History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 85

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

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Dr. Beshoar of this review was educated in the public and high schools of Trinidad and afterwards enlisted in the navy for two years. He purchased his discharge, after which he took up the study of dentistry in the Western Dental College at Kansas City, completing his course there as a member of the graduating class of 1905. He then returned to Trinidad, opened an office and has since remained in practice. He has also been licensed to practice in Texas and in Missouri. He is accorded a liberal patronage and displays a marked measure of efficiency in the conduct of his work. He is skilful in handling the many delicate instruments which are employed in dental surgery and at all times he has kept abreast of the latest scientific researches and discoveries.

On the 6th of June, 1907, Dr. Beshoar was married to Miss Hazel D. Oxley, of Trinidad. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and fra- ternally he is connected with the Eagles, with the Woodmen of the World, with the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of The Maccabees and the Spanish War Veter- ans. He has recently been appointed examining dentist for the local dratt board of Las Animas county. He is fond of outdoor life and at one time owned the Beshoar Athletic Club, which had the best baseball team in the state in 1904. winning the championship. This team was financed by his father. Dr. Beshoar's experiences have been wide and varied. During his connection with the navy he served on the United States ships Pensacola, Alert, Independence and Wheeling. Entering upon preparation for a professional career, he has since made steady progress in that field and step by step has advanced until he now occupies a very creditable and enviable position among the dental practitioners of Trinidad and Las Animas county.

AMEDEE L. FRIBOURG.

Amedee L. Fribourg was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 4, 1853; son of Eugene and Henrietta Fribourg, both of whom were natives of Lorraine. France, where the family can be traced back over two hundred years, before and during the times of the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon the First. They were early settlers in St. Louis, Missouri, where Eugene Fribourg became an American citizen by naturalization. Iu those days the Shotos and Lucases were among the prominent French immigrants. Eugene Fribourg about that time was engaged in business with his brothers-in-law, the firm being Block Brothers & Fribourg, doing a wholesale business down the Mississippi river as far as New Orleans. After the War of the Rebellion, about 1865, the family, consisting of father, mother, A. L. Fribourg and his two brothers, returned to France, making their home in Metz (Lorraine), where the three brothers were placed in the Lycee Imperial of Metz, the government preparatory col- lege for Ecole Polytechnique, Cyncere Ecole des Beaux Arts. Ecole de Medicine and various branches of arts and sciences, remaining in this educational institution five

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years, until Metz was beleaguered by the Germans under command of Prince Friedrich Carl.

After the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 the family settled in Paris, France, remaining there three years, where the brothers continued their education. During this period of eight years, their father, Eugene Fribourg, made frequent trips to America, maintaining always his American citizenship.

In 1873 the family returned to America, and while the parents and two brothers remained in New York, later on coming to Colorado, A. L. Fribourg, impressed by the preaching of Horace Greeley, "Young man, go West; young man, go West," at once came out to Denver, he being then twenty-one years of age. For a number of years he was engaged in business, working for his uncle, Emanuel Block, later with Daniels & Fisher, Ballin & Ranschoff, and later still as a commercial traveler for eastern firms. He also ventured in business for him- self, and became one of the victims of the panic of 1893.

A. L. Fribourg did not succeed in becoming a prosperous and successful business man. Nature in her bountiful generosity bestows on men and women a variety of qualifications. The talent of making money was not bestowed upon the subject of this article, but in other fields during the many years of his resi- dence in Denver A. L. Fribourg has been useful and very active-so much so that he is well and favorably known by all good people, and whereas his activities did not bring any financial rewards, he is well satisfied with his standing in Denver and Colorado as a useful and respected citizen, happy and willing that all who know him shall be his reference.

Mr. Fribourg is one of the founders of the first Zion Society in Colorado. A loyal member and trustee of the B. M. H. congregation-director of the Sunday school board of this institution tor a period of fifteen years under the splendid management of Rabbi C. H. Kauvar, with whom he has always considered it to be a great honor to be a coworker. For two consecutive years he was president of the Central Jewish Council of Denver; secretary one year and president the year after of the first Jewish Free Loan Society of Denver, founded and organized by Rabbi Kauvar. He is secretary of the Moshov Zkenim Home and Hospital Society, also a member of B'nai B'rith. He is a member and one of the directors of the Sons of Colorado; a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics; president for two years of the local branch of the National Association of United States Civil Service Employes. Elected in 1915 as delegate to the National Convention of this society. held in Washington, D. C., of that year. where he was honored by being elected third national vice president, this organization representing three hundred thousand government employes in the United States. One of the first fifteen members to organize in Colorado the Knights of the Maccabees. A charter member of Tent No. 1, of this organization; past commander of that Tent, and retired from the uniformed rank K. O. T. M. with a five year service medal, holding the rank of major and adjutant general for the state of Colorado at the time he retired. Supreme auditor and member of the Executive Castle of the Royal Highlanders (a benevolent fraternal order carrying insurance). Both offices he has held for twelve years and is still holding.

In 1895 A. L. Fribourg was elected a member of the state legislature of Colorado on the republican ticket, of which party he always has been and still is an ardent supporter. He was honored by being appointed the chairman of the committee of rules and order of business, also a member of various other com- mittees of the tenth general assembly.

For the past twenty years A. L. Fribourg has been attached to the United States Mint service, holding a very responsible position in the United States Mint in Denver, and having a splendid record for efficiency.

In 1878 Mr. Fribourg was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta Colman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. Colman of Houston, Texas, highly respected and prom- inent citizens of that community where they settled in the early days, and where Mrs. Fribourg's brother and sisters, all now married, are leaders in all good and humane work.

To Mr. and Mrs. Fribourg have been born the following named children: Theresa, who is the wife of Harry Hirschfield of San Francisco; Isaac, who mar- ried Miss Fanny Morris, and resides at Miami, Arizona; Victor A., who wedded Miss May Morris, and also resides at Miami, Arizona; Augusta, who is at home; and Eugene, who is employed by the American Railway Express Company at Denver. They lost one son, Louis L., who at the time of his death, which occurred

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when he was twenty-four years of age, was connected with the bookkeeping depart- ment of the Telephone company.

The foundation for a good man or woman is the early home training. The mother's early teachings go through life with the individual. After all, a man is what his good wife and home surroundings make him. His finest inspirations come to him from the loved helpmate always at his side, his dear and precious wife, the mother of his children, the one always to share his burdens and rejoice with , him in his happy accomplishments. Selfish indeed the man who does not give full half credit to his wife for the best in everything he may achieve. The greatest wealth of the world could not buy the happiness of true matrimonial love and devotion. That happiness brings glorious warmth and bright sunshine, and though it is often found in the palaces of the rich, it dwells resplendent in the millions of unpretentious and poor homes of the masses.

"Two souls with but a single thought; Two hearts that beat as one."

The prominent part which he has taken in the social and fraternal as well as the business and political life of the community makes him a representative citizen of Denver-one who is honored and esteemed wherever known and most of all where he is best known.

JOHN HIPP.

John Hipp, actively engaged in the general practice of law in Denver and prominently known in connection with the prohibition movement in state and nation, was born in Butler county, Ohio, November 17, 1856. His father, the late Enoch Hipp, was a native of Germany and came to America in 1852. Soon afterward he took up his abode in Butler county, Ohio, where he followed the occupation of farming until 1864, when he removed to Wayne county, Indiana, where he resided until 1868. In that year he became a resident of Linn county, Kansas, where he made his home until 1873, and then came to Colorado, settling at Spring Valley, in El Paso county, where he engaged in farming and stock rais- ing until 1886. He then removed to Denver and retired from active business, continuing his residence in this city until called to his final rest on the 15th of December, 1907, when he had reached the age of eighty years and six months. He was a successful farmer and honorable man and lived a quiet but useful life, never caring to take part in politics or figure prominently before the public. He married Barbara Zbinden, a native of Can- ton Bern, Switzerland, who in young girlhood came to America in 1854, settling near Hamilton, Ohio, where she met and married Mr. Hipp. She passed away in Denver, June 15, 1910, and had also reached the age of eighty years. The remains of both were interred in Fairmount cemetery. The father belonged to the Roman Catholic church, while the mother was of the Dutch Reformed church for many years, but in later life both joined the Baptist church.

John Hipp of this review pursued his early education in the country schools of Kan- sas, Indiana and Ohio and was graduated from the East Denver high school with the class of 1880. His education was then continued in the University of Denver, where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation in 1884. He pursued his law studies in the University of Denver and won the LL. B. degree. In 1907 he received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Denver. His early life to the age of nearly twenty years was spent upon the home farm and when a lad of ten years he began plowing in the fields with two horses and at the age of twelve was doing a man's work. His youth was largely a period of earnest and unremitting toil and throughout his entire life there have been few leisure hours, for he has always found something demanding time and attention-business cares, matters of citizenship or efforts to improve conditions affecting the welfare of community, commonwealth or country. Prior to entering the University of Denver he did janitor work and after first graduating from the university devoted his attention to stenographic work. He also taught school during the last three years of his university course and, in a word, he utilized every opportunity that would enable him to promote his education, for he had determined to enter upon a professional career. Fol- lowing his graduation he was stenographer in the supreme court for two years, and this service was of great benefit to him in connection with his later professional activities, bringing him accurate knowledge of legal procedure and methods. After his admission to the bar he took up the general practice of law, in which he has since continued, and has made steady progress in his profession. He meets his responsibilities in a way that shows him to be largely a master of the principles of jurisprudence and his devotion to

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his clients' interests is proverbial. He holds membership in the Denver Bar Association and at one time served on its board of trustees.

Mr. Hipp is perhaps even more widely known in connection with his efforts in behalf of the prohibition movement, with which he has been actively identified since 1884. Since the work was organized in Colorado he has been president of the organization and has done much to further the movement in other sections of the country. In 1896 he was nominated at the Pittsburgh (Pa.) convention for the office of vice president of the United States, but declined the nomination. He has filled the position of attorney for South Denver and has held other political and civic offices in the community. He has closed more saloons and prosecuted more liquor cases than any man in the west. His efforts in this direction have indeed been far-reaching and resultant, and he feels now, as does the country at large, that he will live to see national prohibition, whereby the country will be freed from many of the ills from which it has suffered through all the years of the past. In the fall of 1916 he was an independent candidate for the office of district attorney and polled nine thousand three hundred and fifty votes, the largest vote ever given to an independent candidate.

On the 29th of August, 1889, Mr. Hipp was married to Miss Carrie Turner, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Frank and Rose H. (Beam) Turner, the former of English descent and the latter of German lineage. Mr. Turner has passed away, but the mother is still living and now makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Hipp, who have become the - parents of two children: John, who was born in Denver, May 26, 1894, and is now in the ordnance department of the national army at San Francisco, California; and Paul W., who was born in Denver. May 24, 1897. Both sons are graduates of Denver high schools and the elder is also a graduate in physics from the Denver University. He likewise spent one semester in Leland Stanford Junior University and then put aside his textbooks in order to enlist. Paul is a graduate of the Manual Training school and has studied for two years in the University of Denver. He afterward became chemist for the Great Western Sugar Company and is now a machinist with the Denver Rock Drill Company.

Fraternally Mr. Hipp is connected with the Woodmen of the World, belonging to Denver Camp, No. 1, in which he has been lieutenant adviser. He has membership in the City Park Baptist church and is serving on its board of trustees. His career is a record of notable achievement, for he left home at the age of nineteen years with a cash capital of six dollars. He possessed a stout heart and willing hands, however, and did all kinds of laborious work in order to gain a start. Today he is the owner of a home at No. 1255 Columbine street, which he planned and built and to which he removed at the time of his marriage. He is enjoying an extensive practice, hut more to him than his material interests is the place which he has made for himself in the regard of those who feel with Lincoln that "There is something better than making a living-making a life." His work in behalf of temperance has been indeed most valuable and many there are who have reason to bless him for his endeavors in this connection. He has studied the question from every possible standpoint, sociological, physiological, economic and moral. and the strength of his argument is acknowledged by all who hear him.

JAMES VICTOR BASCHÉ.

James Victor Basché is a wideawake and alert young business man who is making for himself a creditable position in the brokerage business in Denver. He was born in Baker, Oregon, on the 14th of April, 1893, a son of Peter Basché, who was a native of Lyons, France, and who came to the United States with his parents, who settled at Green Bay. Wisconsin. He was then but seven years of age. His father was Frederick Basché, a mining man, who after living for some time in the middle west removed to the Pacific coast with Oregon as his destination. He then became interested in mining and was also the founder of the Basché & Faull Hardware Company, which afterward became the Basché & Sage Hardware Company. They controlled one of the largest hardware enterprises in the west and the father, Peter Basché, was a very prominent, successful and influential resident of Oregon. After many years devoted to business he retired to private life and spent his remaining days in the enjoyment of a well earned rest. He filled the office of county judge there and occupied a very enviable position in the regard of his fellow townsmen. He passed away in 1914 and is survived by his widow, who yet makes her home in Baker, Oregon. She bore the maiden name of Lucy Rochester Cooper and is a native of Trenton, Missouri. For a time she lived in Chillicothe, Missouri, and when fifteen years of age made her way to Oregon in

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company with her father, William Henry Cooper, and she is a descendant of the founder of Rochester, New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Peter Basché were horn three children: Claude C., who is manager of the hardware business at Baker, Oregon, which was established by his father; Fred W., who is a farmer on the Snake river in Oregon; and James Victor of this review.

The last named pursued his education in the schools of his native city and was graduated from the Baker high school with the class of 1910. He afterward attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and devoted two years there to the study of law. In 1913 he removed to Portland, Oregon, and was associated with the Marshall Wells Hardware Company, which he represented upon the road for two years as a traveling salesman. He afterward went to Salt Lake City, where he became interested in the stock and bond business, handling stocks for Samuel Newhauss. On his removal to Denver he became associated with W. G. McIntyre, with offices in the First National Bank building. He handled the first block of United Petroleum oil stock and he opened the oil exchange and board of trade at the Albany Hotel. He then sold the business on the 1st of August but is still active in the brokerage business in Denver, trading and buying oil leases. He has a large clientage in this connection and is thoroughly in- formed concerning the value of oil properties and the worth of investments.

On the 10th of July, 1914, Mr. Basché was united in marriage to Miss Edna Grass- muck, of St. Louis, a daughter of Judge George Grassmuck, who at one time was judge of the eighth judicial district. Mr. Basche is a member of the Home Guard. He belongs to the Commercial Club of Portland, also to the Multnomah Club of that city and he has membership in Phi Gamma Delta, a college fraternity. He greatly enjoys outdoor sports, which constitute his chief source of recreation. He is an alert and energetic young business man, being enterprising and resolute. He is closely studying every phase of the business with which he is connected and is developing notable power in salesmanship.

At this writing news comes to the editors that Mr. Basche has enlisted in the service of his country, having joined the Naval Aviation Corps. He reported at Seattle, Washington, on September 1, 1918, to receive ten weeks training in the technical end of the work and three months flight training. The good wishes of his many friends ac- company him.

ERNEST L. RHOADS.

Ernest L. Rhoads, a member of the Denver bar, was born at Canal Dover, Ohio, March 24, 1885, a son of Jonathan A. and Lorena (Bake) Rhoads. The father was born in Pennsylvania and came of English lineage. He was with the Colorado Mortgage & Investment Company of Denver for a considerable period and for twenty-eight years prior to this time was passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at East Liverpool, Ohio. He came to Colorado in 1892, making his way direct to Denver, where he resided to the time of his death, which occurred in June, 1909. when he had reached the age of sixty-four years. He married Lorena Bake, a native of Ohio and of English lineage, her parents being Mr. and Mrs. William Bake, who were of English birth and became the founders of the family in the new world. Mrs. Rhoads is still a resident of Denver. She has reared a family of two children, the older being Forrest B. Rhoads, who is now a grocer of California.

Ernest L. Rhoads was educated in the public schools of West Denver, passing through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1904. He next entered the University of Colorado and won the Bachelor of Arts degree upon the completion of the liberal arts course as a member of the class of 1908. He then pre- pared for the bar as a student in the law department of the State University and won his LL. B. degree in 1910. It was laudable ambition and persistency of purpose that` enabled him to pursue his course. He worked his way through the university, served as its assistant secretary and was manager of the Silver and Gold, the school paper. In 1910 he was admitted to the bar and immediately entered upon the general practice of law. While advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, Mr. Rhoads has steadily worked his way upward and now has a good practice that has connected him with con- siderable important litigation heard in the courts of the state. He is very painstaking and thorough in his work and as an advisor and counselor his opinions are based upon a comprehensive knowledge of the law, with ability to accurately apply its principles.

On the 25th of May, 1911, Mr. Rhoads was married in Denver, Colorado, to Miss Isa- belle Warner, a native of Beatrice, Nebraska, who spent her early life in Georgetown,

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Colorado, later attending high school in Denver. She studied one year at Leland Stanford University and was graduated from the State Teachers' College at Greeley, Colorado. She is a daughter of Gray and Ca. rie (Griswold) Warner, who were pioneer residents of Georgetown. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads have become parents of three children: Alice, who was born in Denver, February 15. 1912; Warner Bake, born November 29, 1915; and Dorothy V., born May 31, 1917.

In politics Mr. Rhoads maintains an independent course. He belongs to Phi Delta Phi and Beta Theta Pi, two college fraternities, and he is identified with the Denver Bar Association. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Grand Avenue Methodist church, of which he is serving as a trustee. He is yet comparatively a young man but in his profession has attained a position that many an older representative might well envy and his personal worth has gained him the friendship and warm regard of many with whom he has been brought in contact.

WILLIAM LOUIS HAHN.

William Louis Hahn, secretary and treasurer of the Guardian Trust Company of Denver, which position he has occupied since 1910, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, November 28, 1878, a son of Louis and Alice (Goldenblum) Hahn, who are now living in Universal City, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, where the father is engaged in the moving picture business.

William L. Hahn spent his youthful days in Connecticut and Rhode Island, where he attended the public schools, completing a course in the high school at Hartford, Connec- ticut. He was a young man of twenty years when he arrived in Denver and became a factor in its business circles as an employe of the Knight Campbell Music Company. He remained with that house for a year and afterward entered the employ of A. F. Wehrle, gem cutter and manufacturing jeweler, with whom he was associated for nine years. Well fitted by experience he then became manager of the J. I. Schwartz Jewelry Company which position he retained for four years, when he was chosen secretary and treasurer of the Guardian Trust Company. He has since figured in the financial circles of the city as secretary, treasurer and director of this organization and throughout the entire period has contributed in substantial measure toward the success of the corporation by reason of his business enterprise, his close application and his keen sagacity. In addition to his banking interests he is the president and manager of the S. M. Willner Stores Corporation, operating a chain of stores through eastern Kansas, Iowa and Illinois. This business is being most wisely conducted and is resulting in a substantial measure of success.

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History of Colorado; Volume II, Part 85

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