History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 78

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 27th of November, 1899, Mr. Abeyta was united in marriage to Miss Cleotilde Romero and to them have been born two daughters and a son who are yet living, namely: Mercedes, Margaret and Charles.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church and Mr. Abeyta has become a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He has always taken an active interest in its success and has been a delegate to various county and state conventions. He is fond of all phases of outdoor life and turns to such for recreation. He is a public-spirited citizen, active in support of all measures and movements for the general good. He has served as secretary of the local exemption board since its organization and gives much time to promote the success of the different "drives" which have to do with the support of the national government in its policy relating to the war.

HARRY C. BROWN, M. D.

Dr. Harry C. Brown, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Denver, was qualified for onerous and responsible professional duties by a thorough course of training in Northwestern University at Chicago, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in the class of 1899. He then returned to Denver, where he has since engaged in active practice. He was born in Mexico, New York, March 6, 1877, and in the paternal line comes of Scotch and English ancestry. The family was founded in America in 1772, three years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, by Patrick

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Brown, who devoted his life to farming. One of the members of the family participated in the Revolutionary war, serving in the commissary department. C. Courtland Brown, father of Dr. Brown, was born in the Empire state and became a prominent lawyer of Mexico, New York, while later he practiced successfully in Denver, arriving in this city on the 4th of January, 1892. Here he continued in active practice at the bar until his life's labors were ended in death on the 25th of October, 1908. In politics he was a stanch democrat and was actively interested in promoting the success of the party and in upholding those activities which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He also adhered closely to the teachings of the Masonic fraternity, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He married Anna Ingersoll, who is also a native of the Empire state and belongs to one of the old families of northern New York of English lineage and distantly related to Robert Ingersoll. Mrs. Brown died April 1, 1918, in Denver. By her marriage she became the mother of three children, one of whom has passed away, while those still living are Harry C. and Maude, now Mrs. W. B. Plettner, of Denver.

Dr. Brown was educated in the public schools of his native city and in the West Denver high school, from which he was graduated in the class of 1895. He early de- termined upon a professional career, and deciding upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he entered Northwestern University at Chicago as a medical student and completed his course there in 1899, after which he returned with his professional degree and his diploma to enter upon the active practice of the profession in this city. Here he has since remained and has won more than local fame by his successful treatment of the diseases of women and children. He has always specialized in this field and has done splendid work, keeping in touch with progressive and scientific ideas relative to his specialty.

On the 10th of September, 1902, Dr. Brown was married in Denver to Miss Florence Ragland, a native of this city and a daughter of B. R. Ragland, a well known pioneer resident of Denver who established his home here in 1875 but who has now passed away, as has his wife, who bore the maiden name of Hannah McColl. Dr. and Mrs. Brown have a daughter, Ruth Ragland, who was born in Denver, December 1, 1907.

Dr. Brown was made a Mason in Denver Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M., and has since been a worthy follower of the craft. His political endorsement is given to the demo- cratic party, which he has supported since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. However, he does not seek office but prefers to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his professional interests, and the only public office that he has ever filled was in the direct path of his profession, when he served as county physician of Denver county from 1900 until 1902. He is now serving on the physicians' staff of Mercy Hospital, also of the City and County Hospital of Denver and of the Denver Orphans' Home. Since his graduation from the eastern college he has spent one year in post-graduate work in Vienna, Austria, covering parts of 1903 and 1904. He belongs to the Denver County and City Medical Society, also to the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and he likewise has membership in the Physicians and Surgeons Club of Denver. Outside of these professional connections he is a member of the Rotary Club, the Denver Athletic Club and the Lakewood Country Club. He enjoys the confidence and warm regard of his professional brethren, for he has always been most careful to conform his practice to a high standard of professional ethics, pursuing a progressive course without infringing on the rights of others.

DENVER RIGLER PLATT.

Denver R. Platt is one of the most popular young men of Denver, a well known figure in banking circles of Colorado and the youngest bank president in the city. He has recently been elected to the presidency of the Guardian Trust Company, after having passed through the various departments of the banking business in · connection with the First National Bank of this city. His promotions there brought him to the position of first assistant cashier and after faithful service, covering a period of twenty-six years with that institution, he resigned to accept his present position, urged thereto by hundreds of prominent and well known business men and financiers of Colorado. He has the goodwill of the general public, who have recognized his efficiency and fidelity during his twenty-six years' faithful service with the First National. There are few business men who are so honored as Mr. Platt has been in the demand of his fellow citizens that he accept the presidency of the bank and his induction to the office was made a gala occasion.

DENVER R. PLATT

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A native of Connecticut, Mr. Platt was born in Wallingford on the 29th of November, 1873, a son of Franklin and Sara (Rigler) Platt, the former a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, while the latter was born in Annville, Pennsylvania. Previous to her marriage she had been a school teacher and while engaged in that work at Wallingford, Connecticut, she became acquainted with and gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Platt. In 1875 they removed to Meriden, Connecticut, where Mr. Platt continued in the practice of law, being numbered among the able and distinguished attorneys of that state. He came to Colorado in 1890, settling in Denver, where he followed his pro- fession successfully to the time of his death, where occurred in 1899. Throughout the intervening years he was regarded as one of the ablest members of the Denver bar. His widow survived him for a decade and passed away in 1909. They were the parents of two children but Denver R. Platt of this review is today the only surviving member of the family, his brother, Paul Percy Platt, having died in Chicago, at age of thirty-one years. He was for some time manager of the Consolidated Supply Company in Denver, later going to Chicago, where he was manager of the Excelsior Supply Company at the time of his death. He married Maude Millicent Mark, of Ouray, Colorado, a daughter of Milton H. Mark. At his death he left the widow and three children, Dorothy, Mildred and Pauline.

In his youthful days Denver R. Platt attended public and private schools of Meriden, Connecticut, and following the removal of the family to the west he became a pupil in the East Denver high school. Before reaching the point of graduation, however, he was compelled to leave school on account of financial reverses in the family and made his initial step in the business world. He sought a position in the First National Bank of Denver and secured a messenger's job. From that humble point he steadily worked his way upward through various promotions until twenty-six years brought him to the position of first assistant cashier in the largest financial institution of Colorado-the First National Bank of Denver. When the Guardian Trust Company desired to place a most efficient man at the head of its affairs, after careful deliberation Mr. Platt was offered the position and at the urgent solicitation of hundreds of his friends he finally accepted. On the day when he took the new position, April 8, 1918, he was tendered a reception such as has been rarely accorded any private citizen in the state. For hours his many friends continued to call upon him in the president's office of the bank, surrounding him with many beautiful floral tokens of their esteem and wishing for him all success in the new venture. Those who know aught of his business career have not the least doubt as to the outcome and his future career will be well worth the watching.

On the 2d of June, 1897, Mr. Platt was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Marion Litten, of Chicago, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson L. Litten, who are now residents of Valparaiso, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Platt have become the parents of three children: Marjorie Marion, who was born in Denver and is a graduate of the North Denver high school; Ruth Elizabeth, attending the North Denver high school; and Lois Litten, now attending the Corona school.

The parents are members of the First Congregational church. They occupy a most enviable social position and the hospitality of the city's best homes is freely accorded them. In politics Mr. Platt maintains an independent course, voting according to the dictates of his judgment without regard to party ties. He belongs to the Rotary Club and the Denver Athletic Club and is identified. with the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, maintaining a deep and active interest in plans and measures for the general good. His friends attest his geniality, his kindly disposition, his honorable purpose and his marked ability.

ARTHUR H. STANARD.

Arthur H. Stanard, filling the office of county treasurer of Pueblo county, was born In Keosauqua, Iowa, on the 24th of June, 1854, and is a son of Samuel L. and Priscilla (Wall) Stanard. He has been a resident of Pueblo since 1887 and his parents arrived there in 1889. The father followed the occupation of farming in Iowa but eventually removed to the west and both he and his wife passed away in Pueblo. Their family numbered five children, of whom Arthur H. is the eldest.

He acquired his education in the public and high schools of his native city and also attended a private academy. His youthful days were passed in the usual manner of farm lads and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and

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caring for the crops. The occupation to which he was reared he made his life work until he met with an accident in which he lost his left hand. This incapacitated him for farm work and he turned his attention to the insurance and real estate business, with which he was connected in Iowa until. 1887. Believing that he would have better business opportunities in the growing west, he then made his way to Colorado and, as stated, arrived in Pueblo in 1887. He here opened a real estate and insurance office and secured a good clientage, continuing in that business until he was called to the office of deputy county assessor, in which position he served for one term. Later he was deputy county treasurer for five years and he is now serving his fourth term as county treasurer. Even this unadorned statement of the fact indicates clearly his capability. Abraham Lincoln said: "You may fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." This constitutes the safeguard of America's safety as regards public offices. An unscrupulous man may he elected to a position of public trust, but the course which he follows soon demonstrates his capacity, his fitness and his loyalty or the lack of these qualities. That Mr. Stanard has been again and again elected to office is indica- tive of his splendid service and his fidelity to duty. He is indeed popular and well known. While he has been chosen for public office on the democratic ticket and is very active in the work and affairs of the party, he is also popular among those who hold to the opposite political faith and at each election receives many republican votes.

Mr. Stanard was united in marriage to Miss Emily G. Hutchcraft, who died in 1894, leaving a daughter, Margaret. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he holds membership in the Commerce Club, taking an active interest in all that has to do with the welfare and progress of his city and its substantial growth and development. He has cooperated in many movements for the general good outside of office and his aid and influence can always be counted upon to further any plan that he believes will prove of worth to the community at large.

ORELLO E. FRINK.

When death called Orello E. Frink it was felt throughout the community that his place could not easily be filled, so important a part had he taken in its development and progress, in support of the public welfare and in the social life of the community. No one knew him but respected and honored him, and all who came within the circle of his acquaintance were glad to call him friend, for he possessed a most genial nature that made his companionship a genuine pleasure.

Mr. Frink was born in De Ruyter, New York, on the 16th of May, 1855, a son of Ephraim and Lucinda (Ferguson) Frink, who were also natives of the Empire state, as were his grandparents. He spent his boyhood days in his native city and in early man- hood took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in the schools of New York for nine years. His father was a capitalist and always lived in New York, where he passed away in 1902, at the age of eighty-five years, having for a long period survived his wife, who died in 1886.

Orello E. Frink, however, determined to leave the Empire state and seek home and fortune in the west and in 1891 he arrived in Denver, Colorado. He was gifted by nature with keen mentality and possessed a most remarkable memory, which found its highest exemplification in his mathematical skill. He possessed marvelous powers in that direction. He could add whole columns of figures in his head. It was possible for him to carry on a conversation or use the telephone and at the same time add four columns of figures. His retentive memory, keen sagacity and sound judgment were of the greatest worth to him in his business career. He married in the east and in 1891 brought his family to Colorado, settling in Denver, where he engaged in the whole- sale produce business and also became a wholesale dealer in meats, huying out the Queen City Packing Company and conducting his business under the name of the Iowa & Nebraska Produce Company. He likewise conducted a retail meat market. In 1892 the family removed to Fort Lupton, Weld county, but Mr. Frink continued the active management of his business at Denver until 1895, when he, too, took up his abode at Fort Lupton, where his remaining days were passed. He had at the time but limited capital, but through industrious application to his work he built up a business of large proportions. He first established a creamery and cheese factory, which soon outgrew its quarters, and he then rebuilt his factory and expanded his business to include other lines under the name of the Silver State Canning & Produce Company. He engaged in canning great quantities of peas, corn, tomatoes, beans, pickles and kraut and his

ORELLO E. FRINK

MRS. ETTA P. FRINK

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patronage grew year by year until during the last year of his life it had assumed fts greatest proportions, shipments being made into almost every state of the Union. Moreover, the enterprise was of the greatest value to the community, for he used the product of a thousand acres of land and gave employment to large numbers of men, women and children. His factory was built along model and sanitary lines and the most scientific methods were followed in canning the products handled by the company. In addition to his business interests of that character he owned and operated nine different farms, comprising over one thousand acres of land, on which he mostly employed Japanese help. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion, for when one avenue of opportunity seemed closed he would carve out other paths whereby he could reach the desired goal.

In January, 1877, in the state of New York, Mr. Frink was married to Miss Etta Peckham, a daughter of Benjamin and Freelove (Church) Peckham, who were natives of the Empire state, where their ancestors had lived through several generations. Her father was a farmer during the greater part of his life and remained a resident of New York save for a period of eight years which he spent in Colorado. He was quite extensively engaged in bee culture and in the production of honey and also carried on hop raising on a large scale. He died in 1909, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, while his wife passed away in 1907, at the age of seventy-two years. Mrs. Frink can trace her ancestry back through four centuries. To Mr. and Mrs. Frink were born four children: Mrs. Marguerite Counter, now living in Brighton, Colorado; Mrs. Ruby Davis, of Fort Lupton; Clarence, whose home is at Larkspur, Colorado; and Richard, also of Fort Lupton.

The death of Mr. Frink occurred November 11, 1916, when he was sixty-one years of age. He had never enjoyed robust health, but he was a man of untiring activity and enterprise. Politically he maintained an independent course, and while in religion he contributed generously to the support of all churches, his leaning was toward the Methodist Episcopal church and it was in that house of worship that his funeral services were held, on which occasion a vast concourse of people gathered to pay their last tribute of respect to one whom they had long known and honored. A local paper said of him: "There was no man more widely known in Fort Lupton and vicinity, and perhaps in northern Colorado, than O. E. Frink. He will be sadly missed-his humor, always uppermost when you met him-his kind deeds, many but usually un- known except to the recipient-and his splendid example of clean living. It has been said of him that he never held a grudge, discharging a man one day and giving him a new trial the next. He answered death's summons as he had lived, calmly and pluckily calling his loved ones to him and bidding them farewell." Mr. Frink was devoted to the public welfare and cooperated heartily in every movement for the general good, but his strongest devotion was to his family, who found in him a loving husband and father. He counted no personal sacrifice or effort on his part too great if it would promote the welfare and happiness of the members of his own household. He likewise held friend- ship inviolable and such were the sterling traits of his character that the news of his demise brought a sense of bereavement into almost every household of Fort Lupton.

The place where Mrs. Frink resides was the old homestead and Mr. Frink burned the brick that was used in building the house. He left his family in very comfortable financial circumstances, Mrs. Frink now owning twelve residences which she rents and a hotel building. She was of great assistance to him in his business, her sound judgment and help proving a beneficial element in the conduct of his affairs, and at all times theirs was the closest companionship, each sharing in the other's ambitions and interests.

GEORGE C. MANLY.

George C. Manly, a well known attorney at law in Denver and one of the founders of the School of Law of the University of Denver, has in his practice largely concen- trated his attention upon law bearing upon the subjects of corporation law and mining law, although his general practice has covered a wide range.

Mr. Manley was born in Uniontown, Ohio, November 21, 1863. His father, Rev. Robert W. Manly, was also a native of Ohio and was of English lineage, tracing his an- cestry back to William Manly, who came to America about 1720 and settled in Maryland. The great-grandfather of Mr. Manly of this review was the Rev. Robert Manly, a pioneer of Ohio, who settled in that state in 1796 and established the first Methodist church

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within its borders. He afterward was instrumental in organizing various churches in the Scioto and Muskingum valleys and did much to further religious work and moral development in Ohio, where he passed away about 1812. The Rev. Robert W. Manly was reared and educated in Ohio, attending the Wesleyan University. He, too, became a well known clergyman of that state serving appointments at Portsmouth, Delaware, Columbus and Chillicothe. In 1881 he became the pastor of the Lawrence Street Metho- dist Episcopal church (now Trinity church) and continued to fill its pulpit until his death, which occurred in 1883, when he was fifty-four years of age. In early manhood he had wedded Mary Jane Starkey, a native of Ohio, and a representative of an old Virginian family of English lineage. In the maternal line the ancestry is traced back to the Porter family of Virginia, which was prominently represented in the Revolution- ary war and the War of 1812. The Manly family removed from Ohio to Denver in 1881. One brother, Dr. Charles Manly, was a graduate of the medical school of the University of Denver, and practiced in this city until his death in 1892. The only surviving brother, Robert W. Manly, is an attorney at Chillicothe, Ohio.

George C. Manly was educated in the public schools of Ohio and in the high school of Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1881 he entered the freshman class of the University of Denver and won his Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1885, along with William A. Moore and Earl M. Cranston of Denver. This was the second class graduated from the then young University of Denver, and all have made their mark in the legal profession of this state. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan and in 1887 received from that institution the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During his residence there he also took a post graduate course in the School of Political Science under Professor Thomas M. Cooley, for two years, and received the degree of Master of Arts upon a thesis entitled "The Wages Fund Theory." He entered upon the active practice of his profession in Denver in the fall of 1887 in which he has since successfully con- tinued, concentrating his attention in later years upon corporation and mining law, being the counsel of numerous operating companies in both metalliferous and coal min- ing. There is no one more thoroughly informed concerning this branch of the profes- sion and he has conducted litigated interests of the utmost importance having to do with the mining development of Colorado. He displayed the elemental strength of his character in providing for the expenses of his university course by working through the summer months. He was the first alumnus of the University of Denver to be elected a trustee of that institution and for thirty years has been most intimately connected with every activity of the University. He became one of the founders of the Denver Law School, and has been dean of this school since 1910. He has been continuously identified with the law school since its organization. It is today one of the leading law schools of the west and his efforts have been largely instrumental in building it up to its present standard, from an enrollment of fifty-three pupils until it has an average enrollment at the present time of one hundred and five. This school has never been endowed and yet has been conducted successfully for twenty-six years. Mr. Manly is today the only survivor of the sixteen original members of the faculty. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association, the Colorado State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Of the first named he was honored with the presidency in 1913 and for three years he was a member of the general council of the American Bar Association.

Specializing in the line of coal and metalliferous law, Mr. Manly has naturally be- come interested in mining properties and their development. In 1888 he was president of the Sacramento Consolidated Mining Company of Pitkin, Colorado, which he operated for several years. He was also one of the promoters of the Gold Links tunnel in associa- tion with the late John F. Pearson, a well known mining man. In 1896 Mr. Manly and others obtained a lease on the San Juan mine in Gilpin county, Colorado, and developed and conducted that property for seven years, it being a large producer of low-grade gold ore. He has throughout the period of his residence in Colorado taken a very active and helpful part in the development of its mineral resources. In 1892 he be- came the attorney and secretary of the Nevada Southern Railway, which built a rail- road from Goff Station to Manvil, California, and put in the necessary machinery and opened up copper properties near Manvil, built a mill at Needles, Callfornia, and opened the Keystone mine at Goodsprings, Nevada. In 1900 Mr. Manly and Chicago associates reopened the Fairview and Hawkeye mines at Monarch, which became large producers of lead-silver ores. In 1914 Mr. Manly became a partner of William N. Buell in reopening the Black Iron mine at Gilman, Colorado, which they later sub-leased to the American Zinc Company, which in 1916 turned the property over to the Empire Zinc Company, today the largest shippers of zinc ore in the state of Colorado. At the present time Mr. Manly is president of the Monon Mining Company of Creede, Colorado, a large producer of silver ores, returning monthly dividends. In 1913 and 1914 he was

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 78

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