History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 35

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

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HON. CHARLES E. FRIEND.

Hon. Charles E. Friend, who is representing his district in the state legislature of Colorado and who is actively engaged in the practice of law in Denver, was born in Englewood, Kansas, on the 9th of October, 1886, a son of David M. and Anna (Jacobs) Friend. The father is a native of Pennsylvania and has devoted his life to blacksmithing. He now makes his home in Wyoming. His wife was born in Illinois and by their mar- riage they became the parents of two sons, the brother of Charles E. Friend being Orville H. Friend, now a resident of New Mexico.

Charles E. Friend acquired his early education in the common schools of Oklahoma, to which state his parents removed in his early boyhood. He afterward spent a few months as a pupil in the schools of Pueblo, Colorado, and then from the third to the eighth grade was a pupil in the schools of Colorado Springs. He subsequently attended high school there as a member of the class of 1909 and in the same year he entered the Colorado College. In 1911 he matriculated in the Denver Law School, in which he pur- sued a three years' course, being graduated with the LL. B. degree in the class of 1914. He at once entered upon the active practice of his profession. Along with those qualities indispensable to the lawyer-a keen. rapid, logical mind plus the business sense and a ready capacity for hard work-he brought to the starting point of his legal career cer- tain rare gifts-eloquence of language and a strong personality. An excellent presence, an earnest, dignified manner, marked strength of character, a thorough grasp of the law and the ability to accurately apply its principles are factors in his effectiveness as

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an advocate. He has always continued in the general practice of law and his clientage is now large and gratifying.

On the 1st of January, 1917, Mr. Friend was married to Miss Florence Bourland, of Decatur, Illinois, a daughter of Mrs. Flora Bourland. Mr. Friend has membership in Phi Delta Theta, a college fraternity, and in Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity. He is fond of athletics, in which he has been more or less active. He is also prominent in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church and Sunday school, doing everything in his power to advance the moral progress of the community. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he has been chosen to represent Jefferson county in the state legislature, of which he is now a member. He is doing important work in this connection, serving as chairman of the committee on revision and constitution and also as a member of the committees on temperance, fees and salaries, judiciary, roads and bridges, and state institutions. He is thus taking active part in much constructive legislation and is doing everything to uphold and further the progress and upbuilding of the commonwealth.

ZDENKO VON DWORZAK, M. D.

An eminent American statesman has said, "In all this world, the thing supremely worth having is the opportunity coupled with the capacity to do well and worthily a piece of work the doing of which shall be of vital significance to mankind." The oppor- tunity came to Dr. Zdenko von Dworzak and was utilized by him in such a manner that he is today regarded as one of the leading specialists in the treatment of the nose, throat and ear in Colorado. He has carried his investigations and research work in the line of treatment of middle ear diseases with radium to a point in advance of many others and has made valuable contribution to the science of his profession. Dr. von Dworzak has been a resident of the United States for only ten years but has become a thorough American citizen in spirit and interests. Educated in the leading universities of Europe and of America, he has established himself among the leaders of his profession and is an authority upon the lines in which he specializes.

Dr. von Dworzak was born in Olmütz, Austria, on the 12th of November, 1875, and is a son of Dr. W. von Dworzak and F. Jelita von Dworzak, both of whom were of noble birth. Tlie father held a government position of the highest rank attainable, being a judge of the supreme court of Austria. This position is accorded only after many years of valuable public service and is a mark of honor extended only to people of rank. He passed away in Austria in 1895, while his wife died in that country in 1913. They were the parents of a daughter and a son, the former being Mrs. von Hominska, still living in Austria.

The younger was Dr. Zdenko von Dworzak of this review, who attended the Jesuit College of Kalksburg and afterward became a student in the University of Vienna, where he pursued his medical course and was graduated in 1903. He was later required to visit the various clinics of Europe and did clinical work and attended lectures in the hospitals of Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. He came to America in 1909 and accepted a position as instructor in Tulane University of New Orleans, Louisiana, but on account of his health was obliged to resign and was advised to remove to Denver, which he accordingly did. In the interval, covering nine years, he has built up a large and growing practice.

He is a member of the Cactus Club and has won many pleasant social acquaintances, while professionally his membership extends to the Denver City and County Medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

THOMAS FRANKLIN DALY.

Thomas Franklin Daly, president of the Capitol Life Insurance Company and also president of the Thomas F. Daly Agency Company, both of Denver, is a son of John and Margaret Daly and was born in West Superior, Douglas county, Wisconsin, in 1858. He was educated in the public schools of northern Michigan, the family having removed to that state during his early boyhood. He began his active business career at the age of twelve years as an employe of the great Calumet & Hecla Copper Company, starting in as mill boy. Being of a mechanical turn of mind, he began practical study of engineering and during his continued connection with the company afore-

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mentioned, he advanced steadily, step by step, until he had attained the position of constructing engineer. In 1882 he came to Colorado locating in Leadville, where he engaged in engineering and many of the mills in that camp were constructed under his personal supervision. He later went into the Montana field, subsequently returning to Colorado, where he has continued to make his home, having been in the meanwhile actively identified with mining and also with other industrial and financial interests of the state. In 1886 he entered the field of insurance in which he has since been active and in which almost a third of a century's experience has made him familiar with every phase, and his thoroughness and enterprise have constituted the basic elements of his success.

Prior to the organization of his own company, Mr. Daly was connected with some of the largest and best known insurance companies, including the New York Life; and was western manager for the London Guarantee and Accident, also general agent for the United States Life, with which he continued his connection for eleven years.

Mr. Daly located in Denver in 1895, and in 1905 organized the Capitol Life Insurance Company, resigning from all other business connections in order that he might give his undivided attention to the interests of the new company. Subsequent results have fully justified the methods adopted and have substantially confirmed the judgment of the founder, for, under the able and experienced guidance of its president. the business has steadily expanded until today, the Capitol Life Insurance Company operates in eleven states and its books show twenty eight millions of insurance in force, and assets of two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

In Leadville, Colorado, in 1887, Mr. Daly was united in marriage with Miss Elthea Belle Cooper, whose parents were from Galesburg, Illinois. They removed to Memphis, Tennessee, after the close of the Civil war, in which the father had served with dis- tinction, as a captain of artillery. To Mr. and Mrs. Daly have been born a son and two daughters: Clarence J., associated with his father in the insurance work as vice president of the Capitol Life Insurance Company; Imogene, now Mrs. William S. Fisher, of Denver; and Nelly J.

Mr. Daly is well known in social circles, holding membership in the Denver, El Paso and Country Clubs while in political adherence, he has always been a stalwart advocate of the democratic party and principles.

HENRY C. LIGHTER.

Henry C. Lighter, justice of the peace and police magistrate at Fort Collins, was born in Morgan county, Illinois. July 12, 1844, a son of Andrew and Nancy J. (Pagett) Lighter, who were natives of Kentucky. The father was a farmer by occupation and in early life went to Illinois, where he followed agricultural pursuits until about 1846. He then removed to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he took up government land but only lived for a year and a half thereafter. His wife survived for some time, passing away in 1865.

Henry C. Lighter was but a year and a half old when his father died, and when he was a little lad of seven years his uncle took him back to Illinois and educated him. He was studying medicine when the Civil war broke out and, putting aside his text- books and other personal interests, he enlisted at the age of seventeen years, in 1862. as a member of Company E, One Hundred and First Illinois Infantry, with which he served for about two years, when he hecame ill and had to return home. While at the front he was taken prisoner. After the close of his military experience he returned to Iowa and took up the occupation of farming upon rented land, which he cultivated for a year. In 1870 he removed to Cass county, Iowa, where he purchased raw land which he developed and brought under a high state of cultivation. He operated that farm for five years, after which he sold the property and removed to Anita, Iowa, where he engaged in the hotel and livery business, occupying one barn there for thirty-two years. At length he sold his business there and in 1904 removed to Colorado, establishing his home at Fort Collins. For a few years he did not engage in business, enjoying a well earned and well merited rest. In 1910, however, he again became active in connection with the public interests of the community, being elected justice of the peace, to which position he has been reelected at each biennial period since that time. During his incum- bency in office he has tried almost two thousand cases, and out of three hundred and eighty-five criminal cases all but fifteen were bound over.

Mr. Lighter was married on the 11th of March, 1869, to Miss Hattie J. Libby and to them were born three children: Effie May, Edwin C. and Henrietta. The wife and mother passed away March 30, 1914. after a short illness.

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Politically Mr. Lighter has always been a stalwart republican and his religious faith is that of the Methodist church. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old military comrades, with whom he marched to the defense of the Union in the Civil war. He owns a pleasant home and a ten-acre tract of land at the edge of Fort Collins and is nicely situated in life, his official duties making sufficient demand upon his energies so that time does not hang heavy on his hands, nor is the burden he is bearing too strenuous for a man of his years, for Mr. Lighter has passed the seventy-fourth milestone on life's journey.

WILLIAM M. BARBER.

William M. Barber, alert and energetic, constantly actuated by a desire for legiti- mate advancement in the business world, is now occupying the important and responsible position of superintendent of the sugar factory of the Great Western Sugar Company at Windsor, and is splendidly qualified for the duties and responsibilities that devolve upon him in this connection. Mr. Barber was born in Belleville, Kansas, in August, 1882, a son of Henry T. and Sarah E. (Isham) Barber, who were natives of Ohio and Virginia respectively. The father was a carpenter by trade and in early life removed westward to Kansas, where he engaged in farming for three years. He then became a resident of Oakland, Iowa, where he took up the work of contracting and building, which he followed for many years or until 1912, when he retired from active business and became a resident of Deer Wood, Minnesota. There he has since resided in the enjoyment of a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves. As the architect of his own for- tunes he builded wisely and well. His wife died October 14, 1896.

William M. Barber was reared and educated in Oakland, Iowa, and in early man- hood enlisted for service in the United States army, with which he was connected for three years, being stationed during that time in the Philippine islands for two years and four months as a member of Company F, Twelfth United States Infantry, being discharged as sergant. After his military experience was concluded he entered business life as a structural iron worker and was thus employed for a year. He afterward traveled over the country for another year and in 1904 he came to Weld county, Colorado, and accepted a position in the sugar factory at Eaton, where he remained for four months. He then came to Windsor and for a year was employed in the sugar factory in the latter place. Later he went to California, where he worked in a sugar refinery, assisting along mechanical lines for four months. He was next in the employ of the American Beet Sugar Company at Oxnard, California, for two months and on the expiration of that period he returned to Windsor, Colorado, where he again entered the employ of the Great Western Sugar Company. He was made beet end foreman and held that position for two years, after which he was advanced to the position of general foreman and so served for three years. He was next promoted to the assistant superintendency of the plant at Fort Collins, where he remained for a year and in 1917 was recalled to Windsor to become superintendent of the factory at this place, in which position he has since served. His long experience in connection with the sugar industry has made him familiar with every branch of the business and he is thus splendidly qualified for the work to which he now gives his time and attention-the direction of the operation of the Windsor plant. The value of this industry can scarcely be overestimated at this time. Years ago Germany. secretly preparing for the war, began concentrating on the production of the four kinds of food which are needed to maintain men in a physically fit condition-proteids, fats, starches and sugar-and particular attention was given to the production of the sugar beet, until now that country produces much more sugar than its people can use. America, with no thought or desire to engage in military activity, pursued her peaceful way, but today, aroused by the struggle, she is putting forth every energy to produce foods that must sustain her armies, her allies and her people and thus the value of the sugar beet industry cannot be overestimated. Mr. Barber, therefore, is doing a work of great worth in this crisis and long and thorough training has well qualified him for the important duties that devolve upon him.

On the 12th of March, 1907, Mr. Barber was united in marriage to Miss Zelma M. Forgy and to them have been born two children: Barbara M., who was born April 12, 1908; and William F., whose birth occurred March 15, 1917. The parents are members of the Episcopal church and Mr. Barber is also an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but while he is a stalwart advocate of its principles, he does not seek nor desire office as a reward

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for party fealty. On the contrary, he gives his time and his energies to his business interests and to such duties of citizenship as can be performed without taking office. He stands for progress and improvement in all those things which have to do with the upbuilding of community and commonwealth and his cooperation can always be counted upon to further public progress.

JOHN WILLIAM SEYBOLD, M.D., D.D.S.

Dr. John William Seybold, one of the best known dental surgeons of the west, devot- ing practically his entire time to dental surgery, occupies a fine suite of rooms in the Mack block in Denver, where he has several assistants. Constant study and experience have placed him in the front rank of the representatives of the profession, for he has a nature that could never be content with mediocrity.

Dr. Seybold was born in Kearney, Nebraska, February 26, 1882, a son of William Leonard and Alice (Garnett) Seybold, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born in Alabama. . They were early pioneers of Nebraska, where the father established himself in the cattle business. He continued to reside in that state for many years and afterward came to Colorado, where he spent three years. On the expiration of that period he returned to Nebraska and is still living at Kearney, where he is now active in cattle raising. His wife passed away there in 1895. William L. Seybold has been married twice and has become the father of five children, two of whom were born of the first marriage and three of the second. They are John W., Oscar, Samuel, Alice and Fred.

Dr. John W. Seybold attended the public schools of Kearney, Nebraska, and after- ward entered the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He then took up the study of medicine in that institution and won his professional degree as a member of the class of 1903. The same year he came to Denver and matriculated in the University of Denver, in which he won the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1908. Since that time he has devoted his entire attention to dental surgery, specializing in oral surgery and in gas oxygen anesthesia. He is a progressive young professional man whose reputation as an anæsthetist already has spread far beyond the boundaries of Colorado. He is making very rapid strides in oral surgery and his progress will place him at the top before many years go by. His success is due to his own personality and stability of purpose and his qualities are such that he will never stand still but will keep pushing his business to the limit, ambitious to acquire the highest degree of efficiency possible. He belongs to the National Dental Association, the State and City Dental Associations, the Interstate Association of Anæsthetists and the American Association of Anæsthetists, and he practices in all of the hospitals in Denver.

On the 4th of May, 1916, Dr. Seybold was married in Littleton, Colorado, to Miss Julia E. Fisher, whose father is well known as the deputy county clerk of Fairplay, Colorado. Mrs. Seybold has a wide acquaintance in hospital circles, for she is a graduate nurse of the Park Avenue Hospital of Denver and she is head assistant of her husband in his surgical clinic.

Fraternally Dr. Seybold is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and be is an active and prominent member of the Denver Athletic Club. He enjoys sports of all kinds but is not active in secret organizations although a member of a few. He finds great pleasure, however, in bowling and in almost everything in the sporting line. He is an easy and fluent public speaker and when he expresses an opinion in public it is always worth while. His religion finds expression in his generosity and benevolence to the poor and needy. His professional colleagues and contemporaries speak of him in terms of high regard, while those who meet him socially entertain for him the warmest esteem.

WALTER T. HOLLOWELL.

Walter T. Hollowell, engaged in the undertaking business at Fort Collins, is num- bered among the substantial citizens that Indiana has furnished to Colorado, for his birth occurred in Salem of the former state on the 2d of June, 1857, his parents being Abraham and Priscilla (Trueblood) Hollowell, who were also natives of the Hoosier state. The father followed the occupation of farming in Indiana during the greater part

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of his life, but during the period of the Civil war he allowed no personal interest or consideration to check his patriotic spirit and enlisted as a member of Company E of the Fifty-third Indiana Infantry, with which he served throughout the period of hos- tilities between the north and the south, participating in a number of important engage- ments and also going with Sherman on the celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea. He died September 7, 1914, at the age of ninety-two years, his birth having occurred on the 5th of January, 1822. He had long survived his wife, who died in February, 1876.

Walter T. Hollowell was reared and educated in Salem, Indiana, and remained at home until he attained his majority. He took up the printer's trade in early life and continued to follow that pursuit in different places until 1900. While at Hamburg, Iowa, he occupied the position of foreman on the Hamburg News for three years. He after- ward went to Dunlap, where he remained for a year and later took up his abode in Red Oak, Iowa, where he accepted the position of foreman of the Red Oak Express. Later he bought a third interest in the paper, which he subsequently sold to Thomas D. Murphy, the big calendar man. Mr. Hollowell remained at Red Oak from 1887 until 1900. He was also superintendent of the big calendar plant there and was thus connected with important business interests. In 1900 he came to Colorado, making Fort Collins his destination. Here he entered into partnership with a brother-in-law in the furniture and undertaking business, but eventually they disposed of their stock of furniture and Mr. Hollowell concentrated his efforts and attention upon the undertaking business alone. He has carried this on independently since and has a leading undertaking establishment of his section of the state, being accorded a very liberal patronage, for he is most con- scientious and careful in the conduct of his business and puts forth every effort to please his patrons.

On the 11th of March, 1886, Mr. Hollowell was married to Miss Emma W. Krauss and to them has been born a son, Max K., who was born November 7, 1888, and who is cashier of the Great Western Sugar Company at Bayard, Nebraska. He married Miss Olive V. Law and they have two children, Walter and Betty Maxine.

Mr. Hollowell is filling the position of county coroner, in which capacity he has served for four terms. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which position he has filled for ten years. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Modern Brotherhood of America, the Independent Order of Puritans and the Knights of Pythias. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. Sterling traits of character have always been manifest throughout his entire career and his life has been actuated by high and honorable prin- ciples, making his life history an open book which all may read.

JOHN AUGUSTIN GALLAHER.

Among the prominent representatives of the Colorado bar is John Augustin Galla- her, attorney at law, who maintains offices at No. 410 Equitable building, in Denver. He was born May 29, 1873, in Savannah, Georgia, and is a son of John Gallaher, deceased, who was a native of Ireland, emigrating to America in 1848 and settling upon his arrival in this country in Savannah, Georgia, where he made his home during the remainder of his life. He was a wideawake, practical man of genial disposition and was very successful along mercantile lines. During the Civil war he offered his services to his new country and served valorously until honorably discharged from the army. He passed away at the comparatively early age of forty-eight years, in the year 1886. He was married to Beatrice A. McGloine, a native daughter of Georgia, born in Savannah, her parents being Mr. and Mrs. James McGloine, natives of Ireland, who made their home in Georgia during the early '40s. Mrs. Gallaher passed away at the old home in Savannah in 1900 at the age of fifty four years. In her family were four sons and one daughter, of whom John A. Gallaher is the second in order of birth.

He received his education in the public and high schools of Savannah. In October, 1902, he came to Denver and immediately entered the office of Wolcott, Vaile & Water- man, where he became well acquainted with legal methods and practices. He indus- triously applied himself to the study of the law while in those offices and in 1908 entered the University of Denver and was graduated from the commercial department of that institution in 1911. On January 2, 1913, he was admitted to practice, acting during various periods before this time as a law clerk for the above firm. Since 1913 he has been associated with Mr. Waterman and has also a large general practice of his own, specializing mostly in law as regards taxation. That he is expert in his line is

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 35

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