ohio; he has four chil- 
 
BIOGKAI'HK AL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 103 
 
 dren still living. Politically (ieneral I Jrowne \va- DH06 a ClftJ 
 \Vhio;, hut of latr years hi- atliliat ion> have hern solely with the 
 Democratic party, of which he i- ju-tlv regarded a- a linn ami 
 staunch wheel-hor-e. He i> an excellent and entertaining speaker. 
 and n<> political meeting in Denver is considered .|' any moment 
 without the tine pre-enre and pleasine; voice of the < ieneral i- 
 heard thereat. He i> -till practicing law. and hi- mind ha> lost 
 
 none of that activity and shrewdne-- which always characterized 
 
 liim as a leading h-n-al li^ht at the har of justice. 
 
 George Ady. 
 
 Mr. deoi-ov Ady was horn in Harrison county. ( )hio. in the year 
 J. Ili> rudiniental leai'ninn- was nhtainiMl in the nnmmin 
 x-hools of Iowa, and he afterward- attende<l Wot Liherty Aca 
 demy, in the >anie State. At the time of the lnvakin< out of the 
 ci\ il war In- was completing a course in the Lombard (*ni\ cr-it \ . 
 at ( laleshnro;, Illinois, hut thvl with patriotic sentiments he left 
 the university to enlist in the army, serving until after the cl-i- ..f 
 
 the war. In the winter of IM'\! h- W9A woiindel and taken 
 pri>oner at ( 'olVey\ ille. Mii->ipji. and was held hy the Con- 
 federate- until the following year, when he \\a- exchanged, and 
 returned to duty, hattline- f..r the pre>er\ ation of the Tnioii. At 
 
 the close of the war he settled in Missouri. In lsr>!) he l.e^-an 
 
 railroading, and hy strict attention to liis appointed duties hee-an 
 i'isinj_r in the erade of j)ositions until 1880, when he came to Colo- 
 rado. having received the appointment ('< ieneral Ticket Ae-vnt of 
 the Denver. South I 'ark and Pacific Railroad. Since the purchase 
 of that road hy the 1'nioii Pacific he ha- l>een (ieneral Ao'ent for 
 
 the Passenger and Ticket departments of that company for Colo- 
 rado and \.-\v Mexico, and is accorded the credit of ha\ ine.- \\-,rked 
 for the le>t intere-t.- of the road, and at the same time ha- Keen 
 courteou> and onlie/iner to all l>u.-ine-- relations with his depart- 
 ment. Mr. Ady is a pronounced le-puhlican. He was married 
 in Septemher. LB77, to Miss Jessie A. Cooper. an<l is the happx 
 and indule-ent fat her of three children. The (irand Army of the 
 liepuhlic i- an oi-o-.-ini/ation in which Mr. Ady take- -prcial prile. 
 and all who lieloiiir to that hoiiorahle l),,d\- reeo^ni/e hi- worth ly 
 ha\ in^chii>eii him a- the Department Commander for tlii.-depart 
 ment. which eml' olorado and Wyoming. In his pi>ition 
 
 with tlie Tnioii Pacific he has labored indust riou.-ly wit h excur- 
 -ionist> and correspondents to -ho\v the ailvantae/e- which thi- 
 State p.. and in that way has Contributed largely to our 
 
 benefit. 
 
104 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Agriculture in Colorado, 
 
 The remarkable advance made by Colorado within the past 
 two years in the development of agricultural resources and 
 the consequent accession of population and increased soil 
 production, has been among the most noteworthy events in 
 the progress of the State during that time. While this in- 
 dustry seems to have enjoyed a growing impulse for a much 
 longer period, it was not until the past eighteen months that 
 this progress has been so marked as to excite general notice. 
 The astonishing results which have become the fruits of all 
 practical and honest effort to redeem the arid lands of Colo- 
 rado and render them bounteous of product by irrigation, 
 have attracted the world's attention, and month after month 
 witnesses an increase in the volume of immigration and the 
 investment of capital. The extraordinary developments 
 which have been and are being made in this direction, are 
 convincing people from abroad, in common with people of 
 the State, that for bo^h residence and investment its many 
 thousand square miles, rendered valuable by artifical water 
 supply, create in the Rocky Mountain valleys and parks the 
 magnets for the husbandman and the capitalist. The Eastern 
 press has of late devoted a great deal pf attention to the sub- 
 ject of irrigation in what heretofore was designated as the 
 arid region, and the marvelous progress under this system 
 has been outlined in leading periodicals in this and other 
 countries, and caused general surprise. It was but a year or 
 os ago that Colorado imported most of the agricultural pro- 
 ducts sjie consumed from Kansas, Utah and Iowa. Now 
 the home production has largely overtaken home consump- 
 tion. Where agriculture has been considered impracticable 
 it will soon have become the second, and possibly the first 
 industry of the State. Irrigation 'is the progress of conduct- 
 ing water from natural channels by canals and ditches to 
 supply the diminished rainfall, which did not at first appeal- 
 feasible, but which has been demonstrated to be more ef- 
 ficacious than the natural and uncertain rainfall of other sec- 
 tions. Neither Colorado, however, nor any American State 
 evolved this idea; its origin leads back hundreds of years it 
 is older than history. The valleys of many of the rivers of 
 ancient history have been irrigated from the earliest times. 
 The Chinese claim that their lands were irrigated before the 
 time of Noah. In Egypt, India and Italy, evidences have 
 been found of irrigation as far back as civilization has any 
 record. In Peru, Pizzarro found the finest system of 
 economical irrigation that the West Hemisphere has yet seen. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL <'< >.M I'K.VDI i M 01 <'< >!.< >i: \ i>. - LOB 
 
 For two hundred years the Spanish settlers < >f New Mexico 
 <l the valleys of that Territory. They ha\ BUC 
 
 own fruits and grafts, and rendered that de 
 
 'ii habitable. They have also established the fact that 
 watered \}\ -artificial meaii^ h<i'ls Its Strength without 
 other methods of fertili/ing. The sediment deposited from 
 tie- mountain streams >upplies each year the element > n- 
 quired to pro<luce crops. The soil is consequently inex- 
 haustible, yielding as abundantly to-day as it did iwohun 
 
 dred years ago. The Mormons of Hah have demonstrated 
 this truth also, in their experience of thirty year- in the val 
 
 I' l hat mountain land. 
 
 Tii-- advantages of controlling the rainfall are many and 
 manifest. No mud to prevent early plowing and plantim:: 
 n o danger of drouth to curtail the harvest. In Colorado the 
 rainfall seldom exceeds fourteen inches during; the year, 
 which amount l>ein<>; insufficient to secure the growth of uTain. 
 Irrigation must be resorted to. By the construction of large 
 canals, with reservoirs and laterals, the water is easily con- 
 ducted from the rapidly running mountain streams and tor 
 rents out through the valleys and parks and over the lands. 
 The main canal is taken out high enough up the stream to 
 re the requisite fall and convey the water out along the 
 hiuh lands. From tins main channel laterals are taken out 
 Jivenient distances, while from these furrows are run to 
 divert the water in any desired direction. Thus the certainty 
 of raising a crop makes irrigation a reliable method: mois- 
 ture is applied just when and where needed, and will insur-- 
 a harvest generally tar above the average where Xature is 
 nded upon; in fact the mountain farmer can calculate al- 
 nio-r to a certainty the number of bushels per acre his harvest 
 will bring. Not only this, but it has been demonstrated that 
 the water secured from the high mountains contains a na- 
 tural fertili/.er peculiar to itself, which constantly enriches 
 ihe soil, rendering the ordinary fertili/er unneces>;, 
 
 i extent. The quality of irrain. vegetabl.-s and fruit 
 need by this system of farming is acknowledged to be 
 iior. and the average yield per acre is better than in the 
 rainy 8tat< 
 
 Previous to 1S7'. no farming was attempted in Colorado. 
 
 immediately along the rivers in the narrow valley. Feu 
 
 - were rais-'d and the aspect of the country continued a- 
 
 di-.-ary as when first tiavrsed. In that year the I'nion 
 
 < 'olony, under the patronage of Horac.- Qreeley, >-itled on 
 
 th- Cache la Poiidiv, and to day the town of (ireeley is like a 
 
 typical New Kngland village - -quaint, quiet and embou 
 
106 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 in trees. Other colonies were formed, each digging its own 
 ditches and meeting with varying success. In the last few 
 years the irrigating facilities have been supplied for the most 
 part by corporations who look for their profit to the sale of 
 water. Sometimes they own the land watered, as well; im- 
 mense canals, watering thousands of acres, have been con- 
 structed, and foreign capital thus invested has given big re- 
 turns. The aggregate length of irrigating canals in Colorado 
 is something like 1000 miles, and the land, according to theory, 
 capable of being watered by these canals is some 1,500,000 
 acres. Investigations made lately tend to prove that 40 per 
 cent, of the water taken from various rivers, returns again 
 through springs, rivulets, and seepage, and this being true, 
 increases the area covered by the same per cent. In addition 
 to streams a vast system of reservoirs is in progress. The 
 cost of water for a season is generally $1.50 to $2.00 per acre. 
 As to the crops themselves, the yields are often surprisingly 
 large. Wheat sometimes turns off fifty bushels to the acre, 
 and is ranked as the best raised in the United States. It is 
 particularly adapted to the making of fine flour. Potatoes 
 average 150 bushels. Vegetables grow to a great size, but 
 lose nothing in flavor. Grapes, strawberries, and small fruits 
 in general, flourish. Peas, apples and peaches are successful- 
 ly raised, and this is already more than an experiment. As 
 for profits, alfala is coming steadily to the front. It seems 
 to possess fattening qualties equal co corn, and two or three 
 crops are produced from the same field during one season 
 A few figures will serve to show that more money sent out of 
 Colorado could stay here if more attention was paid to farm- 
 ing and kindred industries. It is estimated that $350,000 is 
 sent to other States annually for oats, for poultry and eggs 
 $500,000. green fruit $600,000, dried $150,000, corn $350.- 
 000, vegetables $250,000, lard $550,000 and butter $1,000,000. 
 With the single exception of corn, all should be raised in 
 Colorado, and a surplus of some lines shipped out. There is 
 still good land to be taken under the United States laws in 
 the southern and western portions of the State, the cost be- 
 ing about $250 for pre-emption and necessary improvements 
 on 160 acres. Timber claims are much cheaper. Every acre 
 in San Luis Park, including the Government land, is prac- 
 tically covered by canals. And the companies guarantee as 
 cheap water for Government land as for the land owned and 
 sold by the canal companies. 
 
 Fifty years ago farming was conducted by musticlar power. 
 Had the farmers of Colorado been compelled to harvest their 
 grain with the implements of these times there would be no 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 107 
 
 question of a surplus wheat. Then we harvest, -d our -rain 
 with a hand sickle; t(,-.lay tin- farmer drives into the field, 
 
 riding in his seat, cutting and binding his grain, fifteen a- 
 a day. Then our steam threshing machine was a llai! 
 dispensed with >eparators and fanning mills by letting 
 
 the grain fall and the wind blow out the chair. Then our 
 Oliver chilled plows were made of wood, coulter and share 
 only brim;- of iron, and one handle sufficed to control it. 
 Noi- was the absence of improved implements the only hind 
 
 ranee to proisperoos husbandry . Every other branch of the 
 
 pursuit has made a kindred advance. The direction of pro- 
 - has been to Huh ten physical toil, but this has made a 
 -tantlv increasing demand on our intellectual capacity, 
 and the agriculture of a community or State has kept pace 
 with this advance. The agriculture of Colorado has shared 
 fullv in the progress of the times. Science, knowledge and 
 inventive skill have worked as great a revolution in agricul- 
 ture as it has in other pursuits, and the farmer who begins 
 his calling in this State at the present time has the advan- 
 of the experience of thought, effort, genius and invention 
 .f those who preceded him, and begins farming under a posi- 
 tive system which has been perfected and demonstrated. 
 Those who desire further information upon this subject 
 should address the Colorado Land & Loan Company at 
 tneir rooms, Nos 10 and 11, Opera House Block, Denver. 
 Colorado. 
 
 Cornelius J, Driscoll. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, though not a man of any 
 
 '.oiis. and one who has no desire to pose conspicuously be 
 fore the public, has of late been an important factor in the 
 affairs of Denver's city government suliicient to entitle him 
 to honorable mention in this book. Mr. C. .1. Driscoll was 
 born in County Cork, Ireland. November 1. 1S4-1. When 
 ipi'ite young his parents came to A merica. and he received his 
 education in the common schools of Massachusetts. On the 
 i:>th of August. ls?l. he was married to Mary A. Slirehan. of 
 Denver; two children were born to them. The children both 
 died, and on the hJth of December. 1^7.. Mrs. Driscoll wa> 
 called from this world to join her beloved offspring. Since 
 Alderman Drisco IPs election as a member of the municipal 
 rnment. he has been attentive to the duties of his nllic.-. 
 and is to b.- commended for slm-wdne^. for.-sighi, an unfal- 
 ttg will and determination to carry out any measure for 
 the city'- good, or to oppose any bad project that may be 
 
108 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 devised. Mr. Driscoll is a ready debater, ana any view he 
 takes of a public measure receives careful consideration from 
 bis brother Aldermen. The affairs of his native land is a mat- 
 ter of deep moment to him, and he takes great interest in all 
 that pertains to it. He is now serving his first term as Alder- 
 man, but so marked has his career been that we may safely 
 predict still better public positions for him in the future. 
 
 Robert Morris. 
 
 Mr. Robert Morris was born in Ireland in July, 1839, and 
 received his education in the same country. On the 2d of 
 June, 1868, he was married in the city of New York to Miss 
 Julia O'Connor ; seven children have been born to them, five 
 of whom are still living. Mr. Morris came to Denver in Octo- 
 ber, 1872. In November, 1881, he was elected Mayor of the 
 city of Denver, and served until April, 1883. From April, 
 1883, until August, 1885, he was Postmaster at Denver. In 
 each of the official positions he occupied he proved to be well 
 qualified. As Mayor, he carefully guarded the city's inter- 
 ests ; and as postmaster he gave the fullest satisfaction, and 
 his removal from that position, where a competent man is re- 
 quired, was a matter of general public regret. Mr. Morris is 
 a straightforward Republican, and takes an active part in 
 local politics. He is also President of the Irish Land League 
 and devotes much time and ability in the cause of Ireland. 
 At the present time he is interested in the land business. 
 
 Rev. Wm. J. Hewlett. 
 
 There are few Catholic dioceses where such a large number 
 of young and talented secular divines are to be found as 
 there are at present under the jurisdiction of Bishop Maehe- 
 beuf. In the array are Fathers Malone, Carrigan, Carmody, 
 O'Neill, Hickey, Phillips and Gibbons all eloquent speak- 
 ers; besides others who are equally zealous, though not gift- 
 ed with the same flow of language. But we now refer partic- 
 ularly to Rev. W. J. Hewlett, who was born in Monroe 
 county, New York, March 6, 1847, and received his rudi- 
 mentary education in the common schools of Michigan; then 
 in the Bardstown College, Kentucky; four years in Paris, 
 France, and finally one year in Wurtzburg, Bavaria. He 
 came to Colorado in 1865, still a boy in years. After being 
 ordained a priest he was first connected with St. Mary's 
 Cathedral on Stout street, Denver. In April, 1879, he was 
 sent to Central City, where he remained until August, 1886. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL ro.M I'K.MH I M <>F COLORADO. 
 
 i IP- people of that section had become endeared to him. and 
 it was with dr.']) regret they heard of his hein^- calh'd to take 
 ch:irg' of the Cathedral parish in Denver. TEe latt.-r parish 
 he remained in (marine of until March, of the present \ 
 
 :nini^ at that time to take charge <t his brother'^ chil- 
 dren, near Brighton. \Vliilst Father Howlett is not a tlow.-ry 
 orator, tit [e ood speaker; but better still, he is /eulnis 
 
 aiid sincere in his work, and as a pioneer priest of Colorado, 
 the int'inory of his good work amongst those of his faith 
 Hiititl-s liini to a lasting placr in its history. 
 
 James M. Butcher, 
 
 \Vho officiates in the capacity of "State carpenter," was born 
 inCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1838, and 
 has hern a naturalized citizen of the United States for seven 
 \ t-ars. He has been doing the State work for the last four 
 yars, and has fitted up and furnished the Legislative halls 
 for two successive sessions. In politics he is a decided Re- 
 publican, and a member of the "Union League club." His 
 business is in Denver, and is that of manufacturer of line 
 work in hard woods, and general contractor. He is well es- 
 tablished in the city at No. 1626 Champa street, and is favor- 
 ably known, not only in matters of business, but in a so- 
 cial way as well. 
 
 Hartsville F, Jones. 
 
 Alderman Jones was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, March 
 1. 1826, but was raised in Laurel county, Kentucky, and in a 
 country x'hool received his rudimentary education. At the 
 breaking out of the Mexican war Mr. Jones volunteered in 
 Company E, Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, under Captain T. 
 T. Gerard, and Colonel Tibbetts, an ex-congressman, was in 
 command of the regiment. The regiment was appointed to 
 old /ach Taylor's command-and was sent to join his forces 
 at Monterey, Mexico. When Mr. Jones entered the servi< 
 NoluniiM'ivd tor live years "or during the war," but had to 
 Serve Only si\t-en months. During that time he was in many 
 of the skirmish.-.- which took place: and was in Taylor's line 
 at P>uena Vista and Scott's line at the City of .M.-.xico. Some 
 of the old veteran's reminiscences are indeed interesting. A.I 
 
 the close of the \b-\ican war he returned to Ivxinuton. Ken 
 tncky. and went into the hardware business. For iwenty- 
 -i'j;ht yean IM- remained with oiie house, and during- ih- 
 ten years he was a partn.-r in the linn. In December. I 
 
110 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 he came to Denver and embarked in the liquor business, in 
 which he is still engaged, and in which he always made a 
 specialty of Kentucky whiskies. Though never desiring to 
 hold any political office, in 1885 he consented to run for Al- 
 derman of the Second Ward, and in a strong Republican ward 
 defeated his competitor by 174 majority a Democratic 
 gain of 374 votes. In the council he has done good service, 
 and has had many a tilt with some members, but always re- 
 mained firm in his position when feeling that he was working 
 for the public good. Though well advanced in years, Mr. 
 Jones is hale and hearty; tall, wiry, clear-cut features and 
 candid, honest expression. The Alderman is a married man. 
 
 Frank H. Allison, 
 
 Representative in the Sixth General Assembly for Douglas 
 county, was born at Cromwell, Middlesex county, Connecti- 
 cut, November 31 , 1846, and was educated in the common 
 school of his district, afterwards receiving instructions at a 
 private boarding school. On the 1st of May, 1872, he was 
 married to Miss Isabelle M. Cornwall; they have two children. 
 Mr. Allison is a Republican in politics. In the present ses- 
 sion he has worked hard and faithfully in the interests of his 
 constituents, and will return home with a record that they 
 may well be proud of. His business is that of stock raising. 
 
 Moses Hallett. 
 
 Judge Hallett is one of the most prominent and able 
 jurists, now holding the position of District Judge of the 
 United States, for the District of Colorado, to the entire satis- 
 faction of his State and country, whose able and careful 
 decisions upon grave and important matters have become the 
 valued property of the State, and are considered as authority 
 wherever they are known. He was born July 16, 1834, in 
 JoDaviss county, Illinois. Receiving an academic education, 
 he began the study of law in the fall of 1854 in the office of 
 E. S. Williams, of Chicago, and, in the fall of 1857, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, and immediately began the practice of his 
 profession in that city. In the spring of 1860, charmed by 
 the gilded accounts of Pike's Peak, he came to Colorado, and 
 for a short time, engaged in mining. It did not take long to 
 convince him that he was better adapted to the practice of his 
 profession than to the unearthing of mineral wealth, and in ac- 
 cordance with his conviction, he located in Denver and re- 
 sumed the practice of law, continuing until April, 1886, when 
 
r,Io,K \|>HICAL OoMI'KNmfM OF COLOKADO. Ill 
 
 he acquired sufficient prominence in his profession t<> warrant 
 his appoint ni -lit as Chief J ustice of tin- 'IVrritory of Colorado. 
 He continued in this responsible portion for about ten years, 
 beim: twice iv appointed. A t the expiration of this time, tin- 
 Territory having taken her position as a State in the Ameri- 
 can I'nion. Judire llallett was called upon to accept the more 
 responsible position of District Juduv of the 1'nited States 
 for the District of Colorado, which position he has since held. 
 His Judicial record is universally respected. Besides his 
 Judicial honors he lias served two sessions in the Council of 
 the Territorial Assembly, where he rendered efficient service. 
 In short, 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 also done a great deal towards establishing just ice 
 and dignity in the Colorado courts, without which no com- 
 munity can ever prosper. 
 
 Attorney-General Alvin Marsh. 
 
 Judge Marsh was elected to the position which he now holds 
 in last fall's election. He is a descendant from good old New 
 Knuland stock, his ancestors having belonged to that hardy 
 race of men who first peopled this country and from whom he 
 inherits courage and ability. He was born and raised in 
 Vermont, and emigrated to Illinois in the year 1854. He 
 studied law in \Vaukeegan, Illinois, and was admitted to the 
 bar in ISfC). He then entered into a partnership with Benja- 
 min F. Parks, the two gentlemen soon building up a lucrative 
 practice at Aurora, Illinois. Judge Marsh emigrated to 
 Omaha, and from there to Colorado, early in 1860, in com- 
 pany with General John F. T haver, who was last fall a 
 candidate for Governor on the Republican State ticket of 
 Nebraska. J udge Marsh settled in Gilpin county where he 
 has resided until coming to Denver. He has held in 
 the past several important public offices, and has always 
 u'iven entire satisfaction. Judge Marsh has served as Mayor 
 of Black Hawk for one term and as Mayor of Central City 
 
 for two consecutive terms. He has been twice elected to the 
 
 Islatore from (Jilpin county, and was Speaker of the 
 lloii>.- in L873, He was a member of the State ( 1 , >nsti tut ional 
 Convention in ls?.\ since which time and up to last fall he 
 h;i- practiced law in various counties of the State. Judge 
 Mai.-h Is a dignified gentleman, who is doin^ honor to the 
 
 office which he holds. He led his ticket in the election and 
 the confidence then displayed in him was not misplaced. 
 
112 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 William J, Parkinson. 
 
 Character, force and intelligence will tell, no matter in what 
 profession or business it manifests itself, and the young man 
 who carries these charactistics with him is sure to win. There 
 can be no midway point for such a one and only at the sum- 
 mit will be realized his ambition. It seems to us that those 
 who are successful in business are as much entitled to honor 
 as those who succeed in politics. Mr. William J. Parkinson 
 the subject of this sketch was born in Ireland on October 7, 
 1850, and received his education in Canada where he remained 
 until 1877. Upon his arrival in this country he espoused the 
 cause of the Republican party and has held to its principles 
 ever since. In 1877 Mr. Parkinson came to Colorado and im- 
 mediately became identified with the queens ware trade in 
 which trade he has ever since remained. Some two years 
 ago he assumed control of the business of R. Douglas & Co. 
 in this city. The chief or parent house of R. Douglas & Co. 
 is located in St. Joseph, Missouri, and has been in existence 
 since 1860. This Western branch has, under the skillful 
 management of Mr. Parkinson, grown until it now is one of 
 the largest businesses in Denver. He is of medium height, 
 of light complexion, fine appearance, courteous manners and 
 a genial companion. His success therefore is only an indica- 
 tion of what he will do in the future. 
 
 Oliver A. Whittemore, 
 
 Of Denver, and who is the present Assistant City Clerk, is one 
 of the pioneers of the State, having lived in different portions 
 of it since 1860. Mr. Whittemore was born in 1828, in 
 Worcester county, New York, and received a substantial 
 education in the common schools of that State. Many years 
 ago he was a promulgator of the Whig doctrines, but since 
 then he has been an ardent Republican. In 1865 he was 
 married to Miss Amelia R. Treadway, of Denver. Mr. 
 Whittemore settled in Denver in March, 1860, but soon 
 after moved to Breckenridge, or what was then known as the 
 Blue River country, and was the first man to build a house 
 on the site of where Breckenridge now is. The people of 
 Summit county sent him to the first Territorial Legislature as 
 their representative. In 1862, along with Mr. E. P. Cotton, he 
 built the first flouring mill at Colorado City, and he also built 
 one in Denver in 1865. Mr. Whittemore continued in the 
 milling business until 1868. In the following year he acted 
 as City Clerk for the city of Denver, and in 1869 and 1870 he 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM Of <<>1.<KADO. li:>' 
 
 was also Clerk of tin- District Court. Mr. Whittcn 
 though well advanced in years, is -till frei h and rigorous, 
 and i very evidence that he is destined to live to a ripe 
 
 old age. He i- of a quirt, courteous and unassuming disi 
 tion. and belongs to that cla^- of men who are best adapted 
 to j)iil)lic position-. 
 
 Daniel Witter. 
 
 Mr. Daniel Witter, of Denver, is one <>t' the honored re] 
 sen tative men of this State, on the i:ith <>f April, 1827, be 
 
 l)orn in I'nion county. Indiana, and received an academic 
 education at South Bend, in the same State. On the -joth of 
 March, is."):), he was married to Miss Tiara V. Matthews, at 
 Terra Coupee, St. Joseph county. Indiana, and the respected 
 couple have eleven children. Mr. \Vitter is a Republican, 
 His father was 11 Whig. Among the pioneers of our State. 
 
 iliere are who have served it better than Mr. Daniel Wit- 
 ter. He was a member of the first and also of the second 
 sessions of the Colorado State Legislatures; was Chairman of 
 tlie State Republican Committee; also member of the Nation- 
 al Republican Committee for four years, and was United 
 States Assessor of Internal Revenue for ten years from Octo- 
 hei. 1862, till October, 1872. It will thus be seen that he lias 
 had many years of public service, and throughout has main- 
 tained the respect and highest regard of the public. lie is 
 a man above medium height, robust and healthy. Mr. Witter 
 
 !i Attorney-at-law, and pays special attention to land 
 
 - and land ollice business. Every year he lias had pre- 
 pared a book called "The Settler's iiuide." which has had a 
 wide circulation abroad, audit has been the means of briiu 
 many people to our State. 
 
 Ebenezer T. Wells 
 
 \VasborninO- >unty. New York, May i:>. 1S5.\ nnd 
 
 irraduated from Kno.x College, (Jalesburg. [flinois, in L856, 
 
 was married in October 1857, to Miss Flnn-ncr, only 
 
 daughter of Hon. .lames .1. Petit, at Ker.oslia. Wisconsin. 
 
 Illd-e \' |5 ;j|ld settled ill 
 
 (filpin c II" was a member of the Lown- H.u>e of 
 
 the i ; i was ;i]>p<'ip 
 
 D that capa- 
 
 ! of the ( 'ollVelltioll \\ lllcll 
 
 tVani'd liie ( '..nstitminn of ihe State, and Chairman OJ 
 
 mittee on lievis'n.n. His profound knowl.-d-v of law and 
 
114 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 the researches which he had previously made into the con- 
 struction and workings of the Constitutions of other States, 
 prominently fitted him to revise and correct such an instru- 
 ment. After the admission of the State into the Union he 
 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Bench, in which position 
 he served with honor to himself, with the confidence and re- 
 spect of his associates and the lasting regard of the people of 
 the State. At the end of the first term he resigned and has 
 been engaged in the practice of the law ever since in Denver. 
 Though Judge Wells' hair is very gray, having passed more 
 than a half century of years, he has the action and ap- 
 pearance of one in the prime of life, yet He is of a jovial 
 nature, a good story-teller and an entertaining gentleman. 
 In conjunction with his partners, Messrs. Macon & McNeal, 
 he enjoys a large and lucrative practice. Judge Wells is 
 and always has been a Republican, at any and all times do- 
 ing royal service for his party. 
 
 Henry R. Wolcott, 
 
 Whose connection with the Boston and Colorado Smelting 
 Works, at Argo, has brought him somewhat into prominence, 
 was born at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, March 15, 1846, 
 and he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island; 
 Chicago, Illinois and Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Wolcott came to 
 Colorado in 1869, and engaged in mining, and in 1870 he be- 
 came connected with the Boston and Colorado Smelting 
 Works, under Senator Hill, and has been connected with the 
 company controlling those works ever since. In 1878 he was 
 elected a member of the State Senate on the Republican 
 ticket, and was found a useful member of that body. 
 
 Herman Strauss, 
 
 In this our Republican form of Government, men who earn 
 a national reputation, as a general thing, indulge in a greater 
 or less degree in the politics of our country. There are some 
 men, however, who possess remarkable business sagacity, and 
 as such acquire an enviable reputation among their fellow- 
 men, and who although you never hear their names mentioned 
 as aspirants for public office, nor would they accept one 
 were it tendered them, are none the less interested in the 
 political welfare of their country and yield a powerful in- 
 fluence in their respective neighborhoods, their work, al- 
 though quietly performed, being none the less effective. 
 Such a man is the subject of this sketch. He was born and 
 
BIOGKAl'lIK' \l. OOMPBNDH M I 1 "' 
 
 educated in the IVmince 11- 
 
 ited to A merica an 
 
 Hampshire from whirli ]uint h. 
 
 in the 
 id by close app i'n has 
 
 ac.pm-ed a comfortable fortune, t ?, quiet, 
 
 unobtrusive ciii/en aii'l 18 ot the fibre out of which are i>uilt 
 
 Strong communi' 
 
 Henry D. Steele 
 
 horn in WiSliam^town. ( Grange OOUUty, Vermont. A n^ust 
 aii-l was educated in i rict schools of Lancas- 
 
 ter, Krie county, New York, Though lie is far past his half 
 century Mr. Steele is yet apparently in the pi-inie of life and 
 attends io all tin- details of his extensive and -Towing busi- 
 ness, thai of a grocer, with the fervor and enthusiasm 
 young man. He came to Colorado in May, L 
 in the city ,,{' Denver, where he has ever since resided, and al- 
 g in t'he Second ward. Mr. i the Scrip- 
 
 tural injunction and has raiseil a family ol live son- and one 
 daughter. He mani'd May 1,1 ^s Louisa Pcahody, 
 
 unty, Vermont. .Mr. v 
 
 f the most > and })ro<;n'ssive citizens of Den- 
 
 ver. ha\ iit ihe last -J^ years within its Imunds and in 
 
 all that time taken an active and leading part in every move- 
 ment which looked to che building up and advancement of 
 3. lie is a rare specimen ol' acti\eold a .ire. and 
 ihoii-h his l nd hair are lined with gray, yet he is more 
 
 active and e c, and has the spirit or a man of halt' his 
 
 number of years. 
 
 Hon. Otto Mears, 
 
 Who was horn in Russia in IS-11, cam* 1 to < 'alil'ornia in lsrl 
 where he receivei 1 1 i s e<i uca t i< >n . He spent a number of \ 
 
 \vand'i-inir throu-'h Calit'ornia. Ari/ona. New Mexic*.* and 
 
 r Territories, and finally in ettled in ('ohn 
 
 \Vith a uliar to his race he .-mharked in 
 
 ;iducted \- ;l : Iml)- 
 
 ine's ladder until QQW he IS i fortune 
 
 which jilaces him ah<ve life's jiecunia. 
 
 publican to the hackbon.- and can ' umd arra \ -,! , ,n 
 
 the si<le of that parly, aid'r ;h mind and 
 
 ket. He is regarded in state poim,^ 
 
 and hi- party D to him in vain for aid. During the 
 
116 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOKADO. 
 
 war he was a member of the 1st Regiment of California 
 Volunteers, serving through the entire war. At its close, in 
 1865 be came into Colorado and finally identified himself with 
 the interests of the southern part of the Territory. He was 
 one of the prime movers in the cutting off and organization 
 of the County of Saguache, from the territory embraced 
 within the limits of Conejos county. He was the first County 
 Treasurer and brought his returns to Denver in the shape of 
 pelts and buckskin, which he sold and thereby raised the 
 funds with which to pay his county's share into the Treasury 
 of the Territory. He was Indian Commissioner for two years, 
 and in charge at the time of their removal into Northern Utah. 
 He was one of the first Presidential Electors from this State 
 who cast their votes for President Hayes. Mr. Mears was a 
 member of the General Assembly of 1883 from the county of 
 Saguache. He is known throughout the State as the "Toll 
 Road King," owning most of the toll roads in the State. Mr. 
 Mears is a comparatively young man yet and has years of 
 life before him, and we may expect him again to appear in 
 the political arena where he will, as in the past, achieve suc- 
 cess. Mr. Mears was married in 1870 to Miss Mary Kap- 
 schulder, of this State; they have two children. 
 
 Walter Edward Hall. 
 
 Music is an important element in the attaining of a reputa- 
 tion for a community. The gentleman whose name heads 
 this sketch figures highly in Colorado in regard to know- 
 ledge and competency, and it is with pleasure we include him 
 amongst our sketches of artists. Mr. Edward Hall was born 
 in 1858, at Nantwich, Cheshire, England, and was educated at 
 Chester, under Dr. J. M. Bridge, and also at Manchester, 
 under Dr. J. M. Bentley. In 1884 he was married to Miss 
 Louisa, third daughter of G. Wadsworth, Esq., at St. Paul's 
 Church, Crewe; one child has been born to them. Mr. Hall 
 comes of a musical family, his father having been an organist 
 in one church for thirty-three years. When only nineteen 
 years of age Mr. Hall was appointed organist and choir master 
 at the parish church of Crewe, remaining there four and a 
 half years; he was then presented with an address and a gold 
 watch in testimony of the high regard in which he was held. 
 When but twenty-two years of age he was the only success- 
 ful candidate in all England for the much-prized degree of 
 Fellow of College of Organists. A further proof of his intrinsic 
 worth as an artist is shown in a testimonial given him by 
 one of the finest organists and musicians in the world E. H. 
 
tRAPHIOAL < OMPBNDI1 M LOBADO, \ 17 
 
 Turpin. whose position is that of member <>f Hoard of I'.x 
 amineis and Eton, ollege of Organists: Kxaminernf 
 
 il Academy >f Millie and roll.--.* of Prea and 
 
 Editor Musical Standard, London, England, l'ndT dai 
 London. W. C., December 6, L881, M!r. Turpin over hie signs 
 tare, \Vith pleasure I t.-stify to Mr. \V. L. Hall's 
 
 talents. skill and earnestness, !!< is an adiniral'l' 
 
 and a painstaking. thought t'nl artis! In rv.-i 
 is well adapted for the duties ol' organist and choir 
 master in a cathedral." Mr. Hall is an intensely loyal ciii 
 /.t-n of ilu I'nitiMl States, and sinr^ his aj>]nintiii-iit in St. 
 .Inhn's ( 1 atli'dral - (Episcopal i in Drnvcr. inlss-j. has ^iv-n 
 nuiiM-roiis oi'Lran ivritals and dnnt* much towards cnlti\atiim 
 musical taste in ( 1 (>lnrado, i hose who have dealings with 
 him lind him a thoroughly relined and reliable gentleman in 
 
 J. P. Bronk, 
 
 A resident ot Denver and one of the most active representa- 
 tive business -men in this flourishing young city. Though 
 carrying a great weight of business upon his shoulders, he 
 does not appear to be overloaded, but conscious of his ability 
 he moves among his fellows with the self-reliance of young 
 manhood, making all whom he meets his friends. He was 
 born in the rity of' Brooklyn, New York, in 1855. Graduat- 
 ing from the \Vesleyan University of Connecticut in is?r> he 
 
 red the law department of Yale College and graduated 
 from there in 1S77. He is a direct descendent from the 
 famous Dutch family nf Knickerbockers who were the 
 original settlers of New York. Though Mr. Mronk is not en- 
 titled to be classed as a pioneer, yet his sojourn in this State 
 ha^ l>een fruitful both to himself and its people. He is 
 
 ident of the Colorado Land and Loan Company, which 
 Company besido their own are managing properties for the 
 Del Nolle Land and Ditch Company. Citi/*ns' Ditch and 
 Land Company, and Monti Vista Town and Land Company. 
 all in San Luis Park: the Cncompaghre ( 1 anal Company in 
 re Valley: (irand River Ditch and I'Yuitalm 
 
 "inent Company, in (irand Valley: Fort Morgan Land 
 and ('anal Company, in Plait.* Valley, and North Pondre 
 Land. Canal and R.->ervoir Company, in Larimer county. 
 
 allable and obliging gentleman and all t ' 
 oiild not have placed their atlairs in better 
 
 la. He is intensely interested in his work and combines 
 IB tact with the happy faculty of pleasing all 
 
 with whom he cornea into busii 
 
118 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Vernon Parks Hastings. 
 
 Mr. Hastings, present City Auditor, was born June 4, 
 1841, in the State of Michigan, and received a common coun- 
 try school education. On the 15th of December, 1866, he was 
 married to Miss Jennie A. Bigelow, in the city of Denver; six 
 children have been born to them. Mr. Hastings ranks among 
 the pioneers of the State, first crossing the plains in 1863 by 
 stage-coach, coming from Grunnell, Iowa, destined for Central 
 City. Denver, however, has been his home the principal 
 part of this time. Mr. Hastings is a Republican in politics, 
 and has always taken an interest in the success of that party. 
 He was City Clerk at one time, but most of his time has been 
 devoted to mercantile pursuits. 
 
 Hon. George Tritch. 
 
 The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was 
 one of the pioneers of Colorado, and is the acknowledged 
 father of the hardware business in Denver. No more familiar 
 form has made its daily appearance upon the streets of the 
 capital of the State for a quarter of a century than that of 
 George Tritch. Mr. Tritch was born in Baden, Germany, 
 April 26, 1829 The year he first saw the light of day his 
 parents emigrated to America, landing in New York. They 
 did not remain there, but made their way to Chillicpthe, Ohio, 
 at that time the terminus of the Ohio canal. Until the age 
 of 15 he remained with his parents, and got such an education 
 as the schools of the place afforded. Chillicothe at that time 
 was a small village of about 2,000 inhabitants. In 1844 he 
 went to Cincinnati, where he learned the tinner's trade, and 
 in 1847 went to Pittsburg, Pa., He was married in 1848. 
 
 In 1852 he came west to Muscatine and Tip ton, Iowa, where 
 he engaged in business. In 1860 he became possessed of the 
 prevailing Pike's Peak fever. In March he started for the 
 new Eldorado, the fabulous gold regions, going first to 
 Omaha. Omaha was then a small town. In April he fitted 
 out a two-horse wagon, containing a small supply of tinner's 
 tools. Like all the pioneers of the day, Mr. Tritch had his 
 experience with the Indians. When the party had reached 
 Shinn's Ferry Island, about sixty -five miles from Omaha, 
 they rested for the Sabbath. With charitable feelings they 
 went into camp and fed the roving bands of Indians which 
 infested their camp. Retiring for the night they found on 
 awaking the next morning that a wagon load of provisions 
 was wanting. This was a sad loss to the traveling party who 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL o M I-KN hi IM <>i < M. >i:.\DO. 1 1 
 
 were left to Lrrub ahm- for the rest of the journex as 
 they could. Mr. Tritch arrived in Denv-r on the twenty 
 
 nth day of May of the same year. He opened up bu>i 
 
 on Mlake Street, then tin- most important bus'm> 
 of Denver, upon the same premises lately occupied by .1. 8, 
 Brown iV l.ro. In June he returned Kast for his family, and 
 returned in August and started business on t he corner >f 
 fifteenth and !Iollada\ . where ih-- Colorado Nati 
 
 l>ank used to !>. In ISMO he ivmo\cd hi- l)ii^im-s< to the 
 corner ..f l^ifreentli and \\ a/ee, where lie established a busi- 
 
 3 wliich extended its intliience over all t he Terri tor; 
 butary to Denver. His business took in the whole Kocky 
 Mountain region and extended to New Mexico. Wyoming and 
 I'tah. He was tlie lirst man to introduce into t In- \l 
 Mountain region the use of agricultural ini})lements. <ucli as 
 
 ties, cradles, plows and drills, threshing machines, mow- 
 
 :ud reajters. horse rakes and such machinery for agricul- 
 tural purposes as are common on our ranches to -da\ . In 
 Api-il, isi'.:?. under the administration of Eon. Amos Steck, 
 Mr. Trirdi was elected an Alderman from the First wi 
 He was re elected in INM. when Hon. H. ,!. I^n-iidlii. 
 
 ted Mayor. In |s?7 Mr. Tritch was eh-cled Presid- 
 The d'ei-maii National bank. In 1S?('> he was el< 
 of the 1?, of the State University. On the ni^hi of the 
 
 U'reat Indian scare in lsr> t. he wa< r.immi<sioiie<l by ( lovernor 
 John Kvafis to take command of the (governor's ( - and 
 
 d und-r ( 'olonel ( 1 hi\ inu'lon during the "block h- 
 He crossed the plains in coaches from I8 ( r. 
 
 . and has had many hair-breadth escapes from Indians. 
 Something over a year aico lie removed his larire hardware es- 
 tablisnment to its present location on Arapahoe, near Seven- 
 teenth, He is today at the head of the largest hardware 
 
 ness Wi ;he Mississip]>i river. He is, and always 
 
 has been, an enterprising energetic and public spirited citi- 
 /en. known throughout t he ^reat Kocky Mountain r- 
 such. Hi^ name is connecte.l with many enter])rises of a 
 public nature, both of the city and State.' Liberal minded 
 aad generous, he commands the respect and admiration of 
 Denver. Colorado, and its inhabitants. 
 
 R. W. Woodbury. 
 M< Lbury wrae born in Francestown, New Han: 
 
 Mai-c'h ::. ISIl. The lirst liv.- of his life w.-r- 
 
 upon a t'ai-m. In L846 his parents moved to the manufactui- 
 
 ity of Manchester, where he received a common school 
 
120 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 education, working in the cotton mills, and attending school 
 alternate years. When quite a young man he entered a 
 printing office and learned the trade. At the age of twenty, 
 just after the first battle of Bull Run, he enlisted as a private 
 in the 3rd New Hampshire Infantry, and remained in the ser- 
 vice to the close of the war, during which he was promoted 
 successively to Second and First Lieutenant, and finally to 
 the rank of Captain of Volunteers. He took part in the ex- 
 pedition to Port Royal, S. C., and served in the "Department 
 of the South" including the capture of Morris Island in 
 Charleston Harbor, and the demolition of Fort Sumpter until 
 the Spring of 1864, was subsequently transferred to Florida, 
 and thence to Butler's Army of the James, and participated 
 in the great series of the battles around Petersburg, Fort 
 Darling and north of the James near Richmond during that 
 year; was wounded by a "spherical case" ball at the "Battle 
 of the Mine" in front of Petersburg; joined Butler's expedi- 
 tion to Fort Fisher at the mouth of Cape Fear River, N. C., at 
 the close of 1864; also the second expedition to the same 
 place, on this occasion, however, as Chief of Ordnance on the 
 staff of General Terry, with the rank of Captain, which posi- 
 tion he retained until the final collapse of the rebellion. Fol- 
 lowing this he became interested in newspaper work and in 
 1866 came to Colorado, where he engaged in mining butfinal- 
 ly lapsed into his old calling in which he remained until 1882 
 when he sold out all his interests in the newspapers of the 
 State. Mr. Woodbury has held no public office except that 
 of Regent of the State University, to which position he was 
 elected by the people in 1884, and now holds. During the 
 second administration of Governor F. W. Pitkin he was ap- 
 pointed a Brigadier-General in the Colorado National Guard, 
 and was assigned to duty on the executive staff. He has for 
 many years taken a prominent part in Masonic affairs, for 
 twelve years as presiding officer of some of the Masonic or- 
 ganizations, including those of Grand Master of the Grand 
 Lodge, Grand Commander of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter, 
 and Grand Commander of the Grand Commandry For a 
 number of years also, he has been chairman of the committee 
 on jurisprudence in all those bodies. Some years ago the 
 "Masonic Temple Association" was organized, Mr. Woodbury 
 made president of the same and given charge of the joint 
 financial and building affairs of all the Masonic bodies in 
 Denver. From the close of the war until 1882 the greater 
 part of his time and abilities were engaged in journalism, 
 and in that field he made a record for conscientious zeal in 
 promoting the advancement of the city and State of his adop- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL < OMPENDIUM OF COLORADO, KM 
 
 lion, which commanded universal confidence and respect. It 
 
 this Qualification, united with rare talent for i In- conduct 
 
 of I*;. A hicli caused him t<> !>' eh-ch-d president 
 
 of the Chamber of Commerce and Hoard <>t' T: position 
 
 wliich he has filled with distingui.-hed abiliu from it 
 
 MI to the present time, and will probably coiiiiniie to 
 
 hold as ] tie shall* consenc to of iat' years he 
 
 \\:o acquired much reputation as a strong and eloquent 
 
 xer. His addresses are iinifonuly well considered, and 
 
 noted nut only for rhetorical l > ^ain i i Inn for sound pi'aclical 
 news upon (jiu-stioiis of public importance. As tin- directing 
 lu-ad of th- I'nioiJ T.ank. he has brought to il a prestige 
 of Ion- experience as one of the directors of that institution, 
 and of success in every undertaking of his life, thereby 
 strengthening its credit, multiplyingits depositors ad elevat- 
 ing i ion auion^ the great banking houses of the city. 
 
 Raymond M, Stevenson, 
 
 The present Deputy Secretary of State, is perhaps one of tiie 
 known gentlemen in the State. He was born in Carlisle, 
 Pennsylvania in 1S40 and was educated in the schools of that 
 State, finishing in the Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn- 
 sylvania. !!< served in the < Quartermaster's Department 
 during the early part of the war and was an eflicient and 
 capable man. He came to Colorado in 1868 and has ever 
 sine.- be,- u closely identified with the political history of the 
 State. 11- was married in is?l to Miss Susan (\ Edwards, of 
 Pueblo. Colorado: they have two children, (ienera) Stevenson 
 has at various times held the offices of Commissioner of the 
 State Asylum for Insane: Piivate Secretary to the Governor; 
 Chief Cli'i-k of the House of Kej >resentati ves for three terms: 
 AdjutaiiM'eiK-ral and now heputy Secretary of State. (Gen- 
 eral 5 IOD i- a man above medium height, straight as an 
 arrow and of commanding appearance. Hi* intimate con- 
 on with it. makes him one of the strongest factors in 
 litics, His inlluenc.- i- by no means small in the 
 y to which he has pinned his fait h. He is and ha- al 
 an uncompromising IJepublican. Strong in his 
 id equally sirong in hi> dislikes, he is a formidable 
 A hich he in. mse. I lis wide 
 QCe mak.-s him esp.-cially tit ted for I he position which 
 A- holding and tilling with so much credit to hiin 
 
 svith his cisnal foresight has chosen wrell 
 
 the onerons duli-s attach* d to the position of l)eput;. 
 
 tar\ -an only b- well performed by a man of wide .-\ pn i.-nc.-. 
 
122 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOKADO. 
 
 General Frank Hall. 
 
 The well-known and popular gentleman whose name heads 
 this article first saw the light of day March. 4, 1836, in the city of 
 Poughkeepsie, .N"ew York. Left an orphan at an early age he was 
 in charge of relatives in the village of South ville, Connecticut, 
 where he attended country school for a number of years. He 
 finished his formative period with a thorough collegiate education 
 at the Kingston (N. Y.) Academy. Completing the course with 
 honor to himself, the young man removed to Syracuse, and in the 
 winter of 1858-59 he accepted the position of manager of a large 
 harness and saddlery house in St. Louis, remaining until 1860, 
 when, in company with three other adventurous spirits one of 
 whom was the secretary of the St. Louis Mercantile Library he 
 crossed the plains to this city via the ox-team route. The party of 
 explorers engaged in mining with varying success for about three 
 years, when Mr. Hall bade adieu to that pursuit and in the win- 
 ter of 1863 became associated with O. J. Hollister in the publica- 
 tion of the Mining Journal at Black Hawk. In the fall of the 
 succeeding year he was honored by an election to the House of 
 Kepresentatives in the Territorial Legislature, and ere the close of 
 the session was further honored by an appointment as Secretary 
 of the Territory by President Johnson, assuming the duties of the 
 office on the 2d of May, 1866. , So faithfully and conscientiously 
 did he discharge its onerous and responsible duties that he was 
 twice re-appointed by President Grant, and retired from the position 
 April 1, 1871, after eight years of faithful service, during most of 
 this period being Acting Governor of the Territory. It should be 
 stated here, however, that in 1865 Mr. Hall purchased an interest 
 in the Miner's Kegister at Central City, and a year or two later 
 assumed entire editorial charge. At this time the Register ranked 
 as one of the most influential and profitable newspapers in the em- 
 bryo State of Colorado, and under his guidance it wielded a great 
 power in the many intensely exciting political campaigns until 
 1877, when he came to this city to reside permanently. In June, 
 1877, he took charge of the United States Marshal's office under 
 the administration of Judge P. P. Wilcox, and a year later became 
 managing editor of the Daily Evening Times, owned by General 
 R. W. "Woodbury, the now president of the Denver Chamber of 
 Commerce and Board of Trade. In 1879 Mr. Hall retired from 
 the paper to engage in the business of Mining Engineering in con- 
 junction with Mr. J. Alclen Smith, the State Geologist, which 
 partnership continues to this day. In the winter of the preceding 
 year he received the appointment of Adjutant-General of the State 
 by Governor F. W. Pitkin, and served for two years, during which 
 
BIOGBAPHIOA1 c M I'KM'i i \i OF roi.oKADO. 138 
 
 laid the foundation for the piv-ent unrhalled oiyani/at ion 
 
 Colorado National (.uard. II. wa> urgently solicited to 
 
 time he 
 
 of the 
 
 accept a iv appointment at the completion of his term uf otlice. hut 
 
 declined. He ha> he.-n closelj and con-picnnisl y identified with 
 
 theoviieral Mini e-pecial I V t he political history ,,!' til! 'Yon! 
 
 up to hi> retirement from active journalism in L879, andhafi 
 
 I.eeii a \alued coiit ri 1 Mltor to the piv in a ovuei'al way fn-n: 
 time until the pre-ent. He has ne\t-r -onoht otlice. anl to hi- 
 honor IK- it >ai<l that hi> nomination and election to the 1.. 
 ture in l^t'. 1 W8& ac'-ompli>he<l almost entirely without hi- kno\\. 
 le<lj_r ( . : ,n,l his appointment with the Secretary !' the 
 Tei-ritoi-N WAS ohtaim-(l without his consent, and 
 cepted only hecaiise of the ure/ency of the leader- of the 
 Uepuhlican party, who. 1'nrseeino; a conflict without President 
 Johnson, demanded that he accepl and retain the position. When 
 the contlict came, some few months later, the President undertook 
 move him. hut the Senate ivl'iisin. ulii-m a 
 
 ,-al Hall remained in oilier. Doth re-appointment- hy ' 
 eraMii-ant wej-e wlmlly unsolicited, and in fact he knew nothing 
 of tli^- matter until lit'' saw the announcement in the retnda: 
 
 ^patches. Cnder the ( )ro-aiiic Act of th 
 i-etai-y l.ecame Acting (ioverimr and a--umel the 
 duties of that oilice in addition tohis<.wn. A>t- 
 
 portion of the time the -. 
 
 ecuti -arilv devolved upon him. and il 
 
 matter of history tha 1OU8 Indian trotihle- o\ved tlu-ir *up- 
 
 ion la!'jj[fly to the \viseand Conservative mea-ure- adopted hy 
 
 rentleman. On the 8th of May, 1 Qera] Hall was elect- 
 
 ed to the position of Secretary of the Board of Trade hy the I 1 , 
 
 of Directors, and entered at once nn the work of ..iv-anixinji 
 
 what is to-day the most powerful and intluential Association 
 instituted in Denver or the State. In. Inly he i--ued his first An- 
 nual lieport, and similar volume.- were puhlished in Isv") and 
 '.all heine/ replete with extremely \aluahle statistical informa- 
 tion, complied in the admiraMe style of the horn journalist . < 
 eral Hall is a man of pleasino". atl'ahle and courteous manner, with 
 a magnetic personality that at once attracts all person^ with whom 
 
 he c. contact. 
 
 S. B. Wright. 
 
 M - -lit. the well-known ne\\ sdealer and statio 
 
 h and I.awi-. 'lion^lj not lioiirino- mile: 
 
 puhli<- man. i- one of the ^.lid citizene of Denver. He 
 
124 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 in Ohio April, 1837, and was educated at the United Presbyterian 
 College, of Monmouth, Illinois, where 1,200 students were in at- 
 tendance at one period. Mr. Wright came from Texas to Colo- 
 rado in 1879, landing here with but $56, and on that capital start- 
 ed in the stationery and news business, and has since built up the 
 largest retail business in the city, and is considered amongst the 
 solid and substantial men of the city. He is married and the 
 father of one child. 
 
 Frederick Stevenson, 
 
 Precentor of St. John's Cathedral and professor of voice culture, 
 whose music room is now at No. 5 Waugh block, Denver, is assisting 
 materially in developing the musical talent of our State. Mr. 
 Stevenson was born at Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, and 
 was educated at St. John's College, Hurstpierpoint, after graduat- 
 ing from the celebrated choir school of St. Mary's parish church, 
 Newark then conducted by Dr. Dearie. He was married in 
 1873 to Miss Mary Jordan Ford, at Blackheath, London, England, 
 by Rev. H. Martyn (now Dean) Hart; four children have bee born 
 to them. Mr. Stevenson subsequently studied for a musical career 
 tinder Mr. Edwin Thirtle, of Boston parish church, later still w T ith 
 Mr. Samuel Reay, Mus. Bac. Oxon, then of Bury, Lancashire, and 
 now of Newark, and still more recently with Dr. Macfarren, Pro- 
 fessor of Music in the University of Cambridge and Principal of 
 the Royal Academy of Music, and with Dr. Bridge, of West- 
 minister Abbey. He practiced his profession very successfully in 
 London for fifteen years, and was until he left for this country 
 (contemporaneously with the greatest singing-masters of the day) 
 Professor of Yoice Culture and Theory in the Blackheath (Lon- 
 don) Conservatoire of Music. An offer from Dean Hart and his 
 vestry induced Mr. Stevenson to leave England in November, 
 1883, to take up the appointment of Precentor of St. John's 
 Cathedral, Denver, which position lie still holds. The Cathedral 
 services are modeled upon those of the great Eno-lish cathedrals, 
 and their high standard under the present Precentor's direction is 
 not only known to residents of the State, but Eastern visitors are 
 constantly spreading their fame through' the country, and 'the most 
 eminent musical critic of the age, Mr. Joseph Bennett, has twice, 
 through the medium of the Musical Times, made known to the 
 European world his unhesitating opinion that the voluntary choir 
 of Denver Cathedral ranks first in the United States, and ''would 
 easily hold its own with the cathedral choirs of England." Mr. 
 Stevenson devotes himself entirely to his cathedral duties and to 
 
 
BIOGRAPHIC \i. oMi'i \MI M OF OLOBADO, 
 
 if hi> choS6D | cult u re. ami in thi- 
 
 in the former. In- i- eminently capahle. a- In- thoroughly 
 under.-tand.- tin- Italian method ,,f producing, fmno and devel. 
 tin- : to tin- hie!, 
 
 well kno\\ n ha- M'. Stevenson become in thi- I. ranch that all his 
 time i- taken uj, with vocal .-t udent .-. and ti :\ino in-true 
 
 tions under him ha\ e mn\ hiring ,-\ idence that he IB master of his 
 
 art. M r. Str\eii-on i- ahout to erect a handsome residence and 
 
 e, detached Study at South Kifteenth -treet and ( 'a|it| a\-rnnc. 
 
 Wilbur Fisk Stone. 
 
 Wilbur Fisk Stone \va> ln.ni in Ijtchticld, ( 'uimtM-tirut. nf JIMI- 
 
 "f 1-lii^lish drit^in: his I'athrr lln:-r Bishop Stone, and hi> mother 
 
 ].ind>le\) lu-ino- de>cendent> of gome 'f the earliest 
 
 families of the Hartford colonv. When BIX M hi- father 
 
 moved into \ve-tern New V..rk. S.H.M aftei- to Miehio-an. and then 
 
 iint\, Indiana. S.M.H after thi>. I<\\a WBfi oj.t-ned up 
 
 to the tide of emigration and another nio\c \\a- made in 1^11 to 
 
 the far \\'e-t. and a >ettlej;ient made upon the new oo\ ci-nment 
 
 lands at Oskaloosa, Iowa, then a Territory. Here the sulj-ct of 
 
 tlii- >ketrh lived alumt >i\ years, working <>n the farm, when, he- 
 inr tlien aloiit seventeen year- of age, he obtained permiion of 
 hi- parent- t.. return to Indiana for the purp< : no t. . -ehool. 
 
 After a two year-' eour-e at a ln>y's academ y in liuslivillf, Indiana, 
 supporting him-elf as an assistant teachei'. he enterel colh^ 
 A-lmry I 'ni\ ei--it \ . ( i i-eeiica-t Ie. where lie continued until the 
 hienior year. \\'hile hei'e he earned his tuition \}\ 
 writing pri/r essays, ami paid his other e\pen>e> liy teaching eoiin- 
 tr\ -diool> durin. acations, where, in the mu^h 1^ >eh<.ol- 
 
 ip creek he met with all the varied exper 
 
 dioolmaster." I "p"" tMl> occurence of what 
 
 locally known as the --.-indents rt-lu-lli* u" of A-l>ury in 1866, 
 '. ith the majority of hi.- da.-.-, left that institution and enl 
 the -enior cla-- of the State I' ni\ ei-.-it v. at Bloomington, whei'e he 
 i in course. H<- then .-tudied law. and -ul-e,| u,-nt ly 
 iated in the law department of the State I Hi\ er.-it y, h:: 
 
 ; in the meant:! a College tutor in the 
 
 . -ntrilmt. 
 
 it in the .-ecoml 
 
 Upon the p 
 
 coniinn.-d !,[^ c, -nt rihut ion- t.. the press, finally driftr 
 
 litor "f ' \ehra-k 
 
 Id.) II- '! Iv the wonderful the 
 
126 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 city concerning the Eldorado of the West, he, in company with 
 some comrades, started in 1860 for Colorado. Traveling by the 
 ox-team route after six weeks of toil they arrived among the rude 
 log cabins which then covered the site of Denver. From here he 
 footed it on the trail one hundred miles through the mountains to the 
 Tarayall mines, sleeping on the ground wherever night overtook 
 him, as was the custom. Five years were spent in the South Park 
 country, about the foot of Mt. Lincoln, prospecting, exploring, min- 
 ing and practicing law. Upon the organization of Colorado as a 
 Territory he was chosen to represent the county of Park in the 
 Legislative Assembly, which met at Colorado City in the summer of 
 1862. Subsequently in 1864 he again served as a member of the 
 legislature from the same county. From 1862 to 1866 he acted as 
 Assistant LTnited States Attorney for Colorado, having been ap- 
 pointed as such by General Sam. E. Browne, the then United 
 States Attorney of Colorado. The novel incidents and stirring ad- 
 ventures of frontier life; the anecdotes of the bench and bar, as 
 they traveled in wagons and on horseback over an area of country 
 three hundred miles long and some hundreds wide, campingon the 
 plains, in the mining camps of the mountains, and among the 
 Spanish- Mexicans of the Arkansas and Rio Grande Valleys, would 
 fill a volume itself with the most entertaining branch of the history 
 of those early days. And just here it is worthy of remark that 
 the bar of Colorado during those early years was equal, in point of 
 ability, with that which ever adorned any western State; and that 
 amid the hundreds of the legal profession who throng the courts of 
 the State to-day, the old common law members of the first seven 
 years of Colorado jurisprudence have been excelled by no later 
 addition; and as a rule are still the leaders at the bar throughout 
 the State. In the winter' of 1865-6, Mr. Stone made a trip to the 
 States and married Miss Sallie Sadler, of Bloomington, Indiana,- 
 and upon his return to Colorado in the spring of 1866 with his 
 wife, settled at Pueblo, where he has continued to reside, engaged 
 in the practice of law until he came on the supreme bench in 1877. 
 He has been one of the most active in promoting the settle- 
 ment and developing the resources of southern Colorado. He was 
 the first District Attorney of the Third Judicial District, and has 
 held various positions of public trust and duty connected with the 
 industrial and educational institutions of the Territory and State. 
 In connection with Governor Hunt and General Palmer, he was 
 one of the most active promoters of the Denver and Rio Grande 
 Railway, and was the attorney of that company up to the time he 
 went on the bench. Together with Henry 0.' Thatcher, the first 
 Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, and who was also a leading 
 
iMJ!:AriiH'A i \IHIM 01 COLORS D 
 
 "f I'uel.lo, he wa> ..lit- ..I' tli'' foremost v ;ithe 
 
 luiil- Iroad int> < 
 
 -I 1 the < 'onstitnl ntion 
 
 h. in tin- winter . framed tin- t ..... -titntion i 
 
 which th- idmitted into tin- I 'nion. I 
 
 i of tli. nominated on tin- I >einocrat ic 
 
 Jididate I'm- .-lie of tin- three jndov> ,,f tin- >u preme 
 
 tin- tir election, at which howe\er the entire 
 
 6 ticket wa- defeated. The I'. >\ 1< \\ i no- year, .Imloe 
 
 V.. T. \\"e!U, ..f the >llprellie hel.cll. \vln lield fur the loll" term <f 
 
 nine ie<l his position in time for the general election [ 
 
 "r. L8t7, 'I'lu- l>:ir <>t' the State c.ncei\ino- that the int. 
 
 11 as the dio-iiitv and purity 'j' the Ix-nch, would 
 he lu-st >nl)>ei-\ed \>\ keeping the election of th< i judiciary aloof 
 from the control of party nomination, took the matter in hand and 
 d a convention of lawyers, \vhich met at Colorado sp. 
 ilted in the nomination of Mi-. Stone. Tin- ('-ntr:il 
 .lournal. noticing tin- fact in the initial article of the week I'ullow- 
 . o. \... T.'.i remarks: --'rhe political man:iovr> in Colo- 
 -ihle tliinir. an<l once worthy -al imita- 
 
 tion. The chairman of the central committeo of thetw.. political 
 
 ae.-ree<l that in c;i>e any candidate for tl: 
 of the Supreme ('oiirt >luuld ! e unaiiimou- 
 
 -iijtport of t' 1 Mlion of lawyer.- which had lieen called i 
 
 nominations would he made. 
 'id.led and nominated Hon. Will. ;M- 
 
 Pue: ,'h a compliment paid to a lawyer 1>\ hi- profe-.-ional 
 
 hrethren. >hould l.e moi'e o-ratifyino; than a do/en parly noini- 
 ind we ha\'e no douht that, in 'tlii- il will Le fol- 
 
 lowed h\ -:ion without opposition." A upon, 
 
 d without opposition, and nioyed to 1),-' 
 
 the pre-eiit capital, where he now re-ide>. I le ha- one child, a 
 \Vilhur !'. Stone, jr.. horn at I'uel.lo in lsr,7. n,w in his 
 in Ilar\ai'd 1 "nix er-it y. 
 
 Shadrach K. Hooper. 
 
 ^. K . 1 1- mt of tl] 
 
 tia, in 1 s i 1 . 
 'mm.'ii >di. 
 
 ! ntil ,1 iii 
 
 ilroad. . MI her. 1 
 
128 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 From December 1, 1867, to March, 1868, he occupied the position 
 of Chief Clerk in the general ticket office of the Louisville, New 
 Albany & Chicago Railroad. From March, 1868, to February, 
 1872, he was General Ticket Agent of the same road. From 
 December 1, 1873, to December 31, 1879, he was General Ticket 
 Agent of the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw Railroad. From 
 January 1, 1880, to March, 1882, he was Assistant-General Pas- 
 senger Agent of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. From that 
 time up to May 15, 1884, he was General Passenger and Ticket 
 Agent of the same road. In May, 1884, he was made General 
 Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Central Iowa Railroad. He 
 was appointed General Passenger Agent of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railway in June, 1884, and has held that position up to 
 the present time. Aside from the steady strides he has made in 
 railroad positions, Major Hooper has an army record still more 
 meritorious. His ancestor, William Hooper, was a signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence. Between the age of fifteen and 
 twenty-one Mr. S. K. Hooper was on the Mississippi river, having 
 been apprenticed to learn steamboat engineering. At the 
 breaking out of the war he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-third 
 Indiana Volunteers, as a private, but was soon promoted from the 
 ranks and served as Major until the close of the war, during which 
 time he was engaged in the most important battles of the war, 
 having fought at Fort Donaldson, Fort Henry, Shiloh, the seige of 
 Corinth, all the battles of the entire seige of Yicksburg, Hatch 
 river, and was with Sherman in his famous march "from Atlanta 
 to the sea." Under Sherman's command he also took part in the 
 two Carolina campaigns, until the close of the war, having taken 
 part in over thirty pitched battles. Major Hooper is a married man, 
 and is the father of two children. Personally Major Hooper is 
 one of the most genial of men, and numbers friends in every State 
 and Territory of the Union. He is possessed of intense energy, 
 is one of the hardest working men in the State and yet always finds 
 time to be hearty and cordial and to meet every man on a fair and 
 square basis without any red tape or unnecessary formality. 
 .Major Hooper has doubtless done more for Colorado than any 
 other man in the State, during the same period of time, for he has 
 advertised it from Australia clear around the world, and thousands 
 of tourists and hundreds of permanent residents have been brought 
 to the Centennial State through this means. In railroad business 
 Major Hooper carries the dash and fearlessness of the soldier, and 
 by the sterling qualities of his intellect and the kind impulses of 
 his heart conquers difficulties and makes . friends at the rate of 
 sixty miles an hour. 
 
 
BIOGBAPHIOAL c< M I-KXIUIM OK OOLOBADO, 
 
 Rudolph Frederic Price, 
 
 'The (ierrnan ! ran-lation <f the name ben 
 
 in i: (irand Durii\- of Mecklenburg Schwerin, ( 
 
 many. < totobei ad is d d from an hon 
 
 family, which braced its I'm* -k to Wales, of tin- l>riti-h 
 
 >n, under the name of Price in tin- iv'm-n of Richard 
 
 111. ( )n of tin- family tree, for B0< 
 
 and lav> id both 
 
 irrandfather and father, respectively, held tin- file i>o>ition of 
 May Dr. 1' lucation at tin- 
 
 >ck and at 1'archin ( I yinna^i n BCk- 
 
 in. In his I'iu'httMMitli ycai- ln i tnatricni, 
 a ni"dical - . rcniainini;- iln'p- Ton 
 
 At ti 'ii of that linn j In- ivtin-in-d to Mecklenburg 
 
 Sch\v her one year or th 
 
 cord i .-diicaiional excellence acunired. and 
 
 ' inity with I he law many. At tin-end of 
 
 ervice he was di^char'_red with the rank of Lieutenant. 
 
 it Hamlmnj; and Rostock, he 
 the highest honors, and then came to rhe 
 arriving in New York City October 6, i 
 
 irs, and then went to Philadelphia. 
 
 In ISf.l he sailed for San HYancisco. California, and reina 
 
 fhere until the fall of 1SC.S. \Vhen war between France and 
 
 lany \va> leclar<'d. Dr. Price offered his services to his 
 
 native count -on. and they were accepted, and heat 
 
 iL via New York. After s"rvinu r through that 
 
 short hut decisive conilict, he returned to the United S- 
 
 and in \'ir^riuia ( 1 ity. Nevada, where he successfully 
 
 practiced medicine, and by also eiiLcairinir in mini nic soon 
 
 amassed a fortune () f s-j()<),000. Continuous hut injudicious 
 
 mining >j>eculations soon decreased his wealth, when the 
 
 as fire of L876, which total! v d id Virginia City, 
 
 him almost p.-nniless. From there he went to Portland, 
 
 :on. to l)'_irin anew in the stiiiiru'le fora competency, and 
 
 liar th" writer 1 ; Dr. Price and had 
 
 I' his i nt i in- thasa family pnysician, 
 
 health of his children at this time attests. In 
 
 to D.-avrr. win-re he established his |>res- 
 
 tice he is once more accumnl 
 
 to $ -r month. i ; rictly homoeopathic, and mi 
 
 hrpnic and Qervou 
 
 an arm; n in the |-'i ;an war. Dr. I' 
 
130 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 graduate of the University Philippma, Marburg, Germany; 
 Iraduate of the California Medical College (Eclectic), Oak- 
 land, California; life member of the Eclectic Society of the 
 California Medical College, Oakland, Gal.; and member of 
 the Alameda County Medical Society, Oakland; Cal. 
 destitute and suffering he is a benefactor, and few physicans 
 there are whose services have been given oftener to the pool 
 -and needy. In July, 1882, he was married to a most estim- 
 able young lady, Miss Ida Diamond, daughter of Mr. 
 James Diamond, of Chicago, Illinois; they have one beaut 
 ful three^year-old daughter. The doctor owns a handsome 
 residence on Champa street, near Twenty-second le is still 
 hale and hearty, and looks forward to a long and useful 
 in the direct interest of his family and in humanity in general. 
 
 Isham White, 
 
 Corporation Counsel of the city of Driver, is a ma* of fin e 
 appearance, without a superfluous corporation^ Mr. White 
 waf born in Rome, Oneida county, New York December 10, 
 1R50 and was educated first at the common schools and then 
 at Tenniiig's Seminary, Aurora, Illinois, He was married to 
 Miss Elelnor Pride, of Chicago, Illinois in 1878. Mr. White 
 fe a staunch Republican, and with pride refers to the fact 
 hat his father was an Abolitionist, and also traces his ances- 
 tral line back to the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth 
 Rook and on his maternal side the pure blood of Scotland 
 Jews' Through his veins. For sixteen years he has been in 
 r t inuons fnd active practice of the law, and is regarded as 
 n able and conscientious barrister. Previous to the present 
 s Uion of Corporation Coanse l he has held many other pf- 
 of trast and it is safe to say that his political m- 
 nce and prominence will always keep him forward for 
 irirlri that he may aspire to. In personal appearance 
 Stall and % bu^ wu such a decided air of a profes- 
 linnal actor as to be conspicuously noticeable He is a good 
 ntertaining conversationalist, and a man of such 
 Sugence he willll ways win for himself the highest re- 
 gards of the community. 
 
 Rt. Rev. J. P. Machebeuf'. 
 
 Rev Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, Vicar Apos- 
 Sado, was born Aug 11, 1812, in Riom, in theDe- 
 t of Puyde Dome, Prance. He was educated in the 
 of tha city and in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, where 
 
COMPENDIUM 01 OOLOBADO 131 
 
 >rdained a priest December i;. L836, and was appoint- 
 ed in charge of a }>aris!i, aear Clermont, remaining there three 
 
 apany with Most \\ -v. .). I 1 ,. Lam_ 
 
 Santa Fe. N"ew MeXlOO, he came to Ameri'-a. and on the 1st 
 Of January, 1840, he went tO Sandusky. Ohio, and then 
 
 rani .ition an<l built the first Catholic church, 
 
 II.- ! of missionary life in ( )hio. during 
 
 which time he bnill several churches. When Father Lainy, 
 who was then pastor of Covington, Kentucky, was app<>: 
 
 Oho of \.-\v Mexico, he ur^ed Father Macheheiif 
 to accompany him to New Mexico, as Vicar (General. After 
 months of weary travel from New Orleans, under esco] 
 
 ps kindly 'tendered by (i.-m-ral Haruey. they reached 
 
 Santa Fe in August, L859, having traveled over 800 miles, 
 
 through the then wilderness of Texas. The Hishop soon 
 after returned t<> France and left Very IJev. .!. P. Madiebeuf 
 in charireof the ecclesiastical atl'airs of the Territory for two 
 years. In 1S.">S he was sent to Ari/ona, to take charge of the 
 old missions which had been established by the early -Jesuit 
 and Franciscan missionaries amonir the Pi mas, the Papagos, 
 and other Indian tribes In is.v.) the Territory of Colorado 
 dto Bishop Lamy's charge, and Very Kev.J. P. 
 Mach'dM-uf was appointed to look after thi >n, and here 
 
 labors and useful work has .been too ive to be 
 
 enui: in this book. In 1866 Colorado was created a 
 
 vicariate a})ostolic, and in 1808 he received his official 
 appointment from Rome as havin D ele\. 
 
 to the dignity of \'icariati A])ostclic of Colorado, and on the 
 K'.th of August of that year ne was consecrated in the new 
 Cathedral in Cincinnati, by Archbishop Purcell. Rev. J. B. 
 U iv. riv. his nephew, was chosen as his vicar-general. The 
 many churches, educational ediiices, hospitals and charitable 
 institutions now under his jurisdiction are standingwitnesses 
 to his pietv and /eal. OM the IDth of December last he cele- 
 brated the fiftieth universary of his ordination to the priest- 
 
 1, and was the recipient of many well-deserved and dis- 
 tinctive honors on that occasion. Rev. Father Mauweny, S. 
 .[.. the most eloquent ]>riest in the western country, delivered 
 the oration of the day. and Rev. Father Mat//, one of the 
 pioneer priests, whose learning and piety has been a c; 
 alike to himself and the Church, presented a congratulatory 
 address and a substantial tfift of coin from the rleix r y. liish- 
 
 op Machebeaf, though well advanced in years, is in 
 
 health a 10 labor for many years in the in- 
 
 ! nirch. 
 
132 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 James Benton Grant, 
 
 Governor J. B. Grant, the first Democrat who occupied the 
 Gubernatorial Chair of the State of Colorado, was born in 
 Alabama, January 2, 1848, and received his education first at 
 the Agricultural College of Iowa, then attended the Cornell 
 University, and also spent two years at the School of Mines 
 in Frieburg, Germany. During the war and previous to go- 
 ing to Germany, though but a boy in years, he served in the 
 Confederate army from the time of Sherman's march to the 
 sea until the close of the war. In 1877 Governor Grant came 
 to Colorado and opened an assay office near Georgetown. In 
 1878 he went to Leadville, and in connection with his uncle, 
 Mr. James Grant, of Davenport, Iowa, founded the Grant 
 Smelter in that city. In 1880 Messrs. Edward Eddy and W. 
 H. James purchased the interest of Mr. James Grant, of Da- 
 venport. The business continued prosperous under the new 
 firm until 1882, when the smelter was burned down. The 
 company then decided to rebuild the works near Denver, and 
 by the reenforcement of capital in consolidating with the 
 Omaha Smelting Co., the extensive works now known as the 
 O maha and Grant Smelter was erected near Denver. Governor 
 Grant was married on the 21st of January, 1881, to Miss Mary 
 Goodell, of Leadville ; one child has been born to them. The 
 Governor has always been an active Democrat, though per- 
 sistently refusing to accept offices, as his business interests 
 would materially interfere with the many offers that have been 
 tendered him by his party ; his acceptance of Governorship 
 for 1883-4, at the pressing solicitation of friends, being an ex- 
 ception to the rule. Were we to devote our space to fulsome 
 flattery, certainly Governor Grant would be entitled to a large 
 share of it, as his personal worth and friendship is esteemed 
 by the best men in social and political circles. 
 
 W. D. Mann. 
 
 W. D. Mann, the General Agent of the Chicago, Rock Is- 
 land & Pacific, was born in San Francisco in 1855. He en- 
 tered the railroad service in the latter part of 1870 as tele- 
 graph operator at a small station on the Central Pacific road. 
 From that time to 1876 he was employed as operator and 
 agent for the Central Pacific road at nearly every station, 
 with the exception of six months, when he was employed by 
 the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1876 he resigned 
 from the Central Pacific road and accepted a position on the 
 Virginia & Truckee Railroad, with headquarters at Carson 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM 01 COLORADO. 
 
 ('ir\ . II.- work. -d on this road until December 81, 1SS-'. till- 
 in^ tli- positions of telegraph operator, train-dispatcher, 
 ti'-k' bhe General 1'a^ and 
 
 irtment. II ned at that tim>- the 
 
 -an Francisco. II" held i nion until tin- fob 
 
 louin- May. when he was appointed Colorado Passeii 
 
 . ;ock Island iV 1'acilic, with head^uar 
 
 M June of the following year he was ap 
 
 it, which posb has since in-ld. 
 
 ! leaver Club, and his LT'-nial disp 
 
 <l liiin ! [role ol' the most f<tMMIird 
 
 Mr. Mann was marrird in Carson ( 
 in Niarch, 1881, to Miss Rachel Sailer, of Philadel- 
 phia, [Vnnsylvani 
 
 Robert R. Wright, 
 
 ial junior partner of the linn of SkininT 1 
 
 ^V Wriirlit. of Denvi-r. i> a man whom to know, is to lik'. ll- 
 
 'ntithMi to b. called a pioneer having ci)ine into 
 
 the \\Vsi in ls?-J. He was born August K>, 1 
 
 at Willhrahani. Mass.. finishing his education at theWesleyan 
 
 Arad'-mv in tin- same town. Mr. Wright was inarritMl June 
 
 3 Molli. Ke, daughter oi' Rev. Kdward 
 
 ni of liie Wesley n Academy, Wilbraham. 
 
 Ma>-.: tlit-y ha\e three children. He began his business 
 
 r in isr.o in which year lie went to Springfield. M. 
 wh.-re he obtained employment in a book and wholesale no- 
 tion 1m ined until the ..peniim- of the war 
 wh.-n In- enlishMl in the Mh Massachusetts Uegiment. <erving 
 
 -t' tin- war. In lMi< lie returned to 
 
 am and engaged in merchantil. with liis 
 
 r In the spriiiL r ol' ISi'.l). he was elected Town ( 'lerk and 
 
 r which offii ii'ld until 1S7^, when he came to 
 
 . In the fall of the same year he went to New 
 
 anie largely interested in the sheep business. 
 
 16 brought his herds to Colorado; remaining in the 
 
 for nine years. Dun; en years of the a; 
 
 timeih'wa- of the Colorado Wool Grower's As 
 
 Succeeding this he was in the employ of Mr. .1. 
 M. Kckhart. who was in t he dot hing business, for tin -. 
 
 bie end of the tb trs Mr. Iv-khart was sneer, -ded in 
 
 ness by Mr. G W. Skinner with whom Mr. \Vi 
 lined until isso when the present firm of Skinner Bros. 
 tV \\' right was formed. They immediately purchased their 
 
134 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 present site and erected the building now covering it. Mr. 
 Wright is one of the most successful business men in Denver 
 and a man who numbers his friends by the* thousands and in 
 every part of the West. Those who do business with him 
 once* never fail to return a second time. His pleasant smile 
 and cheery mood is a pleasure to all. 
 
 O. F. D. Webb. 
 
 Among the pioneers of Colorado the above-named gentle- 
 man is one of the finest looking men we have seen. His life 
 has been a quiet and honorable one. Mr. Webb was born in 
 1837, in Appomattox county, Virginia, and received his 
 education in the common country schools of that county. He 
 was married in Virginia to Miss Mary Etta V. Fore; they have 
 seven children. Mr. Webb came to Colorado in the early 
 days, arriving in Denver in 1865. From 1873 to 1875 he 
 served as Alderman for the ward he lived in. In 1876 he was 
 appointed Coroner, to fill an unexpired term, and was after- 
 wards elected to that position for the succeeding term. In 
 politics he has always been a Republican. Mr. Webb has 
 chiefiy followed mercantile business. He is an obliging gen- 
 tleman, and one who is esteemed highly by all who know 
 him. At the present time he is not engaged in business, but 
 a man of such an active mind as he has will not long want for 
 an opening in Denver. 
 
 Thomas M. Bowen, 
 
 Of Del Norte, was born near the present site of Burlington, 
 Iowa, October 26. 1835; received an academic education at 
 Mount Pleasant, Iowa; was admitted to the bar at the age of 
 eighteen, and very soon thereafter removed to Wayne coun- 
 ty, Iowa, where, in 1856, he was elected to the House of Re- 
 presentatives of that State; removed to the then Territory of 
 Kansas in 1858; served in the Army from June, 1861, until 
 1865, first a Captain in the First Regiment, Nebraska Volun- 
 teers, after which he raised and commanded, as Colonel, the 
 Thirteenth Kansas Infantry until the close of the war; was 
 Brigadier- General by brevet and had command of a brigade 
 the last two years of the war, first in the Army of the frontier, 
 but later in the Seventh Army Corps; was a member of the 
 National Republican Convention as a Delegate from the State 
 of Kansas in 1864; at the close of the war remained in Arkan- 
 sas; was a member and President of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of that State, which convened under the reconstruc- 
 
I tOORAPHIC \I. < oMI'I.MMI M OF < (>l. <>K ADO. 
 
 tioii act< of Congress, and was a .1 u-t ice of the Supreme Court 
 
 of th n- yean, ^hen he accepted the position of 
 
 Governor of Idaho Territory, tende him i>y rr.-ident 
 
 ({rant in 1S7I, Imt i rkansa-. where 
 
 1 for the Senate of the I 111 by Hon. 
 
 S. \\ D >rs< > i Mi" 
 
 party caucus having failed |. . n .lamia 
 
 !i a Territory. resumed the practi, 
 1 at ili' oru r ani/ation of 
 
 elected .Indite <f tin' I 1 '- nirt h Judicial h din 
 
 that oai four \ ears, aftei tiGh lie i in 
 
 ial targe mining enterprises and r ! in privah* lif* 
 
 until rli fall id' ISS-j. \vh'ii h' \va-< lM-t<Ml a atiye 
 
 islannv; s.'t-vtMl in that Ixxly as Chairman ^1 
 
 1 '.oimiiirt.-c (.!' \Va\ - and M ned, h;i 
 
 1 to tin* 'l IS S.Miat'- a 
 
 ]\\< teriD will .'Xp'nv Mairh :^, 1889. 
 
 George G. Symes. 
 
 lion. < J.-or-.- (i. Synn's \va^ horn April -JS. 1S-K), in .\ 
 tahn --'I his early ''duration, in the 
 
 common schools [n 1860 he commenced fh* study <>t' law 
 in La (Yossf. \\' in; l>ut <>n the tiring on Furr Siuntvr. 
 
 on th' .'v.-ninuc <>t' that sanu j day. h enlisted in ( 1 otn}any B, 
 isin Volunteers. He was wounded at the 
 l>att.l( of IJull Run. In Drrrnibfr of ISdl In* was discha 1 
 from s.M-vir*' on acrount of disability, resultinu' from Inner 
 :. In May of th' followiim' year he r.-ci-nifd a company 
 for t!i' Twenty-lit'th \Vi<consin Infantry, of which reiriment 
 h'- wa- ai>|oint'd Adjutant. The following October the 
 neut was ordered to Minnesota, and he particip- 
 months' campaign against the sioux Indians. Tin* 
 in the X'icksburir campaiu'n. In dan 
 
 nary, 1864,] oommissioned Captain of t "any he 
 
 had ruN-'d. and \t with < General Sherman in hi-< famous 
 
 Mn-idia: itiOD; after tha' -iment was sent to join 
 
 the ' altaiK" al)le . \tlan 
 
 u. on the 22d of Jnly, 1864; Captain Syii 
 
 .unded by a l>all pierciii^ his -id<\ \\ hile in command 
 of a sUirmNliini:- line i Decatii: the 
 
 spot vrh i MclMierson was killed. Nexl mo 
 
 ntly to resume hi- ]>;, he wa& proi 
 
 Porty-fonrth Wisconsin Infantry 
 that regiment he took part in the sci.LT** and 
 Ule, in the vvim.M- of I 
 
136 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 March he received special orders from General Thomas to 
 proceed with his regiment to Eastport, Mississippi, and, take 
 command of a number of vessels to convey 10,000 prisoners 
 to St. Louis, Missouri. The Confederates, however, had 
 taken up the railroad track back of Corinth, so the prisoners 
 had to be taken up the Mississippi to another point. In 
 April he served as president of a court martial and a military 
 commission. In May he took command of a cavalry expedi- 
 tion through Western Kenti^^ and Tennessee to 'quell the 
 guerillas, and after a three- week's raid he returned with over 
 two hundred prisoners. He was next given command of the 
 Fort of Paducall, Kentucky, and during that summer 
 he restored the supremacy of the civil law in that city. On 
 tfee 1st of September following Colonel Syraes returned to 
 Madison, Wis., after over four years of faithful service. In 
 January, 1866, he returned to Paducah, to practice law. The 
 following year he was prevailed upon to run for Congress on 
 the Republican ticket; but the whole ticket was defeated. 
 In 1879 President Grant appointed him Associate Justice of 
 Montana Territory; he accepted and held that position until 
 February, 1871, when he resigned. In 1874 he left Helena, 
 Montana, and after considerable travel, settled down in Den 
 ver. He was elected as Representative at large for the Forty- 
 ninth Congress, and re-elected again in 1886 for the same 
 position. Judge Symes has been very successful in the prac- 
 tice of law in this State, as elsewhere. He is a good speaker, 
 and quick in comprehending the various points of law which 
 affects any case he has charge of. His long and useful pub- 
 lic career, with its weight of trials, have left few care-worn 
 traces on him, as he is still vigorous and hearty, always 
 ready to perform any useful and necessary work, and is al- 
 ways polite and courteous to everyone. Judge Sjanes was 
 married in July, 1875, to Miss Sophie Foster, of Chicago, Il- 
 linois, daughter of Colonel John W. Foster, the scientist and 
 president of the Academy of Science at the time of his death. 
 In Judge Symes, the Republicans have a staunch leader, 
 whose faithful service is duly appreciated. 
 
 Lorin A. Staley. 
 
 Mr. Staley, of the law firm of Bucklin, Staley & Saney 1 
 was born in Newark, Ohio, February 12, 1854. At an early 
 age he removed with his parents to Tama county, Iowa, 
 where his early life was spent in attending district school. 
 In 1865, he removed with his parents to Memphis. Tenn., 
 thence, in 1867, to Sedalia, Mo., and the following year to 
 
B \PIII. AI. OOMPENDIl M 01- COLORADO. 
 
 county, same State. During me latter year he 
 
 entered the State l : lumbla, Mo., from which 
 
 1 1-' then '.nil- fco Deni er ami l)egan 
 
 31 inly <> he was admitted to ihr : 
 
 'i 81 tin lary. l>7'.. he came 
 
 t> K.'kMim,. f,,. partnership with Men. Sail' 
 durin- hi- i 
 
 ii. In Jin. .miied ( ity 
 
 . ot Ko' hirh odicr IK- ii(n< MK! efficient- 
 
 ill ea 01 . l^'ill- h- removed b< 
 
 ;ii of Mesa county, inhere ii" entx 
 
 . -hip with lion. , I. \V. 1'iirklin. >tii! i ^ his 
 
 '.'n with his ['onnrr }.arrn<T I 1 . 
 
 i-. In his new home i 
 
 ilion of ]nuu5iienr<' amoii.u- the leu'al li. that 
 
 ;y. II- .trrieil in 1SS."> and is tl: i i'atlier 
 
 Lid. Mr. 's knowledge and acute ana! 
 
 18 him a vei-y >ii'-cessful practitioner. I !' field 
 lion of City .\tioiney in (Jrand Junction ioj- a nuin- 
 \\ e predict for him a hriirht t'ntn; 
 
 L. Ransohoff. 
 
 Mr. Kansohoir. <ne of the nienibers of the enterprising linn 
 
 illin >V Rang 3aQ Tin in by birth, and was ednr 
 
 in that country. Mr. Ransohoir was married to Mi>< IiM>alie 
 1 in the ynar 1S7S. and is tlie h:i|)])y lather of two chil- 
 dien. He has in the dry iroods bnsin-- 
 
 >ince tlie tall of I Mill, and from a small b'-^inniiiir 
 hed the imjiortant position the firm now hold in the 
 ercial world. He is tall and genteel in appearance, -tnd 
 : tnient is a, ntlemanlv. and to his 
 
 : manners may be at tril>u:.-d in a iin-al measure the 
 pularity and b wliicb the firm control. M> 
 
 lib ipy the >rner store in theTabor 
 
 ft House, On Cortifi and Sixteenth 8ta ihey 
 
 j"iitlemen of strict integrity, they will no doubt continue 
 in their business. 
 
 John Curran Keegan, 
 
 ,il liirht of Denver and a -on of the "Kmer 
 
 Aid i iinainore. ('onnty Leitrim. Ireland. 
 
 He be^ ;in his education at the National School. Mailman, 
 
 Lfterwards al 8f Mary's A.cademy, A.rva,OountyCorean,and 
 
 it the rnivei-ity o'f Dublin. 'After linishiiiLr his col 
 
138 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 course he studied law in London, England. Mr. Keegan is 
 proud, and justly so, of the fact that his ancestors were active 
 participants in every movement, looking to the freedom of his 
 native country, some of them having suffered martyrdom in the 
 Irish Rebellion of 1798 under Robert Emmett. Soon after 
 Mr. Keegan' s arrival in this country he obtained a posicion 
 upon the editorial staff of the New York Star, at the same time 
 doing other literary work for foreign periodicals. Following 
 this he again resumed the study of the law. When the well- 
 known Chilian leaders, Generals Lynch and Higgins were in 
 New York seeking men to aid them in conquering the irre- 
 pressible Peruvians, he joined his fortune with them and was 
 a participent and faithful follower of Gen. Lynch in many 
 exciting and dangerous events, and upon the final settlement 
 of the Chilian-Peruvian question he again returned to New 
 York and resumed the study of the law. From New York he 
 went to Chicago where he was for a time engaged in journal- 
 istic work, but finally resumed the practice of Ms profession. 
 In January of 1883, he came to Denver and has ever 
 since applied himself to his profession and has built 
 up for himself a lucrative and growing practice of which 
 many an older lawyer might be proud. Mr. Keegan was 
 married on September 25, 1882, to Miss Mary A. O'Connor, at 
 La Salle, Illinois. His life, though short, has been an event- 
 ful one, and his adventures have been of a character to 
 sharpen his wits and bring out his resources, and have put 
 him in possession of experiences of incalculable value. 
 We predict for him a bright future. 
 
 Prank Church. 
 
 Hon. Frank Church, whC> holds at the present time the 
 position of County Treasurer of Arapahoe county, was born at 
 Massena, St. Lawrence, New York, in the year 1844, and 
 graduated at St. Lawrence Academy. He also attendee 
 Middleburg College, Vermont, graduating in the class o:' 
 1869. Mr. Church was married to Miss Phoebe E. Gove, a, 
 Denver, Colorado, in 1871; they have one child. Mr. Churcl 
 has always been an active Republican, and his merits as & 
 man and politican have been amply shown in the various 
 positions of trust accorded to him in political and socia. 
 circles. He has filled the position of County School Superin 
 tendent for four years; has been a member of the School Board 
 for District No. 1, and was elected a member of the State 
 Senate for 1879. In the societies that he belongs to he has 
 also been favored with many high offices, and by his strict 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMI'KMUIM ADO. 
 
 attention to e\,-rytliino- he undertake.- \\ 
 
 thanks ami < 
 
 John L. Routt, 
 
 I inn. .luiin i.. i; 
 
 yernor of Colorado, \va> horn in Caldw.*!] < 
 
 tuckv in 1^'>. II' M in 
 
 .-I after\\ le .f hiiilder 
 
 and machinist, which lit- continued tu fo!lu\v unti 
 
 otliee ..f ini; thai he held 
 
 M<-I.-an county, I Llinois. I 
 
 . tin- coir ( ''uij):inv of the N "iirth Hi' 
 
 Volu !>attle of Prairie (irovc. Arka 1 
 
 with some narn>\\ -. t hive luillets ha\ii, 
 
 ol'-rliino- in .ine day. Diluent he wa- in 
 
 iksbnrg, and i-enmined there until 
 
 ihe fall nf that city. They alsu >er\ ed iind- --al P>aid<s in 
 
 ain Iiiutt f >crv(Ml until the fall >f IM:-.*.. and ujoii hi*, 
 return t BlOOmingtOD fmind that lie had lieen placed afi 
 date f'..!- ] McLean enmity, and he \\a> not <n; . 
 
 that time, lni ;ed the succeeding term, and thendecliiM 
 
 andidate tor the third term. H' \va> then ..tTei-ed the , 
 tion of ( 'hirl .''the P.ureau <f the Scc..nd 
 
 \Va-hine.-ton. which he accrpted. In 
 dent (irant \ < >luntaril v apjn >inted him as I'nited. St.-r 
 shal f'r the MHirlu-rn district uf Illinois, conjjii'i-inu- 
 -utmtic>. In the fall uf 1^1 Pre-ident < rre.l the 
 
 'Hi upon hin 
 
 :i position he huiiurahly lilled unti when the 
 
 dered to him 1 he ( iuvcrnurship of Colorado. I 
 
 lie machinery in mutiun 
 
 tent fur < d mainlv through \\\< - 
 
 dent ( irant. uii Auo-u-t 1 . LSI pmclam 
 
 into the I 'nioii In ackimwlfdirincn' 
 
 ernor Koiitt wae nominatetl h\- t!ie Kepuhli-an- 
 acclamation, for GovemOT of the . the 
 
 President of th< 
 
 under ' 
 ISO in>f it uted m< 
 
 : n mini: 
 
 : ville. with 1 : and d 
 
 coinhined \\ 
 IL 
 
140 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 amongst cattlemen is regarded as understanding that business 
 thoroughly. At all cattle conventions, he is a ccorded the positions 
 of honor, which his knowledge and happy disposition peculiarly 
 fits him for. 
 
 Frederick Cramer, 
 
 Sheriff of Arapahoe county, was born in Sand Lake, Renseler Co., 
 ISfew York, August 25, 1833, and there received a common school 
 education. In 1852 he went to Xew York City and took charge 
 of a mill for the manufacture of wood-work. In 1858 he went to 
 Minnesota and Montana, and was there during the Indian massacre 
 of 1862-3. In Sept., 1863, he was married to Miss Zilpa Parker, of 
 Brooklyn, Xew York. The same year he came to Colorado, and 
 followed mining in Park county until 1865, when he came to 
 Denver to locate as a contractor and builder. During his 
 residence in Denver he has served as a member of the School 
 Board and also in the City Council, and repeatedly has refused to 
 be again nominated for public positions. In his capacity as Sheriff 
 he is doing hard work to faithfully perform the duties of his of- 
 fice, and has exhibited good skill in that capacity. As a contractor 
 and builder he has erected many fine buildings and is acknowl- 
 edged as a thorough artist in that line. Personally he is large and 
 portly, and bears a kind and honest face having the stamp of a 
 man who holds a warm heart for friends and who is also capable 
 of forgiving his enemies. 
 
 James H. Jones, 
 
 The local agent for the Pacific Express Co. in one of those who 
 have become familiar to the citizens of Denver, through long con- 
 tinue service among them. He is by birth a Virginian. In 1849 
 he emigrated to Missouri and embarked in mercantile pursuits. 
 In 1853 he began freighting on the, plains and in the mountains 
 between the Missouri River and Salt Lake City, with headquarters 
 in the latter place. He removed to Colorado early in. 1867 as the 
 agent of Wells, Fargo & Co/s express and stage lines, then running 
 from Fort Kearney to the Eastern terminus of the Central Pacific- 
 Railroad and covering about three thousand miles of stage line. 
 On the completion of the Union Pacific to Cheyenne the line was 
 sold to John Hughes & Co., who retained Mr. Jones as their 
 agent. After the Kansas Pacific Railroad was completed to Den- 
 ver the stages were withdrawn, and the express business revested 
 to Wells, Fargo & Co., and was subsequently transferred to the 
 Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Express 'Company, with Mr. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM 01 COLORADO, 141 
 
 Inn* -|T for hoth. !I> '.lit- time l!i 
 
 US-Pacific K-iilway. I'mler hi> manaovinent th- 
 
 ilicant 1 -o;inniii. 
 
 it magnitude. He ha- witnessed tin- M-I-. . \\-ili (' the eit\ 
 
 i population >f l.nuo t.. nt numher 
 
 ii'l hi- position tlimuo-h all its tefl anl ch;. 
 
 [ministration, ami durii, baa l-vui-l hi 
 
 quietly to the faithfnl discharge of his duties. It may i 
 
 him that while 1: u-ds the 
 
 time ju-t t. tin- puhlic, ly whom he i- hcil in 
 
 uni\' \ltlnuip-h maintaining a (pi! \\\ he i> 
 
 ial ami all rSOD -N t" him ( 'ii>i- 
 
 unimportant, and failed t im--t a ,-, ,nrt<-< . 
 ;t!id the c.in>iU'ratinn due t'nn. :i to amthcr. 
 
 ! hi- 
 
 in all matter ^ (jnc<ti.ns <!' 1 ran>|Mrtat inn is held in 
 
 a (' the . \alue. Altlmu^h re|teatedly solicit- 
 
 16 a eandidatt fm- vai-inii> pnlitical Imiior 
 
 nnlv deelinetl. havjne- no ta-t.e m- inclinatinn in that dire-- 
 M :. Jones 3 hair ami heard are \vhitenino- \virh the advanei' !' j 
 hut he still ivtains his old time \ iu;"r and attends T< all the dutie.- 
 incident t<> hi- |--itinn with the same interest ami can 1 which lie 
 
 OWB, and doe n: ,dln\v any <!' it- minn. rail> 
 
 him. His l'riMil> may lnk I'm- many m 
 
 fnlne-- f'r.iiii him. his pleasant c.mtinuanee and wise business tact 
 could imt \vell he >pared. 
 
 H. M. Teller. 
 
 Henrv Bfoore Teller is <!' Dutch de-cent, and wa- horn in (iran- 
 Alle^hanv coimt\. Xe\\ York. Mav '!'->. \^~t(). His father. 
 
 John Teller, .was born" in Schenectedy, New ^'m-k. l^eln-nai 
 
 1 ^<M>. was a farmer, and -pent a Inntr life a> >uch. II i> nmtluT, who 
 
 t livin-.. aative !' X'enimnt. and WBS horn in 1808. 
 Hem , d academic education. \\'hile he wa- attend 
 
 my. he at interval.- taught >clm,il to aid him in the 
 further i '"ii of hi- -tudie-. Haxino- e..mpletel th- 
 
 : law in the otliee and under the instruction nf 
 Martin < m-ver. and wa- admitted t. the liar .lanuai 
 
 i, Ni-w Vrk. I Ie then m< 
 
 Whit. -untv, Illirmis, where he heo-.-m the p Ahichhe 
 
 continued at that place until April l^f'.l. \vheii he en 
 
 lo. Hen 1 he found a wider field I'm- the 
 of hi . and Imth in the pr.-, : in nth- 
 
142 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 prises he has been remarkably successful up to the present time. 
 The law firm of which he is the senior partner is that of H. M. & 
 W. Teller. The Colorado Central Railway is one of the most im- 
 portant enterprises ever projected in the State, and the honor of 
 originating it and pressing the enterprise to a successful termina- 
 tion is due to Mr. Teller. Its charter was drawn by him and pres- 
 ented to the Territorial Legislature in 1865. For five years he 
 was president of the company. Into its construction he infused 
 the energy of his own progressive spirit, 'and its subsequent 
 management has been watched by him with the utmost solicitude. 
 As a business man and financier, Mr. Teller has proven his excel- 
 lence. His judgement is clear, and upon a presentation of facts, 
 is quickly formed. He rarely errs when thoroughly acquainted 
 with the subject in hand, whether as a lawyer or an operator. 
 During the Indian troubles of 1863, he was appointed a Brigadier- 
 General of Militia, which capacity he served two years and then 
 resigned the place. He is a prominent Mason and Knight Tem- 
 plar, having served as Grand Master of the State seven years, 
 and was Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of 
 Colorado. In politics he was originally a Democrat, but 
 joined the Republicans in 1855, when the party was in its infancy. 
 Although he has long been actively engaged in politics and 
 thoroughly identified with the party, yet he was never a candidate 
 for any office till he became a candidate for United States Senator 
 in 1876. Even then he did not work for the position. Long 
 residence in the Territory, active work in advancing its material 
 progress, a wide-spread reputation as a sound and able lawyer and 
 previous labors for the welfare of the party, together with an ex- 
 tensive acquaintance with the people of Colorado, made his election 
 by the Legislature a comparatively easy matter. When, therefore, 
 Colorado came to choose her first two Senators, he was elected for 
 a period that was to be determined by lot. He drew the. short 
 term, which closed in 1877. He was re-elected to serve a full term 
 from 1877 to 1883, and was again re-elected in 1883, and is now in 
 the Senate. Senator Teller's career in the National Legislature 
 has been marked by the same energy, the same integrity and the 
 same sagacity that characterized his earliest life. He is popular 
 with his people, because their welfare, and not his own personal 
 interests, is the first thought with him. Colorado is rapidly de- 
 veloping into a populous and wealthy State, and she requires, in 
 her senatorial representation, liberal thought, sound policy and a 
 comprehensive grasp of intellect. And these she finds well de- 
 veloped in her distinguished Senator. He is popular with the ad- 
 ministration and with his brother Senators, because of his intel- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL < '>\! I-KN m r.M OF COLORADO. ! }:; 
 
 lie fidelity :ml li' ility, 1 1 married 
 
 ! >;i. Neu I 'ork, .lanuan ~. . 1 IlarriH M. I 1 ,: 
 
 i intellr : ic and thrift \ 
 
 :\i'\^ mar i r childi < -n horn; all na 
 
 'entral < 'ii v, ( loiorad ttber <>f the 
 
 Methodi.-t Kpi>eopal church; of which Senator Teller is a sup 
 
 r, hut imt a cMimnimicuiit. II.- i- ti\ e 
 
 hiidi. re habitB, 'MJnv> perfect health, m- hundn d 
 
 pound- ami i> endowed wii ,'lur- 
 
 3 -iiatin- 'l\'llcr is a' man nf . 'I'.. th( 
 
 ina poor he i> a friend and : <r. !! ha> l"ii.- much 
 
 trnituilnus wnrk fir thcad\ anccincnt d' ('.lnrad-> and 
 
 , wherever :m advantage t th( ared. 
 
 .'nial and attractive. DO8 
 in>tantlv attract men tnhini. With hi.- |. :iren. 
 
 iffable and engaging. Sis reputation f'r ju'-.hitx 
 and U[rin-htne>> ..I' life is almv*- repmach. Studinii-, i-. 
 
 - and faithful as a lawyer, he ! : I he 
 
 ad to no man in the West. !! d, and hi^ npin- 
 
 1 upon cnnclusinns at which he ha> arri , ma- 
 
 thnutjjht. Ilis j, .-hial. ami he never fnr 
 
 WIMMI clniid- and dnuht> lie-in tn outlier, 
 jury h^ is alnmst ii'resistihlc, while as a jurist his profound kimw- 
 
 inderUin^ principl- 
 
 ;vely ynuno; in the halls nf Le^islatinn, i AIIIU; a FI.-UIH- 
 
 that will n-,. down to the future and he a to Mie 
 
 'it-. 
 
 Vidal Shoblo, 
 
 lie interpreter.- in Spanisli f.r the Ilmi-e in I 
 
 inhly, was horn in New Me\ic-> April *>. 1^ ( >1, and 
 his education in the Spanish laninia_ov in Trinidad, ('.>!<. 
 radn, his present home. Mr. Slmhln i- a I )ein>crat, and tli 
 
 quit.*; y>un^ is fa vorably regarded hy that par fmir 
 
 Keen in the Cnunty Ch-r! 'inas 
 
 J !i I sv > 1, when hut t wentv \ ;-rpn-ter 
 
 for the . and lie has a! one of the tran.-lat- 
 
 I'm- the pa>t ton in hi> COUntj. Mr 
 
 >un<_ r and talented, and Is possessed of such abilities 
 
 that for him a ii>eful puhlic C !l unma: 
 
 yoiino; and hand will have hut little trouble 
 
 .all' when he BO de-ire-, and tlius help to in. 
 
 irth 
 
144 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Territorial Organization. 
 
 W. B. VICKERS. 
 
 The early pioneers were good citizens, but they forsaw the law- 
 less element which would fall upon them presently, and earnestly 
 endeavored to provide themselves with proper laws and peace of- 
 ficers. But the work of organizing a Territory is at best a tedious 
 process, and, in this case, it was hindered by conflicting interests 
 and opinions. Some wanted to organize a State at once, claiming 
 in their enthusiasm, that the requisite population could be shown 
 by the time a vote would be taken on the question. Some opposed 
 alike the State and Territorial movement, and wanted to remain a 
 dependence of Kansas, and the roughs were opposed to any and 
 all forms of government not very strange, in view of the fact that 
 most of them, were fugitives from justice, in one or another of the 
 older States or Territories. 
 
 After the formal establishment of the new county under Kan- 
 sas administration, the next important step was the State move- 
 ment. A public meeting, held in Auraria (West Denver), April 
 11, 1859, had resolved in favor of a State organization, and the 
 scheme advanced so far during the summer that a Constitution 
 was prepared, and submitted to a Vote of the people in September. 
 The convention which framed the Constitution, wisely provided 
 that, in case of its rejection, a delegate to Congress, to be voted 
 fpr on the same clay, should proceed to Washington, and again en- 
 deavor to have the gold region set off from Kansas, as a new 
 Territory, to be known as Jefferson. The Constitution was reject- 
 ed by a large majority, the vote in its favor being but 649 to 2,- 
 007 against it. 
 
 B. D. Williams was elected Delegate over seven competitors. 
 The election was a very exciting affair. Even at that early, day, 
 there were charges and counter-charges of fraud, some of them, 
 probably, well founded. The Returning Board came in for its 
 share of obloquy, too, but, as no "eminent citizens," or Congres- 
 sional Committee, inquired into the matter, it failed to achieve a 
 national reputation. . 
 
 Thus ended the first effort of the people of Colorado for admis- 
 sion into the Union. It was renewed on several occasions prior to 
 the final successful movement in 1875-76. On one occasion, it 
 was so far successful that, in 1864, Congress passed an enabling 
 act under which a Constitution was framed, adopted, and all the 
 inachinery of State stood ready to move at a moment's notice, 
 when President Andrew Johnson vetoed everything by refusing to 
 
BIOOB M'liic \i. OOMPBNDD M LDO. 
 
 ratify tin- ( 'oiiMitution, on tin- oTotmd tin ained an u: 
 
 *titutiMial provision restricting >ut! .ite inhahit,: 
 
 Thi.- rrihle hlow 
 
 erallv. hut to the unlledovd State official- ami < ' 
 
 Id m. .1. I 1 .. ami ex Gov. John i 
 
 M. ( 'hilcMti. Kfpre.-entalive in < 
 
 : William Gilpin, Governor; ' A. Efindsale, Lieutenant 
 
 rnor; .1 . I ! . cretary and \V. K. < "T-line, Al 
 
 rd ami .1. Brigtt Smith, Justice- t.f tin- Supn-iin- 
 
 Court. 
 
 [Jpon the failure of the first efforl in 1 v -~' ( . tin- Provisional G 
 
 rnimmt of the Territory < ( t' ,IrtVrr-"ii \\-a- 'r<_r ;in i/c(i. h\- the 
 
 titn >f II. \V. rnor; Luci-n \V. \\\\ 
 
 \{. P.isx'll, Auditor: (i. NV.Cook, Tn-asurcr; Samuel Mel 
 
 Attorney 1. ami a full ticket, which was \.ted at 
 
 ami for which -oine t \v thousand our hm 
 at, pro and c<n. Hut in oi-.h-r to heon the >afr >ide. still 
 another election was held on the same day. at which a full ft 
 county oflicer> were chosen, under Kansas rule. and. oO the early 
 pillfrims sailed aloiio; un<ler triple law> foi'atinie. the Miner'- 
 court having to mete out justice after it- crude and 
 
 ry ln-althv fashion. 
 
 The "Provisiona] Government," as the Territorial party 
 
 railed, elected a Lei_n>lat ure. which met in Novemher. and Iran- 
 
 1 considerable onsinesB. The city f Den\fr \ .-liar- 
 
 i hy thi> 1'ody. Niiu- cMUint : ted in the I 
 
 lature. and G !e M-t out to ollicer them hy appoint inn- |'r,, 
 
 bate .hull's and orderine; county elections in .Iaiiuar\. 1 S '.O. 
 There was little oi- no ohjec-tionto the office-holding part of tlie 
 program UK-, hut a poll-tax of Nl p<-r capita. le\ie<l hy the I'r.. 
 'rnment, wa> the occasion of much vii_ r "rMiis "kick- 
 in^." and went farther toward hreakimj; down than >u>tainintr 
 Gov. SteeleV administration. 
 
 Meantime, (apt. Richard now an honon-d cit i/en of 
 
 : n the Kan>a- Legislature, 
 
 and a complete li>t <.f l\ nnty ollicer- ha<l 1 -n in 
 
 the valleys, while the mountain counties stood by their Miner's 
 
 court>. and & much of the I'n\ i>ional ( io\ crnment a> >u ited 
 
 I f an hom-t mit! JOUTt, 
 
 he iiicontineiith' nishnl into another; if ! ; al in 
 
 6 of venue to the nth* 
 tried in lth he tine art !' ta 
 
 d into the country, litigant.- often found tli- 
 
146 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 In January, 1860, the Provisional Legislature met again and 
 made some more laws, which were as inoperative as their predeces- 
 sors. Their failure, however, was due rather to the passivity than 
 resistance of the people. The country was, in fact, peaceable and 
 law-abiding, with the exception of that dangerous class common to 
 the border, to which all laws were alike objectionable, and these 
 roughs were kept in check by the fear of summary punishment. 
 Miners' courts in the mountains had been supplemented by peo- 
 ple's courts in the valleys. The proceedings of the latter were as 
 open and orderly as those of the former; indeed, they approached 
 the dignity of a regularly constituted tribunal. 
 
 They were always presided over by a magistrate, either a Pro- 
 bate Judge or a Justice of the Peace. The prisoner had counsel 
 and could call witnesses, if the latter were within reach. 
 
 So passed the year 1860, which was marked by. some very ex- 
 citing criminal history, and, early in December, upon the re- 
 assembling of Congress, the claims 'of Colorado to Territorial re- 
 cognition were persistently pressed, not only by her own delegates, 
 but by many members who had near relatives or friends in the 
 Pike's Peak country. After a little delay, caused by a press of 
 political business in both Houses, Congress finally took up and 
 passed the Colorado bill, which became a law February 26,1861. 
 President Lincoln immediately appointed Federal officers for the 
 new Territory. William Gilpin was the Governor; Lewis Led- 
 yard Weld, Secretary; B. F. Hall, Chief Justice; S. Newton Pettis 
 and Charles Lee Armour, Associate Justices; Copeland Town- 
 send, United States Marshal; William L. Stoughton, Attorney- 
 General, and Gen. Francis M. Case, Surveyor-General. 
 
 Gov. Gilpin reached Denver May 29, following his appoint- 
 ment. A census of the Territory, taken by him soon after his ar- 
 rival, showed a population of 25,328, divided as follows: White 
 males over age, 18,136; white males under age, 2,622; females, 
 4,484; negroes, 89. 
 
 The new Territory was carved out of the public domain lying 
 between the 102d and 109th meridians of longitude and the 37th 
 and 41st parallels of latitude, thus forming a compact and nearly 
 square tract, its length, east and west, . being 370 miles and its 
 width 280. It comprises an area of 104,500 square miles, an Em- 
 pire in itself and the third largest State in the Union, Texas being 
 the first and California second. According to the maps fully one- 
 third of Colorado is covered by the Rocky Mountains and about 
 one-third more is made up by the desert plains, the remaining 
 third is spurs from the main range on the west side interspersed 
 here and there by small valleys along the water courses. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL ('< >M I'K.N I I I M o I- OOLORA] 147 
 
 State Constitutional Convention. 
 
 
 
 BY K. T. \v 
 
 1 have been solicited to writ.- a history of th- 'itn- 
 
 tional Convention which framed the fundamental law under 
 which we now live. To redeem a promise incaut i >usly u'iven, I 
 essay thf task. I cannot, however, at this distance of time, do 
 more than mention the personnel of the convention and some 
 thiiiir of the most salient i'eatnres of its deliberati< 
 
 The first attempt on the part <>f the inhabitants of the Terri 
 tory of Colorado to secure Statehood was in the year 
 In that year Congress granted an enabling act. and 
 an election was had for delegates to a convention to frame 
 a constitution. The poverty of the community: the immense 
 distance which intervened at that time between our frontier 
 and that of the nearest States. Indian Imsilities and other 
 
 considerations, occasioned a division of sentiment which re- 
 sulted in the defeat of the etlort. In the succeedi 
 without Congressional sanction, an election was held. d--]e- 
 ;. convention called and a Constitution framed 
 which was adopted by popular rote at an election held on 
 the 1st of September 1865. On the 14th Novem 15 of 
 
 >r the new State were chosen as follows: 
 
 William <iil|in, r Judges Supreme Courl 
 
 Lit-i;- \Villi:i;n K. < (online, r 
 
 losiah 11. (iuot, r Alh-ii A. lira-l-cni, r 
 
 x \\". Atkin J. liriu-ht Smith, r 
 
 Supt Public Inst....R. K. Frisbee, I Kfprr>rntati\c in ( 
 
 iy Gen'l......W.BHolloway, I Geor-.- M. chil.-ott, r 
 
 At the same election a Legislature was chosen consisting 
 of nine Republicans and four Democrats in the Senate and 
 twenty-two Republicans and four Democrats in the House. 
 The same division of sentiment among the people of (he 
 Territory, attributable to the same causes which had defeat- 
 ed the previous Hl'orts for admission, however continued, and 
 although the Legislature elected for the proposed State con- 
 vened on the 1'Jtn December 1865 and elected as S 
 John Kvans and .lerome K ('halfee, the bill for adini 
 
 State was, mainly through the efl th disall'- 
 
 within the Territoi ; 1 by the then President ,lohi 
 
 The eli'ort tor adni 
 thei.-ai'tei- until the 
 
 Lmmediatelj 
 
148 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO 
 
 in Congress a sentiment favorable to the admission of Colo- 
 rado; and through his efforts, an Enabling Act was finally 
 adopted by Congress on the 8th of March, 1874. The Act 
 provided for the choice of representatives to form a conven- 
 tion under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the 
 Governor, the Chief Justice and the U. S. Attorney, upon pro- 
 clamation of the Governor, to be issued within ninety days 
 after the 1st of September, 1875. In pursuance of this enact- 
 ment the Hon. John L. Routt, then Governor of the Territory, 
 issued his proclamation on the 14th September, 1875, calling 
 for an election to be held on the 25th of October in the same 
 year for representatives to a convention to frame a Constitu- 
 tion for the new State. Under the authority of the Enabling 
 Act, the Governor, Chief Justice and U. S. Attorney appor- 
 tioned the representatives to the convention among the 
 several counties in the State as follows: 
 
 District. Counties. No. Delegates District. Counties. No. Delegates 
 
 No. I Weld 2 No. 14- Lake and Park 2 
 
 15 Saguache 1 
 
 2 Weld and Larimer 1 
 
 3 Larimer 1 
 
 4 Boulder 2 
 
 5-Gilpin 2 
 
 6 Clear Creek 2 
 
 7 Clear Creek, Summit and 
 
 Grand 1 
 
 8 Jefferson 2 
 
 9 Arapahoe 6 
 
 10 Arapahoe and Douglas 1 
 
 11 Bent 1 
 
 12 Elbert and Bent 1 Total 
 
 13 -El Paso 2 
 
 16 Fremont 1 
 
 17 Pueblo....". 2 
 
 18 Las Animas 3 
 
 19 HuerfanoandLasAnimas 1 
 
 20 Huerfano 1 
 
 21 Costilla 1 
 
 22 Conejos 1 
 
 23 Rio Grande and Hinsdale 1 
 24 La Plata 1 
 
 As part of the history of the movement it may be interest- 
 ing to record the names of the gentlemen who received the 
 suffrages of their fellow-citizens on this occasion, as set forth 
 in the report of the Territorial Board of Canvassers, and the 
 votes which they respectively secured. The political prefer- 
 ences of the successful candidates, whether Republican or 
 Democrat, are indicated by Districts: 
 
 1 Weld County: S. J. Plumb, r, 569; J. S. "Wheeler, d,494; 
 
 H. T. West, 286; 1ST. C. Meeker, 1. 
 2_ Weld and Larimer: A. K.Yount, r, 635; N. C. Meeker, 603; 
 
 Charles E. Broad, 1. 
 
 3 Larimer: W. C. Stover, d, 314; W. K Bachelder, 189. 
 4 Boulder: William E. Beck, r, 710; Byron L. Carr, r, 673; 
 
 James JSTevens, 539; Judson W. Turrell, 553. 
 5_Gilpin: Alvin Marsh, r, 551; H.B.Morse, d, 400; L. C. 
 
 Eockwell, r, 575; Henry Paul, d, 321; John L. Barlow, 41. 
 6 Clear Creek: Wm. M. Clark, r, 705; Wm. H. Cushman, d. 
 
i'HI-'Al, 
 
 ' I'.aldwin. r, 595; Wm. 8, U.M-kwi-ll. ,1, 
 ~, < . Sin, unit and Grand: W. \V. R 
 
 ;. 141; Stephen Decatur, 
 
 RTagstaff, 
 9 Jefp rson: < .. < .. WTiite, d, M)8; Win. Lee, d, t25; A. 8. 
 
 Benson, 389; \V. D. Arm- 
 
 Ajapahoe: E.T, Wells,r, 1,496; 11. P. II. IJromwrll. 
 
 LO. Ellsworth, r, 1,460; F.J.Ehert,r, 1,892; Dani.-l Ihmi, 
 
 r. 1,821; 0. I'. KM.-r, r, L,483; dJfred Sayre, d, l.unu ; K. 
 
 (i. Um-kintrliam, d, s:;i; Wm. < i ilpin. 777;' Alvin Medina 
 
 761; H. It. Hunt, 782; Jamea Weir, V 
 
 10 Arapah.T aii<l D..iitrla>: ('. I*. \Vil<-.\. r, 1,848; .Ilm 11. 
 
 Oraig, LinT. 
 VI P,,M.t: 15. Van /jin.lt. .1. 1'.*: J. \V. \Vi<Mi-i-fic].I. .1. 69'; Ku- 
 
 in, H5. 
 1:.' JJcnl and Kll>rrt: .lolin S. llouo-h, ,1, 240, 
 
 : Joseph 0. Wilson, r, 459; Etoberl I)..n L r la>. r, 162; 
 Janu's T. Wilson, 1H7: K. K. Smith. P, 
 
 11 Park an.l Uki*: WiUiam H. James, r, 369; Webster Uallin- 
 
 ;nr, : George M. r-a>-. l. l^o; Win. M'\- 
 oache: W. B.Feltpn,r, 35; R. H.Jones, 29; John Law- 
 reno 
 
 It) Kivniont: A. I). ( 'UMJHT. r, ^Ol;.lulm W. Warn-n, 2< 
 
 I'ut-l.lu: Henry ('. Hwtcher, r, 217; Wilhnr F. Stone, d,215. 
 
 La- Aniinas: .i-su> M. ( lan-ia. 1, r.': ( 'a-iiiu'n Han-la. <1. 
 Kafarl ('liacon, (L'-ll; <ir<inr- i;.vl'>. <L J-7i: .laun- 1 - ". .\f:ir 
 tiiKlH); A. F. Duiitnn. 5 
 ID Las Aninia.- and Ilui-rfanu: A^apcta Vi^il. <L -VJr> ; CK'inrntr 
 
 Tntriii,,. 263; Anastasia Valdt-/.. 85, 
 20 Ilm-rfan..: U.lTt A.. Quillian, d, 200; Daniel J.Hayden, 84. 
 
 Jl ( -.Milla: Win. II. M.-yt-r, r, US; Danit-1 Bendricks, 19. 
 
 < 'OIU-JMS: Lafayrttc ifcad. r, 1-^. 
 '}'.$ Kin (irand<- and Hin.-dalc: William K. Krniu-dy. d. \!<M ; 
 
 Ht-nry Hfiismi, 1 58, 
 VM La I'fata: Hrnry U. Oosby, P, L85; K. M. Hamilton. 86; V 
 
 K. 1 [aymaker, 
 
 The Convention met at niii in tin* nioiiiin<z: of ilu' -Jlst of 
 DeceinlxT, ls?r>. in llx- third story ot'thr building, iht-n known 
 as tlic First National Hank Building, situated at tin* cornrr 
 
 of 16th and Blake streeta Thr journals of 
 
 und'T tli direction of thr Mayor of tin- city, thr I 
 William ,1. I>arkT. th- hall had' tx d with 
 
 iiuiinM-oiis paintings conti ilnitrd by citis 
 (lrapMl with tin- National flair. A 
 
150 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 the convention met for the purpose of temporary organization 
 and was called to order by the Hon. Robert Douglas, of 
 El Paso county, a venerable gentleman who has served on 
 several occasions in the Territorial Legislature. On motion 
 of the Hon. Henry C. Thatcher, of Pueblo, Wilbur F. Stone, 
 Esq., of the same county, was selected for temporary Presi- 
 dent and delivered an appropriate address, expressing the 
 hope that the deliberations of the convention would be 
 animated by candor, moderation and a true pride of State, 
 and that the Constitution adopted might be a monument of 
 honor to the Centennial State. William R Kennedy, 
 Esq., of Hinsdale, was elected temporary Secretary, and 
 Alvin Marsh, Esq., of Grilpin county; Clarence B. Elder, Esq.; of 
 Arapahoe county and Robert Quillian, Esq., of Huerfano 
 county, were appointed a Committee on Credentials. At a 
 later nour the Committee on Credentials reported the follow- 
 ing named delegates as entitled to seats upon the floor of the 
 convention: 
 
 1 S J Plumb nd Jno S Wheeler 13 J C Wilson and R Douglas 
 
 2 A K Yount 14 Wm H James and Geo E Pease 
 
 3 W C Stover 15 W B Felton 
 
 4 W E Beck, Byron L Carr 16 A D Cooper 
 
 5 Alvin Marsh and L C Rockwell 17 Wilbur F Stone and Henry C 
 
 6 Wm H Cushman, Wm M Clark Thatcher 
 
 7 W W Webster 18 George Boyles, J M Garcia and 
 
 8 G G White and William Lee Casimero Barela 
 
 9 H P Bromwell,L C Ellsworth, "19 Agapeta Vijil 
 
 F J Ebert, C P Elder, E T 20 Robert A Quillian 
 
 Wells and Daniel Kurd 21 William H Meyer 
 
 10 H P Wilcox 22 Lafayette Head 
 
 11 J W Widderfield 23 W R Kennedy 
 
 12 John S Hough 24 Henry R Crosby 
 
 At a later date B. Yan Zant made claim to the seat of the 
 Hon. J. W. Widderfield, but the committee to whom the mat- 
 ter was reported, were unable to find any ground for his claim. 
 This was the only contest which occurred. 
 
 On the adjournment of the convention for the afternoon, the 
 Republican members met in caucus and agreed upon a per- 
 manent organization of the convention selecting for the 
 several positions the gentlemen of their faith afterwards 
 elected. The delegates of the Democratic party, being in the 
 minority, had previously met in caucus and determined on 
 the course to be taken by them. 
 
 On the 22nd December, the convention met pursuant to 
 adjournment and completed its organization by the election 
 of the following: 
 
 President Joseph C Wilson, rep El Paso 
 
 Secretary W W Coulson,rep Boulc-er 
 
 First Assistant Secretary Herbert Stanley, rep Clear Creek 
 
I [o, (i ; Al'llic A I. < i OOLOR.v 
 
 iming. " p 
 itrArms.. 
 
 I 'ark 
 
 aidt, rep 
 Janit 
 
 lMlT|IVt. i ' 
 
 ino Pond 
 
 The proceedings for the permanent organi/;ition were 
 livened hy an animated speech from the lln. Geori: 
 lenounciiiLC the conduct >f the K. -publican ni'-m 
 
 In engroiBsing the places in the gifl of tin- convention afu-r 
 
 the many disclaimers of partisanship which had h.-en n: 
 At the conclusion of the remarks of Mr. Pease a d'-l- 
 marked in the slaiiLC <t' the day "Let us have IN-ase." 
 solutions were passed formally adoptinu- t he ( \.nst ituti- 
 the I'nited States in pursuance of the re^inn-men; 
 ablinir Act. The proceedings of this day were opened with 
 prayer by the Rev. 1- . \ r oorhees Finch and <>n th- f<.ll. 
 day it was voted that the mini the variou- d.-n 
 
 nations of D'-nver. or other ministers ]>resent in the city be 
 invited by the Chair to official iy a^ chaplaii 
 
 ention. At the >ul days' sessions, prayer 
 
 i\v Bishop John F.Spaolding and by the Rev. 
 Mr. Bads, I ^r. Lord of the Pr- ui ehui 
 
 M. Sturt.-\ -ant of the Congregational chui'ch. thelJ. 
 
 IK Adams, Hawley. Linn, XVellin^ron. Keller. 
 Hartford and Miller; many of these gentlemen olliciatin^ 
 upon several occasions. 
 
 On the jth day of the session of the convention ..January 
 4th the Chair announced the standing committees, as f<>l! 
 
 mil of Rights Marsh, \Vidderlield, Head, Ellsworth and 
 Wheeler. 
 
 Leyixl'ithm <nt<l Legislaf n r> Thatcher, Stover. YA 
 -lames. Meyer, \Vilcox. Clark, Boyles and Cushman. 
 
 />> ixirti/Kiil Klder. IloiiLch. .lames. Head and 
 White. 
 
 Jiiflirnir;/ Stone, Wells, Thatcher. Beck, Mar-h. \\ 
 well. \Vhite. IJovles, Kennedy, Pease, y>' } 
 
 l{i<i/it. '/' and MS -Webster, I'romweii, 
 
 Stoi, . \'iC r il. 
 
 linfttm'lni, : /! iimnil 
 
 \Vllr. 
 
 h, Thatcher. \\ la . \\ 
 
152 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Revenue and Finance Cushman, Yount, Hough, Plumb 
 and Ellsworth. 
 
 Counties Boyles, James, Stover, Kurd and Plumb. 
 
 Officers and Oath of Office Felton, Wells, Lee, Crosby 
 and Quillian. 
 
 Military Affairs Garr, Cooper and Pease. 
 
 Mines and Mining Clark, James, Kennedy, Rockwell 
 Crosby, Stover, Ebert, Carr and Webster. 
 
 Irrigation, Agriculture and Manufactures Plumb, Head, 
 Barela, Felton, Wheeler, Lee, Ebert, Widderfield and Cooper. 
 
 Accounts and Expenditures of Convention Yount, Ebert 
 and Barela. 
 
 Stale Institutions and Buildings Douglas, Hurd, Quil- 
 lian, Cushman and Kennedy. 
 
 Congressional and Legislative Apportionment Beck, 
 Thatcher, Quillian, Ellsworth, White, Meyer. Pease, Kennedy 
 and Clark. 
 
 Federal Relations Wilcox, White and Garcia. 
 
 Future Amendments Pease, Elder, Boyles, Wilcox and 
 Marsh. 
 
 Revision and Adjustments Wells, Bromwell, Carr, Lee 
 and Rockwell. 
 
 Schedule Quillian, Wells,' Stone, Marsh and Carr. 
 
 Printing Hough, Bromwell and Webster. 
 
 Enrolling and Engrossing Cooper, Crosby and Widder- 
 field. 
 
 State, County and Municipal Indebtedness Bromwell, 
 Cushman, Hough, Douglas and Yount. 
 
 Forest Culture Ebert, Felton and Stover. 
 
 Miscellaneous Head, Beck, Garcia, Lee and Elder. 
 
 On the following day (January 5th) the rules for the govern- 
 ment of the proceedings of the convention were adopted, 
 substantially the same as those controlling the House of Re- 
 presentatives of the Territory. As illustrating the interest 
 felt by the community generally in the labors of the conven- 
 tion it may be mentioned that the First National Bank of 
 Denver, the City National Bank and the Colorado National 
 Bank each agreed to advance the sum of $1,000 to be applied 
 to the discharge of the per diem of the members. The con- 
 vention were invited to be present at several public entertain- 
 ments. The Library Association of the city of Denver of- 
 fered to the convention the free use of their library. Its ses- 
 sions were generally attended by persons from all parts of 
 the Territory, and from the beginning almost to the end of 
 the session, petitions, memorials and remonstrances, expres- 
 sive of the views and wishes of the petitioners and memorial- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 itimially presented. The con\ ent ion were urged 
 
 j>t mining properties and not to exempt them; to 
 
 church propert y and school property equally \viih other pro- 
 perties, and to exempt them. Petitions \\ T- presented in 
 favor of allowing a division of tin- school fund and against, 
 tliis; in favor of and against women sntlra^c; in tavor of and 
 against the recognition of the Divine Power in the Preamble; 
 against the employment of chaplains to the Legislature and 
 in public prisons, asylums and other institutions. The Pres- 
 bytery of the Territory presented a memorial urging that the 
 convention should recognize the authority of (iodandthe 
 obligation and necessity of the Sabbath as a civil institution, 
 and many other like ]> repositions were presented to the con- 
 vent ion. One enthusiastic gentleman framed and caused to 
 be printed and circulated before the convention met, a consti- 
 tution which the convention was recommended to adopt 
 literally. During the session many petitions were present- 
 ed in regard to provisions for the control of railways; and it 
 may be remarked that gentlemen who have since that time 
 been most active in promoting such legislation, were then op- 
 posed to conferring the power of regulation. 
 
 The Legislative Assembly on the llth February adopted 
 an act providing that the convention should receive the 
 same per diem and mileage as the members of the Legisla- 
 ture, and appropriated $26,000 to defray the per diem and 
 other expei i 
 
 On the r>th January the work of the convention fairly com- 
 menced, and on that day resolutions were presented as follows: 
 
 By Mr. Beck Proposing a form of Preamble, respecting 
 the establishment of a State Religion; respecting the support 
 of sectarian schools from the public moneys; respecting the 
 establishment of a system of free schools, and respecting re- 
 ligious instruction in the public schools. 
 
 By Mr. Carr That the property in the waters of the Terri- 
 tory should be vested in the State, and that laws ought to be 
 passed governing the distribution thereof: that all property 
 within the State should be taxed equally. 
 
 By Mr. Clark That only the net product of mineral bear- 
 ing veins should be taxed. 
 
 Py Mr. Wilcox Res pec ting the formation of judicial dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 !>y Mr. Kelt on -Providing that no law should embrace 
 than one subject. 
 
 ly Mr Mromwell Requiring the committee on Public ln- 
 debtedness to enquire B 'liable restrictions and 
 
 limi; -hould be put on the issuance of municipal bonds. 
 
154 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 On the 6th of January a committee previously appointed 
 reported a memorial to*Congress praying the appropriation 
 of $25,000, as an increase to the appropriation by the Terri- 
 torial Legislature before mentioned. 
 
 On this day resolutions were presented as follows: 
 
 By Mr. James For the appointment of a Commissioner of 
 Mines and G-eology. 
 
 By Mr. Wilcox In regard to the composition of the Legis- 
 lature and the qualifications of members thereto. 
 
 By Mr. Cooper In respect to discrimination by railroad 
 corporations. 
 
 By Mr James Regard to the taxation of non-residents up- 
 on moneys loaned on mortgage within this State. 
 
 By Mr. Clark In regard to uniformity of taxation; in re- 
 gard to the conviction of crime and providing that it should 
 not be attended with political disability; providing for a 
 majority verdict by juries; providing that the Supreme Court 
 may establish rules of practice for the District Courts. 
 
 By Mr. Wilcox In regard to the assessment of taxes. 
 
 By Mr. DouglasThat the several grants of land to the 
 State should be held separately. 
 
 By Mr. Lee Against public credit to private enterprises. 
 
 By Mr. Carr In favor of compulsory education. 
 
 By Mr. Bromwell Providing for the establishment of the 
 rates to be charged upon water furnished for irrigation to be 
 fixed by County Commissioners. 
 
 By Mr. Kennedy In regard to the oath of office. 
 
 On the 7th resolutions were presented as follows: 
 
 By Mr. Felton In regard to the basis of Congressional and 
 Legislative apportionment. 
 
 By Mr. Ebert In regard to forest culture proposing an elab- 
 orate code of rules for the protection of the forests of the State. 
 
 By Mr. White In regard to the condemnation of toll roads 
 for public purposes. 
 
 By Mr. Stover In regard to taxation of non-residents' 
 lands. 
 
 By Mr. Wells In regard to forest culture; providing the 
 offenders having forfeited their recognizances should not be 
 admitted to bail; in favor of taxing the fees of jurors in civil 
 cases to the parties; in favor of allowing the courts co dis- 
 charge the jury in certain cases and hear the evidence. 
 
 By Mr. Wilcox Against special acts of incorporation. 
 
 By Mr. Bromwell In iavor of the removal of public officers 
 upon impeachment; in respect to the ventilation of mines. 
 
 By Mr. Cooper In favor of disfranchising any candidate 
 for office guilty of bribery. 
 
BIOGKAIMIK'AL COMPENDIUM OF < ' l. > K ADO. 
 
 I>> Mi. Bberl In fai .mptingrhmvh proper 
 
 taxation and in favor of taxing the property or insiitu: 
 
 >!' learning not maintained at pubi use. 
 
 15v Mr. \V In favor of limiting tin* ]>>-. 
 
 Legislature to contract del, 
 
 liy Mr. IMmnl) -To make tin' stockholders in hanks in- 
 dividually responsible. 
 
 1'y Mr. \Vheel.-r For the protect ion of the occupants of 
 school lands. 
 
 By Mr. Hromwell In respect to the inalienahility of gov- 
 ernment pou 
 
 Hy Mr. Carr Against laws impairing the obligation of 
 contracts or remedies existing al the time <>t' the execution 
 (hereof 
 
 On the 8th of .January resolutions were presented as follows: 
 
 I'.y Mr. \Vilcox In regard to tin- l)asis of Leo-islativr 
 pornonment 
 
 By Mr. Khn-t -In favor of the cstahlishment 
 I 'niv-rsity. 
 
 By Mr. Beck Confirming the location of the I'niversity at 
 
 Moulder; invalidating contracts hy corporations with their 
 
 *'inplny. mpting a corporation from liahility for injuries. 
 
 Mr. Lee In favor of exempt* a taxation, tempor- 
 
 arily, land devoted to forest or on-hard cultu 
 
 I>y Mr. (Mark In favor of rel: inin- litigants. 
 
 By Mr. Carr In favor of abolishing the grand j uiy system. 
 
 By Mr. Baivla- Against t'encr laws. 
 
 By Mr. Carr In favor of the t-h-ction of regents for the 
 university. 
 
 By Mr. Wilcox Against public aid to private corporations. 
 
 The committee on the Bill of Rights reported on this day. 
 
 On .January loth the following resolutions were presented 
 
 By Mr. Hough In favor of taxing residents on Indian 
 lands; in favor of publishing the laws both in Knglish and 
 Spanish; disabling from holding office. 
 
 By Mr. Yount Continuing the location of the Agricultural 
 college at Fort CoUins. 
 
 Oft this day the busy stenographer, who had infested the 
 
 convention up to that time with propnsitioi 
 
 1 a consideration, nal ^iii- 
 
 and the rommiue.' >n Preamhl'- made th- !. which 
 
 idered in e of the whole, Tli- 
 
 the pl'cjjosrd pivaml'le of a II of the P 
 
 del)ate in whirl inwell. \\hite. 
 
 in-! I'.eck participa 
 HM tiif llth of January the p of Mr. Kh-n in 
 
156 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 favor of laws promoting the growth of forests were con- 
 sidered and the mover of the proposition delivered a thought- 
 ful address, probably the most carefully prepared that was 
 heard during the sessions of the convention. 
 
 On the 12th of January the debate upon the preamble was 
 continued in committee of the whole and it was adopted sub- 
 stantially as now appears in the Constitution. 
 
 On the same day the resolutions of Mr. Wheeler in respect 
 to the protection of the occupants of school lands were con- 
 sidered and referred to the committee on Education. 
 
 On the 13th of January Mr. Kennedy presented resolutions 
 in respect to the inalienability of the power of eminent do- 
 main; against the use of public money for the support of 
 sectarian schools; in favor of the eligibility of women to of- 
 fice under school laws. The resolutions of Mr. Bromwell in 
 regard to the inalienability of the powers of government 
 were discussed. 
 
 January 14th, Mr. Beck reported the ordinance required by 
 the Enabling Act securing religious toleration and renouncing 
 all claim to the public lands within the Territory. 
 
 The- resolutions of Mr. Bromwell in regard to the inalien- 
 ability of government powers were further debated, and the 
 report of the committee on the Executive Department was con* 
 sidered in the committee of the whole, Mr. Elder, Chairman 
 of that committee, making a lengthy address. 
 
 On the 15th of January, the committee on Military Affairs 
 submitted their report and the Article on the Executive De- 
 partment was further considered in committee of the whole. 
 
 January 17th, Mr. Pease introduced a resolution in favor of 
 Legislation, declaring it criminal to import adulterated 
 liquors. The proposition of Mr. Pease was afterwards sub- 
 stantially adopted in the 5th section of the 18th Article. 
 
 The Article on the executive department was further con- 
 sidered in the committee of the whole, reported to the con- 
 vention and ordered printed, and the Bill of Rights was con- 
 sidered in the committee of the whole. 
 
 January 18th. Petitions were presented as follows: 
 
 By Mr. Plumb, Mr. Marsh and Mr. Elder Asking that pro- 
 perty devoted to education be exempted from taxation. 
 
 By Mr. Elder In favor of the establishment of a Police 
 Court for the city of Denver. 
 
 A resolution was presented by Mr. Kennedy in respect to 
 future amendments to the Constitution. 
 
 The Bill of Rights was further considered in committee of 
 the whole. 
 
 On January 19th, petitions were presented as follows: 
 
IUOGRAP] 
 
 r.y Mr. (Murk, fium citi/, 
 
 tie exemption df j,i | to purpox, dca 
 
 lion and chinch propel \\ . 
 
 r.y Mr. Stover [nfavorofll iting in th' itu- 
 
 tion an acknou ; at of Divine Providence and prohibit- 
 
 ing the abrogation of th" Sabbath. 
 
 Resolutions were oH'en-d as follows: 
 
 r.y Mr. Webster In favor of securim: to each coiiniy a 
 member of the House of i!-pi -'s.-ntat i 
 
 r.y Mi. < an- [n favor of making effectual the pro. 
 of the statute authorizing count \ commi- ilat- 
 
 char^fs upon \vatt-r. 
 
 The Article ujum the State militia was considered in com 
 mlttee Of the whole and adopted with only verbal changes, 
 which was remarked upon as an anomaly. 
 
 The resolutions of Mr. Bromwell afi to the assessniei, 
 property for taxation wnv further debated and referred to 
 
 the committee oil Revenue. 
 
 January 20th, 21st and 23rd. Petitions and ivuorts w 
 received but no action was taken by the convention. 
 
 .January -J-Uli. A lengthy and animated debate was bad 
 on Mr. Pease's resolution in regard to the prohibit!." 
 adulterated liquors. 
 
 January LOth. Mr. \Vilcox nu.vrd an amendment to the 
 rules so as to require the convention to meet at nine in the 
 morning instead of ten as theretofore. (At a later day the 
 same gentleman was found spurring the committees Lnio 
 tivity and urging an early adjourmnri 
 
 A long debate was had on this day in n-gard to the ]i 
 ingot' the laws in Spanish. 
 
 The Legislative Article was considered in committee of the 
 whole and much debate occurred in respect to the propei 
 to be appointed for the election of the members of the < 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 January 26th. The report of the ccmmi islature 
 
 and Legislation was considered in committee of the whole. 
 
 January ^?th The committee on State Institutions n 
 their report by Mr Douglas, Oiaiiman. 
 
 The report of the commit tee on Legislature and Legisla' 
 was further considered in committee of ' 
 
 January -jsth. The report of the committee on forest cul- 
 ture was Considered in convention and a pi 
 
 occurred on the Ltion to exempt private la otod 
 
 culture from taxation. 
 
 Then-port of the ,, .mmittee of the whole on the 
 concerning militia was adopted. 
 
158 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 January 29th. The committee on Future Amendments 
 made their report; also the committee on Counties. 
 
 The Article upon State Institutions was considered in com- 
 mittee of the whole. 
 
 January 31st. The report of the committee .on Public In- 
 debtedness was considered in committee of the whole. 
 
 February 1st. The Article on Public Indebtedness was 
 further considered in committee of the whole. 
 
 The Bill of Rights was considered in convention and a 
 debate occurred in respect to the proposed abolition of the 
 grand jury and the condemnation of private property for 
 private reservoirs, drains and ditches. 
 
 February 2nd. The Bill of Rights was further considered 
 in convention and the preamble thereto was adopted. 
 
 The report of the committee of the whole on the executive 
 department was considered in convention and a committee 
 was appointed by the Chair to frame an address to the people, 
 also the committee on Mines and Mining made their report. 
 
 February 3rd. The report of the committee on Counties 
 was considered in committee of the whole. The proposition 
 originally reported to prohibit the removal of county seats, 
 except by two thirds vote, excited protracted debate. 
 
 During this convention a call of the house was ordered and 
 an unhappy member who was absent was fined one bushel of 
 apples and one hundred cigars. 
 
 The ordinance previously reported by Mr. Beck with regard 
 to the religious toleration and disclaiming title to public lands 
 was adopted and referred to the committee on Revision and 
 Adjustment. 
 
 February 4th. The committee on State Institutions made 
 a further report, and the committee on Judiciary reported the 
 Article on that subject. 
 
 February 5th. The report of the committee on Future 
 Amendments of the constitution was considered in committee 
 of the whole. 
 
 February 7th. The standing committee upon Officers and 
 Oaths of Office made their report, and the Article on Legisla- 
 ture .and Legislation was considered by the convention. 
 Further debate occurred in the committee of the whole as to 
 the day fixed for the election. 
 
 As in many other instances the interests of the inhabitants 
 of the mountains were opposed to those of the dwellers in the 
 plains, and the member from the 24th district was foremost 
 in the fray, and had much to say of "the Great Treasure 
 House of the Nation," his customary phrase in alluding to the 
 silver bearing region of the San Juan. 
 
:;.\i'iih \i. COMPENDIUM OF coi.oi: \io. 159 
 
 On !li. sih Kehrnary tin- c. m^derat i.n of the Article upon 
 ire an. I Legislation \vas continue! ami an attempt 
 was made to leopen the wrangle in regard to the day >f elec- 
 tion. 
 
 The Article upon Future A mendinents was referred to the 
 committee on Revision ami Adjustment. 
 
 The standing committee on SuHVaire an<l Flection- r. -ported 
 the majority by Mr. \Vel>>ter, the Chairman, against and the 
 minority by Mr. Bromwell in favor of abolishing distinctions 
 of sex in confeirinu: th' suHVage. 
 
 The report of the committee on Mines and Minin -on 
 
 sidered in committee of the whole. 
 
 On February '.Mh the report of the committe.- on Mines 
 and Mining was further eonsid^rrd in commi: ih- 
 
 whoh\ and the report of the committee on Forest Culture*, 
 now contained in section seven of Article 18, was adopted in 
 contention and referred to the committee on Revision and 
 
 Adjustment. 
 
 The report <i' the committee on Miscellaneous Subjects in 
 i-d to the publication of laws and the boundaries of the 
 State \sas also considered in convention and a proirac;ed de- 
 nned in regard to the publication of the laws in Kn- 
 glish, Spanish and (German. 
 
 The Article concerning Officers and Oath of Office ^ 
 considered in committee of the wliole. 
 
 Fehruary loth. The Article concerning public indel> 
 
 nsidered in committee of the whole and certain 
 tions thei-e< ( {' i-ecommitted. 
 
 The section proposed by Mr. Pease in regard to the import- 
 ation of adulterated liquors was adopted in convention and 
 referred to the committee on Revision 
 
 February llth. The committee on Irrigation, -Agriculture 
 and Manufactures made their report. 
 
 The Article concerning State Institutions was further con 
 sidered in committee of the whole. 
 
 The Article concerning Officers and Oath of OHice was 
 adopted in Convention, and the Preamble to the Constitution 
 was adopted and referred to the committee on Re\ ision. 
 
 February li?th. The report of the committee upon Edu- 
 cation u:i< considered in committee of thej whole and a 
 
 the power to !" i the 
 
 Boa: I'H'ation in 
 
 L8th. 1 was fiirtliei d; 
 
 on this < 
 
 public in 
 firiaii purpose 
 
160 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 February 14th. A memorial was presented from the 
 Massachusetts Women Suffrage Association urging the ex- 
 tension of the franchise to women. This memorial bearing on 
 the signatures of James Freeman Clark and Lloyd Garrison. 
 
 The report of the committee on Education was further con- 
 sidered in committee of the whole. 
 
 February 15th. The committee on Commerce was dis- 
 charged on motion of the Chairman, because uuable to act 
 harmoniously. 
 
 The report of the committee on Suffrage and Elections 
 was considered in committee of the whole. 
 
 The report of the committee on State Institutions and 
 Buildings was adopted; referred to the committee on Revision. 
 
 February 16th. The Judiciary Article was considered in 
 committee of the whole, occupying the whole of the session. 
 
 February 17th. A Memorial was read from Bishop Mache- 
 beuf protesting against the action of the convention on the 
 public school question. 
 
 The committee on Public and Private Corporations present- 
 ed their report. 
 
 The Judiciary Article was further considered in committee 
 of the whole. 
 
 February 18th. The report of the committee on Irrigation 
 was considered in committee of the whole. 
 
 February 19th. Committee on Impeachments and Re- 
 movals from office presented their report. 
 
 The committee on Schedule also reported. 
 
 The report of the committee on Education was considered 
 in convention, and the question as to the division of the 
 school fund was again debated. The Article was finally 
 adopted in convention and referred to the committee on Re- 
 vision. 
 
 The Article on Legislature and Legislation was considered 
 and adopted in the convention. 
 
 The committee on Revision made their first report. 
 
 February 21st. The Article concerning public indebted- 
 ness was further considered in committee of the whole, and 
 the phrase u for all purposes" now found contained in section 
 seven of that Article, and which has since occasioned great 
 debate, in clause limiting the amount of the indebtedness 
 which may be incurred, was inserted. 
 
 Section seven of the Bill of Rights, which before that had 
 been referred back to the standing committee, was further 
 considered and adopted. 
 
 The Article upon counties was further considered in com- 
 mittee of the whole. 
 
Kiool 161 
 
 February -j-Jud. The \\> ; tie committee on Impeach 
 
 meni loptedii 'itionaii the commi 
 
 on Revision. 
 
 The report of ih- committee on Mines and Minii 
 -idered in convention. 
 
 February ~ :> >nl The report of t he committee >n Revision 
 and Adjustment coin ruiuu' the Article on Impeachment- 
 and Removals from ( Ml' bed, 
 
 The report of the committee OD Irrigation wa> considered 
 in committee of the whole and the Article on Judiciary, in 
 convention, 
 
 bruary -J4th. The Judiciary Article was further con 
 sidered in convention and debate occurred in regard to the 
 number of the District .Judges. Ii was r- to the 
 
 committee on Judiciary to consider tin- expediency of i-.-dnc 
 ;he number of districts to three and conferring power up- 
 on the Supreme Judges to take part in the work nt'tlie Dis- 
 trict Courts. 
 
 The committee on Revision reported the Article on Kxecu- 
 tive I)epartnnMit with sundry amendments, which wen- con- 
 curred in. 
 
 Tne rt^jort of the committee on ( 'oii-'i'>sional and Legisla- 
 tive apportionment was considered in committee of the whole. 
 Considerable debate took place in regard to both the pro 
 posed number of the Legislature and in regard to the ap- 
 portionment. Objection was made to the number a^ lixed in 
 the Article on the ground of expense. A committee appoint- 
 ed to iiKjuire into the subject reported that t he difference 
 between the cost of one session of the Territorial (ieiieral As- 
 sembly and that of the State Legislature of the prop 
 Dumber would be less than s;>. :>n< i. A proposition to reduce 
 the number of Senator> from twenty-six to tuenty and of re 
 presentativefi from 4'J to :::> was lo^t 1>\ a larp- majority. 
 
 tiniis ])ro]osed for the Judiciary Article conferring up 
 on the Supreme Court the control and supervision of railroads 
 and the regulation of rat- onsidered in commit!- 
 
 the whole and debated by Mr. I >romwelland Mr. White in 
 port thereof, and by Mr. Thatcherand Mr. Stone in opposition. 
 
 February .^th. The commit! n Revision and Adjustment 
 
 made farther report, and debate upon the sections pro] 
 
 by Mr. Hromwell to 1..- added to the judiciary article confer 
 
 linir power of control over Railroad Corporations on Supreme 
 
 Court was continued. The proposed sections were finally 
 rejected 
 
 'The Article upon Corporations wa- considered in commit 
 
 of the whole. 
 
162 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 February 26th. The Article upon Suffrage and Elections 
 was considered in committee of the whole; also the Article 
 upon Public Indebtedness. 
 
 The committee on Accounts reported that the mileage due 
 to the members of the convention amounted to $1,326. 
 
 The report of the committee on Revision and Adjustment 
 upon the Articles Militia, Future Amendments, Executive 
 Department, Officers and Oath of Office, were considered in 
 convention and the amendments and changes recommended 
 by the committee were concurred in and the Articles referred 
 back for adjustment in the Constitution. 
 
 February 28th. The Article upon Corporations and the 
 Article upon Counties were considered in convention, adopt- 
 ed with sundry amendments and referred to the committee 
 on Revision. 
 
 On this day the President of the convention received a dis- 
 patch from Hon. T. M. Patterson, Delegate in Congress, 
 stating that the Senate had just passed a Bill appropriating 
 monies to defray the expenses of the convention, and a vote 
 of thanks was tendered to Mr. Patterson. 
 
 The Judiciary Article was considered in convention. 
 
 February 29. The Judiciary Article was further consider- 
 ed in convention and referred to the committee on Revision. 
 
 The report of the committee on Finance was considered in 
 committee of the whole and a further debate occurred in re- 
 gard to the division of the School Fund. 
 
 March 1st. The vote by which Article nine on Legislature 
 prohibiting corporations from relieving themselves by con- 
 tract from liability for injuries to their employes was recon- 
 sidered and the section was at this time lost; it was after- 
 wards adopted. 
 
 The Article upon Irrigation was further considered and 
 section six of Article sixteen of the Constitution as now ap- 
 pears as proposed by Mr. Pease. The Article was finally 
 adopted in convention and referred to the committee on Re- 
 vision. 
 
 The Article upon Revenue and Finance was considered in 
 convention. 
 
 The committee appointed to prepare an ordinance submit- 
 ting the Constitution to a popular vote made their report. 
 
 March 2nd. The report of the committee on Revision and 
 Adjustment upon the Article on State Institutions and Build- 
 ings was considered in convention; also the report on the 
 Article, Executive Department; also the Article on Officers 
 and Oaths of Office, and the amendments and changes sug- 
 gested by the committee were concurred in. 
 
IIAIMIK'AL COMPKMHIM KiOBADO. 
 
 March 3rd. The coram Revision reported the \rr 
 
 upon Incorporation. Su tirade and Elections, an<l ( lounl 
 
 The committee n Miseellane,,us subjects reported the 
 Article on Distribution of Pow< 
 
 ( >rder was iriven tor the arrangement of the B< 
 in the Constitution. 
 
 A motion was made to reconsider the rote by which i 
 
 y devoted to school, church and Territorial purposes had 
 been exempted from taxation, and a substitute therefor of- 
 fered by Mr. Heck was adopted. 
 
 The report of the committee on Revi.Mon upon the Article 
 on Legislation was considered and the amendments and 
 chan Miimended by that committee were concurred in 
 
 and the Article recommitted for adjustment; also the report 
 of the same committee on the Article, Impeachments; the 
 Article on Education and Educational Institutions; the Ar- 
 ticle OH Congressional and Legislative Apportionment, and 
 the Article on State. ( 1 ounry and Municipal Indebted^- 
 
 March 4th. The qonvention received a communication 
 from the Mayor of the city of Pueblo extending an invitation 
 to attend at that city festivities in honor of the completion of 
 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Thank< 
 returned and the invitation was declined. 
 
 A motion was made to strike out section one in the Article 
 on Education prohibiting the (General Assembly from pre- 
 scribing text books and a debate occurred thereon. The mo- 
 tion w; s lo- 
 
 The report of the committee on Miscellaneous Sub] 
 was considered in committee of the whole; also the report of 
 the committee on Schedule. 
 
 The reports of the committee on Revision upon the Arti- 
 on Counties. Corporations. Suli'rage and Klectioii were 
 sidered and the amendments recommended by the committee, 
 concurred in. 
 
 March r.th. The committee on Revision and Adjustment 
 made further report. 
 
 The Schedule was considered in convention, and the re] 
 of tlie committee on Revenue and Finance was considered in 
 committee of the whole. The Schedule was adopted in 
 vention and referred to the committee on Revision. 
 
 That committee also reported the Article on Mi 
 Subjects. 
 
 Tlie convention adjourned until the 8th in order 
 
 committee <>n Revision opportunity to oompl 
 
 March Mh. The committee >n n and Adj'. 
 
 reported the Articles on Revenue, and Miscellaneous Subj 
 
164 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 The Article on Revenue and Finance was considered in 
 convention and an additional Article offered by Mr. Brom- 
 well limiting the power of Municipal Corporations to incur 
 indebtedness was considered. 
 
 March 9th. The committee on Revision reported a sub- 
 stitute for the Election Ordinance. 
 
 The committee on Schedule made a Supplemental report. 
 
 The committee on Expenditures presented a communication 
 from the Secretary of the Territory, Mr. Taffee, stating he had 
 sent a requisition to Washington for $20,000, and requesting 
 instructions as to the disbursement thereof. 
 
 March 10th. The committee on Revision and Adjustment 
 reported various amendments proposed in different Articles, 
 and the report of the committee on Schedule was considered 
 in convention. The substitute for the Election Ordinance 
 was considered in convention and adopted. 
 
 On the afternoon of this day the convention was attended 
 by a party of the General Assembly of the State of Kansas, 
 wno visited the State at the invitation of the Atchison, Tope- 
 ka and Santa Fe Railroad Company and a recess was taken 
 to exchange greetings with these guests. 
 
 The report of the committee on Revision upon the Supple- 
 mentary Article of the Schedule was considered and con- 
 curred in. 
 
 March llth. A committee was appointed to confer with 
 the Territorial Auditor as to the matter of the payment of 
 the expenses of the convention; and a Resolution was intro- 
 duced by Mr. Felton directing the committee on Revision to 
 change the Article upon Legislature so that the first Legisla- 
 ture should meet on the first Wednesday of November instead 
 of the 4th. This Resolution I believe was suggested by the 
 Honorable George E. Pease, the purpose of it being to enable 
 the State to choose Presidential Electors. It is probable that 
 but for this change the vote of Colorado would not have been 
 counted at the next ensuing Presidential election. 
 
 March 13th. A Resolution was passed directing the dele- 
 gate from Congress to use his influence to secure the estab- 
 lishment of District Court of the United States for Colorado. 
 
 The Address to the people reported by the committee was 
 read and adopted. 
 
 Resolutions were introduced directing the enrollment in 
 duplicate of a Resolution adopting the Constitution, the Or- 
 dinances, and the Constitution, that the Constitution be at- 
 tested by the signatures of the President and Secretary and 
 members, present, and that one of said enrolled copies be 
 delivered to the Governor of the Territory to be by him 
 
RAl'HK'AL COLORA 
 
 ti'-d to tht> President ;ui'l th.' Other <; i U) tip' 
 
 Secretary of th, T.-mtory togeth.-r with th- Journal and n- 
 cords of tli.- convention. I clock of t'h.- a D <>f 
 
 this sain.' day was livd as th.' hour for th.- membei 
 
 pend their signatures to theenroll( itution. 
 
 March 1 1th. The convention COnsi 
 
 committee on Judiciai-y recommeo : t'..i 
 
 the choice of iv.-id.'ntial elec Mich tin- 
 
 committee ivport.'d was found in \ md Oth itor 
 
 Mr. Peaae opposed tin- proposition, insisting that th.- 
 course of th la ( 'onv.Mitiuii wa^ wiiln.nt ani hoi'iiy. tliat 
 
 tli.' vot.'s of that Sratc W.T. , mplv 1 
 
 suit was not aH'.'ch'd th.-r.-hy. that if at th.'' ensoi tiii 
 
 a majority of th- electoral tttside of Color; Mild 
 
 be Democratic, the Dnnocralic Hiu<- would midon!* 
 /ject the vote of lorado. 
 
 A Resolution olf.-ivd l>y MiV Thatch. T. th in 
 
 suhstanct- as that offered DJ Mr. Ftdtoii on the lltli. 
 adopted and thr matter referred to the commitl n \l 
 
 which committee reported the chanir.' on th- afternoon of th- 
 same day. That c<)mmittee also r.-poi-hMi additional .\iticl--> 
 to the Schedule. These were concurred in by id* lion 
 
 and the President announced that this completed th- Consti- 
 tution. 
 
 A call of the House was then mov.-d. and Mr. Stone, b.-ini: 
 found absent was arrested and apMi-opriai ,h with. 
 
 M.-ssrs Kllsworth and Kldei-. of Araiaho.' county, were ap- 
 pointed a Committee t<> see t< the printing and distribution 
 of the Constitution, and on motion of Mi-. Dou^la^ the r hanks 
 of the convention were retained to the riei-Li'yim'ii who had 
 otliciated in opening the convention with prayer at ite 
 us. 
 
 The committe^ on Kn^rossment r.'jiort.-(l thr .-niolli 
 of the Constitution which was then put up. 
 passage and adopted by the convntiop 
 Mr. Marsh, of (iilpin. produc.'<l a p.-n which lie said ha I 
 provided to 1).' used by th<- m.-mb-r> in allixin.^ th.-: 
 tores to th' lustrum. MH and to b- th.-n 
 
 dent to be pres.M ved in pri-prtual memorial. i h- l.-nt 
 
 afli.ved hi- signature to the Constitution and Mr. >'an in 
 that th.' Hon. II. \\ 11. l.romw.'ll. the old f the 
 
 convention and oii' of th' most ho: Imuld i . tin- 
 
 -titutio'L which motion WE d iinanim- Tin- 
 
 two C itution 
 
 l>\ \Villiam II. Salisbury. Esq., DOV OJ thll it\.andth- 
 
 other by Frederick -I Stanton, 
 
166 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO 
 
 signed by all the members present. An appropriate address 
 to the President of the convention acknowledging the fair- 
 ness, impartiality and ability with which he had discharged 
 the duties of his office, subscribed by all the members of the 
 convention except one, was presented to that gentleman. 
 
 The committee on Expenditures presented a detailed report 
 of the expenses of the Convention. The total miscellaneous 
 expenses including printing ($2,330.22) were reported at $2,- 
 929.07; per diem of members for sixty-five days $19,622.; mil- 
 age of members $1,394.56 ; total sixty -five days $23,949.07. 
 
 After further resolutions touching the expenses of the Con- 
 vention, the disposition ot its property and effects, a prayer 
 by the Rev. J. M. Sturtevant and an 'address from the Presi- 
 dent, the Convention adjourned without day. 
 
 I have outlined, thus unsatisfactorily, the proceedings of this 
 Convention. Even if the time would serve and other engage- 
 ments permit, it would be impossible to reproduce even with 
 approximate accuracy its discussions ; they were never re- 
 ported nor authentically preserved. I believe that excepting 
 the admirable address of Mr Ebert, of Arapahoe county, in 
 favor of his proposition for the preservation of the forests, 
 and the speech made by Thatcher in opposition to Mr. Brom- 
 well's proposition to confer the control of the railways upon 
 the Supreme Court, there is no authentic memorial of any 
 part of these debates. They were generally conducted in 
 conversational style, or at least without attempts at oratory, 
 but it appeared to me that the common safeguards and regu- 
 lations prescribing the division of powers and restricting the 
 several departments, were sufficiently understood and appre- 
 ciated by a majority of the members. The proceedings of the 
 Convention were almost uniformly harmonious, and I recollect 
 no occasion whatever of the manifestation of personal acri- 
 mony or partisan feeling. There were some members of the 
 Convention who would have adorned any deliberative body, 
 and others, a few, who would have been of no value any where. 
 Generally speaking they were animated by a conscientious 
 zeal, faithfully to discharge their duty, and with ability equal 
 to the occasion. Those who have read the Constitution will 
 observe that it contains all the modern so-called improve- 
 ments, to be found in those recently adopted in other States; 
 and some that have no precedent. In respect to some of these 
 new inventions, and especially the many novelties which par- 
 take of the nature of ordinary, rather than Constitutional 
 legislation, the work of the Convention is liable to critisism. 
 Laws have been generally found ineffectual to make men either 
 careful of their own rights, or considerate of those of others, 
 
HlOGKAPi KMJil M OF COLORADO. 167 
 
 either intelligent orli ime enactments, are not 
 
 more potential when en roprlately, in the Consti 
 
 tUtlon of the State Tin-re are ma;,\ of the provision- of tin- 
 Constitution also, which. a<lniiral)h- in themselves, and 
 from which profitable result < were anticipated, seem to 
 be Without practical value. S.. it happens notwithstanding 
 the strict provisions of the Constitution to prevent counties 
 and municipal corporations from tin- unwise use of public 
 funds, and limiting their power of incurring indebted; 
 and the taxing power, that many, perhaps the major 
 ity of the counties of th have <;one on in violation of 
 
 these provisions, exceeding tin- limit by many thousands of 
 dollars. The periodical examination of the accounts of the 
 Treasurers is, as I am advised, made in a 'proforma and per- 
 functory manner. Tin* State has every year since 1882 exce- 
 the prescribed limit of taxation, and I believe that the (Jen 
 era! Assembly, habitually, or at least frequently, disregarded 
 the provisions of the Constitution specifying the manner of 
 legislation. 1 have lately read in the public journals that, a 
 bill being upon one of its readings, it was moved and carried 
 with appluse, that a person named should go into a Corner 
 ft /iff re<ul th< l>ill in <t l<>tr raja /rJtil, tin- I /oust' proceeded 
 with its irurh : as if legislation were desirable as if most 
 
 lation were not a blunder as if laws were to be enarted 
 and completed like the work of a copyist. The provision of 
 the Constitution which is most objectionable is perhaps that 
 which allows an amendment upon a bill enacted by oneLegis- 
 lature merely. Tin-re has been but one session of the (Jem-nil 
 Assembly since the admission .f the State at which amend- 
 ments to the Constitution were not proposed; there was never 
 such an amendment proposed but it secured the approval of 
 the two-thirds required by the article of the Constitution, or 
 
 such an amendment submitted to the ju-ople but it re- 
 ceived almost unanimous approval, excepting that prop. 
 an increase in the, Indies of the Supreme Court : yet so far as 
 I remember no political body, part \ convention, or newspaper 
 ever suggested, recommended, or expl for, 
 
 any of these amendments. mr were they ever opposed or sup- 
 ported by the public journals o|' the day. lam not able to 
 recollect any instance in which any pi amendment was 
 
 discussed <r adverted to in a oanvafl before the people. Noth- 
 ing could dis]>lay more strikingly both the unwisdom of the 
 many provision Q the Constitution which 
 
 really in the nature of ordinary legislation, and which ha\ e 
 
 no proper place in such an instrument ; and the impropriety 
 
 of allowing amendments to the fundamental law in this 
 
168 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 manner. Evidently there was no controlling need or demand 
 for the amendments to the Constitution in any of these res- 
 pects, yet the change was proposed and adopted as if under 
 whip and spur. One quality most desirable in the Constitu- 
 tion is stability. It ought not to be allowed to theorists and 
 designing men to even suggest to the people in this hasty 
 and inconsiderate way amendments to the fundamental law; 
 and in order that a desire and occasion for change may not 
 arise, the Constitution ought never to contain provisions not 
 fundamental and enduring in their character. I believe it 
 will be admitted by discriminating minds that as a whole the 
 Constitution is a document which need occasion no self-re 
 proach to those who participated in its preparation. Many 
 of its provisions might have been framed in a wiser spirit, 
 but for the fear of its rejection, which haunted the Conven- 
 tion f . om the beginning, a fear which in the sequel appeared 
 without reason ; for at the election held on the first day of 
 July, 1876 the Constitution was ratified by a majority of 
 11,404 in a total of 19,482. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES CONTINUED. 
 
 Charles A. Raymond. 
 
 Who wa- horn at Lockport. N'ew York, August 2, 1850, is a nn-m- 
 
 ii of Porter, Raymond A" Co., of Denver, lir, 
 mond was educated al Lockport, and wa> prepared a t tin- Hi^h 
 
 1, at that town, for colleov. hut did not enter. He 
 ried ('arlie I). Uuckley. in October, ls"il: three children 
 
 is tlu- result of tho union. Mr. Raymond came to Colorado in 
 
 . and foreio-ht years wa- business manager of the Denver He 
 publican. A> ini^lit le surmised, anyone who can achieve suc- 
 
 :n journalism, may reasoiiahly expect success in other OCCU- 
 p:iti<ns and BO it ha> pi-oven with Mi\ Raymond. Since 1883 he 
 
 !>een connected with Mr.->r>. \V. \V . 1'orter and I. \\. 1' 
 in the insurance and real estate business, and the extensive repu- 
 tation they have o^med is a sure indication of the stability of the 
 firm. Mr. Raymond is a Republican, and though not an aspirant, 
 for office, takes an active interest in local and national politics. 
 
 John Brisben Walker, 
 
 The proprietor of the Herkeiey Farm, is a Pennsylvania!! by birth, 
 and was educated at (ieor^etown ( 'olleov, I). ('., and at West I'oint. 
 In politics Mr. Walker is a Republican, and in IV. ed a 
 
 unanimous nomination from the Republican party in theThird Con- 
 
 ional District of W*est Virginia, for Congress. He is not, 
 
 pirant for otlice. At one time he \va> connected with the press of 
 
 \Va-hino;ton City, and whilst moving in the lit. 
 
 creditable prominence. Bis cultivation of the I'" .lias 
 
 : "d to be not only profitable to him, hut even m 
 
 toti In ls~,! be began cultivating alfalfa on the 
 
 Kan ind the succes> that he made ,,f 
 
 from the fact that at the ; time he ha-, 1 /J()0 acres of it un- 
 
 der cult i vat ion, yielding annually about -us, and he 
 
 a ready market for this prodi. that farm also 
 
 4(\r, acre.- in othercrops. Iker introduced alfal: 
 
 his farm, others followed his example, and as a result there is not a 
 
170 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO 
 
 nook in the mountains nor a ranch on the plains which has not a 
 spot devoted to the raising of alfalfa. Mr. Walker resides on the 
 Berkeley Farm, and for a number of years past has assisted ma- 
 terially in various ways to build up that section of Denver. 
 
 Lafe Pence. 
 
 Mr. Lafe Pence, County Attorney for Arapahoe county, 
 was born in Columbus, Indiana, December 23, 1857, and owes his 
 'origin to Democratic parentage. He received his education 
 in Hanover College, Indiana. Mr. Pence was married to 
 -Miss Clara Yawter, December 22, 1881, in Franklin, Indiana, 
 one son has been born to them, and Mr. Pence has booked the wee 
 one as a Democrat. Mr. Pence came to Colorado in 1881, and 
 lived at Rico, Colorado, until December, 1884, and then came to 
 Denver. His religious convictions are Democratic. 
 
 Peter O 'Brian. 
 
 Mr. Peter O'Brian, County Surveyor for Arapahoe county, was 
 born in L'Orignal, County of Prescott, Canada, on the 6th of 
 January, 1856, and received the benefit of an education at the 
 Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Mr. O'Brian was married 
 to Miss Alice Johnston, of Denver, in 1885; one child has been 
 born to them. In politics Mr. O'Brian is a Republican, and in 
 being selected as County Surveyor by that party, he has done 
 credit to them as well as to himself, as he is a competent man who 
 is calculated to make friends irrespective of party affiliations. 
 
 William W. Knight, 
 
 President of the Knight, McClure Music Co., the largest music 
 house in the West, arrived in Denver, Dec. 14, 1873, and has wit- 
 nessed many changes in business circles in this city. Mr. Knight 
 has been in the music business for twelve years, and from a mod- 
 erate beginning he has now reached the presidency of the largest 
 company west of the Missouri river. Upon the consolidation of 
 the two largest music houses in Denver, two years ago, Mr. 
 Knight was chosen president, and he still retains that position, 
 and his business tact and personal qualifications well befit him as 
 the head. The company is the sole agent in Colorado for the best 
 instruments made in the world, such as the Steinway, Weber, 
 Decker Brothers, Knabe, Fischer, Hallet & Davis, Hard man and 
 Emerson pianos; the Estey, Mason & Hamlin, Story & Clark, 
 
UK),, KAl'lIICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 171 
 
 . Kimhall, N land and other organs. The 
 
 v inch of which 
 
 is made available; and i; . the DlOSl hand-- -niel y decorated 
 
 store in tin' West. Their stock of musical in.-trumeir 
 everything kn.,\vn to tin- musical trade, -uch a.- Martin. Wa-hburn 
 and IJruno iruitars; 1 >ohson. v and Ilruno hanj 
 
 [ tin- lim-st line if >trini I'm- all in-trument- in fact, no 
 matter what i> called for in the musical line will be found in this 
 .-it "Temple of Mi; Mr. Knight, the head of this mam- 
 
 moth concern, was horn in ralhoun eoiintv. Michigan, December 
 i, l^o'T: was educated at a country district M-hool in that county, 
 and afterwards tinished at Olivet College of that S 
 <>n September '1 1 , lM'l, ^\1 r. Knight was married to 
 Alarion II. Kincaid, at Marshall. Michigan; a sn and dau^liter 
 add to the luippim'ss of the parent.-. The othei- prominent and 
 activf memhers of this tirm are: A. K. (lark, vic-.pre>idcnt; 0. 
 Y. McClure, secretary, and L. W. \Yaterhury. treasurer all gen- 
 tlemen of ability and well-known integrity. A numhc-r of hands 
 are employed by them, and j^ivat care is taken to have none hut 
 thoH> who are known to he strictly honest and of moral deport- 
 ment; therefore all who have dealings with the linn are sure of 
 proper treatment in every respect. 
 
 Stephen Vinot, 
 
 Who holds a foremost position in the rank and file of Colorado 
 pioneers, wa- born in Villai'ans, department of lite. Saone, Fr- 
 in the year lV>'. and has the honor of sprinc/intr from one .f the 
 d most inlluential families of that province. !! 
 bhere. He came to America in 1^>1, and made his home 
 at l-'ort Wayne, Indiana, until iMlti, when lu- came to I >niver, and 
 here made liis >tart in the humble but honorable occupation ,,f 
 haulino; bricks, and I'roin that becam d in the ice bu>: 
 
 liy fru-j-ality and industry he soon acquired a OOm] 
 \vitnes.-eil by the many buildings he has had erected, chief of which 
 
 inot T.lock. oiie of the ornament.- of \V- 
 Vinot has been married twice; three children make hi- 1. 
 ant. He i.- musically inclined, and has don, 
 'no; in Catholic chin 
 
 He bae been connected with the St. N'incent de I'au! 
 
 for the pa>t >e\. ' that B 
 
 In this connection h- 
 
 good, beinir naturally of a generOOfl and charitabl. ition. 
 
 Whi UQ his district, he has had ample op- 
 
172 BIOGEAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLOEADO. 
 
 portunity to witness the injury done by Chinese compe- 
 tition to white labor, and as a result Mr. Yinot is to-day regarded 
 as the strongest anti-Chinese man in Denver, and he loses no op- 
 portunity to agitate the importance of ridding our community of 
 this very objectionable class of our population. By his earnest- 
 ness and convincing arguments he has enlisted many followers to 
 the anti-Chinese cause, and should the Chinese ever be force<J. to 
 return to their own country, Mr. Yinot w T ill deserve a fair share of 
 credit for his untiring labor to attain that result. Mr. Yinot can 
 always be found on the side of honorable labor as against depress- 
 ing and tyrannizing capital, believing that a fair day's labor de- 
 serves sufficient remuneration to guarantee at least a comfortable 
 livelihood. He is at present engaged in the real estate business in 
 West Denver, and continually offers bargains in that line to the 
 public. Those who may call at his office, No. 1138 Larimer street, 
 will find that he is a reliable man to deal with. 
 
 Ivory Phillips, 
 
 Of Big Sandy, El Paso county, was born in Saco, Maine, May 10, 
 1843, and received a common school education in that town, also 
 attending the Gorham Male Academy, and graduating at Bryant 
 & Stratton's Commercial College, at Portland, Maine. He has al- 
 ways been a Republican, though his father was a Douglas Demo- 
 crat. Mr. Phillips was married at New Milford, Connecticut, to 
 Miss Mary Louise Canfield; they have one child. During the re- 
 bellion he served in the 25th Maine Regiment. His elder brother, 
 who was captain in the Twelfth Maine Regiment, was killed at 
 Oquoquon.' In 1850 Mr. Phillips settled on his present home, 
 then the extreme frontier, and on the 3d of October, 1873, he was 
 visited by the famous Spotted Horse and his band of 163 young 
 braves, who were followed by William N. Byers, John Hitson and 
 eighty-four others, coming by way of River Bend, October 4th, and 
 met the Indians eight miles west of Phillip's place. Luckily the 
 Indians, after drawing up in line of battle, decided not to risk an 
 engagement. This was the last Indian raid upon Colorado's east- 
 ern frontier. In 1866 Mr. Phillips was bookkeeper for the Penn 
 Oil Company in Chicago, and in September of that year he had 
 just sufficient means to purchase a span of mules and wagon to 
 cross the plains, and arrived in Denver, October 26, 1866, with a 
 load of apples. Since then he has been engaged in the sheep hus- 
 bandry. He was elected in the legislative assembly in the rail of 
 1878 by the Republican party. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL CCM 1'KN IH I'M oK OO] 
 
 Dr. W. R. Whitehead 
 
 Is one of tlir leading |liy<irian> !' tin- Stall-, hut i '.illy 
 
 known a> a surgeon, * if late yean ; r almost 
 
 rformed 
 
 the most diilifu',: i ly 
 
 rn |li\ He waa i"ni in Suffolk. Virgin! 
 
 eldeM BOD- Of CololM'I William P.. \Yhiteheud. (iradiiat: 
 tin- Virginia Military I list itute, he entered ami oraduatrd j'n.m 
 
 department of Medicine in the 1'ni^ -f IYim>ylvani:i. 
 
 Ai'tt-rwarii.- In- went t> Pari>. l-'ra !:<-, where he completed lii 
 
 I4ra(luatin^ from the Scliool ut' Mrlicini'. lu-tuniino- to An 
 
 i' ( 'linical Mcdicinr in ti. 
 
 11.' \va> a Burgeon in tin- liuian army in the Crimean 
 war -lopol, ami VI i for his 
 
 rmiiKMil surgical in the field. In the war of tin- ivU-llnm 
 
 he \\ uental. Brigade and Acting Chief 8u ! a livi- 
 
 kte army. At tin- end of th- 
 
 to New Vn-k eity, where continued in the praet iei- of i, 
 unti ; vhen he came to Cfolorado. S !ii->t 
 
 \Vhitehead, with th- 
 inetl in tlie j)ractic- <>{' hi 
 . he h;i> tal-: 
 in ti, d alvaneemenr o !>| 
 
 ird of Aide.- 
 
 ;dl this tin ;ie eomi 
 
 f our 
 
 n of puhlie hea!' IB private and j.: 
 
 al in 
 
 d tile :ij.' 
 all I' :. P.o!l. 
 
 ,nl to the accon , 
 
 ! to .-lander . 
 
 1 
 
 ja^rd in the du; 
 . i 1 y to t : 
 
 j/.a, dai;. 
 ilfolk. \ 
 
 and two Bonfl liviihj-: tin if the laf 
 
 and is al.oiit 
 
174 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 is a man of large frame, and though his hair is streaked with gray 
 he is still as active as a younger man, and has before him many 
 years of success yet in his profession, in which he has attained to 
 an enviable degree of fame. We know of none more deserving of 
 this meed of praise. 
 
 b 
 
 James W. Drips, 
 
 Of Black Hawk, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, 
 on the 6th of March, 1833, and was educated in the common schools 
 of his native State. He was married July 21, 1864, to Emma W. 
 King, at Central City, Colorado; the couple have three children. 
 Mr. Drips is one of the genuine "Old Timers" of Colorado, having 
 come te this State in 1860, arriving in Black Hawk on the 24th of 
 July of that year. He removed to Clear Creek county in 1863, 
 and was treasurer of that county for eight years. .Returning to 
 Gilpin county in 1878 he engaged in mining, and was elected a 
 member of the House of Representatives from that county in 1883. 
 His long residence in the State gave him a broad knowledge of her 
 wants, and made him a valuable member of that body. 
 
 James A. Layton, 
 
 The present efficient and enterprising County Clerk, of Mesa county, 
 Colorado, was born in Tippecanoe county, near Lafayette, Indiana. 
 His educational opportunities were confined to the common schools 
 and one term in an academy. Though not possessed of a colle- 
 giate training, he is known as one of the best and most skillful and 
 careful business men of his section. Mr. Layton came to Colora- 
 do in 1879, and settled in the Arkansas valley, near where the city 
 of Salida now stands. Following the excitement attendant upon 
 the removal of the Indians from, and settlement of their reserva- 
 tion in Western Colorado, he removed to the Grand valley and 
 settled in the then new and lively town of Grand Junction. Here 
 he opened the first general store in the valley. In the first election 
 in 1883, following the creation of the new county of Mesa, he was 
 chosen as County Clerk, and was re-elected in 1885. Mr. Layton 
 has always taken an active part in every enterprise looking to the 
 advancement of his county and section, and was largely instru- 
 mental in securing the location of the National Indian College at 
 that point. He was also heart and soul in the effort to secure the 
 appropriation for the State bridge over the Grand river, recently 
 finished there. He is a thorough Republican and is one of the 
 strongest political factors in his county, always faithful to the 
 standard of his party, wielding a strong influence, he, like every 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 175 
 
 proo- 'iti/en, has excited a great deal of enmity. Careful 
 
 and methodical in tin- discha -ilu-ial <lntie>. In- can take 
 
 to himself tin- .-at ^faction of knowing that he is of the-tutf of 
 
 ^hich strong commnnitii ide. II- WBB marrie.i March '.), 
 
 l s ''1. t- M: Louisa M. Phillip-, at Lafayette, Indiana; they 
 have two children, boys, Ilarrv and L'l^ar. Mr. Layton 
 Whitf and Abolition descent, and i- therefore entitled t<> his polit 
 ical beliefs, hotli hy hirth and conviction. 
 
 James A. Cherry, 
 
 Justice of the Peace 1 on Larimer street, near Fifteenth, was born 
 in New York, July :>1, IvVJ. and was educated at William's 
 College, oraduatine; in the \var l^T-V Mr. Cherry came to Colo- 
 rado ahout twelve years ao-o. and has Keen considered a lir>t -class 
 
 citizen, important enough to he selected for the dispensin 
 Justice to those who require it. He was married September 2, 
 1886, to Miss Hannah L. Driefuss. at Ilazleton. In politics he is 
 ii tirin Republican, is a good ]>arty worker and a o;enial oyntleman. 
 
 James B. Belford. 
 
 Hon.. I. 11. Belford, whose reputation as a politician, lawyer, and 
 an able and learned .Indov. is only equalled by his popularity a- a 
 witty and salient speaker, was born at Lewistn. Pennsylvania' 
 
 tmber 28, l^oT. and receivetl his education at Dickson Col- 
 lege, ill that Slate. II,. came to Colorado at an early day and be- 
 identitifd with the political growth of the country. In 1870 
 
 is appointed one f the Judges of the Supreme Court, and 
 
 held that nilice fop live years, * >n the admission of Colorado as a 
 h'- WAS elected as her Uepre-entat i\ e in the ! irth, 
 
 Forty-iifth, Forty-sixtli, ! b and Korty-eie/hth C 
 
 id in that capacity has done leal in the i: :' the 
 
 Mr. IVlford i> practicino; law in I)e!iver. and hold 
 position in the lee-al I'raternit y. lie is a married man. and 
 
 the father of an intert Unily. Politically Mr. Uelford 
 
 staunch Kepublicaii, and liis 'nvariably calle<l int 
 
 quisition when a -anva-.- of the State i- : 
 interest "f hi- | iart y. 
 
 James R. Treadway. 
 tfr.Jamee R. Treadway, ] '.erk. hails fi- -oon 
 
 conntN. id* he i-. . inic 
 
 education in .Iame>town in the same J> iduay canu- 
 
176 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 to Colorado in June, 1866. Though an active Republican the 
 position of City Clerk is the first political office he has held, and 
 he is both capable and obliging for that position. He has been 
 renominated by the Republicans for the same office, and re-elected 
 to serve the second term. 
 
 John Christopher Kuner. 
 
 In presenting a brief synopsis of the life of Mr. J. C. Kuner, 
 we give another instance where the combination of hope and a per- 
 severing determination sometimes overcomes the trials and trib- 
 lations which many encounter in this life. Mr. Kuner was born 
 in Lindan, Bavaria, Germany, June 17, 1820. He was educated 
 in the Lindan High School, and after that learned and worked at 
 coppersmithing until he was called into the army in 1843, in ac- 
 cordance with the laws of that country. In 1848 he took an active 
 part against monarchism, and finally fled to America. Mr. Kuner 
 was married to Miss Rabetta Heekleman, in Switzerland, in 1844, 
 and the happy couple have plodded along through life, sharing 
 alike their troubles and their joys, they have had six children, 
 four of whom are still living, and all married. Mr. Kuner, upon 
 coming to America, landed in New Orleans, and afterwards settled 
 in Memphis, Tennessee, and there learned the baker's trade, which 
 he followed for twenty years in Iowa City and Marshalltown, 
 Iowa. A noteworthy incident is the fact that both Mr. Kuner 's 
 father and mother lived with the family for twenty years, both de- 
 parting life in Marshalltown, Iowa, at the ages, respectively of 83 
 and 85 years, thus exhibiting a filial affection that is raraly 
 found in this day of ungratefulness and rebellion to parental 
 authority and love. In 1871 Mr. Kuner went to St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, and engaged in the vinegar business, and lost nearly all the 
 money he had saved in former years. In 1872 he came to Denver, 
 and with the little he had left again started in the vinegar and 
 pickle business, and so reduced in circumstances was he that he 
 was unable to buy a horse and wagon, but was obliged to peddle 
 his manufacture around the city in a wheelbarrow. Success at 
 last crowned his efforts, and he was gradually enabled to build his 
 business up to its present large proportions. With his success in 
 business also loomed up his social and political importance. In 
 1878 he was first elected County Commissioner, and was re-elected 
 in 1881 having served six years in all in that position. He also 
 served ten years in the school board of West Denver. The 
 Kuner Pickle Company is well-known throughout Colorado. 
 Mr. J. C. Kuner is the President of it, and Mr. Max Kuner ia 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
BAPHIOAL CoMl'IiNDIUM OF COLORADO. 177 
 
 A Stedman. 
 " 
 
 He i< nt alu -at who makes t!i- in 
 
 world." The howli;. . nor th" n 
 
 quack can claim th> >ir fellow in. MI. !! 
 
 earns the till.- of LCP 3 a lit''- in CO! per- 
 
 form The p: :' <mr sketch, I). 
 
 nan, was horn in 8 >! county. Maine, on February 
 
 J.'. L83 '. II'- reoeil mvlimin in the c 
 
 mon BOHoola and titled for coll< lit' -Mai :nin 
 
 ary. now Bates College, al Lewiston, Maine, and entered \Va- 
 
 ll>y I'nivrrsify. in A.Hga8t, L862, In 
 
 !! ti.- enliste 1 in t'i -ncnt. 
 
 of Maim- Infantry, and In tin- D.'parmuMit of ill.- (iulf 
 
 nnd.M- (i.MitM'al I5at )i-(lM'ly S<M^-ant in the first 
 
 nl ion. At tiif tMid of tin' war he Ix-i^an tin- study 
 of nifdicinr at Xewju.rt, Maine; attended t he Maine M.-diml 
 i at Mowdoin two terms, graduating at Hnrk- 
 
 shii--- .Medical Uollcir,., at Pittstirld, Ma- 
 
 l>r. S; -dintin Wits married at Portland, Maine, in ISi'.C.. II- 
 d his ])ro{'ession at Dcxier. Maine, until January, 1870, 
 and inline toColorado in April of the same year and reina 
 ever since, daring which time he iias been artiv 
 in tii . !' ni'-dir'me. I);-. Stedman WEfl a chartei- i 
 
 ie D.Miver Med; I also of the Colo- 
 
 'I'ei'ritorial i no.. iation ; is ex-president and 
 
 :ary of h..tii associations, li 
 iber of Denver, and hi 
 
 since c< iiii inued in 
 
 of ti; I. Dr. ;> had a 
 
 fal professional ca :itiontohi> won 
 
 tli" ; i will of ail who know him. ly his 
 
 Charles Denison. 
 
 Dr. Cliarles DeniSOD '-vas hoin N < >et 1. lsi.">. in ii 
 
 alton. \'ermoiit. Prelimiii ; regal 
 
 in Kimhall I'nion 
 
 i I amp-hip from \Villi a 
 
 lege in 1867. I : 
 ment of the Til, 
 Leotn Chen oontdnuing his medi<-al sto tie Feai 
 
 in New York cit \ he was aftei lart 
 
 (ord City Hospital o r, Dr. i ifcher and grand- 
 
178 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 father, Drs. Joseph A. Denison, Jr. and Sr., were noted physi- 
 cians in Royalton, Yermont. Dr. Denison moved to Colorado 
 in November, 1873, after having visited Texas and Florida for 
 pulmonary hemorrages, etc. Since coming to Colorado he has 
 gained .fifty pounds in weight. After having realized such 
 great benefits from the climate of Colorado, he has been un- 
 tiring in his efforts to induce others to seek health and life 
 here. By his writings he has been the means of bringing 
 hundreds of invalids to the Rocky Mountain regions. These 
 writings have been in the form of the reports to the American 
 Medical Association on Colorado's climate with reference to 
 consumption, etc. A report to the International Medical Con- 
 gress in 1876, on "The Influence of High Altitudes upon the 
 Progress of Phthisis ;" the "Rocky Mountain Health Resorts," 
 an 8 vo. volume, published by Hough ton, Mifflin & Co., of 
 Boston, and now in the sixth thousand ; and later, "The An- 
 nual and Seasonal Climatic Maps of the United States" publish- 
 ed by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago a graphic illustration of 
 some 5,000,000 separate signal service observations. Dr. Den- 
 nison is now professor of diseases of the chest and climatolo- 
 gy in the Medical Department of the Denver University and 
 secretary of the section of Climatology and Demography of 
 the Ninth International Medical Congress, to meet in Wash- 
 ington, D. C., in September, 1887. The doctor enjoys a dis- 
 tinguished professional position in Denver, as evidenced by 
 some 1,400 records of invalids who have been referred to him 
 during his fourteen years' residence in the city by physicians 
 in the east. He was married December 26, 1 878, to Miss Ella 
 H. Strong of Chicago, Illinois ; they have two children living. 
 Dr. Dennison, as a physician, is "to the manor born ;" his 
 cheerful and kind face cannot but be welcome in any sick 
 room. No word of ours can add lustre to his professional 
 career, but those who know him best, best appreciate his hu- 
 mane and noble character. 
 
 Charles Ballin. 
 
 Mr. Charles Ballin, one of the leading pioneer business 
 men of Denver, is a native of Germany. Mr. Ballin first com- 
 menced business in New York city in 1853, and in 1860 he 
 went to Santa Fe, N. M., where he continued to follow mer- 
 chandizing. In 1867 he came to Colorado and commenced 
 business in a small store, 12x24, on Larimer street. Later on 
 he formed a partnership with Mr. Ransohoff, and by careful 
 attention to business they built up their trade to the 
 leading point it has now reached, in the occupation of the 
 
COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 179 
 
 magnificent store they now occupy in tin* Tabor Opera House 
 building. Mr. Ballin was knaniea to Miss PsnnieZeokendorf 
 
 in 1S.VJ. and tin- couple an- vrell-knowo Jinl highly e- 
 in tli il and business oirolea >f D.-ir. 
 
 E. O. Wolcott. 
 
 Edward O. \Volcott, a prominent member of the Colorado 
 bar, was born on March *J<th, IMS, in Long Meadow, Mass., 
 and is a son of Rev. Samuel Wolcott. a leading Con- 
 gregational divine, being thus a younger brother of Hon. H. 
 H. Woh-ott. the acting manager of the Boston and Colorado 
 Smelting Works, at Algo, He was educated at Yale College 
 and the Harvard Law School. On coming to Colorado, in 
 . lie located first at Georgetown, where for several years 
 he practiced law successfully. In 1875 he was District At- 
 torney, and in 1878 was elected State Senator from Clear 
 Creek county. As a lawyer Mr. Wolcott ranks among the 
 leaders of the Western bar, and enjoys a good practice. 
 
 Stock Raising, 
 
 For the past twenty years no business on the plains of the 
 west has paid so well as the growth and fattening of cattle. 
 There can be scarcely found a man who eng; ged in the 
 business ten or fifteen years ago, and has continued in it, who 
 has not grown wealthy. During the years 1SN) to l^s-J, while 
 the entire country was enjoying a boom, the cattle business 
 at traded unusual attention, and large amounts of capital were 
 invested in it, generally by men who were ignorant of how it 
 should be Conducted. Immediately following came the period 
 of business depression, when the prices <>f all commodities 
 fell, beef cattle as well as other things. This fact, coupled 
 with the further facts that the majority of men who had newly 
 engaged in the business, mismanaged it through ignorance, 
 and toat the open rani >cked, caused loe 
 
 many places instead of profits. Tlii> has affected the ivpu- 
 totio'n of the bu injuriously with th- 1 public, but 
 
 not with those who thoroughly understand th.- actual f{ 
 
 Just now some of the heaviest and shrewd. -st <-a]italist> in 
 
 the country are .juietly makin and cat 
 
 tie ranches, in accordance with tin- BUCCeSSful bn> ian's 
 
 motto that " the time to buy is when the pe.j.h- want to sell, 
 and the time to sell is wli.-n the p-oile want tobu The 
 
 j)iinci}>al and important H hich ha> taken j.lace dm iiiL' 
 
 the past tin (hod of domg ' 
 
180 BIOGEAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 ness, is in securing the title to or control of ranges. Over- 
 stocking the public range has made it almost impossible to 
 calculate, with any reasonable degree of certainty, upon re- 
 alizing profits in the business unless one can control the 
 range upon which his cattle are grazed. 
 
 There are two methods of conducting the business. One is 
 to fatten steers for market, arid the other is to breed cattle, as 
 well as fatten the steers which are bred. Those who engage 
 in the steer business only, buy Texan steers one or two years 
 old, and keep them until three or four, and then sell them for 
 beef. Those who engage in breeding keep mixed herds. 
 
 The losses on the open ranges, where cattle are not fed in 
 the winter, average from three to five per cent, annually. 
 Some years they are more and some years less. In some lo- 
 calities they will be large, while in others they will be' noth- 
 ing, owing entirely to local storms or scarcity of feed in par- 
 ticular localities. But where cattle are fed during the winter, 
 or kept within closures where feed is abundant and protec- 
 tion is afforded by trees or the topography of the ground, the 
 l^ss is less than it will average in the stables and barn yards 
 of the eastern Stares. The dry atmosphere of the range coun- 
 try makes it the most healthy locality in the United States 
 for cattle. Messrs Hunter & Co., live stock and commission 
 merchants at 1407 Lawrence street, Denver, are authority on 
 all matters pertaining to this business, and invite correspon- 
 dence from those interested in the subject. 
 
 Harry J. Parks. 
 
 One of Denver's most successful business men, was born in 
 Warsaw, Wyoming County New York, Feb. 24, 1848 ; receiv- 
 ing his education in the common schools of his native town. 
 When scarcely seventeen years old he enlisted in the Ninth 
 New York cavalry. Hurried away at once to the field he 
 participated in the stirring events of the years 1863-4; was 
 with Sheridan in the Shanandoah valley, and under him 
 in the battle of Cedar Creek. T. Buchanan Reed made that 
 battle famous in the annals of war by his poem ''Sheridan's 
 Bide." While Sheridan was at Winchester, twenty miles 
 away, the battle began in his camp. Mounting his black 
 charger, he sped 
 
 <* * from Winchester town. 
 
 A good broad highway leading down, 
 
 * * * * * * 
 
 Under his spurning feet, the road, 
 Like on arrowy Alpine river, flowed. 
 And the landscape sped away behind 
 Like an ocean flying before the wind." 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM LORADO, 181 
 
 until he brought his rider to tin- field, where h -'nee 
 
 checked the fleeing tide and turned inglorious defi-m into 
 triumphant victory. For t!n- part In- bore in these thrilling 
 scenes Mr. Parks was given a gold medal by Congress, which 
 lie now sometimes exhibits with a pardonable degree )f 
 pride. Coming home from the war with his youim" man!: 
 DUt JUSI b'-Lnm, he laid down his sabre and look up the 
 leful avocatiOBB Of life. H.' has at various times since 
 (I in business in ten OF twelve different citirs, and 
 In 1883 came to Denver. Ib-p inc.- his arrival In* has 
 
 managed the business of the famous I'uffaio shoe houses, 
 both here and al chevenne, \V. T. II 'n-urii-d t (i Miss 
 
 M. Lander, <>r Peoria, Ills. .July 6, L886. Though Mr. P, 
 has had a quarter of a century's experience yet he is but now 
 in the prime of life. He is an active member of tin 4 (T. A. R. 
 and cherishes a sacred reverence for his soldier comrades. 
 In business he is a leader and his company could not have 
 found safer hands to which to entrust their interests. 
 
 John David Vaughan, 
 
 The gentleman who has succeeded Mr. J. Mahtmey as Private 
 tary to 1 1 is Excellency, Governor Alva Adams, was born 
 in Cleveland, Ohio, April 14, 1S-1-J. and was educated at the 
 College of Holy An^'ls. Niagara Falls. Mr. Vaughan was 
 married in St. Louis. Missouri, in ls7^, to Miss Louisa S. 
 Poinsett ; they have live children. During the civil war Mr. 
 Vaughan served in the American navy, having enlisted in the 
 Charlestown navy yard, and was on board of the flagship 
 Lancaster, and also on the (Vane. At the close of the war 
 he was honorably discharged from service at the Brooklyn 
 navy yard. Mr. Vaughan has been in Colorado for eleven 
 years, and during that time has been a ivco^ni/.-d leader 
 among his fellow workmen. In 187-1 he was the senior dt-le- 
 gat- tor St. Louis to the International Typographical Tnion, 
 and at a reo-nt meetinin.f the ty poirraphical fraternity of Den- 
 ver he was chosen .-, '-nior meml present tie-mat 
 the coming International Convention, which is to meet in 
 Buffalo, \f-w York, in Jini" next Mr. Vauuhan t :. 
 active interest in all matters that p.-rtain to the b.-n.-tit <>f the 
 laborini: masses : his vi.-ws are logical and well detin.-d. 
 in debates he j tliem in such a ible 
 way as tocairy wri^ht and intlu-i ;lie j.r.'sent tim.- he 
 also lills tln-'distiiH-tive position ttheTl 
 Assembly. Personally, he is modest and unassuming, and 
 
182 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 for those traits of character he is the more esteemed by his 
 fellow workmen. He is a Democrat in politics, and his ap- 
 pointment as Governor Adams' private secretary is the first 
 recognition that has been awarded him for his faithf ul services 
 to his party. 
 
 Dr. W. F. Wilson. 
 
 As a rule the ranks of the medical profession are made up 
 of a class of gentlemen possessing great strength of mind, 
 highly cultured intellects and a loftiness of character which 
 is necessary to command for them the respect of the general 
 public. They are therefore entitled to the great confidences 
 which are necessarily reposed in them and which they guard 
 with all the great traditional honor of their noble calling. 
 Amongst the physicians of the State of Colorado Dr. W. F. 
 Wilson takes a foremost position. Well qualified by na- 
 tural inclination and educational training, with a soul fully 
 comprehending the greatness of his work and of his persona 
 responsibility, he has built up for himself a very extensive 
 practice in his special branches and acquired an enviable 
 standing. He was born in Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, 
 and educated in the schools of New York City. He was a 
 student in the New York Ophthalmic and Knapp's 
 Ophthalmic and Au-ral Institute. Dr. Wilson gradu- 
 ated from a general course in Medicine in 1876, but devoted 
 himself to the study of the Eye and Ear in different Eye and 
 Ear Hospitals at home and abroad until the time of his loca- 
 tion in Denver. Here he has confined himself to practice in 
 these specialties. A visit to his rooms during hours of practice 
 will find him always busy, and his successes will entitle him 
 to be called great in his chosen specialties. He is Oculist and 
 Aurisfc for the U. P. R. R. and its divisions. 
 
 Peter McOourt, 
 
 Manager of the Tabor Grand, is becoming widely known 
 throughout the country on account of his connection with the 
 Opera House. Mr. McCourt appreciates the beauty and im- 
 portance of the building that is under his management, and 
 as it is a central point of attraction to every visitor coming to 
 Denver, it will not be amiss for us to give a brief outline of 
 the principal features which proves an attraction in this city. 
 The entrance to the Tabor Grand Opera House is on Sixteenth 
 street, near Curtis, and its expansive portals alone attract at- 
 tention, the entrance being 25 by 100 feet. When the inner 
 
BIOGKAl-llH \L COMPENDIUM OF OOLOBADO. 183 
 
 doors are opened the heavy bra-s railing, guiding to the dif- 
 fT'-nt portions of the house ; t he ti: -tin;:: the handsome 
 
 mirrors all combine to OOEVey at a glance the maLrnilicenc.- 
 of the whole interior. rtion ot which is linish.-d ,-lab 
 
 orately and artistically. The houae comfortably seats 1,500 
 people, and it is frequently tested to its fullest oapa< 
 
 As w-ll as the most of the house. ;he twelve boxes are hand 
 soinely and richly finished wit h cherry, in quaint and ( )rintal 
 designs There a're six available exits from the Opera lions.-. 
 The separate rows of seats in tin- house are terraced so a> to 
 allow each auditor to have a full view of the stage, Inside 
 the orchestra railing forty-five musicians can be seat.- 1, and 
 the stage beini; 4.~> by 75 feet affords ample room for any op- 
 eratic or dramatic Combination that is on the road. Every 
 modern mechanical device for the stage is supplied; fifty 
 complete sets of scenery can be brought into requisition to 
 suit any required purpose. There are twenty well arranged 
 dressing rooms up stairs and several rooms in the basement 
 for the supernumeries. Forty-four hands are on the pay-roll 
 of the opera house, which will give an idea of what is re- 
 quired to keep this temple of art and music in good working 
 order. Probably the finest oil painting in America is over 
 the proscenium arch, by one of the most celebrated artists. 
 The painting is a representation of Hector departing for the 
 fof Troy. .Another striking feature of the Opera House is 
 the drop curtain, painted by Mr. Hopkins, of Detroit, Michigan. 
 It is copied from an eminent Florentine sketch, illustrative of 
 an ancient ruin. It is not only beautiful in its delicate tints, 
 shades and colorings, but all'ords a study worthy the : 
 cultured minds; and eminent trav- irnit its superiority 
 
 in design and its artistic colorings in detailing the conception 
 of tlie artist. Beneath it is inscribed the mystic words of 
 
 ELingsli 
 
 "So Hi -rt iii- . 
 
 i in 
 Ancient ami holy thii ikr a ilivam." 
 
 Strangers visiting Denver do not really Bee the city wit! 
 havinir visih-d the < )p'-ra Rouse, and they invariably en! 
 double treat, inasmuch a- only the m inpanies 
 
 before the public appear therein, To Mr. , due the 
 
 it of erectini: this ^land edifice, and to Mr. Mc( omt : 
 praise for hN bu-ines^ tact in present 
 
 ind in inducing only t! 
 
 Denver, which our cultured p, appreciate an 
 
 joy. Tne Tab. ,ilt in issn l.and was Op- 
 
 ?ptember 6, 1881, by t ua Abbott compai 
 
184 BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF COLORADO. 
 
 Benjamin H. Eaton. 
 
 After carefully considering the many representatives of Col- 
 orado which we have included in this work, there is none to 
 whom is more deserving the honor of the closing sketch than 
 the gentleman whose name heads this biography. Hon. B. 
 H. Eaton, who creditably served as Governor of Colorado from 
 1- C 85 to 1887, was born at West Bedford, Coshocton county, 
 Ohio, in December, 1833, and his rudimentary education was 
 obtained in the common schools of that town, closing with an 
 academic course in the West Bedford Academy. Upon reach- 
 ing mature years his first occupation was that of teaching 
 school. Governor Eaton came to Colorado in the year 1859, 
 and at that early day he foresaw the grandeur which was in 
 store in the future for this State, and ever since then he has 
 been identified with its onward and progressive movements 
 and developments. In 1871 he was elected as a Representa- 
 tive to the Territorial Legislature, and again in 1875 he was 
 chosen to fill the higher position in Council. For four years 
 he served as Commissioner of the Penitentiary ; and he has 
 also served as County Commissioner for Weld county. Gov. 
 Eaton is a robust, active man, with a ruddy, genial counten- 
 ance, which indicates that he is accustomed to look on the 
 bright side of life and to impart sunshine to those about him. 
 He appears peculiarly fitted by nature and education for the 
 duties of public life, possessing that personal magnetism 
 which affects to a greater or less degree every one with whom 
 he comes in contact. He was first married in West Bedford, 
 Ohio, in 1857, but his wife died twenty months after ; one son 
 was born to them, and he resides at the town of Eaton, in this 
 State. The Governor was again married in 1864 to Miss Re 
 becca Jane Hill, at Wapello, Iowa ; three children was the 
 result of this union. The family is at present residing at the 
 Windsor Hotel, in Denver, where their large circle of intimate 
 friends are warmly welcomed. In all matters pertaining to 
 the interests of the State at large Governor Eaton has taken 
 an active interest. Besides owning and cultivating one of the 
 largest farms in the State, in Weld county, he is interested 
 in stock raising, milling, mining and other industries. Both 
 his business capacity and executive ability have been thor- 
 oughly tested. Punctuality and thoroughness have been 
 found to be the leading traits of his character, and it is to these 
 qualities, together with his temperate habits and social worth, 
 that he owes the popularity and respect which he has gained 
 from the people of the State. Still hale and vigorous, we pre- 
 dict for him many honors from the Republican party, of 
 which he is and always hasbeen a staunch supporter. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 \daiu- Alva 
 Al)loU. (' H. 
 
 D. 
 
 Bamuel 
 
 A-uilar. .1 l: 
 Adams. W 11. 
 Al\ 
 
 n, K H 
 
 ullural. -- as 
 
 I'.l-c.-tir 1'. \V. 
 liallani. I 
 
 la, Ca-iinin. 
 
 v Ith, < ' T 
 
 P.ail. 
 
 inir.-r, J H. 
 lii-.-k. \\' I. 
 liurris. 0. NV. 
 liucklin. J \V. 
 r.anh-tt. W, It. 
 Brooks, K. J. 
 Kradlry. 0. I >. 
 I'.ati-. J !:. 
 15n. win-. B 
 liutch.-r. J. M 
 I'.ronk. J. r. 
 liowni. T M. 
 Hallin. (1 
 I id ton 1. J. !'. 
 
 ( 'aiu|il>cllc. John 
 ( '.irnMi. 'I 
 
 Chilrott. (I. M. 
 
 rhriMain. (' J 
 ( 'ai-|.ciitt-r. M P. 
 ( '(.rdcva. JO8 P.. 
 
 Curry. J i: 
 
 ( 'ia\\ h.rd. J 11. 
 Cornell. 1 
 Clark. J H 
 Collin>. C M. 
 ( 'linrch. l-'i-ank 
 ( 'rain i i-k 
 
 ntloo 
 
 ( 'h.-n \ , J. \ 
 
 Drip-. J. W. 
 l><>nii<-llai). .1 
 
 Durkee, W. \V 
 W 
 
 i. A J. 
 
 Deua, J. P. 
 
 'ii. ( Ihaa. 
 
 . 11 H 
 
 17 
 
 F.ppirh. < \ 
 
 
 l-:l\\ tirda, Mi-lviii 
 
 
 Klbert, 9 II 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 108 
 
 no 
 
 l-Vllon. \\ . B, 
 
 1 1 1 ' 
 mi 
 
 l-Ylk. 
 
 i < ' t 
 
 111:111. .1. .M . 
 
 90 
 
 ' r;dd. Jam.- 
 
 27 
 
 IM-. < . !'. A. 
 
 
 swold, i: 
 
 i 
 
 Garber, J i; 
 
 ta 
 
 (iilpin, \V:n. 
 
 
 ( iardnrr. .1. I-'. 
 
 88 
 
 < iaivia. Celestino 
 
 64 
 
 (Jrant, .) . H. 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 IIirk>. .1. It. 
 
 gg 
 
 Hooxvr, .1. r. 
 
 
 H.iolVr. J. Q 
 
 90 
 
 Helm, .1. C. 
 
 Ilarvry, Kirhard 
 
 Huskins. < i. M. 
 
 102 Hunl, N 
 
 L09 
 
 Himber, Hcnrv 
 
 117 
 
 Haminitt K \V. 
 
 
 Hill, N. 1' 
 
 178 
 
 llouh-tt. \V. .1. 
 
 17o 
 
 HalU-ti. M' .-.- 
 
 
 Hall. \V. 1 . 
 
 80 
 
 Ha-tiiiL--. \' IV 
 
 ;n 
 
 Hall, Frank 
 
 
 Ho|iiT. S K 
 
 
 Harkin>n. ( '. T 
 
 11 
 
 Jonee, H. i'. 
 
 
 .lollr-. J. H. 
 
 
 Jiitl-.-- >u|in-nif < 
 
 8] 
 
 Kin'--!, y, h. P, 
 Kinkai.l, J>hn 
 
 96 
 
 in. .1 . < ' 
 
 
 Knight, \v. \v. 
 
 140 
 
 Knurr, J 
 
 Ml 
 17.'. 
 
 
 
 Lint'.M. ( 
 
 
 LOII.IOM.T, \\ 
 
 
 La\ I-'ii. .1 A . 
 
 50 
 
 r.w 
 
 M.-l.iruiM. N. H. 
 
 i>^ 
 
 M.-ni. .1 D. 
 
 (K) 
 
 CM 
 
 
 .Hi 
 
 107 
 
 >1<1 
 
 
 .8. 
 
 29 
 
 Mill. 
 
 .M 
 
 ICal 
 
 66 
 68 
 
 11 
 LSI 
 
 82 
 92 
 
 \~ 
 
 59 
 69 
 
 83 
 86 
 95 
 96 
 
 mi 
 
 108 
 
 11"! 
 
 LM 
 122 
 127 
 
 Mil 
 
 176 
 91 
 
186 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Martinez, J. E. 
 Moore, M. R. 
 Morris, Robert 
 Marsh, Alvin 
 Mears, Otto 
 Machebeuf, J. P. 
 Mann, W. B. 
 McCourt, P. 
 
 Newell, S. V. G. 
 Newkirk, T. H. 
 Noble, C. E. 
 Nichols, Sylvester 
 Nettleton, E. 8. 
 
 Orvis, R. W. 
 Owens, T. R. 
 O'Brien,' Peter 
 
 Poole, J. H. 
 Pease, G. E. 
 Prentiss, Owen 
 Pierce, W. D. 
 Parks, C. C. 
 Patterson, T. M. 
 Parkinson, W. J. 
 Price R. F. 
 Phillips, I. 
 Pence, L. 
 Park, H. J. 
 
 Rice, James 
 Ryan, T. B. 
 Russell, J. L. 
 Rowan, Win. 
 Ransohoff', L. 
 Routt, J. L. 
 Representatives 
 Raymond, C. A. 
 
 Stuart, T. B. 
 Btuart, F. Q. 
 Skiff, F. J. V. 
 Sweeney, P. W. 
 Shaw, J. H 
 Stotesbury, J. H. 
 Sutherland, F. H. 
 Stokes, Stanley 
 Scarnehorii, G. N. 
 Stevenson, R M. 
 
 87 Stevenson, Frederick 
 
 124 
 
 92 
 
 Symes, G. G. 
 
 135 
 
 108 Staley, L. A. 
 
 136 
 
 Ill i Shoblo, Vidal 
 
 143 
 
 115 Strauss, Herman 
 
 114 
 
 130 
 
 Stone, W F. 
 
 125 
 
 132 
 
 Steele, H. D. 
 
 115 
 
 182 
 
 Stedmari, A. 
 
 177 
 
 41 
 
 Stock Raising, (essay ) 
 
 179 
 
 49 
 
 Turrell, J. W. 
 
 54 
 
 63 
 
 Tabor, H. A. W. 
 
 74 
 
 83 
 
 Tracy, L. C. 
 
 77 
 
 73 
 
 Taylor, F. A- 
 
 78 
 
 53 
 
 Thomas, C. S. 
 
 86 
 
 64 Tritch, George 
 
 118 
 
 170 
 
 Teller, H. M. 
 
 141 
 
 
 Territorial Organization (essay) 
 
 144 
 
 39 
 50 
 
 Tread way, J. R. 
 
 175 
 
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