Larimer County, Colorado - The whole text, 1911 (part 16 of 22)

Marcus Coon. - One of the early settlers of Fort Collins, w^as born February 10th, 1831, in Hudson, Nevir York. He enlisted in the service of the United States, April 22nd, 1861, and was commissioned captain of Company D 1st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the first battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861. He was discharged July 31st, 1861, but re-enlisted August 2nd, 1861, and mustered in as first lieutenant of Company B Harris Light Cavalry, subsequently known as the 2nd New York cavalry. Later the command of the company fell to him and he resigned as captain September 25th, 1863. Captain Coon was m.arried October 16th, 1871, to Miss Julia Davis, who survives him. In 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Coon came to Colorado, locating first at Greeley, a little later removing to Fort Collins. In 1873, he built the Agricultural hotel which stood at the corner of Mountain avenue and Mason streets where the Fort Collins Express building now stands, attaching the first dwelling house erected in Fort Collins to the rear of the hotel for use as a kitchen and laundry. This old building has since been purchased by the Pioneer Women of the Cache la Poudre valley, moved to a new site and is being fitted up as a Pioneer museum. Mr. Coon conducted the hotel until 1877, when he sold it to D. M. Harris, who, in 1879, moved it on to the site now occupied by the Northern hotel, enlarged and renamed it the Commercial hotel. In September, 1876, after Colorado had been admitted into the Union, Capt Coon was elected sheriff of Larimer county, but resigned in 1877 and James Sweeney was appointed his successor to serve until the next succeeding general election. In 1885, Captain and Mrs. Coon went to the White river country and located on a stock ranch near Buford in what is now Rio Blanco county. On the organization of Rio Blanco county in 1889, he was appointed sheriff by Governor Cooper and resided at Meeker, the county seat for about four years, dying there February 15th, 1903, aged seventy-two years.

Arthur E. Lamb, son of the late Rev. L. J. Lamb, was born March 31st, 1884, near Fort Collins; educated at the Colorado Argicultural college taking the Civil Engineering course; married Beulah Sherman, December 21st, 1^10, and is a civil engineer by profession and occupation. Mr.

Lamb is First lieutenant of Company "F" first infantry, Colorado National guard. Has been assistant to City Engineer and County Surveyor, E. C. McAnelly for several years and was recently appointed City Engineer of Fort Collins.

Francis C. Grable, born September 22d, 1854, of Scotch-German parentage; Scotch on his mother's side, German on his father's; the latter coming from the valley of the Shenandoah in Virginia, the valley made immortal by the great ride of Sheridan - the footsteps of whose horse beat faster and faster as he bore his master to the scene of the battle from Winchester Town, twenty miles away. Because of delicate health as a boy, the subject of this sketch was compelled to close his school days at the age of sixteen and it seemed as if the light of his life went out when, with his books under his arm, he went for the last time from the old school house near his father's country home on the Ohio farm. Seeking health he came to Nebraska in 1872, where at Falls City he entered his brother's bank, remaining there four years. In 1876 he became cashier of the State Bank at

Kearney, Nebraska, from which position he resigned in 1880 to form a law partnership with Mr. H. C. Andrews, of Kearney, a gentleman wellknown to many of the citizens of Northern Colorado because of his connection with the North Poudre Irrigation company at its organization. In 1881 Mr. Grable was married to Katharine Mc Allister. Their only child is Katharine Lee, a daughter, who is devoted to books and art. In 1887 Mr. Grable moved to Omaha, where he has had an office ever since and where his family reside. For years thereafter, Mr. Grable's work was in connection with the Lincoln Land company, a corporation owned by the officers and friends of the Burlington railroad - the business of which was the location, ownership and development of the townsites along that great railroad. Over six hundred miles of that work went into Mr. Grable's charge, comprising the line of road from Alliance in Nebraska, to Deadwood, South Dakota, and from Edgemont to Billings, Montana. He located the townsites and then started out to make them grow by developing the country tributary to them. He built an irrigating canal and two storage reservoirs at Crawford, Nebraska; constructed a ditch and reservoir system at Edgemont, South Dakota ; developed mines at Union Hill, where he started a stamp mill and smelter. A panic swept him off his feet financially before his work was finished, leaving him with an indebtedness that would- have appalled a less courageous man, but he went at those debts as he has everything else, with an energy that would admit of no defeat, and says he hopes to live long enough to get them all paid. In 1901 he came to Fort Collins and turned the ditches, reservoirs and lands of which he was sole owner, into a corporation known as The North Poudre Irrigation company. The ten years he has given to this great undertaking has made him a factor in the development of irrigation" in Northern Colorado. Thirty-nine active business years are to Mr. Grable's credit at this time, so active that he hardly knows what a holiday occasion is like. He has never had time to travel abroad or at home, and has the pleasure yet in store of seeing the Pacific ocean and the sunny western slope. He likes work. He worked at first from boundless energy and to see things done; later, from force of habit - then to get the debts lifted over to the right side of the ledger. He has never worked for the sake of accumulating, for he values neither money nor property. Had Mr. Grable have had the time, he would have been an artist or [338] a poet; for he loves passionately everything beautiful and artistic. He is a word painter, and we doubt not that the "History of Colorado" that he is now writing will be a valuable acquisition to Western literature; for he possesses the happy faculty of blending facts with fancy, prose with poetry and clothes statistics with the artistic touches that brightens and embellishes and entertains. In Valley View he had selected a spot for a home that was ideal. In full view were the mountains, the valleys and the lakes; no sightlier place was to be found in all the beautiful state of Colorado. That night in 1909 that saw its entire destruction by fire was a night that will live in the memory of the builder while memory lasts, and that a great sanitarium may be erected on that sightly and health restoring spot, is a wish that all hope to see fulfilled.

David M. Harris. - Born April 9, 1841, in Devonshire, England; died September 12th, 1904, in Fort Collins, Colorado. On attaining his majority, Mr. Harris served three years in the British navy as a ship carpenter, and then spent five years in the English merchant marine. He was married to Elizabeth A. Galloway, February 10th, 1867. In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Harris came to the United States and in 1873 to Fort Collins. In the spring of 1877, he bought what was then known as the Agricultural hotel, which stood where the Express building now stands, at the corner of Mountain avenue and Mason streets, changing the name later to the Commercial hotel and moving a part of the building to where the Northern hotel now stands. He added to the building and personally conducted the hotel for many years, and until failing health admonished him to give up active business pursuits. His death resulted from paralysis. He left a widow, who has since died, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Vandewark, who lives at Gering, Nebraska.

William N. BacheldeRj a pioneer in the wool growing industry of Larimer county, died October 21st, 1908, at Gebo, Montana, aged 70 years. Mr. Bachelder was a native of Castleton, Vermont, but came to Larimer county in 1871 and established a home and a sheep ranch at Spring canon where he lived for about a score of years. He was the third man to engage in the wool growing business in the county and his venture proved to be successful for a few years, and until the county became so thickly settled that the sheep range was almost entirely obliterated. He took an active interest in political affairs and was one of the leaders of the greenback movement in Colorado. He was a candidate at one time for lieutenant govornor on the greenback ticket, and at another time was his party's choice for representative in the General assembly, but was defeated on both occasions. He finally sold off his flocks and engaged in other business enterprises. In 1893, Gov. Waite appointed him superintendent of Water division No. 1, an office he filled with ability and satisfaction. In 1899 he went to Montana to be near his son, Fred S. Bachelder, where he died.

Adelbert F. Brown was born on the 18th day of June, 1871, in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was educated at Fort Collins and at the Normal school of Fremont, Nebraska. On the 14th day of February, 1895, he was married to Miss Mabel E. Picken, of his native city. They have three children; Jas. R., Hallett P. and Roy G. Mr. Brown, upon coming to man's estate occupied himself for a few years at farming, but later became associated with Mr. Frank Mathews in the butcher and packing business in Fort Collins under the firm name of Mathews & Brown. He has been from early boyhood, in one way or another, always connected with the stock business, having passed through its various grades from cow-boy to herd owner.

C. E. Daniels was born in Wisconsin, and went in the year of 1888, to Loraine, Ohio. Here he engaged in the banking business. To this line of business he has devoted his life, having been associated in the organization of several banking institutions. He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901, to Miss C. Louise Rogers, and in 1907 moved to Fort Collins where he still resides.

Chauncey W. Harrington was born in 1822, in Batavia, New York; died, March 22nd, 1906, in Fort Collins. Mr. Harrington was a true Western pioneer, an excellent citizen and a devoted husband and father. He crossed the continent in 1859, and after spending one year in California returned to Denver, which was his home until 1868, when he moved to Laramie, Wyoming , coming thence to Larimer county in 1871 and locating on a farm in Pleasant valley, near the Shipp bridge. He spent the winter of 1868-9 on the headwaters of the Laramie river getting out ties for the Union Pacific railroad, and floated them down the river to Laramie City in the spring of 1869. He sold his farm in Pleasant valley in 1897 and moved his family to Fort Collins, which place had since been his home. A wife and five children survived him. ' The names of the children are, Mrs. Stanley Davis of Greeley, Mrs. F. A. Bear of Idaho, and Mrs. E. D. Searing of Portland, Oregon, W. H. Harrington and Mrs. Sarah Shipp, both of Idaho.

Thaddeus a. Gage. - To be a direct descendent of John Alden and Priscilla, made famous in Longfellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish" is an honor that falls to the credit of the subject of this sketch. John Alden accompanied the Pilgrims from Southhampton as a cooper. The youngest of the Pilgrims, being then twenty-one years of age, he afterward became a magistrate of the colony, serving as such for more than a half century. Thaddeus Alden Gage was born November 7th, 1844, at Salisbury, New York. Eighteen years later he moved to Illinois, where he spent ten years at teaching, clerking and farming. He came to Colorado in 1873 and to Larimer county in 1874. In 1875 he married Esther R. Riddle and moved to his mountain ranch near the Forks hotel, where he engaged in dairying and stock raising. Ten years later he was elected county assessor and moved his family to Fort Collins He declined a second term as assessor, but continued in the cattle business until 1901. He helped to organize the Fort Collins National bank in 1900 and was a director of that institution until 1908, when he moved to Denver. He also helped to organize the Larimer County Fair Association and was its secretary for two years; helped to organize the Larimer County Stock Growers association and took an active part with other citizens in securing the sugar factory and the street railway. Was a member of the chamber of commerce and also a director until he left for Denver; member of the board of dii'ectors of the Public Library; president and manager of the Poudre Valley Live Stock company; assisted in organizing the First Unitarian society and was a member of the board of trustees for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Gage have two children, Bertram A. Gage, assistant cashier of the Fort Collins National bank and Harriet F. Gage, married to Robert A. Pierce, chief mining and construction engineer of the Northern Coal & Coke company. Mr. Gage is a Master Mason, a Royal Arch Mason, and a Knight Templar. Has filled all the chairs in those orders, except E. C. in De Molay Commandery. While Worshipful Master of Collins' lodge No. 19, he had the pleasure of conferring the degrees upon his son, Bertram A. Gage. Was a charter member of lodge 804, B. P. O. Elks.

Dr. Harry E. Kingman, professor of veterinary surgery in the Veterinary department of the Colorado Agricultural college, was born May 13th, 1881, at Fort Collins; attended public schools of Boulder; received degree of B. S. at Colorado Agricultural college; D. V. S. at Kansas City Veterinary college; M. D. V. at McKillip's Veterinary college, Chicago; married Edna Garbutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Garbutt, July 29th, 1908. Dr. and Mrs. Kingman have one child, Edward A., and the family home is in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Thomas J. Wilkins. - This sketch has to do with the earthly career of a Christian man who died at Timnath Sept. 9th, 1900. He passed to his long rest after years spent in deeds of brotherly love, charity and forbearance. Thomas J. Wilkins was born at Grenloch, New Jersey, Dec. 6th, 1852; educated in the public schools of his native state and attending the academies of Williamstown and Blackwood. He was married Dec. 24th, 1874, to Martha Scott, a young lady of Quaker parentage. Four daughters have blessed the union, three of whom are married: Mrs. J. A. Coy, living at Timnath; Mrs. James Elliott at Morrill, Nebraska, and Mrs.

O. J. Ripple at Denver. Miss Emma T. is a teacher in the Fort Collins schools. Mr. Wilkins came to Colorado in August, 1878, locating at Timnath, his wife following him six months later. He homesteaded the Edwards' farm; was the founder of the First Presbyterian church at Timnath, which he served both as deacon and elder, holding the latter position until his death.

David A. Black was born at Bethlehem, Iowa, on July 1st, 1863. He came to Colorado at the age of eleven years and passed his youth on a farm in the vicinity of Fort Collins. On June 11th, 1900, he was married to Miss Mabel A. Gregg. They have two sons and he is still engaged in farming. "Dave" is possessed of a happy nature which finds sunshine where others see only shadows. He is recognized as among the intellectual class of farmers who are raising agriculture to the rank of a science. Honest, industrious and thoughtful, Mr. Black enjoys the esteem of his acquaintances and respect of the community in which he lives.

Mariana Modeno, the first "white" settler in the Big Thompson valley, was born at Taos, New Mexico, in 1812, and was of Castilian parentage. He was said to have been liberally educated in his youth and to be able to speak thirteen different languages fluently. Next to Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and Jim Baker, Modeno was perhaps the most noted frontiersman, trapper, hunter, guide, scout and Indian fighter in the West. He was known at one time in almost every town between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains; from the City of Mexico to the British possessions. He carried the marks on his person of many a bitterly waged conflict with the Indians, and was for many years a valued scout and guide in the employ of the government. He settled on the Big Thompson in 1858, where he lived until he died, June 25, 1878, having amassed considerable wealth in the meantime.

G. A. Hamilton, one of the foremost farmers of the Big Thompson valley was born in 1849, near London, Ontario, Canada, and reared on a farm; attended district school. When 21 years of age he went to Michigan and worked in the pineries; bought land and lived in that state until health failed in 1879 when he came to Longmont and engaged in the grocery business; sold out in fall of 1882 and moved in January, 1883, to the farm he now lives on in the Big Thompson valley. Besides being a good farmer, he is an importer and breeder of Suffolk Punch horses; -has been a director of the

Consolidated Home Supply Ditch and Reservoir company for 15 years, and is also Vice-President of the First National bank of Loveland, but has never held or aspired to any political office.

J. B. Fuller was born at Cape Vincent, in New York state, on the 26th day of March, 1863, and attended the public schools. In 1881 he came to Fort Collins and learned the plumbers trade with H. E. Tedmon, and has continued to the present time to work at that business. He was married on February 16th, 1907, to Miss Florence R. Mann, of Lyons, N. Y. Mr. Fuller was for twelve years a member of the Fort Collins fire department.

John W. Everhard was born at Massillon, Ohio, and educated at Columbus in that state, where he later engaged in the mercantile business. Settled in Salem county, Missouri, in an early day, and came to Colorado in 1875. He and his brother-in-law, John C. Ish, bought the James Eaglin ranch of 320 acres, and began farming and stock raising. Mr. Everhard went to North Park in 1880 and located on a big stock ranch in the vicinity of Owl mountain, which he sold a few years ago to his nephew, J. L. Ish, and returned to Berthoud where he and his wife live in comfortable retirement, beloved by all who know them. In 1881, Mr. Everhard was the democratic candidate for County Commissioner, and in 1897 the candidate of his party for County Assessor, but failed of election, though polling a much larger vote than was cast for his party ticket at each election. He came of revolutionary stock, his grand-father having been a soldier in the war of Independence under General St. Clair.

Gardner R. Cushing is a Colorado product, having been born at Fort Collins on July 7th, 1880, where he received his education completing his school work at the State Agricultural college.- He was married July 23rd, 1904, to a lady of Fort Collins and now has three children, Colbert E., Claudia M. and Lucy Bell. Mr. Cushing's father was the first breeder of Holstein cattle in Larimer county. The subject of this sketch has been for a number of years the clerk of the county court of Larimer county, the duties of which office he has performed to the entire satisfaction of the public. He is considered as among the clean and rising young men of the county.

stopped in Boulder until the spring of 1880, when they removed to Larimer county. Mr. Burnett was educated in the schools of Fort Collins, and on the 14th day of February, 1905, was married to Miss Gertrude Dinnebeck. They have three children, Ruth, Raymond and Benjamin F. He has been several times elected to public office in the county and has served the people faithfully and with the highest integrity as county clerk for a period of four years. He is now manager of the insurance department of the Security Abstract and Investment company of Fort Collins. He has always been a promoter of clean athletic sports.

Orivijlle Springer came to Colorado from Bridgeport, Gloucester county, New Jersey, landing in Larimer county March 3rd, 1887, and setting his stakes at Timnath, where he has since resided. He married Sibyl Tatum Howey, Dec. 30th, 1896. One child living. Earl Howey Springer. Mr. Springer is a practical farmer, thoroughly acquainted with the business in all its details, a man of probity and strict integrity.

Charles Golding-Dwyre^ Jr. was born in London, England, on the 19th day of February, 1872. He came with his parents to Fort Collins in 1883 and after having passed creditably through the schools of that city he took a course of study at the Colorado State Agricultural college. Jan. 1st, 1897, he was chosen as an instructor in that institution where he is still employed. On the 25th day of August, 1898, he was married to Mis? Effie Loomis of Fort Collins. They have two children, a son and a daughter. Mr. Golding-Dwyre is earnest and capable in the work in which he is engaged, a good citizen and an example of what a young man possessed of proper ideals and a healthy self-reliance may accomplish.

Z. O. HoLCOMB was born August 12th, 1850, in Chillicothie, Missouri ; married Alice E. Lawson, January 8th, 1882; five children were born to them and all are living. The family moved to Larimer county in 1901 and to Fort Collins in the spring of 1902. Mr. Holcomb is a farmer by occupation and has successfully cultivated the P. Anderson farm near Fort Collins the past two years.

John H. Cameron, was born August 14, 1842 In New York City. Early in life he learned the machinist trade an occupation he followed for 25 years. In 1864 he enlisted in the 125th New York volunteer infantry and was shortly afterward transferred to the 4th N. Y. heavy artillery in which he served until the close of the war. He married Elizabeth Madden on February 28th, 1869, and in 1882 came to Fort Collins, locating first on a dry ranch seven miles north of that city. In 1890 he moved into the city and served as janitor at the Agricultural college for ten years. He died November 17th, 1901, leaving a wiie and five sons, John H. Jr., Robert, Allen, George and Walter.

Thomas B. Bishopp. - There are few men living in Colorado today who have seen more of border life, endured greater hardships and trials, met with more trying vicissitudes and come through them all unscathed, morally and physically, than the subject of this sketch. Mr. Bishopp was born June 27th, 1832, in Sailhurst Parish, Sussex county, England. He came with his father's family to Madison county. New York, when a child and received his education in the common schools of that county. His father was an importer and breeder of Durham cattle. In 1855, when 23 years of age, he came west to Iowa, going thence to Minnesota in 1856, remaining in that state until 1860, when he crossed the Plains to Colorado, locating first in California gulch. Prospecting and mining proving unsatisfactory, he returned to Denver and began freighting with ox teams from that city to Central City, which he followed for three years. He then went to Oregon and freighted from 1863 to 1867, [342] from the Columbia river to the Boise, Idaho, mines, conducting a general store at Boise in 1864. From 1865 to 1866 he fought Indians who robbed him of wagons and stock valued at $10,000, and in 1868-9 operated a sawmill and conducted a meat market at Silver City, Idaho. He came back to Colorado in 1869 and in 1870 built Union colony ditch No. 3, moving then to Colorado Springs and there operated a dairy in connection with the transfer business until 1873, when he moved to his present home in Virginia Dale, where he is a successful breeder of Clydesdale horses and Durham and Jersey cattle. On Oct. 7th, 1880, he married Harriet C. McKay and they have two sons, B. G. D. Bishopp, instructor in dairying at the Colorado Agricultural college, and F. C. Bishopp, entomologist, U. S. department of agriculture, stationed at Dallas, Texas. From 1888 to 1891 our subject most acceptably served Larimer county as a member of its board of commissioners.

Stephen A. Wathen has been In the stock business in Spring canon ever since making his home in Larimer county in 1877. He is a native of Kentucky, born in Hardin county in 1860. He married Lydia L. Bardwell July 15th, 1885, in Fort Collins. A daughter, Miss Norah, is their only child. He has a fine ranch in Spring canon and a choice bunch of cattle.

Louis G. Carpenter, junior member of the firm of L. G. & R. C. Carpenter, consulting engineers, with offices in New York and Ithaca, New York, and Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado; former Professor of Civil and Irrigation Engineering; Director of the experiment Station at the Colorado State Agricultural college and former State Engineer of Colorado, was born March 28th, 1861, in Orion, Oakland county, Michigan. His father, C. K. Carpenter, was a prominent farmer, active in public work and in the organization of important enterprises. He was a director and vice-president of the Detroit and Bay City Railroad company, and for some time the only director in Michigan. At the time of his death he was President of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance company of Michigan, embracing several thousand members. His ancestors settled in Massachusetts about 1640, and one of them was one of the ten incorporators of Rhode Island with Roger Williams. R. C. Carpenter, a. brother of our subject, has been Professor of Experimental Engineering at Cornell university for many years, and is a recognized authority in many lines of work. Another brother. Judge William L.

Carpenter, was District and Supreme Court Judge of Michigan for many years, resigning from the Supreme bench to resume private practice in Detroit. He has also been President of the Detroit College of Law for a number of years. Our subject obtained the rudiments of an education in the public schools, spending his spare time for several years in a country printing office. He entered the Michigan Agricultural college in February, 1876, and graduated therefrom in November, 1879. The winter vacations were spent in teaching school and the money thus earned during his college course was sufficient to take him through without much aid from his parents. He did some instructional work while in college and acted as temporary instructor immediately after graduating. In February, 1881, he was chosen instructor in mathematics at his Alma Mater, remaining here with various promotions, finally becoming assistant Professor of Mathematics and Engineering. He resigned in 1888, to take charge of the department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering at the Colorado Agricultural college, which position had been offered him. Two of his winter vacations were spent at the University of Michigan and two at Johns Hopkins' university in Baltimore. He had become so well known in the educational world as a mathematician that at the age of 23 his name was inserted in the American Cyclopedia of Biography. He became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1883, and of the British association in 1884. In June, 1888, Professor Carpenter was elected to the chair of Physics and Engineering at the Colorado Agricultural college, and began service at that institution September 1st of that year. From that time until 1910, a period of twenty-two years. Professor Carpenter was intimately connected with the history of the college and experiment station and also with the history of the development of scientific irrigation in the arid regions. About 1890, the course in Irrigation Engineering was established, the first in any American college. It was launched without precedent or guide and without available text books, but the students graduating from that course, beginning in 1892, have become prominent in the development of irrigation in the arid West. One of them is now a Division Engineer in the United States reclamation service, and many others are professionally connected with that service. Several have been deputy state engineers, while others have been in responsible charge of some of the largest canals and dams and constructions in the West. In 1890 Professor Carpenter was appointed to conduct an investigation ordered by congress on artesian wells in Colorado and New Mexico. In 1891 he visited California to study irrigation in that state, and in 1892 he went to Europe, spending considerable time in France, Italy and Algeria, investigating the irrigation systems of those countries, in doing which he was given special facilities. Some years later the French government conferred upon him the decoration of Chevalier du Merite Agricola. In 1899 Professor Carpenter was elected Director of the Colorado Agricultural college experiment station, resigning in 1910 to give his attention to the duties of consulting engineer. He was an influential member of the association of experiment stations, several times an officer and was one of the committee of five which considered and passed upon the general questions of policy of the stations in the United States. He was also a member of the confidential committee of five appointed to confer with President Taft before his inauguration and, at the President's request, afterwards met him in Washington in April and November. In 1903 he was appointed State Engineer by Governor Peabody and served one term in this very important and responsible position. In 1902 he had been asked by the attorney-general to confer regarding the suit brought by the state of Kansas against Colorado concerning the waters of the Arkansas river. This was a subject of supreme importance, because if the attack proved successful it would have prevented the right to use the water from any Colorado stream for irrigation. At that time he prepared an outline of defence which was followed almost exactly in the development of the case, so that at the closing of the case by the decision of the United States Supreme Court, the whole line of successful defense had been as he had indicated at the beginning. This Kansas suit was felt to be a most important matter and it is conceded that Professor Carpenter rendered Colorado an inestimable service in the part he took in it. He practically collected and prepared all the evidence, and, working with Mr. Vaile, prepared the brief for Colorado, and the final decision of the Supreme Court recognized the right of Colorado to use the water of the Arkansas river for irrigation. This opened the way for active development which then set in with considerable vigor. While there may be future litigation respecting the rights of states to use water from inter-state streams for irrigation, the primary question as to whether such water may be so used has been permanently settled. Hearings in this celebrated case were held in Wichita and To- peka, Kansas, New Mexico, Arkansas, District of Columbia and in Colorado. Professor Carpenter was the first as well as the last witness put on the stand by Colorado and his examinations, all told, lasted eleven days. The testimony he gave on direct examination was published by the state. The work performed by Professor Carpenter in the Kansas- Colorado case was not necessarily connected with his duties as state engineer, but it was felt to be most important for the irrigation interests of the state. When his term expired he was told that he would be re-appointed State Engineer if he would make application for the office, but this he declined to do. He, however, continued as consulting engineer under special contract until the final decision in the Kansas case. In 1907 he was appointed a member of a commission by the Province of British Columbia to investigate and report upon irrigation in that province. Public hearings were held and Professor Carpenter spent much time searching the records and investigating conditions. As a result, his report was published as a state document and was accepted as the basis of the water act that was passed by the next Parliament and under which that province is making great strides in development. Invitations for private employment became so pressing from many of the most important financial interests in the country that in 1910 Professor Carpenter entered into an engineering partnership with his brother. Prof. R. C. Carpenter of Cornell university, and they have established offices in New York, Denver and their home towns. He has been engaged by the Macmillans, publishers of London, to prepare a book for one of their series and also by a New York firm to prepare one for their Harvard engineering series. He was a member of the editorial staff of the first edition of the Standard Dictionary, and has been engaged for the new edition now under way. He is a director of the First National bank of Fort Collins, and also of the Fort Collins Building and Loan association, and President of the association for the past few years; an incorporator of the Michigan Engineering society ; was President of the American Society of Irrigation Engineers and also a member of various other scientific and engineering societies. He is said to have the largest and best library relating to irrigation in the world. In 1887 Professor Carpenter married Mary J. C. Merrill, a fellow student of his Alma Mater in the class succeeding his. They have two children, Louis, born in 1889, and Jeanette, born in 1892. Mrs. Carpenter was one of the founders of the Woman's [344]

William Calloway was born Aug. 9th, 1837, in Clinton county, Indiana, where he lived on his father's farm and attended school until he was 21 years of age. In the spring of 1859 he went to Mis- souri and, associated with Jacob Cornelison, engaged in freighting with ox teams from the Missouri river to Colorado. During the winter of 1861-2 he and N. C. Alford camped on Meadow creek, twelve miles north of Livermore, and hunted game, which was hauled to Denver and sold. On one of his trips he was offered a town block situated in what is now the main business center of that city for a sack of flour, but refused to trade. Flour was worth then $100 per sack. In 1863 he went to Idaho and worked for N. C. Alford on a ranch for $100 per rnonth the first year, and later conducted a ranch of his own. In 1867 he came to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and in the fall of that year took up a ranch in Boxelder canon, which he sold, and in 1870 located in Livermore on what is now known as the Cradock ranch, and engaged in stock raising. In 1874 Mr.

Calloway married Fannie Keach and three children were born of the union, whose names are Mrs. Ella Burns of Seattle, Ray Calloway of Bellvue, Washington, and Mina May, deceased. His wife died in 1878, and in 1881 he married Mary Calloway, widow of his deceased brother, Martin Calloway. One child, a daughter, was born of this union and she is now Mrs. Libbie Hoffman of Fort Collins. Mr. Calloway died June 9th, 1891, at Livermore.

Franklin C. Avery. - In looking back over the past forty years of the history of Fort Collins and reviewing the names of those who have been pre-eminent in the upbuilding of the place, the mind instinctively rests upon that of Franklin C. Avery. There are few, indeed, to whom greater credit can be given or upon whom a greater meed of praise should be bestowed for what has been accomplished in the development of the resources of Larimer county and in the growth and advancement of Fort Collins, than upon Mr. Avery. He has been a leader and has aided by his means, his example and his influence those projects, public and private, which were designed to promote the growth of town and country and to add to the welfare of the people and advance their prosperity. Progressive plans have been promoted by his willing cooperation, and local interests have always received his fostering care. Justly, therefore, he occupies a position among the progressive and most influential men of the town and county. Mr. Avery was born April 8th, 1849, at Ledyard, Cayuga county. New York. He was the second among the five children born to Edgar and Eliza (Worthing) Avery. His ancestors are listed among the colonial families of New England. Soon after completing a course in civil engineering Mr. Avery joined the Union colony and came to Greeley, arriving on May 9th, 1870. He assisted in surveying and platting the town of Greeley and also in laying out the ditches. In the fall of 1871 he located near Laporte, Larimer county, and embarked in the cattle business. In the fall of 1872 he was chosen as engineer for the Agricultural Colony and laid out and platted the town of Fort Collins for the colony, changing the old town survey to conform to the new. That fall he was elected county surveyor and was re-elected in 1874. He became interested in real estate and acquired title to town property and also farm lands in Larimer and Weld counties, and was at one time an extensive holder of landed property. In November, 1880, Mr. Avery founded the Larimer County bank, a state institution, with a capital of $30,000. In 1882 the name was changed to the First National bank and the capitalization increased to $50,000. The capital has since been increased to $100,000, and Mr. Avery served the institution as president from 1881 to 1910, when he sold his interest and retired. In addition to the Avery block, containing ten stores and a large number of offices, and which was the home of the First National bank for many years, he has had a number of other buildings erected in the city, including a handsome and commodious stone residence, set in the midst of large and beautiful grounds. He also had a fourth interest in the building of the Opera house block and owns onefourth of the Northern hotel. It was through his instrumentality that these and the beautiful First National bank building were erected. He was one of the promoters and organizers of the Larimer County Ditch company, which afterwards changed its name to the Water Supply and Storage company, and he originated the project of bringing water from the Laramie river across the divide to the Poudre water shed. That company constructed and practically completed one of the largest and best irrigation systems in Colorado, whereby many thousands of acres of otherwise unproductive land has been brought under a high state of cultivation. He was the president of the company for several years. The shares of this company originally fixed at $100 are now worth nearly $4,000. Mr. Avery has been thrice chosen a member of the Fort Collins city council, and has had much to do in shaping the municipal affairs of his chosen home city. On Feb. 24th, 1876, Mr. Avery married Sarah Edson, who was born near Auburn, New York, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Edson. Three children were born of the union, Edgar D., who has been cashier of the First National bank, city treasurer, and is now engaged in the real estate and loan business; Mrs. Ethel Woodworth, and Mrs. Louise Crose, all residents of Fort Collins.

John R. Brown. - This pioneer prospector, miner, blacksmith and farmer, was born Aug. 18th, 1833, near Toronto, Canada. He died Oct. 6th, 1910, at Buffalo, Wyoming, aged 77 years. He had few opportunities for obtaining an education and was early put to work learning the blacksmith's trade in his father's shop. In 1858 he migrated to Lawrence, Kansas, and on May 1st, 1860, he arrived at the Tarryall mining camp in South Park; spent the winter of 1860-61 in the Bobtail mine at Central City, and in June, 1861, enlisted in Com- pany B, Capt. S. M. Logan of the First Colorado Volunteers, then organized as infantry, but changed to cavalry the following winter. The regiment was sent to Fort Union in January, 1862, and in the latter part of the March following participated in the battles of Apache Canon, Pigeon's Ranch, and the fight at Peralto in April. Fred Smith of Westlake was engaged in these battles with Mr.

John R. Brown

Brown. In the fall of 1863 Company B was sent to Laporte to guard the Overland stage against Indian attack. After being mustered out in October, 1864, Mr. Brown, in company with Robert Brown, started a blacksmith's shop at Laporte, doing a good business. They bought a squatter's right to 160 acres of land of John B. Provost and cultivated the land in connection wrth the blacksmith business. The Browns. dissolved partnership in 1865, our subject keeping the farm. During the winter of 1865- 66 he was the post blacksmith at Camp Collins, and in 1868 he and his brother, James A. Brown, became partners in wagon-making and blacksmithing, selling out in 1869, and John R. returning to his farm, which he sold in 1880 to A. T. Gilkison. In 1881 he took up the ranch on the Upper Poudre [346]

D. A. Camfield. - "Let no fertile land go dry," is Mr. Camfield's watchword. That he is doing his part to make the sentiment a living reality is proven by the fact that he and his associates have completed 500 miles of irrigating ditches and constructed several large reservoirs by means of which 400,000 acres of land are irrigated and reclaimed, and has other projects under way that will be the means of putting water on and redeeming about 425,000 additional acres. The total cost of the completed ditches and reservoirs and those now in course of construction will aggregate about $17,- 000,000, and the value of the land reclaimed has increased from $2.50 per acre to $75 and $100 per acre, thus adding more than $60,000,000 to the wealth of Colorado. Mr. Camfield was born in 1860 in Providence, Rhode Island, and received his education in the public schools of that city. He came from his native state to Greeley in 1878, arriving at his journey's end with $25 in his pocket. He at once secured employment on a farm at $18 per month "and found." After seven months on this farm he rented 160 acres of land and began work for himself. He lived alone, cooking his own meals, doing the chores, and cultivating his farm, prospering in a modest way. It was while on this farm that he began to study the problem of water supply and irrigation and how to increase the former by storing water and holding it back for use as needed, a part of the millions of cubic feet that annually go to waste. He has already accomplished a wonderful work in this direction, but still has other worlds to conquer. As chief promoter and the head and front of the Laramie-Poudre Reservoirs & Irrigation company, Mr. Camfield is now engaged in the stupenduous task of bringing water from the Laramie river watershed through a tunnel two and a fourth miles in length that is being driven through the range of mountains that form the divide between the Laramie and the Cache la Poudre rivers, and turning it into the latter stream, whence it will flow down to the headgate of the Poudre Valley ditch. From this point the water will flow through a ditch 100 miles in length out upon the Plains and thus bring 125,000 acres of fertile land under water. This company holds filings on Laramie river water both for direct irrigation and for storage; also on Cache la Poudre water for direct and storage use.

It also owns several mountain reservoirs, the total capacity of its holdings amounting to 3,600,000,000 cubic feet of water, or 84,000 acre feet, sufficient with direct flow to irrigate 125,000 acres of land. The men associated with Mr. Camfield in this great undertaking are S. H. Shields of Fort Morgan and Messrs. W. G. Evans, Iliff, and Thorpe of Denver. The cost of the completed project is estimated at between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. The major portion of the ditch work is already completed and construction of the remainder is being pushed forward with all possible speed. The tunnel was completed July 22, 1911. The tunnel is being made large enough to carry 1,000 cubic feet of water per second of time, although the company does not expect to draw from the Laramie more than 500 cubic feet, except during flood seasons when the excess will be stored. Not alone in the field of irrigation has Mr. Camfield made his energy and enterprise ^ factor in the development of northern Colorado. He has provided Greeley with a hotel, "The Camfield," of which every citizen not only of that town but also of the surrounding country is proud, and one that fills the need of years. It is a hotel in which a city of 25,000 inhabitants could take just pride, for there are few larger or better ones in the state. He spent a fortune on an enterprise about which he knew but little, but Greeley needed a good hotel and Mr. Camfield promptly supplied that need. Mr. Camfield is of medium height and rather stocky built. He has a fair complexion, blue eyes, dark hair graying at the temples, and a reddish mustache. He is fond of horses, but of late years has become an automobile enthusiast, and once a year goes to his former home in Providence in his car. Mr. Camfield is president of the City National bank, which has its quarters in its own $130,000 building across the street from the Camfield hotel.

William Brandis. - This sketch contains a few points in the busy life history of a Colorado pioneer, a gallant soldier in the First Colorado cavalry.

teamster, stockman and farmer, and a man and citizen against whom not one derogatory word can be said. He was a citizen of Larimer county for 35 years and did his part to subdue the wilderness and make it blossom like the rose. William Brandis was born in 1841, near Bremen, Germany. When still a child he came with his parents to Galveston, Texas, moving afterward to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he attended school. He crossed the Plains in 1860, arriving at Denver June 13th, spending the remainder of the season mining at Central City and Black Hawk. In those days the only postoflRce for the mining district was located at

Mrs. William Brandis

Central City, and a Mr. Fields delivered letters to whom they were addressed, charging 25 cents for the service. In November, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, First Colorado Volunteer cavalry, under Col. John M. Chivington, and served three years. After his discharge he followed teaming between Central City and Georgetown, and between Denver and Camp Collins. In the winter of 1865 he hauled government corn with an ox team for the soldiers at Camp Collins, stopping at "Auntie" Stone's house, then not quite finished. In 1867 he hauled lumber from North Clear creek to Cheyenne and sold it for $100 per thousand feet, and in 1870 he filed on a homestead in the Boxelder valley, four miles northeast of Fort Collins, and settled down to the life of a ranchman, engaging in stock raising, in which he was successful. In 1879, after the completion of the Larimer & Weld canal, he engaged in general farming in connection with his stock business. He married Christine Johnson in 1873 at Greeley, and four children were born to them, Kate D., Walter, Alice, and Oscar. Alice died in 1893. In 1905 Mr. Brandis sold his farm and moved with his wife and daughter. Miss Kate, to San Diego, California, where the wife and mother died on July 15th, 1910. The eldest son, Walter, lives at Fort Morgan, and the second son, Oscar, is a prosperous farmer in the Wellington district. The father and sister still reside in San Diego.

Nathaniel C. Alford was born at South Hope, in the state of Maine, on the 29th of November, 1834. The story of Mr. Alford's life reads like a romance and is well worth the study of any young man as an example of what may be accomplished by diligent application to the work which presents itself, and a character of strict integrity. Until he was 18 years of age, our subject worked upon a farm in his native state and then served three years in learning the carpenter trade, receiving during this apprenticeship no other wages than his board. At the age of 21 he started west, and, arriving at Rockford, Illinois, remained there three j'ears working at his trade. In the spring of 1859, the Pike's Peak gold excitement being at its heighth, Mr- Alford was seized with the fever which at that time drove so many young men to the West. Joining with three others he went to St. Joseph, Missouri, and on the first of May the party started on the overland trip with an outfit of two yoke of oxen and one yoke of cows and a wagon and arrived in Denver in June of the same year. Of the hardships, such as they were, of the experiences of that journey we have no information. The first work engaged in by Mr. Alford after his arrival in Denver was the pulling of one end of a whip-saw in the manufacture of lumber which was sold to the miners to be made into sluice boxes. In August, 1859, he went with a party of sixty to Middle Park, where they discovered the Breckenridge mines. They then went down the river through Eagle and Pitkin counties and finding themselves getting short of provisions were obliged to return to Idaho Springs. During the next two years Mr. Alford was engaged in freighting between Denver and Missouri river points in the summer season. During the winter of 1861-2 he wintered his oxen at a place seven miles atbove Livermore, in Larimer county, and hauled game for a band of six hunters to Denver. The rigor of the life led at this time is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Alford camped during the entire winter without tent or other shelter. In the summer of 1862 he crossed the Plains to Oregon and in the following winter went to the Boise mines in Idaho, where, in the succeeding summer, he started a vegetable farm, doing the first plowing and irrigation done in that state. Here he remained until the fall of 1865, in the summers carrying his vegetables with a train of sixteen pack mules to the mines in the valley. He then sold his business and returned by the Panama route to his native state, but returned to Colorado in the Spring of 1867. When the town of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was started Mr. Alford was there and burned the first kiln of brick ever made in that state. The following winter found him conducting a grocery business at the Elizabethtown m.ines in New Mexico. Selling out his business at this place he went to Texas in the spring of 1868 and bought a herd of cattle which he drove to the Arkansas river and wintered, and in the following summer moved them to Nevada, where he sold them and returned to Colorado. In 1870 he went with Mr. A. C. Goodhue to Illinois, where they purchased a train load of brood mares which they shipped to Colorado, this being the first train load of horses ever shipped over the Union Pacific road. The mares were held at Rock Creek, in Boulder county, during the summer of 1871, and Mr. Alford returned to Illinois where he purchased and brought to Colorado the first Norman draft stallion ever brought to the state. In the fall of 1871 he drove his horses and about one hundred head of cows into Larimer county and settled on Rabbit creek, a few miles north of Livermore. His wanderings were now about at an end. In the winter of 1871-2 he returned to Maine and was married to Ann E. Hobbs of the town of Hope. The newly married pair arrived in Colorado in March, 1872, and went to their home on Rabbit creek. A log cabin with a single room was erected and served as the family mansion until the fall of 1880, when they moved to Fort Collins, which city has been their home to the present time. In 1877 Mr. Alford served as a member of the first State Legislature of Colorado. In 1881 he embarked in the bee business, starting three apiaries and shipping the first car of honey ever sent out of Larimer county. This business was conducted successfully for eight years. In 1881 and the following year, joining with six other men, he started the construction of the Larimer County ditch, since known as the Water Supply & Storage Company ditch, and finished it to a point seven miles east of Boxelder creek. He was made president of the company and had charge of the work of construction. With unusual foresight, Mr. Alford purchased a large body of land under the newly constructed ditch, which, as the benefits to be derived from irrigation became manifest, rose rapidly in value and secured him a competency for his declining years. The land thus purchased was fenced and farmed for a number of years, furnishing pasturage for about four hundred head of cattle during the winter season. In 1893 he became a stockholder in the Poudre Valley bank and was elected a member of the directorate, which office he retained until the fall of 1909. At the time of the institution's being changed from a state to a national bank, in 1905, he was elected president and acted in that capacity until, warned by advancing age to seek relief from some of his business burdens, and in November, 1909, he resigned the position. Mrs. Alford was permitted to enjoy life through all the years of struggle and for some time after their pathway had become less thorny. In the month of November, 1910, however, she was called from the scenes of this life. She will be long remembered as a kind and helpful neighbor, a devoted wife and loving and sensible mother. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Alford a son, George, who did not live to complete his first year, besides two sons and two daughters, who are still living in Larimer county. Of these children, Fred C. was born on the 22nd of May, 1875 ; Lore E., on the 28th of Nov., 1876; Abbie A., on July 19th, 1878; and Anna Helen, on Sept. 12th, 1885. Mr. Alford's life has been that of a pioneer. To prepare the way for the comfort of those who followed him he faced the hardships and dangers of an entirely uncivilized country. To such men as he the country owes a debt which can scarcely be paid. With brains to plan, with courage to struggle against great odds, with perseverance to persist in the face of danger, with confidence in the future of a great people, they blazed the trails and marked in the desert with their camp-fires the sites of teeming cities which some of them, as the subject of this sketch, have been permitted to view ere called away to their rest.

Hon. Clarence Vanderburgh Benson was born at Louden, Iowa, Sept. 27th, 1868. His parents came to Golden, Colorado, in 1870, and in 1877 the family removed to Loveland, Colorado, residing on a farm, where he grew to manhood. He was graduated from the Colorado Agricultural college in 1890, receiving the degree of B. S. He entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating in 1892 with the degree of LL. B. He also did post-graduate work and the degree of M. S. was conferred upon him by the Colorado Agricultural college. Soon after receiv- ing his university degree he entered upon the practice of law- at Tort "Collins, Colorado; later he opened an offtceat Loveland, Colorado. On Nov. 29th, 1893, hr was married to Miss Lucy Bell of Chester, New Hampshire, granddaughter of Samuel Bell, formerly -governor and United States senator of that state. She is' also a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural college. He was active in public affairs at Laveland; was elected city attorney, and re-elected for a - second term ; also served as a member of the city council; held the position of cashier of the Bank of Loveland and was a member of the board of directors. He was a member of the board of education at Loveland for eight years; was president of the board at the time he resigned to enter upon his duties as Judge of the [350] county court of Larimer county, to which position he was elected in the fall of 1904. The excellent record which Judge Benson made while on the bench gained him the high esteem of his fellow citizens, and made him a host of friends. For a number of years Judge Benson has been prominent in the affairs of the Pacific jurisdiction. Woodmen of the World. He was elected a delegate to the Head Camp session, held in San Francisco in 1898, and was re-elected a delegate to the session held in Salt Lake City in 1900, where he was elected a member of the board of head managers, and was also chosen chairman of the finance committee. He was re-elected to these positions at the ! Seattle Head Camp session in 1907. Upon the vacancy occurrj'ng in November of that year in the ofKce of head clerk, by the death of the former head clerk, his associate officials urged him to accept the appointment tendered him, for his trained legal ability and thdrough familiarity with the biisiness of this great order,- ahd its large investments, -especially fitted him for, this position of high responsibility. - In the fall of 1908 he was nominated by the republican state, convention, for the office of lieutenarlt governor. Judge Benson is a member of the board" of directors of the Loveland National bank. ' In" his fraternal affiliations he is a 32nd degree ' Mason, a Shriner, an Elk and a member of the -Knights of Pythias.

Myron H. Akin, an ex-mayor of Fort Collins and one of the city's leading citizens who, for thirty years has been a prominent factor in the exploitation and development of the agricultural, stockgrowing and stock-feeding industries of Larimer county, was born in Lockport, Illinois, where he received his education. He was the second son in order of birth of Henry and Eunice (Harris) Akin, both of whom were natives of the state of New York. Henry Akin, the father, was born Aug. 20th, 1819, in the old historic Hill house at Johnstown, New York, and was cotemporary with Elizabeth Cady Stanton with whom he went to school. In 1842 he married Eunice Harris, who was born at Pine Plains, Dutchess county. New York, in 1823. Six sons, Henry, a railroad superintendent at Houston, Texas; Myron H., Harris, A. I. Akin, and William B. Akin of Fort Collins, Colorado, and John H. Akin of Houston, Texas, were born of the union. Mr. Akin, senior, came with the -younger members of his family from Illinois to Fort Collins in 1879, and settled on a tract of raw land situated three miles southwest of Fort Collins. He was a thorough farmer, and with the help of his sons subdued the soil and brought his farm under a high and profitable state of cultivation. His wife died in February, 1896, and he followed her to the grave in 1904. The subject of this sketch came from Illi- nois to Fort Collins in 1881 and spent three years on his father's farm. He then became associated with Jesse Harris in the buying and selling of live stock, a line of business he successfully followed for five years. On June 5 th, 1890, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth D. Mellinger in Fort Collins. She was born in Seven Mile, Ohio, in 1859, and was educated in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After leaving school she taught for six years in the graded schools of Fort Wayne, coming from there to Fort Collins in 1884. Here she was employed as a grade teacher in the public schools for seven years previous to her marriage, and has since served fourteen years on the board of education. Mr. and Mrs. Akin have three children, a son and two daughters, and their names are Eunice Harris, Wayne Mellinger and Julia Asenath, all at home. Miss Eunice is a graduate of the Fort Collins High school and is a talented musician and organist at the

Presbyterian church. Wayne and Julia are still in school. Our subject was one of the organizers of the Akin Live Stock company and was president of the company for three years. This company owned a large tract of land northwest of Fort Collins and did an extensive business for several years in the raising and buying and selling of live stock and in the feeding of cattle and sheep for market. Mr. Akin was also one of the promoters and organizers of the Laramie-Poudre Reservoirs & Irrigation company, now engaged in constructing one of the largest and most important irrigation projects inaugurated in northern Colorado, and has been a director of the company. He served his ward, the Fifth, as a member of the Fort Collins city council from 1908 to 1909, and was then elected ipayor of the city, a position he filled with conspicuous ability for two years. He resides in a beautiful "home at 1008 Remington street. ' '

John S. Cusack^ cashier of the First' National bank of Wellington, Colorado, is a native of Nebraska, born Nov. 2nd, 1879, at North" Bend, Dodge county,' that state. He received the rudiments of an education in the public schools of his native town and completed his' school work at Moh- mouth, Illinois. After leaving school he was employed by the Standard Beet Sugar company for two years and then opened and conducted a bank at Ames, Nebraska, until June, 1905, when he came to Larimer county to accept the position he now holds with the Wellington bank. Mr. Cusack was united in marriage with Mary A. Wilson on June 20th, 1906, and they have one child, named John Charles Cusack. Besides being an excellent business man and banker, Mr. Cusack is one of the most prominent citizens of Wellington, and takes deep interest in and an active part in the public affairs of the town. He is loyal to the town and believes, and gives reasons for his faith, that Wellington is destined to become one of the most important business points in Larimer county. Our subject's father, Christopher Cusack, was born in Guelph, Canada, of Irish descent. His mother, Eliza (Scott) Cusack, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Cusack is a Master Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the B. P. O. Elks.

AiNswoRTH Emery Blount was born at Brainard, East Tennessee, Feb. 6th, 1832. His parents were from New England and went south as missionaries to the Cherokee Indians. He was educated at Dartmouth college (class of 1859), and chose teaching as his profession. During the Civil war he saw active service as a captain in the First East Tennessee cavalry under Col. 'Tighting Jim" Brownlow. He was also associated with "Parson" Brownlow in the publication of his abolition paper, and when driyen out of Tennessee went to Galesburg, Illinois, where the publication was continued. After the close of the war he was postmaster under President Grant at Cleveland, East Tennessee, for eight years. During this time he owned a farm near Cleveland, where he carried on his experiments in improving corn which brought him to the notice of the Department of Agriculture and all the leading agricultural publications of the country. Professor Blount came to the Colorado State Agricultural college in 1878, as its first professor of agriculture. His work of fourteen years in experimenting with and improving wheat and other grains was of immense value and gave to the institution and himself a world-wide fam.e. In 1890 he went to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he spent several years in the same line of work. Professor Blount was married at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, in 1865, to Susan P. Hall (sister of Dr. Henry F. and Edward H. Hall). Professor Blount and his wife have lived in recent years at Wellesley, Massachusetts. They have two daughters. Miss Nettie, a teacher at Wellesley, and Carrie, wife of George

Solomon Batterson

Solomon Batterson was born Aug. 26th, 1830, in the town of Hume, Alleghany county, New York, his parents being Henry and Hannah (GoiiE) Batterson. His ancestors moved from Pennsylvania and settled in New York state, where his father followed farming. From there he moved to Cleveland, Ohio; thence, twelve years later to

Chicago. Shortly afterwards the family settled in Cass county, Illinois, moving later to Chatfield, Minnesota, where the father died. Our subject attended the public schools in Cleveland, Ohio, and when 14 years of age hired out to work on a farm and was thus employed for eight years. Mr. Batterson was married in Decorah, Iowa, to Mary L. Fassett, who was born in Alleghany county, New

Mrs. Solomon Batterson

York. After devoting eight years to farming in Steele county, Minnesota, he moved to Clear Lake, Iowa, where he carried on a rented farm for three years. In 1870 he came to Colorado with his team and cattle, driving through from Iowa. The family had started for California, but on reaching the Cache la Poudre valley they were so well pleased with the country that they decided to remain in Larimer county. They went to a point ten miles west of Livermore in August and homesteaded 160 acres and later pre-empted another 160 acres adjoining, which gave him 320 acres of meadow and pasture land. He subsequently purchased two additional quarter sections, making him 640 acres of land. He still owns the property and lived on it for about 35 years, amassing a comfortable fortune in the cattle business. About eight years ago he sold off his cattle, leased his ranch and he and his wife moved to Fort Collins, where Mrs. Batterson died in 1910. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Batterson, but only one, Mrs. Mina Tibbitts of Livermore, survives. The youngest, a daughter, died in 1878, and the only son, William, passed away in 1908.

Hon. John C. Abbott was born Jan. 20th, 1841, in Lockport, Will county, Illinois, and reared on a farm. He received his education at Batavia and Joliet in the state of his nativity, and at the college in Hillsdale, Michigan, graduating from that institution. On Nov. 26th, 1862, he was joined in marriage with Emily Wright at Morris, Illinois. Mrs. Abbott was born Aug. 27th, 1840. She was educated in the public schools, completing her studies at Northwestern college. Two sons and a daughter were born of the union, but only the sons, Frank D. and Albert D., are living, the daughter dying at the age of three years. For eight years after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott he carried on his father's farm in Will county, Illinois, and in 1870 he came to Colorado with the Union colony of Greeley, his family following him three months later. The family remained in Greeley until 1872, when he located on a tract of wild land in Larimer county, bordering the line between Larimer and Weld counties. This he improved and converted into a valuable farm, on which he lived until 1881, when he moved his family to Fort Collins, where it has since resided. Mr. Abbott early began to take an active part in the development of the agricultural resources of the Cache la Poudre valley, and was particularly interested in the promotion and construction of irrigating canals and ditches. In company with Benjamin H. Eaton, who later become governor of Colorado, they built the Lake canal ditch, the Larimer county No. 2 canal, and was associate contractor in the construction of the Pleasant Valley & Lake canal in 1879-80. All of these were Larimer county enterprises. After moving to Fort Collins Mr. Abbott engaged in the mercantile business with Charles W. Ramer, their store standing on the ground now occupied by the First National bank building. He remained thus engaged until he was elected Auditor of State in November, 1882, moving soon afterwards to Denver to enter upon his official duties. After completing the two years' term as State Auditor, he moved his family back to Fort Collins and engaged in the real estate, in- surance and loan business. For several years before his death, which occurred on Jan. 22nd, 1909, Mr. Abbott suffered from creeping paralysis, which unfitted him for active business pursuits of any kind, and he was, perforce, compelled to retire. Until stricken with the disease which finally resulted in his death, he was one of the most active of men and a broad-minded, whole-souled, genial gentleman. He was optimistic regarding the future of the Cache la Poudre valley, and in the pioneer days predicted what has since come to pass respecting the growth and importance of his chosen home, and was himself a prominent factor in promoting and aiding in its upbuilding. He was one of the pioneer farmers and business men of the Cache la Poudre valley, and did his part and did it well, too, to subdue the wilderness and make it what it is today. His widow and two sons are still living, the eldest, Frank D Abbott, being a member of the Fort Collins Abstract company. Previous to his connection with that company he had served the county two terms, or four years, as County Clerk and Recorder, and was also a deputy in that office for four years. The other son, [354]

Albert D. Abbott, is engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business. Mrs. Abbott, widow of our subject, is a lady of fine literary attainments and has been a welcome contributor to the local press for many years. She is now past threescore and ten, and is only waiting for the summons to join her companion on the other side.

Martin Calloway was born on a farm, Dec. 20th, 1846, in Clinton county, Indiana. He received his education in the public schools of his native county. His parents both died within four months of each other, leaving him to care for himself at six years of age. When 19 years of age he enlisted, on Feb. 22nd, 1865, in Company F, 150th regiment of Indiana Volunteers, serving in the ranks until the close of the Civil war. On Jan. 7th, 1868, he married Mary Hackerd and in April, 1869, he and his wife came to Larimer county and located on a ranch in Boxelder canon. This ranch is now owned by the Greenacre Brothers. Like all new- comers on the border, Mr. and Mrs. Calloway suffered many hardships, passed through privations, and endured many tribulations incident to pioneer life. Mr. Calloway cut hay and hauled it with an ox team to Cheyenne, exchanging it for household supplies and cash, meanwhile fencing, ditching and otherwise improving his ranch. The Indian troubles on the border were practically at an end, but life on a lonely ranch in the hills, many miles from neighbors, is not like living in a city with every convenience at hand and surrounded by good friends and kind neighbors. Along in the 70's he engaged in sheep raising and wool growing which was then a profitable business. Mr. Calloway was taken sick with pneumonia in January, 1879, and died on the 7th of that month at his home, leaving his wife and two young daughters to face the vicissitudes of life without his protecting care. The daughters are named Clara, now married and living in Wyoming, and Emma, who is at home with her mother in Fort Collins.

Charles B. Andrews. - Born on Aug. 6th, 1854, in Alleghany City, Pennsylvania; died on Nov. 17th, 1905, in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was a son of Col. James Andrews, for many years a successful civil engineer and railroad contractor and who, associated with Captain Eads, built the famous bridge over the Mississippi river at St. Louis, later assisting in the construction of the jetties at the mouth of that stream. Our subject laid the foundation for an education in the public schools of his native city, subsequently building thereon at the Western University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg. Failing health forced him to abandon his studies before completing the regular course and to seek a more genial climate. He was afflicted with asthma and, hoping to get relief from his sufferings, he went to Florida and then to California. He passed through Denver in 1871, en route to California, returning from the Pacific coast the following year to Colorado, locating in Fort Collins, which was thereafter his home. Here he found the much sought for relief and was comparatively free from suffering for nearly thirty years. He had not lived in Colorado many months before he embarked in the cattle business and the venture proved successful, financially. He was associated with the late Abner Loomis for several years in buying, raising and selling of cattle. The Loomis & Andrews range was near Casper, Wyoming, for a time and then on the Belle Fourche, South Dakota. They sold their herds in 1882 for $127,000 and retired from the cattle business. Mr. Andrews then invested in farm lands in the Cache la Poudre valley and in city property in Fort Collins. Besides being an extensive land owner, he was a stockholder and director of the - Poudre Valley bank, now the Poudre Valley National bank, and was vice-president of that institution when he died. In March, 1881, Mr. Andrews was joined in marriage with Julia Henderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Henderson. One child, a son, James H. Andrews, a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural college, and now a civil engineer by profession, was born of the union. Mrs. Andrews and her son still make their home in Fort Collins, though they have large ranches and stock interests in the mountains near Livermore, where they spend most of the summer each year. Mr. Andrews was a lovable character. Simple in habits, unaffected in manner, democratic in thought and actions and a very genial gentleman. He measured men by the standard of their mental and moral worth, and not by their bank accourits. There was not a false note in his make-up to mar the harmony of a well-balanced man in spirit and he lived an ideal life, notwithstanding his affliction. Long a sufferer from asthma he was debarred from pursuits that required the exercises of physical strength, yet he went about the work that he could do best in a quiet, orderly manner, accomplishing results that surprised those who knew how badly he was handicapped. He was a man who at all times and under all circumstances commanded the confidence and esteem of his fellowmen. His uprightness and integrity were above suspicion, and in all the relations of life he was the same modest, genial and companionable ^gentleman and model citizen. In 1902 he had a beautiful home, one of the finest in Fort Collins, erected on Canon avenue, for himself and family, but did not live long afterwards to enjoy it, so cruel and inconsistent is the irony of fate. This is still the home of his surviving loved ones.

Eugene F. Brawner was born Aug. 30th, 1867, in Delavan, Illinois, of Scotch-Irish and Holland-Dutch descent. He was educated in his native state and came from there to Denver, Colorado, with his father's family in 1888. On Oct. 20th. 1889, he was joined in marriage with Mary B. Hastings, who can trace her ancestry back to William the Conqueror. She was born March 31st, 1871, at Three Rivers, Massachusetts, where she was educated, coming to Colorado in 1888, and settling in Denver, where she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Brawner have six living children, Mrs. Bessie Wadlin of California, Eugene H., Grace L., Marguerite K., W. Howard, and Paul H. at home. Our subject learned the bricklayer's trade in his youth and is now one of the leading brick contractors in the northern part of Colorado. He moved with his family from Denver to Fort Collins in 1894 and the last named city has since been his home. Besides being the brick contractor for several of the large public buildings and business blocks of Fort Collins, he is often called to neigh- boring towns and cities to construct important buildings. At the present time he and his son, Eugene, are constructing a large addition to the Longmont High school building. Mr. Brawner is a member of Fort Collins lodge No. 804, B. P. O. Elks, and also of several other fraternal orders. Besides being a first-class brick-layer, he is a crack shot with a rifle and has taken part in several of the state shooting tournaments.

Ralph Bosworth. - This young business man was born in Fort Collins Sept. 18th, 1877. He was educated here and has made this city his home. He was married to Daisy Welch in 1903. Their home has been made doubly happy by the welcome visits of the stork. Three little ones were born to them, two of whom are living, a little girl, Mary

Lucille, and a little boy, Robert Daryl. Mr. Bosworth has been engaged for many years in the plumbing business. He, like many another young business man, is piloting his craft by the compass of rugged honesty, content to anchor in the harbor of success through the open sea of fair dealing..

Harris Akin was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Akin. He was born on his father's farm in Will county, Illinois, near Lockport, on July 7th, 1859. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Hoopeston (Illinois) High school. Mr. Akin came to Fort Collins with his parents on Dec. 12th, 1879, and in 1881 and 1882 he attended the State university at Boulder. On Jan. 7th, 1885, he and Laura E. Stickle were united in marriage at Denver. Mrs. Akin is a native of Colorado. She was born near Golden, on May 23rd, 1862. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Akin, Victor H., Helen, and Howard. Mr. Akin has made Larimer county his home since he first arrived. In 1897 he located on a farm in the Boxelder valley, seven miles northeast of Fort Collins, and there he has a comfortable home, surrounded by neighbors who esteem him and his estimable wife.

O. F. Beier. - Many of the residents of Colorado came to the state in early days in what was then called prairie schooners; very few have made the trip as Mr. Beier has done in a modern, up-todate automobile. He motored from Detroit in the fall of 1908, making the trip in 19 days. Mr. Beier was born in St. Clair county, Michigan, Dec. 19th, 1882. He was educated at New Haven and Romeo in that state, and was married to Edith Tweedie, May 16th, 1907. A bright little boy, the joy of their lives, J. Kenneth, is the fruit of their union.

A. E. Crocker. - Mr. Crocker came to Colorado in July, 1866, when, following the close of the Civil war, the territory began taking on new growth, and he was personally acquainted with many of the men, governors, judges, and other representative citizens who figured largely in public affairs at that and subsequent periods. He was born Oct. 2nd, 1846, in Burlington, Vermont, receiving his education in the common schools of his native state and at the Rockford, Illinois, High school. He enlisted in the; Eighth Illinois Volunteer cavalry, under Colonel Farnsworth, and served three years in the war for the preservation of the Union. He came to Colorado soon after being mustered out of the service; spent 18 years in Denver, Boulder and other parts of the state and came to Fort Collins in 1884. He married Martha Stewart, daughter of A. T. Stewart, a prominent Boulder county coal miner, in 1881, at Camfield. Two sons, James Arthur of Fort Collins and Frank B. of Salt Lake City were born of this union. While in the military service during the Civil war his regiment participated in most of the important battles fought by the army of the Potomac, including the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg. Soon after locating in Fort Collins Mr. Crocker entered Judge Jefferson Mc- Anelly's law ofBce and began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1893. Since then he has been deputy sheriff, two years; constable, ten years; truant officer and local agent of the Humane society. He is a member of George H. Thomas Post No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic, and is the present senior vice-commander of the post; is a republican in politics and has served his party as chairman of the First ward committee for twelve years. Mr. Crocker is a strong advocate of temperance and neither uses liquor nor tobacco in any form. Through prudence and careful management he has acquired considerable property in Fort Collins, and is looked upon as a useful and valuable citizen.

Philemon P. Black. - The death of this estimable gentleman and Cache la Poudre pioneer, which occurred Nov. 2nd, 1901, removed from life one of the county's most esteemed farmer citizens. Mr. Black was a native of Chautauqua county. New York, born June 17th, 1825. He came to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1874 and located on a tract of wild land three miles north of Fort Collins and at once began to improve and make a farm and a home for himself and family. One of his first notable efforts was the planting of an orchard, and it may be truly said of him that he was foremost among the pioneers to demonstrate that fruit could be successfully grown hpre. By reason of his success many others were induced to plant orchards in what has since proved to be one of the best fruit regions in Colorado. He left a widow and five grown children. His companion and the mother of his children rejoined him in the "land of the leal" in 1907, but the children are, save one, still living, though widely scattered from the old home.

Robert J. Andrews. - Nearly a third of a century has passed since Mr. Andrews made Fort Collins his home. He first came to this state in 1879. He spent ten years of his life in Wyoming, where the zephyrs carry pebbles all the year around. Mr. Andrews was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in 1863. He was educated in his home town and at Andover, Massachusetts. He was married April 11th, 1899, to Katherine Kelley. Mr. Andrews has made many investments in different enterprises since coming to the West, and his capital has entered largely into the development of the country.

Capt. George E. Buss. - Born, Oct. 14th, 1829, in the state of Massachusetts; died, April 7th, 1908, in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the 79th year of his age. At the age of 22 Mr. Buss moved to the state of New York, and on April 25th, 1854, married Frances A. Butts of Booneville, New York. One child, now Mrs. Varah Armstrong, was born of the union. Two days after President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers to put down the southern rebellion, Mr. Buss enlisted as a private in the 14th regiment of New York Volunteer infantry, and was immediately promoted and made a sergeant of his company; later given a second lieutenant's commission. During the first two years of the Civil war he participated in the following battles: Hanover Court House, May 12th, 1862; Mechanicsville, June 26th, 1862; Gaines' Mill, June 27th, 1862; Malvern Hill, July 1st, 1862; Second Bull Run, Aug. 28th, 1862; An- tietam, Sept. 17th, 1862; Chancellorsville, May 3rd, 1863. In November and December, 1863, he was on detached service, recruiting for the 21st New York Volunteer cavalry at Boonsville, New York, and in January, 1864, he joined that regiment at Hall's Mill, Virginia, having been mustered in for three years, or during the war. For distinguished bravery on the battle-field he was commissioned a first lieutenant. While in the cavalry service he took part in the Wilson's Run raid and also in the battles at Piedmont, Winchester, Rood's Hill and a number of skirmishes. His term of enlistment not having expired at the close of the war, he was sent with his regiment to Camp Collins, to assist in keeping the Indians in check and protecting the Overland stage, the emigrant trains and the settlers. He arrived at Camp Collins in August, 1865, where he remained until June, 1866, when his regiment [3S8] was mustered out in Denver, and he was given the brevet rank of captain. Among the well-known officers of his regiment who remained to become citizens of Larimer county were Capt. N. H. Meldrum, Lieut. John H. Mandeville, Lieut. Fred Wallace, and himself. Only two of the quartette are npw living. Captain Meldrum and Lieutenant Mandeville. Lieutenant Wallace died in 1878, and the subject of this sketch in 1908. On being mustered out of the service, Captain Buss purchased a team and wagon and started east after his family, having already purchased a tract of land near the present village of Timnath. He returned to Colorado with his wife and child in September, 1866, and at once began to improve and develop his farm, joining with F. W. Sherwood and others in taking out an irrigating ditch from which to water his land. From that time until he died, our' subject had been a continuous resident of Larimer county, and was a loyal, public-spirited and trustworthy citizen. His first wife died in 1882, and in 1884 he married Hattie A. Treat of Sharon, Wisconsin, who survives him. In 1890 Captain Buss sold his farm and moved to Fort Collins, which is still the home of

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Mrs. Buss. For several years previous to his death Captain Buss was debarred by physical infirmities from active participation in public affairs, but through all his w^eakness and suffering he was the same brave soldier that he was on the battle-field, the same true-hearted, loyal gentleman, friend and neighbor, and all through life held to the same hopeful, trusting spirit which characterize all of Nature's noblemen. He was a cherished member of the George H. Thomas Post No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic, which order conducted his burial services in Grandview cemetery.

Frederick R. Baker was born in Northhamptonshire, England, Feb. 18th, 1844. His father, Richard Baker, an English farmer, brought his family to America in 1852, when the subject of this sketch was eight years of age, and settled in Loraine county, Ohio, near the town of Elyria, where he engaged in farming. Amid the surroundings of farm life the lad grew to manhood's estate and was educated. In 1863 Mr. Baker enlisted in the Union Light Guard, Seventh Independent troop, Ohio Volunteer cavalry, famous as the Black Horse squadron that served as escort to Abraham Lincoln. This company was raised by Governor Todd, Ohio's noted war governor, for special service, but subsequently enlisted as a regular three-year volunteer, at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Baker was engaged on duty in Washington, D. C, carrying dispatches of great importance to and from the President to the War department and the army during the exciting times of the great Civil war. For a time he did duty for Col Lafayette C. Baker, chief of the secret service. With his company he participated in the grand review at Washington, and in September, 1865, was mustered out of the service with an honorable discharge. He cherished many pleasant recollections of President Lincoln, with whom he became well acquainted, and considered him not only the greatest of statesmen, but the simplest and kindest of men he ever knew. Returning to his home in Ohio at the close of the war, Mr. Baker engaged in farming until 1873, when he came to the Cache la Poudre valley and took up a homestead one-half mile southeast of Fort Collins, on which his only son, Edward R. Baker, now resides. In December, 1876^ Mr. Baker returned to Ohio and was married to Elenora S. Jackson of Amherst. Mr. Baker was a successful farmer and stock grower, taking special pride in fine cattle. He was one of the first to introduce thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle into Larimer county, which he bred and raised with great success. He retired from the farm in 1890 and moved to Fort Collins, erecting a handsome home at the corner of Matthews and Mulberry streets, where he resided until his death. Mr. Baker was chosen through the partiality of the people to many important public positions of trust and responsibility, discharging the duties of which with ability, faithfulness and fidelity. He served one term, from 1890 to 1893, as a member of the board of County Commissioners and was chairman of the board during the last year of his service upon it ; was a director in the First National bank for twenty years, an office he held till bis death, a testimonial of the confidence placed in him by his fellow citizens and coworkers. He was associated with others in promoting the Larimer County Fair association, which years ago gave to Colorado its best county fairs, equal to the state fair at Pueblo. In the spring of 1895 Mr. Baker was elected mayor of Fort Collins and was thrice re-elected to the position, giving the city each of the four terms a clean, honorable and satisfactory administration, during which time the City park was conceived and created, though Mayor Baker met with strong opposition. At that time Fort Collins owned but half of the square now known as Lincoln park, and the mayor wanted the city to purchase the other half. After a protracted struggle, Mr. Baker, with the assistance of those; iavorable to the project, succeeded in his efforts, thereby obtaining for the public ample room for recreation and pleasure purposes. He also was instrumental in having the Carnegie library building located in the park, thus making- it one of the city's beauty spots. Mr. Baker was a charter member of the Geo. H. Thomas Post No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic, and served once as aide on the staff of the department commander. He was a trustee of the Presbyterian church for more than a score of years, and president of its board for many years. But one child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Edward R. Baker, who, with his wife and one child, reside on the home farm. The mother occupies the home in Fort Collins. Frederick R. Baker departed this life on May 2, 1906. His whole life had been a busy one, and it can be truly said of him that the world is better for his having lived in it.

Merlin H. Aylesworth, only son of Dr. Barton O. and Georgia (Shores) Aylesworth, and one of the rising young lawyers of Fort Collins, was born July 19th, 1886, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He obtained the rudiments of an education in the pub- lie schools, completing his studies at the Colorado Agricultural college, the University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin and the Denver university, the last named institution conferring upon him the degree of LL. B. He came from Iowa to Denver, Colorado, with his parents in 1896 and to Fort Collins in 1898, and the last named city is still his home. Mr. Aylesworth was united in marriage, Oct. 20th, 1909, with Blanche M. Parrett of Denver, and they have one child. Barton J. Aylesworth. Our subject opened a law office in Fort Collins in 1908 and began the practice of his profession and is having excellent success. He is attorney for the Commercial Bank & Trust Company, and local attorney for the Northern Colorado Power Company. In October, 1910, he was elected chairman of the Larimer County Republican Central committee, which position he still holds. He has been appointed county attorney and will assume the duties of the office Aug. 1st, 1911. He takes a lively interest in public affairs and is active in promoting and advancing the welfare of his chosen home. He is a member of the Larimer County Bar association and has a high standing as a lawyer and as a citizen. His father. Dr. Barton O. Aylesworth, was president of the Colorado Agricultural college from 1898 to 1909, when he resigned to engage in other lines of work.

J. S. Bailey^ owner and publisher of the Berthoud Bulletin, conducts an independent paper, acknowledging no political boss, but giving facts as he sees them. He was born near Janesville, Indiana, Jan. 11th, 1857; was married to Emma Mc- Creery July 22nd, 1884. To this union were born four children, of whom two are living, J. W. and Glen Bailey. He was educated at private schools and the Kirksville State Normal in Missouri. He came to Loveland in February, 1910, but is now of Berthoud, and is a welcome addition to Larimer county's progressive population.