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On the 3d of December, 1902, Mr. Hodges was married in Denver, Colorado, to Miss Mabel E. Gilluly, a native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and a daughter of Joseph W. and Euphemia (Lawson) Gilluly, who were pioneer residents of Colorado Springs. Her father was for forty years connected with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
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and for many years was treasurer of the company. To Mr. and Mrs. Hodges have been born two children: Joseph Gilluly, who was born in Denver, April 30, 1909; and William V., born September 19, 1911.
Mr. Hodges votes with the republican party, which he has supported since age con- ferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to the Denver Club, the Denver Athletic Club, the Denver Country Club, the University Club, the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, the Denver Mile High Club and to St. Anthony's Club of New York city. Appreciative of the social amenities of life, he has thus become identified with many of Denver's leading social organizations and his marked characteristics are those which make for personal popularity, while his developed powers in the line of his profession have brought him prominently to the front as a representative of the Denver bar.
FRANK I. EWING.
Since 1916 Judge Frank I. Ewing has filled the office of police magistrate and justice of the peace in Greeley, Colorado, having been elected to the position in that year. Being well versed in the law, he makes an excellent officer and has proven him- self absolutely impartial and fair in the discharge of his duties. He is a native son of his city, having been born in Greeley, February 4, 1876, a son of James L. and Elizabeth D. I. (Irwin) Ewing, natives of Pennsylvania. The father came to Colorado in 1875, being among the first to locate in Weld county, and here he farmed until 1880, when he came to Greeley, where he built the Model Mill & Elevator Company, which he founded. For twenty-five years he has successfully conducted this business and has been exceedingly prosperous in his results. He today owns about one thousand acres of land in the neighborhood and is accounted among the well-to-do citizens of Greeley, where both he and his wife make their home.
Frank I. Ewing was reared under the parental roof and received his primary education in the local public schools. He then entered the University of Colorado, from which he was graduated in 1901 with the LL. B. degree. Upon receiving his degree he practiced his profession in Denver for three years and then returned to Greeley, where he maintained an office until 1916, being in receipt of a fair share of legal practice. In that year he was elected to the office of justice of the peace and also has served as police magistrate since then. He administers his public duties well and his decisions are based upon a thorough understanding of the law. While he fully maintains the dignity of the court, he is inclined in the case of minor offenses to be lenient and has often proved himself not only judge of the accused but also friend.
Judge Ewing is married and has three children, Eunice, Jim and Mary, all of whom are attending school. Outside of his professional interests he is the secretary of the Greeley Canning Factory Company. For one term he served as deputy district attorney, winning high public commendation, and politically he is a republican. His religious faith is that of the Congregational church and fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, in which he has attained high rank, being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a Knight of Pythias and belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Judge Ewing stands high among his colleagues and is a valued member of the bar of the state. There is much that is commendable in his career and he has made many friends in Greeley, which has been his home since his birth. Those who have known him longest and most intimately speak of him in the highest terms of praise-a fact indicative of his reliable and permanent qualities of character.
ELMER CLARK BARNES.
Elmer Clark Barnes is principal of the Barnes Commercial School. In its conduct he has met a need of the business world for thoroughly trained people to enter upon important and responsible positions in business circles. His course of instruction is most thorough and comprehensive and was planned with a view to meeting modern-day needs. His efforts have been crowned with a notable measure of success. Professor Barnes is a native of Tallmadge, Ohio. His father, Sylvester E. Barnes, was also born in the Buckeye state and devoted his life to farming. He was a son of Sylvester Barnes, a native of Massachusetts. During the period of his residence in Ohio Sylvester E. Barnes was quite prominent in community affairs, serving as school commissioner and taking
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active part in promoting the moral progress of the community through his efforts as Sunday school superintendent. He married Rosemond Packard, a native of Hinckley, Ohio, and a representative of one of the old New England families. She, too, has passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester E. Barnes were born eight children, Mary Eunice, Ella Rosemond, Emory Burton, Arthur Leroy, Elmer Clark, Hubert Treat, Harry Eugene and Raymond Packard. The last two are business associates of their brother, Elmer Clark.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Professor Barnes of this review began his education in the district schools and passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school at Tallmadge with the class of 1888. He afterward attended Mount Union College, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Commercial Science in 1893. He took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for four years in the public schools, and afterward became connected with the Perkins & Herpel Business College of St. Louis, Missouri. Subsequently he spent five years in Hartford, Connecticut, as a teacher in the Huntsinger Business College, and in 1904 he came to Denver, where he established a school at his present location, and something of the marvelous growth of the undertaking is indicated in the fact that he opened his school with but four pupils and today there is an annual enrollment of fifteen hundred students under the care of twenty-four teachers. The business has been organized and incorporated under the name of the Barnes Commercial School, of which Professor E. C. Barnes is the president, with H. E. Barnes as secretary and R. P. Barnes as vice president. The last named is also teacher of salesmanship and advertising. The school is splendidly equipped. There are eight adding machines and one hundred and sixty typewriters, together with every other facility to promote the work of pupils along business lines. He has an expert for penmanship engrossing. The work of the school has been thoroughly systematized and organized and each department turns out efficient pupils, qualified to take up responsible positions in the line of work for which they have been trained.
In 1898 Professor Barnes was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Hart, ot Brimfield, Ohio, a daughter of M. M. and C. H. Hart. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have one son, Emory Hart, who was born in 1909. Professor Barnes is a Mason, belonging to Denver Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M. His religious faith is evidenced in his membership in the Plymouth Congregational church, in which he is serving as deacon and in which he has been Sunday school superintendent. His political support is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but has never sought or desired office. Since 1908 he has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce and he is interested in all those plans and measures which work for the advancement of the community, the extension of its trade relations and the upholding of its civic standards. His career has been a notably successful one and his school fills a want in the business life of the community, turning out most capable people. Professor Barnes is a man of marked force and great executive ability, of attractive personality, and actuated at all times by Christian principles, his course ever measuring up to the highest standards of manhood and of citizenship.
EMMET C. McANELLY.
Emmet C. McAnelly is filling the position of postmaster of Fort Collins, to which office he was appointed in 1914. In other connections as well, however, he has con- tributed to the upbuilding of Fort Collins, his name being especially associated with the development of the waterworks system of the town. Any plan or project for the public good may count upon his aid and cooperation and his views and his labors are at once practical and progressive.
Mr. McAnelly comes to Colorado from the middle west, his birth having occurred at Bowling Green, Indiana, on the 6th of September, 1875. He is the eldest son of Judge Jefferson McAnelly, who removed with his family to Loveland, Colorado, in 1881 and in 1884 established his home in Fort Collins, at which time Emmet C. McAnelly was a youth of but nine years. He therefore at once entered the public schools and passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school. He later matricu- lated in the Colorado Agricultural College, from which he was graduated with high honors on the completion of an engineering course. He has since done important work in the line of his chosen profession and following his graduation has acceptably served for several years as city engineer of Fort Collins, while for a number of terms he did equally acceptable work as county engineer or surveyor of Larimer county. He was instrumental in laying out and building the new waterworks system of Fort Collins, including the filtration plant and the storage system, giving to the city an abundant
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supply of pure water. He is thoroughly familiar with all the scientific phases underlying his work and what he has undertaken has been successfully accomplished by reason of the practical methods he has ever pursued.
Mr. McAnelly gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and his loyalty thereto, combined with his fitness for the position, led to his appointment to the office of postmaster of Fort Collins in 1914. He has since served and has made a most courteous, obliging and efficient officer, while in all matters of citizenship he stands for progress, development and improvement.
BULKELEY WELLS, A. B.
Mining constituted the first potent force in Colorado's wonderful development and has remained a strong element in the growth and progress of the state through all the intervening years. With the passing of time splendid organization has been introduced into the development of the rich mineral resources of the state and controlling these interests are men of master minds and executive force whose labors have been most resultant. To this class belongs Bulkeley Wells, who is connected with many important mining companies of the west. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, March 10, 1872, a son of Samuel Edgar and Mary Agnes (Bulkeley) Wells. After pursuing a course in the Roxbury Latin school he attended Harvard University and won his A. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1894. The following year was spent as a machinist with the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire, and in 1895 he entered the employ of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company of Boston, continuing in that connection until 1896. Since the latter year he has been interested in metal mining and during the intervening years has operated extensively over the United States and Mexico in connection with the construction and operation of hydro-electric power plants at various points in the west. Something of the extent and value of his services in the material development of the state and the utilization of its natural resources and his force as a factor in the upbuilding of various districts in the west is indicated in the fact that he is now the president of the Western Colorado Power Company, president of the First National Bank of Telluride and president and managing director of sixteen metal mining properties, operating from Alaska to Oklahoma, while the Utah Power & Light Company and the Denver Rock Drill Manufacturing Company number him as a representative of their directorates. Thus from point to point he has extended his efforts and investments, his business connections constantly broadening in scope and importance until his work is of the utmost value to the state and to the west at large.
On the 16th of October, 1895, Mr. Wells was married to Miss Grace Daniels Livermore. a daughter of Colonel Thomas L. Livermore, of Boston, and they are now parents of two sons and two daughters: Bulkeley L., born July 15, 1896, now an ensign in the United States navy; Barbara, born April 10, 1898; Dorothy L., January 15, 1900; and Thomas L., August 14, 1902.
Mr. Wells' military record covers service as captain of Troop A of the First Squad- ron of the Colorado National Guard from February, 1904, until 1905; as adjutant general from April, 1905, until 1907; as colonel on the governor's staff from 1907 until 1909; as colonel of the First Cavalry Regiment of the National Guard of Colorado from June, 1917, until August 4, 1917, at which time he was placed on the retired list with the rank of brigadier general. He has served on the Colorado board of corrections but resigned in 1918. He is well known, too, in club circles from the Atlantic to the Pacific, having membership in the Alta Club of Salt Lake City; in the Sutter of Sacramento; the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco; the El Paso and Cheyenne Mountain Country Clubs of Colorado Springs; the Denver and the Denver Country Clubs of Denver; the Knickerbocker Club of New York; the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York; the Rocky Mountain Club of New York; and the Harvard Clubs of New York, Boston and Colorado.
His record is the embodiment of those characteristics which in this country consti- tute what we call a square man. In a word, there has been nothing sinister and nothing to conceal in all of his career. Placing a correct valuation upon his talents, he has so directed his efforts that the utilization of opportunities has brought him to the fore, mak- ing him a dynamic force in mining circles and an influencing factor in relation to many important problems and conditions which have to do with the welfare and upbuilding of city and state. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, having attained the Knight Templar degree in the York Rite and the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He likewise belongs to the Mystic Shrine and is also a member of the Benevolent Protective
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Order of Elks. Moreover, he has membership relations with the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Colorado Scientific Society, the Navy League of the United States, the American Mining Congress, the Colorado Metal Mining Association, the United States Cavalry Association, the United States Infantry Association and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of . America. He finds recreation in polo, tennis, hunting and shooting. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. Colorado has been particularly fortunate in having among its great mine owners men to whom law and order in every nook and corner of the state is an essential to prosperity. Bulkeley Wells is possessed of rare courage, which, added to a keen sense of justice, is largely responsible for his success in dealing with great bodies of men.
CHARLES A. MURRAY.
The high standing of Charles A. Murray as a representative of the Denver har is attested by the court reports, which give indication of the many favorable verdicts that he has won for his clients. He is a strong and forceful lawyer, well informed on all branches of jurisprudence, and for nearly thirty years he has been an active prac- titioner in the city in which he still makes his home. He was born in Geneseo, New York, March 27, 1851, a son of James and Anna M. (Miller) Murray, who were likewise natives of the Empire state. In 1859 they removed westward to Indiana, establishing their home at Cambridge City, where the senior Mr. Murray engaged in farming and stock buying hut was permitted to enjoy his new home for only a brief period, his death occurring in that state in 1866. His widow long survived him and died in Denver, Colorado.
Charles A. Murray of this review is the only surviving member of their family of four children. His youthful experiences were those of the farmbred boy until he reached the age of eighteen years. During that period he was from the age of six a pupil in the district schools and later he attended the Fairview Academy and continued his edu- cation in the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. He next pursued a four years' course in Asbury (now DePauw) University at Greencastle. Indiana, from which he was graduated in June, 1875, winning honors in philosophy. Taking up the profession of teaching, he was given charge of the high school at Connersville, Indiana, where he remained from the fall of 1875 until the summer of 1877. During this period he devoted the hours which are usually termed leisure to the study of law and on the 20th of June of the latter year was admitted to the bar. He has never ceased to feel the keenest interest in educational work and in 1879 and 1880 was a member and secretary of the Connersville school board. He was called upon for further service there on the 6th of May, 1884, in his election to the office of mayor upon the democratic ticket, being also supported by the reform movement in republican ranks. He gave to the city a businesslike and progressive administration characterized by needed reforms and improvements and his work received the endorsement of his fellow townsmen in large measure.
Mr. Murray's identification with Denver dates from 1889. In that year he took up his abode in the city and has since been an active member of this bar. He entered into a partnership relation under the firm style of Stuart & Murray and the name figures prominently in connection with the reports of many of the most important cases tried in various courts of the state: Mr. Murray was the leading counsel for the defense in the Tuttle-Meenan murder trial at Akron, Colorado, in which the six cattle men on trial for murder were all acquitted, two of them by the supreme court-a signal victory for Mr. Murray. He was also counsel in the fifteen-year contest between A. M. Adams and the wife of Bishop Warren over one hundred and sixty acres of land within the city limits of Denver, valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The case was heard four times in the supreme court of Colorado and was eventually won by the Adams family, who were the clients of Mr. Murray. The firm of Stuart & Murray also con- ducted the litigation for the Denver Telephone Company vs. the Colorado Telephone Com- pany and the case involving two hundred thousand dollars' worth of mining property at Leadville between the Brown heirs and the Gordon-Tiger Mining Company. For twenty- nine years a member of the Denver bar, Mr. Murray throughout the greater part of this period has occupied a place in the front ranks of the profession. In no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom and a
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determination to fully utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as the stern con- servator of justice. Possessing all the requisite qualities of the ahle lawyer, Mr. Murray has given his attention in almost undivided manner to law practice and as a lawyer is noted for his integrity as well as for his skill in the masterly handling of the causes which are entrusted to his care.
On the 27th of October, 1879, in Connersville, Indiana, Mr. Murray was married to Miss Olive H. Hurst, a daughter of Elijah and Maria Hurst, of a prominent Indiana family. They have become parents of two children. The daughter, Marcia, born in Connersville, Indiana, is a graduate of the Denver high school and of the University of Denver and is now the wife of William A. Eikenberry, by whom she has three children: Ruth, Betty and William Murray. The son, Charles B. Murray, was born in Denver in 1892 and was educated at the University of Denver, the University of Iowa, and in the Culver Military Academy. Experience gained in the latter institution will prove of great benefit to him, for he has volunteered for aviation service in connection with the present war and is now a lieutenant in the government service. He married Miss Jean- nette Norine and has one child, Barbara Murray, born in April, 1917. He is a repre- sentative of that splendid class of young manhood, college bred, who have put behind them all personal interests and considerations in order to aid in fighting the battle of democracy overseas.
Charles A. Murray is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity. He is greatly interested in community affairs and public welfare and he was one of the organizers of the Washington Park Men's Club, of which he served for four years as the president. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association and the Colorado State Bar Association and he and his wife are active members of the Washington Park Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is serving as a trustee. He has been an active worker in behalf of temperance and in the campaign of 1906 was chairman of the Anti-Saloon League of the fourteenth ward of Denver, which in connection with other wards of the city voted out the saloons. He greatly enjoys travel and with his family spent some time abroad in the year 1907. He has no business interests aside from his profession save that, in connection with his former law partner, Judge T. B. Stuart, and his uncle, DeWitt C. Miller, he owns Lake Eldora, one of the most beautiful resorts in the Rocky Mountains, offering an ideal summer home. Throughout his entire career he has been actuated by the spirit of Lincoln's words: "There is something better than making a living-making a life," and he has ever held to the highest standards of manhood and citizenship.
HENRY W. AVERILL, M. D.
Dr. Henry W. Averill, engaged successfully in the practice of medicine in Evans, Colorado, was born in Warren, Vermont, April 4, 1876, a son of Wilson A. and Ida M. (Wiley) Averill, both of whom were natives of the Green Mountain state. The father has been a farmer of Vermont throughout his entire life and is still cultivating his land although he has now reached the age of seventy-four years.
No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for Henry W. Averill in his boyhood and youth. He divided his time between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. After attend- ing the common schools he continued his education in a seminary of Montpelier, Ver- mont, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. He determined upon a pro- fessional career and with broad literary learning to serve as a foundation upon which to build the superstructure of his professional knowledge he entered the University of Vermont at Burlington, where he pursued the study of medicine for two years. He then came to the west and completed his medical education in Denver, being graduated from the Denver Medical College with the class of 1907. He afterward practiced in Idaho Springs and at Eagle, Colorado, and also was located for a few years in Denver, but eventually sold his practice there and entered the State University of Illinois at Chicago, where he completed a course in medicine as a graduate of the class of 1913. He then returned to Colorado, settling at Evans, where he opened an office and has since followed his profession. He is thoroughly in touch with the latest scientific researches and discoveries that are of benefit to the profession and in his chosen calling he is dis- playing marked skill and ability. He is very conscientious in the performance of all
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of his professional duties, is most careful in his analysis and diagnosis of a case and his judgment is seldom if ever at fault in determining the outcome of disease.
On the 30th of March. 1918, Dr. Averill was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta Alice Reed, a daughter of C. Henry and Artemisia (Johnston) Reed. Her father was born in Massachusetts in 1844 and her mother is a native of Iowa, now fifty-seven years of age. Mr. Reed was a hotel man of Iowa for many years and about 1904 he removed with his family to Evans, Colorado. where he conducted mercantile interests until bis death, becoming one of the enterprising and progressive business men of the city. He died October 3, 1911, and is survived hy his widow, who is now conducting the store with the assistance of her daughter, Mrs. Averill, to whom the success and development of the business is largely due.
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