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on the staff of St. Anthony's Hospital. He has membership in the Medical Society of the County and City of Denver, in the Colorado State Medical Association and in the American Medical Association and at all times he is deeply interested in the profession, doing everything in his power to promote his ability to cope with the intricate problems of disease.
Dr. Attwood was married in 1905 to Miss Ruth DuBoyce, of Denver. There was one child of that marriage, Florence Attwood. Dr. Attwood's present wife was Miss Rnth M. Tetter, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Tetter, whom he wedded on the 7th of March, 1914.
Dr. Attwood is identified with the Woodmen of the World and the Women of Wood- craft and in politics maintains an independent course. He has never sought or desired office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and energies upon his profession and his work in that direction has been of signal benefit to mankind, for he has wide and accurate knowledge of the principles of the science of medicine and is most conscientious in the performance of his professional duties.
LUKE GOODHEART.
Luke Goodheart, president of the Goodheart Broadway Laundry Company of Denver, was born in Bloomington. Illinois, September 7, 1856, a son of James and Katherine O. (Fordyce) Goodheart, who were also natives of Bloomington, where they spent their entire lives. The father was a well known contractor. following that business save for a period when he served for two terms as deputy sheriff and United States marshal. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having joined Company A of the Ninety-fourth Illinois Regiment of Infantry, with which he rose to the rank of sergeant. His service extended through three years and three months of that struggle, ending with its close. He par- ticipated in many engagements but lived to return home, and reached the ripe old age of eighty-six years, passing away in 1915. His widow survived only until 1916 and was seventy-six years of age at the time of her demise. They had a family of twelve children of whom the following besides our subject are living: The Rev. James Good- heart, the city chaplain of Denver; John W., living in Bellingham, Washington; Palmer L., whose home is at Miami, Oklahoma; Benjamin L., of Little Rock, Arkansas; and Mrs. Irene Rundall, of Pekin, Illinois.
Of this family Luke Goodheart was the second in order of birth. In early life he attended the public schools of Bloomington, Illinois, after which he went to work in a flour mill and served a full term of apprenticeship at the milling business. In 1888, in company with a neighbor. a Mr. Atmore, he came to Colorado on account of the health of his wife, arriving at his destination on Saturday. By the following Monday he had secured a position and has never been without employment of some kind since. He finally accepted a position with the firm of Knight & Atmore, dealers in men's furnish- ing goods, and remained with that house for many years. He started at a salary of fifty dollars per month but his ability led to an increase in his salary and soon he was receiving one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month. He remained with that firm altogether for nine years and then decided to embark in business on his own account. He turned his attention to the towel supply business, in which he embarked in 1894 with a cash capital of three hundred dollars. He worked up a fine trade in that connection and finally merged his interests with those of the Denver Towel Supply Company, with which he was associated for two years. He then sold his interest in the company and established the Goodheart Laundry, beginning the business on a small scale but devel- oping it until he is today proprietor of one of Colorado's leading laundries. He had three employes at the beginning and something of the volume of his trade is indicated in the fact that he today has one hundred and ten people in his,employ. The Goodheart Broadway Company owns its own property and equipment and has one of Denver's most modern establishments, supplied with all the latest improved machinery to facilitate the business, which was incorporated in 1918 with Luke Goodheart as the president, Leslie Allen as vice president and Harry G. Goodheart as secretary and treasurer. It is char- acteristic of Mr. Goodheart that he does with thoroughness anything that he undertakes.
On the 17th of November, 1879. Mr. Goodheart was married in Terre Haute, Indiana. to Miss Marietta Holdridge, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram B. Holdridge, and they have become the parents of two children: Harry Garfield, born in Lenawee county, Michigan, near Adrian, in 1882; and Hazel, born in Denver in 1889. The son was educated in private and public schools near Denver and married Miss Hazel Lawler, of this city. He is now the secretary and treasurer of the Goodheart Broadway Laundry Company. The daughter
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is a graduate of the Denver schools and is the wife of John Cook, who is foreman in the meat department of the John Thompson Grocery Company. They have a son, John Robert, born October 11, 1918.
Mr. Goodheart is identified with several fraternal organizations. He is a Shriner, is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and holds membership in the Woodmen of the World and the Fraternal Brotherhood. In politics he maintains an independent course, exercising his right of franchise in support of men and measures which he believes will advance the public welfare. He is serving on the board of charities and corrections and is one of the governors of the board. He is much interested in all those forces which work for right, truth, progress and improvement and his aid can be counted upon to further all such. He is numbered among the progressive and repre- sentative business men of Denver, for the life record of few others indicates more clearly what can be accomplished by determined individual effort. Starting out in life without financial assistance, he has steadily approached nearer and nearer the goal of pros- perity and is today enjoying a good income as the result of the extensive business which he has built up.
THOMAS ROBERT WOODROW.
Thomas Robert Woodrow, who in August, 1918. was appointed general attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad for Colorado, is one of the group of younger lawyers of Denver who are making a notable impression on the legal history of the state. He is a first cousin of President Woodrow Wilson, his father and the mother of the nation's executive having been brother and sister.
Mr. Woodrow was born October 19, 1876, at Chillicothe, Ohio. His parents were Thomas Woodrow, uncle of President Wilson, and Helen (Sill) Woodrow. the latter a sister of General Joshua Sill, after whom Fort Sill. Oklahoma, was named.
Following his graduation from the public and high schools of Chillicothe, Mr. Wood- row matriculated at the University of Michigan and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1898 and that of Bachelor of Laws in 1900. In the latter year he came to Colorado and was at once admitted to the bar. During the first and second Speer administrations Mr. Woodrow served as city attorney, with full charge of all condemnation matters connected with the creation of the city's park and boulevard system and Denver's famous civic center which have made Denver one of the most beautiful cities in the United States.
In 1912 Mr. Woodrow became assistant general solicitor of the Colorado & Southern Railway Company and Colorado attorney of the Burlington system. On the 1st of Sep- tember. 1918, he was appointed by the United States Railroad Administration general attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad, with offices in Denver. and is making a most creditable record in that important position.
On the 27th of June, 1905, Mr. Woodrow married Miss Genevieve L. Derby, of Sag- inaw. Michigan, and they have two daughters. His social qualities make for pop- ularity and marked professional ability places him in the front rank of the younger lawyers of Denver.
LUCAS ALLEN MILLER, M. D.
Colorado Springs may well be proud of the eminent representatives of the medical profession who have located within her borders and among those who stand high in the esteem of the community is Dr. Lucas Allen Miller, who located in this city in 1906. Dr. Miller was born in Manchester, Iowa. in 1868, a son of John and Mary J. (Fox) Miller. The father was born in Pennsylvania in 1817 and went to Iowa in 1859. He responded to his country's call and served three years in the Civil war. He wedded Mary J. Fox, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and who passed away in 1881. The husband survived her for a quarter of a century and departed this life in 1906. The ancestry of this family can he traced back through many generations, the grandfather, James Miller, a native of Canada, was a son of John Miller, who was horn in England and served as a commanding officer in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war.
Dr. L. A. Miller was a pupil in the public schools of Strawberry Point, Iowa. after- ward graduating from the Upper Iowa University, Fayette, receiving the degree of Bach- elor of Science in 1894. He received the degree of M. D. from the Hahnemann Medical
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College of Chicago in 1898. He then located for general practice at Waucoma, Iowa, where he remained for seven years, serving the city as mayor during a portion of that time. Since 1906 he has been in the practice of medicine in Colorado Springs, where he has won a host of friends and the high regard of the medical fraternity. He is not a partisan supporter of any school and uses in his practice the tenets of the regular school of medicine. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, Colorado State Medical Society, El Paso County Medical Society, The Clinical Society of Colorado Springs and the Solly Tuberculosis Society.
On the 9th of August, 1894, in Fayette, Iowa, Dr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Nellie M. Burget, a classmate and graduate of the Upper Iowa University. Their children are Dorothy Jeannette, Hugh Arnold and Muriel Imogene.
The family hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Colorado Springs and Mrs. Miller is prominent in many civic and state organizations. She has been three times president of the City Federation of Colorado Springs and is now first vice president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. As chairman of the speaker's bureau of the Woman's Council of Defense she has rendered splendid service to her country through a campaign of publicity for government issues. Mrs. Miller is also a popular contributor of verse and prose to several magazines.
Dr. Miller holds high rank in Masonic circles, having taken the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites. He is past excellent high priest of the chapter and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. The family has won for itself a creditable position, enjoying the confi- dence and goodwill of the entire community.
DONALD P. HOGAN.
Donald P. Hogan, one of the most popular automobile dealers in his section of Colorado, is half owner and manager of the Cole Motor Sales Company of Denver: He was born at Hudson, Lenawee county, Michigan, March 18, 1887, a son of John and Katherine ( Kelly ) Hogan, both of whom are natives of Hudson, where their respective parents settled as pioneers. The father has devoted his life to farming and dairying and also became one of the organizers and directors of the creamery at Hudson, Mich- igan, where he and his wife are still living. In their family of six children, Donald P. is the second in order of birth. The others are: Mrs. Luella Gleason. residing in Ohio; Ruth, of Hudson, Michigan; Marie and Mildred, who also make their home in Hudson; and Laura, deceased.
Donald P. Hogan, in the pursuit of his education, attended the public schools of Hudson until graduated from the high school with the class of 1903. He afterward became a student in the Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti and subsequently attended a commercial college, in which he prepared for business. He was graduated therefrom with the class of 1905 and later accepted a clerical position with the firm of L. Freusdorf & Sons, the largest wool and grain merchants in the state. He re- mained with that firm for two years and in 1907 came to Denver. He afterward became stenographer and bookkeeper for M. J. Patterson, a contractor and builder, with whom he continued for a year and was then made manager of a garage and service station owned by H. C. Van Buskirk. with whom he remained until Mr. Van Buskirk sold out to E. N. Bates. The business was then removed to a new building at No. 1669 Court Place and Mr. Bates organized what is known as the Auto Livery Company, which has since been in existence in the west. Mr. Hogan became a partner in that business and so continued until August, 1915, when he became interested in the Mid-West Auto Sales Company, of which he continued as a partner until July, 1916. He next became con- nected with the Cole Motor Sales Company, first as a salesman and later as assistant manager. He is now half owner of the business and general manager. Recently a new building has been completed and in April. 1918, the company moved into it. They have a large, handsome building facing on Broadway, with one hundred feet frontage and a depth of one hundred and fifty feet. This gives them splendid display and sales rooms. They also maintain a large service station for Cole cars, for the International trucks and also Cleveland tractors. Thoroughly recognizing the many good points of the Cole car. Mr. Hogan has built up a large business in its sale and his interests return to him a gratifying annual income. Mr. Hogan is likewise interested in the King Copper Company and the Queen Oil Company and in the Industrial Oil & Refining Com- pany and he has ranching interests in Weld county comprising three hundred and twenty acres.
Mr. Hogan maintains an independent attitude in regard to politics. He belongs
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to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also to the Denver Athletic Club and to the Lakewood Country Club and the Gentlemen's Driving and Riding Club. He like- wise has membership with the Knights of Columbus, which indicates his religions faith to be that of the Catholic church, his membership being in the Immaculate Conception church. He is widely known as a representative business man, progressive, alert and energetic, and through individual effort he has become one of the representative auto- mobile dealers of Denver.
AUGUSTUS PEASE.
Augustus Pease, filling the office of city attorney at Canon City, was born in Taylor- ville, Illinois, on the 26th of July, 1872, a son of George E. and Belle L. ( Bond) Pease. The father, an attorney by profession, brought his family to Colorado in 1872, at which time he took up his ahode at Fairplay. He became a prominent factor in shaping public thought and action in his community and was chosen to represent his district as a member of the constitutional convention. He was also elected a member of the house of representatives in the state legislature and later a member of the state senate and was serving as president pro tem of the senate at the time of his death, which occurred on the 22d of May, 1895. For a number of years he had survived his wife, who passed away on the 15th of July, 1887. They were people of the highest respecta- bility and worth and Senator Pease left the impress of his individuality for good upon the history of the commonwealth. To him and his wife were born two sons and three daughters.
Augustus Pease, whose name introduces this review, was the fourth in order of birth in that family. The public schools afforded him his educational opportunities. He passed through consecutive grades to the high school and afterward took up the study of law in the office and under the direction of his father. His preliminary training was thorough and he was admitted to the bar in 1895. He has since been practicing in Col- orado and has been located at Cañon City since 1902. He is a thorough and discriminating student, is constantly broadening his knowledge by reading and study and he never enters the courts until well qualified for defense as well as for attack. He served as district attorney from 1901 until 1909 and in 1911 was chosen city attorney of Canon City, in which capacity he still continues.
On the 10th of February, 1902, Mr. Pease was united in marriage to Miss Lillian K. Allen, of Fairplay, Colorado, and they have become the parents of two sons and two daughters, George Allen, John W., and Lillian and Mayme, the last two being twins.
Fraternally Mr. Pease is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to the Chamber of Com- merce and has membership in the University Club. In politics he is a democrat, much interested in the success of his party, but he holds partisanship subservient to the welfare of the state and personal aggrandizement is never allowed to figure before the public wel- fare. In a word, he supports every measure and movement for the general good and as a progressive citizen has done much to cooperate in plans and movements that have been for the public benefit.
JOSIAH NEWHALL HALL, M. D.
One of the foremost representatives of the medical profession in Denver is Dr. Josiah Newhall Hall, who not only enjoys a profitable practice but also has gained a high reputation as a teacher in medicine and as a visiting physician to a number of the city's hospitals. Moreover, he is now connected with the Medical Corps of the United States Army, being identified with a base hospital during the period of the war.
Dr. Hall was born in North Chelsea, Massachusetts, October 11, 1859, and comes of an old New England family, the original American ancestor of which was William Hall, a Puritan and of English birth, who settled in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1652. Stephen A. Hall, the father, followed agricultural pursuits throughout his life and was among those who in 1849 made their way to California in search of the golden fleece. He married Evalina Amanda Newhall, a daughter of General Josiah Newhall. of Lynn- field, Massachusetts.
Their son, Josiah N. Hall, was reared under the parental roof, receiving his first lessons under the able guidance of his parents, and in the acquirement of his primary
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education attended the schools of his native state. He subsequently entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College, from which he was graduated in 1878 with the B. S. degree, later matriculating in Harvard Medical College, from which he was grad- uated in 1882 with the M. D. degree. Upon coming to Colorado Dr. Hall engaged in practice in Sterling, where he continued for a number of years. The trust and confidence which the public reposed in him outside of his professional ability is evident from the fact that in 1888 he was elected mayor of Sterling. Colorado, and served in that capacity until 1889, giving to the city a businesslike administration fraught with good results to the community. In 1892 Dr. Hall removed to Denver and soon gained a large circle of patients in this city.
Dr. Hall was for a period on the faculty of the University of Colorado. filling the posi- tion of professor of medicine. He is visiting physician to many hospitals in Denver, an indication that his services are highly valued and in demand. At present be is major in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, being chief of medicine of the base hospital at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, having enlisted for the period of the war. Thus Dr. Hall upholds to the best of his ability the cause of freedom and democracy, ren- dering valuable service to the government in looking after the health of our boys in that great Texas camp.
In 1885, at Sterling, Colorado. Dr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss Carrie G. Ayres, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Ayres, the former of whom lost his life in the Confederate army. To this union two children were born: Sigourney D., who was mar- ried at Fort Collins in 1914 to Lucile Barkley; and Oliver W., who in that city in 1916 wedded Miss Ethel Moore.
Dr. and Mrs. Hall attend the Plymouth church of Denver, in the work of which they take an active and helpful interest, and politically the Doctor is a republican, thoroughly loyal to the principles of the party but not an office seeker. In fact his pro- fessional labors demand most of his time and interest and through his close devotion he has won for himself a position among the notable physicians and surgeons of the state.
HANS J. KRUSE.
Hans J. Kruse is among the pioneers who in 1860 arrived in Denver, taking part in the development of this city from its early inception. During the greater part of his life he was connected with mercantile pursuits and achieved considerable success along this line, However, he did not continue a resident of Denver throughout all this time, spending a large part of his life in Central City, in the public life of which he took a prominent part. He was born November 18, 1837, in the province of Holstein, which was then under Danish jurisdiction but now belongs to Germany, his parents being Henry and Friederike (Wilkering) Kruse. The father was a baker by trade and in 1870 took up his residence in the United States, his son Hans J., however, having preceded him to this country by ten years. In the family were eleven children.
Hans J. Kruse upon coming to this country in 1859 made his way to Davenport. Iowa, where he worked on a farm; later clerked in a grain store, but on May 4, 1860. he left Davenport with ox team for Pike's Peak and made the journey overland to Den- ver, Colorado, stopping in Omaha temporarily and arriving in Denver July 2, 1860. He first gave his attention to prospecting for gold in Gregory Gulch, between Blackhawk and Central, but his efforts were unsuccessful and he turned his attention to the bakery trade as a livelihood, establishing a business of this kind at Mountain City, a place which is now incorporated in the limits of Central City. After conducting a bakery for several years he gave up this line of occupation and engaged in the grocery business and in 1876 returned to Denver. continuing, however, to maintain his store at Mountain City. In 1878 he acquired a ranch, to the cultivation of which he gave considerable attention. In 1890 he sold out his grocery business, subsequently again buying the same and later on once more selling. His various enterprises resulted in bringing him a considerable competence which enables him to live retired in the enjoyment of the comforts of life.
On July 27, 1864, Hans J. Kruse was united in marriage to Mathilda Johannsen, for whose hand he returned to the old country in that year. He then brought his young bride back to Colorado and both are now living in Denver, making their home at No. 1717 East Twenty-second avenue, being numbered among the honored pioneer couples of the city. Mrs. Kruse was a schoolmate of her husband in the old country and they have therefore known each other throughout their entire lives. They celebrated their golden wedding on July 27, 1914. at their home, which Mr. Kruse built in 1883 at what
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is now No. 1717 East Twenty-second avenue, when that portion of the city was yet sparsely settled and the nearest horse-car line was ten blocks distant. To this union were born the following sons: Hugo H., born December 7, 1867, who is successfully engaged in the grocery business at Strasburg, Colorado, married Margaret Nason, by whom he has a son. Victor, who, while enlisted in the service of his country, is yet a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jacob J., born February 6, 1877, has important ranching interests in Elbert county, in the political life of which he has taken a prominent part. having served as county superintendent of schools, also as county clerk and recorder and having represented his district in the twentieth state assembly. He married Florence Gleason and they have become the parents of a daughter, Mildred. and a son, Earl.
Mr. Kruse of this review has always taken a laudable part in the development of the communities in which he made his home. He was alderman and mayor of Central City and under his administration a number of valuable improvements were inaugurated and completed. A republican in political affiliation. he was elected on that ticket to the first state legislature from Gilpin county and did valuable service in the halls of leg- islation. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, and fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Central Lodge, No. 6. Having come to this country empty-handed, there is honor due Mr. Kruse for what he has achieved, for such success as has attended his efforts has come to him as the result of his untiring energy and industry, and is highly merited.
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