History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 22

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

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Mr. and Mrs. Gross became the parents of four children, of whom three survive: John M., who is engaged in business with his father; Nita, at home; and Libby, who is also under the parental roof. Mr. Gross is a republican in politics and has always loyally supported the party in national issues. He is deeply interested in community welfare, having served as township assessor in Saline county, Nebraska, and also as a member of the school board, being deeply interested in the cause of education. Since coming to Greeley, however, he has devoted his entire attention to his private interests. Among the stock feeders of Weld county lie takes a foremost rank and has earned a high reputation for honesty and fair dealing, his transactions always being above board. He therefore has built up a large trade and those who deal with him have absolute confidence in his business methods and that anything which they buy

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from him is as he represents it to be. Socially Mr. Gross is popular and fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, being interested in church and charitable work. They have made many friends since coming to Greeley and the hospitality of the best homes of the countryside is extended to them, while at their fireside their friends often gather, partaking of the good cheer which Mr. and Mrs. Gross are ever ready to extend to all their callers.

JUDGE JOHN ADAMS PERRY.

Judge John Adams Perry, occupying the bench of the district court of the second judicial district of Colorado, and since 1884 an active member of the Denver bar, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 21st of August, 1857. His father, William Perry, was also an attorney, who was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Georgia, in 1854. He was a native of that state and after practicing his profession for a time in the south he removed westward to Kansas. He wedded Mary A. Riordan, a native of Castle Grace, Ireland, and they became early residents of Kansas, where Mr. Perry represented his district in the territorial legislature and also served as a member of the constitutional convention which framed the organic law of that state. His last days were passed in Denver, where his death occurred in October, 1861.

Judge Perry of this review in the acquirement of his education attended the Montreal Academy at Montreal, Quebec, and afterward became a student in the St. Louis Uni- versity and was graduated in law from Columbia in 1882, having pursued a thorough law course in Washington. He was then admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and in 1884 was admitted to the bar in Denver, in which year he opened an office in this city and has since continued in the practice of law. His practice was always extensive and of an important character. He is remarkable among lawyers for the wide research and provident care with which he prepares his cases and his ability in handling knotty legal problems, combined with his devotion to the highest professional ethics and standards, led to his selection for the bench, he heing one of the candidates recommended hy the Bar Association. His legal learning, his analytical mind, the readiness with which he grasps the points in an argument, all combine to make him a capable jurist and the public and the profession acknowledge him to be the peer of any man who has sat upon the bench of the district court. Judge Perry belongs to the Denver' County and City Bar Association and the Colorado State Bar Association. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party, but he holds public interests above partisanship and the general welfare before personal aggrand- izement. For recreation he turns to languages and is a linguist of superior ability. He speaks French, German, Italian and several other languages and he has been appointed by Italy to care for Italian interests in this city. He early recognized the fact that the keenest joy is that which comes from intellectual stimulus and reading and study have largely constituted his recreation. His personal qualities command for him the respect and honor of colleagues and contemporaries in the pro- fession and of all who have met him in other relations of life.

JOHN R. GARDNER.

John R. Gardner, secretary and manager of the Merchants Fire Insurance Company at Denver, was born in Polo, Illinois, on the 15th of September, 1864, a son of Charles W. Gardner and a grandson of James Burnett Gardner of New York city, who was a cabinet maker by trade and was a descendant of Lord Gardner of England. It was James Burnett Gardner who removed westward from New York and became a resident of Polo, Illinois. Charles W. Gardner followed the occupation of farming for many years until he was called to his final rest. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Catherine Reed, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and is still living, making her home with a daughter in Iowa.

John R. Gardner, who is the eldest in their family of five children, acquired his early education in one of the old-time typical little red schoolhouses of Clay county, Nebraska, and when not husy with his textbooks he assisted his father in farm work and was thus engaged until he reached the age of twenty years. He then left home and went to Oakley, Kansas, where for five years he engaged in the livery business. He

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was afterward for two years active in the commission business in Pueblo, Colorado, and in 1890 he became a resident of Denver. After locating in this city he spent one year in the employ of the Hanson Produce Company and later became connected with the N. B. Mccrary wholesale grocery house, where he spent three years. On leaving that employ he secured a position with the Brown Mercantile Company, with which he was connected for two years, and later he purchased the grocery and meat business of the firm of Ford & Sulzer at Victor, Colorado, in which business he continued for six years. In 1903 he was made president of the Retail Merchants Association of Colorado, which position indicated his high standing in trade circles. In .1904 he was elected secre- tary and manager of the Retail Merchants Association and had entire charge of its in- terests. He conceived the idea and was the main factor in organizing the Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which operated as a mutual company until 1907, when it became a stock company under the name of The Merchants Fire Insurance Company, with Mr. Gardner as secretary and manager. This is the only local stock fire insurance company now in existence in Colorado. He is also the president of the Citizens State Bank of Victor. Colorado.

In February, 1888, Mr. Gardner was united in marriage to Miss Emma L. Epard, of Colby, Kansas, a daughter of Simon and Jane Epard, both of whom are still residents of Colby, Kansas, and are natives of Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Gardner were born two sons. Guy N., now twenty-nine years of age, was born in Kansas, was a year old when brought to Denver and pursued his education in the schools of this city. After com- pleting the high school course in East Denver he attended the Denver University and later was associated with his father in business until 1917, becoming assistant secretary of the company. He was also secretary of the Fuel Administration of Colorado but after the declaration of war he enlisted in the aviation department of the navy and graduated on July 6, 1918, from the aviation department of the United States Navy, of the Boston Institute of Technology, and at present is studying balloons at Akron, Ohio. Clyde H., aged twenty-seven years, was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and attended the Denver schools, completing his course in the East Denver high school, after which he, too, became associated with his father in business. For four years he was traveling special agent for the company but in May, 1917, enlisted in the quartermaster's department of the regular army and on the 29th of December of that year was sent to Jacksonville, Florida, and is now in the quartermaster's department of the United States Regular Army, stationed at Douglas, Arizona. Both the father and sons are members of the Masonic fraternity of Denver and Mr. Gardner has taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite and is a member of El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He likewise belongs to the Rotary Club and to the Lakewood Country Club. In politics he is a republican of the independent type, for he does not feel himself bound by party ties. His business career has been marked by steady advancement and step by step he has reached the prominent position which he occupies as a representative of insurance interests, being now an official in a company which is controlling an extensive business, all of which is under the immediate management of Mr. Gardner.

WILLIAM E. STIMPSON.

William E. Stimpson, state land agent at Denver, was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 24, 1873, and is a son of George B. and Georgia A. (Martin) Stimpson, the former a native of Watertown, Wisconsin, and the latter of Millersburg, Kentucky. In the early '60s George B. Stimpson removed westward with his family, first settling in Denver, where he remained, however, for but a short period. He next became a resident of Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he engaged in the real estate and investment business. After a time he removed to Pueblo, Colorado, where he continued in the same line of business until his death, which occurred in 1892. He held a number of public offices of trust, serving as city clerk of Cheyenne and after his removal to Pueblo as county clerk. He was also postmaster of that city for a number of years prior to his death. His wife died in San Diego, California, in June, 1917, when she was sixty-five years of age. Their family numbered a daughter and a son, the former being Mrs. Adelaide Anderson Haynes, of Denver.

William E. Stimpson accompanied his parents on their removal from Wyoming to Pueblo, attended the public schools of that city and eventually entered the real estate business there. During the Spanish-American war he was appointed superintendent of documents and stamps, with headquarters at Pueblo, and continued in that depart- ment until 1901, when he took up mining in the San Juan district of Colorado at

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Silverton. There he operated successfully for four years, after which he received appointment to a position in the state treasurer's office, where he continued for one term. He afterward secured a clerical position in the state land office and later was appointed to a position in the state auditor's office, serving for one term in each of these positions. In 1909 he decided to embark in business on his own account and opened an office for the purpose of practicing as a state land attorney before the State Land Office of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, he being the only state land attorney in the United States. Mr. Stimpson is exclusive agent for state school lands and is one of the best informed men in Colorado on this class of real estate. His business has grown from a modest beginning to one of large proportions.

On the 15th of February, 1911, Mr. Stimpson was united in marriage to Miss Ellen C. Jackman, of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons as a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 87, while in the Scottish Rite he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Denver Athletic Club and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. A self-made man, he has worked his way upward entirely through his own efforts and his persistency and energy have been salient features in his growing prosperity.

GEORGE OLIVER JOHNSON.

George Oliver Johnson, president of District No. 15 of the United Mine Workers of America and a well known resident of Pueblo, was born in Leadville, Colorado, on the 4th of October, 1882, his parents being Matthew and Barbara (Phillipson) Johnson. The father was a miner and came to Colorado in 1876. In this state he was married to Miss Barbara Phillipson, whose people were among the early pioneer residents of this part of the west. Mr. Johnson devoted his time and energy to the mining of coal and quartz. Both he and his wife are still living but have removed from this state to Seattle, Washington, where they now make their home. To them were born two sons and a daughter.

The eldest of the family is George Oliver Johnson. He was educated in the public schools of Leadville and of Cripple Creek and went to work at an early age, since which time he has been dependent upon his own resources. In fact he has earned his living from the age of fourteen years, and at eighteen he started out as a miner and has since been identified with mining interests. He has always been active in union affairs and at the last election was the one that made the work of the organization successful. He defeated J. R. Lawson as president of District No. 15 of the United Mine Workers of America. He had previously held other positions, working his way steadily upward to the one which he now fills. He did not leave his work to get votes but his position upon many questions affecting the union won him support and indicated in what high esteem he is held by the miners.

On the 30th of September, 1903, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Emma Jaeger and their children are Charles, Lorna, Matthew, Pansy and Thomas.

In politics Mr. Johnson remains independent, supporting men and measures rather than party. He is interested in the state and its development and is a public-spirited and respected citizen who cooperates in many measures for the general good and who at all times stands for progress and improvement along those lines which are in har- mony with a democratic spirit. When leisure permits he enjoys fishing, to which he turns for recreation.

FRANKLIN CURTIS GOUDY.

Franklin Curtis Goudy is an attorney at law who has won prominence in his pro- fession and at the same time has been an active factor in political and fraternal circles. A native of Haynesville, Ohio, he is a son of the late Abel Curtis Goudy, who was likewise born in the Buckeye state and belonged to one of the old families there, founded in Ohio by William Goudy, who was of Scotch descent. Abel C. Goudy became a successful merchant of Ohio. His wife bore the maiden name of Sciniette Vantilburg and was born in Ohio. She, too, belonged to one of the old pioneer families of that state and came of Holland Dutch ancestry. Members of the Vantilburg family participated in the War of 1812.

The parents of Franklin C. Goudy died when he was a child. Thus, early left an

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orphan, he was reared by his uncle, Francis Vantilburg, and was educated in the public schools of Ohio and in Michigan University. He followed teaching for two terms in the district schools of Ohio, and later became assistant superintendent of the public schools of Marion, Iowa. While thus engaged, he devoted the hours which are usually termed leisure to the study of law, for he regarded teaching merely as an initial step to other professional activity, and in 1878 he was admitted to practice at the bar of Kansas. In February, 1879, he arrived in Colorado, settling first at Colorado Springs, where he remained for eighteen months. He then removed to Ouray, and there he prac- ticed successfully for a time and also served for three years as district attorney of the seventh judicial district. Subsequently he removed to Gunnison, Colorado, where he continued in the practice of law, and afterward he followed his profession in Montrose for two years. In 1888 he arrived in Denver, where he has since remained, devoting his attention throughout the intervening period of thirty years to the general practice of law, although he has largely specialized in irrigation law. He holds membership with the Denver Bar Association, which has honored him with its presidency, and he also belongs to the Colorado State Bar Association and to the American Bar Association.

At Valley Falls, Kansas, on the 10th of December, 1879, Mr. Goudy was united in marriage to Miss Ida J. Gephart, a native of Maryland and a daughter of S. C. and Eliza (Beall) Gephart. Mr. and Mrs. Goudy became parents of five children, of whom two sons are yet living: Franklin B., who is a member of the legal profession and resides in Denver;and Alfred H., who is at present in the United States military service at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

In politics Mr. Goudy has always been a stanch republican and in 1896 entered upon a two years' term as county attorney of Denver. He has given stanch support to the party and its principles, putting forth every effort in his power to advance its interests and promote its success. He was a Blaine elector of 1884 and in 1900 was a candidate on the republican ticket for the office of governor. He has done very effective work along political and civic lines and he is also prominently known in fraternal circles. A member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, he was elected in September, 1916, for a term of two years to the office of grand sire of the United States and Canada. He has received all of the degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry up to and including the thirty-second and in the York Rite is a member of Coronal Commandery, No. 36, Knights Templar. Socially, he holds membership in the Denver Athletic Club and the Lakewood Country Club. His life measures up to high standards of manhood and citizenship and he is justly accounted one of the foremost and honored residents of Denver.

HON. WILLIAM H. MALONE.

Hon. William H. Malone, attorney at law and public trustee of Denver, was born July 10, 1855, in Benton county, Mississippi, a son of the late Richard H. Malone, who was a native of Alabama and a descendant of an old Virginia family of Scotch-Irish Ilneage. The founder of the family in the new world came to America prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in Virginia. The grandfather, Booth Malone, was a Methodist minister of Virginia who became prominently known in that connection in both his native state and in Alabama. Richard H. Malone was a successful planter and slaveholder who died in Virginia in 1859, at the age of thirty-six years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Cole Cossitt, was a native of Connecticut and her ancestors were of French descent and became pioneer residents of Connecticut, where they located during the early part of the seventeenth century. The death of Mrs. Malone occurred in Denver in 1912, when she had attained the very advanced age of eighty-three years. She was the mother of five children, four sons and a daughter, of whom William H. Malone of this review was the third in order of birth. There was a half brother. Her children are: Helen M., now the wife of Frank W. Crocker, who since 1872 has been a resident of Denver; Booth M., former district attorney and district judge of the city and county of Denver; William H., of this review; and Richard H., who is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of the tenth district and was formerly a well known cracker manufacturer of Denver. Robert E. MacCracken, the half brother, is engaged in the real estate business and is local representative of five western states in the American Exchange National Bank of New York city.

William H. Malone pursued his early education in the public schools of Geneseo, Henry county, Illinois, and afterward attended Beloit College of Wisconsin, from which institution he was graduated in 1877. He then took up the study of law in the office of Lyman & Jackson, prominent attorneys of Chicago. He later continued his law reading

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in the office of Wells, Smith & Macon of Deuver and was admitted to the bar in 1880. He came to this city in the summer of 1878 and immediately after his admission to the bar he entered upon active practice, so that he has been a representative of the legal profession in this city for thirty-eight years. He has always concentrated his efforts and attention upon general practice and he is today one of the oldest attorneys actively con- nected with the profession in Denver. His experience was that which usually falls to the lot of a lawyer, who, unlike the merchant, cannot take up a business already estab- lished but must commence at the initial point, must plead and win his first case and work his way upward by ability, gaining his reputation and success by merit. His present prominence has come to him as the reward of earnest endeavor, fidelity to trust and recognized ability. He was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States in 1886. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association and enjoys the regard of professional colleagues and contemporaries, who recognize his marked fidelity to the highest professional standards and ethics.

On the 17th of April, 1890, Mr. Malone was united in marriage to Miss Anne R. Sullivan, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of the late Dr. Thomas Sullivan and Eliza Sullivan, representatives of a prominent old family of Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Malone have become parents of three children: Anne, William H., Jr., and Mary Mar- garet. The first two were born in Denver and the last named in Yonkers, New York.

In politics Mr. Malone has always been a stanch democrat since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He was appointed to the office of public trustee in 1909 and served for four years, while in 1917 he was again appointed to the position and is now the incumbent therein, his later appointment coming to him in recognition of the capable service which he rendered during his first term in office. His family holds membership with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Malone started out in the business world a poor boy, and like Lincoln, attributes much of his success to his mother, saying that he had one of the best mothers that any man could have had, and that her teachings had marked influence upon his life. He has always been a close student of vital questions and issues of the day and has kept well informed on leading political, economic and social prob- lems. He has ever worked in the interests of the masses, especially for the poor in order to better their condition and ameliorate hard conditions of life. Mr. Malone was the author of the law on the initiative and referendum, recall of officers and recall of judicial

decisions, and other laws of value and importance that are found on the statute books of the state. His entire career has been characterized by a spirit of progress that has brought splendid results for the individual, the community and the common- wealth, and in his public service he has looked far beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and opportunities of the future and his labors have brought results which are of value not only to the present generation but which will remain of great worth to the state for years to come.

WILLIAM GALT HUBBELL.

William Galt Hubbell, postmaster of Fort Lupton, was born at Big Bend on the Platte River in Weld county. Colorado, January 2, 1877, and is a son of Dr. Stephen J. and Agatha Clarissa (Allen) Hubbell, who were natives of Virginia. The father was a physician, who in 1859 removed westward to Weld county, establishing his home in Greeley when the work of development and improvement had scarcely been begun in this part of the state. At the time of the Civil war, however, he returned to Virginia and enlisted in the southern army, serving throughout the period of hostilities. He was shot through the left lung while engaged in duty. After the war he returned to Greeley, where he practiced his profession for four or five years, until Indian attacks rendered his home unsafe and he made his way to Fort Lupton for protection. There he remained and practiced medicine for a considerable period. also conducting a drug store. He remained a leading and representative physician of the district for many years but retired from active practice in 1913. He continued, however, to conduct the drug store until the fall of 1917, when he sold and removed to Denver, where he is now residing. enjoying a well earned rest at the age of eighty-five years. His wife passed away on the 27th of January. 1918. For more than a half century they had traveled life's journey together and were one of the well known pioneer couples of the state.

William G. Hubbell was reared and educated at Fort Lupton and in early life worked upon a farm. He also rode the range as a cowboy or puncher until he reached the age of twenty-five years, when he took up his abode in the town and secured employment in a store, in which he worked for two years. He was afterward employed at the milk

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condenser for a year and later engaged in general merchandising for two years on his own account, bnt at the end of that time sold the business and turned his attention to newspaper publication, purchasing the Fort Lupton Press. This he conducted for three years, when he was appointed postmaster on the 3d of April, 1915. He was a partner of H. R. Waring in the ownership and conduct of the Press for two years and at the end of that time sold his interest in the business to his partner and assumed the position of postmaster. He is making a most excellent record in the office by the prompt, system- atic and faithful manner in which he discharges his duties, always giving courteous attention to the patrons of the office and carefully safeguarding the interests. of the government in this connection.

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 22

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