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regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts. His is a noble character-one that subordinates personal ambition to public good and seeks rather the benefit of others than the aggrandizement of self. He has made for himself an eminent place in legal circles and something of his high standing is indicated in the fact that at one time he had as many as ninety cases pending in the supreme court. His has been a conspicuously successful career. En- dowed by nature with high intellectual qualities, to which are added the discipline and embellishment of culture, he has a most attractive personality and is thoroughly well versed in the learning of his profession, to which he adds a deep knowledge of human nature and the springs of human conduct. His utterances, whether in the court or on the public platform, are listened to with attention and deep interest.
MICHAEL M. LENIHAN.
Michael M. Lenihan is a retired farmer, now enjoying well earned rest by reason of the fruits of his former toil. He is still the owner of farm lands from which he derives a substantial annnal income. He was born in Newmarket, Ireland, June 6, 1863, and is a son of Martin and Johanna Lenihan, who were farming people.
The educational opportunities of Michael M. Lenihan were somewhat limited. He attended the public schools but when ten years of age began working on his father's farm and was thus employed to the age of twenty-one years, when he came to the United States, making his way to Detroit, Michigan, where he spent a year in a wholesale house. On the expiration of that period be removed westward to Cheyenne county, Colorado, where he arrived in 1885. Here he engaged in railroad work for three years and afterward was employed in connection with the operation of a sta- tionary engine in the roundhouse for a decade. In 1898 he was elected county assessor and six years later turned his attention to the cattle business and took up a home- stead. He proved up on the property, which he still owns and which is pleasantly and conveniently situated about two miles from Cheyenne Wells. He made money in his cattle raising venture and after fifteen years of close application and hard work he retired from active business in 1916, but still owns three farms, from which he derives a good annual rental. He is a man of sound business judgment and of unfal- tering enterprise and these substantial qualities won him the success which now enables him to rest from further labor. He is a director in the Cheyenne County State Bank at Cheyenne Wells, in which he has been a stockholder for ten years.
In 1890 Mr. Lenihan was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hastings, a native of Ohio and a danghter of Simon and Johanna Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. Lenihan have become parents of three children: Leo, who was born in 1896 and enlisted on the 24th of June, 1918, in the Three Hundred and Fortieth Infantry, Eighty-fifth Division ; Ray, who was born in 1894: and John, born in 1900.
The family are members of the Catholic church. In his political views Mr. Lenihan is a democrat and served as assessor of Cheyenne county from 1898 to 1904. He is the oldest resident, in point of length of connection, in the county. He has witnessed its entire development and improvement as it emerged from pioneer conditions and took on the evidences of a modern civilization and at all times has borne his part in promoting its material, political and moral progress.
ABRAHAM GARCIA.
Abraham Garcia, of Denver, is one of the best known Colorado citizens of Spanish descent. He was born August 3, 1883, at El Moro, Colorado, a suburb of Trinidad, a son of Jose and Josefita Tafoya De Garcia. The latter was a daughter of Jose Miguel and Maria Bentura Tafoya, both of Lucero, Mora county, New Mexico. The grand- parents in the paternal line were Juan Jose and Graciana Garcia, of the pioneer Garcia family of San Acacio, Socorro county, New Mexico. In early days the father of Abraham Garcia was engaged in merchandising at El Moro, Colorado, in connection with Don Jesus Garcia, the famous territorial delegate of Colorado, who later repre- sented Las Animas county in various official capacities. The family removed to Socorro, New Mexico, and soon after 1887 Jose Garcia died. His widow then returned to the state of Colorado and took up her abode at Hastings. There the two sons, Abraham Garcia and his brother, spent their boyhood days and when of tender age
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both were forced to seek employment, which they found in various coal mines of the state.
Abraham Garcia did not obtain a grammar school education on account of the necessity of providing for his own support at an early age, as his father had lost considerable money in investments. This forced him and his brother to look after the support of the family, consisting of his mother and two sisters. Through the past fifteen years Mr. Garcia of this review has been connected with the railroads of the state of Colorado in different capacities and has done special work for various investi- gation agencies of the west. Mr. Garcia is one of the most capable of criminal court interpreters in the state and has a full working knowledge of civil and criminal court procedure. He has acted in special capacities for nearly all of the sheriffs of Colorado and has a very wide and extensive acquaintance because of official dealings with the district attorneys of the state, having been employed by them for special work for the past ten or fifteen years.
When a youth of fifteen Mr. Garcia was employed by the veteran state senator, Casimiro Barela, of Las Animas county, and with him remained for a number of years. He has traveled extensively and has acquired much knowledge peculiar to his line of work, having twice gone to Alaska and twice to the Hawaiian islands. For the past ten years he has done special work with the police department of Denver, making inves- tigations pertaining to Mexican criminals. Mr. Garcia at the present writing is official court interpreter of Boulder county and of the county and city of Denver. He is one of the best known of the Spanish-American citizens of Denver and is considered one of the best Spanish-American politicians of the state. He is a man who at all times is ready to serve his countrymen in any possible way, with or without compensation,- a fact well known throughout the community in which he has made his home for the past fifteen years.
GEORGE W. HUNTLEY.
George W. Huntley is one of the successful ranchmen of Kit Carson county and also one of its pioneer settlers, having taken up his abode here in 1887, at which time he settled on section 27, township 7, range 51. He was born in Franklin, New Hamp- shire, September 4, 1862, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Huntley, who were natives of England. The father was a shoemaker by trade, and soon after their marriage he and his wife emigrated to the new world.
George W. Huntley was the fifth in their family of six children and was educated in the common schools of Springfield, Illinois, to which place the family removed during his early boyhood. He was eighteen years of age when he began work on his father's farm and was thus employed until 1883, when he was married and began his domestic life upon a farm in Sangamon county. He wedded Anna Johnson, a daughter of John and Mary Johnson, who were also farming people. The young couple con- tinued to reside in Illinois until 1884, when they removed westward to Nebraska, where for two years Mr. Huntley engaged in the cultivation of rented land and raised two good crops. Still the lure of the west was upon him and, leaving that state, he came to Colorado, where he arrived in 1887. He lived in a one-room dugout for a year and a half and then built a sod house. He was the first to file upon a homestead in the western part of the county, his nearest neighbor being eighteen miles distant. He still lives in the sod house-a mute reminder of pioneer conditions. As the years have passed, however, he has prospered in his undertakings and today has an excel- lent herd of cattle upon his land. He also farms three hundred and fifty acres of land and is considered one of the successful agriculturists of the community. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, as all that he possesses is the result of his indefatigable labor, intelligently directed.
Mr. and Mrs. Huntley have become the parents of eight children: Vernon G., Opal, Freda, John, Maurice, Cecil, Donald and Lloyd. John, who was a farmer, enlisted in May, 1916, in the infantry as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Fifty- seventh Regiment and as top sergeant is now serving in England. Maurice enlisted in the navy in the spring of 1918 and is now on duty in European waters.
Mr. Huntley is a republican in his political views and acceptably filled the office of county commissioner from 1904 until 1908. In 1910 he joined the Masonic fraternity and has served as master of his lodge for two terms. He became a charter member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Flagler in 1902 and was the first man elected to the office of noble grand. Such in brief is the life history of Mr. Huntley and those who read
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between the lines may gain the story of persistent and earnest endeavor, whereby obstacles and difficulties have been overcome and steady progress has been made. His life record indicates what may be accomplished through individual effort when there is a will to dare and to do. Coming to the west empty-handed, he has steadily advanced through persistency of purpose and is justly accounted one of the successful farmers and representative men of Kit Carson connty.
PAUL CLARK STAUFFER.
Paul Clark Stauffer was one of the organizers of the New Denver Conservatory of Music, in which he is professor of piano instruction, and he is doing much to make this institution a credit and benefit to the city. He has been identified with the musical interests of Denver since 1904.
Mr. Stauffer was born at Luray, Missouri, October 11, 1884, his parents being Frank M. and Maggie K. (Hancock) Stauffer, both of whom are natives of Missouri. In early life the father engaged in farming in Missouri and in 1906 he removed to Denver, where he is now living retired. In their family were two children, of whom Professor Stauffer was the elder. In his boyhood days he attended the public schools and also spent a year in Oaklawn College. He was also a student in the high school at Eugene, Oregon, and afterward entered the University of Oregon, in which he pur- sued his musical studies, completing the course in 1904. Immediately afterward he came to Denver and entered into active connection with the old Denver Conservatory of Music in the piano department. Some time later he resigned that position and went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was prominent in musical circles for a year. He then returned to Denver and became a professor in the piano department of the old Denver Conservatory of Music. He also founded a private school of music known as Green Gables, which he conducted until 1914, when with others he organ- ized the New Denver Conservatory of Music, merging the two institutions with which he had previously been identified into the new school. This has since been very successfully and profitably conducted. Mr. Stauffer has since had entire charge and management of the institution and is at the head of the piano department as instructor. He occupies a very prominent place in musical circles in the west and is a member of the board of directors of the Denver Musical Society.
Mr. Stauffer also belongs to the Kiwanis Club. In politics he maintains an inde- pendent course. Practically his entire time and attention are devoted to his profession and his steady progress has been the result of close study and the development of the marked talent with which nature endowed him. He holds to the highest standards in instruction and has done much to elevate the musical taste of the city.
CARL A. McLAUTHLIN, M. D.
Among the younger representatives of successful surgical practice in Denver is numbered Dr. Carl A. McLauthlin, who was horn November 5, 1888, in the city which he still makes his home, his parents being Dr. Herbert W. and Emma L. (Stranger) MeLauthlin, both of whom were representatives of prominent old New England fami- lies and were natives of Kingston, Massachusetts. They hecame residents of Colorado in 1882 and Dr. Herbert W. McLauthlin won a place among the prominent physicians of the city and is still in active practice, being accorded a liberal patronage. He has figured prominently in the public life of the community as well, serving for several terms as city physician of Denver, while later he was elected county physician. He was also one of the organizers of the Denver County Hospital and is yet serving as a member of its staff. He was likewise instrumental in establishing and promoting the splendid Training School for Nurses, which is today one of the most thorough and valuable institutions of the kind in the west. His professional activity has been indeed of great worth to Denver and aside from his public work he is regarded as the loved family physician in many of Denver's best households. Actuated by a pro- gressive spirit, he has ever kept in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress, influenced at all times by the high ideal of making his service of the greatest possible benefit to those in need of medical and surgical assistance. In 1901 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away in Denver.
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They were parents of three sons: Alden Bradford, a well known electrician of Denver; Herbert Francis, also of this city; and Carl A.
The last named, the youngest of the family, attended the public and high schools of Denver and afterward entered the University of Colorado, in which he won the Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation in 1911. He then continued in the institution as a student in its medical department and won his professional degree in 1913. Later he became associated with Dr. Herbert Work, of Pueblo, with whom he continued in practice for a year. On the expiration of that period he returned to Denver and became associated with Dr. F. H. McNaught, of whom he has since been a partner, and they rank among the leading physicians and surgeons of Denver, enjoying a large private practice and also an extensive practice in the hospitals of the city. Dr. McLauthlin is a member of the staff of St. Luke's Hospital, the Denver County Hos- pital and also attendant physician of St. Joseph's Hospital, and he is surgeon for the Colorado & Southern Railroad Company. He helongs to the Medical Society of the County & City of Denver, the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
On the 30th of November, 1914, Dr. McLauthlin was united in marriage to Miss Vera G. McGahey, of Emporia, Kansas, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bruce McGahey: They have two children: Carl Herbert, born November 10, 1915: and Dorothy Jane, born June 12, 1917. The Doctor and his wife are well known socially in Denver, where he has practically spent his entire life and where his personal worth as well as his professional skill has gained him a creditable position.
OLIVER H. SHOUP.
Oliver H. Shoup, governor elect of Colorado, a builder of business enterprises, a developer of Colorado's resources, fully merited the confidence which was manifested by the public in his selection to the highest office within the gift of the people of the commonwealth. He was born in Champaign county, Illinois, December 13, 1869, and is the eldest son of William R. and Delia (Ferris) Shoup. The father was born near Columbus, Ohio, and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, enlisting from Illinois as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he served throughout the period of the war. Following the close of hostilities, he returned to his home with a creditable military record. He removed to Colorado in November, 1882, and there remained up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1903. His widow passed away at Colorado Springs in October, 1916.
Oliver H. Shoup was thirteen years old at the time of the arrival of the family in Colorado Springs in 1882. His education, begun in the schools of his native state. was continued in the public schools of that city and he also attended Colorado College at Colorado Springs. He left college in 1888 to enter a business career, which he has since continued to pursue. In 1910 he became the first president of the Midwest Oil Company and was active in the developing, producing and refining oil business. In 1914 he was first president of the Midwest Refining Company and continued to be president until March, 1916. A contemporary writer said of him: "Oliver H. Shoup has been a business man and an executive accustomed to dealing with large enter- prises from his early manhood down to the present day. He has constantly come in contact with shrewd leaders in the business world and has learned how to consider big problems from every angle with good judgment, success and fairness." His activi- ties, too, have been of a character that have greatly developed the resources of the state, for he has been identified with mining, oil, farming and stock raising interests. Another, writing of his business characteristics, has said: "Indeed, his entire success is the result of his creative genius, his ability as a capable manager and his tireless energy. What he has today he has taken from the soil and no man has been the loser for it. He has never engaged in monopolistic or strongly competitive enterprises and in all his business dealings he has been fair and honorable. As a large employer of men at good wages, he has earned the enthusiastic regard of his workmen and every man, woman and child who knows Oliver H. Shoup is his friend."
On the 18th of September, 1891, in Colorado Springs, Mr. Shoup was married to Miss Unetta Small, a daughter of William Small, who was born in Kentucky and died in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Shoup are the parents of four children, namely: Reba A., who is the wife of John Leeming, Jr., of Denver; Oliver H., Jr .. who is now with the United States army in France; Merrill E .; and Verner R. The eldest son has been in France since the early part of 1917. having gone across with General Pershing
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as a member of the Dartmouth College Unit, at which time he was made a non-com- missioned officer, and since then he has won promotion to the rank of first lieutenant. The second son won a second lieutenancy at the officer's training camp at Plattsburg, New York, and is now an instructor in the Students' Army Training Corps at the University of Buffalo. The youngest son, Verner R. Shoup, who was not old enough to enlist until September 6, 1918, is now in the Students' Training Corps at Dart- mouth College. The son-in-law, John Leeming, Jr., is a naval aviator, stationed at the present time at Miami, Florida. These sons learned patriotism at the home fire- side, for it has ever been one of the strong features of the Shoup family who, coming of sturdy Irish, Scotch and English ancestry, has been distinctively American through four generations.
Fraternally Mr. Shoup is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the El Paso Club of Colorado Springs, the Denver Club of Denver, the Rocky Mountain Club of New York and the Broad- moor Golf Club of Colorado Springs. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. In his political views Mr. Shoup is a republican and has always been a stanch supporter of the party. Energetic and untiring, a dynamic force in business, Mr. Shoup is putting that same force into his public service-one of the strong spokes in the great wheel which is pushing forward progress in America.
After retiring from the presidency of the Midwest Refining Company Mr. Shoup devoted his time and efforts to personal affairs and to public service. As chairman of the War Savings Stamps campaign and the Third Liberty Loan he thoroughly organized the work in El Paso county and his efforts proved far-reaching and successfully re- sultant. Because of his business ability, his service in behalf of war activities, his public spirit and devotion to all those things for which the best element of Colorado stands, he was named as the candidate of the republican party for the office of governor. His position upon all vital questions has never been equivocal. He stands for a dry Colorado and for nationwide prohibition as well. He has the support of the labor men and the business men. Colorado recognizes the fact that now that the military crisis is passed there must be meu at the head of the government who can attend to the even more important work of reconstruction and such a man is found in Oliver H. Shoup, of whom one of the Denver papers said: "He is a big man, mentally, physically, morally and commercially; a builder, a developer, a creator, with unlimited enthusiasm and energy." A keen business man, a splendid organizer and thorough executive, careful where public funds are to be expended, awake to opportunities and accustomed to making efforts count and money to go to its proper use, with no need to think of self in seeing that the best interests of the state are served, the public feels that the newly elected governor of Colorado will be in every way adequate to the important business interests of the state, to which he will bring the same keen sagacity and forethought that have characterized the conduct of his individual interests, combined with a public spirit that will never sacrifice the general weal to partisanship or place personal aggrandizement before the public good.
GEORGE BENNETTE LEWIS, M. D.
Dr. George Bennette Lewis, a physician and surgeon practicing in Denver, with offices in the Metropolitan building, was born in Platteville, Colorado, on the 21st of July, 1885. He possesses that spirit of enterprise which is typical of the west and has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of city and state. His father, Thomas A. Lewis, is a native of Illinois and belongs to an old southern family represented in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. The ancestral line is traced back to England and Wales but the family has been represented on this side of the Atlantic for many generations. Thomas A. Lewis was a successful lumberman of Platteville, Colorado, for many years, conducting a business there that brought to him a substantial measure of success and now enables him to live retired with sufficient investments and income to provide him with all of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life. He came to Colorado in 1883 and took an active part in the development and progress of that section of the state in which he makes his home. In political and civic matters he has always been deeply interested and stands for progress and improvement in every- thing relating to the welfare of the community at large and the uplift of the indi- vidual. In politics he has always been a stanch democrat and his religious faith is that of the Christian church. During the Indian troubles in the west and southwest he served for a period of five years as a member of the United States army. In early
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manhood he wedded Mary Jones, a native of Canada and of Welsh ancestry. She passed away in Denver in 1902, at the age of forty-five years. In the family were five children, two sons and three daughters.
George B. Lewis, who was the third in order of birth, after completing a high school education in Platteville determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and in preparation therefor entered the University of Tennessee, from which he was graduated in 1915 with the M. D. degree. He spent two years in college literary work and following his graduation he served an interneship of six months in St. Joseph's Hospital of Memphis, Tennessee. The next year was spent in Mercy Hospital of Denver and in the fall of 1916 he entered upon the private practice of his profession in this city. He has since concentrated his efforts and attention upon the practice of medicine and surgery and specialized particularly in anaesthetics and surgery. He has also been an instructor in the University of Colorado on obstetrics in the out service department. He is continually studying along lines of advancement and im- provement relative to the profession and at all times keeps abreast with the latest scientific investigation and research work.
On the 24th of December, 1908, Dr. Lewis was united in marriage to Miss Gretchen Shaw, a native of Iowa and a daughter of William A. and Alice (Dunn) Shaw, the former a banker of Stuttgart, Arkansas.
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