Larimer County, Colorado - The whole text, 1911 (part 17 of 22)

Hon. Aaron S. Benson. - In this sketch we shall endeavor to set forth in a limited number of words some of the activities of one of Larimer county's foremost and most loyal of citizens, a man who has done a great deal by precept and example to encourage and promote the development and upbuilding of the varied industries of the county and to advance the cause of education and civilization. Indeed, we think it can be said without varying fromthe truth that few men have ever lived in the county who can justly be credited with having done more in that direction than Aaron S. Benson. He has built and assisted in building irrigating canals and ditches, opened up and improved farms, encouraged fruit growing and stimulated the production of field crops of greater value than had been the rule theretofore and has been one of Loveland's right hand men in advancing the material, social, educational and the moral welfare of that city. As president of the pioneer bank of Loveland for twenty-seven years, he has been able to aid and assist many public enterprises that have inured to the growth of that city and has helped many a man to his feet who was laboring under a stress of untoward financial circumstances and sent them on their way rejoicing to prosperity. Mr. Benson was born June 14th, 1837, in Monroe county. New York, the son of Sherman and Jane (Shaw) Benson. His boyhood was spent in his native state and in the state of Iowa, whither his parents moved when he was a child. In 1862 he went from Iowa to Dutchess county. New York, for the purpose of settling up his maternal grandfather's estate, returning to his home in Louden, Iowa, in 1865. Here he was engaged in the nursery business for several years. Influenced by failing health he decided, in 1870, to try the effects of the climate of Colorado on his ailment, asthma, and therefore came to Golden, Jefferson county, where he spent seven years in the nursery business in connection with market gardening and fruit growing, regaining his health in the meantime. In 1877 he moved to Larimer county, for the purpose of constructing the Louden canal, of which company he has since been either secretary or president. At the same time he purchased and has since improved farm lands and is the owner of several farms in Larimer county, also of a fine residence in Loveland. In 1882 he became interested in the Bank of Loveland (now the Loveland National bank) and was elected president of its board of directors in 1883, a position he held until January, 1911, when he declined to accept re-election on account of failing health. On his retirement from the presidency a committee was appointed from among his colleagues in the directorate to draft resolutions expressive of their sentiments on his retirement, which reported for the stockholders the following: "That the stockholders of the Loveland National bank in acceding to the request of Mr. A. S. Benson to be relieved of further duties in the presidency and directorate of the bank express their deep regret at the necessity for the severance of these relations, and we take this action only in deference to Mr. Benson's request most positively expressed. That we recognize the past success of the Bank of Loveland and the Loveland National bank, its present success, as as other enterprises with which Mr. Benson was so closely identified, as in a large measure due to his breadth of vision and the business integrity, energy and faithfulness which he brought to bear in their management. That we sincerely hope the relief now granted from these responsibilities may contribute to Mr. Benson's health and comfort, and that as a community we may enjoy his neighborly. Christian fellowship and wise counsels. - ^W. H. McCreery, F. N. B. Scott, W. H. McCormick, committee." Mr. Benson's first wife, Eliza (Cleghorn) Benson, died in 1862, leaving three children. Perry, Mary, wife of J. A. Lewis, and Charles. In 1864 he was united in marriage with Marion Vanderburgh of New York. Four children have blessed this union, Clarence V. Benson, ex-County Judge of Larimer county and now head clerk of the Pacific jurisdiction of the Woodmen of the World; Velma V., wife of Alfred Beebe ; Franc V., wife of J. I. Lanham, and Aaron V. Benson, cashier of the Loveland National bank. The family is identified with the Baptist church. Fraternally our subject is a Master Mason and a member of the B. P. O. Elks. Politically he is a republican. While a citizen of Jefferson county, Mr. Benson was for three years a member of the board of County Commissioners of that county. Through his business methods, county warrants advanced from fifty cents on the dollar to par within a year and a half after he took his seat on the board, with a lower tax rate. A court house was built while he was on the board without exceeding the estimated cost. From January, 1880, to January, 1883, he served Larimer county as a member of its board of commissioners, and in the fall of 1882 he was elected to represent the county in the Fourth General assembly of Colorado, which met in Denver in January, 1883. In this capacity he introduced and secured the passage and approval of an act appropriating funds for a Mechanical Engineering department at the Colorado Agriculural college; also an act securing to that institution a perpetual 1-5 mill tax for its support. In the fall of 1885 he was re-elected County Commissioner and during his second term the court house was built without the cost exceeding the amount appropriated for the construction. At one time Mr. Benson was a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and has served 22 years altogether as school director since he came to Colorado. He has always been a warm friend of popular education and favors any plan whereby the educational interests of the state may be promoted and fostered.

Phillip Covington, though born at, or near, the dawn of the Nineteenth century and living more than half a score of years beyond the allotted period of man, Phillip Covington's whole life was spent on the frontier, being one of those sturdy men who have ever acted as the advance guard of civilization in beating back the savages and in subduing the wilderness. Mr. Covington was born Dec. 21st, 1803, in Hannibal county. North Carolina. At the age of five years his father's family moved to Kentucky, then a new and sparsely settled region, where young Phillip grew to manhood, receiving only such educational advantages as were afforded in the district schools of the period. He left the paternal roof soon after attaining his majority and struck out for the West, bringing up at St. Louis, Missouri, then a straggling frontier town. Here, in 1827, he engaged with the American Fur company to make a trip to what is now known as the Green River country in Wyoming, with Captain Sublette, the company's western agent. Eighty-four years ago this little band of mountaineers and trappers, with a long train of pack animals, loaded down with goods to exchange with the Indians for furs, slowly wended its way up the Cache la Poudre valley and on through Virginia Dale and across the Laramie Plains to one of the fur company's outposts on Green river, where the cargo of trinkets was dis- charged. Captain Sublette and his party of packers returned to St. Louis in 1828, where the men were paid off and discharged. The following year Mr. Covington returned to Kentucky, where, April 2, 1829, he was married. Shortly after the wedding the young couple emigrated to northwest Missouri, where they lived until 1875, when they followed their children to Greeley, making their home with their son, Marshall M. Covington. In 1878 they came to Larimer county and settled in the Harmony district. In 1850 Mr. Covington crossed the Plains to California, where he spent two years at gold mining. He died April 6th, 1886, at his son's home, aged nearly 83 years.

public affairs. Since coming to Fort Collins in 1872 he has been Secretary of the Colony, Town Attorney, County Attorney, County Judge nine years. Judge of the District Court six years. President of the Board of Education 18 years, and a city alderman eight years, faithfully discharging the duties of these various positions with strict fidelity and fairness. He was also the candidate of the Prohibition party in 1888 for Attorney General of Colorado. Judge Bouton is a native of the Empire state, born Dec. 28th, 1849, at Moravia, Cayuga county, New York, and received his primary and classical education in the public schools and academy there and at Groton, Tompkins county. New York. He began the study of law in the ofEce of Wm. W. Hare, Groton, New York, finishing his legal studies with Bouton & Chaplain, Cortland, New York. He was admitted to the bar June 8th, 1870, at the general term of the Supreme court at Binghamton, New York. He practiced law two years in Cortland in partnership with George B. Jones, District Attorney of Cortland county, and then moved to Omaha., where he remained a few months. In October, 1872, he came to Fort Collins and opened an office for the practice of his profession. The principal object he had in view in coming to Colorado at that time was to look after and care for his invalid brother, Clark Bouton, founder of the Standard, and County Superintendent of schools, who died Oct. 25th, 1874, after a valiant struggle to overcome asthma and rheumatism. Judge Bouton traces his ancestry back to the fifth century, when King Clovis ruled over the Visigoths. The ancient Bouton shield, or coat-of-arms, had the following motto on a ground work oi perpendicular lines : "De Gules a la Fasce d' Or," which is old French and translators say implies, "as fierce as a leopard when it attacks with its red mouth." The French historian, speaking of the Boutons, says that it is accorded to a noble ancestry that a proclivity for patriotism, education and religion is seen in the race all down the ages. John Bouton was a Huguenot who fled to England during the existence of the great persecution, whence he sailed for America in July, 1635, and landed at Boston in December, 1635, and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut. From him all the families of Boutons or Boughtons in this country were descended. Judge Bouton erected the first building put up in what was called the "new town." This was in December, 1872, and it stood on North College avenue, where the store occupied by Jesse Wood, the bookseller. Opera house block stands. In this he had his office and kept bachelor's hall until his mother, Sarah M. Bouton, came in April, 1873. While serving as secretary of the colony he invested in town lots and other property and has since realized handsome returns from those investments. He was appointed Town Attorney in 1873, County Attorney in 1874, and in 1876 was first elected County Judge, re-elected in 1879 and again in 1892. In 1894 he was elected Judge of the Eighth Judicial district, composed of the counties of Boulder, Larimer, Morgan and Weld, serving six years in that capacity with distinguished ability. He served the city of Fort Collins eight years as alderman from the Second ward, and was a member of the city council when the first system of water works was built. For eighteen years in succession he was President of the Board of Education and may justly be called the Father of Fort Collins' present excellent public school system. He introduced and established the kindergarten in 1880, and it was the first kindergarten opened west of St. Louis. In 1893 he secured the passage of an act by the legislature making it a part of the public school system of Colorado. The judge is a man of pronounced literary tastes and has the largest private library in Larim.er county, and he is an enthusiast upon all matters relating to education and school work. He was the originator of and one of the owners and builders of the Opera house block, the Bouton & Crain block and has also built several residences in Fort Collins, including the family home. On July 8th, 1876, Judge Bouton was married to Celeste Nixon, who is a native of Baraboo, Wisconsin. They have three living children, Mrs. Aureli S. Crain, wife of L. D. Crain of the Bouton-Crain Hardware company; Clark L. Bouton, a member of the Bouton-Crain Hardware company, and Jay Henry Bouton, Jr., who is at home. The family has a beautiful home on North Sherwood street, built in 1897, where good cheer, hospitality and filial affection are immovably enshrined. Aside from his official duties as a member of the Board of Directors of the Public library. Judge Bouton is now leading a retired life in close communion with the thousands of volumes in his library, honored and revered by a multitude of personal friends and admirers. The judge is a Master Mason, a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Mystic Shrine and a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason ; an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. He was one of the founders of and a charter member of Fort Collins lodge No. 19, I. O. of O. F.

Henry D. Calhoun was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 13th, 1847, and spent his boyhood on a farm. He received his education in the district and select schools, taking the final work at Westminster college in his native state, where he graduated in the classical course, June, 1570. In the spring of 1871 he came to Colorado and spent the winter of 1871-2 in Boulder county, and in the year of 1872-3 he was employed as principal of schools in the city of Boulder. In 1875 he moved to the Big Thompson valley, in Larimer county, and commenced farming. On the 28th day of May, 1884, he was married to Mattie Love, who died on April 23rd, 1901. The only child of his marriage was a son, Eph. J. Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun continued to reside upon his farm until 1886, when he moved to Loveland, which place continues to be his home. He was engaged for fifteen years in the mercantile business in Loveland and did much to promote the growth of the city. He married Martha Strickler, as his second wife, on the 10th day of November, 1903. He became an extensive property holder, and the latter days of his life are given up to its management. He is highly respected in the community and has been identified with many enterprises undertaken to build up a model city. He was a charter member of the Loveland United Presbyterian church, organized in 1875 by Rev. W. H. McCreery, and is still affiliated with the same. His son, Eph. J. Calhoun, grew to manhood and

Alexander Barry

Alexander Barry was a native of Colerain, County Londonderry, Ireland, born in 1839, of Scotch parents and the eldest of six children. He came with his father's family from Ireland to the United States in 1863. The father died the following year in Philadelphia. Our subject was employed for five years in the Pennsylvania oil re- gions, engaged in drilling oil wells under contracts. At Walnut Bend, near Oil City, Pennsylvania, he married Emma Thompson, daughter of W. N. Thompson, who was born near Florence, Pennsylvania. After spending a year in Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Barry, in 1871, came to Fort Collins, which is still the family home. Mr. Barry bought of Joseph Mason 120 acres of land on the north side of the Cache la Poudre river, adjoining Fort Collins, which he improved, occupied and cultivated until 1902, when he sold the farm to the Great Western Sugar company, and moved his family into the city of Fort Collins. Fortune favored him and he prospered almost from the start. Along in the early 80's he bought 200 acres of land near Windsor, Weld county, and also purchased a stock ranch on the North Platte, Wyoming. He was a broad-minded, generous-hearted and public-spirited man and citizen. He died Oct. 28th, 1905, at Little Rock, Arkansas, while en route to Hot Springs to take treatment for paralysis, leaving a wife and eight children in good financial circumstances. The names of his children are Mrs. Rachael Decker, Miss May Barry, Mrs. Margaret Wolfer, Robert Barry, Mrs. Clara Jennings, Mrs. W. A. Harris, James Barry and Mrs. Ruth Metcalf of Marrietta, Ohio. Mrs. Barry and her daughter. May, a graduate of the Fort Collins High school, and the only one of the children at home, have a beautiful residence on South College avenue near the Agricultural college.

Samuel H. Clammer. - It took Sam Clammer just a score of years to rise from the condition of a West Virginia contractor's boy to that of a capitalist and banker; from laborer to employer; from cotton jeans to broadcloth; from poverty to affluence; from an unlettered country lad to mayor of the growing and prosperous city of Fort Collins. And his upward steps were all taken in Colorado with a cash capital of $5.00 to start with. But he had what is better than money. He had ambition to learn and to gain, courage to meet and overcome obstacles, grit and perseverance to stick to it until he had accomplished his object. Nevertheless, his is a wonderful record of achievement. Mr. Clammer was born on March 27th, 1874, at Smithville, Ritchie county, West Virginia. He was one of a large family of children, and his father, a poor contractor of German descent, was often troubled for means to feed and clothe his growing family. Sam worked on his father's poverty-stricken acres without school advantages and poorly dressed until he was 1 7 years of age and then obtained his father's consent to strike out for himself. He came direct to Colorado and when he arrived at Eaton, Weld county, in February, 1891, the clothes on his back and $5.00 in money constituted his sole worldly possessions. He secured employment on a farm and worked hard, early and late, for $16 per month, and three years later came to Larimer county. Here also he worked on a farm, often putting in sixteen and eighteen hours a day, until he had accumulated a little money, which he invested in a sawmill at Black Mountain and lost it all, in addition to a year's labor. Then he engaged in the livery business, which he followed for a time ; then bought a farm in the Harmony district, selling it a year later to buy the George Wilson farm, situated under the Larimer county canal. This he held a short time and sold it for twice what he paid for it. From this time on his progress upwards has been of a meteoric character. Everything he touched seemed to turn to money. One of his best deals was when he bought the Poudre Valley Live Stock company's property, including a large herd of cattle, running into debt for a good big share of the purchase money. This he sold four months later and cleaned up a handsome profit in the deal. He has bought and sold a number of other farms and still owns several good tracts of cultivated land. He was one of the promoters and builders of the Northern hotel, which cost $100,000, and owns a controlling interest in the property. He is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Fort Collins, and is a director and vice-president of the institution. He is also interested in several other profitable enterprises. He is liberal with his money; keeps it moving, doing good. In April, 1905, Mr. Clammer was elected mayor of Fort Collins and re-elected in April, 1907, giving the city four years of faithful and efficient service. At the close of his second term as mayor he refused to accept the office again, but the people were determined he should continue to serve them, so they elected him a member of the city council in 1909, which position he filled until April, 1911. Notwithstanding his success and his wealth, he is the same genial and approachable gentleman that he was when he worked on a farm at $16 a month, and is recognized as one of Fort Collins' foremost, public-spirited and enterprising citizens. On June 7th, 1899, Mr. Clammer married Emma P. Garrett, an adopted daughter of the late Rev. F. W. Garrett, and three children have been born of the union, Willa, aged 10; Olin, aged 8; and Burton, aged 6. Mrs. Clammer is a native of Colorado, born at Caribou, Boulder county.

H. F. Brooks was born in Edwardsville, Illinois, March 20th, 1847, and was educated there and in St. Louis. He was married in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1868, to Frances Carlows. They have three sons, Ernest J., a resident of Washington; W. H., on a ranch near Fort Collins, and S. S., who lives at home. Mr. Brooks came to Colorado in 1881. In the early years of his life he followed the trade of wagon-maker, but is now comfortably located on a fruit farm near Laporte.

W. B. Alford^ born in Buchanan county, Iowa, Nov. 19th, 1870; received his education in the public schools; came to Colorado in August, 1872, and lived on his Grandfather Alford's farm, ten miles west of Denver; came to Larimer county March 10th, 1886, and followed farming and stock raising; married May Benoy, March 17th, 1897, and they have an only daughter, Flora Edith Alford.

Hon. George W. Bailey. - From a water-boy in a coal mine, from a chore-boy on a farm, from a Black Hills freighter, a cowboy on the Plains, and from editor of a newspaper, the subject of this sketch rose through regular gradations and by his own unaided efforts, indomitable will and ambition to a seat on the Supreme Court bench of the state of Colorado. This, in brief, is the life history of Judge George W. Bailey, who died on April 15th, 1909, in Fort Collins, Colorado. Judge Bailey was born March 8th, 1856, in St. Louis, Missouri. The family moved to Illinois and when the boy was nine years of age his father enlisted in the Union army and part of the support of the family fell upon George's shoulders, so that the opportunities for obtaining an education were exceedingly meagre. In 1873 the Bailey family came to Colorado and settled in the Harmony district and for three years our subject worked in the lumber woods, then as freighter to the Black Hills, later riding the range in Nebraska and South Dakota as a cowboy. He returned to Fort Collins in 1882 and took up the study of the law, which he pursued with great diligence until 1885, when he was admitted to practice. While studying law he assisted in editing the Loveland Reporter and in 1883 he went to Grand Lake and founded the Prospector, which he and his partner, John Smart, published about two years. Here on April 17th, 1883, he married Belle Jarbeau. Soon after being admitted to the bar he moved his family to Fort Collins and that city is still the family home. Here he served four years as City Attorney, five years as deputy District Attorney and two years as County Judge. In January, 1905, he was appointed a Justice of the State Supreme Court by Governor Peabody, a position he occupied and honored until a few months before his death.

Isaac C. Bradley^ the youngest of a family of five children, was born Oct. 28th, 1878, near Huntsville, Missouri, which was also the birthplace of his father and mother. He received his education in the public schools of Mexico, Missouri, and after leaving school learned the printer's trade, which he followed until 1903, opening and establishing a shop for the repair of bicycles and motorcycles and for the sale of them, in 1906, a line of business he still follows and in which he has had a good measure of success. Mr. Bradley came from Missouri to Fort Collins, arriving on the 22nd of January, 1901. After working at the printing trade in the local newspaper offices for about a year, he founded and began the publication of the Fort Collins Daily Star, which he published until 1903 and then suspended it. Being somewhat of a mechanical genius and seeing an opening for a bicycle repair shop, he embarked in that business, dealing also in bicycles, motorcycles and supplies. He is an enthusiastic member of the Bicycle club and also of the Motorcycle club, and has originated and promoted several entertaining and successful bicycle and motorcycle races. On Nov. 4th, 1903, Mr. Bradley was united in marriage with Frankie May Fox, who was born near Mexico, Missouri. Two children, James Vincil and

Isaac C. Bradley

Dorothy E., have blessed the union. Our subject is of German descent, his ancestors settling in the United States several generations ago. He is a man of probity and honor and is rated as one of Fort Collins' most progressive citizens.

James A. Brown. - This is the story of a man who came to Fort Collins in 1868, who, by sheer force of character, steady application and absolutely square dealing, has accumulated a handsome fortune. And the best part of it is, no man living can truthfully say that James A. Brown ever wronged him out of a single cent. His absolute honesty, strict integrity and fair-mindedness are recognized and commended by all who know him. Mr. Brown was born Jan. 31st, 1843, on Prince Edwards' Island, Canada, where he was educated in the public schools. On his 24th birthday, Jan. 31st, 1867, he married Adelaide Carnrike, at Bellville,- Canada. His living children are Adelbert and Clyde H. of Fort Collins, and Frank J. of Portland, Oregon. The eldest son is the junior member of the firm of Matthews & Brown, butchers and packers. Mr. Brown learned the carriage-maker's trade in early manhood and soon after arriving in Fort Collins joined his brother, John R. Brown, in the wagonmaking and blacksmithing business, in which both were successful. They remained in partnership two years and then our subject retired to engage in the cattle business. In 1881 he was chosen general manager of the Powder River Live Stock company and remained as such until 1893, when the company sold its herds and retired from the live stock business. The company's investment amounted to $750,000, and it was one of the most successful live stock companies operating in Wyoming. In the fall of 1886 the company bought 2,500 acres of land in the Elkhorn valley, Nebraska, on which it established extensive feeding grounds and where it fed and fattened 2,000 head of cattle annually for market. Mr. Brown was also manager of this enterprise. During the hard winter of 1886-7 the Powder River Live Stock company lost $400,000 worth of cattle by starvation and the bitter cold. It had 24,000 head of cattle on the range in the fall of 1886, and only found 8,000 head in the spring of 1887. Notwithstanding this heavy loss, the company came out ahead in the deal through the big dividends earned in previous years. After the company closed up its affairs, Mr. Brown came back to Fort Collins, which has been his home for 43 years. Though the owner of several of the best farms in the county, he has never carried on farming himself. He has always lived in town, and has built more than a dozen houses in Fort Collins, including the first frame house built in the town. He has served two terms, from 1901 to 1905, in the city council as alderman from the Fourth ward, and was a member of that body when the new water works were built in 1904. In 1902 he was a member of the committee that secured the building of the sugar factory and a director of the Fort Collins-Colorado Sugar company for two years. In 1903 he was elected president of the Fort Collins National bank, having been one of the founders and one of the first directors of that i.nstitution. He has been a hard worker and a good manager all his life, and is now reaping the rewards of the energy and prudence of his younger years. Larimer county has no better, more enterprising or more public-spirited citizen than James A. Brown.

Lucas Brandt. - In the early days of Colorado's history, when it was never safe to ramble many miles from the ranch without a military escort, when roving bands of Sioux delighted in lifting a fellow's hair just to secure a war trophy, or to satisfy a thirst for revenge, Lucas Brandt risked the dangers and hazards of an overland trip to try his luck in this state. He was born in Ohio, Fairfield county, June 27th, 1845 ; was educated in the public schools of Indiana and was married to Miss Arabella Shallenberger Oct. 29th, 1874. Of this union four children were born, Morton, Charles C, Roy and Arabella. Mrs. Brandt died Dec. 4th, 1891. Nearly three years had elapsed when Mr. Brandt was married to Miss Nettie F. Waite, Aug. 15th, 1894. Two sons were born of this last marriage, Jesse W. and Ferris W. Mr. Brandt resigned the lucrative position of pilot to a double-deck prairie schooner on arriving in Denver, April 5th, 1867. His first location was on Bear creek, a small tributary of the South Platte, west of Denver, and a few months later he became a permanent fixture of the Big Thompson valley. Mr. Brandt has been actively engaged every year of his long residence in Colorado in some useful and profitable occupation, and in early days it was no uncommon occurrence to see him carrying a goad and steering bulls along the roads of the valley. He became mayor of Loveland in 1894. Always a pushing, progressive citizen, closely identified with the industries of the town of Loveland, he is now the manager of the Loveland Milling & Elevator company. Mr. Brandt ably represented Larimer county in the Second General Assembly of Colorado.

William J. Preston was born Sept. 28, 1868, in north Carolina; came with his parents to Clear Creek, Colorado, in 1869. When William came with his parents to Larimer Co., in 1882, Lewis Cross was postmaster at Old Berthoud. In 1893 he married Althea May Stryker at Berthoud. They have two children living, Viola U., born Feb. 12, 1895 and Norman C, born Sept. 17, 1897. Myrtle E., born Nov. 17, 1902, died Jan. 29, 1903. Mr. Preston has been in the machine and plumbing business in Berthoud the past 10 years, and now lives at the corner of 5th street and Turner avenue. Mr. Preston's mother died June 3, 1897, but his father still lives, making his home with William in Berthoud.

James Sullivan, one of the pioneers of Colorado and early settlers of the Big Thompson valley and a solid, substantial and progressive citizen of Larimer county, was born November 28th, 1832, at Union, Virginia, where he grew to man's estate. In 1849 he moved to Vinton, Benton county, Iowa, where he resided until 1859, when he came to Colorado. He returned to Iowa in the fall of that year, and in the spring of 1862 started west again with his family, locating this time on Bear creek, south of Denver, where he lived until the spring of 1869, when he moved to the Big Thompson valley and engaged in farming and stock rais- ing, in which he met with excellent success. For nearly a score of years, Mr. Sullivan was one of the foremost, best known and most highly respected citizens of Larimer county. He led his political party in many a hotly contested campaign in the county, and was elected county commissioner in 1873, in which office he served one term, faithfully discharging its duties with fidelity and efficiency. He was his party's candidate for representative in the state legislature in 1876 and again in 1886, leading his ticket both times by a good many votes. He also made the race for county commissioner in 1882 but was defeated by J. B. Harbaugh. Mr. Sullivan was a man of few words, but of inflexible purpose, a hater of shams and a rigid adherent of right in all the relations of life. He died at the family home in Loveland, on Monday, July 23, 1888.

Herbert N. Wheeler, Supervisor of the Colorado National forest, was born Sept. 27th, 1873, at Nortonville, Kansas; educated in the public schools and High school at Dodge Center, Minn., graduating in 1892; Milton college, Wis., in 1897, degree A. B. ; and the University of Colorado in 1902, with degree of A. M. ; came to Boulder, Colo., in July, 1897, and to Larimer county in July, 1907; taught school at Sapinero, Ophir, Clifton, Idaho Springs and Montrose in Colorado; Assistant Professor in Botany at University of Colorado in 1901-1902; entered U. S. Forest service as guard in July, 1905; made Forest Ranger in November, 1905, and Forest Supervisor in April,

1906, of Montezuma forest; transferred to Colorado forest, July, 1907, and moved headquarters to Fort Collins, June, 1908. Mr. Wheeler remained a bachelor until June 22nd, 1909, when he was joined in marriage with Felicitas J. Walther.

Prof. Thomas M. Netherton, A. B. A. M., was born May 28th, 1870, in Daviess county. Mo.; received his early training in the public schools of that state; was graduated from William Jewell college, at Liberty, Missouri, in June, 1896, and the University of Chicago in 1899; married Phena E. Wiles, August 27th, 1896, of which marriage two children have been born; Crystal W., October 13th, 1897, and Marjorie L., November 10th, 1904. Prof. Netherton taught in colleges in Missouri ten years; removed to Colorado in June,

1907, and in July, 1909, was elected as the first Principal of the Colorado School of Agriculture of the State Agricultural college at Fort Collins.

Prof. Netherton has already established an enviable reputation as a teacher and executive officer and is an able, strong and vigorous worker in his profession.

John Nelson, Sr. - This is the life story of one of Scotia's rugged sons who left his native land in 1871 to build a home for himself and family and to carve out a fortune in the "land of the free and the home of the brave". That he succeeded and is now one of the stable, forehanded citizens of Larimer county, is due to his courage, perservance and industry and to SL prudent management of his personal affairs. Mr. Nelson was born July 6th, 1840, in Ayrshire, Scotland, and received his education in his native land. He was born and reared on a farm and upon reaching his manhood, learned the linen bleaching industry, drawing such wages as were paid in those days for that kind of work. In 1867, he married Mary McPherson, and four years later came with his family from Scotland to the United States. He spent about two years in Chicago, working in the stone yards and about the docks and doing such other work as fell to his hands. He moved with his family from that city in the spring of 1873, to Fort Collins, and bought 240 acres of raw land, situated three and a half miles southeast of Fort Collins, of the late Judge A. F. Howes. He began at once to improve his purchase by building a small frame house upon it, fencing the tract and by preparing the soil for a crop. In 1874 he planted part of his farm to wheat and oats and was the first white man to draw irrigation water from Larimer county Canal No. 2, which was completed that year. The grasshoppers swooped down upon his fields in August and destroyed the most of his crop, and they came again and did a great deal of harm in 1875 and in 1876, leaving him barely enough of the fruits of his toil to keep the wolf from the door. Since then, to the time he sold his farm in 1906, his operations have been uniformly successful. In 1877, Mr. Nelson bought a few head of registered Jersey cows, the first registered animals of that breed brought into the county. To these he added others until he had acquired a fine herd of Jersey cattle, including thirty milch cows, from which he made 200 pounds of prime butter per week. His thoroughbred and well-kept Jersey cattle attracted a great deal of attention and were prize winners at the county fairs. He also raised and dealt in thoroughbred Clydesdale horses, his stallion, a splendid animal - winning many premiums at the annual fair. Mr. Nelson sold his farm in 1906, for $22,- 000 and had built for himself and family a beautiful home at 704 Remington street, Fort Collins, where he and his good wife are enjoying the wellearned fruits of their strenuous early day labors, with all of their surviving children, save one daughter, near them. They were the proud parents of eight children, all of whom are living except one son, who died in 1908, and all of them are well situated in life. The names of their surviving children are Mrs. Janet Laidlaw, John R., Alexander, Murdock G., Mary and James Nelson, all of Fort Collins, and Mrs. Ellen Silcott of Idaho One of the sons, Murdock G. Nelson, is cashier of the Commercial Bank & Trust company, and also City Treasurer of Fort Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are quietly, peacefully and contentedly passing the closing years of their lives, surrounded and beloved by their children and in the enjoyment of the confidence and esteem of all who know them.

John P. Ryckman, one of Fort Collins most active faithful and efficient public officials, was born December 28th, 1857, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania; educated in the public schools of Marion Center, Pennsylvania, and at the Normal school of Ada, Ohio. He arrived in Fort Collins, April 8th, 1881, and followed the occupation of salesman for several years. On December 28th, 1892, he married Ada Silcott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Silcott, who died in 1901. His two sons are named William and Charles Ryckman. On the 8th of January, 1905, Mr. Ryckman married Stella Steele. He served Fort Collins as nightwatchman from 1898 to 1900 and was then elected City Marshal and after serving three years was reelected in April, 1907, a position he held until April, 1911, when his term expired. Mr. Ryckman is a modest, quiet gentleman, a vocalist of high repute, and as head of the police force, a terror to evil doers.

Ernest W. Thayer, Cashier of the Farmer's bank of Timnath, an institution he helped to organize as a private bank in 1906, and which was incorporated as a State bank September 19th, 1907, was born July 25th, 1884, in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1894, when ten years of age, he came to Colorado, locating at Timnath which has since been his home. On June 17th, 1908, he married Roxie P. Love of Fort Collins. Mr. Thayer was educated in the public schools of Larimer county and at the Colorado Agricultural col- lege. He is recognized as one of the rising young business men and financiers of the county, and he enjoys the confidence and respect of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

Frederick Christman was born March 31st, 1839, in Germany. Soon after the death of his father he and his mother migrated to the United States, settling in Wheeling, Virginia, in 1853, where he received his education and learned the moulder's trade. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third Virginia Volunteer cavalry and was mustered out as a sergeant in the spring of 1865. He participated in more than 100 battles and skirmishes, including Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, Second Bull Run, Cross Keys, Winchester, Strasburgh and many others. His company was at one time General Fremont's bodyguard. At Culpeper court house he was shot through the right hand and owes his life at this time to the fact that he was an Odd Fellow ; was taken prisoner and spent forty days in Libby prison and at Castle Thunder. He came to Larimer county in 1873, locating first on Rabbit creek, and then on Deadman creek in Virginia Dale. He sold his ranch on Deadman creek in 1880 and moved his cattle to Sheridan, Wyoming, selling his herd in the spring of 1881 and returning to Virginia Dale. He bought back the Deadman ranch, improved it by erecting a large, comfortable house and barn and opened a road-house. His house was a favorite stopping place for travelers, tourists and hunters. In

1905 he sold the ranch and stock and moved his family to Fort Collins, where he has since resided. At Cheyenne, in 1884, Mr. Christman married Mary B. Young, and they have two sons, Carl and Allen, who are engaged in dairying and the cattle business near Stove Prairie. On the 17th of April, 1911, our subject had been fifty years an Odd Fellow ; is also a member of the Fort Collins Encampment and Past Chief Patriarch of that order. He and his wife are members of the Delta Rebekah lodge, and he also belongs to the Grand Army and has served as Colonel of the Union Veteran Legion. Mrs. Christman is a native of Iowa, coming to Colorado in 1882.

Herman S. Youtsey.- - This county is indebted to the state of Indiana for many of its active, energetic and most popular citizens and among the number is Herman S. Youtsey, who has often served the people in important public offices faithfully and well. Born December 29th, 1842, in Jackson county, he accompanied his parents to Iowa in 1852; arriving at man's estate, he left the Hawkeye state for Colorado, reaching Boulder in 1871, where he tarried six years, but the year 1878 found him on a homestead near Loveland. Retracing the record for a few years. Mr. Youtsey attended Oskaloosa college in Iowa, and was married to Miss Alice H. Stephens in 1875. Two boys are living of this union, Floyd S. and Otho E. Roy died in infancy. Mr. Youtsey was twice elected Assessor, serving two terms, and filled one term as Treasurer of the county.

Richard A. Maxfield was born in 1873 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; came to Colorado in 1881, locating at Red Cliff; in 1882 his father took up the land on which the town of Rifle now stands. Our subject followed ranching until 1891, when he entered the Colorado Agricultural college, graduating therefrom in 1896. In the spring of 1898 Mr. Maxfield enlisted in the United States Volunteer engineers, the regiment being stationed at Honolulu, Hawaiian islands, during the Spanish war. On being mustered out in 1899, he returned to Fort Collins and was appointed military instructor at the Agricultural college, resigning in with Fred C. Alford. The firm has a fine farm and stock ranch in Pleasant valley, where our subject and his family reside. He married Abbie Alford, daughter of Hon. N. C. Alford, in 1902, and they have one son, Richard Alford Maxfield.

Charles W. Ramer. - Love of adventure and a desirfi to better his worldly condition are what made a Larimer county pioneer of Charles Worth- Ington Ramer, one of the very few living of those brave men who set their stakes in the Cache la Poudre valley in 1862. He was born on April 10th, 1844, at Goshen, Indiana, and attended the public schools of his native town. In 1858 his parents moved to Bethany, Missouri, which was the family home for many years. He enlisted in April, 1861, under President Lincoln's call for volunteers, in Company H of the 1st Missouri Volunteer Cavalry and was mustered out on expiration of term of service a year later. He came to Colorado, arriving at Laporte in June 1862, after helping to drive a bunch of cows and calves across the Plains. He was then but 18 years of age but bristling with energy and ambition. He clerked a few months in G. R. Sanderson's store at Laporte and got a job driving stage on the Overland route in the winter of 1862-3, between Laporte and Virginia Dale. He would leave Laporte on the arrival of the stage from Denver in the morning and drive to Virginia Dale, where he would meet and drive the east bound coach back to Laporte in the afternoon. That was when the notorious desperado, Slade, was Superintendent of the Mountain division. In 1864, Mr. Ramer went to Montana, returning to Laporte in the fall of 1865, going in the spring of 1866 to his former home In Missouri, where he remained about a year and then came back to Colorado. He made another trip to Missouri in 1868, returning to Laporte in the following year. He married Rachael V. Mc Clung in 1874, at Bethany, Missouri, leaving for the West shortly afterwards. This time he came to Fort Collins and bought a livery stable of Joseph Mason which he conducted until 1876, when he sold it. He went back to Missouri in 1875 after his family and after living on a ranch in Pleasant valley until 1877, he moved to Fort Collins. He engaged in the grocery business in 1880 and in 1881, President Garfield appointed him postmaster for Fort Collins, and he was reappointed by President Harrison in 1889 for another term of four years. At the close of his second term as postmaster, he leased the Tedmon house and conducted it five years and then purchased the store at Laporte which he kept five years. After disposing of his interests at Laporte, he bought the hotel and store at Livermore in 1901 and successfully conducted both for eight years, exchanging the property in 1910 for the Bellairs stock ranch at Westlake, which is now his home. Mr. and Mrs. Ramer have a beautiful home in Fort Collins, but they prefer to spend their summers at least at their fine mountain home looking after the welfare of their herd of 350 head of high grade cattle. They have three children, John E., Miss Nellie G. and Mrs. Jessie Moore. John has served the county four years as deputy county clerk and five years as principal of that office; two years as deputy Secretary of State and was the candidate of the Republican party in 1910 for the head of that office. The youngest daughter is the wife of Frank W. Moore who has been twice elected County Treasurer of his native county. Mr. Ramer has been a busy, active man ever since he came to Larimer county and is one of the best known and most popular men in Northern Colorado. He has done his part to bring the county into public notice and done it well. He is one of the two men left who came to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1862, John G. Coy being the other one. May his days be long in the land that he may enjoy to the utmost the fruits of his early day activities.

Rev. Thomas Waters Taylor

a tireless worker and a large hearted, genial gentleman. He was born November 14th, 1854, at Thirlestane, Berwickshire; Scotland, and educated in the public schools and at Lauderdale, Scotland, taking a theological course. On the 14th of November, 1881, Mr. Taylor was joined in marriage with Margaret McAllister Greig, who survives him. The family came to Fort Collins March 3rd, 1893, and lived for two years on South Howes street. During this time Mr. Taylor occupied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church for a period of nine months. In 1895, he moved to Estes Park and was the founder of the First Presbyterian church there, later moving on to a farm near Fort Collins where he died March 26th, 1901, aged a little more than 46 years, leaving no children, save an adopted son named Thomas Waters Taylor. In his native country, Mr. Taylor was widely known in Evangelistic circles as an able and zealous expounder of the Bible and as a sincere and earnest preacher of the gospel. Of his life and character too much cannot be said in praise. Though afflicted with an incurable malady, consumption, coming to Colorado for his health, he was a faithful and energetic worker for the Master until his strength finally gave out, a man of great piety and deep faith in the Christian religion; also of unusual executive ability, and determination of will. His life, though short as measured by the term of man's allotted years, was filled with kindly deeds towards all with whom he came in contact and his death at a period of his greatest usefulness, was deeply lamented.

Oscar Riker is another native New Yorker, who married Sarah Hanby, April 4th, 1871, at Yonkers, New York. Three boys were born to them, Oscar S., Joseph D., and George H. Riker, all born in Yonkers and all married and now residents of Loveland. Mr. Riker came to Loveland May 13th, 1884, and for four years conducted the Big Thompson hotel, then conducted the Loveland House for 22 years, retiring therefrom April 25th, 1910. Since then he has resided at 434 R. R. avenue, enjoying the fruits of an active and well spent life.

Peter Kern^ a Larimer county pioneer farmer, retired, was born August 31st, 1835, at Kriegsfeldt, Germany. He went to school in his native country and though more than sixty years an American citizen and fluently speaking the English language, still preserves his mother tongue and can speak, read and write it as when a boy in the Fatherland. He came to the United States in 1848, with his father's family which settled at Claverack on the Hudson river, a few miles below Albany, New York. Here he served an apprenticeship at the wagon and carriage making trade. He married Catherine Knau, February 15th, 1858, and they have one son, Frank P. Kern, living. Mr. Kern joined the Greeley Colony in June, 1871, and a few weeks later filed on an 80-acre homestead in the Cache la Poudre valley situated east of the present town of Timnath; bought another 80-acre tract from Frank Scott and a 160-acre tract of railroad land, making him altogether 320 acres of fine land. This he set to work to improve and convert into a farm, by building a large story and a half log house, fencing the land and breaking out a portion of it for crops. In 1890 he sold the farm to John H. Gault and moved his family to Fort Collins where he still resides, enjoying the fruits of his early labors.

Mark Austin Ellison. - The great timber belt of Northern Central Pennsylvania has produced many men, who at a later period, have won their way to success in the rapidly growing regions of the West. Among them is Mark Austin Ellison, who was born February 9, 1876, in Tioga, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where his father, George F., was at that time engaged in farming and the lumber business. The latter, now eighty-six years old, and the mother, Mary Elizabeth, aged eighty, are both still living at Elkland in the Keystone state, and are hale and hearty. When the lad was fourteen, the family moved to the Harrison valley, where the father became freight agent for the New York Central railway. At the old home, Mark had faithfully attended the public schools; now he was duly advanced to the high school, and occupied his nights and Saturdays learning railroad station business, including telegraphy. Upon reaching the age of seventeen, he was put in the service as an extra for the railroad company, and acted as agent. or operator at different stations on the line, conducting the business of the American Express Company at the same time. After this experience in transportation affairs, he concluded to take up trade, and entered the employ of the M. S. Haskell Mercantile Company at Mills, Pennsylvania, also in the timber region, where he continued two years. Then having saved quite a snug sum of money, he and his brother formed a copartnership for handling general merchandise under the firm name of Ellison Brothers, at the same place. At the end of the two years, owing to the destruction by fire of the two big mills of the town, and the consequent depressing effect on enterprise, the business was sold out and he moved to Wellsville, New York, to become manager for B. Mc Owen & Company, an important concern that operated nine separate establishments altogether, in as many different localities. His connection with that house lasted until 1902, when, owing to the illness of his father and mother, he returned home and took charge as buyer for the P. S. Schweitzer Mercantile company, and remained with them three years. It was then he met the lady who became his wife, nee Miss Lena Mae Keltz, and the two were married March 30th, 1905. They now have one child, a son Donald, six years old, who, so to speak, is a "chip off the old block". Mr. Ellison had previously made a short tour of observation to Montreal, Canada, and in the year of his marriage, accepted a position with Peck, Haskell & Company, of that city; but, because of the severe cold of the winters of that locality, soon left, and in July of the same year, migrated west to Colorado. He had already been offered a position with the State Mercantile Company, and on his arrival the Denver house at once sent him to Lafayette; but after an experience of three months, he moved over and took charge of the dry goods department of the company's new store in Loveland. Three years elapsed of this, and he spent a short while looking over business opportunities in Fort Collins, but soon returned to Loveland, and was with the Doty-Dundon Company a twelvemonth. Mr. Ellison had long been deeply interested in and studiously observant of those phases of journalism which had to do with advertising, and during this period he bought an interest in the Herald newspaper. In February, 1910, he accepted the position as advertising manager, and on August 1st, that year, at a meeting of the stockholders, he was appointed editor, secretary and general manager of the publishing company. Mr. Ellison is intimately identified with the religious, social and fraternal affairs in the city of his adoption and has a host of friends in the teeming valley of the Big Thompson.

Lieutenant John H. Mandeville

where he was educated in the public schools; married Clara Vanorder, September 4th, 1861, at Ithaca, New York. Their surviving children are Mrs. Grace Gregory of Fort Collins, and Dwight Mandeville of Eaton, Colorado. On September 4th, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, 50th New York Engineers, and in January, 1862, was discharged for disability. In 1863, Mr. Mandeville enlisted in Company L of the 21st New York Volunteer Cavalry and was mustered out and discharged at Denver, Colorado, in June, 1866, as second Lieutenant. He returned to his New York home in the fall of 1866, remaining there through the following winter. In March, 1867, he came back to Larimer county with his wife and located on a farm near Laporte, where he lived about a year and then moved to Cheyenne and engaged in contracting and building, returning to Laporte in 1869 and reengaging in farming, which he followed until he moved to Fort Collins more than twenty years ago. During his residence in Fort Collins, he has served as justice of the peace and district court bailiff. Mr. Mandeville is one of the four officers of the 21st New York cavalry who elected to remain in the country after the regiment was mustered out, his comrades being Captain N. H. Meldrum, Lieutenant George E. Buss and Lieutenant Fred W. Wallace. Of these four, our subject is the sole surviving resident of Fort Collins. During the Civil war, Lieutenant Mandeville served under Generals Siegel, Hunter and Sheridan, participating in thirteen battles in Virginia, among them being those of Newmarket, Winchester and Piedmont. He was with Sheridan when that gallant cavalry leader chased Confederate General Early up and down the Shenandoah valley. When the 21st New York Cavalry arrived at Fort Collins in 1865, Chief Friday's band of Arapahoes was camped on the Sherwood place. A few years afterwards, Friday's band moved to the Sweetwater country and went on the war path, causing the government considerable trouble. In the fall of 1865, Lieutenant Mandeville and a detachment of troopers were sent to Fort Morgan to prevent freight and emigrant outfits from passing to and fro without adequate protection from roving bands of savages that infested the South Platte valley that fall.

QuERiN ScHANG was born in 1853 in Loraine, France; came to the United States in 1868 and to Fort Collins in 1873; worked in Mason's mill and outside of the miller, was the only help employed. In July, 1874, in company with Kintz Pew started a meat market which they conducted two or three years; married Virginia Mason in 1879, and two of their children, Irene and Nora, survive. Mr. Schang conducted the Standard restaurant a few years and then turned his attention to farming and stock raising. He resides at Amarillo, Texas.

James G. Seaman was born January 16th, 1848, near Utica, New York; spent several of his boyhood years on the Erie canal ; married Mary Jackson in January, 1869, and two children, James H., and Arthur L. Seaman, were born to them. The family came to Fort Collins in May, 1881, and settled on a homestead in the Boxelder valley, which he has since converted into one of the finest, best improved and most productive farms in the county. His land is irrigated from the Larimer County canal and his farm and water rights are very valuable. His wife died in Fort Collins in 1905, and on March 26th, 1908, he remarried, his wife's maiden name being Julia E. Daily. A son Harold G. Seaman was born April 10th, 1911. Mr. Seaman is a good and thorough farmer, and though he had a few lean years while waiting for the completion of the irrigating canal from which his farm is watered, he has had remarkable success and is now enjoying the fruits of his strenuous labors in the years that are agone.

Carl Anderson, principal stockholder, president and general manager of the Courier Printing and Publishing Company, Fort Collins, was born May 3rd, 1872, at St. Charles, Iowa, where he was reared to the age of fourteen years, the last few years on a farm near his birthplace. His father, James M. Anderson, then bought a half interest in the Indianola, la.. Herald, and moved his family to that place. Here our subject worked at the printer's trade for the first two years, then entered Simpson College which he attended for several years. His health failing, he was compelled to give up his studies and for several years devoted himself strictly to regaining his health by traveling in the Southern states, spending the years from 1893 to 1897, inclusive, following different vocations. During the winter of 1895-6 he was employed by the Southern Railway to write up the territory adjacent to the railroad for Northern newspapers and traveled over the company's entire system. In 1896-7 he attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. In the fall of 1898 he came to Colorado with the intention of buying the Loveland Reporter of W. L. Thorndyke and engaging in the newspaper business, but the deal fell through and he then purchased a majority of the stock of the Courier Printing and Publishing company of Fort Collins which he still retains. Since taking charge of the Courier on February 16th, 1899, Mr. Anderson has thoroughly equipped the newspaper and job printing plant with the best of modern machinery and made the Courier one of the leading and most influential newspapers in Colorado outside of the large cities, advancing it from an eight-page patent inside weekly to a daily of often greater dimensions, and also issues two all home print weeklies, the Weekly Courier and Courier Farmer. He is overflowing with push and enterprise and has made his influence felt in every movement designed to advance the material, social and moral interests of the home of his adoption. He contributes liberally of his time and means to prom.oting the growth and upbuilding of Fort Collins and is not content until he sees things moving in that direction. Mr. Anderson is the only son of James M. and Sarah E. Anderson. His father served Warren county, Iowa, two terms, from 1900 to 1904 as representative in the Iowa State legislature, and is now and has been for a period of twenty-five years co-editor and proprietor of the Indianola Herald of that state. Our subject was joined in marriage with Genora Lillian Evans on June 28th, 1909 at Aurora, Illinois. They have one child, James Lorin, born March 12th, 1911. Mrs. Anderson was born November 6th, 1880, at Big Rock, Illinois, the youngest of four daughters of Daniel and Sarah 'Evans. The family later moved to Aurora, Illinois, where she received her earlier education in the public schools. She received later scholastic training at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio., and at the Normal school at De Kalb, Illinois. She taught in the city schools of Oxford, Iowa, and Aurora, Illinois, and of Fort Collins, Colo.

Dr. Charles Alfred Lory was born at Sardis, Ohio, September 25th, 1872. At the age of nine years he began work in a planing mill, removing to Colorado with his parents in May, 1888, and found work on a farm. In 1893 he was employed as a ditch rider, on one of the big irrigating systems of Weld county and later was superintendent for the Big Cut Lateral and Reservoir company for five seasons. He worked his way through the State Normal School of Colorado, graduating in 1898 with the degree of Ped. B and in 1901 he graduated from the University of Colorado with the degree of B. S., receiving in 1902, the degree of M. S. In 1909, after his election to the Presidency of the Colorado Agricultural college, the University of Colorado conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. From 1899 to 1902, he was student assistant in the department of physics at the University of Colorado; from 1902 to 1904, principal, of the High school of Cripple Creek, Colorado; from 1904 to 1905 acting professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and in 1905 was chosen professor of physics at the Colorado Agricultural college and professor of physics and electrical engineering in 1907. During the summer of 1906 and 1907, he was engaged in special irrigation work for the office of experiment station, U. S. department of Agriculture, under Dr. Elwood

Meed. In 1909, he was chosen President of the Colorado Agricultural college, which position he now holds. In June, 1904, Dr. Lory was married to Miss Carrie Louise Richards of Quincy, Illinois. He is a member of the N. E. A. and of various scientific engineering and literary associations, clubs and fraternal organizations in all of which he takes an active interest and an influential part. Dr. Lory is justly regarded as one of the leading and most successful educators in the west. To a mind well trained in his special line of studies, he adds executive capacity of the highest quality, and remarkable financial ability - characteristics which give him a superb equipment for solving and mastering the many intricate problems which come before him as President of a technical educational institution under the joint patronage and control of the state and the nation. Quiet in manner; courteous in all of his dealings with both the faculty and the student body; eminently fair and just in all of his decisions; firm, yet kind and tactful in his discipline, he combines mental culture with rare common sense and judgment in a combination of qualifications that has made the two [376] years of his administration the most successful that the Colorado Agricultural college has ever known; under his wise and skillful direction the college is growing, as it never grew before, in attendance, in scholarship, in usefulness as an institution upon which so largely depends the industrial development of the Commonwealth, and the creation of the type of citizenship that will assume the continued upbuilding and prosperity of Colorado. For Dr. Lory is a firm believer in what has become known as practical education, which rightly interpreted means that to the culture of the mind should be added instruction such as will enable the graduate to at once enter upon some practical pursuit which will assure him a livelihood for himself and family. The new and somewhat intricate problems involved in such a scheme of education Dr. Lory is working out with a success that promises to endow him with a' lasting fame and also place the college under his direction upon the highest plane of power and influence in the intermountain west.

W. C. Stiles. - One of the most prosperous and enterprising citizens of the county makes his home at Loveland. Well known to everyone in the southern part of the county, where he has been a prominent and deservedly popular figure for nearly half a century, W. C. Stiles has made his mark as a progressive farmer and stock grower. He came to Colorado in 1876; was born in Michigan, arid was married in Denver to Louelle Herbert, October 3, 1881. A daughter, Glenn, and son, Bert, are graduates of Colorado college, Colorado Springs, and both are now teachers of note. Another son, Frank, and a daughter. Miss Helen, are at home with their parents. Mr. Stiles helped to construct the first building erected in Loveland. He erected buildings and otherwise improved five different farms and now owns a 1,000-acre foothill ranch upon which grazes one of the finest herds of black cattle known in the state.

Norman H. Meldrum was born October 11th, 1841, at Mixville, Allegheny county. New York. At the age of four years, he moved to Caledonia, Livingston county, that state. He attended the public schools, finished his education at the age of 19 at the Union school at Bergen, Monroe county. New York. He enlisted in Company B 100th New York Volunteer Infantry in August, 1861. Served under McClellan in the Chickahominy campaign, participating in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and the Seven Days fight. In 1862, he was commissioned as First Lieutenant in company G, 21st New York Cavalry, and did service in the Shenandoah valley; served as Aide-de-Camp on the staffs of Generals Siegel and Hunter during their Valley campaigns and also with Sheridan until the close of the war. In 1865 he was ordered to Fort Collins, Colorado; served in the Indian campaigns during that year and on July 13th, 1866, was mustered out of the service with the rank of captain. After his discharge Captain Meldrum settled at Fort Collins but soon afterwards moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and in 1867 was elected treasurer of that city. At the expiration of his term of office, he returned to Fort Collins and engaged in farming and stock growing. He was assessor of Larimer county from 1872 to 1874; was a member of the last territorial legislature which convened in Denver in 1875. On October 3rd, 1876, was elected a member of the Senate of the First general assembly. In the fall of 1878, was elected Secretary of State and re-elected in 1880. Appointed Surveyor General of Colorado in 1883 by President Arthur and served until December 9th, 1885, when he was removed for offensive partisanship by President Cleveland. In the fall of 1886, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Colorado and served one term with distinction. In 1890, he was appointed by President Harrison as Receiver of the Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, serving four years. Was then elected to the position of Receiver of the State Board of Land Commissioners of Colorado in 1894 and served a full term of two years. In the year 1897, he removed to Buffalo, Wyoming, where he engaged in stock growing and a large irrigation proposition which will eventually prove beneficial to the state and county. Politically, he is a republican and exerted a great deal of influence in the councils of his party and was never defeated for any office that he aspired to at any general election.

J. Nelson Hollowell is one of the Argonauts of the Big Thompson valley. He is one of the four surviving members of that hardy band of pioneers who settled in that beautiful valley in 1860, to help found a rich and prosperous commonwealth in the Rocky Mountain region. They endured hardships, suffered privations and were surrounded by dangers, seen and unseen, that those who should come after them might enjoy the blessings of civilization, such as the inhabitants of Larimer county now rejoice over. To be sure the most of them came to Colorado in search of the "golden fleece" but failing to find it, they turned their attention to the husbandman's peaceful pursuits and set about converting the wilderness into a habitable region for civilized man. Mr. Hollowell's surviving companions engaged in this great undertaking are Judge W. B. Osborn, Hon. Thos. H. Johnson and John Hahn. Our subject was born in Yates county, New York, and received his edu- cation in Wyoming county. New York. He arrived in Colorado, May 10th, 1860, and settled in the Big Thompson valley a few months later, and that has been his home for fifty-one years. He was the first man to demonstrate that vegetables and grain could be successfully produced in Larimer county. In 1870 he married Mary E. Ward, who has borne him four children, Guy C, Maleen, William W., and Frank Hollowell. Some of Mr. Hollowell's pioneer experiences are related elsewhere in this volume.

F. M. Ames was born August 25, 1865, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; received his education in the public schools of Michigan and Fort Collins, Colo.; came to Fort Collins April 30th,

1882. Married Francis May Nelson, March 26th, 1889, and has six children, Gertrude M., Ray S., Lynn O., NerclUa S., Leola F. and Clinton N. ; ranch and stockman by occupation.

Prof. Clarence P. Gillette. - The subject of this sketch is head of the department of Zoology and Entomology at the Colorado Agricultural Col- lege and Entomologist of the experimental station connected with that institution; made State Entomologist by act of the Colorado General assembly in 1907, and placed in charge of all the horticultural inspection work of the state ; director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment station; long a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a charter member of the American Association of Economic Entomologists and of the Entomological Society of America. He is also a member of the Association for the Promotion of Agricultural Science; of the Iowa Academy of Science; of the St. Louis Academy of Science, and was recently elected a member of the Permanent Committee of the Congress International D' Entomologic. Prof. Gillette was born April 7th, 1859, on a farm in Lyons township,

Ionia county, Michigan. His father, William Henry Gillette, who is still living, was a prosperous farmer. The boy remained on the farm and attended the public schools until he - attained his majority and in 1880, entered the Michigan Agricultural college as a freshman, graduating therefrom in 1884. He was wholly self-supporting throughout his college course, earning the money by teaching and selling books. The winter of 1885-6 was spent in special entomological work at the State University of Illinois. The following year he was chosen as assistant in the department of Zoology and Entomology in the State Agricultural college of Michigan, which position he held until May, 1888, when he accepted the post of Entomologist for the Iowa Experiment Station. In December, 1890, he gave up the purely station work in Iowa to take the chair of Zoology and Entomology, and Entomologist of the Experiment station at the Colorado Agricultural college, which positions he still holds. In 1907, the Colorado General assembly passed a law making the Entomologist of the State Agricultural college. State Entomologist, in charge of all the horticultural inspection work in the state. Prof. Gillette has since discharged the duties of this important office with exceptional skill and great fidelity. There is probably not an orchard in Colorado that he has not personally visited and inspected or had it done by trained assistants, resulting in an immense saving to fruit-growers and in improving the health and vigor of the orchards and also the quality of the fruit. He has an intimate knowledge of the diseases and insect pests which affect fruit bearing trees and shrubbery and is skilled In the proper methods of treating the diseases, and eradicating the pests. Through his wise counsel and skillful treatment, many a Colorado orchard has been saved from destruction and are now yielding profitable crops for their owners. He is the author of several valuable bulletins treating of insect pests and insecticides, which have been published by authority of the State Agricultural college and Experiment station and widely distributed all over the country. Professor Gillette is a recognized authority on all matters connected with the department of Zoology and Entomology at the college. In 1910, because of his superior skill and executive ability, the State Board of Agriculture appointed him Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experimental station, and he is looked upon and considered one of the intellectually strong members of the college faculty. On March 31st, 1886,

Professor Gillette married Clara M. Smith, of Portland, Michigan. They have two children, Florence Marie and Nola Esther. Mrs. Gillette is a member of the Cache la Poudre Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Chaplain of the Colorado State Conference.

Wellington Hibbard was born in 1841, in South Butler, New York, the son of Russell and Almyra (Craw) Hibbard. At the age of twenty, he went to Lowell, Michigan, to enter the employ of an uncle who was operating a flour mill. He remained there until he had mastered the miller's trade and then moved to Grand Rapids, that state, and entered the employ of the Star Mill. Two years later he was appointed foreman of the mills and taken in as a partner. In 1876, he built the Crescent mill in Grand Rapids. In 1880 the firm of Hibbard & Graff absorbed and owned all the mills then in that city. Between the years 1881 and 1892, he was engaged in business in New York, Chicago and Jackson, Michigan, successively. In 1892, he again went to Chicago and became an attache of the History of Chicago company, achieving wonderful success in this line of work. In 1894 he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as manager of the History of Milwaukee company, and two years later became manager of the History of Louisville, Kentucky company. From Louisville in 1898, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, as manager of the History of St. Louis company. In 1903, Mr. Hibbard came to Fort Collins to investigate an irrigation project of which he later became manager. This enterprise then consisted of filings made in 1902 on what was known as the Link lakes, situated on the eastern slope of the Medicine Bow mountains in Larimer county, and it was only contemplated to divert the water in these lakes through the "Sky" line ditch and turn it into the Cache la Poudre river as a supplementary supply. Mr. Hibbard undertook to finance the enterprise and went east to interest capital. The idea of a tunnel through which to convey water from the Laramie watershed to that of the Poudre had, in the meantime, been conceived and our subject grasped its importance at once and also the full extent of its possibilities. In 1904, a corps of engineers was sent into the field to survey and outline the proposed system and also to ascertain the extent of the available unappropriated water of the Laramie river. As a result of their reports, filings were made that year on the tunnel site and upon the unappropriated water of that stream and some of its tributaries. The project now began to assume the proportions of a great irrigation proposition, and in 1906, the partnership theretofore existing terminated, and the Laramie Reservoirs & Irrigation company was organized in its stead to carry out the proposed plans. Mr. Hibbard was Secretary and General Manager of the company. A little later it was decided to extend the proposed system into Weld county and develop lands in the Crow creek district. Mr. Hibbard succeeded in interesting Messrs. D. A. Camfield of Greeley, and S. H. Shields of Denver, in the proposition and a new company was organized with greater capital, known as the Laramie-Poudre Reservoirs & Irrigation company. The Greeley-Poudre Irrigation district was then organized, embracing 125,000 acres of land in the Crow creek district. The completion of the project involves the expenditure of $5,000,000. The development, the financing and the destiny of the enterprise were in Mr. Hibbard's hands, and had he lived to see it fully consummated it would have been the crowning glory of his life, the realization of his fondest hopes, for it would have been the fruits of his tireless energy, wonderful tenacity of purpose, in the face of opposition and what at times seemed unsurmountable obstacles. The great work he started is now well under way and will be completed during the present year. Mr. Hibbard met a tragic death through the overturning of a runaway automobile on Pingree hill in March, 1910, while on his way to inspect the progress of the work on the tunnel. He left surviving him a widow and three daughters, Mrs. H. B. Hutson, of Bethel, Ohio; Mrs. C. S. Potter and Miss Nana Hibbard of Fort Collins.

George H. Cram was born in Rutland, Vermont, and educated at Castleton, that state. On September 4th, 1869, he married Sarah E. Baker, and a son, Dr. R. Lee Cram of Park City, Montana, was born of the union. Mr. Cram came to Colorado on April 5th, 1876, and first located at Hillsboro, Weld county. He taught school the first few years of his residence in Colorado, was a stockholder in and secretary of the Hillsbo-ro Canal company, for several years, and was the first man to put up money for that project. He moved to Larimer county in 1887 and is now a traveling salesman. He has lived to see Larimer county increase in population from a few hundred souls to more than 25,000 and has done his share in helping to develop its manifold resources.

O. D. Shields^ one of Loveland's foremost pioneer citizens, is a native of Mahoning county, Ohio. On coming to man's estate, he spent ten years in the oil regions of Pennsylvania and then came west, locating in Loveland in 1879, where he has since lived and flourished. He early saw the fruit growing possibilities of Larimer county and the need of acclimated nursery stock and therefore started a nursery in a small way at first, adding to his ground and stock year by year, until at last he had one of the largest, best equipped and best assorted nurseries in Colorado, and has been the means of supplying thousands of orchards in the state with trees that were true to name and thoroughly acclimated and which have since proved a source of pleasure and profit to their owners. In this respect, Mr. Shields has been a real benefactor to his race and to Colorado, for through his foresight and his skill in growing fruit trees, the fruit growing industry has been fostered and developed to a marked extent, and Larimer county, in particular, enriched by hundreds of thousands of dollars. He sold his nursery business a few years ago to the Colorado Nursery company, and retired from active business pursuits. He resides in a cosy, well furnished home on West Fifth street, Loveland, with his wife and son, Donald, enjoying the autumn of life in comfort and at peace with all the world. It is to such men as Mr. Shields to whom an everlasting debt of gratitude is due for what they have done to make life worth living in this splendid Centennial state of ours.

Alfred A. Edwards. - It is a well recognized fact that the men who "do things", the men who are the staunch, intellectual, progressive and moral supports of the county, are, generally speaking, those who spend their early years on the farm. There is something in the close contact with the soil and with the lessons taught by nature which tends to develop the youth and cause him to expand mentally, morally and physically. The annals of Larimer county are full of bright, shining exaniples of men who, because of their intellectual strength, moral fibre and progressive spirit, have been called from the farm to occupy positions of trust and responsibility, or to lead in the execution of great enterprises. These reflections lead up to the life story of Alfred A. Edwards, for he is an example of a farmer boy who has made good in every sense of the term. He was born August 26th, 1851, in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He lived on his father's farm, doing the work assigned him, and. doing it well, until he was thirteen years of age. The family then moved to the town of Mercer where he laid the foundation for an education in the public schools. In August, 1869, he came to Larimer county with Rev. W. T. McAdams and four other men. He spent a year in the West as a cowboy and ranch hand, and then returned to his Eastern home to complete his education. This done, he taught school one year and later was railroad ticket agent in Mercer and Sharon, Pennsylvania, until 1876, when he retraced his steps to Colorado, arriving in Fort Collins in September, and that city has since been his home. From 1876 to 1884 Mr. Edwards was engaged in various avocations, among them ranching, bookkeeping, clerking and milling. He was also assistant to railroad station agent T. J. Montgomery for about two years. In May, 1884, he was appointed deputy County Treasurer and deputy Clerk of the District Court under E. N. Garbutt. In the fall of 1885 he was elected to the office of County Treasurer, serving the people in that position with signal ability and fidelity until July 1st, 1890, having been appointed to fill a vacancy for six months, due to a change in the law. On retiring from public service, Mr. Edwards engaged in the abstract, real estate and insurance business. In July, 1891, he assisted in organizing the Water Supply & Storage company, which sprang up on the ruins of the old Larimer County Ditch company. He was one of the incorporators and also a Director and Secretary of the new company, serving in the latter capacity for three and one half years. In 1895, he was chosen President and General Manager of the company, filling those positions for fifteen years. It was during his administration that the company made its greatest advance toward efficiency, bringing it up among the foremost water distributing and irrigation enterprises in Colorado. The market value of shares in the company has increased from $500 in 1891 to about $4,000 in 1910. In 1905, Governor McDonald appointed Mr. Edwards a member of the State Board of Agriculture for a term of eight years. He was chosen Vice-President of the board in 1907, and made President in 1909, which position he still holds. It is fortunate for the college, for Colorado and for Fort Collins as well, that a man of strong individuality, unswerving integrity and an acute appreciation of right and justice, like Mr. Edwards, has been honored with this important and very responsible position, for on a faithful discharge of its duties depends not only the financial interests of the institution, but also the intellectual and moral welfare of its hundreds of students, for his success in life is an inspiration inciting them to greater effort. Mr. Edwards is also General Manager of the Laramie-Poudre Reservoir & Irrigation company, one of the largest and most important irrigation projects in Colorado. He was married December 20th, 1883, to Phoebe G. Edson. They have three children, James G., Walter D. and Ruth E., all of whom still linger about the home nest, although the sons are steadily employed in irrigation engineering and construction work. The family has a beautiful home on West Mountain avenue, ideal in character and furnishings, and where conjugal love, happiness and contentment reign supreme. No man in Larimer county has been instrumental to a greater extent in developing its agricultural resources than Mr. Edwards and though he has filled many public places of trust and responsibility and has had the handling of millions of dollars of other peoples' money, not a whisper or hint of malfeasance in office or betrayal of trust has ever been heard. His record in all of them is without blot or blemish, and wherever he is known he is one of the most admired of men because of his acknowledged enterprise and integrity and his splendid social gifts.

Richard C. Springer. - Few men in Larimer county have been more successful than Richard C. Springer. He has been a resident of the county since 1882, living at and near Timnath. He was born in New Jersey, May 25th, 1862, and was educated in the public schools at Bridgeport, his native town. He was married to Martha S. Shea, April 23rd, 1884. Wilbur B. Springer of Timnath, is their only child. Mr. Springer first located on a farm 2-| miles northwest of Timnath and followed farming for many years. He now lives onehalf mile northwest of Timnath. He conducted a general merchandise store and has been postmaster of the town for several years. He owns two farms near Timnath, a store building and two other houses and lots in that town, and while in California, made investments in city property in Los Angeles.

Arthur B. Harris was born near Fort Collins, Colo., October 28, 1886, the son of Isaac B. and Mary Lillian (Elton) Harris; graduated from the public schools and attended the Agricultural college two years, taking the preparatory work; entered newspaper office, making a study of editorial and business ends as well as learning the printers' trade, later conducting a job office for some time; was married in Colorado Springs to Nannie M. Chrisman, October 23, 1909, and has one daughter; moved to Wellington, Larimer county, in April, 1910, accepting employment on the Wellington Sun; in January, 1911, established "The Champion," a monthly prohibition journal and official organ of the state Prohibition party; takes an active interest in party politics and has been county chairman since twenty-one years of age.

M. C. Ward. - It is somewhat noticeable what a wonderful attraction farm life has for the man who for nearly a lifetime has been exposed lo all the perils, risks and dangers of the railway service. For 25 years Mr. Ward was a most capable and efficient conductor, 20 years of which in the employ of the Colorado and Southern railroad, and after so many years of active duty he tendered his resignation and is now happy in the selection of a comfortable home west of Fort Collins, where he may pass the remaining years of his life amid agreeable rural surroundings. Mr. Ward was born at Ver- sallies, Ohio, June 2nd, 1861, and was married to Mary Ligier in 1883. To them was born one son, Carl. The family came to Colorado in 1891, and to Larimer county in 1902.

William H. Ralph

prenticed to the cabinet-making trade, serving under one master for six years, going then to London to work for an uncle as a journeyman. He remained in his uncle's employ one year and then went to Truro, Cornwall, where on August 28th, 1870, he married Mary Anna Hearn. Soon after the wedding, Mr. Ralph and his bride emigrated to the United States, locating first at Elizabeth, Illinois, where he opened a furniture and undertaking store. Two years later moved to Ontonagon, Michigan. Here he made furniture for the copper miners and coffins for those that needed them until 1873, when he came to Colorado and located in business at Central City. The altitude there being too high for him, he sold his business in 1877 and in September, 1878, he came to Fort Collins and established himself in business in a room in the Wilson block on Jefferson street. Two years later he erected the building next west of the Courier office and occupied it until the fall of 1881, when he sold it to E. O. Hoyt. In 1882, Mr. Ralph joined with the late J. T. Cliff, W. C. Stover and A. H. Patterson and built the Jefferson block. Into this building he moved his stock of furniture and continued in business until the silver panic of 1893 came on, when he disposed of his property on Jefferson street and retired from active business for a few years. In 1900, he opened a furniture store at Eaton, Colorado, and conducted it until his health gave out in 1907. He suffered from nervous prostration for about two years, finally recovering sufficient strength to enable him to open and conduct a variety store on E. Oak street which now occupies his time and attention. Mr. Ralph was the pioneer cabinet maker and undertaker and exclusive dealer in furniture in Fort Collins, and as a business man and citizen stands very high in the estimation of his fellow men. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph have three sons and two daughters, William J. Ralph, Mrs. Henrietta Nelson, wife of Frank M. Nelson, Albert H. Ralph, Mrs. Nellie Arbuckle and Harry Ralph, all located near the parental home. Mr. Ralph served two terms in the city council as alderman from the first ward.

Stewart McNey was born in 1876, in Russell Fisk's dugout at Livermore. He was the eldest of three sons, Stewart, Walter and John McNey, whose parents were John and Frances (Stewart) McNey, pioneers of the Livermore country. They crossed the Plains in a wagon in 1875 and located on a stock ranch about eight miles west of the present Livermore hotel and postoffice, where they lived until Mr. McNey died in December, 1901. Here the sons grew to manhood. Walter is a ranchman at Westlake, John a ranchman on home place in Livermore, and our subject lives at 416 Peterson street. Fort Collins. He married Josie Dyekman in October, 1908, who is a daughter of LeRoy and Mary E. Dyekman. Mrs. McNey graduated from the Fort Collins High school and has since been a successful teacher in the public schools of Larimer county for a period of six years.

Dr. Albert E. Goodwin came with his family from Wisconsin to Fort Collins, July 19th, 1905, and is one of the most active, energetic and ambitious men in the community. A dentist by profession, but soon tiring of office work, he branched out into a successful dealer in land and live stock, in which he has made a fortune- within the brief space of five years; is one of the originators and promotors of the Park Creek Irrigation district. Dr. Goodwin was born January 29th, 1865, at Trenton, Pierce county, Wisconsin, and married Florence E. Bennett, August 19th, 1903. They have two children, Merle Alice and James Bennett. He and an associate recently invested in the Roberts stock and dairy ranch, for which they paid upwards of $30,000. Dr. Goodwin is a fine example of the man who does things and makes it pay.

Dr. George H. Glover. - Born on an Iowa farm, April 2nd, 1864, and reared on a Colorado farm; these are among the favors kind nature and circumstances have bestowed upon the subject of our sketch. Two years of his life were spent in his native town. Eagle, Iowa, six years at Earlville, Illinois, and the rest of it for the most part, in Colorado. In 1850, his father, Russell B. Glover, tramped across the Plains to Sacramento, California, with an emigrant train. He located a mine, sold it and the following year he planted a large field of potatoes. Prices slumped at harvest time; he lost money and then returned to Illinois. In 1858 he married Emily Cook Garland from West Campton, New Hampshire, and followed farming in Illinois. His wife being a sufferer from asthma, he moved to Iowa in 1863, but as she received no benefit he returned to Illinois two years later. In the spring of 1872, Mr. Glover moved to Longmont when our subject was seven years of age. The boy was raised on a farm two miles east of Longmont and attended the Longmont public schools. In January, 1880, when 16 years of age, he entered the Colorado Agricultural college, graduating therefrom in 1884 with the first class granted diplomas at that institution. He paid his own way through college, his parents being in straightened circumstances, owing to his mother's illness. A good friend ofiEered to pay his way through the Iowa Agricultural college at Ames. He accepted the offer and graduated in veterinary medicine at that institution in 1885. In November, 1887, he married Margaret J. Glover (no relation) at Longmont. Immediately after this he was employed by Colorado and Montana as sanitary inspector of cattle on the old Na- " tional trail from Texas. His duty was to inspect through cattle for Texas fever and was thus employed for six years. He also served one year as deputy state veterinarian of Montana. Then he spent two years on the home farm and in 1900 was employed by the Colorado Agricultural college to give lectures once a week on veterinary medicine. Two years later he was elected head of the veterinary department at that institution, which, through his energy and distinguished skill and ability, is now in class "A" of the veterinary colleges of America. Dr. Glover is President of the Association of Faculties and State Examining Boards of America, and President of the American Veterinary Medical Association; was President of the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association in 1907, and is City Food Inspector of Fort Collins.

Frank W. Ricks was born February 7th, 1840, in Germany, and educated in his native country; came to the United States at an early age and on November 27th, 1867, married Anna Roeder at St. Louis, Missouri; came to the Little Thompson valley in 1881 and settled on a farm 3| miles west of Berthoud, where he has since resided; is a successful and prosperous farmer and fruit grower and thinks farming by irrigation is the only pro- per way to successfully cultivate the soil. Served two years and ten months in Company E of the second Missouri Cavalry during the Civil war.