Larimer County, Colorado - The whole text, 1911 (part 18 of 22)

Edgar T. Pate, sole proprietor of the Boston Store, one of the largest and most prosperous mercantile establishments in Northern Colorado, was born April 12th, 1875, at Sweet Springs, Pettis county, Missouri. In 1889 he came with his father's family to Boulder, Colo. He was educated in the public schools, carrying newspapers after school hours. After graduating from the High school he went to Denver and was employed as a solicitor by one of the afternoon dailies of that city. He enlisted June 13th, 1898, in company H of the 1st Colorado Volunteers; accompanied his regiment to the Philippines, spending about a year in Luzon. He was an orderly on General Green's staff when the 1st Colorado marched into Manila. His military record shows he was in the battle of Manila, Aug. 13th, 1898. Engagements with insurgents, Feb. 4th and 5th and Feb. 23rd, 1899, and subsequent scouts and marches to June 12th, 1899, when he was shot through the left knee, at

Mariquina Heights, and sent home on the hospital ship, Relief. Mr. Pate moved to Larimer county, December 15th, 1903, and opened up the mercantile business in Loveland; moved to Fort Collins, May 14th, 1908, and opened the Boston Store which he is still conducting with almost phenomenal success. He has twice had to move into larger quarters to obtain space in which to carry on his constantly increasing business. Mr. Pate was the originator of the "spot cash and no delivery" policy in selling goods which is working like a charm. He employs twenty clerks and salesmen and is doing an immense business. He married Bertie E. Smith, September 3rd, 1901, at Holden, Missouri, and three children, Ethel Pearl, Robert Edgar and Flemmon Earnest, have been the fruits of the union. The father of our subject T. J. Pate is a native of Alabama. He taught school in Mississippi in his younger days. On the breaking out of the Civil war he joined the 4th, Missouri Volunteer Infantry and fought all through the conflict for the "Bonnie Blue Flag" which bore a single star.

N. R. Faulkner was born in Hancock, Delaware Co., N. Y. Educated at Sherman, Pennsylvania. Lived at Lone Tree, Iowa, from 1872 to 1882, where he was married to Ella Richey in 1875. He came to Loveland in 1882. They have three children, Harry, Alva and Lena. He is engaged in farming.

George Cronk. - ^With the single exception of Mrs. Cary Culver, widow of the late Cary Culver, who was the first man to permanently locate in the Little Thompson valley, Mr. Cronk has been a continuous resident of that valley for a longer period of time than any other person living. He came there in 1871 and took up a- homestead one mile west and one and a half miles south of the present town of Berthoud, and has, therefore, been a citizen of the county for forty years. He was born in 1837, in Pittstown, New York, and came to Colorado in 1859 with the rush of gold seekers. He stopped a short time at Boulder, then a frontier log cabin town, and then located on the St. Vrain. In 1862 he enlisted in the 2nd Colorado cavalry and served three years, principally in Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Territory, under Capt. Kingsbury. He married Miss Eliza M. Grafton, September 10th, 1866, and settled in the Little Thompson valley in 1871. His neighbors at first were few and far between. Though he still owns the farm he took up forty years ago, in addition to 80 acres of railroad land that he bought, he has given up farm work and farm life and he and his wife reside in Berthoud, enjoying a well earned rest after many years of pioneer life. They have no children.

William Rist^ ex-County Surveyor, ex-city Engineer of Fort Collins and ex-Division Engineer for Irrigation Division No. 1 of Colorado, was born April 13th, 1853, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; educated at Bethany, West Virginia; came to Colorado in 1869; married Texanna Trees of Texas in 1880; three children living; Irene, Charlotte, and Anna J. Rist; moved, in 1881, to Fort Collins which place is still his home; has spent twenty-two years of his life in public service.

William Russell Thomas was born at Barryville, Sullivan county, N. Y., his parents removing, when he was a mere child, into Pennsylvania, in which state he spent his boyhood years. He received his first education in the public schools and began his preparations for college at the Monticello (N. Y.) Academy. He entered the Freshman class of Williams college in 1861, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1865, having in the meantime taken some practical lessons in journalism on the Chicago Tribune. He was one of the Tribune's reporters of Abraham Lincoln's funeral.

After graduating he spent several months studying constitutional history and law. In 1866 he started for Colorado and spent the larger portion of the summer of that year traveling in the mountains accompanying Bayard Taylor in his tour of Colorado.

In October, he secured a position on the Central City Register as editor, which he retained until May, 1867, when he was offered and accepted a position on the Rocky Mountain News at Denver, as managing editor. This place he held for eleven years, or until May, 1878, when the sale of the paper occasioned an entire change of editorial policy and management.

During the years of 1880-81 he was first city editor and then managing editor of the Denver Times. In 1886 he returned to the News, serving in the various positions of reporter, city editor, managmg editor and editorial writer for sixteen years, until December, 1902, when he resigned to accept his present position on the Agricultural college faculty.

The only political position he ever held was that of Adjutant General of the Territory, from 1872 to 1874. In June, 1901, he was elected unanimously by the State Board of Agriculture to fill the vacancy in its membership, and in December, 1902, the board created the Department of Constitutional History and Irrigation Law, and elected Dr. Thomas professor in charge of the department. He conducts the classes in United States Constitution, Irrigation law. Sociology, Political Economy, History, Laws of contracts and Laws governing

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At its commencement in 1902, the University of Denver conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Letters, "in recognition," as the Chancellor said, "of his services in behalf of education in Colorado."

Dr. Thomas was happily married, September, 1871, to Miss Flora Sumner, of West Liberty, Iowa, a union that has been blessed by three sons and a daughter: Chauncey, William Russell Jr., Charles Sumner, and Flora Thomas.

James Watson is a native of Scotland, born in June, 1858, at Inverurie, Aberdeen. He was reared on a farm and attended school in his youth. He came to Fort Collins in 1887, and in 1893 married Agnes Petrie, who has borne him five children, Janie, Jessie, James, Alexander, Anna, and Bessie. He is recognized as one of the best and most successful farmers in the county.

George C. Mccormick

natives of Iowa, a state that has furnished Colorado with many good citizens. George C, was born October 20th, 1872, and James G., February 24th, 1874, near Sandyville, Warren county. They are sons of Montgomery and Harriet McCormick. In 1880, they moved with their parents to Stanton, Iowa, where for eleven years their attention was devoted exclusively to farming and to laying the foundation for their education, in the public schools. In 1891, the family moved to College Springs, Iowa, where the parents still reside. The subjects of this sketch attended Amity college in their home town, from which both graduated, George in 1897 from the Philosophical course, and James in 1899 from the Scientific course. About the time of his graduation, George bought the Current Press of College Springs and engaged in the newspaper business, which he has since followed with success. On January 1st, 1899, he sold the Current Press to his brother James, and purchased the Albia Republican, which he conducted alone for a period of eight years, except for a year and a half when he was associated with his brother. James published the Current Press until 1903, when he purchased the Cresco Times, which he published for about a year and then entered into partnership with George in the management of the Albia Republican, the firm continuing until July, 1906, when James came to Fort Collins and bought a onehalf interest in the Express, which he still owns. On June 24th, 1905, James was joined in marriage with Nina Webster, daughter of Mrs. Orpha Webster of Cresco, Iowa. George married Carrie Sherman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Sherman at College Springs, June 22nd, 1897. Of the last named union, two children were born; Paul, aged nine years and Ruth, aged four years. The family resides at 601 West Mountain avenue. On May 1st, 1907, George McCormick sold the Albia Republican and purchased W. D. Junkin's half interest in the Express and the two brothers again became associated in the newspaper business under the firm name of McCormick Brothers, and they are still vested with the ownership and management of the pioneer newspaper of Larimer county. On the 28th of May, 1907, McCormick Brothers began the publication of the Morning Express in connection with the weekly edition, thus giving

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Fort Collins a morning paper. The Express is republican in politics and an earnest and consistent advocate of the development of the resources of Larimer county and the upbuilding of Fort Collins.

The McCormick Brothers at once became identified with the business interests and growth of their adopted home and in 1907 erected the Express building, especially adapted to the requirements of the newspaper business, and two years later, in 1909, they erected the building adjoining the Express office, which is leased to the government for postoffice purposes. The Weekly Express was founded by the late Joseph S. McClelland, who issued the first number on April 26th, 1873. After passing through several changes of ownership, the paper and its equipment finally came into the hands and under the control and management of the McCormick Brothers, where it still remains.

Hon. William A. Drake. - The man who achieves success in any legitimate undertaking through sheer force of will, sets a worthy example for others to emulate. He is a credit to the community in which he lives and is entitled to honor and respect. Such a man is State Senator William A. Drake of Fort Collins. He was born on a farm, reared on a farm and is one of the leading, progressive and most prosperous farmers in Colorado. Besides his home place on which he settled in 1882, he owns several of the best improved and most productive farms in the county, and has also a large body of land in Alberta, Canada. Mr. Drake was born March 4th, 1853, near the shores of Cayuga lake, Cayuga county. New York. His father, William A. Sr., was born in Goshen, Orange county. New York. When the subject of this sketch was four years of age he was taken by his parents to Polk county, Iowa, where he grew to manhood's estate. He attended the public schools of Polk county and the Baptist University in Des Moines, paying his own way through that institution through teaching school during the vacation season. After leaving school, he engaged in farming during the summer and taught school in the winter. He spent the summer of 1876 in Oregon, teaching, returning to Iowa in the fall. He taught fourteen terms in Iowa, thus gaining a wide experience in educational matters and also making him an ardent advocate and zealous supporter of the public school system. Senator Drake came from Iowa to Fort Collins in the spring of 1882. He then purchased an 80-acre tract of partly improved land, situated two miles south of the city, making a partial payment down. Four years later he had paid off the debt on his land and had bought an adjoining 80-acre tract, adding another 80-acre tract to his

160-acre farm three years afterwards, making 240 acres of very productive land, all in one body. He improved his farm by fencing it, constructing irrigating laterals, bridging ditches and by building a handsome and commodious brick farm house, a big barn 44x60 feet in dimensions, with a wing on each side 24x30. In 1892 he began to feed sheep and lambs for the eastern markets in which he has been very successful. In his home feeding pens he fattens about 4,000 head every year and he has often marketed as high as 40,000 head in a season, the most of them fattened on his other farms and in the Arkansas valley. He is the most extensive sheep feeder in Colorado and has made good money in the business. Nothwithstanding his farm duties and stock feeding interests, and they have been and are strenuous, he has found time to devote to public affairs and his counsel and co-operation has often been sought in political campaigns and in behalf of the moral and material advancement of his chosen home. He has been President of the school board of District Number 16; President of the Larimer County Sheep Feeders association ; President of the Fort Collins Beet Growers association and an active and influential worker in all of them. He is now a heavy stock holder and vice-president of the First National Bank, of Fort Collins. He was an important factor in the movement to get a sugar factory in Fort Collins. In 1902 Mr. Drake was the republican candidate for State Senator from the Tenth senatorial district, composed of the counties of Boulder and Larimer, and was elected by a majority of nearly 1,700. He at once took a commanding position in that body and the good work he accomplished for the benefit of his constituents during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth General assemblies made his re-election in 1906 a foregone conclusion. He was one of the most active and hardest working members of the State senate during both terms and his ability and forcefulness was recognized and appreciated by all of his colleagues. In fact, he was a tower of strength in that body and could get anything he asked for passed by the senate. He was a capable, honest and popular representative of the leading industries of northern Colorado, and his record as State senator is pointed to with pride by friend and foe. Had he not positively declined, he would undoubtedly have been sent back for a third term in 1910. In the Fourteenth General assembly Senator Drake was a member of the following committees: Agriculture and Irrigation; Live Stock; County Affairs ; Military and Horticulture. Among the important bills introduced by him which passed the Senate are the following: Bill amending school law; bill appropriating $75,000 for an irrigation engineering building for the Agricultural college. The bill passed with the amount cut to $40,000. Bill to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint. This measure passed the senate but was killed in the house. During the session of 1905 he was chairman of the Committee of Agriculture and Irrigation, and also of the Live Stock committee ; miember of the committees on Banking and Insurance, privileges and elections, reapportionment and of the committee appointed to investigate the titles to seats in the senate of Senators Bohn and Healy. He introduced bills at this session concerning sweet-clover. (This bill passed the senate and was killed in the house) ; amending an act creating state board of agriculture ; bill appropriating $30,000 for the Agricultural college, (Mr. Drake asked for $70,000, but only got $30,000) ; a stock bill which put a stop to grafting from the sheep feeders by the State Stock board. During the session of 1907, Senator Drake was chairman of the committee which named the standing committee of the senate and apportioned patronage ; chairman of committee on finance. It is worthy of note here that this was the only session of the legislature that did not appropriate more money than the estimated revenues of the state for the biennial period. He was also a member of the committees on Reapportionment, and Agriculture and Irrigation. He was the caucus nominee for president pro tem of the senate, but was defeated by four senators who ignored the caucus. Senator Drake introduced and secured the passage and approval of the local option law, by all odds the most important measure enacted and an appropriation of $4,000 for the Loveland road. At the session of 1909, Senator Drake was a member of the committee on Finance and of the committee on Agriculture and Irrigation. He secured the passage at this session of the district drainage law, the local improvement law; an act accepting the Carnegie Foundation fund; an appropriation of $119,372.18 for the Agricultural College and an appropriation of $3,480 for the Loveland and Fort Collins road; an act accepting, ratifying and assenting to the terms, grants and conditions of an act passed by the 59th Congress relating to increased appropriations for the Agricultural college; an act transferring the proceeds of the land fund to the college; an act relating to dairy products. The records show that Senator Drake made 76 motions and cast nearly 2,000 votes during the four regular sessions. He also secured the passage of an act creating Larimer county a separate and independent senatorial district. He was a delegate to the National republican convention in 1908 and member of committee on resolutions from Colorado. On March 20th, 1878, Mr. Drake married Emma Arnettie Darnell daughter of Thomas Darnell, at Des Moines, Iowa. They have three children ; Nellie D., Edwin A., and Walter Ray. The daughter and both sons are married and live near Fort Collins. In 1908, Senator Drake turned his home farm over to his son and built himself a beautiful residence on Remington street, Fort Collins, where he now lives.

Harry V. Bennett was born in Chickasaw County, Iowa, on the 3rd day of June, 1856. Mr. Bennett came to Colorado with his parents in 1864, crossing the plains by wagon with a team of four yoke of cows. After a residence of three years the family went by wagon to California; remaining in the west five years. In 1872 they returned to the Little Thompson Valley and in 1874 located near Berthoud where Mr. Bennett has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. On November 26, 1886, he was married to Laura F. Keirnes. They have one daughter, Emma V. Bennett, born July 18, 1888. Mr. Bennett has been successful in his business and is a valued citizen of the county.

John W. Henderson was born March 25th, 1830, in Accomac county, Virginia; died April 5th, 1904, in Fort Collins, Colorado; married Henrieta Durkee, March 25th, 1856, who with two children, Mrs. C. B. Andrews of Fort Collins, and Joseph Henderson of Livermore, survivr. Our subject came from Missouri to Colorado in 1878 and engaged in freighting from Colorado Springs to Leadville during the boom period, before the railroad was built into that great Silver camp, doing a profitable business; sold his freighting outfit in 1879 and moved to Fort Collins which continued to be his home until he died. Mr. Henderson was a splendid type of the noblest work of God, an honest man, fair and just in all his dealings and ever ready to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.

Eliza A. Reid. - Born in 1842 at Newburg, Ohio; married N. R. Herrington, January 8th, 1861. Came to Colorado in 1879, first locating in Fort Collins, then moving to the Redstone valley. Her husband died in 1881 leaving her with the care of seven children, whose names are Mrs. Eva V. Nye; Mrs. Mary A. Kimmons; Harry G., Fred O., Birney L., Mrs. Flora C. Cross and Mrs. Grace Lindenmeier. In 1881 Mrs. Herrington moved to Fort Collins which has since been her home.

George F. Haver, born April 28th, 1861, at Moline, Illinois; married Mary Olden, July 3rd, 1884, at Atlantic, Iowa; moved to Fort Collins, January 3rd, 1906; has five sons and two daughters living, two dying in their infancy. Mr. Haver is a brick contractor by occupation and has done well since he came to Colorado. He is recognized as an industrious, energetic man and good citizen.

Rev. G. Joseph LaJeunesse, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church, Fort Collins, will long be remembered by those who know him as a talented clergyman, a tireless worker and a genial friend. He was born on July 5th, 1862 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, Joseph La- Jeunesse, was born in Montreal, Canada, of French parents and his mother, Mary E. (Brown) Lajeunesse, was born in St. Charles, Missouri. They were married in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1858. Of this union our subject was the second child in order of birth. In 1863 his parents moved to Chambly, near Montreal, Canada, where he was reared. He was educated in Montreal college at the Seminary of Philosophy, and at the Grand Seminary of that city. In 1888, he went to Paris, France, to further pursue his studies, but his health breaking down, he came back to Montreal at the end of a year. After his ordination in the Cathederal of Montreal by Archbishop Fabre on July 25th, 1889, he served successively as chaplain to the Sisters of Providence, Brothers of Christian Instruction of Montreal, Sisters of Charity of St. Boniface, Manitoba, and Brothers of Charity, Boston, Massachusetts, being thus engaged for six years. Father Lajeunesse came to Denver Colorado, in November, 1895, and after spending eight months as assistant pastor at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in that city, he was assigned as first resident pastor to the parish of Lake City, Colorado, where he had charge of the work for two years and four months, going thence to Gunnison, Colorado, where he spent five months in this extensive jurisdiction. On the 21st of April, 1899, ht came to Fort Collins to take charge of St. Joseph's parish and is still ministering to its congregation. Of the results of Father Lajeunesse's work in Fort Collins too much cannot well be said in praise. He is a man not only of great piety and deep faith in God, but also of remarkable energy, unusual executive ability and determination of will. He set himself at once to the work of improving conditions in the parish and in 1901, had the pleasure and the satisfaction of assisting in the dedication of the beautiful and comm.odious church on W. Mountain avenue in which the congregation has since worshipped. He has also been instrumental in having churches erected at Greeley and at Loveland which at present form two distinct and thriving parishes. His interest and activity in the growth of Fort Collins did not cease with the completion of St. Joseph's church, but continued until he had remodeled and erected twelve other buildings, including the Antlers hotel and the rectory, the finest at this date in the Diocese of Denver.

Albert A. Hawley, born in 1845, near Montreal, Canada, came to Colorado in 1863, and served as Deputy Provo-Marshal under Capt. John Wanless; went to New York in 1865, and married Alma B. Burnop in 1878; returned in 1879 to

Fort Collins, which has since been his home; lived on a farm for 18 years and then moved to Fort Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley have two children, Albert B. and Olive J.; and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Ben. Lamb; lives at 813 W. Mountain Avenue.

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18th, 1867, he was joined in marriage with Julia Packard at Deerfield, Wis., and six children were born of the union; Fred M., Nettie D., Minnie F., George W., Alta M., and Julia E. Harrington. Mr. Harrington came to Colorado in December, 1878, and located at Fort Collins, which city continued to be his home until he died on February 27th 1911. Mrs. Harrington and their children followed him to Fort Collins from the east in May, 1880. Mr. Harrington was an active, energetic man and a good mechanic and he readily found employment at contracting and building and in constructing bridges for Larimer county. He was for many years the main bridge builder in the county and did a great deal of work of that kind in all parts of the county, including North Park. A number of good buildings including large business blocks remain today in Fort Collins as monuments to his energy and skill as a mechanic. He set the first plate glass placed in a business block in that city. Mr. Har- rington came of good stock, his mother being a sister of Commodore Perry who won the famous naval victory over the British fleet on Lake Erie in 1813, and he was named in honor of his noted uncle. His widow and several of his children still reside in Fort Collins.

James Miller. - Born in 1849, at St. Johns, New Brunswick; educated in the common schools of Canada; married Jessie Brockway in 1873, at Greeley, Colorado ; Edwin A., of Fort Collins, and Albert of Walden are their only children; came to Greeley in 1872 and to near Timnath, Larimer county in 1883 ; lumberman by occupation and helped to build and operate a saw mill at Greeley in the early 70's; ancestors came from Liverpool early in the 19th century and engaged in the lumber business in Maine and New Brunswick, being located at Calais, Maine, for some time. Our subject drove saw logs down the Cache la Poudre river for W. F. Thompson until the lumber business was abandoned at Greeley, then drifted into farming near Timnath ; active in the growth and development of Timnath, being a member of committee that built the church there, of which he was an elder for more than 20 years; charter member of Timnath lodge of Odd Fellows; was long engaged in the mercantile and forwarding business. Mrs. Miller came from an old Massachusetts family that antedates the Revolution, her grandfather having been a revolutionary soldier.

Frank M. Nelson was born September 23rd, 1867, in Muscatine, Iowa, and attended the public schools in Warren county, Illinois; came to Fort Collins, July 15th 1886, which place has since been his home; drove delivery wagon for grocery store a few years; salesman in Turk's grocery ten years and then became associated with J. M. Whiteman in the grocery business in 1903 in which he continues with excellent success. Mr. Nelson married Henrietta Ralph, June 1st, 1892, and they have four children. Monroe, Maud, Ralph and Arlene Nelson, all at home. Whiteman & Nelson are proprietors of the Gem Grocery, one of the most reliable and most prosperous mercantile establishments in Northern Colorado. Mr. Nelson is 'an influential member of the Woodmen of the World, and of the order of Elks.

Albert Baker Tomlin. - In the year 1873, Mr. Tomlin arrived in Fort Collins from Missouri. He at once formed a partnership with W. C. Stover, engaging in general merchandise. He fol- lowed this line for many years, and in 1878, his friends called upon him to accept the nomination for County Treasurer. He filled the office with great credit, and until his business interests demanded his personal attention. He was born in Maryland, April 30th, 1840, and was educated in Baltimore. He married Elizabeth E. Whitesides on December 31st, 1874. Five sons and one daughter were born to them - Mrs. Eleanor Esgar, Oliver B., Thomas A., Galen J., Wesley R., and Henry M. Mr. Tomlin died on June 26th, 1908. He was a man greatly respected, loved and honored in the community.

John Hahn. - Chief among the farmers and ranchmen of the Big Thompson valley is John Hahn, who, at the ripe age of three score and tert, still overlooks his possessions and, if necessary, can do a man's work in field or garden. Mr. Hahn was born in Germany, October 6, 1840. His parents, with many others from their community in Deutchland, emigrated to America. The family ascended the Mississippi river to Rock Island, Illinois. John's father died shortly afterwards. Mr. Hahn lived in the Sucker state until he was about 19 years old, working on a farm from the time he could handle and master implements; but in 1860, with a party from his neighborhood, he came to Colorado. They crossed the Plains with the usual bull and horse teams used in those days, and on April 26, that year, they arrived at Denver, then a cluster of huts, cabins and a few houses. He came to the Big Thompson valley in August, 1860. He squatted on 160 acres of government land three miles east of the present town of Loveland, and he still owns the old homestead. He cut and pressed hay in the valley and many a load did he haul to Central City and the adjacent mines, getting all kinds of prices. He at one time sold a ton to the livery stable of McCool & Cleming for a small bunch of cows, drove them home to graze on the plains and later sold them for $500. He considers that one of his best dickers, but the price of hay would average $100 a ton and he made money while those prices lasted. In the early days there were several Indian "scares," but nothing serious resulted, though it necessitated the sending of the settlers' wives and children to Laporte and Fort Collins for protection. Mr. Hahn was one of the promoters of the Douty grist mill, the first one built in the valley. He, with others, donated enough money to put up the building and buy the plant, and they were paid back by having their wheat ground there. Mr. Hahn was County Commissioner for three years in the later '90's and served to the satisfaction of the taxpayers. He was President of the Loveland Building Association for several years; also President of the Ryan Gulch Reservoir Company, and he was one of the organizers of the Loveland National Bank, and has been its vice president for years. The winter of 1875-

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76, nearly 16 years after he left home, he went to Hillsdale, 111., and in February of that winter was married, and for over a third of a century Mr. and Mrs. Hahn have walked down life's road lovers, counselors and helpmeets. Three children blessed the union, but two, Edson and Mabel Josephine, have crossed the Great Divide, leaving one, Mrs. Jessie McWhinney, to comfort them in their declining years - years that to them have proved years of peace, happiness and great plentitude in this world's goods.

Jerome Emmett Walker was born December 3rd, 1856, at Sandwich, Illinois; educated in Iowa; married Mary E. Lee April 30th, 1882, and came to Fort Collins June 28th, 1888. The names of his living children are Maud D., Mabel J., Lee J., and Robert E. Walker. Mr. Walker is a carpenter by trade ; has been janitor at the court house five and one-half j'ears, deputy sheriff three years and is now Superintendent of the county poor farm and hospital.

August L. Rohling

phalia, «here he passed the first fifteen years of his life, meantime attending the gymnasium. He came to the United States with his brother, Phillip, in 1873 and settled in Indianapolis, where he secured employment in a wholesale dry goods house. Three years later he came to Black Hawk, Colorado, and here secured employment as a salesman with Rittmaster & Company. His brother joined him here in 1882 and, as partners, they started a store and succeeded in building up a large and profitable trade. Ten years later, in 1892, the firm of Rohling Brothers opened a dry goods store in Fort Collins, and our subject came here to have charge of it. In 1894 he purchased the building on Linden street he now occupies. It is known as the Rohling block. On February 1st,

1896, the brothers dissolved partnership, our subject retaining the Fort Collins store and has built up an extensive and valuable patronage. While living in Black Hawk, Mr. Rohling married Johanna Rudolph, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Black Hawk, leaving one child, Elizabeth Augusta, now Mrs. James M. Moore, of Greeley. His second wife, whom he married in Longmont, was June Stephenson, who was born in Carthage, Missouri, a daughter of W. T. Stephenson, of Joplin, Missouri. This union has been blessed with three children, A. Lynn, Lois and Cordelia. Mr. Rohling served one term as a member of the board of trustees of Black Hawk, and was a member of the school board for three years, serving as president one year. Since coming to Fort Collins he has been twice a member of the city council as a representative from the Fourth ward. He was made a Master Mason in Black Hawk lodge No. 4, and is now aflSliated with Collins lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M. He is also a leading member of Fort Collins lodge No, 19, 1. O. of O. F., which he has represented in the Grand Lodge, and is also connected with the Encampment, the Canton and the Rebekah lodge. He is a charter member of Larimer lodge No. 101, K. of P. and was its first Chancellor Commander. Mrs. Rohling is a member of the Eastern Star, chapter No. 26. Mr. Rohling is an enterprising and public spirited citizen, a leader in all good work and a thoroughgoing business man and gentleman.

Martin Vandewark. - Born July 20th, 1840, at Jamestown, New York; died October 10th, 1909, at Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Vandewark came to Fort Collins in 1874 and engaged in wool growing and ranching, which he followed until 1879. In 1886, in company with Charles Evans, he successfully engaged in the mercantile business as a dealer in hay, grain, farm implements, wagons, carriages, etc., and continued in this line until 1895, when he retired to a farm in the Harmony district. In 1904 he sold all of his property m Larimer county and moved to Santa Barbara, California, where he died. He left a widow, and one son, Fred Vandewark, the latter a resident of Fort Collins.

R. E. FooTE of the law firm of Thomason & Foote. Fort Collins, Colorado, was born June 19th, 1881 at Canton, Mississippi, educated in the public schools of San Francisco, Boone's preparatory school, Berkeley, California, and University of Cali- fornia; graduate of the law department of Denver University; came to Fort Collins in 1909; married Grace E. Metcalf September 1st, 1910; one child, Enid Lillian.

Hon. James C. Evans, twice elected State Senator from Larimer county and one of the best and most influential citizens of Fort Collins, during his residence therein, was born in Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, August 22nd, 1845, and was a descendant of an old Pennsylvania family. His father, Thomas Evans, a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, removed to Ohio and settled about 1835, in Knox county, where he engaged in farming. His wife was a widow and James C. was the only child born to her union with Mr. Evans. In the grammar and high schools of Mount Vernon our subject obtained the rudiments of an education. Later he attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. While carrying on his college studies in 1864, he volunteered in Company E, 145th Ohio Infantry of which he served as corporal until the expiration of his term of service. He then returned to the University and graduated therefrom in 1868, with the degree of A. B. After leaving school, he engaged in the mercantile business which he followed for several years. Coming to Colorado in 1879, Mr. Evans located in Fort Collins, which was his home until he died on February 21st, 1901. From 1880 to 1891 he was engaged in the meat market business with Messrs. Thoman & Vollintine, and also had charge of the boarding house and stores at the stone quarries in Stout and Arkins for a number of years. In 1891 he purchased the College avenue grocery, which he carried on in his own name until 1894 when he took his son, Charles R., into partnership and the firm became known as J. C. Evans & Son. They continued in the grocery business under that name until the death of our subject in 1901. In addition to the grocery business, Mr. Evans supervised the work on two farms, one of 240 acres and another of 160 acres, in the vicinity of Fort Collins. On one of his farms, he and his son set out what is probably one of the largest cherry orchards in the United States. In Ohio, August 25th, 1869, Mr. Evans was united in marriage with Augusta Noe, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, daughter of R. L. Noe, a farmer and business man. Of this union two children survive, a son and a daughter. The former, Charles R. Evans, is a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural college. The daughter, Grace G., is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and the wife of E. L. Shannon, a prominent attorney of Denver. During the late '80's, Mr. Evans served two years as mayor of Fort Collins, and in November, 1894, he was elected State Senator on the republican ticket by a large majority. He served faithfully and creditably in the Tenth and Eleventh General assemblies, sessions of 1895 and 1897. Through his efforts, in 1895, was secured a state appropriation of $15,000 for a state road from Fort Collins to Steamboat Springs, via Ute Pass and North Park. At the same session he also secured the passage and approval of bills appropriating $10,000 for the enlargement of the Mechanical Laboratory, and $5,000 for the Cherrical Laboratory at the Colorado Agricultural college. He was reelected State Senator in November, 1898, and had served through the Twelfth and a part of the Thirteenth General assemblies, sessions of 1899 and 1901, when he died. Senator Evans was taken ill with pneumonia in the senate chamber on Thursday, February 14th, and removed to his room in the Windsor hotel. The following Saturday he was taken from the hotel to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Shannon, where he died on Thursday, just one week after he was taken sick. Senator Evans was one of nature's noblemen, who succeeded because he deserved to succeed, who was respected and admired and liked by all who knew him. He was actively identified with all that tended to the welfare of his city and county. He was the special friend and champion of the Colorado Agricultural college. Courteous, fair, sympathetic and kindly he had friends on every hand. In the senate, where he sat through three and a part of the fourth sessions, he was an acknowledged leader. No member of that body had a wider influence than he possessed. He was clear and logical in his thoughts and earnest and forceful in their expression, and was considered one of the best speakers in the senate. Senator Evan's body was brought to Fort Collins and buried in Grandview cemetery with Masonic honors.

Benjamin F. Flowers was born June 22nd, 1861, in Woods county, Virginia, now West Virginia. He came to Wyandotte, Kansas, when a child where he attended school until the age of 12 years, when his father moved to Pleasant valley, locating in what is now the town of Bellvue. Here the boy continued his studies until he reached man's estate when he became associated with his father and others in the mercantile business and as dealers in lumber, in which he continued for several years. He was joined in marriage with Miss Amanda Catlett on March 28th, 1892, and later spent a few years at Lyons, Colorado, returning to Fort Collins about four years ago to engage in buying and selling real estate.

John F. Douglass

vania, where he attended school until 10 years of age, when the family moved to Illinois, where he completed his studies. Here also he worked on a farm and at other occupations until 1882, when he came to Fort Collins to join his brother, James C. Douglass, who had preceded him a few years. The brothers formed a co-partnership in the transfer and coal business which he still follows, carrying on the business alone since his brother retired about a year ago. They have been uniformly successful in their undertakings and have acquired considerable city and ranch property, besides building up an excellent reputation as reliable business men and citizens. They owned and operated the first and only omnibus line in Fort Collins, and our subject still does a large transfer and coal business with offices at the corner of College avenue and Oak street. Our subject married Dora Smith, October 2nd, 1889, and one child, a daughter, Eulalia, was born of the union. Miss Eulalia is a talented musician and performer on the piano and a cultured lady, and her services are much sought after at social entertainments. Until about a year ago when the brothers dissolved partnership and James C. retired because of failing health, the firm of Douglass Brothers was one of the oldest and most reliable business firms in Fort Collins and its standing ranked high in commercial circles. The word of our subject has always been considered as good as a bond, for he has never failed to keep his promises.

E. E. Watts. - That the location of the Agricultural college has drawn to Fort Collins and Larimer county many good citizens is a truism. Assuredly, not alone have the advantages to be gained by proximity to this free institution been responsible for the county's great increase in population, but our magnificent climate and productive soil must also be accredited with their seductive attractions. Climatic and educational facilities Mr. Watts declares were the most potent influences in deciding his course to adopt Larimer county as his future home. He is a former resident of Nebraska, having lived there for 20 years. He was born in Buda, 111., June 4th, 1861; educated in the common schools, and married when 22 years of age, Emma E. Cain. Three sons and one daughter have brought joy to their hearts: William E., Ira M., Florence C, and Robert H. Mr. Watts is a farmer by occupation and a most desirable citizen and obliging neighbor.

Dr. Franz Murke, chief consulting chemist for the Great Western Sugar company, with residence in Fort Collins, Colorado, was born March 19th, 1869, in Burg, Prussia; took the Ph. D. degree at the University of Goettingen, 1893. From that time he was employed in dififerent German sugar factories until 1900, when he went to Spain to engage in the same business. He came to the United States in 1902, and to Fort Collins in 1903, and has since been in the employ of the Great Western Sugar company. Dr. Murke owns and occupies an excellent farm situated three miles southwest of Fort Collins.

and that city has since been his home. He was full of energy and enthusiasm, the possessor of some capital and, in 1875, he engaged in the cattle business in which he continued until 1878, and then followed the mercantile business a few years, branching off into real estate, abstracting and insurance in which he is still interested, being a member of the firm of Edwards, Kissock & Abbott, but at present not actively employed in any particular line of work. Mr. Kissock is an expert accountant and his services as such are frequently in demand in auditing and checking up the books of city and county officers and also of corporations. He is, withal, a most excellent citizen, clean, honorable and reliable, whose integrity has never been called in question. He has twice represented the Fourth ward in the city council and was a valued and very efficient member of that body all through both terms. He may justly be called the father of Fort Collins' sewer system, for it was he that first brought the matter before the council and urged the necessity of prompt action on account of sanitary reasons. He was opposed by a few in the council and also by leading citizens, but he persisted in his position and finally had the satisfaction of having the sewer project adopted by the council and work started on the construction of the Mountain avenue sewer, the first built in the city. Mr. Kissock married Emma Sweeney, November 9th, 1881, in Fort Collins, and three daughters and a son have blessed the union. The children's names are Mrs. Jessie L. Clark, Fort Collins ; Mrs. Emma E. True, Nepesta, Colorado, and Rubey A. and J. Raymond at home. He is a. member of the Elks, I. O. O. F., Royal Arcanum, Woodmen of the

Mrs. John A. C. Kissock

World and Women of Woodcraft. In addition to his other public activities, Mr. Kissock has built a number of business blocks and dwelling houses in Fort Collins.

Emma A. Sweeney was born July 31st, 1862, at Clinton, New York; educated at St. Albans, Vermont and at Malone, New York. She came to Fort Collins, March 31st, 1879, and on November 9th, 1881, was united in marriage with John A. C. Kissock, the union proving a very happy one. Mrs. Kissock is a member of the Women of Woodcraft and of the Woman's club of Fort Collins.

Lathrop Montgomery Taylor was born at Farmington, Fulton county, Illinois, August 11, 1868, and with his parents, in 1878, removed to Canton, Illinois. He was educated at Jubilee College, Ills., Racine college. Wis., the Maryland Military and Naval academy and at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. In 1888, he came west and was employed in the general offices of the Burlington railway, Lincoln, Nebraska, and later entered the service of the Denver and Rio Grande railway at Denver. In 1890 he accepted a position as deputy secretary of the Colorado Agricultural college under Hon. Frank J. Annis. With the organization of the Commercial department of the college, Mr. Taylor became one of its instructors, which position he held during the existence of the department when he became assistant to the president, serving during the administration both of President Ellis and President Aylesworth. With the reorganization of the college in 1909, at the incoming of President Lory, Mr. Taylor was elected Secretary, and to the duties of this position, in 1911, were added those of purchasing agent. During 1904-06 he served as Commander of the Sons of

Veterans for the Division of Colorado and Wyoming, and also as First Lieutenant of Company M. Colorado National Guard during the Cripple Creek mining troubles.

Mr. Taylor treasures a wide knowledge of business affairs, of men and of measures; executive ability of a high order and grpat energy and integrity of character, which his twenty-one years of service with the college has amply and abundantly demonstrated.

Clarence A. Carlton. - Was born in Lowell, Mass., June 12, 1860. While he was quite young his parents moved to Worcester where he attended school. He spent some years in Missouri on a farm before coming to. Colorado in 1881. He was married in May, 1887, to Miss Mary E. Knapp of Wilmington, Illinois. Since that time he has made his home in Loveland, where he engaged in business. His family consists of three daughters, Jean, Lesley, and Leonore. He has always taken a lively interest in the public welfare of both city and county. He has held several public offices and at present is county sheriff. He is a member of the Methodist church and of several lodges.

Joseph J. Kerr, born March 3rd, 1859, in Marshall county, Indiana; came to Colorado in 1878, and to Fort Collins in 1880; farmer; married Delilah J. Yocum, of Missouri, February 21st, 1887; one child, Iva Nora, at home. Mrs. Kerr was born February 22nd, 1860, in Missouri; came to Colorado in 1874 and to Fort Collins in 1886.

Burton Davis Sanborn of Greeley, a pioneer of Northern Colorado, and widely known as an irrigationist, has been active in that field for more than a decade. While always a .resident of Greeley, his irrigation work has been largely in Larimer county. Among his notable achievements was the rehabilitation and reorganization of The North Fork Ditch and system of reservoirs, planned years before by F. L. Carter-Cotton and which finally resulted in the formation of The North Poudre Irrigation company with Mr. Sanborn as its responsible head and president. He was remarkably successful in financing this company, only relinquishing the burden of management when the company's future was assured. He is still a large stockholder in it. Another marked success in his career was the planning and building of Fossil Creek reservoir and the development of the exchange system now in vogue in connection with it, which was the one thing necessary to make The North Poudre Irrigation company rank with the best in Colorado. Together with W. A. Insinger, D. H. Barber and other Greeley and Loveland ditch men, Mr. Sanborn organized The Seven Lakes Reservoir company. Almost single handed and alone, Mr. Sanborn built The Great Boyd Lake reservoir. His only assistance was a loan furnished by a large power company which expected to use the lake in connection with a power enterprise. When this plan failed to materialize, Mr. Sanborn organized The Boyd Lake Reservoir & Irrigation company with a capital stock of $400,- 000. Boyd Lake has saved many crops in northern Colorado which would otherwise have been lost. It is the largest reservoir in Larimer county and will always have an important bearing upon the water supply during periods of scarcity. A few years ago, Mr. Sanborn and F. O. Stanley purchased the 5,000-acre Dunraven ranch at Estes Park and they acquired title to it in the name of The Estes Park Development company, owning Its stock as equal partners. In acquiring one-half interest in this property, Mr. Stanley agreed to build a hotel and make other improvements which have materialized in the beautiful Stanley hotel and Stanley Manor, and the completion of the road from Lyons to the park. This beautiful park is generally recognized as having great future possibilities. Burton Davis Sanborn was born November 1, 1859, at Hardwick, Vermont, and was educated in the Greeley public schools. He was married May 18, 1888, to Carrie Bassett. As a result of this union, three children survive; Gladys

Burton Davis Sanborn

P., Carl B., and Philo H. His daughter is the wife of former Mayor George M. Houston. He came to Colorado in 1870 and has always lived in Greeley. He was a member of the original Union Colony and its present secretary. This corporation is kept alive to enforce the principles upon which the Colony was founded. He is the senior partner in the Real Estate, Loan & Insurance firm of Sanborn & Houston, Greeley.

Henry Webster. - One of the substantial farmers of Larimer county, now located in the Harmony district, is the subject of this sketch. Mr. Webster left Warren county, Iowa, where he was born March 20th, 1867, to make his home in Colorado. He first settled on the Boxelder in 1874. He was married to Anna Franz in Fort Collins, on November 9th, 1898. Their children are three in number, a son, Harry, and two daughters, Gretchen and Dorothy. Mr. Webster owns a fine farm in a section famous for the fertility of its soil and the prosperity of its people.

August C. Kluver

Colorado, was born April 15th, 1857, the eldest son of German parents who crossed the Atlantic soon after their marriage and settled in Chicago, where our subject first saw the light of day. His youth was spent on his father's farm and his early manhood at railroad work. In the spring of 1882 he came to Fort Collins, his worldly possessions consisting of $31 in cash and a span of horses and wagon. The first year of residence here was spent in doing such odd jobs of teaming as he could get to do, and in the fall of 1883 he ran a threshing machine and hay baler for Andrew Ames. By this time he had become the owner of three teams and these he traded to Richard McCloy, in the spring of

1884, for a small stock of groceries situated on Linden street, and engaged in the mercantile business. His business career and financial success since that time have been truly remarkable, clearly demonstrating what a young man can achieve when he sets out to gain a fortune. He is now the owner of good farms in the Cache la Poudre valley, the Cradock ranch at Livermore, a stock ranch on Rabbit and Meadow creeks and cattle; is a stockholder and director of the First National bank; a large shareholder and director of the Water Supply & Storage company of which company he is serving a second term as President. He remained in the mercantile business more than twenty years. While in that business he branched out into the cattle business and carried on a. livery stable for a short time. On October 15th, 1884, Mr. Kluver was married to Mary E. Cornwall in Fort Collins and they have one child, a son, Fred Kluver, who is married and lives on the Cradock ranch near Livermore.

Thomas Morgan was born November 23rd, 1859, at LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He was raised on a farm and soon after attaining his majority, came to Fort Collins, arriving in January, 1881. He married Miss MoUie Walker, December 31st, 1888, near Fort Collins, his bride being a daughter of Carson Walker, a pioneer of the Big Thompson valley. In 1902, he purchased the W. P. Bosworth ranch at Stove Prairie on which he has since lived. Being industrious and thrifty, he soon gathered a nice bunch of cattle about him and added 200 acres to his 160 acre ranch, giving him 360 acres of fine meadow, pasture and tillable land. For the past twenty years he has been a member of the school board in his district, and has also been overseer of his road district for four years.

George O. Stakebake came to Colorado, February 22nd, 1892, making his home in Fort Collins. Indiana was his home previous to that time, where he was born on the 22nd of September, 1868, in Randolph county; educated in the public schools at Winchester, and on the 21st of July, 1897, he married Phebe A. Doolittle, in Fort Collins. They have one son living, Blauvelt Stakebake, aged four years. On September 3rd, 1902, the shadow of death swept across their happy home and their beloved daughter Leata Arlene passed into a last sleep. Again on December 4th, 1909, little Everett Van Houton left them to mourn a second time a loved and cherished idol. Mr. Stake- bake is a wheelright by occupation and an expert mechanic. He is now conducting a general repair shop at 217 East Mountain avenue in Fort Collins. Mrs. Stakebake is a daughter of Mrs. S. M. Doolittle, widow of the late Thomas H. Doolittle, who came to Fort Collins in the early eighties and also a niece of Mrs. Ella B. Yount who, associated with her husband, the late A. K. Yount, established a bank in Fort Collins.

Frederick W. Sherwood. - Among .the very first of the pioneer leaders in the movement to settle Larimer county was the subject of this sketch. Mr. Sherwood was born in December, 1831, in Oswego, New York. His youth was spent in his native city, where he attended the public schools. From there he migrated, in 1858, to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and engaged in the lumber business with his brother, Jesse M. Sherwood. Two years later, in the spring of 1860, the brothers, Jesse M. and F. W., fitted themselves out with ox-teams, wagons and provisions for a trip across the Plains to Colorado. They arrived in Denver the following summer, and, after spending a few months in the mines at Russell Gulch, came to the Cache la Poudre valley, arriving in the latter part of December, 1860. They located on a fine tract of river bottom meadow land situated about four and one-half miles southeast of the present city of Fort Collins. That winter they hauled logs from the mountains and erected a comfortable house, which is still standing in a fairly good state of preservation. There were but few people living in the valley below Laporte then and neighbors were scattering and long distances apart. The Sherwoods early began the raising, buying and selling of horses and cattle, develcfping their farm at the same time, and raising hay, grain and vegetables on quite an extensive scale, in which they were remarkably successful. In 1864 the Sherwood ranch was an Overland stage station for a few months and soon became known far and wide for the warm welcome and generous hospitality extended to travelers and visitors. Chief Friday's band of Arapahoe Indians were camped on the Sherwood ranch in 1865-6, and F. W. Sherwood was appointed an agent by the Government to supply them with food and look after their welfare. One of the treasures of our subject's later years was the commission issued to him, signed by President Abraham Lincoln. In 1875, after adding to their land holdings, and fortune had generally favored them, the brothers divided up the property, leaving our subject in possession, of perhaps, the finest and best improved farm of about 1,000 acres there was in the valley. Mr. Sherwood continued to carry on the farm until 1894, when he exchanged it for an improved stock ranch on the Laramie river, receiving in addition, a goodly sum of money. Here for eight years, Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood lived in a large, well-finished, handsomely furnished log house. Their latch string always hung outside and genuine hospitality and good cheer reigned within. Mr. Sherwood disposed of this ranch and his live stock in 1902 to A. de V. Baldwin, and moved back to Fort Collins, which was his home until he died February 10th, 1906. Thus passed away one of the noblest of the pioneer characters of Larimer county. In 1861, after the Territorial Legislature had set off and created Larimer county, Governor Gilpin appointed Mr. Sherwood a member of the first board of county commissioners. His colleagues appointed at the same time, were Alfred F. Howes and John J. Ryan. This board, however, failed to perfect an organization and never received official recognition. In 1871, Mr. Sherwood was elected a county commissioner, serving his term with signal ability and fidelity. He was again elected commissioner for the first district in 1897 and was chairman of the board the last year of his term. In 1874, Mr. Sherwood married Mary Moulton, who taught the first school in what is now known as the Timnath district, and she survives him. They had no children. Mrs. Sherwood came from Illinois to Larimer county in 1869, and followed teaching until she married. To write a full and complete biography of our subject's life and public services since he came to Colorado would be almost like compiling a history of Larimer county, so closely was he identified with the development of its material resources and so intimately associated was he with its official and social affairs. As a broad minded, clear headed enterprising and public spirited gentleman he was without a superior, and the memory of his good deeds as a neighbor, friend, citizen and public official will long remain with those who survive him.

C. N. Glover, President of the Glover Tile company, (Inc.) was born November 22nd, 1860, and educated in Chicago, Illinois.; married Mary E. White, (sister of Mrs. J. L. Armstrong,) of Detroit, Michigan, July 21st, 1883. They have one son, Eugene N., who is engaged in newspaper work. Mr. Glover came to Fort Collins in December, 1893, and bought the old Secord place, three miles north-west of Fort Collins. Here he will erect a $25,000 plant for the manufacture of concrete tile, an enterprise which promises to become an important addition to the industries of the Cache la Poudre valley. Mr. Glover is one of the sterling citizens of Larimer county, public spirited and enterprising.

Paul W. Lee

acumen, thorough knowledge of jurisprudence, high legal standing and upright professional character of its members. They are all gentlemen of ability, learned in the principles of the law and careful and conscientious in the application of those principles. Among those who stand in the front rank of the legal fraternity of the county is the subject of this sketch. Mr. Lee has been secretary of the Larimer county Bar association since its organization ; is a member of the Colorado Bar association and the American Bar association ; of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; of the American Political Science association; of the National Municipal League and of the Loyal Legion. He was attorney for the city of Fort Collins from April,

1907 to April, 1911, and has an extended practice in the courts of the state, with a broad experience in irrigation litigation, particularly in the courts of Larimer and Weld counties, during the past ten years. He has frequently appeared as referee in the adjudication of prior rights to the use of water for irrigation and has a thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of irrigation. Mr. Lee was born November 26th, 1876, in Xenia, Ohio. He is a B. A. graduate of the University of Colorado, and an LL. B. graduate of the University of Denver. He was married August 22nd, 1906, to Florence Moore and the union has been blessed with two children, a son and a daughter, Richard M., and Margaret Lee. He came from his native state to Colorado in 1897, locating first at Colorado Springs. After being admitted to practice in the courts of the state in 1900, he settled in Fort Collins which has since been his home. Practiced in Greeley 1901-3; located in Fort Collins in 1903.

Arthur J. Piatt was born on a farm in 1872, in Neosho county, Kansas, and educated in Iowa; married Minnie E. Debolt November 21st, 1900, at Fort Collins, Colorado, and they are the parents of three daughters, Ruth, Mildred and Evelyn. He came from Iowa to Fort Collins in 1895 and worked on a ranch the first summer; returned then to Iowa and attended school at Earlham academy one winter; came back to Fort Collins in the spring of 1897 and attended one term at the State Normal school, Greeley; engaged in farming the following four years; worked four years for P. Anderson Mercantile company in Fort Collins, and then P. Anderson and he founded the Piatt Mercantile company at Wellington, Colorado, where he and his family reside. Mr, Piatt enjoys the confidence and good will of all who know him and is considered one of the substantial business men of Larimer county.

Clerin T. Woods. - Mr. Woods came west when a mere lad, being 12 years of age when he landed in Marshalltown, Iowa, hailing from Ohio, where he was born December 1st, 1853. He was educated in Marshalltown, Iowa. He roughed it across the Plains in 1871, punching cows, and repeated the trip ip 1872. The year 1873 found him a resident of Larimer county. He moved to St. Cloud in 1874, where he served as postmaster for 18 years, and in 1902 he became a resident of Fort Collins. He married Emma Haddock in 1878, at Marshalltown, Iowa. Two sons and two daughters were born to them: Hubert R. Woods,

Auditor Hahn's Peak R. R.; Mrs. Florence E. Baxter, Miss Maud and Imri Woods, the two last being with their parents. Mr. Woods was at one time one of the largest cattle growers in Larimer county.

Howard G. Springer. - One of the conspicuous examples of the thousands of young men who left their eastern homes and came to Colorado with limited means in the early days in search of a more genial climate and where there were greater advantages for acquiring a competence and who, through industry, persevenance and good judgment, have exceeded their fondest anticipations in that direction, we feel at liberty to mention and point out the subject of our sketch. Mr. Springer was born March 13th, 1865, at Bridgeport, New Jersey, and spent his boyhood on a farm. He received his education in his native town and soon after attaining his majority, he bade good-bye to his eastern home and friends and journeyed westward, arriving in Fort Collins in March, 1887. Being a farmer boy and a lover of good stock, he began to look about for a piece of land or a farm that he could obtain on which to begin an independent life and make a home. Fortune favored him for it soon came to his knowledge that the Armstrong McGinley farm of 240 acres, a short distance north of Timnath, one of the best and most productive tracts of land in the Cache la Poudre valley, was for sale. It did not take him long to close a bargain with Mr. McGinley for the place, going into debt though for a good big share of the purchase money. Possession of the place was given him right away and he went to work digging a fortune out of the soil. If you would learn how well he has succeeded, ask his neighbors, his bankers, or anyone that knows his circumstances, and they will tell you that Howard Springer is one of the foremost as well as one of the wealthiest citizens of the Timnath district. He is now the owner of two good farms, one of 200 acres and another of 240 acres, all under a high state of cultivation and producing marvelous crops every year. In 1910 his wheat fields yielded him 66 bushels to the acre, which goes to show what kind of a farmer he is, what kind of land he has and how he works. A poor farmer couldn't get such yields of grain from even the famous rich bottom lands of the Nile. Not long after he began operations on his farm, Mr. Springer discovered that it was not good for man to be alone, that solitude and cold lunches were not conducive to one's greatest happiness, and he began to look about for a suitable help-meet and companion. Here fortune favored him again. Near by lived Almeda Flick, daughter of Paul Flick, one of the real pioneers of the Cache la Poudre valley, and she met favor in his eyes and he in hers, with the usual result - that one very short word in reply to a question, settled the matter and they were joined in marriage on March 12th, 1889. The union has been blessed with two beautiful daughters, one dying in infancy and the other, Alice Elizabeth, a graduate of the Fort Collins High school. Mr. Springer has had remarkable success as a farmer and stock feeder and this was not due to luck, but to hard work, good management and in knowing how to do a thing right and when to do it. He believes in and practices one of Ben Franklin's famous maxims, "He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive." He is known as a man of strict integrity, upright and honorable in all his dealings, as one of the solid, substantial citizens of Larimer county. He is a Vice-President of the Farmers' Bank of Timnath and director of school district No. 6.

WiLLARD Harding, one of the early settlers of the Cache la Poudre valley and one of the successful and substantial farmers of Larimer county, was born in 1840, in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools of that period, attending school in the winter season when his services were not needed in his father's fields. He migrated to Colorado in 1872 and first located on a part of the farm now owned by T. J. Stroh. His nearest neighbors at that time were Gilbert Smith, Revilo Loveland, Simon Duncan, Lewis and Peter Kern, William H. and Adolphus Peterson, Ebenezer, John and David Davis, James B. and John Arthur and Joseph Prendergast. He has followed the business of farming, stock raising and stock feeding since coming to Colorado with uniform success and is rated one of the financially strong men of the county. He has never sought nor accepted public ofBce, although he has always taken a lively interest in public affairs, but has devoted his time and attention to the improvement and cultivation of his farm and to the care of his live stock. Mr. Harding never married and has therefore lived the life of a bachelor. He has been a good and useful citizen of the county for nearly forty years, and has done his part in helping to subdue the wilderness and make it blossom as the rose. If all men had as high a conception of the difference between right and wrong as has animated his conduct all through life, there would be no need of court houses and jails.

Montezuma W. Fuller was born November 13th, 1858, at Horton, Kings county. Nova Scotia; educated in the public schools and at the Colorado Agricultural college; came from Denver, Colo., to Fort Collins, in April, 1880; married Anna E. Graham, June 27th, 1881, in Fort Collins; names of children: Graham W., Robert K., Frances M., Bessie M., Dorothy F., Paul H. and Margaret Fuller; architect and building superintendent.

rado the first time fifty-four years ago and has been a resident of the county since 1871, a period of forty years. He is widely known and highly esteemed for his many splendid traits of character.

Mr. Michaud was born October 13th, 1837, at Isle Verte, province of Quebec, Canada, where he received his education in the public schools. He married Aurella Paradis, August 19th, 1867, at Trois Pistoles, Canada, and they have four children, Joseph and Anna Michaud, Mrs. Helen Willox and Mrs. Mary Bogard, all of Fort Collins. In 1856, Mr. Michaud went into the lumber wood« of Northern Wisconsin and rafted lumber down the Wisconsin river from Wausau to Prairie du Chien and other river towns on the Mississippi. In 1857, he drifted to St. Louis and hired out to Col. Bent to drive an ox team loaded with freight to Bent's fort in the Arkansas river valley. He made the trip without incident or serious accident, returning to St. Louis in 1858 and drove a government train to Fort Union, New Mexico. He then went to New Orleans, but not being pleased with conditions there, returned to his starting point and in the spring of 1859, arrived in Denver. After spending three months in the mines at Central City, he returned to Denver and took up 160 acres of land on the Platte river bottom, near the present town of Brighton. He was the first man in Colorado to declare his intentions to become a citizen of the United States. This was in the spring of 1861. He remained on his ranch near Brighton, making hay and raising vegetables for the Denver market until 1871, when he traded the ranch with Joseph Mason for the farm in the Cache la Poudre valley on which he still lives. Since coming to Larimer county he has taken an active interest in public affairs and has been road overseer of his district for eleven years and school director for twenty years. He is regarded as one of the best citizens of the county, intelligent, honest and upright.

Frank A. Chaffee. - A native to the manor born, a man who has spent all the years of his life in Larimer county. Mr. Chaffee was born on the Big Thompson, . one mile west of where Loveland now stands, June 30th, 1862. He was educated in the schools of Fort Collins, and was married to Miss Anna C. Hawley, Nov. 10th, 1892. They have one daughter, Gladys. Mr. Chaffee has been in business in Fort Collins for over twenty years, and with W. C. Stover and R. M. Ferguson founded the Collins Cash Clothing Co. Since the death of W. C. Stover, his son, Judge Fred W. Stover has become the silent partner of the firm. In 1908, Mr. Chaffee was elected a member of the board of County Commissioners. His large majority of the votes cast is a true measure of the confidence and esteem in which he is held by the people of the county.

Peter Gealow. - This is a brief life history of Peter Gealow, one of the pioneers of Virginia Dale and also one of the solid, substantial citizens of Larimer county. He was born in Germany, but came to the United States with his parents when a child and was educated in this country. In 1883 he married Ida Waxmost, at St. Peter, Minnesota. They have no children. By occupation he is a stockman in which he has had good success. He came to Larimer county in 1872 and located on a ranch on Deadman creek, which has since been his home. His neighbors at that time, were S. C. Leach and Frank Kibler and they lived several miles distant from him. He never had any trouble with the Indians nor anybody else, having always lived a quiet, peaceful life and given to minding his own business and not interfering with his neighbors. He is widely known and is a good and highly respected citizen. From him we learn that William Kibler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kibler, was the first child born in Virginia Dale and he opened his eyes upon his world in 1873.

Mr. And Mrs. James C. Douglass

schools. He was reared to manhood on a farm and soon after attaining his majority, he moved to Garnett, Kansas, where he was married in 1876, to Cynthia A. Clarke. They have three children living, Earl, Wilhelmina and Helen Irma, all of whom were born in Fort Collins, to which place Mr. and Mrs. Douglass moved in 1879. Before coming to Fort Collins he had been engaged in farming in Kansas, but since then he has given his attention mainly to the coal and transfer business which he has successfully followed for nearly thirty years. His children have been given the advantages offered by the public schools of Fort Collins, all of them being graduates of the High school, the son Earl and daughter Wilhelmina being graduates also of the Colorado Agricultural college, at which institution Earl is now a valued member of the teaching staff. The daughters are successful public school teachers in the county. During his residence in Fort Collins our subject has acquired valuable real estate in the city and is also the owner of farm property on Dry creek. He is half owner and builder of the Colorado block, one of the finest business and office blocks in the city; has a fine house on South Howes street and is in comfortable financial circumstances. He is a leading member of the First Baptist church, a man of honor and integrity and enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him.

Mrs. James C. Douglass. - Cynthia Ann Clarke first saw the light in Pickaway county, Ohio, where she spent sixteen years of wholesome life on a farm. Then, "after the war" the Clarke family fell victims to the western fever, and came, first by river steamer down the Ohio and then overland from the Missouri to Anderson county, Kansas. They shared the trials of pioneers, their unceasing toil and uncertain future of the farmers about them, accepting grasshopper years, dry years and years of plenty hopefully and as cheerfully as possible. Miss Clarke soon became one of the much needed teachers of the county and also attended the Kansas State Normal school at Emporia, a couple of terms. In 1876 she married James C. Douglass, also a Kansan, and three years later started for Colorado in a prairie schooner. For six long, tiresome weeks that vehicle impelled by horses, crawled over the Plains of Kansas and Colorado in scorching summer heat, its occupants, weary of camp life and scarcity of water, finally reached Laporte, August 1st, 1879. After visiting many localities in the state from the Cache la Poudre valley to the Garden of the Gods, Mr. and Mrs. Douglass settled in Fort Collins and have since made that city their home, enjoying content, prosperity and the good-will and esteem of a wide circle of warm friends. Mrs. Douglass is a member of the Baptist church and has long been a leader in all good work connected therewith.

Thomas Darnell, one of the early settlers of the Cache la Poudre valley, died November 14th, 1904, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. A. Drake, wife of Senator Drake, aged 76 years. He came from Iowa to Fort Collins in 1880, and engaged in farming. In 1902 he sold his farm to the North Poudre Canal company, as the greater portion of it would be covered by the Fossil Creek reservoir which that company was building, and moved

Abner Loomis.- - -The history of Larimer county, i like that of all other communities, is founded upon [ the lives, the characters, and the deeds of the pioneers, who braved the dangers and endured the hardships, privations and sufferings incident to the long and perilous journey across a 600 mile desert to establish a new home beyond the borders of civilization. Their blood was tinctured with iron, their nerves fortified by steel and their souls made invulnerable by high purposes and cherished ideals. They were also possessed of prophetic vision, for they saw in this land of promise the making of a rich and prosperous region, filled with teeming thousands of happy, contented people. They came and laid the foundations deep and lasting for the blessings of civilization which we of the present generation now enjoy. To Abner Loomis, one of that noble band of pioneers, this sketch is dedicated. Mr. Loomis was born December 17th, 1829, at Fredonia, New York. His parents moved to Black Creek, Ohio, when our subject was four years old, and here the future pioneer and successful man of affairs had his first introduction to the school room, within a small, rude log structure with rough benches and desks, to sit and work upon. A primer was his only school book. In 1840, the family moved to Iowa, then a sparcely settled country without schools or colleges, consequently young Loomis had but slight opportunities to acquire an education outside of his own efforts before the family fireside, but those efforts proved invaluable to him in after life. In 1850, Mr. Loomis crossed the Plains to California with an ox team and was three months making the journey. He made money at placer mining, but spent much of his gains searching for richer ground. He returned to Iowa in 1859, and in the spring of 1860 started for Colorado, then the mecca of gold hunters. Soon after arriving at his destination, he fell m with Antoine Janis with whom and eight others, he prospected along the eastern base of the mountains from Laporte to Medicine Bow creek, but failed to find enough of the yellow dust to pay expenses. In June, 1860, he returned to the Cache la Poudre valley and in company with two others, filed a squatter's claim on land in Pleasant valley. The prairie was covered with a luxuriant growth of grass and while his associates were cutting and stacking hay, he went to Denver, bought an ox team and drove it to Omaha after a load of provisions which he brought back that season. In the winter of 1860-1 and spring of 1861, their surplus hay was hauled to Central City, a distance of 90 miles, and sold for $100 per ton. In 1861, Mr. Loomis raised potatoes, corn and other vegetables on his land in which he succeeded so well that he continued in that line until 1867, finding a ready, though distant market for his products at the mining camps. In 1862, Mr. Loomis exchanged gold dust for mint certificates and made a trip to Missouri. He fell in with some Union soldiers in Kansas who arrested him in the belief that he was a a spy from "Pap" Price's confederate army, but when he showed his captors those mint certificates, they released him. If he had not had those certificates he probably would have been hung as a spy. In 1867 he gave up general farming and turned his attention to cattle raising, having already accumulated a herd of 200 head. That year he established a ranch at Spring canon and thenceforward for about 15 years he devoted the most of his time and attention to the cattle business. In 1879 he formed a partnership with Charles B. Andrews in the cattle business and in 1882 the firm sold 7,000 head for $127,000. When Mr. Loomis first settled in Pleasant Valley, in June, 1860, there were but three other Americans here, and they were William Lytton and Todd, and A. W. Randall. After disposing of his cattle, Mr. Loomis devoted his means and energies to the upbuilding of Fort Collins and Larimer county. His life was ever a busy one and his work of whatever nature was well done. He was a pioneer of pioneers and his counsel was often sought on various subjects and his aid and sympathy were extended to all worthy objects. In every step forward in the march of progress he was a potent factor. No heart was more quickly touched by appeals of the unfortunate and the aid he rendered was the unostentatious and quiet act of one who fully understood the master definition of true charity. His love of right, strong as it was, was no stronger than his abhorence of wrong, and he had that moral poise which intuitively differentiated between right and wrong. Recollections of Abner Loomis, of his blameless life, his sturdy manhood, his energy, enterprise and public spirit; of his generous deeds, his loyalty as a friend and as a citizen and his loving kindness and sympathy for those in trouble, will ever be pleasant and profitable. In 1894, he was elected President of the Poudre valley bank, a position he filled for more than ten years. When the county > was organized, Governor Evans appointed him member of the board of County Commissioners and he served the people in that capacity for eleven successive years. He also served his ward on the town board of trustees when the water works were built in 1882-3. In 1862 he married Isabelle Allen, who was the mother of his children. She died greatly lamented in October, 1892, and on December 21st, 1896, he married Mrs. M. Maxwell, who survives him. He departed this life August 23rd, 1904. His surviving children are Leonidas, Guy E., and Jasper Loomis, Mrs. T. H. Robertson and Mrs. Charles Golding-Dwyre, Jr. Mr. Loomis was a Master Mason and a member of the order of Elks.

Jack Harper; born in 1844, in Virginia, and moved to Nebraska in 1860; fought Indians on the Plains for three years and in 1867 came to Fort Collins with a mule team and was employed for a time at hauling lumber from Rist Canon to Fort Russell, Wyoming; ran a threshing machine in 1868 for N. H. Meldrum; drove ties down the Poudre in 1870 with a gang of Mexicans for Contractor Watson; went to Texas and in 1877 married Miss M. J. Fritz, settling soon after in Utah where he now resides. He has pleasant recollections of many of the old timers in the Cache la Poudre valley, including Joseph, Austin and Frank Mason, White, Bradbury, Gordon and Dr. T. M. Smith.

James M. McCreery. - Our subject in this instance was one of the pioneers of the Big Thompson valley and was during all of his thirty-seven years' residence one of the most popular and most highly esteemed citizens of Larimer county. Everybody knew James M. McCreery and everybody had the utmost confidence in his honesty, his Integrity and in the sincerity of his purpose. Friends he had everywhere and enemies he had but few. He was the soul of honor, whether as a private citizen or as a servant of the people whom he repeatedly served in various important positions of public trust. Mr. McCreery was born April 25th, 1853, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. He was reared on a farm and received his education in his native town. A portion of his boyhood years were spent learning a trade in the car shops at Allegheny, Penn. He came west in 1874 and settled in the Big Thompson valley where he spent four years on a farm. He was then employed for several years as salesman in Krouskop's store at Loveland. On November 22nd, 1882, he was united in marriage with Ada

L. Shallenberger and their living children are Ralph R., Mrs. Bessie Van Sickle, Lucas, Herbert (now deceased), and Helen. In January, 1892, Mr. McCreery was appointed deputy County assessor and he moved his family from Loveland to Fort Collins, which place remains the family home. Four years later he was elected County assessor, which office he filled four years with conspicuous ability. Since then he has served the county four years as sheriff and two years as district court bailiff. He was an able, conscientious, and faithful public official, not a blot or blemish remaining to stain his private or public record. Mr. McCreery died in January, 1911, sincerely mourned by all that knew him. He was a devoted husband, a fond and indulgent parent, and a true and trusty friend.

Ansel Watrous, eldest son of Orrin J. and Jane E. (Smith) Watrous, was born November 1st, 1835, in Conklin, Broome county. New York. His father, the eldest son of Ansel and Demis (Luce) Watrous, was born June 18th, 1815, in Schoharie county, New York. At the age of five years his father moved his family to Bridgewater, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, where he first attended the common schools of the period, completing his school work at Montrose academy. When 17 years of age he was apprenticed to the printer's trade in a Wilkesbarre, Pa., printing office, and on July 16th, 1834, married Jane E. Smith, who was born September 15th, 1814, in the town of Franklin, Susquehanna county. Pa., daughter of Roswell Smith, who was a native of Hartford, Conn., and a descendant of a colonial family. Six children were born of this union: Ansel, Henry O., Jerome A., Demis L., Eliza J., and Kate M. Watrous, In 1844 he moved his family from the state of New York to Wisconsin, arriving at Sheboygan Falls on September 16th, moving in the spring of 1848 to Brothertown, Calumet county, Wis., where he conducted a hotel and stage station for one year and then moved, in May, 1849, to Charlestown, in that county. Here he began the erection of a sawmill on the Manitowoc river. While on a trip to Sheboygan, thirty miles away, after a load of mill machinery, he was stricken with cholera and died September 10th, 1850. The family then returned to Broome county. New York, where the subject of this sketch was apprenticed to a cousin of his father in Brooklyn, Pa., to learn the carpenter and joiner's trade. In September, 1855, he returned to his former home in Wisconsin, and on December 25th, 1856, was joined in marriage with Florelle Thompson, who was born June 27th, in Stockton, N. Y., the daughter of Rufus and Susan ( Schofield ) Thompson. In November, 1860, he was elected sheriff of Calumet county on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln, the martyred Civil war President, and served two years. In the fall of 1863 he was elected county clerk to fill a vacancy, and re-elected in 1864 for a full term, serving three years in that office. On retiring from office he followed contracting and building until December 26th, 1877, when he started for Colorado, arriving in Fort Collins on December 30th. Here he was employed as a salesman in W. C. Stover's store until June, 1878, when, in company with Elmer E. Pelton, he founded the Fort Collins Courier with which he is still connected as editor. In March, 1885, President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Fort Collins, which office he held until June, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate on the democratic ticket for auditor of state in 1882 and again in 1884, going down to defeat with his ticket. Mr. and Mrs. Watrous have no children.

Stephen H. Seckner, one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Fort Collins, was born January 27th, 1847, in Lewis county, New York, where and at the Commercial College of Watertown, New York, he was educated. In 1873 he married Ida Ayers, and they have one daughter, now Mrs. Mildred Smith, of Knoxville, Tennessee. He came to Fort Collins with his fam- ily in 1880,- and opened a grocery store in the Yount Bank block, afterward building for himself a store and dwelling rooms on Linden street. Possessed of a fine artistic temperament, he gave up the grocery business and opened a photographer's studio, which he has since chiefly conducted with marked success. He has served his home city one term of two years as alderman, also two years as police magistrate. Was a member of the first city council of Fort Collins, and is now Secretary and Recorder of the Masonic orders of Fort Collins, being a Master Mason, a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar. He is also a Civil war veteran and a member of the Geo. H. Thomas Post No. 7, G. A. R., of which he is a past commander. He is one of the foremost in actively promoting all move- merits designed to advance the material prosperity of Fort Collins and to elevate the educational, moral and religious standard of the community.

Herbert A. Edmonds. - One of the stirring and successful business men of Fort Collins is Herbert A. Edmonds, the well know^n dealer in dry goods and women's furnishings. He first opened his eyes upon the things of this world on August 19th, 1860, at Three Rivers, Michigan, but he has no distinct recollection of what attracted his attention at that time. As time passed he was sent to school at Syracuse, New York, where he obtained his education. At the age of 23, Mr. Edmonds was joined in marriage with Frances Barnes and they have two children, Jessie B., and Millie E. Miss Jessie is a teacher of marked ability and has been employed in the Longmont schools for the coming year. Miss Millie is at home and is a valued assistant in her father's store. Mr. Edmonds came to Denver in 1883 and engaged in the dry goods business, moving thence in 1886 to Greeley and to Fort Collins in 1903. Here he has continuously followed the dry goods business with marked success. He is one of the most [+08] genial and enterprising of men whose splendid social qualities have drawn to him a host of friends. He is a man who, when he takes hold.of a project makes it win. In 1905 he promoted the Northern Colorado Electric company which was the beginning of the agitation which resulted in a street railway for Fort Collins, and was one of the originators of the Stork System of Savings which has been successfully introduced into nearly every state in the Union. He was chairman of the committee which arranged for and successfully carried out the widely heralded Lamb Day celebration which brought 20,- 000 people to Fort Collins. Mr. Edmonds is an enthusiastic member of the B. P. O. Elks and was elected Exalted Ruler of lodge No. 804, Fort Collins, in April, 1911. He is also an influential member of the chamber of commerce and has served that organization on several important committees.

Rezin E. Dotts was born near New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, February 18th, 1 852 ; educated in the public schools ; went with his parents in 1869 to Wayne county, Iowa; taught school winters and worked on a farm summers; took a course at Kirksville, Missouri, Normal school; came to Fort Collins in 1877; married Esther B. Black, August 26th, 1877, Rev. C. A. Brooks performing the ceremony; three daughters were born of the union; taught Laporte school winter of 1877-8, pupils half-breeds and whites, the latter predominating; manager of Colorado elevator five years; moved to a farm in Boxelder valley in 1885; sold out in 1904 and moved to Denver. Mr. Dotts is now President of the Brooks Tent & Awning company, and lives at 920 Ogden street, Denver.

J. F. Farrar. - As a member of the legal fraternity of Fort Collins and of the Colorado and Larimer County Bar associations, Mr. Farrar, though still a young man, has established an enviable reputation among the people and has won recognition from his seniors in the practice of the law. He is a close student and by diligent application, has become well grounded in the principles of the law and is so conversant with the code of practice that he very seldom fails to win a case in court. He takes an active part in public affairs and in politics, keeping thoroughly posted concerning topics of state and national importance as well as regarding matters that have to do with the welfare, of Fort Collins and Larimer county. In politics, Mr. Farrar is a democrat and has served his party as Chairman of its County Central committee. In

1909, Governor Shafroth appointed him a member of the State Board of Pardons, a position he still holds. He is a native Coloradoan, his birthday occurring on November 15th, 1877, and Evans, Weld county, was his birthplace. He was educated in the East Denver High school and at the Denver University where he took the law course. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and located in Fort Collins in 1901 and began the practice of his profession. On February 12th, 1907, he married Mary McMenemy in Omaha, Nebraska.

Thomas GarnicKj one of the leading contractors and builders of Fort Collins, was born April 6th, 1844, at Quincy, Illinois; received his education in the public schools of Nauvoo, Illinois; married Fannie Congrove, September 12th, 1869, and their children's names are Fred, Charles E. and Frank; came from Illinois to Fort Collins, arriving July 16th, 1878, and that city has since for the most part, been his home.