History of Colorado; Volume III, Part 104

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918-19
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 844

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Mr. Clark built a small log cabin with a dirt roof, and another in 1860 in what is now Globeville, which quaint little structure is still standing in good condition-a mute reminder of pioneer times. For six weeks his only food was wild game, for deer were abundant. He occupied his little cabin until his marriage in 1882, when Miss Mary M. Dornbush became his wife. To them was born a daughter, Leona, who is now the wife of Frank Frown, of Cripple Creek. Mrs. Clark passed away in 1908. Mr. Clark occupies the old home at No. 5041 Pearl street, for Globeville has become a part of Denver, the city being continually extended until it has reached out to his one-time ranch. He was elected the first mayor of Globeville, was president of the school board and was otherwise prominently identified with the development and upbuilding of that section. His reminiscences of the early days are most interesting and his connection with pioneer life and experiences entitles him to prominent mention in this volume among the builders and promoters of the city. He was fond of adventure and prospected in the vicinity of Cripple Creek and also in the Black Hills in the early days.

CALVIN H. MORSE.

Calvin H. Morse, the efficient manager of the Brown Palace Hotel of Denver, well known as a most alert, energetic and farsighted business man, was born at Ware, Massachusetts, September 13, 1860, a son of Samuel and Olive (Goodell) Morse, both of whom were natives of New England, where for many generations their ancestors had resided. The father, Samuel Morse, engaged in farming and he and his wife remained in Massachusetts throughout their entire lives. During the period of the Civil war Mr. Morse served as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. His entire life in its business connections was devoted to agricultural pursuits and his labors were not put aside until death called him in 1906. His wife was reared and educated

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in Massachusetts and there passed away in 1904. Their family numbered four chil- dren: Willard S., who came to Colorado in 1872; George Goodell, living in Denver; Calvin H., of this review; and Bradish P., also of Denver.

In early boyhood Calvin H. Morse attended the public schools of his native state and afterward continued his studies in Amherst College, from which he was grad- uated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1883 he came to Colorado, where he turned his attention to the cattle business, in which he was engaged from 1884 until 1886. The spring of 1888 witnessed his arrival in Denver, at which time he took over the man- agement of the Windsor Hotel, which he conducted through 1890. He then resigned to assume the management of the Metropole Hotel of Denver in 1891 and afterward gave that up to become manager of the Jerome Hotel at Aspen, Colorado, in 1892. In January. 1893, he removed to Leadville, where he became manager of the Vendome Hotel, which he successfully conducted from 1893 until 1895. In the latter year he became interested in mining at Aspen, Colorado, and conducted mining operations suc- cessfully there in 1896 and 1897. In the latter year he sold out and returned to Denver, where in the fall of 1897 he purchased the Oxford Hotel, which he conducted until 1906. At that date he sold his hotel property in order to take a much needed rest. He devoted the years 1907, 1908 and 1909 exclusively to travel in this country and in for- eign lands, visiting many places of interest all over the globe. In January, 1910, after his extended sojourn abroad, he returned to Denver to assume the management of the famous Brown Palace Hotel, which is without a doubt one of the finest hotels in America and which has been made even more popular through the capable management and well directed business ability of Mr. Morse, who holds to the highest standards in hotel service and whose initiative spirit has been manifest at all times in improved methods.

In 1889 Mr. Morse was married to Miss Adelaide L. Sanderson, of Athens, New York, a daughter of Judge John and Mrs. Sanderson, the former county and probate judge of Queens county, New York, for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Morse have become parents of three children. Josephine Olive, who graduated from the Wolcott School of Denver and the National Park Seminary of Washington, D. C., is now the wife of J. Wesley Smith, a resident of Chicago, Illinois. Carl G. married Miss Lulu Munce. He was graduated from the Colorado State Agricultural College and is now with the Arkansas Valley Smelter at Leadville. Colorado, holding a most important position. Bradbury Bedell, the youngest of the family, is a student in Amherst College of Massa- chusetts.

Mr. Morse is a member of the University Club of Denver, is a director of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, a governor of the Denver Motor Club and vice president of the Denver Tourists' Bureau. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are very prom- inent socially, while his position as one of the foremost hotel managers of America none can dispute.

RUSH LA MOTTE HOLLAND.

Rush La Motte Holland, practicing in Colorado Springs, is one of the most success- ful lawyers of his district and his standing in the profession and before the courts is high. Mr. Holland was born in Union county, Ohio, in 1867, a son of Gabriel H. and Ruth Anna (Reynolds) Holland, the former of whom was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1833, and the latter in 1841 in Belmont county, in the same state. Their mar- riage took place in Ohio, the father passing away in Perry county, that state, in 1900, while the mother's death occurred in 1899. Gabriel H. Holland was a physician, having graduated from the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio. Throughout his life he was very successful and enjoyed a large practice. During the Civil war he enlisted as a private and was promoted to hospital steward with the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, serving throughout the war. For six months he was imprisoned at Andersonville and was then transferred to Libby, where he remained three months; and he never fully recovered from the effects of his imprisonment in the south. The grandfather of our subject was Nimrod Holland, who was born in Ohio and whose father was a native of Pennsylvania.

Rush L. Holland received his primary education in the country schools of Perry county, Ohio, and subsequently attended Madison Academy at Mount Perry, that state. In 1884 he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, which he attended for four years, or until 1888. He then studied law for a few months, but soon thereafter turned his attention to newspaper work, becoming editor of the Zanesville (O.) Daily

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Times-Recorder, and continued in that position for seven years. He proved himself an able newspaper man and his editorials were always trenchant and to the point. During this time he continued the study of law and in 1895 he was admitted to the bar in Colum- bus, Ohio, and commenced to practice in Zanesville, where he continued until 1900, when he came to Colorado Springs. As the years have passed he has been connected with many important cases and has demonstrated his superior ability as a lawyer. With a good memory and oratorical power, his arguments are convincing and to the point. Mr. Holland also has important outside interests, being vice president of the Colorado Springs Light, Heat & Power Company and vice president of the Intermountain Railway, Light & Power Company.

On April 25, 1895, Mr. Holland was married in Zanesville, Ohio, to Miss Anna V. Rolf, who has passed away. On August 20, 1910, he was married in Glenwood Springs, Colo- rado, to Mrs. Mary L. Fox.

Mr. Holland is exceedingly patriotic and takes a deep interest in war service work and the promotion of thorough Americanism and is now serving as president of the Colorado Springs 100 Per Cent American Society. Politically he is a republican and stanchly supports the principles of his party. He has taken much interest in public affairs, although he has never aspired to office for himself. He successfully managed the primary campaign of Oliver H. Shoup, of Colorado Springs, for the republican guberna torial nomination in 1918. Thereafter he was elected chairman of the republican state central commitee and conducted the campaign in the fall of 1918. Following the elec- tion a local paper said: "The conduct of the republican party campaign, that brought such results, was out of the ordinary. Its directing head, Mr. Rush L. Holland, of Colo- rado Springs, anticipated the desire of the people to be rid of the old-time styles of campaign and he made it one of argument, of education, of patriotic appeal, of business sense, of advertising, and it won. He had a first class ticket to put before the public and he adopted the right policy of getting it appreciated. He had faith in the citizen's intelligence." Fraternally Mr. Holland stands high in the Masonic order, in which he has reached the thirty-second degree, and is a Shriner, and is also prominently connected with the Elks. In this organization he has taken a vital interest and has become nation- ally known in its ranks. In 1908-09 he had the distinguished honor of serving as grand exalted ruler of the order for the United States. The high standards prevailing in the organization are always receiving a new impetus through his activities in the order and its well being is ever nearest his heart. It is therefore but natural that he has thousands of friends in the organization who recognize in him a leader of the highest class and whose principles in regard to the brotherhood of mankind should be emulated by all.

MAUDE McFERRAN PRICE.

Maude McFerran Price, a prominent figure in literary and musical circles in Colo- rado, making her home in Colorado Springs, traces her ancesty back to Nicholas Diehl, who was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, about 1740, and arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1761 on the ship Snow Squirrel. The German family of Diehl is on record on the heraldic table of Vienna and was connected with the nobility of Augsburg. Descendants of noble Wolfgang von Diehl were among the representatives of the nobility of Bavaria. The Philadelphia branch of the family sprang from one of these. They were the possessors of a coat of arms and they had much to do with shaping the history of the country at that period. Nicholas Diehl was married February 21, 1763, in the St. Nicholas & Zion church at Philadelphia to Miss Anna Maria Meyerlin, who was born in 1743 and passed away in June, 1827, while the death of Mr. Diehl occurred at his home in Tinicum township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1818.

The ancestral line is traced down to Maude McFerran Price through Katherine Diehl, who was the daughter of Nicholas Diehl and who in 1783 became the wife of Henry Meyer, who passed away in Hancock, Maryland, May 14, 1810. Their daughter, Maria Eva Meyer, born January 28, 1785, was married on the 25th of May, 1804, to Jacob Brosius, whose birth occurred August 7, 1774. The former passed away November 24. 1846, while Mr. Brosius died July 13, 1862. Their daughter, Elizabeth Brosius, born in Hancock, Maryland, July 15, 1813, was there married on the 19th of October, 1830, to William Lewis, and died at Gallatin, Missouri, November 24, 1889. The latter was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1809, and was called to his final rest December 17, 1843. He was an officer in a Light Horse Company of Hancock, Maryland. Emily Lewis, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Brosius) Lewis, was born in Hancock, Maryland,

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September 11, 1833, and was married to James Hamilton Bowles McFerran at Gallatin, Missouri, on the 29th of May, 1853. He raised the first regiment of cavalry in the Mis- souri State Militia in 1861 and became colonel of his regiment. He also served as district judge of Livingston county, Missouri, was a member of the Missouri state legislature in 1856 and of the Missouri senate in 1858. He became widely and prominently known as a soldier, lawyer and banker and one who exerted a strongly felt influence over public thought and action. In 1859 he was judge of the circuit court, which position he filled for six years. In 1865 he organized the Daviess County Savings Association at Gallatin, Missouri, of which he became the president, and in 1867 he organized and was elected to the presidency of the Peoples Savings Bank of Chillicothe, Missouri. With his removal to the west in 1873 and the establishment of his home in Colorado Springs, he organ- ized the second bank of the city, called the Peoples Bank, and thus became a prominent factor in financial circles of Colorado.

Mrs. Maude McFerran Price is the youngest of the three daughters of J. H. B. and Emily (Lewis) McFerran. A native of Gallatin, Missouri, she came with her parents to Colorado in 1873 and afterward attended Colorado College, being now a member of its Alumni Association. She was married in Denver on the 26th of January, 1893, to William Wells Price, who was born in Leesburg, Ohio, April 3, 1863, and became a banker and broker of Colorado Springs. To them was born a daughter, Dorothy Jane, who is now a senior in Goucher College at Baltimore, Maryland.

Mrs. Price has figured very prominently in social, club, literary and musical circles. She became the organizer and was made the first regent of the Society of the Colonial Daughters of the State of Colorado. She is state director of the Children of the Ameri- can Revolution and for eight years she was the president of the El Paso County Pioneers Association. She is the regent of the Lewis Cass Chapter of the National Society of the Wars of 1812. She also became the founder and was made life curator of the El Paso County Permanent Pioneers' Exhibit and Museum, located in the lobby of the El Paso County Courthouse. In September, 1906, her literary and musical talents were brought into play in the composition and writing of the song Colorado, which was composed especially for the Centennial celebration at Colorado Springs of the one hundredth anni- versary of Zebulon Pike's discovery of Pike's Peak. This song has been generally accepted by the public as the state song, and petitions carrying with them thousands of names of prominent men and women of Colorado asked that it be made the state song for Colorado. In the Manitou Springs Journal of October 22, 1915, appeared the fol- lowing: "One of the best things the State Federation of Women's Clubs did during their annual meeting, held in Colorado Springs recently, was to endorse Mrs. Maude McFerran Price's song 'Colorado' as a state song. Popular sentiment has always endorsed this song as the official one of the state; school children sing it and there is no pioneer gathering in which 'Colorado' is not on the program." In 1913, at the Continental Con- gress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held in Washington, D. C., "Colo- rado" was voted by far the cleverest and most popular of all state songs out of a list of over one hundred songs sung in the contest.

At a meeting of the Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs in September, 1905, Mrs. Price was awarded both prizes given at that meeting, the first prize for the best vocal composition, and one for the best instrumental composition. The first prize was won by a composition, "Angelina Seraphim," and the latter by the Emily Waltz. The song "Colorado" received immense applause at Madison Square Garden in New York city when sung there by the Mormon choir of two hundred voices of Salt Lake City. It has appeared in various papers from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mrs. Price belongs to that class of cultured women to whom art, literature and music are not interests of a leisure hour but are a necessity and she has been a most potent factor in promoting the cultural interests of the state.

ARTHUR H. AMICK.

Arthur H. Amick, president and manager of the Amick Storage & Transfer Com- pany of Denver, was born in Moberly, Missouri, September 26, 1872, a son of James Madison and Louisa (Cannon) Amick, who were also natives of Missouri. The father was for many years connected with the Wabash Railroad Company in the mechanical department at Moberly, but in 1894 resigned his position and removed to Denver to make this city his future home. He is still an honored and respected resident of Denver and his wife is also living. They had a family of four children: Frederick

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Luther, who is living in Denver; Homer Lee, engaged in the transfer business in Denver; and Harry, who is secretary of the Pueblo Chieftain of Pueblo, Colorado.

The other member of the family and the eldest is Arthur H. Amick of this review, who in early life attended the public schools of Moberly, Missonri, and afterward became an employe of the Wabash Railroad, working in the mechanical department under the direction of his father. He continued with the company until he came to Denver to reside in 1894. Shortly after reaching the city he turned his attention to the transfer business, beginning with one team. Throughout the years he has con- tinued in the same business and from a modest beginning has developed his interests until today he is at the head of an incorporated company, owning its own large and commodious storage warehouse, together with seven automobile trucks and four large vans, besides two flat wagons. The warehouse is a large modern building used for the storage of household furniture and other purposes. It is located at No. 1035 Santa Fe Drive. Mr. Amick employs a large force of workmen and assistants and his business has steadily developed along substantial lines, making it one of the profitable interests of the city.

Mr. Amick has two children: Roy Lee, who was born in Moberly, Missouri; and Roscoe, also born in Moberly. Mr. Amick has since 1891 been connected with the Knights of The Maccabees and he has membership in the Kiwanis Club of Denver. His religious faith is that of the Baptist church.

He started out in the business world empty-handed but has steadily worked his way upward and his success is due to close application and the wise use which he has made of his time and opportunities. He has built up a business along straight- forward and honorable lines, at all times enjoying the confidence of those who have given him their patronage, and his life record is an indication of the fact that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement.

JOHN GEORGE HAGEN.

John George Hagen, occupying the Twin Oak ranch at Husted Station, com- prising one thousand acres of land which he is carefully cultivating, and otherwise extensively identified with ranching interests in Colorado, was born November 3, 1864, in Wurtemberg, Germany, a son of Belagius and Mary Ann Hagen. He spent the first sixteen years of his life in his native country and in 1880 crossed the Atlantic to the new world, landing at New York city, where he remained for only a brief period. He then made his way westward, reaching Leadville, Colo- rado, where he worked in a sawmill for three years. He next removed to Trinidad, Colorado, where he conducted a saloon and also engaged in farming there for thir- teen years. Establishing his home at Colorado Springs, he conducted a coal and feed business at that place for two years and then took up his abode at Husted, where he purchased a farm of three hundred and twenty acres. He afterward sold that property and now resides upon the Joe Reynolds ranch, known as the Twin Oak place, at Husted Station, comprising one thousand acres. Even this immense place does not make full demand upon his time and energy, for he rents eight hundred acres of other parties and is busily engaged in general farming as well as stock raising. He has four hundred acres of plow land and of meadow, and upon the ranch he has one hundred and seventy-five head of cattle and from fifteen to twenty horses. His work is most systematically and carefully done and he is actuated by a spirit of enterprise in all that he undertakes.

In 1887 Mr. Hagen was married to Miss Katie M. Eitel, of Great Bend, Kan- sas. They have fonr children living. Bessie, who was born May 6, 1890, is a high school graduate and has taught school for ten years. She is now teaching for the fifth term at Woodman, Colorado. Albert E., born in 1893, is an ordained minister of the Adventist church. He was graduated from the high school and from the Camp Inn Academy of Loveland in 1913 and now fills the pulpit at La Junta, Colorado. Esther, born March 20, 1898, was graduated from the high school and is now a telephone operator at the Woodman Sanatorium. Lester Rus- sell was born June 21, 1907, and completes the family.

Mr. Hagen of this review is a democrat where national questions and issues are involved but casts an independent local ballot. He has served on the town- ship school board for a number of years. His business interests are important and extensive and yet he never allows them to interfere with the faithful performance of his public duties. Aside from his ranching interests he is a stockholder and

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one of the directors of the Bank of Monument and a stockholder and the president of the Equity Mercantile Company of Monument. Whatever he undertakes he car- ries forward to successful completion because his plans are carefully and wisely formulated and promptly executed. He studies opportunities, watches for ad- vantageous chances for investment and as the years have passed on, by reason of his honorable business methods, has gained for himself a very creditable and envi- able position in the business circles of his section of the state.

ALFRED J. BROMFIELD.

Alfred J. Bromfield, occupying a prominent position in business and financial circles in Denver as the president of the Industrial Building & Loan Association, was born in London, England, July 27, 1864, a son of Edward T. and Georgianna Bromfield, the former an English clergyman. The son was educated by his father, and, well descended and well bred, entered upon his business career with an equip- ment that has led to continued progress. He became a resident of the new world in 1887 and was manager of The North American Review Publishing Company of New York city prior to coming to Colorado in 1887. During the period of his residence in Denver he has been identified with important interests, being vice president of the Federal National Bank of this city and a director of the Continental Trust Company for ten years. Readily recognizing opportunities and possibilities and prompted ever by laudable ambition to broaden his interests and activities, he became the organizer of the Industrial Building & Loan Association of Denver, one of the leading financial institutions of the city, with assets of over two million dollars. In this connection he is now giving his attention to constructive effort, to administrative direction and executive control.

In June, 1887, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Bromfield was married to Miss Jessie M. Dalziel, daughter of John Dalziel, and they have become parents of two daughters and a son: Marguerite, the wife of Marvin Simpson; Dorothy, the wife of Dr. Charles Watson; and Alfred J. Bromfield, Jr.

The military record of Mr. Bromfield covers three years' service as a member of the Connecticut National Guard. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the York Rite and he is a member of the Denver Country Club. He has ever recognized two facts-that play is second in importance only to work and that a man's recreations make or break him as surely as do his business habits. He has recognized, too, that in business application is what counts, and following constructive methods-his path never strewn with the wreck of other men's failures-he has built up interests of mam- moth proportions from which many beside himself have derived substantial benefit.

JAMES R. BRUCE.

When a youth of sixteen James R. Bruce started out in the business world and since that time perseverance, close application and energy have won him advancement as the years have gone hy until today he is active in the control of an important and profitable business as the vice president of the Centennial School Supply Company, with offices in the Central Savings Bank building in Denver. Jowa claims him as a native son. He was born June 25, 1882, in Des Moines county, and is a representative of one of the old pioneer families of the Hawkeye state. His paternal grandfather, James Bruce, cast in his lot with the earliest settlers of lowa, living there at the time when the Indians were numerous, and he had personal acquaintance with Chief Black Hawk, the noted warrior of the Sac tribe. He devoted his life to general agricultural pur- suits, as did his son, David R. Bruce, who was born in Iowa and who, possessed of the pioneer spirit that had actuated his father, became one of the early settlers of eastern Colorado, taking up his abode in Arapahoe county, in 1888. There he engaged in farm- ing and subsequently he removed to Denver, where he resided until his death, which occurred in September, 1914, when he was sixty-nine years of age. He was a Civil war veteran, having served with the infantry forces as a member of an Iowa regiment, and throughout his entire life he was as true and loyal to the stars and stripes as when he followed the old flag on southern battlefields. As a farmer and business man he was

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History of Colorado; Volume III, Part 104

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed Publication date: 1918-19 Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Number of Pages: 844

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918-19
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 844