History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 111

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 944

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MRS. MARTHA M. THORNE

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Mr. Daut was married in Muscatine, Iowa, on the 21st of July, 1868, to Miss Ada Cornelia Funk and to them were born two daughters, Cora May and Stella, the latter the widow of Harry Delano Osborne and the mother of two daughters, Dorothy and Margaret.

Mr. and Mrs. Daut hold membership in the Episcopal church and have guided their lives by its teachings. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce ahd is interested in all of its plans and projects for the upbuilding and welfare of the city with which he is now identified. He was a popular and respected citizen of Muscatine and has won equally high regard through the period of his residence in Colorado Springs. A notable event in his life was the celebration on the 21st of July, 1918, of his golden wedding anniversary, on which occasion many friends gathered to wish the worthy couple many happy returns of the day.

ROBERT L. PATTERSON.

Robert L. Patterson, manager of the Patterson Hardware & Implement Company and thus actively associated with business interests of Fort Morgan, is of Canadian birth. His natal day was in July, 1876. his parents being John and Mary A. (Empey) Patter- son, both of whom were natives of Canada. The father was a farmer and cultivated a tract of land in Canada throughout his active life, there passing away in the year 1884. His widow still survives him.

Robert L. Patterson was reared and educated in his native country and after leaving school went to New York city, where he was employed in a wholesale and retail grocery house for five years. The opportunities of the west, however, attracted him and he made his way to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where for six years he was in the employ of the National Biscuit Company. He also spent portions of that period in Chicago and in Milwaukee, representing the same house. In December, 1906, he came to Fort Morgan, Colorado, and entered into partnership with his brother, George M. Patterson, in the hardware and implement business, of which he has since been manager, concentrating his efforts and attention upon the development and upbuilding of the trade. In 1908 they erected a modern two-story brick business block, which they occupy, and they carry a stock valued at about forty thousand dollars, including an extensive line of shelf and heavy hardware and farm implements, for which they find a ready sale, for the relia- bility of their business methods, combined with their earnest desire to please their patrons, has won for them an extensive and gratifying patronage.

On the 23d of September, 1908, Mr. Patterson was married to Miss Beatrice Hickson and to them has been born one child, Donald L., whose birth occurred September 27, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are well known socially and have an extensive circle of warm friends in Fort Morgan. They hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Patterson is also an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity, loyally adhering to the teachings of the craft. He has steadily worked his way upward in the order and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks, while his political support is given to the republican party. He has never been an office seeker nor desired political preferment in any way but is never remiss in the duties of citizenship and cooperates heartily in well defined plans and measures for the general good, standing at all times for those interests which con- stitute features in the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the community.

SAMUEL JOHN GILES.

Samuel John Giles, vice president of the Exchange National Bank of Colorado Springs, was born in Randolph, New York, in 1866 and is a representative of one of the old colonial families, his great-grandfather, James Giles, having been a soldier in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war. The father, Benjamin Giles, was born in Herkimer county. New York, in 1811 and in early manhood established a lumber yard in Cattaraugus county, New York, while subsequently he turned his attention to merchandising in Franklinville, that state. He was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Miss Rachel Longshore, a native of that city. His death occurred in the Empire state in 1888, while his wife, surviving him for almost two decades, passed away in Colorado Springs in 1907.

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In the acquirement of his education Samuel J. Giles of this review became a student in the high school of Jamestown, New York, and he made his initial step in the business world when a youth of sixteen, entering the Chautauqua County National Bank of James- town as a messenger in 1882. He remained with the bank for six years, winning promo- tion from time to time until he had become head bookkeeper. In 1888 he accepted the position of assistant cashier in the Jamestown National Bank and was identified with that institution for eleven years, when the bank was consolidated with the Chautauqua County Trust Company, with which Mr. Giles remained as assistant cashier for a year. It was then, on account of his health, that he came to Colorado and accepted a position in the Exchange National Bank at Colorado Springs. He worked in a minor capacity for a time but soon proved his worth, adaptability and thoroughness and after two years was made assistant cashier. Another year brought him promotion to the posi- tion of cashier and he occupied that position for ten years, or until 1914, when he was elected to the vice presidency of the bank and has since bent his energies to executive control and administrative direction. Throughout his entire business career he has been identified with banking, with which he is thoroughly familiar in every phase, and bis long experience and reliability are constituting an important element in the continued success of the institution with which he is connected.

Mr. Giles is a republican in politics and is serving as treasurer of the Colorado Springs school board. He is also the treasurer of the Masonic Building Association. In . Masonry he has attained the Knight Templar degree, and he is identified with the Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks. He likewise belongs to the El Paso, the Colorado Springs and the Winter Night Clubs and he attends the First Methodist Episcopal church, associa- tions which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern his conduct.

MRS. MARY CARROLL (CRAIG) BRADFORD.

The life record of Mrs. Mary Carroll (Craig) Bradford, state superintendent of public instruction in Colorado, is one which reflects credit upon the state of her adoption, for Colorado may boast of having within her borders one of the most able educators of the entire country and the second woman ever honored with the presidency of the National Educational Association, to which position she was elected in July, 1917. A native of New York city, she is a daughter of James B. and Anna Turk (Carroll) Craig. Her father was a native of Kentucky and when seventeen years of age removed to New York, becoming a well known lawyer of that city, where he practiced as a member of the firm of Sidney, Hamilton & Craig. He was also judge advocate general of the state of New York and passed away in the eastern metropolis in 1879. His wife was a representative of a prominent family of the Empire state. The grandmother on the maternal side was born on the site of the present postoffice in New York city, a property that was owned by the great-grandmother. Mrs. Craig passed away in Lead- ville, Colorado, in 1886.

Mrs. Bradford was the elder of two children. In her girlhood she was a pupil in the public schools of New York city and continued her education in private institutions, while later she had the benefit of instruction in the University of Paris, having gone to Europe to perfect her education in France and in other places of the old world. She was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Paris and in 1914 the University of Denver conferred upon her the degree of Doctor of Letters.

It was subsequent to her graduation that Mary C. Craig became the wife of Lieu- tenant Edward Taylor Bradford, the marriage being celebrated in New York city in 1878. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Oliver Bradford, the former at one time general paymaster of the United States navy. Edward T. Bradford was also connected with the navy with the rank of lieutenant. Resigning his position, he removed west- ward to Colorado and was engaged in the marble business at Leadville but died while on a visit to New York city on Christmas day of 1901, his remains being brought back to Denver for interment. Mrs. Bradford then turned to educational work, becoming a teacher in Leadville and afterward at Colorado Springs. Later she was elected county superintendent of Adams county and afterward superintendent of schools in the city and county of Denver. Her marked ability in organizing and directing educational work led to her selection for the position of state superintendent of public instruction in January, 1913, and she is now serving for the third term in that office. Well descended and well bred, the innate refinement of her nature makes choice of all that has intel- lectual and cultural value and her example has been an effective force in advancing

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standards among her colleagues in the profession. Most competent in the educational field, her work has also been equally commendable on the lecture platform, where she is a forceful and entertaining speaker.

Throughout her life Mrs. Bradford has been a keen and discriminating student of vital questions and problems of the day and she is widely known for her public activities and social connections. She has been prominent in the club circles of the city, becoming a charter member of the Woman's Club of Denver, and she is a past president of the Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs. She is also identified with the Educational Council of Colorado and the Colorado Teachers' Association and high honor came to her in professional connections through her election in July, 1917, to the presidency of the National Educational Association. This was a marked tribute to her worth, ability and high professional standing, as she was the first Colorado woman and the second woman in all the United States to be called to that high position. She is identified also with the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Rebekahs, the Women of Wood- craft and The Maccabees. She is also a captain of the Hoover Legion of Life, is a member of the Women's Council of National Defense and was the organizer of the Colorado thrift movement in the schools of the state. She is identified with the Character Educa- tion Association, the National Patriotic Educational Movement and she is also deeply interested in the vital political problems and questions of the day, being president of the Jefferson Democratic Club of Colorado and several other organizations to further the interests of the principles in which she believes. As a lecturer she has been heard on hundreds of platforms, visiting thirty-eight states of the Union in this connection. Her addresses cover a broad field and she has been a prolific writer upon educational subjects, contributing articles to the leading magazines and journals not only of this country but of Europe. She is still very active on the lecture platform and during the past year has visited eight states and traveled twenty-eight thousand miles in carrying on her public work.

Mrs. Bradford, moreover, has deep home interests and is a devoted mother. Her children are four in number. Craig, who was born in New York city and is now city engineer of Denver, having occupied the position since 1903, married Miss May Nelson and has one child, Edward Taylor Bradford (III). Edward Taylor Bradford (II) died in infancy. Mrs. Clair Bradford Hatton was born in New York city and is a prominent actress. Mrs. Russell Barnes, born in Leadville, Colorado, died at Colorado Springs in May, 1912. Most devoted to the interests of her home, in which her activities centered to the time of her husband's death, Mrs. Bradford then entered upon a very different field of labor and the same qualities which made her a thorough student in her college days and a wise mother in the rearing of her children have constituted her a most forceful factor in the schoolroom and upon the lecture platform, while her powers of organization have been manifest in the direction of the educational interests of the state and of the nation. She attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm, is a speaker of magnetic power and at the same time her utterances are based upon broad general information and are the outcome of logical deductions.

CYRUS W. DOLPH.

Cyrus W. Dolph, for almost two decades a member of the bar of Colorado Springs, beginning his practice here in 1899, was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin, in 1871, a son of George and Harriett (De Camp) Dolph. The founder of the family in the new world came to Massachusetts in 1638 and for many generations the family was represented in the east. The grandfather, Simon Dolph, was a native of the state of New York, and George Dolph was born in Wisconsin in 1844. He devoted his life to the occupation of farming and passed away in March, 1918. He is survived by his widow, who makes her home in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Cyrus W. Dolph was reared upon the old homestead farm in Wisconsin, with the usual experiences that fall to the lot of the farm-bred boy. After attending the country schools he entered the Carroll Preparatory School and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with the class of 1896, thus gaining a broad literary education to serve as a foundation upon which to build the superstructure of professional knowl- edge. He had determined upon the practice of law as a life work and continued his studies in the law department of the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1898, receiving the degree of LL. B. The same year he was admitted to the bar and in 1899 he came to Colorado Springs, after which he was licensed to practice in this state. Here he has since followed his profession and his ability has brought him prominently

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to the front. He is careful and painstaking in the preparation of his cases and is seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of a legal principle. His retentive memory has often excited the surprise of his contemporaries and his close conformity to the highest stand- ards and ethics of the profession has won for him the warmest regard of his colleagues.

On the 1st of January, 1903, in Colorado Springs, Mr. Dolph was united in marriage to Miss Leone M. Nyè, a daughter of the late George B. Nye, an Ohio soldier of the Civil war. They have one child, Shirley Maxine. Mr. Dolph's military experience covers two years' training along that line while in college. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has served for two terms as a member of the Colorado legislature, serving in the fourteenth and sixteenth general assemblies, but while active in politics, he prefers to concentrate his time and efforts upon his professional duties. In all matters of citizenship, however, he takes a progressive stand and labors untiringly for the best interests of the community and the commonwealth.

ALFRED C. ANDERSEN.

Alfred C. Andersen is successfully engaged in business at Brush as a member of the firm of Andersen Brothers, conducting a well appointed and up-to-date drug store. His birth occurred at Jewell Junction, Hamilton county, Iowa. on the 12th of January, 1893, his parents being Chris and Christina (Thompson) Andersen, both of whom are natives of Denmark. About the year 1886 they crossed the Atlantic to the United States and established their home at Jewell Junction. Iowa, where they have resided continu- ously since. The father learned the shoemaker's trade in early life but subsequently entered the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company as a mechanic and is still connected with that corporation.

Alfred C. Andersen acquired his education in the public schools of his native town, passing through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1911. After completing his high school course he entered the Babcock Institute of Pharmacy at Des Moines, Iowa, and completed his study there by graduation in 1913. He had assisted in drug store work for four years before entering the Institute and fol- lowing his graduation spent one year as a drug clerk at Marshalltown, while for three years he was employed at Story City, Iowa. On the 1st of March, 1917, he came to Brush, Morgan county, Colorado, and purchased an interest in the drug store of his brother, John C. Andersen, who had here been established in business for a year. The enterprise has since been conducted under the firm style of Andersen Brothers and is meeting with well merited success, for the partners are widely recognized as young men of foresight and ability. They carry an extensive line of drugs and druggists' sundries, for which they find a ready sale.

On the 23d of June, 1917, Mr. Andersen was united in marriage to Miss Alberta Al- bright and both are well known socially. Mr. Andersen is a musician of considerable ability, playing the slide trombone and having been connected with bands in both Iowa and Brush, Colorado. In politics he is independent, supporting men and measures rather than party, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons. His life is upright and honorable in every relation, and what he has already achieved indicates that his future career will be well worth the watching.

LUTHER MILTON HUNT.

Luther Milton Hunt, vice president of the Robinson-Hunt Grain Company of Colo- rado Springs and also active in support of church work and civic interests in the city in which he resides, was born in Martinsville, Ohio, in 1874, a son of Jacob G. and Sarah Frances. (James) Hunt, who were also natives of Ohio, the former born in Lees- burg in 1834. They were married in Martinsville and are now residents of Wilmington, Ohio. The ancestral line is traced back through various generations to Jacob Hunt, the immigrant ancestor, who was born in London, England, and who came to America in 1635, settling where the town of Concord, Massachusetts, now stands. He was the father of William Hunt, born in Concord, and the latter was in turn the father of Abner Hunt, whose birth occurred in Chester county, Pennsylvania. The line comes on down through Jacob Hunt, who was born in North Carolina, to Nathan Hunt, also a native of North Carolina. The last named was a member of the Society of Friends and was for

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some time a resident of Martinsville, Ohio, where he passed away. Jacob G. Hunt has also adhered to the Quaker faith. Throughout his active business career he has carried on farming but is now living retired, enjoying the fruits of his former toil in a well earned rest.

Luther M. Hunt of this review was reared in his native town and attended the public schools of Martinsville until graduated from the high school. He afterward entered Wilmington College, a Quaker institution, in which he completed his course by graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Science, thereby winning a scholarship to Haverford College, at Philadelphia. There he received the degree of Master of Arts and later took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in Clarksville, Ohio, for a period of seven years, acting as superintendent of the schools of that place during the last three years of that time. Abandoning the teaching profession, however, he turned his attention to banking and became cashier of the Farmers Bank at Martinsville, Ohio, which was then a private banking institution owned by his uncle, David B. Hunt. He remained there for two years but his health failed, and hoping to be benefited by a removal to the west, he made his way to Colorado Springs. Here he entered the employ of the Robinson Grain Company, but after seven months found his health again giving way and retired from that connection, After a year of out-door life, he entered the grain business on his own account in a small way, gradually increasing the business until in April, 1918, the L. M. Hunt Grain Company and the H. A. Robinson Grain Company were consolidated under the style of the Robinson-Hunt Grain Company, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars. Of this company Mr. Robinson was elected president, while Mr. Hunt became the vice president and general manager. He is well qualified to control the interests of the firm owing to his long experience in the grain trade and his native enterprise and business discernment.

While teaching at Clarksville, Ohio, Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Lena Davis Hadley, a daughter of the late Walter Hadley, a native of Ohio. Their children are Nelson Vincent, born in 1898, and Donald Leigh, born in 1901. One child died in infancy.

The religious faith of the family is that of the First Congregational church, in which Mr. Hunt has served as a trustee. They are interested in the church work and in all measures and plans to promote the general good. In politics Mr. Hunt is a republican, and while never an office seeker, he is now serving as a member of the Colorado Springs school board, the cause of education finding in him a stalwart cham- pion. He belongs to the Masonic lodge, to the Modern Woodmen of America, the Rotary Club and the Winter Night Club. He comes of a long line of American ancestors who throughout all the years have been loyal in citizenship, reliable in business and at all times worthy of respect and regard. He is fortunate in that his lines of life have been cast in harmony with this commendable family record. Mr. Hunt has sus- tained an unassailable reputation for integrity and straightforward dealing, so that he has won not only success but an honored name as well. All who know him speak of him in terms of confidence and regard and bear testimony to his sterling traits of character.

THURMAN ANTHONY.

Thurman Anthony is a prominent and active factor in business circles of Brush as secretary of the Brush Hardware, Furniture & Supply Company, with which he has been thus identified for the past five years. His birth occurred in Franklin, Kentucky, on the 11th of June, 1888, his parents being George S. and Minerva (Mayhew) Anthony, who were likewise natives of the Blue Grass state. Both his father and grandfather were born in the same house and the former continuously resided therein until July, 1918, when he put aside active business cares and has since made his home with his children. He was successfully engaged in general farming in Kentucky throughout his entire business career. His wife was called to her final rest on the 20th of September, 1917. The paternal grandfather of Thurman Anthony served as a Confederate soldier during the period of the Civil war.

Thurman Anthony was reared and educated in the state of his nativity and then turned his attention to the profession of teaching, which he followed in Tennessee for one year. In 1908 he came to Brush, Morgan county, Colorado, where he entered the employ of the Great Western Sugar Company, with which he remained for five years. acting in the capacity of bookkeeper for two years and as timekeeper for three years. In 1913 he purchased an interest in the Brush Hardware, Furniture & Supply Company,

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in the successful conduct of which he has since been an active factor, devoting his entire time and attention to the business. He is the secretary of the company and has the following associate officers: D. W. McSween, president; H. P. McConnell, vice presi- dent; and C. W. Emerson, treasurer. The concern enjoys an extensive and most gratify- ing patronage, dealing in pianos, organs, sewing machines, paints, oils, and garden and field seeds, and making a specialty of choice alfalfa seed. Their establishment occupies two floors and they carry a large stock at all times.

On the 12th of September, 1912, Mr. Anthony was united in marriage to Miss Fern Goddard, a daughter of S. W. and Ella O. (Webster) Goddard, who were natives of Wheeling, West Virginia, and of Minnesota respectively. Mr. Goddard, who was a hardware merchant, conducted an enterprise of that character at Arcadia, Nebraska, until 1901, after which he made his way to Sterling, Colorado, where he carried on business along similar lines for four years. In 1905 he took up his abode on the present site of Brush, Morgan county. the town having not yet come into existence, and here continued in the hardware business. He established the Brush Hardware, Furniture & Supply Company, of which his son-in-law is now secretary, successfully carrying on his operations in that connection throughout the remainder of his life. His demise occurred in February, 1916, and his widow has since made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Anthony.

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 111

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed Publication date: 1918 Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Number of Pages: 944

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 944