Larimer County, Colorado - The whole text, 1911 (part 19 of 22)

Edward Hayden Hall was born at Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, on August 30, 1857. Lived at Meredith and Portsmouth in the same state and was employed for six years in the banks of the latter city. Removed to Fort Collins, Colorado, in May, 1882. In that year built and operated the Loveland Elevator at Loveland, in partnership with S. B. Harter and the late John J. Ryan. Returned to Fort Collins in 1883 and engaged in the loan and investment security business. Organized the Colorado Loan Association with E. T. Dunning, W. G. Bixby and F. C. Avery as associates. In the same year embarked in the range cattle business with W. G. Bixby under the firm name of Bixby & Hall. This business was merged in the Poudre Live Stock company, followed in later years by the Akin Live Stock company and the Live Stock company. Was for over twenty years, associated with F. C. Avery in extensive land, farming and live stock operations. Was married on August 22, 1885, to Violette Fortune of Kittery Point, Maine. Made their home at 627 South College avenue where they still reside. Have a family of three sons; Roland R., Hayden H., and Phillips P. Hall. Of the twenty-eight years of his residence in Fort Collins, Mr. Hall has devoted one-half of that time to public service without compensation; four years as alderman in the early '90's, and ten years as member and President of the Board of Education (1900-1910). During his administration the High school, Laurel street, LaPorte avenue and Rockwood Place school buildings were constructed and equipped. "The pathway of a good school director is more often strewn with thorns than with roses and when a school district finds a person able to tread the thorns without pricking his feet or exciting the pity, envy or jealousy of others, it is indeed fortunate. Mr. Hall as President demonstrated his ability to do this without sacrificing a modicum of his own self respect, giving at the same time, the best and most universally approved service to the schools and public. Good school directors are born, not made and a nature endowed school officer is of far greater value to the district than the best hand made product ever turned out." (Fort Collins Courier.) Mr. Hall was active in the campaign for a Y. M. C. A. building for Fort Collins and was chairman of the building committee which had charge of its erection. He is a member in good standing of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and K. of P. fraternities.

David M. Fee, D. D. S., born in Washington county, Pennsylvania; educated at Monmouth college, 111., and Chicago college of Dental Surgery; married Elizabeth R. Caldwell, June 18th, 1903; two children, Elizabeth A., aged seven, and David Caldwell Fee, aged three; came to Fort Collins in May, 1907, and is engaged in the coal, hay and grain business.

in the public schools, the High school at Erie, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated, subsequently taking a thorough business training at a commercial college in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. On August 30th, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company C of the 16th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry and served until 1864, when he was discharged on account of disability. He was wounded under the left eye at the battle of Shepardstown, Virginia, and taken prisoner, but was exchanged shortly afterwards and sent home. On recovering from his wound he rejoined his regiment and did valiant service for the Union. The wound under the eye gave him a great deal of trouble and, owing to unskillful treatment while he was a prisoner, resulted in producing total blindness in 1885. In 1866,

Captain McIntyre moved to Missouri, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar and elected County Judge of Caldwell county in 1870, in which office he served two full terms. He came to Fort Collins in April, 1878, and that city has since been the family home. After losing his sight, Captain McIntyre resumed his study of law in the law department of the University of Michigan, graduating therefrom in June, 1889 with the highest honors conferred by that institution. He was the first blind man to graduate in the United States with the degree of LL. D. He was married to Lucy N. Richards, September 13th, 1862, who with one son, Clyde, of Michigan, survives him. He died on the 6th of October, 1892. Lucy N. Richards was born November 11th, 1844, in Erie county, Pennsylvania. Her parents were of Puritan blood and revolutionary stock. She was educated in the public and academic schools of that day and began teaching school at the age of 17 years. She mar- ried Josiah W. McIntyre in September, 1862, just before he left for the front as a volunteer in the Civil war, parting with her young husband with smiles instead of tears, not because her heart was not breaking, but because of the great cause in which he had enlisted. Seven children were born to Captain and Mrs. Mclntyre, only one of whom Clyde, survives. Mrs. Mclntyre was a charter member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Fort Collins, organized in 1879, and still retains her membership. In 1910 she received the State W. C. T. U. banner for the best local evangelistic work. Her whole life has been devoted to the work of uplifting humanity and she has long been a recognized leader in church and mission work and reform movements. She became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church when ten years of age, and has since led a consistent Christian life. She is a bible student an ardent lover of books and her home at 137 Matthews street contains an excellent library.

Arthur H. Patterson. - This is a sketch of a pioneer and commonwealth builder. All the years of his matured manhood were sedulously devoted to- the development and nurture of the resources and industries of his chosen western home and his death, at the age of forty-eight years, was a distinct loss to Fort Collins, Larimer county and to Colorado. He was closely identified with the early history and subsequent growth of Fort Collins, contributing liberally of his time and means to its upbuilding and material advancement. He was one of the donees to the state of the 240-acre tract, since utilized as the Agricultural college farm, the main college building, the chemical laboratory, the old and new domestic science building, the horticultural hall, the college library building, the mechanic shops, the old engineering building and the group of buildings in use by the department of veterinary science all standing on the eighty-acre tract once owned by him and given free to the people. He was an energetic business man and erected two large and substantial business blocks, one of which stood on the northeast corner of Jefferson and Pine streets and was destroyed by fire in 1889. The other, a part of what is known as the Jefferson block, is still standing at the northwest corner of Jefferson and Pine streets. Arthur H. Patterson was born May 31st, 1844, at Trough, Huntington county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish parents. Later his father's family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Arthur received the benefit of a good common school education. In 1856, when but twelve years of age, his father emigrated with his family to Leavenworth, Kansas, where, shortly afterwards, the father died. It was while living at Leavenworth that young Patterson made the acquaintance of William F. Cody, since become famous as scout, guide, Indian fighter and showman, who is known the world over as "Buffalo Bill". Their acquaintance ripened into a friendship that cemented them together in ties of enduring strength, which the changes of time and circumstances of later years never affected. In 1860,

Arthur H. Patterson

Mr. Patterson, in company with Mr. Cody, came to Denver. They were both mere boys, only sixteen years old, but they were full of courage and ripe for adventure. In January, 1862, both left for New Mexico in charge of government trains carrying supplies for Col. Chivington's command which fought the decisive battle at Apache Canon, resulting in the defeat of the Confederates under Gen. Sibley. In 1863, Mr. Cody returned to his home in Kansas, but Mr. Patterson remained in the West, serving in the various capacities of wagon master in charge of freight trains for government contractors, superintendent of stage lines, mule trains, bull trains, etc., until he came to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1866. Notwithstanding his youth, Mr. Patterson was entrusted with the man- agement and control of immense freighting outfits, requiring from forty to fifty teamsters all of whom looked to him for orders, and this trust was never abused. On coming to Fort Collins in 1866, he at once established himself in business and was noted for his push and enterprise. In December, 1873, Mr. Patterson married Alice M. Watrous, eldest daughter of Hon. W. F. Watrous. Six children, five girls and one son, were born of the union, all of whom are living. He had held many offices of public trust and great responsibility in Larimer county and Fort Collins, always discharging the duties thereof to the satisfaction of the people. He was twice elected county clerk, served as clerk of the district court, and as alderman from his ward in the city council. In 1884 he was the candidate of his party for representative in the Colorado General assembly, and, though his party was largely in the minority, succeeded by his strong personal following in greatly reducing his opponent's majority. He died from dropsy on December 27th, 1892.

John Letford Smith. - Here is a man who during a residence of more than three decades in Fort Collins, has done as much if not more than anyone else to beautify and adorn the homes and business houses of his neighbors, thus cultivating the artistic and adding to the charm of life, simply by the skillful use of his brushes and the mingling of colors for the best effects. Mr. Smith was born May 5th, 1845, at Kingston, England, where he received his education and lived until 1853, when his father's family moved to Sutton-Surrey, England. Here he perfected himself in the art of painting and decorating, and in 1874, emigrated to the United States. Just before sailing for America, he married Susan Clark at Cambridge, England, and he and his bride crossed the broad Atlantic together on the wedding trip. They located first at Dunkirk, New York, where, and at Fredonia, he plied his trade until 1879. His wife died May 11th, 1877, leaving him one daughter, now Mrs. Ada Drohen, whose home is in Fredonia. Mr. Smith arrived in Fort Collins, October 3rd, 1879, and that city has since been his home. Soon after establishing himself in his new home, he went into partnership with Frank Soult, and they worked together at painting, decorating and sign writing for a period of twenty years. In November, 1880, Mr. Smith went back to Fredonia, New York, and married Emma Letford and two children, Dudley Smith and Mrs. Nellie Rainbolt, of Fort Collins, were the fruits of the union. In the early '80's, Mr. Smith preempted a quarter section of land in the Boxelder valley, adjoining the present town of Wellington, which he proved up on and owned, improved and cultivated until 1904, when he sold the place to F. C. Grable, having in the meantime purchased another 160-acre tract adjoining his preemption claim. He built ditches and a reservoir from which to irrigate his land, selling them with his farm, for which he received a good round price. He then purchased another improved 160-acre farm situated five miles northwest of Fort Collins, which he cultivated and where he feeds and fattens stock. He also owns considerable valuable city property and has a good supply of this world's goods. He has retired from active work and devotes his time to looking after his property interests. He has been successful in all of his undertakings and no man enjoys the confidence and respect of those who know him best, more than John Letford Smith.

John B. Everhard was born in Holt county, Missouri, on the 24th day of December, 1861 ; is still unmarried. He came with his father's family to Colorado in the fall of 1863, and settled at Fremont's Orchard. In February, 1864, the family moved to Denver where they remained until the latter part of 1866, then returning to Missouri. In 1875, he came again with his family to Colorado, settling on the Little Thompson, where he still resides. He has been chiefly engaged in farming, stock raising and feeding.

Lewis Clark Moore, President of the Commercial bank and Trust company; President of the North Poudre Irrigation company and President of the Buckeye Land and Development company, all institutions of high standing and great moment, was born January 24th, 1866, at Findlay, Ohio. He received his education in the public schools of his native state and at Eastman business college in Poughkeepsie, New York. He came to Colorado in 1885, in the 20th year of his age and after living at Idaho Springs for a short time, moved to Fort Collins in June, 1887. Soon after locating in the last named city, he was appointed clerk of the county court by Judge JefEerson McAnelly, who was then County Judge. He served in that capacity for about 18 months and on January 1st, 1899, went to work as bookkeeper in the First National bank, being promoted shortly afterwards to the post of assistant cashier and later to that of cashier of the bank, a position he held for several years. He early evinced a keen insight of business matters and by judicious investment of his savings he began to accumulate considerable property and to be recognized as an important factor in financial circles. He is a careful, alert and methodical business man, a good judge of values and his progress upward on the ladder of fortune has been rapid and safe. Today he is rated as one of the most conservative men in Fort Collins. Mr. Moore is a quiet, unassuming gentleman, and though wedded to his business, IS a genial companion and is strongly attached to his home and friends. On July 6th, 1893, he was united in marriage with Agnes Ferrier at Liberty, Nebraska. Mrs. Moore came from Nebraska in 1890 and was assistant to the principal of the High school for three years prior to her marriage. She is a highly educated lady, cultured and refined, and a leader in educational, club and church work. Mr. Moore is a Master Mason, a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine; an Odd Fellow and an Elk, and a member of the First Presbyterian church of Fort Collins. About six years ago he became interested in irrigation matters, the storage and conservation of water and its proper distribution for beneficial purposes and has promoted and aided in the construction of several large reservoirs in the northern part of the county, including the Halligan and No. 15 reservoirs and has taken an active part in improving and perfecting the North Poudre Irrigation system, of which he is now the efficient head.

Bolivar S. Tedmon

September 19th, 1848, in Martinsburgh, Lewis county, N. Y. His parents were of Scotch and English descent. His early life was spent on a farm with his parents, Levi and Rachael Tedmon, two brothers, Ferdinand L. and Herbert E., and two sisters, Almira, and Edith Tedmon. He obtained his education in the district school and at the Lowville, N. Y., academy, and then followed teaching in rural and village schools during the winter terms for several years. At the age of 25 he married Alice C. Allyn, daughter of Ira Allyn, who was a direct descendant of Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga. Mr. Tedmon's mother was

Rachael Seward, daughter of Swain Seward, who was a cousin of Hon. William H. Seward, former United States Senator from New York, and later Secretary of State during President Lincoln's administration. In early life our subject's ambition prompted him to seek a more active career and in the fall of 1872 he engaged in the mercantile business, forming a partnership about two years later with his brother, Hon. H. E. Tedmon, who is a well known resident of Larimer county. The brothers carried on business together in their native town until the spring of 1878, when they decided to remove to Colorado and arrived in Fort Collins in May of that year with their families, and, except for brief intervals of absence, that city has since been our subject's home. Tedmon Bros, bought what was known as the Joseph Mason store and continued in business in Fort Collins for several years. In the fall of 1879 B. S. Tedmon built the Tedmon House, the first three story brick and stone building erected in Fort Collins. It was completed and opened by the owner in the spring of 1880. In 1882 Mr. Tedmon sold the hotel to George M. Jones and accepted the appointment of Superin- tendent of Insurance, tendered him by Hon. John C. Abbott, then State Auditor, serving in that capacity two years under Mr. Abbott and two years under Hon. Hiram A. Spruance. He also served one year as deputy State Auditor under Hon. John M. Henderson. On retiring from ofKce Mr. Tedmon again engaged in the mercantile business in Denver, but soon retired from trade to take up real estate, insurance and loans, which line he has since followed with marked success, his two sons, Allyn H. and Bob S., being now associated with him under the firm name of B. S. Tedmon & Sons. The firm is widely and favorably known and enjoys an extensive and lucrative patronage. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tedmon, and their names are Anna R., teacher of oratory and dramatic expression ; Allyn H. and Bob S. Tedmon, Jr., who are associated with their father. Mr. Tedmon has been a firm and loyal friend of Fort Collins for a third of a century, never failing when opportunity offered to speak a good word for the home of his adoption and has stood ready to lend a helping hand in forwarding any movement that was intended to advance its growth and material welfare.

Wallis a. Link was born December 3rd, 1860, in Jo Daviess county, Illinois ; came to Laramie Wyoming, in 1870; married Mary E. Kenyon, July 23rd, 1889, and settled on a stock ranch on Stuck creek in 1889, removing two years later to Big Park and engaged in the stock business. In 1901 he discovered a chain of lakes on the eastern slope of the Medicine Bow mountains which bear his name and now form a part of the Laramie- Poudre Reservoir and Irrigation project. He originated the project of bringing the water from these lakes through a tunnel to the Poudre water shed, and was actively connected with it for about five years. He sold his ranch in 1900 and moved his family to Fort Collins which has since been his home. Mr. and Mrs. Link have three children, Mildred F., Alcena I., and Neil G. Link, all at home.

M. R. KiLBURN was born February 16th, 1865, in Virginia City, Montana; came with his parents to the Big Thompson valley in September, 1865, where he still lives; educated in public schools. Agricultural college and Denver university; married Alice Kempton of Corning, Iowa, July 3rd, 1889; two children, Saville and Miriam, both at home; instructor in Central Business College, Den-

Joseph H. George^ one of the first permanent white settlers of the Virginia Dale district, is a native of Canada, born May 9th, 1846, where he attended school and attained his majority. He came west in 1868 and settled first in the Cache la Poudre valley in Weld county, a short distance west of the present city of Greeley, finding employment on the ranch owned by Robert and Andrew Boyd. He remained here until the spring of 1872, marrying a sister of his employers in the meantime, when he moved with a bunch of cattle to Virginia Dale and located on a stock ranch on Dale creek a short distance down stream from Andrew Boyd's ranch, which he owned and operated for thirty-seven years with marked success. His ranch embraced tillable, meadow and pasture lands, and here his herd of cattle increased until he became known as one of the prominent stockmen of the county. He sold his holdings, including live stock in October, 1909, for $22,000 and retired from active business pursuits. He is noted for honesty of purpose, uprightness and square dealing in all his business transactions, and his integrity as a man and a citizen has never been called in question. His word is as good as a bond and what Joe George promises to do that he will do. His first wife, who died several years ago, bore him two sons, Robert O. and Joseph E. George. He remarried, his second wife being a native of Chautauqua county. New York, and a niece of his first wife. Mr. George is now a temporary resident of Fort Collins, not yet having fixed upon a permanent place of residence.

John Kimmons. - A prosperous cattleman, is a native of Carroll county, Illinois, born March 7th, 1857; attended public school until 1867 when his parents moved to Missouri, thence to Galesburg, Illinois; came to Fort Collins in the fall of 1877 and worked three years for J. G. Ridgeley on Highland Place ranch ; worked nine years for Chain & Hardy, Denver, stockmen, during which he began to gather a herd of cattle for himself; drove his cattle to North Park in 1897, where he owned 1,480 acres of deeded land and at one time 500 head of cattle; sold his cattle in 1907 and turned his ranch into a dairy farm; married Mary Herrington, December 6th, 1882, and they have eight children; Mrs. Earl McComb, Wiley, Colorado; Florence, Edith, Mabel, Georgia, Helen B., Robert and John. The family resides in Fort Collins.

Harris Stratton was born November 10th, 1829, at Northfield, Massachusetts; died on Sunday, July 12th, 1908, in Fort Collins, Colorado, aged 79 years. Mr. Stratton was reared and educated in his native town. In 1854, he came west and settled in Lawrence, Kansas, helping to erect the second house built in that now large and flourishing city. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, on January 1st, 1855, and assisted in building the first house erected in what later became the capital city of the state. In July of that year he went back to his eastern home, returning to Kansas the same year with a company of thirty-four settlers; was with General James Lane as aid and scout during the Border RuflSan troubles; represented Doniphan county in the first free state legislature, which convened at Lawrence, and was also a member of the house of representatives under the Topeka constitution, serving as speaker thereof. He was a clerk in the state auditor's office and was afterwards appointed auditor of state by the Governor. He was also secretary of the Topeka Town company. He went to Texas in 1860, thence to Savannah, Georgia, and finally, after running the gauntlet of General Braxton Bragg's southern army, arrived at his native town in August, 1863. That fall he again turned his face westward and spent two years in Kansas. In 1865, he crossed the Plains to Larimer county, locating in what was then Camp Collins, which has since been his home. Mr. Stratton represented Larimer county in the Territorial Legislature of 1867-8, and was chosen sergeant at arms of the senate in the first State Legislature. In 1877, Governor Routt appointed him a member of the State Board of Agriculture and upon the organization of the board he was elected secretary, a position he held for several years. He was raised a farmer and followed that calling and that of dairying after coming to Colorado, until 1891, when he sold his farm and went with his family to Georgia, where he spent two years, returning then to Fort Collins. He was district court bailiff for five years. On December 30th, 1866, Mr. Stratton married Mrs. Elizabeth

Keays, and it was the first marriage solemnized in Fort Collins. Three daughters were the fruits of the union, two of them, Mrs. P. J. Mc Hugh of Fort Collins and Mrs. A. Anderson of Colton, California, with their mother, survive him. The third daughter, Miss Marguerite Stratton, preceded her father to the spirit world in 1901. Mr. Stratton was a charter member of Collins lodge No. 19 A. F. & A. M., and a member of the lodge when he died. For more than fifty years he had been a pioneer and frontiersman and had faithfully done his part in developing the resources of the Great West. Elizabeth L. Park was born February 3rd, 1830, near Watertown, New York, and received her education at Coburg, Canada, w'here her father was engaged as a millwright. On October 2nd, 1854, she was married near Springfield, Illinois, to William Keays, who died in 1859, leaving a widow and a son, William P. Keays. Mrs. Keays came to Fort Collins in 1865 and on December 30th, 1866, was joined in marriage with Harris Stratton. Mrs. Stratton, though past four score years, is in the enjoyment of good health and retains all her mental faculties. She resides with her daughter, Mrs. P. J. McHugh.

Michael Gardner^ one of Fort Collins best known and most highly respected citizens, was born June 26th, 1834, at St. Rose, Canada, and educated in the public schools of his native town. On July 24th, 1854, he married Hattie Wolcott, but no children survive. He spent four years as a soldier in the Civil war, participating in several hard fought battles and was given an honorable discharge in 1865. He came to Colorado in 1877, and to Fort Collins in July, 1878. Here he carried on blacksmithing for more than twenty years, retiring with a competence in 1899. Since then he and his invalid wife have lived a quiet, peaceful life in a fine home at 354 E. Mountain avenue, which they have occupied for a third of a century. Mr. Gardner always did his work well and when he agreed to, and always dealt fairly and squarely with everyone. Mrs. Gardner has been a bedridden invalid for many years and so devoted is he to his helpless companion that he seldom leaves her bedside.

Lewis Wetzler was born in June, 1842, in Germany, and educated in the common schools of his native town. He came to the United States at an early age and settled in Maine, where, in 1861, he married Melissa Weymouth. His surviving children are Charles, of Fort Collins, William,

Fred M. Wright

Edwin, and Arthur. He came to Greeley in 1871, and to Livermore, Larimer county, in 1873, locating on the Lone Pine. He planted the first orchard set out in the mountains and was laughed at by his neighbors, who said that fruit could not be grown in Livermore. He was not long in demonstrating that hardy fruits could be grown in that section and so turned the laugh on his dilatory neighbors. He sold his ranch in the '80's and moved his family to Fort Collins, thence to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1895, and to San Diego, California, in 1908, where he now resides.

Fred M. Wright. - As a representative of the beet sugar industry in Colorado, who has done and is still doing a great deal to promote the manufacture of sugar from beets and who has met with more than ordinary success in his calling, Mr. Wright is a man for whom I take pleasure in writing a biographical sketch for the history of Larimer county. Mr. Wright was born September 25th, 1869, at Bridgewater, Michigan. The beginning of his education was made in the rural schools of his native state, and then taking a course in the Clinton, Michigan, High school. His early life was spent on a farm and he is not only a theoretical but also a practical farmer. He was the son of George P. and Anna (Wier) Wright. His father is a native of the state of New York and was educated for the Baptist ministry and served as general missionary in Colorado for that denomination a good many years, and his mother was born in Michigan where she met and married the father of our subject. Our subject was united in marriage with Hily Bond on July 24th, 1888, at Tecumseh, Michigan. She was born June 4th, 1868, in Schuyler county. New York, and educated in Michigan. Her father was of German descent and her mother, whose maiden name was Emma Doty, was born in Danville, Illinois. Sooh after they were married Mr. and Mrs. Wright moved from Michigan to Denver, Colorado, where they resided until 1895 when they moved on to a farm situated between Loveland and Berthoud. Three years later they sold their farm and purchased^ the store at Laporte, Larimer county, which was their home until 1902 while Mr. Wright was carrying on the mercantile business. He was also postmaster at Laporte for three years. In the spring of 1902, Mr. Wright disposed of his interests at Laporte and moved his family to Fort Collins which city has since been the family home. On December 1st, 1902, our subject was appointed assistant agriculturist and two years later chief agriculturist of the Great Western Sugar company at Fort Collins, which position he filled with such a degree of ability, faithfulness and efficiency, that on October 1st, 1909, he was promoted to the important post of local manager of the Fort Collins sugar factory. He held this office until February 1st, 1911, when he resigned to take a position with the San Luis Valley Beet Sugar company which is building a new factory at Monte Vista, Colorado. Mr. Wright is considered an expert in the cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets and in the manufacture and marketing of beet sugar, and has made good in whatever position he has been called upon to fill. He is a skilled, careful and methodical business man, trustworthy to a degree and prompt in the discharge of duty. The very fact that he rose from an humble but important position with the Sugar company to the responsible office of local manager of one of the largest beet sugar factories in the United States within a period of seven years, alone testifies to his industry, skill and ability, and to his integrity as a man. He has a beautiful and nicely furnished home at 719 Remington street, one of the finest residence streets in Fort Collins.

Capt. William M. Post, who spent 33 years on the sea and has been a citizen of Larimer county for 41 years, was born in 1823, in Essex, Connecticut, a son of Russell and Jemima (Pel ton) Post. His is descended from a Holland family that settled at Saybrook, Connecticut, in the early history of that colony. At the age of thirteen, our subject went to sea as a cabin boy on the packet line to Mobile, Alabama. He sailed before the mast from 1836 to 1840 and was promoted to second and later to first-mate. He was master and part owner of a fine brig in 1846, making a number of trips to Europe in the merchant service, visiting Liverpool, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Havre. From 1861 to 1864 he was master in the U. S. navy and executive officer of the store ship "Relief" and the gunboat "Sonoma" in the North Atlantic flying squadron, spending nine months in the West Indies after privateers. He was on the blockade off Charleston many months. He secured two prizes, one the "Virginia" and the other the steamer "Ida", both of which he brought to New York. He then engaged in the West India trade as commander of the brig "John R. Plater" until 1869, when he gave up a seafaring life. In June, 1870, Capt. Post came to Colorado, his family following in 1871, and purchased a farm in Pleasant valley on which he lived until 1880, when he rented the farm and rnoved to Fort Collins, where he has since resided. On May 27th, 1847, he married Almena T. Collins, who died in Connecticut on April 5th, 1862, and on March 30th, 1863, he married Emeline E. Jones in East Haddam, Connecticut. She was a daughter of A. P. and Emeline (Emmons) Jones, and a descendant of a family that settled in New

Capt. William M. Post

Haven, July 10, 1639. Capt. and Mrs. Post are the parents of a son and a daughter. The son, Frederick E. Post, was educated at the Colorado Agricultural college and is now a prominent Denver photographer. The daughter, Lillian E., who was also educated at the Agricultural college, is the wife of Harvey H. Griffin, Agricultural superintendent for the Great Western Sugar company. Since moving to Fort Collins, Capt. Post has looked after his farm in Pleasant valley, dealt in real estate and has loaned money for eastern people, some of whom he never saw, but who have the utmost confidence in his judgment and integrity. Although almost a nonagenarian, Capt. Post retains his faculties and a very large degree of physical vitality and is one of the most enter- taining men to visit and chat with. He has always been an omnivorous reader and is familiar with a wide range of subjects with which to enliven conversation.

Herman W. Schroeder. - ^Achievement has been the watchword of Mr. Schroeder from boyhood. To get ahead in the world has been his fondest dream, and judging by results, his hopes and desires have been successfully realized. He came into this world on April 2nd, 1855, on Doty Island, near Neenah, Wisconsin, of German parentage. Left without a father's guidance and protecting care at an early age, he became the foster son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron F. Watrous, of Charlestown, Wisconsin, who sent him to school and treated him the same as an own child. When his school days were over, he learned the carpenter and joiners' trade, coming to Fort Collins in April, 1878. His sole capital then consisted of a stout heart, willing hands, honest purposes and a set of carpenter's tools. Of money in hand he had none. He arrived at his future home at an opportune time when Fort Collins was on the up-grade, and he had no difficulty in obtaining employment at his trade. He was steady, industrious, reliable and prudent, and being a good mechanic, he forged ahead with rapid strides, gaining an enviable standing in the community as a man who, when he said he would do a thing, did it without ifs and ands. Many of the business blocks and handsome homes in the city of Fort Collins testify to his skill as a builder. Along in the late '80's he invested a part of his savings in a herd of cattle in North Park, which proved a successful venture. In 1881, Mr. Schroeder married Emma Bennett, and three children came to bless the union, one of whom died in childhood. The survivors are Herman and Miss Beulah. The son is a successful drug clerk and the daughter a student in the local business college. Mr. Schroeder has represented his ward in the city council and is recognized as one of the solid, substantial men of Fort Collins. He has a beautiful and nicely furnished cottage home on Matthews street, and one or two other cottages that are occupied by tenants.

Robert O. Roberts was born January 8th, 1829, near Utica, New York. His father, Owen Roberts, was a native of North Wales, born on an estate where his ancestors had resided for many generations. His mother was born near Utica, and died in that city at the age of 47 years. His father, when well advanced in years, came to Colorado, dying several years ago at the age of 90. Our subject was the eldest of a family of ten children, and received his education in the public schools of Oneida, county. New York. When 17 years of age he was apprenticed to the furniture business, and learned how to varnish, polish, paint and upholster furniture. In Watertown, New York, he was married. to Mary Tuttle, who was born in that place, daughter of Theodore Tuttle, a former citizen of Connecticut. Of this union there are five surviving children, Charles E., merchant and hotel keeper at Ingleside; George F. and Earnest W., stockmen of Livermore; Mrs. Eva May Swan of Livermore, and Mrs. Grace Wills of Denver. Mr. Roberts came west with his family in 1874, arriving at Greeley on February 7th. That same year he moved to Livermore and kept the Fisk hotel one year and then took up 160 acres of land on which he built the Forks hotel. This he conducted for seven years, then sold it. Soon afterwards he located on a 280-acre stock ranch on the North fork of the Cache la Poudre river, one mile north of the Livermore postoffice, where his sons, George and Ernest now reside. Mr. Roberts embarked in the cattle business soon after coming to Colorado, in which he and his sons, George and Ernest have been very successful. The home ranch is improved with good buildings, corrals, and fences, and with orchards and groves. He and his wife have been residents of Fort Collins for the past fourteen years and they own valuable property on South Sherwood street. Though past four score and two years, Mr. Roberts retains remarkable vitality for one of his age.

Tom Quinn. - Thirty years in the employ of the Union Pacific and Colorado & Southern railroad companies at Fort Collins, as foreman in charge of the mechanical department looking after repairs to cars and engines; appointed once and elected four times a member of the city council of his chosen home city, is the record that stands to the credit of Alderman Tom Quinn, one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of the county seat of Larimer county. During his thirty years residence in Fort Collins, Mr. Quinn has been a booster and a builder and has been a large contributor to the growth and to the material and moral welfare of the city. Day in and day out he can always be found at his post of duty, steady, faithful and efficient, and there are but few men in the city whose annual rent roll exceeds his. Mr. Quinn was born February 22nd, 1860, in county Tipperary, Ireland, where he was edu- cated. He came to the United States in 1874 and after spending two years at Council Bluffs, Iowa, pushed on farther west, arriving at Black Hawk, Colorado, in 1876. Here he served one year as messenger boy for former United States Senator Nathaniel P. Hill, who then had charge of extensive reduction works at that place. In 1877 our subject went to Leadville where he spent two years, returning to Denver in 1879. After working two years in the Union Pacific railroad shops in Denver, he was sent to Fort Collins to take charge of repair work here, and that city has since been his home. He married Elizabeth Owens, October 22nd, 1888 and they have two children, John F., and William W. Quinn.

Marshall Moore, Fort Collins' popular, accommodating and very efficient postmaster, was born October 2nd, 1870, at Woodbine, Iowa, receiving his education in the public schools of his native town and the Woodbine Normal school. He was' united in marriage with Jennie A. Smith on December 19th, 1891, and they have two children, Ethel M., and Gladys L., both at home. At 19 years of age, Mr. Moore went to work for the J. A. Boies Hardware company, where he learned the hardware, plumbing and heating business. He was employed by the Boies Hardware company until he bought a share in the business in 1897. Mr. Boies died in 1901, and in closing up his estate the business was sold. Our subject then engaged exclusively as contractor in the plumbing and heating business until he came to Fort Collins in 1904 to take charge of that department in the J. A. Brown Hardware company's store, remaining with that company until the firm sold its business to the Barkley, Bouton & Crain Hardware company. He took some stock in the new company and was elected its secretary, a position he held until President Roosevelt appointed him postmaster for Fort Col- lins, February 9th, 1909. He has been a strong republican in politics and is a recognized leader in the party. Since coming to Fort Collins in 1904, he has borne himself in such a manner as to win the confidence and respect of all who have had the good fortune to make his acquaintance. He is a stirring, ambitious man who believes in doing things, and doing them right. His manner of conducting the affairs of the postoffice has been of such a careful and methodical nature as not only to win the commendation of its patrons, but also of the United States postofEce department.

Jacob Flowers. - One of the pioneers of Pleasant Valley, was born July 4th, 1827, in Green county, Pennsylvania. On January 28th, 1853, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Meeks of Woods county, Virginia. He came to Larimer county with the Wyandotte Colony in 1873, and settled on a farm in Pleasant Valley, where he lived until death summoned him in 1898. He laid out and platted the town of Bellvue and was the first merchant of that village.

Jack Dow. - One of the most useful of the pioneers of the Cache la Poudre valley, by reason of his profession' and who did much during his residence in the county to develop the latent agricultural resources of Northern Colorado, was Jack Dow. He was born in 1839 in the City of New York, where he received his education and where he acquired the profession of civil engineering which he followed through life. In the early sixties he crossed the continent to California, via the Southern route through New Mexico and Arizona. The country not meeting his expectations, he started on the return trip to his native state in 1S69. On the way east he stopped in Laporte and was so well pleased with the' Cache la Poudre valley that he decided to locate and 'build himself a home. The country was "new then and his services were in almost constant demand for several years in running land lines and in laying out roads and irrigating ditches and superintending their construction. In 1874 he was elected county surveyor of Larimer county and served one term, and that year was joined in marriage with Helen Cuthbertson, a native of Scotland and a sister of John S. Cuthbertson of Fort Collins, and James Cuthbertson of Iimnath. In his capacity of civil engineer he laid out. and superintended the construction of several of the first irrigation ditches built in the Cache la Poudre valley, including the Arthur ditch, the

Larimer County No. 2 canal and the Pleasant Valley & Lake canal completing the latter in the year 1879. In 1880, Mr. Dow moved his family to Northern Wyoming, then a new country, and followed his profession and ranching until about the time of his death on November 11th, 1904. He left a widow but no children. Few men have ever lived in Larimer county who had more warm

Jack Dow

John N. Gordon. - The subject of this sketch can adapt himself to all sorts of conditions and make good under any and all kinds of circumstances. He is, in short a general utility man - just such a man as is needed 'in every community. He can teach school, edit and manage a newspaper, sell goods over the counter, deal out justice in court, buy and sell real estate, keep the town records, serve as a member of the school board, fill the post of secretary of the chamber of commerce, or act as a newspaper correspondent. He can do all these things because he has done them, and done them well, too. He is well educated, honest as the day is long, has opinions of his own, and is firm in his convictions. Mr. Gordon was born April 18th, 1856, in Jefferson county, Indiana; educated in the preparatory school at Hanover, (Indiana) college, at Boyd's Commercial college, Louisville, Kentucky, and at Monmouth college, Monmouth, Illinois, where he graduated in 1880 with the degree of A. B. and later receiving the degree of A. M. He came to Colorado in 1880 and located at Loveland, which city is still his home; married Minnie R. Clark, June 30th, 1886, and has two children, Morris C. and Deane B. Gordon. He has" been justice of the peace six successive terms, taught school three years, edited the Loveland Register one year, merchant nine years, real estate dealer a number of years, secretary of the Loveland Chamber of Commerce three years, member of the school board one term, city clerk two terms and newspaper correspondent for twenty-five years and hasn't turned his sixtieth year yet. He can easily be set down as a man of marked versatility of accomplishment.

Asa M. Horner. - Mr. Horner was born March 27th, 1848, in Gloucester county. New Jersey, and was reared on a farm 20 miles south of Philadelphia. He obtained his education in the district school, at a boy's boarding school in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and at Fort Edward, New York. Failing health admonished him to seek a dryer climate, so he came to Greeley in 1872, where he spent six weeks and then came to near where Timnath is now and lived with Harry and Frank Scott. He and another man worked a month for Bob Strauss, and Bob called them his clerks. After that he spent three months on the Redstone chopping fence poles for Harry Scott. In the spring of 1873, he filed a homestead claim on land that is now partly covered by the Timnath reservoir. He engaged in wool growing with Royal Cobb until the ditches were built east of them, when the range was taken for farms. He then sold his sheep and bought 160 acres of railroad land and turned his attention to farming. In 1876 Mr. Horner returned to New Jersey to visit old friends and attend the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia.

While east, the asthma which had caused him to come to Colorado seized him again, and he was obliged to cut short his visit and return west. In speaking of his experience, Mr. Horner said, "it required a year in Colorado to regain what he lost in the five weeks spent in New Jersey." Fearing to visit his old home again very soon, one of the Jersey girls, Hannah M. Edwards, came to Fort Collins on February 21st, 1879, and was joined with him in marriage. The ceremony took place at the Agricultural hotel which then stood where the postofKce is now, and was performed by Rev. C. A. Brooks of the Methodist church. Five children were born to them; Henry, George, Alice, Jesse and Eula. All are living but Alice. In 1893 he ventured to go east again with his family and visited the World's fair in Chicago, also Washington, Philadelphia and Niagara Falls. In 1903 he moved to Fort Collins to give his younger children a chance to attend High school. In 1898, Mr. Horner purchased a summer home in the Laramie river valley, where he spends the summer months, finding health and strength by climbing hills and sporting with gamey trout. In 1910 with his wife and daughter, he visited two of his sons of j Cody, Wyoming, and later toured Yellowstone Park on a camping trip, returning to Fort Collins in August.

James Cuthbertson, son of William and Helen (Symington) Cuthbertson of Berwickshire, Scotland, was born September 2nd, 1852. His father was a burgess and traces his ancestry back to St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, who died March 20th, A. D. 687. He was consecrated at York during the Easter festival by Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, but only exercised his episcopal office two years. He was noted for his piety, and his austere and secluded mode of living added greatly to the estimation in which he was held, and as usual at that period, the performance of miracles was freely ascribed to him. The ancestors of Helen (Symington) Cuthbertson, mother of our subject, were given a grant of land by the crown in the 14th century, on condition that they house and protect the traveling monks who went about the country building abbeys and cathedrals. It is worthy of note that for centuries there has been a Helen m the Symington family and its various branches. Berwickshire is a maritime county of Scotland, forming its southeastern extremity, and has a notable history. The county derives its name from the borough of Berwick, one of the few remaining walled towns in the United Kingdom. The town siiffered much during the Border wars. Lauder is the name of the village in which Mr. Cuthbertson was born and here he received his education. He emigrated to the United States in his youth, stopping in New York city, going thence to Chicago in 1871, shortly after the big fire in that city. He came to Fort Collins in 1872 and located on a tract of land three miles southeast of Fort Collins which he improved and successfully cultivated for nearly thirty years. About ten years ago he sold his farm and purchased another near Timnath on which he now resides. He has been a successful farmer and stock feeder and has amassed a comfortable competence. He ranks high as a citizen, farmer, friend and neighbor and is warmly esteemed by all who know him. He is a man of strong convictions and is ready at all times to defend his opinions by fair, intelligenf argument in which he is seldom worsted. Mr. Cuthbertson has never married and is therefore heart whole and fancy free. Politically, he is a republican of the strictest sort and while he takes an active interest in public affairs and is well informed upon all important public questions, he has never been an office seeker and has never held a public office. He prefers the condition of an independent sovereign to that of a public serf. Fraternally, Mr. Cuthbertson is a Master Mason, a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar, being a member of Collins lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M.; Cache la Poudre chapter No. 11 R. A. M. and of De Molay commandry No. 13, K. T., all of Fort Collins. He is a warm hearted, genial gentlemen, a prince socially and has hosts of friends in Larimer county, of which he has been a resident for nearly forty years.

Hon. Neil F. Graham, appointed Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Colorado, by Governor John F. Shafroth, January 11th, 1911, to fill the vacancy created by the election of Hon. James E. Garrigues as Associate Justice of "the Supreme Court, was born March 5th, 1866, at Komoka, Ontario. At the age of five years he emigrated with his father's family from Canada to Washington county, Kansas, where he was reared on a farm. He received a college education at the Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas. After pursuing a course at law, he was admitted to the bar in Kansas in 1893, and continued to practice his profession until he was appointed district judge. Judge Graham was united in marriage with Dura G. Evans, April 12th, 1898, at Washington, Kan- sas, and they have one child, a daughter, Margaret. He moved vi'ith his family from Kansas to Fort Collins, arriving August 8th, 1907, and shortly thereafter opened an office with J. J. Herring for the practice of law. He at once took high rank with the members of the Larimer county bar and is recognized as a close and indefatigable student, an able leader, a conscientious and reliable ad- vocate and .as a man learned in the law. Since being elevated to the bench of the district court, Judge Graham has met with hearty endorsement for the fairness and impartiality of his rulings and for his conception of the principles of the law, and as a private citizen he is held in the highest esteem for manly, upright bearing. He is a valued member of the Fort Collins board of education and his interests in the cause of popular education and his influence in the management of the public schools are highly regarded. Politically Judge Graham is a democrat and while a citizen of Kansas, he represented that state in the National Democratic conventions of 1896 and 1900.

his father being a veteran of the Civil war and his mother a relative of Henry Ward Beecher. She died at Livermore, Colorado, April 30th, 1878. Our subject grew to manhood on what is known as the Cradock ranch ; married Milly O. Aldrich, October 3rd, 1895 and she died June 17th, 1896; married for his second wife, Carrie E. Lowery, January 1st, 1901, who died April 6th, 1909. In company with his father, H. A. Keach, he owned and operated a cattle ranch at Alford, 30 miles northwest of Fort Collins, selling the ranch and stock in October, 1910, and removing to Seattle, Washington, for the benefit of father's health. Our subject was postmaster at Alford from May, 1899 to February 15th, 1909, and was for 12. years superintendent of the Sunday school at Livermore and also an elder of the Union Presbyterian church at that place. Mr. Keach has three children, Lewis E., born August 25th, 1902; Florence E., born September 19, 1905; Carrie E., born April 6th, 1909.

James McGinley, born October 7th, 1812, in Westmpreland county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch- Irish parentage. He married May Armstrong, March 9, 1837, and came from Michigan to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1874, locating on a farm one mile north of Timnath, where he lived until death called him, April 1st, 1896. He left two sons, James W. McGinley of Stratton Park, and Armstrong McGinley who died a few years ago in California. He died as he had lived, a true man, faithful to himself, faithful to mankind and faithful to his Maker.

Allen P. Greenacre. - The sons of Illinois have figured largely as adjuncts in the development of the industrial resources of Larimer county and in advancing its material, social and educational standards. Nowhere do we find better, more wideawake, active and energetic specimens of manhood, than among those who came west from the great Sucker state, and our subject is one of them. He first opened his eyes upon the things of this world on Christmas day, 1873, at Bristol, Illinois. He came to Fort Collins in May, 1886, and obtained his education in the public schools of that city and at the Colorado Agricultural college. After receiving a B. S. degree, he remained with his alma mater as an instructor in the department of Mechanical Engineering from 1896 to 1902, resigning then to engage in ranching and the stock business at Boxelder canon with his brothers.

Harold and Edgar Greenacre, following these occupations until November, 1910, when he was elected County Clerk and Recorder, receiving the largest majority of any one man on the republican ticket. He soon after moved his family to Fort Collins and entered upon his official duties on January 10th, 1911. Though still interested with his brothers in the ranch and cattle business, he is not now directly connected with its management. On October 31st, 1903, he was united in marriage with Carolyn L. Wood, a Greeley lady who had been a popular and successful teacher in the public schools of Fort Collins. She graduated from the State Normal School in 1898 with high honors. One daughter, Esther Florence, has come to bless the union. Mr. Greenacre is what is known in western parlance as a "hustler" and has scores of warm personal friends in every part of the county. He is democratic in bearing and manner and is making a very popular and efficient public official.

Benjamin B. Harris. - On a farm near Loveland, Clermont county, Ohio, the subject of this sketch was born. The farm was situated along the Little Miami river, about 18 miles north of

Cincinnati. The B. B. of his name stand for Benjamin Butterworth, the noted Ohio congressman and a cousin of Mr. Harris, and our subject's youthful days were spent in the companionship of that cousin, since famous in the councils of the nation. Mr. Harris was born in 1836, and in 1850, the family moved from Ohio to Iowa, locating at Iowa City. For fifteen years he lived in that vicinity engaged in farming and the raising of cattle and hogs. In 1867 he went to Cass county, that state, and assisted in founding the City of Atliintic. In 1886, Mr. Harris came to Fort Collins and purchased a choice tract of land adjoining the Colorado Agricultural college farm on the south, which he improved by erecting new buildings and planting an orchard, and where he became noted as one of the leading farmers and stockmen of Larimer county. He was an ardent lover of fine cattle and went to great expense in procuring the best blooded animals he could find with which to stock his farm, and his cattle always topped the market when placed on sale. He was a leader in the development of the agricultural and stock growing possibilities of the Cache la Poudre valley and as he set the pace, others followed. He was thorough in all his work and his farm today is one of the model farms of the county. He had charge as overseer of the college farm a few years, and aided and encouraged by the State Board of Agriculture, he succeeded in bringing it to its present high standard of productiveness and usefulness. Mr. Harris retired from active business pursuits, in April, 1908, and went with his wife to California, but was brought back to Fort Collins a year later in a dying condition. He passed away August 1st, 1909. Mr. Harris married Almira Douglass, April 21st, 1857, and his surviving children are Mrs. Anna Lamb, Mrs. Nellie Morgareidge, Mrs. Grant Morseman, Mrs. Ida Wilson and Fred W. Harris.

R. G. Maxwell was born April 21st, 1860, in Peoria county, Illinois, and educated in the country schools of Peoria county; married Minnie Hann, December 25th, 1889; his children are named Paul, Park, Ray, Ralph, Warren and Wilbur Maxwell; came to Larimer county in 1900, and is a successful and prosperous farmer and good citizen.

Rev. Franklin Moore. - There are few men in the world we imagine who have done nobler, more self-sacrificing, more efficient and more acceptable work in the Master's field than the subject of this sketch. As a missionary, he has traveled thousands of miles in all kinds of weather, in the mountains and on the Plains, to meet his appointments and preach the gospel to the people. Mr. Moore was born March 15th, 1855, in Salem county. New Jersey, the son of christian parents. He came to the Cache la Poudre valley in 1878, and taught school for several years, first in the old log cabin, known as the Buss school house, and then in Timnath school house. In February, 1880, he married Martha L. Peterson of New Jersey, and they settled on the farm now owned and occupied by Charles Roys, north of Timnath. He was superintendent of the Timnath Sunday school for 12 successive years. In 1892, he began the study of theology, taking charge that year of the Fossil Creek Presbyterian church as pastor. He was ordained in 1895 and remained in charge of that church for eleven years, doing missionary work at Virginia Dale, Livermore, Bellvue and Stout during that time. In 1905, he took charge of the Hillsboro Presbyterian church, serving it as pastor for three years, also doing mission work at school houses in the Big Thompson valley. In 1908 he returned to his home at Fossil Creek and engaged in circuit work at Virginia Dale, Livermore and Waverly, taking charge of a mission at Masonville, preaching at each of these places once in two weeks. During the summer season he also preached at Boxelder, Adams, Log Cabin and Elkhorn on week days. During all of these 19 years of strenuous work, his good wife has been a constant help and encouragement. She is a great lover of home and Mr. Moore freely admits that it has been only through her patience, economy and sacrifice that they have been able to secure and maintain their much appreciated home at Fossil Creek. Seven children have been born to them, five of whom are still living. They are Mrs. Edith Franz and Attie D., Elizabeth T., Ralph F., and Alma Meta Moore.

CoRwiN R. Welch. - He who contributes with his energy or his means to the material and commercial prosperity of his chosen home; who, by his foresight and judgment, assists in the development of its resources; in whose hands large financial trusts are placed and safely held and faithfully guarded; who never betrayed the trust or know- ingly wronged another; such a one may justly be called a benefactor. To this class belongs Corwin R. Welch, a former merchant prince of Fort Collins and now President of the First National Bank of Fort Collins, and one of the city's most enterprising and progressive citizens. It would be impossible to write an accurate history of Fort Collins and omit mention of his connection with the growth of the city which has been his home since 1883, and the principal scene of his financial successes. The supremacy and commercial importance of Fort Collins is due in a large measure to his business acumen and sagacity, for he was one of the foremost in using his influence and means in securing the building of the sugar factory and in introducing manufacturing enterprises and business projects that would be of permanent value to this place. Not alone in promoting and forwarding enterprises calculated to advance the material prosperity of Fort Collins, has he been conspicuous. He has been an active and diligent worker in church and temperance movements, and has contributed largely of his means to the building up and support of churches of various denominations, and to the advancing of the cause of temperance, being one of the strong and persistent instrumentalities in the warfare which resulted a few years ago in banishing the open saloons from Fort Collins. Mr. Welch was born January 15th, 1848, in Mogadore, Ohio, of Holland-Scotch-Irish ancestry. He secured the foundation of his education in the public schools of Akron, Ohio, upon which he later built a thorough knowledge of the business and commercial affairs of the country. To these acquirements he has since added a broader and deeper knowledge of the world by study and extensive travel and tours in foreign lands as well as in his own country. In 1872, he married Julia Stansbury of Greeley, who bore him one child, a daughter, who is now Mrs. Laura Hoar, of New York City. He married for his second wife, Mary T. Thomas at Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 5th, 1884. In the fall of 1870, he came with Union colony to Greeley, being one of the original colonists. During the six succeeding years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Greeley, going thence in 1876 to Boulder to engage in the business, where he remained seven years and then came to Fort Collins, which has since been his home. Here he conducted the largest and most popular dry goods store in Northern Colorado, retiring therefrom in 1900 to devote his time and attention to other important personal interests. He was a director and vice-president of the First National bank of Fort Collins for ten successive years, and is now President of this bank. Mr. Welch has a beautiful home on South College avenue, situated amid attractive surroundings, and here with all the comforts and luxuries the heart could wish, including an extensive and well selected library and many choice works of art, gathered during his travels, he is spending his declining years. He is an active member of the First Presbyterian church and in politics is a republican.

Isaac B. Harris

Isaac B. Harris, son of George and Sarah (Daniels) Harris, was born May 5th, 1859, at Truro, Nova Scotia, where he received his education. His father was born near Ottawa, Canada, of English parents, and was a soldier in the British army. His mother was born in Nova Scotia, of Scotch parents. Our subject was the youngest son of the family and grew to manhood in his native town. In 1880 he came to Colorado and after spending a few months in Idaho Springs and in Middle Park, moved to Fort Collins, which place has since been his home. On December 24th, 1885, he was joined in marriage with Mary Lillian Elton, daughter of Rev. E. N. Elton, who was then pastor of the First Baptist church of Fort Collins. Nine children were born of the union and their names are: Arthur V., Elton G., Margaret, Edna, Estella, Carroll, Lillian, Alvord. For many years after Mr. Harris came to Larimer county, he successfully followed farming, stock raising and stock feeding, but is now a dealer in hay, grain, flour and feed on Jefferson street. He built the Blaine hotel and a block of stores and shops on Pine street and still owns them; is also the owner of some very productive farms in the Cache la Poudre valley. His son, Arthur, is a job printer by trade and his second son, Elton G., is studying for the ministry. His eldest daughter, Margaret, is a graduate of the Fort Collins High school, class of 1911.

Frederick A. Morton. - Born November 29th, 1860, at New Hampton, Iowa; raised on a farm and attended district school; went to Kansas when a boy and lived in that state until he came to Fort Collins in 1903; learned trade. of- blacksmith, an occupation he followed for .20' years; is a farmer now; married Margaret R. Pavis in 1881, in Kansas; has six children; Mrs." Katie 'Bright, Mrs. Blanche Caywood, Mrs. Dolly Bright and Gilbert, Arthur and Ellen Morton all three at home.

James Ezra Plummer was boyn November 12th, 1832, in Highland county, Ohio, where he was educated ; moved to Iowa at an early age where on April 15th, 1863, he married Sarah L. Garrett; six children, Willard, Vernon, Ella, Denver, Effie and Rose were the fruits of the union; came to Black Hawk, Colorado, in 1860, freighting a ten stamp quartz mill ; was the first deputy sheriff appointed in Colorado Territory; superintendent of the Dalton & Bates mining property from 1865 to 1866. Mr. Plummer crossed the Plains six times with a freighting outfit; returning to Iowa in 1866 and carried on farming until 1882, when he returned to Colorado and located on a farm near Fort Collins, where he lived until death called him home on September 8th, 1897. His widow died February 10th, 1900.

George H. Simpson was born January 6th, 1848, in Jennings county, Indiana; went with his parents to Page county, Iowa, in 1858, and was educated at College Springs academy; learned the plasterer's trade in 1866, which he still follows. In 1870 he was married to Lizzie J. Blair of Bellfontaine, Ohio, and seven children were born of the union, six of whom are still living ; moved to Jewell county, Kansas, in 1874, and took up a homestead, moving thence in 1890 to Loveland, which continues to be his home. His wife died February 17th, 1890, and on July 5th, 1894, he married Mrs. S. D. Cathers, widow of George S. Gathers, a pioneer stage driver. Mr. Simpson resides at 330 East 7th street, and expects to spend the rest of his days in suliny Colorado. Mrs. Simpson, when she was Mrs. Cathers, resided many years in Fort Collins in the early days, and still has a goodly number of old-time acquaintances in that city.

Harry Hale Hartman

Harry Hale Hartman^ Larimer county's gentlemanly and very efficient Clerk of the District Court, was born June 1st, 1872, at Indianola, Iowa. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Indianola High school when 15 years of age. He then attended Simpson college, three years, when his health failed, and he was compelled to leave that institution. Later he spent a year in the study of the law at the University of Minnesota, and graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa with the class of 1900. On October 9th, 1901, he married Ora Talbott and from this union three children have been born, to-wit: John Dixon, Lucile and Ed- gar Watson, all of whom are living. Mr. Hartman came with his family from Iowa to Fort Collins on June 13th, 1904, and has since been an influential and highly respected resident of that city. After leaving school, he farmed about two years and then engaged in the abstract, loan and insurance business in company with his father for several years. After being admitted to the bar he practiced law at Indianola until he removed to Fort Collins* and has been admitted to practice in Colorado. Mr. Hartman is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Fort Collins; director of Fort Collins Y. M. C. A.; charter member of the chamber of commerce ; is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a member of insurance orders, and also of the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity and the Delta Tau Delta college fraternity. His father, E. W. Hartman, a native of Ohio, settled in Iowa while it was still a territory. He was a lawyer by profession. His mother, Mrs. Sarah (McKee) Hartman, was of southern descent but a native of Indiana.

Thomas Lee Moore. - The subject of this sketch, a direct descendant of General Light Horse Harry Lee of Revolutionary fame, was born June 19th, 1846, in Jefferson county, Ohio. His education was obtained in the public schools of his native county and at Franklin and Hopedale colleges, in Ohio. He enlisted on August 18th, 1862, in Company H of the 126th Ohio volimteer Infantry and was honorably discharged June 25th, 1865, at the close of the war. He participated with his regiment in 28 battles, including such bloody fights as took place at the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, Winchester and others. From the 5th of May until July 1st, 1864, his regiment lost 508 men in battle. On April 1st, 1868, our subject arrived in Fort Collins in company with K. P. Pew, the two walking in from Laporte where they left the Cheyenne-Denver stage. On the ride down from Cheyenne, Mr. Moore had the famous scout and guide. Kit Carson, for a seatmate. Two years later our subject went east and on November 13th, 1870, married Ella S. McCain, who bore him three children; James M., Frank W., and Carrie L., who is now Mrs. T. K. Seaton. James Moore is a druggist in Greeley, and Frank W. Moore is the present County Treasurer of Larimer county. Mrs. Seaton's husband is a druggist at Delta, Colorado. The children were all born in Fort Collins. Soon after the wedding our subject returned to Fort Collins with his bride where he has since resided. His wife died June 10th, 1882, and on September 20th, 1883, he married for his second wife, Hannah M. Thompson, who was born in New York City. One child, a daughter, lone, was born of this union. Mr. Moore helped to build the City hotel on Jefferson street and conducted it seven years, selling it then to engage in the livery business, which he followed for 22 years. He is now living a retired life. He has represented the 2nd ward in the city council eleven terms and is a member of Geo. H. Thomas Post G. A. R. and was Post Commander in 1908.

James McEwen. - One of ten children, all born in Scotland, our subject made his appearance on this mundane sphere on the 3rd of October, 1829, and, though well past the 80th milestone In life's journey, he Is still active and vigorous, looking after his business afEaIrs as keenly as a man half his years might be expected to do. He was a splendid type of physical manhood when he came to Fort Collins nearly thirty-seven years ago, tall, straight, with a hardy, well knit frame, covered with good sound flesh, he was not one that many cared to pick a quarrel with under ordinary circumstances. He received his education in the common schools of the period and lived in his native town until he was 24 years of age. In 1855 he emigrated and settled on a farm in Canada, near London, where he remained until 1874, when he came west and settled at Fort Collins, which has since been his home. He engaged in farming and stock raising; conducted a butcher shop and meat market in Fort Collins a few years and then went back to the farm again, meeting with fairly good success in most of his undertakings. He sold his farm in the Boxelder valley a few years ago and moved to Fort Collins where he now resides. Since retiring from the farm, Mr. McEwen has bought, sold and fed cattle, doing a large business, some years feeding and fattening as many as 2,000 head. He is an excellent judge of cattle and no man can deceive him in the weight or value of an animal. He was one of the pioneer butchers of Fort Collins, supplying many of the old timers with their meats, fruits and vegetables. In 1880, Mr. McEwen married Mrs. Salina Hughes, widow of Peter Hughes who was killed by being thrown from a fractious horse early in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. McEwen have a cosy home at 418 Washington street where, without children, they are spending a quiet peaceful old age, surrounded by every comfort and many admiring friends.

Edwin A. Schlichter. - Opportunity in the west for the intelligent young man who seeks a name, fame and fortune, is always* present, and Colorado is the mecca which attracts so many of that class to its borders. Here, he who would climb the ladder of success must have the ability to do, the will to make good and the progressive spirit as necessary adjuncts; combined, the climb is easy in spite of any obstacle. Because of these winning traits of character, Edwin A. Schlichter now holds the responsible position of District Manager of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company. Realizing the great opportunities a position as school teacher in District No. 11 in this county. Mr. Schlichter was educated and graduated at Borden Institute, in Indiana, and taught school for four years previous to his coming to this state. He was married to Miss Ida O. Gilkison, June 30th, 1904, in Fort Collins, where they now reside. Their home has been blessed by two visits of the stork; Thelma, a little girl now five years old, and a little son, Irwin, three years old, are evidences of "its burden.

Fred W. Stow. - Among the attorneys of Fort Collins, Mr. Stow occupies a position of honor and influence, a position that has come to him not through luck or any accidental combination of favorable circumstances, but as the result of diligent study, close application and a determined will. Since coming to Fort Collins in 1902 to begin the practice of his profession, he has established a reputation for clear and logical thinking and- a correct conception of the law. Mr. Stow was born November 20th, 1877, at Hamburg, Fremont county, Iowa, and is a son of Hon. Washburn A. Stow, an eminent member of the Omaha, Nebraska, bar, who died at Lincoln, in October, 1887, being stricken with a fatal illness immediately following an argument before the Supreme Court of Nebraska. His father was a native of Vermont, born in 1842. He came west when a boy and was studying law when the Civil war broke out. He enlisted in the 8th Iowa cavalry, remaining with his regiment until the close of the war when he resumed his studies and was admitted to the bar in 1866. From Hamburg, Iowa, he removed to Omaha in 1882, which was his home until he died. His wife died in 1886. Our subject was educated in the public schools of his native town, at Omaha and at the University of Colorado, graduating from the last named institution in 1902, with the degree of LL. B. On June 9th, 1902, he began the practice of his profession in Fort Collins, associated with F. J. Annis, with whom he remained about six years. Since that connection was dissolved in 1908, he has been alone. Mr. Stow is an influential member of the Colorado State Bar association and also of the Larimer County Bar association. He was united in marriage with Miss Fona R. Woods, July 25th, 1906, at Hamburg, Iowa, and they have one child, Richard W. Stow, who is still in his infancy. Mr. Stow came from Hamburg, Iowa to Fort Collins 'n 1899, and at once matriculated in the law department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating therefrom as stated, in 1902. Reared in the democratic faith, Mr. Stow is staunch in his allegiance to the principles of that party and in his support of its candidates. Though often importuned to accept political honors at the hands of his party, he has steadfastly declined for personal reasons, finally consenting however, to accept the appointment of City Attorney for Fort Collins, an office he still holds.

Capt. John C. Ish

Capt. John C. Ish was born October 26th, 1839, in Holt county, Missouri. His father. Judge J. G. Ish, was a wealthy farmer and slave owner. Our subject enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 and was discharged as Captain at the close of the war in 1865; wounded in battle seven times and spent several months in the Federal prisons at Alton, Illinois. At the battle of Pea Ridge he was shot through the groin and lingered between life and death for six months. In 1866 he drove a herd of cattle from southern Texas to Independence, Kansas, blazing a trail that is still known as the Ish trail. In 1869 he came to Larimer county, driving 150 carefully selected heifers across the

Plains and these formed the nucleus of a large herd which he ranged on the Buckhorn. The Indians on the Plains were never worse than when he came west, and wagon trains ahead and behind were attacked and drivers and occupants massacred, but the captain with his little party of five, arrived safely at the foot of the Rockies after 90 days of running the gauntlet of the warring Sioux and 90 nights of anxious vigil. From 1875 to 1890, he followed farming in the Little Thompson valley but moved his cattle to North Park in 1881, closing out his herds in 1910. His home has been in Fort Collins for about 20 years.

Julius F. Sampson was born January 25th, 1856, in Appleton, Wisconsin, son of Rev Wm. H. Sampson, who settled in that state in 1842; came to Nebraska in 1878 and married Eliza Gute, October 23rd, 1884, at Orleans, Nebraska; learned the drug business in Hartford, Conn.; came to Wray, Colorado, in 1886; to Denver in 1890; Akron in 1897; Platteville, Colorado, 1899; and to Berthoud, Colorado, October 15th, 1903; employed in Foresman & McCarty's drug store. Mrs. Sampson was born in Zurich, Switzerland, May 21st, 1865. . Mr. and Mrs. Sampson's children are named Albert H., Carl E., and Jay F. Sampson.

James Strang was born September 11th, 1849, in Clydesdale, Scotland, and received his education in his native town and in the city of Glasgow. He is a descendant of an old and distinguished Scottish family and can trace his ancestry back 400 years. Many of his ancestors were eminent in their day in theology, the law, arts and agriculture. One of them, James Strang, for whom our subject was named, was for years Principal of the University of Glasgow. Another, Christopher Strang, was beheaded in 1666, during the Covenanter trouble. After attaining his majority, our subject represented a large wholesale woolen house of Glasgow as traveling salesman, for twenty years, which kept him on the road all the time and enabled him to become thoroughly conversant with the customs, habits and conditions of the people in all parts of Scotland. In 1874 he married Jane Warnock, of Lanarkshire, who bore him two sons, Christopher and James W. Strang. She died in 1879. Ten years later he married Annie R. Meikle of Stranraer-Wigtownshire, Scotland, who has borne him one son, Robert M. Strang, of Timnath, Colorado. Mr. Strang came from Scotland to Fort Collins in 1888, and settled first on a farm near that city, moving in 1890 to his present home near Tim- nath, engaging in farming, and cattle raising in which he has prospered. He is an ardent admirer of Robert Burns, the poet and his works, and In 1888 was instrumental in organizing a Burns Club, of which he was made the first President. The club is now known as the Caledonian Club, and It meets annually on the 25th of January and St. Andrews day to commemorate the anniversary of Scotland's famous bard. Mr. Strang's hobby is music and art, and he Is also a great lover of a good horse. In his youth, he was noted as an amateur athlete, there being but few better In all Scotland. He paid a visit of several months to his old home in Scotland in 1910, and was royally entertained while there by the friends of other days. He Is one of the most genial and companionable of gentlemen, generous and hospitable to a degree, a student of history, has traveled much, and is a good raconteur and his companionship Is much sought after.

1890 to 1895; came to Denver in 1895; graduated from Denver University in 1898 with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Oratory; took post graduate work at Northwestern University; came to Fort Collins in 1900 and on June 19th, 1901, married Lineta L. Crandall, daughter of Prof. Charles S. Crandall of the Department of Botany and Horticulture, Colorado Agricultural college. Mr. and Mrs. Toomey have one child, Catherine May Toomey, born Dec. 26th, 1910. He was instructor at the Colorado Agricultural college from 1900 to 1901, then engaged in the hardware business, which he followed for a season and then took up real estate, loan and insurance; served Fort Collins as .city clerk from August, 1910, to April, 1911. In May, 1911, he was appointed under sheriff of Larimer county, a position he still occupies. Our subject's father was born in Milford, Perry county. Pa., and is of Scotch-Irish descent. His present home is in Americus, Kansas, where he is engaged in the grain and elevator business. His mother, Catherine J. (Ickes) Toomey was born in Newport, Perry county, Pa., and is of German descent.

Mrs. Lineta L. Toomey, wife of our subject, was born April 19th, 1883, at Harbor Springs, Michigan, and was a member of the senior class at the Colorado Agricultural college at the time of her marriage. She is an educated and cultured lady, and a favorite in social circles. Mr. Toomey is a vocalist of much prominence and his well trained tenor voice is often heard in public gatherings. He is withal a faithful, conscientious and very efficient public official who discharges his duty without fear or favor. He is a Master Mason and member of Collins lodge No. 19 of Fort Collins, and of Larimer lodge No. 101, K. of P.

Frank H. Miller, Manager of the State Mercantile company's immense establishment in Fort Collins and one of the reliable and successful business men of the city, was born February 23rd, 1878, in Towanda, Pennsylvania, and was educated in Stroudsburg, his native state. On October 27th, 1903 he was united in marriage with Delia Craw- ford at Detroit, Michigan, and one son, Frank H. Miller, Jr., has been born of the union. Gideon H. Miller, pur subject's father, was a native of Hope, New Jersey. The subject of this sketch came with his family from Pennsylvania to Colorado in 1905, and two years later he was appointed Manager of the grocery department of the State Mercantile company, which had then opened a store in Fort Collins. On January 1st, 1910, he was made Manager and given charge of the company's business in that city. He became a stockholder of the company in May, 1911. Coming here a young man, with his position in the business world and his fortune yet to make, Mr. Miller has steadily advanced towards the goal he had set before him, and now enjoys the realization of the dreams of his boyhood days. This result was not achieved without the exercise of all his talents and strict attention to business and to the needs of the patrons of the large and prosperous establishment placed under his management.

Hon. Jefferson McAnelly, an ex-County Judge of Larimer county and a leading lawyer and prominent citizen of Fort Collins, was born November 30th, 1845, on a farm in Hancock county, Ohio. The foundation for his education was laid in the public schools. He then attended the Union schools at Findlay, Ohio. After teaching school several years, he spent two years in study at the Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and, in 1872, graduated from the law department of the Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio and Indiana, including the supreme courts of those states. On October 14th, 1872, he married Sarah E. Leonard at Findlay, Ohio. Soon after the wedding, he located in Brazil, Indiana, and practiced his profession there for several years. From 1874 to 1877 he served as assistant prosecuting attorney for the Thirteenth Indiana circuit, and was then appointed County Auditor, serving two years in that position. In 1881, Judge McAnelly moved his family from Indiana to Loveland, Colorado, where his wife's parents and a brother lived. Here he practiced law until he was elected County Judge in the fall of 1883. In October, 1884, he moved his family to Fort Collins and that city has since been his home. He was reelected County Judge in 1886, and served the people in that capacity for six consecutive years. His service on the bench gave excellent satisfaction, very few appeals from his rulings and decisions having been taken and in these few he was sustained by the appellate courts. Since retiring from the bench in 1890, Judge

McAnelly has devoted almost his entire time to the practice of his profession in Larimer and adjoining counties. He takes high rank as a lawyer and advocate and is a member of the Larimer county Bar association. Judge and Mrs. McAnelly have five children living, two sons and three daughters, all well situated in life. The two sons are civil and irrigation engineers and the eldest, E. C. McAnelly has served Fort Collins as City Engineer and Larimer county as County Surveyor for several years.

Edward F. Suiter, a son of the late Peter Suiter, one of the pioneer farmers of the Harmony neighborhood, was born November 21st, 1865. In 1873, when our subject was seven years of age, the Suiter family came to Colorado and after stopping a couple of weeks in Greeley, moved on to a piece of raw land situated in the Harmony district, about six miles southeast of Fort Collins. Here the family lived for many years and in the public schools of school district No. 17, our subject obtained the rudiments of an education, which, supplemented by a three years' course at the Colorado Agricultural college, fitted him for grasping and solving many of the various problems of life. He made good use of his opportunity, making a diligent and conscientious study of the theory and practice of irrigation, which has since stood him well in hand in the construction, operation and superintendency of canals and ditches. He is a recognized expert in this line of work and his services have been much in demand. He is also a leading contractor in cement construction work. On November 16th, 1887, Mr. Suiter married Luella C. Fredericks, a boyhood schoolmate, and they have five children ; Flora E., Henrietta A., Gladys E., Harlan L. and Rolland E. Suiter, all at home. For two successive terms he was elected alderman from the first ward of Fort Collins to represent that ward in the city council, where he rendered faithful, efficient and satisfactory service. He is at present employed in the Government reclamation service in Montana in charge of ditch work. For nearly two score years, Mr. Suiter has been a resident of Larimer county, during which time his life has been like an open book to be read by all with not a scratch or a blurr to mar the page. His record as a man,

James H. Swan. - Many still believe that Connecticut people made a business of manufacturing wooden nutmegs, palming them off on unsuspecting purchasers for the genuine article. Nevertheless, Mr. Swan claims that state as his native heath, and the exact location being East Haddam, where he was born June 11th, 1843. Mr. Swan has been twice married. His first wife was Julia M. Doane, to whom he was wedded in Connecticut. She died May 18th, 1883, in Fort Collins. His second wife's maiden name was Minerva A. Harned. His sons are Herbert Ely, and Walter F. The daughter's name is now Mrs. Sylvia G. Bellairs. He first located in Pleasant valley in 1871, coming to Colorado the previous year, and followed farming and stock raising until he made his residence in Fort Collins in 1882. For many years

James H. Swan

Mr. Swan filled many important offices, always in a faithful and most satisfactory manner, enjoying the confidence and respect of everyone. For seven years he was the able assistant to the post- master at Fort Collins. In 1891 he engaged in the hotel and general merchandise business at Livermore, taking up his residence there, and serving as postmaster. In 1894 he was elected a county commissioner, representing the mountain district. His administration of county affairs was marked by keen discernment and superior judgment in the expenditure of public funds. His unobtrusive manner and genial disposition have made him many loyal friends.

Elijah Horner was a native of New Jersey, born September 28th, 1850, at Mullica Hill. He was reared on a farm and educated at Harrisonville, New Jersey. On February 21st, 1873, he was united in marriage with Eliza C. Edwards at Woodstown, New Jersey, and four children were born to them; Elbert, Oliver J., Jacob and Mrs. Elsie K. Medlock. Mr. Horner followed farming in his native state until August, 1878, when failing health admonished him to seek a dryer and less rigorous climate and he came to Fort Collins near where his brother, Asa M. Horner, had lived for several years, and who had been greatly bene- fited by the change. Our subject purchased a farm situated about four miles southeast of Fort Collins which he improved by adding new buildings, fencing and by setting out an orchard and which he cultivated until an unfortunate runaway accident in 1886 shortened the life of an enterprising farmer and excellent citizen. He died at the family home in 1896, mourned by all who knew him. After her husband's death, Mrs. Horner and her young sons carried on the farm with success for several years, and in 1905 she married Herman Strauss, a brother of G. R. Strauss, one of the earliest settlers of the Cache la Poudre valley. Mr. Strauss is a successful farmer and stock feeder, and Mrs. Strauss a leader in church work at Timnath. Mrs. Horner was born, educated and reared in New Jersey. Her father was of Welsh descent, his ancestors coming to America in Colonial times, and her mother was American born.

Thomas H. Doolittle is remembered by the earlier settlers of Larimer county «s an upright citizen, a devoted father, a faithful friend. He was born at Ithaca, New York, on November 13th, 1835. On October 28th, 1857, he married Sarah M. Blauvelt at Buffalo, New York, and soon thereafter, in 1859, moved" to the State t)f Kansas, where he engaged in farming. In 1862 he enlisted in the 10th New York Cavalry and served in the Civil war until its close. In 1882 he moved with his family to Colorado, settling first at Boulder, from which place he came to Fort Collins, where he resided until his death in August, 1902. Mr. Doolittle was an honored member of the Masonic order and highly respected in his city and county.

Paul Flick was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, September 9th, 1831. Removed to Wisconsin in 1856, and to Colorado in the spring of 1860. After spending the seasons of 1860-61 mining on Blue river, Summit county, he located in Denver where he remained until 1867. He returned to Wisconsin in the spring of 1867, where he married, leaving soon afterwards for Denver. In July of that year he came to the Cache la Poudre valley and located on the farm occupied by the family at the time of his death, December 15th, 1878. Being a pioneer in the valley and a straight forward honorable man in all of his dealings, Mr. Flick had an extended circle of friends and acquaintances all of whom were warmly attached to him. A wife and three children survive him. The

Jerry Thornton Beach. - Wherever sheep raising and wool growing can be carried on with success and at a profit, there one may expect to find some of the hardy sons of the Green Moun- tain state engaged in the business. Vermont was for many years prior to 1850, the chief wool growing state in the Union, but since that time the annual clip has decreased, owing to strong outside competition. But the choice breeds of fine wooled mermo sheep of ancient pedigree raised in Vermont are celebrated all over the world, and have been exported to Australia, South America and other remote countries. Texas, Colorado and California sheep-raisers still visit that state to get thoroughbred animals to use in keeping up the standard of their flocks. Our subject was raised in a sheep-raising and wool-growing atmosphere and on arriving at man's estate, he came to Colorado to establish himself in the business that his father had followed among the mountains of Vermont. Mr. Beach was born May 26th, 1853, at