History of Colorado; Volume III, Part 12

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

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SIDNEY EASTWOOD.

Sidney Eastwood is the president and manager of the Eastwood-Elwell Printing Company, conducting business at No. 923 Seventeenth street, in Denver, as commercial printers. The firm has developed a business of extensive and gratifying proportions, and previous experience along this line well qualified Mr. Eastwood for the conduct of the interests which now engage his attention. He is of Canadian birth, Toronto being bis natal city and the 7th of September, 1862, his natal day. His father is Colin S. Eastwood, who was also born in Toronto, Canada, and for many years was an active newspaper man bnt is now living retired, enjoying a well earned rest. His wife, Mrs. Lydia H. W. Eastwood. is deceased. They had three children, who are still living: Alice, who makes her home in California; Mrs. G. H. Phelps, living in Colorado; and Sidney, of this review.

The last named, becoming a resident of Denver in his boyhood days, coming to this city in 1871 with his father, acquired his education in its public and high schools and afterward began learning the printer's trade in connection with Denver papers. He steadily worked his way upward until he became foreman of the Republican, a position which he occupied for fourteen years. He was also foreman of the Times for three years and then, feeling that his experience was sufficient to justify his embarking in business on his own account. he established the enterprise of which he is now the head, organizing the Eastwood Elwell Printing Company for commercial printing. They do all kinds of legal work and handle also books, records and stationery. Their interests are continually broadening. for the work which they turn out is of superior character and has brought to them a realization of the fact that satisfied customers are the best advertise- ment. They specialize in legal printing, which is ever of a most exacting nature, and they maintain the highest standards in this connection.

Mr. Eastwood was united in marriage to Miss May O'Haro, of Denver, and to them Vol. III-6

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have been born four children: Lydia A .; Mrs. Merle Burch, of Denver: Marjorie, who is twenty-three years of age and is engaged in teaching school; and Ruth.

Mr. Eastwood belongs to the Typographical Union. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. His success is undoubtedly due in a measure to the fact that he has always con- tinued in the line of business in which he embarked as a young tradesman, thereby gaining a most thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the work in its every phase. He has ever followed the most progressive methods and his initiative has brought improved results which place his firm in a position of leadership among the commercial printers of the city.

JAMES ALFRED RENDLE.

Perhaps no life history recorded in this volume indicates more clearly what may be accomplished through force of character combined with determination and perseverance than does the record of James Alfred Rendle, who is now the president of the firm of J. W. Hugus & Company, owning and conducting a line of general stores and banks throughout northwestern Colorado. He is also the secretary of the Davis Brothers Drug Company of Denver. He started out in the business world empty-handed and during his first year with J. W. Hugus & Company he worked for his board. He was born in Ontario, Canada, December 17, 1875, and is a son of the late A. H. Rendle, who was a native of England and who came to Canada in 1842. He married Lydia Archer, also a native of England, whence she came to the new world with her parents in 1848, the family home being established in Ontario. She was married in Campbellford, Canada, and became the mother of five children, four sons and a daughter, of whom James Alfred was the third in order of birth. Mr. Rendle passed away in 1912 at the venerable age of seventy-five years, but his widow still survives and is now living in Campbellford.

James A. Rendle of this review obtained a public school education in Campbellford, Canada, and when a youth of fourteen years left home, migrating to the west. He settled in Rawlins, Wyoming. There he became connected with J. W. Hugus & Company in a clerical capacity. He proved competent and faithful and was retained in the employ of the firm until 1898, winning successive promotions which constantly increased his responsibility but also added to his remuneration. He then organized the Rawlins National Bank and became its cashier, so continuing until the spring of 1909. He was then elected to the presidency of the firm of J. W. Hugus & Company, following the accidental death of his predecessor, J. C. Davis. He was also made general manager of the company and has since continued in the dual capacity. In this connection he is active in the management of a number of stores and banks in northwestern Colorado and is controlling business interests of large extent and importance. In 1909 he removed to Denver to accept the position of secretary of the Davis Brothers Drug Company, which office he has since filled. He was also the organizer and is vice president of the Stock Growers Bank of Dixon, Wyoming, a position which he has filled since 1906, and he still remains a representative of the directorate of the Rawlins National Bank. He was likewise one of the charter signers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and he is largely interested in live stock in Wyoming and Colorado. He is a director of the United States National Bank of Denver. Thus as the years have passed he has become prominently and actively associated with important financial and commercial interests which constitute a vital element in the upbuilding of the interests of the two states of Colorado and Wyoming. His labors have been far-reaching and in all business affairs he has displayed a sound judgment that has produced very gratifying and substantial results. He readily discriminates between the essential and the nonessential and, dis- carding the latter, utilizes the former to its utmost strength.

On the 22d of March, 1899, Mr. Rendle was united in marriage to Miss Anna Nichols, a native of Wisconsin and a daughter of M. C. and Hettie M. (Rusk) Nichols, the latter a niece of Hon. Jeremiah Rusk, one of the most popular and respected governors of Wisconsin. Her parents are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Rendle have been born two sons and a daughter: James Alfred, whose birth occurred in Rawlins. December 21, 1899; Elizabeth Anna, born in Rawlins, November 18, 1901; and Marshall Nichols, born in Rawlins, April 26, 1905.

Mr. Rendle votes with the republican party and keeps in close touch with the leading questions and issues of the day, so that he is able to support his position by intelligent argument, but he has never sought or desired office. He is identified with the various branches of Masonry, having been made a Mason at Rawlins in 1896, at which time he

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was initiated into Rawlins Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M. He is now a past master of this lodge, past high priest of Garfield Chapter, R. A. M .. and past commander of Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, both located at Rawlins, though he now holds affiliated membership in Denver Commandery, No. 25, and is a member of Colorado Con- sistory, No. 1, and El Jebel Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Denver. He is also con- nected with the Elks lodge at Rawlins, of which he became a charter member. He .belongs to the Lakewood Country Club, to the Denver Athletic Club and to the Civic and Commercial Association, while both Mr. and Mrs. Rendle hold membership in St. Mark's Episcopal church. She is very active in church and charitable work and is serving on the board of St. Luke's Hospital. Both contribute generously toward organ- izations for the benefit of the sick and needy and are constantly extending a helping hand to assist others on life's journey. Mr. Rendle started out in the world a poor boy, and advancing with the passing years, he has become one of the honored and rep- resentative citizens of Denver, not alone because of the success he has achieved, but also owing to the straightforward and honorable business policy that he has ever followed.

HON. ROBERT H. HIGGINS.

Hon. Robert H. Higgins, state treasurer of Colorado and for many years one of the builders of Pueblo, is a direct descendant of that Robert Higgins who, after many voyages as captain, finally settled down on Manhattan island in 1755 and married Miss Van Zandt, the daughter of the owner of the good ship he had commanded. Robert H. Higgins has in his possession the evidence of direct descent from this hero of pre- Revolutionary days. This is the parchment, yellowed with age and given in turn from father to eldest son, by which the Frederick county (Va.) home of the Higgins family was deeded in 1762 to Robert Higgins by Thomas Lord Fairfax. But there is much more of value in that huge box which Treasurer Higgins now keeps in a fireproof vault. There is the original military warrant granted to Captain Robert Higgins of Revolutionary fame, "four thousand acres, revolutionary land grant, between the Little Miami and the Scioto rivers" in Ohio. This is signed by President James Monroe and dated 1817.

John Joliff Higgins, grandfather of State Treasurer Higgins, was a native of Ohio and served his county as sheriff for several terms, between the years 1830 and 1840. In 1842 he was elected a major-general of volunteers by the state legislature and was also a presidential elector on the Martin Van Buren ticket in 1844.

Robert H. Higgins was born at Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, on April 29, 1862. His father was Robert Hetrick Higgins, who was a native of Ohio and passed away at his home in Georgetown, that state. During the period of the Civil war he served for three years and seven months as captain of Company D of the Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He took a prominent part in the affairs of his county, commonwealth and country, serving as county clerk for fifteen years before and after the Civil war and one term as a member of the lower house of the state legislature, while later he became assistant adjutant general of Ohio. The mother of Robert H. Higgins of this review was Matilda Battaile Marshall Buckner Higgins. In these names hier ancestry is fairly well outlined, for she was a descendant of the Battaile, the Marshall and the Buckner families of Revolutionary days.

In 1891 Robert H. Higgins, who had spent six years with the Santa Fe Railroad system in Kansas, came to Colorado to go into the smelting business. He was again with the Santa Fe from 1896 until 1900, and from 1900 until 1907 was active for a second time in the smelting business. From 1908 until 1916, or for a period of eight years, he was county commissioner of Pueblo county. This represents the period in which the greatest progress was made in the history of hoth the city and county. The new seven hundred thousand dollar courthouse was built in that time without a bond issue and is all paid for. In 1909 began the era of road building and Pueblo county today has the finest system of hard-surfaced roads in the state. It has, moreover, more miles of road than any other county of the state. In 1916 Mr. Higgins was nominated for state treasurer by the democrats of Colorado and was elected to the office by a large majority, a position which he has filled with honor to himself and credit to the commonwealth.

On the 4th of February, 1892. Mr. Higgins was married to Miss Laura Alwilda Pres- cott. Their living children are Ruth, Robert and Nellie. Robert is now with the Twenty- eighth Engineers in France. He enlisted at Camp Meade, Maryland, within a hundred miles of where his ancestor, the original Robert, enlisted for service in the Revolutionary war.

Mr. Higgins belongs to the Masonic lodge, being a thirty-second degree Mason, and

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is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World. His political, like his business career has been marked by steady progress and his ability is attested by the demand of his fellow citizens for his service in office.

ERNST EDMUND WITHERS.

Ernst Edmund Withers, manager of the Iron City Fuel Company of Pueblo, is possessed of energy and determination that enable him to overcome difficulties and obstacles and work his way steadily upward in the attainment of success by careful management of the business interests under his control. He was born in Pueblo, Colo- rado, on the 16th of December, 1883, and in this city has always resided. spending his youthful days under the parental roof of G. G. and Matilda Withers. His father is the well known editor and manager of the Pueblo Chieftain and is very prominent in news- paper circles in this section of the state, being active in the publication of what is today one of the best newspapers in southeastern Colorado.

Ernst Edmund Withers was a pupil in the public schools, passing through consecu- tive grades to his promotion to the Centennial high school of Pueblo. After his textbooks were put aside he engaged in newspaper work with his father for a year and later was manager of the yards of the Newton Lumber Company, a position which he most accept- ably and capably filled for a decade. On the expiration of that period he became connected with the Standard Fire Brick Company of Pueblo, being given charge of the retail coal department, and he was for four years in charge of the city sales department for the com- pany. He became identified with the Iron City Fuel Company as manager and is also financially interested in the business. His previous experience made him well qualified to control interests of this character and under his direction there has been built up a busi- ness of gratifying proportions. He never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose and his energy, perseverance and sagacity are numbered among his salient characteristics.

On the 9th of June, 1902, in Pueblo. Mr. Withers was united in marriage to Miss Nona Newton and their children are three in number: Newton, Granville and Ernst. Mr. Withers is a trustee of the north side water board, now serving in the position for a second term of two years. While in the high school he was active with the cadets of the school and rose to the rank of captain. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He has membership in the Minnequa Club and in the Commerce Club and he is interested in all those forces which contribute to the progress and improvement of the district in which he lives.

E. H. WOODRING.

E. H. Woodring, now living retired at Calhan, was born in Horton county. Kentucky, August 1, 1845. His parents, Benjamin and Elizabeth (Doharty) Woodring, were also natives of the Blue Grass state and when their son, E. H., was three years of age they removed with their family to Missouri, settling in Gentry county, where he acquired a common school education while spending his youthful days upon the home farm. After putting aside his textbooks he continued to assist his father in the further development of the place for a few years and ultimately began farming on his own account, purchasing a tract of land which he cultivated until 1880. He then sold that property and took his family to Spokane, Washington, where he remained for a year, after which he returned to Missouri and again spent a year in that state. He next removed to Colorado, spending a winter at Colorado Springs, after which he made his way to Calhan and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres on which the village of Calhan now stands. With the exception of one block which he sold to a real estate dealer he has sold nearly two hundred different tracts of land or all but about fifteen acres of his original quarter section.

Soon after his removal to Calhan, Mr. Woodring's wife died, leaving him with six children. It was on the 30th of December, 1869, that he had wedded Lucy Nance, a daughter of Whit and Pruit Nance, of Daviess county, Missouri. Six children were born of this marriage. James Edward, born December 19, 1871, died in 1916. Mary C., born

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April 11, 1875, became the wife of George Bess and resides at Alamosa, Colorado. David G., born October 14, 1876, married Dora Corley and resides on a ranch near Pueblo, Colorado. Lon H., born December 17, 1878, married Edith Wilson and makes his home on a ranch near Canon City with his wife and three children: Ethel, Hazel Stella and Rex Woodrow. Lucy G., born April 19, 1881, married Richard Wilson, a garage owner of Calhan, and they have a daughter, Serilda. William V., born August 19, 1884, is in the government service. On the 27th of October, 1910, in Colorado Springs, Mr. Woodring was again married, his second union being with Miss Addie Crow, a daughter of Clark Z. and Adalie (Holland) Crow, who were natives of Georgia and Tennessee respectively. Mrs. Woodring was born in Martin county, Indiana, and acquired her education in Oklahoma.

In his political views Mr. Woodring is a democrat but not an office seeker. Fra- ternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Lodge No. 115 at Calhan. About the close of the Civil war he enlisted with the Confederate army and was in several guerrilla skirmishes in Missouri. This constitutes his military experience. While in the service he was wounded in the leg. His religious belief is indicated by his support of the Methodist church. He is numbered among the pioneer settlers of Colorado and for three years after his arrival in Calhan he lived in a tent. He has watched the entire growth and development of this section of the state and has borne an active and helpful part in promoting its progress and improvement. He stands at all times most loyally for the welfare of the community in which he lives and his support can ever be counted upon to aid those interests which are of civic worth.

DONALD McINTOSH.

Donald McIntosh, deceased, was one of the prominent sheep men of southern Colo- rado, a representative of that class of substantial citizens that Scotland has furnished to the state. He was born June 16, 1849. near Inverness, Scotland, a son of Angns and Margaret (Fraser) McIntosh, who were also natives of that country, where they spent their entire lives. Their sons, Donald, William and John, however, all came to the new world and continued residents here until called to their final rest.

Donald McIntosh acquired his primary education in Scotland and about 1876 crossed the Atlantic, making his way at once to Colorado. His first venture in business was in mining and for many years he was connected with the famous Argo smelter. At length, however, he turned his attention to the sheep industry, which was to be his life's work and a work in which he was to meet with extraordinary success. He first took up sheep raising in connection with his brother William and later was associated with his other brother, John McIntosh.

In 1896 Donald Mcintosh removed to Las Animas, Colorado, and there remained until September, 1915. when he came to Denver in order that his daughter might have the educational opportunities of the city. His ranch, which was known as one of the largest in southern Colorado, he sold in 1907. Throughout his life he was regarded as one of the most prominent sheep growers in the west, and not only was his name known by means of financial rating but also by reason of his generosity among his fellows. Many a successful rancher of Colorado owes his start to a "grubstake" supplied him by Mr. McIntosh, whether in the form of money or a number of sheep. He rejoiced in the suc- cess and prosperity of others and was ever willing to extend a helping hand. His own business affairs were wisely and carefully managed and his enterprise and unwearied industry were the salient features of his growing success.

In New York city, on the 28th of January, 1895, Mr. Mcintosh was married to Miss Jessie A. Mackintosh, who had just arrived from the bonnie land of Scotland. She came to Colorado with her husband and shared with him in all the sorrows and joys, the ad- versity and prosperity of a long married life and still survives him. In her Denver home. from which a beautiful view of the Continental Divide unfolds itself. she maintains her residence with her daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh were born three children: Donald Angus, who died at the age of seven years; Janet Margaret, a graduate of the Wolcott School of Denver of the class of 1918 and living with her mother; and Margaret, who died in infancy.

Death again severed the family circle when on the 3d of March, 1917, Mr. Mcintosh passed away. A man of devont religions convictions, he was a trustee in the Central Pres- byterian church of Denver and always an untiring worker for its upbuilding. Politically lie was a republican and was once treasurer of the town of Las Animas. Many larger and more important political offices were tendered him but all of these he refused, prefer-

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ring to give his time and efforts to his business and home interests. He was a great lover of his home and preferred the quietness and happiness of his own fireside to the activities which beckoned him from without. His traits of manhood and of character were marked sterling and he commanded the highest respect of all who knew him.

CLARENCE H. MORIAN, M. D.

Dr. Clarence H. Morian, actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Denver. was born in Enterprise, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1874, and is a son of Herbert and Josephine (Coffin) Morian, the former a native of Enterprise, Pennsylvania, while the mother was born in Cassadaga. New York. Herbert Morian was born in the same house where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morian, lived for sixty-five years. Herbert Morian was one of the early oil prospectors of Pennsylvania and was very fortunate in locating several valuable oil bearing properties within five miles of where his birth occurred. He became financially interested in one of the first oil wells of Pennsylvania and was prominently associated with the development of the oil industry throughout the state. His labors resulted in the operation of a number of famous wells in that field up to 1917, when he was attracted to the west by the oil discoveries in this section of the country. He is now operating on a location in the Spring Valley fields of Wyoming for the Liberty Oil Company of Salt Lake City, acting as superintendent for that corporation. It was in Potsdam, New York, in 1872, that he wedded Josephine Coffin. They became the parents of three children: Clarence H., of this review; Stanley, who was born July 5, 1884, in Bradford. Pennsylvania, and is now with his father in the oil fields of Wyoming; and Clark H., born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1892, who is connected with mercantile lines in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Clarence H. Morian acquired his early education in the schools of Pennsylvania and afterward continued his studies at Battle Creek. Michigan, where he attended Battle Creek College. His professional training was obtained in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1912. at which time he received his professional degree. He then located for practice in Reading, Pennsyl- vania, but after a short period there passed he removed westward to Omaha, Nebraska, where he also remained for only a brief period. Attracted by the opportunities ot Colorado, he came to this state, settling at Arvada, near Denver. There he won an enviable reputation and since taking up his abode in the state his practice has steadily grown in volume and importance. He is most widely known as a diagnostician and after devoting two years to practice in Arvada he opened an office in Denver, attracted by the broader field of the city. Here his business has steadily increased and his practice is now most extensive. He belongs to the Denver City and County Medical Society, also to the Colorado State Medical Society and to the Twentieth Century Medical Club of Denver. His colleagues in the profession speak of him in terms of high regard, recog- nizing his ability and his devotion to the highest standards of the profession.

On the 2d of December, 1914, Dr. Morian was united in marriage to Miss Lelah May Hart, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hart, of Battle Creek, Michigan. Both the Doctor and his wife have gained many friends during the period of their residence in this city and the hospitality of many of Denver's best homes is freely and graciously accorded them.

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History of Colorado; Volume III, Part 12

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