History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 48

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

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In 1908 Dr. Drexler was united in marriage to Miss Millie Levy, of Denver, and they have one son, Stanley, six years of age, who is now in school. Dr. Drexler belongs to. Columbine Lodge, No. 47, A. F. & A. M., also to the Royal Arch Chapter and he is a member of Temple Emanuel. He leads a most active life and his labors are fraught with great good. He holds to high standards of manhood and citizenship and he makes. his profession the avenue of much valuable service to his fellowmen.

FRANK G. LUNBECK.

Frank G. Lunheck is the secretary and treasurer of the Hickman-Lunbeck Grocery Company of Greeley and is thus prominently identified with the commercial interests of the city. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1866, a son of Samuel G. and Josephine S. (Scroggs) Lunbeck. The father was a farmer and miller and built one of the first grist mills in his section of the state. He became a pioneer settler of southern Ohio and the mill which he there constructed is still standing. In 1870 he removed to Missouri and died a year later, when forty-one years of age. In politics he was a stanch repub- lican. In early manhood he married Josephine S. Scroggs, a granddaughter of Thomas. Rogers, who removed from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, becoming one of the pioneer resi- dents of the northern part of that state and an associate of Daniel Boone. He partici- pated in fights with the Indians as the companion of Boone and was a veteran of the War of 1812. He became a stanch abolitionist and his home was a station on the famous underground railroad, whereby many a negro was aided on his way to freedom in the north. He died at the very notable old age of ninety-six years and had never experienced a day's-illness in his life. His remains were interred at Greenfield, Ohio, and it was at that place that his granddaughter, Josephine S. Scroggs, was born in the year 1840. She became the wife of Samuel G. Lunbeck and to them were born three children. Mr. Lunbeck was devoted to the welfare of his family and found his greatest happiness in promoting their comfort. A devout Christian man, he was an active worker in the- Presbyterian church and his many sterling traits of character won for him the high regard and confidence of all who knew him.

Frank G. Lunbeck acquired his early education in the schools of Missouri and after --

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ward pursued a business course in Quincy, Illinois. When a young man he embarked in the mercantile business on his own account, in Warrensburg, Missouri, and there continued for twenty years. In 1907 he came to Colorado, settling in Greeley. Previous to this time he had been engaged in the bond investment business in St. Louis for three years. After reaching Colorado he was very active in organizing the Hickman-Lunbeck Grocery Company, to which he has since devoted all of his attention, being active in the control of the financial end of the business as its secretary and treasurer. The under- taking has proven a profitable one from the beginning and its patronage has steadily increased, its ramifying trade relations now covering a broad territory. The business methods of the house will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny, and unfaltering energy, close application and sound business discernment are features in the growth of their trade. Mr. Lunbeck is also interested in the Greeley Building & Loan Association, of which he is a director.

In June, 1892, Mr. Lunbeck was married to Miss Camille A. Christopher, who was born in Missouri in 1869, a daughter of George K. and Elizabeth Christopher. Mr. and Mrs. Lunbeck are members of the Presbyterian church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part, the former serving as chairman of its board of trustees. He turns to fishing as his favorite pastime. A man of liberal spirit and genial disposi- tion, he is always courteous and obliging in manner, and the genuine worth of his char- acter has gained for him a circle of friends that is constantly growing as the circle of his acquaintance broadens.

JAMES K. P. McCALLUM.

Among the representatives of Denver's bar are men capable of crossing swords in forensic combat with the ablest members of the profession anywhere. Strong, capable and resourceful in the practice of law is James K. P. McCallum, who located in Denver in 1908 and has since made his home in this city. He was born in Davis county, Iowa, September 22, 1844, a son of Daniel and Parthena J. (Birdwell) McCallum, the latter a " native of Tennessee, while the former was born in North Carolina. Both have now passed away. The father devoted his life to the occupation of farming and was very prominent in political circles. Removing to the west, he served as postmaster of Troy, Iowa, and passed away in 1890 at Helena, Montana. His grandfather was a native of Scotland and came to America soon after the Revolutionary war.

James K. P. McCallum was one of a family of eleven children of whom only three are yet living. He pursued his early education in the district schools of Davis county, Iowa, and afterward attended Troy Academy in that county. He was a youth of but eighteen years when in September, 1862, he responded to the country's call for troops, enlisting as a member of Company E, of the Third Iowa Cavalry, with which he served for three years. He was wounded in the right arm in a skirmish on the Tallahassee river, Mis- sissippi, on the 8th of August, 1864. When discharged he was holding the rank of corporal. He participated in twenty-two different engagements, saw much active fighting and rendered valuable aid to his country, proving a most valorous and loyal soldier. After being honorably discharged in 1865 he returned to his Iowa home and soon after- ward continued his education in Monmouth College at Monmouth, Illinois. Later he became a student in the State University at Iowa City, Iowa, where he pursued a law course, winning the LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1874, in which he was a classmate of Joseph C. Helms, late of Colorado, and they both took honors at the time of graduation. Mr. McCallum practiced law in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, for several years. and then removed to Huron, South Dakota, where he resided for eleven years, being recognized as one of the able members of the legal profession in that state. He was chosen a member of the convention that framed the state constitution of South Dakota in 1885 and later he removed to Colorado, settling at Walden, Jackson county, where he resided for a time, giving his attention to the publication of a paper and to prospect- ing and mining. He removed to Denver in 1908 although he had had frequent business in the city for twenty years previous to that time. On permanently taking up his abode in Denver he opened a law office and for a time was largely engaged in criminal law practice but is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon commercial and other branches of civil law. He is accorded a good clientage and his ability has won him wide recognition in professional circles. Moreover, he possesses much mechanical skill and ingenuity and has devoted considerable time to inventions.

In 1867 Mr. McCallum was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Boon, of Monmouth, Illinois, and to them have been born two children. A. Boon, born in 1884, is now man-

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ager of the Conner Advertising Agency and is a printer by trade. Jean is a mining engineer. He was graduated from the North Denver high school and from the Colorado School of Mines and is in charge of an extensive mining property at Patuca, Central America, owned and operated by an English syndicate. The elder son married Alice Ship- pey, of North Park, Colorado, and they have three children, Marion, Ione and Cecil. Jean wedded Sophie Page, of North Denver, a graduate of the North Denver high school, and they have three children, James Lowell, Elizabeth and Duane.

Mr. McCallum was active in politics in his youth as a supporter of the republican party, but later he became identified with the democratic party. He belongs to M. M. Crocker Post, No. 81, G. A. R., of the Department of Colorado and Wyoming, and proudly wears the little bronze button that proclaims him one of the veterans of the Civil war. He is a man of fine personality, his long white beard and hair giving him a venerable appearance, but his activity shows that he yet possesses the spirit of youth and to him may well be applied the lines of Victor Hugo:

"The snows of winter are on his head,

But the flowers of spring are in his heart."

ILO I. BOAK.

Ilo I. Boak, head consul of the Woodmen of the World, with head offices in Denver, has devoted much of his life to insurance interests and after representing a life insur- ance company for a time turned his attention to fraternal work, in which he has not only won distinction for himself but has greatly promoted the order, which he has for more than a quarter of a century represented. Mr. Boak is a native son of Iowa. He was born on a farm near Webster City, Hamilton county, on the 2d of February, 1860, his parents being William Wesley and Samantha K. (Payne) Boak. The father was born at Martinsburg, Berkeley county, West Virginia, and was a representative of one of the old families of that state who came from the north of Ireland, the first of the · name in America arriving in the Old Dominion during an early period in its coloniza- tion. William Wesley Boak took up the occupation of farming and stock raising and very successfully conducted his business affairs. Removing to the middle west, he purchased land in Iowa from the United States government at the usual price of a dollar and a quarter per acre. Iowa at that time was still a part of the territory of Wisconsin and the work of progress and development seemed hardly begun in the entire state. The lands which he purchased are still in possession of the family. W. W. Boak gave his political allegiance to the republican party, of which he was a stanch advocate, and served as chairman of the county board of supervisors for many years. He was a political power in his community and could have had the gift of any office that he might have cared to fill but always declined to become a candidate for any political position except county commissioner. His influence was perhaps all the stronger from the fact that it was wielded for the public good rather than for personal ends. His work, how- ever, was felt as a steady force in bringing about the purifying and wholesome reforms which have been gradually growing up in the political life of the country and his efforts were ever directed and centered in those channels through which flows the greatest good to the greatest number. He died at the family home in Webster City, Iowa, in 1902, as the result of an accident, when seventy-six years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Samantha K. Payne, was born in eastern Tennessee and is a representative of one of the old families of that state of Scotch descent. Prior to the Civil war her people were wealthy planters of the south. Her parents afterward removed to Iowa, settling in Hamilton county. It was in Henry county, Iowa, that William W. Boak and Samantha K. Payne were married and afterward removed to Hamilton county. Mrs. Boak is today one of the oldest living pioneers in the state and has reached the age of eighty- seven years. She became the mother of ten children, six of whom survive.

Ilo I. Boak of this review was the third in order of birth in the family. He acquired a public school education, supplemented by study in the seminary at Webster City, Iowa. His early life was spent upon the farm and in the woods, where he was daily associated with actual woodsmen. He learned to love outdoor life and also learned many lessons concerning woodcraft. To the age of twenty years he worked upon the home farm and then started out independently. His first employment after leaving home was with the Continental Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, which has since passed out of existence. In 1888 Mr. Boak took up fraternal work. Later accepting a commission from Sovereign Commander J. C. Root, then head consul of the Modern Woodmen of America, to organize camps for that order he devoted the succeeding

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three years to that work in Iowa, Kansas and Colorado. In August, 1890, he became one of the organizers of the Woodmen of the World, which association was formed in Denver. His first work was that of field manager, gradually working his way upward. As state manager for California he labored continuously for six or seven years and firmly established the order throughout the Golden state. In 1896, at the head camp session held in Helena, Montana, he was elected a member of the board of head man- agers and was reelected at San Francisco in 1898. In 1897 he resigned his position as state manager to engage in business in Oakland. California, becoming a member of the firm of Robinson & Boak; but upon the resignation of the head clerk, General J. W. Browning, he was appointed to fill the unexpired term and severed his business relationships in Oakland and with his family came to Colorado to take charge of the office of head clerk of the society at Denver ou the 15th of February, 1900. He was elected head consul in April, 1905, and reelected at each succeeding session of the head camp. He has made a most excellent record during his connection with the office, is thoroughly familiar with every phase of fraternal order work and has served the Wood- men of the World in every capacity. In this connection a contemporary biographer has written: "His great popularity is due to his geniality and thorough business methods which have distinguished his work in all departments and which make him the rec- ognized leader of western Woodcraft." In 1917 he served as president of the National Fraternal Congress of America and is a member of the executive committee of the World's Insurance Congress and president of the Colorado Insurance Federation. He is also at this writing vice president of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association. He is an active member of South Denver Lodge, No. 93, A. F. & A. M., Denver Commandery, No. 25, K. T., and other fraternal bodies.

In Freeport, Illinois, Mr. Boak was married on the 14th of June, 1883, to Miss Stella B. Baird, a native of that state and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baird, represen- tatives of an old Illinois family. Mr. and Mrs. Boak have become parents of four chil- dren: Blanche B., the wife of William M. Marrs, of Denver; Howard P., who married Miss Hattie Titus and lives in Denver; Marian Edith, the wife of William C. Adams, also of Denver; and Atta Stoneman, the wife of Harold F. Brown of Denver.

Mr. Boak is very fond of fishing and all forms of outdoor life. He travels extensively and greatly enjoys mountain climbing. He belongs to the First Christian Science church of Denver. His military service covers three years as first lieutenant of Company C, Sixth Regiment, Iowa National Guard. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party, and while he has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking he has always taken a lively interest in public affairs. For some time his friends have been urging him to become a candidate for the office of congressman. This he has finally consented to do after receiving a request signed by Finlay L. MacFarland, president of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, and many others, representing all in- terests-civic, commercial, manufacturing, industrial, etc .- in the first congressional district. He has as his slogan, "Take up the slack and win the war." This is the spirit which has characterized Mr. Boak throughout his business career and will undoubtedly be a strong factor in his advancement along congressional lines. Aside from his pre- eminence as a fraternalist, Mr. Boak ranks high with the publicists of the great west; in his numerous writings and addresses are to be found clear-cut and forcible presenta- tions of the principles of sound business and sane government.

HORACE W. EMERSON.

Horace W. Emerson, who passed away at Fort Collins on the 26th of June, 1917, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine years, had come to Colorado as early as 1866 and during his active career was principally engaged in the cattle business. His birth occurred at New Hampton, New Hampshire, on the 7th of June, 1838, his parents being Samuel and Anna (Carter) Emerson, who were also natives of that state. The father, an agriculturist by occupation, operated a farm in New Hampshire throughout his entire business career. He passed away in 1896, while his wife was called to her final rest in 1897.

Horace W. Emerson acquired his early education in the common schools of his native state and later continued his studies in the New Hampshire Institute. He remained under the parental roof until his marriage in 1862 and four years later came to Colorado, locating first at Julesburg, whence he made his way to Fort McPherson, where he worked for a time. In the fall of 1867 he removed to Sherman, where he was employed at putting up wood for the Union Pacific Railroad Company until the fall of 1868, while in

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December of the latter year he came to Larimer county. During the winter of 1868-69 he was engaged in getting out railroad ties near Chambers lake. These ties, two hundred and twenty thousand in number, were floated down the Poudre river at the time of high water in the spring and were landed at Greeley. In 1870 Mr Emerson went to Fort Lyon and built there two sets of company quarters of stone and two sets of officers' quarters of brick. In 1871 he erected an attractive and commodious residence at Greeley, where he made his home for a year. In the fall of 1871, in association with his brother Charles, he put in a herd of cattle near Livermore and in the winter of the following year was engaged in getting out ties near Fort Steele, continuing to follow that line of work for seven or eight years. On the expiration of that period he returned to Larimer county and took up a large tract of laud near Livermore, which he improved and operated in partnership with his brother Charles, who still manages the place. It comprises twenty- two hundred acres and is situated twenty-five miles west of Fort Collins. The property is irrigated and is regarded as one of the best ranches in the county. Mr. Emerson remained thereon until 1891, when he returned east to Maine and was there married a second time, maintaining his residence in the Pine Tree state for fifteen years. At the end of that time he again came to Colorado, taking up his abode in Fort Collins, where he spent the remainder of his life in a beautiful home which he erected at No. 231 South Grant street, at the corner of Olive street.

On the 22d of October, 1862, Mr. Emerson was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Freeman, who passed away in February, 1889. On the 10th of June, 1891, he wedded her sister, Miss Metta Freeman, of Winterport, Maine, a daughter of Peltiah and Mary (Heagan) Freeman. They were natives of Frankfort, Maine, and in that state the father successfully followed farming throughout his active business career. His demise occurred in April, 1874, while his wife was called to her final rest in February, 1888. Mr. Emerson had one daughter, Dorothy, who is now the wife of Thorwald H. Sackett and resides on the Emerson ranch.

In politics Mr. Emerson was a stanch republican, while his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He joined the Masons in Maine and in his life exemplified the beneficent spirit of the order. His death occurred very suddenly, after one day's illness, on the 26th of June, 1917, and was the occasion of deep and widespread regret, for he had won an extensive circle of warm friends in Larimer county, which in his passing lost one of its most prosperous, highly respected and representative citizens.

JOSEPH A. C. REYNOLDS.

Joseph A. C. Reynolds, an attorney at law of Denver, was born June 13, 1857, at Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada. His father was the Rev. Joseph Reynolds, a Methodist minister, who was born in England and in young manhood crossed the Atlantic to Canada, settling at what is now Ottawa, then known as Bytown. He became a distinguished clergyman of the Methodist faith in Ontario, where he devoted thirty-four years of his life to the work of preaching the gospel, passing away when he had reached the age of sixty years. His labors were not denied the full harvest nor the aftermath and the influence of his teachings is yet felt by those who came under his instructions. He married Deborah J. Darling, a native of Canada and of Scotch descent, her parents having been United Empire loyalists, who became pioneer residents of Canada. The death of Mrs. Reynolds occurred when she had reached the advanced age of eighty-seven years. By her marriage she had become the mother of three children, but Joseph A. C. Reynolds of this review is the only one now living.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Joseph A. C. Reynolds is indebted to the public and high school systems of Canada for the early education which he enjoyed. He later had the privilege of attending Victoria College at Cobourg, Canada, an institution that is now affiliated with the University of Toronto. He took his course there as an undergraduate with honors in classics and mathematics, in September, 1876. He then started out to provide for his own support, taking up educational work. He was made assistant master of the high school at Farmersville, Ontario, and continued to engage in teaching until he had earned sufficient money to enable him to pay his way through the university. On the 19th of July, 1873, he received his first certificate as a teacher in Simcoe, Norfolk county, Ontario, Canada, and as an educator he displayed marked ability, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he had acquired. His success in that direction foreshadowed his ability at the bar. After completing his studies in the university he became an articled clerk in a law office in Hamilton, Ontario, entering the employ of Chisholm & Hazlett, one of the first law

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firms in the province. In 1882 Mr. Reynolds, because of ill health, left Canada and made his way to Denver, Colorado, where he arrived in the latter part of May. He was an utter stranger here and had therefore to win friends as well as position in his new home. His health was restored under the bracing climate of this state and he took up his abode at Leadville, where for one year he was principal of the Leadville high school. He afterward returned to Denver and was admitted to practice upon examination before the supreme court of Colorado on the 3d of January, 1885. Since that time, covering a period of a third of a century, he has concentrated his efforts and attention upon law practice and in a calling where advancement is proverbially slow he has made steady progress and has long occupied a commanding and enviable position in the ranks of the legal fraternity of his adopted city.

Mr. Reynolds was married in Denver in 1885 to Miss Carrie J. Fisher, a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Fisher, both now deceased. To them have been horn four children, all of whom are yet living. The eldest, Clare Louise, is the wife of A. R. Griffin, a resident of Denver, and to them have been born two children, Jane Elizabeth and Jack Griffin, also natives of Denver. The second member of the family is Gladys, who is at home. The son, Gordon, is also at home. Dorothy has become the wife of Malcolm F. Roberts, a resident of Denver, and they have one child, Marjorie, who was born in Denver in 1918.

Fraternally Mr. Reynolds is connected with the Knights of Pythias and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Warren Memorial Methodist church. High and honorable principles have actuated him at every point in his career and his entire record commands for him the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been associated. In politics he has ever given loyal support to the republican party since becoming a naturalized American citizen. He served as justice of the peace during the year 1900 and later was deputy district attorney under George Stidger. He has sat as a delegate in almost every republican convention of the county and state for a period of twenty years-a fact indicative of the confidence which his fellow townsmen have in his judgment, his efficiency and his loyalty. He stands at all times for those interests and movements which he believes of worth to the community and his public-spirited devotion to the general good has wrought splendid results. In his profession, too, he has made a most creditable record. He passed first with honors out of twenty-three candidates at Osgood Hall in his first intermediate law examination and fifth of forty- three in his second intermediate examination. The thoroughness with which he pre- pared for his profession has characterized the course that he has ever followed in prac- tice. He closely studies every phase of every question that comes up in connection with the cases entrusted to his care and his retentive mind has often excited the surprise of his professional colleagues.

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 48

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