Larimer County, Colorado - The whole text, 1911 (part 15 of 22)

A. B. Tomlin and the firm became A. B. Tomlin & Co. On the 11th of November, 1878, Mr. Stover and Mr. Charles H. Sheldon, the present cashier of the Poudre Valley National bank, opened and established the Poudre Valley bank in the Wilson block on Jefferson street, moving a few weeks later to a new brick building erected for them on Linden street. The bank was moved on the completion of the Loomis block in 1883, to its present location. Mr. Stover remained president of the bank until January, 1893, when, owing to ill health, he declined re-election, continuing, however, on the board of directors and as vice-president until he died. In 1882, in company with Andrew McGinley, Mr. Stover engaged in the stock business near Fort Robinson in Western Nebraska, where the firm of Stover & McGinley ran a large herd of cattle for many years, finally disposing of their holdings and winding up the firm's affairs in 1905. In 1892, Mr. Stover, Frank Chaffee and R. M. Ferguson organized the Collins Cash Clothing company, with Mr. Stover as president, a position he held at the time of his death. He had also been president of the Stover Investment company for several years. Up to 1893, when he declined a re-election to the presidency of the Poudre Valley bank, he had been an active business man, foremost in many enterprises designed to build up Fort Collins and advance his private interests, and had accumulated quite a large fortune. Since then, though continuing to retain an interest in a number of business enterprises, he surrendered the active management of them to younger men, exercising only a supervisory control. Mr. Stover was one of the early members of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Fort Collins and contributed liberally of his means to its upbuilding and maintenance. Many other Methodist churches have been established in Colorado through his generous financial assistance. His benevolences were many and widely distributed, but always performed in a modest, quiet way, as he disliked publicity in such matters.

His Public Services

Mr. Stover always took an active interest in public affairs and, during the earlier years of his manhood, served his state, his county and his city in many places of trust and responsibility with marked ability and fidelity. He was elected a member of the Territorial council in 1873, serving one term. In 1875 he was chosen to represent Larimer county as a delegate to the constitutional convention, which framed the organic law of the state. This convention met in Denver on the 20th day of December, 1875, and concluded its labors on the 14th day of March, 1876. In that convention Mr. Stover was a member of the following important standing committees: Legislation and legislature; counties; mines and mining and forest culture, and was also a member of several special committees. It was due to his efEorts in the constitutional convention that the clause locating the Colorado Agricultural college in Fort Collins was adopted. In September, after Colorado had been admitted into the Union as a state, Mr. Stover was nominated for state senator by the democratic party, but was defeated at the election held the following October, by Norman H. Meldrum, the latter receiving four majority. At the democratic state convention held in Leadville in September, 1880, Mr. Stover was nominated for lieutenant governor, but went down to defeat with his ticket, although running many votes ahead of it in his home county. In the spring of 1883 he was elected a member of the city council, serving one term with distinguished ability. These honors came to him unsought and some of them against his protest, as he was never in any sense a seeker after oiKce. Mr. Stover was three times married. His first wife, Jane M. White, whom he married February 16th, 1869, and who was the mother of his three children, died February 27th, 1879. His second wife was Sarah A. White, a relative of his first wife, of Mercer, Pennsylvania. The three children, one of them an infant, were placed in her charge after their mother's death, and she reared them with all the care and lavished upon them the affection of an own mother. Mr. Stover married her in 1882. She died in November, 1904. He married his third wife, Emily Putnam, in Iowa, in the summer of 1907, and she and his children. Dr. George H. Stover of Denver, Mrs. Emma Putnam of Los Angeles, California, and Judge F. W. Stover, of Fort Collins, survive him. He also leaves two brothers, George H. Stover of South Bend, Indiana, and Frank P. Stover of Fort Collins. Mr. Stover died at the home of his son, Dr. George H. Stover, in Denver, at 1 :30 a. m., on October 8th, his wife and children being at his bedside.

Eugene F. Kerr was born on a farm in 1850 near Iowa City, Iowa, where he received his education. He came to Colorado in 1873, locating first at Longmont, then coming to Larimer county the same year. He engaged in wool growing which he followed a few years and then took up farming which is still his occupation. In 1882 he married

Clara J. Davis and they have two children, Harriette and Walter E. The family lives on a farm situated about two miles directly west of Fort Collins. The daughter, Mrs. Chas. Troutman, is a graduate of the Fort Collins High school and also of the Colorado Normal school at Greeley.

Major John Kerr first saw the light May 15, 1823, near Winchester, Virginia and that light disappeared in death on Sunday morning, June 24, 1893. Death closed a long and honorable career and removed from life's activities one of the best known and best loved of the Colorado pioneers. On coming to man's estate, Mr. Kerr rejoiced in the possession of a splendid physique, rugged health, a cool brain, and a well cultivated and well balanced mind. His was a brave adventurous spirit, and in early manhood he wended his way westward, arriving at St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1849, just at the setting in of the great overland rush to the California gold fields. The following year he made his first trip across the Plains in charge of a train of ox teams loaded with merchandise, billed for Livingston & Kincaid, of Salt Lake City. The venture, though extremely hazardous, was successful, and continuing in the business he made a round trip from the Missouri river to Salt Lake each succeeding year for eight years, his freight bills often running as high as from $50,000 to $56,- 000. In 1859 he was engaged in transporting government supplies from Independence, Missouri, to Salt Lake for Gen. Sidney Johnson's army, then employed in keeping the Mormons in subjection. His route lay up the North Platte via Fort Laramie and the South Pass. It was a wild country in those days, infested with savages who made frequent attempts to capture his train, but never succeeded. While making the crossing at Green River in 1853, Major Kerr first fell in with Old Jim Baker, the noted scout, hunter and guide, W. T. Shortridge, afterwards for many years a much respected citizen of Fort Collins, and Harvey Jones. The acquaintance thus began ripened into a warm and enduring friendship. All of these intrepid pioneers and frontiersmen lived to a ripe old age, finally dropping into that dreamless sleep that knows no waking, revered and honored by their survivors for the hardships they endured, the trials experienced and the dangers they met with while marking out trails through a trackless wilderness for those of us who came afterwards to follow. Major Kerr followed freighting across the Plains until the breaking out of the Civil war and then.

disposing of his train, he came from Salt Lake and engaged in farming and cattle raising in the valley of the Platte a few miles below Denver. In 1864 he raised the largest crop of wheat ever produced by one man in Colorado - 31,000 bushels. When Ben Holladay moved the Overland stage route from the North Platte to Denver in 1862, Major Kerr was selected to take charge of the line from Denver to Salt Lake. He established all the stations on the road, purchased the stock and supplies and employed the men. His orders were to see that the mail never failed to go through on time and he carried them out to the letter. Everything was run on a high pressure system in those days. Competent men for the stage service commanded wages running from $200 to $300 per month, and everything else was in proportion. In 1864 Major Kerr married a daughter of John Ish of Saline county, Missouri, who survives him. Mrs. Kerr is a sister of Capt. John C. Ish of Fort Collins. One child, a son, who died in 1869, was born to them. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr became residents of Larimer county in 1879, when they located on a fine tract of land situated in the Little Thompson valley about two miles south of the present town of Berthoud. Major Kerr was an honest man ; a man of warm, generous impulses, many sterling virtues and no vices. He was true to his friends and just to all men ; enemies he had none. Though compelled in the early days to mingle freely with all classes ; and frequently thrown into a vortex of dissipation, vice and crime, he preserved his manhood and constantly maintained a dignified and reserved attitude, which at once commanded respect, if not admiration of the most reckless debauchee.

John Lyon was born May 28th, 1837, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Came west in 1857 and was in the employ of the Overland stage company at Kearney, Nebraska, for seven years. He came to Larimer county in 1867 and located at Laporte where he was employed as clerk in Hook & French's store. Later he located on a farm two miles east of Laporte where he lived for many years. He married Miss Ada Hawley in 1876, and has two children living, Mrs. Anna H. Maddux of Denver and A. W. Lyon, Salt Lake, Utah. Mr. Lyon retired from active business pursuits several years ago and is now living with his daughter in Denver.

Rev. Lawrence J. Lamb. - The subject of this sketch was born April 8th, 1860, near Fort Scott, Kansas, and when 14 years of age came with the family of his father. Rev. E. J. Lamb to Longmont, Colorado, where they resided until 1879 when the family moved to Larimer county, which was his home until death called him hence on the 18th of November, 1903. In January, 1883, he was united in marriage with Christina Nispel in Nebraska, and five sons, Arthur, Henry, Frank, Luther and Benjamin, were born to them, all of whom are living. Mr. Lamb followed farming in Colorado and Nebraska for several years, but gave up that occupation in 1897 to enter the ministry, having been licensed that year to preach by the Colorado conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He moved his family from the farm to Fort Collins soon after and devoted his whole time and energy to the work of the Master. He served the congregation at Boxelder, Hygiene and Masonville with much zeal, force and earnestness, and was in the midst of preparing a sermon to be delivered to his congregation at Masonville when taken sick with pneumonia which caused his death. He was the second son of Rev. E. J. Lamb, one of the two pioneer missionaries sent to Colorado in 1871 by the United Brethren church, and his genial manner, his zeal, earnestness and conscientious efforts to advance the Master's cause on earth won for him the confidence and respect of all classes. He was an excellent citizen, a devoted husband, an indulgent father and a zealous worker in the Master's vineyard, and his untimely death was deeply lamented. His widow and three unmarried sons reside at 320 West Olive street.

Mr. And Mrs. James R. Mason

persevering man can accomplish in Colorado in a few years amid dangerous and discouraging environments. Coming to Colorado a poor boy, 14 years of age, he had to fight his own way through many adverse circumstances and discouragements that would have disheartened those made of less sterner stuff, up from poverty to affluence and to a position in the community that is the envy of weaker minds. Mr. Mason was born in 1849, in Caldwell county, Kentucky. His childhood days were spent in the famous "Blue Grass' region, where he had instilled in his being that love for fine stock which has since characterized the man. In 1863 he crossed the Plains with a bull team loaded with four tons of whiskey for a wholesale liquor house. On arriving in Denver he camped on Larimer street and after resting his team a few days, hauled his freight to Black Hawk. He then went to work for a ranchman on the St. Vraiii, two and one-half miles west of Longmont, and hauled hay with oxen from the ranch to Black Hawk and Central City. This was in 1864-5. In the fall of 1866 he was sent into the mountains after a load of poles. A snow storm set in, blocking the trail so that he could not return and he was three days without a mouthful of food, what he considered the most gloomy period of his life. He has seen many stirring times in Colorado and endured many hardships and privations, but never before nor since has he felt the pangs of hunger so keenly as he did on that occasion. Along in the late 70's, Mr. Mason engaged in the hay and grain business at Longmont in which he was successful, and in 1885, he bought the land in the Buckhorn valley on which his present home stands and moved onto it. He has since added many broad acres to his holdings and has one of the finest and best furnished homes in the Mountain regions. His farm house is large and roomy and equipped throughout with every modern convenience, hot and cold water, baths, furnace heat, and there he leads a prosperous and contented life, surrounded by everything that tends to add to the comfort and happiness of human beings - a devoted wife and affectionate children. Mr. Mason is a man of more than ordinary intelligence and ability - native and acquired. He has always been a hard-working, industrious man, prudent in the management of his affairs, and through the exercise of a well-balanced judgment has accumulated a comfortable fortune, and is today a splendid example of a self-made man. While Mr. Mason does more or less farming, at which he has been very successful, his specialty is the breeding and raising of fine stock. He was the first man to introduce Red Polled cattle in Colorado, and is therefore the pioneer breeder of these excellent beef and milk breed of animals. The Buckhorn creek flows through his ranch, furnishing a never failing supply of stock water, and his large holdings of tillable and excellent pasture lands, make it an ideal home for cattle and horses. Mr. Mason married his first wife, Mary Maddox, in 1870, at Old St. Louis on the Big Thompson, by whom he had two children, Mrs. Edith Samuels, wife of F. M. Samuels of Loveland, and Charles A. Mason. Mrs. Mason died in 1875, and in August, 1877 he married Mary Flory at Longmont, who is the mother of seven children : J. W. Mason, Mrs. Bird Stobbe,

Henry E. Hart. - ^The immediate ancestors of our subject, Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Hart, came west from New York state in 1849 and settled near

Henry E. Hart

Springfield, Illinois, where he was born May 8th, 1863. He spent his boyhood days on his father's farm where he acquired those habits of industry which have stood him so well in hand since he came to Colorado. His ancestors came from Brainston, England, in 1642. He came to Fort Collins in 1886, crossing the Plains from Springfield in a Prairie schooner, and engaged in market gardening in which he has met with excellent success. In 1887 he went to Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and married the sweetheart of his schoolboy days. Miss Addie Brundage, on November 15th. The bride's parents moved to Missouri when she and her lover were children, but he knew where she was and when they arrived at suitable age the vows of their youth were renewed at the marriage altar. They have two children living, Clyde A. and Lottie C.

Mr. Hart owns 20 acres of rich and highly improved garden land at the northwestern outskirts of Fort Collins, from which he yearly derives a handsome income. Mrs. Hart was born August 2nd, 1862, at Springfield, Illinois, and was a classmate of her husband in the public school. When still a child she went with her parents to Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where she was joined in marriage with Mr. Hart. She has been the mother of five children, only two of them surviving. Her ancestors came from Kentucky and settled in Illinois in 1810. She is a member of the Methodist church.

Albert S. Pindell^ one of the most active, fearless and efficient administrative officers Larimer county ever had, was born on a farm August 21st, 1864, at Bonaparte, Iowa; came to Julesburg, Colorado, in 1882, and rode the range as cowboy until 1895, when he settled in Larimer county and engaged in farming and horse raising; moved to

Mrs. Henry Hart

Wellington in 1905 and served the town as marshal for three years; appointed deputy sheriff in the fall of 1908 and moved his family to Fort Collins and is still a member of Sheriff Carlton's official staff. Mr. Pindell married Alice R. McGinley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. McGinley, July 31st, 1898. Of this union four children have been born, Nellie, James, Alice and George. Mr. Pindell is recognized and feared by law breakers as a man who is alert in the discharge of his official duty and who never fails to get the person named in the warrant placed in his hands for execution.

Andrew J. Hottel was born August 7th, 1852, in Shenandoah county, Virginia. He early learned the miller's trade and in 1876 came to Fort Collins and secured employment in the Lindell Mills, where he remained until 1892 when he went to Lamar to assume the management of the Lamar Milling & Elevator company. He died August 9th, 1899, leaving a wife and three children, a son and two daughters.

Rev. Frances Byrne. - Born in Carlow, Ireland, near Dublin, May 4th, 1807; died June 24, 1904 at Littleton, Colorado. He was educated for the ministry and on St. Mark's day, April 24, 1850, was ordained to the priesthood by Lord Spencer, Bishop of Jamaica. He left Jamaica for New York in 1854; officiated in Boston until 1867 when he came with Bishop Randall to Colorado, where he labored as missionary to within five years of his death. He came to Fort Collins in 1875 and helped to organize St. Luke's church of that city, remaining rector of the church until 1882 when he was transferred to another field. "Father Byrne", as he was lovingly called, was for many years known and beloved in Colorado for his good work in mining camps and in the cities and towns of the state on the Plains. None who had ever looked upon his face could ever forget the serene peacefulness it radiated. It was as a glowing benediction and bespoke a mind surpassingly pure and calm.

Frank E. Gifford. - One of the enterprising and thorough going hardware men of Fort Collins is Frank E. Gifford, born in Tioga county. New York, June 4th, 1859. He married Miss Nettie T. Nook March 24th, 1884. Their home has been made happy by the birth of one son and two daughters, May, Allaquippa and Reamer. Mrs. Gifford succumbed to a lingering disease, several years ago. Mr. Gifford's second wife, whom he married in Fort Collins, November 18th, 1908, was Emma Lord. He came to Fort Collins in July, 1879, was clerk in several business houses until 1898, when he branched out on his own account in the hardware line, in every branch of which he is an expert. He is a popular and accommodating merchant.

E. A. Atherly is a native of New York, his birthplace being near Jamestown in that state. He was born on September 22nd, 1849, and on the tenth day of October, 1876, he married Miss Mary E. Jones, of Jamestown. In the autumn of 1892, Mr. Atherly removed with his family to Fort Collins where he has since been engaged in the mercantile business.

M. E. Hocker, the pioneer druggist of Fort Collins, died in November, 1907, at Leeton, Missouri, aged about 75 years. Mr. Hocker was a native of Missouri and served all through the Civil war in the Confederate army. He came to Fort Collins in 1870, and was for a time associated with B. T. Whedbee in the management of the only mercantile establishment here then in which drugs and medicines were carried. Being a pharmacist, Mr. Hocker had full charge of the drug business. At that time Mr. Whedbee's store stood at the corner of Linden and Jefferson streets, where the Yount bank building was afterwards erected. When Mr. Whedbee moved his building and stock of goods jn 1873 to the corner where the First National bank building now stands, Mr. Hocker severed his connection with the firm and he and William C. Stover opened a drug store in the old Grout building, which stood where Frank P. Stover's drug store now stands. This w^ the founding of what is now known as the City Drug store, owned and conducted by Frank P. Stover. In the fall of 1874, W. C. Stover sold his interest in the drug store to his brother, F. P. Stover, who had just come out from Indiana, and he and Mr. Hocker under the firm name of Stover & Hocker, conducted the business until 1876 when Hocker disposed of his interest to his partner and started for the Black Hills with a stock of drugs and medicines, but did not reach his destination as the bull train hauling his goods was raided by the Indians en route and practically destroyed. Mr. Hocker then went to Rawlins, Wyoming. In 1880 he came back to Fort Collins and bought in with his old partner, F. P. Stover, the two carrying on the business until after the fire in September, 1882, which destroyed the firm's new building, then about ready to move into, when he again sold to his partner and moved to Evanston, Wyoming, where he opened and conducted a drug store for several years. In 1905 he disposed of his interests at Evanston and went back to his native state where he died.

John Straughan Williams was born Oct. 7th, 1839, near Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, of Welsh and Scotch descent, his father's parents being natives of Wales, and his mother, whose maiden name was Ailcy Ann Straughan, of Scotch parentage. When our subject was seven years of age his father moved to what is now Boone county, Iowa, the county not having been organized at that time, the Indians having been removed to their reservation only the year before. The town his father located in being largely settled by Swedish people was for many years called Swede Point, but is now known as Madrid. His school advantages were meager in those days, but he profited by such as the county afforded and became well grounded in the fundamentals of an education. In 1860, when 21 years of age, he had an attack of the Pike's Peak gold fever and he arrived at Gold Hill, Boulder county, in June of that year. In 1865 he went back to Iowa, returning to Colorado in the fall of that year. That year the Indians were troublesome on the Plains and he lost much time waiting for a wagon train large enough to defend itself against attacks of the savages. He made another trip to Iowa in 1870, and on his return to Colorado he married Caroline L. Osborn of Central City, in February, 1871; she lived but a short time. He filed on a homestead near Boulder City, which is now known as the McCall farm, on which fine oil wells have since been developed. In the fall of 1872, soon after the death of his wife and twin babies, Mr. Williams came to Larimer county, locating first on Rabbit creek, a few miles northwest of Livermore. His sister. Miss Maggie Williams, kept house for him several years. In 1884 he was married to Martha Z. Reavill of Fort Collins, and in 1890 he moved to the ranch on the Lone Pine creek, where he continued to carry on the cattle business until January, 1910, when he moved to Fort Collins, where he died on April 17th, 1911, his wife and three children, Frank R:, Carrie and George Williams, surviving him.

Emmet C. McAnelly^ oldest son of Judge and Mrs. Jefferson McAnelly, was born September 6th, 1875, at Bowling Green, Indiana. He came with his parents to Loveland in 1881 and to Fort Collins in 1884; received his education in the public schools and after graduating from the High school, took the engineering course at the Colorado Agricultural college, graduating therefrom with high honor. He married Mildred Goldsborough, a high school classmate, on March 16th, 1904. Since graduating from college he has most acceptably served thp home of his adoption several years as city engineer and is now serving his third term as county surveyor of Larimer county. He has a beautiful cottage home on West Mountain avenue and is recognized as one of the most upright and useful men in the community. One of -the most notable pieces of engineering was the laying out and construction of Fort Collins' new water works system, including the filter plant and storage basin.

B. A. Griffith was born on the 30th day of May, 1864, at Lancaster, Ohio. His education was acquired at the district schools of the state of Kansas. He came to Colorado in the spring of 1883 and settled on a farm near Livermore, in Larimer county, in the same year. On the 6th day of April, 1895, he married Miss Anna Cline and two children, Horace and Anna were born to them. Mr. Griffith has been engaged in the business of ranching and cattle raising since coming to this country and has met with a large degree of success. He is one of the substantial men of the county and fully alive to its possibilities.

Joseph Mason

school education; 1-eft Canada at the age of 15 and spent three years in the New England states, one year in Mississippi, bringing up at St. Louis in the spring of 1859, when he joined Capt. Reynold's expedition which was accompanied by Prof. Hayden, to explore the head waters of the Yellowstone. He left the party at Deer Creek where it had gone into winter quarters, and on the 10th of February, 1860, arrived at Laporte, where he found a settlement of mountaineers and trappers fifty or sixty strong, and four or five hundred Indians. He spent some time after that in the mining regions of the territory and in different parts of Colorado, returning to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1862, when he made his first investment in real estate.

purchasing a farm on the south side of the river nearly opposite Rock Bush's place and a little over a mile northwest of Fort Collins, of the squaw of a man named Gangros, who had been killed by the Indians about four months before. It was mainly through his influence that Camp Collins was established in 1864 on the present site of the City of Fort Collins. From that day until the day of the accident which resulted in his death on the 11th of February, 1881, amid all the trials and discouragements incident to pioneer life, he never lost faith in Fort Collins, of which he was the first white settler. In 1862, Governor Evans appointed Mr. Mason, Wm. B. Osborn of Big Thompson and James B. Arthur of Cache la Poudre the first board of county commissioners. Mr. Mason was elected sheriff of the county in 1871 and re-elected in 1873; was appointed the first postmaster of Fort Collins, a position he held for several years. In 1877 he was reappointed postmaster by President Hayes but resigned his office in 1879. In company with Major Allen he built the old Grout building which stood where F. P. Stover's drug store now stands and which was a land mark from 1865 to 1882, in which he served the soldiers while they were here as post sutler, remaining in trade until December, 1869, when he sold his stock and business to the late William C. Stover and John C. Matthews. In 1873 he purchased the Lindell flouring mills, and in 1877 re-engaged in the mercantile business in company with Francis L. Carter-Cotton in which he continued until December of that year when the copartnership was dissolved. After disposing of his mercantile business to Tedmon Brothers in 1878, he retired from trade and devoted his time and attention to his milling business in which Benjamin F. Hottel became associated in the fall of 1877. Mr. Mason was largely instrumental in securing an affirmative vote of the people locating the county seat at Fort Collins in 1868, and was recognized in his lifetime and is remembered to this day by all of the pioneers of the valley, as one of the most enterprising and public spirited citizens the county ever had Mr. Mason was married to Luella M. Blake on July 3rd, 1870, and two children were the fruits of the union, Minnie Luella and Albert J. Mason. Miss Minnie died in 1903 and Albert is an electrician in the employ of the construction company of the Laramie-Poudre Reservoirs & Irrigation company, engaged in driving a tunnel through Green mountain near the headwaters of the Laramie and the Cache la Poudre rivers.

John Baptiste Provost^ one of the first white settlers in Larimer county, and who had been a continuous resident of the county for nearly half a century, died on Monday, January 4th, 1904, at his late home in Laporte. He was a native of Montreal, Canada, born July 4th, 1823. His early manhood was spent on the frontier, trapping and trading for furs with Indians on the headwaters of the Missouri river and its tributaries, and on Snake and Green rivers, in the employ of the Hudson Bay Fur company. In the spring of 1858 he came from Fort Laramie to the Cache la Poudre valley with a band of trappers and fur traders, locating at Laporte which had since been his home. At that time Laporte was a small frontier trading post and resting place for emigrants before entering the mountains. It was inhabited by white men only during the trapping season, who, as soon as the snows of winter disappeared in the spring folded their tents and took the trail for Fort Laramie where they sold their furs and usually spent the summer. These were the conditions at Laporte when "Uncle John", as he was familiarly called, located there. There were really no permanent white settlements in Larimer county until later, so that in reality Mr. Provost is entitled to the honor of being the first permanent white settler in the county. Others followed shortly afterwards, and among these were Rock Bush, Judge A. F. Howes, G. R. Strauss, Abner Loomis, James B. Arthur and J. M. and F. W. Sherwood. Of this venturesome and heroic band only one, Rock Bush, is still living, all the others having joined the silent majority beyond the tomb. When Mr. Provost came to the Cache la Poudre valley to establish a home, roving bands of Cheyennes, Arapahoes and Sioux made the valley their temporary home. With these "Uncle John" made friends, finally taking a Sioux woman for a wife to whom several children were born. These, with one exception, a daughter who was with her father in his last hours, with their mother went to Red Cloud agency in 1880, and those living, so far as is known, are still there. For many years Mr. Provost kept a road ranch on the south side of the river in the home now occupied by Rowland Herring. In 1869, soon after the Overland stage had been succeeded by the Union Pacific railroad, he purchased one of the stage company's abandoned buildings in the town on the north side of the river in which he opened and kept a hotel and eating house until a few months before his death. In June, 1864, at the time of the big flood when the bottom lands of the valley were all under water and the stream itself was a raging torrent, he built and operated a ferry until the flood subsided, doing a thriving business transferring emigrants and travelers from one side of the river to the other. Overland travel was heavy that year and he made a lot of money with his ferry. For more than twenty-five years Mr. Provost kept the only hotel and road house in La- porte and during that time entertained many of the noted men of the state and nation, and he became known almost from coast to coast as the genial "Uncle John" at the base of the mountains. He had scores of friends all over the country. He was genial of manner, kind of heart and charitable to a degree. He was one of the landmarks of the county and people of all classes mourned his death.

W. E. Vaplon. - The Colorado Agricultural college has been very fortunate in secuirng the services of so competent a man as Mr. Vaplon to have charge of its poultry department. He is experienced in that line of work, eminently practical and a valuable addition to the institution's corps of instructors employed in the many branches of farm work which are of such interest to the agriculturists of the state. Mr. Vaplon comes from Menomonie, Wisconsin, where he was born Aug. 2nd, 1869. He was educated at the same place, grew to manhood there and was married to Miss Edith Staples Dec. 1st, 1894. They have two children, Lawrence and Esther.

Frank P. Stover

county, Indiana; raised on a farm near South Bend, that state. He attended the South Bend High school five years, taking a course in civil engineering in the meantime. In 1871 he engaged in the hardware business, which he followed until 1874, when he came to Fort Collins and purchased W. C. Stover's interest in Hocker & Co.'s City Drug Store, later becoming sole owner. Since then the City Drug store, with Frank P. Stover constantly at its head, has been one of the principal land marks of the city. In the fall of 1889 Mr. Stover was elected county treasurer on the Democratic ticket by 206 majority over his opponent, C. L. Smith, Republican, in a strong republican county. He was re-elected in 1891 and served the county in [322] that capacity with great faithfulness, fidelity and efficiency four years. He was town recorder and town trustee in 1882-3, when first water works were constructed. He has always been a very popular gentleman and a thorough-going business man. He is married, has a beautiful home in Fort Collins, and his domestic life is ideal.

Albert E. Butler is a ranchman residing in Livermore, Colorado. He came to Colorado in the spring of 1885 and settled first in North Park. He was born at Springdale in the state of Maine, October 5th, 1865, and received his education at Meridan, Massachusetts. In November, 1902, he was married to Mrs. Eva Mosman. Mr. Butler's attention since arriving in the state has been largely given to the raising of cattle, at which business he has been very successful. He enjoys the respect of his fellow citizens, is known as fair and honorable in his dealings and worthy of confidence.

Wesley W. Lowery died December 9th, 1901, aged 52 years. He was born in January, 1849, near Canton, Ohio. When eight years of age his father moved his family to Indiana, where the subject of this sketch grew to manhood's estate. In 1864, when fifteen years of age, Mr. Lowery enlisted in the 44th Indiana volunteer infantry and was assigned to Gen. George H. Thomas' corps. The service was too severe for one of his years and he became broken in health and was obliged to spend several months in the hospital. After his discharge from the army he went with his father's family to Illinois, where he lived until admonished by broken health to seek a milder climate. On April 2nd, 1874, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah E. Coon, who, with six children, two sons and four daughters, survive him. The son's names are Irvin I., of Springfield, Missouri, and Ambrose, whose home is in Salt Lake, Utah. Two of the daughters, Mrs. Carrie E. Keach and Miss Ophie, have died since their father departed this life. The other daughters, are Mary M. (now Mrs. Wilkins O. Peterson, a resident of Pueblo) and Miss Ruth, who is still with her mother. Mr. Lowery came to Fort Collins in 1882, and for three years followed the occupation of plasterer. In 1885 he purchased a stock ranch near St. Cloud in the mountains, and engaged in stock raising, in which he was very successful, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances. In the summer of 1901 he returned to Fort Collins with his wife and younger daughters, leaving his stock ranch and herds of cattle to the care of his sons. Mr. Lowery

Archibald R. Milne. - Born in 1824, in London, England; died October 28, 1907, in Denver, Colorado. He came with his father's family to the United States in 1834, and settled near Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1853 he went to the gold fields of Australia and worked at mining in that country for seventeen years. He returned to the United States in 1870 and came to Colorado in 1871. In 1874 he filed on an eighty acre homestead in the beautiful valley of the North fork of the Cache la Poudre river, on which he lived a third of a century. He sold his ranch in 1901 to the North Poudre Irrigation company for reservoir purposes, but continued to occupy his old home until about the first of October, 1907, when he went to Denver to receive medical treatment at a sanitarium where he died shortly afterward. Mr. Milne was unmarried.

"Ranger" Jones. - Michael Jones, better known among the pioneers of Larimer county as "Ranger" Jones, died July 12th, 1889, at his home near Vining, Kansas. He was the father of Mrs. Thomas Earnest, whose husband was also a Cache la Poudre pioneer, and for many years occupied an extensive ranch on the north side of the river about a mile west of Timnath. The farm was later owned by the late G. R. "Bob" Strauss and is now the property of his brother, Herman Strauss. Michael Jones was born in October, 1816, in Kentucky. In 1860 he came to the Cache la Poudre valley and began dealing heavily in cattle, horses and mules, amassing a large fortune, amounting at one time to $400,000. Along In the 70's Mr. Jones moved to Kansas where he purchased 800 acres of land in one body and built himself a home on it. Here he lived until he died in 1889, though making frequent trips to his former Colorado home to visit with his daughter, Mrs. Earnest, and other old time pioneer friends. He was an energetic and very industrious man and was known all over the country on account of his genial good nature. He could take a joke as well as give one, and was given the name of "Ranger" Jones, a name that stuck to him as long as he lived.

Hon. William H. Trindle was born in Van Meter, Iowa, on May 1st, 1879. He attended the Western college of Toledo, Ohio, taking a full collegiate course, then attended the law school of

Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa. He came to Loveland in the winter of 1902, looking for a site to locate, and in April, 1903, he returned, satisfied with the location, determined to make that city his future home. How well he decided was borne out by the republicans of Larimer county electing him in 1908 to represent them in the Seventeenth General assembly of the state. Mr. Trindle is an able student of the law and he possesses a magnetism of manner that has made him hundreds of friends in his native city, his county, and his state. He is junior member of the Simpson & Trindle law firm.

James M. Smith. - Born, Dec. 26th, 1838, at Newport, New York; died, Feb. 13th, 1906, at Santa Maria, California. Mr. Smith was one of the early settlers and pioneers of the Big Thompson valley, coming there in 1861. He followed farming and stock raising for several years and, in 1869, engaged in the mercantile business at Old St. Louis, one mile east of the present city of Loveland. He disposed of his store and stock of goods in 1877, and in 1878 went to Leadville; here, and in other parts of the state, he lived until 1904, when, broken in health, he went to California. He is kindly re- membered by all of the old-timers of the county as "Jolly J. M." He left a wife, one son, a daughter and a brother, Charles C. Smith of Loveland.

John C. Beers was born a subject of Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, near Vienna. Hearing of the opportunities offered to young men in America, he left his native country and in 1874 he landed in the country which has con- tinued to be his home. On March 22nd, 1879, he came to Fort Collins and for fourteen years followed the blacksmith trade. He then disposed of his shop and took up the business of farming which he followed with marked success for a period of 15 years. On the 29th of December, 1880, he was married to Addie Jones of Fort Collins, and there are living as the fruits of this union three children, Edith, George and Leroy. While engaged in farming Mr. Beers for several years was extensively interested in sheep feeding which proved fairly profitable. After 15 years of agricultural labor and having become possessed of several well-improved farms, he sold out all of his landed property and moved with his family again to Fort Collins with the intention of retiring from active labor. But [324] labor had become a necessity to enjoyment of life and he again opened his shop and re-engaged in the business of blacksmithing. Larimer county has had no citizen who sustained a higher character for industry and integrity than does Mr. Beers. No security is better than his word and none of his fellow citizens is more highly respected. Like all men of his nationality he is a friend and ardent supporter of the public school system and a devoted churchman.

A. P. Garrison, one of the leading contractors and builders of Fort Collins, was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1864. He was graduated from Eureka college. Eureka, Illinois, in 1886, and followed teaching for about ten years after graduating; married Mattie N. Stubbs, in 1890. They have no children. The family came to Colorado in 1901, locating at Greeley, moving two years later to Fort Collins which is still its home. Mr. Garrison has had but few idle hours since coming to Fort Collins and is regarded as a good mechanic and a man of his word.

August Johnson, is a native of Smoland, Sweden, born October 25th, 1860, the year the first settlers began to locate in Larimer county, and attended the public schools of Sweden. He crossed the Atlantic and came to Loveland in 1888, remaining there two months and moved on to a farm at Sunnyside. On February 9th, 1889, he married Anna T. Peterson at Berthoud. Two children have been born to them, Carl Erick and Anna Elvira. In 1906 the family moved to Berthoud and are now residing on East Mountain avenue of that place. Mr. Johnson's occupation has been and is now that of a farmer in which success has resulted from his well-directed efforts. He rejoices in the fact that he came to America and located in the Garden spot of Colorado, where he has been able to accumulate a comfortable fortune.

John E. Pope, editor and proprietor of the Wellington Sun, was born August 15th, 1868, at Sigourney, Iowa, where he received his education. Learned the printer's trade in the Keokuk County News office; married Clara Vannander, April 6th, 1892, and was editor and publisher of the Fonda (Iowa) Review from 1897 to 1900. Came to Colorado in the summer of 1900, locating first in Denver and remaining in that city about a year. He then went to Elbert, Colorado, and took charge of the Elbert County Tribune, which he conducted until 1908 when he sold the plant and moved to Welling- ton and bought the Sun, of which he is now editor and publisher. Mr. Pope came from a newspaper family, his father, A. J. Pope, being a newspaper man and contributor to the columns of several Mississippi valley papers. Mrs. Pope, wife of the subject of this sketch, died January 4th, 1911, in Fort Collins, but left no children.

Jesse Harris. - To have for the subject of a biographical sketch a man whose life has been devoted to doing something for the improvement of material things, for the development of the resources and advantages of his chosen home and for the social, educational and moral advancement of his fellowmen, affords the conscientious biographer the keenest of pleasure, for he feels that in telling the life story of such a one, he is placing before the world an example for others to emulate. Such a man is Jesse Harris of Fort Collins. Mr. Harris was born November 15th, 1849, in Clermont county, Ohio. His parents moved to Iowa when he was a child and he received his education in the public schools and at the University of Iowa at Iowa City which he attended. His boyhood was spent on a farm where he acquired an intimate knowledge of the habits and characteristics of the different breeds of domestic animals with special reference to the horse. He loved a horse and early in life was accounted one of the best judges of horses in Iowa, a reputation he holds to this day in his Western home. On March 12th, 1872, our subject was joined in marriage with Mary A. Miles, at Rock Island, Illinois, where she was engaged in teaching penmanship in the High school. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are the proud parents of six living children ; Mrs. Ellen Brooks, of Denver; Capt. Archibald J. Harris, of the 2nd regiment United States infantry, stationed at Honolulu, Hawaiian islands; Mrs. Grace M. Keller, of Salem, Oregon; Mrs. Abbie D. Coy and Miss Mary R. and Lucien M. Harris of Fort Collins. Mr. Harris came from Iowa with his family to Larimer county in 1878 arriving in Fort Collins on November 8th. He taught school the following winter in the Little Thompson valley, and in 1880 moved his family to Fort Collins where he has since resided. Here he engaged in dealing in real estate and the buying and selling of horses and cattle. In 1885 he began importing registered draft, coach and English Hackney horses in whicli he continued until 1893, making nine round trips to Europe and receiving ten shipments of Clydesdale, English Shire, Percheron and Cleveland Boy horses which he sold to horse breeders in the various states between New York and California, inclusive. He brought over from Europe some of the finest and most valuable specimens of horse flesh ever imported, gaining a national reputation as a judge and importer of horses. He did more to improve the character and increase the value of the horse stock of Colorado and the western states than any other man. On May 31st, 1899, Mr. Harris was chosen a member of the State Board of Agriculture, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John J. Ryan. He was made chairman of the farm committee and at once went to work with his characteristic vigor to improve conditions on the farm and make it what it was designed to be, a model of its kind. He was also instrumental in getting the board to purchase a large tract of pasture land near the foothills on which was a living spring of water slightly tinctured with sulphur. This water he had piped to the college where a stone fountain was erected from which constantly flows a steady stream of potable, health giving water for the use of the college. On the side of the fountain the name "Harris" is chiseled in the rock in recognition of Mr. Harris' services in supplying the college with a prime necessity. He served six years on the board and through his activity and influence, many changes for the better were made on the farm and in the erection of new buildings. Since retiring from the board he has given much of his attention to dealing in real estate and the buying and selling of live stock. On the 4th of April (1911) he was elected mayor of Fort Collins by the largest majority ever cast for any candidate for that office in the history of the city. In 1909, acting as agent, he purchased more than $400,000 worth of real estate in Fort Collins and vicinity for right of way and terminals for the Union Pacific railroad, which is building into the city from Denver. Mr. Harris has recently been appointed a member of the Board of Penitentiary and Reformatory Commissioners for Colorado, one of the most important appointments made by Governor Shafroth. He has been live stock agent in Colorado for many years for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad company, a position he still holds.

Mrs. Melissa Heckart, was born February 15th, 1842, in Green county, Pennsylvania, and attended the public schools of her native state and Iowa. Her maiden name was Melissa Clark. On February 24th, 1859, she married W. C. Harriman, who died in 1879, and she became the wife of Daniel Heckart, April 17th, 1881. The names of her children are G. N. Harriman, Mrs. J. W. Price, Mrs. Bessie Bales, H. L. Heckart and Flossie Heckart. She came from Marshall county, Iowa, to Greeley in 1873, and in 1874, the family located on a ranch near Virginia Dale which she still owns.

Thomas H. Garrett. - No one taking a square look at the present clerk of the hoard of county commissioners would class him as an Englishman, but such must be the fact as Thomas says so, but he was educated in the Utica, N. Y. schools, arriving in Larimer county in 1880; married Mary A. Kirby in Fort Collins in 1891. A daughter, Ellen, is the only child. Mr. Garrett has served in many important public positions and has at all times proved a capable and efficient officer. He served as deputy assessor under J. M. McCreery, as deputy county clerk under F. J. Burnett, is now serving in the same capacity under A. P. Greenacre. He was for nine years city clerk of Fort Collins, and in early days was a member of the city's fire department. When \h. Garrett was chief of the fire department. Fort Collins had its crack running team, and the races between rival inter-state teams were exciting exhibitions of speed, skill and endurance. For four years he tried farming but decided that a farmer's life was not in his line, and he claims no record for those four years. He left the farm to engage in mercantile pursuits.

John M. Hoffman^ is a Virginian by birth. He first saw the light of day on Christmas, 1864, at Edinburg, where he was educated. Twentyone years later he came to Colorado and spent a couple of years at Eaton, following the occupation of a miller. In 1887 he came to Fort Collins, which city has since been his home. Mr. Hoffman was married December 14th, 1892, to Francis E. Coy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Coy. They have two children, Lydia A. and M. Coy Hoffman, both at home. In 1894, Mr. Hoffman built the Hoffman flour and feed mill on Riverside avenue, and is president and general manager of the Hoffman Milling company which now operates the mill. His business life has been successful, and he is recognized as one of the solid, substantial citizens of Fort Collins and Larimer county. He and his family reside on East Oak street. He is an esteemed member of Collins lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M.

Walter J. Prendergast. - Of the long list of pioneers who came to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1858, 1859 and 1860, but two remain as residents. These two are Rock Bush and' Walter J., better known as "Joe" Prendergast. All the others of that intrepid band known as the very first settlers, have either joined the silent majority or moved on to other fields. Walter Joseph Prendergast was born on Easter Sunday, 1834, in County Mayo, Ireland. At the age of twenty he migrated to the United States, landing at New York city. Here and in the surrounding country he sought employment without success and, early in the winter of 1855 he enlisted as a private in the Seventh United States infantry for a term of five years. In the spring of 1858 his regiment was ordered to report from a military post in the Indian territory to Gen Albert Sidney Johnston at Camp Floyd, Salt Lake, Utah, for service in suppressing the Mormon rebellion. The regiment followed the Oregon trail up the North Platte through South Pass to Salt Lake. He was discharged as a sergeant on the expiration of his term of enlistment in February, 1860. He then fitted up an ox team and a wagon and started on the return trip to the states. He remained several weeks at Fort Bridger on his way east, where, on the 16th of April, 1860, he married Martha Hanson, who made very pleasant company for him, not only for the remainder of the overland journey, but also for the fifty years of the journey through life which they have traveled together. They came from the Laramie Plains down over the old Cherokee trail to Laporte, where, rather than pay John D. Provost's charges for using his log toll bridge, they forded the river and proceeded on their way. They arrived at the upper crossing of the Little Thompson creek on the 16th of May, 1860, and, being weary of travel and pleased with the appearance of the country decided to locate, and found a home. Here they built a snug log cabin in which they lived until the spring of 1861, when they moved to the Cache la Poudre valley and located on the ranch now owned by J. T. Stroh near the Weld county line. The summer of 1860 was spent in cutting and putting up hay, which he hauled to the mining camps at Black Hawk and Central City that fall and the following winter. The valley of the Little Thompson and the adjacent prairies were covered with a thick and heavy growth of grass and he put up a large quantity of hay, which brought a good price at the mining camps. For one load of hay, hauled to Black Hawk with four yoke of oxen in the winter of 1860-61, during the time of scarcity, he received $625. He lived on the Poudre from the spring of 1861 until the spring of 1877, when he moved on to the farm he still owns and occupies at Fossil Creek. While living on the Poudre he cut and put up hay, raised grain and vegetables and prospered. The hay was hauled to Fort Laramie and sold for $100 per ton. "Many a day", he says, in speaking of his experiences in 1863-4-5, "I have carried my rifle, powder horn, bullet pouch and revolver to the field with me, fearing an attack from the Indians. I would set my rifle against a hay cock and lay the powder horn and bullet pouch beside it, but always kept the revolver with me ready for use. I never looked toward the bluff without expecting to see the head of a redskin peering at me. They never gave any trouble, however, except to come to the house and beg for food". His nearest neighbors, when he first moved on the Poudre, were James B. and John Arthur, Kb. Davis, George Stotts and a man by the name of Thacker and J. M. and F. W. Sherwood. "While those were perilous times, full of apprehended dangers and when we experienced hardships and privations ; when flour was costly and sometimes impossible to get, and when we often went hungry for bread, we still enjoyed ourselves and always made the best of the situation. We were young, healthy and ambituous and thought of nothing of what we had to endure," says Mr. Prendergast. In 1862, Mr. Prendergast bought some Mexican onion seed for which he paid an ounce of gold dust for an ounce of seed. The flavor of the onions raised from that seed was accentuated by a strong taste of gold. Mr. and Mrs. Prendergast are passing their declining years mid peace and plenty.

Walter J. Prendergast

surrounded by four of their children and a host of admiring friends and neighbors. Six children have been born to them, all of whom are living. Their names are Mary, Mrs. Margaret McLean of London, Ontario, Canada; John, Walter, Mrs. Mattie Atherly of Cheyenne, and James.

Rev. a. S. Kemper. - Born in 1836 in Cincinnati, Ohio; educated in High school of his native city and taught school a few years; married Mary Bradbury in 1855; licensed to preach by Presbytery of Cincinnati in 1860; graduated from McCormick Theological seminary, Chicago, in 1863, going thence to Minnesota where his wife died in 1877; married Cecilie Farsund in 1879; largely instrumental in founding Female seminary at Albert Lea, Minnesota; came to Colorado in

1889 to become pastor of Fossil Creek church, where second wife died; has had no charge since that time; has four living children, Charles W., Fred A. and Josie of Fort Collins, and Mrs. C. K. Benedict of Los Angeles, California.

Mr. And Mrs. William Campton

pation until the year 1885, when he came to Colorado, was farming. Upon arriving in this state, after some moving about, he finally located at Fort Collins where he engaged in the livery business. In 1886 he purchased property at St. Cloud, in Larimer county, and after having spent a good deal of time and money in improving it he moved with his family to reside upon it. Believing that he who ministers to the innocent pleasures of mankind or provides a place of retreat from the urgent pressure of business, may claim the title of benefactor, he opened a summer resort at his mountain home which soon became one of the most popular places in the state for those seeking the refreshing climate of the mountains during the heated period of the year. In 1895 Mr. Campion's moun- tain home was destroyed by fire, but with true Western energy he soon rebuilt it on a larger scale and added several cottages to his accommodations for summer guests. He has devoted some attention to the mineral resources of the county and has always been alive to every movement which looked to the betterment of the state or the development of its resources. Always active and alert, he is a very pleasant and successful caterer to the comfort of his guests. He has six children some of whom assist in the management of his increasing business.

James Jensen was born a subject of the King of Denmark on November 21st, 1867, but renounced his allegiance and came to Colorado in 1894. He located on a farm at Welcome Hill. Lived at Welcome Hill, 14 miles northeast of Berthoud, then moved on the farm one and one half miles northeast of Berthoud, and engaged in cultivating the soil, and that is still his home. In 1897 he went to Atchison, Kansas, and was joined in marriage with Katie Deitrickson; six children have blessed the union. They are, Leroy, Francis, Bessie, John, George and Ethel, all living. Like nearly all of his countrymen who have settled in Larimer county, Mr. Jensen has done well and is now comfortably well-off and a loyal citizen of the land of the free and the home of the brave. He has a fine farm and never fails to show a balance on the right side of the ledger at the close of the season's operations.

George Wilford Wright, a resident of Colorado since 1903. When he kicked the mud of the old Hawkeye state from his feet he landed in Berthoud on solid ground. He was born in Iowa, Dec. 19th, 1875, and was married to Zetta Thompson at Garner, in that state, March 14th, 1900. They have but one child living, a little son, Carroll Samuel. For 18 years Mr. Wright has followed the trade of painting and decorating, a man of experience at the top of his line. He was born Wright, in Wright county, came to the right state and is all right.

Henry P. Handy. - The subject of this sketch was one of the noted civil engineers of the West, and he left many monuments of his skill as such, throughout Colorado, in the planning and construction of large irrigation canals, dams, reservoirs, railroads and bridges. Not the least important of these was the planning and supervising of the system of water works built by Fort Collins in 1882-3. He was the locating and construction engineer of the railroad through the Royal Gorge for the Denver & Rio Grande, and also located the Oregon short Line. One of the large canals in the Big Thompson valley which he laid out and superintended the construction of was named in his honor. Mr. Handy was born near Utica, New York, July 24th, 1832, and died at Nampa, Idaho, in February, 1903. He left a wife and five children. The names of the children are Mrs. Nelia R. King, Nampa, Idaho; Wm. P. Handy, Denver, Colorado; George H. Handy, Caldwell, Idaho; Ralph H. Handy and Roy S. Handy. Mr. Handy and his family were residents of Fort Collins for nearly twenty years.

Capt. Charles C. Hawley. - This is the story of a Larimer county pioneer who, in his early manhood, led a very active and useful life, first as bookkeeper for an Indian trading company in Minnesota; clerk and later captain of a Mississippi river steamboat; a gold seeker in Colorado and then as a gallant soldier and officer in the Union army. Mr. Hawley was born July 26th, 1839, at Lacolle, Canada, and landed in St. Louis in April, 1856; was bookkeeper for an Indian trading company at St. Paul and Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota, where he was known to the Mdewahton Lake Sioux as "Napa Ska" or "White Hand" ; served the trading company as clerk and later as captain of the steamboat Jeanette Roberts; caught the gold fever and arrived in Denver in June, 1861, enroute to California. Reverses to the Union army prompted him to enlist July 29th, 1861, in the First Colorado volunteer cavalry in Denver; promoted through the grades to 2nd and 1st lieutenants and then to captain of a company at the age of twenty- four; was in the battle with the Confederates at Apache Canon, Pigeon's Ranch and Peralta, New Mexico, and in engagements of lesser note with Indians. Represented Larimer county in the first constitutional convention held in Denver in 1864; secured a franchise from the territorial legislature in 1864 for a bridge at Laporte; organized a company In 1865 to construct a ditch from Laporte to Long Pond basin to be used as a reservoir; served one term as assessor in Minnesota and two terms as assessor for Larimer county; was water commissioner for District No. 3 for four years, the district embracing Larimer and Weld counties. Capt. Hawley served 4^ years in the Union army; was assistant quartermaster and commissary; appointed ordnance officer in 1863 for the district of the Plains, with headquarters in Denver; had charge of a large ordinance supply depot, inspection of troops in camp and field was part of the duties of the office. In 1862 he made his first Investment in Larimer county, buying what was known as the Barry farm now owned by the Sugar company of Alphonse Larocque for $56. Mrs. Hawley lived nearly a year on this place in 1863 while her husband was In the army. Capt. Hawley married

Capt. Charles C. Hawley

Ellen M. Gordon, August 25th, 1859, in St. Paul, Minnesota. They have had 12 children, eight of whom are living, twenty-four grandchildren and six great grand children. Walter L. and family are now living in Montana, Charles C. Jr. and family in this city, Alden M. and family are near the Canada boundary line in Dakota, Mrs. Anna C. and husband. Frank A. Chaffee, resident of Fort Collins, Custer and wife are In California, Mrs. Carrie Smoke and husband in Denver, Mort now on the old homestead and Alva L. and family are residents of Nebraska.

county, Illinois, he came with his parents to Fort Collins in May, 1885. Here, in 1899, he married Miss Eva H. Cushing and they now have a family of four children. He is now curator of the museum at the Colorado Agricultural college.

Thomas Cline

freighter, hunter and guide - who died in 1910. Though nearing the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey, he was in the enjoyment of excellent health up to the time of his last sickness, with all of his faculties unimpaired, and nothing pleased him more than to sit down and tell of his pioneer adventures, of his scraps with the wily redskins who infested the Plains in the early days and his prowess with his trusty rifle while on hunting expeditions. Many a buffalo, bear, deer, elk, mountain lion and antelope could testify to the accuracy of his aim were they living and had the power of speach. Mr. Cline was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1836, and went with his father's family to Iowa in 1850, so that his life has almost entirely been spent on the frontier. After settling in the Cache la Poudre valley in 1860, he followed freighting, and many is the time he has crossed the Plains with a bull team, hauling freight from the Missouri river to the Rocky Mountains, enduring all sorts of hardships aad privations, besides narrow escapes from hair-lifting savages. He was known from the Missouri to the Rockies as a dead shot and a fearless man, so that very few cared to molest him at any time or place. Even the Indians had a wholesome fear of his gun. Once, in 1861, while coming west with a load of freight, traveling alone, a small party of Indians swooped down upon him at Fremont's Orchard on South Platte. They wanted to trade for some of the goods in his load, but he refused to dicker with them. They advanced toward him in a threatening manner in an attempt to scare him into acceding to their demands, but he leveled his gun at them and they fled in great haste, giving him no more trouble. He located first on a ranch situated on the river bottom a short distance west of the present site of the city of Greeley, where he lived until 1862, when he took up land further up the stream, near the present town of Timnath. His neighbors at that time were Joseph Prendergast, E. B. Davis, Dwight Scotten, G. R. Strauss, Thomas Earnest, "Ranger" Jones, Fletcher Earnest, James B. Arthur and the Sherwoods. While he was living in Weld county in 1861, there were nine days during which all he and his dog had to eat was two curlews that he killed by hurling stones at them. His nearest neighbor was miles away, who was as destitute of provisions as himself. While game was plentiful, he and his neighbor were short of ammunition. He had but one cap for his gun and dared not use that for fear the Indians might raid him. On the ninth day he succeeded in getting a supply of ammunition and then had no trouble in refilling his larder with wild game. In 1866, Mr. Cline married Anna Cosslet, who died in 1904. Six children were born to the union, five of whom are living, to-wit; Mrs. Sophia Darnell of Fort Collins ; Mrs. May Gardner ; Mrs. L. E. Parker of Timnath, Edward and George Cline, Mrs. B. A. Griffith of Livermore, having passed away.

Walter R. Prendergast was born Novembei 1st, 1859, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Prendergast. The family came to Fort Collins October 4th, 1879, and in 1881 our subject preempted 160 acres of land three miles west of Fort Collins, which he proved up on and improved and which was the family home for many years. In 1897 he was united in marriage with Mary O. EUms of Boston, Massachusetts. They have no children. Mr. Prendergast is a practical and successful farmer and since his marriage has owned, lived on and worked a farm in the Fossil Creek district, south of Fort Collins. His father, John Prendergast and his younger sons carried on the old farm until a few years ago and then sold it and moved to Fort Collins.

George W. Litle. - In writing of the Colorado pioneers' trials and perils, one is constantly confronted by raiding, murderous Indians and lawless whites, who, living in a country where organized society barely existed, were quite often more ruthless and given to savage deeds than the aborigines. But when you meet with one of these first comers who tells you that he found the Big Thompson valley "The tamest place he had been in for years" you wonder, till told of his experiences with "bad" men in a two years' sojourn in a California mining camp in the early '60's, and a four years' stay in Idaho when gold was first discovered there by white men. Then you can readily believe he found it "tame" in the valley. George W. Litle was born in Lee county, Iowa, May 15, 1841. He was a farmer's son and aided in the farm work till May, 1861, when, becoming afflicted with the wander lust, he left home for California, coming across the Plains with a train of ox teams. He worked at placer and tunnel mining on the Calavaras river near the town of Jenny Lind, Calavaras county for two years and made good. But one night, the fall of '63, news of the discovery of gold in Boise basin, Idaho, was brought to camp and the next morning, accompanied by his partner, Henry Rugh, a "forty-niner" of the Golden state, he left for the new diggings on the hurricane deck of a mule. He remained there four years and satisfied with his clean up, he left for the east. In July, 1869, Mr. Litle and his former chum, Mary A. Bird, were married at Fort Madison, Iowa, and after a brief honeymoon, they came west, settling in old St. Louis, a small town three-quarters of a mile east of what afterwards became known as Loveland. He and his brother, J. A. Litle, leased the Douty grist mill and bought a squatter's relinquishment of 160 acres near by. The brother looked after the mill and George attended to the farm, staying there until 1880 when he sold it. That land is situated near the sugar factory and during the sugar beet boom it was parcelled off into town lots. Mr. Litle also owned 160 acres five miles east, but feeling that continuous labor was not the way to enjoy life, he sold all and for four months he remained comparatively idle. Then he and Frank Barthoff bought 400 acres five miles from Loveland and he worked the farm. Two years later he bought Mr. Barthoif's interest and that was his home for some years. In 1907 he sold 160 acres of it to J. M. Cunningham. The next year he sold 80 acres to W. B. Harris, and the fall of 1909 he sold the remaining 160 to Nicholas Beber, then moved to Loveland the next spring, bought a cozy home on the corner of 8th street and Washington avenue, where be and wife are living a contented, happy life. Mr. Litle has had many exciting adventures during his eventful career, but he is too modest to allow any of them in print. One in particular, when he, a total stranger in Fort Scott, Kansas, interfered in a street quarrel between a white man and a negro, is worth publication but you will have to get the story from him. No children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Litle, but they claim two by adoption. One is Mrs. Cortland Secord of Fort Collins ; the other Jean, was married New Year's day of 1910, to J. H. Elliot and they live on a farm a few miles from Loveland. The subject of this sketch is yet a hale and hearty man and as ready for a business deal as when he was 40 years younger. Although he suffered from organic trouble and submitted twice to dangerous surgical operations, one having no knowledge of this, would scarcely believe it, for he possesses so much vitality and mental strength.

Herman Strauss. - Located near Timnath ; lives on one of the model farms of the county. Born in the south, at Columbia, S. C, in 1850. Herman Strauss settled in Larimer county in March, 1878. For three years he was employed by his brother as manager of his farm, and later, for six years following, he farmed the property as a renter. He was married to Mrs. Eliza C. Horner Jan. 17th, 1905. By the demise of his brother, Robert G. Strauss, he became the sole owner of his large farm and stock interests, which could not have fallen into better hands. Mr. Strauss is an excellent farmer, thrifty, energetic and of good business ability.

T. H. Hale was born in 1876, in Schuyler county, Missouri, and attended the public schools of his native town; married Carrie Skinner, May 13th, 1896, and has five children, William, James, Ozeitta, Ethel and Raymond Hale. He came to Fort Collins in 1899, and has since followed farm-

John McPherson. - The subject of this sketch was born June 14th, 1842, at Almond Bank, near Perth, Scotland, and came to the United States in 1868, locating in business at Chicago. In 1871 he returned to his Scotland home for a visit and on coming back to America he was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. James Loomis, and his brother-inlaw, John Nelson and family, all of whom came to Colorado with him in 1873. Mr. McPherson and Mr. Nelson secured farms a short distance southeast of Fort Collins and were the first in that vicinity to take water for irrigation from the Larimer county canal No. 2. They built the first fence put up on the bluff lands between the Cache la Poudre and Big Thompson rivers. Mr. Mc Pherson sold his farm in 1881 and two years later moved to Fort Collins and was for one year manager of the Farmers' elevator. After resigning from that position in 1884, he engaged in building operations, the McPherson block, now occupied by the Gem Grocery, one of the most substantial business blocks in Fort Collins, was erected by him that year. He was a stone cutter by occupation and evidence of his handiwork crop out in a number of the best buildings in the city. Five children, Mrs. Walter Beach and John, both of Fort Collins, Fred of Shoshone, Wyoming, Andrew (residence not known) and Mrs. R. J. Handy of Rochester, New York, survive him.

Henri S. McClelland was born August 3rd, 1869, in Galesburg, Illinois; received his education in the public schools of Fort Collins and the Colorado Agricultural college; married Matie Sainsbury, October 18th, 1893, and two children, Mary Irene and Joseph Henry McClelland, have blessed the union ; came from Galesburg to Fort Collins with his father's family in 1873, and still resides in the Cache la Poudre valley; farmer and fruit grower, and has the largest and most productive orchard in Northern Colorado. Mr. McClelland is a son of the J. S. McClelland, founder of the first newspaper published in Larimer county.

Oliver B. Tomlin. - This deservedly popular young man, who served as a mail carrier in Fort Collins for many years, being one of the original appointees, is now a resident of Helena, Montana, and is employed as a draftsman in the office of the surveyor-general of that state. His parents came to this state in 1872, and his father, A. B. Tomlin, conducted a general store in Fort Collins for many years. Mr. Tomlin was born in Fort Collins Jan. 4th, 1878. He attended the public schools and High school and graduated from the Colorado Agricultural college with distinguished honors. He has a host of friends in his native city, where he has been so favorably known from boyhood, who are warm admirers of his straightforward disposition and manly character.

William B. Baker, born in the year 1854, was one of the pioneers of Larimer county, to which he came in 1870. Forced by loss of health to leave his widowed mother he sought the West and an outdoor life with the hope of improvement. He secured a position on the Alsop and Hutton ranch, on the Laramie Plains, where for some years he led the life of a cow-boy, passing through all the grades of that school from "flunkey" cook, to sheep herder, horse herder and cow-puncher, he graduated as a "broncho buster." He became a fine rider and learned to love the Plains and his horse. During the winter months he returned to the East to attend school, being a student of the Baptist University of Des Moines, Iowa. On January 4th, 1879, he married Amanda E. McCall at Fort Collins and settled on a homestead five miles east of that city. When Mr. Baker moved with his young wife into his one room cabin, the neighbors consisted largely of coyotes and antelopes. Their experiences were those of all of the hardy class who have moved ahead of the settlements and sought a home on the frontier. Their home was brightened by the arrival one after the other of six children, four daughters and two sons, all of whom are living excepting a daughter who died in early childhood. The sons are both graduates of the State Agricultural college, and the daughters attended the Fort Collins High school. Mr. Baker lived to take part in the making of twenty-six years of the history of Larimer county. His death occurred in the fifty-first year of his age and he left surviving him a widow and five children. Mrs. Baker now resides in Fort Collins with a daughter. Mr. Baker was interested in the upbuilding of the church of which he was a member and he had a full appreciation of the value of free schools. He was successful in his business and lived to see his children, grown to manhood and womanhood, take their places as respected members of society.

Eben S. Merrifield. - Born July 25th, 1836, at Burton center, New York; educated in common and High schools of St. Joseph and Porter counties, Indiana; married first wife, Miriam F. Wolf, December 25th, 1862; second wife, Sarah A. Pratt, June 10th, 1896; children, Ralph C, Monie, Halbert and Frances Merrifield; came from Indiana to Colorado in May, 1902; spent a year in Longmont, coming thence to Fort Collins in April, 1903; farmer and insurance agent. Mr. Merrifield spent several years in his early manhood in the United States treasury department in Washington.

Charles Emerson was born at New Hampton, New Hampshire, on the 5th day of November, 1849, and was educated in the schools of that city. He came to Colorado in 1869, and located near Livermore, in Larimer county, in the year 1871. In 1877 he was married to Miss Alice Freeman. He was engaged in the year 1868-9 with his brother, Horace, in getting out railroad ties near the headwaters of the Cache la Poudre river for the Denver Pacific railroad company. During the greater part of his residence in Larimer county he has been engaged in ranching, giving the most of his attention to the production of alfalfa and the feeding of cattle, meeting with great success in the business. He has paid little attention to active politics though at all times well informed on the questions of the day and punctual in the exercise of his duties as a citizen. He was at one time a candidate for the office of State senator and polled the full strength of his party. His estimable wife, who shared with him the difficulties of pioneer life was spared to enjoy for some years the fruits of their united labor, but, in the early part of the winter of 1911, she was stricken with paralysis which terminated her life. She had so entirely identified herself with all the interests of her community that her death was mourned as a public calamity. Mr. Emerson has contributed much to the upbuilding of the county by his demonstration of the complete suitableness of local conditions for success in the business of cattle feeding.

Carlton C. Bushnell. - Bom in 1845 in Princeton, Illinois, and educated in Peru, that state. Came to the Big Thompson valley in 1871 and located at Namaqua, where he followed farming. Married Emma Hanby in 1879 and has two daughters, Mrs. A. B. Cook of Loveland, and Mrs. F. F. Rourk of San Francisco, California. Conducted a hotel in Loveland for several years and is now leading a retired life.

Austin C. Downey, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Downey, was born November 8th, 1881, at Topeka, Illinois. In 1887 moved with his parents to Iowa and in 1892 to Fort Collins, Colorado. Here he attended public school five years and the State Agricultural college five years, taking the civil engineering course. In the activities of the student body he excelled in oratory, winning all of the class contests and medals. Served as president of the Oratorical association, was college orator at Washington Day exercises, member of Columbian Literary society and the "Collegian" staff. In the cadet battalion he attained the rank of captain. He began his career as an engineer with the Oregon Short Line railroad in the spring of 1902. In 1903 he was in the State engineer's office with Professor L. G. Carpenter and with one of the Irrigation Companies in the Arkansas valley. Passed the first civil service examination at the organization of [334]

United States Reclamation service and was assigned to the Shoshone Project, Cody, Wyoming. Took up the work in June, 1903 and was closely identified with the development of the project. For several years he was first assistant to D. W. Cole, constructing engineer on Shoshone dam. This being the highest dam ever built presented difficult problems in the solution of which Mr. Downey had an important part to perform, being chief of party and instrument man on construction surveys and later an inspector in the real work of building the dam. He received frequent promotions, the last one of which would have been effective two weeks later than the date of his death when he would have succeeded Mr. Cole and been in full charge of affairs at the dam. Among his associates he earned a reputation for conscientious accuracy and as a persistent worker. During his seven years in the Reclamation service he had but three vacations of ten days each. He died June 16, 1910, by accidental drowning in Shoshone lake. The body was recovered two months later and on August 18th, 1910, was buried in Grandview cemetery. Fort Collins, Colorado, with Masonic honors.

Rev. John G. Klene^ pastor of the First Presbyterian church, was born in Sparta, Illinois, and educated at Monmouth college and McCormick seminary; married Sarah B. Hood in 1895, and four children have blessed the union - Vivian C, Lorine L., Pauline H., and Helen Redell; came to Colorado in 1904 and was for three years pastor of Boulder Presbyterian church and in 1907 was called to the Presbyterian church of Fort Collins of which he is still in charge.

Charles Gilpin-Brown was born in 1857, near Richmond, in Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Harrow school and at Wimbledon Military school. He came to Colorado in 1888 and settled upon a ranch at Livermore, in Larimer county, in 1892. In 1891 he was married to Miss Helen Graham Poland. He served in the office of county commissioner from 1904 to the date of his death in 1906. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Margaret and Frances.

Mortimer M. Jones was born July 24th, 1854, in Macon county, Missouri, where he was educated; married Marietta Isenburg September 24, 1883; came to Byers, Colorado, April 1st, 1879, and to Larimer county July 1st, 1879, and has since followed farming in this county. Mr. Jones is a nephew of Michael Jones, better known to the old timers as "Ranger" Jones, who settled in the Cache la Poudre valley near the present town of Timnath in 1860.

Mrs. Alvina C. Koeper. - This worthy lady was born at New Bremen, Ohio, on the 10th of August, 1862. She was married to August H. Koeper, January 18, 1883, at the same place. Twelve years later in February, 1895, she accompanied her husband to Colorado, making their home at Bellvue. Two sons and one daughter were born to them, Herbert C, Dewey John and Alice L. After the death of her husband which occurred in Bellvue in October, 1903, Mrs. Koeper sold her valuable farm property and stock interests and is now a resident of Fort Collins.

Prof. Burton O. Longyear. - Born July 16th, 1868, on a farm near Leslie, Michigan; moved to Mason, Michigan, when 18 years of age and later engaged in the drug business; took a special course at the Michigan Agricultural college and became an instructor in botany in that institution in 1894; came to Fort Collins July 31st, 1904, to teach botany in the Colorado Agricultural college and is now Professor of botany and forestry at that institution. Prof. Longyear married Jessie L. Bond, December 28th, 1897, at her home in Leslie, Michigan ; two children have been born to them of whom the eldest; Lawrence B. is alone living, and he is now nearing the 12th anniversary of his birth. Prof, and Mrs. Longyear are zealous and influential members of the First Baptist church of Fort Collins.

L. H. Fagan was born at Winnebago, Minnesota, on the 21st day of November, 1871. He attended the high school at Winnebago, from which he was graduated in 1892. After teaching school for a time he came to Berthoud, in Larimer county, in the spring of 1893. He purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres near Berthoud and entered upon the business of farming, and since the year 1896 has been continuously engaged in winter sheep feeding in which he has been very successful. He has landed interests at Berthoud as well as at Bennett, Colorado, and at Maxwell, New Mexico. In November, 1908, he was elected to the office of county commissioner and is a director of the First National bank of Berthoud. He is also a member of the Masonic order and other lodges and of the Presbyterian church. Two sisters are living, both of whom graduated at the Normal school at Greeley. One of these ladies is married to Dr. D. W. McCarty, of Berthoud, the other to Mr. Earnest Carter of Leadville. The father of Mr. Fagan, Mr. Daniel Fagon, was born in Ireland on the 23rd of March, 1835, and is still living. He came to America when eight years of age and moved to Minnesota in 1857. He enlisted in the

Union service in June, 1861, and served under General Thomas and was with Sherman on the March to the sea. He served with distinction and was in many hard fought engagements. At the time of his discharge in July, 1865, he had risen from the ranks to the grade of second lieutenant. He was married on October 10th, 1867, and came to Colorado in 1892 and engaged in farming.

William F. Gilkison. - Our subject is a native of Colorado, born January 11th, 1872, at Caribou, Boulder county; graduate of the Colorado Agricultural college, class of 1895 ; assistant in M. E. department of his alma mater one year and then promoted to a professorship and head of the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming, where he remained until 1908 when he returned to Fort Collins to engage as a wholesale dealer in farm products and as a stockman. He married Minnie F. Harrington, a college classmate, June 30th, 1897 and has one child, Irene.

James D. Mandeville. - Born September 21st, 1841, in Tompkins county. New York; received his education in the public schools and at Ithaca academy; enlisted September 12th, 1861, in 50th New York volunteer engineers; mustered out September 20th, 1864; married Olivia L. Denson, August 23rd, 1866; printer by trade; edited and published Candor, New York, Press two years ; came to Fort Collins in March, 1881, where he has since resided. Mr. Mandeville came of revolutionary stock, his great grandfather having been a General under Washington. Recruited for 198th Ohio volunteer infantry and received a commission from Governor John Brough as adjutant of the regiment.

Willis S. Miller. - Born in Queen City, Missouri, where he received his education ; married Emma A. Foglesong in 1886, and came to Fort Collins in 1887; children are named, Calvin, Leo, Bert, Clarence, Lloyd, Allie, Earl, Myrtle and Freda Miller; postmaster and general storekeeper at Elkhorn, 45 miles west of Fort Collins; proved up on a homestead at Elkhorn in 1902, and has met with good financial success. Mr. Miller cast his first vote in the fall of 1887 in Fort Collins.

Nathaniel Thomas was born in northwestern Ohio, in 1835, where he received his education. After completing his studies, he taught school in Hancock county for years. In 1862 he and Nancy Mo'\nelly were united in marriage. Miss Mc- Anelly was a school teacher in the same county. In 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas moved to southwestern Indiana, where both resumed their work, school teaching. They were engaged at that work till Mr. Thomas' health failed. He was advised to seek a milder climate, and in 1892 they came to Colorado, locating in Larimer county. In a short time his health was so far recovered that he again took up his work as school teacher, continuing in that profession till a few years ago, when he retired, thinking that forty-five years as a teacher was enough.

Addison N. Hoag. - One of the first men to demonstrate beyond peradventure by actual results, in spite of predictions to the contrary, that fruit could be successfully and profitably grown in Larimer county, was Addison N. Hoag, the subject of [336] this sketch. He was a native of Massachusetts, and came to Colorado in July, 1860. He mined, hunted and trapped in California gulch, on the headwaters of the Arkansas, the Grand and Cache la Poudre rivers. In 1864 he went to Kansas and married Miss Ludema Williams, and in 1871 returned to Colorado, locating first at Greeley, thence in 1874 coming to Fort Collins. In February of that year he took up as a homestead an unpromising 80-acre tract of land four miles northwest of the town. This he first placed under a high state of cultivation and then planted a portion of it to an orchard, embracing apples, pears, plums, cherries and small fruits. He also carried on market gardening with good results, and kept bees and poultry. His orchard came into bearing in 1880, and he was able to realize a handsome income from his fruit and other ventures from that time on. His success at fruit-growing stimulated others to follow his example, and now the irrigated portions of the county are dotted with orchards which are producing large quantities of luscious, health-giving fruit for export, in addition to that needed for home consumption. When Mr. Hoag sold his property in the 90's and went to Arizona for his wife's health, he had 400 acres of land, work horses, farm tools, cattle and dairy cows, vg-lued in those days of low prices at $20,000. When he located his homestead, in 1874, he was $175 in debt for team and wagon.

W. A. Hawthorne. - Born June 14th, 1874, in Denver, Colorado; educated at the Colorado Agricultural college; married Anna M. Wills, daughter of Joseph R. Wills, a Fort Collins pioneer. May 17th, 1899, and has one child, a daughter, Roma. Mrs. Hawthorne was born November 28th, 1875, in Fort Collins. Mr. Hawthorne owns and conducts a garage on S. College avenue, and is a dealer in automobiles, in which business he has been very successful.

Dr. William A. Kickland came into the world in 1868 at Crystal, Michigan; educated at University of Michigan, graduating in 1892 with degree of B. S. ; receiving degree of M. D. in 1895. Dr. Kickland came from Michigan to Fort Collins in 1895, and that city is still his home; married Kate Lee, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Lee in 1895; member of Larimer county Medical association. Fort Collins Hospital association, and Colorado State Medical association. Since coming to Fort Collins, Dr. Kickland has built up an extensive practice in medicine and surgery He has a beautiful home at the corner of West Mountain avenue and Sherwood street. Mrs. Kickland is a popular member of the Woman's club and has served the club as president.