History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 64

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

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On the 22d of January, 1885, Mr. Bulkley was united in marriage to Miss Luella Bergstresser, a daughter of Reuben Bergstresser, who was engaged in mer- chandising and in railroad building In Illinois. Mrs. Bulkley was educated in Boston, Massachusetts, and was formerly well known as a vocalist of unusual ability. To Mr. and Mrs. Bulkley have been born four children: Louise Jeannette, now the wife of Harold Kountze, chairman of the board of the Colorado National Bank of Denver; Ronald Francis, who married Blanche Rathvon, of Denver, a daughter

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of S. F. Rathvon, a well known business man; Ralph Groendycke, a first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Forty-first Field Artillery of the United States army at Camp Funston, Kansas; and Eleanor, who married Joseph B. Blackburn, a lieu- tenant of the field artillery at Camp Grant, Illinois. The family attend St. John's Cathedral.

Mr. Bulkley is a member of the Denver Club, with which he has been thus associated for twenty years or more. He is also a member of the Denver Country Club. In politics he may be said to be a democrat but is of very liberal views and votes according to the dictates of his judgment without regard to party ties at local elections, while giving his allegiance to democratic principles at national elections. He was elected a member of the Colorado fifth general assembly from Lake county in 1884, in which year he had the unusual distinction and honor of being the only democrat elected on the ticket and yet he received the highest majority of any candidate upon either ticket, a fact indicative of his personal popu- larity and the confidence and trust reposed in him. He was a trustee of the Colorado School of Mines for sixteen years, from August, 1896, and was president of the board of trustees during a large part of that time. He has membership in the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Mining Congress and the Colorado Scientific Society. It would be tautological in this connection to enter into any series of state- ments, showing him to be a man of high scholarly attainments and marked efficiency in his chosen profession, for this has been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. He ranks with those men who through the development of the rich mineral resources of the state have contributed in marked measure to its upbuilding and progress and no history of Colorado would be complete without extended mention of him, so closely is his name interwoven with its mining activity.

JOHN GALEN LOCKE, M. D.

Dr. John Galen Locke, a physician and surgeon who by public opinion is accorded high rank in professional circles in Denver, was born in New York city on the 6th of September, 1871. His father, Dr. Charles Earl Locke, was a native of the Empire state and a representative of one of its old families, his ancestors having come from England in the Mayflower. Through intervening years the family has been prominently connected with events of importance in the east and later in the west. Representatives of the name served in the Revolutionary war, assisting in winning American inde- pendence, and later took part in the War of 1812. Dr. Charles Earl Locke won for him- self a creditable place as a physician and surgeon in the east. He is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital of New York and engaged in practice in New York city until 1888, when he removed westward to Colorado, making Denver his destination. He con- tinued in active practice in this city until 1917 and his pronounced ability placed him 'in the front rank among the most skilled and successful physicians and surgeons of Colorado. He is a Civil war veteran, having served as captain of a company in the Seventy- ninth New York Highlanders during the period of hostilities between the north and the south, and he is a past commander of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He also belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and proudly wears the little bronze button that proclaims him one of the veterans of the Civil war. At the time of the Spanish-American war he again enlisted for active military service, joining the First Colorado Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Manila during one of the skirmishes there but remained at the front until victory was won in the Philippines, after which he returned home with his regiment. Politically he has ever been a stanch republican and at one time he served as a member of the state senate, giving careful and earnest consideration to the vital questions which came up for settlement during that period. He is also a Mason, holding membership in Henry M. Teller Lodge, No. 144, and he belongs to Denver Lodge, No. 17, B. P. O. E. He is ever loyal to the teachings and pur- poses of these organizations and his upright life, his marked ability and his sterling worth have gained for him a high measure of confidence and respect. He married Jennie W. Barber, a daughter of the Hon. William B. Barber, who was at one time judge in Essex county, New York, and was a representative of an old family of that state of Scotch-Irish descent, the family of Barber having been founded in America prior to the Revolutionary war, in which one of the ancestors of Mrs. Locke participated. The death of Mrs. Locke occurred in Denver in 1911, when she had reached the age of sixty- eight years. By her marriage she had become the mother of three children, of whom John G. is the eldest. The others are: Ella G., now the wife of William Spencer Moffett,

DR. JOHN GALEN LOCKE

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a resident of Denver; and Jessie R., the wife of Erwin Philipps of San Francisco, California.

Dr. John Galen Locke was educated in the public and high schools of New York city and then, determining to engage in the same profession to which his father has directed his energies, he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where his pre- liminary work was done. He afterward became a student in the Denver College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree. Following the completion of his course he went abroad to Germany for further study and spent some time in Berlin, Vienna and Paris, coming under the instruction of some of the most eminent scientists of the old world. He also spent some time in the Rotunda Hospital of Dublin, Ireland. He remained abroad for a number of years, continually studying and thus greatly promoting his efficiency. He has since taken post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic Hospital, in the New York Post Graduate College, in the Chicago Polyclinic and in the Chicago Post Graduate College. For a time he was teacher of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Denver, continuing in that connection for several years. He is now a member of the 'staff of the Denver City and County Hospital, also of St. Anthony's Hospital and the Park Avenue Hospital. He has been a frequent and valued contributor to leading medical journals of the country, his articles being widely read, while his opinions carry weight in professional circles. He belongs to the Denver City and County Physicians and Surgeons Medical Society and also to the Physicians' and Surgeons' Association and to the Surgeons' Society of North America. He ranks very high in professional circles, his pronounced ability being recognized not only in Denver and in Colorado but in many other parts of the country as well.

Dr. Locke is also a prominent figure in Masonic circles, belonging to Henry M. Teller Lodge, No. 144, A. F. & A. M .; South Denver Chapter, No. 42, R. A. M .; Coronal Com- mandery, K. T .; and to the various Scottish Rite bodies, having attained the thirty- second degree in Rocky Mountain Consistory. He likewise has life membership in El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., is a Knight of the Black Cross, a member of Denver Lodge, No. 17, B. P. O. E., and for the last named is medical examiner. He belongs also to the Denver Athletic Club, to the Denver Civic and Commercial Association and to the Democratic Club-a connection that indicates his political position. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church and he finds his chief diversions in hunting and fishing, belonging to the Kennicott Hunting and Fishing Club. He served as first lieutenant of Battery A, Colorado Volunteers, during the Spanish-American war, and is a member of Colorado Consistory, Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States. Dr. Locke is widely known in Denver, having become a resident of this city when a youth of sixteen years. In the intervening period he has here made his home and his social and professional prominence places him in the front rank among the highly honored and representative residents of Denver.

HON. LEROY M. CAMPBELL.

Hon. Leroy M. Campbell, who holds the honored position of county judge of Bent county, was born in Roanoke county, Virginia, October 20, 1847, his parents being Leroy and Nancy (Petty) Campbell. The father followed agricultural pursuits throughout his life and both he and his wife have passed away. In their family were ten children, five sons and five daughters, all deceased except Judge Campbell and two sisters. In order of birth he was the seventh in the family.

Leroy M. Campbell attended school in Virginia, but his opportunities along that line were limited and many of the valuable lessons of life he learned in the school of experi- ence. He remained on the home farm assisting his father in the cultivation of the land and during the Civil war served for fifteen months in the Confederate army as a member of the Thirty ninth Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, which composed the bodyguard of General Robert E. Lee. After his service was ended he returned to the farm, where he remained until 1869. He then went to Missouri, in which state he remained for eight years, and subsequently removed to California. which remained his home until 1880, when he came to Colorado, locating in Las Animas. He rode the range for John Powers for four years and then engaged in ranching for himself. He was the first man to obtain a water right under the Fort Lyons canal and he has ever since given his attention to farming, although now a great deal of his time is taken up with his judicial duties. He was appointed to the office of county judge to fill an unexpired term and then became a

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candidate and has subsequently heen twice reelected. He is fair and impartial in his decisions and all who come before his court realize that they receive just treatment.

On January 10, 1870, Judge Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Martha David Stoner, of Virginia, and to them were born the following children: Leroy D .; Annie P .; Samuel S., who died at the age of twenty years; Maude L .; Harry C., who died when but a year old; and Hugh M., who is in the navy munition shops at Washington, D. C. He enlisted for the war as a master machinist, having received a thorough mechanical training. The other children are all connected with farming and stock raising and live in Bent county.

Judge Campbell is a democrat and has always upheld the principles of the party. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to the blue lodge, and he is also a member of the Farmers Grange. He is a public-spirited, patriotic citizen, interested in all matters which affect the public welfare and has many friends in Las Animas and Bent county, and all speak of him in terms of high regard.

ALLISON B. COLLINS.

Allison B. Collins, a well known mining engineer of Denver, who is general manager of the Mohawk-Wyoming Oil Corporation, a Wyoming concern, was born May 9, 1881, at Georgetown, Colorado, a son of E. M. Collins, who was a native of New Hampshire and belonged to one of the old families of the Granite state, of Irish ancestry. The family was founded in America by Benjamin Collins, who came to the new world among the first settlers at Jamestown. One of the ancestors in the maternal line was Josiah Bartlett, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war. E. M. Collins was but a small hoy when he accompanied his parents on their westward removal after spending the first five years of his life in his native state. He afterward returned to the east but later crossed the plains alone with an ox team and settled in southern Illinois, where he secured his education. In the latter '70s he came to Colorado, establishing his home at Georgetown, where he practiced his profession of engineering, doing much engineering work throughout the west for the United States government. He also engaged in mining at intervals and in his chosen life work has met with a fair measure of success but is now living retired, making his home at Cañon City, Colorado. He was at one time superintendent of public instruction at Colorado Springs, occupying that position for twelve years, during which he greatly promoted the interests of the schools of that place. His political allegiance has long been given to the republican party and he has taken an active interest in the political questions and issues of the day and in all those measures which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He married Lillian Walling, a native of Wisconsin, whose parents were Pennsylvania people and of Dutch descent, the ancestors having settled in the Keystone state among its earliest residents. Mrs. Collins is still living and by her marriage she became the mother of two sons, the younger being Philip M. Collins, a mining man in Bluefields, Nicaragua.

Allison B. Collins is indebted to the public and high schools of Colorado Springs for the educational opportunities which were accorded him. When seventeen years of age he started out to earn his own livelihood and served a regular apprenticeship at civil engineering, which profession he has since followed. He has been connected with many of the large corporations of the state in engineering work, especially in irrigation and drainage work, in which he is an acknowledged expert. He was with the United States government for three years and at a recent period became identified with the Mohawk- Wyoming Oil Corporation as general manager. Prior to this he was general manager for the Out West Petroleum Company and has been its vice president, which position he still retains. He has been a close student of mining projects and problems of the west and his constantly broadening knowledge has made him very efficient. He is thoroughly informed concerning irrigation work and his entrance into oil field development indicates a further forward step in his career. Mr. Collins has also taken active interest in the establishment of The National Dehydrating Company, at Denver, having been one of the organizers, and has served as secretary and treasurer since its organization. This enterprise, having as it does, a direct bearing upon the question of food conservation, has been fostered and encouraged by government recognition, under the supervision of the bureau of chemistry, United States department of agriculture.

In Denver, on the 22d of May, 1906, Mr. Collins was married to Miss Florine H. Hettrick, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Hettrick, repre- sentatives of an old Virginia family. Her father is now deceased but her mother is

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still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Collins have been born two children: Marion, who was born in Denver, October 25, 1908; and Jack, born November 15, 1912.

Mr. Collins was a member of the Colorado National Guard and was mustered into active service at the time of the Spanish-American war but on account of an injury took no part in hostilities. He was, however, made a noncommissioned officer. His political endorsement has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to El Paso Lodge, No. 13. A. F. & A. M., of Colo- rado Springs; also to Colorado Chapter, No. 29, R. A. M .; and to Denver Commandery, No. 25, Knights Templar. He belongs to the Denver Athletic Club and his personal characteristics are such as make for popularity in his ever increasing circle of acquaint- ances. His success is due to his own efforts and he has truly earned the proud American title of a self-made man. Without college training he started out in a profession that demands most efficient and high grade service. Steadily he has worked his way upward. He has spent a great deal of time in old Mexico and British Columbia in mining work and he also has mining interests at Montezuma, Colorado. He has thoroughly qualified for the interests which engage his attention and his increasing powers have brought to him not only added responsibility but also the remuneration attendant thereon and he occupies a most enviable position for one of his years.

MARY ELIZABETH BATES, M. D.

Aside from speaking of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Bates as a most successful and capable physician and surgeon, she may also be termed a practical reformer, or perhaps » better still a constructionist, for her work in behalf of public welfare has been not so much in tearing down the old as in building up new along broader and better lines. She has constantly reached out in helpfulness to the individual and to the community at large and her efforts have been most effective, farreaching and beneficial.

Dr. Bates was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, February 25, 1861. Her father, William Wallace Bates, was there engaged in building the first clipper schooners that floated the Great Lakes but became even more widely known through the articles which he wrote on the merchant marine and the rules of ship construction. With the outbreak of the Civil war he went to the front as captain of the Ninteenth Wis- consin Volunteers, having raised a company to aid in the preservation of the Union. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Cole, was a graduate of the New York City Hydropathic Medical School and prior to her marriage had earned her education by working in the woolen mills of Massachusetts. Following her marriage she practiced her profession gratuitously among the Wisconsin pioneers in addition to caring for the members of her own household. She radiated love to every living thing and the ill, the troubled and oppressed found help, strength and good cheer in her knowledge, patience and common sense. Heredity in Dr. Bates was expressed in her study of medicine, which she took up after graduating from the graded and high schools of Chicago, Illinois. She determined upon her professional career at a period when men in medical colleges waged active war on women in the profession, subjecting them to all sorts of opposition, ridicule and contumely, but Dr. Bates was early taught to ignore such tactics of an enemy and to go calmly on doing what she had started out to do- a course which one can afford to pursue if one is right. She was graduated with her class from the Woman's Medical College, which is the Woman's . Medical School of the Northwestern University of Chicago, on the 28th of February, 1881, at the age of twenty years and three days, and to conform to the law her diploma was dated February 25, 1882. Her first achievement in connection with medical science was in passing the oral competitive examination for interneship in the Cook County Hospital of Chicago, March 31, 1881, and the following day she entered upon the duties of that position as the first woman interne in the history of the institution. For three months every fair and unfair means were tried, from hazing by the men internes, to foolish and unsustained charges preferred by an attending physician, together with political machinations, by the doctors and hospital management, to discourage her and force her resignation. But she was advised by the great anatomist and surgeon of Rush Medical College, Dr. Charles T. Parks, to "stick" if she wanted to and so she "stuck." Her regular term of interne service might be described first as six months of hard work and bitter opposition, then six months of harder work and toleration and then another six months of the hardest work but with acknowledgment of success; and after three months she was graduated as house surgeon on the 1st of October, 1882.

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During the succeeding winter she taught minor surgery and demonstrated anatomy in her alma mater and spent the following year and a half in Germany and Vienna in special preparation for the practice of surgery and obstetrics, qualifying also for the professorship of anatomy. During the years in which she occupied the chair of anatomy in the Woman's Medical College she made a specialty of coaching women students in anatomy and surgery and qualifying them for examinations for interneship in Cook County Hospital. After Dr. Bates' service no women had applied for interne- ship. After all, others had backed out afraid. Dr. Bates practically compelled Dr. Rachael Hickey Carr to take the examination, saying that she owed it to herself, to Dr. Bates and to the cause and the college to keep the way open. Dr. Carr passed, standing one hundred per cent in anatomy, becoming the second woman interne in Cook County Hospital. The following year Dr. Mary Jeannette Kearsley took the examination with one hundred per cent in anatomy and thus became the third interne. She was followed by Dr. Bertha E. Bush and Dr. Alice Piper, whose high marks in anatomy won them the interneship, and they served with credit to themselves and their alma mater. They had had but two years' coaching before Dr. Bates was sent west for her health, but their marks in anatomy were higher than in any other branch and so raised their averages. Thus Dr. Bates opened the way for many other internes, which she feels has been no small compensation for her sacrifice of wealth, position and power, opportunity and health, her years of exile in strange places in pursuit of health, and thus she has come to a realization of the fact that when one makes the effort to do a thing it pays to choose something or somebody that will keep on doing things and thus continue the work.

One of Dr. Bates' most phenomenal professional successes and one which has given her the greatest happiness was the restoration of her father to comparative health in October, 1889. She went from an Oregon farm to Buffalo, New York, to find him in the last stages of gallstone disease, with complications, that without relief must have proven fatal in a few days. His physician had erroneously diagnosed his case as cancer of the stomach and had given him three weeks to live. Under the care of his daughter he went to Washington, D. C., and back, in three weeks, and three months later returned to Washington, being able to accept President Harrison's appointment as commissioner of navigation. He lived eighteen years to write and publish two great books-American Marine and American Navigation, together with numberless articles and addresses which he delivered before various conventions in all parts of the country from Atlanta, Georgia, to San Francisco, on the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine. He became the greatest living authority on the merchant marine and since his death in 1911 there has been none to dispute the title.

After nine months spent on a cattle ranch in New Mexico, Dr. Bates located in Denver to resume the practice of medicine in October, 1890, and became much interested in municipal, state and national affairs. Her mother had been a pioneer in the New England suffrage movement and Dr. Bates became identified with the Colorado Equal Suffrage Association, doing effective work in the legislative campaign for the amend- ment and the referendum campaign which gave the ballot to women in Colorado in 1893. She organized and was the first vice president of the first Woman's Political Club of Colorado. She organized the Colorado Woman's Political Club Quartette. The object of the club was the study of government and politics, of parliamentary law and of laws for bettering the protection of women and children, together with the means of im- proving woman's economic and political status in the community. This organization was to constitute an independent woman's party to hold the balance of power and to demand and enforce all of the social and political uplift that they might devise. But the next election was held in a presidential year and many of the women returned to the political faith in which they had been reared, acting with the republican, demo- cratic, populist or other parties as the case might be. Dr. Bates also assisted in establishing The Woman Voter, a weekly paper, which was the organ of the club. She also wrote many campaign songs, which were sung by the quartette. With the dis- ruption of the club she turned to constructive movements, being identified with the never-ending procession of constructive plans that has made Denver famous. Many of these movements have brought substantial results, though the organizations which accomplished this have passed out of existence. With Sarah May Townsend, D. D. S., she procured from the county commissioners the rights of women physicians to interne- ship in the then Arapahoe County Hospital, and by competitive examination a number of very able women physicians have since been passed and have graduated with honor from the hospital. She became identified with an organization known as the Union for Practical Progress, which was formed by three hundred enthusiastic men and

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 64

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