History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 118

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

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pursued a literary course, until the fall of 1896 when he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the study of law and from which in 1899 he won his LL. B. degree. Immediately after this he came to Denver. took the bar examina- tions, was admitted to practice, and has since, through all the intervening period, cover- ing about twenty years, been active in his chosen profession. He has won many im- portant decisions for his clients and is regarded as one of the best informed members of the Denver bar, being seldom if ever at fault in the application of a legal principle or in the citation of a precedent. He is now legal representative for a number of large mining companies and he numbers among his clients many of the representative business men of the city and state. He belongs to the Denver County and City Bar Association, also to the Colorado State Bar Association and his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession speak of him in terms of warm and well merited regard.

Mr. Robinson was married on the 1st day of November, 1900, in Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, to Miss Mary Grace Macklin, a daughter of William Emerson and Anna (Bear) Macklin, of a well known and prominent family of Harrisburg. Miss Macklin attended Miss Woodward's School for Girls, which was then the exclusive young ladies' semi- nary of Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have two children: Harry Warren, Jr., who was born August 7, 1901, in Denver and is now attending the East Denver high school; and Richard Macklin, who was born in Denver, June 18, 1903, and is a student in the Corona school.

Politically Mr. Robinson is a republican, giving stalwart allegiance to the party, and fraternally he is connected with the Beta Theta Pi, while in club circles his member- ship extends to the University Club and Mile High Club. While he enjoys club life and other social features, he never allows anything to interfere with the faithful per- formance of his professional duties and along the line of his chosen vocation has made continuous and gratifying progress.

JULIUS F. STOCKDORF.

Early commercial interests in Denver were ably represented by Julius F. Stockdorf, who was a pioneer of this state of the year 1866. He was not only connected with the early hotel business, though this was his principal occupation, but he also conducted a restaurant and for a number of years was a trusted employe of the United States mint. His death occurred in Denver, December 17, 1911, when he had reached the age of eighty- five years. His parents were Rhodius and Elizabeth Stockdorf and he was the only one in that family to come to this country, emigrating to America in 1845 and arriving here when only nineteen years of age, for he was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, May 14, 1826. He undertook the long voyage largely because he had been advised to do so on account of his health, but after reaching this country found the opportunities so tempt- ing that he decided to remain. He first located in New York state and later in Penn- sylvania. In Germany he had received an adequate education and subsequently had taken up banking, having become quite proficient in finance in Germany. In this coun- try he followed various occupations, among them merchandising and school teaching. While a resident of Pennsylvania he was married and in 1866 he made his way, accom- panied by his wife and four children, to Denver, arriving in this state on the 2d of May of the following year. He adapted himself to the new conditions in a frontier commu- nity and conducted the Pennsylvania House on Blake street in Denver for a number of years. This was. situated across from the Elephant Corral. In 1870 he sold out and acquired the City Hotel, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, on Market, and suc- cessfully managed this until 1875. Travelers of the early days often took shelter in his hostelries and found him a hospitable host who would do anything in his power to make his guests comfortable. Subsequent to 1875 Mr. Stockdorf was connected with the United States mint, continuing in that occupation for six years. He later was for a time engaged in the restaurant business in Leadville and afterwards opened a flower store there, along which line he also was successful. In 1901 he left Leadville and returned to Denver, where he lived retired in the enjoyment of the comforts of life.

On April 5, 1858, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Julius F. Stockdorf and Thusnelda Baur were united in marriage. She is a daughter of Dr. Joseph and Pauline Baur, natives of Germany, who in 1853 emigrated to the United States with eight children. After their arrival in this country, five more children were born to them, of whom Mrs. Stockdorf was one, her birth having occurred September 4, 1840. Her father was a successful physician who for many years practiced at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Stockdorf is now living in Denver and is still enjoying the best of health. She became

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the mother of seven children, of whom three died in infancy. The others are: Bertha, who makes her home in Denver with her mother; Emil, who also lives in this city; Matilda, who married Frank A. McLister, of Denver, by whom she has a son, Frank, Jr .; and Fred, who died May 9, 1899, at the age of thirty-two years.

Julius F. Stockdorf was a republican and faithful to the principles of the party. His religious belief was that of the German Lutheran church, in the work of which he took an active part, his life's course being largely guided by his faith. He was one of the founders of the Turn Verein in Denver and for many years one of its honored members. As one of Colorado's pioneers there is honor due to Julius F. Stockdorf, for it is due to men of his stamp and enterprise that a wilderness was developed into a prosperous commonwealth, so that the present generation can enjoy the comforts and conveniences which were unknown to the early settlers. At his death the family received many tokens of sympathy and condolence, showing that Mr. Stockdorf was popular among the older generation of residents, to which he belonged. His memory is still cherished by all those who knew him more intimately and those who knew him best agree as one that he was a man of the highest purposes and principles.

PHILIP F. LARRABEE.

Philip F. Larrabee, secretary and first owner of the Denver Towel Supply Com- pany, was born in Chicago, Illinois. February 10, 1853, his parents being William M. and Mary M. (Haint) Larrabee, who were natives of New York state. They became residents of Chicago in early life, settling there in 1836, the year before the city was incorporated. The father engaged first in the wholesale and retail crockery business, which he conducted on an extensive scale. Later he disposed of that business in order to take up an official position in connection with railroad interests and for many years was secretary and treasurer of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company. He resided in an elegant home in one of the suburbs of Chicago and there passed away in 1879. He was widely known throughout the entire country by reason of his activity in connection with railroad building and operation. His widow continued her residence in Chicago for some time but later came to Denver, where she passed away in 1901.

The family numbered ten children, of whom Mr. Larrabee of this review was the sixth in order of birth. He attended the public schools of Geneva, Illinois, near Chicago, and afterward became an apprentice in a large hardware house of the city and continued in active connection with the business until 1879, the year in which his father died. He then came to Colorado and entered upon mining activities near Silverton. He continued mining until his funds became low, and not having met with any success, he decided to give up mining and came to Denver, where he arrived in 1885. While seeking a posi- tion in this city he met his brother, Charles D. Larrabee, who had also come to Denver from Chicago. The brother induced him to establish a towel supply laundry and witlı a capital of one hundred dollars borrowed from his brother he secured the needed ma- terial, rented a place of business and after a thorough canvass secured sixteen customers as a start. However, the business prospered and grew steadily. From time to time new machinery was installed and additional floor space secured and as the year 1894 approached the business had reached extensive proportions. At that date August Find- ling, who was one of the owners and founders of the Silver State Towel Supply Company, induced Mr. Larrabee to consolidate the two establishments, resulting in the organiza- tion of what is now the Denver Towel Supply Company, a very extensive and prosperous business. Their interests were first conducted in a building at Twenty-second and Blake streets, but after four years their patronage had outgrown their quarters and they removed to No. 1515 Fifteenth street, where the business was carried on still more extensively until a disastrous fire entirely wrecked their plant. For a time they then carried on business in the J. S. Brown building on Wazee street, but In 1904 these quar- ters proved much too small and the property at No. 1730 Speer boulevard, covering a half block of ground, was purchased and a modern two-story laundry building was erected. The very latest machinery was installed and business has since been conducted on a large scale. The company employs more than eighty experienced laundry workers and office helpers, has seven motor delivery cars and seven wagons, which cover the city and suburbs, and many outside customers are secured through service over the interurban and steam railroads.

In May, 1897, Mr. Larrabee was married in Denver to Miss Mary Thompson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson, formerly of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They now have a son, Philip F., who was born in Denver in 1900 and, serving with the

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United States army in France, has received honorable mention. Their son's record is one of which they indeed have reason to be proud.

Mr. and Mrs. Larrabee are members of the Unitarian church and he also has mem- bership with the .. Woodmen of the World and with the Denver Athletic Club. He has never been an office seeker but has confined his efforts and attention to his business and steadily has worked his way upward since entering the laundry field in Denver. His progress has been the result of close application, indefatigable energy and keen business discernment and these qualities have in the course of years made him one of the owners of one of the largest towel supply houses of the west.

SOLOMON W. SCHAEFER, M. D.

Dr. Solomon W. Schaefer, an eminent physician of Colorado Springs, specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1885. His father, Emile Schaefer, was a native of Biloxi, Mississippi, born in 1839. He served as an orderly sergeant in Company I of the Third Mississippi Infantry throughout the Civil war and after the period of hostilities he took an active part in the work of recon- struction in his native state. He figured prominently in the community in which he lived and served in a number of local offices in Yazoo City. He was married in New Orleans to Julia Marx, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, and who passed away in Yazoo City, February 24, 1908, while Mr. Schaefer survived until the 27th of Febru- ary, 1918.

Dr. Schaefer of this review was reared in his native city and pursued his early education in its public schools. Subsequently he became a student in the Washington and Lee University, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1904. He determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and later matricu- lated in the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was graduated with the class of 1909, and he added to his comprehensive technical training a year's valuable experience as interne in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, thus developing his powers and gaining knowledge which never can be as rapidly acquired in any other way as in hospital practice. In 1910 he removed to the Pacific coast and engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery in Portland, Oregon, until February, 1912, when he came to Colorado Springs, where he has since made his home, and in the inter- vening period his attention has been given largely to tuberculosis, of which he has made a most thorough and scientific study. His work in this direction has been productive of great good and his practice is now extensive. Recently Dr. S. W. Schaefer was officially notified of his appointment as contract physician for the S. A. T. C. students, collegiate division. His duties include the treatment and examination of all men enrolled in the corps. The appointment carries with it the rank of first lieutenant in the medical corps. Dr. Schaefer now devotes a great part of his time and his best efforts to his important duties in close connection with bringing to a successful end this war between humanity loving democracy and domineering, liberty throttling autocracy.

Dr. Schaefer adheres to the Jewish faith and he gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his professional interests and duties, which he discharges with a marked sense of conscientious obligation.

EUGENE E. BURLINGAME.

Eugene E. Burlingame was at one time a well known assayer of Denver, where he passed away on the 20th of March, 1907. He was at that time in the sixty-second year of his age, his birth having occurred at Pillarpoint, Jefferson county, New York, on the 24th of November, 1845. His parents were Alvah and Mary (Waterman) Burlingame. The former was a farmer by occupation and was born at Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York. He was descended from English ancestors who were early settlers of Rhode Island, the family having been established on American soil during colonial days. The mother of Eugene E. Burlingame was also a native of Little Falls, New York, and was of Scotch lineage.

Eugene E. Burlingame attended the public schools of Watertown, New York, and when a youth of seventeen years went to New York city, where for five years he was with A. K. Eaton, a practical and prominent assayer and chemist. In 1866, soon after the dis-

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covery of silver at Georgetown, Eugene E. Burlingame made his way westward to Colo- rado and was appointed territorial assayer by the acting governor, Hon. Frank Hall, ' his appointment being confirmed hy the senate. He then located in Georgetown and also practiced his profession in Central City, having a chemical laboratory and assay office and subsequently was appointed territorial assayer, serving for four years. He then removed to Silver City, where be had charge of the reduction plant of the firm of Shelby & Company. Three years later he established himself at Denver, where he conducted his laboratory and made mine examinations. This work was done for American and foreign capitalists and extended to various parts of the United States.

In the meantime Mr. Burlingame had become interested in silver mining in Boulder county and operated two silver mines. He continued to follow the assaying business in Denver until he was succeeded by his son, Walter Eugene Burlingame. Besides his assaying business he was largely interested in real estate and built a large number of houses in the residence part of the city. also a business block on Broadway, in South Denver.

On the 14th of January, 1874, Mr. Burlingame was united in marriage to Miss Alice Hoffman, who was born in Dixon, Illinois, and was married at Central City, Colorado. She was educated in a convent at Toledo. Ohio, and she is still living in Denver, occupy- ing the old family residence. Mr. and Mrs. Burlingame became the parents of two daughters and a son. namely: Fannie, the wife of D. L. Mechling, of Denver; Walter Eugene; and Bessie, now Mrs. Robert Morrison. The last named was graduated from Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois.

Mr. Burlingame was a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and in his life exem- plified the beneficent spirit of the craft, which is based on a recognition of the brother- hood of man and the obligations thereby imposed. He rose to high scientific efficiency in the line of his chosen profession and his marked ability was recognized by all who could speak with authority upon his work.

WALTER EUGENE BURLINGAME.

Walter Engene Burlingame, prominently known in Denver as a chemist, having suc- ceeded to his father's business in that connection, was born May 5, 1879, in the city which is still his home, his parents being Eugene E. and Alice (Hoffman) Burlingame, who are mentioned at length on another page of this work. He pursued his education in the public schools, completing a high school course in East Denver with the class of 1897. He afterward benefited by a thorough course of instruction in the Colorado School of Mines and won the degree of Engineer of Mines in 1901. He has since given his atten- tion to the business as founded by his father, and to which he succeeded in March, 1907, and has since been sole proprietor. He also has interests in mining and his investments have been judiciously and wisely made.

Mr. Burlingame was married in Memphis, Tennessee, October 28, 1903, to Miss Madge Freeman, of Memphis, a daughter of G. W. and Henrietta Freeman. They have had two children: Jane Burlingame, who was born December 4, 1907, and is attending the Wolcott School of Denver; and Walter Eugene, who was born December 13, 1904, and passed away on the 10th of May, 1912.

In politics Mr. Burlingame maintains an independent course. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and has taken the degrees of Temple Lodge, No. 84, A. F. & A. M., the degrees of the Scottish Rite, and has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of El Jebel Temple. He attends the Episcopal church and he belongs to the Denver Motor Club, to the Sons of Colorado, to the University Club, to the Teknik Club and to the American Society of Mining Engineers. His collegiate training, his broad experience and his laudable ambition have brought him marked efficiency in his chosen field of labor and he has become the worthy successor of his father, building his success upon a broad foundation.

REV. P. U. SASSE.

Rev. P. U. Sasse, pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic church at Sterling and in charge of all the Catholic parishes in Logan county, was born in Haltern, Westphalia, Germany, in 1859, a son of A. and Clara Sasse. He came to the United States in 1883, when a young man of twenty-four years. His early education had been acquired under private tutor-

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ship in Münster, Westphalia, until he was about ten years of age. He was preparing for a law course in early manhood but later gave up the study of law and entered the study house of the Franciscan Fathers, having decided to devote his life to the priest- hood. He therefore prepared for holy orders by taking up the study of theology and necessary subjects thereto and in 1892 was ordained by Bishop Chartard of Indianapolis, Indiana. For some time he did not take up a permanent abode but filled various appoint- ments in different sections of the country. At one time he was pastor of the Catholic cathedral in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and about the year 1905 was transferred to George- town. Colorado, where he continued his labors until about 1908. He was then assigned to duty as pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic church in Sterling and he has since lived and labored here, doing excellent work in promoting the cause of the church. He was instrumental in securing the erection of the present splendid house of worship, which was built in the year 1911 at a cost of fifty thousand dollars. It is a beautiful red brick structure, splendidly appointed, and an excellent parish house has also been built at a cost of ten thousand dollars. At the present time he is engaged in building a very large schoolhouse and has secured ten Sisters to be in charge of the school, which was opened in September, 1918. Its cost is twenty-one thousand dollars and the entire indebtedness on the building was to be wiped out at the time of opening. Father Sasse has charge of all parishes in Logan county and has assisted materially in the upbuilding of the cause in this section of the state. He is a man of a liberal education who possesses an exten- sive library, with the contents of which he is largely familiar. He is continually study- ing and broadening his knowledge along any line and is a most scholarly gentleman. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the British isles and finds his chief source of pleasure and rest in travel, in a game of billiards or in literature. He is most devoted to the work of his church and is untiring in his zeal to promote the interests of St. Anthony's parish. He gives very freely to the war work, for he left Germany for the same reason that prompted America to enter the war-because he did not care for that form of government or the man who ruled the destinies of that empire.

HON. PERRY C. DUNLAP.

Fidelity in citizenship and devotion to the public welfare have led to the selection of Hon. Perry C. Dunlap for the position of state senator from the Pueblo district and he is now serving as a member of the upper house of the Colorado assembly. Moreover, he is well known in the business circles of Pueblo as a plastering con- tractor and has built up a trade of extensive proportions. Mr. Dunlap comes to the west from Indiana, his birth having occurred in Anderson, that state, on the 3d of October, 1866. He is a son of John T. and Lula (Paris) Dunlap, who remained residents of Indiana until 1872 and then removed westward with their family to Kansas. In that state the father engaged in farming and also took up the occupation of stock raising, concentrating his efforts and attention upon those branches of activity for a number of years. His well directed energy and effort brought to him substantial success, enabling him ultimately to retire from active business. His last years were spent in the enjoyment of a well earned rest at Pratt Center, Kansas, where he passed away.

Perry C. Dunlap was the elder of two children. At the usual age he became a pupil in the public schools and continued his education until he had mastered the branches of learning taught in the high school of Eldorado, Kansas. Through vacation periods he assisted his father with the work of the home farm. He began the study of law in the office and under the direction of George A. Gardner, of Eldorado, Kansas, but discontinued this on account of impaired health caused by indoor work. There- fore, in order to be out-of-doors, he turned his attention to the plastering trade, which he followed in Eldorado, Butler county, Kansas, for seven years. At the age of twenty- four he came to Pueblo. He has done work all over southern Colorado and his business has become a very extensive one, his patronage perhaps being greater than that of any other man in the same line of business in his section of the state. He has taken im- portant contracts, which he has promptly and carefully executed, and he is at present engaged in plastering the new Young Men's Christian Association building and also the new Central high school at Pueblo. In other words, he is retained for service in this connection on the most important buildings of the city and his activities have brought to him well earned prosperity. He is a director and vice president of the Pueblo Builders' Association, whose slogan is "We work for a greater Pueblo."

On the 4th of December, 1889, Mr. Dunlap was united in marriage to Miss Edna

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Marble, of Eldorado, Kansas, and to them have been born the following named: Charles M., who is now engaged in business with his father; W. A .; E. M .; Nellie; Minnie; Sherman; and Freddie. The family is widely and prominently known in Pueblo.

Mr. Dunlap while residing at Eldorado served as captain of the Sons of Veterans for five years. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and fraternally he is well known, having for a quarter of a century been connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for twenty-six years with the Woodmen of the World and also with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has always voted with the democratic party, which has found in him a stalwart champion. For five years he occupied the office of justice of the peace in Otero county and was then called upon for higher political service, being chosen to represent his district in the twentieth general assembly. In September, 1916, he was elected to the state senate for a four years' term and is now a member of the upper house of the Colorado general assembly, representing the second senatorial district comprising Pueblo county in the twenty- first session. He strongly championed the firemen's pension bill and also the move- ment to secure an appropriation for the state fair. His position upon any vital question is never an equivocal one. At this time he is rendering patriotic service to the government as one of the four-minute speakers and has gained a statewide reputa- tion, having delivered stirring addresses in almost every city in the state. He stands loyally for what he believes to be the best interests of the community and does not hesitate to express his honest convictions, so that over the record of his public career there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil.

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 118

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