History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 75

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

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Charles S. Cann was educated in the public schools of Denver and in business college of St. Louis, Missouri, becoming a student in the Bryant & Stratton College. His youthful days were spent upon the ranch with the usual experiences of life in this section and environment on the western frontier. In 1883 he entered the live stock business with his father, the association being maintained until 1913, when they disposed of their live stock interests and Charles S. Cann removed with his family to Denver, where he entered the land and investment business. In this he has since been continu- ously engaged and in the intervening period he has sold twenty-two thousand acres of land. He is thoroughly familiar with property values and knows the land that is upon the market. He is a director of the First National Bank of Littleton, but confines his attention largely to lands and investments and in this connection has built up a large clientage.

Mr. Cann was married in Denver in the fall of 1884 to Miss Anna A. Schaffer, a native of Rochester, New York, and a daughter of John and Mary Schaffer, the former deceased, while the latter is still living. The Schaffers were of an old New York family of French descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Cann have been born two children: Frank C., who

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died at the age of thirty-one years; and Ruth M., now the wife of Verne Coats, of Denver, by whom she has two children, Naomi and Charles C. The son, Frank C. Cann, was married and left a son, who is his namesake.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cann reside at No. 1234 South Gilpin street. In politics Mr. Cann is an earnest republican and he and his wife are Presbyterians in religious faith. Mrs. Cann takes a very active part in charitable projects and is a most earnest worker for the Red Cross. Mr. Cann turns to motoring and fishing for rest and recreation and also greatly enjoys trips to California. The greater part of his life has been passed in Colorado and for fifty-five years he has been an interested witness of the growth and progress of the state. He takes an active part in all that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding of city and commonwealth and his aid and cooperation at all times can be counted upon to further any project or movement for the general good.

EDWIN B. HENDRIE.

Edwin B. Hendrie, president of the Hendrie & Bolthoff Manufacturing & Supply Company of Denver, was born January 7, 1847, in Burlington, Iowa, a son of the late Charles Hendrie, who was a native of Connecticut and was descended from one of the old families of that state, of Scotch origin. The family was founded in America at an early period and through all the intervening years representatives of the name have resided in Connecticut. Charles Hendrie was reared and educated in Danbury, Con- necticut, and in 1845 removed to Iowa, settling in Burlington, where he engaged in the manufacture of mining machinery. There he spent the greater part of his life. He was the first manufacturer of mining machinery east of the Rockies and he manufactured the first threshing machine made in the United States. He conducted factories at points including Council Bluffs, Central City, Colorado, Helena, Montana, and was a very suc- cessful, progressive and enterprising business man. He passed away in Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 2, 1886, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Ann Beard, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, and was also a repre- sentative of one of the old families of that state, of English lineage, the Beard family having been founded in America in early colonial days by one of the name who came from England and settled in Danbury. Mrs. Hendrie departed this life at Burlington, Iowa, in 1850, when but thirty-four years of age. She was the mother of four children, three sons and a daughter, two of whom have passed away, while those still living are Edwin B. and Elizabeth Field, the latter the widow of R. J. Cory and a resident of Connecticut.

Edwin B. Hendrie was educated in the public schools of Burlington and in the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated witlı the class of 1867, winning the degree of Mechanical Engineer. Prior to his graduation he learned the trade of a machinist in bis father's shop and after his graduation re- moved to Montana, stopping en route in Denver. He visited the mining districts of Colorado and thus spent several weeks. He then went to Helena, Montana, where he took charge of his father's branch factory, continuing at that point for six years. He later went to Salt Lake, Utah, where he opened a sales agency for machinery in con- nection with his brother, the late William Cornell Hendrie. The business was con- ducted under the firm name of Hendrie Brothers and Edwin B. Hendrie continued there for five years. During that period, or in 1874, he opened an office in San Francisco. California, where he resided until 1879, when he came to Denver to take charge of his present business. The office, however, had been opened in 1878. Since his removal to this city Edwin B. Hendrie has continued actively at the head of the Hendrie & Bolthoff Manufacturing & Supply Company and has thus controlled important and extensive busi- ness interests. He is also president of the Wolftone Mining Company, with which he has thus been identified for a quarter of a century. His business interests have con- stantly grown in volume and importance and he is controlling an enterprise that ranks with the leading concerns of the kind in the state. The company manufactures mining machinery and its output is sold over a wide territory.

On the 2d of July, 1878, in San Francisco, California, Mr. Hendrie was married to Miss Marion Carnes, a native of Rhode Island, born in Newport, and a daughter of Nathaniel Greene and Elizabeth (Wise) Carnes. The latter, now deceased, was a repre- sentative of one of the old families of New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Hendrie has been born a daughter, Gertrude, whose birth occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and who is the wife of W. W. Grant, Jr., of Denver, by whom she has three children, two sons and a daughter, Edwin Hendrie, William West and Melanie Mortimore Grant.

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In his political views Mr. Hendrie has always been a stalwart republican. He be- longs to the Denver Club, to the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, the Uni- versity Club, the Denver Country Club and the Denver Scientific Society. He is likewise connected with the Broadmoor Club of Colorado Springs and is a member of the National Mining Engineers Association and the Archaeological Society. He is a liberal supporter of the Plymouth Congregational church and also of St. John's cathedral. He turns to hunting and fishing, golf and travel for diversion, but his attention and interest center upon his business, which has been steadily developed, the success of his enterprise being attributable in large measure to his personal efforts, his laudable ambition and his thor- ough understanding of the needs of the trade. Long a resident of the west, he is thor- oughly familiar with its upbuilding and progress. During his residence in Montana he was obliged to pay one hundred and sixty dollars a ton for coal and also paid one hun- dred and sixty dollars per ton for pig iron. In 1867 he built a smelter in Butte, Montana, securing the firebrick at St. Louis, Missouri, at a cost of two hundred dollars per ton. This was an experiment in smelting, for hitherto ore had been sent to Swansea, Wales, to separate the gold, silver and copper. While remote from the older civilization of the east, settlers in that part of the country bore many hardships, trials and privations in the development of the country. Prices were extremely high, flour selling for a hundred dollars per sack. Laws were very strictly observed and it was not necessary to have locks on the doors. It was very rare that crime was committed, but Mr. Hendrie recalls one violation of the law in which two young men were hung because of their noncon- formance to the existing rules that governed the life of the community. His reminiscences of the early days of the west are very interesting and he went through many trying and ofttimes thrilling experiences. There is no phase of mining development in this section of the country with which he is not thoroughly familiar, and as a manufacturer of min- ing machinery he has built up an extensive business. which he successfully carries on under the name of the Hendrie & Bolthoff Manufacturing & Supply Company.

CHARLES LEAMING TUTT.

The life story of Charles Leaming Tutt is one of interest because it is the record of successful achievement, but the attainment of success was not the whole end and aim of his career. On the contrary he ever recognized his duties of citizenship and Colorado Springs, where he lived, found in him indeed a warm friend whose efforts were of great value in the upbuilding and improvement of the city. A native of Pennsylvania, he was born in Philadelphia, February 14, 1864. His father, Dr. Charles Pendleton Tutt, of Locust Hill, Leesburg, Loudoun county, Virginia, was of English descent. His mother was Rebecca Wain Leaming, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. The ancestral record presents many distinguished names, including Sir William Thompson, who was first governor of Virginia under Queen Anne; Sir Arthur Chi- chester, who settled in Virginia in the seventeenth century; and Sir Gerald Folk, who' became one of the founders of the Virginia colony and built Gunston Hall, situated adjoining the Mount Vernon estate, which was owned by his cousin, George Washington. It was in Gunston Hall that the grandson, George Nason, drew up the "bill of rights" upon which the American constitution was founded. Another ancestor was Sir Christopher Leaming, lord mayor of London, who built and owned the old Manor House at Leamington, England, which is now used as a hotel. But few Americans can boast of three ancestral homes still standing in this country as could Mr. Tutt, whose ancestors were the owners of Waln Grove, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was built about 1760; Gunston Hall in Fairfax county, Virginia, built about 1672; and Locust Hill in Loudoun county, Virginia, built about 1750. All are stand- ing and in good repair. The maternal grandfather of Charles Leaming Tutt was Fisher Leaming, of Philadelphia, with whom he and his sister, Rebecca Waln Leaming Tutt Wood. resided when young.

Attracted by the opportunities of the growing western country, Charles Leaming Tutt made his way to Colorado in 1884, when but twenty years of age. He had, when a youth of seventeen, secured a clerkship in the store of Peter Wright & Company in Phila- delphia at the small salary of two dollars and a half per week and after two years there spent he accepted a position in the main offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, where he continued for two years. In 1884 he came to Colorado and pur- chased a small ranch eighteen miles northeast of Colorado Springs, where he devoted two years to the cattle business. During that period, in which he was associated with his brother-in-law, Dr. Jesse Williamson, he sold two cows in order to get money for

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traveling expenses and returned to Philadelphia, where he wedded Josephine Thayer, a daughter of Hon. R. Russell and Sophia Dallas (Watmough) Thayer. Her father was a distinguished jurist of Philadelphia, who for more than twenty years sat upon the bench as presiding judge and who was a member of congress during the adminis- tration of President Lincoln. The family is one of the oldest and most prominent in Philadelphia. Mr. Tutt returned with his bride to Colorado Springs and a year later opened a real estate office, with a branch office in Pueblo. Not long afterward he went to Cripple Creek, being one of the first to enter the gold camp. The story of his ex- perience there is thus told: "While walking up 'Poverty Gulch' one day, with fifty dollars in his pockets, he was joined by an unknown prospector, and the two staked out a claim. No sooner had this been done when Mr. Tutt jumped at the offer made by his partner, that he would either take or give fifty dollars for his interest in the claim. One day, after Mr. Tutt had sunk a twelve-foot shaft, two famous Irish prospectors, Burke and Troy, 'happened along' and induced Mr. Tutt to give them an interest, on their saying that they knew where the vein lay. Rich ore was soon struck, and the property was subsequently sold for three hundred thousand dollars, the first mine to be sold in the Cripple Creek district. This is the history of the famous 'C. O. D. Mine,' so named because Mr. Tutt was so 'hard up' that he wished for cash on delivery."

In 1888 Mr. Tutt entered into partnership with Spencer Penrose and in 1894 they were joined by Charles M. MacNeill. They built a plant which they operated under the name of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company and they conducted other interests under the name of The Colorado & Philadelphia Reduction Works and the Standard Mills at Colorado City. They owned still other mills in different parts of the state and became recognized as among the most prominent and successful mining men of Colorado. Mr. Tutt also made extensive and judicious investments in real estate in Colorado Springs and as the years passed the extent and importance of his business interests placed him among the most prominent and prosperous business men of Colorado. He was the first president of the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Com- pany, vice president of the C. O. D. Gold Mining Company, president of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company, president of the Townsite Gold Mining Company, the Hayden Gold Mining Company, the Pennsylvania Gold Developing Company, the Annie Gold Mining Company and the Granite Gold Mining & Developing Company of Cripple Creek. He was a man of keen insight who closely studied every business proposition with which he became connected and who gave most earnest support to every plan that he believed would prove beneficial in developing the material resources of Colorado.

Mr. Tutt was most devoted to his family, finding his greatest happiness in pro- moting the welfare and interests of his wife and children. His first child, Sophia Watmough Tutt, was born January 2, 1887, and died at Avalon, Catalina Island, Febru- ary 24, 1903. His son, Charles Leaming Tutt, Jr., was horn January 9, 1889, and is represented elsewhere in this work. Russell Thayer Tutt, born on Christmas morning of 1891, died on Easter Sunday of 1892. William Thayer, who was born March 22, 1893, passed away November 20, 1917. All were natives of Colorado Springs. The family circle was again broken by the hand of death when Mr. Tutt passed away in New York city, January 21, 1909. A contemporary biographer wrote of him: "He was a splendid friend to Colorado Springs. Making his money largely by hard work from the products of the mines, he forthwith invested a large portion of it there and in the Pike's Peak region. He was public-spirited and energetic, and most generous and liberal, and honest in his business methods. He was a genial, lovable and democratic man who cemented his friends to him by ties stronger than those of steel. Personally he was bright, intelligent and delightful and enriched the lives of those who were fortunate in securing his friendship. He believed that the essentials of a young man's success in life were truthfulness, honesty and economy." His marked business ability, his progressive citizenship, his splendid traits of character, his honorable manhood and his many likable qualities endeared him to all with whom he came in contact and made him a citizen of whom any community might well be proud.

CHARLES LEAMING TUTT, JR.

Charles Leaming Tutt, Jr., whose investment business has brought him into prominent relation with many leading corporate and commercial interests of Colorado Springs and of the state, belongs to that class of men who set at nought the too widely accepted opinion that the son of a rich man never seems to possess the same strong

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husiness qualities that have made the father successful. Mr. Tutt is a young man of liberal experience and one who has proven his power to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.

A son of Charles Leaming Tutt, Sr., he was born in Colorado Springs on the 9th of January, 1889. He was reared in his native city, attended the public schools and was afterward graduated from the Thacher School at Nordhoff, California, with the class of 1906. Later he went to Oregon, where he was connected with mining interests for two years, and afterward he returned to Colorado Springs, where he engaged in the real estate business for a year. Since that time he has supervised his invested interests and he is today president of the Beaver, Penrose & Northern Railroad, presi- dent of the Beaver Park Land & Irrigation Company, president of the Beaver Fruit & Preserving Company, secretary and treasurer of the Grand River Valley Railroad Company, secretary and treasurer of the Grand Junction Gas, Electric & Manufacturing Company, secretary of the Broadmoor Hotel Land Company, a director of the Colorado Midland Railroad, a director of the Colorado Title & Trust Company and a director of the Granite Gold Mine.

On the 17th of August, 1909, in Colorado Springs, Mr. Tutt was married to Miss Eleanor Armit, a daughter of the late John L. Armit, of England. Their children are Charles L., William Thayer and Russell Thayer.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Episcopal church, while politically Mr. Tutt is a republican. He is not identified with secret societies but is prominently known in club circles not only of Colorado Springs but elsewhere. He has member- ship in the El Paso Club, the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, the Broadmoor Golf Club, the Winter Night Club, the Cooking Club; and the Rocky Mountain Club of New York. While his financial position renders him free from certain kinds of busi- ness care, he is nevertheless a busy man, actively concerned with the management of his invested interests and also active in support of those interests which are of vital significance and importance to community, commonwealth and country.

ROBERT J. WALKER.

Robert J. Walker, owner of a good farm property about five miles from Windsor, was born in London, England, March 18, 1881, a son of Henry and Ellen (Markham) Walker, who are also natives of that country. The father was a dairyman, which busi- ness he followed in England for many years but eventually came to the new world. In early life he had come to America but returned to England and about 1883 he once more crossed the Atlantic to the United States and established his home at Rolla, Missouri, where he purchased land which he has since owned and cultivated. Both he and his wife are still living upon the old home farm there.

Robert J. Walker was about eighteen months old when brought by his parents to the United States and was reared and educated in St. Louis, Missouri. He afterward was employed as a farm hand in Colorado, having come to this state in 1893, when a lad of twelve years. He was employed at farm work for a decade and then began farming on his own account by renting land, which he cultivated for seven years. This was situated in Weld county and he now owns the property, which he has brought under a high state of cultivation. There was not a stick of timber upon it when it came into his possession. With characteristic energy he began its development and improvement and as the years have passed he has converted it into a valuable and productive farm, sup- plied with all modern equipment in the way of farm machinery and with excellent build- ings. In fact it is one of the attractive farm properties of the district and is indicative of his progressive spirit. He makes a specialty of raising pure bred Poland China hogs and also of feeding sheep and lambs and his stock raising interests are an important feature of his business. His place now comprises one hundred and seventy-six acres, which is situated on section 27, range 69.

Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Nash, a daughter of Mathew and Mary (McTiernan) Nash, who were natives of New York and of Scotland respec- tively. The father was a miner and in 1878 came to Colorado, settling at Silver Plume, where he followed mining throughout his remaining days. He died in December, 1903, and Mrs. Nash is now living at Cripple Creek, Colorado. Mrs. Walker was born at Red Elephant, Colorado, near Georgetown, in October, 1884, and by her marriage has become the mother of four children: Margaret, who was born January 12, 1910; Robert, born May 8, 1911; Jack, born August 6, 1913; and Mary, born April 4, 1918. The family adhiere to the faith of the Episcopal church and Mr. Walker gives his political allegiance

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to the democratic party. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a loyal fol- lower of the craft, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby imposed. His has been an active and useful life and from an early age he has been dependent upon his own resources, so that whatever success he has achieved is the direct reward of his earnest labor.

GEORGE GILFILLAN PHILIP.

George G. Philip, a well known resident of Fort Lupton, was born in Dundee, Scotland, May 21, 1846, a son of William and Janet (Lonie) Philip, who were also natives of the land of hills and heather. The father was a contractor and builder in that country and both he and his wife spent their entire lives there.

George G. Philip was reared and educated in Scotland and was associated with his father and brother in building operations until 1871, when attracted by the favorable reports which he heard concerning the opportunities furnished in the new world, he crossed the Atlantic to America and became a resident of Denver. He there followed the contracting business for about four years, but later removed to Boulder county, Colorado, where for fifteen years he was superintendent of mines. In 1887 he removed to Fort Lupton in order to get his boys away from the mines and later he engaged in the lumber business, in which he has since continued, conduct- ing his interests under the name of G. G. Philip & Son. He has also homesteaded a forty-acre tract and has purchased more land from time to time, having now one hundred and sixty acres on the edge of Fort Lupton, which he has improved and which he has cultivated since acquiring the property. He has always been very successful in his business affairs, owing to his sound business judgment, his enter- prise and energy. Mr. Philip is regarded as a forceful and resourceful business man, ever ready to meet an emergency, and he readily and quickly recognizes and utilizes opportunities. In addition to the lumber trade he is interested in the sheep busi- ness in Omaha as a member of the firm of Philip & McClave. He is also president of the Philip & Allsebrook Hardware Company and is a stockholder in the Fort Lupton State Bank. In fact he has been one of the promoters of almost every business enterprise of importance in the town and his labors have made him a very valu- able man to the section.

On the 25th of April, 1871, Mr. Philip was married to Miss Annie Smith and their honeymoon trip was their voyage to America. They became parents of five children: Smith D., who is engaged in the sheep industry at Omaha, Nebraska; Bluebell, the wife of Ray E. McClave, a resident of Fort Lupton, Colorado; Cecil G., who is manager of the lumber business; Jessie L., the wife of George Frink, a resi- dent of Seattle, Washington; and William, who died in 1893. The wife and mother passed away February 17, 1914, after a short illness, her death being the occasion of deep regret to many friends as well as to her immediate family.

In politics Mr. Philip is a strict prohibitionist and was instrumental in forcing saloons out of business at Fort Lupton. He has at all times stood strongly for the temperance cause and has done everything for its promotion that he possibly could, realizing how great an evil is intemperance when considered from an economic as well as a moral standpoint. Fraternally Mr. Philip was formerly connected with the Knights of Pythias. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church and for twenty-six years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school at Fort Lupton, thus putting forth every possible effort to instill into the young principles that will make for honorable manhood and valuable citizenship throughout life. His ideals are high and he has put forth every possible effort to secure their adoption.

JESSE J. LATON.

Jesse J. Laton, a representative of the Denver bar, was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 10, 1873, a son of Henry Llewellyn and Mary (Thomas) Laton, who were natives of Pennsylvania and of Indiana respectively. In 1866 Henry L. Laton became a resident of Nebraska, at which time Omaha was but a trading post on the western frontier. He engaged in farming and stock raising and has continued his residence in that state to the present time, both he and his wife being now residents of Lincoln. They reared a family of nine children, three of whom have passed away, while those still living are:

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 75

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